Discover the true essence of sportsmanship and the exhilarating pulse of Wisconsin's sports scene in our latest episode, where we unpack a whirlwind weekend of hoops and hardball. From the fervent debates over the referees' calls in the women's college basketball tournament to the electric atmosphere surrounding the men's Final Four, we leave no stone unturned. Hear our defense of Iowa's women's team's remarkable run and our spotlight on the phenomenal Caitlin Clark, whose prowess leaves skeptics in the dust.
Transitioning to the court where men's dreams are made, we bring the heat with our analysis of Purdue's mammoth journey to the championship game against UConn. Zach Edeys towering presence and the strategic clashes leading up to this titanic duel set the stage for a showdown you won't want to miss. Will our predictions hold true, or will the game's unpredictable nature prove us wrong? Either way, the anticipation is palpable, and we're here to bring you all the heart-pumping action.
But it's not just basketball that's capturing our attention; the crack of the bat and the roar of the crowd follow as we tackle the Milwaukee Brewers' early-season ups and downs. With the Bucks wrestling with adversity on the hardwood, we examine the steps needed to right their ship as the playoffs loom large. So, whether you bleed basketball or live for the long ball, join us for a comprehensive roundup of all things Wisconsin sports – it's an episode you simply can't afford to miss.
Discover the true essence of sportsmanship and the exhilarating pulse of Wisconsin's sports scene in our latest episode, where we unpack a whirlwind weekend of hoops and hardball. From the fervent debates over the referees' calls in the women's college basketball tournament to the electric atmosphere surrounding the men's Final Four, we leave no stone unturned. Hear our defense of Iowa's women's team's remarkable run and our spotlight on the phenomenal Caitlin Clark, whose prowess leaves skeptics in the dust.
Transitioning to the court where men's dreams are made, we bring the heat with our analysis of Purdue's mammoth journey to the championship game against UConn. Zach Edeys towering presence and the strategic clashes leading up to this titanic duel set the stage for a showdown you won't want to miss. Will our predictions hold true, or will the game's unpredictable nature prove us wrong? Either way, the anticipation is palpable, and we're here to bring you all the heart-pumping action.
But it's not just basketball that's capturing our attention; the crack of the bat and the roar of the crowd follow as we tackle the Milwaukee Brewers' early-season ups and downs. With the Bucks wrestling with adversity on the hardwood, we examine the steps needed to right their ship as the playoffs loom large. So, whether you bleed basketball or live for the long ball, join us for a comprehensive roundup of all things Wisconsin sports – it's an episode you simply can't afford to miss.
Thank you. How we doing everybody, and welcome to wisconsin sports on the go with trage. I'm your host, trage. It is monday, a fantastic monday here in the great state of wisconsin. The weather's supposed to be getting better this week. They're telling me we're talkings up in the 50s over the week here. So fantastic stuff. A little bit of rain, a little bit of rain here and there, but other than that, fantastic stuff here in the great state of Wisconsin, lots of stuff happening over the weekend.
Speaker 1:Right, we had the women's bracket. That thing came to an end, and I mean bracket that they came to an end, and I mean hats off to iowa. I mean south they. They ran through. I mean, if you can argue it, but they ran through the toughest part of that bracket.
Speaker 1:Right, elite eight matchup with lsu, the rematch of the national championship game and then in the final four they ran into page beckers and yukon and it took a controversial which I believe it was foul. Now it wasn't called at times throughout the game. I get that argument. I saw the argument of you can't call that in that situation. Now you have to take that and leave it because if your team got fouled, say you're, say page backers was driving to the basket and got fouled and it was a controversial. Should it have been called or not? Guess what you're telling me today? Uconn fans, exactly.
Speaker 1:So when I look at a situation like that, it's like, okay, but then when's the right time to call that right? Is the ref just supposed to swallow the whistle when there's 30 seconds left in a game? And don't call shooting fouls, don't call anything blatant. I don't call shooting fouls, don't call anything blatant. Like I don't get that argument. I hate that argument out of anybody. You know, I saw some of the bigger names out there. I mean I saw like Jay Williams was talking about it, different guys like that and I'm like, okay, I get your argument, but at the same time, it's like you have to make the calls when they're there. Right, the refs were paid to make calls throughout a game.
