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10/12/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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  Speaker 2: All right? Let's go out and kick some shit.
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  Speaker 4: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell's going.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 2: It is time.
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  Speaker 3: With Drew Olsen.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Schmidt.
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  Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 5: I misspoke before. They are shutting down the kitchen at
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  Speaker 5: Saz's very soon, so you've got to get here quick.
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  Speaker 2: Get here quick and get some food in you.
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  Speaker 5: And they'll turn it out because the food here is spectacular.
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  Speaker 5: They're running some shuttles. It's going to be a fabulous afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: You can't have a nicer day in October for 4
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  Speaker 5: o'clock baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and, like, I know the unseasonably warm, almost uncomfortably
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  Speaker 2: warm for somebody that advocates for October as much as
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  Speaker 2: I do. This is almost too nice. This is going
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  Speaker 2: to wreck the curve now of people expecting you to get, like,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of 80-some degrees.
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  Speaker 5: Billy wanted to put on his Uggs and his chunky
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  Speaker 5: sweater and have a pumpkin spice latte. I was going
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  Speaker 5: to say.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's too hot. Now we need umbrella drinks.
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  Speaker 5: Today because it feels like we're heading for the beach.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? I have not seen a koozie because
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  Speaker 2: nobody needs one. You almost want the cold moisture as
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  Speaker 2: a little.
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  Speaker 5: Bit of coolant. And you drink fast enough that it
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  Speaker 5: doesn't get warm anyway. So it's like, what's the point?
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  Speaker 5: So last night's game and today we mentioned how quickly
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  Speaker 5: sports comes at you because last night going in, I thought,
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  Speaker 5: and I think a lot of people did, must win
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  Speaker 5: for the Brewers. You have to win when Miz is
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  Speaker 5: on the mound. If you lose with Miz on the mound,
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  Speaker 5: it'll be so deflating, it's going to take the air
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  Speaker 5: out of you for the rest of the series. You're
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  Speaker 5: going to be hosed. Today, I look at this and
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  Speaker 5: I say, it's a must-win for the Dodgers. They can't
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  Speaker 5: go down 2-0 with the Brewers looking like a wagon
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  Speaker 5: like they are.
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  Speaker 2: And now also the process of it, Drew, if you
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  Speaker 2: go and get Yamamoto today, and by all accounts, get
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  Speaker 2: Yamamoto means what? Score three runs across six innings? Make
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  Speaker 2: it a thick quality start instead of a dominant seven
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  Speaker 2: and a third inning?
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  Speaker 5: In the four-game sweep last year in the NLCS, the
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  Speaker 5: Brewers scored one run in each of the four games.
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  Speaker 5: They doubled their single-game output last night with two. And
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  Speaker 5: we talked about how hard it was to score runs. But,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we could get into the scooble trade that
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  Speaker 5: the Brewers didn't make. The guy pitched, and they beat him.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be a big story.
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  Speaker 5: He got the L. He gave up both runs.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: He pitched great.
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  Speaker 2: But ultimately lost it.
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  Speaker 5: But he gave up two runs, and he lost. So
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  Speaker 5: the Brewers slayed the dragon there. They beat the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 5: showed they could beat them in October. And today the
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  Speaker 5: tenor has changed. Now Brewers have a different lineup today.
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  Speaker 5: They've got Freelick and Yellich playing. David Hamilton is playing
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  Speaker 5: for Ortiz today. So they've got a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: a different dynamic. There were things that played out last night.
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  Speaker 5: We mentioned how the planets aligned. Bryce Terang's home run
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  Speaker 5: to tie the game put wind in their sails.
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  Speaker 2: It made it because... Woke the crowd up significantly.
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  Speaker 5: At that point, they were down 1-0, and it felt
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  Speaker 5: like 5-0. Yep, totally did. I'm glad you felt the
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  Speaker 5: same way. And Miz, because Miz had been shaky and
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  Speaker 5: had a 30-pitch inning or whatever. The double plays really
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  Speaker 5: helped them. The Dodgers, you know... That's one of those
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  Speaker 5: tip your caps. They turn three double plays. The Dodgers
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  Speaker 5: lead the world at hitting it into double plays.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, for sure. And, I mean, when it's Hernandez in
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  Speaker 2: the moment, right, Pahez beats you. And I think in
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  Speaker 2: the second inning there's many people saying, all right, if
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  Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman, Shohei Otani, Mookie Betts, Kyle Tucker even I'll
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  Speaker 2: take is going to deliver the RBI that puts him up.
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  Speaker 2: But when it's the guy that was awful in the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs a year ago and Pahez and one of their
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  Speaker 2: $ 800, 000 guys, That's going to be a tough one to stomach.
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  Speaker 2: And Hernandez has been awesome in post-season's past. He ends
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  Speaker 2: up grounding into the one that's turned perfectly by Pratt
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  Speaker 2: and gave you a chance to stay in it. And
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  Speaker 2: throughout the night, Drew, I was wondering this because we
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  Speaker 2: talked about it a lot. And the playing close games,
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  Speaker 2: the record in close games, does that show that you're
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  Speaker 2: a better team? This team played a ton of close games.
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  Speaker 2: Their bullpen... You wonder where their leverage innings are going
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  Speaker 2: to go. Hard to say that many innings they play
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  Speaker 2: aren't high leverage innings. They don't play a lot of
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  Speaker 2: games with four to five run cushions. So whoever they
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  Speaker 2: were going to deploy had a lot of action in there.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, I mean, DL Hall throughout this playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: they ultimately get to where you want to go. You're
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  Speaker 2: going to celebrate and remember a lot of big DL
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  Speaker 2: Hall moments. I thought last night was another one. To
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  Speaker 2: be able to get Miz out of that last jam
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  Speaker 2: was massive.
