WEBVTT - 01/07/26 - Hour 2 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.440 Our two no bs on your radio and on YouTube 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:09.240 and x waking up with you across the state of Wisconsin. 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:11.319 Eight seven seven seven nine four one nine seven to 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.680 three the phone number to join the conversation. Tons of 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.200 Packers and Bears conversation throughout the week and. 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:19.000 Throughout the day. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:23.079 Tons of news in the NFL as Adam Schefter is 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.600 reporting that Mike McCarthy has any of you lined up 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.639 with the New York Football Giants. Big Mike, I would 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.680 assume get a number of different interviews. By what I'm 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:34.600 I'm happy to be here in New York City, actually 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:36.600 in New Jersey, happy to be here for this. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.920 That would be the most McCarthy hire of all time. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:40.800 Like he would have to go. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.920 Yeah, all due respect, He's not going and coaching the 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:45.840 in Cleveland Brown. 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.880 No, he coaches only the most touchstone franchises, the most 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:51.560 legendary franchises in the league. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:52.559 I mean, think about it with. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.720 The Arizona Cardinals count because they are one of the 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.000 oldest franchises in the sports. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:00.800 They are they moved around. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.160 Now, it's not that they moved around, it's that they 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.240 haven't been that good for me, That's what it is 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.080 for me. It's like they don't have the legacy, but 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.120 they had the longevity. I mean, it would be them 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.679 the Lions, right, the lines have been around that long too. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.520 Just think about it, Packers, Cowboys, and in the New 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.120 York Giants. What other man you know, you could say 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:18.920 there might be better coaches in the NFL history where 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.640 their man has coached all those teams, that that all 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.840 those franchises would have entrusted that man to head up 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:25.720 their operations. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.000 That's an amazing that would be an amazing thing. 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.000 If you the coach of all them, you just say like, 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:31.440 well they don't win enough, and all of a sudden, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.520 I'm like, well, you did coach the Cowboys, which again, 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.679 in my lifetime, they have met the right. In my lifetime, 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.759 the Cardinals have been to as many Super Bowls as. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:40.400 That's a fair point. 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:40.560 Now. 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.800 Historically, the Cowboys obviously are a very successful franchise, but 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.840 they've been a train wrecked last couple decades. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.120 That's three of them, yeah, three decades. They have been 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.080 in the title game since ninety five. They had good 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.760 teams and runs, but they would lose in the playoffs. Again, 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.400 the Cardinals have been to more Super Bowls in the 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.720 last three decades than the Cowboys. I saw the more 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.960 conference title games than the Cowboys doubled up. I guess 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.000 less people just care about Arizona as a market for 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:03.600 pro football. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.360 It's you just don't like Arizona. I don't dislike them, 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.359 that's my point. I don't think I think of that. 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.760 I guess they were in Saint Louis for a while. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.080 They were in Chicago. Oh yeah, yeah, So I don't. 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.080 Know mister Bidwell, one of the founders hate them members 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.080 of the NFL covenants. So I think it'd be an 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.560 interesting one. We'll see if he ends up getting himself 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.880 an interview there. But Kurt Banker posted this, and it's 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.800 getting some run earlier on this morning. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.160 Dollar every time that you said that Kurt Banker posted something. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.240 And probably have one dollar because I don't I don't 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.200 like you, but someone I don't talk about him as 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:34.840 much as a lot of. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:35.520 People like that. 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.880 I meant to say, like, as many people have said, 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.799 oh did you see what Kurt Banker posted? You know 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:40.160 what I mean? 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.000 Oh yeah, no doubt well and uh. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:47.840 Yeah, he posted something the picture of Joe Burrow's Instagram 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.919 post that he had put out that said twenty five 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:56.519 was adversity commented it with Kanye. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.280 West's Good Life. Oh my gosh, it. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.679 Post in there the part of the lyrics that say, 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.160 it feel like Atlanta, I feel like la it feel 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.320 like Miami, feel like in summertimes? 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.080 Shy? Yeah, you want to go with any more of it? 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:10.920 I throw my hands up. I just like the song. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.160 So what do you think the song means? Well? I 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.360 would think that he's trying to predict his next move, 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:17.760 but I'm. