Transcript

09/03/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Taking no prisoners on a thursday in the good land
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Speaker 1: drew arman and billy the huddle fox sports radio wisconsin
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Speaker 1: glad to have smart good looking listeners join us in
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Speaker 1: the seven o'clock club come on now water's fine for
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Speaker 1: those of you streaming us on facebook x and youtube
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Speaker 1: thank you Good streaming numbers, Drew.
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Speaker 2: I like the fact that we're waking up with people,
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Speaker 2: and maybe it's like a get ready with me, get
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Speaker 2: ready with us, hang out with us, and just throw
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Speaker 2: it right up on the phone.
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Speaker 3: Get ready with me as I get ready to do
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Speaker 3: my sports radio show in Milwaukee. First, I go heat
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Speaker 3: up the coffee. Then I make sure the bathroom's working.
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Speaker 3: Then I go to the bathroom. It's like one of
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Speaker 3: those deals, one of those reels.
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Speaker 1: We could fire that up. We could start it.
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Speaker 3: There's something about these things that people love watching these
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Speaker 3: things now, and they're like, after a while, it's like, man,
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Speaker 3: is everyone doing one of these? First, I went into my, whoop,
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Speaker 3: someone's in my parking spot. I guess I'll have to
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Speaker 3: go over here. It's like they shoot all this video.
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Speaker 3: They did like, man, I just think of all the
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Speaker 3: video they got to shoot.
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Speaker 1: You know, come home with me. But the content works.
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Speaker 1: As a single 40-year-old in New York City with no friends.
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Speaker 1: I love these influencers. That's what they are, Billy, you know?
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Speaker 1: I love these influencers. They're kind of like the foodie
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Speaker 1: types and stuff, too. It's like, here, I'm a 30-year-old
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Speaker 1: single girl, and here's everything I ate this weekend in Milwaukee. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my God. How do you not weigh 700 pounds? Exactly.
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Speaker 1: We started our day at Alley Boys with this huge
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Speaker 1: bagel sandwich. Then we went and got ramen. And then
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Speaker 1: we went to Carnivore. It was really good with the
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Speaker 1: spices that combine. Purple Door ice cream. And then I
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Speaker 1: was like, This is what you're having on a Saturday? Oh,
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Speaker 1: then I got a matcha.
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Speaker 2: Stop for insomnia cookies on the way home and wrapped
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Speaker 2: up our night.
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Speaker 3: Then I went for one of my best indulgences. I
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Speaker 3: went to the Milwaukee Public Market and hit all the stops.
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Speaker 3: It's totally great. I love that you're showing it off.
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Speaker 1: It's fun. I understand we're trying to get people to
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Speaker 1: be interested.
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Speaker 2: I don't necessarily know that I understand the fast-paced whisper.
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Speaker 1: That's what I don't get. It's a fast pace. They
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Speaker 1: talk over themselves. It's better than the... There's got to
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Speaker 1: be some sort of like... Better than the vocal fry.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm with you on that one. That's for sure. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It was in the 2000s and 10s.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. It's just there's got to be some sort of
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Speaker 3: evidence that shows that if you have the fast-paced whisper
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Speaker 3: where you talk over yourself... It sounds more dramatic or something.
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Speaker 3: I'm not against the game. I just want people to
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Speaker 3: be more honest about it.
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Speaker 1: And I get it.
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Speaker 3: We're trying to do content and stuff. Be honest about
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Speaker 3: what you're eating that week. It was Wednesday night, so
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Speaker 3: me and Chef Boyardee had a date. Just be honest,
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Speaker 3: all right? I made leftover pasta because that's what I
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Speaker 3: had in the fridge.
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Speaker 2: But I don't want to be honest about all the
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Speaker 2: snacks that I just ate at my kids last night.
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Speaker 1: Nobody wanted it. I took a handful of M &
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Speaker 1: M' s and I called that lunch. Be honest. Only if
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Speaker 1: they're being at M & M' s.
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Speaker 2: You've got to have some protein in there.
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Speaker 3: Why don't I take a walk through Vendor World and
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Speaker 3: show everybody a day.
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Speaker 1: In the life? Yeah, a day in the life.
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Speaker 3: I took the peas out of the ramen noodles because
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Speaker 3: I'm not really a fan. I don't like anything green.
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Speaker 1: Alright, 877-794-1973. Represent. Check in 7 o'clock clubbers if you're
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Speaker 1: just joining us. Welcome. Those who have been with us
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Speaker 1: since 5 a.m. Thank you. These are easy shows to do.
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Speaker 1: Brewers beat the Cubs again. Miz struggled. Brewers win. The offense.
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Speaker 1: That's right. The Brewers' offense is the story the last
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Speaker 1: couple days because they're just being relentless.
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Speaker 2: And, Drew, they needed to pick up the pitching staff
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Speaker 2: a couple of different times. The staff's been so good. And, listen,
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Speaker 2: Miz has dominated all year long in the one time
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Speaker 2: that he does not have his A, B, or potentially
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Speaker 2: even C stuff yesterday. They end up with a phenomenal
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Speaker 2: offensive output. They start out early. He gives up the
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Speaker 2: lead a couple of different times. They fight back, and
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Speaker 2: then once it goes to the bullpens, that thing was
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Speaker 2: wraps when they were opening that Wrigley door.
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Speaker 3: And I was going to say, maybe we should call
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Speaker 3: Joey Ortiz the Sandman because late twice now putting people
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Speaker 3: to bed, putting the Cubs to bed twice with those
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Speaker 3: late tack-on insurance runs, or maybe the Reaper.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to get too dramatic. The Sandman. But
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Speaker 1: he's putting them to bed.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Joey Ortiz has provided the late-inning insurance tack-on
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Speaker 3: runs that we always lament when teams come back.
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Speaker 1: We say, should have got some tack-on runs. It was
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Speaker 1: the homer last night. It was a single.
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Speaker 3: Boom.
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Speaker 1: RBI. RBI. We've been counting on Joey Ortiz to give
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Speaker 1: us those insurance runs. Pretty wild that the Cubs scored
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Speaker 1: all of their runs in last evening's game with Miz
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Speaker 1: on the mound.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And all early. Nails. Again. Offense, just enough. Those insurance
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Speaker 1: runs are nice, too, especially in the ninth.
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Speaker 2: How about in, you know what, Drew, for as much
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Speaker 2: as we talk about it and as many days as
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Speaker 2: we come in here and lament and be frustrated for
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Speaker 2: a two for 14 or a three for 13 day
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Speaker 2: with runners in scoring position. They were 7 of 14
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Speaker 2: with runners in scoring position last night.
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Speaker 1: Pretty good. That's a wild run. You don't mind leaving
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Speaker 1: 10 men on base when you score 9 runs.
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Speaker 2: When we score 9, it'll work out. And it goes
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Speaker 2: back to the deal. If I'm going to leave guys
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Speaker 2: on base, it means that I got guys on base.
