Homer's Obsession with The Miz

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How many minutes tell it starts?

How many minutes?

That's a good question.

What time is the game at?

I think it's something.

Six something?

Yeah, six something.

Pebble will give us the particulars.

Yeah, I think it's six something.

Yeah, I'm excited for it.

I'm ready for it.

I like Iowa going on in the elite.

I like Iowa going on in the elite.

What a shock.

Do you think that you can even be the slightest bit objective about taking Iowa?

Listen, if they were playing someone like, I don't know, Florida, Duke, someone like that in this round.

Yeah, I would be honest about what I think could happen.

I feel a lot better about this matchup and I did go to the point.

Do you think Iowa is the better team tonight?

In Nebraska.

Yes.

Will you be disappointed if they lose because you believe that right now, I was the better team.

Now, I believe the two games, Iowa won the first one and then the second one they lost in overtime.

Yeah, yeah, I at this point with how they played so far.

Yeah, I'd be disappointed if they didn't win because they played great in the first two games.

They played great way better than expected.

So yeah, if they don't get the job done, I would be surprised and a little disappointed.

You have that disappointed because look what they did.

I mean, they won two big games to that no one thought they would win.

And they got in the sweet 16, but I still think they should get this one done.

Yeah, what's what if you're good enough to beat Florida, you damn well,

better be good enough to beat Nebraska.

Come on.

What's the point of beating the number one seed?

If you then can't beat the, I don't even know what Nebraska is.

What's the four I think?

Yeah.

And you beat them before you got on the roll that you're on plus, maybe you can help us.

I don't know of the rivalry between Nebraska and Iowa.

It's hard for me to comprehend a rivalry.

They're basically the same state.

They got a lot of corn and tractors.

I mean, I, I can't think of two states that could be twins any more than Iowa and Nebraska

other than maybe North and South Dakota.

But I understand that I lack the appropriate information.

So what is the real rivalry?

Or does it even exist because Nebraska is not really a big 10 school?

No, I mean, well, they weren't a big 10 school and I was there.

We never played them.

Yeah.

This has just become once Nebraska joined the big 10.

It's, it's joined up as a big rivalry game that both fan bases treat it that way.

And they obviously have the heroes trophy that they play for.

I believe on the day after Thanksgiving.

Yeah, they just invented that right.

That's just, that's been around for like,

like, yeah, and Iowa, and Iowa wins every year by big margins.

So that's not really a rivalry.

But both fan bases get up for it.

They, because like you said, the two states are very similar in there.

No, I can say it like Minnesota, Wisconsin.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

I mean, I would say that Iowa, Wisconsin's a 50 times bigger rival than Iowa.

Nebraska.

Right.

Because of the history and it's real.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yes.

I mean, this one just got made up since they got into the big 10.

But I think it is potential.

Oh, it does.

It does have potential.

Nebraska has at least wins some stuff against Iowa and football and things like that for it to really heat up.

I mean, I think I was, I think I was beat them by double digits the last two or three years in football.

The last one was a great snow game in Nebraska last year.

That was fun to watch.

I think they, I think they hung 50 on them or something like that.

I think they put a 50 burger on them, which we know Iowa football doesn't really hang 50 burgers on people.

No.

So that speaks to how Nebraska has just fallen terribly from the incredible tradition they had before they were in the big 10.

Well, I don't know if this is a discount like a Twitter poll question because when I believe, when I believe that when Iowa Nebraska play for something,

it's got to be for an era corner attractor.

But I don't know if that's if either of those states believe that you gave us something else.

Yeah.

I believe it's called the heroes.

Yeah.

But does it, is it an era corner attractor?

Which would you prefer as an outsider?

I think a tractor would sound would be better.

Yeah.

I think a tractor is better.

I think a tractor, a big John deer.

Yeah, whatever.

Yeah.

A big deer.

Yeah.

Because that's what's in those states.

John deer runs, runs Iowa in Nebraska.

And only those people that aren't aware of those states don't understand how incredibly wealthy some of those farmers are.

Correct.

These massive farms corn.

Oh, yeah.

And they're just not there if it's not just like 500 acres.

It's not just like.

And I again, you can tell me if I'm wrong to be fair.

I think the land is actually much better in Iowa than Nebraska.

Nebraska, when we were out there, they just have these like bonanza.

They have these 100,000 acre farms and they're just huge.