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.919 Not really Okay, So you are on that same spot. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.320 You don't put that part in the Instagram post without that, 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.560 without you wanting people to start thinking, hey. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.280 Uh yeah, I'm gonna be available here. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.640 There is one thing we learned about Twitter though, early 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.440 on with the athletes is they would constantly post lyrics 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.440 to songs that didn't really mean much, right. I think 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.920 I remember this like ten years ago, where like a 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.640 lot of athletes would just post lyrics to songs and 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.280 a lot of people will try and read into them 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.040 and think, oh, what does he mean by this? 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:45.400 And they're like, no, I just like the song. 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.040 I don't know that we can again, I get what 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.320 you're saying, Yeah, but can we put old. 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:51.880 Logic to this. 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.120 Maybe not, because when again you're trying to say, is 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.360 ten years ago, when Twitter was first starting, we would 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.560 have guys post lyrics to this. This is how guys 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.960 negotia now, this is you use your social media as 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.800 a way of letting everybody know what what you got 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:05.320 rolling on. 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.040 So maybe it is, maybe it's not. I don't know. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:08.520 I just I thought it was interesting. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.200 Eight seven seven, seventy nine four one nine seven three 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.560 Armen Sarians Right there, Billy Schmid, how much of the 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.840 game last night did you see? As the Badgers take 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:21.920 care of UCLA, now dominate early, hitting everything from the outside, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.240 and then had to cling and hold on late against 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.320 the Bruins and an eighty seventy two victory. Admittedly, so 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.680 Armin I was calling high school basketball, so I was 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:31.920 unable to see most of the game. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:32.440 What did you see? 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.600 Yeah, bits and pieces of it, especially the first half 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:35.719 when they look pretty dominant. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:35.880 Uh. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.839 Nick Boyd six for thirteen had a nice game. This 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.200 was supposed to be a closer game, I thought, based 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.760 on certain prognostications, predictions that I like to read. But 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.599 the Badgers came out and played well in a time. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.040 I think they needed to. They were, you know, kind 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.240 of had a you know, obviously loss to Purdue, lost big, 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.280 and it's been kind of a rocky couple of weeks 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.720 for them. You know, they had to win against Central 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.880 Michigan but lost to Villanopen Milwaukee. They had lost Q 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.080 to Nebraska, and Wisconsin's been in this situation where they 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.240 haven't played a lot of close games either, Billy right, 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.440 So I don't know if last night constitutes has one, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.120 but you're right, they did have to kind of hold on. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.960 But a nice kind of bounce back for them, I 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.000 thought at the Coal Center where they came out, played well, 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.880 hit a bunch of shots and beat an opponent that 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.240 you know, was ten and four at the time. Not terrible. Obviously, 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.839 UCLA brings a lot of cashet. Whether or not they're 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.640 going to have a really good year remains to be 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.320 seen now the rest of the year in the Big ten. 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.800 But good work I think by the Badgers. And I 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:29.560 don't ever think. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.800 The game was truly truly in strong doubt, although I 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.520 think it they cut it down to what was at 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.160 seven at one point, maybe less, so good work by 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.280 the Badgers last night to get back on the winning track. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.320 I think they kind of needed to recalibrate a little 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:43.080 bit for themselves. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.800 Dave and Oregon Billy, remember that many of your listeners 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.840 are casual sports fans and may not have known that 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.520 the NFL playoffs were expanded front to fourteen teams in 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.040 twenty twenty. It's a valid point that the Packers wouldn't 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:55.520 be in the playoffs if they were only ten teams. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.680 You overreacted, Dave, I would totally disagree. Now, I do 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.000 appreciate the fact that we have that, like a couple 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.919 of games, we got fans that love and dig into 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.600 the back half of the practice squad rosters. I would 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.400 counter that most people that are listening to us pretty 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.560 big sports fans. And again, I also think that thing 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:19.320 like casual sports fans starts diminishing the intelligence of Packers fans. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.080 Like Packers fans are some of the. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:25.880 Most heady, knowledgeable, intuit sports fans that you're going to find. