Transcript

07/23/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: In the Tenthening he stood hit miss on deck as
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Speaker 1: Rick Manning won the game for the Brewers.
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Speaker 2: Fine drive base at center field.
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Speaker 1: Calder is going to score the throw by Butler to
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Speaker 1: the plate, not in time. The Brewers beat the Indians
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Speaker 1: by a score of one to nothing, and Paul monitored
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Speaker 1: to congratulate Rick Manning.
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Speaker 3: The hitting streak is history. It's a bittersweet victory.
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Speaker 1: In a sense at the stadium and now the crowd
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Speaker 1: standing at County Stadium there.
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Speaker 4: That is how we start up our number three of
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Speaker 4: the Huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin with the newly
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Speaker 4: minted or soon to be minted Do they do the
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Speaker 4: Hall of Fame week or is that this upcoming weekend?
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Speaker 4: O great question one of these soon to be minted
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Speaker 4: Hall of Famer Pat Hughes on the call, correct, Yes,
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Speaker 4: I believe that was That sounds like Pat and its
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Speaker 4: early days with the Milwaukee Versus nineteen eighty seven. That
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Speaker 4: is the nineteen eighty seven highlight tape that you describe
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Speaker 4: that one from.
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Speaker 5: That's the reference I was making when Paul Malder's hit
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Speaker 5: streak was snapped Rick Manning's winning RBI single for the
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Speaker 5: Bruce prevented extra innings. And that's what it reminded me
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Speaker 5: of last night when Joey Ortiz the context was a
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Speaker 5: homer away from the cycle and got walked and the
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Speaker 5: crowd was booing him. So I appreciate the fact that
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Speaker 5: we still care about the cycle, Billy.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, have to be you know.
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Speaker 4: I think I think people always have and always will.
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Speaker 4: It'll be one that'll be too hard to not care
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Speaker 4: at least a little bit about and enjoy somewhat to
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Speaker 4: one thing to enjoy coming up now and coming up
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Speaker 4: this week, because I believe it debuts tonight in all
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Speaker 4: in certain theaters and select theaters right now is the
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Speaker 4: Yuke documentary Yuke the Movie. Last night was a very
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Speaker 4: special premiere showing the Yuke Movie to members of the
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Speaker 4: Yuker family. Brewers, executives, broadcasters Jeff Levering, Leighton Grindall, and
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Speaker 4: Josh Mauer were there.
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Speaker 3: You know, community leaders were there.
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Speaker 4: I saw the I saw the mayor there watching and
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Speaker 4: enjoying it as well.
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Speaker 3: A lot.
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Speaker 4: As our friend Mark Cass of the Wisconsin Athletic Hall
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Speaker 4: of Fame said, there was a lot of laughter, cheering,
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Speaker 4: and more than a few tears.
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Speaker 3: Jeff Levering commented on it, Yuke is a must see.
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Speaker 4: You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll you'll appreciate how much
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Speaker 4: Yuke loved being the sound of Wisconsin summer and everything
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Speaker 4: he did to do it. As long as he did,
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Speaker 4: check it out at a theater near you, You near you,
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Speaker 4: You'll be glad you did. And I'll tell you right now,
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Speaker 4: I am very excited to go see see this production
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Speaker 4: because there's too many people that have been that were
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Speaker 4: around during the time of its taping Arman and the
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Speaker 4: collecting of content for the movie and for the feature
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Speaker 4: that have said, like you, I don't know you fully
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Speaker 4: understand all of what you're gonna get here and how
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Speaker 4: much and how many how much of the behind the
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Speaker 4: scenes you do actually get to see. And it's out
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Speaker 4: here tonight at select theaters as well as it'll be
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Speaker 4: running up Paul next week, and then as much as
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Speaker 4: it continues to draw, it'll continue to I would believe,
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Speaker 4: stay in different Marcus theaters coming.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it's awesome and I can't wait for
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Speaker 5: my chance to see it whenever that is. And obviously
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Speaker 5: nobody was closer to the situation reality than Lev was.
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Speaker 3: You know, working with you and things like that.
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Speaker 5: So I can only imagine how special it must be
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Speaker 5: for him to rewatch or to see a lot of
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Speaker 5: that that he actually experienced obviously, why it was happening
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Speaker 5: while they were filming, And and you know, the thing
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Speaker 5: is about Bob. We'll never forget Bob Yucher, obviously, and
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Speaker 5: he's always gonna be part of the fabric of our community.
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Speaker 3: And he left us.
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Speaker 5: It seems like yesterday he left us, even though it
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Speaker 5: was over over a year ago, right, And so it's
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Speaker 5: hard to believe a little bit. And I also think
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Speaker 5: Billy speaking the documentary, I'm curious to see because I
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Speaker 5: think there's an aspect of Bob Yuker that he was
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Speaker 5: so vulnerable and revealing every day in terms of you
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Speaker 5: felt like he was living his life with you every day, right,
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Speaker 5: you hurd him every day.
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Speaker 3: I mean there was no there unless it was your family.
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Speaker 5: There's probably no one else you heard from multiple hours
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Speaker 5: every day in the summer and so many days of
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Speaker 5: your life than Bob Buker. That's why we all felt
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Speaker 5: so close to him. He felt like part of our lives.
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Speaker 5: But I also feel like there's probably a layer of
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Speaker 5: Bob that was still private that no one, none of
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Speaker 5: us knew right about about how you know, about his
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Speaker 5: life and things like that, that he was just totally great,
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Speaker 5: you know, kept private and or was part of it.
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Speaker 5: And any glimpse you ever got to see past that
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Speaker 5: other veil was like a very special thing, a very
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Speaker 5: special one.
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Speaker 3: Maybe we'll see more of that as we go through here.
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Speaker 4: One of my favorite Yucher you know, videos or moments
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Speaker 4: that was kind of frozen in time when it happened
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Speaker 4: was obviously the the fist pumping in the clubhouse celebration.
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Speaker 3: Oh I beat my pants. But that's fun stuff that
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Speaker 3: we all see. That's the fun stuff.
