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08/14/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Who's ready to cut and crack all morning, because that's
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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. We're gonna cut, We're gonna crack. Sanchez.
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Speaker 1: We ready. It's the Huddle Friday Edition, coming to you
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Speaker 1: It feels like we just left because we did. Drew Wilson,
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Speaker 1: phill Smid Armans are on your team from Packers ot
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Speaker 1: that presided over the first broadcast of the preseason yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Packers lose twenty eight to nine, and the Brewers followed
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Speaker 1: that with their biggest win of the year, and we
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Speaker 1: got to see it. That's the one plus of being
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Speaker 1: up late or early, as the case may be. We
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Speaker 1: got to see a glorious Bruce Victory. Welcome in everybody.
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Speaker 1: How are we doing?
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Speaker 2: Feeling good? Drew and Amen? Ye double barrel in the
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Speaker 2: coffee this morning for that exact reason. But you are
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Speaker 2: spot on, and I try to be with a little
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Speaker 2: bit of patented positivity much more like my thought, my
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Speaker 2: man Arman Sarian over here, there's the old bracelets that
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Speaker 2: people used to have.
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Speaker 1: What would Jesus do. What would Armon dox flightment the
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Speaker 1: ones in the mall that you the balance bracelets. That
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Speaker 1: was a good one though.
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Speaker 2: You balance out the negativity in the world with excited,
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Speaker 2: patented positivity. Gotta find a positive, and it gott to
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Speaker 2: find an exciting one in it. And Lord knows, we
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Speaker 2: all would have missed maybe the best Brewers win of
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Speaker 2: the whole year last night if it wasn't for an
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Speaker 2: elongated version of Packers ot talking about a less than thrilling.
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Speaker 1: Result there in Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, out of the games that we've seen and
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Speaker 2: we will see in the twenty twenty eighty six NFL season,
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Speaker 2: that one might not have had all of the talkers,
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Speaker 2: but Lord knows we got to talk about them, and
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Speaker 2: thank goodness we did, because otherwise we wouldn't have seen
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Speaker 2: that snatch him back game out of la That.
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Speaker 1: Was awesome to see coming back from the dead the deep. Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: I mean it really felt like, I don't know what
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Speaker 3: you guys were thinking, you know, as we got it
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Speaker 3: late into the night, as the Brewers get kept getting
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Speaker 3: put down.
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Speaker 1: Don't know how you didn't know what we were thinking.
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Speaker 1: You were listening to it the whole time. That part.
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Speaker 3: I do, yes, I know what you're saying, but it
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Speaker 3: just felt like the Brewers, you know, they had they
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Speaker 3: did have the lead at one point off two bases,
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Speaker 3: little walks. So you're thinking yourself, this team is not
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Speaker 3: going to find a way to get any hit balls,
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Speaker 3: hitting the out hitting the outfield, much less score some runs.
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Speaker 3: You go down four too, and Yellis had one chance
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Speaker 3: to the corner to tie. It was to the wall.
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Speaker 3: But then now you're like, oh man, I don't I
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Speaker 3: don't see how it just it looks so bleak.
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Speaker 1: And then they put together this rally when they needed
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Speaker 1: it the most.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you want to talk about absolutely getting off
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Speaker 3: the mat, you know, against the prohibitive favorite in Major
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Speaker 3: League Baseball every year with you know, once upon a
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Speaker 3: time all world that win Diaz. I mean, just incredible
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Speaker 3: to see that last night. And I'd say when the
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Speaker 3: Brewers needed it the most, I mean I could I
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Speaker 3: can't remember a time this year at least, I mean,
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Speaker 3: when they needed to win this badly and they found
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Speaker 3: a way to snatch victory from the absolute jaws of defeat.
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Speaker 1: Was that exciting to watch? It was something else. I
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Speaker 1: gotta say it. The ninth inning, unfolded and unfolded and unfolded,
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Speaker 1: and then there was a pitching change, and oh lo
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Speaker 1: and behold, it'd be a nice attack on some runs.
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Speaker 1: But the Bruis take a five four victory, and that
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Speaker 1: coming on the heels of a sweep in San Diego
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Speaker 1: and just deflating. Had the Brewers won that getaway game
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Speaker 1: in San Diego that they puked away, that was arguably
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Speaker 1: they backed up the worst loss of the season with
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Speaker 1: the best victory.
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Speaker 2: One hundred percent you could have and you were staring
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Speaker 2: down the barrel of two just absolutely painful defeats. Now,
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Speaker 2: yesterday it might not have been the Apps the worst one,
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Speaker 2: but it would have been if Trevor McGill wouldn't have
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Speaker 2: come in and slammed the door like he did three up,
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Speaker 2: three down in the ninth.
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Speaker 1: I know there were definitely.
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Speaker 2: Some Brewers fans that were worried about that worst case scenario.
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Speaker 2: But what did they come in with runnerson scoring position
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Speaker 2: as they got swept by the Padres something like three
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Speaker 2: for twenty eight, and they were following it up with
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Speaker 2: another patent performance today or last night, this morning, whatever
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Speaker 2: it ends up being. And then all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: you string together five straight singles, and we all know
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Speaker 2: because we've seen them throughout the year. They're small market rallies.
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Speaker 2: Those are gonna be their ways of putting up crooked numbers. Whoever,
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Speaker 2: it was gonna be against the regression to the me
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Speaker 2: and Drew that you educate us about, at some boy
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Speaker 2: was gonna come correct. I'm glad it came correct against
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers, because that one feels a hell of a
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Speaker 2: lot better. And I think also they could have won
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Speaker 2: that game against twenty nine other teams, twenty eight other teams,
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Speaker 2: and people would have said, oh sweet, nice, that's great.
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Speaker 1: They win it against.
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Speaker 2: La the team that dogged you in the NLCS, the
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Speaker 2: one that's been the team to stand in your way.
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Speaker 2: I think there's something mentally for Brewers fans in the
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Speaker 2: sanity that's a big one. Bay Jake Bowers told us
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Speaker 2: all to chill them out. One dog of the fans.
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Speaker 2: He probably talking to the team. They had their meeting
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Speaker 2: and Drew. Thank goodness that they had when they did,
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Speaker 2: because otherwise they played the team meeting card and then only.
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Speaker 1: Have been a tough one to be able to look
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Speaker 1: at it.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry sir, you've already used that coupon. You can't
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Speaker 3: use it twice the team meeting.
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Speaker 2: Car Sure, I thought it was twice. No, every day
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Speaker 2: you're able to use it alle time. Can I try
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Speaker 2: that again? You can't rease that son?
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Speaker 1: Uh No.
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Speaker 3: On Jake Bauers, I mean, yeah, chill the blank out,
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Speaker 3: and he did with two with two strikes.
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Speaker 1: And he got the big hit.
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Speaker 3: Well, I want of many in that inning, but the biggest,
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Speaker 3: I'd say to put him head. Wow, was that awesome?
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Speaker 3: I mean, and from a bunch of guys that needed hits,
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Speaker 3: big hits. Cheerio, Garrett Mitchell kind of you know as well.
