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We're still identical twins born five and a half months apart with different mothers
But still identical because we've just been growing up together and Scott just want to wish a happy birthday out there in Colorado Springs
Seeing a good afternoon to him and a happy birthday to him and appreciate him and all of you listening out there
Thank you so much for joining us everybody at a special thank you to Chuck Jadaro, of course
We want to talk local sports with Randy a little bit later
He's got some up-to-date stats for us on that we'll get into it a little bit later
But it gets no more local than our Wisconsin rabbits rafters
And of course we are the home of your Wisconsin rabbits rafters
We have with us right now Tyler from the rafters assistant GM. Tell the good to have you with us men
Hey, thanks for being here. Appreciate the time and always especially on a day like this where
You have plans and then other things happen
Well, that's the thing about working in baseball that I've learned quickly is working outside outdoor sports
You never know what's gonna happen and when the rain's in the forecast and I just wake up ready to go
Have a whole plan for the day and then the rain comes a kind of
Put puts a huge dent in my day, but glad to be here. That gives me an excuse. I appreciate you being able to make the time
I did want to let everybody know right away
Coming up on our 17th episode on June 17th
We're gonna have the new voice of the rafters joining us and he's gonna be with us. Yeah, no Andy super excited
Andy's been a nashar if anybody's out there's been able to catch some of the calls on on the home of the home of the rafters
But it's it's been fun to listen to he's got a great voice
Really been telling some great stories about his first couple weeks here in Wisconsin rapids
He's a former player so he can bring some different insights as a pitcher
So when the pitchers are on the mound in their mindsets and what they're going through
So no really really enjoyed his time so far calling calling five or six games so far and still still 70 some 60
Late 60 I think five 66 to go so still long season ahead of us guys
It's it's interesting when because you know, not every team is gonna be like our championship team
You know, some years back and everything and even sometimes teams are not as competitive it might seem
But every year the announcing team that we have knock it out the park great announcers every year and
this year and he is
We've had I don't want to take anything from any of the announcers we have had
But I don't know that I've heard one so polished
He really does sound like he has come off of the diamond of an ML calling an MLB game or something like that
While I can also tell that you know, he's still getting some bearings and getting some reps and he sounds so polished a
Classic voice like one of those old-school kind of radio voices
But everything he's saying is very modern very, you know now and all that it's it's a really cool combination that he has
A lot of love a lot of fun listening to him. I really loving it
It only adds to being able to keep up to things with our rafters
I haven't a voice like that to carry things along
One of the other things is certainly is fun and helps in the audience loves is our
Promotional things that our rafters do you guys do some amazing things and one of them Randy and I have right in front of us
We have these rafter bats that you guys handed out a little while ago
How did that go Tyler and where did this guy do you come from? Yeah, no, that's I'm gonna play with my bat while you're talking of course
Of course, so no you shout out to Solaris a big corporate sponsor of ours
Huge supporter of the rafters
We kind of do a giveaway with them every year and they're ones that like to do something that's really baseball themed
They like to really try to connect and so last year they did some cancuzzies
And this year I was like, you know what we need something that the kids can get autographed that
Something that they'll hold you know on put it on their shelf and and put it up a way where again
I love I'm a coosie collector and got a ton of them in my drawer at home
But this this can be seen you can put it up again get some autographs on it and makes it kind of unique
So we gave these out on
Losing track of my days here
During the home stand Thursday Thursday night. We gave out those mini bats and yeah
No, we've got a jam packed promotional schedule. We've got a rally towel coming up this weekend
So another good giveaway to hang up on the wall or put up on the shelf
So no, it's always a fun time coming up with some of these ideas working with the corporate sponsors on what they're looking for
What we kind of feel like would be good for our fans and just a baseball in general and they turned out really cool
So yeah, no figured I'd bring some bring some gifts for you guys incredibly
Yeah, very nice if you're very nice
We're gonna put it up there right with our Raptor Jersey and some other stuff with these with these
Do you guys get together?
Is it something that you get together a couple times during the summer or during the winter even to go and go over this stuff?
Is it you you make notes throughout the year like oh this is a good idea?
