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Brewers need ONE W, Jim Bowden & Ryan Spilborghs join, Brew Crew takes over Trop, Kevin Cash’s moves · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: FT Live on a Tuesday. Ron Kratz and AJ's in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's in the Tampa Bay area.
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  Speaker 2: It just looks like Milwaukee at times. We'll get into that. Also,
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  Speaker 2: you should be hosting today, AJ.
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  Speaker 1: I heard there's something you're going to do at the
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  Speaker 1: top that I didn't even get a rundown on.
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  Speaker 3: Scott, you weren't here. That's why you didn't get the
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  Speaker 3: information on this. So last night in the elevator, I
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: ran into a certain mascot. And they had a couple
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  Speaker 3: messages for our host that's below you. And there's DJ Kitty.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, Gratz, I was told to tell
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  Speaker 3: you that he is real. And that is DJ Kitty
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  Speaker 3: and me in the elevator. And he also gave me
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  Speaker 3: this note to pass on to the host that day
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  Speaker 3: who said she was scared of DJ Kitty. And that's
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  Speaker 3: Alana Rizzo. So I can't really see it because it's white.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm sorry for messing up the white balance.
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  Speaker 4: But it's a picture of a kitty. And it says, hi, Alana.
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  Speaker 3: So Alana and Kratz have apparently pissed off DJ Kitty
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  Speaker 3: because on October 8th, he was watching and he was
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  Speaker 3: a little upset over their antics saying that DJ Kitty
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  Speaker 3: was scary and not real.
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  Speaker 4: So DJ Kitty, he wanted revenge.
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  Speaker 1: And also you can see that picture on Alana Rizzo's
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  Speaker 1: ex slash Twitter account.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to see that whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: And I just got a DM.
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  Speaker 3: And I just got a DM from DJ Kitty that
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  Speaker 3: says he has a, personalized autograph ball for me. So
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow I'm going to show off my DJ Kitty autograph
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  Speaker 3: ball to Kratz so he can know that he is real.
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  Speaker 2: Did DJ Kitty really DM you during the World Series
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  Speaker 2: just now?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, he did.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, he did. Yes, he did.
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  Speaker 5: That's tremendous. That's tremendous.
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  Speaker 6: And when he shows it, when he shows, when you
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  Speaker 6: show us the signed ball, can we make sure we
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  Speaker 6: pause to look at it? Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was actually a little taste of what goes on
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  Speaker 1: every single day about 20 minutes before our show begins.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, the postgame, if the Brewers do
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  Speaker 3: this tonight, apparently I'm supposed to go on the field
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  Speaker 3: with our cracked employee, Michael Beer.
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  Speaker 4: And do interviews.
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  Speaker 3: So does that mean you guys are going to have
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  Speaker 3: to wait for me to do interviews on the postgame
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  Speaker 3: show so I can just take my sweet time before
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  Speaker 3: you run them?
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  Speaker 4: We'll talk over you. Perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think we'll do our thing and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: mix those interviews in as they come through.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So like you'll do them and then we can run
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  Speaker 1: them after the fact. So we're not just going to
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  Speaker 1: wait for you. But that was also a great job
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  Speaker 1: transitioning us again. Maybe AJ will host later this week.
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  Speaker 1: Foul Territory postgame show live after game four of the
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  Speaker 1: World Series.
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  Speaker 2: It could be the last postgame show that we do.
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  Speaker 1: For a very long time. So enjoy it while it lasts, people.
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  Speaker 1: And let's get into. what happened in game three, and
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  Speaker 1: then spin it forward to game four. Charge of the
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  Speaker 1: Mound is powered by MLB Nine Innings Rivals 26. We'll
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  Speaker 1: show you some cards as we're talking about the teams.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to talk a lot of Brewers because
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  Speaker 1: they're up 3-0. They're one win away from their first
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  Speaker 1: ever World Series title, AJ. And they basically did all
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  Speaker 1: the work with two outs in the fifth.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, the Brewers are the better team right now. Can
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  Speaker 4: that switch? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Ask the 04 Yankees. But the Brewers are a better team.
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  Speaker 3: From 1 to 26, they're.
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  Speaker 4: A better team. And the Rays were the best team
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  Speaker 4: in the American League all year. Okay?
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  Speaker 3: The Brewers are just better than they are. They don't
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  Speaker 3: make mistakes on the bases. They don't make mistakes in
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  Speaker 3: the field. They pitch unbelievably well. They don't strike out.
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  Speaker 3: They go the other way. They hit singles. They hit doubles.
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  Speaker 3: They have one home run in this World Series. It
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  Speaker 3: was Sal Frelick's opposite field home run on left on left.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 3: They're doing everything right. I don't know how the Rays
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  Speaker 3: win a game. I honestly don't know how the Rays
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  Speaker 3: can win a game. I don't know who's pitching for
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  Speaker 3: the Brewers. It's going to be probably Drohan or Patrick
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  Speaker 3: against Drohan, and then you're going to see Ashby probably
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  Speaker 3: for three. You're going to see McGill for two, or
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  Speaker 3: Rebay probably for two. So if they get one or
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  Speaker 3: two innings, I mean, they still have Romero. They still
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  Speaker 3: have Deal Hall. They have all these guys lined up.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how the Rays do it, especially since
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  Speaker 3: the Rays right now, they can't hit. Their big guys
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  Speaker 3: are not hitting, and when you don't play Jonathan Aranda
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  Speaker 3: in a must-win game. You don't play some of your
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  Speaker 3: big guys in this game. I know you don't play
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  Speaker 3: Liam Hicks because it's a lefty, but let me just
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  Speaker 3: say this. You got to play your best players if
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  Speaker 3: you want to win the game. I know you play
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  Speaker 3: it like the regular season, but you got to make
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  Speaker 3: some concessions in the World Series.
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  Speaker 4: And right now, whatever the Rays are doing, ain't working.
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  Speaker 6: I got some texts from Rays fans and even somebody
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  Speaker 6: that works with the Rays, and they're like, oh, you
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  Speaker 6: know what?
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  Speaker 4: It's just the Brewers' year this year. I don't think so.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think it's just, this isn't a case where
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  Speaker 6: it's like, oh, looking down here and oh, look, oh,
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  Speaker 6: they did this.
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  Speaker 5: No, the Brewers are just better. The Brewers are a
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  Speaker 5: better team.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know how long we'd need to play for
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  Speaker 6: the Rays to win four games. It's way more than
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  Speaker 6: seven games, clearly, but they are a better team and
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  Speaker 6: their approach has got The Rays pitching and Rays catching
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  Speaker 6: game calling flummoxed right now because they can't do anything
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  Speaker 6: against it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they had 13 whiffs and 175 pitches seen.
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  Speaker 1: So that's insane. That's a ridiculous number. The amount of pitches,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, that they see, which is what they
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  Speaker 1: do all year, but then the contact to it, because
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they had some swing and miss. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: were a pretty high strikeout team, right, during the year?
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  Speaker 1: We're not even seeing.
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  Speaker 2: That from them.
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  Speaker 5: No, middle of the road. Middle of the road. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 2: Middle of the road.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: um, I will say this.
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  Speaker 1: I know this part for a fact, there was more
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  Speaker 1: swing and miss later in the season for them or
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  Speaker 1: a little more to it, but you always watch this team. Like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this team has contact hitters too. And we're seeing that
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  Speaker 1: right now. The point I wanted to make off of Kratz,
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  Speaker 1: AJ is that if you say, Oh, this is just
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  Speaker 1: the brewer's year. That fin thinning is like, Oh, like
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  Speaker 1: some ball dropped that shouldn't have dropped. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of, you know, Little bleeder hits. Like, look at
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  Speaker 1: the exit VLO numbers off the knocks for the guys
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  Speaker 1: in that inning. Like, Garrett Mitchell, 106. Bryce Terang, 106.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of 90s. 95-plus is hard hit rate, right?
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  Speaker 1: That's how hard hit rate gets measured. And this is
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  Speaker 1: just about all 95-plus on the knocks. Jackson Churio, 103.
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  Speaker 1: And then a bunch that are in the mid to
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  Speaker 1: upper 90s. Like, these are solidly struck baseballs that deserve
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  Speaker 1: to be hits in that fifth inning when nobody on
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  Speaker 1: the Rays could get them out.
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  Speaker 3: Look where they all went, too, most of them. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: other than the Cooper Pratt kind of chopper down the
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  Speaker 3: third baseline.
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  Speaker 4: They all went the other way. It all was the
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  Speaker 4: other way. It was the other way. It was left
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  Speaker 4: on left down the left field line, right?
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  Speaker 3: The Bryce Terang had almost killed Walls at shortstop the
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  Speaker 3: other way.
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  Speaker 4: These all were the other way. Churrio the other way.
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  Speaker 4: It was the other way, the other way, the other way.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what they preach. And then when they get
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  Speaker 3: into it here, I mean, again, this spray chart shows
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  Speaker 3: it off. Look at where all these balls are.
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  Speaker 4: They're down the line. They're in the gap.
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  Speaker 3: They're just not ground balls in the hole. Like a
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  Speaker 3: lot of hard hit balls are ground balls in the hole.
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  Speaker 3: These guys are line driving the ball the other way,
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  Speaker 3: which is the way we were always taught hitting when
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  Speaker 3: we came up. It wasn't lift and separate. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to get backspin. These guys are just getting hits and
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  Speaker 3: they don't give away a bat. And you know what
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  Speaker 3: the Brewers are doing to the Rays, which the Rays
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  Speaker 3: have been able to do. And now they're seeing it
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  Speaker 3: in person and they don't know how to stop it.
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  Speaker 3: They're being out. Raid, basically. This is like we always
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  Speaker 3: talk about the Rays. They play small ball.
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  Speaker 4: They run.
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  Speaker 3: They steal bases. They put pressure. Well, now the Rays
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  Speaker 3: are having it shoved down their throat, and they don't
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  Speaker 3: know how to cough it back up.
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  Speaker 4: They don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 8: You see it.
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  Speaker 4: They're sped up. They admit it. Man, we're sped up.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know what to do, guys. Well, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: They're making mistakes on the bases. They're not playing good defense.
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  Speaker 3: They're making mistakes on the mound because the Brewers are
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  Speaker 3: doing what the Rays usually do, and the Rays aren't
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  Speaker 3: used to having it happen to them, and it's happening
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  Speaker 3: to them in front of their face in the World Series.
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  Speaker 6: In that fifth inning, they made three outs, had 11
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  Speaker 6: balls put in play.
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  Speaker 5: Eight of those. What A.J.
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  Speaker 6: Was saying, eight of those. Even their outs, they had
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  Speaker 6: two fly ball outs to the opposite field. Eight of
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  Speaker 6: them were hit to the opposite field, or I'm considering
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  Speaker 6: Bryce Terang's to the opposite field because it was just
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  Speaker 6: to the left of second. Like, even your outs are
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  Speaker 6: going in the right direction, good things will happen. You'll
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  Speaker 6: chase less. You'll make better pitch decisions. You may not
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  Speaker 6: hit as many homers, but you see what happens.
• 8:42
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  Speaker 2: The series is over, okay?
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: The math for anyone unaware is always worth reminding you about.
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  Speaker 1: We just were reminded of this math during the NLCS
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  Speaker 1: when the Brewers swept the Dodgers. In a best-of-seven postseason series,
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  Speaker 1: teams with a 3-0 lead have won the series 42
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  Speaker 1: of 43 times, good for a 98% clip.
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  Speaker 2: The only time this happened.
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  Speaker 1: It was 2004 with the Red Sox, super famous, right?
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  Speaker 1: 33 of these 43 scenarios have ended in sweeps, including
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  Speaker 1: that NLCS that we just saw. The Brewers have lost
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  Speaker 1: one game since September 23rd. They're just on a ridiculous run.
