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Speaker 1:Right, we got the Bucs, we got the Brewers, a little bit of Packer news coming out of the day, so we're going to touch into a little bit of everything in this episode here. First I want to get to the bucks. We saw the bucks square off with the magic last night. Got the news yesterday morning there that janice antetokounmpo did undergo, uh, an mri. Everything checks out. His achilles is intact. Everything's good that end.
Speaker 1:So what does that mean for us? Well, that means our calf strain there and it looks like. And what we know is Giannis will be out for the remainder of the regular season. Now, does that stretch, you know? Is that going to be just? Is it the remainder of the regular season? Because those things can be tricky. Right, you got to. I mean, I don't know if anybody out there has strained their calf before, but you strain that I mean walking is a son of a gun and it's. It's so hard because he's going to go with at least I mean, a little while here with limited to nothing on that leg and then all of a sudden he's got to start to work it and then he's got to get into the flow again and even then it still is going to be and it's going to be one of those things that's here and there. It's going to be one of those uh, hankering kind of things. There it's, it's going to be there and then it's going to go away and then it might come back. And how is that going to affect him for the rest of this year? For the bucks that that is going to be a big, the number one concern for the Bucs outside of, you know, just winning basketball games and playing the game Outside of that. I mean, giannis Antetokounmpo's health right now is definitely number one on that list. So we're watching right now this Bucs team without Giannis. They go and they take on the magic there. They play the magic at the Pfizer, I believe. If I'm not mistaken, that's going to wrap up the year Well, not the year at the Pfizer they will get playoff games there but the regular season year at the Pfizer there.
Speaker 1:So Bucs get the win over the Orlando Magic 117-99. This game Bucs controlled it from the get-go, outscoring the magic all I mean all the way. A big uh, 37 point second quarter and a 32 point third quarter were the big differences in this one for the bucks going up against this magic team. Looking at the box coming out of this game here, I mean you saw, guys, if we'll just cover the magic first then then we'll look at the Bucs there. Bonchero for the Magic. He had 20. 18 for Suggs there and 23 for Cole Anthony coming off the bench there. So good stuff there for the Magic. That's a young I mean a young team that's slowly putting it together. I mean they're slowly putting it together. I really truthfully do believe at some point here this Magic team will get over the top. But right now struggling, especially on the road, 18 and 22 on the road. So that does not help out their case whatsoever there. Joe Ingles I did not know Joe Ingles actually went down there to play with Orlando there. So there's basically the box for the Magic in that one.
Speaker 1:Looking at the Bucs in this one Bobby Portis gets to start in this game. No Middleton, no Giannis, for this one had to rely on Bobby to get in there and I mean do what Bobby does, right, we needed some Bobby action coming off in this starting lineup. And 30 points from Bobby Portis in this one 14 for 18 from the floor. He was two for two from downtown and he had nine rebounds to go along with that. Also a big number that I'm looking at five steals, five steals for Bobby in this game here. So I mean good on the defensive end, something that was lacking for Bobby he's picking up on, and that's great stuff to see there. Lopez, he has 10 for the Bucs in this one. Pat Bev goes for 13,.
Speaker 1:Another game in that starting lineup for this Bucs team Damian Lillard goes for 29 in this game, 10 for 19 from the floor, three for eight from downtown, six for seven from the free throw line. And then Malik Beasley wrapped up in the starting five there for the Bucs. Eight points for Beasley getting back into the starting rotation in this one Three for nine from the floor and two for eight from downtown. Off the bench we saw Jay Crowder. He went for 14 in this game here, stepped up. I mean they needed a guy to step up in a situation in this game here. No Giannis, no Middleton, and that's what Crowder did. 14 points off the bench there, four for nine from the floor. He was two for six from downtown, four for five from the free throw line. So good stuff there out of Jay Crowder coming off the bench and then we saw just mixed points here and there. Livingston had one five from Connington, two from AJ Green.
