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Yordan’s Triple Crown watch, Vlad’s home pop fizzle + Brewers checkup · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: All right, in the weeds, powered by MLB nine innings, 2026.
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  Speaker 1: We got some questions here. Jason Stark, the great Jason Stark,
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  Speaker 1: wrote an article the other day about MLB players and
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  Speaker 1: teams poised to make history. Jordan Alvarez, triple crown race.
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  Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, this was locked up. Now, he's still
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  Speaker 1: probably going to win with the average. He's got a
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  Speaker 1: huge lead in the batting average. But where it gets
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  Speaker 1: interesting for me, Crouch, is home runs. He's only hit
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  Speaker 1: one home run in a really long time. Junior Caminero's
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  Speaker 1: right on his tail, one behind. Ben Rice, only two behind.
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  Speaker 1: And then RBIs. Jordan has 91. And guess who's number
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  Speaker 1: two and everyone doesn't even talk about him? The polar bear,
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  Speaker 1: Pete Alonso at 89. So there's some guys creeping up
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  Speaker 1: on him. I still think Jordan Alvarez figures out a way.
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  Speaker 1: The only problem he has is nobody's going to pitch
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  Speaker 1: to him. And I don't know if you watched the
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  Speaker 1: game last night, but he had a triple. This dude
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  Speaker 1: was motoring around the bases in Yankee Stadium. He is
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  Speaker 1: ridiculously athletic. But to me.
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  Speaker 2: I think the thing that is under attack here is
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  Speaker 2: going to be the RBIs. I think if you've watched
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  Speaker 2: Pete Alonso the last three weeks, maybe two and a
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  Speaker 2: half weeks, he is in fuego. And that is a
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  Speaker 2: guy that once he's in that mode and his team
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  Speaker 2: is kind of, you know, they're pushing, I think he
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  Speaker 2: catches them in the RBI race. Only because, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: Jordan's going to need to be able to drive those
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  Speaker 2: runs in from first base, which he can. But let's
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  Speaker 2: say it's second and third. They're just not pitching to Jordan.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's enough evidence to tell me that
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go after Jordan Alvarez in those spots
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  Speaker 2: right now. So I think that RBI, and it shows
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  Speaker 2: why it's so tough to win a Triple Crown.
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  Speaker 1: True. But if you would have told us two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: we would have said, he's locked up. You can cinch
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  Speaker 1: it down, lock it up. He's going to get the
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  Speaker 1: Triple Crown like Miggy Cabrera in 2012. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: the week of August 16th, He was leading the American
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  Speaker 1: League in average homers, RBIs, OBP, slugging, OPS, runs, hits,
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  Speaker 1: times on base, and total bases. So he was leading
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  Speaker 1: the league in everything. I mean, that was everything. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And now guys are creeping. Now, I still think the
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  Speaker 1: batting average is safe. He's 323, Chandler Simpson 309, Yandy
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  Speaker 1: Diaz 302. But again, the other two are crazy close.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll see. It's going to be fun to watch because–
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  Speaker 1: I have a little silver bat over there from 2012
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  Speaker 1: that has Miguel Cabrera on it on the Silver Slugger team,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where he won the Triple Crown. So, I mean, selfishly,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not hoping he wins it because I want that
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  Speaker 1: bat to mean more because I got a guy that
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  Speaker 1: won the last Triple Crown on it. But anyways, good luck, Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's awesome to watch. He's so fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of a guy, Kratzy, that really used to be
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  Speaker 1: fun to watch and kind of has lost his superpowers,
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  Speaker 1: Vlad Guerrero, Vlad Guerrero Jr., has not homered in the
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  Speaker 1: regular season at home in well over a year. He
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  Speaker 1: did it 8-17-25. Today is August 26th, so it's been
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  Speaker 1: over a year and almost 10 days. He did homer
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  Speaker 1: in Game 6 of the ALCS, but in the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is happening to Vlad's power? What's happening
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  Speaker 1: to his power? His bat speed hasn't dropped that much,
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  Speaker 1: especially in Toronto, which used to be a hitter's park.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's changed. What the heck's happening to Vlad's power?
