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Jim Harbaugh in the News, Packers' Talk, Olympic Basketball , and Brewers' Hot Bats – Wisconsin Sports on the Go with Trag
What happens when a beloved college football coach faces severe NCAA sanctions? Join us as we unravel the consequences for Jim Harbaugh, who’s dealing with a four-year show-cause order and a one-season suspension due to COVID-19 violations. We'll break down what this could mean for his future in college athletics and whether the NFL might come calling to save the day.
Next, we shift our spotlight to the Green Bay Packers. Get the inside scoop on the wide receiver and running back positions, where names like Dontavian Wicks and Romeo Dobbs are generating buzz. We'll also celebrate AJ Dillon’s offseason gains and debate if Jordan Love has what it takes to leapfrog veteran quarterbacks like Matthew Stafford. Plus, find out why the return of Zach Tom to practice is cause for excitement and what’s brewing in the Packers' kicker competition and defense under new coordinator Jeff Halfley.
Finally, let's pivot to the international stage with some thrilling basketball and Olympic updates. We cheer on former Badger Tyler Wall as he heads to Croatian club KK Zadar, and examine the U.S. women's basketball team's quest for an eighth straight Olympic gold. Plus, we delve into the Brewers' recent offensive explosion and speculate on potential roster changes. To wrap things up, we enjoy a playful debate on the most attractive birth months, blending sports insights with a touch of humor. Tune in for a dynamic episode packed with sports analysis, updates, and a few laughs!
What happens when a beloved college football coach faces severe NCAA sanctions? Join us as we unravel the consequences for Jim Harbaugh, who’s dealing with a four-year show-cause order and a one-season suspension due to COVID-19 violations. We'll break down what this could mean for his future in college athletics and whether the NFL might come calling to save the day.
Next, we shift our spotlight to the Green Bay Packers. Get the inside scoop on the wide receiver and running back positions, where names like Dontavian Wicks and Romeo Dobbs are generating buzz. We'll also celebrate AJ Dillon’s offseason gains and debate if Jordan Love has what it takes to leapfrog veteran quarterbacks like Matthew Stafford. Plus, find out why the return of Zach Tom to practice is cause for excitement and what’s brewing in the Packers' kicker competition and defense under new coordinator Jeff Halfley.
Finally, let's pivot to the international stage with some thrilling basketball and Olympic updates. We cheer on former Badger Tyler Wall as he heads to Croatian club KK Zadar, and examine the U.S. women's basketball team's quest for an eighth straight Olympic gold. Plus, we delve into the Brewers' recent offensive explosion and speculate on potential roster changes. To wrap things up, we enjoy a playful debate on the most attractive birth months, blending sports insights with a touch of humor. Tune in for a dynamic episode packed with sports analysis, updates, and a few laughs!
Thank you how we doing everybody and welcome in to Wisconsin. Sports Time to go with Trage. I'm your host, trage. It is Thursday, august 8th, a fantastic Thursday here in the great state of Wisconsin. Even better, even better because autumn is back today. I tried, like you guys know, I tried the fact of the day. Yesterday it didn't go so well. It was a rough day. We're glad to have autumn back.
Speaker 2:Autumn. How are we doing?
Speaker 1:Thursday here, great Thursday in the great state of Wisconsin.
Speaker 2:I'm doing really good, trajan. The weather has been absolutely beautiful and you're actually able to go outside without sweating to death.
Speaker 1:So it's a good day, great day, it's a fantastic day, hopefully, hopefully the rain is holding off. They've been talking it's going to be on and off, it could potential. They're talking potential for rain and this year if they talk potential it just means there's about a 95 chance we're going to see some rain out there. So, like I said, great day today here, lots to get into. We did see some breaking news yesterday, not pertaining completely to wisconsin, but a big 10 opponent, and this is, I mean, is it relevant? Probably not, probably not there. But we did see some news with jim arbol. You know he had, there was a sign stealing scandal that he had going on. There was the covid violations he had going on with meeting with recruits and now we finally got a little bit of the pieces of the puzzle are starting to put themselves together. Here we have a little bit coming out of the COVID violations Autumn. What did we see yesterday there, reported there about Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 2:Yesterday they reported there about Jim Harbaugh. So the NCAA announced a four-year show cause order and one season suspension for the former Michigan coach, jim Harbaugh, on Wednesday for the impermissible contact with recruits and players during COVID, which effectively bans him from college athletics until august of 28 2028. Excuse me, um, but the thing is the ncaa had already put michigan on three years of probation, along with a fine recruiting limits, after reaching that resolution in the case, um. But harbaugh didn't go along with the agreement so they disputed the allegations.
