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FT Live in Milwaukee: Interviews with Woodruff, Rasmussen & more · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: All right, you guys, we are in the weeds. We
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Speaker 1: welcome you back live here in Milwaukee as we get
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Speaker 1: ready for game one of the 2026 World Series. We're
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Speaker 1: getting ready to start our second hour. Corey Knabel, brewer,
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Speaker 1: of course, was here, what, four or five years? Five,
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Speaker 1: six years, Corey?
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Speaker 2: Six years, sure was, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Kevin Pillar, 13-year big leaguer outfielder primarily for the Toronto
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays. I am Alana Rizzo. Good to be with
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Speaker 1: you guys. Let's finish what we were chatting about earlier
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Speaker 1: in terms of breaking down the position by position. We
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Speaker 1: already kind of went through the starting staff, right? Or
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Speaker 1: at least the starting pitchers for game one. We talked
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Speaker 1: exclusively about Jacob Mizorowski. We talked about Nick Martinez. Let's
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Speaker 1: go position by position. All right, so I'm going to
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Speaker 1: start with... Let's just start with catching, all right? So, KP,
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Speaker 1: we will start with you. Who has the advantage in
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Speaker 1: terms of the catching position between the two clubs?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at all the positions.
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Speaker 3: I think this is probably one of the easier positions
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Speaker 3: to choose from. I think Liam Hicks is a great catcher.
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Speaker 3: I think he's been a great addition for the Rays
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Speaker 3: coming over from Miami. But, you know, for everything– that
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Speaker 3: Contreras does not only offensively for that pitching staff. We
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Speaker 3: heard Pat Murphy talk about him being a pit bull
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Speaker 3: and need to be put in the cage. So, obviously,
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Speaker 3: he's this team's emotional leader as well. So, pretty easy
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Speaker 3: choice for me.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 4: Brewers have the advantage there. I mean, I'll keep the hat, too.
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Speaker 4: I've got to take– I mean, yeah, exactly what KP said.
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Speaker 4: Hicks has been– I mean, he's been incredible, what he's
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Speaker 4: been doing for the race so far this year ever
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Speaker 4: since they got him. But, yeah, it's tough to not
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Speaker 4: go with Wild Bill, especially from all the pitchers' standpoints, too. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: he's a great hitting catcher, and what he's done so
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Speaker 4: far in this postseason, what he did in the NLCS, too,
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Speaker 4: was incredible, huge for the guys, but he doesn't just
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Speaker 4: take his at-bats to the dish. I mean, he's going
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Speaker 4: behind the plate, and he's got full focus. You see
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Speaker 4: him a couple times with the Americans and the Latins.
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Speaker 4: I mean, look, he doesn't like that pitch that Ashley
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Speaker 4: just threw.
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Speaker 2: He lets them know.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he'll give those fastballs right back to them
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Speaker 4: to let them know, hey, stop trying to aim. Throw
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Speaker 4: this pitch, and I think that's huge for the pitchers
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Speaker 4: from what he's doing. And, yeah, obviously, you look at
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Speaker 4: his numbers from what he's done in the postseason, a.
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Speaker 4: 367 average. He's one of the– I think that's top, right?
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Speaker 4: That's got to be leading the league or leading the
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Speaker 4: team so far in the postseason.
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Speaker 1: Give me the hats.
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Speaker 5: Go ahead.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what we're doing.
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Speaker 1: All right. Sorry about that.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 1: We're going around the diamond. First, before we get into that,
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Speaker 1: catching Contreras has been fantastic. Eight playoff games, you guys
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Speaker 1: posting a 1-1-5-7 OPS with three home runs. Mid-season acquisition,
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Speaker 1: Liam Hicks. I know you guys like him. 129 OPS
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Speaker 1: plus in 41 games for Tampa Bay. That is awesome.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: First base. Let's go. Corey, who has the advantage in
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Speaker 1: terms of the first base spot?
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, that's a tough one, too. Obviously, Bowers,
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Speaker 4: MVP of the NLCS. I've loved watching Bowers all year.
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Speaker 4: I've loved watching what he has done hitting-wise. I mean,
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Speaker 4: he's had some great at-bats, but It's tough to also
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Speaker 4: not go with Aranda here. I mean, what he has
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Speaker 4: done for the team as well is humongous. All postseason,
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Speaker 4: these guys are fantastic. And I'm still going to choose, obviously.
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Speaker 2: My Brewers here. I got to go Bowers 100%.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was a bit shocked to find out a
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Speaker 3: couple days ago that Jake Bowers, I believe, was eighth
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Speaker 3: entire baseball and on base percentage.
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Speaker 1: Which is insane.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you think about– Typically, the guys that
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Speaker 3: get on base are typically your super superstars that pitchers
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Speaker 3: are just so afraid to throw strikes to that they
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Speaker 3: walk at a high clip or your generational talents like
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Speaker 3: Juan Soto. But the fact that Jake Bowers was eighth
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Speaker 3: in the entire baseball and on base percentage, he's coming
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Speaker 3: off an NLCS MVP.
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Speaker 2: I love Jonathan Aranda as a player.
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Speaker 3: I mean, if you took out the postseason statistics, if
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Speaker 3: you just said, hey, who would I rather want on
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Speaker 3: my team?
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Speaker 2: I'd probably go in Jonathan Aranda.
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Speaker 3: But when you show me some of these numbers, you know,
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Speaker 3: the 864 versus the 676 OPS right now. You know,
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Speaker 3: the legs got to go up to Jake Bowers right now.
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Speaker 3: But if I'm starting a team, I'm probably taking Jonathan Branda.
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Speaker 3: I think he's one of the best pure hitters in baseball.
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Speaker 3: But coming off an MVP, the momentum he has right now,
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Speaker 3: and obviously the patience he has at the plate, I'm
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Speaker 3: going to go advantage Jake Bowers.
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Speaker 2: At first base.
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Speaker 1: Does it make it even more impressive, you guys– knowing
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Speaker 1: the fact that Jake Bowers was going to step away
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Speaker 1: from baseball entirely, Corey, he only came back because his
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Speaker 1: wife became pregnant. They were going to have a baby.
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Speaker 1: They're starting a family. And he's like, I kind of
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Speaker 1: need health insurance. So he came back to the game
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Speaker 1: that we all love. He ends up being the NLCS MVP.
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Speaker 1: Baseball is the weirdest game in the world. Does that
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Speaker 1: make what he's done even more impressive?
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Speaker 6: It is.
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Speaker 4: And I mean, I think we can both agree here that,
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Speaker 4: you know, the game of baseball is so mental. It's so,
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Speaker 4: it's so draining. Sometimes you start focusing on your bats.
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Speaker 4: You start focusing on your success, your, your failures. And
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Speaker 4: it's tough to not think about them. You know, it's
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Speaker 4: tough to just constantly stay neutral. And, and when you
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Speaker 4: get to that point.
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Speaker 2: Right, where it's just, all right, that's it. I'm I'm out.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to, I'm, I'm at peace with it. I'm
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Speaker 2: going to settle. And then now it's, well, now I
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Speaker 2: have to do this.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's, it's more of a, a family wellbeing thing.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: And you go in and, and now it's just, I,
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Speaker 4: I was already going to quit. So what, what, what
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Speaker 4: else now?
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't have anything else to think about.
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Speaker 4: And I go up there and I'm just going to
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Speaker 4: play baseball instead of thinking about it as a job,
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Speaker 4: which a lot of us do.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 4: And now he's just going in and he's playing baseball and, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: If I could, if I could encapsulate that feeling of
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Speaker 3: freedom from the game and I experienced it on a
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Speaker 3: much different level when I got released from the White
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Speaker 3: Sox signed with the angels and I knew I was
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Speaker 3: kind of on my last chance.
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Speaker 2: And I said, you know what?
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Speaker 3: I don't care what happens. I got an opportunity to
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Speaker 3: play one last time. Throughout that season, I kind of
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Speaker 3: checked off a little– these boxes that I had unchecked
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Speaker 3: in my career. But I was arguably playing the best
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Speaker 3: baseball in my career because I wasn't thinking about a
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Speaker 3: contract next year. I wasn't thinking about getting a job
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Speaker 3: next year.
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Speaker 2: I was just free.
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Speaker 3: So if you could– and it's easier said than done
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Speaker 3: now that we're sitting here retired. I would tell every kid, yeah,
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Speaker 3: just play like you're free and you don't care. If
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Speaker 3: I can encapsulate that feeling and sell it to players–
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Speaker 3: I'd be very wealthy. And you can really only ever
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Speaker 3: really experience that when you go through something like Jake
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Speaker 3: Bauer did. When you are 100% certain, you know what?
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Speaker 3: I've given this game everything I had. I'm ready to
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Speaker 3: walk away. And then obviously family stuff comes up. And
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Speaker 3: the great thing about our game, even at the minor
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Speaker 3: league level, is we have great health insurance. And he
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Speaker 3: knew that that was the best thing for his family.
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Speaker 3: But when you get that perspective in life... to be
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Speaker 3: able to go, you know what? I'm not doing this
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Speaker 3: because it's my job. I'm doing this for the well-being
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Speaker 3: of my family, and I'm going to give it a
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Speaker 3: second go. The freedom he has playing right now, playing
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Speaker 3: with house money, is hard to bet against.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful thing. Browers has driven in more runs, six compared
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Speaker 1: to Aranda's five. They're pretty similar on a lot of things,
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Speaker 1: both really good options. Moving around the diamond to second base, guys,
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Speaker 1: who is your choice in terms of who's the second
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Speaker 1: baseman you want to build your team around? Corey, we'll
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Speaker 1: start with you.
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Speaker 4: I mean, if you're talking about hitting, obviously I'm going
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Speaker 4: to go Palacios here, especially what he's done in the postseason.