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Speaker 4: But then when he's out on the field after and
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna misremember the year one of the clinches and
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Speaker 4: he has a interview with Sophia Minnern and he's like,
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Speaker 4: you know, Sophie, you're around it, you see it, and
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Speaker 4: talked about the relationship and the being one of the guys,
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Speaker 4: and he almost gets choked up and caught up in
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Speaker 4: it because you can tell how much it meant to
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Speaker 4: him and always has meant to being in the organization,
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Speaker 4: but being in it with the guys that are in
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Speaker 4: it every single day, and even as he obviously got
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Speaker 4: you know, further and further removed him doing every single
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Speaker 4: game and going out on every road trip, he always
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Speaker 4: was still in that, in that feeling in that clubhouse
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Speaker 4: and that attitude towards the game that you were hearing
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Speaker 4: him call, you.
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Speaker 3: Could always feel right like that.
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Speaker 4: There's there's no passion that you can, I think, truly
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Speaker 4: fake to a to a real level of success.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's there was.
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Speaker 4: So much passion and excitement for everything good that happened
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Speaker 4: in a Brewer's uniform that I think and personally truly
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Speaker 4: believe you can only have that with the real vested
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Speaker 4: interest and not just and being around it for as
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Speaker 4: long as he was, and obviously being a Milwaukee guy himself,
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Speaker 4: but having a vested interest in the guy that's occupying
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Speaker 4: it and playing then broadcasting, he just had a different
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Speaker 4: a different ability to be empathetic and sympathetic to what
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Speaker 4: those guys were going through one basis because it was
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Speaker 4: true to himself and that's I think that's the point,
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Speaker 4: and that it was real and authentic, and that's why
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Speaker 4: we loved it, and that's why you know, he loved
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Speaker 4: the camaraderie.
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Speaker 5: He loved being part of that group always. He loved
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Speaker 5: being around the guys, and he loved being the ballpark.
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Speaker 5: And you know that always shown through MLB network I
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Speaker 5: think once or MLB dot Com, I can't remember what
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Speaker 5: it was, did a little bit of special on him,
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Speaker 5: like where they this was years ago, where they went
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Speaker 5: out on his boat to go fishing. We liked to
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Speaker 5: do that every now and then, I guess, go fishing
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Speaker 5: on like Michigan. And you had to imagine that for
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Speaker 5: a guy like that, who you know, loved the environment
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Speaker 5: he was in, of course, but you know, he was
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Speaker 5: one of the most famous people ever in this state,
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Speaker 5: in the city.
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Speaker 2: He probably didn't have much privacy.
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Speaker 5: He was always in a fish in that sense where
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Speaker 5: he was always Bob and and no matter where he went,
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Speaker 5: there was probably no chance to ever take a break
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Speaker 5: from that. But probably I always thought that his moment
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Speaker 5: was doing that, was being on the boat, right, was
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Speaker 5: going fishing where sure for a second he could be alone,
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Speaker 5: which is probably not something he was ever able to do,
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Speaker 5: you know. So I always think about that when I
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Speaker 5: think about what this documentary might show us and entail
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Speaker 5: and give to us, because I think we've seen so
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Speaker 5: much of Bob, listened so much of Bob, had so
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Speaker 5: much Bob content, but we still can't ever get enough
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Speaker 5: of everything. Everything is going to be a gift, a
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Speaker 5: treasure to unwrap. So hopefully that's just gonna be what
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Speaker 5: it is when we see this documentary. I've read Adam mccalvey.
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Speaker 4: That's his pinned pinned post, sorry not pinsweet, even though
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Speaker 4: closely pinned up at the top there at his ex
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Speaker 4: page at Adam mcalvey, Brewers dot com writer and also
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Speaker 4: host of the Brewers Unfiltered podcast Unfiltered, it's unfiltered, filtered
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Speaker 4: you get that, he did say on the TV call
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Speaker 4: every once in a while. Maybe a little filtered, however,
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Speaker 4: at least he's honest with it. But Adam does a
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Speaker 4: great job. And I haven't I've read his piece about
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Speaker 4: Bob's Last Game like three or four times. Yeah, and
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Speaker 4: I have not gotten through it without tearing up.
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Speaker 3: At some point.
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Speaker 4: Sure, And I'm very excited for the emotion that it'll
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Speaker 4: bring being able to see it. I'm excited for all
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Speaker 4: those that saw it last night, and very excited for
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Speaker 4: the folks to see it coming up this weekend.
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Speaker 3: And like you mentioned, I think it might be next.
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Speaker 4: Might be next week after the show, maybe next week Monday,
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Speaker 4: right after the show. I think there's a ten to
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Speaker 4: thirty viewing over there at the at the Ridge Cinema
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Speaker 4: over there in New Berlin, real close. Might be, might
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Speaker 4: be the move there because that's nap time for the kids.
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Speaker 4: Good chance for Dad to get away and potentially sit
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Speaker 4: up to make sure that I don't nap. That's the
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Speaker 4: only problem with the movie theater seats too damn comfortable.
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Speaker 3: It's now to the.
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Speaker 4: Point it's now to the point, armin where it's too comfortable.
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Speaker 4: It's almost it's almost bagging you on to maybe close
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Speaker 4: those eyes while you take a fifteen dollars nap. That
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Speaker 4: We've talked a lot about Joey Ortiz being in the
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Speaker 4: hot category. We can put Christian Yelich in the little
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Speaker 4: above lukewarm category.
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Speaker 3: Is that fair?
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Speaker 4: He's there's a little bit of a bubble going on there.
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Speaker 4: It might be on like medium low heat. However, any
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Speaker 4: bit of Yelich that's warmer than not is going to
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Speaker 4: be a positive for the Brewers lineup totally.
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Speaker 3: They've had him at the top of it.
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Speaker 4: He's not leaving the top of the lineup, especially when
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Speaker 4: he's in. And I heard this earlier on this week,
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Speaker 4: and I was talking about it with a couple of
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Speaker 4: my friends as well, and we had a great text
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Speaker 4: here from our friend Mike and Merrill discussing the you know,
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Speaker 4: DH spot is the time to move Yellich out of
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Speaker 4: the DH role right instead of just a lead off role.