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  Speaker 1: And the next part of the equation that I want
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  Speaker 1: to bring up, AJ, is the fact that their best
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  Speaker 1: starting pitcher in the playoffs is Robert Gasser. Jacob Mizorowski
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: has been fine, right? He's been pretty good. Robert Gasser
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  Speaker 1: has been him.
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  Speaker 3: Robert Gasser has been unbelievable. Sick shutty last night. Faced
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  Speaker 3: the minimum, by the way. Let's not forget, they had
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: faced the minimum until the ninth inning when Big Wu
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: came in. And I'm sure he was a little bit
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  Speaker 3: excited and a little bit off. But they faced the minimum.
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  Speaker 3: and Robert Gasser was nails last night. He gave up
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  Speaker 3: the leadoff hit to Yanni Diaz, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: was 116 miles an hour, was an absolute piss missile,
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  Speaker 3: and then after that, Chandler Simpson got thrown out stealing.
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  Speaker 4: And then it just was nothing.
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  Speaker 3: They had one walk, and then the double play ball,
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  Speaker 3: and then that was it for Gasser, and Sensatella came in,
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  Speaker 3: and then Big Wu came in, which was awesome. Ten-run lead,
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  Speaker 3: got him an inning in the World Series.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he gave up a run. Who cares? He got
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  Speaker 4: the pitch. That was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: So, I think this series is over. I think you
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  Speaker 3: can put it in the books. But I think one
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  Speaker 3: thing that would be cool, we were talking about this
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: last night, you know, they had Joe Maddon and James
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: Shields come out and throw out the first pitch. You
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: know who they need to get to come out and
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: throw the first pitch? Just to give a little doubt,
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  Speaker 3: somebody from the 2004 Red Sox. And the only guy
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: that came to mind for me was Johnny Damon. He
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  Speaker 3: played for the Rays, and he was on the 0-4 team. Like,
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  Speaker 3: you need to get somebody out there to say, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 3: maybe Manny Ramirez.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: He played for the Rays for a little while too,
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  Speaker 4: didn't he?
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  Speaker 3: So bring out somebody like that to try to get,
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  Speaker 3: the people to believe there's going to be a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of hope because trust me it was a lot
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: of brewers fans there last night there's going to be
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  Speaker 3: even more tonight it's going to be like american family
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  Speaker 3: field south tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I like that idea i like a little johnny damon
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: cameo right he i mean i know he's traveling frequently
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  Speaker 1: but he is from orlando so it's a hop and
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  Speaker 1: a skip across the causeway.
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  Speaker 4: He was here last night i know he was here
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  Speaker 4: oh he was.
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  Speaker 1: There okay They should definitely give him a call. I mean, they,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: they need some voodoo. Oh, for magic and who, but
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Damon who had the grand slam in game seven
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  Speaker 1: in 2004.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's been there. Not many have, but.
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  Speaker 1: Kratz, what do you, I mean, you've watched the Brewers
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: pitch all year too. And the bullpen in the post
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  Speaker 1: season is grabbing most of the attention, which is actually
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  Speaker 1: kind of crazy because most of the attention this season
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  Speaker 1: was on miss rightfully. So what he was doing in
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  Speaker 1: his first full season was incredible. And again, he's been good.
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  Speaker 1: His job has been run prevention. But Robert Gasser has
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  Speaker 1: been better. And he's doing it on the road. And
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: game three was the first time that the Brewers were
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  Speaker 1: picking up outs from their starter in the sixth inning.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just stating a fact in terms of who's
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  Speaker 1: getting the job done.
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  Speaker 2: Again, Miz, great. Robert Gasser, him right now.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, the fact that he had six innings, three Ks.
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  Speaker 6: You think of the Miz, you're like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 5: Why is everybody fouling the Miz off? Is there something wrong?
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  Speaker 5: What's going on here?
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  Speaker 6: Like, Gasser was just, he was just letting them put
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  Speaker 6: the ball in play, attacking. And it was like, it
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  Speaker 6: was one of those things where it was like, you'd
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  Speaker 6: watch him and you go, oh yeah, well definitely getting,
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: definitely getting the pitches that you're wanting. You know, he's
• 13:04
  Speaker 6: hitting the corners. No, the one inning he went five pitches.
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  Speaker 6: I think it was the second or third inning, he
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  Speaker 6: threw five pitches. He was just saying, here's the ball,
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  Speaker 6: hit it. And I think it's something that the other
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  Speaker 6: guys in this rotation, or even in baseball, are like,
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  Speaker 6: you know what, we're going to strike everybody out. And
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  Speaker 6: Robert Gasser shows you don't need to be able to
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  Speaker 6: do that. Or you don't need to have to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you've got the bullpen game, which in
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: some cases you'd be like, ah, bullpen game.
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  Speaker 7: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Bullpen game for the best bullpen in baseball, especially football.
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  Speaker 1: top to bottom this year in terms of how.
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  Speaker 3: Many loaded arms they have loaded no ashby no aribe
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  Speaker 3: no hall no mcgill yesterday they are no romero they
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  Speaker 3: got dustin may they can give them multiple they are
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  Speaker 3: absolutely loaded for bear or stingray today whatever you want
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  Speaker 3: to call it ray whatever they are loaded for rays
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  Speaker 3: today because they got everybody ready i mean literally they
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  Speaker 3: need if they get two innings out of their starter
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  Speaker 3: they're like okay the rebate give me two Ashby, give
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  Speaker 3: me two. McGill, give me two.
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  Speaker 4: JoJo Romero, get three outs.
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  Speaker 5: D.L.
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  Speaker 4: Hall, get three outs.
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  Speaker 3: Again, they can get 10, 12 innings and not really
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  Speaker 3: get into trouble without one of their A guys this postseason.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: They can get two outs out of their opener, starter,
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, even just what you
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: were talking about. Ashby, three. Uribe, two. That's already five. McGill, two.
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  Speaker 1: That's already seven, right? And that's before even talking about
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  Speaker 1: who's going to be early on in the game.
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  Speaker 2: So they're in good shape.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't get to talk about it much because it
• 14:29
  Speaker 6: was like 2-0, 10-0. What the heck just happened? But
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: when it's 2-0, you're looking at it and you're going,
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  Speaker 6: oh no, how are the Rays going to be able
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  Speaker 6: to come back just from two runs? So you see
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: the Brewers go early, it's going to be what you
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: guys were just saying. If the Brewers go up early,
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: it's what you guys were just saying right there. And
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: if you look at Drohan, I don't know if Drohan's
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: going to be the one starting or what he's going
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: to do. Like one time through the order, this guy's
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: pretty nasty he gets in a little bit of trouble
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: when he has a single bad inning here or there.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: When are we gonna have to worry about that.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: By the way when are we are we gonna even
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: mention the caminero play are we just gonna skip over that.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah we're gonna do a whole segment on it we're
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: gonna do it later yeah this was glory this was
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: already stuff we knew yes and then we'll do a
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: whole race segment coming up since aj's there too and
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: we want to talk about the fan base, the lineup decisions,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: all of that. But we'll do that in a different segment.
• 15:24
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• 15:56
  Speaker 9: any better than that. Harper, the shave of his life.
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  Speaker 1: Front office unfiltered, our resident GM Jim Bowden is here,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: and he is at the World Series.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: He's usually first to the park, so he'll be there soon. JB,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: good to see you.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Take away from what you've seen in these first three games,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: not just from you, but what are people saying? You
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: see everybody. What are people saying about this series and
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: this Brewers team?
• 16:49
  Speaker 10: I think we kind of expected it, right? We all
• 16:51
  Speaker 10: thought they were the best team in the world before
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: the playoffs started, and all they've done is just reinforce it.
• 16:57
  Speaker 10: It's been amazing. to watch this lineup just being so
• 17:01
  Speaker 10: relentless from one to nine. I mean, last night, everyone
• 17:03
  Speaker 10: but Jake Bowers had a hit. Everyone had a run
• 17:05
  Speaker 10: or an RBI. And your three best superstars, Jackson Churio
• 17:09
  Speaker 10: and William Contreras and Bryce Terang combined for 10 of
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: their 16 hits. On the first pitch strikes in this
• 17:16
  Speaker 10: whole series, they're 11 for 14 while the Rays are
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: 0 for 7.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: It's just amazing.
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: And to be able to have a 10-0 lead and
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: Sal Frelick is diving for balls, risking An injury to
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: catch the ball in a 10-0 game. I mean, yeah,
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: they felt it. And the ballpark last night, you know,
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: it was 50-50 Brewers-Rays fans. The Brewers fans were louder
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: than the Rays fans from the very beginning. I was
• 17:39
  Speaker 10: amazed when the game was over. There was about 10,000
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: Brewer fans that just wouldn't go home and just hung
• 17:44
  Speaker 10: out behind their dugout. That was just a really cool moment.
• 17:47
  Speaker 10: I expected tonight when they clinch. I didn't expect it
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: last night. But, yeah, the Brewers fans are all over
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: the city. Walking up and down, they kept me up
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: till 4 in the morning with their partying on the streets.
• 17:58
  Speaker 10: So I'm happy for the fans. And look, this team
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: is as good as advertised. I mean, you look at Gasser,
• 18:04
  Speaker 10: who has been their best starting pitcher, right? Even though
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: he's their game three starter. Goes into Petco, beats the Padres,
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: gives up one run. Goes into Dodger Stadium, beats the Dodgers,
• 18:15
  Speaker 10: gives up one run. Comes into the Tampa Bay ballpark,
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: six innings, one hit, shot out baseball. Seven starts in
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: a row with one run or less in the starts.
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: and they get to save their entire bullpen for tonight
• 18:26
  Speaker 10: to finish the job. I mean, it's, I don't know,
• 18:28
  Speaker 10: as expected is the way I would rephrase it.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: First of all, Jim, it was really nice to see
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: you last night at the game.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I think you were the only person I didn't see
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: at the game, so I appreciate you saying hi to me.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: That was really, really, really nice of you. And then also,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: you said it was 50-50. I don't know if it
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: was 50-50 Brewers fans, but I'll say this. There was
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Louder Brewer fans than Tampa Bay from the beginning, from
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: the warmups, from before the game.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: It was everybody.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, how many times I heard let's go Brewer
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: chance breakout in Tropicana Field. It felt like I was
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: at a Brewer's home game and they traveled all the
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: way down to Tampa Bay to watch their team clinch tonight.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: And they are the better team. There's no question here.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: They are the better team. And I said it earlier.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: They have done to the Rays what the Rays usually
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: do to other teams, their speed and aggressiveness. They have
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: put it in the Rays face and the Rays have
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: no answer.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no doubt.
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: And look, the Rays have made defensive mistakes. Aranda's made
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: a couple. Simpson dropped one. Last night, Caminero's play was
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: the first base where William Contreras was running down the line.
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: He threw the second, even though he should have known
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: Yelich had a huge lead in his speed. That play
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: was the first. You've seen them twice in this series
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: make the third out at third base. Some base running mistakes. So,
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: you know, we've seen some flaws that we didn't see
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: that often. getting into the World Series for Tampa. But
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: you know to your point and I agree with it
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: I mean Milwaukee has a plus plus defender at every
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: position on the field and it shows up throughout the
• 19:56
  Speaker 10: game they're a good base running team Pat Murphy does
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: an amazing job managing this team and navigating through the
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: bullpen you know getting playing time for his guys I
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: mean he just does an incredible job so You know,
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: they're just better in every single facet of the game,
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: and that's what we're witnessing. And the other thing is,
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: as you guys know, I mean, this team is so humble, right?
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: I mean, this is just not your normal World Series team.
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: It's a very humble, all-business, relentless. They don't mind jumping
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: on the first pitch, but if you don't want to
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: throw us a strike on the first pitch, which they've
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: been crushing, it's okay. We'll work the count. They saw
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: 184 pitches in Game 2. Like, are you kidding me?
