Latest / The Huddle / 10/28/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Welcome in to the Tuesday edition, Wednesday edition, Hot Take
- 0:06Speaker 1: Hump Day edition.
- 0:07Speaker 2: It's Wednesday.
- 0:07Speaker 1: You lose track of the days when your team isn't brought.
- 0:09Speaker 3: In the World Series.
- 0:10Speaker 2: A lot of stuff going on.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Still processing what happened with the loss last evening at
- 0:16Speaker 1: Tropicana Field. Brewers will not sweep the 2026 World Series.
- 0:20Speaker 1: They can still win it tonight. We got to remember
- 0:24Speaker 1: what it feels like to get kicked in the nards
- 0:26Speaker 1: again last night. Brewers hadn't lost that often. only once
- 0:29Speaker 1: in about the last month or so. So you got
- 0:32Speaker 1: to recalibrate the system, figure out what it's like to
- 0:34Speaker 1: have a little slip in the gear shift.
- 0:36Speaker 2: It happens in a while.
- 0:38Speaker 1: That was one of those, not our night, could have
- 0:41Speaker 1: been our nights. Hashtag baseball. So close to Nirvana. And
- 0:46Speaker 1: like for me, it's like, obviously we'll look back at
- 0:49Speaker 1: this and the Ortiz error in the ninth inning and
- 0:52Speaker 1: Shane drawing can become, Sean Markham and Brandon Bostic eventually, maybe,
- 0:57Speaker 1: if things go completely off the rails.
- 1:00Speaker 2: It could be that way.
- 1:01Speaker 1: It could be a John Ryan sighting, like a 16-7
- 1:03Speaker 1: touchdown last night. My main depression about last night, if
- 1:07Speaker 1: I'm allowed that, to be depressed, is that the lead
- 1:11Speaker 1: held up and the Brewers won that game in 12 innings.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Winning the World Series in the 12th inning is always epic,
- 1:16Speaker 1: but Cooper Pratt is immortal.
- 1:19Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:19Speaker 1: As a rookie winning a World Series winning home run,
- 1:23Speaker 1: hitting that home run, winning the World Series as a rookie.
- 1:25Speaker 1: And then, not for nothing, it would have been pretty
- 1:27Speaker 1: amazing if Jerome had gotten the last three outs. He
- 1:29Speaker 1: got a rookie on one end and a rookie on
- 1:30Speaker 1: the other end. Like, that's absurd... You know, that you
- 1:33Speaker 1: could put that in the bank and say, look what
- 1:35Speaker 1: we got. They won the World Series. And look at
- 1:36Speaker 1: the two guys that were. And two of the guys
- 1:39Speaker 1: that you get in the Red Sox Durbin trade from
- 1:40Speaker 1: a year ago, not named Kyle Harrison, are two of
- 1:43Speaker 1: your game four heroes at the end of it.
- 1:45Speaker 2: That's a good point.
- 1:46Speaker 1: But the Pratt thing, he would have been like Bill Mazeroski,
- 1:50Speaker 1: like the famous home runs. Like, yeah, it's not a
- 1:52Speaker 1: home home run, a walk-off, but it would have been
- 1:55Speaker 1: a World Series winning home run by a 22-year-old kid
- 1:58Speaker 1: who signed like an eight-year deal with you could just
- 2:01Speaker 1: go ahead and start constructing a statue for the young man. Yeah,
- 2:04Speaker 1: and it's the best $ 50 million the organization would ever
- 2:07Speaker 1: spent at that moment with the contract. And also, Drew,
- 2:11Speaker 1: with the moment, with the story, came an exceptionally great...
- 2:17Speaker 1: Hat tip call by Joe Davis, realizing and trying to
- 2:21Speaker 1: meet the moment of Cooper Pratt meeting the moment and
- 2:24Speaker 1: giving the ode to Bob Uecker and having you on
- 2:26Speaker 1: the cusp of a championship. That story and that soundbite,
- 2:29Speaker 1: you're right, it wouldn't have been a home run. However,
- 2:33Speaker 1: the audio and all of the calls living on in infamy.
- 2:37Speaker 1: you would have been tricked because that place erupted in
- 2:40Speaker 1: the 12th when he hit that ball over the left
- 2:43Speaker 1: center wall.
- 2:44Speaker 2: And man, he knew it. He pimped it.
- 2:46Speaker 1: He was praying that it kept getting over. And it
- 2:48Speaker 1: was about to be free Fanta forever. Instead, now we
- 2:52Speaker 1: got to pay for all of our orange soda here
- 2:54Speaker 1: going forward, at least for another night.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Well, yeah, unless he does it again tonight. But you're right. Yeah,
- 2:58Speaker 2: that would have been epic. That would have been a great,
- 3:00Speaker 2: just a great script.
- 3:02Speaker 1: You know, for a guy that really doesn't hit a
- 3:03Speaker 1: lot of homers.
- 3:04Speaker 2: He's had a good rookie year, obviously.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Not a lot of homers. Not really a power guy.
- 3:08Speaker 1: I think his last one was against the Cubs in August.
- 3:11Speaker 1: So that would have been just, especially that late when
- 3:13Speaker 1: the Brewers offense was really struggling to get stuff going.
- 3:16Speaker 2: And the few times they did were kind of snuffed out.
- 3:18Speaker 2: You're kind of looking for, I don't want to say
- 3:20Speaker 2: a miracle, but you're looking for some sort of manna
- 3:21Speaker 2: from heaven to happen for you.
- 3:23Speaker 1: And in the form of a Pratt Homer, boy, it
- 3:26Speaker 1: really felt exciting in that moment. And that would have been,
- 3:30Speaker 1: that was probably what hurt the most is that that
- 3:33Speaker 1: moment gets taken away in terms of being the epic
- 3:36Speaker 1: one for history. And the fact, you know, the cookies
- 3:38Speaker 1: were in the oven. I talk about the cookies theory
- 3:41Speaker 1: a lot. And boy, were they baking with three outs.
- 3:43Speaker 1: I think the Brewers are the 10th team to have
- 3:45Speaker 1: to be three outs away from a World Series and
- 3:47Speaker 1: have the rug pulled. Including the Jays last year. I
- 3:51Speaker 1: was going to say in the second and two years.
- 3:53Speaker 1: And the Jays, well, no, not twice. They were trying
- 3:56Speaker 1: to score the winning run in the bottom of the
- 3:57Speaker 1: ninth inning, right, when the guy gets.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Doubled off in game six.
- 4:00Speaker 1: But they go home up 3-2 and don't put it away.
- 4:04Speaker 1: And the Dodgers finish them off. Man, the last three
- 4:07Speaker 1: outs of a title are always the hardest to get.
- 4:09Speaker 1: The last three outs of any baseball game are the
- 4:11Speaker 1: toughest to get true. I mean, like that's that part
- 4:14Speaker 1: of last night is the only thing I think you
- 4:17Speaker 1: can compare a game in July to the game that
- 4:20Speaker 1: you watched last night of the last three outs are
- 4:22Speaker 1: always the toughest to get when you aren't used to
- 4:25Speaker 1: getting them. It can be even more difficult. And that's
- 4:28Speaker 1: a huge ask at the end of a bullpen game
- 4:30Speaker 1: to get the last three outs for a guy that
- 4:32Speaker 1: has pitched what?
- 4:34Speaker 4: Once in a month.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Once in a month in Shane Drohan.
- 4:37Speaker 1: And in the last three months, it hadn't necessarily been
- 4:39Speaker 1: all that great from him. I've heard a lot of
- 4:42Speaker 1: people saying, how could they put Drohan in? Well, to me,
- 4:45Speaker 1: it's like the choices were Drohan, Harrison, or Miz. That
- 4:49Speaker 1: wasn't really a choice.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Yeah, the Miz one would have been.
- 4:52Speaker 1: That one for the story would have been the greatest
- 4:54Speaker 1: thing since sliced bread, right? If the Cy Young Award
- 4:57Speaker 1: winner comes out and does it. But in all reality
- 5:00Speaker 1: and functionality... It wouldn't have been able to happen. Wouldn't
- 5:04Speaker 1: Henderson almost have been the more likely one?
- 5:06Speaker 2: I think so.
- 5:06Speaker 1: Because of the lining up and the bullpen day? It
- 5:09Speaker 1: would have been a really interesting ask.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Day of rest, yeah. Miz is the move if you're
- 5:14Speaker 2: down 3-0. Correct.
- 5:16Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 5:16Speaker 1: All hands on deck. And we'll figure out tomorrow, tomorrow.
- 5:20Speaker 1: When you're up 3-0, there's no way that he was
- 5:22Speaker 1: getting into that game.
- 5:24Speaker 2: It would have been nice.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Now, if you want to quibble with the pitching decisions...
- 5:28Speaker 1: I'm still like, I'm scratching my head that McGill only
- 5:30Speaker 1: got one batter.
