Latest / The Huddle / 08/26/26 - Hour 2
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Up and running, the 6 o'clock club open for business
- 0:03Speaker 1: on the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison,
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- 0:09Speaker 2: It's the morning after a brutal... and controversial Brewers loss
- 0:14Speaker 2: in New York. I'm Drew Olson.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Armand's behind the glass, and we welcome to the party
- 0:18Speaker 1: our pal Bill Schmidt. Holy cow, fellas.
- 0:21Speaker 3: I didn't know that we were going to be walking
- 0:22Speaker 3: into the Hornet's Nest after a trip to Flushing Park.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Goodness gracious. Flushing. Did you wish you were on at
- 0:28Speaker 2: 5 this morning, Billy? Probably not. But anyway, you got
- 0:31Speaker 2: lathered up early with this discussion.
- 0:33Speaker 4: A lot of conversation about the Cooper Pratt situation.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Let me tell you this, Armin.
- 0:38Speaker 3: I actually despise the time away from you guys, especially
- 0:42Speaker 3: when it means 60 minutes away. From being able to
- 0:45Speaker 3: ask you how that Diamondbacks dub felt last night.
- 0:48Speaker 4: No, it didn't feel good. I knew you were going
- 0:50Speaker 4: to go there. I didn't know you were going to
- 0:51Speaker 4: go there right away.
- 0:51Speaker 3: You think that I wanted to miss that possibility to
- 0:54Speaker 3: walk in here strutting Vince McMahon style and ask you that?
- 0:57Speaker 4: It actually felt amazing to actually wake up. I didn't
- 1:00Speaker 4: see the end of it. I went to bed with
- 1:02Speaker 4: the Cubs with a, I thought, commanding lead. And I
- 1:05Speaker 4: woke up. To my immense delight, my deep breath that
- 1:10Speaker 4: the Diamondbacks came back and won last night. Because I
- 1:13Speaker 4: don't want the Brewers' lead to shrink at all. And
- 1:16Speaker 4: you know that, based on evidence yesterday, that I didn't
- 1:19Speaker 4: want that.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Right, Billy? You know that.
- 1:20Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a lot of evidence of that, as Drew,
- 1:23Speaker 3: we got a chance to go. And as we all
- 1:25Speaker 3: departed from the Pottawatomie Sportsbook, we made a couple of
- 1:27Speaker 3: investments yesterday.
- 1:28Speaker 2: And this cat, all of a sudden....
- 1:32Speaker 3: Take one step to go grab a sip of coffee, right?
- 1:35Speaker 3: And a little heat and a little cream in there
- 1:37Speaker 3: and also turn around. And this guy's crafting up the
- 1:40Speaker 3: Brewers to lose to the Metropolitans and the Cubs to
- 1:44Speaker 3: beat the Diamondbacks.
- 1:45Speaker 2: And I just, I shook my head and walked away.
- 1:47Speaker 2: It was disappointed. And, uh, and, and at that exact moment.
- 1:51Speaker 3: I bit my tongue, and I couldn't wait to get
- 1:53Speaker 3: in here to be able to see what the results were.
- 1:55Speaker 2: This is what baseball is all about.
- 1:57Speaker 3: When you guys were talking last week about the best
- 2:00Speaker 3: game and the best sport to follow night in and
- 2:02Speaker 3: night out when your team is good, last night was
- 2:04Speaker 3: probably the exact example of it, wouldn't it be?
- 2:07Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah.
- 2:09Speaker 1: I mean, you got the shot in Freuda, and it
- 2:11Speaker 1: was like it's the upset stomach, the Cubs walk-off loss.
- 2:15Speaker 1: was Pepto-Bismol, just soothing it.
- 2:19Speaker 3: You've been sitting there for two hours, your stomach is curdling,
- 2:22Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, that one brush, and.
- 2:26Speaker 2: All of a sudden, whoa. Holy cow. I feel four
- 2:29Speaker 2: pounds lighter. The relief. I'm going to go stand on
- 2:31Speaker 2: the scale. The relief I felt when I saw that score.
- 2:33Speaker 4: And the thing about it is, it was truly a
- 2:36Speaker 4: silver lining, because the Cubs had scored 30 straight runs, I.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Believe was the number. Yeah, so until that moment. That's right,
- 2:43Speaker 2: until that moment.
- 2:44Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 2:44Speaker 2: All right, Billy, put a quarter in. Come on.
- 2:46Speaker 1: You've coached young players. Cooper Pratt's still a young player.
- 2:50Speaker 1: I was surprised, and Armin was telling me about all
- 2:53Speaker 1: the people that were squawking and ripping Murph for removing
- 2:57Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt from outhouse and compounded on the fact that
- 2:59Speaker 1: he didn't get a punt down in his previous at-bat.
- 3:03Speaker 1: I'm convinced that had the Brewers won the game, people
- 3:05Speaker 1: would be 100% team Murph. Now they're like, he lost
- 3:08Speaker 1: them the game because Hamilton made an error and Pratt
- 3:09Speaker 1: wouldn't have made that error, and therefore it was crap.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Where do you come down?
- 3:13Speaker 3: Well, and, and I would have, listen, I can't say
- 3:16Speaker 3: that I would or wouldn't have done the same thing.
- 3:17Speaker 3: I wasn't thinking about it until he jogged off the field.
- 3:19Speaker 3: And I was like, Ooh, should have been in second base, bud.
- 3:21Speaker 3: And the first at bat to me was the one
- 3:24Speaker 3: that I thought Murph was going to be more frustrated
- 3:26Speaker 3: about because it's such a key position point of the
- 3:29Speaker 3: game to be able to get a bunt down, move
- 3:31Speaker 3: the runners over. And if, The second, he pulls back
- 3:35Speaker 3: on the first one, a very good one, as Murph
- 3:37Speaker 3: said last night. And the second one looked okay, but
- 3:41Speaker 3: there were plenty of opportunities to get it down. And
- 3:44Speaker 3: the other part of it is, Drew, all's forgiven if
- 3:48Speaker 3: Francisco Lindor's glove is pulling a Kevin Durant is in
- 3:52Speaker 3: a half inch shorter. I mean, because David Hamilton laces
- 3:56Speaker 3: one into the gap.
- 3:57Speaker 2: Yeah, lefty on lefty.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Lefty on lefty, and he's running for days. You're maybe
- 4:01Speaker 3: clearing the bases. And then at that moment, it looks
- 4:04Speaker 3: like a great move. So I have no problem whatsoever.
- 4:09Speaker 2: Pat Murphy. trying to discipline and get his team rolling
- 4:12Speaker 2: the same way.
- 4:13Speaker 3: Because the first person I thought of was the guy
- 4:15Speaker 3: that the camera pans right over to in Sal Frelick.
- 4:19Speaker 3: He caught a couple of those early exits.
- 4:21Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 4:21Speaker 3: Soda Durbin. And that's a part of the game of
- 4:25Speaker 3: having good vets. I mean, you've seen it from the long,
- 4:29Speaker 3: long time in sports, Drew. And one thing that we've
- 4:31Speaker 3: gotten away from nowadays– is having guys like you would
- 4:35Speaker 3: watch during the finals, Bismack Biambo. I don't think my
- 4:37Speaker 3: man played a minute other than when he maybe put
- 4:40Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson on his hind parts in game three, right?
- 4:43Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, he did have that moment.
- 4:44Speaker 3: But the only thing he was doing, the only reason
- 4:46Speaker 3: he was there was to be in the ear of Wemby.
- 4:50Speaker 3: You need to have vets on the team, and Sal
- 4:52Speaker 3: Freelick is a young vet, no doubt about it. But
- 4:54Speaker 3: these guys have won division titles. They've been in the playoffs.
- 4:57Speaker 3: They've been around this coach too many times. that you
- 5:00Speaker 3: can only do it if you've got a culture that's set.
- 5:02Speaker 3: And I think that's exactly why he pulled it.
- 5:04Speaker 4: That was the best thing about last night is you
- 5:06Speaker 4: got to see all that on display. You got to
- 5:07Speaker 4: see everyone handle it right. You got to see Joey
- 5:10Speaker 4: and Sal and Jake in his ear. And I told you,
- 5:13Speaker 4: Drew Billy, for as much as I get on Sal
- 5:15Speaker 4: about tongue-in-cheek or not, this is his greatest power and
- 5:18Speaker 4: the heart and the soul.
- 5:19Speaker 2: And the DNA.
- 5:20Speaker 4: You want all of that rubbing off onto Cooper Pratt.
- 5:24Speaker 4: It was so important to have him back with the
- 5:26Speaker 4: big club last night.
- 5:26Speaker 1: You don't find a better guy. and clubhouse guy than
- 5:30Speaker 1: Sal Frelick. And he had moments like this when he,
- 5:32Speaker 1: I mean, so it's like, it just goes to show
- 5:34Speaker 1: you that, I mean, I think Murph's on the right
- 5:36Speaker 1: track and he's doing the right thing and he deserves
- 5:38Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt.