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  Speaker 1: Where did his superpower go?
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  Speaker 2: Well, as everybody knows on Twitter, I am the aficionado
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  Speaker 2: in explaining where people's power goes because everybody rehashed the
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  Speaker 2: comments that I said about Fernando Tatis was only going
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  Speaker 2: to be a 20 to 25 home run guy. And
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  Speaker 2: now everyone's clapping back at me. And I'm like, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I was right. So with Vlad, he's on
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  Speaker 2: pace for about 25. He's... And this is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a great year for him. This is not a Fernando.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a Padres bash session. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go back to Vladdy's career here. And when I saw
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  Speaker 2: him when he was a rookie in 2019, I was
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  Speaker 2: playing for the Rays. And I think I faced him
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  Speaker 2: when I was with the Giants, too. So you see it.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw him again in 2020 in the COVID season.
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  Speaker 2: The potential for power has always been there, which you
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  Speaker 2: saw in the 21 season. And I'm looking at my
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  Speaker 2: computer because I want to continue to get the numbers right.
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  Speaker 2: 21 season, he hit 48. He hit 48. He ended
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  Speaker 2: up being number two in the MVP voting. He still
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  Speaker 2: hit 311. Expectation doesn't always meet reality with Vlad. I
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  Speaker 2: think he is an incredible hitter. He has been an
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  Speaker 2: above-average walk guy, below-average hitter. as far as league average-wise,
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  Speaker 2: with strikeouts. He's a really good hitter. To me, I
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  Speaker 2: think sometimes he chooses when to take his shots, hitting homers,
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  Speaker 2: and when he doesn't choose to take his shots, he
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  Speaker 2: hits low rockets to the gaps. And I think he's
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  Speaker 2: really good on the pitch. And I think to be
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  Speaker 2: able to truly be a home run hitter, you need
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  Speaker 2: to be able to handle not just hitting the ball
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  Speaker 2: out down, but also up in the zone. And I
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  Speaker 2: think there's sometimes where it looks like his approach is
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  Speaker 2: to not necessarily hit a home run. It's to get
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  Speaker 2: the job done. And that's OK. I just don't see
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  Speaker 2: why it's gone so crazy in the other direction this season.
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  Speaker 1: At home.
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  Speaker 2: Does he think, okay, in BP, I'm watching these balls go.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a smart decision. I shouldn't be swinging
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  Speaker 2: for the downs when I am at home. Is it
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  Speaker 2: a conscious decision? No, not to hit zero home runs.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to hit homers. To me, it's a question
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  Speaker 2: that I think only he can ask. Maybe I feel
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  Speaker 2: like this place is going to hold some of my
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  Speaker 2: balls in, and I'm going to Just go for the
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  Speaker 2: hits and try to win a batting title when I'm
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  Speaker 2: at home and drive some balls on the road. Doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean he doesn't want to hit any an entire year.
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  Speaker 2: That's a crazy stat.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy that he hasn't gone deep in a year.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that I wasn't very good at
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  Speaker 2: was playing Major League Baseball. One of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I'm really good at is sweating. Even now when I'm
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  Speaker 4: he lost his superpowers. One of the great superpowers that
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  Speaker 4: people used to have was hitting 300. In 2009, the
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  Speaker 4: AL had 23. Sorry, I was one of them. Hitters
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  Speaker 4: that hit 300.
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  Speaker 3: Oops.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry about it. First and only catcher to hit. 300
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  Speaker 1: while having enough at-bats to qualify for the batting title,
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  Speaker 1: might I add to that?
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  Speaker 4: Ever?
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  Speaker 1: Sorry. Ever. The only one ever. No, to ever hit.
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  Speaker 2: 300 in a season. I thought you hit. 300 in
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  Speaker 2: 2004 with the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but no, no, no. With the White Sox. With
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  Speaker 1: the White Sox. The only catcher in the White Sox
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  Speaker 1: history to hit.