Speaker 2:He failed to cooperate with investigators so his case was handled separately that's oh, I gotcha no, I mean I was just gonna explain, like, because you and I were kind of talking like, what is this show cause thing? So, like the show cause penalty that they're talking about means a school wanting to hire a coach serving that penalty must appear before the ncaa committee on infractions to explain why it wants to do so. So the NCAA's order for Harbaugh started Wednesday and will run through August 6, 2028. It requires the school wanting to hire him to suspend him for the first full season and then after that he would still be barred from athletic related activities, including team travel, practice, video study, recruiting, team meetings, until that order were to expire.
Speaker 1:So Jim Harbaugh ain't going back to college, that's what I'm getting at. So nobody's really hiring him to be a college coach anytime soon. I mean it was it came down to. He wasn't very transparent, he wasn't. You know. They asked him like hey, you want to talk to us? You want to talk to us? And nobody said a word. He wouldn't say a word. He wouldn't. He kept lying about it, right, he kept saying, oh, I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't do anything wrong. You know, I wasn't involved in this. I wasn't involved in that.
Speaker 1:Dude, if he would have admitted it, yes, he would have still got penalized. Yes, you know, it still would have been something coming out of it, but wouldn't have looked so bad. Is where it's coming from. And you know what, honestly, end of the day, the biggest thing coming out of this, it means nothing. It honestly means nothing. This isn't going to affect him now.
Speaker 1:Now they are talking to the NFL now and they want the NFL to do something about it. Right, because the NCAA is a big corporation, a big organization that he kind of ran from Not really ran, right, got a job coaching an NFL team, but penalties should still have to be. I mean, you still have the penalty. You still got to serve that penalty in some way, shape or form. So the NCAA a lot of people want him to see that at the NFL level. Now will he? I don't know, I truthfully don't know if the NFL is actually going to do anything about it, because he's putting the Chargers back on the map a little bit. He's giving Justin Herbert a little bit of that spotlight right now, giving the Chargers that spotlight. So the NFL kind of likes that. They like that. This new built Chargers team with Jim Harbaugh at the helm, they like that.
Speaker 1:So will the NFL do anything about it? It's a wait and see kind of thing. But honestly, right now the whole story, I mean it's fun to try to keep up with it. Right, it's like the showy Otani thing trying to keep up with that, but it just it really doesn't mean a whole lot right now. It doesn't mean a whole lot at the moment.
Speaker 1:We will see if the nfl handles it in a different way. Plus now michigan, I mean the university of michigan, will face the repercussions of this. So that is definitely, definitely something to keep an eye on. The university of michigan. You know, you just you wanna, you wanna see them suck. But man, man, oh man, not this way, not this way, not this bad right, not this bad. So with that sticking with the nfl, though, let's stick. Let's stick with some nfl talk. We're gonna stick with wisconsin.
Speaker 1:Now we're gonna look at the packers a little bit. I want to look into the packers here. I want to see, you know, just some tidbits I had to talk about here, about the Packers today. So with this receiving group they got some good talents in there, right, we've seen it in training camp now Hopefully going to see it translate into this season.
Speaker 1:But I kind of wanted to make my list who's my number one wide receiver with the Green Bay Packers, who's my number two, who's my number three and who is my number four? And maybe, if there's just a guy on the outside looking in, so my number one, if I'm looking at a number one guy with the Packers right now Romeo Dobbs I'd have to give it to Dobbs. I mean watching him right now in training camp. This guy is playing different, he's playing on a different level. He kind of you know, honestly I don't know if it's just me, but he me a Devontae Adams kind of vibe he does Watching him play, watching the skill set that he has, the catching ability, the catch radius that he has, Romeo Dobbs gives me kind of that Devontae Adams kind of vibe and I like that, I like that.
Speaker 1:And the receiver there, I mean we all love Devontae Adams. I think Romeo Dobbs has a lot of those same tendencies. I love him and he's my wide receiver one right now. My wide receiver two and this is where it might get a little interesting. You would think you know, if Christian Watson could stay healthy, christian Watson would be my wide receiver two. Right, I mean he just fits that fold. He fits that fold as being that guy. The pace right, he's my speed threat, my down-the-field kind of guy. He's got a, I mean, decent catch radius. Right, I wouldn't put him in there. I think Dobbs and Dontavian Wicks to me are the two best pass catchers on this team, but Watson, he has that separation speed. I think that separates him there a little bit. So I have Watson in my number two but just edging my number three guy and I'm looking at him being Jaden Reed. I think Jaden Reed is the number three wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers right now. Now will that change? I think this list could change because my number four guy that I'm going to slot in here, I think he could be the number two receiver on this team. I think he has the potential to be a number one at some point. I think the Packers, honestly, right now have three, maybe four guys who could potentially be a number one receiver and they are in my top four. They are my top four. I think each one of these guys has that kind of potential. They have that skillset to be a number one. Now, will they be a bona fide number one? Maybe not. You know, some of them might be twos, some might be twos, but that ain't nothing to shake your head at either with some of these nfo rosters out there. So in my three it's wicks, but he ain't far behind um. Or let's say it's reed, but he isn't far behind watson. There in my two, I think you could interchange them two guys just as easy there. And in my number four I have don tavian wicks and this is one where I think he could be the two. I think think he could be the four.
