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10/08/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Drew Billion-Armond huddled up on a Thursday morning, our last Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: In the morning. How about that?
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: The memo went out on Monday. We have two more shows,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: waking up with the Roosters, and then we are moving
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: on to the afternoons. 2 to 5 p.m. will be
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: the normal time for the huddle. Right here on these
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: here airwaves and interwebs will be easy to find. We'll
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: be more rested. We'll have seen more games.
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: What a way to cap it off.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say fully rejuvenated, but we did
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  Speaker 3: have to get sent out one last time.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed.
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  Speaker 1: So we can, you know, we will be at Pottawatomie tonight.
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  Speaker 1: So it is the back end of our double header,
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  Speaker 1: but we're still going to be at Pottawatomie moving forward
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  Speaker 1: from five to seven every Thursday that the Packers don't
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  Speaker 1: play or it's not a holiday.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be there.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be there and we'll be enjoying ourselves too.
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  Speaker 4: 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 2: Nicoletlaw.com.
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  Speaker 1: Talk and text line six o'clock clubbers. We've had a
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: great time spinning through. The feels, the emotion of the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers vanquishing San Diego. They're on to L.A.
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  Speaker 2: Well, L.A. 's on to Milwaukee. They're coming here. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night, game one, NLCS, Scooble against Miz. Likely game
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  Speaker 1: two will be Logan Henderson against.
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  Speaker 3: No, I was going to say Snell and then Yamamoto
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  Speaker 3: in L.A. three.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm not mistaken, may maybe in game three.
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  Speaker 3: Very much so in that ballpark that he knows very,
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  Speaker 3: very well. You thought he pitched a lot in San Diego.
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  Speaker 3: He's thrown a bunch of innings there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The worst spot if you're using him at some point.
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  Speaker 6: So not the worst situation, but, you know, it is
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  Speaker 6: what it is. You're going to be having to face
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  Speaker 6: this gauntlet of starters at the Dodgers game. Obviously can
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  Speaker 6: throw out there was a storyline last year will be again.
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  Speaker 2: But can you do it?
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  Speaker 1: But again, like the Brewers aren't as fried as they
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  Speaker 1: were last year. I think being the Cubs, they'll be rested.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be ready. They're going to go through the same
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  Speaker 1: thing they went through. Get a couple of days off.
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  Speaker 1: Get everybody, you know, up to their healthy. There's no
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  Speaker 1: devastating injury hanging over it like that's the biggest one.
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  Speaker 3: And and instead of instead of the vibes being down,
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  Speaker 3: you're getting huge contributions and maybe the best postseason in
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  Speaker 3: a Brewers uniform from Christian Yelich. William Contreras is being
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  Speaker 3: an absolute pit bull and fully seems like he's out
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  Speaker 3: of the cage. And you then I mean, you're making
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  Speaker 3: up for one base hit from Bryce Terang. And it
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  Speaker 3: was a bloop job in the ninth inning that ultimately
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  Speaker 3: didn't do much for you in one series to roll through.
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  Speaker 3: Their offensive vibes are much better. You go back to
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  Speaker 3: that series a year ago, Drew, and it. At the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, especially when you get out to L.A.,
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  Speaker 3: the games in L.A. felt a lot more varsity JV.
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  Speaker 3: The one game one, you almost forget just how tight
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  Speaker 3: and highly contested it is.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the one that.
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  Speaker 3: Features that ridiculous Sal Freelick double play where it's a
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  Speaker 3: home run robbery double up. And if Bryce Terang doesn't
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  Speaker 3: jump out of the way of one in the ninth inning.
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  Speaker 3: That could be a great sliding doors moment in that
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  Speaker 3: entire series. If they tie it up, go win it.
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  Speaker 3: What happens after that?
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  Speaker 2: Things could have changed, definitely.
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  Speaker 6: And the thing is, I still think you're going into
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  Speaker 6: the series with an offense that's putting more consistent pressure
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  Speaker 6: on inning to inning. You know, we had 21 hits
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  Speaker 6: in the last two games. Now, we're not necessarily getting
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  Speaker 6: crazy numbers of runs, obviously, granted.
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  Speaker 2: No, but they're getting the traffic. That's what's key. Keep
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  Speaker 2: getting the traffic. Yeah, keep getting the traffic.
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  Speaker 6: So I think that's got to be a better– and
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  Speaker 6: scooble has is is who he is but he's gotten
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  Speaker 6: got a little bit the second half oh sure so
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  Speaker 6: you can get after you can get them and same
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  Speaker 6: with snell and the pitch counts and.
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  Speaker 1: Things like that you can get them for sure and
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  Speaker 1: the brewers do a good job of conjuring runs up
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  Speaker 1: out of nothing and that's what you got to do
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason because the idea that you're gonna like
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  Speaker 1: that well the birds don't hit a lot of home
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  Speaker 1: runs obviously it helps when they do but then the
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  Speaker 1: idea that you're gonna get six hits in an inning
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  Speaker 1: well no but Billy, that's the most profound thing I've
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  Speaker 1: heard in a long time about the baseball postseason. If
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  Speaker 1: you get a guy to third base with less than
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  Speaker 1: two out and you don't get him in, it's like
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  Speaker 1: giving up a run.
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  Speaker 2: It's like your pitcher's giving up a run. That's the equivalent.
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  Speaker 2: You have to come through.
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  Speaker 1: If you get a man to third base and you
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  Speaker 1: don't get him in, you're going to look back at
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  Speaker 1: that and go, oh, that's where we lost.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't get that guy in and we lost
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  Speaker 2: by a run.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the difference of going in the red zone
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  Speaker 3: drew or having a goal to go situation. Yeah, right. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you have the ball on the doorstep. You
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  Speaker 3: don't score a touchdown. You're gonna be kicking yourself all
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  Speaker 3: week long. Let those get away. And they're precious. And
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was interesting. It was it maybe like
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  Speaker 3: the second or third time. Yelich got on. He was
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  Speaker 3: on base most of the night last night. But after
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  Speaker 3: he steals second, looks like he's damn near thinking about
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  Speaker 3: stealing third for that exact reason to try and figure
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  Speaker 3: out a way to move yourself up the extra 90
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  Speaker 3: feet as simple and obvious as it sounds like. It's
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  Speaker 3: just a massive, massive difference of being able to be
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  Speaker 3: that much closer.
