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Earlier on the show, ESPN NFL analyst Jeff Saturday. Coming up, Fox Sports rules analyst Dean Plandino, Emmy award-winning actor Ray Sehorn, and now it's Rich Eisen. Hour number two, the Rich Eisen show is on the air. Much being made, and rightfully so, about the tip-off time between the Valkyries and Dream for Game Six of the WNBA Finals, as the Dream trying to survive to force a Game Seven in a much more time-friendly manner for fans and more appropriate for for the W.
Well, the Dream got their rest. They're up thirty-one thirteen with mere ticks to. In the first quarter, so we're going to keep an eye on on all of that. We say hello to our audience that just joined us on the radio, ESPN Milwaukee. Congratulations to all you Brewers fans out there, sir.
We're happy for you. Happy for you. Here is part of the make good with the only five games of the World Series from Fox Sports, ladies and gentlemen. Dean Blandino, hey, analyst, you're part of the make good. Good to see you, man.
How great to see you. All right, let's jump into this thing here. You used to get the phone calls just like Pereira, right from from coaches saying, "What what was this? What was that?" Cut ups and things of that nature, right? Who is that individual right now in the well?
They've kind of broken it into a couple different pieces. You have you have Ramon George, who's a former official who's in charge of the on field officials, and you have Walt Anderson, another former official. He's responsible more front facing, communicating with coaches, communicating with the rules analyst at networks. Yes, Perry Fuel, former coach in the in in the NFL, was an interim coach with the Giants. Super Bowl as defensive coordinator, he's kind of he's kind of in charge.
He would deal with the coaches, kind of oversee things.
So t here is kind of a couple of different people.
Okay, so he's the one that Matt Lafleur called up Monday morning. I would imagine.
Okay, and and and I I jump out with that one first because the the Packers have eight roughing the passer calls called against him this year. That's more than that's double of the the next the team that has. The second most, yeah. And what are conversations like that about, Dean?
Well, I think it's you're you're at like we had that game, right? Lions, Packers, and there were two in that game that were, in my opinion, not roughing the passer, right?
So you're gonna you're gonna say, hey. Is this what we want? Is this a correct call? Because I need to then go to my player and my defense to say, "Hey, we've got to correct this. We've got to get your head to the side, whatever it may be." If it's not a good call, then we don't have to adjust.
The officials have to adjust. That's the manner in which it's being expressed by the coach, or is I mean, more colorful language, probably. Got it. Sure.
Well, that's what I'm saying. Is I understand that might be more of a forward-facing comment from a coach saying, "Hey, I need to know if this is right." Because I need to know if I can reach people. Yeah, we're going to go. What the fuck are we doing? What are we calling?
What's going on? Like, that's what that the phone calls I would get were not PG thirteen phone calls. Those are those were you know you listen, you let them vent, you know, and then you try to you try to explain. And if if my approach was always if we screwed it up, we screwed it up, you would say that I would say that I can't change it. I say, Coach, look, it's not going to do you any good.
Game during the game, but we screwed it up. Here's what we're doing to correct it, and and you know the goal is not to to do that going forward.
So then, correct me if I'm wrong here, because based on the conversations I've had, you know, in the pre preseason chit chats between networks and the league, when everybody makes the rounds, right? Is it not the case where Replay assist has been given the leeway to pick a flag up. For roughing the passer and roughing calls, is that not the case? It is the case, but they are. It's a very narrow scope.
So, if the referee throws the flag for roughing the passer, and the referee says, "I've got forcible contact to the head neck area," replay can look at the contact and say, "No, no, no, we got him in the chest." Pick it up. If there's any contact to the head neck area, replay cannot rule on the severity of that contact.
So, okay, so. If say the top of the helmet grazes the chin strap, they're out of it. Replay that, which is ridiculous. Which is which is ridiculous. If you're gonna let replay look at it, then let them pick up the obviously incorrect call, right?
Like, and that's where they need to go. And the issue here again, I think it was. Let me make sure I get this correct here. Because there's one involving not roughing the passer either that I want to hit with you from that game. I believe it was was it Brenton Cox the one who was who got shoved.
