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06/29/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Thing Wisconsin and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 1: Time to wake up and talk about the teams you love.
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Speaker 1: No matter what, with the guys you love.
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Speaker 3: It's just about getting the group together.
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Speaker 1: cutting me quick.
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Speaker 6: You'll look at this play. What we're trying to get
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: And they can play be right all the way outside?
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Speaker 1: Why left Banks three ninety thick bag be hen see
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Speaker 1: park is not.
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Speaker 6: Long enough for you. Watch it. If he's party of professional,
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Speaker 6: it's a great professional. Go out there and play this
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Speaker 6: ball game like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 3: The good Land. It is the huddle.
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Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin nine to twenty, Milwaukee ten seventy,
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Speaker 3: I'm Drew Wilson.
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Speaker 5: Bill Schmid out today and this week, enjoying some family
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Speaker 5: time as he is very very well entitled. So we're
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Speaker 5: skating shorthanded for a little bit. We're gonna soldier on.
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Speaker 5: I'm Drew, there's Armon.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Carmen. You're gonna have to be uh you
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Speaker 3: have to step up your game.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm gonna have to be the the number two
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Speaker 2: that the number three that steps up and the number
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Speaker 2: two goes down with or what the I'm not to
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Speaker 2: be the six out save guy right in those situations? Uh,
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Speaker 2: so many sports metaphors in that situation drew, but uh,
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Speaker 2: we will solder on as we start the start the
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Speaker 2: new week, a hot week. As we know this weather
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Speaker 2: is gonna be really changing as we start today, and
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be heating up, so finally feeling like summer
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Speaker 2: for some oh day.
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Speaker 3: Those of you by the big by the big.
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Speaker 2: Air conditioner in the lake sometimes feel that the early
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Speaker 2: part of the summer, Like when.
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Speaker 5: I'm ready for it. Man, I love I like well,
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Speaker 5: I don't love. I like hot weather.
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Speaker 3: I like it warm.
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Speaker 5: That's like, yeah, I don't complain because I live for
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Speaker 5: the summers in Wisconsin.
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Speaker 3: I don't mind it at all.
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Speaker 2: It comes. It comes down a lot of times to
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Speaker 2: the humidity, right, isn't that always the story? It's like,
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Speaker 2: when does the humidity get too oppressive? It just comes
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Speaker 2: a little bit right. Points are gonna be miss. So
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Speaker 2: I think due point a lot of times is more
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Speaker 2: important than uh, than temperature. I think it's like, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's like the old on base versus betting average thing.
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Speaker 5: What's more exactly, our friends who are visiting for the
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Speaker 5: World Cup are going to be enjoying air condition I'm
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Speaker 5: sure they already are because it's been hot elsewhere.
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Speaker 3: We just have it's just been a late incubating summer.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it has been. We haven't had. We haven't had
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Speaker 5: like you know, uper eights. It hasn't been consistently like eighties.
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Speaker 5: It's very comfortable. It was cool, like summerfest.
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Speaker 3: I put it this way.
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Speaker 5: I've worn long pants more in this month of June
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Speaker 5: than in probably the last ten June's put together.
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Speaker 3: I have to agree. It's one of those.
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Speaker 2: And you're like kind of like, Okay, we're approaching July one,
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Speaker 2: summer gonna start.
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Speaker 3: We've had nice days, don't get me wrong.
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Speaker 2: Kind of the reason some people love Upper Midwest in
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Speaker 2: the summer is for the relative temperate, you know, nature
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Speaker 2: of it, right, Drew. But some have said, all right,
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Speaker 2: I want these sincere summer. I want the sincere summer weather,
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Speaker 2: and you'll be getting it, and Droves, it'll punch you
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Speaker 2: right in the face this week. So as we always do, Drew,
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Speaker 2: we enjoy what we didn't have for a few days
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Speaker 2: because we wanted it, and then once we get it
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Speaker 2: for a few days we can plain. So I'm sure
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Speaker 2: that's what will be come Wednesday, Thursday.
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Speaker 3: We'll be like.
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Speaker 2: Okay, it's too hot. When's it gonna break? As is
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Speaker 2: our nature, But yeah, it's it's really nice. The Lake
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Speaker 2: Michigan water temp has always wanted to watch and it
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Speaker 2: feels like it's been a little bit.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's always kind of chilly this time of
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Speaker 3: the year.
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Speaker 2: I stepped into it this weekend, had a nice, nice chance.
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Speaker 3: To hit stepped into the laake. You had to hit
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Speaker 3: the beach and hit.
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Speaker 2: With with little Lena her first steps into the Lake Michigan.
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Speaker 5: Actually, but it is chilly always. Wait wait, what was
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Speaker 5: your access point? Did you go to Bradford Beach or something.
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Speaker 2: We were we in the northern part of Illinois for
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Speaker 2: a kid's birthday party. That's that was one of the
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Speaker 2: most exciting ventures as young dad, the kid's birthday party.
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Speaker 2: So we were there in kind of that len of
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Speaker 2: the lake forest area whatever it is, and and we
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Speaker 2: had that there. So it was it was cold, but
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Speaker 2: it was you know, it was an experience to have.
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Speaker 3: But it's always that time of the year.
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Speaker 2: You're like, all right, Lake Michigan great, and then it's
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Speaker 2: frigid and then you're like, one, is it warm up?
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Speaker 2: And the lake temperature I think is a little bit
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Speaker 2: chillier than normal because of that said cooler up spring,
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Speaker 2: but it always heats up eventually for the end of
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Speaker 2: the year, just in time for somewhere to end. But
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Speaker 2: that was a fun part of the weekend. It was
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Speaker 2: Lena experiencing the sand for the first time at one
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Speaker 2: of the first times, and for sure the first time
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Speaker 2: the Lake Michigan water, which shocked her, to say the least.
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Speaker 2: I think she expected something more comfortable.
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Speaker 5: All right, well, yeah, we welcome in our five o'clock
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Speaker 5: clubbers today. Indeed, all of you that are up early,
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Speaker 5: we call you insomniac's early risers, just sociopaths waiting for
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Speaker 5: the health club to open. Maybe people trying to this
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Speaker 5: might maybe it's going to be so hot that people.
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Speaker 5: If you're a runner, you got to get your run
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Speaker 5: in before it gets too oppressive, you gotta, you know.
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Speaker 3: So maybe there will be.
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Speaker 5: More early risers perhaps this week than usual. But we
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Speaker 5: welcome all to the five o'clock Club, five o'clock Club
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Speaker 5: of the Huddle. Generally we try to keep it laid back.
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Speaker 5: We start our little our little Dog and Pony show
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Speaker 5: starts after six when we'll take your game balls and
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Speaker 5: kicks to the balls.
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Speaker 3: Of course, you can.
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Speaker 5: Get them to us early eight seven, seven, seven, nine,
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Speaker 5: four ninety seven three to the Nicola lot dot com
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Speaker 5: talk and text line, and I'm sure we're gonna get
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Speaker 5: a lot of people covetching pearl clutching about the Brewers
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Speaker 5: losing two of three to the Cubs and looking abysmal
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Speaker 5: in those situations that separate victory from defeat. In Major
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Speaker 5: League Baseball, runners in scoring position, the offense has been anemic,
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Speaker 5: and it's been that way for ten days. And yes,
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Speaker 5: if I'm not mistaken, and I didn't glance at the
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Speaker 5: standings after yesterday's game, but I'm pretty sure the Brewers
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Speaker 5: in their last ten are five and five.
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Speaker 3: That's not about right.
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Speaker 2: It does sound right. I'd have to check that, but
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Speaker 2: it sounds accurate, yeah, because.
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Speaker 5: I always say, you know, I've been saying it for years.