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Speaker 3: So you're right, Billy like that fel that one would
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Speaker 3: have felt great anyway, to come back and needing a win,
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Speaker 3: but man against the Dodgers, just like that, and it's
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Speaker 3: like to do it, fantastic.
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Speaker 1: To do it in a game when Shane Drawing picked
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Speaker 1: very well, Yeah, the Drove show, he watched his chance
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Speaker 1: for victory evaporate because he suddenly struggle, struggling, struggling, Antonio
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Speaker 1: sends it. Tella gave up a home run to Max
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Speaker 1: Muncy and gave up his inherited run and put him
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Speaker 1: in line to lose a game. Those that trend those tweets, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that one's that's nice to Max Munsey's hit more homers
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Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium than any player in franchise history, which
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Speaker 1: is not nothing. Well, and the fast balls, and they
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Speaker 1: threw him a couple.
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Speaker 2: They threw him a couple right after he hit one
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Speaker 2: nearly out of the stadium that just went foul. But
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Speaker 2: they flashed a graphic yesterday that he's got like thirteen
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Speaker 2: go ahead hits after the sixth inning or later just
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Speaker 2: this year, like what them Max Munsey, Uh, one of
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Speaker 2: the greatest stuff fines for a team that got that
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Speaker 2: dfade the cat and then becomes an absolute franchise legend.
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Speaker 1: And they needed that kind of luck the way they
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Speaker 1: had to get talent.
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Speaker 2: That's nice that they finally something goes their way to
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Speaker 2: win a game.
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Speaker 1: When for the Brewers when Andrew Vaughn was playing third
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Speaker 1: and Gary Sanchez was at first, because that's what they got.
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Speaker 1: That's where they're at right now.
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Speaker 2: We're at right now, no doubt what the Bryce terrang
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Speaker 2: news and the second opinion he's gonna get Yeah, well,
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Speaker 2: and the first ball that gets rocketed over to Andrew
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Speaker 2: vaugh there's like eight balls hit one hundred miles an
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Speaker 2: hour on the crowd last night, and one of them
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Speaker 2: goes right to him clean pick fire over the first
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Speaker 2: Holy count, what's the problem.
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Speaker 1: Why have we not been doing this the whole time?
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Speaker 2: Second ball goes right over to him, airmails it off
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Speaker 2: to the right, off to the right side of Sanchez,
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Speaker 2: and then you realize, Oh, it's because we have two
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Speaker 2: and a half first basement and two catchers out here
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Speaker 2: playing defense, because that's how strapped you are. Lord knows
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Speaker 2: they didn't want to play bay last night, and I
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Speaker 2: got a feeling that they might be trotting this exact
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Speaker 2: same group out there, depending on how long it takes
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Speaker 2: for that second opinion to come back on the knee
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Speaker 2: of Bryce Terran.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you just got to find a way. And
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Speaker 3: the way that did it was just amazing.
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Speaker 1: And Jake Bowers was the voice of reason after the
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Speaker 1: game because the prevailing question was is that the biggest
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Speaker 1: win of the season given everything that's been happening lately.
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Speaker 1: And did you see Jake Bowers's quote? Yeah, I didn't
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Speaker 1: get this one, and part of it that's not arable
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Speaker 1: on a well.
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Speaker 3: Hold on it, save harbor. Okay, go ahead, Well yeah
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't fly, why not? Yeah, yeah, it's still five
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Speaker 3: to ten.
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Speaker 1: Well but okay, Bowers did say, oh, hang on one second.
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Speaker 1: I think to treat this game as bigger than another
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Speaker 1: one is not wise.
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Speaker 3: That And that's the third part of the impact of
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Speaker 3: that whole situation. Like the first one was like, chill
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Speaker 3: the blank out, the second one was like I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: get this big hit and bring us to the depths,
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Speaker 3: from the depths to victory, and the third one is
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Speaker 3: totally not make a big deal out of it. Like
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Speaker 3: each one of those is equally important. I think for
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Speaker 3: that that's what's impressive about it. Like if I came
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Speaker 3: through in that moment, you better believe I'm like, this
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Speaker 3: was the biggest win of the year, Like we just
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Speaker 3: came through, like we're awesome, this is who we are
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Speaker 3: power I'd be all.
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Speaker 1: Like, you know, you'd every motivational poster what we're like.
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Speaker 3: And the fact that he's like, you know what we're
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Speaker 3: We're gonna keep it real, We're gonna come correct. I
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Speaker 3: said before chill out, I'm gonna say after chill out.
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Speaker 3: That's the consistency of it. He's got a really impressive ear.
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is the season he's probably dreamed about.
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Speaker 3: And it continues for Jake Bauer. So that's pretty awesome.
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Speaker 1: All the California guys coming through in the ninth inning,
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Speaker 1: I mean outside of Jackson Surio, right, Garrett Mitchell, UCLA
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Speaker 1: kid getting back into the California son, Jake Bauers California son.
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Speaker 2: As he walks up to the plate sitting there and
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Speaker 2: poor Yellow hit a hard ball too, and it hit
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Speaker 2: it right right to him.
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Speaker 1: He did well.
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Speaker 2: And the one that he hit before, I think you
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Speaker 2: mentioned it arm in a couple of minutes ago. It's
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Speaker 2: like three feet right of being gone from being a
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Speaker 2: tie ball and he's sneaking it over the fence. But
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Speaker 2: definitely a better number there. Oh but it's interesting that
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Speaker 2: that's how Bowers attacks it because Garrett Mitchell went asked,
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Speaker 2: is that the biggest victory of the year? Definitely up there,
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Speaker 2: Trevor McGill, I think so, at least for this season.
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Speaker 2: That was huge for us to get the boys on track.
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Speaker 2: Pat Murphy, it's got to be up there because of
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Speaker 2: what we face the last three days. Everybody can look
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Speaker 2: at it differently Drew. It's probably the healthier way to
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Speaker 2: look at it for Jake Bauers. But everybody realized how
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Speaker 2: difficult of a stretch this has been, and now, all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, this whole series looks different. You get
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Speaker 2: one win last night, you take that one away, get
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Speaker 2: miss on Saturday. You're a Gasser or Henderson victory away
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Speaker 2: from winning the series. If you can count in a
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Speaker 2: miss start to be a w You win three or four,
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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, you grab yourself a free
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Speaker 2: half game against the Dodgers because you win the season
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Speaker 2: series in the tiebreaker like that. That is a huge
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Speaker 2: win to be able to get last night when you
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Speaker 2: desperately needed it.