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Speaker 2: I'll take guys on base and a lot of traffic
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Speaker 2: and live with the results. But how about living with
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Speaker 2: the results of Luis Lara and Cooper Pratt? I mean,
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Speaker 2: both of their first full Cubs series here. We heard
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Speaker 2: from Logan Henderson in the first hour. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be his first start against the Cubs tonight. And clearly
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Speaker 2: Luis Lara is going to be a part of this
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Speaker 2: thing going into the playoffs. I think Cooper Pratt's going
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Speaker 2: to be playing a ton during the playoffs. I don't
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Speaker 2: necessarily know that they're going to.
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Speaker 1: Go anywhere else.
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Speaker 2: And, man, they're rising to the occasion here in some
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Speaker 2: playoff-like atmospheres.
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Speaker 1: Both of them have had nice days.
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Speaker 3: 275.
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Speaker 1: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: Both guys have come up to the big club in
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Speaker 3: the middle of a pennant race and just jumped right
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Speaker 3: on the treadmill and ran.
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Speaker 1: Like, this is it. Okay, this is the culture. This
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Speaker 1: is what we expect of you. You're going to come up.
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Speaker 1: You're here for a reason. You're going to perform.
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Speaker 3: We need that.
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Speaker 1: And they've done it. They've both done it.
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Speaker 2: And how about Pratt since the slap on the wrist
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Speaker 2: by Murph, too? Yeah. I mean, for everybody that thought
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Speaker 2: that that was going to ruin his confidence and he
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Speaker 2: was going to shudder and hide, nope.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's been the case. I don't think
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Speaker 1: that's been the problem for him.
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Speaker 2: Last night, that at-bat that he had that finishes with
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Speaker 2: the RBI base hit is.
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Speaker 1: maybe one of the best at-bats he's had all year.
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Speaker 1: Great at-bat.
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Speaker 3: His RBI single to get our first run on the
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Speaker 3: board two days ago was huge.
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Speaker 1: Like I mentioned, the momentum.
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Speaker 3: Diving headfirst on that bunt last night was a great dive.
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Speaker 3: He's playing well. He's playing hard. He's responded well to
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Speaker 3: the managing. He's responded well to the... Had some good
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Speaker 3: Coop chants going last night, too, after he got that
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Speaker 3: base hit.
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Speaker 1: Which we've needed for a long time since Cecil. We
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Speaker 1: need Coop. We need that. I really enjoy that.
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Speaker 3: And Jeff in Fitchburg, what I'm loving most about this
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Speaker 3: series is the perpetually constipated look on Craig Council's face.
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Speaker 3: A little bit of schadenfreude there for a lot of fans.
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Speaker 3: The same look he had when they were winning games
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Speaker 3: in Milwaukee.
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Speaker 2: They do love flashing it over to him all the time, though.
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Speaker 2: Brewer's TV director in that truck is like, Base hit.
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Speaker 1: Show Craig. They know what the fans want. All right,
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Speaker 1: base hit. Show counsel. See what we got here. See
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Speaker 1: what kind of face we can get here. To Drew's point,
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Speaker 1: that's fair, Drew. That's just how he always looks. Good, bad, indifferent.
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Speaker 2: Definitely some deep sighs, though, as he has to get
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Speaker 2: up off that perch.
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Speaker 1: All right, I got to go make another pitching change.
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Speaker 1: All right, I got to go make another pitching change.
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Speaker 1: He's got to do better. All right, here's one. This
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Speaker 1: is the Armand, the Eeyore, the Warrior Award, right? The
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Speaker 1: worry warriors.
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Speaker 3: Bring it on.
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Speaker 1: The Brewers win tonight. Henderson pitches well. They take three
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Speaker 1: or four from Chicago. Would anybody be surprised if they
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Speaker 1: lose two out of three in Cincinnati? Probably wouldn't be.
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Speaker 1: A tough park to play in and a tough park
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Speaker 1: to pitch in. And when you're coming off an emotional high,
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Speaker 1: that'll be an interesting one, too. Just how do you
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Speaker 1: navigate that coming back down? Because the atmosphere in Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: is not going to be a tenth of what it
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Speaker 1: is at Wrigley for these last four.
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Speaker 2: No, but the Reds have shown in the last week
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Speaker 2: or so that they're going to play hard. They're going
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Speaker 2: to be playing exactly like one of those bad teams
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Speaker 2: that's going to get a little bit of life. They've
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Speaker 2: won five of seven and winning two series against the
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Speaker 2: Padres and Cubs.
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Speaker 1: I love me some Buster Olney. He's been a friend
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Speaker 1: of mine for a long time, but he was pumping
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Speaker 1: out the strength of schedule of all the contenders. I'm like, dude,
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Speaker 1: don't you know that that doesn't matter this time of year?
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Speaker 1: It really doesn't. I lived it. I lived it from
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Speaker 1: the other side, watching the Brewers win games they shouldn't
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Speaker 1: have won against teams... that looked like they were choking.
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Speaker 1: But it's not. It's just one team's trying to win.
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Speaker 1: The other team's like, eh, if it happens, it's all good.
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Speaker 1: We're going to come out here and take my four
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Speaker 1: at-bats and see how it plays. Exactly. Exactly. The nights
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Speaker 1: that you go out, here's an Armin analogy. When you're
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Speaker 1: out with your boys in your mid-20s, your salad days,
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Speaker 1: you go out and you're planning on having a huge night.
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Speaker 1: Then it's never night. When your buddies drag you off
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Speaker 1: the couch and you haven't showered in two days. Those
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Speaker 1: are the best ones. And you go out, that's the
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Speaker 1: day you go on a heater, and that's the day
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Speaker 1: you meet, you know, maybe... Your significant other. All of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, those seven numbers.
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Speaker 2: Let's go.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to something like this. She said she
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Speaker 1: was from Brazil, guys. The anticipation. Yeah. The anticipation. So, again,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's just me, but I could see that happening.
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Speaker 1: Brewers win tonight and then have a rough weekend, just
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Speaker 1: a hangover. But then, here's the key to tonight. Why
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Speaker 1: is tonight such a swing game? The division is locked.
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Speaker 1: It wraps up now. It's wrapped up. It's the season-high
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Speaker 1: nine-game lead with 22 to play. It would be an
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Speaker 1: epic lax. Like I said, If the Brewers go 11-11
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Speaker 1: in the last 22, the Cubs have to go like 20-2.
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Speaker 1: Even the Packers couldn't see somebody blow this lead. The
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Speaker 1: Cubs would have to go 20-2 and maybe even better
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Speaker 1: because if the Brewers win this one, they win the
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Speaker 1: season series. It becomes like an extra game because you've
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Speaker 1: got the tiebreaker. They can't tie you. They have to
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Speaker 1: beat you. So the division is locked. Yeah, and you
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Speaker 1: would be due to lose some. But today is a
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Speaker 1: swing game because if the Brewers win today in any fashion,
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Speaker 1: but if they win, especially the way they have these
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Speaker 1: last couple, What motivation is there for Cubs fans to
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Speaker 1: come up to Milwaukee next week? Oh, that's a great call.
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Speaker 1: That's a good point. So the Labor Day game, maybe
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Speaker 1: they've already bought the tickets and planned it, but they're
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Speaker 1: not going to be bebopping and scatting. They're not going
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Speaker 1: to be peacocking because they're going to be there watching like, oh, great,
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Speaker 1: maybe we'll lose the division by seven instead of ten.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Tuesday-Wednesday night games are going to be
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Speaker 2: lightly attended.
