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The crowds at Wrigley Field make a difference as Cubs force Game 5 · North Side Territory: A Chicago Cubs Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Northside Territory, presented by Fox One Foul Territory
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  Speaker 1: Networks Cubs Podcast. I'm Sajada Sharma with my partner Patrick Mooney.
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  Speaker 1: We are your Cubs beat writers over at the Athletic
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  Speaker 1: and Patrick, there will be.
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  Speaker 2: A Game five. That was.
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  Speaker 1: An amazing game, an amazing atmosphere. The Cubs have fought
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  Speaker 1: back and you know forced this situation. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think to start the way Wrigley felt I was. I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting next to John Greenberg in Game three and
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  Speaker 1: Andy McCullough in Game four, and both times like, the
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  Speaker 1: structure feels like it's shaking.
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  Speaker 2: More than normal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if what's going on, but I'm feeling
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  Speaker 1: it a lot more. I noticed it for the first
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  Speaker 1: time after Game three of the Padre series. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know if I stood up too quickly because the name ended.
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  Speaker 1: I stood up and I felt like, oh, I'm losing
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  Speaker 1: my balance, and I thought, oh, that's just me. And
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  Speaker 1: then it happened again in this series multiple times. But
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  Speaker 1: that place is rocking and the press box is shaking,
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  Speaker 1: and we used to be able to count the number
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  Speaker 1: of times that happened on our hands, and now it's
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  Speaker 1: happening with regularity.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: The atmosphere is intense, and that was I believe the
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  Speaker 1: biggest crowd at Wrigley last night of the season, forty
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  Speaker 1: one plus. Just I mean talk about being into the game,
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  Speaker 1: like Wrigly faithful.
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  Speaker 2: I've taken it to another level.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Freddy Chance. Yeah, we're a classic. I think
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  Speaker 3: something we'll be referencing for a long time. If the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs can win Game five, You're right in terms of
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  Speaker 3: the structure. Like I turned to someone, I think it
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  Speaker 3: was in that podres It's like you feel that, right,
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  Speaker 3: was Vanessa Laman Pope from the Tribune, and it we've
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  Speaker 3: felt that before. I distinctly remember, like thinking might have
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  Speaker 3: been the lack ye lacky game against the Cardinals in
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  Speaker 3: twenty fifteen with schwar bombs and whatnot going off, but
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  Speaker 3: there had been this this drought of Wrigley Field. You
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  Speaker 3: just hadn't felt it, and a lot of the Cubs
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  Speaker 3: hadn't given their fans a reason to shake the.
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  Speaker 4: Building like that.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I'm I don't know how the Cubs
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  Speaker 3: do it pulling off this electric atmosphere without pregame showing
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  Speaker 3: a Bob Costas interview of Pat Murphy for like an hour,
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  Speaker 3: which was pretty much the batting practice entertainment for the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs before Games one and two.
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  Speaker 4: You know, yes, I'm sure it'll be it'll be a
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  Speaker 4: good way to like.
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  Speaker 3: Take a nap or something before the game for long
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  Speaker 3: playoffs stretch. But uh, Murphy himself had acknowledged it after
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  Speaker 3: the game of just reading some of his quotes and
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  Speaker 3: seeing some of the clips of Now, this I think
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  Speaker 3: is part of Murphy's stick right of like we got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of young guys, you know, we're yeah dogs,
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  Speaker 3: you know, our guys really you know, felt it today.
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  Speaker 4: This is gonna help us. We're gonna learn from that.
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  Speaker 3: But it's hard to walk out of that building and
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  Speaker 3: not feel like the crowd made a difference.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Matthew Boyd recognized the fans, and he really has
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  Speaker 1: all season long. I mean, his numbers at home have
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  Speaker 1: been better. Uh just just a great performance by him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't wanna take away from it.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: I did feel a little moment of frustration that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we don't get like the seven eight inning starts as
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  Speaker 1: much anymore in the playoffs. Like I saw him come
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  Speaker 1: off and I was like, man, this is like baseball
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  Speaker 1: just isn't as cool anymore. But look this is how
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  Speaker 1: it works. Now, this is this is uh you lean
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  Speaker 1: on your bullpen arms. It makes it makes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of sense. I you know, get get Christian yellich out
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  Speaker 1: and that was he did a great job of that
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  Speaker 1: in a big moment like that was a huge strikeout
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  Speaker 1: keeping Milwaukee off the board.
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  Speaker 2: And Daniel Palencia came in and did his job again.