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: Like, it's just.
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: They're so fun to watch because it's just the way
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: the game is supposed to be played. That's how I
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: grew up. That was my expectation of the brand of baseball.
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: And who would have thought in 2026 we'd get it?
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: It's been fun to watch.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: When you hear reports or see the numbers about international
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: and amateur scouting being two of the largest, I think
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: top five largest, scouting groups in baseball, do you feel
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: like they've taken advantage of that? Or do you feel
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: like that's something that the rest of the league has said,
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: I don't think it's that important.
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: Yeah, well, obviously what happened is when analytics came into
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: the game, there were a lot of Ivy League guys
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: that didn't spend the time playing the game or managing
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: the game or spent their life in the game. They
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: looked at the analytics and it started to work and
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: it started to be successful. And then they shied away with,
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: you know, why do we need scouts? Why do we
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: need the human element? Like it just not really understanding.
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: So they went away from it. Milwaukee and Tampa said, really?
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: Tampa's got 60 scouts. They employ more scouts than anybody.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Do they use analytics? Sure they do.
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: But they blend it with the human element. You know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: when I was at the NLCS in the Brewer-Dodger series
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: at the bar after the game, Tampa Bay had six
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: scouts there advancing.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Six.
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: Milwaukee Brewers are dominating the Midwest in amateur scouting. And
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: no one's doing anything about it because you know what?
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: We can just use the analytics. We can look at
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: the stats. We can look at and arm speed, and
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: we can make our decisions on a computer.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, you can't.
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: No, you can't.
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: And Milwaukee, because of this, is really set up. And
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: I'm not just talking about this major league team. I'm
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: talking about a farm system with Andrew Fisher, who next
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: year might hit 30 home runs as the everyday first baseman.
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: I'm talking about Jesus Made, who has a chance to
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: be a better player than Jackson Churrio. I'm talking about
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: Louis Peña, who's got a chance to be the next
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: Bryce Terang. Like, they are loaded in the system because
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: they're beating everybody in the scouting. And I think what's
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: amazing to me is how many executives went away from
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: scouting and just felt like they could do it with
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: analytics alone. You need all of it if you want
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: to win, and that's what Tampa Bay and Milwaukee does.
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: They do all of it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Great call.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, the international side we'll talk more about in
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the offseason too.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Scott, hold on.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Scott, hold on before you go. I know I just
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: have one quick comment on this before Jim. You know
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: what ruined all this and what changed it all, Jim?
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Moneyball. Because they said, we don't need scouts. We don't
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: need scouts. We can save money.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: And now the two of the lesser payroll teams have
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the most scouts and the most guys out watching players
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: because what they realized is, man, eyeballs on a player.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I can look at a spreadsheet and he can give
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: me numbers, but I can't see how he reacts when
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: he goes 0 for 4. I can't see how he
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: reacts when he makes an error. I can't see how
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: he reacts when he gives up a home run. I
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: can't see what kind of teammate he is. Those things matter,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: and that's what the Brewers and the Rays, I feel like,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: beat everybody else at is not only– the chemistry, but
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: the makeup of each and every one of their players.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Because if you don't have a certain makeup, I guarantee
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: you this, Pat Murphy's sending your ass out the door.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: AJ, you nailed it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: And I'm glad you did it. I'd like to take
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: my iPhone out and hit that double red exclamation point
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: with comments like that, because obviously, you know, you, Eric, Scott,
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: all you guys know, and you get it. And it's
• 23:51
  Speaker 10: not just that, but how about the conversations, right? Like
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: Eric Neander brings in John Daniels, who was the president
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: and GM of the Rangers for years. He brings in
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: Brandon Hyde who would manage the Orioles to the postseason.
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: Like they're having all these baseball conversations all the time.
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: It's not just about the scouting, but it's talking about
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: the scouting and then talking about the players. I mean,
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: when Tampa Bay went to get Freddy Peralta, Freddy Peralta
• 24:14
  Speaker 10: had pitched horribly for the Mets. And so they all
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: sat in a room and watched him. And then, you know,
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: they all get in a room and they go, okay,
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: what can we do? If we trade for Peralta, what
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: can we do to get him back to being the
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: guy he was a year ago? And then they do it.
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: And then they trade you know, a first round pick
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: to go get their closer who ends up being an
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: impact closer for them. But a lot of that is
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: not just, you know, scouting and it's not just analytics.
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: It's being around, you know, major league baseball men with
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: good ideas and good concepts, understand the human element of
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: who can do what in what role, how can we
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: make them better? And then their obsession with making players better,
• 24:50
  Speaker 10: the obsession with, okay, let's find out what a player
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: does well. And let's emphasize that. And so, yeah, it's
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: been fun to watch. And I even love Kevin Cash's
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: comments the other day when he talked about bunting. And
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: he said, you know, five years ago, we were told
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: that the analytics said, don't bunt, we can't give up outs. Okay, well,
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: then everyone started throwing 100 miles an hour. And we
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: started figuring out that not everyone's going to be able
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: to hit some of the pitching that we're watching now
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: with 100 miles an hour and some of the shapes
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: and sizes.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: So what?
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: OK, let's let's bring the bunk back, move the runner,
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: get him over, use athleticism, get him in and get
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: a run. And certainly it works. And it's just both organizations,
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: the blend of scouting analytics and great baseball minds together
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: as a group talking about in a collaborative effort. That's
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: what both these teams have done. And they're sitting here
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: in the World Series as the two best teams in baseball.
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: And I'm here for it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: See, Kiko, it's just about time.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Just about time to talk about what else is going
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: on in the world besides the World Series. So, yes,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing I will say is we're
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: tracking the trends. Sometimes when it's a sweep or most
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: times when it's a sweep scenario and it's 3-0, A.J.,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: If you want to get to a big game, like
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: let's say you're a Dodgers.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Fan in the NLCS, and a lot of times.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: The tickets are pricey, the fourth game there of a
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: 3-0 is usually the best time to capitalize. This scenario
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: is a little bit different because Brewers fans seem to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: be like flying in this morning still. To go get
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: a piece of a potential clinch scenario. So it's a
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: hot ticket. It stays that way. So if you're on Seagate,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: don't be waiting until like, I don't know, six o'clock
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: to try and grab the last minute seat. Like go,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I would go now, go yesterday to use the code
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: and get the tickets.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Again, there's so many Brewers fans here and it's only
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: going to get crazier. So don't, don't wait because all
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Rays fans were thinking, Oh, we might
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: make this two, two. are now being like, oh, I
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: can make a bunch of money and get my money
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: back on my ticket and some from these Brewer fans.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: So there's going to be a ton of Brewers fans here.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: They're already here, and it's only going.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: To get worse.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Right. It's buying tickets.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: It's selling tickets that can all get done on SeatGeek.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Over 35 million downloads. It's the official ticket marketplace of
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: And then what?
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: You know what?
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I know what AJ's going to say. I'm going to
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: go to Kratz on this one. What's the first event
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: that you're going to attend after the World Series, Kratz?
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Between now and opening day, whenever that is.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: That's easy.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: I'm going to an NBA game. I haven't been to
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: an NBA game ever. I've been to a lot of
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: hockey games. I want to go to an NBA game.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, the Sixers have LeBron James. You get to
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: see the greatest of your time. Never been to an
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: NBA game.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Wait, what?
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: You've never been to an NBA? You've never been to
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: a basketball game? NBA?
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Never. Why not?
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Not worth it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: What?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: How can you say not worth it? You've never gone.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: It's during hockey season. I would much rather go to
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: a hockey game.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: I enjoy.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: What are you, happy Gilmore?
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: 364 more days till next hockey season.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Can't do it.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Can't do it during hockey season. Wow, that's crazy, Kratz.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: You're going to like it. I think it's going to
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: be better than you think. And we know where you're
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: going to get it. Wow, that's crazy. Kratz, a grown man,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: never been to an NBA game.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Well, now's the time.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Territory 10. Yes, exactly.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: He's going to go on SeatGeek, 10% off those tickets.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: They have every event, like NBA, every NBA game can
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: be there. So Kratz will find his seats and he'll
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: watch LeBron. On the record, presented by the Fox One app,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Brewers TV analyst Vinny Rottino joining us right now. And
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: many Brewers fans were excited to hear that Vinny is
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: back on the show here today.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: So Vinny, How are you?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: On a scale of 1 to 100, how are you
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: feeling right now about what you've been seeing from this
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Brewers team in October versus what you saw from them
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: in the regular season?
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: They've gotten even better, right?
• 28:55
  Speaker 11: You know, 1 to what? 1 to 100? I mean,
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: over 100. Yeah, I mean, unbelievable stuff from this Brewers team.
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: I think, guys, I.
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: Think what they thought going into the playoffs is that
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: they thought to themselves, hey, are we.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: Are we going to be able to win in October?
• 29:12
  Speaker 11: And now all of a sudden, I think they've evolved
• 29:15
  Speaker 11: into a mindset of we're unstoppable. And so that's pretty
• 29:18
  Speaker 11: scary considering this team is so young, so inexperienced and
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: really not going to, there's no signs of slowing down
• 29:25
  Speaker 11: and they've got the best farm system in baseball. This
• 29:27
  Speaker 11: team is going to be really good for a long
• 29:29
  Speaker 11: time considering now that they know how to win in October,
• 29:32
  Speaker 11: obviously finish it off and finish this. I think it's
• 29:35
  Speaker 11: going to be a sweep. I think we're all going
• 29:37
  Speaker 11: to be surprised if it's not a sweep at this point.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Vinny, that's what I keep telling people. When I was
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: walking around the park last night, everyone's like, what's going
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: on with the Brewers? They just don't believe that they're
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: going to lose. They don't believe they're going to, no
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: matter what happens in the game, they go down four
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: nothing in the first.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: No big deal.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: We'll just come back and win that game. Oh, we
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: fall down to the Dodgers. Tyler Glass now.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Who cares? We'll come back and win that game. It
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: doesn't matter.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: This team has more belief than any team I've seen
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: in a really long time. And once you get that,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: it's so hard to take it away because people say, oh,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: baseball is not about momentum. Right now, the Brewers are
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: just riding a tsunami of momentum that they believe they'll
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: never lose again.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: Momentum is a huge part of baseball. You guys know, right?
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: So not only in game momentum.
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: But also, you know, different parts of the season that
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: you can feel that momentum. And right now that snowball
• 30:26
  Speaker 11: of momentum is rolling down the hill and it's unstoppable
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: and they feel it's unstoppable. And it's every single guy
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: on the roster that feels that it's every single guy.
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: Guy on the coaching staff that feels that front office
• 30:37
  Speaker 11: ownership group. I mean, everybody, even the fans, we all are,
• 30:41
  Speaker 11: we're just, just kind of going bananas right now. I mean,
• 30:44
  Speaker 11: the watch party last night, guys, for the brewers. I
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: don't know if you saw that as 31,000, the secondary
• 30:49
  Speaker 11: market for those tickets, they, they sold for face value
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: at 15 bucks and they're over 300 bucks right now
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: to watch the watch party in at American family field.
• 30:58
  Speaker 11: I mean, What's going on right now in Milwaukee with
• 31:01
  Speaker 11: this fan base and with the team, that momentum is
• 31:04
  Speaker 11: rolling down that hill.
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: And yeah, it is unstoppable right now. I just, it is,
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: it's almost scary. I agree.
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: I haven't seen anything like this in a very long time.
• 31:13
  Speaker 11: I feel like this Brewers team could beat any team
• 31:15
  Speaker 11: in the history of the game.
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: Just the way that they're playing. It's just so fun
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: to watch.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: Well, they can't beat the 2005 White Sox.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: Nobody could beat them. So just, just make sure, you know, close.
