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08/17/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Streaming live on Facebook X and YouTube. I'm Drew Olson,
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Speaker 1: joined by mister Bill Schmid.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, sir, how are we feeling this morning?
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Speaker 1: Let's ride standing and arman sorry and the band is
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Speaker 1: together again today, and what a glorious weekend. We have
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Speaker 1: to recap game balls and kicks. The balls that can
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Speaker 1: wait a little bit. How about them Brewers.
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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, just up off the mat and calming down,
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Speaker 3: just channeling their inner Jake Bowers. Not only the four
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Speaker 3: hits yesterday, how about we just calmed the out call
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Speaker 3: it took. Whether it was in the locker room or
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Speaker 3: the fan base, it seems like it might have worked.
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Speaker 1: From the worst series of the season two arguably the
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Speaker 1: best series of the season, all in one week, Brewers
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Speaker 1: wrap up the death March day off today. They finally
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Speaker 1: made it to the finish line. Yes, and they finished
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Speaker 1: this series. This stretch of seventeen games in seventeen days,
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Speaker 1: which included it kind of overlapped. We had two West
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Speaker 1: Coast you know, to West Coast run ending it and
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Speaker 1: they were ten and seven.
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Speaker 4: My goodness, amazing.
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Speaker 1: You don't know they were ten and seven. That doesn't
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Speaker 1: sound that impressive. But a ten and seven with all
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Speaker 1: the guys on the il and with all the guys
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Speaker 1: who running a ten and seven running Andrew Vaughan at
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Speaker 1: third and Gary Sanchez at first, and guys that didn't
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Speaker 1: even know anybody showing up and playing that day from
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Speaker 1: other organizations parachuting in to start games, that's pretty impressive.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a base sighting, a Johnny Rocket sighting.
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Speaker 3: I thought that was only in cafeterias in Vegas, and
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Speaker 3: then apparently now he runs through and plays second base.
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Speaker 3: And in the midst of you came into it, or
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Speaker 3: went through stretches of it with like a sub two
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Speaker 3: hundred Christian Yelich and William Contreras in the midst of it,
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Speaker 3: right like Tarang goes down in the midst you get
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Speaker 3: hopefully woken up Contreras here at the end of it,
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Speaker 3: and it wraps up a hell of a lot better
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Speaker 3: than the eighteen games and seventeen days did right now,
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Speaker 3: there was a four or five four games in five
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Speaker 3: days series in Saint Louis. You won four of those
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Speaker 3: five in that run of eighteen games and seventeen days
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Speaker 3: up until the All Star break. But you almost didn't
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Speaker 3: even get to enjoy that part of the meal because
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Speaker 3: the dessert was so awful. All anybody could talk about
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Speaker 3: on the way home and into the break was that
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Speaker 3: three game sweep at Pittsburgh. And I don't know that
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Speaker 3: anybody's remembering the San Diego swoon that happened, because now
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Speaker 3: everybody's just juiced up by the finish in LA and guys,
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Speaker 3: the Carni Bowl that was yesterday, Yeah, yesterday for Matt
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Speaker 3: Arnold and the Milwaukee Brewers. Matt Arnold's got to be flexing,
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Speaker 3: strutting into that office today, gotta be feeling good, smilin
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Speaker 3: and maybe he just call Scott Harris up with the
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Speaker 3: Detroit Tigers just says you mad, Sorry, Bob, Sorry, Bob.
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Speaker 2: We knew it, we knew something.
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Speaker 3: Didn't want to give up Logan Henderson and then he
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Speaker 3: has a career day against the man that they wouldn't
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Speaker 3: trade him for.
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Speaker 2: That was just dessert. Yesterday.
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Speaker 5: It's amazing in this stretch. I mean, you really can't
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Speaker 5: question what they've done at all. If you really can't
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Speaker 5: question him, he's always right. I mean, he always basically
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Speaker 5: doesn't miss in the front office. And it's remarkable the
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Speaker 5: way those things work out. Remarkable this way, the way
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Speaker 5: this team always bounces back from adversity. Coming back off
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Speaker 5: that San Diego series, guys, was like, you know, obviously
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Speaker 5: one of the toughest of the year.
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Speaker 4: You know, you're facing adversity in the face.
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Speaker 5: Your lead is down to three or four at that point,
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Speaker 5: and boom, you come back and take three or four
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Speaker 5: against the Dodgers when you need it the most. This
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Speaker 5: team has defined themselves on it. When they did it again,
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Speaker 5: but not really just this year, over the last few years.
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Speaker 5: I mean, when the foot slips a little bit, they
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Speaker 5: always find a way to get back and get stronger
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Speaker 5: up the hill. And it's just pretty amazing. And they
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Speaker 5: did it again this weekend three or four. And it's amazing.
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Speaker 5: You talk about erasing the memory of the San Diego series,
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Speaker 5: you know, it's amazing how different a three and four
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Speaker 5: West Coast road trip looks after you win the three
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Speaker 5: in La and like not if you swept San Diego
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Speaker 5: and got swept by the Dodgers.
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Speaker 4: It's just we just love it.
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Speaker 5: We love getting the better taste in our mouth coming
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Speaker 5: back at the end of the series. So awesome, awesome performance.
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Speaker 5: It started with Thursday changing the momentum around that rally
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Speaker 5: to win the game. It's one of those you're gonna
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Speaker 5: look back on and say, that was quite a turning
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Speaker 5: point for the year. You know, when you had to
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Speaker 5: you know, extend the arm a little bit, and now
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Speaker 5: you're at a five game lead.
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Speaker 4: So awesome stuff.
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Speaker 1: The next big thing lurking is at the end of
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Speaker 1: the month when they play the Cubs seven times in
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Speaker 1: ten days.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, nationally Central Division Championship.
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Speaker 1: But folks, folks who like focus on that and freak
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Speaker 1: out again, like the Bruis and Cups are evenly matched.
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Speaker 1: Let's just look at what the Bruers just did against
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Speaker 1: the Padres. And you know, if you do that, if
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Speaker 1: you go three and four, not great, right, but you've
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Speaker 1: lost a game.
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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, but they'll pick up a game.
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Speaker 3: Good luck with that one. Yes, that's the thing.
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Speaker 1: It's like, unless it's in serious like, oh great, we
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Speaker 1: get to play them had to head, Well, you better
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Speaker 1: win like six games if you want to pick.
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Speaker 2: Up totally Yeah and Drew.
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Speaker 3: The other part of how this ended up being so
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Speaker 3: big was what happened at Wrigley the Saint Louis Cardinals
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Speaker 3: going in, yeah and taking care of some business for you,
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Speaker 3: where Mike Vasallo put it out yesterday. They started the
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Speaker 3: run of seventeen games in seventeen days, up five and
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Speaker 3: a half in the division. They finish it up five
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Speaker 3: to five, vision and a half game with the Cubs
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Speaker 3: playing their asses off, just dominating, rolling, and instead you
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Speaker 3: swipe three or four there, you change up the mathematics
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Speaker 3: going into the back end, and you're right that Now
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Speaker 3: it just continues to get more and more daunting as
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Speaker 3: the Cubs, yes, can continue to breathe life into their
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Speaker 3: division title hopes because of that those head to heads.
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Speaker 3: But you really got to be doing some work, and
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Speaker 3: hard to say either one of these teams is light
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Speaker 3: years better than anyone. I don't know that you can
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Speaker 3: say any team right now in baseball is light years
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Speaker 3: better than the Brewers, especially currently constructed. Dodgers will get healthy,
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Speaker 3: but the Brewers will get healthy as well.