Yes, yeah, it was coming off a block. Yeah, and then he just put his hands out and replay assist can't chime into anything with that. They felt that was late. I think the the theory is you want replay to deal with objective facts, not not the subjectivity of well, was it forcible? Was it late?
That's an on-field decision, right? You want replay to deal with objective facts, head neck area versus not head neck area. But that's the theory. Forceful is not subjective. It's not subjective.
You shouldn't be. But I know what that shouldn't be and should not. But to me, that's not subjective. You could see somebody got shoved into the quarterback and tried to not hit him. If we could all look at it and all agree, yeah, I think replay should should be able to pick it up.
So, what are the mechanics though? What are the mechanics?
So flag gets thrown, flag gets thrown, and then and then communicating what they have. We've got to lead it on the quarterback.
So when they touch the belt, wireless communication. What do they?
So let's just say, let's walk a fan through because I think this is very valuable actually for people who are watching this and they're wondering what the hell's going on.
So head, let's say head ref. Sees of roughing the passer throws the flag. He immediately gets on the belt and contacts New York to say, "Am I right?" Well, not necessarily New York. They're gonna he's gonna let everybody on the crew know what he has.
Okay, and but New York can hear that.
Okay, they're gonna go. I got roughing the passer, ninety two late hit.
So that's the communication that they have.
So now New York goes. They've got a late hit. We're we're not we're not allowed to assist in this area, so they're out of it at that point. And then you're just administrating the foul, the penalty yardage, all the other stuff.
So wait a minute.
So I've got roughing the passer. When can New Yorks overhear something and say, "Hey, you you got this wrong"?
Well, once they say that I've got forceful contact to the head neck area, now New York that triggers New York to say we can look at it, and we're going to look to see if the contact is in the head neck area. If it is. It's a flag. If it's not, hey, pick up the flag. We've got contact to the chest.
What about the one with Devonte Wyatt? Where the flag gets thrown by a dude on his back? Come on now, right? And and and and so the additional action that apparently was the cause for the flag, he can't see that it was potentially started by Ammon Ross St. Brown.
New York sure can. It's not not currently not subject to review. Why that is not? I think I think again. I think we're in a it's it's you gotta you gotta crawl before you can walk.
You gotta walk before you can run.
So I think that's that's kind. Of and that's how the NFL has moved and always in everything always always everything so yeah.
So I think we're in that. I don't know where we are. We might be kind of getting up, maybe to start walking. Who knows? Maybe we'll get a light jog.
You know?
Okay, that's that's an institutional thing, as you pointed out. You know, I've been around. You've been around. We've seen it all. And any rule change, it's got to be voted on, and then and then tabled, and then come back, and then we suddenly get consensus, and yada yada yada.
And then something happens in a massive game where fifty million Americans are like, "WTF?" And now all of a sudden, we make a course. Change, then we get rid of it the next. I understand it, but why are we being incremental on?
Well, you can only replay assist on this, and you can only replay assist. I also think it's. It's a personnel thing as well. Do you have enough competent people who can who can do this and do it consistently, be efficient? And I think you want to give them an opportunity to say, okay, here's here's a small sample of things you can look at, and then we'll expand.
Okay, you did good, and now we can now we can expand your responsibility. Just want to make sure we're we're clear here when you say that you're talking about people in the replay center, correct? Not people, not on actual stripes, correct?
Okay, you're talking about there's not enough people with with the With the remote control and and and rule book knowledge skills to put together to be able to figure. Yeah, there's a lot of people that think they can do it. I mean, there's a lot of armchair refs. You right here, you right here, one.
So and but it's not that easy. It's not that easy.
So, but I see. I've just it. We want to get it right. You know, we do want to get it right. We want to talk about that throw, this play, that decision by the coach.
We don't want to talk about dude from his back through it on some guy who we clearly couldn't tell was the second actor. Additionally, like, yeah, and that's one where you would hope on field somebody else, another official who wasn't on their back, would come in and go, "Hey, here's what I saw." You know, receiver Amon Roth thought he was like, "Oh, I'm not down." I'm going to try to. Nobody heard a whistle. No, there was no whistle. Right, and then so I think that's where somebody else has to come in and say, "Wait a minute, let's talk about this." Why isn't replay assist chiming in on every single moment where a ball could be bobbled or out of bounds?
