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08/05/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Greetings and salutation, smart and good looking listeners of the
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Speaker 1: five o'clock Club, welcome into the huddle. Fox Sports Radio
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin nine twenty and Walking ten seventy Madison everywhere in
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Speaker 1: the iHeart up streaming live, Facebook X and YouTube. I'm
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson, Arman Sirens behind the Glass, and we welcome
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Speaker 1: a special guest at the five o'clock Club and OG
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Speaker 1: member Billy Schmid. Come on, boys, huddled up at full strength,
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Speaker 1: right right out of the gate, out of this six
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Speaker 1: o'clock popp in on your way to grab a vehicle
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Speaker 1: and go up to Green Bay. No practice to cover today,
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Speaker 1: and that nonsense is over at least for the week,
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Speaker 1: and most importantly because now we start hitting into Drew.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy. We were joking about it with our friend
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Speaker 1: Waino yesterday at a little little event and he said,
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Speaker 1: you get through the stages of training camp and we're
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Speaker 1: not even too family night, and I'm excited for the
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Speaker 1: regular season games to kick in. If it's it's I'm
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Speaker 1: thinking about grilling because that's my favorite summer activity. Blackstoning.
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Speaker 1: Now we're talking, you crack that beer or drip seltzer, amen,
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Speaker 1: and then you just you're like a sip or two
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Speaker 1: in and you set it down. That's where we are
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Speaker 1: in the preseason. We got a lot of that to
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Speaker 1: Draane Left, Yeah, you haven't even you haven't even put
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Speaker 1: a cooozy on it to keep it, keep it locked in.
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Speaker 1: And I mean there's plenty of preseason conversation to talk
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Speaker 1: about and when will guys start playing and who will
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Speaker 1: play as much? But this is Anthony Campbell's season, right,
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Speaker 1: this is this is Marlon Jones season, and now you
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Speaker 1: get TJ. Quinn season and apparently Drew Biber season. So
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Speaker 1: finding different guys that are gonna be a piece of
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Speaker 1: the pie for at least a couple of days. They're
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Speaker 1: they're enjoying an off day here today as they get
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Speaker 1: ready for a private one on Thursday before the biggest
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Speaker 1: public practice in league history. They're on family night, coming
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Speaker 1: up home Friday night. And it's also always like overreact
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Speaker 1: about the one ten second clip that goes around the
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Speaker 1: Twitter season, like it always happens every year. There's always
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Speaker 1: one clip that people either get too excited about or
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Speaker 1: too upset about up and it seemed like Esdrada, the
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Speaker 1: Keishaw Nixon clip was the one like the god fans
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Speaker 1: going because he got beat by you know, an undrafted guy.
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Speaker 1: So it's just that time of the year that we
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Speaker 1: we totally get two yeah to one way or the
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Speaker 1: other tover reaction season, we get fall in love with
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Speaker 1: guys on the practice field and the time, oh, you
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Speaker 1: fall in love with your own team too, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: our offense looks great, our defense looks great, and then
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Speaker 1: they play somebody else and you say, ooh not as
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Speaker 1: not as great in the paper a little high there,
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Speaker 1: uh huh, Yeah, the rubric can get a little bit
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Speaker 1: messed up here, and then you know, just like you said, Arman,
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Speaker 1: the the one loss that Jordan Morgan had uh in
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Speaker 1: the One on ones Quickly is the one that people
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Speaker 1: talk about, not the three where he stones Lucas van
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Speaker 1: Ness uh in the beginning, which is a beautiful way
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Speaker 1: to start that period. The first of the one on
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Speaker 1: ones all camp is the former two number one overall
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Speaker 1: picks going at it. So it's set a good tempo.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday I thought they had some quality work. It's also
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Speaker 1: day after Kay Adams hits camp, so we get some
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Speaker 1: real uh in touch interviews and some personal interviews. We
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Speaker 1: got Matlet floor joking and laughing. Oh my goodness, rarely
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Speaker 1: you see that's got this microphones. Kay's got the special sauce.
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Speaker 1: Whatever it takes, she can get, you know, these guys
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Speaker 1: to say whatever they want to say. She brought the sauce,
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Speaker 1: was not it. She was not expecting Tucker Craft to
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Speaker 1: be as u as dialed in Tucker Craft as he
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Speaker 1: was though. So that that's good stuff. We can spend
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Speaker 1: through a couple of those. But now now you can
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Speaker 1: sit with this for the next month, because we're still
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Speaker 1: a month and a half or five full weeks away
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Speaker 1: from them playing the regular season game. Speaking of interviews,
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Speaker 1: we got some good ones holstered up for you from
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Speaker 1: Hunter Bomguard from the ballpark, because yeah, we're talking about
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Speaker 1: Packers camp, because I was there with Billy yesterday, got
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Speaker 1: to hang out with Wayne Lair. We got to hang
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Speaker 1: out with some friends of ours from the iHeart you know,
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Speaker 1: marketing partner pool, which is awesome, which was fantastic, our
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Speaker 1: pal from Current Electrics Superheroes. Yes, we had Superheroes of
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Speaker 1: galore and we'll talk about our day. But Brewer's back
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Speaker 1: off the mat beating the Pirates last evening home run
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Speaker 1: from Andrew Vaughan a great start by Logan Henderson. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: in Chicago, Derek Scooble and the Dodgers lost their fifth
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Speaker 1: straight game. Schooble pitched six pretty solid innings, bullpen imploded.
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Speaker 1: Dodgers are reeling right now. The entire Dodgers team is playing,
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Speaker 1: is fumbling around like Christian Yelich's at the plate, looking
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Speaker 1: looking for their mojo. And uh so they you know, again,
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Speaker 1: the one day of the year that you're cheering for
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Speaker 1: the Cubs kind of and it's like and they actually
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Speaker 1: come through, and they ended up coming through, Drew, So
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Speaker 1: thank you for them. Thank you that. And after after
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Speaker 1: the Swanson home run, I did think I'm like, wait
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Speaker 1: a second, am I doing this right?
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Speaker 2: Am?
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Speaker 1: I Am? I cheering kind of on the right side.
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Speaker 1: Uh But after Mark Attanasio talked to uh Lev and
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Speaker 1: Vinnie last night, I got a little bit more uh
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Speaker 1: in to be going up against La When he said it,
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Speaker 1: you know we're gonna to play that guy. I guess,
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Speaker 1: I guess we're gonna play that guy probably coming up
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Speaker 1: here soon. They spoke a lot about school. I thought
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Speaker 1: he was somewhat ca but Drew, obviously you can't say
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Speaker 1: everything we want them to say. Well, we laid out X,
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Speaker 1: Y and Z, and they decided that wasn't good enough.
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Speaker 1: He can't do that. However, they've made it abundantly clear
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Speaker 1: that they felt confident in the offer that they put
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Speaker 1: out there, whoever it might have been, whether it was
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Speaker 1: Luis Lara, whether it was obviously Louise Payne and then
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Speaker 1: a couple others. They felt confident what they did, and
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Speaker 1: now they got to go and try to try to win.
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Speaker 1: And I liked Mark Cottinassio doubling down on everybody around
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Speaker 1: the organization, just saying, well, if if we're gonna if
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Speaker 1: we're as good as we think we are, we should
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Speaker 1: be able to roll just with this group. Yeah, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I like that attitude like that. I did see it
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Speaker 1: and we got so much sound and uh, Hunter came
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Speaker 1: through for us. I mean, I mean, who are we
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Speaker 1: all going to listen to?
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Speaker 2: Arman?
