October 1: Hour 1 Brewers and Badgers

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How are we doing, everybody?
And welcoming to WisconsinSports on the Go with Trade.
I'm your host, Trage, as we comeback here for the October 1st
edition of the show here.
I hope you guys are enjoyingyour Wednesday so far.
I hope you guys enjoyed yourweekend since we last talked
last Wednesday there.
My weekend, I'm gonna call itadventurous and problematic.

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Let's go with that.
Those are the best words I canthink of.
It was a so, as you guys know,if you guys have listened long
enough, you guys know I'm anelectrician.
And the wife this weekend, she'slike, Oh, well, I the sink, the
faucet in the bathroom, the sinkfaucet, it did a 360 number.
It would still work, like youcould still get it to flip hot
to cold, but it would turn a360.

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And she's like, Well, I reallylike a new faucet in there.
I was like, I can do that,right?
Uh you guys know I got it, youknow, work on a dairy farm, my
family's dairy farm there.
So, I mean, I've done countlessthings with cow waters, all
kinds of stuff in the mail cows.
I was like, Yeah, yeah, I can, Ican do this.
I can I can do this.
Oh man, that was bad.
That got bad fast.

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Oh man, they got the old copperpiping in there.
It was disastrous with a capitalD.
I mean, you know, there waswater flying, this little like
sink that we have in there.
It's like getting underneath ofit was impossible for me because
I'm not that small of a person,so getting underneath there was
impossible.
It was rough, it was reallyrough, and I finally got it.

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I got it, knock on wood.
It's good, it's good to go.
So I that was adventurous.
We had family pictures the nextday.
That was great.
Uh, as you guys know, I like tocan.
I like to can stuff, canned foodthere.
So I was making apple butterover the weekend.
So that it ended up great.
I didn't realize it takes solong to cook it, though.
So that's like a seven-houradventure.
Started at 8:30 on uh Saturday,kind of gave up at you know

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12:30 at night on Saturday, andthen on Sunday ended up having
to finish cooking it.
Uh put it in the fridge, ofcourse, then finish cooking it
there.
But it ended up great.
When it was all said and done,it was great stuff.
It was absolutely great stuffthere.
So it was a good weekend all theway around, just problematic,
adventurous, I'd like to callit.
Family pictures were great, likeI said.
But I mean, outside of that,sports-wise, let's look into

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sports wise.
The Brewers.
Well, let's start.
The Packers, right?
The Packers end up in a tie withDallas.
We're gonna get to that.
There was a lot of things wedisliked about that one.
I I don't like the overtime ruleyou can tie.
I don't like that.
I I don't understand why, right?
You look at college football andthey allow the overtime roles.

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You start with the ball on the25-yard line, you go in, you try
to score.
If you score, you kick fieldgoal, the other team has an
opportunity to.
After that, you got to go fortwo on both ends.
You have to score and then gofor two on both ends there.
And then if both teams succeedat that, then you end up going
to uh straight two-pointconversions, and then whoever
doesn't get it, last, you know,whatever it ends up being, you

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know, the loss there.
But I like that.
I like having a game have aconclusion.
It's like watching a movie,right?
I got this one show, I can'tremember the name of it.
Um, the guy from 24 is in it.
I think it was called likeRabbit Hole, it was called, or
something like that, was thename of the movie.

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Yes, it was.
It was Rabbit Hole.
That's the name of the show.
Is Rabbit Hole had one season?
Fantastic show.
Loved it, loved every second ofit.
It was on Paramount Plus, lovedevery second of it, and it ended
the last episode, ended on thiscliffhanger, and I was like, I
can't wait for season two, and Inever got it, it never came out.

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I don't know why, they justdidn't renew it for uh season
two, which absolutely stinks.
Absolutely stinks.
I thought it was great, Ithought it was great, but it's
like that not having aconclusion to an episode of your
fit one of your favorite shows,or not having a conclusion to a

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movie, and you want to say, Oh,I can wait until the next
season, but you're not gonna getit, right?
Because end of the year, I mean,it doesn't really matter now.
You're not gonna get that chanceunless you meet them in the
playoffs, but you're not gonnaget the chance to continue that
game to see how it would haveended.
So the overtime rules, I don'tunderstand why there isn't some

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kind of way to I don't know,like college does go for
two-point conversions.
Maybe you can do that.
I said, crazy thinking ofmyself, I was like, well, why
don't why don't we just dokickoffs?
Let's just have kickers just goout there, set the ball in the
55-yard line, try to hit it.
If you hit it, move them backfive.
If they both miss, move them infive.

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Then if they both hit, move themback, and just slowly keep
working the kickers and just seewho wins it there.
I mean, get the kickersinvolved.
I'd be okay with that.
I'd be okay with that.
Just something weird.
I don't know.
But what do you guys think?
Let me know.
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What do you guys think of theovertime rules in the NFL?
Because I feel like there's abetter way to go about it than
ending it in a tie.
Because I just, ah, that justdrives me nuts.
Drives me absolutely nuts endingit in a tie.
But so the Packers ended a tie.
The Brewers, they dropped threestraight series.
The Brewers are kind of, andwe're gonna talk about it later.

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You know, fans are sayinglimping into the postseason,
everything like that.
So we're gonna get into theBrewers a little bit later on in
the show here.
But the Brewers clinch thenumber one seed in all of
baseball for the first time infranchise history.
They have home field advantagethrough the entire postseason.
That was awesome, absolutelyawesome to see.
I mean, the Brewers are settingthere's stats, and that's this

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Brewers team all season long.
Stats that you didn't even knowwere a thing.
They just kept busting them allseason long, setting these new
ones, you know, creatingwhatever.
It was just that kind of yearfor the Milwaukee Brewers, and
again, they set another anotherfranchise, not a record, but a
franchise.
They're the first team infranchise history, or first

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Brewers team, to clinch homefield advantage throughout the
entire postseason.
So that was awesome to seethere.
The br in MLB talk, I saw thislittle factor.
Three straight years of risingattendance for the MLB.
That was pretty cool to seethere.
The MLB playoff bracket, andthis is a question that I had.
So this was a question I wasgiven.