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  Speaker 5: And Ashby looked filthy. Ashby looks to me like if
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  Speaker 5: they started him, he'd be one of the best starters
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  Speaker 5: in the league because he's just that good, his mix
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  Speaker 5: of stuff. So things went their way. I mentioned the
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  Speaker 5: bunt when the Brewers scored what ended up being the
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  Speaker 5: winning run. They get the leadoff hit by Mitchell. Cooper
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  Speaker 5: Pratt bunts. And you're bunting, and it's like people say, oh,
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  Speaker 5: you're bunting the postseason. That's what they do. Well, the
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  Speaker 5: Brewers do that a lot during the year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But Cooper Pratt got it down. They get Mitchell to second.
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  Speaker 5: He's fast. But you're bunting there and giving up an
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  Speaker 5: out to set up Luis Lara and Joey Ortiz. That's
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  Speaker 5: how you draw it up, right, Skip? That's how you
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  Speaker 5: draw it up. And Lara gets the hit and drives
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  Speaker 5: in the run. Now, the Brewers had chances. They could
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  Speaker 5: have delivered a knockout blow. One of the things that
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  Speaker 5: I was thinking is, like, bases loaded, lefty, Mitchell. Why
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  Speaker 5: don't you have Sanchez there? And Murph's thinking defense. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: for sure. But it's like, well, you've got Freelick could
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  Speaker 5: go to center and Lara could stay in right. Or
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  Speaker 5: Lara could go to center and Freelick could go to right.
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  Speaker 5: I thought maybe they would hit center. But he stayed
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  Speaker 5: with Mitchell. Mitchell hit a grand slam earlier this year
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  Speaker 5: in September, the first one for the Brewers this year.
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  Speaker 5: So I get it. Against the lefty, you had seen
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  Speaker 5: Terang hit the lefty. That was my one thing, like,
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  Speaker 5: strategically that I thought, wow, I was a bit surprised.
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  Speaker 5: He deployed Uribe early, but that's because of the way
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  Speaker 5: the game went with Miz going short.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 5: And then Ashby. And it worked. Now, the Dodgers are
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  Speaker 5: telling themselves– They're high leverage guys. Every time we see them,
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  Speaker 5: it's more familiarity. It helps the hitters. But those guys
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  Speaker 5: have been good, and they've been doing it all year, right?
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  Speaker 5: And that's been the Brewers' blueprint. And my thing with
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  Speaker 5: the Dodgers is they didn't play a bad game. They
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  Speaker 5: didn't do anything. No, they played a game that they
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  Speaker 5: planned on winning in the playoffs. There was a play
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  Speaker 5: that Muncie, the backhanded play, could have maybe made. It
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  Speaker 5: went as a hit. That would have been a solid play.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was a straight-up hit. I had people
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  Speaker 5: texting me because I dabbled in scoring. And they said,
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  Speaker 5: that's an error, isn't it? I'm like, no, it was
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  Speaker 5: a do-or-die hop. And backhand. Plus, Churio was running, and he's... I.
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  Speaker 2: Was going to say, you have to make it on
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  Speaker 2: the one scoop, otherwise you're not getting them. So I
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  Speaker 2: saw the same thing.
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  Speaker 5: But the Dodgers executed their plan. They just didn't get
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  Speaker 5: the big hit. Now the Brewers had a big opportunity
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  Speaker 5: to get a big hit and just blow the game
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  Speaker 5: open and kind of relax a little bit. It didn't happen,
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  Speaker 5: and that doesn't usually happen in the playoffs. But again,
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  Speaker 5: I keep going back to the Brewers don't have to
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  Speaker 5: be perfect. They can win when Miz doesn't have a
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  Speaker 5: great start. they proved it twice now the Padres yeah
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  Speaker 5: yeah they're four and one in the playoffs they're three
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  Speaker 5: and one when giving up the first run which is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Which is again a stat that you generally don't see no.
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  Speaker 5: Most teams don't do that so this team does feel
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  Speaker 5: like it's wired differently and I do feel like pressure
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  Speaker 5: is going to be on the Dodgers a little bit
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  Speaker 5: like they're capable of putting up a 10 spot like
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  Speaker 5: this lineup very quickly and the Brewers might break through
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  Speaker 5: and hit a bomb or two and The ball travels
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  Speaker 5: on a warm day like this. Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Logan Henderson, I think they've won. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's 11-0 in home starts. Or the team is
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  Speaker 2: 11-0 in the games that he starts at American Family Field.
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  Speaker 2: So all they've done is win when he's been on
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  Speaker 2: the mound. And for them to be able to get
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  Speaker 2: Yamamoto at least frazzled early and get back to the
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  Speaker 2: Dodger bullpen, I think he can turn the exact same
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  Speaker 2: way around, Drew. The Brewers, yes, used a lot of
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  Speaker 2: their high leverage, guys. You saw Scott the same way
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  Speaker 2: for L.A. last night. And the only thing I was
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: wondering is, was the lineup going to come back around
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  Speaker 2: where Yelich was going to pinch hit for Vaughn in that, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: seventh or eighth inning? But when the lefty was on
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  Speaker 2: the mound both times that Vaughn came back up, it
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  Speaker 2: didn't play, and it worked out. I thought Murph in
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  Speaker 2: the first hour, if you heard it, he said, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that I'll do it again. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that I'll not play him again, but I'm glad I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: And for Vaughn throughout the playoffs, he's been your pinch
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  Speaker 2: hit cat. He's going to have to be again throughout
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  Speaker 2: this series, and I thought getting him, Drew, four at-bats
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  Speaker 2: in last night's game, whether or not, obviously a lot
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  Speaker 2: better that you win, and he delivers your first hit,
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  Speaker 2: but I thought getting him into a rhythm, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to need that bat, and I thought you had to
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  Speaker 2: be able to steal him four at-bats in one game,
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  Speaker 2: and that was a good part of last night as well.
