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After a classic Wrigley Field celebration, Cubs-Brewers should be more great theater · North Side Territory: A Chicago Cubs Podcast

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome into North Side Territory Foul Territory Networks Cubs Podcast.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: I'm Sahadev Charma with my partner Patrick Mooney. We are
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: your Cubs beat writers over at the Athletic and Patrick,
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: the Cubs are moving on to the NLDS.
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: That was a hell of a game.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: It was tense to the final out, and the fans
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: were into it from the first pitch. That was a
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: fun environment. We said it before, like these are fun
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: environments to be a part of, and you could tell
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: it was gonna be a fun one because from pitch
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: one they were on their feet and getting into it.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: A three pitch strikeout to get the game going and
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: they were roaring. And then the celebration afterwards, that's you know,
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: it's been a while since we've well, I guess, you know,
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: the clincher that you know to get into the playoffs,
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: but I wasn't there for that one, so it had
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: been a while.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a long.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: Time since they've celebrated at Wrigley Field. Those are always exciting.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: It's just you know, kind of the hard work paying
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  Speaker 1: off for all these guys watching them celebrated, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a good environment to be around, and now
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: they head to Milwaukee. But that was that was a
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: that was a wild series in the sense that one
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: of those series where it felt like it could have
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: gone either way and it just kind of like went
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: the Cub's way, and Cubs fans kind of sigh have
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: a sigh of relief there.
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  Speaker 3: I think that added to the celebration, and you and
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: I were I think we're in the clubhouse before we
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: went back out onto the field, and I think a
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: Cubs person was like, I did not need that ninth inning,
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: and we were so busy writing all these elements of
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: our takeaways, and then the Brewers preview and you look up,
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: it's like, whoa, they were one swing away from just
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: absolutely killing the vibes at Wrigley Field, but that didn't happen.
• 2:09
  Speaker 3: So I think that sigh of relief was part of it,
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: and also organizationally within the fan base. I don't want
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: to say Cubs fans were spoiled because they went more
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: than a century without a World Series title, but fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
• 2:25
  Speaker 3: those NLCS trips, I think the franchise sort of took it.
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  Speaker 4: For granted, and.
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  Speaker 3: After waiting several years, to get back to a moment
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  Speaker 3: like this. You can see the looks on people's faces,
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: the intensity in which they're pouring sparkling wine and beers
• 2:47
  Speaker 3: on each other. That moment meant a lot to a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people in that locker room and the forty
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: thousand fans in the stands, and I think you can
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: interpret that clinching game in that context as well. Of
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: just there was a lot of nervous energy throughout the week,
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: and then the Cubs putting pressure on the padres and
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: getting you Darvish on the ropes really allowed the game
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  Speaker 3: to play out in almost an ideal scenario for the Cubs.
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  Speaker 3: It probably liked a couple more runs the ninth inning,
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: they didn't need that, But overall, it's kind of how
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: you script it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they pitched so well, they played brilliant defense.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: I just cannot emphasize enough how important that was all series.
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: I think it goes unnoticed. Almost it didn't go unnoticed.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: People noticed Dansby Swanson and Nico Horner this series, but
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: just to you have to understand it, fewer base runners,
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: fewer pitches, it saves a team. I don't know how
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: different that that series is with a lesser defensive shortstop
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: or center fielder or second basement.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a different series.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think the Cubs are advancing without their defense.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: Mike Shult said it. Mike Shult said after the game,
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: you know they don't. Yeah, they don't hand out MVPs
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: for the wild Card round. But Dansby Swanson was the
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Cub's MVP. I think he was zero for four with
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: three strikeouts in Game three, it didn't matter. He saved
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: that game in so many different ways. He makes these
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: plays look simple. They're not always spectacular, but he gets
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: the job done. Just just really big defense all around
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  Speaker 1: and kind of allowed everything to kind of happen the
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: way Craig Council wanted it to, the way Tommy Hotteby
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  Speaker 1: hoped it would so they could execute their pitching plan.
