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10/26/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to The Huddle. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the teams you love with the guys
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  Speaker 1: you love.
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  Speaker 2: That's us.
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  Speaker 3: Boys, that's us.
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  Speaker 2: You are looking live.
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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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  Speaker 4: We know exactly what we got to do.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some tail. One, two, three.
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  Speaker 2: We got some.
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  Speaker 3: Big plays coming.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell's going on out here? Yellow Weasel.
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  Speaker 3: We're calling the plays, all right?
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  Speaker 5: It is time.
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  Speaker 6: What do you think you are?
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  Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen. When he spoke, he commanded your attention
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  Speaker 2: and he.
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  Speaker 6: Commanded your respect. Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun
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  Speaker 6: is thick. And Armin Sarian. Danny Sarian.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 3: The rules of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Come back in game. There's the first base runner of
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  Speaker 2: the day for the Brewers, and it's the speedy Bryce
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  Speaker 2: Durant reaching. A one-out walk here in the fourth, and
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  Speaker 2: it brings up Contreras.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 6: Pops it into the corner, pops it into the seats.
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  Speaker 3: A double for Contreras. towards the right field corner, Jake
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  Speaker 3: Bowers has got it again.
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  Speaker 6: Milwaukee's cut it in half with a two-run double from
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  Speaker 6: that man.
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  Speaker 7: Jake Bowers delivering with another quality at bat.
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  Speaker 2: A 4-2 game in the fourth. There he goes.
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  Speaker 3: Not in time.
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  Speaker 2: Stolen base, Sal Freeland.
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  Speaker 4: Hamilton grounds one through the base at center field.
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  Speaker 3: One pitch after.
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  Speaker 6: The stolen base, Hamilton delivers. The order has caught it.
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  Speaker 2: To one for the breakthrough. Taken for ball four, and
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee has loaded him up. Down 4-0 to a 4-3 game.
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  Speaker 4: Three balls and no strikes with nowhere to put it.
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  Speaker 2: It is a tie in the game.
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  Speaker 3: They just keep on coming.
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  Speaker 6: From down 4-0 to tied up in the fifth.
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  Speaker 2: Mitchell sends a.
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  Speaker 3: Fly ball to right center field. Tucker's going. It is gone.
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  Speaker 3: Milwaukee takes the lead.
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  Speaker 6: From down 4-0 to leading.
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  Speaker 3: 5-4 in game four. Struck him out.
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  Speaker 4: As good as a strikeout.
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  Speaker 7: For Ashby no chance for Will Smith to advance 1982.
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  Speaker 6: Hamilton gets into a ball.
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  Speaker 2: Deep on the field.
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  Speaker 3: David Hamilton goes yard.
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  Speaker 4: Something special about these Milwaukee Brewers.
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  Speaker 3: Hernandez to left center field.
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  Speaker 5: He gets there.
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  Speaker 4: And for the first time in 44 years, the Brewers
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  Speaker 4: are going to the World Series.
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  Speaker 7: But the bottom line is, we aim, right now, they.
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  Speaker 2: Got a bunch of Hall of Famers.
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  Speaker 7: We got a bunch of gamers.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome in to a special Friday edition of The Huddle.
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  Speaker 6: A pennant-winning edition of The Huddle.
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  Speaker 8: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, worldwide on
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  Speaker 8: the iHeart app.
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  Speaker 6: Not quite streaming live. Soon to be. Armin, are you
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  Speaker 6: streaming live?
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  Speaker 2: I'm Drew.
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  Speaker 6: Armin's behind the glass.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're on and our video's live, but we're just
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  Speaker 5: trying to get.
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  Speaker 6: You locked in.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody needs to see my face. They will soon, Drew.
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  Speaker 6: I scare small children. It's okay. Well, we've only waited
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  Speaker 6: 44 years for that. Glad to be on the air. Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't matter, right? Bill Schmidt is off today. He's
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  Speaker 6: on assignment. wedding in Rhinelander. What are you doing, Drew?
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  Speaker 6: It's killing him. What are you doing? It's killing him.
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  Speaker 6: Killing him.
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  Speaker 8: He has been on a total jihad against October weddings
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  Speaker 8: for this very, very purpose.
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  Speaker 6: And Billy's involved in this.
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  Speaker 8: He's given a best man speech and he's got all
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  Speaker 8: that stuff going on.
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  Speaker 6: There's nothing you can do about it when you're in
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  Speaker 6: the best man situation.
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  Speaker 5: There's really nothing you can do about it, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 8: But, oh, it's a glorious day to be a fan
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  Speaker 8: in the state of Wisconsin after 44 years of stumbling
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  Speaker 8: in the desert.
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  Speaker 6: Last night was payback for.
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  Speaker 8: The sting of last year's sweep at the hands of
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  Speaker 8: the vaunted Dodgers, the crew of Hall of Famers that
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  Speaker 8: Murph referenced in the opening montage that Armand put together
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  Speaker 8: courtesy of Fox Sports. Yeah, crew of Hall of Famers
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  Speaker 8: who pounded the Brewers last year, made them look like,
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  Speaker 8: you know, the freshmen against the varsity. They switched tracks
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  Speaker 8: on them and completely reversed the situation and Sweeping the bewildered, dumbfounded,
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  Speaker 8: and suddenly old-looking Dodgers in a fashion that no one
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  Speaker 8: expected and that John Smoltz and Alex Rodriguez and David
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  Speaker 8: Ortiz and Derek Jeter are still trying to process because
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  Speaker 8: they're still trying to figure out what happened. Many of
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  Speaker 8: the less-than-sellout crowd at Dodger Stadium, the Dodger faithful, they
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  Speaker 8: got old all of a sudden. It was a little
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  Speaker 8: bit like watching The post-championship bucks with Giannis and Brooke
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  Speaker 8: and Chris getting hurt a lot and just trying to
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  Speaker 8: limp their way to another title, it didn't work. The Brewers, young, hungry, undaunted,
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  Speaker 8: to use the phrase, fearless, come back off the deck
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  Speaker 8: for nothing. You tell me, raise your hand if you
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  Speaker 8: thought when Otani hit the home run last night that
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  Speaker 8: we thought, not only are we headed for a game
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  Speaker 8: five tonight, the series is now over.