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The MLB playoff bracket wasreleased, and the Brewers right
now, as the number one seed inbaseball, or number one seed in
the NNL, would have to right nowthey play the win.
Well, they do play the winner ofthe Padres and the Cubs.
And I was asked this.
Somebody said, Well, why don'tthey do it where they reseed it
after round one?
We've talked about this in a lotof different playoffs, whether
it was college football oranything like that.

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Why don't they re not reseed it,but I see it's spoke wrong in
there.
Why don't they allow, like Cooksay if the Reds are playing the
Dodgers right now?
If the Reds were to somehow beatthe Dodgers, the number six
seed, why isn't that the numbersix seed doesn't play the one
seed and then the two seed wouldget the winner of the four and
the five?
The lowest seed plays theBrewers, basically.

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The lowest seed plays thehighest seed that's left or that
is in there, which is the numberone seed.
Why don't they do something likethat?
And I was like, yeah, you know,that makes sense.
Why why would you have theBrewers if the Reds were to win,
they would play the Phillies,and the Brewers would have to
play the one of the either thebest wildcard team or the second
best wildcard team as the numberone seed.

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It doesn't make sense.
I would be okay with the if theMLB said, let's just change this
thing up after game or after thefirst series, after wildcard
series are done.
If there's six seeds left, theyplay the ones no matter what.
If you have a two, if you havethe four and the five, you know,
who the loser of that goes atfive seed wins, they go and play

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the brewers, or you know, theyend up playing the two seed.
That's kind of the way that Iwould shake it.
So I I think that's a a smartway to do it.
I mean, right now, who are yourooting for?
Padres or Cubs?
That was a question.
It's like you want to see theBrewers play the Cubs, but you
also don't.
I'm kind of like, I don't wantto see the Cubs.
I really don't because I don'twant that.
I don't know if you I don't knowif you call pressure.

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I just don't I don't want to seethe Cubs.
I really don't.
I'd be okay with Padres gettingthrough there.
Who did the Brewers match upbetter with?
I guess would be the question.
I'd probably say the Cubs.
I would probably say they matchup better with the Cubs.
If Horton's still out, thepitching staff for the Cubs gets
real thin.
So maybe you can beat that up.
We saw Craig Counsel go toPalencion in like the fifth

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inning against the um blankingagainst Padres in game one
there.
So I mean you can see Craig makesome crazy moves there.
The pitching staff gets thin.
There's a lot of differentthings that I mean you like
about a matchup with the Cubs,but you dislike about a matchup
with the Cubs there.
So it's just it's is one ofthose questions that I had was
you know, should they change upthat playoff bracket?

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So that way this number, thelower seed ends up playing the
higher seed in those games.
And I I can see, I can see wherefans kind of have that uh have
that thought there.
Should they, and this wasanother question I had.
So I guess I'm just rolling offquestions that fans had over the
weekend there that I saw.
Should MOB have local broadcastsfor playoff games?
It's always been the uh theage-old thing, right?

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Everybody says it every year.
They're like, I wish that youknow Brian Anderson or Bill
Schroeder could call thisplayoff game, stuff like that.
And I agree, I agree.
At the end of the day, it's alla money game, right?
The MOB, they want to own therights, they want to put you on
their big stations and alloweverybody out there to be able
to watch it, which is okay, butI would be okay with why can't

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FanDuel host it?
Why can't FanDuel have abroadcast there?
Why I I have never understoodwhy not?
Why not?
Because then MOB would losemoney.
TBS, whoever it is, if they'reholding a game on TBS or Fox or
ESPN, they would lose money.
That's why.
Because fans, if you're a Brewerfan, you're going to watch on

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FanDuel.
Now, maybe you could do it whereyou could have it say the game
is supposed to be, because Iremember uh the Badgers when
they went to the Final Four,they had a team cast.
And I think it if I'm notmistaken, it was Wayne Laravie
who was calling the game.
But they they had this team castwhere you'd be able to, if

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you're a Kentucky fan, you couldwatch on like TNT.
If you're a Badger fan, youwatched on TBS, and then if you
didn't care which one youwatched on, it was on like true
TV or whatever.
I don't know the I don'tremember quite remember the
combo there.
But you get what I mean.
You'd have the ability to watchyour broadcasters or your
Wisconsin guys on that network.

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Maybe that's something that MLBcould look into is having you
know ESPN, ESPN 2, where theyhad the brewer's announcers on
one and the you know, becausethey're not, but the problem is
that they're not employed by uhESPN.
So then ESPN wouldn't want tohave them, they'd want to have
their guys.
So I guess I just talked myselfout of my own outcome to this.

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I agree it is it is kind of uhirritating, but I don't know
what you do.
It's a money game at the end ofthe day.
That's that's why localbroadcasts don't have it.
They're probably lucky that theystill allow the radio teams to
have it.
So hopefully, maybe someday wesee a way that they get local
broadcasters to be able tobroadcast games because that's
what the fans want.

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End of the day, that's what thefans want.
And I mean, not being able tosee, I know some people don't
like Bill Schroeder, but notbeing able to have Bill
Schroeder, Brian Anderson callyou a game.
They call 162 of them, and thenyou can't call the postseason.
I can see the the problem, theuh indiscretion with that.
So I can see that one there.

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So I can definitely see thatone.
I would love to see it.
It's just a problem of moneycomes into it, and then having
their guys on the call andeverything like that.
So, and you know, my biggest mybiggest irritation with that,
these ESPN guys don't knowBrewer players.
They learn them for the firsttime when they show up.
That's my biggest problem.
They know Otani, they knowJudge, they know Freeman, they

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know these guys, they don't knowSal Frelick, they just make crap
up when he shows up.
They're like, Oh, I gotta flipthrough my papers real fast and
figure out Sal Frelik.
That's what irritates me themost is when it gets on these
national broadcasts.
If they actually took the timeand understood these small
market teams and actually caredabout the game, I'd be fine with
them.
It's just they don't care.
They like, oh well, yeah, theyyeah, don't care.

