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10/23/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the teams you love with the guys
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  Speaker 1: you love.
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  Speaker 3: You are looking live.
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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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  Speaker 4: You know exactly what we gotta do.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some tape.
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  Speaker 5: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 3: We got some big plays coming. What the hell's going
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  Speaker 3: on out here?
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  Speaker 5: Yellow Weasel. We're calling the plays, all right?
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  Speaker 6: It is time.
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  Speaker 3: What do you.
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  Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen.
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  Speaker 6: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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  Speaker 6: your respect.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun is thick. And
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  Speaker 2: Armin Sarian. Danny Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: Long time coming.
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  Speaker 4: The boys are back.
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  Speaker 2: The boys are back.
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  Speaker 4: When summer is finally forgotten, as daylight dwindles sooner each day,
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  Speaker 4: look around the corner. Just beyond Main Street. Chances are
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  Speaker 4: there's a game in a backyard, children in the midst
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  Speaker 4: of imagining, some with a notion, innocent but powerful. You
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  Speaker 4: eagerly followed your team, listening to that distant voice. You
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  Speaker 4: couldn't sleep after a victory. Couldn't wait till the day
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  Speaker 4: when it might be your time. And then that day arrived.
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  Speaker 4: That moment, that affirmation. When you were told you were special.
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  Speaker 4: And so you worked. And you sacrificed. Pointing toward that
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  Speaker 4: day in the fall when all of America would be
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  Speaker 4: watching you. Watching your team. The kind of day dreamed of.
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  Speaker 4: In a backyard. Just around the corner. From Main Street.
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  Speaker 7: It's a dream for everybody, but You know, when you
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  Speaker 7: believe in something hard enough and you work at something
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  Speaker 7: hard enough, you stay together, you go through the rough times,
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  Speaker 7: fight through it, you learn lessons that belief is key.
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  Speaker 7: You have to believe, and you have to believe even
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  Speaker 7: more when things aren't going It's not just talk.
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  Speaker 2: It's a deep-rooted belief that we can.
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  Speaker 7: And I believe that if we play together and we
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  Speaker 7: play winning baseball, great things can happen.
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  Speaker 2: Bonnie, anything to add?
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  Speaker 5: Uh, no.
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  Speaker 8: He's not the best color man in the league for nothing, folks.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're set to go.
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  Speaker 8: It's been 16,074 days since the Milwaukee Brewers have played
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  Speaker 8: in a World Series, and that drought ends tonight at
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  Speaker 8: American Family Field.
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  Speaker 2: Huddle up. It is time.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome in. I'm Bill Schmidt. Armin Sarian's right there. On
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  Speaker 8: line one is our guy Drew Olson, live from American
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  Speaker 8: Family Field. You can join us on that NicoletLaw.com talk
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  Speaker 8: and text line. YouTube streaming live on Facebook and X
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  Speaker 8: as well. And your Milwaukee Brewers are back in the
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  Speaker 8: World Series. And it is finally here. Drew, you've covered
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  Speaker 8: plenty of these series. You have not in this backyard.
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  Speaker 8: You just sent us a sick video from the field.
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  Speaker 8: How does it look? How does it feel? Couldn't be
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  Speaker 8: a better Chamber of Commerce day for the first World
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  Speaker 8: Series game in over 16,000 days in this brew city.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, boys. I'm coming to you from in front
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  Speaker 3: of Mark Atanasio's seat. right now adjacent to the Brewers' dugout.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to stay here for the whole game, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they'll let me. It looks spectacular. I
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  Speaker 3: can report that it's a glorious day, but as we speak,
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  Speaker 3: the panels and the roof are closing at American Family Field.
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  Speaker 5: It will be a.
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  Speaker 3: Roof-closed environment tonight. The Brewers like that.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to be loud.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be epic. It will be somewhat comfortable
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  Speaker 3: for the people, although, I don't know, 55 degrees to
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  Speaker 3: me is comfortable in October in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 5: Guys, it's surreal.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I caught the space shuttle this morning
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to lunch.
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  Speaker 5: With Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. It's just bizarre.
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  Speaker 2: That's surreal.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen Tom Hardicourt yet, but when I do,
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  Speaker 3: we are going to get a photo because this is
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  Speaker 3: a day neither one of us could comprehend.
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  Speaker 2: It's a day for history.
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  Speaker 8: Uh no doubt and you're you're here for it and
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  Speaker 8: we're all here for it and drew uh it would
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  Speaker 8: be a little bit you know it has to be
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  Speaker 8: a little chilly today there has to be a whipping
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  Speaker 8: wind a little bit because this is the fall classic
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  Speaker 8: and i feel like we'd be cheated if it was
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  Speaker 8: too hot today and uh you know yeah you mentioned
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  Speaker 8: they're closing the panels tonight but i don't think that'll
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  Speaker 8: dim the excitement of anybody uh today do you get
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  Speaker 8: the sense that people just want to feel it be
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  Speaker 8: part of the energy as much as they can and
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  Speaker 8: soak in.
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  Speaker 2: Every moment.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, it is, I mean, it's going to be perfect
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  Speaker 3: for tailgaters outside. I talked to a friend of mine
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  Speaker 3: who had planned to have eight people at his car.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's metastasized to 20 people want to join him.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody wants a piece of this. I live in a
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  Speaker 3: downtown neighborhood where there was a block party this afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: and it started early this morning. I was walking the dogs,
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  Speaker 3: and they were already having brats and glazers and beers
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  Speaker 3: at like 11 o'clock, and people were camped out in
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  Speaker 3: lawn chairs to get a spot to watch the game
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  Speaker 3: on big screens in a park. At 11 o'clock, 7
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  Speaker 3: o'clock first pitch. That's how excited people are for this.
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  Speaker 3: It is the biggest thing we've seen. And it is.
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  Speaker 5: Bizarre right now because it's.
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  Speaker 3: About to get dark in here. The roof is about 70%
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  Speaker 3: closed right now. And the lights are going on.
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  Speaker 5: And it's kind of a funky feeling right now.
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  Speaker 3: I wish we could have at least kept the roof
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  Speaker 3: open for BP, but I'm not in charge of any
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it makes sense that they want to get as
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  Speaker 8: real of a look at that stadium as it will
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  Speaker 8: be for these guys ahead of the most important game
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  Speaker 8: of their lives. Junior Caminero was blasting balls off the scoreboard,
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  Speaker 8: knocking out lights yesterday. So power is not going to
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  Speaker 8: be short here in this World Series. But Drew, I've
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  Speaker 8: been talking about it with Arm in the last couple
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  Speaker 8: of days and joking about it. This is going to
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  Speaker 8: be the hand riggers, the folks that don't watch a
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  Speaker 8: ton of baseball, but want you to know that they
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  Speaker 8: loved baseball at one particular.