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  Speaker 6: About to swing and hang in the balance.
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  Speaker 8: And yet, the pesky Brewers, as they always have this season,
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  Speaker 8: came back, answered six unanswered runs, big hits galore, clutch performances,
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  Speaker 8: great at-bats, lights out, relief pitching, even by Dustin May,
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  Speaker 8: who deserves a shout-out for shutting things down after he
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  Speaker 8: got the bomb to Otani.
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  Speaker 6: That was a big inning.
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  Speaker 8: But Ashby announcing his presence with authority, JoJo Romero showing
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  Speaker 8: why they traded for him, An epic, epic sweep for
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  Speaker 8: the ages. Now they've got a week off before they
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  Speaker 8: begin the World Series Friday night right here in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Drew, you put it right and you put
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  Speaker 5: it correctly that even the most positive among us probably
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  Speaker 5: could have looked at nothing but a game four loss
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  Speaker 5: after Otani gets the homer, fires up the crowd, has
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  Speaker 5: the big kind of hero moment for the Dodgers. And
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  Speaker 5: you say to yourself, all right, well, I guess they're
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  Speaker 5: in good shape to get one here. Like, you kind
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  Speaker 5: of get your dauber down early, but, like, you're down 4-0. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: you don't give up on this team. You never would.
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  Speaker 5: The way they keep fighting back, they've come back every
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  Speaker 5: game this series. And what they have done is just
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  Speaker 5: so impressive, inspirational, just transcendent, that you say to yourself, wow,
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  Speaker 5: what if they came back again to win the pennant
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  Speaker 5: in this fashion, down 4-0? And right away, they start chipping.
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  Speaker 5: Right away, they start, you know, putting pressure on glass now.
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  Speaker 5: Right away, the good at-bats. You know, right away, the woodpecking.
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  Speaker 5: It's pretty incredible. And you put it right. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: the inning by Dustin, to put the zeros right after
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  Speaker 5: was huge. Just keep chipping away. And then you could
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  Speaker 5: slowly see the confidence wane from the Dodgers. They were
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  Speaker 5: the ones, the back-to-back champs, to say, here we go again. Like,
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  Speaker 5: they were the ones to say, I can't believe this
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  Speaker 5: is happening. Pretty impressive stuff.
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  Speaker 6: It was.
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  Speaker 2: 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 8: NicoletLaw.com. Talk and text line. Billy's off, so we got
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  Speaker 8: some room today. We have a good show lined up
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  Speaker 8: for you. Tim Dillard is going to join the party.
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  Speaker 8: We'll get his thoughts. Old Tim Dillard from Brewers TV,
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  Speaker 8: friend of the program. He's going to join us at 225-ish.
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  Speaker 8: Hunter Baumgart's going to join us, we hope. He's been
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  Speaker 8: delayed a little bit. He's traveling back from Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 8: He was in the midst of it, providing great content
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  Speaker 8: on the socials.
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  Speaker 5: He's confident we're going to get him out. He's confident
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  Speaker 5: that the flight schedule should work out. We'll get him
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  Speaker 5: at the Las Vegas airport. All right, we'll get him
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  Speaker 5: at the Vegas airport at 3 o'clock. At 3.30, we're
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  Speaker 5: going to catch up with my partner.
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  Speaker 8: You need some historical perspective on a day like this.
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  Speaker 8: And I put a tweet into the ether last night
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  Speaker 8: about all the people you think of. And I didn't
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  Speaker 8: even scratch the surface of people I thought of last
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  Speaker 8: night that, you know, a million thoughts go through your mind.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure everybody felt kind of the same way. Like
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  Speaker 8: this was redemption. This was payback for last year for
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  Speaker 8: Pete Alonzo, for Pujols and Molina and, you know, those guys,
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  Speaker 8: Adam Wainwright and La Russa for those guys, for Sean
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  Speaker 8: Markham and Phillies, and Trent Grisham.
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  Speaker 6: All those names. All the names.
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  Speaker 1: Names.
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  Speaker 6: That's what everyone was going through. All the names through
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  Speaker 6: the ears. Ron Robinson.
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  Speaker 2: Names.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, the names. The names, yes. Nick Neugebauer. The 82.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, the Nick Neugebauers, the Kevin Barkers, the guys that
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  Speaker 8: didn't work out, the Jeffrey Hammonds, Joggin' Jeffrey. It just
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  Speaker 8: comes back to you in a flood. So today of
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  Speaker 8: all days, we'll catch up with my former running mate
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  Speaker 8: in the press box. You'll know my dear friends, Tom Hardercourt.
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  Speaker 8: The Prince of Darkness joins us. He was one of
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  Speaker 8: the guys I was on a text with last night.
• 9:43
  Speaker 8: I was texting a lot of people as the Brewers
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  Speaker 8: capped off this stellar, stellar run in the NLCS, still
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  Speaker 8: going on.
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  Speaker 6: But I was texting Hardercourt.
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  Speaker 8: I was catching up with my pal Dan Needles, the
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  Speaker 8: sports director emeritus at WISN 12 here in Milwaukee. And
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  Speaker 8: we're all just like, you know, is hell freezing over?
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  Speaker 8: This feels surreal. It feels a little bit, and this is, again,
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  Speaker 8: you'll have to take a knee. You youngsters out there,
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  Speaker 8: take a knee. Helmet's not a chair. Gather round. It
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  Speaker 8: feels a little bit like when the Badgers broke through
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  Speaker 8: and started going to Rose Bowls and they got good after, what,
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  Speaker 8: 50 years of ineptitude?
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  Speaker 6: In football.
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  Speaker 8: And when they went to a final four, that kind
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  Speaker 8: of stuff was unfathomable. The bucks, their 50 year quest
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  Speaker 8: to slake that championship thirst.
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  Speaker 6: It felt like that.
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  Speaker 8: It felt like when the Packers, you know, if you're
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  Speaker 8: not old enough to remember the Brett Favre run and
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  Speaker 8: Reggie white signing with them and all the things that
• 10:37
  Speaker 8: led to that Superbowl 31 victory, it just felt that
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  Speaker 8: it feels that.
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  Speaker 6: Fresh again, you know, winning never gets old.