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  Speaker 5: 300.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Now that had enough at-bats to qualify.
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  Speaker 1: for a batting title, right? So you have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's been a guy that went three for 10, right? So, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I had to pat myself on the back of that one.
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  Speaker 1: That was 2009, right? There was 23 in the American League. 1930s,
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  Speaker 1: there were two seasons with 30 players in an eight-team league.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's so hard that the AO has three. Count them, three. Alvarez,
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  Speaker 1: Chandler Simpson, Yandy Diaz. That would be the fewest in
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  Speaker 1: a season since Yastrzemski stood alone as the only one
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  Speaker 1: in 1968. The National League, by the way, has four. Arise,
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  Speaker 1: Nick Gonzalez, Ana Lopez, Gabby Moreno, which is awesome because
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  Speaker 1: he's a catcher.
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  Speaker 2: What happened to the 300 hitter? Is it just that undervalued?
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  Speaker 2: I can't say it's only undervalued. I can say it's
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  Speaker 2: probably undervalued, so guys, don't do it because they don't
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  Speaker 2: get paid for it. Look at how many times Luis
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  Speaker 2: Arise has changed teams slash gotten traded because teams are like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I just don't know. But That's his game.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a product of it's not taught. And
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  Speaker 2: people could say, well, it's because it's undervalued, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not taught. People are not figuring out how to hit 300.
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  Speaker 2: Probably because it's undervalued. And also, the pitchers are pretty
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  Speaker 2: freaking good. And I don't think everybody's swing type is.
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  Speaker 2: Is built for guys, the way that the guys throw
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  Speaker 2: now in a sense of being able to fight pitches off.
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  Speaker 2: I watched a game last night, Jackson Churio came up
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  Speaker 2: and I'm trying to think who it was that was
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  Speaker 2: pitching for the Mets, but whatever it was, Jackson Churio
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  Speaker 2: tried to put a little swing on three pitches that
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  Speaker 2: just progressively came higher and higher out of the zone.
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  Speaker 1: And he took three pretty poor swings on it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think right now, Players are not taught or
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  Speaker 2: even in the social media era allowed to look silly
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  Speaker 2: and just like put a little swing on the bat,
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  Speaker 2: put a little swing on the ball and poke it
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  Speaker 2: through the hole. because you're going to have, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to have pitching ninja, oh, sword. You're going to have
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  Speaker 2: the announcer, you know, oh, that's a pretty pitiful swing.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to have things that before were considered, this
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  Speaker 2: guy's grinding the net set bat out.
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to put the ball in play. And I
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  Speaker 1: think so.
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  Speaker 2: It's a whole shift in what hitting 300 actually means.
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  Speaker 2: They don't even put it on the scoreboard in most
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  Speaker 2: stadiums anymore. OPS is what's on the scoreboard.
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  Speaker 1: True. True. Well, we'll see what happens, but crazy, crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, after I hit 2000, after I
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  Speaker 1: hit 300 in 2009, I had blonde hair and I
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  Speaker 1: went back to regular hair and Jerry Reinsdorf walked into
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  Speaker 1: the weight room. The first day of spring training goes,
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  Speaker 1: are you set? Are you sick? Why did your hair
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  Speaker 1: not blonde anymore? And I was like, well, Jerry, it
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  Speaker 1: was either have blonde hair or be bald like Eric Kratt.
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  Speaker 1: So I went back to normal colored hair. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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  Speaker 1: Why did that happen? Because my hair, literally, when I
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  Speaker 1: was dyeing it, all the white, the all white blonde color,
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  Speaker 1: you have to put so much crap on your head.
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  Speaker 1: Some people would say that's why I'm so dumb. But
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  Speaker 1: after a while, you start getting like, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to call them blisters, but you get like junk on
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  Speaker 1: your head, man. I was like, I can't do this anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to go bald. So I had to stop.
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  Speaker 1: And anyways, we don't have time. We don't have time.
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  Speaker 1: But Jerry Rogers walks in and goes, what's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: Why would you put your hair back to normal?