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: When did this evolution happen? You said this team has
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: evolved into this. Did you see it? Was it a game,
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: a series? Was it when they played the Dodgers in
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: the regular season? Did it happen against the Padres? When
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: do you think this evolution actually happened?
• 31:45
  Speaker 11: I think it was the Churrio walk-off base hit in
• 31:47
  Speaker 11: game two. I think they really started to not only believe,
• 31:51
  Speaker 11: but I feel like they thought they were going to
• 31:53
  Speaker 11: be just unbeatable at that point in October, you know,
• 31:57
  Speaker 11: once they went up to nothing, I think before that,
• 32:00
  Speaker 11: I don't think they felt it. I also think there
• 32:02
  Speaker 11: was a point in the season right at the end,
• 32:05
  Speaker 11: they put the captains, the sea on Christian Yelich's Jersey.
• 32:09
  Speaker 11: And then all of a sudden he was obviously very,
• 32:11
  Speaker 11: they're all important, obviously to playing well and having a
• 32:16
  Speaker 11: sound offensive performance. kind of approach at the plate. You
• 32:20
  Speaker 11: need to have all nine guys having, you can't have
• 32:24
  Speaker 11: any outs in the lineup. I think you're seeing that
• 32:26
  Speaker 11: right now with the Rays and some of the other
• 32:28
  Speaker 11: teams that the Brewers have played in the playoffs so far.
• 32:30
  Speaker 11: And right now the Brewers haven't had that at all
• 32:34
  Speaker 11: up and down the lineup. They're just so difficult to
• 32:36
  Speaker 11: pitch to. Christian Yelich was a huge part of that.
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: He has not had a lot of success in the
• 32:40
  Speaker 11: post season and all of a sudden he is. And
• 32:42
  Speaker 11: I think he, he got that little shot in the
• 32:45
  Speaker 11: arm and, perhaps maybe a little extra motivation to play
• 32:49
  Speaker 11: at his best. Although you guys know that's not how
• 32:52
  Speaker 11: it works, but just that little, you know, something that
• 32:55
  Speaker 11: little shot in the arm to, to understand like, okay,
• 32:58
  Speaker 11: he is a very good player and he's a huge
• 33:00
  Speaker 11: part of this thing.
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: And the fact that Pat Murphy called him the team.
• 33:04
  Speaker 11: Captain and he had so much feel to call Robin
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: you out to, to, that he understands how, how, what
• 33:12
  Speaker 11: kind of responsibility that is. Uh, I think, I think
• 33:16
  Speaker 11: that was also a turning point. There's been so many
• 33:19
  Speaker 11: different parts of the season. That's why Pat Murphy guys
• 33:22
  Speaker 11: is the best manager of baseball because he knows when
• 33:25
  Speaker 11: to push those right buttons. Uh, and he knows, um,
• 33:29
  Speaker 11: he always has that feel and the pulse of the
• 33:32
  Speaker 11: team to get them playing at their best and, um,
• 33:35
  Speaker 11: Hounsell was a really good manager.
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: He's phenomenal. Pat Murphy's better than him. He just is.
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: And I don't think there's any denying that at this point.
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: So there's been a bunch of them, but I think
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: those two points in the season have gotten the Brewers
• 33:50
  Speaker 11: to this point of playing like this.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Vinny, but this style doesn't win in the postseason.
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: Remember?
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Doesn't win, and they don't hit home runs. So how
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: can they possibly win? Because every team is chasing home runs.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: But the last two teams left really aren't that style
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: of play other than Junior Caminero really for the Rays.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: The rest of these guys are more contact, line drive,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: take the extra base. And that's what Murph does. I
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: think the superpower of Murph is making guys feel invincible.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: No matter where they're at, no matter what they do.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: But to me, remember last year, oh, this style doesn't work.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: The Brewers can never win.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: The Brewers not only do the same style, they've just
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: gotten better and better and better and better at it.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: And they've actually honed their skills to a point where
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: no team can keep up.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: That's true.
• 34:34
  Speaker 11: And so it is Murph, but guys, if you ever
• 34:37
  Speaker 11: get a chance to talk to Jason Lane as well,
• 34:39
  Speaker 11: and AJ, he'll talk to.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: Your ear off.
• 34:44
  Speaker 11: And he, some of the stuff that he says about
• 34:47
  Speaker 11: the offensive strategy is kind of mind blowing.
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: I've been in this game since professionally since 2002.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 34:54
  Speaker 11: So when AJ graduated high school, right. Or so, but
• 34:59
  Speaker 11: that was a, It's been, it's been such a, it's
• 35:04
  Speaker 11: been a revelation to hear him talk about their approach.
• 35:07
  Speaker 11: Their approach is so simple guys. It's C ball with clarity.
• 35:13
  Speaker 11: And get the barrel to the ball in the most
• 35:15
  Speaker 11: efficient way.
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: And that's it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 11: And the way that they've all bought into this has
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: allowed them to have this approach that is working in
• 35:23
  Speaker 11: the playoffs.
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: Why is that?
• 35:26
  Speaker 11: Is because it is so difficult if you're a pitcher
• 35:29
  Speaker 11: and if you're a catcher.
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: They, what do you call?
• 35:32
  Speaker 11: I mean, you have a 11 pitch at bat, 12
• 35:35
  Speaker 11: pitch at bat against Jake Bowers. Who's you know, you
• 35:37
  Speaker 11: have Yamamoto on the mound. You can push any button
• 35:40
  Speaker 11: you want. He's going to put the ball exactly where
• 35:42
  Speaker 11: you want. And what pitch do you call at that point? Finally,
• 35:45
  Speaker 11: they called the slow curve ball and he hits a
• 35:49
  Speaker 11: home run or no, no. I think that was the walk.
• 35:51
  Speaker 11: And then the next night against Snell, it was the Homer.
• 35:55
  Speaker 11: So that's why it's so difficult because that's all they
• 35:58
  Speaker 11: care about. I just care about seeing the ball with
• 36:01
  Speaker 11: clarity and I'm going to attack it the right way.
• 36:03
  Speaker 11: And all of a sudden, because of that, they see
• 36:06
  Speaker 11: the ball a little bit deeper and they drive it
• 36:09
  Speaker 11: to the opposite field.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: They hit ground balls to the opposite field.
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: And it is so infuriating for opposing pitchers and catchers
• 36:16
  Speaker 11: and defenses to sit out there 183 pitches in game
• 36:21
  Speaker 11: one of this world series, the most in a playoff
• 36:23
  Speaker 11: game since whenever it's like so much, it's like, it's
• 36:29
  Speaker 11: a fun brand of baseball, but it's also a winning
• 36:31
  Speaker 11: brand of baseball.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: That does work. Why?
• 36:33
  Speaker 11: Because you do get buy-in from every single guy. If
• 36:35
  Speaker 11: you did not have buy-in from every single guy, if
• 36:38
  Speaker 11: one guy thought, okay, I got to hit the three
• 36:39
  Speaker 11: run home run, I've got to be the hero. They
• 36:41
  Speaker 11: just don't think like that. And because of that, it's, it's,
• 36:44
  Speaker 11: it's a pass the baton mentality, all this cliche stuff
• 36:48
  Speaker 11: that's actually being played out in an authentic way.
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: By every single guy on the roster.
• 36:53
  Speaker 11: It's the way that I think, Carved out 14 years
• 36:56
  Speaker 11: of professional baseball, grinding my tail off up and down
• 37:00
  Speaker 11: for parts of five seasons. I was not a good
• 37:02
  Speaker 11: major league player, but that's the way that I wanted
• 37:06
  Speaker 11: to play the game and try to play the game
• 37:07
  Speaker 11: every single day.
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: And these guys are playing it.
• 37:11
  Speaker 11: All 26 guys, more than that, all 60 guys that
• 37:14
  Speaker 11: were on the roster this year. And I'm super passionate
• 37:17
  Speaker 11: about watching this team play because it's, it's the way.
• 37:22
  Speaker 11: Winning teams win, right? And you guys know that as
• 37:25
  Speaker 11: well as anybody, but it's the way winning. You guys
• 37:28
  Speaker 11: had it in 2018, Kratzy. You had glimpses of it
• 37:31
  Speaker 11: and just fell short, but it just works.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: It does.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: It just works. And it works over the long haul.
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: It works in October.
• 37:40
  Speaker 11: But in order to get guys to be kind of
• 37:43
  Speaker 11: relaxed enough in October to implement this, I think they
• 37:47
  Speaker 11: needed some belief and they got it in that San
• 37:48
  Speaker 11: Diego series.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: Vinny, no matter what your major league career says, I
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: saw you in the minor leagues, and it worked in
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: the minor leagues. You played that style. But when I
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: ask this question, don't forget that you did catch, too.
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: You didn't catch a lot in the big leagues, but
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: you did put on the tools of intelligence.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: Who's the MVP for this series?
• 38:10
  Speaker 11: Man, there's so many different players. I think you've got
• 38:15
  Speaker 11: to give it to Contreras. If he does anything tonight
• 38:19
  Speaker 11: and they win, I think you give it to Contreras. Although, gosh,
• 38:22
  Speaker 11: how can you deny Ashby an MVP considering what he's.
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: Done over the course of the entire postseason?
• 38:29
  Speaker 11: Contreras just because look, he's, he's taken his game to
• 38:32
  Speaker 11: another level at this point, not only offensively, but just
• 38:37
  Speaker 11: that leadership he's blocking the baseball exceptional. He was not
• 38:40
  Speaker 11: a great blocker early on this season. Nestor corridor go
• 38:45
  Speaker 11: is kind of the unsung hero of the coaching staff. It's,
• 38:48
  Speaker 11: it's literally every single guy in that coaching staff. That's
• 38:51
  Speaker 11: been awesome. But yeah, you know, Nestor corridor is kind
• 38:54
  Speaker 11: of a name that nobody knows. He's the, he's not
• 38:57
  Speaker 11: the catching coordinator. I forget his title, but he's like
• 39:00
  Speaker 11: a bet. One of the bench coaches, but then also
• 39:02
  Speaker 11: handles the catching duties and helps the William, you know,
• 39:06
  Speaker 11: and he's kind of really helped William and mentor William because,
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: you know, there's been some talk and I think they
• 39:12
  Speaker 11: said it on the broadcast too, that he was, there
• 39:15
  Speaker 11: was issues in Atlanta with William Contreras. Well, Nestor corridor
• 39:17
  Speaker 11: has kind of mentored this kid and has developed them
• 39:20
  Speaker 11: into a great teammate and helped them develop behind the
• 39:24
  Speaker 11: plate defensively.
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: But, you know, he's calling, he's calling a great game.
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: He's receiving the ball.
• 39:29
  Speaker 11: Well, the challenges, I mean, I didn't think challenging would
• 39:32
  Speaker 11: be something that we talk about that often. I just
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: figured it would be, you know, something that, you know,
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: is kind of a novelty and a little nuance in
• 39:41
  Speaker 11: the game. But it is important as heck. You guys
• 39:43
  Speaker 11: can see that. And Couture is confidently challenging pitches that
• 39:46
  Speaker 11: are miscalled offensively. balls, uh, to strikes. And, and so
• 39:50
  Speaker 11: he's been phenomenal. I think you got to give it
• 39:53
  Speaker 11: to him at this point. He's been the team leader
• 39:54
  Speaker 11: in the, in one of the captains. They've got a
• 39:56
  Speaker 11: number of different guys that have assumed that role.
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: Um, on this team.