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  Speaker 2: Two bounced back outings.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you wrote about, and I thought it was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, spot on, like Matthew Boyd needed a bounce
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  Speaker 1: back outing for this team obviously to keep going. And
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Palencia faced the guy that hit a three run
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  Speaker 1: homer off of him in Game two with two men
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  Speaker 1: on and this time first pitch pop up. Just you know,
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  Speaker 1: like good good moments for both those guys and good
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  Speaker 1: stories for the season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can see how the season keeps building and
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  Speaker 3: then even within a series, you see the momentum shift
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  Speaker 3: and these characters re urge. And yeah, you had Boyd
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  Speaker 3: off of Game one, clearly disappointed, hoping he'd get a
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  Speaker 3: shot to make amends in game four.
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  Speaker 4: After Game two.
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  Speaker 3: Boyd noticed how distraught. Sorry, Palencia was and just said, bro,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna need you. We're gonna need you, like stay ready,
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  Speaker 3: keep your chin up. And you know, Boyd's point was,
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  Speaker 3: there's no secrets anymore. Like the teams have one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and eighty one hundred and sixty two games plus of data.
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  Speaker 4: They have all this time.
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  Speaker 3: To prepare and hone in on one pitcher and one matchup,
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  Speaker 3: and you're gonna have the crowd elements and everything's heightened
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  Speaker 3: and magnified and you just have to punch back.
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  Speaker 4: And that is what the Cubs did.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, you know, if you're sort of just
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  Speaker 3: tuning in like that is what this Cup team has been.
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  Speaker 3: And I, you know, I did not give them really
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  Speaker 3: a punch or chance. Earlier this week, I was on
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  Speaker 3: the main Foul Territory show and Scott braun teed me up.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, how does this happen? You know, how do
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  Speaker 3: they get back into this? And I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: see it happening. And I was, I think understandably skeptical,
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  Speaker 3: But there is something to this team of how they respond,
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  Speaker 3: how they pay attention to the details, how they pick
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  Speaker 3: each other up, and you know, I think they've more
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  Speaker 3: than earned this shot to truly ruin the Brewers' season,
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  Speaker 3: and there was one guy, you know who really came
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  Speaker 3: through with a big swing. And I want to hear
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  Speaker 3: kind of your backstory and how you've been working on
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  Speaker 3: your Ian half story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's put Ian happ under the draft Kings
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  Speaker 1: player spotlight. Uh. Yeah, I talked to and Half. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it was the Monday before the playoffs started. Talked
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  Speaker 1: to him at Wrigley and it was, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: a simple this is gonna be a big picture story.
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  Speaker 1: He was the most tenured Cub and he's been waiting.
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  Speaker 1: He's the bridge between that sixteen team and this current
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  Speaker 1: version of the Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: Gets a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Heat from the fans, hasn't hasn't had an opportunity really
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  Speaker 1: to provide a playoff moment to deliver for the fans.
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  Speaker 2: And he kind of said, you can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: You can't search for that, you can't chase hits, you
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  Speaker 1: can't go after that. That's how you that's what leads
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  Speaker 1: to failure. But you could tell, like after after the
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  Speaker 1: game yet last night, that it meant a lot to
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  Speaker 1: him to finally get that moment. And I mean yet again,
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  Speaker 1: in the first inning. We're talking two outs, like the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs on the verge of squandering an opportunity and halp
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  Speaker 1: hammers of Freddy Peralta home run. He had two hits
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  Speaker 1: coming into this postseason against Freddy Peralta, and obviously he
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  Speaker 1: faces him a lot. I want to say, it was
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  Speaker 1: like thirty plus played appearances and now he has two
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  Speaker 1: home runs in the playoffs against Freddy Parolta.
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  Speaker 2: The first one meaningless.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it was a nine to one game, I think
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  Speaker 1: at the time, and sure enough fans were like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: of course he and hap hits a home run when
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, but this one mattered. Obviously, this one
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  Speaker 1: was huge. It was the only runs for about four
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  Speaker 1: or five innings of that game. Just, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: massive swing, a massive moment for you know, a guy
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  Speaker 1: that I feel like has earned that moment, has done
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  Speaker 1: a lot for this team and this organization, stuck around
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  Speaker 1: through you know, a non rebuild rebuild and chose to
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  Speaker 1: stay here. He loved the city, loves the organization. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the things I don't think I included this,
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  Speaker 1: but he told me is like something he learned, something
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  Speaker 1: he realized was he's been around a lot of veterans
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  Speaker 1: that have been in a lot of different places, and
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  Speaker 1: they kind of let him know the grass isn't always
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  Speaker 1: greener at better place at other places. Uh, this is
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  Speaker 1: a great place to play, and like you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's not much more you can ask for than playing
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  Speaker 1: for the Chicago Cubs. And that resonated with Happen and
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  Speaker 1: is a big reason why he stuck around and got
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  Speaker 1: that moment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you alluded to, you know, a segment of the
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  Speaker 3: fan base that just seems kind of irritated by Ian Happened.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's just kind of an online
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  Speaker 3: you know, a small online segment that may not be
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  Speaker 3: representative of fans everywhere. But yeah, he he was kind
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  Speaker 3: of the face of this is it a rebuild?
