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10/07/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and salutations. Welcome to the 7 o'clock club. The Huddle,
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Brewers lose last night. There will be a game for
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  Speaker 1: this evening. Waking everybody up. That's right. It'll be another
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: late night. Earlier this week was, if I'm not mistaken, yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: We heard from my pal Rhett Miller, who's going to
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: be playing a show at Shank Hall. Well, they've moved
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  Speaker 1: that show up. Start time is now 7 o'clock for
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  Speaker 1: the opening act. and Rhett Miller should be done expeditiously
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  Speaker 1: at like 9.15, 9.30, so people can have the doubleheader
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  Speaker 1: and watch the back end of the Brewers-Padres game. That's perfect.
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  Speaker 1: He'll get off the stage.
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  Speaker 2: Brewers will have a 2-0 lead after the first inning.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 2: When Bryce Terang laces a two-run double off of the
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  Speaker 2: right field wall.
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  Speaker 3: Manifest.
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  Speaker 2: Gets himself out of a slump, rolls this thing through,
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  Speaker 2: and gets some pucker factor over onto the other side.
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  Speaker 2: I do like that, Drew, and I wonder how much
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  Speaker 2: of that planning... goes into events now into October. Like
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  Speaker 2: you do have to just have the fail safe.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you?
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  Speaker 2: I like the fact that it's brewers where a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times, you know, brides and bands would only be
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: thinking of, well, we got to get out of the
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  Speaker 2: way of Packers games. Now that you're forcing the hand
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  Speaker 2: of there being another sport and it being late, you
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  Speaker 2: got to have some of those secondary options. So that's very,
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  Speaker 2: very cool. And the boys to be able to speed.
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  Speaker 1: That thing up. That's the guy that gets it right.
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  Speaker 2: Also a good prelim. I mean, you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: yourself feeling really good. I'm going to try to do
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  Speaker 2: a nap and do the double header. So smart move your.
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  Speaker 3: Time filler there.
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  Speaker 4: That way you can get something, you know, entertain yourself
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  Speaker 4: while you're waiting because, you know, the waiting is the
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  Speaker 4: hardest part. And we have to wait a half hour
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  Speaker 4: longer tonight. But yeah, it does. You know, it felt
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  Speaker 4: like what they're doing. It felt terminally long.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I tried the I didn't try the nap yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I do think I'm going to. I am either.
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  Speaker 5: I tried.
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  Speaker 2: I actually tried to go complete opposite and just overload
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  Speaker 2: with sugar with a DQ blizzard during the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Good to load up. It didn't work. Tasted phenomenal. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: work very well.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I did a nap, but it's still like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if you can do one during the day,
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  Speaker 4: that's great. But you're still waking up and you're six
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  Speaker 4: hours away. And it's like, you know, you got a
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  Speaker 4: lot to do at that point. You know, it's like
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  Speaker 4: you got a lot of time to fill. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's no question you're fighting it.
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  Speaker 1: But, hey, maybe you're right, Billy.
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  Speaker 4: If the Brewers can give us those early runs... Gosh,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't it feel like a dam's about to break with
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  Speaker 4: this offense? I keep feeling that way. But then again,
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  Speaker 4: it's wishful thinking in the playoffs to sit there and say,
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  Speaker 4: you know, maybe we can just get a six or
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  Speaker 4: seven run inning here and blow this thing out and
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  Speaker 4: feel good about it.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that's wishful thinking. I get it. But
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  Speaker 1: it just feels like there's some sort of offensive dam
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  Speaker 1: about to break.
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  Speaker 4: Like we're going to get a couple dingers with guys
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  Speaker 4: on or maybe just a three run spot here or there.
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  Speaker 4: It feels like the Brewers are putting enough pressure on
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  Speaker 4: to be able to do something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe tonight's the night.
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  Speaker 4: You kind of hope that they can get after San Diego's.
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  Speaker 1: Pitching a little bit here.
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  Speaker 4: You have to think the Brewers are in a better
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  Speaker 4: position in terms of their staff rest-wise than San Diego
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  Speaker 4: is after game three.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we hope. Well, Brewers bullpen, though.
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  Speaker 3: In general.
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  Speaker 1: Rebay, Sensatella, they got guys that they probably don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go to tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say, Drew, what do you
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  Speaker 2: think the workload is after last night? It's not like
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  Speaker 2: they got super taxed. However, you did go to about
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  Speaker 2: five or six guys.
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  Speaker 1: I would anticipate they want... big work.
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  Speaker 2: Out of patrick and gasser and then everything else but
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  Speaker 2: ashby i would anticipate for at least three outs tonight
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  Speaker 2: at least right like he's not six i would think
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna be he's gonna factor in big time as
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  Speaker 2: well and then you just wonder how much of it
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  Speaker 2: will end up being because of the lineup and where
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  Speaker 2: they think that they can attack this uh this group
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  Speaker 2: they're good up and down.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, it was the bottom of the order, though.
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  Speaker 2: Cronenworth's home run, and then them setting the table for
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  Speaker 2: the top half, and Bogart's getting on to be able
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  Speaker 2: to score.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lineup that comes at you. I think Romero
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  Speaker 1: is off the shelf tonight, probably. That sounds right. He's
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  Speaker 1: almost two innings. Drone's going to pitch, I think. Uribe
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  Speaker 1: only threw seven pitches in his inning, so that wasn't bad.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be ready to roll. If it lines up that way,
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  Speaker 1: if you need somebody in the eighth, Uribe, it's not
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  Speaker 1: like they have to have McGill go six outs. You
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have to. I think he can give you a
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  Speaker 1: fourth one if you really need it. I think you're right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Gasser-Patrick-Drowin game, maybe? And figure out where... And
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  Speaker 1: then slot Ashby in on the back end. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe lay off your rebate, depending on if it's righties, lefties,
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  Speaker 1: who you got to face. I was going to say,
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  Speaker 1: and luckily tomorrow's an off day, right?