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  Speaker 2: Point in time.
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  Speaker 8: But I don't like it now because it's not as
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  Speaker 8: good as it used to be. It's not as good
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  Speaker 8: as it once was. Now, those folks, I mean, Colin
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  Speaker 8: Cowherd's talking about it all week. He can't wait for
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  Speaker 8: this series because I think this is going to be
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  Speaker 8: a beautiful blend of Yandy Diaz can hit the ball
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  Speaker 8: as far as anyone. Junior Caminero can hit the ball
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  Speaker 8: into the third deck. We've seen Bryce Durang put on
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  Speaker 8: incredible shows of power and athleticism. But this is a
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  Speaker 8: baseball fan's World Series, and it feels like we're going
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  Speaker 8: to get treated to a classic.
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  Speaker 3: It sure seems that way, Billy.
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  Speaker 5: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: The Brewers-Dodgers series was the highest rated in more than
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  Speaker 3: a decade for the LCS, which I think that tells
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  Speaker 3: you something. People love dynasties. And yeah, Yankees-Dodgers, it draws eyeballs.
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  Speaker 3: But people also love underdogs. And both of these teams
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  Speaker 3: have never won a World Series. They're both underdog stories with...
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  Speaker 3: players that are relatable and, you know, without star power
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  Speaker 3: and they play the game the right way. So this
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  Speaker 3: has a lot of appeal. And as the series goes
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  Speaker 3: on and people get introduced to the storylines and they see.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Cheerio and, and.
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  Speaker 3: Contreras and tonight's opening act, let's face it. When Miz pitches,
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  Speaker 3: when he pitched in the all-star game.
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  Speaker 5: Two years ago, he was the talk of the, of the,
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  Speaker 5: of the week.
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  Speaker 3: And he's going to be again tonight. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: people will tune in just for that freak show of
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  Speaker 3: a guy throwing 104. So it's got everything we want.
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  Speaker 5: It's got everything you're looking for in a World Series.
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  Speaker 8: I think there's also something to be said for, yes,
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  Speaker 8: these are small markets in that sense, or people perceive
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  Speaker 8: them that way, and not the biggest, you know, sexiest
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  Speaker 8: names in terms of you know, Yankees, Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: So people assume, okay, the ratings will be down.
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  Speaker 8: But I think there's something to be said for the
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  Speaker 8: fact that these were two of the two best teams
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  Speaker 8: in baseball. I think people want to see that as well.
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  Speaker 8: They want to see the greatness of the best of
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  Speaker 8: the AL, the best of the NL. And you're seeing
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  Speaker 8: that as opposed to, you know, the lower rated series,
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  Speaker 8: like when it was Texas and Arizona, they weren't those,
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  Speaker 8: those season long best teams.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's part of it too, Drew.
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  Speaker 5: I think you're right, Armin.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good point. I saw the stat in the
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  Speaker 3: pregame notes.
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  Speaker 5: Packet, but I just glanced at it. I think this
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  Speaker 5: is only the.
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  Speaker 3: Sixth time in the wildcard era since 1995 that we've
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  Speaker 3: seen the two best, the champions of each league, the
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  Speaker 3: teams with the best record in each league play for
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  Speaker 3: the World Series. So it doesn't happen very often. It's
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  Speaker 3: usually whoever gets hot in October, right?
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  Speaker 5: But these are the teams that did it all year long.
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  Speaker 3: And they did it in the shadows. They weren't leading
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  Speaker 3: sports center at all. And so that makes it fresh
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  Speaker 3: for everybody. If you had one of these teams, it
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  Speaker 3: would be a compelling series. If it was the Brewers
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  Speaker 3: against the Yankees, it'd still be compelling because it's David
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  Speaker 3: against Goliath. But having the two upstart teams makes it
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  Speaker 3: a special equation. And I think that's going to translate.
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  Speaker 3: I think people are going to dig it.
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  Speaker 8: Drew Olsen's live at American Family Field. We are some
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  Speaker 8: seven hours and 15 or 10 minutes away from first pitch.
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  Speaker 8: 7-16 is when Miz will let the first ball fly.
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  Speaker 8: I got to guess around 104, Drew. I know he's
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  Speaker 8: topped out at 105.4, I think he said, all year long.
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  Speaker 2: Hard to not.
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  Speaker 8: Think he breaks the radar gun with the excitement here today.
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  Speaker 2: But as you can feel the excitement.
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  Speaker 8: Growing, I know the conversations and the pressers are starting
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  Speaker 8: up right now and Woodruff's been the talk. Miz generally
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  Speaker 8: is the headliner of everything. How has it been down
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  Speaker 8: there today with the news that Big Wu is on
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  Speaker 8: the roster and now going to maybe let out a
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  Speaker 8: little bit of what their.
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  Speaker 2: Plans are for him?
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  Speaker 3: He's about to step to the podium with Logan Henderson.
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  Speaker 3: It was going to be a Logan Henderson solo show,
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  Speaker 3: but now Woodruff will be.
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  Speaker 5: At the podium with him.
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  Speaker 3: So you guys will get to that in about five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: And everybody I've talked to is excited about it. They
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  Speaker 3: think it's pretty cool. They know it's a risk.
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  Speaker 5: Because he hasn't pitched that much.
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  Speaker 3: But they didn't use Chad.
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  Speaker 5: Patrick at all.
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  Speaker 3: And that was the swap. It was right-hander for right-hander.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know how they're going to use him.
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  Speaker 3: I envision him being an opener, maybe in game three
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  Speaker 3: or four. But I guess we're going to find out
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  Speaker 3: together when Woody and Murph get to the podium just
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  Speaker 3: in a little bit.
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  Speaker 8: The Brewers are the first team in Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 8: history to reach the World Series without a win from
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  Speaker 8: a starting pitcher in the postseason. They'd also be the
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  Speaker 8: first team in World Series history to start Game one
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  Speaker 8: and game two, if chalk would hold, and it'd be
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  Speaker 8: Mizorowski-Henderson game one. First team in Major League Baseball history
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  Speaker 8: to start back-to-back guys under the age of 25 to
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  Speaker 8: lead off a World Series. And it's funny to think, Drew,
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  Speaker 8: that's kind of how they've gotten here. The bullpen, absolutely
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  Speaker 8: a massive part of it. But Nick Martinez on the
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  Speaker 8: other side has been a tough customer. What's the rumblings
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  Speaker 8: after that decision? Because some questioned it like myself. Now,
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  Speaker 8: thinking about it, and maybe you save yourself with more
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  Speaker 8: of Rasmussen and Freddie Peralta back end, maybe it.