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Speaker 4: Dave Roberts.
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Speaker 5: Shure doesn't think so. Some of his post game stuff
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Speaker 5: was interesting. We'll try and smit through that, but yeah,
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Speaker 5: I mean basically.
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Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing, and this is what makes it
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Speaker 1: impressive is this was for eh, okay, the season series
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Speaker 1: against the Dodgers, which could end up being.
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Speaker 2: Big, but end up being big.
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Speaker 1: You don't know, Yeah, it's the Dodgers, and Dave Roberts
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Speaker 1: admitted this. We really we wanted to win this game.
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Speaker 1: They had their A lineup in on a Sunday, they
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Speaker 1: had their ace that they went and traded for at
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Speaker 1: the deadline, and the Boston barrister friend of the program
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Speaker 1: hit me up and he said, a showing like this
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Speaker 1: against their A lineup with their ace on the mound.
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Speaker 1: This may not be playoff baseball, but I feel better
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Speaker 1: about this game than I did last season about the series,
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Speaker 1: the season series sweep last season.
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Speaker 3: Totally agree, Totally agree, because last year it felt like
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Speaker 3: and the sweep at Dodger Stadium not like it was
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Speaker 3: that you could you know, laugh at it or anything
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Speaker 3: or sneeze at it a year ago, but it did
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Speaker 3: feel like you were facing off against Emmett Sheehan and
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Speaker 3: a bunch of other random cats that were collecting.
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Speaker 2: Their Dodger blue.
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Speaker 3: We were just ding their time and they're waying for
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Speaker 3: Glass now Snelling everybody role. But now all those guys
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Speaker 3: are coming back, right Snell just pitched Glass now's doing
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Speaker 3: rehab starts. You faced Yamamoto and Scooble in this run,
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Speaker 3: and that's pretty damn good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And Robeleski, who you put on the il's sycause he
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Speaker 3: was their all star this year.
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Speaker 5: They all star, and I mean they're forcing him in
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Speaker 5: a long relief. Yeah, you talked to were about ten
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Speaker 5: out of ten and seven. You know, I think that's
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Speaker 5: like a ninety five win year if you do that
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Speaker 5: over the course of a year like that's so that's
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Speaker 5: pretty impressive.
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Speaker 4: That's baseball, right though. I mean you have been try
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Speaker 4: and get those edges.
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Speaker 5: So yeah, well, what an incredible weekend for the Brewers
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Speaker 5: to bounce back and you're and you saw your guys
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Speaker 5: showing up.
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Speaker 4: You know, I mean, obviously.
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Speaker 5: Bowers has continued his great year, transformational, but you know, miss,
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Speaker 5: I mean getting out of that rally in the fourth
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Speaker 5: on Saturday night, you know when that was the tipping
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Speaker 5: point right there. But that's the that's the guy you want,
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Speaker 5: and you need to do those type of things. You know,
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Speaker 5: if you're gonna be at a spot competing with the
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Speaker 5: team like that where you hope to be this year,
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Speaker 5: you need your best players to be their best and
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Speaker 5: now is a great example of that too.
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Speaker 4: So all weekend you saw examples of that.
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Speaker 5: Mary's in already. Good morning fellows, go Bruce sign Jake now.
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Speaker 2: Ooh Mary, I love where your head's at. I did.
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Speaker 3: Now that shows where the different small marketisms come to,
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Speaker 3: because I looked at the Jake Bauers contract as to, uh,
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Speaker 3: does he have time where they would be able to
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Speaker 3: flip him in the off season. He wou be able
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Speaker 3: to cash it on a career year from Jake Bowers,
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Speaker 3: well timed by the young man, well timed going into
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Speaker 3: a contract year, Uh to be able to have this
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Speaker 3: kind of renaissance. He making himself just barrels of cash
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Speaker 3: for barrel man Bowers over the last couple of months.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean it's changed his life this year. Yes, no, no,
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Speaker 4: you are.
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Speaker 3: He's walking himself into what you would assume would be
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Speaker 3: a two to three year deal somewhere and making legit
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Speaker 3: money for a guy who has had the battle, scrape
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Speaker 3: and claw for everything he's gotten in the major leagues.
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Speaker 2: It's incredible to see.
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Speaker 3: And I did like him last night when he could
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Speaker 3: taken the victory lap with Sophia. It's like, I think
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Speaker 3: everybody listened to you, Jake.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that anybody listens to me.
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Speaker 4: I don't know that anybody's listening.
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Speaker 2: To me, but I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: I just think we got to remember that we're a
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Speaker 3: good baseball team and that we're pretty dang good. And
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Speaker 3: now they get a day off in their own bed.
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Speaker 3: When was the last time they had that. I think
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Speaker 3: one of the last off days was drew in LA
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Speaker 3: which again worst cities to have an offense family trip
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Speaker 3: when they all went to the went to Disneyland. But
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Speaker 3: now to be able to relax, kick your feet up,
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Speaker 3: play with the kids, and then get back to ball
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Speaker 3: tomorrow night. Uh, perfect time for them to refocus with
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Speaker 3: what thirty some games left. I mean it is getting
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Speaker 3: it's getting late, and it's getting back to the to
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Speaker 3: the closing mark, and then you almost forget about because
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Speaker 3: the last two games were so dang good and so sweet.
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Speaker 3: They almost swiped Friday night too. That's I mean, you
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Speaker 3: wake up and look at that box score the next
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Speaker 3: day and you're like, oh, okay, sweet, nothing offensively, and
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Speaker 3: then you go back and watch Diaz almost come bust
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Speaker 3: again on Friday night in the ninth inning.
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Speaker 2: That would have been no, I'm not there's no knockout
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Speaker 2: blows to anybody. That would have been a hard one
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Speaker 2: to go back to.
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Speaker 3: If you're Dave Roberts night night after a vote of
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Speaker 3: confidence and he gives up a two run lead. There, uh,
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Speaker 3: perfect Brewer baseball throughout the four games out there now.
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Speaker 5: Definitely wonder if it's gonna make them think about Diz
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Speaker 5: and going forward. If you're in that situation, maybe in
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Speaker 5: the playoffs, you believe you can get a guy like
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Speaker 5: that and make again his cage raddled a little bit.
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Speaker 4: So that's important too. Even though you don't get the wins.
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Speaker 1: Missing Tarang, missing your rebay, missing like you know, a
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Speaker 1: bunch of dudes.
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Speaker 5: A lot of guys and missing a lot of guys
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Speaker 5: even though they're playing their bats, like.
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Speaker 4: You know, that's the other thing. Yeah, a lot of
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Speaker 4: guys aren't even hitting right now.
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Speaker 1: I was playing right now, But you forget Freelick was
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Speaker 1: a starting player, Like there's there's guys that it's been
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Speaker 1: pretty incredible.
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Speaker 3: So it sounded like Freelick might be back coming up
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Speaker 3: this week, potentially back on Tuesday as well. Now, so
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Speaker 3: we're what were we Where did your nervousness got all
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Speaker 3: at any point throughout the week with terrang Because when
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Speaker 3: I hear the second opinion, drew and uh oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: he totally could have bat it tonight, totally could about it.
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Speaker 2: But we're going to get a second opinion.