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Don't care about this team.
It's a it's the Brewers,whatever.
But you know, they're like, oh,Sal Frelick, uh, let's see how
me he did this just year and hedid this, and it's like,
whatever, dude.
Like, get out of here.
Yeah, that's my problem with theESPN broadcast.
That's why I want localbroadcasts.
I don't know why everybody elsewants them because they just
want to have that that homefeeling.

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But for me, it's because theseMOB guys, these uh ESPN guys,
they don't care.
And I don't feel like they carewhen I listen to them.
They care about big markets,they care about big teams, they
care about big players, theydon't care about the rest.
So that's that's kind of whereI'm at with that one, I guess,
to end that little portionthere.
And then I had one more questionthat was asked to me over the
weekend.
I we're just rolling off thequestions that were asked to me

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over the weekend here to startout the show.
Would you rather see BrewersWorld Series, a Packers Super
Bowl?
And I added these two to it.
This was so is a Brewers WorldSeries, a Packers Super Bowl.
That one was asked to me.
It was sent to me.
Um, somebody ESPN, I believe,Madison posted it and it was
sent to me.
So I was just like, I I answeredit to the person that sent it to

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me, and then I posted it to theFacebook page.
But I added these two Badgersfootball or a basketball, men's
basketball national title.
Which would you rather see?
It would be super nice to seethe Badger Football win a win a
national championship, but I Ijust want to see them win a
game.
So I'm kind of at that pointwith that.

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I would say honestly, for me, itwould be between a national
championship for men'sbasketball and a brewers world
series.
And I'd probably say BrewersWorld Series, that'd be mine.
I would go Brewers World Series,but my next my next would be
men's basketball.
Just because I feel like they'veall they've been good, they've
been on the cusp and they'redoing good things and trending

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in the right direction, but theyjust haven't been able to get
over that hump in thepostseason.
And the brewers, same thing.
So I would say brewers to answerthat question.
I want to hear what you guysthink.
Would you rather see a BrewersWorld Series, Packers Super
Bowl, or Badger football ormen's basketball title?
I'd love to hear your thoughtson that question there.
But we have tons to get intotonight here.
When we come back from thebreak, Christian's gonna stop
by.
We're gonna talk badgers.

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So today we have our fact of theday coming up for October 1st.

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And let's see what we got here.
Our October 1st fact of the day.
Yosemite Park was established bythe Congress in the United
States in 1890 today.
There you go.
There you go.
And also the for the in 1908,the Ford Model T, the car that
revolutionized transportation,began to be sold to the public
for$825.

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Now I can't even look at a newone off the line without saying,
yep, that ain't gonna happen.
So yeah, that's kind of wherewe're at right now.
That's kind of where we're atright now.
So we got Yosemite National Parkbeing established here on
October 1st, 1890, and then theModel T car.
Ford Model T car,$825.
That is wild.

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That's crazy to think.
That's crazy to think.
In 1908, a car, the newest oneoff the line,$825.
And where we are now, I got youget heated seats, but I can I
can maybe afford the heatedseats in the car.
I don't know if I can afford thecar, but I can afford the heated
seats.
So anybody wants to go likethree-quarter to a quarter on a
car with me, I can afford theseats.

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There you go.
There you go.
There.
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sporting world.
So let's talk some brewers here.
Brewers, fans are starting to, Idon't want to say they're
starting to, they they'reconcerned.
They are mightily concerned overthis Brewers team.
They it hasn't been pretty overthe last you would I I don't

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want to say month, but month.
It hasn't been super pretty.
And fans are concerned.
Are the the biggest storyline, Iguess, that I saw, and I mean

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you look back at what we sawCardinals series, Padres series,
and then the Red Series.
They had three wins mixed intothere, three out of three,
three, three and six in theirnine games there, and then they
swept the Angels before that.
Fans are on this, like, oh well,are we seeing it again?
Are we seeing the Brewers onceagain go into the postseason

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cold?
You know, you want to sit hereand you you want to be overly
concerned, and I I keep I getit.
I I really do.
You don't think everybody'ssitting there right now saying
to themselves, oh boy, oh boy,like this team's not hot going
to the postseason.
You're watching a lot of theseother teams right now, there's

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they're feeling it going in, andit just looks like the brewers
are on the opposite end of thestick right now.
And so so here's my thought.
Here's my thought on it.
The Brewers won 97 games.
Now, and this is a a quote or uha post that I saw, and I think

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it's the the worst thing I'veever seen.
Number one seed by default.
Because they the Phillies lost,the Brewers got in.
Like, well, they think they werein anyways, but they ended up
getting the one seed off thePhillies losing.
And it was like, oh, okay, youknow, I can I can see what
you're saying, right?
And I said the same thing.

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The Brewers, they got into thepostseason.
They technically, when they wonthe central, they lost.
Uh, they got into the got theone seed they lost.
I can understand where fans area little bit, uh, well, you
didn't really do anything to getit.
You just lost the game and youhad some help.
Understandable.
The Brewers won 97 games.

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That's not by default.
They played extremely well foruh three months, and then you
got the oh, well, you know, theygot hot at the wrong time, this
and that, and it's like, yeah,okay.
The thing with the Brewers, andthis is what I don't think a lot

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of other teams do, is whenthey're hot, they're hot.
I mean, they other teams whenthey get hot, they're hitting
the long ball.
They but other teams rely on thelong ball.
The brewers rely on, and this iswhat they've kind of gotten away
from.
And when you look at the thestatistics of it, you look at
the stats, you look deep down,the Brewers when in a lot of

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their losses, a lot of theirlike losing streaks or when
they're losing games, they'rehitting the ball hard.
They're actually hitting itharder in those games than they
did in that 29-4 stretch thatthey had.
So you almost say, well, theygotta hit the ball softer,
right?
A lot of teams, we saw itagainst the Padres, we saw it

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against the Reds.
Teams just putting the ball inplay against the Brewers, broken
bat singles, whatever it was, abloop, getting it out there.
That's what the Brewers, that'swhere they live.
Putting pressure on pitchers,and that's something that I
think they got away from.
I don't know if it was I youdon't you you want to know that
they aren't changing theirapproach, what got them to this

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point.
You know, Sal just being a guythat just digs deep in account
and will reach back there andget a catcher's interference, or
a guy like Tarang just slappingit to the left, a guy like Yelic
being a driving force in there,uh, Contreras being, you know,
that guy, you know, just thethings that got him this point,
Andrew Vaughn.
You hope that, you know, AndrewVaughn, I thought got away from

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attacking, right?
When he first came in, PatMurphy was, oh, well, I just I
told, you know, he told him toswing like a Neanderthal, just
go up there and just hack.
And that's what he did, and hewas impressive.
You hope that he doesn't try to,I don't know if you want to say
be too patient, but you want himto be in that attack mode to go
after guys.
And I like that motto.