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  Speaker 8: You know, the Dodgers might have been a little blase
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  Speaker 8: after winning two, and that's a big grind and everything,
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  Speaker 8: but it never really gets old.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't get old, but it does.
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  Speaker 5: Don't you think in some situations it can lose? You
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  Speaker 5: can become a little bit less sensitized?
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  Speaker 8: Maybe, but for us, it couldn't be more fresh because
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  Speaker 8: 44 years is a long time. So everybody's got their
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  Speaker 8: own bank of memories.
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  Speaker 6: About the Brewers and all.
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  Speaker 8: The suffering over all the years and all the bitching
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  Speaker 8: about the good players they had to trade because they
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  Speaker 8: couldn't afford them and, you know, players they couldn't draft
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  Speaker 8: because they didn't want to, you know, spend big money
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  Speaker 8: and all the things that all washes down the river now.
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  Speaker 6: And it's just the only, you know, it's joy.
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  Speaker 8: It's absolute unbridled joy that you feel. And it has become,
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  Speaker 8: I should put it on a t-shirt, trademark it, come
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  Speaker 8: a mantra of mine that 90 of being a fan
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  Speaker 8: is getting kicked in the cup yep kicked in the
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  Speaker 8: jimmy because you know you're you know you don't get
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  Speaker 8: the date with the pretty girl she says no or
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  Speaker 8: you screw something up or you it's just that's sports
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  Speaker 8: is like that your team will not always win things
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  Speaker 8: don't always go your way but this is the exception
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  Speaker 8: this is the 10 percent and We had, you know,
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  Speaker 8: we've had, I like to think that if you grew
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  Speaker 8: up at a certain point, like if you grew up,
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  Speaker 8: if you were born past whatever it was, October 20th, 82,
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  Speaker 8: you've never lived in a time when the Brewers were
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  Speaker 8: in the World Series.
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  Speaker 6: And now you are. I haven't. This is a new
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  Speaker 6: experience for me, Drew. Now you haven't.
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  Speaker 8: You had to live it through grainy films, YouTube, and
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  Speaker 8: VHS tapes.
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  Speaker 6: And all the moments we saw and the memories.
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  Speaker 5: And now we have finally, and I know a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people, and we don't know what's going to happen
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  Speaker 5: in the World Series, but Drew, we have a pennant winner.
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  Speaker 5: We have a team that can finally stand side-by-side with
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  Speaker 5: the 82 Brewers.
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  Speaker 6: Side-by-side.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 8: And maybe they'll get a parade and invite the 82
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  Speaker 8: guys along to wave in the convertibles. But yeah, obviously...
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  Speaker 8: It's funny. The Brewers are headed to the World Series.
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  Speaker 8: It'll start Friday, Milwaukee. They have home field advantage. They
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  Speaker 8: will be heavily favored. And don't worry, folks. For all
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  Speaker 8: the bitching you did about the national media, like favoring
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  Speaker 8: the Dodgers, the Brewers are the show now. They're the
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  Speaker 8: big dog. They're the favorite. They're the freight train. They're
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  Speaker 8: the team that's going to have the bigger payroll. They're
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  Speaker 8: the team with the expectations going in. Because is there
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  Speaker 8: anybody out there who has a preference over Tampa or Cleveland?
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  Speaker 8: I don't think anybody cares.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think there's different aspects to both. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, in terms of do you have a preference
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  Speaker 5: in terms of are you trying to go to a game?
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  Speaker 5: Do you want to crowd? Do you want to style? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: but in terms of in terms of matchups?
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  Speaker 6: No, no. They both have.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Tampa Bay was technically the better team. But
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  Speaker 5: does that mean that Cleveland couldn't beat you at this point?
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of a horse apiece, don't you think?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, they have, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Cleveland has great play. Kate Smith and Ramirez. And you
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  Speaker 5: think of the guys on each team, Caminero on the race. Sure.
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  Speaker 5: But I agree with you. There isn't one where you say, oh,
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  Speaker 5: this is a much better matchup than us. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you're going to have to win four games against a
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  Speaker 5: good team either way. So I would totally agree with you.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's just personal preference at this point in
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  Speaker 5: terms of your own, you know, situation, but not in
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  Speaker 5: terms of a matchup. I don't care who we play.
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  Speaker 5: It would be kind of cool if it was Cleveland.
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  Speaker 5: I think just because the atmospheres would be better. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't think in terms of like, no one's going
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  Speaker 5: to look at you like the 87 Twins now and say, well,
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  Speaker 5: they won the World Series, but this was an 85-win
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  Speaker 5: team and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 6: You just beat the Dodgers and you swept them.
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  Speaker 5: So if you win it all, there's going to be
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  Speaker 5: no Mickey Mouse aspect to this ring at all. So
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  Speaker 5: it doesn't matter who you play at this point, what
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  Speaker 5: matchup it is.
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  Speaker 6: No team.
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  Speaker 8: That plays postseason series in any one of the major
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  Speaker 8: North American men's professional sports Had ever swept a team,
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  Speaker 8: it had gotten swept by the year before since Elgin
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  Speaker 8: Baylor's 1967-68 Lakers flipped the script against Nate Thurman's Warriors.
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  Speaker 8: If I hear the names Elgin Baylor and Nate Thurman,
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  Speaker 8: I know we're in rarefied air.
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  Speaker 5: That's pretty awesome. What an amazing lift to the heavens
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  Speaker 5: this has been. This last four, five days, you get
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  Speaker 5: the first game and you're excited. You know, wow. We
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  Speaker 5: got a game off the Dodgers right away. That first
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  Speaker 5: one in the mid start didn't get swept.
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  Speaker 1: Boom.
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  Speaker 5: You get another one. You're like, wow, we're up to
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  Speaker 5: all going to LA. We got a shot at this thing.
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  Speaker 5: You win game three and then you start to taste
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  Speaker 5: this glory. And then last night, you know, it was
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  Speaker 5: the most, maybe because it was us, Drew, it felt
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  Speaker 5: the most trepidations of any 3-0 lead. Just because you
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: know if you're down one, then you have to deal
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  Speaker 5: with Scooble in game five. And then you might start
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  Speaker 5: to pucker if you had to go home in game six.
