Transcript

10/05/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Shotgun snap to Daniels. Has time. Now under pressure. Throws
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Speaker 1: left side.
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Speaker 2: Diving interception is made by Evan Williams.
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Speaker 1: Here's the snap. Love awaits.
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Speaker 2: Looks.
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Speaker 1: Throws right side. Golden. Leaping grab.
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Speaker 3: Touchdown Green Bay Packers.
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Speaker 1: They beat Keontae Scott.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful throw from Jordan Love to Matthew Golden.
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Speaker 4: Bogarts flips a fly ball down the left field line.
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Speaker 1: Tough spot for all three defenders.
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Speaker 4: Who's going to get there?
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Speaker 5: It is Hamilton.
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Speaker 1: What a catch!
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Speaker 4: Over the shoulder by David Hamilton. He takes a base
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Speaker 4: hit away from Bogarts.
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Speaker 1: First and 10 snap. Daniels quick toss. Left side intercepted.
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Speaker 1: Edgerin Cooper.
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Speaker 2: He gets up at the 40. 45 to the 50.
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Speaker 2: Right sidelines angled out of bounds. Inside the Tampa Bay
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Speaker 2: 40-yard line. A diving interception.
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Speaker 1: Whelan down on one knee. Arm extended waiting for the snap. Snap.
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Speaker 3: Placement.
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Speaker 1: Swing to the right leg. He smacks it to the uprights.
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Speaker 1: And this time, it is good! That's the way to
1:03
Speaker 1: head to the locker room. Yellich, the captain.
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Speaker 4: The first base runner of the game for Milwaukee. Tatis
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Speaker 4: bobbles it into the right field corner. Yellich slides into second.
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Speaker 4: Freeland sends it into left field and.
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Speaker 3: He'll get Milwaukee on the board. Just like that, the
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Speaker 3: Boers get a one-on-king.
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Speaker 1: It's 2-1. Fake Deloitte, swing pass right side, and it
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Speaker 1: is caught.
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Speaker 3: Tucker Kraft, touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Bubbles throws it in.
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Speaker 4: Mitchell scores, and it's 3-2 in the Milwaukee Duggan. And
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Speaker 4: the speed of David Hamilton forced a rushed play by Cronenwerth.
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Speaker 4: That's Brewer ball. And it gets them a run. It's
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Speaker 4: 3-2 in the seventh.
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Speaker 1: Fourth and 11. Here's the snap.
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Speaker 2: Blitz on. And it is Evan Williams again. And the
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Speaker 2: quarterback fires it over the middle. And it is intercepted.
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Speaker 2: Intercepted by Keyshawn Nixon at the 44-yard line of Green Bay.
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Speaker 1: And there is your dagger. By Merrill. Outside, ball four,
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Speaker 1: tying run is on base.
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Speaker 4: Here's the throw down to second by Forneen, and Yannick
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Speaker 4: slides in safe with a steal.
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Speaker 1: Tying run and scoring position.
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Speaker 3: Hits it hard towards Taylor, and it's pitched in! Yannick scores!
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Speaker 3: He'll catch the ball!
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Speaker 1: Play at the plate! Jackson Turner! Mints the ball!
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Speaker 3: And what's game two?! Welcome into the huddle. Ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 3: it is the ultimate victory one Monday after a glorious
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Speaker 3: weekend in the good land. I'm Drew Wilson joined by
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Speaker 3: Bill Schmidt, Armand Siren, Badgers win big Packers win big. Well,
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Speaker 3: not really big, but. A big win.
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Speaker 1: Big for them. Exactly. Big for them.
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Speaker 3: The distance between two and two and one and three
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Speaker 3: is huge. And the Brewers take two, including a game,
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Speaker 3: an inning, a hit for the ages. We are going
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Speaker 3: to talk about it all today. And, you know, as
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Speaker 3: members of the Five O'Clock Club represent, check in with us, 877-794-1973.
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Speaker 3: You're already in the upper crust. We always say a
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Speaker 3: motto of this show, 90% of being a sports fan
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Speaker 3: is getting kicked in the cup. The other 10% is awesome,
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Speaker 3: and you've got to savor it. This is one of
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Speaker 3: those Mondays. This is one of those weekends, one of
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Speaker 3: those circumstances, one of those victories that you will remember
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Speaker 3: for the rest of your life. The rest of your days,
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Speaker 3: you'll remember where you were when Jackson Turio got the
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Speaker 3: hit to vanquish Mason Miller and the Padres at American
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Speaker 3: Family Field. We celebrate that. You're already in the upper crust.
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Speaker 3: You're up at 5 a.m., and you listen to this show.
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Speaker 3: We invite you to join another exclusive club as we
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Speaker 3: make an announcement of some significance at 7am today. But
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Speaker 3: all that is just a prelim because it's just glorious.
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Speaker 3: Let's just celebrate. Armand, keep the cool and the gang coming.
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Speaker 1: Right, Billy?
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Speaker 3: Let's get a lot.
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Speaker 6: More cool and his gang throughout the entire day because
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Speaker 6: you're right, Drew.
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Speaker 3: It is incredible.
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Speaker 6: There are some days that you remember everything about how
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Speaker 6: it transpires. And I think yesterday's finish at American Family
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Speaker 6: Field is going to be kind of one of those
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Speaker 6: that the camera panned over as perfectly. And, you know,
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Speaker 6: different things get you misty-eyed at different stages of your life.
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Speaker 6: This whole run at different points has felt a little emotional.
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Speaker 6: Seemed like Christian Yelich was getting almost a little emotional
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Speaker 6: yesterday with Tom Verducci, which was cool to see, but... Man,
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Speaker 6: they panned over the camera just before the take on one, two,
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Speaker 6: which is one of the most impressive things Jackson Cheerio
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Speaker 6: may have done in his three years as a Milwaukee Brewer.
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Speaker 6: And that list is vast. They panned it over to
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Speaker 6: a young lady, Drew. reaching her arm over a mom
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Speaker 6: and trying to cover her eyes. Dad is covering his
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Speaker 6: eyes on his little son is covering his eyes on
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Speaker 6: his dad's shirt. And you think, man, those four are
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Speaker 6: going to think about and talk about this for the
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Speaker 6: rest of their lives.
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Speaker 3: As long as something good happens.
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Speaker 6: And luckily two pitches later, Jackson sent them home happier
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Speaker 6: than any could have imagined.
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Speaker 3: Memory burn. Memory burn.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 3: If you're lucky enough to have been in the ballpark, Um,
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Speaker 3: you'll never forget it. This is one that you'll never
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Speaker 3: forget where you were watching, who you were with, what
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Speaker 3: it was like. If you were home alone, you're running
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Speaker 3: around the house screaming. If you're with your friends, you're hugging.
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Speaker 3: If you're on the street, you're high-fiving strangers. If you're
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Speaker 3: in a bar, well, you're drinking and shots and hugs
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Speaker 3: and love. It's spectacular. It was a singular game. One
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Speaker 3: of those like in Brewers history, it's, it's now in
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Speaker 3: the Mount Rushmore of single Brewers games. I mean, People
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Speaker 3: are mentioning the last walk-off. People forget Moustakas walked off
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Speaker 3: the Cardinals? Rockies.
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Speaker 6: Rockies.
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Speaker 1: Out of vino.
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Speaker 3: After Jeffers. Right, right. It was out of vino, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Because Jeffers blew the save on that one.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 3: And it was the Niger-Morgan game.