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Speaker 1: Kyle Harrison, the Kyle Harrison one on one. So he's
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Speaker 1: pitching tonight and when he let us know he had
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Speaker 1: that one, that was awesome, Like you know, a Hunter
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Speaker 1: dropping the big gem on is like I got the
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Speaker 1: big one for you guys, Like landing that big fish.
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Speaker 1: He's got dustin May. He got dust May. That's a
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Speaker 1: video so if you are and you should be streaming
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Speaker 1: us live on YouTube, Facebook, ex Twitter as well, you
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Speaker 1: can see that one. And we have a two minutes
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Speaker 1: a two minutes little recap. Sorry guys, Murph talking about
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Speaker 1: yelling and the recap and the recap Hunters stars rembarrasment
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Speaker 1: of riches. He keeps throwing meat on the grill and
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Speaker 1: throwing down the meat today, so Scoola loses it wrigly
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Speaker 1: And he was asked about the atmosphere and he brought
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Speaker 1: up something I thought was interesting. He's like, well, I've
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Speaker 1: never pitched a home playoff game. We've been in playoff
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Speaker 1: games on the road, and this was kind of like
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Speaker 1: a playoff apps because they were booing his ass when
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Speaker 1: he walked out to warm up, instantly walked out to
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Speaker 1: the bullpen and the Cubs fans were already on him.
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Speaker 1: I think it's funny. We don't so we don't even
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Speaker 1: know if he's about it yet. Yeah, you know about
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Speaker 1: that now. Interestingly, there's we could spin through another I'll
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Speaker 1: just I'll just quote it for you. But Tyrone Taylor,
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Speaker 1: old friend, old friend now now. Cubby was asked about it,
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Speaker 1: and he played his first game the Cubs went over,
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Speaker 1: but he was asked about it, he said, it was fun.
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Speaker 1: I remember it being like away games when I was
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Speaker 1: at home in Milwaukee, because there'll be so many Cubs fans.
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Speaker 1: It's definitely cool to be on this side. Oh come on, Tyrone,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to do that. You don't have to
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Speaker 1: do that, Tyrone. Come on, now, it's where your check
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Speaker 1: is coming. Billy, he used to work in a different
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Speaker 1: radio station down the street, and then you'd be looking
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Speaker 1: over here, going out of those clowns, and then you'd
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Speaker 1: be like, now, it's like, oh, well, hey, it's listen.
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Speaker 1: It's not wrong. It did feel that way sometimes here.
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Speaker 1: It still does. But Tyrone's done up with us and
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Speaker 1: with the Mets. If you remember, he was with the
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Speaker 1: Mets during that playoff series as well, so he's been
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Speaker 1: on both sides of it. But man, yeah, come on, Tyrone.
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Speaker 1: But I was it was funny because I was going
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Speaker 1: through it right before the show and Billy was laughing
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Speaker 1: about it that I didn't. I guess my instinct was
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Speaker 1: to be upset the Cubs won again, but then I
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Speaker 1: realized that's probably a good thing. So I was going
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Speaker 1: back and forth on which way I should be cheering
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Speaker 1: for this game, because I still my default is still
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Speaker 1: like division first always, but I think we should be
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Speaker 1: thinking differently this year. So that's right to challenge myself
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Speaker 1: and said, no, no, you can feel good about last night's
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Speaker 1: result in the at Wrigley Ar Yeah, for one night,
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Speaker 1: because well, you know, it's funny because Bers are trying
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Speaker 1: to distance themselves from the Cubs, but they're also competing
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Speaker 1: with the Dodgers for the best record at the ball
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Speaker 1: and when they you want them both to lose. The
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Speaker 1: emotions pal like my ex wife going off a cliff
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Speaker 1: in my new Maserati. I don't know how to feel.
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Speaker 1: That's a big problem for me, and especially when the
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Speaker 1: Braves are are right on the tail as well. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they had looked like they have someone packed in a chair,
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Speaker 1: and now they're two games back. I half a game
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Speaker 1: back for this. This is the other thing about it,
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Speaker 1: And I don't know how to caution people about it.
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Speaker 1: But I was thinking about this because it's like the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers are the great White whale now because of what
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Speaker 1: happened last year and just the way they are. They're
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Speaker 1: being painted as Goliath. But you know, the burs might
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Speaker 1: not get to the Dodgers. They'd have to get maybe
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Speaker 1: through the Braves or Phillies first. Like Phillies are throwing
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Speaker 1: wheeler and Sayanchez at you. Oh yeah, that's no walking,
9:02
Speaker 1: that's not a kick walk. Anybody can beat anybody. And
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Speaker 1: it's like it's a top heavy league. There's no less
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Speaker 1: you know. Well, and if you look at the full
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Speaker 1: recap of the deadline, all the teams that got better
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Speaker 1: are in the National League. Yeah, and all the really
9:15
Speaker 1: really good teams have been in the National League. You're right,
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Speaker 1: arm and it's extremely top heavy. And Drew it earthed
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite shower thoughts because last night you
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Speaker 1: got to see Cubs and Dodgers, and we're painting it
9:26
Speaker 1: as like in ninety six, you have to go through Dallas.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to beat the Cowboys. We want Dallas.
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Speaker 1: Well you'll you'll take Carolina next week. Sure, if it
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Speaker 1: was Cubs and Dodgers under the other side, how many
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Speaker 1: people and where would you be cheering for the Brewers
9:40
Speaker 1: to be facing in the NLCS? Oh god, I mean,
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Speaker 1: like you want to talk about the pain of the
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Speaker 1: rivalry close or the enemy that you don't know that
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Speaker 1: you can be. You would always cheer for Cubs Brewers
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Speaker 1: in the high level, high leverage series. That's just me.
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Speaker 1: I just like bring it like because again the arm
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Speaker 1: and thing was like what if we lose would be
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Speaker 1: so painful? Well what if you would if you Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we learned that last year. And you know what what's
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Speaker 1: interesting about that too is what last year taught me
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Speaker 1: was I think that the Cubs series, Clubs Brewers series
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Speaker 1: and then being the opponent of the playoffs is what
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Speaker 1: brought the best out of Brewers fans. Like that fired
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Speaker 1: Brewers fans up so much, and that brought the energy,
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Speaker 1: the attack mode betrained the team and the battery was
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Speaker 1: drawn when they faced the Dodgers. How much in that
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Speaker 1: well probably because of our offense, But think about how
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Speaker 1: much like this year has been all about can we
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Speaker 1: beat the Dodgers once the playoff comes? And that's the obsession.
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Speaker 1: So like if you don't see them and then you
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Speaker 1: get beat by the Phillies and you're in a two
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Speaker 1: zero hole and you lose to the Phillies, like, oh,
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Speaker 1: we didn't think this could happen. You just got to
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Speaker 1: be ready. You got to play an the championsphere. No
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Speaker 1: one just play anybody. Brew's first team to seventy wins,
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Speaker 1: fastest team in franchise history to win seventy games. Like
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Speaker 1: the best thing, that long standing record that the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five team plays. Yeah, right, long, yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: you that's the thing. And you want to kind of
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Speaker 1: flip them that mental and draft of thinking, we're just
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Speaker 1: gonna Wolves are way there, and hey, they climbed a
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Speaker 1: mountain last night. They beat the Pirates, who had won
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Speaker 1: what six of seven, six and seven against you, and
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Speaker 1: you just have not been able to top the beat Pirates.
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Speaker 1: And now you got I think Skeens tonight, right, Skeins
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Speaker 1: against Harrison tonight. That's a great matchup of young pitchers.
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Speaker 1: Skeens is H's been hitting the wall a little bit.
