Transcript

03/27/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Drew Wilson along with Bill Schmid, very special guest in
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Speaker 1: the producer's chair today in his layer, his natural habitat
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Speaker 1: outside of the ballpark.
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Speaker 2: Hunter bomb guard this Hunter, Hello, this is Uh. It's
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Speaker 2: kind of when I don't know a bike in a
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Speaker 2: while and you're like, okay, this does or maybe get
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Speaker 2: in the car after you're on vacation you haven't driven
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Speaker 2: a car in a week, and you're like, okay, that's
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Speaker 2: over there, that's over here. I I don't think in
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Speaker 2: a while, and I'm like, okay, this is that button
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Speaker 2: this So by about ten minutes from now, I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: feel a lot more comfortable than I do.
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Speaker 3: Right ten minutes it would it would have probably taken
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Speaker 3: arm in two and a half hours. But luckily we're
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Speaker 3: best when we have a little bit of adversity, right,
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Speaker 3: I mean it's right. Pat Murphy said it yesterday. Sometimes
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Speaker 3: you just have to get punched in the face to
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Speaker 3: be able to perform. And uh, you know what, maybe
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Speaker 3: we need one or two snaffoos and then we'll be
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Speaker 3: off and running. Here today on a first Place Friday,
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Speaker 3: We're off and run first Place Friday. I like that bad,
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Speaker 3: not bad. Yes Opening Day is over. It's in the books.
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Speaker 1: It was quite successful if you scripted Opening day, outside
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Speaker 1: of maybe the weather. When the weather took a turn
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Speaker 1: for the tailgaters, like an hour before the game, mm hmm,
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Speaker 1: we lost fifteen degrees and the wind can't and it
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Speaker 1: got kind of ugly, started to drizzle a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Good incentive to get inside. They pushed everyone. It did. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: to see Jordan love throughout the first pitch.
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Speaker 1: But if you were going to script an opening day,
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Speaker 1: you couldn't do it much better than that. Brewers walloping
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Speaker 1: Chicago fourteen to two. And it wasn't that close.
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Speaker 3: No, And the only the early moment of trepidation was
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Speaker 3: when you know, the ten or twelve thousand folks that
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Speaker 3: might be sitt at finding their seats or might be
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Speaker 3: just roaming around the concourses in different beer lines throughout
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Speaker 3: the day would have only missed the only bad spot
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Speaker 3: and the only blip on the radar for what the
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Speaker 3: second pitch of the game, it gets blasted into the bleachers.
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Speaker 3: Tremendous run and you know the likely power source of
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Speaker 3: soul Freelick ultimately is the one that breaks the Brewers
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Speaker 3: home run seal. You gotta love that. Yeah, it was.
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Speaker 1: To go fourteen to two first pitches by the Jordan's
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Speaker 1: Jordan Stole's, Jordan Love.
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Speaker 3: You had, you know, a great crowd.
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Speaker 1: I walked around the concourse a little bit and man, pregame,
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Speaker 1: it was like choked.
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Speaker 3: It was like wow.
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Speaker 1: It reminded me of well, it was a huge crowd,
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Speaker 1: but it reminded me of the Uker celebration game when
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Speaker 1: they told everybody to get there early. Sure, and you
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Speaker 1: walk around the ballpark forty minutes before the first pitch
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Speaker 1: and it was they got there. So people were inside
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Speaker 1: and I didn't see as much of the drunken behavior.
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Speaker 1: The beer lines were definitely long, they were definitely thirsty,
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Speaker 1: but I didn't see as much sloppy public drunkenness as
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Speaker 1: I had in the past.
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Speaker 3: That those days might be pasted us might be a
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Speaker 3: take pass, but hey, you know what when when the
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Speaker 3: team is also in the last taste of ball. Outside
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Speaker 3: of the two games against the Dodgers were three of
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Speaker 3: the most intense games that people had ever been to.
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Speaker 3: I bet that also ratcheted up some excitement for both
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Speaker 3: of the game and it got a little chill, and
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Speaker 3: it often does.
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Speaker 1: Opening day starts as a party and then it's like
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Speaker 1: and then you settle in, it's like, oh yeah, this is.
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Speaker 3: Baseball, and you'll hit the fourth inning beer and app Yeah,
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Speaker 3: basically and the burst.
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Speaker 1: You know, once they took control of the game, people
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Speaker 1: were pretty relaxed and it was still it was loud
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Speaker 1: when good things happened. But you know, Hunter, it was just, uh,
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Speaker 1: it felt like the opening day stuff. Once that went away,
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Speaker 1: that melted away. It was just a baseball game. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: pretty quickly. That's what happens, right, totally, and this is
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, this is what we sign up for. This
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Speaker 1: is what it looks like.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you love the You love the atmosphere, especially when
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Speaker 2: you score fourteen runs an opening day in front of
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Speaker 2: a sold out crowd. You love how loud it kits
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Speaker 2: in the stadium when a free like hits a homer,
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Speaker 2: a Boers hits a homer, and that's that's what you
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Speaker 2: love about that atmosphere.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that freel like one was a no doubt the
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Speaker 2: second deck. But yeah, otherwise, you know, Bob Kazlowski getting
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Speaker 2: a well deserved ovation for his God Bless America in
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Speaker 2: the seventh inning coming back as well, So it kind
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Speaker 2: of had everything and the fantastic Whiskey Bells with not
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Speaker 2: only a pregame concert on the video board for like
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Speaker 2: forty five minutes. Yeah, they did play yeah my friends,
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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, the but also the anthem. They cried card
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Speaker 2: Studs did that last year and I know a couple
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Speaker 2: of their members and I got to see the Whiskey
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Speaker 2: Bells our friends.
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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, it was great to see.
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Speaker 1: Uh, Kimmy and Sarah and Chrissy and my boy, handsome
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Speaker 1: Kevin Hanson. There's the fourth Whiskey bell who was doing
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Speaker 1: sound on his iPad from the leftfield bleachers while the
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Speaker 1: Yeah it was and then they got to stand and
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Speaker 1: they did it right. Usually you stand back by the screen.
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Speaker 1: They were standing right by home plate, right by Murf. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're right between the manager of the White Sox and
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Speaker 1: I mean and they the Whiskey Bells have done the
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Speaker 1: anthem at Lambeau and they thought that was the highlight.
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Speaker 1: But doing this in their hometown and to see Jordan Love, I.
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Speaker 2: Can't wait to talk to Kimmy and Chrissy is there
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Speaker 2: about how excited they were to be.
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Speaker 1: That closed to all the players and be on the
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Speaker 1: foul line for introductions. When Murf wasn't given high fives
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Speaker 1: to players.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going to see the entire opening dates.
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Speaker 1: You were right there, they got to see murfh stiff everybody,
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Speaker 1: which is that has replaced ed Cedars double way coming
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Speaker 1: out of the Duggar as the great moment of the
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Speaker 1: opening day pomping ceremony. But you couldn't script it any better.
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Speaker 1: Fourteen to two brewers when traffic sucked on the way out.
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Speaker 1: That's gonna be a staple because.
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Speaker 3: That is gonna be aff Yeah, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 3: That whole area is just a brutal right now sucks.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna have to grit through it. But uh, everything
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Speaker 3: else man, And I guess what stood out to me.
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Speaker 3: There are a couple of things.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go through this throughout the day and if
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Speaker 1: you were at the game, we want to hear from
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Speaker 1: me A seven seven seven nine four the nicolay Lo.
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Speaker 2: Dot com talk and text line. But I got to say,
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Speaker 2: young Hunter bombguard, it was on it. He's got his
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Speaker 2: finger on the pulse and he knows because he told
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Speaker 2: us to keep an eye on David Hamilton could be
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Speaker 2: a pick to click. And that's first time I even
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Speaker 2: a David Hamilton play in a Brewers uniform. I didn't
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Speaker 2: go to spring training.