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Speaker 7: Not to bring it up.
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Speaker 3: The Niger-Morgan game, arguably bigger because it won a series.
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Speaker 3: It was win or go home. I think so. And
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Speaker 3: the building had liftoff that day, right? But this is, again,
6:14
Speaker 3: it's the counterbalance. As crushing as the Pete Alonzo game was,
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Speaker 3: This is more uplifting, and though it didn't end the series, well,
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Speaker 3: it might.
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Speaker 1: You're on a.
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Speaker 3: Path to, because now you've got to win one of
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Speaker 3: the next three. You guarantee to return home at worst
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Speaker 3: for a game five on Friday.
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Speaker 7: And I think you know how tough it's going to
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Speaker 7: be in San Diego. Oh, it's going to be brutal.
6:35
Speaker 7: That's why it felt so big.
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Speaker 3: But the momentum is real. I was just going to say.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You know, the Padres have to be like, they had
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Speaker 3: a ball hit the roof that we haven't even talked
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Speaker 3: about yet, which would have been our lead story. I
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Speaker 3: had a ball hit the roof and cost them a
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Speaker 3: chance at an electrifying Pete Alonzo, like rug pull moment
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Speaker 3: in game one. And then now they've lost game two
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Speaker 3: with their best guy on the mound. And I've, I've
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Speaker 3: said this before, and we all have our takes and
7:03
Speaker 3: there were all those moments. And you mentioned Billy, the
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Speaker 3: take being huge, everything mattered in that inning and everything
7:08
Speaker 3: was huge from Yelich, the captain to getting on base,
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Speaker 3: and stealing second. That's a Dave Robert steal of second,
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Speaker 3: putting more pressure on, you know, moving the tying run
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Speaker 3: to second. And then Freelick working the walk. And everything
7:21
Speaker 3: that happened in that inning. When Andrew Vaughn was at
7:23
Speaker 3: the plate as a pinch hitter, I said to my wife,
7:26
Speaker 3: I don't think the Brewers are going to beat this guy.
7:28
Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to win. But if they do,
7:31
Speaker 3: mark it down. They're going to win the World Series
7:33
Speaker 3: if they win this game. That's what I said. If
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Speaker 3: they win this game in this circumstance, they're going to
7:39
Speaker 3: win the World Series. Now, there's so many layers to this, too.
7:42
Speaker 3: I just was chatting via text with a friend of mine.
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Speaker 3: Talked to text during the drive-in today.
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Speaker 1: I like that.
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Speaker 3: Safe play. Yeah, safe play. Arrive alive. That's what I'm
7:53
Speaker 3: talking about.
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Speaker 1: Big moment.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's important. I know a lot of folks are like, hey,
7:56
Speaker 3: the Braves beat the Dodgers, and now that series is going,
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Speaker 3: and the Braves have some juice going into their home park,
8:01
Speaker 3: and a lot of people would be cheering for that.
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Speaker 3: Champions for you, no one. I'm almost to the point
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Speaker 3: where I'd rather play the Dodgers. Yeah, I want to
8:06
Speaker 3: finish them off. Going through San Diego, L.A., and then whoever,
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Speaker 3: maybe New York, would be incredible, and it'd be validating.
8:16
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter who you play at this point. The
8:18
Speaker 3: Brewers are a wagon. They've found a way, again, to
8:21
Speaker 3: beat the odds. The Gary Sanchez walk. Oh, my God.
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Speaker 3: The Gary Sanchez. Thought the game was over when he
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Speaker 3: was up, and every time you thought that game was over,
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Speaker 3: it wasn't. That's scary.
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Speaker 6: Well, and they even had multiple times where my second
8:38
Speaker 6: guessing on the couch ended up being wrong because they
8:40
Speaker 6: bring in Vaughn in the ninth inning. I'm just howling
8:44
Speaker 6: as Yelich walks up in the seventh. As I imagine,
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Speaker 6: there were many people wondering when Andrew Vaughn was going
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Speaker 6: to get his rep earlier against King. It made a
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Speaker 6: lot more sense that Yelich was the starter yesterday. People
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Speaker 6: were thinking Vaughn should have started. And in the seventh,
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Speaker 6: I'm just flabbergasted as to why you're not going to
9:03
Speaker 6: Vaughn against the lefty.
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Speaker 3: I thought about that as well, but then in the
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Speaker 3: back of my mind, I'm like, he's saving him for
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Speaker 3: Miller because if you need one swing. You need one
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Speaker 3: swing to catch that fastball. He's the guy you want.
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Speaker 6: So I was like, that's what it was. And he
9:14
Speaker 6: had a chance at it, too. I mean, like the
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Speaker 6: one that Vaughn pops up, you can tell he knows
9:19
Speaker 6: he had a pitch to hit. Just couldn't couldn't figure
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Speaker 6: it out. But Yelich in the first two games of
9:24
Speaker 6: the series has broken up a pair of no hitters.
9:27
Speaker 3: Granted, early on.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 6: But you had nothing going on in game one before
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Speaker 6: his base hit. You were getting perfected through four innings
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Speaker 6: yesterday before his double that doesn't amount to any runs,
9:39
Speaker 6: but at least gets the action rolling in an inning.
9:42
Speaker 6: And then you're right. The Sanchez walk up 2-0 to
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Speaker 6: a 2-2 count and hold off on those two sliders
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Speaker 6: that were inside. It felt like the only way Miller
9:53
Speaker 6: was going to get out of the inning is if
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Speaker 6: he was going to be able to throw enough darts
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Speaker 6: into the board.
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Speaker 3: And it woke up in there. just in time.
10:01
Speaker 6: It's a really liven up because the first two batters
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Speaker 6: of the inning as Garrett Mitchell grounds out and Christian
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Speaker 6: Yelich is working the walk, man, it did feel like
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Speaker 6: a sad, depressed group that wanted to get excited. And
10:15
Speaker 6: then luckily Miller had to just throw enough pitches to
10:17
Speaker 6: where he had a chance to actually.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
10:20
Speaker 7: In the back of your mind, Mason Miller looked pretty
10:22
Speaker 7: dominant early on. In the back of your mind, you
10:25
Speaker 7: were hoping that there was somehow some way you could
10:26
Speaker 7: get to him. Maybe the fact that he was going
10:29
Speaker 7: two innings for a six-out save for the first time.
10:31
Speaker 7: Only once he had done that, I think. You're hoping
10:33
Speaker 7: somehow the uncharted territory might make him feel uncomfortable. And
10:37
Speaker 7: then you just needed that sliver of hope, and it
10:39
Speaker 7: was the walk. It was Yelich working the walk to
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Speaker 7: get on base, getting the second. Then it was Freelick,
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Speaker 7: and it was amazing.
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Speaker 3: It's like, you know what?
10:46
Speaker 7: Maybe we can't string four hits against this guy, but
10:49
Speaker 7: we're going to find a way to make the one
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Speaker 7: hit worth it. We're going to find a way to
10:52
Speaker 7: get on base. It was such a Brewer-like thing to do.
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Speaker 7: It was such a Brewer rally. And as big as
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Speaker 7: Jackson Turio's moment was, and it's a moment that will
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Speaker 7: live in infamy, and an incredible at-bat, and you could
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Speaker 7: tell he said, I believe I can hit this guy's
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Speaker 7: best pitch, and he did. It was, you guys mentioned it,
11:08
Speaker 7: it was the patience of Gary Sanchez getting the walk.