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  Speaker 3: I believe Dansby said something along the lines of we
• 5:01
  Speaker 3: make outs outs, and sometimes it is, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: the eye catching play of the over the shoulder catch
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  Speaker 3: and shalla centerfield, and sometimes it is just what you're saying,
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  Speaker 3: those sort of in between hops hit to one side
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  Speaker 3: or the other and Dansby just smoothly collects it, throws
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  Speaker 3: right on the money to first base that's an out,
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  Speaker 3: or it's the double plays that get turned like all
• 5:27
  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 4: It is a cumulative effect.
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  Speaker 3: And you're right, I wrote it in the preview and
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: I'm guilty of this, like you just kind of take
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: it for granted, like the ball hit to short you
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: just start writing like six three or six four three
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  Speaker 3: like it's not But those are not always automatic. And
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  Speaker 3: then the playoffs, when the margins are so small, when
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: it's these compressed series, you have to convert, and the
• 5:53
  Speaker 3: Cubs did over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Palentia was brilliant again.
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  Speaker 1: Uh I just I did not expect him to be
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  Speaker 1: unleashed in the way that he was.
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  Speaker 2: But his you know, the.
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: Minor shoulder issue that it turned out to be was
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  Speaker 1: probably a blessing in disguise in the sense that he
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: got two weeks off, he's fresh.
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  Speaker 2: They can they don't.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to be the closer, he doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to feel like Craig Council can do that without uh
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  Speaker 1: can remove him from that role without it being like
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  Speaker 1: this big issue. And and now he's this weapon in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason that's just like, Okay, this guy, you know
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  Speaker 1: you you add him to what they have with Keller, Kittridge,
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  Speaker 1: Pomerants and Theobar.
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  Speaker 2: It's a formidable it's a formidable.
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  Speaker 1: Group and and it it proved to be just a huge,
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  Speaker 1: huge piece of the puzzle, uh on uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for three games and and we'll see, we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: they unleash the group in the post I mean in
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  Speaker 1: the in the NLDS and beyond if they make it,
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: because you have to use it slightly differently.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. And it was all set up.
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  Speaker 1: By by Jameson Tyne. Who is are who we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: put under the draft Gings player spotlight, all right, Patrick
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: Jameson Tyne not going to be the guy that gets
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  Speaker 1: all the headlines, not someone that yeah, he doesn't he
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's not the ace of the staff. He's
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: a little unheralded and he even knows it and he's
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: fine with it. He's a team leader, he he It
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: was just like four innings of arguably some of the
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: best stuff he's had. And he said it after that
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: after that strikeout, he's never heard a ballpark that loud before,
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: and and it was it was fun to watch him.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: His change up is new for this season. Kick change.
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  Speaker 2: It was nasty, his sweeper struggled at the beginning of
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: the season. It was back Jamison.
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  Speaker 1: Tyne is just a huge piece of this puzzle, and
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: he set everything up to work on Thursday night, Thursday evening, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 4: Very symbolic of how this team was.
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  Speaker 3: Built and how it forged an identity of Jameson Tyne's
• 8:23
  Speaker 3: free agent. The Cubs are in this in between stage,
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: remember the Cubs signing him, and people from other organizations
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: at that winter meetings to use, you know, the scouting
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  Speaker 3: parlance is like this guy's eighty makeup or this guy's
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  Speaker 3: a ten, just in terms of how he conducts himself,
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: how he helps out other pitchers, how he maintains a
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: sense of calm and professionalism. We've seen that it's not
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: always glamorous, but for people in that room, that is
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  Speaker 3: very much appreciated. So I think having a moment like
• 9:05
  Speaker 3: that was was sort of fitting for Tyne, who remembered
• 9:10
  Speaker 3: coming up with the Padres at a time when the
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: Cubs were the team in Major League Baseball, you know,
• 9:18
  Speaker 3: thinking back to kind of fifteen sixteen seventeen. I mean
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: Tyone remembered seeing what Brigley was like. I mean he
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: talked to Anthony Rizzo before signing with the Cubs. There
• 9:26
  Speaker 3: were teammates in New York and yeah, when you readjust
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: your expectations for the playoffs, to have your starter do that,
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: it's amazing. And you saw how rattled the Padres were yesterday,
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: and you Darvish, we talked about him on the prior episode,
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: just a fantastic career, one of the most interesting people
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: you know, we've covered, but he.