Speaker 1:Dontavian Wicks. Right now he slots in at my number four spot. I think this guy is the toughest one of the bunch. I think he has the best hands of the bunch. The catch radius, him and Dobbs. I think those two have eerily similar hands and I think they have eerily similar, similar, similar that's a tough word. That's a tough word, it's botching me right now, but I think they're eerily close there. We go Close in their skill sets there. I just think Dobbs as a route runner, I like him just a little bit better than what I like Octavian Wicks as right now.
Speaker 1:But Wicks, I feel like, has all the potential in the world to be a number two or a number one receiver. I really do. I love what I see out of Wicks there and that's not to take out of some of the other guys like Bo Melton and Malik Heath in there too. I think those guys have a boatload of potential in that wide receiver room, even a guy like Samore Torre. He's a little bit undersized but I think Torre is a guy to watch there as being a potential at some point in the year. You might need him kind of guy right. So I like what I see out of them, but that would be my top four. That'd be my top four wide receivers there in green bay right now.
Speaker 1:So looking at the running backs right now we know josh jacobs, he's gonna start out. He's your number one. Aj dylan, I believe right now is the number two you know they have. They have some backs, they have a lot of talent in the running back room. I just think right now, the way that it stands, I look at AJ Dillon as my number two back. They said I mean, from what I've seen, what I've heard coming out of training camp, it's like he's gained a step and he's also slimmed down a little bit. So AJ Dillon might be a different kind of bruiser coming out this season. He might be a different kind of bruiser coming out this season. He might be. So I like I would say AJ Dylan kind of fits into my number two back right now.
Speaker 1:Autumn, could you find me a list where some of these guys, some of these analysts, have quarterback rankings right now? There's got to be a quarterback ranking list out there. Whether it's a guy from ESPN or something like that, I'm kind of interested because I want to see where I would rank Jordan Love compared to what some of these other guys do. She's finding one out there. She's finding one. I'm just really I'm intrigued now. I'm intrigued to see where you know some of these analysts, some of the guys who do this every single day for a job would rank a guy like Jordan love Now they have him as number 11 out of 32.
Speaker 1:So who is the top 10? Who is above Jordan Love right now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so in order Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, Dak Prescott, Matthew Stratford, Aaron Rodgers, Jalen Hurts, CJ Stroud, and then we have Jordan Love.
Speaker 1:Man, that is a tough list. That is a tough list, patrick Mahomes is better.
Speaker 1:You'd rank him above Josh Allen. I don't know, josh Allen's a toss-up for me. Lamar Jackson I think Jordan Love may surpass him at some point, but I think Lamar's up there. Joe Burrow you didn't see him much last year, so how does that? You know, does that injure him a little bit? I guess not. So they got joe burrow up there. You said dax in there, cj stroud's in there. I think love's better than matthew stafford. I think he's got experience on him. Matthew stafford does. But I think Judge is better or that Love is better than Stafford. I would take him above him there.
Speaker 1:11 is, you know, that's pretty solid, I would say honestly, I could interchange. Cj Stroud had a fantastic year. I think the only thing you could really do is maybe drop. You could drop Stafford down a little bit. You could move those two guys above him there. But honestly, that list ain't bad. That list ain't bad at all with that top 10. I think jordan loves sitting at 11 right now is pretty good, honestly, because you put a half a season into perspective last year, right, you put a half a season there. Now, if they would put two above them and they would have thrown some crazy stuff out there. I think that kind of changes the perspective on that. But those quarterbacks up at the top, right now, though, I do believe that Jordan Love could be better than a chunk of that list. Right now, the 11th spot is solid for him. The 11th spot is solid for Jordan Love. So I kind of like that. I kind of like that. I kind of like that list. Who made that list?
Speaker 1:I double check, pff okay, okay, so it's just one of them lists out there there's, there's a million of them. Everybody ranks their quarterbacks there. So I mean, yeah, 11. Ain't a bad spot for jordan love to be sitting right now. And I would say, just about most rankings, I think you could interchange probably 8 through 11 in that list that they just gave off there, and I think that I think you could get away with it. I really do think you could.
