Latest / The Huddle / 10/06/26 - Hour 2
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Brewers Padres tonight, game three live from Petco Park and
- 0:03Speaker 1: sweltering San Diego. Not often you say that, sweltering San Diego.
- 0:07Speaker 1: Temperatures in the upper 90s. It's getting hot in here.
- 0:10Speaker 1: It's the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison,
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- 0:16Speaker 1: Drew Olson along with Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian, your happy
- 0:20Speaker 1: trio coming at you. Now, boys, the narrative yesterday as
- 0:24Speaker 1: everybody continued to process what we saw unfold Sunday at
- 0:27Speaker 1: American Family Field, They picked up the circus. They packed
- 0:30Speaker 1: it up, moved it West. Our boy Hunter is there. Yes, sir.
- 0:33Speaker 1: And the, Main topic was, was Mason Miller, the indomitable
- 0:37Speaker 1: closer for the Padres, tipping his pitches? Do the Brewers
- 0:39Speaker 1: have an upper hand? Now, no one's saying that anything
- 0:42Speaker 1: was illegal. They weren't banging garbage cans. No, I didn't
- 0:44Speaker 1: see one.
- 0:45Speaker 2: I really didn't see one take on this accusing the
- 0:48Speaker 2: Brewers of, like, cheating or anything like that.
- 0:50Speaker 1: It's perfectly within the rules. No buzzers under the jerseys.
- 0:53Speaker 1: The guy at second base to flash a sign.
- 0:54Speaker 2: No buzzers, no garbage cans, none of that.
- 0:57Speaker 1: So that's fine. But was he doing it? Do you
- 1:01Speaker 1: think the Brewers had an advantage? And the bigger question
- 1:04Speaker 1: to me is, does it matter when a guy's got
- 1:06Speaker 1: good stuff and throws a hundred four and everybody's talking
- 1:08Speaker 1: about the take with Jackson, true in the middle of
- 1:10Speaker 1: his at bat. What about the 17 takes between Yelich,
- 1:15Speaker 1: Freelick and Sanchez who all drew walks without swinging the bat.
- 1:18Speaker 1: That's the story. And the entire bats.
- 1:20Speaker 3: Yeah. And, and drew, this was one of the hottest
- 1:23Speaker 3: conversations a couple of years ago when the Michigan football
- 1:25Speaker 3: team went 15 and all and won the national title.
- 1:28Speaker 3: And it was in the midst of the Connor stallions conversation.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Um, I can only.
- 1:33Speaker 3: Look at signs in any sport one way. They only
- 1:36Speaker 3: give you so much. If Barry Bonds, just as I
- 1:40Speaker 3: watched him hit, not all of his 750, whatever it was,
- 1:44Speaker 3: home runs. But sure, the juice will help you hit
- 1:47Speaker 3: the ball longer.
- 1:48Speaker 1: It doesn't help you hit the baseball.
- 1:50Speaker 3: There is still the act of doing it that never
- 1:53Speaker 3: changes and never is easier. Now, you might have some
- 1:57Speaker 3: kind of information, and frankly... I've always been if you
- 2:01Speaker 3: ain't cheating, you ain't trying conversation. So I think it's
- 2:05Speaker 3: one that if you have the opportunity and you are
- 2:09Speaker 3: out there on second base, it's one of the reasons
- 2:10Speaker 3: why you steal second. One of the reasons why you
- 2:13Speaker 3: get yourself in a scoring position is you have to
- 2:15Speaker 3: be able to try to pull up and find any tell.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Also, what are you actually getting anymore?
- 2:20Speaker 3: You have to be grabbing at the grip that someone
- 2:24Speaker 3: has on the baseball.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Better be right.
- 2:27Speaker 3: You sure better be right from 25, 30 feet away
- 2:31Speaker 3: that I know exactly how he's gripping the slider, and
- 2:33Speaker 3: that's the guess that I'm telling him in the most
- 2:35Speaker 3: important spot and that you're trusting me. I'd say it
- 2:38Speaker 3: on both sides. If it worked out for you, kudos. Congratulations,
- 2:42Speaker 3: Pete Alonso. It clearly worked when they had to tell
- 2:45Speaker 3: on Devin Williams to hit the three-run shot and end
- 2:47Speaker 3: your season.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Yes. So, shoes on the other foot, it happens. Yeah,
- 2:50Speaker 1: it works for you, it works against you, and.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Everyone's trying to get an edge, and you're working on it.
- 2:54Speaker 2: There's a reason the Padres had three iPads open in
- 2:56Speaker 2: the dugout at all times. I mean, they've got the
- 2:59Speaker 2: MLB pitch tracker. They have the game on. Everyone's trying
- 3:01Speaker 2: to look for an edge.
- 3:02Speaker 1: What are you getting? Maybe an edge on somebody? I
- 3:05Speaker 1: think my thing is... Fans assume it automatically guarantees you success.
- 3:10Speaker 2: It was a little bit like this with steroids even.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Like, this guy's on roids. He's automatically getting a home run.
- 3:14Speaker 2: I got news for you. If you told me what
- 3:15Speaker 2: pitch was coming, I got no chance. Like, you still
- 3:18Speaker 2: have to hit the ball. So there's a lot of times,
- 3:20Speaker 2: I'm sure, guys get a tell. They're right, and it
- 3:23Speaker 2: doesn't do any good.
- 3:24Speaker 1: You know?
- 3:24Speaker 2: Like, there's still a lot of times you still can't
- 3:26Speaker 2: hit the ball. I mean, you have the right guy
- 3:28Speaker 2: up in the right situation. Does it give you a
- 3:30Speaker 2: smaller edge to know the pitch is coming? It absolutely
- 3:33Speaker 2: does because a guy like Mason Miller, I will say,
- 3:36Speaker 2: I mean– What he has on you is the ability
- 3:39Speaker 2: to totally handcuff you because, you know, you're sitting on
- 3:42Speaker 2: that breaking ball, the slider, worried about the fastball, all
- 3:45Speaker 2: these things.
- 3:45Speaker 1: So, yeah, I mean, that's just great work.
- 3:48Speaker 2: I mean, that's just one of the many things, many
- 3:51Speaker 2: small details that's made the Brewers a great franchise, a
- 3:54Speaker 2: great team, a winning team, and a great operation. But
- 3:57Speaker 2: this has been going on forever in baseball.
- 4:00Speaker 1: I mean, guy gets to second.
- 4:02Speaker 2: That's why catchers put on the indicator and try and
- 4:04Speaker 2: make the signal up and go through the.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Well, they don't anymore. Well, but they get the pitch come. Yeah,
- 4:09Speaker 1: they got pitch. Yeah, I get it.
- 4:10Speaker 2: But that is originally what the signs. But even then,
- 4:13Speaker 2: you're trying to see where a guy sets up. You
- 4:15Speaker 2: might try and get any sort of indicator on any
- 4:18Speaker 2: sort of edge or advantage, you know, and great. I'm
- 4:21Speaker 2: glad like Billy made the greatest point in the world
- 4:23Speaker 2: and that it worked out against.
- 4:25Speaker 1: The Brewers in the worst time.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Right. When apparently if Devin Williams is tipping his pitch
- 4:30Speaker 2: to Alonzo.
- 4:30Speaker 3: Well, and that one was clear cut. Like when you,
- 4:32Speaker 3: when you go back and see some of the video drew,
- 4:35Speaker 3: they were scheming it.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
- 4:37Speaker 3: And I mean, you see like where his glove is
- 4:38Speaker 3: positioned and he's moving it. Like it's not only a
- 4:41Speaker 3: looking into the glove, pulling it.
- 4:43Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:43Speaker 3: If indeed the grabbing at your neck is an indication
- 4:46Speaker 3: of the pitch. Again, I think it's more good on you,
- 4:49Speaker 3: but like to your point, it is.
- 4:51Speaker 1: It's still 104. He's still on.
- 4:54Speaker 3: It on 104, and Pierzynski kind of walked it back
- 4:57Speaker 3: on foul territory yesterday. He goes, no, that's what I
- 5:00Speaker 3: was doing. I'm not Jack Centurio. I'm not as good
- 5:04Speaker 3: as that young man in the box, and at 22
- 5:06Speaker 3: years old, whether you knew what was coming or not,
- 5:08Speaker 3: still had to lay off.
- 5:09Speaker 1: And hit it. I just think we've grown up in
- 5:11Speaker 1: a generation that thinks it's a video game. I think, yeah.
- 5:14Speaker 1: A video game, yeah.
- 5:15Speaker 2: If I know an MVP of the old 2Ks, whatever,
- 5:18Speaker 2: that you're pitching me something that's better, but this is
- 5:20Speaker 2: still real life, and it's hard to hit.