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  Speaker 4: Just hasn't had it recently.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, his postseason track record for a lot
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: of reasons is a little little spotty there. And you
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: could just tell the Padres were all of a sudden
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: out of their element, whereas the Cubs were just very,
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: very orderly and had it play out, you know, exactly
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  Speaker 3: as they mapped it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't have The Padres didn't have the same
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: bullpen they had on Wednesday. They just couldn't They couldn't
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: do it the same way. Darvish didn't go deep enough, Darbish,
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: didn't pitch well enough. And you know, great career, Hall
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: of fame, borderline hall of fame career probably, and I
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: you know, a ton of respect for the guy, but
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: he didn't like I just had a feeling the Cubs
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: could get to him.
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: The Cubs probably should have put a lot more runs
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  Speaker 2: on the board.
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's you know, it's part of playoff baseball.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of baseball in general. Sometimes the hits aren't
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: gonna come in the big situations. But they did a
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: good job on offense. They need to come up with
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: the big hits more often. We can talk about that
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  Speaker 1: next segment, but I just you know, I think it's
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: important that show what would you know, talk about what
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: James and Tyne did. Uh, He's going to be needed
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: for more going forward. All these guys are. It's not
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: going to be four innings going forward unless something goes wrong,
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: because it's a this was a different series. How to
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: Be said it. Council said it. You're trying to win
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: two games. You do whatever you can. And that lineup
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: kind of set it up perfectly. The lineup construction of
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: the padres with that pocket of three lefties, that's a
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  Speaker 1: perfect time you pull your right handed starter and go
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: to your lefty that you trust.
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  Speaker 2: It's set up well. It worked to perfection.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. Credit to council, credit to how to Be, and
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  Speaker 1: credit to the pitchers. For for doing their jobs. I mean,
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: Keller made it interesting there in the ninth the ump
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  Speaker 1: gave him a call. That's that's that's part of baseball
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  Speaker 1: as well, and at least at least for now and
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: and uh and and you know, Kittridge came in and
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: cleaned up, cleaned it up and sent them to the
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: n LDS.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a It was one of those nights that
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: you know it maybe not like the National Series, maybe
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: not maybe a touch less intense, but that this was.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: This was a fun one. This was a fun series.
• 12:18
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  Speaker 1: Patrick five game set against the Brewers starts on Saturday
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: Is gonna be fun?
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  Speaker 1: I mean Cardinals five game set in twenty fifteen, m R.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: That one was intense. I don't know, this feels a
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: little different. I don't like this. Rivalry is ramped up
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: right now the Cubs want My guess is both teams
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: wanted this in a sense like want to face each other.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: Certainly the Cubs wanted this. I don't you know. I
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: don't have a great feeling.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: I still haven't decided what I'm picking here, but this
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: is it's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 2: These are evenly matched teams.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: The Brewers do it in a way that's not as
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: exciting and maybe not as traditional or as effective in
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: the playoffs because they don't have the sluggers. They don't
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: have guys that hit home runs, so a lot of
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: people are going to be picking against the Brewers. The
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Cubs have sluggers. But the Brewers and the Cubs do
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  Speaker 1: this too. They play great defense, they have a good bullpen,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: they have really good base running, they have you know,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: defined characteristics they look for.