Speaker 1:Ajax gets in there for five points in this one Play 10 minutes. So good stuff there out of Ajax and this Bucs bench there. I mean this game all the way around. Bucs 43 for 84 from the field. In this one they shot 51%, held the magic to 46% from the field. Looking at three-point line 15 for 40, not fan, it's not great, but it's not bad right. It's right in the middle, it's good. It's a good performance there from the three-point line 37% there from downtown and 16 for 20 from the free-throw line, 80% there from the line the Magic. They only shoot 69% from the free-throw line 16 for 23,. 11 for 30 from the three in this one, 36% for the Magic there Rebounding the Bucs. They out-rebounded this Magic team 43 to 34 in this one 10 offensive rebounds for the Bucs got I mean, they out-rebounded this Magic team 43-34 in this one 10 offensive rebounds for the Bucs.
Speaker 1:I love that. I love a team that gets after the offensive glass, gets after teams, and I think that's what the Bucs did in this one. You look across the board. There are two from Portis, lopez and Beverly in this one offensive rebounds, jay Crowder, two offensive rebounds, and then you had Ajax and also Pat Connington getting after the boards there. A couple of offensive rebounds there collectively in this one Bucs, 12 turnovers in this game. Nothing, I mean not good, not bad, right there. Nine steals, though, for this Bucs team and four blocks on the game. Lopez with three blocks there in this ball game Good stuff all the way around from the Bucs in this one as they pull off the 117-99 win with no Giannis, with no Middleton.
Speaker 1:This is a magic team that was right on their tail in the standings right now and the Bucs took care of business as they had to in this game. Here. The Bucs will be in action next. That'll be coming up on Friday. They will be traveling to Oklahoma City to take on the Thunder in that game Seven o'clock start. We'll get more into that for the weekend preview on the show tomorrow here and then they'll wrap up the season on Sunday there against the Magic. They'll travel to Orlando for that game there. So good stuff coming out of the Bucs there. I mean.
Speaker 1:The good slash bad news was basically just the Giannis situation. Not knowing when Giannis will. I mean we aren't sure. We aren't sure when Giannis will return to the lineup. Hopefully we're hoping. First game of the playoffs. He's back, he's ready to rock and roll.
Speaker 1:But is that far-fetched I?
Speaker 1:It all is going to hinge on how does it heal, how fast does it heal, how does he uh work with it and is it bad? I mean, how bad? Is it right? Because you can have a little bit worse. You can have a little, I mean not better, but you know, in that sense able to heal a little bit faster. So how does this injury nag on Giannis here moving forward, that's going to be a big question mark heading into the playoffs. We're not worried about the regular season, right? Regular season that's wrapped up for Giannis. We won't see him again in the regular season. But heading towards the playoffs here. How does that injury, I mean, how does it affect Giannis heading into the playoffs there? That's big question mark number one.
Speaker 1:I mean, looking at it right now, I've seen all the way around there people talking about this Bucs team and with that injury to Giannis, now Middleton's always up in the air. You don't know. Right now I think he's out with a broken tooth. I mean he had a tooth knocked out and he left the game the other night and we haven't seen much of Middleton since. So I mean, what do we get out of Middleton come playoff times?
Speaker 1:So a lot of people are looking at the Bucs and they're saying is this Bucs team an easy out? Are they going to be an easy out in the playoffs during the first round? You know they might have the likes of the Miami Heat or the 76ers playing in that first round series. Two teams I mean Miami Heat know how to play the Bucs, right. Spolstra knows how to deal with these Bucs and 76ers. They're healthy now, right, we saw the 76ers coming after the All-Star break without Joel Embiid. Now Joel Embiid's back, how does that change the way that the Bucs are able to play against this 76ers team? So a lot of things hinging on, I mean 100%, what the health status is of Giannis Antetokounmpo heading towards playoffs and what Middleton can give come playoff times.
Speaker 1:That's my big take on. Are the Bucs going to be an easy out? Because if you get these guys flowing, I mean honestly, you get these guys cooking like it was supposed to, right. And I know you're like what? Like it was supposed to? What do you mean? Like it was supposed to when you signed Damian Lillard, when you traded for Damian Lillard and you added him with Giannis and Middleton and you said to yourself I just built myself a championship roster. I don't believe it's actually played up to the standards of what they expected when they got Damian.