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Speaker 2: Terang's hitting.
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Speaker 4: It was fantastic in the regular season, and so far
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Speaker 4: in the postseason, we didn't really see too much in
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Speaker 4: the NLDS, and then he came back, I think, in
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Speaker 4: the NLCS with a huge improvement, right? A. 364, but
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Speaker 4: and yeah, overall defense, I mean, you got a platinum
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Speaker 4: glove winner over there with Terang, so it's tough to
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Speaker 4: not go with him to build your team around him,
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Speaker 4: but I mean, look, the guy is a hype man
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Speaker 4: right now, and I'm choosing Palacios on this in second base.
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Speaker 1: Are you on board with that?
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Speaker 2: No, I'm not.
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Speaker 3: And look, I'm kind of contradicting because I just went
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Speaker 3: with kind of recent bias-y of– you know, I think
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Speaker 3: Jonathan Aranda is a better hitter than Jake Bowers, but
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Speaker 3: what he did recently, but I mean, we're talking about
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Speaker 3: starting second baseman and probably arguably the best player on
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Speaker 3: team USA this year and vice terrain, you know, he had.
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Speaker 2: A great role baseball classic.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about one of the best defenders in baseball,
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Speaker 3: if not the best defender, we know he's the best
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Speaker 3: second baseman, but maybe the best defender regardless of position.
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Speaker 3: But I also like what he did recently. You know,
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Speaker 3: I think, Once again, baseball is a really weird game
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Speaker 3: where I kind of saw this interviewer where Bryce Terrain
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Speaker 3: was talking about toughest– pictures he has to face. And
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Speaker 3: one of them was Tarek Scooble. And then, you know,
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Speaker 3: he goes and hits the home run off of them.
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Speaker 3: So sometimes when you just have this ultimate, you know,
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Speaker 3: level of freedom where, Hey, you know, this guy on
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Speaker 3: the mound's a tough matchup.
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Speaker 2: He's probably better than me.
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Speaker 3: And you find some freedom in that, that big home
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Speaker 3: run you hit kind of, I think unlocked them a
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Speaker 3: little bit.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you guys certainly would know better than I
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Speaker 1: having played in this game. I couldn't even make contact,
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Speaker 1: get up on the infield, but is it, if you
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Speaker 1: walk up to the plate sometimes and you're like, Oh, well, great.
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Speaker 1: It's Tarek Scooble. He's a Cy Young award winner a
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Speaker 1: billion times over.
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Speaker 2: F it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I can relate to that more than maybe
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Speaker 3: him on the mound. But I think as a hitter,
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Speaker 3: I learned it later in my career.
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Speaker 1: If Aaron Judge walks in the box, you're like, F it.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to throw this. I have the authority here.
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Speaker 1: It's my decision. You have to hit it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you brought it up to that interview with Drang.
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Speaker 4: And I remember that because I thought the same thing.
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Speaker 4: Paul Goldschmidt, to me, was my– in my head, I
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Speaker 4: could never get him out. He got a hit almost
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Speaker 4: every time he came into the play. I mean, you
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Speaker 4: look at the numbers, I want to say he's hitting
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Speaker 4: like 240 off me. It's not that much, but I've
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Speaker 4: just faced him so much, and I always thought this
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Speaker 4: was my toughest hitter to ever face. I've had plenty
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Speaker 4: of guys that are hitting 300, 400 off me. But
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Speaker 4: in my mind, that's it. And, yeah, I mean who
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Speaker 4: knows what it is with terrain and Scoogle, but.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. It's, ah, screw it.
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Speaker 4: I'm probably going to strike that anyway.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes you have to understand that the guy you're
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Speaker 3: facing is also pretty damn good.
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Speaker 2: At what he does, if not maybe the best in
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Speaker 2: the game.
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Speaker 3: And sometimes you can trick yourself into believing like, hey,
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Speaker 3: I'm really not supposed to, especially left on left terrain
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Speaker 3: versus no matter how good terrain is, facing a guy
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Speaker 3: who's got back-to-back Cy Young, who throws him a funky
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Speaker 3: angle left on left.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes you just have to walk up and be like,
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Speaker 2: you know what? He's supposed to get me out.
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Speaker 3: Everyone in the stadium probably knows I'm going to get out.
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Speaker 3: And then there's this sense of freedom, much like Jake
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Speaker 3: Bowers probably experienced in his career. So I do think
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Speaker 3: that one at bat unlocked him a little bit. And
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Speaker 3: we talked about him kind of hitting, you know, 360,
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Speaker 3: 370 for the rest of that series.
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Speaker 2: I think he's coming in hot.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You know, he's the team on any given day he
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Speaker 3: can be their very best player. So I'm going to
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Speaker 3: go Terang for second base.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 1: I love that we're disagreeing here. Richie Palacios, Bryce Terang.
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Speaker 2: We love it.
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Speaker 1: Shortstop, which I think is the hardest defensive position. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: everybody comes up as a shortstop, right? You talk to
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Speaker 1: anybody in the Dominican, I came up as a shortstop.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's a shortstop. Not many people can have success at
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Speaker 1: the shortstop position at the big league level. So if
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Speaker 1: you're looking at the shortstops, guys, for you, is it
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Speaker 1: Pratt or is it Walsh?
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Speaker 2: Uh, I gotta go Pratt here too.
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Speaker 4: Um, I mean, walls has been obviously phenomenal over the
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Speaker 4: shortstop and shortstop.
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Speaker 2: It's your captain position, right?
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Speaker 4: When you're looking at, when you're looking at the infield,
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Speaker 4: obviously you've got terrain over there, kind of the captain position,
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Speaker 4: but I mean, Cooper Pratt has come up and he,
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Speaker 4: he has done fantastic in, uh, in the post season, man.
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Speaker 4: And what he has done all regular season, uh, he's
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Speaker 4: been great over defensively. He's had a couple errors so
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Speaker 4: far in the postseason, but I'm not worried about it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously he's young. He's got a lot going
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Speaker 4: on in his mind, but his hitting right now, he's
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Speaker 4: come alive hitting 310 so far in the postseason. This is,
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Speaker 4: I'm going Pratt here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a tough one for me.
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Speaker 3: I think they're just both so young and kind of
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Speaker 3: inexperienced and ideally in a situation like this, Regardless of
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Speaker 3: what you get offensively, it's a bonus. You really want
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Speaker 3: the more sure-handed shortstop in this scenario. And I know
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Speaker 3: Cooper Pratt made a couple.
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Speaker 2: Errors in the previous series. Love what he's doing offensively.
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Speaker 2: I love Walls' speed.
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Speaker 3: The difficulty of him getting on base is a challenge
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Speaker 3: for him sometimes, but he is a little bit of
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Speaker 3: a game-changer. He can disrupt the game when he's able
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Speaker 3: to get on base offensively. But I got to go
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Speaker 3: Cooper Pratt here, too. Just, you know, the gap offensively
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Speaker 3: right now is so large. And even though it's a
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Speaker 3: small sample size. But yeah, typically you would go with
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Speaker 3: the more sure handed shortstop. I think both of these
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Speaker 3: guys are really good at their position.
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Speaker 1: So when I think shortstop, obviously, I think what offensive
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Speaker 1: production can they give you, right? That's kind of a
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Speaker 1: measuring stick for that position. But you bring up a
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Speaker 1: good point in terms of speed with these two teams
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Speaker 1: that are so similar in the way that they go
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Speaker 1: about their business. They know how to run the bases.
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Speaker 1: They move a guy over. They'll use the entire field.
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Speaker 1: They'll go opposite field. Yes, they can hit home runs,
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Speaker 1: but that's not the majority of their DNA. How much
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Speaker 1: does that speed, if at all, change your position on
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Speaker 1: who perhaps is more valuable?
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Speaker 4: And that's I love that you brought that up because, yeah,
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Speaker 4: I mean, Cooper is also fast, right? They're both they're
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Speaker 4: both quick. Almost a majority of players on both teams
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Speaker 4: are speed. We're going to see so many stolen bases,
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Speaker 4: so many.
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Speaker 2: I mean. Possibly infield hits, too, right? With this team.
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Speaker 2: Great defense. But, yeah, I mean, I still agree.
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Speaker 4: I think Pratt, obviously, not as fast as Walls. But still,
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Speaker 4: you're talking speed. You've got probably two or three of
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Speaker 4: the fastest players in the league on these two teams
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Speaker 4: with David Hamilton over there, too.
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Speaker 2: So, this is.
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Speaker 4: I still got to stick with Pratt. But, yeah, I
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Speaker 4: love these arguments with these two teams.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, speed does not slump. Third base. This is a
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Speaker 1: tough one, I think, right? Junior Caminero, David Hamilton, Joey Ortiz. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a platoon situation here with Milwaukee
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Speaker 1: with their third base spot. The hot corner, who are
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Speaker 1: you taking?
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Speaker 2: I'm going Caminero. Yeah. I take Caminero here. Yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 2: he's hitting. I mean, you look at that.
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Speaker 4: Third base, all three of those guys are playing great defense. Obviously,
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Speaker 4: I prefer Joey O when you're talking defense. What he's
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Speaker 4: done for making that switch from shortstop to third this year,
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Speaker 4: I mean, it was night and day difference. It's like
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Speaker 4: he belonged over at third base. And, yeah, his hitting
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Speaker 4: started coming up. But what Cameron Arrow has done, I mean,
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Speaker 4: this postseason, this season, for the raise for the whole
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Speaker 4: city of Tampa, I mean, Cameron Arrow is– He's a
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Speaker 4: special human being over there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it should be an easy decision, but
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Speaker 3: you look at what David Hamilton did, and he was
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Speaker 3: arguably the Brewers' best player, and the short sample size
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Speaker 3: he played not only hit home runs, stealing bases.