• 40:01
  Speaker 11: So, uh, but Ashby has been phenomenal and contrarious or
• 40:05
  Speaker 11: a cheerio. Uh, I mean, what more can you say
• 40:09
  Speaker 11: about him? He is a superstar.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Vinny guy is not going to win the MVP, but
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: as an MVP for this team is, is Brandon Woodruff,
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: big woo.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: He got to pitch last night. It was a really
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: cool moment.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: They sent down, was it Bryn Hester, to tell him
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: or ask him if he wanted to pitch tonight. Then
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: he came and I know he gave up a run,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: but it really wasn't about that. It was just about
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: him being back out there. What has he meant to
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: this team and then getting to pitch in the World
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Series for a guy that's been here his entire career?
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: What does that mean for Big Whoop?
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: It means everything. Big Wu is another one of these guys.
• 40:41
  Speaker 11: It's him and Christian Yelich are the longest-tenured Brewers on
• 40:45
  Speaker 11: the roster, and they've been through it all.
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: They've seen it all.
• 40:48
  Speaker 11: They've gone through a lot of the heartache that's happened
• 40:51
  Speaker 11: over the last, what is it, eight out of the
• 40:53
  Speaker 11: last nine years they've been in the playoffs. So he's
• 40:57
  Speaker 11: a guy that in 2016, he was up in the
• 41:00
  Speaker 11: big leagues, I believe, or 17, and it just– He's
• 41:07
  Speaker 11: been there, done. He's the only organization that he's been with,
• 41:10
  Speaker 11: and he's been waiting for this as well as the
• 41:13
  Speaker 11: rest of the Brewers faithful for a very long time
• 41:16
  Speaker 11: to get to the World Series and potentially win the
• 41:18
  Speaker 11: World Series.
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: So it was cool to see that he didn't.
• 41:20
  Speaker 11: Want to just be, you know, they took off Chad Patrick,
• 41:24
  Speaker 11: who's been instrumental in helping the Brewers win 103 games
• 41:27
  Speaker 11: and get through to the World Series, but he was
• 41:29
  Speaker 11: left off the roster.
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: You feel bad for him, but at the.
• 41:33
  Speaker 11: Same time, Big Wu is a guy that can can help.
• 41:36
  Speaker 11: And he said that he didn't want to just be
• 41:38
  Speaker 11: kind of a courtesy ad to the roster. He wanted
• 41:40
  Speaker 11: to be a guy that can help. And Pat Murphy said,
• 41:43
  Speaker 11: you know, he, he is certainly a guy that can help.
• 41:45
  Speaker 11: I mean, I talked to big Wu all year long and,
• 41:49
  Speaker 11: And it was, he kept his spirits up and he,
• 41:53
  Speaker 11: and I was wondering if that last shoulder surgery or
• 41:56
  Speaker 11: shoulder injury was going to end his career. He said,
• 41:59
  Speaker 11: he said, no, I'm going to go through the gauntlet
• 42:01
  Speaker 11: of rehab again, another year of rehab because why? Because
• 42:05
  Speaker 11: he knows that he can get hitters out he knows
• 42:08
  Speaker 11: how to pitch now with his 89 to 93 mile
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: per hour fastball i mean we've seen him even touch
• 42:14
  Speaker 11: the 95s and sixes every once in a while but
• 42:16
  Speaker 11: he's really pitching at like 92 now because he knows
• 42:20
  Speaker 11: how to read swings now he's got that little cutter
• 42:23
  Speaker 11: and he's got a great change up to go with
• 42:24
  Speaker 11: it so he's a he's a dude that can still
• 42:27
  Speaker 11: pitch and still get outs and he's um a guy
• 42:30
  Speaker 11: that wants this world series victory as bad as anybody
• 42:34
  Speaker 11: so it's really cool to see him on the roster
• 42:36
  Speaker 11: Did you.
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: See the report about Ferg's, how they went through a
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: month of beer in one night? Where and will you
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: be at a place to watch this game tonight when
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: they clinch? Or where would be the optimal place to
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: be a Brewers fan to watch the game tonight?
• 42:56
  Speaker 11: Well, the optimal place would be down in Tampa for sure.
• 42:58
  Speaker 11: But I stayed home with my wife. I got three
• 43:00
  Speaker 11: small daughters. We're going to actually go to the watch party.
• 43:03
  Speaker 11: They're going to be, um, beasts tomorrow because they're going
• 43:07
  Speaker 11: to be, you know, lacking of sleep, but it's going
• 43:09
  Speaker 11: to be, um, it's going to be great. Cause you know,
• 43:12
  Speaker 11: I mean, 31,000 fans screaming their heads off at last
• 43:16
  Speaker 11: night's watch party. It's, um, a place to be. We didn't,
• 43:19
  Speaker 11: we just watched it at home last night, but, um,
• 43:22
  Speaker 11: we're definitely going to be at the watch party tonight. And, um, Yeah,
• 43:26
  Speaker 11: so games one and two was an epic tailgate. We
• 43:29
  Speaker 11: had the best tailgate. We had Jeff Jenkins there. We
• 43:32
  Speaker 11: had about 200 people there. We had a bunch of
• 43:34
  Speaker 11: Brewers fantasy campers there. Kratz, you weren't there. AJ, I
• 43:37
  Speaker 11: don't know where you were, but Scott, you guys got
• 43:40
  Speaker 11: to come to the tailgate next year because there's not
• 43:43
  Speaker 11: going to be a game six or seven, but they're
• 43:45
  Speaker 11: going to get back to the World Series considering, again,
• 43:48
  Speaker 11: how young they are and now that they know how
• 43:53
  Speaker 11: to win in October.
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: We did about as much as we could do with
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: documenting that. We had our pregame show at Catalano Square,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: and then we did the– I don't know if you
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: saw it, but we did the little side session with
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Jeff Jenkins.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Who else was with him? Someone else was with him.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: Dillard.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Dillard was with him. So we had those two.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: They did like a nice little 10 minutes with us,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: a live report from a tailgate, and we kept it
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: clean enough for it to be streaming everywhere.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: So it was really good.
• 44:21
  Speaker 7: And I agree.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I would love to be there. Kratz, last word. What
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: do you got?
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: Anything. Jenny, sorry. I was in the Bahamas. I apologize.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: The Bahamas, no offense to Milwaukee. Bahamas, Milwaukee, I'm going
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: to take the Bahamas.
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: All right. That's fair.
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: That's fair, Jenny.
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: No, that's good. You sure you don't want the team
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: to lose the next two? Because there's plenty of people
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: who are like, I want to see the Brewers back
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: for one more game. Would you be okay with the
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: Brewers pushing the limit and saying we're throwing games four
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: and five to clinch it at home?
• 44:52
  Speaker 7: No way. No way.
• 44:53
  Speaker 11: I mean, would it be nice to see the Brewers
• 44:56
  Speaker 11: clinch and win a World Series at home?
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: For sure. For sure.
• 44:58
  Speaker 11: But no, finish the thing off and win the thing.
• 45:00
  Speaker 11: Because look, they're going to be back there. They are
• 45:02
  Speaker 11: 100 percent going to be back the way that this
• 45:04
  Speaker 11: team is playing.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: That's what they said in 82. That's what they said
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: in 82.
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: They said no six in Chicago, too.
• 45:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, very true.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: I'm with you, dude. They've built a really good foundation.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: They've got guys locked up long term. They've got, I think,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: the best prospect in baseball and Mata is still to
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: come next year. Like it is a special little run
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: they're on and they make the playoffs every year for
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the past decade.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: So, Vinny, enjoy the ride, man. Have fun tonight. Thanks
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: for swinging by, dude. Good to see you. Awesome.
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: Thanks for having me on, guys.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: That's Vinny Rotino.
• 45:35
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• 46:02
  Speaker 1: felt like this was the perfect lid segment since we
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: have seen so many brewers hats down in Tampa Bay.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Around the trop in St. Petersburg.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: So AJ is basically live on the scene as he
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: hit game three and he'll be at game four. AJ,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: paint the picture of how much of a takeover this
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: is for Brewers fans around the town and in the
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: ballpark itself.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: I'm staying down on.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: St.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: Pete beach and it, it walked the beach this morning
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: and in the hotel I'm staying at, it is all
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: Brewers fans. It is insane.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: 25 to one brewer fan versus guy with a racer.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: It's everywhere you go. They're all talking brewers, uh, rock
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: their TV guy. What's his name? Bill Schroeder. I don't
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: want to say that wrong.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: Am I, am I okay.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got it right.
• 46:50
  Speaker 8: You nailed it.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: He's in the hotel.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: I'm staying in and I was in there eating, uh,
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: breakfast this morning and he walked out and he got
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: a standing ovation in the hotel lobby because the brewers
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: fans were chanting, let's go brewers.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: And one more, one more. And he just kind of
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: waved and was like, I know one more, I want more. So,
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: It is crazy. Last night at the game, it was crazy.
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: Everywhere you looked, there was Brewers fans.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Like I said earlier, the favorite story was when the
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Brewers went up 10-0, a bunch of them took their
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: shirts off, and the Rays fans were so mad, they
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: just kept yelling at them.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: Put your shirt on, you fat guy. Hey, fat guy,
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: put your shirt on. You don't need to be wearing
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: your shirt off.
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: And the Brewers guy just kept pointing at the scoreboard like, hey,
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: you know what?
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: So what?
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: So they are in a full takeover mode, and it's
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: going to be worse tonight because they are all going
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: to fly down.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: The drop's going to be Brewer-fied. And you know what?
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: I'm here for it because it's been fun. The Brewers
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: are great. The Rays are a great organization. The Brewers
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: are a great organization. But the Brewers have been the
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: best team. And tonight, sadly, if you're a Rays fan,
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: I think it all comes to an end. And I mean,
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: there's so much we can talk about in the game
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: last night. But for me, it was the atmosphere in
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: the trough, which I've never seen it like that.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Follow up on the fan experience inside the ballpark.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: You had texted us before the game around 35% Brewers fans.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Is that what the number felt like?
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Well, that was in like the line. I was in
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: the line to get into the game. Once I got in,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: it was probably 40% Brewer fans. There was whole sections
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: of Brewer fans in the stands. So I don't know
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: if it was 40%, but it was, if as the
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: game went on, it got louder and louder. It felt
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: like it was like 75% Brewer fans. Cause a lot
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: of the Rays fans left, but, I don't know. They
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: were definitely the vocal majority and probably the drinking majority also.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they know how to throw down. Probably beer over
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: liquor for them too.
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: Sorry, it can't happen. You can't have that many away
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: fans in your stadium for the first World Series game
• 48:50
  Speaker 6: since 2008.
• 48:51
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: How do you prevent it? You as an organization actually like...
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: advertise in your city actually like promote your team like
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: there it's not a to me it's not a fan
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: base issue the fan base isn't isn't catered to and
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: i don't think you know there should be more i
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: don't think there should be more raised fans in aj's
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: hotel they all live in the area so they're probably
• 49:17
  Speaker 6: not getting hotels but in the stadium like you shouldn't
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: even if AJ is exaggerating when you go to an
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: away game and maybe AJ had a different experience in
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: Houston but when you go to an away game in
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: the World Series you can see the pockets of fans
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: and other than that that is it Like it shouldn't
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: be this way as a fan base. I, you know, I,
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: I blame the organization, previous ownership, not advertising, not, not
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: promoting their team as much in the city, whether you
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: got to go over a bridge or a causeway, whatever
• 49:53
  Speaker 6: it is, it just can't be this way.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: I mean the lightning don't deal with this. Like, let
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: me paint a quick scenario for.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: You, AJ.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Cause I mean, you know how popular the lightning are there.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: If the Lightning had never won a Stanley Cup, right?