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Speaker 1: If the Dodgers don't puke away the game, they would
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Speaker 1: have pulled even with the Brewers in the best record
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Speaker 1: in the league standings and the Braves are a half
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Speaker 1: game back. And we've talked for a lot this year
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Speaker 1: about how important it is for the Brewers to have
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Speaker 1: one of the two best records. And you win the series,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to play mm hmm, you don't tax
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Speaker 1: your bullpen. You get to rest and relax, and don't
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Speaker 1: give me that rest versus Russ because it's better to
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Speaker 1: win a series by not playing it and not expose
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Speaker 1: yourself to a loss, yes, and not get drained, get
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Speaker 1: the battery drained the way they did in a grinding
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Speaker 1: series against the Cubs that should have been a three
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Speaker 1: game sweep. Then it took the starch out of them
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Speaker 1: for the Dodger. So the butterfly effect Israel. But Bowers,
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Speaker 1: you know the SoCal guys. You know Mitchell had a
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Speaker 1: hit in that thing. And but Bowers is quote, it's
11:06
Speaker 1: about not riding the waves now, Craig Council. So I say,
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Speaker 1: ride the roller coaster. That's the Opening Days roller coaster
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Speaker 1: clicheliche Bowers said, It's not about it's about not riding
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Speaker 1: the waves. If you don't ride the waves, then you'll
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Speaker 1: get back to who you are quicker than if you're
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Speaker 1: riding these ups and riding these downs. You're gonna have
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Speaker 1: downs individually, you're gonna have downs throughout the season collectively.
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Speaker 1: It's important you're not riding those waves. You stick to
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Speaker 1: your approach, You stick to the things you said you
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Speaker 1: were going to do in spring training. You keep showing
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Speaker 1: up and you just keep going. You keep going until
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Speaker 1: the end. And they send you home or you're the
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Speaker 1: last ten standing. This guy spitting some some bangers out,
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Speaker 1: Now there you go.
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Speaker 2: Also sounds like you're spit into something that Pat Murphy
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Speaker 2: is hammered into that clubhouse of number that were in
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Speaker 2: time point.
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Speaker 3: Although if you never ride a wave, you're never gonna
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Speaker 3: enjoy that crest of the wave. You never gonna know
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Speaker 3: where you're going to stand on the beach.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing we had this and it's the duality
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Speaker 1: because we were helming Packers ot and the Packers story
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Speaker 1: last night for those who didn't bother to watch was
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Speaker 1: Trace Mack, who has been shaky in camp, and he said, hey,
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Speaker 1: how do you like me?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 1: Kicked four field goals, three of them counted, two of
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Speaker 1: them were from fifty eight yards and after the game
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Speaker 1: at the floor like, hey, what do you think, Well,
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Speaker 1: it's one game, one game, It's only one It's one game.
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Speaker 1: And trace Mack was will play his his interviews, he
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Speaker 1: is about as noncommittal and like the low key as
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Speaker 1: can be, which is good. You want your kicker to
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Speaker 1: be in the middle like that when you need that
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Speaker 1: and be high and low because you'll bury yourself after
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Speaker 1: a bad loss, So Brewers, they were Brewers in last
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Speaker 1: night with the way they what was it, four straight singles, four.
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Speaker 2: Straight singles, five in the ninth And well, do you
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Speaker 2: take something into this because as I was driving home
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Speaker 2: last night and trying to fall asleep because it, as
12:52
Speaker 2: you guys probably learned, I don't know if the the
12:54
Speaker 2: megaplex melatonin ultimately was able to knock you out right away,
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Speaker 2: but I was sitting there stewing and thinking about it
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Speaker 2: for a while.
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Speaker 1: That's how you're.
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Speaker 2: Gonna have to beat him, right Like, you're not gonna
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Speaker 2: get the pinchhit three run homer by Moncie, You're unless
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Speaker 2: maybe Andrew Vaughn comes up in that spot, and you
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Speaker 2: can count on that one. He was getting as regular
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Speaker 2: of regular at bats as you possibly could a year
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Speaker 2: ago when he went on his power tear. So I'm
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Speaker 2: not gonna say he's not going to provide you that power,
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Speaker 2: but you're going to need to be able to showcase
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Speaker 2: that your little small market rallies are gonna be able
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Speaker 2: to beat the big time boys in a playoff game.
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Speaker 2: And last night was as close to a playoff game
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Speaker 2: as you are gonna feel that type of intensity. And
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Speaker 2: I think there's something in the psyche definitely of fans
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Speaker 2: that you can do it your way and at least
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Speaker 2: beat him again. It's one game and now it's two
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Speaker 2: two over the series and the Dodgers and Brewers seven
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Speaker 2: game regular season series. But I think there was something
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Speaker 2: to that last night of they got the big swing,
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Speaker 2: you definitely weren't gonna find it yet to get two
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Speaker 2: runs because they actually gave him to you and Tazaki
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Speaker 2: couldn't find the strike zone if he fell out of
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Speaker 2: a boat. But then all of a sudden late in
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Speaker 2: the night, you were able to do what you do
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Speaker 2: best and just be able to string a bunch of
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Speaker 2: singles together.
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Speaker 3: That's a great point, like you will not outslug that lineup,
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Speaker 3: so to have that pipe dream is not necessary.
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Speaker 1: Also, it's not a good way to go. You just
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Speaker 1: gotta be you. You gotta be you.
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Speaker 3: That makes it tough for sure, because it's a lot
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Speaker 3: more efficient to score runs with homers. But this is
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Speaker 3: the way that Brewers have to do it, and if
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Speaker 3: they can find a way to keep getting those small
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Speaker 3: market rallies, that's it's an uphill battle, but that's what
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Speaker 3: you do, and that's what you do.
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Speaker 1: Well, so that's what they're gonna have to hope to do.
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Speaker 1: That's a great point, Billy.
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Speaker 3: It's like, it's so many many times we wish to
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Speaker 3: be something we are not as Brewers fans, even though
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Speaker 3: we are pretty good.
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Speaker 1: You know, our house is nice, but we we wish
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Speaker 1: to be we were to slide in basketball hoop. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Instead we just keep paying our bills.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, instead we just keep paying the paying the red
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Speaker 3: bills with the sprinkler paying for the heater, yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 3: and play with the sprinkler and find a way to
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Speaker 3: have fun.
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Speaker 1: The numbers nerds will enjoy that. But uh, the Brewers
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Speaker 1: were three and thirty eight when trailing after eight innings.
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Speaker 1: Now they're four and thirty eight. Let me check your
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Speaker 1: math on that, all right, But this is the one
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Speaker 1: in the ninth inning. In the top of the ninth inning,
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Speaker 1: there was a point when the Dodgers win probability was
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Speaker 1: ninety seven point two percent. Oh yes, oh yes, now one.
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Speaker 1: That's about as high as it can get, folks, ninety
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Speaker 1: seven point two and the Brewers flipped the script.
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Speaker 2: Man, you gotta feel good for Jake Bauers too, Like,
15:29
Speaker 2: out of all the guys that have had good years. Uh,
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Speaker 2: maybe none bigger than his if you look at offensively,
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Speaker 2: might be their best hitter in one of their MVPs.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And just a career year of all career years, career
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Speaker 2: two twenty one hitter. And that's with this two sixty
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Speaker 2: eight year where his OPS is nearing nine hundred. It's
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Speaker 2: really really impressive run that he's been able to put
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Speaker 2: together and just flying in the face drew of us
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Speaker 2: saying you're not going to carry the spring training results
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Speaker 2: over under the dominated the Cactus League, and he's kept
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Speaker 2: that thing rolling.