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Speaker 1: I didn't really watch a lot of spring training games,
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Speaker 1: but I'm watching him like he made that bare hand
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Speaker 1: play he got down the line, like I'm like, oh man,
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Speaker 1: no wonder they wanted this guy Hunter.
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Speaker 3: He might be the fastest guy on the team already.
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Speaker 3: I mean, they got and that's.
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Speaker 1: A pretty healthy competition. You got Mitchell and Lockridge and
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Speaker 1: Locker Rage. You got a bunch of guys with you know,
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Speaker 1: the scouting scale in baseball is like twenty to eighty,
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Speaker 1: and eighty is like the top Hall of Fame, best possible.
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Speaker 1: They got some guys with some seventy wheels or seventy
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Speaker 1: five wheels and totally David Hamilton, Like I saw him
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Speaker 1: going on the lamb.
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Speaker 2: I I hadn't know he had that a flash. Whoa,
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Speaker 2: he's fast.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Kurt Hogan the Journal Sentinels said the Brewers may have
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Speaker 2: gotten rid of the most brewer brewer and Caleb Durban
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Speaker 2: with a more brewery brewer in David Hamilton. I think
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Speaker 2: it's a great way to put it. He had the
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Speaker 2: most quintessential Pat Murphy brewer game yesterday, And when Murphy
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Speaker 2: was asked after the game, like, is that kind of
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Speaker 2: what you want to see from David Hamilton is like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: kind of, Like that's exactly what zactly.
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Speaker 3: I thought he could be.
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Speaker 2: And David Hamilton after the game literally said like, I've
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Speaker 2: struggled in my career thus far, but this is the
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Speaker 2: type of player that I hope to be. And it
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Speaker 2: sounds like the Brewers again. And it's one game, but
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Speaker 2: it's also training and Murphy is getting to know this guy.
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Speaker 2: But it sounds like again they're pushing the right buttons
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Speaker 2: to get the right things out of this guy. And yeah,
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Speaker 2: you could see him getting some serious playing time as the.
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Speaker 3: Year goes on. I was thinking that was Branifo spot
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Speaker 3: pretty much locked and sealed. But when you get to
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Speaker 3: see a little bit of that Hamilton play yesterday, it
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Speaker 3: does make sense why they were so high on in Bullish.
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Speaker 3: I mean because Hunter when he was in when you
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Speaker 3: were out on vacation, Drew, David Hamilton took five days
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Speaker 3: of weapon Like, We'll be honest with you, I was
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Speaker 3: looking at the numbers and looking at the entirety of
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Speaker 3: his career and saying, I just don't see it. I
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Speaker 3: love the fact that they hope and pray that he
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Speaker 3: can be the reclamation project here. Well, like this dude,
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Speaker 3: this moves all about Harrison and the other pitcher. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and he's the evening out throwing guy. And I like
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Speaker 3: Murph saying, and he's like credit to those guys for
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Speaker 3: making sure that he was a part of the deal,
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Speaker 3: making sure that because we lost a great one for
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Speaker 3: what we want to do, and he totally does it
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Speaker 3: does appear they've found a guy that is gonna fit
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Speaker 3: even better into that exact mold of what they have
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Speaker 3: to do. He credited the Bowers home running part because
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Speaker 3: of him hauling down the line like you just mentioned. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: his that's just it man, the stuff that you're doing there.
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Speaker 1: He just fits the Brewers the positional versatility, athleticism just
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Speaker 1: and then you know, happy with whatever all.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure.
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Speaker 1: I I don't know, nice Sash. Maybe Renhifo was like
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Speaker 1: a little myf that he didn't get to start opening day,
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Speaker 1: But Brewers just they the way they the way Murph
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Speaker 1: rolls with it. And it's funny because the Dodgers also
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Speaker 1: won their opener. Meanwhile, back here among the tired strip, club. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they pounded Arizona, like what eight two, eight to two? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: eight two Dodgers and now the Diamondbacks are better than
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Speaker 1: the White Sox and whatever, but not according to Pat Murphy.
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Speaker 3: I was thinking, yeah, I was thinking about it. Okay.
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Speaker 3: I was talking to talking.
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Speaker 1: To a bunch of friends up in the press box,
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Speaker 1: both connected with the Brewers and not and uh before
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Speaker 1: the game, and we were talking about the Brewers culture
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Speaker 1: and that kind of secret sauce about everything is so
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Speaker 1: smooth and everybody who comes in, like the David Hamilton's like,
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Speaker 1: can we welcome your you're tired, you're poor, your five eras,
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Speaker 1: come here, and like, you know, come here, get right,
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Speaker 1: get paid, get right, get paid. And we were talking
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Speaker 1: just with the culture, and no, everybody talks about Dodgers.
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Speaker 3: You know, they just go spend the money and spend money.
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Speaker 1: But the Dodgers have a great culture, the fact that
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Speaker 1: you can have those guys and keep those egos.
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Speaker 3: And Dave Roberts doesn't get enough credit.
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Speaker 1: It's completely different jobs what Murph has and what Dave
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Speaker 1: Roberts has, but they're both really good at setting that
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Speaker 1: you never hear about any internal sniping about the Dodgers, Like,
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Speaker 1: look at most rock bands break up because you know,
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Speaker 1: the drummer's mad that the guys who write the songs
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Speaker 1: make more money and got a bigger bus and better chicks,
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Speaker 1: and like it fractures, and that you have these little
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Speaker 1: risks always measuring, always drama and inner office chemistry problems
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Speaker 1: and stuff. Dodgers don't have that. Brewers don't have that. Now,
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Speaker 1: winning solves a lot of that stuff, for sure, but
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Speaker 1: when adversity hits and guys you just can't. You can't
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Speaker 1: hide who you are, and when you spend that much
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Speaker 1: time together, Like if someone rubs you the wrong way, there's.
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Speaker 3: Gonna be some people you're rubs you long way. It's
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Speaker 3: gonna it's gonna sit, it's gonna linger, a little, gonna
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Speaker 3: be like you know those marriages that for thirty years
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Speaker 3: he loaded the dishwasher along and then one day I
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Speaker 3: just was the breaking point, right you They avoided that.
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Speaker 2: The Brewers have avoided that. Kudos to them. It's a again,
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Speaker 2: it's one game.
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Speaker 1: But the idea that that the Brewers are going to
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Speaker 1: struggle this year, I look at that and I say, well, okay,
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Speaker 1: they might be.
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Speaker 3: Better on paper.
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Speaker 1: The lineup might be better, because again you forget how
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Speaker 1: last year the first six, seven, eight weeks of the
10:39
Speaker 1: season they were kind of drifting, they were kind of lost,
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Speaker 1: and then boom, Priester took hold and Durbin got in
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Speaker 1: there and stabilized things, and they put up fourteen runs
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Speaker 1: and Churio was, oh, by the way, Churio's not gonna
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Speaker 1: play in a brace as he runs on.
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Speaker 2: I remember their longest wing streak of the season at fourteen,
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Speaker 2: was without Churio last year.
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Speaker 1: And your your best guys on the bench, and you
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Speaker 1: it up fourteen, your best offensive, your most important offensive,
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Speaker 1: dynamic offensive guy. It's crazy. So a great start. Now
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Speaker 1: we get to sit on it and they don't play
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Speaker 1: again until Saturday. But which we hoops? Yeah, we hate
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Speaker 1: that we got hoops though tonight. We got great hoops
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Speaker 1: from last night, some really good games.