I want to come back to this or that
So we usually you we like we've sold mini bats in the in the store before and that was kind of where the idea came
Is the last year and a half we haven't had any because we just ran out and so it was it kind of stems from that usually
It's same thing with the kuzis before it was like okay kuzis always fly off the shelf
So they would be a good mask giveaway item same thing like with hats hats are a great mask giveaway item
So so when you think of that back kind of thing again, that's the cool part is this stuff
It's it's I had these ordered by jay-n-u-rry
They're ordered I mean they're they're ready to go. So no, it's lots of fall meetings
Sitting down with the corporate sponsors and figuring out what we're kind of going to do for the for the upcoming promotional schedule and everything's lined up
We just don't make it public until that April time
I get a gift for my kids and I have to do it like the weeks beforehand otherwise
I'm gonna I'm gonna spill the beans and I'm gonna give it to him right away
I couldn't imagine having these things just sit there in the light just waiting to give them the fans
That that's got to be pretty cool and it's very cool to you to bring this by man. Thank you for that. No, you're welcome
Always appreciate the time for me as we're wrapping up letting you go
I want to talk about some of the highlights so far in an early season, but
Already some great wins some exciting games even uh the other night even with the the game not going our way
Coming right down to the last batter and of all the batters we could have a go to an interesting one in this young man max
Yeah, no, and first just want to say like yeah those these one-run games
It's it's it just shows the fight that this team has and I think I'm not going to speak for our field manager
Kirk Shredder, but I think he would say the same thing that that's what he looks to build
He looks to build these this teams that they're not going to give up in the late games again
You down two to three runs that's nothing in a league like this again
You're gonna face a bullpen pitcher and you may be able to get a hit off of them and so uh that that never give up mentality is
Again, I think speaks true to this whole town. It's what this it's what we're about the rafters are about
And I think that's these first six games have spoke true to that again being 500
But the losses are close losses other than the one in wasa but still put up 10 runs
So you the most nights that'll get it done
And so no, I think the fight is a huge part
But yeah speaking of our of our early season first week MVP
I think we're going to go ahead and give that to Max Maguire
And I think if you want to google the last name that'll that'll do
Speak of itself, but
Again, funny story that I shared kind of right as it happened is I got introduced to him. He got off the plane at
About he got into my office at about 515
For a 630 game
flew into CWA got picked up by his host family
Immediately still had his suitcase on in in his hand and was like could you show me the locker room and I was like
Yes, sir, come on right this way, you know and showed him got him introduced to everybody got him a jersey
Again didn't even know the guy's name too is going to be throwing to or playing catch with or anything
Hits a grand slam in his second half at
It just made made the fireworks right off the bat for the season
So he's batting 412 in 17 at bats already for the season 5 RBI's
Is is really the player to watch so far from university of San Diego and obviously the legendary
MLB player Mark Maguire's son is this who that is so again early early on the guy to watch
For sure for the team I had playing first base in some outfield for us this season
But when you look at these kids or these these young men. I should say
He's built he's built like an MLB player
You can tell some of these guys that are walking through the locker room. You're like okay
Yeah, that guy's built to play baseball just the just the way he's built as as brewer fans will note as a socks fan
I have nothing nothing to look forward to this season at all
So I'm all about the in the MLB draft and thinking of the pet them having a top pick or something like that
I've already made up my mind of who I want the white socks to draft
I want I want I'm already in my head envisioning a maguire on the back of a socks jersey
I've already done it. It's it's already in my etched in my braid and it's because of his play this season like I
I've really enjoyed not only that but his approach and hearing that backstory just makes it even more amazing
It's crazy. It reminds me of Bobo a couple years ago. I mean when he said when he for he they picked him up
The bus picked him up in Milwaukee after the team already got dropped off at this lake short stadium
And so the bus solo the bus driver he's amazing and he he was like oh, I'll go pick him up at the Milwaukee airport
So picks him up
Makes it by the time the game starts so they get him a jersey and he hits two home runs in that night
We're like okay. This kid's going to be special again two years later
We're giving him a you know giving him a plaque for our home run leader franchise home run leaders
So again, I similar similar thing when it when it happened that I was like okay
This is this is a special kid coming to rapids. It's a side note shout out to the all the the drivers out there
To get these kids back and forth in the in the played all the flagd attendance everybody that make that happen
Almost unseen behind the scenes type of guys, right? Yeah, the host families
I mean, I'm telling you guys these these host families have been driving all around all weekend picking these players up from the from the airports and especially being in central Wisconsin
It's not like there's an airport five minutes away. So flying into CWA
I mean the the host families drive the 40 minutes to go pick them up in the 40 minutes back and and really take care of them and make sure
They're here on time and ready to play so no there's there's a lot of a lot happening
But sign the scenes to make sure these guys are ready to go for for being on the field and I think one of the cool parts is
I know a number of the host families and they say they've got relationships with these guys five six years later yet
Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, it speaks to not only the way we care about this team the way we feel about them
But the kind of players that the raptors bring into this community that we always note and always appreciate similar to the river
Kings we always have good kids come into this town
And we appreciate that that's and there's a lot of data to that
There's been a lot of years of this going on with that happening
It also speaks to that story that you that's gonna stay with me man because not only at we all understand and that these guys sign up for this
That this is the job and this is what you do and especially a kid like this who grew up
You know with in baseball and understanding it from his dad and all that but at the same time as a dad
You know you mentioned Mark and it gets me thinking about that and everything and I if this is my kid and stuff and they're traveling all over
And I I've been to more I've been to Wisconsin to play the brewers
That's you know time my family's been to Wisconsin or something like that and he's traveling to this state and all those things
It only I only makes us back these kids even more it only makes us care about him even more
We're already homers. We're already gonna be rooting for about everything
But it's those little stories those little things we learn especially in baseball
But particularly in sports that make you really appreciate what we have on the diamond winner lose
Which you that that's that's an amazing thing to be able to have during a season
No, especially in a baseball season like this a little bit later Randy and I are gonna touch on a segment idea that I have
I want to do um
Something to kind of honor bill Walton a little bit. I want to have a good sports story every show every show
I want a good sports story and it'll be the bill Walton segment. It'll be a big wall story right now
We've got we got one in this kid right there. I mean he's just him being here and the in the way he got here
And everything is pretty cool. Thank you for that Tyler
It always appreciate the time
As we're wrapping up is there anything you want to touch on?