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Speaker 5: But there's been conversation this year about that. As we know,
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Speaker 5: Billy people talked about this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's been a lot more people trying to
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Speaker 4: talk about it as the leadoff hitter.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's fair where.
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Speaker 4: That you want somebody that's producing at a high clip
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Speaker 4: there in the lead off role. Conversely, so I wouldn't
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Speaker 4: put Garrett Mitchell there because I think he's right now
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Speaker 4: too valuable as a run producer. You put somebody that's
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Speaker 4: hitting and kind of slumping in the six or seven role,
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Speaker 4: you're going to find yourself not being able to extend
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Speaker 4: the rally like an Andrew v Honor Jake Powers has
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Speaker 4: done this, this, that and the third. But the DH
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Speaker 4: role in particular, Yelich is a DH. Like I think
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Speaker 4: we can fully take it out of outfielder. You might
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Speaker 4: might as well take it off of his baseball reference yea,
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Speaker 4: like I.
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Speaker 3: Don't even think. I don't believe it's an outfielder.
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Speaker 4: He is a DH and he's played what one game
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Speaker 4: in left field this year.
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Speaker 5: It's really really off the table. I mean, he's basically
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Speaker 5: an emergency option at this point.
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Speaker 3: And he's and he's a designated hitter.
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Speaker 4: Now it does hurt when the designated hitter is not
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Speaker 4: hitting to the point the point that you're going with,
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Speaker 4: because that's the job. But I think the the old
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Speaker 4: school blend of you see DH and a lot of
11:37
Speaker 4: people are still counting on it being the Adam Dunn,
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Speaker 4: Russell Branyan Edwin and Harn slugger that we kind of
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Speaker 4: knew and loved, where you're not getting that kind of power.
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Speaker 4: I don't believe all of a sudden just gonna find
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Speaker 4: you know, ten bombs in in August here coming up
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Speaker 4: for Christian Yelich, the slug might be an issue. But
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Speaker 4: to me, if he's going to be at the top
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Speaker 4: of the lineup, he's If he's gonna be in the lineup,
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Speaker 4: he's going to DH.
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Speaker 3: So we might as well.
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Speaker 4: Just remove that part of the conversation and say, well,
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Speaker 4: you maybe need more power out of the DHAL.
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Speaker 3: I just don't it's not happening necessarily.
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Speaker 4: So like as much as Arman I get the conversation
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Speaker 4: around it, they don't necessarily. I believe have many other
12:21
Speaker 4: options that are gonna be light years different we're talking
12:25
Speaker 4: about Joey Ortiz and the offensive explosion. My man didn't
12:28
Speaker 4: have an extra base hit for six weeks, so they've
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Speaker 4: somehow muddled through and found their way a half game
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Speaker 4: back of the best record in baseball. With this being
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Speaker 4: the course of action, you gotta be hoping the offense
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Speaker 4: is getting better from here, because I don't think all
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Speaker 4: of a sudden you're adding some new wrinkle here and
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Speaker 4: taking out one of your captain leader stalwart guys out
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Speaker 4: of the lineup here with fifty nine games.
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Speaker 5: To play, I just don't think it's an option, especially
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Speaker 5: if he stay as moderately successful as he has. You know,
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Speaker 5: we're only judging him on his past. We're only judging,
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Speaker 5: excuse me, judging him on his own standards. So right
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Speaker 5: now his OPS is like at seven ten, seven twenty.
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Speaker 5: You know, it's not great by any stretch, but it's
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Speaker 5: also not super awful either. We're just judging him on
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Speaker 5: his own ability, his own past, what we think we
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Speaker 5: should get from him, which is understandable, and what we'd
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Speaker 5: like to get out of the role of DH. But
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Speaker 5: to your point, Billy, it's not like there's some obvious
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Speaker 5: power option off the bench.
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Speaker 2: You know there's no Frank time. I mean, I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: get like there's no light.
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Speaker 4: But I also don't think there's one readily available on
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Speaker 4: the market jumping off of the page.
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Speaker 3: Definitely not everyone.
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Speaker 5: You know, everyone can throw out power bat like it's
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Speaker 5: the easiest thing just to throw out there, the easiest
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Speaker 5: apple to pick from the tree. To talk about the
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Speaker 5: trade deadline. Let's get a power bubble. Let's talk in reality,
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Speaker 5: who are the ones available? There aren't many available, especially
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Speaker 5: if you want a lefties. So I don't know there
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Speaker 5: are more lefties and right's available this year. But the
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Speaker 5: reality is there aren't just a bunch of Chris Carters
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Speaker 5: that are just gonna give you nothing but power, or
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Speaker 5: Hazu's Aguiar is available.
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Speaker 2: Like it's not like, yeah, there's no Hazus Aguilar.
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Speaker 5: Available, like like on the bench where it's like, boy,
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Speaker 5: he could hit thirty homers if he just got a
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Speaker 5: yeah every.
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Speaker 3: Day, the one that I do.
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Speaker 4: I do wonder and and it would be interesting to
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Speaker 4: see if a platoon situation could happen in the DH roll.
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Speaker 4: Would be a way to make sure you're getting Andrew
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Speaker 4: vos batt in the lineup that's the one. That's the one,
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Speaker 4: right because the the consistent the lack of consistency and
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Speaker 4: his opportunities I think leads to you know, there's obviously
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Speaker 4: gonna be frustration for him and player, but the somewhat
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Speaker 4: on even this in performance, he's one of your better hitters,
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Speaker 4: and it's difficult to get in any kind of rhythm
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Speaker 4: when you're hitting three times a week, and and he
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Speaker 4: hasn't been great as a pinch hitter, albeit his at
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Speaker 4: bats are very very good, Like he still delivers you
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Speaker 4: a good at beat even if the results haven't been there.