Speaker 1:Now, I believed watching that, that that was 100% a foul, because in real time, if you watched it in real time, it didn't look bad. But when you watched it on the replay, when they slowed it down, you saw the moving screen, you saw the chicken elbow, you saw everything that they called on that play. So, yes, it is a foul. Now you could make the argument you call it there. You have to. If you're a referee, you might've missed a call here and there throughout a game I mean, what referee doesn't? But at the same time it's like you got to make the calls and that was a call that you didn't like it, but it's the right call. I truthfully believe it was the right call. So I mean, you might not agree with me, you might think the opposite, and that's okay. That's okay.
Speaker 1:That's a great part about sports is there's always controversy. At the end of every season, at the end of every game, end of a half, end of a quarter, end of a play, there's always controversy. So that's a great part. A great part about sports is there's always something to argue about and you knew there had to be something there. But I mean, iowa got through yukon, got through lsu.
Speaker 1:Then came south carolina and this team I tell you what south carolina was? They? They out. They were going to over, they're going to overmatch anybody, right? I mean you could have put them against lsu, you could have put them against yukon, I don't care who it was. This South Carolina team, their leading scorer came off the bench. That's the crazy part. You can go that deep on your bench and still get that great of scoring. Then you have the interior player of Cardosa in there. She was fantastic in that game. Rebounding the basketball South Carolina was a tough draw After having to play the gauntlet schedule that they did just to get to that point.
Speaker 1:It was going to take a masterpiece I mean a masterpiece out of Iowa to be able to pull out another one and well came short in that one they got. I mean that was a good game. I mean the final score didn't really dictate what the score, what the game actually felt like, because Iowa put on runs they just couldn't get it back to within I mean four. At times I thought they had it down to six a couple times and then South Carolina had the answer. So it was always the answer and Iowa did lose that game. But hats off.
Speaker 1:Another fantastic tournament, not just by Kaitlin Clark and you know she is a big reason why women's basketball got put back on the map but when people started to watch the game they started to really see the players for what they were Juju Watkins and having Paige Beckers, cardosa, lsu players, angel Reese I mean you saw some of these different athletes throughout there and you might have went in only watching Kaitlyn Clark, but you came out of there with a different kind of respect for women's basketball and I thought that was the great thing coming out of this year's tournament. And you know Juju Watkins she was USC, was eliminated there, but I mean she's coming back next year. A fantastic scorer potentially could be another one of those Kaitlyn Clark kind of scorers there for USC. So big things coming for women's basketball. That is 100% the truth there.
Speaker 1:And you know I hate, I hate the amount of banter that Caitlin Clark got throughout the tournament by some of these celebrities and everything like that. It's like, okay, like I saw some. Oh, when you get to the next level, you're not going to play like this because you know you're going to be going up against women that have been in the league for a while and you're not going to be going against 18-year-olds. I got to tell you this. I mean, the WNBA is a different kind of league than college, I will give you that. But it's not as big of a step as what I believe the college basketball men's college basketball to the NBA is. It's not as big of a step. And will Kaitlyn Clark right away adjust? I think she'll be fine, I really do. I mean I think she's got the skill set to take over the WNBA at some point. There you put her with a little bit better of scorers on that team. Iowa had decent scorers, but you look at them. I mean Martin did well, marshall was okay throughout the tournament there. Stolke played well against UConn, but you know, going up against a team like South Carolina with the bigs, that they had struggled in that aspect. So I mean you just look at the different play styles on that team. Maybe going up she's going to have Aaliyah Boston probably on her team there, so that might help her game even more to be able to get open. There's so much pressure on her throughout the tournament here because if she didn't have a good game it wasn't looking good, right, and when she was hitting shots, when she was rolling along, I will look fantastic. That's the big difference there when I really look at it. So I mean fantastic. That's the big difference there when I really look at it. So I mean, for all the the haters out there, I mean I'm not. I I don't want to sound like a fangirl in the moment. Right, you don't want to sound like a fangirl talking about her, but I, I don't, I, I wasn't for it. I mean I'm listening to all these people talking about her and they're all like a rude awakening, scumming and all this kind of stuff and I'm like, okay, okay, enough's, enough's, enough, I get it, I get it, but you cannot take away from what she did in her college career there and I know they are already because I saw a article.