Speaker 1:So another Packer tidbit there we do see Zach Tom return to the practice field for the Green Bay Packers. So that's big news. That's big news. Getting Zach Tom back. That's great news. Great news there. Other than that, I mean, we had another kicker brought into camp. Excuse me there, excuse me there. We had another kicker brought into camp there for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1:So what does that mean for Anders Carlson and for Joseph, who are already in the room? Not a whole lot are already in the room, not a whole lot. I mean it. It's basically just another leg just to look at there. I I'm not too. If I'm Anders Carlsen.
Speaker 1:Maybe it concerns me a little bit that the Packers are still out there looking right now, but maybe they're just trying to give him an edge. They're just trying to give him an edge. I don't know, I don't know. You know, it's one of those things where I would think the Packers want to get this kicking situation figured out a little bit before that. I know from what I just read there. They're a workout for seven free agents, including three kickers. So they're testing out a lot of kicking legs right now. Jonathan Garby, james McCourt, andre Sisman were all worked out by the Packers here this week already. I mean, they're trying to find something. They're trying to find something in that kicking room. It really seems like if I'm Anders Carlson right now, I don't have a lot of job security. Right now, I really have to worry about my job and I've got to figure it out. So I mean, should you worry? If you're Anders Carlson? I do believe, I do believe you should. There, outside of that, I mean the Packers' defense. Now, I don't know if it's just me, but I think this Packers defense might be sneaky. A lot of people aren't talking about them, right. I mean, packer fans are, packer analysts are, you know, people who are watching the Packers very close? But if you look at the national scale, there's a lot of people saying the Green Bay Packers defense is going to be something to watch. I really do think this defense is going to be something to watch. I really do think this defense is going to be something to watch.
Speaker 1:You added McKinney there. You're bringing back Walker, rashawn, gary, you have Clark still in there, and then you look at some of the other pieces around. You're going to have McKinney in that secondary, valentine in the secondary there, valentine in the secondary. I'm really intrigued to see Engenbar for his second year. I am really intrigued by him. Van Ness, to see what he kind of develops into there. And then I mean Jair you still have Jair out there, you still have Keyshawn, nixon and with Halfley now running it like McKinney I believe it was McKinney said, or it was, I believe it might've been Bullard, I think it might've been Bullard who was in a conversation or with a reporter and he said Halfley just has a way to put you in the right spot so that you can play fast, right, and I think that's huge.
Speaker 1:If Halfley can scheme up that defense where these guys can play balls to the walls all the time and be able to get after guys, that's huge. That's huge. So I love that. I think it's going to speak volumes having a guy like halfley in there who's going to allow this defense to flow free and it's going to just. I mean, they're gonna play fast and I think that's going to be a key to this defense who. They have a lot of playmakers on there who need to play fast. You know they can't be set in these zones. They have to be able to play fast. It's going to be big time.
Speaker 1:I really do think the Packers will be that defense that nobody's talking about right now that when it comes around to season time, everybody's going to be talking about, because they're going to be like whoa, where did this defense come from? Where did this defense come from? Nobody expected this. I'm excited. I really am. I'm excited to see this defense get her going here and to see them out on the field. So we have, I mean, in training, we have preseason already starting coming up this weekend here against the Browns. We're going to see some starters I don't know who is going to play yet right, we know where to see Jordan Love. We're going to see some of the other veterans out there. I'm interested to see some of these rookies out on the field there and see how they flow, especially on the defensive side. I think that's going to be something to watch this weekend here. So with that, before we move on here, I want to mention some great sponsors of the show here.
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Speaker 2:Some quick tidbits for today is the women's team. Usa defeated Nigeria 88-74 to advance to the semifinals against Australia on Friday. They are in the quest for their eighth straight gold medal. Apparently, nigeria played really, really well and it was a tough, tough matchup for the team. I know Team USA gave Nigeria a lot of props for a great game on that up for the team. I know team usa gave nigeria a lot of props for a great game on that. And then just a former badger player, tyler wall, signed with the help me out creation croatian basketball team yeah, so it's the adridiac basketball association where he'll play in croatian for kk zadar.
Speaker 2:The croatian club announced on wednesday that wall has signed a one-year contract with an option for a second season with the team in 2025. Wall is going to head to europe, which comes after he worked out for the minnesota timberwolves, utah jazz and the milucks. He didn't get drafted by the NBA team, but he did play for the Timberwolves in the Las Vegas Summer League.
Speaker 1:Great stuff. Great stuff right there. Glad to see Tyler Wall continuing his basketball career. A lot of people were kind of down about how Tyler Wall played when he was in Madison. He never really developed into being what a lot of people hoped he would. I mean, I liked me some Tyler Wall. I liked me some Tyler Wall. Yes, I was probably one of those people that wish he would have developed a shot outside of the paint, but I'm glad to see him being able to further his career there in the Croatian club. That is great stuff there.