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Speaker 7: It's not always been his thing, right? But him taking
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Speaker 7: that walk was so huge. And the way, you know,
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Speaker 7: Mason Miller, and I know A.J. Brzezinski was talking about it,
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Speaker 7: and Wainwright, didn't put the slatters where he wanted to,
11:24
Speaker 7: but he did put them all for strikes, which made
11:26
Speaker 7: it very, very difficult to hit against him. And then
11:30
Speaker 7: just their ability to lay off, put themselves at least
11:32
Speaker 7: in a situation to give themselves a chance with their
11:35
Speaker 7: best hitter at the time. Just an incredible Brewers-like thing
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Speaker 7: to do. What made it remarkable was such a flawed
11:42
Speaker 7: game by the Brewers, especially defensively, right? The mistakes they made,
11:45
Speaker 7: opportunities lost, but they never gave up hope thinking they
11:48
Speaker 7: could win the game, and that's one thing that they've
11:50
Speaker 7: been doing all year, and they did it again in
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Speaker 7: game two.
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Speaker 3: The hidden moments in the game, everything matters, right? But
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Speaker 3: the early, you mentioned it, Billy, the hit by Yelich,
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Speaker 3: and then the base hit by Freelick, the RBI. Yeah,
12:02
Speaker 3: the RBI, Freelick. Freelick was... Absolutely huge. You had the
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Speaker 3: pressure and the speed that Hamilton had, that Hamilton shows, right? Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: On the catch was a 99%. The back-to-back botched double
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Speaker 3: plays by the Brewers infield, which is completely rare. And when,
12:22
Speaker 3: I think it was A.J. Pruszynski said, you know, the
12:24
Speaker 3: Padres are out-brewering the Brewers. I'm like, eh, kind of.
12:27
Speaker 3: And then Cronenworth, who's got a great glove, gold glove
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Speaker 3: caliber guy, makes an error.
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Speaker 1: It's like, ooh.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and he robbed you the night before with a
12:35
Speaker 6: sick play through the middle. And we've talked about your
12:38
Speaker 6: best players having to be their best versions of themselves.
12:42
Speaker 6: You got three of the four, right? I mean, Contreras
12:45
Speaker 6: with the big home run in game one. I think
12:47
Speaker 6: Yelich has played very well. And obviously, Churio does what
12:50
Speaker 6: he does. Bryce Durang, mayor of Slum City, waiting for it.
12:54
Speaker 6: But at least you got other guys being able to
12:56
Speaker 6: pick you up with a 2-0 lead. And, I mean, oh,
12:59
Speaker 6: by the way, yesterday was just so good. You forget
13:01
Speaker 6: you now have won a game in the series where
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Speaker 6: you committed three errors. Incredible. And you won a Miz
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Speaker 6: game where he goes four innings on 88 pitches and
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Speaker 6: leaves trailing. I mean, those are games that, generally speaking,
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Speaker 6: going into the playoffs, you think you lose. They win
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Speaker 6: both to start it out, and that's an impressive, impressive
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Speaker 6: way to build from.
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Speaker 3: Here's the thing. I was also considering this, that that
13:28
Speaker 3: was an epic game and had, you know, Sanchez struck
13:31
Speaker 3: out and you, yeah, that would have sucked. And a
13:34
Speaker 3: cheerio not come through. It would have sucked, but it
13:37
Speaker 3: was like, uh, years ago it was like, well, at
13:39
Speaker 3: least it would have been the moral victory of having
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Speaker 3: an inning and coming close and giving them a run
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Speaker 3: for their money. Now the birds broke through and no
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Speaker 3: moral victory. Damn game. And that's the change. And that's,
13:51
Speaker 3: that's where you buck up against the 90% because 90%
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Speaker 3: of the time, Mason Miller, you lose. The flip side
13:56
Speaker 3: of this is how do the Padres get off the deck? Well,
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Speaker 3: they're going to have their, that, that unbelievable crowd and atmosphere.
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Speaker 3: They're going to be ready. And then as you take
14:05
Speaker 3: your chances, it'd be great if the Brewers could put
14:07
Speaker 3: up a three spot in the first inning. Yeah. Tuesday night,
14:10
Speaker 3: but they're going to be ready and they have to
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Speaker 3: get off the deck. But one of the things I,
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Speaker 3: another thing I kept back coming back to, and Billy,
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Speaker 3: you meant like, when do you use Vaughn and you're,
14:18
Speaker 3: you're managing along with these games and everything's condensed, everything's amplified.
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Speaker 3: Could Logan Henderson have gone another inning? Sure, maybe. Was
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Speaker 3: he as sharp as normal? Eh, was Miz. But when managers,
14:32
Speaker 3: and I see this happen every year in the postseason,
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Speaker 3: when managers ask guys to do things that they don't
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Speaker 3: during 162, it very often blows up. Mason Miller isn't
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Speaker 3: a two-inning guy.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 3: Hasn't been a two-inning guy. Nor was Maury Hone on
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Speaker 3: Saturday night.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 3: And so you're asking the guy who gets the three
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Speaker 3: outs and is the best in the business at it, oh,
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Speaker 3: get a six. Go up and down. And he's not
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Speaker 3: used to traversing when he's into 30, 35, 40 pitches.
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Speaker 3: And that area, you lose some sharpness. And it's just, yeah,
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Speaker 3: he's the best. Oh, you want to get out there
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Speaker 3: with your best guy, right? Well, you're using him in
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Speaker 3: a way that you haven't all year. And it happens
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Speaker 3: all the time in the postseason. And I thought about
15:15
Speaker 3: that because what happened with the Brewers, it was a
15:17
Speaker 3: similar variation of that in game one where everything was
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Speaker 3: off because they didn't get that extra inning out of
15:22
Speaker 3: Miz to get to the fifth. And you got a
15:24
Speaker 3: Uribe earlier. Now it made sense because the situation was
15:28
Speaker 3: that Uribe had to come in to face that top.
15:31
Speaker 3: to face the main guys. Well, everything was moved up
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Speaker 3: an inning, and then you were exposed, and it's like
15:36
Speaker 3: you're out of your normal blueprint that you used to
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Speaker 3: win 103 games.
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Speaker 6: And that's why everybody is D.L. Hall trots out for
15:43
Speaker 6: the eighth inning out of the tugout. You're like, wait
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Speaker 6: a second.
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Speaker 3: Wait, what inning is this?
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Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure. I guess it's an inning and two thirds
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Speaker 3: that you're going to get out of him for sure.
15:51
Speaker 3: But that's why you're right. You got to trust the
15:52
Speaker 3: guys you had. You trust the guys you had, and
15:55
Speaker 3: the Brewers like win our way. No, find a way.
15:57
Speaker 3: Is the slogan.
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Speaker 7: They sound like that one. And they definitely did in
16:00
Speaker 7: the first two games, right? I mean, the margins are
16:02
Speaker 7: so thin, you think about how the thing could have switched.
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Speaker 3: It could be 0-2 for address. Okay, so Trevor McGill
16:07
Speaker 3: had that, you know, that sweat-inducing moment of the ball
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Speaker 3: that hit the roof, right?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: But buried in this is like his clean inning in
16:16
Speaker 3: the top of the ninth, right? He gives up a run.
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Speaker 3: Uribe gave up a run, which was looming large and
16:21
Speaker 3: made things difficult. but Trevor McGill had the clean inning
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Speaker 3: and it's like, you forget about everything matters in that game.
16:28
Speaker 3: Everything that happened matters.
