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10/08/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Thursday edition, The Huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee,
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Speaker 2: And you better be there. Attendance is going to be taken.
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Speaker 2: you can make some adjustments. And tell your friends about
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Speaker 2: the time change.
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Speaker 3: And to help you practice, we'll be at Pottawatomie Sportsbook tonight.
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Speaker 3: And we'll be on the air 5 to 7. So
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Speaker 3: you can practice with a little afternoon.
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Speaker 4: Delight, as they would say.
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Speaker 1: That's right. And as it turns out, our first afternoon
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Speaker 1: show will be leading into game two of the NLCS.
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Speaker 1: And we'll be broadcasting live from Saz's Statehouse, 55th and State.
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Speaker 4: Which I don't.
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Speaker 2: Have this guaranteed. I don't have it booked in. Saz's
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Speaker 2: originated and started the shuttle. I feel like they kind
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Speaker 2: of invented the shuttle.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they were one of the first. They were at
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Speaker 1: least one of the first.
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Speaker 2: And any chance that you think your summer is over,
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Speaker 2: we try to grab any little bit and piece of
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Speaker 2: summer here. And once you get maybe a 70-degree day
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Speaker 2: in October, you're going to be very excited. You get
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Speaker 2: an October Sazza sampler platter. Talk about one little last
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Speaker 2: grab of summer that you get hanging out coming up
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Speaker 2: on Monday.
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Speaker 1: No question. That's pretty damn good.
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Speaker 4: Now we're talking.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be fun. Hunter Baumgart's in San Diego.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be joining us from the airport in
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Speaker 1: about 20 or so minutes. but he did provide us
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Speaker 1: with some more interviews let's hear from market nasa of
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Speaker 1: the brewers owner yes the guy who are right soon
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Speaker 1: signs the checks this is uh... the owner after the
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Speaker 1: brewers victory in elimination of the padres last night wow
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Speaker 1: this is.
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Speaker 6: A really tough series every pitch and uh... stands each
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Speaker 6: can't come either way right to the end i had
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Speaker 6: number of folks in my sweet or ownership some of
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Speaker 6: them don't come to too many games They said, gee,
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Speaker 6: these playoff games are intense.
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Speaker 5: Every pitch counts.
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Speaker 1: When you see this group, what's special about this one?
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Speaker 5: I know everyone has its own identity. What stands out
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Speaker 5: to you about this group?
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Speaker 6: I think the two things are the camaraderie. This group
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Speaker 6: is as tight and close as any group we've had.
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Speaker 6: One thing you know, by the way, when you walk
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Speaker 6: into a clubhouse and spring training, you can almost feel it.
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Speaker 1: This group has.
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Speaker 5: Stuck together all year.
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Speaker 1: They really.
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Speaker 6: look out for each other and then they never give
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Speaker 6: up this group never gives up we've seen even like
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Speaker 6: last night's games you know we only hit a ball
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Speaker 6: 107 miles an hour if it's two feet the other
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Speaker 6: way couldn't win last night too when you know so
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Speaker 6: that that is different and the fact that they won
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Speaker 6: 103 games with never winning more than five in a
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Speaker 6: row has never been done before and so they've done
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Speaker 6: things they've never done before and That alone makes them special.
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Speaker 7: The challenge of the Dodgers, I mean, they're the big dogs, right?
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Speaker 7: But you won more games than them this year.
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Speaker 5: You did it last year.
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Speaker 7: How much are you looking forward to that specific matchup,
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Speaker 7: getting another shot?
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Speaker 6: And getting another shot where we're now as rested as
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Speaker 6: they are. Because last year we had a very emotional
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Speaker 6: win against the Cubs and a lot of celebrating afterwards.
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Speaker 6: And the next day, we're in batting practice. So now
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Speaker 6: we have the same number of days off as they
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Speaker 6: do and have Miz and Henderson and all our pitchers rested.
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Speaker 6: And so it's our best against their best. And that's
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Speaker 6: always fun.
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Speaker 7: Is there any pride in your way? You know, the
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Speaker 7: win our way? You can see it everywhere in your
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Speaker 7: ballpark here.
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Speaker 6: We get a lot of comments about the fundamentals that
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Speaker 6: we use and how every player, you know, look at
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Speaker 6: Garrett Mitchell's catch and then By the way, Bryce Terang's
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Speaker 6: catch over there says, you know, do like a WWF
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Speaker 6: wrestling move on Jake Bowers. All the fundamentals are always played.
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Speaker 1: Went our way, really.
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Speaker 6: Someone in our marketing group came up with that, and
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Speaker 6: our fans really embraced it. And, you know, I don't
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Speaker 6: know about other years, but this year this team has
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Speaker 6: a way they win. And they did it how many
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Speaker 6: times now?
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Speaker 5: 103 plus.
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Speaker 6: 106. 106. Haven't done that before.
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Speaker 8: Mark, you're talking about how closely contested these games are.
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Speaker 5: When that ball leaves Machado's bat, what are you thinking?
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Speaker 6: The Padres, who always take good care of us, were
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Speaker 6: very gracious. They gave us a really good sight line
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Speaker 6: on that, unfortunately. I want to say some of the
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Speaker 6: things that were said.
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Speaker 1: It was almost hard.
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Speaker 5: When you heard the.
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Speaker 6: You can't tell when somebody jumps out and gets the
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Speaker 6: ball on it, but you hear the crowd groan. And
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Speaker 6: when they showed the replay on Fox, Garrett's focus all
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Speaker 6: the way was unbelievable. And he was telling my son
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Speaker 6: Dan that it's almost like the ball was in slow
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Speaker 6: motion for him. And we have a world-class athlete, and
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Speaker 6: there are plenty on both sides today. It's a different experience.
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Speaker 5: Homer in 19 of 30 parks, including American Family Field. Oh,
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Speaker 5: is that right?
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Speaker 6: So we had the right center field wall and the
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Speaker 6: right roof this trip.
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Speaker 5: What are the letters from you that Murphy brings out me?
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Speaker 6: Murph channels, you know, you can, he's got, you know,
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Speaker 6: I don't know if he uses a Ouija board or
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Speaker 6: a seance, but he gets very detailed notes from him. And, uh,
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Speaker 6: there's a lot of missile things that have happened, including
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Speaker 6: the way the ball played off the roof. And I
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Speaker 6: don't know if you saw in the, uh, social media,
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Speaker 6: there was an image of him up on the beam
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Speaker 6: up there, but I don't know. It's for others to explain.
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Speaker 9: My son, Dan, who I mentioned tonight, doesn't deal with
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Speaker 9: sound that well.
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Speaker 5: Apparently it was 125 decibels. Probably was out here, you know, too, but.
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Speaker 6: After that, Jackson, when he fouled the pitch back, there
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Speaker 6: was 103-something. You could see from our seats that he
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Speaker 6: was frustrated that he missed it. He was really, really
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Speaker 6: dialed in and believed himself the whole way.
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Speaker 1: We talk about this team.