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Speaker 3: And luckily the ones that ended up being snoozers were
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Speaker 3: after we were snoozing. But the other part on the
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Speaker 3: on the Dodger and Brewer connection drew. The other thing
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Speaker 3: is the player development is a massive part of it, right,
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Speaker 3: Like if you watch how the Dodgers also acquire a
11:31
Speaker 3: number of these players, they do sign Kyle Tucker to
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Speaker 3: the richest contract annually of all time. But they also
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Speaker 3: go and acquire guys because they have players that people
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Speaker 3: covet in their minor league system that they're churning out
11:42
Speaker 3: year in and year out. I mean, I always blows
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Speaker 3: my mind that Jordan Alvarez could have been on that
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Speaker 3: Dodgers roster if they wouldn't have flipped him to Houston
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Speaker 3: a number of years ago. But being able to forecast
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Speaker 3: the guys that are inside the clubhouse getting better, they
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Speaker 3: had so many young players that even if a couple
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Speaker 3: don't mature and matur rate at the same pace that
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Speaker 3: you'd all hope, you have too many options and too
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Speaker 3: many possibilities. It feels for guys to have maybe not
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Speaker 3: a ten home run month like Bryce Terrang did last
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Speaker 3: year in his year, but you expect your internal development
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Speaker 3: to be one of your best coups every single year.
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Speaker 3: And that's the other part of the staff that you
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Speaker 3: know Murph gets headlined for. It sounded like he was
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Speaker 3: trying to give it a little bit more credit. But
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Speaker 3: the getting these players to be the best versions of themselves,
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Speaker 3: that's not by accident. With all of the guys that
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Speaker 3: are on staff. Yeah, it's not just Murphy. Yeah, he
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Speaker 3: definitely was.
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Speaker 2: When he was wrapping up spring training on Tuesday, he
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Speaker 2: was definitely given credit to the coaches around him, the
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Speaker 2: staff he has, which to his credit, he's put together
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Speaker 2: along with Matt Arnold in the front office. But also
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Speaker 2: he you know, credits the Ivory Tower, Matt Arnold and
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Speaker 2: all those folks and the Scouts and everything like that,
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Speaker 2: because it's ground, ground up, and that's how and that's
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Speaker 2: why the Dodgers are the best of both worlds because
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Speaker 2: they have really good people their development, really good people
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Speaker 2: in that department. But they also can go out and
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Speaker 2: spend the money. The Brewers can't go out and spend
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Speaker 2: the money, so they have to be really good at development,
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Speaker 2: and they really are right now, and they're kind of
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Speaker 2: in that golden age of developing. Yes, Terraang's a first
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Speaker 2: round pick, Yes Freelick's a first round pick, and you know,
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Speaker 2: those are high talents, but you also have to get
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Speaker 2: them from point a, which is getting drafted to the
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Speaker 2: major league level and performing at the.
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Speaker 3: Major league level. And that's what the Brewers are really
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Speaker 3: good at, right and that was what they weren't very
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Speaker 3: good at true for a long time, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: No small feet there, but yeah, it was just all
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Speaker 1: in all perfect day. Other than the leadoff homer missettled in.
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Speaker 1: Pitch count was high, but that's what happens. The impressive
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Speaker 1: thing is up and down the Brewers to strike out
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Speaker 1: twenty guys.
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Speaker 3: That's why.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, twenty seven outs were punch outs. I mean,
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Speaker 2: come on, and that's just like, yeah, okay, so the
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Speaker 2: new guy gives up a homer and the last thing,
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Speaker 2: so homer in the first homer in the ninth, right, okay,
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Speaker 2: if you're going to give them.
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Speaker 3: Up, let's puck end it with you solo shots in Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 3: like that. We gave that guy that the opportunity to
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Speaker 3: have his first hit, keep it close where they could
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Speaker 3: go get the baseball. That was. That was good stuff
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Speaker 3: on Woodford. Yeah, so yeah, when you're that's a tough.
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Speaker 3: Was nice of him.
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Speaker 1: And they always say that's a tough It seems cushy.
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Speaker 1: But you don't want to go in and walk a
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Speaker 1: bunch of guys, and it's like, you know, you want
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Speaker 1: to you don't want to have that line. You want
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Speaker 1: to just throw strikes but not get drilled and right,
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Speaker 1: it's a little those that's hard to pitch in those
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Speaker 1: kind of lopsided games. Sometimes that's that's almost position player territory.
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Speaker 3: Well and once all once you can tell the the
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Speaker 3: backstop funnels out with most of the patrons before dal
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Speaker 3: Hall took the took them out there in the eighth inning.
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Speaker 3: That also has to be a little bit of the
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Speaker 3: wind out of the sails, your big moment on opening day,
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Speaker 3: and more of the folks are headed towards the exits
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Speaker 3: because they stop serving booze. That that's a little bit
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Speaker 3: of a difficult spot. But I did. As dal Hall
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Speaker 3: walks the second guy, I'm like, dude, we can't come on.
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Speaker 3: I was going back to our pat Murphy uh play
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Speaker 3: a sounder that he had from when he was at
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Speaker 3: Notre Dame. I don't see the umpire standing out here saying,
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Speaker 3: hey man, but you're walking the yard. I'm trying to
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Speaker 3: call balls and strikes. But we don't want to be
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Speaker 3: walking the yard here. Up fourteen to.
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Speaker 2: One, no, no, like, just go attack hitters at that point,
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Speaker 2: there's no reason not to attack them. Make him put
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Speaker 2: it in play. He got a great defense behind you.
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Speaker 2: Let's let's get that control down and maybe he was
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Speaker 2: a little amped up and he did get out of it.
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Speaker 2: He didn't allow a run, which is great. You know,
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Speaker 2: DL hauled state that one. That one run total of
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Speaker 2: the White Sox stayed at one run when d. L.
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Speaker 2: Hall left the game.
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Speaker 3: Now, Jake Bauer's congratulations on being able to avoid the
15:26
Speaker 3: Brad Nelson territory right out of the gates. Yeah, after
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Speaker 3: the hot spring training Drew, Yeah, that was Uh.
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Speaker 2: I kind of picked him to go, oh for April,
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Speaker 2: but it's not April yet, but.
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Speaker 3: On April yet, You're right, you're still biting that wheelhouse.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, that was impressive for him, and well the
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Speaker 1: fact that he was playing again, like it's like you get.
15:43
Speaker 3: In there and so everything that was good about it,
15:47
Speaker 3: Like did that ball seem like it touched the ceiling
15:49
Speaker 3: as well as much as it did on television.
15:51
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, to have the game the contributions that
15:54
Speaker 1: the Brewers did, and to have again they were in
15:56
Speaker 1: full Brewer mode, like with a.
15:59
Speaker 3: Long and bad totally just not and it's just long.
16:02
Speaker 1: Like again like early on they didn't execute maybe but
16:06
Speaker 1: uh then once the game got rolling, it was typically
16:09
Speaker 1: following off pitches.
16:10
Speaker 3: Six runs without hitting a homer. I mean like before
16:12
Speaker 3: they hit their first bomb and it'd be fing deep
16:14
Speaker 3: into count.
16:15
Speaker 1: And now how many walks did the Brewers draw on offense?
16:20
Speaker 3: It was a lot. I will look at that talk
16:24
Speaker 3: ten Yeah, I was gonna say they walked ten times
16:27
Speaker 3: and struck out twenty.
16:28
Speaker 1: They walked ten times, like and the Brewers gave never
16:31
Speaker 1: lose all year, and it has walked a few guys.
16:32
Speaker 1: So the Bruce had what the bruise gave up five
16:34
Speaker 1: walks and three hits or does that sound about right?
16:36
Speaker 3: That sounds exactly four hits, four hits, four hits and
16:40
Speaker 3: five walks.
