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10/08/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Thursday edition, The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 1: 1070 Madison, everywhere on that iHeart app of yours and
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  Speaker 1: streaming live Facebook, X and YouTube. For the early risers,
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  Speaker 1: insomniacs and sociopaths waiting for the health club door to
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  Speaker 1: open at 5 a.m., we're here for you for another
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  Speaker 1: hour and another day.
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  Speaker 2: And then we're going to be in the afternoons from
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  Speaker 2: 2 to 5.
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  Speaker 3: And you better be there. Attendance is going to be taken.
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  Speaker 3: And we're going to expect that you join us. Hopefully
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  Speaker 3: you can make some adjustments. And tell your friends about
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  Speaker 3: the time change.
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  Speaker 4: And to help you practice, we'll be at Pottawatomie Sportsbook tonight.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll be on the air 5 to 7. So
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  Speaker 4: you can practice with a little afternoon. Delight, as they
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  Speaker 4: would say.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: And as it turns out, our first afternoon show will
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  Speaker 1: be leading into game two of the NLCS.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll be broadcasting live from Saz's Statehouse, 55th and State.
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  Speaker 3: Which I don't have this guaranteed. I don't have it
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  Speaker 3: booked in. Saz's originated and started the shuttle.
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  Speaker 2: Right? Like, I feel like they kind of invented the shuttle. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they were one of the first. They were at least
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  Speaker 2: one of the first.
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  Speaker 3: And any chance that you think your summer is over,
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  Speaker 3: we try to grab any little bit and piece of
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  Speaker 3: summer here. And once you get maybe a 70-degree day
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  Speaker 3: in October, you're going to be very excited. You get
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  Speaker 3: an October Sazza sampler bladder. Talk about one little last
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  Speaker 3: grab of summer that you get hanging out coming up
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  Speaker 3: on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: No question. That's pretty damn good. Now we're talking.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be fun. Hunter Baumgart's in San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be joining us from the airport in
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  Speaker 1: about 20 or so minutes. but he did provide us
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  Speaker 1: with some more interviews. Let's hear from Marc Adonacio, the Brewers' owner,
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  Speaker 1: the guy who signs the checks. This is the owner
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  Speaker 1: after the Brewers' victory and elimination of the Padres last
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  Speaker 1: night at Petco.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. This was a really tough series. Every pitch mattered.
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  Speaker 5: And each game could have gone either way right to
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  Speaker 5: the end. So I had a number of folks in
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  Speaker 5: my suite who were in ownership, some of whom don't
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  Speaker 5: come to too many games. They said, gee, these playoff
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  Speaker 5: games are intense. Every pitch counts.
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  Speaker 2: When you see this group, what's special about this one?
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  Speaker 2: I know everyone has its own identity. What stands out
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  Speaker 2: to you about this group?
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  Speaker 5: I think the two things are the camaraderie. This group
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  Speaker 5: is as tight and close as any group we've had.
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  Speaker 5: One thing you know, by the way, when you walk
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  Speaker 5: into a clubhouse and spring training, you can almost feel it.
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  Speaker 5: This group has stuck together all year. They really... look
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  Speaker 5: out for each other, and then they never give up.
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  Speaker 5: This group never gives up. We've seen it even like
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  Speaker 5: last night's game. You only hit a ball 107 miles
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  Speaker 5: an hour. If it's two feet the other way, you're
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  Speaker 5: going to win last night too. So that is different.
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  Speaker 5: And the fact that they won 103 games with never
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  Speaker 5: winning more than five in a row has never been
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  Speaker 5: done before. So they've done things that have never been
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  Speaker 5: done before. That alone makes them special.
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  Speaker 3: And getting another shot where we're now as rested as
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  Speaker 3: they are. Because last year we had a very emotional
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  Speaker 3: win against the Cubs and a lot of celebrating afterwards.
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  Speaker 5: The next day, we're in batting practice. Now we have
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  Speaker 5: the same number of days off as they do and
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  Speaker 5: have Miz and Henderson and all our pitchers rested. It's
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  Speaker 5: our best against their best. It's always fun.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any pride in your way? The win our way?
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  Speaker 2: You can see it everywhere in your ballpark.
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  Speaker 5: We get a lot of comments about the fundamentals that
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  Speaker 5: we use and how every player... Look at Garrett Mitchell's
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  Speaker 5: catch and then By the way, Bryce Terang's catch over
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  Speaker 5: there says, you know, do like a WWF wrestling move
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  Speaker 5: on Jake Bowers. All the fundamentals are always played. Went
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  Speaker 5: our way, really. Someone in our marketing group came up
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  Speaker 5: with that, and our fans really embraced it. And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know about other years, but this year this
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  Speaker 5: team has a way they win. They did it how
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  Speaker 5: many times now? 103 plus... 106. 106. Haven't done that before.
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  Speaker 6: Mark, you're talking about how closely contested these games are.
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  Speaker 7: When that ball leaves Machado's bat, what are you thinking?
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  Speaker 5: The Padres, who always take good care of us, were
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  Speaker 5: very gracious. They gave us a really good sight line
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  Speaker 5: on that, unfortunately. I want to say some of the
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  Speaker 5: things that were said. It was almost hard. When you
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  Speaker 5: heard the You can't tell when somebody jumps out and
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  Speaker 5: gets the ball on it, but you hear the crowd groan.
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  Speaker 5: And when they showed the replay on Fox, Garrett's focus
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  Speaker 5: all the way was unbelievable. And he was telling my
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  Speaker 5: son Dan that it's almost like the ball was in
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  Speaker 5: slow motion for him. And we have a world-class athlete,
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  Speaker 5: and they're playing on both sides today. It's a different experience.