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Speaker 5: When you're a good team, five hundred should be your baseline.
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Speaker 5: You should you know that when you're playing badly, and
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Speaker 5: I'm talking about your overall record. Indeed, the Brewers are
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Speaker 5: five and five and lost too in a row to
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Speaker 5: the Cubs, are who picked up a game. They're five
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Speaker 5: and a half back from the Brewers in the in
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Speaker 5: the division, So five and a half up as we
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Speaker 5: churned toward July. What if I had told you in
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Speaker 5: February that the Brewers would be fifty and thirty one.
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Speaker 3: They're still off to the best start, and yet.
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Speaker 5: It feels like they're not playing well and it feels
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Speaker 5: like something's got to happen. And I know there's a
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Speaker 5: little panic because of what happened this weekend and the
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Speaker 5: way the Brewers lost yesterday particularly frustrating, but the last
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Speaker 5: two games frustrating. The last week to ten days, the
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Speaker 5: offense has been tough to watch. Yeah, I don't know
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Speaker 5: how they won those games in Cincinnati, but they did.
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Speaker 2: To your point, drew it is five and five, But
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Speaker 2: then if you go three games back from that, it's
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Speaker 2: eight and five. So it's always, Yeah, it's always a
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Speaker 2: matter of where you put the measuring stick. Well, you're right,
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Speaker 2: and how they did it was mostly pitching, and that's
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Speaker 2: what's been impressive about this team is without the great
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Speaker 2: pitching and the depth of pitching, where would they be
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Speaker 2: exactly as good as they are.
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Speaker 5: So those two ways to look at it. So I
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Speaker 5: don't know, I mean, I haven't in the national churn.
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Speaker 5: It'll really fire up because we're getting close to the
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Speaker 5: All Star break. It's you know where the brus reached
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Speaker 5: the midpoint of the season yesterday. They're fifty and thirty
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Speaker 5: one eighty one games and we're half or the half.
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Speaker 5: We're at halftime of the season, halfway across the desert.
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Speaker 5: We'll get halftime of our show today at six thirty
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Speaker 5: when Dolf pops Inn's six twenty five ish and then
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Speaker 5: Doff will pop in. Oh wait, it's Dolph off today too.
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Speaker 5: I think I think he's off today. Okay, if the check,
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Speaker 5: I thought he was back for some reason.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Did you have to make the coffee
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Speaker 3: this morning? No, it was here, and that was my
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Speaker 3: first dedicator that he might be here. He might be here.
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Speaker 3: I thought he thought he was also off today.
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Speaker 2: But I could be that could be accurate. I'll try
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Speaker 2: and I'll check in on that.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Yeah, we'll figure.
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Speaker 5: But either way, we're going to have a halftime, right
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Speaker 5: But the Burrs reach halftime and it's going well, but
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Speaker 5: it is frustrating and the pitching, like the way whatdrof
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Speaker 5: pitch Logan. Henderson had a good rehab start yesterday, and
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Speaker 5: it's like, maybe they don't need Tark school, but maybe
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Speaker 5: they do need a bat and the idea that well,
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Speaker 5: and and for all the all the calls and texts
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Speaker 5: we got arming about Joey Ortiz and gotta do something.
9:14
Speaker 5: Cooper Pratt is getting caught with his rookie showing a
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Speaker 5: little bit.
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Speaker 3: He's getting you know.
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Speaker 5: He's striking out on pitches of his eyes and in
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Speaker 5: clutch situations, but that he's not alone there, yell. It's
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Speaker 5: just struggling, terrang and struggling. They're just going through it.
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Speaker 5: And I know it stings more when it's the Cubs,
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Speaker 5: because the Cubs came in yesterday. I don't know how
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Speaker 5: much you watched yesterday or how much you paid attention.
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Speaker 5: I was at the ballpark yesterday. It did if you
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Speaker 5: close your eyes when something good happened for the Cubs,
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Speaker 5: you had a thought you were at regular. You heard
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Speaker 5: it hardcore, and it was it was more pronounced than
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Speaker 5: a normal And I was there Friday, Drew, Well, that's
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Speaker 5: what I was going to ask, because I buried the
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Speaker 5: lead here because we want to do uh W W
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Speaker 5: l W, which sounds like a radio TV station or
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Speaker 5: something in Cincinnati WLW, no, WWLW what what would Lena wear?
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Speaker 3: What? What did Lena wear? WDLW? What did Leanna wear?
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Speaker 3: What did your child wear?
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Speaker 5: With her Cubs loving mother and her Brewers loving father
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Speaker 5: attending a Brewers Cubs game as part of a Purdue
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Speaker 5: alumni gathering?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we could put a lot together. Did Lena ware?
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Speaker 2: First of all, I gotta say the Purdue Alumni Club
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Speaker 2: did a great job. They had a couple of little
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Speaker 2: huts rented out for Ganner's Gardens there in the parking lot,
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Speaker 2: you know, the little gas.
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Speaker 3: How big was the gather? Was it over one hundred?
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Speaker 2: I'd say it was probably approaching one hundred, but it's
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Speaker 2: probably closer to sixty sey Are there that many Milwaukee
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Speaker 2: or Wisconsin based perdu alums or did they draw from
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Speaker 2: Chicago too because it was the Cubs.
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Speaker 3: Good question?
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Speaker 2: So that was kind of my first analysis was are
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Speaker 2: these going to be mostly Cubs fans that found a
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Speaker 2: way to get to Chicago for.
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Speaker 3: A game easier? Yeah? And I say it would was.
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Speaker 2: It was, but there were some Brewer fans as well,
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Speaker 2: So I was probably thirty seventy. It's probably thirty percent
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Speaker 2: Brewers fans in that group seventy percent Cups fans, but
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Speaker 2: in general it was it was a nice event because
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Speaker 2: they had they had a little tailgate set up and
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Speaker 2: things like that, and we approached walking in and so
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Speaker 2: the idea that I had initially and I was talking
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Speaker 2: a billy about this all last week, was the forecast
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Speaker 2: was a lot chillier than I at the beginning of
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Speaker 2: a week for that game for Friday night, so I
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Speaker 2: kind of anticipated a little chillier evening. So my goal
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Speaker 2: was and I lost out on the battle to have
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Speaker 2: Lenna in a cup T shirt, but I was hoping
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Speaker 2: that it would be chilly enough where she would need
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Speaker 2: the sweatshirt, and that was my plan. But unfortunately that
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Speaker 2: backfired as the roof. The roof was closed. The roof
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Speaker 2: was opened earlier.
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Speaker 3: In the day it drew. I drove by and checked,
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Speaker 3: and then it was closed in the evening.
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Speaker 2: But they kept the panels open, as you know, so
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Speaker 2: just to keep a temperate put a little bit of
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Speaker 2: airflow going through because I don't think there was a
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Speaker 2: risk of rain.
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Speaker 3: But as you know, stadium Opics doesn't like to keep it.
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Speaker 2: They like to keep it closed or open, right, They
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Speaker 2: don't want to keep changing it around back and forth.
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Speaker 2: So I said, oh no, it's actually a lot warmer
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Speaker 2: than we thought. What am I gonna do here? So
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Speaker 2: I made the move with with with little to no fanfare,
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Speaker 2: before I could get the big heave ho and the
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Speaker 2: big no, and bought Lena hat. So she was truly
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Speaker 2: a fan in conflict. As you can see, Clubs T shirt,
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Speaker 2: Brewer hat, and I consider.
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Speaker 3: That a win for the weekend. Here you go, Dree
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Speaker 3: and check it out. Here.
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Speaker 2: There she is and the Brewers hat, Clubs T shirt
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Speaker 2: and her little yogurt puffs all right watching the game
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Speaker 2: like a true ball ball fan and a ball fall.