Speaker 1:Great stuff by the women's basketball team too. I mean it just seems like they mop everybody. It's, you know. So you look at the women's side of the Olympics right now, you can tell mainly that talents, that is in the WNBA or women's basketball. A lot of it's in the United States, right. You look at the men's side and it seems like it's spread out. You know, there's a little bit of talent here. There's a little bit of talent here. I mean you got what do you mean? Jokic is playing in Serbia. You got Giannis in Greece. You have Canada. They have a pretty darn good team Shea Gildress, and they have Dylan Brooks up there right. So they have some pretty good teams floating around, whereas the women's side it just seems like the women's US team is just so dominant because just the talent isn't as spread out. It isn't as spread out like it is with the men's. But I mean, you got to play who you got to play. So at the same time saying all that, it's great to hear that this women's team is moving on. They're going to be in the semifinals, like you said, against Australia. Big game for them there, trying to win an eighth straight gold medal. That's impressive. Whether it's lack of talent elsewhere or not, that is impressive stuff right there. So good stuff Coming out of the women's side.
Speaker 1:In the men's side we did see the United States defeat Brazil 122-87, just a complete trouncing. Once again, devin Booker he goes for 18 points, 6-9 from the field. We saw Anthony Edwards 17 points there. Joel Embiid 14 points. A lot of that coming in that first half for Joel Embiid. He basically just buried Brazil early on. They have a good front line Brazil does so. Joel Embiid saw a lot, lot of minutes. So did a lot of the other bigs for the united states there. Lebron 12 points there.
Speaker 1:Uh, lebron exited the third quarter after being hit near the left eye and needed four stitches. Okay, okay, I mean, suck it up, suck it up right, put a bandage on it, get back out there. I don't care, right, whatever, whatever. So lebron gets injured, but he'll be fine, he'll be fine. It's far ways. I mean, suck it up, suck it up right, put a bandage on it, get back out there. I don't care, right, whatever, whatever. So LeBron gets injured, but he'll be fine, he'll be fine. It's far ways from his heart, I guess. I don't know. Poor guy, he gets roughed up all the time. He probably flopped 40 feet and he's like where's the call? And they're like this is Okay, okay, sorry, sorry, sorry. So, either way, the US will face Serbia coming up next in the semifinal today. So big game here for the United States taking on Serbia. Once again. There should be a great one. There Should be quite the test, quite the test there for this United States team.
Speaker 1:Outside of that, just a tidbit Autumn just brought to my attention that I forgot to talk about there, and that is that the Seattle Seahawks and the Lions were both fined $200,000 for fights that were going on, for fights that were happening on the field there during a joint practice. So I mean, I think it's. You know, honestly, I think it's good for something to come, some kind of penalty, to come from this, because we see a lot of joint practice fights. Now that's just a lot of fire, right, but you don't want your stars getting in fights. We saw Malik Neighbors getting into a fight there and it's like like okay, this is your first round, pick like, protect him a little bit, try and protect him a little bit.
Speaker 1:I don't know why.
Speaker 1:Why are we swinging at? Why are we swinging? This is why are we fighting against a guy with a helmet on right? We're out here taking throwing punches at guys with helmets. What is that going to do? What is that going to do for throwing punches at a guy with a helmet on right and worst comes to work? I mean he's got a padding over top of their helmet, right, they're wearing that padding a little bit there. I mean it's just ridiculous, just ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Some of the fights that we're seeing breaking out seattle had one, lions had one with giants, right, just I was talking about they're the giants with with neighbors there. I mean they've all had little scuffles, scuffles as of late here. So good to see that teams are being fined for this, right. Seattle hasn't been fined yet for their little skirmish that they had, but we saw Lions Giants fines come from that. Seattle has not been fined yet, but I would expect something to come out of it eventually. I would expect something to come out of it eventually there.
Speaker 1:So maybe maybe we'll see something come out of that too, because honestly it's it's just stupid. It honestly is stupid Like we're. We're fighting guys with helmets on. Come on, come on. Like maybe shake the face mask or something, rattle his head, I don't know, but punching at a guy with a helmet on, that's the smartest move we got. That's the smartest movie. Not, we got to protect some of these players, right, we got to protect some of these players from being stupid themselves at some point, right, trying to avoid that kind of scuffle, because you don't see it on Sunday after the fact, it's like go hit them harder in the next play, right, we don't need to start these little scuffles off to the side. Just stupid, just stupid there. We've seen it over the years and it's I mean just being the same, right, just being the same there. So with that last little bit there, let's get to Autumn's Fact of the Day before we get over to the brewers.
Speaker 2:Fact of the day is Crayola. Crayons are the 18th most recognized smell in the world In a study conducted by Yale.