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  Speaker 6: Homer in 19 of 30 parks, including American Family Field.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, is that right? Yeah. So we had the right
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  Speaker 5: center field wall and the right roof this trip.
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  Speaker 7: What are the letters from you that Murphy brings out me?
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  Speaker 5: Murph channels, you know, Uke, and he's got, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if he uses a Ouija board or
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  Speaker 5: a seance, but he gets very detailed notes from him.
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  Speaker 5: And there's a lot of missile things that have happened,
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  Speaker 5: including the way the ball played off the roof. And
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you saw in the... social media,
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  Speaker 5: there was an image of him up on the beam
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  Speaker 5: up there, but I don't know. It's for others to explain.
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  Speaker 6: My son, Dan, who I mentioned tonight, doesn't deal with
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  Speaker 6: sound that well.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently it was 125 decibels. Probably was out here, you know, too, but.
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  Speaker 5: After that and uh... jackson you know when he found
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  Speaker 5: the pitch back there was a hundred and three something
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  Speaker 5: you could see from our seats that he was frustrated
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  Speaker 5: that he missed it he was really really dialed in
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  Speaker 5: and uh... believed himself the whole way and that you
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  Speaker 5: know we talk about this team this team believes in
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  Speaker 5: itself and also mentioned you know matt arnold pointed out
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  Speaker 5: everybody who played tonight had a role in this win
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  Speaker 5: that wasn't true of of of other or teams and
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  Speaker 5: i think that's where in Baseball generally could go around
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  Speaker 5: the diamond. Everybody had a role in this win. And
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  Speaker 5: it feels pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Adonacio feels pretty good going to the LCS for
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  Speaker 1: the second straight year on the heels of being the
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  Speaker 1: best team in baseball for the second straight year in
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  Speaker 1: the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 3: We have the right roof and the right center field wall. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: get all of the things you need. The tie-in of
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  Speaker 3: that Garrett Mitchell robbery and the immediate callback of the
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Jones, or not Andrew Jones, Adam Jones, pardon me,
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  Speaker 3: robbery of Machado there during the WBC. How fun. What
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  Speaker 3: did Aaron Rodgers say? How can you not be romantic
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  Speaker 3: about football? How can you not about sports? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that is as Perfect. A placement of that exact same
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  Speaker 3: hit in what? 12 years later from a child. That's
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  Speaker 3: an incredible, incredible tie in. It is.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I saw somewhere that he has 11.
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  Speaker 2: He's been robbed 11 times or something like that. Couldn't
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  Speaker 2: happen to a better guy. I mean, just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: why don't you hit it farther? Why don't you try
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  Speaker 2: to hit him farther, guys? I like that. I like
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  Speaker 2: that statement. You can tell him that.
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  Speaker 4: I enjoy making him the villain, although Tatis gave props
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  Speaker 4: to the Brewers after the game. He said, man, that's
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  Speaker 4: a good team over there. Props to them. They play
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  Speaker 4: really good baseball. That was really nice.
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  Speaker 3: San Diego is, I don't know, maybe this is just
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  Speaker 3: because you win. This is a lot easier to say
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  Speaker 3: in a victory. Not a very hateable bunch.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the Machado one is that will always be
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  Speaker 3: a good venomous one. At this point, I believe that's
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  Speaker 3: almost more just fun. To boo him at that point.
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  Speaker 3: It's part of like the sport of it.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's just the game that you have to
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  Speaker 2: continue it.
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  Speaker 7: Like, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But I love watching Fernando Tatis play baseball. Meryl's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: That is a really, really good team. And one that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be. And I can only assume this is
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  Speaker 3: going to be. This would be an interesting hate watch
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  Speaker 3: if you're a Padres fan. The team that you hate
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  Speaker 3: the absolute most against the team that just bumped you out.
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  Speaker 2: You're watching Murder, She Wrote. You're finding anything else. I
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  Speaker 2: can't handle this. They might even watch the Chargers at
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  Speaker 2: this point. Rooting for whoever comes from the other side
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  Speaker 2: of the bracket.
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  Speaker 4: I was waiting for that great San Diego crowd to
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  Speaker 4: get cranked up through the whole game. They were sitting
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  Speaker 4: down a lot of the night too.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was interesting, guys. Playing from in front.
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  Speaker 2: That tends to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Baseball crowds sit down until something good happens.
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  Speaker 2: A lot has been made of this crowd stuff that
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  Speaker 2: I still don't like. They went into it. They were
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  Speaker 2: pretty loud.
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  Speaker 3: The radio crowd mic then was amped up because it
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  Speaker 3: was the radio mic was loud.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was loud. But they were also down. There
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  Speaker 1: was this like, oh, we could lose. We could be eliminated.
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  Speaker 2: That will... That's normal, though. That's my point. That will
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  Speaker 2: dampen the crowd. Right, right. There's no question.
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  Speaker 1: What other sound do we have, Armand, that before we
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  Speaker 1: welcome Hunter, we've got to listen to some more of
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  Speaker 1: his interviews?
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  Speaker 4: We can listen to Yelich's group.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: That's about four minutes. Let's listen to Christian Yelich, the
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  Speaker 2: captain here, with the group of media.