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  Speaker 6: No question.
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  Speaker 5: And the reality is you just weren't comfortable even last night.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, what a great comeback to get the lead. Garrett,
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  Speaker 5: a hero moment. However, you had 12 of the toughest
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: outs you're ever going to get. And JoJo is in
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: trouble in the sixth. Ashby had to deal with a
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  Speaker 5: guy in third with one out in the seventh and
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  Speaker 5: the eighth. I mean, just getting out of each jam,
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  Speaker 5: just ice water. What an incredible job he's done. And
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  Speaker 5: then David Hamilton, I mean, out of nowhere with his
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  Speaker 5: hero moment. You guys want an insurance home run from
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: a guy that never hits homers?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, sure, why not?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that was just, it's just icing on the cake, Drew.
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  Speaker 5: To be able to sweep this team. Not just win
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  Speaker 5: this series. We've all been happy with that. But to
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: sweep this team, it just feels like we've been lifted
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: to the heavens. We've been floating on clouds now for
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: 12 hours.
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: If you factor in luxury tax and payroll, the difference
• 16:11
  Speaker 8: in monetary outlay between these two teams was $ 378 million.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: Unbelievable.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: Brewers, $ 144 million.
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: The Dodgers, $ 522 million.
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: That is the David Goliath. That is the ultimate underdog.
• 16:26
  Speaker 8: That is the United States hockey team beating the Russians, basically.
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: And that's how shocking this was. But the Brewers, yes,
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: they were the best team throughout the season. Yeah, can't
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: take that away from them. But they got swept last year,
• 16:37
  Speaker 8: and the Dodgers are still the Dodgers. Now, that's a
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: dying dynasty. They're aging out. They're getting older. But what
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: the Brewers did is captivating. And so we're reveling in it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: We want your thoughts.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: 877-794-1973.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: To get you in text already.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: So yeah, we'll spin through those.
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: We'll take your thoughts and we're just going to have
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: some fun today and just bask in it.
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: Because again, this is the payback.
• 17:02
  Speaker 8: This is the 10% for 90% of getting tortured. And
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: I talked to someone, the brewers had the, the watch
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: party last night at American family field and they capped
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: it because of staffing and everything.
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: It was the first time they've done this. It was
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: 16,000 people.
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: Went in and had a party and watched the game
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: and it was almost, you know, the next best thing
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: to be in at Dodger Stadium was being at AmFam Field.
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: There were years when they averaged 16,000 at County Stadium.
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: That was their average attendance.
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: It's amazing. For a championship season game.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: The biggest attendance in County Stadium history, the only time
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: it went over 2 million, I think, maybe one other time,
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: was in 83, the year after they won the pennant.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: And it's just been like the absolute 180 since we
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: built the new stadium. Well, new stadium, but like, built
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: the stadium. And you're right, Drew, that was, they didn't,
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: they didn't have that at all. And now you, yes,
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: filling the stadium, being there for just a game like
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: this team, like they have to open this stadium for
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: the road games, right?
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: The world series. I mean, we're going to get to
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: all that. I know you would think so.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: I just want to hear from people today in there
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: and everyone's got a story, a journey that this is,
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: this has been such a long time and a lot
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: of years of waiting, hoping, dreaming, investing emotion, money, time,
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: and being a fan. Loving your team, genuine love for
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: your ball club and your, and your community that is
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: finally the pay, the taxes paid finally to go to
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: a world series.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: I mean, this was, and listen, we get it.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, I, and like, I think everyone gets the
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: feeling and I get.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: Why the prices are so high right now.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Cause everyone wants to go, everyone gets the feeling, but Drew, you,
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: you lived it in so many ways as a scribe.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: seeing so many of those teams, you know, and so
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: many of those journeys and, and, and in different ways,
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: hope that there might be a way like this new
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: group of brewers might be the one, this new group
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: of brewers might be the one, this team might be
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: the one. And, and the fact that we're sitting here,
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: October 16th, 2026, and it's, it's real. The brewers are
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: going to the world series. It's, it's an overwhelming thing,
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: you know, and it's an awesome moment.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: It is, and again, a lot of stars on this team.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: The way they did it, it's very endearing. It's captivating.
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: It's historic.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: It's galvanizing the community. How about this?
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: The Bucs announced that they're moving their home opener on Friday.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: We were talking about the possible conflicts.
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: By the way, the Packers now have the stage on Sunday,
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: and we will talk to Wayne Larrabee about their game
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: against the Cowboys on Sunday night football at 4.30. So
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: if your football fix will be filled on this football Friday.
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: Badgers have a big game in LA where they're still
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: cleaning the champagne off the carpets in the Dodgers visiting clubhouse.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: Well, they had a great time.
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: Badgers playing UCLA this weekend. Packers against the Bruins at
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: the Rose Bowl, which could be epic on Saturday night. Again,
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: the deck is cleared for you to watch that game.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: You've got some Admirals hockey this weekend. The Bucs moving
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: their home opener next Friday to 3 o'clock to avoid
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: conflict directly with game one. Game two of the World
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: Series will go directly against the Badgers and USC. But
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: these are what we call around here good problems. It's
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: good problems when your team is vying for a championship.
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: It's good stuff. Good problems to have. People are, you
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: know what, ticket prices being astronomical for the World Series.
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: Also, to me, even though it's frustrating, it's a good problem.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: I mean, it kind of is. Better than the alternative.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: I've talked to crafty people. It tells you how much
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: we care. I've talked to crafty.
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: People who are planning trips to Cleveland and Tampa right
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: now because they can go for cheaper and go experience it.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: They want to be part of it. Everybody wants a
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: piece of this.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Not to get too far into this discussion, but do
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: you think the market will settle a bit on these tickets?
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: I did.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: But I don't know, man. I don't know, man.
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: I brought up the analogy yesterday, and we'll be talking
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: about it all next week.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: But now they got to finish. They got there. They
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: broke through. Yeah. And not winning the World.