- 5:21Speaker 1: There's so many things, and it's the game within the game,
- 5:24Speaker 1: and it's fascinating. I love baseball. Well, yeah, but where
- 5:28Speaker 1: does the catcher set up? Because if a catcher sets up,
- 5:31Speaker 1: and this was a thing, Trevor Hoffman, one of the
- 5:34Speaker 1: greatest closers of all time, got a 600 save when
- 5:36Speaker 1: he was with the Brewers. Class act, right? He threw
- 5:39Speaker 1: mostly change-ups. You knew it's coming, and you still couldn't
- 5:41Speaker 1: hit it. Mariano Rivera threw cutters. You knew it was coming.
- 5:45Speaker 1: You still couldn't hit it. Now, if the guy at
- 5:47Speaker 1: second base is giving location, let's say change-ups one of
- 5:50Speaker 1: your pitches, and you're a change-up fastball guy. Nobody really
- 5:54Speaker 1: ever plans to throw a change-up on the inner half.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Sometimes you do, but a lot of times it gets clubbed.
- 6:01Speaker 1: So when a catcher would set up outside, if the
- 6:04Speaker 1: runner on second gives a signal like, to location, then
- 6:08Speaker 1: you might say, okay, he's the catcher setting up outside.
- 6:10Speaker 1: That means it's likely not a changeup. It's going to
- 6:12Speaker 1: be a fastball. So I'm going to look, I'm going
- 6:13Speaker 1: to look hard away. Okay. Well, that's been going on forever.
- 6:16Speaker 1: And that's, you know, that's the cat and mouse, right? That's,
- 6:19Speaker 1: but that's on the catcher. Don't set up early, wait
- 6:22Speaker 1: until right before. And with the pitch clock now, it's
- 6:25Speaker 1: cut down on some of this, you know, the chicanery.
- 6:29Speaker 1: That's a good point. A very good point.
- 6:31Speaker 3: The, the, the later you can also set up and
- 6:33Speaker 3: you can manipulate the entire clock.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely. So it's a beautiful game too. And then
- 6:38Speaker 1: is it when, if the, you know, the pitchers like
- 6:42Speaker 1: he's expecting this pitch and I know he's expecting this pitch,
- 6:44Speaker 1: so I'm going to throw this pitch, but he's expecting that.
- 6:46Speaker 1: I know that he knows he's expecting that. I know
- 6:48Speaker 1: that he knows, I know that. And then you get
- 6:50Speaker 1: into this whole thing. And then the guy on second
- 6:52Speaker 1: base is that, is the sign stealing effective or is it,
- 6:57Speaker 1: The idea that they might be stealing signs that makes
- 6:59Speaker 1: you change things and get you out of whack. It's
- 7:01Speaker 1: all the mental side.
- 7:02Speaker 3: Because the video of Fermin immediately saying, hey, he's watching.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Watch that he's watching.
- 7:09Speaker 3: Whether you have the tell or not, you now instantly,
- 7:13Speaker 3: like trash talking in basketball, Drew.
- 7:14Speaker 1: In your head. At least now I'm in your head. Totally.
- 7:16Speaker 3: At least now you have one little extra thing to
- 7:19Speaker 3: think of that I can have you gripping the baseball
- 7:22Speaker 3: maybe a tick more. And maybe that's one of the
- 7:24Speaker 3: things that led to, what did he throw? 40 pitches and...
- 7:26Speaker 3: 25 strikes? So maybe that was something that leads to
- 7:32Speaker 3: it with something in the back of your mind, knowing
- 7:35Speaker 3: that they're on it.
- 7:36Speaker 1: I also just.
- 7:38Speaker 3: Very much equate it to what Michigan and the college
- 7:40Speaker 3: football thing and any kind of sport. People are always
- 7:44Speaker 3: trying to steal signs in football. Whether you are sending
- 7:47Speaker 3: somebody with a fake mustache and glasses a week and
- 7:50Speaker 3: a half before to tape the sideline, everybody's going to
- 7:53Speaker 3: have everyone's signs probably by the middle of the second quarter.
- 7:57Speaker 3: By the middle of the second quarter, everybody knows what
- 8:00Speaker 3: you're running. Whether it's Luke Keekly in the middle of
- 8:03Speaker 3: the field calling out runner pass and which way they're running.
- 8:07Speaker 1: Everybody knows. It doesn't mean that you're going to be
- 8:10Speaker 1: able to stop it or be able to be successful. Yeah,
- 8:12Speaker 1: it's just adjusting.
- 8:13Speaker 2: How many times did Aaron Rodgers talk about when everything
- 8:16Speaker 2: started getting more field mics and mic'd up and he
- 8:19Speaker 2: had to increase dummy audibles?
- 8:21Speaker 1: And Drew, you said it. It might have been off air,
- 8:23Speaker 1: but you said it.
- 8:23Speaker 2: Guys are going to do dummy signs as well on
- 8:25Speaker 2: second base as well and dummy signals.
- 8:28Speaker 1: It's just like the same situation.
- 8:29Speaker 2: Yeah. you, you increase dummy audibles, you increase dummy signals.
- 8:33Speaker 2: You had to try and throw teams off. It's a
- 8:35Speaker 2: chess game.
- 8:36Speaker 1: It's, it's the game within the game.
- 8:38Speaker 2: And that's one of the reasons it's interesting. I don't
- 8:40Speaker 2: think it's a problem. I think it's a good thing.
- 8:42Speaker 2: Everyone's trying to play strategy and do different things. And
- 8:46Speaker 2: it does make it, you know, it, it, it makes
- 8:48Speaker 2: the details fascinating for people that are into it.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Love that stuff. Love that stuff. But yeah, it was
- 8:54Speaker 1: just against it happening to you. It's a perfect storm.
- 8:56Speaker 1: And the crux of it again, to me is this is,
- 9:00Speaker 1: Mason Miller, you asked him to get six outs. You
- 9:02Speaker 1: get north of 30 pitches, you're in the danger zone, right?
- 9:05Speaker 1: That's what Stamets said. In the postseason, it happens all
- 9:10Speaker 1: the time, managers will ask guys to do stuff that
- 9:12Speaker 1: they've never asked them. Let's say you ask Gary Sanchez
- 9:17Speaker 1: to bunt, or somebody to bunt who's never bunted. Pops
- 9:21Speaker 1: one up to the catcher. It generally doesn't work, right?
- 9:23Speaker 2: No.
- 9:25Speaker 1: But I get it because it's desperate times. It's all
- 9:27Speaker 1: hands on deck. You may see at some point, maybe
- 9:30Speaker 1: not right now, given where the series is, but you
- 9:32Speaker 1: may see Miz come out in relief. That's what I
- 9:35Speaker 1: was going to say.
- 9:36Speaker 3: When they asked him and he said, give me the ball,
- 9:39Speaker 3: it's because teams are doing it, right? Chris Sale just
- 9:41Speaker 3: did it. Chris Sale did it really, really well on
- 9:43Speaker 3: his midweek, on his bullpen. So I'll throw my bullpen
- 9:46Speaker 3: in the game for an inning and a third and
- 9:48Speaker 3: move us on to the ALDS or NLDS.
- 9:50Speaker 1: It doesn't always work that way. Groche, what, faced four
- 9:53Speaker 1: batters and didn't get anybody out? Yeah. One of the
- 9:56Speaker 1: greatest games I ever had the privilege of attending was
- 9:59Speaker 1: the Mariners. walking off the Yankees. with Ken Griffey Jr.
- 10:03Speaker 1: scoring on a double by Edgar Martinez. Yeah, the mad
- 10:06Speaker 1: dash for home. The mad dash. That was an unbelievable play.
- 10:08Speaker 1: In that game, yeah, Randy Johnson came out of the
- 10:10Speaker 1: pen and pitched for the Mariners, and it's like, how
- 10:13Speaker 1: about unleashing that weapon on his throw day? So it
- 10:17Speaker 1: goes all the way back to that. Some days it works,
- 10:19Speaker 1: some days it doesn't. Yeah, it happens.
- 10:21Speaker 3: I very much remember Kershaw not faring very well in
- 10:24Speaker 3: his career coming out of the pen.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:28Speaker 3: Worked out pretty well in game seven but that was
- 10:30Speaker 3: the one time that it actually had fared very well
- 10:33Speaker 3: for him in the playoffs.
- 10:34Speaker 2: So it's probably you take your you take your chances
- 10:39Speaker 2: at a process decision point with with what with what
- 10:42Speaker 2: you think is the best move at the time but
- 10:44Speaker 2: the result is never guaranteed it goes back to what
- 10:46Speaker 2: we always talk about the results never guaranteed i mean
- 10:50Speaker 2: you know you might think you're you know the cubs
- 10:52Speaker 2: had a role as chapman for that reason. So they let,
- 10:55Speaker 2: let's roll them out for like, what was it? Two
- 10:57Speaker 2: or three innings in game seven. Well, he blew the save.