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Speaker 2: So at this point I settled for I cut my losses,
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Speaker 2: and I said, as long as I can get in
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Speaker 2: a bruise hat, I'll let her sweat in the Cubs
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Speaker 2: T shirt and we'll just have to We'll just have
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Speaker 2: to deal with it. Well, I made a good point
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Speaker 2: that she said, you know, when we go here just
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Speaker 2: for a Brewers game, we put her in all Brewers
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Speaker 2: garb she goes. So really, when she's here for Cubs Brewers,
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Speaker 2: she should be able to wear some sort of Cub scar.
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Speaker 2: So I didn't want to fight it too much, because
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Speaker 2: you know, there's only battles, certain battles you picked. So
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Speaker 2: she was looking she was looking cute either way, and
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Speaker 2: I was I was happy with that, but that's what.
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Speaker 3: We settled on.
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Speaker 2: My hope was that it would get a little chillier
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Speaker 2: by the time we had to go and leave early
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Speaker 2: for bedtime, so I could put the Brewers zip up
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Speaker 2: hooty on her, but unfortunately they didn't. It turned out
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Speaker 2: to be a beautiful night, I mean, really nice night
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Speaker 2: and not chilly at all, so it was a good time.
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Speaker 2: The only tough thing for Lenna was when we went
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Speaker 2: to the UH, the little UH on the field level,
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Speaker 2: the kids area where you know, you can throw a
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Speaker 2: baseball and run with the sausages. And she realized soon
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Speaker 2: that she was still a little too young for a
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Speaker 2: lot of these things, and therefore she'd have to watch
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Speaker 2: the other kids throw baseballs and pretend they were a
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Speaker 2: sausage and pretend they're William Contreres catching a ball.
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Speaker 3: And so there'll be her time will come, Her time will.
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Speaker 2: Come, Her time will come, And they've got the Brewers
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Speaker 2: have a great setup on terrors level for the toddlers.
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Speaker 3: So but it is nice when, yeah, they do.
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Speaker 5: And when it is nice though, when the kids watch
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Speaker 5: older kids and kind of observe and like experience goals, I'm.
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Speaker 3: Gonna shoot for right. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So overall was a good night because Miss Roscy was
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Speaker 2: down and the Brewers won that game, and.
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Speaker 5: So the Cubs felt like they let that one get away.
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Speaker 3: They did.
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Speaker 2: They felt like it because they had a chance early obviously,
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Speaker 2: but it was it was quite satisfying on a Friday night.
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Speaker 2: Then of course we we as you mentioned, got into
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Speaker 2: the Saturday and Sunday games and the Brewers I didn't
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Speaker 2: let the series get away.
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Speaker 3: I think that's fair to say.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And it's just, uh, it's been again frustrating
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Speaker 5: a couple of days. It's a dip in the season.
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Speaker 5: But if the Brewers dip is when they're five and
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Speaker 5: five out of ten, you take that, you take it,
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Speaker 5: and it's just you gotta have the bigger picture, and
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Speaker 5: I know everything is. There's the Cubs magnifier because their
14:35
Speaker 5: fans came up and they it was wriggling North again
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Speaker 5: and they kind of took it to the Brewers. They
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Speaker 5: did on Saturday night when Chad Patrick blew up. They
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Speaker 5: did it yesterday just because the Bruce couldn't get hit,
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Speaker 5: the brust still had a chance to win that game
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Speaker 5: in the tenth inning, amazingly, right, I mean absolutely, I
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Speaker 5: absolutely should have. I think you right loaded nobody out.
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Speaker 3: Another chance by the wayside.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So there's just many ways to look at it.
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Speaker 5: But I'm not hearing a lot of taric school things
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Speaker 5: because starting pitching is not the Brewers' biggest concern right now.
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Speaker 3: It's offense.
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Speaker 5: And if you think promoting Luis Lara to help is
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Speaker 5: gonna help because he's tearing it up in triple A,
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Speaker 5: I just say, look at Cooper Pratts at bats right now,
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Speaker 5: and which is he's gonna help.
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Speaker 3: It's a it's a young thing.
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Speaker 5: And the Brewers they felt like they could absorb that
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Speaker 5: they knew he was gonna go through it, and he is.
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Speaker 5: He's gonna have moments. Like I thought yesterday, it's like, oh,
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Speaker 5: this would be a big moment for him if he
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Speaker 5: could get a big hit here, and you know, ended
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Speaker 5: up not happening. But he wasn't alone. There were a
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Speaker 5: lot of guys that didn't come up with big hits.
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Speaker 5: So again, like I'm not that worried about the Brewers.
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Speaker 5: They might they seem to be running on fumes a
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Speaker 5: little bit. And they're playing this stretch of you know,
15:41
Speaker 5: rough a rough stretch with no days off, got a
15:43
Speaker 5: double header looming there, just grind until the All Star
15:45
Speaker 5: break right now, so maybe there will be a step back.
15:49
Speaker 5: But look around. Atlanta just had an abysmal trip to
15:53
Speaker 5: the West Coast. They went one and five. They lost
15:55
Speaker 5: to the Giants. Giants are terrible. Giants are showcasing everybody
15:59
Speaker 5: to see who they can trade and Atlanta, as you know,
16:02
Speaker 5: the Brewers, Oh they're five and five.
16:03
Speaker 3: It's awful.
16:05
Speaker 5: Well, the Braves have lost seven of their last ten
16:08
Speaker 5: and they were the hottest team going like you couldn't
16:11
Speaker 5: even imagine them losing a series. And that's just it's
16:14
Speaker 5: hashtag baseball. That's don't panic, it's you're gonna go through this.
16:17
Speaker 5: It's like team wide. And it looks bleak right now,
16:20
Speaker 5: and I get it. It's rustling and there's the Cubs multiplayer.
16:23
Speaker 5: Had the Brewers lost, you know, two out of three
16:25
Speaker 5: this weekend to the Pirates or the Reds, it wouldn't
16:28
Speaker 5: sting as much as seeing those bastards in their Royal
16:32
Speaker 5: blue and you know what is what was kb's rant.
16:36
Speaker 3: To the BMW.
16:40
Speaker 2: BMW driving Yeah series, you know exactly, eating Italian sausage
16:45
Speaker 2: eating the reality is drew. You do become prisoner of
16:48
Speaker 2: the moment a little bit like when you take a
16:49
Speaker 2: wide forest fans are coming up here palosites. When you
16:53
Speaker 2: take a wide scale view of things, you understand the
16:56
Speaker 2: situation and teams will go through this. I mean there's
16:59
Speaker 2: ups and downs every season, but you become a prisoner
17:01
Speaker 2: of the moment, and I understand it like I was
17:03
Speaker 2: there Friday. When you're in that moment when when both
17:06
Speaker 2: sides are cheering, when there's the opposing fans and what
17:08
Speaker 2: you think is your space, you get that competitive in
17:11
Speaker 2: you and you get to feeling like every game now
17:14
Speaker 2: is okay, this is it.
17:15
Speaker 3: We gotta win this moment.
17:16
Speaker 2: We got to win this game because we've got to
17:17
Speaker 2: stuff it in the fans that are talking to me
17:20
Speaker 2: right there or cheering at me right there.
17:22
Speaker 3: But when you take the wide.
17:23
Speaker 2: Scale view of it, it really wasn't a disaster weekend
17:26
Speaker 2: because you didn't get swept. If you got swept, that's
17:29
Speaker 2: more of a disaster type weekend. Absolutely it only feels,
17:32
Speaker 2: it only leaves the bad taste because you won the
17:34
Speaker 2: first game and didn't get the series, which is all
17:36
Speaker 2: I can really hope for is two O three and.
