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09/02/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of the huddle from headquarters. Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt,
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  Speaker 1: Armin Sarian, bringing it to you. Hot take hump day.
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  Speaker 1: Well underway.
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  Speaker 2: 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to all members of the seven o'clock club. Say
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  Speaker 1: hi to the six o'clock clubbers and the five o'clock
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  Speaker 1: clubbers who were here right with us at 5 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Psychos that they were. It's hot take hump day. Get
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  Speaker 1: them to us. 877-794-1973. Got anything holstered up? Armin, got
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  Speaker 1: any takes? I mean, You went viral yesterday for venting
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  Speaker 1: against Cubs fans. That was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if I can repeat that, although
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  Speaker 3: I guess my hot take is I don't know where
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  Speaker 3: all the Cubs fans are at. I had my binoculars
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  Speaker 3: out looking last night for all those mouthy Cubs fans
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  Speaker 3: that were so excited. Two nights ago, and they weren't
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  Speaker 3: there last night. So nice win for the Brewers last night, guys.
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  Speaker 1: That was pretty awesome. It was a nice win for
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers.
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  Speaker 3: And my other hot take is, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you guys saw it on TV. We're watching it on
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  Speaker 3: the TVs out in the studios. Man, Bryce Terang looking
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  Speaker 3: good in that new commercial for one of the law
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  Speaker 3: firms in town.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw your boy over here. Armin's saying that
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  Speaker 4: he looked like a lawyer. That would have been a
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  Speaker 4: real stretch for Bryce Durang to be looking like a
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  Speaker 4: lawyer to me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he had the suit on. Sport coat and a t-shirt.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but it was navy blue. They were sitting
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  Speaker 3: around the boardroom. That table looked like maybe oak or
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  Speaker 3: something like that.
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  Speaker 4: Looked like the out-of-town cousin or brother that comes into
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  Speaker 4: town and you want to bring him in, but you're like, hey, man.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to put on some nice clothes.
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  Speaker 1: But this is all I got. This is the nice
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  Speaker 1: stuff I got.
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  Speaker 3: Like he's there for the retirement party or for the
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  Speaker 3: engagement party or maybe the guy that... Hey, we brought
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  Speaker 3: in our new associate, our paralegal. He's the ringer for
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  Speaker 3: the company softball team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going to be on the company softball team.
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  Speaker 4: That's where you're going to find him. Pretty good stuff
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  Speaker 4: right there. We want your hot takes. Here's one for you.
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  Speaker 1: Hot takes. Sometimes you have to dive in amongst the
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  Speaker 1: tire and strip club ads to find... To get where
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  Speaker 1: the real good stuff is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Like.
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  Speaker 1: The best game in baseball last night was the Pirates
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  Speaker 1: and the Giants. Nuts, wasn't it? Unbelievable. Pirates scored nine
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  Speaker 1: runs in the third. They puked away a six-run lead
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  Speaker 1: and then won on a walk-off error in Pittsburgh. They
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  Speaker 1: won 13-12.
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  Speaker 4: They were up 11-5 at one point after that, and
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  Speaker 4: then slowly come back on. And also, the headliner of that, Drew,
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  Speaker 4: is two starters from Team USA, the two starters in
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  Speaker 4: the game. Because we're used to now skeins getting roughed up.
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  Speaker 4: Logan Webb giving up nine in an inning and not
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  Speaker 4: getting out of the third?
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  Speaker 1: That we're not as used to. Pirates, half of the
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  Speaker 1: third inning, they scored nine runs, and it took 30
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  Speaker 1: minutes of time.
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  Speaker 2: Yikes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God for the pitch. And much like the Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: it was a small market rally. They scored nine runs
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  Speaker 1: with no extra base hits. Just a bunch of singles
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  Speaker 1: and walks.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Two bases loaded walks that drew in runs and just
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  Speaker 4: punted the ball around the yard.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't done that many consecutive outcomes. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: just wild. The Pirates bullpen allowed seven runs across the
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  Speaker 1: sixth and the eighth innings.
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  Speaker 2: Yikes.
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  Speaker 1: My goodness.
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  Speaker 4: Well, in the, the, the pirates had were one of
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  Speaker 4: the teams that ended up bolstering at the deadline, beefing
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  Speaker 4: up thinking we're going to make this run. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to try for it. We're going to do everything we can.
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  Speaker 4: And Luke Weaver was one of the big guys that
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  Speaker 4: they ended up bringing in from the Yankees, more money committed.
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  Speaker 1: To him next year.
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  Speaker 4: He was so good with New York and, uh, They're
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  Speaker 4: kind of flat since they've got him there in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't given him a whole lot of save opportunities until
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  Speaker 4: yesterday and then give him two runs and blow that
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  Speaker 4: son of a gun there in the ninth.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like that. You never know when you get
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  Speaker 1: a guy in the trade.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes they're better than you expected. Sometimes they're worse than
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  Speaker 3: you expected. Sometimes they're about the same. Well, and pitching
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  Speaker 3: is one that's got a lot more variables to it,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't it? Like you can not say that you can
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  Speaker 3: just hit everywhere, but that to me is like a
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  Speaker 3: defense in football.
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  Speaker 4: Defense will travel. That bat will travel. You go in
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  Speaker 4: to a pitching staff and you are working with a
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  Speaker 4: whole new operation, new catchers, new pitch selection process, right? Because,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, at some point you're not calling your own pitches.