Whereas I think the black soil of Iowa is historic in all the in value.

Am I right there?

I believe it is.

I think it's much more fertile.

Yes.

That's what I, from what I have been educated upon my time in the state of Iowa.

That it's the best farmland.

No, you can't beat it.

At least that's what I've been told.

Yeah.

I don't know what the, it would have the only choice chance.

It would probably be the eastern form of Nebraska in terms of the quality of the land.

I don't.

Yes.

I don't know.

But anyway, I wouldn't Nebraska playing for a tractor.

Yeah.

Now that.

I don't think that's ever going to happen though.

They probably don't think that's worthy of the rivalry.

I don't know.

I think it'd be great.

Instead of a trophy, instead of a trophy, you park a big tractor.

Yes.

And you get to have that trophy for the whole year.

I mean, you get to have the tractor for the whole year.

Yes.

And they make really nice tractors now.

People should know.

Oh, yeah.

They're like, they're like Cadillacs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're in there.

We'll just say that they're not, they're not cheap.

Right.

So what the, which ever team wanted the previous year, they get at the beginning of the game.

Someone, I don't know if the cheerleaders or whatever, come out of the tractor.

Yes.

And after you win, you get to leave the stadium in the tractor.

Or somebody drives the tractor.

The MVP who's ever the MVP of the game.

Yeah.

Somebody drives that tractor.

Yeah.

Then it gets loaded on a big, big truck and gets shipped out to the other state.

That's my opinion.

Yeah.

Well, if it ever happens, you can say we talked about it first here.

And it was not, it was not meant to be a mockery of tractors.

No.

No, it is not a mockery.

It is not.

Listen, those are prized possessions.

Those are prized possessions.

Yes.

Like that's not, that's not a, that's not a joke.

Listen, Wisconsin knows it.

Farmers in Wisconsin know it.

Those are prized possessions.

Yeah.

They might play for a cow.

Yeah.

Well, what's, what's the eye of the heartland?

Isn't that a, the heartland's a, I believe it's a, it's not a bowl.

Bacon a bowl?

I don't know.

I don't know anything.

I think it's a bowl.

I'm.

It's something like that.

I don't even know the jersey numbers of people.

I don't, I don't, I don't know.

I only care about one thing.

Winning.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Of course.

Probably that's.

No one even embarrassment that Marcus Howard, they retired his number.

I didn't even know his number.

I thought it was one.

Oh, one.

He was zero.

Come on.

But you were close.

You were close.

I was close.

And when I look at him, I didn't need to know what number he's wearing.

I know who he is.

Yeah.

You know what?

It could have been a, a source of embarrassment if somebody wanted to make it.

But yeah, I don't, I don't know how many numbers I remember actually of all the market players.

I know Dwayne Wade was number three after that.

And a number of them like, Travis Deer, they have more than one jersey.

They changed numbers or.

But anyway, it's hard to remember collegiate numbers.

I'm not going to lie.

Yeah.

But anyway, yes, remember March the 26th might be the debut of the discussion of Iowa and Nebraska

playing for a tractor.

I mean, they can give the winner of the game tonight a tractor.

There's somebody out there that said that's got him.

Oh, they got him.

Yes.

And Jason Willie is coming up.

I just, uh, man, it's that your Iowa is attempting to be exactly the way Wisconsin was in the year 2000.

When Dick Bennett's team made the final four and to get to the sweet 16, they had to beat number one Arizona.

And if you go back and look at that team that win might even have been more impressive than I was win because that Arizona team.

They looked up and added up the all the money their players made in the NBA.

And it was just incredible that they won the game.

But then to get it wasn't the next game, but then to get to the final four, they had to beat Purdue.

So this game would be similar to that one.

Now, that was the elite 18.

This would be to get to this is the sweet 16 game.

But there's a similarity there.

Yeah.

And that was before there were 100 big 10 teams and you could easily be playing them in.

And there was the four paying play.

Well, supposedly paying players.

I've been informed that was not before they were paying players.

Uh, it was fewer schools will were paying back then.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Exactly.

But yes, as someone has said to me, Gary Ellerson as a matter of fact, Homer, NIL didn't start just a few years ago.

No.

And I suspect that the dynamics of football where there were schools in the South SEC or whatever.

Now you can get high school players from the South to come up North for the appropriate amount of money.

Oh, yeah.