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: Series at this point would be a little bit like
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: the 1980 Miracle on Ice U.S. Olympic hockey team losing
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: to Finland in the gold medal game. And remember, they
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: wouldn't have gotten a medal for that. There's no medal
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: for second place in the World Series. They wouldn't have
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: gotten a medal. That's about what it's going to seem like.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: The Brewers are going to go in. Here's the thing.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: They're going to flip it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: They're going to instantly go from the hunter and the
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: sweepy to the hunted And the sweeper. And in the
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: World Series, no matter which team they face, if they
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: face Cleveland, the Brewers will have twice the payroll of
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: the Indians. That doesn't happen during the regular season hardly ever.
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: And it could happen in the World Series. A lot
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: of them aren't playing. The Brewers have 25% higher payroll,
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: I think, than even more than that. Maybe 40% higher
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: than the Rays. So the Brewers are going to be
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: the big payroll team. The big spenders in the World Series.
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: but they're still going to be the underdog in this
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: market and because of the way they're made up and
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: because of the way Murph has them playing. It's just
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: been a blast, and it's only going to get better.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: It's the Friday edition of The Huddle. Billy is out.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: We're going to go to our bench.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: Tim Dillard from Brewers TV is going to join us directly.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: You are in The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 22:41
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• 22:45
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• 22:50
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• 22:55
  Speaker 8: the people brewers are going to the world series They
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: need to see you, Drew. We haven't been able to
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: say that since 1982. 44 years later, we get to
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: say the Brewers are headed to the World Series. You
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: can reach us on the NicoletLaw.com talking text line 877-794-1973.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: We're going to be talking to Tim Dillard momentarily from
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: Brewers TV.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: He's a brewer through and through. And again, last night
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: was payback. Last night was a reward.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: For all the years of disappointment, nut punches, and everything
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: else that has happened over these years for the Brewers
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: in between.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: It's a payback.
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: It's like finishing a marathon, except we're still a couple
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: hundred yards from the finish line.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: And there's still games to be played. There is, but
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: let's not worry about that right now. Not worried about
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: that right now. Joining us now on the.
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: NicoletLaw.com talk and text line from Brewers TV is our
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: pal and yours, Tim Dillard. And Dilly, I was thinking
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: of you last night because you are a live wire
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: when you watch games. What was your reaction when Churrio
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: ran down that ball for the final out to send
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: to the Brewers to the World Series?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I left my seat. I was up in the air,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: probably the highest I've been in a while since I
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: stopped doing box jumps. when I was a player. Um,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: but yeah, it was the only natural reaction. Like you just,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: ball was hit, you were just, you know, edge your
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: seat and then boom. I mean, hard to describe, but
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: especially when I got my 11 year old jumping just
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: as high as I am. I mean, it's a great feeling.
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: So there's so many heroes in this game, so many
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: stories just in a single game. And that's the way
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: the Brewers have been. Like you, you're starting to get,
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: it's almost like, um, when the memory card on your
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: computer or your phone gets over overflowing and you got
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: to delete some stuff like the, the cheerio bat against the,
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: against the Padres and all the, you know, all this,
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: the big stolen bases, the, the big hits, the big
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: Jake Bowers at bats and Ashby, everything, all of it.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: What stands out to you as the things, you know,
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: the top two or three things that have happened last
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: night or in the series in general during this playoff run?
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Wow. I mean, like you said, that's a lot to
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: cover there. You know, so we have this thing that
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: we do, broadcasters, and it's called a Slack channel or
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: something that goes to sport radar. If you have an
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: obscure question about statistics or anything like that, you can
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: type it in. Anyway... I use it every once in
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: a while during the season. And I actually got on
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: there yesterday before the game because I was curious about something.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: And they hadn't actually been active since our last game
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: that we covered in September. So I just typed out
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: and said, hey, is there anyone there? And somebody typed back.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: And my question was, when was the last time a
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: team in a championship series, National League, American League, whatever,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: pitched or started three rookies? And the guy hit back
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: later and said it's only happened one other time in
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the history of the game, and that was in 2020.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: It was the Braves versus the Dodgers. So as soon
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: as Shane Drowen started the game, that means that the
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Brewers started three rookies in the series. That, to me,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: just speaks to how young this team is and how
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: amazing that is that they are able to accomplish this.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can have... all the veteran people that
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: are out there or whatever, but to play the way
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: they play, they're athletic, the youth helps. But when you
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: have a pitching staff, especially a starting staff this young,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: that to me stands out big time. I mean, I
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: know there's a lot of big moments, but overall, just
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: the youth of this team and having this much success
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: is crazy.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: Didn't last night encapsulate things, though, when Otani gets up
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: off the deck, hits a home run, he has his
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: moment of greatness.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: You're down 4-0.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: And it looked bleak. It looked like, all right, we'll
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: get them in game five. You know, the sweep is over.
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: And the Brewers clawed their way back with May shutting
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: them down and Romero and then Ashby. And just David
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: Hamilton with a home run.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: I mean, Mitchell with another home run off a lefty.
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: The back-to-back home runs in game three with the lefty left.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: I'll never off the Snell. Those you're never going to forget.
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: But the way they won that game, Dilly, when Otani
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: hit the home run, I thought, oh, we're at an
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: inflection point here because I thought the.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: Dodgers were going to win that game. And then, you know,
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: then you're facing Scooble.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: So it was as impressive as the sweep is.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: There was a moment last night when it felt precarious.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're throwing a lot of big words at me.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I'm curious. Inflection, I don't... I will say that, you know,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: the way they overcame, you know, you talked about a
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: lot of the hitters, but what about the starting staff
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: for the Los Angeles Dodgers? I mean, you're right. They
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: don't mess up a lot. So when you start recycling and, okay,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: here comes Scoogle again, here comes Yamamoto, here comes... Blake Snell,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, these guys are no jokes. And not to
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: say that they got lucky to get past them, but
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I will say that these guys are good for a reason.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: They make adjustments. They make serious adjustments. They got the
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: glass now last night. moments like that where you're just
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: like you as players, they have to feel like they
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: can beat anybody and you can coach all you want.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: You can build in. I mean, same thing with your kids.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: You can build them up. You can talk about how
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: good they are, but until they go out there and actually,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: you know, beat a juggernaut like that. I mean, that
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: just fills these guys with so much energy that they
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: can do anything. So I, I mean, for them to
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: kind of put them, put a stop to it, sweep
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: them and not have to cycle back through those pitchers
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: and But yeah, I do want to bring up David
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Hamilton because I don't know if y'all heard about what
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Pat Murphy said. Yes, that was awesome. That is awesome.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I wasn't there for that, so I assume it's a
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: true story. That is a real thing. If you're going
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: through the lineup, if you're in the bullpen, and you're like, okay,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: what's this guy done during the game? This guy's going
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: to do this. We've got our third baseman up in
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: the grass. He's probably going to bunt. You start thinking
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: about everything else except for, let me just execute this pitch.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: You're not thinking about keeping the ball in the yard.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I thought that was brilliant. And believe me, stuff like
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: that is real in baseball.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: I was going to ask you a different question, but
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: you've opened it up to Murph's. And managers don't usually
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: give out anecdotes like that because they're kind of like, oh,
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: look what I did, right? But Murph let that one
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: slip last night. And I'm wondering, he does a lot
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: of that stuff. And people are, you know, the whole
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: gamers and Hall of Famers thing that he dropped at
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: the end, people are like, oh, did you have that
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: one in the, you know, did you pre-cook that one up?