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  Speaker 2: And once you're in that position, you got to be
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  Speaker 2: able to cash in.
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  Speaker 3: When Mitchell gets the, was it lead off triple when
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  Speaker 3: he gets into and slides in or, or one out
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  Speaker 3: in on that triple, you knew that you had to
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  Speaker 3: get them in because otherwise that is going to be
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  Speaker 3: like the most, uh, the biggest thing to hang over
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  Speaker 3: your head all night long.
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  Speaker 6: Good point, Billy, that when Pratt had the double, the
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  Speaker 6: ground rule double, then you have second and third with
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  Speaker 6: no outs, same situation. So those are the situations you
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  Speaker 6: don't want to miss the opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: Brewer still could have done much better at that last night, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: but enough to get the win last night.
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  Speaker 6: When Pratt's bounced over, you know, I was excited to
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  Speaker 6: see it right away because you knew he was getting
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  Speaker 6: that thing down.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that's extra bases. But then I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: that's going to bounce over. It might cost us over.
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  Speaker 2: But you're just trying to think of those things, so.
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart was working for us. He's going to join
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  Speaker 1: us at 7.30-ish. And he sent us some interviews and
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  Speaker 1: some reaction. Armand, dealer's choice.
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: What do you want to hear? All right.
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  Speaker 6: He sent us a lot of good stuff. He was
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  Speaker 6: working all night, still working. Let's do his Robert Gasser one-on-one. Gasser,
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  Speaker 6: one of the stars of the show last night. This
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  Speaker 6: was Hunter talking to him. I'm sure that was Gasser's
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  Speaker 6: first thought after the game. I have to get to Hunter.
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  Speaker 3: Can't wait to get to Hunter. I know I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to go to the podium. I'm sitting next to Aaron Ashby.
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  Speaker 3: But hold on. I got to talk to HB4 first.
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  Speaker 3: Here they are for a minute.
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  Speaker 7: You're on the mound to start the game that sent
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  Speaker 7: your team to the NLCS.
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  Speaker 2: How does that feel?
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  Speaker 8: It's electric.
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  Speaker 4: At the start of the year, I couldn't have really
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  Speaker 4: dreamed it up this way, but I'm really happy to
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  Speaker 4: be a part of this team, and I feel like
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  Speaker 4: we're in a really good spot.
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  Speaker 7: How did you feel going out there and just throughout
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  Speaker 7: your start tonight? You felt like you bounced back pretty well,
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  Speaker 7: inning to inning?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I did my best to keep it simple, feel like.
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  Speaker 8: A regular game.
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  Speaker 4: This atmosphere is pretty intense, especially here in San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: I did everything I could. I did everything I could.
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  Speaker 4: To keep it cool and just vote.
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  Speaker 2: About executing pitches.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, what's the key to staying calm in a situation
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  Speaker 7: like that?
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  Speaker 2: Embracing it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's an opportunity not everybody gets to have.
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  Speaker 4: So I did my best to take it all in
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  Speaker 4: when I could and, you know, just enjoy it.
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  Speaker 7: How about the guys behind you, Ashby, Rebae, McGill, the guys?
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  Speaker 2: Finish it out.
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  Speaker 4: When you can give the ball to the bullpen and
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  Speaker 4: they don't give up a hit the rest of the game,
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  Speaker 4: you're in a really good spot.
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  Speaker 2: And those guys have done it.
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  Speaker 4: All year, and I'm so happy for them, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: so proud.
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  Speaker 2: To be a part of this team. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, guys.
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  Speaker 8: No problem.
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  Speaker 6: Robert Gasser and our own Hunter Baumgart. Please tell me
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  Speaker 6: they were dumping a little bit of that on Hunter.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if you were thinking the same thing
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  Speaker 6: when he started laughing.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't a full situation with Scuba where they're shoving
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  Speaker 3: bottles of beer down each other's pants, but You could
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  Speaker 3: tell the elation for big game Bob. That was a
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  Speaker 3: pretty slow heartbeat to be able to get out of
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  Speaker 3: that first inning, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: That was pivotal.
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  Speaker 1: If that goes sideways, you said it.
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  Speaker 2: First inning is everything in these games. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: If they'd had the lead in the first inning after
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  Speaker 2: game three, it might not have gone.
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  Speaker 3: When Manny Machado is going to start the game with
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  Speaker 3: a bunt single. After the fallout from the tease, Merrill
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  Speaker 3: with a clean base hit, and then Machado hits the bunt.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, my God, they are in full attack mode. What,
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  Speaker 3: did he throw 15 pitches in the first inning? And
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  Speaker 3: he ended up facing six guys. I mean, they were
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  Speaker 3: jumping on him early and there's a walk in there
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  Speaker 3: to Hayes, which I think was maybe four or five pitches.
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: They were doing everything they could to, to get after
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  Speaker 3: him quick. And that's a massive moment to be able
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  Speaker 3: to get out of it and get four outs in
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  Speaker 3: the fourth inning was also pretty damn big, but it did.
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  Speaker 3: It felt like to be able to score first last night,
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  Speaker 3: first time the Brewers did in the series, as obvious
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  Speaker 3: as it sounds, was just a massive hurdle to be
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  Speaker 3: able to clear. Trailed 2-0 in each of the first three.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good point, Billy. Well taken.
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  Speaker 2: You finally put the pressure on them for once and
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  Speaker 2: not you.
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  Speaker 6: And getting out of that first, when Machado got that
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  Speaker 6: punt single, though, was he fired up? I mean, he
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  Speaker 6: was so happy. He celebrated that thing. He was so
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  Speaker 6: fired up. And I'm like, okay, I guess you're excited
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  Speaker 6: about that fundamentals. A little Tommy Manski stuff. But the
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  Speaker 6: Brewers got out of it.
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  Speaker 1: What other sound you want to hear, Armand? This is
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  Speaker 1: your dealer's choice. You spin us through it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he also got half a minute one-on-one with D.L. Hall,
• 8:49
  Speaker 6: who's been huge in this playoffs. I think his ability
• 8:52
  Speaker 6: to get guys out as a lefty is giving Murph
• 8:54
  Speaker 6: the chance to feel good about putting Ashby anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: So here was Hunter with D.L.