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Speaker 6: This team believes in itself. I also mentioned Matt Arnold
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Speaker 6: pointed out, everybody who played tonight had a role in
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Speaker 6: this win. That wasn't true of other teams, and I
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Speaker 6: think that's rare in Baseball generally could go around the diamond.
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Speaker 6: Everybody had a role in this win, and it feels
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Speaker 6: pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Mark Adonacio feels pretty good. He's going to the LCS
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Speaker 1: for the second straight year on the heels of being
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Speaker 1: the best team in baseball for the second straight year
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Speaker 1: in the regular season. I like that.
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Speaker 2: We have the right roof and the right center field wall. Listen,
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Speaker 2: get all of the things you need. The tie-in of
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Speaker 2: that Garrett Mitchell robbery and the immediate callback of the
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Speaker 2: Andrew Jones, or not Andrew Jones, Adam Jones, pardon me,
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Speaker 2: robbery of Machado there during the WBC. How fun. What
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Speaker 2: did Aaron Rodgers say? How can you not be romantic
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Speaker 2: about football? How can you not about sports? I mean,
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Speaker 2: that is as Perfect. A placement of that exact same
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Speaker 2: hit in what? 12 years later from a child. That's
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Speaker 2: an incredible, incredible tie in. It is.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: I saw somewhere that he has 11.
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Speaker 4: He's been robbed 11 times or something like that.
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Speaker 1: Couldn't happen to a better guy.
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Speaker 4: I mean, just, you know, why don't you hit it farther?
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Speaker 1: Why don't you try to hit him farther, guys? I
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Speaker 1: like that. I like that statement. You can tell him that.
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Speaker 3: I enjoy making him the villain, although Tatis gave props
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Speaker 3: to the Brewers after the game.
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Speaker 4: He said, man, that's a good team over there. Props
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Speaker 4: to them. They play really good baseball. That was really nice.
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Speaker 2: San Diego is, I don't know, maybe this is just
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Speaker 2: because you win. This is a lot easier to say
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Speaker 2: in a victory. Not a very hateable bunch.
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Speaker 5: No, they're not.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Machado one is, that will always be
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Speaker 2: a good venomous one. At this point, I believe that's
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Speaker 2: almost more just fun. to boo him at that point.
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Speaker 4: It's part of like the sport of it in a way.
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Speaker 1: And now it's just the game that you have to
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Speaker 1: continue it.
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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, but I love watching Fernando Tatis play baseball.
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Speaker 1: Meryl's awesome.
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Speaker 2: That is a, that is a really, really good team.
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Speaker 2: And one that's going to be, and I can only
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Speaker 2: assume this is going to be, this would be an
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Speaker 2: interesting hate watch.
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Speaker 1: If you're a Padres fan.
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Speaker 2: The team that you hate the absolute most against the
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Speaker 2: team that just bumped you out.
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Speaker 1: You're watching Murder, She Wrote. You're finding anything else. I
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Speaker 1: can't handle this.
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Speaker 2: They might even watch the Chargers at this point.
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Speaker 1: Rooting for whoever comes from the other side of the bracket.
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Speaker 3: No, I was waiting for that great San Diego crowd, though,
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Speaker 3: to get cranked up through the whole game.
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Speaker 4: They were sitting down a lot of the night, too.
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Speaker 4: So I thought that was interesting, guys.
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Speaker 1: Playing from in front.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it tends to happen that baseball crowds sit down
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Speaker 3: until something good happens.
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Speaker 4: Well, I've been made of this crowd stuff that I
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Speaker 4: still don't like.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they also, they went into it. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they were pretty loud. Yeah, they started with it.
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Speaker 2: The radio crowd mic then was amped up because it was,
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Speaker 2: the radio mic was loud.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was loud. And it was.
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Speaker 1: But they were also down. They were just like, oh,
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Speaker 1: we could lose. We could be eliminated. That's how big
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Speaker 1: it is.
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Speaker 4: That's normal, though.
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Speaker 1: That's my point. That will dampen the crowd.
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Speaker 5: Right, right.
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Speaker 1: There's no question. What other sound do we have, Armin,
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Speaker 1: that before we welcome Hunter, we've got to listen to
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Speaker 1: some more of his interviews? We can listen to Yelich's group.
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Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's do it.
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Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 3: That's about four minutes. Let's listen to Christian Yelich, the
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Speaker 3: captain here with the group of media.
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Speaker 5: Because you've been so invested in the community and the city.
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Speaker 4: What would it mean for you guys to get to
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Speaker 4: a World Series after all these years?
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Speaker 10: I think that was one of the coolest things about
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Speaker 10: Cheerios walk-off. It was like seeing people's reactions at home
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Speaker 10: and in the game and them kind of posting it
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Speaker 10: on social media and they kind of come up on.
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Speaker 5: Ours because we're all around the same area and stuff.
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Speaker 10: It was really cool to see how much that meant
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Speaker 10: to people and the actual, the authentic joy of in
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Speaker 10: those moments and, like, seeing people, like, us playing well
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Speaker 10: and winning games, like, what it means to people. And, like,
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Speaker 10: that was so awesome and really cool.
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Speaker 5: And, like, I don't know. It was awesome. And, you know,
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Speaker 5: I know that if.
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Speaker 10: You know, we do what we want to do, like,
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Speaker 10: how special that would be.
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Speaker 5: To the city. And, you know, this is one step
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Speaker 5: down and a couple more to go. What do the
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Speaker 5: letters from you still mean? Yeah, it's Murph's name. Murph
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Speaker 5: really likes doing it to them.
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Speaker 10: And, you know, I think that's, like, Yuka's always such
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Speaker 10: a star in these celebrations. He was everybody's favorite guy
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Speaker 10: to go to just to hear what he had to
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Speaker 10: say or what he was going to do.
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Speaker 5: Everybody's seen him doing the lawnmower dance move and all
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Speaker 5: that stuff.
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Speaker 10: I think that's Murph's way of still including him in
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Speaker 10: this stuff and.
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Speaker 5: Just making him feel there.
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Speaker 10: He gets a good laugh out of it because of
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Speaker 10: the past year, but it's just his thing and what
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Speaker 10: he likes to do.
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Speaker 8: Christian, you know as the captain and leader that trust
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Speaker 8: and belief is a core thing with this team and
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Speaker 8: it can be just words but look at tonight where
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Speaker 8: Murph talks to Terrain and Mitchell and Bowers and believes
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Speaker 8: in those guys and says do what you do how
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Speaker 8: key is that to you guys?
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Speaker 10: Yeah I mean you gotta believe in each other and
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Speaker 10: like everybody believes in this group and believes that whoever's
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Speaker 10: in the situation who needs to execute that they're gonna
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Speaker 10: be able to do their job and come through and
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Speaker 10: if they don't then the guy behind them is gonna
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Speaker 10: figure it out and So that's kind of just been
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Speaker 10: the theme for us all year, just finding a way
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Speaker 10: to be successful and just do our thing out there. And,
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Speaker 10: you know, those guys had some big games tonight, some
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Speaker 10: big moments. So it was cool to see.
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Speaker 5: What did you think of Garrett's catch?
