Latest / The Huddle / 10/28/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Welcome in to the Tuesday edition, Wednesday edition, Hot Take
- 0:06Speaker 1: Hump Day edition.
- 0:07Speaker 2: It's Wednesday.
- 0:07Speaker 1: You lose track of the days when your team isn't
- 0:09Speaker 1: brought in the World Series.
- 0:10Speaker 2: A lot of stuff going on.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Still processing what happened with the loss last evening at
- 0:16Speaker 1: Tropicana Field. Brewers will not sweep the 2026 World Series.
- 0:20Speaker 1: They can still win it tonight. We got to remember
- 0:24Speaker 1: what it feels like to get kicked in the nards
- 0:26Speaker 1: again last night. Brewers hadn't lost that often. only once
- 0:29Speaker 1: in about the last month or so. So you got
- 0:32Speaker 1: to recalibrate the system, figure out what it's like to
- 0:34Speaker 1: have a little slip in the gear shift.
- 0:36Speaker 2: It happens in a while.
- 0:38Speaker 1: That was one of those, not our night, could have
- 0:41Speaker 1: been our nights. Hashtag baseball. So close to Nirvana. And
- 0:46Speaker 1: like for me, it's like, obviously we'll look back at.
- 0:49Speaker 2: This and the Ortiz error in the ninth inning and
- 0:52Speaker 2: Shane drawing can become, Sean Markham and Brandon Bostic eventually, maybe,
- 0:57Speaker 2: if things go completely off the rails. It could be
- 1:00Speaker 2: that way.
- 1:01Speaker 1: It could be a John Ryan sighting, like a 16-7
- 1:03Speaker 1: touchdown last night. My main depression about last night, if
- 1:07Speaker 1: I'm allowed that, to be depressed, is that the lead
- 1:11Speaker 1: held up and the Brewers won that game in 12 innings.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Winning the World Series in the 12th inning is always epic,
- 1:16Speaker 1: but Cooper Pratt is immortal.
- 1:19Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:19Speaker 1: As a rookie winning a World Series winning home run,
- 1:23Speaker 1: hitting that home run, winning the World Series as a rookie.
- 1:25Speaker 1: And then, not for nothing, it would have been pretty
- 1:27Speaker 1: amazing if Jerome had gotten the last three outs. He
- 1:29Speaker 1: got a rookie on one end and a rookie on
- 1:30Speaker 1: the other end. Like, that's absurd... you know, that you
- 1:33Speaker 1: could put that in the bank and say, look what
- 1:35Speaker 1: we got. They won the world series and look at
- 1:36Speaker 1: the two guys that were. And the two, and two
- 1:38Speaker 1: of the guys that you get in the Red Sox
- 1:40Speaker 1: Durbin trade from a year ago, not named Kyle Harrison
- 1:42Speaker 1: or two of your game four heroes at the end
- 1:44Speaker 1: of it.
- 1:45Speaker 2: That's a good point. So, but the.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Pratt thing, he would have been like Bill Mazeroski, like
- 1:50Speaker 1: the famous home runs. Like, yeah, it's not a home
- 1:52Speaker 1: home run, a walk-off, but it would have been a
- 1:55Speaker 1: world series winning home run by a 22 year old
- 1:57Speaker 1: kid who signed like an eight year deal.
- 2:00Speaker 2: You could just go ahead and start constructing a statue
- 2:03Speaker 2: for the young man.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's the best $ 50 million the organization would
- 2:07Speaker 1: ever spent at that moment with the contract. And also, Drew,
- 2:11Speaker 1: with the moment, with the story, came an exceptionally great
- 2:17Speaker 1: Hat tip call by Joe Davis, realizing and trying to
- 2:21Speaker 1: meet the moment of Cooper Pratt meeting the moment and
- 2:24Speaker 1: giving the ode to Bob Uecker and having you on
- 2:26Speaker 1: the cusp of a championship. That story and that soundbite,
- 2:29Speaker 1: you're right, it wouldn't have.
- 2:30Speaker 2: Been a home run.
- 2:32Speaker 1: However, the audio and all of the calls living on
- 2:36Speaker 1: in infamy- you would have been tricked because that place
- 2:39Speaker 1: erupted in the 12th when he hit that ball over
- 2:42Speaker 1: the left center wall. And man, he knew it. He
- 2:45Speaker 1: pimped it. He was praying that it kept getting over.
- 2:48Speaker 1: And it was about to be free Fanta forever. Instead,
- 2:52Speaker 1: now we got to pay for all of our orange
- 2:53Speaker 1: soda here going forward, at least for another night.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Well, yeah, unless he does it again tonight. But you're right.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Yeah, that would have been epic. That would have been
- 2:59Speaker 1: a great, just a great script. You know, for a
- 3:03Speaker 1: guy that really doesn't hit a lot of homers. He's
- 3:04Speaker 1: had a good rookie year, obviously. Not a lot of homers.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Not really a power guy. I think his last one
- 3:09Speaker 1: was against the Cubs in August. So that would have
- 3:11Speaker 1: been just, especially that late when the Brewers offense was
- 3:14Speaker 1: really struggling to get stuff going.
- 3:16Speaker 2: And the few times they did were kind of snuffed out.
- 3:18Speaker 2: You're kind of.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Looking for, I don't want to say a miracle, but
- 3:20Speaker 1: you're looking for some sort.
- 3:21Speaker 2: Of manna from heaven to happen for you.
- 3:23Speaker 1: And in the form of a Pratt Homer, boy, it
- 3:26Speaker 1: really felt exciting in that moment. And that would have been,
- 3:31Speaker 1: that was probably what hurt the most is that that
- 3:33Speaker 1: moment gets taken away in terms of being the epic
- 3:36Speaker 1: one for history. And the fact, you know, the cookies
- 3:38Speaker 1: were in the oven. I talk about the cookies theory
- 3:41Speaker 1: a lot. And boy, were they baking with three outs.
- 3:43Speaker 1: I think the Brewers are the 10th team to have
- 3:45Speaker 1: to be three outs away from a World Series and
- 3:47Speaker 1: have the rug pulled. Including the Jays last year. I
- 3:51Speaker 1: was going to say in the second and two years.
- 3:53Speaker 1: And the Jays, well, no, not twice. They were trying
- 3:56Speaker 1: to score the winning run in the bottom of the
- 3:57Speaker 1: ninth inning, right, when the guy gets doubled off in
- 3:59Speaker 1: game six. But they go home up 3-2 and don't
- 4:03Speaker 1: put it away. And the Dodgers finish them off. Man,
- 4:06Speaker 1: the last three outs of a title are always the
- 4:08Speaker 1: hardest to get. The last three outs of any baseball
- 4:11Speaker 1: game are the toughest to get true. I mean, like
- 4:12Speaker 1: that's that part of last night is the only thing
- 4:16Speaker 1: I think you can compare a game in July to
- 4:19Speaker 1: the game that you watched last night of the last
- 4:21Speaker 1: three outs are always the toughest to get when you
- 4:24Speaker 1: aren't used to getting them.
- 4:25Speaker 2: It can be even more difficult.
- 4:27Speaker 1: And that's a huge ask at the end of a
- 4:29Speaker 1: bullpen game to get the last three outs for a
- 4:32Speaker 1: guy that has pitched what?
- 4:34Speaker 2: Once in a month. Once in a month in Shane Drohan.
- 4:37Speaker 1: And in the last three months, it hadn't necessarily been
- 4:39Speaker 1: all that great from him. I've heard a lot of
- 4:42Speaker 1: people saying, how could they put Drohan in? Well, to me,
- 4:45Speaker 1: it's like the choices were Drohan, Harrison, or Miz. That
- 4:49Speaker 1: wasn't really a choice.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Yeah, the Miz one would have been.
- 4:52Speaker 1: That one for the story would have been the greatest
- 4:54Speaker 1: thing since sliced bread, right? If the Cy Young Award
- 4:57Speaker 1: winner comes out and does it. But in all reality
- 5:00Speaker 1: and functionality... It wouldn't have been able to happen. Wouldn't
- 5:04Speaker 1: Henderson almost have been the more likely one?
- 5:06Speaker 3: I think so.
- 5:06Speaker 1: Because of the lining up and the bullpen day? It
- 5:09Speaker 1: would have been a really interesting ask.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Day of rest, yeah. Miz is the move if you're
- 5:14Speaker 2: down 3-0. Correct.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. All hands on deck. And we'll figure out tomorrow, tomorrow.
- 5:20Speaker 1: When you're up 3-0, there's no way that he was
- 5:22Speaker 1: getting into that game. It would have been nice. Now,
- 5:25Speaker 1: if you want to quibble with the pitching decisions... I'm
- 5:28Speaker 1: still like, I'm scratching my head that McGill only got
- 5:31Speaker 1: one batter.