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  Speaker 4: And there's some teams that are trying to emphasize that,
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  Speaker 4: but there's a lot of variables when acquiring guys at
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  Speaker 4: the deadline, especially there. The other interesting one drew stories
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  Speaker 4: around baseball yesterday was this young man who made his
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  Speaker 4: debut on, Lazaro Montes for the Seattle Mariners, 21 years old,
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  Speaker 4: out of Cuba. He had a great reaction video to
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  Speaker 4: him calling his family, calling his family back home that
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  Speaker 4: he was making it to the big leagues. Emotional video.
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  Speaker 4: And all he does in his debut, go two for
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  Speaker 4: four with a bomb at Fenway Park.
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  Speaker 1: Giddy up. Dead center.
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  Speaker 2: Huge.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, straight away.
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  Speaker 4: And that is a shot there at Fenway to go
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  Speaker 4: straight away. Is that worthy of our current electric superhero
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  Speaker 4: of the day? I think it, I think it definitely
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  Speaker 4: would be, but I was going to give it to
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  Speaker 4: Christian Yelich. I was going to give the, I was
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  Speaker 4: going to give the superhero of the day to Christian
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  Speaker 4: Yelich for the two run shot that flips the scoreboard
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  Speaker 4: changes the game. Joey Ortiz probably also deserves it to
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  Speaker 4: hit night as well. Two hit nights for Jackson Churio,
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  Speaker 4: Bryce Durang, William Contreras. Uh, but we're giving it to
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  Speaker 4: Yelich after that two run shot that, uh, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it ends up being the difference. As it went up 5-3,
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  Speaker 4: they tack on and change the outcome, make it look
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  Speaker 4: a whole lot different.
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  Speaker 1: But that ballpark was silent.
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  Speaker 4: Outside of the smattering of Brewers fans there that were
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  Speaker 4: able to celebrate, but Drew, the air was taken out
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  Speaker 4: of that balloon pretty quick with that swing.
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  Speaker 1: Callcurrent.com, the website, superheroes on the side of the van,
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  Speaker 1: superheroes inside the trucks that do the work for you.
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  Speaker 1: Check them out. Always got deals going and stuff. Whatever
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: you may need in terms of keeping your family safe. Right, Billy?
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  Speaker 1: Keep your family safe, especially because the storms are not ending.
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  Speaker 4: We talked to our friends up in the Fox Valley.
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  Speaker 4: Hope everyone's doing better a little later into the morning.
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  Speaker 4: I know we were getting pounded earlier on. Our 5
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  Speaker 4: o'clock clubbers were waking up with us. But you do
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  Speaker 4: not want to be left out in the cold, or
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  Speaker 4: as it would be this week, the heat when your
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  Speaker 4: power goes out. So go and call Current Electric. Callcurrent.com
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  Speaker 4: is the place to go.
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  Speaker 1: Check them out.
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  Speaker 4: They will do a full home assessment, figure out which
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  Speaker 4: one of their generators would be best for your home.
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  Speaker 4: Whole home standby generator. You hope you never need it,
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  Speaker 4: but odds are in Wisconsin, especially in the summers, you
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  Speaker 4: will need it.
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  Speaker 1: Current Electric. Callcurrent.com. All right, hot take for you. Again, 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: Hot take. You can't make a fashion statement and then
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  Speaker 1: deny the fashion statement. Cattell Marte's hat in Phoenix is
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  Speaker 1: a big story. The hat he wore the other night
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  Speaker 1: with the neon trucker hat that said, let the bridges
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  Speaker 1: I burn light the way. I found it online. When
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  Speaker 1: you just went AWOL for a while. For a week.
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  Speaker 1: And you're going to wear that. And people asked him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what does that hat mean? He said, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know what it was. Just a hat. Just a
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  Speaker 1: cool hat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just a hat, dude. Just one of the many hats
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  Speaker 1: you just slapped on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's hard to believe.
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  Speaker 3: I get guys are getting stuff from different, you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe merchandisers and collaborations and they're getting free stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they just throw one on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You can't tell me you just threw that on by accident.
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  Speaker 4: Is he in a contract deal, or is there some
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  Speaker 4: kind of struggle that we know of that they're going through?
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  Speaker 4: Because Lovolo did a great job caping up for him,
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  Speaker 4: but he also did let the cat out of the bag.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was this weekend where he's like, I
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  Speaker 4: think it's been three or four years now that we've
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  Speaker 4: had him miss a game, but we didn't know where
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  Speaker 4: he was.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to talking throughout and explaining his 13-game absence,
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  Speaker 1: Torrey Lovolo was asked about the hat. His quote was,
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  Speaker 1: I want to move past this Cattell stuff as quickly
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  Speaker 1: as possible. I think if you chop up those words,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he's taking some accountability. He feels like he's done
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  Speaker 1: some things and he wants to get better. That's how
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  Speaker 1: I read it. You want to read that? That's like, whew.
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  Speaker 1: What a great guy. That's a great read. Some rose-colored
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  Speaker 1: reading glasses you're wearing there, Torrey. And I like Torrey Lavelle.
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  Speaker 1: He extended it. He's been getting put into the hornet's
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  Speaker 1: nest with this thing. So then Marte said he didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: He just put it on. And because he's from the
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  Speaker 1: Dominican and Spanish is his main language and stuff. He,
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  Speaker 1: he was then someone read him a translation of, of that,
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  Speaker 1: of the hat. And he just said, yeah, I didn't,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Don't know what it meant. I just,
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  Speaker 1: I just put it on.
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  Speaker 2: I just put it on.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that's his excuses, that language thing. And I guess
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  Speaker 3: it's possible. I mean, but it's just hard to believe.