Speaker 1:Lynette Woodard said that Kaitlyn Clark did not break the all-time scoring record in major women's basketball. She basically came out and she's talking about it. She goes. I am the hidden figure, but no longer. Now. My record was hidden from everyone for 43 years.
Speaker 1:I don't think I'll just go ahead and get the elephant out of the room. I don't think my record has been broken, because you can't duplicate what you're not duplicating. So unless you come with a men's basketball and a two point shot, you know, but just for you, so you can understand, so you can help me spread that word. Basically what she said so playing back in back in the day, different rules, no three-point line, I mean that that's gonna really. She competed under the aiaw uh rules there when she was playing. Therefore it it's not official to the NCAA. So Kaitlyn Clark sent an NCAA record, but the NCAA doesn't look at her record. So it's just more controversy on top of it there. But to me it really isn't about the record that she's at.
Speaker 1:It was fantastic the amount of records that she broke. People were tuning in to watch those. It was crazy. I mean you can't really say, okay, she beat Pistol Pete's record there, but no three-point line for him, right? And you know, freshmen didn't start that kind of thing. Yes, all those things stand true.
Speaker 1:But the difference maker for me was that Kaylin Clark got people to tune in to women's college basketball. And that's the good thing, because she got them to tune in and then they realized how great it can be Some of the games, some of the fantastic games. Because I didn't just tune in to watch Kaitlyn Clark in LSU, I tuned in to the game before that In the Final Four. I did not just watch UConn take on Iowa, I watched the game of South Carolina taking on NC State. It was those kind of the things that she did for the game and I think that's the big thing to take away from her career at Iowa, not the stats, not everything else. The big thing I take away is how many people actually tuned in to watch women's college basketball and it put them on a pedestal where they haven't been in a very long time. So I mean hats off to South Carolina A fantastic season, a perfect season right, that's hard to beat right there. And hats off to Iowa, uconn and NC State for fantastic years. They're getting to the Final Four. Great stuff all the way around there in that women's bracket.
Speaker 1:But looking over at the men's bracket for a second. Here we kind of saw what we imagined, right. We thought I mean, I went into this and I said UConn and Alabama was going to be a good game. It ended up as a 14 point game. But that final score like I said before about the South Carolina and Iowa game that final score of UConn and Alabama did not by any means really say what the game was, because that game by Alabama they played fantastic. I thought they played fantastic in that game 44 to 40 at the half. Uconn just, I mean they just poured it on late, they were hitting shots late and Alabama was chucking up shots trying to stay with it, and that really made the lead look different there. But I mean a fantastic game there by UConn and Alabama. And then the game before it, Purdue and NC State. Sadly, we saw the career at NC State of DJ Burns come to an end.
Speaker 1:A fantastic game by NC State.
Speaker 1:There. They just did not have the answer for Zach Eadie and this Purdue team, and we knew it was going to happen. The size of Eadie was going to take over, and I thought Burns did well early in that game. But there was a lack of foul calls all the way around it though, and I know I tuned in, we were, we were out and about, I was, we were down in lacrosse for my sister's softball games plays for Viterbo down there and I was. We were watching that game there and then it ran a late.
Speaker 1:This game came on and I was watching a little bit there and you tuned in and it was like NC State's got three fouls, purdue's got no fouls and there's like six to go in the first half and I'm like holy cats. Like you know, we're used to seeing Purdue get called for nothing, but the opposite teams usually got six or seven. No, nc State was playing a pretty clean game and they were hanging around down to eight at times. I mean they were in the game and then Purdue was able. They just pulled away. They pulled away and NC State did not have the shot makers in that game. A low-scoring game in that one there, 63-50.