17:38
Speaker 3: Should have and should have and should have.
17:40
Speaker 5: I mean, you get you get a triple, a lead
17:42
Speaker 5: off triple from Andrew Vaughn, and you.
17:44
Speaker 2: Gotta get that run in, and that's that was the
17:46
Speaker 2: story of yesterday, right, More than I think the Koonel
17:48
Speaker 2: walks and other the balls is the tack on runs
17:51
Speaker 2: that never came, and that that was the that was
17:53
Speaker 2: the story of the game, Drew. I feel like teams,
17:57
Speaker 2: you know, things are contagious in baseball, hitting not and
18:00
Speaker 2: maybe it's just anecdotal, but it does feel like overtime
18:04
Speaker 2: sometimes you see it's the whole team starting to press,
18:06
Speaker 2: being aware of the fact that they're not hitting in
18:08
Speaker 2: with runners in the scoring position, so therefore the problem
18:11
Speaker 2: compounds upon itself psychologically, and then the whole team starts
18:16
Speaker 2: to press, and then that thing kind of succumbs to
18:20
Speaker 2: itself until it doesn't right until you get out of
18:22
Speaker 2: those doldrums, which is kind of being stuck in the
18:24
Speaker 2: mud for a while. Is that what's happening here? Is
18:26
Speaker 2: that a real thing that you see in clubhouses. Guys
18:28
Speaker 2: will always say we don't think about that, or we're
18:30
Speaker 2: not bothered about that, but it does seem like that,
18:32
Speaker 2: at least to the naked eyes.
18:33
Speaker 3: Sometimes.
18:34
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what the Brewers are saying. Everybody's trying to
18:37
Speaker 5: everybody's trying to do their job. Everybody's trying to keep
18:39
Speaker 5: the line moving, and when it doesn't, and it's like, well,
18:43
Speaker 5: I'm gonna pick that guy there is it's like a
18:45
Speaker 5: compounding with interest.
18:46
Speaker 3: It's the struggle.
18:48
Speaker 5: And again it's it's fleeting when when when you're rolling,
18:52
Speaker 5: everybody feels like they're going to go up and get
18:53
Speaker 5: a hit, and you know when at this point they're
18:57
Speaker 5: squeezing the handle a little bit, you can it's a sense.
18:59
Speaker 3: But again, all these things are fleeting.
19:02
Speaker 5: So hit us up with your thoughts eight seven, seven,
19:04
Speaker 5: seven nine four one ninety seven three. Get us to
19:07
Speaker 5: your thoughts about the Brewers again. We got World Cup
19:10
Speaker 5: to talk about. We got NBA tampering and free agency
19:12
Speaker 5: firing up. That's gonna be their their version of the
19:15
Speaker 5: hot stove, which is actually the summer barbecue. Thankfully, we're
19:20
Speaker 5: in a period where the NFL has receded into the
19:22
Speaker 5: hedges and is letting the World Cup have a moment,
19:26
Speaker 5: Women's golf have a moment on TV golf, a.
19:28
Speaker 3: Couple NBA trades, but mostly World Cup golf.
19:31
Speaker 5: Yeah, mostly World Cup and just baseball and just kind
19:35
Speaker 5: of just taking it as it comes, a little relaxing.
19:39
Speaker 5: We've got a Hunter Bombguart Brewers update. We will spin through.
19:42
Speaker 5: In fact, I think Hunter joins us today, he does, we'll.
19:46
Speaker 3: Twenty five.
19:47
Speaker 5: We'll talk to Hunter bombgart a tough weekend for him
19:50
Speaker 5: on a couple of levels, like he he missed his
19:53
Speaker 5: favorite artists not once.
19:54
Speaker 3: But twice, brutal.
19:56
Speaker 5: I noticed that Russell Dickerson and Hunter long twisted history.
20:01
Speaker 5: We'll get into that with him. We'll talk about what's happened.
20:03
Speaker 5: We're two weeks into Summerfest. Summerfest had a pretty good
20:06
Speaker 5: rebound weekend. Uh, pretty good crowds and pretty good uh,
20:11
Speaker 5: pretty good musical acts well received. And now we're now
20:16
Speaker 5: we're into damn summer. We got one more weekend of
20:18
Speaker 5: Summerfest here in Milwaukee. All kinds of festivals and events
20:22
Speaker 5: and reunions and gatherings and Purdue alumni gatherings all over
20:26
Speaker 5: the good Land. So we're in the Tenderloin. We're about
20:29
Speaker 5: to be on to July. Billy's on vacation this week.
20:31
Speaker 5: We're gonna soldier on without him, Little teas at midweek
20:36
Speaker 5: when we reach halftime of the week on Wednesday, mister
20:39
Speaker 5: Lucky Adobe Maxwell is going to be hanging out.
20:41
Speaker 3: With That's exciting. That's exciting. He is a he's a
20:43
Speaker 3: morning he's a morning guy.
20:44
Speaker 5: He gets up and walks his fifteen thousand steps and
20:47
Speaker 5: he's gonna put that on hold and come and join us.
20:52
Speaker 2: When they when they when the uh, when the squad
20:54
Speaker 2: rolls up at four in the morning, they ask, who's
20:56
Speaker 2: this guy walking around the building?
20:57
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to clear that up, yeap. It's gonna
20:59
Speaker 3: be wild. So all right we will.
21:01
Speaker 5: We'll take a quick break our first of the day.
21:03
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Speaker 5: Facebook x and YouTube. Drew an Armine Today, Billy off
21:30
Speaker 5: this week enjoying some family time. I don't know if
21:34
Speaker 5: it's really a vacation when you got two kids that
21:36
Speaker 5: are under three. I mean, yeah, he's not working. But
21:41
Speaker 5: that's that's a good question. You can make a case
21:43
Speaker 5: that what we do isn't really work. Just coming here
21:46
Speaker 5: and chop it up with our buddies and just kind
21:47
Speaker 5: of you know, I like to say, it's different, have fun. Yeah,
21:50
Speaker 5: it's a different kind of work.
21:52
Speaker 2: It's a different So you saw obligated to somebody else
21:54
Speaker 2: on your time, true, doing something, but it is it is.
21:58
Speaker 3: A more enjoyable work, no doubt about it. We are
22:00
Speaker 3: not thankful to do what we do.
22:01
Speaker 5: We're not hanging drywall and now not this heat. We
22:04
Speaker 5: talk about the heroes and again it's not hot yet,
22:07
Speaker 5: but it's gonna be. It's by noon today. We're in
22:09
Speaker 5: it for a better part of a week.
22:11
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a hot one. Get your iron.
22:13
Speaker 5: Talking about heat and indexes way over one hundred, miserable
22:17
Speaker 5: due points in humidity, so air conditioners, So let's preemptively
22:23
Speaker 5: shout out or give Well, we're not giving game balls
22:25
Speaker 5: still six officially, but game balls will go to people
22:28
Speaker 5: who have to work outside because we talk about them
22:31
Speaker 5: all the time in the winter, the guys who are
22:34
Speaker 5: the sub zero. This is the flip side of it,
22:35
Speaker 5: and I always love people. This is the age old debate. Well,
22:38
Speaker 5: you can always put more clothes on off.
22:42
Speaker 2: I can't stand that flawed argument. Okay, you can always
22:46
Speaker 2: put more stuff on. Yeah, but the cold's pervasive. Yeah,
22:49
Speaker 2: you don't have to shovel heat.
22:50
Speaker 3: Is it brutal? Is it brutal in the heat?
