Mike Mahnke: “A Lucky Fan in the Press Box” (Hour 1)

From the Civic Media World Headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, it's the Todd Alba Show.

And now, pursuing truth wherever it may lead, here's your host, Todd

Alba.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Taddle ball along Mr. Aaron Zummers, our producer and engineer.

It is six minutes past the hour of two o'clock on this TGIF Friday, October 10th, 2025.

It is a great day to be a Wisconsinite.

Welcome in, everybody, on this Friday.

It is homecoming Friday here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison.

We are at the world headquarters of Civic Media Downtown Madison, the crossroads of State Street and Fairchild.

A few clouds in the sky.

A little rain moved through this part of Wisconsin earlier today.

But our weather forecasting team says that is gone.

Gonna be a great UW homecoming parade down on Langdon and parts of state later on this afternoon and into tonight.

If you're in the area, check it out.

Be aware of a few road closures in downtown Madison because of it.

But it's always a big family fun friendly event.

So University of Wisconsin marching band will be there.

So get down there and check that out big show today can't wait a lot going on and But the bottom of this hour somebody who I've really wanted to speak with for a long time Appreciate CP lining this up Mike Mankey University, Wisconsin Badger public address announcer if you bend to camp Randall For a football game you've heard him say things like first and ten Wisconsin

Ron Dane other iconic calls gonna be here in studio We love it when that happens could be sitting right beside me at a great conversation with Mike Mankey Badgers PA announcer just after the bottom of this hour that ain't coming up in our number two time Morrissey producer and star of No Packers no life and if you're watching on Facebook YouTube

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We got the poster right here beside me, courtesy of Sean Hannes, one of the other producers.

It's a great poster.

The Packers flag, the flag of Japan here, no Packers, no life.

The film is going to make its world debut.

It was a part of the film festival here in Madison last year, but making its world premiere commercially

at the Marcus Theater in Waukesha next Wednesday, a VIP event.

Tickets over a valued at $100.

By the way, it's still a few if you want to buy them, be assured of a seat that night on Wednesday at Waukesha reception from 5.30 until 6.30 and the film will start off right around seven.

A few tickets still remaining.

You can go to nopackersnolife.com.

to check it out, buy tickets there, or you can stick around to hour number two.

We're going to give you a trivia question and call in.

And we're going to give away two tickets to the VIP world premiere of No Packers, No Life, and hour number two in Time War, so he's going to be here and tell us more about the film.

Also, what's worse on this homecoming weekend?

Losing to Iowa, who they play tomorrow, the Badgers do, or losing to Minnesota.

How about that?

Zommer's a lot to get to today.

How you

doing?

Doing well.

And absolutely a lot to get to today, but very exciting.

And I can tell you, with those of you listening, that Todd has been very excited about this particular show for a while.

I just I love my and there's so much to Mike Mankey beyond and not that his voice is is not enough.

It's fantastic But I think you're really gonna enjoy hearing the story behind the voice behind the person So looking forward to having Mike here at the bottom of this hour, of course the crew the Brewers Came up a little short last night and a regular feel kind of surprised me

I said yesterday, I thought the crew could get it done in five games.

The Cubs won six, nothing.

And once again, it was the starting pitching of Milwaukee that got shook.

Freddie Peralta on the mound last night for the crew simply didn't get her done at three or four runs against him.

And then the brewers kind of settled in, but just couldn't manufacture any run.

They looked a little tight to me.

They look and give credit to the Cubs fans.

Wrigley Field was rocking.

I think they got the Brewers heads a little bit, but have no fear there was one game left.

The winner advances to the National Championship Series, National League Championship Series against the LA Dodgers who beat Philadelphia last night more on that weird game and how it ended last night.

We'll talk about that a little bit later in the show.

But it'll be either the Brewers or the Cubs against the LA Dodgers in the NLCS.

You'll hear the final game of the NLDS tomorrow night across many of these stations.

Starting at 630 with the pregame show, 7 0 8 for the first pitch from Ampham Field.

You can hear it on WRCE in Richland Center, WISS in Oshkosh, WCQM in Park Falls and WBZH in Hayward, Wisconsin.

630 pregame first pitch just after seven o'clock tomorrow night.

I think the crew is going to get it done.

I'm not just saying that.

I think they're going to they're going to bear down here and get it done.

Going to hear some cuts from last night's game in just a couple of minutes.

But I wanted to start with this.

Some news actually today.

And what we've been talking about this, this expansion of ice in major democratic cities.

meaning voting wise and their mayors or governors or Democrats.

Great story in the Milwaukee Journal said no, we didn't get to yesterday.

Perhaps we'll touch on it today.

The ice is expanding its footprint in Milwaukee.

But in Chicago, a judge for now has stopped ice from deploying throughout the city or not ice, but pardon me, the National Guard for deploying throughout the city, but ice is still there.

And so.

Nothing better to cut through the tension and make a point than with humor in my opinion and last night on Jimmy Kimmel live on ABC Democratic Illinois governor JB Pritzker Kimmel's having this thing where he does this sometimes hashtags on social media And so now Kimmel's latest one is show me your hellhole Hashtag show me your hellhole and he wants people to send in videos

You know, obviously, sarcastically with humor and like, how bad is it really in Chicago or Portland or Los Angeles?

And so Pritzker and or his team, whoever is brilliant, had Pritzker sending a video to Jimmy Kimmel.

He is in a fatigue.

Well, like a, like a, like a flak jacket, basically the ice wares, like he's protecting himself from gunfire or something.

And he is on a very calm and beautiful part of downtown Chicago.

And this is J.B.

Pritzker reporting about Warren Torn Chicago.

We also got a very special report filed by J.B.

Pritzker, the governor of Illinois.

This is J.B.

Pritzker reporting from War Torn Chicago.

As you can see, there's utter mayhem and chaos on the ground.

It's quite disturbing.

The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago pubs.

We've seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them.

And our deep dish pizza has gone shallow.

So it's a challenge to survive here in the city of Chicago, but there's no hellscape that I'd rather be in.

Well, thank you, Governor.

And please know that you and the Cubs are being our prayers.

So that's how you do it.

If you live in one of the war-ravaged communities the president has or is planning to occupy with troops, we want to see just how frightening it is.

So make a video, post it to YouTube with the hashtag, show me your hellhole, and look for a message from us so we can share your nightmare

with the world.

There you go, Jimmy Kimmel.

I thought that was really well done.

And credit Pritzker for taking a very serious situation, but making it a humorous way to get your point across.

I definitely agree.

And I think...

sometimes using humor in situations like that can come across as condescending, but this doesn't at all.

It's just funny and lighthearted.

Yeah, but the point is that Trump keeps saying that, well, y'all, I've got to send these National Guard people because, you know, it's terrible.

And as I said, my step-brother lives in Portland, Oregon.

He's been there.

He and his wife have lived there for over 10 years.

He's like, Todd, it's like a block, a block of some protests.

The city's not they had their marathon there, right?