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  Speaker 9: Hall.
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  Speaker 2: How does it feel to go back to the NLCS?
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  Speaker 8: Man, incredible.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're prepared more than ever.
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  Speaker 7: I think we just, you know, I think we're ready
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  Speaker 7: for the moment. I think all these guys have been
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  Speaker 7: there and we're ready to rerun it. How do you
• 9:09
  Speaker 7: feel through this series?
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  Speaker 2: You guys are ready for each moment.
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  Speaker 7: You bounce back from whatever was thrown at you down
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  Speaker 7: in a couple games. Tonight you guys had runners on,
• 9:17
  Speaker 7: but were able to get out of those situations. Your
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  Speaker 7: team has bounced back all year. I think that just
• 9:21
  Speaker 7: comes from, you know, the experience. A lot of us
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  Speaker 7: have been through it already and we just know how
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  Speaker 7: to respond. You know, I think that's what makes good
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  Speaker 7: teams great. As we know how to respond.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, congratulations, DL. Oh, Hunter wrapped it real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're trying to get the interview when they're spraying champagne.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: I hope we got a couple drops. There's more substantive
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: things on the field where they're not doing that. I
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: was going to say, that's where the Murph conversation comes.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: And Murph obviously goes to the podium, had a nice
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: young man that was asking some questions. from the Mexican
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: Baseball Association. Murph was very excited. He did also point
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: out somebody asked him on the walk up with the
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  Speaker 1: two boys, Drew.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, your grandkids came with you?
• 10:04
  Speaker 6: You wouldn't have been around, have you?
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: Not quite, not quite.
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: Murph did have fun dropping that one into the microphone,
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: but the stuff on the field was definitely better.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, with the local media, he did with the local
• 10:15
  Speaker 6: scribes and reporters.
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: Here was Pat Murphy.
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  Speaker 9: You've been to postseason series with this club. Where is
• 10:21
  Speaker 9: this series among those?
• 10:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, it's so fresh that you've got to
• 10:24
  Speaker 8: say it's the best. But I think back last year,
• 10:28
  Speaker 8: the Cubs series was special. And This one was every
• 10:32
  Speaker 8: bit as special. The momentum switched after yesterday and to
• 10:38
  Speaker 8: come out today and be so diligent in front of
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  Speaker 8: this crowd. I don't know how many were here, but
• 10:42
  Speaker 8: they were loud. It's just a great win all the
• 10:46
  Speaker 8: way around. Proud of the guys. They had to do it.
• 10:50
  Speaker 8: They were resilient, relentless, went pitch to pitch, and we're
• 10:54
  Speaker 8: not going to be denied.
• 10:55
  Speaker 9: You had Miz warming up at the end, but Can
• 10:58
  Speaker 9: you put into words to get.
• 10:59
  Speaker 8: Through this game? That was for show. Yeah, I said, McGill,
• 11:04
  Speaker 8: that's you. Let's go. You're not coming out of this game. Yeah,
• 11:11
  Speaker 8: he was going to close it.
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  Speaker 9: To get without using him to get through this game
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  Speaker 9: and then to win and not have a game five.
• 11:18
  Speaker 9: How do you put into words how that sets you up?
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  Speaker 8: It's big. They don't have a game five either. You
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  Speaker 8: know what I mean? So it puts us on even
• 11:26
  Speaker 8: ground that we get to relax a little bit and
• 11:28
  Speaker 8: and heal up for the guys that need to heal
• 11:31
  Speaker 8: up and be ready to go first game.
• 11:33
  Speaker 9: What do you think about it being the same matchup
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  Speaker 9: two years in a row in that round?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it doesn't matter. To be the best, you've got
• 11:40
  Speaker 8: to play the best, and that's what our goal is.
• 11:43
  Speaker 8: The guys take it personal. I think the familiarity of
• 11:47
  Speaker 8: doing that last year and going through it and knowing
• 11:49
  Speaker 8: how it can go and get away from you quick,
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  Speaker 8: it doesn't matter how good they're going to play. We
• 11:53
  Speaker 8: got it. We got to.
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: Stay with the night.
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  Speaker 8: The lights went out. So anything goes tonight. It's almost
• 12:03
  Speaker 8: like playing elevator music during batting practice.
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  Speaker 2: How proud are you of these guys?
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  Speaker 4: I am.
• 12:08
  Speaker 8: I really am proud of them. You know, like, uh,
• 12:10
  Speaker 8: you get choked up about it when you start thinking
• 12:12
  Speaker 8: of the guys that are fresh and you got Cooper
• 12:14
  Speaker 8: Pratt running out there. And, you know, three months ago,
• 12:17
  Speaker 8: he didn't know if he was going to be in
• 12:18
  Speaker 8: the big leagues or not, you know? Um, You got
• 12:21
  Speaker 8: so many guys that maybe didn't have the best results
• 12:25
  Speaker 8: that contributed in a big way today. It's awesome. You
• 12:29
  Speaker 8: got a guy like that, Contreras, that just, you can't
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  Speaker 8: give him enough credit for how he goes after it
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  Speaker 8: and how he keeps his composure when he's such an
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  Speaker 8: intense guy. and helps us win every game. You know, it's, it's,
• 12:42
  Speaker 8: it's amazing. Especially coming off, whatever he punched out every
• 12:50
  Speaker 8: time he was up yesterday or thereabouts, you know what
• 12:54
  Speaker 8: I mean? And just didn't look like he was in it.
• 12:57
  Speaker 8: And then came back today and, you know, he approached
• 13:00
  Speaker 8: me today and we sat and talked and he said, I,
• 13:02
  Speaker 8: I got a plan tonight. I'm going to be better. Awesome, bro.
• 13:05
  Speaker 8: But that's the accountability, you know, like he, He knew
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  Speaker 8: he owed it to his teammates to come here in
• 13:11
  Speaker 8: his best form.
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  Speaker 9: Is Matt Machado fly ball is going up?
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  Speaker 8: I was planning on the extra innings and things like
• 13:19
  Speaker 8: that and whatever. No, I just took a deep breath
• 13:22
  Speaker 8: and said, hey, whatever's going to happen is going to happen.