22:52
Speaker 2: It will be, and it's brutal today, But on our
22:55
Speaker 2: hottest days in the summer, I like to remind everybody
22:57
Speaker 2: it's better than our coldest days in the winter. However,
22:59
Speaker 2: I had a lot of pushback and disagreement with that,
23:02
Speaker 2: especially around these parts, which is fine.
23:04
Speaker 3: We can have our different opinions on that.
23:06
Speaker 2: True, and that brings me to you said, will the
23:09
Speaker 2: runners get the workout in early? Will the runners get
23:12
Speaker 2: it in before sunrise it's a beautiful or.
23:14
Speaker 3: They just take it inside to the treadmill, because it's
23:16
Speaker 3: a beautiful orange full moon out there.
23:18
Speaker 2: But it's also one of the age old debates that
23:20
Speaker 2: I find myself dealing with, not directly, but all people
23:24
Speaker 2: always like to talk about it. How early is too
23:26
Speaker 2: early to get the lawn more more started in the summer?
23:29
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and it doesn't change in a weekend or
23:31
Speaker 2: a weekday. I don't know if you have opinions on that.
23:33
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean it's not I like to think
23:36
Speaker 2: to myself that snow blowing is a necessity sometimes, so
23:41
Speaker 2: you can't get on someone for doing it at four
23:43
Speaker 2: in the morning or two in the morning, you know,
23:44
Speaker 2: if they need to get out.
23:46
Speaker 5: But yeah, the other thing is well, the great you know,
23:48
Speaker 5: because we work in studios and we know, like when
23:52
Speaker 5: you do podcast stuff, you're at home soundproofing. If there's
23:55
Speaker 5: enough snow that you have to snow blow it off
23:58
Speaker 5: the driveway, there's a lot of insulate and sound like,
24:01
Speaker 5: you know, it's not as onerous as when the windows
24:03
Speaker 5: are open.
24:04
Speaker 3: Yes, and when someone's mowing their lawn next.
24:07
Speaker 5: To you, especially in some of our communities where the
24:08
Speaker 5: homes are close together, right, So I would say it's
24:12
Speaker 5: less likely that you're someone you're gonna be awakened by
24:14
Speaker 5: a snowblower in the winter that it is a lawnmower
24:17
Speaker 5: in the spring and summer.
24:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, unless they have one of those like many tractors
24:22
Speaker 2: or know, the right term is plows.
24:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does a little beat beat back up. Oh yeah,
24:28
Speaker 3: I can't stand man, that is a tough one.
24:30
Speaker 5: Hey, especially like the ups and fed extrucks in my
24:33
Speaker 5: neighborhood and they're constant, and these guys like why do
24:37
Speaker 5: they have to when they're parked, why do they have
24:39
Speaker 5: to beep? They have to make the they have to
24:41
Speaker 5: make the turn and let you know, well, I'm just
24:44
Speaker 5: saying when they're parked, they're they're beeping. And the dudes like,
24:46
Speaker 5: we have a you know, I got a multi unit
24:48
Speaker 5: condo building and people get a lot of stuff delivered. Yeah,
24:53
Speaker 5: ten minutes out in front of the house beeping, Like God,
24:55
Speaker 5: can't you just like take the keys out or something
24:57
Speaker 5: whatever it takes, Like, you know, why why is it anyway?
25:01
Speaker 5: And we would that's more annoying to me than lawnmowers
25:04
Speaker 5: and stuff. But no, it's like, okay, at eight o'clock,
25:07
Speaker 5: seven o'clock, whatever you want to call it, arbitrarily seven
25:10
Speaker 5: or eight, like if you have kids, that's not early anymore.
25:13
Speaker 2: Not early, No, it's just part of life. Like even
25:15
Speaker 2: though the sh if we do we're used to obviously
25:17
Speaker 2: odd hours. But if you're getting up at seven and
25:20
Speaker 2: you see this, it's going to be ninety and you
25:21
Speaker 2: can knock that thing out when the sun's coming up,
25:24
Speaker 2: it's tempting. But you know somebody's sleeping at seven thirty.
25:28
Speaker 2: I can't help you guy. Now, if it's five in
25:30
Speaker 2: the morning or six in the morning, I get it.
25:32
Speaker 5: But community standards, like if you live in a subdivision,
25:35
Speaker 5: or if there's an h OA.
25:37
Speaker 3: Like if you know they probably set rules on the.
25:39
Speaker 5: Pools only open during certain hours of the day and
25:41
Speaker 5: the evening, you know, so therefore you know there should
25:45
Speaker 5: be like a it should be agreed to or the
25:47
Speaker 5: gentlemen's agreement. I would say, I would say anything before
25:51
Speaker 5: seven is agreed tous and even I'd lean towards eight for.
25:53
Speaker 2: That I think, I think, I think to be courteous
25:56
Speaker 2: on the fair side of caution, eight is the number.
25:58
Speaker 2: But if someone's cutting theirs on they like today at
26:01
Speaker 2: seven thirty I don't know what's happening in their life.
26:03
Speaker 2: They might exactly, So it is a long day. You
26:06
Speaker 2: could do in the evening. But what's the difference. Well,
26:08
Speaker 2: I'm not going to complain here. Here's the other thing
26:10
Speaker 2: is that in the morning. Like, yeah, it sucks on
26:13
Speaker 2: Saturday morning. But let's say that you get your yard
26:15
Speaker 2: all dialed in in pristine and you're having a backyard gathering.
26:18
Speaker 3: Sure, and it's around the dinner.
26:20
Speaker 5: Hour and you're having cocktails and you're having on the
26:22
Speaker 5: veranda and your neighbors fired up as lawnmower at six
26:25
Speaker 5: thirty or seven. When you're having a gathering, that's a
26:27
Speaker 5: pain in the ass too. You're gonna be more mad
26:29
Speaker 5: about that than you went on the front end of
26:30
Speaker 5: the day.
26:31
Speaker 2: It's also for some people, I think they think of
26:34
Speaker 2: it like this, although it might seem silly. They got
26:36
Speaker 2: to get their lawn ready for the day. So if
26:38
Speaker 2: they're gonna cut it, I want to cut in the
26:39
Speaker 2: morning so it looks nice for the day. It's like shaving.
26:41
Speaker 2: You know, you're gonna shave after. I mean you could,
26:43
Speaker 2: you know, but some people like to shave before and
26:45
Speaker 2: get ready to go, so you're right, Drew. I mean
26:48
Speaker 2: it could be good or either way. I think the
26:50
Speaker 2: lesson would be, let's not worry about it and non complain.
26:53
Speaker 2: One of my favorite uh we do that. One of
26:55
Speaker 2: my favorite sealingisms, one of my favorite Bud.
26:59
Speaker 3: Quotes, shut up the butt. Yeah.
27:01
Speaker 5: To Commissioner Emeritis Sea like wherever he may be today
27:03
Speaker 5: on the North Shore, Uh, he always said, Well as
27:07
Speaker 5: my as my uh you know, mother used to tell
27:09
Speaker 5: me nothing is either good or bad except by comparison.
27:14
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's great comparison to Thief of Joy as
27:17
Speaker 2: they say it is.
27:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, He's like, nothing is either good or inherently, nothing's
27:20
Speaker 5: good or bad except by comparison.
27:22
Speaker 3: It's a fantastic way to live. That's a good way
27:25
Speaker 3: to look at that. It's a great way to look
27:26
Speaker 3: at things. And it's true, and it's kind of true
27:28
Speaker 3: when we look at the Brewers.
27:29
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, because there's many fan bases around
27:33
Speaker 2: this league that are envious of everything that we are
27:37
Speaker 2: and have been and what we are doing as a
27:38
Speaker 2: Brewers team, the process we take, the way we operate,
27:43
Speaker 2: the success we've had, and the success we're currently having.