Speaker 1:But all in all, a fantastic season out of NC State and Alabama. I mean this Alabama team played fantastic. They went through a tough stretch to get to the Final Four. I mean you're talking about an Alabama team who had to go through North Carolina, a very hot Clemson team coming off a win against Arizona and then getting to that final four playing I mean, if it isn't UConn, I don't know who it is the toughest draw you could get in a final four. Honestly, if Alabama would have came through the other side and they would have made it to the national championship, play UConn, that would have been a fantastic championship game too.
Speaker 1:I said it UConn and Alabama could be the best game in the tournament. I don't think that it was, but I believe it was a heck of a game there. Then we had, like I said, purdue getting through the other side. That sets up a fantastic championship game coming up tonight. The other side. So that sets up a fantastic championship game coming up tonight. For the first time this year I believe Zach Eadie is going to be tested because Klingin from UConn is a fantastic big, a versatile big, and he's going to be able to get after Zach Eadie and really I mean kind of control, what a lot of teams couldn't with Zach Eadie. So that's going to be some good stuff there. Uconn and Purdue coming up tonight here. The championship game for the men's bracket I mean we're at the end. We're at the end, folks of March Madness and it's a kind of I don't know is it what we?
Speaker 1:expected. I don't know. I had Tennessee and UConn in the national championship. I didn't get what I wanted, but this is kind of where it seemed like these two teams were destined to see each other at some point. Right, zach Eadie another player of the year award and then you had UConn the number one team in all the land Been that way since last season and you kind of just expected to see these two one more. You expected to see these two square off at some point in some way. And here we go, a battle of two powerhouses coming up here tonight in the national championship game. But with that, before we get into a little bit more today, I want to get to a couple of our sponsors here.
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Speaker 1:So with that we got to get into the brewers the brewers weekend slate that they had against the Mariners. A fantastic series win there for the Brewers. They got the two to one series win over the Brewers. Looking, I just want to look at the games here, kind of look at the boxes and see what we saw coming out of the weekend there. So on Friday the Brewers won that one six to five. They used a second inning. I mean this is what we hope to see at some point out of the Brewers and that was a all-around, all-game kind of effort, right, because we've seen the Brewers in the past where they aren't able. So they put up runs early and then the bats go quiet game. I mean you put up two in the second there, then you got one in the fourth, the sixth, you added one to the eighth, then you had the walk off there and the ninth there, the walk off walk by contraris. I think I I love that about the brewers. Is that being able to produce runs throughout a game, not that one inning stuff that we were so prone to seeing there. I think that's good stuff out of the Brewers there. So six to five was the final.
Speaker 1:The Brewers got uh. They actually tied in hits in that game, 8-8 in hits with the uh Mariners in that one. Looking at the box from that game there Churro led off. He went 0 for 5. Contreras and Yellich both went 1-4, both with an RBI. Looking at Willie Adamas 2-3 on the game there with an RBI and a walk. We saw Oliver Dunn another fantastic performance out of Oliver Dunn, this time in the DH role 2-4 in there with two RBIs. Fantastic night for Oliver Dunn.
Speaker 1:Frelick went 1-3 for the Brewers in that one. Ortiz started there at third base 1-2. And then we saw Terang at the bottom of the arc starting to cool off. Terang is 0 for 3 in that one. Not what we want to see. Terang's been playing well to start the season here. So that's good stuff out of the Brewers there.
Speaker 1:Freddie Peralta got the start for the Brewers. Five and two thirds, four hits, three earned runs, seven strikeouts, one walk. Solid night out of Freddie Peralta. Then we saw Hudson come in, and I mean Hudson's pitched well for the Brewers here in this young season An inning and a third, one strikeout. Zeros across the board Otherwise. Then we saw Elvis Paguero for an inning there, one hit and two strikeouts. Abner Uribe he got the win in that one. One inning, two earned runs there for Abner on a walk and three hits. So a little bit of struggle out of Abner in that one. But other than that Abner pitched well, got the Brewers out of a jam there and got them to that bottom of the ninth where they ended up winning it there six to five.