Chicago they had the Cubs game last night the Brewers came But then the Cubs clearly defended themselves well against the invasion of the Brewers But we'll continue to follow this throughout the weekend and next week certainly on the more serious side of this see what happens if this judges ruling holds by holding back National Guard forces in in Chicago But the point is it's simply not needed

And somebody made the point this morning on radio or television that now you've got a couple of Republican governors, I think in Oklahoma, who are saying, look, this, you can't do this because we wouldn't want JB Pritzker to be sending Illinois National Guard troops to Oklahoma for something.

As Trig Vyolson, our friend from the Lincoln Project always says, stop and think.

If this were happening to you in reverse,

Would you be okay with it?

Other news today, I'm not seeing this talked about a lot and I want to make sure that we touch on it will expand more next week Lost in all the clutter there was a press conference in the late yesterday afternoon or this morning In which secretary of defense Pete Hegseth met with the Qatari government member Qatar who gave Donald Trump a four hundred million dollar plane

It is announced, well, I'll let Hank Seth do it.

Here is a stunning announcement about a foreign government being allowed to build a military base within the United States.

No one other than President Trump could have achieved the peace that we believe will be a lasting peace.

in Gaza, and Qatar played a substantial role from the beginning, working with our folks to ensure that came about.

So I want to thank you for that historic piece.

I look forward to joining the President as that gets – it's already been delivered, but as that's formally signed as well.

And I'm also proud that today we're announcing – we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Amiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho.

The location will be –

host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots to enhance our combined training, increased lethality, interoperability.

It's just another example of our partnership.

And I hope you know, Your Excellency, that you can count on us.

P.Takeseth

confirming that for the first time that I'm aware of, a foreign government will be allowed to build a military base on U.S.

soil.

Now this is this is concerning on a number of levels remember it was the Maga Republicans who went apoplectic Not only that they weren't very happy about it They went apoplectic when everyone Joe Biden was president and you had a balloon a balloon that passed over the United States and oh my goodness gracious Why didn't why didn't we shoot down this balloon from a foreign government?

People are spying on us.

Oh my gosh.

It was crazy

Here now, the same people that were up in arms about a balloon, passing over the United States, are allowing a foreign government, the Qatari government, to build a military flight base here on US soil, in Idaho.

Now, not exactly, in my opinion, quote unquote, America first.

When you think about what this does for the Qataris,

In terms of allow them to have intelligence For the Arab community in the Middle East What it allows them to do in terms of leverage for the US government?

We'll dig into this a little bit more for a couple minutes on the other side and I'll tell you the links

between the two governments.

Also, a couple of Packers, a party of Brewer's Cuts, and at the bottom of the hour, you're not gonna wanna miss it, Mike Mankey, the voice of the Badgers in terms of PA announcer, is gonna be here in studio.

It's the All Ball Show in Sepik Media.

wherever it may lead and having fun doing it.

Welcome back to the title of all show on the Civic Media Ready Network where it is now 22 minutes past the hour of two o'clock on this TGIF Friday, October 10th, 2025, homecoming weekend.

UW homecoming weekend here in Madison.

Got my motion W polo shirt on.

Cannot wait coming up after the bottom of the hour.

Farm news with the great Pam Yankee.

Another great Mike Mankey.

Gonna be sitting right beside me.

Badgers PA announcer the man behind the voice so stay tuned for that right now catching up on little news headlines talking about what little talked about I'm not sure why this isn't a bigger story, but Secretary of Defense Pete Hakeseth Announcing an agreement with the Qatari government by the way they happened to give me $400 million plane that for the first time in American history They're going to allow a foreign government to set up a military base in Idaho

US soil being claimed just like a joint venture or whatever I'm a little blown away here is a Matt and Richland Center listening on WRCE off the text line says quote if Obama or Biden had done that Fox News would be screaming Shira law is here the indoctrination has begun unquote I I said that

You know, there was a big deal when Biden was president about a balloon flying across, and now the same people who are up on arms about that seem to be fine with a military base on U.S.

soil.

Interesting to note that both Pam Bondi, Attorney General, and FBI Director Cash Patel took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Qatari government between the two Trump terms to quote-unquote lobby.

As my old professor at U of Plymouth, Jack O'Neill was fond of saying.

All comes down to that, the dollar sign.

855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

Let's go to the phone lines.

Charles, listening in Milwaukee on WAUK.

Charles, thanks for calling in.

Let's see.

This administration is, this is just crazy.

It's crazy.

Every day there's something crazy that comes out.

about this administration.

I mean, I'm not surprised it was the same way when he was in the first time.

But this is nuts.

Are we for sale to the highest bidder?

Well, here's the airplane that you give us this and we'll let you build a base here.

Here's the thing, get your quick opinion.

I want to do a Brewer's cut here before we get out of here, but give me your quick opinion, Charles.

Here's the thing.

I don't care who you vote for, Republican Democrat.

I'm a big fan of veterans.

Anybody who served this country is an American hero to me.

And I would think this would be disturbing to people who put the uniform on and stood guard and protected our freedoms to allow any, I don't care whether it's Canada or, you know, the UK, Japan.

I just don't believe we should be letting foreign governments have military bases on this country's soil.

Let's see.

No, we shouldn't.

It's a slap in the face to the military.

Men and women have served this country and the ones that died.

There's no way that should be allowed.

And like you said, this should be a way bigger story.

Yeah.

I mean, I get it.

They're flooding his own.

I can't think of the guy's name that said it, but...

They're flooding the zone, so things just go by the wayside.

Yeah.

There's

no way

this should be happening.

I appreciate the call, Charles.

Have a great weekend.

Watch some Brewers or Badgers.

We'll kind of mellow out, but we'll continue to follow us over the weekend and come back to it on Monday.

I want to play one Brewers clip here.

before the end of the hour again, the crew lost six to nothing last night.

The Cubs game five to Mario.

You can hear it across many of our civic media stations here in Richland Center on W R C E W I S S in Oshkosh W C Q M in Park Falls and W B Z H in Hayward.

Christian Yelich, the leader of the crew, put things in perspective.

Here's Yelich last night after the loss.

Kelly, we were here during that series in August where they won a couple in a row and you kind of said some things at that time about just staying calm and confident.

This is totally different because it's the postseason, but are there similarities to the message you gave them?

I

mean, there's no messages to say.

We got one game that you got to win.

So regroup tomorrow on the off day and be ready to go on Saturday, I think it is.

Is it deflating to find yourselves in this spot after being 2-0 and eating one?

It's part of the story, man.

Sometimes you have

to win some big games and you face adversity in the postseason.

We play well at our own field.

They took our business here and go back, get ready for Saturday and make sure we play well.

What does it mean to have that game at home as opposed to here?

Yeah, I mean, we love playing at home, so that's great.

What did Boyd do better today then?

Well,

he just made some good pitches.

I felt like my about second and third.

He just made some really good pitches.

The first pitch was kind of gone either way, I felt.