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Speaker 1: These Pirates are scrappy, dude, I mean they are a
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Speaker 1: good man. Yeah, that's one of those teams that drew
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Speaker 1: as you kind of joked about earlier in the year.
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Speaker 1: You'd watch in your beat writer days and say, you
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Speaker 1: guys are a couple of years away, and then they
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Speaker 1: still decide that they're like you know what, though, we've
11:32
Speaker 1: been a couple of years away for the last decade,
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Speaker 1: so we might as well put some point kick the
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Speaker 1: door open, yeah and try, and I mean they've grabbed
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Speaker 1: a bunch of bullpen arms and they got a nice rotation.
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Speaker 1: I remember the progression because I remember like deep conversations
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Speaker 1: with a frustrated Phil Garner early in my beat writing days.
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Speaker 1: He's like, all right, yeah, for a couple of months,
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Speaker 1: maybe even a season or two, it's like, well, we lost,
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Speaker 1: but you know, we came back from six runs down
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Speaker 1: and we had the bay is loaded and we had
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Speaker 1: the you know, the time run at the plate, and
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Speaker 1: he's like, that's great. We scrapped and we got to
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Speaker 1: that point and then it that was that was sustaining
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Speaker 1: for a while, and it's like, damn it, somebody's got
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Speaker 1: to get the hit, somebody's got to get us. We
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Speaker 1: got to win the game, like we got there, and
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Speaker 1: then we got to finish. And it's like with the
12:17
Speaker 1: Packers last year. They got they had to learn to
12:19
Speaker 1: finish the games. Like they didn't finish in Cleveland, they
12:22
Speaker 1: didn't finish in Dallas. Damn sure, didn't finish in Soldier Field.
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Speaker 1: Finished the game and it's like that, but there's that's
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Speaker 1: kind of a natural progression, like something some somewhere like
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Speaker 1: re establ like there's no moral victories, but kind of
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Speaker 1: there are on your pack your way up. It's like
12:37
Speaker 1: you say, well, you know, hey, I said that about
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Speaker 1: the Rockies that on the Saturday night game. The Rockies
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Speaker 1: are down big and then all of a sudden it's
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Speaker 1: eight to six and the bus had to bring in McGill. Like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's not a win, but it's a step, yes, right,
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Speaker 1: and it's a positive step. It's like, yeah, yeah, well
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Speaker 1: you lost. Who care? Well, No, there are different losses,
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Speaker 1: and that is progress you eventually overcoming. How many times
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Speaker 1: have we seen the Brewers come back there? They have
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Speaker 1: the only team in baseball the winning record when the
13:02
Speaker 1: other team scores first. So they have a lot of
13:04
Speaker 1: victories where they're climbing back in games. They're able to
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Speaker 1: do that because their bullpen has been really good and
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Speaker 1: really good team packing on and it keeps you within
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Speaker 1: striking distancing Eventually the offense hundred and enough times where
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Speaker 1: you were the at bats in the seventheenth to ninetheenning
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Speaker 1: down two runs. I don't think are as demoralized as
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Speaker 1: the other ones. Probably. It kind of reminds me of
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Speaker 1: the Brewers in it. It was zero five when they
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Speaker 1: finally got when we finally got eighty one wins, like
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to anyone else in baseball. The Brewers
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Speaker 1: finally reached five hundred, but it was a hurdle clear.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's kind of the same thing that Pirates was, Like,
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Speaker 1: it was a huge, huge deal for us to try
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Speaker 1: and get the five hundred break the what was like
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Speaker 1: fourteen years or whatever it was. Yeah, yeah, five hundred.
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Speaker 1: I remember winning game eighty one. It was a comeback
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Speaker 1: on the road against the Padres. I remember winning game
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Speaker 1: at any one being like, this is a massive milestone
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Speaker 1: for the and nobody else I think outside the market
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Speaker 1: would get it. So it's kind of what the Pirates
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Speaker 1: are going through right now in the way they're they're
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Speaker 1: hovering around five hundred. I think they're game back under now,
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Speaker 1: but they're trying to re establish something in their culture.
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Speaker 1: So I understand what that is, and that's right, Billy,
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Speaker 1: is what it is. It's scrappy. I mean what don
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Speaker 1: Kelly got tossed again last night. I think he leads
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Speaker 1: a league and that son of a gun loves getting
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Speaker 1: trying to He's trying to establish that edge, and you
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Speaker 1: got to give him some credit for it because at
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Speaker 1: this point it was like the only one establishing the
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Speaker 1: edge before this year for the Pirates was that Usher.
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Speaker 1: All he's got in that fight with that guy, that's
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Speaker 1: a great callback. I mean, he was the toughest guy
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Speaker 1: in the Pirates. You know, they're trying to do it,
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Speaker 1: and then they're they're gonna do it again today, I
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Speaker 1: would assume is give the Brewers all they can handle.
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Speaker 1: There does appear though, when I saw Tom Kelly go
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Speaker 1: back out there for the second time, there looks I
14:36
Speaker 1: think there's a Don Kelly at about every corner club
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Speaker 1: who's just waiting for somebody to say me and he
14:47
Speaker 1: was waiting to be able to jump back. That's gonna
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Speaker 1: be easy. When for John Boyle, I told you I
14:52
Speaker 1: messed up the blanket. I told you I messed up.
14:56
Speaker 1: I told you I messed up. And He's like, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: you you throw me out now. This is what I
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Speaker 1: need right now as well. I got right back out
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Speaker 1: here now. I deserve one, Okay, give me an early shower. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: fantastic you can reach us at eight seven seven seven,
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Speaker 1: Nicola Lotta. I'm talking text line today. In addition, all
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Speaker 1: the Hunter content is hot take Humptey, You're going to
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Speaker 1: take your hot takes. There may be some because we
15:17
Speaker 1: will have a discussion about Christian Yelich. Yes, we'll be
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Speaker 1: spinning through those, and we'll have Hunter's recap as well
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Speaker 1: of the Brewers and his Harrison interview and Dustin May
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Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, the guy that could be
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Speaker 1: the most impactful guy had a show and go shut
15:33
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the game, played a little
15:35
Speaker 1: catch in the cage and threw a scoreless rack. Antonio
15:38
Speaker 1: sends a tella quick in and out and that double
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Speaker 1: play exactly like what I was thinking you were gonna
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Speaker 1: get yep, and that was like, that's that guy could
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Speaker 1: be good. I mean he he adds, he slips right
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Speaker 1: in there with uh with Euribe and McGill and again
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Speaker 1: it's like a good arm at the back end. And
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Speaker 1: that's I was calling for. That, That's what you wanted,
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Speaker 1: a dependable guy. You needed to find somebody Andrew somebody
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Speaker 1: that earned a five year, fifty million dollars pitching contract
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Speaker 1: while pitching in Colorado m hmm.
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Speaker 3: I like that.
16:05
Speaker 1: That is pretty good. I mean, that's that's pretty impressive stuff.
16:09
Speaker 1: And in a couple of days we'll get to see
16:10
Speaker 1: dustin May and I think people will they'll gravitate towards
16:13
Speaker 1: him because he's the pitching version of like a grinder.
16:16
Speaker 1: He's competed, he's a competitive guy, and you'll see like
16:19
Speaker 1: wild looks like I watched him. Yeah, I watched him
16:22
Speaker 1: throw a note with a no hitter and against the
16:26
Speaker 1: Brewers one hundred percent just a couple of months ago.
16:29
Speaker 1: He was dominant in that run, and he'll be He'll
16:31
Speaker 1: like the change of having Burwis fans cheer for him
16:34
Speaker 1: instead of you know, booing and stuff. So it's going
16:36
Speaker 1: to be uplifting a little bit. Said. You're gonna see
16:37
Speaker 1: I'm a fiery guy and it's not just the fiery hair.