Speaker 1:So how does this Bucs team play come playoff times? Because there's a lot of people out there who are telling me just wait, just wait, playoff. You know a lot of teams like to lag it during the regular season and you know dog it a little bit and once playoffs come, then they turn it on. Then they turn it on, okay, okay, I believe you, but I got to see it, right, I got to see it. I'm not going to be the guy who's going to sit here and I'm not going to give you the.
Speaker 1:You know, I listened to a couple of different shows today and the optimistic look right, oh my gosh, it's not so bad, everything like that. I'm not going to sit here and give you the bull crap answer. Right, we've seen this Bucs team struggle. You know, I listened to a show today where they were talking about the four-game losing streak for the Bucs and basically saying like it wasn't that bad. It wasn't that bad that four-game losing streak. You can go through losing streaks in a season, that's okay. I'm not saying you can't. But when you lose a four-game stretch and three of those teams are two non-playoff teams, that's where an issue lies. That's where a problem is. That's where an issue lies. That's where a problem is. That's where the problems come from right, and I mean you look at it as a collective whole.
Speaker 1:They lost at 1.6 of seven, six of seven games, and in there you had the Pelicans and the Lakers, you had the Hawks, but then you had the Wizards and you had a team like the Memphis Grizzlies, toronto and the Knicks. In that stretch. Two of those games are three of those games. You look atzzlies, toronto and the Knicks in that stretch. Two of those games, or three of those games. You look at the Memphis, toronto and Knicks game was at the Pfizer. You played at home. You had those guys come into your place and they just, I mean, took everything that you wanted to do and they out-hustled you. They gave more efforts and it's like the crowd was behind them. It didn't crowd wasn't behind them, right, but it just seemed like it, because it was like they had the energy. For some reason the bucks didn't.
Speaker 1:So I'm not going to give you the the optimistic like oh, you know this and that, blah, blah, blah. You know everything's going to be a-okay with the world. Don't worry about it so much. I I'm going to worry a little bit. I'm going to tell you that now they have given me, outside of the win against the Celtics and the Magic, which were two good wins, right, very good wins, but outside of that, this team is a roller coaster. They are a roller coaster out there in the basketball court, inconsistent, and for people to sit there and tell me that, why are you worried? Why are you worried? Why are you worried? Everything's going to be okay, they'll turn it on in the playoffs. They'll turn it on, do you think? I mean, I've said it before Do you think Michael Jordan just turned it on in the playoffs? No, he had it on all season. Long it's possible, right, but it's not that easy. And long it's possible, right, but it's not that easy.
Speaker 1:And the little things are what's killing this Bucs team? I don't look at these other teams and I say they're dogging it. They're just dogging it out there. I think the Celtics do at times because they're bored. I was talking to one of my good buddies there, kyle Edwards from Chomping on the Bit podcast, and he's a part of a bunch of different ones Integrity Sports Network there that I'm on for the baseball show and he was talking about this Celtics team that night they played the Bucs and listening to him and he's a big Celtics fan and he said it's like the Celtics are bored at times. They win so many games and it's like they get bored and they just start dogging it because it's like who cares? It's like they get bored and they just start dogging it because it's like who cares? You know, like we want competition here but nobody's given us that competition, right?
Speaker 1:And I thought about it and I was like, yeah, I mean I've seen the Celtics team full bore blow teams out of the water. We saw that against the Golden State Warriors. They blew them out of the water and didn't look back. So I mean I get when people say that, hey, you're not giving it all, you're going to give it all in the playoffs, okay, but I got to see it. I got to see this team flip a switch come playoff times.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to sit here and say that it's impossible, but what I'm going to say is I got to see it. I got to 100% see it before I'm going to believe it. Because right now, what I see on the court I mean one, two games in a row, right, it's, you can't. They played well in these last two games. But I look at the games before that and I look at the inconsistencies throughout the season and I say to myself, okay, what Bucs team shows up playoffs? That's number one, number one question what Bucs team shows up? That's where I stand on. Are the Bucs going to be an easy out? That's where I'm at. That's where I'm at right now.