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  Speaker 6: Because you've been so invested in the community and the city,
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  Speaker 6: what would it mean for you guys to get to
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  Speaker 6: a World Series after all these years? I think that
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  Speaker 6: was one of the coolest things about Cheerios walk-off. You know,
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  Speaker 6: it was like seeing people's reactions at home and in
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  Speaker 6: the game and them kind of posting it on social
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  Speaker 6: media and they kind of come up on ours because
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  Speaker 6: we're all around the same area and stuff. It was
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  Speaker 6: really cool to see how much that meant to people
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  Speaker 6: and the actual, the authentic joy of in those moments
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  Speaker 6: and like seeing seeing people like us playing well and
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  Speaker 6: winning games like what it means to people and like
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  Speaker 6: that was so awesome and really cool and like i
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  Speaker 6: don't know it was awesome and and you know i
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  Speaker 6: know that if uh you know we do what we
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  Speaker 6: want to do like how special that would be to
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  Speaker 6: the city and uh you know this is one step
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  Speaker 6: down and a couple more to.
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  Speaker 5: Go what do the letters from you still mean.
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  Speaker 6: Yes it's my friend my friend likes doing it to
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  Speaker 6: him and you know i think that's like Yuka's always
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  Speaker 6: such a star in these celebrations. He was everybody's favorite
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  Speaker 6: guy to go to just to hear what he had
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  Speaker 6: to say or what he was going to do. Everybody's
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  Speaker 6: seen him doing the lawnmower dance move and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 6: I think that's Murph's way of still including him in
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  Speaker 6: this stuff and just making him feel there. He gets
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  Speaker 6: a good laugh out of it because of the past year,
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  Speaker 6: but it's just his thing and what he likes to do.
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  Speaker 7: Christian, you know as the.
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  Speaker 6: Captain and leader that trust and belief is a core
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  Speaker 6: thing with this team and it can be just words
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  Speaker 6: but look at tonight where Murph talks to Terrain and
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  Speaker 6: Mitchell and Bowers.
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  Speaker 2: And believes in those guys and says do what you
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  Speaker 2: do how key is.
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  Speaker 7: That to you guys?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah I mean you gotta believe in each other and
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  Speaker 6: like everybody believes in this group and believes that whoever's
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  Speaker 6: in the situation who needs to execute that they're gonna
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  Speaker 6: be able to do their job and come through and
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  Speaker 6: if they don't then the guy behind them is gonna
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  Speaker 6: figure it out and That's kind of just been the
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  Speaker 6: theme for us all year, just finding a way to
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  Speaker 6: be successful and just do our thing out there. Those
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  Speaker 6: guys had some big games tonight, some big moments, so
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  Speaker 6: it was cool to see.
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  Speaker 7: What did you think of Garrett's catch?
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  Speaker 6: I'm glad he caught it, that's for sure. I didn't
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  Speaker 6: know if it was going to stay in the yard.
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  Speaker 6: He's got some pretty good power. He stood up on
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  Speaker 6: it at home plate. Usually when he does that, it's
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  Speaker 6: a homer. I guess technically it kind of was, but
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  Speaker 6: I'm glad I found Mitch's glove.
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  Speaker 5: I know a lot of these are pretty much the same,
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  Speaker 5: but what is different about this particular celebration, or is
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  Speaker 5: there anything?
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  Speaker 6: They're all special. They're all awesome in their own way.
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  Speaker 6: Each team, each year is different. Each team kind of
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  Speaker 6: carves their own path and journey through the season and
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  Speaker 6: the postseason. This one's kind of ours. I think we
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  Speaker 6: won some really tight games here. We won some games
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  Speaker 6: that we kind of you know, might've gotten away with
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  Speaker 6: like not playing the cleanest games that, you know, that
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  Speaker 6: we're capable of doing and, uh, still being able to
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  Speaker 6: find a way as a credit to the guys and
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  Speaker 6: the group of just being relentless and, um, you know,
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  Speaker 6: moving on to the next pitch and the next play,
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  Speaker 6: regardless of if it went good or bad for you. And, uh,
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  Speaker 6: I'm just really proud of this group and watching everybody
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  Speaker 6: kind of grow throughout the season.
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  Speaker 5: Does the intensity of a series change the way the
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  Speaker 5: party feels? Uh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they're all intense series at this time, you know, like,
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  Speaker 6: last year, this year, you know, going forward, they're all
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  Speaker 6: going to be intense. It's just kind of what you
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  Speaker 6: sign up for, for, you know, playoff baseball. And, um,
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  Speaker 6: especially if you, if you keep progressing into the post season,
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  Speaker 6: but it's what makes it fun. You got to enjoy
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  Speaker 6: those moments and realize how special and, um, how rare
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  Speaker 6: they can be. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's going
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  Speaker 6: to be third LCS, which is pretty special. You know, um,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you don't always get those opportunities and you
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  Speaker 6: don't know when you're going to get to your next one.
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  Speaker 6: So you always want to take advantage of them and,
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  Speaker 6: It's been a blast playing with this group. How do
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  Speaker 6: you feel about getting another crack.
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  Speaker 4: At the Dodgers?