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Speaker 4: But I would wonder and maybe Bowers, you know, it
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Speaker 4: kind of corrects itself because Bowers is starting to come
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Speaker 4: back down to earth over the last week and a half,
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Speaker 4: and and that platoon over at first base becomes more
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Speaker 4: of the true right left combo. But I would be
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Speaker 4: wondering if you see even more left handers into the
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Speaker 4: on the bump for an opponent, if you're seeing Andrew
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Speaker 4: Vaughn's name somewhat crossing into that that DH Roll a
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Speaker 4: couple of more times, Yeah, giving Yelick some natural days off,
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Speaker 4: and also maybe you can pick and choose your spot
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Speaker 4: with with Yelich later into the game. Again, you know
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Speaker 4: that he is going to give you a good at
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Speaker 4: bat to the point where maybe he's still getting on
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Speaker 4: baseball another one of his patents.
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Speaker 2: Well, and that's what a platoon can do for you. You
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Speaker 2: create a player and the aggregate.
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Speaker 5: You know, you don't you don't necessarily just do it
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Speaker 5: hoping Yelich becomes the MVP bat or Vaughan individually. But hey,
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Speaker 5: if we have both guys doing what they do best,
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Speaker 5: which is maybe okay Yelich against righty's obviously, and then
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Speaker 5: Vaughan against lefties, that's the the opportunity to create an
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Speaker 5: aggregate DH that's better.
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Speaker 2: So it does make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 5: I wonder, Billy if a lot of it is just
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Speaker 5: because look, this is the regular season, this is the
15:49
Speaker 5: middle of July. We're in the dog days. We've got
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Speaker 5: the best or close to the best record in baseball.
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Speaker 3: We're winning a lot.
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Speaker 5: We're okay dealing with this in the meantime to try
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Speaker 5: and get the guy we want to get regular at
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Speaker 5: bats to try and get through this. But obviously when
16:03
Speaker 5: it comes to playoff time is gonna be the question.
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Speaker 5: Like right now, the Brewers can afford to do this
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Speaker 5: because they're winning. But when you get the playoff time
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Speaker 5: is the question of all right, every single day now
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Speaker 5: in the playoffs, we're trying very carefully to construct the
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Speaker 5: best lineup that might give us the best chance to win.
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Speaker 5: That's when you might see it like is it time
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Speaker 5: to sit Yellich against the lefties?
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Speaker 3: You know, is it time to give on that chance?
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Speaker 5: Assuming Jake Bower still has a stranglehold in that spot,
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Speaker 5: and like you said, that remains to be seen. So
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Speaker 5: I think that's gonna be the interesting thing going forward,
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Speaker 5: Not as much now, but if you get to the
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Speaker 5: spot where you don't know what to count on and
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Speaker 5: last year wasn't a good playoffs for Yellis and that's
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Speaker 5: sort of been a trend.
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Speaker 2: Do you try that to sit him down more?
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Speaker 5: Because the thought was I think always like that's your vet,
16:45
Speaker 5: that's your experience. You want him in a playoff at
16:48
Speaker 5: bat Roll no matter what the situation is. But that
16:50
Speaker 5: might not be the case anymore for Yelich if we
16:52
Speaker 5: continue to see what we're seeing.
16:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, And also I do wonder if he can find
16:57
Speaker 4: some kind of strength in being able to come off
17:03
Speaker 4: the bench like's that's just a difficult spot to get into.
17:07
Speaker 4: There's the reason why you recognize and remember the great
17:10
Speaker 4: pinch hitters. Find Matt Stayers headed on his Baseball reference page.
17:15
Speaker 4: It ain't an easy thing to do where you know
17:17
Speaker 4: that you're gonna get called upon one time a day.
17:19
Speaker 4: It's a skill and to be able to harness that skill.
17:22
Speaker 4: I don't know that a guy that's played every day
17:24
Speaker 4: for eleven years is all of a sudden just gonna
17:26
Speaker 4: flip the switch and be a great pinch hitter. Vaughan's
17:30
Speaker 4: done an okay job at it, but I think admittedly
17:33
Speaker 4: so he's much better with three or four at bats
17:36
Speaker 4: in a game. I just be interested to see if
17:38
Speaker 4: the more you get down the stretch into August, if
17:42
Speaker 4: you do see a lot more lefties that you're facing,
17:45
Speaker 4: if you do see a little bit less of Christian
17:46
Speaker 4: Yelich like I think that could be a possibility. But
17:49
Speaker 4: it's not just all of a sudden when you see
17:51
Speaker 4: him in the lineup. If he's in the lineup, he's
17:53
Speaker 4: gonna be in the lead off spot, because I don't
17:55
Speaker 4: necessarily know that you're benefiting a whole lot putting him
17:59
Speaker 4: elsewhere because you're you're then sacrificing some run production right
18:03
Speaker 4: there in the middle of the lineup, if you're moving
18:05
Speaker 4: Garrett Mitchell out of the five hole. He's been one
18:07
Speaker 4: of your most productive power guys over the last six
18:09
Speaker 4: or seven.
18:10
Speaker 5: And the thing is, when Yelg was going right, he
18:11
Speaker 5: should be a great on base guy too, and you
18:14
Speaker 5: want that in your leadoff spot as well as what
18:16
Speaker 5: he can do with the bat and theory he should
18:18
Speaker 5: be able to take a lot of walks. Now maybe
18:20
Speaker 5: that's an aspect of his game we have to see more,
18:22
Speaker 5: but if he's doing that a lot, you want him
18:23
Speaker 5: in that role.
18:24
Speaker 3: And we'll see.
18:25
Speaker 5: We've talked about what Yelch has done over the last
18:27
Speaker 5: week with the extra base hits, getting one here, a
18:29
Speaker 5: double a day, keeps the d H away. So maybe
18:32
Speaker 5: he's kind of slowly slogging his way out of this
18:35
Speaker 5: quagmire with not necessarily like a bunch of four for
18:38
Speaker 5: four days, but slowly improving the simmering, you know, putting
18:42
Speaker 5: that heater to the high end, the medium low, you
18:44
Speaker 5: know a little bit, and then slowly going to rebuild,
18:46
Speaker 5: rebuild this house.
18:48
Speaker 4: We're not firing this thing all the way up to
18:50
Speaker 4: an eight on the number right away.
18:52
Speaker 3: We'll chill out a four, but it can be a
18:53
Speaker 3: slow burn. I mean, that's okay. So who's hot, Who's not?
18:56
Speaker 3: Wrap up?