Speaker 1:I got to see this team play at what I believe is their full potential for me to 100% say, yeah, I don't think this team can make it, or I believe this team can make it, because I mean, besides that, besides from, I mean I don't know. I don't know. I've thought about it, I thought about it and I've tried to come up with my opinion on it. But it's like, how do you, how do you make up an opinion on a rollercoaster team? You know it's hard. It's hard to make up an opinion on that because, like I said, it depends on what team shows up game one of the playoffs there. No matter who they play, it just depends on what team shows up. So I mean, that's about all I got for the bucks. I just want to get into that a little bit. I saw that, uh, the conversation going around on a couple of social media field feeds today, so I just had to get into it a little bit there and talk about it. But but with that, I want to mention a couple of our sponsors here quick before we move on.
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Speaker 1:Good stuff happening with the Brewers last night. We had to wait. We had to wait. I believe it was about two hours before uh opening pitch and I mean all, all was good, all was good. Brewers seemed like they were all for it. They got after it early on in this one first inning christian yelich goes deep two to nothing lead for the brewers there and they never looked back after that. Good stuff there from the Brewers in this one.
Speaker 1:Just looking at the box here we saw a fantastic pitching performance out of Wade Miley in this one In his return to the Brewers rotation there Did have a start in the minors there, three innings, but getting them back to the big league level. Four innings pitched, one hit, one run, one earned, two walks, no strikeouts in the game. But Miley pitched fantastic in his return for the Brewers Actually had a no-hitter going into that. I believe it was that fourth inning. There he had a no-hitter going into it and then, well, got a hit and then run scored but Brewers got out of it. Great defense by the Brewers in this one.
Speaker 1:Joey Ortiz I mean dude had three-quarters of the balls hit to him in this one and Joey Ortiz played fantastic Up the middle. Great stuff from Willie Adamas and Terang in this one. And then you look at center field there with Blake Perkins. He played fantastic in this game in center, ran down a lot of tough balls out there and Jake Bowers at first base there had a great diving stab over there. A couple of great picks over there. Jake Bowers played really well at first base in this one and you can't.
Speaker 1:I mean this is something that really when you watch these games, you don't look at it as much. But but William Contreras behind the plate, william Contreras, I mean the things that he does, the little things, right, you don't notice them, but framing pitches, working with these pitchers, calling games and calling fantastic games, I may add, because a lot of the locations I mean great stuff. So when you watch this I mean really when you watch William Contreras there just really pay attention to the little things that he does throughout a game there, right. And I mean you look at when Ellie De La Cruz got on base there I believe it was later in the ball game there that Ellie got on first there and William tried to back pick him, like he was going for the back pick, and it held Elie de la Cruz there. Next pitch was a ground ball and the Brewers were able to turn to him. I thought that was great because now that you have it in Elie de la Cruz's head and I mean he's gonna steal the base. If you want to steal a base, right, I mean the guy's got wheels on top of wheels, so he's gonna take off no matter what. But to have in the back of his mind like hey, contreras is watching me, like if I get a little too far off and I don't go, he's gonna pick me right. And I thought that was great stuff and seeing William do that kind of thing this year versus what he was doing last year, I mean he was good defensively last year. I'm not gonna say he wasn't, but we didn't see a lot of those back picks last year. This year he's not worried, he'll back pick anybody, he'll give it a shot. And I mean good stuff.
Speaker 1:I love what I'm seeing out of William Contreras. He listened to him and I've listened to a lot of the interviews with him. This guy wants to be the best catcher in the league Well, hands down, not just hitting, but defensively too. He wants to be the top-notch guy above everybody else. He wants to set the standard for what it's supposed to be and I love that. I love that and I hope William Contreras is around for a long time in a Brewers uniform because it has been fantastic what we've seen so far out of him in his short career with Milwaukee so far. I mean he's only been for a year now and the Brewers I can't imagine they don't love what they got out of William At the plate, behind the plate, whatever it is, even on his off days he's still in the lineup. You can't take this guy to the lineup. He's just great all the way around. So good stuff there out of William Contreras.