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  Speaker 2: That does help you knowing that tomorrow's an off day
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  Speaker 2: before it'll be all hands on deck in game five.
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  Speaker 2: We did have a hot take on here that our
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  Speaker 2: friend Armin Sarian bashed right out of the gates. Our
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  Speaker 2: friend Steve said, here's my hot take. Miz is starting tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Now, dude, come on. Okay, well, guys, it's
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  Speaker 1: a hot take.
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  Speaker 2: We can't ask for hot takes and then immediately just
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  Speaker 2: be salty.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, well, first of all, if it's a hot
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  Speaker 1: take prediction, you're going to be wrong. If you're saying
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  Speaker 1: your hot take is, Miz should start tonight, show your work.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think that's advantageous as opposed to holding
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  Speaker 1: him for a game five potential, you know, we got
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  Speaker 1: to win or save our arses or game one of
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  Speaker 1: the NFCS? Show your work. What makes tonight The game
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  Speaker 1: you got to get that you'd employ the big gun.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you watched what sale did of going throwing
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  Speaker 2: on his bullpen day, King threw on his bullpen day.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen a lot of guys going Yamamoto did multiple times.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you not start it?
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  Speaker 1: With Ms.
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  Speaker 2: To get Tatis Merrill Machado, then roll into the back end.
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  Speaker 2: If he's going to throw the 20 pitches for his bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: Now that probably would have been yesterday because of how
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  Speaker 2: it would line up. But that would have been mine.
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  Speaker 2: Like if that, if, if I got to show my work,
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  Speaker 2: I would have wanted him to face Machado Tatis and
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  Speaker 2: Merrill one more time and get you in, get you
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  Speaker 2: through those first three guys and then roll it.
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  Speaker 1: That is a more interesting strategy.
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  Speaker 3: Do one inning.
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  Speaker 4: And take your chances there. Although I think the other
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  Speaker 4: thing you'd say is, look, we think there's value in
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  Speaker 4: not letting this team find their way to shore at all.
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  Speaker 4: Like we want to keep them to deep water. We
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  Speaker 4: want to try and drown them early. You tried last night.
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  Speaker 4: You couldn't do it. And you try and drown them
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  Speaker 4: tonight with Miz and not even let them see.
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  Speaker 1: A game five and give themselves confidence. I'm all up
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  Speaker 1: to remember Trevor McGill starting a game in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Huge bug.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Game five. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Which was a choice.
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  Speaker 2: It worked.
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  Speaker 1: Worked pretty well, yeah. It was a choice. But with Miz, again,
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  Speaker 1: the danger zone to me, asking people to do stuff
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  Speaker 1: that they didn't do during the regular season doesn't always work.
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  Speaker 1: Worked for the Padres last night. They didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of options. Their two main guys on the back
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  Speaker 1: end were unavailable for duty. So that was kind of
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  Speaker 1: a desperate time. Whereas the Brewers have plenty of options
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  Speaker 1: other than Miz. And it's his bullpen day, but he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't usually, I don't think he throws 104 in his bullpens.
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  Speaker 1: like he would with the crowd and everything.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, yeah, he's going to throw 20 pitches.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's not humping up in between. He's had
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  Speaker 1: this thing where it's worked, and I'm like, leave that
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  Speaker 1: guy alone and save him for game five or game one.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, let him be fresh for that and
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  Speaker 1: focus on that.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't, again, I don't disagree, but I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if you want me to show my work, I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you exactly why I would want those guys to have
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  Speaker 2: to face him one more time.
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  Speaker 1: Cause I, yeah, you can wait it for game five
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  Speaker 1: and hold on to it for game five. Absolutely. For
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  Speaker 1: game one. I totally get that.
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  Speaker 2: But I think game one is still going to.
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  Speaker 1: Be on Sunday regardless.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, whether or not they win, if your
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  Speaker 2: concern is to set a tone in the first inning,
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  Speaker 2: Dustin may did that. He didn't give up a run
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  Speaker 2: in the first inning.
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  Speaker 5: True.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm talking about trying to get the 27.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as much of a set. I need to
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  Speaker 2: get those guys out. So like and again, then he's
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  Speaker 2: still on regular rest for for game one of the NLCS.
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  Speaker 2: If to Armand's point, I'm finishing it tonight, but and
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  Speaker 2: I'm throwing my best guy tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You say that, but is he on regular rest? Because
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  Speaker 1: like I said, his normal 30, 40, 50 pitch bullpen
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  Speaker 1: Isn't getting ready to throw in front of 47,000 screaming
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  Speaker 1: zealots with the pressure.
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  Speaker 3: I understand it, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: But again, like this is the, that's it. Look at
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  Speaker 2: around all of these teams. Now sale has come out
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  Speaker 2: of relief. They brought Snell out of relief. They brought
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  Speaker 2: Yamamoto out.
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  Speaker 1: Of relief again. So like everybody does it and it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world. But again,
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  Speaker 1: you're saying starting a game. You want Miz to start it.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying it's more likely for Miz. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about three outs.