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Speaker 1: That's wild. Under the radar. Heroes of this game Shane
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Speaker 1: Drowan five and a third, three hits tagged with the
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Speaker 1: three runs, one of which scored when he left the mound.
16:13
Speaker 1: He rewalks, five strikeouts, eighty five pitches and he got
16:16
Speaker 1: into the six got it out in the sixth, and
16:19
Speaker 1: then deal Hall after sens it Tella gave it up
16:22
Speaker 1: and all hope seemed lost. Deal Hall came in and
16:24
Speaker 1: shut him down for two innings. Huge not letting them
16:29
Speaker 1: tack on. Let you come back massive and win the game.
16:32
Speaker 1: So he got a nice win. But hang a star
16:35
Speaker 1: on that one because he pitched two, and he gets
16:37
Speaker 1: the Dodgers didn't allow hit and or a walk and
16:39
Speaker 1: struck out three. And don't sneeze it who he went through.
16:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, he gave hernandez Otani Pajez s Freeman like he
16:46
Speaker 2: went right through the top.
16:47
Speaker 1: Of the order.
16:48
Speaker 3: Man, is just disgusting.
16:51
Speaker 1: That lineup is disgusting.
16:53
Speaker 3: I've heard they're pretty good. Oh my god, what they're
16:56
Speaker 3: all these guys? Also, can I give a shot out
16:58
Speaker 3: to joey O. Another other job by Joeyo you know,
17:02
Speaker 3: was at the absolute depths.
17:05
Speaker 1: He was a walk last night.
17:10
Speaker 3: He keeps bringing the energy to the plate, starting rallies
17:14
Speaker 3: when everyone when it looks bleakest at the end, the
17:17
Speaker 3: guy that everyone wanted out of town this last month,
17:20
Speaker 3: and he did it again last night. He started the
17:22
Speaker 3: rally again with that hit and he had a real
17:24
Speaker 3: Roger Dorn I'm talking about the Roger dorm Major League
17:27
Speaker 3: one energy when he started to find his you know, energy,
17:29
Speaker 3: when he started to find his passionate.
17:31
Speaker 1: Before or after the scene at fourth base.
17:35
Speaker 3: I want to say after after it, right, I think
17:38
Speaker 3: it is after before he became a clown in Major
17:41
Speaker 3: League two, when he when he was like, you know,
17:43
Speaker 3: he had to knock up the middle clap into the dugout,
17:46
Speaker 3: like let's get it going, come on, like, let's go.
17:49
Speaker 3: A lot of that from Joey Ortiz the last month
17:51
Speaker 3: and again last night starting that rally.
17:53
Speaker 1: I mean, that was just incredible. I heard it in there.
17:55
Speaker 2: There was a little there was a little nineteen ninety
17:57
Speaker 2: six super Bowl in that statement is look at the
18:01
Speaker 2: end there we came.
18:02
Speaker 1: Back the Dodgers. The Dodgers had lost seven in a row,
18:07
Speaker 1: then they won four or five, and now let's put
18:09
Speaker 1: them back into a slump. So maax months, He's three
18:12
Speaker 1: run homer is now a blip on the radar, and
18:14
Speaker 1: the Brewers win the ball game. Epic, epic victory for them.
18:17
Speaker 1: In the regular season, they'll get much better than that.
18:18
Speaker 1: And then tonight, yeah, gat Gasser against Yamamoto, talk about
18:22
Speaker 1: all that and more packers. We got packers conversation. What
18:25
Speaker 1: did you like? What did you not like? Uh, we
18:28
Speaker 1: often knew game balls and kicks the balls after packing games.
18:30
Speaker 1: We don't need to do that per se, but we
18:32
Speaker 1: can do maybe winners and losers or who's whose stock
18:35
Speaker 1: is rising, who's his falling? Yeah, we'll do the market
18:37
Speaker 1: watch perhaps.
18:38
Speaker 2: On the good version of Who's Hot Who's Not with
18:40
Speaker 2: Donovan Jorgensen heating and cooling throughout the time.
18:42
Speaker 3: I'm talking about I'm talking I think we had a
18:44
Speaker 3: lot of heroes of the day and.
18:46
Speaker 1: Three guys running on fumes today and we're here for it.
18:49
Speaker 1: And there are a couple people in the ven diagram
18:52
Speaker 1: who were up at for Packers. Ot heard us barristers
18:55
Speaker 1: out there, and a couple others call there with us.
18:57
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna do a little roll call. You're in
18:59
Speaker 1: the five o'clock you're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio
19:02
Speaker 1: wisconon heh and a line dry base head right field.
19:07
Speaker 1: Hamilton scores. We are tied at four and Powers on
19:15
Speaker 1: the crowd through base head.
19:17
Speaker 2: Here comes Cheario and he will score and the Brewers
19:21
Speaker 2: take the lead of the ninth.
19:23
Speaker 1: Another two strike hit Jake Powers puts the Brewers in front.
19:31
Speaker 1: Big Brewers win over the Dodgers. It's only one game,
19:34
Speaker 1: but it seemed like more after getting swept in San Diego.
19:38
Speaker 1: Brewers win. Packers lose last night, but that's not important.
19:41
Speaker 1: In the preseason, we're not really keeping score. We're watching
19:45
Speaker 1: development trends, injuries, We're watching and as uh kickers. JT
19:52
Speaker 1: the Wingman points out. JT the Wingman from Knoxville via Sussex, said,
19:56
Speaker 1: nice to the Packers as the team less penalized last
19:59
Speaker 1: night on special teams it was eleven to nine in penalty.
20:04
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it's like, you know, well.
20:05
Speaker 4: But early on the real sloppy ones hot descript having that, well,
20:10
Speaker 4: you had the best grade point average in the Delta
20:13
Speaker 4: fraternity house, you know, yeah, in the defensive line room
20:17
Speaker 4: one point nine.
20:18
Speaker 1: Congratulations here at the top.
20:20
Speaker 3: Of the Steelers did have a lot of the bad
20:22
Speaker 3: the p I s and all that stuff early on,
20:24
Speaker 3: so well and four personal foul.
20:26
Speaker 1: But yes in person, but JT said they may not
20:30
Speaker 1: have gotten it in the end zone, but with testing
20:32
Speaker 1: offensive line combinations, I thought they did all right. And
20:35
Speaker 1: zero holding calls, Billy, let's go. That is a good one.
20:37
Speaker 2: Yes, And a large portion of the first half were
20:41
Speaker 2: guys that were going are going to play for you?
20:43
Speaker 2: Now are they going to start? That's gonna be a question.
20:45
Speaker 2: Anthony Belt is not going to start. However, the swing
20:48
Speaker 2: tackle is going to play in games like there's no
20:52
Speaker 2: doubt in my mind that if you're going to be
20:54
Speaker 2: the first guy in at that spot you're gonna play.
