Doug Russell
@DougRussell
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Sports Director: 97.3 The Game (Milwaukee) & WIBA/WTSO (Madison). Host: “Packers GameDay” & “Tales From 1265.” May or may not be notable.
Joined May 2009
He never gets hurt. He never gets in trouble. He's donated millions to make his community and world a better place. He's a dedicated family man. If you're still looking at something to pick on LeBron James for, that says more about you than him. 🐐 #NBA
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By waiting until Lorenzo Cain accumulated 10 years of MLB service time, he gets a fully vested pension, worth about $7,500 per month. A true class move by the @Brewers to make sure LoCain got his full benefit before letting him go.
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@EuphoriTori Here's what I'll never understand: How a historically marganilized group of people can trigger someone else just becuase they are getting a little of representation? Equality isn't a pie. Just because you get some doesn't mean I get less. Life is hard enough, man.
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There is an absolute TON of blue here tonight. I’ve been covering Packers home games now for 30 years and I’ve never seen more of the other team’s colors in the stands at Lambeau than tonight. Ever.
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@RexChapman To be fair, if you’re taking any advice from Chet Hanks about literally anything in life, you need to re-evaluate your entire existence.
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Maybe it’s an unpopular opinion, but I’m far less concerned with the Chiefs winning three straight NFL championships than I am the whitewashing of the fact that the Packers have already done it twice.
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I wonder how many times it took @taylorswift13 to get through that song, written for her mom, who has been battling cancer for many years. Such a moving, beautiful song. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 #OneWorldTogetherAtHome.
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Wisconsin Football needed to evolve. It needed to think bigger. It needed fresh, aggressive leadership. If the players are upset, I get it. No one dislikes Jim Leonhard. But Fickell immediately raises the bar. His hiring is the most un-Wisconsin thing they’ve ever done. 👍.
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Six days after an athletic trainer saved the life of an NFL player on the field, Quay Walker shoves one tending to an injured player. There are no words to convey how stupid that was.
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Trash our teams, trash individual performances, trash our weather…all fair game. But a blanket “your town is a terrible city?”. Fuck you.
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Wisconsin would’ve been better off losing on Saturday. They got absolutely hosed by the selection committee. Four-day turn after playing 4 games in 4 days; high altitude, and Milwaukee was sitting there waiting for them. HOSED.
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You've clearly pissed off your best player, your fans believe you are cheapskates, all during the week hundreds of millions of public dollars are being discussed for the ballpark. Add it all up and it's a PR nightmare. All for less than $750k. What are we doing here?.
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If @Camila_Cabello didn’t send tingles down your spine or make you choke up a little bit, head to your nearest hospital. Because obviously you don’t have a pulse or a heartbeat and require immediate medical attention. #beautiful #FirstMan #GRAMMYs.
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The last time Steven A. Smith “covered” the #Bucks in the playoffs, he and Wilbon never left the press room…they never actually saw any basketball played. I was there to witness it. This? This is embarrassing. Don’t show your faces here. It won’t be pretty.
Just saw this on First Take and I'm not surprised whatsoever. Milwaukee has not covered on ESPN for decades. We don't want yall in Milwaukee when we host the NBA Finals!! .@SnellSZN.@nathanmarzion.@brewhoop. #bucksin6 #terriblecities #Milwaukee
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@thakingalex_ @SportsCenter Thirty years as a MLB executive. Assistant GM of the Yankees and Dodgers. First interviewed for a GM job in 2005. Has worked in the MLB offices as a top executive since 2011. So yes, excuse your ignorance.
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So this just happened. A tour group of kids were interrupted by someone asking “can you find Aaron Rodgers’ locker?”. A tour these kids won’t soon forget.
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The @Packers are here. The @Brewers are here. What a great show of Wisconsin sports unity for the @Bucks! Really cool to have everyone in the house. @fiservforum.
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@barstoolsports Now we're in GTFO territory. Because literally no one in the world was saying this. No one. Anywhere.
