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09/01/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Locked and loaded on a Tuesday in the good land. Drew, Billy,
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Speaker 1: the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. Happy to be joined
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Speaker 1: right now by our pal Hunter Baumgart, who out of
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Speaker 1: a sense of duty watched the entire 17-3 debacle last
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Speaker 1: night at Wrigley Fields and provided us a report that
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Speaker 1: we spun through earlier. He's with us now. Good morning, Hunter.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. Thanks, Hunter.
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Speaker 2: There was a baseball game last night?
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Speaker 1: Yes. And you had to cover it.
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Speaker 3: I wasn't dreaming that there was a baseball game last night.
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Speaker 3: That wasn't just a bad dream.
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Speaker 1: I checked out. It was 6-0. And the third inning,
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Speaker 1: when I saw Jake Bowers and Harrison almost kill each
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Speaker 1: other at first base... And then like two batters later,
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Speaker 1: Carson Kelly got a hit. I'm like, well, this is
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Speaker 1: not going to, this is, it's over. Like this is,
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Speaker 1: it's it.
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Speaker 3: So I, that was, yeah, that play between Harrison and
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Speaker 3: Bowers at first was like, yep, this, this is one
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Speaker 3: of those nights. And yes, I did watch the, the
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Speaker 3: whole thing. I, you know, that's just, that's just what you,
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Speaker 3: what you do, I guess. I was entertained though. by
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Speaker 3: the position player, Vaughn, you know, pitching the last two innings.
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Speaker 3: And sometimes we just get one inning of that. So
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Speaker 3: I enjoyed that Joey Ortiz with a little first base action.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that that's what makes it fun. Um, except,
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Speaker 3: you know, then we've.
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Speaker 1: Been having a reference talking about it. We've been talking
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Speaker 1: about that because it's happening across baseball and my buddy,
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Speaker 1: Andy and West Bend has been screaming into the void
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Speaker 1: about it. Just forfeit. It's a joke. It's an affront.
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Speaker 1: You got 13 pitchers. Why do you have to have
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Speaker 1: these guys throw Ephus pitches? It's like, you know, slow
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Speaker 1: pitch softball out there. And I used to think it
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Speaker 1: was levity and it was no big deal. Take the
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Speaker 1: edge off, but it's happening. Like you, we follow the burst,
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Speaker 1: but it's happening across major league baseball almost every night.
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Speaker 1: It's become, it's not cute anymore. It's kind of like
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Speaker 1: sad that it's happening.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I get that. I, I could do with or without it.
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Speaker 3: I think it's smart by teams because if you're in
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Speaker 3: that situation, especially with a four game series in the
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Speaker 3: middle of 16 games in 16 days, use a position player.
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Speaker 3: Don't use, you know, any of the, I was texting
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Speaker 3: with a friend and they were like, why, why is
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Speaker 3: even Chad Patrick coming in at this point? You know,
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Speaker 3: the game is over and, and obviously you're not going
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Speaker 3: to use a position player more than like two innings,
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Speaker 3: but I was even surprised they used Vaughn for two
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Speaker 3: innings last night, but they, they did. And I think
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Speaker 3: I get that. I get those arguments on both sides
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Speaker 3: because I it's, it's not very fun to watch the umpire,
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Speaker 3: you know, isn't giving you a couple of strike calls there.
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Speaker 3: And it's like, okay, we all know what's happening here. Um,
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Speaker 3: and then, you know, on the other hand, it is
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Speaker 3: kind of fun to see what Vaughn can do and
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Speaker 3: if you can put it in the zone, but it
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Speaker 3: is just, you're it's, it's, it's almost harder. And, and
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Speaker 3: BA was talking about this on the broadcast last night.
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Speaker 3: Like it's hard to loop it in there. Sometimes it's almost,
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Speaker 3: you know, you wish kind of, they would just almost
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Speaker 3: play catch with the catcher, but then he's on a
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Speaker 3: mound and.
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Speaker 2: He's not used to that. And how would that go?
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Speaker 3: So it just was all sorts of, and plus it
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Speaker 3: was hard to grip the ball last night. So all
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Speaker 3: those things combined, but I do get both sides that look,
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Speaker 3: it is, It can be just kind of a joke
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Speaker 3: at times, but also it does bring some levity, especially
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Speaker 3: when you're the team that's down 16-3 or whatever it was,
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Speaker 3: 10-13-3 at the time. It does bring a little levity.
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Speaker 4: Once they gave up the run to make sure that
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Speaker 4: they were available for it, Murph, let's bring it right.
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Speaker 4: Let's immediately get to it and get on to the
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Speaker 4: next night. That's where you said it's smart. The numbers
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Speaker 4: guys will say you should do it more, but I
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Speaker 4: wonder how much baseball tries to curtail it. You said it.
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Speaker 4: that it was hard to grip the ball last night.
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Speaker 4: As a sweater, it is hard to do anything when
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Speaker 4: you're sweating that much.
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Speaker 1: Golf club? Yeah. Golf club. Even with gloves on.
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Speaker 4: Gripping my Yeti I slipped on my hands every once
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Speaker 4: in a while. My man Kyle Harrison was dripping like
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Speaker 4: nobody's business last night. Is that the problem, or is
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Speaker 4: the drop in velo over the last month and a
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Speaker 4: half intermittently? I know there have been some games where
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Speaker 4: he's back up to 95%. Seems like more consistently he's
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Speaker 4: been living again around 91, 92 with that fastball. And
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Speaker 4: when you're doing that middle in and middle, middle and
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Speaker 4: up in the zone Hunter, that's a dangerous place to live.
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Speaker 4: If it's not getting that late life, are we worried
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Speaker 4: about Kyle Harrison? Are we going to chalk it up
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Speaker 4: to the elements being the problem last night for him?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: If, if he also didn't have the San Diego start,
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Speaker 3: I think I would say just chalk it up to,
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Speaker 3: you know, having a clunker, but now he's had two
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Speaker 3: in the last in, in August. And so, You know,
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Speaker 3: the other starts have been really good. Obviously, his earned
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Speaker 3: run average didn't go plummeting after the San Diego game
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Speaker 3: because they changed that ruling, and so it didn't look
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Speaker 3: as bad on the stat line as it really was.
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Speaker 3: He gave up eight runs there, gave up eight runs
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Speaker 3: last night. Like, this is starting to... Two out of
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Speaker 3: the last five is not great, especially since coming back
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Speaker 3: from the injury. And, I mean, look, what Pat Murphy
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Speaker 3: said last night and Kyle Harrison both saying that he
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Speaker 3: feels good physically.
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Speaker 1: So.
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Speaker 2: I think it's just more so.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I got to execute where the pitches are and
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Speaker 3: also the below. I think it's, it's that concerns me
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Speaker 3: more than just the, the humidity and not being able
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Speaker 3: to grip it. And there are sure there, you know, he,
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Speaker 3: Kyle Harrison said to reporters after the game, like, yeah, there,
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Speaker 3: there was some of that going on as far as
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Speaker 3: the humidity goes, but he's like, I gotta be better and,
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Speaker 3: and control that a little more, you know, wear sleeves,
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Speaker 3: whatever it happens to be to, to kind of get
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Speaker 3: the sweat off of there. But, I am a little
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Speaker 3: concerned when it comes to what his fastball was doing
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Speaker 3: earlier in the year compared to now and how effective
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Speaker 3: it was and how it needs to be effective for
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Speaker 3: Kyle Harrison to be as effective as he was earlier.