16:40
Speaker 1: I'm very excited. Trade deadline's over. You can settle down
16:43
Speaker 1: a little bit. I don't think the Brewers are feeling
16:44
Speaker 1: sorry for themselves anymore. No, but out there they're they're
16:47
Speaker 1: on to what's next. But I'm keeping track of this,
16:50
Speaker 1: Uh Logan Henderson versus school the rest of the year
16:53
Speaker 1: just for fun, because he's tracking it.
16:54
Speaker 2: I like that.
16:54
Speaker 1: It seemed like that was basically what it was. So
16:57
Speaker 1: right now, one nothing Logan Henderson apparently, thank you, Matt Arnold. Hey,
17:00
Speaker 1: thanks for not dealing me yesterday. Yeah, he was digging that.
17:02
Speaker 1: Thanks for not dealing me yesterday. Thanks for all right.
17:05
Speaker 1: When we come back Hunter's recap, and then we can
17:08
Speaker 1: listen to the Kyle Harrison and he's pitching tonight, pitching
17:10
Speaker 1: a night against ticket.
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Speaker 2: We need it.
17:14
Speaker 1: Let's go, yeah, we need one. All right, We're off
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Speaker 1: and running. It's the wednes edition Hot Take, hump Day
17:18
Speaker 1: edition of The Huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. The
17:26
Speaker 1: proceedings A good nice night at the ballpark. Our friends,
17:28
Speaker 1: the whiskey bell sang the national anthem that put the
17:30
Speaker 1: Brewers in a good foot. Oh man, I didn't know that. Yes, indeed,
17:34
Speaker 1: I would have went, yeah, it was, uh, that's all rock.
17:37
Speaker 1: I got a text from Kimmy, our favorite fiddle player,
17:40
Speaker 1: and she's like, hey, are you here at the ballpark.
17:42
Speaker 1: I'm like, I just rolled back from Packers. Literally just
17:47
Speaker 1: got home. I just walked in the door. So it
17:49
Speaker 1: wasn't in the cards last night. Yeah, that it was
17:52
Speaker 1: a it was a little bit later of an arrival
17:54
Speaker 1: bag for us from from G. B. Allison. I had
17:57
Speaker 1: a t ball t ball game yesterday, the little guy,
18:00
Speaker 1: and it was like, hey, Quay, can I take a
18:01
Speaker 1: quih Hower house? Really? Yeah, we're leaving in four minutes.
18:04
Speaker 1: Wo okay, sweet never never mind, never minds figuring it
18:07
Speaker 1: out trot thought. But you know what we did. We
18:11
Speaker 1: were able to eliminate the bat flip, which was dangerous
18:14
Speaker 1: because we almost hit coach in the head last week.
18:15
Speaker 1: So we have so yeah, yeah, William, let's let's start
18:19
Speaker 1: dropping them things instead of throwing it up to the rafters. Sorry, Dre,
18:21
Speaker 1: I apologize.
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Speaker 2: Love that.
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Speaker 1: Uh. Hunter Bomguart has the recap for us, brought to
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Speaker 1: us by import Minded take it away, Hunter, Thanks guys.
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Speaker 4: The Brewers get a four to two bounce back victory
18:31
Speaker 4: over the Pittsburgh Pirates last night, and Logan Henderson great again.
18:36
Speaker 4: Six innings, two earned runs, one walk, eight k's. He's
18:39
Speaker 4: allowed two earned runs or less, and fourteen of his
18:41
Speaker 4: first fifteen career starts he's been exceptional. He said after
18:45
Speaker 4: the game that of course he heard some of the
18:46
Speaker 4: rumors and some of the things flying around about maybe
18:49
Speaker 4: his name being involved in trade talks, but he's very
18:52
Speaker 4: happy to be a Brewer.
18:53
Speaker 2: Has someone named.
18:54
Speaker 5: Going there and actually saw Arnold earlier and said, thank
18:58
Speaker 5: you for the conditioning. But I'm I guess and I
19:01
Speaker 5: love this team, and yeah it had is sent to
19:04
Speaker 5: me a few times, but again it doesn't carry much weight.
19:07
Speaker 2: It's it's a lot of talk, and I'm a Brewer,
19:10
Speaker 2: so thry for that.
19:13
Speaker 1: Of course.
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Speaker 4: Another storyline up yesterday was Christian Yelich being moved down
19:16
Speaker 4: in the order, some fans booing after one of Christian
19:19
Speaker 4: Yelich's at bats last night, and Pat Murphy said he
19:22
Speaker 4: needs more encouragement than anything I.
19:24
Speaker 6: Heard a couple of fans today, you know, the kind
19:27
Speaker 6: of start getting down on Yellie. And I know some
19:29
Speaker 6: of you guys are talking about the last this many
19:33
Speaker 6: games or that many like Look, guys, this guy's meant
19:38
Speaker 6: unbelievable amount to an organization and the way he leads
19:41
Speaker 6: in there, you guys don't get to see. He doesn't
19:43
Speaker 6: need my protection, he doesn't need me to speak up
19:45
Speaker 6: for him, but he needs encouragement. So I'm asking the
19:48
Speaker 6: fans to understand this guy. Remember who this guy was.
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Speaker 4: So that's the message from Murph Christian Yelich betting two
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Speaker 4: thirty one on the season of betting under one ninety
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Speaker 4: cents July first. Hopefully he turn around soon. Berber's going
20:01
Speaker 4: for their second straight win. Coming up tonight, Kyle Harrison
20:03
Speaker 4: on the mounain for the crew. He's back after about
20:05
Speaker 4: a month away because of the injury. Paul Skins on
20:07
Speaker 4: the mountain for the Pittsburgh Pirates. So it'll be a
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Speaker 4: tall task. Nationally televised a ESPN. I'll have you for
20:12
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20:17
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Speaker 1: Twenty seven, just north of eight ninety four. Back to
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Speaker 1: you guys, all right, Hunter, great view there at the
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Speaker 1: end on that Kapper of the video. Let's go, Yeah,
20:31
Speaker 1: very creative. I like that now. I like that stuff
20:33
Speaker 1: as well, Billy that he said, yeah very much. So
20:35
Speaker 1: are we trying? Is is Murph hoping that we do
20:38
Speaker 1: the full tray turner like full standing ovation every time
20:41
Speaker 1: Yellich comes up to the plate. Might be an idea
20:44
Speaker 1: to really showed the obvious support might be an idea
20:47
Speaker 1: or is that like a little tongue in cheek then
20:49
Speaker 1: like is that too much? Like you know what I mean,
20:51
Speaker 1: because I would do it sincerely, but I don't know.
20:54
Speaker 1: Fan is like me, you know what I'm saying. Well,
20:55
Speaker 1: we are not everyone can be as the lead of
20:57
Speaker 1: a fan of his armys. I'm not like, let's not
20:59
Speaker 1: try to have everybody hold that standard. But I wonder
21:05
Speaker 1: where the line would be, right, he needs support, I
21:08
Speaker 1: would agree generally it does help a little bit more
21:11
Speaker 1: than booing your your highest paid player. But that's the
21:14
Speaker 1: part of this right and like that's the part that
21:17
Speaker 1: will not get out of the minds of enough people.
21:21
Speaker 1: Of the money attached to is is what clouds and
21:25
Speaker 1: I think adds more venom to the conversation when Yeliche's
21:28
Speaker 1: name is around it, Like over the last two last month,
21:31
Speaker 1: there are two guys that are much more, that are
21:33
Speaker 1: very prominent, that were hitting far worse than he was,
21:36
Speaker 1: but they don't get the smoke because they've had times.