And some we're seeing a lot of officials. Sean McVay had a challenge one. Yeah, we this weekend against the Raiders where you know they go to break. We're already seeing it's not a catch, and you could see the ref go up to McVay going to break on on on. The Fox broadcast clearly stating emphatically that it's not what you think it is, Sean.
And then we come back and it's totally done. Sure, I think the replay assist. The way they teach them is say, if you have to do any kind of analysis, if we okay, I need to look at two different angles. Yes, that that. Let the coach challenge.
If it's obvious, boom, one shot. Oh, there, the ball on the ground. No real analysis is done. Yes, then they assist, and that—that's what. And there's also 20 seconds on the play clock.
That's the cutoff. If you got, if you can get it done before the play clock hits 20, then that's your window. Once it gets to 20, now now there's too much time.
Now it would be for the coach.
So interesting.
So we, as fans sitting at home, should watch the play clock. And know that once the play clock hits at this point, replay assist is not coming to like correct that that that call to if you will, yeah, I guess nine one one is not coming. Is not coming. Yeah. Ah.
Yeah. All right. You sitting at home? You could put down your drink and I'm out of this one. Out of this one.
Oh, I've normally thrown the drink before all that because you know I'm very emphatic about this, Dean Blando.
Okay, so. What about this? Any fifteen-yard penalty, roughing of any sort, because fifteen yards is so massive, right? Brady was even talking about this the other day on the broadcast. He was on a roll.
Correct.
So, what about any fifteen-yard penalty? The officials automatically must huddle up. Must huddle up. And New York must chime in on that huddle. Yeah, I think that's a great place to start.
We do that in the United Football League in the spring, where anything related to player safety, any fifteen-yard penalty, yes, sir. That is called. We are looking at it, and if it's not, if we don't think it's a foul, we're going to pick it up. and And so, I think that's a good place to start because fifteen yard penalties are big; they're game changers. They can they can kill drives, they can extend drives, lead to points.
So, I think that's that's where they need to start, and then you can kind of. Add from there as as you as you deem necessary. I agree because if I am an official, listen. Obviously, I don't want somebody constantly chiming in on my work. It can't be everything.
It can't be everything. I totally get it. I don't want any, but nobody in the sound of our voices or watching us right now. By the way, great great outfit. Oh, thank you, thank you.
You know that that that all of this is done with the everyone has to understand. Nobody wants anybody chiming in on their work, but if I am an official. And I am doing my job as the first line of player safety defense by erring on the side of player safety and caution. And everybody's sitting at home saying that is a weak ass call, and it can be fixed by replay. I'd rather that happen than me being held, you know, as somebody incompetent.
When all I'm just trying to do is help another human being. Honestly, that's the way I'd feel about it. Yeah, and I think the officials. I don't think the officials are anti replay or anti replay assist, but I think that's a great way to put it. And that because player safety is so important, you're going to lean toward.
You're going to strictly enforce those fouls. And if that's my approach, then. I may, you know, call something that probably isn't a foul, and then replay can come in and pick that up. I think that's where the NFL needs to go next: is those fifteen-yard penalties. You get into unsportsmanlike that can be a little more subjective because taunting.
What did they say? I don't think we want to do that. I think the personal fouls, though, a hundred percent. I think that's something you can look at. Dean Blandino, former head of NFL refs, current Fox rules analyst, and you're involved with all.
Manners of football, correct? Yeah, we do the UFL. I'm the national coordinator of instant replay for college football, so we're doing a lot of that right now. And I was just in Ann Arbor watching your. I only stayed for the first half.
Your Wolverines and the Penn State, Indiana. Oh, Indiana, sweet. Yeah, sure, Indiana. Right. Listen, we are all massive fans here, and I think we speak for.
Anybody else who's seeing us or listening to us right now, of listening in, eavesdropping on the replay conversation between referee watching it and replay center reviewing it, love it. What are the odds the National Football League would do such a thing? I think they're gonna do it. I think there's been some internal conversations, but I think again, like we just talked about, it's it's going to be a very kind of a slow trickle. You might see maybe it'll be a prime time game where you'll see the a look in.
I don't. I can't envision it'll happen eventually, but I can't envision every game at at one o'clock on Sunday. You know, the early window. You're going to be able to look in and hear and see. I think they're going to give us a little bit, and I think it's great.