- 5:31Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Having him would have pushed everything back and you had
- 5:34Speaker 1: Ashby for the, you know. I guess 11-12 instead of 10-11.
- 5:38Speaker 1: And you still are in the meat of the order,
- 5:40Speaker 1: and you're going to face Caminero and company with that
- 5:43Speaker 1: heart of the order with McGill.
- 5:44Speaker 2: That's what I thought of. I don't know.
- 5:47Speaker 1: That would have been the one. He could have gone,
- 5:49Speaker 1: but now he's fresher for tonight, so it helps.
- 5:51Speaker 4: That's true.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Then you push every one of your leverage relievers one
- 5:53Speaker 1: inning a little further. You give yourself maybe one more chance.
- 5:56Speaker 1: And so the Harrison thing, like, well, maybe Harrison should
- 5:58Speaker 1: have pitched in the inning that Woodruff got the other day.
- 6:01Speaker 1: Then Woodruff would have been available to pitch. My dream
- 6:03Speaker 1: scenario would have been Woodruff on the mound with a
- 6:05Speaker 1: chance to Yeah.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Close it out.
- 6:07Speaker 1: I mean, that would have been cool. So they didn't
- 6:09Speaker 1: have many choices. And that was a bullpen game, like
- 6:11Speaker 1: you said. The way it unfolded, you don't plan for
- 6:14Speaker 1: extra innings. You don't play a lot of extra innings
- 6:16Speaker 1: in the extra innings. Basically, as it's unfolding last night,
- 6:20Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself, this is a Stanley Cup. We're
- 6:22Speaker 1: in the third overtime of a Stanley Cup playoff game.
- 6:25Speaker 1: And somebody's going to win it and someone's going to
- 6:26Speaker 1: lose it. And it's going to something's going to happen.
- 6:29Speaker 1: The puck's going to bounce funny and somebody's going to win.
- 6:31Speaker 1: And Brewers get the home run. Still got to get
- 6:33Speaker 1: those last outs. And when Ortiz made the error, it's like,
- 6:37Speaker 1: how is the world different if Ortiz doesn't make that error?
- 6:41Speaker 1: If they start with one out, every batter up there
- 6:43Speaker 1: is one out, nobody on, good luck. I mean, the Brewers'
- 6:47Speaker 1: chances of winning that game significantly increase. If they get
- 6:50Speaker 1: that first out. Significantly increase. Drone still comes in in
- 6:53Speaker 1: your mind, right? I think he probably does. But he
- 6:56Speaker 1: comes in and Drew, he's not staring at somebody right
- 6:58Speaker 1: at first base, right?
- 6:59Speaker 2: Not worried about a runner, not about stealing. And it's
- 7:02Speaker 2: a clean slate. And Cooper's not up the middle as much. Well,
- 7:06Speaker 2: that's just it.
- 7:08Speaker 1: They're shifted. Otherwise, that's a double play. You know, and
- 7:11Speaker 1: if they're not shifted or it's a routine grounder. Yeah,
- 7:14Speaker 1: it's an out too. So then, okay, you're looking at it. Everything,
- 7:17Speaker 1: it's the butterfly effect, the ultimate butterfly effect.
- 7:20Speaker 2: It really is.
- 7:20Speaker 1: But as with everything else and everything else in sports,
- 7:23Speaker 1: it's all connected. And the Brewers did, it was one
- 7:27Speaker 1: of those nights where you had all these hard hit
- 7:29Speaker 1: balls that were caught, a lot of atom balls, a
- 7:30Speaker 1: lot of balls 100 miles an hour off the bat
- 7:32Speaker 1: that didn't lead to hits, didn't find gaps. So the
- 7:35Speaker 1: bounces went against the Brewers in some fashion yesterday. You know,
- 7:39Speaker 1: the Hamilton error, mishap, there's that. He wipes it out
- 7:43Speaker 1: with a homer. And then you have the late error
- 7:46Speaker 1: by Ortiz. But the crux of this game, and the
- 7:50Speaker 1: box score tells you, is all those guys that were 0-for,
- 7:53Speaker 1: the 0-for-22 squad, with Bowers, Yellich, Contreras, Terang, and Mitchell
- 8:00Speaker 1: combined to go 0-for-22. The heart of your lineup was 0-for-22.
- 8:04Speaker 1: And you still led in the 12th inning. And you
- 8:06Speaker 1: had a lead, and you were three outs away from
- 8:07Speaker 1: winning the World Series, yeah. So that's not an ideal circumstance.
- 8:11Speaker 1: It's probably not going to be repeated again. It was
- 8:14Speaker 1: the night where, you know, whatever reason then, Tampa had
- 8:17Speaker 1: guys in the game that they don't trust either, and
- 8:19Speaker 1: they were getting outs, right?
- 8:20Speaker 2: They had to get everybody in, yeah, basically.
- 8:22Speaker 1: When they bring in Baker for two innings, and he
- 8:24Speaker 1: only pitched through 21 pitches tonight.
- 8:26Speaker 2: He had one up and down. I don't know.
- 8:27Speaker 1: He's not an up and down guy, but I would
- 8:29Speaker 1: imagine he's available tonight.
- 8:31Speaker 2: All hands on deck when it's elimination.
- 8:33Speaker 4: All hands on deck.
- 8:33Speaker 1: And Drew, I wouldn't be surprised if Martinez still starts tonight, right?
- 8:37Speaker 1: They haven't announced who's starting for Tampa Bay yet, and
- 8:40Speaker 1: I don't believe it's going to be Rasmussen because he
- 8:42Speaker 1: was definitely not going to be a short start guy.
- 8:43Speaker 1: Miz has only started... on four days rest five times
- 8:47Speaker 1: this year. So this is a little bit uncharted territory
- 8:50Speaker 1: for Miz, but you get to come into the game
- 8:52Speaker 1: with the best pitcher in the sport up 3-1 with
- 8:56Speaker 1: a chance to celebrate and have them wheel that champagne
- 8:59Speaker 1: that they wheeled in and right back out of that
- 9:02Speaker 1: locker room last night. The cruelest visual in sports is
- 9:05Speaker 1: the champagne. The little dollies leaving with.
- 9:08Speaker 2: All the champagne.
- 9:09Speaker 1: And that 120-pound young lady that was just pushing that
- 9:12Speaker 1: cart down.
- 9:12Speaker 2: I was like, just leave it in there. Leave it
- 9:14Speaker 2: in there.
- 9:14Speaker 1: We'll have it tomorrow night. That's the literal interpretation of
- 9:18Speaker 1: the cookies theory. The other crux of it, if you
- 9:20Speaker 1: want to say, and how everything's connected. About when you're up,
- 9:24Speaker 1: if you had it to do over again, 10-1. Yeah,
- 9:25Speaker 1: it was a great moment for Woodruff to pitch in
- 9:27Speaker 1: that game. How about Harrison pitching with a 10-1 lead?
- 9:29Speaker 1: Where else is he safer? Even if he gives up four,
- 9:32Speaker 1: you get somebody else in. But that would have been
- 9:35Speaker 1: a spot to use him. Then you have Woodruff available. Or,
- 9:38Speaker 1: you know, we know it's not like a ceremonial thing,
- 9:41Speaker 1: but if Chad Patrick would.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Have looked nice in that game last night. Yeah, he
- 9:44Speaker 2: would have.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Now, Chad Patrick, last time he pitched, did give up
- 9:46Speaker 1: five runs, right? So, like, I do struggle with that
- 9:49Speaker 1: part of it. The Harrison one, I almost wondered, Drew,
- 9:52Speaker 1: and I wanted to get your thought on it. I
- 9:55Speaker 1: thought the bigger question would have been, should he have
- 9:57Speaker 1: come in for Sensatella on game three before Woodruff, right?
- 10:01Speaker 1: I mean, because then Sensatella probably doesn't even come out
- 10:04Speaker 1: of the.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Game last night.
- 10:05Speaker 1: You're rolling with somebody that's closed, has gotten the final
- 10:09Speaker 1: three outs of a game before. and albeit not a
- 10:11Speaker 1: world series game, but he's pitched in the playoffs multiple times.
- 10:14Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 10:14Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons you acquired him. Like that
- 10:16Speaker 1: one to me was the one that I circled of.
- 10:19Speaker 1: If you were going to throw somebody and light the
- 10:21Speaker 1: human victory cigar, you were up 10, nothing in the seventh,
- 10:23Speaker 1: just like you were in the nine.
- 10:24Speaker 4: Exactly.
- 10:25Speaker 1: That could have been the Harrison time. And who knows,
- 10:27Speaker 1: maybe you do go to Woodruff. Maybe you don't, maybe
- 10:29Speaker 1: he does open and you're a lot more open. Is
- 10:31Speaker 1: that a drone time? You know, it could have been
- 10:33Speaker 1: thrown at that point too. You can go back to
- 10:36Speaker 1: those things, but again, how do you win games? First
- 10:38Speaker 1: of all, And as Tom Haldicourt has told us a
- 10:40Speaker 1: gajillion times, in order to think you have a reasonable
- 10:44Speaker 1: expectation to win a major league game, you kind of
- 10:46Speaker 1: got to score four runs.