- 11:00Speaker 2: I mean, the Indy, the Indians at the time, or
- 11:03Speaker 2: I believe they tied it. Now the Cubs came back
- 11:06Speaker 2: to win and Carl Edwards gets the, you know, so
- 11:09Speaker 2: at the time they're thinking, this is why we got
- 11:10Speaker 2: this guy. Let's use them all the way, but it can,
- 11:14Speaker 2: it can affect his, you know, his performance as well.
- 11:17Speaker 2: If you use them too much or maybe they, That
- 11:20Speaker 2: had nothing to do with it. Maybe they were going
- 11:22Speaker 2: to score off him anyway.
- 11:23Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe Rajay Davis.
- 11:24Speaker 3: Was going to hit that thing 384 feet when it
- 11:27Speaker 3: had to go 382 to get out.
- 11:30Speaker 1: That's just sports. That's just baseball.
- 11:32Speaker 2: And as much as we like, look, and you know,
- 11:34Speaker 2: it might be the Brewers might be in that situation.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Uribe came in the sixth. Was it the sixth?
- 11:39Speaker 2: Uribe, he never does that, so Brewers wanted that situation.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Yeah, everything's backed up. It's postseason. It's the playoffs. You're right, Drew.
- 11:48Speaker 1: That's just how it goes.
- 11:50Speaker 3: It also reinforces just how big of a game to
- 11:53Speaker 3: be able to win. Game one, when Miz goes four innings, absolutely,
- 11:57Speaker 3: but To win a game where you commit three errors,
- 12:01Speaker 3: just like what the Yankees were unable to do last night.
- 12:03Speaker 3: I was reading Max Fried and Jeff Passan putting it
- 12:07Speaker 3: out before game two. He's like, they're just not going
- 12:10Speaker 3: to beat themselves. The Brewers, you would say the same
- 12:12Speaker 3: thing for all year long. And then they tried to
- 12:16Speaker 3: by missing a double play and letting runs, two double
- 12:19Speaker 3: plays back to back and letting a run cross, which
- 12:22Speaker 3: almost was going to be the decisive one.
- 12:24Speaker 1: You win that.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Game, it's going to be hard to be able to
- 12:29Speaker 3: not count to 11 to be able to get to
- 12:31Speaker 3: the end goal.
- 12:32Speaker 2: And that's the weird deal in the playoffs. It's like
- 12:35Speaker 2: the margins are so thin. The Brewers could have definitely
- 12:38Speaker 2: easily lost both first two games. They won both, and
- 12:41Speaker 2: you're riding high. But now you're going to San Diego,
- 12:43Speaker 2: and this thing could still flip quickly. I know we're
- 12:45Speaker 2: feeling great about it, but you've been up 2-0 before
- 12:49Speaker 2: and had to see it go to five games. San
- 12:50Speaker 2: Diego's tough, so be nice to close them out here
- 12:52Speaker 2: like you did against the Rockies in 18.
- 12:55Speaker 1: But you never know. We as sports fans lose. We
- 12:58Speaker 1: live in the moment. We lose the ability to have
- 13:01Speaker 1: perspective because the last great thing that happened in our
- 13:06Speaker 1: area was the Bucs run to the championship. And there
- 13:08Speaker 1: were two series that they were down two to nothing.
- 13:10Speaker 1: And had to survive. And what did they get? 40-piece
- 13:12Speaker 1: in game two? It was brutal. It looked like it
- 13:17Speaker 1: was brutal.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Lost game one against the Hawks even. I mean, even
- 13:21Speaker 2: stuff like that. You're flying high after that win. You're
- 13:23Speaker 2: up on the Hawks all of a sudden with two
- 13:25Speaker 2: minutes to go.
- 13:25Speaker 1: You're up seven. You blow it. And I know it.
- 13:29Speaker 1: It's funny because our friend, Cato Kaelin, is the guy
- 13:33Speaker 1: on Twitter who he's just the unhinged fan. And he
- 13:36Speaker 1: pisses a lot of people off. Because he goes off
- 13:38Speaker 1: so hard. But there are a ton of people who
- 13:41Speaker 1: in the first four innings of game one We're like, hey,
- 13:45Speaker 1: Murphy didn't have this team ready. This team sucks. Same
- 13:47Speaker 1: old Brewers, not going anywhere. Regular season, 103 doesn't mean anything.
- 13:51Speaker 1: People jumping off the ship. And how do you like
- 13:53Speaker 1: it now? Just let the games happen. And you're right.
- 13:56Speaker 1: If you're the Padres right now, they're not in a
- 13:59Speaker 1: great spot, but they've got nothing to lose tonight. They're
- 14:01Speaker 1: going to give everything they have. They're going to be
- 14:02Speaker 1: playing in front of that maniacal crowd in the heat.
- 14:06Speaker 1: And they think that, well, what the hell? Why not us?
- 14:09Speaker 1: Let's come back. And the Padres are a good outfit.
- 14:12Speaker 1: And if they win tonight, then they think they're going
- 14:15Speaker 1: to win tomorrow. We just saw the Brewers do this
- 14:17Speaker 1: against the Cubs last year and have to come back
- 14:19Speaker 1: home and play a game five. Their own favorites. So
- 14:23Speaker 1: that's entirely possible that that could happen. I would rather
- 14:25Speaker 1: be the Brewers than the Padres right now. Big time.
- 14:28Speaker 1: And the thing about the Padres is, you're right. They
- 14:30Speaker 1: had Miz out of the game. trailing after four, which
- 14:35Speaker 1: is the perfect scenario. And then they're a roof ball
- 14:39Speaker 1: away from stealing that game. And then they've got a
- 14:42Speaker 1: lead in the ninth with their guy, with their Miz
- 14:45Speaker 1: on the back end of the game, pitching, and the
- 14:47Speaker 1: guy in the Brewers scratch out the winning run. So,
- 14:50Speaker 1: I mean, they couldn't have been. They were right there.
- 14:52Speaker 1: And that's the margins. You're right. Those are the margins
- 14:55Speaker 1: between victory and defeat in the playoffs.
- 14:56Speaker 3: All the Padres could have asked is to give the
- 14:58Speaker 3: ball to Morione and in game one with a lead,
- 15:01Speaker 3: and Miller in game two with a lead. And they
- 15:03Speaker 3: lost both of them. That is a difficult, difficult series
- 15:07Speaker 3: to end up winning. It's just like when you watch
- 15:09Speaker 3: an NBA series and you blow a 15-point lead in
- 15:12Speaker 3: the final 10 minutes.
- 15:13Speaker 1: We watched it with Cleveland.
- 15:14Speaker 3: Now, Kenny Atkinson still thinks they're up 3-1 analytically over
- 15:18Speaker 3: the Knicks. But when you have that lead and you're
- 15:21Speaker 3: unable to get it home, now you've got to beat
- 15:22Speaker 3: them five times. In all reality, there's a way you
- 15:26Speaker 3: could look at it. Sure, Padres could be up 2-0.
- 15:29Speaker 3: Now they kind of have to beat them five times
- 15:31Speaker 3: because you had them somewhat beat twice and couldn't finish
- 15:34Speaker 3: the job. That's a hell of a mental edge to
- 15:37Speaker 3: be able to get over. I also, Drew, would like
- 15:40Speaker 3: to be where the Brewers are at. I'd also really
- 15:42Speaker 3: like to be where Hunter Baumgart's at. I get it
- 15:44Speaker 3: was very, very hot. I think I could put up
- 15:47Speaker 3: with it for a couple of days because, man, those
- 15:50Speaker 3: visuals from that stadium yesterday at that workout with the
- 15:53Speaker 3: elevator music blasting through and nice retaliation for what the
- 15:56Speaker 3: Brewers did to the Padres a couple of days ago while.
- 15:59Speaker 1: Oh, did it look gorgeous? That scenery was phenomenal. That's
- 16:04Speaker 1: a nice town. Four is living it up. He's living
- 16:06Speaker 1: it up. That's a nice looking town.
- 16:07Speaker 2: Although I did apologize to him yesterday that we're going
- 16:09Speaker 2: to get him up early, early for him because obviously
- 16:12Speaker 2: he's going to join us at seven.
- 16:14Speaker 1: We are going to wake him up. Oh yeah. He said,
- 16:16Speaker 1: he said he'll do it. I mean, I'm.
- 16:17Speaker 2: Talking about, I know it's going to be early for
- 16:19Speaker 2: you West coast time, but you know, he goes, Hey,
- 16:21Speaker 2: I'm out here.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Oh, he's getting up to make an English muffin. Isn't he?