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  Speaker 2: So you could have hit 300 for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: your career and all you would have to do is
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  Speaker 2: look like this. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Or I could have this flowing mane of hair that
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  Speaker 1: will not go away. Yeah. So I tried it. I
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  Speaker 1: tried it. It looked awesome. I have to admit, it
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  Speaker 1: did look pretty awesome, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: We just saw a stat where I hit 090-whatever in
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  Speaker 2: one season. There is pretty much nothing about this look
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  Speaker 2: that would have inhibited me from not doing it to
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  Speaker 2: hit 300 one season, let alone another season again. Jeez.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Brewer Territory host, And Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I know how to say your last name, Kurt Hogue,
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  Speaker 1: but can I just tell you that producer lady just
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  Speaker 1: put how to say it? And she wrote hoggy or hoagie.
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  Speaker 1: She put hoagie. Hoagie. H-O-E slash G. So hoagie. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was hoagie.
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  Speaker 2: Hoagie.
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  Speaker 1: And then, and she said not hog like the piggy.
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  Speaker 1: So it's hoagie, right? Am I right? It's not hoagie.
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah. Hoagie like hoagie, like the sandwich. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's Ho-G because it's a dash. Ho-G. Okay, yeah. We
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  Speaker 1: can operate with that.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, it's my name. I'm pretty sure I know
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  Speaker 1: what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Ho-G the OG, baby.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. There you go. I like it. That's
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  Speaker 1: not bad. That's like Murph, right? Murph is like an
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  Speaker 1: OG pulling dudes out of the game when they don't hustle.
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  Speaker 3: That was good.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is going on in Milwaukee? This is
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  Speaker 1: not acceptable, Ho-G.
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  Speaker 3: That was, first, AJ, that was really good hosting. I
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  Speaker 3: got to give you some props for that. We just
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  Speaker 3: transitioned right into that. Yeah, this is the Pat Murphy experience.
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  Speaker 3: If this is your first time watching the Brewers, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: This is not the first time that he's done this.
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  Speaker 3: You go in that clubhouse or you go in other
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  Speaker 3: clubhouses around baseball that have, like, guys that played for him.
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  Speaker 3: This has happened before. Sal Frehley got pulled. Caleb Durbin
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  Speaker 3: got pulled. Caleb Durbin's, like, Murph's favorite player of all time.
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  Speaker 3: Joey Ortiz got benched when Murph said he was quote
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  Speaker 3: unquote pissed at him. Uh, he's pulled two starters in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of that bats already this month. There's other
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  Speaker 3: guys there too. I think Jackson Churio at some point
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  Speaker 3: had this happen. So this is for better or for
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  Speaker 3: worse part of the Pat Murphy Brewers experience. I do
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  Speaker 3: think there was like, yesterday's felt a little different. Like
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  Speaker 3: there was a little more gray area. Um, with whether
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  Speaker 3: Pratt deserved to be pulled or not. I guess it's
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  Speaker 3: up for interpretation, you know, depending on how, if you
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  Speaker 3: think he could have gotten to second base, if he
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  Speaker 3: was hustling, what percent he was hustling, all these sorts
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  Speaker 3: of questions. Like if it raises to a certain level,
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  Speaker 3: most managers, they just let it fly. Pat Murphy, he doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Is there anybody immune to this? the Pat Murphy experience?
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  Speaker 3: Are there any players? Does he put up more with
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  Speaker 3: William Contreras' antics? Does he know that Christian Yelich will
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  Speaker 3: never do wrong? That's a tough question. I think it
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  Speaker 3: would take a lot. I think the standard to pull
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  Speaker 3: a guy, the bar to pull a Yelich or a Contreras,
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  Speaker 3: a veteran essentially, is significantly higher than it is for
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  Speaker 3: young players. If you look at the players that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Murph admonishes or publicly criticizes, usually it is the younger
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  Speaker 3: players that make the mistakes. Now, I don't necessarily think
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  Speaker 3: we would ever see Christian Yelich be in a position
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  Speaker 3: where he's doing something that gets him pulled from the game.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the way he plays. But I do think
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  Speaker 3: it's fair if you look across the board and you
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  Speaker 3: see the young starters. Brandon Sprint was pulled mid at bat.