27:47
Speaker 2: Fifty wins already halfway through the season. Yeah, Yet the
27:51
Speaker 2: text line in the comments, which is fine understandably so,
27:54
Speaker 2: is filled with frustration. This morning, we'll get to some
27:56
Speaker 2: of them. But that, oh yeah, is interesting. How we
27:59
Speaker 2: do it. We become a prisoner of the moment. Sometimes
28:01
Speaker 2: it was just this past weekend we lost this series.
28:03
Speaker 2: But most of the time this year we've done great.
28:06
Speaker 2: So I had an interesting discussion yesterday with a friend
28:11
Speaker 2: of mine that's a White Sox fan, because you came
28:14
Speaker 2: up yesterday. We had our Armenian picnic at our church, okay,
28:18
Speaker 2: the great picnic and racine at Johnson Park, and he
28:21
Speaker 2: came up and he's a big White Sox fan, so
28:23
Speaker 2: therefore we share the mutual dislike of the Cubs.
28:26
Speaker 3: And he said, we talked about how good the White
28:28
Speaker 3: Sox are drinking.
28:28
Speaker 2: I said, what's interesting this year is the Cubs will
28:30
Speaker 2: probably finish better than the White Sox in record, maybe
28:33
Speaker 2: in standing all of the ale Central's competitive or winnable,
28:36
Speaker 2: I should say, But I said, the White Sox fans
28:40
Speaker 2: are definitely happier than Cubs fans right now. Now, maybe
28:43
Speaker 2: you don't take it like Sunday night, but it's like,
28:46
Speaker 2: White Sox fans are used to having nothing, and they're
28:50
Speaker 2: giving given something this year, a fleeting of flower in
28:54
Speaker 2: this desert of despair, which is this young team that's
28:57
Speaker 2: playing well, and the Cubs are an example of disappointment,
29:02
Speaker 2: so far from most North Siders expectations. Talent yet not winning.
29:07
Speaker 2: So to your point, true comparison, Yeah, it can be
29:10
Speaker 2: the thief of joy.
29:10
Speaker 3: Or exactly well, the Cubs have a better record.
29:13
Speaker 2: Than the they do, but the Cubs fans seem more up,
29:16
Speaker 2: there's no question.
29:17
Speaker 5: And the Cubs have had, you know, some serious injuries, closers,
29:22
Speaker 5: their closers, starters like they you know, they win. Guy
29:25
Speaker 5: Guy Reclamation Project from the Mets, who won a game
29:28
Speaker 5: on Saturday night for them, probably love loving the fact
29:32
Speaker 5: that he got to stay in council suite at the hotel.
29:35
Speaker 3: His counsel let him have the suite. It's pretty funny,
29:37
Speaker 3: isn't it.
29:38
Speaker 5: This council doesn't need a sweet in Milwaukee because he
29:40
Speaker 5: stays in Whitefish Bay.
29:41
Speaker 2: How often has that happened in pro sports? Once upon
29:44
Speaker 2: a time? But now that's a great I mean, why
29:46
Speaker 2: not Why.
29:46
Speaker 3: Wouldn't you, you know, why wouldn't you It's kind of funny.
29:49
Speaker 5: I mean I know, ye, Craig's giving it to coaches
29:51
Speaker 5: and he gives it the players when he when he
29:53
Speaker 5: comes home.
29:53
Speaker 2: So it's like the whoever gets the most, whoever sells
29:57
Speaker 2: the most, gets the set of knives that I got
29:59
Speaker 2: for friends.
30:00
Speaker 3: You sell.
30:00
Speaker 2: Wherever's the best bag, average gets my suite when we
30:02
Speaker 2: go to Milwaukee. That's a nice little uh, that's a
30:05
Speaker 2: nice little carrot he can give out. Yeah, liking that
30:08
Speaker 2: eight seven seven seven nine four ninety seven three. So yeah,
30:10
Speaker 2: it's all by comparison. And again burst tough weekend and
30:14
Speaker 2: it's been.
30:15
Speaker 5: Frustrating to watch them and I'm still I'm I'm looking
30:17
Speaker 5: back at those games that they won in Cincinnati when
30:21
Speaker 5: they weren't scoring in that bandbox, to pitch the way
30:24
Speaker 5: they did and to squeak out the wins that they did,
30:26
Speaker 5: like holy cow.
30:27
Speaker 2: Actually amazing they did, and it's crazy it would be
30:30
Speaker 2: much more frustrated they lost.
30:31
Speaker 5: Those because it's been watching this offense has been awful. Now, yeah,
30:35
Speaker 5: we have a text and it's again game balls and kicks.
30:38
Speaker 5: The balls will fire up very soon. But we did
30:41
Speaker 5: get one from Bill and Madison kick to the balls
30:44
Speaker 5: to Jake ja kk k E Bowers, not Rake Bowers,
30:49
Speaker 5: but Jake Bowers for swinging at the first pitch after
30:52
Speaker 5: a walk to Mitchell is the take sign ever given?
30:55
Speaker 3: Did Murphy lose his taser? Go from Madison? All Right?
30:58
Speaker 3: That's one of my favorite ones.
31:00
Speaker 5: That is like the ultimate second guess, and it's when
31:04
Speaker 5: it comes to baseball. It's like, how can you do that?
31:07
Speaker 5: The guy just, well, i'll tell you why. I'll tell
31:10
Speaker 5: you how because you're going up there and you're at
31:12
Speaker 5: bad as independent, right, you're watching what happens and you're aware.
31:15
Speaker 5: But when a pitcher has a bad walk, or a
31:17
Speaker 5: pitcher walks two guys and the guy ambushes the first pitch,
31:20
Speaker 5: you say, what an idiot? It's actually not a bad strategy.
31:24
Speaker 5: Powers didn't really execute it. Look like he kind of
31:26
Speaker 5: was thinking fastball and got fooled, like a off speed
31:29
Speaker 5: pitch fooled.
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Speaker 3: Him a little bit.
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Speaker 5: But it's a little bit like it's it's kind of
31:35
Speaker 5: equivalent to three to oho. If you swing three oh
31:37
Speaker 5: and you hit a home run, no one really bitches.
31:39
Speaker 5: And you swing three oh and you pop up, you
31:40
Speaker 5: look like an idiot. Right, So it's results based but
31:43
Speaker 5: not process based. Yeah, no, but not not at all,
31:47
Speaker 5: because if a guy's walking a guy and you're in
31:48
Speaker 5: a tense situation like that, you're gonna get.
31:51
Speaker 3: You think a cookie you're gonna get.
31:52
Speaker 5: He wants to start the bat and get ahead, and
31:55
Speaker 5: you're going to get a pitch like a strike or
31:57
Speaker 5: in the zone right, and that's.
31:59
Speaker 2: Usually goal of every bat, and that bets to find
32:01
Speaker 2: the pitch you can hit right.
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Speaker 3: Paul Malliner made a career a spank in the first pitch,
32:05
Speaker 3: especially when knowing when that pitch is you can Yeah.
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Speaker 5: If he slaps that off the wall, he's not an idiot.
32:12
Speaker 5: That's a good way to go, way to be aggressive.
32:14
Speaker 3: Process based. So it's it's outcome based.
32:16
Speaker 5: But the process though is logic wasn't flawed. It just looks,
32:20
Speaker 5: you know, and then what's it's just frustrated not get
32:23
Speaker 5: the result you want.
32:24
Speaker 2: So when you when you don't get the result, people
32:26
Speaker 2: automatically go back to the process and automatically assume fault.
32:30
Speaker 2: It might not be there because the logic, like you said,
32:33
Speaker 2: isn't flawed. If your goal is to find the best
32:35
Speaker 2: pitch and you believe you're a good hitter, which Jake
32:37
Speaker 2: Bowers has obviously and he.