18:57
Speaker 4: Do we now have to put the Red Sox into
18:59
Speaker 4: the not category because they lost for the first time
19:01
Speaker 4: in a week or two weeks.
19:02
Speaker 5: They lost, although they won that yesterday, so because they
19:05
Speaker 5: had the double header, So it is kind of funny
19:07
Speaker 5: how that works. Yeah, Red Sox had a fifteen game
19:09
Speaker 5: win streak snapped.
19:10
Speaker 3: In game two of the doubleheader.
19:12
Speaker 4: They tied their franchise record for longest winds streak, and
19:17
Speaker 4: it could not have come at a bigger time for
19:19
Speaker 4: the Boston Red Sox because they just went from sellers
19:22
Speaker 4: and us looking at our all this Chapman and Sunny
19:23
Speaker 4: Gray packages to who are they going to package to
19:27
Speaker 4: be in the lineup with Caleb Durban and Andrew Mountasterio
19:29
Speaker 4: and Anthony Siegler, we'll discuss the Brewers possibilities coming up
19:32
Speaker 4: at the deadline and the Joey Ortiz renaissance, the Christian
19:36
Speaker 4: Yelwich conversation. We were just having, amongst other things, Brewers. Next,
19:40
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19:43
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Speaker 4: these Thursdays, Hunter Good series. To say the least, this
20:37
Speaker 4: week so far five and one into the second half.
20:40
Speaker 4: That's how you sprint to the finish with sixty plus
20:43
Speaker 4: to play out of the All Star Break.
20:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, about as good as you could have asked.
20:47
Speaker 6: I think for the start to the second half, School
20:50
Speaker 6: specifically because they went into the break on that three
20:53
Speaker 6: game sweep by the Pirates. I mean, they had some momentum,
20:55
Speaker 6: they took four or five in Saint Louis, and then
20:58
Speaker 6: just all that momentum went out the window on a
21:00
Speaker 6: slam that Aaron Ashby gave up on that first game
21:02
Speaker 6: of the doubleheader, and they just couldn't recover the next
21:04
Speaker 6: couple of days. And so it's great to see him
21:07
Speaker 6: bounce back, you know. I think Trevor McGill talked about
21:09
Speaker 6: it yesterday, Miss talked about it the night before, just like, yeah,
21:12
Speaker 6: it's really good to get that kind of that bad
21:14
Speaker 6: taste in your mouth outside of your mouth.
21:17
Speaker 3: Now it's gone. Let's let's get that, put.
21:19
Speaker 6: That in the rear view mirror, and now you're playing
21:21
Speaker 6: well again and back to what you want to be
21:24
Speaker 6: as we go into the second half.
21:25
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was a really good series. I think overall.
21:28
Speaker 6: Obviously you're gonna have done of a game, and that's
21:31
Speaker 6: exactly what happened on Tuesday night. Maybe the most non
21:34
Speaker 6: memorable game of the year, like nothing to write home
21:37
Speaker 6: about at all. But then the first game was really
21:42
Speaker 6: fun to watch. Obviously you put seven runs against Freddy Peralta,
21:45
Speaker 6: and then yesterday it was just kind of a gritty win. Right,
21:48
Speaker 6: you come back again. The Brews continue to have the
21:52
Speaker 6: best record and ball when the other team scores first,
21:55
Speaker 6: like you just feel like when you you know a
21:58
Speaker 6: team is pretty good, when you when the other team
22:01
Speaker 6: can score first or have a lead and you say, oh,
22:03
Speaker 6: the Birds are still in it. Brus are still in it.
22:05
Speaker 6: And you felt that way even Tuesday night against the Mets.
22:08
Speaker 6: But it just that one just felt like Thornton was
22:10
Speaker 6: on and that was gonna be a little tougher, and
22:12
Speaker 6: especially once you went down three or four to nothing
22:15
Speaker 6: in that game. But yesterday it was like, all right,
22:17
Speaker 6: they're down one nothing, they can easily come back, and
22:19
Speaker 6: they did and dey Ortiz and Christian Yelich were the
22:21
Speaker 6: two to drive it runs yesterday.
22:23
Speaker 5: Well yeah, and that's the thing where it hasn't always
22:25
Speaker 5: worked this way, but it does feel like this year,
22:27
Speaker 5: especially that you just always believe the Brewers are going
22:30
Speaker 5: to come back and win no matter what the situation.
22:32
Speaker 5: Early deficit, not having the early lead, but there's this
22:35
Speaker 5: kind of confidence and I feel like they have it,
22:37
Speaker 5: and I feel like some of these other teams deep
22:39
Speaker 5: down believe it too. That brus just keep finding a
22:43
Speaker 5: way to win. And that's what we saw again yesterday.
22:45
Speaker 5: And sometimes it's it's baseball is a weird game, right hunter,
22:49
Speaker 5: because it felt like two nights ago there were a
22:52
Speaker 5: lot of long and hard hit outs that the Brewers
22:54
Speaker 5: kept getting into, and then you have a game like
22:57
Speaker 5: last night where Joey's ball could have probably been by
23:00
Speaker 5: a good right fielder but it wasn't.
23:02
Speaker 3: So things kind of even out in that way they do,
23:05
Speaker 3: and it feels like they do, you know, throughout a season.
23:08
Speaker 3: The win and.
23:12
Speaker 6: They William Contreras hitting the three run home run like that,
23:16
Speaker 6: that type of thing when you run like that, that
23:19
Speaker 6: is exactly taking back a game how we're going to lose.
23:23
Speaker 3: In a lot of worlds, you probably.
23:24
Speaker 6: Lost that game to the Marlins in the finale, but
23:26
Speaker 6: the good news is you won that game. And that
23:29
Speaker 6: goes back to maybe that Padres game that that Sheets
23:31
Speaker 6: hit that home run earlier in the season, where you
23:34
Speaker 6: know he the Brewers are probably in a lot of
23:36
Speaker 6: world's gonna win that game, so it'd all kind of
23:38
Speaker 6: evens out at the end of the season.
23:40
Speaker 3: And so it's what you do in those other games.
23:43
Speaker 6: And look, you're even if a team wins one hundred games,
23:45
Speaker 6: you're gonna lose sixty two.