I think that transparency is so good. You may still disagree, but at least you understand the why, and I think that's so important. The thing that I've been very impressed with, obviously, I'm seeing it mostly on Big Ten games because, as you know, what my allegiances are, I'm I'm really impressed with by the time the official is on the horn. And we're listening in. The replay center is already found the shot most of the time, and and just reconfirming with the official at site.
This is what you called, right? Yes.
Well, here's take a look at this. Like they've we've got already a menu for you of shots, and I find that really impressive that it's already there. And the reason why I'm bringing this up is not only just because I'm not denigrating here. I I'm I'm just bringing this up because I know. Part of the pushback from the NFL is the time of games.
Right, they want to utilize the replay process as an opportunity to get a commercial break out of the way because they don't want the games to be as long as these college football games. Correct.
So is the league suddenly no longer? I think about it. No, I think they still they still want to take that break as a replay review. But I do think that transparency piece. I think we'll start to see it where okay, we're not going to go to break.
We're going to give you that. Games are longer this year. Games are significantly longer in the NFL. In the NFL, through seven weeks, we're up over three minutes. It's over three minutes, three hours and six minutes of game of you know game time, and that's a big number.
And and and that can be a lot of different things. You know, more penalties, more scoring, more incomplete passes, more injuries. All those things stop the clock.
So I think the NFL. Is very aware of that, and they don't want to lengthen games, so that's always going to be an issue. But it's something that is needed—that transparency piece. I think we need—we want to see that process and hear it.
Now, there's there's a downside because you may see some things where you go, "What the, you know, heck just happened?" There, there, maybe they screw something up. But I think the upside far outweighs the downside. Yeah, and I'm just getting used to it. That I'm I'm I'm not waiting to hear the result. I know it.
It's a matter of fact. The only ones who don't know are the ones at the game. Yeah, you know, like they're the ones who are finding out for the first time. I'm listening to the process. I can't get enough.
And we need to play that. We need to play that in the stadium. Oh, to do that too on the UFL. Yeah, we do that. Yeah, we do that for the UFL, and we play that.
And I get. Mf by people in Birmingham.
So wow!
So an official's going through the process, and they're getting real time reaction from the fans. We have that, like booing or not. Listen, yeah, I I say this with the ultimate. I told I'll repeat it here. I know the ultimate respect.
An NFL stadium is different from a UFL stadium. Oh, I mean, like it's not even like. Oh yeah, it's like the difference between the human race and the Star Wars cantina. Yes, it's you know what I mean. Like Star Wars cantina is great.
I'm saying it's wild. You know what I mean? It's just totally out of it's out of the galaxy. You are going to get no. Seriously, you are sitting in Philadelphia, and somebody, an Eagles fan, is listening to you, potentially not see what the rest of the world is seeing, and and you can conduct an actual conversation with the Art McNally Center.
Yeah, that's. I think it'd be. I think it'd be a lot of fun. I think we need a baby step the other front, though, right? But you think this is going to come?
I think we're going to get. I think we're going to get something. I think this decade. A lot of this decade. This decade.
Yeah. I think we might get something, maybe for the playoffs. We'll see. For the playoffs, it's here.
Okay, I'm not predicting anything. Whoa! I just...
Well, I mean, in that, that's not a bad. First of all, it it needs to start with a standalone standalone game number, right? Where it's not like this this nine of them happening at once. Correct.
Okay. Yeah. Standalone game. Standalone game. We'll see.
All right. What else is what else are you working on or cooking up or anything like that? Yeah, we're just getting ready. We've got Fox Sports. We've got Vikings at the Lions this week.
Are you going there? Going to Detroit. Back to back Detroit visits.
Okay, it's always fun. And yeah, just seasons. We're halfway through the season. It's crazy.
Okay. What's what did what did what is Cam Hayward? He comes on the show every Tuesday, and he's been coming. Up with rules changes. Oh yeah, rule changes.
Any good ones? The one this week was no kneel down. No kneel downs. Oh, that's a you know CFL arena. Arena had a rule where you couldn't kneel down at the end.