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Speaker 2: Getting bunts down, you know, but.
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Speaker 3: There's certain guys that you just can't bet against. Caminero
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Speaker 3: is one of our game's biggest stars. I don't care
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Speaker 3: if he came into this series hitless in the postseason.
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Speaker 3: His talent is just so much greater than anyone he's
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Speaker 3: going up against that it would be crazy not to
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Speaker 3: take it.
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Speaker 1: And some guys just wait for the bright lights, right?
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Speaker 1: Sometimes they kind of sleep their way. Not to say
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Speaker 1: that Caminero was. I'm not trying to say that. But
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Speaker 1: some guys just wait until... It's the bright lights in
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Speaker 1: the big city. There's Kike Hernandez is of the world.
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Speaker 1: I don't think, I don't care. It's over the regular season.
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Speaker 2: I want him. You feel like he's a sleeping giant.
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Speaker 2: Watch out. Not that he.
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Speaker 3: Didn't wake up, but yeah, he's a scary, he's a
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Speaker 3: scary individual.
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Speaker 4: I mean, Bill, Mike said earlier about Jackson, like so
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Speaker 4: far this post season, it's been a little iffy, but
15:49
Speaker 4: look at what he did. I mean, game, what was it?
15:50
Speaker 4: Game two of the NLDS against the Padres.
15:53
Speaker 2: Yeah. That, Big moment. Bases loaded.
15:56
Speaker 5: Don't push the.
15:56
Speaker 2: Bear because it's coming. Exactly. They're coming.
15:58
Speaker 4: All right.
15:59
Speaker 1: Quick hitters here. Now down to your spot, the outfield.
16:02
Speaker 1: Right fielder.
16:03
Speaker 2: Right fielder. Man, it's a toss-up.
16:09
Speaker 3: You know, South Relic, I think, tremendous defensively out there.
16:14
Speaker 3: Plays the game the right way. Does everything pretty much
16:18
Speaker 3: right on the baseball field.
16:20
Speaker 2: And then Mesa. Junior is just kind of a freak
16:24
Speaker 2: athlete too, man.
16:25
Speaker 3: Like, you know, numbers wise, it's probably a lot more
16:31
Speaker 3: similar than you would imagine. But when I'm just thinking
16:33
Speaker 3: about just pure talent and the ability to maybe change.
16:36
Speaker 2: The swing or the game with one swing, it'd be hard.
16:40
Speaker 1: To, does it matter based on park?
16:43
Speaker 3: No, I think there's certain talent to levels. I think
16:46
Speaker 3: there's certain swing profiles and strength and bat speed where
16:50
Speaker 3: ballpark doesn't matter for either for him. Yeah, I think
16:54
Speaker 3: he's going to go out wherever it goes out. You know,
16:57
Speaker 3: over the course of 162, I'm probably taking the more
17:00
Speaker 3: fundamentally sound South.
17:03
Speaker 2: Really, but I think Mason Jr. is just talent screens.
17:07
Speaker 3: He could change the series with one swing on that.
17:09
Speaker 1: Fair enough.
17:10
Speaker 2: I agree.
17:11
Speaker 4: I think both are evenly matched and Obviously, you look
17:14
Speaker 4: at right field, too. They're going to platoon a little
17:16
Speaker 4: bit with Luis Lara. He'll get in there and also
17:19
Speaker 4: a great young ballplayer. But, yeah, when you're looking at
17:22
Speaker 4: those two guys, Sal and Mesa, it's tough, right? I mean,
17:26
Speaker 4: I've watched Sal all year, and I love his motto
17:29
Speaker 4: that he's constantly yelling in the dugout. It's just drag him,
17:32
Speaker 4: you know, drag him down. Keep dragging down the pitchers.
17:35
Speaker 4: I mean, he's a great outfielder. They both are quick
17:39
Speaker 4: as well. What, two– both two stolen bases between them
17:43
Speaker 4: so far this postseason? And, I mean, yeah, what Sal
17:46
Speaker 4: has done coming back from his IL stint was, look,
17:50
Speaker 4: he just– he's got to be on the roster. We've
17:52
Speaker 4: got to have this guy as our hype guy. He's
17:54
Speaker 4: keeping everybody– keep great vibes, keeping everybody energized, which is
17:59
Speaker 4: exactly what he's done. So I'm going to go Sal here.
18:01
Speaker 1: Maybe these are both guys we were talking about kind
18:03
Speaker 1: of poking the bear, waking up that monster. Frelick 0
18:05
Speaker 1: for 6 in the NLCS. Victor Meza Jr. just hit.
18:09
Speaker 1: 091 in the ALCS in terms of six games. So
18:12
Speaker 1: perhaps either one of those guys or both get going.
18:15
Speaker 1: All right, left field.
18:17
Speaker 3: Man, we're talking about just two kind of different profiles
18:22
Speaker 3: of players right now. Like Chandler Simpson is arguably one
18:25
Speaker 3: of them. I mean, both of these guys are, could
18:27
Speaker 3: be some of the most fun guys and entertaining guys
18:30
Speaker 3: to watch.
18:30
Speaker 1: For different, that he came out of the wound-stealing basis.
18:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
18:36
Speaker 4: And he can play off defense.
18:39
Speaker 3: And he's exactly what, you know, a pitcher like him
18:43
Speaker 3: or a pitcher fears the most is this guy coming up.
18:46
Speaker 3: You would think a lot of times these pitchers fear
18:48
Speaker 3: guys that can bop them out of the ballpark, but
18:50
Speaker 3: it's these guys that hit a ball off the end
18:52
Speaker 3: of the bat and beat it, but then they know
18:54
Speaker 3: they have to hold.
18:55
Speaker 2: Them at first, second, third. They're constantly changing their timing
18:58
Speaker 2: and rhythm and stuff.
19:00
Speaker 3: He is an absolute game changer when he comes to
19:02
Speaker 3: home plate because of his speed. He puts everyone on
19:05
Speaker 3: defense on their heels because he's so damn fast.
19:07
Speaker 2: When he gets on, he's a disruptor. But Jack's a chariot, man.
19:11
Speaker 3: This guy could be the face of baseball. He's one
19:16
Speaker 3: of those guys, again, he could be a sleeping giant.
19:19
Speaker 3: His talent is just so much greater than Chandler Simpson's.
19:22
Speaker 2: I don't care what the numbers say. Everything I just
19:24
Speaker 2: talked about.
19:25
Speaker 5: His ceiling.
19:25
Speaker 2: He has the heat.
19:29
Speaker 3: More than anyone, maybe besides Caminero has the greatest chance
19:32
Speaker 3: of being from any offensive player.
19:35
Speaker 2: That's how great his talent is. So I'd have to
19:37
Speaker 2: go Jackson. I mean, I agree. I love it too,
19:40
Speaker 2: because exactly.
19:41
Speaker 4: He is, he is the giant here, but I mean,
19:45
Speaker 4: you said it also look what, Simpson does is exactly what, like,
19:48
Speaker 4: Billy Hamilton and, you know, Quentin Barry would.
19:51
Speaker 2: Do to me.
19:52
Speaker 4: You get on the bases, and now I got to
19:54
Speaker 4: think about you over at first base. And that's what
19:56
Speaker 4: Simpson does. I think he's disrupting the game that way.
19:59
Speaker 4: And Churrio's fast, too, but he's not Simpson fast. And
20:03
Speaker 4: you're looking at defense. Overall, both great defenders, too. They've
20:07
Speaker 4: changed the game significantly. multiple ways and.
20:09
Speaker 1: But does he need to be fast if he's sitting
20:11
Speaker 1: over the wall.
20:12
Speaker 4: Yeah you're right he doesn't need to be fast but
20:16
Speaker 4: what we've seen so far in the postseason with from
20:19
Speaker 4: cheerio i'm going to take simpson and left field i
20:23
Speaker 4: do man i love my cheerio i do but.
20:26
Speaker 1: I'm going to take simpson center field and then we'll
20:28
Speaker 1: do d8 let's.
20:28
Speaker 3: Go center center field um man what Garrett Mitchell did
20:34
Speaker 3: in the.
20:34
Speaker 2: It was beautiful. It was beautiful, right? And then, you know, even.
20:37
Speaker 1: Yeah.
20:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, robbing the home run, but then also hitting the
20:42
Speaker 3: home bird, hitting him off left-handed pitching.
20:46
Speaker 2: Man, he's coming in with a lot of momentum right now, too.
20:48
Speaker 1: Yep.
20:51
Speaker 2: The platoon advantage, though.
20:52
Speaker 3: I mean, Garrett Mitchell didn't exactly crush Montana pitching during
20:56
Speaker 3: the regular season. He did have some great swings, especially
20:59
Speaker 3: off Tanner Scott in that series. But I do like
21:03
Speaker 3: the platoon advantage that the Tampa Bay Rays have.
21:06
Speaker 2: So I'm going to go with DeLuca and Cedric Mullins. Okay.
21:10
Speaker 2: I like it.
21:11
Speaker 4: I'm going to stick with the Brewers here and go
21:14
Speaker 4: Mitchell because, I mean, the good thing is that the
21:19
Speaker 4: Rays don't have many left-handed pitchers. They've got, what, two, three,
21:24
Speaker 4: I believe. So that right there is looking great for Mitchell.
21:28
Speaker 4: I mean, Mitchell wasn't even trying to hit that homer
21:31
Speaker 4: right there, right? It looked like he just had a
21:33
Speaker 4: little check swing, golf swing. And it goes over the fence.