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Speaker 3: I mean, in May, the guy had a 0.96 ERA. August,
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Speaker 3: he had been, you know, he had an under two
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Speaker 3: ERA coming in. Obviously, that is with that San Diego game,
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Speaker 3: you know, the eight earned runs turned into three. you know,
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Speaker 3: things like that. But I, I, I am a little
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Speaker 3: concerned because that fastball isn't doing what it was doing
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Speaker 3: both on the velo side and the location side. And
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Speaker 3: so when both those aren't working for you, then you
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Speaker 3: have to really change. And then the guys can kind
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Speaker 3: of wait it out. Also both Murph and Kyle Harrison
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Speaker 3: saying that he was tipping pitches a little bit that
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Speaker 3: obviously has to be cleaned up. Cubs are, as we know, they're,
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Speaker 3: you know, made some news last week about, about getting
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Speaker 3: some signs. So they're looking for that. They're, They're trying
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Speaker 3: to gain any advantage they can against the Brewers. So look,
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Speaker 3: there are definitely some things that he needs to clean
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Speaker 3: up as September goes, and you hope that September can
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Speaker 3: be a little better than August ended.
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Speaker 1: Here's Hunter joining us, Hunter Baumgart, brought to us by
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Speaker 1: Import Minded. Okay, I always thought sometimes the tipping thing
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Speaker 1: is a hedge. I must have been tipping. They must
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Speaker 1: have had known what was coming. He faced 24 batters
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Speaker 1: and gave up 10 hits and five homers. and that
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Speaker 1: would that would raise a flag like maybe they knew
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Speaker 1: it was coming but like you said if you're throwing
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Speaker 1: 92 down the middle of the plate without a lot
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Speaker 1: of uh vertical movement that's also going to get you
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Speaker 1: tattooed so i'm not sure it makes you feel better
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Speaker 1: to say that they were tipping and craig's not going
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Speaker 1: to tell murph and they're not going to tip their
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Speaker 1: hand no pun intended they're not going to say oh
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Speaker 1: yeah we had it maybe if they were If this
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Speaker 1: was an interleague thing or something, they would say, oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: we had your guys pitches.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And if this is in June, right. And you're like,
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Speaker 4: Hey man, he might want to work on that for
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Speaker 4: the rest of your year.
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Speaker 1: But the thing is like when the way it works
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Speaker 1: is if a team gets a guy's tell if, if they,
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Speaker 1: if they have his pitches. they're not going to, they'll
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Speaker 1: tell the next team that fate, like the Cubs would
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Speaker 1: want to sabotage and would tell the reds, we got Harrison,
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Speaker 1: you know, we got, they would tell everybody and cause
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Speaker 1: they want to make it tougher for him. Do you
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Speaker 1: buy that? Do you think that was part of it
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Speaker 1: last night or was it just more about the velo
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Speaker 1: and the arsenal being diminished?
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Speaker 3: I think it was probably more the arsenal being diminished and,
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Speaker 3: and just, yeah, the location of some of those pitches.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you look at the location of those first
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Speaker 3: three home runs and they were like right down the,
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Speaker 3: right exactly where those, where those guys want it.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 3: So there was definitely that, but I don't think they
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Speaker 3: both would have brought it up if it wasn't the case.
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Speaker 3: And Kyle Harrison got specific about where his hands were
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Speaker 3: on his Jersey. So I think there was definitely some
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Speaker 3: of that. but I do trust that the Brewers are
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Speaker 3: going to clean that up. And Kyle Harrison's like, I
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Speaker 3: got away with it against most teams. He said that
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Speaker 3: last night. So I feel like he did kind of
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Speaker 3: maybe get away with it against other teams, and now look,
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Speaker 3: you're towards the end of the year. Cubs obviously have
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Speaker 3: a ton to play for, want to get back into
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Speaker 3: this thing in the NL Central, so they're going to
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Speaker 3: look for anything they can. But I do trust, whether
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Speaker 3: it's Chris Hook or Charlie or whoever it is that's
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Speaker 3: going to help them kind of clean that up, I
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Speaker 3: do think they'll clean it up by his next start
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Speaker 3: this weekend against the Reds. But I do think there
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Speaker 3: is some reality to that. But at the end of
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Speaker 3: the day, it doesn't matter if you're tipping pitches or not,
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Speaker 3: the location of those fastballs were not clear.
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Speaker 1: And I'm curious because it's a home start. And those
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Speaker 1: splits are still unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: The home road splits for him.
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Speaker 5: He's given up eight earned runs and 11 total home
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Speaker 5: starts this year compared to last.
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Speaker 1: So you still have to– that's what I want to
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Speaker 1: see out of him.
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Speaker 5: If he's still great at home, okay, you kind of
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Speaker 5: steady the ship a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, where does this put Bobby Gasser tonight? Because
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Speaker 1: he was last seen getting the call on short notice
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Speaker 1: when May threw one pitch and got drilled, and he
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Speaker 1: pitched really well. But you're also a second straight lefty.
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Speaker 1: That's not ideal against the same team, especially against this team,
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Speaker 1: the right-handers they have that mash. So what do you
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Speaker 1: expect Hunter to see out of Robert Gasser? Billy and
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Speaker 1: I are just cheering for a clean first inning. A
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Speaker 1: scoreless first inning would be a good start.
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Speaker 2: It's huge. I think in these games, it's, it's setting
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Speaker 2: the tone. Murph talks about it a lot.
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Speaker 3: Like they, he totally believes it and setting the tone
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Speaker 3: and the Cubs definitely set the tone last night in
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Speaker 3: that first inning and Tyrone Taylor specifically. But I do
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Speaker 3: think you want to for a very, very important to
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Speaker 3: get a clean first inning. You'd love to jump on
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Speaker 3: Boyd as well tonight. in the first inning, like you
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Speaker 3: did in the playoff series.
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Speaker 2: That would be nice.
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Speaker 3: So maybe jump on him a little bit early and
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Speaker 3: then maybe give gas or a lead. I mean, this
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Speaker 3: team playing with a lead is so different than this
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Speaker 3: team playing with a deficit. And that's because you just,
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Speaker 3: number one, obviously your guys can go out and attack as,
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Speaker 3: as starters go, but also you're set up then for
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Speaker 3: your a bullpen and, when it gets there and they're
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Speaker 3: going to be rested.
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Speaker 2: Abner's going to be ready. McGill's going to be ready.
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Speaker 3: You're going to have your guys tonight, obviously Patrick and
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Speaker 3: Hall pitching last night, but you know, Hall. So I
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Speaker 3: think they're going to have their guys ready in the bullpen,
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Speaker 3: but Gasser, look, do what he did. Do what you
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Speaker 3: did last time, right? You go look, if you'd love
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Speaker 3: to have him pitch into the sixth inning, if you
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Speaker 3: give up, you know, two or less runs, I think
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Speaker 3: it's a, you're in a good spot. Like you said,
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Speaker 3: specifically against that lineup because you're a lefty and you
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Speaker 3: got some, some mashers in there. like we saw last
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Speaker 3: night and you're going to face basically the same lineup
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Speaker 3: that hit all those homers. So, and look, Gasser didn't
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Speaker 3: have much time to think about it last time, right?
