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08/18/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Greeting salutation, smart, good looking listeners. Five o'clock club members,
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Speaker 1: let's rally, let's get it going. On a Tuesday. I'm
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Speaker 1: Drew Olson here at headquarters, joined by armand Sarian because
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Speaker 1: today's a practice day. Billy's not here.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, Drew practice day.
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Speaker 3: Billy will be going up to Green Bay, although I
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Speaker 3: think he is going to stop and he will, yeah,
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Speaker 3: stop it.
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Speaker 1: Here on his way to pick up our car.
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Speaker 2: But an extra hour sleep for ourman Williams.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You know you don't want to drive tired. You know
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Speaker 2: that goes. You don't want to be driving tired.
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Speaker 3: He has We have to make sure he has enough
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Speaker 3: time to hit quick trip to get his uh his
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Speaker 3: provisions on his way up to UH to Lambo.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So it'll be a good day.
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Speaker 1: So we're shorthanded a little bit. Dolph will be back.
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Speaker 1: Hunter's back from vacation, which is fantastic, and we're here
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Speaker 1: with our five o'clock clubbers. Check in eight seven, seven, seven, nine,
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Speaker 1: four one seven three Get you to the Nicola Law
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Speaker 1: dot Com talk and text line and for starters today
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Speaker 1: because the Burners were off much well deserved, well timed
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Speaker 1: day off.
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Speaker 2: Well time indeed, I mean, how long have they been going.
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Speaker 1: Without seventeen seventeen days with a lot of travel mixed
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Speaker 1: in a West coast travel, a lot of roster shenanigans, injuries,
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Speaker 1: il maneuvers, guys, guys in and out of the team,
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Speaker 1: like playing out of position, guys that are added to
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Speaker 1: the roster and you know and dumped, you know, out
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Speaker 1: of nowhere, just guys parachuting in. It was a weird stretch.
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Speaker 1: We mentioned it. Yesterday. They went ten at seven, got
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Speaker 1: a chance to unwind, sleep at home and get ready
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Speaker 1: for our homestand that begins tonight against the Mariners. Now,
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Speaker 1: I have a hypothesis to bounce off of folks today,
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Speaker 1: and it is that baseball is, for a variety of reasons,
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Speaker 1: the best team, the best sport to follow when your
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Speaker 1: team is good, because you get the little bonuses. Like
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Speaker 1: last night, Brewers didn't play, They took the well deserved
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Speaker 1: day off. But the Cubs played the White Sox, and
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Speaker 1: the Brewers are battling the Cubs in the NL Central
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Speaker 1: and in the NL, and you got to cheer against
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Speaker 1: the Cubs. Now it didn't work out. Cubs played a
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Speaker 1: thrilling game against the White Sox and they walked them
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Speaker 1: off in tenth inning.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, White Sox almost got him.
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Speaker 3: Ben attend he had the game lead, but unfortunately the
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Speaker 3: PCA monster.
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Speaker 1: PCA the way Miz kind of sealed his uh cy
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Speaker 1: young with his appearance in Los Angeles. Yeah, PCA may
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Speaker 1: have done that with the MVP.
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Speaker 2: He's getting that level, although obviously is still doing his thing.
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Speaker 1: Atani's doing his thing, but PCA is thirty and thirty
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Speaker 1: and Otani's pitching has been shelved, so he's not as
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Speaker 1: attractive as the two way candidate.
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Speaker 3: Totally agree, And you also can't convince me that there
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Speaker 3: isn't a little voter fatigue on Otani. There was with Jordan,
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Speaker 3: but you know, we'll see see how it goes. But
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Speaker 3: he's definitely deserving.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's the thing, is like you got your
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Speaker 1: team to watch and others, because let's face it, the
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Speaker 1: Cubs and the Cubs are always an obsession in these
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Speaker 1: parts that have been and probably always.
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Speaker 2: Will be unicuily when they're a contender.
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Speaker 1: But the Cubs they provide that foil and they provide
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Speaker 1: that little side show. And I've heard it from several people,
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Speaker 1: probably a dozen times in the last month when the
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Speaker 1: Brewers were kind of you know, riding the roller coaster
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Speaker 1: up there down the Burrhs lost, well, at least the
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Speaker 1: Cubs lost too, and it gives you that offset. You
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Speaker 1: get to offset your losses like, oh, well, the Burr's loss,
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Speaker 1: but the Cubs didn't pick up any round. Yeah, Burrs
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Speaker 1: just struggled through a stretch and again struggled going ten
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Speaker 1: and seven, because it was a struggle. And yet the
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Speaker 1: Cubs picked up like a half a game in that period.
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Speaker 1: Because it's just like, it's just that's another reason. Plus
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Speaker 1: baseball's every damn day. You got something new every day.
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Speaker 1: Like the Packers in the NFL, you're building up. We
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Speaker 1: got another month yet until they start the season. And
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Speaker 1: then you get into the rhythm of the season. But
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Speaker 1: then you're playing ostensibly once a week, sometimes Sunday Thursday,
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Speaker 1: but you're playing once a week, and you spend you know,
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Speaker 1: two days, three days looking forward to the game you
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Speaker 1: have the game, you spend two days looking back, and
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Speaker 1: then you're looking forward again. In baseball, you got something
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Speaker 1: new every night.