Yep, you had to run the ball, and if you didn't gain yardage, the clock would stop. Like, yeah, oh, even better, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he's like, if you want to stop, like every play needs to at least go forward, go forward, yeah. And I told him, I said, one thing that I want, I think is going to be. Oh, I got two more things for you.
One thing that I think is going to be taken out is we're seeing a lot of defensive tackles from Cam Hayward's positions try to jump the spike. To try and catch it, yeah, yeah, yeah, and they're knocking into centers, and they're knocking them over, and and and it's gotten a lot of pushing and pushy shoving after all that. I said, ban the spike. He said, ban the spike. Ban the spike.
Yeah, to player safety, people going to go jumping at it. Throw it out of bounds. No, I mean the spike. The spike to me is exciting because you are not sure if they're going to get lined up, and you want them to get another play. I mean, throw it out of bounds is going to take you know more time than the spike.
It's interesting. It's different.
Well, in college, like you can't spike it with a certain amount of time left on the clock, right? If it's a first down, yeah, and they're going to wind the clock, you got to have at least three on the on the game clock to spike it. If it's two or less, you got you got to run. That's how Michigan lost to Iowa is because one of our guys got hurt, stopped the clock. As opposed to them, yeah.
So that they they then had another entire time to try and call up a play, which they used to beat us. But that's for another day. What about the? We're seeing all these peanut punches now. Catch players in the helmet, like actual right right crosses are coming.
Are they going to? I think that's going to be. I think that'll be an off season discussion. I think that'll be a point of emphasis. You think so next year?
Yeah, because the peanut punches. It's it to me. It's like it is the most impactful technique that we've seen in the last however. Many years. I mean, how many turnovers are caused by that?
Many. But when you miss and you hit, I mean, striking an opponent is a foul in the rule book, and I think that's one where they're going to make that a point of emphasis. It's hard because if you're going for the ball, you don't want to. If I just get a piece of your arm, but if I catch, you know, if a right cross in the head, I mean, that's got to be a foul.
So that's you think when you say point of emphasis, it's not. You're going to make a rule change, but it's you go around to all 32 clubs and say, "Hey, if you peanut punch, you better make contact with the ball, not the head." We're going to flag it. Yeah, yeah. But that would be a that would be an off season discussion, correct? And you you you wouldn't want to do that midstream.
No, you're dead. That would be a massive problem. Yeah. Hey, man, it's great to see you. Great to see you.
See, I'm sorry. I get I get riled up. We never, you know, you never, Rich never texts me just to see how I'm doing. Always refs call Blundino. Let's get him in.
You know, excuse me. That is a gross mischaracterization of the way I feel about you and officiating as a whole. Like what a what a broad brush you just painted me with here. I think the officials have a very difficult. They do.
They really do. You know. And but but when when I did see that game, I knew you were there. I hit you up right away because I knew Packers fans would be like, "What the hell was that?" And I just have my questions about where is replay assist.
Now you come in here and you've assisted me without replay. You make me smarter. What about the idea of adding an official? Yeah, we went through that. You know, college has eight, NFL has seven.
We went through that years ago. This was like probably middle two thousands. They again, they didn't want. They were worried about the extra set of eyes, more flags, and in coverage wise, I think you you've got the game covered pretty well, and it kind of went away. The whole eighth official in the NFL, and they they're using just the technology now.
If they're if they're grossly incompetent, why would you add an eighth person who sucks? Chris, is that right? Is that the way you go? See, that's the vibe. I'm back.
I'm back. That's what I was going for. That's what I'm going for. Why would you add an eighth sucky person? Add another moron out there.
You got seven sucky people. Why would you add an eighth who suck? I should have known. There you go. Is that right?
There you go. I like.
Okay. Dean Blandino, everybody, check him out. Vikings and Lions.
Okay, very good. Are you? Is this? Is this? Did Did Tom give you this look?
I'm trying to like pick. Tips from Tom. I'm serious. Fashion tips. I mean, I don't know if I can do the full leather.
How's your watch game? Tom always pulls. He's got a solid watch game. Yeah. Hey, Burkhardt stepped up his sartorial game the minute Brady showed up in the booth.
Great. As well, I totally get it. Remember that time I I once interviewed Brady for our podcast years ago when he was with the Patriots and I wore my best black suit, the whole thing. I put a sweater underneath it because I'm interviewing Tom Brady. He showed up, looked like I was wearing a Burlap!