Speaker 1:But going back to the box in this one, looking at the hitters for the Brewers in this one Churro, he led off for the Brewers one for three in this one with two RBIs, a walk, a strikeout, two runs scored. Contreras one for four, two RBIs in this one. Yeah, I believe he has a seven-game hit streak right now. After that hit last night, there's a seven-game hit streak for Contreras there. He's sitting at 364. Yelich one for four with that home run there, a two-run shot, two RBIs in the game, a walk and a strikeout in this one. He's got that average sitting at 316.
Speaker 1:Adamas 0 for four in this one. Frelick 0 for four in this one. Bowers 0 for three, but he did score a run there for the Brewers. Blake Perkins Perkins, I mean a home run in this one. Perkins has been hitting the ball. Well, the Brewers are running into a good problem. Too many guys hitting the baseball right, because right now I mean you have Sal outside of this game here. He was hitting .324 going into this one and then you have the likes of Blake Perkins, you have Yelich, you have Churl, you have all those guys hitting. That's a good problem to have if you are the Brewers right now. Fantastic stuff
Speaker 1:there. Perkins goes deep in this one one for two, two runs scored. He had a hit in this one, one RBI, one walk and one strikeout. Joey Ortiz he keeps the bat going. One for four in this one and Bryce Terang stays. Bryce Terang stays hot, simple as that. Uh, bryce Terang in this one, one for four, one run scored, two strikeouts in this one. But Bryce Durang hitting the baseball at a high clip right now. Good stuff out of Bryce Durang. He's carrying around that .342 batting average right now. Blake Perkins actually got his batting average up to .400 in that one Limited at-bats on the season, but still .400 average. Nothing to shake your head
Speaker 1:at at all there. Like I said, miley started this one. Bryce Wilson, he came in in relief. Three innings, three hits, one earned run, one strikeout, one home run given up Good stuff out of Bryce Wilson. He gave up that home run there to Ellie De La Cruz there. Outside of that, not much to shake your head at. I mean, it was all the way around. Good stuff out of Bryce Wilson there. Three innings of relief there and he dealed. He dealed well in this one. Hoey Milner then came in for the eighth inning. One inning, zeros across the board. And JB Buckus came in in the ninth there. One inning, one strikeout for JB in this one. Good stuff there out of the Brewers. They held the Reds in checking this one. Four hits for the Reds in total. Uh, ellie Dayla Cruz with two of them. Then Fairchild and I believe it was India, had the two other hits
Speaker 1:for this Reds team. Brewers hold this very hot Reds team and we saw it in the first two games of the series. This is a hot lineup, just like the Brewers, and the Brewers pitching staff held them in check. That was fantastic stuff there. Brewers got to Hunter Green in this one Six innings, six hits, seven runs. Six of them earned one walk, nine strikeouts, two home runs given up there. Brewers struck out a lot in this game here I believe it was 12. Yeah, 12 strikeouts in this game. Brewers struck out a lot. But hey, I mean you can't shake your head at putting up seven runs there on the flip side of that.
