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9/30/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Reporting for duty on a Wednesday in the good land.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: It's the little show that could. It's the huddle on
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, everywhere on
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  Speaker 1: Dobie Maxwell in for Billy Schmid today. Hunter Baumgart in
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: for Armin Sarian today. We got him away from the ballpark.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: There's no practice today. Hunter can, you know, hang out
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: with us and then go take a quick nap. And
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: then get ready to go to sleep. Only a couple
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: more sleeps until the Brewers play in the playoffs, Hunter. Yeah,
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: so excited.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if I make it up tonight for Padres-Cubs
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  Speaker 2: game two at the 9 o'clock start that they have tonight.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Did you make it for last night's or no?
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  Speaker 3: No. Yeah, well, we didn't miss anything.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Because the Padres put a whooping on the Cubs.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Eight to nothing. Home runs in the first inning by... Tatis,
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: first pitch by Tatis, and then Machado later in the inning.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Padres are something to be reckoned with. No doubt about it.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: Be careful what you wish for. Everybody said, I don't
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: want to face the Cubs. Because the Padres are a
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: wagon right now, and they have been for about two months. Well,
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: hot gets cold at some point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. The microwave, you know, eventually it wears off.
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: Pendulum swings. See, read, comma, Tara.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, wait. That's sexist and awful of me, but it's
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: five o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: Five o'clock clubbers unite. Welcome in.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: Uh, it's a rainy kind of drizzly, uh, ugly morning
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: out there. And if I was going to go on
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: a rant, I would, I would repeat the rant that
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: I have. Cause I'm like, dope. You get to an age.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: I don't like driving at night anyway. You know, you
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: start to, you lose your visual acuity and you just,
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: you're not as sharp. You can't see things as well. Correct. And, uh,
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: one of the things we do that's stupid in this
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  Speaker 1: country is we make, we paint these lane lines and
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: we have black freeways and, uh, the lane lines just
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  Speaker 1: go away when it rains and it's, it's dark out.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: And like, why don't we use glow in the dark
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  Speaker 1: paint for those? Or why don't we do something to
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: make those things a little bit more visible? And then
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: speaking of being blinded, I'm, I'm rolling, uh, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I turn on the street that I turn on to
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  Speaker 1: get to the exit that I Beloit Avenue, uh, Right
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  Speaker 1: near the Megaplex here. And there's a dude 150 yards
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  Speaker 1: away from me with the LED high beams on.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: And then I don't know if he didn't know he
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  Speaker 1: had them on, but he blinded me for 110 yards.
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  Speaker 3: Like, dude. Scorching your corneas.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, oh. And then as he's about to
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  Speaker 1: pass me, as we go from like 150 yards to about,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's about 10 yards in front of me. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he turns them off.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks. Thanks, buddy. Thanks.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, my eyes. I felt like a Kramer
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: with the Kenny Rogers roaster sign. My rods and cones
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: are all messed up. Thanks a lot, buddy. Do those
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: things help? I mean, we grew up in, you've owned cars.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: 237 vehicles, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Olson.
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  Speaker 1: And six of them I got from you. I was
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  Speaker 1: going to say, 237 vehicles you've owned. And you've had
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  Speaker 1: old ones with the old headlamps. Were they that bad?
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: Like the LEDs? Do they help as much as they hurt?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm sure some government agency decided to
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: pass a law because somebody got paid. Now I'm a
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: conspiracy theorist. But yeah, it scorches your blind and it's like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, how does that help anybody?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Hunter, where do you weigh in?
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  Speaker 1: You're a young kid with the tech, and you've got
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  Speaker 1: better eyes than us. Get off our lawn, Hunter.
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  Speaker 2: No, when I'm driving and I see that, I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you either forgot that they were on. Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I would think. Or your car is just
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: way too bright. We just don't need that. It's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty well-lit. I'm approaching Highway 100 in Beloit. It's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty well-lit area you're going to. If the LEDs are
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: so star-spangled awesome, why do you need your brights on then? Yeah,
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: if there's a level above those lights that you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about that you saw this morning, then boy, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know when those would be needed because you're already in
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: a situation where you're using those lights. I will tell you,
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  Speaker 2: being someone who drove at night after covering a high
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: school basketball game in northern Wisconsin, those can help in
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  Speaker 2: those situations, looking at deer and whatnot, but In a
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  Speaker 2: city street.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of deer, minutes ago, as I'm coming up here
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  Speaker 3: as a- Oh, you saw our pets? You see the sign?
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  Speaker 3: It's the yellow sign with the leaping deer.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, when is the last time you saw
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  Speaker 3: a deer? I swear to you, eight seconds later, it
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  Speaker 3: came out. It grazed my car. There's probably a dent
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  Speaker 3: on my car. And the deer turns around, didn't run away,
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  Speaker 3: looks at me like, dude, you're in my living room.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Did you bring me breakfast?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: There's one that there's one that likes to graze, uh,
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  Speaker 1: in the, like the, that could be the one I
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: am our right outside here, kind of where the towers
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: are and. Sometimes he'll just look up at it. He
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: basically taunts Billy a lot. Sometimes I get in, he's
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  Speaker 1: not there when I get in, and then our buddy's
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: out there, and he taunts Billy when he's driving in.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he looked at me like, you're not Billy. He
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  Speaker 3: looked at me like, he knows all the guys coming
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: in and out of here. That's our security. That's our
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: security out there. That's our security. That's right. Billy must
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  Speaker 3: be off today. I'm for animal rights. That's a good thing.
