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09/16/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the huddle. Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting live from Milwaukee, also known as the city of champions.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Come on now. Welcome in five o'clock clubbers party is
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  Speaker 1: still going on. It emanated from Pittsburgh with a detour
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  Speaker 1: at Wrigley field in Chicago. And here we are in
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  Speaker 1: the good land partying today because today five o'clock clubbers
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  Speaker 1: is one of those 10% days. 90% of being a
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: sports fan is getting kicked in the Kevlar cup. This
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  Speaker 1: These are the days that you want to savor. Now,
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Brewers win their fourth straight division. And if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to come at us with, what does it matter if
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  Speaker 1: they don't win the World Series? Get the hell out
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  Speaker 1: of here today. Yeah, we're not listening to that today.
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  Speaker 1: Ask the Packers if it's fun and interesting and, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, meaningful to win a damn division. They
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  Speaker 1: haven't done it in a while. Been some time. Been
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  Speaker 1: quite some time. If we're to the point where we're
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  Speaker 1: spoiled by the Brewers winning division titles, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I got to be honest with you, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: I did fact check Murph yesterday. When I saw the
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  Speaker 2: letter from you, first off.
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  Speaker 1: Had Tim to Murph to go right back to it.
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  Speaker 1: Had Tim to Murph to go right back to it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it when he busted that piece of paper out.
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  Speaker 1: But I did have to fact check him.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't realize since 1994 when the NL Central was formed
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  Speaker 2: via the realignment that no team has won it four
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  Speaker 2: consecutive times. There have been some World Series champions in there.
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  Speaker 2: There have been a couple of Cardinals runs to the
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  Speaker 2: title and... I'll be at that Cubs team that people
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  Speaker 2: thought was going to rattle off like five, six, seven
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  Speaker 2: world series.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: The Cardinals in the mid two thousands wanted a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times three to be exact, but no team doing
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  Speaker 2: it four straight times is a hell of an accomplishment.
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  Speaker 1: And as Adam McAlvey was asking a bunch of people
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  Speaker 1: last night.
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  Speaker 2: It did seem fitting that Jacob Mizorowski was the guy
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  Speaker 2: to be on the mound yesterday with the chance to
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  Speaker 2: do it. And if you're in the Mark out to Nancy,
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  Speaker 2: I got my horse on the mound. I got the
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  Speaker 2: Cy Young on the bump. Yeah, let's gas up the jet.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Pittsburgh because we might as well get
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  Speaker 2: this thing done here on a Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Hell yeah. And it went through, you know, Wrigley with
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  Speaker 1: the Braves beating the Cubs. And that Cubs bullpen, thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much. Hey, man, Drake Baldwin, one shout out
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  Speaker 1: to your home state. That was cool. And sends him
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  Speaker 1: right into the basket.
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  Speaker 2: That Ozzie Albee's home run was phenomenal as it happens,
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  Speaker 2: right as it ticks to the bottom of the ninth.
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  Speaker 1: It was cinema last night.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll be the first to admit it stayed up
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  Speaker 2: far too late enjoying all of it because these were
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  Speaker 2: the these are the good old days.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely remember the chase for that.
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  Speaker 2: Elusive 81st win that they kept talking about 21 years
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  Speaker 2: ago last night on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: I had to appreciate it. I had to soak it in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you were around for that one 21 years ago
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  Speaker 1: when it was a celebration and young Armand felt like
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  Speaker 1: stripping off his shirt and running down Water Street because
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers finished with 82 wins. One of the great feelings.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sitting in Bishuta Hall there at Marquette at 19th
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  Speaker 3: and Wisconsin, jumping and yelling, and everyone's like, what's going
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  Speaker 3: on with this guy? But yeah, it's amazing the steps
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  Speaker 3: you take, and that's why, like you said, it's so true, guys.
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  Speaker 3: You don't ever want to take it for granted. You
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  Speaker 3: don't ever want to feel like it's old hat to
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  Speaker 3: win a division like this.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And the way they did it today, last night, and
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  Speaker 3: then all year, dominating.
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  Speaker 1: Resist the urge, Eeyores, because the first text we got
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  Speaker 1: this morning to the NicoletLaw.com talking text line, 877-794-1973. It
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  Speaker 1: comes from Mike and Racine. Mike, we love that you're
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  Speaker 1: up with us. We love you're a 5 o'clock clubber.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, morning, boys. Honest question. Love the Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: won the division again, and I'm pumped. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: would it have been better for the Cubs to beat
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  Speaker 1: the Braves and extend the lead for a bye? Mike,
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  Speaker 1: the Braves won. The Brewers have, they're up five games
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  Speaker 1: on the Braves. The Brewers have 11 games left. The
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  Speaker 1: Braves have 10 games left. You want to put some simple,
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  Speaker 1: dirty math to what it would take for the Braves
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  Speaker 1: to pass the Brewers. Basically, the Brewers not winning again
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the regular season and the Braves
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  Speaker 1: winning out would be it right because birds haven't clinched
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  Speaker 1: a buy yet but that's coming you don't need to
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  Speaker 1: worry about the Braves at this juncture.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah what he said is literally correct I mean it's
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  Speaker 3: it is true that may have been better.
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  Speaker 1: Than only for by two from five to six.
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  Speaker 3: But I think I think they're gonna get it so
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  Speaker 3: I don't they're going to get a buy And now it's.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing they have to really worry about is
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  Speaker 1: the number one. Bruce took care of their business, which
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  Speaker 1: is what's important. You win. But Mike, why are you
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  Speaker 1: looking for the cloud? Why are you looking for? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're the one reading it. He sent it in. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sharing it because I want it to be a cautionary tale.