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Let's say they didn't have all the success that they've had.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: They've been good, but they haven't gotten over the hump.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: I know they have.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: And then they had this going on. And let's say
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: they were playing the Minnesota Wild and they had never won.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: There would not be a Wild fan takeover. Tampa Bay
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: would be filling that place up. It's just a different
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: popularity level. They're in two different planets right now in
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: terms of popularity.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: Listen, we talk about this all the time, and I'm
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: sorry to say this. When it goes to the other
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: side of the bay, it's going to be different. Again,
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: I think it was 108 miles from my house to
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: the trough. It took me three hours. It would cut
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: at least an hour, if not more, if I didn't
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: have to go over the causeway.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: Okay? That's it.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: At least an hour if I didn't have to go
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: over the causeway. It's completely different. The causeways are always
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: backed up. There's always something wrong. And it's just farther
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: for so many people. And their main population base is
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: in Tampa, Tampa, Tampa.
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: Not in St.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: Pete, not in Tampa Bay, not in Tampa, St.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Pete.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: It's in Tampa.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: That's why the Bucs do well, why the Lightning do well.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: And that's why stuff in Tampa does better than it
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: does in St.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: Pete. St. Pete's better than it used to be? No questions.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: And by the way, the trop is way better than
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: it used to be too, from a fan perspective and
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: all the stuff they added after the hurricane took it down.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: It's much, much better. But when they move into Tampa, Tampa,
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: I think it'll be different. I have family that lives here.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: They are more excited because it's easier for them to
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: get to. They live in Tampa proper. So you can
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: say advertising or this and that, but if they don't
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: really advertise the team until you get into St. Pete,
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: they don't really advertise this team in Tampa because it's
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: not in Tampa.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: It's in St.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Pete as much as they want it. Yes, it is
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: in Tampa Bay, but it's not in Tampa. They don't
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: really advertise it in Tampa because people don't want to
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: drive over the causeway slash bridge.
• 52:05
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: My one argument against that, because I'm with you on 98%
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: of this, my one argument against that is this is
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: the World Series. You have people traveling from all over.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: Here's the problem. People buy these tickets beforehand. A lot
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: of these sites buy tickets beforehand. And whoever gets to
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: buy them, buys them. And a lot of probably the
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Tampa fans said, oh, we might not make the World Series.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: We're not going to accept our options. They have 30,000
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: season tickets anyways. So the hardcore Tampa fans that I know,
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: Tampa Bay fans, they were all at the game last night.
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: I saw a ton of them.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: Got people that I knew. But it's the secondary market
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: where the people say, oh, man, we want to buy tickets.
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: The Brewers fans pounced on it as soon as they
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: figured out. And don't forget, the Brewers knew they were
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: going to the World Series first. So they just said, man,
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: we're buying tickets to Tampa were, you know, or wherever.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: And boom, they pounced on as soon as they found
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: out and they bought as many tickets as they could.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: And they're great fans. Not that Tampa Bay fans aren't
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: the hardcore ones.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: It's like Oakland. Oakland was the same way.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: They had a core group of 10,000 or so fans
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: that were unbelievable. But after that, you're like.
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: Ah, okay. Okay.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: So, and we can go all day on this. I
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: want to get to the second layer of this conversation.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Caminero's play, which ended up, you know, giving the inning life.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Going a second, gets overturned, inning continues, inning is still going.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: And then also lineup decisions. I think it was guys
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: that are hitting close to 300 in the playoffs with
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: a ton of RBIs, all sitting for guys that hadn't
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: hit a lick really in the playoffs. I think it
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: was two for 22 entering last night's game for the
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: guys that were replacing... Liam Hicks, Jonathan Aranda, and Palacios.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Those were the three names where people are like, you're
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: sitting all three of those guys? That's three of the
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: top five, and I get the platoon situation, but is
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: the postseason different from the regular season in terms of
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: the buttons you need to press?
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: Should be. Should be. You play your best players in
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: the postseason.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: I'm a big believer in that, and that's why a
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: lot of times, and I think crowds would agree with me,
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: the teams that are really good are the teams that
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: basically play the same nine guys. Now, You have exceptions
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: like Kike Hernandez will come in and hit for a
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: lefty in the postseason. But that was his role, and
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: that's been basically his career, right? But look at the
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: teams that win. They play basically the same.
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: Nine guys over and over again.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: And the Brewers do that pretty much all the time
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: except for, okay, they'll switch Joey Ortiz and Hamilton, right?
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: But other than that, it's pretty much the same.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: You know, Churrio on left. Mitchell's been playing center. Freelick
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: or Larb. Freelick's kind of taken over and right, right?
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: Jake Bauer's lefty-righty because Andrew Vaughn got hurt the last–
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: or sick the last few weeks. It's been Jake Bowers
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: at first. It's been Terang at second. It's been Pratt
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: at short. And then it's been Contreras behind the plate.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: So these teams play the same guys, and that's the
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: way you win.
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: You get used to it.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: You get to where your spot is in the lineup.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: To take all three of these guys out, that was crazy.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: And after Kratz's comments, I want to get to the
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: Caminero play because there's so much that went into that play,
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: but I want to hear Kratz's thoughts on the lineup.
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: If you watch the Brewers during the year, it wasn't
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: always like this. Murph has made a concerted effort to
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: keep those same guys in there.
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: Is he hot? Are they hot? Absolutely.
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: Is he doing a heat check and just launching threes
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: from wherever?
• 55:18
  Speaker 7: No.
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: He's been convinced that Sal Freelick needs to be in there,
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: that the Joey Ortiz little dinged up, maybe he can't play,
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: but they have kept with the same lineup. So you
• 55:33
  Speaker 6: would think the Rays would be like, hey, guys, you
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: have faced lefties before. We need our best hitters in there.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: Agreed.
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, AJ. Agreed.
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, I mean, are we going straight to Caminero?
• 55:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, because then we've got our next guest ready
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: to run.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, here's the thing about the junior Caminero.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: This is not– I mean, it is directly with lead
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: day runs. First of all, you never know what's going
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: to happen. The next pitch could have been a ground
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: ball and they get out of the inning. Here's the thing. Cratson,
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: you know this. When you're in Little League, what does
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: the coach always tell you? Know where you're going with
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: the ball if it's hit to you. Know who the
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: runners are. Know the situation. What happened here is Caminero
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: just thought he could get the runner at second because, oh,
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: who's running? He didn't realize Christian Yelich, an unbelievably good
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: base runner, huge lead because of the situation, not holding
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: him on. There was a runner in front of him,
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: and he busted his tail. How many times, Kratz, did
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: you have a coach tell you, hey, get a hit
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: for the guy behind you? If you're on first, bust
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: your tail and try to get to second to get
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: the guy behind you to hit who hit the ground ball,
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: and it worked out. You have to know William Contreras,
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: not as fast as Christian Yellich. Caminero has a good arm.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: He could have spun, set his feet, and made the
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: throw to first and gotten out of this inning. Now,
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: would that have changed the game? Heck, it was already
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: down 2-0. I don't know, but it led to just
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: an avalanche. You cannot give the Milwaukee Brewers any extra runs.
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: If you do, they take advantage of it. I mean,
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: not always eight runs, but they figure out a way
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: to do this. And for me, it was just a
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: preparation thing. And I know Kevin Cash said, well, it
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: happened really fast and da-da-da-da-da. But in your mind, you
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: got to say, all right, I mean, I did this
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: as a catcher. All right, if the ball's in the dirt,
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: where do I go with the throw? If the ball's
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: hit to an outfielder, who's on base? Who's going to
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: have a chance to be thrown out? You had to
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: think about all this stuff. And it happens fast, really,
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: really fast. But you got to be able to do this.
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: And for me, I love Junior Caminero. I think he's
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: an unbelievable player. But he just wasn't prepared mentally for
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: that situation.
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: And then that's it.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, you give a team enough advantages like that
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: and eventually they capitalize.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: This team is way too damn good.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: And we talked about it a lot on the postgame
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: show last night too, which is still a good one
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: if you want to check that out in between this
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: show and the World Series game four. So that's it
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• 58:00
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• 58:03
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• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Hey, can I bring this up?
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: I know we only have a minute and then Spilly's
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: joining us when the TV crowd comes back. So Kira
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: in our chat said, why were tickets cheaper in Tampa
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: than Milwaukee? I think MLB should have the same ticket prices, blah, blah, blah,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: going over all that and preventing fan-based takeovers. Okay, this
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: is actually a big thing that I, keep trying to emphasize.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: First of all, the ticket price are close enough from
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: the teams. It's the secondary market that actually tells you
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: the true value of what the ticket is. It's the
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: same reason why people think that if you pay players
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: or anybody less, they're going to lower ticket prices. That's
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: never going to happen. It's called supply and demand. It's
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: called dynamic pricing. That's how the world works, right? This
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: isn't even MLB's fault. If you want MLB to make
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: every ticket $ 20, then for big games, people will just
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: buy them all up and sell them for 500 X, right?
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: So that's not a thing.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: I just want to make sure that people understand how
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: ticketing works and this is the same thing for concerts
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: there's battles about that sometimes too right if you're taylor
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: swift and you make your tickets 100 bucks people buy
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: them up and they sell them for a million x
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: online like it's just how it works.
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: It's not like yeah like you pay when i went
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: to the world series we paid $ 250.
• 59:07
  Speaker 5: If you have an extra ticket, you can give it away.
• 59:09
  Speaker 6: You can give it away for $ 250 or you can
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: make some cash on it.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: Yep. Take econ class. It's apply and demand. Hey, we
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: got Spilly joining us. Ryan Spilborgs. You can hear him
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: on Mile High territory. You can hear him basically everywhere.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: Calling games, hosting shows, all over different platforms. But for
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: this particular platform, MLB International, they do a great job.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: That's where you can catch the game basically anywhere outside
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: of the U.S. I've called games on there before. Spilly's
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: doing a great job. So how you doing, dude? And
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: what do you think of this series? This team looks
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: like they've got more juice than your Rockies team that
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: went on that crazy run back in the day.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's funny you say that because there's been times
• 59:48
  Speaker 8: where fans that saw our run we won 21 out
• 59:51
  Speaker 8: of 22 games we got hot uh with good players
• 59:55
  Speaker 8: and we pitched well our bullpens were great uh and
• 59:57
  Speaker 8: then we had this nine-day layoff which still goes down
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 8: as the longest layoff in baseball history and people were
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 8: trying to equate um you know the layoff is to
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 8: the reason why we lost in 07 i'm like dude
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 8: if you were to take the uh overall uh financial
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 8: structure or total payroll of the boston red sox in
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 8: 2007 and and i did this before as an experiment
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 8: i just added up everybody's career earnings that was a
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 8: two billion dollar team uh in comparison to the rockies
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 8: who you know at the end of the day it
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 8: was like 650 million dollar team so uh that red
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 8: sox team is going to crush us it might have
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 8: helped that we were a little bit better after you
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 8: know maybe a game one or two um but when
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 8: i'm watching this brewers group and just seeing the quality
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 8: of players and and i said this earlier when when
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 8: dodgers fans are getting really upset with me i'm like
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 8: the the Dodgers are going to go down to this
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 8: Brewers team. And they're like, what are you talking about?
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 8: We're the Dodgers. We're going to win three world series.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: I was like, okay.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 8: I just went to fan graphs and I looked at
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 8: the players with wins above replacement. And I said, here
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: was my threshold. It was 1.5 wins. That's it. 1.5 wins,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 8: which is a good big league player. The Brewers had
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 8: 17 on their 26-man roster, and the Dodgers had 11. So,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 8: I mean, like there's this idea that this Brewers team
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 8: is a bunch of average Joes, that they're not as
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 8: good as you think, that they just got hot. And
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 8: I'm like, no, they play baseball the right way with
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 8: really good players, really, really good players. And when it's
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: all said and done, I don't think this game goes
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 8: past four. I think we're going to see a sweep.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 8: They have completely dismantled every team I've seen. I have done, God,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 8: about 15 Brewers games this year. I've seen them lose once.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 8: That's over the course of the year, including the postseason.