16:29
Speaker 6: If McGill doesn't go nine pitches, seven strikes, three up
16:32
Speaker 6: and three down, who knows if you have a chance
16:34
Speaker 6: to do what you do in the bottom of the ninth.
16:36
Speaker 6: And also that is something that's very much different than
16:39
Speaker 6: how they normally will operate. He's only going into the
16:42
Speaker 6: game with a lead and, or in a tie game.
16:44
Speaker 6: And instead we got to save ourselves and keep ourselves close.
16:47
Speaker 6: I thought about it, drew exactly how you mentioned it.
16:50
Speaker 6: And it's, It's just fascinating. Craig Stammen, obviously a former reliever,
16:56
Speaker 6: long-time big league reliever, first year as a manager. 91
16:59
Speaker 6: wins in the first year as a manager. That's an
17:01
Speaker 6: impressive run. But there is that thought of you'll learn
17:05
Speaker 6: in different times. He's a guy that would pitch out
17:08
Speaker 6: of the bullpen. You know how stressful and difficult that is.
17:11
Speaker 6: You were in the building, though, on Saturday night, correct?
17:13
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed.
17:14
Speaker 3: All right, Mr. Statcast.
17:16
Speaker 6: What did you read on the railing heard around the
17:20
Speaker 6: world or the wire catch? The hand of Uke that
17:24
Speaker 6: gave us the save in game number one.
17:27
Speaker 3: The physicists are fighting about this. I'm convinced it hit
17:29
Speaker 3: a truss, not a wire. That's an important difference up there.
17:33
Speaker 3: It hit a beam. It hit a beam. I don't
17:35
Speaker 3: think it hit a... The physicists are... It didn't nick
17:36
Speaker 3: a wire. I thought it hit a truss. Do you
17:38
Speaker 3: trust all the math? You're convinced it wouldn't have gone out. Yeah,
17:41
Speaker 3: the Statcast thing. Here's the thing, like, Would it have
17:44
Speaker 3: gone foul? I don't know. You watch the batter's reaction, right?
17:47
Speaker 3: And he stood at home plate like, if you think
17:49
Speaker 3: you got it and you think you hit one 380,
17:53
Speaker 3: you know. He wasn't sure. Contreras, he knew when he
17:56
Speaker 3: hit the home run in game one. He like pimped
17:58
Speaker 3: it and knew it. You can see Tatis thought he
18:00
Speaker 3: had one. He was like, that was like a Carlton
18:02
Speaker 3: Fisk type. I hit it and it was going to
18:04
Speaker 3: be like, stay fair, stay fair, stay fair. So it
18:07
Speaker 3: had that hook on it. And the stat casters and
18:10
Speaker 3: the people who found them, the math nerds, it's like,
18:13
Speaker 3: I don't know. I, I talked to one of the
18:14
Speaker 3: Brewers video guys, and he said, we have a camera,
18:17
Speaker 3: and he said it hit a truss, and he said,
18:19
Speaker 3: and it was still on the ascent. Yeah. And I said, well,
18:22
Speaker 3: where would it have gone? He's like, X-Golf. That thing
18:25
Speaker 3: was tanked. Interesting. He said, yeah, and they thought it
18:28
Speaker 3: was still going up.
18:29
Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
18:30
Speaker 3: So it outdoes the physics, though. And immediately a math
18:33
Speaker 3: nerd said it was only a home run in Houston.
18:35
Speaker 1: I'm like.
18:36
Speaker 3: That looked like a home run to me, man. That
18:37
Speaker 3: looked like a home run in any ballpark I've ever seen.
18:40
Speaker 3: It hit the freaking roof and came down, and Churio
18:42
Speaker 3: caught it at 325 feet. You're telling me it wouldn't
18:44
Speaker 3: have gone another 20 feet?
18:46
Speaker 7: Right.
18:46
Speaker 3: It's hard to believe. I agree with you, guys. I
18:49
Speaker 3: think it would have been a home run. Fair or foul,
18:52
Speaker 3: I'm not sure, because I don't know about the hook,
18:54
Speaker 3: and I don't know about the way the ball was spinning.
18:55
Speaker 1: But he wanted to watch.
18:56
Speaker 3: Where it was going to land. He knew he had
18:58
Speaker 3: gotten it. Yeah, he wasn't running like it was going
19:00
Speaker 3: to be a double.
19:01
Speaker 6: Mm-mm.
19:02
Speaker 3: No.
19:02
Speaker 7: It's hard to know for me unless you were there
19:04
Speaker 7: live with a great angle.
19:06
Speaker 3: I'm in the second row of the press box. Because
19:09
Speaker 3: they said the launch angle guys insist it was impossible
19:12
Speaker 3: to get out. I'm like, it seems impossible. I wouldn't
19:14
Speaker 3: have gotten out. I saw somebody put in like the
19:17
Speaker 3: 20 hits with that launch angle and that exit velocity,
19:21
Speaker 3: and there were some home runs in there.
19:22
Speaker 6: Yeah i don't know i think if it's tucked in
19:24
Speaker 6: the corner of the wall they said plug it into
19:26
Speaker 6: ai well ai can't you can't trust that wire and how.
19:30
Speaker 3: Many of those previous uh instances happened you know in
19:34
Speaker 3: a ballpark where the wind's blowing in 10 miles an
19:36
Speaker 3: hour like.
19:36
Speaker 6: You don't have no idea of 41 000 the place
19:40
Speaker 6: live as it was i mean that the ball travels
19:43
Speaker 6: a little bit yeah i.
19:44
Speaker 3: I'm i think it would have been a home run
19:46
Speaker 3: i'm stunned I was amazed that Churio caught it like
19:49
Speaker 3: he did. That was the greatest play. As cleanly as
19:51
Speaker 3: he did. Oh, sweet. Bounce right off that beam. I
19:54
Speaker 3: got you. We were racking our brains of the game.
19:57
Speaker 3: It was what? An 08? Like the Philly game? And
20:00
Speaker 3: Jason Wirth hit it, and it looked like it was
20:02
Speaker 3: going to be a decent fly ball to left field,
20:04
Speaker 3: and Council caught it in the infield.
20:06
Speaker 7: Because it came back. It came back and ricocheted that way.
20:09
Speaker 7: People brought up Prince. His inside the parker, though, was
20:11
Speaker 7: in the Metrodome.
20:12
Speaker 3: That was in the Met. I mean, he had another
20:14
Speaker 3: one at Miller Park, but it wasn't that situation.
20:17
Speaker 6: But did Adam Amin and company scare people on the
20:19
Speaker 6: TV broadcast? Because immediately they thought it was a Tropicana situation.
20:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, to get into that, yeah, because I was wondering
20:24
Speaker 3: about that, too. I was wondering, were they, because when
20:26
Speaker 3: I heard the replay, I was like, were they saying
20:29
Speaker 3: that it would have been a tying home run? Cause
20:31
Speaker 3: it's like that would have been, or were they saying
20:32
Speaker 3: that's a tying home run? Like the umpires are meeting
20:34
Speaker 3: going to give the guy a home run. Like it
20:36
Speaker 3: was hard to me. It was like, it was really
20:38
Speaker 3: hard to differentiate. Yeah. I don't know if they know
20:41
Speaker 3: which one they were discussing. Exactly. So we got all
20:44
Speaker 3: this glory. We got a day off to catch our breath.
20:47
Speaker 3: And then the brewers will try to close out the
20:49
Speaker 3: Padres on Tuesday night, late night. So Hunter Baumgart's going
20:53
Speaker 3: to join us next on his way to the airport.