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Speaker 10: I'm glad he caught it, that's for sure. Yeah, I
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Speaker 10: didn't know. I didn't know if it was going to
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Speaker 10: stay in the yard. You know, man, he's got some
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Speaker 10: pretty good power, and he stood up on it at
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Speaker 10: home plate. And usually when he does that, it's a homer.
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Speaker 10: I guess technically it kind of was, but I'm glad
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Speaker 10: I found Mitch's glove.
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Speaker 7: I know a lot of these are pretty much the same,
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Speaker 7: but what is different about this particular celebration or is
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Speaker 7: there anything?
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Speaker 5: They're all special. They're all awesome in their own way.
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Speaker 5: Each team, each year is different.
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Speaker 10: Each team kind of carves their own path and journey
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Speaker 10: through the season and the postseason. This one's kind of ours.
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Speaker 10: I think we won some really tight games here. We
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Speaker 10: won some games that we kind of you know, might've
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Speaker 10: gotten away with like not playing the cleanest games that,
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Speaker 10: you know, that we're capable of doing and still being
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Speaker 10: able to find a way as a credit to the
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Speaker 10: guys and the group of just being relentless and, you know,
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Speaker 10: moving on to the next pitch and the next play,
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Speaker 10: regardless of if it went good or bad for you.
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Speaker 10: And I'm just really proud of this group and watching
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Speaker 10: everybody kind of grow throughout the season.
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Speaker 4: Does the intensity of a series change the way the
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Speaker 4: party feels?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 10: I mean, they're all intense series at this time, you know, like,
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Speaker 10: last year, this year, you know, going forward, they're all
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Speaker 10: going to be intense. It's just kind of what you
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Speaker 10: sign up for, for, you know, playoff baseball. And, um,
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Speaker 10: especially if you, if you keep progressing into the post season,
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Speaker 10: but it's what makes it fun. You got to enjoy
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Speaker 10: those moments and realize how special and, um, how rare
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Speaker 10: they can be. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's going
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Speaker 10: to be third LCS, which is pretty special. You know, um,
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Speaker 10: you know, you don't always get those opportunities and you
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Speaker 10: don't know when you're going to get to your next one.
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Speaker 10: So you always want to take advantage of them and,
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Speaker 10: It's been a blast playing with this group.
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Speaker 8: How do you feel about getting another crack at the Dodgers?
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Speaker 5: They're a great team.
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Speaker 10: It's pretty well documented what they've done and being back-to-back champs.
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Speaker 10: You have a feeling being on the NL side, if
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Speaker 10: you want to get to where you want to go,
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Speaker 10: you're going to have to go through them.
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Speaker 5: I guess the old saying is if you want to
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Speaker 5: be the best, you've got to beat the best.
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Speaker 10: Until someone proves otherwise, they're the best.
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Speaker 5: We're going to give it a crack.
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Speaker 10: We're confident in our group and our team and what
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Speaker 10: we can do when we play our game. We're looking
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Speaker 10: forward to a great series and it's gonna be awesome
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Speaker 10: yeah I mean I think we've been together for a
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Speaker 10: few years we've we've won a lot of games like
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Speaker 10: we've been in big games and big moments together with
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Speaker 10: each other and we understand like what's expected in those
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Speaker 10: moments and what's needed to be successful so it kind
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Speaker 10: of goes without saying at this point you don't really
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Speaker 10: need to talk to each other about like hey this
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Speaker 10: is what we need to do it's just yeah like
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Speaker 10: We're going to go out there and we're going to
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Speaker 10: go grind and do our thing as a team.
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Speaker 5: And we've been doing it all year.
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Speaker 10: And, you know, when we're good at it, we're successful
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Speaker 10: at it, like we have a pretty good result at
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Speaker 10: the end of the night. And when we're not, then
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Speaker 10: usually it's not the best result.
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Speaker 5: So we kind of know.
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Speaker 1: Christian Yelich, the captain, the elder statesman of the Brewers.
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Speaker 1: He's going to his third LCS since he arrived in
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Speaker 1: Milwaukee in 2018.
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Speaker 2: And he ain't wrong, Drew. Every time that he gets
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Speaker 2: to the LCS, he's got to go through that team.
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Speaker 2: If you're going to go where you want to go,
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Speaker 2: you've got to go through L.A. And we kind of
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Speaker 2: tiptoed around it, talked about it, maybe mentioned it.
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Speaker 1: It's better that way.
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Speaker 2: It is better that way to play them than go
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Speaker 2: through any other path and have any shred of doubt
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Speaker 2: that you went through the best to be able to
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Speaker 2: win the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Beating the Padres and Dodgers. And again, I will die
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Speaker 1: on the hill. You win the series. You don't play.
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Speaker 4: Amen.
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Speaker 1: Won that series by not having to play it. Was
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Speaker 1: that a factor for the Padres that they had to
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Speaker 1: vanquish the Cubs and then face the Brewers? Probably probably
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Speaker 1: didn't help. Probably didn't help.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're especially with home and they did, but
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Speaker 2: they had to play it. I don't know how much
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Speaker 2: and how healthy their back end was, too. Like you
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Speaker 2: could tell they had more on up yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: They were going to them. But they man, your guys
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Speaker 2: ended up providing it. A rebate pitches each of the
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Speaker 2: four games right in the series. That's that's impressive stuff
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Speaker 2: for how he chewed through that.
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Speaker 1: Your heart stopping moment of. My goodness. All right, quickly,
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Speaker 1: who's hot, who's not? Christian Yelich, he's in the hot category.
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Speaker 1: Donovan Jorgensen, heating and cooling. The HVAC specialist, employee-owned since 1985.
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Speaker 1: Yelich is definitely hot. You know who else is hot?
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Speaker 5: Who?
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Speaker 1: Jake Ferguson.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 1: It's come down that the NFL has rescinded his fine
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Speaker 1: for the shotgunning a beer pantomime. Nice, let's go. Because
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Speaker 1: he called it his Gatorade celebration. He does it at practice,
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Speaker 1: and it's been documented on the team's social media site.
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Speaker 1: And it's not a beer thing. It's like a Gatorade thing.
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Speaker 1: He had receipts. And he saved himself $ 13, 000. There you go.
16:34
Speaker 1: Him and Juszczyk.
16:35
Speaker 2: They thought they were going to grab $ 30, 000 out of
16:37
Speaker 2: these guys for juice and Gatorade. Drew, this is a
16:40
Speaker 2: PG show. NFL is a PG show.
16:43
Speaker 1: Who's not? Apparently, our friend Tristan on the YouTube comments said.
16:48
Speaker 2: After the home run robbery, Machado is now off the hook.
16:51
Speaker 2: Padres are a damn good team. Let's go crew.
16:53
Speaker 1: So maybe he's not on the hot seat anymore.
16:55
Speaker 2: After that, maybe we can all just forgive him after
16:57
Speaker 2: that deal and watching him crash out in the dugout. Yes.
17:00
Speaker 1: I'm going to do that if they want.