Then kind of just battled.

That two-two pitch just struck the ball sinker.

It was a really good pitch.

Sometimes you got to tip your hat.

He did a really good today.

How's that as

Christian Yelich for the Brewers leader in the clubhouse last night after the Cubs won six nothing to force of game five in Milwaukee pregame show six thirty first pitch just after seven o'clock of many of our civic media stations.

I love how calm Yelich is just.

Hey, it's what happens.

And I would simply say I'm watching I make the mistake going on social media.

Look, all these people are hating on the crew today.

Remember what Murphy said?

Nobody gave these guys a chance.

to even compete for the central let alone have the best record of the national league best record in baseball best away record in baseball competing for one the central division got the buy one game away from winning the nlds and gonna possibly face the Dodgers and the nlcs nobody gave them a chance for this they've already outperformed and i'll say it again the fact it's the who as mirth said

the who in that clubhouse.

That's why I love following.

So if you're salty today and irritated, get off the bandwagon.

What did Barry say?

Go boo in a bar.

Yeah.

Because he don't need that.

Have fun.

Live in the moment.

That's what athletics and sports is about.

We're going to talk to somebody who really knows about athletics.

Next, Mike Manki.

You've heard him say first in 10 Wisconsin.

He's going to be sitting right next to us on the other side.

Don't go to where Pam Yankee Midwest Farm Report is next.

You're listening to the all ball show across Wisconsin on the Civic Media radio

network.

the title will show on the civic media ready to work.

It is now 35 minutes past the hour of two o'clock of this Friday, TGIF October 10th, 2025.

Little Steely Dan for you.

Love it.

Fantastic.

Off the Spotify playlist of our next guest.

If you've ever been to a Badger sporting event in particular at Camp Randall Stadium, you've heard his voice.

But have you ever talked to the guy himself?

I have not until right now, Mike Mankey, the PA announcer for Badger Athletics, is here in studio.

Mike, thanks so much for taking the time to come in.

It is my pleasure, Todd.

I'm fired up and ready for tomorrow.

Homecoming always

gets

some special juices going.

For those that don't know, uh, listening across the state, it is homecoming week here in Madison.

I went to Plaffville because I did not have the academics to get into Madison, but both, both my God sons are, are, uh, graduates of UW Madison.

And, uh, I just, I, I bleed cardinal white.

I, uh, Greg guard was at Plaffville when I was there together.

Uh, he probably won't remember me anymore, but just we were talking about a little bit before, uh,

the last segment about the Brewers, Pat Murphy has said it's the who with the crew this year in the locker room.

Some of these guys are younger, they might not have the resume, but it's the who.

Have you found the same thing in all your years with Badger Athletics?

Some of the best teams, it's the who, isn't it?

It is, and you know, the who sometimes is more than one person, but it's, I think, reflective of a culture.

And, you know, I listened to your little sound bite a little bit ago about Kristen Yelich and the calm, cool, collected nature of, you know, they're facing a game five here.

And it is all about the who and how they embody the culture of any team.

And as far as Badger Sports go, you can go look at all your successful seasons.

And it's not just a great player.

It's like a captain.

It's someone who represents the team.

That is the

who.

Yeah.

Before we get into some of the athletics, give people, if you're willing, a little peep behind it.

Because I think we hear your voice.

Those of us that go to a lot of badger events.

And tell us a little bit about where you grew up and how you got into this gig.

So yeah, it's a circuitous route.

I can take you on a scenic route here.

So I grew up in Racine.

I graduated from Racine and Horlick High School and decided my senior year that I was going to join the Army.

So instead of coming right into college, that was my game plan initially.

My dad had been an Army vet.

My grandfather was in the Army.

I had uncles, you know, galore that were in the Army and Navy and Marine Corps.

And I decided, you know what?

This is going to be a path that I'm going to take.

It opened up.

Old GI Bill was still in place.

So I joined the Army, went for a three-year hitch, two of which were in Germany, came back and was a 21-year-old freshman at the University of Wisconsin.

And as one of those things where the GI Bill back then, I could go pretty much anywhere I wanted to.

I wanted to play baseball if I could in college.

I played in high school.

Baseball was my sport.

I played in Germany, played in California when I was stationed

out there,

and thought that maybe I could play some ball in college.

John, it didn't quite work out that way.

went four years, graduated in 84, and had more Army to do.

I was commissioned through ROTC here at the UW, Army ROTC, so I gave them some more time after graduating, and then came back in 85 and got a job, went to grad school for a whole semester, and was hired during that semester and said, I guess I don't need any more

schooling.

I guess I'll take the gig.

And I worked for an ad agency here in Madison called

advertising and 39 years later I retired last year from the same company but the nice thing is is for the last 10 years I was a co-owner of the company so we we had a very successful decade too so yeah so I'm recently retired I started announcing for the UW in 1992 and it was a fluke I

New people, I had done a little bit of radio, actually from 91 until 92, I was co-host on WTSO with a show with Diana Summers called Madison Nightline.

I don't know if you recall it.

I used to be able to sort of TSO back in the day.

Way back in the

day.

You know, they changed, they were country, then they were talked, then there were sports and talking country, they kind of bounced back and forth.

That was in the talk era of WTSO.

But I was also involved in a improv comedy group called comedy sports for 10 years here on State Street and One of my buddies was pinch hitting for the women's basketball PA announcer who was a DJ at triple M or something like that And he said hey, I can't do a gig.

I can't do one of the games.

How would you like to do women's basketball?

I said I love basketball.

I've never done PA announcing of at any level

I'm not afraid to be in front of a mic, but...

What do you do?

He said, I'll, well, I knew what PA announcers did.

I grew up listening to Bob Betts at County Stadium and

Jack

Rain for the Badgers, but kind of heroes of mine, but I had never done it.

And I showed up, I did it.

They said, this is what you do.

And after the game, they said, how'd you like to finish the season?

Oh, and by the way, how'd you like to do some volleyball?

Wow.

So I've never even seen volleyball.

It's okay.

We'll show

you what to do.

So in 92, I finished up the.

I started doing volleyball and I did both women's and basketball and volleyball for four or five seasons after that.

And then football came along.

Jack reigned, God rest his soul.

He passed away in early 1994 in the beginning of the men's basketball season.

And so I took that season and started football the next year.

And I did men's hockey.

I forgot about that.

Four seasons.

So at one, for like a year or two, I was doing women's basketball, volleyball, hockey.

There wasn't a women's hockey, so hockey, football and men's basketball, the five sports.

And I had to make a decision because the kids were coming along, our family was growing, and I did have a real job.

So I said,

You know, how about if I limit it to football and men's basketball, but I'll pinch hit whenever you need me for any sport at any point.

So I've continued to do volleyball two, three, four matches this year, a little bit more than normal.

I've done six matches since that time.

Bonnie does such a great job.

I

don't know

if you know Bonnie Olson.

She's had the gig for 25 plus years, but she has other commitments.

So I do a handful of volleyball matches every year, but.