- 10:47Speaker 2: That's about the baseline. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 10:48Speaker 1: To think we should have won that game. Because otherwise,
- 10:50Speaker 1: you're leaving it to chance. And that's been the Brewers number.
- 10:52Speaker 2: Things can happen.
- 10:53Speaker 1: And that's been, you know, if they score four runs,
- 10:54Speaker 1: they're feeling pretty good about themselves. And the guys that
- 10:57Speaker 1: I mentioned going 0-4 in the heart of the lineup. Now,
- 11:00Speaker 1: there was a lineup switch yesterday. We joked with Hunter
- 11:03Speaker 1: about it, that they flipped Sal Frelick, right? And Garrett
- 11:06Speaker 1: Mitchell in the lineup. Don't you think about tonight maybe
- 11:10Speaker 1: dropping Bowers and putting Terang up higher, perhaps? Or Bowers
- 11:15Speaker 1: is as cold as he was hot.
- 11:17Speaker 2: In the NLCS. He's not looking great.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Or maybe start Vaughn. I would be into start Vaughn.
- 11:24Speaker 1: I think that would be the one. And somebody that
- 11:26Speaker 1: had the bat taken out of his hand last night, legitimately,
- 11:29Speaker 1: because Cooper Pratt's hand touches the glove.
- 11:31Speaker 2: That's a perfect moment.
- 11:33Speaker 1: That didn't go the Brewers' way that in the past was.
- 11:36Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Not for nothing. I'm not the guy. There's a guy
- 11:39Speaker 1: we used to work with that is Mr. Anti-Replay. I
- 11:43Speaker 1: didn't see anything conclusive that told me. There were two
- 11:46Speaker 1: different completing angles. One looked like it grazed the hand
- 11:50Speaker 1: and the other looked like it completely missed the hand
- 11:52Speaker 1: or that they were kind of riding concurrently together and
- 11:55Speaker 1: that there wasn't contact. I didn't see anything conclusive that
- 11:58Speaker 1: made me say that should be overturned.
- 12:00Speaker 2: I sure don't see how- Could go either way, I
- 12:01Speaker 2: can see it. I get why they called it, but
- 12:03Speaker 2: I was looking at that.
- 12:03Speaker 1: But to me, it's like the call that you made
- 12:05Speaker 1: should have stood because, right?
- 12:08Speaker 2: Because good luck telling me exactly where the contact is.
- 12:10Speaker 2: If you're discussing it for eight minutes, I sure don't
- 12:12Speaker 2: see how it can be conclusive. That's just it. I mean,
- 12:14Speaker 2: isn't that the very definition of inconclusive? It is. I mean,
- 12:17Speaker 2: it's a little bit ridiculous. So the spirit of the
- 12:20Speaker 2: rule is the call of the field should stand, but.
- 12:22Speaker 1: My dad kept asking me, when are they going to
- 12:23Speaker 1: stop showing the same replay?
- 12:24Speaker 2: I'm like, they're filling time, Dad. They haven't made a
- 12:27Speaker 2: call yet. That's the problem. I was like, well, I
- 12:29Speaker 2: don't see how it's concluding.
- 12:30Speaker 1: But now that's a pair of games in this series
- 12:33Speaker 1: that you have not gotten the benefit of the replay review.
- 12:38Speaker 1: The spirit of the rule has gone against you, just
- 12:40Speaker 1: like the neighborhood play in game one had always been
- 12:44Speaker 1: a thing.
- 12:44Speaker 3: Always.
- 12:44Speaker 2: Not anymore in the replay era.
- 12:46Speaker 1: But you still got... the opportunity to dust it off
- 12:49Speaker 1: and roll right through. There's just a struggle that I'm having, Drew,
- 12:54Speaker 1: of meeting it in the middle of the excitement that
- 12:57Speaker 1: has been there for the Brewers and the loving, the
- 13:00Speaker 1: energy and the atmosphere and the amount of people that
- 13:04Speaker 1: are jumping all over the bandwagon. But if you are
- 13:06Speaker 1: here and you've been here, or if you're just jumping
- 13:08Speaker 1: on and this team has been so different and that's
- 13:10Speaker 1: what captivated you, feels a little disingenuous for the extra
- 13:15Speaker 1: inning loss. To be the reason why you jump off
- 13:18Speaker 1: the train and not feel confident rolling in with the
- 13:23Speaker 1: best pitcher in the sport going in game five in
- 13:26Speaker 1: what I can only imagine is going to be another
- 13:27Speaker 1: raucous Brewer crowd. Because if you thought the tickets were
- 13:30Speaker 1: starting to go down for yesterday's.
- 13:31Speaker 2: Game, they tanked.
- 13:34Speaker 1: For today's game and anybody within a 90 mile vicinity
- 13:39Speaker 1: snowboarding it i would assume is going to think about gassing.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Up the sonata and driving themselves up there for the game.
- 13:44Speaker 1: My buddy the boston barrister hit me up and said
- 13:46Speaker 1: prices are cratering i'm going to get lower bowl between
- 13:49Speaker 1: home plate and dugout well under face it should be
- 13:51Speaker 1: mostly a lot of brewers fans and then obviously here
- 13:54Speaker 1: in american family field they put the tickets for the
- 13:57Speaker 1: watch party on sale at noon i believe it was
- 13:59Speaker 1: noon And a lot of people crashed the site. Everyone
- 14:02Speaker 1: couldn't get in. They're being sold in the aftermarket. So
- 14:04Speaker 1: that's another situation. Get in the door price for the
- 14:06Speaker 1: game tonight in Tampa, $ 370 currently on TickPick. The price
- 14:13Speaker 1: for that and the price for what some people were
- 14:15Speaker 1: trying to sell the watch party tickets might get closer
- 14:18Speaker 1: to meeting in the middle, which is a funny thing.
- 14:20Speaker 1: But you get it if you were there, I think,
- 14:23Speaker 1: at American Family Field because it is outstanding energy and
- 14:26Speaker 1: outstanding feeling to be there with– 32,000 of your closest
- 14:30Speaker 1: friends trying to urge this team on. We just, we
- 14:33Speaker 1: like gathering and being together. It's watch parties, everything. It's
- 14:35Speaker 1: what it is.
- 14:36Speaker 2: They're trying to share the moment.
- 14:37Speaker 1: There were days when an entire, the birds wouldn't draw
- 14:40Speaker 1: 30,000 for a series.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Oh yes. When Ronnie Belliard was manning.
- 14:45Speaker 1: I still remember sitting on a Sunday, sunny Sunday morning,
- 14:49Speaker 1: you know, late, late summer, Sunday morning. And I've in
- 14:54Speaker 1: the press box at County stadium, getting ready to start my,
- 14:56Speaker 1: my work day and have the, The paper, the Sunday
- 15:00Speaker 1: sports section with me and old Commissioner Seelig, then running
- 15:04Speaker 1: the Brewers and Major League Baseball, walking behind me.
- 15:06Speaker 2: He sees the headline. He's like, Packers had 55,000 people
- 15:10Speaker 2: at a practice? At a practice? Yeah.
- 15:14Speaker 1: They drew 55,000 people for a practice?
- 15:17Speaker 2: For family night. Like, they sold it out. We're talking
- 15:20Speaker 2: about practice. They sold it out. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
- 15:23Speaker 2: they did.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Brewers were drawing about 8,000 to 10,000 to 12,000 at
- 15:27Speaker 1: that point.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Did we get that for a homestand?
- 15:29Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 15:30Speaker 1: My buddy always has the same running reference point. When
- 15:32Speaker 1: we're kind of going through it or like on the
- 15:34Speaker 1: group text, when we say, oh, man, we're struggling and
- 15:37Speaker 1: the Brewers and we're worried, he always just sends back
- 15:40Speaker 1: Royce Clayton. He just texts back Royce Clayton. Like, remember
- 15:43Speaker 1: the Royce Clayton days? It's rude to Royce because he
- 15:45Speaker 1: had a nice career. The old three brewers weren't good, though,
- 15:48Speaker 1: when he was playing here. And he just texts back
- 15:50Speaker 1: Royce Clayton. That used to be our guy, so things
- 15:52Speaker 1: are better now. That's what he always says. How many
- 15:55Speaker 1: hugs would you say Armin Sarian gave out last night
- 15:59Speaker 1: after the Cooper-Brad home run? So I was in the bathroom.
- 16:02Speaker 1: I was in the bathroom coming out when Cooper was
- 16:04Speaker 1: at the plate.
- 16:05Speaker 2: I was holding it. Listen, give me a chance. I
- 16:07Speaker 2: was holding it for like four innings.