Speaker 1:So for the Mariners in that one Munoz took the loss for them. I mean third of an inning there. He gave up that walk, four walks in the inning there and he gave up that walk to score the winning run. We saw Gilbert start it. For him five and two thirds, five hits, four earned runs and seven strikeouts for Gilbert. Bolton then came in for an inning and a third and Stanek came in there for an inning for the Mariners. So good stuff out of the Brewers there in game one of the series. Game two spelled trouble for the Brewers and spelled trouble for the Brewers pitching staff. The Mariners won that one five to three. A big three-run third inning for the Mariners is what really was the difference in this one? Looking outside of the eighth and the ninth there the Brewers were able to rally late in this one Bottom of the eighth, they added three runs there, made it a four to three game and then a home run in the ninth set the Mariners apart there and that was it for the Brewers.
Speaker 1:Looking at the stats for the Brewers in that one Frelick led off 0 for 4. We talked about it. Not a good spot for Frelick. I don't know what it is about the leadoff spot, but that's not for him. He doesn't like it. I, I don't know what it is. You put him down there in that five, six hole the guy's 500 hitter. You put him up at the top and the guy can't figure it out. So frelick leads off in that one 0 for 4. Contraris 2 for 3. Adamas 1 for 3. Yelich 0 for 3. On the game. They're done 0 for 2 bowers, 0 for 3. Brewers are basically shut down in this game One for four for Terang and one for four for Churro.
Speaker 1:In that one DL Hall got roughed up a little bit here. Five and a third, eight hits, three earned runs, two walks, five strikeouts for DL Worked himself out of trouble though. I mean three earned runs in an outing for a starter there. Not terrible, not terrible. Dl Hall gets a little roughed up there but is able to work arounda lot of runners there. Bryce Wilson two and two-thirds inning, one hit, one earned run, five strikeouts for him and a home run given up. Bryce Wilson's prone to the home run ball right now. So that's something to keep an eye on for you if you are a Brewer fan out there.
Speaker 1:Hobie Milner two-thirds of an inning, one earned run on, a hit hit and a home run given up there. And JB Buckus ended up finishing out their third of an inning. One strikeout for Buckus there. So that was good stuff out of the Brewers for the Mariners in that one. Julio Rodriguez got going two for five there. Hanger had two for three night for him, looking at the mound. Miller wins seven innings, three hits, one walk and seven strikeouts for the Mariners in that one and Munoz bounced back big time in that one. He got the save. One inning and one strikeout for him in the save for the Mariners.
Speaker 1:So that was game two that led us into the rubber match on Sunday and I guess the Brewers were a little ticked off after that A little bit of an offensive, you'd like to call it. They put the fire extinguisher onto the Brewers' offense in Game 2 because then in Game 3, the Brewers said here's some gasoline, let's mix her up here. Because the Brewers go off in Game 3 there. 14 hits for the Brewers in that one compared to 8 for the Mariners. They had a big first inning three runs in the first, three in the second, four in the fourth inning and two in the eighth. That was the big separator for the Brewers in that one. Contreras couple of home runs there in that game for Contreras and that was your big difference maker in this game.
Speaker 1:Four for five, five RBIs in that one. Oliver Dunn continues to hit. Maybe he's the leadoff hitter. The brewers are looking for two for four in this one in the leadoff spot, one rbi and a strikeout. But a solid day out of oliver dunn, willie adamas one for five. In that one willie's been, I mean, putting together a solid start to the season right now hitting 300.
Speaker 1:One for five in this one with an RBI. Solid day out of Willie Adamas Bowers two for five in this one. Hoskins 0 for 3. Frelick, you move him down the lineup. Here he is two for four in this one with two RBIs. Leave him in the bottom of the lineup. Churro one for three and Terang one for two in this one. Perkins did start in center one for four. Yllich got the day off in this one here.