Yeah, no, no, and I think again, I truly is I think the one thing that I that I like to mention especially for the first two weeks of the season
Is a lot of these guys are truly on a temporary contract
So we still got guys in the in the NCAA regionals right now
We've got two guys playing for Virginia a third one that just got signed actually
From Virginia that's coming we've got a couple other kids still finishing up some of their D2 D3
Regions and and championships and some of that so some of these guys that the sacrifice that they're making or just the willingness to sacrifice
At there's a kid that drove from Texas and and slept
You know in a hotel halfway through and made it up and and was ready to go for opening day
And and he's on a temporary contract. He's looking to play
I mean these kids want to play baseball and that's when I talk with him
It's just so amazing to hear why they're here how they got here
And the drive they have in them to continue to play baseball. So no, it's an amazing story when looking at the guys
Personally the players themselves. We've got the rafters in action tonight. Be sure to catch it
635 our game will be kicking off. I will be taking on Lakeshore and over there at Capco Park in
Monacoa
It's where the game be going on tonight
Looking forward to that and looking forward to hopefully another win like yesterday. I was nice win last one
That was a very good one
Always good talk with you man. Thanks so much for the time. No, thanks guys. I appreciate it
Randy and I'll be back with more playmakers here at WFHR where we are locally grown radio
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Randy we have these cool new bats. That's awesome
I just want to talk about those for the whole hour. I just uh, I thought it was kind of cool and just before we went back on the air
You said I am that man. Yeah, I can't help it. I'm gonna I'm gonna drive everybody crazy around here with that
We want to open up the phone lines four two four twenty six hundred is the number call up and join the conversation
Like this guest right here. Good afternoon. How are you doing?
Good morning James. How are you feeling?
Ah doing all right doing all right. I feel it feeling
I'm not sure. I'm never sure what day it is. I'm never sure what day it is
That's why that's why they put dates on my laptops and ever that's the only reason why I know is what day it is
How's it going with you today?
Oh, I don't think I'm gonna say it. Tommy fan
What's up with that? Oh, man. Oh, man. How did you hear any of the takes that he after the game that he was giving?
You know, he was the interview him after the game. Yeah, it was like every other word out of his mouth
They had to believe because he was just going off and he's a fighter. He's gonna
Fight anybody he wants to fight and the third base coach doesn't know what he's doing
It's just like holy cow
Yeah, you know that that there's no machismo in that there's no
There's no smart search or toughguiness in that. I don't know anybody other than him who looks at that as tough guy behavior
Or looking out for your teammates or anything like that that it's the exact opposite of that to me
You look insecure as it gets you look like somebody who is not confident at all
Who has to go like swing it and anything or are losing losing their cool off of it
You're paid millions of dollars to keep your cool and when he like lights into
The catcher the catcher doesn't move. Yeah, I mean, it's like what is he talking about? Yeah, yeah
Yeah, it's it's now one of the things that I thought was interesting with now that situation is pretty I think cut and dry
The Metz player what happened with him the other week with thought was interesting where he throws his glove
And he's obviously very upset and then afterwards
They're interviewing him and they're talking to him and keeping in mind that English is not his first language
And he says that oh, we're the worst team and he said something like that and he gets cut the next day
Where it turns out that there was a miss the reporter misunderstood the translation wasn't made what are his his English
He didn't translate to English well and then the reporters that were putting in articles in New York
Translated horribly and just what he was trying to say is he was being the worst teammate
He was trying to be by losing his cool and everything he was actually having some accountability
But it because of the language barrier. It didn't come across
Now, you know, he I don't know if he was gonna get he was probably gonna get cut or at least brought down to the miners
Or something anyway. We'll see what happens with him
But this is the this is what happens when you put microphones in front of people's faces like minutes after it always
One of the weirdest interviews you'll ever hear is a winning boxer
After a match and the things that will come out of their mouth and the things they will say because their brain has just been
Bomba, you know jumbled all over the place and everything
I mean let alone when you have the adrenaline rush going after a game
We know what that's like when we just shoot a basketball into a you know into a garbage bin
Let alone when they're doing it's
I'm not okaying any of this you still again or paid millions of dollars to keep your cool like thousands of people have an
Interviews and everything before and during games. There's plenty of people that have some similar situations
And what happened to fam there and handle it a lot better handle it professionally
And there's got to be better things to talk about too. We only have an hour
It's got to be some better things. I what it uh are I have a little bit later
I have something that I want to get into with you guys in in the audience because I want to get people excited about the playoffs going on and hockey and basketball
But I have a curveball for our audience and especially for Randy
um
We have heard uh
We have had conversations with many of our guests and I even had a guest on last week um from rams the athletic director from rams
We were talking on air and off air about the the need for our good referees and for referees for umpires for all of our games
Whether we're talking baseball basketball football whatever it might be
We also since all of us are pretty much of the age where pretty much since we were kids
We've been hearing about robot umpires
See where I'm going with this see what I'm doing here
Uh, if major league baseball really does want to see if robot umpires could work in in sports
I think you should be doing this at the high school level. I think we should be having this over there