- 5:31Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Having him would have pushed everything back and you had
- 5:34Speaker 1: Ashby for the, you know, I guess 11-12 instead of 10-11.
- 5:38Speaker 1: And you still are in the meat of the order
- 5:40Speaker 1: and you're going to face Caminero and company with that
- 5:43Speaker 1: heart of the order with McGill.
- 5:44Speaker 2: That's what I thought of. Not letting McGill face Miranda?
- 5:47Speaker 2: I don't know. That would have been the one. He
- 5:48Speaker 2: could have gone. But now he's fresher for tonight, so
- 5:50Speaker 2: it helps. That's true.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Then you push everyone you leverage one inning a little further.
- 5:54Speaker 1: You give yourself maybe one more chance. And so the
- 5:56Speaker 1: Harrison thing, like, well, maybe Harrison should have pitched in
- 6:00Speaker 1: the inning that Woodruff got the other day.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Then Woodruff would have been available to pitch.
- 6:03Speaker 1: My dream scenario would have Woodruff on the mound with
- 6:05Speaker 1: a chance to close it out. I mean, that would
- 6:08Speaker 1: have been cool. So they didn't have many choices. And
- 6:10Speaker 1: that was a bullpen game, like you said. The way
- 6:13Speaker 1: it unfolded, you don't plan for extra innings. You don't
- 6:15Speaker 1: play a lot of extra innings in the Extra innings. Basically,
- 6:19Speaker 1: as it's unfolding last night, I'm thinking to myself, this
- 6:21Speaker 1: is a Stanley Cup. We're in the third overtime of
- 6:23Speaker 1: a Stanley Cup playoff game. And somebody's going to win it,
- 6:26Speaker 1: and someone's going to lose it. And something's going to happen.
- 6:29Speaker 1: The puck's going to bounce funny, and somebody's going to win.
- 6:31Speaker 1: And Brewers get the home run. Still got to get
- 6:33Speaker 1: those last outs. And when Ortiz made the error, it's like,
- 6:37Speaker 1: how is the world different if Ortiz doesn't make that error?
- 6:41Speaker 1: If they start with one out, every batter up there
- 6:43Speaker 1: is one out, nobody on.
- 6:45Speaker 2: Good luck.
- 6:46Speaker 1: I mean, the Brewers' chances of winning that game significantly
- 6:49Speaker 1: increase if they get that first out. Significantly increase. Drone
- 6:53Speaker 1: still comes in in your mind, right? I think he
- 6:55Speaker 1: probably does. But he comes in, and Drew, he's not
- 6:57Speaker 1: staring at somebody right at first base, right? Not worried
- 7:00Speaker 1: about a runner, not about stealing, and it's a clean slate.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Cooper's not up the middle as much on that second ball.
- 7:06Speaker 2: Well, that's just it.
- 7:08Speaker 1: They're shifted. Otherwise, that's a double play. If they're not shifted,
- 7:12Speaker 1: or it's a routine grounder. Yeah, it's an out too.
- 7:15Speaker 1: So then, okay, you're looking at everything. It's the butterfly effect,
- 7:19Speaker 1: the ultimate butterfly effect.
- 7:20Speaker 2: It really is.
- 7:20Speaker 1: But as with everything else and everything else in sports,
- 7:23Speaker 1: it's all connected. And the Brewers did– it was one
- 7:27Speaker 1: of those nights where you had all these hard hit
- 7:29Speaker 1: balls that were caught, a lot of atom balls, a
- 7:30Speaker 1: lot of balls 100 miles an hour off the bat
- 7:32Speaker 1: that didn't lead to hits, didn't find gaps. So the
- 7:35Speaker 1: bounces went against the Brewers in some fashion yesterday. The
- 7:39Speaker 1: Hamilton error– mishap there's that he wipes it out with
- 7:43Speaker 1: the homer and then you have the the late error
- 7:46Speaker 1: by ortiz but the crux of this game and the
- 7:50Speaker 1: box score tells you is all those guys that were
- 7:53Speaker 1: over the over 22 squad with bowers yellage yep contraris
- 7:58Speaker 1: terang and mitchell combined to go 0 for 22.
- 8:02Speaker 2: The heart of your lineup was 0 for 22, and
- 8:04Speaker 2: you still led in the 12th inning. And you had
- 8:06Speaker 2: a lead, and you were three outs away from winning
- 8:07Speaker 2: the World Series, yeah.
- 8:09Speaker 1: So that's not an ideal circumstance. It's probably not going
- 8:12Speaker 1: to be repeated. It was the night where, you know,
- 8:15Speaker 1: whatever reason, they... Tampa had guys in the game that
- 8:17Speaker 1: they don't trust either, and they were getting outs, right?
- 8:20Speaker 2: They had to get everybody in, yeah, basically.
- 8:22Speaker 1: When they bring in Baker for two innings, and he
- 8:24Speaker 1: only pitched through 21 pitches tonight.
- 8:26Speaker 2: He had one up and down. I don't know.
- 8:27Speaker 1: He's not an up and down guy, but I would
- 8:29Speaker 1: imagine he's available tonight.
- 8:31Speaker 2: All hands on deck when it's elimination. All hands on deck.
- 8:33Speaker 1: And Drew, I wouldn't be surprised if Martinez still starts tonight, right?
- 8:37Speaker 1: They haven't announced who's starting for Tampa Bay yet, and
- 8:40Speaker 1: I don't believe it's going to be Rasmussen because he
- 8:42Speaker 1: was definitely not going to be a short start guy.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Miz has only started.
- 8:44Speaker 1: on four days rest five times this year. So this
- 8:48Speaker 1: is a little bit uncharted territory for Miz, but you
- 8:51Speaker 1: get to come into the game with the best pitcher
- 8:53Speaker 1: in the sport up 3-1 with a chance to celebrate
- 8:57Speaker 1: and have them wheel that champagne that.
- 8:59Speaker 2: They wheeled in. And right back out of that locker
- 9:03Speaker 2: room last night.
- 9:04Speaker 1: The cruelest visual in sports is the champagne, the little
- 9:08Speaker 1: dollies leaving with all the champagne. And that 120-pound young
- 9:10Speaker 1: lady that was just pushing that cart down. I was like,
- 9:13Speaker 1: just leave it in there.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Leave it in there. We'll have it tomorrow night.
- 9:16Speaker 1: That's the literal interpretation of the visual of the cookies theory.
- 9:19Speaker 1: The other crux of it, if you want to say,
- 9:21Speaker 1: and how everything's connected. About when you're up, if you
- 9:24Speaker 1: had it to do over again, 10-1, yeah, it was
- 9:26Speaker 1: a great moment for Woodruff to pitch in that game.
- 9:28Speaker 2: How about Harrison pitching with a 10-1 lead?
- 9:29Speaker 1: Where else is he safer where, you know, even if
- 9:32Speaker 1: he gives up four, you get somebody else in, but
- 9:34Speaker 1: that would have been a spot to use him. Then
- 9:36Speaker 1: you have Woodruff available or, you know, we know it's
- 9:39Speaker 1: not like a ceremonial thing, but if Chad Patrick would have.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Looked nice in that game last night.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Yeah, he would have. Now, Chad Patrick, last time he pitched,
- 9:46Speaker 1: did give up five runs, right? So, like, I do
- 9:48Speaker 1: struggle with that part of it. The Harrison one, I
- 9:51Speaker 1: almost wondered, Drew, and I wanted to get your thought
- 9:53Speaker 1: on it. I thought the bigger question would have been,
- 9:56Speaker 1: should he have come in for Sensatello on game three?
- 10:00Speaker 1: before woodruff right i mean because then senzatella probably doesn't
- 10:03Speaker 1: even come out of the game last night you're going
- 10:06Speaker 1: you're rolling with somebody that's closed has gotten the final
- 10:09Speaker 1: three outs of a game before and albeit not a
- 10:11Speaker 1: world series game but he's pitched in the playoffs multiple
- 10:13Speaker 1: times yeah that's one of the reasons you acquired him
- 10:16Speaker 1: like that one to me was the one that i
- 10:18Speaker 1: circled of if you were gonna throw somebody and light
- 10:21Speaker 1: the human victory cigar you were up 10 nothing in
- 10:23Speaker 1: the seventh just like you were in the nine exactly
- 10:25Speaker 1: that could have been the harrison time and Who knows?
- 10:27Speaker 1: Maybe you do go to Woodruff. Maybe you don't. Maybe
- 10:29Speaker 1: he does open, and you're a lot more open. Or
- 10:31Speaker 1: is that a drone time? Could have been drone at
- 10:34Speaker 1: that point, too. Yeah, so you can go back to
- 10:36Speaker 1: those things. But again, how do you win games? First
- 10:38Speaker 1: of all, and as Tom Hardicourt has told us a
- 10:40Speaker 1: gajillion times, in order to think you have a reasonable
- 10:44Speaker 1: expectation to win a major league game, you kind of
- 10:46Speaker 1: got to score four runs.