- 5:39Speaker 2: And then people. If anyone comes at me, and.
- 5:42Speaker 1: I will just lose it if someone says, well, if
- 5:45Speaker 1: they lose a top two seed or the division by
- 5:48Speaker 1: one game, we're going to look back at this. No,
- 5:49Speaker 1: you're not, because you're going to have 10 more of
- 5:51Speaker 1: these in between now and the end of the season,
- 5:54Speaker 1: and this will not be.
- 5:55Speaker 2: Remembered in any way. And I don't know. Miss me
- 5:59Speaker 2: with that. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm naive.
- 6:02Speaker 3: I don't know that I was definitely counting on Cooper
- 6:04Speaker 3: Pratt being the one to make that three for 14
- 6:07Speaker 3: with runners in scoring position instead of two for 14
- 6:09Speaker 3: with runners in scoring position.
- 6:10Speaker 2: Everybody's focused on the air.
- 6:11Speaker 1: And as I pointed out to Armand, so if Hamilton
- 6:14Speaker 1: makes that play or Cooper Pratt makes that play, base
- 6:17Speaker 1: is loaded, two outs. Who's to say the next guy
- 6:19Speaker 1: doesn't get a hit?
- 6:21Speaker 2: Doesn't lace one into the gap again. So it's like.
- 6:25Speaker 1: You're ascribing things and you're looking for someone to blame.
- 6:29Speaker 1: And Armand and I, that's where we started this. It's like,
- 6:32Speaker 1: Why are people caping up for Cooper Pratt? He's a
- 6:34Speaker 1: young player who learned a lesson. All we ever hear
- 6:37Speaker 1: from our listeners and our fans is like, when are
- 6:39Speaker 1: you going to hold him accountable?
- 6:40Speaker 2: Hold him accountable.
- 6:40Speaker 3: And it happens and it's like, oh, Murphy sucks. I
- 6:43Speaker 3: don't get that disconnect. Drew, it's all results-based. And the
- 6:48Speaker 3: tougher part is with it being results-based, To further that point,
- 6:53Speaker 3: I'm stunned that it's not more towards the top of
- 6:56Speaker 3: the order. Because, like, you get to the 10th inning.
- 6:59Speaker 3: You get to the 10th inning, and you are the
- 7:01Speaker 3: road team.
- 7:01Speaker 2: And by the way, Hamilton's faster than Pratt, and he's
- 7:03Speaker 2: on second base.
- 7:04Speaker 3: What?
- 7:05Speaker 2: What?
- 7:06Speaker 3: Is there anybody faster in baseball, maybe, than David Hamilton?
- 7:09Speaker 3: And you get it lined up perfectly for you. You
- 7:12Speaker 3: get the top of the order, and you get two
- 7:13Speaker 3: Ks from your two biggest guys.
- 7:16Speaker 2: Who, by the way, were a combined 0 for 10.
- 7:19Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I struggle with with that being the
- 7:22Speaker 3: reason they lost the game in the bottom of the 10th.
- 7:24Speaker 3: And I mean, this is another longer conversation about baseball
- 7:27Speaker 3: and why, you know, I think the ghost runner has
- 7:29Speaker 3: been one of the more fun rules that they've put in.
- 7:31Speaker 3: I know the pitch clock, it's the biggest love, but
- 7:33Speaker 3: I think it's added such a different element of competitiveness
- 7:36Speaker 3: in these games. You go to the bottom of the
- 7:39Speaker 3: 10th inning and you didn't score in the top half.
- 7:41Speaker 3: I mean, you're packing your peanuts up and you're putting
- 7:43Speaker 3: everything into the bag because you're thinking this thing is wrapped.
- 7:46Speaker 3: You're pretty much lucky to get it to. You are
- 7:48Speaker 3: very lucky to be getting it through. So when you
- 7:51Speaker 3: get Churio and Terang and Contreras and Bowers up there
- 7:55Speaker 3: in the 10th inning and you don't plate anything, that
- 7:58Speaker 3: would have felt like stolen candy if you would have
- 8:00Speaker 3: been able to grab that one back.
- 8:02Speaker 2: I agree.
- 8:02Speaker 4: I love the way Cooper handled it. And that was
- 8:04Speaker 4: the other thing about the entire deal last night. And
- 8:06Speaker 4: I said it last night. I said, whether or not
- 8:09Speaker 4: you feel Murph's... course of action was correct, appropriate, fair, whatever.
- 8:14Speaker 4: Now it's up to Cooper to handle it correctly and
- 8:15Speaker 4: to take the lesson correctly. And he did that in
- 8:18Speaker 4: the press conference. We'll play some of the audio. I
- 8:20Speaker 4: know we didn't get to it yet. We got some
- 8:21Speaker 4: Murph's audio, but at some point we'll get to Cooper's audio,
- 8:25Speaker 4: but he was contrite. You mentioned it, Drew, kind of
- 8:27Speaker 4: was welling up a little bit.
- 8:28Speaker 2: All that stuff. It seemed like he handled it right,
- 8:31Speaker 2: learned the lesson.
- 8:32Speaker 4: Other than the Brewers not winning, which you guys are right,
- 8:34Speaker 4: it's a results-based business for a lot of people. And
- 8:37Speaker 4: it just shows you that the results are more important
- 8:39Speaker 4: than the process sometimes for fans, which I get. The
- 8:41Speaker 4: game in front of us is often the most important.
- 8:45Speaker 4: Last night, overall, the process was successful in that you
- 8:50Speaker 4: had Murphy consistent, drawing his line. You had the vets
- 8:54Speaker 4: handling it the way they handle it, giving the good lesson.
- 8:57Speaker 4: And you had the player handling it the way he
- 8:59Speaker 4: should have and learned the lesson. That's the way I
- 9:00Speaker 4: look at it. So, unfortunately, yeah, and I think that's
- 9:04Speaker 4: ironic too, Billy, is that the one guy that almost
- 9:07Speaker 4: got the hit that you were looking for all night,
- 9:09Speaker 4: besides Yelich got his moment, but the one guy that
- 9:12Speaker 4: nearly got the hit and got robbed on one of
- 9:14Speaker 4: the great plays of Lindor's career, probably, was the one
- 9:17Speaker 4: guy everyone's saying, why was he in there? It was Hamilton,
- 9:21Speaker 4: because he put a charge.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Into that one. And by the way, Lindor, who got
- 9:25Speaker 2: picked off first base to end an inning, right? I
- 9:27Speaker 2: was going to say, he went full PCA in this game.
- 9:30Speaker 2: I mean.
- 9:31Speaker 1: A dazzling play, and then he gets picked off first.
- 9:33Speaker 1: If the Mets lose, that's what everybody's talking about in
- 9:35Speaker 1: New York today.
- 9:36Speaker 3: And when he struts up to the batter's box, there
- 9:38Speaker 3: was no way that I thought that ball wasn't ending
- 9:40Speaker 3: up in the right field bleachers. After that kind of
- 9:43Speaker 3: sensational play, and then he gets the little duffer off
- 9:45Speaker 3: to the right where he's even hitting the Jordan shrug
- 9:48Speaker 3: when he's walking back to the first base.
- 9:50Speaker 2: I'll take it. I haven't gotten a whole lot of them,
- 9:52Speaker 2: so I'll take it.
- 9:55Speaker 3: The funny thing is, Drew, you mentioned it yesterday, and
- 9:58Speaker 3: we had talked about the bad team in baseball. Sometimes
- 10:00Speaker 3: you've got to watch out for them. Sometimes you've got
- 10:02Speaker 3: to be eyed up and nervous about what it could be.
- 10:05Speaker 3: That kid last night is Zach Thornton. I'm just glad
- 10:07Speaker 3: that we're not seeing him in the playoffs. I mean,
- 10:09Speaker 3: this dude has just been nasty against the Brewers. And
- 10:13Speaker 3: ever since that Brewers start, he really lined up and
- 10:17Speaker 3: has been– sitting him up and standing him down and
- 10:20Speaker 3: putting him down. He's been phenomenal the last three months.
- 10:23Speaker 3: And he was really, really good again last night. You
- 10:24Speaker 3: were lucky to be able to get that thing to
- 10:26Speaker 3: extras at a point.
- 10:27Speaker 1: So following baseball, and especially when your team is good,
- 10:30Speaker 1: baseball is advanced citizenship, right? You can follow it superficially,
- 10:33Speaker 1: but if you get into it deeper, you have a
- 10:36Speaker 1: little bit more of an understanding. And for the folks, again,
- 10:39Speaker 1: who say, well, you know, Murph's decision to take Cooper
- 10:44Speaker 1: Pratt off in the middle of the game cost him
- 10:45Speaker 1: the game. ignoring all the other things that happened that
- 10:48Speaker 1: we're talking about, ignoring the inning. The Lindor play was
- 10:51Speaker 1: a great play. The Churrio and Terang, 0 for 10.