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  Speaker 6: They're a great team. It's pretty well documented what they've
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  Speaker 6: done and being back-to-back champs. You have a feeling being
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  Speaker 6: on the NL side, if you want to get to
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  Speaker 6: where you want to go, you're going to have to
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  Speaker 6: go through them. I guess the old saying is if
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  Speaker 6: you want to be the best, you've got to beat
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  Speaker 6: the best. Until someone proves otherwise, they're the best. We're
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  Speaker 6: going to give it a crack. We're confident in our
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  Speaker 6: group and our team and what we can do when
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  Speaker 6: we play our game. We're looking forward to a great
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  Speaker 6: series and it's gonna be awesome yeah I mean I
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  Speaker 6: think we've been together for a few years we've we've
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  Speaker 6: won a lot of games like we've been in big
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  Speaker 6: games and big moments together with each other and we
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  Speaker 6: understand like what's expected in those moments and what's needed
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  Speaker 6: to be successful so it kind of goes without saying
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  Speaker 6: at this point like you don't really need to talk
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  Speaker 6: to each other about like hey this is what we
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  Speaker 6: need to do it's just yeah like We're going to
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  Speaker 6: go out there and we're going to go grind and
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  Speaker 6: do our thing as a team. And we've been doing
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  Speaker 6: it all year. And, you know, when we're good at
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  Speaker 6: it and we're successful at it, like we have a
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  Speaker 6: pretty good result at the end of the night. And
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  Speaker 6: when we're not, then usually it's not the best result.
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  Speaker 6: So we kind of know.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Yelich, the captain, the elder statesman of the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to his third LCS since he arrived in
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee in 2018.
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  Speaker 3: And he ain't wrong, Drew. Every time that he gets
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  Speaker 3: to the LCS, he got to go through that team.
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  Speaker 3: If you're going to go where you want to go,
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  Speaker 3: you got to go through L.A. And we kind of
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  Speaker 3: tiptoed around and talked about it, maybe mentioned it.
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  Speaker 2: It's better that way.
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  Speaker 3: It is better that way to play them than go
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  Speaker 3: through any other path and have any shred of doubt
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  Speaker 3: that you went through the best to be able to
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  Speaker 3: win the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Beating the Padres and Dodgers. And again, I will die
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  Speaker 1: on the hill. You win the series. You don't play.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Won that series by not having to play it.
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  Speaker 1: Was that a factor for the Padres that they had
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  Speaker 1: to vanquish the Cubs and then face the Brewers?
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  Speaker 2: Probably probably didn't help. Probably didn't help.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're especially at home and they did, but
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  Speaker 3: they had to play it. I don't know how much
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  Speaker 3: and how healthy their back end was to like you
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  Speaker 3: could tell they had more on up yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: They were going to them, but they man, your guys
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  Speaker 3: ended up providing it. A rebate pitches each of the
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  Speaker 3: four games right in the series. That's that's impressive stuff
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  Speaker 3: for how he chewed through that. It was your heart
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: stopping moment of. My goodness.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Quickly, who's hot, who's not? Christian Yelich. He's in the
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: hot category. Donovan Jorgensen, heating and cooling. The HVAC specialist,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: employee-owned since 1985. Yelich is definitely hot. You know who
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: else is hot?
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: Who?
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Jake Ferguson.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: It's come down that the NFL has rescinded his fine
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: for the shotgunning a beer pantomime.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Let's go. Because he called it his Gatorade celebration.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: He does it at practice, and it's been documented on
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: the team's social media site.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: And it's not a beer thing. It's like a Gatorade thing.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: He had receipts. And he saved himself $ 13, 000. There you go.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Him and Juszczyk.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: They thought they were going to grab $ 30, 000 out of
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: these guys for juice and Gatorade. Drew, this is a
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: PG show. NFL is a PG show.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Who's not?
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Apparently, our friend Tristan on the YouTube comments said... After
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: the home run robbery, Machado is now off the hook.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Padres are a damn good team. Let's go crew. So
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: maybe he's not on the hot seat anymore after that.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Maybe we can all just forgive him after that deal
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: and watching him crash out in the dugout.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm going to do that if they want. I mean,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I'm still going to make fun of him and stuff,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: but hey, why not? I mean, no, I'm not mad
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: at him today.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, he also not would be impressed by the
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: fact that really quick. I told you this off air.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: The fact that that thing was almost a homer. It
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: looked like a pop up off the bat. I mean,
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: we can't tell him the screen.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: He's strong.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's clearly that is impressive to see because
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I can't believe that ball is almost out.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Well, the way Yellish said the way he stood there
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: at home plate, I thought he hit that thing to Venus.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, it sure looked like it was a very bad
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: moment for the Brewers.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: The other not one would be you guys got to
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: see the bleacher cam of the old boys that go.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Got the fan interference at Yankee Stadium.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Have you seen that video? You got to see that. Oh,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: those boys are having the greatest time in their lives.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: And when that section realizes that they just cost.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Them a tie ball game.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Well, because the Jeffrey Mayer thing 30 years ago, that
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: kid was the reason they won.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: And they thought they were going to be the heroes again. Actually, no.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Because that ball was going to hit the wall, in
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: my opinion. It was. Yeah, for sure. Might not have
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: been a homer, but it would have hit the wall.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: It would have hit the wall, for sure.
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Is Hunter Baumgart hitting the wall? We'll find out next.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's getting through security now.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: He will be on the phone with us when we return.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: and Armand bringing it to you on this Thursday in
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the good land, having some fun, talking about the Brewers' victory,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: a thriller last night, late night, early into the morning,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and joining us now, It's early for him.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: He's live from the airport.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: On his way back, it's Hunter Baumgart, our baseball guy,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: brought to us by Community Roofing, the local roofing experts, communityroofing.com.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Hunter. How much sleep did you get?
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: I would say the estimate is probably at about an
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: hour and a half. is where we're estimated at right now.
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: So we're going to be running on close to empty,
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: probably not on E quite yet, but we're going to
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: get through it today, and it was well worth it
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: after that exciting and thrilling win and getting back to
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: the NLCS.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: What city are you flying through?