- 16:09Speaker 1: And I'm like, if I'm not going to go now,
- 16:11Speaker 1: I got to go now. I'm like, all right, I'm
- 16:13Speaker 1: going to get in there. As soon as we got
- 16:15Speaker 1: the last out in the bottom half, I go in there.
- 16:18Speaker 1: I was joking with the guy next to me at
- 16:20Speaker 1: the urinal. I said, well, maybe they'll score while we're
- 16:22Speaker 1: in the bathroom. And then we can hang out in
- 16:25Speaker 1: here all night until they win. We're like, we'll take that.
- 16:27Speaker 2: I did get out. I hear the cheers.
- 16:29Speaker 1: I run to the nearest Concourse TV right in 220 there.
- 16:34Speaker 2: The ball goes over the wall.
- 16:36Speaker 1: I start screaming and high stepping into people's faces. And
- 16:39Speaker 1: it was a bunch of just spontaneous frivolity. That's all
- 16:43Speaker 1: I can describe it. People were taping each other, high
- 16:47Speaker 1: fiving each other, hugging, bumping parts of bodies. It was
- 16:51Speaker 1: a tremendous moment. And then right away, it was that
- 16:54Speaker 1: nervousness of like, who's ready to go? Who's ready to
- 16:57Speaker 1: pitch for us? And so you didn't stay in the
- 16:59Speaker 1: bathroom like you said you were going to after it happened.
- 17:02Speaker 2: If I stayed, if I stayed. In the bathroom. Would
- 17:05Speaker 2: our lives have been different? They might have won 7-3.
- 17:09Speaker 2: There were zero outs.
- 17:10Speaker 1: Sorry.
- 17:10Speaker 2: There were zero outs when Cooper hit that. That's true.
- 17:12Speaker 2: We could have used some insurance there. We almost came close.
- 17:15Speaker 1: Would have been nice. We have the breaking news from
- 17:18Speaker 1: the Trop. Oh, and I guess. On the bump for
- 17:21Speaker 1: your Tampa Bay Rays tonight.
- 17:24Speaker 2: Drew Rasmussen. You know why not? If you're the race, right?
- 17:27Speaker 1: And the way you think about it, it's like they
- 17:29Speaker 1: have to go for it now, right? What did that
- 17:31Speaker 1: fat schlub in Milwaukee just say?
- 17:32Speaker 2: Yeah, we are throwing Rasmussen tonight on short rest. Honestly,
- 17:37Speaker 2: how can you fault Kevin Cash? I mean, I don't know.
- 17:40Speaker 4: I mean.
- 17:42Speaker 1: But this is where your advantage should be if you're
- 17:44Speaker 1: the Brewers. This is his chance to be a hero. Oh,
- 17:46Speaker 1: big time is. Big time is. And he was going in.
- 17:49Speaker 1: He had been the best starting pitcher in the playoffs.
- 17:52Speaker 1: He now comes in here, Drew, with an opportunity to
- 17:57Speaker 1: send it back to Milwaukee. Potentially, how it's lining up,
- 18:02Speaker 1: he's going to start and pitch on short rest. This
- 18:04Speaker 1: is why the Mizorowski thing was also huge last night
- 18:06Speaker 1: and why he couldn't do it. If there's any possibility
- 18:09Speaker 1: this thing does get to Game 7.
- 18:11Speaker 2: He's off the sheet.
- 18:12Speaker 1: There's no way he's pitching back-to-back days if you're going
- 18:15Speaker 1: to start him in game six. Rasmussen and Miz would
- 18:18Speaker 1: each potentially be alive and be up for game seven.
- 18:22Speaker 1: And I would definitely bet on Rasmussen is in their plans.
- 18:25Speaker 1: If they're outlining it right now after Kevin Cash. has
- 18:28Speaker 1: a smoke and enjoys maybe a victory here tonight. He's
- 18:31Speaker 1: thinking about it saying we can go twice after last
- 18:35Speaker 1: night celebrating. We can go twice with our guy. We
- 18:37Speaker 1: got Peralta in game six. Martinez, whatever we want. They're
- 18:40Speaker 1: feeling all right. All this talk about familiarity with the
- 18:43Speaker 1: relievers and the pen. Well, familiarity with starters is a
- 18:46Speaker 1: thing too.
- 18:46Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 18:47Speaker 1: And Rasmussen didn't get out of the fourth inning on
- 18:50Speaker 1: Saturday night. Almost halved his shortest start in the playoffs.
- 18:55Speaker 1: Six hits and two walks.
- 18:56Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
- 18:57Speaker 1: In three and two thirds and three runs. So, yeah, well,
- 19:01Speaker 1: that's all right. And what he had gone seven in
- 19:03Speaker 1: his first previous two outings, right. And locked up the Yankees.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. And was, was dominant against the guardians.
- 19:09Speaker 1: So it was against Rasmussen, both on short rest, technically,
- 19:13Speaker 1: although it's really short rest for Rasmussen. Miz is shorter
- 19:16Speaker 1: than his normal, but my advice, my thing to Miz
- 19:21Speaker 1: and what Chris Hook and Murph should tell him that
- 19:23Speaker 1: he's just, empty the tank we'll win this game and
- 19:25Speaker 1: this is your last game of the year the last
- 19:27Speaker 1: game of the year the tank go and enjoy it
- 19:28Speaker 1: empty the tank now i also i also need you
- 19:32Speaker 1: to get me 18 outs i need i need six
- 19:35Speaker 1: that's where your advantage lies right i need six for
- 19:37Speaker 1: ms tonight because then i got i can go uribe
- 19:40Speaker 1: and then maybe ashby if i have to or senzatella
- 19:43Speaker 1: and then uh mcgill yeah i want to get it
- 19:46Speaker 1: to the law firm of uribe ashby mcgill so that's
- 19:48Speaker 1: where the sixth inning's got to come in because.
- 19:49Speaker 2: I think 28.
- 19:51Speaker 1: Pitches last night, and this is the other part of
- 19:53Speaker 1: it where folks were hammering Murph late of saying.
- 19:56Speaker 2: He wanted Joey to get the lead with.
- 19:58Speaker 1: Three outs away from the World Series, playing for game five. No,
- 20:01Speaker 1: he was playing for game five in extra innings when
- 20:04Speaker 1: he pulls Ashby immediately after that first guy, right?
- 20:07Speaker 2: Because his velocity dropped.
- 20:09Speaker 3: Yep.
- 20:10Speaker 1: And he goes, there's no chance I got him tomorrow
- 20:12Speaker 1: if he pitches over 30 pitches tonight. It would have
- 20:15Speaker 1: to be something quirky and crazy to get Ashby or
- 20:18Speaker 1: Hall into the game today. Basically, your bullpen tonight is,
- 20:22Speaker 1: I think, Uribe, Romero, and McGill. Well, what if you're
- 20:27Speaker 1: three outs away from winning again with a one-run lead?
- 20:29Speaker 1: You don't think they'll be tempted.
- 20:30Speaker 2: To try Ashby again? Yeah, but his velocity was down.
- 20:33Speaker 1: You know how everybody says they're nervous when McGill goes in?
- 20:36Speaker 1: I'm nervous when Ashby pitches because he's been so good, he's.
- 20:39Speaker 2: Due to give it up. Yeah, well, I get that
- 20:41Speaker 2: part of it.
- 20:42Speaker 1: And if his velo is down, he's getting by on
- 20:45Speaker 1: just guts, and he's been incredible. But how much can
- 20:49Speaker 1: you ask? How many times can you ring that bell?
- 20:51Speaker 1: sponge they've rung it enough they continue to do it
- 20:55Speaker 1: i feel much better about leaving him on the shelf
- 20:58Speaker 1: tonight and have it in fresh in case there is
- 21:00Speaker 1: a game six because then i want.
- 21:01Speaker 2: To use him for two and two-thirds in game.
- 21:03Speaker 1: Six yeah yeah i i get it and i think
- 21:06Speaker 1: about i i'm i'm with you i understand the point
- 21:08Speaker 1: i don't know that i agree because if i if
- 21:11Speaker 1: i got the chance and he tells me that he
- 21:13Speaker 1: feels good and i watched that rubber arm all.
- 21:15Speaker 2: Year That's the training part.
- 21:17Speaker 1: If anybody has pitched more times than Aaron Ashby out
- 21:21Speaker 1: of the pen in baseball, I'd like to see it.
- 21:23Speaker 2: And that's the thing. And that's what he said last
- 21:25Speaker 2: night is.
- 21:26Speaker 1: I never make any proclamations until I come in and
- 21:28Speaker 1: see how I feel playing catch. And if he goes
- 21:30Speaker 1: and tells Murph I'm good to go, you're definitely going.
- 21:32Speaker 2: To see him against some lefties in the seventh, eighth,
- 21:35Speaker 2: or ninth.
- 21:36Speaker 1: Okay, Drew, the buzzing it over to first base that
- 21:39Speaker 1: Ashby did when he fielded the ground ball.