- 10:54Speaker 1: The four strikeouts with runners in scoring position in the
- 10:57Speaker 1: last two innings.
- 10:57Speaker 2: In the last two innings, yes. Terrific, right? So, okay.
- 11:01Speaker 1: But, but, the silent part, the parts that go unseen,
- 11:07Speaker 1: two of the guys who have been in the crosshairs
- 11:09Speaker 1: and fans have been squawking about came through last night
- 11:11Speaker 1: and it's washed down the river because Kristen Yellich had
- 11:14Speaker 1: the big hit.
- 11:16Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 11:17Speaker 3: And, well, he sucks, except for that hit, but that
- 11:19Speaker 3: didn't matter because they lost. See, that's why he shouldn't
- 11:21Speaker 3: be in the lineup, Drew, because he can pinch hit
- 11:23Speaker 3: way better.
- 11:23Speaker 1: And then you got an inning and a third clutch
- 11:26Speaker 1: out of Sensatella, who... People don't notice him when he
- 11:29Speaker 1: gives up runs. You don't notice him when he's nails.
- 11:33Speaker 1: But Chad Patrick.
- 11:34Speaker 2: Needs to go.
- 11:35Speaker 1: Chad Patrick, he's going great, gave up a home run
- 11:37Speaker 1: in the first game.
- 11:38Speaker 4: We were talking about Harrison's road splits and everything. I
- 11:41Speaker 4: even think he was the story in that he got
- 11:43Speaker 4: out of some big-time jams.
- 11:44Speaker 1: Big-time jams. 90 pitches in five isn't ideal, but he
- 11:47Speaker 1: got out of jams.
- 11:48Speaker 2: He labored. He got through it. He worked.
- 11:51Speaker 1: Patrick didn't get out of his inning, but Sensatella gave
- 11:54Speaker 1: you an inning and a third.
- 11:55Speaker 2: Ashby was clean as always.
- 11:56Speaker 1: And then McGill was going to go and for a
- 11:59Speaker 1: six out jam, right?
- 12:00Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 12:01Speaker 3: And I mean, he, he looked good at least, uh,
- 12:04Speaker 3: you know, there, there's going to be contact there into
- 12:05Speaker 3: that second inning, but it's good to know.
- 12:08Speaker 1: You want to start 16 games in 16 days, but
- 12:11Speaker 1: it's like, you know, a little focusing thing. And the
- 12:13Speaker 1: fact that they lost the last game against the Braves,
- 12:15Speaker 1: I was, I joked at the outset, Billy, that they,
- 12:18Speaker 1: it was a hangover, not from travel or anything.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Cause they got a day off yesterday. But it was
- 12:23Speaker 2: a Little League loss with Little League mistakes. Yeah, 100%.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Not getting a bunt down, not running hard, striking out
- 12:28Speaker 1: in big situations.
- 12:30Speaker 3: They got to wash that off after hanging out with
- 12:31Speaker 3: the 12-year-olds a little too much. You can say that
- 12:33Speaker 3: this is a really ugly game for the Brewers.
- 12:34Speaker 2: They lost 3-2 in 10. That's an ugly game. Okay. Yeah,
- 12:40Speaker 2: you'll take it. If that means you're a good team,
- 12:42Speaker 2: I'll take it.
- 12:42Speaker 3: 100%. And that's where, like, the way Murph mentioned it,
- 12:45Speaker 3: and if you missed it, go to Hunter's Twitter page,
- 12:47Speaker 3: because he's got all of them transcribed as well, where
- 12:49Speaker 3: he talks about him just being a young player. There's
- 12:52Speaker 3: a part of it that is very, very true. My
- 12:54Speaker 3: man is not going to hit 30 bombs, talking about
- 12:57Speaker 3: Cooper Pratt, right?
- 12:58Speaker 2: Now, maybe he does. Maybe he unlocks that kind of
- 13:00Speaker 2: power potential. Maybe one day, maybe.
- 13:01Speaker 3: The eight-year, $ 50 million deal is going to be the
- 13:04Speaker 3: biggest steal of all of baseball at that point. Yeah,
- 13:06Speaker 3: for sure.
- 13:06Speaker 2: If that's what you're getting. But you... He's going to
- 13:09Speaker 2: have to make winning plays that way.
- 13:11Speaker 3: And as difficult as it can be in the moment,
- 13:14Speaker 3: you only learn those things through the uncomfortable spot. I
- 13:18Speaker 3: also would love to have been tapped into not the
- 13:22Speaker 3: conversation he had with Murph, because I bet that one
- 13:24Speaker 3: was kind of quick. They'll maybe have more of a
- 13:26Speaker 3: sit down today. You had a conversation and dug out.
- 13:29Speaker 3: I'd love to read what the text from his pops was.
- 13:31Speaker 2: Oh.
- 13:32Speaker 3: Because remember when Cooper Pratt makes his debut and dad
- 13:36Speaker 3: drives 30 minutes the wrong way.
- 13:38Speaker 2: He ain't flying. I'm in the car. I'm already there.
- 13:41Speaker 3: My man had the coaching shirt on in the stands.
- 13:45Speaker 3: You know he was siding with Murph. You know he
- 13:49Speaker 3: was potentially.
- 13:51Speaker 2: Come on, kid.
- 13:51Speaker 3: What are we talking about? You can't be doing this.
- 13:54Speaker 3: You already know this is not how you're going to
- 13:56Speaker 3: play in the big leagues. That conversation with Pops, that
- 14:00Speaker 3: might scare you straight more than walking even into the managerial.
- 14:03Speaker 4: I hear you. I'm sure he was thinking about that
- 14:04Speaker 4: a little bit. Should we get a couple texts in, guys?
- 14:08Speaker 4: A lot of great ones on the NickLayla.com talking text line.
- 14:10Speaker 4: It is hot take hump day. Most of them are
- 14:12Speaker 4: about this subject, as you can imagine.
- 14:16Speaker 2: All right.
- 14:16Speaker 4: 608. The whole Murph debate reminds me of who's right,
- 14:20Speaker 4: teacher versus student. The teacher should always be right. I
- 14:22Speaker 4: don't know if the teacher is always right in every situation,
- 14:26Speaker 4: but I think in this case, at least Murph's been
- 14:28Speaker 4: consistent and that's kind of the way I look at it.
- 14:30Speaker 2: Right guys.
- 14:31Speaker 4: He's managed this way with his young players the whole time.
- 14:34Speaker 4: I mean, he's, he's held those guys accountable in that sense.
- 14:36Speaker 2: There definitely hasn't been a, a real double standard for
- 14:40Speaker 2: it either.
- 14:40Speaker 5: Right.
- 14:40Speaker 3: I mean, like he's, he's now pulled everybody in and,
- 14:43Speaker 3: and I don't know that the money has everything to
- 14:45Speaker 3: do about it, but when money's involved, it's going to
- 14:47Speaker 3: be what a lot of people bring it back to.
- 14:49Speaker 3: I think there's something to like, Hey, this kid's, this kid's,
- 14:53Speaker 3: obviously appointed. We got to make sure that we're doing
- 14:55Speaker 3: everything the right way because at some point he is
- 14:57Speaker 3: going to be counted upon as the guy making the money. Sure,
- 15:00Speaker 3: that might be five or six million dollars on this team.
- 15:03Speaker 2: But if you're making the money, you got to be
- 15:04Speaker 2: one of the leaders. You got to be doing the
- 15:05Speaker 2: things right. Yeah.
- 15:08Speaker 4: 414 said, unnamed, did Murphy ever pull Freelick though late
- 15:11Speaker 4: into the year? Every game matters, but not last night.
- 15:13Speaker 4: Play the best players. I think his point is that
- 15:16Speaker 4: Murph's thing is always every game matters or win tonight.
- 15:19Speaker 2: So why didn't, you know, why didn't you think that
- 15:21Speaker 2: way last night? No, I did look back when he pulled, uh,
- 15:24Speaker 2: salad was in April. So I guess you can't say
- 15:26Speaker 2: it was lit, but that just might've been, that's when
- 15:28Speaker 2: it happened. What about a division game though?
- 15:30Speaker 3: Right.
- 15:30Speaker 2: I think it was in Cincinnati. That's a good point.
- 15:32Speaker 2: I think it might've been Billy. I don't know. That's
- 15:34Speaker 2: when it happened. And you know, and Cooper Pratt's a
- 15:36Speaker 2: young player.
- 15:38Speaker 3: The other thing is like, if you're talking about which game,
- 15:40Speaker 3: you know, more important or whatever. Sure, if this happens
- 15:43Speaker 3: on Sunday night, maybe it doesn't happen. Against the Mets,
- 15:46Speaker 3: who are 25 games under. 500, yeah, that probably would
- 15:50Speaker 3: make it more of the time to be able.