Speaker 1:So good stuff there. Uh, hunter green takes the loss for the reds in this one farmer then came in an inning of relief one walk, two strikeouts. And then we saw brent suitor the raptor. I believe his walk up I, if I'm not mistaken his walk out song for pitching was mc hammer. I'm pretty sure it was. I mean, I miss the days with the Raptor, the Jurassic Park theme song and American Family Field. But he's got MC Hammer going on down there in Cincinnati. But good stuff there. Brent Suter had a good outing for the Reds there Two innings, one walk and one strikeout. So Brewers get the win 7-2. 7-2 against these pesky Reds there down in Cincinnati, that sets up the finale there. The Brewers can take the series here Three out of four. That would be fantastic. That would be fantastic stuff. But you at least, with yesterday's win, guarantee yourself a series split there. So what we're going to see tomorrow there is a 12-10 start
Speaker 1:there for that game. Freddy Peralta taking on Nick Martinez for the Reds there. Freddy Peralta on the season so far he's sitting at that 1-0 record with a 3.09 ERA, 15 strikeouts. Martinez heading into this one 7.20 ERA, 9 strikeouts on his young season there. Looking at the matchups here, everybody seen freddie. Not a lot of success against freddie. I mean you're looking at guys up and down this order tyler stevenson's 333, but the rest of them are below and out below 200, with some guys batting nothing against freddie peralto. So good stuff there for fred. Freddy going
Speaker 1:up against this lineup. For the Brewers going up against Martinez. Yellich has had the most experience against Martinez 10 at-bats there. He's got no RBIs and no home runs against him there. But looking at that average, he's sitting at that 300 average there. So good stuff there. Sanchez four at-bats, three RBIs, a home run, 500 average. And then we have Frelick he's seen him once. He's got two RBIs and has one at-bat against him there. Monasterio seen him one time, he's got a hit against him there. And William Contreras in four at-bats he's got an RBI and a 500 average. So good stuff there Out of this Brewers team heading up into this matchup
Speaker 1:here against the Reds. Pitcher Martinez in this one Brewers, if you want to watch the game, valley Sports Wisconsin, otherwise WTMJ there 620, wherever you get the Brewers locally, you'll be able to check out this game Brewers-Reds series finale before the Brewers will head even farther out east and they will take on the Baltimore Orioles. And well, that's going to set up DL Hall against his former team on Friday. Good stuff there. We got Jackson Holiday. He's made his major league debut there. I believe that was last night there. Yeah, that was last night there against the Red Sox. I don't believe he got a hit in that first appearance, but that will be his first appearance there at Camden Yards. So good stuff there out of the
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Speaker 1:that is the Packers. The Packers have been confirmed week one of this NFL season. They will be heading to Brazil and they will be taking on the Eagles down there. So I mean, if you like that, if you don't like that, I don't know I asked a question out there on Facebook today, so I just wanted to get to a couple of the answers that I got from Facebook for this one here. Looking at a couple of the answers I got First off. My first answer came from Greg Redekke. He said I think it's great there's over a week off from the end of the preseason, so this isn't like a typical international game. Mid-year game is on a friday, so they'll have extra time before the following sunday game. It's only two hours ahead of central time, so so it doesn't have the jet lag or weird start time
Speaker 1:the london game would. It's not one of our home games and avoids playing the having to play at the racist Philadelphia crowd. Just because it's different or new doesn't mean it's stupid. The NFL is wisely trying to grow the game globally. More money for the league means more money for the teams and players, which means more money for the Green Bay economy and the streaming service. Cheapskates don't even have to pay
Speaker 1:extra for this one. Yeah, I mean, I see what you're saying. I agree. I agree with spreading the game globally. I just don't want to get to the point where we forget about the guys back home, right? That's the big thing that you know. I take out of it. You know your season ticket holders, anything like that. And it doesn't affect the Packers this home, right? That's the big thing that you know I take out of it. You know your season ticket holders, anything like that. And it doesn't affect the Packers this year, right, because the Packers will play. I mean, they're going to have their full stretch of home games. This is an Eagles home game for this one. So in that aspect, yes, in that aspect
Speaker 1:I agree with you. I just, you know, is there a point where you've gone too far? That's, that's where my biggest, I guess you would say, worry is for this expansion and not expansion, but this going overseas and everything like that is. Is there a point where it's going too far? So that would be my only worry with it is is there a point that you can't cross, right, where you get too many games overseas and stuff like that, and it affects fan bases, season ticket holders, everything like that. You don't want to get to that situation, right? So I 100% agree though. You got to spread this thing globally, makes you more money, brings more money home, adds more money to the pool there for the players and the teams and everything else. I 100% agree with that. So I 100% agree with you there. I just it's spreading the game is good. I don't want it to cross lines, right, not borderlines, right. We got to cross borderlines, get there, but not not lines where it's like, are we taking this a little too far as though? So I agree 100 with you, though on that one agreed. Agree, don't get me wrong, I agree with you on