16:41
Speaker 1: Four hits and five walks, and the Brewers drew ten walks.
16:44
Speaker 1: So that's it was a long game, but man, very successful,
16:47
Speaker 1: very fun to watch, a great day at the ballpark.
16:49
Speaker 1: Seasons underway. Brewers are one to zer uh and might
16:53
Speaker 1: not lose.
16:54
Speaker 3: I mean like telling you it was as long as
16:56
Speaker 3: we went on the complete the opposite end last year
16:58
Speaker 3: drew when they lost four games and never felt like
17:01
Speaker 3: they were gonna lose again. They had a guy strikeout
17:03
Speaker 3: eleven shatter the franchise record, and it feels like the
17:06
Speaker 3: eighth thing on the byline because of how dominant the
17:09
Speaker 3: offense was.
17:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so interesting stuff abounds. We'll take your thoughts
17:13
Speaker 1: eight seven, seven, seven, nine four one ninety seven three.
17:15
Speaker 1: Billy watched it at home with the boys, and I'm wondering,
17:18
Speaker 1: what was the presentation like on Brewers TV?
17:20
Speaker 3: Did you do? It was good? Yeah, I really enjoyed it.
17:23
Speaker 3: Now I'm one of these weird, nerdy score bug guys.
17:27
Speaker 3: I've always thought the MLB network score Bug was one
17:30
Speaker 3: of the cleanest looks in all of ball and I
17:32
Speaker 3: love that that's the inclusion over here onto the right
17:35
Speaker 3: corner of it. But it was I felt homie. I
17:38
Speaker 3: mean like it was. It was who you remember. It
17:41
Speaker 3: was all of your same people. Their intro video is elite,
17:45
Speaker 3: Like the lead in the forty five second intro is awesome.
17:49
Speaker 3: Smash you with the best highlights and celebrate, and I
17:53
Speaker 3: mean it's hard to not be happy watching Brewers TV
17:56
Speaker 3: when it gets to the point where Jeff and Rock
17:58
Speaker 3: are showing off their feet. You guys didn't get that part.
18:03
Speaker 3: And maybe when Rock comes on we can ask him
18:05
Speaker 3: about that, because he wasn't he wasn't super comfortable. Jeff
18:09
Speaker 3: said it was a hamstring issue with rock, but I mean,
18:12
Speaker 3: Jeff got that shoe up there. They showed off their
18:14
Speaker 3: Brewers shoes. They were having them selve some fun in
18:17
Speaker 3: that in that boot. So it felt like Brewers Baseball
18:20
Speaker 3: and it wasn't all that different. And also, I mean
18:23
Speaker 3: the money, the money hit very very quickly there on
18:25
Speaker 3: Brewers Dot TV. And then being able to flip over
18:28
Speaker 3: and watch Kyle Schwarber hit a home run in his
18:29
Speaker 3: first at bat like it was. It was nice to
18:32
Speaker 3: be able to alternate my favorite part actually go off
18:36
Speaker 3: of Brewers Baseball right back onto another game onto the
18:39
Speaker 3: streaming service. So that was pretty.
18:40
Speaker 1: Spectacular, spectacular, all smooth. So we'll take your thoughts about
18:43
Speaker 1: opening day eight seven, seven, seven, nine four one n three.
18:46
Speaker 1: Dolf's gonna join us at halftime. We've got our usual
18:48
Speaker 1: stock features for you. Hunter's got an interview to play
18:52
Speaker 1: for us, I believe, yeah, yeah.
18:54
Speaker 2: I got a chance to talk to the directors of
18:56
Speaker 2: the Yuke documentary, which was really cool, and they kind
18:59
Speaker 2: of tell the story of how it started and how
19:01
Speaker 2: it came to be.
19:02
Speaker 1: Truth and whole disclosure. I did not stick around to
19:05
Speaker 1: watch the trailer. I ailed and I was in the clubhouse.
19:08
Speaker 3: So I ailed it. I was wondering if many I
19:11
Speaker 3: ailed it for the tra people did a lot of
19:13
Speaker 3: people stayed okay, good? So it did do what they
19:15
Speaker 3: wanted to do, which we kind of stagger the traffic
19:18
Speaker 3: on the way out as much as it could.
19:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was Yeah, I think they wanted to. Yeah,
19:23
Speaker 2: absolutely all right.
19:24
Speaker 3: We are off and running, Brewers are on beaten. We'll
19:26
Speaker 3: talk tournament.
19:27
Speaker 1: We got oh a full buffet, no Brewers, and I
19:29
Speaker 1: put playing basketball to watch and uh lots too as
19:33
Speaker 1: we get ready for weekend.
19:34
Speaker 3: A prediction after last night's result for the next Milwaukee
19:37
Speaker 3: Bucks side coach. That's going to be sweet. Maybe coming
19:42
Speaker 3: up later on the show.
19:43
Speaker 1: We are glad that you're up early with us. If
19:45
Speaker 1: we have to be here, We're glad that you're here
19:46
Speaker 1: as well. You're listening to the huddle Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
19:49
Speaker 3: I mean I hope to be. This is kind of
19:51
Speaker 3: right up my alley, you know, Uh, playing the game
19:54
Speaker 3: hard run the bas is hard stealing, grindy at bats.
19:58
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm I'm definitely loving here so far.
20:02
Speaker 1: David Hamilton bringing us back Hunter's picked to Click, the
20:05
Speaker 1: guy who was drafted by the Brewers sent to the
20:07
Speaker 1: Red Sox in.
20:08
Speaker 2: A trade Hunter Renfro trade. If I'm not mistaken, yes, back,
20:12
Speaker 2: I believe so. Also, Murph's picked to click. He told
20:15
Speaker 2: him they told us that was the quantum leap candidate
20:18
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty six.
20:19
Speaker 3: Well he's fitting right in with the Brillin quantum leap
20:22
Speaker 3: right yeah. And Terang's leap is going to be this
20:25
Speaker 3: year from the World Baseball Classics and propel him to
20:28
Speaker 3: the status where he's in consideration for All Star births
20:32
Speaker 3: and things like that. So I think he he opened
20:34
Speaker 3: some eyes. He may be hard to miss.
20:36
Speaker 1: He made some fans no doubt Brewers winning their open
20:39
Speaker 1: or fourteenth two. We want to hear from you on
20:40
Speaker 1: the Nicolay Lodock. I'm talking text one eighty seven seven
20:43
Speaker 1: seven nine four seven three. Were you there if you
20:46
Speaker 1: watched it, I want to know what you thought about
20:48
Speaker 1: Brewers TV their INAUGURALLD mission. I talked to our pals,
20:51
Speaker 1: Tim Tim Odriss, Tim O'Driscoll, I talked to but Tim
20:54
Speaker 1: Dillard had legend Tim Dillard. We talked to Dilly, and
20:57
Speaker 1: I talked to Craig Kashawan, And I'm like is Brewers
21:00
Speaker 1: live at Nelly's Corner is before the game they're like, oh,
21:03
Speaker 1: we're doing an hour on the field, Like, we don't
21:05
Speaker 1: know how it's gonna go.
21:05
Speaker 3: We'll see.
21:07
Speaker 1: And then they did the post game from on the
21:09
Speaker 1: field as well. I think that's kind of a new mix,
21:11
Speaker 1: a new thing, and they were like, we're not sure,
21:14
Speaker 1: we're gonna just roll with it and see it. It
21:16
Speaker 1: seemed like everything worked for them. So did everybody find
21:19
Speaker 1: it on their their provider?
21:22
Speaker 3: Like?