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  Speaker 2: Sets themselves up nicely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the interesting calculus on the Tampa Bay side, Billy,
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  Speaker 3: is that, you know, do you want to have Rasmussen?
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  Speaker 3: Do you want to use him in a game that
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  Speaker 3: missed pitches? Or do you want to line him up against,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a slightly lesser version of of that. And
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  Speaker 3: then I think their thought is whatever they have to
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  Speaker 3: do to steal one of these games here in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 3: And then they've got the home field advantage. I know
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  Speaker 3: that from a Brewer.
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  Speaker 5: Standpoint, when you talk about it, it seems like if
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  Speaker 5: they don't win with Miz on the mound, it seems
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  Speaker 5: like a double loss. And maybe there's that feeling with
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  Speaker 5: them and Rasmussen and people were surprised that Peralta is
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  Speaker 5: not pitching here in a park that he's still familiar with,
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  Speaker 5: but he's been good in Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: He clinched it for them there.
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  Speaker 5: So there's a lot of layers to this and a
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  Speaker 5: lot of chess match going.
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  Speaker 3: On before we even start the actual games.
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  Speaker 5: Which is, You know, another fascinating thing that.
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  Speaker 3: Goes on roster construction, starting rotations, how are the bullpens.
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  Speaker 5: Going to be used tonight? What inning do we see Uribe?
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's.
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  Speaker 3: Now rested and how's he going to look? And the
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  Speaker 3: Brewers have that kind of longer layoff.
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  Speaker 5: To deal with, which has not been kind to other
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  Speaker 5: teams in this circumstance. So there's just a lot of
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  Speaker 5: levels to this. I can't wait for the games to
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  Speaker 5: start so we get something other than conjecture.
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  Speaker 3: We get something concrete to look at.
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  Speaker 2: Some answers, right?
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  Speaker 8: And you know the Rays are very analytic forward, just
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  Speaker 8: like the Brewers. So it does make you wonder, do
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  Speaker 8: they see something in Freddie pitching in Florida and not
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  Speaker 8: in Milwaukee? Is it simply the extra day of rest?
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  Speaker 8: Like you said, Drew, do they want to double up?
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  Speaker 8: You and I were kind of chatting about it last
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  Speaker 8: night in the sense that You know, it's, it's a,
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  Speaker 8: it seems like a decent plan and all plans are
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  Speaker 8: well laid, you know, like Billy, all, all bets are
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  Speaker 8: good when they, when they receive comes out.
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  Speaker 2: And it prints out, it's a winner.
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  Speaker 8: But you know, if the, if Ms crushes tonight and
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  Speaker 8: the brewers go up one, nothing, and you get that
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  Speaker 8: punch in the face, you might feel a little bit different.
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  Speaker 2: If you are, if you're Tampa, it could be.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, we'll, we'll see how that plays out.
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  Speaker 3: It might be a stroke of genius. I mean, imagine
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  Speaker 3: if they steal tonight and then they got Rasmussen going tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: The Brewers are totally on their heels, right? You know,
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  Speaker 3: they're best pitchers. So there's a lot of ways to
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  Speaker 3: slice this. But push comes to shove.
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  Speaker 5: They still got to get out.
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  Speaker 3: There and play between the lines. And that's what we're.
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  Speaker 2: Waiting for, boys.
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  Speaker 5: Can't wait till 7-15.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Call me a skeptic, Drew. I think there's going to
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  Speaker 8: be some big swings in the series. There just always are.
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  Speaker 8: I know the Brewers were, what, 28th in ball and
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  Speaker 8: homers last in the National League. But it feels like
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  Speaker 8: both of these teams... Got here because of some big swings.
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  Speaker 8: And I feel like early there's going to be one
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  Speaker 8: to leave the yard. And not that the team that
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  Speaker 8: scores first is going to win. We've watched the Brewers
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  Speaker 8: come back in every one of these wins that they've
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  Speaker 8: had in the playoffs. They're 7-1 in their eight playoff games.
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  Speaker 8: They've fallen behind in all of them. But it does
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  Speaker 8: feel like there's going to be a big swing and
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  Speaker 8: a big fly to kick this thing off at some point.
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  Speaker 5: I think you're right, Billy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they've done this before. Remember, they had the
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  Speaker 3: layoff two years ago when they faced the Cubs here
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  Speaker 3: and put up six in the first inning.
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  Speaker 2: Good point.
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  Speaker 3: The building's going to be ready to take off. And
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  Speaker 3: I do agree. And the Brewers have hit some home
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  Speaker 3: runs in the postseason. I think they've scored, what, 38%
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  Speaker 3: of their runs on home runs, which is high for them,
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  Speaker 3: but below the major league average of 40% for the season.
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  Speaker 5: So they're playing at about the major league average now
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  Speaker 5: playing the long ball.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm with you. I think with the roof closed here,
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  Speaker 3: I think the ball is going to jump a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And I do expect somebody to run into one, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's Contreras or Churio or heaven forbid, the captain gets
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  Speaker 3: a hold of one. I think they might blow the
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  Speaker 3: roof off of the joint.
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  Speaker 8: You don't even want to know about that. You don't
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  Speaker 8: even want to know what's going to happen to me
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  Speaker 8: if that happens. But listen, this is going to be
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  Speaker 8: a long set for all of all the all the
• 14:43
  Speaker 8: motives out there that like me, all the ones that
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  Speaker 8: are feeling this consequence of carrying nervousness. This is going
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  Speaker 8: to be a long series anyway. So it's time to
• 14:50
  Speaker 8: get in the trenches and try and just enjoy it.
• 14:53
  Speaker 8: enjoy what we can because Drew, the rollercoaster of emotions
• 14:56
  Speaker 8: throughout a six-month season, you mentioned it once, it all
• 14:59
  Speaker 8: is going to get encapsulated in a very tight seven
• 15:02
  Speaker 8: games here or however long this series goes.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: And everything will matter.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: That's so true. Everything that matters, every play is magnified.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: Every one-one count is important.
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: It all matters tonight.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: And you're going to remember it all. And as you
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: drink it.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: In, You see how that, you know, something that happens
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: in the second inning affects what happens.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: In the seventh. And it's going to be fascinating. Boys,
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: it's like.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: I just, it's hard to express, like, you know, a
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: lot of my writer buddies that I haven't seen in
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: a long time, uh, descending on our city. Uh, my friend,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Steve Kettman, who is a baseball author and used to
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: be a beat guy. His best friend was Pedro Gomez.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: I had lunch with him today at Staz's and we
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: came to the ballpark and he's not been here since 1998.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: He's never been to American family field. He was, you know,
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: and a lot of the national guys, they might've been
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: here for the all-star game in oh two. and maybe
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: for a playoff series here and there or the LCS,
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: but a lot of guys are making their return to Milwaukee.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: And before I let you get to those press conferences,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: I will tell you, when I started covering ball in
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: the mid-90s, the guys who were the old heads then,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: like I am now, they would tell me, Hey, we
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: got to get Milwaukee back into the world series because 1982,
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: that was the best.
