Crying in Our Beer: The Badgers Break Our Hearts (But the Brewers Are Back!)

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Speaker 2 (00:02):
how we doing everybody and welcome into
wisconsin sports on the go withtrage.
I'm your host, trage, we'recoming back.
It's almost.
It's the end of march, march26th, holy crap, baseball is
here.
We're talking baseball tomorrowalready.
Brewers, yankees can't wait forthat to start.
We got to talk about that todayon the show.
We got to talk about, well, thebadgers.

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We got to talk about badgers.
Men's basketball team, thecollapse you can almost say the.
Actually I'm gonna say theheartbreak, because this one,
for me, was one of the mostheartbreaking badger losses I've
seen.
I'm gonna explain why.
We've seen a lot, but I'm gonnaexplain why.
To me, that was one of the mostheartbreaking losses.
So I want to talk about that.
Today we got women's hockey, wegot ncaa wrestling, we got I

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women's basketball, wisconsinwomen's basketball.
We want to talk about thatbecause there is some crap
that's going on with Wisconsinwomen.
So much to get to today.
It's not even funny.
We're going to get to it allhere.
So, aaron, how are we doing onthis Wednesday?
I mean, it's a great Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, doing pretty well, man.
Like you said, this month is.
To me this month has gonefaster than February and it's
longer, obviously, with the daysin the month.
This month has flown by.
I did see a I think it's aCongress like somebody with the
running for office out therelong story short.
Out there in Wisconsin, kind ofgoing around door-to-door type

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of thing.
Snow was coming down Like longstory short.
Snow was coming down when hewas out there campaigning a
little bit and that was only acouple days ago.
I'm like dang man, you guys,just it doesn't stop it's april
it's, it's dang near april, Imean.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
But that's why american family field has a roof
.
That's the only reason why wegot a roof down there.
So we're gonna have baseballstart up when it's supposed to,
down there at american familyfield.
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So, aaron, over this lastweekend we saw a lot of you know

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, I went into the weekend andactually it was on Saturday, it
was on Saturday night there andmy cousin's over and my uncles
were over, you know, andeverybody's over, and we're
watching the Badger game andwe're going to watch Steven
Russell, steven Buchanan, herefrom Central Wisconsin, we're
going to watch him down there atthe NCAA Championships.
We're going to watch, you know,for the boys there.

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So we're like we could go threefor three tonight.
Steven could win, the Badgerscould win, marshfield could win,
we'd have them all Bam right.
Well, steven won, we got that.
We got the big win out of Stevethere.
That was awesome, so got towatch that.
That was an exciting match allthe way around, so we got to see
that.
Um, but I mean outside of that,you know the badgers well, it

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didn't go so well.
Marshfield, I I hate to knock onyou know, I hate to knock on
high school teams and everythinglike that.
I don't want to take completeshots here, but son of a gun,
just hang on to the basketball,stop turning it over.
I mean, there's like a minuteleft and they turned the ball
over twice, gave wisconsinlutheran the ball back.
That you know, there's shotclock, so all they had to do was
run clock and get fouled andWisconsin Lutheran stole the

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ball twice.
There they had the lead.
Marshfield did late in that onefour-point lead and they blew
it.
I mean they blew the lead thereand it happens, it sucks, it
happens.
But it was just like geez,louise, just hang on to the
basketball boys.
I mean, goodness gracious,sucked, that sucked to watch
there.
I mean, but a heck of a seasonlike.
All in all.
I just that's all I want to sayis a heck of a season out of

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marshfield.
They're just getting down therebeating wanaki.
They're one of the better teams, the number two team in the uh
in the semi-finals there andthen getting to that state game
and leading in that state gameagainst a very good wisconsin
lutheran team.
This is a team who's got guys.
I mean con canoople's brothersare going to Wisconsin Lutheran.
So you beat up a team like that, a team that beat Osh North who

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beat De Pere, one of the bestteams in the state.
So I mean you're talking abouta pretty darn good performance
by Marshfield there.
Just couldn't get it done downthe stretch there.
So once again, congratulationsto those guys there, for
Marshfield Just sucks that theycouldn't get it done down there
at the state game.
But Steve her done, got her donethere against bar.
That was a.
That was an exciting match.
I was you know it was inbetween we were flipping back

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and forth on the badger gameover and we saw Steve wrestle
there and I was excited.
No, and then it's like I don'twant to turn it back to the
badger game, cause now I'm upand I'm excited watching this
game or watching this match herefrom Steve, but that match
against bar was awesome.
They're won by decision there.
And then watching that 285match between gable stevenson

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and I believe that washendrickson there from oklahoma
state goodness, was thatexciting.
Because gable stevenson I knowthere's a lot of controversy
around him, with, you know,leaving he plays at when he
technically left wrestling thefirst time he left his shoes on
the mat there and then he tookoff.
You know, like I'm done, I'mgonna walk away.

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Then he went wwe, you know nxtor whatever, and then he was in
the, you know, went for thebills, was in the nfl for a
little bit.
Then he comes back to penn orto minnesota there wrestles.
This last year was fantastic.
I mean, he's fantastic, he's agreat wrestler.
Like I don't want to, I don'twant to take away from the guy.
He he's fantastic, but it'sjust so.
The story is just so.
I don't know I wanted him tolose.

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Like I wanted him to lose.
Like, watching, hearing thestory, seeing all of it,
understanding the story, it'sjust like, dude, you don't have
any people.
Like Minnesota people arecheering for you, but outside of
that nobody's cheering for you.
We want to see the upset hereand Henderson want to see the

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upset here and henderson pulledit off.
That was an exciting match.
That was huge.
That was awesome, awesome towatch there.
So a great night of wrestlingthere.
The women's hockey team over theweekend there, wisconsin
women's hockey got a huge, hugechampionship win over ohio state
, went into overtime there, gotinto overtime off a penalty shot
.
That was awesome.
I saw mark johnson.
Mark johnson I believe it'smark johnson, yes, mark Johnson
there.
Uh, he asked you know all that,all of them, you know.
Do you want to do?
You want to shoot whatever?

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And I, I believe who took thatpenalty shot there for the
Badgers?
I can't, I can't remember whoit was there.
Um, oh, who the heck took thatpenalty?
Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Kristen.
Uh, maybe Kristen Sims here.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Was it?
Yeah, it was Sims.
I think it was sims.
I'm pretty darn sure it wassims there, but it was cool,
regardless whoever it was.
I think it was sims too.
But he asked he's like whowants to take it right, who
wants to take the shot?
And she raised her hand she'slike I do.
And then she took off and that,like that was awesome.
That was awesome.
He like put full faith in histeam and said who wants to take
this shot for the?
You know for the way?
I mean tie, this was it.
They were down.
This was for the tie to forceit basically to go to overtime.