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Speaker 3: I was wondering if that was we're worrying if we
11:12
Speaker 3: have to go under some anestiegia and go under the
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Speaker 3: knife with this thing, or if we can put it
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Speaker 3: off for a couple of weeks, put it off for
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Speaker 3: a couple of months.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean now they're saying, like, you know, he
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Speaker 1: was out running and doing testing it out.
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Speaker 3: When I saw him doing when I saw him doing
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Speaker 3: the blocking sleet, that doesn't look like somebody with a tormentiscus.
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Speaker 2: No, I feel a lot better.
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Speaker 3: They'll be very mum and we might hear about it
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Speaker 3: maybe if they do. Brewers on Deck in February, right, like,
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Speaker 3: if he does get it cleared up. But there were
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Speaker 3: some moments there where I was wondering if you were
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Speaker 3: going to see him again with that kind of news
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Speaker 3: and that kind of conversation around the knee. That that
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Speaker 3: was a dicey conversation for a couple of days.
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Speaker 1: So the sweep by the Padres was basically like going
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Speaker 1: and losing to the Pittsburgh right before the break, That's
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Speaker 1: what it felt like. And then to bounce back and
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Speaker 1: get three out of four. The whole the whole thing
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Speaker 1: swung with the Thursday Night thriller we watched at the
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Speaker 1: end of Packer's ot and that like laid the groundwork,
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Speaker 1: and you're right, they could have won Friday, miss pitch Saturday,
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Speaker 1: and then you better win when miss pitch to win Sunday,
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Speaker 1: when you know, like I said, the Doughters were rolling
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Speaker 1: their a game out there. Their ace pitcher Roberts was
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Speaker 1: they were playing to win. They wanted to win. They
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Speaker 1: kicked it around a little bit brewers took advantage. And
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Speaker 1: it's like I happened to be at State Ferry yesterday
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Speaker 1: and let's go within earshot of the bud pavilion, was
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Speaker 1: able to hear the little bit of a roar of
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Speaker 1: the crowd or the crowd. Yeah, those people were enjoying.
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Speaker 1: I was there before all hell broke loose and there
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Speaker 1: were fights and a cop got punched apparently.
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Speaker 2: Yeah last night. You know, it's tradition. Unlike any other.
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Speaker 1: People the MERI didn't get punched in the face and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that.
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Speaker 5: Well it must be when they when they give the
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Speaker 5: awards out to the cows that last day and they judged.
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Speaker 4: I think that's against people fired up, you know what
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Speaker 4: I mean?
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Speaker 2: Well, I was. I was at one of the cow
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Speaker 2: auctions earlier in the fair.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the governor, you talk about big money, they get
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Speaker 4: some big That.
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Speaker 3: Was impressive stuff. And like the gambler in me was
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Speaker 3: very much having fun. Those of numbers are being thrown around.
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Speaker 3: I was having I was having.
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Speaker 2: A lot of fun.
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Speaker 5: I just like that to know that those guys are
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Speaker 5: good enough to look at an animal like that and say,
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Speaker 5: you know that's gonna be where we get that rump
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Speaker 5: ros that nice ribbi that you know, the short loine.
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Speaker 5: They know where the meat's gonna come from. So I'm
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Speaker 5: pretty impressed by that. But yeah, Billy, it gets it
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Speaker 5: gets well.
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Speaker 2: I thought the ribbies were only coming from Joey Ortiz.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's the man best ops in the nl over
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Speaker 5: the last six weeks.
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Speaker 3: I just think about the players that are in that
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Speaker 3: that's amazing, Like Jordan Walker, who just had three extra
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Speaker 3: base hits yesterday. Yeah, all the guys in this Dodger
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Speaker 3: lineup that went through about they were talking about Joey Ortiz,
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Speaker 3: an eight or and nine hole hitter in there, and
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Speaker 3: last year Drew. We had a lot of fun towards
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Speaker 3: the end of the NLCS in the midst of our copes,
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Speaker 3: Arman and I did I know bs of going through
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Speaker 3: the Dodger line I've been thinking, well, that guy would
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Speaker 3: be the highest paid player on the Brewers. Yes, oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: we got all the way down to Tommy Edmund would
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Speaker 3: have been the highest paid player on the Brewers. So
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Speaker 3: seeing Tommy Edmund boot potentially too. Now did they give
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Speaker 3: that error to bets? Where would where there was a
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Speaker 3: weird It was a weird situation. Brian Anderson was not
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Speaker 3: a big fan of that, that ruling and scoring decision,
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Speaker 3: but weird one flipped over. Edmund probably could have caught it,
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Speaker 3: but it was hot potatoes so weirdly from Bets, I
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Speaker 3: think he ended up getting the air on it.
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Speaker 5: I was like the guy in a playground that would like,
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Speaker 5: whip whip it at your knees from two feet of Wednesday.
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Speaker 4: Why did you catch what? Did you catch it? To it?
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Speaker 3: It was right there, yeah, but the second one was
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Speaker 3: right there and Edmund unable to get it with the
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Speaker 3: infield playing in just an absolute death nail right at
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Speaker 3: the end. And I love to see their best guys.
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Speaker 3: As you mentioned, they tried out their A lineup. They
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Speaker 3: ran everybody out there and the only one that had
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Speaker 3: much to show for it was Pahz. Huge, huge moment
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Speaker 3: from Aaron Ashby though yesterday he gets as he trots
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Speaker 3: out to face show Hao Tani and then they listed
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Speaker 3: off show Hao Tani's resume against Aaron Ashby like five
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Speaker 3: of nine or five of seven in.
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Speaker 2: His career, two of three this year. Be sure this
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Speaker 2: is the matchup we're going to.
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Speaker 3: You're like, oh, this is what we're wanting, and all
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Speaker 3: of a sudden ground into a double play started by
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Speaker 3: Johnny Rockets. That was impressive moment and you could feel
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Speaker 3: the wind get taken right out of that stadium with
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Speaker 3: that at Bath.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, if you think about that moment and then the
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Speaker 5: mis Mizerowski won on Saturday Night, Like in the totality
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Speaker 5: of the series, you're like, how many times can you
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Speaker 5: play the fire with giving Otani a chance like that? Now, Miss,
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Speaker 5: You're like, okay, miss is the chance to strike anybody out,
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Speaker 5: you know, and he does. He gets him in Freeman
15:43
Speaker 5: back to back. But then with Ashby and you're like,
15:46
Speaker 5: oh boy, here we go because you're just opening for
15:47
Speaker 5: the best in that situation and gets in the roll
15:50
Speaker 5: over like that and you get the plate. Wow, huge,
15:52
Speaker 5: huge play and that did like Ashby, uh now is
15:55
Speaker 5: like sprinting everywhere to first like I know you guys,
15:57
Speaker 5: oh yeah, like yeah, with a little sense of you
16:00
Speaker 5: know where I do like that as well. But it's
16:01
Speaker 5: a good reminder how big Ashby's been. I mean, he
16:03
Speaker 5: pitches so much that you know, you have really good
16:06
Speaker 5: moments a lot of times, you also have some moments
16:08
Speaker 5: of struggle, and he's had that recently. But that was
16:10
Speaker 5: as big of a double play as you're gonna.
16:12
Speaker 4: See all year. So that was a monster, monster play.
16:14
Speaker 1: Ashby learned his lesson. Hopefully he'll never have to worry
16:17
Speaker 1: about throwing running the first base hard again.
16:19
Speaker 2: But that cool check powers over at first base with fitness.
16:22
Speaker 4: That's what we need.