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  Speaker 8: So this is the best team in baseball that's playing
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 8: like the best team in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Spilly, before I comment on what you just said, first
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: of all, I hate the rust versus rust thing. So–
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: The Brewers didn't have any problem. We didn't have any
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: problem in 2005, so stop it. Only the losers say that.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: You're better than that, so stop. Which I didn't say it.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't say it.
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  Speaker 7: I know.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't say it.
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  Speaker 4: You just did, though. You said, oh, no, you're hot
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: in nine days off.
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  Speaker 8: We could have maybe done a little bit better, but
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 8: we were going to get boat raced.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's fair. I'll give you that. But I hate
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: that excuse. It drives me insane. So I'm glad you
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: said that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Now, as far as these two teams go, I agree
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  Speaker 3: with you 100%. The Rays were the best team in
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: the American League. The Brewers were the best team in
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: a better league, which is the National League, and the
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: Rays have put up no opposition at all. The Dodgers
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: really didn't put up much. The only team that has
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: even had a chance against them has been the Padres,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: and maybe that was because it was a shorter series.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: But honestly, I don't know how the Brewers– listen, there's
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: no way the Rays win this series. I don't know
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: how the Rays can win one game. I keep saying this.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: I saw you last night, and we kind of said
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: the same thing when we looked at each other. They're
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: just the best team in baseball, and they have the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: supreme confidence that nobody can beat them I there's not
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: we've talked about this inside and out. I don't even
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: know what to say about the same work. So the
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: Brewers and Pat Murphy, you guys are really freaking good.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, and the funniest thing is this like secondary,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 8: you know, question now about this Brewers team, which is
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 8: are they cheating? Okay, let's play this one out. All right.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 8: So I heard this a couple of times. They're like,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 8: they have to be cheating because they're like, there's no
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 8: way that they could be crushing everybody. I was like,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 8: all right. So Sal Freelick was cheating when he went
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 8: to Boston College. Robert Gasser was cheating when he was
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 8: coming out of Houston. He was cheating us today. William Contreras,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 8: who's been the second best catcher in baseball since 2023. Okay,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 8: like where do you want to start? Where do you
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 8: see it? They're doing it on the road. They do
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 8: it at home. Do they do a good job of
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 8: getting the second base and relay signs? 100%. That happened
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 8: in Milwaukee against Mason Miller. He was tipping. Why are
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 8: they able to catch that? Well, they have more scouts
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 8: and coaches in front office than virtually anybody. They look
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 8: for this stuff.
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  Speaker 5: And guess what?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 8: The players look for it too. So when you're watching
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 8: a guy at second base, are they relaying location?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Are they finding a grip if you're showing a change
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 8: of grip and relayed it?
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: Probably.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 8: But as far as like thinking that the reason why
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 8: the Brewers are doing this is because they're nefarious or
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 8: they're doing some sort of black arts, dark arts? No,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 8: that's not the case. So I'm with you, AJ. This
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 8: has been the best team in baseball from start To finish,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 8: they just play the brand of baseball where they hold
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 8: each other super accountable. I mean, all you have to
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 8: do to just check out this game is Sal Frelick
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 8: in the ninth inning when he's making a diving play
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 8: and when he's rounding second base super hard on a
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: fly out when they're up 10 runs. That's how they play.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 8: They're relentless. They're bullies.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 5: They're good at baseball. That's it.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 8: Fact.
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  Speaker 6: Watching their hitting approach, do you feel like if another
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: organization took the exact players that they have now and
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: told them to do the exact same hitting approach, do
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: you feel like that organization, you can choose any team,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: you can choose a really good team, a bad team,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 6: could they execute the approach? Because to me, the approach
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  Speaker 6: is what makes this team.
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  Speaker 5: Really, really good.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so I love this. This is great. Thank you
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  Speaker 8: for bringing this one up, Kratzy, because I was doing
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 8: some of the swing metrics and looking at some of
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 8: the swing profiles of this team. They have always been
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 8: a group of players that have been drafted. They have
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 8: been pinpointed by Matt Arnold in the front office. I mean,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 8: they're short, right? There's a bunch of short little contact hitters.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 8: And then they naturally have this inside-out swing.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: That's what they have.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 8: They actually have this If you check out some of
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 8: the attack angles, they hit behind the baseball as a
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 8: unit better than any team in the game.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 5: So can another team do this?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 8: You just got to draft or pick those type of players.
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  Speaker 5: But we've seen this now.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 8: And to get on my soapbox, part of the problem
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 8: that Major League Baseball has had with this increase in
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 8: swing and miss and power is that we're teaching that
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 8: at the youth level. That's what you do when you
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 8: go to a showcase. People want to see exit velo,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 8: how far you can hit it, how hard you can throw. Well,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 8: for the Brewers, they don't want to pay for homers.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 8: Paying for homers is expensive, and it comes with chase,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 8: and it comes with swing and miss. They saw an inefficiency.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 8: They also realized shorter players have smaller strike zones, smaller
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 8: strike zones, and typically they hit the top of the
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 8: zone better. It's just that's what happens with shorter guys.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 8: They're used to hitting the high rail fastball. So they've
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 8: looked for those guys and they've accumulated them. If you
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 8: even check out the minor league system of the Brewers,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 8: they're filled with little guys that are contact athletes, multidimensional players.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 8: That's what they look for. They found the inefficiency. They've
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 8: drafted it. They continue to do that. And if another
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 8: organization wants to do this, you can't just tell a big,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 8: tall dude, hey, hit behind the baseball. It doesn't work.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 8: Their levers don't work that way. So if you want
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 8: your organization to do what the Brewers are doing, you
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 8: got to draft, develop, trade for it. And I don't
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 8: think everybody knows what to look for.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 6: 2014, the Royals, we fell short of the Giants in
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 6: Game 7, 15, won the World Series. In my opinion,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 6: that 14 team changed how teams built their bullpen for
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 6: the postseason. And to this day, the Padres were built
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 6: that way. The Dodgers, not so much. The Dodgers were
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 6: their way. This Brewers team was built that way. Do
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 6: you think because of how these two teams got here,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 6: position player-wise, it's kind of the same question that I
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 6: just asked you. Do we see a shift? Do we
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 6: see a shift from a Pirates team from a– well,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 6: you can't do the A's because they have a really
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 6: freaking good lineup when they're not playing on concrete. Cardinals,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 6: do you see a shift for those teams because of
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 6: how instrumental that's been for this run for both teams,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 6: not just the Brewers?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, when you start highlighting the Brewers' bullpen,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 8: and I think it was like last year, their entire
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 8: pen was built with guys that were either non-tendered or released.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 8: I mean, there wasn't a dude that had a multi-year contract,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 8: but what they found was different arms. Chris Hook and
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 8: Kyle Snyder, those are two of the best pitching coaches
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 8: in the game that kind of find what you do,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 8: and then they encourage you to keep doing it. The
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 8: stronger your bullpen is, especially given the fact that starters
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 8: aren't going six, seven innings, you can shorten games up.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 8: And then, you know, in the case of the Brewers specifically,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 8: they have taken starters like an Aaron Ashby and made
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 8: him into this high leverage multi-inning reliever that is doing
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 8: something historic. He reminds me of Andrew Miller, the world
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 8: is Chapman. So you're, you're getting high quality arms that,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 8: that are strike throwers. There's differences in, in every single
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 8: one of them. You have guys with high spin rates,
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 8: different arm slots, extension change up. So, yeah, I do
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 8: agree with you, Kratzy. I've always believed that the easiest
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 8: way you can fix a ball club is through the bullpen.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 8: And what you need to do is find guys that
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 8: throw strikes, have a decent secondary pitch. But if you're
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 8: pounding the zone like this Brewers team has done, I mean,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 8: they're not even giving up walks. They're trusting their defense.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 8: They're pounding the strike zone. And that's making it work.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 8: So you don't have to get seven innings from the Miz.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 8: Last night was the longest start we saw this postseason
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 8: by the Brewers with Robert Gasser. And so it just
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 8: puts a team away. And you don't have to focus
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 8: in on a starter who, by the way, costs more
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 8: money as well.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 5: Griffin Jacks tonight.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 6: Do the raise because they need length out of their
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 6: starters because the Brewers have cracked the bullpen code. Does
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 6: Kevin Cash go longer with Griffin Jacks tonight than a
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 6: normal manager would go with the starting pitcher in an
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 6: elimination game?
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 8: No, I think today is just... I mean, they're going
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 8: to act like this is the last game of the
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 8: year because it is. I mean, you can't think about tomorrow.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 8: There's nothing left to think about. And I actually think
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 8: that the Rays, you know, you guys were talking about
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 8: the lineup. The lineup construction yesterday was not good. I mean,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 8: that was a very pitchable lineup. You're going to put
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 8: Liam Hicks. You're going to put Jonathan Aranda in the lineup.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 8: You're going to use everybody. We haven't seen Brian Baker
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 8: throw an inning yet. Everybody's in play. Nick Martinez is
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 8: in play, even though he's supposed to be tomorrow's game
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 8: five starter. You're going to use, you're literally going to
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 8: use everybody. You use Drew Rasmussen if you have to.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 8: The only way the Rays play one more game, as
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 8: much as we'll talk about like a path for the
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 8: pitching staff, they got a score. The bottom of the
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 8: lineup has been non-existent. So I, I, I, again, like
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 8: I don't see a path. I don't see a path
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 8: given how, how well the Brewers, are playing and it's
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 8: not a knock on the Rays, they're just getting outplayed.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 8: The Brewers are on a historic run right now.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: Spilly, I know we've talked heavy, heavy Brewers, but I
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: do want to ask a little bit about the Rays.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: What happened?
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: Did the Brewers just punch them in the face and
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: they weren't able to recover? I mean, I know they've
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: done this to everybody, but the way the Brewers play
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: is the way the Rays have kind of played the
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: whole year. Their stars haven't hit, Caminero, Yandy haven't done much,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: Aranda obviously gets benched, Liam Hicks at the home run.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: but they haven't really hit at all. They haven't been
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: able to put the pressure on the Brewers. They've made
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: base running mistakes. They've made fielding mistakes. They've made pitching mistakes.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: Is this just a case of the Rays have gotten
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: punched in the face and they just don't know how
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: to react?
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 8: There's probably some truth to that. I mean, the environment
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 8: in Milwaukee was super loud, hard to play. But, I mean,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 8: these were– you know, Victor Mesa ran through a stop
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 8: sign and got thrown out at third with Yanni Diaz
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 8: at the plate. Like, that's not– that's not like a
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 8: coaching staff thing that's just players in this environment overreacting
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 8: and that happens i mean we've all gone felt the
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 8: the pressures and trying to do too much um the
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 8: other thing.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 5: Is like you know this team that's supposed to be
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 5: such a good.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 8: Defensive group i think they were second in defensive run
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 8: saves and you know taylor walls at shortstop is probably
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 8: going to win a gold glove this year um even
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 8: walls has not been great you know he's had A
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 8: couple plays were on the other side. Bryce Terang has
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 8: had just as difficult plays with hard hits in between hops,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 8: and he's made them. Walls hasn't, and it's been that close.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 8: I mean, it was on a razor's edge the first
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 8: two games, but it was poor execution, too many mistakes,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 8: and I think part of it is pressure. And if
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 8: you think getting punched in the mouth by the Brewers,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 8: which they've done to everybody, shocked the team, sure.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not in that clubhouse.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 8: I can't tell you what's going on in between the
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 8: ears of a player. But I will say the environment
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 8: in Milwaukee could rattle some people. Even seeing the fly
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 8: ball to Chandler Simpson. That was a catchable ball.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 5: It falls.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 8: It's just a bunch of mistakes, whether it's environment, pressure,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 8: being on this big stage, trying to do too much
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 8: because you know the Brewers are better than you. It
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 8: has not been... a display of Tampa Bay Rays baseball.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 8: Not the way I saw it during the regular season.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: Spilly, one more for me.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 5: MVP. Oh, this one's easy.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 8: It's William Contreras. I know, like, Ashley's got a really
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 8: strong case. Jackson Turio has an amazing case. But nobody's
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 8: done more on both sides of the ball than William Contreras.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 8: Think about how many ABS challenges he's got right.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 8: I know John Smoltz hates it, which is kind of
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 8: fun because you can kind of see him like really
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 8: another challenge.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 5: Like, do you have to do that?