- 16:25Speaker 1: At five in the morning? Yeah.
- 16:26Speaker 3: Right?
- 16:27Speaker 1: He's too excited. I mean, you think he's not going
- 16:29Speaker 1: to walk the beaches? It's game day.
- 16:31Speaker 2: You know, sunrise, he's going to walk the beaches of
- 16:33Speaker 2: Del Mar. I mean, you know, send some selfies back.
- 16:36Speaker 2: Del Mar. Well, you know, I just try to think
- 16:38Speaker 2: of any place. La Jolla, I don't know San Diego
- 16:40Speaker 2: that well.
- 16:42Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 16:43Speaker 2: I don't know all the fancy lingo for it, but
- 16:45Speaker 2: that waterfront is gorgeous. I don't even know Aaron used
- 16:47Speaker 2: to have a house in Del Mar. That's the only
- 16:49Speaker 2: thing I know about.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Hunter's probably staying within walking distance. He doesn't have a car,
- 16:53Speaker 1: so he's probably within walking distance of the ballpark.
- 16:55Speaker 3: But if you're in walking distance of the ballpark, you're
- 16:57Speaker 3: in walking distance of the beach, if I remember correctly.
- 16:59Speaker 2: Right?
- 17:00Speaker 1: Like, you're close enough at least to the harbor. You're
- 17:02Speaker 1: by the water. Yeah, there is some water there. I
- 17:04Speaker 1: don't know about a beach, but is there water there
- 17:06Speaker 1: for sure?
- 17:06Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 17:06Speaker 1: In a car, you go to, like, Pacific Beach.
- 17:08Speaker 2: Well, there's got to be some sand somewhere.
- 17:12Speaker 1: I mean, Hunter, you're right. Just walk downtown. He's probably Hunter.
- 17:14Speaker 1: Gas lamp district.
- 17:15Speaker 2: You know, Hunter's not messing around with vacation stuff and
- 17:18Speaker 2: pools and beaches. He's slamming away at the ballpark or
- 17:21Speaker 2: the hotel room just working.
- 17:23Speaker 1: I know him. That's him. Sending back audio. So, yeah,
- 17:25Speaker 1: we'll talk to Hunter. We're getting him up. I told him,
- 17:28Speaker 1: don't worry. Make sure that sound machine's also an alarm clock.
- 17:31Speaker 1: Let's fire that thing up. Yeah, he's good with that.
- 17:32Speaker 1: He's good with that.
- 17:33Speaker 2: I told him, you're probably where he's staying as a
- 17:35Speaker 2: continental breakfast. I said, you don't want to miss the
- 17:37Speaker 2: free breakfast anyway. Because then you can load stuff up
- 17:40Speaker 2: in a bag and bring it back to your room,
- 17:42Speaker 2: you know.
- 17:42Speaker 1: For a sec. Oh, my God.
- 17:45Speaker 2: 877-794-1973.
- 17:45Speaker 1: NicoletLaw.com. Talk and text line. Hit us up there. Share
- 17:49Speaker 1: your thoughts. It's not nerves. It's excitement. It's like a burst.
- 17:54Speaker 1: This is a closeout game. I'm giddy. This is, you know,
- 17:58Speaker 1: did they travel with champagne and plastic for the lockers?
- 18:01Speaker 1: They better have.
- 18:02Speaker 2: Better have.
- 18:02Speaker 1: They better have. Dustin May tonight has good numbers against
- 18:06Speaker 1: the Padres.
- 18:07Speaker 3: And he's a veteran guy. This is why you got
- 18:09Speaker 3: Dustin May. I know this might be a hot take.
- 18:11Speaker 3: I'm expecting the Brewers to win tonight.
- 18:13Speaker 1: Come on now.
- 18:14Speaker 3: And if you tell me how the first inning goes...
- 18:18Speaker 3: I can tell you how the next two games go.
- 18:19Speaker 2: And I know a lot of people are saying, oh,
- 18:21Speaker 2: Dustin made this and that. You check out his splits
- 18:23Speaker 2: against San Diego this year. They're nasty.
- 18:26Speaker 1: He just pitched real good there in August when they
- 18:29Speaker 1: had the Brewers. And three starts of 1.23 ERA. We
- 18:32Speaker 1: have PTSD from that series in San Diego when the
- 18:35Speaker 1: Brewers got swept. Two of the games were one-run games.
- 18:37Speaker 1: One went 11 innings, and then they got blown out
- 18:39Speaker 1: in the middle game. It wasn't as big a debacle
- 18:42Speaker 1: as it seemed at the time. It seemed like, oh,
- 18:44Speaker 1: my God, here they are. They can't play these guys.
- 18:46Speaker 1: Then they went into L.A. and took it to the
- 18:48Speaker 1: Dodgers three out of four. Kind of like the last
- 18:50Speaker 1: two games we just watched here. They were close. They
- 18:52Speaker 1: were tight. These two are going to be tight, too.
- 18:54Speaker 1: And it's, I mean, I guess we still have to
- 18:57Speaker 1: focus on the Padres, and then we're on to the NLCS.
- 18:59Speaker 1: But in terms of being an Armin and wanting to
- 19:03Speaker 1: pick your opponent, again, it's like, oh, you'd rather face
- 19:05Speaker 1: the Braves than the Dodgers. Well, the Brewers could lose
- 19:07Speaker 1: to either of those teams for starters. But if the
- 19:11Speaker 1: Dodgers get vanquished, And if the Yankees get vanquished on
- 19:14Speaker 1: the other side, it's like, then... You can't let your
- 19:18Speaker 1: guard down because you're still going to face good teams.
- 19:20Speaker 1: But it wouldn't be as magical to me. It's a
- 19:23Speaker 1: little bit, and people said, when the Packers broke through
- 19:26Speaker 1: with Favre and they didn't get to play the Cowboys
- 19:28Speaker 1: at Lambeau, they had to play Carolina. The Cowboys weren't there.
- 19:31Speaker 1: It's not their fault, and it didn't diminish the... But
- 19:33Speaker 1: it's like, it would have been sweeter if we'd have
- 19:35Speaker 1: beaten the Cowboys on the way and paid them back.
- 19:38Speaker 2: It would be maybe, but I'll disagree that it won't
- 19:40Speaker 2: be as sweet. I mean, I don't care. I mean,
- 19:42Speaker 2: if I can.
- 19:42Speaker 4: Taste that wine... That's... it. I'm just saying, I don't
- 19:46Speaker 4: care why she likes me. You beat San Diego, the
- 19:49Speaker 4: Dodgers and the Yankees. Plus the narrative, plus the narrative
- 19:52Speaker 4: going into this labor unrest.
- 19:54Speaker 1: It would have been kind of fun. Well, I was
- 19:55Speaker 1: going to say the story will be way better. I mean, yes,
- 19:58Speaker 1: the story is better. And if it's, if it ends
- 20:01Speaker 1: up being two of the best teams, if it ends
- 20:02Speaker 1: up being Tampa Bay, against Milwaukee in the World Series.
- 20:05Speaker 1: People are like, oh, the ratings are going to suck.
- 20:07Speaker 1: First of all, no, it probably won't if it's good ball,
- 20:09Speaker 1: and it's going to be good ball. But the two
- 20:14Speaker 1: little teams, the players are going to be like, what
- 20:16Speaker 1: do we need a salary cap for? Look at this.
- 20:18Speaker 3: The players can't wait. The players are begging for Tampa
- 20:21Speaker 3: and Milwaukee. It's going to be a lot of layers
- 20:22Speaker 3: to that onion.
- 20:23Speaker 1: I get the story part of it. You're right.
- 20:25Speaker 2: You're not right in Major League without the Yankees being
- 20:27Speaker 2: the opponent or the Mets. It's always that.
- 20:30Speaker 1: I just like the history of it because the Milwaukee
- 20:32Speaker 1: Braves won their championship. Against the Yankees. Yep. Symmetry. But hey,
- 20:37Speaker 1: let the Yankees go. Let the chips fall. Champions fear
- 20:40Speaker 1: no one. Play whoever's in front of you.
- 20:41Speaker 3: I just wouldn't mind playing the Braves because that means
- 20:44Speaker 3: that there will be some trip for Hunter to Magic City,
- 20:46Speaker 3: which I just think that.
- 20:48Speaker 1: Would be so fun. Lemon pepper wings. You know. The
- 20:53Speaker 1: lemon pepper barbecue. You know, there's also the Bill Bartholomew
- 20:59Speaker 1: angle of the brave stole the Milwaukee's team. And it'd
- 21:01Speaker 1: be payback to take a world. Yes. And they stole
- 21:05Speaker 1: ours in 21 to keep them from going to the
- 21:07Speaker 1: world series would be amazing. All right. When we come back,
- 21:09Speaker 1: Dolph is going to join us. It's halftime of the
- 21:11Speaker 1: Tuesday edition boys. This is our last Tuesday in the morning.