Men's basketball and football have been the gig now for 30 plus years.

Absolutely

short

story.

We're talking with Mike Mankey.

Who is the Badger public address announcer for for Badger athletics?

Oh, actually, I guess I need I need to refresh my stream yard.

There we go.

It just started.

Oh, fantastic.

See these these technical difficulties when ties and shards it doesn't work out.

Well, the technical difficulties side.

Thank you, Zomers.

Mike, talk to us a little bit about.

things that you've seen through the years.

I mean, you got in at the start of the Barry Alvarez years, which I think some people kind of forget the first couple weren't that great until 94.

And then of course, the Rose Bowl year and things take off.

But what if all your years.

be it having to literally a front row seat at some times in these events, what sticks out as a couple of memories from any sport?

Well, we'll take football.

And like I said, my first season was 95.

And that first game was actually against Colorado at Camp Randall as a nationally televised game, which was kind of rare for us.

And like you said, in Barry's early years, I mean, wins were still kind of tough to come by.

And that season, though, was a kind of a little bit of a turning of the corner.

And then Dane came then.

next year.

So he had Dane in 96, 97, 98, 99, four years of greatness.

And that really catapulted us to a next level.

So some of the things that I've seen in the, well, this is season number 31 for football is great running back after great running back after great running back.

And actually tomorrow, I don't know if you're aware of this, but Montaiball is being recognized for being installed in the college football hall of fame.

And I think the Rose Ball Hall of Fame.

So there's

going to be some hardware that he gets tomorrow.

But he's just another example.

I mean, I could name off a dozen of them.

But Monte Ball would be recognized tomorrow, which is pretty cool.

So for football, you know, our.

Ground and pound game, our running game has been something that's been a hallmark that I've really, really enjoyed.

For basketball, you know, very similar started with, actually, Stu Jackson was the first

coach that I called

games for, right?

And then Stan Van Gundy, and it took off from there with Coach Bennett.

Brad Soderberg and then Bo and now Greg.

So I've seen a lot of different styles of ball as far as basketball goes.

And again, somehow I forced gumpt my way into a golden era of Wisconsin basketball and football.

And it's been an amazing ride.

Talk to us a little bit about these iconic calls.

First in 10, how soon did that come along after you started doing football?

And Ron Dane, where did that one come from?

So first in 10 Wisconsin, honestly, I think I've been saying that pretty much since day one.

when I didn't know when the crowd started reacting to it.

I tried to, like I said, I paid close attention to what Jack Rain was doing because I had been doing women's basketball for a handful of years.

And I just had listened to them anyway.

After growing up listening to Bob Betts do Brewer's games, I always loved that personality behind the microphone, you know, is like the voice of God type of thing.

So I listened to how they went about their business.

And I tried to replicate certain things that Jack Rain did, but not, you know, identical to what, how he did them.

So I don't think he did first and 10 Wisconsin, but that's something that just kind of grew.

And then when the crowds started repeating it and it became kind of a fun.

back and forth type of thing.

So gosh, I think I've been saying that for decades.

The Ron Dane thing was one of those where I'm a Badger fan.

And

I was a student here, like I mentioned, I grew up a Badger football fan, went to my first homecoming game, my homecoming 1971 was my first Badger game, Rufus Ferguson and his crew.

So I've been a Badger football fan my whole life, but I didn't,

you know, expect when Ron Dane came on board that I would become a fan in the booth as well as being just an information delivery system, which is what you're supposed to do when you're a PA guy, but you can have a little fun too.

And when Ron Dane carried the ball and when he'd get 10 yards, 15 yards, 20 yards, I'm like, I'm not in my seat.

I'm standing.

I'm going Ron Dane to the 17 yard line.

And then first then 10 was kind of, it just kind of came naturally.

But that whole Ron Dain thing was just part of the exuberance of being a fan that happened to have a microphone and 80,000 people listening to it.

So it was a pretty cool gig.

Well, I tell you, it's pretty cool sitting next to you, hearing those words come out of your mouth.

I mean, football wouldn't be football.

I'm going tomorrow.

Osama, Osama is not going tomorrow.

It's just not the same thing if you weren't there doing those things.

And it's just, you become part of the Badger

experience.

I appreciate it.

And like I say, I'm a.

I'm a lucky fan that somehow ended up in the press box.

That's

basically it.

A couple minutes before the first break, we're talking to Mike Mankey, Badger PA announcer.

When do we get new players, obviously, every year?

How do you decide how you're gonna say Brad Davidson the basketball court or whoever on the what is it?

You practice a few times in private or

you know not not really I do practice foreign-born players names just to make sure that you know I want their parents to be proud I don't want to screw anything up.

So but as far as rehearsing how that call is gonna happen, you know early on I thought I needed to do that and by early on I mean 30 years ago But then it became more of a

grass roots, organic type of way of calling their

name.

I waited for the moment.

So Brad Davidson, you know, it was much like Brad Davidson for three.

You know, it just kind of happened.

I didn't have to rehearse it, you know, and if it sounded goofy or odd, maybe I'd say something different the next time, but I really didn't know what would come out of my mouth.

I love that.

True passion.

Yeah, right, right, right.

Like I said, it's, you know, just because I've been a fan for so long, it's just, it just kind of happens naturally.

So

that's the best way that makes the difference.

Does it not?

At least for me as a fan of the stands, knowing that you're passionate about these teams and these guys and gals, that's what makes the difference.

I bleed cardinal white brother.

Absolutely.

Come back more and talk more.

Mike Mankey voice in the Badgers, the PA side announcer.

You're listening to the title ball show across Wisconsin on the civic media radio network.

Come on!

Wisconsin marching band under the direction of former professor Mike DeLectro.

He's still a professor, but not the director of the band anymore.

With a little, if you want to be a Badger, come along with me.

No better Badger to be talking with on a Friday of homecoming week than Mike Mankey, Badger's PA announcer, alum of Wisconsin.

Thanks for your service, Mike, for ROTC and Beyond.

We are big on veterans here on this program, so

thanks for that.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

It was good gig, 17 years worth of Army duty.

And

also, we don't really have time to get into it now, but we'll look at the...

the stream, if you missed it during the commercial break, that's why you tune in in between commercial breaks and the stream, or the few people I know that met that knows where Hub City is.

Hub City, to all your listeners in beautiful downtown Hub City.

In Richland County,

yeah.

Right, right.

Fortunately, it doesn't have very positive memories.

I'm sorry to hear

they were injured at a softball

game.

I was injured is

traumatic.

I'm sorry to hear that.

I wanted to give you, I did a little research here.

You have a really cool connection to Camp Randall and that you had a family member that served there, I believe.

Right.

Tell us a little bit about

that.

So we're talking in between, you know, we're talking a little bit about why I went in the army, the fact that my dad had been, my grandfather had been other family members.

But when my family first came over from Germany and settled in the Sheboygan and Manitowoc area, they came over from Germany in the 1800s, chiefly to

escape revolution and war in Germany only to have one of my great great

great uncles volunteer for the Wisconsin infantry.