Speaker 1:The scent of crayons- ranked 18 out of 80 as a recognizable scent. Interesting. That's an interesting one right there. I guess crayons smell like crayons. I guess, I don't know, I don't know. Crayons smell like crayons. Is what I'm getting out of this so people can recognize crayons. Good for you. Good for you If you can start smelling that the crayons smell different. That's when we got to worry. That's when we got to worry. That's when we got to worry, because if you don't have scented crayons, then we got problems if you're smelling different things when you're smelling the crayons there. So with that, let's get over. Let's get into a little bit of a brewer talk for the day here. I mean, we saw the brewers last night Trouts up on them, braves, 10-0 final there. I mean Autumn what do we got? Key performers. What did we see from some key performers in that game there?
Speaker 2:I don't know some key performers that we saw would be Bryce Trang went two for six with one RBI. Jackson Churio went two for six and Garrett Mitchell one for five. Willie Contreras finally, we're seeing a little bit more from him three for four with four RBIs. Willie Adamas went four for five with four RBI's, reese Hoskins went two for five and Joey Ortiz went two for four with one RBI.
Speaker 1:Big game there. I mean it's a big game by the bats. I mean, really, something that we've been looking for was the bats to break out. They did big time last night. I mean you're talking 16 hits spread out across a nine inning baseball game. That's impressive. That's impressive there. Some other things. I mean you look at runners left on base, runners in scoring position, the team batting, with runners in scoring position, eight for 21 on the game. There they left 11 guys on base. So the potential to score more runs is always there, right, it's always there. The Brewers didn't clean house, they were. I mean it was a great game, great game by this Brewers offense, and I mean pitching wise Colin Ray. He delivers another good performance for this Brewers team Seven innings, five hits, zero earned runs, one walk, nine strikeouts. Great game, great game out of Colin Ray.
Speaker 1:But the interesting one, joe Ross, came in to pitch. He came in for relief. Now, joe Ross is scheduled to pitch, not yesterday, right, because he was off Friday. He was scheduled to pitch today against the Braves. So who are the Brewers going to pitch against the Braves in Game 3? That moves up. Frankie Montes, right, frankie Montes is scheduled for the Thursday game. But now the Reds Friday Brewers come back home. They're taking on the Reds.
Speaker 1:Who's going to fit that fold? Dl Hall, I think DL Hall. I think DL Hall is coming back. Right, they said he had one more rehab start down in the minors and that we were going to see DL Hall at some point. Right, hopefully soon is what everybody kept telling us. I think we're going to see DL Hall on Friday. I'll be honest with you. I think DL Hall will pitch Friday. He will pitch this weekend for the Brewers. Freddie pitched right, we saw Freddie. We know Montes is going to move up. I think that brings him in, just because Joe Ross, I believe now is kind of getting. You know, they said, okay, we don't want him to face the Braves again. I could see that it wasn't very good the first time he faced the Braves, so I wouldn't want to see him against the Braves again. But I think it does move the rotation around enough that I think we do see potentially. Joe Ross moved out to the bullpen and DL Hall moved in. I think that's the move we're going to see there. Outside of that, brian Hudson. I believe Brian Hudson will be back this weekend. They sent him back to pitch with the Nashville Sounds. Once again, pat Murphy said soon. I think soon will be this weekend here. I think we'll see Brian Hudson back. Hopefully get McGill coming back here pretty soon. That would be awesome to get Trevor McGill back as we see Joey Ortiz drive in. Hopefully Willie Adamas, if he gets the horse moving. Yes, he does, he scores. So the Brewers go up 7-4 here watching the game right now in the eighth grade stuff there. But I mean I could see DL Hall moving into that rotation there. So that is going to be, I think, a good thing. I think it's going to be a good thing. I really do. I'm hoping for the best with DL Hall coming back there. They could really use an uplift there with the lefty arm in DL Hall Looking at and this is a question I had can Mitchell Garrett Mitchell be the left-handed bat to replace Christian Yelich's production?
Speaker 1:Can he be that guy? Because I would say, okay, looking at my outfield, you have Sal Frelick, you have Blake Perkins. Those two guys are your lefty options, right? Blake Perkins, a switch hitter and Sal Frelick being the lefty. Could those two replace Christian Yelich? I don't think so, because Christian Yelich adds a little bit of an extra base hit kind of thing. That's not big into those two. Those two are more of your contact guys, more of your get on base guys and make things happen after that.
Speaker 1:So that leaves me with Garrett Mitchell. He's kind of the difference between he's a middle ground between Sal Frelick and Christian Yelich. He has the pop, he has the extra base hit ability. Right now he's getting on top of the baseball, so not really boating well for the ability for him to drive the ball. But can Garrett Mitchell be that guy? That's a tough one. That's a tough one If Mitchell gets going right, which I believe he was there a little bit. I mean he's been hitting the baseball as of late there. I mean it's not like he gets this 0 for day with three strikeouts, right, he's putting the ball in play.