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Speaker 3: He got pulled in the middle of a two Oh
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Speaker 3: count or in the middle of an at bat and
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Speaker 3: the two Oh count. We all know that the time before,
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Speaker 3: then he just gets thrust into duty and is able
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Speaker 3: to pitch last, last time, maybe without just kind of
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Speaker 3: thinking too much. He's now at a week to kind
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Speaker 3: of think about this and, and pitching in a big game,
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Speaker 3: obviously at Wrigley field against the Cubs. So you wonder
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Speaker 3: how that plays into it. His only, time pitching against
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Speaker 3: the Cubs was at home back in 2024. So looking
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Speaker 3: to look into as far as starts at, in the
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Speaker 3: regular season. So I just want him to, to basically
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Speaker 3: get through five pitching to the six, two or less runs.
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Speaker 2: And I think you're going to be in really good shape.
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Speaker 4: I liked you with some patent and positivity last night, Hunter,
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Speaker 4: after the game is well in control with the boys
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Speaker 4: wearing the C's on the jersey. But you fired up
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Speaker 4: about the young guns having themselves a good start to
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Speaker 4: their Brewers-Cubs rivalry. Luis Lara and Cooper Pratt, two for four.
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Speaker 1: With a homer.
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Speaker 4: How big is it, though, for those guys to have
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Speaker 4: some of these moments? Because we had talked about it
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Speaker 4: when they went out west, Cooper Pratt not being in
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Speaker 4: those environments. You got to think he's going to be
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Speaker 4: playing significantly in the postseason.
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Speaker 1: Now, maybe they go more vets.
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Speaker 4: Maybe it's David Hamilton and Joey Ortiz significant time being
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Speaker 4: the left side of the infield once you get to
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Speaker 4: the postseason. But how big is it for those guys
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Speaker 4: to get some of this experience?
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Speaker 2: For sure. Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Cooper Pratt, First at bat at Wrigley Field,
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Speaker 3: 106 mile an hour single. And then you had Luis
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Speaker 3: Lara with a double down the line in his first
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Speaker 3: at bat. So that's a great way to start. Pratt, obviously,
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Speaker 3: with the home run later in the game, too. So
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Speaker 3: these experiences are huge. Murph talked about it before the
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Speaker 3: game yesterday. Like, I want these guys to get this experience,
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Speaker 3: soak it all in and really learn how to keep
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Speaker 3: your composure in these times.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, last night you're playing a little looser.
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Speaker 3: Uh towards the end of the game because it's not
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Speaker 3: as maybe you know it's not as close as obviously
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Speaker 3: a 3-2 game in the seventh eighth or ninth inning
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Speaker 3: that maybe you'll get here in the next three nights
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Speaker 3: but i really liked what i saw it was a
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Speaker 3: great opportunity and great thinking by murph to get lara
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Speaker 3: in halfway through that game to just get him a
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Speaker 3: taste of wrigley field before he plays in a game
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Speaker 3: that's closer uh and look he rises to the occasion
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Speaker 3: we've seen both of these guys kind of it's been
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Speaker 3: split on both of them, right? There have been some
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Speaker 3: times where they kind of look overmatched in big situations.
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Speaker 3: There's other times where they really look calm, cool, collected,
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Speaker 3: and are able to go out and come through. So
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Speaker 3: I'm hoping that with each experience and with each day
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Speaker 3: that goes by in the major leagues, they gain that confidence.
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Speaker 3: And look, having that kind of success at Wrigley Field
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Speaker 3: in the first night, hopefully can help for the next
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Speaker 3: three nights.
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Speaker 1: All right, Hunter, it's buried in, and it's lost and
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Speaker 1: it's an afterthought and it probably didn't even come up
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Speaker 1: in Murph's post game or in any of the discussions,
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Speaker 1: but it was a four nothing game in the second inning.
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Speaker 1: Garrett Mitchell's at first base. He takes off on a three,
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Speaker 1: two pitch. Freelix called out on a pitch that seemed high.
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Speaker 1: And then Mitchell was thrown out on a hell of
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Speaker 1: a throw tag by the Cubs who have an incredible defense.
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Speaker 1: Not saying that that was a turning point or that
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Speaker 1: play would have changed the game, but I did have
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Speaker 1: people ask me, why didn't Freelix challenge that? And what
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Speaker 1: happens then? Like if he challenges it and it's a walk,
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Speaker 1: then Mitchell's safe, right? Because it's a walk. Yes. But
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Speaker 1: Bowers had used the challenge in the first inning and
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Speaker 1: you're seeing teams like evolve still with their challenges and
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Speaker 1: like the Rangers hardly use, there's some teams that come in,
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Speaker 1: Seattle I remember came in and didn't challenge hardly anything.
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Speaker 1: That to me was like, it's important and I wonder
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Speaker 1: they didn't, they weren't going to challenge the play at
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Speaker 1: second because they saw that he was out, but Sal
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Speaker 1: missed a chance to challenge good point pitch and it
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Speaker 1: was probably ball four so where are you on plays
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Speaker 1: like that I'm wondering that's still evolving and when we
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Speaker 1: get to the postseason we've never had this in the
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Speaker 1: postseason before so it's like how does this what is
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Speaker 1: the strategy going to be like.
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Speaker 3: Yeah you got to be good it's an advantage if
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Speaker 3: you're good at it it's an advantage now I think
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Speaker 3: there's still I know we're in September now but Boy,
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Speaker 3: I think there's still a feeling out period with this
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Speaker 3: ABS system. Teams do not have a good handle on it.
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Speaker 3: And I think the Brewers are no exception to that.
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Speaker 3: They're maybe not the worst team, but they're also not
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Speaker 3: the best team at this. And so I think they're
15:16
Speaker 3: still trying to get a handle on it. And that's
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Speaker 3: not an excuse because now you've played with it for
15:20
Speaker 3: five months. And so you probably should be a little
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Speaker 3: better than they have been. Last night, I think Trip
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Speaker 3: Gibson maybe was one of the only ones other than
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Speaker 3: the Brewers to have a rough night at Wrigley Field
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Speaker 3: last night because that was some of those calls on
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Speaker 3: both sides were not very good. And that one to
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Speaker 3: Freelick probably should have been a ball and he probably
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Speaker 3: should have challenged. I was surprised he didn't because Freelick's
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Speaker 3: face immediately after the pitch was like, oh, and I
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Speaker 3: was like, well, is he mad that he didn't swing
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Speaker 3: or is he mad that he probably should have challenged
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Speaker 3: that and he should have challenged it. And like you said,
15:55
Speaker 3: it completely changes that. And maybe that turns things around,
15:58
Speaker 3: but then it goes back to the Bowers thing, right?