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  Speaker 2: So whether that three outs is in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the game or in the beginning of the game, it's
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  Speaker 2: the same three outs, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to get himself ready to go in the
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  Speaker 2: same buildup for either one.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're going to deploy Miz at any point
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  Speaker 1: during this game, would you do it in the first inning? When,
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  Speaker 1: you know, again, Dustin May through, there aren't that many
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  Speaker 1: runs scored in the first inning. Statistically. You would deploy
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  Speaker 1: him later. If you're going to use him, I would
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: use him later.
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  Speaker 6: In the game. You could do that. Not to open.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. That's why I'm saying the logic
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  Speaker 1: is flawed to say start Mews on his bullpen day. Like, okay.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: But then you would pitch him tonight. So you'd have
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  Speaker 2: him ready to go tonight. No, it's situational.
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  Speaker 1: Because if it's the 11th inning and we scored two
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  Speaker 1: in the top and our other guys have been chewed up,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I break the glass there and let him throw
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  Speaker 1: his ball. Like I would have him throw his bullpen
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  Speaker 1: after the game in case of that. And they generally
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  Speaker 1: do that in the playoffs anyway, but I still think
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  Speaker 1: that's with all the options they have and all the
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  Speaker 1: other guys. I think the, again, like the, the idea
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  Speaker 1: of the opener was to have your starter pitch deeper
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  Speaker 1: into the games and stuff. And like the first guy,
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  Speaker 1: like Dustin may, who gasser any of those guys could
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  Speaker 1: throw a scoreless first very much very much good that
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  Speaker 1: worried about you.
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  Speaker 2: Know i want my if but if again if i'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna throw him and i know he's gonna throw i
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  Speaker 2: want him to go up against the best guys and
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  Speaker 2: so i don't know if that's gonna be we're down
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  Speaker 2: three one into the seventh inning well then i'd miss
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  Speaker 2: my opportunity to go to him when tatis machado and
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  Speaker 2: merrill come up so like i do get it of
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  Speaker 2: let's save it for the better time and it's always
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: be a better spot, but you don't always know that
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  Speaker 2: that one's coming just like in game two. And again, I'm,
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  Speaker 2: bad manager because I would have pinch hit Vaughn in
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  Speaker 2: the seventh inning instead of the ninth inning in game
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  Speaker 2: number two. So again, I don't know that I would
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  Speaker 2: throw him, but I definitely would want him to be
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  Speaker 2: ready to roll.
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  Speaker 1: He said that he was ready to go anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm not against trying to find any opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to have my best guy thrown.
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  Speaker 1: It is an interesting idea.
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  Speaker 4: To think, you know, we, we just, we're going to
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  Speaker 4: save them for those three guys or save them for
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  Speaker 4: that one inning, maybe multiple times in both games, instead
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  Speaker 4: of just committing to one traditional type start. That's interesting thought.
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  Speaker 4: And if he tells you, you can do it, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you got to trust your guy. It's sort of like,
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  Speaker 4: and the idea of using somebody when you can, when
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  Speaker 4: it works or when it's worth it, when you still
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  Speaker 4: have a chance, that's that whole idea. When, when hater
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  Speaker 4: went in early in the game and game seven in 18,
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  Speaker 4: I think that was part of the idea too. We
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  Speaker 4: want to make sure not to waste our chance to
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  Speaker 4: use them in a leverage situation. What makes me kind
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  Speaker 4: of nervous is if it's a short lead, or a
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  Speaker 4: tie game or some situation like that.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to get through that.
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  Speaker 4: Tough part of the lineup and like to say the
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  Speaker 4: fifth or the sixth withdrawing, you know, that's the thing
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  Speaker 4: that makes me nervous. It's like, that's what I really thought.
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking like, you know what, Ms. Can I
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  Speaker 4: crank you up for one inning here? Cause I want
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  Speaker 4: to get through these guys with you instead of drone
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  Speaker 4: and then try and win the game tonight. That, that
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  Speaker 4: is a tempting idea. Now that one right there, I
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  Speaker 4: could see being.
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  Speaker 2: A better chance tonight. Seeing the mound, Jacob Mizorowski or
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Harrison.
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  Speaker 4: I don't, I mean, unless we're up by 14 runs,
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  Speaker 4: I don't, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Or if it goes extras. Well, yes.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: You guys want to call here? We have a Tony
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: with a question about the tag.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. All right, Tony. Hey, Tony, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the huddle.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, good morning, gentlemen. Um, so during yesterday's game, when
• 11:52
  Speaker 7: Cooper Pratt scores on that short fly ball, the right
• 11:55
  Speaker 7: field or left field, um, Shouldn't have Sal tagged and
• 12:01
  Speaker 7: gone to third. Now, Sal's my guy. I love Sal.
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  Speaker 7: But I thought Sal should have tagged. And then he
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  Speaker 7: would have scored on that infield single. Just my thought.
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  Speaker 7: And then from what I understand, he had that chance
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  Speaker 7: to steal home as well later on in that same inning.
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  Speaker 7: But he didn't. So there's something about that sequence there that... Boy,
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  Speaker 7: that could have been handled better, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? I mean, that ball was so
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  Speaker 1: shallow that the outfielder could have probably tagged Sal.
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  Speaker 2: I also wonder if there was part of it that
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  Speaker 2: Sal was more surprised than Al. Just as surprised of
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  Speaker 2: all of us that Cooper went.
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  Speaker 1: I think so, too. Yeah, I don't think he was
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  Speaker 1: anticipating that. Where's he going running up the guys? And
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  Speaker 1: what if Cooper Pratt puts the brakes on and goes back?