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  Speaker 2: This is who this team is. You know who they are. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and they're tremendously good. They're not, They're not.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't sneak into the playoffs. They have the best
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: record in baseball. They're they're a really good team, and
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  Speaker 1: they they're they have a chance to make a World
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Series run. The Cubs don't want that to happen. And
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: I think this is like and then I'm bearing the
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: lead here. Craig Council returns to Milwaukee once again, now
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: for the postseason. Uh, this is this is gonna be
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: a fun one.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: I can't wait for that moment when they show Craig's
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: face up on the board and just everyone starts booing.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: I will imagine, I will say that, I'd imagine there'll
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: be a fair amount of Cubs fans there, but still
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: it'll be deafening just to hear the reaction. And it's
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: always funny to watch Counsel's reactions to this. I think
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: part of him gets a kick out of it. Just
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: I think that's how he's sort of coped with this.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: You know, him and his family very Midwestern kind of
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: it is ironic that someone who grew up a couple
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: miles from this stadium, and whose dad worked for the Brewers,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: and who gave a lot of himself to build that
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: small market team into something a lot more, is you know,
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: vilified where he still lives. I mean, just just all
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: of it is going to be great. Theater that comes
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Cardinals series. I felt more like kind of historic, of
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: just kind of how the Cardinals had really just you know,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: dominated and set a stand for a while. This is
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: just I think a lot more personal and kind of
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  Speaker 3: in your face.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with you.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I don't think it'll be easy, but I mean there's
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: no reason for the Cubs to be like intimidated at
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: all about this. And I also think, you know, one
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: of the things to watch will be here of the
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Cubs survived a really tough series against the Padres. They
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: faced some great pitchers and they advanced. And the Brewers
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: have been sitting at home for a while now. They
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: will go almost a full week in between games, and
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: even those games they were playing at the end of
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: September were sort of meaningless. I believe they clinched the
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: division on September twenty first, So you're talking about that juice,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: that edge that you need every single day as a
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: major league players. It's hard to just flip that on
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  Speaker 3: and off. And you know, we'll see if that plays
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: a factor. I think you've seen in previous postseasons the
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: teams that get bounced early. I think I want to
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: say the Braves a couple of years ago, maybe even
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: the Phillies last year. Of Like the Phillies when they
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: made that World Series run, wasn't it kind of like
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: all right? They were in an elimination mode like right away,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: and they carried it.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: We'll see rest versus rust how that plays out.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really hard to to really measure that in
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  Speaker 1: any way and and understand that because it's not it's
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: not some number, uh, And you just don't know how
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: it's going to impact them until you see the games unfold.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: And then we're also just projecting. I don't know, I like,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: did they just did the did the other team just
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: pitch really well? Or were those hitters cold? I would
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: say this, the Cubs bats were a little rusty entering
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: that series against the Padres that I think that had
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to do with the Padres. Like I said yesterday or
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: whenever we recorded last, I said this, I thought those
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: first two matchups with the starters were just bad, bad,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: bad for the Cubs. Nasty pictures with the stuff that
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: they have and the like up in the zone, breaking balls,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: they just really hard. I mean, you can scratch a
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: few across you missed the like they did.
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  Speaker 2: They did.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: They gotten up in Game one, but Peralta's the only
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: one that is like intimidating like that. I don't want
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: to discount these pictures. I'm not saying that the Cubs
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: are gonna tee off on them, but that's the only
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: guy where it's like, oh, this guy is nasty stuff.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: This guy is, you know, a cy Young caliber pitcher.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: You could say the same about the Cubs, though you
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: could say the same thing about the Cubs. I just
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: think Tucker looked so much better the final few at
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: bats a Game two, and then obviously in Game three,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: PCA all.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: About confidence guy.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: You know, you get him feeling good and he had
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: some hard hit balls that what did you end up
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: with two or three hits? I think getting that yeah, yeah,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: And you know, even even Halp who was really struggling
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that series ended with a nice double there.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I believe.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: There were some good signs for the offense. I think
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: they didn't break out fully with the runs. Thirteen hits
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: is a big deal in my mind. Michael Bush ended
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the season on a tear. I think he had really
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: good at bats all series long against the Padres. Here's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: my I was thinking about this on the drive home.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I don't I think I'm taking the Cubs in this series.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And this is my random prediction. There will be one
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: game that the Cubs score more runs in that game
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: than they did the tirety of the Padres series. Uh
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: so that's six six runs they're gonna score. There's gonna