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So the Brewers going into this,they they can't change that
approach.
And I think over this lastmonth, in my opinion, I think
the approach has kind of been, Idon't want to say laid back
because I don't feel likethey've been laid back, but you
can tell with the pitching usagewho they're pitching.
Bruce Zimmerman throws, and thenyou know, they had Gasers

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throwing some in there,Mizarowski coming out of the
bullpen, throwing some randomguys in out of the bullpen.
We've been the Brewers have beentrying some things out, trying
to just get through games.
They haven't had Quintana,Woodruff's been banged up, they
haven't had those guys.
So now it was about how can weget through this?
Get to the finish line.

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Now, is that a good way to lookat it?
Probably not.
In the perspective of theBrewers, like you don't want to
just get to the finish line, youwant to get to the finish line
playing some of your bestbaseball.
I I'm not gonna I'm not gonnasit here and say, like, oh, the
Brewers are playing the bestbaseball they've played all
season going into thepostseason, but that's not

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saying another week off here,resetting, getting their minds
right, right?
Because this team, I mean,you're talking about a team who
played 19 games in 18 days.
You're talking about a team thatit just seemed like the games
were never ending and they hadso many comeback wins, and
they've been a part of the rawemotion of this season, you know
the how it started with Euchrepassing away.

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How that's how it started.
And then you had the seriesagainst the Yankees where you
just got the run, they had theworst run differential to ever
start a season.
They got spanked by the Yankeesthree straight games.
I still remember the the finalgame of that series where the
Yankees did not lead off thegame with a home run, and it was

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a base hit to right by PaulGoldschmidt.
And I think it was Lane Grindelon the radio, and Lane Grindle
goes to Josh Maurer and he goes,Yeah, you know, it's they're
trying something differenttoday.
Not hitting a home run to startit, they're gonna try to just
you know, hit a single to startit today.
Like just those when you heardthat, it's like this season is

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off to a bad start, and the waythat it kept going, right?
And then they got to that pointin May against the Pirates where
they came back and won and itflipped the script.
The way that this thing startedto where we are now, the raw
emotion, everything that's goneinto this year, the uh the ups

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and downs, Woodruff coming back,Woodruff looking like he's
gonna, you know, might be hurtagain, uh, Mizarowski coming up
and having that kind of sparkplug thrown in there.
You've had so many guys, SalFrelick carrying the offense,
Reese Hoskins getting hurt.
You brought in Andrew Vaughn, hewas fantastic.
You're waiting for those guys tocome back, Kintana coming into
the fold, Priester coming intothis.

(25:21):
I mean, you've had so manymoving pieces, guys getting
hurt, guys coming back, guysstepping up.
This season's been magical.
And to say, like, you know, ohwell, it's just gonna be another
one of those years.
I don't know.
I got this feeling with thisteam.
I really do.

(25:42):
I don't know.
We say that a lot, right?
We say that a lot.
It's like we got this feelingwith this team.
When you really look at thisteam, top to bottom, they have
all those things that just theythey fill they they like fill in
the blanks.
And I was looking at the otherday, the uh the NVP, you know,
like who who led in the battingaverage and who led in this and

(26:04):
who led in that and who's up forMVP.
And I was looking at all those,you know, awards stats,
everything like that.
And you did not see Brewersacross the stat leaders, but
then you look at the team statsand you see them on there.
And it's like this team wasn'tone guy, it was built off of a
whole bunch of things workingtogether to make the thing

(26:25):
happen.
It wasn't gonna happen with oneguy, not this team, not the way
that they did it, and that'swhat I think they've gotten away
from, and that's where I thinkthis reset, this week that
they're gonna have before theystart that NLDS on Saturday,
where if you're going downthere, I wish I could get down
there.
But excuse me there.

(26:47):
American Family Field's gonna bebumping.
We know that it's gonna be it'sgonna be crazy down there,
standing room only, maybe, ifthat's even available.
You might be able to stand inthe parking lot, maybe, if
that's available.
You know it's gonna be crazydown there, and you know this
team thrives off of the juice.

(27:08):
I it's so easy to go back tothe, you know, oh well, the
Brewers, they're gonna, they'rereverting back to their old
ways, this and that.
It's so easy to go with that.
Let's look at it and say, whathas this team accomplished this
year that gives us the reason tobelieve they can do something in

(27:29):
this postseason?
Win some games, win a series,get to the NLCS.
What are those things that giveus that optimism?
And it's the what we've seen allseason long, the little things
that they do to beat you,putting pressure on you.
And when you get into apostseason game at American
Family Field with thoseblue-collar guys playing for
those blue-collar fans, and youget them jacked up in the crowd,

(27:52):
and you get a Sal Frelick justputting the ball in play down
the third baseline on a littledribbler, and that third
baseman, whoever it is, whetherit's you know, whether they're
playing Manny Machado and thePadres, or they're playing the
Cubs there with Matt Shaw, orthey hit it, you know, a little
dribblish, whatever.
And they got to try to make thatplay with a speedster running
down the line there, and thecrowds roar and everything like

(28:12):
that.
It just those things are whatthe Brewers do.
They put the pressure on you,and that's what they got away
from, and that's what I thinkthey got to get back to putting
the pressure on teams, layingthe bunt down, those little
things that I think is going tomake them go far in the
postseason here.
It's not gonna be the long ball.
As much as we look at, like, youknow, I believe it was Aaron

(28:36):
Boone said, where he's like, Oh,you look at the stats, right?
You gotta hit the long ball towin in the postseason, and then
you got Pat Murphy after theywon.
He's like, We're gonna show themit's different, we're gonna show
them that it's possible to winwithout the long ball.
And that's what that's what theBrewers need to avoid, and
that's what they've been.
I I think they've gotten awayfrom their identity.