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  Speaker 1: It's like, that's a risky. Yeah. That was risky for Pratt,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a longer distance away than the throw would
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  Speaker 1: have been. Also, Sal, I don't fault Sal for not advancing.
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  Speaker 2: No, because, well, and also Matt Erickson is probably the
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  Speaker 2: one calling for both of them.
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  Speaker 1: And like that, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that anybody was anticipating Pratt sending it home,
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  Speaker 2: just like Sal was there.
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  Speaker 1: At the corner.
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  Speaker 2: But again, you just got to get one more hit
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  Speaker 2: with the runner in scoring position. You had too many opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: So many guys, 11 men left on base last night.
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  Speaker 2: And keep knocking on the door. You're going to pop
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: those things through. Bob Nightingale did say late into the night.
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  Speaker 2: Maury Hone and Miller expected to be available for the
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  Speaker 2: Padres tonight.
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  Speaker 1: So they'll have all hands on deck.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see how many of the Brewers' hands are on deck.
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  Speaker 5: 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, our current electric superhero of the day,
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: he retired, Lane Johnson. Hey, man. Good on you, Lane. Retired,
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: and do not pass go. Just collect your gold jacket.
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  Speaker 1: Best to ever do it. Two-time Super Bowler, two-time All-Pro. Multiple,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: multiple pro bowlers. A dominant player. Only two-time All-Pro. Wow,
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: that's crazy. Dominant player, though. One of the best to
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: ever do it. Joe Thomas with rings. Yeah, and also
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: a former quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Juco quarterback, tight end. Quarterback, tight end. Turned offensive tackle.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: Turned tackle. Right tackle. And a damn good one at that.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: Damn good. One of the best ever. He was fantastic.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: So he is our current electric superhero. Call current.com, the website,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: to check them out. And they have superheroes on the
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: side of the van. Now that we mentioned it, you're
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: going to see them all over town. Damn straight. Damn straight.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: And you're going to be smiling because you know somebody's
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: getting taken care of right now.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Admiral's home opener is Saturday night. That's part of the
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: stew of stuff that's going to happen this weekend in
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: the good land. El Jefe joins us next. You're in
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and Armand
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: bringing it to you.
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: The huddle.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. 920 Milwaukee.
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: 1070 Madison.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Everywhere on the iHeart app. We've been talking a lot
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: about the Brewers. Their loss last evening. Talking about Packers Bears,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: which is coming up. Badgers on a bye. But, oh,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: the weekend's buffet of sports does include the home opener
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: for the Milwaukee Admirals. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: president of that club and friend of our program, El
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Jefe himself, John Greenberg, is with us.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Greeny.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, bleary-eyed sports fans.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed. I was thinking about it because we've been
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: talking about double-headers tonight. Rhett Miller's playing Shank Hall and
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: then the Brewers. You had a double-header last night, didn't you,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: watching the Preds play in Toronto and then the Brewers?
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. And neither one ended up the right way. So,
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: you know, Preds had a.
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: Had a 3-0 lead and lost 5-4, which is never good. And, yeah,
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Brewers just one big hit away last night.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: I caught the highlights of the Preds game. They get
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: the lead, and they didn't hold the lead. And I
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: thought to ask you, Greeny, what's more deflating? And I
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: think I know the answer to this, but when you're
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: playing overtime and you lose 14 seconds in or 14
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: seconds from the end of overtime, what's more deflating?
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: Frankly, probably the 14 seconds in because it was like.
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: We just, you know, what happened? What happened? We just
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: got out there.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: But you got a point out of it.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: You got a point out of it.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: It's not a point you feel very good about, but
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: a point's a point.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: A point's a point. Well, all right. So the Admirals
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: winning their opener on Saturday night and the home opener.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: This is always exciting. You had people excited coming to
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: a preseason game not long ago. So what's the vibe
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: going to be like in Panther Arena at 6 o'clock
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: when you drop the puck on the home season?
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: It'll be very electric in there, and it's going to
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: be a lot of fun. I know our guys are
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: excited to get back in front of our fans and
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: play a game that matters. The preseason game was great.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: We had a handful of guys in that game who
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: are not on the team now, so now you get
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: the roster. Short of Matt Murray, who's now backing up,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: you say Soros up in Nashville. This is going to
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: be our team, and We'll see where it goes.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: But the guys are excited. I'm excited. This is my 20th.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: second home opener. So this is a, it never gets old.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: That's for sure.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: No, they really don't.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: And to be able to start up the year is
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: always fun and be to be there on Saturday night.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I'm very much looking forward to a greenie, but being
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: able to then know the kind of success that you
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: guys had, obviously in the stands and the entertainment and the,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: the number of people through the doors last year were
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: pretty historic and great for the organization. But on the ice,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: the success has been pretty impressive. That also has to
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: give you a different level of excitement knowing that, you know,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: each and every year over the last three or four,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: but not only competing, but one of the last ones
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: kind of standing.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: And fighting for it.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. You know, there's nothing like making the
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: playoffs every year. You know, that was something that was
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: foreign to me, frankly, in my time in baseball, you know,
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: I left and they started winning, so they probably should
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: have got rid of me a long time before that.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: It's been great to see the consistent success. willingness to
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: win Nashville's commitment to giving us good players to always
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: be competitive. And that's a good thing. You know, last year,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: our playoff run was short and everybody did.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Not like that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: So I really liked the way this team was shaping
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: up and I liked the way we played last week.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: And I think it's only going to get better. So
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: I think it's worth your time to come out and
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: check out our hockey team.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: You know, now with the, you mentioned our strong relationship