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  Speaker 5: I have friends who are big Dodgers fans, and they're
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  Speaker 5: worried about their offense, especially the big guys. Otani doesn't
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  Speaker 5: look right. Betts looks a little worn down. Will Smith
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  Speaker 5: looks a little like there's something there that he's not himself.
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  Speaker 2: And he missed, what, three and a half, four months
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  Speaker 2: throughout the year? Otani not being the same. Again, anybody
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  Speaker 2: got some wood around here that they want to tap
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  Speaker 2: on real quick? Oh, there's some Dodger fans. They're not
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  Speaker 2: going to help us out there. They're not going to
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  Speaker 2: help us out trying to keep Otani down. But he's
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  Speaker 2: so good, and you feel like one swing could change
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  Speaker 2: every fortune that he has. But he hasn't hit a
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  Speaker 2: homer since the middle of August. And I think he's
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  Speaker 2: got like five or six different injuries if it goes
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  Speaker 2: to his knee or his hip, his back, his neck.
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  Speaker 2: uh he's a he's a phenomenal player but you know
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  Speaker 2: at some point he's not going to get held down
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  Speaker 2: for too long the more Kyle Tucker comes up in
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  Speaker 2: big spots though oh yeah I'll tell you, the more
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  Speaker 2: confident I'm going to be. Last night as he strolled
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  Speaker 2: in there, I know he had the 10-pitch walk arm
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  Speaker 2: early in the game.
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  Speaker 3: He's had some good at-bats.
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  Speaker 2: Out of all the guys in that lineup, I was
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: much happier to see the $ 240 million Kyle Tucker than
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: Kike Hernandez again.
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  Speaker 7: I agree, but that's just because they have such a
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  Speaker 7: difficult lineup. I mean, we still have to remember this
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  Speaker 7: is a lineup.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned him. Kike Hernandez is batting ninth in this lineup.
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  Speaker 7: He could probably bat in a cleanup role or a
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  Speaker 7: high leverage role on most other teams. It's a deadly lineup. But, yes,
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  Speaker 7: they are somewhat getting older, but it was a 2-1 game.
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to put too much into it, but
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  Speaker 7: they did kind of slide in the second half in
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  Speaker 7: terms of offensive prowess there. But then again, yes, this
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  Speaker 7: is a team that at any time could go nuts,
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  Speaker 7: as we know, with the way their lineup's talented.
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  Speaker 5: The Brewers lineup today, Churrio, Terang, Contreras, Bowers, Yelich, Mitchell, Pratt, Freelick,
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  Speaker 5: Hamilton behind Logan Henderson. And Logan Henderson's been, you're right, Bill,
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  Speaker 5: he's been tough at home. Hopefully the crowd will be
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  Speaker 5: at a fever pitch now. A couple other things from
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  Speaker 5: the game. And they've won when he started.
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  Speaker 2: That's just one of those stats that, again, like quarterback wins,
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  Speaker 2: people want to argue is not a stat. Well, they
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  Speaker 2: counted for a reason.
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  Speaker 5: I think starting pitcher wins absolutely count to me because
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  Speaker 5: they don't pitch enough. And, you know, games are the
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  Speaker 5: swung in the bullpen. They don't get the decisions as much.
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  Speaker 5: But your record when a guy starts, and that's another
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  Speaker 5: one that Doug Melvin was big on. What's your team's
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  Speaker 5: confidence when the guy plays? How do they perform? How
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  Speaker 5: ready are they? How up are they for a game?
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  Speaker 5: And he keeps them active.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like, that was another thing Miz did last
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  Speaker 2: night where, I mean, you have one of the best defenses,
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  Speaker 2: if not the best defense in baseball behind you. Use it. Now, ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: it was the biggest reason why he got out of
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  Speaker 2: those jams last night.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. So it wasn't the normal Miz start, nor was
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  Speaker 5: it against the Padres either. But, again, the bullpen was
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  Speaker 5: lights out. So the Dodgers have concerns about their bullpen
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  Speaker 5: and their offense right now. Starting pitching, like, they're going
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  Speaker 5: to run another guy out there that was the World
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  Speaker 5: Series MVP. They're going to run another young guy out there.
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  Speaker 5: They have an abundance of starting pitching riches.
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  Speaker 2: Let me run this one by you and see how
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: tinfoily this hat is. You already have them back up
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: on their heels. You mentioned it. You got the game one.
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  Speaker 2: Yamamoto probably should be revered as one of that postseason
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  Speaker 2: he put together last year as one of the greatest
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  Speaker 2: of all time. And instead of honoring him by making
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: him not only your game one starter in every single
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: playoff series he did, You bring in this fancy, cool
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: left-hander from Detroit, Armin, and you give him the ball
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  Speaker 2: in game one, you move Yamamoto back to game three
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  Speaker 2: in series number one. So I'm trying to manifest a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of frustration, throw that off the game of tick,
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  Speaker 2: because he's so good. He's so electric, and he's so
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  Speaker 2: systematic on the mound.
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  Speaker 3: He's got the notebook, too, and everything.
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  Speaker 2: He knows exactly how he wants to attack you, that
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  Speaker 2: if there's any way that four hits could be strung
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  Speaker 2: together against this guy. I'll be very excited to see it,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe that throws the wrench into his plan that
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: he's always putting perfectly crafting together.
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  Speaker 7: And the thing is, I think he's been their best starter.
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  Speaker 3: His whip is under. 9, I think. It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 7: But he's definitely the guy they need on the mound
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  Speaker 7: tonight to try and get this split.
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  Speaker 3: So if you can find a way to get him.
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  Speaker 3: or get the win in.
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  Speaker 7: His start, boy, would that be a coup going 2-0. Now,
• 13:32
  Speaker 7: these are the dreams you have, right? You might want
• 13:33
  Speaker 7: to keep them right there, but it would be pretty fantastic.