20:54
Speaker 3: He's going to San Diego boots on the ground. I
20:57
Speaker 3: don't think Hunter actually slept last night because he had
20:59
Speaker 3: to wake up early for a flight, and he had to...
21:02
Speaker 3: He gets a lot of audio, too. He's on cloud 11.
21:04
Speaker 3: We've got a lot of stuff to spin through. Hunter's
21:06
Speaker 3: going to join us next as he heads to the airport.
21:09
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21:20
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21:24
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21:33
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21:39
Speaker 3: it's a 10%. They were one 10th of 1% for
21:41
Speaker 3: the Brewers game yesterday. Huddle drew Billy and Armin. We're
21:46
Speaker 3: having a blast here. 877-794-1973. Billy's chair dancing his ass off.
21:50
Speaker 6: You cannot play get down on it and not get
21:54
Speaker 6: a little bit of that.
21:54
Speaker 3: Get your back up on the wall. How are you
21:56
Speaker 3: going to really do it if you really don't want
21:58
Speaker 3: to dance?
21:59
Speaker 7: On a day like today, you know in the USA, 95%
22:01
Speaker 7: of sports fans being kicked to the nuts.
22:03
Speaker 3: 90.
22:04
Speaker 1: 95%.
22:05
Speaker 3: Today, we get to hold them. That's the 5%. No,
22:10
Speaker 3: today's 10%-er. 10% is glorious. In Armin's world, it's even
22:14
Speaker 3: more shrunk, Drew. I know the saying is 90-10.
22:16
Speaker 6: Armin's like, listen, in my paranoid-ass world, everything is even
22:20
Speaker 6: worse than that. But luckily, you get to celebrate it
22:23
Speaker 6: and enjoy it today. I mean, I don't think I'm
22:26
Speaker 6: that always paranoid, but yes. I mean, this is a
22:28
Speaker 6: nervous day. No, you're just vigilant. You're always staying vigilant,
22:33
Speaker 6: which is why we love you. I never gave up
22:34
Speaker 6: on that game, though. I kept saying, hey, we can
22:36
Speaker 6: get a knock here. Listen, I'm glad you didn't, because
22:38
Speaker 6: I'll tell you, your boy walked out after Jackson had
22:42
Speaker 6: the bases juiced in the seventh, knowing that Miller was
22:45
Speaker 6: coming in in the eighth, and then it was three up,
22:47
Speaker 6: three down in the eighth, and I'll tell you, that
22:50
Speaker 6: felt like curtains.
22:51
Speaker 7: I thought Yelly's track bomb was our best chance, and
22:53
Speaker 7: I was like, oh, no, that might have been the one,
22:55
Speaker 7: because I was like, that could be his moment.
22:56
Speaker 3: You guys know I've been looking for his moments a lot.
23:00
Speaker 3: And I was like, this is it. You know, he's
23:01
Speaker 3: to the wall. And it's like, man, that was close.
23:03
Speaker 7: That could have been it. So that's the one I
23:05
Speaker 7: kind of thought, all right, maybe that was our chance.
23:07
Speaker 7: But credit to the boys that didn't give up. Aaron
23:10
Speaker 7: Ashby's getting out of that mess was huge. We didn't
23:13
Speaker 7: mention that. I thought that was as big as any
23:14
Speaker 7: of the other moments. Aaron Ashby, after the bunk debacle, 2-1,
23:17
Speaker 7: nobody out. Him getting out of that jam was as
23:19
Speaker 7: huge as anything else. Padres put a run across there.
23:22
Speaker 7: It's probably over.
23:23
Speaker 3: Like we said, it's all connected. Everything's connected, everything that happened.
23:27
Speaker 3: So 877-794-4255. 197-3. So the Badgers win big. That was
23:32
Speaker 3: kind of expected. Michigan State, not great. Not great, Bob.
23:36
Speaker 6: But listen, for the Badgers to be able to run
23:39
Speaker 6: away and hide from somebody, that is not going to
23:42
Speaker 6: get overlooked. To be able to just do what you
23:46
Speaker 6: wanted to be expected to do, holy cow, Drew. And
23:49
Speaker 6: it was, you know, I took in most of the
23:52
Speaker 6: second half from the field on Saturday, and it could
23:54
Speaker 6: not have been a better atmosphere inside of Camp Randall
23:58
Speaker 6: for the 67,001 that made it inside of Camp Randall
24:02
Speaker 6: for a homecoming. Because it was glorious team, did badger
24:08
Speaker 6: football things, 220 yards on the ground, 40 plus totes,
24:13
Speaker 6: over five a carry. And Drew, they got this guy,
24:16
Speaker 6: Jacob Harris.
24:18
Speaker 3: Pretty good. Yeah, he might play on Sunday. Two catches,
24:21
Speaker 3: two touchdowns.
24:22
Speaker 6: Lineage, his dad was a Bowling Green Hall of Famer,
24:25
Speaker 6: NFL quarterback, Josh Harris.
24:27
Speaker 3: Hell of an athlete. A really, really good athlete. He
24:29
Speaker 3: was ahead of his time.
24:31
Speaker 1: He was.
24:31
Speaker 3: His dad was ahead of his time.
24:33
Speaker 6: He was one of the first guys in NCAA with
24:35
Speaker 6: the 40-40 club, 40 rushing, 40 passing touchdowns.
24:38
Speaker 3: He had a skill set that they would have maximized
24:41
Speaker 3: in the NFL a little bit. After big time. Yeah.
24:45
Speaker 6: And he was ahead of his time. And his dad
24:47
Speaker 6: is a, is a really cool follow on Twitter. So
24:49
Speaker 6: it was, it was a really fun day to be
24:50
Speaker 6: able to just watch them do what you wanted and
24:54
Speaker 6: expected them to do. And also in that sweet old school, Bucky, listen,
24:59
Speaker 6: Lance Allen and I on Badger post game talked about it.
25:02
Speaker 6: We appreciate shout out Pat Richter and Barry Alvarez. They
25:05
Speaker 6: shouted out and had them on the field there.
25:07
Speaker 3: Very cool. Pat Richter. Holy cow.
25:09
Speaker 1: Yep.
25:09
Speaker 6: You want to start realizing that there's differences in human
25:11
Speaker 6: beings on earth. You might be a great human being.
25:15
Speaker 6: Never live into what Pat Richter's athletic life is that
25:18
Speaker 6: he lived, by the way. And that was cool to
25:19
Speaker 6: be able to see him celebrate it. Love the motion W,
25:22
Speaker 6: but that old school block W with the bucky in
25:25
Speaker 6: the middle is sublime. So I loved every bit of
25:28
Speaker 6: Saturday and led right into a phenomenal one for Saturday night.
25:33
Speaker 3: Oh, baby, what a weekend it was. And again, a
25:37
Speaker 3: signature moment. Jackson Trujillo, he's given us a few. The
25:40
Speaker 3: dude is 22, and he's going to be here for
25:42
Speaker 3: a long time. 22 years old. I mean, he's reaching
25:46
Speaker 3: the point where there are going to be pets and
25:48
Speaker 3: children named after him now.
25:50
Speaker 6: There's a number of Jack Jacks already in the children's ward,
25:54
Speaker 6: and he did make Drew somewhere on the top headlines
25:57
Speaker 6: on ESPN this morning. Petrillo adds to, as they say,
26:01
Speaker 6: burgeoning Brewers legend.