Absolutely.

And the West Coast.

And the West Coast.

Yes.

Everywhere.

I'm the only one who likes the current system.

Though I understand how coaches can dislike it and how difficult it is.

It's like the coach at once they and gradually they're going to start or be forced to bring out the numbers involved.

But if you're a basketball coach and you have 22 or 32 millions, it's Kentucky and Indiana.

If you're terrible, I think you almost have to fire the coach.

Or maybe give him one more year because if he's not able to judge the right talent with that amount of money.

And you got to find somebody else.

Yep.

You can literally go get anybody.

Yes.

You can get anybody.

Right.

But I would say this you would be a better judge of this from when you were a high school player.

There was not money.

But let's say there were five Brian Bullogas, five players that were about like you in today's world, you'd each be a million dollars.

Well, every coach has to figure out which one he wants.

It's true.

Yep.

And you picked the wrong one and somebody else.

I mean, that's to me where the dynamics of Indiana.

Greatness of that guy is in football.

The greatness of that guy is judging talent and picking the right guys.

Yep.

Talent evaluation.

Yes.

And if you don't have the money, you got no chance.

But even if you got the money and so I can understand how it can be really tough on coaches.

How do you know that player?

How can you learn that much about the player?

All you have is tape.

You don't really get that time.

And you can't say, well, so and so is better than Bullogga now.

But you give me three years of a logger.

He's going to be a first round draft.

You don't have a chance to develop.

No.

You got to figure which one is going to be good next year.

Yep.

And it's going to be healthy.

I don't know.

A good case study.

That is what?

Texas Tech.

Yes.

I mean, they had the most expensive roster.

They get knocked out.

Not for what?

First round?

Yeah.

Like, they're the perfect case study for it.

Right?

Like, that guy, if I'm shocked, that guy kept his job.

And I don't know.

I mean, that's why I'm disappointed that some of the top coaches aren't around.

Because I'm sure, like, Sabin would try to figure it out.

That he knows the game is different.

And he's not sure, I would say, that he can be as good in this game as he was in that one.

They have all these staff, you know, coaches.

I would just have so many of them trying to survey all the available players to figure out who to take.

I don't.

Yeah.

I don't know.

And I don't know how you, how you would do it.

Well, it's, it's, it's that part to start.

Right?

Right.

It's that part to start is finding and evaluating the right talent.

But I think now it's become almost.

How do you continue to recruit them?

Year after year to stay with you?

Yes.

You know what I mean?

Like I asked you, because, because say that you bring in the freshman.

And you pay him a lot of money.

And he's really good.

And he asked for another million bucks.

And you don't want to give him that million bucks.

Well, I guarantee you LSU or Texas Tech or someone else.

We'll give him that extra million bucks.

And that's, I think, the biggest challenge that these head coaches now have to deal with is recruiting their own kids year after year to make sure that they're happy.

And that is the wildest part to me.

So that's, and that's, that's why I think it's going to be tougher for NFL coaches to manage these kids as they come into the NFL.

Because they're used to being, I guess, catered to every year.

Yes, every year.

Like, and even if, you know, even if they don't have a great season.

Yeah, but that's it.

One of you don't have a good season.

And now they want to pay less.

Then you got to go some to some other school.

I don't, I don't know the dynamics of that.

But you're right.

Me either.

And it's, it's, to me, harder than the NFL because it literally changes every year.

I can't imagine football.

I got to come up with 50 guys now.

And once that season starts, I got to have somebody look at it next year's 50.

All right.

Yes, already.

Yes, already.

Like, you got to start looking like that's the wild part about this.

And I have no problem with the players getting paid.

I think it's fine.

But that's where things get murky.

Is this transfer portal?

How many openings there are in the transfer portal?

Like, how many got, like, it should be one time a year, not five or six times spread throughout the entire.

You know, calendar year.

Like, that's crazy.

Yeah.

You can have it.

You can have a guy during winter workouts.

And the string coach was mean to me.

I'm jumping in the portal.

I'm out of here.

It's like, wait, wait, what?

What, what, what do you need?

Like, what are you talking about?

The portal closed in January, whatever it may be.

Like, what are you talking about?

So, like, to me, that's the part that I feel like they need to.

Store up.

To actually get commitment from kids here to here.

Right?

Like, that to me is the one part of this thing that I'm not a huge fan of is the transfer portal.