• 13:37
  Speaker 7: But Yamamoto has been fantastic this year. So, Billy, yes,
• 13:40
  Speaker 7: let's kind of farm discontent in that clubhouse.
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  Speaker 3: Let's try and do that. That'd be nice.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Listen, if there's any way that I
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: could make there and manufacture some frustration, I'm willing to
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: look dumb for the cost. I'm willing to throw one
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: of those ridiculously hot takes out here on a game
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  Speaker 2: balls and kicks to the balls Monday, not even a
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: hot take hump day, if it means the Brewers go
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: to L.A. up 2-0. Drew, I don't know how they
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: quantify the ESPN analytics. Have the Brewers had a 56.2%
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  Speaker 2: chance of going up? 2-0 and getting a win here today.
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: It's interesting because even though they won game one and
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: they won three of four at Dodger Stadium just not
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: that long ago, Fangrass has them at like 48% to
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: win the series. They still like the Dodgers.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. But I want to
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: say it was I want to say there was a
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: thought at one point that you'd possibly have a team
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: be favored by ahead of the Dodgers to win the
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: World Series. Yesterday, Matty V said on the broadcast, 67.3%
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: of teams that win Game 1 go on to win
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: the World Series. Well, at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook, you bet big,
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: bet bold, and bet above the rest, you'd find right
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: now that I believe it is an even split, Armin Sarian, right?
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: future odds to win the World Series with the Milwaukee
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Brewers and the LA Dodgers.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: To win it.
• 15:04
  Speaker 7: Now the series market has the Brewers as a minus favorite.
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: The Dodgers are plus 110 now in the series market.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: The World Series future you might be right on though.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: I'm not really sure.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Okay, so it did flip to plus 110 for the Dodgers.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: It was earlier when I looked. I haven't looked in
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: the last hour.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Plus 110 for LA, minus 140 for Milwaukee. I thought
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: you were trying to get the best number. I'm sorry.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: I thought you were sharp. In the midst of This
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: fight to try to get back, Drew, you go up
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: 2-0 and send them back to L.A. that way in
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: that banging center field speaker. Give yourself a chance to
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: let doubt creep in. That's for sure.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: No question. No question.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: Jake Bowers? Do you want to hear Jake Bowers?
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Say what?
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Did you guys want to hear Jake Bowers here? I
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: didn't know if.
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: We'll be doing that in the next segment of the program.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, good. Next segment.
• 15:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: We're going to hear Jake Bowers in the next segment
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: of the program. We can't talk to Hunter Baumgart because
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: contractually he is not allowed to join us live from
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: the ballpark this close to the first pitch.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: They're so worried about this plucky little show hanging out
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: on the patio.
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: I imagine little guys in black suits hovering around Hunter.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: To make sure he doesn't make a call. It's kind
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: of funny when you think about that.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: He's got Secret Service eye. We've got a robust crowd
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: here out on the patio. Wojo strolls in from the
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee Admirals. That's when you know it's going to be
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: an exciting party. But out of all the jerseys that
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: we've seen here today, I think maybe the most impressive,
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: and I didn't get a chance to ask the young
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: man rocking the Wisco Lara jersey, if, Drew, he had
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: that one before last night or if that was a
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: sixth-inning purchase after the bottom of the fifth-inning base hit.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the stat cast number was. That
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: was the cleanest base hit of the night. It felt
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: like the cleanest hit of the night, the best contact
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: for the Brewers at least on the night.
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: The Dodgers did not have an extra base hit last night,
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: which is a good formula to follow.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: It's a winning model, yes.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: And the double plays, they hit into three double plays.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: They lead the world hitting into double plays, and that's
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: been a frustration for them all year.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: But it also means you've got guys on base a lot.
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: If you get the first guy on in an inning,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: you're going to have a much better chance of rolling through.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: First and second, it's a great situation, but it's also
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: ripe for double plays, and that's one of the things
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: in the game. The Brewers were, again, flawless on defense
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: last night for the most part. And, you know, challenges
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: weren't that much of a factor last night either.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: No, the Brewers had. I was going to say they
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: had and maybe utilized them a little bit more late.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: But it felt like Contreras held on to them decently
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: long into the night. Only one Dodger in the lineup
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: tonight with multiple hits against Henderson. It's Otani. He also
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: does have two Ks. But the Brewers, multiple hits against
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yamamoto in his career. Two for 11, Churio, Jake Bowers,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: and Sal Frelick, each two for seven. Sal with an
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: RBI in there, Drew. So let's see, figuring out those numbers. Remember,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: it did start with a bang. I believe it was
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: a solo shot from Churio last year.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Off Yamamoto to give you a 1-0 lead.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: So tack-on run is going to be probably at a premium.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Everything matters in the playoffs. It's just incredible.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I thought he baited up.
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: I thought Contreras baited up. Will Smith into taking his
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: own challenge at the plate. Did you guys remember that one?
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: Or was it the reverse? William Contreras was at the plate,
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: and he faked like he was going to go to
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: the challenge. So then Will Smith was like, I'm going
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: to do it first.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: And then he lost the challenge.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys caught that at all.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: You're not going to fire me. I'm going to quit first.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I like that deal, yeah.
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: He plays that like a string, you know, William Contreras.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: He conducts those things, the psychology of challenges with other
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: hitters and catchers, so.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Good times.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Speaking of psychology, how about the Uribe Selly coming off?
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, God, that was beautiful.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: It was a big out.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, that was beautiful.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: If you're not used to him, if you're not watching
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: him all season as we do, you might say, what's
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: the guy doing? It's the middle innings. What are you doing?