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: Party of any world series. It was their, their all time.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: Like these guys.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Were drinking at Gould's peas and they were drinking until
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: four or five in the morning. And back then in
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee bar stayed open till three 30 on Saturday nights.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: These guys had themselves a time.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: And they drank it in, and they kind of leaned
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: into the emotions of the city. And I was regaled
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: with stories about guys, you know, maybe running into a
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: female companionship, getting drunk, maybe scraping up against the law.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe having to talk their way out of tickets and
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: using their World Series badges to get out of tickets
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: and out of legal trouble. They said it was incredible.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: So I say let's double it up.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: It's been 44 years.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Let's make it happen. Let's make it happen.
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: And Drew, hopefully some of them had some fun and
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: realized that they could still get another beer for another
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: hour and a half if they went over to Waukesha
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: County as well at one particular point in that venture of.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Those long nights.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, man.
• 17:13
  Speaker 8: We can't wait to have this thing start up.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Glad you're there. Enjoy it. Bask in it.
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: We're going to hear from Woody and Logan Henderson. We'll
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: talk to you in a little bit. All right.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: I'll try to hit you guys up later.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Take care.
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: There he is, Drew Olson, live from American Family Field,
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: leading us off our leadoff hitter on World Series Friday. Yeah,
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: it's got to be like a summer camp reunion for
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: him where he's the host now.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: I was just going to say, that's the cool thing.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: He gets to then go show everybody around all the
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: good nooks and crannies that Drew's been knowing about this
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: park forever. Well, back then, they probably all slammed into
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: Stormer and Vukes on 25th and National, which is long gone, unfortunately.
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: But that was their bar, I think, that a lot
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: of those guys went to. And during the Major League taping,
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: but that was a whole different situation. So that probably
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: would have been the haunt. But now it's time to
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: make new memories, Billy, without a doubt. Anybody going to
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: have what Brewer is going to haul off and have
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: a barbecue sauce after this World Series? That's a great question. Now,
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: what the branding deal? Is anyone going to find a
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: Storm and Gorman's kind of barbecue sauce that we're.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Going to get here? Yeah, or something like that.
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: Listen, we all need a little bit of special sauce,
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: and the Brewers have had it throughout this playoff run.
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: And we're going to hear from one guy that is
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: adding to it coming up on the other side. One
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: of the biggest surprises that the World Series has been
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: able to give us in a while, Brandon Woodruff going
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: to make.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: His debut today.
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: Re-debut at some point maybe maybe not maybe he'll go
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: way of anthony sanzatella chad patrick kyle harrison not pitching
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: an entire series as he takes the spot on the
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: world series roster of chad patrick brandon woodruff and logan
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: henderson at the microphone we go live there on the
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: other side we're getting you ready we want to hear
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: from all of you where are you tailgating how are
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: you getting ready did you tailgate i had the early
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: uh Lunch tailgate.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: You were the early tailgate.
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: Grilled out some burgers earlier on today because I just
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: couldn't wait.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Was tough.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: We'd say chamber of commerce. Sometimes I think we use
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: that a little too loosely. You step outside on this
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Friday afternoon and tell me it is not one of
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: the greatest Fridays in late October you have ever had
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: in the city of Milwaukee.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Is that the moment you regretted the afternoon show?
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: Show shift you could have you could have done brother
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: you could crack one now i don't think anyone cares
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: drew said sasses i thought i saw a bottle of
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: sasses sassy barbecue sauce in my fridge and some ribs
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: that could have been on the smoker all day long
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: yeah there's times might be a couple of times we're
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: enjoying it throughout only three players in this series with
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: world series experience two of which on the Rays' side.
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: Steven Matz hadn't pitched in a World Series since 2015.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: Only Brewer with World Series experience. Dustin May.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I was going to say May.
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: Maybe.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, did JoJo?
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: No. May.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: Maybe one of your game... Three, four starters? I think
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: you have to figure he's going to be involved somewhere.
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: Maybe he's doubled up with Woody.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: We'll find out.
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: Maybe Woody's just going to tell us exactly when he's
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: going to pitch.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Coming up on the other side.
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: I doubt, but we can give a two-clap and a
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: woo for Big Woo returning to the bump for the crew.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: Nick Martinez opposite... Jacob Mizorowski in game one of the
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: World Series. We're getting set for it. We'll talk to
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: Hunter Baumgart down at the park. We'll hear from Pat
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: Murphy before this. We're also going to get you ready
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: for Packers and Lions throughout the day. That little ditty
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: starts up 325 kickoff on Fox Sports 920 here in Milwaukee,
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: your AM home.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: For Packers football throughout. True things.
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: It's so close to being here. It's so, so close
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: to being here. Armin, I drove by another like three
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: of the pop-up merch stands.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: It's so nice outside. My man doesn't even put up
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: the tent.
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: He puts the framework of the tent up just to
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: hang the shirts, but doesn't even put the top over
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: it because he wants to bask in the glow in
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: the sun. That's when you know it's real. And it
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: has been real to me, damn it. And it feels
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: like there's more. I mean, there was one in 84th
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: and Layton and like 76th and Layton. I'm like, that close?
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: High 100, Layton. They weren't messing around. Andy's getting into
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: the mix. You know business is good when that many
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: Mussarowski shirts are available. I did see a couple of Cheerios.
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: That's okay. You got to make it happen whatever way
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: you can. But I did see one that actually I
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: thought I liked almost better with the old World Series
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: logo with just a big trophy.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: See, there you go.
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: Just a massive commissioner's trophy. That's what it's all about.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: That's what it's all about. It is not just a
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: hunk of metal. It is not just a hunk of metal,
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: despite what the commissioner may have said at some particular
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: point in time. Brewers are trying to win that thing
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: for the first time ever. One guy that's going to
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: have the chance to maybe help out somebody that in
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: the early portions of July thought his season was done
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: once again with another shoulder injury coming to Brandon Woodruff.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Instead, the miracle of life happened. Not just rehab.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: No.