- 15:51Speaker 2: To do it.
- 15:51Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, and they all matter. You'd be
- 15:55Speaker 1: okay with this in April? A loss in April counts
- 15:58Speaker 1: the same as a loss in August.
- 15:59Speaker 4: And what if this has dividends in October? Now, isn't
- 16:03Speaker 4: that more important than last night?
- 16:04Speaker 1: Well, and that's the other thing. We were talking about,
- 16:06Speaker 1: would he do this in the playoffs? Would he hook
- 16:08Speaker 1: a player in the middle of the game in the playoffs?
- 16:10Speaker 2: It's unlikely.
- 16:12Speaker 1: But it's also unlikely that a player wouldn't hustle to
- 16:14Speaker 1: second base in a playoff game, right?
- 16:16Speaker 4: Yeah, 100%.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Because of the atmosphere of the playoffs. And that's what
- 16:18Speaker 1: he's correcting. And to me, that's what makes it a
- 16:20Speaker 1: good move is that Cooper Pratt will– That's a good point, Drew.
- 16:23Speaker 1: His whole career, he's never going to do that again.
- 16:25Speaker 4: No.
- 16:26Speaker 1: I told the story about– and getting a guy in
- 16:28Speaker 1: the middle of the game like that, at first you thought, well,
- 16:30Speaker 1: did he hurt himself? Was the hamstring hurt or something? Like, oh, no,
- 16:33Speaker 1: he's just not hurt. Didn't get a bunt down and
- 16:35Speaker 1: then didn't run hard to first and you're out. Andrew
- 16:39Speaker 1: Jones got hooked out of center field for not chasing
- 16:42Speaker 1: a fly ball, and Bobby Cox took him off, and
- 16:44Speaker 1: he hustled after every fly ball the rest of his career,
- 16:46Speaker 1: and it was the best defensive center fielder arguably of
- 16:49Speaker 1: all time. It never happened again. So Cooper Pratt is
- 16:52Speaker 1: never going to happen again. So one step back, and
- 16:55Speaker 1: he cost him again.
- 16:56Speaker 2: We can argue that. It didn't cost him again. Right, correct.
- 16:58Speaker 2: It didn't really cost him again.
- 17:00Speaker 1: And again, had the Brewers won, nobody's squawking about it.
- 17:03Speaker 1: Everybody's on Team Murph had the Brewers won the game.
- 17:05Speaker 3: Yeah, and I also think the other part is... Or
- 17:08Speaker 3: had Hamilton not been involved in the last play. If
- 17:10Speaker 3: Hamilton hadn't been involved in the last play, it's totally different, right? Yes, exactly.
- 17:15Speaker 3: Even if Ortiz airmails one, now you definitely don't think
- 17:18Speaker 3: that's going to happen. But any way different, it happens,
- 17:21Speaker 3: and there's no conversation about it. I do think there's
- 17:24Speaker 3: something as well, too. If you're going to treat one
- 17:27Speaker 3: guy a certain way, you have to treat everybody the
- 17:29Speaker 3: same way. And there can be, there was obviously an
- 17:32Speaker 3: embarrassment factor when you go in and yank two pitchers.
- 17:35Speaker 2: Mid at bat, right?
- 17:37Speaker 3: Like you go up at a two Oh count and
- 17:39Speaker 3: you got, get a guy off the mound.
- 17:41Speaker 2: That's going to be a part of it.
- 17:43Speaker 3: So you can't then let it slide on the base,
- 17:45Speaker 3: on the position player side. So. I think that's also
- 17:48Speaker 3: a part of it. You don't coach and treat everybody
- 17:51Speaker 3: fairly or the exact same, but you do have to
- 17:54Speaker 3: have a certain standard of holding people accountable, as we
- 17:57Speaker 3: like to say.
- 17:58Speaker 2: But you also have to have a standard, and he
- 17:59Speaker 2: didn't meet the standard. And he's been consistent with it,
- 18:01Speaker 2: I think.
- 18:02Speaker 4: You can say that about Murph, and when you're not,
- 18:04Speaker 4: I think that's when players really have an issue. But
- 18:06Speaker 4: he's been consistent with it. Another angle from Jeffrey in Milwaukee,
- 18:11Speaker 4: who went the other way. They said, I love Murph
- 18:12Speaker 4: sending messages to players in different ways. Look, fans always
- 18:16Speaker 4: say these guys are pandered to, so when they get
- 18:17Speaker 4: tough love from the coach, it's refreshing to me. They
- 18:19Speaker 4: usually respond well. When they get yelled at at a
- 18:22Speaker 4: young age, I would assume. Yeah, and I mean, most
- 18:24Speaker 4: of the guy, I mean, Durbin was another example, right?
- 18:26Speaker 4: And Durbin's went on and done good things, obviously.
- 18:29Speaker 2: We mentioned Freelick. So this is just what Murph has done.
- 18:33Speaker 2: I do like Derek and Whitewater. Not like Pratt is
- 18:34Speaker 2: even that good. Come on.
- 18:36Speaker 3: I mean, it is not like they took out prime
- 18:38Speaker 3: Derek Jeter, right? Like I'm, what are we 40 games
- 18:42Speaker 3: into the season? What are like into his big league career?
- 18:44Speaker 3: I did also like Maggie and George as I'm a teacher.
- 18:46Speaker 3: We're not always right. We're not always correct either. Good work, Maggie.
- 18:51Speaker 2: Good. Love it.
- 18:52Speaker 3: Now that's when you are in mid season form as
- 18:55Speaker 3: a teacher. And that's a tough, that's a tough thing
- 18:57Speaker 3: to know that you're going to be. I mean, August 26th,
- 19:00Speaker 3: you want to make sure that you're dusting off those skills.
- 19:02Speaker 3: Maggie right there with her fastball at 619 in the morning.
- 19:04Speaker 3: That's pretty impressive.
- 19:05Speaker 4: I do think Brad's done pretty well so far in
- 19:08Speaker 4: his rookie year, though, at a young age.
- 19:11Speaker 2: Marty and Madison's hot take. What do you mean?
- 19:13Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like he's the top 15. Shortstop
- 19:17Speaker 3: in baseball?
- 19:18Speaker 2: Yeah, what are you doing, right, Billy? Well, I don't know.
- 19:20Speaker 2: You're upset that he's not that good either. It's not
- 19:23Speaker 2: like they took out one of their top five players. No,
- 19:25Speaker 2: I agree. I know. Yeah, he's done, I think, what
- 19:28Speaker 2: he should be doing. You don't have to worry about it.
- 19:29Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to have his feelings hurt
- 19:31Speaker 3: that he's not that good.
- 19:32Speaker 2: Marty and Madison's hot take.
- 19:34Speaker 1: If you criticize Murph for pulling Pratt, you don't get
- 19:36Speaker 1: to celebrate any of his previous accolades, and you don't
- 19:38Speaker 1: get to enjoy any of Pratt's hustle in the future.
- 19:40Speaker 2: Sour Brewers fans can go kick rocks. I like that
- 19:42Speaker 2: he's gatekeeping early in the morning. Love Murph. Great move.
- 19:45Speaker 2: Go crew. I mean, not everything Murph does is perfect,
- 19:48Speaker 2: but in this case. No one's perfect, yeah. This is Steve.
- 19:51Speaker 3: My hot take. Ortiz and Hamilton are in. Pratt's on
- 19:53Speaker 3: the bench in the playoffs. I think that might have
- 19:56Speaker 3: been the plan already. We had talked about it. How
- 19:58Speaker 3: much are you going to be trusting these rookies when
- 20:00Speaker 3: you get to the playoffs?
- 20:01Speaker 2: Very true. This is discovery time now, isn't it?
- 20:04Speaker 1: When we come back, Scott Dolphin is going to join us.
- 20:07Speaker 1: We'll talk about the passing of Dolly Parton. We can't
- 20:10Speaker 1: agree on whether Murph made the right move, but we
- 20:12Speaker 1: can all agree Dolly Parton was a national treasure.
- 20:15Speaker 2: That's next. The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. I've always
- 20:18Speaker 2: been pretty well-blessed. People are always asking if they're real. Oh,
- 20:22Speaker 2: I would never. I would never, you see. No, you
- 20:24Speaker 2: don't have to ask.
- 20:25Speaker 3: I would not.
- 20:26Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I have certain guidelines on the show.
- 20:31Speaker 2: But I would give about a year's pay to peek
- 20:33Speaker 2: under there. Oh, Johnny Carson, Dolly Parton.
- 20:40Speaker 1: In these fractured times where we can't even agree that
- 20:43Speaker 1: today is Wednesday, almost the entire country agreed Dolly Parton
- 20:47Speaker 1: was a national treasure.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Yeah. She also stayed out of politics. Do you ever
- 20:51Speaker 2: notice that does?