21:36
Speaker 4: So he's got some sneaky power. And, yeah, I mean,
21:39
Speaker 4: both obviously great center fielders, great defensive players. And I'm
21:42
Speaker 4: going to snoop with Mitchell from what he's been doing,
21:44
Speaker 4: producing so far in this postseason.
21:45
Speaker 1: Does it matter about guys that hit for contact? The
21:48
Speaker 1: only reason I ask that is DeLuca. Just four strikeouts,
21:51
Speaker 1: 30 ABs compared with Mitchell's 12 and 29. In a
21:54
Speaker 1: game like this where runs are going to come at
21:56
Speaker 1: a premium, you know you're going to face everyone's ace.
21:59
Speaker 1: Does contact matter?
22:00
Speaker 2: In the postseason, it does.
22:01
Speaker 3: Putting the ball in play matters. I'll tell you what,
22:06
Speaker 3: I never played in the World Series. I played in
22:07
Speaker 3: the postseason, and I was a guy known for defense,
22:11
Speaker 3: but I was always so much more nervous on defense
22:14
Speaker 3: than offensively because you're expected to make the plays. So
22:17
Speaker 3: when someone is constantly putting the pressure and not striking
22:20
Speaker 3: out and making your team get close to.
22:23
Speaker 2: 27 outs a game, it pays dividends in the postseason.
22:27
Speaker 3: It might not in this one at bat or that
22:29
Speaker 3: at bat, but over the course of a long season
22:31
Speaker 3: or a long series, putting the ball in play is
22:34
Speaker 3: what you ideally.
22:35
Speaker 2: Need to do in the postseason. Force defense to make
22:38
Speaker 2: it out. I had no idea.
22:40
Speaker 4: I had no idea about that. Yeah, I love watching
22:42
Speaker 4: you on defense, man. I never thought that it would be.
22:44
Speaker 3: It kind of goes back to the other idea of
22:47
Speaker 3: like in the postseason, you're always facing the team's best pitching.
22:50
Speaker 3: So there's part of you that goes like, man, if I'm,
22:53
Speaker 3: constantly facing the one, two, and three starter and the
22:56
Speaker 3: best guys in the bullpen, they're probably supposed to get
22:58
Speaker 3: you out, right? There was a freedom element to that,
23:00
Speaker 3: but defensively, the whole world.
23:03
Speaker 4: Knows it's a hope to make the play.
23:05
Speaker 2: I mean, and I love that.
23:07
Speaker 4: Both teams right now, to the outfield, as a pitcher...
23:11
Speaker 4: I love, I love anyone they put out there because
23:13
Speaker 4: this is a great defense.
23:15
Speaker 2: And then you've got some plus, right?
23:17
Speaker 1: You don't have to be so fine. You can stretch
23:19
Speaker 1: the guys behind you. My defense has got my back.
23:21
Speaker 2: I love this. I love this matchup.
23:23
Speaker 1: I got this. I got, they got my back.
23:24
Speaker 7: All right.
23:24
Speaker 1: DH Yandy Diaz versus, uh, it could be Christian Yelich.
23:29
Speaker 1: I could be Vaughn. We don't know what's going to
23:31
Speaker 1: happen in terms of that. What Pat Murphy, which direction
23:33
Speaker 1: he's going to go. Both guys, a fully qualified for
23:36
Speaker 1: you taking this DH.
23:37
Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at the names on the paper,
23:39
Speaker 3: it's a really tough choice because obviously Christian Ellis is
23:42
Speaker 3: a former league MVP.
23:44
Speaker 2: He's the captain of this team. But in my opinion,
23:46
Speaker 2: Yanni Diaz.
23:47
Speaker 3: Is in a top one hand and not two hands
23:51
Speaker 3: full of best pure hitters in baseball.
23:53
Speaker 2: I think he's got one of the best approaches.
23:56
Speaker 3: Every season, if you look at where Yandy Diaz ends up,
23:58
Speaker 3: he ends up somewhere between 290 and 315.
24:02
Speaker 2: With about 80 to 90 RBIs. He hits his 10,
24:05
Speaker 2: 15 to 20 home runs a year.
24:06
Speaker 3: Doesn't try to do too much. And the thing that
24:08
Speaker 3: impresses me the most about him, he never gets away
24:10
Speaker 3: from that right center field approach.
24:12
Speaker 2: And he hits elite pitching. So it's hard to ever
24:15
Speaker 2: bet against Yandy Diaz.
24:16
Speaker 4: I'm right there too, man. I mean, I love Yelly.
24:19
Speaker 4: Yelly and Vaughn, both former teammates. Huge respect for Yelly,
24:23
Speaker 4: but Look, you look at Yandy Diaz in the box,
24:26
Speaker 4: and the guy's big.
24:27
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a presence in the box.
24:30
Speaker 1: I measured yesterday.
24:31
Speaker 2: The guy is big. We had a.
24:33
Speaker 1: Measuring tape, thanks to Michael Beer, our social lead. I
24:37
Speaker 1: measured Yandy Diaz's bicep. It's 20 inches.
24:40
Speaker 2: These are not. They're not close yet.
24:44
Speaker 4: You would think that this guy is Deadpool trying to
24:48
Speaker 4: do huge damage. But like you said, I mean, he's
24:50
Speaker 4: not getting away from his right center approach. which makes him,
24:54
Speaker 4: I mean, it makes him very lethal up there. And then, yeah,
24:57
Speaker 4: you hang something like he did, what, game six on
25:00
Speaker 4: that changeup? I mean, that just shut the game.
25:02
Speaker 1: He's a massive humanity. He is a presence in the box.
25:06
Speaker 1: Appreciate the breakdown of all of the position players, you guys.
25:09
Speaker 1: It is time to take a few questions from the
25:12
Speaker 1: fans coming up next. How are you doing, Eric?
25:16
Speaker 2: How are you doing, my man?
25:18
Speaker 5: How about this weather out here?
25:20
Speaker 2: What is your name?
25:22
Speaker 1: What city are you from?
25:23
Speaker 4: Okay.
25:23
Speaker 2: Welcome.
25:24
Speaker 5: How do you feel.
25:25
Speaker 1: About this weather.
25:27
Speaker 5: Coming into town here?
25:30
Speaker 3: A lot better than the weather I came from, I'll
25:31
Speaker 3: tell you that. And this is the epitome of October baseball.
25:35
Speaker 2: This is perfect.
25:36
Speaker 1: I mean, they live in Texas. I live in Massachusetts.
25:39
Speaker 2: Thank you.
25:43
Speaker 5: To have you guys.
25:43
Speaker 1: We love it.
25:44
Speaker 5: You guys are rocking it.
25:45
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. What's your question?
25:46
Speaker 2: Tell us.
25:47
Speaker 5: How do you feel about the weather?
25:49
Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
25:50
Speaker 2: It's post-season weather. I was expecting to be a little colder.
25:53
Speaker 4: I mean, at 18, it was 35, 40 degrees the
25:56
Speaker 4: whole NLCS.
25:57
Speaker 5: You can deal with that.
26:00
Speaker 2: It's perfect.
26:01
Speaker 5: We'll see what Mother Nature has to.
26:02
Speaker 2: Do for us. It's great. Good luck, Bert.
26:04
Speaker 1: Good to be with you.
26:05
Speaker 5: Cheers, Bucks.
26:05
Speaker 8: Thank you.
26:06
Speaker 2: Go Bulls. Cheers. All right.
26:12
Speaker 1: Hi, what's your name? Where are you from?
26:13
Speaker 2: I'm Paul.
26:14
Speaker 7: I live out in Brookfield. My question for you guys
26:18
Speaker 7: is kind of a two-parter here. So you know that
26:21
Speaker 7: only two starters have gone five innings for the Brewers.
26:25
Speaker 7: So how much do you think that the Brewers starters
26:28
Speaker 7: need to lengthen their starts? And how much did that
26:31
Speaker 7: affect Murphy bringing Brandon Woodruff back in and taking Chad
26:36
Speaker 7: Patrick out?
26:37
Speaker 4: Do you think he's going to be able to start
26:39
Speaker 4: and give a length?
26:41
Speaker 2: For the starters.
26:41
Speaker 1: I'm going to defer to our pitcher.
26:43
Speaker 2: Well, I'll answer this.
26:44
Speaker 4: I think, I mean, obviously it works in the NLCS, right?
26:48
Speaker 4: You got, you got Ms. Who didn't, didn't get up
26:50
Speaker 4: to five, but Bob gas is Bob gas.
26:53
Speaker 2: I mean, watch out.
26:54
Speaker 4: He's a, and the thing is that's, that's great for
26:57
Speaker 4: Murph is that you've got a bullpen to lean towards
27:01
Speaker 4: right there. If you can't, The way council worked with
27:03
Speaker 4: us when I was in there, it was, hey, we
27:05
Speaker 4: just need the.
27:06
Speaker 2: Starters to get through four. If you can get through four,
27:09
Speaker 2: we can go from there, which is great.
27:11
Speaker 4: But when you're talking about a six to seven game series, yeah,
27:14
Speaker 4: it would be beneficial to have, you know, five, six
27:17
Speaker 4: innings from Miz, from Hendo. And obviously you got your
27:20
Speaker 4: Bob Gasthorne on the road. I want that guy on
27:23
Speaker 4: the road 100% of the time.
27:24
Speaker 2: So it'd be beneficial. Awesome. Yeah.
27:28
Speaker 3: To follow up on that too, I think, What Milwaukee
27:31
Speaker 3: has going for them is they had a quick series
27:34
Speaker 3: in L.A. and they got ample time to get those
27:36
Speaker 3: guys rested.
27:38
Speaker 5: As this series.