Where it is really could really be truly used a lot more where there are games that aren't being able to be played
Because we don't have individuals to be umpires similar to basketball referees and everything now
You know how you're gonna have a robot umpire or rough robot referee in basketball or something
We'll figure it out science. Uh, this is my gig. I'm just giving you the idea um, but it it it is far fetch as it gets it is uh
Asmorph science fiction and everything
But tell me I'm not there isn't something there
Tell me it is so uh as such a crazy idea that it could never happen because that I don't believe
I think that we're closer to that that we might think and we might be that closer because we might have to be
You're not going to get high school uh it nobody's going to lose high school athletics
We will do what we have to to keep high school athletics if this is one of the things we have to do
I think it's something worth thinking about
Yeah, I think you know right now about the only thing they could do as far as I can see would be like calling balls and strikes for baseball softball
But you still need somebody behind the plate because
There's follow balls. There's fair balls. There's plays at the plate um drones. Yeah, I'm too. I'm kidding. Okay
Now now I'm joking. Yeah, I'm joking
But there's you know and the thing could malfunction. Um, I don't know. It's still I just don't think that
I can't think of anything else that uh that uh
Could be taken over. Oh, yeah, yeah at this point. Um, yes
And it still need a person there. I still need people. You're still gonna need bodies. You're always gonna need bodies
But we if we can have one less body because of something like this
I will hear here's the other part of this too. I'm not looking at high schools paying for this
This is all major league baseball uh funding all of this and again not that far fetch
One of the smartest things that the NHL did in recent years was seeing the need for younger players in the in America
Well, hockey's an expensive sport. How do we do this? Let's go to some of these urban neighborhoods
Let's go to some of these places and we're gonna build a rink. We're gonna build a rink. We're gonna give kids equipment go on
It's one of the greater smarter investments. You can make if you are at in charge of this if you know sports
If you're in charge of hockey or basketball or any of these sports
Baseball's done a similar thing where they have been going around the country and around the world really um helping build parks
Do something like this have your big MLB stamp right on that umpire like
We've already done this with uh with other sports with with other things where we're incorporating the major level the pro level along with the young with the young level and the training level
I'm not trying to get these kids to grow up older
I'm not trying to get them to be professional athletes sooner. I'm trying to get these games played
And if I can't count on people to be there and to fill that fill the job
We've got to get somebody to do these jobs because I don't want to see us lose high school athletics
So I feel like that there's something there especially for major league baseball and you're looking at
What is a what PR move that could be for them look what we're doing for the high school game
Look how we're i mean if that gets 20 kids to want to play baseball you've already got your investment made
Because that's the thing of this too when we're talking about some of these fringe not fringe sports
But sports that are not as popular as they used to be like hockey like baseball
You're not seeing the American athletes going into baseball like you used to
You're not seeing even Canadian athletes going to hockey like you used to
So how do we get this back? How do we get that going again?
This is one of the ways that you do that
I'm not saying the robot umpire thing
I'm saying investing in the youth and showing that you're investing in the youth like building a ballpark or something like that
Man, I know I threw a curveball when it is dead silent and the phone lines aren't even rigging that is that's telling you
So either that or did I kick us off the air did I know that?
What's our caller thing? Yeah, well, I mean the 424 2600, but I kept you there
I thought I thought he left. I thought he hung up. I thought we either well
I think I hung up there. I didn't know I was gonna go do him a couple of times and then I heard no noise or anything
I figured he wasn't there
Randy one of that we're gonna go to break here when we come back
I want to get into our high school coverage lots of it
Yeah, lots of cover and a lot of things coming up too
We including some exciting softball action going on for our assumption royals
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Welcome back everyone to WFHR's playmakers probably brought you by quality plus printing getting your words out here in Wisconsin rapids
Randy and James here with you and before we get to our local coverage Randy going to take a phone call real quick good afternoon
You're back on the air
Yeah, I'm back. This is
Been pretty rough today with a cell cover deal with the weather. It's been really
Yeah
When you were in Iowa we were just talking about
Everything that went out with the lights. I got a guy. Yeah, I got brought out from me
But yeah, the reason why I called and this is great to have Randy on this but it was too bad stuff with it and on this tool
Um, I get I listen
After the morning show I listen to a talk show radio sports talk show
You know kind of warm me up for the greatest talk show here
And wait a minute
Checks in the mail brother checks in the mail there's a lot of there's a lot of people that do not believe
That the brewers are the brewers. Okay, they should they shouldn't be where they should be and they won't make the playoffs
They won't do this they're not going to do all this other stuff
Because they can't sustain what's going on
But it to me, you know, they're like all the brewer schedules been easy and all this stuff and they haven't played anybody yet
They're only one game under five hundred playing against the top teeth. Yeah
Okay, um, but if you look at all their offense from categories
They are
I believe I believe that their number they're like in a top
10 or top five on a lot of categories. Oh, it almost especially when it comes to uh runs
Maybe look at almost any stat statistic with runs for the brewers right now with runners in scoring position
You have you have guys on base
They outside of if you have three runners on base
They are the number one in the league at it. I heard the stat earlier today uh that that that's the case
Now the unfortunate part is when they have three