- 21:14Speaker 1: If you missed the memo beginning Monday, heartbroken, we go
- 21:17Speaker 1: from 2 PM to 5 PM. You're in the huddle
- 21:20Speaker 1: Fox sports radio, Wisconsin. Rolling along, Tuesday edition of the Huddle,
- 21:26Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, Drew, Billy, and Armin. Happy to
- 21:29Speaker 1: welcome our halftime correspondent, Scott Dolphin, wearing his Brewers shirt
- 21:32Speaker 1: today to represent Game 3 tonight at Petco Park.
- 21:36Speaker 5: I've pretty much depleted my Brewers wardrobe over the past six,
- 21:39Speaker 5: seven days, so I had to dig deep in the
- 21:41Speaker 5: closet for this.
- 21:41Speaker 1: That's a good one. Is this an extra long nap
- 21:45Speaker 1: day so you can watch more of the proceedings tonight?
- 21:47Speaker 1: I think so. We're planning it that way.
- 21:49Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I'm going to have a late afternoon
- 21:50Speaker 5: nap as opposed to when I first get home.
- 21:52Speaker 1: Okay. I don't know if I'll make the end, but
- 21:55Speaker 1: I'll definitely get through half the game.
- 21:57Speaker 3: I was going to say, because now the veteran napper
- 21:59Speaker 3: in you, it's just push the start time of the
- 22:02Speaker 3: nap back. It's not extended longer because a lot of
- 22:04Speaker 3: times you do that, you might just be grass for
- 22:07Speaker 3: the rest.
- 22:07Speaker 4: Of the day.
- 22:08Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, I can't do that.
- 22:09Speaker 5: So, yeah, I'll try to get my solid hour 15,
- 22:12Speaker 5: but maybe just do it later in the afternoon.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Is that the sweet spot?
- 22:15Speaker 3: The 75-ish minutes?
- 22:15Speaker 1: It is. 90-ish minutes right there? That's my best. It's
- 22:19Speaker 1: great that we're getting Dolph's nap advice when we have,
- 22:22Speaker 1: you know, what? Yeah, right as we finish it off.
- 22:24Speaker 1: Three more early alarms. You heard the news yesterday that
- 22:27Speaker 1: we're moving on up to the east side and going
- 22:29Speaker 1: from two to five starting on Monday. I'm going to
- 22:30Speaker 1: miss our little visits. I got to be honest with you, fellas.
- 22:32Speaker 1: I know. We're going to miss you. And then you're
- 22:34Speaker 1: the player to be named later in the Shanna Quinn
- 22:36Speaker 1: trade because Shanna's going to be popping in with us
- 22:38Speaker 1: a couple times a week now. Just like old times.
- 22:40Speaker 2: What are you going to do at this time now?
- 22:42Speaker 2: You need to have open time. You actually have to
- 22:44Speaker 2: work more and get stuff done.
- 22:45Speaker 1: Drink more coffee.
- 22:46Speaker 3: Drink more coffee, watch Love Island. Get his steps in
- 22:48Speaker 3: a little bit. I mean, we have been taking 20
- 22:50Speaker 3: minutes of.
- 22:51Speaker 1: Both walk time away. I mean, taking all this time
- 22:53Speaker 1: away in the morning.
- 22:54Speaker 5: So we record certain segments of our show during this time,
- 22:57Speaker 5: so I guess maybe we'll have to go back to
- 22:59Speaker 5: do those live.
- 22:59Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 23:00Speaker 2: Just for us, man.
- 23:01Speaker 1: Up to Shannon. Love you, man. Thank you. Leave it
- 23:03Speaker 1: to the boss. Yeah, we're going to miss you too, man.
- 23:05Speaker 1: People are asking, like, can Dolph still come in? I'm like, well,
- 23:08Speaker 1: he's got stuff to do during the day. When you
- 23:11Speaker 1: work that shift, the rest of your day is yours.
- 23:13Speaker 1: If you're bored, want to come back to work just
- 23:15Speaker 1: for us in the afternoon. If I'm around, I will
- 23:16Speaker 1: definitely pop in. Well, and we especially need you maybe
- 23:19Speaker 1: on Monday for our maiden voyage because it's Bear Week
- 23:22Speaker 1: and the Packers play the Bears. And this is going
- 23:24Speaker 1: to be glorious.
- 23:25Speaker 3: It is.
- 23:26Speaker 1: And this could be the ultimate Dolph doubleheader. Go watch
- 23:30Speaker 1: the Bears-Packers at Lambeau and then go to game one.
- 23:32Speaker 1: Great call. I would love that. I would love that.
- 23:35Speaker 5: I already have tickets to game one if it happens
- 23:39Speaker 5: on Sunday afternoon. Or is it going to be Sunday night?
- 23:41Speaker 5: Do we know a time on that yet?
- 23:42Speaker 3: I believe it'll be Sunday night. Sunday night. Because it'll be...
- 23:46Speaker 3: It'll be a Fox game. So then they'll have it
- 23:48Speaker 3: right after they're done with their football game.
- 23:49Speaker 1: So it'll be a night game. And then we were
- 23:52Speaker 1: just talking about it because game two, folks are wondering, well,
- 23:55Speaker 1: will it be at five or will it be at
- 23:56Speaker 1: eight for game two? And well, that kind of depends
- 24:00Speaker 1: on your Yankees. Because if the Yankees take a powder
- 24:04Speaker 1: and we're looking at Chicago, Tampa, well, that might be
- 24:07Speaker 1: the early game.
- 24:08Speaker 3: And then they'll push that thing back in, especially if
- 24:12Speaker 3: the Dodgers find their way through.
- 24:14Speaker 1: And if it's the Braves, well, then all bets are
- 24:17Speaker 1: off because then you don't have that West Coast factor, right?
- 24:19Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 24:19Speaker 3: In the Braves, I mean, obviously it's a big market,
- 24:22Speaker 3: so it would be one of the bigger markets. But
- 24:24Speaker 3: the White Sox would be an intriguing game. And that
- 24:26Speaker 3: would be game two opposite game one. I don't know
- 24:29Speaker 3: if that matters at all in the mathematics.
- 24:32Speaker 1: The mechanics of it might be that the teams playing
- 24:34Speaker 1: game two are traveling, and so they want extra time.
- 24:37Speaker 1: So they want to play early, right. Early to get
- 24:38Speaker 1: them out.
- 24:40Speaker 5: The White Sox, I mean, the fact that they're where
- 24:43Speaker 5: they are. They haven't lost yet. They haven't played a
- 24:45Speaker 5: home game yet. They haven't played a home game yet,
- 24:47Speaker 5: and they're running the table.
- 24:49Speaker 1: And it's interesting because we're starting to hear the grumblings,
- 24:52Speaker 1: and I get it, but people are starting to grumble. Like,
- 24:54Speaker 1: the national media doesn't talk about the Brewers enough. Well,
- 24:57Speaker 1: first of all, the entire, everybody's talking about Cheerio and
- 25:00Speaker 1: everybody talks about what happened Sunday. Yeah. You're just, your
- 25:03Speaker 1: radar's just off.
- 25:04Speaker 2: Who's the national media anymore? I mean, anybody online?
- 25:08Speaker 1: Well, I guess how dare those guys on the panel pick.
- 25:13Speaker 1: you know, the Padres to win game two, the, the
- 25:15Speaker 1: way they did, like everybody except on trail and Vaskers.
- 25:18Speaker 1: They were playing great ball. I don't have a, I
- 25:20Speaker 1: don't think them to go and three over against Logan Henderson.
- 25:24Speaker 1: They were ahead in the game with Mason Miller. They
- 25:26Speaker 1: should have won. Their logic was not flawed, but if
- 25:30Speaker 1: you're going to get sensitive about that, just let that slide.
- 25:32Speaker 1: I don't understand. And, and to the point, the big,
- 25:35Speaker 1: the larger point is they're not talking about the Brewers enough.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Is there a better story in sports right now than
- 25:40Speaker 1: the white socks?
- 25:41Speaker 2: No.
- 25:41Speaker 1: Probably not. No. Three straight 100-loss seasons and they're a
- 25:44Speaker 1: game away from the LCS?
- 25:45Speaker 5: And if you get your news from ESPN, I mean,
- 25:48Speaker 5: you're going to sit through 45 minutes of NFL before
- 25:50Speaker 5: you even maybe get a sliver of baseball.
- 25:52Speaker 2: Is it only about ESPN? Is it only about what's
- 25:55Speaker 2: on first take?
- 25:55Speaker 1: Because, like.