20:56
Speaker 2: You hope that Jordan Morgan and Zach Baco Boile don't
20:59
Speaker 2: miss any time. But it's the National Football League. There's
21:02
Speaker 2: going to be some that pops up. And Jagger Burton
21:05
Speaker 2: and Jacob Munk I think both played very well at times.
21:09
Speaker 2: And Burton acquitted himself quite nicely to the NFL game
21:13
Speaker 2: in his first one, and he played a number of
21:15
Speaker 2: decent dudes over there. Now, Pittsburgh didn't dump a bunch
21:19
Speaker 2: of their starters out there. They gave the camouflage that
21:21
Speaker 2: they were going to. We talked mostly about Rogers, but
21:24
Speaker 2: on the defensive side they didn't play. I didn't see
21:27
Speaker 2: her big out there. Did see Alex Heismith out there
21:29
Speaker 2: at least a little bit, and TJ. Watt Cam Hayward
21:31
Speaker 2: didn't play. But there are some real dudes over there
21:33
Speaker 2: on that Pittsburgh line, and I thought that they played well.
21:36
Speaker 1: Didn't open up a ton of holes. But as long as.
21:39
Speaker 2: If Aaron Banks and Zach Tom there we go, son
21:43
Speaker 2: of a dollar in the jar. If Zach Ziebach ends
21:48
Speaker 2: up being in there, I didn't even notice that. Yeah,
21:50
Speaker 2: I just I caught myself right there at the end.
21:52
Speaker 2: But there you go, dollar in the jar. I think
21:55
Speaker 2: that they can be a better unit. And listen, they
21:58
Speaker 2: didn't go out and make holes changes drew for a
22:02
Speaker 2: unit that was very underwhelming last year, But it did
22:04
Speaker 2: feel like they were also just kind of running it back.
22:07
Speaker 1: They very much might not.
22:08
Speaker 2: I mean they all reality could change out three starters
22:12
Speaker 2: going into this year, albeit with familiar faces in one
22:16
Speaker 2: draft pick and guys that you had in your building.
22:18
Speaker 1: But it could be a new.
22:19
Speaker 2: Left tackle, and depending on how long it takes Aaron
22:23
Speaker 2: Banks to be able to get into team drills and
22:25
Speaker 2: get himself ready for a season, you might be sitting
22:27
Speaker 2: out there with two new guards. And Sean Ryan was
22:32
Speaker 2: implanted there in the middle of the line late into
22:35
Speaker 2: the season. So it is it is a very much
22:37
Speaker 2: different offensive line, albeit with not a ton of new
22:40
Speaker 2: personnel to change it up. But they're not just going
22:43
Speaker 2: to run it back. They're changing it up because it
22:44
Speaker 2: just wasn't good enough a year ago.
22:46
Speaker 1: So preseason games in the NFL, much like spring training
22:52
Speaker 1: games in baseball, are often decided by guys with no
22:57
Speaker 1: chance of making the team, and at least they put
23:00
Speaker 1: names on the back of their jerseys in this one,
23:02
Speaker 1: and guys know they're going to play. They don't come
23:05
Speaker 1: sprinting across the parking lot in the eighth inning as
23:08
Speaker 1: they because we're out of players we need. But so
23:13
Speaker 1: you have to factor that in. The Packers number one
23:17
Speaker 1: offense took the ball, march down the field, got a
23:21
Speaker 1: fifty eight yard field goal that was negated because of
23:24
Speaker 1: a penalty, and then you got a thirty eight yard
23:25
Speaker 1: field or a thirty seven yardfield, whatever that was, and
23:29
Speaker 1: then they were done for the night. Yeput, put the
23:31
Speaker 1: hat on, get yourself out of here. Now, had they
23:34
Speaker 1: played more, they would have probably been a little bit stronger.
23:37
Speaker 1: Same thing like most of the defensive guys played a
23:39
Speaker 1: series and a little bit a couple of plays more maybe,
23:41
Speaker 1: and then that was it for them. So maybe it
23:45
Speaker 1: speaks to your depth or your whatever. But man, they're
23:48
Speaker 1: not trying to win these games. As Lafleur said, there's
23:52
Speaker 1: no game planning, No one's that. You're just trying to
23:54
Speaker 1: look at your guys and put them in situations and
23:56
Speaker 1: try not to get them hurt. And that's the objective.
23:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, And if you're not showing anything and you're not
24:02
Speaker 2: disguising anything. I'm really excited to see how they line
24:05
Speaker 2: up coming up defensively this year, because.
24:07
Speaker 1: That's the thing, because yeah, early on, especially with the
24:11
Speaker 1: starters and stuff, but sure earlier, yeah, Jonathan Gannon was
24:14
Speaker 1: in his bag. It was going after him and more
24:16
Speaker 1: than most and very.
24:18
Speaker 2: Much so, like you look at Drew Aller's numbers, that
24:21
Speaker 2: probably is somebody that knew exactly where you're going with
24:24
Speaker 2: the football pre snap because they're not disguising their cover three,
24:27
Speaker 2: they're not trying to show trying to show anything different
24:31
Speaker 2: than the cover four that they're running, and you know
24:33
Speaker 2: what is going to work on each individual play. But
24:37
Speaker 2: there's something to the pressure they were bringing early I
24:40
Speaker 2: think it was twofold one. They're going to be way
24:44
Speaker 2: more exotic than just mugging up eight guys on the
24:46
Speaker 2: line of scrimmage. You might see that a ton this year.
24:48
Speaker 2: But also they were more focused on getting themselves prepared
24:51
Speaker 2: for the season than worried about anybody seeing what they're
24:54
Speaker 2: gonna do, because that also has to be one of
24:56
Speaker 2: the most overrated things in all of sports. Not after
25:00
Speaker 2: we won a freaking game, yeah, or two games, everybody
25:03
Speaker 2: knows what play you're running as well. There's only so
25:05
Speaker 2: many different ways, especially offensively. There's so many different ways
25:09
Speaker 2: that you can play defensively. Damn Sure, you can disguise
25:13
Speaker 2: it and you can line up in different ways. But
25:15
Speaker 2: you can play Cover three match, you can play Cover
25:17
Speaker 2: three Sky, you can play cloud for there's variations of them.
25:21
Speaker 2: But if you're running Cover three, you're running Cover three.
25:23
Speaker 2: Everyone at some point is running mostly the same stuff.
25:26
Speaker 2: Let's not act like we're all break it's a good
25:28
Speaker 2: point ball and everyone is Bill Walsh reincarnated here in
25:32
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven, and no.
25:33
Speaker 1: One ever asked this question.
25:34
Speaker 3: Isn't it also maybe more important to like practice being
25:38
Speaker 3: good at things other than worrying about other people saying them,
25:41
Speaker 3: Like okay, but yeah, you don't want to reveal stuff maybe,
25:43
Speaker 3: but like also if there isn't anything that exotic about it,
25:47
Speaker 3: like you said, Cover three, Cover two is what it is,
25:49
Speaker 3: also like it's okay to go out and practice being
25:51
Speaker 3: good at it, like because if you're good at it,
25:54
Speaker 3: that should help.