15:59
Speaker 3: Because if you're in a close game late, now it free,
16:02
Speaker 3: like misses that challenge by it, you know, whatever it is,
16:05
Speaker 3: a half an inch or whatever. And then all of
16:07
Speaker 3: a sudden you're in a situation late in the game
16:08
Speaker 3: and now you don't have a challenge.
16:10
Speaker 2: That's probably why.
16:11
Speaker 3: So, you know, it's all, it's, it becomes situational, but
16:14
Speaker 3: Murph has said for months, like, If it's an obvious miss,
16:18
Speaker 3: challenge the call. And I think guys are still a
16:21
Speaker 3: little timid on doing that. Certain guys are maybe more
16:25
Speaker 3: so than others. And so that was one that you
16:29
Speaker 3: probably want to challenge. There's some other ones in that
16:31
Speaker 3: game as well. That's definitely, you know, the Brewers are
16:34
Speaker 3: good at a lot of things. That is one that
16:36
Speaker 3: has to improve.
16:36
Speaker 2: And that can... Like you said, in the postseason, in
16:40
Speaker 2: these close games, that can matter a whole heck.
16:42
Speaker 5: Of a lot.
16:43
Speaker 4: Well, they got 25 guys that are trying to figure
16:46
Speaker 4: it out. We got one guy that fully understands how
16:49
Speaker 4: to do it. My man Gary Sanchez is going to challenge.
16:51
Speaker 1: As many as possible.
16:52
Speaker 4: So maybe we just tighten the reins on that in
16:55
Speaker 4: the postseason, and maybe that's the best way to go
16:56
Speaker 4: about it.
16:57
Speaker 1: I'm wondering in the postseason, because Bowers did it, and
16:58
Speaker 1: it's like, come on, you're like the third at bat
17:00
Speaker 1: of the game. Like, what are we doing here? It
17:03
Speaker 1: feels like you're going to have to hold them back
17:05
Speaker 1: at some point. Nobody can do it until the sixth
17:08
Speaker 1: inning or later or something.
17:10
Speaker 4: I appreciated fourth game into the bigs, Luis Lara being like, hey,
17:15
Speaker 4: Come on.
17:17
Speaker 1: They've been playing it with it in the minor, so
17:18
Speaker 1: they're a little bit more up to speed. He might
17:20
Speaker 1: even be better at it. It's not my full Isaiah
17:23
Speaker 1: Joe in the NBA.
17:24
Speaker 4: The worst thing, the thing I can't stand about the
17:26
Speaker 4: NBA is the 10th guy off the bench comes in
17:28
Speaker 4: and immediately gets called a foul.
17:29
Speaker 1: He's waving to the bench. Hey man, we got to
17:31
Speaker 1: review it. Here in baseball, you just tap it.
17:33
Speaker 4: We don't even have to get the coach's clarification or
17:38
Speaker 4: thumbs up to be able to go and Gary Sanchez
17:40
Speaker 4: taking full advantage of it.
17:41
Speaker 1: And I say that knowing that it's like, oh, I
17:44
Speaker 1: don't use it until the sixth inning or later, but
17:47
Speaker 1: in the first inning, like it can swing a rally
17:49
Speaker 1: and it can short circuit, you know, and, and when
17:52
Speaker 1: scoring opportunities are precious in the post season, it's going
17:56
Speaker 1: to be big. It's going to be a, the swing factor.
17:59
Speaker 1: Like if you, and some of these, like, again, like
18:01
Speaker 1: a lot of these, it's, isn't it amazing how you're
18:03
Speaker 1: within like a hundredth of an inch or whatever it is. Yeah.
18:07
Speaker 1: A hundred percent. Incredible. Pretty crazy. Yeah.
18:10
Speaker 2: Well, and that's, yeah.
18:12
Speaker 3: So, Well, and that's, like you said, like these, you know,
18:15
Speaker 3: you may want to save it for later in the game,
18:17
Speaker 3: but those early situations can be huge. So that's why,
18:20
Speaker 3: you know, and, and Murph has told his guys, like,
18:23
Speaker 3: if it's an obvious miss, you got a challenge and
18:25
Speaker 3: Bowers probably thought it was, and it wasn't. And then
18:28
Speaker 3: that burns you because now you only got one, the
18:30
Speaker 3: rest of the game. And I think that plays into
18:32
Speaker 3: the fact if, if Freelick has two challenges there, I
18:34
Speaker 3: would hope he would have challenged that one. You know,
18:38
Speaker 3: I can't say for sure, but I would hope that
18:40
Speaker 3: he would have.
18:41
Speaker 5: I would.
18:41
Speaker 1: You don't know if you're going to get a chance
18:43
Speaker 1: the rest of the game to do it.
18:44
Speaker 5: I get the idea of saving it, but it can
18:47
Speaker 5: be a false choice.
18:49
Speaker 1: Caught stealing, too.
18:51
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, you don't know the ripple effect of
18:53
Speaker 5: those things.
18:53
Speaker 1: Yeah. Epic. Anything else you got to leave us with, Hunter?
18:59
Speaker 3: Well, you got Robert Gasser tonight, Miz tomorrow, and Henderson
19:02
Speaker 3: on Thursday. So, Hey, if you come out of here,
19:06
Speaker 3: the rest of the series with a split, I think
19:08
Speaker 3: you feel good. Take two out of the next three.
19:10
Speaker 3: And I think you're just fine.
19:11
Speaker 2: You leave with an eight.
19:11
Speaker 1: That makes today. Today is a pivotal. You would have
19:14
Speaker 1: liked to have won the first one, but today is
19:16
Speaker 1: more of a pivotal. I think that. Yeah. You give
19:19
Speaker 1: them two wins in a row and then they're feeling
19:21
Speaker 1: good going up against Ms.
19:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
19:25
Speaker 5: And, and then.
19:26
Speaker 2: But if you win tonight, you're right back to.
19:27
Speaker 3: An eight-game lead, and it's two games later in the schedule.
19:31
Speaker 2: So I think that's key, too.
19:34
Speaker 3: And, of course, you're still watching the Dodgers and Braves
19:36
Speaker 3: and seeing what they're doing and keeping pace with that
19:39
Speaker 3: top seed as well. So, look, these games are hopefully
19:43
Speaker 3: the next three nights a lot more fun than last night.
19:47
Speaker 1: And hopefully all the extra, like, goofy runs they got
19:49
Speaker 1: off Vaughn.
19:50
Speaker 5: Gives their lineup a false sense of bravado and confidence.
19:55
Speaker 1: Just market corrections coming, Armin. It's all good. I'll take
19:57
Speaker 1: it if it does. All right. Hunter, thanks for joining us, man.
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Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: You bet. Pre-game show at 5.30 this evening.
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Speaker 5: Excellent.
20:05
Speaker 1: Plenty to chew through lineup developments and the like. All right.
20:09
Speaker 1: We had planned to talk to Bill Schroeder today in
20:13
Speaker 1: the next segment of the program. Bill is going to
20:16
Speaker 1: be with us tomorrow.
20:17
Speaker 5: All right.
20:17
Speaker 1: He's feeling a little under the weather. I got a
20:19
Speaker 1: text from Billy. He's feeling a little under the weather,
20:21
Speaker 1: so we will catch up with him tomorrow, but that
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20:39
Speaker 1: Bill Schroeder, not going to join us. He's a scratch today.