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Everybody roots for the Brewers everywhere, which means what appeared to feel like. Half of Tampa, you know, like you couldn't tell sometimes who was the home team in the the last three games of the World Series, and because Brewers fans have been waiting forever, forever, and this season where they're playing, thinking of Bob Uecker. The great Bob Eucher, their longtime voice, who passed away, and the fact that they finally did it and did it the right way. And by the right way, I am talking about straight up hardball, straight up. You got pitchers who throw straight up country hardball, right?
Including last night's Game Five winner, the clincher, the Miz. He got it done. This team puts the bat on the baseball. They got it done. This team has people who can just throw straight up country, hardball out of the pen.
They got it done. The guy behind the plate, your very rightful World Series MVP, and William Contreras. Listen, I know Jackson Churio. Came up with eleven. By the way, eleven hits.
Cooper Pratt, I know all about because my Cooper at home is like, oh, only Coopers do do the best, Dad. Right? I'm like, I got you, kid. 21 years old, six straight hits, six straight hits. But the the this team, this team with Contreras behind the plate, he had 381 in the World Series.
And the amount of bases that he saved, the amount of pitches that he saved, his ABS. He was ten for thirteen, right? Ten for thirteen, and unfortunately, we got to include the one where he was a tenth of an inch off. That look he gives Yandy Diaz, like, okay, all right, we're back, back to work. Win them all.
The bases that he saves because you're not going to steal on him. The bases that he saves because you do steal on him. Um, this pitching staff in winning eleven games in these playoffs, one nine eight ERA. He caught them all. That's valuable, man.
That is valuable, and he had this to say afterwards. Through his interpreter, but I guess he does it all too. The bilingual response from your World Series most valuable player. Is there anything you're proud of that you worked on? You were total, complete player: batting, defense, endurance, the ABS stuff, leadership.
What are you really proud of that you accomplished? About everything. I mean, hitting, ABS, defense, blocking, going to the base, everything. I mean, I feel great. No quiero ofender todos los queches, di esto.
No quiero ofender los queches.
Son tremendos queches, todos las Grandes Ligas. Pero me siento uno de los mejores queches Grandes Ligas. No, como sigue, sin ofender, sin faltarle respeto a nadie. Pero en estos momentos, siendo el campeón mundial, me siento el mejor queche Grandes Ligas. I don't want to offend any of the other catchers in the league.
The last thing I want to do is offend any of them. But sitting up here today, champion of the world, I feel like I'm the best catcher in the league. And again, that's no disrespect to any of them. You know, that's the last thing I want to do. But today, I feel like I'm the best catcher in the world.
Yeah, he. You can't argue it. Definitely not. Can't argue that. Can't argue.
People will argue anything. I know that, but. Jackson Churio Contreras and Antonio Sensatella of the Brewers won the World Baseball Classic for Venezuela as well, and I believe that was the Venezuelan flag that Contreras was draped, and his brother Wilson, I think, brought it to him after the game when they hugged it out. The family stuff, him, everybody else, you know. Man, a long wait is over.
First time World Series champs, Pat Murphy, pushing the buttons. He's been with the team since 2016. An assistant who got the gig, you know, who got the gig, and look what he's done. And he is now the voice of the town and the face of the franchise as well, forever. You know, dining out forever.
It's funny when people make fun of the Cowboys, right? And they go, "It's been 30 years since you've won." But like, then you really look at this team that's never won, never won. That must feel like that feeling. Yep, is unbelievable. Murphy had this to say afterwards.
You know, just for the city for the for the people that have. You say they've been waiting so long. That's one thing, but it's more about. Their undying commitment to this team, and it started growing and growing throughout the year. Grew last year, and then you see what what it means to them, and that's what it's not just city Milwaukee; it's the whole state of Wisconsin.
And I hope they're proud. I hope they're proud of these these guys, and I hope they realize how special this group is because we we didn't get a rating, we didn't get picked to win the division by one outlet. We didn't get picked to win over eighty-five games by anybody. I don't know if Las Vegas. I don't follow the line there, but they didn't pick us.