And he was stationed at Camp Randall as a captain.

And I got out of the army as a captain, ironically.

So I did not know that until I did some family genealogy work and almost fell off my chair when I discovered that back in 1864 he was stationed here when it was an actual camp.

I just think it's incredible to have a relative who is stationed there in the Union Army, and now you're there every Saturday home game in that exact location calling games.

It pinched

me.

It's really weird.

And even in ROTC, so this is the early 80s, they had a firing range inside of Camp Randall, albeit it wasn't very big.

It was like a long closet, basically.

But that's where we trained for.

our ROTC firing of M16 so anyway.

I'd be remiss Mike Mankey if I didn't at least ask you your opinion and I mean you don't you're not here representing the athletic department per se but boy.

been a tough year for Badger football fans.

And I think a lot of people in the change was made from, I was a big Paul Chris fan.

It was hoping that Jim Leonard, but I got all on board the Luke fickle train early on.

And boy, it's been tough to watch.

And we've had Brady Ewing and we've had Joe Thomas on this show.

And I think for those who played to do, they keep saying just the culture.

And what's it like for you?

You're not in the locker room per se, but what's the season been like for you?

And even the end of last year?

Well, I'm, I don't know if it's good or bad, but I'm an optimist.

I'm not the half glass full guy when it comes especially to badger sports.

It's been challenging for sure.

The biggest challenges have been, especially last year, losing to Iowa the way we did and losing to Minnesota the way we did.

The rivalry games are the ones that I think probably mean the most to me.

That's why tomorrow is such an important game.

So I don't know if tomorrow is a must-win game.

Yes, I do.

Tomorrow's a must-win game.

And so is the Minnesota game.

Those are two games like I really, really want to wear.

So it's been kind of tough, but I keep hoping that we turn the corner and things start to gel.

Again, injuries always play a role, but they do it every level.

You look at the Packers, their injuries on their O-line have caused a little bit of havoc lately.

How do they lose against the Browns?

And how do they tie the Cowboys?

So I know that they're kind of circling the wagons as well to a degree, but

I think when it comes to just looking at how the landscape of college football is developing here the last couple years especially, depth becomes such a critical issue.

And depth for us on the offensive line seems to be the thing that we're lacking most.

The halves, the Ohio states, the Oregon's, the Michigan's, you name it, those are the teams that can throw enough money out there to have depth at their two deeps.

you know, we come from a slightly different landscape.

So I think we've got to understand that it may take a little time, it may take a lot of money, but I would still, you know, I don't like to hear fans say firefickle or boo.

the team when they come off the field.

I understand why they're doing it.

I really just don't like to hear that.

I think

especially the players, you know, even though there's NIL now, I mean, those guys and gals, they're working their butts off.

Nobody's coming on those fields or on those courts trying to lose.

I mean, you see it every, you see it close up.

Absolutely.

They are, they're the last people that want to come off the field to that.

Right.

And, and, you know, again, there's, it's been a little chaotic.

I mean, some of the.

Things we've seen on the sidelines and even the games have not been really torqued down, but hopefully tomorrow we turn the page one

minute left Mike Mankey What have I not asked

you you want people to know?

What have you not asked me?

What I love about football Saturdays.

What do you love about football Saturdays?

Let me days

like this golden leaves crisp clean air my UW hoodie on and hanging out with family and friends

And I do too.

And I love night games on football Saturdays where the sun is down and we'll have fireworks over Camp Randall.

And then you can also hear my first in 10 Wisconsin reverberate off of all of the roofs of homes in the Monroe and Regent Street neighborhoods.

I've heard it before we'll hear it again tomorrow.

I can hear the game on many of our civic media stations Pregame show tomorrow starts at four o'clock with the kickoff at camp Randall just after six Iowa visiting Wisconsin Mike Mankey Thank you so much.

Come on back soon.

There's so many more things we'd love to talk about with you

Todd I'd be happy to

quickly We're coming up next hour.

We do a what's worse every day today's what's worse losing to Iowa or losing to Minnesota

They're both distasteful.

Oh, man.

Losing to Minnesotans.

Totally agree.

It's the axe.

It's all about the axe, right?

Right.

And PJ Fleck.

And Peach, the Flexter.

The Flexter is

taking on the thick floors.

All right, Mike, thank you very much.

I appreciate you.

You're part

of what makes Wisconsin great.

Take care.

All right, thank you so much.

Hour number two, straight ahead on the Civic Media Ready Network.

From the Civic Media World Headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, it's the Todd Alba Show.

And now, pursuing truth wherever it may lead, here's your host, Todd

Alba.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Ta-da!

Along with Mr. Aaron Zommers, our producer and engineer, it is six minutes past the hour of three o'clock.

Welcome into hour number two of the big broadcast on this Friday, T-G-I-F October 10th, 2025.

It is a great day to be a Wisconsinite.

Welcome, everybody, to World Headquarters of Civic Media, downtown Madison at the crossroads of Fairchild and State Street.

Beautiful day.

Let's take a quick look out at the old Sam Davison Street cam out there.

Look at that.

Sky is out.

Leaves of golden yellow.

People mulling about.

Get ready for the big homecoming game.

Wisconsin hosting Iowa tomorrow.

You can hear that game across many of our stations tomorrow night.

Pregame show starting at four o'clock.

with the kickoff just after six.

Many thanks to Mike Mankey.

How about that, Somers?

That was fantastic.

Have a mic here along with us.

It really was.

And the thing that stuck out that struck me the most is you've said since I first met you that the best thing you can be in broadcasting is genuine.

That really came across from him and it explains why he's so good great guy

and those football and Badger basketball games would not be the same without hearing his voice So many thanks for for him to stop you by today coming up at the bottom of this hour Just after the farm report late entry on to the rotation today cannot be happier about it our sports reporter Mike

Clemens going to be coming to us from Green Bay, Wisconsin at Lambeau Field where the pressers are underway for this week's game.

It'll be the Green Bay Packers taking on the Cincinnati Bengals.

One o'clock start time for the pregame show there on Sunday, October 12th.

And speaking of the Packers, we are so happy, so honored to have our next guest here joining us via StreamYard to talk about this great film, the poster of which is right behind me if you're watching on the stream, No Packers, No Life.

It is Ty Morris, who is the producer and star of the film No Packers, No Life joins us.

Ty, thank you so very much and welcome to the show.

Thanks so much for having me fired up to be here.

We're fired up to have you here.

I'm thrilled.

I've seen the trailer of the film.

It's so cool.

And we're going to give away you guys at the film have been so kind and generous.

We have.

two VIP world premiere tickets.

We're going to give away here just a couple of minutes for the world premiere next Wednesday, October 15th at 530 at the Marcus Theater in Waukesha.

By the way, folks, you can still a limited number of those available and part of the proceeds go to the Boys and Girls Club of Wisconsin.

You can find it at nopackersnolife.com.