- 20:52Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 20:52Speaker 5: That's why no one hated her. She refused the Medal
- 20:55Speaker 5: of Honor. Was it the Medal of Honor from both
- 20:58Speaker 5: Trump and Biden? She didn't want to go in the
- 21:00Speaker 5: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame either.
- 21:02Speaker 2: That's true. She deserved it. Then she went and performed.
- 21:04Speaker 2: It was awesome. And she killed it.
- 21:05Speaker 4: Yeah, 2022. Yeah.
- 21:07Speaker 1: So Dolly Parton passed. Scott Dolphin from the country stage
- 21:09Speaker 1: down the hall joins us for halftime. And that was
- 21:12Speaker 1: sad news. My wife equated it to Betty White, like
- 21:15Speaker 1: women that she wanted to live forever.
- 21:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:17Speaker 5: I mean, if you didn't know who Dolly Parton was,
- 21:19Speaker 5: it's almost like it's this fictional character that somebody created.
- 21:23Speaker 2: I mean, she's born in a one-room home.
- 21:26Speaker 5: One-room home with 12 kids in rural Tennessee and becomes
- 21:30Speaker 5: this just not only star of country music, but a
- 21:33Speaker 5: film of stage, philanthropy, you name it, she did it. Yeah.
- 21:38Speaker 4: Her life seems so full. Sorry, Billy, that I couldn't
- 21:40Speaker 4: believe she was only 80. Like that for me was
- 21:42Speaker 4: the one thing I realized. Yeah. I was like, wow,
- 21:45Speaker 4: she seemed older just because it seemed like she had
- 21:47Speaker 4: done so much and it made an impact so much.
- 21:49Speaker 2: That was exactly what I was going to say. She
- 21:50Speaker 2: almost felt like the youngest 80 year old. I saw that.
- 21:53Speaker 2: I saw that. Totally.
- 21:54Speaker 3: That interview she did where she's like, yeah, I don't
- 21:56Speaker 3: know everything you can do in your 80s. I was
- 21:58Speaker 3: doing my thing. I can do a lot more now.
- 22:00Speaker 3: Like that just ability to pack all that into one
- 22:02Speaker 3: life is wild.
- 22:03Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 22:03Speaker 2: I was talking to a friend yesterday about how she
- 22:05Speaker 2: started out with that Porter Wagner and then there was
- 22:07Speaker 2: that split. Porter Wagner was always kind of like creepy
- 22:09Speaker 2: and stuff, but she came from that tree, old school country.
- 22:13Speaker 2: She did.
- 22:13Speaker 5: I mean, he really put her on the map on
- 22:16Speaker 5: his show. She was on for seven years and really
- 22:19Speaker 5: became the star of the show. I think Porter recognized that.
- 22:21Speaker 5: Didn't want to let her go. Didn't want to let
- 22:22Speaker 5: her out of his contract, but he did. I think
- 22:24Speaker 5: he realized what a huge star she was going to be.
- 22:27Speaker 5: And then she wrote, of course, I will always love
- 22:29Speaker 5: you to Porter Wagner, not in that sexy romantic way.
- 22:33Speaker 5: But in the fact that he was such a huge
- 22:35Speaker 5: part of her life.
- 22:36Speaker 1: And I saw something about that because obviously that song
- 22:39Speaker 1: got new life with Whitney Houston.
- 22:41Speaker 2: Big time.
- 22:41Speaker 1: But I guess Elvis wanted to record it, but Colonel
- 22:44Speaker 1: Tom said Elvis didn't share royalties and stuff like that.
- 22:47Speaker 1: And I was like, no, she kept her publishing on
- 22:50Speaker 1: it and made money with Whitney Houston on that.
- 22:53Speaker 2: Yeah, Colonel Tom was the problem there. Yeah, good move,
- 22:55Speaker 2: Colonel Tom.
- 22:55Speaker 1: And then took the money she made from that and
- 22:57Speaker 1: built a business center, office complex there. in Whitney Houston's hometown,
- 23:03Speaker 1: like the house that Whitney built.
- 23:05Speaker 2: That's incredible.
- 23:05Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff that she did. And the
- 23:07Speaker 1: book thing that Armand's subscribed to.
- 23:09Speaker 2: Yeah. My daughter has the books.
- 23:11Speaker 5: I love that, man. I love that whole part of
- 23:12Speaker 5: her life. And in her true self-deprecating style, she always
- 23:16Speaker 5: talked about that song. That's both Whitney and my song.
- 23:19Speaker 5: It's not just my song because I wrote it. She's
- 23:21Speaker 5: so humble. I think that song went three... Dolly herself
- 23:25Speaker 5: took that song to number one three different times. When
- 23:27Speaker 5: it originally came out in 73, 74... I think it
- 23:32Speaker 5: was part of the soundtrack to The Best Little Whorehouse
- 23:34Speaker 5: in Texas.
- 23:35Speaker 2: It went number one again. And then Whitney.
- 23:37Speaker 5: Due to public demand, after Whitney in The Bodyguard made
- 23:40Speaker 5: it such a mega hit and won a Grammy, Dolly
- 23:44Speaker 5: recorded it again, and it went number one on the
- 23:45Speaker 5: country charts.
- 23:47Speaker 2: And she wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You
- 23:49Speaker 2: on the same day. Oh, my God. That's ridiculous. Same day?
- 23:52Speaker 2: She wrote two of her greatest songs and the biggest
- 23:54Speaker 2: songs in country music on the same day. What did
- 23:56Speaker 2: you do in one day? What have you done in
- 23:58Speaker 2: one day? I had a sandwich.
- 23:59Speaker 3: I made a great sandwich. I made ribs and a
- 24:02Speaker 3: steak in one day. Does that count?
- 24:04Speaker 1: Here's a quote from in the movie 9 to 5.
- 24:06Speaker 1: She wrote that song on set, apparently.
- 24:09Speaker 2: Incredible. That song she wrote. Great movie, by the way.
- 24:10Speaker 1: She's tapping her fingernails and she wrote the song on
- 24:14Speaker 1: the set. In Dallas, this is from Roger Ebert, Francisco
- 24:18Speaker 1: and Ebert, Sun Times critic He said, I had been
- 24:21Speaker 1: granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as
- 24:23Speaker 1: we spoke, I was filled with a strange ethereal grace.
- 24:26Speaker 2: This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was
- 24:29Speaker 2: healing and comforting.
- 24:31Speaker 5: Wow.
- 24:31Speaker 1: And then, you know, Gene Siskel said the exact same thing.
- 24:34Speaker 1: He felt the same way. And he said, neither one
- 24:37Speaker 1: of them ever had that feeling again, and they talked about.
- 24:39Speaker 2: It for years. Amazing. Like she had this glow, this
- 24:42Speaker 2: angelic glow about her. That's amazing.
- 24:46Speaker 5: I've never had a chance to sit down and say
- 24:48Speaker 5: hello to her. Only twice did I get close to her.
- 24:50Speaker 5: Once I actually got to bring... I intro'd a show
- 24:54Speaker 5: when I was still out on the West Coast. It
- 24:56Speaker 5: was Dolly and Kenny together in concert. So I brought
- 24:59Speaker 5: them on, and then... New York City, we had the
- 25:02Speaker 5: CMA Awards there in 2005, and actually, Dolly was nice
- 25:05Speaker 5: enough to give us about a 30-minute Q & A
- 25:07Speaker 5: as a group of little radio stations, and I actually
- 25:09Speaker 5: got to ask her a question where I made eye
- 25:11Speaker 5: contact with her, and I still remember her smiling.
- 25:13Speaker 2: And I also remember how small she was. She's very,
- 25:16Speaker 2: you know. Very petite.
- 25:17Speaker 5: Big in some places, but she's very small, very short,
- 25:19Speaker 5: and she was a tiny little thing. She was wearing heels,
- 25:21Speaker 5: and she was still short, but couldn't have been nicer
- 25:24Speaker 5: that day, even though I didn't get actually a chance
- 25:26Speaker 5: to sit down and do it one-on-one.
- 25:27Speaker 2: Do we remember the question? You know, I got to
- 25:30Speaker 2: go on Channel 4.
- 25:31Speaker 5: TMJ4 asked me to come on last night, and they
- 25:33Speaker 5: asked me that same question. And I don't remember it specifically,
- 25:35Speaker 5: but I know I asked her about who she was
- 25:37Speaker 5: impressed with in the new female up-and-coming country stars of
- 25:41Speaker 5: the day. And I'm sure she said something like Miranda Lambert,
- 25:43Speaker 5: Carrie Underwood, because they were the biggest stars. She was
- 25:47Speaker 5: also that same way of like being able to carry
- 25:49Speaker 5: the torch for everybody that was still doing it that way.