20:41
Speaker 1: We will have him tomorrow, which is a good bonus
20:44
Speaker 1: because maybe we'll be talking about a Brewers victory instead
20:46
Speaker 1: of a. a deflating 17-3 debacle. Is it bad that
20:50
Speaker 1: I kind of, I'm just, I smiled after you said
20:53
Speaker 1: that because then we do get to enjoy maybe a
20:56
Speaker 1: dub instead of talking more about this beatdown that we
20:58
Speaker 1: just witnessed last night. And maybe we won't see position
21:01
Speaker 1: player pitch for, you know, that'd be nice.
21:03
Speaker 4: Hey, I would be okay with a pitcher getting 27 outs.
21:07
Speaker 4: I think that would be a good course of action.
21:10
Speaker 4: Brewers got to get 27 outs. Let's make sure they
21:12
Speaker 4: do get 27 outs because that means that they're winning
21:14
Speaker 4: the ball game tonight. If a position player is going
21:16
Speaker 4: to pitch, let it be Bregman or... Yeah, for sure.
21:20
Speaker 4: Let's see if would they throw PCA out there and
21:23
Speaker 4: ruin his F war or would that be a problem?
21:27
Speaker 4: You don't want to mess with his war. I know
21:29
Speaker 4: Carson Kelly is one of their mainstay guys that if
21:33
Speaker 4: they're going to go throw, they'll throw the pitcher or
21:35
Speaker 4: the catcher out there. I appreciate it. Listen, Wild Bill
21:39
Speaker 4: could go out there and give you a couple of innings.
21:41
Speaker 4: I've seen him fire that ball back at a guy
21:43
Speaker 4: to give him a wake-up call. He tried last night.
21:46
Speaker 4: Nothing was waking Harrison up. I think it was like
21:48
Speaker 4: three batters in. He buzzed one real quick back to
21:51
Speaker 4: the chest. And you could look at Harris and look
21:53
Speaker 4: back at him like.
21:54
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm trying. I get it. Trust me.
21:57
Speaker 1: This is not what I was trying to be doing.
21:58
Speaker 5: It just wasn't working. And Harrison was trying to get
22:00
Speaker 5: through it and figure something out. You can tell the frustration. Well,
22:04
Speaker 5: to your point, Billy, it's the catch 22 you talked
22:06
Speaker 5: about earlier. It's like you're nibbling too much, but then
22:08
Speaker 5: you're throwing it right down the plate, but then you're walking.
22:12
Speaker 5: That feels like the torture chamber for a pitcher when
22:14
Speaker 5: you don't know what's going to work. Like, you know,
22:17
Speaker 5: trying to be too careful, but not get the plate,
22:19
Speaker 5: but then guys are getting walked.
22:21
Speaker 1: So it was just one of those nights.
22:23
Speaker 5: Yeah.
22:23
Speaker 4: My only pitching experience in beer league softball.
22:25
Speaker 1: That is the tough moment.
22:26
Speaker 4: Well, when you just keep serving three straight balls and drew,
22:29
Speaker 4: you can't hit that big. big old mat that they
22:32
Speaker 4: have right behind the plate.
22:33
Speaker 1: It's impossible. That is one of the most deflating feelings
22:36
Speaker 1: you're going to find.
22:36
Speaker 5: Especially against a team that won't swing. Like, come on guys,
22:38
Speaker 5: just swing. Come on, please take a walk. But it
22:41
Speaker 5: was one of those, you know, I was thinking about
22:43
Speaker 5: actually that last night when Vaughn was pitching, cause we
22:46
Speaker 5: were thinking of solutions about the, um, Ephus pitch position.
22:50
Speaker 5: So I'm like, well, maybe they can have an arc
22:51
Speaker 5: rule like they're doing beer. In City League softball. Can't
22:55
Speaker 5: go above eight feet. We'll just start an arc roll,
22:57
Speaker 5: and then that might be the solution to our problem.
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Speaker 4: Jordan love and his studying of Aaron Rogers coming from
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Speaker 4: 29 picks and 26 starts over 38 games played in college.
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Speaker 4: He had so much room to still be able to grow.
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Speaker 4: And as love told Albert Breer and training camp that,
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Speaker 4: you know, He hadn't been setting protections at all. He
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Speaker 4: had done none of that in college. Now Matt LaFleur
24:17
Speaker 4: said he's maybe the best guy he's ever been around.
24:19
Speaker 4: Cool dig into what makes Jordan love right now. Hopefully
24:24
Speaker 4: prime for the best year of his career because Drew
24:26
Speaker 4: is coming off statistically the best one of his career.
24:28
Speaker 4: You build off that again and really the only thing
24:31
Speaker 4: is consistently being able to have your best performance because
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Speaker 4: there was four weeks after they lose Tucker Kraft where
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Speaker 4: they just offensively could not find any bit of a
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Speaker 4: rhythm and And two years ago, sadly, that was going
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Speaker 4: right into the playoffs where they sputtered. The only game
24:46
Speaker 4: they ended up scoring touchdowns was against the Saints on
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Speaker 4: a Monday night. So being able to consistently put that
24:52
Speaker 4: in practice, super good piece. I would urge a lot
24:55
Speaker 4: of people to be able to go and read this one.
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Speaker 1: Jordan Love is one of those. It's a weird athlete
24:59
Speaker 1: that the vibes around him and the perception of his place.
25:02
Speaker 1: I think he plays better than people think. Absolutely. Especially
25:06
Speaker 1: outside of Green Bay and outside of our little sphere
25:08
Speaker 1: of Packers influence. It seems like he's underregarded and undervalued
25:14
Speaker 1: for how he's played. The numbers are the numbers, but
25:17
Speaker 1: for some reason people see him and think, eh, he's
25:19
Speaker 1: not that special. His turnover avoidance, which I think is
25:24
Speaker 1: one of the hugest attributes that a quarterback has to
25:26
Speaker 1: have in the modern NFL, is not something that you
25:29
Speaker 1: sneeze at.
25:30
Speaker 4: No, his ability to cut down on the turnovers last
25:33
Speaker 4: year was the massive, was the biggest thing that he
25:36
Speaker 4: had to correct. And he did a huge job, cut
25:38
Speaker 4: them in almost half. The tough thing is the ones
25:40
Speaker 4: that are, that still stick in the mind are throwing
25:43
Speaker 4: the ball and basically feels like the game away against Cleveland.
25:46
Speaker 4: He then also drove him down for a chance to
25:48
Speaker 4: kick the game-winning field goal before regulation, and the guy missed.
25:52
Speaker 4: So they had plenty of chances to still, and even
25:55
Speaker 4: into the playoff game, statistically, his best game of his career,
25:58
Speaker 4: four TDs, mostly he's thrown in a game, and he
26:02
Speaker 4: has them in position, but a drop ball off the
26:04
Speaker 4: hands of Jaden Reed and a couple of missed kicks,
26:07
Speaker 4: and you need his touchdown score and you lose the game.
26:09
Speaker 1: So.
26:10
Speaker 4: the narrative still is that gunslinger that threw the game away.