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: Minneapolis.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Good airport.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Good, strong airport. I like Minneapolis' airport. I'm with you, Armin.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: It's not Denver. Hunter, you're not flying the plane, so
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: just sleep on the... Get yourself a window seat and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: fall asleep.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, don't do any work on the plane.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about it, all right?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Armin said he's going to do all your work
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: for the rest of the day. So you just send
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: him everything you got.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: He's got it.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: All right, so Hunter, in terms of moments, we had
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the ball hitting the roof at Ampham Field. We had
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the Churrio at bat. And then we had Machado's near
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: home run. What was your view like from the press box?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: What went through your mind when Garrett Mitchell was chasing
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: to camp at the wall for that on that play.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it definitely looked gone when that ball was in
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: the air. It was soaring. I can kind of picture where,
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: you know, seeing it in the air as it soared Machado, obviously.
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: Watched it for a very long time, and Mitchell goes
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: back there. The wild thing, obviously, is the short wall
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: back there, so he has a chance to rob something
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: without even jumping that high, and that's what he did.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: And then when he made the catch, we all kind
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: of let out a gasp and were kind of like, oh,
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: my goodness. And then it soaks in a minute later
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: about how big that moment was. And really, one of
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: the plays that really has helped the Brewers win you
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: think about like postseason history, defensive plays. Of course, we
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: think about walk-offs. We think about big home runs, et cetera.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: That's one of the bigger defensive plays in Brewers postseason history.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: When you think about just the sheer, okay, that would
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: have been tied. The crowd would have been right back
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: into it. And obviously they were in it on and off,
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: but it wasn't, the Brewers were able to take them
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: out of it somewhat, getting up 3-1, but you get
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: a Machado home run, and look, I mean, Uribe pitching
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: four out of five days, pitching in every game in
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: the series, you kind of felt when he was coming in, like,
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: all right, let's see what he's got. I kind of
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: thought maybe it'd be Miz, but they go with Uribe,
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: and Machado, I mean, Uribe himself thought it was gone
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: when it left the bat, but Mitchell makes the catch,
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: and boy, those sorts of things, like you said, the
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: moments in each game, all kind of going the Brewers' way,
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: except for obviously two nights ago, that feels a little
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: different for us Wisconsin sports fans, doesn't it?
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Amen.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: And Drew said it very much, co-sign it. We're going
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: to extra innings in probably game five. If that thing
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: goes over the wall, it feels like game five is
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: almost an inevitability. And then at that point, you could
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: kind of hear a pin drop in there. And you
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: heard it on the radio broadcast. I think Levering said
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: it as well. First off, I apologize for texting you
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: while you're working last night, just hammering you. with thoughts
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: and messages throughout the game but you said it right
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: there what a lot of we were texting about did
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: you agree and think that it was all for show
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: was Murph only saying Miz in the bullpen in the
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: ninth being up was for show because it did kind
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: of feel like everybody was hinting at it and feeling
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: like at some point we were going to see 32.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: You know, it's interesting because Trevor McGill, after the game,
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: obviously didn't, you know, didn't realize he was, Mizorowski was
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: even up in the ninth inning, but he said the
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: goal to bullpen last night was to make sure that
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: they didn't need to use Mizorowski. And so that makes
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: me think that at least was realistic that he was
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: going to come in. But then again, I don't know,
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: you know, that scenario played out almost identical to the
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: scenario I would have told you before the game that
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: they would have used him in when they're up three
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: to one in the late innings and you've got Uribe
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: who's pitched in every game and you know, Ms. Who's
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: ready to rock and roll and says, give me the
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: ball at any time. Like that seems like the opportunity to,
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: for you to use them there in that eighth inning
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: against the top of the Padres order. It just seemed like, okay,
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: that would make a whole lot of sense. They didn't
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: do it. And your rebate is luckily saved by Garrett Mitchell.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: So that was, yeah, I, I, which makes me then think, okay,
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: was it a little more for show and just kind
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: of as a decoy, so to speak, I don't know
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: what that necessarily does. You know, I don't know if
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: that's really, you know, I guess you're maybe just trying
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: to get in the heads of the Padres a little bit.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: But they were burning through pitchers like crazy last night.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: They were trying anybody and everybody. And the Brewers put
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: another little rally against Mason Miller, which was good. But, yeah,
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: so I was a little surprised that he didn't come
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: into the game at that time because I thought, okay,
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: if they've got a couple or a three-run lead, something
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: like that, and you need an inning or even two
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: to close this thing out, maybe Miz is that guy.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Talking to Hunter Baumgart brought to us by Community Roofing, communityroofing.com,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the website. Hunter, how did the, we didn't pay as
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: much attention to it, but how did the Mason Miller
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: paternity leave thing play in San Diego?
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: What was the vibe of that among their media and
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: their fan base?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Because Max Freed went through it, and he, as somebody
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: pointed out, he's the first, Elias Sports Bureau said he's
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the first pitcher ever to lose an elimination game and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: miss the birth of his child in the same day.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: That is.
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: That is, wow.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Savage.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: Tough day. Tough day.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Tough day.
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that is a tough day. I think it played.