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  Speaker 4: That's a tough, that's a tough one to, uh, to
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  Speaker 4: get past. I like the, let the bridges that I
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  Speaker 4: burn light the way, light the way to the talking
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  Speaker 4: stick casino.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I just, He's making six years, $ 116 million.
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  Speaker 3: He extended last April in 2025. April 2025, he extended
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  Speaker 3: to six year, $ 116. 5 million that added $ 64 more million
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  Speaker 3: in new guaranteed money.
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  Speaker 1: So I can't be... Sounds like there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: reasons to be happy.
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  Speaker 3: I don't... He just did the deal, so I can't
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  Speaker 3: imagine he's mad again, but maybe he.
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  Speaker 1: About the money... Who knows? Maybe he's just a different
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  Speaker 1: kind of guy. Very different.
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  Speaker 4: It's tough because you then also, and I heard a
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  Speaker 4: lot of different baseball guys talking about this. Drew, you
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  Speaker 4: saw a lot of things in baseball. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: that you saw a guy just go AWOL for two
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  Speaker 4: weeks from the team.
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  Speaker 1: No, generally not.
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  Speaker 4: But being able to come back into the dugout, into
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  Speaker 4: the clubhouse, and then like You have to address it.
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  Speaker 1: You can't not.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like obviously he did and he was urged
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  Speaker 4: to and said some of the right things. But there's
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  Speaker 4: only so many times I think that pro athletes are
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  Speaker 4: extremely good at a couple of different things.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously the athletic parts. They are very, very good at
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  Speaker 1: spotting phoniness.
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  Speaker 4: And especially from somebody that's in the clubhouse that they're
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  Speaker 4: supposed to be respecting and following and playing with. If
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  Speaker 4: they found any bit of that as not being genuine,
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  Speaker 4: I think his time in Arizona is going to be
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  Speaker 4: hard for him not to be done at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. There was another story. There's much rejoicing in Anaheim
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  Speaker 1: because Stan Kroenke purchased the Angels. Talk about it. The
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  Speaker 1: Artie Moreno era is over, right? And that's going to
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  Speaker 1: be Kroenke. Was that $ 4 billion? Felt like a deal
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  Speaker 1: to me. Baseball team in Anaheim?
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  Speaker 4: That's a record deal for Major League Baseball, too. So
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  Speaker 4: hot take, Major League Baseball owners not happy about the
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  Speaker 4: Artie Moreno news.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: As our franchise value valuations, not skyrocketing as we want
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  Speaker 4: being one of the main impetuses for the labor strike
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  Speaker 4: that happens in the off season. 3.9 for San Diego,
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  Speaker 4: 4 million for the second team in L.A. that hasn't
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  Speaker 4: done anything in the last 20 years.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. Sounds like they're kind of going up. It sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of money, and it is. They're not
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  Speaker 1: going up.
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  Speaker 4: They're not tenfolding like the NFL valuations at the NBA ones.
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  Speaker 1: The Padres closed their sale for 3.9.
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  Speaker 3: 3.9 billion.
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  Speaker 1: The Angels are 4 million now.
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  Speaker 4: $ 4.
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  Speaker 1: Billion, and the Angels have 11 straight losing seasons. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. 11 straight losing seasons. They've had great players.
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  Speaker 4: Two of the best players in the last 25 years
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  Speaker 4: playing there for an extended period of time.
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  Speaker 3: I think for Angels fans, they probably consider this good
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  Speaker 3: news because Moreno's kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Been the anchor. They're dancing in the streets.
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  Speaker 3: I just think, yeah, it's interesting how the NBA, obviously NFL,
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  Speaker 3: and then the NBA, the franchise valuations are skyrocketing.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously.
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  Speaker 3: MLB going up, but maybe not at the same pace
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  Speaker 3: and what that means for a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of things. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Kroenke now owns the Rams. He'll own the Angels when
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  Speaker 1: they close in the first quarter of next year. The Nuggets,
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  Speaker 1: the Avalanche, and Arsenal. And Arsenal. Just won the Premier League.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: Odds on favor to go to the Super Bowl. Set
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  Speaker 4: almost 70% chance to go undefeated, apparently. Colorado was the
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: best team in hockey last year until they lost in
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: the Western Conference Finals because they lost their best player
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  Speaker 4: before the series against Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: And Denver just won it, what, three, four years ago? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: three years ago with Jokic.
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  Speaker 4: If you're looking at this as an Angels fan, and
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  Speaker 4: there are them out there, right?
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  Speaker 1: They do exist. They do exist.
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  Speaker 4: It's not the barren fan base. Yeah, you're dancing in
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  Speaker 4: the streets. This is the best news that you possibly
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  Speaker 4: could have seen. But this is also going to be
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  Speaker 4: into the hot take hump day variety. He's one of
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  Speaker 4: the only owners that's in this new wave of owners
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  Speaker 4: that you do want to have. Because Stan Kroenke, I think,
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  Speaker 4: is about making money, but clearly about winning. And you're
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  Speaker 4: going to start seeing this with a number of different
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  Speaker 4: private equity firms coming through into Major League Baseball, NBA, NFL.
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  Speaker 4: Just watch it with Mark Walter. Now he's in some
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  Speaker 4: hot water. He's in some different kinds of things. Wherever
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: that money was potentially coming from, that will be a
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  Speaker 4: fascinating deal to be played out in real time. But
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  Speaker 4: to watch one of the touchstone franchises in all of
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  Speaker 4: professional sports flip for $ 2.