23:47
Speaker 3: So if that's the case, what do you do in
23:49
Speaker 3: those other games? And so far the Brewers have won
23:51
Speaker 3: a lot of those other games.
23:53
Speaker 4: That old adage of a you win fifty four, you
23:55
Speaker 4: lose fifty four, what do you do in the other
23:56
Speaker 4: fifty four to make up the one sixty two?
23:59
Speaker 3: There's some real truth to it.
24:00
Speaker 4: Hunter Bombguard Hunter Beyon airs where you follow his coverage
24:03
Speaker 4: of the Crew. Now, Hunter, as we talked, you mentioned
24:08
Speaker 4: Yelich's name as well Joey Ortiz in there. I think
24:12
Speaker 4: people have there's two very separate camps on Joey Ortiz.
24:16
Speaker 4: I think there has been for a long time. There
24:18
Speaker 4: were some that occupied myself, included of the let's try
24:22
Speaker 4: to find anybody else to potentially take this job when
24:26
Speaker 4: that was the shortstop role. Now he goes over to
24:28
Speaker 4: third base, and the folks like Arman and the others
24:30
Speaker 4: that said, hey man, look at what he did when
24:31
Speaker 4: he was hitting over at third base his rookie year.
24:34
Speaker 3: The bat was a lot better.
24:35
Speaker 4: At certain times, and the defensive numbers were always there.
24:39
Speaker 3: Is there a marriage of the two.
24:41
Speaker 4: Is this just patience finally paying off or do you
24:43
Speaker 4: think this is just a hot run right now for
24:45
Speaker 4: number three that we're seeing.
24:50
Speaker 6: Man, I think it's I think it's showing that a
24:54
Speaker 6: lot of baseball can be And we talk about it
24:57
Speaker 6: and the famous quote that talks about the mental side
24:59
Speaker 6: of the game, right, but I think it really can
25:02
Speaker 6: be mental and confidence.
25:04
Speaker 3: And Pat Murphy talks.
25:05
Speaker 6: About that that side of the game a lot, and
25:08
Speaker 6: I think you're seeing it right now with Joey RTIs.
25:11
Speaker 6: I mean, just the freedom, right It's one thing to
25:13
Speaker 6: have a guy that you know is going to come
25:14
Speaker 6: up at some point and steal your job. Like you
25:17
Speaker 6: literally for the first couple months of the season, Joey
25:19
Speaker 6: RTIs is playing under the guys of we know, Cooper
25:22
Speaker 6: Pratt's coming up at some point this season and going
25:25
Speaker 6: to steal your.
25:25
Speaker 3: Short shortstop job. It just was the reality of the situation.
25:28
Speaker 6: Now he's playing at third base and as Pat Murphy
25:32
Speaker 6: has literally told him, like you could still have a
25:34
Speaker 6: really good great major league career, even if you're not
25:37
Speaker 6: the Brewer's shortstop every day. And he has taken that
25:41
Speaker 6: and ran with it at third base, and he, you know,
25:43
Speaker 6: Pat Murphy compared him to Miguel Rojas over the You know,
25:48
Speaker 6: Miguel Rojas is a very key member obviously of the
25:51
Speaker 6: LA Dodgers now, and just a couple of days ago,
25:53
Speaker 6: Pat Murphy compared him to him. And just like I
25:56
Speaker 6: just I think Joey Orties is at third base is
26:01
Speaker 6: obviously the defense is there, we all know that, but
26:03
Speaker 6: when the offense comes through, it makes that offense that
26:08
Speaker 6: lineup so much longer. Like now, you can look in
26:10
Speaker 6: the lineup and when we looked at that lineup in
26:13
Speaker 6: April or in May, you looked at that seven through
26:16
Speaker 6: nine and maybe it was Greg Jones at the time,
26:18
Speaker 6: and then Joey RTIs and David Hamilton wasn't hitting well.
26:21
Speaker 6: You looked at that seventh through nine and I'm like,
26:22
Speaker 6: oh man, the top six has got to do something
26:24
Speaker 6: because then once you hit seven, eight, nine, it's not good.
26:27
Speaker 6: You feel like one through nine that team can get
26:29
Speaker 6: a hit at any time now, and that's that.
26:32
Speaker 3: Is what this team had last year.
26:34
Speaker 6: One through nine you felt and maybe Joey RTIs at
26:37
Speaker 6: times and and there were times where he was hot,
26:40
Speaker 6: maybe for a month or so, but maybe you felt
26:42
Speaker 6: that maybe nine wasn't great. But otherwise one through eight
26:46
Speaker 6: Durbin was down there. You felt like Durban could do something.
26:49
Speaker 6: One through eight. Now one through nine you feel like
26:51
Speaker 6: they can get a hit at any time. That is
26:53
Speaker 6: what is going to make your offense better than it was.
26:57
Speaker 6: And we've seen, really, honestly, we've seen the bottom of
27:00
Speaker 6: the order maybe even be better than the top of
27:01
Speaker 6: the order as of late, and really drive these games.
27:04
Speaker 6: Good point and put the Brewers in this five and
27:06
Speaker 6: one mark after the All Star break.
27:08
Speaker 5: And it's a telltale sign of a good team, right
27:10
Speaker 5: when you can consistently win through the peaks and valleys
27:13
Speaker 5: that lineup is naturally going to have over the course
27:16
Speaker 5: of a season.
27:17
Speaker 3: And whatever, you know, ways we.
27:19
Speaker 5: Find and nitpicked the Brewers or kind of tweak and
27:22
Speaker 5: look at things and wonder about where we can help
27:25
Speaker 5: at the trade deadline, all these discussions, they're under the
27:28
Speaker 5: umbrella of consistent winning baseball to the tune of nearly
27:31
Speaker 5: the best record in baseball hunter and that's what's impressive
27:34
Speaker 5: about what they've done.
27:36
Speaker 6: Yeah, fifty one and forty or fifty one and twenty
27:39
Speaker 6: five since April twenty six, which is the best record
27:42
Speaker 6: in ball since that since that time. Obviously they're just
27:44
Speaker 6: off the pace of the best record and ball behind
27:46
Speaker 6: the Dodgers and held it for a day earlier this week.