So, but those fans of ours, they picked us. Isn't that great? Isn't that great? And then at Miller Park, the the viewing party that went down that was insane, right? Insane.
I think they're still going. Yeah, I would imagine. What a bash, right? Do you have the video of is it the beer garden? They were also partying the beer district.
Pardon me, you got it. Pop it up. I mean, this was the beer district. Pardon me, the beer garden as well. Remember that, and then the videos you would see of of senior citizens, older folks crying.
I saw a video of an 81 year old man who was crying. Lots of people in the rooms, basements with their fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers. This one guy, Rich, took his father in law's ashes to the game with him. He was a long time fan. Died three years ago.
He took a picture of him, bought a seat for him and his ashes, and he sat there with him and watched. I can't get enough of it. There was also a shot that did remind me again. The Knicks had won fifty four years ago, but it's similar in the fact it's a long wait. There was a moment where Robin Yount met out with Christian Yelich, and I am getting goosebumps thinking about it.
It's the way I felt when I saw Brunson with Ewing. That makes sense. That's a great relation, right there. Like, okay. You know, it really is awesome.
Newer fans might not know how great Robin Yount was. Oh my goodness! He was the better. Please, Molitor and him and Harvey's wall bangers, and you know, and I had to explain to Cooper. You know, because when Cooper Pratt would come up, they go Cooper, and I'm like, there was a guy named Cecil Cooper that used to do that back in the '80s.
So they're kind of harkening back to those moments, and then this one's pretty wild. In Miller Park last night, Bob Eucher's wife Judy, on her birthday, took in the game from the radio booth, from Eucher's seat. Oof, she's from Bob's seat. It's got chills. And she's wearing his World Series ring around her neck.
I mean, come on. Just kind of want to hit the whole thing here. I love it. That is awesome. I love it, and I root for Pat Murphy too.
He's a Springsteen guy, as you know. Even though my Yankees caught a stray last night on a hot mic where he's talking to Jake Bowers. I mean, but he's being himself, man. He is being himself, and I'm just wondering. I said it on on yesterday's show in advance of a Game Five that I thought they'd win.
That I'm wondering now, they're going to be on their way to Lambeau Field tonight. Like show up at the 50 right before the game would be incredible. With the World Series trophy, yeah, Packers kick off Week Eight against the the Panthers and come with the trophy and the team. Why not? And then, good luck to Carolina.
It has to happen. You know, I don't even think that's a question. I don't know. I don't know what their travel schedule is. I did see them just—they they popped up on Pat.
A couple of them, uh, they zoomed in on a FaceTimed in on Pat's show about a half an hour ago. I don't know where the bus is. They might be heading. If they are heading to the airport now, it it does work out. I don't know if that's what they'll do, but to to.
To celebrate for the first time on mass with fans in Lambeau Field, with the trophy, fifty-yard line, and for the first you know of many moments this week, parade to come, right. Nobody's worked in Green Bay or Milwaukee today. No one's working. Everyone's still hopped up on Miller Lights from the last night.
Okay, you come out there with the trophy, boom! Everyone's going ape, and then first drive, you throw a sixty-yard bomb to Christian Watson. Game over.
Now you're saying that because you have Christian Watson in your fantasy team, right? I have him in Vinnie's gear. There you go. There you go. See, I mean, it's always you always got to drill down.
Couldn't come from the heart, Rich. No, had to be some kind of scenario. I have all the Packers. He needs to throw it to. He's a deep threat.
Matthew Golden catches them. I was about to say.
Now I want Matthew Golden to catch it. If Tucker Craft wants to get involved, I'd be okay with that too. All I'm saying is, game over. Have Tucker in another league. I have Tucker in my main.
Okay, there you go. He can't just no. This guy right over there. Congratulations, Brewers fans. Congratulations.
Yeah, that's pretty awesome, man. All right, we'll take a break. Your phone calls, eight four four two zero four. Rich numbers at all. I got a top five list as well.
Yeah, two four five. I don't know how Registers comment. Let's do high register segment. I think we should do that next. Not so happy about that.
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Well, with the Valkyries' dream game, the whole concept that if the Valkyries win, they would have to be a WNBA trophy ceremony in a practice court because they'd have to vacate, so the Cavs and the Hawks can get. On the court, does not appear like that is going to be a visual that the W is worried about right now. No, sir. Fifty-one twenty-eight. Dream on top of the Valkyries.