16:22
Speaker 5: Little self improvement, self awareness and improving on that.
16:25
Speaker 3: You know, that's right well, And I also like Logan
16:27
Speaker 3: Henderson channel and his inner misz at this ball.
16:30
Speaker 2: I'm not throwing this thing. I'm way too fired up.
16:33
Speaker 2: I'm stepping on that bag and run right to the shower.
16:35
Speaker 4: What a job by him.
16:36
Speaker 1: Eight seven seven seven seven three is your ticket to
16:39
Speaker 1: get in. There are a couple of people and we're
16:41
Speaker 1: going to read through some texts. There are a couple
16:43
Speaker 1: of people who are again who kind of predicted this.
16:45
Speaker 1: We were trying to be positive playing in the Dodgers.
16:49
Speaker 1: Not a reason to just give up before you start.
16:52
Speaker 1: It's an opportunity. Great moments made from great opportunities. This
16:56
Speaker 1: has been a great season for the Birds and that
16:57
Speaker 1: was quite the roller coaster of a week. They get
17:00
Speaker 1: a day off to reflect a couple of like, you know,
17:03
Speaker 1: you think winnable series again, don't take anything for granted.
17:05
Speaker 1: It's gonna say we keep rolling, just keep rolling, just
17:08
Speaker 1: keep checking boxes until you can get to where you
17:11
Speaker 1: want to be, which is again entering the playoffs as
17:13
Speaker 1: a top two seed.
17:15
Speaker 2: That's the mission. We will talk about that.
17:16
Speaker 1: Holding off the Cubs sweet to do that on the way,
17:19
Speaker 1: but the mission is get one of those top two
17:21
Speaker 1: seeds and then let the rest take care of itself.
17:23
Speaker 1: We're off and running. We're cutting and cracking on a
17:26
Speaker 1: Monday edition. We've got game balls and kicks firing up
17:29
Speaker 1: after seven. No Dolf today, so we'll have to improvise
17:32
Speaker 1: at halftime. We'll get through it cleaning out. No Hunter either,
17:35
Speaker 1: he's off as well, but he'll be he'll be back
17:37
Speaker 1: in the fold.
17:38
Speaker 3: Could you imagine that vacation of Hunters and the family
17:41
Speaker 3: break is He's all excited and everyone's like this, hey, Hunter,
17:44
Speaker 3: can we do something?
17:45
Speaker 2: Not watch the brewers here?
17:46
Speaker 3: Sorry?
17:47
Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
17:49
Speaker 3: Floaded with one out, all.
17:53
Speaker 1: Right, we're cutting a crack and you're in the huddle.
17:55
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
17:58
Speaker 3: Other than hung to win it, ropes one into the cap,
18:02
Speaker 3: Churio on his horse.
18:04
Speaker 4: That's all the way to the wall Cherio round.
18:06
Speaker 3: Third, he's gonna score and Jake Powers is red hot.
18:13
Speaker 4: It's an RBI double. It is three to one Milwaukee.
18:17
Speaker 2: Seventy for Powers at club leader. Now Fawn smokes one
18:21
Speaker 2: through a base hand.
18:21
Speaker 4: They're gonna wind out Powers. Here he comes, Hernandez throw.
18:25
Speaker 4: He is on a hot to tag not in time.
18:29
Speaker 2: Powers with a great slide.
18:33
Speaker 1: Rake Bowers the star of the weekend for the Brewers,
18:36
Speaker 1: who win three of four against the Dodgers. If you
18:39
Speaker 1: predicted that, if you urged positivity in the wake of
18:42
Speaker 1: that uh loss series loss, deflating series loss in San Diego,
18:46
Speaker 1: today's your chance to be bopping scat to peacock around.
18:50
Speaker 1: Tell people how smart you are. Five o'clock lovers eight seven, seven,
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Speaker 1: seven nine four one ninety seven three to the Nicolay
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Speaker 1: Law dot com talk and text line. Brewers obviously the
18:59
Speaker 1: main o becus Packer's had a live tackle football practice.
19:02
Speaker 1: There's some developments there. We got word from Keishawn Nixon
19:06
Speaker 1: feels like he's being punished Pish on that. But obviously
19:10
Speaker 1: Brewers are front of mind right now as they have
19:12
Speaker 1: their first day off and nearly three weeks and two
19:16
Speaker 1: and a half for sure. And it's I don't think
19:20
Speaker 1: that this weekend changed my opinion of the Birds. I've
19:22
Speaker 1: always thought they were a good club, but folks were
19:25
Speaker 1: flagging and the Cubs were rolling. And I've had people
19:28
Speaker 1: ask me, when do you get nervous about the Cubs.
19:30
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you got forty games left, you're nervous
19:32
Speaker 1: about them every day, or you're not nervous at all.
19:34
Speaker 4: That's a good point, right, it's.
19:37
Speaker 2: On it. Yeah, I like that. It is what it is.
19:39
Speaker 1: It's like you you can't control what they do. You
19:43
Speaker 1: can control what you do, and you can if you
19:45
Speaker 1: want to scoreboard watch and you feel better at five games.
19:47
Speaker 4: What does the lead have?
19:48
Speaker 1: What does it have to be going into that Cub series?
19:50
Speaker 1: And what we're now two weeks away from Brewers and
19:53
Speaker 1: Cubs playing seven games in ten days, and like I said,
19:56
Speaker 1: it's very likely going to be four and three, three,
19:59
Speaker 1: and say one game either way, one team wins five
20:02
Speaker 1: if they're really on a heater.
20:04
Speaker 2: But for the most part they're evenly matched.
20:06
Speaker 1: And that's ice to see it being, you know, give
20:09
Speaker 1: and take win one, lose one like. And if that's
20:11
Speaker 1: the case, the Cubs aren't picking up that much ground,
20:13
Speaker 1: So that's not that's an opportunity for them, but it's
20:16
Speaker 1: not any reason to panic.
20:19
Speaker 4: In my mind.
20:19
Speaker 2: No, this is also the fun part.
20:21
Speaker 3: I just this is the this is the part that
20:23
Speaker 3: makes it so much fun is getting the Brewers game
20:25
Speaker 3: to start at three fifteen yesterday and at two o'clock
20:28
Speaker 3: on whatever it was ABC, Cubs and Cardinals and getting
20:31
Speaker 3: to cheer the heck out of yourself against that other team.
20:34
Speaker 3: You got like three or four different teams to watch
20:36
Speaker 3: for where the pennant race is, and I don't know
20:39
Speaker 3: that there's necessarily a numerical number on it, Drew. You
20:43
Speaker 3: just want to see the team playing their best, and
20:45
Speaker 3: they were. They've been playing so far from their best version,
20:49
Speaker 3: at least offensively over the last one long two months,
20:52
Speaker 3: three months, seemingly. But the pitching is so impressive. The
20:56
Speaker 3: young pitching has been just dynamite. Their bullpen this month
20:59
Speaker 3: has been lights out best in baseball almost every number,
21:04
Speaker 3: and so.
21:05
Speaker 2: That part of it.