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  Speaker 1: 5 billion... in a year signals, I think a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a shift.
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  Speaker 4: This is no longer drew you finding an owner that
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  Speaker 4: has a vested interest, loves the team, loves ball.
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  Speaker 1: This is a hobby.
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  Speaker 4: This is my, this is as much of my status
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  Speaker 4: logo as possible of I'm going to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I run the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I got the money. If we make money is what
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 4: This is all about making money because it is the,
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  Speaker 4: there's some of the biggest businesses in the world and
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  Speaker 4: that shift over the next five to 10 years of
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  Speaker 4: how business operates under these ownership groups, I think is
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  Speaker 4: going to be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: To watch private equity, get involved that they don't make
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  Speaker 1: anything better.
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  Speaker 4: They don't make anything better, but you know what they do?
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  Speaker 4: They make a lot of money doing it. They do
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  Speaker 4: a lot of money doing it. It's a churn and
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  Speaker 4: burn thing. Like it's like private equity. You'll see a
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  Speaker 4: lot of these teams probably getting flipped just because the
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  Speaker 4: number hits the threshold as to where you're supposed to
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  Speaker 4: go with the investment.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Artie Moreno was not cheap. He was not successful,
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  Speaker 1: but he was not cheap. That's true. That is true.
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  Speaker 1: They did not win despite having Otani and Trout, which
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  Speaker 1: is unfathomable. But they had Otani and Trout. Otani bolted. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so that franchise just sold for $ 4 billion. Otani left
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  Speaker 1: and made $ 700 million. Yeah, I mean, that's based on
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  Speaker 1: what we know. If you'll get that money, we don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But in 2019, Moreno stepped up to keep Mike Trout there,
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  Speaker 1: their generational player. That was $ 426. 5 million. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, my God, that's ridiculous. To keep
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  Speaker 1: him there for his entire career. They also brought in Pujols,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Hamilton, and Anthony Rendon, and they spent $ 625 million
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  Speaker 1: on that trio of underachievers. They've tried. So they tried.
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  Speaker 1: They've dumped money. They just didn't spend it wisely. And
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  Speaker 1: I think the idea was that he was too involved
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: in baseball decisions. And that begs the question, how was
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: David Stern so good in Milwaukee, and then he got
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: to New York with unlimited resources and not going to
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs? That's how. He's spending the money on
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: guys like that, whereas the Brewers have to be on
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: the margins, have to be right, have to have a
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: guy like Jake Bowers.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: And sometimes players let you down.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Facts.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes you sign a guy that's done really well.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Hamilton or Rendon. $ 625 million for that trio that didn't
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: do much. Did nothing. Especially Rendon. Was it? I was
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: going to say who basically quit halfway through it. It's
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: just like the worst. And was it counsel a couple
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: of months ago made the quote of in some form
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: or fashion?
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be misquoting it, but I think I'm
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: paraphrasing in it of like it can be an it's
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: an advantage for them to not have as many mainstay
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: guys talking about the Brewers. like not have as many
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: big contract guys where in that same vein, they live
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: on the margins. They also live on, as Murphy would
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: talk about it, the threat of that pink slip coming
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: in your locker, right? Like when you have seven, six years,
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: seven years, you're going to have to play that guy throughout.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: And there's never going to be an adjustment that you
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: can have. And once you start spending big time cash,
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: you realize that like Stearns did for, for Moreno.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: That's the tough thing.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: Cause he definitely, you would think tried, but it also
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: sounds like from people in the know, it's like, we're
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: going to spend big money on this contract. And then
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: we're going to cut costs everywhere else. Hey, Artie, can
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: we get a new pitching machine down in Arizona?
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: This one's good.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: You're talking about this one doesn't work. This one works.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: This one works.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Let's use this one still.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: So there's a weird back and forth of when you
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: get teams, people only look at the spending on players
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: where the Brewers don't spend notably. So on a ton
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: of players where they did spend their money. was on
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: their infrastructure and things around that can supplement it. And
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: that can be your way of being able to play
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: around the margins.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: And 25 years ago, the angels were drawn 3 million fans.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Like they're always kind of like second to the Dodgers
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: in that market, but that's a big, and again, it's
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: almost like two different worlds, Orange County and LA, two
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: different worlds. And they were drawn 3 million there and
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: they haven't been good. 11 straight losing seasons will dampen
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: your attendance. Now, again, attendance isn't everything in MLB anymore.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: It's all about TV deals and stuff, but, hard to
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: generate much TV heat. When you're in 11 straight losing seasons,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: you have the second worst record in all of ball
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: again with a generational player. Mike Trout is one of
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: the great players of this or any generation who's never
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: gotten any juice because they've been so bad. He's been
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: mired on such bad teams for so long. Just hanging
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: out there in the middle of mediocrity.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: And the tough thing is, I've heard, again, there's been
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: a lot of people that have said a lot of
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: different things about Artie as the owner, but one, I
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: remember when the Brewers went out there, maybe it was
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: this year or a couple of years ago, they played
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: a week day series, like a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Monday, Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: whatever it was.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: And had the getaway game at night on Wednesday. What
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: are they doing? Why are they hosing people?