(28:57):
And that's what we saw.
I think that I, in my opinion,that's what we saw in these
series here, where they droppedit to the Padres, and they
dropped that other one there.
Um, they dropped that game tothe Padres, they dropped that
dropped the series to thePadres, dropped that series to
the Cardinals, and drop theseries to the Reds.
I think they got away fromwhat's made them special.

(29:18):
So getting back to that is gonnabe the key thing for this brewer
team moving forward.
So we're gonna get to we gotmore brewers to get to tonight
here.
Don't worry.
We're gonna talk more brewershere in hour number two.
Next up here, uh, Christian'sgonna stop by.
We're gonna talk some badgers,then we're gonna wrap up the
hour.
Then in hour number two, we'regonna jump back into the
brewers.
We'll be right back here onWisconsin back into Wisconsin
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So Christian is here tonight.
We're talking a little badger.
Christian, how are we doing?
It's Wednesday, middle of theweek, getting close to the
badgers coming off the bye week.
So I guess uh how we doing?

SPEAKER_01 (30:54):
Um not too bad.
I didn't have to watch thebadgers play football last
weekend, so we're good, right?

SPEAKER_02 (30:58):
I text, I I I texted Christian on uh Saturday, and I
was like, man, do you thinkthey're gonna pull off that game
versus bye today?
I heard that's like bye's likefavored by six and a half right
now.

SPEAKER_01 (31:09):
Yeah, yeah, they're about seven point underdogs,
right, against the bye week.

SPEAKER_02 (31:13):
It's like, oh boy, I don't know if they can pull this
one out.
This team looks tough.
This team looks really tough.
But all jokes aside, we'rehoping that we see some better
stuff here coming off the boat.
We're hoping maybe theyregrouped.
They got the injury bug figuredout.
They maybe get some guys back.
They said they were Luke Fickelwas talking, he's working with
some of the young guys now.

(31:34):
So maybe we see some young guysget introduced.
I don't know if we're gonna seelike a Hunter Simmons maybe get
thrown in a quarterback becausewhat's working or what's here is
not working.
So maybe flipping something.
I don't know.
Who knows?
But let's start out with somebad slash could be good news.
I don't know.
The bad news is then this isflipping over to Badger
basketball, men's basketball.

(31:55):
Kirk Penny is on his way out.
Not that he's getting fired ornot that he's taking a job
elsewhere, he's going back homeoverseas, where he's going to
spend he wants to spend moretime with family.
He, I mean, we all know it, likethese coaches nowadays, they
don't get many days off.
And if he's spending a lot oftime in Wisconsin, he doesn't
get to spend a lot of time withhis family back home there.
So Kirk Penny on the way out,but Brad Davidson come in onto

(32:20):
the coaching.
And a lot of mixed, I guess,reactions, especially to the
Brad Davidson coming onto thestaff.
So I guess, Christian, I'llstart right there.
Thoughts on Kirk Penny on theway out, but Brad Davidson on
his way in.
Thoughts of the effects of bothof those uh moves there for the
badge basketball team.

SPEAKER_01 (32:37):
Yeah, huge loss, at least offensively.
He's been kind of like eversince Penny's been with the
program, he's been a huge partin the architect of their
offense, like turning aroundthat offense from I mean being
that slow swing, you know, youknow, milking the shot clock
down, limiting possessions, um,to being the more fast-paced

(32:58):
team that they are.
It's that's Kirk Penny rightthere.
Um now I don't think becausehe's leaving that I don't think
they're gonna go back to whatthey were at.
I think they're gonna keeptrying to do what they were
doing, but um, I think itdefinitely hurts a little bit
just because I mean he's he wasthe guy that ran that, right?
So I mean I'm sure they'll tryto run the same kind of stuff,
but I don't know if it'll stillbe the same, like as effective.

SPEAKER_02 (33:22):
Yeah, no, I I completely agree.
I hope that he still staysaround in some capacity.
Maybe Greg Gard's got him on thehorn or something, he's watching
practices, he's seeing that kindof stuff.
I would expect maybe he stays inthat kind of capacity with the
badges because you can see hedoes enjoy like his job.
He enjoys it, it's just the timeaway from home, is the sucky
part for him.
So, like you said, and I mean weall know it, the offense

(33:43):
completely changed when KirkPenny came in.
So hopefully they don't try tolike, oh, let's bring in
somebody else and try to changethis.
Let's Luke fickle this thing.
Like, no, no, no, no, no.
Keep it, keep it, keep it theway we're going.
We're going.
This is trending in the rightdirection.
Let's keep this thing going.
So I completely agree there.
Uh, Brad Davidson coming in.
I love that move.
I do.
And it's simple because BradDavidson, when you watched him

(34:06):
play, it was the it was thetoughness, it was the tenacity,
it was the getting after it kindof guy.
I think that is something that'sgetting kind of guys are getting
away from that in the game ofcollege basketball because
they're getting away from it inthe NBA, the toughness factor.
And especially when you play ina league like the Big Ten, where
officiating when you go to likeMackey Arena or stuff like that,
they don't care anymore.

(34:27):
They kind of swallow thewhistle, which is okay.
But Brad Davidson was a greatguy to teach you to play through
that, to be tough, right?
He dislocated his shoulder everygame and just pop back in and
get back over to play.
I mean, the guy's a littledifferent when it comes to that
kind of stuff, but I mean, thethoughts of Brad Davidson coming
into the program to uh work insome capacity in a coaching
role.
What do you think?