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  Speaker 1: I want it to be a cautionary tale to tell.
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  Speaker 1: What did I open the show saying? Celebrate this. It's
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  Speaker 1: a 10% freaking day. Don't be thinking about, well, what?
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if they don't win the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: You want to buy a T-shirt that says Central Driven Champs?
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  Speaker 1: You want to wait until they win the pennant? Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want to do, but they're the central division champs.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy it. Roll around in it. It's like you just
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  Speaker 1: won a billion dollars in the lottery. Get a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of cash and put it on the mattress and roll
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  Speaker 1: around it. That's what I would do. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: about you guys, but that's one of the first things
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  Speaker 1: I would do. Roll around in it. Don't worry about, oh,
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  Speaker 1: what about the wild card? What about the Braves? The
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  Speaker 1: Braves beat the Cubs. No, that doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: The true Eeyore would have been like, though, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: be like, yeah, but McGill gave up a run again
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  Speaker 3: or like Ashby let some hard contact Like, Ashby let's
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  Speaker 3: him hard.
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  Speaker 1: That would have been the true Eeyore. But you're right. Listen, guys,
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  Speaker 1: this is a day of celebration.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I'm urging people to enjoy this.
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  Speaker 1: Every step you saw your team, again, standing in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room with the champagne spray in.
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  Speaker 3: Which was a nice locker room to have one in.
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  Speaker 3: And they had the table skirt, which I liked, on
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  Speaker 3: the champagne. And it was a wide open space.
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  Speaker 1: If you want a nitpick. Great locker room for a celebration.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: If you want a nitpick, you can nitpick. And we
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  Speaker 1: can blame Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: For his projection mistakes. yesterday when you said, I hope
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  Speaker 1: they don't like win the game and then have to
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  Speaker 1: watch on TV for something else to happen. It'd be
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  Speaker 1: nice if they just won the game and like knew
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  Speaker 1: that they were the champs. Well, that didn't work out
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  Speaker 1: that way. It worked out pretty sweet either way. Brewers
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  Speaker 1: history holds that you have to watch another game on TV.
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  Speaker 1: It's happened numerous times in their celebrations.
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  Speaker 3: It must have been exciting to be in there, anticipate
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  Speaker 3: that moment. So we'll talk to Hunter because he was. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I love the tap dance they did.
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  Speaker 1: Not letting anybody in the clubhouse, making guys available in
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  Speaker 1: the hallway, getting their reactions.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, and I was losing my mind when Brewers TV,
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  Speaker 2: they have Jeff and Timmy D. hanging out late enough
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  Speaker 2: where they turned the lights off on them inside of
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  Speaker 2: the PNC press box last night.
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  Speaker 1: But they knew that they needed an.
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  Speaker 2: Armin Sarian back at control panel because they knew that
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  Speaker 2: they needed one more break right as Murph grabs the
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  Speaker 2: bottle and walks into the center.
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  Speaker 1: That's when they go to the break. Well, we needed
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  Speaker 1: to get it done. We needed to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: And it was worth it because they got the letter
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  Speaker 2: from you and they got the celebration started the right way.
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  Speaker 2: I was more just surprised. Man, Tim Dillard. You could
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  Speaker 2: tell he wanted to get down there so bad. He
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  Speaker 2: wanted to get in there so bad. Jeff told him
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times, hey, man, why don't you get
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  Speaker 2: on down there? Why don't you get on down there?
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you go on in and.
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  Speaker 1: Have some fun? I got it up here.
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  Speaker 3: And I did think it was kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I saw the videos of Voguey, and it's like, you know, he's, like,
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  Speaker 3: feeling like he's still a player.
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  Speaker 1: Like, it's like, it's all right. I'm still in there celebrating. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still one of the guys.
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  Speaker 3: Even though I'm technically a coach now, I'm still, I'm
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  Speaker 3: the camp counselor, but I'm still a camper. That's just,
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  Speaker 3: that was awesome, too, to see. And I love seeing
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  Speaker 3: Woody in there, too, so. Yeah, you know, everybody wants
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  Speaker 3: to get into celebration like that. It was a great
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  Speaker 3: one last night, and what a great season, what a
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  Speaker 3: great team. And it was kind of like last night
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  Speaker 3: encapsulated that, right? I mean, obviously having Miz do what
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  Speaker 3: he does, but the bullpen carry through the end, and
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  Speaker 3: the way they scored their runs last night, you know,
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  Speaker 3: no huge homers. I mean, you do have the RBI hits,
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  Speaker 3: but no homers, obviously, no huge extra base hits. Just,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just great pecking away, getting the runs you
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  Speaker 3: needed at the times you need the rally and letting
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  Speaker 3: your pitching and defense do the rest.
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  Speaker 1: So that was nice to see as well.
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  Speaker 2: Also the 24 ounce cans, the best part of the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Why not get the big ones in there? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: No time to waste with the 12-ounce cans. Let's get
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  Speaker 2: as big of ones as possible. And you could tell
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  Speaker 2: once they started dumping buckets of water that maybe they
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  Speaker 2: didn't get enough beer. Maybe they didn't bring quite enough beer.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see how it capped off on the field
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  Speaker 1: when the grounds crew gave William Contreras a hose? She
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  Speaker 1: takes that picture and quickly runs around. Fireman Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Get that in his sights right out of the gates.
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  Speaker 1: Fireman Bill becomes like spraying everybody. Definitely a good time.