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And she's like I got it.
And bam, so yeah, kristen, simsthere, right there.
Um, that was awesome.
I mean that was awesome therefor him.
And then you know to go intoovertime and win it there.
Just a heck of a heck of a day.
Heck of a day for the badgers.
They're the lady bad Badgers.
So great to see that.
I mean, all in all, a prettygood weekend with that right
Badgers get a nationalchampionship.

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Not a curling nationalchampionship, we already had
that in the bag, but I meannational championship
nonetheless there.
And then we saw and I mean wegot lots to get to.
We got Brewers of Badgerbasketball men's to get to later
on here.
But this women's basketball hirethat they had, I had to get it
explained to me because I saw onsocial media when they made the
hire right and I saw that itwas what's her name there?

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Robin Pigeonton, whatever,however you want to say it their
former Missouri coach right,and I was looking at her record
and I'm like she's been atMissouri for 15 years now or 15
seasons.
Basically down there 250 and218.
She's just above 500 there.
Four NCAA appearances in 15seasons.

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Four, four NCAA appearances,aaron, can you look up how many
Wisconsin has had in total in awhile?
How many NCAA tournaments hasWisconsin been in in recent
memory?
Because it's in a while, likehow many?
How many national, how manyncaa tournaments has wisconsin
been in in in recent memory?
Because it's been a while.
It's been a while for thiswomen's basketball team.
Uh, for the badgers there.
But I mean I look at this hireand I was like what's the why?

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Like what made her stick outover?
I mean I saw there was a coupleother candidates in there.
Uh, tamara, I can't remember.
Uh, tamara moore, she was inthere.
She played at wisconsin, Ibelieve, and she was in the
running for it there.
I mean, there was definiteother coaches that were
available.
This was the hire that theywent with.

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I don't know, aaron, did youfind?
Did you find the record overthe years there?

Speaker 1 (08:45):
yeah, so the I mean the last time you know.
Did you find a record over theyears there?
Yeah, so the.
I mean the last time you knowWisconsin Badgers women's
basketball in the in the NCAAtournament was 2010.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
So you're talking, you know, 14, well, 15, 15 year
drought really.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
So before that though right, I mean before that,
though I mean they were, theywere pretty good.
I mean you're looking back inthe 90s, 92, 95, 96, 98, early
2000s.
They went 2001, 2002, then theeight year gap to 2010.
And then, and then, theyhaven't been back since

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no-transcript.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Her career in 30 years as a head coach?
She's 585 and 375.
Well, one of those numbersscream off the board to you.
She's a 60, 60, she's 60.
Like what?
What number there?
I mean 20 postseasonexperiences in 30 years, 20
postseason appearances in 30years as a head coach.

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There what screams like this isthe coach that is going to take
the badgers over the top there.
Nothing, absolutely nothing.
You listen to chris mcintoshthere and he says I'm extremely
pleased with robin will bejoining the wisconsin athletics
family.
She's accomplished so much as acoach and has produced winners
both on the court and in theclassroom.
Robin has Midwest roots incoaching experience and she and
her family will fit right intolocal community as well as our
state.
She doesn't recruit Wisconsin.

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My biggest problem with andthis is my biggest problem with
Greg Gard too you want to hearmy biggest problem with Greg
Gard.
You want to hear my biggestproblem with Luke Fickle and you
want to hear my biggest problemwith any coach at Wisconsin If
you don't get the best talent inthe state, I have a problem
with that.
I have a problem with when yourbest talent always leaves.
I can't tell you how many ofthe men's basketball players Con

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Canupal, who's at Duke rightnow, wisconsin native, johnny
Davis, was the last big guy togo to Wisconsin.
I mean, yeah, you gotKingingser now going there from
De Pere and that's a fantasticsigning.
Don't get me wrong.
I love that signing for theBadgers.
But let's look at the years.
I mean, how many guys do we seego to Virginia?
Because, oh yeah, tonyBennett's there.
He's got Wisconsin ties.
Oh yeah, coach K is grabbingJalen.

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She doesn't recruit well in thestate of wisconsin.
You want somebody and this is mypersonal opinion on it I don't
care if she came from florida,atlantic, right like dusty may
went up to michigan from florida, atlantic.
I don't care about that if yourecruit well from the state.
That's what I want.
I want that.
I want.
I want somebody whose rootsaren't Midwest roots.
I don't care if you got Midwestroots, I want you to have roots

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in the state of Wisconsin.
I want you to have people inthe state of Wisconsin saying I
want to go play for you.
Looking at this and looking atMissouri, who last season, I
believe, was like 3-13 inconference play and in her last
two seasons she's 25 and 37.
I'm going to go with herrecruiting classes aren't the

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greatest.
It's plain and simple.
I look at the numbers.
I'm just looking at the numbershere.
Yeah, you're in the SEC.
It's a tough conference.
Sure, it's a tough conferencedown there.
The Big Ten is not going to belike a cakewalk for you and if
you can't get the players uphere, it's going to be even
worse.
So I'm looking at this hire fromWisconsin.
I'm like what did you?
What did you improve?
They go year after year andit's like well, you know women's

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basketball, which isn't thatimportant to Wisconsin.
If they had a good women'sbasketball team, people would
tune in, people would watch.
They would.
I loved watching Sarah Williamsthis last year for the Badgers.
She was fantastic, but she'sgone.
She transferred out.
Why?
Why would you want to stay in aprogram where you're not going
to win, because it's just not awinning attitude?
I know a lot of people hate onGreg Gard and hate on what the

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men's basketball team is doing,because they can't get past the
second week and this and thatGuess what they have success.
They make it fun to watch thisteam.
I mean right now, looking atWisconsin women's basketball,
what do you have to look forwardto at this very moment.
So when I see a hire like thisby Chris McIntosh, it sucks.
And then I go on social mediaand I had to have this explained

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to me because I didn't reallyunderstand it.
I saw somebody posted about it,but I didn't really understand
it there.
Basically, they used a tempagency to make this hire it's
called turnkey or something likethat agency basically to find
coaches and ads.
And if that's the truth, ifthat's the truth, if that's what
they did and I don't know ifthat's what they did, but if

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that's what they did and that'swhat I'm hearing and that's what
I'm seeing here and this, thisguy I've, you know, follow here
on twitter and everything likethat.
He's usually pretty reliable.
He, uh, he said that that'swhat they did.
And if they did it that way,that's a lazy look and that's
McIntosh.
I don't know what it's going totake to put his job on the line
, right, because right now hekeeps extending Luke Fickle and

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that ain't getting better.
So if this, if this is the key,we're just going to keep going
lateral with these moves, Idon't get it.
I don't get it there.
So, wisconsin women's basketballthey make their hire.
Robin will be joining thiswisconsin uh women's basketball
team.
She'll be coaching them now,but I I don't understand the
move, so we're gonna reset.
We got more to get to.