- 21:40Speaker 2: That was faster than any of his fastballs. Oh, my gosh,
- 21:44Speaker 2: that ball.
- 21:44Speaker 1: I can't remember who got the story, but the bullpen
- 21:48Speaker 1: catcher is the only guy that can warm up with Ashby.
- 21:50Speaker 1: The only guy that will catch him because he throws
- 21:52Speaker 1: like 90% velocity all the time.
- 21:54Speaker 2: I just love that. He goes, no, I only have
- 21:56Speaker 2: one speed, brother. All gas.
- 21:58Speaker 1: And the gas and the whoa from the crowd when
- 22:02Speaker 1: he did that, like, oh my goodness.
- 22:03Speaker 2: And the fact that he was stepping up on the mound,
- 22:05Speaker 2: pitching uphill.
- 22:06Speaker 4: Yes.
- 22:07Speaker 2: That was incredible.
- 22:09Speaker 1: That's why it's the chest the powers of the w
- 22:12Speaker 1: that's why sword makes you wonder what doc holiday says
- 22:14Speaker 1: on youtube ashby's a rubber arm he'll be fine for
- 22:16Speaker 1: one you know i think they'll be tempted that's all
- 22:18Speaker 1: i'm trying to say i'm just saying if you're three
- 22:21Speaker 1: more outs again you think about it like if ashby
- 22:23Speaker 1: were to give it up think about the momentum swing
- 22:25Speaker 1: and the psychology swing in the series that's exactly and
- 22:29Speaker 1: that was the exact reason why you didn't go to
- 22:31Speaker 1: miss last night right yeah isn't that true if anybody
- 22:35Speaker 1: gives it up I mean, different though.
- 22:37Speaker 2: I kept hearing from Ashby's been there. Great white whale.
- 22:40Speaker 1: He's been, I know, but I keep hearing like, well,
- 22:42Speaker 1: the way the raise one last time, like if they
- 22:44Speaker 1: would have won anyway, I feel like there's momentum for sure. But,
- 22:48Speaker 1: but just like now they didn't get the ball back,
- 22:50Speaker 1: but the, uh, the Vikings against the Falcons in the
- 22:54Speaker 1: NFC title game, The only thing.
- 22:56Speaker 2: That was the surest thing for that team all year long.
- 22:58Speaker 2: The kicker, I know.
- 22:58Speaker 1: The kicker. He gives it up, game over. There's no
- 23:02Speaker 1: way you're coming back from that momentum swing. So that
- 23:04Speaker 1: one is a tough one to have. All right, when
- 23:06Speaker 1: we come back, we'll catch up with our buddy El
- 23:08Speaker 1: Jefe John Greenberg.
- 23:09Speaker 2: They're in action tonight. At Panther.
- 23:11Speaker 1: You better believe it. We're going to have some fun.
- 23:13Speaker 1: Billy's going to be in the house. I'm going to
- 23:15Speaker 1: be partying it up. I feel the energy will transfer.
- 23:18Speaker 1: When the Admirals put pucks in the net tonight, the
- 23:20Speaker 1: Brewers will put runs on the board.
- 23:22Speaker 2: Greeny is next.
- 23:23Speaker 1: Our pal, Trenny Casey from Boston, who's in town to party.
- 23:26Speaker 2: With her people. Our old friend, Trenny.
- 23:29Speaker 1: She turned down a chance to go to Tampa. She
- 23:31Speaker 1: could have gone to Tampa for the clinch, but she
- 23:32Speaker 1: wanted to be with the people here. She wanted to
- 23:34Speaker 1: be with the masses. She's in town.
- 23:36Speaker 2: We'll talk to her.
- 23:37Speaker 1: And then Hunter Baumgart joins us live from the Trop.
- 23:39Speaker 1: Once again, Drew Rasmussen. Against the Miz.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Huddled up on a Wednesday. Drew Billion-Armond bringing it to you.
- 23:52Speaker 2: Brewers against the Rays.
- 23:55Speaker 1: Chance to win the World Series tonight in Tampa.
- 23:57Speaker 2: It's also hockey night in Milwaukee.
- 23:59Speaker 1: Hockey night in the good land.
- 23:59Speaker 2: President of the Milwaukee Admirals. Friend of the program.
- 24:02Speaker 1: El Jefe himself, John Greenberg, joins us on the NicoletLaw.com
- 24:05Speaker 1: talk and text line.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Greeny.
- 24:08Speaker 4: Good afternoon, everybody. How are we doing?
- 24:10Speaker 2: Fantastic. Better now.
- 24:11Speaker 1: How do you handle a night when you guys have
- 24:14Speaker 1: a game on your season and everybody's occupied kind of
- 24:18Speaker 1: trying to pay attention to another game at the same time?
- 24:20Speaker 2: How do you handle that in the building?
- 24:23Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's a good chance to meet all
- 24:26Speaker 3: of our fans individually. But, you know, we'll be very excited.
- 24:32Speaker 4: For the people who are here.
- 24:33Speaker 3: I know people will be focused on their phones and
- 24:36Speaker 3: things like that. But, you know, it is a... It
- 24:38Speaker 3: is a winning weekday tonight, so if you're coming out,
- 24:40Speaker 3: you might be rewarded with another game for free if
- 24:43Speaker 3: we win this one. So it's a good reason to
- 24:45Speaker 3: come out, and we'll have the game on down in
- 24:49Speaker 3: the Coors Light Chill Zone. We've got a couple of
- 24:52Speaker 3: guys signing autographs after the game, Jake Lucchini and Cole O'Hara.
- 24:55Speaker 3: And so they'll be down there sending autographs.
- 24:58Speaker 4: But the TVs will be on, and we're going to
- 25:00Speaker 4: keep the bar open until 1030.
- 25:01Speaker 3: So, you know, hopefully we can get a good start
- 25:07Speaker 3: to the celebration going right here.
- 25:09Speaker 1: That's perfect because it is going to be a celebration
- 25:12Speaker 1: throughout the city if they can get it done. Obviously, Greeny,
- 25:15Speaker 1: you've been around locker rooms and around clubhouses for a
- 25:18Speaker 1: long time. The ability to play the next day in baseball, I've.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Marveled at a long time.
- 25:25Speaker 1: But what is that like for everybody around the team, right?
- 25:29Speaker 2: The folks in Tampa.
- 25:30Speaker 1: Yesterday, had to do the preparation for the stage on field,
- 25:35Speaker 1: and I imagine some of the workers and employees were
- 25:37Speaker 1: thinking about what it's going to be like after Cooper Pratt.
- 25:40Speaker 2: It's the home run to go do it. Everybody immediately flips.
- 25:43Speaker 1: That's not easy from the business side of we're planning
- 25:47Speaker 1: and hoping we have a game tomorrow.
- 25:49Speaker 2: Oh, now we actually do.
- 25:52Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you go into that saying we're going
- 25:54Speaker 3: to have a game tomorrow. I mean, I think you
- 25:56Speaker 3: just go with that until that's just not reality anymore.
- 25:59Speaker 3: You have to be prepared. You know, you've got to
- 26:02Speaker 3: just have all of your ducks in a row. You
- 26:04Speaker 3: can't be scrambling at the last minute. So you prepare
- 26:07Speaker 3: like you're going to play every game that you can
- 26:09Speaker 3: possibly play. And, you know, when it doesn't happen, hopefully
- 26:14Speaker 3: you're the one that's celebrating that.
- 26:16Speaker 1: John Greenberg joining us. Admirals playing in action tonight. And
- 26:19Speaker 1: then you're on the road tonight. This weekend, and there
- 26:22Speaker 1: might not be any competition this weekend from baseball if
- 26:25Speaker 1: the Brewers win, but Greeny, we've talked about it before,
- 26:27Speaker 1: the psychology and the excitement that a team, like we
- 26:30Speaker 1: saw it when the Bucks won, it does put people
- 26:33Speaker 1: in a sporting mood, right? They realize how exciting games are,
- 26:36Speaker 1: and it brings the community together, and the rising tide
- 26:40Speaker 1: lifts all boats, doesn't it, in a market? I don't
- 26:43Speaker 1: know if there's metrics, if you guys go through those
- 26:44Speaker 1: and stuff, and when another team wins in a market,
- 26:48Speaker 1: all the other teams end up seeing a boost, right?
- 26:51Speaker 3: Well, that's certainly what the hope is, but I can
- 26:53Speaker 3: tell you just anecdotally here just this week with obviously
- 26:57Speaker 3: the Brewers playing these games in.
- 27:00Speaker 4: Tampa that our phone.
- 27:02Speaker 3: Calls to prospective groups and ticket buyers have been very
- 27:07Speaker 3: well received. People are very open to wanting to.
- 27:10Speaker 4: Come out and be part of this.
- 27:12Speaker 3: You know, something in sports.
- 27:14Speaker 4: And we announced last week three.