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  Speaker 1: Are we done here? Sweet. So this, it's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's another step. I'm saying to enjoy this and enjoy
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  Speaker 1: this and look back. And if you want to reflect,
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  Speaker 1: don't look. This isn't a day to look ahead and say, oh,
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: we got to beat the Dodgers in the playoffs. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to get through them. I might have
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  Speaker 1: to face the Yankees in the World Series. Don't look
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  Speaker 1: ahead today. Look back. This is the golden age of
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: Brewers baseball. We're calling it the Yelich era. Because since
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  Speaker 1: Yelich arrived in 2018, they've gone to the postseason eight times.
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  Speaker 1: They've won the division title six times. And there's only
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  Speaker 1: three teams in all of ball, all of whom spend
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  Speaker 1: more money than the Brewers, have a better record since
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  Speaker 1: 2018 than the Brewers. Their fourth best baseball record in
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  Speaker 1: baseball since 2018 in the Yelich era.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and it's funny that the team that ultimately in
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  Speaker 2: that run becomes the best farm system in baseball, the
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  Speaker 2: move to start and catapult that, was one that people
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  Speaker 2: thought was going to decimate your farm system when you
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  Speaker 2: trade four guys to go get Yelich in the prime
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  Speaker 2: of his career, albeit, what, 48 minutes after you signed
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  Speaker 2: Lorenzo Cain, who at that point, the largest free agent
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  Speaker 2: contract any brewer's ever signed, still to this point, and
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  Speaker 2: largest contract any brewer free agent has ever signed. So, like,
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  Speaker 2: as much as they then backfilled with the draft and develop,
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  Speaker 2: kick-started it with a couple of big-time signings, or a
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  Speaker 2: couple of huge moves on that January 9th, and it
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  Speaker 2: carries through.
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  Speaker 1: They did.
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  Speaker 2: They believed Christian Yelich was going to become the MVP
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  Speaker 2: of the league that year.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not. I don't know that Yelich did.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anybody necessarily did, but they haven't even
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  Speaker 2: had that level of performance since. And they've been able
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  Speaker 2: to sustain it because of, you know, It's crazy what
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  Speaker 2: one time breaking through can do and figuring out that,
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  Speaker 2: all right, we can win this division. We can be
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  Speaker 2: the best in this five-team cluster. And now all of
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: a sudden we know and have seen it. We've seen
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  Speaker 2: what the standard is to be able to start winning
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: games consistently. And they've been able to put that into
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  Speaker 2: putting while they've lost what many people thought was going
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  Speaker 2: to be the two most important pieces and pillars of
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: that foundation have gone elsewhere. And one was having his
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: name stand fire sterns. And the other one was losing
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  Speaker 2: the game last night that ultimately let.
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  Speaker 1: You pop bottles. It's pretty wild. Just reflect where they are.
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  Speaker 1: Savor it. Enjoy it. Don't eeyore it. We still have
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  Speaker 1: to get through the daughters and we have to finish
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  Speaker 1: with the best record. Yeah, they do. They might win
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  Speaker 1: 100 games.
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  Speaker 2: I will say, though, to maybe defend some of the
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  Speaker 2: fans in that regard, the players immediately last night, that
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  Speaker 2: was all they said.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: As much as the celebration rolled through, there were more.
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  Speaker 2: They're not supposed to talk about home runs in the dugout,
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  Speaker 2: but on your couch, you can. So it's like the
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  Speaker 2: players should have that attitude. Like, there's one step. We've
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  Speaker 2: been here before. I want that hunger from them. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling people just to enjoy this day.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I know everybody. You're right. That's the messaging. And
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  Speaker 1: that's Murph.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Win tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say I was what I was going
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  Speaker 2: to say was I think it was different this time
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  Speaker 2: around than others.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I mean, I've now that we have heard it.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: Four straight times in five of the last six years.
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  Speaker 2: I think that talk about October was different this year
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  Speaker 2: than it's been in the last five out of the
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  Speaker 2: six years. There's been more of a conversation throughout the
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: entire season to get to this point. I mean, Matt
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  Speaker 2: Arnold talked about it back in July when they were
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  Speaker 2: talking about how they were ramping up and bringing back
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  Speaker 2: different starters for it. So as much as I get it,
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: this is an urging of celebrate and enjoy and remember
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: 2002 when you lost 104 games. this one feels different
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  Speaker 2: because they're talking about it differently. You have a group
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  Speaker 2: of guys now that are veterans who have been there
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  Speaker 2: for four years, albeit they're the young players that are
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  Speaker 2: ultimately leading the charge like Garrett Mitchell and South. So
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: it's a, it's a weird dynamic that they've now gone
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  Speaker 2: from the young players that people couldn't wait to get
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: to the team store to get their Jersey. Cause they're
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  Speaker 2: here for a while to now the most successful regular
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  Speaker 2: season core that the Brewers have ever had.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed. And then eventually that's a great thing.
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: And you're right.
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: Eventually you want to be known as a great regular
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: season team core that wins, won a world series. So
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: I always wondered how those teams or those, those groups
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  Speaker 3: handled the conversation, like the Braves in the nineties until
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: they got one, or when the bills would get to
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: the Superbowl and lose and, or, or, but make it
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: every year or, you know, the jazz every year, you know,
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  Speaker 3: making deep runs for 15 years, but never quite reached.
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  Speaker 3: I always would wonder how the player's, internally handle those
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: conversations because obviously it's there it exists and everybody knows
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  Speaker 3: what the goal is but you still have to pursue
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  Speaker 3: the steps of that goal every year even though it
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  Speaker 3: might feel like true and that's always the tough thing
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  Speaker 3: it's like well what are we gonna be tired with
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  Speaker 3: i mean you you're never just happy not reaching the
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  Speaker 3: ultimate goal but you know that you still have to
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  Speaker 3: make those you know or achieve those accomplishments getting to
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  Speaker 3: that point so How you're able to try and dig
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  Speaker 3: in on a daily basis is still the important thing
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  Speaker 3: for teams.