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: But that's him, man. I just love his manner. If
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: he was playing for another team, I might get upset.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: But I absolutely love watching Uribe.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I saw one Dodger account last night say, it's just
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: ridiculous behavior in the sixth inning. And even Reds fans
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: were jumping on this guy, saying, what did he do wrong?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Isn't it the playoffs? Sorry, aren't you supposed to show a.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: Little bit of excitement? What does everybody say during the
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: World Baseball Classic? What do they love? The emotion and
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: the fun?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Excitement.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: That's Uribe. He's having the World Baseball Classic in October.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: What's funny about that is he's done much worse.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's fair, yeah.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: All he did was pump a fist and yell. I mean,
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: he didn't drop the X.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Little did they know I was hitting a DX right
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: there in the living room.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: He could have rolled dice.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: He wasn't rolling dice. He wasn't doing any of that stuff.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Although I did have to be quiet last night. The
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: kiddo was asleep, so there was a lot of quiet
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: fist pumping.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's pressure.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: A lot of the Euchre lawnmower celebrations, Drew, every hour.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: You just got to find creative ways.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Spectacular.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Hey, when you yell Laura in my house, things are different.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, things are different.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: When we come back, we're going to hear from one
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: of the Brewers' MVPs this year offensively, Jake Bowers, was
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: at the podium today before the game.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, and he delivered.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Interesting conversation. We're going to spin through that when we
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: come back. We're live at Saz's on the patio. Folks
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: are catching the shuttles to get to the ballpark. This
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: is the spot, and so is the huddle, Fox Sports
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Radio Wisconsin. The huddle back on the air in our
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: new time slot, 2 to 5 p.m. Drew Olsen, Bill Schmidt,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Armin Sarian.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I'm Drew.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Billy's here with me at Saz's on the patio. Folks
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: are getting ready to take the shuttle to American Family
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Field for game two of the NLCS. Armin Sarian back
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: at headquarters. He is manning the NicoletLaw.com talking text line 877-794-9000. 197.3.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: And the YouTube comments are hot as well, guys. So
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: thanks to everyone for chiming in. We've been a little busy,
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: but we see all your comments, and we'll get to
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: them as soon as we can.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: So thank you.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. So the bones of the show,
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: it's a different time slot, but we still have the
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: same fixed pieces like our current electric superhero of the day.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Should it be Jordan Love? Should it be Trevor McGill?
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Should it be Aaron Ashby? Or should we just split
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: the baby and give it to all of them?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Well, that's probably a better idea. I was going to
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: roll with Jordan Love, if you guys don't mind. 25
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: of 31, 369 yards passing for the Packers signal caller.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Two TDs, both to Christian Watson. The 43-yarder to start,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: and then the 53-yarder right after what should have been
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: a deep one to J. Michael Sturdivant. About Drew as
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: clean of a game, I think, as we've seen Jordan.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: The most in command we've seen him all year long.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Crazy what happens when my man doesn't get knocked on
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: his hind parts 5, 6, 7, 12 times a game.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: And the deep ball. You know, we talk about how
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: the Brewers don't hit a lot of home runs. Jordan
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Love hit a couple home runs yesterday. It's like explosive
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: plays are home runs.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: And he was, what, six of eight on passes of
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: longer than 20 yards, which is incredible.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: And four completions over 40 yards. First time a Packers
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: quarterback has done that since 03 in Brett Favre. I
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: believe in a Raiders game.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: That is superhero worthy, just like our friends at Current Electric.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Call current.com. They've got superheroes on the side of the van, superheroes, techs.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: inside the van and inside your home.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Drew, if you look out at this patio
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: and you see all these beautiful lights on this patio
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: right here, you're thinking, man, I wish I could do
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: that in my backyard. You know who could probably help
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: you out with that? The superheroes at Current Electric. Call current.com.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Could have your patio looking this nice to where you
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: might actually have to start a shuttle going to and
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: from the brewery.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: There were plenty of days this year when Jake Bowers
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: was a superhero for the Milwaukee Brewers. He was one
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: of the more consistent guys. Through the dark times when
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: they were struggling, he was the bat that consistently came
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: up With big hits. And Jake Bowers was at the
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: podium earlier in the pregame. And we want to spin
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: through this because it's kind of a cool conversation with
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: a guy whose story is incredible. He came close to
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: retiring and he's just rejuvenated himself here in Milwaukee. Let's
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: take a listen to what Jake Bowers had to say
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: before game two of the NLCS.
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: Jake, thanks for your time. I wonder, playing with Trevor
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: McGill and going back to high school, can you describe
• 23:05
  Speaker 10: your connection to him and how long you've been friends
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: and teammates with him in different contexts?
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah, Trev, it's funny because in a lot of ways
• 23:14
  Speaker 11: Trev's the same exact guy he was in high school,
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: which is goofy, doesn't seem to care a lot what
• 23:25
  Speaker 11: people think about him, which is, you know, I think
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: a real admirable trait. And, yeah, I mean, we didn't
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: get to spend much time together in high school. He
• 23:33
  Speaker 11: was a couple years older than me, and then he
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: left early and went to college. But it's just funny, man, like,
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: the game of baseball will kind of bring you full
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: circle in a lot of ways.
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: And then growing up in Southern California, how important was
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: Dodger Stadium to you as a kid going there, and
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: do you have any memories of being at particular games there?
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I went to my first Major League Baseball game
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: at Dodger Stadium. My parents brought me there. So definitely
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: some very early memories of Dodger Stadium. Played my high
• 24:04
  Speaker 11: school state championship game at Dodger Stadium.
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: Lost, obviously. got swept last year out of Dodger Stadium.
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: So not a whole lot of positive memories at Dodger Stadium,
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: but hoping to make some for sure.
• 24:20
  Speaker 10: And then just finally for me, Murph had talked about
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: just the toe injury and managing it for you. What
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: goes into that every day just to get yourself ready
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: to play? And have you had any different accommodations with
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: your cleats to make sure that you can be as
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: healthy as you can be on the field?
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. It's a lot more time in the training room.
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: for sure. I think in the past I was a
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: guy who.