Speaker 1:Colin Ray fantastic outing out of Colin Ray. Six innings, seven hits, one earned run, three strikeouts for Colin Ray Fantastic. Second appearance for Colin Ray in this one. And then Vieira ended up coming in and getting the save in this one. Three innings, one hit, two earned runs, five strikeouts. Up coming in and getting the save in this one three innings, one hit, two earned runs, five strikeouts and a home run given up for Vieira. So solid day all the way around. For the Brew crew 12 to 4, the final in the finale there against the Mariners. So good stuff there out of the Brewers. That sets up a big, a massive four game series here with the Reds before they head to Baltimore to take on the Orioles. Big road trip here for the Brewers here against the Reds and Baltimore Two very good teams there in the NL Central and then in the ALEs. So good stuff there with Brewers Coming out of the weekend here. Just wanted to look at the standings, but I am going to actually we'll look at the standings here when we come back.
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Speaker 1:But with that I want to get into the MLB standings before we get a little bit on here. First, looking at the NL Central the Pirates are hot. The Pirates are hot. Eight and two to start this young season are the Pirates. They're coming off a big series win there against Baltimore. They're going to be taking on Detroit coming up here this next week. The Brewers coming in second at six and two right now, followed by the Cubs six and three, the Reds at five and four and the Cardinals at five and five. Looking at the nl east right now, we got the braves at six and two. They had bad news come out of there, seeing that spencer strider might end up getting tommy johns. We're uncertain yet on that. So braves still on top. Those six and two on the air phillies four and five, mets three and six. Then we have the nationals and the marlins bringing us back three and six and 1-9 respectively right now.
Speaker 1:The Dodgers coming in first in the NL West right now 8-4 overall, followed by the Padres at 5-7. Then we have the Arizona Diamondbacks at 4-6, the Giants at 4-6, and the Colorado Rockies at 2-8 on the season. Yankees are up top of the AL East right now at 8-2, followed by the Boston Red Sox 7-3, baltimore Orioles at 5-4, the Tampa Bay Rays coming in at 5-5, and the Toronto Blue Jays at 4-6. We have the Cleveland Guardians coming in 7-2 in the AL Central, followed by the Detroit Tigers at 6-3, the Kansas City Royals 6-4 right now. The Twins and the White Sox bringing up the back there right now 3-4, and then 1-8 for the White Sox right now. The AL West we have the Rangers up top 6-3, the Angels at 5-4, the Mariners at 4-6, the Houston Astros at 3, three and seven and the Oakland A's three wins on the season already for them. Oakland A's, they've won two in a row right now going into the series against the Rangers. There they're three and seven in this young season. So good stuff there coming out of the MLB standings there.
Speaker 1:But with that I want to get to a little bit of the fresh on the farm report here. Fresh on the farm report here, fresh on the farm, we have a lot of good stuff coming out of the minor league ranks right now, starting with the Nashville Solons 4-5 right now on this young season. And I just wanted to look at a couple of their key guys right now. Francisco Mejia you guys might remember him, we recently acquired or recently signed him Catching down there. He started out already hot 429. It's Francisco Mejia Chavez, young left fielder. He's batting 364. Brewer Hicklin he's hitting 357 down there. Eric Hayes hitting 273. Tyler Black he started at 250. Joey Weimer, at Joey Weimer's hitting 229 right now. Owen miller at 226. So that's the big stuff coming out of nashville right now. Home run wise joey weimer does have a home run early on here in this season and he does have four rbis ops. Wise joey weimer is sitting at 712. Isaac coll at the top there with 1,103. So good stuff there, good stuff out of the Nashville sounds right now.
Speaker 1:But getting on to the Biloxi Shuckers, they're sitting at 2-1 right now to start out this young season. They just opened up with a three-game set and coming out of that three-game set we've seen some of the better prospects getting a hold of the baseball here. To start it out, eric brown jr. He's hitting 157 but if you watch some of the video coming out of their first couple games they're playing well at short, they're defensively and he had a couple of uh rbis there for the set there for the Shuckers down there. So good stuff for Eric Brown, brock Wilkins starting down there 154 on this young season. And then also Wes Clark has not played yet for the Shuckers. So good stuff there coming out of the Shuckers. In opening weekend. Freddy Zamora does have a home run there to start out the year. Ernesto Martinez Jr leads the Shuckers in opening weekend. Freddy Zamora does have a home run there to start out the year. Ernesto Martinez Jr leads the Shuckers with three RBIs on this young season here. So good stuff there coming out of the Shuckers. Kind of cold start for the Shuckers down there hitting the baseball but they've been playing well. Two and one on the young season.