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: His wife ended up birthing their, I believe, third child.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: And instead of having surgery right away on that shoulder,
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: what he needed to help out around the house. So
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: maybe I'll delay it a couple of weeks. Then nature
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: took over. Some natural healing. Captivating that capsule muscle. Being
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: able to build some strength around it. And all of
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: a sudden here, as we are on October 23rd, he
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: is activated for the first time since... the 250th birthday
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: of our nation on July 4th.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Wow, it's amazing.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: This man rolls up, our patriot, Brandon Woodruff, along with
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: Logan Henderson. Earlier on here today, maybe your game two
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: and game three starter.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: We'll find out. Maybe Woody has the answers.
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: And Logan Henderson trying to be the first pair, him
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: and Jacob Mizorowski, of under 25 starters for game one
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: and two of a World Series ever.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Take it away from American Family Field, boys. Question, we
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: can start down here on the left, second row.
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: Woody, congratulations on making it back to the roster. When
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: were you informed of the decision? How were you informed?
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: And have they talked to you about what roles you
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: might fill, whether it be beginning of games or out
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: of the bullpen?
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: We had a few discussions about that.
• 23:22
  Speaker 12: I had a great conversation with Matt Arnold and Murph
• 23:26
  Speaker 12: yesterday evening. And I found out later in the evening
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: yesterday after I'd already gone home from the field.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: So I just... It was great.
• 23:36
  Speaker 12: I expressed, um, you know, how I felt about things
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: and kind of where I was and I was very truthful, um,
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: and very open and, and it came down to, I
• 23:50
  Speaker 12: want one thing, whether if I was on the roster
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: or not, and that's to win.
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: So, you know, whatever was decided, I was, I was, um,
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: I was good with.
• 23:58
  Speaker 12: So, uh, obviously I love to compete and I want
• 24:00
  Speaker 12: to pitch, um, but I understood the other side of it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: So, um, Yeah, excited. I'm ready to go and just helping.
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: And my message was help in any capacity Murph needed
• 24:11
  Speaker 11: me to get out. I didn't really care what that
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: looked like.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Stay in the second row, Adam.
• 24:17
  Speaker 13: Brandon, there's like the logic that has to be worked
• 24:21
  Speaker 13: through in this decision.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 13: And then there's like the emotional part of it and
• 24:26
  Speaker 13: the symbolic part of it. Where are you on the
• 24:30
  Speaker 13: symbolic part of it and what it means to get
• 24:32
  Speaker 13: to do this.
• 24:33
  Speaker 12: That was the first thing I said. I didn't want
• 24:35
  Speaker 12: this to be a charity pick. Um, you know, that's,
• 24:39
  Speaker 12: that was important to me. I wanted to feel like
• 24:42
  Speaker 12: I could, um, I want to be on the roster
• 24:45
  Speaker 12: cause I felt like I could help win.
• 24:47
  Speaker 11: Um, so I did not want that to be, um,
• 24:50
  Speaker 11: part of the decision.
• 24:52
  Speaker 12: Um, and I was very straightforward about that. So that,
• 24:56
  Speaker 12: that was, that was number one. I just wanted to
• 24:58
  Speaker 12: win and I want, I felt like I could, could
• 25:00
  Speaker 12: help win and, and, give innings any way possible.
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: And that was just the message. I did not want
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: that to be, um, really factored into that.
• 25:10
  Speaker 14: We'll stay in the second round in the middle, Steve,
• 25:13
  Speaker 14: having not been able to pitch in the post season.
• 25:15
  Speaker 14: So I think it's 21 because of all the variety
• 25:17
  Speaker 14: of injuries, just how much sweeter is that kind of
• 25:19
  Speaker 14: make this to finally have this opportunity now after everything
• 25:22
  Speaker 14: you've been through, not just this year, but in previous years.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: You know, I'm trying to stay where my feet are
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: right now. I think, um, our team's in a great place. Um,
• 25:35
  Speaker 12: and we've gotten here by doing a lot of great things. And, um,
• 25:41
  Speaker 12: if that opportunity comes for me, uh, you know, I'm,
• 25:44
  Speaker 12: I'm going to be, I'll be ready for the moment.
• 25:46
  Speaker 11: Um, and I'll give it everything I've got. You know
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: what I mean?
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: We don't know how things are going to work out
• 25:53
  Speaker 12: for us ever as athletes. Um, but, the one thing
• 25:57
  Speaker 12: you can do is be prepared.
• 25:58
  Speaker 11: And, um, that's one thing I'll be, I'll be, I'll
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: be prepared if my opportunity comes.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: Go up to the, near the top on the aisle, Logan,
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: for you, for someone who has watched Brandon work his
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: way back from this injury, what does it mean to
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: you and.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: This team to have him on the roster? Yeah.
• 26:14
  Speaker 10: I mean, I think it truly means everything to this
• 26:16
  Speaker 10: team and to the, to the city, you know, for
• 26:19
  Speaker 10: those of us that are in the clubhouse and see
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: the work that he puts in day in and day out, it's, um,
• 26:24
  Speaker 10: It's really cool to see it be rewarded and for
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: him to get a shot to be on the roster.
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: It's hard to put the words together to say how
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: much he means to this club. It's pretty cool to
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: see him part of it.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Go to Kurt, third row in the middle.
• 26:41
  Speaker 15: Brandon, when you came back in August and started talking
• 26:44
  Speaker 15: about how you didn't need surgery and that kind of
• 26:47
  Speaker 15: changed your long-term trajectory, I'm curious, you mentioned that You
• 26:52
  Speaker 15: didn't have any expectations. You had no idea if this
• 26:54
  Speaker 15: was possible.
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 15: If you had to put a percentage on it, what
• 26:58
  Speaker 15: percent at that time did you think this was actually
• 27:01
  Speaker 15: a possibility that you could pitch a World Series in
• 27:04
  Speaker 15: two months?
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: No idea.
• 27:06
  Speaker 12: I can tell you the first couple weeks was, I mean,
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: I didn't throw for, you know, six to eight weeks,
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: I guess, somewhere in there. Heck, I was at home
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: for three weeks getting ready to have surgery, and then
• 27:19
  Speaker 12: things kind of turned around for me. So I was there,
• 27:23
  Speaker 12: maybe being at home with my family kind of helped
• 27:26
  Speaker 12: things heal up, you know what I mean, take a
• 27:27
  Speaker 12: little time away. And I was very fortunate that the
• 27:32
  Speaker 12: brewers kind of let.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Me do that.
• 27:33
  Speaker 12: They were on the road a lot during that span,
• 27:35
  Speaker 12: so that was kind of easy. But I didn't have a–
• 27:39
  Speaker 12: I knew what surgery meant for me. And, you know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 12: I had no expectations. I truly didn't. Once I had
• 27:46
  Speaker 12: my visit with Dr. Meister and he was like, get
• 27:48
  Speaker 12: back to throwing. Don't want you to shut down. I
• 27:51
  Speaker 12: don't think at that moment there was ever like, hey,
• 27:56
  Speaker 12: I'm going to pitch again this year.