- 10:47Speaker 2: That's about the baseline. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 10:48Speaker 1: To think we should have won that game. Because otherwise,
- 10:50Speaker 1: you're leaving it to chance. And that's been the Brewers number.
- 10:53Speaker 1: And that's been, you know, if they score four runs,
- 10:54Speaker 1: they're feeling pretty good about themselves. And the guys that
- 10:57Speaker 1: I mentioned going 0-4 in the heart of the lineup. Now,
- 11:00Speaker 1: there was a lineup switch yesterday. We joked with Hunter
- 11:03Speaker 1: about it, that they flipped Sal Freelick, right, and Garrett
- 11:06Speaker 1: Mitchell in the lineup. Don't you think about tonight maybe
- 11:10Speaker 1: dropping Bowers and putting Terang up higher perhaps? Or Bowers
- 11:15Speaker 1: is as cold as he was hot in the NLCS.
- 11:17Speaker 2: He's not looking great. Or maybe start Vaughn. I would
- 11:23Speaker 2: be into Sartvon.
- 11:24Speaker 1: I think that would be the one and somebody that
- 11:26Speaker 1: had the bat taken out of his hand last night
- 11:28Speaker 1: legitimately because Cooper Pratt's hand touches the glove.
- 11:32Speaker 2: That's another call that didn't go.
- 11:34Speaker 1: The Brewers way that in the past was. And not
- 11:37Speaker 1: for nothing, I'm not the guy. There's a guy we
- 11:39Speaker 1: used to work with that is Mr.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Anti-Replay. I didn't see anything conclusive that told me. There
- 11:45Speaker 2: were two different completing angles. Sure, telling the spirit of
- 11:48Speaker 2: the rule.
- 11:49Speaker 1: One looked like it grazed the hand and the other
- 11:50Speaker 1: looked like it completely missed the hand or that they
- 11:52Speaker 1: were kind of riding concurrently together and that there wasn't contact.
- 11:56Speaker 2: I didn't see anything.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Conclusive that made me say that should be overturned. I
- 12:00Speaker 1: sure don't see how- Could go either way, I can
- 12:01Speaker 1: see it. I get why they called it, but I
- 12:03Speaker 1: was looking at that. But to me, it's like the
- 12:04Speaker 1: call that you made should have stood.
- 12:06Speaker 2: Because, right? Because good luck telling me exactly where the
- 12:10Speaker 2: contact is.
- 12:10Speaker 1: If you're discussing it for eight minutes, I sure don't
- 12:12Speaker 1: see how it can be conclusive.
- 12:13Speaker 2: That's just it. I mean, isn't that the very definition
- 12:16Speaker 2: of inconclusive?
- 12:17Speaker 1: It is.
- 12:17Speaker 2: I mean, it's a little bit ridiculous. So the spirit
- 12:19Speaker 2: of the rule is the call of the field should stand.
- 12:21Speaker 1: But- My dad kept asking me, when are they going
- 12:23Speaker 1: to stop showing the same replay? I'm like, they're filling time, Dad.
- 12:26Speaker 2: They haven't made a call yet. That's the problem. I
- 12:28Speaker 2: was like, well, I don't see how it's concluded.
- 12:30Speaker 1: But now that's a pair of games in this series
- 12:33Speaker 1: that you have not gotten the benefit of the replay review.
- 12:38Speaker 1: The spirit of the rule has gone against you, just
- 12:40Speaker 1: like the neighborhood play in game one had always been
- 12:44Speaker 1: a thing.
- 12:44Speaker 3: Always.
- 12:44Speaker 1: Not anymore in the replay era. But you still got...
- 12:48Speaker 1: the opportunity to dust it off and roll right through.
- 12:50Speaker 1: There's just a struggle that I'm having, Drew, of meeting
- 12:55Speaker 1: it in the middle of the excitement that has been
- 12:58Speaker 1: there for the Brewers and the loving, the energy and
- 13:01Speaker 1: the atmosphere and the amount of people that are jumping
- 13:04Speaker 1: all over the bandwagon. But if you are here and
- 13:07Speaker 1: you've been here, or if you're just jumping on and
- 13:09Speaker 1: this team has been so different and that's what captivated you,
- 13:12Speaker 1: feels a little disingenuous for the extra inning loss. To
- 13:17Speaker 1: be the reason why you jump off the train and
- 13:21Speaker 1: not feel confident rolling in with the best pitcher in
- 13:24Speaker 1: the sport going in game five in what I can
- 13:26Speaker 1: only imagine is going to be another raucous Brewer crowd.
- 13:29Speaker 1: Because if you thought the tickets were starting to go
- 13:31Speaker 1: down for yesterday's.
- 13:31Speaker 2: Game, they tanked.
- 13:34Speaker 1: For today's game and anybody within a 90 mile vicinity
- 13:39Speaker 1: snowboarding it i would assume is going to think about gassing.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Up the sonata and driving themselves up there for.
- 13:44Speaker 1: The game my buddy the boston barrister hit me up
- 13:46Speaker 1: and said prices are cratering i'm going to get lower
- 13:48Speaker 1: bowl between home plate and dugout well under face it
- 13:51Speaker 1: should be mostly a lot of brewers fans and then
- 13:53Speaker 1: obviously here in american family field they put the tickets
- 13:57Speaker 1: for the watch party on sale at noon i believe
- 13:59Speaker 1: it was noon And a lot of people crashed the site.
- 14:02Speaker 1: Everyone couldn't get in. They're being sold in the aftermarket.
- 14:04Speaker 1: So that's another situation. Get in the door price for
- 14:06Speaker 1: the game tonight in Tampa, $ 370 currently on TickPick. The
- 14:12Speaker 1: price for that and the price for what some people
- 14:14Speaker 1: were trying to sell the watch party tickets might get
- 14:17Speaker 1: closer to meeting in the middle, which is a funny thing.
- 14:20Speaker 1: But you get it if you were there, I think,
- 14:23Speaker 1: at American Family Field because it is outstanding energy and
- 14:26Speaker 1: outstanding feeling.
- 14:27Speaker 2: To be there with.
- 14:27Speaker 1: 32,000 of your closest friends trying to urge this team on.
- 14:32Speaker 1: We just, we like gathering and being together as watch parties, everything.
- 14:35Speaker 2: It's what it is. They're trying to share the moment.
- 14:37Speaker 1: There were days when an entire, the birds wouldn't draw
- 14:40Speaker 1: 30,000 for a series.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Oh yes. When Ronnie Bell, I was manning.
- 14:45Speaker 1: I still remember sitting on a Sunday, sunny Sunday morning,
- 14:49Speaker 1: you know, late, late summer, Sunday morning. And I've in
- 14:54Speaker 1: the press box at County stadium, getting ready to start my,
- 14:56Speaker 1: my work day and have the, The paper, the Sunday
- 15:00Speaker 1: sports section with me and old Commissioner Seelig, then running
- 15:04Speaker 1: the Brewers and Major League Baseball, walking behind me.
- 15:06Speaker 2: He sees the headline. He's like, Packers had 55,000 people
- 15:10Speaker 2: at a practice? At a practice? Yeah.
- 15:14Speaker 1: They drew 55,000 people for a practice?
- 15:17Speaker 2: For family night. Yeah, they sold it out. We're talking
- 15:20Speaker 2: about practice. They sold it out. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
- 15:23Speaker 2: they did.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Brewers were drawing about 8,000 to 10,000 to 12,000 at
- 15:27Speaker 1: that point.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Did we get that for a homestand?
- 15:29Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 15:30Speaker 1: My buddy always has the same running reference point. When
- 15:32Speaker 1: we're kind of going through it or like on the
- 15:34Speaker 1: group text, when we say, oh, man, we're struggling and
- 15:37Speaker 1: the Brewers and we're worried, he always just sends back
- 15:40Speaker 1: Royce Clayton. He just texts back Royce Clayton. Like, remember
- 15:43Speaker 1: the Royce Clayton days? It's rude to Royce because he
- 15:45Speaker 1: had a nice career. The old three brewers weren't good, though,
- 15:48Speaker 1: when he was playing here. And he just texts back
- 15:50Speaker 1: Royce Clayton. That used to be our guy, so things
- 15:52Speaker 1: are better now. That's what he always says. How many
- 15:55Speaker 1: hugs would you say Armin Sarian gave out last night
- 15:59Speaker 1: after the Cooper-Brad home run? So I was in the bathroom.
- 16:02Speaker 1: I was in the bathroom coming out when Cooper was
- 16:04Speaker 1: at the plate.