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We got badger basketball.
We got brewers on the back sidehere, so we'll be right back
here on the show.
Welcome back in.
This is wisconsin sports on thego with trage.
I'm your host, trage.
We're coming back.
It's wednesday, march 26th,here on the show.
We want to get to.
We got to get to our dad jokeof the day.

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How do cows stay up to date?

Speaker 1 (14:56):
that's.
That's a trick question I Iwouldn't even have the slightest
clue on that one.
They read the moose paper yeah,I could have sat here all night
, I wouldn't have came up withthat.
That's a clever one.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
That's a clever one there.
So we got ours.
We got our dad joke of the dayhere.
Why do fathers take an extrapair of socks when they go
golfing?
Beats me again In case they geta hole in one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fact of the day there.
That fact, that's your fact ofthe day too.

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That's your fact of the day.
Take a pair of socks with you,case you get a hole in one.
So we got lots more to get tohere tonight on the show.
We want to get over into thebadge.
We want to talk about thisbadge again because, you know,
might as well rip the band-aidoff while we're here, right,
might as well rip it off beforewe get to the brewers or
anything like that.
Let's let the band-aid off ofthis badgers men's basketball,
basically season at this pointhere.

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So the badgers got the win overmontana and that was, I mean
that win, nothing really crazyto talk about in that one.
They took care of business asthey should.
It was one of those kinds ofgames there, the one there.
I said it.
Going into it, I said that BYUteam.

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They scared me and I remember Iwas sitting there, like I said,
had some family over to watchthe games there, watch the
wrestling and everything likethat.
And I was sitting there next tomy uncle and right before the
Badgers versus BYU game startedI said if the Badgers can't
shoot, I'm nervous.
I'm nervous because if theBadgers can't shoot this BYU
team, I know they can shoot.
I know they can shoot thelights out of a building.

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Well, they shot the lights outof the building, plain and
simple.
Byu had a great game shootingthe basketball 46% from three,
49% from the field in this oneand I mean 41 rebounds.
They out-rebounded the Badgersthere.
A lot of second chancesSecond-chance points hurt
Wisconsin in that game againstBYU.
I don't care what anybody says.
Second-chance points hurt theBadgers.

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13 offensive rebounds for BYU,13 offensive rebounds.
I know the Badgers had 11themselves, but 13.
Giving up 13 offensive rebounds?
You can't do that.
Can't do that and expect to wina basketball game there.
Points off turnovers theBadgers, I mean they led in that
.
They led in that category there.
But you look at points in thepaint 38 points for BYU in the
paint in that game.
There's your difference,there's your big difference.

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Free throw, the free throw line.
Byu they're a team that usuallystruggles from the free throw
line.
This game here 15 for 16,badgers 23 for 29.
You lost by two.
I mean you can keep goingthrough the stats, you can keep
looking at it all right there.
There was a lot of things thatwent wrong for Wisconsin in this
game.
Here.
John Tonje did everything thathe possibly could, 37 points

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Struggled to start the game.
And that's kind of where Iwanted to allude to with my
discrepancy, I guess, with theBadgers in the start of this
game was they were settling fora lot of threes.
They were settling they weren'tworking the ball around, it
wasn't moving side to side, theywere settling for a lot of
threes.
And when you settle for threes,especially against a team like
BYU who likes to run, when theyget long rebounds, they can get

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out and move it there.
No-transcript, understand.
Steven Krause shoots a littlebunny there in the post, misses
and then BYU is able to take itto full length of the court with

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like six seconds shoot a three,get three more points going
into the half there.
Look at your differences ofyour game right there.
I mean that's a big swing.
That's a big swing heading intothe half.
There was a lot of things thatwent wrong in this one, a lot of
things that went wrong for theWisconsin Badgers.
And that last shot by JohnTonje.
I don't know if anybody elsenoticed it, but he stopped when

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I rewatched that play over andover and over and over again.
He had his guy beat.
I don't know why he didn't justtake him to the rim.
Everybody you know, and Iunderstand this one because I
said this, I didn't say the samething at the time, but I look
at it again.
I'm like why didn't Greg Garddraw something up?
He didn't draw anything up.
They had 13 seconds.
He got.

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He had a timeout.
You know the Bad?
He had a timeout.
The Badgers had a timeout therebefore they got the ball.
With 13 seconds, he didn't drawanything up.
He basically just said and I'mat a crossroads with this one
because, since it didn't work,I'm irritated by it but if John
Tonje would have went and got it, I'd be like well, it's fine, I
understand what Greg Gard wasdoing.
Give it to your best player, goget it, go get me one.

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That's what you got to do.
I would be honest with you and Ihad this discussion with a
couple of different people.
I said personally, if anybodyelse would have taken that last
shot, I'd have been ticked.
I've been ticked.
John Tonje is the guy who gotyou there.
John Tonje has been that dudefor the Badgers all season long
for the Badgers all season long,that dude.
If anybody deserved to take thatfinal shot, you could say

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Blackwell, sure, sure, that guy.
If Blackwell would have shotthat and missed, I don't know if
I would have been like I thinkBlackwell should have taken that
shot.
I would have said why didn'tJohn Tonje touch the basketball
so putting it in his hands?
I thought the play call StephenCrowell.
I mean, he sealed his guy goingdownhill, gave Tonjay a lane.
Tonjay stopped.
I don't know why.

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He was trying to draw a foul.
I don't get why.
Just finish it, dude, go to therim.
He had his guy beat.
I watched that play multipletimes.
He had his guy beat.
He was around him.
But I'll be honest with youwatching it, I wish you had just
shot the three, because I'mgoing to put this in the
simplest terms possible theyweren't going to win that in
overtime.
They weren't.
They had no stops, they hadnothing.