Matters on their dead last in the league uh with that with the opportunity for grand slams
But but that that really is here or there
It's the fact that they are bringing in the runs that they are finding ways to score
They're finding ways to get guys around base. Well, I think what's also interesting is you know
You got exonings and on the 10th inning you start with a runner-on second and in every inning after that as well
But I always find interesting with the brewers this year. It seems like every single is actually a double
Mm-hmm because they just you just know they're gonna swipe the base. Yeah. Yeah
It's um, I think that part of this uh with the fan base or part of this uh because I'm not even talking about the talking heads
Yeah, the mouse network or anything like that. I mean I'm hearing a similar thing from brewer fans too
Um when I talk about them because I'm I'm living vicariously through the brewers and all the brewer fans out there
That's what I've been doing for years uh as a socks fan and I pay close attention and to me
This is an exciting team. It's an exciting time for this team and and with some exciting young players
But I have heard uh. Oh, I don't know or oh, I don't trust this or I don't trust that and I feel like a lot of it when I ask them
Is it is it because council's not there and I don't mean because I create council who he is or what he was
It's what he represented long uh consistency
You every year you knew he was there every year. He built up a some kind of
Respect along with kind of just understanding of well. This is a guy that gets things done
This is a guy who gets us wins. This is a guy who we encounter
Pam Murphy's been well known by fan base if you've been paying attention
You certainly know who um a pad is and everything
But I don't know that in your a subconsciously that that you have that trust in him that that's been built up
It's his first year. There's a lot of players out there
There's a lot of new young talent out there and it's early in baseball season
I mean listen to New York radio for five seconds
How they're feeling about the Yankees or or god how they're feeling about the Metz
I you know the sky is falling on both ends like even when the Yankees win the sky is falling even when they
When they lose it's it's already down. It's you know
I I think I wonder how much the fan bases are you know
For everybody is like that is is especially and it's a long season when you've got so many games to play third of the way through right
But you're a believer
Oh, I am definitely a believer especially in Pat Murphy because just of what he's done and
What 60-some games that they played or
That
I've been and I was hoping to get it done before this week and I get it
Because I was kind of wanting to look back and on craze with coaching the first you know
I see you try to get the stats from the first
60 games on where the Brewers rack up there to what
Murph has done is that but I truly believed that he's so
He's not that far removed out of the college team
And believe guys that are playing baseball
Are playing in the majors are not that far removed from the college game
And he doesn't rely on those analytics as much as what Craig does
Craig was an analytical guy he relied on the analytics wait to me personally way too much
I love small ball. I always love small ball. I think we've talked about it. I don't know how it comes out
Yeah, I'm this on the show and how much I like the small balls because
Like what your Andy said you get it single it turns into double look at the on base percentage of the the Brewers Academy this year
They're taking walks what happens when they get out you know
Like when brought up pay it being really can go for all for two but have two stolen bases. Right. Yeah
I
I'm a gigantic fan of small ball and I'm a big fan of stolen bases
And without without without that I don't think that you have some of the most exciting things in baseball history
You know without either of those things let alone in today's in today's game where you've got
I think we're starting to see slowly a bit of a change of strike out or hit a home run
We're starting to see a little bit less of that and we're starting to see a bit more of the consistency of hey
I just got to get the ball and play how many times haven't we said start of the 10th inning the first guy should be
Bunting every time get him to third base. Yeah, right. Yeah, and you got a fly ball and you're winning the game or
Ground out to the right side. Yep. Hey, oh, it's good to talk to you, Kevin. Thank you. Thank you
time, man
All right, you guys have a great week and we'll chat next week sounds good. Look forward to it. Look forward to it
Randy, you've got some great local stuff for us. Well, it has been a busy high school week this past week
We'll start off in girls high school softball action where the sectional finals were held last week
And the winners head down to Madison this Thursday through Saturday
We'll start off first in the vision five where the assumption royals will be making their third straight appearance and eighth overall
As they crushed Hillsboro 10 to zip in six innings
Macy Valert surrendered only five hits while striking out 11
Well at the place. She went three for four including a home run
And Ari Kavanaugh also had a roundtripper plus four RBI's
So the royals will play at eight a.m. Friday morning at Goodman Diamond against Pechelli
With assumption beat back on April 20th three to one and I just had a little
Conversation via text with Michael and he's hoping to get down there so that he can broadcast it for us all right
Seth back here at our studios on our sister station FM 105.5 WIRI
The winner of that game will face either top ranked Oakfield or unranked four ponserate
Morning also at eight o'clock for the D five championship
From division four Auburn Dale shut out Aliva strummed two to nothing as they will now face number two seed cuba city
At 6.30 p.m. on Thursday
The winner will get number one fall Creek or unranked Coleman
In division three the only area team that remained was Adam's friendship and the green devils got beat by second ranked broadhead
two to nothing from division two top ranked Mosenee punched their ticket to state with a one to nothing victory over rice lake
Mosenee takes on lake mills at two thirty Friday afternoon with the winner facing either new burlin eisenhower or wapan
And in division one no area teams are headed to state as Wisconsin rapids fell in the regional finals
Nine to nothing two chai high for the boys the sectional semis and finals will be held tomorrow whether permitting