21:38
Speaker 1: And obviously last night Jackson Curio has a phenomenal homer
21:41
Speaker 1: three hit game and hopefully him and contraras get off
21:44
Speaker 1: the schneid quickly, but Drew, you get what you want.
21:47
Speaker 1: Last night he moves down to the seven hole. Murph
21:49
Speaker 1: set it. It was my decision, it wasn't anybody else's.
21:53
Speaker 1: And then immediately into the comments, the only thing people
21:56
Speaker 1: are bitching and moaning about and talking about is why
21:58
Speaker 1: is ortis not in the lineups like some boy. You
22:01
Speaker 1: gotta be happy with it. And if you move him
22:03
Speaker 1: down then maybe it sparks something. If it doesn't, guess
22:06
Speaker 1: what you gotta You gotta roll with the cat because
22:09
Speaker 1: you don't have a whole lot of other options. They
22:10
Speaker 1: moved him down and then revise the lineup and moved
22:12
Speaker 1: him back. Ups got hurt, you know, Bowers, he got
22:16
Speaker 1: hurt sliding in a home the other night. An abdominal strain.
22:20
Speaker 1: Strain could be out again today, but that poor guy
22:23
Speaker 1: keeps catching it. Yeah, the lineup thing, it confounds me.
22:27
Speaker 1: People like the way baseball works. And Nick and west Bend, No,
22:31
Speaker 1: that's not Nick and Westbin. Someone has been hitting us up.
22:33
Speaker 1: Nick and west Ben hit us up here. Let's go
22:35
Speaker 1: my new day, five day, Let's go down. Yeah, yesterday
22:38
Speaker 1: and the show, actually me and him were just texting
22:39
Speaker 1: back and forward from the seven to one five. That's
22:42
Speaker 1: our friend Mike and Meryl, isn't Michael Merrill seven one five?
22:45
Speaker 3: Yep?
22:45
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he wants to know how murv can keep
22:47
Speaker 1: putting Christian in the lineup constantly but keeps putting Vaughan
22:49
Speaker 1: and Joey in the freezer. Joey gets three or four hit,
22:51
Speaker 1: the Brewers hits Monday, rides the punt yesterday because of
22:54
Speaker 1: Merch's love affair with Hamilton. Both those guys get some
22:56
Speaker 1: confidence to get getting messed with the next day. There's
22:58
Speaker 1: no excuse not to play Vaughan every day. The parany.
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Speaker 1: This is just hilarious to hear about Joey though, you know.
23:02
Speaker 3: What I mean?
23:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, How dare they take Joey out of the
23:05
Speaker 1: lineup when people wanted him out? You know exactly Yea.
23:07
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, Like they know what they're doing.
23:12
Speaker 1: It's not an idiot. Sure, they're They're the fastest team
23:15
Speaker 1: in franchises and wins seventy games. He's a manager of
23:18
Speaker 1: the year. I mean, he knows what he's doing. And
23:21
Speaker 1: what you're not seeing is like the guy had three four,
23:23
Speaker 1: Well that was yesterday. Today, they're facing a picture whose
23:27
Speaker 1: hot zone happy place might be exactly where the hole
23:29
Speaker 1: in Joey Ortiz's swing is. Like the Brewers know, they're
23:32
Speaker 1: they're they're they're drilling down the matchups and the data
23:35
Speaker 1: and even gut instincts and stuff. And the reason that
23:39
Speaker 1: Joey Ortiz makes you want him to play more is
23:41
Speaker 1: because they're putting in positions to succeed and he looks great,
23:45
Speaker 1: So why don't you play him every day because then
23:47
Speaker 1: he'll be the guy that you wanted benched in April
23:49
Speaker 1: and May. It's like they've figured it out, They've cracked
23:52
Speaker 1: the code. There's a team. There are teams that are
23:54
Speaker 1: doing this at a very high level with platoon advantages
23:58
Speaker 1: and things, and they're it's what baseball has become. You
24:02
Speaker 1: you have to maximize it. It's not just hey, run
24:04
Speaker 1: the same guys out there every day and let's you know,
24:07
Speaker 1: let's just roll. No, it's like, we're gonna play this
24:09
Speaker 1: guy against this picture. You're seeing it in the middle
24:11
Speaker 1: of games. They'll pinch it hardly because they have an
24:13
Speaker 1: idea of this guy's gonna be. And again, it's a
24:16
Speaker 1: crapshoot because you can do everything right strategically and have
24:19
Speaker 1: it not work out and still going on for four
24:21
Speaker 1: or three K's exactly totally exactly, but they're they're doing
24:24
Speaker 1: this and there's thought to it. And it's not just hey,
24:27
Speaker 1: screw that guy, that's this guy's turn. No, it's there's
24:30
Speaker 1: there's more thought to it than that. Well, and they
24:32
Speaker 1: actually now feel like they have three guys for two spots.
24:35
Speaker 1: For a long time, it looks like I was begging
24:36
Speaker 1: for one for two right, you were hoping you could
24:39
Speaker 1: get a third basement or a short stop, And now
24:41
Speaker 1: you have three guys that you want to have in
24:43
Speaker 1: the lineup. Because Cooper prats Bat hasn't deserved to get
24:46
Speaker 1: taken out very much. Great and for whatever frustrations you
24:50
Speaker 1: have against David Hamilton, him and Joey Ortiz has the
24:52
Speaker 1: third blase third base platoon. Drew, Like you said, it
24:55
Speaker 1: is about as good as you're gonna get, and probably
24:58
Speaker 1: we're as good as you were going to get at
25:00
Speaker 1: the deadline. There wasn't anybody that was jumping off the
25:02
Speaker 1: page that was going to take that spot away. But
25:04
Speaker 1: the connotation around the platoon I think also sometimes gets
25:09
Speaker 1: all right, well, this guy goes here, this guy goes here,
25:10
Speaker 1: this guy goes here, this guy goes here, because I'll
25:13
Speaker 1: look at the numbers and be like, well, Joey Ortiz
25:15
Speaker 1: slightly hits almost better than against righty's, then he does lefties.
25:19
Speaker 1: That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But the
25:20
Speaker 1: hot zones and how good Jones is against righty's is
25:24
Speaker 1: the other one right like you, he might or Teaz
25:27
Speaker 1: his numbers might favor himself just a tick against right handers,
25:30
Speaker 1: but Jones has been lethal against dudes standing in the
25:33
Speaker 1: right side of the batter's box. So I get it
25:36
Speaker 1: the butt for Yelich into the lineup, He's going to
25:41
Speaker 1: be in the lineup. So if that's gone. And I
25:44
Speaker 1: love Mike, I know, I really do. But he has
25:47
Speaker 1: been on this forever and now we're getting him down,
25:50
Speaker 1: but you're probably not getting him out. Like I don't
25:53
Speaker 1: know if this will not make people happy to watch
25:56
Speaker 1: one of the guys that has been one of the
25:58
Speaker 1: pillars of success over the last deck the most successful
26:01
Speaker 1: decade of Brewers baseball into the lineup. If that seeds
26:05
Speaker 1: you so much, then stop watching the at bat, then
26:08
Speaker 1: go grab a beer. When he goes to the plate,
26:10
Speaker 1: or go take a pee, or go get a sandwich,
26:14
Speaker 1: because that's all that people want to say is well,
26:16
Speaker 1: I can skip this one because I know it's not
26:17
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Like he is going to be in the lineup.
26:20
Speaker 1: Now you've gotten to move out of the top spot.