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 5: These numbers are ridiculous.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 8: He's walking. Think about the guys he's thrown out on
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 8: the bases.
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  Speaker 5: It's everything.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 8: The blocks, the blocks for me have stood out because
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 8: you don't see it in.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 7: A box score.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 8: I mean, he had multiple blocks in game one, multiple
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 8: blocks in game two. He's getting hits, big hits. So
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 8: for me, this one is like unanimous in my opinion.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 8: my visual of this Brewers team and the MVP, it
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 8: should be William Contreras.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: Love that. I'm with you.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kratz, remember you brought that up last night on
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: the postgame show, the blocks. That's probably always the part
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: of the game for the catcher that doesn't get talked
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: about the most in a World Series game.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 8: I got two goober catchers, you know, like I'm probably
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 8: placating to them, but I mean, it's a fact. The catcher,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 8: have you ever seen a bad catcher on a World
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 8: Series team?
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 5: Have you ever seen it?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, bro.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 5: I've said this for years.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: Yes. One time, 2005.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 5: He said bad, not ugly. He said bad.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: That guy could rake.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: By the way, Spilly, you must not watch his show
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: because Kratz and I have been banging on that drum
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: for a couple of days now on Monday when we
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: did the.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 4: Show, uh, Yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Jeez, that was yesterday, wasn't it? I forget what day
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: it is. But yesterday, I said that. And Kratz and
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: I talked about it yesterday. All the blocks he had
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: in game two and McGill and Ashby and those guys
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: were in the game. Like, the things he's done, the
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: base runners he's thrown out, the hits he's gotten. It's
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: hard to find. I mean, Churio helped his cause last
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: night with the four hits. But, I mean, the big hits,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: the way he's handled the pitching staff, the way he's
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: blocked the ball, the way he's thrown the ball, it
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 3: has to be contrarians.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 4: I don't know who else it could be. Well, no.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, some people are saying, you know, like Churio
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: and what he's done. But still, I'm with you guys.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: Contreras.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: And we've got to jump anyway. And Spilly's got to
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: do his thing. He's got the big game going tonight
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: with the call on MLB International. And then also Mile
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: High Territory is still flowing and will be flowing all
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: offseason long. So if you want your Rockies coverage, I
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: know Rockies fans probably are watching. If they are watching, crying, like,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: why can't this be us? Well, Spilly can tell you
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: how this can eventually be you. Him and Troy Rank.
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  Speaker 1: Subscribe to the show.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: It's great news.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: They have actually the latest episode is going to be
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: on Jack O'Dowd, a familiar name to Rockies fans. So
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: it's really good stuff, dude. Thanks for swinging by. Keep
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: up the great.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: Calls on there. You know, I love MLB International. I
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: used to call some games on there too. So do
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: your thing. Enjoy the rest of the series.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 8: Okay. Appreciate it. And I better see you today, AJ.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 8: I want to see you.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 4: I'll be there. I'll be on the field pregame. So
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 4: don't big league me.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 5: That's a promise.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 8: I walk by people and they're like, who the hell
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 8: is that guy?
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: Hey, if they don't know who you are at this point,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: they're not watching or listening to ball.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: You do enough things out there. They better know the name.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: Good stuff, Spilly. Have fun out there, dude.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 4: See ya.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame president Josh Rawich said his flight to
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: Tampa counted at least 40 people with Brewers gear on.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: He said jerseys of Euchre, Churio, Yelich, Contreras, Yount, molitor
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: hats hoodies the woman in front of me watching league
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: of their own baseball is the best that's good that's
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: actually my favorite part on the back end too it's
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: like they're so hooked there's either replays to watch aj
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: or they're like all right i'll watch movies.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: I saw i didn't see josh yesterday but i saw
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 3: shesta like his number one uh assistant i guess he
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 3: was he was the pr guy when i was at
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: the red sox one of the great guys of all
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 3: time and by the way he had a great idea
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: for us and and i hope i'm gonna say this
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: on the air scott so put you on the spot
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: and mark and everyone behind.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 4: The uh.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: Scenes uh he offered us the hall of fame during
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 3: the lockout he said hey if you guys want to
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: do stuff in the hall of fame we'll open it
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: up to you and we can do content from the
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: hall of fame so sign me up to go to
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: cooperstown guys.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: That's cool i like that um yes i have heard
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: that there's there's actually a sponsor that's interested And that's
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: doing a little bit of a thing up there. So
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: maybe we will have some time to put that together.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: I just want to make sure, AJ, that we had time,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: you know?
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: I didn't know if the lockout was going to end.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, all we're going to have, Scott, is time.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know if we have enough time.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: I'm going to get so sick of hearing CBA, CBA, CBA.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: Home Depot.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 8: CBA.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: I got an ask from a non-baseball fan yesterday who said,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: are you sure there's going to.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 8: Be a lockout?
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 4: One billion trillion percent.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: I think the question was phrased more as like, are
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: you sure it's going to be as crazy in terms
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: of missed time? Not like our, like some people look,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: don't understand lockout, right? Lockout starts December 1st. Most people,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: at least half the people don't care about that.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 5: It's auto.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: They're talking about.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 4: Well, you know why it's auto lockout?
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: Because the last time they didn't lock the players out
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: and they let them play on an expired contract, the
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: players did the strikeout. in 94 and they lost the
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: World Series. So they have to lock them out in
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 3: order to get them to the bargaining table and get
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: something done.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: And to answer the question, yes, 100% to me, lockout
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: starts to mean, or at least for people that are
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: asking this way, Are they not going to have– are
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: they going to cancel at least some spring training games?
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: I'm like, absolutely. There will be plenty of cancellations on
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: spring training games.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: From what I've heard from people, 60 games is the
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: magic number. They lose more than 60 games. It kicks
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: the TV deal into another year, which they don't want.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: So 60 games is the magic number.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: Evan Longoria, number retired by the Rays, throwing out the
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: ceremonial first pitch in game four.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: Do you guys know who's doing the national anthem?
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 4: Carly Pierce did last night. I didn't know that.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: This is a big name.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 7: Ne-Yo.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 4: Neo? Like from the Matrix?
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: No, the music artist, Neo. You know who Neo is.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 4: Really? What does Neo sing?
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: No, he was a great in the Matrix. I loved
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: him in the Matrix. The second and third Matrix got
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: a little wonky, but the first.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: One was awesome.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 7: They were all great.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: AJ, I would bet you that I could play at least,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: I might even push it to like seven or eight
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: Neo songs that you would know.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 4: All right, sing one. Clouds?
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 7: So sick.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: I really have trouble singing.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 5: Closer?
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: I don't... Oh, Closer?
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: Oh, I know that one.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 4: I know that. I can't sing that one because that's
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 4: got some bad words in it, but I've heard that one.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: Is that Neo?
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: So Neo, how is he going to sing that? Is
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: he going to have someone backing up on him? He's
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: going to be like.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: No, he's singing the anthems.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, sorry. I thought this was a family-friendly show here, Scott.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 7: It still is.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: It still is.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 6: This isn't last year where they had the Jonas Brothers,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 6: where the Jonas Brothers just randomly had a concert.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: In the middle of the fifth inning, let's just throw
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 3: to the Jonas Brothers.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they decided that was not received well.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 5: What?
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 3: How come we couldn't get Ice Cube to come out
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 3: and sing? Was that two years ago? Yeah, two years
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 3: ago when they had Fat Joe and Ice Cube. Couldn't
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 3: they come up with a singer from– tampa and there's
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 3: got to be a singer from florida milwaukee no.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming neo is from down there too if he's
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: doing the anthem no or you think he's just coming
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: in hot.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: But yeah it's florida that would fit there's a there's.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: A few uh is it swiss beats one of the
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: there's multiple hold on can we just go are we
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: on are we on air are we in commercial i
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: lose track.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: Sometimes we're in commercial okay did we see Did James
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 3: Shields do that on purpose last night? First of all,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: James Shields, happy new teeth. You and Dave Ortiz are
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: in the same dentist. But second of all, did he
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 3: go to the same– was that a joke? That throw
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: was not a joke? Because we watched it live, and
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: I'm going, that had to be a joke, right?
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, he missed by 30 feet.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 6: He used all his pitches up. I think everybody's arm
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 6: has a certain number of pitches, and Wago G didn't
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 6: have any left. But I got a present for you
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 6: guys in slap hands.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: I've been tweeting a little bit more frequently as I
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: just had a kid, so I don't really sleep anymore.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: So last night I put this one out there and
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: I felt like you guys would appreciate this and actually
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: did well. It's well over 100,000 views right now. Turns
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: out the NLCS wasn't the World Series. It was actually
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: the NLDS. I'm not even really kidding. I think the
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: Padres were the second best team that I saw, not
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: just in the playoffs, but going into the playoffs.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: I just thought that they had the best shot to
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: beat the Brewers.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: Even if this was a five or seven game series,
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: I think the Padres would have given the Brewers the
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: best run. The Dodgers had swept, so that was nothing.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: They're the only team that won a game against them,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: so you can't dispute it that much.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: No team can go through the postseason and only lose
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 3: one game, Scott. Oh, wait, the 2005 White Sox did that. What?
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 3: And no one even remembers. So no one will remember
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: the Brewers soon, too, if they win tonight. ESPN will
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 3: just pretend like it never happened. They'll just say that
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: the Astros won the World Series and that team never existed.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: So wire to wire, 11-1 in the postseason, no big deal.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: Very impressive. Very impressive.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 5: They're bad.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 6: I don't– I think going into the Dodgers series, we
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 6: thought the Dodgers starting pitching would have given the Brewers
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 6: a little bit more of a run for the money. Like,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 6: I think the Dodgers were better than the Padres. So,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 6: Padre fans, you can come at me on that one
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 6: since you haven't been coming at me very much on
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 6: Twitter lately.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: Hey, I want everyone to go to Brewer Territory.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: They've been putting shows up left and right. If you're
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: a Brewers fan, please subscribe to the channel. Corey Knabel
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: and J.P. Fireeisen have been doing postgame shows. Kurt Hogan–
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: Shows with them as well.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: He's at the ballpark.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: He covers the team as a beat writer. It's a
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: great show. Those guys are doing an awesome job, so
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: give them some love. Can we finish with Bernie?
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: There we go. This tweet from Alex Stumpf.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: I don't remember who he covers now, Alex, but he
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: posted this little screenshot of the Fox and Fox One coverage.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: A grown man dressed as Bernie the Brewer fighting back
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: tears in enemy territory. I love this stupid, beautiful game.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: I could not agree more. Bernie the Brewer in tears, AJ.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: It's actually what you'd expect if it was a fair test.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 3: And by the way, you missed it. A Brewers fan
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 3: came up to me and goes, why do you love
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: the Padres so much? I'm like, dude, let it go.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 3: I picked the Brewers to win the World Series.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: Not a true story. He was intoxicated. Clearly.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 3: He just wanted to say something and that was what
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: he went with. Like you see someone and you want
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 3: to say, most of the Brewers fans have been incredibly nice.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 3: There's one guy, you know, you get your one shot
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: to say something to somebody. That's not what you say.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: You've got to have a wisecrack reply.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 4: Though, for those guys. Yeah, just call them a dumbass.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: That gets the job done.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 4: I go, hey, I picked them to win the World Series,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 4: you dumbass.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 5: I like that.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: I wish you'd say that on TV.
• 1:24:59
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