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The Celtics are just a better team than the Bucks. It’s pretty undeniable right now. They’re dominating in every phase. Do I think the Bucks can come back?. I don’t.
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This is gonna be a fun ride with Pat Murphy. First question from Adam McCalvy was about the Brewers personality after the Mets series. “No offense Adam, but your first question back is kind of a shitty question.”
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@NFLFootballOps @NFL Your rule is wrong and violates what football is. No one cares what your book says. This is a trash rule. TRASH. No one argues with keeping the quarterback safe. When the QB has the ball, he may get hit. Until this is fixed, it’s hard to take your game seriously.
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What the absolute hell happeend at the end of the Badgers game? Juwon Howard went AFTER Greg Gard. Holy wow. Punches were thrown. Howard threw hands at a UW staff member. Howard should be suspended for the rest of the year. He's the damn coach. Wow. That's a first.
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A gentle reminder that Justice Ginsburg’s closest friend on the Court was Justice Scalia. You don’t have to agree on everything - or even anything - to get along. We’ve completely lost that in America in recent years.
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“We’ve lost Craig, but Craig has also lost us. He’s lost this community.”. - Brewers owner Mark Atanassio. Wowzers.
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This Brewers team is something else. No flinch. Two best pitchers from last year gone? First place. Best hitter out for the rest of the year? Beat the best team in baseball. Divisional lead? Biggest in the game. Effing relentless.
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While Bucks fans should be ECSTATIC at today’s trade, can we appreciate how incredible of a citizen Jrue & Lauren Holiday have been? All of Milwaukee will miss them. They are forever Bucks and Milwaukee royalty.
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Packers President and CEO mark Murphy tells @620wtmj that former coach Mike McCarthy was at Lambeau Field yesterday, addressing his players one last time. "I think Mike wanted some closure with the players," according to Murphy.
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We talk about how motivated Aaron Rodgers was when Jordan Love got drafted in the 1st round. How motivated was Aaron Jones when AJ Dillon got taken in the 2nd?.
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A lot of folks jumping off the Luke Fickell bandwagon may need to be reminded that at the same time in his tenure, Barry Alvarez was 4-11. These things take time. Fickell inherited a mess. It’s going to take time and investment. And also some patience. Better days are ahead.
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Love it when the Packers and Vikings play. Two historic franchises that have a combined 13 league championships between them.
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Love seeing how big mad the rest of the NBA is over the Bucks as champions. Bottom line: this is the single most grueling postseason in sports. You have to win 16 games in 4 best of 7 series over two months. No one backs into an NBA Championship. No one.
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What an absurd fine. If this is tampering, then the @nba should just ban coaches/GM’s etc. from doing these kind of studio shows altogether. Good grief.
The NBA announced today that it has fined the LA Clippers $50,000 for violating the league's anti-tampering rule. The fine is in response to comments made by Doc Rivers on Kawhi Leonard.
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This is ridiculous. Must’ve taken him a year to do this! 👏👏👏👏.
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So we riot if Murph isn’t Manager of the Year, but what about the decision to let Jackson Churio work it out in the Majors after he had some early struggles? Matt Arnold has an incredible case for Executive of the Year, too. @Brewers.
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Is anyone else’s car getting three weeks to the gallon?.
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@RexChapman This happened in Wisconsin this week during storms to the self-proclaimed “world’s largest flying American flag.” Seems about right considering where we are at this particular moment in history.
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Happy 51st birthday to @Brewers manager Craig Counsell. Craig is now the same age that Harvey Kuenn was when he led the team to the 1982 World Series. Anyone else a little messed up by this?
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Now I’m getting conflicted reports of how much a full pension is. Looking for updated numbers. It’s significant, and important. The main point remains. The Brewer made sure he got there. That’s what’s important.
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P.J. Tucker will rightfully never have to buy a drink ever in Milwaukee. He’s a great defender and a TOUGH player. But he’s 36, played pro ball in 8 (!) different leagues and averaged all of 2.6 ppg with the Bucks in the regular season. Chill out people.