25:54
Speaker 1: You win games, Like you know what I mean.
25:56
Speaker 3: That is kind of funny, but that's preseason, and we
26:00
Speaker 3: we care about team results less in preseason and more
26:03
Speaker 3: individual results than almost any other time in sports, because
26:06
Speaker 3: I guarantee if you stop most Packer fans in the street,
26:09
Speaker 3: they'd much rather have Tray Smack banging in fifty eight yarders,
26:12
Speaker 3: you know, and and LVN getting sacks and still losing,
26:17
Speaker 3: rather than the Packers winning by thirty because all respect
26:20
Speaker 3: to Chiron Drones and his family, because those guys had
26:23
Speaker 3: big games.
26:23
Speaker 1: Like that's just the reality.
26:24
Speaker 3: You want to see progress from important individual players in
26:28
Speaker 3: preseason things that will get you excited.
26:30
Speaker 1: You know.
26:31
Speaker 3: It's not much different than and than watching your rookies
26:33
Speaker 3: play in Summer League when you're a Bucks fan like
26:35
Speaker 3: we were, I didn't really care about the results as
26:37
Speaker 3: much as Braden Burry's filling it up and stuff like that.
26:40
Speaker 1: So it is what it is. This is the time
26:42
Speaker 1: of year.
26:43
Speaker 3: But to me, when you when you see Tray Smack
26:45
Speaker 3: after all the you know, investment they have in him
26:48
Speaker 3: basically is like needing him to work out and how
26:51
Speaker 3: important that can be and in important games as we know,
26:54
Speaker 3: and seeing him hit big field goals in the stadium
26:56
Speaker 3: like that, that was good enough for.
26:58
Speaker 2: Me to call to success last night. Four rookie kickers
27:00
Speaker 2: in the last five years they've had.
27:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's just crazy.
27:05
Speaker 2: That's a hell of a run. At some point you
27:08
Speaker 2: think it's got to work out. They cheated our boy
27:10
Speaker 2: Lucas Vanes out of that stack last night.
27:12
Speaker 1: Oh they didn't give it to him.
27:13
Speaker 2: No, they didn't give it to him. I think they
27:14
Speaker 2: gave it to Zaire Franklin on the blitz. But again,
27:17
Speaker 2: Zaire Franklin, blitzing is not something that I had planned
27:20
Speaker 2: in my recap of game number one in the preseason.
27:24
Speaker 2: Backers went with it, and they also played almost everybody
27:27
Speaker 2: right like that. They they at least got almost everybody
27:31
Speaker 2: ready to roll. And good to see Jayden read across
27:34
Speaker 2: the middle. Good to see him with a little bit
27:35
Speaker 2: of yak after a catch wide open ball just striked
27:40
Speaker 2: right across the middle by love. That looked good. And
27:43
Speaker 2: I hope you want to be able to finish off
27:45
Speaker 2: the series with a touchdown. But also I would wonder,
27:49
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe those guys will be able to
27:51
Speaker 2: talk to him in the locker room and say, hey,
27:53
Speaker 2: exactly how did you feel at that moment? Because you
27:56
Speaker 2: get in, you've finished the drive, what you think it
27:59
Speaker 2: is all of a sudden it hits the field goal,
28:01
Speaker 2: and you're putting the helmet on, knowing it's one series
28:04
Speaker 2: and done, probably putting the hat on, maybe loosen in
28:06
Speaker 2: the belt as they like, Wait a second, we got
28:09
Speaker 2: to go back out there.
28:10
Speaker 1: Oh boy, all right, do you want this one right?
28:12
Speaker 2: You're gonna get back out there? Oh sweet, okay, never
28:15
Speaker 2: mind sudden change, We're right back in there. There might
28:17
Speaker 2: have been a little uh relaxing of the shoulders very
28:21
Speaker 2: quickly after you think you're already done.
28:22
Speaker 3: And great to see Marshall Lloyd out there play, get tackled,
28:26
Speaker 3: get up, bounce, all those things are good baby steps
28:29
Speaker 3: for him. But the reality is he hasn't been able
28:31
Speaker 3: to do this, you know. So you know, he didn't
28:33
Speaker 3: break off anything crazy. He didn't have to. He went
28:36
Speaker 3: out there played.
28:37
Speaker 1: It was healthy. Neither team, neither team ran the ball effectively,
28:41
Speaker 1: So I guess credit to the interior of the defensive
28:44
Speaker 1: lines and linebackers, and the Packers didn't do a great
28:48
Speaker 1: job when they didn't get pressure of defending the pass.
28:51
Speaker 1: That's fair. He got pretty much shredded.
28:54
Speaker 2: They got whatever they wanted. Uh and Jalen Simpson, Raynichki,
28:58
Speaker 2: all star actors.
28:59
Speaker 1: You're stadium. Oh he had a rough night a little
29:02
Speaker 1: bit different. Hard Knocks would have done the whole segment on.
29:05
Speaker 2: Him, Yeah, and it would have went. I mean they
29:07
Speaker 2: might have hit the tomeer and all the music when
29:09
Speaker 2: he walked to break and it wasn't even for an injury.
29:14
Speaker 1: You know, my I've been I've been looking at my
29:17
Speaker 1: aura app because I have the aura ring. Oh okay, yeah,
29:20
Speaker 1: your stats the night at the station here in the US.
29:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, I those are nice couches in the performance.
29:31
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was. I should have gone in there
29:33
Speaker 1: because I was in my own little layer and uh
29:35
Speaker 1: on a crappy couch and a recliner. But my aura ring,
29:39
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see, like what how ridiculous my sleep
29:42
Speaker 1: score is? And it says waiting for your SLEEPDT. I
29:45
Speaker 1: don't think I got any registered data. You would have
29:49
Speaker 1: been better off getting steps in at this point. At
29:52
Speaker 1: this point, I would have been because I did lay
29:55
Speaker 1: down and I did rest, and there were times when
29:56
Speaker 1: I was kind of drifting and you have those kind
29:58
Speaker 1: of like your your brain seems like you're dreaming. I
30:02
Speaker 1: was in and out of it, but it's waiting for
30:05
Speaker 1: my sleep out of like I've been up all night.
30:06
Speaker 1: But he said, hey, excuse me, sir, it's an all
30:09
Speaker 1: night or but there are people listening to us that
30:11
Speaker 1: we're awake then and are awake now, and how about
30:14
Speaker 1: that we love them. We love our five o'clock clubbers
30:17
Speaker 1: all the time, but especially after a late night for us.
30:19
Speaker 1: Last night, for example, the barrister hit us up. He said,
30:22
Speaker 1: got to hear you, got you boys in the car
30:24
Speaker 1: on the way home from VA. Come on out to
30:27
Speaker 1: our veterans. Then when I got home, I got to
30:29
Speaker 1: watch the Brewers play the night. That's a nice doubleheader. Yes,
30:33
Speaker 1: that plays man, and that's a nice one. That ninth
30:35
Speaker 1: inning is going to give you a lot of life.