Speaker 1:The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers they've started out well here. Looking at them, they're two and one on this young season and they're starting out hot. Matthew woods 600. Uh. Jesus chernos 500. Mike bovie got him about the same time as we got brock wilkin, he's sitting down there 455 right now. Dylan o'reaay, another good prospect 300. Yadier Arminio 273. Luis Lara starting out down there 154.
Speaker 1:For the Timber Rattlers, home run-wise, nothing to report in the power department rbis. Yadier aminio's got three of them. So does dylan o'rea on this young season here. And then, looking at hit leaders, we have mike bovey leading them and hits down there with five hits already on this young season in a three-game set. So good stuff there out of the timber rathers. And last but not least, we have the carolina mudcats starting out at three. And oh, a good start for carolina mud cats. And they've been hitting the baseball down there. Great prospect, cooper pratt recently uh, drafted last season there 364 down there at the moment. We all saw yafri rodriguez. He's batting a good 286 right now for the brewers down there or for the mud cats down there also, or for the Mudcats down there Also in other stats down on for the Shuckers or for I keep messing it up there For the Mudcats right now they are sitting, I mean through those first three games, runs scored to runs allowed. They're plus nine in that run differential right now. So good stuff there out of this mudcat team, but with that I mean good stuff coming out of the baseball side of it, the farm report there. A lot of good prospects for the brewers just getting going here and can't wait to watch how this season goes for a lot of top prospects, not just in the brewers but could be potentially in the league at some point there. So good stuff there with the Brewers Moving on here.
Speaker 1:We got to look at the Bucs who I mean I don't know, I didn't want to get too much into the Bucs here. I didn't want to get too much into the Bucs and I didn't want to be talking about this Coming out of the weekend here into the Bucs and I didn't want to be talking about this coming out of the weekend here. Bucs have dropped four straight. This is a bad time to get Cole, simply because you got the Boston Celtics on the flip side of this, and then you have the Orlando Magic twice and OKC yet on the docket. So four straight losses for this Bucs team and to wrap it up, they lost this game to the Knicks there and that was a 122-109 finish Lost. Chris Middleton before the half in this one Didn't help matters right.
Speaker 1:But man, oh man, what is it going to take.
Speaker 1:What is it going to take for this Bucs team to be able to find a win? I mean, at this point it's finding one right. I don't know if it's, I don't know if you're just going to win a game, I think you just have to find one. It comes down to effort. For me, with this Bucs team, lack of effort I mean lack of understanding. One-on-one basketball irritates the crap out of me. It does. I don't know how many times I have to watch Giannis dribble down and try to take on four defenders at once by himself. I don't know how many times I have to watch that and turn the basketball over before we just say to ourselves man, oh man, just pass the basketball, this one here. Late Bucs put on a run and we saw that crap. We saw it late in this game and it led to turnover fast break going the other way.
Speaker 1:What's it going to take? That's my million-dollar question right now. Is it really? I mean, is Chris Middleton the key to, I mean beating even teams like the Raptors and the Wizards and the Grizzlies? Do you have to have the big three to win those games? Because what happens if you get in a playoff series and somebody gets in a foul trouble. What if you get into a playoff series and Chris Mid middleton gets hurt? I mean, right now he's prone to get hurt. He just got whacked in the face and he was out for the rest of the game there.