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: Or the World Series could be it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 12: But as we started getting later and kind of things
• 28:03
  Speaker 12: started playing out, that became a conversation.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: And then.
• 28:07
  Speaker 12: As throwing progressed, it was kind of like the message
• 28:11
  Speaker 12: I stayed in contact with Dr.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Meister.
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: And the big thing was just kind of keep dangling
• 28:17
  Speaker 12: that carrot in front of your face. And if the
• 28:19
  Speaker 12: opportunity presents itself– I know what's in front of me.
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: There's risk there, but that's something that I was willing
• 28:29
  Speaker 12: to take, and I made that clear when I had
• 28:31
  Speaker 12: my visit with Dr.
• 28:34
  Speaker 11: Meister and Murph when I sat down with them.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Come down to the front for the twin strikers. Congrats
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: on getting to the World Series, and Brandon, congrats on
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: getting back. Logan, the Rays struggle against the fastball a lot.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: How are you going to utilize the fastball against them tomorrow?
• 28:51
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 28:52
  Speaker 16: I mean, my fastball is a big part of my game. Um,
• 28:55
  Speaker 16: it's a great question.
• 28:56
  Speaker 10: Um, so it'll definitely be thrown tomorrow, but you know,
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: it comes down to execution and, and throwing it in
• 29:01
  Speaker 10: the right count. So, um, you know, we're, we're prepared
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: for it and we're going to, we're going to sit
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: down and have a meeting before the game tomorrow and
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: talk about our game plan.
• 29:10
  Speaker 16: And, um, you know, I got a.
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: Lot of trust with William behind the plate. So, um,
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: definitely throw some fastballs tomorrow.
• 29:16
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: We'll go up to the left side, far left, second
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: to last row.
• 29:21
  Speaker 17: Um, Brandon is the longest tenured brewer currently on the roster.
• 29:26
  Speaker 17: What does this whole journey mean to you? And when
• 29:28
  Speaker 17: you actually heard from Murph and Matt, were you like
• 29:31
  Speaker 17: one of those people that had so much adrenaline going
• 29:32
  Speaker 17: through you, you could lift a car or lift a
• 29:34
  Speaker 17: house or something like that?
• 29:36
  Speaker 12: Honestly, I think you're going to be a little underwhelmed by,
• 29:39
  Speaker 12: you know, they called me, I was actually driving home
• 29:42
  Speaker 12: yesterday and, um, and, and Murph just, you know, basically
• 29:49
  Speaker 12: he broke, you know, told me the news and, you know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 12: I was, it didn't really hit me. I was kind
• 29:55
  Speaker 12: of like, you know, just thank you for the opportunity. And, and, um,
• 29:59
  Speaker 12: basically let's go win this thing. And that was pretty
• 30:02
  Speaker 12: much the extent of the conversation. It was like, you know, there's,
• 30:07
  Speaker 12: they got work to do. I got a job to
• 30:09
  Speaker 12: do and to mentally prepare. And I just thanked them.
• 30:14
  Speaker 12: And that was pretty much it.
• 30:16
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Go to Todd third row in the middle.
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: Hey, Logan, what would you say you've learned from your
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: first two starts and how valuable do you think those
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: are going to be going into your game to start here?
• 30:28
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think there's definitely value in having thrown in
• 30:30
  Speaker 10: a couple games now rather than, you know, just getting
• 30:34
  Speaker 10: activated and throwing the first time in the playoffs in
• 30:36
  Speaker 10: the World Series. I think, yeah, there's some value to it.
• 30:38
  Speaker 10: But kind of just, you know, the preparation leading up
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: to it, you know, there's a lot of feelings you're feeling,
• 30:47
  Speaker 10: you know, on the day of. So it's kind of
• 30:49
  Speaker 10: just knowing how to take those feelings and, you know,
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: move forward with it and, just treat the game the
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: same way I did in the regular season. You know,
• 31:00
  Speaker 10: I think tensions are going to be higher, adrenaline's going
• 31:02
  Speaker 10: to be higher, but, you know, going back to those
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: two games, you know, learn some things about myself within
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: the game that would, you know, help me moving forward.
• 31:10
  Speaker 16: So, yeah, I think throwing those two games helps.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Go up near the top in the middle.
• 31:16
  Speaker 19: Brandon, knowing all that you've been through to get back
• 31:19
  Speaker 19: physically and that you were a teammate at one point
• 31:22
  Speaker 19: of Drew Rasmussen and knowing he's come back, three major
• 31:25
  Speaker 19: elbow procedures. Do you have a greater appreciation for what
• 31:27
  Speaker 19: he's been through to get to this point and how
• 31:30
  Speaker 19: good he's been doing it?
• 31:30
  Speaker 12: I do.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: It's, uh, it's not easy. Uh, Drew is an unbelievable person.
• 31:36
  Speaker 12: Um, that was very evident the first time I got
• 31:40
  Speaker 12: to meet him after being drafted and getting to watch
• 31:42
  Speaker 12: some pitch here. And, um, you know, after he was
• 31:44
  Speaker 12: traded and then going through the elbow injury again, you know,
• 31:48
  Speaker 12: and just, you have sentiment for guys who go through
• 31:51
  Speaker 12: that kind of stuff and have to battle back. And, um, Man,
• 31:55
  Speaker 12: he had an unbelievable year. He's throwing the heck out
• 31:57
  Speaker 12: of the ball. And, you know, that's props to him.
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: But I think first and foremost, Rass is a great guy, dude.
• 32:04
  Speaker 12: He's a great teammate. And that's what I remember most
• 32:08
  Speaker 12: about him being here. And he works his tail off
• 32:10
  Speaker 12: for sure.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Go up to Hazel on the far right.
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: Brandon, what were the last couple of boxes you needed
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: to check off that told you you were ready to
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: come back?
• 32:21
  Speaker 11: Facing hitters.
• 32:23
  Speaker 12: I think once I got on the mound, each step, it's,
• 32:27
  Speaker 12: it's basically like the buildup process kind of in the
• 32:29
  Speaker 12: off season, whenever you're getting ready for spring training, you're
• 32:32
  Speaker 12: always going to be, there's going to be some new sorenesses.
• 32:34
  Speaker 12: They're going to be, you know, stuff along the way.