- 25:51Speaker 5: Like understanding who was big and what her, you know,
- 25:54Speaker 5: vote of confidence or, or somewhat endorsement would bring to
- 25:58Speaker 5: somebody in music.
- 25:58Speaker 2: I feel like she was always fair with that. Always, always.
- 26:01Speaker 5: And today all the country stars are chiming in how,
- 26:04Speaker 5: you know, John party, she doesn't know John party from Adam, but,
- 26:08Speaker 5: she would send him birthday gifts every year. Just this
- 26:11Speaker 5: random dude in country music that has become a star now.
- 26:14Speaker 2: She was a good sewer to the format of the industry.
- 26:16Speaker 4: And the thing is, you think of all the great
- 26:20Speaker 4: country stars, not so many are female, right? I mean,
- 26:22Speaker 4: so many of the biggest stars are female. Not more
- 26:25Speaker 4: than ever. Obviously, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, but Dolly was
- 26:28Speaker 4: the one of one that paved the way for all the...
- 26:30Speaker 4: It must have been a very, very tough industry, music especially,
- 26:33Speaker 4: but especially country music, maybe with its traditions.
- 26:36Speaker 5: Her.
- 26:37Speaker 1: Her business acumen too, like Dollywood and all that. She
- 26:41Speaker 1: took a dilapidated thing and made it into a tourist
- 26:44Speaker 1: attraction and get people jobs and she owned radio.
- 26:46Speaker 2: Stations and stuff.
- 26:47Speaker 5: She did, yeah.
- 26:48Speaker 2: Her portfolio was huge.
- 26:49Speaker 5: And an anomaly in the showbiz era because she was
- 26:52Speaker 5: married to the same dude for 60 years.
- 26:53Speaker 2: Which is a rarity there too, you know?
- 26:56Speaker 5: 60 years and lost him. Met him right as she
- 26:58Speaker 5: moved to Nashville within the first couple months and then
- 27:00Speaker 5: of course he died last year and you wonder if
- 27:02Speaker 5: that had something to do with her demise a.
- 27:03Speaker 2: Little bit too.
- 27:04Speaker 1: So yeah, it's like in these fractured times I think
- 27:07Speaker 1: everybody could agree she was a national treasure.
- 27:09Speaker 2: Absolutely. Because she stayed out of the fray and she just,
- 27:12Speaker 2: you know, What an example. What a life.
- 27:15Speaker 5: She just made you smile, whether it was in one
- 27:17Speaker 5: of the movies she did.
- 27:18Speaker 2: That is 1,000% it.
- 27:19Speaker 3: Just put a smile on so many people's face. I mean, again,
- 27:24Speaker 3: don't know or have any bit of that for Adam.
- 27:26Speaker 2: I can't tell you. Actually, thank you for the introduction.
- 27:29Speaker 3: There's a large swath of the listening audience, I think,
- 27:31Speaker 3: that is now learning that she wrote the I will
- 27:34Speaker 3: always love you song going to Houston.
- 27:36Speaker 2: Saying, I dropped my phone. I'm like, damn, Dolly Parton?
- 27:40Speaker 3: That is one that you did just feel like was
- 27:42Speaker 3: going to almost live forever.
- 27:43Speaker 2: Because what, Betty White was what, 99? She was. She
- 27:46Speaker 2: was like days from 100 when she passed. And Dolly Parton, yeah,
- 27:50Speaker 2: I mean, she's crazy.
- 27:52Speaker 1: And one of the guys said in her obit, she
- 27:54Speaker 1: didn't seem to have any enemies. And even if you
- 27:57Speaker 1: didn't get her, it was impossible not to like her.
- 28:00Speaker 1: Everyone liked her, and she liked everybody. And her appearance
- 28:03Speaker 1: and stuff, and obviously the jokes for years. It was
- 28:05Speaker 1: a cultural joke about her front court, shall we say.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Right, yeah. And you just heard Johnny Carson. Those guards. Yeah,
- 28:12Speaker 2: Johnny Carson. A card play. He would have probably been
- 28:14Speaker 2: canceled for that little exchange. You're right.
- 28:17Speaker 1: Back in the day, those things were okay. But the
- 28:20Speaker 1: way she leaned into that, she's like, yeah, it costs
- 28:21Speaker 1: a lot of money to look this trashy. And she
- 28:25Speaker 1: just leaned into it and made you laugh about it.
- 28:27Speaker 2: Good, dude. Unbelievable.
- 28:32Speaker 5: Her voice is one that you don't have to say, God,
- 28:34Speaker 5: who is that? That sounds like so-and-so. You knew when
- 28:36Speaker 5: you heard Dolly Parton sing, it was Dolly Parton. And
- 28:38Speaker 5: she had like, you're right.
- 28:39Speaker 1: Though, Dolph, like her re-releasing that song and the resurgence
- 28:42Speaker 1: is because she did some stuff with Jack White.
- 28:44Speaker 2: She did. And that was cool.
- 28:46Speaker 4: Wow, really?
- 28:46Speaker 2: Yeah, Jack White did Jolene with her.
- 28:49Speaker 5: Within the last decade or so, she's done that a
- 28:52Speaker 5: lot with different people from different genres.
- 28:54Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just huge because people were kind of
- 28:56Speaker 2: tipping the cap. Jack White, by the way, loves Nashville.
- 29:00Speaker 2: He did some stuff with, I think, Loretta Lynn before
- 29:02Speaker 2: she died as well. That too, yeah. which is pretty cool.
- 29:06Speaker 2: Jack White, he's an interesting cat. Big baseball guy, too.
- 29:10Speaker 2: I was going to say, he is kind of a
- 29:11Speaker 2: sports fan, isn't he?
- 29:11Speaker 3: I think we learned some of that when he did
- 29:13Speaker 3: the Thanksgiving game.
- 29:16Speaker 1: Huge baseball guy, Jack White, but from Detroit. A buddy
- 29:21Speaker 1: of mine was past president of the Hall of Fame,
- 29:24Speaker 1: and Jack White would come twice a year and get
- 29:26Speaker 1: the special tour and put on the gloves and swing.
- 29:29Speaker 2: Babe Ruth's bat and stuff and go down into the archive.
- 29:32Speaker 2: He was just Just geeking out about everything. God, that's fun. Geeking.
- 29:36Speaker 2: And when he goes on tour, the crew, they find
- 29:39Speaker 2: the game. to play. They play pickup baseball and stuff.
- 29:43Speaker 2: What'd the babes swing? About a 38-44? Pretty much. I
- 29:46Speaker 2: was going to say, that's a piece of lumber right there.
- 29:49Speaker 2: That is a piece of lumber.
- 29:50Speaker 1: So, Dolph, we've been weighing in on this whole Cooper Pratt,
- 29:53Speaker 1: the Brewers thing. Bad loss to start a stretch of
- 29:55Speaker 1: 16 straight games, but the Cubs lost.
- 29:59Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 29:59Speaker 5: Oh, how about that? In walk-off fashion again. This is
- 30:03Speaker 5: a rough road trip for the Cubs so far. First,
- 30:06Speaker 5: they set a record. They had scored, I don't know,
- 30:09Speaker 5: 19 or 20 unanswered runs. 30.
- 30:11Speaker 2: Is that what it was? 30 unanswered runs, I think.
- 30:14Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. Only to get walked off in the desert.
- 30:17Speaker 2: That's beautiful. Could not be better at that point. Love that.
- 30:21Speaker 5: So that's the thing with the math right now. I
- 30:23Speaker 5: think Hunter put something up on social media. If the
- 30:25Speaker 5: Brewers go above 500, they still have a really good
- 30:28Speaker 5: chance of winning the division.
- 30:29Speaker 2: Exactly. At this point, five and a half up with
- 30:31Speaker 2: 30 to play. And that's why, again, you get, and
- 30:33Speaker 2: we're about to start next week. We'll be in the
- 30:35Speaker 2: belly of the beast. Cause Monday they start seven games
- 30:39Speaker 2: in 10 days against the Cubs head to head. And
- 30:41Speaker 2: I figure it's mostly going to be like pretty even
- 30:43Speaker 2: three and four, four and three.
- 30:44Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 30:44Speaker 2: I mean, as long as the team goes six and one,
- 30:47Speaker 2: that might swing.
- 30:47Speaker 3: It a little bit, but, but it's going to be
- 30:49Speaker 3: hard to see anybody getting goose that way. As good
- 30:53Speaker 3: as both of these two teams are playing right now.
- 30:54Speaker 3: Is any, is either team going to run the table
- 30:56Speaker 3: and go seven and oh, no, no. More likely, it
- 30:59Speaker 3: would be, I think, in that Phillies-Braves series that is
- 31:02Speaker 3: kind of going on at the same time. They got
- 31:04Speaker 3: seven games head-to-head against each other in that chase for
- 31:06Speaker 3: the NL East, and then this one, same deal, almost
- 31:09Speaker 3: at the exact same time.