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Well, it's also a getaway game for his own team,
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: but he's not going to deal with the day gate
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: because we're not going to draw anything.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: They just watched that happen at USC.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: If it's 100 degrees in the middle of the day,
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: nobody's doing anything in LA.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: So they try to do everything they can to get
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: some folks in there. And over the last decade, it
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: has been as barren as it possibly could be for
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: that team.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: But a good day for him yesterday. You just lived
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: through all that suck.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Now you got a wild amount of positivity and optimism
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: if you're an Angels fan.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: And hope. You know, that's the main thing. So Kroenke
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: helped deliver SoFi Stadium. Angel Stadium needs kind of a
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: reboot or... They need a new one. Either a new
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: one or, yeah. You think he moves it out to
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Englewood and to the complex? Good question. Not sure. Become
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the California Angels again? I'm not sure. I think he's
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: going to spend money on players. And the other thing is,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: in addition to a quarter billion dollars on Anthony Rendon,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: who sucks, they had to pay that Tyler Skaggs, you know, the... Oh,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: they had to pay out that deal? That was an
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: undisclosed amount of cash that they had to pay a
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: lot of money out on that settlement. So, yeah, like
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I said, they spent $ 625 million on three guys who
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: didn't do much for them.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: They didn't do anything for them, but you know what
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: they wouldn't spend on? A manager's second year on his contract.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Kurt Suzuki is working on a one-year deal as the manager. Now,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: maybe it was because he knew that they were going
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: to get sold. Maybe that was part of the deal.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I don't believe so.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: I think it was already said, let's give them a
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: one-year deal.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Give somebody a one-year deal that'll take it. Crockey's good
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: at facilities, so they'll either get Angel Stadium renovated or
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: build a new one somewhere. Would that be a good location?
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I would think they would stay in Orange County. Stay
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: right down there? I would think they would because that's
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: kind of where their history and their roots are. I
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: also don't know that he owns the land that SoFi's on.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: I know he owns the stadium, but that's another.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: That's another one, yeah. I'm not sure.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Because then if they did, it'd be a heck of
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: a complex because out there in that Englewood area, they
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: got SoFi.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: They just built the Intuit Dome.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Which is apparently supposed to be a marvel of sport
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: and potentially that one too. This is just an interesting day,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: especially when you talk about the labor negotiations. I've heard
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: it's a fire up right now, and this team that
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: a lot of people would not have thought of goes
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: for what ends up being a record amount of money.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: It fires up and keeps that conversation hot. A couple
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: of hot takes quickly from the talking text line. Bill
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: from Madison. Hot take.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Ortiz hitting so well.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Murphy leave Hamilton on the bench for a week. and
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: let Ortiz rake. I don't know that it'll be a week,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: but Joey Ortiz is playing himself, Drew, into... he's going
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: to be starting potentially a third base or shortstop.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I think in the playoffs. Yeah. He's playing himself into
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: one of those spots.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: He's playing in the playoffs and it might just be
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: from what we ended up watching last night that you
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: don't get a 21 year old, 22 year old Cooper
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Pratt in there. We don't want our, we can't be
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: hurting ourselves in a playoff game last night. That's an
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: atmosphere of the playoff. Like down there at Wrigley.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Nope.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: When we come back, Bill Schroeder is going to join
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the party from Brewers TV, friend of the program. He
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: actually played for the Angels back in the day when
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: they were owned by Gene Autry and his family. The
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Rock is next. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Continuing the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Armin Sarian. Brewers beat the Cubs last night. There was
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: just a noticeable exhalation, a sigh of relief. The sky
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: seems bluer and the sun is shining and birds are
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: happier in the good land. And we're happy to be
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: joined by our pal from Brewers TV, Bill Schroeder. Rock,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: welcome to the program. Timing is everything, my friend. I'm
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: glad we're talking to you today after a victory rather
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: than a 17-3 setback.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get a sense that you guys are still
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: a little bit uncomfortable with an eight-game lead. No.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: No, not too comfortable.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I don't have my feet totally kicked up here yet, Rock,
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: but I do have my shoes off. I'm getting very
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: close to kicking them up on the ottoman with that
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: eight-game lead.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say this. I mean, you know, Brewers
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: pitching has been just phenomenal all season long. You know, Harrison...
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Had a rough outing a couple days ago, but it
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: was good to see the Brewers' offense get going last night.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, some bottom of the order getting it done
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: early on, and then the big boys taking over, you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Contreras with that big double, and Yelly with the homer.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: And how about Joey O? I mean, he's been phenomenal
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: since the All-Star break, or since July 4th, I think
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Rock, these games feel like playoff games, and it's a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: good preview, and to see Pratt and... Those guys and
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Lara and those guys get this exposure. It's fun, isn't it?