- 16:05Speaker 2: I was holding it. Listen, give me a chance. I
- 16:07Speaker 2: was holding it for like four innings.
- 16:09Speaker 1: And I'm like, if I'm not going to go now,
- 16:11Speaker 1: I got to go now. I'm like, all right, I'm
- 16:13Speaker 1: going to get in there. As soon as we got
- 16:15Speaker 1: the last out in the bottom half, I go in there.
- 16:18Speaker 1: I was joking with the guy next to me at
- 16:20Speaker 1: the urinal. I said, well, maybe they'll score while we're
- 16:22Speaker 1: in the bathroom. And then we can hang out in
- 16:25Speaker 1: here all night until they win. We're like, we'll take that.
- 16:27Speaker 2: I did get out. I hear the cheers.
- 16:29Speaker 1: I run to the nearest Concourse TV right in 220 there.
- 16:34Speaker 2: The ball goes over the wall.
- 16:36Speaker 1: I start screaming and high stepping into people's faces. And
- 16:39Speaker 1: it was a bunch of just spontaneous frivolity. That's all
- 16:43Speaker 1: I can describe it. People were taping each other, high-fiving
- 16:47Speaker 1: each other, hugging, bumping parts of bodies. It was a
- 16:52Speaker 1: tremendous moment. And then right away, it was that nervousness
- 16:54Speaker 1: of like, who's ready to go? Who's ready to pitch
- 16:57Speaker 1: for us? So you didn't stay in the bathroom like
- 17:00Speaker 1: you said you were going to after it happened. If
- 17:03Speaker 1: I stayed in the bathroom, would our lives have been different?
- 17:07Speaker 2: They might have won 7-3. There were zero outs.
- 17:10Speaker 3: Sorry.
- 17:10Speaker 2: There were zero outs when Cooper hit that. That's true.
- 17:12Speaker 1: We could have used some insurance there. We almost came close.
- 17:15Speaker 1: Would have been nice. We have the breaking news from
- 17:18Speaker 1: the Trop. Oh, and I guess on the bump for
- 17:21Speaker 1: your Tampa Bay Rays tonight.
- 17:24Speaker 2: Drew Rasmussen. You know why not? If you're the race, right?
- 17:27Speaker 2: And the way you think about it, it's like they
- 17:29Speaker 2: have to go for it now, right?
- 17:30Speaker 1: What did that fat schlub in Milwaukee just say?
- 17:32Speaker 2: Yeah, we are throwing Rasmussen tonight on short rest.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Honestly, how can you fault Kevin Cash?
- 17:39Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
- 17:40Speaker 3: I mean....
- 17:42Speaker 2: But this is where your advantage should be if you're
- 17:44Speaker 2: the Brewers.
- 17:44Speaker 1: This is his chance to be a hero. Oh, big
- 17:46Speaker 1: time is. Big time is. And he was going in.
- 17:49Speaker 1: He had been the best starting pitcher in the playoffs.
- 17:52Speaker 1: He now comes in here, Drew, with an opportunity to
- 17:57Speaker 1: send it back to Milwaukee. Potentially, how it's lining up,
- 18:02Speaker 1: he's going to start and pitch on short rest. This
- 18:04Speaker 1: is why the Mizorowski thing was also huge last night
- 18:06Speaker 1: and why he couldn't do it. If there's any possibility
- 18:09Speaker 1: this thing does get to Game 7.
- 18:11Speaker 2: He's off the sheet. There's no way he's pitching back-to-back
- 18:14Speaker 2: days if you're going to start him in Game 6.
- 18:16Speaker 2: Rasmussen and Miz would each.
- 18:18Speaker 1: Potentially be alive and be up for Game 7, and
- 18:22Speaker 1: I would definitely bet on Rasmussen is in their plans.
- 18:25Speaker 1: If they're outlining it right now after Kevin Cash has
- 18:28Speaker 1: a smoke and enjoys maybe a victory here tonight, he's
- 18:31Speaker 1: thinking about it saying, we can go twice after last
- 18:35Speaker 1: night's celebration. We can go twice with our guy. We
- 18:37Speaker 1: got Peralta in Game 6. Martinez, whenever we want. They're
- 18:40Speaker 1: feeling all right. All this talk about familiarity with the
- 18:43Speaker 1: relievers and the pen. Well, familiarity with starters is a thing, too.
- 18:46Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 18:47Speaker 1: And Rasmussen didn't get out of the fourth inning on
- 18:50Speaker 1: Saturday night. Almost halved his shortest start in the playoffs.
- 18:55Speaker 1: Six hits and two walks. Mm-hmm.
- 18:57Speaker 2: And three and two-thirds in three runs. So, yeah, well...
- 19:01Speaker 2: That's all right.
- 19:02Speaker 1: And what? He had gone seven in his first previous
- 19:04Speaker 1: two outings, right? And locked up the Yankees.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
- 19:07Speaker 1: And was dominant against the Guardians. Miz against Rasmussen, both
- 19:11Speaker 1: on short rest technically, although it's really short rest for Rasmussen.
- 19:15Speaker 1: Miz is shorter than his normal. But my advice, my
- 19:20Speaker 1: thing to Miz, and what Chris Hook and Murph should
- 19:22Speaker 1: tell him tonight, is just empty the tank. We'll win
- 19:25Speaker 1: this game, and this is your last game of the year.
- 19:27Speaker 1: And last game of the year. Go and enjoy it.
- 19:29Speaker 2: Empty the tank. Now, I also... I also need you
- 19:32Speaker 2: to get me 18 outs. I need six. That's where
- 19:35Speaker 2: your advantage lies, right?
- 19:36Speaker 1: I need six from Miz tonight because then I can
- 19:39Speaker 1: go Uribe and then maybe Ashby if I have to
- 19:42Speaker 1: or Sensatella and then McGill. Yeah, I want to get
- 19:45Speaker 1: it to the law firm of Uribe, Ashby, McGill. So
- 19:48Speaker 1: that's where the sixth inning's got to come in. Because
- 19:49Speaker 1: I think 28 pitches last night, and this is the
- 19:52Speaker 1: other part of it where folks were hammering Murph late
- 19:56Speaker 1: of saying, he wanted Joey to get the lead with
- 19:58Speaker 1: three outs away from the World Series, playing for game five. No,
- 20:01Speaker 1: he was playing for game five in extra innings when
- 20:04Speaker 1: he pulls Ashby immediately after that first guy, right?
- 20:07Speaker 2: Because his velocity dropped.
- 20:09Speaker 1: Yep. And he goes, there's no chance I got him
- 20:12Speaker 1: tomorrow if he pitches over 30 pitches tonight. It would
- 20:15Speaker 1: have to be something quirky and crazy to get Ashby
- 20:17Speaker 1: or Hall into the game today. Basically, your bullpen tonight is,
- 20:22Speaker 1: I think, Uribe, Romero, and McGill. Well, what if you're
- 20:27Speaker 1: three outs away from winning again with a one-run lead?
- 20:29Speaker 1: You don't think they'll be tempted to try Ashby again? Yeah,
- 20:31Speaker 1: but his velocity was down. You know how everybody says
- 20:34Speaker 1: they're nervous when McGill goes in? I'm nervous when Ashby
- 20:37Speaker 1: pitches because he's been so good, he's due to.
- 20:39Speaker 3: Give it up.
- 20:40Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I get that part of it. And if
- 20:42Speaker 2: his velo is down, he's getting by.
- 20:44Speaker 1: On just guts, and he's been incredible. But how much
- 20:48Speaker 1: can you ask? How many times can you ring that bell?
- 20:51Speaker 1: sponge they've rung it enough they continue to do it
- 20:55Speaker 1: i feel much better about leaving him on the shelf
- 20:58Speaker 1: tonight and have it in fresh in case there is
- 21:00Speaker 1: a game six because then i want.
- 21:01Speaker 2: To use him for two and two-thirds in game.
- 21:03Speaker 1: Six yeah yeah i i get it and i think
- 21:06Speaker 1: about i i'm i'm with you i understand the point
- 21:08Speaker 1: i don't know that i agree because if i if
- 21:11Speaker 1: i got the chance and he tells me that he
- 21:13Speaker 1: feels good and i watched that rubber arm all.
- 21:15Speaker 2: Year That's the training part.
- 21:17Speaker 1: If anybody has pitched more times than Aaron Ashby out
- 21:21Speaker 1: of the pen in baseball, I'd like to see it.
- 21:23Speaker 2: And that's the thing.