- 25:56Speaker 2: Okay, they're not going to talk about the Brewers much, maybe,
- 25:59Speaker 2: but they... Well, that's just it. They're not going to
- 26:02Speaker 2: talk about it. So that would be why you're disappointed. Like,
- 26:05Speaker 2: I do get it. I understand that it is cooler
- 26:08Speaker 2: to be above it. But we're sensitive Milwaukeeans. We're the
- 26:11Speaker 2: small market. Of course we're going to be defensive about it.
- 26:13Speaker 2: But when A-Rod drew... Hold on.
- 26:15Speaker 3: When A-Rod comes on and the one thing he's going
- 26:18Speaker 3: to say nice after you have... I'm going to steal
- 26:20Speaker 3: Armin's word.
- 26:21Speaker 1: Generational. Generational.
- 26:22Speaker 3: Victory in a playoff game. And he says, the only
- 26:24Speaker 3: good thing I can say for the Brewers right now
- 26:27Speaker 3: is that the Packers won. That's freaking disrespectful and embarrassing.
- 26:32Speaker 1: You're absolutely right.
- 26:33Speaker 3: I mean, like, I don't, I get that we're going
- 26:35Speaker 3: to defend the media, but when that's the Stuff that
- 26:38Speaker 3: you're going to put out there.
- 26:39Speaker 1: You deserve to get it. I'm going to tell people
- 26:41Speaker 1: not to get too mad about it because you know
- 26:43Speaker 1: going in that Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter don't spend
- 26:46Speaker 1: a lot of time watching the Brewers. Clearly. They had
- 26:48Speaker 1: no idea what was going on.
- 26:49Speaker 3: But if you're going to win 103 games, when are
- 26:52Speaker 3: you going to watch them?
- 26:53Speaker 1: They're in the industry, but they don't pay a lot
- 26:54Speaker 1: of attention.
- 26:54Speaker 3: I think it's a fair question to ask.
- 26:56Speaker 1: I agree with that. Okay.
- 26:58Speaker 2: Those three guys for sure.
- 26:59Speaker 1: Well, maybe not Ortiz as much. Those two guys. You're
- 27:01Speaker 1: going to have the games. Yes.
- 27:02Speaker 3: It's been clear for the last two and a half
- 27:05Speaker 3: months that this team was most likely going to have
- 27:08Speaker 3: one of the buys. You might want to, I don't know,
- 27:11Speaker 3: watch the third and fourth starter that you could pronounce
- 27:13Speaker 3: their names correctly.
- 27:16Speaker 1: I don't know. That could be a crazy concept. He's
- 27:19Speaker 1: not on the panel now, but Pedro Martinez has done
- 27:21Speaker 1: nothing but gush about Murph and the Brewers. So it's
- 27:25Speaker 1: a balancing act. Some guys are, some guys aren't. And
- 27:28Speaker 1: be careful what you wish for, because when you get
- 27:30Speaker 1: people talking in a national spotlight about the Brewers, you
- 27:33Speaker 1: get an idiot like Dave Portnoy saying that they should
- 27:36Speaker 1: be penalized for having a dumb roof. There's another clown.
- 27:39Speaker 1: So it's going to be dumb, too.
- 27:41Speaker 3: But we're going to hold three Hall of Famers to
- 27:44Speaker 3: the owner of Barstool in the same accord. I don't
- 27:47Speaker 3: know who those are.
- 27:49Speaker 1: Everybody says media, and it's a one-stop. One size fits
- 27:52Speaker 1: all thing. Mike Wilbon going off on the roof, too,
- 27:55Speaker 1: saying that's ridiculous. The Padres were screwed.
- 27:57Speaker 5: And Tony Kornheiser came to the defense of the Brewers
- 27:59Speaker 5: saying most people thought it was going to be foul, Mike.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's... Well, at least he's mentioned that. My
- 28:05Speaker 1: position on this has evolved. My position on this has
- 28:07Speaker 1: evolved because I do think it also was going to
- 28:09Speaker 1: be foul. And the main thing is, look at the hitter.
- 28:12Speaker 1: When you hit a ball and you think it's going out,
- 28:13Speaker 1: there's a way you react as opposed to standing and
- 28:16Speaker 1: waiting and kind of, it was the Carlton Fisk thing.
- 28:18Speaker 1: He was hoping. It was the Carlton Fisk where he
- 28:21Speaker 1: was going to go. Yeah, he was kind of balancing
- 28:24Speaker 1: back on his feet going, what's it going to do? Yes. Yeah,
- 28:26Speaker 1: so I think, yeah, probably we'll never know, but the
- 28:29Speaker 1: trajectory probably would have been fair. We'll never know. I'm
- 28:32Speaker 1: glad we'll never know. I'm glad we'll never know that
- 28:35Speaker 1: I got to figure it out. It was hit high enough,
- 28:37Speaker 1: hard enough, it would have cleared the fence, but it
- 28:39Speaker 1: probably would have been a foul. It happened again last
- 28:41Speaker 1: night in Tampa. Did you see that? Yes.
- 28:43Speaker 2: How ironic.
- 28:43Speaker 1: This game is amazing. But now theirs happens like once
- 28:47Speaker 1: a homestand, right? It happens a lot. And their rules
- 28:50Speaker 1: are bizarre, so it depends on what ring it hits.
- 28:53Speaker 1: The certain catwalk is a homer. The certain one, dead ball. Yeah,
- 28:56Speaker 1: it's like when you're in your backyard. Okay, if it
- 28:58Speaker 1: hits the wall. Yes. But if it hits the garage,
- 29:01Speaker 1: it's out.
- 29:01Speaker 3: We had, and my buddy Brent's house, he had two
- 29:05Speaker 3: power lines. One was way too low. But if you
- 29:07Speaker 3: cleared that one in between the other ground rule double,
- 29:10Speaker 3: you hit over the highest one, home run, and you
- 29:13Speaker 3: got to do the drive.
- 29:14Speaker 1: But let me ask you a question.
- 29:14Speaker 2: That's the rules everyone in the neighborhood established, and they
- 29:17Speaker 2: accepted it, right? That was the rules. So once you
- 29:20Speaker 2: accept the rules, that's the rules. You don't complain about it.
- 29:25Speaker 2: Everyone accepts it.
- 29:25Speaker 3: You're going to act like Frankie P and Johnny C
- 29:28Speaker 3: were not freaking out when that ball, we thought, cleared
- 29:31Speaker 3: the first one, and instead it cleared the second one?
- 29:33Speaker 1: Come on.
- 29:34Speaker 2: Maybe there's controversy on which one it cleared, but you know,
- 29:37Speaker 2: I will go to my buddy's house. On his left
- 29:39Speaker 2: garage roof was a ground rule double. You had rules
- 29:42Speaker 2: and everyone accepted them. I didn't go home and cry
- 29:44Speaker 2: about it to their mom.
- 29:45Speaker 5: And that's what we do at Tropicana Field, home of
- 29:47Speaker 5: RV shows and controversial baseball.
- 29:50Speaker 1: For about 25, 30 years. That used to be called
- 29:52Speaker 1: the Thunderdome. It was Thunderdome. Mark had played the NCAA
- 29:55Speaker 1: tournament there in 94. Oh, wow. No one cares, but
- 29:57Speaker 1: I just thought I'd mention that.
- 29:59Speaker 3: They move the Thunderdome then in, uh, Tampa Bay to the, uh,
- 30:03Speaker 3: WWE performance center during COVID because it's in Tampa.
- 30:07Speaker 1: They turned the Thunderdome. That's where they did all of
- 30:09Speaker 1: their wrestling.
- 30:10Speaker 5: Wow.
- 30:10Speaker 1: Yeah. For like a year and a half while everybody
- 30:12Speaker 1: else was locked up. Pretty fun.
- 30:14Speaker 5: Well, last night it was a house of horrors for
- 30:15Speaker 5: the Yankees who had three, should have had four errors
- 30:17Speaker 5: in the first inning.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Yeah, what was the scoring change? What's it like?
- 30:20Speaker 2: You have Cam on the mound, probably in the ALNBC,
- 30:23Speaker 2: Cy Young. Yeah.
- 30:24Speaker 1: He has to deal with three errors in the first inning.
- 30:26Speaker 1: And it kind of affected them moving forward, too.
- 30:29Speaker 2: The thing is, they were still in the game, rising
- 30:30Speaker 2: to the homer.
- 30:31Speaker 1: Yeah, he hit two homers, but that was all they had.
- 30:34Speaker 1: Right off the top, the errors.
- 30:37Speaker 5: Freddie Peralta was good, not great last night for the race,
- 30:39Speaker 5: but good for him for kind of resurrecting his season
- 30:41Speaker 5: down there.
- 30:42Speaker 1: They've really fixed him. They moved him to the other
- 30:44Speaker 1: side of the rubber. They've changed his mechanics, and they've
- 30:47Speaker 1: really put the paddles to him.