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: It's just like this is as good as regular season
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: baseball can get in September.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, any time you get into Wrigley Field. I don't
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: care what the records of the two teams are. It
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: does give you kind of an exalted sense of the game, right?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a playoff atmosphere. I mean, the Brewers
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: fell behind once again yesterday. And then all of a sudden, And,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: you know, the Brewers are able to take advantage of
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: a struggling Cubs bullpen this year. That's the big difference
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: between these two teams. I know Cubs hit a lot
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: of dingers. They hit a lot of homers. They score
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of runs. But starting rotation has been really
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: good for them. But, you know, you can tell that,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: you know, the bullpen, it's a big difference. I mean,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: the Brewers' bullpen has been great. You know, the Cubs
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: have not. But, yeah, it's good to see a team
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: that is so young to be able to handle the
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: pressure and all of that. At Wrigley Field last night,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: you've got 21, 22-year-old kids playing in huge games against
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: teams that are very, very experienced. The Cubs have got
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: a team that's been around a while. These guys know
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: what they're doing, and the Brewers have been able to
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: handle it pretty well.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: And you look at it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Bill, and you've called so many of these games last
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: night and enjoying it like us on the couch. These
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: games are stressful. These Brewer-Cub games are a different kind
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: of stress, and there's such a heightened importance on seemingly
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: every pitch. It feels like a playoff game, but is
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: it as exhausting to call as it is sitting on
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: the couch to watch? These games are never over, and
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: last night was another great example of it. They just
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: play some thrilling games.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I find that, you know, doing the games, I mean,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: it can be a little bit more, you know, straight
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: down the line. You know, you don't get as emotional.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I have. I get upset sometimes, you know, but,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: you know, you don't want to watch, you don't want
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: to sit with me watching a game on television at
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: my house because I, you know, say things, I do
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: things that normally I would never do. I'm a fan.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: The Brewers, that's my life. I get emotional. But yes,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I just get a sense that you win the Wrigley Field,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: you have an eight-game lead. I mean, all the pressure,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: every bit of the pressure is on the Cubs. And
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the guys responded extremely well. But you're right. I mean,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: every pitch. I thought B.A. and Vinny did a great
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: job setting the scene yesterday and talking about the importance
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: of of these games and the importance of the experience
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: that these young brewers are getting through all this. And, um,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: you know, it's good to have a, an eight game cushion.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that every time you beat the
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Cubs now, they knock two games off the magic number.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: What was it? I think I heard it was like,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: what is it? 16 right now is the magic number
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: for the brewers. I mean, the brewers, uh, you know,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: every time they win a game goes down, every time
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the Cubs lose another game goes down. So they knocked
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: off two games yesterday. So, uh, I think the Brewers
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: are in great shape. Maybe they've got a month left.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Anytime you beat the Cubs, it's always a big deal.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I don't care what the records of the two teams are.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: It could be last place and next to last. They're
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: always more intense when you're playing the Cubs.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: It's always fun. You're telling us that when things get
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: really intense and you're sitting at home, Kate and Rupert
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: have to go to a different room?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kate will just look at me and start waving
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: her finger at me and say, that's enough. That's enough.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: And then Rupert goes right into his bed and covers
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: his head up. He's out. Rupert.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I like it when Daggett's mad. Rupert the super doxer
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: goes nuts.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. I turn from broadcaster that has been doing
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: it for a long, long time. and try to maintain
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: composure and be kind of down the middle a little bit.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: So if I'm in my house and I'm watching a game,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: that is all gone. Every bit of it is gone.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I am just a big fan, and I get crazy.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Not that I'm screaming and yelling the whole night, but,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a different mentality when I'm in my basement.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: When stuff goes bad.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: One of us.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: All right. Yeah. Rock, to have that last night's game,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: a total bounce back. And our buddy Todd Rosiak asked
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Murph on Monday, are you confident your team has the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: resilience to come back? And Murph's like, why wouldn't I be?
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And Murph brought that back last night. I was asked
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: last night. And the Brewers to come back from 3-0
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and win that game was huge. And then today you're
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: rolling Miz out there. So now you feel like you
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: totally have the upper hand. The psychological impact of having
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Miz and rolling out that big gun is huge.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Isn't it? Yeah, especially if you just won a big game.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's one of those things where
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: you've got Miz out there, and then you've got Peterson
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: for the Cubs, who has had kind of a rough
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: season from time to time, but he's always pitched well
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: against the Brewers, even when he was with the Mets.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, he really came up with some pretty good starts.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: You've got Miz tonight, and then you've got Logan Henderson,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: who has been unbelievable where it starts. You can understand
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: why the Brewers did not want to give up Logan
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Henderson in all those trade talks with Scooble and the
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: rest of those guys. This guy's going to be a
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: good one for a long time. You win yesterday. I
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: thought Gasser was really good. Brewers bullpen once again. dynamite,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: and now you've got the Miz and Logan Henderson, a
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: chance to win three out of four at Wrigley and
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: pretty much put this thing away.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can put it to bed. You win three
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: of four, and you can put the kids to bed
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: and be safe for the rest of the month. When
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: you see a guy like Joey Ortiz, you mentioned him
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: off the.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Rip, Rock.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: When he has the shot to the bow of Cooper
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Pratt coming up, he signs the contract, knows what's going on,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: understands it, but then doesn't flinch and goes and takes
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: a new position and just takes off with it. What
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: can that be for not only his career, but for
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: the team? Because it does feel like he's primed to
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: come through in a huge moment in October because he's
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: now just become the guy that's come through for the
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: last two months.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a big home run that he hit yesterday.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, that gave him a nice little cushion, the
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: fibrin cushion, and you could see how excited he is.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: He was, but you know what? One guy that isn't
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: getting enough credit for what Ortiz has been able to
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: do is Pat Murphy. I mean, when that all happened,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: when Joe was really struggling at the plate, but this
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: guy's a wizard in the infield. He said play made
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: at third base yesterday. I mean, incredible job for him.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: But Murph told him when Pratt came up, he said, look,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: you're still going to be an important part of this team.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Keep working. I mean, he's a tireless worker. Anything you
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: do offensively is going to be a bonus for us
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: because of how good you are defensively. But all of
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: a sudden, then, he gets that confidence just because Pratt
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: is up there that he's not going to be sitting
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: on the bench the whole time. So, or getting sent
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: down or getting traded or anything like that, Merck showed
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: confidence in him even when Pratt came up. And I
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: think it had a big impact on how he's been
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: able to play.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Talking to Bill Schroeder, Brewers TV here on the huddle, Drew, Billy,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and Armin. Okay, Rock, got to take you back. One
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: of the controversies yesterday, it's nice that we don't have
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: to talk about it, but Andrew Vaughn pitching two innings.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: It used to be funny, and I've always been a
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: fan of position players pitching, but it's happening now across
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: baseball almost on a nightly basis. Is it too much?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Is there anything anybody can do?