- 27:16Speaker 3: Brewers giveaways, one in February, one in March, one in April,
- 27:21Speaker 3: immediate response. So, you know, we're trying to capitalize on.
- 27:24Speaker 4: This as well. And obviously as partners.
- 27:28Speaker 3: With the Brewers, it makes that a little bit easier. But,
- 27:31Speaker 3: you know, that excitement is absolutely palpable. And, you know,
- 27:37Speaker 3: we've been able to, get a bunch of our staff
- 27:41Speaker 3: members out to World Series games, which has been a
- 27:44Speaker 3: real thrill for me. Everybody's part of it. Everybody gets
- 27:48Speaker 3: to have this excitement. It's something that we hope will
- 27:53Speaker 3: happen more frequently than it has happened in the past,
- 27:57Speaker 3: but you have to enjoy it while it's going on.
- 27:59Speaker 1: Yeah, October baseball and June hockey are two things that
- 28:02Speaker 1: I could get used to in the city of Milwaukee.
- 28:05Speaker 1: John Greenberg of the Milwaukee Admirals hanging out with us here.
- 28:07Speaker 1: You mentioned it, the promos with the Brewers. Bernie and
- 28:11Speaker 1: Roscoe bobblehead giveaway. This is a sweet one coming up
- 28:14Speaker 1: in March that you guys put together just last week
- 28:16Speaker 1: announcing it.
- 28:17Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Brewers were very open to wanting to
- 28:21Speaker 3: do this, to be able to promote two of our
- 28:24Speaker 3: most visible icons to our teams, with Bernie and Roscoe,
- 28:30Speaker 3: and that'll be a lot of fun. And they actually
- 28:33Speaker 3: allowed us to... up the quantity of those. Usually, we're
- 28:37Speaker 3: doing 2,500 bobbleheads. This time, we actually get to do
- 28:40Speaker 3: 3,500 bobbleheads, so we can get those into more people's hands.
- 28:45Speaker 3: It's a nice thing as part of the collaboration between
- 28:48Speaker 3: our two teams. Our players, actually, their celebration in the
- 28:53Speaker 3: locker room for winning Player of the Game and Hardest
- 28:57Speaker 3: Worker are actually Brewers-related items.
- 29:01Speaker 4: We've got a Joy Ortiz bat.
- 29:03Speaker 3: That actually has a crack at it.
- 29:04Speaker 4: And then we've got a.
- 29:07Speaker 3: Jersey that I'm not sure who it belongs to, but
- 29:10Speaker 3: we're hoping to get those replaced by some of the
- 29:12Speaker 3: current guys with something new here in the coming weeks
- 29:16Speaker 3: once things kind of calm down.
- 29:17Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get them out of.
- 29:18Speaker 1: The John Jaha jersey that they're putting on after the
- 29:21Speaker 1: game and celebrating.
- 29:22Speaker 2: Hey, respect on Ja's name.
- 29:23Speaker 1: But I do like to, uh, when, when the boys
- 29:25Speaker 1: always do those, um, you know, those, when you guys
- 29:28Speaker 1: had the video in the locker room after a win
- 29:30Speaker 1: and they had some wild props in the past, like
- 29:32Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember exactly what that was. It was
- 29:34Speaker 1: some sort of hat I want to say, or maybe
- 29:36Speaker 1: it was a prop, but I, sort of like that.
- 29:38Speaker 1: That's a pretty good one. I could see that. Maybe
- 29:40Speaker 1: that'll stretch over to the Brewers as well, Greeny.
- 29:42Speaker 2: You got to get in there and give us some ideas.
- 29:45Speaker 4: Absolutely.
- 29:46Speaker 3: Yeah, there was like a Daniel Boone coonskin cap that
- 29:49Speaker 3: was making our way around, which I thought was just disgusting.
- 29:52Speaker 4: By the end of the year because.
- 29:54Speaker 3: That thing is hot in general and it's just going
- 29:56Speaker 3: on a different sweaty head every day.
- 29:58Speaker 2: Hockey players' heads? What do you mean?
- 29:59Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 30:02Speaker 2: Oh, that's something else.
- 30:03Speaker 1: All the moms that have youth hockey players just heard
- 30:06Speaker 1: what Greeny said there and they're like, thank God somebody
- 30:09Speaker 1: knows that this stuff reeks in the back.
- 30:11Speaker 3: John Greenberg, President.
- 30:13Speaker 2: Of the Admirals joining us.
- 30:14Speaker 1: As a man who started his career picking up towels
- 30:17Speaker 1: and underwear and things like that, what is the clubby
- 30:20Speaker 1: in you think when you see these celebrations and the
- 30:22Speaker 1: champagne and how much vacuuming you have to do and
- 30:24Speaker 1: how much cleaning? You lived that life. And it was,
- 30:28Speaker 1: you know, you know what it was like at the
- 30:29Speaker 1: end of a homestand when you had to get one
- 30:31Speaker 1: team out and get the next team in.
- 30:32Speaker 2: Or the end of a series, I should say.
- 30:35Speaker 1: What do you think clubby life is like for those
- 30:38Speaker 1: clinching games?
- 30:40Speaker 3: I think it's, you know, this will be the fourth
- 30:44Speaker 3: time that they've had to do it, you know, regular
- 30:47Speaker 3: season and then playoffs, multiple playoffs. I think you savor it.
- 30:52Speaker 3: And then when it's all over, you look at the
- 30:54Speaker 3: wreckage and you figure out how you're going to fix it.
- 30:57Speaker 3: I think part of the good thing is, you know,
- 31:02Speaker 3: you're going to get well-tipped.
- 31:03Speaker 4: Let's put it that way.
- 31:05Speaker 3: This is going to be a very lucrative situation for
- 31:09Speaker 3: the clubhouse guys in Tampa. While it'll suck because their
- 31:14Speaker 3: team is not going to win, hopefully, they'll be happy
- 31:20Speaker 3: to go to the bank.
- 31:22Speaker 2: Don't even put that hopefully in there, Greeny.
- 31:24Speaker 4: You said it. It's over.
- 31:25Speaker 1: They're going to win it tonight. It's all good. It
- 31:27Speaker 1: is a winning Wednesday. You mentioned that earlier. Summerfest winning Wednesday,
- 31:32Speaker 1: even better. And there's opportunities for people to get wins
- 31:36Speaker 1: while the Brewers and hopefully the Admirals win here coming
- 31:38Speaker 1: up tonight.
- 31:38Speaker 2: That's a good point.
- 31:39Speaker 3: Yeah, winning weekdays are extremely popular. So we win tonight.
- 31:45Speaker 3: You use that ticket from tonight's game and you get
- 31:47Speaker 3: a free one for the game on Tuesday, December 1st,
- 31:50Speaker 3: which is our next non-school day weekday game.
- 31:53Speaker 4: And last year we went 8-1 on winning weekdays tonight.
- 31:57Speaker 3: So if you came out that first time, you may
- 32:01Speaker 3: have gotten five or six games for free. So it's
- 32:04Speaker 3: a great opportunity to do something fun. Our friends at
- 32:06Speaker 3: Summerfest are great partners in helping us make it happen.
- 32:10Speaker 2: Sounds like a free money line bet. I will say this.
- 32:13Speaker 1: People who go to the Panther Arena tonight to watch
- 32:15Speaker 1: the Admirals and see Bill Schmidt on the scoreboard. They
- 32:18Speaker 1: are really hockey fans and really Admirals fans. And I
- 32:20Speaker 1: know that a lot of the Admirals fans I encounter
- 32:23Speaker 1: are so deep into your team, into hockey greenie, that
- 32:25Speaker 1: they're barely aware that other teams exist.
- 32:29Speaker 3: So I can tell you that I'm breaking out my
- 32:32Speaker 3: Bob Uecker jersey to wear tonight. So you'll see me easily.
- 32:36Speaker 4: Around the building.
- 32:39Speaker 3: Bob signed it, so his name is on my back.
- 32:41Speaker 3: And I'm excited to be able to rep that, hopefully,
- 32:45Speaker 3: for a big celebration.
- 32:47Speaker 1: That is spectacular. Greeny, best of luck tonight. We will
- 32:50Speaker 1: catch up with you next week. And folks should go
- 32:52Speaker 1: if you're looking for somewhere to go.
- 32:54Speaker 2: And be around people. Go watch the game. Watch some hockey.
- 32:59Speaker 1: You can watch everything. Also, if you just need to
- 33:02Speaker 1: calm your nerves. My wife is doing puzzles to calm
- 33:05Speaker 1: the nerves. Maybe watching hockey will calm your nerves while
- 33:07Speaker 1: the game is going on as well.
- 33:08Speaker 2: Walk the concourse a little bit maybe. I like it. Thanks, Greeny.
- 33:12Speaker 4: See you, man. Thanks, boys. Appreciate it.
- 33:14Speaker 1: Check out MilwaukeeAdmirals.com for ticket information. Go see Billy tonight.