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  Speaker 4: Is it not a rebuild?
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're not calling this a rebuild when everyone
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  Speaker 3: knows that's and uh, you know, he really found himself
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  Speaker 3: as a hitter after that. You'd sell off at the
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  Speaker 3: twenty one trade deadline, but throughout it he has an
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  Speaker 3: amazing appreciation for Wrigley Field. I think if you kind
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  Speaker 3: of pay attention to some of his answers that comes through,
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  Speaker 3: He's always has those lessons from John Lester, Jason Hayward,
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  Speaker 3: Anthony Rizzo, Like that is certainly a thread that runs through.
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  Speaker 4: This team and he is the one who is bringing it.
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  Speaker 4: And you could just.
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  Speaker 3: Tell once that happened, it was like, oh the like,
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  Speaker 3: now the Brewers are the ones scrambling and it's it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be really fascinating to set up here, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Game five of like has this now shit like this?
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  Speaker 3: Does one swing from hap kind of like make the
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  Speaker 3: Brewers feel like the ones who are totally on the
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  Speaker 3: ropes and the ones who has their magical season on
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  Speaker 3: the line and have their fans kind of breathing down
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  Speaker 3: their neck at American Family Field.
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  Speaker 1: To Northside Territory presented by Fox one Patrick Game five
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday night. We don't know who's going to start
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  Speaker 1: for either team. That's a big question, you know, I might.
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  Speaker 1: I initially want to say show to a managa when
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  Speaker 1: when discussing that with people, a lot of people are like,
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  Speaker 1: you can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: So when I say people, I mean other media members.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't talked to anybody with the Cubs about it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Like my default is like trust your guys, like he
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  Speaker 1: can settle in and and and and figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe it's too risky. It's a game five and
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  Speaker 1: you need to just you know, piece things together. I
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  Speaker 1: would say, like Brad Keller's stuff was down whatever day,
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: I'm losing track of days, so Thursday the most recent game.
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  Speaker 2: If you go full bullpen game, that's risky.
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  Speaker 1: Do you kind of just play matchups and go Colin
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  Speaker 1: raid to show to and pull show to the first
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  Speaker 1: sign of trouble. I don't know, but I think you
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  Speaker 1: just have the same questions when you look at the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like pitching is some huge advantage for
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  Speaker 1: either side right now. This is a very much a
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  Speaker 1: how do you piece this together? Each manager is trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure that out.
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  Speaker 3: Do the Cubs trusts Volley a little bit here? There
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  Speaker 3: was a they might heard a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 3: maybe someone who could step over over the course of
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  Speaker 3: three elimination games, we haven't really seen that yet. If
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: you're a Cubs reliever, you definitely know where you stand
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  Speaker 3: right now. Craig Counsel has his guys and it has
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  Speaker 3: worked unbelievably. So if my math is right, I think
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  Speaker 3: three elimination games, Cubs have allowed four runs total over
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven innings, which is kind of unbelievable considering the
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  Speaker 3: way this was kind of scott This bullpen was sort
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  Speaker 3: of like scotch taped together over the past several months.
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  Speaker 4: But look, they've gotten this far.
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  Speaker 3: I think obviously the clear winner in all, this is
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  Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Dodgers just getting to sit home and
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  Speaker 3: watch the Cubs and Brewers throw haymakers at each other.
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  Speaker 3: But the Cubs have shown a lot here in terms
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  Speaker 3: of like talent, smart scuts, creativity, Like I know, you
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  Speaker 3: sort of think like, oh, well Freddie Praul is pitching,
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  Speaker 3: so he should just throw like six innings one run period.
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  Speaker 3: Then you just turn over to your a relievers, or
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  Speaker 3: like oh this matchup makes sense on paper, just roll
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  Speaker 3: through like it doesn't work that way. And I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when you mentioned Keller stuff, maybe he's fine,
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  Speaker 3: But I just think in general, I think that's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a challenge for the Cubs here, no matter
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  Speaker 3: who they plug in there of just this time of year,
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  Speaker 3: middle of October, like when the the gap between this
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  Speaker 3: these two teams is so small, that little extra bit
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  Speaker 3: of oomph you could be the difference.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know I said this before the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: The offense has generally been quiet, but I thought they
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  Speaker 1: were turning a corner. I don't know if if yesterday
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  Speaker 1: is anything a sign of things to come, but you
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  Speaker 1: know it very much is you know, these these things happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know suddenly they just everything can change and you
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  Speaker 1: don't even see it coming. In baseball, whether Kyle Tucker
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  Speaker 1: has woken up.
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  Speaker 2: Or not, I cannot say it looks better. The results
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  Speaker 2: look better.