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: Would just get in the weight room and get ready
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: for the day and go about business, but this year
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: it's been I'm here probably an hour before the clubhouse
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: is even open to make sure I can get everything
• 24:56
  Speaker 11: in the training room and do what I need to
• 24:58
  Speaker 11: do to be ready to play.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Go to Adam, third row on the left.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: Jake, to follow up on you and Miguel, do you
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: see similarities in the path that brought you here and
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: where you were at in your careers, and to be
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: at that point in your career. How does that change
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: things for a player?
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure.
• 25:20
  Speaker 11: It's not easy to bounce around from team to team
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: and still believe in yourself, maybe, the way that you
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: need to to succeed in this game.
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: And for him....
• 25:33
  Speaker 11: For him to do that, to go from team to
• 25:35
  Speaker 11: team and then end up as one of the game's
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: top closers, it's been awesome to watch. And I think
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: the one thing that he does really well is the
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: guy believes in himself.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: He wants the ball. He wants the.
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: Ball in the biggest spots. And he wants to get
• 25:54
  Speaker 11: it done for the team. So there's a lot to
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: draw from that for sure.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Go to Steve in the middle.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Logan Henderson entering the night has just been remarkably consistent,
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: three runs or less every start he makes. Just from
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: your perspective, what is it about him that's enabled him
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: to be as steady as he's been just throughout his.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: Career so far?
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 26:15
  Speaker 11: I don't know what the secret sauce is, man, but
• 26:17
  Speaker 11: he's in the clubhouse right now chopping it up with
• 26:20
  Speaker 11: some of the guys like he doesn't have one of
• 26:23
  Speaker 11: the biggest starts of his life tonight.
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: And that, I think.
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: reflects when he's on the mound. You can just feel
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: it when you're on defense. You can feel the poise.
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: You can feel that the pressure doesn't get to him.
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: You can feel that he's just focused on executing a
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: single pitch at a time, which is super impressive for
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: a guy who's as early in his career as he is.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: Stay in the second row towards the right.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: So, Yamamoto has been really dominant in the playoff in
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: his young career.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: What changes are you going to make against him?
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: That's a good question. That's a good question.
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think Yamamoto, it's such a big pitch mix.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: There's a lot that you have to try and deal with.
• 27:14
  Speaker 11: And I think you can fall into the trap of
• 27:17
  Speaker 11: trying to guess along with him. And so I think
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: we got to do as best as we can to
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: simplify the game plan. And Just trust ourselves, trust our eyes,
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: and trust that we have an approach that can be
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: successful against them.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: We'll go to Dice.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: No.
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: We'll go up to Hazel on the top right.
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: What do you tell younger players about how different October
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: baseball is, and do you see some pitfalls?
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: What are some pitfalls?
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: Younger players or newer players into post-season baseball fall into?
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say, I would say it's not any different.
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: Um, as far as the game on the field, there's
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: nothing about it that is different from a spring training game.
• 28:15
  Speaker 11: Even I think when you look at what's different, a
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: lot of what's different is the outside noise. Um, Instead
• 28:24
  Speaker 11: of having five, six beat reporters in the clubhouse pregame,
• 28:29
  Speaker 11: you're sitting in this room doing a full-on press conference
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: like you're playing NBA 2K or something like that. But
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: it's really just about getting yourself to the point where
• 28:44
  Speaker 11: you can realize that it is the same game, and
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: I just need to do my best to settle into
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: it and be myself.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: Come here to the left second row.
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: Jake murph has talked a lot about the the clubhouse
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: culture that you guys have and how it's kind of
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: helped a lot of the young players come up and
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: yesterday i mean set up luis lara to come through
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: with the game-winning rbi can you just kind of talk
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: more about how lara has uh you know adjusted and
• 29:13
  Speaker 9: settled into uh to the big leagues and just being
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: able to come through in that.
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: Moment yeah sometimes i think it can be a little
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: bit tricky um navigating a major league clubhouse for the
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: first time.
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: I think what this group does really well is we
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: give everybody the space to be themselves while also holding
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: everybody accountable. Um, and that means holding Laura accountable. That
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: means holding William Contreras accountable. That means holding Jake Bowers accountable. Um, it's,
• 29:49
  Speaker 11: it's from top to bottom. The standard is the standard.
• 29:52
  Speaker 11: And if you're going to be here, you're going to
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: live up to that. And, uh, Laura's done a great job, man.
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: Laura's done a great job of, uh, fitting into it,
• 30:03
  Speaker 11: knowing what he needs to do to prepare each day,
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: knowing that he can't get down on himself because there's
• 30:10
  Speaker 11: going to be an opportunity for him to come through.
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: You've seen him a few times this year come up
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: in big spots, whether it be offense or defense, and
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: get the job done for us.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: Stay on the left, third row.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Jake, what do you attribute your improved success against left-handers
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: this year to?
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: Um, I think a lot of it just has to
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: do with getting the opportunity to see them more often.
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: And then I think I've really.
• 30:41
  Speaker 11: Focused on developing an approach that gives me the best chance.
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: You know, some of these guys, you know, obviously it's
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: not easy, whether it be high arm slot coming from
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: behind you or, you know, someone throwing from the side,
• 30:56
  Speaker 11: but Yeah, I think a lot of it has to
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: do with just comfortability of just getting those at-bats and
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: getting an opportunity to see what I can do against them.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: JP?
• 31:06
  Speaker 10: Jake, I wondered yesterday, certainly you're locked in and you're competing,
• 31:11
  Speaker 10: but there has to be a moment where you're saying,
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: I'm batting cleanup in game one of the National League
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: Championship Series and reflecting on the journey you've taken to
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: get there. Are there people in your life that you
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: think were most impactful in helping you through this long
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: walk of baseball to get to that point?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 31:27
  Speaker 11: I mean, there's a lot of people that I can
• 31:31
  Speaker 11: give credit to. A lot on the staff here, for sure.