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That was a really beautiful rendition of “What a Wonderful World” by @Camila_Cabello & @ShawnMendes 👏👏👏👏👏👏 #COVID #OneWorldTogetherAtHome.
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@ProFootballTalk But that’s not the award. Being a great guy isn’t part of the criteria. I’ve lost some respect for Hub, if I’m honest. I’m not saying voters have to give it to anyone in particular. But when the reason is this specious, that smacks of being childish and petty.
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Everyone is free to make their arguments, but no one will ever convince me there was a worse trade in Wisconsin sports history than the Ray Allen to the Sonics for an aging and unhappy Gary Payton rental; a miserable, awful deal commenced 19 years ago tonight.
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CC Sabathia will very likely be elected to the @baseballhall tomorrow. His three-month turn as a Brewer in 2008 may have been the greatest half-season rent-a-player stretch in the last 50 years. Nearly single-handedly ended the Brewers 26-year postseason drought.
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@BleacherReport @brgridiron Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Jordan and Pippen actually *win* championships?.
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"Emotions are for movies, not for basketball.". Giannis on not getting too low after a playoff loss.
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1) This is the absolute best use of the internet ever. 2) I could watch this all day and never get tired of it.
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That was a touchdown. The Bears got hosed on replay. Calling it like I see it.
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Charles Barkley spitting truth. “You can’t take your kids to a game that starts at 9:20.”. He’s not wrong. Come on @NBA. You can do better than this.
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No Brewers fan should take any pleasure in Josh Hader’s failures in San Diego. Where would the Brewers have been the last four years without him? He’s having a brutal time of it right now and is getting enough grief from Padres fans.
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@FieldYates How many more incidents are going to have to happen before we recognize that AB has some serious medical issues that need to be addressed? Maybe it’s bipolar, maybe early onset CTE, maybe it’s a combination of a number of actual, medical issues. I’m no doctor, but he’s not right.
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Menomonee Falls just banned a bunch of books because you know, we’ve fallen into America’s dumbest times. One of them is Slaughterhouse Five. A book I read in middle school and fell in love with. Show me any society that has ever benefited from book bans. I’ll hang up and listen.
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Rodgers buys into the Bucks…Giannis buys into the Brewers. Who completes the circle…Yeli with a share of the Packers? He’s got an extra $250 lying around, right?.
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@barstoolindy I've worked in radio for over 30 years and don't know I've ever had a nicer studio than these high school kids. Good grief.
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Not far from where Kansas football coach @CoachLeipold grew up, there are *three* racks of @KU_Football hats at the local Marshall’s in Delafield, WI. Coincidence? Don’t know. Anyway, I now own a Kansas hat.
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1981: Yankees (L).1982: Cardinals (W).2008: Phillies (W).2011: Cardinals (W).2018: Dodgers (L).2019: Nationals (W).2020: Dodgers (W).2021: Braves (W).2023: Diamondbacks (?). Baseball’s oddest anomaly continues: Eliminate the Brewers in the Postseason, go to the #WorldSeries.
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BREAKING: We have been told that Taylor Swift is currently en route from Kansas City to Green Bay via her private jet. Green Bay police are readying security for her arrival.
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Jim Leonhard gets the Gatorade bath. Good. He deserves it. Hoping for nothing but success for one of the classiest guys there is. #OnWisconsin.
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But masks do nothing to prevent the person-to-person spread of an airborne virus. 🙄 #MaskUp.
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@Cristiano Sometimes we forget that world-famous superstars endure the same tragedies so many others have had to face. May they - and everyone who has suffered a similar loss - find some peace and solace in time. 💔.
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Wondering if @AaronRodgers12 will wear his @Bucks championship ring at his midweek presser tomorrow? 🤔
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Twitter: The web site that allows fans who two weeks earlier celebrated a championship for the first time in a half-century to declare their team’s offseason a “complete failure” after letting one 36-year old role player go. #FearTheDeer.
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They painted “Be Love” in the end zone when the other quarterback’s name is Love. You can’t make this stuff up.