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I hate it. I don't like it. I mean, you know,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: if you need to add another pitcher to the roster,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: go ahead. But, I mean, you know, when the Brewers
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: won that game 22-0, you know, you had– it was
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: like slow pitch, no limit softball, no pitching arc. I
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: can't stand it. I don't like it. I don't think
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: the teams like doing it, but you've got to protect
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: your pitching. But two innings is a bit much. I
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: think that if you're going to throw a pitcher out
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: there or a position player, I should say, Make it
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: be the eighth inning. I mean, it kind of makes
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: a mockery of the game. I don't like it. Nobody
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: likes it. Murph doesn't like it when he has to
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: do it. I know no manager does, but it's the
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: way it is. If you've got a 15-run lead, down
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: by 15 runs, I mean, what other choice do you have?
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: You don't want to blow out all your pitching for
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: the rest of the series.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: And the game is just so analytically driven and numbers
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: driven that we were talking about it, and Drew mentioned
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: it in the accounts, you say, like, The numbers guys
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: would tell you to do it when you're down four
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: in the seventh inning because you're like, coming.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Back is so low. But it does. It gives you
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: such a weird thought.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Mine was that, like you said, add another pitcher or
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: if somebody's got to wear it, you have the opportunity
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: to bring somebody up at a certain point the next day.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: They've got to be able to find something to it
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: because these games are too entertaining to all of a
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: sudden have that thing stunted right there at the back end.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: And the game's so good right now, Rock, that there's
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: no reason to have. Now, listen, if Gary Sanchez is
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: going to pitch more, I am going to be interested
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: to watch because.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I want to see Al Crackett fire that thing. Well,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: that's true. But, Rock, we were talking about one of
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the things that's missing is a knuckleballer that can pitch
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: every day. Remember Steve Sparks back when there were knuckleballers?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Ashby's the closest thing to it. When there were knuckleballers,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: those guys could pitch every day and eat up those innings.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how about a knuckleballer every day, but if you're
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: a catcher, you hate that. Yeah, true. You see the
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: umpire last night wear one right in the mask yesterday,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: tipped off of Contreras' glove, but that happens quite a
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: bit with a knuckleballer. Yeah, you're right. I mean, you know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: the game is the game. The game is doing so
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: well right now. And, you know, runs sometimes are hard
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: to come by, but then all of a sudden you've
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: got stretches like now where, I mean, teams are racking up,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: you know, 10, 15, you know, 20 runs. I mean,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: it's been kind of crazy the last month, hasn't it? Yeah.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: You're seeing it on the regular and this is, It's
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: not the 40-man roster debacle we used to have in
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: September's past when you'd have a whole bunch of guys,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: unlimited pitching. A bunch of dudes no one's heard of, too.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: But that was almost better in a way.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind expanding the rosters for pitching, but the
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: three-batter rule will kind of eliminate the whole Tony La Russa.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Have a guy come in for one hit or do
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: that three, four times in a row. That kind of
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: gets crazy in September, but... I mean, you've got to
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: protect your pitching, especially teams that are going into the postseason.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Rock, one of the things I want to ask you,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: because you're on the record on this program telling us
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: you'll never refer to the Cubs' presumptive MVPs by his initials,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: but the Brewers.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Have done a good job. Never, never. Never, never.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you. 0-4 with three punch-outs last night, and I
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: think one of the keys to beating the Cubs, if
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I had Rock's keys to the game on a graphic,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: is hold down the blue-haired kid.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's what Vinny was saying in his scouting
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: report yesterday. But don't say that too soon, Drew. I mean,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: we've still got five games left with these guys. And
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: he can turn things around, you know. I think that,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, the way the Brewers have been able to
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: handle Pete Crow Armstrong. And, you know, I texted VA yesterday.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Enough with the PCA. Enough with the PCA. He didn't
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: listen to me.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you the emoji he sent
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: back to me, but anyway.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I love it. He's one of us.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: The partners getting after each other. Oh, my goodness. That's incredible.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Absolutely incredible. He's a good player. They've got to hold
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: him down.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: I'd enjoy him if he was on any other team,
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: but he's got that damn blue and red on.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I can't stand him. If he goes over, you like
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: your chances because he's such an engine for them.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you keep the big boys down.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: You know, Seiya Suzuki and Bregman now has been knocking
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: the cover off the ball. When the Brewers played these
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: guys early in the year, none of those guys were hitting.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Now they are, and they're hitting in a big way. But,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: you know, you've got to take advantage of the bullpen
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: for the Cubs when they come in. That's their Achilles heel.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: And that's the secret, get in the bullpen. Rock, thanks
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: for joining us. Have a great day. We know you're
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: chomping at the bit to get in the booth for
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Brewers Cubs on Labor Day.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: No, I can't wait. I mean, Labor Day, Cubs, Brewers, yeah,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: it's going to be great. Hopefully I see you guys
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: in the ballpark.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: We'll see you there, bud. Take care.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, guys.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: The great Bill Schroeder joining us here.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: He says you don't want to see me watching a
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Brewers-Cubs game.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: No, I disagree.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: I think everybody wants to watch a game with Bill Schroeder.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: That's why we love you, Rob. I'm going to FaceTime
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Kate and have her put the camera on and turn
• 34:41
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• 34:44
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• 35:03
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• 35:05
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• 35:11
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• 35:25
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• 35:26
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• 35:29
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• 35:37
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• 35:39
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• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the palate a little bit as we go into a
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Wednesday and get ready for Brewers Cubs game three with
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Miz on the mound. Oh, nothing better. That is some sweet,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: sweet taste of victory maybe tonight. All right. I got
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: you here for this one, Drew.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Now, I don't know that there was any waking and
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: baking going on, but I do know there was some
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: good work, some good camaraderie, and potentially way too many
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: dudes on a Malibu boat over the weekend for the
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: Milwaukee Bucks hanging out in Austin, Texas. Miles Turner put
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: it out online. It looked like they might have been
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: doing some swimming.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Well, why not? I hope some guys get out of
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: that boat. Miles Turner had the fellas down for a
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: players camp. Got some good workouts in. Pretty cool.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Everybody had their gear, doing some stretching, doing some five-on-five,
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: little shooting drills, and a lot of good hanging. Now,
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: like a lot of, you know, good guys weekends. There's
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: a really, really sweet 45 second cinematically shot video of
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: the entire thing.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Recapping it, edit video, edit a lot of good clips.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, we're.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Putting, there's a wildly well-timed shot of, uh, Yaka Jonas.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: Am I pronouncing that correctly?