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: with Nashville and We got to get Coach Saban up
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: here now that he's a minority owner in the National Predators.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Let's get Saban up here, all right? Let's get some
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: honey buns. Let's advertise for this documentary. Get him up
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: here and get the boys fired up.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: That would be nice.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Get him in here.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Maybe interview the game hosts, right?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: That could work out.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: That's the worst.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: We could probably get them to maybe do a little
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: hype video for us. I think that'd be a lot
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: of fun.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: That would be phenomenal.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: As much as, as much as Armin in the email
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: out from a year ago, we'll get people fired up.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I do think coach.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Has probably a better chance now, Saturday night season opener,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the one to get the tickets for right away, but October,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: October 16th, October fest Stein package, which is up at
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee admirals.com. That is a very cool one. And for
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: folks that enjoy drinking a Pilsner, uh, two or six,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I think they're going to want to check.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: This one out.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. Oktoberfest is something we've been doing the
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: last several years. Obviously, it's our little fun with Oktoberfest.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: And yeah, there's a ticket package that includes a Admiral's
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: beer stein. And this is the third different beer stein
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: that we've done. So you get that and then you
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: can go over to the old German beer hall around
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: the corner from us and get a free beer with
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: that with the ticket package and then come to the
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: game we'll give you another free beer so um you
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: know it's a lot of fun with some german music
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: and we'll theme it up.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: And have some fun with it octoberfest always a lot
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: of fun that kind of ushers in hockey season.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: In my mind And I'll be there for that one.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to wear lederhosen, though. He's drawing the line.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Are you committed to the bid or not? Yeah, true.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Speaking of now, we know baseball players are superstitious. I
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: would have to think hockey community is, too, as much
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: as I remember. Because I saw Coach Taylor, Carl Taylor,
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: wearing the Brewers hat during practice. Now, that was ahead
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: of game three. So is he superstitious, do you think?
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Will he be donning Brewers gear at practice again? But
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: since they lost game three, What do you think Coach
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Taylor is going to do? If you know his personality, Greeny,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: what do you think?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I found Carl to be stitious. Not necessarily superstitious.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: My guess is he'll probably be getting into Avril's game
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: mode for the rest of the week. I will say
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: if they had one last night, we probably would have
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: told him he had to wear the hat. Yeah, so
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: my guess is he'll be at Avril's gear for practice
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: this morning.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: That's how I am, Drew. I might not be superstitious,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: just a little. Just a little.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Anything you can tease us with as far as game
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: production coming up on Saturday night? Greeny, anything exciting in
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the building?
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Well, hey, I'll tell you, this development, you know, the
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: grab-and-go has become a common thing in sports facilities where
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: you don't necessarily have to wait in line for people to,
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: you know, serve you things like that. We've now got
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: one of those in Panther.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Arena, which we're very excited about.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: And, you know, in a 70... six-year-old building to be
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: able to add new technology and things like that to
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: make that a possibility. It's a heavy lift, so we're
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: excited about that. It's located just outside of Section 228
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: and brand new, nice and shiny. Come and pick your
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: beverage out of the cooler. There's some snacks on racks
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: in there as well, and that'll be debuting on Saturday night.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Racks of snacks. That's phenomenal. That's a bar. Racks of snacks.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: That sounds like a start of a song right there.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: That's fantastic. I was checking out MilwaukeeAdmirals.com. A lot of
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: great new gear in as well. Obviously, online, if you're
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: looking for all that gear, and I know at the arena,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: a lot of new stuff every year.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: That's always exciting for fans. There's a lot of stuff. Greeny,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out with us. We appreciate it. Best
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: of luck on Saturday in the opener.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Plenty of tickets available. No Brewers game on Saturday, so
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: come out and have some fun with us. You never
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: know who might show up.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: That is a good tease.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: That is a really good tease.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I can't wait. Thanks, Greeny. You bet, guys. All right.
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• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And Drew Billion-Armond bringing it to you. It's 536 in
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: San Diego. And we welcome Hunter Baumgart, our Breaking of
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Dawn correspondent, on the Brewer's Beat for us. Hello, Hunter.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: Hello, good morning, guys. It is 536, but we're ready
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: to talk some Brewers baseball.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: How about that? I guess we're a little less happy.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: We're less chipper, I guess, because of the loss.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was a taut game, a couple of
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: hard-hit balls by the Brewers. It was one of those
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: kind of just tip your cap, the other guys won games,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: wasn't it?
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that was mainly the sentiment in the clubhouse last night.
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: We put ourselves in a lot of great scenarios, couldn't
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: come through. The Padres came through one more time than
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: we did. That was kind of the sentiment in the
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: clubhouse last night. And the Brewers had done that to
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: the Padres in the first two games. They came through
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: one more time than the Padres did in the first
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: two games.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: It has been.
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: Incredibly close, incredibly intense. Each and every game has been
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: it feels about the same. The Padres have been out
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: to a two nothing lead in each game. The Brewers
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: have come back to at least tie it in each game.
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: So it has been kind of the same script. And
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: either team could have probably won all three games at
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: some point. If they would have blown it open, nobody
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: has yet. We'll see if tonight is a night where
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: one of these teams can blow it open.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Hopefully the Brewers.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: That's a good point, Hunter.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: At some point, it feels like the dam is going
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: to break, whether it's on our side or theirs. And
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: whether the other commonality between the two games is the
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: road team has left a small village on the base paths, right?