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: Were you holding that one? He's like, no, it just
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: came to me. And I kind of believe that. But
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: his impact on this team, Dilley, you've seen it.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: We've all seen it. since he took over. There were
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: times during the season.
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: And even during the playoffs, when I thought, why is
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: he letting Mitchell face a lefty here? He he's got,
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: you know, Sanchez or Vaughn or somebody could come in
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: and pinch it.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: And like, you could, I'm, I'm managing the game. Like,
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: why is he doing this?
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: And then you see Mitchell hit home runs off lefties.
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: And you're like, Oh, that's why he was putting into
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: the bank. And one of the things I've heard about
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: Murph and Dilly, you tell me if this is right,
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: that part of Murph's brilliance is managing veteran guys like
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: Yellich and Woodruff and coaching younger guys like the Cooper
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: Prats and Luis Laras who are still wet.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: In the ears.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I think, yeah, I think the common thread through
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: all this and what's something that Murph has mastered is
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: is being consistent. The whole game of baseball is built
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: on consistency. How many times can you do whatever it
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: is the right way? How many times can you get
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: it done? And I've had coaches in my career, whether
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: it's wherever I've been, all over the place, that are
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: just inconsistent people. You don't know who you're going to
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: be in contact with the next day. You may have
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: a manager that's screaming at you and the next day
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: he's trying to be your buddy. It's like, what in
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: the world? Or maybe you never see your manager. Or
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: maybe you got a pitching coach that's trying to tell
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: you how to throw a knuckle curveball and wants you
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: to throw 30 of them in a bullpen. And then
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: next day, he doesn't even bring it up. You You know,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: this weird stuff of like just being a consistent person.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Murph stepped into this role and he was fully prepared
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: in the way that the team is going to react
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: to a guy the best way when he is transparent
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: and authentic because he's not going to do anything just
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: to do it. they trust him because he's a trust.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: He's a person that they can, that is consistent. And
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: to me, that is what everything else is built around
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: is the fact that he is forthcoming. And yes, I
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: think he shares probably more than he should with us
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: in the press on the media side. I mean, but
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: we love it. We love it. This stuff is great.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: He is teaching the game of baseball, not just to
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: his players, but he's teaching it to us as well.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: And the fans.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: It's one thing with the young players. Okay.
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: Cooper Pratt, not running out of ball, but then William Contreras,
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: not running out of ball, right? Taking pitchers out in
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: the middle of a count. And you know, that, that,
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: those are the kinds of things fans love that kind
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: of stuff. But Dilly, some managers that can go awry.
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: I remember covering a game. The Brewers were placed. We're
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: playing the Phillies in Philadelphia. Larry Boa was managing them
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: and his pitcher, his starter. I don't remember who the
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: kid was, but the starter went three Oh on the
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: first batter and Boa's.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: On the top step screaming.
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: And I could see from the press boxes, jugular vein, uh,
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: And it was the first batter of the game. And
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: I'm like, oh man, like, what is that? What's that
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: doing to the kid? What's that doing to the rest
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: of the team? And it kind of like what you're
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: saying is a guy like that. Who's wired like that.
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: That'd be a lot to take over 162 games. If
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: he's like that.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: All the time. Yeah, but it's your job as the
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: manager to motivate your squad. And I think he has
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: the inside jokes with every player. I think he has
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: a relationship with every player. He not just has a
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: relationship with the team. I think he tries to build
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: relationships with every player. And when you want to sit
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: there and make a point... He can't play favorites. You
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: can't just only bench the young guys. You can't always
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: find a young guy, a position player, and be like,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: all right, I'm going to bench this guy to prove
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: a point. But I don't think you're going to see
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of managers across baseball go and sit one
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: of their studs. And let's be honest, Chris, the stud,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: take him out? Are you kidding? Why are you going
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: to do that? But I think his bigger goal is,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: I'm willing to sacrifice this moment, maybe even this game,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: to set... the tone for what he wants. And it's
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: almost like your kids, right? You've got to play the
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: long game. If you're one of the parents out there
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: that has a 10-year-old and you're climbing the fence screaming
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: at their coach about a game. You're not playing the
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: long game. The long game is you want good, you
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: want to raise good adults. You want to raise a
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: good ball player with perspective. And that's the kind of
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: thing that Murph is looking at. So when he does
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: stuff early in the season or spring training and onlookers
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: on the outside, we're like, what does this mean? What
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: is he doing? He is playing the long game. That
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: is what he is doing. And that takes patience. That
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: takes some foresight. You have to really get out and
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: try to figure out, okay, what's going to hinder this
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: club from And then you try to put a plan
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: in place. And a lot of that has to do
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: with building those relationships, building that trust, knowing that you
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: do have a plan and this is going in a
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: direction that's going to succeed for the team.
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: Tim Diller joining us from Brewers TV, friend of the program.
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: All right, Dilly, I've often said you can't win the
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: World Series before October, right?
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: People say, oh, you can't win it.
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: And I had a lot of people say, well, 103
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: wins is going to mean nothing if they don't win
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: the whole thing. I'm like, well, that's not really true.
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: But seeds can be planted. This is what we're talking about.