Looking at some of our local area teams that will be in action first in division one Steven's point will square off against unranked
Oclair north from division two top ranked Mosenee faces number three green bay Notre Dame while Medford and Merrill will do battle
In division three Auburndale takes on fifth ranked bond to well
And a host of teams in division four as second ranked pittsville goes against to leave a strum
Pichelli plays a co-op team from door county. That's Gibraltar and Washington island and Edgar will face rib lake
The regional finals were held this past Saturday for girls soccer
In division one Wisconsin rapids was blanked at Hudson two to nothing while DC Everest picked up a home win overall clear memorial two to one
From division two river falls top Med Marshfield one to nil while in division three Ashland whipped wapaka four to one
And in division four assumption faced Adams friendship for the third time this season
And the royals were tied with the green devils five five at the end of regulation
Then after both teams went scoreless in the first two overtime periods
Adam's friendship prevailed four to one in the shootout. They'll take on River Valley on Thursday
This fast Friday and Saturday the boys and girls state trek and field championships were also held over in lacrosse
For the boys in division one arrowhead on Alaska and West appear took the top three spots
division two saw lakeside Lutheran
Somerset and Aseola finish one two and three while in division three it was three local teams capturing the top three positions
I scan grab the crown followed by Stratford and edger for assumption the four by one hundred meter relay team of
Owen Hagen Joseph Johnson Mason Kubis and Manny Schultz finished in eighth place and
Accusa's Jeremiah die also grabbed eighth place in the long jump
next for the girls in division one arrowhead also captured first place followed by homestead and Verona area
Well, Steven's point finished in twelfth position
In division two freedom and rice lake tied for the championship and Green Bay Notre Dame was third and in division three
It was a deer field Cameron and Phenomore in the top three slots while Pacheli was seventh and assumption finished tenth for the royals
Bella Thomas had quite a day
She finished in first place in both the one hundred and two hundred meter dashes and also took ninth in the four hundred meter dash
Also assumptions Brooklyn Shaneic grabbed the twelfth slot in the sixteen hundred meter run and finally pit spills
Rescrime finished eighth in the four hundred meter dash and that's all that took place this past weekend
That's it. That's all. That's it. It's a great deal. Six pages worth of info man
That is incredible. Nice. Nice work as always brother. I really appreciate the great work you put into that
And the great coverage you get us the information you get us through that what a week what a week
Amazing busy as high school weeks of the year. I like to
You know sandwich this Randy your great stats right there with a stat of the show
stat of the show and we're in baseball season so I like to get to
Some of baseball stats and one of my favorite hitters of all time my best friends favorite player of all time Tony Gwyn
Good one right here. I think maybe one of the more common ones
But if you had not heard
Tony Gwyn had more four hit games than multi-strike out games in his career
That is incredible like my far right away had more four hit games than games where he had more than one strikeout
That's amazing. It's incredible. It's an incredible stat makes me think a rock crew
You know, he's made contact. Yeah, you could always count on that. Yeah
Yeah, I'd like to think that we're gonna see a little bit more of that. I'm hoping
And speaking of stats we have to touch on the addition of the Negro League
Being records that took place three and a half years after major league baseball announced
In 2020 that it would have elevated major leagues statistics two M.O.Bs official record books
That has really really been fun to see and very cool to see
I think it's also spoke to um
A lot of how well, you know, I think for a lot of people wondering why this wasn't done sooner
Certainly, I think that needs to be said
You can have two things go be true at the same time
It's really cool that this is happening and then we're at a time in age where it is and at the same time
Hey, you know, you could have done this a while ago at everything
That being said, I think it also speaks to our relationship with numbers in baseball
Where I ask, you know, my brother or his generation and stuff
Hey, give me give me the top five home run hitters of all time and give me the number the number of the home runs
They hit and like our generations knew these numbers and more and more of the younger generations
I'm not saying they don't love the game like we do. They're not tied to the numbers like we are
Uh, and I find that part interesting too to hear how there's a lot of people talking about all time hits leader
And and these things were at the same time not really knowing the numbers and
Not really having a real care for the numbers like we used to where it was such an enjoyable part of being a baseball fan
How many consecutive games the cal have in a row like these numbers that we just knew off the top of our head
I mean, we did not talk about this ahead time
But we were talking about this yesterday during the brewers broadcast because they said that a domicent cherish was both said
Oh yesterday and they went to the manager and said, you know, we're playing you know
Because they have this streak of like 60 games consecutive played together. Yeah, one of the longest streaks of the brewers
Have ever had there just a couple behind the leaders and it I said to my
grandchildren who said they're now just think you know, they got 60 games together. Okay, that was it
but go back to
Mr. Ripken, right?
Calder, Benjoone
2130 surpasses, right? Yeah, I don't remember the exact number you finished up with
But I want to say 2,300 something 335 I think it's pretty close to there and it's just like
And and my wife looks at me and goes so did he just stop or did something happen to him?
I said he finally just said it was time to stop. Yeah, yeah, you know, just you talk about going to work every day, right? Yeah
Yeah, and it's not they were just talking about that not letting your teammates down and showing out to be a leader just playing on
It's one thing if you're injured, but he played through injuries obviously
You don't play that many games without being injured now nothing major obviously otherwise you can't play still
You're right playing hurt. Yeah, well, and I don't think enough is said about well, what what ended his streak?