• 31:37
  Speaker 11: But also, I was thinking a lot about my wife.
• 31:43
  Speaker 11: You know, we have two kids, and so she's holding
• 31:47
  Speaker 11: it down at home by herself a lot of the time,
• 31:50
  Speaker 11: which is a lot. Those kids, they're a blessing, and
• 31:54
  Speaker 11: we love them, but man, they're, they're a handful.
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: So, uh, for her to do that and for.
• 32:00
  Speaker 11: Her to allow me the opportunity to come here and,
• 32:02
  Speaker 11: and kind of keep going and just support me any
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: way she can. It's been, uh, it's been crazy. It's
• 32:11
  Speaker 11: been crazy to see her growth as a woman and
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: a mom.
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: And, um, yeah, yeah.
• 32:20
  Speaker 11: So I was standing out there last night, listening to
• 32:21
  Speaker 11: national anthem and, uh, I was thinking about her and just,
• 32:29
  Speaker 11: you know, she stuck by me this whole time when
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: it wasn't always easy.
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: I wasn't always the best husband. I wasn't always the
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: best father. And, yeah.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Steve, second row in the middle.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: You had talked about the accountability in the clubhouse, but
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: I'm just wondering with Murphy specifically, what does he do
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: that enables him to kind of get the best out
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: of veterans like yourselves and also the 21, 22 year
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: olds in the clubhouse? Is there, I mean, how does
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: he kind of set himself apart from other managers you've
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: played for in that regard?
• 33:05
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think, um, I think that culture of accountability starts,
• 33:10
  Speaker 11: starts with him.
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: Um, he has a way of.
• 33:15
  Speaker 11: Communication that is, uh, it's very unique and he tells
• 33:21
  Speaker 11: you what you need to hear, even though you might
• 33:23
  Speaker 11: not always want to hear it.
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: Um, but he's, he's not scared to say it.
• 33:28
  Speaker 11: He's not scared to, uh, to have some guys maybe
• 33:32
  Speaker 11: not like him for a little bit, but, you know,
• 33:34
  Speaker 11: I think that accountability starts with him and, and he
• 33:40
  Speaker 11: holds the standard. He set the standard and, um, You know,
• 33:45
  Speaker 11: like I said, you're going to live up to it. And,
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: you know, I think you've seen what it's done for
• 33:50
  Speaker 11: some guys and their careers, myself included. And so I
• 33:55
  Speaker 11: think you see what a positive thing it can be
• 33:58
  Speaker 11: for guys as players. And I think that's what kind
• 34:01
  Speaker 11: of permeates down a little bit into the clubhouse that
• 34:07
  Speaker 11: makes us want to lift each other up.
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: Jake, we'll do two more.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Sophia, front right, and then we'll finish on left side.
• 34:14
  Speaker 12: JB, we talked about a bald Aaron Ashby after game four,
• 34:18
  Speaker 12: but just the way that he's pitching and the bullpen overall,
• 34:22
  Speaker 12: what does that do for you guys? Not just on defense,
• 34:23
  Speaker 12: but even maybe just the impact offensively, right? With just
• 34:26
  Speaker 12: how locked in this group has been in the post season.
• 34:31
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think there's something to be said for, uh,
• 34:34
  Speaker 11: for getting a clean ending on defense and being able
• 34:36
  Speaker 11: to come back in on offense and, and try to
• 34:38
  Speaker 11: get something going. Um, Yeah, last night's game, I mean,
• 34:45
  Speaker 11: even the Padres series, it seems like this is about
• 34:50
  Speaker 11: as deep of pitching in a postseason that I think,
• 34:55
  Speaker 11: I mean, I can remember. So, you know, those guys
• 34:58
  Speaker 11: down there are really good at what they do and
• 35:01
  Speaker 11: executing pitches, and so it's been fun to play behind them,
• 35:05
  Speaker 11: for sure.
• 35:06
  Speaker 12: We'll finish up the fourth round of life.
• 35:09
  Speaker 10: Jake, what have you enjoyed about the environment here in
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: Milwaukee in the postseason, and what type of impact does
• 35:13
  Speaker 10: that have on you and the guys?
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. It's been a
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: lot of fun playing in front of these fans.
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: You can feel how much they.
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: Want it, and that makes us want it just as
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: bad for them.
• 35:29
  Speaker 11: So we'll just keep playing for each other, keep playing
• 35:34
  Speaker 11: for the fans, and we'll see where it ends up.
• 35:37
  Speaker 12: All right, Jake, appreciate it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: That's Jake Bowers. He is the family man.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Father.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: Husband. A little personal there. He's one of those guys
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: you don't hear a lot from. You hear his post-game
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: walk-offs and stuff, but his story about how he's thinking
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: about retiring and just He's tired of beating the bushes.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Well, and he had the quote of the year, right,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: that maybe helped turn the tide after the Padres series.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I think we all need to chill out and to
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: be able to come through with that one. Hey, man,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: that's some real stuff. And when a lot of guys
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: in the professional sports landscape, Drew, get married, Leroy Butler
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: used to always tell me, that guy's going to have
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: a career year.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Everything's straightened out. Everything's calmed down. You get a good
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: woman in your life, and life's going to be a
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: lot more simple when they are able to handle and
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: help out. See, I'm getting some love right over here.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: And his wife didn't even make him nod and give
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: me that kind of love. But you are able to
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: then solidify a lot of things in your life that
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: are kind of up in the air and not always
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: the easiest thing. And to be able to spotlight her
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: in that moment, that was pretty cool.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Pretty cool.
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: And how about, you know, we always talk about taking accountability.
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: He stepped up to the mic and said, hey, I
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: wasn't always the greatest, and she stuck through me.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: That's pretty cool, huh?
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Holding himself accountable, yeah.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Pretty good.