26:03
Speaker 7: Yeah.
26:04
Speaker 3: Already their franchise leader in playoff home runs.
26:07
Speaker 1: He's urgent.
26:08
Speaker 3: This is the anal sports writer and wordsmith, the linguist
26:11
Speaker 3: in me.
26:11
Speaker 1: Here we go.
26:12
Speaker 3: But I'm watching the panel and like, can we stop
26:15
Speaker 3: referring to him as a budding star? He's budded. He's sprouted.
26:20
Speaker 3: He's a full-on star. Is it because he's not old
26:23
Speaker 3: enough yet to call him a star? I think so.
26:24
Speaker 3: But a budding star? He's a freaking star. Ask anybody
26:27
Speaker 3: in baseball, anybody who watches him.
26:29
Speaker 1: He's bloomed.
26:29
Speaker 3: He's a star. It's just a matter of how... To me,
26:32
Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, he's a star. He will be an all-star.
26:36
Speaker 3: He's about to be on the cusp of it. But
26:39
Speaker 3: the question to me is, what's his ceiling? Is it
26:41
Speaker 3: just multiple-time All-Star or Hall of Famer? That's what I'm
26:45
Speaker 3: looking at with his trajectory right now. Is it Walk
26:48
Speaker 3: of Fame, or is he the next number to be
26:50
Speaker 3: up on the facade?
26:51
Speaker 1: I like that.
26:52
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah. I mean, after yesterday, he could build
26:54
Speaker 3: a statue for that moment. He could do it right there.
26:56
Speaker 3: He's already Hall of Honor, Walk of Fame. I agree
26:59
Speaker 3: with that. A budding star? Yeah, he's not a budding star.
27:01
Speaker 3: He's already budded. Let's go.
27:03
Speaker 1: All right.
27:04
Speaker 3: When we come back, Hunter Baumgart is going to join
27:06
Speaker 3: us on his way to the airport to cover this action.
27:08
Speaker 3: He's going to go watch a workout today. It's going
27:10
Speaker 3: to be hot in San Diego, unseasonably so, for that
27:13
Speaker 3: beautiful city where most people extol the best climate in
27:16
Speaker 3: the U.S., where it's like a good hoodie will get
27:19
Speaker 3: you through the winter. Say 80 every day. If you're
27:21
Speaker 3: a cheeser. It's like they got the marine layer. They
27:23
Speaker 3: get everything. You can wear a jacket and pants at night.
27:25
Speaker 3: It's not oppressive like Phoenix, but it's nice. And you
27:27
Speaker 3: can smoke. And you got the, you got the sea
27:30
Speaker 3: air out there. You got the sea air, but it's
27:33
Speaker 3: going to be, it's going to be in the nineties.
27:34
Speaker 3: It was 103 on the field at Dodger stadium. I
27:37
Speaker 3: was hot there last night.
27:38
Speaker 6: Listen, I actually gave them and their fans a break
27:41
Speaker 6: for not going to that game on Saturday. Cause you
27:43
Speaker 6: wouldn't have caught me dead.
27:44
Speaker 3: People who were ripping, like people who were ripping that
27:47
Speaker 3: they're like, well, what's going on? Like nobody cares there.
27:49
Speaker 3: What kind of crappy fans are those? That upper deck,
27:52
Speaker 3: you might as well be on the surface of the sun.
27:54
Speaker 3: If you're sitting in the right field stands at Dodger
27:56
Speaker 3: stadium and that upper deck.
27:57
Speaker 7: Also, an LDS for Dodger fans is like, you know.
28:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
28:01
Speaker 1: Come on.
28:01
Speaker 3: But still, it was.
28:03
Speaker 6: But they sell out every game.
28:04
Speaker 1: I know.
28:05
Speaker 3: They sell tickets. It's also... But it is LA.
28:08
Speaker 6: Like, if it's a tick over 90, it's going to
28:12
Speaker 6: be hard for them to get out of there.
28:13
Speaker 3: It's going to be perfect.
28:14
Speaker 6: It gets hot. Or we're not doing anything. That's the
28:17
Speaker 6: USC folks. It gets hot there. But it is... That
28:20
Speaker 6: was incredible, though. To sit there, you'd... Oh, my God.
28:23
Speaker 3: You'd be melting. All right. When we come back, Hunter's
28:25
Speaker 3: going to join us on his way to the airport
28:26
Speaker 3: to cover the brew crew. We got boots on the ground, baby.
28:29
Speaker 3: Major announcement? Well, announcement of some significance. You decide if
28:32
Speaker 3: it's major. Coming up at 7 a.m. You are in
28:35
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28:37
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28:42
Speaker 3: live Facebook, X, and YouTube. Drew, Billy, and Armin. And
28:44
Speaker 3: we are joined by our baseball guy. I don't know
28:46
Speaker 3: that he slept at all. I think he's also a
28:48
Speaker 3: guy who gets to the airport really early, but he's
28:50
Speaker 3: joining us on his way to Mitchell International Stadium. where
28:52
Speaker 3: he's headed to San Diego for Brewers-Padres Game 300. Baumgart
28:56
Speaker 3: is with us. Good morning, Hunter. Thanks for calling.
29:01
Speaker 5: Good morning, yes. Some of your guessing is correct there. One,
29:05
Speaker 5: I did not get a lot of sleep last night,
29:07
Speaker 5: both because how do you go to sleep after that?
29:09
Speaker 5: And then also, the second part to that is I
29:12
Speaker 5: usually do get to the airport early. You know, we're...
29:15
Speaker 5: I'm not cutting it super close, but maybe a little
29:18
Speaker 5: closer than usual today just because I wanted to get
29:20
Speaker 5: a little extra shut-eye before boarding the plane. But we'll
29:24
Speaker 5: still make it. We'll still be on the way to
29:25
Speaker 5: San Diego today.
29:26
Speaker 3: I love it. You're so prepared. You're good. You're so organized.
29:29
Speaker 3: It's Milwaukee in the morning, and you're going to be fine.
29:31
Speaker 3: Don't worry.
29:32
Speaker 7: Billy was looking at me laughing because he thought I
29:34
Speaker 7: was going to be nervous for you that you weren't
29:35
Speaker 7: getting there in time.
29:36
Speaker 3: No, because you said, okay, that's okay. That's good.
29:39
Speaker 6: It is. an approving parent allowing him and being okay
29:43
Speaker 6: with his choice of getting there an hour and a
29:45
Speaker 6: half early.
29:45
Speaker 3: We'll be okay. We'll be good. I think you're on
29:48
Speaker 3: the flight with Rosiak and Hogue, perhaps, and the boys too,
29:52
Speaker 3: so you're in good hands there. All right, Hunter, your thoughts,
29:55
Speaker 3: because you weren't in the ballpark. You were still probably in, what,
29:58
Speaker 3: seventh grade? when Niger Morgan tickled a base hit to
30:02
Speaker 3: win a series and score Carlos Gomez in the 2011 run.
30:06
Speaker 3: What was that like for you to be there yesterday?
30:12
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember actually I was announcing that game five
30:15
Speaker 5: into my tape recorder as like a 14-year-old because that's
30:19
Speaker 5: the type of childhood that Hunter lived.
30:21
Speaker 3: That's amazing. That's my guy. That's amazing, Hunter. I love that.