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  Speaker 3: Robert Gasser, that was also this month. Those are young
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  Speaker 3: guys early in their big league careers. Sal Freelick was
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  Speaker 3: in his second, I think, year, full year. Cale Durbin
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  Speaker 3: was in his rookie year when he got pulled. Cooper Pratt,
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  Speaker 3: rookie year last night. It kind of goes back to
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  Speaker 3: the college style of coaching from Pat Murphy, whether you
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  Speaker 3: agree with it or not.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that was going to be my question. Murph hates
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  Speaker 1: it when you say that he coaches like a college coach.
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  Speaker 1: He will publicly admonish you. I'm just letting you know, Kurt,
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  Speaker 1: he better not hear this because he has said things
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  Speaker 1: to me when I've said, and I like the way
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  Speaker 1: he Manages or coaches, whatever you want to say, but he,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a college style. It's just my style. And
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I was like, Murph, you were a college coach for
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: a long time and you're sending a message, right? You're
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: sending a message. And that's fine. And if that's the
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: way he does it and Matt Arnold and the ivory tower,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: as he calls it, which is the front office, lets
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: him get away with it. Then he has to do
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: what he does. And then brewers play a very specific
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: type of baseball and I'm all for it. So Murph,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: keep being that college coach because you're rocking it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Should I, should I poke the bear on this
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: later today? Please, please, please tell him he's being a
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: college coach.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Okay. I'll do it.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I'll ask, I'll ask if this feels like it's true
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: to his college roots. I mean, like, that's what it
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: is to a, to a certain degree, not, not, not
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: even in a, in a, in a bad sense. Like, um,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: I guess you could probably have a negative connotation with
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: a big league manager, you know, managing in a college style,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: but look, it has been successful, um, to a pretty
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: high degree, the guys won back-to-back manager of the year awards.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: And like, it's different. It, it, it startles you when
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: you see Cooper Pratt coming off. Like I, I thought,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I didn't think he was dogging at all. I thought
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: maybe if he can turn his first base to go
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: to second, Carson Bench has got one of the best
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: arms of baseball might throw him out. So maybe it
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: was smart to actually stay at first base, but this
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: is how it goes. And if, if you're not getting
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: the butt down and you're not busting it all the
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: way out, out the baseline and you're a rookie, uh,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: it might be a learning moment for you. And it's
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: been successful. They got the best record in baseball again.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: They had the best record in baseball in the regular
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: season last year. We all know this. We all know
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: that it has worked and that it's different.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Is it fair to say that the game was lost
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: last night because they didn't have Cooper Pratt out there?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: And is that something that a moment like that, had
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: it happened in a larger market, does it fly in
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: a larger payroll?
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Does it fly?
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Because for people who don't know, Hotshot, bases loaded, infield in,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: and maybe the bases weren't loaded. But David Hamilton, who
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: came in for Cooper Pratt, he went and played third.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Ortiz played short. Ball was thrown home, thrown wide on
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: a tough play. Again, they lost the game. They won
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: the war. Or is this something that it flies because
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: of where the Brewers are at?