17:01
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm still going to make fun of them
17:03
Speaker 3: and stuff, but Hey, why not? I mean, no, I'm
17:05
Speaker 3: not mad at him today. I mean, he also not
17:08
Speaker 3: would be impressed by the fact that really quick. I
17:10
Speaker 3: told you this off air. The fact that that thing
17:11
Speaker 3: was almost a Homer. It looked like a pop-up off
17:13
Speaker 3: the bat. I mean, we can't tell him the screen,
17:15
Speaker 3: but He's strong. I mean, there's clearly that is impressive
17:18
Speaker 3: to see. Cause I'm like, I can't believe that ball's
17:21
Speaker 3: almost out.
17:21
Speaker 1: Well, the way Yellish said the way he stood there
17:23
Speaker 1: at home plate, I thought he hit that thing to Venus.
17:26
Speaker 2: Oh, it sure looked like it was a very bad
17:29
Speaker 2: moment for the brewers. The other, not one would be,
17:31
Speaker 2: you guys got to see the bleacher cam of the
17:35
Speaker 2: old boys that Got the fan interference at Yankee Stadium.
17:38
Speaker 1: Have you seen that video? You've got to see that. Oh,
17:41
Speaker 1: those boys are having the greatest time in their lives.
17:44
Speaker 2: And when that section realizes that they just cost.
17:47
Speaker 1: Them a tie ball game, oh.
17:49
Speaker 3: Well, because the Jeffrey Mayer thing 30 years ago, that
17:52
Speaker 3: kid was the reason they won.
17:54
Speaker 1: And they thought they were going to be the heroes again. Actually, no.
17:57
Speaker 4: Because that ball was going to hit the wall, in
17:58
Speaker 4: my opinion.
17:59
Speaker 5: It was.
17:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
18:00
Speaker 4: Might not have been a homer, but it would have
18:01
Speaker 4: hit the wall.
18:01
Speaker 1: It would have hit the wall, for sure. All right.
18:04
Speaker 1: Is Hunter Baumgart hitting the wall? We'll find out next.
18:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's getting through security now.
18:08
Speaker 1: He will be on the phone with us when we return.
18:12
Speaker 1: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
18:20
Speaker 1: and Armin bringing it to you on this Thursday in
18:23
Speaker 1: the good land, having some fun, talking about the Brewers' victory.
18:28
Speaker 1: A thriller last night, late night, early into the morning,
18:31
Speaker 1: and joining us now, It's early for him. He's live
18:33
Speaker 1: from the airport. On his way back, it's Hunter Baumgart,
18:36
Speaker 1: our baseball guy, brought to us by Community Roofing, the
18:39
Speaker 1: local roofing experts, communityroofing.com. Good morning, Hunter. How much sleep
18:42
Speaker 1: did you get?
18:43
Speaker 9: I would say the estimate is probably at about an
18:47
Speaker 9: hour and a half. is where we're estimated at right now.
18:50
Speaker 9: So we're going to be running on close to empty,
18:53
Speaker 9: probably not on E quite yet, but we're going to
18:56
Speaker 9: get through it today, and it was well worth it
18:58
Speaker 9: after that exciting and thrilling win and getting back to
19:01
Speaker 9: the NLCS.
19:01
Speaker 1: What city are you flying through?
19:05
Speaker 9: Minneapolis. Minneapolis.
19:06
Speaker 1: Good airport.
19:07
Speaker 4: Good, strong airport.
19:08
Speaker 1: Good, strong airport. Strong airport. I like Minneapolis' airport. I'm
19:11
Speaker 1: with you, Armin. No, it's not Denver. Hunter, you're not
19:15
Speaker 1: flying the plane, so just sleep on the, you know,
19:18
Speaker 1: get yourself a window seat and fall asleep. There you go.
19:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't do any work on the plane. You don't
19:21
Speaker 4: have to worry about it, all right?
19:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, Armin said he's going to do all your work
19:25
Speaker 2: for the rest of the day. So you just send
19:27
Speaker 2: him everything you got, he's got it.
19:29
Speaker 1: So, Hunter, in terms of moments, we had the ball
19:32
Speaker 1: hitting the roof at Ampham Field, we had the Churrio
19:34
Speaker 1: at bat, and then we had Machado's near home run.
19:38
Speaker 1: What was your view like from the press box? What
19:39
Speaker 1: went through your mind when Garrett Mitchell was chasing to
19:44
Speaker 1: camp at the wall for that on that play?
19:47
Speaker 9: Yeah, it definitely looked gone when that ball was in
19:50
Speaker 9: the air. It was soaring. I can kind of picture where,
19:53
Speaker 9: you know, seeing it in the air as it soared Machado, obviously.
19:57
Speaker 9: Watched it for a very long time, and Mitchell goes
20:00
Speaker 9: back there. The wild thing, obviously, is the short wall
20:02
Speaker 9: back there, so he has a chance to rob something
20:06
Speaker 9: without even jumping that high, and that's what he did.
20:09
Speaker 9: And then when he made the catch, we all kind
20:10
Speaker 9: of let out a gasp and were kind of like, oh,
20:13
Speaker 9: my goodness. And then it soaks in a minute later
20:16
Speaker 9: about how big that moment was. And really, one of
20:21
Speaker 9: the plays that really has helped the Brewers win you
20:26
Speaker 9: think about like post-season history, defensive plays. Of course, we
20:29
Speaker 9: think about walk-offs. We think about big home runs, et cetera.
20:32
Speaker 9: That's one of the bigger defensive plays in Brewers post-season history.
20:36
Speaker 9: When you think about just the sheer, okay, that would
20:39
Speaker 9: have been tied. The crowd would have been right back
20:42
Speaker 9: into it. And obviously they were in it on and off,
20:45
Speaker 9: but it wasn't, the Brewers were able to take them
20:47
Speaker 9: out of it somewhat, getting up 3-1, but you get
20:49
Speaker 9: a Machado home run, and look, I mean, Uribe pitching
20:52
Speaker 9: four out of five days, pitching in every game in
20:54
Speaker 9: the series, you kind of felt when he was coming in, like,
20:57
Speaker 9: all right, let's see what he's got. I kind of
20:58
Speaker 9: thought maybe it'd be Miz, but they go with Uribe,
21:01
Speaker 9: and Machado, I mean, Uribe himself thought it was gone
21:05
Speaker 9: when it left the bat, but Mitchell makes the catch,
21:07
Speaker 9: and boy, those sorts of things, like you said, the
21:11
Speaker 9: moments in each game, all kind of going the Brewers' way,
21:15
Speaker 9: except for obviously two nights ago, that feels a little
21:19
Speaker 9: different for us Wisconsin sports fans, doesn't it?
21:22
Speaker 5: Amen.
21:23
Speaker 2: And Drew said it very much, co-sign it. We're going
21:27
Speaker 2: to extra innings in probably game five. If that thing
21:30
Speaker 2: goes over the wall, it feels like game five is
21:32
Speaker 2: almost an inevitability. And then at that point, you could
21:36
Speaker 2: kind of hear a pin drop in there, and you
21:38
Speaker 2: heard it on the radio broadcast.
21:40
Speaker 1: I think Levering said it as well.