• 32:36
  Speaker 12: And then your body just kind of adapts and gets stronger. And,
• 32:40
  Speaker 12: but once I, once I got through about two, two bullpens,
• 32:43
  Speaker 12: you know, I knew that there was, there could be
• 32:46
  Speaker 12: a shot in some capacity to, to be able to help.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: And, Then throwing in the.
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: Scrimmage game the other day was the big test for me.
• 32:54
  Speaker 11: It was a big day for me.
• 32:58
  Speaker 12: This is almost 10 years, and I treated it as
• 33:00
  Speaker 12: I was at a showcase and trying to make the team,
• 33:05
  Speaker 12: you know what I mean?
• 33:06
  Speaker 11: And I wouldn't want it any other way, and that's
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: kind of the way you have to treat it.
• 33:11
  Speaker 12: But I would say probably after the first couple of bullpens,
• 33:14
  Speaker 12: I kind of knew there could be a shot for sure.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: In the second row, Tyler.
• 33:19
  Speaker 18: Logan uh what i asked you like who uh who
• 33:21
  Speaker 18: did you root for growing up and like you know
• 33:23
  Speaker 18: what were some of the first world series memories that
• 33:25
  Speaker 18: you had uh did you ever go to any games
• 33:27
  Speaker 18: or just anything on tv that stands out.
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: Yeah um grew up a big astros fan so um
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: was fortunate to to watch that you know run that
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: they went on when i was in high school and
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: um my dad had always said if they go to
• 33:42
  Speaker 10: the world series we'll go so um I've actually been
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: to four World Series games, one in each year that
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: Houston went. So, you know, some of the moments that
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: stand out to me was Bregman's walk off in game
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: five in 2017.
• 33:58
  Speaker 16: You know, Jordan had a huge homer in 2022.
• 34:02
  Speaker 10: You know, I was drafted at that point, but, you know,
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: still watch them pretty closely. But yeah, I think honestly,
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: my first World Series memory is like St. Louis and
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: Texas in 13.
• 34:16
  Speaker 16: That was a really good, really good series, but, um, yeah,
• 34:19
  Speaker 16: I grew up in Astros, man.
• 34:20
  Speaker 18: So, did you, uh, do you remember which game, like,
• 34:22
  Speaker 18: did you go to the Bregman game, the walk-up game?
• 34:23
  Speaker 16: I went to the game before that, I went to
• 34:25
  Speaker 16: game four.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Game four, yeah.
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, um.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: And the Alvarez home run game?
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: I wasn't at that one, um, in 21, I was
• 34:33
  Speaker 10: at the game, at game six when Atlanta won it,
• 34:36
  Speaker 10: when Solaire cleared the train track, so I was pretty
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: cool as a fan, um, I was a fan of Houston, but,
• 34:42
  Speaker 10: you know, I was a fan of the game, but, Yeah,
• 34:44
  Speaker 10: those are the two games that stick out.
• 34:47
  Speaker 18: Thank you.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Go to Zach, middle of the second row.
• 34:49
  Speaker 11: Hey, guys, this is for both of you.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: There was an eight-day layoff in between that LCS and today.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: I'm just curious what your guys' emotions were like showing
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: up to the stadium today and also what you guys
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: are expecting from, like, the fan reception on your line
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: of announcements. Later.
• 35:04
  Speaker 11: You mean take it, man?
• 35:05
  Speaker 15: Take it, man.
• 35:06
  Speaker 11: It's been pretty cool.
• 35:08
  Speaker 12: I think the layoff has been, you know, after, um,
• 35:11
  Speaker 12: the San Diego series or before the San Diego series,
• 35:14
  Speaker 12: it really helped us prepare, kind of know how to
• 35:16
  Speaker 12: get ready for, you know, the series with LA and
• 35:19
  Speaker 12: then leading into this. But I would just say around
• 35:22
  Speaker 12: the city, it's been, it's been pretty crazy. Um, as
• 35:26
  Speaker 12: soon as we got back, I, you know, I took
• 35:27
  Speaker 12: my kids out, you know, just to the local parks
• 35:30
  Speaker 12: and stuff and getting them out of the house and
• 35:32
  Speaker 12: people are, are decked out in gear. And, um, you
• 35:36
  Speaker 12: definitely catch a lot more people taking pictures of you.
• 35:38
  Speaker 11: In the wild.
• 35:39
  Speaker 12: And that can be kind of awkward sometimes when you
• 35:43
  Speaker 12: catch them.
• 35:43
  Speaker 11: But, man, the fans are ready. We're ready.
• 35:48
  Speaker 12: And it's been so cool to see how much they've
• 35:53
  Speaker 12: been behind us up to this point.
• 35:58
  Speaker 16: Yeah, to piggyback on that, it's just a lot of excitement.
• 36:03
  Speaker 16: You feel the buzz around the city.
• 36:05
  Speaker 10: I think we're really excited to see the seats filled
• 36:08
  Speaker 10: again today and most electric atmosphere in baseball. So we're
• 36:14
  Speaker 10: looking forward to it for sure.
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: That is Logan Henderson, Brandon Woodruff before game one of
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: the World Series. Woody going to be a part of
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: it on the 26-man roster. Logan Henderson listed going to
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: start tomorrow's game number two. And I love the question
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: that he gets asked by the youngster talking about fastballs.
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: First baseball question. Nice that we have some real seam.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Heads in there.
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: Thanks for asking about ball. It was a good question.
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: Childhood memories and stuff like that. All this waxiness.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: The kid's like, hey, man, let's talk about ball. I'm
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: trying to know.
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: How many fastballs are you pumping? Are you ready to pitch?
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: What's your sequence going to be? I like that we
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: get into some actual X's and O's. Come on.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Let me hear something. Yes, I will use the fastball.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: It's like, all right, there we go. Let's go. I
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: did like that you said that. I'm playing on throwing
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: some fastballs.
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: You better throw that heater, Logan, because if you don't
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: throw the heater, get people off that changeup, could be
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: a long day. More than anything, Logan Henderson in game two,
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: most important throw I'm worried about, Armin, first base. Well, obviously,
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: he had the issues in the LCS, but come on.
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: I got no problems with Logan Henderson throwing straight to
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: William Contreras. My question is, how is he throwing the
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: ball to Jake Bowers or Andrew Vaughn standing over at
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: first base?
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: And I understand that's our memory of it.
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: But, but I fully expect that he can make that
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: throw and we'll do it.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, isn't that a rarity?
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: I mean, or that was never, that was never an
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: issue before.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: I listen. Wasn't an issue for Chuck Knobloch before it was. Well,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: that's the thing.
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: I mean, but, but you don't let yourself think that
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: this is going to be the start of the yips
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: or something or John Lester style. No, you got to believe,
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: you got to come in confident, ready that he's going
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: to be able.