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Man, there's so much gray area to all this. They
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: didn't lose the game just because of this. I mean,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: they were two for 14 with runners in scoring position.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Francisco Lindor made a great play on David Hamilton, which
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: would have given them the lead in the ninth inning.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: But the play that ultimately ended the game was one
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: that Joey Ortiz made. he makes that throw at third base.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: So you can't say that there was, you know, no
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: consequence to the rest of the game by taking Cooper
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Pratt out with a 1-0 lead in the fifth inning.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Like I mentioned to that gray area, the Brewers operate,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Pat Murphy operates in this If you've been in his office,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: you've talked to him in his win-tonight mode where every
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: game we're going to push it as far as we
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: reasonably can to win that night. He chased the game
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: last night with Aaron Ashby pitching in the eighth when
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: they're losing. So that's how they operate. But also by
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: taking your best, your elite defensive shortstop out of the game,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: you're limiting your bench. They couldn't pinch it for David
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Hamilton in the ninth with a right-hander. That is not
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: a win-tonight move necessarily necessarily. But the idea, if I'm
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: reading Pat Murphy's mind properly, which who knows if I am,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: but it's like you mentioned, Kretzy, it's maybe not win tonight,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: but win the war. Have Cooper Pratt learn a lesson,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: have the rest of the team see this and learn
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: a lesson and figure it out down the road. Now,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: is that how it's going to happen? That might be
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: an oversimplification, right? Like these are human beings. This is
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: a clubhouse with guys with emotions and... And like they're
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: big leaguers, they have their own opinions on stuff too.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: So tonight's game is going to be big. This series,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: you know, like coming off from this and getting back
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: on a winning track because you don't want things to
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: snowball or spiral if guys are, you know, kind of
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: looking over their shoulder wondering, you know, what's next.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: It's time to remind everyone why baseball is glorious, especially
• 21:27
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• 21:30
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• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Well, speaking about being out of it, I'm an American
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: League East guy, and I'm talking to you Toronto fans.
• 21:50
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• 21:53
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• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Look at the standings right now. Both of you teams
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: are right back in this wildcard race.
• 22:00
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• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Whose shoulder is more important for you to talk about?
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Brandon Woodruff or Sal Freelick?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Yes. How about Bo? I'd probably sell Freelix for this
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: year simply because, I mean, Brandon Woodruff not needing surgery
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: is such a huge twist to his career, honestly. Like
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: his career might be saved because of this. But as
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: far as this year goes, like I'll believe it when
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I see it because he's got to play catch for
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: five weeks and there's some history with that shoulder being injured.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: So it would be an insane recovery and comeback story
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: if he's able to pitch. But Sal Freelix is the
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: guy who, like, he's very critical to the fabric of
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: this team on defense, on offense, and we didn't see
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: that version of him for the first three and a
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: half months of the year. Luis Lara has played great,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: especially defensively, but ultimately they could really use good, you know,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: 288 hitting like he did last year, Sal Freelick.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'm going to ask you straight up. Are
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the Brewers good enough to get it done this year?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: With the tough National League, they have Miz, Harrison's bounced
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: back nicely, right? Are they good enough? I saw, you know,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: it hurts them. Your rebate went on the aisle, but
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: are they good enough to get this done and get
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: to the world series, which is, I know it's nice.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: They make the post season every year. And it's the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: question that brewers hate the brewers. People hate answering, but
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: are they good enough straight up to get to the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: post season and make a deep run? Not just get
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: to the post season, get to the world series.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I absolutely think this team, if you look at
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: their roster construction, now there's, there's questions. Like I got questions.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: You got questions. We all have fair questions for, about
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: if the offense is going to be able to produce
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: without hitting home runs for a long enough time in
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: the playoffs to get to the World Series to win
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: the World Series. Like, we've been asking that same question
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: for four years, and the answer is, but no. But
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: if you look at this roster and the way it's constructed, like,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: they do have the top-end talent with Miz and the
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: way that rotation's lined up. And then, you know, if
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: you get hot Jackson Churrio, that's one of the best
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: hitters in baseball. William Contreras has looked better of late. So,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: They do have the roster that is balanced. And I
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: feel like if you're looking at the playoffs, aside from
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: not hitting home runs, which is a massive caveat here,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: it does feel like this team is constructed as well
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: as maybe any since Kratz was around in 2018 to
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: actually go the whole way. Because remember last year, they
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: were throwing openers every game in the playoffs that Freddie
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: wasn't starting. They've actually got real starting pitchers to give
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: you some innings. Then you can turn it over to
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: a bunch of different options out of the bullpen. So
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: they have a path. They certainly have a path. You
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: don't get to the best record in baseball without like
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: a decent chance to actually do it. But the questions
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: are absolutely fair.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: But the question is, I mean, they had the best
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: record in baseball last year. And they had stead openers
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: because of question marks that cropped up. All-star last year,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Jacob Mizorowski. They weren't sure what they were going to
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: get out of him. Ultimately, the way he performed in
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, he should have been starting. But, you know,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: you don't have that question mark. Are there question marks
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: that could pop up? Anything is possible in the month
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: of September. But that would make you say the Brewers
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: are just a little bit short in the sense of
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: is it an injury recovery? We can never say, oh, well,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: the injured, you know, if somebody gets hurt, obviously William
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Contreras goes down. I don't know that the Brewers are
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the best with El Gary catching every playoff game.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: It's, it's what level of Christian Yelich do you have?