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Yaka Jonas. I think so.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: The young man, they got formerly of Illinois from Miami
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: shooting some pool.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Hitting it in the corner pocket. Some really nice little
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: hat tips for the boys down in Texas. They're spinning
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: the paddle, playing some ping pong, big old tomahawk steaks.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: And then a.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Shot that is only going to be rivaled by potentially
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: the New York football giants going out on the boat
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: the week between the Packers game to Lambeau for the
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: wildcard round. Where we got, like, the whole team on
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: a 28-foot Malibu. This is not a, like, it's a
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: nice boat, but it's not that huge. That's a very
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: expensive boat. I mean, it's very nice. The little bit
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: that I know about boating, a Malibu ski boat is
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: nothing to sneeze at.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: But this isn't like, you know, the Queen Mary boat. Like,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: this isn't like the Wisconsin river boats.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: We got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: at least 11 dudes.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: All on this boat. Not one wearing a shirt. I
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: also wouldn't if I looked like this.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. No.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: It's probably hot down there. You might jump in the water.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: There's no swim shirts going on.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: But I think it's just a fair question to ask
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: on a hot take hump day Wednesday. 11 shirtless dudes
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: on boats.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Too many dudes. How many guys on a boat? Too
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: many dudes.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: How many dudes do you feel comfortable with hanging out
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: on one boat?
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Again, this isn't a yacht. This is like a, again,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: max 30 foot ski boat. This is not like the, the,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the Vikings love boat. This is not even like, we
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: don't know. It could have been, there could have been
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: two boats.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: This isn't because there was, there were two boats for
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: the Minnesota love boat situation. One where it was really
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: going down. And one where, you know, Nate Burleson famously
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: tells a story. He was just hanging out, having a
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: nice drink, hanging out, looking at the views. Even the
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: Stefan digs daddy on the boat was.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: A bigger boat. right? Much larger, much larger, much larger.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: This is great.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Cause this is team building bonding. I love, we probably
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: had some sick wake surfing going on here. I see
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: the wake boards over on the side.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's gotta be a couple of bags of
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: sun chips in the bottom there somewhere.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: But even the, the boat is the pizza, the pool,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the shots up.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Basically when you're a kid, what you wanted your birthday
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: party sleep over to St.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Edwards university is where they were working out and, and
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: hooping and hooping. Like, Great. It's great to see this.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I'm interested. Did the Bucks social team accompany them? Who
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: put this together? Because it was very well crafted, and
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: the video was amazing. That's what I was going to say,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: because it comes out on Miles Turner.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: I didn't know if Miles booked the video crew to
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: be like, hey, man, come film this. Let's make sure
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Bucs fans know that I'm about that action.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: He had the private chef cooking for him. I think
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: that guy wasn't on the Bucs that was cooking all
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: those tomahawks.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: That guy is definitely not on the Bucs. Now they
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: probably should have had Chef Adam Pavlak.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: They should have. Let's be honest, if Adam would have
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: been there, the boys would have been eating. No doubt.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: And Miles Turner, earlier this offseason, got engaged, right?
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: In Italy. He's having quite a time. Having a good offseason.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: And you know what? He was on a boat during
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: that engagement. Whatever it ends up being, Cam Jones, Armand's boy,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: is in there.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: He's doing some sweet lunges.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know they're going to hit the.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: I don't know they're going to win 25 games. But
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: these vibes are a lot better. These are fun vibes
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: for a young team. I like the feeling that we're
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: all hanging out, getting together. Teams bond a lot more
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: around steaks and kegs than they do kale. And this
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: one feels like a good one.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: My final hot take is that the Bugs will exceed expectations.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Damning by faint praise, I know, because there are virtually
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: no expectations for them this year. Very low expectations. it's
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: the flip side of when Wendy Seligpreep told Hardcore, Tom,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: we're not as bad as you think you, we are.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: And he said, Wendy, you couldn't possibly be as bad
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: as I think you are. So bucks will be better.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Bucks will be better. Hey, better than that. Join us
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: at five a.m.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: We'll be talking Ms.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Cubs.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a blast. We'll see you then.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Peace.