• 37:50
  Speaker 19: To handle that.
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: Although I will say if he gets a slow roller
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: off to the right side and he's walking over to
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: first base, why don't we try an underhand?
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Maybe we just... Discretion is the better part of valor.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: We're doing the underhand flip.
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: If we can. We're not going full-on rookie of the year,
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: float it. But he's got a nice little soft toss.
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: Lay that thing into the glove and let's get into it.
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: I think you do bring up a good point with that.
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: And we're going to get the break here in a second.
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: These games, you know, the game itself is the same.
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: This is the game of baseball. And these guys have
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: played it all year. They've won 110 games doing it
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: this year. But these are different games. These are different outs.
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: These are different plays to make than they ever will be.
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: I really think the challenge, Billy, is tricking yourself into
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: thinking it's not. when you're on the mound, when you're
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: on the field, I don't know. I've never been an
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: athlete at that level, but I would think you're trying
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: to tell yourself, this is not anything different than everything
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: I've done the whole time. Cause if you start thinking
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: that way, that these are supposed to be harder plays
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: to make, is there more important games? Well, then all
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: of a sudden we do have who's you got it.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: I got it.
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: There's hesitation. So I think maybe that's one way to
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: fight against it. I'm not really sure, but yeah, These
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: are going to be different outs. The moment you start
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: thinking is the moment you stop playing.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: That's why I don't think.
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: It's a very, very easy thing to say. A lot
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: harder to do and put into practice. Excited to see
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: how they're actually able to do it. Coming up here
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: later on tonight.
• 39:16
  Speaker 17: All right.
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: Not only the only game going on here. We got
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: some Bucks basketball that's about to tip off. That, from
• 39:22
  Speaker 8: the looks of it on my 24, Armin, everybody is
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: at this game.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I don't i mean i understand Yeah, I mean, it
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: is what it is.
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: Looks like it was the second hottest ticket in the
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: city tonight because it looks like there might be some
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: open air, as Bob Uecker would say. Plenty of room
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: for you to come on out and join us at
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: Fiserv Forum if you want. I see a lot of
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: Brewers jerseys walking in as they get ready for the
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: home opener of Bucks and Bulls.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Let's start, but you know what?
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: First game on free TV. I like seeing Craig Cashon
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: outside of the lookies.
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Finite matchups.
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: Diaz-Mizorowski to start is a phenomenal one.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: It really is.
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: Obviously, Caminero is the one that's going to get a
• 40:00
  Speaker 8: lot of the run throughout it. But Diaz has kind
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: of been the dude that they've rode here through the playoffs.
• 40:07
  Speaker 8: And he's the biggest one arming for me. First batter,
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: first sequence. You know it's going to be a lot
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: of fastballs. If somebody can tell me how you time
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: up 104, I haven't necessarily seen it quite yet. But
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: as MLB Network wanted to put together a sweet sizzle
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: reel of all the Jacob Mizorowski home runs that he's
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: given up this year, the only way to beat him
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: for a portion of the year. was to start early
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: enough and step on one. And that is the one
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: fear of getting out of this first inning here. Well,
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: that's the thing in the early innings might tell us
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: a lot, you know, we'll miss have that command. We
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: had the control. Cause that's been the issue sometimes is
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: being excited to overthrow. So you had to throttle it
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: back a little bit. And obviously when guys have gotten him,
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: even when he's pitched his best, you know it's kind
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: of jumping on one early and that's the thing so
• 40:53
  Speaker 8: it would be uh like you said i don't know
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: how you time it up but if somebody can i
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: think that's why the control is important there bill because
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: you want to make sure you're in the zone uh
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: if you can be if someone gets you they get
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: you and you.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Have to just buckle back down and go back at it.
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: You can't let it affect you the rest of the
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: way you can't let it affect the rest of what
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: you're doing it's gonna be a long game long series
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: as we know but uh It does seem like, you know,
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: we haven't seen as good as Miz is. We haven't
• 41:17
  Speaker 8: seen his best yet in the playoffs. So what better
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: time than tonight to start off game one?
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not wrong about that.
• 41:24
  Speaker 8: We definitely have not seen the good Jacob Mizorowski quite yet.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: We have seen some.
• 41:29
  Speaker 8: Good ABs by Brewers hitters against game one starter Nick Martinez.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: You want some good news?
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: William Contreras, five for 18.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: With a double and two homers. Yeah, there we go.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: I want more of that.
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: Good for a 944 OPS against Martinez.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:46
  Speaker 8: Gary Sanchez, I don't think he's going to get in
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: that bad here. But three for seven with a double
• 41:51
  Speaker 8: and a bomb and three driven in as well.
• 41:53
  Speaker 9: As a walk.
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: A 1,500 OPS against Martinez's career.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: You know what? And they're looking at that stuff.
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: And that's a good ace to have.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: In your back pocket if you need a pinch hitter.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: I would imagine he might be the one.
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: It's also going to be interesting to see how long
• 42:07
  Speaker 8: these guys go.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: I mean we talked so.
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: Much about the starters but this is an out-to-out game
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: now so the brewers job is to is to battle
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: these guys wear them down and get them out of
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: the game and get to that middle relief i think
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: and the rest of the crew garrett mitchell not bad
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: four for 12 with a pair of doubles against martinez
• 42:26
  Speaker 8: in his career the captain five for 19 with a
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: double and a bomb i like this stuff Dig up
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: some more of these numbers for you.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Bryce Durang hadn't fared too bad.
• 42:35
  Speaker 8: I mean, only hitting 250, but two of those four
• 42:38
  Speaker 8: hits have been doubles and one left the yard. Brewers
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: have hit six home runs against Nick Martinez in his career.
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: Would love to be able to see one of those
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: here early. I said it to Drew an hour ago, Armin,
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: or in the beginning of the hour, whatever it was.
• 42:52
  Speaker 8: I do think as much as these two teams manufacture
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: bunt for singles and sack buns and stolen bases, I
• 43:00
  Speaker 8: do believe it's going to be a big fly. And
• 43:02
  Speaker 8: it's going to be an early one that sets the tone.
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: And the one that gets the first big swing is
• 43:05
  Speaker 8: going to be the team to win game one. I liked,
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: you know, home runs, obviously port 10 victories. So hopefully
• 43:10
  Speaker 8: that's ours. Hopefully we get them and we get, I'll get,
• 43:13
  Speaker 8: I'll take multiple.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: If it's not ours, it might be our horse. We'll see.
• 43:18
  Speaker 8: Brewers minus 205 now at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Bucs tipping
• 43:21
  Speaker 8: off with their home opener coming up in a matter
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: of moments. Pat Murphy speaking right now.