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: in the two games here for San Diego 11 for
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: the brewers last night, we've had second guessing the light
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: for a couple of things, but when you go back
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: to where you're at in the lineup, a couple of
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: different times, Yelich gets the first base hit.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Are you surprised?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: They didn't try to apply more pressure on the base
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: pads last night. San Diego steals two bases gets thrown
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: out one time. The stolen bases lead to runs. Are
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: you surprised the Brewers didn't put anyone in motion with
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: how many guys they had on yesterday?
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it feels like, you know, obviously that's part of
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: their success, part of their game. So, you know, you're
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: a little surprised with that as well. I mean, the
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: Padres seemed like they had a tell on Dustin May
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: as far as going. It felt like they knew when
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: that guy was going to throw to the plate and
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: when he was maybe going to try to pick him off.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: And so they were getting huge leads.
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: And whenever you have an opportunity to do that, you're
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: obviously going to try to take a base there because
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: you have a really good chance to do so. Contreras
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: did have another caught stealing later in the game, which
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: was good, but yeah, that that's part of their bread
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: and butter. And obviously it's easier to do that. If
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: you have the lead, if you have the momentum, right,
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: there's part of that there as well. And so that's,
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: you know, when you're down to nothing or in those scenarios,
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: it's a little harder, but then again, this team is
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: really good at, at stealing a base. We were talking
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: in the press box when Churio was up and Hamilton
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: was on first, do you try to swipe it here?
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: But then again, you don't want it to take, you know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: and that bat away from Jackson Churio right now, considering
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: the fact that he can put one in the seats
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: at any moment and give you the lead.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: So that, that is a debate for sure.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: And maybe we'll see a little bit more of the
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: stolen base tonight, depending on how they feel about it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Hunter, you talked to a lot of guys in the clubhouse.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Obviously you talked to Bryce. Is there any, you know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: obviously he's been slumping, struggling to get it going here.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Any idea or a sense that his confidence is shaking
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: a bit, or has he kind of given you that
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: same stoic kind of Bryce terrain as he always does?
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: Very even keel Bryce Turing. I, I, and we talked
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: to Pat Murphy about it before the game yesterday and
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: he said, no, he's like, I, I, I like what
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: we're seeing from Bryce Turing overall.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: He just, he just needs the results.
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: And obviously to see one, at least just fall, albeit,
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: you know, a diving miss in the outfield. Hey, that's just, that's,
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: that's maybe what you need to hopefully open the door
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: for Bryce Turing. So no, I mean, he, he's going
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: to keep battling and, and that's, that's what he said.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: It's interesting.
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: Cause he, finished the year very hot, hitting very well.
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: So it seems like he just kind of lost the
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: rhythm a little bit over the bye week. And so
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: hopefully he can regain that. And maybe last night is
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: the start to that. So I don't think the confidence
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: is shaken there. We didn't get a chance to talk
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: to Bowers or Mitchell. Those two have struck out six
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: of their 11 at-bats in the playoffs so far. So
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: that is, I think if you're looking at where the lineup,
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: and Terang was part of the problem, I think, in
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: the first couple of games and a little bit into
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: last night.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: But the main problem right now is those two.
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: Obviously, Mitchell, look, I wouldn't say they've both been a
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: problem throughout the whole entire series. Last night was obviously huge.
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: Both of them came up in some big spots and
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: didn't come through. But when you have those six strikeouts
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: and 11 at-bats, that means you're coming into scenarios where
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: you maybe have a runner on or a chance to
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: advance a runner or something like that, drive a guy in.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: And you're not even putting the ball in play.
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: And that's the that's the tough part, because in the playoffs, obviously,
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: every run is huge and not putting the ball in
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: play can can cost you. So that's a little bit concerning.
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: And Bowers, I don't know, talking about a little in
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: the press box last night. We wonder if maybe those
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: injuries are starting to catch up with them a little bit.
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: You're getting towards, obviously, your six month into the season.
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: You wonder how much the shins are affecting him and everything. Obviously,
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: we know we can't really play the outfield. So how
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: much is that affecting his day to day? He was
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: he had four strikeouts last night.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart joining us live from San Diego. Hunter, reading
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the tea leaves. Who's your guess? What does your gut
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: say for the Brewer starting pitcher? And did last night's
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: 40 pitches over two innings take Michael King out of
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the equation for the rest of this series?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: That was key. That was key.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: Obviously, they didn't have more a hone or Mason Miller
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: last night. So that was why they go to King
• 29:07
  Speaker 8: there to save their season. And he did a nice job.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: You know, it was Tuesday.
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: Shocked if King comes back for at least a short
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: time in game five. Hopefully there's not a game five
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: and we don't have to worry about that. But maybe
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: Michael King there has a chance to do so. But otherwise,
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: for tonight, for the Brewers, I would say Robert Gasser
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: would probably be my pick right now. But then again,
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: Brewers are in the same spot they were heading into
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: last night.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: They have all fours. of their length guys, right?
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: They have Patrick, Harrison, Drohan, and Gasser all ready to
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: go and haven't pitched yet in the series. We saw
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: Drohan doing some stretches in the bullpen. We saw Patrick
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: up at one point last night, but none of them
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: have gotten in the game because Gasser's been so consistent
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: and because he hasn't pitched yet. Like I thought maybe
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: last night, If you would have told me who's going
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: to pitch in this game, I would have thought May
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: and at least like a drone or a, you know,
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: or a gas or someone like that.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: But that didn't happen. So they're in a good spot
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: in that respect.