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Speaker 1: And that's schools back in. And so that is a
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Speaker 1: key function of tonight. If the Brewers win tonight, it's awesome.
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Speaker 1: Takes the wind out of the sails. But it definitely
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Speaker 1: takes the starch out of them. And so anybody who said, oh,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to any Brewers. The Cubs fans are a-holes.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going. Well, then you can go because they're
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Speaker 1: going to be sitting on their hands. They're going to
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Speaker 1: be like, eh, we're not winning the division. Anything we
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Speaker 1: can do to bring those ticket prices down, I'm good with.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying is you may see some dumpage
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Speaker 1: going on. Some Brewers fans are like, okay, Labor Day
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Speaker 1: is usually they drop pretty well, but the Tuesday, Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: it's a good thing they have the Cubs because otherwise.
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Speaker 1: Those would be lightly attended. Those are tough nights. Tuesday, Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: school's just back in, even though it's 6.40 starts now.
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Speaker 2: We spent a bunch of money this past weekend on
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Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend.
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Speaker 1: The series in general, the last two nights have taken
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Speaker 1: some of the starch, but think about that. You can
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Speaker 1: almost hear it. Listen, Billy, those are the prices on
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Speaker 1: StubHub and TickPick falling right now. I can almost hear
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Speaker 1: the wind going through. They're tumbling down. I got sea
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Speaker 1: keys now. So that's where tonight is. Extra important for
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Speaker 1: that reason only.
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Speaker 2: And you just went right into my mind because I
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Speaker 2: had been thinking and looking and started to dabble on
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Speaker 2: the idea of the Tuesday night Brewers Cubs.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I do go.
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Speaker 2: Maybe I do go to that game. But now I'm
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Speaker 2: definitely going to be like 300 and holding. Because this
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Speaker 2: is almost like I got a money line play at
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Speaker 2: the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Brewers win here tonight. Those tickets are
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Speaker 2: definitely going down. This is a new prediction market for you, Billy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, now Monday is the highest priced get-in price at
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Speaker 3: Cubs Brewers right now.
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Speaker 1: At 62.
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Speaker 3: And that's going to hold because that's a vacation day
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Speaker 3: for people. That's an outing day. If they plan on it,
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Speaker 3: they're going to come up.
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Speaker 1: But you're right.
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Speaker 3: Tuesday night from 34. Wednesday night from 26. So those
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Speaker 3: two nights are the ones you can really look at.
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Speaker 1: They can already be going. They're going to be falling
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Speaker 1: now because there's not going to be anything at stake.
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Speaker 2: And Monday is also going to be. And I would
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Speaker 2: imagine there's a number of folks doing this from. below
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Speaker 2: the border of they're going to the game on Sunday
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Speaker 2: and Lambeau and then coming back and hitting the Brewers
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Speaker 2: game on Monday. And, and that's going to be a
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Speaker 2: tough one because they're going to catch two L's.
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Speaker 1: Yep. Maybe, maybe two L's, maybe two L's. Let's just
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Speaker 1: cover it. Come on. As long as we're looking ahead.
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Speaker 1: Sunday night. As long as we're looking ahead, like the Brewers,
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Speaker 1: after they play at Wrigley tonight, they go to Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: for three. They come home Cubs on Labor Day, Cubs
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, Cubs on Wednesday. Brewers are off a week
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Speaker 1: from today. They're finally getting off there. On the 10th.
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Speaker 1: And you know why that's significant? Because we have an
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Speaker 1: announcement of some significance to make at this juncture. Because
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Speaker 1: one week from today, the Brewers will not play. But
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Speaker 1: we've got something for you to do in the evening
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Speaker 1: to occupy your time. Come on now. Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 1: Beginning next week, one week from tonight, September 10th, you
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Speaker 1: can join us for the huddle live from Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
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Speaker 1: Thursday night, a tradition unlike any other. We're going to
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Speaker 1: be at Pottawatomie Sportsbook every Thursday night. Well, with a
12:54
Speaker 1: few exceptions. Most Thursday nights. For a little live broadcast
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Speaker 1: from 5 to 7, leading you into Thursday night football.
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Speaker 1: Let's go. An evening version. Our 5 o'clock club in
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Speaker 1: the morning. We have a 5 o'clock club in the
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Speaker 1: evening on Thursdays. Pottawatomie. Us three are all going to
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Speaker 1: be there. Armand's going to take off the ankle bracelet.
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Speaker 1: He's going to get to come with us.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: It'll be running three wide at the Annex at Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be excellent.
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Speaker 2: Which is the best place to be hanging out outside
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Speaker 2: of the sportsbook. You just walk right towards the sportsbook,
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Speaker 2: hang a left. You'll see a.
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Speaker 1: Big amount of signage.
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Speaker 2: You'll see us hanging out here, sitting at a sweet table, talking,
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Speaker 2: and some nice, comfy couches for you to hang out. Also, like,
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Speaker 2: the low-pressure area. A lot of people, I think, Drew,
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Speaker 2: walk up to the sportsbook. There's a lot going on. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: 2,000-square-foot video wall. It can be overwhelming.
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Speaker 2: The Annex, you're going to get the games on. You're
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Speaker 2: going to get us chirping and talking and having fun.
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Speaker 2: And maybe also some great drink specials throughout those.
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Speaker 1: A lot of places. That's right. A lot of places
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Speaker 1: to sit. Couches. I love the Annex. Plenty of kiosks
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Speaker 1: so you can make those quick live bets, obviously. Make
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Speaker 1: those investments. And we'll be doing this every Thursday, guys,
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Speaker 1: during the season. Every Thursday. Unless there's a game, obviously.
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Speaker 1: Unless the Packers play and we won't have a show
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Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve. But for the most part,
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Speaker 1: we're locked in Thursday nights. It's the Huddle Live at
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Speaker 1: the Annex at Pottawatomie Sportsbook. The official sportsbook partner of
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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers. And our official sportsbook on the show.
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Speaker 2: And our official sportsbook. And, Drew, it really is because
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Speaker 2: of the demand that the 5 o'clock clubbers have put
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Speaker 2: out there.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Thank you, guys.
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Speaker 2: At some point, the club was going to have to
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Speaker 2: get a permanent landing spot.
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Speaker 1: And what's better than Friday Jr. to fire him? And, yeah,
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Speaker 1: 5 to 7, you can still come and see us
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Speaker 1: and then hit the rack and be up. That's our plan.
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: Right back with us.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Never my wildest dreams. I think we could do 5
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Speaker 3: o'clock club twice.
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Speaker 1: In a day. I mean, I can't wait. The thing
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Speaker 1: about the huddle live is, yes, we'll be talking football.
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Speaker 1: We'll be making projections and picks and talking about point
14:45
Speaker 1: spreads and talking about Thursday night football and obviously talking
14:47
Speaker 1: a lot about the Packers. In fact, the voice of
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Speaker 1: the Packers, Wayne Larive, will join us at a couple
14:51
Speaker 1: of dates on the Thursday night huddle. Yes, about once
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Speaker 1: a month. Thursday night huddle live from Pottawatomie Sportsbook, the Annex.