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  Speaker 1: Here's an analogy for you. This is a Dan Needle stretch,
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  Speaker 1: but imagine you're running a marathon, and you're a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good runner. Oh, I really have to imagine. Yeah, really.
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  Speaker 1: Think deeply. Billy, you could do it. Think deeply. Think deeply.
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  Speaker 1: You have those wheelies on for when you get tired
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  Speaker 1: and you can coast on your wheels a little bit.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Are kids still using Heelys? I don't know, man. I
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: saw somebody at the mall with it. One of the
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: absolute weapons. It was a rocket. No, they got scooters now.
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  Speaker 1: But I did see a kid at the mall with Heelys.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell? He also had a rat tail.
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  Speaker 1: Go figure. I like that. I like to go to
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  Speaker 1: the mall.
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  Speaker 3: I think it comes with the starter kit. Everything you
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  Speaker 3: said there was amazing. I saw a kid at the
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  Speaker 3: mall starting with that.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. All right, let's start there. I mean, that was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: How rare is it to go to the mall? Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I actually went to a Barnes & Noble, but it
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: was in a mall connected to a mall. There's still
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: a Barnes & Noble. Yeah, there's still a Barnes & Noble.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's not a hospital. Well, the one on Nevermind. Anyway,
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: you're running a marathon, and you're an elite runner, and
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: the first time you're wondering if you belong, you see
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: the guy stretching in the low numbers at the front
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: of the pack. Do I belong here? And then you run,
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: and it's like, Well, all right, and it went okay,
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: and I could see the guys up in front, and
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: the course was really hard, and the season, the marathon,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: lots of hills and everything. And then you run it
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: the next year, and you're a little closer to the
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: front of the pack. You're in with those guys, and
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: you're in. And then the third year, you run, and
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: you're with those guys to start, and you know where
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: the hills are, and you know where you can coast.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: I think that's what's happening here is the DNA is
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: being imprinted where they know– they know not to get
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: that excited. There was a giddiness the last couple of years.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, Oh my God. And because they
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: surprised the world, surprised themselves. Now there's an expectation and
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: there's a knowledge that, yeah, we still got more to go.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: And like, we're not there because one of the things
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you do when you're running a race and I've done
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: this one, I didn't run many races, but when I
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: do is like, sometimes it's like being in Vegas, like
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: that building's right over there. Let's walk.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: The finish line, you misjudge the finish line. You misjudge
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: where you are. And it was like, Oh, I, they
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: kind of, I hate to say it, but look at
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: the way last year played out. They ran out of
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: juice in the four most important games of the year.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: They were kind of out of juice because they had
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: spent it. It's a tale as old as time in sports.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: The Far Packers had to get through the Cowboys and
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: the 49ers and pay their dues until they could drink
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: the wine. It's a lot of times how people want
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: it to be. And that's exactly sometimes now in this
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: instant age of free agency and like college, like Indiana university, like, Oh,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden we're in the worst program in
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: the world to the best program that everybody wants to
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: emulate there. There are those stories, but those are the outliers.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: And the brewers are like, people say, Oh, the Dodgers
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: are turning it on now. Cause they know what it takes. Well,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: they do know what it takes because they have guys
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: that have been there and they're trying to win their
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: third straight. But I remember reading as a kid, um,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: when Gretzky was on the ascent and when he, you know,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: his teams in Edmonton, those great teams with a great player,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Yari Curry and Mark Messier and Grant Fuhrer, the incredible
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Paul Coffey, incredible hall of fame guys. They were young.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: They were like the Cheerios. They were the, the, the
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: band of young guys. And they played the Islanders who
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: had winning. They were winning every year. And the Islanders
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: won a couple in a row. And the Islanders were the,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: the Islanders were the Dodgers. I think they won like
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: four in a row.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: They did.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: And like, Gretzky said when one year they lost the
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Stanley cup and he walked by the, uh, the Islanders
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: locker room expecting to see this wild celebration. And they
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: had won their fourth row. He's like, it looked like
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: a mash unit. There were guys like getting IVs and
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: they were on training tables because they had given everything
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: to win. They emptied the tank. And he's like, Oh,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: that's what it takes. That's what it is. That's. And
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: it clicked for him. And then he won and he knew,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: but he, even he, the greatest player in the sport
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and the history of sport had to learn how what
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: it took to get to the next level. The bucks
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: tasted it and they got there. Yeah. And Giannis drove
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: them there and we all know what it took, but
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: then it fell apart when they tried to maintain it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Brewers are on the ascent. They're learning what that takes,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: you know, and. And that's a drew.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I think that the race analogy is one of my
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: favorite ways of saying it. Cause like the getting good
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: is the best time for you to be a fan
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: of a team.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: When you're coming out of the doldrums, getting good this,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: you're still on that. You're still on that upward trajectory, right?
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Like you are not at the plateau where you have
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: to look around at the mountain and say, Oh dang.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Now, how do we get down from here?