SPEAKER_01 (34:46):
I think it's awesome.
Um, I know that him and Guardhave always had a really good
relationship and everything.
So like when they announced itimmediately, it didn't surprise
me even a little bit.
I I you've always I mean you'vealways known that Davidson's
wanted to get back intocoaching.
That's not really been a secret.
He always wanted to, so he kindof figured eventually he'd work
his way back to Madison becausehe has that really good

(35:07):
relationship with guard.
So I figured that's you knowwhere he would start.
So um I like you said, he Ithink I mean again, our offense
is gonna take it because that'snot Brad Davison, right?
But I think he's gonna bringlike a different something
different to the coaching staff,too.
And like you said, it might bethat physicality or just the
mental toughness of um, youknow, just getting the you know,

(35:27):
the big 10 schedule.
So he's been there, he's playedit.
So I think I don't know, I lovethe move.
Um hopefully he can recruit,right?
I know Kirk Penny was huge inlike recruiting overseas, like
he was kind of spearheading thatand Wisconsin was kind of
Wisconsin was kind of ahead ofthe curve.
Then a lot, you know.
Now you see college basketballjust kind of catching up with
that.
Everyone's kind of recruitingoverseas.

(35:48):
Um, but uh Wisconsin wasstarting starting to kind of do
that early on.
They got a you know, HaydenJones coming in from New
Zealand, and they got anotherkid too that's uh Jackson Ball.
He'll be here the next year, Ithink.
Both New Zealand guys, so KirkPenny's a huge part of that.
So maybe I don't know, like yousaid, maybe he'll be uh maybe he
can be kind of Greg Gard's scoutover there, and just even though
he's living over there, you canstill recruit for him.

SPEAKER_02 (36:11):
That's what I was gonna say.
Maybe he's just recruitingcloser to home now.
I don't know.
Maybe he just wants to be overthere all the time to watch him
send him over to Madison.
But yeah, I agree.
And you know, Brad Davidson withthe Minnesota Ties, bringing
some of the Midwest playersaround, the different style of
players, right?
And that's what Brad Davidsonwas when he was in Madison, a
different style of player.
So bringing those kinds of guysinto a program, definitely worth

(36:32):
it.
End of the day, it's definitelyworth it to have guys like that
in your program.
So I definitely I love that movetoo.
Um, so let's get off of thebadge of basketball.
Let's look over at volleyball'soff to a great start.
So that's cool.
That's great.
I mean, they're off to a greatstart.
They've been having some.
I mean, we've been watching acouple, me and the wife have
been watching a couple ofmatches there so far, and our
sets, whatever.
My lingo's way off.

(36:53):
I don't know.
I'm in baseball, football,everything.
Matches, matches sounded right.
It sounded right, and then Ichanged it.
Sets within the matches.
I'm there now.
I'm there.
It's like hockey started to it.
I'm like, I can't.
I can't.

SPEAKER_01 (37:06):
There's so much going on.

SPEAKER_02 (37:08):
I can't try to be involved in this one here.
So volleyball's off to a greatstart.
That's awesome to see.
Um, I saw wrestling was ranked.
I don't know how.
Like, I really wrestling wasranked number 20, I believe.
I wow the wrestling program atWisconsin, and this is the
nicest way possible of eversaying this.
So I don't want if anybody's abig wrestling fan out there, I

(37:28):
don't want them to feel like I'mtrying to offend you right now.
But the West wrestling program'sbeen terrible.
So I have no idea how they gotpunched in at number 20, but I
saw a thing that they were tonumber 20.
So that's cool.
And then I saw that they addedto the bottom of that graphic
that the Wisconsin Badgers putout there, and it said like
football, and it was like 362 orsomething like that on it.
So I was like, yes.

(37:49):
Oh man.
Yikes.
Oh, the football program'srough.
That's all we know.
So let's get to the football.
Let's talk about it.
Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (37:58):
Let's talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 (37:59):
Yeah.
So let's just start out with uhLuke Fickle had a press
conference, his opening pressconference coming off the bye
week, looking ahead to theMichigan game.
It's Michigan press conference.
And he was talking aboutprotecting his players, which
practicing protecting hisplayers and especially
protecting his players fromthemselves.
And he, as we were talking atcommercial break, he said this a

(38:20):
while ago, too, that he wantedto protect his guys from
themselves, especially a guylike Billy Edwards.
But almost he said this, andthen he knew, and almost saying
that he knew that Billy Edwardswasn't ready to go for the
Maryland game, still proceededto allow him to go out there and
play.
And as we saw, Billy Edwardstried to escape the pocket, it

(38:42):
wasn't there, and we saw it, here-injured himself out again,
back out.
I don't know that that irritatesme.
Like you you were, I don't know.
I don't want to say he's a ball,I don't want to say he's lying.
I don't want to say he's likelying about everything that he's
saying right now, but you'repreaching one thing and you're
doing another.
And I don't know.

(39:03):
I I don't know if I what areyour thoughts on that?
I guess what are your thoughtson that, Christian?

SPEAKER_01 (39:08):
I think Fickle's trying to coach for his job.
Like, honestly, I don't thinkMaryland was a game they could
drop, which they did, you know,it was ugly.
Um I think he, you know, he'slooking at that, he's looking at
his schedule and goes, yeah,it's gonna be a rough year.
Like, I have to win the gamesthat we should win.
I don't know if maybe I don'tknow if he has any confidence in
Danny O'Neill or not, but umobviously he thought because he

(39:30):
because he talked about that assoon as you know he got hurt as
soon as Billy Edwards Jr.
got hurt against Miami.
And he was talking about how, ohwell, we're gonna he's you know
competitor, we're gonna have toprotect him against himself, all
that stuff.
And then they start talkingabout him coming back, and like
I put out on Twitter, I'm justlike, I'm not sure why you would
want to do this, like if he'snot like ready, you have a bye

(39:52):
week the next week and then getready for Michigan, right?
Like, why rush this thing?
And I got crucified.
Like, people are like, Oh,because you need to win
Maryland, you need to do this.
I'm like, but what if he getshurt, then what?
Everyone's like, well, you needto win this.
I'm like, if he gets hurt, thenwho you know, whatever.
This season's over anyway,regardless.
Who cares, right?
But um, so I think uh part of meis like, I wonder if he's like I
don't want to say desperate,because you know, whatever, but

(40:14):
like he's he feels the pressure,and he's like, I gotta win this
game.
Like Billy Edwards Jr.
gives me the best chance to dothat.
He maybe that kind of helpedEdwards talk him into it, you
know.
Because I mean, I have no doubtthat Edwards also was probably
like in his ear, like, I'mready, I'm ready, you know.
So um maybe between I think thatbetween the two things he
probably folded and was justlike, Yeah, let's do it.