26:15
Speaker 4: They feel like in San Francisco, cause he throws two
26:17
Speaker 4: picks in the fourth quarter.
26:19
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Drew.
26:19
Speaker 4: It's just not necessarily, not really the case when you
26:22
Speaker 4: look at how he's played. And there are some very,
26:25
Speaker 4: very smart analytic football people that mentioned that a lot.
26:28
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Billy.
26:28
Speaker 5: And there's a point where I think you, he's a
26:31
Speaker 5: productive quarterback, but if it's not a flash year, I
26:33
Speaker 5: can't eat up for some people. They're just not going
26:35
Speaker 5: to latch onto the idea that he's a super, super
26:37
Speaker 5: special guy. because they need to see that type of
26:40
Speaker 5: flash and, and, and stuff like that. But the substance
26:42
Speaker 5: is there cutting down the turnovers was massive, massive thing.
26:45
Speaker 1: And the whole, um, erasing the memories of the whole.
26:49
Speaker 5: Can you trust Jordan love narratives that always seem to persist,
26:52
Speaker 5: at least for some, I mean, they'll always be there.
26:54
Speaker 1: Well, and he talks about a lot. He talks about it.
26:56
Speaker 4: Some in the piece where, again, your first, uh, your
27:01
Speaker 4: first impression to somebody is a lot of times the
27:04
Speaker 4: lasting one. People's first impression of Jordan Love playing pro
27:07
Speaker 4: football was that game that he had to start when
27:10
Speaker 4: they go to Kansas City and Rodgers gets COVID and
27:15
Speaker 4: he looked completely out of sorts. He's like Spagnolo's throwing
27:18
Speaker 4: blitzes all over the place. I had no clue what
27:20
Speaker 4: was happening and looked like a complete fish out of water.
27:24
Speaker 1: Didn't LeFleur own that one? Big time. Funny thing is
27:28
Speaker 1: they almost won that game. Which is funny because LeFleur
27:31
Speaker 1: maybe learned a lesson in that game because look how
27:33
Speaker 1: Malik Willis was prepared and the game plan shifted when
27:35
Speaker 1: he had to play. Totally. Totally was.
27:38
Speaker 4: And he mentions just how much he learned from Rodgers
27:42
Speaker 4: in that perspective of understanding being able to diagnose plays
27:45
Speaker 4: at the line of scrimmage.
27:46
Speaker 1: It's a really, really cool piece.
27:48
Speaker 4: A lot of different examples of games even from last
27:51
Speaker 4: year that played out. And Now, you almost forget when
27:55
Speaker 4: you look at the 2020 draft class of quarterbacks. Burrow, Tua,
28:00
Speaker 4: on to his next team. Justin Herbert, playing kissy-kissy boo-boo,
28:03
Speaker 4: still doesn't.
28:03
Speaker 2: Want to play off game.
28:06
Speaker 4: Jordan Love, and correct me if I'm wrong, I think
28:08
Speaker 4: in the back end of that 2020 draft class is
28:10
Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts. So, like, there's a wild grouping of quarterbacks
28:14
Speaker 4: that have all been in there. They're... somewhat still tied
28:18
Speaker 4: to each other very much in how we remember that
28:22
Speaker 4: class but it is uh he's had one of the
28:25
Speaker 4: better runs in it he just hasn't been able to
28:28
Speaker 4: do what two of them have and that's be able
28:29
Speaker 4: to get get to a super bowl burrow the first
28:32
Speaker 4: one hurts the last one if you count jalen hurts
28:35
Speaker 4: into the that pick number 53 in the second round
28:38
Speaker 4: both of those guys been there one of them's on
28:40
Speaker 4: their on his second team and might not even be
28:42
Speaker 4: the starter on that second team. And the other guy is,
28:45
Speaker 4: generally speaking, the national media's favorite to win the MVP
28:49
Speaker 4: every single year.
28:50
Speaker 1: It hasn't been able to deliver.
28:51
Speaker 4: So it's interesting how all of those guys have covered
28:54
Speaker 4: and their careers have transpired. And two of them, the
28:59
Speaker 4: last two are the ones that maybe consistently have been
29:02
Speaker 4: at the top and performing into the playoffs every single year.
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Speaker 5: we did a lot of sports today. This one isn't
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Speaker 5: exactly sports. This is more of a guy friendship lifestyle one.
29:28
Speaker 5: But I have to ask you and throw it out
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Speaker 5: there because it's happened.
29:31
Speaker 1: It's real. So I'm just going to give it to you.
29:33
Speaker 5: Now, there's a friend on the group texts, my college friends,
29:37
Speaker 5: group texts, really good friend of ours, you know, and
29:41
Speaker 5: we've done a lot for him over the years and
29:42
Speaker 5: you do a lot for your good friends, right? I mean,
29:44
Speaker 5: what are the ultimate things you do? What was the
29:46
Speaker 5: old sign for like, Oh, I'm going to help you move.
29:49
Speaker 5: I'm going to drive you to the airport. This might
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Speaker 5: be the still, and we've done all those things with
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Speaker 5: him and you know, pick him up when he needs
29:55
Speaker 5: a ride and dire straits, the things you do for
29:58
Speaker 5: your friends. But he threw this out to the group
30:01
Speaker 5: text by herself. Is this the wildest request you've ever
30:04
Speaker 5: had from one of your buddies? Just casually anybody available
30:09
Speaker 5: in the next two weeks to help me move a
30:11
Speaker 5: hot tub. I have to grab it from Cedarburg and
30:14
Speaker 5: go to my house. Even if we can just grab it,
30:16
Speaker 5: that'd be a huge help. Curb weight is supposedly 670 pounds,
30:22
Speaker 5: according to Google. So really not that heavy, just probably
30:26
Speaker 5: too big for a couple people to live.
30:28
Speaker 1: So I'll need three helpers.
30:29
Speaker 5: I could maybe get my neighbors once it gets to
30:31
Speaker 5: my house, but lunch and beers are on me if
30:34
Speaker 5: you could. Is this the wildest request by yourself from
30:38
Speaker 5: a buddy ever? You do a lot for your friends.
30:40
Speaker 5: We've done a lot for our friends. I'll drive you
30:42
Speaker 5: to the airport. I might get in there even in
30:45
Speaker 5: the mix at a bar if you're getting into a fight.
30:47
Speaker 1: No, you're not.
30:48
Speaker 5: Well, I'll at least be on the periphery to do
30:51
Speaker 5: my part. But you just asked me to come over
30:54
Speaker 5: to move a 670-pound hot tub? Yeah, but would you rather?
30:58
Speaker 1: What's worse? A 670-pound hot tub is one item. or
31:02
Speaker 1: 10 hours of schlepping back and forth carrying 25-pound boxes.
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Speaker 4: I'm glad you and I are on the same boat here, Drew.
31:09
Speaker 4: The move of a house is very open-ended.
31:12
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Move me into my divorce apartment. You've got
31:15
Speaker 1: to help me move. That's a 10-hour hitch.
31:18
Speaker 4: And then you feel worse when you leave because at
31:21
Speaker 4: the end of it, you do have to leave.