So, unless there is something completely wild, there will be a game seven at a more appropriate time and place.
Well, I guess time and a place where they're not going to have to get done because the men have to play. Yeah, Game Seven, Saturday, eight Eastern. There we go. That's what we're talking about. Yeah.
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All right, the higher register take of the week presented by Sonos is arrived for another Thursday. Christopher, what do you need to go higher register to believe in the National Football League right now? What do you got? Here's here's what I think. I think this.
I'm going to talk about this division. No one gives it any credit. No one even thinks twice about it. It's the NFC South, and we have a pretty big matchup. Look, one of the teams, first place team, plays tonight, and then there's a big matchup on Sunday.
And here's the thing, guys. I think the winner of Falcons Bucks is going to win the NFC South. Oh, I think the winner of this division, this game, kind of has the division.
So you think the Bucks can turn it around? Look, Baker's back. Bucky Irving looks good. That's interesting, man. Todd Bowles' job not on the line anymore.
I mean, did you see what happened to the Panthers? Ooh, they they crushed them. They took them right out. They got two points off of a blocked extra point. It was all working, and then the Panthers tonight.
I don't think they have a chance. I hear you.
So okay, this thing's wide open. What do you have, TJ?
Well, sir Richard. Oh my gosh, we're bad. Visin, Richard. Don't, hey man. Monday night football, big game, right?
Bears Seahawks. They both made some big moves, right, Chris? Let's go.
So I'm thinking that you know the winner of Monday night football's Bears Seahawks game. They might be the favorite in the NFC. Hmm. Oh.
Okay. Oh.
What do you? I mean, Niners have the week off. I mean, so we're forgetting about yeah, yeah. Who? Who?
I don't even know. But the rest of the NFC North, you could just go pound sand. I guess. Hey, that's what I'm saying. Lions.
All right, I got no. I got one. My friend across the aisle knows. When his team goes to this spot, weird. Oh goodness!
Oh, please don't. Oh, I'm putting that evil on you, Ricky Bobby. I don't want this at all. Yes, and you know it. I don't like.
I know it. I don't like. Once upon a time, once upon a time, Tom Brady and a bunch of his high elite quarterback. Colleagues like Peyton Manning, he got together with a bunch of quarterbacks and said, "You know what we need to do? We need to have our own footballs, no matter where we're playing, home and away, because there used to be a place in Miami, Florida, where you're going for a drive down the field to try and win a game, and suddenly the home team is handing you a football that's fresh out of the box, slick.
It slips out of your hands. I can't throw this." Weird stuff happened in Miami enough where Tom Brady's thinking stuff is not on the up and up. We love it. All of this, love it. Back in twenty twenty five, the Patriots did win there.
Twenty twenty four, Patriots lost there. Twenty twenty three, Patriots. Taking on the Miami Dolphins, they lost. Own the Patriots, twenty twenty two. Yeah, they lost.
Twenty twenty one, they lost. I'm just saying. What you say with the Dolphins coming off the bye week and coming off of their first win? I kind of think the Patriots are on a set alert. Oh, I kind of think.
I don't. Jeff Halfley might be cooking something up. It might not just be a Jets problem. Might be, might be just like the Patriots. No, they go down to Miami, and it doesn't weird stuff happen.
I'm not wrong. I'm not telling tales. No, no, no, no, no.
Sometimes, by the way, upset alert is a higher register term, without having to go higher register. Meaning, you don't have to say it's an upset. All of these, right? All of these pregame shows that I'm a part of, who's on upset alert, that allows us to say. Keep your head.
I keep my eye out for it, right? But no one's gonna actually. No one's. No one's gonna sit there on any pregame show. Miami's winning this game, right?
You know, graphics will pop up. But I get to go. You know what I get to say? Alert.
So if I'm right, you little wolf in this. If I'm right, I'm hell no. Why not? Hell no. I'm just saying it.
Upset alert gives you the higher register opportunity to have it both ways. I'm saying though, Richard.
So that's why I included it in my higher register. I'm just saying I bring next level thinking to this chair. Hit that how, baby? All right, it. That's not happening.
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