26:22
Speaker 1: Now you've gotten moved down to four. People said that
26:24
Speaker 1: it was going to be the right thing to embarrass
26:26
Speaker 1: him or or to mote him, to motivate him into
26:29
Speaker 1: the seventh spot. No, I don't know that that does
26:32
Speaker 1: anything other than moves where he comes up first into
26:35
Speaker 1: the batting lord. Well, I think some people feel that way,
26:37
Speaker 1: maybe because that's what their parents did to them or
26:39
Speaker 1: something like that. Now, I don't mean to get that dramatic. Yeah,
26:41
Speaker 1: but it ain't right. I get it arming. But you're
26:43
Speaker 1: right because this isn't eleven you it's not this is
26:45
Speaker 1: not like. This is not like a ten year old.
26:47
Speaker 1: You're teaching a lesson two and all that stuff, and
26:49
Speaker 1: we know that. But yes, I mean, and Yelich has
26:52
Speaker 1: been struggling. Nobody wants him to not play well, Nobody
26:55
Speaker 1: wants him to struggle. Fans get frustrated, but Murphy always
26:58
Speaker 1: says he's as frustrated as any about it in terms
27:01
Speaker 1: of being talked about Yelich. Sure, he's frustrated himself, and
27:04
Speaker 1: no needs to tell him that. So the question is
27:07
Speaker 1: how we get out of it? How does he get
27:08
Speaker 1: out of it? He has to try and figure that out.
27:09
Speaker 1: But the reality is you're still winning at a great
27:12
Speaker 1: clip without him. The Brewers have reached seventy wins with
27:14
Speaker 1: the fastest and franchise history. That should be enough to
27:17
Speaker 1: at least make it happy about it, because it's not
27:21
Speaker 1: like he's costing the Brewers wins in my opinion. Could
27:23
Speaker 1: he help the Brewers, of course he could if he
27:24
Speaker 1: was playing better, But the Brewers are picking up the
27:27
Speaker 1: slack around him and around the guys that have not.
27:29
Speaker 1: And if you're worried about the money thing, if you're
27:31
Speaker 1: worried about the money thing, that's over too. You've now
27:34
Speaker 1: how much money is there their payroll one hundred and
27:37
Speaker 1: twenty million something like that. Yeah, and he's got just
27:41
Speaker 1: near fifty of it is completely washed then because you
27:44
Speaker 1: have you've gotten five starts with what we're through and
27:48
Speaker 1: you but you've also done this the last three years,
27:50
Speaker 1: because last year you had an eighteen million dollar guy
27:53
Speaker 1: that didn't make the playoff roster for you in Hoskins.
27:55
Speaker 1: I didn't hear anybody complaining about that one. And it's like,
27:58
Speaker 1: that's the that's the tough part of I understand. He
28:01
Speaker 1: makes more money than all the other guys on the team.
28:03
Speaker 1: He's also the only guy on the team with that
28:05
Speaker 1: kind of an accolade of winning an m VP and
28:07
Speaker 1: multiple batting almost two mv Yeah, and you have other
28:10
Speaker 1: guys that are out playing their contract. Of course, you
28:13
Speaker 1: have eb and the flow and you look at like
28:16
Speaker 1: that you not can always have it all and and
28:18
Speaker 1: the money has already spent and there's nothing that's it
28:21
Speaker 1: that money is And it's like, he don't want to
28:24
Speaker 1: hear this with my nephew went to the Boston and
28:28
Speaker 1: White Sox game. Look at what urban stats are compared
28:31
Speaker 1: to Yelich. What does that do? Because they're different, they're
28:35
Speaker 1: completely different assets. One gunn't play defense and one plays
28:38
Speaker 1: third base. Last time I checked, Yelich never played third
28:42
Speaker 1: base in his problem Actually that I was thinking about
28:44
Speaker 1: that because you're looking for ways and like dropping him
28:46
Speaker 1: down in the order. Here's here's the thing, like how
28:49
Speaker 1: could they keep batting him in the middle of the order.
28:51
Speaker 1: How can they keep him up high in the order.
28:53
Speaker 1: Does it make a difference. The lineup's gonna find you.
28:56
Speaker 1: He's gonna come up with guys on base and and
28:58
Speaker 1: he's gonna sink or swim. How many times he's bat
29:01
Speaker 1: with the bases loaded. No matter where he was in
29:04
Speaker 1: the lineup, he would come up with the bases loaded.
29:06
Speaker 1: You saw it all last year. So intellectually, why are
29:08
Speaker 1: you yelling about that, because it's like, it's more about you.
29:11
Speaker 1: We have to get Christian Yelli's going because he's gonna
29:13
Speaker 1: be a big part of things if they're going to,
29:15
Speaker 1: you know, perform in the playoffs in a way. In
29:18
Speaker 1: a way, my thing is get your slumps out of
29:20
Speaker 1: the way now, because you could be playing great now
29:24
Speaker 1: and go into one of these funks in October and
29:26
Speaker 1: suddenly your season's over. Because we watched that in the
29:29
Speaker 1: four games against people are just pointing out what contraras,
29:32
Speaker 1: Churio and Yelich were doing, and even like Terrang in
29:34
Speaker 1: the last thirty games, and yet they're still winning. Yeah,
29:37
Speaker 1: that's the thing. They went sixteen to ten in July
29:39
Speaker 1: and they had two guys that were sub six hundred
29:41
Speaker 1: We said it in the Monday night loss like Contreras, Uh,
29:44
Speaker 1: what was its Turio and Yellis were like over fourteen
29:48
Speaker 1: or something with seven punchouts. That's a ticket to the
29:52
Speaker 1: off season, in the playoffs. So get it out of
29:54
Speaker 1: the way now and hopefully you're rolling when the season
29:57
Speaker 1: because if those guys are hot and Yelich produces like
30:01
Speaker 1: he did earlier in the year, if he gets into
30:02
Speaker 1: a groove a little bit, you'll forget this stretch. Yeah,
30:05
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Chris and Lodi a way with the Dodgers,
30:08
Speaker 1: if they if they're having another parade, they're gonna they're
30:10
Speaker 1: gonna forget losing five in a row in August. They're
30:12
Speaker 1: not gonna worry about getting swept by the Red Sox
30:14
Speaker 1: at home. No, well, that'll be the least of their worries.
30:16
Speaker 1: But Christin LOADI Yellow has to be yelloiing in late
30:18
Speaker 1: September and October. Until then, we just have to hang on.
30:21
Speaker 1: But that's not the point because he wasn't even he
30:23
Speaker 1: was having good years of the year in the past,
30:25
Speaker 1: but he wasn't in the playoffs. So maybe they'll reverse
30:27
Speaker 1: this year. Maybe that's is exactly what he needs. Yeah,
30:29
Speaker 1: hot late, but but yeah, the Ortiz thing and the lineup,
30:33
Speaker 1: it's like they know what they're doing. There's a reason
30:35
Speaker 1: behind why they're They're not just like putting a guy
30:37
Speaker 1: in the freezer to piss you up and again, like
30:41
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I imagine, go back and talk
30:43
Speaker 1: to your yourself like six months ago or two years ago,
30:47
Speaker 1: like you're screaming for Joey Ortiz to be in the lineup. Yeah, Drew,
30:50
Speaker 1: I never would have thought. Part of the reason he's
30:52
Speaker 1: hot and it has been played well is because they're
30:54
Speaker 1: finding matchups where he can succeed and people don't That's
30:57
Speaker 1: what people don't want to They don't want to process
30:59
Speaker 1: people on that, like they realized that. Like when you
31:02
Speaker 1: were acted the way about the artist up and now
31:05
Speaker 1: it's changed for him and it's like one back, like
31:07
Speaker 1: these things change. The funny thing is I was almost
31:10
Speaker 1: more upset than Pratt wasn't.