21:22
Speaker 1: Did every I think everybody was able to ann We
21:28
Speaker 1: had a bit of a jump on that. We knew
21:29
Speaker 1: it was going to be what a three o eight
21:31
Speaker 1: and thirteen o eight on your spectrum guide?
21:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I also liked UH Jeff Levering Now he
21:36
Speaker 3: was talking after we were done with UH with our
21:38
Speaker 3: friends Scott and Shane and and Scott had him on
21:41
Speaker 3: and even Lev's like, yeah, I don't know what the
21:43
Speaker 3: Great National Mystery was, Like, I don't know why we
21:46
Speaker 3: had to wait until the moment of opening day. He's like,
21:49
Speaker 3: I'm glad it wasn't like an hour before first pitch,
21:51
Speaker 3: like when the broadcast started, but yeah, it ended up firing. Now,
21:56
Speaker 3: this one was also Fox Sex like this was also
21:59
Speaker 3: broadcasted over there. So the real, the real, big question
22:03
Speaker 3: will end up being how does it end up happening
22:05
Speaker 3: on Saturday night, Saturday somebody was not ended was watching
22:09
Speaker 3: it on terrestrial being like oh, this is amazing, or
22:11
Speaker 3: that first Apple.
22:12
Speaker 1: Game when you can't find it at all, or like
22:14
Speaker 1: what the hell well on Big Fox, or you know
22:16
Speaker 1: sometimes they do it on FS one on Saturday nights.
22:19
Speaker 3: Right, the Saturday is always a little bit of a question.
22:22
Speaker 3: The Apple broadcast, I wish would just completely go away
22:26
Speaker 3: outside of their eight K cameras. I wish they love. Yeah,
22:28
Speaker 3: I wish their cameras were broadcasting every game and then
22:32
Speaker 3: everything else that was part of the Apple broadcast would
22:35
Speaker 3: just Yeah.
22:36
Speaker 1: Anytime you get in such a rhythm and you that's
22:38
Speaker 1: the thing about baseball. You get so comfortable with your
22:40
Speaker 1: local presentation. Anything that's a wrinkle is like, what the
22:43
Speaker 1: hell are we doing here?
22:44
Speaker 3: Come on? That's why people hate the playoffs.
22:46
Speaker 1: People hate, Yeah, they hate the national guys that don't
22:48
Speaker 1: know their team as well, or if they one thing wrong.
22:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I mean people joke about it. And I
22:54
Speaker 3: think Joe buck will ultimately now that he's only calling football.
22:57
Speaker 3: He has probably felt like it's mellowed out on the
23:00
Speaker 3: people that say, why do you hate this team? Because
23:02
Speaker 3: when you do call and you have one hundred and sixty,
23:05
Speaker 3: you have six months of somebody celebrating with you. And
23:09
Speaker 3: then the first time Michael Bush walks into the batter's
23:11
Speaker 3: box at American Family Field in Game one, like Murphy said,
23:14
Speaker 3: it felt like he had six lead off home runs
23:16
Speaker 3: in that five game series, and the guy is losing
23:19
Speaker 3: his mind. You're like, come on, we can't be having this.
23:21
Speaker 3: I can't be I can't be listening to Trisha Whitaker
23:24
Speaker 3: gushing over Craig Counsel and the other batter's box. I'm
23:26
Speaker 3: waiting for Sophia to give us a report. So the
23:29
Speaker 3: comfortability was nice to be able to get that yesterday.
23:32
Speaker 3: I am. I'm very very happy that Craig Kashawan is
23:35
Speaker 3: still a part of the entire day though, because I
23:37
Speaker 3: don't know that Brewers broadcasts would be the same without
23:42
Speaker 3: the backbone of Craig Kashawan, who is just you want
23:44
Speaker 3: to talk about the consistent ones. Him and Rock have
23:46
Speaker 3: been there for the longest, and these he has served
23:50
Speaker 3: every single hat in that broadcast, So he throws whatever
23:53
Speaker 3: one on on that perfectly.
23:55
Speaker 1: Jacked up body. Greig Shawn's gonna figure it out. There
23:57
Speaker 1: you go eight seven seven seven nine four seven three.
24:01
Speaker 1: So when Miz gave up the home run, it was
24:02
Speaker 1: a flashback because last year Fridday, perralt To gave up
24:05
Speaker 1: a home run. First batter of the season was Austin
24:07
Speaker 1: Wells and the Brows went on to win ninety seven games.
24:10
Speaker 1: So there you go, upheld, and then it was like
24:14
Speaker 1: it's like, didn't then the next day, didn't Cortez give
24:16
Speaker 1: up four home runs in a span of five batters.
24:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't did he get out of the
24:20
Speaker 3: first inning? I don't. I think he might. I think
24:22
Speaker 3: he might have gotten Scheens. I think he might have
24:24
Speaker 3: been he might have gotten Paul Skins, who apparently sucks
24:27
Speaker 3: now right, I mean he's.
24:28
Speaker 1: So the World Baseball Classic hangover might be real. You
24:32
Speaker 1: never know if we if we go on overreactions on
24:35
Speaker 1: opening Day, the tough one is going to be that
24:36
Speaker 1: Paul Skeens is never going to win another game is
24:38
Speaker 1: he doesn't make it out of the first inning.
24:40
Speaker 3: And I think is a Cortes pitch two full Okay,
24:42
Speaker 3: he did get out, he did get too full. So
24:44
Speaker 3: I mean Skeens has like a sixty seven e rah
24:47
Speaker 3: after yesterday, and Cortes it felt like was the worst
24:50
Speaker 3: pitcher he does.
24:50
Speaker 1: Gave up four homers and a five batter span and
24:52
Speaker 1: five homers in two innings.
24:54
Speaker 3: That was the torpedo bat. That was the torpedo bad game,
24:56
Speaker 3: torpedo positive. Yankees went deep on the first three pitches
25:01
Speaker 3: of the game. That's right. They won twenty to nine. Now,
25:04
Speaker 3: and who was the young man that came in after
25:06
Speaker 3: him and was like, hold my beer, I think I'm
25:07
Speaker 3: gonna give up four more. Connor Thomas. Okay, Connor to
25:11
Speaker 3: Elvis Pagero. Chad Patrick came in.
25:14
Speaker 2: I believe that was his MLB debut, gave up a
25:17
Speaker 2: couple of earned runs.
25:18
Speaker 3: Why not? Uh?
25:19
Speaker 2: And then Jake Bauers finished. One of the most solid relievers.
25:22
Speaker 2: I was gonna say he was the only one nine
25:23
Speaker 2: runs though the Brewers did.
25:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, if it correct serves me correctly, Bowers was the
25:27
Speaker 3: only one that came out of that series within they
25:29
Speaker 3: score zero e R.
25:30
Speaker 1: They scored six runs off of free free. Didn't pitch
25:33
Speaker 1: through five with a big lead, right, and that was
25:35
Speaker 1: kind of like, what the hell, dude, Well that was
25:38
Speaker 1: a year ago, so but it was the the the
25:40
Speaker 1: parallels were there. It's like, oh, another home run to
25:42
Speaker 1: start the season, that's quaint, a void to missettled down.
25:46
Speaker 3: And a classic miss deal like he just you want
25:48
Speaker 3: to talk about somebody that needs to get miss. You're
25:52
Speaker 3: going to turn around the one o one, one oh
25:54
Speaker 3: two fastball that he throws in there. It did feel
25:56
Speaker 3: like he said, all right, sweet, yes, now we're gonna
25:59
Speaker 3: go see if everybody else can.
26:00
Speaker 1: Yes, but with miss as much as we love the
26:02
Speaker 1: radar and people were watching because of McAfee, you know,
26:05
Speaker 1: can he hit one on four?
26:06
Speaker 3: I think eleven strikeouts will be better. Yeah.