Speaker 1:So I mean, what's it going to take for this bucks team to get over that, get over the hump? I don't know. I I chalk it up to lack of effort, lack of getting after it. I one-on-one basketball, not having a clue what's going on and trying to force an issue. Trying to force it. I mean, this is a good Bucs team. If you're a good team, right, you shouldn't have to force it. It should just be one of those things where you can just let the game kind of slowly come to you, right, and this Bucs team isn't. They're forcing it. Giannis is forcing it.
Speaker 1:You look at this game Bucs turnovers What'd? They have 14 turnovers in this game. I mean, when you play fast it doesn't seem like a crazy amount, but man, 14 turnovers will kill you. And then you look at shooting percentage 35 for 75 from the field. In this one, 12 for 34 from downtown. The free throw line is what kept the Bucs in this game 27 for 32 from the free throw line. That's what kept them in it. I mean, look, dame, lead to the free throw line. 14 of 15. Giannis 8 for 11. You look at the Knicks shooting free throws 18 for 22. They didn't shoot the basketball that much better. 45 for 92 on the game there. A lot more shots for the Knicks, but a lot of costly turnovers. A lot of costly turnovers for the Bucs in this one. And man, oh man, they got to show us something here, right? I mean I listen to a lot of other shows and I mean not ESPN or any of that, because they don't like the Bucs right now, but I listen to a lot of other Wisconsin shows, right and outside of I don't know, maybe like the Bill Michaels show, because Bill Michaels, the big unit right in Wisconsin, here and listening to him talk is like yes, like this is completely it, like he keeps it real, right.
Speaker 1:I love when they keep it real. I dislike when we get into these talks where we get this. I want to be optimistic, right, you want to be optimistic. I believe this Bucs team has the talent to be able to turn it around. What I'm saying is that I get into these, listening to these people talk and it's like the optimistic look like oh yeah, you know. Well, you know Brooke isn't playing that bad and you know they're not playing that bad, they're just you know the playoffs aren't here and when the playoffs come then we could turn it all on.
Speaker 1:No, I get sick of hearing that. I get sick of even people talking about it on their own shows, making up excuses for this Bucs team. Because if you look outside of people, outside of the Bucs fan club, basically, and you look at the people who want to keep it real when they're watching the game, you listen to the ESPN guys, you listen to the nba guys on there, you listen to guys on nba tv, you listen to the commentators for the bucks and you can hear it in their voice. You can hear it when they're talking about it and they're basically saying like man, oh man, I don't know, I don't know what to say about this team right now. And that's when you know there's a problem. Yet you listen to people talk and it's like man, there isn't a problem, we're fine, we're fine right now, you know, we'll just, we'll turn it on in the playoffs and it'll be okay.
Speaker 1:I don't think so? I don't think so, is it Doc? Did Doc break this team down completely? Because I got to say, if you thought Adrian Griffin was that bad of a coach, doc Rivers has lost more games than Adrian Griffin did and Adrian Griffin played twice the games. Like that's the big thing you got to look at. When you look at the two records there, if anything, we would have been better off with the interim head coach the rest of the year. Now you can blame it on the fact that you try to throw a head coach in midway through. That doesn't help at all. But I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I'm going to reach out on Facebook, try to get more people's opinions on this one and then kind of see where people are at right now. Because I am lost with the Bucs right now. I don't know what to say. It's like all out of sorts effort, everything is out of sorts with this Bucs team. So I mean, you got the Celtics coming up. We got to see something good. We got to see something good coming out of that game against Celtics. I don't care if it's a win or a loss, we got to see something good coming out of that game.
Speaker 1:So with that, that's about all I got for today. I got more I wanted to get into, but we're running out of time here so I'll get more into some of the stuff coming out of the weekend there. I weekend there. I want to get into the indoor football league, talk about that a little bit. So lots more to talk about this week here, but we'll get into that tomorrow here on the show. But with that, this has been Wisconsin Sports on the go with Trage. Thank you, guys for listening.
Speaker 2:We'll catch you guys back here tomorrow. But me sway, darkness falls and we all pray, hoping for the light of day. Down to the river, I have held the devil's hand, felt the weight of my own sin, buried by the heart of man Down to the river. Down to the river, oh, oh, bury me, carry me, oh, oh.