But.

I'm thrilled about this film, Ty.

You're the star of the show.

How did you come up with the idea to make this film?

It was all by accident, and I wasn't supposed to be the star either, but I just happened to be the person that stumbled upon the Japanese Packers' cheering team in Tokyo on that fateful day.

So it just happened to be me and...

you know 100 plus visits to Tokyo is 40 million people the chances of me stumbling upon these guys it's it's nearly impossible but uh it happened so here we are seven years later we we have a film

of it I think it's incredible and tell people who weren't with us yesterday when Sean Hannish was with us but tell us the the quick version of meeting at the intersection in Tokyo and how this really started

Yeah, it's wild again.

I'm in Japan all the time never seen a pack of Jersey in Japan ever on any given street There's a hundred plus bars on any block in Tokyo.

It's it's like, you know, if you've never been there, it's like Manhattan except in two hours in every direction forever and on this day

we had just come from a cherry blossom festival.

We were hanging out in the park, having some beers, playing some music, and we were going to karaoke.

We were getting ready to go sing some Bon Jovi songs, man.

And we roll into karaoke, and I see this dude with a farve jersey on, and I just kind of whisper, I'm like, what?

I'm like, is this real?

I'm like, go back, go.

And the guy turns around, he's like, go back, go.

And I'm like, go back, go.

And then he goes,

Go Pat, go!

And, you know, his English wasn't great and my Japanese isn't great.

So we just, I was so fired up to see a Packer fan.

We just literally, for the next 20 minutes, spoke in a language of the past 40 years of Packer players.

So it was just back and forth naming players.

And as we're doing this, all these other people, guys and girls coming out of the woodwork with jerseys on and I'm like,

What is this?

And they're like, we are the Japanese Packers cheering team.

That's incredible.

I mean, I never knew this existed before I heard about this film.

I mean, and talking to them, they just exuded with this passion.

And I'm like, what are you guys doing here?

And they're like, we're getting together.

I'm like, it's not the season.

It's spring.

They're like, no, we're getting together to watch our favorite game from the fall.

So they're just coming to hang out and watch a game.

And they were in karaoke because you can rent out these rooms and you have a party in these rooms and they have all these screens.

So

we're going to sing.

These guys are going to watch the Packers.

And I'm like, well, I mean, how many games have you guys been to?

How'd you get in the Packers?

They're like, no, most of us have never even been to America.

We've never been to a game.

And that's when this that's when this whole story kicks off right then and there when we met.

I'm like, well, we have to fix this.

So we're talking to Ty Morris, who is the producer and a star of No Packers, No Life.

You could find more about the film at NoPackersNoLife.com.

So was it your idea to put this pilgrimage to the football mecca together?

Yeah, basically, I mean, I've spent my entire life.

I have many friends that are more talented than me.

And I've spent my entire life recruiting them for projects.

So I've been a fan of movies, but I have no idea how to make one.

I have a production company, but I'm usually supporting, again, more talented people.

And I do the same thing with my record label and most of the projects.

And as I'm talking to these guys, I'm like, oh my gosh.

Well, first I'm thinking, I'm not thinking about a movie right away.

I'm thinking, we have to get these guys to Green Bay.

They have to go to a game.

They're rabid fans.

They're talking about the Packers.

And I'm like, man, you guys are so intense.

We've got to get you there.

And then as I called my childhood friends, Brandon Grant and Jada Merritt back home in Green Bay that night.

And I said, I just ran into these guys.

We've got to bring them to Green Bay.

And then as we started figuring out how to bring them, I'm like,

We have to document this.

And then I started roping in my friends that know how to make a documentary.

Well, I can't wait for Wednesday night.

We're going to do our show live from the Marcus Theater in Waukesha.

I hope to have you on then next week on Wednesday as well.

And let's do a little business here.

This is why we've been promoting this.

All right, Thomas, here we go.

Time to play No Packers, No Life.

Giveaway.

Here we go.

All right, here we go.

Now we need to clear the phone lines.

We're going to clear the phone lines.

We can't people waiting on the phone lines.

All right, sorry to anybody who might be waiting.

I'm about to drop your

call.

We're going to clear the phone lines and give everybody an equal opportunity here.

All right.

All right, so here's how it's going to go.

The producers here and the promoters of No Packers, No Life, Been So Kind that we are going to give away two tickets.

to the world premiere of No Packers, No Life.

Here's the caveat.

You must be able to go next Wednesday, October 15th.

The reception starts at 5.30.

The movie starts just before around seven o'clock.

Is that right, Ty?

Yep.

All right.

So you've got to be able to go.

All right.

That's number one.

So I'm going to give you a trivia question.

And the first caller, we're going to take you in order that you call in, first caller with the right answer wins.

All right.

Here's the question.

On yesterday's show.

Sean Hannish announced a third.

Former Green Bay Packer player will be at the VIP world premiere of No Packers, No Life.

Name one of the three players.

855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

Again, on yesterday's show, Sean Hannish announced a third.

Former Green Bay Packer player will be at the VIP world premiere of No Packers No Life next Wednesday in Waukesha at the Majestic Theater of Marcus.

Name one of the three Green Bay former Packers will be there.

855-752-4842 855-752-4842 Once again

phone lines, lighting up like a Christmas tree tie.

This tells me a lot of people are excited about this great movie.

Let's take our first caller.

All right, caller, who is this and where are you from?

Hello, you're on the air.

Hello, this is Jim in Brookfield Jim in Brookfield.

All right, Jim in Brookfield listening on WAUK Yesterday Sean Hannish now is one of a third former Green Bay Packer will be at the VIP world premiere on Wednesday Who is who are named one of the three players?

You mentioned they probably will get a mountain green as a third and Tony of Freeman was definitely one as well You are absolutely

correct

Nice job, Jim and Brookfield.

Obviously, a listener to the show.

It's Antonio Freeman, Amon Green, and George Coots are going to be there.

Jim, can you go next Wednesday?

Definitely.

My wife and I can definitely make it.

We're right here in Brookfield, and it's just on the other side of Brookfield, but we definitely can be there.

Fantastic.

Well, don't hang up.

We're going to get your information.

Zomers will get it off the air.

You'll be able to meet Ty and the former Packers, get some great food and drink, and most importantly, be one of the first people in the state of Wisconsin to see this great film.

Congrats, Jim, and thanks for listening to WAUK.

You're welcome.

Thank you, Ty.

All right, thank you.

There you go,

Ty.

The public is excited.

I love it so much, man.

I cannot wait till people see this movie.

I cannot wait.

Well, I'm sure, you know, and we went through this with Sean Hannish of Paul Geconi Berry, who I know are involved in this film and also Kelly Call on just a bit outside.

But I know as filmmakers, you guys watch this thing several times, trying to get it right.

What, as you continue to watch this film, what is something that really stands out to you?

And you're like, man, I hope people get that

part.

I mean, there's two layers that stand out to me every time.