• 13:24
  Speaker 8: We've got to respond, ready for the next pitch.
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: What is it about this group's ability to focus?
• 13:30
  Speaker 8: I mean, you look at what they were able to
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  Speaker 8: do from taking the disappointment from last night, and then
• 13:35
  Speaker 8: tonight it seemed like it was tight. They understand what
• 13:38
  Speaker 8: they want. You know, they understand what, what it takes
• 13:41
  Speaker 8: to be a winning baseball team. They've done it all year.
• 13:43
  Speaker 8: Nobody predicted it. You know, when I look back at
• 13:45
  Speaker 8: some of the predictions, I save them, you know, and it's,
• 13:48
  Speaker 8: it's important to me because I show them, this is
• 13:50
  Speaker 8: what people thought, you know what I mean? But together
• 13:53
  Speaker 8: we can do a lot of things and you can't
• 13:55
  Speaker 8: underestimate it. Maybe we're not built for the post season.
• 13:58
  Speaker 8: It's been said, you know, we're not built for the
• 14:00
  Speaker 8: post season. We were more built for the regular season
• 14:03
  Speaker 8: where You don't have bullpens on top of you. You're
• 14:06
  Speaker 8: not playing matchups every game. But I guess we're proving
• 14:11
  Speaker 8: them wrong again. We can be the number one seed
• 14:15
  Speaker 8: when no one believed it. Nobody even thought we'd win
• 14:17
  Speaker 8: the division. To be there and to execute that, a
• 14:22
  Speaker 8: lot of naysayers, so what? These guys just keep rolling
• 14:25
  Speaker 8: up against it. We'll go against a really, really packed team. Again,
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: playing really good at this time of year and That's
• 14:33
  Speaker 8: the way it is. I wouldn't want to go through
• 14:34
  Speaker 8: it any other way. Pat, what did you say to
• 14:36
  Speaker 8: the guys afterwards? Yeah, howdy, boys. Yeah, and he said,
• 14:41
  Speaker 8: I don't know if I'm going to be able to
• 14:42
  Speaker 8: help you in the next series the way I knocked
• 14:44
  Speaker 8: down that one. But, yeah, it's special.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: What does it mean to have those letters still being
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: part of this?
• 14:52
  Speaker 8: It's what it's all about, man. You know, Uke will
• 14:54
  Speaker 8: be with us forever. You know, he's part of our fabric.
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: And when you think about it, what motivates these guys,
• 15:01
  Speaker 8: they understand who they play for. They play for the
• 15:03
  Speaker 8: Milwaukee Brewers, and they understand that city and that state
• 15:06
  Speaker 8: is behind them. And think of the people that don't
• 15:10
  Speaker 8: get to come to the game. There are fans, but
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: they don't get to go to the games very often
• 15:15
  Speaker 8: because they live three and four hours away, but they're
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: from Wisconsin and they're proud. And that motivates our guys,
• 15:20
  Speaker 8: you know, that they want to do it for them too.
• 15:23
  Speaker 8: And we've got a monumental task, I guess, you know,
• 15:27
  Speaker 8: based on what I know of the Dodgers. You know,
• 15:29
  Speaker 8: there's like an all-star in every position. But you know what?
• 15:33
  Speaker 8: Teams win. And we've got to play as a team.
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: Do you think you still haven't played your best yet?
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: I know you've talked about that.
• 15:39
  Speaker 8: Do you think there's another level there?
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: I mean, when you say that, it's like there's places
• 15:48
  Speaker 8: in the game where we didn't get the big hit
• 15:49
  Speaker 8: today with the bases loaded. We didn't. There's a couple
• 15:53
  Speaker 8: non-winning baseball things we did early that you're like, ugh,
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: you know? Why would we swing at the first pitch there?
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: Why would we be in such a rush? But to
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: try to explain it definitively is hard, but you know
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: winning baseball when it's being played, and can we do
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: that better? Yeah, of course we can. But the intent
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: and the focus is there.
• 16:19
  Speaker 9: Murph, one thing, you go to a seven-game series now,
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: and the starting pitchers sort of bump up a little
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: bit in importance. I don't know if you agree with
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: that or not. But to have Gasser kind of perform
• 16:30
  Speaker 9: under pressure the way he did tonight, how important was that?
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and somebody also had to step up, too. I mean,
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: Gasser's been doing it, you know. And our pitching coaches
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: do not receive enough credit, by the way. I just
• 16:43
  Speaker 8: mentioned that. When you know the job that Jimmy Henderson does,
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: you know, he's like the bench coach, you know what
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: I mean? Like, him and I are discussing the thing
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: every day, disagreeing every day. We're as opposite as you
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: can be, but You know, and Hookie doing what he
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: does and Sandoval and Charlie Green in the bullpen. Those
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: guys don't get enough credit for what these guys do.
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: And the way they perform, how ready they are, yeah,
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: it's a great thing. But, yeah, starting pitchers will, you know,
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: play a role in it, of course, but whatever it takes.
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: Look at Ashby today. Give him three innings and I
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: almost left him in, you know, and he wanted to. But,
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: you know, sometimes you just have a feel. So three innings,
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: what a call for tonight. He got it done. So
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: he'll get a few days off and might have to
• 17:31
  Speaker 8: do that two or three times next week.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Great stuff from Pat Murphy, Brewer Skipper on the field.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart, how about that?