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: I would think it'll be Robert Gasser. We'll see. Padres
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: have announced Walker Bueller. He hasn't pitched in the postseason yet.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: So we'll see how he does. He had a four, six,
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: three ERA and a nine and six record in the
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: regular season. But I would think Robert Gasser is my
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: pick right now as far as who's going to start tonight.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: So it could be like three guys going one time
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: through the order, basically.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Could be, could be. I mean, you have the ability
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: to do that right now.
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: Plus you, yeah. And you've used your leverage guys. You've
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: used Abner three times.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: You've used.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: You know, some of these guys a lot.
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: And so you wonder how much, you know, you want
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: to try to get some innings out of some other guys.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Stay away from Romero tonight. And I think they stay
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: away from Uribe if they can, although he only threw
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: seven pitches last night, but at some point you probably
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: don't want them to keep seeing him.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Like as much as, uh, however many of the pitches is,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: you just don't want that many eyes on them. When
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: you start to look at what they might do offensively,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: obviously Luis Lara's, uh, shortly used in the postseason.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: We saw Cooper Pratt last night.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Conversation after the game, what'd you take from him kind
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: of owning the mistake? And where'd you see that one?
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Because like Drew said, it hits the dirt, so it's
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: got to be on the throw. But, you know, you
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: said next to Jake Bowers, I think he's going to
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: be stewing with himself for not being able to make
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: that pick.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, for sure. Absolutely. It's probably on the guy who
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: throws it.
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: But then again, you know, like you said, Bowers is
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: a guy who can pick that and has picked that.
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: And just didn't there, his defense, but a little more
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: shaky than we saw in the regular season. In fact,
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: I mean, obviously all their deep, the whole team's defense
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: has been a little more shaky better last night, obviously
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: than the three errors in game two, but that's been
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: something to watch. And, and, you know, a wild pitch
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: leads to a run, you know, just different things that
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: have happened defensively for the brewers that have, have cost
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: them again. And I said this yesterday, and I'll continue
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: to say it. The only way the Brewers lose these
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: games is if they beat themselves. And that's, again, another example.
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: I know the bat was flying, and you had a
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: runner in front of your face and all of that.
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: But you could tell Pratt was pretty mad at himself
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: last night for not making that play. And he definitely
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: thinks he should have made that play, obviously, and gotten
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: that throw higher. So is Bowers totally not to blame? No,
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: because as a first baseman, that's part of your job, obviously.
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: But at the end of the day, Pratt's got to
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: make that throw and kind of, you know, maybe not
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: rush it or not be as distracted by what's going
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: on in front of them. That obviously leads to the
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: eventual game winning run. So that's what makes it even tougher. So,
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: you know, and Pratt's learning, obviously, the postseason thing. His
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: at bats the last two games have obviously looked better
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: than they did the first one. The first one, you
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: could tell there was a little bit, you know, as
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: Pat Murphy said a little there, he's a little amped up.
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: But this these last two, even on the road last night,
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: he had some good at bats. You know, the moment
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: didn't seem too big, just kind of rushed the throw there.
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: So I like what I'm seeing from him, Luis Lara. Yeah,
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: I mean, South Felix having a good series and he's
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: been impactful whenever he's been out there. So I, you know,
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: I would be tempted to keep going with him, you know, but,
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: you know, if they obviously if they face a lefty.
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: At some point, they might consider the Lara option.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: The juice Sal gives you now, there is something to
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: be said for it now. And you're right, Cooper hit
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: the ball hard. The whole team really did. 11 hits
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: on her. That's the irony of last night is probably
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: their best and most consistent at-bats with hard contact, getting hits.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: So you have to think as a team, they're going
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: to take confidence from that. I mean, they could have,
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: they had 11 hits. They could have definitely had more
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: last night.
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: That was a main theme in the clubhouse for sure.
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: Bryce Durang mentioned it. Yelich mentioned it. Just the at-bats
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: up and down the lineup, they were good. They were
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: hitting a lot of balls hard, some great defensive plays,
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: whether it be Merrill or Bogarts or whoever was making
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: a good play out there and robbing them of some hits.
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: And so hopefully those find a way to fall because
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: if they do, boy, you're in a different scenario and
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: you might put up six runs in that game and
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: then obviously it's a different result. So I think that
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: obviously gives the team confidence. They're having good at-bats against
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: these guys. They're seeing the bullpen more. Padres had to
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: use everybody except their two big guns basically last night
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: in the bullpen. So that's good. And tonight we'll see.
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: It sounds like they're both going to be available tonight,
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: which does play a role. So you hope to get
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: out to an early lead. That was something last night.
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: Like the crowd.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: it was, you know, it felt.
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: A lot like Milwaukee in the way that it was
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: that nervous energy that we, that the Brewers faithful had,
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: and especially down a couple of runs on Sunday, that
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: was kind of the energy you could feel. And I'm
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: talking with Kurt of the Kurt Hogan, the journal Sentinel.
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: He's like, this feels like last year, Wrigley where the
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: Brewers didn't get a lead, the cups, like, the Cubs
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: fans were nervous because you're down 2-0.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: So you start.
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: The game kind of nervous. Like, it was loud-ish, but
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: it wasn't wild. Like, it only got super loud in
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: the last few innings. And you had a chance to
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: kind of step on it there and be able to,
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: you know, kind of really take them out of it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: If you would have scored first, they don't.