And I mean, I've gotten to enjoy it also, I have to say, from a different perspective, because I'm not the director, because Craig Benzine directed it, I've been able to, you know, see slower iterations of it.

And so it's been a different process for me.

But what I've gotten to see and what I'm excited for people to see is there's a Wisconsin story, a story about our state, our team, who we are.

what we are as a state, what type of people we are.

And then there's a universal story about people from all over coming together, regardless of culture, distance, language barrier, and finding amazing community and love, honestly, just camaraderie over something.

completely unexpected.

And every time I watch the film, I see both of those layers.

I see the state I grew up in and the things I love, and then I see a universal appeal to the entire world.

I think this is a great lens to look at something that we all grew up with, but through the eyes of somebody who looks at it totally differently.

And I can't wait to see this film.

Again, limited tickets on sale for next Wednesday's world premiere at Marcus Theater in Waukesha.

Go to you with nopackers, nolife.com.

And then it opens up in southeastern Wisconsin, also Green Bay, Madison, and Gurney, Illinois.

Going into enemy bear territory.

I love it.

And you can find tickets at marcustheaters.com there as well.

And hopefully just like just about outside, it keeps on growing and you go to more theaters.

But people, I hope people get to the world.

I gave him the $100 ticket.

Part of that goes to the Boys and Girls Club, so thank you for helping out a great cause.

And if you didn't win today, folks, join us on Monday.

We're gonna give away two more tickets.

Ty, congrats on this film.

Thank you so much

for joining us today.

Thanks so much for having us.

I'm excited for everybody.

World premiere is going to be awesome to be one big party in celebration.

So thanks for having me here.

Well,

we can't wait to join you next Wednesday.

And again, you all listening and watching can buy tickets at nopackersnolife.com for the world premiere and at Marcus Theaters website for the showing at Marcus Theaters across Wisconsin after that.

Ty, we'll see you next Wednesday.

Thank you so much.

Thanks, Todd.

Take care.

Our pleasure.

Come on back.

We'll do a little what's worse for you involving back.

Football.

Don't go anywhere.

It's the all-ball show on the Pacific media.

Pretty good work.

Having fun doing it.

Welcome back to the Tottenham Ball Show on the Civic Media Ready Network.

Thanks for everybody who played along on our No Packers, No Life.

Can't say text to win.

Call in to win trivia contest today.

If you did win, don't worry.

Gonna give you one more chance on Monday.

Be listening on Monday in the three o'clock hour as we'll give one more pair of tickets away to No Packers, No Life.

Great film cannot wait to to see it on Wednesday We're doing our show from there at walkie-shot the majestic theater of the Marcus theaters We're gonna be there gonna be bringing you more interviews with Ty was Sean with Paul Maybe even couple of former Packers working on that so we'll see that that should be a lot of fun So join us on Wednesday, and you can join us in person if you win the tickets on Monday, so be listening to this coming Monday show

I'm gonna give away two more tickets to No Packers, No Life.

If you want to assure that you're there, you can purchase tickets at nopackersnolife.com.

All together, nopackersnolife.com.

Zomers has it up on the Chiron for those watching this stream.

You can also find it in our show notes.

Yeah, there are 100 bucks, but you get really good free food and drink, like...

Don't eat before you go type of thing like it's really good food And then you're gonna meet the filmmakers and some of these former packers and here's the cool thing Part of the proceeds are gonna go to the boys and girls club, Wisconsin So check it out no packers no life for the world premiere event on Wednesday, and then you could buy tickets for the Regular showing in Marcus theaters in Wisconsin by going to Marcus theaters calm

Could be shown in Southeast Wisconsin along with Green Bay Madison La Crosse and Gurney, Illinois and perhaps more theaters coming forward as well

And it's possible that this ends up on streaming like just a bit outside But there's no guarantee at this no guarantee and also having seen Just a bit outside with big groups of people either at movie festivals or at theaters You got to watch it on the big screen with a crowd.

It's so fun

It is.

And the whole crowd gets into it.

I imagine this will be much the same.

Yeah, we anticipate that it most likely will.

All right, we got Mike Clemens coming up after the bottom of the hour.

So let's do a quick version of what's worse.

Here we go.

All right, time once again for what's worse.

Nothing to give away, no prize money involved, but it is your chance to have your voice heard at all 10 news, talk, and sports radio network stations of the Civic Media Radio Network category, as Mike Lucas says, timely, timely indeed.

What's worse, losing to Iowa, or as my grandparents used to say, my grandpa, grandpa, my granddad, grandpa, all the way, losing to Iowa or losing to Minnesota.

855-752-4842.

855-752-4842.

Way in.

Also, it could give us a text on the Civic Media app.

If you don't have it, download it.

Your Apple Android device takes less than a minute.

It's free, the Civic Media app.

All right, Terry and Cross Plains, yesterday's big winner for the No Packers, No Life contest.

Terry and Cross Plains, listening on WMDX.

says losing to Minnesota is worse.

Our son went to Iowa, still no love for them, and my husband said, at least you're not a gopher.

It's the last game of the year, and you wanna go out with a win.

You nailed it, right there.

Thank you, Terry.

Brett in Brown Deer, listening on WAUK, says losing the ax is much worse.

Besides a badger, shouldn't.

Lose to a gopher.

I didn't think about it that way, but that's a good point.

Chris in Blue River, listening on W R C E says losing to Minnesota.

Always Minnesota.

You can check him out with Saturdays with Simon, by the way, on W R C O. Great music in the afternoon.

If you don't live in Southwest Wisconsin, download the civic media app and check Chris out on W R C O.

on Saturday afternoons as well.

Mike, in Spring Green, speaking of WRCE, is tuning in.

In WRCE, Richland Center.

Mike, in Spring Green, Mike, losing to Iowa or losing to Minnesota, what's worse?

Well, two points I want to make.

One, losing to Minnesota is worse because my wife is from Minnesota, so I never hear the end of it.

So, and that goes for college or, you know, pro.

And then the other question with Iowa, you know why Iowa doesn't have a pro football team, don't you?

Why is that?

Well, if they did then Illinois, Minnesota would want one too

Best line of the day Fantastic, I love it Mike.

Thank you.

Thank you so very much.

Have a great weekend on Wisconsin a Heather first little PJ I guess PJ on YouTube says losing to Minnesota is worse because it's the battle the axe with Iowa They usually have a tough team are

Yeah, tough team, so it's expected.

All right, fair enough.

It's been a battle back and forth.

Heather, listening on WCFW, the tap of the beautiful Eau Claire says losing to Minnesota is so much worse.

The ax game is huge, right?

Totally.

I think that's absolutely true on that.

What's worse, losing to Iowa or losing to Minnesota talking to you about college sports.

Mark Imperto Sac says the Packers losing to the Vikes.

Chris Casper a Minnesota fan takes exception to that and Mike's comments saying skull

Great engineer great guy is a football legion slightly misplaced

You know, we'll excuse it this time.

Well, excuse

it.

He's enthusiastic and he's trying to cheer to his team.