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They gave up 91 points.
I am convinced the Badgersplayed the one team in the
tournament who could actuallyshoot the basketball, because
I've watched the rest of theNCAA tournament so far.
That has been some terribleoffense across the board in a
lot of these games.
And then Wisconsin plays BYU andyou put up 89 points and you
lost.
And you look at a lot of theseother games here and it's like
look at these final scores ofsome of these games that have

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happened so far and it's likewhere was that?
Where's the offense in thosegames?
The Badgers play a juggernautteam and everybody else here.
I mean they got Colorado Stateputting up 71 points.
Drake I mean Texas Tech playsDrake as a three seed there.
Wisconsin, out of all the threeseeds, wisconsin got screwed and
this is why BYU is from outwest.

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This was like a home game forBYU.
Look how many fans they had inthe crowd.
This was a home game for BYU.
They didn't have to go anywhere.
They play in elevation.
This was neutral for them.
They were like this is our team, this is our place, right?
So you had to play a juggernautsixth seed who has two losses
in the last.

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I mean their last two lossesand there's not been many losses
for BYU have been to Houston,who's one of the number one
seeds in the entire tournamentand could go to the Final Four,
maybe a national championship,and that's their two losses in a
while.
That's a sucky draw.
Wisconsin got a crappy draw andI am I'm going to tell you this
now.
We can say, you know, gregguard sucks.

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And we can say they didn'tdeserve to win that game.
We can say all that crap, sure,but March is about where you
draw it is.
It is honestly where you end upand who you draw in round two.
If VCU beats BYU, wisconsin hasan easier game round two
against VCU.
Good defensive team, don't getme wrong, good defensive team,

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but Wisconsin doesn't have totry to put up 92 points to try
to beat VCU, no way.
You look at the rest of thisbracket.
Here, michigan State, they gotNew Mexico in game two.
There Ole Miss played IowaState.
I would have taken Ole Miss ifI was Wisconsin there.
You look at a couple of theseother teams that have had to
play like Maryland gets ColoradoState.

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There, texas Tech gets Drake,and I know some of these, I know
some of these are Cinderella'sand I get that and everything
like that.
But you look at the path thatsome of these teams have to take
.
I personally, if I was aWisconsin Badger if I was a
Badger player or anything likethat I would have taken Illinois
on again.
I would have taken six seedMissouri on, I would have taken
Ole Miss.
Byu was the one team thatWisconsin was going to struggle

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to match up with, because theycould shoot the lights out ofa
building and if Wisconsin gotcold it was going to be a tough
night and that's what we saw.
And Wisconsin did everythingthey could to try to get back in
that game.
They couldn't.
So that's where I'm at.
I mean, I'm not trying to makean excuse for the Badgers.
I'm not trying to make anexcuse Like you got to win with
the teams in front of you.
You got to beat them right.
That's what I said.
Going into it I was like it'sgoing to be a tough game, but

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they got to beat good teams toget to the Final Four.
Sometimes you get an easierpath though Getting a round two
game basically on the road, nota not a very good situation to
be in if you're the wisconsinbadgers first off.
We already were saying why didyou end up as a three seed in
denver after and playing onthursday.

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After you played on sunday inthe last game of the day in the
big 10 championship and you haveto turn around and play right
away on thursday there, early inthe day against a montana team
we were confused by that andthen they play byu basically at
home.
It's like that was destined tobe a tough time and that's what
we saw.
And I don't think much less ofthe Badgers because of that game

(24:06):
.
All I think is dang.
That was a crappy spot to be inif you're the Wisconsin Badgers
.
So the Badgers dropped thatgame to BYU.
Byu now moves on to take onAlabama there.
Byu now moves on to take onAlabama there.
So, coming off this game, wecome off this game here and we
look at well, the first thing,of course, right, it's the Greg

(24:26):
Gard.
Should we fire him?
Should we not fire him?
Talk and everything like that.
How do you come off of this?
And I'm going to be completelyhonest with you how do you come
off this season and say weshould fire Greg Gard?
Serious, I will say this gamehere.
Greg Gard chose the worstmoment not to coach his team
Because, like I said before,that last play with 13 seconds

(24:48):
left.
Wisconsin had the ball.
Why didn't he draw up a play?
I will agree with that.
He chose the worst time not tocoach his team.
The Badgers I mean the Badgers,I mean all in all 27 and 10,
fourth in the Big Ten, Finishedfourth in the Big Ten there.

(25:08):
How do you look at that?
How do you look at that and yousay we got to fire the head
coach.
You would be the first teamever to fire a head coach, after
going 27 and 10, probably.
I can tell you that much.
I don't know if there's beenmany others, unless there's been
a scandal or something in there.
But how do you go off of thatand you say let's fire the head
coach because that's what needsto happen here?
I mean, honestly, if you wantto say you don't believe Greg

(25:33):
Gard's developing players enough, you don't believe this.
You don't believe that, sure,there's enough.
You don't believe this, youdon't believe that, sure, you
can have your own opinion.
I'm not saying you can't Like,I completely like, allow, I'm
not going to do.
Don't have your opinion onsomething Like.
I want you to have your opinion.
If you think Greg guard stinks,think he stinks, right, but you
can't come off this season andsay, great, I'm going to be,

(25:55):
greggard's going to get anextension, he's going to get an
extension.
Greggard took a team that wasdestined for 12th place in the
Big Ten.
That's the preseason projection.
They were figured to be 12th.
You lost your number one scorerfrom last year.
You lost your point guard,chucky Hepburn.
You lost one of your betterplayers in Tyler Wall, gone Out

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the door and you were returninga lot of questions.
Right, you had Nolan Wintercoming back.
It's like whoa, I don't knowwhat Nolan Winter is really
going to bring to me.
You had Steven Crowell.
We know what Steven Crowell wasabout there.
You had Max Klesman coming back.
What was Max Klesman going tobe able to do for you?
He was subpar, not a greatscorer or anything, but he was a

(26:44):
heart and soul guy.
You had this random guy who'sJohn Tonje, we don't know.
Right, you had John Blackwellcoming back.
But what was John Blackwellgoing to give you year two?
There?
You had, I mean, carter Gilmore.
Not really much to talk aboutwith Carter Gilmore.
Kamari McGee who was he?
Jack Janicki, the young fellow.
What is he going to bring tothis team?
Xavier Amos, another transferin from a smaller program.
What's he going to bring?
You had a team of nobodies.
I'm going to be honest with you.
You had a team of nobodiesthat's the nicest way to put it

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Like this team, where were they?
Like, you didn't look at thisteam and say, oh my God, this
team is loaded.
No, not a single person lookedat this team and said this team
is loaded.
They were a three seed in thetournament.
They went to the Big TenChampionship game.
They were fourth in the Big Ten.
They were 27-10.