Speaker 1:I think Mitchell could give me three-quarters of the production that Christian Yelich was given. I think he can. I really do think he can. I think he has the contact ability, he has the speed and I really do think he has the power to be able to give us three quarters of what Christian Yelich was. So the left-handed bat that the Brewers are kind of looking for right now to replace the bat. That Deleuze and Christian Yelich I think they'll get a little bit of that boost from Garrett Mitchell here. I mean, he's slowly working his way back in the lineup, right, we've got to remember this guy has barely touched the baseball field in two seasons. He's barely touched the baseball field. So with him getting some time, some reps, getting back into the fold of things, getting comfortable, everything like that, I think Garrett Mitchell will start to hit the baseball and he will start to flourish at the big league level and I think that's going to be something to watch. There is him trying trying to replace a little bit of that production that has been lost without Christian Yelich there. So I do think he's going to give us about that three quarter mark. I could see him as that three quarter mark If I were to right now, if I were to have to, because this was a question.
Speaker 1:A good friend of the show here, caden from the BrewPod podcast. He asked me a question today and I said I don't even have the answer. I don't even have the answer for that right now. He said if I were to pick a game, one starter right now for the Brewers like we're heading into a playoff series right now. Who's your game one starter? Everybody's full rest, everybody's ready to go. Who is your game one starter? You know, your immediate thought was Freddy Peralta. Right, that's your immediate thought. But then I got to thinking, you know, and that's dangerous, right, that's dangerous when you start to think there. But I got to thinking I was like, okay, yes, freddie is your number one, but Freddie has had moments this season where he wasn't pitching like my number one. Colin Ray has pitched well. Tobias Myers has had some very good games for this Brewers team. So who would be my game one starter?
Speaker 1:I think you can pick a name out of a hat, to be honest with you Tobias Myers, ray or Peralta man, that's tough. I think I would say, right now, I might roll the dice with Tobias Myers. I might roll the dice with Tobias Myers. He's given me the most consistent starts in a row. I think I'd roll the dice with Tobias Myers. Autumn game one starter you had to pick right now, all fully rested up. I mean Frankie's probably not in there. Frankie Montes is probably not in there. He's not going to be a choice in that matter. You have basically the choices of Colin Ray, tobias Myers and Freddy Peralta, those are your, I mean, those are your big options right now. If you had to roll the dice, game one started. Who are you throwing out there?
Speaker 2:I mean, I Ooh, I'm torn between Peralta and Colin Ray, because if Peralta's on, peralta's on, he does a really good job. But when Peralta's off, it's like, oh my gosh, get him out of here after the first inning. I'll go with Peralta when he's on.
Speaker 1:She's spanking Peralta when he's on. So it's a whole bit of prayer, right. I mean, yeah, my two. Like I said, I mean Colin Ray, it's real, that's tough. That's tough because you wish you had that one guy who was like this is no doubt you know you're Corbin Burns. That was a no doubt. He's my game one starter. Maybe you could have tossed Woodruff's name into the hat there, but Corbin Burns was your number one Right now.
Speaker 1:It's tough. It's tough to even man like thinking about that. It's like who would be my game one starter?
Speaker 1:Like I said earlier, I mean you could pick a name out of a hat. You could. You could say, okay, I need all three of these guys at some point. They're all about the same. I'm going to pick a name out of hat and hope I'm going to pick a name out of hat and hope Freddie has had some good games as of late.
Speaker 1:Tobias Myers has just been more consistent for me. I know I understand at this point of the season right now, if I had to pick what I'm going to get out of Tobias Myers, colin Ray, if you had to pick consistency, colin Ray is right up there too. So I mean it's a name out of a hat kind of deal for me there. So, man, that was that was a tough question. I thought about it today, but that was a tough question there. So this is going to be my question to the autumn first, and then I'm gonna think of mine. I'm gonna think of mine here. So if you could bring back two former brewersers all time, all time you got your choices of tons out there who would you and they're feeling good right now, they're not like they're walking around with a walker or anything like that who would you put onto this roster right now? Like this Brewers team? We know they have holes places who would you put onto the roster right now?
Speaker 2:I mean Rob and Yow. No matter what, I will always pick him as my favorite Brewer or be on the Brewers roster.
Speaker 1:I mean we can pick them in their primes. We can pick them in their primes. We can pick them in their primes. So we got Robin Yowt in his prime.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:She's thinking really hard about this.
Speaker 2:I am she's thinking really hard.