(40:34):
You know, and then what heplayed 10 snaps and he was back
out already.
And now did he re-aggravate it,or is it just more of like a
yeah, I know I'm just not there,or is it you know I mean,
because he was in street clothesthe second half, so yeah, like
he was done, done.
Yeah, so I don't know.
I think I think Fickle's feelingthe pressure a little bit, and I
think he was kind of like, Igotta I have to get this win.

(40:54):
So Billy Edwards gives me thebest chance to do it.

SPEAKER_02 (40:57):
So he was I can completely see that.
I can completely see that.
And I think I don't want thedesperate was like a word you
didn't want to use, but it's thefeeling, it's the feeling that
you had when you were like, Thisis why he did it, because he
feels the pressure.
He's like, I my job's on theline, my fans are starting to
get irritated, they can onlyyell for so long.

(41:18):
So yeah, I I completely agreethere.
It's just that quote that hehad, and he said it multiple
weeks ago, and then he justbasically goes against his word
and it's like, Okay, how manyother things have you told me
that's not actually happening?
Because I heard from you thatthe quarterback battle between
Braden Locke and Tyler Van Dykelast year was neck and neck, and
then I watched Braden Locke playand I was like, this cannot be

(41:39):
neck and neck, because otherwiseTyler Van Dyke is pretty darn
bad.
So, I mean, there it's justthose things where it's like,
what else are you telling methat's not right?
That's not right at all.
So, okay, yeah, I like that onethere.
Let's look, let's look at what'scoming ahead.
Okay, so they they're gonna moveon, hopefully, from that
Maryland loss.
I don't know how you do becausethe rest of the schedule gets

(42:01):
very ugly very fast.
Michigan coming up next, thenyou have Iowa, then you have
Ohio State, then you haveOregon.
That's all in a month's time.
Oh man.
Okay, so we look ahead fromhere.
The wins don't look like they'recoming plentiful.
But what are some of the things,I guess, that we want to see

(42:22):
from here?
Because we've this has got tobe, I don't know what rock
bottom looks like, but if wearen't there, I don't want to
see it at this point.
Where where do where do yougotta see this team get to, I
guess?
What do you want to see fromthis team?
Because this stretch of games, Imean, you're going to Ann Arbor
to play Michigan.
Iowa just played a darn goodgame against Indiana, probably

(42:43):
could have won that game.
Indiana just had a last, I mean,a last ditch effort right there
to beat Iowa.
And that's a really good team inIndiana.
Ohio State, I mean, they'veburied teams that I mean, yeah,
that's all I need to say there.
And then Oregon is well, yeah.
I mean number two.
You you might lose Oregon.

(43:03):
I mean, that might be 65 tonothing.
I don't even know.
Like, that could be a good one.

SPEAKER_01 (43:06):
So we like right now, the AP poll right now.
We have Ohio State and Oregonback to back as the number one
and two teams in the country.

SPEAKER_02 (43:13):
Yeah, that could be day, that could be fun.
That could be knock off thenumber one team and number two
team back to back weeks.
I mean, come on, you're gonna beable to do that.

SPEAKER_01 (43:19):
And then fickle will have people lining up to kiss
his feet after that if he pullsthat off.

SPEAKER_02 (43:24):
Right, right.
You better just throw us in thecollege football playoff because
we have head-to-head wins versusOhio State and Oregon.

SPEAKER_01 (43:30):
We don't we shouldn't have to play the rest
of the stage.
We should just be in.

SPEAKER_02 (43:33):
We're done, we're done.
So I guess I mean, just hearingthat, we all have our own
thoughts about that.
Listening on the everybodylistening, and you have your own
thoughts on that.
We want to hear your thoughts.
715-990-4914.
That is 715-990-4914.
Let us know your thoughts on thebadgers, what you want to see
coming up here.
But Christian, what do you wantto see from this team moving

(43:55):
forward?
Advancement, everything likethat.

SPEAKER_01 (43:57):
I think the thing I want to see the most is
something that's probably theleast likely is I want to see
the running game come back.
That's what Grimes is supposedto be known for, right?
Yeah, but I mean, I you they gota banged up offensive line.
You're on your third string offyour third string center.
I get it, but like at the sametime, you can't run the ball
against Miami or um MiddleTennessee.

(44:20):
Still like you can't run theball against them.
Like, I understand maybestruggling with Alabama and
struggling again, like Maryland.
Like, yeah, I don't know.
That's what Wisconsin's supposedto be.
Offensive line, running back,you know, running back you,
right?
Offensive line, you that's whatthey are.
That's what they're supposed tobe.
And it's those two have probablybeen like the worst aspects of

(44:40):
the entire team so far thisyear.
Their offensive line sucks, theycan't do anything in the running
game, even though they haveDarien Dupree, Dylan Jones,
Katie Accomelli, you know, likethese guys who are supposed to
be pretty good, they can't doanything.
So it's and of course now we'regonna go Michigan, who's you
know, tough defensively, Iowa,tough defensively, Ohio State.

(45:02):
So it's like I I want to see therun game improve, but the next
four teams, I just honestly Idon't see it happening.