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.080 That's why, Dave, as much as you might think like, oh, well, 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:30.920 he's just throwing that out there as a state of fact, No, 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.080 he's throwing it out there for a reason. You want 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.640 to engender a reaction, you get set reaction and when 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.080 it does not answer or validate what you believe, then 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.040 it's the wrong reaction. 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.320 Now I believe it's the right reaction. 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.880 And as much as there are people that listen to 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.400 us and like what times the game on, I fire 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.000 up and love everybody listens to us, I think that 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.400 diminishes the intelligence and the intuit factor of our listeners 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.240 and sports fans in Wisconsin. Arman, I think it is 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.400 extremely an underestimation to think that we got a bunch 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.360 of casuals listening to us right now because you don't 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:06.120 like casuals. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.159 No, that's that's a good point. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.360 Yeah, I would agree, But I guess I don't Dave 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.720 you're saying you don't think people remembered it was expanded 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.560 or remember when it was expanded, because I'd I'd be 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.680 surprised if people that followed the NFL didn't realize there 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.040 was a playoff expansion. 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.800 Also, it's to me, Arman, it's the people that are 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:28.040 using it as a as a crutch, a way to say, like, well, 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.840 it's clearly just not good enough. If you're using that 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.960 and getting into arguments of saying why you need to 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.520 have a coaching change, I would counter if you're arguing 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.040 and just debating it with your boys and texting it 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.160 in the radio shows. You probably you probably are a 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.200 little more than a casual sports fan. You probably got 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.520 the opinion with also his point. It's a valid point 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.040 that they wouldn't have been in the whole point of 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.400 what you said, Oh that is fact. We established that 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.600 it was factual. I agree that your fact. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.120 Your point was, what is the point of you saying that, 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.760 I don't I think Dave might be given a little 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.960 bit too much credit to our guys saying that just 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.119 to make it like a point of fact. No one's 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:04.840 doing it to just Hey, I want to drop in 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:06.640 an interesting little factual tidbit. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:07.320 That I read the other day. 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.840 Did you know the playoffs we're expanded in twenty twenty 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.960 and the packers want to actually, like Dave, I love 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.920 you for that, but you have to realize that no 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.320 one's no one's dropping that in just to drop it 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.040 in as a fun factoid that you might read in 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.120 your bathroom, like in one of those like bathroom probably. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.160 Isn't in one hundred non facts that you have like it. 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:26.880 It's meant to make it's meant to make a point 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.080 and to your point, Billy, you're saying, make the point. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.079 They'll make the point. If you want to make it, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.679 make it. I will disagree with it, but then make 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.199 the point. Like and again this sparks from our friend 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.800 Chris and Lode's text Chris and Lodye just lit the fuse, sure, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.360 because I've been reading it online so much, and that's 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.440 where I just like, I just don't fully comprehend it. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.400 I get that it is factual. I totally get. Yes, 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.199 the seventh Seed wasn't was created. The Packers have been 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.320 one of the biggest beneficiaries of it. They also record 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.480 wise would have qualified for the playoffs and a couple 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.719 of those years from just if you would have done 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.880 Mike Keller's favorite thing of seen it one through six right, 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.760 So like, it's just it to me, is not as 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.319 much of a of a conversation if you don't back 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.400 it up with something else. And Dave, we love you 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.200 as well. I just don't want you to think that 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:16.959 we got a bunch of casual fans listening to us. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.040 We invite all fans listening to us, But Packers fans 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.120 are exceptionalists and they listen all the time, and they 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.040 know everything. There's a reason why they were telling me 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.960 Colin Oliver is gonna be baby Micah Baby Michaels was 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.120 the love practice squad guys enough Mike Arma that they 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:33.560 think that they could be Michah Parsons. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.840 Well you do it, Michael Jerry Jones. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.760 There's always we're addicted to hope, as Norm McDonald one said. 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.000 And when there's a prospect, when there's a young player, 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.600 there's hope and there's excitement that he could become that great. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.880 That's why we take the box with the boat maybe 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.680 in it that bet. Now you talk about prospects. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.439 Uh and and it's actually fun because you lead me 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.040 right into a conversation that I was gonna have. We're 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.040 gonna hear fro matt Lefluur coming up in about eight 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.480 minutes from right now. But Armin, did you know that 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.600 even though it is January six, I hope you enjoyed 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:02.600 your your holiday. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.760 Yes, Merry Christmas to the rest of the Christian Orthodox today. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.600 You uh, we are like five weeks away from pitchers 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.600 and catchers reporting, which is always a fun thing in 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:13.000 the winter. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.679 And someone just randomly throws that in there that the 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.080 countdown on Twitter. 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:23.320 Official win totals and postseason odds go up at sportsbook 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.160 dot ag now our favorite sports book and the one 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:27.680 that we frequent and the one that I will be 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.040 at coming up this weekend. You should be at if 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.480 you want to enjoy an incredible, incredible viewing experience of 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.320 Packers and Bears on Saturday night the Potawatami Sports Book 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.880 or Thursday night for Ole Miss Miami, or Friday night 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.880 for Oregon Indiana, or Saturday for the NFL playoffs, or 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.280 Sunday for the NFL playoffs. Yea, Sunday there's NFL playoffs 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.800 and Bocks basketball. Nice love, It might be a good 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.400 day to be at the sports book. And if you 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.319 like college basketball and you're like, well wait, the playoffs 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.080 are on, Oh, they'll have the college games on too, 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:54.800 so don't worry about that. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:55.800 They're always there are always love. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:57.200 Ye. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.920 But the point that I was rolling through here with 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.440 I think the Milwaukee Brewers are finally getting a little 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.000 bit more of the respect that we've been waiting for 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.240 them to be able to add arman, Uh, what would 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.040 you guess the opening line for the Brewers win total 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:14.400 in twenty twenty. 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:15.079 Six would be? All right? 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.640 So I haven't looked and based on what you said there, 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:18.640 I'm trying to think because. 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.880 It's like a year ago it was eighty and eighty 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:21.400 two and a half. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.719 Yeah, so it's been like and this was coming off 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:25.840 a year where they won the division. So it's been 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.839 like three or four years where we've said, like, they 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.160 haven't gotten the respect and and and I kind of 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:31.720 expected the. 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:32.360 Same thing again. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.320 So if this year things are changing and they were 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.880 woefully undervalued last year at eighty two and a half, obviously, 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.520 I'm gonna say that the books are going to set 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.120 it a little higher this year, the respect, but not 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:44.600 too high. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.040 I'm gonna say, Billy, eighty seven and a half? Is 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.559 that right? Is that right? In check? Is eighty seven? 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.640 Let's go your your boys handicapping now come look at 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.280 you dial by my own lines now would be the 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.040 highest win total in the division. That's a good question. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.120 I don't think it will be. I don't think it 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.000 will be. And there was some thought last year that 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.960 ninety one would be enough. Right now, the NFC, NFC 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.960 and L Central was one of the better divisions I 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.040 thought in MLB last year, and it was much better 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.040 than people thought. And there were a couple of teams 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.560 obviously winning ninety plus. So I don't think eighty eight 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.560 eighty seven will be enough to win the division. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.760 And the prognosticators are judging it the exact same way. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.160 Chicago Cubs eighty eight and a half and the Reds 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.800 come in with a win total of eighty three and 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:31.120 a half. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:32.600 I could see the Reds getting up there. I could 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.120 see the Reds getting a little more love this year. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:35.920 In fact, I maybe thought it might be a little 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.920 higher for the Reds because of the year they had 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.360 last year. One team in this division, Billy, will win 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.480 ninety games, for sure. I don't have any qualm saying that. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.920 I'm kind of surprised. I mean, I'm not surprised because 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:48.760 these lines are set on money and things like that, 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.800 but I do think eighty seven won't be enough. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.040 I do think one team will win ninety. It is 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.120 the Brewers. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.960 Win total, sitting at eighty seven and a half, would 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:03.120 be tied for the fourth highest in the National League. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.160 I know you're gonna be stunned by this development. The 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.960 Dodgers are the highest. That's crazy. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.240 A half. That's crazy. How come they there's a straight 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.000 up bet will they win one hundred games, and you 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.920 know what, that's not a crazy number to bet on. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.120 A team winning one hundred games usually would be very 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.959 daring you to bet the under. Yeah, basically daring you 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:24.520 to bet the under. And people are like, yeah, I 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.160 watch baseball, I'll bet the over, which you which? 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:28.120 Which? You know that? 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.560 I mean, there's logic both ways. Oh, you know, they 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.240 didn't win a hundred last year because they took their 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.400 foot off the gas and they went to the playoffs 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.959 and they were banged up, and they're gonna rest guys 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.640 and we'll show hey play both way. Like all those things, 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:43.040 I understand why somebody like me might talk themselves into 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:43.680 betting the under. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.880 But then I'll be sweating that. Look you I ended 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:46.520 up already. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.640 Well, no, it's just a sucker. I mean, I'm a sucker. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.320 I'm a square. But that's the reason. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:51.160 But that's the reason. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.840 But yeah, that is some pretty wild working. So I'm 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.160 not surprised the Dodgers are one of those teams. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:01.000 Dodgers, Phillies, Phi subs clubs tied with the Brewers at 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.040 eighty seven would be the Atlanta Braves in the NL. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:05.560 In the National League. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.880 Just behind would be the Mets and Padres, followed by 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:15.559 the Reds, Giants, and Diamondbacks. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.880 It feels like they don't have a lot of confidence 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.479 in general in the NL. Or is that just my imagination? 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.520 Billy? I think you're spot on. But that is a 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:24.960 couple of days ago with the win totals. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.640 Then just this morning, the postseason odds come out and 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:31.640 even more implied probability that the Brewers are making the 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:36.360 playoffs as they sit at a minus two thirty to 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.720 make the playoffs. Now, I'm not super good on the 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.720 math and all of the percentages as how do you 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.880 get to this, but that's an implied probability of making 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.480 the playoffs of seventy percent. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.240 That's higher than I thought. That's definitely higher than I thought. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:52.200 Plus one ninety. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.680 If you think the Brewers end up missing the postseason 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.120 this year, the only other teams ahead of them in 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.600 the National League the same Shooters, the Dodgers, the Phillies, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:07.240 the Cubs at minus two sixteen implied postseason spot of 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.640 seventy two. So just to tick higher than the Brewers 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.320 but still sitting there neck and neck with those two teams, well, 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:14.440 you know, maybe that makes sense. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.080 I remember last year was exactly even money to make 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.760 the playoffs with the Brewers. So if that makes sense 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.200 at eighty two and a half, I suppose, because right 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.080 believe if you do remember there are expanded playoffs in 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.000 the layoffs. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.280 If you don't remember that, it's just a point of fact. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.840 In case you're casual and you didn't remember that, they 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.760 did expand the playoffs multiple times. 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.880 And at the Potawatomi Sportsbook final thing with the odds 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.480 for the Brewers, Brewers and Cubs still sit plus two 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:40.240 twenty five. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:42.960 Even Stephen at the top of those lists. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.760 So they are expecting books are expecting it to be 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.040 as tight as it was last year, maybe tighter than 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.400 it was last year because I think ultimately the end 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.280 number was a little bit more lopsided than the entire 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.320 season would have led to. But it also is a 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:01.040 good one when you start wondering, I mean, where do 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:02.480 you where do they think some of the money is. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.520 I think they always bank on a lot of Cubs 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.640 money coming in, sure, but I think with the sustained 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.440 success that the Brewers have put together, there's gonna be 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.440 enough people across the country to go, Yeah, I think 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.920 I'm just gonna buy the MB I think I'm just 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.240 gonna take that old ball glove logo and feel good 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.200 about it because year in and year out, they seem 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.400 to keep winning this thing, even though people don't necessarily 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:23.960 believe they will. 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.600 Yeah, and I like the over on the wins almost 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.240 better than the playoffs in in a weird way, because 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.520 you don't know sometimes it's gonna happen in the rest 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.840 of league. But the Brewers have been winning eighty seven 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.960 eighty eight games pretty plus pretty consistently for a while now, 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.880 so that that number would be pretty interesting. I can 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:43.040 already see Brewers fans Billy thinking themselves, Oh no, see, 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.160