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: Hire the deer.
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  Speaker 1: His wife's sleeping in. She's the receptionist.
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  Speaker 3: Fear the deer, literally. Fear the deer, literally.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: And it's getting to be that time of year where
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: you fear the deer. Yeah. Right?
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: I'm actually excited about the Bucs this year. Your Milwaukee Bucs?
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: I was at Media Day the other day, and the
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: word culture was used. You'd be hammered if you took
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: a shot every time someone said culture. They're building culture. Well,
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: it's a clean slate, and it really is. They're bringing
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: in guys, and they're bringing in a bunch of new
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: guys from Miami where heat culture is the buzz phrase
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: of the NBA. It's like a. It's like a given.
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  Speaker 3: Also yogurt, so don't get excited.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. Yogurt culture. Yeah, that's interesting that you're
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  Speaker 1: excited about that. I've talked to other people too that think, well,
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: they're going to win 43, 44 games.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 3: But I will say this.
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  Speaker 1: They do seem young and hungry and guys that are
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: kind of like trying to get established. When your biggest
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: stars are like Tyler Hero and Miles Turner who have
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  Speaker 1: something to prove. The other phrase that was used, and
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  Speaker 1: we've heard it around here a lot too, chips on
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  Speaker 1: their shoulder. We'll dust off the Pringles or the Ruffles.
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  Speaker 3: He's coming home.
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  Speaker 1: He's pumped up. He's an all-star player. Very good player.
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  Speaker 1: They do have guys that are hungry. My theory of
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  Speaker 1: the case in the NBA is if you show up
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  Speaker 1: and play hard, you can win 25 or 30 games
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of teams don't show up every night.
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  Speaker 1: Bad teams win every night in the NBA because they
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: play harder. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Think of the road schedule. You guys have been on
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  Speaker 3: the road, and I have been my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: Hunter's about to go on the road with the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently now, likely to San Diego. Looking like I'm going
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: to go to San Diego for the first time in
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: my life. Bring your tanning gear. San Diego's a wonderful city. Hunter,
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: you're going to go there, and you're going to go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I see why people love this.
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  Speaker 3: That park is beautiful. It really is.
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  Speaker 1: And you talk to people, and I have friends who
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: live in that area and stuff, and it's so expensive.
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  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: California in general.
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  Speaker 3: In general.
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  Speaker 2: Southern California specifically, probably. I talked to a friend out
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  Speaker 2: there yesterday, seven bucks for gas.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a, you know, did you get a meal
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  Speaker 3: with that? Right, exactly. Did you get a BOGO or
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: something like that?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: Did you get a sandwich and a Diet Coke? No, nothing, nothing, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: That's wild. Yeah, that is something. Yeah, Hunter is headed
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: on the road next week. Brewers, we got the game times,
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: the conditional game times. Yeah. When did that pop? Was
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  Speaker 1: that during the Brewers workout.
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  Speaker 2: That you had? Yeah, like 4.30, 5 o'clock yesterday. So
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: here are the scenarios. Obviously, it's looking like the Padres
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  Speaker 2: are going to beat the Cubs after last night.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, nothing's over, but when you win game one
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  Speaker 1: and you're at home and you're playing like they are,
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs are going to start Gosman tonight to save
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: That's the vagaries of, again, the randomness of baseball. A
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: three-game series, you win game one. We saw yesterday the
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  Speaker 1: best game was the first game, the Phillies-Braves, and it
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: was looking bleak for the home side, and the Braves
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  Speaker 1: got a home run from Austin Riley in the eighth
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  Speaker 1: inning to go ahead, and so they took game one.
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  Speaker 1: Then Yankees-Red Sox, which everybody loves. That was a boat racing. Yep,
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: 9-0 Yankees.
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: And then the White Sox getting a win, which I enjoyed.
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: I'm cheering for the White Sox on the AL side.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the times for this weekend. So if it's
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  Speaker 2: the Padres, which it looks like it's likely to be,
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  Speaker 2: first pitch on Saturday night would be 7.30. So you'd
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: get a Saturday night game at American Family Field. That
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  Speaker 2: place would be rocking.
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, sure will be.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: On Saturday night.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: 7.30. If they play the Cubs, it'll be an afternoon game.
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: It'll be 3 o'clock, first pitch at American Family Field.
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  Speaker 2: And then Sunday, either way, It'll be 3 o'clock, which
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: will be right after Packers and Buccaneers as well on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: So you can have a doubleheader for you. Billy and
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  Speaker 1: I will be doing the postgame show with one eye
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  Speaker 1: on the television.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's happened before, just earlier this year.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got, again, if it's Cubs, it's at 3
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: o'clock on Saturday. If it's the Padres, it's at 7.30
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday. And then Sunday is 3 o'clock either way.
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  Speaker 3: Who do you want to win more, the Brewers or
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: the Packers on that game, the doubleheader?