21:41
Speaker 2: First off, I apologize for texting you while you were
21:43
Speaker 2: working last night, just hammering you with thoughts and messages
21:46
Speaker 2: throughout the game. But you said it right there, what
21:49
Speaker 2: a lot of we were texting about. Did you agree
21:52
Speaker 2: and think that it was all for show? Was Murph
21:55
Speaker 2: only saying Miz in the bullpen in the ninth being
21:58
Speaker 2: up was for show? Because it did kind of feel
22:01
Speaker 2: like everybody was hinting at it and feeling like at
22:05
Speaker 2: some point we were going to see 32.
22:08
Speaker 9: You know, it's interesting because Trevor McGill after the game
22:11
Speaker 9: obviously didn't realize he was, Mizorowski was even up in
22:14
Speaker 9: the ninth inning, but he said the goal to bullpen
22:16
Speaker 9: last night was to make sure that they didn't need
22:19
Speaker 9: to use Mizorowski. And so that makes me think that
22:22
Speaker 9: at least was realistic that he was going to come in.
22:25
Speaker 9: But then again, I don't know, you know, that scenario
22:28
Speaker 9: played out almost identical to the scenario I would have
22:31
Speaker 9: told you before the game that they would have used
22:32
Speaker 9: him in when they're up three to one in the
22:34
Speaker 9: late innings and you've got Uribe who's pitched in every
22:37
Speaker 9: game and you know, Miz, who's ready to rock and
22:40
Speaker 9: roll and says, give me the ball at any time.
22:42
Speaker 9: Like that seems like the opportunity to, for you to
22:45
Speaker 9: use them there in that eighth inning against the top
22:46
Speaker 9: of the Padres order. It just seemed like, okay, that
22:49
Speaker 9: would make a whole lot of sense. They didn't do it.
22:52
Speaker 9: And your rebate is luckily saved by Garrett Mitchell. So
22:55
Speaker 9: that was, yeah, I, I, which makes me then think, okay,
22:58
Speaker 9: was it a little more for show and just kind
23:00
Speaker 9: of as a decoy, so to speak, I don't know
23:02
Speaker 9: what that necessarily does. You know, I don't know if
23:04
Speaker 9: that's really, you know, I guess you're maybe just trying
23:06
Speaker 9: to get in the heads of the Padres a little bit.
23:08
Speaker 9: But they were burning through pitchers like crazy last night.
23:12
Speaker 9: They were trying anybody and everybody. And the Brewers put
23:15
Speaker 9: another little rally against Mason Miller, which was good. But, yeah,
23:18
Speaker 9: so I was a little surprised that he didn't come
23:21
Speaker 9: into the game at that time because I thought, okay,
23:23
Speaker 9: if they've got a couple or a three-run lead, something
23:25
Speaker 9: like that, and you need an inning or even two
23:29
Speaker 9: to close this thing out, maybe Miz is that guy.
23:33
Speaker 1: Talking to Hunter Baumgart, brought to us by Community Roofing, communityroofing.com,
23:36
Speaker 1: the website. Hunter, how did the, we didn't pay as
23:39
Speaker 1: much attention to it, but how did the Mason Miller
23:41
Speaker 1: paternity leave thing play in San Diego? What was the
23:45
Speaker 1: vibe of that among their media and their fan base?
23:48
Speaker 1: Because Max Freed went through it, and he, as somebody
23:51
Speaker 1: pointed out, he's the first, the Elias Sports Bureau said
23:53
Speaker 1: he's the first pitcher ever to lose an elimination game
23:56
Speaker 1: and miss the birth of his child in the same day.
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Speaker 9: That is That is, wow.
24:05
Speaker 1: Savage.
24:05
Speaker 9: Tough day. Tough day.
24:07
Speaker 1: Tough day.
24:08
Speaker 9: Yeah, that is a tough day. I think it played.
24:10
Speaker 9: I think it was a surprise. I mean, when that news,
24:12
Speaker 9: because it didn't, you know, and we talked to some
24:14
Speaker 9: players after the game that night, and they were like,
24:17
Speaker 9: you know, we didn't find out until right before first pitch.
24:19
Speaker 9: I mean, we didn't really find out until right before
24:21
Speaker 9: first pitch. So it kind of came as a surprise.
24:24
Speaker 9: And it seemed like that did as well for San Diego.
24:27
Speaker 9: I didn't realize that they, you know, that was even
24:29
Speaker 9: a possibility that he would possibly miss a game so that,
24:32
Speaker 9: you know, that's he's in Mason Miller said that he
24:35
Speaker 9: wasn't even watching the game. And then after the, you know, the,
24:38
Speaker 9: everything went well and the child was as been born.
24:42
Speaker 9: Then they said, yeah, the Padres won and he was
24:43
Speaker 9: excited to get back to the park and see if
24:46
Speaker 9: he could help them the next night. But yeah, that,
24:48
Speaker 9: that was, I think just overall a little surprising that,
24:51
Speaker 9: it just kind of came out of nowhere about an
24:52
Speaker 9: hour before the game. And that's obviously one of their
24:55
Speaker 9: biggest relievers. And obviously you have more a hone who
24:57
Speaker 9: was unavailable at that, that night as well. And obviously
25:00
Speaker 9: he didn't pitch last night. And you think about what
25:02
Speaker 9: the Brewers did to him that first game and how,
25:05
Speaker 9: you know, he had to throw so many pitches and that's,
25:08
Speaker 9: That's what the Brewers did all series long, and they
25:12
Speaker 9: had really good at-bats all series long, and that really,
25:16
Speaker 9: I think, wore on some of these pitchers. Mason Miller
25:19
Speaker 9: wasn't the exact same last night. Look, they were very
25:22
Speaker 9: judicious about what they were swinging at, what they were
25:24
Speaker 9: taking with all these pitchers, and I think that wore
25:27
Speaker 9: them down as the series went on. Brewers will probably
25:31
Speaker 9: tell you they should have scored more runs because they
25:32
Speaker 9: had opportunities, but just the ability to consistently put pressure
25:37
Speaker 9: on the opposition. That's what they've tried. That's what they've
25:41
Speaker 9: tried to do all year. That's what they've done all year.
25:43
Speaker 9: And it continued into that series. Now you're hoping against
25:46
Speaker 9: the Dodgers, you continue that pressure, but you also get
25:48
Speaker 9: those runs.
25:49
Speaker 4: That's a great point on her.
25:50
Speaker 3: And it was exactly what I was thinking in that
25:52
Speaker 3: it wasn't that they put up a crooked number of runs,
25:54
Speaker 3: but the constant pressure they put on it, it's, you know, all,
25:57
Speaker 3: all those scorelines aren't created equal. And the Brewers have
26:00
Speaker 3: had 21 hits in the last two games. Now, part
26:03
Speaker 3: of me thinks that there's a dam about to break
26:04
Speaker 3: for the Brewers offense. Do you get that sense? Now
26:06
Speaker 3: they'd have to do it against some really good pitching, obviously.