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Like you're still rolling up. However, you do understand.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Damn.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: It takes everything you've ever thought of. And then a
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: little bit more to get to the next round. And
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: then you get to that next round. You realize it's
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: everything you got.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: And a little bit more.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Holmgren used to say, wasn't that always one of his
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: tags during the 96 season was, I got to ask
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: you for a little bit more.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: A little bit more. I need a little bit more
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: in this game. And you start learning that.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: That was one of the beauties of North of American
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: sports was guys went through the Jordan run. You win
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: the first round. Then you win the second round. Then
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: you get to the conference finals. And listen, exactly. Step
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: ladder is a success, but you're right. They've they've, They've
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: got up that ladder a little bit. They've checked the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: boxes and now they know, okay, we've got to go further.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Like now we've got to win the damn pennant. And
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: then we'll worry about the world series.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And Merv said it, man. It's pretty impressive.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: When Jackson Cheerio, 23 year old, is there a 22
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: year old doing this again? How they've all now grown
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: with the expectation and the standard of winning.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: It's not just, this is how you play big league baseball.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: This is how you play big league baseball and win.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And that's as important as anything. Cause you have the
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: expectation for winning.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: And so long in Milwaukee with baseball, it was, The
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: expectation of losing and to turn that carrier ship around
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: to be able to do that is it is one
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: of the most incredible accomplishments. I always said the Badgers
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: did it in the early 90s with football and basketball
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: when they when the legacy wasn't there to turn that
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: ship around. to be a consistent winner in both sports
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: when you weren't before. And now to do, you know,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: it's a great example of how hard it is to do.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: The brewers have done it. Now you, now you reach
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: toward an ultimate goal, but.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: You're right, Billy. It's like, there's nothing that feels better
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: as a fan.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Then when you first come back to try and to
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: try and become good again, there's when you get that
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: first meal, when you've starved that long, nothing tastes better.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just the nature of the beast.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: It's it's the accomplishment is just as great and just
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: as important and just as impressive, but it doesn't feel
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: the same when you've been doing it for a while.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: It's like, all right, well, we're back again. Like, you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Bill's fans, no way they felt the same going to
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl for the fourth time.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: They did that first time.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: So sometimes you have to hold on to it because
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: it's a crucible in time and a moment. But then
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: sometimes you have to remember to say, you know what?
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: This is what it should feel like every time. And
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: I'm going to make sure I'm going to refuse to
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: take it for granted.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: That's what we're trying to do here. There you go.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: That's what we're doing. Baskin and Hunter Baumgart has all
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: kinds of reports for us. We're going to hear from
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the owner. We're going to hear from the GM. We're
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: going to hear from the manager and others. We're going
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: to hear from Hunter and Stick with us. This is
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a 10% day. Let's enjoy it. Whether it's sunny or
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: not outside, it's sunny in here. You're in the huddle.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Billion-Armond bringing it to you
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: from headquarters. 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison. Everywhere on the iHeart app.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Streaming live. Facebook, X and YouTube. Brewers are the NL
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Central Division champions. Fourth straight year. It didn't take long.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Their first chance to clinch and they needed help from
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the Braves beating the Cubs. Typical like Brewers game though, right?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Because it's like Small market rallies again.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: As Miz said last night, we'll single you to death.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Might not have the big power, but we'll single you
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: to death. Brewers get a couple extra base hits, but
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: otherwise it was mostly a bunch of... Meanwhile, the Braves
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: beat the Cubs on three two-run homers, if.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Cunha, Albies, and Drake Baldwin, Madison's finest, delivers
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the biggest swing, and I think PCA actually was the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: man at bat for the final out, and well, It
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: sounded like Jeff Levering enjoyed being able to give that
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: part of the call on Brewers TV.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Hey, thank you, Jeff.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: He did joke about it with Timmy D yesterday when
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Tim goes, why don't you tell.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Us what's happening? He goes, you mean you can play
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: by play? Yeah. You can work overtime? I mean, I guess. Yeah,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I guess I will. I guess I will. Jeff, thank you.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: You did a great job working the OT yesterday.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: But I'm sure deep down, I mean, every broadcaster dreams
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: of giving that championship call, and he wasn't quite able
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: to do it. because he had to wait for the
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: result in Chicago.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I lamented that a bit yesterday, but I'm not going
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to focus on that today.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I'm sure he would have liked to say, and the
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Brewers have won the NL Central Division, but hopefully he'll
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: have better calls coming in the coming months here. That's
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: what we're hoping for.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Miz is 15-5. His ERA dropped a little bit, down
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: to 1.89. He's your presumptive Cy Young winner by acclimation.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I would think at this point, he's the one. He's
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: only going to probably make one more start, I would think.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, 11 games to go, one more start, probably
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: a little shorter. Was yesterday a little longer of a
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: start for him than you were anticipating? Or right around
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: where you thought? I thought it would have been longer
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: had the game been different. If the Brewers not scored
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: the runs they did in the top of the sixth,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: he'd have gone out there for a little bit more
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: to stretch a little more, and then it's like, oh,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: we can pull the plug. And then you can pull
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: it through, yeah. Because I was wondering if you were
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: going to go 75-75 and then try to ramp him
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: back up. once game one came, but we'll see. They
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: have plenty of time now to mess around.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: With all those mathematics. Yeah, they can figure it out,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and maybe it'll be game dependent if they're still going,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: if the Dodgers somehow, the Dodgers keep hot, but the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: magic number now for the number one seed, I think,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: is nine? Yeah, six for the bye, nine for the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: one seed. Brewers have 11 games left. I think the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Dodgers have 11 too, maybe. I know the Cubs, the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Braves only have 10 left, so we're right in that math, so. Eh,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: just keep winning. 11 games to go, yep.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: The wild card's kind of clearing up. A couple good
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: races left in the AL, obviously.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: West and Central. Yeah, really good ones.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: But yeah, if you are curious about the Miz thing,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: his main, well, most think, or some think his main competition, Sanchez,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: gave up five last night for the Phillies.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, I think it's clearing up for him now. Yeah,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: he's going to win. He's done some historic things. He's
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: got the narrative. He checks all the boxes. Murph very
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: well could win another manager of the year, although I
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: thought it was going to be either Mattingly or Weiss,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: just a voter fatigue. But Murph might have charmed everybody again.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Has a little bit of a chance.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: When he busts out the letter from you, I just
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: had tears in my eyes and I just could not
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: stop laughing. Because you know he heard all of the
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: incredible response last year of how dare you play with