26:09
Speaker 1: But the thing with mis is and I learned this
26:11
Speaker 1: from Mike Maddox, former Brewers pitching coach, and used to
26:15
Speaker 1: used to listen to the program and call in under
26:17
Speaker 1: a fake name like Fred from Lake Country.
26:19
Speaker 3: That's amazing. The only bad thing is he couldn't give
26:21
Speaker 3: you the couldn't give you the hand.
26:22
Speaker 1: I'm hilarious, Yeah, but he would What what Greg Maddox
26:26
Speaker 1: would say is when he got into jams didn't happen
26:28
Speaker 1: often in his hall of fame career. But when he
26:29
Speaker 1: got into jams, what you need to do is try easier,
26:33
Speaker 1: don't try harder. Same thing if you're standing on the
26:36
Speaker 1: tee and you want to hit a long drive, you
26:37
Speaker 1: squeeze your butt chats together and you slap one forty
26:40
Speaker 1: yards into.
26:40
Speaker 3: The woods, right, not hit in the woods. Hit. You
26:43
Speaker 3: need to try easier.
26:44
Speaker 1: And with Miz I like him at ninety seven, ninety eight,
26:47
Speaker 1: ninety nine when he's putting it where he wants to,
26:49
Speaker 1: as opposed to one hundred and one where he's not
26:51
Speaker 1: as much. Right, So it did seem like he I
26:54
Speaker 1: don't know if it was conscious or not, or if
26:56
Speaker 1: he was just like if he the adrenaline, whatever, but
26:59
Speaker 1: he seems more as effective in the high nineties as
27:02
Speaker 1: he does when he's you know, yeah, his one hundred
27:06
Speaker 1: and one is great and all, but what's more effective?
27:10
Speaker 3: And isn't that one of the biggest questions, the biggest
27:12
Speaker 3: things you have to learn right to be emotional.
27:15
Speaker 1: No, I don't look at the lab and spin rates.
27:17
Speaker 1: It's a question for wags or something. But does he
27:19
Speaker 1: get with the slight reduction velocity? Does he get more movement?
27:25
Speaker 1: That's a great question.
27:26
Speaker 3: That's a great question, is because because ninety seven or
27:29
Speaker 3: ninety five mile an hour slider is still going to
27:32
Speaker 3: be discussed, still going to wipe out.
27:34
Speaker 2: But it's just with his fastball, he's he's fastball dominant,
27:37
Speaker 2: and it just like and when he gets in a jam,
27:41
Speaker 2: you don't need to throw one on one. You can
27:43
Speaker 2: get guys out at ninety eight.
27:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, and especially with that extension, right, Like, I mean,
27:47
Speaker 3: it's he's got too much deception, Like it's too much
27:49
Speaker 3: coming at you to not be that a great lesson
27:53
Speaker 3: that he's gonna have to end up learning kind of
27:55
Speaker 3: like is that the way that they were talking about
27:57
Speaker 3: it was sprot too, right, where it's more learning how
27:59
Speaker 3: to pitch the issue instead of just throw harder and
28:02
Speaker 3: try to gas somebody out.
28:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, Murph talked about the maturity that Misrowski is showing,
28:06
Speaker 2: and that's part of it, right, You're learning how to
28:09
Speaker 2: bounce back from those adverse situations. You remember, I think
28:11
Speaker 2: Otani took him deep to lead off the game again
28:14
Speaker 2: when he was facing the Dodgers in that Kershaw matchup,
28:17
Speaker 2: and then he settled in and did quite nicely the
28:19
Speaker 2: rest of the game. So yeah, I think it is.
28:22
Speaker 2: It is these guys are just learning and there are
28:26
Speaker 2: going to be bumps in the road. The leadoff home
28:28
Speaker 2: run was a bump in the road. But boy, Misslerowski
28:30
Speaker 2: really can just kind of get it right back under control.
28:34
Speaker 3: Pretty quickly, as we've seen in his career.
28:36
Speaker 2: Now we've obviously seen a couple of snowball innings, and
28:39
Speaker 2: you will and you will from Sprote, and you will
28:41
Speaker 2: from Harrison, you will from these guys as they get
28:44
Speaker 2: more and more experience. But he has shown the ability
28:46
Speaker 2: to bounce right back even after an early tough first
28:50
Speaker 2: inning or a tough first home run and boom, you're
28:53
Speaker 2: off and running.
28:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, throws like twenty some pitches in that first inning,
28:56
Speaker 3: drew and you were on the pitch count being a
28:58
Speaker 3: problem to me, it's the three watch will be the
29:00
Speaker 3: one that I'm going to be more conscious of than
29:02
Speaker 3: the homers, because I then think of the Suzuki homer
29:06
Speaker 3: right his first guy that he ends up facing in
29:08
Speaker 3: the playoff game. But he has some of the most
29:12
Speaker 3: electrifying energy on the mound, right like that youthful exuberance.
29:17
Speaker 3: Definitely would not be able to do that if he
29:19
Speaker 3: played twenty years ago. Sure, you'd be able to speak
29:21
Speaker 3: to that a lot better. You'd be able to tell
29:23
Speaker 3: me if he would have meshed with the old two
29:24
Speaker 3: brewers who with the fist pumping and they yeah and
29:27
Speaker 3: screaming around every time he strikes somebody out. But he's
29:30
Speaker 3: perfect for the ball that you can play now because
29:33
Speaker 3: we celebrate, guys. You can celebrate on the mound. Absolutely,
29:36
Speaker 3: that has changed a lot. You guys.
29:38
Speaker 1: You can have no service time, hit a home run
29:40
Speaker 1: and pimp it and then not wear one in the
29:42
Speaker 1: ear flap the next at bat. So it's it's changed
29:46
Speaker 1: a little bit. It was a little bit different back
29:48
Speaker 1: in the day. In the same way they used to
29:50
Speaker 1: be able to really beat the hell out of quarterbacks
29:52
Speaker 1: in the NFL and rough up wide receivers in the
29:55
Speaker 1: first ten yards of their pattern.
29:57
Speaker 3: It doesn't happen anymore. No, And this wonder and gentler
30:00
Speaker 3: in this one too. I think like the in that
30:02
Speaker 3: clubhouse it they seem to obviously enjoy it. Right now,
30:05
Speaker 3: you're definitely gonna enjoy when my man striking out eleven guys.
30:08
Speaker 3: You can walk around and Barry Bond said, I didn't
30:11
Speaker 3: talk to anybody off the field, but I was the
30:13
Speaker 3: best teammate on the field because I took walks. Yeah right,
30:15
Speaker 3: So as long as I'm producing on the field, I'm
30:17
Speaker 3: a great teammate. It does seem like all of them
30:20
Speaker 3: allow for the moments and whoever you are, to have
30:24
Speaker 3: your your great Dana Shine and Boss Doppler was here,
30:27
Speaker 3: and I know that he's excited. Since Hunters in the
30:30
Speaker 3: studio to mention congratulations of Garrett Mitchell for his continued
30:34
Speaker 3: failure only started to not get a base hit yesterday,
30:37
Speaker 3: only started and not get a base hit yesterday.
30:39
Speaker 2: I'm gonna draw a couple of walks though, and his
30:41
Speaker 2: sacrifice bunt to get Hamilton over, which eventually Hamilton scores
30:46
Speaker 2: very productive out there.
30:48
Speaker 3: I will not stand for it. You need to just
30:51
Speaker 3: give Garrett Mitchell a chance. People. I know his spring
30:54
Speaker 3: training numbers were not good. I get it.
30:57
Speaker 2: He also hadn't seen live pitching in seven eight months.