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: I think it was a surprise. I mean, when that news,
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: because it didn't, you know, and we talked to some
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: players after the game that night, and they were like,
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: you know, we didn't find out until right before first pitch.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: I mean, we didn't really find out until right before
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: first pitch. So it kind of came as a surprise.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: And it seemed like that did as well for San Diego.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: I didn't realize that they, you know, that was even
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: a possibility that he would possibly miss a game so that,
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: you know, that's he's in Mason Miller said that he
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: wasn't even watching the game. And then after the, you know, the,
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: everything went well and the, the child was as been born.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: Then they said, yeah, the Padres won and he was
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: excited to get back to the park and see if
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: he could help him the next night. But yeah, that,
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: that was, I think just overall a little surprising that,
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: it just kind of came out of nowhere about an
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: hour before the game. And that's obviously one of their
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: biggest relievers. And obviously you have more a hone who
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: was unavailable at that, that night as well. And obviously
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: he didn't pitch last night. And you think about what
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: the Brewers did to him that first game and how,
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: you know, he had to throw so many pitches and that's,
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: That's what the Brewers did all series long, and they
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: had really good at-bats all series long, and that really,
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: I think, wore on some of these pitchers. Mason Miller
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: wasn't the exact same last night. Look, they were very
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: judicious about what they were swinging at, what they were
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: taking with all these pitchers, and I think that wore
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: them down as the series went on. Brewers will probably
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: tell you they should have scored more runs because they
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: had opportunities, but just the ability to consistently put pressure
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: on the opposition. That's what they've tried to do all year.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: That's what they've done all year, and it continued into
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: that series. Now you're hoping against the Dodgers you continue
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: that pressure, but you also get those runs in.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: That's a great point, Hunter. It was exactly what I
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: was thinking in that. It wasn't that they put up
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: a crooked number of runs, but the constant pressure they
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: put on it, all those scorelines aren't created equal, and
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: the Brewers have had 21 hits in the last two games.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Part of me thinks that there's a dam about to
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: break for the Brewers' offense. Do you get that sense?
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Now they'd have to do it against some really good pitching, obviously.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think they're up to the task about
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: just about anybody right now. I just feel like they're very.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: Smart.
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: Their ball strike, as Pat Murphy says right now, feels
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: pretty good. It doesn't feel like they're chasing a whole lot,
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: and they're a team that doesn't chase a whole lot, period.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: But it just seems like in that series, they're very
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: good about, okay, let's take our walks. They didn't have
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: a strikeout until late in that game last night. That
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: definitely helps. I was thinking it might come last night.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: It's like, man, just one crooked number for this team
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: in an inning. It felt like they were going to
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: win that going away last night. They didn't really get it,
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: but they were able to tack on. The pitching obviously
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: was fantastic. I do think that maybe one of those,
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: I don't know, maybe a five six run output in
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: the game is coming at some point just because of
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: the pressure and then maybe you get one big swing
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: with the home run because obviously that can very much
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: help you in the playoff or anytime you do.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Like the traffic you do miss and Murph talked about
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: how it's you know crushing and it's like you know
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: those are things that you can lose games on with
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: not you know getting a hit with the bases loaded
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: and all that but the Brewers pitching staff gave up
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: three hits last night In an elimination game. The Padres
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: have no claim to win. Machado's ball was close. Machado's
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: ball was close, but they got three hits. How many
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: games do you win when you get three hits?
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Not many.
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: Oh, absolutely. And that's a credit to the pitching. Obviously,
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: last night was just... I mean, Aaron Ashby, Robert Gasser
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: covering seven innings total. And then, look, I can't remember
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: who it was. Obviously, we talked to so many players
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: last night. It might have been McGill. I can't remember exactly,
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: but just saying the feel of Pat Murphy being able
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: to just say, all right, Ashby, I like what I'm
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: seeing from you. Go out and get that third inning.
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: And not everybody would do that. They maybe would go
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: match up, whatever it is. But he's like, you know what,
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: I like what Aaron Ashby is doing right now, and
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: let's see if we can get one more in it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: We were surprised that he went out for the third
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: inning for sure, but he was able to get it
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: done and just an incredible, you know, valuable arm. He
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: has been obviously all year and in one of the
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: biggest moments to follow Robert Gasser and to have seven
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: innings out of your lefties. It was quite impressive.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was intentional.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Hunter Baumgart joining us from the San Diego airport as
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: he flies back, showered and champagne off of him, but
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: still basking in the glow of victory last night. In
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: that last inning. Contreras goes out and talks to him.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Then the next batter hook goes out and talks to him.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: It feels like they're just trying to buy as much
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: time for him to, to recalibrate and, you know, get
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: himself back to somewhat neutral as you could. I wanted
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: to go back to gasser. You're talking about a second
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: round pick of the Padres, the key piece that they
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: get back in the trade for Josh hater. A number
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: of years ago, the only year that they miss the
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: playoffs in this run with the yellow chair to go here,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Hunter is, They acquire him and he comes up so
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: huge last night, two parter, just how important and valuable
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: is he going to be? Cause he's just earned himself
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: and he done messed up Robert caster. Now you're going
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: to start probably game four in the NLCS. Just how
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: valuable could he be? And is he somebody that you
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: kind of forget about going forward as somebody they have
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: control for through 31?
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a, that's the big part of that. And
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: you know, We were like, you know what? Okay, last
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: night decided that the Brewers won the hater trade, everyone,
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: because he comes back against San Diego, and there you go.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: but no I think absolutely it's someone that you know
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: and we've heard about him we've seen glimpses obviously the
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: Tommy John the long injury didn't help because he kind
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: of forgot about him for a little while But Pat
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: Murphy talked about it a couple days ago saying, like,
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: he picked up where Kyle Harrison left off. Like, Kyle
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: Harrison got the injury and obviously hasn't been the same since.