Speaker 1:everything you just stated. So, moving on here we had andrea nicole baker said, just another money grab from the nfl because it's behind a paywall peacock for those out of local areas. I mean, I've saw, I saw it's on nfl network, so I believe most people will be able to watch this game in some facet. So that's good. If they just had it on peacock, I would. I and you know you're. I'm gonna
Speaker 1:get to a couple. There's a couple of comments in here where people do mess with the peacock thing and dislike peacock thing. I get it, I get the dislike of peacock and everything like that. I'm just gonna say that I mean when you exclusively only have it on peacock, that takes away from. I mean I could take it from perspective of even my family members, right? Not all my family members, not. My grandma is not very tech savvy, right, she can't figure out how to work her smart TV, and I know people are going to say who cares? Who cares? First off, I don't care. If you care what my grandma says. I care what she says. If she can't get the game on, piss on all you. You know. That's. That's where I'm at with
Speaker 1:that one, you know. But I mean, it's one of those things where you want to have it accessible to everybody. Right, you got to look for fans and I get, I mean, we're living in an era where technology is huge and everything like that, I get that. But you still want to have it be accessible to even your older fans. Everybody like that. People who don't have access maybe they just have access to cable, right, and they don't have a smart tv, they don't have a roku connect to their tv or a fire stick or whatever it is they can't get peacock. Right, you still want to have games accessible to those people. So I don't dislike the Peacock, but I like the idea of giving other stream options. Right, you got to have other
Speaker 1:stream options in there. I hate the games that are exclusively on Peacock because, you know, I personally I don't have direct dish or anything like that. I use FuboTV, right, but when let's just say the Big Ten schedule this last year the badgers played games where they were exclusively on peacock and I love watching the badgers. I watch every game, so I'm not gonna miss out on one. So I have peacock, I'm not gonna, don't get me wrong, I have peacock. But then I mean, you know, you get your people who love flip channels or everything like that, or you're surfing between game to game. You can't do that Peacock, because you're on one streaming service. That's how they keep you there, right, you can't really flip off because otherwise you got to flip your back of channel, you got to go into a different, whatever it is, and then
Speaker 1:come back to it. So I get the idea of it. I get the idea of using Peacock. I just I always want to see other streaming options. There are people out there who just have Peacock. They have a smart TV. They don't have live television or anything like that. So having it on Peacock does help out those people. So I can't say that in all facets it's not a good thing to have it on that kind of streaming option. But I believe you got to offer multiple if
Speaker 1:you're going do it. I don't like the exclusively on peacock thing. I wish you know nfl networks is gonna have the packer game here, so I think that's good. It'll also be on local stations. I like that. I like that ability that they're giving people to uh to get into that game there. But I mean, moving on
Speaker 1:here a couple more. We saw ray lewis not ray le, ray Lewis from the NFL. Ray Lewis I'm not sure which Ray Lewis this is, but Ray Lewis said people are saying only Peacock, it beats playing Philly in Philly for their home game. I agree it does. Really it's better than playing in Philly Because Brazil, as in a lot of foreign places, there's a lot of Packer fans there. There's a lot of Packer bars around the world there. So I mean you're probably going to have a home crowd there down in Brazil there for this game against the Philadelphia Eagles. So it does, it 100% beats having to go to
Speaker 1:Philadelphia for that one. Dan Giannotti said nope, nfl period. Oh, okay, it goes along with Nate Hastings' comment who said quitting the NFL. Da, da, da. Yeah, I mean there's people on the edge. There's people on the edge. There's people on the edge with all sports right now. I mean you look at baseball. There's a lot of fans ticked off at the pitch clock and everything like that you look at college, there's a lot of people ticked off of the nil and everything like that. So 100 agree there, 100 agree. I mean there, there's. I mean there's a lot of people out there like that who don't like, uh, the way that some of
Speaker 1:these leagues are heading. It's a money-driven thing and it's a business. It's a business and either we get behind it or we stop watching one of the two, one of the two, right, you can pick whatever you want. I mean I'm gonna watch it, I'll watch it, but that's just. You can pick whatever you want. I mean I'm going to watch it, I'm going to watch it, but that's just me. You can pick whatever you want. I'm not going to knock you either way because I understand both sides of the coin there. But moving on here, there's a couple other comments I wanted to get to here on the post on Facebook there, and if I don't get to your comments I'm very sorry for that. I mean there's a lot of comments on here, so I'm trying to get to all of them
Speaker 1:that I can here. Not a fan Mike Waterman says not a fan of the overseas games. Players get jet lagged and sleep patterns are off. Food on the road sucks. It's not the International Football League, go, pack, go. And then I mean, yeah, I get it. I get the jet lag and you lag and the time difference and everything like that. I mean, like Greg said earlier there, looking at the time difference it's not bad for this one, it's not like the London game, right, but it's not great it's still. You're going
Speaker 1:to get affected there. Going to a foreign country, like you said there. I mean you don't know about the food. Food on the road sucks right, he said it there in that comment. Maybe it does. Maybe that does affect teams like that Sleep patterns you don't know how it's going to change. Going to a different place. I mean I don't know. It's interesting.