27:39
Speaker 3: Goes deeper, the pendulum or the momentum kind of swings,
27:43
Speaker 3: assuming Tampa can kind of do what they did in
27:45
Speaker 3: the previous series, have their guys go deeper into the game,
27:48
Speaker 3: kind of favors their bullpen a little bit more. But
27:52
Speaker 3: the fact that they were able to take care of
27:53
Speaker 3: the Dodgers pretty quick, get rested, they have.
27:55
Speaker 2: A healthy bullpen.
27:57
Speaker 3: If they're not able to get length, though, in the
27:59
Speaker 3: first three, four games, and we're talking about games five, six,
28:02
Speaker 3: and seven, look for that bullpen to be a little
28:04
Speaker 3: bit gas. It's only human nature. There's only so much
28:07
Speaker 3: adrenaline in the world that can overcome pitching so deep
28:10
Speaker 3: into the season.
28:12
Speaker 1: Awesome.
28:12
Speaker 5: I thank you guys.
28:14
Speaker 2: Go Brewers. Love Brookfield.
28:16
Speaker 1: Hi there. What's your name? Where are you from?
28:19
Speaker 5: Kurt from Green Bay.
28:21
Speaker 2: Okay. Welcome.
28:22
Speaker 3: I just want to ask you, I apologize if we
28:24
Speaker 3: answered this earlier, but who do you pick for manager?
28:27
Speaker 7: Pat Murphy making those tough decisions or Kevin Cash for finishing?
28:31
Speaker 1: That's tough.
28:32
Speaker 5: We're both good, right? Who are you taking?
28:36
Speaker 2: It's such a great question. It's such a difficult question
28:40
Speaker 2: to answer. I mean, no one in.
28:43
Speaker 3: Baseball has been doing the same job longer than Kevin
28:47
Speaker 3: Cash has been doing for the Tampa Bay Rays.
28:48
Speaker 2: He's the longest-tenured manager in baseball.
28:51
Speaker 3: He's arguably working with the smallest budget in baseball, and
28:56
Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Rays are a team that are always
28:58
Speaker 3: competing for the postseason. To me, in a seven-game series,
29:04
Speaker 3: all the chips on the line to win a series–
29:08
Speaker 3: I want the guy who's got the best pulse on
29:10
Speaker 3: the human beings in the room.
29:11
Speaker 2: In my opinion, that's Pat Murphy. He's got the best pulse.
29:15
Speaker 3: Do I believe Pat Murphy still is an analytical guy
29:18
Speaker 3: and uses the information? But I think he has the
29:21
Speaker 3: feel and the heartbeat of his team more than potentially
29:24
Speaker 3: Kevin Cash. And I believe Kevin Cash does have a
29:26
Speaker 3: great feel for that.
29:27
Speaker 2: But I think it would be hard to argue against.
29:31
Speaker 3: Pat Murphy not having a stronger grip of what his
29:34
Speaker 3: team needs in these moments.
29:36
Speaker 2: I agree.
29:37
Speaker 4: I mean, you've probably been watching a lot of these games.
29:39
Speaker 4: and you've seen some decisions. I've been there too. Some
29:42
Speaker 4: of the decisions that Murphy's made, I'm like, man, I
29:45
Speaker 4: don't know if I agree with it, you know, as, as,
29:47
Speaker 4: me as a person, but then it's paid off.
29:49
Speaker 2: I mean, he knows what he's doing.
29:51
Speaker 4: There's things that he knows that we, as fans don't see,
29:55
Speaker 4: we don't know.
29:55
Speaker 2: I agree. Everything.
29:59
Speaker 4: I think cash is a great manager, but I'm going
30:01
Speaker 4: with Murphy here. The guy is stone cold.
30:03
Speaker 2: This is who you want. They say, Murphy, we trust.
30:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I know these guys played, but just
30:09
Speaker 1: knowing Pat Murphy, there's something about being a big league
30:13
Speaker 1: manager that you're not just putting a lineup together, right?
30:15
Speaker 1: You're not just putting the roster together or constructing the lineup.
30:19
Speaker 1: You have to be a psychologist of sorts, and Pat
30:22
Speaker 1: Murphy has a way of relating to his players, unlike
30:25
Speaker 1: a lot of managers that I've seen. So I think
30:27
Speaker 1: we're three for three on Murph.
30:30
Speaker 2: It was up for Ryan from Minneapolis.
30:33
Speaker 1: Bye.
30:34
Speaker 4: Hey, Corey, which is your favorite arm to watch on
30:37
Speaker 4: the Brewers? And, Kevin, which one would you not want
30:40
Speaker 4: to face in the box? Oh, my favorite arm to watch?
30:44
Speaker 4: I mean, from the beginning, this guy has been one
30:47
Speaker 4: of my teammates, one of my favorites. It's tough to
30:50
Speaker 4: not choose Woody here, but I'm going with Ashby. Ashby's
30:53
Speaker 4: been my guy. We rehabbed together in 19.
30:56
Speaker 2: I watched the guy. He looked special back then.
30:58
Speaker 4: And, I mean, watching what he's done, going from starter
31:01
Speaker 4: all over the place to bullpen to now really finding
31:04
Speaker 4: his home. Ashby's my guy, man. In our Brewer Territory stat,
31:10
Speaker 4: he's got the most sack plus.
31:13
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to give you a realistic answer.
31:15
Speaker 3: I mean, knowing who I was as a player, especially
31:18
Speaker 3: later in my career, I probably wouldn't have got the
31:20
Speaker 3: chance to face Mizorowski because I was right-handed. I was
31:24
Speaker 3: no longer an everyday player. That would have been an
31:26
Speaker 3: absolute nightmare. There was times where I was like, man,
31:29
Speaker 3: I wish I was playing. And then I was like, wait,
31:31
Speaker 3: I'm thankful to be a platoon guy because I don't
31:33
Speaker 3: have to face that type of right-on-right stuff. So Ashby
31:35
Speaker 3: would be my answer because that's someone that I'd have
31:37
Speaker 3: to face, potentially pitch hitting.
31:39
Speaker 2: And I think... When you have a guy who has
31:41
Speaker 2: the ability.
31:42
Speaker 3: To throw in the upper 90s, close to 100, but
31:44
Speaker 3: has multiple weapons, and you're going to pinch hit off
31:47
Speaker 3: of him, it's a tough at-bat.
31:48
Speaker 2: It's a really tough at-bat.
31:50
Speaker 1: Mine is anybody that's efficient, is not a human rain delay,
31:53
Speaker 1: even though we have the pitch clock now that just
31:55
Speaker 1: absolutely throws strikes and deals. Any of them. Any of
31:58
Speaker 1: those are.
31:59
Speaker 2: Bob Gass and Henderson. Thank you.
32:05
Speaker 5: Hi, I'm Matt from Fall River Mass.
32:07
Speaker 1: Hi, Matt.
32:08
Speaker 2: I'm Matt. What's up?
32:09
Speaker 5: I've been a fan for 30 years, so coming out
32:10
Speaker 5: here is huge for me. So a question I had was,
32:14
Speaker 5: do you think.
32:14
Speaker 3: You're playing Freddy Peralta in Tampa because the psyche of
32:17
Speaker 3: him coming back home might mess with his ability to
32:20
Speaker 3: be able to perform.
32:21
Speaker 5: Because of the emotion of it? So they're trying to
32:23
Speaker 5: cut that out and move him to Tampa so he
32:26
Speaker 5: doesn't have that factor.
32:27
Speaker 2: Playing the game? You know, who knows what.
32:31
Speaker 4: What the actual reasoning is, but I think for Milwaukee fans, right,
32:34
Speaker 4: you use that, right?
32:36
Speaker 2: I mean, take it.
32:38
Speaker 4: And then if that does happen in Milwaukee, then yeah,
32:40
Speaker 4: I mean, go ahead and try and take advantage of it.
32:42
Speaker 4: But look, as a pitcher, man, it's, it's tough to,
32:46
Speaker 4: it's tough to really get that in your head. But
32:48
Speaker 4: at the same time, I mean, it is baseball. If
32:52
Speaker 4: you got fans hounding you the whole time, it's, it's
32:55
Speaker 4: tough to not hear it. So No, I think Freddie
32:58
Speaker 4: P is– he's a great pitcher and he's not going
33:00
Speaker 4: to let anything get to him.
33:00
Speaker 2: But, you know, Cash has his decisions.
33:04
Speaker 4: Every manager has their decisions for reasons. So, yeah.
33:08
Speaker 2: To answer your question, I'm going to say yes and no. Yeah.
33:11
Speaker 3: I think no because I think the way that the
33:14
Speaker 3: rotation lined up and him being on normal rest, it
33:17
Speaker 3: made sense for him to pitch in game three. If
33:20
Speaker 3: it would have worked out where every one of those
33:22
Speaker 3: pitchers was available– Would they have potentially still pushed Freddie
33:26
Speaker 3: P back to Tampa?
33:28
Speaker 2: Possibly. The one thing.
33:30
Speaker 3: That I think people forget about is Freddie didn't leave
33:33
Speaker 3: here because he wanted to.
33:34
Speaker 2: He got traded away from here.
33:36
Speaker 3: And no matter how great you are as an athlete,
33:38
Speaker 3: you're still a human being first. There's still this human
33:40
Speaker 3: side of you that it would be hard for him
33:42
Speaker 3: to come back and play in a place that he
33:45
Speaker 3: loved and where people loved him. And when you're loved
33:48
Speaker 3: and then you're now the enemy and you're being booed,
33:51
Speaker 3: It's a hard thing to deal with as a human,
33:52
Speaker 3: no matter how great of a competitor or how high-level
33:55
Speaker 3: athlete you are. It would be a very difficult thing
33:57
Speaker 3: for him to do. Is Freddie capable of doing it?