- 21:24Speaker 1: And that's what he said last night is I never
- 21:26Speaker 1: make any, proclamation so i come in and see how
- 21:28Speaker 1: i feel playing catch and if he if he goes
- 21:30Speaker 1: and tells murph i'm good to go you're definitely gonna
- 21:32Speaker 1: see him against some lefties in the seventh eighth or
- 21:35Speaker 1: ninth okay drew the uh the buzzing it over to
- 21:38Speaker 1: first base that ashby did when he fielded the ground
- 21:40Speaker 1: ball faster than any of his fastballs my gosh that
- 21:44Speaker 1: ball i can't remember which who got the story but
- 21:47Speaker 1: the bullpen catcher is the only guy that can warm
- 21:49Speaker 1: up with ashby the only guy that will catch him
- 21:51Speaker 1: because he throws like 90 velocity all the time i
- 21:55Speaker 1: just love that he goes no i only have one
- 21:56Speaker 1: speed brother All gas. And the gasp and the whoa
- 22:01Speaker 1: from the crowd when he did that.
- 22:02Speaker 2: Like, oh my goodness. And the fact that he was
- 22:04Speaker 2: stepping up on the mound, pitching uphill. Yes. That was incredible.
- 22:09Speaker 2: That's why... Blitz the chest, the powers.
- 22:11Speaker 3: Of the W.
- 22:12Speaker 1: That's why it sort of makes me wonder what Doc
- 22:14Speaker 1: Holliday says on YouTube. Ash is a rubber arm. He'll
- 22:16Speaker 1: be fine for one. I think they'll be tempted.
- 22:18Speaker 2: That's all I'm trying to say.
- 22:19Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if you're three more outs again, you
- 22:22Speaker 1: think about it like if Ashby were to give it up,
- 22:24Speaker 1: think about the momentum swing and the psychology swing in
- 22:27Speaker 1: the series. That's exactly. And that was the exact reason
- 22:31Speaker 1: why you didn't go to miss last night.
- 22:32Speaker 2: Right.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 22:34Speaker 2: Isn't that true? If anybody gives it up. I mean,
- 22:36Speaker 2: different though. I kept hearing from Ashby's been there. Great
- 22:39Speaker 2: white whale.
- 22:40Speaker 1: He's been, I know, but I keep hearing like, well,
- 22:42Speaker 1: the way the raise one last time, like if they
- 22:44Speaker 1: would have won anyway, I feel like there's momentum for sure. But,
- 22:48Speaker 1: but just like now they didn't get the ball back,
- 22:50Speaker 1: but the, uh, the Vikings against the Falcons in the
- 22:54Speaker 1: NFC title game, The only thing that was the surest
- 22:57Speaker 1: thing for that team all year long.
- 22:58Speaker 2: The kicker, I know. The kicker. Yeah.
- 22:59Speaker 1: He gives it up, game over. There's no way you're
- 23:02Speaker 1: coming back from that momentum swing. So that one is
- 23:05Speaker 1: a tough one to have.
- 23:05Speaker 2: All right.
- 23:06Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll catch up with our buddy
- 23:08Speaker 1: El Jefe John Greenberg. They're in action tonight.
- 23:11Speaker 2: At Panther.
- 23:11Speaker 1: You better believe it. We're going to have some fun.
- 23:13Speaker 1: Billy's going to be in the house. I'm going to be.
- 23:15Speaker 2: Partying it up. I feel the energy will transfer.
- 23:18Speaker 1: When the Admirals put pucks in the net tonight, the
- 23:20Speaker 1: Brewers will put runs on the board.
- 23:22Speaker 2: Greeny is next.
- 23:23Speaker 1: Our pal, Trenny Casey from Boston, who's in town to party.
- 23:26Speaker 2: With her people. Our old friend, Trenny. She turned down
- 23:30Speaker 2: a chance to go to Tampa. She could have gone
- 23:31Speaker 2: to Tampa for the clinch, but she's wanted to be
- 23:33Speaker 2: with the people here. She wanted to be with the masses.
- 23:35Speaker 2: She's in town. We'll talk to her.
- 23:37Speaker 1: And then Hunter Baumgart joins us live from the trap.
- 23:39Speaker 1: Once again, Drew Rasmussen. Against the Miz.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Be careful. Puddled up on a Wednesday. Drew Billy and
- 23:51Speaker 2: Armand bringing it to you. Brewers against the Rays. Chance
- 23:55Speaker 2: to win the World Series tonight in Tampa. It's also
- 23:58Speaker 2: hockey night in Milwaukee. Hockey night in the good land.
- 23:59Speaker 2: President of the Milwaukee Admirals. Friend of the program.
- 24:02Speaker 1: El Jefe himself, John Greenberg, joins us on the NicoletLaw.com
- 24:05Speaker 1: talk and text line.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Greeny.
- 24:08Speaker 3: Good afternoon, everybody. How are we doing?
- 24:10Speaker 2: Fantastic. Better now.
- 24:11Speaker 1: How do you handle a night when you guys have
- 24:14Speaker 1: a game on your season and everybody's occupied kind of
- 24:18Speaker 1: trying to pay attention to another game at the same time?
- 24:20Speaker 2: How do you handle that in the building?
- 24:23Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's a good chance to meet all
- 24:26Speaker 3: of our fans individually. But, you know, we'll be very
- 24:32Speaker 3: excited for the people who are here. I know people
- 24:34Speaker 3: will be focused on their phones and things like that. But,
- 24:37Speaker 3: you know, it is a... It is a winning weekday tonight,
- 24:40Speaker 3: so if you're coming out, you might be rewarded with
- 24:41Speaker 3: another game for free if we win this one. So
- 24:45Speaker 3: it's a good reason to come out, and we'll have...
- 24:48Speaker 3: We'll have the game on down in the Coors Lake
- 24:49Speaker 3: Chill Zone. We've got a couple of guys signing autographs
- 24:53Speaker 3: after the game, Jake Lucchini.
- 24:54Speaker 2: And Cole O'Hara.
- 24:55Speaker 3: And so they'll be down there signing autographs, but the
- 24:58Speaker 3: TVs will be on. And we're going to keep the
- 25:00Speaker 3: bar open until 1030. So, you know, hopefully we can
- 25:05Speaker 3: get a good start to the celebration going right here.
- 25:09Speaker 1: That's perfect because it is going to be a celebration
- 25:12Speaker 1: throughout the city if they can get it done. Obviously, Greeny,
- 25:15Speaker 1: you've been around locker rooms and around clubhouses for a
- 25:18Speaker 1: long time. The ability to play the next day in baseball, I've.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Marveled at a long time.
- 25:25Speaker 1: But what is that like for everybody around the team, right?
- 25:29Speaker 2: The folks in Tampa.
- 25:30Speaker 1: Yesterday, had to do the preparation for the stage on field.
- 25:35Speaker 1: And I imagine some of the workers and employees were
- 25:37Speaker 1: thinking about what it's going to be like when after
- 25:40Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt, it's the home run to go do it.
- 25:42Speaker 2: Everybody immediately flips.
- 25:43Speaker 1: That's not easy from the business side of we're planning
- 25:47Speaker 1: and hoping we have a game tomorrow.
- 25:49Speaker 2: Oh, now we actually do.
- 25:52Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you go into that saying, we're going
- 25:54Speaker 3: to have a game tomorrow. I mean, I think you
- 25:56Speaker 3: just go with that until that's just not reality anymore.
- 25:59Speaker 3: You have to be prepared. You've got to just have
- 26:03Speaker 3: all of your ducks in a row. You can't be
- 26:05Speaker 3: scrambling at the last minute. So you prepare like you're
- 26:08Speaker 3: going to play every game that you can possibly play.
- 26:11Speaker 3: And when it doesn't happen, hopefully you're the one that's
- 26:14Speaker 3: celebrating that.
- 26:16Speaker 1: John Greenberg joining us. Admirals playing in action tonight. And
- 26:19Speaker 1: then you're on the road this weekend. And there might
- 26:22Speaker 1: not be any competition this weekend from baseball if the
- 26:25Speaker 1: Brewers win. But, Greeny, we've talked about it before, the
- 26:27Speaker 1: psychology and the excitement that a team like we saw
- 26:30Speaker 1: when the Bucs won.
- 26:32Speaker 2: It just it does put people in a sporting mood.
- 26:34Speaker 3: Right.
- 26:35Speaker 1: They realize how exciting games are and it brings the
- 26:37Speaker 1: community together. And the rising tide lifts all boats, doesn't it,
- 26:41Speaker 1: in a market? And I don't know if there's metrics
- 26:43Speaker 1: if you guys go through those and stuff. And when
- 26:46Speaker 1: another team wins in a market, the other all the
- 26:48Speaker 1: other teams end up seeing a boost.