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: And since then, I mean, there was about a month,
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: a month and a half gap in there. But then
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: in late August, he comes in in relief of Dustin
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: May after May gets hit with the liner. And since then,
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: he's been pretty much near lights out. And he's just
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: been so consistent. Did he give up a home run yet?
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: Was it going to be hard to go the whole
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: series without giving a home run up to Tatis Jr.
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: and Machado? Probably. So you tip your cap. But otherwise,
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: you know, Robert Gasser saying to us last night, like
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: it just was, it was all about keeping calm, keeping
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: this like any other game. And it's hard to obviously
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: in this environment, but I just watching him walk in
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: from the bullpen before the game, I was like, yeah,
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: he seems pretty calm. He was just kind of taking
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: it in and strolling and, I think that is just
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: such a key for not only Gasser, but really this
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: entire pitching staff and this entire team. Although we did see, obviously,
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: Cooper Pratt seemed to make some rookie mistakes. And we
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: saw a little bit of that. It seemed almost more
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: from the position players. But otherwise, the pitchers seem to
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: be really good at just keeping it pitch to pitch
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: and keeping calm and poised. Logan Henderson's a very poised
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: pitcher in general. But these guys are really good at
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: doing that. And I think that comes from being in
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: literally playing pitch to pitch all season long, because that's
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: what Pat Murphy, you know, preaches in the, in the clubhouse.
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: And obviously that's one of the things that has made
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: them really good. It's just focusing on the present. So boy, he,
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: you know, he's got all of his pictures saying the
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: same thing when we ask about that, just that they
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: are able to stay present and that regular season helps them.
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: I think in that moment, of course, he's pitched in
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: other environments. He pitched in Wrigley, et cetera. So, I
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: think that helped, too, and his confidence continues to grow.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Going to be interesting stuff. Hunter, get yourself some rest.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Get back here. We need you ready to cover some
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: workouts later this week and heading into Sunday in game one.
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: Yes, it doesn't stop, and we wouldn't want it to
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: stop because this is an absolutely fun ride. What a team.
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: They just continue to win ballgames, and, yeah, it was
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: a blast last night. And looking forward to more coverage
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: in the NLCS. We'll see you guys when you get
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: back to Milwaukee.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Hey, Hunter, you didn't steal the lacrosse champagne bottle, did you?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I had to ask that. He got out of Alaska.
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: Oh, you know what? I realized too late that the
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: cities were on them. Otherwise, I would have went digging
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: for lacrosse or tomahawk or something like that.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: Right, right, right.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Good call. We'll pick up a couple corks off the
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: floor for souvenirs. That's what I always like to do.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: That's a good call, yes. Good stuff.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: Thanks, Hunter.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: I did do that.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: I did do that. I can confirm.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Thanks, baby.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Learn the lessons.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Unlike me and my boys, you won't be trading them
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: for drinks at the basement bar in Cleveland and at
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the little bar in Cleveland.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: You handed a couple of those to Miz. Think about
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: how much he'd clean up at those card shops that
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: he's going to at those.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: That would be good ammunition. Hey, this show's already over.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: We got to come back and close it up. We
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: will do that.
• 32:47
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• 32:54
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• 32:57
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• 33:12
  Speaker 1: things up next. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: and Armin bringing it to you. We haven't talked a
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: lot about Packers-Bears. We'll touch on that during the evening program,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the Thursday huddle, Thursday night huddle. Pottawatomie Sportsbook will be
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: there from 5 to 7. We'd love to see you.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: The phrase that pays. Come and see us and say
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: to Armin, beat L.A. And he's going to hand you something.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: It might be a koozie. It might be a gift card.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: We don't know. We'll see.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: Beat L.A., the phrase made popular by the Celtics, but
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: it originated at a Sixers-Celtics game, I believe. uh, like
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: when they're Eastern conference and something like that.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: So that's interesting. Little bit there for the beat LA thing.
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I remember one time when Sixers and Celtics were playing
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and I think it was the Sixers fans. We're saying, well,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: as long as you beat L.A. Yeah, that was it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: The end of the series. Yeah.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, like an ode of, hey, we know you just
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: knocked us out, but at least go beat those sons
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: of guns.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, I like that. That's what it started.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: That's a little bit like, you know, Red Sox fans
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: will cheer for anybody playing against the Yankees.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: I've been wondering that about Cubs fans with this whole
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: White Sox deal. And I've been trying to get as
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: many people that are Cubs fans to give me their
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: opinion as possible. Cause I'm curious, do they, is it like, okay,
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: well maybe Chicago, it's a Chicago team.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: So good luck.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Or is it make it worse? Like they cheer against
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: the white socks, more of a villain. I'm really curious
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: to know if it's like, that's our rival. So I'm
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: cheering against them all the way. I don't care if
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: it's in the same city limits as my team.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Interesting question.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: And based on what happened last night, this is Jermaine
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: as we're getting out of here, but Austin on the
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: talk and text line, I don't know what Ashby's contract is,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: but that man is underpaid for his usage rate.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: It's crazy how much they march him out there. Dude. Well,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Aaron Ashby low key is one of those Peralta contracts.
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: They signed him basically right after. And then if you remember,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: didn't he get hurt?
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: He signed a.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Five year, $ 20 million deal and it runs through next season,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: but they have options for 28 and 29 that they
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: can pick up. 28 would be 9 million and 29
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: would be 13 million.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: I remember when they first signed that deal and he
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: struggled a little bit. People were like, what are you doing?