Oh an injury. No, it was Cal saying. Yeah, I can't bring it anymore
I don't I don't have it anymore. It's not fair to me. It's hurting the team
So I'm I'm good the and he kept playing a little longer. Oh, yeah, he started the new streak
Yeah, who did last is a lot when he started the new streak and everything like I
Cal Ripken like that whenever we broke it
That's second one
The look into that we will do we will do that
Well come back and I want to get into two big things one
I want to talk the NHL and NBA playoffs and not necessarily to all of our diehard friends and fans out there and everything
I want to talk to you you fringe fans out there you people that are looking for something to do
Maybe want to watch some sports or something like that
I want to speak to you when we come back on playmakers
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Come on come all to the NHL and NBA playoffs
Let me interest all of you casual fans out there and some exciting teams with some exciting players
Let's look at the NHL where we have arguably the greatest player in hockey coming to town coming to well not our town
But coming to Florida as we have the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Euler's facing off and you have Connor McDavid
Arguably the greatest player in hockey one of the greatest players of all time already in his career in his first Stanley Cup
Also Canada in the first Stanley Cup that they've been in the for quite some time Canada has not won a Stanley Cup in decades
This is the first opportunity and maybe the greatest opportunity they have had in maybe 30 some years
It's kind of exciting if you if you're a casual sports fan you're looking for storylines
These are some of the things that might interest you might bring you in I take you back to the great one in this days
In that jersey. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of be kind of cool to see where you have a whole country
Backing something and with that you know us Americans if Canada is going to back 13
We're going to back ours. You got the Florida Panthers one of the original cool teams
They're good team though. They're great team right in all seriousness. This is this is guy got to think the the the Florida Panthers have been around
30 35 30 years. They were discovered by Juan Poncell
Yeah, I'm pretty sure yeah, I'm pretty sure that's accurate. Oh, we um they have this is the best team
They've ever had in their franchise history by far
They are so deep and it is such a solid team and a grind it out team
If you don't come out of these games just looking at the box scores know that whatever goals Edmonton scores they earned them
You know, we always talk about fun stats. How about this for a fun stat both teams one game six two to one and one the series four to two
It's crazy. You don't see that. No, you also it's it's rare
Nowadays it seems like where we get the best player in the sport in the championship game in the final games
Having Connor McDavid in there along with his partner and crime dry side
Oh, that is going to be a wicked combination and don't forget again America. I got your back
I'm I'm the biggest homer of all Keith Kachuck is over in in Florida who I think is maybe the greatest American player
Austin Matthews him. It's neck and neck most times
But Kachuck is one of those chucks fun who he is and he is a playoff player man. I mean he is built for this
It's so much fun
If you're an average hockey fan encourage you to check out this series because I don't think we could have asked for two more exciting story lines
Then what's going on with Florida and midton in these players and there is something special about NHL playoffs
I don't know you did it red you read it right yeah, and that's the fun the finals come on. Oh, yeah, yeah
Yeah, it's I think that even I've heard even football players say this
It's the hardest trophy to win in sports the Stanley Cup
Not only that, but you talk about a true legacy. Your name is literally etched on the cup
Like it's there eternally. It's always going to be there. There's no getting that off of there
I mean it's such a legacy to be able to build and if you're Conor McDavid
This is it. This is what everything is built on at this this generation. It is all about winning
You can't be considered the greatest if you if you haven't one more than once let alone just winning one
You got to win that first one
This is his opportunity and then Florida who was there last year in the Stanley Cup finals
There's not a hunger your team and then and NHL then this Florida team and they've proven it the the
amazing run that they have had here where they beat up Tampa Bay the team that has been their boogie man for so many years and and bid their
Really really the the team that they've had to worry about over these years too
They beat them they go in Boston and beat Boston in the Boston market
They beat New York in the New York market which everybody else in the country smiled about right right and now they got to take
I can't the whole country
It's pretty exciting. That's pretty cool and of course the NBA playoffs are going on
For those who did not hear you've got the Dallas Mavers going up against the Boston Celtics
I don't have to explain if you even a casual basketball fan the history of the Boston Celtics
And and I don't mean just winning championships, but how the fan base can be sometimes
And it's some of the players that they tend to enjoy and like and everything
Well on the other side of the ring of the ring. I don't know the arena. I mean you have
Lucodon chick. Yes, who you can make the argument as the greatest player in the world
And if not the greatest player he is right behind Nikola Jokic or Yannis at the Kupo or one of these guys top five probably
Top five at the very least top five definitely you're starting an NBA team and you get offered Lucodon chick
You're gonna take him. I mean unless you're the Atlanta Hawks and you trade him for trade young
But Luke and Kyrie 35 points a piece in that final game. I mean you you have a guy here who is not only
Playing great basketball, but he is locked in he wants this. It's it's being pretty any slat. He's smiling
He's enjoying himself. He's having fun out there. I couldn't believe when I turned on that game six the other night
And there's like what there's game five what it's like it was like 35 to 12
Yeah, and it was in Minnesota. It's like this can't be going on if if you I guarantee I would put everything I have on this
If you asked every Boston Celtic fan with a lie detector and asked him you could have any player in the NBA
Lucodon chick would be the number one player that they would want easily easily
I believe that about that a shadow of a doubt for a lot of reasons
But I have no doubt of that and so going up against him
I think is going to be pretty exciting in the Boston when those games in Boston in particular
The redemption tour the Kyrie Irving is on and and trying to prove that he is not just a one-note player
That he doesn't just have one play in his career and that he played with Boston, right?