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  Speaker 1: Brewers for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because of the way things have evolved,
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: but I haven't talked to a soul. Most people are
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: so down on the Packers right now, it's just like
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: they're not checked out because they haven't reached that point.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: You're still following it and interested. A lot of season left.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: They lose this week, they'll be checked out. Brought in
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: a couple offensive linemen. They had Kevin Zeitler visit, which...
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: I advocated for last week. Maybe they'll sign him, too.
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: And they've got Mekhi Becton, who's huge.
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  Speaker 3: They've got to gas somebody, though, don't they? I've got
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: to believe Jacob Monk better get a bus ticket somewhere.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe. So they've got Laken Tomlinson, Mekhi Becton, who was
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: part of the Eagles' front-line blocker for Saquon a couple
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: years ago, and he was pretty good then. And he's
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: a massive human being. He's like 6'7, 350. That helps.
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: I've dated women that big. Yeah, exactly.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: And now Zeitler, who's a local kid and would be
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: a great story to have him finish his career with
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: the Packers. And he can still play. He still played
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: at high level. I was stunned that no one signed
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: him after last year. But he's just a rock. He's
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: so experienced, so good. Badger, Wisconsin Lutheran kid. But people
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: haven't checked out on the Packers. But I have not spoken.
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  Speaker 3: To a soul.
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  Speaker 1: Who would trade a Packers success this year for a
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: Brewers World Series. If the Brewers win the World Series,
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: most of the Packers fans I've talked to said, we
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: can lose every game. I don't care. We'll take it
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: this year. It'll be the trade-off. I would trade that, too.
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would, too. I was talking about the one game.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: And the Brewers have been so good, kind of like
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: the Packers. They're getting to the point where they're frustrating
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: their fans by not going further and not taking that
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: next step. But to make the playoffs eight out of
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: nine years, win the division four years in a row,
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: two years in a row, you know, setting the franchise
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: record for wins and posting the best record in baseball Hunter.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: I know you've been busy and you've been ensconced in it,
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: but we had a, on my TV show Saturday that
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: I do with Dario and Stefan big 12 sports Saturday,
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: WSN TV in Milwaukee. They were asking if the Brewers,
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: you know, what does a hundred wins mean? And is
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: it important in the grand scheme? And if they don't
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: win the world series, is it even notable? And I said, yeah,
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: absolutely it is. Absolutely it is. Because it's something they've
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: never done before. Even the Milwaukee Braves, who did win
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: a World Series and went to two in their short
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: time here and never had a losing season, they never
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: won 100 games. 100 games is a, and I said,
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: give me 100 games. Win 100 games every year for
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: five years in a row, you're going to fall into
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: a World Series championship. Yeah, yeah. Because you're going to
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: be that good to sustain that. And my point is
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: you can't win the World Series before October. But the
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: best thing, you've got to play the best you can.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: And in some ways, isn't it kind of warped that
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: the playoff run, like the way it's constructed now, let's
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: say the Brewers play, you play at maybe 15 games
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And you play 162 in the regular season. Yeah.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: So it's 10%. You're focusing on the 10% as opposed
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: to the 90%. You're 90% excellent. Cindy Crawford's 90% excellent.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: She's got a little mole on her face. You know what?
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: That's why Dobie broke up with her. That's it. Couldn't
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: handle looking at it anymore.
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: Well, and that's what Pat Murphy's been saying for the
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: last week or two is he keeps using the word crapshoot, right,
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: when you talk about the playoffs. And it is because
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: it's such a short sample size. But one question that
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: I've been thinking about, and then I'd be curious to
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: get your guys' thoughts, what's more impressive? To win 103
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: games over 162 or to win a World Series.
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  Speaker 1: And to me, it's pretty close. And honestly, talk about
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: the word impressive.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: It might be 103 over 162 because you have to
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: be so incredibly consistent.
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: And the randomness of baseball means that the Sacramento Nomads
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: can sweep a series against the Yankees in the regular season. Yes.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: And you don't cheat your way. You don't fluke your
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: way to a hundred wins. You're a good, you can't,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: there's never been a bad 100 win team in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to take it one step further. I think
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  Speaker 3: the four division titles in a row is pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: That too.
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  Speaker 3: That too. I mean, 103.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what the Packers need to get back to.
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  Speaker 1: Cause they spoiled their fans by winning the division every
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: year that, that, that, that became, okay, now what do
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: you got? Bucks did that too for years. Bucks did
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: it for years as well. But yeah, it, it is. It's,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit warped. Like, we should make a
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: bigger deal of the regular season, but it were so
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: playoffs and title driven. And I get it. I get it.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: I understand it, but to win a hundred games and
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: to post it, my thing is that the season that people,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: basically what the question was, was if they don't win
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: the world series, is the season a failure? No, not
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: even close. If they lose, if they get swept by
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: the Padres or the Cubs in the first round, it
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: would sting. It would suck. And it will make people
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: look back and go, oh, what a waste of time.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: And then you're going to think about it and you're
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: going to go, well, wait. And Adonazio pissed people off
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: when he said six months of entertainment.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: Sure, sure.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: And David Stern said bites of the apple. Well, that's
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: what you're doing is giving yourselves bites of the apple.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: Get in the playoffs.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: You can't win the World Series if you don't make
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: the playoffs.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: This season, right now, if you're giving a grade, is
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: an A plus and maybe an A plus plus. Mm-hmm.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: I don't see how it can't be an A + +.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: So if you have an F in the playoffs, which
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: is 10% of your grade, then what do you take
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: it down to? It's at the most like a B-C.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: It's not an F if they don't win the World
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Series to me.