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: In essence, it's a seven-year deal, and it can max
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: out at $ 41 million if he goes all the way,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: or up to $ 46 million if he hits the performance escalators.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: But he's not going to hit unrestricted free agency unless
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the Brewers let him until 2030.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Lock him up, and he'll be 31 at that point.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: And listen, Drew, his agent must have been listening to
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Armin when Armin kept trying to talk about him being
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: in the Cy Young conversation. His performance escalators are where
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: he finishes in the Cy Young balloting.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Top five, he gets an extra $ 750K. So, yeah, this
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: year he's making $ 5. 5 million.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Listen, I'm sure he'll take it, and the Brewers will
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: take it. Top ten, an extra half a million.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a mutually beneficial type deal, and the Brewers
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: had a plan for him.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: And that plan is coming through. He was the stuff guy.
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: He's got great stuff. He's got great stuff. Which we've seen, right?
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Can't say that I don't immediately get PTSD when I
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: hear that and think Manny Parra 2.0.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. When all you hear about is how good
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: the stuff is.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Similar style, similar lefties, all that stuff.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: It's also, if we're looking for foreshadowing and a reason
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: the Brewers are going to win, well, one of his
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: best friends on the planet plays for the Knicks.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Landry Schmidt. Let's go. Yes. Another good call.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize that. They're besties. They've been together. They've
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: been best friends for a long time. Grew up together.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, 100%.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: And so... One guy won a ring. The other guy
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: can win a ring. Giddy up.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm talking about. And listen, we also have
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: it appears. I don't want to jinx anything. Seems like
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: our fathering is coming at the right time because I
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: think Jake Bowers and his wife had their first child
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: a year or so ago. That's why he continued to
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: roll through. Haley Mitchell is pregnant with their first child.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Garrett Mitchell got his dad's strength yesterday a little bit before.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: But they planned it out, Drew. I think they're all
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: going to have the babies in the middle of the offseason. Or,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: you know, you time this up with October. So when
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: is right around the time you're leaving for spring training?
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Makes sense. There you go.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Right around the time the boys are leaving for spring training.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Get yourself into a difficult October issue.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: Well, Brandon and Joni Woodruff had their third child, I think,
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: in was it June or July?
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: And it was the week that he hurt himself.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: It was.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: And, you know, these reports keep coming out that he's
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: getting closer.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: And if you remember correctly, he had said that he
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: didn't do the surgery right away because he wanted to
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: be able to help out with the baby and wait.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: And in the midst there, that's when they said that
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: there was a little bit of healing that he wasn't
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: going to end up having surgery. Well, he's not giving up,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: I don't think.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: By the way, Billy, Dalton Varshow is the poster child
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: for this.
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: Oh, okay. Literally.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Because his dad, Gary, played his last major league game.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: And Dalton was born nine months and one day after
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: the last game.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Around these parts, we plan well. True Milwaukee type.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: July 2nd, 1996, Dalton Varshow entered the world. Exactly nine
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: months and one day after his father played his last
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: game as a major leaguer.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: That is retirement.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: That's retirement. Machado made fun of Verlander. He's like, dude,
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: aren't you supposed to slow down in retirement? Obviously, Gary didn't.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, retirement, retirement ramped up at least a couple
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: of minutes.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: The thing with Ashby is his uncle, Andy Ashby, covered
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: many playoff games that that guy started in San Diego.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like he was a popular padre and a
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: good player.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Just an incredible delivery to like you saw that curveball
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: that he spins in and him and him and Contreras
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: walk off as my man is like thinking about challenging it,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: knowing there's no reason to.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Is there any.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Pining to get him as a starter and unleash that
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: arsenal for five or six innings a night? Or is
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: he so good at the two or three innings that
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: you just want to keep him where he is? Because
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: that role is where baseball is now. You need those guys. See,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: that's the interesting part you just said there, Drew. Because
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: you follow the money, right?
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Like, will those guys end up getting paid like the
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: big ones do and the starting pitchers do? Because I
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: would assume him and his agent are like, all right,
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: we could do that. We could double that up and
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: we could make 30 starts and probably make close to 100.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Pretty good.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Well, everything's going to get when they have this nuclear
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: winter with the CBA, but it's got to be a
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: recalibration because like, why do I want to pay 300
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: million for a starting pitcher who's never going to see
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: past the fifth inning in a playoff game?
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: It's like, what are we paying for?
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: That's where the tough thing about the labor negotiating, because
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: you said the MLB also kind of sent out a prepare.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: There's a big story in The Athletic about the 34
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: page manifesto they sent out about how to handle the lockout.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: It seems like right now there's so many people that
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: were almost resigned to it. But there's just the recalibration.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: The word you just said is the best way of
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: saying it. There does need to be maybe a shift
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: in how it goes. But damn, man, baseball's way too
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: good right now. Not only because our team's really good.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: You just can't lose games. You cannot lose games. There's
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: way too much money out there. The pitch clock, the challenge,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: everything's working. The game's never been better to watch, really.
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: Never.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: And there's just way too much money at stake for
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: people to be too dumb and greedy to miss games
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: coming up next year.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: So I would bet on it happening, but We'll see.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to see you again tonight. In fact,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: we'll see you at 5 o'clock at Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Come and see us. See you soon with Victory Chicken.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: We'll have some prizes on Victory Monday, and it'll be Buccaneers, Cowboys,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: and White Sox Guardians. We're going to have some fun,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: make some investments, come and see us, have some great food,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: and come and hang out. It's our last Thursday show
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: in the morning, boys. We'll see you tomorrow at 5 a.m.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: for the finale.
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: Peace!