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: be a game where they score seven or more. I
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: just I think the bats, uh, they're they're just better matchups.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: The bullpen is good for the Breweries. Not great like
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: previous years, but there's some good arms in there, just
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: not as intimidating of starters, and in the playoffs that matters.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: And the offense for the Brewers is good.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: They do a lot of things well and maybe they
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: get hot at the right time.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Baseball is weird.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's this is gonna be a cake
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: walk but I think the Cubs come out on top,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and I think they score.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Some runs this series. Uh, and they have enough pitching.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I'm curious who who Council goes.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: With Tomorrow Saturday, and it's probably, like I'm in my head,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I'm leaning aside, but maybe it's Colin Ray.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: He's been so good to end the season.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: And basically Wednesday was like his side session, you know,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: his bullpen day.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, i mean Colin Ray is someone who was left
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: off of Milwaukee's postseason roster last year. I'm sure he's
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: he's similar to Council and that he's pretty self contained,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: you know, somewhat dry, monotone, but a very sharp observer,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: you know, whenever you get to talk to him, And
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I'm sure he would love that opportunity.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: You're right.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: I was looking back the game by games we were there.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Cubs did break out with a couple put some big
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: numbers on the board against the Brewers in a couple
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: of games. I want to say they outscored the Brewers
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: like sixty to fifty six on the season, but there
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: might have been like two games there where they scored
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: ten runs a piece something like that. And yeah, I
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: mean we had a little bit of a taste of
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: this with that five games and four days at Wrigley
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: when the when the Brewers just kind of staved off
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: the Cubs and maintained control of the division race. So
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: a lot of familiarity, a lot of tension, and I
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: feel like we're due for one of those wacky games,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Like every playoff game can't be three to one, three nothing, right, Yeah,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: some thing's going to happen, especially in a place like
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I was about to call it Miller Park American Family Field,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: And thinking of all those back and forth games we've seen,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: they're always scrambling to rewrite. I think Justin Steele described
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: one of those games as like that game was drunk
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, and it was a.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Very apt description. And I'm sure that's what we'll be
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: walking into here this weekend.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well we'll see.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm curious who council starts. The Brewers are
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: down brandon Woodriff, not sure if they know they don't there.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I was thinking of another team there. I think that's
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: their main injury, their biggest injury. And then we'll get
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: hopefully some sort of update on Kate Horton. I'm guessing
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: he's not coming back. He's not going to come back
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: for Game five. That's the earliest he can come back.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: The best case scenario, and we you know, we'll spend
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: more time on this the more information we get. The
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: best case scenario, in my mind, as he comes back
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: for the NLCS, if the Cubs get that far. So
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: we can think about that later. But it's something we
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: need to get more information.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: On and we can.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: We'll update you guys as soon as we have that information.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this series. This type of stuff
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: is fun. The Cardinals series in fifteen was fun. This
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: is going to be intense. There's no doubt that Brewers
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: fans are going to be into it. I think there's
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: going to be a decent amount of Cubs fans. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: got a lot of text from friends last night already
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: tickets purchase. That's pretty cool. And you know, Wrigley we'll
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: be rocking on Wednesday?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Wednesday? I think it's going to be a lot of fun.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to cover it, uh excited to bring you
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: all more information and more podcasts here.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: We'll we'll have at least a couple.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: More as far as h as far as this season goes,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: as far as talking about games, uh and and hopefully
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: a lot more because it's been a fun run and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: this team has been fun to cover. I've enjoyed it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: So we'll see how far they.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Can take it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And and this like, there's nothing better than rivals in
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the postseason. You know, you just saw Yankees Red Sox.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I think Cubbs Brewers is pretty has gotten in my
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: in my mind watching the games. Maybe it's just as
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: simple as they're two good teams. It's overtaking Cubs Cardinals.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: But you know, history wise, obviously it's not there, but
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it just feels like with the council stuff, and and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: you know, these teams won two in the division. It's
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: pretty intense and there's no love loss there. It's it's
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a fun matchup. So we'll see what happens.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Patrick will be back at it. I don't know what
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: are recording schedule will be like, but we'll be what.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Day is today, I don't even know what day it is,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: just you know, you're in that postseason house.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at my house right now and it's a
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: disaster because I've barely been here. So maybe I'll clean
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: up a little before heading to Milwaukee, but we'll worry
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: about that in the off season. All right, everyone, thanks
• 26:18
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• 26:36
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