Speaker 1:It definitely is interesting. I don't know if there's a study that's been done yet. There's been a couple of overseas games done already. I don't know if there's a study that's been done. I know they study basically everything. So I don't know if there's been a study that's been done that says player performance is actually worse when they go overseas or anything like that. I don't know. I have not. That's something to look up because I bet somebody's done the research on it to give
Speaker 1:us their answer there. So Darryl Malone said complete BS plus only way to. Uh, he said complete BS. So, yeah, I mean there's a lot of people who don't like it. They don't like the. The idea of going overseas player Not well, it's not
Speaker 1:really. I don't know. Would you count it overseas straight down? I mean, you cross an ocean to get there, right, you cross the Gulf to get down to South America there. So I don't know, I don't know what you count that. I mean I get, I get a lot of people who are upset with the deal there. Uh, jeff mccue, he said in brazil, don't matter, but the bs of now having to pay for what was free for decades really sucks. Yeah, I, I get it, I get 100. Um, I, like I've said, I've seen on different social media platforms and also through research, that the game will be on NFL Network, I believe, and also on local stations, so you'll at least be able to get the game. But yeah, I agree, where some of the league games are heading right now, you have your Thursday night games that are
Speaker 1:on Amazon Prime exclusively. There's a lot of people out there with the Amazon Prime. I get the Amazon Prime one. Right, I agree with that one, because if we did a poll out there and we did a poll and asked everybody hey, do you have any of these different subscriptions from Peacock to Amazon Prime to and you can go down the list I guarantee you Amazon Prime wins it, if not like Netflix or Hulu or whatever. But if you just asked Amazon Prime to Peacock, I guarantee you Amazon Prime wins that, because Amazon Prime, everybody's got it for their packages, right? Everything's easier to order online. So you have Amazon Prime, you get the free shipping, you get everything like that. You get Prime included with that free shipping, you get everything like that. You get Prime included with that. So
Speaker 1:everybody's got Amazon Prime. I would completely understand if they put games on Amazon Prime. I mean you can still put it on local TV and everything like that. I'm not saying you can't, but Peacock is one of those tougher ones, right? Because if you get Peacock, unless you want to watch some of these sitcoms or anything else that's on there, you're getting it exclusively just to watch that sport game. And then I mean I have a buddy of mine I work with. He's got a. He was, I think he said, like 11 or 12 different emails to sign up for the 12th or seven day free trial for peacock and then so he's out of emails that he can try, he's out of emails to use to get
Speaker 1:the free trials there. So I mean that if you do that, that sucks in that aspect because, like I said, I mean look at the badgers. This last season they had, I believe, in a three-week stretch they played like four games on peacock. I know big 10s getting big into peacock games and then you look at the football schedule. They had some games on peacock. I can only imagine how many more will be on there now. So it's going to be something interesting to see what these leagues and I mean college sports, whatever it is what they do to accommodate the fans, if anything,
Speaker 1:at some point here. So with that, that's about all I got for today. We got into the Packers Brazil game. I mean that should be exciting, right, it should be an exciting game getting to see the Packers play on a global stage. Also, I mean we got into the Bucs. We got into the Brewers Brewers back in action today. 12-10 start for that one Freddy Peralta going up against Martinez good stuff there. But outside of that, that's about all I got for today. This has been Wisconsin Sports on the go with trade. I hope you enjoy the rest of your Thursday, but until I catch you guys back here on the show tomorrow for the weekend preview deuces.