31:00
Speaker 2: To give him some time. Let's see what happened in
31:02
Speaker 2: the regular season, all right, I may we give him
31:04
Speaker 2: some talent. Do we have to give him some time
31:07
Speaker 2: here though? Or does he get more of his time
31:09
Speaker 2: in which I wanted? He was for one, he was
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Speaker 2: over one.
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Speaker 3: Only reason that I'm a horrible day, a horrible day,
31:18
Speaker 3: horrible day for the Pottawatomi Sports but minus one thirty
31:20
Speaker 3: on a base hit. Now, listen, that's gonna be fine.
31:23
Speaker 3: We can, we can, we can hand those six dollars
31:25
Speaker 3: away with friends. But uh, I was only joking because
31:29
Speaker 3: I wanted to see Blake Perkins. I wanted to see
31:31
Speaker 3: if he was able to bring the bag from Nashville
31:35
Speaker 3: from the airport right on to off the tarmac, right
31:38
Speaker 3: onto the ball field, because I don't know when he
31:39
Speaker 3: got the call and when they officially knew about the
31:43
Speaker 3: Churio injury, because he was playing on Tuesday and he
31:47
Speaker 3: didn't look like he was going to be hampered on
31:48
Speaker 3: Tuesday when we were there at the exhibition games. So
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Speaker 3: it seems like that was a relatively new discovery in that.
31:57
Speaker 2: Mri to Heroline couldn't really remember remember what exactly the
32:01
Speaker 2: game or the swing that it was that because basically
32:04
Speaker 2: he had heard it March fourth, in the exhibition game
32:07
Speaker 2: he got hit in the hand. They did imaging not
32:09
Speaker 2: a fracture, so he continued to play play through the
32:11
Speaker 2: championship for Team Venezuela, came back even hit a home
32:14
Speaker 2: run in spring training, played the two exhibition games, but
32:16
Speaker 2: at some point there is a swing where he felt
32:18
Speaker 2: it and he was either Monday or Tuesday. I would
32:20
Speaker 2: think it was Tuesday, just of how the timeline has went.
32:23
Speaker 2: Then they went back and said, okay, let's do an MRI.
32:26
Speaker 2: Let's see what's what's and then that's when they found
32:28
Speaker 2: the hairline fracture, and then they announced the il yesterday morning.
32:31
Speaker 2: Perkins was in the clubhouse as soon as we got
32:34
Speaker 2: in there yesterday, so he was at least there in
32:36
Speaker 2: the morning.
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Speaker 3: So I have a feeling this.
32:37
Speaker 2: Probably was decided on Wednesday or even late Tuesday, probably Tuesday,
32:42
Speaker 2: because they probably the swing probably happened, but Matt Arnold's
32:45
Speaker 2: like he takes so many swings. I don't know exactly
32:48
Speaker 2: when it was, but it probably was Tuesday.
32:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it also now would you'd think there was
32:53
Speaker 3: three weeks out from the injury or three weeks out
32:56
Speaker 3: from when it initially gets hit. Now you give it
32:59
Speaker 3: three weeks and hopefully that can be less than a month.
33:02
Speaker 3: Stay on that ais out.
33:03
Speaker 1: As to the Garrett Mitchell slander, the guy's on base
33:06
Speaker 1: percentage is six sixty seven. That's bonds like, and he
33:08
Speaker 1: scored a run like, okay, so he didn't get a hit.
33:11
Speaker 1: He was zero for one with a sacrifice. Two walks
33:14
Speaker 1: in a run scored. I think it's a pretty good day.
33:17
Speaker 2: I lead that guy off and I win the pennant.
33:20
Speaker 1: Give me two walks a day, two walks in a
33:22
Speaker 1: run scored, every day or the season.
33:24
Speaker 3: Put me down, Sign me up, you can bat zero
33:26
Speaker 3: zero zero. I'm just mad I didn't throw him at
33:29
Speaker 3: RBI instead of the hit on the Parlan. See, I
33:31
Speaker 3: know the pointing thumbs. I'm gonna point more thumbs than
33:34
Speaker 3: fingers at Garrett Mitchell. But uh yeah, come on, Garrett,
33:37
Speaker 3: let's win the hit party. Come on. Yeah.
33:41
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, the out that he made his
33:43
Speaker 1: unsuccessful was against a lefty, which he was like, that's
33:46
Speaker 1: not even like you know, it wasn't even gonna be
33:48
Speaker 1: a thing. It was like he was gonna be platooned
33:50
Speaker 1: right with locker raise. But that's yeah, if you're worried
33:53
Speaker 1: about Garrett Mitchell, you're just looking for something to complain
33:56
Speaker 1: about it.
33:56
Speaker 3: Well, and our guy Dodlers, this one might be my favorite.
33:59
Speaker 3: I hope they trade Mitchell Atlanta so that they can
34:01
Speaker 3: send him to triple A Gannette, which is fifteen minutes
34:03
Speaker 3: for me, so I can jeer them all season. Oh
34:05
Speaker 3: this is personal, fright, What are you gonna what are
34:10
Speaker 3: you gonna text us?
34:11
Speaker 2: If Garrett Mitchell puts it together and has a twenty
34:13
Speaker 2: twenty season.
34:14
Speaker 3: The thing is no Dobbler will Dobbler will be here
34:17
Speaker 3: because he will be here every single day and we
34:19
Speaker 3: appreciate it and that. So I'm excited to be able
34:21
Speaker 3: to ge get some of that because the Garret Mitchell
34:24
Speaker 3: Day's coming.
34:24
Speaker 1: Garrett Mitchell Day's coming. I know Garrett Mitchell had a
34:27
Speaker 1: bad day yesterday's five. I just watched Baul eight seven
34:31
Speaker 1: seven seven nine four one ninety seven to three gets
34:35
Speaker 1: you in. We're off to a rock and start. You
34:37
Speaker 1: can tell it's relaxed. Thing about Opening Day is when
34:39
Speaker 1: they play on Thursday, Opening Day, it's either got to
34:43
Speaker 1: be a Monday or a Friday, because the next day
34:46
Speaker 1: it feels like Opening Day always feels like Friday.
34:48
Speaker 3: Whenever it happens. People to work.
34:51
Speaker 1: So having it thursdays like, oh crap, we got to
34:54
Speaker 1: go back to work. We got another day. Like it's
34:56
Speaker 1: just something about it. You are spot on on that one.
34:59
Speaker 3: Drew. And that's why it's nice that we're gonna be
35:00
Speaker 3: able to cheers all those folks that are taking the
35:03
Speaker 3: day off here today by celebrating and having ourselves enough fun, responsible,
35:08
Speaker 3: fund and get ourselves ready for some pics here for tonight.
35:10
Speaker 3: Because I don't know about you, I would have liked
35:13
Speaker 3: to have been able to stay up for those games
35:14
Speaker 3: last night, no doubt, the opening day Beers and Brace,
35:17
Speaker 3: there was no shot try making it past halftime.
35:20
Speaker 1: I might have to squeeze in a nap today so
35:21
Speaker 1: I can step and watch the late games.
35:23
Speaker 3: Elie, Well, listen you and Thomas on Danny Hurley. That's right,
35:27
Speaker 3: Danny Hurley was almost falling asleep at the press conference.
35:31
Speaker 2: So we were sitting in ten or later on the
35:33
Speaker 2: East coast, downright disrespect.
35:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get after it. It's the Friday edition of
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35:50
Speaker 2: So we're up at five am, Facebook YouTube and ex
35:54
Speaker 2: Drew Billy Hunter in for Arman today, our furry little Armenian.
35:58
Speaker 2: Given what's happened here at our operation.
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Speaker 1: In the last what six eight months, you don't need
36:04
Speaker 1: a panic armand's just in Vegas.