31:23
Speaker 1: And then Buddy is sitting there like, Well, now what
31:25
Speaker 1: do we do? You guys have bought beer. You guys
31:27
Speaker 1: want to hang out all night? No, man, we got live. Sorry, man.
31:29
Speaker 1: We got to go somewhere. This is one deal. You're
31:32
Speaker 1: going straight. I do. See, I didn't know my man
31:35
Speaker 1: was getting it from somewhere. So this sounds like he's
31:38
Speaker 1: going Facebook marketplace, buying a hot tub. I get it.
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Speaker 1: Put it in. I guess the truck.
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Speaker 4: I don't know if he's got a forklift or what.
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Speaker 4: Probably got a trailer. Probably got a trailer that he's
31:46
Speaker 4: going to load it up into. and then you're going
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Speaker 4: to drive it home and then move it over there.
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Speaker 1: Well, just so you're doing it twice.
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Speaker 5: And this idea that 670 pounds is not that heavy
31:57
Speaker 5: is a little incredulous.
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Speaker 1: It's clearly heavy, and so we're getting three guys. I'm
32:01
Speaker 1: getting a couple of pizzas.
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Speaker 5: You expect me, because you bought cousins, or you bought
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Speaker 5: subs and stuff, that I'm going to help you carry
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Speaker 5: a 670-pound hot tub?
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's not a casual thing.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: It's going to take three or four dudes.
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Speaker 5: I can help you carry a dresser, a couple, maybe
32:18
Speaker 5: a couch and a bed, some boxes.
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Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely.
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Speaker 5: To me, that's not as big an ask as I
32:24
Speaker 5: might need heavy equipment for this deal.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Drew's right, though. I think he's undershooting it. I
32:28
Speaker 4: think he's going to need four or five.
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Speaker 2: I think so.
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Speaker 1: I think you're going to need four to five. It's
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Speaker 1: one thing to, okay, deadlift 150 or 200 pounds and
32:36
Speaker 1: then carry it like, you know, 100, 200 yards. At
32:39
Speaker 1: least a few feet. Well, this is on the curb.
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Speaker 4: In somebody's backyard because he said what curb weight the
32:48
Speaker 4: curb weight is that weight i don't know what that
32:50
Speaker 4: means where we're getting it who knows the the thing's
32:53
Speaker 4: probably knowing this guy in the house we have to
32:56
Speaker 4: move it through the house i just i'm just.
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Speaker 1: Telling you through the house with this guy but even
33:00
Speaker 1: if it's in the backyard and then yeah if it's
33:03
Speaker 1: in the backyard that's gonna be a hike is it
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Speaker 1: three bill schmidt's or is it could you lift it
33:06
Speaker 1: could you put it on some kind of like a
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Speaker 1: dolly or like With wheels or something?
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Speaker 4: I was going to say wheels. There's got to be
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Speaker 4: a dolly and some straps that you can use. I
33:13
Speaker 4: see dudes.
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Speaker 1: You know how heavy this thing is? I see dudes
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Speaker 1: move a fridge by themselves with the straps. One dude
33:18
Speaker 1: carrying a fridge. The movers, the pros. Maybe some guys do.
33:22
Speaker 1: Those are the guys that are... Oh, those guys aren't
33:23
Speaker 1: that big. But at a certain point in your life,
33:26
Speaker 1: asking people to help you move is... kind of gauche,
33:29
Speaker 1: because especially like just pay movers, like, you know, pay
33:31
Speaker 1: the pros.
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Speaker 5: Especially for a piece of equipment like this.
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Speaker 1: And that's where like something like this, you pay like
33:37
Speaker 1: two men in a truck to go move this thing
33:39
Speaker 1: and like, they'll do it and they're pros and they
33:41
Speaker 1: can do it in an hour. And you just, is it,
33:44
Speaker 1: To impose upon your friends and buy pizza and beer
33:46
Speaker 1: and stuff, spend a couple hundred bucks and let the
33:48
Speaker 1: pros move it for you. Meanwhile, that's the way I'd
33:50
Speaker 1: look at it. And then you can watch it and
33:51
Speaker 1: then feel a lot better that you didn't do it.
33:53
Speaker 1: And then be like our friend Josh and charge people
33:55
Speaker 1: to come over and use it.
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Speaker 4: Well, I was going to say this also— Pay for
33:58
Speaker 4: the electricity and for the hot tub itself. I don't
34:00
Speaker 4: necessarily need to know that I'm getting fed and filled
34:03
Speaker 4: up that day. I'm going to need a hot tub
34:06
Speaker 4: that day.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to need a hot tub the next day.
34:08
Speaker 1: So I'm going to need to know that I'm coming in.
34:10
Speaker 1: Every weekend, I'm coming over. By the way— Hot tub
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Speaker 1: is one of those things. Good idea in theory. Bad
34:15
Speaker 1: idea in practice. Yeah, bad idea in practice. My nephew
34:19
Speaker 1: has one, and it's a lot of work maintaining it.
34:22
Speaker 1: It doesn't use it at all. It sits in his backyard.
34:24
Speaker 4: I used the absolute hell out of ours in high school,
34:27
Speaker 4: and my dad did a lot of work to make
34:29
Speaker 4: sure it was ready. That was your spot on because
34:33
Speaker 4: there's a lot more work to it than you think.
34:36
Speaker 1: And I don't know, my pops went in there a
34:37
Speaker 1: whole lot. I know I did.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to need that thing for heat therapy for
34:41
Speaker 5: my back after I'm done with this.
34:43
Speaker 1: Are you going to pay for my chiropractor bill for
34:44
Speaker 1: the rest.
34:45
Speaker 2: Of my life?
34:45
Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. Armand's just psyched out by the weight
34:47
Speaker 1: of it. Are you kidding me? 670 doesn't sound that bad.
34:50
Speaker 1: Sounds bad to me. You need four dudes.
34:52
Speaker 4: I was going to say, it sounds like you need
34:53
Speaker 4: four guys, though. You're going to need one on each
34:55
Speaker 4: pillar because I'm guessing this is a square beast. You're
35:00
Speaker 4: going to need one on each post. You might even
35:03
Speaker 4: need a fifth guy.
35:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, you might need a fifth. Because if you've got
35:06
Speaker 1: a couple of Harmon signs, we might need six. Exactly.
35:08
Speaker 1: Are they four of me? Then we've got a problem.
35:10
Speaker 1: I think you should be, frankly, you should be honored
35:13
Speaker 1: he asked. Yeah, you're wired. Oh, sure. Yeah, I'm honored
35:15
Speaker 1: that he asked. Yeah, well, and then price it out.
35:18
Speaker 1: You can just like, you know. I'd rather you ask
35:20
Speaker 1: me to call a tow truck. All the boys are like, okay,
35:22
Speaker 1: let's start a GoFundMe. Everybody chip in 50 bucks, and
35:25
Speaker 1: we don't have to go help him do this. You
35:26
Speaker 1: know what? That's my response. I'm trying to think about
35:29
Speaker 1: the response.
35:30
Speaker 4: My buddy Siv was elite at this, though, because we
35:33
Speaker 4: grabbed so many couches. We got a grand piano or
35:35
Speaker 4: a small piano that we got on Facebook Marketplace in college.