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Speaker 1: We will be there from 5 to 7, broadcasting live. Now,
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Speaker 1: the beautiful thing about this is the overlap because, well,
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Speaker 1: obviously there might be some Brewers games there. The Brewers
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Speaker 1: don't play at home on either of those Thursdays, on
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Speaker 1: the first three Thursdays. But there might be a playoff
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Speaker 1: game that we're leading into. I was just going to say.
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Speaker 1: If we're there on a Thursday night, what better place
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15:18
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15:21
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Speaker 2: And also, we've seen, and we had one last year
15:26
Speaker 2: during one of our football feasts on a Thursday night, playoff,
15:29
Speaker 2: I think an LCS game happening right while we were on,
15:33
Speaker 2: that'd be a great viewing party. And the other thing
15:35
Speaker 2: is too, if you have taken or are thinking about
15:38
Speaker 2: taking the Pottawatomie game, a game day shuttle to and
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Speaker 2: from the Brewers game, that's where it picks up and
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Speaker 1: So if it is playoff.
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Speaker 2: Baseball sitting there waiting before a seven o'clock first pitch,
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Speaker 2: you're going to the game. You're hanging out with us,
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Speaker 2: getting some drinks, getting on the bus and then going
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Speaker 2: to and from the game.
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Speaker 1: That's a heck of a way to spend the night.
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Speaker 1: So one week from tonight, the huddle live. at Pottawatomie
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16:03
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16:30
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Speaker 2: Which is now something that is going to be very
16:35
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16:36
Speaker 1: And the food at the Sportsbook is incredible. Delicious.
16:39
Speaker 2: And we're only probably going to get Doug Russell's Mama's
16:41
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16:43
Speaker 1: Because the fried chicken is going to be sitting right there.
16:46
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Speaker 1: And game on. Really good. They have some amazing menu
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Speaker 1: items there. One week from tonight, we will kick off.
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Speaker 1: We'll put the full schedule online, but you can think
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Speaker 1: about it just basically everything. And Thursday's a big night
17:05
Speaker 1: at the Sportsbook and the Potawatomi in general. One of
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Speaker 1: the best nights. Yes. But Thursday nights, five to seven,
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Speaker 1: the huddle live at Pottawatomie sports book in the annex,
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Speaker 1: just adjacent to the main sports book. It's going to
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17:18
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17:21
Speaker 1: And again, like the, This is a sweet time of
17:23
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17:26
Speaker 1: Thursday's the time to go, too. You just lay in
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17:31
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Speaker 2: Get your Saturday bets, your Sunday bets in, your Thursday
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17:39
Speaker 2: Armin is going to be there, too, because Armin is
17:41
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17:43
Speaker 2: People are always going to be looking for me and saying, Billy,
17:45
Speaker 2: what are you betting on? I don't want to be
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Speaker 2: the one potentially handing out a bunch of losers. Armin
17:50
Speaker 2: Sarian hands out winners. He's got winners, winners, winners, baby.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, it might be Sal Stewart to win the
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Speaker 2: National League Rookie of the Year.
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Speaker 1: to win five. But you get five bucks. Five bucks
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Speaker 3: I'll be in there with you, and I'll get in
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Speaker 3: there and make some investments, and we'll find some good picks.
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Speaker 1: It is going to be a blast. That kicks off
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Speaker 1: one week from tonight on the 10th. We'll be telling
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Speaker 1: you more about it. We'll be telling you about it
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Speaker 1: every day. But Pottawatomie Sportsbook is the place to be
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Speaker 1: for the huddle live Thursday night. Thursday night live with
18:29
Speaker 1: all of us hanging out at Potta with you, I hope.
18:32
Speaker 1: You can come and hang out with us. We already
18:33
Speaker 1: got some people asking us about the couches that are
18:35
Speaker 1: hanging out. Statman Steve's going to be there. All right.
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Speaker 1: Statman Steve, looking forward to seeing all of our smart
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Speaker 1: and good-looking listeners. All right. When we come back, Hunter
18:42
Speaker 1: Baumgart joins the party. We'll talk to him about Brewers-Cubs.
18:44
Speaker 1: And again, not much at stake tonight, but it is
18:47
Speaker 1: a swing game. It's going to change the tenor of
18:49
Speaker 1: the games in Milwaukee next week. Cubs fans just might
18:52
Speaker 1: decide to stay home. That is such a good, deep country.
18:55
Speaker 1: I didn't even think of that.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
18:57
Speaker 1: Oh, it's like a sweet bed you have tonight. It's
18:59
Speaker 1: going to be sweet. I can hear it. Listen. They're plummeting.
19:04
Speaker 1: They're plummeting. Tuesday Wednesday tickets are going down.
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Speaker 2: I can hear the air coming out of the Cubs
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Speaker 2: balloon for Division Hopes.
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Speaker 1: Giddy up. Hunter is next. You're in the huddle. Fox
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and Armand bringing it to you.
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Speaker 1: We mentioned big announcement. One week from today, we'll begin
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Speaker 1: the huddle live at Pottawatomie Sportsbook. It's going to be
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Speaker 1: in every Thursday night, I think, from 5 to 7,
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Speaker 1: leading into Thursday night football, leading into some Brewers games.
19:27
Speaker 1: Speaking of the brewers joining us now, our brewers go
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Speaker 1: to guy, our pal Hunter Baumgart, the fourth Hunter. Welcome
19:33
Speaker 1: to the program. Thank you for your Logan Henderson interview.
19:35
Speaker 1: Interesting insight on the kid who walks around barefoot.
19:38
Speaker 4: Yes, that's one of his traditions before each and every
19:42
Speaker 4: start and not only on the road, but at home
19:44
Speaker 4: as well. But yeah, no problem. That was a good conversation.
19:48
Speaker 4: Enjoyed it with Logan and and he has been one
19:51
Speaker 4: of the surprises. I don't know if surprise is the
19:54
Speaker 4: right word, but I guess maybe unsung heroes, right? Jacob
19:57
Speaker 4: Mizorowski gets all the headlines, but Logan Henderson has been,
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Speaker 4: you know, nearly maybe not as good, but pretty, very
20:05
Speaker 4: consistent for the Milwaukee birds, especially as of late.
20:08
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for the Miz, he'd be one of
20:10
Speaker 1: the talks of the league. He's overshadowed by his own guy.
20:14
Speaker 2: And he also, Hunter, comes in at a point where
20:16
Speaker 2: earlier in the year, it was locked in Mizorowski-Harrison, who's
20:20
Speaker 2: going to be the third. Now, for the last month
20:22
Speaker 2: and a half, there's been a lot of questions as
20:24
Speaker 2: to who would be that last guy. Because Logan Henderson
20:26
Speaker 2: has just implemented himself. He's right now locked in as
20:29
Speaker 2: one of the playoff starters. The unsung, I think, is
20:32
Speaker 2: the right way of tagging it because at one point
20:35
Speaker 2: he was a lottery ticket. It felt like when he
20:38
Speaker 2: was on the aisle, he's come back stronger than ever
20:41
Speaker 2: when they've really needed him because the rest of their
20:42
Speaker 2: starting rotation has been a little bit spotty here with
20:45
Speaker 2: the youth that they've been showing.