- 30:48Speaker 2: It's amazing how that works. It's like you go somewhere else,
- 30:51Speaker 2: you get a fresh start. After his Mets experience, it
- 30:53Speaker 2: was terrible.
- 30:54Speaker 1: It took a while because he wasn't good right away
- 30:55Speaker 1: for Tampa. Yeah. And they kind of tweaked him a
- 30:57Speaker 1: little bit. And now he's like, and he's back popping
- 31:00Speaker 1: the fastballs back a little bit.
- 31:01Speaker 2: And he's getting out in the most important times, which
- 31:03Speaker 2: is in the end what matters in the playoffs.
- 31:05Speaker 1: Hey, I mean, how are we going to feel if
- 31:07Speaker 1: he comes back and pitches against the Brew Crew in
- 31:09Speaker 1: the World Series? That'd be weird. That'd be weird. Are
- 31:12Speaker 1: we going to do the Freddie chance? He definitely will.
- 31:14Speaker 1: I mean, at the race. We better.
- 31:15Speaker 2: It worked. Yeah.
- 31:17Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 31:17Speaker 3: Give him a little Wrigley treatment when he rolls in there. And,
- 31:20Speaker 3: of course, they also have Drew Rasmussen. Who has pitched
- 31:24Speaker 3: the best game of the playoffs so far. Definitely a
- 31:27Speaker 3: Brewers flair to that Rays lineup.
- 31:28Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one that people are stung because of the,
- 31:32Speaker 1: what's his name, Tristan Peters. Oh, Tristan Peters. Yeah, the
- 31:36Speaker 1: Savannah Banana has been going off. The entire league missed
- 31:39Speaker 1: on that guy. It wasn't just the Brewers. But the
- 31:41Speaker 1: thing with Rasmussen, yeah, he'd be great to have, but
- 31:45Speaker 1: did you like Willie Adamas? Did he help you win
- 31:47Speaker 1: some playoff series and stuff? Yeah.
- 31:49Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 31:50Speaker 1: Yeah, always. Technically, no.
- 31:51Speaker 3: He actually didn't help you win any playoffs. He got
- 31:55Speaker 3: to the playoffs, though. He helped you win two or
- 31:57Speaker 3: three division titles, a big part of it.
- 31:59Speaker 1: 30 and 100, and good defense hit you okay?
- 32:02Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 32:03Speaker 1: They didn't win a playoff series with Willie.
- 32:05Speaker 3: No, they would have lost in 21 to the Braves.
- 32:07Speaker 3: They would have lost in 23 to the Diamondbacks and
- 32:10Speaker 3: 24 to the Mets.
- 32:12Speaker 1: That's true. The last walk-off was Moose. What was that, 2018?
- 32:15Speaker 1: 2018 against the Rockies, game one.
- 32:18Speaker 3: After Jeremy Jeffress started the greatest commonality of the 2020,
- 32:22Speaker 3: 2018 playoffs, him blowing a safe.
- 32:25Speaker 2: That's the problem is I remember that more.
- 32:27Speaker 1: Than the Brewers haven't won a game past the divisional
- 32:30Speaker 1: series since 18.
- 32:32Speaker 2: Right.
- 32:32Speaker 1: So, cause they haven't, that was the first time they
- 32:34Speaker 1: won one of the CS. Fortunately, man, that's, man, Well,
- 32:38Speaker 1: this is the year, I hope. This is the year.
- 32:40Speaker 1: It's starting to feel that way. It feels like the
- 32:42Speaker 1: planets are aligning.
- 32:43Speaker 5: I'm more and more confident looking at Dustin May's numbers
- 32:45Speaker 5: against the Padres over the years, too. He's been good,
- 32:48Speaker 5: and I forgot how good he was in the middle
- 32:50Speaker 5: of August when they went out there despite the fact
- 32:51Speaker 5: they lost the game.
- 32:52Speaker 1: Well, that's what we were saying, is that everybody remembers
- 32:54Speaker 1: that sweep as being abysmal, but two of the games
- 32:56Speaker 1: were one run. One was 11 innings, and they got
- 32:58Speaker 1: blown out in the middle game. And he went seven? Seven, yeah.
- 33:02Speaker 3: I think seven scoreless, wasn't it? And it was May
- 33:04Speaker 3: versus Ray, if I'm not mistaken, right? Like, they had
- 33:07Speaker 3: just traded for Robbie Ray. You had just traded for
- 33:09Speaker 3: Dustin May, and it was like, all right, which one's
- 33:11Speaker 3: going to be better? The interesting thing for San Diego,
- 33:13Speaker 3: Ray started game one.
- 33:16Speaker 1: I did it again. Dollar in the car.
- 33:19Speaker 3: But Ray started game one. Casey Mize, they also got...
- 33:23Speaker 3: on deadline day from the Tigers, he's out. So he
- 33:27Speaker 3: ended up not helping them. A lot of these teams
- 33:29Speaker 3: that brought these guys in, like the Cubs.
- 33:30Speaker 1: Clay Holmes.
- 33:31Speaker 3: They went and got Clay Holmes. He didn't even pitch
- 33:33Speaker 3: in one of those two games.
- 33:34Speaker 2: Right.
- 33:34Speaker 1: Yeah, he probably would have if they would have lasted
- 33:36Speaker 1: longer than two, right?
- 33:37Speaker 3: You would have thought, you would have hoped that he
- 33:39Speaker 3: would have been able to pitch in game three if
- 33:40Speaker 3: they would have made it there.
- 33:42Speaker 5: You look at May's numbers when he was with the Dodgers, again,
- 33:45Speaker 5: I think an ERA around three or even under three.
- 33:47Speaker 1: It's a good trend. You hope it continues. You're right.
- 33:50Speaker 2: Because he only started three games against the Padres this year.
- 33:52Speaker 5: I believe.
- 33:54Speaker 1: And what? Did he complete game them when he was
- 33:57Speaker 1: with the Cardinals? That I don't know. I thought he did.
- 34:00Speaker 2: I just know his numbers are nasty. His ERA is
- 34:03Speaker 2: one point something. His opponent batting average is like... They're
- 34:08Speaker 2: really good. But then you tell yourself, okay, is the
- 34:10Speaker 2: sample size too small? Also, it's the playoffs. I mean,
- 34:12Speaker 2: all bets are off. You just hope for the best,
- 34:15Speaker 2: but it does look like a good trend line.
- 34:17Speaker 5: 3-5 with a 3.14 ERA and 16 regular season appearances
- 34:21Speaker 5: against the Padres. He threw three scoreless innings in two
- 34:24Speaker 5: postseason games against the Padres when he was with the Dodgers.
- 34:27Speaker 5: August 12th, seven innings of one run ball. He didn't
- 34:30Speaker 5: get a decision. And on June 15th with the Cardinals,
- 34:33Speaker 5: he threw a one-hit shutout. Struck out nine.
- 34:36Speaker 1: Let's go, Dolph. Let's go. Come on, Dustin May. And
- 34:39Speaker 1: this is the kind of show prep we're going to
- 34:40Speaker 1: lose in the afternoon. Exactly. It's going to be tough
- 34:44Speaker 1: that we're going to lose somebody to a show prep.
- 34:45Speaker 5: That wasn't off the top of my head. I just
- 34:47Speaker 5: read that when I was having coffee this morning.
- 34:50Speaker 2: It reminds me of when we started Mark Kotze in
- 34:52Speaker 2: the playoffs in 11.
- 34:52Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
- 34:53Speaker 2: Just because his splits were so good against that. I
- 34:56Speaker 2: can't remember who.
- 34:57Speaker 1: Did we start against the Cardinals? He hit a homer
- 34:59Speaker 1: in St.
- 34:59Speaker 4: Louis.
- 34:59Speaker 1: That was the one.
- 35:01Speaker 2: And so I always would defend that decision. But everyone's like, well,
- 35:04Speaker 2: he blew two.
- 35:05Speaker 1: That game three against the Cardinals, the one that will
- 35:07Speaker 1: sit in your craw.
- 35:09Speaker 2: Sure.
- 35:09Speaker 1: Great chances. They scored three in the first inning. Never
- 35:11Speaker 1: get back at them. All right. So if you have
- 35:13Speaker 1: to pick. And Churrio's the obvious one. We should probably
- 35:16Speaker 1: take him off the table. Who's your pick to click tonight?
- 35:19Speaker 1: If the Brewers are to clinch, who are we talking about?
- 35:22Speaker 1: Who's your hero? Who's the MVP of the series? I'm
- 35:24Speaker 1: going with Yelly. He's due. He's had good at-bats. Yeah,
- 35:28Speaker 1: and he owns this guy. He's had good at-bats. He's
- 35:31Speaker 1: a West Coast guy, too. He's got two or three homers,
- 35:33Speaker 1: and his average is ridiculous.