And how many times it opens and.

These can just leave if they got yelled at too much during winter workouts.

Like, that's just crazy to me.

They have not yet figured out a way to convince the kids how that system that you want is

better than the one that exists now because the one that exists now allows them to be open

to do anything anytime.

And somebody has to convince them that it's in their best interest to have some sort of organization

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Jason Wilde next.

It's time for Jason Wilde on the Homer hour on 94 or 5 ESPN.

Yes, the three time Wisconsin sports right of the year is on the Yingling guest hotline.

Brewers went 14 to 2 and this will be the first day for everyone to realize

the brewers of this season are the miz and everyone else.

There's one star way above everyone else.

And that is the miz and that started today and will continue all season long.

Jason Willey and Brian Bulaga take it away, doctor.

Jason, good evening. How are you?

Hello.

I didn't hear him.

I didn't hear him.

We had technical difficulties yesterday, but he should be okay.

Jason is there. Take it away, doc.

Jason, good evening.

How are you?

I'm great.

I don't know if you asked me that once already.

I was sending this disappeared in the middle of I now I'll never know that this should be the first day that we realize something.

And I don't know what it is.

That is this year's brewers are the miz and everyone else.

No one in his is in his league as far as attention.

He will be the star and they're all second fiddle.

I hope they're right.

Brian, what are you all talking about, buddy?

Well, I just like I told Jesse on the show.

I thought the brewers would win and they did.

I mean, I just want to be on the record that I said that, right?

Yeah, you know, I feel bad.

You know, I'm in some ways I'm jealous of you, right?

I'd like to be tall, strapping and athletic.

I think I'm none of those things.

You know, wealthy or semi wealthy, you know, depends on how you define wealth.

You're that too.

But you know, some things aren't perfect in your life, right?

Yeah.

You were raised a white socks fan, which by the way, there were some cool times to be a white socks fan.

One year.

Well, I was reading the story by my buddy Steve Greenberg,

who I was with the Badger Herald at the University of Wisconsin.

And, you know, I think there's some measure of hope that sooner or later,

kind of like the pirates, there seems to be a feeling that they might be good,

that the white socks have actually done some things that may eventually make them respectable,

but not today, clearly.

So, sorry, buddy.

Well, it's all right.

My attention's all tunnel vision right now.

I'm tunnel vision for a game that kicks off in about an hour.

So, what happened to the white socks doesn't mean much.

It's one of many, we'll put it that way.

It's one of many.

So, yeah, we'll see.

Have the packers started their, like, pre-draft visits and things like that?

Because that's an only an indication of what position groups that they're looking at.

Not, not for say what guys, but normally position groups.

Because when I started to learn over the last few years being out of the league,

and paying attention to who they bring in,

there's more position group, maybe not player exactly.

I mean, so have they started that process?

I think they're still kind of in the pro day throws.

There's still some pro days that are going on.

I know when I was talking to Mike McCarthy at the celebration of Bob Harlan's life,

he was going, he skipped LSU because he wanted to go to Bob's thing.

But I think he was supposed to go to Ohio State after that in a couple more this week.

So, I think the packers, and this is not the case for everybody.

Because Goody likes to go to those so much.

I think the packers usually start really digging into their visits after the pro day season

has kind of come to an end.

Okay, got it.

So those are almost...

But to your point, but to your point, and it's a really good one, Brian.

You know, it's interesting because a lot of times,

guys that they bring in for visits,

are the lower rung guys who they're interested in, you know,

six, seventh round picks or priority free agents, right?

And they don't use a lot of the visits on guys that are going to necessarily be their picks.

You know, in 2020, we didn't have in-person visits because of the pandemic.

But they did use one of the special Zoom visits on Jordan Love,

which we all talked about was at least some indication that they were open to that possibility

and lo and behold, they ended up picking them.

But like, for example, while you were still here, you know,

Jair Alexander, like, had like a passing conversation with them at the scouting combined.

Never came in for a visit when he did his pro day at Louisville.

There was no indication that the packers were any more interested than anybody else.

There's been a couple of other guys that have been like that in recent years.

So you just never quite know what they're doing.

A lot of times it's predicated on a guy that they're interested in,

but there's an injury question, or a guy that they're interested in,

but there's some off the field stuff that they're kind of like,

this guy might be for lack of a better term, a bit of a turd.