- 26:50Speaker 3: Right. Well, that's certainly what the hope is, but I
- 26:53Speaker 3: can tell you just anecdotally here just this week with
- 26:56Speaker 3: obviously the Brewers playing these games in Tampa that our
- 27:01Speaker 3: phone calls to prospective groups and ticket buyers have been
- 27:07Speaker 3: very well received. People are very open to wanting to
- 27:10Speaker 3: come out and be part of this. you know, something
- 27:13Speaker 3: in sports. And we announced last week three Brewers giveaways,
- 27:17Speaker 3: one in February, one in March, one in April, immediate response. So,
- 27:22Speaker 3: you know, we're trying to capitalize on this as well.
- 27:26Speaker 3: And obviously as partners with the Brewers, it makes that
- 27:29Speaker 3: a little bit easier. But, you know, that excitement is
- 27:33Speaker 3: absolutely palpable. And, you know, we've been able to, get
- 27:39Speaker 3: a bunch of our staff members out to World Series games,
- 27:43Speaker 3: which has been a real thrill for me. Everybody's part
- 27:47Speaker 3: of it. Everybody gets to have this excitement. It's something
- 27:51Speaker 3: that we hope will happen more frequently than it has
- 27:55Speaker 3: happened in the past, but you have to enjoy it
- 27:58Speaker 3: while it's going on.
- 27:59Speaker 1: Yeah, October baseball and June hockey are two things that
- 28:02Speaker 1: I could get used to in the city of Milwaukee.
- 28:05Speaker 1: John Greenberg of the Milwaukee Admirals hanging out with us here.
- 28:07Speaker 2: You mentioned it, the promos with the Brewers.
- 28:10Speaker 1: Bernie and Roscoe bobblehead giveaway. This is a sweet one
- 28:14Speaker 1: coming up in March that you guys put together just
- 28:15Speaker 1: last week announcing it.
- 28:17Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Brewers were very open to wanting to
- 28:21Speaker 3: do this, to be able to promote two of our
- 28:24Speaker 3: most visible icons to our teams, with Bernie and Roscoe,
- 28:30Speaker 3: and that'll be a lot of fun. And they actually
- 28:33Speaker 3: allowed us to... up the quantity of those. Usually, we're
- 28:37Speaker 3: doing 2,500 bobbleheads. This time, we actually get to do
- 28:40Speaker 3: 3,500 bobbleheads, so we can get those into more people's hands.
- 28:45Speaker 3: It's a nice thing as part of the collaboration between
- 28:48Speaker 3: our two teams. Our players, actually, their celebration in the
- 28:53Speaker 3: locker room for winning player of the game and hardest
- 28:57Speaker 3: worker are actually Brewers-related items. We've got a Joy Ortiz
- 29:02Speaker 3: bat that actually has a crack at it. And then
- 29:05Speaker 3: we've got a jersey that I'm not sure who it
- 29:08Speaker 3: belongs to, but we're hoping to get those replaced by
- 29:12Speaker 3: some of the current guys with something new here in
- 29:15Speaker 3: the coming weeks once things kind of calm down.
- 29:17Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get them out of the John Jaha jersey
- 29:19Speaker 1: that they're putting on after the game and celebrating. Hey,
- 29:22Speaker 1: respect on John's name, but I do like to, uh, when,
- 29:25Speaker 1: when the boys always do those, um, you know, those,
- 29:28Speaker 1: when you guys had the video in the locker room
- 29:29Speaker 1: after a win and they had some wild props in
- 29:31Speaker 1: the past, like I'm trying to remember exactly what that was.
- 29:34Speaker 1: It was some sort of hat I want to say,
- 29:35Speaker 1: or maybe it was a prop, but I sort of
- 29:38Speaker 1: liked that.
- 29:38Speaker 2: That's a pretty good one. I, I. could see that.
- 29:40Speaker 2: Maybe that'll stretch over to the Brewers as well. Greeny,
- 29:43Speaker 2: you gotta get in there and give us some ideas.
- 29:45Speaker 3: Absolutely yeah there was like a Daniel Boone coonskin cap.
- 29:48Speaker 2: That was making our.
- 29:50Speaker 3: Way around which I thought was just disgusting by the
- 29:52Speaker 3: end of the year because that thing is hot in
- 29:55Speaker 3: general and it's just going on a different sweaty head every.
- 29:58Speaker 2: Hockey players heads what do you mean yeah Oh, that's
- 30:02Speaker 2: something else.
- 30:03Speaker 1: All the moms that have youth hockey players just heard
- 30:06Speaker 1: what Greeny said there and they're like, thank God somebody
- 30:09Speaker 1: knows that this stuff reeks in the back.
- 30:11Speaker 2: John Greenberg, President of the Admirals joining us.
- 30:14Speaker 1: As a man who started his career picking up towels
- 30:17Speaker 1: and underwear and things like that, what is the clubby
- 30:20Speaker 1: in you think when you see these celebrations and the
- 30:22Speaker 1: champagne and how much vacuuming you have to do and
- 30:24Speaker 1: how much cleaning?
- 30:25Speaker 2: You lived that life. And it was, you know, you
- 30:28Speaker 2: know what it was like at the end of a.
- 30:29Speaker 1: Homestand when you had to get one team out and
- 30:32Speaker 1: get the next team in, or the end.
- 30:33Speaker 2: Of a series, I should say. What do you think
- 30:36Speaker 2: clubby life is like for those clinching games?
- 30:40Speaker 3: I think it's, you know, this will be the fourth
- 30:44Speaker 3: time that they've had to do it, you know, regular
- 30:47Speaker 3: season and then playoffs, multiple playoffs. I think you savor it,
- 30:52Speaker 3: and then when it's all over, you look at the
- 30:54Speaker 3: wreckage and you figure out how you're going to fix it.
- 30:57Speaker 3: I think part of the good thing is, you know,
- 31:02Speaker 3: you're going to get well-tipped. Let's put it that way.
- 31:05Speaker 3: This is going to be a very lucrative situation for
- 31:09Speaker 3: the clubhouse guys in Tampa. While it'll suck because their
- 31:14Speaker 3: team is not going to win, hopefully, they'll be happy
- 31:20Speaker 3: to go.
- 31:21Speaker 2: To the bank. Don't even put that hopefully in there, Greeny.
- 31:24Speaker 2: You said it.
- 31:24Speaker 3: It's over. They're going to win it tonight.
- 31:26Speaker 2: It's all good.
- 31:27Speaker 1: It is a winning Wednesday. You mentioned that earlier. Summerfest
- 31:31Speaker 1: winning Wednesday, even better. And there's opportunities for people to
- 31:35Speaker 1: get wins while the Brewers and hopefully the Admirals win
- 31:38Speaker 1: here coming up tonight.
- 31:38Speaker 2: That's a good point.
- 31:40Speaker 3: Yeah, winning weekdays are extremely popular. So we win tonight.
- 31:45Speaker 3: You use that ticket from tonight's game and you get
- 31:47Speaker 3: a free one for the game on Tuesday, December 1st,
- 31:50Speaker 3: which is our next non-school day weekday game. And last
- 31:54Speaker 3: year we went 8-1 on winning weekdays tonight. So if
- 31:59Speaker 3: you came out that first time, you may have gotten
- 32:02Speaker 3: five or six games for free. So it's a great
- 32:04Speaker 3: opportunity to do something fun. Our friends at Summerfest are
- 32:08Speaker 3: great partners in helping us make it happen.
- 32:10Speaker 2: Sounds like a free money line bet. I will say this.
- 32:13Speaker 1: People who go to the Panther Arena tonight to watch
- 32:15Speaker 1: the Admirals and see Bill Schmidt on the scoreboard. They
- 32:18Speaker 1: are really hockey fans and really Admirals fans. And I
- 32:20Speaker 1: know that a lot of the Admirals fans I encounter
- 32:23Speaker 1: are so deep into your team, into hockey greenie, that
- 32:25Speaker 1: they're barely aware that other teams exist.
- 32:29Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you that I'm breaking out my
- 32:32Speaker 3: Bob Uecker jersey to wear tonight. So, you know, you'll
- 32:35Speaker 3: see me easily around the building. You know, Bob signed it,
- 32:40Speaker 3: so his name is on my back. And I'm excited
- 32:42Speaker 3: to be able to rep that, hopefully, for a big celebration.
- 32:47Speaker 2: That is spectacular. Greeny, best of luck tonight. We will
- 32:50Speaker 2: catch up with you next week. And folks should go
- 32:52Speaker 2: if you're looking for somewhere to go. And be around people.
- 32:57Speaker 2: Shot and goal bar. Go watch the game. Watch some hockey.
- 32:59Speaker 2: You can watch everything, you know.
- 33:01Speaker 1: Also, if you just need to calm your nerves, right?
- 33:03Speaker 1: Like my wife is doing puzzles to calm the nerves.
- 33:05Speaker 1: Maybe watching hockey will calm your nerves while the game's
- 33:08Speaker 1: going on as well.
- 33:08Speaker 2: I don't know. Walk the concourse a little bit maybe.