- 33:19Speaker 1: Billy will be wearing Admiral's gear, not Brewer's gear. And
- 33:21Speaker 1: there will be zero distractedness from your boy over here.
- 33:25Speaker 2: I pride myself. Going in the bubble.
- 33:27Speaker 1: I pride myself on being an incredible professional. So I'm
- 33:29Speaker 1: going to put myself in the bubble.
- 33:31Speaker 2: Oh, you'll be good.
- 33:32Speaker 1: I'm going to turn the phone off. And then I'm
- 33:36Speaker 1: DVRing the game.
- 33:37Speaker 2: I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
- 33:39Speaker 1: Could you imagine if there's still somebody thinking they're going
- 33:42Speaker 1: to do that?
- 33:43Speaker 2: Don't ruin it for me. I'm taping it. You're DVRing it.
- 33:45Speaker 2: Stop talking to me. I'm going to watch the game later.
- 33:48Speaker 2: I don't want to know what happened. There's no way
- 33:52Speaker 2: you'll know, right? There's another way you can hide yourself
- 33:54Speaker 2: from that. There's no way you'll hear random cheers from
- 33:56Speaker 2: the crowd. Oh, my gosh.
- 33:57Speaker 1: You'd have to be in the middle of the woods
- 33:58Speaker 1: with your phone off. Our pal, OG Brewers fan, Trenny Casey,
- 34:02Speaker 1: is going to join us in about an hour. Hunter
- 34:03Speaker 1: joins us at 425 live from Tropicana Field. Getting ready
- 34:08Speaker 1: for game five and a potential celebration of all celebrations.
- 34:11Speaker 1: You got to have the agony of defeat to have
- 34:13Speaker 1: the thrill of victory, right? So that's what we had
- 34:15Speaker 1: last night, the agony of defeat. Here in the huddle,
- 34:17Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Folks went down for three and four.
- 34:20Speaker 1: I have a friend who he decided not to leave
- 34:25Speaker 1: for game three. for game four and five he that
- 34:29Speaker 1: was his plan because he's like game three can't be
- 34:32Speaker 1: a clincher yeah or could be and five could be
- 34:34Speaker 1: so he's getting he's getting a double dose the two
- 34:37Speaker 1: games that he chose to attend have clinching potential i
- 34:40Speaker 1: gotta say um there was a moment yesterday after uh
- 34:44Speaker 1: they're doing the transition right from fox to fs1 and
- 34:48Speaker 1: I'm debating how much more of this postgame am I
- 34:50Speaker 1: going to suffer through. Am I going to rewind it
- 34:53Speaker 1: and watch the entire 12th inning again, which I did,
- 34:55Speaker 1: which was really, really smart and painful. Where I thought
- 35:00Speaker 1: about it, Drew, I was really glad I got on
- 35:02Speaker 1: that plane yesterday morning. I was really glad I got
- 35:07Speaker 1: on that 620 flight to Nashville that connected and got
- 35:11Speaker 1: me back to Milwaukee. Because I'm telling you, I'm laying
- 35:15Speaker 1: in a hotel room on Monday night in Tampa, well,
- 35:17Speaker 1: Tuesday morning technically, and thinking, I could very much.
- 35:22Speaker 2: Adjust a couple of things.
- 35:24Speaker 1: I could call the boys again. I could probably figure
- 35:27Speaker 1: out a way. I could definitely go to Ferg's again.
- 35:31Speaker 1: I was thinking about it heavily, and I'm pretty glad
- 35:34Speaker 1: that I held that off. Now, I hope everybody decides
- 35:38Speaker 1: last night, now we're going to go down to game five.
- 35:40Speaker 1: And if they are, they're cashing in on a deal,
- 35:41Speaker 1: because right now you can get in for- We had
- 35:43Speaker 1: a friend who had tickets to game four, ended up
- 35:45Speaker 1: selling them. He went to game two instead, saw Brewers
- 35:47Speaker 1: victory at home, and had- No FOMO about it once
- 35:51Speaker 1: the loss came down the pike last night.
- 35:53Speaker 2: It changes it up. And that's always the risk you
- 35:55Speaker 2: run when you invest a lot in some of these games.
- 35:57Speaker 1: My brother-in-law bought game five for the thought that it
- 36:00Speaker 1: would be the clinch. And then last night had to
- 36:03Speaker 1: have that little devil on one shoulder, angel on the
- 36:07Speaker 1: other of saying, I'd really like to go to the
- 36:09Speaker 1: World Series clincher. I really wouldn't like to watch my
- 36:11Speaker 1: team lose in extra innings in heartbreaking walk-off fashion. That's
- 36:16Speaker 1: a tough way to go at it, but he boarded
- 36:18Speaker 1: a flight.
- 36:19Speaker 2: At midway today.
- 36:20Speaker 1: The risk of running, the consequences, yes. You attended both
- 36:23Speaker 1: watch parties so far. Was last night more pronounced? Was
- 36:27Speaker 1: it the loudest it had been, the most delirious it
- 36:30Speaker 1: had been? Cooper Pratt hit the home run or was
- 36:33Speaker 1: the eight run inning? Well, the eight run inning was
- 36:36Speaker 1: just this sustained excitement. Obviously throughout the park that kept
- 36:40Speaker 1: going because of the way they just kept hitting and
- 36:42Speaker 1: kept getting runs and the realization that you're going to
- 36:44Speaker 1: go up three on the series. And then it really
- 36:47Speaker 1: obviously calmed down. It was more of a chilled in,
- 36:49Speaker 1: more of a party atmosphere, more of enjoying the emotions
- 36:55Speaker 1: of being at the ballpark, seventh inning stretch.
- 36:57Speaker 2: It was more of a relaxed, fun vibe there.
- 37:00Speaker 1: The anxiousness and the energy was more tense last night,
- 37:05Speaker 1: obviously because of the game. But the intensity when that
- 37:08Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt home run was hit was the loudest pop
- 37:11Speaker 1: just because of how close they were. you know, to
- 37:14Speaker 1: finishing it. So that's kind of how the way I
- 37:16Speaker 1: would describe it. Once you're in that eight run inning. Yeah,
- 37:19Speaker 1: that was an amazing, that sustained 10 minutes was amazing.
- 37:22Speaker 1: And then after that, it was a very comfortable kind
- 37:24Speaker 1: of lounge, lounge party.
- 37:26Speaker 2: I don't know how else.
- 37:27Speaker 4: To say it.
- 37:28Speaker 2: Well, it was, it's just draining.
- 37:29Speaker 1: It's like I've been in buildings for overtime hockey games
- 37:33Speaker 1: and stuff in the playoffs.
- 37:36Speaker 2: It's, it's draining. It's a row.
- 37:37Speaker 1: You're on the edge of your seat and it does,
- 37:39Speaker 1: it kind of saps you. It's like, Oh, it was exhausting.
- 37:42Speaker 1: It was emotionally exhausting for six innings, for seven innings.
- 37:45Speaker 1: Getting out of each inning and then the cheer was
- 37:48Speaker 1: big there, the hope that you'd score. Waiting for that
- 37:51Speaker 1: review at second was another one that was just the
- 37:53Speaker 1: crowd gasping, talking. But the nice thing is if you
- 37:58Speaker 1: are someone that, you know, Kind of goes through the
- 38:01Speaker 1: therapy of talking to other people. Everybody was there talking
- 38:04Speaker 1: about the same stuff. You could talk to.
- 38:05Speaker 2: Anybody and meet anybody last night, you know?
- 38:07Speaker 1: It's a small consolation, but we can name Cooper Pratt
- 38:10Speaker 1: our current electric superhero of the day. Very much so.
- 38:13Speaker 1: Callcurrent.com is the website. Current electric superheroes on the side
- 38:16Speaker 1: of the van. Superheroes inside the Texas. Keep your family
- 38:18Speaker 1: safe and provide the best service in the area.
- 38:21Speaker 2: Callcurrent.com. Current electric. Now, that's the thing.
- 38:25Speaker 1: It was still heroic what he did, but it's not
- 38:28Speaker 1: immortal because they didn't win. A clinching home run.
- 38:32Speaker 2: A go-ahead homer.
- 38:33Speaker 1: The game-winning homer by a 22-year-old rookie in the World Series.
- 38:39Speaker 2: It's unfortunate for him.
- 38:42Speaker 1: That highlight is going to be shown forever along with
- 38:44Speaker 1: Joe Carter and all the Kirby Puckett. Like the great
- 38:48Speaker 1: home runs in the world to Bill Mazeroski. It quickly
- 38:50Speaker 1: goes into one of the top, what, 10 swings in
- 38:53Speaker 1: the sport? 10, 15 swings in the sport.
- 38:55Speaker 2: To have it? This is a home run by a 22-year-old.
- 38:58Speaker 1: And then for the rest of his career, he'd be
- 38:59Speaker 1: known as the guy who won the World Series in 26.