- 31:11Speaker 2: I know. Correct me if I'm wrong. Is it kind
- 31:12Speaker 2: of a weird schedule quirk?
- 31:14Speaker 5: Okay, so they had the game in Pennsylvania, three in
- 31:15Speaker 5: New York, home against the Rangers, and then they're right
- 31:17Speaker 5: back out on the road.
- 31:18Speaker 2: To Chicago, and then.
- 31:20Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't do it often for the one series
- 31:23Speaker 3: at home. Yeah, they definitely don't, but they only have, what,
- 31:25Speaker 3: three home series left?
- 31:26Speaker 2: That's pretty much it.
- 31:27Speaker 3: Because I think they have the Cubs series, and they
- 31:30Speaker 3: have a Cardinals series to wrap up, but they go
- 31:32Speaker 3: on a good, thick three-city road trip to what, Baltimore, Pittsburgh,
- 31:38Speaker 3: and Philly?
- 31:39Speaker 2: Yeah, Baltimore, Philly, and Pittsburgh. Yeah, you're right. It's winding down.
- 31:41Speaker 2: I mean, that's the way we're in September almost, so
- 31:43Speaker 2: it's winding down. They have three standalone three-game, or no,
- 31:47Speaker 2: three three-game series at home. Okay, that's it, yep. Yeah,
- 31:50Speaker 2: in September. Cubs, Reds, and Cardinals. Anybody going to get
- 31:53Speaker 2: their Jackson Cheerio Cheerio Bowl this weekend?
- 31:55Speaker 3: I am potentially being tasked to– actually, the Cereal Bowl
- 32:00Speaker 3: I can't because I'm going to be in Michigan on
- 32:02Speaker 3: Saturday night, but I'm potentially supposed to be coming back very,
- 32:06Speaker 3: very early on Sunday. Because that height poster is the
- 32:10Speaker 3: one that is very, very desired in our house.
- 32:12Speaker 2: Because we want to know how many Jackson Cheerios we are.
- 32:15Speaker 4: Oh, man.
- 32:16Speaker 2: We want to know just how many Jacksons we are.
- 32:18Speaker 2: And I think we might be... Two Carsons might make
- 32:21Speaker 2: a Jackson. I think it's the way it's going to go.
- 32:23Speaker 2: Great height posters of all time in this market. Giannis
- 32:25Speaker 2: had a very... well-known one, I think, early on, because
- 32:27Speaker 2: he was growing. That was the green and growing thing.
- 32:30Speaker 2: And then I think Robin Yount had one, maybe. Was
- 32:33Speaker 2: it Yount? I think it was Molitor.
- 32:34Speaker 4: One of the two had it, and I remember that
- 32:36Speaker 4: was a big one to have, so I didn't have it.
- 32:38Speaker 4: Everyone else did, but I didn't have it.
- 32:40Speaker 2: When it comes to the Bucs, my favorite was the
- 32:41Speaker 2: Brooke Lopez. See how big your feet are? That's another one. Yeah.
- 32:45Speaker 2: That was ridiculous. Paul Molitor, 1985 youth height poster right there.
- 32:50Speaker 5: There it is.
- 32:50Speaker 2: And a lot of people that had it. Good nutrition
- 32:53Speaker 2: with Wonder Bread.
- 32:56Speaker 5: I love that.
- 32:57Speaker 2: He's slinging hostess. That's great nutrition. He's slinging white bread.
- 33:02Speaker 2: Check your height with your own personal growth chart from
- 33:04Speaker 2: Wonder Bread.
- 33:05Speaker 4: Also, I always keep this one next to the board
- 33:07Speaker 4: here just for inspiration. Billy knows I love this Paul
- 33:09Speaker 4: Milder baseball card, the police card on the back. Paul
- 33:13Speaker 4: Milder says, playing baseball in the major leagues is a
- 33:15Speaker 4: life ambition of many youngsters. When I was a kid,
- 33:17Speaker 4: I dreamed of playing in the big leagues. We all
- 33:19Speaker 4: know that everyone can't make it. Some of us have
- 33:21Speaker 4: God-given talents, some don't. Participate in sports and practice a lot,
- 33:25Speaker 4: but also work and get good grades in school.
- 33:27Speaker 2: If you don't make it to the big leagues, you'll
- 33:28Speaker 2: be able to get a good job. Nice. Molly telling
- 33:31Speaker 2: it like it is. Kid, you're not good enough. I
- 33:33Speaker 2: used to love those things in the back.
- 33:34Speaker 4: I used to take those lessons on the back of
- 33:36Speaker 4: the police cars like those guys were actually riding those.
- 33:38Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. I love the fact that Molly came out
- 33:40Speaker 2: of the corn wearing the Brewers jersey, too. That was awesome.
- 33:43Speaker 2: Made some people mad, but not me. Twins fans were triggered. Well, good.
- 33:46Speaker 2: He does radio for them. Let them be triggered. Let
- 33:49Speaker 2: them be triggered. He's not going to wear twins. He
- 33:50Speaker 2: went into Cooperstown as a brewer. Exactly. Well, it looks
- 33:53Speaker 2: like we got two of them.
- 33:54Speaker 3: Looks like Robin Yount and Paul Molitor each had a
- 33:57Speaker 3: growth chart.
- 33:57Speaker 2: All right. That's why my memory was a little bit worried.
- 33:59Speaker 3: Well, Robin Yount is actually brought to you by Country
- 34:02Speaker 3: Home WBCS.
- 34:04Speaker 2: I don't know what that used to be. That's the old... Oh,
- 34:08Speaker 2: that was the old country station. One of the old
- 34:10Speaker 2: country stations. Yes, in fact, my station, that was a
- 34:13Speaker 2: battle for one before I was here, but in the 80s...
- 34:16Speaker 2: They used to air the Admirals games, too.
- 34:19Speaker 4: Really?
- 34:19Speaker 2: Yeah, WBCS. They became the Hog, and now they are...
- 34:22Speaker 2: They were Laser, and now they're the Hog. I love
- 34:24Speaker 2: this radio. That's right. So they were your main competitor?
- 34:27Speaker 2: I guess who won, huh?
- 34:28Speaker 1: That was my first exposure to radio because my roommate
- 34:32Speaker 1: at the time, Pete Lipsy, was a board op there.
- 34:34Speaker 2: That's awesome.
- 34:35Speaker 4: So I would go hang out with him during his shifts.
- 34:37Speaker 4: It's the first time I went to a radio station. Billy,
- 34:39Speaker 4: they had some cool giveaways with the sponsors.
- 34:41Speaker 2: He was like the pipe bomb producing the... That's phenomenal.
- 34:44Speaker 2: Doug Pettit was on the call. He used to do
- 34:47Speaker 2: the little updates and stuff.
- 34:49Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 34:49Speaker 2: That is awesome. I can't wait for Pipeline to return.
- 34:51Speaker 3: Also, brought to you by Century Foods and my man
- 34:54Speaker 3: Robin Youts rocking the McDonald's wristbands.
- 34:57Speaker 2: Century was all over Brewer's marketing back then. Back in
- 34:59Speaker 2: the day, for sure.
- 35:00Speaker 4: I had the Century Brewer's lunch bag, I think, or
- 35:04Speaker 4: something like that.
- 35:04Speaker 5: And now what do we have? Five or six left
- 35:06Speaker 5: in the area total? I haven't been to a century
- 35:10Speaker 5: in years. My mom used to love centuries. Piggly Wiggly
- 35:12Speaker 5: is still my favorite. So, Dolph, are you guys playing
- 35:13Speaker 5: some Dolly songs today? We are all day long.
- 35:15Speaker 2: I figured as much.
- 35:16Speaker 5: Yeah. We've played her before on throwback weekends. Not so
- 35:19Speaker 5: much of her. She doesn't have a lot of current stuff. But, yeah,
- 35:21Speaker 5: all day today, you're going to hear a lot.
- 35:22Speaker 2: Of new favorites. Figured as much. Thanks for coming in.
- 35:24Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thanks, fellas. All right. Thanks, Dolph. Going to
- 35:26Speaker 2: take a quick break. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 35:37Speaker 2: I love that movie, 9 to 5. Dabney Coleman. He's amazing.
- 35:42Speaker 1: Continuing Wednesday edition of the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, Drew, Billy,
- 35:46Speaker 1: and Armin. Bringing it to you, Billy's about ready to
- 35:48Speaker 1: head to Green Bay for a Packers combined practice sibling
- 35:51Speaker 1: rivalry on display. Mike and Matt LaFleur and Bo Melton
- 35:55Speaker 1: and what's his brother's name?
- 35:56Speaker 4: Max.
- 35:57Speaker 2: Bowen Max. Bowen Max. Number 16 Melton.