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: No.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Because of the randomness of baseball and the vagaries of
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: the sport.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: You're a small market team, too, so that adds some bonus.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Points, doesn't it?
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Extra credit.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: You would think they've done extra credit, but this season
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: is an A +.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. You can't do anything else to get yourself
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: in position to win the World Series. Now, will you win?
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: No.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: And history is littered with great teams that didn't win
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: the World Series or great teams that didn't win titles.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: 82 players.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: You've set yourself up as good as you possibly can
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: going into the postseason.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: You get the five days off. There's nothing you can do.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Right, exactly.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: And people I know worried about, oh, rest versus rust
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: and all that. Well, and that's legit because the teams
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: that have the buys, they're only winning like half of
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: the time so far.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: A small sample. I think for the Brewers, it's perfect timing.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: I think you guys, you got some guys beat up,
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Joey Ortiz, Andrew Vaughn's working his way back from an illness.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: And then I was talking with some guys in the
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: clubhouse yesterday and they're like, yeah, the the pitching at
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: this time of year to get five days off is
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: not a bad thing because your, your arm is, you know, you're,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: you're at a point where you've pitched nonstop for six months.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: And especially you look at starters. Like we talked to
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Ms on Sunday and he's like, yeah, my routine's not
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: going to change. Cause I'm going to have five days
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: off and then I'm going to pitch on Saturday. Like
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: his routine stays the same. The position players are just
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: going to, you know, get, hopefully get a little healthy
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: over these five days. And Pat Murphy's, very much stressing
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: to these guys. We're going to practice with intent this week.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: And it's, you know, they're especially, he said later in
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: the week, Thursday, Friday, they're going to ramp it up
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: and make sure they're ready to go. And they were
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: last year. Remember they scored what? Six runs in the
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: first inning last year.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. How rusty were they?
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: They won the first two games pretty comfortably. Yes. And
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: then they struggled when they got to Chicago. So it's
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: a crap shoot. It's a total crap shoot. Like almost
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: more than any other sport in the playoffs, other than
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: maybe the NHL where you see eight seeds beat one seeds.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: At times. Yeah.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: But those are all seven-game series, too.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: And that's usually, yeah. And a hot goalie can usually.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Right. Right.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: That's the thing. A hot goalie is like having, if
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: you have a hot goalie in the playoffs, it's like
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: having Miz pitch every inning.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yep. Yeah.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Basically. And that's what, you know, and they can flip
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: series in that sport. How does he not get to
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Cy Young? He's going to. I think it's going to
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: be unanimous. Maybe some guy from Philly will vote for
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: their guy, but no.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: It could be. I think it's going to be unanimous
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: because of the stuff that he's done. Talk about a year, man.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Wow. Well, and that's the thing. So, all right, here
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: It's like, it's, you know, we're opening it. And again,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: like last year, and I try to remind people of
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: this every time I can, you win the series, you
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: don't play. So if they got swept, they're a one-on-one
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs to me. Yeah. If they get swept
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: in the first round, because they didn't have to play
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the first round because they, They tested out of that, right?
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: They got their high school credits transferred and got into
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: college for them. So they don't have to, you know,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I don't have to take Spanish. I don't have to
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: take English composition. I tested out of it. I'm it's
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: in the bank and earning interest. So you win the series.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: You don't play. So in my mind, they've already won
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: a playoff series. They didn't spray champagne. They didn't put
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: plastic up over the lockers and have a party, but
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: they've already won a series because now they're just sitting
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: back and waiting for who's going to, you know, and
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: resting up again. Is that an advantage historically? Not necessarily
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: because baseball is a sport where momentum is real and
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: you don't get many five-day breaks in the season. You
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: get one. All-star break. Yeah, and that's it. But you're
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in the rhythm, and they're doing it, and they're locking
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the media out today and tomorrow, and then Friday will
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: be the open workout with the press conferences, and then
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Saturday they'll fire it up. It's going to be a blast,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: and you just buckle up. Imagine the electricity. Yeah, and
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: as you see, Like with the Braves, one swing, one
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: swing just can swing the series. Well, and that's the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: whole thing. If Austin Riley doesn't hit that home run
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: in the Philly State game one, the Braves are on
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the ropes playing for their lives today, and they might
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: be done.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: That was one of the most common questions at the
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: workout yesterday was, you know, you guys obviously, and the
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: players know this too, it's not a team that hits
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: a lot of home runs. You know, can that win
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: in the postseason? And look, the Brewers were right up
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: there and run scored this year. I don't think they're
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: going to have a problem scoring runs. It's not going
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: to hurt if they hit home runs. You remember some
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: of the big moments last year, Vaughn, a three-run homer, Churrio,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: a home run. But they did in that first inning
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: that we just talked about against Boyd in game one
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: against the Cubs, it was a lot of singles and