30:26
Speaker 5: That tape is somewhere, buried somewhere. I hope to find
30:29
Speaker 5: it someday. So that was the Nigel Morgan one. Yesterday
30:34
Speaker 5: was just the build of the inning, I think. Obviously,
30:39
Speaker 5: the Jackson Shurio moment is something you'll never forget. Like
30:42
Speaker 5: you guys were talking about earlier, you won't forget where
30:45
Speaker 5: you were. But just the amount of buildup and the
30:49
Speaker 5: dramatic way in which that inning unfolded. And really, when
30:53
Speaker 5: Mason Miller is coming in with six outs to get,
30:56
Speaker 5: and the Brewers are down one, and you're thinking, man,
30:59
Speaker 5: now it's going to be tough. Mason Miller is really good.
31:02
Speaker 5: Then I went to his September stats, and I went, oh,
31:05
Speaker 5: Arizona put up three against him. Oh, he gave up
31:07
Speaker 5: one that did that outing before.
31:09
Speaker 1: Okay, he's great. We all know that.
31:11
Speaker 5: We know he throws as hard as anybody, but he's
31:15
Speaker 5: also a little bit gettable. I was like, okay, so
31:17
Speaker 5: maybe they got a shot, but then they went one
31:19
Speaker 5: through three in the eighth, and I'm like, okay, I
31:21
Speaker 5: don't know. Then they had, obviously, the bottom of the
31:23
Speaker 5: order coming.
31:24
Speaker 1: Up, and then.
31:26
Speaker 5: As that inning's unfolding and Freelake goes 0-2 to walk,
31:30
Speaker 5: and then you get, of course, Vaughn flies out, and then,
31:33
Speaker 5: as you guys have mentioned, the Gary Sanchez at-bat might
31:36
Speaker 5: have been the at-bat other than Churio of the inning
31:38
Speaker 5: and being able to work a walk there. And as
31:41
Speaker 5: Gary's up, you know, I'm just saying to people around me, like,
31:44
Speaker 5: just get Churio to the plate. You just got to
31:46
Speaker 5: get Churio to the plate, and you're going to feel
31:48
Speaker 5: like you have at least a chance. And when that
31:51
Speaker 5: guy steps up, it is starting to feel Giannis-like. It's
31:55
Speaker 5: starting to feel Aaron Rodgers-like. It's starting to feel that
31:58
Speaker 5: when that guy is in a big moment, it's hard
32:02
Speaker 5: to feel that he's not going to come through. And
32:05
Speaker 5: that was just, I don't know if I've ever heard
32:07
Speaker 5: a stadium that loud. When that ball snuck through and
32:10
Speaker 5: Freeland came home and Yellich basically tried to tackle him.
32:13
Speaker 5: Yellich said after the game, I tried to tackle the
32:16
Speaker 5: Massachusetts Gatorade football player of the year and it didn't
32:19
Speaker 5: go so well. And then we went out and celebrated
32:21
Speaker 5: with the players. So what a moment at American Family Field.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was like a read option play that Sal
32:27
Speaker 6: did pretty well there for those guys. When you also
32:30
Speaker 6: see Contreras on the ground doing the worm, another good one,
32:34
Speaker 6: as he's trying to get him to slide. But what
32:37
Speaker 6: about Yelich, Hunter? Both of the two days, you're getting
32:40
Speaker 6: no hit when he ends up cracking through first. Yesterday,
32:43
Speaker 6: there was nothing going against King. He had just gone
32:46
Speaker 6: seven innings in their wild card round and was sublime.
32:50
Speaker 6: to get something started and then the steel in the ninth, the,
32:54
Speaker 6: you know, score the run in the, in the fifth
32:56
Speaker 6: feels like a heck of a catalyst in the middle
32:58
Speaker 6: of the lineup. He turned into these two games.
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Speaker 1: Totally.
33:02
Speaker 5: And, and, you know, you kind of, As I mentioned there,
33:05
Speaker 5: you know, you feel the way Jackson Churio, when Jackson
33:08
Speaker 5: Churio comes to the plate, you feel like maybe you
33:10
Speaker 5: did with a Giannis or a Rodgers. And you also
33:12
Speaker 5: feel the way you did like Yelly back in 18.
33:15
Speaker 5: And sometimes you get that feeling like when he was
33:17
Speaker 5: on first, I was like, he's going to go here
33:19
Speaker 5: and he's going to get there because he's like one
33:22
Speaker 5: of those players that just, he can just make things
33:24
Speaker 5: happen and he still.
33:26
Speaker 1: Can do that.
33:27
Speaker 5: And that's what that stolen base signified to me was like,
33:30
Speaker 5: he can just put his head down and get something
33:32
Speaker 5: done or like that. Like you said, breaking up the
33:34
Speaker 5: no hitter both days. Like he, he is just a
33:37
Speaker 5: guy who he like can just come through like that.
33:40
Speaker 5: And when Pat Murphy was asked, why is Yelly in
33:42
Speaker 5: the lineup on Saturday instead of Vaughn? He was like,
33:45
Speaker 5: because that's pretty self-explanatory. Yelly is who he is. His
33:49
Speaker 5: career speaks for itself. And Murphy has the ultimate trust
33:52
Speaker 5: in him. And, and, And he's come through the last.
33:55
Speaker 1: Couple of days.
33:55
Speaker 5: Is he still looking for that first postseason RBI since 18?
33:58
Speaker 1: Yes.
33:59
Speaker 5: But he's also coming through in other ways and helping
34:03
Speaker 5: this team and obviously storing a big run yesterday. So
34:05
Speaker 5: that was obviously a huge at-bat, just a professional at-bat
34:09
Speaker 5: to start that rally and get on base, get the
34:12
Speaker 5: stolen base. And speaking of Pat Murphy, one other thing
34:15
Speaker 5: is that when we asked Pat Murphy before the game,
34:18
Speaker 5: Why do you like Jackson Churio in the leadoff spot
34:21
Speaker 5: against the righty in Michael King today? He said, because
34:23
Speaker 5: I want Churio at the plate as many times as
34:26
Speaker 5: I can. And guess who came up in the ninth inning?
34:30
Speaker 5: You know, with two outs, Jackson Churio. Pat Murphy, I mean,
34:34
Speaker 5: you can credit all the, obviously the players are doing
34:36
Speaker 5: the work. Pat Murphy's pushing so many right buttons right now.
34:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, don't overlook the, well, great or
34:44
Speaker 3: bad by Yelich, but the stolen base on what was
34:46
Speaker 3: basically a pitch out from a guy who throws a hundred.
34:48
Speaker 3: That was, you know, the degree of difficulty there was
34:53
Speaker 3: pretty high and he, you know, made it, he got
34:56
Speaker 3: in comfortably, but damn that, because then, you know, a
35:00
Speaker 3: little flare hit by Freelick ties the game. Then that,
35:03
Speaker 3: then that put pressure on Miller too. So that's not a,
35:05
Speaker 3: a small thing.
35:08
Speaker 5: Well, that's exactly it, because nobody's really better than those
35:11
Speaker 5: small players in South Freelance. Like, that's what we're, you know,
35:14
Speaker 5: kind of talking about in the press box, is like,
35:16
Speaker 5: if you want a guy to hit a flare to
35:18
Speaker 5: score Yellich, I mean, that's one of the guys who
35:21
Speaker 5: can really do that well. It didn't happen, of course, that,
35:24
Speaker 5: you know, he gets the walk and the inning goes
35:26
Speaker 5: from there. But, like, you know, and that goes, again,
35:29
Speaker 5: like you said, the degree of difficulty on that steal
35:32
Speaker 5: is incredible, but he was still able to do it
35:35
Speaker 5: and just put his head down and get that done
35:37
Speaker 5: And that's the type of player that, you know, that's
35:40
Speaker 5: why Murphy trusts him. That's why he's the captain. That's
35:42
Speaker 5: because he's just going to lead by example there. Sal
35:46
Speaker 5: Frelick talking after the game about how he was, you know,
35:49
Speaker 5: Murphy credited Sal Frelick with how Frelick cut third base.