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They beat Arizona.
They went to Purdue and put up94 points.
This team put up historicnumbers, historic numbers and
I'm going to tell you when wecome back from the break.
I'm going to tell you why.

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This, probably, for me, was thesaddest Wisconsin Badger loss
that I've seen in a while.
I'm going to tell you aboutthat, why I believe that when we
come back from this break,we'll be right back on Wisconsin
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Aaron.
I mean, I went into the breakand I said this was one of the

(28:51):
saddest losses that the Badgershave taken in a while.
This was saddest.
I said I'd tell you why.
Well, for me I'll be honestwith you this loss was the worst
because when I look at thisteam, there wasn't a single
player where I looked at him andI was like I don't like you.
I don't like you the way youact, I don't like the way that

(29:16):
you are, anything like that.
I mean this was one of the mostlikable fun, like.
This was the one of the I'mgoing to be honest with you
since probably that 2014, 2015,.
You know those seasons with thebadges when they went to the
backpack, final fours went tonational championship.
I got this is the most fun I'vehad watching bad basketball.
Like honestly, I mean, like Isaid before, the break historic

(29:36):
numbers, you know, betweenscoring the basketball and you
know their free throw percentage, their threes per game scoring,
I mean 94 points at Purdue.
I mean this team was justawesome to watch, just fun.
It was exciting.
It was just exciting basketball.
And, like I said, I mean youlook at the players John Tonje,

(29:59):
I didn't know what to expectwhen he came.
Inay, I didn't know what toexpect when he came in.
I didn't know what to expectout of the guy.
What john tonjay did in oneseason as a wisconsin badger put
him into like the top like fiveall-time wisconsin badger
basketball players.
Just the way that he scored it,the way that he played the game
, watching him finish at the rim, watching all this, the crazy
acrobatic stuff, the free throws, everything like that, you know
irritating people because ofthe amount of free throws he

(30:21):
shot.
He was awesome In one season.
He changed the way we thoughtabout Wisconsin basketball.
And then you look at some of theother guys, john Blackwell and
I know a lot of people had theirdiscrepancies with Steven
Crowell and Max Klesman at times.
But I tell you what those twoare fun to watch and they were
exciting.

(30:41):
And those two they had somegrit to them at times.
Right, max Klesman definitelyhad the grit.
Steven Crowell I wish he had alittle bit more grit.
Nolan Winter I think he's goingto be fun to watch for years to
come here.
Same with John Blackwell.
And then you look at the benchand just what Carter Gilmore
Carter Gilmore, what he broughtto this basketball team, a
basketball team, a guy who, Imean, was a walk-on, not even

(31:01):
regarded as much of a scorer oranything like this for this
basketball team, and he wasknocking down threes this year.
That stroke looked smooth.
He was just, I mean, fun towatch Kamari McGee and Jack
Janicki those guys stepping up,xavier Amos stepping into his
own there in the Big Tentournament and kind of into the
tournament itself there, just tosee the production of these
guys and where they were whenthey first came to Madison, to

(31:21):
what they showed this seasonhere and their development as a
team.
And I got to be honest with youI know we've said it in years
past there with these Badgerteams and the way that they gel,
right, we said that some ofthese teams, they look like a
team.
They really gelled welltogether.
This team gelled, they were fun, they were fun man.

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And this team gelled, they werefun, they were fun man, and it
that's why this one sucked,because I didn't want to see
this one end, just because ofhow much excitement it brought
you to turn it on right, becausethere was, I mean, years for
the badges where it was like 60points a game.
You're like that's kind ofboring, right, that's kind of
boring basketball.
But you watch and that's why,again, with greg guard, you know
a lot of people want to befired.
How do you fire a guy when hejust reinvented?
He reinvented badger basketball.

(32:03):
You can say, yeah, he's not agreat coach, that's your own
opinion.
But guess what?
Wisconsin has now become more ofa landing spot for players
because the offense that theyrun.
Why would you want to be a part?
If you want to, if you want tobe a scorer, right.
If you want to be a really goodplayer and get to the next

(32:25):
level, potentially right, whywould you want to go to
wisconsin if you're, like youknow, gonna run the shot clock
out, put up about, you know, 50shots a game as a team and then
score about 60 points, why wouldyou want to be a part of that?
But if you watch this seasonhere, where they're putting up
90 points a game and they'reputting up a hundred points a

(32:46):
game and it's like that's adifferent team, that's a
different style that we'rewatching, that's an NBA style
offense that that attracts.
So guess what?
I know we're at this pointright now where we're, like, you
know, greg guard, has he provenanything to us?
I think next year he's got toprove that he can get past this.
You know the round of 32.

(33:07):
I agree with that because it'sbeen a while since we've been,
since the badges have been atthe sweet 16.
I will agree with that.
He hasn't taken his guys there.
But this team this season here,like I said before, sometimes it
comes down to a path that youget and they ran it.
They had a tough path.
You got byu second round andanybody who's sitting there

(33:28):
saying all byu wasn't that goodof a team, a pretty darn good
team, pretty darn good team.
You can sit here and you cansay, you know, oh, they weren't
that good.
Right, there were 16, I thinkthey were.
That was a bad seed for themand it was a bad draw for the
Badgers.
Be honest with you.
So my opinion on that one I'mnot sitting here firing Greg

(33:49):
Gard today.
I'm not, if you want to sure,but I'm going to tell you this
right now you might want to havesomebody next to you when you
get an alert on your phone thatsays Greg Gard has been extended
by the Wisconsin Badgers.
You might want somebody next toyou to give you a hug because
you might be a little upset.
So that's probably what'sleading up to spring.
So the Badgers I mean we'regoing to talk, we're going to
talk more Badgers, because notnot right now, right now, right

(34:11):
now, but there's, there's a lotmore to get into Right With this
, with this Badger team, as wekind of wrap up the season here,
we look forward because thetransfer portal already opened.
As of Monday, there was like795 people or guys already in
the transfer portal.
That is utterly ridiculous.
How do you open up a transferportal when the tournament's
still going on?

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I don't understand that.
But that's a whole otherargument for a whole other day.
We don't even want to get intothat today here, but that's just
ridiculousher argument for awhole nother day.
We don't even want to get intothat today here, but that's just
ridiculous.
So when we we're going to havetransfer portal news, we're
going to have, you know,hopefully right across your
fingers nobody leaving Wisconsin.
I did see in good news JohnBlackwell, nolan Winter.
You know those guys.
Jack Janicki, I did hear, youknow, I heard from the quote

(34:53):
from John Blackwell there and hesaid basically, you know me, no
one.
Winter, jackson, nikki, wetalked about it.
We all want to get to work thissummer, get back here, get
better, whatever.
So you get that core playersback.
You get Xavier Amos back.
Hopefully.
You bring back some of youryoung guys like Daniel free tag,
the young fella who wassupposed to take over that point
guard role.
You get a guy like free tagcoming back.
I think Amos is going to behuge there.