So you got to give him that Losing Iowa losing Minnesota's armor is what's worse?

I got to go with the crowd on this one and say Minnesota again the axe is so like just in the picture we have

The axe is in that picture and it's a nice physical reminder.

Plus, I like when Todd gets to say the

flexsters.

crew and the Badgers, right now, Farm News with Pam Yonkey on the Civic Media.

Ready Network.

listening to the Tah-Dah-Bah show where it's always first and 10 Wisconsin.

Welcome back to the Tah-Dah-Bah show and the Civic Media Radio.

How about that?

Many thanks to Mike Mankey for doing a little bumper for us.

We'll use that, everyone.

So I don't want to overuse that, but that's a voice right there.

Now we got Terry Barr introducing us at the top of each hour.

We got Mike Mankey doing a little bumper for us.

and the other great voice of civic media and person behind it that it makes my day when we get to catch up with them and talk with them.

It is our great sports reporter, the one of the only Mike Clemens, the man about town who is always on the road refining about Lambeau Field and Green Bay.

Mike Clemens, how are you?

Hi, Todd,

how are you?

Not exactly the same voice that we usually hear.

How you doing?

I'm doing great.

I'm doing great.

It's better.

You're a road warrior, my friend, watching the Cubs and Brewers last night.

Now you're already up at Green Bay.

Get ready for the Sunday game against the Bengals.

And boy, it's a busy week in terms of sports for a guy covering Wisconsin sports.

Sure as.

Disappointed.

that the brewers can close the deal at night and you know this sounds like dime store analysis but oh my gosh how much of the brewers missing brandon woodruff right now year after you know remember when the brewers used to be a home run slugging team and then they would get to this point and then they would come up short because of what pitching and years ago when pitchers used to go seven eight innings deeper into games but they're like

18-20 game-a-year winners, I used to say, look, it's the same story, whether it was the Seeligs ownership, or Mark Antanasio, is that they get all these home runs, they score these runs, but when they get to the postseason, if they don't have at least two close to 20 game winners, they're not gonna get through a seven game series, or a five game series in this instance, and that's exactly

Unfortunately, what happened just it sort of became unraveled all of a sudden when Woodruff got in there and you had Freddy Peralta and then Quinn Priester sort of locked down that number three spot.

And so last week Saturday was just incredible at the ballpark.

Incredible.

I was talking to Mike Vesal, the PR director of the Brewers.

I said, did you guys like have auditions and rehearsals for that crowd?

Because he goes, right?

I mean, even the Brewer's front office was blown away at how impactful the home crowd was last Saturday.

And then Charlie Barron's out there waving the towel to get the crowd going.

And the first three innings, just amazing.

Brewer's going up 6-1 and getting that advantage.

So then Murph, rather than stick to the rotation, he goes, look, let's do the pitcher by committee thing.

Let's use the bullpen on game two here at home.

And then when we go into the enemy territory, then we'll put in the 25-year-old Quinn Priester, who was at 19 in appearances in a row.

Whenever he got on the mound, the Brewers would win.

It was an incredible summer.

He'll be our first one, and we could go one, two, three.

Well, one games, one and two, he just gets drilled the other night.

39 pitches, and Murph is out there giving him the hook, because he'd given up three runs, and it didn't look like there was any way he could get out of it.

And now, I mean, looking at the list, they used Jose Quintana, who'd been a starter, Chad Patrick ain't worthy of playoff starting, and the Miz.

Jacob Mizorowski kind of got in over his head this summer, and they had put him in the bullpen.

He had a great appearance the other night, and then Freddie gets drilled on you last night.

Ian Happ, with the two out, men on first and second base, a 1-1 count.

And Freddy Peralta fastball, but he let it hang just a little bit too much over the middle.

Hap drills it out of the park, and the Cubs go up three nothing right away.

There was a fun fact they had last night where they said with that.

31 runs scored, 32 runs scored in this series by the end of the first inning last night, combined, 21 of them in the first inning.

That's a new Major League Baseball record.

So again, with this Cubs Brewer Series, don't miss the first inning.

You'll miss all the scoring.

Yeah, that's certainly the case.

I know you are the gaggle and have some audio here.

This is Mike the gaggle and this is Brewer's manager, Pat Murphy.

After last night's game talking about facing the Cubs as the captain to deal one said, do that to me one more time.

You guys had the first two they've had at the next two going into a winter.

Take all game five.

How do you guys get that momentum back on your side?

Yeah, I mean, that's it's something that you can't force.

You know what I mean?

Momentum in baseball happens based on what's on the field.

You know what I mean?

And the Cubs earned it.

They had their backs against the wall and and they

They played great these last two games.

They pitched great.

They played great.

They played great defense.

They hit in the clutch.

They hit homers.

Yeah, they're built to be great.

And they played great these two games.

So hopefully the tables will turn when we get into game five at our place.

But we have to find out how bad we're going to fight back.

We have all season.

This is not a team that has strung together losing streak or anything like that.

And they've done it in a number of different ways.

So I admire our team.

I have faith in our team.

And I think this had to happen this way.

There'll be no tougher environment to play in than they just did.

This is a good prep for us.

And I think we'll be ready to play.

I'm certain we'll be ready to play in game

five.

Pat Murphy, manager of Milwaukee Brewers after last night's loss to the Cubs on playing them one more time.

For all the Marbles in terms of the NLDS on Saturday, you can hear that game across many of our civic media stations.

Pre-game show at 6.30, first pitch just after seven o'clock.

Mike Clemens, our sports reporter is on the phone live from Lambeau Field in Green Bay.

But Mike, one more, just the final point on this Brewers thing.

You're in the clubhouse a lot.

You're, you're up in the, the reporters row.

You've seen these guys up close.

I'm going to speak as more of a fan and you tell me whether I'm completely off base.

I know you'll give me an honest answer as just a casual fan.

It seemed like to me that the crowd kind of got into the, the brewers heads a little bit last night.

Maybe it was youth.

They seemed a little rattled and, and I just, I don't know why I feel good with them coming back to am fam tomorrow night.

I feel like they can do it.

It is.

And that's what they're talking about, the momentum swing.

And then by about the second or third inning last night, you know, the Cub fans are chanting, Freddie, Freddie.

Getting into his head, getting

into

Freddie Peralta, your ace starting pitcher of the Brewers when he's on the mound.

Yeah, you know, atmospheres seem to have played a part of it.

certainly with quid preaster at the at the night before a kid who's twenty five years old just turned twenty five this summer actually last last month grew up twenty miles from wriggly park you know he grew up watching these cops he was at the world series when they want it in twenty sixteen as a as a young team with the family so so maybe that will help you know uh... game tomorrow at amp fan but man you know it's it's it's like the cubs batters though it's now figured out

the brewers bullpen and when you know hap gets his his hits you know and peep crow arms strong with those guys are connecting and then brad keller their closing pitcher last night you know a week ago he was beaming pod raise and they still managed to win but

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