30:37
Speaker 1: And let's not jump the put the card ahead of
30:40
Speaker 1: the horse. Here, pump the horses. Is our friend Brian Busch.
30:45
Speaker 2: Ronda did tell us, Dad, tell us she said, speak
30:49
Speaker 2: positivity into existence. Now I spit on the shoes of negativity.
30:54
Speaker 2: Go Brewers. Also, well done, smack a couple more games
30:56
Speaker 2: and will really help. I will really help get that
30:58
Speaker 2: kid off to a solid star. Go pack, go c go.
31:01
Speaker 1: Ron to thinking about.
31:03
Speaker 3: Ronda talking about the butterflies and how we're the butterfly
31:06
Speaker 3: and the Brewers the you know, gonna traverse through.
31:10
Speaker 1: And like man, the positive she started, that's positivity.
31:13
Speaker 2: Also want Rona to know my youngster was a big fan.
31:16
Speaker 2: That there is a that there are three butterflies named
31:18
Speaker 2: after us.
31:19
Speaker 1: How about that?
31:20
Speaker 2: That's huge. He's very excited. Now may or may not
31:23
Speaker 2: have thought. He encountered our butterflies like three or four
31:27
Speaker 2: times yesterday.
31:28
Speaker 1: So we might we might just be everywhere. I don't know, guys,
31:31
Speaker 1: we might have to have Rondo. We might have to
31:33
Speaker 1: have her do us a favor and spit on the
31:35
Speaker 1: shoes from Bill from Madison, come on, come on, Madison,
31:40
Speaker 1: come on, coming in hot last night? Can we please
31:43
Speaker 1: play Vaughan and Bowers together for a few consecutive games?
31:46
Speaker 1: And it looks like the Brewers picked up another gas
31:48
Speaker 1: can reliever at the deadline. Can't wait to see Joe
31:51
Speaker 1: blow Romero add gas to the fire. The guy hasn't
31:55
Speaker 1: even thrown a game yet, and you're telling him with
31:57
Speaker 1: a nickname like he sucks.
31:59
Speaker 3: This is said Tella avoided his wrath. Now, I don't know,
32:02
Speaker 3: come on, like Billy, that was a great win. I understand, man,
32:05
Speaker 3: But come on, put the wet blanket on right away.
32:08
Speaker 1: We have a more We've got a more profound and
32:10
Speaker 1: nuanced take from Andy and West Bend, which we will
32:13
Speaker 1: share on the other side with the Brewers and uh
32:16
Speaker 1: and acquisitions, uh deadline acquisitions and fired today with the
32:21
Speaker 1: text and I'm gonna uh yeah and again I'm gonna
32:24
Speaker 1: throw another bouquet to our pal, Doug Melvin former Brewis GM.
32:27
Speaker 1: That's all lying ahead. We are here in spirit. I
32:32
Speaker 1: don't know about in body. We're just kind of flogging
32:34
Speaker 1: in the ether right now. We're here in spirit. You're
32:38
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Speaker 3: So I'm in there on writing Facebook comments, listening Drew
33:00
Speaker 3: runs on Packers.
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Speaker 1: Bright and Early, So good on you, Arman. Fantastic eight
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Speaker 1: seven seven, seven nine seven, three year ticket to the
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Speaker 1: nicolay Low dot Com talk and text line now the
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Speaker 1: Brewers came back last night against the highest paid closer
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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. That's right, Edwin Diazing big money
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Speaker 1: signed a sixty nine million dollar deal, and one another
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Speaker 1: one of those deals kind of went under the radars, like, oh,
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Speaker 1: the doctors just get everybody, and then half dozen games
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Speaker 1: into his tenure at Chavez Ravine, loose bodies in his
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Speaker 1: elbow needs surgery comes back. Oh he had the school situation. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he comes back, a surgery comes back, loose bodies. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: as the name of a different type of movie too.
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Speaker 1: So he comes back and the results haven't been great. No,
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Speaker 1: he's he's six out of ten dollars saves. He blew
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Speaker 1: his fourteen last night, three months out and it's like
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Speaker 1: three out of the last four. Oh yeah, So he's
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Speaker 1: fourteen appearances into a sixty nine million dollar contract and
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Speaker 1: his era is now eleven point five to seven.
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Speaker 2: Oh beautiful, But what a beautiful moment because he signed
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Speaker 2: like right as Tucker signed right because it was Oh wait,
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers just won won their second consecutive World Series
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Speaker 2: and spend more money than everybody. They just paid somebody
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Speaker 2: sixty million and got the best closer on the market.
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Speaker 2: So he had a lot of booze last night.
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Speaker 1: Here's his weekend though, I mean here, here is his
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Speaker 1: last week. Checked into a one run game Friday night
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Speaker 1: in Phoenix, gave up a two run walk off homer
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Speaker 1: to Ryan Walschmidt. Nice came back on Saturday night, ninth inning,
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Speaker 1: faced Corbyn, Carrol, Corbyn, Carroll, it's a tying triple. He
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Speaker 1: comes back on Monday facing the Royals, the last place
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Speaker 1: Royals one two three inning, no big deal. And here
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Speaker 1: we are last night four two lead and he pukes
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Speaker 1: it away and he's so again, thirty two year old guy.
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Speaker 1: They went and got the top of the market guy,
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Speaker 1: sixty nine million dollars. It's not working out that well.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: Also, somebody's got to show me the the best version
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Speaker 2: of Edwin Diaz and it was was it past the
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Speaker 2: WBC ago right? Like when he he was celebrating in
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Speaker 2: the WBC and then blew out his patella.
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Speaker 1: Has it been the same since so now? Yeah. Dave Roberts,
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Speaker 1: Dave Roberts is much like Murph with Yelich, going to
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Speaker 1: stay the course. He's they asked him, what are you
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Speaker 1: gonna do you think about a change. He's like, give
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Speaker 1: me another option. Quote, give me, well, how about Tanner
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Speaker 1: Scott I managed a dog. Yeah, he gave it up
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Speaker 1: to Evan Phillips Edgardo Henriquez Like, you got other options, Dave,
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Speaker 1: You got you got boys out there, Dave. But Roberts
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Speaker 1: Roberts has too.
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Speaker 2: Yellwich is also in the lineup because Mookie Betts has
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Speaker 2: got an almost sub seven hundred o PS and their
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Speaker 2: sixty million guy, million dollar guy Tucker has continued the
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Speaker 2: swoon that he had the second half with the Cubs
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Speaker 2: basically all year.
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Speaker 1: Then that's the thing that Dodgers can sustain those things.