20:47
Speaker 1: Totally.
20:47
Speaker 4: He's probably been your most consistent starter over the last
20:50
Speaker 4: month or so. I mean, going six plus innings, and
20:53
Speaker 4: each of his starts in August and not allowing more
20:56
Speaker 4: than three earned runs in a start in his career yet.
20:58
Speaker 4: I mean, he's just been incredibly consistent and, and the
21:01
Speaker 4: numbers he is putting up are just are historic really.
21:05
Speaker 4: And he just continues to do so. So hopefully he's
21:07
Speaker 4: able to do it tonight. I think one of the
21:10
Speaker 4: more interesting and fascinating questions as we go down the
21:12
Speaker 4: stretch is who will get that game to start because
21:16
Speaker 4: Kyle Harrison, you know, obviously assuming they win the division,
21:19
Speaker 4: they have home field in the first round. Like if, if,
21:22
Speaker 4: Kyle Harrison has been way better at home than on
21:24
Speaker 4: the road. Do you factor that it is the game
21:25
Speaker 4: two starter or do you go with the guy who's
21:27
Speaker 4: been your second best for the last few months? And
21:30
Speaker 4: that's Logan Henderson. That's going to be a fascinating decision
21:33
Speaker 4: that they'll have to make come October.
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Speaker 1: These are what we call good problems. The best problems
21:38
Speaker 1: to have. Yes. All right, Hunter. Speaking of problems, Miz
21:43
Speaker 1: and the mound. Miz versus the mound. More important than
21:45
Speaker 1: the opponent is the mound. Are we going to have
21:48
Speaker 1: to start worrying about this, about what other teams are
21:50
Speaker 1: going to be doing, watering the front of the apron
21:52
Speaker 1: where he strides, where few others go?
21:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought maybe him doing the bullpen on the
21:58
Speaker 4: mound on Monday was going to help this time. Didn't
22:02
Speaker 4: so much. I mean, that's another factor, right? You want
22:04
Speaker 4: that guy starting at home where he's used to the
22:06
Speaker 4: mound and where the grounds crew is used to the mound. Look,
22:09
Speaker 4: it's nothing nefarious, I don't think, going on when it
22:12
Speaker 4: comes to the road team's grounds crews. Brian Anderson was
22:18
Speaker 4: talking yesterday about how the Wrigley Field grounds crew takes
22:23
Speaker 4: pride in what they do. I do think that, but
22:26
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, they're different environments. They're
22:29
Speaker 4: different built mounds. Every mound is a little different. And
22:33
Speaker 4: the conditions really, you know, obviously bear that out as well, right?
22:37
Speaker 4: In the American family field, if the roof is closed,
22:40
Speaker 4: you know, it's a lot more controllable than if you're
22:42
Speaker 4: at Wrigley field and it's hot and it's sweaty and
22:45
Speaker 4: it's 90 degrees and everything like that. And there's, there's,
22:48
Speaker 4: it's humid, which means there's just moisture everywhere. So that's
22:51
Speaker 4: going to be something that I, I don't know how
22:55
Speaker 4: you necessarily fix it because there's no one way to
22:58
Speaker 4: fix it because each mound is different. Uh, but hopefully
23:02
Speaker 4: there is some sort of groove where, what that Miz
23:05
Speaker 4: can get into as far as, okay, this is how
23:07
Speaker 4: it's worked on other mounds. Can we maybe do that
23:11
Speaker 4: at this mound? Now in the playoffs, our road, our
23:15
Speaker 4: road grounds crew is going to be as, you know,
23:17
Speaker 4: as helpful wanting to help Jacob Mizorowski as maybe the
23:20
Speaker 4: American family field grounds crew.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
23:23
Speaker 4: And I'm not, you know, accusing any road grounds crew
23:26
Speaker 4: of that, but it's different on the road.
23:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have to. I will because we're going
23:32
Speaker 2: to be honest about it. They're doing something. They're doing
23:35
Speaker 2: something because you got to try to get some kind
23:36
Speaker 2: of competitive advantage. And listen, if I'm a Chicago Cubs supporter,
23:41
Speaker 2: somebody in the front office, I'm directing them.
23:44
Speaker 1: I know you guys take pride in your work.
23:45
Speaker 2: You know what you're going to take real pride in
23:47
Speaker 2: this guy having the shortest start of his, of the season.
23:50
Speaker 2: And we wanted that son of a gun down a
23:51
Speaker 2: little bit. It is interesting though. When you see the
23:54
Speaker 2: temperament of Ms. Right last year, I think it was
23:57
Speaker 2: Cincinnati was the first place that this really flared up.
24:01
Speaker 2: And my man was lost. He had almost come out
24:04
Speaker 2: of the game because he wasn't going to be able
24:05
Speaker 2: to do it. Now, you see him messing with it
24:07
Speaker 2: a couple of different times. I wonder if this is
24:09
Speaker 2: a good thing, if you spin it a little positively,
24:12
Speaker 2: to deal with some of this stuff now and then
24:16
Speaker 2: know that you can still get out. It's like the
24:18
Speaker 2: Mets game. You're not going to be facing the Mets
24:19
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. He wasn't liking the landing spot or
24:22
Speaker 2: his mechanics in his last start. Now have this blow
24:25
Speaker 2: up happen. Maybe there's a good reset that can happen
24:28
Speaker 2: and it might be the best time to have it
24:30
Speaker 2: because you know that this is probably going to happen
24:32
Speaker 2: at some point, whether it's Dodger Stadium, Philly, Atlanta, what
24:35
Speaker 2: have you. Somebody is going to do something to try
24:37
Speaker 2: to see if they can throw him off his game.
24:39
Speaker 2: He's just too damn good.
24:41
Speaker 4: For sure. And I think that, I think, like you said,
24:44
Speaker 4: having it happen now, learning through it, being able to
24:47
Speaker 4: fight through it like he has, and a lot of
24:49
Speaker 4: starts he's been able to fight through it and not,
24:52
Speaker 4: you know, allow what he did last night in five
24:54
Speaker 4: runs over four innings. Like he's been able to fight
24:56
Speaker 4: through it and still keep the Brewers in a really
24:58
Speaker 4: good position to win the baseball game. So that's, that's
25:01
Speaker 4: been promising. And then last night it just unfortunately got
25:04
Speaker 4: away and the control, you know, it was the mound somewhat,
25:07
Speaker 4: but also, you know, the, just the control wasn't necessarily there.