21:07
Speaker 3: The scars for the opposite side for the Cubs from
21:10
Speaker 3: twenty eighteen, I think it was five and a half
21:12
Speaker 3: going into September. Any number can be made up, no
21:15
Speaker 3: doubt about it. But if you're sitting here at five games,
21:19
Speaker 3: I don't see any team sweeping the other and I
21:22
Speaker 3: don't see only one side getting one win in that
21:25
Speaker 3: seven game series. So I think now you're gonna come
21:27
Speaker 3: out of it with the lead. You just got to
21:30
Speaker 3: be playing better and to see William Contreras have the
21:33
Speaker 3: kind of day that he had after even the defensive blip,
21:37
Speaker 3: what was that Tuesday night in San Diego when he
21:39
Speaker 3: dropped the ball coming in like there's just there have
21:42
Speaker 3: been too many moments where he has just not looked
21:45
Speaker 3: like the leader in the MVP for back to back
21:47
Speaker 3: seasons of your team offensively and desperately need to have
21:51
Speaker 3: him looking somewhat like yourself. So it's not necessarily the
21:54
Speaker 3: number to me, it's more about how they're rolling and
21:56
Speaker 3: their vibes were brutal there for a second.
21:58
Speaker 1: And as I've said, ad nauseam, and I've learned this
22:02
Speaker 1: over all these years of watching ball, if you're a
22:05
Speaker 1: good team at your baseline, you're five hundred, right, And
22:08
Speaker 1: this brus were ten and seven in this seventeen game
22:10
Speaker 1: startch which is better than five hundred, Yeah, better than that.
22:13
Speaker 1: So you're at your worst, you're five hundred. So if
22:16
Speaker 1: you get to a situation where let's say there's like,
22:19
Speaker 1: you know, thirty games left and you have a five
22:25
Speaker 1: game lead, oh yeah, it seems like, well, that's a
22:27
Speaker 1: lot of time to make it up. Okay, But if
22:28
Speaker 1: you play fifteen and fifteen in those five games in
22:32
Speaker 1: order to make it up, that other team it's on
22:34
Speaker 1: them that they have to play really well. They have
22:37
Speaker 1: to basically go like twenty one and nine, twenty one
22:41
Speaker 1: and nine. So the math is the math, and that's
22:44
Speaker 1: people lose track of that too, because it's like it
22:46
Speaker 1: seems like, well, depending on where you are, if you're
22:49
Speaker 1: five games back, it seems like you're within an eyelash
22:51
Speaker 1: of Yeah, if you're five games ahead, you're hanging on
22:53
Speaker 1: for dear life. But that's not insignificant. Even two and
22:56
Speaker 1: a half games when you're not playing head to head,
22:58
Speaker 1: it's not insignificant, right, It's like it's and if you
23:02
Speaker 1: stay and stay the course and be five hundred, just
23:04
Speaker 1: play better than five hundred, play at the pace the
23:07
Speaker 1: Brewers are as they were in the seventeen games.
23:10
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think we always focus and maybe because
23:13
Speaker 5: recently we've been in first place a lot, which is
23:15
Speaker 5: a good thing, but we focus so much on the
23:16
Speaker 5: pressure our team will put on the team that's leading
23:19
Speaker 5: the division, right or the lead horse. Like we talk
23:21
Speaker 5: about the pressure you put on from a team like
23:23
Speaker 5: the Cubs who were hot for a long time and
23:25
Speaker 5: keeping the pressure on the Brewers. But I think it's
23:28
Speaker 5: underestimated a lot the pressure you can put on a
23:31
Speaker 5: team chasing you if you continue to win in that stretch.
23:33
Speaker 5: And the Cubs have played so well now for so
23:36
Speaker 5: long and have not been able to really they got close, right,
23:39
Speaker 5: they got to three now it's back to five. Have
23:41
Speaker 5: not been able to break through that close, that meaningfully
23:43
Speaker 5: close to the Brewers because they've played so well, And
23:46
Speaker 5: I think that wears down the team chasing you as well.
23:49
Speaker 5: And I think we saw a little bit of it
23:50
Speaker 5: this weekend with the Cubs and how they let a.
23:53
Speaker 4: Couple big ones go against the Cardinals.
23:55
Speaker 5: You know, you work that long to try and catch
23:57
Speaker 5: up to a team, you play that well for that long,
24:00
Speaker 5: you don't see the fruits of your labor. Sometimes it
24:02
Speaker 5: can energize the team that you're chasing, and I think
24:04
Speaker 5: we saw that a little bit this weekend. Hopefully that continues.
24:08
Speaker 5: I also have to give the Cardinals a little credit.
24:10
Speaker 5: They're in a wildcard race as well, so they're trying
24:12
Speaker 5: to fight for a wild card spot.
24:13
Speaker 2: I thought they and I thought they had packed it in.
24:15
Speaker 2: I thought they were.
24:16
Speaker 3: I thought they were already, said Cabo a couple of
24:18
Speaker 3: days ago, a couple of weeks ago. And then they
24:19
Speaker 3: get a kid to come up here and hit three
24:22
Speaker 3: home runs in his major league debut.
24:24
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's pretty good if you can do that. Yeah, now,
24:26
Speaker 4: if you do that every three.
24:27
Speaker 2: Home runs and his major league good was he playing
24:29
Speaker 2: on rookie mode?
24:30
Speaker 5: Yeah?
24:30
Speaker 4: Good game, son, I mean keep doing that. Yeah?
24:32
Speaker 2: God, yeah, that was incredible.
24:34
Speaker 3: I guess the regression of the Meand he didn't even
24:36
Speaker 3: hit a homer yesterday.
24:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, how terrible.
24:38
Speaker 4: That must suck.
24:39
Speaker 2: That's just something else. He had a four home.
24:41
Speaker 4: Run game in the minors. Another good day.
24:44
Speaker 3: What I just and I could the only thing as
24:48
Speaker 3: I'm watching in their telling book Shambi and David Ross
24:51
Speaker 3: and the whole ESPN crew telling you about him, as
24:53
Speaker 3: he walks up into the batter's box first off, strapping
24:55
Speaker 3: lad forearms like Popeye. Just yoked though, and uh, I
25:01
Speaker 3: couldn't imagine what Brewers Twitter would be doing if this
25:04
Speaker 3: kid was hitting four home run games down at Triple
25:07
Speaker 3: A and your offense is struggling, And could you imagine
25:10
Speaker 3: how satisfied you'd be as one of those fans that
25:13
Speaker 3: had been beating the drum for four months for him
25:15
Speaker 3: finally to come up and he just rakes like that.
25:18
Speaker 4: I'd say, I agree with you, but I would say.
25:21
Speaker 5: That except Andrew Fisher's doing similar things down there.
25:24
Speaker 4: He had another home But yeah, you're right.
25:26
Speaker 3: I mean, so to your point, you'd almost want Andrew
25:28
Speaker 3: Fisher to come up and go like two for twenty
25:30
Speaker 3: when he first goes to calm down some of the
25:32
Speaker 3: exciting I did know Jack Centurio treatment.
25:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did note earlier this year like this has
25:37
Speaker 5: been a unique year and that the Burr's been in
25:38
Speaker 5: first of all year. But we've talked so much about
25:40
Speaker 5: the guys coming up, like Hooper and Laura, but yeah,
25:42
Speaker 5: who's next? Yeah that would be pretty funny. But could
25:44
Speaker 5: you imagine Burers fans but like, get this guy in
25:47
Speaker 5: the big league roster. We need these home runs now.
25:49
Speaker 5: You're absolutely right, Billy, it would be pretty funny. And
25:52
Speaker 5: they're always I mean, listen, we're talking about Brewers fans.
25:54
Speaker 5: All right, this seems already won seventy seven games, and
25:56
Speaker 5: I still saw some tweets complaining about how certain guys
25:59
Speaker 5: aren't hitting, and like, I guess it, like.