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  Speaker 1: He's he's been getting on base much more regularly, and
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  Speaker 1: he hit a home run, like that's his first extra
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  Speaker 1: base hit of the postseason. And if something clicks for
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  Speaker 1: him in this offense, suddenly you know, we haven't even
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  Speaker 1: said anything about Michael Bush, but he has. He had
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  Speaker 1: another home run. He's kind of turned quietly turned into
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  Speaker 1: this star, like the most feared batter in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: You have guys like that kind of turning a corner
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  Speaker 1: or staying hot, Like is this offense? Can this offense
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  Speaker 1: just be enough to carry them right now? And is
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  Speaker 1: it kind of one of those things where it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we know this offense is talented, we know this offense
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  Speaker 1: is good. Did they just kind of wake up? I
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  Speaker 1: think about like there was no one moment perhaps for
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  Speaker 1: this group, but in twenty sixteen it was kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, this offense is dead. And then ben Zobras
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  Speaker 1: has that bunt and it leads to a huge inning
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  Speaker 1: in La the Cubs, where I believe we're down two
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  Speaker 1: to one in that series, and.
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  Speaker 2: Then you know, we know the story after that.
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  Speaker 1: They they go on to win the next three and
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  Speaker 1: the offense kind of wakes up and just like goes
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  Speaker 1: on a tear.
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  Speaker 2: Is that was it was yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of like a moment for Kyle Tucker to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: there's that power swing, because if that happens, suddenly we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about a very different offensive group. Pete still hasn't
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  Speaker 1: really found his rhythm, even though he's had some big
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  Speaker 1: hits here and there, so he can't be too critical
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  Speaker 1: of him. But like as a group, it seems like
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  Speaker 1: things look a little bit better and you feel a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better. They probably had more opportunities to attack
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  Speaker 1: on there and missed a couple home runs by mere inches,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, in general, six runs is good.
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  Speaker 2: You'll take that.
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  Speaker 1: So and they followed the the recipe that that Craig
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  Speaker 1: Counsel is always preaching, you know, put pressure on, put
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  Speaker 1: consistent pressure on the team.
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  Speaker 2: You will break through eventually.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. Not only did they do that in the first inning,
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  Speaker 1: but they kept putting pressure on and then they eventual
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  Speaker 1: tacked on. And I think that it was good to
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  Speaker 1: also see.
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  Speaker 2: Them tack on.
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  Speaker 1: If you're rooting for this offense to get going, you
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  Speaker 1: needed it to be more than three runs in that game.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: You needed some non first inning runs to be like, Okay,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: there are some signs of life and guys waking up.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Happ said that before they left Milwaukee, right of, we
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: need to do a better job of not putting so
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: much pressure on their pitchers. You saw it in those
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: later innings. I look forward to reading your thoughts on
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Michael Bush in the Athletic and you got a piece
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: coming there, and you're right, even for editors, just like,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: shouldn't we be writing about Michael Bush and he gets overlooked,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: especially when you're hitting like leadoff. If you hit those
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: home runs in the ninth inning, you know that's a
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: little easier to kind of in victories. It's different than
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: some of those first inning home runs that you know
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: sort of get lost in the shuffle. But no doubt,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: an extremely consistent presents on the team. I didn't Pete
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: the other day I say like he's been our best
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: player this year, which.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: It was was interesting to hear.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: And yeah, like when Tucker is getting on base like
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: that and able to hit for power. It just changes everything.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I Mean, the Cubs have the most accomplished hitter on
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: the field and they just need him to deliver. And
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: you know, you can tell the way he's getting pitched,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: the way he's laying off pitches, some of those even
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: some of those singles that he's getting.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: It seems like he's kind of on time and more
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: in control.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean, if that happens, maybe Council has
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: a little more breathing room or that his pitchers do.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: In the later innings of Game five, maybe you can
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: trust a reliever or showda for an extra batter or two,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: or you know, you can make a mistake pitch here
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: or there and not have it, you know, just kill
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: your season.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be fascinating if this, if this offense wakes up,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they can do against the Dodgers.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers look very imposing right now. Unsurprisingly, you know,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: they kind of coast through the regular season and turn
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: it on. Not all teams have that luxury, but we'll
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: discuss that if we get to that. I mean, just
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a massive game on Saturday. I think we're all looking
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: forward to it. Being forced to go back to Milwaukee
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: for one more night.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: We'll take it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: It's fun covering this team and this group, so one
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: more game at least we'll see what happens.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a wild one.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I'm sure the American Family Field fans will be into it.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: It'll be hard to match that regularly feel atmosphere, but
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: they brought it in the first two games and it's
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: gonna be similarly wild. So we'll have more whenever this
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: season either continues or wraps up whatever whatever we're talking about.
• 22:13
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• 22:23
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• 22:26
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• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Thanks