35:39
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
35:39
Speaker 4: We had a massive Marlin that we got on Facebook Marketplace,
35:42
Speaker 4: a couple of entertainment centers.
35:43
Speaker 1: He would never tell you what we're going to go
35:45
Speaker 1: pick up. You just go do it. Yeah, but you guys,
35:47
Speaker 1: we drove up.
35:48
Speaker 4: To the one place in my buddy John's truck. And
35:50
Speaker 4: he said, you're here for the piano. We are here
35:53
Speaker 4: for the what? The what?
35:57
Speaker 1: None of us play. It was a good party trick though.
35:59
Speaker 5: Listen, that's a little different though. When you got the
36:02
Speaker 5: Carroll football team and he's a power lifter. I mean,
36:05
Speaker 5: I'm just saying I played ping pong growing up.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
36:10
Speaker 4: Somehow they put me in the picture of the Carroll
36:12
Speaker 4: university celebration of move-in day. from when I was a
36:16
Speaker 4: freshman in college.
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Speaker 1: Let's go. That's a heck of a photo. That's a
36:20
Speaker 1: heck of a photo of me walking. Baby face Billy.
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Speaker 4: Baby face Billy, short-haired Billy, getting ready to carry some
36:25
Speaker 4: mini fridges up.
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Speaker 1: That was a heck of a day. My goodness. All right,
36:28
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll close up shop. We got
36:31
Speaker 1: our wake and bake story coming at you. You're in
36:33
Speaker 1: the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and Armand
36:38
Speaker 1: bringing it to you, the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Madison, everywhere.
36:44
Speaker 1: Time for a little wake and bake relief, Billy. I,
36:47
Speaker 1: for one, when I checked out, tapped out when it
36:49
Speaker 1: was 6-0, got the best night of sleep I've had
36:52
Speaker 1: in two weeks. Oh, my goodness. It was amazing, wasn't it?
36:55
Speaker 1: Let's wake and bake. Keep the line moving. Keep the
36:58
Speaker 1: vibes going. What do you got?
36:59
Speaker 4: Well, the only thing that was keeping me losing sleep
37:01
Speaker 4: was worried if there was somebody who was going to
37:04
Speaker 4: be posing as a Green Bay Packer. In a romance
37:07
Speaker 4: scam to scheme allegedly $ 1. 3 million out. Fellas, have we
37:13
Speaker 4: been keeping track of the Dajon Love story? Dajon Love
37:18
Speaker 4: is the 35-year-old that was arrested by federal authorities along
37:23
Speaker 4: with 18-year-old Taylor Jamie, Taylor Jamie Chan, for a romance
37:28
Speaker 4: scam that defrauded at least... 26 women across four states
37:34
Speaker 4: out of about $ 1.
37:35
Speaker 1: 3 million.
37:38
Speaker 4: Love was posing as an undrafted San Francisco 49ers running
37:43
Speaker 4: back wearing the number seven. And Chan, acting as his
37:46
Speaker 4: financial advisor to push fake investments and loans via dating apps, videos,
37:52
Speaker 4: and texts reveal him quizzing victims on finances, requesting quick
37:56
Speaker 4: cash and luxury deals, using guilt trips leading to one
38:00
Speaker 4: man's girlfriend selling their house to join him.
38:03
Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
38:04
Speaker 4: He was arrested in Boise, Idaho on August 24th, facing
38:08
Speaker 4: wire fraud and conspiracy theories charges. Now, That is a very,
38:13
Speaker 4: very serious and sad situation. What's even sadder is now
38:17
Speaker 4: the videos are coming out. And how on earth anybody
38:21
Speaker 4: was falling for Dajon Love playing in the NFL?
38:24
Speaker 1: I just can't believe.
38:25
Speaker 2: This, man.
38:25
Speaker 1: My man was... There are certain people that have a
38:29
Speaker 1: security blanket.
38:30
Speaker 4: People have a bag, sometimes a very high-priced fashion bag.
38:35
Speaker 4: My man was utilizing a San Francisco 49ers helmet as
38:38
Speaker 4: basically his Louis bag, taking that son of a gun everywhere.
38:42
Speaker 1: He's showing up to the beach running routes.
38:47
Speaker 4: He got braids in his hair and said, I'm going
38:50
Speaker 4: to need some security around because I do play for
38:53
Speaker 4: the 49ers. 49er player goes to get their hair done. Drew,
38:57
Speaker 4: what are they probably not wearing? 49ers practice gear and
39:01
Speaker 4: bring in their helmet? Nah, he's there to take pictures.
39:04
Speaker 4: DeJuan loves there to take pictures. I am going to
39:06
Speaker 4: need this comp, by the way, because I do play
39:07
Speaker 4: for the 49ers. I got quite a bit of cloud
39:11
Speaker 4: at this point.
39:12
Speaker 1: Believe this guy. Google. Come on. How do so many
39:15
Speaker 1: people believe it? It's amazing. The videos are hilarious.
39:19
Speaker 4: Now, there was another guy who had a video that
39:21
Speaker 4: came out, one young man who said that he had
39:24
Speaker 4: played basketball with Love, and Love had initially told them
39:28
Speaker 4: that he was a professional basketball player from over Said
39:30
Speaker 4: he pulled up the first game in a Hellcat. Next time,
39:33
Speaker 4: he showed up in a Lamborghini. Holy cow, this guy's
39:36
Speaker 4: got to be playing somewhere. Had to be doing something.
39:38
Speaker 4: Then he said that he played some football. And they
39:41
Speaker 4: quickly realized he didn't after they threw him the ball
39:44
Speaker 4: and realized that he was not an NFL player player.
39:47
Speaker 4: Gotta be one of the funniest stories of all time.
39:49
Speaker 4: And I'm glad the internet is around to be able
39:52
Speaker 4: to dig up every video that this man was sending
39:55
Speaker 4: to these young ladies, the beach and God bless us.
39:58
Speaker 4: Cause those beach highlights.
39:59
Speaker 1: I mean, we thought Zach Efron didn't know how to
40:01
Speaker 1: play base basketball in high school musical, anybody in field
40:05
Speaker 1: of dreams, no clue how to play baseball. Really?
40:08
Speaker 4: They were studying at the Dijon love school of acting.
40:11
Speaker 4: Top look.
40:13
Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
40:15
Speaker 4: $ 1. 3 million. Hey, I play for the Niners. I am
40:19
Speaker 4: going to need you to pick up this check.
40:20
Speaker 1: By the way, the year that the Brewers had the
40:21
Speaker 1: replacement players in spring training, when the real guys were
40:24
Speaker 1: locked out, they had to tell some of the replacement
40:26
Speaker 1: guys to leave their gear. at the ballpark because they
40:28
Speaker 1: were wearing it out to bars trying to pick up chicks.
40:30
Speaker 1: Trying to pick up girls? Well, listen, you can't beat them.
40:33
Speaker 1: Join them. They're the early on Deshaun loves. Tomorrow on
40:36
Speaker 1: the program. Hopefully a better day for the Brewers. We'll
40:38
Speaker 1: have Bill Schroeder will join us, and it's hot take
40:41
Speaker 1: hump day. See you at 5. Peace.