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But then you're going to haverecruits coming in too, like
Keenzer and Garlock and HaydenJones there from overseas.
You're going to have transferportal ads coming in.
So you're going to have a lotof pieces hopefully that you
retain and then we're going tosee the transfer portal ads.
So hopefully we see some ofthat coming up here in the near
future there for the WisconsinBadgers.
So lots more to get to there.
John Tonje, though I I mean hestill.
He led through the through thefirst weekend.

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He led all scores in the MarchMadness with 52 points in total
there.
So that was outstanding.
He had 37 points there againstBYU but he led all scores in
March Madness there for thefirst round.
So I mean hats off, that was afantastic season.
I mean hats off to the guy andI mean hopefully NBA teams watch
that and they're like this dudeneeds a shot, because watching

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him, watching what he can do,not just from the three-point
line but finishing at the rim,everything in between the free
throw, everything with JohnTonje, he definitely deserves a
shot there at the league and itwas exciting.
It was exciting to watch himthere.
So hopefully we got some goodnews coming up here with the
Badgers pretty soon heretransfer portal and everything
else.
But, aaron, we got to get overinto the mellow yellow minute

(36:20):
here tonight.
Aaron, the question tonight,the question we got tonight here
, is since we got MLB rightaround the corner, right, we got
to get to this one who has themost wins by a team in the last
five years.
So let's go.
Top five lists Give me three ofthem.
What do you got for three ofthose on that list?

Speaker 1 (36:42):
I think two of them should be automatics.
Dodgers got to be in there.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yep Dodgers number one.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yankees probably in there.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yankees are number five.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Wow, houston.
Give me Houston.
Houston is number three.
Okay, that number two.
Part of me thinks the is it anNL team?
Give me that.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
One is an NL team, the other one is an AL team,
both in the East.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Because the Braves won the division more than the
Phillies have in recent memory.
I'll go Braves there.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Braves, number two on the list there.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
The last one is in the AL East and we already have
the yankees crossed off there.
Um, I mean, baltimore's beengood, um, not that good, not
that one that's pretty pretty,like right there all the time
the race.
Yes, the race number.
Yeah, that's a littlesurprising though, because they,

(37:45):
I mean, they're alwaysconsistent, they're always
consistent, like the win lossrecord.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
if you look at it, they're 405.
They're always consistent, likethe win loss record.
If you look at it, they're fouroh five and three oh three.
So it's like they're they'reright there every single year,
but they're above 500.
They keep.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's impressive for
sure.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
They're always there.
They're always there.
Them Tampa Bay rays.
So I mean cannot wait for somebaseball to be back, because now
you know I okay I shouldn't saythat if it was not for the
Badgers losing in March Madness,I would not care as much about

(38:22):
the Brewers, you know first, butI still care.
Right, I would still care.
But it's like when you losesomething you just want
something else, you knowsomething else back.
And this is what I wanted back.
And then I wanted you know, Iwanted to see the Brewers and
Yankees here.
So we got a two o'clock firstpitch there in New York on ESPN.
For that one we got Joe Buckand Bill Schroeder calling that

(38:43):
game on the radio.
That should be something.
That should be definitelysomething to listen to there.
But definitely something tolisten to uh there.
But I mean, aaron, this lookslike it's.
It should be a pretty goodmatchup.
I believe freddie is gonna gofor the brewers.
I don't who's the yankeesopening day, uh rodon because of
colby.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yeah, colby, and down for the season.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
They got rodon slotted in there okay, okay,
well, it's gonna depend I don'tknow if anthony or not anthony,
what the heck is carlos rodan,if carlos rodan has gone through
like a uh, career retooling,like a you know re, re, getting
a little bit better, right,because rodan kind of struggled
last season there.
So we'll see.

(39:21):
I mean, we'll see opening dayhere, fastball freddie,
hopefully, hopefully, right,he's gonna be you know, on his
game for that first pitch there.
But I wanted to do what I wantto do here today.
On the show I had someover-unders.
I'm trying to find myover-unders here for the first.
So I got bold predictions andover-unders.
So what do we want to do first?
Do we want to do boldpredictions or do we want to do

(39:42):
over-under stats?
Let's do over-under, over-understats here.
So we're getting close tocommercial break here.
We'll start the over understats.
If we don't get to them all,we'll hit them on the next time,
right?
So over under.
Brewers, over under.
So I saw one of their um, one ofthe guesses.
Right, the predictions.
The predictions are alwayswrong.
But one of the predictions forbrewers wins 82 and a half was

(40:04):
the projection over under 82 anda half wins for the milwaukee
brewers.
I'm gonna go over.
I think they're in that 86 to87 range.
I I don't know if they're gonnalike last season they got.
I believe it was like what 93is where the brewer sat last
season there.
I don't think they're gonna bein that same.
I don't think they're gonna getto that same spot, but I think

(40:25):
they'll be.
I think 86 to 87 yeah, I, I dotoo.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
I, I was trying, I was trying to think of that
myself, like I thought.
For sure, like you said, theywere over 90.
But yeah, 82 and a, you said 82and a half.
Right, 82 and a half is whatthe projection was yeah, I think
they get over that.
I mean, we're talking about alot of their pitching staff
coming back this year that wedidn't you not a lot, but a
couple guys right, we didn't seelast year.
So, uh, that being said, youadd Quintana, uh, from the Mets,

(40:54):
like I, I, you know, I knowlosing Willie, that sucks, but
it's I.
I think they have the pitchingto.
To overcome that.
I think they go over to.
I'll hammer that.
I like that.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
I like that there.
So I got Sal Frelick, who hasbeen hitting the absolute cover,
off the ball down there inspring training so far.
I got him on my list here forover under 10 home runs.
Over under 10 home runs for SalFrelick for this season here.
I was just trying to see if Icould find I think somebody did

(41:27):
a stat on it there.
He has 14 batted balls trackedby StatCast that have averaged
exit velocity as more than 91.8.
That is actually more.
He's had his hardest hit ballof his entire career this spring
.
So over under 10 home runs I'mgoing to go over.
I'm giving him like 13, 13 to15.
I think he sits in that range.
What do you got here?