26:00
Speaker 4: We want everybody, we want everybody to be perfect. All
26:03
Speaker 4: I get it.
26:04
Speaker 5: But it's like now you're like we need orties every day.
26:06
Speaker 5: I'm like, well, you were probably the guy a month ago.
26:08
Speaker 1: That and that's where again Contraras and Yelich will get
26:12
Speaker 1: hot again.
26:13
Speaker 2: And it's like, you know, at fathom it now better.
26:19
Speaker 1: Because how at what point could you have you know,
26:22
Speaker 1: like you said, I'm gonna go back in the way
26:23
Speaker 1: back machine, and six eight weeks ago you got you're
26:25
Speaker 1: pining for Joey Artist to get more at bast Oh god,
26:28
Speaker 1: I mean exactly on what universe is that possible?
26:33
Speaker 4: Great reminder never give up on a guy.
26:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then I mean, in the month of July,
26:37
Speaker 3: Garrett Mitchell is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
26:40
Speaker 2: And now he can't hit a hundred. Yeah, August he's off.
26:44
Speaker 2: It's a game of streaks. That's just how it goes.
26:46
Speaker 3: And it's impressive when you have enough guys that are
26:48
Speaker 3: able to make up for both of them, right, and
26:50
Speaker 3: like that those guys being able to fly under the radar.
26:53
Speaker 3: Vaughan over at third base has been more impressive than
26:56
Speaker 3: I would have thought, Like just calm and saw Kurt
27:00
Speaker 3: ho yesterday. Even they're trying some other little matchurations. Christian
27:03
Speaker 3: yellis doing some first base ground balls over there. You know,
27:07
Speaker 3: they got to find some way to move dudes around
27:09
Speaker 3: because Gary Sanchez, I don't know if you caught that
27:12
Speaker 3: on Saturday night when Murph said, yeah, I think he's
27:14
Speaker 3: I think he's kind of done playing first base and
27:16
Speaker 3: they tried it out in the fifth inning with his
27:17
Speaker 3: shitting guard on.
27:18
Speaker 5: I think he's probably ready to ready to get off
27:20
Speaker 5: of that glove. That ball a couple ate him up.
27:22
Speaker 5: I mean that that's true. But the Brewers have had
27:24
Speaker 5: to do this patchwork thing and they've won in spite
27:27
Speaker 5: of any any face.
27:29
Speaker 1: Put your best setup guy on the aisle, you went,
27:32
Speaker 1: You're playing without your basically your your double play combination.
27:37
Speaker 1: We're starting shortstop and second basement shelves.
27:40
Speaker 2: They're like, holy cow.
27:42
Speaker 3: ESPN did the top ranking of the top fifty players
27:45
Speaker 3: like updated last week. Miz came in like three or
27:48
Speaker 3: four in the big leagues, and Bryce Strange was the
27:50
Speaker 3: sixteenth ranked player in Major League Baseball. You just played
27:54
Speaker 3: that whole series without him, right like so, and and
27:57
Speaker 3: you're right, so, he's your your best offensive player and
27:59
Speaker 3: your best weapon all year long, and you're playing without
28:02
Speaker 3: him with some real question in there and just bringing
28:05
Speaker 3: random guys off people's Triple A clubs drew to come
28:08
Speaker 3: and play for you.
28:08
Speaker 1: That is the thing, like bringing in Bay like and
28:12
Speaker 1: then like not only they come in, they walk right
28:14
Speaker 1: into the starting lineup and they don't even know who
28:16
Speaker 1: everybody is. And they're shaking hands with guys in the
28:19
Speaker 1: dugout don't even know who they are.
28:21
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to the big leagues.
28:22
Speaker 4: Kid.
28:22
Speaker 2: You're facing terror school today.
28:24
Speaker 4: Good luck. It is crazy.
28:26
Speaker 5: We got one of the nicklie a lot dot Com
28:28
Speaker 5: talking text line. The text are rolling in some of
28:30
Speaker 5: you two commings as well. I'm waiting for Ronda to
28:32
Speaker 5: get up and take her victory lap.
28:33
Speaker 2: Ronda did already. She hit it in last night. She
28:36
Speaker 2: fired us in last night. I go back a little bit.
28:38
Speaker 2: Come oh yeah, baby, go Brewers hit us, she said.
28:41
Speaker 3: The negative Nellies can go pound sand round in the
28:44
Speaker 3: seven one to five. Also some good pick good pick
28:47
Speaker 3: plays at Packers camp Sunday. Great seeing Tucker craft back
28:50
Speaker 3: catching passes. We'll be talking about that coming up a
28:53
Speaker 3: little bit later. But yeah, Ronda got in there last night,
28:55
Speaker 3: I think right as the final out was recorded.
28:58
Speaker 4: Awesome, love that and we got we got Steve. This
29:00
Speaker 4: is Steve morning.
29:01
Speaker 2: Guys.
29:01
Speaker 5: Hey, it's not just winning the division and having the
29:03
Speaker 5: best record, but we need to be playing our best
29:05
Speaker 5: ball going into the playoffs.
29:06
Speaker 4: So we don't want to just get in there, you know,
29:08
Speaker 4: playing like we've been playing the last three weeks.
29:10
Speaker 5: We got got to get some things straightened out here
29:12
Speaker 5: in the month of September, and I think we could
29:14
Speaker 5: get a go Brewers. Well I'll get it go Brewers
29:16
Speaker 5: right now. But yeah, I mean, playing your best ball
29:19
Speaker 5: is a subjective thing. It's kind of like the eye test.
29:22
Speaker 5: But they got seventy seven wins, so they're doing something
29:25
Speaker 5: right now. I understand that we got some guys that
29:27
Speaker 5: neediot start hitting a little bit, there's no question about that.
29:30
Speaker 5: I think it's a good sign though, that you're winning
29:31
Speaker 5: in spite of it. I mean, those guys are gonna
29:33
Speaker 5: talk about regression. The mean, well, the means up right
29:36
Speaker 5: now from a lot of those guys, Mitchell Contreras and
29:39
Speaker 5: those guys obviously, so I about to think that they
29:41
Speaker 5: got some runs coming. And if you're winning in spite
29:43
Speaker 5: of it, that's pretty.
29:44
Speaker 1: Good the way.
29:45
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, this is Steve was one of the guys
29:47
Speaker 2: I know.
29:47
Speaker 3: I think he might have predicted that the Brewers sweep LA,
29:50
Speaker 3: but he was predicting that they were going to go
29:52
Speaker 3: in there and handle the Dodgers earlier last week. Drew
29:55
Speaker 3: Like you said, Brewers fans every once in a while,
29:58
Speaker 3: we are right, every once in a while. Hey, you
30:00
Speaker 3: gotta celebrated a little bit. We definitely let you guys
30:03
Speaker 3: know what we are. So let us know here at
30:05
Speaker 3: eight seven, seven, seven nine.
30:06
Speaker 2: Three absolutely absolutely all right, birs get day off? And
30:11
Speaker 2: then who are they playing on Tuesday?
30:13
Speaker 4: Seattle?
30:15
Speaker 2: What is cal Rally hitting a buck forty?
30:17
Speaker 3: Now?
30:17
Speaker 2: He's that?
30:18
Speaker 5: I think one of the underdiscussed stories all in Baseball's
30:20
Speaker 5: here is how big of a drop off his head?
30:23
Speaker 5: I don't know how you explained stuff like that, I mean.