32:38
Speaker 5: Leads the birds and home runs in RBI. He's been
32:40
Speaker 5: carrying the offense for much of the first half of
32:42
Speaker 5: the season.
32:42
Speaker 2: You're looking for that meatball to get out of the
32:44
Speaker 2: slump and to get the balls going. This is a
32:46
Speaker 2: chance to probably say, okay, I might get my best
32:49
Speaker 2: pitch here, and you're aggressive at the plate instead of defensive.
32:53
Speaker 3: Now, I think you have to know yourself as a hitter.
32:55
Speaker 3: I think if you're a.
32:56
Speaker 2: Guy like Joey Ortiz, or a guy like me, or
32:58
Speaker 2: a guy like who when I was in a little
33:00
Speaker 2: you know, okay, maybe my best course of action to
33:04
Speaker 2: help the team is to try and squeeze a walk
33:06
Speaker 2: out of this and trying to be you know, deferential
33:08
Speaker 2: to the count.
33:09
Speaker 3: That's understandable too.
33:10
Speaker 2: I don't think either a flawed But when you're a
33:13
Speaker 2: guy like Jake Bauers who's been putting the ball, the
33:16
Speaker 2: bat and the ball very well, you you say, I'm
33:19
Speaker 2: going to ambush this pitch.
33:20
Speaker 3: It's the three oh green light.
33:21
Speaker 2: You give me the best hitters because you believe they
33:23
Speaker 2: can hit meat balls.
33:24
Speaker 5: So if he takes that first pitch and it's a strike,
33:28
Speaker 5: then what I mean, generally speaking, when you're an oh
33:32
Speaker 5: one count, batters will hit two hundred to two twenty
33:36
Speaker 5: and if it's one ozho, batters in the bat end
33:39
Speaker 5: up batting like three hundred. So it is it's a swing.
33:42
Speaker 5: But every pitch swings at bats like that. There, you
33:44
Speaker 5: know the numbers that it's like the it's like a
33:47
Speaker 5: blackjack thing kind of in some ways. But again, if
33:51
Speaker 5: someone if Jake Bowers hits that pitch over the wall,
33:56
Speaker 5: oh great, he's aggressive. He pounced on that pitch, he ambushed. Awesome,
34:00
Speaker 5: gave us the hit we needed, you know.
34:02
Speaker 3: And he doesn't.
34:02
Speaker 5: So that's one that I don't get pissed at. I
34:05
Speaker 5: know that because it's it's kind of like a little
34:06
Speaker 5: league thing. It's like, oh, we're gonna we're down in
34:10
Speaker 5: the game. Everybody's got to sit there and take a strike,
34:12
Speaker 5: you know, wait, wait out the pitches you run, you
34:15
Speaker 5: can run up account on guys and every circumstance is different,
34:19
Speaker 5: but baseball is built on that though. Baseball is built
34:24
Speaker 5: on guys hitting home runs on pitches that are out
34:26
Speaker 5: of the zone. Like it's not, oh, hockey, he gave
34:28
Speaker 5: up a homer on a pitch that was, you know,
34:30
Speaker 5: eight inches outside and the guy hit it out, Like
34:34
Speaker 5: what are you gonna do there? Like what was what
34:36
Speaker 5: was the flaw and the execution by the pitcher? Right,
34:39
Speaker 5: and it's it's the old. It's the old. Oh I
34:42
Speaker 5: had a drive down the middle and my ball hit
34:45
Speaker 5: a sprinkler head and kicked into the rough Like okay,
34:49
Speaker 5: you know, there's nothing wrong, but or the guy sawed
34:52
Speaker 5: off my bat and I flared one in the right field.
34:55
Speaker 5: That's a better result than hitting an absolute seed at somebody,
34:59
Speaker 5: you know, one hundred and five miles an hour that
35:01
Speaker 5: almost decapitates the shortstop in the left fielder catches it.
35:03
Speaker 3: Okay, right, so it's just that's baseball. Well some hashtag baseball.
35:08
Speaker 2: Now, some might say I will say this like we've
35:11
Speaker 2: now kind of been in an era for the last
35:13
Speaker 2: ten twenty years where pitchers are having nowhere.
35:16
Speaker 3: I mean, batters are taking more pictures than ever. Right, Yes,
35:18
Speaker 3: it works out and pictures are better than ever. So
35:21
Speaker 3: that's the other thing about like, like are we used
35:24
Speaker 3: to guys just always making it in the picture? Works?
35:26
Speaker 5: Like taking those pitches. That's the other thing I hear
35:29
Speaker 5: all the time. It's like when it comes to guys, bunting,
35:31
Speaker 5: and they don't bunt that much anymore.
35:32
Speaker 3: And I know it's like, oh, you get a bunt down.
35:34
Speaker 3: Everybody's got to be able to get a bunt down.
35:35
Speaker 5: It ain't easy against these pictures with the stuff they
35:38
Speaker 5: have that's not an automatic. It's people think it is, well,
35:41
Speaker 5: no one trains for it, but it's not. Well, that's
35:43
Speaker 5: part of it, but it's just it's also harder.
35:45
Speaker 3: It's very hard physically, and the payoff is.
35:48
Speaker 5: Good, but that whole like take a take a walk,
35:51
Speaker 5: take a pitch thing. It's like, man, nowadays it's like
35:54
Speaker 5: you get a pitch early in the bad pounce man.
35:57
Speaker 2: And baseball customs have changed. I would say, like over
36:00
Speaker 2: the years, you know, protecting the plate, getting a bat
36:03
Speaker 2: in the ball, choking up, those things are more valued
36:06
Speaker 2: than say taking pitches and looking to slug. And you look,
36:09
Speaker 2: if you watch a game in the eighties, as you
36:10
Speaker 2: know Drew, there's a lot more action because guys are
36:13
Speaker 2: swinging a lot more pitches, no doubt. And now now
36:16
Speaker 2: most guys are trying to take as many pitches as possible,
36:19
Speaker 2: trying to work pitches, trying to work pitchers counts and
36:23
Speaker 2: therefore pitchers are throwing harder and better, and therefore, you know,
36:27
Speaker 2: guys are looking for the launch angle pitches, not just
36:29
Speaker 2: the can I slap this in play and move a runner.
36:32
Speaker 2: Und It's just the way that now the Brewers have
36:33
Speaker 2: a skewed that a little bit. The Brewers have been different,
36:36
Speaker 2: you know. They they've been more of a small ball
36:38
Speaker 2: type team to buck the trend. But I understand it
36:43
Speaker 2: a little bit in that Jake Bowers isn't going up
36:46
Speaker 2: there thinking, I hope I can squeeze the walk out
36:48
Speaker 2: of this. Joey Ortiz might yeah, Powers is like, I
36:52
Speaker 2: gotta get my pitch here and try and win this game.
36:53
Speaker 3: Big League hitters want to hit man, that's just it.
36:56
Speaker 3: They've been doing well doing it. They believe in themselves.
36:58
Speaker 5: At that point, absolutely so. Philosophically, I get it. It's frustrating,
37:02
Speaker 5: but I'm not going to fault them because that's a
37:04
Speaker 5: double left the wall. No one says, well, what an
37:06
Speaker 5: idiot swinging at the first results. Ba's a frustration. I'm
37:10
Speaker 5: not getting the result you want.
37:11
Speaker 2: And in these situations when you have so many chances
37:15
Speaker 2: and it doesn't happen, it's the ultimate and just frustration.