And they want to, you know, kind of look them in the eye.

So I don't know.

I'd have to go back in my archives to see how many of their like day one,

or even day two guys actually came to visit,

but it's crazy when we talk to these guys after they get drafted on day three,

it's not unanimous, but it's pretty close that it's guys that are like,

yeah, I came in for a visit.

You know, there was a time that, that 2023 year,

you know, when they drafted Tucker Kraft and Luke Musgrave,

but they also had Josh Wiley, who's on their team now,

and Ben Sims, Chipotle, Ben, both those guys came for visits.

Like, and that, you know, that shows how much they,

and I think the year before that, John Fitzpatrick came for a visit.

And so there's, there, there is significance,

but generally speaking, it's not going to give us much of a clue

on their first round pick, which they don't have.

And then probably not a huge clue on their second or third round pick either.

So the more I think about it, do you know what I mean?

Again, I understand their, their way is best available,

no matter what the position.

But this has to be a corner, no brainer starting second round, right?

Like it has to be.

Yeah, so I always tell this story around this time of year

and I tell it multiple times because it's one of my all-time favorites

because, you know, while he was certainly challenging to interview,

I loved the challenge of Ted.

And obviously he holds a special place in your heart

because he drafted you.

And so I can't, it was not the draft you were in.

I want to say it was, I got to go, again, I got to go back and look

and I'm driving a fix it up from soccer practice.

So I don't have it handy, but it was one of the years,

you know, he did those pre-draft press conferences.

And, you know, there were certain things that you knew

if a reporter was new on the beat because they would ask

a question like, where do you think your greatest need is going into this draft?

And Ted was never in a billion years going to answer something like that, right?

And so what I did was it was definitely well into his tenure

because he had enough drafts where I could call BS on the best player available

because the other thing he'd love to say was, well, it's just the way it worked out.

Oh, really, you switched to the 3-4,

and you wound up with a nose tackle and an edge rusher

and, oh, by the way, you traded up back into the first round

to get the guy that you basically fell in love with at USC's pro day in Clay Matthews.

But yeah, it's just the way it worked out. I know it's that.

So finally, I said to him, maybe it was your draft.

I said, Ted, you know, you always tell us best player available.

But I obviously need has to factor in some way

because it doesn't always just work out like that.

And he chuckled like you know how we would chuckle that kind of that West Texas chuckle.

And he said, well, Jason, and it was great.

It was one of the coolest things he's ever done.

So he goes back and it had the associated bank logo

and the Packers logo on that back wall just like it has for years.

And he steps away from the microphones.

He talks loud enough for us beat writers to hear him.

And everyone in the room can hear him.

But like, especially now that I boot both work in the radio realm

and the TV realm, I know that all those guys were pissed

that my question had drawn him away from the microphones.

But it was, oh, it was so great.

So he goes back and he basically turns the back wall into his draft board.

And he explains that down the left side of the board are the rounds, one through seven.

And then across the top are all the different positions.

And so you're drafting in the first round.

Say they're at the bottom of the first round like they often were during his tenure.

You know, they're picking 31st.

He goes up, he goes to the first round, I guess not a column.

It goes horizontally.

And he looks at what if he doesn't see a first round pick there, right?

A lot of times, what did he do?

Oh, wait, he traded out of the first round.

And so getting Jordy Nelson out of high second round grade

and got a great value and ends up getting one of the best wide receivers in Packer's history.

But if he has multiple options, let's say in the second round, he's on the clock

and he's got 25 guys that are graded in the second round.

Then they all have individual grades.

And then he can look, if there's, let's say we've got Brian Bulaga who's a tackle from Iowa

and we've got Steve the Homer true who's a kicker from Wisconsin and Indiana

and all the other schools he went to.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

And so he looks at that and he doesn't need a tackle.

You know, he's got Chad Clifton.

So he doesn't need a tackle.

But he really needs a kicker.

And so that is where the need comes in.

You guys are graded exactly the same.

You're a 9.2 or whatever you might be.

He picks Steve the Homer true kicker in the end of the Wisconsin

over the offensive lineman because they have the same grade and Homer fills a need.

It was one of the coolest things ever.

It was so cool.

And then he came back to the podium and then didn't it.

Then he gave his lame answers again that everybody gets frustrated with.

But it was so neat to get a glimpse.

Like it felt like you were in the room even though obviously you're not in the actual draft room.