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: our emotions and our minds like that.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Well, let me do it one more time. Do it again.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Jannie and Appleton on the Talking Text Line, 877-794-1973, NicoletLaw.com,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Talking Text Line. I am enjoying so much of this day.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: What a fantastic celebration. I'm immensely proud of my Brewers
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: and what they have accomplished so far. As much as
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I want them to go far in the postseason, Drew,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Jannie's listening. I just want to bask in this moment,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: number 15. Janie and Apple.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Awesome. Way to go. We're talking about Jeffrey in Milwaukee.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I am a fan who celebrates the regular season achievements
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: for all of my teams and that I root for them.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: The Brewers winning the central for the fourth freaking time
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: is amazing. I do think that this team is overall
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: better than even last year. And even with the starting
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: pitching questions after Ms. And Henderson, but who cares where
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the Kings of the central again, and that is the,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: you know, as we start hearkening back to our predictions,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: you know, We all might not be right on this
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: show a lot of times, but I think we all
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: unanimously said that they were going to be a better
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: team this year in terms of talent, in terms of development.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe the record wouldn't indicate it, right? Maybe at the
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: end of the year, they wouldn't have once again, a
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: franchise record in wins. And here we are, they get
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: four more and they're going to have a franchise record
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: in wins. And I think it's pretty clear they're better
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: baseball team than they were even a year ago.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And I always say, play 500 even at your worst.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: If they go 6-5, they win 100. They win 100 games.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: That's amazing, amazing time. That's an incredible feat, something that
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: they've never done in franchise history. And again, like last night,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: guys like Lara. Yeah, big time. He was kind of
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the igniter last evening. Joey, three for four? Well, and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: there's Joey. He's now a cult hero. That guy is,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: if that's not like exhibit A of why, like if
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you're ready to just write off the Packers this year,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and say the season's over because they sucked and the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: offensive line sucked and there's no way they can win.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Absolutely can't see them winning a Super Bowl today. Well,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: that's great. Could you see Joey Ortiz getting standing ovations
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: at American Family Field back in May? Could you have
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: seen him hitting 270 and being a guy that you
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: want up in big situations now? Full 180. I did not.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: It's amazing. Nobody did. And that's sports. But our rush
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: to just declare everything is like final. My final judgment
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: is this guy sucks and this team sucks and this
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: team will never win.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Is Ortiz maybe the best example of a travel ball
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: coach's favorite player? Or like the youth baseball coach's favorite
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: player to point to.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Look what he did, guys. I want to use him
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: as an example. Michael Jordan got cut as a sophomore. Yeah, right, exactly.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: But there's a guy here that had everything going against him.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: We took his position away. Got pinched in game three.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Guy called up for him, made more money, took his
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: position away. But you know what? He never did. He
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: never pouted. He never put his head down. He never
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: gave up. He never pouted. He came to the ballpark
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: every day, did what was asked of him, and guess what?
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Now he's reaping the benefits. Because he worked hard. And
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: it started here in the practice field. And it started
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: right up here with the mental attitude.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: All that stuff.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: 90% of the game is half mental. That whole deal
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: is mental for Joey Ortiz. You've known that he's had
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: the talent, especially defensively. He showed it every single time
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: he'd be on the field. But offensively, Drew, obviously, there's
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: a little bit of weight that comes off the shoulders,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I think, when you realize, oh, dang.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: The boogeyman is up here and I'm still on the team.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I mentioned that in, in the, what was that middle
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: of June when they called up Pratt June 19th, June 20th,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: something like that.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: And that he looked at him and said, dude, you're
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: still on the team and you're still a huge part
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: So.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Go get it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: And as much as he knew that he was hitting
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: a buck 80 at the time, a buck 75 soaking wet,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: that you're going to have plenty of opportunity to remain
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: on the squad and any bit of confidence that you
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: can instill in between your own head ultimately is the
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: most important stuff.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: And the confidence to know now what his role is
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: and not wonder, okay, am I keeping this job?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Am I holding this job? No, I am what I am.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: I'm right now in the third baseman and or utility
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: infielder and probably third baseman.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Because I'm hitting.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: And now it's settled, and Cooper's in short, and let's
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: just go play. So I think there's got to be
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: a burden lifted in that regard as well. All right,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: we have a report from Hunter, and then we have
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: a bunch of sound, so how do you guys.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Want to do this? When we come back, we'll hear
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the report, and we'll spin through some of the interviews.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I know Hunter had to be in heaven. He texted me,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: you know, I was asking him something about what was,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I needed some information from Hunter about something that's going
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: on in Pittsburgh, and he was saying how much he
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: enjoyed the he's enjoying the city. And this was before
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the game. He's like, this is a great ballpark, great city.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: This is amazing. It looked like an awesome time. It
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: only got better after that. Yeah.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: And I mean, uh, like Janie sent in the picture of, uh,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: her and her significant other on their trip out to, uh, Pittsburgh,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: hanging out on the Clemente bridge to do it on Clem,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Roberto Clemente night in Pittsburgh as a, Beautiful, beautiful scene
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: last night for the celebration. Any bars stay open late
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: there in PA?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: That's a good question.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Are they able to find an establishment, or are they
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: able to go over to Greendale, Pennsylvania, and go over
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: to Big Mike, that bar?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Are they open up there on a Tuesday night? I
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: don't know. I just remember a memorable night in the
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Berg where Ken Sommerfeld found us an after-bar party, and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: we were out until about 6 in the morning. If
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: anybody can, Sammy can find a party. So, yes, indeed.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: All right. 877-794-1973 gets you in.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Brewers are winning. We're basking in it. There's some parallels
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: here and things. It's maybe it's a cautionary tale. The
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Joey Ortiz thing, cautionary tale for the Packers. But we're
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: going to draw some parallels between the two franchises and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: their current paths in just a little bit. Hunter's report
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: live from Pittsburgh is coming up next year in the huddle.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Billionaire, I'm bringing it to you.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Brewers are the champs.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Packers.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Didn't lose yesterday. They didn't practice. They didn't do anything yesterday, really.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: That means it's a good day, Drew. No one got
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: beat off of the line of scrimmage.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: More.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, pause. There's more. You beat me to it. There's
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: more of the more film study going on. Kurt Benkert
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: showing some. Great examples of what the hell is going
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: on out here. Guys going the wrong way. Kurt's fired up.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: He loves getting into it on Twitter now.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: It's a good business. It's an industry for him. You
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: know what? You know who else loves what they do?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart. Our man on the scene has a report
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: for us. He's in Pittsburgh. Do we have to bring
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: him home now to save money for the next round,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: for the next celebration? I was going to say, I
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: think we need to expedite his trip home. Save the
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: hotel room, you know?