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: getting on base like they always do. So I'm not
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: incredibly concerned about it because I think this offense won
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: through nine is solid. And so anybody can do anything
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: at any time. But you did see yesterday Tatis and
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Machado set the tone in San Diego. Ben Rice with
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: a couple of homers for the Yankees.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Ben Rice had more hits last night than he did
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: in the whole postseason last year.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Could that be Yelich this year, right? Yelich could do
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: that exact thing. Absolutely. That's the thing. That's what's the
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: magic of it. So as they say, it's hard. It's
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: supposed to be hard. That's it. That's by design. So
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: it's going to be fun. We'll buckle up. Hunter's got
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a bunch of interviews for us to listen to. Yeah,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: we got some Pat Murphy clips.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: He was.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: He was Pat Murphy yesterday. There's no doubt about it.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: He was in his bag. I heard a little bit
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: He was holding court. 30-minute press conference yesterday with the media.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I also talked one-on-one with Bryce Wilson, who's kind of
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: on the fringe of the roster.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Will he make it? Will he not?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: We'll have that conversation. Talked about a myriad of things
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: with him. Hear from Cooper Pratt as well, his first postseason.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: So a bunch of audio to spin through this morning.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's get after it. Dobie is in for Billy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Hunter is in for Armand. They're both going to be
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: back tomorrow. And tomorrow, special day. Tomorrow is the huddle
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: doubleheader because we'll be huddling up at 5 a.m. here
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: at headquarters. And then at 5 p.m., we're at Pottawatomie Sportsbook,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the annex adjacent to it, doing a show there, getting
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: ready for Thursday Night Football, which this week is the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: bronze against the Stillers. Oh, Aaron Rodgers. Stillers and bronze
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: on Thursday Night Football. And there will be playoff baseball
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and playoffs. possibly, you know, deciding games. Hopefully some game threes.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Hopefully some deciding games. We'll see what happens today, but
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: it's good theater so far, but always a good time
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: at Pottawatomie Sportsbook. So we'll be there on Thursday for
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the doubleheader. The boys will be back and then Armin
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: is off on Friday and it's just me and Billy
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: against the world on Friday. But we're going to, yeah,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: we'll spin through some Brewers audio. We'll take your thoughts.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: How are you feeling? It looks like it's going to
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: be the Padres. Anything can happen. The Cubs can get
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: off the deck today and win and force a game three.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Let's hope not.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: They're sending Kevin Gosman to the mound.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Padres got a really quality start last night, a dazzling
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: postseason start. Now that guy's going to be poised to
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: pitch game two.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: If it happens that way. So we'll kick it all around.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: We will talk about the Packers as they try to rebuild.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: There was a little scheduling shift with the Packers. Packers-Bears
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: flexed out of the national spotlight to noon. That's what
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: it's come to. We'll talk about that as we move
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: forward as well. Get yourself a comfortable chair and a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: cold or hot beverage of your choice and sit back
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: and enjoy the huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: And he swings at the very first pitch of the
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: game and drives one. Deep center field and a leap!
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: It's gone! And Machado drives one to deep left center
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: and gone!
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Her ball is straight for the ball.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: And what a statement by the hottest team in baseball
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: to start this postseason with a dominant right from the
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: first pitch of the game. 8-0 win.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: The Padres waxing the Cubs last evening at Petco Park. Well,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: 8-0 final, and it wasn't that close.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, can I say this? Does anybody like me
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: like to taunt Cubs fans? Hey, how'd the Cubs do?
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I was out doing, I was out shopping. And profanity
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: comes back on the text. It's like, ah, victory. Those
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: highlights courtesy of NBC, which handled the first round. I
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: did watch Phillies Braves. I watched a little bit of
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: the Yankees.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't see any of the Cubs demise because it
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: was past my bedtime. but I upon awaking, I did
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: look at that box. Oh, that's interesting. Cubs had three hits.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: And the best defensive team in ball made an error
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and played a little flat footed. Tatis tried to steal second,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the ball went into the center field and he scored. Yeah.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: That's not great. Not great, Bob.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: They, um, you know, and again, the Padres are wagging,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: they're sitting at home. The Cubs did have to grind
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to get in and then went to Boston and Tampa
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and then San Diego planes, trains and automobiles. No excuses though.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: You got to step up. But, uh, it was interesting
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the way it played out. And again, in the small sample,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the best, the best defensive team in ball by acclimation
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: this year makes a mistake like that on the biggest stage.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: That's the randomness of baseball.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: And so we'll see what happens in game two. I
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: do think that, yeah, the Cubs 15 and 20 in
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: their last 35 coming in. It just, it, the Padres,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I think have won like 18 of their last 21.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: They're the hot team, right?
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: There's always that one team that comes in incredibly hot
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: to the post season. This year it's the Padres. It
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: looks like the Brewers are going to have to deal
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: with them. And I had some people texting me last night, like, Oh,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the Padres concern me.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, all right.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: So yes.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Are the Padres hot? Yes. Do they have firepower on offense?
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Are they going to be a tough out no matter
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: who plays them?
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: But also. did the Brewers just win 103 games? Yes.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Do they have Miz on the mound in game one?