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: And to me, it's like I think the Padres Series
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: and the Dodgers Series in some ways were won before.
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: When the Brewers won the division in Pittsburgh, they didn't
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: lay down. They kept grinding. They got to 100. They
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: got to the best record, the number one overall seed.
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: They kept the foot on the gas. And then in
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: the midst of that, Murph made Yellich the captain and
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: gave him the seat. Everybody knew he was the captain,
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: but they made it official. And what went into that stew?
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: Because the Brewers have had the best record before, but
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: it almost felt like, oh, these games don't mean that.
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: They were still grinding. Like they....
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: Before the clinching game last night, they had early BP,
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: and there were a bunch of guys taking early BP.
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: So how key was that, that stretch after they won,
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: and how key was that that they went through this
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: last year to help them this year?
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. And you can even go back before
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: the All-Star break. They got swept by the Pirates. And
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: they go in the all-star break. I mean, I had
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: to leave a bad taste. So to come full circle,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: they clinch in Pittsburgh, and then they go out with
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: their A lineup and their A studs to win the
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: next day. I love that. Nothing changes. Haven't reached the goal.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Just keep playing this baseball. And there's all this thing, well,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: we got to get guys rest. We got to get
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: guys rest. So there was a game where we were broadcasting.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: I think they were in, I think, Philly. And we
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: were broadcasting from the UW Credit Union Plaza outside the stadium.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: And anyway, there was a game where... They had someone
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: out there. They left him out there too long. They
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: had a rebate up. And anyway, I brought up on
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: the show, like, man, why would you get a rebate
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: up right? Or yeah, like, why would you get them
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: up now? It's too late. And so anyway, I was
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: kind of second guessing Murph. Murph actually pulled me aside
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: in the clubhouse when they got back to town. He
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: was like.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I heard you were unhappy with some of my moves.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: And so I kind of explained what the move was. Like,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: why would you get this guy up if you weren't
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: gonna put him in? And if you're gonna get him up,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: why didn't you get him up sooner? And he kind
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: of let me behind the curtain a little bit on
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: what he was thinking and what he had going. So
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: this guy wants to win. He is pulling moves to win.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: And I respect that because he didn't have to come
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: and explain anything. He's the manager. He can do what
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: he wants. I think that right there has trickled to
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: every player that this guy wants to win and you
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: should too. And it starts in the minor leagues. I mean,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: I've been on a text thread with a lot of brewers.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Rick Sweet, the AAA manager, he's on there. And we're
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: just praising him because he is teaching these minor leaguers
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: that it's all about winning. And it's all about winning
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: all the time. And then, of course, the big leagues,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: you're expected to do that.
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: I'm thinking of guys like that, like Rick Sweet. I
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: go back to you, too, Dilly. Reed Nichols.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: Jack Zarensik. Guys who had a hand. Tom Flanagan. who's
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: been there forever. It's a group.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: Effort and a group accomplishment. A lot of guys people
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: don't see. That's a great point.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: In five seconds, I will tell you, I have been
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: a part of this organization in some capacity since 2001
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: when I was drafted. There are people that have been
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: here longer than me that are getting to witness this
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: World Series, and I just want to give a shout-out
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: to them. There are so many people that have sacrificed
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: for decades And it's got to be sweet for them,
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: and I hope they enjoy it because this is an
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: organization that has been outstanding to me, to my family,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: to my friends, to the people that I know. And
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: this is just a wonderful highlight on such a great organization.
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: That's awesome.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Timmy.
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: All right, Dilley, we're going to talk to you more
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: as we move forward and get ready for Friday night.
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: Can't wait for Friday night. But on the way out,
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: this is the one thing I had to ask you.
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: As a pitcher, is there any part of you that
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: said Ashby should have gotten at least a chunk of.
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: That MVP trophy? Bowers was awesome. He deserved it. But
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: so did Ashby.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, you could also have probably gone Contreras, too.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of different directions it could go. Yeah, Mitchell.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, I get it. But as a reliever, I
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: have a shirt that I used to wear around in
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: the clubhouse. A lot of us did. It said, relievers
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: are people, too.
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: I love that.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: That is awesome.
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, Ashby's not wired that way, man. And
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: he'd pitch whenever, wherever you want him. But, my God,
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: he was incredible.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: Especially last night. He was so cool.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: I don't know how you get out of those jams
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: multiple times. And with all that was on the line,
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: he was so calm.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: He's been in some big moments, too, right? He's married,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: got kids. Like, this is the stuff that happens. The
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: more experience you get. You're able to handle those moments.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: I thought his poise throughout this entire playoff has been
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: absolutely amazing. If you're a reliever out there and you're
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: trying to break in, watch what this guy does, how
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: he prepares. Watch how he is not overcome by the moment.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: That is what they are trying to get all relievers
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: to be like.
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: It's spectacular. Dilly, let's enjoy the ride. We'll talk to
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: you next week, my friend.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: All right, brother. See you then.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: Tim Dillard, Brewers TV, friend of the program.
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, baby.
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: It's fantastic. Yeah, we're going to be talking more about Murph.
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: Tom Hardicourt's going to join us, as well as Hunter Baumgart,
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: in the next hour of the program.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: Mitchell sends a fly ball to right center field.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Tucker's going back.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: Here it.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Is gone.
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: Milwaukee takes the lead.
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: Here at Mitchell, Home Run bringing us back. Fox Sports
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: Radio Wisconsin, the huddle. Drew Wilson-Armond starting today. Billy is
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: out and it's killing him. He's in Rhinelander at his
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: buddy's wedding. The whole family.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but he did tell me he's happy they swept
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: because he would have.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: Missed game five.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: Because he was doing speeches at the rehearsal.
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: He would have been doing speeches and been at the
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: reception and stuff, right?
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: Rehearsal dinner and all that, I'm thinking. Oh, yeah, yeah,
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: the rehearsal dinner tonight. Yeah, that's right. I'm sure, I
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: know my man Billy would have had his phone.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Ready and everything.
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: And no conflict with the Packers game on Sunday. We'll
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: talk to Wayne Larrabee coming up at about 425 today.