Speaker 1:I am, Hopefully everybody out there. You just thought of your two brewers that you'd bring back.
Speaker 2:I'd probably go, paul Molitor, paul Molitor, I'm very old school.
Speaker 1:Willie Adamas, you just lost your job, right, we're just losing jobs.
Speaker 2:No, I mean Paul Molitor was third and second. He had Robbie on at short.
Speaker 1:So you're moving out Willie right, he's moving off of short. And then you got to pick between joey ortiz and terrain. Who you bumping? Uh, I'd pick ortiz. Ortiz is gone, ortiz is gone, willie's gone, and we're just throwing these two in there. That's what we're doing right now. I mean not bad. I mean that def. I mean you're definitely adding two really good bats into the lineup there well, that's what we need right now that's what they need right now.
Speaker 1:But if I were to pick two guys, I'm going starters, I'm going starting pitchers. I really want to say Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder, but I just can't. I can't because we need pitching. I really wanted to say Giovanni Gallardo, because I just love me some Giovanni, but we have DHs now, so I'm not getting Giovanni's bat. What I wanted was Giovanni's bat. I'm not getting Giovanni's bat. What I wanted was Giovanni's bat. I'm not getting Giovanni's bat, so I'm going to have to take Giovanni Gardo out of this one here.
Speaker 1:Ben Sheets would be a very good option in there. I'm going to have to go CeCe Sabathia because in that season that he came over to the Brewers he was a big reason why they made the postseason. Cece Sabathia, because in that season that he came over to the Brewers he was a big reason why they made the postseason. I mean, the dude pitched every three days. It seemed like Like he was on no rest, right, he just kept throwing them out there. I could say Corbin Burns, because technically he is a former Brewer. I could bring him back. I like Ben Sheets. I'm going to throw Ben Sheets in in there and I'm gonna throw cc smathia in there. I think those two you just the starting rotation just got a ton better. It just we're good now. We're good now. We got ben, we got cc, we're good to go, we're good to go. That's all we need to do there. That's all we need to do there. That's all we need to do. So that was great. That was a great one. I do. I could see yours. I could see yours adding you out, adding mollander. That'd be huge. That'd be a good one there. That'd be a good one. So, with that, that's about all we got sports wise talk about today. That's about all we got. So I have a question for autumn today. She just gives me this sports jeopardy. It's craziness. I got a question for Autumn today. She just gives me this sports jeopardy. It's craziness. I got a question now to end the show here. She thinks she can see the status. She thinks she can see what it is.
Speaker 1:Top five, most attractive birth months, top five, top five. I saw a list today. I was scrolling through social media, scrolling through social media, and they made a list of the top five most attractive birth months. So these are the ones where, if you're not born in these months, you're probably screwed like. That's just how it is. Maybe you're not, maybe you're not, maybe maybe you are just that darn good looking, but these are according to the list that was brought out. I don't even know who made the list, but top five most attractive birth months. So autumn, give me a month. You just got to guess a month september number five, number five.
Speaker 1:I already got hosed. I already got hosed off this list. I'm all the way down to number five. I feel bad. I feel I feel bad here. So we got top four. Yet If you had to guess a month, what do you got?
Speaker 2:April.
Speaker 1:April is number one. Number one on the list. Now you see why I brought Autumn onto the show here. Now you see. Now you see. So I got two through four left on this list. We have April and September knocked off one and five.
Speaker 2:February.
Speaker 1:February is number three on the list there. I don't know if she's cheating over there or not, but it's number three on the list. She's showing me her computer screen like she's not cheating. I don't know what she's doing up there. We got two and four left.
Speaker 2:August.
Speaker 1:August is number two. August is number two. August is number two. What is the last month on the list?
Speaker 2:November.
Speaker 1:I feel like no. No, it is not November.
Speaker 2:How many guesses are there I?
Speaker 1:don't know, I'm going to start throwing out months. There's only 12 months in a year. December, december, december babies, december babies are to end it. That makes sense because from what I've seen pictures of Jesus, he's a very handsome fella that beard, he pulls it off. He pulls it off. That automatically puts December up on the list. Up on the list there. Just a random quiz to end it there. I just saw that today scrolling through social media. You see the darndest things when you're scrolling through there. Had to bring it up, had to bring it up there. So with that Autumn, that's about all we got. Huh, that's about all we got for the day. Great stuff, great stuff there. Hoping, like I said, brewers up 8-4 here. Bottom of the eighth inning, hoping to hang on Hoping to hang on Hoping.
Speaker 1:We're talking about a Brewers potential sweep tomorrow here on the show. But with that this has been Wisconsin Sports on the go with Trage. Thank you guys for listening. I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your Thursday, but until we talk to you guys again tomorrow. Deuces.
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