The way he described it, you know, like Steve Wexler used to talk about dazzling detail.

He did such a great job.

And I use that story all the time because all the guys, you know,

keep that.

Schneiders like that.

They all use the same system.

And it just was so interesting to learn.

I was going to say, so good you think does the same exact thing.

He does, but I would be curious, you know, the thing I'd be curious about with him.

Because Ted will tell you, and I know Ron will tell you,

because we were talking about the draft when we were sitting at a table at the,

at the Harlan thing the other night.

He said, there were times when he jumped to the board for guys.

And I think there's probably been times when Goody has done that because of need, right?

I mean, you know, and sometimes in fairness to people who do that,

in fairness, sometimes it works out.

You get a really good player.

Now with you, you were such a no brainer pick because you were supposed to go on the top 10.

And what did you go like 20 something?

23.

23, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, what I do like you was sitting there at 23.

Like, I'm surprised, Ted, you know, like Brian, I think Brian Naring turns in the card.

And I think it was in, was it in New York still then?

Yeah.

I'm surprised that Brian Naring didn't break his leg running up to the podium quickly.

Like those, those are the, Ted would have told you, Ron would have told you,

those are the easy ones.

And Ron tells that great story about thinking in the 1996 draft that he's getting Ray Lewis.

And, and he's got the, you know, he's called it in and whatever else.

And, you know, he's self-congratulatory.

And he always admits, you know, it's one of the times we got caught with his pants down.

Because there he's watching TV and Ray Lewis goes to the Ravens one pick earlier.

And he picks John Michaels, which turned out to be a bad pick.

You know, he's a great doctor.

But I was not a great left tackle in the NFL.

And so those are the, that's why I love the draft.

It's not all this draft industrial complex nonsense.

Check out my 14th seven round mock draft.

That is junk, by the way, the mock drafts.

By the way, as I told you that the Miz is the star of this year's team.

We can have the two of you discuss this in the future.

And that is that for their entire careers, Caleb Williams will always have significantly more flash.

And Jordan love.

And then going to dress how that fits.

But there can be no debate on that, right?

By flash, you mean what?

Like, sizzle flash, attention.

People are going to always be a curious of him.

And the stuff that he does.

Jordan, or you can put it this way.

Jordan didn't say he'll be better than Jordan love.

Jordan love will always be more boring than Caleb Williams.

If he wins and Caleb Williams doesn't, nobody gives a damn about how flashy you are.

Like a flashy quarterbacks that haven't won.

And are they, are people like, are people that excited about him?

Like Michael Vick was definitely flashy.

Yeah.

Right?

But he never won anything.

No, who talks about Michael Vick still?

No.

What about Sam Darnell?

Was he flashy?

He was not.

That's what I'm saying.

Ever.

Ever.

Is Caleb Williams already been flashy?

Yes.

Yeah.

I mean, it paints his nails.

He does some pretty good performance in the some of his late game performances.

He's had a couple of late game performances, but he also completes like 58% of his passes.

When he starts completing 65% of his passes and, you know, making fourth quarter comebacks

over somebody other than the Packers, because he certainly got that down unfortunately for Packers.

We can discuss this at a future time.

I just, oh, we talked about it now because you brought it up.

Why did you do that for?

It's a good tease and nobody talked about it in the future for an extended period of time.

And you will, and you will give it some thought and have even more as Brian Bulaga will as well.

Thanks, Jason.

Two flashy guys talking about flashy guys.

That sounds great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Who has more flash?

Brian Bulaga or Jason Wilde?

That might be a good discount legal Twitter poll question about any two people we want to mention it about.

Thanks, Jason.

Yeah.

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Because he is, of course, part of the analysis live.

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I don't know how Rick Flair is going to take.

I hope he's not listening because he's never been a backup to anybody.

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He's the best.

But right now, Miz might have him by a little.

And he's the Brian Bulaga homerower.

In the discussion of the Miz, it's his team.

He's the star this year.

With pitchers, you can never know for sure.

But he strikes a ton out.

Looks like he's eight years old.

He is the Wembee of baseball pitchers.

I just can't believe someone that's skinny.

And that young look can throw the ball that hard.

He was to get 100 grants.

Excuse me.

Go ahead.

I got a question.

Yes.

For how big of a star he, whether he is right now or he's going to be, right?

Yeah.