26:11
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I think they're up to the task about
26:13
Speaker 9: just about anybody right now. I just feel like they're
26:15
Speaker 9: very smart. Their ball strike, as Pat Murphy says right now,
26:20
Speaker 9: feels pretty good. It doesn't feel like they're chasing a
26:23
Speaker 9: whole lot, and they're a team that doesn't chase a
26:24
Speaker 9: whole lot, period. But it just seems like in that series,
26:27
Speaker 9: they're very good about, okay, let's take our walks. They
26:31
Speaker 9: didn't have a strikeout until late in that game last night.
26:34
Speaker 9: So that definitely helps. So, yeah, I was thinking, you know,
26:37
Speaker 9: it might come last night. It's like, man, just one
26:40
Speaker 9: crooked number for this team in an inning. It felt
26:42
Speaker 9: like they were going to win that going away last night.
26:45
Speaker 9: And they didn't really get it, but they were able
26:47
Speaker 9: to tack on. The pitching obviously was fantastic. So I
26:50
Speaker 9: do think that maybe one of those, I don't know,
26:53
Speaker 9: maybe a five, six run output in the game is
26:57
Speaker 9: coming at some point just because of the pressure. And
26:59
Speaker 9: then maybe you get one big swing with the home run,
27:01
Speaker 9: because obviously that can very much help you in the
27:04
Speaker 9: playoffs or anytime.
27:05
Speaker 1: You do like the traffic you do miss. And Murph
27:07
Speaker 1: talked about how that's, you know, crushing. And it's like,
27:09
Speaker 1: you know, those are things that you can lose games
27:11
Speaker 1: on with not, you know, getting a hit with the
27:13
Speaker 1: bases loaded and all that. But the Brewers pitching staff
27:16
Speaker 1: gave up three hits last night. In an elimination game.
27:19
Speaker 1: The Padres have no claim to win. Machado's ball was close,
27:25
Speaker 1: but they got three hits. How many games do you
27:26
Speaker 1: win when you get three hits? Not many.
27:31
Speaker 9: Oh, absolutely. And that's a credit to the pitching. Obviously,
27:34
Speaker 9: last night was just... I mean, Aaron Ashby, Robert Gasser
27:37
Speaker 9: covering seven innings total. And then, look, I can't remember
27:41
Speaker 9: who it was. Obviously, we talked to so many players
27:43
Speaker 9: last night. It might have been McGill. I can't remember exactly,
27:47
Speaker 9: but just saying the feel of Pat Murphy, being able
27:50
Speaker 9: to just say, all right, Ashby, I like what I'm
27:52
Speaker 9: seeing from you. Go out and get that third inning.
27:56
Speaker 9: Not everybody would do that. They maybe would go match up,
27:58
Speaker 9: whatever it is. But he's like, you know what, I
28:02
Speaker 9: like what Aaron Ashby is doing right now, and let's
28:04
Speaker 9: see if we can get one more in it. We
28:05
Speaker 9: were surprised that he went out for the third inning
28:07
Speaker 9: for sure, but he was able to get it done
28:10
Speaker 9: and just an incredible, you know, valuable arm. He has
28:14
Speaker 9: been obviously all year and in one of the biggest
28:17
Speaker 9: moments to follow Robert Gasser and to have seven innings
28:20
Speaker 9: out of your lefties. uh... it was quite impressive i.
28:23
Speaker 2: Don't know if it was intentional hunter-bombard join us from
28:25
Speaker 2: the san diego airport is says he flies back uh...
28:28
Speaker 2: showered and and champagne off of them uh.
28:31
Speaker 1: but still basking in the glow.
28:32
Speaker 2: Of the last night in that in that last inning
28:36
Speaker 2: Contreras goes out and talks to him. Then the next
28:39
Speaker 2: batter hook goes out and talks to him. It feels
28:41
Speaker 2: like they're just trying to buy as much time for
28:43
Speaker 2: him to, to recalibrate and, you know, get himself back
28:46
Speaker 2: to somewhat neutral as you could.
28:48
Speaker 1: I wanted to go back to Gasser.
28:50
Speaker 2: You're talking about a second round pick of the Padres,
28:52
Speaker 2: the key piece that they get back in the trade
28:57
Speaker 2: for Josh Hader. A number of years ago, the only
28:59
Speaker 2: year that they miss the playoffs in this run with
29:03
Speaker 2: the yellow chair to go here, Hunter is, They acquire
29:06
Speaker 2: him and he comes up so huge last night, two parter,
29:10
Speaker 2: just how important and valuable is he going to be?
29:13
Speaker 2: Cause he's just earned himself and he done messed up
29:15
Speaker 2: Robert caster. Now you're going to start probably game four
29:18
Speaker 2: in the NLCS. Just how valuable could he be? And
29:21
Speaker 2: is he somebody that you kind of forget about going
29:23
Speaker 2: forward as somebody they have control for through 31?
29:26
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a, that's the big part of that. And
29:30
Speaker 9: you know, We were like, you know what? Okay, last
29:32
Speaker 9: night decided that the Brewers won the hater trade, everyone,
29:36
Speaker 9: because he comes back against San Diego, and there you go.
29:38
Speaker 9: but no I think absolutely it's someone that you know
29:42
Speaker 9: and we've heard about him we've seen glimpses obviously the
29:45
Speaker 9: Tommy John the lung injury didn't help because he kind
29:48
Speaker 9: of forgot about him for a little while But Pat
29:50
Speaker 9: Murphy talked about it a couple days ago saying, like,
29:53
Speaker 9: he picked up where Kyle Harrison left off. Like, Kyle
29:56
Speaker 9: Harrison got the injury and obviously hasn't been the same since.
29:59
Speaker 9: And since then, I mean, there was about a month,
30:01
Speaker 9: a month and a half gap in there. But then
30:03
Speaker 9: in late August, he comes in in relief of Dustin
30:05
Speaker 9: May after May gets hit with the liner. And since then,
30:07
Speaker 9: he's been pretty much near lights out. And he's just
30:09
Speaker 9: been so consistent. Did he give up a home run? Yes.
30:13
Speaker 9: Was it going to be hard to go the whole
30:14
Speaker 9: series without giving a home run up to Tatis Jr.
30:16
Speaker 9: and Machado? Probably. So you tip your cap. But otherwise,
30:20
Speaker 9: you know, Robert Gasser saying to us last night, like
30:22
Speaker 9: it just was, it was all about keeping calm, keeping
30:25
Speaker 9: this like any other game. And it's hard to obviously
30:28
Speaker 9: in this environment, but I just watching him walk in
30:30
Speaker 9: from the bullpen before the game, I was like, yeah,
30:33
Speaker 9: he seems pretty calm. He was just kind of taking
30:35
Speaker 9: it in and strolling and, I think that is just
30:38
Speaker 9: such a key for not only Gasser, but really this
30:41
Speaker 9: entire pitching staff and this entire team. Although we did see, obviously,
30:45
Speaker 9: Cooper Pratt seemed to make some rookie mistakes. And we
30:48
Speaker 9: saw a little bit of that. It seemed almost more
30:50
Speaker 9: from the position players. But otherwise, the pitchers seem to
30:53
Speaker 9: be really good at just keeping it pitch to pitch
30:56
Speaker 9: and keeping calm and poised. Logan Henderson's a very poised
31:00
Speaker 9: pitcher in general. But these guys are really good at
31:03
Speaker 9: doing that. And I think that comes from being in
31:06
Speaker 9: literally playing pitch to pitch all season long, because that's
31:10
Speaker 9: what Pat Murphy, you know, preaches in the, in the clubhouse.