34:00
Speaker 3: I think as this series goes deeper, which we all
34:03
Speaker 3: expect it to go, he may have that opportunity to
34:05
Speaker 3: pitch here back in Wisconsin.
34:07
Speaker 1: I know for certain that Freddie Peralta has a great
34:10
Speaker 1: deal of respect and admiration for the people of Milwaukee.
34:13
Speaker 1: He loved it here. Obviously, his time in New York
34:15
Speaker 1: was not the best for him, but Tampa has unlocked
34:18
Speaker 1: something in him again. Kind of that fastball. Freddie Moniker
34:23
Speaker 1: is back. He loves it there. I absolutely believe the
34:26
Speaker 1: great Brewers fans will give him an amazing ovation. But
34:30
Speaker 1: I think pitching, like KP's point, the fact that Nick
34:34
Speaker 1: Martinez is a veteran player, can handle the ball in
34:36
Speaker 1: game one. You give Drew Rasmussen one extra day of rest,
34:39
Speaker 1: and then Freddie at home, it lines up well. He
34:42
Speaker 1: could have pitched here, but it just kind of worked
34:44
Speaker 1: out in Tampa Bay's favor to start.
34:45
Speaker 2: Him at home.
34:46
Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean, you look at Freddie, he closed
34:48
Speaker 4: out game four. And then he started game six, so
34:51
Speaker 4: it was kind of short rest for him. And, yeah,
34:53
Speaker 4: I mean, also, to Milwaukee's standpoint, Milwaukee's got a great
34:58
Speaker 4: fan base. You know, you're not out there trying to
35:01
Speaker 4: boo opposing players unless you're Manny Machado.
35:03
Speaker 2: Maybe you give him his flowers.
35:06
Speaker 3: You allow him to be loved and then not have
35:09
Speaker 3: to worry about hating him.
35:10
Speaker 1: Amen.
35:11
Speaker 2: Amen. That seems like a Kevin Cash move. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
35:15
Speaker 2: We can do that. How's it going? I'm Zach. I'm
35:17
Speaker 2: born and raised in Milwaukee.
35:18
Speaker 9: My question is, how does the Brewers' ability to make
35:22
Speaker 9: their comeback, as demonstrated in the NRC, put pressure on
35:25
Speaker 9: both the pitching and the.
35:26
Speaker 5: Offense of the Tampa Bay Rays? Because it feels like
35:30
Speaker 5: all our games are already at least in Milwaukee.
35:34
Speaker 2: I didn't hear the whole question.
35:36
Speaker 3: Did you say something along the lines of just the
35:38
Speaker 3: pressure that Milwaukee constantly.
35:40
Speaker 2: Their ability to come back?
35:41
Speaker 5: Of Milwaukee's ability to come back?
35:44
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
35:45
Speaker 1: Constantly punching back.
35:46
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it's like an 0-0 game feels like a
35:48
Speaker 5: Milwaukee lead.
35:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean... Typically in baseball....
35:55
Speaker 3: You ideally would like to try to get a lead
35:57
Speaker 3: early because, you know, the team is playing from behind and,
36:01
Speaker 3: you know, the sense of urgency changes a little bit
36:03
Speaker 3: when you have a team that doesn't feel that sense
36:06
Speaker 3: of urgency that, you know, you know, is, you know,
36:09
Speaker 3: always in the game, no matter what the score is,
36:11
Speaker 3: it puts a lot of pressure on you when you're up.
36:14
Speaker 3: And typically in the game of baseball, when you have
36:16
Speaker 3: the lead, you're a little bit more relaxed. You know,
36:18
Speaker 3: the team has to like do something to come back
36:21
Speaker 3: in the game. But when you're constantly always feeling the
36:24
Speaker 3: pressure of a team, whether you're winning or losing, it
36:26
Speaker 3: makes it difficult on every single one on the field
36:29
Speaker 3: defensively to make pitches.
36:32
Speaker 2: The fact that no.
36:33
Speaker 3: Lead is safe is, and from a manager's perspective, You know,
36:37
Speaker 3: whether you have a one-run lead or a four- or
36:39
Speaker 3: five-run lead, you're probably going to your best guys in
36:42
Speaker 3: the bullpen. And it's hard to do that for four
36:45
Speaker 3: wins in a World Series. You constantly go to the
36:47
Speaker 3: same four guys in the bullpen. So the Brewers' ability
36:50
Speaker 3: to do that puts a lot of pressure on everyone involved.
36:54
Speaker 2: And you've seen it.
36:54
Speaker 4: I mean, they've been taking momentum so far in the postseason, so.
36:58
Speaker 4: It's going to be a great series.
37:00
Speaker 10: One thing for me, Zach, that I don't– wait, one
37:02
Speaker 10: thing for me, the reason that I think the Brewers
37:06
Speaker 10: have gotten over the hump this year versus in the
37:09
Speaker 10: past when they've gotten to the postseason and can't get
37:11
Speaker 10: to the World Series is because of what you're talking about, right?
37:14
Speaker 1: We're used to the Brewers being in the postseason, but
37:16
Speaker 1: this is the first time in recent memory that they've
37:19
Speaker 1: been able to punch back. And that means to me
37:22
Speaker 1: that this team has taken it to another level of
37:25
Speaker 1: teams in most recent memory. Thank you for your question.
37:29
Speaker 2: Thank you, Zach. Yeah, that's what he said. That's what
37:31
Speaker 2: he said. That's what he said.
37:34
Speaker 1: That's what he said. It is time for That's What
37:39
Speaker 1: He Said. I interviewed Brandon Woodruff yesterday at Media Day. Now,
37:43
Speaker 1: this was before we knew, you guys, that he was
37:46
Speaker 1: actually going to make the World Series roster. Here's what
37:49
Speaker 1: he had to say about the possibility of being on
37:53
Speaker 1: the Brewers postseason roster. Let's take a listen.
37:55
Speaker 11: I care about one thing, and that's winning. I know
37:58
Speaker 11: it's not an easy decision. Um, everything had to work
38:02
Speaker 11: out perfectly just to even have a shot at getting
38:05
Speaker 11: to this point. Um, you know, from the beginning, once
38:09
Speaker 11: I didn't need surgery, it was, um, it was a
38:12
Speaker 11: deal where once I started throwing, um, I just wanted
38:18
Speaker 11: to be an option at this point. Um, I know
38:20
Speaker 11: what I bring to the table. Um, As a player,
38:24
Speaker 11: and I'll always believe in myself, but I also realize
38:27
Speaker 11: that I haven't pitched in a game in three months
38:31
Speaker 11: or whatever it is. Yeah, so there's definitely a lot
38:35
Speaker 11: that goes into the decision. The mental game has always been,
38:40
Speaker 11: I feel like, a strength of why I am who
38:43
Speaker 11: I am. I started working on it hard back in
38:46
Speaker 11: the COVID season. And that's one thing going, unfortunately going
38:50
Speaker 11: through a lot of these rehabs over the last couple
38:52
Speaker 11: of years. I, um, that's one thing I can do
38:55
Speaker 11: is mental reps and, um, I can do as many
38:58
Speaker 11: of those as I want laying in the bed. You know,
39:01
Speaker 11: when I come to the yard, um, I'm big on visualization. Uh,
39:05
Speaker 11: I try to put myself in moments. Um, so from
39:10
Speaker 11: that aspect, that side of it's never left for me. Um,
39:14
Speaker 11: I've just had some physical challenges over the last couple
39:17
Speaker 11: of years, and that's the nature of kind.
39:19
Speaker 2: Of a shoulder.
39:23
Speaker 1: We didn't know, you guys, if he was going to
39:24
Speaker 1: make the postseason roster or not. He hasn't pitched in
39:26
Speaker 1: a game since the 4th of July. I mean, obviously,
39:30
Speaker 1: the pedigree is there, but you don't know if the
39:32
Speaker 1: effectiveness is going to be there. We'll start with you
39:34
Speaker 1: as a pitcher. I mean, you haven't pitched in three months.
39:36
Speaker 1: You're coming in, perhaps. Maybe it's out of the pen.
39:38
Speaker 2: Who knows?
39:38
Speaker 1: Maybe it's, to Kevin's point, one out out of the pen.
39:42
Speaker 1: But why does this make sense in your mind to
39:45
Speaker 1: have Big Wu on the roster?
39:47
Speaker 4: I mean, look, his presence, obviously, we've noticed it. He's
39:51
Speaker 4: been in the dugout. all postseason, all the regular season
39:55
Speaker 4: once he got the news. And I think just like
39:58
Speaker 4: he said, his mental reps, he is very strong mentally.
40:02
Speaker 4: And that's what this game is, right? And I think
40:04
Speaker 4: what he's done for some of these young players, pitchers,
40:07
Speaker 4: bullpen guys, is he's shown numbers for them too, just
40:11
Speaker 4: seeing him around. And even the way Murphy talked yesterday,
40:15
Speaker 4: I think during the interview, didn't really sound like he
40:19
Speaker 4: was going to, be putting Woody on the roster, right?
40:22
Speaker 4: Because now you got to think of, of, of what
40:25
Speaker 4: happened right in the, the, the Red Sox Dodgers world series.
40:29
Speaker 2: I want to say that was 20, 2018. Yeah. 2018. Okay. What, what?
40:34
Speaker 2: 18 innings, right? So that was insane.
40:37
Speaker 4: You know, now you're, you're switching off Chad Patrick, who's
40:40
Speaker 4: got that three to four innings and more, you know, and,
40:45
Speaker 4: And you're switching it to, yeah, a one-out, a one-inning
40:48
Speaker 4: guy because, yeah, who knows how his stuff's going to be?