Speaker 1 (41:46):
I think just pulling up his stats real quick.
So last season 475 at-bats, twohome runs.
I know it's spring trainingtoday with a grain of salt, but
41 at-bats in spring training,two home runs.
So I mean the sample size ismuch smaller and he's got two.
So yeah, I'm going to take himright.
I say he hits 11.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
I'll say he hits just over that.
I like that.
I like that there.
So we got more over under.
We got more over under on thebackside.
We got bold predictions.
We got all of it on thebackside.
It's break here, so we'll beright back here on the show.
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So, aaron, we were doing overunder when we went to the break
there.
We had over under sal frelickfor 10 home runs.
We went the over.
We got brewers over 82 and ahalf wins this season here.
I got team era.
So the team era, I believe lastseason.

(43:07):
I was looking through the statsthere from last season and I
had the over-under.
Will they be over-under?
3.65 there For the stats comingup here.
I will pull up last season'sstats there for the Milwaukee
Brewers, what we saw ERA-wiseright here.
We had a 3.65 last season.

(43:28):
That's why I wrote it down thatway 3.65.
Do we believe the Brewerspitching staff goes for over or
under a 3.65 last season?
That's why I wrote down thatway 3.65.
Do we believe the brewerspitching staff goes for over or
under a 3.65?
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna gounder.
I'm gonna say they pit, I'mgonna say like a three point,
because if the brewers are gonnahave 90, some wins with the
lineup they have, I don't thinkthey're gonna to score as many
runs.
So I think they got to be under.

(43:49):
Give me like 3.54.
Give me like 3.54.
Team ERA.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
I think I'll go over here just slightly, though I
don't think it's going to befour.
You know what I mean.
I don't think it's going to beanything ridiculous.
I'm not going to say they can'tdo it right, but that's a tall
ask.
I think, Just like mid threeson a team ERA, that's pretty
darn good.
Like you'll take that any dayof the week and twice on Sunday.

(44:17):
So to do that, like I said, I'mnot saying they can't, I just my
gut is telling me they'll belike right at like 3.7, 3.72,
something like that.
But even that you know you'lltake that.
I mean, that's a good ERA, it'spretty darn good, so 100 100.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
I would agree with you there.
So we'll see.
I mean, I just had to go underbecause I had to wonder just for
that.
Right, garrett mitchell, this isif he stays healthy, knock on
wood, son of a gun.
If he stays healthy there, overunder 15 home runs, 20 doubles.
So will he go over 15 home runsand 20 doubles?
I'm going to take the over.
I'm going to take the over onthat one.
I was looking through, I waslooking through his stats.

(44:57):
Right, he's always got a smallsample size because he doesn't
get a lot of that bats.
Right, because he's always hurt.
But I looked at his smallsample size 106, 196 at bats.
He had eight home runs and hehad 12 doubles Full season.
Yeah, I'm taking the over.
I'm taking the over 15 homeruns over 20 doubles, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
I struggle with guys that get injured a lot.
I'm always like I'm scared ofthem.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
He's got to stay healthy one year.
Right, he's got to stay healthyfor one season.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
He has to right.
I just, if I'm like a bettingman on this one, I, I don't like
the track record of injuries.
So for that, simple, I think hehas the ability.
We've talked about his, hisability.
But you know, availability isis, you know, a big commodity,
obviously.
So in this case I will take theunder.
If he can stay, if he stayshealthy, I'll take the over.

(45:47):
But it's one of those I, I justit's a little risky for me, but
he, he can.
He just has to stay in thereand stay on the field.
That's the biggest thing.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
So I got we got team home runs the over under for
team home runs.
Now last season they had 177and that was with Willie's 32.
So we'll go team home runs overunder.
We'll take off about 20.
We'll go 157.

(46:17):
They had 177 with Willie.
He had 32.
We'll take off 20, 157.
Team home runs over under 177.
I'm going to be honest with you,this is going to be.
You're going to be like what ishe talking about?
Right, I'm taking the over, I'mtaking.
To be honest with you, you'regoing to be like what is he
talking about?
Right, I'm taking the over, I'mtaking the over.

(46:38):
This is why Because I believethere's going to be a couple
different guys who are going tostart launching long balls again
that we missed out on lastseason Christian Jelic and Reese
Hoskins.
I know Reese had 26, so don'tlike, you know he had home runs,
right.
I think Reese Hoskins is gonnahave a huge year, so I've been
watching him in spring.
Right now he's launching thebaseball and then I know it's
spring, so don't like freak outor anything like that.

(46:58):
But when you launch balls, likehe is in spring, that's
different.
I think Reese Hoskins has foundhimself again.
I think Reese is gonna get hotand I think Christian Yelich, he
had 11 think about that 11total last year.
If that back's feeling good andhe starts hitting balls I mean
2019, I believe the first fourgames of the season he launched
a long ball in that season.
I could see a similar seasonwhere he's like 30 home runs

(47:20):
again.
So if he gets up to 30 again, Imean between Reese and him
hitting balls, you know likethat.
And then you add in a guy, ahealthy Garrett Mitchell.
Right, because he had eighthome runs.
With 196 at-bats there, he hadeight home runs.
You give me a healthy GarrettMitchell, because part of
Garrett Mitchell, too, comingback was he just jumped right
into the fold.
It's hard to jump in midseasonand try to get your form back

(47:41):
and start feeling it again.
If he can stay healthy, if hecan find his bat, if he can
watch pitches and be smart withthe baseball bat there, to be
smart with the baseball batthere, I like him to go over
that 157.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Yeah, I'm going to take it over as well.
I love your point on Reese.
I think he I mean he knows hecould get a major payday if he
comes out of this season with amore productive season than last
year.
I mean he's still got the teamoption for what like $20 million
or $18 million something likethat in the ballpark.

(48:14):
So still a pretty good paydayfor for first base and slash DH
at this point, but, like yousaid, I mean I think they'll
taper off a little bit.
Obviously, replacing WillieAdamas is you can't really in
this situation, but especiallyfrom a shortstop, like not many
shortstops hit bombs like likeAdamas, you know consistently.
But I actually think, like joeyortiz, might put up 18 to 20
home runs this year.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
I, I liked him with the what's that in 11 last year,
I mean yeah, that's what I mean.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
I I think, like I'm real, I was real big on joey
ortiz before the orals tradedhim.
I think he's a.
He's a guy if he can just stayconsistent and and fine if he
finds it, I think he's a.
He's a solid player.
He just needs to.
Like you know, he really hasn'thad that many chances.
I mean, in baltimore he hadlimited chances and then, well,
you know, last season was kindof his first real you know

(48:59):
season season long, uh year forhim.
So, yeah, I look for that anduh, like you said, if somebody
like garrett mitchell stayshealthy, sal frelick, you know,
does, does more than last season.
I think they taper off from thenumber they had last year
because of Adamas leaving, but Idon't think they're too far off
with these guys, these otherguys stepping up and I think

(49:19):
they do take that over.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yeah, I like that.
I like that there.
And I do agree with the JoeyOrtiz.
I mean, last season he got hurttoo.
He was hot to start the yearand then he got hurt too.
He was hot to start the yearand then he got hurt and then he
came back and it just wasn'tthe same.
So maybe if he stays healthyfor a whole year, if he's got
that consistent at bat you knoweverybody jacking him up there I
I could see it kind of wearingoff on him too there and he's
gonna start launching the ball.
So I agree with that one there.
Uh, we do have bold predictionsfor the 2025.