- 36:00Speaker 3: Now, I'm wondering, did the LaFleurs take the Meltons out
- 36:03Speaker 3: for dinner? Because, you know, that check is a little
- 36:05Speaker 3: bit larger, I would assume. What do you think? Because
- 36:09Speaker 3: Wayne asked me at the end of Training Camp Live
- 36:11Speaker 3: on Monday, what do you think the LaFleur family does?
- 36:13Speaker 3: Does Matt have everybody over to the house? They all
- 36:17Speaker 3: just go to Chives? Like, where do we find? Because
- 36:20Speaker 3: there's got to be a good meal here. And mom
- 36:21Speaker 3: and dad got to be very, very excited for this one.
- 36:23Speaker 2: Pool party. At the house. Probably a good pool party.
- 36:26Speaker 2: That's what I'm thinking. Chives, though, getting so much love.
- 36:31Speaker 2: Thanks to Aaron.
- 36:32Speaker 4: I mean, that place will always be in business because
- 36:33Speaker 4: everyone knows Aaron went to Chives and everyone loves Chives.
- 36:36Speaker 2: I got to get there for sure. Well, I'm sure
- 36:38Speaker 2: we all do, don't we? Let's do it. Now, Max,
- 36:40Speaker 2: of course, short for anybody. Malachi. So neither of the
- 36:45Speaker 2: Melton boys used their first name, which I think is interesting.
- 36:48Speaker 2: I love that.
- 36:49Speaker 4: Of course, Miles Bokeem Melton. This is our last look
- 36:53Speaker 4: at the starters, basically.
- 36:54Speaker 2: Yes. In the heat of that. Probably the best look, yep. Yes.
- 36:58Speaker 1: So what are we looking for today? I mean, first
- 37:01Speaker 1: of all, Aaron Banks ain't seeing the field again like he's...
- 37:05Speaker 1: He's still getting a check.
- 37:06Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say it's got to be
- 37:07Speaker 3: that offensive line. Banks was dialed up with the first
- 37:11Speaker 3: team on Monday, and he was getting the first run
- 37:15Speaker 3: with the first team every time they hit teams. So
- 37:18Speaker 3: we'll see if that goes here today, if he plays.
- 37:21Speaker 3: And Zach Bacoboele, if he can go. I think when
- 37:24Speaker 3: Zach talked about it, wanting to get some reps in
- 37:26Speaker 3: earlier in camp and maybe wanting to play in the
- 37:28Speaker 3: preseason games, then I think there was a conversation of,
- 37:31Speaker 3: Why don't we do that on our field?
- 37:33Speaker 2: Why don't we do that on our field in our backyard?
- 37:35Speaker 2: But we're going to get you some reps.
- 37:36Speaker 3: So I think Zach is going to get a decent
- 37:38Speaker 3: amount of run here today, mostly because he hasn't played
- 37:41Speaker 3: real football against somebody else since he had the patella injury.
- 37:45Speaker 3: So I'm really going to be looking at the offensive
- 37:48Speaker 3: line and Burton and Monk. Jacob Monk has looked really
- 37:51Speaker 3: good at practice. How does that happen on the other side? Because, Drew,
- 37:54Speaker 3: I think they're the same deal as it was a
- 37:56Speaker 3: year ago. It's the biggest... hindrance for them being the
- 38:00Speaker 3: offense that I think they could be, which is a really,
- 38:02Speaker 3: really explosive and one of the better ones in football.
- 38:04Speaker 3: They have three extremely talented wide receivers on the outside
- 38:07Speaker 3: that one in golden, I think is primed for a
- 38:11Speaker 3: huge year. That's going to surprise a lot of people.
- 38:13Speaker 3: And craft is pound for pound. One of, if not
- 38:17Speaker 3: the top three tight ends in football, the other guy
- 38:19Speaker 3: on the other side here today in Trey McBride is
- 38:22Speaker 3: is probably the one that's going to win that argument
- 38:24Speaker 3: because of the volume of catches he gets. So I
- 38:26Speaker 3: think they're going to be very explosive on offense if
- 38:29Speaker 3: they can hold up. And that's the one thing that
- 38:31Speaker 3: Arizona presents is that they can get some pressure on
- 38:33Speaker 3: the quarterback. Josh Sweat came off the PUP yesterday. He's
- 38:36Speaker 3: not going to go. Some Packers fans were hoping that
- 38:39Speaker 3: maybe that would happen because I think there's a lot
- 38:40Speaker 3: of Packers fans that were wondering about that Josh Sweat conversation.
- 38:44Speaker 3: But to see Morgan and Baco Buele, the two tackles
- 38:49Speaker 3: against other competition, That's a big one for me because
- 38:52Speaker 3: we've seen Lucas Van Ness look good, but I want
- 38:54Speaker 3: to know if it's because of what 90's doing or
- 38:57Speaker 3: if it's more of a problem with what our lines
- 39:00Speaker 3: got called.
- 39:00Speaker 1: Does Jordan Morgan deserve the Trey Smack Award in that
- 39:03Speaker 1: he went from being a story to not being a story?
- 39:05Speaker 2: Not a story at all, Drew. He's playing solid. He's
- 39:07Speaker 2: holding it down. He's like, okay, we're not worried about
- 39:09Speaker 2: left tackle anymore. Let's move on to something else.
- 39:11Speaker 3: Yeah, and then he's also going to have them, if
- 39:13Speaker 3: he continues this way, Drew, have them answering a lot
- 39:16Speaker 3: of questions as to why they didn't go to him
- 39:18Speaker 3: last year.
- 39:19Speaker 2: I've had that question better than Rashid. I thought about
- 39:21Speaker 2: it last year. It's like, what are we going to miss?
- 39:24Speaker 1: I mean, how big is the drop-off going to be
- 39:25Speaker 1: and why not start putting this in the bank for
- 39:27Speaker 1: the next year?
- 39:28Speaker 3: Because he was going to be the starter anyway. And
- 39:30Speaker 3: you're going to get some interest on it, right? So
- 39:32Speaker 3: it's going to be a fascinating conversation. And if he
- 39:35Speaker 3: continues to just trend the way he is, he is
- 39:38Speaker 3: going to make.
- 39:38Speaker 2: That a conversation. That ranks up there with the Packers
- 39:41Speaker 2: not playing Edger and Cooper enough when he was a rookie. Yep. Like,
- 39:44Speaker 2: what are you doing? What are we waiting for?
- 39:45Speaker 5: We can see it.
- 39:46Speaker 2: Like, what are you waiting for? Like, what are you?
- 39:47Speaker 3: And how quickly will that question get asked of LaFleur?
- 39:50Speaker 3: Because what was it like week one? He goes, yeah,
- 39:51Speaker 3: we were pretty dumb for not putting him on the field,
- 39:53Speaker 3: weren't we?
- 39:53Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 39:53Speaker 2: Well, you said that to him. I was in with
- 39:55Speaker 2: the butchers. And the boys. Yes, yes, yes. Before the game.
- 39:58Speaker 2: How dumb are we? We didn't start playing the guy
- 40:00Speaker 2: until halfway through the year. Like, look how good he is.
- 40:02Speaker 3: And Cooper as well. Like, I don't know if Jeremiah
- 40:05Speaker 3: Love's going to go. I would kind of doubt it.
- 40:07Speaker 3: He's working his way back off that high ankle sprain.
- 40:09Speaker 3: But I wanted to see Cooper trying to track down
- 40:11Speaker 3: Jeremiah Love because that kind of speed is different on
- 40:14Speaker 3: the field. Plenty on display today, and then this is it.
- 40:18Speaker 3: This is the game because Friday night, what we're going
- 40:21Speaker 3: to see and what we're going to talk about on
- 40:22Speaker 3: Packers OT afterwards is going to be the bottom of
- 40:25Speaker 3: the roster, guys, and see who can stay healthy.
- 40:27Speaker 1: This is the day to get there. Put stuff on
- 40:30Speaker 1: tape trying to get jobs elsewhere, and this is the day.
- 40:32Speaker 3: That's going to be Mark Perry's Super Bowl. There's going
- 40:34Speaker 3: to be a lot of guys that are trying to
- 40:35Speaker 3: make the practice squad on Friday night. Last one for you,
- 40:40Speaker 3: Brandon Cisse, Marvin Harrison Jr. Like that matchup, Keyshawn Nixon,
- 40:44Speaker 3: Marvin Harrison Jr. Those one-on-ones might even get me to
- 40:49Speaker 3: look away from the offensive and defensive line.
- 40:51Speaker 2: It's an 11-30 start today, and you guys are on 11-1. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
- 40:55Speaker 2: And JP Shatrick, voice of the Cardinals, is going to
- 40:57Speaker 2: join us as well.
- 40:57Speaker 4: Right.
- 40:58Speaker 2: Training camp live from Lambeau. Billy's on his way up there.
- 41:02Speaker 1: Safe travels, my friend. We'll be right back. You're in
- 41:04Speaker 1: the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.