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Is Miz better than Matthew Boyd showed last night? Absolutely.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: So I get it, and you obviously are, that's just
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: what we're trained to be, is a little scared of
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: the opponent, whoever that is. Even if it's the Cubs,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, it's the rivalry. What if we lose?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: The Brewers are set up so well. They're so solid
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: in every different facet that I think in order for
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: them to lose, they would have to play uncharacteristically bad
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: against whoever they play. Now, could the, could the Padres
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: win the series?
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: But I just think you have to be a little more,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I'm a little more confident in this Brewers team than
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: maybe years past because of how good this team is.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I'm with you there. And with Henderson's kind of the,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: another one, it's like you're coming out of the shoot
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: with two of the best pitchers that you can throw
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: out there and they match up with anybody. Now, again,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: like could the Brewers lose the Padres?
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Could they lose to the Braves or the Phillies? Sure.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Could they lose to the Cubs?
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Now, should we read anything into one of the– I've
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: been saying it, and I don't know if you agree, Hunter.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of stuff going around, and you
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: were in the clubhouse. And I know Dom did the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: video last week asking guys, what was your favorite game
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: of the season? Yeah. And several of them mentioned the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: snatchback victory on the Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Huge. Oh, yeah.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: They came back and beat the– and then they ended up–
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: that was the springboard. They won three out of four
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: in that series. Damn near swept them in four games. Yep.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: And that came on the heels of getting skunked in
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: San Diego. Yep. They were skunked in San Diego in three,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and they just got sand kicked in their faces, right?
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Is that, like, if you want to obsess about that
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and say, how are the Brewers going to win after
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that happened? What about when the Brewers skunked the Dodgers
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: 7-0 during the regular season? The year before. Yeah, last year.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: The year before. Yeah, last year. And then lost... got
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: boat raced in the play. That doesn't matter. That's a
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: clean slate. So if you want to worry about that,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: go ahead. But that's not that relevant because what's relevant
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: is how you plan today.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Win tonight.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Play today.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Totally.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: The reality of the situation, the Brewers went two and
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: four against the Padres this year. The Padres also won
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: two of those three games in the sweep by one run,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: and one of them was in extra innings. A 4-3
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: extra innings win, a 3-2. The one they got blown
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: out was a tough Kyle Harrison start, 11-2. Otherwise, they
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: lost by one run. They were playing, again, uncharacteristically bad. Now,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: the Brewers, since that series, lost one more series. They, they,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: otherwise they either split or won every single series the
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: rest of the way.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: And so that really, that Thursday night in LA was
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: so big. You're down heading to the ninth inning against
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz. You score three, you win the game. And
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: then since then they lost one series and that was a, uh,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: a series in Cincinnati over Labor Day weekend. Otherwise they were,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: they basically took it off the sheet after that.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: They did.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: And.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: There's just so many ways to look at it, and
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you can obsess about it, but it's a baseball game.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: You're going to play a series, and the Brewers have
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: been clicking off series wins much the same way as
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the Padres. Are the Padres technically hotter in terms of
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: record than the Brewers in the last month of the season?
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: And I'm wondering, does that even matter?
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Right, and the Brewers went 18-6 in September and 15-3
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: in their last 18th. So it's hard to play much
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: better than that last 11. So you don't want to
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: talk about hot. The brewers are nearly as hot as
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the Padres.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they might be, but you guys have both been
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: around baseball more than the average Joe, which I consider myself.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: What makes a team hot? Is it, is it a play?
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Is it come together? Is it an attitude? Is it
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: a vibe?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: You know, it is a vibe. It's like a contagious. Well,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: first of all, winning. I mean, that's, you know, uh, okay.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's the, it's the little things. It's, um, the, the,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: The Brewers have a blueprint where they get a lead
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and then hold the lead because their bullpen is really good,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: and then they turn it over and McGill closes it out. Now,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: there are some games they will come from behind. They're
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: capable of that, again, because of their bullpen. If they're
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: down four runs in the third inning, the bullpen will
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: keep it at that and let you peck away at it,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and then the next thing you know, you're in the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: eighth inning and the tying run's on second. So they
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: do have that capacity, even though they don't hit homers.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: The interesting thing about the playoffs, and I heard Murph
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: say this, and Hunter, when we come back, we'll spin
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: through some of the sound that you gathered.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: But I heard Murph mention it, too, the interesting things.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: You're facing the top of teams' pitching staffs because you
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: don't have guys on the shelf because I don't want
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to pitch them four times in five days. The schedule
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: has breaks in it so that the most you're going
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: to play in a row is three, right, in a 2-3-2?