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: I do. What level of William Contreras too? He'd been
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: slumming for about two months there, but he seems to
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: be turning a corner. So those are two big bats
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: that you can't, cannot do this without like what, what
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: version of Bryce Terang are you getting against left-handed pitching?
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: He's been slumping in August just in general too. So
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I think you look at those three bats, and then
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: there's also a level of like, what Kyle Harrison are
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: the Brewers going to get? He's still had some good results,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: but he's been battling some ineffectiveness, I guess, with the
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: fastball in his last few starts, trying to get his body,
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: trying to get that arm angle and that release point
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: back to where it's humming, because like we just talked about,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: you can't do this without you're starting pitching. They have
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: four guys that can start if you throw Dustin May
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: in there. But if you start losing some effectiveness or
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: an injury to one of those guys, it starts to
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: look a lot more dicey because this team's not going
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: to win a World Series by scoring six runs a game.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: It's simply not going to happen.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: No, no, it's not, Kurt, because they don't hit home
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: runs and they're going to have to be perfect again.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: And I hope they are because... Kratz knows this. We're
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: all rooting for the Brewers. We love Murph. We love
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Matt Arnold. And we like seeing them do really well.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: And if Kratz doesn't say they're the best team, then
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the Brewers fans can wear him out every time they
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: see him. So Kratz has to suck up to Brewer Nation.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kratzy? Yeah, that's fair.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: That's fair. I don't have to.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: I don't have to.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: They know where my allegiance stands. No, please tell us.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Where it stands? Yeah.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're one of the better teams
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: in the National League. Are they the best right now?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Okay. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: We appreciate your somewhat honesty there, Kratzer. We appreciate your
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: somewhat honesty. By the way, Kurt Hoji, while we have you,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Jacob Mizorowski, a lock for Cy Young? Pretty much a lock, right?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, unless something crazy happens.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: It would take a lot, yeah. I mean, okay.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Do you ask him, do you ask him about that
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: stuff or do you just, no one brings it up
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: to him? Honestly, there's a.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Guy that like you could ask about the Cy Young
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: in August and, and maybe get a real answer. It
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: would be Miz. He just tells you what he's thinking.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: The Brewers have a few guys like that. And Miz
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: is certainly, certainly one of them. So I have not
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: asked him about it. Just because like, you know, the
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: baseball player answers to that is always the same, but
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: maybe it's, Maybe I should ask Murph about being a
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: college coach today.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, please do. Please ask Murph about that and have
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Vassallo in between Game Changer reps of the sun film
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: it just so we can see Murph's reaction just because
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I want to see him get that machine that was
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: fixing his hip and throw it at you. By the way,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: were you at the Little League Classic?
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: No, I was not. I just flew in.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: All right. That's fair. I was hoping you were there.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I wanted a full report on how cool it was
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: and how cool the kids and how excited they were.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: It looked awesome. Everyone said it was cool, but I,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I was, I was on my couch.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: That's fair. So was I, so was I Kurt. All right, Kurt.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Read, catch more of Kurt Hoji
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: at a brewer territory with Kurt, Corey Knabel and JP.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say this one wrong. Fire, fire Eisen.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I nailed it. It took a little while. It's no ho-gee,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: but we're close. All right, Kurt. Thank you.