25:10
Speaker 4: The walks were up and he just wasn't able to
25:14
Speaker 4: land his secondary stuff for a while there. until about
25:17
Speaker 4: the fourth inning when he was able to get out
25:18
Speaker 4: of that inning. And I think hopefully that fourth inning,
25:20
Speaker 4: getting out of that, and you saw the fist pump
25:22
Speaker 4: and the emotion that we are used to seeing out
25:24
Speaker 4: of Miz, you saw that, and I think hopefully that
25:26
Speaker 4: can carry into his next start. But every bit of
25:30
Speaker 4: experience that these guys can get, whether it's Miz with
25:32
Speaker 4: the mound or Harrison going through what he did the
25:35
Speaker 4: other night, that's what affords you. When you have a
25:38
Speaker 4: nine-game lead with 22 games left and you have the
25:40
Speaker 4: best record in baseball, you can almost look at it
25:42
Speaker 4: and say, okay, maybe these experiences are going to help
25:45
Speaker 4: them in October rather than every single game has to
25:49
Speaker 4: be a win at this point, like some of the
25:50
Speaker 4: other teams, like the Cubs or Phillies or Padres or
25:54
Speaker 4: Diamondbacks are going through right now. You want, obviously, the
25:58
Speaker 4: Brewers to win every game, but some of these other
26:00
Speaker 4: experiences could help them down the road, even if it
26:03
Speaker 4: doesn't result in a win.
26:05
Speaker 1: Talking with Hunter Baumgart, our Brewers go-to guy here. Hunter,
26:08
Speaker 1: is my logic flawed? Because I think if the Brewers
26:10
Speaker 1: win tonight, it's going to change the atmosphere at American
26:12
Speaker 1: Family Field Labor Day, Tuesday, Wednesday. Cubs fans won't be
26:16
Speaker 1: motivated to come up because they will have the life
26:18
Speaker 1: drained out of them.
26:20
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, first of all, I want to give a
26:21
Speaker 4: shout out to all the Brewers fans that have went down.
26:23
Speaker 1: To Wrigley Field this week. How about that?
26:25
Speaker 4: That's been awesome. We got Jeff Passon shouting them out,
26:27
Speaker 4: which is fantastic, saying that, you know, what happened to
26:31
Speaker 4: Wrigley Field?
26:32
Speaker 1: That was awesome.
26:33
Speaker 4: That can't happen.
26:34
Speaker 1: Happens up here, too.
26:35
Speaker 3: Exactly.
26:35
Speaker 1: Every week. Yeah, every time.
26:37
Speaker 3: Yeah.
26:37
Speaker 4: So, uh, yeah, I agree. I mean, you take three
26:40
Speaker 4: out of four at Wrigley field and oh man, it's,
26:42
Speaker 4: it's like when they took three out of four at
26:45
Speaker 4: Dodger stadium. I mean, that would be kind of the
26:47
Speaker 4: same thing, right? You go to a, you go to
26:49
Speaker 4: an opponent, uh, you know, I Cubs are really good team,
26:52
Speaker 4: but one of the things I think we're seeing right
26:54
Speaker 4: now is their vulnerability, vulnerability on the pitching side. It's
26:57
Speaker 4: just that, that is, that is serious for that team.
27:00
Speaker 4: And yes, they got Gosman at the deadline. We'll see
27:02
Speaker 4: what he does again tonight. Not been great. Clay Holmes
27:05
Speaker 4: has been better since being acquired at the deadline. Kind
27:08
Speaker 4: of their two main deadline acquisitions on the pitching side.
27:13
Speaker 4: But Zephyr John hasn't been great out of the bullpen
27:15
Speaker 4: as far as an acquisition. Their bullpen as a whole
27:17
Speaker 4: hasn't been great. And that's their really Achilles heel. And
27:20
Speaker 4: what the Brewers were able to do early in that
27:22
Speaker 4: game is work Peterson last night and work him and
27:24
Speaker 4: work him and work him and able to get him
27:26
Speaker 4: out of there. Not only get to him, but then
27:29
Speaker 4: obviously get to the bullpen as well and add some
27:31
Speaker 4: insurance runs. So you, you do that again tonight against Gaussman,
27:35
Speaker 4: you know, one of their trade deadline acquisitions, Logan Henderson
27:38
Speaker 4: goes out and dominates like he has in the past.
27:41
Speaker 4: You get a win tonight. You take the season series,
27:44
Speaker 4: you get a 10 game lead on the Chicago Cubs. Oh,
27:47
Speaker 4: I mean, I, we, I have, Just thinking about how
27:49
Speaker 4: fun that would be. And let's see if it can happen.
27:51
Speaker 1: 10 game lead with 21 to play. That's as good
27:54
Speaker 1: as it gets. Cause you, you know, we're going to
27:56
Speaker 1: beat them in the debate. Well, let's bury them. Let's,
27:58
Speaker 1: let's embarrass. Like I said, it's just going to, even
28:04
Speaker 1: if they show up and they might've already bought the
28:06
Speaker 1: tickets and made their plans, especially for the Monday game,
28:08
Speaker 1: the labor day game, like the last hurrah on their way.
28:12
Speaker 1: Like they, took the pier out in Lake Geneva or whatever,
28:15
Speaker 1: you know, on their way down. And we had one
28:16
Speaker 1: last stop over the lake houses and then on the
28:20
Speaker 1: way out, they might, but then, they're not going to
28:22
Speaker 1: be loud and obnoxious because they're going to realize that
28:24
Speaker 1: it'll be a little bit of tail between their legs.
28:26
Speaker 2: But make sure to buy beards and support the economy.
28:30
Speaker 2: Maybe buy a couple of sandwiches too while you're at it.
28:32
Speaker 2: But they're definitely going to be a toned down one.
28:35
Speaker 1: It is.
28:35
Speaker 2: Hunter, what about Jojo Romero? A couple of games now
28:38
Speaker 2: we get to see him. That's a fresh live arm.
28:41
Speaker 2: It's clearly different than anybody else it seems like they
28:44
Speaker 2: have coming out of the bullpen. Just with his stuff,
28:46
Speaker 2: the deception, feels like again.
28:49
Speaker 1: Or two appearances.
28:50
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to say the guy is going
28:52
Speaker 2: to be the biggest game changer that they could have,
28:54
Speaker 2: but to get a fresh arm, who's a legit major league,
28:58
Speaker 2: high leverage guy. That's something that a lot of teams
29:00
Speaker 2: aren't able to acquire at this point.
29:02
Speaker 3: Yeah.
29:03
Speaker 4: And it wasn't an injury to his arm that he
29:05
Speaker 4: was out with. It was an appendectomy that obviously, you know,
29:07
Speaker 4: you don't want any sort of injury and that's not fun.