Are the brewers going to pay him and keep him?

Or is he going to be a trade?

No.

They will not.

No.

You don't think so.

No.

The cost of pitching.

I don't know how many years ahead that is.

It isn't worth it.

You have to pay so much.

And there's no guarantee that you'll win.

Maybe he would be the exception.

And when you get rid of the pitcher, you get all these other players.

Their approach, I believe, is the accurate one.

You get as many everyday players as you can.

When your pitchers get to a certain age, you get, you trade them off and bring in other players.

And your hope to win a world series is that your young pitching is good enough to get it done.

Teams go out and pay all this money for the pitchers and they don't get their money's worth.

The Dodgers have done it, but they, they have to, they bought like four of them.

So I think it's the proper approach.

Maybe he would be the exception, but what you have to pay the incredible amount of money for those star pitchers.

I don't think it's worth it.

They've figured that out.

They think their best chance is to acquire as many everyday players.

Then you trade them and hope that your young pitching is good enough.

And it might be with him.

So when, when is he up there for arbitration?

Not for a while.

When, what is the, what's the status?

Or I don't know if they'd sign him to a, you know, maybe try to sign him to an early contract like they did like they did with Cheerio.

But that's, that's their fundamental belief that the cost of pitching is too great.

Yeah.

And so you, well, the owner needs to spend more money.

Yeah, he could.

But then there's no guarantee you'll get it done even giving the pitchers that much money.

The return has not been good enough.

It's worked for the Dodgers, but again, they didn't buy one.

They bought like three.

And the brewers don't have that much money.

Now, is that just their philosophy with pitchers or whatever?

No, just with pitchers.

I mean, the young players they have signed early, like Cheerio they did and they probably do with another one.

So you keep those, you keep those players longer.

But the pitchers that stay, they keep them through what their first contract.

I'll, I'll get you the particulars.

But the premise is the pitchers cost just like a, who's the guy that left this year to go to the Met's?

Rolta.

There's too much.

And you give him the money.

Now, the issue with him was maybe you had let him hang around for one more year.

And then you get a conditional.

But it seems to me they've, and I would agree, you don't get as much that way.

And it's that the, the talent every day talent that gives you the best chance.

Okay.

I don't learn something today.

I learned something that you educated me.

And, but I'm not everybody agrees.

Well, they get upset, they get upset.

The only reason he doesn't spend enough money and all he wants to do is get rich.

I think you have to decide.

Now, the guy to really talk to is Gabe Neitzel because he, he covers it so close to watch in terms of,

will there even be baseball next year?

If the Dodgers win again, the owners are going to shut it down to get some kind of a salary cap

or some sort of a rule that prevents a team doing like the Dodgers have because the Dodgers of the first team

to really spend all the money and also develop young talent.

They've done both.

And they've benefited from the Japanese players, the idiocy of the angels getting rid of Babe Ruth the second.

But, but if they don't, if they don't win this year, the Dodgers,

then that's going to lead some, well, even when you do all that, you know, how much do the Dodgers have to do it?

Let's say some small market, small, let's say Seattle, somebody else is in the world series.

Now, we'll get the owners to go look at.

We don't, we don't need this, this salary cap the same way people think that you do.

All right, back to,

except it.

Caleb Williams will always be flashier than Jordan Love.

I mentioned it now so you can get used to it.

It doesn't mean he's better, but yeah, they'll be wanting help.

He'll be getting more attention unless and only if Jordan Love wins more.

But Brian Boulagas starts next.

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ESPN National in progress, because I'm not short-changing him from whatever he wants to add

other than that Iowa is going to win.

I know you're going to say that.

Yeah, what I'm going to say is go hawks tonight.

Go hawks, let's get to the elite name.

That's where I'm ending on.

Right, that's what you need to do if you beat the number one seed.

Yep, I agree. 100%. 100%.

And how close do you think we are to get an attractor for the winning team when Iowa and Nebraska?

Can you work on that?

Can you call Kurt Farons?

I'll drop a note to someone if we get that.

Get the hawk stirred on that.

And I will give you full credit.

It will be the Brian Boulagas Tractor Award if they let you.

I mean, you've got to take some credit.

Nope, none.

Did say track.

There's no chance.

It's better than I'm not a part of it.

That would just destroy it.

If the Brian Boulagas came up with the idea, they'd be like,

yeah, we might have to think about that one.

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