- 35:35Speaker 2: He was close to a homer, obviously had the walk.
- 35:37Speaker 2: He's had a couple other hits, had a big double.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's RBI-less since when in the playoffs?
- 35:42Speaker 3: Since 2018, game settled. I don't want to hear about
- 35:44Speaker 3: that anymore.
- 35:44Speaker 1: First inning. This is it. He's due. Tonight's the night.
- 35:48Speaker 3: Mine would also be another California guy. He's going to
- 35:51Speaker 3: be in the lineup, better be in the lineup.
- 35:53Speaker 1: Give me Jake Bowers. Yes.
- 35:55Speaker 3: He says in a walk-up song, my life in the sunshine.
- 35:59Speaker 3: A lot of sunshine out there in San Diego. Get
- 36:01Speaker 3: some heat on that skin. My man thought about retiring
- 36:04Speaker 3: a couple of years ago. Feels reborn with a homer
- 36:07Speaker 3: here today. He came back for the health insurance because
- 36:09Speaker 3: he had a baby. Isn't that an amazing story? I mean,
- 36:12Speaker 3: and now he is one of us because who else
- 36:14Speaker 3: isn't working for the insurance?
- 36:14Speaker 2: Totally.
- 36:15Speaker 1: You got to take care of the kiddos. Yeah.
- 36:17Speaker 5: SoCal guy. Brewers could start an all-star team of SoCal guys, though.
- 36:20Speaker 3: True.
- 36:21Speaker 1: I mean, is it like half the lineup? Where's Bryce from? Mitchell.
- 36:24Speaker 1: Terang's from down there. All the good players. You know,
- 36:27Speaker 1: and the pitchers, too. Trevor McGill.
- 36:31Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be pretty amazing. Bryce is due, so that'd
- 36:33Speaker 2: be my guy.
- 36:33Speaker 1: Yeah, Bryce is over. Yes. He is totally due. He's
- 36:36Speaker 1: lost at the plate a little bit. Oh, my goodness. Dolph,
- 36:39Speaker 1: get a good nap. You're our inspiration today because it
- 36:42Speaker 1: is a nap night. We've got to be up. Late
- 36:45Speaker 1: afternoon nap. That's what I'm talking about. See if the
- 36:47Speaker 1: Brewers can put some plastic up over the lockers.
- 36:49Speaker 5: You guys should just try to sleep six, seven hours
- 36:51Speaker 5: this afternoon slash and then get up for the game
- 36:53Speaker 5: and then just stay up.
- 36:54Speaker 1: It's actually not a bad idea.
- 36:56Speaker 2: Not going to happen, but I've wheeled it around.
- 36:57Speaker 1: That's kind of sick and deranged, but I just might
- 36:59Speaker 1: do it. We just did that last week with the Packers.
- 37:03Speaker 1: By the way, Michael Penix, do you feel better, Packer fans?
- 37:06Speaker 1: I actually do. Look at this offense now. It's the
- 37:08Speaker 1: best team in football.
- 37:10Speaker 3: A buck 45 from Bajon. Also, primetime Bajon Robinson might
- 37:13Speaker 3: be Walter Payton and Gail Sayers combined.
- 37:16Speaker 2: He should get looks for MVP. I don't care what
- 37:18Speaker 2: anybody says. Him and Kenneth Walker, maybe.
- 37:21Speaker 1: We're getting close to having Hunter Baumgart join us live
- 37:23Speaker 1: from Smoldering, red hot, San Diego. That's coming up. Thanks, Dolph. Thanks, boys.
- 37:29Speaker 1: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. huddled up
- 37:34Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, drew billion Armin time for a little
- 37:37Speaker 1: who's hot. Who's not brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen,
- 37:39Speaker 1: heating and cooling Donovan Jorgensen.com employee owned since 1985. Your
- 37:43Speaker 1: experts for all things HVAC, Billy, who do you got? Uh,
- 37:46Speaker 1: let me start out with some who's not hot.
- 37:48Speaker 3: Uh, last night, guys, did you know that the Milwaukee
- 37:51Speaker 3: bucks fired up their first preseason game last night?
- 37:54Speaker 1: They played last night. How about that?
- 37:55Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 37:56Speaker 3: One guy that also played was Gary Trent jr. In
- 38:00Speaker 3: the midst of a current NBA investigation into the four-year,
- 38:04Speaker 3: $ 64 million contract that the Bucs signed Trent Jr. to,
- 38:10Speaker 3: he made some waves on the internet for a sequence
- 38:13Speaker 3: in the early portion of the second quarter where Gary
- 38:17Speaker 3: Trent got not one, not two, but three rather wide-open
- 38:21Speaker 3: threes and missed all three of them. People asking, Oh,
- 38:26Speaker 3: that's why the Bucs are under investigation for signing him
- 38:28Speaker 3: to 64.
- 38:29Speaker 1: Bad time to miss shots. Half time to miss shots.
- 38:31Speaker 1: But hey, it's the first preseason game.
- 38:33Speaker 3: Sorry we can't all be LaMelo Ball and start out
- 38:37Speaker 3: 3-for-6 in our debut with our new team. Go up
- 38:39Speaker 3: with 11 points. Everybody got some action last night for
- 38:42Speaker 3: the Bucs. Good one for Ryan Rollins. He had 15
- 38:44Speaker 3: points and was 6-of-12. So as much for Khalil Ware,
- 38:49Speaker 3: the newcomer, 14 points for Ware in his debut with
- 38:53Speaker 3: the Bucs. The other one in the NBA preseason. Again,
- 38:56Speaker 3: NBA preseason opener. Who's not hot? Dylan Brooks and John
- 39:01Speaker 3: Collins got into a fight last night.
- 39:02Speaker 2: How about that? We haven't seen NBA preseason fights in
- 39:06Speaker 2: a while. NBA preseason scuffle for Dylan Brooks. For 99.99%
- 39:10Speaker 2: of the league, you'd say, there's no way anybody's scrapping
- 39:15Speaker 2: with a held ball in the first preseason game.
- 39:18Speaker 1: That. 001 percenter. Is Dylan Brooks. So he had to
- 39:23Speaker 1: get in there last night. Not hot. John Collins and
- 39:25Speaker 1: him getting into a scrap. Who's hot.
- 39:27Speaker 3: Bijan Robinson on primetime, a buck 40. on the ground
- 39:30Speaker 3: last night, drew 19 totes, two tugs. Drake London didn't
- 39:34Speaker 3: have 195 yards through the year like he did against
- 39:37Speaker 3: the Packers, but did have 96.
- 39:38Speaker 1: And Robinson is Well, he was good. The other Robinson,
- 39:43Speaker 1: even better. Who's hot?
- 39:45Speaker 3: Brian Robinson Jr. 14 carries, 62 yards, and three TDs.
- 39:51Speaker 3: Didn't have a long of 59 like Bijan. How about
- 39:54Speaker 3: that Falcons team? Five rushing touchdowns, another 205 on the ground.
- 39:58Speaker 3: They ran it just under six a carry last night
- 40:02Speaker 3: in New Orleans.
- 40:03Speaker 2: Them and the Bears are probably the two best rushing
- 40:05Speaker 2: attacks right now in the league.
- 40:06Speaker 1: That would be correct, Armand. Lethal. Lethal. I just... You can't...
- 40:09Speaker 1: I just.
- 40:11Speaker 3: I got some bad rushing numbers for the Bears as
- 40:14Speaker 3: we get into Bears Packers week. I'm just talking to Dolph.
- 40:17Speaker 3: I'd really like to be more confident than I am
- 40:19Speaker 3: going into this week.
- 40:20Speaker 2: Well, it'll be a great day for trends to change.
- 40:24Speaker 1: It does not look good.
- 40:25Speaker 2: Oh, my.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Who's hot? Who's not? Brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen.
- 40:29Speaker 1: Heating and cooling. Also, who's hot? Ben Rice. Who's not?
- 40:31Speaker 1: The rest of your team. The Yankees defense. Is that fair? Yeah.
- 40:35Speaker 1: I mean, goodness gracious, that defense was offensive last night.
- 40:38Speaker 1: Tyler Hero had a couple of turnovers early as I
- 40:40Speaker 1: was checking in.
- 40:43Speaker 3: I also thought my 24 broadcast. I like the score bug.
- 40:46Speaker 3: I like the first little versions of it. I liked
- 40:48Speaker 3: the first taste.
- 40:49Speaker 1: It looked okay. Hour number two in the books. Hunter
- 40:52Speaker 1: Baumgart joins us at 725. If we can wake him up,
- 40:55Speaker 1: we'll find out together. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.