29:10
Speaker 4: And obviously he had to kind of make sure everything
29:11
Speaker 4: healed right in the, in the abdomen area and everything
29:14
Speaker 4: like that. But otherwise this is a, guy who you
29:17
Speaker 4: know hasn't gone through the rigors of a bullpen major
29:19
Speaker 4: league bullpen in a month and a half and that
29:21
Speaker 4: and look he was pitching really well heading into uh
29:24
Speaker 4: that when he went on the il i mean he
29:26
Speaker 4: had six straight outings in july with without a run
29:29
Speaker 4: scored and and he was pitching well got went on
29:32
Speaker 4: the il and now he's pitching well out of it
29:34
Speaker 4: and it's just a competitor it's a guy who's been
29:36
Speaker 4: there done that been around knows the division you know
29:39
Speaker 4: all those things. And he's like, I just told Murph, like, hey,
29:42
Speaker 4: as long as I'm not on the IL, I am
29:44
Speaker 4: ready to pitch. Like, just put me wherever you want
29:46
Speaker 4: me and I am ready. He was out in the
29:48
Speaker 4: bullpen on Monday night, even though he wasn't active, getting ready,
29:51
Speaker 4: going through his stretches, going through his routine to make
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Speaker 4: sure he was all set, like, It sounds like he
29:56
Speaker 4: is just... It seems like he's a great dude and
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Speaker 4: just a great competitor and wants to be a part
30:01
Speaker 4: of what the Brewers are doing in that bullpen. And
30:03
Speaker 4: it just adds another veteran guy who... You look at
30:07
Speaker 4: all the guys they used last night, whether it's Ashby,
30:11
Speaker 4: it's Uribe, it's McGill, it's Sensatella, it's Romero. You use
30:14
Speaker 4: all those guys and you feel good about all those
30:17
Speaker 4: guys coming out. Now, obviously... You don't know what Jojo
30:20
Speaker 4: Romero will do over the next month. He's a little
30:22
Speaker 4: more of an unknown because we haven't seen much, but
30:24
Speaker 4: Sensatella has settled in. Pat Murphy has made a point
30:29
Speaker 4: about talking about how, whether it be Dustin May or Sensatella,
30:32
Speaker 4: these guys take a little while to transition in and
30:36
Speaker 4: feel comfortable with a new team, and he thinks that's
30:38
Speaker 4: part of the reason why Dustin May has maybe struggled
30:40
Speaker 4: over the last two. Dustin May is not going to
30:42
Speaker 4: make excuses and wouldn't. He feels good here in Milwaukee, but.
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Speaker 1: It is true.
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Speaker 4: And I wonder if Jojo Romero was then able to, okay,
30:52
Speaker 4: I got kind of my transition period, get to know
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Speaker 4: everybody before I went out and pitched. And now, you know,
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Speaker 4: I'm feel, I already feel comfortable here. And now it's,
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Speaker 4: I got to just go do my thing. And that's
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Speaker 4: what he's done the last two nights. So you had
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Speaker 4: another guy like that out of the pen, a lefty
31:06
Speaker 4: boy that, that would be just another, another great, you know,
31:11
Speaker 4: option out of the bullpen for Pat Murphy in a
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Speaker 4: bullpen that is full of great options.
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Speaker 1: Hunter. One of the things people are, we're talking about
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Speaker 1: and we'll be talking about as the birds go into
31:20
Speaker 1: the playoffs is the inexperienced, the youth, the Laras and
31:23
Speaker 1: the Prats. We were just talking about how good those
31:25
Speaker 1: guys have been. And then there's the pitching side with Ms.
31:28
Speaker 1: And maybe Henderson guys that are getting near their, you know,
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Speaker 1: their personal threshold, their ceiling, they're breaking through their ceilings
31:35
Speaker 1: of innings pitched and stuff. One of the guys that
31:37
Speaker 1: interests me is Garrett Mitchell, because though he's been around
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Speaker 1: for a while, He's never played a full season. He
31:44
Speaker 1: played more games this year than he did in his
31:46
Speaker 1: previous big league seasons combined.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
31:48
Speaker 1: No kidding. So guys like him, like granted, they sit
31:51
Speaker 1: him against lefties a lot stuff, but you think that
31:55
Speaker 1: Murph is, we were already talking about the last couple
31:57
Speaker 1: of weeks when they got the landing gear down a
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Speaker 1: little bit.
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Speaker 2: Sure.
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Speaker 1: They're going to try to get one of the top
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Speaker 1: two records, but how do they manage that and keep
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Speaker 1: those guys fresh? And I mean, how do you, you
32:07
Speaker 1: can't prevent Pratt or Lara from hitting the wall. We've
32:11
Speaker 1: seen Churio perform in the playoffs before. You're not worried
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Speaker 1: about him. But I think of Mitchell especially. That's a
32:16
Speaker 1: good one, yeah. Because he's never played this deep into
32:20
Speaker 1: a season.
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Speaker 4: No, and I think that's part of the reason why
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Speaker 4: you haven't seen him the last two nights. I know
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Speaker 4: a lot of people have been like, what's going on
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Speaker 4: with Garrett Mitchell? Well, you face two lefties. That's part
32:29
Speaker 4: of it. But if you look at Gary Mitchell's splits,
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Speaker 4: they're about even, lefty and righty, so it's not like
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Speaker 4: it's drastic either way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
32:37
Speaker 4: Those guys have done a really good job hitting lefties.
32:39
Speaker 1: Bauer's another one who's dinged up, and you need to
32:40
Speaker 1: kind of manage his innings and let him get a
32:43
Speaker 1: breather and get healthier too. But how does that calculus work,
32:46
Speaker 1: do you think? Do they just keep doing what they're doing?
32:48
Speaker 1: Is it, you know, you sit Pratt once in a while,
32:52
Speaker 1: even though he's hitting okay, or do you just roll
32:54
Speaker 1: until they run out of gas? I don't know how
32:56
Speaker 1: you do it.
32:57
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I think, I think we already see sometimes,
33:00
Speaker 4: you know, that Ortiz Hamilton left side of the infield
33:03
Speaker 4: sometimes just to get proud of day. I think maybe
33:05
Speaker 4: you see a little more of that. I think, you know,
33:07
Speaker 4: Pat Murphy did hint maybe a couple of weeks ago
33:10
Speaker 4: or so that look, you know, we are going to
33:12
Speaker 4: be cautious with Garrett Mitchell down the stretch because we
33:14
Speaker 4: know that this is the most games he's played in
33:16
Speaker 4: a season. And so I think you're starting to see that.
33:18
Speaker 4: I think you saw it the last two nights. I
33:20
Speaker 4: think you'll continue to see it because they do want
33:23
Speaker 4: him as fresh as possible going into the postseason. You
33:25
Speaker 4: also don't want to, not play him too much to
33:27
Speaker 4: get him out of a rhythm and out of a
33:28
Speaker 4: groove because he's been one of your, one of your
33:31
Speaker 4: key contributors, really. I know he's gone through some stretches
33:33
Speaker 4: where he hasn't hit as well as maybe he'd like,
33:36
Speaker 4: but overall he's been a key contributor on offense. So
33:38
Speaker 4: you don't want to set him too much, but I
33:40
Speaker 4: do think they're going to be cautious of it. And
33:42
Speaker 4: it sounds like from what Pat Murphy has said that
33:44
Speaker 4: they are at least aware of it. So I think, yeah,
33:47
Speaker 4: I think that that is the case and you get
33:49
Speaker 4: Laura some more playing time. I think it's key to
33:51
Speaker 4: get Laura, these experiences at Wrigley field and some of
33:54
Speaker 4: these different environments. Uh, it's not like, you know, that Philly,
33:58
Speaker 4: maybe the last week of the season, you get some
34:00
Speaker 4: of these young guys, you know, into that environment as well,
34:03
Speaker 4: depending on what Philly is trying to do. If they're
34:04
Speaker 4: fighting for the NL East or wildcard at that time,
34:07
Speaker 4: you know, otherwise you, Hey, American family field next week
34:10
Speaker 4: when the Cubs come into town, that'll be Laura's first
34:12
Speaker 4: taste of that. Pratt had a little taste of that
34:14
Speaker 4: in late June. Uh, but he was just getting used
34:17
Speaker 4: to the big leagues. And he says, you know, Pratt
34:19
Speaker 4: said that, you know, nothing didn't really slow down for
34:22
Speaker 4: him until the series after the Cubs series, the red
34:24
Speaker 4: series in early July. But yeah, I do think you're
34:28
Speaker 4: going to see some of that management. Last night, they
34:31
Speaker 4: put in Freelick in right field. Bowers goes to first
34:33
Speaker 4: base because the shins are an issue or the different
34:39
Speaker 4: ways he is banged up. So he's over to first,
34:42
Speaker 4: then halfway through the game. And that's what this roster
34:45
Speaker 4: construction allows the Brewers to do and allows Pat Murphy
34:48
Speaker 4: to do. You have a really solid bench right now
34:51
Speaker 4: where you can play lefty, righty, and bring Christian Yelich
34:54
Speaker 4: in halfway through the game and bring Sal Freelick in
34:56
Speaker 4: halfway through the game when the lefty is exited. And look,
34:59
Speaker 4: it definitely worked last night with Christian Yelich going two
35:02
Speaker 4: for three after he came into the ball game. So
35:05
Speaker 4: I think that is what you are going to see
35:07
Speaker 4: in some of those mixing and matching that Pat Murphy
35:10
Speaker 4: can do with this roster.