- 39:02Speaker 2: Oh, God.
- 39:02Speaker 1: And for every single opening day, the loudest ovation would
- 39:06Speaker 1: not be for the captain. It would not be for
- 39:08Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt. It would be the Coop chant for Cooper Pratt.
- 39:11Speaker 1: They broke the record, apparently, Marco Antanasio said about selling
- 39:14Speaker 1: World Series merch. They would break their jersey sales for
- 39:18Speaker 1: all the 12 Cooper Pratt jerseys they would have sold
- 39:20Speaker 1: in that moment. And he does, Drew. He seems like
- 39:24Speaker 1: exactly what you want a 22-year-old next face of the
- 39:28Speaker 1: franchise to be, and that's puts him into that realm.
- 39:32Speaker 2: Churio right now is not a bad one to have.
- 39:33Speaker 1: 11 or 12, you're in good shape. My man tied
- 39:37Speaker 1: Babe Ruth last night for the most hits in the
- 39:40Speaker 1: first four games of your World Series career.
- 39:42Speaker 2: You know about him, right?
- 39:43Speaker 1: But you're sitting there with two absolute pillars of your
- 39:48Speaker 1: organization for the next five to six years. One won
- 39:50Speaker 1: the World Series. One might have been World Series MVP. Instead,
- 39:54Speaker 1: you got to go.
- 39:55Speaker 2: Get him tonight. I'm with you.
- 39:56Speaker 1: That story was unbelievably written and then just said, hold on.
- 40:02Speaker 2: That was the toughest part. Get that page out. Let's
- 40:04Speaker 2: go on to tomorrow.
- 40:05Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the toughest part, and a lot of
- 40:07Speaker 1: people were talking about that last night. The dumb heap
- 40:10Speaker 1: of history along with some of Aaron Rodgers' Hail Marys,
- 40:13Speaker 1: Jeff Janis, the Arizona game, the Jeff Janis game, like
- 40:16Speaker 1: all the heroics. It's just gone. That's the Janis one
- 40:20Speaker 1: is the closest thing, right?
- 40:21Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
- 40:22Speaker 1: It's just so unfortunate for him because if he was
- 40:25Speaker 1: at home, that could happen.
- 40:26Speaker 2: Have been a walk-off to a World Series in extra innings.
- 40:28Speaker 4: You're right.
- 40:29Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that it won't be remembered the
- 40:31Speaker 1: same way. Now, here's what I'd tell him. He was
- 40:34Speaker 1: also just great in general last night.
- 40:36Speaker 2: Four hits.
- 40:37Speaker 1: I mean, the other one drove in the first run
- 40:39Speaker 1: for the Brewers when they needed to get back off
- 40:40Speaker 1: the mat.
- 40:40Speaker 2: That was huge. Hey, Cooper, do it again tonight. You're
- 40:43Speaker 2: hot right now. You're our guy right now. You can
- 40:45Speaker 2: do it again tonight. You belong here. You got to
- 40:47Speaker 2: believe in yourself. That's what you got to tell yourself.
- 40:49Speaker 1: That's what you should tell them, right?
- 40:51Speaker 2: Here's an old guy reference, Armin.
- 40:53Speaker 1: You can check if I'm right about this, but the 74...
- 40:56Speaker 1: Finals of the Bucs.
- 40:58Speaker 2: Oh, Kareem, of course.
- 40:59Speaker 1: Kareem hit the hook at Boston Garden to win. To
- 41:01Speaker 1: beat the buzzer to win game six. And then they
- 41:03Speaker 1: lost game seven.
- 41:04Speaker 4: At home.
- 41:04Speaker 2: They came back at home to lose game seven, yeah.
- 41:06Speaker 1: But that was an incredible shot that had like a
- 41:08Speaker 1: day of life. And Cooper Pratt's thing had about 10.
- 41:11Speaker 2: Minutes of life.
- 41:12Speaker 1: Although the funny thing is because it's Kareem, I feel
- 41:14Speaker 1: like people, like that still shows up on highlight reels.
- 41:16Speaker 2: It should. That Kareem shot.
- 41:18Speaker 4: That shot.
- 41:18Speaker 1: They don't get much bigger than that. Staving off elimination.
- 41:20Speaker 2: Carlton Fisk. I mean, Carlton Fisk hit a homer.
- 41:23Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 41:23Speaker 2: In 75. They didn't win the series. That's right. But
- 41:25Speaker 2: he won that game off the foul pole.
- 41:28Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 41:28Speaker 2: The Red Sox. So there are some, but it's just.
- 41:31Speaker 2: It's tough.
- 41:31Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 41:32Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt. That would have been something else. Now we'll
- 41:35Speaker 2: get another moment though.
- 41:36Speaker 1: They're showing on a MLB network and they're using a
- 41:39Speaker 1: sports book. That's not nearly as cool as the Pottawatomie
- 41:41Speaker 1: sports book. Bet big, bet bold and bet above the rest.
- 41:43Speaker 1: And doesn't nearly give you as good a numbers on
- 41:45Speaker 1: a couple of these guys for world series MVP. They
- 41:47Speaker 1: got circled and highlighted right there. Drew Aaron Ashby, who
- 41:50Speaker 1: is now seven to one on Tuesday. He was a
- 41:54Speaker 1: hundred to one. Last night, if they would have won
- 41:57Speaker 1: that game and he would have been the winning pitcher,
- 42:00Speaker 1: does he become even more of a case to end
- 42:02Speaker 1: up winning it? I mean, I know it's a World
- 42:05Speaker 1: Series award. It's not like the cons might award in
- 42:08Speaker 1: the NHL where it's the full postseason. But he is
- 42:12Speaker 1: a hell of a guy to launch himself into the conversation.
- 42:15Speaker 1: If they would have won last night in the ninth,
- 42:18Speaker 1: I think there would have been a tough thing for
- 42:19Speaker 1: him to not potentially grab it or in the 10th.
- 42:21Speaker 2: I mean, when he was still on the mound. Absolutely.
- 42:23Speaker 2: A 35-1 at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
- 42:26Speaker 1: Junior Caminero is fine and will be in the race
- 42:28Speaker 1: starting lineup today, according to Kevin Cash.
- 42:31Speaker 2: I expected him to be in the lineup. I don't
- 42:34Speaker 2: believe he's fine. Is that fair?
- 42:37Speaker 1: Watching my man walk off last night, I can't fathom
- 42:40Speaker 1: that he's okay, that he's good.
- 42:42Speaker 2: I expect him to play.
- 42:44Speaker 1: And, I mean, if anybody's going to be able to
- 42:46Speaker 1: have a big swing, still, with 45 of them that
- 42:48Speaker 1: he hit during the regular season, I believe it to
- 42:50Speaker 1: be him.
- 42:51Speaker 2: He's definitely.
- 42:53Speaker 4: dinged.
- 42:54Speaker 2: I want to test him with 104, I'd imagine, that
- 42:57Speaker 2: first at bat by Miz. That'd be nice. It'd be
- 42:59Speaker 2: nice if he wasn't at his best.
- 43:00Speaker 4: I don't care.
- 43:01Speaker 2: I'll say it.
- 43:02Speaker 4: It'd be nice.
- 43:03Speaker 2: Go heel in the offseason. I mean, you know, I
- 43:06Speaker 2: don't care. I'll say it. That would be a nice
- 43:09Speaker 2: guy not to have in their lineup. Share your thoughts.
- 43:11Speaker 4: 877-794-1973.
- 43:12Speaker 1: In the next hour of the program, we'll catch up
- 43:15Speaker 1: with our pal Trini Casey, a huge Brewers fan, former
- 43:18Speaker 1: sideline reporter for Fox Sports. North Fox Sports. She's doing
- 43:23Speaker 1: it right. She wants to be in the belly of
- 43:24Speaker 1: the beast for the celebration. She's like, I've seen celebrations
- 43:28Speaker 1: on the road. I want to be with the people
- 43:29Speaker 1: in my city. And she's home. Now she needs them
- 43:32Speaker 1: to win tonight because she wants to go to the
- 43:33Speaker 1: parade too. And she's got to go. I was going
- 43:35Speaker 1: to say there's a timing here has to happen quickly.
- 43:38Speaker 1: We will talk to Trani coming up at 1030. And
- 43:41Speaker 1: then Hunter Baumgart joins us. At 4.30, we'll have a
- 43:44Speaker 1: special baseball pregame show tonight. When will that air, Armin,
- 43:48Speaker 1: from 5 to 6.30? 5 to 6.30, exactly. 5 to 6.30,
- 43:51Speaker 1: special baseball pregame show tonight.
- 43:53Speaker 2: From Hunter Baumgart.
- 43:54Speaker 4: Keep it right here.
- 43:55Speaker 1: Get yourself a comfortable chair, a cold or a hot
- 43:57Speaker 1: beverage of your choice, and settle in and enjoy the
- 44:00Speaker 1: huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.