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: Not to look too far in the future, but a
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: year like this has to keep him going. You would
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: think with the Brewers or somebody else, will the Brewers
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: hang on and make a deal with him?
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: We'll see. We'll see, yeah. That's a question for down
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: the road.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: I'm not trying to do next year on contracts.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of time for that, yeah.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: Not any of that right now. Game two is going
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: to start in just about 25 minutes or so. We're
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: here at Saz. It's beautiful on the patio. The shuttles
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: have been running, taking fans to the ballpark. When we
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: come back, we're going to do a little Who's Hot
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: Who's Not brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen, he and Kooling.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: We will welcome back after 4 o'clock. We're going to
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: hear from Packers coach Matt LaFleur, his press conference this
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: afternoon up at Lambeau Field. And we're going to welcome
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: back one of our favorite segments of all the time. Oh, baby,
• 37:35
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• 37:37
  Speaker 5: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Back on the huddle live from Saz's.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Drew Olsen, Bill Schmidt on the patio. Armand Sarn stuck
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: at headquarters wearing the ankle bracelet today. Couldn't get out
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: to join us.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Couldn't enjoy the heat dome.
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: Someday, Armand, you'll be able to come and join us.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: Maybe after baseball when Hunter's not covering for all. That's true.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Maybe sometime soon. You never know. Technology's doing crazy things
• 38:11
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• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. We got trains and everything. The Amtrak
• 38:17
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• 38:19
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• 38:37
  Speaker 5: to hear from Matt LaFleur. His press conference, not live,
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: but his press conference from Green Bay earlier Plenty to
• 38:43
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• 38:45
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• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Big time.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: But right now it's time for our Who's Hot, Who's Not,
• 38:49
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• 38:52
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• 38:55
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• 38:56
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  Speaker 5: who's hot, who's not?
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Who's hot? Packers wide receivers, Christian Watson, six grabs for $ 1. 43.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Six for 123 for Matthew Golden yesterday. But so was
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Jamar Chase over on the Cincinnati side. Six grabs for
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: 77 yards and maybe the greatest touchdown you'll see all
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: year long. He was one of four TDs from Joe Burrow.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: He was definitely hot yesterday. Four touchdowns, no picks. 31-24
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: win over the Dolphins. Drew, Malik Willis is in the
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: not category. The overall numbers don't sound nearly as bad
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: as it was in the first half, where he was
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: one of seven with two picks. At halftime yesterday, he
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: had a quarterback rating of. 6.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: I didn't think that was possible.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Of. 6.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: Actually, Armand Billy told me that, and I'm like, that's
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: like taking the SATs and spelling your name wrong. Right.
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: And I love Malik because the contributions he had to
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: the Packers will always be big and important.
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: For sure.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: In that role, he started in that role.
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: But there was a lot of people that got so
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: excited seeing that, they always said, well, maybe he could.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Be– Well, why don't you say Charles in Arkdale's name
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: if that's who he's talking about?
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: I told you, Charles.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: He wasn't a starter. He's a good backup. He's not
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: a starter. Good form. He got paid. Maybe him and
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Halffield turn around. I don't see it happening.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: The Dolphins aren't going to be on our hot category
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: for Donovan Jorgensen anytime soon, but I want to ask you, Billy,
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: who's hot, who's not? How about the clock management at
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: the end of the Commanders-Giants game?
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Nick Sirianni and Dan Quinn not hot. Goodness gracious. Only
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: to outdo the Eagles were the Commanders and Dan Quinn. Yikes.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness. To not get a field goal attempt up. Now,
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: the Packers had a little snafu in their last two series, basically,
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: at the end of the first half yesterday. So, we're
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: doing that in the kicking game. And I imagine when
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: we hear Matt LaFleur, that's going to come up. Because
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: it didn't really come up in the heat of the
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: game yesterday. Like, what the hell happened at the end
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: of the first half? Like, what were you doing?
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and everything was, his postgame was also kind of
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: marred by he had just gotten the news about Javon Hargrave,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: which was then confirmed here today. But I am excited
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: to hear how he walks that one through because it
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: was cumbersome to say the least.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: Not taking a timeout after a sack will flabbergast me forever.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: All time with 31 seconds to go and another one
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: so you still have the time out to stop the
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: clock drew to go get.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: A field first and 10 and you're already at the
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: opponent opposing 48 and you don't do anything in what
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: you take 13 seconds out the clock something like that
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: it was like what.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: And they chewed it through and the other part when
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: you go back and look at it this is the
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: interesting the one that i'm excited to hear how lafleur
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: answers it the laissez-faire lining back up like we don't
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: understand the clock is rolling and And now by the
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: time you take this snap, I think there were 13
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: seconds left on the game clock when they take the
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: last step. Golden took like 12 to 13 seconds to
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: get lined up in the midst there. So that was
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: far from hot. But the commanders took their last snap
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: in formation, broke the huddle with 54 seconds to go.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: They then ran out of time and ran one play
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: and lost one yard.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: That's just abysmal.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: But you know what? Jaden Daniels did say. That information
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: maybe has to come from the top. But it all
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: does start with me. That's a way of taking some accountability,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: it seemed like, but also throwing your head coaches squarely
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: under the bus as you possibly could.
• 42:28
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• 42:43
  Speaker 5: Spectacular. We are rolling. First pitch is coming up. We're
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: at Saz's on the patio. Armand's back at headquarters. I mean,
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: we're having a banner day on this great Victory Monday.
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: Will it be a Victory Tuesday tomorrow?
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: I just have to. I had my victory chicken as
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: help for the cause, so we'll see.
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: I witnessed it. It was one of the highlights of
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: my day so far, I've got to say.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: We will be right back.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: We're going to hear from Matt LaFleur in his press
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: conference as we move forward live from Saz's. It's the
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: Victory Monday edition of the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back.