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: You can reach us, 877-794-1973. Loving your texts. Time for
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: our Current Electric Superhero of the Day. We just talked
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: to Tim Dillard. We're going to split it. We're going
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: to split the baby today, Armin. Got to give it
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: to Ashby and Bowers. A lot of guys deserve it.
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: I mean, actually, yeah, this whole Brewers team. I mean,
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: let's give it to the whole team. Current Electric, callcurrent.com,
• 41:21
  Speaker 8: the website for the best electricians in the area. They
• 41:24
  Speaker 8: have superheroes on the side of the van, superheroes inside
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: the van, superheroes with the customer service that they provide.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: Check them out, callcurrent.com. This entire Brewers team. You had
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: a great post last night about that. Oh, yeah.
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: I would also say, I don't think legally, I mean,
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: maybe in a news hit we can during a top
• 41:44
  Speaker 8: of the hour or something. I don't think we can
• 41:46
  Speaker 8: play Jeff Levering's call.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: No, but you hear it. It's out there. If you know,
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: you know. Oh, my God. The Brewers have won. He
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: did an homage to Harry Doyle. My knees buckled when
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: I heard that.
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: He worked in a Uke reference, which he's done slyly
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: in previous occasions. I think the first home run. that
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: the Brewers hit after Yuke's passing. He did the get up,
• 42:04
  Speaker 8: get up, get out of here. I mean, that dude is,
• 42:07
  Speaker 8: Jeff is on point. He had a great call last night.
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: The call you just came back with. I mean, Joe
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: Davis was pretty excited about a Garrett Mitchell home run.
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: I think we should all note that. He sounded great, too.
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: His calls were fantastic. Joe Davis is really good.
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: I don't want to hear about it. They were good.
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: Don't worry about the panel.
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: Don't worry about anybody. They're going to be picking. They're
• 42:22
  Speaker 8: going to be loving the Brewers. They're going to be
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: glazing your favorite team.
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: David Ortiz was glazing Wisconsin. They really were.
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: Talking about Appleton, Green Bay.
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: Even the back half of the... of the A-Rod quote
• 42:35
  Speaker 8: that everybody got mad at. It was really tough to watch.
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: It's like when Mike Tyson got beat the first time,
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: he was trying to compliment the Brewers through the lens
• 42:42
  Speaker 8: of the Dodgers and whatever. We're not going to go
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: down that line.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: Because it's stupid.
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: No, but when you say heroes, I think about everybody,
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: like all the guys involved. And, you know, you talk
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: about the people you covered.
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: Drew, all those years. Well, Doug Melvin, Gord Ash, Jack Zarensik.
• 42:57
  Speaker 8: I mentioned Tom Flanagan, who used to be a clubhouse kid.
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 43:00
  Speaker 8: And is now the farm director, and he's been there
• 43:02
  Speaker 8: from the beginning. And Tony Migliaccio is the guy that,
• 43:05
  Speaker 8: when I think of the Brewers, I think of people
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: like that.
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: People that worked in the late.
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: Tom Skibosh, the PR director, Mario Zeno, I think of
• 43:12
  Speaker 8: Dick Hackett. I think Betty Grant, the old receptionist at
• 43:15
  Speaker 8: County Stadium that I used to deal with all the
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: time when I would call to talk to Sal Bando.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: Everyone's favorite Bob Kozlowski. Everyone's favorite Lorraine in the press box.
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: Sal Bando, the ushers, the guys that you know. Randy Olowinski,
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: the director of security. Steve Ethier, who's in charge of
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: the building.
• 43:28
  Speaker 8: Rick Schlesinger, who's on the brink of retiring and might
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: do it with a ring and ride off into the
• 43:33
  Speaker 8: sunset and go to Arizona.
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: All these people have put so much into it over
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: the years.
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: The development guys, the farm system guys, and even like
• 43:42
  Speaker 8: I mentioned Tony Migliaccio, but there's also Jason Schager, the
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: equipment guy, Dan Larea, the traveling secretary.
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: I see them. Everybody's like, oh, are you rooting for
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: the Brewers? I root for them.
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: I want them to be happy because I've known them
• 43:53
  Speaker 8: for a long time.
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: And I know the blood and sweat and tears that
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: they put into it.
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: And Phil Rosowitz, who runs the visiting clubhouse, all these guys,
• 44:02
  Speaker 8: you know, are part of, to me, they're the fabric
• 44:04
  Speaker 8: of the Brewers.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: They are. They're the lifeblood of it. I mean, they're
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: the ones that keep you connected with the memory, and
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: that's what's so cool about it.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: Matt Arnold and his crew, the Ivory Tower guys, like,
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: The scouts.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: The scouts who beat the Bushes and find the Cooper
• 44:20
  Speaker 8: Prats of the world and develop relationships and help sign them.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: It was Verasierto and Luis Perez, the guys that first
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: watched Jackson Cherry was a 14-year-old in Venezuela.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: Somewhere they were doing it.
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: I'm thinking about, you know, even the guys down at
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: the Timber Rattlers who are a part of this, too. Like,
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: everybody's connected to it in some way, and it's cool
• 44:37
  Speaker 8: to see them. And the unsung coaches like Jim Henderson, well,
• 44:41
  Speaker 8: Chris Hook, of course, Jim Henderson, Daniel Vogelbeck, And Charlie Green,
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: who has a huge role on this team, developing catchers.
• 44:49
  Speaker 8: He made Contreras a good catcher. And he runs the
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: bullpen and gets those guys fired up and confident. It's
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: just everybody. But I go back and back and back
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: to Phil Garner.
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: Guys that were really good baseball people, very close, worked
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: very hard to try and have this dream come true
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: for the Brewers.
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: And Ned Yost, who went on and went to a
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: couple World Series with the Royals, winning one. He helped
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: change the culture back in the day. It didn't lead
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: to instant benefits, but he laid the foundation. I think
• 45:18
  Speaker 8: a Craig Council had a hand in this. going to
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: piss people off.
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: There's no question it's true, though. Yeah. I mean, is
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: he in a relationship with Pat Murphy?
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, yeah.
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: Murph wouldn't be here if it wasn't for counsel. We'll
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: talk about all this and more. Hunter Baumgart's going to
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: join us from the airport. Coming up, you're in the huddle.
• 45:31
  Speaker 8: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.