40:50
Speaker 4: Who knows how it's going to play? But Woody knows
40:53
Speaker 4: that he can get outs with 85, 86 as his fastball,
40:58
Speaker 4: and he can get outs with 100 miles an hour
41:00
Speaker 4: as his fastball. So, yeah, I think that he knows
41:03
Speaker 4: if he's ready, his stuff is going to be there.
41:06
Speaker 2: But it's, yeah, his location, his accuracy.
41:09
Speaker 4: If he was confident in his accuracy and they've been
41:11
Speaker 4: watching his bullpens, his live BPs that he's been throwing,
41:14
Speaker 4: If they're confident, which obviously they are, get them on.
41:18
Speaker 1: But there's nothing that can simulate live action in a
41:22
Speaker 1: real game and certainly not to the postseason level. Is
41:24
Speaker 1: this the right move?
41:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it goes back to understanding
41:29
Speaker 3: the human being, too. And I don't think From everything
41:34
Speaker 3: we've all seen, and obviously you guys know a little
41:36
Speaker 3: bit better than me, I've had short interactions with Pat Murphy.
41:39
Speaker 2: He's not a sugarcoater. He's not handing out participation trophies.
41:42
Speaker 2: He's trying to win a World Series. He's trying to
41:44
Speaker 2: bring a World Series back to Milwaukee. The first ever.
41:47
Speaker 3: He's not doing this for anything other than he believes
41:50
Speaker 3: that he's the best option out of the bullpen. And
41:53
Speaker 3: what gives him confidence is exactly what Brandon Woodruff talked about.
41:57
Speaker 2: He's been through so many things.
41:59
Speaker 3: Obstacles in his career that his mental game is so
42:01
Speaker 3: strong he's taken thousands of mentors and to your point
42:04
Speaker 3: there's nothing that can recreate that environment for you yeah
42:08
Speaker 3: but also to his point when you have that confidence
42:12
Speaker 3: in yourself when you've had those mental reps when you've
42:14
Speaker 3: been in these moments before and ultimately this game comes
42:17
Speaker 3: down to belief in yourself and your confidence in yourself
42:20
Speaker 3: whether he goes out and pitches at 90 or he
42:22
Speaker 3: has 98 The Brewers.
42:24
Speaker 2: Believe that he is the right guy for the job.
42:26
Speaker 2: They've been watching him. They understand what he means to
42:29
Speaker 2: this team.
42:29
Speaker 3: Yes, there's a small portion that the emotional component of
42:33
Speaker 3: what it means that Brandon Woodruff.
42:34
Speaker 2: But once again, they're not handing out participation.
42:37
Speaker 3: The fact that Brandon Woodruff had been so engaged with
42:39
Speaker 3: this team, that he's been through so many things, that
42:42
Speaker 3: he's been able to come back from so many injuries,
42:44
Speaker 3: that his mental game is so strong, allows him to
42:47
Speaker 3: feel confident putting him on the roster.
42:48
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to hear the ovation for Brandon
42:51
Speaker 1: Woodruff when he is announced. I was at Media Day yesterday.
42:53
Speaker 1: I had an opportunity to talk to both the Brewers
42:55
Speaker 1: and the Rays. We'll get to the Rays momentarily. Let's
42:57
Speaker 1: start with the Brew crew and Sal Freelink. How much
43:00
Speaker 1: does he rub off on you? He's so calm and
43:03
Speaker 1: fun and loose. I don't know if he's always that way.
43:05
Speaker 1: You and Sophia would know more because you're around him
43:07
Speaker 1: all the time. But how much does that help you
43:09
Speaker 1: as a player?
43:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, it definitely helps. I hope not rub off.
43:13
Speaker 12: I think if anyone said that, you know, that's something
43:15
Speaker 12: Pat would say, I'd be mad but no um we
43:20
Speaker 12: love him like that's our guy and it's so he
43:22
Speaker 12: does such a good job you know that's why they're
43:24
Speaker 12: they're called managers right not coaches and every other sport
43:26
Speaker 12: they're coach or the head coach here they're managers because
43:29
Speaker 12: they have to manage the players and it's a hard
43:31
Speaker 12: clubhouse you got guys from every different country every different
43:34
Speaker 12: background high school kids college kids and he's so uniquely
43:38
Speaker 12: individualized his relationships with all players and he'll he'll tell
43:42
Speaker 12: you firsthand that you know Baseball is a relationships game,
43:46
Speaker 12: it's a people's game, and he's really mastered that. And
43:50
Speaker 12: I think that's why anybody on the team will tell
43:52
Speaker 12: you how much they love him and how much he
43:55
Speaker 12: means to us and why.
43:57
Speaker 1: Yelly said that all of you guys are best friends
43:59
Speaker 1: because when he was asked who his best friend on
44:01
Speaker 1: the team is, he said literally the entire roster. It
44:04
Speaker 1: seems like that's the case with this group. Not only
44:06
Speaker 1: do you guys play fundamentally sound baseball and you're a
44:08
Speaker 1: very good team, it truly seems like you guys like
44:10
Speaker 1: each other.
44:11
Speaker 2: We do. I mean, we really do.
44:13
Speaker 4: I mean, we hang out outside the field.
44:15
Speaker 12: I could go on a road trip with anybody on
44:17
Speaker 12: the team just one-on-one and it would be completely normal.
44:19
Speaker 4: Like super close knit.
44:21
Speaker 12: Um, yeah, I think a lot of it too is,
44:24
Speaker 12: you know, I, I came up through the Myers with
44:26
Speaker 12: a lot of guys, a lot of these small market teams, right.
44:29
Speaker 4: Are homegrown players.
44:30
Speaker 12: So you spend time with guys in the minor leagues
44:32
Speaker 12: that'll make you best friends no matter what. Um, even
44:35
Speaker 12: if you hate the guy, you'll be best friends coming
44:36
Speaker 12: out of that. So, um, and, and the core group
44:40
Speaker 12: of guys, especially maybe a year older, younger than me
44:42
Speaker 12: come up in the minors and then, being guided by
44:44
Speaker 12: guys like Brandon Woodruff and Christian Yelich. And then it
44:47
Speaker 12: just seems that everybody that gets added just kind of
44:50
Speaker 12: fits right in, um, to, to our team and our clubhouse.
44:54
Speaker 1: When I hear you talk, Bryce, your demeanor, your inflection,
44:58
Speaker 1: your calmness, your positivity sounds a lot like Chase Utley.
45:02
Speaker 1: You have the same like cadence. Who did you grow
45:05
Speaker 1: up in terms of an infielder that you kind of
45:08
Speaker 1: try to emulate yourself after if anybody?
45:12
Speaker 2: Yeah.
45:12
Speaker 4: Um, I grew up with four sisters.
45:14
Speaker 8: I didn't get to watch much baseball. They were always
45:17
Speaker 8: at their sports, so I'd go with them. So TV
45:21
Speaker 8: wasn't always a big thing for us and our family.
45:23
Speaker 8: And I'm the youngest, so I didn't get the remote
45:26
Speaker 8: when I was at the house.
45:27
Speaker 4: Baby boy.
45:28
Speaker 8: Yeah, they got the remotes. They picked what they wanted
45:31
Speaker 8: to watch, and I sat there and watched it with them.
45:35
Speaker 8: But he's definitely one that comes to mind. Tula Whiskey,
45:42
Speaker 8: Angelson Simmons. I mean, if I went to any games,
45:46
Speaker 8: they were Angel games, so I'd go see Eric Ivar.
45:49
Speaker 8: I remember Johnny G. Vitella with the Angels. I always
45:53
Speaker 8: loved how just, like, grindy of a player he was. Yeah, so, like,
45:58
Speaker 8: just some of those guys. I like the grindiness of
46:02
Speaker 8: the guys and going out there and playing as hard
46:05
Speaker 8: as they can.
46:06
Speaker 1: You mentioned Troy Chilowitzki. I had the opportunity to cover
46:08
Speaker 1: him as a shortstop, of course. with the Colorado Rockies.
46:12
Speaker 1: And I remember distinctly, he stood on a chair one day,
46:14
Speaker 1: he said, I've never lost at any level of my career.
46:16
Speaker 1: I'm not about to start right now. He was a
46:18
Speaker 1: kind of, not necessarily a rah-rah guy, but he would
46:20
Speaker 1: show it with his play. It reminds me of you guys.
46:23
Speaker 1: There's nobody who's a rah-rah guy, but you just grind
46:25
Speaker 1: at it. Is that, is that one of the reasons
46:28
Speaker 1: that this club is so special?
46:31
Speaker 2: Yeah.
46:31
Speaker 8: I mean, I was always taught from my dad that, um,
46:36
Speaker 8: your play is how you, how you prove it and
46:39
Speaker 8: not how you act and not.
46:42
Speaker 1: Great to be with you again, Dustin. Congratulations. Uh, what
46:46
Speaker 1: is this like this moment for you? I mean, of
46:48
Speaker 1: course the last year and change has been a bit
46:49
Speaker 1: of an up and Hill challenge, but here you are.
46:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
46:53
Speaker 13: Uh, very, very blessed to be here. Uh, I thank
46:56
Speaker 13: the Lord every day for just giving me the opportunity
46:58
Speaker 13: to be here. And, uh, like looking back over the
47:01
Speaker 13: last two years, I mean, two years ago, I wasn't
47:02
Speaker 13: sure if I was ever going to play again.
47:04
Speaker 2: So, um, being able to be here.
47:06
Speaker 13: And be on this stage again with this team in
47:08
Speaker 13: this moment, I'm very lucky and blessed.
47:12
Speaker 1: How do you make sure you don't reflect on the negative, thinking, man,
47:14
Speaker 1: am I ever going to pick up a ball again
47:16
Speaker 1: and throw in a big league game versus here I am,
47:18
Speaker 1: an opportunity to pitch in the biggest game of my life?