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: So good. I mean, he's just a monster.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: He's grabbing the content and our bosses sent him to
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: this thing and you knew you were going to get
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: your money's worth.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: And they are.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: That is one, Drew, where there's only so much that
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: you can get from Zoom calls, from YouTube links, and
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: to have boots on the ground is very, very important,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: and we can't thank them enough. We also can't thank
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Hunter enough, because for him to be able to get
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: in there and take it, I know that is a battle.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: It's such a labor to go into that celebratory clubhouse,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: but also... You get different things when you see guys
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: all year long. The honest joy in Robert Gasser's voice, Drew,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: he didn't have that at the podium talking to people
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: he'd never met before.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: That's a good point.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: When you cover the team all year long, cool that
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Hunter is able to cash in on that and be
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: able to.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: See that last night. He's built a rapport. He's built
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: up equity with those guys. Yes, he has.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Side note about the Brewers of all the guys who
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: played yesterday. Eight of the starters got hits.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: Come on now.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Contreras had multiple hits, but eight of the nine starters had.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: That's a balanced offense right there, Billy.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: That's how you're going to win. You're going to win
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: games that way.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: And Joey Ortiz probably deserves a better fate than being
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: the only guy without a hit.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: That's right. Great point. That's a great point.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: And, you know, I know it's always like kind of
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: a fantasy of baseball fans, Bruce fans, but all baseball
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: fans have their whole lineup hitting at the same time
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: at the right time. We're not putting up crooked numbers
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: score-wise yet, but these guys.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Are all putting pressure on. They're all putting good at-bats together.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: You even got a base hit from Bryce Terang last night.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. Knocked his average up to 125. Hey, robust.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I know something's coming from him.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: Even Churrio's overall average isn't amazing, but they've all been impactful.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: He just happened to drive in a run in all
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: four games.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: All-important generational runs. Yeah, hit 188, but when you get
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: four hits and they're all RBIs.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: They were generational runs. Generational runs, baby. They were all generational. Absolutely.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: And the only blemish on the pitching line was the
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: home run on a 1-2 pitch by Tatis, which wasn't
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: a horrible pitch anyway.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: All right, we are cooking. We've reached halftime.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Of the thursday edition well actually halftime's at the end
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: of the show because we have another show coming up
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: tonight very true what's the phrase that pays should the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: phrase that pays be something simple and pithy like beat
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: la yes that's that's a thousand percent what it should
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: be we'll steal it from the boston people beat la
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Is the phrase that pays. If you say it tonight,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: you'll get a little prize. We're going to bring some
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: of those huddle koozies. We've got huddle koozies.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: For your seltzers. Good call, for sure. We're going to
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: bring some of those to give away tonight as well.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: And also for your bottles of water or your bottles
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: of Fanta.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: We could give one to Cooper Brad. He would like one. Absolutely.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: When we come back, Scott Dolphin is going to join
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: the party. Halftime. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: and Armin huddled up.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: On a Thursday in the good land, first half of
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: our doubleheader will be at Pottawatomie this evening from 5
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to 7. Hope to see you there. The phrase that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: pays is beat LA, because that's the Brewers' mission now,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: to beat Los Angeles. They've vanquished them.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: It's halftime of the show. We welcome Scott Dolphin to
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the party.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: And Dolphin strikes me, because one of the core tenets
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: of our program is that 90% of being a fan
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: is getting kicked in the cup.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: It's so true. Today's a 10% day for Brewers fans.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: And you, on the other hand, are the.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: You're in the even Steven 50, 50 year. Cause your
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: bears are riding high and your Yankees have been vanquished
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: gone 17th straight season without a title.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: In New York, which I think is the, I don't
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: want to make Bruce fans feel bad. I think that's
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: the longest stretch in my lifetime. And I've been on
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: a live for a long time that it's been 17
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: years without a, without a ring.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I know they've been there a couple times. They've been
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: stuck on 26 forever.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, since what, 2009?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Is it 26 or 27?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: 27.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: 78 to 96 would have been the longest stretch. As
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: a youth, I got spoiled.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Now, they won in the early 60s, but that either
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: was before I was born. But as a kid, they
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: won 77, 78, and then they won again that great
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: stretch with Jeter and all those guys in the late 90s.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: 96 was the.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: I saw there's a documentary somewhere, I'm trying to remember,
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: maybe Peacock, on the 1990 Yankees and how much of
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: a mess they were and how bad.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: They lost 99 games, dude.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Which was unheard of for them, right? I got to
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: check that out. Those were atrocious teams. But, you know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: I remember going. I was living in the Bay Area
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: at the time, and I remember going to Oakland because
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: I wanted to see Ricky Henderson set the steals record.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: Sure.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: So I was at this game. I'm the greatest of
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: all time. I'm the greatest. I was there that day.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: You were there. That Yankee team was terrible.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: But Matt Noakes was the catcher for the Yankees.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: And he threw Ricky out, I think, twice.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: At second base that day before Ricky finally stole third
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: base to get the record. But those 19 early 90s
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: teams were atrocious.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: It is a luxury, though. Like, if you're a Yankees fan,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: you have one 90 last season and they have to
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: make a documentary out of it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Like, that's how lucky you are because you're always winning.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Like, think about that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Well, and it was just a different time. I mean,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: that that was the evil empire. George didn't tolerate– both
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone would have been gone a
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: decade ago under George Steinbrenner. I mean, how those guys
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: are still there with the Steinbrenner family.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Is a miracle.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: They're much kinder and gentler. Matt Noakes signed with the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Brewers and was in camp with them and then– Just
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: drizzled out. It was the very end of his career.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: He was a good catcher on a terrible team. I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: don't remember who else. I'm going to watch that documentary, Armand.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I think Mel Hall might have been on that team, too,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: but they.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Were not good.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I knew you'd enjoy it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: I just, you know.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: He was in Detroit, and then he went to the Yankees.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: But anyway, what did you think yesterday watching the Brewers
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: come through?
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: It was Bobby Gasser. How about that?