31:13
Speaker 9: And obviously that's one of the things that has made
31:15
Speaker 9: them really good. It's just focusing on the present. So boy, he,
31:18
Speaker 9: you know, he's got all of his pictures saying the
31:20
Speaker 9: same thing when we ask about that, just that they
31:23
Speaker 9: are able to stay present and that regular season helps them.
31:26
Speaker 9: I think in that moment, of course, he's pitched in
31:28
Speaker 9: other environments. He pitched in Wrigley, et cetera. So, I
31:31
Speaker 9: think that helped, too, and his confidence continues to grow.
31:34
Speaker 1: Going to be interesting stuff. Hunter, get yourself some rest.
31:37
Speaker 1: Get back here. We need you ready to cover some
31:40
Speaker 1: workouts later this week and heading into Sunday in Game 1.
31:47
Speaker 9: Yes, it doesn't stop, and we wouldn't want it to
31:49
Speaker 9: stop because this is an absolutely fun ride. What a team.
31:53
Speaker 9: They just continue to win ballgames. Yeah, it was a
31:56
Speaker 9: blast last night. And looking forward to more coverage in
31:59
Speaker 9: the NLCS. We'll see you guys when you get back
32:01
Speaker 9: to Milwaukee.
32:01
Speaker 4: Hey, Hunter, you didn't steal the lacrosse champagne bottle, did you?
32:04
Speaker 4: I had to ask that.
32:05
Speaker 1: He got out of Alaska.
32:06
Speaker 9: Oh, you know what? I realized too late that the
32:09
Speaker 9: cities were on them. Otherwise, I would have went digging
32:11
Speaker 9: for lacrosse or tomahawk or something like that.
32:13
Speaker 1: Right, right, right. Good call. We'll pick up a couple
32:16
Speaker 1: corks off the floor for souvenirs. That's what I always
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Speaker 1: like to do. That's a good call, yes. Good stuff. Thanks, Hunter.
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Speaker 9: I did do that. I did do that. I can confirm.
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Speaker 3: Thanks, baby.
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Speaker 1: Learn the lessons. Unlike me and my boys, you won't
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Speaker 2: You handed a couple of those to Miz. Think about
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Speaker 2: how much he'd clean up at those card shops that
32:38
Speaker 2: he's going to at those. That would be good ammunition.
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Speaker 1: things up next. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
33:17
Speaker 1: and Armin bringing it to you. We haven't talked a
33:19
Speaker 1: lot about Packers-Bears. We'll touch on that during the evening program,
33:23
Speaker 1: the Thursday huddle, Thursday night huddle. Pottawatomie Sportsbook will be
33:28
Speaker 1: there from 5 to 7. We'd love to see you.
33:31
Speaker 1: The phrase that pays. Come and see us and say
33:34
Speaker 1: to Armin, beat L.A. And he's going to hand you something.
33:36
Speaker 1: It might be a koozie. It might be a gift card.
33:38
Speaker 1: We don't know.
33:38
Speaker 4: We'll see.
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Speaker 3: Beat L.A., the phrase made popular by the Celtics, but
33:43
Speaker 3: it originated at a Sixers-Celtics game, I believe.
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Speaker 4: Like when they're Eastern conference and something like that. So
33:49
Speaker 4: that's interesting. Little bit there for the beat LA thing.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I remember one time when Sixers and Celtics were playing
33:56
Speaker 1: and I think it was the Sixers fans. We're saying, well,
33:59
Speaker 1: as long as you beat L.A. That was the process. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was it.
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Speaker 4: At the end of the series.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Oh, like an ode of, hey, we know you just
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Speaker 2: knocked us out, but at least go beat those Sons
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Speaker 2: of Guns.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I like that. That's when it started. That's a
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Speaker 1: little bit like Red Sox fans will cheer for anybody
34:14
Speaker 1: playing against the Yankees.
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Speaker 3: I've been wondering that about Cubs fans with this whole
34:19
Speaker 3: White Sox deal. And I've been trying to get as
34:21
Speaker 3: many people that are Cubs fans to give me their
34:23
Speaker 3: opinion as possible because I'm curious. Is it like, okay, well,
34:27
Speaker 3: maybe Chicago. It's a Chicago team, so good luck. Or
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Speaker 3: does it make it worse, like they cheer against the
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Speaker 3: White Sox?
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Speaker 1: More of a villain.
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Speaker 3: I'm really curious to know if it's like, that's our rival,
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Speaker 3: so I'm cheering against them all the way.
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Speaker 4: I don't care if it's in the same city limits
34:39
Speaker 4: as my team. Interesting question.
34:41
Speaker 1: And based on what happened last night, this is Jermaine
34:45
Speaker 1: as we're getting out of here, but Austin on the Talkin'
34:47
Speaker 1: Text line. I don't know what Ashby's contract is, but
34:50
Speaker 1: that man is underpaid for his usage rate. It's crazy
34:53
Speaker 1: how much they march him out there. Dude. Well, Aaron
34:55
Speaker 1: Ashby low-key is one of those Peralta contracts.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they signed him basically right after.
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Speaker 1: And then, if you remember, didn't he get hurt pretty
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Speaker 1: much right after? He signed a five-year, $ 20 million deal,
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Speaker 1: and it runs through next season. But they have options
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Speaker 1: for 28 and 29 that they can pick up. 28
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Speaker 1: would be $ 9 million, and 29 would be $ 13 million.
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Speaker 3: I remember when they first signed that deal and he
35:15
Speaker 3: struggled a little bit. People were like, what are you
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Speaker 3: doing wasting money?
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Speaker 1: In essence, it's a seven-year deal and it can max
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Speaker 1: out at $ 41 million if he goes all the way
35:25
Speaker 1: or up to $ 46 million if he hits the performance escalators.
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Speaker 1: But he's not going to hit unrestricted free agency unless
35:31
Speaker 1: the Brewers let him until 2030.
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Speaker 9: Good.
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Speaker 2: Lock him up and he'll be 31 at that point.
35:36
Speaker 2: And listen, Drew, his agent must have been listening to
35:39
Speaker 2: Armin when Armin kept trying to talk about him being
35:41
Speaker 2: in the Cy Young conversation. His performance escalators are where
35:45
Speaker 2: he finishes in the Cy Young balloting.
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Speaker 1: Top five, he gets an extra $ 750K. So yeah, this
35:50
Speaker 1: year he's making $ 5. 5 million.
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Speaker 4: Listen, I'm sure he'll take it and the Brewers will
35:54
Speaker 4: take it.
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Speaker 1: Top ten, an extra half a million.
35:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a mutually beneficial type deal and the Brewers
35:59
Speaker 3: had a plan for him and that plan is coming through.
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Speaker 1: He was the stuff guy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He's got great stuff. He's got great stuff.
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Speaker 4: Which we've seen, right?
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Speaker 2: Can't say that I don't immediately get PTSD when I
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Speaker 2: hear that and think Manny Parra 2.0.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. When all you hear about is how good
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Speaker 1: the stuff is.
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Speaker 3: Similar style, similar lefties, all that stuff.
36:16
Speaker 1: It's also, if we're looking for foreshadowing and a reason
36:19
Speaker 1: the Brewers are going to win, well, one of his
36:21
Speaker 1: best friends on the planet plays for the Knicks. Landry Schmidt.
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Speaker 1: Let's go. Yes. Another good call.
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Speaker 8: Okay.
36:28
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that.
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Speaker 5: They're besties.
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Speaker 1: They've been best friends for a long time.
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Speaker 5: Grew up together.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%. And so... One guy won a ring, the
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Speaker 1: other guy can win a ring.
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Speaker 4: Giddy up.
36:37
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: And listen, we also have, it appears, I don't want
36:41
Speaker 2: to jinx anything, seems like our fathering is coming at
36:44
Speaker 2: the right time. Because I think Jake Bowers and his
36:47
Speaker 2: wife had their first child a year or so ago.
36:49
Speaker 2: That's why he continued to roll through. Haley Mitchell is
36:53
Speaker 2: pregnant with their first child. Garrett Mitchell got his dad's
36:55
Speaker 2: strength yesterday a little bit before. But they planned it out, Drew.
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Speaker 2: I think they're all going to have the babies in
37:02
Speaker 2: the middle of the offseason. Or you time this up
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Speaker 2: with October. So when is right around the time you're
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Speaker 2: leaving for spring training?
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Speaker 1: Makes sense. There you go.
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Speaker 2: Right around the time you're leaving for spring training. Get
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Speaker 2: yourself into a difficult October issue.
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Speaker 3: Well, Brandon and Joni Woodruff had their third child, I think,
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Speaker 3: in was it June or July?
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Speaker 1: And it was the week that he hurt himself.
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Speaker 5: It was.
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Speaker 4: And, you know, these reports keep coming out that he's
37:28
Speaker 4: getting closer.
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Speaker 2: And if you remember correctly, he had said that he
37:31
Speaker 2: didn't do the surgery right away because he wanted to
37:34
Speaker 2: be able to help out with the baby and wait.
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Speaker 2: And in the midst there, that's when they said that
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Speaker 2: there was a little bit of healing that he wasn't
37:39
Speaker 2: going to end up having surgery.
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Speaker 1: Well, he's not giving up, I don't think. By the way, Billy,
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Speaker 1: Dalton Varshow is the poster child for this.
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Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 5: Literally.
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Speaker 1: Because his dad, Gary, played his last major league game,
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Speaker 1: and Dalton was born nine months and one day after
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Speaker 1: the last game.
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Speaker 4: Around these parts, we plan well. True Milwaukee type.
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Speaker 1: July 2nd, 1996, Dalton Varshow entered the world exactly nine
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Speaker 1: months and one day after his father played his last
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Speaker 1: game as a major leaguer.
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Speaker 2: That is retirement. That's retirement. Machado made fun of Verlander.
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Speaker 2: He's like, dude, aren't you supposed to slow down in retirement? Obviously,
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Speaker 2: Gary didn't.
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Speaker 1: I mean, retirement ramped up there for at least a
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Speaker 1: couple minutes. The thing with Ashby is his uncle, Andy Ashby,
38:25
Speaker 1: covered many playoff games that that guy started.
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Speaker 4: In San Diego.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: He was a popular Padre and a good player. Just
38:32
Speaker 1: an incredible delivery, too.
38:35
Speaker 2: You saw that curveball that he spins in, and him
38:37
Speaker 2: and Contreras walk off as my man is thinking about
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Speaker 2: challenging it, knowing there's no reason to.
38:42
Speaker 1: Is there any pining to get him as a starter
38:45
Speaker 1: and unleash that arsenal for five or six innings a night?
38:48
Speaker 1: Or is he so good at the two or three
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Speaker 1: innings that you just want to keep him where he is?
38:51
Speaker 1: Because that role is where baseball is now. You need
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Speaker 1: those guys. See, that's the interesting part you just said there, Drew.
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Speaker 1: Because you follow the money, right?
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Speaker 2: Will those guys end up getting paid like the big
39:02
Speaker 2: ones do and the starting pitchers do? Because I would
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Speaker 2: assume him and his agent are like, all right, we
39:07
Speaker 2: could do that. We could double that up and we
39:09
Speaker 2: could make 30 starts and probably make close to 100.
39:12
Speaker 1: Pretty good. Well, everything's going to get when they have
39:16
Speaker 1: this nuclear winter with the CBA, but it's got to
39:19
Speaker 1: be a recalibration because like, why do I want to
39:21
Speaker 1: pay 300 million for a starting pitcher? Who's never going
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Speaker 1: to see past the fifth inning in a playoff game.
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Speaker 9: Yes. Right.
39:28
Speaker 1: It's like, what are we paying for? That's where the.
39:29
Speaker 2: Tough thing about the labor negotiation, because you said the
39:32
Speaker 2: MLB also kind of sent out a prepare.
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Speaker 1: Of a document. There's a big story in The Athletic
39:36
Speaker 1: about the 34-page manifesto they sent out about how to
39:40
Speaker 1: handle the lockout.
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Speaker 2: It seems like right now there's so many people that
39:45
Speaker 2: were almost resigned to it. But there's just the recalibration.
39:48
Speaker 2: The word you just said is the best way of
39:50
Speaker 2: saying it. There does need to be maybe a shift
39:54
Speaker 2: in how it goes. But damn, man, baseball's way too
39:57
Speaker 2: good right now. Not only because our team's really good.
39:59
Speaker 2: You just can't lose games. You cannot lose games. There's
40:02
Speaker 2: way too much money out there.
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Speaker 1: The pitch clock, the challenge, everything's working. The game's never
40:06
Speaker 1: been better to watch, really.
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Speaker 9: Never.
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Speaker 2: And there's just way too much money at stake for
40:10
Speaker 2: people to be too dumb and greedy to miss games
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Speaker 2: coming up next year. So I would bet on it happening,
40:15
Speaker 2: but We'll see.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to see you again tonight. In fact,
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Speaker 1: we'll see you at 5 o'clock at Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Come
40:24
Speaker 1: and see us. See you soon with Victory Chicken. We'll
40:26
Speaker 1: have some prizes on Victory Monday, and it'll be Buccaneers, Cowboys,
40:30
Speaker 1: and White Sox Guardians. We're going to have some fun,
40:32
Speaker 1: make some investments, come and see us, have some great food,
40:34
Speaker 1: and come and hang out. It's our last Thursday show
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Speaker 1: in the morning, boys. We'll see you tomorrow at 5 a.m.
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Speaker 1: for the finale. Peace!