- 33:11Speaker 2: I like it. I like it. Thanks, Greeny. See you, man.
- 33:13Speaker 3: Thanks, boys. Appreciate it.
- 33:14Speaker 1: Check out milwaukeeadmirals.com for ticket information. Go see Billy tonight.
- 33:19Speaker 1: Billy will be wearing Admiral's gear, not Brewer's gear. And
- 33:21Speaker 1: there will be zero distractedness from your boy over here.
- 33:25Speaker 2: I pride myself. Going in the bubble.
- 33:27Speaker 1: I pride myself on being an incredible professional. So I'm
- 33:29Speaker 1: going to put myself in the bubble.
- 33:31Speaker 2: Oh, you'll be good. I'm going to turn the phone off.
- 33:34Speaker 2: And then I'm DVRing the game. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
- 33:39Speaker 1: Could you imagine if there's still somebody thinking they're going
- 33:42Speaker 1: to do that?
- 33:43Speaker 2: Don't ruin it for me. I'm taping it. You're DVRing it.
- 33:45Speaker 2: Stop talking to me. I'm going to watch the game later.
- 33:48Speaker 2: I don't want to know what happened. There's no way
- 33:52Speaker 2: you'll know, right? There's another way you can hide yourself
- 33:54Speaker 2: from that. There's no way you'll hear random cheers from
- 33:56Speaker 2: the crowd. Oh, my gosh.
- 33:57Speaker 1: You'd have to be in the middle of the woods
- 33:58Speaker 1: with your phone off. Our pal, OG Brewers fan, Trenny Casey,
- 34:02Speaker 1: is going to join us in about an hour. Hunter
- 34:03Speaker 1: joins us at 425 live from Tropicana Field. Getting ready
- 34:08Speaker 1: for game five and a potential celebration of all celebrations.
- 34:11Speaker 1: You got to have the agony of defeat to have
- 34:13Speaker 1: the thrill of victory, right? So that's what we had
- 34:15Speaker 1: last night, the agony of defeat. Here in the huddle,
- 34:17Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Folks went down for three and four.
- 34:20Speaker 1: I have a friend who he decided not to leave
- 34:25Speaker 1: for game three. for game four and five that was
- 34:30Speaker 1: his plan because he's like game three can't be a
- 34:32Speaker 1: clincher yeah or could be and five could be so
- 34:35Speaker 1: he's getting he's getting a double dose the two games
- 34:37Speaker 1: that he chose to attend have clinching potential i gotta
- 34:40Speaker 1: say um there was a moment yesterday after uh they're
- 34:44Speaker 1: doing the transition right from fox to fs1 and I'm
- 34:48Speaker 1: debating how much more of this postgame am I going
- 34:50Speaker 1: to suffer through. Am I going to rewind it and
- 34:53Speaker 1: watch the entire 12th inning again, which I did, which
- 34:55Speaker 1: was really, really smart and painful. Where I thought about it, Drew,
- 35:00Speaker 1: I was really glad I got on that plane yesterday morning.
- 35:04Speaker 1: I was really glad I got on that 620 flight
- 35:09Speaker 1: to Nashville that connected and got me back to Milwaukee.
- 35:12Speaker 1: Because I'm telling you, I'm laying in a hotel room
- 35:16Speaker 1: on Monday night in Tampa, well, Tuesday morning technically, and thinking,
- 35:21Speaker 1: I could very much adjust a couple of things. I
- 35:24Speaker 1: could call the boys again. I could probably figure out
- 35:27Speaker 1: a way. I could definitely go to Ferg's again. I
- 35:31Speaker 1: was thinking about it heavily, and I'm pretty glad that
- 35:34Speaker 1: I held that off. Now, I hope everybody decides last night,
- 35:39Speaker 1: now we're going to go down to game five.
- 35:40Speaker 2: And if they are, they're cashing in on a deal,
- 35:41Speaker 2: because right now you can get in for- We had
- 35:43Speaker 2: a friend who had tickets to game four, ended up
- 35:45Speaker 2: selling them. He went to game two instead, saw Brewers
- 35:47Speaker 2: victory at home, and had- No FOMO about it once
- 35:51Speaker 2: the loss came down the pike last night. It changes
- 35:53Speaker 2: it up. And that's always the risk you run when
- 35:55Speaker 2: you invest a lot in some of these games.
- 35:57Speaker 1: My brother-in-law bought game five for the thought that it
- 36:00Speaker 1: would be the clinch. And then last night had to
- 36:03Speaker 1: have that little devil on one shoulder, angel on the
- 36:07Speaker 1: other of saying, I'd really like to go to the
- 36:09Speaker 1: World Series clincher. I really wouldn't like to watch my
- 36:11Speaker 1: team lose in extra innings in heartbreaking walk-off fashion. That's
- 36:16Speaker 1: a tough way to go at it, but he boarded
- 36:18Speaker 1: a flight at midway today. The risk of running, the consequences, yes.
- 36:22Speaker 1: You attended both watch parties so far. Was last night
- 36:26Speaker 1: more pronounced? Was it the loudest it had been, the
- 36:29Speaker 1: most delirious it had been? Cooper Pratt hit the home
- 36:32Speaker 1: run or was the eight run inning? Well, the eight
- 36:35Speaker 1: run inning was just this sustained excitement. Obviously throughout the
- 36:39Speaker 1: park that kept going because of the way they just
- 36:41Speaker 1: kept hitting and kept getting runs and the realization that
- 36:44Speaker 1: you're going to go up three on the series. And
- 36:46Speaker 1: then it really obviously calmed down. It was more of
- 36:49Speaker 1: a chilled din, more of a party atmosphere, more of
- 36:53Speaker 1: enjoying the emotions of being at the ballpark, seventh inning stretch.
- 36:57Speaker 2: It was more of a relaxed, fun vibe there.
- 37:00Speaker 1: The anxiousness and the energy was more tense last night,
- 37:05Speaker 1: obviously because of the game. But the intensity when that
- 37:08Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt home run was hit was the loudest pop
- 37:11Speaker 1: just because of how close they were to finishing it. So-
- 37:15Speaker 1: that's kind of how the way i would describe it
- 37:17Speaker 1: once you're in that eight run inning yeah that was
- 37:19Speaker 1: an amazing that sustained 10 minutes was amazing and then
- 37:22Speaker 1: after that it was a very comfortable kind of lounge
- 37:26Speaker 1: lounge party i don't know how to say it well
- 37:28Speaker 1: it was it's just draining it's like i've been in
- 37:31Speaker 1: buildings for uh overtime hockey games and stuff in the
- 37:35Speaker 1: playoffs it's it's draining it's a row you're on the
- 37:37Speaker 1: edge of your seat and it does it kind of
- 37:40Speaker 1: saps you it's like Oh, it was exhausting. It was
- 37:42Speaker 1: emotionally exhausting for six innings, for seven innings. Getting out
- 37:46Speaker 1: of each inning and then the cheer was big there,
- 37:48Speaker 1: the hope that you'd score. Waiting for that review at
- 37:51Speaker 1: second was another one that was just the crowd gasping, talking.
- 37:55Speaker 1: But the nice thing is if you are someone that,
- 37:59Speaker 1: you know, Kind of goes through the therapy of talking
- 38:02Speaker 1: to other people. Everybody was there talking about the same stuff.
- 38:05Speaker 1: You could talk to.
- 38:05Speaker 2: Anybody and meet anybody last night, you know?
- 38:07Speaker 1: It's a small consolation, but we can name Cooper Pratt
- 38:10Speaker 1: our current electric superhero of the day. Very much so.
- 38:13Speaker 1: Callcurrent.com is the website. Current electric superheroes on the side
- 38:16Speaker 1: of the van. Superheroes inside the Texas. Keep your family
- 38:18Speaker 1: safe and provide the best service in the area.
- 38:21Speaker 2: Callcurrent.com. Current electric.
- 38:22Speaker 1: Now, that's the thing. It was still heroic what he did,
- 38:27Speaker 1: but it's not immortal because they didn't win. A clinching
- 38:31Speaker 1: home run.
- 38:32Speaker 2: A go-ahead homer.
- 38:33Speaker 1: The game-winning homer by a 22-year-old rookie in the World Series.
- 38:39Speaker 2: It's unfortunate for him.
- 38:42Speaker 1: That highlight is going to be shown forever along with
- 38:44Speaker 1: Joe Carter and all the Kirby Puckett. Like the great
- 38:48Speaker 1: home runs in the world to Bill Mazeroski. It quickly
- 38:50Speaker 1: goes into one of the top, what, 10 swings in
- 38:53Speaker 1: the sport, 10, 15 swings in the sport.
- 38:55Speaker 2: To have it. This is a home run by a 22-year-old.