27:50
Speaker 6: But that is again, like fifty one and twenty five,
27:52
Speaker 6: that's you're paying two out of three games for whatever
27:57
Speaker 6: that is.
27:57
Speaker 3: Now almost three months.
27:58
Speaker 6: It'll be three months and three days of winning two
28:00
Speaker 6: out of three games every single time out. And sure
28:04
Speaker 6: there's some fluctuations in there, maybe you win for you
28:06
Speaker 6: lose a few, whatever it is, but overall they're averaging
28:09
Speaker 6: winning two out of three, and look, that's what you do.
28:11
Speaker 6: You just win the series. They won their twenty second
28:14
Speaker 6: series of the season yesterday. So it's that offense, that
28:18
Speaker 6: bottom of the order, Cooper Pratt looking better and more
28:20
Speaker 6: comfortable at the plate. We've liked the at bats that
28:23
Speaker 6: we've gotten from Luis Laura so far. However, we want
28:28
Speaker 6: to see obviously some more consistent playing time. If he
28:31
Speaker 6: is going to get it will probably help him in
28:33
Speaker 6: that regard, but we'll see if that does come to
28:35
Speaker 6: fruition hunter.
28:37
Speaker 4: This is going to be a very boring and probably
28:40
Speaker 4: dumb question for you, So I apologize for lowering your
28:43
Speaker 4: baseball intellect to it and appreciate you playing in the
28:46
Speaker 4: sandbox here.
28:48
Speaker 3: Do we have the year motto the season motto?
28:50
Speaker 4: Yet, like the Undaunted was in twenty twenty four, I'm
28:56
Speaker 4: drinking out of currently the Power of Friendship coffee from
29:00
Speaker 4: a year ago. Do we have the mantra? Do we
29:05
Speaker 4: have the name of the twenty twenty sixth season?
29:10
Speaker 3: Then?
29:10
Speaker 6: You know, Pat Murphy's probably the guy who who would
29:13
Speaker 6: come up with it. He loves those type of things.
29:15
Speaker 6: I think even if he doesn't try, he usually is
29:18
Speaker 6: able to come up with one.
29:20
Speaker 3: I don't think we do.
29:22
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, he's had the motto of relentless
29:25
Speaker 6: for all three years, so that can't really necessarily just
29:28
Speaker 6: be twenty twenty six although the team is relentless, I mean,
29:32
Speaker 6: you win as many games as they are.
29:33
Speaker 3: Very much.
29:34
Speaker 4: Yes, and they're still friends, and they do have a
29:36
Speaker 4: relentless kind of offen laid into the game that one
29:38
Speaker 4: could play.
29:39
Speaker 3: I do, right, I think they still are friends.
29:41
Speaker 4: I've heard Murphy say Undaunted a couple of times since
29:45
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, But I mean we are within sixty.
29:48
Speaker 2: Games of the end of the year and marketing time, right,
29:52
Speaker 2: it's branding.
29:52
Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out what they're gonna put on
29:55
Speaker 4: that awesome banner on the outside of the stadium going
29:58
Speaker 4: into the playoff time. And generally speaking we kind of
30:01
Speaker 4: have that model, like the franchise would always come up
30:03
Speaker 4: with a song. At this point, you don't have a song.
30:05
Speaker 4: You might not get one for twenty twenty six. Does
30:08
Speaker 4: this team not need that or is this just one
30:10
Speaker 4: that's not gonna have one yet?
30:12
Speaker 6: You know, that's a really good I wonder if one
30:14
Speaker 6: will come about here in the next two months. You know,
30:16
Speaker 6: we all remember the clause up. You know that's one
30:19
Speaker 6: of them of years.
30:22
Speaker 3: But everyone, yeah.
30:24
Speaker 4: Beast Mode was phenomenal though from t Plush back in
30:26
Speaker 4: two thousand eleven.
30:27
Speaker 2: Has that felt more organic than claws up?
30:29
Speaker 4: For me?
30:30
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you know.
30:32
Speaker 6: The the interesting part, and you asked it if they
30:34
Speaker 6: really need one, Like that's actually a really good point.
30:37
Speaker 6: This team has been really good for the last few years.
30:40
Speaker 6: This team is not just the older scrap into the playoffs.
30:43
Speaker 3: Is the sus.
30:43
Speaker 6: Scraping in as winning it by a game. This team's
30:46
Speaker 6: like been one of the best in baseball for a
30:48
Speaker 6: few years now that like they might. It's not that
30:51
Speaker 6: they're too good for those, because I think those can
30:53
Speaker 6: be fun and those are you know, good connectors to
30:55
Speaker 6: the fans and everything like that. But like at this point,
30:58
Speaker 6: it's just like, yeah, we're good, so you know, we're
31:00
Speaker 6: just gonna go out and win games like and then
31:02
Speaker 6: that at the end of the day. I you know,
31:04
Speaker 6: for us in the media, I love those type of things. Yeah,
31:07
Speaker 6: I love those, you know, because you can reference them
31:09
Speaker 6: and whether it be writers and their stories or us
31:11
Speaker 6: on the radio, like you can reference those types of
31:13
Speaker 6: things and say, oh, that was a good example of
31:15
Speaker 6: this year's modo whatever undaunted right. Pat Murphy by the way,
31:18
Speaker 6: has an undaunted tattoo after that twenty twenty four, so
31:22
Speaker 6: that obviously has not left his his his sights.
31:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, he's gonna run on a skin because the
31:27
Speaker 5: amount of time we win, he's gonna get tattoos every year.
31:30
Speaker 2: See, that's the thing is, we've been winning so much.
31:33
Speaker 5: It's hard to keep sustaining new things because you've had
31:36
Speaker 5: so much to fill it's because I mentioned this to
31:39
Speaker 5: you earlier, but like it was sort of like the
31:41
Speaker 5: old y honesty. It's like you made the unremarkable unremarkable,
31:44
Speaker 5: and that's what it's become. It's because we're so used
31:46
Speaker 5: to it. Maybe unremarkable. How about that?