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Like they're playing three in a row right now this
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: week in the wild card series. That's the most you're
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: going to face. And then guys, so you're facing the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: top guys out of the bullpen are generally always available. Now,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: if you're going from one series to the next or
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: starters need their normal rest and all that, that's baked in.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: But you're facing the best pitching. And so that makes
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: it hard, I've been saying, to get five or six
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: hits in an inning because it's hard to get that
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: against the top pitching. So you might not get that
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: many walks. That's why we always say homers play. And
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: what Austin Riley did, one swing. Against Durant, who's been
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: one of the best in baseball. They brought him in early.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: They went aggressive, and it backfired. So one swing. And
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: that's how games can turn. And baseball games can turn
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: on one or two plays like that. But you put
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: yourself in position. And the other thing that Murph mentioned
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: was when we'll talk about roster construction, there's no ghost runner.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: So you might have a 15 inning game. So you
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: need to prepare for that. True too. So you need like, oh,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: we don't need that many pitchers. Or yeah, you do.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Or you have to think about that being a possibility.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And so you got to keep some fresh arms in
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: case that happens. And the Brewers are blessed in that
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: way because they have a scheme where they have multiple
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: guys who can go multiple innings. And that's going to help.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And then do you, do you keep, and that's where like, uh, that,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that do you think about keeping a Kyle Harrison or
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: a guy who's stretched out, who struggled, but he stretched
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: out and you might need him like, you know, or
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: a Shane drone could be that guy or, and I've
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: talked to a lot of people who are like, ah,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: they're going to get into a big thing and they're
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: going to have a bullpen day. Cause they, they've used, um,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Henderson and Ms.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: But that's the way baseball is now. And it happens
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: in the world series. You see bullpen games. Like that's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: just the idea of having, a set starter for every game,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the way they did in the eighties, that doesn't happen anymore.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I would think game four, if they would get to
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: that scenario would likely be that type of, that type
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: of just who is available.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Is it Ashby? Is it Jerome? Is it, well, there's a,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: is it even May for, you know, as long as
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: he can go and then somebody in next, as soon
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: as he gets in trouble.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: So that's, and that's how the playoffs go. Like you're
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: in any different role. You know, we saw Trevor McGill
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: start game five last year, right? There, there are, there
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: are different roles that these guys are in, in the
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: post season. And the Brewers are set up well with
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: a pitching staff that I think the bullpen, you feel
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: pretty much good about pretty much anybody that comes in.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: That last kind of spot in the bullpen, that last
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: spot in the pitching staff on the roster, it's going
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: to be interesting. You talk about Kyle Harrison or maybe
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: a Bryce Wilson or even maybe an outside shot of
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: a guy who's like Garrett Stallings, who pitched really well
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: at the major league level, didn't finish the season at
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: the major league level, but maybe he is considered for it.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Murph did talk about Harrison. We'll get to that in
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the next segment as well. Yes, we're going to spin
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: through some of the sound that Hunter gathered yesterday. It
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: was really good. Murph was good, as always. As always.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore of Brewers people, don't you think? Yeah, he
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: is 100 games over. 500 in his first three seasons.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. 293 and 193. Yeah, that's pretty unbelievable. Patches
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: over your hand. Yeah, that's stunning.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, we got plenty to get to.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: It's also hot take hump day. If you've got hot takes. Oh, yes.
• 32:51
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• 32:57
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• 33:01
  Speaker 1: And then when we get to the end of the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: show and we're feeling it, we're dragging a little bit,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: our first in-season visit with our pal El Jefe John Greenberg,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: president of the Milwaukee Admirals. Hockey season started last night
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: in the NHL. Admirals fire up on Saturday night in Rockford. Already.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: I haven't sent my Valentines out yet, and it's hockey season.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: It's hockey season. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Huddled up on a Wednesday, Drew Olsen, Dobie Maxwell in
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: for Billy, Hunter Baumgart manning the controls here at headquarters
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: for Armin Sarian. The band will be back together tomorrow,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: and tomorrow's the doubleheader day. We got the huddle at
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: 5 a.m., and then the evening huddle at Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: your sport, our stadium, great place to watch games, Thursday
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: night football. Come hang out with us. Great food at
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: the sports book. Great people, great vibe. A lot of action.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: We look forward to that every week. We weren't there
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: last week because the Packers played on Thursday night, but
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: we'll be back in all of our glory at 5
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: o'clock on Thursday. All right, Hunter was covering the workouts.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Brewers are working out today and tomorrow. Close to the media.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: They want to go underground and not let people see.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: You got to see the simulated game. You got to
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: watch the proceedings from the press box afterwards. after doing
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the interviews and stuff. Hunter, what do you got? What
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: did you come back with? What do you want to
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: spin for us?
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the sim game yesterday, Logan Henderson threw
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: a considerable amount. I mean, probably his regular work, staying
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: fresh between starts.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: How many up-downs? I want to say like four. Four
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: or five. That's what they call them is when you
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: pitch to a couple batters and then you go sit
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: down and then you come back. It's a simulated game.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Grant Anderson threw a couple of pitches. Who was hitting
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: against him? Everybody or Vaughn was in there. Laura was
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: in there. Lockridge was in there. Vaughn, you know, trying
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to come back from, he lost 10 pounds cause he
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: was sick in the last couple of weeks.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: So he's trying to kind of get his footing back.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: So that's why they had him in there. But Pat Murphy,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: of course, stole the show a bit talking about so
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: many different topics. I pulled a few different interesting clips.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Let's start.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: We talked about it last time when Kyle Harrison was,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: He had two scoreless innings in his last outing of
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: the season, trying to kind of get back to that
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: first half form. And even if he's not back to
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: that dominant form he was in, just having Kyle Harrison
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: back close to that would be big for this team.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: This is what Pat Murphy said about Kyle Harrison, kind
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: of what he's done lately and his chances of making
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: the roster.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's got, you look at his total body
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: of work, it's really good. You look at the last, what,
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: how many outings? Six or seven, eight?