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And it's so funny because the way baseball works, you know,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: we were hearing yesterday, like, they got to get the–
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: they got to get– Mitchell out of there.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: He's killing them. They got to get rid of Terang.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Get Terang out of there.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: They got to get Vaughn in the lineup and Murph
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: stays the course and his guys came through for him.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Mitchell had come to Murph earlier in the day and said,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: you know, I've got a different approach.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I got something. I'll make it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Sounds like he's lobbying to stay in the lineup.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: And I like Murph like, all right, bro. Sounds good.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Sounds good. I hope you do. So he scores a run.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: He drives in a run. He triples. He has the
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Big catch on Manny. I think you more than made
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: up for.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: It, Gary.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: Reminds me, I wonder if it was like when I
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: went to the coach in fifth grade flag football with
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: all these ideas for plays, and.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I probably thought he was listening. He's probably like, great.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I wasn't worried about it. I don't need to hear
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: you talking.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Well, the double reverse pass is a hard thing to
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: execute in fifth grade flag football.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I was drawing stuff up, copying it from Matt, and
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think he cared.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Now that I look back. Dude, we can't run duo.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: It doesn't work that same way.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: But I think Murph was probably like, you know, you're
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: playing either way, right? You didn't need to, like, litigate.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: But that's pretty cool that he came in and said,
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: I got this big meeting ready, and I'm going to
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: call for a meeting and all this stuff.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Just like McGill. He's like, yeah, you're the guy. You're
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: in this, okay? You're pitching. My biggest issue last night
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: was I went to bed three times. I watched until
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: the Brewers batted in the sixth, went to bed. laid
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: there for 20 minutes, played a video game on my phone,
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: and then before I turn the light on, I'm going
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: to check.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: The score, and I look. Oh, oh, it's second and third.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Nobody else sails up. Might as well watch a little
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: bit more.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Rush back to the family room. I watch Sal's sacrifice fly,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: and then the next two hitters hit absolute seeds, including
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Joey Ortiz, so I thought, they're going to win this
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: damn game. They are all over this Padres pitching staff.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: So I go back to bed. Of course, now I
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: can't sleep. So another 20 minutes, I get back up,
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: And I go watch another 20 minutes. So finally, when
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: it was 3-1, I thought, I've got to go to sleep.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I've got to go to sleep.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: So I don't know what time that was, but I
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: finally closed my eyes, and then I set my alarm early,
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: got up and watched the last couple innings this morning.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: See, now that would have been the smarter thing to do,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: because then the energy and adrenaline would have just continued
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: to ride through. Because once the final out hits, I'm like,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: all right, sweet. Lights off, boom.
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: Well, then I'm... It's on.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: The TV's on. Well, I might as well.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Now I want to hear what Murph has to say. Oh,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: now he's going to be on with the guys. All right,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: now Yelich is on with the guys. I look, it's
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: almost one in the morning. Like, this is unbelievable. I
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: told the guys earlier that I tried to convince myself
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: that I was doing like one and a half to
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: two minute interval naps. in commercial break, starting in about
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: the fifth inning. And in the eighth inning, it definitely
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: was working because it's all about mind over matter. I
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: told myself that I got about six or seven minutes
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: of sleep. Really, I was just deep breathing and almost
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: hyperventilating probably on the couch to calm down.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Sometimes that's just as good. What did you guys think
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: after the game? It looked like a Wednesday night in
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: April in Pittsburgh. Okay, they get the final out, you know,
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: and it was just like any other random.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: The normal handshake line, yes.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: They go out, they do the bro hug, everybody, you know,
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: the art fielders get together. It wasn't like they just
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: advanced to the NLCS. I kind of liked it. I thought,
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: this team is built different.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: It was so incredible to see because... It didn't match
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: my exuberance and excitement. I'm like, oh, man, I'm ready
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: for a dog pile. But they're so chill with it.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: They're like, we felt like we were going to win
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: this game, and they did. And it's like, all right,
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: we do our hug. Big daps for everybody. Nice dap obsession.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: And then what's next?
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: They show Manny. They show Mason Miller. They show Cronenworth.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: All those guys are just sitting there staring.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: And the Brewers are just doing their typical handshake line,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: just like it's a Thursday night in April.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: That did have to be quite deflating to Jackson Merrill
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: as he was wiping the tears away, realizing that they're
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: not even celebrating. They're just going to do their hugs
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: and stuff into the dugout. I'm not even going to
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: give some kind of celebration a watch. Maybe they were
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: doing the Padres a favor.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: How many times do we hear a losing team in
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: that situation say, hate to see them celebrate on our field?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Well, they didn't have to see that last night. That's true.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: They just routine them to death with their celebration. Pretty much.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: And just waited to just act like you've been there.
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Just to destroy that visiting clubhouse. They're going to need
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: some new. I got to think they're going to need
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: some new carpet in that thing.
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: If every.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Well, they got to.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: They just rip it up. If every game was 10
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: to one, two, I would have understood it more. But
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: like that series was so close and so tense. Every
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: moment was tense. Close. I would think there'd be some
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: sort of unleashing of a. you know, of an emotion, right? But, hey,
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: that's great. I mean, they did a little bit in
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: the locker room, obviously. You know, got some champagne going
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: and beers and stuff.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: You're right. Incredible series. Are we done with Poppy and
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: A-Rod and Jeter now?
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Just getting started. I think they'll be here Sunday. They're
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: going to be freaking Poppy. I think they're done.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: I think they're done because I don't know what kind of,
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: They just don't seem like they really are into this.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: Well, Bobby yesterday said, well, they're a good team. They're
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: not a great team. And he's still calling the Padres
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: a winner. Well, source is close to my situation. Matt
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Vascursion is coming to town. He'll be here Sunday.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: They're doing it.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Live from game one. He's doing the pre and post
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: on Fox. And so I assume it's going to be
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: those guys.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because Burkhart's going for NFL duty, obviously, as the
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: number one guy.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: And I assume we'll have Joe Davis. I don't know.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe Davis will do it, I think. Will he
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: be okay? He had laryngitis.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: He hasn't called the last two games because his voice
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: is gone.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: If he's you know right correct he's got uh he's
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: got four days i think yeah.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: You would hope they ended up having uh kenny albert
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: call game three of dodgers and braves down in uh
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: atlanta which i love kenny albert who's your favorite albert
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: brother kenny is the best albert sorry what about al.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: No kenny's great i'm not i mean marv's you know
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: obviously the nba iconic guy but kenny's great.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: And last night they ended up having brandon gauden who
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: uh calls nfl games for fox he'd voice of Madden
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: for a couple of years there as well.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: But he is the Atlanta Braves television guy.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: He ended up pinch hitting last night because of Joe
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Davis's issues.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm sorry.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: I know people used to, you know, it was a
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: target and all that stuff, but you really think it
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: makes you miss Joe Buck.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, he was just awesome. I thought at these games,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just my opinion.
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: I also have to ask you, JS online did a
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: whole thing on it today. How Brewers fans were fed
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: up with the, with the, the team in the booth.