31:11
Speaker 2: Uh.
31:11
Speaker 1: When when Pratt's not in the lineup and he doesn't
31:14
Speaker 1: start on Monday night, then you're worthy he's not getting
31:16
Speaker 1: in there well. And then like Churio and at some point,
31:19
Speaker 1: like Pratt and those guys, they might hit a wall
31:21
Speaker 1: as a young at some point. Yeah. But the thing
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Speaker 1: with Turio is like, is he back? He had a
31:26
Speaker 1: couple of hits last night, you know, is is he back? Then?
31:28
Speaker 1: Does that erased the slump or is that just a blip?
31:30
Speaker 1: Like you got to sustain it a little bit, right?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
31:34
Speaker 1: Sure, But all it's gonna take one of the things
31:37
Speaker 1: I would say for Chris and Yelich And I don't
31:40
Speaker 1: know if Murph would agree with this or not, Like, yeah,
31:42
Speaker 1: move him down the line up, take pressure off. I'm like, no,
31:44
Speaker 1: put him in left field, you get Cheerio g h
31:47
Speaker 1: and put give him something to focus on defense and
31:51
Speaker 1: put that and not have to sit and you know,
31:53
Speaker 1: obsess over last year. I feel like that was something
31:56
Speaker 1: that we saw them try to do to spark.
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Speaker 6: Does him in the.
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Speaker 1: Defense a little bit, just to give him a chance
32:01
Speaker 1: to get in a flow, get a little bit more
32:02
Speaker 1: of a sweat like him jogging in and off. Even
32:05
Speaker 1: even if you don't get a ball hit to, you're
32:07
Speaker 1: jogging in and off, you're focus, You're showing up the
32:09
Speaker 1: pain of the game, locked in a little more. It's
32:11
Speaker 1: a different it's almost like a different experience. Guys. There's
32:15
Speaker 1: no rhyme or reason for it, but is better at
32:18
Speaker 1: third hitting well, and when you're at when you're at
32:20
Speaker 1: bats are as struggling and as tough as it has been.
32:23
Speaker 1: Maybe the best thing to do is to, as Drew said,
32:25
Speaker 1: not have to think about it for three innings. Yeah,
32:28
Speaker 1: and then you know, he makes a nice catcher. If
32:31
Speaker 1: he throws a guy out at second, you get a
32:33
Speaker 1: little surge there, and then it's like a little positive
32:36
Speaker 1: you know, reinforcement like that idea. Yeah, I would think
32:39
Speaker 1: of It's like I go the other way, right. It's
32:42
Speaker 1: like and when he in the past, when he struggled,
32:44
Speaker 1: they put him in the leadoff spot and he unlocked something.
32:46
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, hey listen, and I'm not listen. I
32:49
Speaker 1: love killed, but I'm not reversing that trade either. That
32:52
Speaker 1: was I don't know where that was, not handing that
32:54
Speaker 1: one back throwing Hamilton, Are you kidding me? Yeah? Come on, man,
32:58
Speaker 1: that's like five and a half six war total, right now,
33:01
Speaker 1: come on, give him a war number. Ar Hamilton's got
33:04
Speaker 1: a war and a half point a half war and
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Speaker 1: he's not even a full time starter. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: he's pitching tonight and he spoke to Hunter Bombguart yesterday.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from the brewers pitcher Kyle Harrison. I'm
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Speaker 1: alone exclusively with hunter Bombguard. That's coming up next. We're
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Speaker 1: also going to get to some hot takes on hot
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Speaker 1: Take hump Day. My hot take is just chill out
33:26
Speaker 1: on the lineup stuff. Come on, we're twenty seven games
33:29
Speaker 1: over five hundred. This is a good thing. Yeah, let's
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Speaker 1: let's chill out on that hot te hump Day is
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Speaker 1: about this interview his conversation with tonight's starter Kyle Harrison.
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Speaker 4: As you look at the last month, kind of what
33:56
Speaker 4: was the process to get back to this point and
33:58
Speaker 4: be healthy coming into the stre drawn, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You know, the process was, you know, trusting the guys
34:03
Speaker 3: here to get me right, and you know, coming in
34:05
Speaker 3: doing my work, you know, just trying to trying to
34:08
Speaker 3: get that uh, you know, extensor to feel better. So
34:12
Speaker 3: kind of once once the break hit, was able to
34:14
Speaker 3: stay here, save here for break and hit the rehab.
34:18
Speaker 2: And then Brandon did a great job.
34:20
Speaker 3: With me, working with me, and you know, as soon
34:22
Speaker 3: as that break was over, it felt like I was
34:24
Speaker 3: ready for the next steps. It wasn't really feeling too
34:26
Speaker 3: sore from day to day, and ultimately was was good
34:30
Speaker 3: to get a good rehab start on in Appleton Thursday,
34:33
Speaker 3: and now I'm back and I'm glad I got that
34:36
Speaker 3: rehab started to just kind of get the cop webs out.
34:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you've compare how you felt your last start
34:41
Speaker 4: on the Major League mound compared to how you felt
34:44
Speaker 4: in Appleton, what were kind of the differences there?
34:47
Speaker 3: I think just uh, you know, in Appleton it was
34:50
Speaker 3: kind of a sort of freshness, you know, like a
34:52
Speaker 3: new pep in my step. I'd say, But you know,
34:55
Speaker 3: when I when I that last came, I just remember
34:57
Speaker 3: just being a little bit of pain. So anytime you're
34:59
Speaker 3: on the mouth, not ideal to be feeling a little
35:02
Speaker 3: bit of tension. Pain and areas are not used to
35:05
Speaker 3: so I'm hands down felt way better than Appleton and
35:09
Speaker 3: hopefully hopefully stay that.
35:10
Speaker 1: Way mentally too.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure that's you know, freeing too, to go out
35:14
Speaker 4: into Appleton and be able to make that start without
35:16
Speaker 4: having pain one hundred percent.
35:18
Speaker 3: And that was something that i mean, even working on
35:20
Speaker 3: the change up, doing all this stuff, it was it
35:22
Speaker 3: allowed me to kind of work on things, ease back
35:25
Speaker 3: into it.
35:25
Speaker 2: And I'm just really thankful they're looking out for me.
35:29
Speaker 2: Like you know, I've been on been in other.
35:31
Speaker 3: Situations where I've been hurt and come back and haven't
35:33
Speaker 3: had the rehab start, and they wanted to do it
35:36
Speaker 3: the right way, and I really appreciate that.
35:38
Speaker 4: How hard can it be to of course be patient
35:40
Speaker 4: during that, right they want to look out for you,
35:42
Speaker 4: and I'm sure you wanted to come back and help
35:44
Speaker 4: this team as fast as you could, but knowing that
35:46
Speaker 4: they had your best interest in mind, I'm sure was
35:48
Speaker 4: a little helpful in.
35:49
Speaker 2: That process, right, And it was honestly a little different too.
35:52
Speaker 3: Just I've never been i mean, one team last year,
35:55
Speaker 3: but sure I've been on it haven't been a team
35:57
Speaker 3: that's really gone to the postseason. So I'm keeping that
36:00
Speaker 3: respective in mind, you know, hook hooky was talking with me.