SPEAKER_02 (45:10):
There's like, you know, the Maryland game was your
chance to improve, right?
Those were the games whereyou're like, you gotta see the
improvement, and now you're at,like you just said, a stretch of
games where it's like this isthe hardest part of the schedule
to try to turn it around to findsomething, is when you back it
up with Michigan, then you playIowa, one of the better defenses
in the Big Ten, and then youplay Ohio State, who is all

(45:31):
around, and then Oregon, who isall around and just beat Penn
State.
So, I mean, these are some darngood teams across the board.
I would completely agree.
It's it's the seeing this teamlook like they're progressing in
the right direction, seeingplayers, and that's where I'm
kind of at right now.
It's like you don't want to saylike you don't want to win
games, but I'm not worried aboutwinning football games right

(45:51):
now, to be honest with you,because the season's done.
I mean, after you lost toMaryland, and then I've seen the
crap show that was even, I mean,you look back to Middle
Tennessee, that was second half.
That was second half that thatlooked good.
Miami of Ohio, I mean, thatcould have been a loss.
That was just an ugly start tothe year.
And I mean, you get you lostBilly Edwards.
I understand that.
Your offensive line's beenbanged up, but I mean, man, oh

(46:12):
man, when you can only runoutside the tackles, when you
can't even go anywhere inside.
What do you what are you tryingto open up?
You're never gonna be able toget anything else going in this
offense if you can't just runthe ball at least for five
yards.
I mean, I don't even know thewhat their uh average yards
right now is, but I'd imagineround two.

SPEAKER_01 (46:31):
I'd imagine that's that's what I was gonna say.
Probably like two something.

SPEAKER_02 (46:34):
Three point one.
There you go.

SPEAKER_01 (46:36):
3.1, that's of that, yeah.
And how much of that too is likeDanny O'Neill running or like
outs, you know, uh end rounds orreverses with receivers that
pick up 10, you know, 10 yards.

SPEAKER_02 (46:49):
Yep, nope, yep.
I I'm 100% with you.
Like this this run game needs tofind it somewhere, and that's
what I'm saying.
Like, just seeing that's what Iwant to see from here on out is
just a progression of this teamlooking like they're they're
working towards something,getting better.
I don't care.
You lost to Maryland, like Idon't I don't even I don't even
care about the wins and lossesat this point.

(47:11):
I just want to see this team getbetter week after week, see like
this team is progressing in thatright direction because
otherwise, end of this season, Ihave nothing to vouch for Luke
Fickle.
I have nothing.
There's nothing.
If this team does not look likethey're improving, this was a
season where we set it pointblank, we're like, there's some
look of like look like theycould win some games on here,
but all in all, this is a reallytough schedule.

(47:32):
It's gonna be hard to win thesegames.
We just want to see this teamplay competitive games.
They didn't even playcompetitive against Maryland, so
we got to see this team playsome competitive games against
some, I mean the Iowas, theMinnesotas, whoever it is, see
them play some competitive gamesmoving forward here for us to
feel comfortable with this teammoving forward in the next
season there.
So let's just look ahead toMichigan real quick here before

(47:53):
I gotta let you go.
Is there anything I guess inparticular you're looking for
like for in this game againstMichigan?
It seems like I don't even know.

SPEAKER_01 (48:03):
That's what's that's so hard.
It's like, yeah, I want I wantto see the run game like dude,
like it's so hard to be evenrelatively optimistic about
anything with this.
Yep.
I just I just hope we don't getblown out.
Like if we can keep it, youknow, two touchdowns or less,
I'll be happy.
I would be happy with that.

SPEAKER_02 (48:22):
But 100%.
I think it's a game where like Ilike Oregon.
I think Oregon's gonna curbstomp.
Like, if I had to be completelyhonest, and this is my nicest
way possible as a Badger fan,diehard.
I'm gonna watch every game.
But like Oregon's gonna curbstomp them, Ohio State's gonna
stomp them.
This is a game against Michiganwhere I know it's in Ann Arbor
and it's gonna make it reallyhard to do anything in this

(48:43):
game, but I feel like it's gonnabe closer just because young
quarterback and Bryce Underwood,I feel like they're gonna be
able to keep it just I I don'tthink Michigan's gonna bury him.
They might I'm they might score35 points.
They might score.
I just don't feel like like OhioState, Oregon.
I have no optimism at all thatit's gonna be anywhere near
close.
I could see it being 63 tonothing in the Oregon game just

(49:04):
because that's how fast theyare, and I just think they're
gonna blow us away.
I Michigan, I don't know if theyblow you away.
I think a young quarterback,maybe you can get to them, maybe
you can rattle them a littlebit.
I the defensive lines playedwell at times.
Rieger's been good.
They just have those stupidpenalties, right?
So if, and I hate using the wordstupid, but if you can avoid
those silly penalties, I meanit's it's the Alabama game.

(49:28):
You can avoid the sillypenalties, you can get out of
drives, you can get off thefield.
Those are the things that maybeagainst a team like uh Michigan
with Bryce Underwood, a youngquarterback, maybe you can take
advantage of.
So there's some things that Ithink you can optimate, not
optimism.
I don't think they're gonna winthis game in Ann Arbor, but I
think they can do some things inthere that we won't walk away
from and saying, okay, they'reprogressing in the right

(49:49):
direction.
And I think that's what we'rekind of both looking for in this
one here.
So, Christian, thank you asalways for hopping on.
Let the people know where tofind you out there across social
media.

SPEAKER_01 (49:58):
Yeah, you can all follow me out on uh Twitter,
Blue Sky, and all the socials atChristian Borman or at the
Badger Backer.
Uh starting, hopefully startingto get some best stuff back up
here, getting rolling.
It's hard to find somemotivation to write about the
badgers, right?

SPEAKER_02 (50:12):
But Badger Basketball's right around the
corner.
That's all you go.
Badger basketball's back.
Media days coming up here prettysoon.
We're gonna have media days totalk about here pretty soon for
Badger Men's Basketball.
So that's exciting stuff rightthere.
So, Christian, thank you asalways.
We'll be back here after thequick commercial break.
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I'm gonna answer this one morethoroughly for you in the next
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(52:42):
That's tough.
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That's tough.
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I'm gonna go Priester, but youcan say Vaughn.
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So Priester has been fantastic,but you could go Vaughn.

(53:03):
I can completely see that onethere.
Um best outcome for Badgerfootball.
Best outcome for Badgerfootball.
I'm going to go.
Best outcome, they continue toimprove and find a way to, I
mean, just look better week in,week out.
That's all you can do.
Look better week in and weekout.

(53:24):
I don't know if there's a lot ofwins left on the schedule, but
just looking better week in andweek out is about what I'm
looking at right now.
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