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: So I don't, Adam Amin, he seemed like he was
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: excited about teams.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, Wainwright, is just a guy.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: I enjoy AJ Brzezinski just being a smartass half the time.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Brzezinski posted, and it was perfect.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: He posted something and then somebody said, why don't you
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: stop rooting for the Brewers? And then the next tweet was,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: stop rooting for the Padres. Padres fans, both fan bases
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: were pissed at him.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: You know you're doing a good job. That's what you're doing.
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: Because they're supposed to call it on the line, but
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: we're tribal.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Well, and that's the thing is like, when you watch
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the NFL, you're getting, you know, every game is a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: national game, right? You're getting, you don't have, you know,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: you want, you want to listen to Wayne Larrabee and
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Larry McCarron. You can listen to them, avail yourself. But
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: in baseball, you watch the entire summer. People watch 150
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: games with Lev and BA and rock.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: And they're used to like the brewer's slant.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: And when somebody gets a fact wrong, or they're slightly
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: off on a, And Vasgurjan wears this all the time.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: They pound him. And they say, you don't know what
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: the hell you're doing. And you're immediately dismissed.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: You can call everything else perfectly, but you get one
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: thing wrong and you're an idiot who shouldn't have the microphone.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I know you hate this, Drew, but that's the fun
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: of being a fan. Like every fan base does this
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: across the country.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And it's like, but it makes you look small. I
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: don't know if the Dodgers fans really do that. Is
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: everybody against them? Because they have all the Dodgers fans
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: were frustrated with B.A. 's to Oscar Hernandez game to
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: home run last year said, this is unbelievable.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Sounds like I'm watching a game in a library. Okay. So,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah.
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: Everybody does it.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: That's sports.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I know, but it's like, it just makes you seem small,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: small town to me. It's like, you get over it.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a, and, and, okay, here's the thing.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: You really think, and we said this before, we had
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: this argument. that A-Rod and Derek Jeter, they're actively.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Rooting for one team over the other. They don't care.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: They're showing up and getting a check.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: They don't care. You know, like Barkley and Shaq and
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: those guys, they don't care who wins.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Now, what Billy said the other day I think is accurate. Hey,
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: maybe watch a Brewers game this year before.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: You do the playoffs.
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: Well, yeah.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: You know, that would be, that would be a, that
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: would be fine with.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Me, but I've enjoyed Wainwright and, and, and, uh, I
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: thought they were fantastic. I find him funny as hell.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, yesterday was Wainwright said something about, uh, Well,
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: you know, you can tell, you know, this is a
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: big and poor. I'm paraphrasing here, but it was something
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: about this Padres pitcher, you know, really locking in because he.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Knows how important that is. AJ says, you think? Yeah.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, if they lose, they're done.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Alex Rodriguez has not paid for his insight because before
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the game or even like he's like, well, if you're
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the Brewers, you want to close them out.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: If you're the Padres, you want to stay alive. That's brilliant.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: No, you are paid for your insight, Drew. You're on
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: the national preview show.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: You're paid because you're A-Rod.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: You're paid because of the celebrity that you are. You're
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: paid because you're the Hall of Famer. Then give insight,
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: not just stand there and pump your skin, Dad. But
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: he's paid to look pretty and be A-Rod.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: And he's not really.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Well, has he ever said anything that's really trenchant?
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Right, but I think you're making the point. If you're
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: going up there only being paid, you're paid to give analysis.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: If your insight is... nothing, then maybe you find somebody else.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Maybe then you watch a different show. Maybe there's other
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: people that could be better. During the Bucks run, I
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: think you're making the point for everybody.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: No, it's not.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: It's like, well, again, it's like, but my thing is,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: why get worked up about it?
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: You're the one that seems pretty worked up. I think
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: every fan base gets upset about it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Fans do across sports.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: In the NCAA tournament, when Charles is on the NCAA tournament,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: he doesn't watch a college game all year.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: He barely watches the NBA. I will say this.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: If you're going to get mad and say, well, he's
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: slanted against Kansas, or he's slanted, no, he just doesn't know.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: He's just there to be Charles.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: If everybody's trying to be Barkley, More than anything, this
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: is a better case study. Everybody wants to be inside
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: the NBA. No other show is going to be. I mean,
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: all of these shows are dreaming of having that rapport
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: and having the ability to be able to play.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: What team is that Joker on? They can play those games.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: However, those guys care about when they get things right.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: And when they get things wrong, nobody reminds each other
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: when they, when they get predictions wrong. All I care
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: about basically is the play by play. I, I'm not
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: a Smoltz guy and I'm not a Jim Nance guy.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I don't really like Jim Nance on football. I don't like,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: you know, I like him saying hello friends, but I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: don't like Jim Nance's calls, but it's personal preference. But
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: to get inflamed about it to where it's ruining your
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: experience and you're mad at like every play, turn down
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the sound, turn on the radio, whatever you got to do.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Like, don't let it ruin the last night. It was good.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Don't let it ruin your experience.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: I got a little triggered yesterday afternoon by Poppy saying, well,
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Milwaukee's not a great team. Uh, and in fact, and
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: he pretty much without saying it called the Padres, we're
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: going to come back and win both games four and five.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: But I think there's some, you know, when it comes
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: to the national title, I think.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Pedro, Pedro's fun. After game two, he was shoveling dirt
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: on the Padres. So that just goes to show you
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: that there's no, there's not a lot of intellectual consistency there.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: They wake up and say what they say.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: I agree with this, Drew, in the sense of I
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: don't care anymore if they like us or we gain
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: a national audience. It doesn't really matter to me. I mean,
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: I'm going to be happy if we win or lose,
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: not if Poppy or Derek Jeter like us. I mean,
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: there's a sense of people want the popular kids to
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: like you or say good things about you.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: It's like you don't need anyone to do that.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Jeter and maybe even Jeter and A-Rod. They look at
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee the way LeBron looks at Milwaukee.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: Right?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: It's a place I don't want to go. Stephen A.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Smith called it a terrible city.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: So, again, why would you not be tribalistic when people
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: are talking bad about it?