30:25
Speaker 3: A seismic drop, just crazy one fifty eight with a
30:30
Speaker 3: five sixty eight ops.
30:32
Speaker 2: And there's a guy that everybody said, should have been
30:34
Speaker 2: the MVP last.
30:34
Speaker 5: Year, and maybe I mean his numbers. How can you
30:37
Speaker 5: dominate the league so much? And oh, this is a
30:40
Speaker 5: crazy game though wild results are never like promised, that's
30:44
Speaker 5: always nonlinear, like gets.
30:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just yeah, like I said, you you fail
30:49
Speaker 1: seven out of ten times, you gotta go.
30:51
Speaker 2: You got a chance to go to Cooperstown.
30:53
Speaker 4: I get a point war this year. It hit a
30:55
Speaker 4: seven point two last year.
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Speaker 2: All right, start formulating your game balls and kicks. It
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Speaker 2: should be a robust one.
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Speaker 1: Maybe some uh, some state Fair themed game balls. Couple
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Speaker 1: going to State Fair. Yes, yes, indeed we might have to. Uh,
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Speaker 1: we'll spin through some of those. Can't wait to get
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Speaker 1: to the game balls and kicks. We will talk Packers.
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Speaker 2: We got the uh. We got the word from Keishaw Nixon.
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Speaker 1: He's both positive and also at the same time strikingly negative.
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Speaker 2: He's a conundrum.
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Speaker 4: That guy.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about Kishan as we move forward. You are
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Speaker 1: until six o'clock for it. But we courage the five
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Speaker 1: o'clock clubbers just to say, hey, let us check in.
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Speaker 1: Love to hear from you, Love to know that you're
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Speaker 1: up and around on this uh Monday again, little spring
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Speaker 1: in your step. After the Brewers took three out of
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Speaker 1: four from the Dodgers, I maintained my stance with the Brewers.
32:06
Speaker 1: Like you look at the past week. They can beat anybody.
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Speaker 1: They can lose to anybody, but they can beat anybody.
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Speaker 1: And for all of our obsession with the Cubs and Dodgers,
32:17
Speaker 1: I mean the Padres, the Braves, the Phillies, they're all good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and and they're showcasing it at the bottom end
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Speaker 3: of that wildcard race.
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Speaker 1: All have like they all have things that I don't
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Speaker 1: want to face those Phillies first too. No, I really
32:29
Speaker 1: what you want about mis and May and Logan Henderson
32:32
Speaker 1: and those guys are good too, Zach Wheeler and Carlos
32:37
Speaker 1: saw Padres phenomenal. They're there.
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Speaker 2: Us are so hot right now that you're worry about
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Speaker 2: them regressing their.
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Speaker 3: Their lineup is so is so stacked, and uh, I
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Speaker 3: still think one of the best dark horses in the
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Speaker 3: team that you definitely don't want to face towards the
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Speaker 3: end of it would be Arizona because of the arms
32:54
Speaker 3: they're getting back, like they're gonna get.
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Speaker 2: Burns back here right for the stretch run.
32:58
Speaker 3: They get Zach Allen back for this stretch run, and
33:01
Speaker 3: they've been hot over the last month and a half
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Speaker 3: as they've climbed back into it. So no one's gonna
33:06
Speaker 3: be easy. It's never gonna be easy getting home. But
33:08
Speaker 3: the Dodgers have been the one that stood in your
33:10
Speaker 3: way at the end both of the last times you've
33:14
Speaker 3: gotten close enough right the last two nlcs is, and
33:17
Speaker 3: I know they keep throwing. In the twenty twenty playoff,
33:20
Speaker 3: I think the Burwers were under five hundred when they
33:22
Speaker 3: made that sixty game playoff, and nobody anticipated they were
33:26
Speaker 3: going to do anything in that run to the title.
33:28
Speaker 3: For the Dodgers, but three and whatever it is, eight years,
33:32
Speaker 3: they're the one that you still will look at. I
33:34
Speaker 3: just I'm fascinated to see how much longer they're in
33:39
Speaker 3: this funk because they are going to break out of this,
33:41
Speaker 3: right like that offense is going to break out of it.
33:43
Speaker 3: They've been kind of inconsistent, for Dave Roberts said for
33:45
Speaker 3: the last four to six.
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Speaker 4: Weeks, but they're too good.
33:47
Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 3: Team that's been really rolling those is Atlanta and they've
33:51
Speaker 3: got You don't really think about how many power bats
33:54
Speaker 3: they have in that lineup until you see them.
33:55
Speaker 4: We'll see him at the end of the weekend.
33:57
Speaker 3: But that lineup is pretty dense as well, and they
34:01
Speaker 3: get to throw Chris Sale at you, right. So, like,
34:03
Speaker 3: the amount of cy young winners in this playoffs on
34:06
Speaker 3: the National.
34:06
Speaker 4: League is hilarious. There's so much talent in the National
34:09
Speaker 4: League in the playoffs.
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Speaker 5: And meanwhile, in the American League, the current last qualify
34:13
Speaker 5: in the wild Card is sub five hundred. The Orioles
34:15
Speaker 5: are sixty one and sixty three, which is that's never
34:18
Speaker 5: happened in baseball except for the COVID year, where there's
34:20
Speaker 5: been a sub five hundred playoff team.
34:22
Speaker 4: I don't know if it really can happen, but we'll see.
34:25
Speaker 5: I mean, if it started today, it would, so it's
34:27
Speaker 5: kind of the imbalance has been interesting this year. The
34:29
Speaker 5: league's right now, the NLS definitely dominant. But hey, all
34:33
Speaker 5: the more reason, like you said, to try and achieve
34:35
Speaker 5: that first round by if you can, so you can
34:38
Speaker 5: avoid one of these teams because you mentioned it. Chris Sale,
34:41
Speaker 5: you know you got Wheeler, you got all these guys. Sanchez,
34:43
Speaker 5: you don't want to be facing.
34:45
Speaker 1: These guys if you don't have to. No, but I
34:47
Speaker 1: guess championsphear, no one. Brewers can beat anybody, as we've
34:51
Speaker 1: just seen, and they could lose anybody's that's playoffs man.
34:54
Speaker 3: In the losing to anybody though, Like where my mind
34:58
Speaker 3: first goes, Drew is like, yeah, they can to the
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Speaker 3: Pirates and the Giants.
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Speaker 4: And the Nationals. Luckily you won't see any of those teams.
35:04
Speaker 3: Right, Like the frustrations of yeah, I mean you can't
35:07
Speaker 3: beat the bad teams, Well you don't see any of those.
35:09
Speaker 3: You see the good teams that they actually that they
35:12
Speaker 3: maybe rise to the occasion to face. You could tell
35:14
Speaker 3: the energy in that dugout was electric yesterday, and I
35:18
Speaker 3: don't know how much of it was knowing that the
35:21
Speaker 3: off day was at the back end of it getting
35:23
Speaker 3: some win back into the sales. But the team wins
35:26
Speaker 3: when Logan Henderson pitches what are They now? Thirteen and
35:29
Speaker 3: three in his sixteen starts like there's and and that's
35:34
Speaker 3: not a nothing burger. He is a fascinating dude to
35:38
Speaker 3: watch on the mount. I love Kurt Hoag's video of
35:40
Speaker 3: him going out and Mac collins ing it barefoot up
35:43
Speaker 3: on the mound and going through his progressions.
35:45
Speaker 4: You get untouchable at all costs.