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Speaker 1: If the Dodgers have an eight game cushion over the
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Speaker 1: Padres in the West, they're waltzing basically, but they're half
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Speaker 1: game back of the Braves for the first round, by
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Speaker 1: which is what they're vying for, because they don't want
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Speaker 1: to play in the first round either, even as great
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Speaker 1: as they are, And it's not a good time to
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Speaker 1: have your bullpen flagging when they are in the middle
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Speaker 1: of a stretch of thirteen games in thirteen days. The
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Speaker 1: Brewers are wrapping a stretch of seventeen and seventeen and
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Speaker 1: we know it's brutal, and they run on fumes a
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Speaker 1: little bit. As we've seen, they've been inconsistent in the ballo.
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Speaker 1: But all this is to say and to put a
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Speaker 1: bow on it. Friend of the show, Andy and westpend
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Speaker 1: hits a snickel a log in talking text one eight
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Speaker 1: seven seven seven nine four one ninety seven three. Acquiring
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Speaker 1: guys like scooball mize and may mean at means absolutely
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Speaker 1: nothing in today's baseball. When you can't close out games,
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Speaker 1: it's amazing. He's not wrong. And that made me think
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Speaker 1: the visionary that was Doug Melvin, who twenty years ago,
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Speaker 1: that was a long time ago. He's like, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe we're doing this backwards. Maybe we should start the
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Speaker 1: game with the bullpen guys and bring in your A starters,
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Speaker 1: bring in Kershaw in the fourth inning and let him
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Speaker 1: pitch in the night finish it. Yeah, And it got
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Speaker 1: me thinking, it's like, okay, why not have an opener
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Speaker 1: in front of Misz. So mis gets to pitch the
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Speaker 1: eighth of the ninth and face Bryce Harper and get
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Speaker 1: to face Freddy Freeman and those guys, and so his
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Speaker 1: sixth inning would be his ninth. It would be the
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Speaker 1: ninth inning of the game. Doesn't that make something Well,
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Speaker 1: the more you think about it is like, that's damn
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Speaker 1: logical because if you give up runs early in the
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Speaker 1: game out of the bullpen, you got more innings to
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Speaker 1: come back. Yes, as if you if mis pitches and
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Speaker 1: it takes out, if he leaves the game after six,
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Speaker 1: you got to navigate those innings. You give up the
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Speaker 1: runs in those innings. It's I hate to use the word,
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Speaker 1: but there's leverage, right, there's it's a it's a bigger situation.
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Speaker 1: His logic is not flawed. Somebody will come up with
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Speaker 1: a scheme to do that and have the mises and
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Speaker 1: to have the scooples and those guys pitch in the
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Speaker 1: biggest innings of the game might and be able to
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Speaker 1: go and be their best and be freshest. And the
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Speaker 1: amount how tight we are with the numbers of three
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Speaker 1: times through the order drew, you would think that they
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Speaker 1: would have kind of cracked the code on that. I
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Speaker 1: still think the psyche of the pitcher is like they
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Speaker 1: don't want to be It still messes with them to
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Speaker 1: be able to start the game or not start the game.
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Speaker 1: I think the best example of it is Game five against.
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Speaker 2: The Cubs last year. What was the Brewers worst thing
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Speaker 2: in that entire series? The first hitting freaking Michael Bush
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Speaker 2: out in the first innings, getting Suzuki out in the
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Speaker 2: first inning. Why don't we throw our all star closer
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Speaker 2: who hasn't been closing the ninth inning. Why don't you
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Speaker 2: go out there and fire the boys up and then
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Speaker 2: we'll hand the ball over to Miserowski.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, it worked out. It worked out perfect wild
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Speaker 1: that it's you reverse engineering. And I'm pretty sure at
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Speaker 1: the time Melvin was saying, like, you don't you want
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Speaker 1: Kershaw pitching on the ninth inning in the World Series?
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Speaker 1: That would be ideal. It never happens, so to get
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Speaker 1: schoogle such as Game seven of the last Yeah, playoff
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Speaker 1: series though playoff series are won and lost, you know,
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Speaker 1: between the sixth and the ninth generally.
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Speaker 3: But that would say the pushback that I would say,
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Speaker 3: I agree with you, And that's where openers came from,
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Speaker 3: and teams that had to be creative and Miley and
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Speaker 3: what the Brewers did. Teams like the Dodgers that have
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Speaker 3: so much talent Ken bludge in you a bit with
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Speaker 3: so many good arms, Like is it is true that
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Speaker 3: you want to have those guys and the closers and
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Speaker 3: things like that, but usually they have enough talent to
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Speaker 3: sustain dips like this in the front and the back end.
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Speaker 3: So if they're able to sustain that much high priced
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Speaker 3: talent and that many good I mean, they also had
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Speaker 3: a bunch of starters dominated a series last year and
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Speaker 3: go to the World Series against US because they had
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Speaker 3: so many good pictures to start as well.
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Speaker 1: So I agree that you want both ends of it,
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Speaker 1: but you can.
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Speaker 2: Also thing as we're watching Yamamoto and Snell just destroy
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Speaker 2: our favorite team in two games at American Family Field
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Speaker 2: and silence the entire thing, like, hey, if they just
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Speaker 2: get into the bullpen, well, if they can just tap
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Speaker 2: this Dodger bullpen and they'll have a chance. I think
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Speaker 2: they had what one combined inning in the two games.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing, Like I think that was true,
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Speaker 3: but we couldn't get to the bullpen and get and
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Speaker 3: like last night, the Brewers, you know, and facing Roki
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Speaker 3: Sazaki is a very good pitcher. He's like, you can
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Speaker 3: make an argument he's their sixth or seventh best starter
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Speaker 3: and something when they're all healthy in some ways, I mean,
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Speaker 3: but you know, that's That's the one thing I'd say
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Speaker 3: is that certain teams can bludgeon you with a depth
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Speaker 3: of talent.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you know, he probably rose after they got
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Speaker 1: rid of River Ryan because he was so okay. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's true.
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Speaker 2: And lower also shout out to our boy Ben. He
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Speaker 2: was hammering hitting us with some texts last night on
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Speaker 2: Packer's ot Late Night with the Boys for Packers Football,
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Speaker 2: five o'clock club. Let's go Happy Friday. Let's go Ben
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Speaker 2: checking in. He was locked in with us last night
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Speaker 2: and he's back up with us. Hey Man, superheroes among
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Speaker 2: this Drew exactly. Jason the Electrician is with us.
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Speaker 1: He's checking in. Good morning Jason. From that warm weather
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Speaker 1: in Florida. We hear from Mike and Racine. Great sports night,
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Speaker 1: first time texterter. Mike tells us it was a great
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Speaker 1: sports a lot of people. He set us up from
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Speaker 1: the miss in the six oh one. Let's go mic
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Speaker 1: and receipt on a Friday. We got our streaming numbers
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Speaker 1: are popping. This club is going up. Who needs sleep?
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Speaker 1: My phone doesn't think I slept at all.
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Speaker 2: It might be a nice thing to have at some point,
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Speaker 2: but I woke up three times with a foot in
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Speaker 2: my head. So maybe that three time would have been
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Speaker 2: a better idea. Actually, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: We're off and running. We got us until eight. Enjoy
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