Right. Yes, and him going back to Boston. Yes. That's another great storyline right there hard matchup with those two teams
And in this Boston team you've got a team that for at least the last three seasons has been talked about
Hey, are they going to win it all this year?
Hey, are they going to win it all this year?
This year in particular where they have just been blowing out teams their their average wins are like
In the teens and in like 10 to 15 points or something like that
And that's in the regular season and the playoffs. It's been by like 15 to 20. They've been blowing teams out
So now granted this that means that it could be a quick series. It could be a sweep
But I don't think that's going to happen. I think you've got at least a five game series here
At the very least a five game series and I don't know which direction. I'm going with that. I really don't
I don't know what team I'm betting on because
I will say there's a couple things in sports that you know that you know to look for in love and hockey hot golly
Give me a hot goalie. Give me a goalie who was on the run. I don't care about his regular season
Is he hot now? Give me that goalie and in basketball it ain't that different
Give me a determined player and we've seen a guy like Alan Iverson be able to get his team all the way to the finals
And even win a game but really not be able to do much else we've seen that and that's that's what could happen here with Luca and Kyrie
But I don't think so. I think you could make an argument that that up to one through 12
Dallas has a deeper team than Boston does especially if porzingis isn't going to play
So there is a lot of storylines and a lot of different things going on here with this NBA finals
That I think are pretty exciting especially getting you to see one of the best players
If not the best player at in the final games. We'll just think of that backyard Tatum brown
Jew holiday from yeah, yeah, but maybe we can't we would be wrong if we didn't say Sam Houser from Steve
Gotta get Houser in there. Gotta get Houser in there. Yeah, you could be the difference maker. You really could be never know
I I think it's gonna be exciting and encourage all you casual fans to watch and enjoy and call up and let us know what you think about it
Call up and let us know what you what your feelings are all every Monday
We'll be here and and more coming forward coming up because we're gonna be taking over your afternoons a little bit more here and playmakers
I would say at the end of the month
We are going to be taking over the five to six slot
We will be joined by of course
Melissa on Tuesdays and Thursdays. She'll have her hours and we're gonna have some fun with this
We'll talk more about it than the morning show, but just throw it out there to you all and everything
Last week of the month is what we're looking at Monday Wednesday Friday playmakers from five to six
So we'll be live and direct for that too. We're not I'll be coming in to studio. I'll be doing it
Or Randy will probably busy to call a games or some side. I don't know how much I'll be able to get you on the air with me
But that that'll just give us an opportunity to talk to you maybe at on the at the field or at the game or something like that
It's gonna be a really exciting opportunity for our listeners for us to engage more with our local sports
Yeah, I'll take us back to those good those old days of football Friday night in the fun
We used to have different dep venues that we'd be at and give a little update and report and that's always kind of fun to do
I wanted to wrap up Randy
Doing something kind of fun. I think we we have our different stats and different things that we do on the show here
I want to do a a bill Walton good story of the sports day or sports world, you know, and what's going on in sports
We you know the mouse network usually leads with a bad story or some of these things
I want I want to make sure that we get good stories out there
I want to do this in honor of Bill Walton who I think was one of the most positive human beings in sports history
And a guy that just was very well loved and received and liked and so with that one
I want to first off shout out some some on Biles
Some on Biles one her ninth national title and gives the Olympic champs soon
Zindley a boost along the way
So that's good for our Olympic team
Going forward into the summer games and everything
It's only a couple weeks away. USA USA
And and in our main good story of the week is of course our assumption royals going back to some state and everything a third time in a row
That's pretty cool. That is great
We appreciate all of our our sponsors out there all of our great great throughout the whole season
That all the businesses out there that sponsor these games
To give us an opportunity to get them on the airways for you. We thank them
Want to thank of course these schools for letting us come on down and be able to enjoy these games
And of course you guys Randy Seth Mike you all the great coverage you guys bring us. I appreciate you
Yeah, it's a lot of fun to come with these kids
You get to be our first good story of the show of the segment here
You have to be a part of that. That's pretty cool
Uh as far as the games coming up where of course the home of your rafters and we got more rafter baseball on your radio down tonight
620 our pregame will kick off as the rafters are up and link short to take them on
Uh, and tomorrow day off
That first day off. Yeah, it's uh, I don't know about this. I got a shovel check with Tyler about this a day off
No, they they earn that they earned it. Uh, and that is pretty cool actually. Uh, they get them that day
Wednesday they'll be back in action in mad town
550 our pregame will kick off as the rafters are in Madison. Uh, that'll be a good one right there
And then on Thursday more rafters baseball staying in Madison for back-to-back games both of those 550 pregames on Thursday on
WRI 8 a.m. Assumption Friday Friday Friday. I'm sorry Friday on a
8 a.m. Assumption softball verse patchelli semi-finals of the state tournament
Uh, I had Thursday in my brain too because it starts Thursday, but they don't play Thursday. They play Friday
Day and times the flat circle. It really is
We got bats Randy. Well, Randy and I are going to go act like Star Wars characters with these bats
We'll be we'll try to hurt ourselves so we can get back here and not be on the dl next Monday
To do another playmakers. Thank you so much for joining us all you callers and a big thank you to quality plus printing
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