47:21
Speaker 2: Yeah.
47:22
Speaker 13: I mean, just looking back over my past, it's hard
47:27
Speaker 13: not to look at it, but you've got to learn
47:29
Speaker 13: to turn the page and kind of look at the
47:30
Speaker 13: moment that you're in.
47:33
Speaker 2: I kind of have.
47:36
Speaker 13: Changed my outlook on it and I try to just
47:37
Speaker 13: live in like I guess my little three-foot world and
47:40
Speaker 13: not get out of it and I feel like it's
47:42
Speaker 13: changed my mindset and being able to to turn the
47:45
Speaker 13: page on some of the negative things that have happened
47:50
Speaker 13: in the past and whether it be a good or
47:52
Speaker 13: bad outing just not trying to look too far into
47:54
Speaker 13: either of them and just look forward to the next
47:57
Speaker 13: pitch or next time.
47:58
Speaker 2: You got a huge calendar out that's showing it.
48:02
Speaker 1: What a difference a couple of months makes, huh, for
48:04
Speaker 1: Dustin May, obviously. Went from the Dodgers to the Red Sox.
48:07
Speaker 1: That didn't work out very well. Then the Cardinals for
48:09
Speaker 1: a hot second, and here he is with the Brewers.
48:12
Speaker 1: So you never know what this game is going to
48:13
Speaker 1: do and where this game is going to take you.
48:15
Speaker 1: But they do seem, when you listen to Sal Freelick
48:18
Speaker 1: and Dustin May, Corey, we'll start with you, seems like
48:20
Speaker 1: this is a very unified club.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
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Speaker 4: I mean, look, I think the moves at the All-Star,
48:27
Speaker 4: the trade deadline, obviously, getting D. May and Sensatella was–
48:31
Speaker 4: it was huge. I mean, I know that they tried
48:32
Speaker 4: to go and get Scooble, but look, this is, I
48:35
Speaker 4: think what they got in return was, was great. And
48:37
Speaker 4: look at what Jojo Romero has been doing in the
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Speaker 4: bullpen as well. This guy's come out and obviously being
48:43
Speaker 4: a huge part of the bullpen. And yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 4: Sal said it best. Look, they're just out here to game.
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Speaker 4: They're really, it's, it's just, I'm here to play some
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Speaker 4: baseball and have fun and, And they're doing just.
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Speaker 2: That right now in the postseason.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love hearing him just talk about manager of people.
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Speaker 3: We hear manager all the time, and we're like, is
49:01
Speaker 3: that just a fancy word they use in baseball because
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Speaker 3: everyone else is coach, head coach and stuff? But it's
49:06
Speaker 3: so true because baseball, I guess maybe hockey would be
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Speaker 3: maybe the only other similar one where you just got
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Speaker 3: people coming from so many different backgrounds and countries and
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Speaker 3: stuff that in order to be a great manager, you
49:17
Speaker 3: have to understand and you have to have individual relationships
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Speaker 3: with every single person. You know, where I grew up
49:22
Speaker 3: is a lot different than where that guy grew up. And,
49:24
Speaker 3: you know, my path in the major leagues is a
49:26
Speaker 3: lot different than that guy's major leagues. How do I
49:28
Speaker 3: have an individual relationship with those guys?
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Speaker 2: But collectively, how do we all pull in the same direction?
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Speaker 1: I mean, as long as Tommy Lasorda used to say
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Speaker 1: that everybody pull on the same side of the rope,
49:37
Speaker 1: as long as everyone's goal is to win, doesn't matter
49:39
Speaker 1: where you're from. That's it.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: As promised, let's hear from the Tampa Bay Rays yesterday
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Speaker 1: at media day. Martinez was just in the press room, obviously.
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Speaker 1: Your game one starter, a lot of folks thought it
49:50
Speaker 1: would be Drew Rasmussen, obviously. What does it mean that
49:52
Speaker 1: Nick gets the ball and you obviously have Drew in
49:53
Speaker 1: game two, Freddie in game three?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it means a lot. I mean, Nick's been
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Speaker 6: our leader all year and he's been steering the ship. So,
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Speaker 6: I mean, we have full confidence in Nick. I mean,
50:00
Speaker 6: he's been great all year. He's been an all-star and
50:03
Speaker 6: he's definitely carried that into the postseason. So, we just
50:05
Speaker 6: got to make sure we do our job as an
50:07
Speaker 6: offense and a defense to stay behind him the whole way.
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Speaker 1: You speak to the leadership of Nick Martinez. I understand
50:11
Speaker 1: he's kind of organizing the dinners in every city on
50:14
Speaker 1: the road, and he doesn't have a C on his chest,
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Speaker 1: but he seems like the captain of this team. What
50:18
Speaker 1: has that leadership meant to you?
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's meant a lot.
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Speaker 6: I mean, he's been second to none in what he's
50:22
Speaker 6: done as a vocal leader and leading by example, and
50:24
Speaker 6: then what he's done on the field has backed all
50:26
Speaker 6: that up. So we definitely look up to him, and,
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Speaker 6: I mean, he's definitely brought this group together and exemplified
50:32
Speaker 6: the camaraderie and friendship that we've had throughout the whole year. So,
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Speaker 6: I mean, he's been a great leader for sure.
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Speaker 1: There is nobody on this planet, I don't think, outside
50:39
Speaker 1: of the Rays organization that thought you wouldn't get the
50:41
Speaker 1: ball for game one. Talking to Kevin Cash about it, obviously,
50:44
Speaker 1: an extra day of rest for you. Nick can certainly
50:46
Speaker 1: handle the situation. Freddie gets to pitch at home. What
50:49
Speaker 1: does that mean to you?
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Speaker 14: I mean, I'm really excited. I'm excited that Nick's going
50:53
Speaker 14: to get us out of the gates, and I'm really
50:55
Speaker 14: interested to see how he attacks these hitters and just
50:57
Speaker 14: get an idea for what he's seeing and his preparation
51:01
Speaker 14: and see how I can compare that to what I'm seeing.
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Speaker 2: And then, I mean.
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Speaker 14: He's been phenomenal this year. I'm so excited for him
51:10
Speaker 14: as a person. Obviously, his journey hasn't also been the
51:13
Speaker 14: most straight and narrow. It couldn't be a better guy
51:19
Speaker 14: leading us out there tomorrow. Like I said, I just
51:22
Speaker 14: couldn't be happier.
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Speaker 1: It's never linear.
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Speaker 8: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Good luck.
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Speaker 9: I'm very comfortable here, and I would love to stay
51:28
Speaker 9: here for the rest of my career, especially because there's
51:34
Speaker 9: a lot of people that I love here, a lot
51:35
Speaker 9: of people.
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Speaker 2: that care about each other.
51:39
Speaker 9: I think that they are very smart.
51:41
Speaker 2: They know what they're doing.
51:43
Speaker 9: I know that they're going to help me to get better,
51:46
Speaker 9: to stay the way that I am now, to get
51:48
Speaker 9: me better for the future years. And also because for me,
51:54
Speaker 9: I live in Florida, and everything's easier for me in general,
52:00
Speaker 9: not only in baseball, also football.
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Speaker 1: You had mentioned you guys get along really well. You
52:05
Speaker 1: and Junior hanging out at the beach together. It seems
52:08
Speaker 1: like this is such a tight-knit group and a family.
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Speaker 1: Can you speak to how that translates into the success
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Speaker 1: on the field?
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Speaker 9: It means a lot. And I understood that probably like five,
52:18
Speaker 9: six years ago. I remember I used to do that
52:21
Speaker 9: here too in Milwaukee. And it's amazing because at the
52:27
Speaker 9: end of the day, sometimes or most of the time
52:30
Speaker 9: we as a play play baseball player we are not
52:32
Speaker 9: with the family around most of the time and you
52:35
Speaker 9: need you need to do something you need to do
52:38
Speaker 9: fun stuff without doing stupid things around you know and
52:41
Speaker 9: you need you need the right people around you and
52:44
Speaker 9: and i see this as a family uh we find
52:47
Speaker 9: a way to have fun uh all the time uh
52:50
Speaker 9: playing dominoes eating finding the way we always find a
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Speaker 9: way and i for me that's very important and that's
52:57
Speaker 9: uh It plays a huge part in a team when
53:01
Speaker 9: you have.
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Speaker 2: Those teams around.
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Speaker 9: We get together for dinners, too. It's a team dinner,
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Speaker 9: a lot. And I think it makes everything easier and
53:12
Speaker 9: better for us.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fun to hear Freddy Peralta guys say that
53:19
Speaker 1: he wants to retire a brewer. He's obviously found, or
53:22
Speaker 1: retire a Ray, rather.
53:23
Speaker 2: I apologize. Retire a Ray, yeah. Retire a Ray.
53:25
Speaker 1: He's obviously found a niche. He's found a spot. Wish
53:28
Speaker 1: him nothing but the best because he's just a good dude.
53:30
Speaker 1: He's easy to root for, but this is going to
53:32
Speaker 1: be a very, very good series. All right, it is
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Speaker 1: almost game time, so let us slap hands.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: Guys, just want to take the opportunity to say thank
53:49
Speaker 1: you to the great crowd that we've had here. Obviously,
53:51
Speaker 1: live in Milwaukee, they are psyched. It is packed. Every
53:55
Speaker 1: single little spot, there's a person standing in it, as
53:59
Speaker 1: Corey was mentioning. The watch parties on the road, when
54:03
Speaker 1: the team is on the road, 31,000 fans have purchased tickets,
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Speaker 1: 15 bucks a ticket. You can't beat that. Congratulations to
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Speaker 1: the Brewers for having Such good success with that. That's
54:13
Speaker 1: going to do it for us. Thank you guys so
54:15
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54:21
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