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: You're like, ugh.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of reasons for that, but he's still
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: young in the game. But that last outing meant something,
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: and it was in leverage, you know. So, yeah, I'm
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: looking forward to seeing what this week brings. It's not
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: a tryout, but we're looking for consistency and secondary stuff
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: to be consistent. And I think he could definitely– grab
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: a spot here.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I think that last quote is probably the most important
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: that he could grab a spot in the post-season roster
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: a week or two ago. And maybe after his rough
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: outing in Pittsburgh, he could have thought, I don't know
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: if he's really even has a chance at the post-season roster,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: but he's turned around a little bit. The question is,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: if you have Kyle Harrison on, on your roster, where,
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: where do you feel comfortable putting it and putting him in?
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Because we've seen him get knocked around a little more
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: than we would have liked. And so let's say, oh,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Hunter with a four-run lead, I'll put him in. Okay,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: do you really want a guy who can give up
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: hits and bunches and hits a guy and walks a guy?
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: If that's the Kyle Harrison you get, all of a
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: sudden you could have the tying run at the plate
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: real quick in an inning like that. But if they
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: see enough this week, well, like you said, Drew, behind
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: closed doors, it's possible that he is on this roster
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: and maybe grabs that last spot from the pitching staff.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah. It sounds like they're, they want him there.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I think so. I think that's a good point. And
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: as we've been saying, like, okay, how stretched out is
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: he now though? True. I think he's more of a
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: couple inning guy. I don't know. He's not going to
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: start again. Well, you're not going to start again, but
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I just mean like, I'm talking about those extra inning
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: scenarios and stuff where you're, you're pitching until you can't
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: go anymore and that kind of stuff.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: That's, that's possible because, I mean, he's not as stretched
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: out probably as he was when he was throwing six innings.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: But can he give you three?
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Probably. And I heard Murph say it the other day,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: as good as Logan Henderson has been on this back
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: end of the season, that's what Harrison was the first
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: half of the season. And I know a lot of
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: people like, oh, the guy sucks now. And well, perfect example.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: We talked about Yelich being a potential, you know, we're
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: in the sea and being a potential playoff hero. Austin
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Riley sucked like a shop vac this year.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: And then the biggest moment yesterday in the eighth inning
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: with his team down, he swats a home run and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: wins the game. It's like Rojas in the world series
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: last year.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Yep. And that's that again, hashtag baseball. What else you
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: got Hunter? Yeah, let's go through.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: This is Pat Murphy talking about the pitching plans for
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: game one and two. Obviously you can probably guess Miz
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: and Henderson are part of those plans. He kind of
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: explains that.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: And he said, you know, you never know, but that's
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: what he's leaning towards. This also starts with how he
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: started the press conference and wanting everybody to cite their
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: name and affiliation, even though he knew most of the
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: people in the room.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: So take a listen.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: Hi, Kurt. How are you? Fine, thanks. Would you announce
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: your name, full name, and who you work for?
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Is that a local paper?
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Yes, the local press.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: At this particular point in time, would you care to
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: announce your.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Game plan starter?
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think that pretty much everyone realizes that
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: we're going to go with Miz and Henderson.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Predominantly.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: It's going to be, you know, as the obvious, there
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: are two top starters right now. It'll probably be the
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: way we go. I mean, subject to change. You never
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: know how things go. I'll follow up on.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: That, Jim. Thanks.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Name, please.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: I'm Adam McElvey, MLB.com.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: Your first year?
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: First year, yes, sir. When you think about, you know,
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: you have Friday lined up, and then... kind of dealing
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: with that risk at the time and the other things
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: you had to do. Is that one of the biggest
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: changes for you in terms of where this club is
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: at going in that you have two names that you
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: can tell us that it's pretty obvious?
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a lot more to it. When you have
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: a five game series, you've got to decide how you
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: want to line that up. So there's a lot more
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: thought than just like, well, those are the two top guys,
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: so they'll pitch one and two. There's a lot more
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: to it. You know, you want to squeeze as much
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: as you can out of your best guys, but you
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: kind of also have to read and react because you
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: have three other games and we don't have necessarily, depending
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: on who we play, just, you know, we don't necessarily
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: have it all lined up for sure.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: So There you go, Pat Murphy.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Pat Murphy.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff. Pitching plans. That is a game changer.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I heard Chris Hook say recently, yeah, last year it
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: was Freddie Peralta and we'll figure the rest out.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Now you got.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Matt Arnold said that before the playoff series last year.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: It was literally like Freddie Peralta and then it's all
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: hands on deck after that.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: And now it's Miz and Henderson and hopefully we're up
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: 2-0 and then we'll see where we're at and match
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: it up.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: And see who we have to use out of the
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: pen behind the guys. Yeah.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: So it's fascinating.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Good problem to have.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: The chess match is ongoing.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: But at least, yeah.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Now, back in the day, you had three or four
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: starters you could pencil in. But now, hardly anybody has
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: that anymore. You might have three, but after that, it's
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: generally mix and match.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Hot takes are going to be fired up. We're going
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: to hear more from Hunter and the Brewers players. We've
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: got some one-on-one interviews coming up as well.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Buckle up. You're in the huddle.
• 41:21
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