31:49
Speaker 4: Because worst, I don't think that catchphrase is gonna sell
31:51
Speaker 4: very I like it. I just I'm gonna I'm gonna
31:54
Speaker 4: go out on a limb and say, that's probably not
31:56
Speaker 4: what they're gonna try to put on the banner. Okay,
31:58
Speaker 4: outside of the season six brewers unremarkable.
32:02
Speaker 2: Because we've been doing it, that's kind of.
32:04
Speaker 4: I do think that one might be tough, that one
32:06
Speaker 4: might be that's a good one for your chili, But
32:08
Speaker 4: I don't know that it's I don't know that it's
32:10
Speaker 4: great for that.
32:10
Speaker 5: I think, yes, I understand why some people might on
32:13
Speaker 5: the surface be like what but that's kind of the point.
32:15
Speaker 5: But whatever, Okay, it's a deeper thought. What if Yeah,
32:18
Speaker 5: go ahead, hunter, Yeah, I was gonna say, what if
32:20
Speaker 5: they make a big splash of the trade? I don't
32:22
Speaker 5: know how likely that is, but I don't know there's
32:25
Speaker 5: Arnold had some comments yesterday that signal maybe they're they're
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Speaker 5: gonna be maybe a little as big aggressive, and we
32:29
Speaker 5: can get into that.
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Speaker 3: But I what if they thought that last what if they.
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Speaker 6: Get all what if they do make a big trade
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Speaker 6: and would it be all in?
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Speaker 3: Now? That could be that could be very much it.
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Speaker 4: And you're you're I'm glad you referenced it, and I
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Speaker 4: appreciate you doing that with Matt Arnold because it did. Uh,
32:43
Speaker 4: you can take what you want from gms when they
32:46
Speaker 4: walk to the podium. We talk about it with the
32:48
Speaker 4: NFL draft all the time. Goody's gonna tell you he's
32:50
Speaker 4: actually gonna tell you something like he's not gonna tell you, hey,
32:53
Speaker 4: we're taking this guy. But this year he's like, we
32:55
Speaker 4: need to add cornerbacks. They take two and their first
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Speaker 4: one was a corner. It felt like Matt Arnold wanted
33:02
Speaker 4: to say something yesterday and said something without downright saying
33:06
Speaker 4: hey man, we are open for business and we are
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Speaker 4: going shopping.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: It definitely it definitely seemed that way. He you know,
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Speaker 6: saying we're definitely active is one of the quotes that
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Speaker 6: he had yesterday. He said, quote, it takes two to
33:22
Speaker 6: tango in the market right now is fairly tight.
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Speaker 3: Just given the number of.
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Speaker 6: Teams in play for the playoffs, it's good for the game,
33:29
Speaker 6: but it makes it harder if you're trying to buy.
33:31
Speaker 6: But he said, we want to be in play as
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Speaker 6: much as we can. So some of those quotes from
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Speaker 6: Matt Arnold, Curtsey of Adam mcalveyvlby dot com and Adam
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Speaker 6: mccalvey also said on Brower's TV yesterday that they seem
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Speaker 6: to be possibly more aggressive than they have been in
33:45
Speaker 6: the past, so something to watch as well. I know
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Speaker 6: some of the national folks have been hinting at that
33:50
Speaker 6: as well. So maybe where there's smoke, there's a little
33:53
Speaker 6: fire there. I haven't, you know, personally talked to Matt
33:55
Speaker 6: Arnold here as of late. Usually we do get some
33:58
Speaker 6: sort of availability with him before the train deadline, so
34:00
Speaker 6: hopefully that's the case at some point, but otherwise, I
34:03
Speaker 6: look and I was thinking about this on my drive
34:06
Speaker 6: home yesterday as I was pondering leaving the park. But
34:08
Speaker 6: I was kind of thinking, if there is a if
34:11
Speaker 6: there is a year for this team to go for
34:13
Speaker 6: we've you know, there have been other years, and it's like,
34:15
Speaker 6: when's the window gonna happen? When you know, Okay, maybe
34:18
Speaker 6: it's not this year. Look, this is this would be
34:20
Speaker 6: your fourth straight division title. You got to the NLCS
34:23
Speaker 6: last year, you had the best record in baseball last year,
34:25
Speaker 6: you're flirting with it this year.
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Speaker 3: Like what point?
34:28
Speaker 6: And I get the prospects and everything like that, but
34:31
Speaker 6: man and John Hayman, who knows baseball pretty well, tweeted
34:34
Speaker 6: last night, it's the Dodgers and Brewers and then it's
34:36
Speaker 6: everybody else, like there is a open up with how
34:40
Speaker 6: weak the AL is this year. And then you look
34:43
Speaker 6: at the Braves who've kind of taken a downturn. Any
34:45
Speaker 6: of these teams can make a run in the playoffs.
34:47
Speaker 6: I think the Phillies can, the Braves can, they can,
34:49
Speaker 6: But the Brewers are a really really good baseball team
34:53
Speaker 6: in a lot of different ways. And if that means
34:54
Speaker 6: adding a piece that you think is could get you
34:57
Speaker 6: over the top, not just in the next two months,
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Speaker 6: because you have what a seven game lead over the Cubs.
35:03
Speaker 6: It's about getting over the top in October.
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Speaker 3: And if that's.
35:06
Speaker 6: A school bol or a Mason Miller or someone you know,
35:10
Speaker 6: I don't know, Like it's incredibly Tom, Do I think
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Speaker 6: it's gonna happen? Probably not based on what we've seen
35:16
Speaker 6: in the past, but man, maybe this is the.
35:19
Speaker 4: Year the The Mason Miller name was the one that
35:22
Speaker 4: I fired up yesterday as the hot take of the
35:25
Speaker 4: day that I think he's frankly hunter. I think he
35:28
Speaker 4: fits better for the Brewers than Schoobale potentially, Like I know,
35:32
Speaker 4: their pen is good.
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Speaker 3: You add that to the back end, it's great.
35:36
Speaker 4: And I think there's only a couple of teams that
35:38
Speaker 4: can actually make the move, and the Brewers are one of,
35:40
Speaker 4: maybe the two teams actually armed to be able to
35:43
Speaker 4: make a package that would be tantalizing to Sandy