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Sorry, but I know you have maybe a tour scheduled
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: at Accresure Stadium later on this afternoon.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it could be.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know if we got the non-refundable tickets. It
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: could be. Uh, yeah, there you go. Um, in any event,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: our guy Hunter has a report for us and he's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of interviews that we're going to
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: enjoy throughout the day. It's it's savor the steps day.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: It's let's enjoy the smell of the roses day here
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: in the huddle and, uh, take it away, Hunter. Thanks guys.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: The brewers did it again. Fourth straight NL central title
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: for the brewers. No team has ever won the NL
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: central four straight times. There've been teams that have done
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: it three times. Nobody's done it four. And the Milwaukee
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: brewers have just incredible. The run of success, this organization,
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: has had. Brewers manager Pat Murphy, when reflecting on the
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: season last night, talked about when he thought a pivotal
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: moment happened about a month ago, and when he thought, man,
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: this team could maybe do it again.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: We get swept by the Padres in San Diego, and
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: all three games could have went our way. Everything we
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: did backfired. Then we go to L.A. We don't have terrain.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: We played Vaughn at third base. We played Gary Sanchez
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: at first base. Johnny O'Neal was at second base.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: And we beat the.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Dodgers, whatever it was, three out of four. That, to me,
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: was a pivotal moment. Like, hey, there's something special about
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: this group.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Brewers president of baseball operations and GM Matt Arnold talked
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: about how important Pat Murphy is to this entire organization
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: and how he's won three straight NL Central titles as
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: the manager.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: It's incredible.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's the man, and he's a special guy to
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: be around.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: You guys see it every day. He lives and breathes it.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: He's the first guy at the ballpark. He's the last
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: guy to leave, and nobody cares more than Pat Murphy.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: So now it's on to the final 11 games of
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: the season. Starting tonight, Logan Henderson will get the ball
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: at 540. I'll have you for the baseball pregame show
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: from PNC Park in Pittsburgh at 430. Looking forward to
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: bringing you some more of the reaction to the NL
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: Central title for the Milwaukee Brewers. They've got 11 games left. They,
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: of course, have 194. So that means they only need
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: four more wins to achieve the franchise record in wins
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: at 98. And they need six more wins to win
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: 100 games And also, they're trying to keep that best
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: record in ball and have home field advantage throughout the
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: playoffs and a bye in the NL playoffs. This report
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• 32:48
  Speaker 5: I'll join you at 7 a.m. live from Pittsburgh.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Back to you guys. Thank you, Hunter. Great stuff. We
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: will hear from Hunter live. We're going to hear from
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Bill Schroeder from Brewers TV, who I'm sure had some
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: FOMO last night. Because he enjoys doing those interviews in
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the clinch days.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to say, I did miss Rock in
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: the dugout and in the clubhouse because you just always
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: go back to the first time. Feels like the first
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: time in 08 when they're all standing there watching it.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: And he grabs the mic and gets some of the
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: best reaction because he's been there.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Everybody sees him. Everybody knows him.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Everybody knows how much he loves Brewers baseball and how
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: much the Brewers mean to him. And you could tell
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: the reaction as well to Sophia last night of just
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: how much, to borrow the Matt LaFleur term, Drew, time
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: on task.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Time on task. There's a lot of time on task.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Sophia Minard has with that baseball team.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: And you know, you start looking at all the other
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: people last night that you celebrate and that they were
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: celebrating with, uh, that are not the South Felix or
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: the David Hamilton's the guys that end up being significant
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: pieces and players to it. They got to celebrate all
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: the other people that were around them. And, uh, The
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: reaction to Sophia last night.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: She did an interview where she didn't have at least
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: one to four.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Bottles dumped on her.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I think that's, that's an impressive run for self yesterday
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: that she was able to continue going through there. And
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: she said, you got to earn the burn with Woody
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: on the, the eyes is what he said.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: It's like, I ditched them glasses a couple of years ago.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: He's too tough for that. He's old school, man. He's
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: old school South.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: And I got to embrace the burn, man. I took
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: the glasses off a couple of years ago.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: It was way better.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: The truth is, you know, when you start to see
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: the other end of your career, you realize those are
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: the memories you want to keep, and that memory will
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: be burned in when you embrace the burn, right? So
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: that's the whole thing. So you got to love seeing that. Yeah,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: love to see how they got Sophia a little bit.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: I was wondering, and I didn't know who to contact.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: It wasn't going to bother Todd or anybody, but, like,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: can you guys get someone to dump it on Hunter? No,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: I wanted someone to dump it on Hunter.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's fair.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: I would like, that would be super cool. Now I'm not,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: I don't want to make Hunter uncomfortable either. Cause I
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: know he's a pro and he wants to do his
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: job and he's focused and he's doing a lot of things,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: but that would be, that would have been some fun video, huh?