(49:44):
So these are my boldpredictions that I came up with
jack centurio will be in the30-30 club 30 home runs, 30
stolen bases for sure, I'm withthat one there.
Jackson Churio 30-30 club.
Christian Yelich is going tohave over 30 home runs.
Got that feeling.
I got that feeling he's goingfor over 30.
31, 32, I can see him in thatrange.

(50:05):
He last season was in his MVPform.
He just didn't have his powerso far.
In spring he's got his powerback.
So if he can translate thatinto the regular season, he's
definitely going over 30 homeruns there.
I like that one.
Reese Hoskins is going to have35 plus.
Yep, that's where I'm at rightnow.
That's my bold prediction ReeseHoskins, 35 plus there.

(50:27):
Woodruff Brandon Woodruff justbecause I think he's a dog and I
think he is defying logic withhis injury comeback here.
He is going to come back and heis going to return and be the
ace of the staff.
I'm with it.
Brandon Woodruff's coming back.
He's going to be that dog.
He's going to be that guy.
Craig Yoho I know we talkedabout him.
You missed the show last weekthere.

(50:47):
Make sure you go listen back toit on the podcast sites they're
Apple, spotify, everywhere inbetween you can find podcasts.
If you missed the show.
But we talked about Craig Yoho.
Craig Yoho is going to startthe year in the minors, but I
think Craig Yoho at some pointis going to come up to the bigs.
He's going to light it up andthen he's going to be the closer
for this Milwaukee Brewers team.
That's where I'm at with CraigYoho.
I think he's going to be thatguy, and then Joey Ortiz and

(51:10):
Bryce Teranger going to combineto be the best middle infield in
baseball.
All in all, all in all, they'regoing to be the best middle
infield in baseball Defensively,if you put.
See, because it's going to be askewed thing, because
everybody's going to be likewell, offensively and it's like
no.
No, I want to put the twotogether.
I want to say defensively andoffensively, put all the stats

(51:30):
together.
Who's your best right?
I think Bryce Terang and JoyOrtiz definitely have that
chance, because last season JoyOrtiz was seventh in defensive
runs saved.
You put him at shortstop.
Now you have the best secondbaseman defensively in the game
at second base.
And Bryce Terang I don't knowname a better one, name a better
combo you can have defensivelyout there, as long as they, you

(51:51):
know, knock on wood, don't youknow, go backwards.
I like where they're at thismilwaukee brewer team.
So we'll see what happens there.
Brewers yankees coming uptomorrow there we're gonna have
boatload more to talk aboutabout baseball next week here on
the show.
After we see a little bit right, we gotta see a little bit get
back in the mode and then weback in the baseball mode there.
But uh, we did have breakingnews last night there about

(52:12):
damian lillard for the bucksthere.
He's out indefinitely due to ablood clot in his calf.
So he had that deep uh veinthrombosis in his right calf,
similar to what victor wambayamahad in his right shoulder.
Victor wambayama was, you know,he's sidelined for the year.
Damian lillard's I mean lookinglike he's on according to what

(52:32):
john horst had to say.
Damian lillard's health is ournumber one priority.
That's 100.
We don't want anything bad tohappen there.
We will support him as he movesthrough his weekly process of
strict criteria to ensure thathe is safe for a return to play.
Doctors have indicated that hissituation is very unlikely to
occur again.
We are thankful, are thankfulthat this was identified and
medicated quickly, which helpswith the recovery.

(52:53):
So it's out indefinitely.
We don't know what's going tohappen, but we're going to wait
and see on that one a little bitthere.
So Damian Lillard right now isout indefinitely for the team
there.
So we'll see what happens withthe Bucs moving forward who have
struggled as of late here.
But, aaron, we had a little bitof news.
They're coming in nfl russell,wilson to the giants and the
patriots scooping up stefandiggs.

(53:16):
So now, aaron, rogers, stealersor bust is that where we're at
right now?

Speaker 1 (53:24):
I have you heard anything out of the vikings side
of the vikings said no, I think.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
I think it's kevin rucano keeps saying no to this.
So the vikings are saying, no,they're gonna stick, I'm
guessing, with jj, but nobody'sindicated to jj that they're
sticking with them.
So it sounds like rogers isn'tgoing there.
It sounds like it's, you know,gonna be stealers or bust I.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
I often thought, at least in my own head, like I
would be surprised but notshocked if the 49ers somehow
were like last second becausethey didn't pay Purdy yet
they're like quickly declined,like they're just not the same
team and they're like OK if theybrought Rodgers in on a one
year.
I'm not saying it's going tohappen, but I wouldn't
completely rule it out.

(54:03):
But there hasn't been a lot oftalk about it, so chances are
probably slim.
But I mean, yeah, tomlin, aaronRodgers, dk Metcalf, george
Pickens You're talking about alot this could blow up in epic
fashion.
It really could.
I'm not saying it will, but ithas the potential to.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
For sure That'd be fun, that'd be funny.
But you know they got the guysin the room to calm it down.
They got the guys in the roomto calm it down to Hayward and
everything like that yeah,hayward, we'll kind of see.
We'll kind of see what the NFLdoes here, but it's been quiet
as of late, so we'll see ifthere's any crazy moves when we
come back here next week there.
So, aaron, that's about all wegot for today.
We got a lot of, I mean,college basketball.

(54:44):
We got, you know, sweet 16,elite, because the Badgers are
out, but I guess we'll watch.
We got Brewer baseball comingup tomorrow there and over the
weekend we got, oh my goodness,lots to get to next week here on
the show.
So with that, for Aaron andmyself, this has been Wisconsin
Sports on the Go with Trage.
Thank you all for tuning in.
We'll catch you guys back herenext Wednesday, but until then,

(55:05):
see ya.