35:53
Speaker 5: on scoring on Churio Tick, because Churio hit that pretty hard.
35:57
Speaker 5: And Freelick was like, yeah, that's stuff we work on
35:59
Speaker 5: in spring training. That's stuff that's hammered home in this organization.
36:02
Speaker 5: He said that stuff that Yellich says basically, you know,
36:06
Speaker 5: you either do that or you're not going to play.
36:08
Speaker 5: And they just follow Yellich's lead. And when you see
36:10
Speaker 5: Yellich go and steal second base on a pitch like that,
36:13
Speaker 5: how can't you be inspired to go and follow that lead?
36:16
Speaker 3: All right, we're chatting with Hunter Baumgart, our baseball go-to
36:19
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36:23
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36:32
Speaker 3: All right, so there are parallels. There's a parallel in
36:37
Speaker 3: one way to what happened last year for the Eeyores
36:39
Speaker 3: out there. Last year in the division series, the Brewers
36:42
Speaker 3: beat the Cubs at home and left Milwaukee with a
36:44
Speaker 3: 2-0 lead, but they had won 9-3 and 7-3 before
36:49
Speaker 3: they went into the cauldron that was Wrigley Field. I
36:53
Speaker 3: don't remember much about that circumstance because everything's usurped by
36:57
Speaker 3: the Game 5 win, but they were supremely confident, like,
37:00
Speaker 3: let's go end this, and it didn't happen. What has
37:03
Speaker 3: to happen for that to change, Hunter? What has to
37:05
Speaker 3: happen for the Brewers to not have to come back
37:08
Speaker 3: for a Game 5? What do they have to do
37:11
Speaker 3: to win Game 3 behind Dustin May?
37:15
Speaker 5: Yeah, last year really did seem like the atmosphere got
37:18
Speaker 5: to them at Wrigley Field. It was a kind of
37:21
Speaker 5: You know, you don't love to say this, but a
37:22
Speaker 5: credit to what the Cubs fans did in making that
37:24
Speaker 5: an atmosphere. And it seemed that, you know, some of
37:27
Speaker 5: the younger guys were a little overmatched. But this year
37:30
Speaker 5: they have another year under their belt. I mean, for
37:33
Speaker 5: a lot of those guys on that team last year,
37:35
Speaker 5: that was the first road playoff game, right? They hadn't
37:38
Speaker 5: played a road playoff game since 2021. So you think
37:41
Speaker 5: about all the turnover since then. That was the first
37:44
Speaker 5: experience there. So not only do you have that... going
37:47
Speaker 5: into San Diego this year. We also have a guy
37:49
Speaker 5: on the mound at Dustin May who's been there, done that,
37:52
Speaker 5: and is used to pitching at Petco Park, maybe in
37:55
Speaker 5: some Rockets atmospheres, is used to pitching in the postseason.
37:58
Speaker 5: As much as May has maybe struggled, obviously, down the stretch,
38:01
Speaker 5: I don't mind this decision to go with him in
38:04
Speaker 5: game three. We saw Priester kind of lose it last year.
38:06
Speaker 5: Now he also is dealing with the wrist thing at
38:08
Speaker 5: the time, but they went with a younger pitcher and
38:10
Speaker 5: it didn't work out quite well. So I think that
38:13
Speaker 5: helps you in this instance. But the biggest thing to
38:15
Speaker 5: me for this entire series and really this entire playoff run,
38:19
Speaker 5: if the Brewers play as fundamentally sound as they did
38:22
Speaker 5: for 162 games, I think they'll win pretty much any series.
38:27
Speaker 5: It's just the game like yesterday, which it's incredible that
38:30
Speaker 5: they came back and won it, but this is not
38:33
Speaker 5: the Brewers team we had seen for 162. And that is,
38:37
Speaker 5: I think that's the way the Brewers lose, is if
38:39
Speaker 5: they're making errors, they're not covering first base on a bun,
38:42
Speaker 5: they're not doing the fundamental things that they're so good
38:45
Speaker 5: at doing and what made them good for, you know,
38:47
Speaker 5: the regular season winning 103 games. So I think that's
38:51
Speaker 5: the key is just simply don't beat yourself because you
38:54
Speaker 5: can beat anybody. I truly, I think the Brewers can
38:56
Speaker 5: beat anybody this year with the way top to the
38:58
Speaker 5: bottom in the lineup, the bullpen, the starters, like, the combination,
39:02
Speaker 5: what Pat Murphy's doing. I think they're on a complete roll. Obviously,
39:05
Speaker 5: they've won seven games in a row now. So, like,
39:09
Speaker 5: they're on a roll. They just need to play their game,
39:12
Speaker 5: not make it bigger than it is. And I think
39:14
Speaker 5: we've seen a little bit of kind of, I don't
39:16
Speaker 5: know if it's pressing on the defense. Like, there's just
39:19
Speaker 5: some different things that they're doing in these last two
39:22
Speaker 5: games that have been like, okay, don't do too much here.
39:25
Speaker 5: Just be fundamentally sound.
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Speaker 3: I think that's the key. All right, Hunter, on the
39:29
Speaker 3: way out here, um, we got to talk about what
39:31
Speaker 3: happened in game one, because in this LDS format, in
39:37
Speaker 3: all formats in best of five series in baseball, you
39:39
Speaker 3: win game one, you're 73% chance to win the series.
39:42
Speaker 4: Ooh.
39:43
Speaker 3: Okay. And if you win game one in this current
39:45
Speaker 3: format on the LDS, uh, is 75%. Oh, that's even better.
39:50
Speaker 3: So game one with an assist from the roof, the
39:52
Speaker 3: hand of Euchre. Thank God, Yuki. That game set the
39:55
Speaker 3: tone for what is to come, I think. And obviously,
39:58
Speaker 3: the Brewers won game one again last year, too. So, Hunter,
40:01
Speaker 3: your thoughts about game one. Give us, in 30 seconds,
40:03
Speaker 3: your thoughts about the roof game.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we were all talking yesterday at lunch about, like,
40:09
Speaker 5: was that one of the top breaks in Wisconsin sports
40:13
Speaker 5: history in the playoffs? It feels like we don't get
40:16
Speaker 5: a ton of those sometimes. And I think it has
40:19
Speaker 5: to be up there. Who knows if that would have
40:21
Speaker 5: been a home run? Who knows if it would have
40:22
Speaker 5: been a foul?
40:22
Speaker 1: Whatever.
40:23
Speaker 5: But we all know that that was clear. You know,
40:26
Speaker 5: it at least maybe wasn't going to be. So that
40:30
Speaker 5: was kind of the discussion yesterday.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: Hunter, thank you for joining us, man. We appreciate it.
40:37
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely. We'll talk to you guys from San Diego.
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Speaker 3: All right. Can't wait. Hunter Baumgart. We're going to hear
40:42
Speaker 3: some of his audio that he collected. As we move forward,
40:46
Speaker 3: it's a glorious Victory Monday. You are in the huddle.
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