37:17
Speaker 5: Absolutely and against it when you watch Miss and Miss
37:21
Speaker 5: isn't going to pitch until Thursday. But when you watch Miss,
37:23
Speaker 5: if I'm a hitter, I'm not letting him get up
37:26
Speaker 5: on me.
37:26
Speaker 3: Oh one Like if if.
37:28
Speaker 5: The first pitch is somewhere in the area code of
37:30
Speaker 5: the strike zone and I see it well, and I'm
37:32
Speaker 5: going to try to time him up, and I guess
37:35
Speaker 5: I don't want to go deep in account against that exactly.
37:37
Speaker 5: You try and guess right, and if you can exactly
37:39
Speaker 5: do it exactly exactly. When we come back, we will
37:41
Speaker 5: hear Hunter Bombguart's recap of yesterday's lost very frustrating. You
37:44
Speaker 5: could see it. I saw some of the postgame react.
37:47
Speaker 5: Guys are frustrated, and oh, justifiably it was. It's been
37:50
Speaker 5: a rough slog. But when they break out of it
37:52
Speaker 5: and they start putting up crooked numbers, everything will be
37:54
Speaker 5: right with the world again.
37:55
Speaker 3: That's just the nature of the beast.
37:57
Speaker 5: It's a game balls and kicks to the balls day.
38:00
Speaker 5: Billy's on vacation, we're skating shorthanded, We're having some fun.
38:04
Speaker 3: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
38:17
Speaker 5: It's a Monday in the good Land game balls and
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Speaker 3: Eleven minutes, yeah, about eleven Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Game, balls and kicks the balls eight seven, seven, seven
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Speaker 5: nine three. But first, Brewers lose a game and a
38:35
Speaker 5: series in a border battle with the Cubs. Hunter Bombgart
38:39
Speaker 5: has our recap. Hunter's going to join us live at
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Speaker 5: seven to twenty five ish, but here's Hunter.
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Speaker 3: Take it away.
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Speaker 1: Hunter, thanks guys.
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Speaker 7: The Brewers fall in the series finale in the Chicago
38:49
Speaker 7: Cubs yesterday four to three in ten innings, and they
38:52
Speaker 7: lose the series five and a half games up on
38:54
Speaker 7: the Cubs as they begin play tonight against the Reds.
38:56
Speaker 7: But really, that bottom of the tenth inning, which a
38:59
Speaker 7: micro consume of what happened all weekend against the Cubs,
39:01
Speaker 7: not being able to get runners in from on base
39:05
Speaker 7: Jackson Curio was standing on third and nobody out in
39:07
Speaker 7: the bottom of the tenth as the tying run. They
39:09
Speaker 7: did not get him in. Brewers overall five for twenty
39:12
Speaker 7: eight with runners in scoring position in the series against
39:15
Speaker 7: the Cubs. Brewers outfield are Christian Yelich talked about it
39:18
Speaker 7: after the game, just the missed opportunities.
39:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you go through.
39:22
Speaker 4: You go through stretches like that during the season, right like,
39:24
Speaker 4: you're gonna have times where things just aren't.
39:27
Speaker 3: Going home for you.
39:28
Speaker 4: You're not doing a good job with running the scoring position,
39:30
Speaker 4: you're not doing a good job with guys on there
39:32
Speaker 4: less than two outs, like unfortunately, Like, you're gonna have
39:36
Speaker 4: some rough spots like that, and you just got to
39:38
Speaker 4: get through them, get through them as a team, and
39:41
Speaker 4: we'll be all right.
39:42
Speaker 3: Just you know, it's part of the season. It's rocky,
39:45
Speaker 3: it's never smooth.
39:47
Speaker 4: There's some hard times, and you know, we're in the
39:49
Speaker 4: middle of that one of those right now. We've won
39:51
Speaker 4: some games all being bad at that, which it's pretty
39:56
Speaker 4: fortunate because usually it doesn't go that way. So it's
39:59
Speaker 4: part of the year. We'll be fine, we'll come out
40:01
Speaker 4: the other side, but obviously frustrated.
40:03
Speaker 7: So the Birds will try to turn things around as
40:05
Speaker 7: they turn the page to another series against the Anel
40:08
Speaker 7: Central opponent, one they swept last week in Cincinnati, the Reds.
40:11
Speaker 7: They come to town starting tonight six forty first pitch,
40:14
Speaker 7: Robert Gasser on the mound for the crew. Brandon Sprote
40:17
Speaker 7: will get the mountain tomorrow and then on Wednesday, it'll
40:19
Speaker 7: be Shane dron and then Jacob Izarowski on Thursday. That's
40:22
Speaker 7: how the starter is set up for the rest of
40:23
Speaker 7: the homestand I'll join you guys at seven twenty five
40:26
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Speaker 1: Back to you guys.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, Hunter Bomgart, Thank you Christian Yelich.
40:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, he gets it right. I mean he's been around
40:40
Speaker 3: a long time.
40:40
Speaker 2: He's been through a lot of these seasons, good and bad,
40:43
Speaker 2: a lot of good ones obviously for Yelich, and he
40:45
Speaker 2: notes there's ups and downs and steady as they go
40:48
Speaker 2: is Kris Christian Yellich, And he kind of laid it
40:51
Speaker 2: out right there, like that's not where we want to be.
40:53
Speaker 3: But the seasons are always rocky. They're never smooth ceiling.
40:57
Speaker 3: There you go.
40:58
Speaker 2: I'll start them, say Drew that they it could have
41:00
Speaker 2: played a lot better so far as he assessed the
41:02
Speaker 2: first half of the year. So that's pretty good for
41:04
Speaker 2: a team that's won fifty games through eighty one.
41:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, Brewers yesterday two for twelve runners in scoring position,
41:13
Speaker 5: some of those really hurt. Five for twenty eight in
41:16
Speaker 5: the losses to the Cubs over the weekend. In their
41:20
Speaker 5: last two series, Brewers are six for fifty one runners
41:24
Speaker 5: in scoring position.
41:25
Speaker 2: Team White drought definitely, and all you can really say
41:29
Speaker 2: is it could be worse.
41:30
Speaker 3: Like I hate to say it that way, but it
41:32
Speaker 3: really could be.
41:32
Speaker 2: I mean, when you're struggling that much to go eight
41:35
Speaker 2: and five in your last thirteen, five and five in
41:37
Speaker 2: your last ten, to not get swept over the weekend,
41:40
Speaker 2: it's not what we want, but it could be a
41:41
Speaker 2: lot worse, and you have to kind of cut your
41:43
Speaker 2: losses at some point.
41:44
Speaker 3: I just did.
41:44
Speaker 5: It's been abysmo the last two series, and yet there were.
41:47
Speaker 3: Still four and two exactly.
41:49
Speaker 5: That's been again and lost in the in the wash
41:53
Speaker 5: and the frustration. Yesterday, Brandon Woodruff another another great start,
41:59
Speaker 5: solid solid, it's just looking awesome, Yeah, which is boldesbreak.
42:02
Speaker 5: He's now It's funny because I'm you know, I'm not
42:04
Speaker 5: saying he's Maddox, but it's like watching Maddox because his
42:07
Speaker 5: ninety two looks like one hundred when he's at the
42:10
Speaker 5: top of the zone and he he doesn't miss by
42:13
Speaker 5: much when he misses pitches, he doesn't walk a lot
42:15
Speaker 5: of guys, and he's around the zone all the time.
42:18
Speaker 5: Woodros's been terrific. Brewers starters have been terrific, so hitting
42:23
Speaker 5: is another thing. They got to get in sync, so
42:25
Speaker 5: do we. Billy Schmid is off, We are off and
42:29
Speaker 5: running shooting shirts are off. It's not gonna take a
42:31
Speaker 5: long time to get hot today, so let's have some fun.
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