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: And I think that's kind of what leads to that
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: crowd being, you know, as lit up as they were
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: towards the end of the game.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: One of the greatest games I ever covered was a
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals in Madison Square Garden.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: And they hadn't won since 1940. Right. But it wasn't
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: as loud as I thought it would be because there
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: was that fear.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: The nervous.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: It was a nervous. Yeah, it wasn't the same as
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: like a full-throated, let's get after it. It would be different.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Like when you have a chance to clinch and then.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Makes it a little different. But those fans were playing
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: not to lose. And maybe there was an element to
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: that with the Padres fans. They'll be back at it
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: again tonight and it'll be loud. I think for sure.
• 35:40
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• 35:43
  Speaker 1: communityroofing.com for more information. Anything else you want to impart, Hunter?
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Anything else that we should be watching today? Obviously, the
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Padres stole some bases. People were saying they outbrewered the
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Brewers in a way with the infield hit that set
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: things up and the bunting and stealing. Anything else we
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: need to be watching? Any other themes you've detected?
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they played some good baseball. The Padres played some good,
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: you know, fundamental baseball last night.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Brewers did as well.
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: Obviously, that send of Cooper Pratt by Matt Erickson was
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: really good. You know, trying to trying to scrape out
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: a run there, make a make a play, knowing that
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: the arm out there is not great. You know, in
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: left field and Harris comparatively, obviously, to Merrill. So, you know,
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: surprising that that didn't happen. or that Maryland catch that ball.
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: But great send by Matt Erickson and Cooper Pratt being
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: able to get in there. You know, at first you're thinking–
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: I was thinking, like, send him for sure, just make
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: him make a play. But then he got in there well–
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: you know, he was well safe, and that was not
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: expected when I first saw where that ball was caught.
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: So really, you know, he was able to speed down
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: that line and was using their speed that they have.
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: So something you may see– Who knows? Maybe you do
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: see a little more stolen bases tonight. And just again,
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: they just have to come through with these opportunities. They
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: have an opportunity after opportunity in this postseason. You want
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: to continue. We can continue that. The one thing that
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: I said, I was I was thinking about this yesterday.
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: The Tatis Machado, they've been fine. They haven't been great
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: and they haven't had a moment yet. So you want
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: to continue that. Because, you know, those guys are too
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: good not to have a moment at some point. So
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: I feel like you, you know, the longer the series goes,
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: the more opportunities you have, you know, are giving them
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: to have a moment. So hopefully they can kind of
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: keep them at bay coming up tonight, no matter who
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: is up on the mound and continue to keep the
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: Padres off the home run board. I know that, you know,
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: they've scrapped across some runs in some different ways. But
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: they only have one home run through three games, and
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: that's Cronenworth. I think that's a win for the Brewers.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Because that team can hit home runs, obviously, more than
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: the Brewers.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: I agree. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: If those guys have moments, hopefully it's in two weeks
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: in Cabo. Like, you know what I mean? Oh, look
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: at you. I like that, yeah. Well, they've been canking.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Maybe they have a nice time and vacation. I bet
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Jackson Merrill would have some fun in Cabo.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they all would.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah. I mean.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Good looking guy.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: I assume he's doing all right. I assume he's doing
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: all right for himself. I assume that works out. Were
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: you guys in the press box able to avail yourself
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: and hear Pat Murphy's hot mic interview with Tom Verducci
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: in the Merrill moment last night? Or were you guys
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: too busy working to enjoy that little giggle that we
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: all got?
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: Oh, I saw it pop up on social media and
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: immediately had to dig into it.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. I mean, that's just That's him.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: That is, you know, it's like, and I love how
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: he said it before he even caught it.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: I love how it was.
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: And he just a peek inside his mind. Sorry, Hunter,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: just a peek inside instinct in his mind. You're right. Yeah.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Before he even caught it, he knew it.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Was like get, get in the gap for sale.
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: And then, oh, you know, and then what he says,
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: but it, it, then, you know, he hasn't even caught
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: it yet. And he, you know, he, he just knows
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: that he's tracking it and Meryl's going to do what
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: he does out there. So, Yeah, that was that's that's
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: Pat Murphy for you. You know, that's in the last
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: night after the game saying, you know, let's I know
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: they've you know, they've lost now. They haven't won a
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: road playoff game since 2018. He's like, hey, let's not
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: beat up the old brewers. OK, you know, let's let's
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: let's let's not get on those those of the past.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: So beat up Ulysses.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: That is tough. That is tied for now. A major
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: league record. How can that be? We have to break that.
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, we got to. Streaks are mental. Yeah, absolutely. Well,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Kristen Yellich broke a streak last night, just saying. He's
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: a little good this playoffs. Line drives all over the place.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I know, I know. Anything else? Any parting words for us, Hunter?
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: Pre-game show at 8 o'clock tonight from San Diego again.
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: We'll hear from a bunch of players and Pat Murphy
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: on Fox Sports 920.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: So when they win tonight, have you planned? Are you
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: going to join us in the first hour and just
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: not sleep? Or are we going to tie up in
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: the back end?
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Pause.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: That's a really good point because I do fly out.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: I do. Yeah. We'll be in touch.
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: Okay. Good.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I just want to know. We might have no sleep.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: You just tell me what you want to do. You
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: just tell me either way.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: We're going to figure it out. One way or the other. Hunter,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: enjoy yourself. Thanks for the report.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Thank you guys.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart live from San Diego boots on the ground.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: You can see him realizing it as we talked about it. Oh, yeah,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: you're right, guys. We're halfway through our final week patrolling
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the mornings. If you missed the memo, we're going to
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: 2 to 5 p.m. beginning Monday, huddling up in the afternoon.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: But we're going to get after it. We'll be back
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: after it tomorrow, 5 a.m., hopefully talking about Champagne Dreams.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: See you then.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: Peace.