35:11
Speaker 2: Hunter, you did such a good job bringing smiles and
35:14
Speaker 2: joy to Brewers fans.
35:15
Speaker 1: Can I do that for you really quick?
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Speaker 3: Sure.
35:18
Speaker 1: All right. This one comes.
35:20
Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Bree, and the Brewers secretly ruined
35:24
Speaker 2: my life single-handedly.
35:26
Speaker 1: I am not well. The next one.
35:28
Speaker 2: The Brewers are the worst in all capital letters. And
35:31
Speaker 2: this latest from Bree DeLeo. Ignore the score. And look
35:35
Speaker 2: at me. I just, I figured, I figured that would
35:37
Speaker 2: bring you some, some positivity and a smile there.
35:40
Speaker 1: Just look at me. Like, look at me. It's going
35:42
Speaker 1: to say it up. Good stuff. Good stuff. Just look
35:44
Speaker 1: at me. Don't worry about it.
35:45
Speaker 2: Don't look at the scoreboard and the Brewers dunking all
35:48
Speaker 2: over you at Wrigley field.
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Speaker 1: Hunter. Thanks for joining us. You have a, well, baseball
35:52
Speaker 1: pregame show tonight. You bet.
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Speaker 4: Five o'clock audio only version on Fox sports, nine 20
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Speaker 4: in Milwaukee and the I heart radio app, Fox sports,
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Speaker 4: nine 20. And, uh, get your set for, uh, If
36:04
Speaker 4: you missed the interview with Logan Henderson earlier, I will
36:07
Speaker 4: play it tonight, Brewers and Cubs. Try a new, hey,
36:10
Speaker 4: get three out of four. Brewers are five and one
36:12
Speaker 4: at Wrigley so far this season.
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Speaker 1: Got to love it. Got to love it. Thanks, Hunter. Thanks, guys.
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Speaker 1: of ground today. Most of it just celebrating another Brewers victory.
37:09
Speaker 1: They get no worse than a split, which was the objective.
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Speaker 1: Can get greedy and win the series and the season
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Speaker 1: series tonight behind Logan Henderson if they can beat Kevin Gossman.
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Speaker 1: All you got to do is survive Gossman, get into
37:19
Speaker 1: that bullpen for the Cubs, and you're in good shape.
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Speaker 2: That's really it. Once that door opens to that bullpen
37:24
Speaker 2: out in the Wrigley Wall, you know.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be good things for you. Send in
37:28
Speaker 1: the clowns. It really is. It goes for the clubs
37:32
Speaker 1: of the clowns. Send in the clowns. That's what they
37:35
Speaker 1: say when the doors open at Wrigley, too, at the turnstiles.
37:38
Speaker 1: Time for a little Waken and Bacon. Billy, what do
37:39
Speaker 1: you got?
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Speaker 2: This is one that you got to see the video
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Speaker 2: to believe, courtesy of ABC News and the New York Post.
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Speaker 2: You can see it. I just retweeted the video at
37:49
Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt Radio. Now, in London, they call the subway
37:53
Speaker 2: system the tube system. I don't know if you guys
37:56
Speaker 2: are familiar. They call it the tube system. Well, folks
37:58
Speaker 2: at the tube station were treated to an impromptu fight night,
38:03
Speaker 2: not between the normal, potentially homeless people that were fighting
38:06
Speaker 2: at the tube station.
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Speaker 1: No match was a real squeaker.
38:10
Speaker 2: Things got a little hairy as two mice were spotted
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Speaker 2: sparring like boxers on their hind legs, cracking up and
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Speaker 2: creeping out commuters. Now, again, you're not going to believe
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Speaker 2: this unless you see it. These two mice are standing
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Speaker 2: right on basically the platform where you're going to get
38:29
Speaker 2: into the subway and up on their hind legs. legit
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Speaker 2: just throwing blows, throwing haymakers at each other until finally
38:38
Speaker 2: one of them goes.
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Speaker 1: Down and is done. So knocked out unless he gets
38:44
Speaker 1: back up and he chases them right back to it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they go for a good, this video is
38:48
Speaker 2: a good minute long and it looks like the one,
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Speaker 2: one die is just playing dead. He falls backwards, waits
38:54
Speaker 2: to try to bait him in and then chases him
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Speaker 2: right off.
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Speaker 1: What are they fighting over?
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Speaker 2: What all good animals fight over some kind of four
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Speaker 2: day old looks like piece of gum that they might
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Speaker 2: be trying to eat.
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Speaker 3: Listen, that's like the final boss, the sewer rat or
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Speaker 3: the subway mouse, the subway rat, whatever it is.
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Speaker 1: You don't get down there, Billy, by backing down. Hulu pipsqueaks.
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Speaker 2: And they got into a sparring session that I'm going
39:18
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. Didn't get interrupted by any
39:21
Speaker 2: Mario Lopez pre-fight work.
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Speaker 1: Oh my way better than any Jake Paul fight.
39:27
Speaker 2: So if Netflix is looking on how to be able
39:29
Speaker 2: to monetize, boxing and live sports, they need to get
39:33
Speaker 2: to a damn tube station.
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Speaker 1: Find more rats. Pardon me, mice like this. I don't
39:38
Speaker 1: want to categorize them like that.
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Speaker 2: Mice like this with this kind of dog mentality.
39:42
Speaker 1: You're going to find some good entertainment. It's wild. These
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Speaker 1: things are just.
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Speaker 2: Growing absolute haymakers at each other.
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Speaker 1: Some feisty furballs. Share that on the socials. Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: All right. We mentioned big story today. We'll see you
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Speaker 1: Going to be so much fun.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow we'll do it again at 5. We'll set you
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Speaker 1: up for the weekend, hopefully talking about a Brewers dub.
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Speaker 1: We'll see you then.
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Speaker 4: Peace.