36:07
Speaker 3: What happened to Armin.
36:08
Speaker 2: He's just on vacation. When somebody's gone, everybody's like, what happened? Well,
36:12
Speaker 2: not just it's okay.
36:13
Speaker 1: We graced him with some variation. He's going to be
36:18
Speaker 1: gone in a couple more weeks. He's going back to
36:20
Speaker 1: Vegas with his wife.
36:20
Speaker 3: So well, I mean, listen, if he keeps wrong taking
36:23
Speaker 3: these runs on the Crafts table, they're gonna bring the
36:26
Speaker 3: jet outs to know first time playing Crafts. Watch out.
36:29
Speaker 3: He hit a hot streak there. He rolled like they say,
36:32
Speaker 3: he wrote five points now in the game before you
36:35
Speaker 3: hit that seven. That's a hell of a run that
36:37
Speaker 3: you're having.
36:38
Speaker 1: So and it's funny too because Arman, who's becoming quite
36:41
Speaker 1: the local regular visitor at sports book. He generally goes
36:46
Speaker 1: to Potawatami to places and make his sports investments and.
36:50
Speaker 3: To hit the free soda. Free soda is his favorite stop.
36:52
Speaker 1: Yes, but now that he's been exposed to craps, oh,
36:55
Speaker 1: he's going to start availing himself to other parts of
36:58
Speaker 1: that facility.
36:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, once used, once you get a little bit
37:01
Speaker 3: of a taste, is hard and not want to go
37:03
Speaker 3: and see that bubble craps. Then he's gonna all of
37:04
Speaker 3: a sudden go, Wait, I can have this individual one
37:06
Speaker 3: where I never have to stop and I don't have
37:08
Speaker 3: to let somebody else roll since I'm gonna be so
37:10
Speaker 3: much better at it. Yeah, you're right, Drew. You get
37:13
Speaker 3: that feeling that craps table rush is a different level
37:16
Speaker 3: of adrenaline, and that's that's got That's a hard one
37:18
Speaker 3: to put away. But it also did feel like they
37:20
Speaker 3: from what I saw, the boys had themselves a little
37:22
Speaker 3: Papa shot contest yesterday. Now, I don't know what Armand's
37:26
Speaker 3: level of accuracy and Papa shot is, but I gotta
37:30
Speaker 3: think if there's anybody that's gonna get the most shots
37:33
Speaker 3: up in his thirty seconds, Armand's going to have such
37:36
Speaker 3: active hands that he's gonna throw the ball up a
37:38
Speaker 3: number of times. Whether it goes in, that's by the
37:41
Speaker 3: grace of God, I think, more or not.
37:42
Speaker 1: I think that's the Armand saryin story exuberance compensating for
37:46
Speaker 1: a lack of athleticism.
37:48
Speaker 3: That's the title of the book. That's the that's the
37:52
Speaker 3: documentary that he was athleticism, asking for Yes, hit.
37:58
Speaker 1: Us up, Nikolay, Look, I'm talking text on seven seven, seven,
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Speaker 1: nine four one ninety seven to three.
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Speaker 3: Hunter is in.
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Speaker 1: He'll be answering your calls if you do call us,
38:06
Speaker 1: but otherwise just make your comments. Feel free uh on
38:10
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38:13
Speaker 3: What were the how was the energy for the first pitches?
38:16
Speaker 3: What was the what was the excitement level?
38:20
Speaker 1: And the Olympian Jordan Stolts too but Love got a
38:23
Speaker 1: noticeable pop and they played the go Pack go a
38:25
Speaker 1: little hard to top that.
38:27
Speaker 3: That got the whole pumped up.
38:29
Speaker 1: As he's walked off the Mounta they're playing that, he's like, yeah,
38:31
Speaker 1: let's go okay. You know, he's standing on the grass,
38:35
Speaker 1: He's in a stadium full of people looking at him,
38:37
Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, that probably felt something like Pavlovian
38:41
Speaker 1: trig triggered in him, like let's go well.
38:43
Speaker 3: In the the fifth grade, Bill was very very excited
38:46
Speaker 3: to see him rocking the cargo khaki pants. That means
38:48
Speaker 3: that I can also start rocking the cargo, Paki pan
38:51
Speaker 3: more Embargo the cargo. You want to talk coming back,
38:54
Speaker 3: things are coming back. If Jordan Love's wearing it, that
38:56
Speaker 3: means it's cool, and that means that you're gonna be
38:57
Speaker 3: seeing your boy back into the cargo pants even tonight
39:00
Speaker 3: at the Admirals game. That's a hard thing for me
39:03
Speaker 3: to learn.
39:03
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody that can bring back the jeorts, I mean,
39:06
Speaker 1: come on, everything comes back, right.
39:07
Speaker 3: I think George has been back for a while right,
39:10
Speaker 3: especially the really really short ones. The way they get
39:12
Speaker 3: that's fair. State Fair is a great place for uh Ellis,
39:17
Speaker 3: for the for the George. I was also at sas
39:19
Speaker 3: Is a little bit yesterday guys, before the festivities, and
39:23
Speaker 3: it was live in that place. Now you've seen a
39:27
Speaker 3: lot of different opening days. That took the drive down
39:29
Speaker 3: Blue mountd because I wanted to be able to see
39:31
Speaker 3: how all of the different establishments were rumbling up around
39:34
Speaker 3: ten o'clock yesterday. Nothing was like SASS. The bands were
39:39
Speaker 3: rocking at ten. They'll be going all throughout the weekend.
39:42
Speaker 3: Sas holding court right by the bar with the seventy
39:44
Speaker 3: six ounds ten or seventy six ten ounce glass that
39:47
Speaker 3: they're selling throughout for the fiftieth anniversary awesome, awesome time yesterday.
39:53
Speaker 3: So I had to give a shout out to SAS
39:54
Speaker 3: because he SAS has been throwing the best parties in
39:57
Speaker 3: the state and in the city for fifty years. Yep,
40:00
Speaker 3: this one, Drew. I think he's gonna hit it out
40:02
Speaker 3: of the park this weekend.
40:03
Speaker 2: This is old school with the tent and everything, and
40:05
Speaker 2: it's just back to the way it used to be.
40:07
Speaker 2: And that's it feels.
40:08
Speaker 3: Proper, dude. It was so good to be able to
40:10
Speaker 3: grab corn in one side, a potato here, and a
40:15
Speaker 3: draft beer in a plastic cup right here, and listen
40:18
Speaker 3: to live music and not have to move. That's hard
40:20
Speaker 3: to top. Knock about being all the way back. That
40:22
Speaker 3: was a good, good spot all the way back. This
40:24
Speaker 3: weekend there tonight, they're gonna have the world's largest Friday
40:27
Speaker 3: fish fry, So I'll enjoy the rye bread, but it's
40:30
Speaker 3: gonna be a buzzin' atmosphere out there tonight. Gid yeh uh.
40:34
Speaker 3: Badger Hockey advancing moving on, Yeah, Dartmouth.
40:38
Speaker 2: Basketball moving on to the semi finals of the WBI. Well, yeah,
40:42
Speaker 2: we are just we're rolling along. Got some Admirals games
40:46
Speaker 2: rolling forward this weekend, Big games for the Admirals.
40:48
Speaker 3: Big game at a rink tonight, a pairt this weekend.
40:50
Speaker 3: You can see me tonight as well as tomorrow.
40:53
Speaker 1: It's going to be Billy's gonna do his hits in
40:55
Speaker 1: sign language tonight on the scoreboard. So go to the
40:57
Speaker 1: Admirals game and watch Billy tonight. It's going to be amazing,
40:59
Speaker 1: all right, First hours in the books. Dolph joins us.
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