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: If that's the case, I think you do react. You
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: do react.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: But I don't, you know, with the play-by-play team last night,
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: I didn't have any.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I think Adam Amin's done a great job. And Wainwright's
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: really good. And he's a good dude. And, like, Pruszynski's
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: kind of funny, and he has his moments. And Pruszynski's
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: in it, like you said, Billy. I like their pod.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Pruszynski's in it, and he knows every team. And he
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: can speak eloquently about just every team and, like, what's
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: good and bad about them, what.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Their strengths are.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: He's fully fluent in the league, which is sometimes a
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: lost art. Absolutely. Which is what you're hoping for when.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: You go on Big Fox.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Go watch, you know, you saw Boog Shambi stand up
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: when Churio got the hit. He's paid by the Cubs.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: One of his best friends on the planet is the
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Cubs manager, who everybody here hates. He did it as
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: a pro. He just called the game. And if there's
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: one moment where something goes and he calls out a
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Brewers player for making a mistake, oh, he's against the
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Brewers because he paid by the Cubs.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: I think you're blowing this so far out of proportion.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Where are you reading all of this?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: People are pissed. You are freaking out about this. When
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Wayne Larvey came.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: To the Packers, he came from the Bears, and it
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: took like five years for a lot of fans to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: accept him as not being a Bears fan or Bears guy.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: It's like, they're just announcers. These guys are my friends.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, they take it, Veskers. And every time they
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: do a national game, they get pounded. And it just sucks.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I do think it gets to be some point. It's
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the job, though.
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: I mean, come on.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: And Joe Buck and Aikman didn't hate and never hated
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: the Packers. Go back and watch those games.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: They weren't rooting against the Packers. Troy Aikman wasn't rooting
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. If you want to hear that, you
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: can train your ear and hear it that way.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: There we go.
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: But he really wasn't. I mean, they're playing it straight.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: We get it.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we know. We get it. But it is part
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: of the job. You're going to get crushed. That's a
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: part of it. That's what you sign up for.
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: And what those guys do, what people see as rooting,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the only thing they root for is a better game.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: When games are blowouts, they'll tell you, well, this.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Team could come back. They want people to be interested.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: It's their job to keep people watching.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: My favorite part of that Boog Shambi highlight you mentioned
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: where he stands up calling that sure go hit was.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: The counterbalance of, was it Doug Glanville? Yeah, Glanville's just chilling. Yeah,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: and that's the way he has always, even on the field,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: he was like that. But that's great that he laid out.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: That's a good guy. He didn't step on the highlight.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: He just laid out.
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: He didn't give him the Kevin Harlan arm.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Amazing, amazing.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Well, Dolph, we're diving more into Packers-Bears, but we got
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: this little side.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Thing going on with the Brewers. Completely understandable.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Completely yeah and we'll pour one out for your yankees
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: and the yeah well this certainly helps with the brewers
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: winning last night i'm just heartbroken for him armin called
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: it ball don't lie for jeffrey mayor.
• 37:54
  Speaker 10: 30 year later yeah oh yeah how about that or
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: ball don't lie i thought we're gonna get a jeffrey
• 37:58
  Speaker 10: mayor uh moment on that mitchell catch by the way
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: that dude made contact with his gloves that ball drops
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: we got a whole different story that was pretty good
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: yeah that's right billy said he should get an and
• 38:07
  Speaker 10: one for that catch amazing very well done thanks duff
• 38:11
  Speaker 10: appreciate it All right, Hunter's going to join us on
• 38:13
  Speaker 10: his way to the airport, on his way back to
• 38:15
  Speaker 10: the good land.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: He'll be with us in about 30 minutes. From right now,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: you're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: and Armin, time for our current electric superhero of the day.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Who do we like today? Callcurrent.com is the website. Superheroes
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: on the van, superheroes, the techs.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: I would like to potentially give a shout-out to the
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: young lady that heard me singing this song into the
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: break room at a loud volume when I thought it
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: was Armin. You know, I hear somebody putts it around,
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: filling up some coffee. I definitely think it's Armin. I
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: thought it was you maybe heating up the coffee because
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Armin's very good, doesn't waste it, goes.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: And reheats it. I don't want to waste it. I
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: need it hot, though.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Instead, I just yell out, someone pour me up a
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: double shot of whiskey. She goes, yeah, I could use one, too.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: So that would be a possibility. But I'm really struggling, guys. Obviously,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: it feels like the Garrett Mitchell game last night. But
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: have we given up enough credit for Aaron Ashby? Three
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: no-hit innings, two walks, three Ks. I mean, I don't
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: know if I totally agree with Murph as he was at, what,
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: like 36, 37 pitches, Drew? But he goes, I kind
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: of wanted to send him back out there for one more.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I was ready to send him back out there for
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: one more. I want to keep spamming that button. There's
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: a team of heroes, I think, on this team. All
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: these guys are chipping in, doing their thing.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: Obviously, it's a different star maybe every night, but the
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: star of the team is the team.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Not to sound too cheesy. Everyone's starring in their role.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: All right. Ashby's magnum opus. Let me ask you this.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: If you're going to go as a Brewers player for Halloween,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: is Ashby.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: The easiest costume?
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: That's definitely the one that dads can use. Get the goggles.
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Got the shaved head for all the dads out there
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: that are wondering about it.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Nerd goggles.
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: Every dad wants to be McGill. You know, pack a
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: little cha, like, look cool.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: I cover it up. But I go with Sal every day. Oh,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: there you go. Still going in on that one, huh?
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Still going with that one. Still buying that one. Oh, boy,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: texted it to me. I reminded me. I look like Sal.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Massachusetts Gatorade football player of the year, Armin Sarian. Hey,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: when I say tennis and volleyball player of the year.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Armin Sarian. Doubles, though, because he's a team player.
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: Doubles.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: That stolen base, Drew, it looked like he was running
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: a little read option. Maybe the Packers bust out a
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: little bit of that this weekend. Get Jordan Love moving
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: around with his legs. Listen, they can't have any worse
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: rushing offense. So maybe if you utilize the quarterback's legs,
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: it can get a little bit better. I'm excited that
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: we get this win, and now then I can start
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: focusing in and figuring out how on earth you beat
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: the Bears as a home underdog. I'll get an answer
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: for you. Yeah, it's a tough look, though. We'll be
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: looking for it.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that at the huddle at Pato tonight
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: between 5 and 7.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Hunter joins us, 20 minutes. You're on the huddle, Fox
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Sports Radio, Wisconsin.