35:47
Speaker 3: Now at Logan Henderson's starting to get there for me,
35:49
Speaker 3: of I want to protect the guy as well, if
35:51
Speaker 3: that's going to be the human that he's rocking and
35:54
Speaker 3: for the pitcher that he can.
35:55
Speaker 2: Ultimately, he has yet to allow more than three runs.
35:57
Speaker 5: Right, yes, and he's said start set an MLBU record
36:01
Speaker 5: on that one. I'm trying to find the actual stat
36:03
Speaker 5: that I did read, but for it first to not
36:07
Speaker 5: allow that many runs and how many appearances and MLB
36:10
Speaker 5: history or something like that. I'll try and effort that, guys.
36:13
Speaker 5: But it's been remarkable to see him. And when you
36:15
Speaker 5: start thinking about playoff rotations, maybe it's a little early
36:17
Speaker 5: for that, but I don't think it is. You start wondering,
36:20
Speaker 5: you know, is he shoehorned himself into a definite has
36:23
Speaker 5: to start in the playoffs if he keeps pitching like this,
36:25
Speaker 5: when you think about you know, May obviously and what
36:27
Speaker 5: Harrison does, Yeah, you have some options there well.
36:30
Speaker 3: And Kyle Harrison might be doing himself in the Brewers
36:33
Speaker 3: favor and taking him.
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Speaker 2: Right out of it.
36:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Like the last couple of months you see
36:38
Speaker 3: the fastball usage and the dipping velocity. Maybe Kyle Harrison
36:40
Speaker 3: goes out and you got other options as to who
36:43
Speaker 3: can be in there, because again, I know he's only
36:45
Speaker 3: pitched what two games for the Brewers. I want more
36:48
Speaker 3: dustin May in the playoffs, right, yeah, like I want
36:50
Speaker 3: that fiery competitor, and they traded the prospects to have him.
36:53
Speaker 2: One of these guys gonna get pushed into the bullpen.
36:55
Speaker 3: There's gonna be multiple, right because Droan's gonna go in
36:58
Speaker 3: at the end of this next cicle, and one to
37:01
Speaker 3: two more of these guys. Will Henderson's probably close to
37:03
Speaker 3: his most innings he's ever thrown for a guy that's
37:07
Speaker 3: got a lot of injuries.
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Speaker 2: Creeping up, for sure, for sure.
37:10
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, headline at the New York Post, Oh, I love
37:12
Speaker 1: this Paul Skien start pushed back after velocity current concerns
37:16
Speaker 1: and showing off dad bought on Miami beach trip with
37:19
Speaker 1: Livy Dunn.
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Speaker 4: I'm i the only oneman I did not think it
37:24
Speaker 4: was he looked that big. I don't know what everyone
37:26
Speaker 4: is talking about, like that's a problem. I'm in big
37:29
Speaker 4: trouble people.
37:30
Speaker 1: You know, we want our multi million dollar stars to
37:34
Speaker 1: be you know, they think he's.
37:35
Speaker 2: Gonna look like DK mess. Don't get it.
37:37
Speaker 4: I mean, he's not an MMA fighter.
37:39
Speaker 1: He's a picture I know, I know, starting pitcher especially,
37:42
Speaker 1: come on, Well.
37:43
Speaker 3: It's also tough when, like when Livy Dunn is rocking
37:46
Speaker 3: abs that people like pay for, Yeah, that's a tough thing.
37:50
Speaker 2: And so we're standing next to that's very true. Yeah
37:53
Speaker 2: she is.
37:54
Speaker 3: She raises the bar as you ripped up, and I
37:56
Speaker 3: don't know anybody was looking at the LSU hat that
37:58
Speaker 3: she was rocking, but like to see that as you're comparing.
38:02
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a tough deal, Paul, Like you're gonna
38:04
Speaker 3: have to take a lot of this heat or you're
38:06
Speaker 3: gonna start having a pump heat again.
38:08
Speaker 2: And I don't know that he's doing it this year.
38:09
Speaker 5: But it's not like he's Jim told me out there
38:11
Speaker 5: walking out of the corn looking like three of them.
38:13
Speaker 4: You know that was he's just looking at the.
38:15
Speaker 3: Man that guy did Jim tell me know he could
38:17
Speaker 3: have unbuttoned the jersey.
38:18
Speaker 5: Could have done it. You could have just gone open
38:21
Speaker 5: there and but it might have been a better idea.
38:23
Speaker 5: I don't know, man, that was something.
38:25
Speaker 3: There are a couple of players, though they're in the
38:27
Speaker 3: field of dreams that did take that idea.
38:29
Speaker 2: And Drew just leave the thing open. It's all good,
38:31
Speaker 2: Let it flow, get a little breeze. Can Griffyr is
38:34
Speaker 2: looking thick these days.
38:35
Speaker 3: And you know it's right. You never thought you the
38:37
Speaker 3: kid looks like we're getting old. The back of a
38:40
Speaker 3: little sorry, I have a little bit of patting around it.
38:43
Speaker 3: Paul Cay at the YouTube comments, Good morning, guys. I
38:46
Speaker 3: was hoping the Brewers were to win one or two
38:47
Speaker 3: against the Padres, but I believe we would win three
38:50
Speaker 3: against the Dodgers. So h alred taking the lap. Just
38:54
Speaker 3: focus on winning one game at a time, absolutely all right.
38:57
Speaker 1: But it was more important to win three or four
38:59
Speaker 1: from the Dodgers than like avoiding the say they win getaway,
39:03
Speaker 1: get the getaway game in San Diego and then go
39:05
Speaker 1: to and two, same number number, not the same results different.
39:09
Speaker 1: It feels like a more win in your sales. Beating
39:12
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. There's, you know, all the Waxy build up
39:14
Speaker 1: from last year.
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Speaker 3: Just like Thursday Night, that team, that game could have
39:18
Speaker 3: happened against anybody else and it wouldn't have felt as
39:20
Speaker 3: big as it did. Winning it and come back in
39:22
Speaker 3: Chevez Ravine three or four just feels different against the Dodgers.
39:25
Speaker 3: And again, maybe it doesn't come down to it, maybe
39:27
Speaker 3: it ultimately doesn't matter. But if this thing and both
39:29
Speaker 3: teams end up at ninety nine wins and they got
39:32
Speaker 3: to come and play Game seven at your place because
39:35
Speaker 3: of the win of the season series, it matters somewhat.
39:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely matter really quick, Dobbler. What's some Dobbler?
39:40
Speaker 5: Never change with the healthy Lockridge and when Freelik is ready,
39:44
Speaker 5: then move that loser Garrett Mitchell to the minors permanently.
39:46
Speaker 5: He was lucky the locker to injury gave more playing time.
39:49
Speaker 5: Never change, Dobbler.
39:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, just hate our good players. Geez oh wait, does
39:56
Speaker 2: that make you to be able to interest?
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Speaker 3: It's not all of these out and the one negative
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Speaker 3: one arm And is making sure that he can feast
40:04
Speaker 3: on and jump on there.
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Speaker 4: I'm reading our texts, that's all.
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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing. Beautiful thing.
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Speaker 1: Keep him coming about to fire up game balls and
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Speaker 1: for robust discussions today and there will be some Packers
40:21
Speaker 1: talk as we move forward as well. They don't play
40:23
Speaker 1: until Friday night in Denver. We got plenty to talk
40:25
Speaker 1: about from the weekend and A Tucker Craft is back,
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