36:02
Speaker 3: He's like, hey, man, we got a plan for probably
36:04
Speaker 3: more starts than you really really think. So it's like,
36:07
Speaker 3: let's take that extrap one or two weeks to make
36:09
Speaker 3: sure you're you're fully ready to go. Let's do it
36:11
Speaker 3: the right way, build you up. And just yeah, really
36:14
Speaker 3: appreciated that they communicated that with me, And yeah, we're
36:19
Speaker 3: an open book each way, so that just I love
36:21
Speaker 3: the constant communication and they were checking in on me
36:24
Speaker 3: every day.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, it was a good, good spot for REAP.
36:27
Speaker 4: Do you feel like you're then in a better position
36:29
Speaker 4: as you go into this stretch run with of course
36:31
Speaker 4: that goal of you guys getting into the postseason going far?
36:34
Speaker 4: Do you feel like you're almost more prepared than you
36:36
Speaker 4: you maybe would have been had you not had those
36:38
Speaker 4: conversations and maybe gone through what you did the last month.
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Speaker 2: One hundred percent.
36:41
Speaker 3: You know, it's like once, especially on the injury side
36:45
Speaker 3: of things, like once once you fight something you're nagging
36:47
Speaker 3: and then you kind of try to neglect it a
36:49
Speaker 3: couple more starts going, then it could turn into something
36:52
Speaker 3: kind of bad. And I've I've had that happen to
36:53
Speaker 3: me before, so speaking from it personally, it's just I'm
36:57
Speaker 3: so thankful that they're they were protecting me and looking.
36:59
Speaker 2: Out for me because you know, they want me to
37:01
Speaker 2: for the log hall here.
37:02
Speaker 1: So it's cool to see Kyle Harrison joining us.
37:05
Speaker 4: Question for you regarding your new teammate, Dustin May old
37:08
Speaker 4: teammate a little big you guys crossed over in Boston.
37:11
Speaker 4: What were your impressions of him being being teammates with
37:14
Speaker 4: him in Boston?
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Speaker 2: Just a great guy.
37:16
Speaker 3: I mean got to know him a little bit, only
37:17
Speaker 3: for a month, but you know, just hands down a
37:21
Speaker 3: great teammate and fiery competitors, got great stuff on the mound.
37:25
Speaker 2: So I saw him today and we were able to
37:28
Speaker 2: just catch up right where we left off.
37:30
Speaker 3: So he's a great guy and he's only going to
37:33
Speaker 3: fit into his clubhouse very well. So yeah, man, great
37:38
Speaker 3: guy and just excited to get to know more and more.
37:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, what can Brewers fans expect from him on the mound?
37:42
Speaker 4: Do you think he told us in there that he's
37:44
Speaker 4: a very fiery guy in the mound. I think people
37:46
Speaker 4: are going to enjoy it.
37:47
Speaker 3: I think people are going to see that he's throw
37:48
Speaker 3: some emotion like miss a little bit, you know, But no,
37:51
Speaker 3: he's got great stuff.
37:52
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a veteran, he's been in a sleep
37:54
Speaker 2: for a while. He knows what he's doing.
37:56
Speaker 3: It's important to have those guys around that you can
37:59
Speaker 3: lean on and just found things off of them. And
38:01
Speaker 3: he's got the playoff experience with the Dodgers, so yeah,
38:04
Speaker 3: he's been.
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Speaker 1: Through it all.
38:05
Speaker 2: So it's cool to have someone like that. And he's
38:07
Speaker 2: just a competitor. I remember watching him when I was
38:09
Speaker 2: when I was younger, and I was like, man, this
38:11
Speaker 2: guy's nasty and he competes his butt off.
38:13
Speaker 4: When you guys, you know, add some new players in
38:15
Speaker 4: at this time of year, a couple of months to go,
38:17
Speaker 4: and obviously the events of yesterday, it can be I'm
38:20
Speaker 4: sure a little nerve racking just to see what's going
38:22
Speaker 4: to happen.
38:22
Speaker 1: But you guys get through it, and now you know,
38:25
Speaker 1: how satisfying is it to have some.
38:27
Speaker 4: Guys who have who have the playoff experience, who've been there,
38:30
Speaker 4: done that, to come into this club up.
38:31
Speaker 3: It's important, you know, it's uh, that's all you can
38:34
Speaker 3: really lean on the experience, and you know, we're a young,
38:37
Speaker 3: hungry group, so it's yeah, this is all we got
38:40
Speaker 3: in this room.
38:41
Speaker 2: So it's kind of cool in that sense of, hey,
38:43
Speaker 2: you know, we're still going to be with the underdogs.
38:44
Speaker 3: We're always underdogs, and we just we just want to
38:46
Speaker 3: compete and the guys that we got are going to
38:48
Speaker 3: help us in the best way possible and they're going
38:50
Speaker 3: to give us that experience and yeah, bounce things off
38:54
Speaker 3: them and just looking forward to get to one of
38:57
Speaker 3: those guys.
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Speaker 4: K Ile, really appreciate the time and excited to see
39:00
Speaker 4: you back on the mouth.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Thanks crying on Kyle Harrison with our own Hunter Bomb
39:04
Speaker 1: Guard some really good stuff. They're awesome thing of you know,
39:07
Speaker 1: you listen to Kyle Harrison. He's been he came up
39:10
Speaker 1: with the Giants, was trade of the Red Sox, comes
39:12
Speaker 1: to the Brewers, he turns twenty five a week from today.
39:16
Speaker 1: Whoa that works, that'll play, that'll play yeah, that'll play yeahs.
39:22
Speaker 1: And he's calm, cool and collected. He's like, I've never
39:24
Speaker 1: been really on a team that's been out the playoffs,
39:26
Speaker 1: so that's nice. But also to understand Drew like it
39:29
Speaker 1: might not be common for a lot of teams to
39:31
Speaker 1: be as cautious and take as much time with a
39:35
Speaker 1: rehab as the Brewers did. A lot of the teams
39:38
Speaker 1: don't have the luxury to it. But when you're pitching that, well,
39:41
Speaker 1: hey brother, we're gonna be as cautious as possible. Yeah
39:44
Speaker 1: we will. We will give you as much time as possible,
39:47
Speaker 1: as long as that as long as that heater up
39:49
Speaker 1: in the zone is working again like it was in
39:50
Speaker 1: the beginning of the Ya. Yeah, that's a good point.
39:51
Speaker 1: And he got that opportunity in Milwaukee that who knows,
39:53
Speaker 1: I mean, even if he had stayed in Boston, how
39:56
Speaker 1: many teams would have given him that chance, you know,
39:59
Speaker 1: to start the season, might have kept him, you know,
40:01
Speaker 1: in Triple A or something like that. So worked out here,
40:04
Speaker 1: and I think we're all glad it did. I like
40:06
Speaker 1: how Hey, I like what he said. We're all we got,
40:08
Speaker 1: you know, we know what all we have, and we're
40:12
Speaker 1: all we got, We always all we need. Let's go
40:14
Speaker 1: all we need. And you know that that's like the
40:16
Speaker 1: Murph message that he's kind of pounded. No, that's the
40:19
Speaker 1: what armand sorry and would not be as the message
40:21
Speaker 1: if you were the manager of the Milwaukee Brewers. Oh
40:23
Speaker 1: maybe Murph and I are kind of similar in that
40:25
Speaker 1: I would love to know how many motivational posters you
40:28
Speaker 1: would have crammed into that one. Talk to the spot. Hey,
40:32
Speaker 1: we're still looking for the one. Hey you see uh Tempered,
40:35
Speaker 1: that's the one that McCarthy's doing in Pittsburgh. I don't
40:38
Speaker 1: know if you guys saw that. Just remind me of
40:39
Speaker 1: that tempered is there? That might be a podcast name, yeah, Temper.
40:44
Speaker 1: That would be great, the Temper ten tempered PODCASTE. Love it,
40:49
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