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: To get, to see Hunter get part of that a
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: little bit. But, um, It was just awesome. I spent
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: a little twinkle in his eye, too, in that report.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: You love to see it. But yeah, it was great
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: to see them.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: You're right, Billy.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Celebrate with the ones that are always there, you know,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: because they do become like part of a family, the
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: traveling media and obviously the embedded reporter like Sophie has been.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: So one of the things we kicked around yesterday and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I asked Hunter about the vibe of this team. I'm like,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: are they can we put aside the underdog thing? The
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: average Joe's when they've won four straight divisions and they're
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: going to win. They're going to win the most games
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: in baseball for the second straight year. It's like, are
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: they still the average Joe the underdog, or does that
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: narrative need to be retired? Now, they still are, and
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: when they play the Phillies and the Dodgers, they'll probably
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: be underdogs, right?
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely the Dodgers will be a betting underdog, for sure.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: But do we have to put that away?
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Because I was watching Big Cat become unglued yesterday on
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: his socials talking about the Brewers problem. Yes. And like, yeah,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: you know, and he was talking about how he hates
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Murph because Murph constantly hammered that. Nobody knows who we are,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: and like, We don't have any good players.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I think there's a yes and no answer to it. Like,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: they are nobody's underdog at this point. Everybody now knows
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: who they are and knows that they're going to be
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: a difficult out. But the pieces and the ingredients to
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: the soup are still the same. If anything, you're still
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: using this all with store brand stuff. Not one of
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: these is a name brand. We're going straight great value
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: and Kroger brand to be able to get you the
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: best flavor food that you're going to have all baseball season.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, the best player in the Brewers and one
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: of the best players, if you look at war, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: I know some people hate it, so okay, fine, ignore
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: me if you want. Bryce Terang wasn't even considered to
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: be an all-star. It was, for a lot of people,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: not even considered, but he's, I think, an.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Encapsulation of it. You do have Miz, who's become.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: A star now, which is great, and you have other players,
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: but the part I'll say is that it's still literally true.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, unless.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: unless they start getting you know picked to win the
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: division which they still weren't again they were still picked
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: to win what 80 whatever games so in that sense
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: you can still say the underdog like whatever they had
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: done they still hadn't gotten the respect in that sense
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: they weren't on you know covers of magazines don't exist
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: anymore but it's not like they were anointed to be
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: the next ones cover magazine predicted it would at all
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Not by many, at least maybe some people did, you know,
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: like the Packers were in 95 going into 96, for instance,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: the Superbowl Packers are next and all these things. So
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: I would agree with the fact that they are still,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: you know, you can still make that case or, or,
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: or kind of farm that field of saying, yeah, we're
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: the underdog.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Cause once again, we didn't get picked to do anything special.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Once again, everything we did in the past was cast
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: aside and said, yeah, but it was all fake or
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: it was all, you know, smoke and mirrors this team's
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: going to eventually come back down to earth and so
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: i i would i would defend it in that way
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: uh but people do know where the brewers are now
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: no one.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: They're not yeah i mean yeah espn ran a you
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: know one of those let's we asked all these experts
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: and most of them said the brewers were the team
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: to beat in the national league.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: That's because they won a bunch of games it wasn't
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: they didn't say that in in.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: April or no but they're saying it now in the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: through the yes the the fog of the clearing the
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: smoke of the regular season they're saying yeah into the
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: playoffs they're projecting they're saying yeah brewers are and especially
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: at home and what one of them even said in
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: that espn piece like yeah when they're at home they
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: even hit some home runs at home when they're at
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: home like lately especially because.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: You can actually you can find some homers in that
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: ballpark right like and and that's where you know however
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: they end up building the team it might be different
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: if you played in a cavernous spot like uh san
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: francisco But you're going to be able to find some
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: home runs in that small ballpark.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: They might be different when you add Andrew Fisher to
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the roster.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Our Volves come up and Fisher and Burke start hitting
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: 50 a year combined.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. The whole script could be flipped. It's
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: a fascinating day to be a sports fan in Wisconsin. 10% day.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: You know, you just, yeah, yeah, it's one step. Yeah,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: let's enjoy. Let's just put that aside. Let's win.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Let's just enjoy the wins. This little scrappy team you followed.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: What do you think Jose Hernandez did yesterday? You think
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: he was celebrating the win?
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: Probably.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: We had like some former brewers. I mean, I know
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Cirillo has been in and out of ball and all
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: over the place. Does he give a little nod last night?
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Does he get excited? I do want to know that
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: some of those brewers that suffered through those years take
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: some solace and some enjoyment last night.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I might have to text the icon today. Grab a
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: couple of fingers of whiskey and enjoy it. Good call.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Good call. We'll hear more from Hunter and his interviews.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Brock's going to join us at 725. You're in the huddle.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.