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@RexChapman This is insanity. This drug is a livestock deworming medicine. This could kill his friend. I’m all for throwing everything reasonable at dying person, but this could literally end his life. Full stop.
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The “Clutch Gene” is a real phenomenon in sports. Some guys shine when the lights are the brightest, others shrink. Braun had the clutch gene. Now Churio has it. And Garrett Mitchell has had how many walkoffs and big hits in his short career so far? It’s real.
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YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. This officiating crew has been absolutely atrocious tonight.
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Why Wisconsin women’s basketball remains stuck in reverse is such a mystery to me. Other UW Women’s sports (volleyball, hockey) compete for National Championships. WBB has top-shelf facilities and a world-class university behind it, but hasn’t been competitive in decades.
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You knew Kolten Wong was going to be an upgrade, but could anyone have imagined how clutch he was going to be? He’s been fantastic all year long. Incredible offseason pickup. #ThisIsMyCrew.
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Very sad to learn of my friend Davey Nelson's passing. No one who ever met him had anything bad to say about the man. He had been suffering for a while, and now he's at peace. His enduring legacy? The boarding school in South Africa he founded for kids who were orphaned by AIDS.
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Let me preface this by saying I have no quarrel with anything Marquette in any way. But when MU fans chirp at UW’s football issues, I’m reminded how one-sided this rivalry is. Because I promise you, no one in Madison thinks about anything Marquette except for one day in December.
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@Meredit87559997 @drewbrees @realDonaldTrump It’s not cut and dry at all. First of all, it was a war veteran who advised Colin Kaepernick taking a knee in the first place. Secondly, the freedoms our military have fought for are just that - freedom. Not “freedom with conditions.” 🇺🇸 #FirstAmendment.
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@alexismorgan Who cares what KD *could* have done. How about flowers for what these two DID do?
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When I graduated from “Buddy!” to “Doogie!” by Bob it was a watershed moment in my life. The hours of my childhood spent shooting hoops listening to him on the radio; the hidden transistor under my bed at night. He made me love baseball and love broadcasting. Thanks Bob. 💔
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@Hub_Arkush So I just read the “apology” but what it doesn’t address is the specious criteria you use to come to your conclusion. If you truly feel whomever was more valuable, vote for them. But to hold a childish grudge against someone & withhold your vote for them for that is unacceptable.
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@___Colb___ Why is everyone getting worked up over this? You know how much trash talking Michael Jordan and Larry Bird did back in the day?.
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@jenbielema Seriously? Your husband recruited those kids. Those kids bled for him. How classless are you?.
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Bring Nelson Cruz back to Milwaukee to end his career. No downside. The price is right, he's a great mentor, and the Brewers (while their offense has been better in the last week or so) still could use another bat. Worst case scenario? You can just cut him if he's awful. #DoIt
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Listening to @SophiaMinnaert float between Spanish and English never gets old. I should be used to it by now, but it’s just so seamless.
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I just learned that Carole Meekins was a passenger in a serious car crash on Christmas Eve. Carole survived, but sadly, her sister did not, and another sister was severely injured. Prayers for healing (physically and spiritually) to one the classiest people I’ve ever worked with.
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I challenge anyone to listen to @carrieunderwood's performance at the #ACMawards and tell me she's not the best vocalist - regardless of genre - in the world. Seriously.
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@RexChapman Absolutely it’s a charge. Just because you’re inexplicably naked in the street changes nothing. We’re not animals. There are rules.
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@mileskahn Katy Perry in a conference room in front of about 12-15 people, including me. Two weeks later, “I Kissed a Girl” came out and her conference room concert days were over. @katyperry
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Listen, your politics are your business. But science is still science. And I’ll err on the side of science, thanks. ✌️.
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@RyanMcGuffey Tony La Russa has helped thousands of homeless animals find homes, so it’s hard for me to get really mad at him. But the way he’s handled this whole Mercedes kerfuffle is reprehensible. His team will turn on him soon if they haven’t already.
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