- 38:58Speaker 1: And then for the rest of his career, he'd be
- 38:59Speaker 1: known as the guy who won the World Series in 26.
- 39:02Speaker 2: Oh, God.
- 39:02Speaker 1: And for every single opening day, the loudest ovation would
- 39:06Speaker 1: not be for the captain. It would not be for
- 39:08Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt. It would be the Coop chant for Cooper Pratt.
- 39:11Speaker 1: They broke the record, apparently, Marco Antanasio said about selling
- 39:14Speaker 1: World Series merch. They would break their jersey sales for
- 39:18Speaker 1: all the 12 Cooper Pratt jerseys they would have sold
- 39:20Speaker 1: in that moment. And he does, Drew. He seems like
- 39:24Speaker 1: exactly what you want a 22-year-old next face of the
- 39:28Speaker 1: franchise to be, and that's puts him into that realm.
- 39:32Speaker 2: Churio right now is not a bad one to have.
- 39:33Speaker 2: 11 or 12, you're in good shape.
- 39:36Speaker 1: My man tied Babe Ruth last night for the most
- 39:40Speaker 1: hits in the first four games of your World Series career.
- 39:42Speaker 2: You know about him, right?
- 39:43Speaker 1: But you're sitting there with two absolute pillars of your
- 39:48Speaker 1: organization for the next five to six years. One won
- 39:50Speaker 1: the World Series. One might have been World Series MVP. Instead,
- 39:54Speaker 1: you got to go.
- 39:55Speaker 2: Get him tonight. I'm with you.
- 39:56Speaker 1: That story was unbelievably written and then just said, hold on.
- 40:02Speaker 2: Get that page out. Let's go on to tomorrow. Yeah,
- 40:05Speaker 2: that was the toughest part. And a lot of people
- 40:07Speaker 2: were talking about that last night.
- 40:09Speaker 1: The dumb heap of history, along with some of Aaron Rodgers'
- 40:12Speaker 1: Hail Marys, Jeff Janis, the Arizona game, the Jeff Janis game,
- 40:16Speaker 1: like all the heroics. It's just gone.
- 40:18Speaker 2: That's the Janis one is the closest thing, right? I
- 40:21Speaker 2: think so.
- 40:22Speaker 1: You know, it's just it's so unfortunate for him because
- 40:24Speaker 1: if he was at home, that could and walk off
- 40:26Speaker 1: to a World.
- 40:27Speaker 2: Series in extra innings.
- 40:28Speaker 3: You're right.
- 40:29Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that it won't be remembered the
- 40:31Speaker 1: same way. Now, here's what I'd tell him. He was
- 40:34Speaker 1: also just great in general last night.
- 40:36Speaker 2: Four hits.
- 40:37Speaker 1: I mean, the other one drove in the first run
- 40:39Speaker 1: for the Brewers when they needed to get back off
- 40:40Speaker 1: the mat. That was huge. Hey, Cooper, do it again tonight.
- 40:43Speaker 1: You're hot right now. You're our guy right now. You
- 40:45Speaker 1: can do it again tonight. You belong here. You got
- 40:47Speaker 1: to believe in yourself. That's what you got to tell yourself.
- 40:49Speaker 1: That's what you should.
- 40:50Speaker 2: Tell them, right? Here's an old guy reference, Armin.
- 40:53Speaker 1: You can check if I'm right about this, but the 74...
- 40:56Speaker 1: Finals of the Bucs.
- 40:58Speaker 2: Oh, Kareem, of course. Kareem hit the hook at.
- 41:00Speaker 1: Boston Garden to win Game 6. To beat the buzzer
- 41:02Speaker 1: to win Game 6. And then they lost Game 7.
- 41:04Speaker 2: At home. They came back at home to lose Game 7, yeah.
- 41:06Speaker 1: But that was an incredible shot that had like a
- 41:08Speaker 1: day of life. And Cooper Pratt's thing had about 10.
- 41:11Speaker 2: Minutes of life.
- 41:11Speaker 1: Although the funny thing is because it's Kareem, I feel
- 41:14Speaker 1: like people, like that still shows up on highlight reels.
- 41:16Speaker 2: It should. That Kareem shot. That shot.
- 41:18Speaker 1: They don't get much bigger than that. Staving off elimination.
- 41:20Speaker 2: Carlton Fisk. I mean, Carlton Fisk hit a homer.
- 41:23Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 41:23Speaker 1: In 75.
- 41:23Speaker 2: They didn't win the series. That's right. But he won
- 41:26Speaker 2: that game off the foul pole. Yeah, the Red Sox.
- 41:28Speaker 2: So there are some, but it's just it's tough.
- 41:31Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 41:32Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt. That would have been something else.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Now we'll get another moment, though. They're showing on MLB
- 41:37Speaker 1: Network and they're using a sports book. That's not nearly
- 41:40Speaker 1: as cool as the Pottawatomie sports book. Bet big, bet
- 41:42Speaker 1: bold and bet above the rest and doesn't nearly give
- 41:43Speaker 1: you as good a numbers on a couple of these
- 41:45Speaker 1: guys for World Series MVP. They got circled and highlighted
- 41:48Speaker 1: right there. Drew Aaron Ashby, who is now seven to
- 41:51Speaker 1: one on Tuesday. He was a hundred to one. Last night,
- 41:56Speaker 1: if they would have won that game and he would
- 41:58Speaker 1: have been the winning pitcher, does he become even more
- 42:01Speaker 1: of a case to end up winning it? I mean,
- 42:04Speaker 1: I know it's a World Series award. It's not like
- 42:06Speaker 1: the cons might award in the NHL where it's the
- 42:09Speaker 1: full postseason. But he is a hell of a guy
- 42:13Speaker 1: to launch himself into the conversation. If they would have
- 42:15Speaker 1: won last night in the ninth, I think there would
- 42:18Speaker 1: have been a tough thing for him to not potentially
- 42:20Speaker 1: grab it or in the 10th.
- 42:21Speaker 2: I mean, when he was still on the mound. Absolutely.
- 42:23Speaker 2: A 35-to-1 at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
- 42:26Speaker 1: Junior Caminero is fine and will be in the race
- 42:28Speaker 1: starting lineup today, according to Kevin Cash.
- 42:31Speaker 2: I expected him to be in the lineup. I don't
- 42:34Speaker 2: believe he's fine. Is that fair?
- 42:37Speaker 1: Watching my man walk off last night, I can't fathom
- 42:40Speaker 1: that he's okay, that he's good.
- 42:42Speaker 2: I expect him to play.
- 42:44Speaker 1: And, I mean, if anybody's going to be able to
- 42:46Speaker 1: have a big swing, still, with 45 of them that
- 42:48Speaker 1: he hit during the regular season, I believe it to
- 42:50Speaker 1: be him.
- 42:51Speaker 2: He's definitely.
- 42:53Speaker 3: dinged.
- 42:54Speaker 2: I want to test him with 104, I'd imagine, that
- 42:57Speaker 2: first at bat by Miz. That'd be nice. It'd be
- 42:59Speaker 2: nice if he wasn't at his best.
- 43:00Speaker 3: I don't care.
- 43:01Speaker 2: I'll say it. It'd be nice. Go heel in the offseason.
- 43:05Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I don't care. I'll say it.
- 43:08Speaker 2: That would be a nice guy not to have in
- 43:09Speaker 2: their lineup. Share your thoughts. 877-794-1973.
- 43:12Speaker 1: In the next hour of the program, we'll catch up
- 43:15Speaker 1: with our pal Trini Casey, a huge Brewers fan, former
- 43:18Speaker 1: sideline reporter for Fox Sports. North Fox Sports. She's doing
- 43:23Speaker 1: it right. She wants to be in the belly of
- 43:24Speaker 1: the beast for the celebration. She's like, I've seen celebrations
- 43:28Speaker 1: on the road. I want to be with the people
- 43:29Speaker 1: in my city. And she's home. Now she needs them
- 43:32Speaker 1: to win tonight because she wants to go to the
- 43:33Speaker 1: parade too. And she's got to go. I was going
- 43:35Speaker 1: to say there's a timing here has to happen quickly.
- 43:38Speaker 1: We will talk to Trani coming up at 1030. And
- 43:41Speaker 1: then Hunter Baumgart joins us. At 4.30, we'll have a
- 43:44Speaker 1: special baseball pregame show tonight.
- 43:47Speaker 2: When will that air, Armin, from 5 to 6.30? 5
- 43:50Speaker 2: to 6.30, exactly.
- 43:50Speaker 1: 5 to 6.30, special baseball pregame show tonight from Hunter Baumgart.
- 43:54Speaker 2: Keep it right here.
- 43:55Speaker 1: Get yourself a comfortable chair, a cold or a hot
- 43:57Speaker 1: beverage of your choice, and settle in and enjoy the
- 44:00Speaker 1: huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.