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Speaker 3: It's a new meal. And in a way, yes, you
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Speaker 3: make it, you're you're putting it. It's it's totally apt.
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Speaker 3: It's correct. So as when your team.
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Speaker 1: Is good in baseball and it being an everyday endeavor,
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Speaker 1: and when you get to you know, vicariously, you get
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Speaker 1: to slake your thirst on days off by rooting for
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Speaker 1: or against other teams.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you get interest there.
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Speaker 1: It gives you now that that can happen. Not so
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Speaker 1: much in the NBA. The NBA is the NBA regular
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Speaker 1: season is in my mind, the worst regular season.
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Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, it's a culture.
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Speaker 3: We've we've assigned less and less importance to it, and
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Speaker 3: therefore our passion for it has followed suit. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 3: like the the sport itself is assigned less importance to it.
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Speaker 2: So therefore that's how we look at it. It's all
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Speaker 2: about the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: So I agree there, Although when your team is you
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Speaker 3: you brought up a point, that's a stude. When your
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Speaker 3: team is really good, it's always more fun to follow.
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Speaker 3: So that means where's the most action. It's baseball. It's
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Speaker 3: a daily basis. It's a new meal every day, whereas
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Speaker 3: you always talk about feasting on the buffalo of a
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Speaker 3: packer game for the whole week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the village. It can feed the village and
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Speaker 1: it has its merits, I will say, but there's just
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Speaker 1: something baseball being every day and you can you know,
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Speaker 1: and every day and you can have these you have
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Speaker 1: these little moments built in. You have you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: walk off games during the season, like every day, not
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Speaker 1: every NFL game is followed by a Gatorade.
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Speaker 2: Bath, right, some are just you know you do that, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's like it's funny because it's funny how people get
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Speaker 1: pissed sometimes, like, oh, you only won the wild carter,
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Speaker 1: you clinch the playoff berth and brand champagne. Why are
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Speaker 1: you doing that? Well, they don't Gator eight on a
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Speaker 1: Tuesday night in Detroit.
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Speaker 3: Because there's like there's such a thing in baseball as
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Speaker 3: a walkoff homer, which you don't really have as much
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Speaker 3: in the other sports, right, I mean, you could get
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Speaker 3: an overtime goaling hockey, but in the NBA in basketball,
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Speaker 3: unless it's a true buzzer beater, or unless in the
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Speaker 3: NFL it's a true walkoff of a field goal, maybe
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Speaker 3: in overtime it's just not the same. But you know,
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Speaker 3: you do have that in baseball to walk off, and
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Speaker 3: you're right, Drew, you get more of it, it's every day.
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Speaker 3: It's like if you have a favorite show, right, or
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Speaker 3: favorite book, Like if it's something you're starting to really
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Speaker 3: enjoy a new show, just think if you had a
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Speaker 3: new episode every day, right, you don't have to wait
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Speaker 3: a whole week for our episode.
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Speaker 2: And that's kind of what it is.
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Speaker 3: And if it's something that's not going well for you,
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Speaker 3: if your team isn't you know, playing well, or you're
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Speaker 3: not really quite enjoying following them, it's easy to get
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Speaker 3: lost in it too. It's sort of like a soap
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Speaker 3: opera where they turn out like a factory. So many
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Speaker 3: it is so many episodes that you'll easily get lost,
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Speaker 3: and if you have no interest and miss ten episodes.
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Speaker 3: But if you're into it, if it's a passion and
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Speaker 3: you're truly enjoying it, and the thing is you're getting
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Speaker 3: that dopamine rush from that team every day.
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Speaker 2: And to your point, the Cubs.
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Speaker 3: Are giving that to you too when they play as well,
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Speaker 3: for better or for worse, because you have an interest there.
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Speaker 2: So that is that is such an observational point.
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Speaker 3: That's a great point, Like the Brewers didn't play last night,
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Speaker 3: but the dopamine rush you got or the opportunity you
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Speaker 3: got to watch for a dopamine rush by the Cubs.
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Speaker 3: Losing was was just as good, almost just as good,
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Speaker 3: because it's like, nothing's going to replace the Brewers winning.
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Speaker 3: But when you're in first place, you also get the
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Speaker 3: enjoyment of watching and rooting for the second place team losing,
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Speaker 3: which is you know, it keeps your interest. It's like
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Speaker 3: a new it's like a new page of a book
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Speaker 3: that you're just engrossed in.
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Speaker 1: You know that exactly, so that it's a page turner.
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Speaker 1: You're in it for the long haul. And to your point, though,
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Speaker 1: you can, like I don't know, you can be into
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Speaker 1: this Brewers team and then you can go to Europe
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Speaker 1: for two weeks and not follow it and then come
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Speaker 1: back and pick it up where you were sure, right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah they just checked the stand. Okay, where did I miss?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Not that you can't do that in other sports,
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Speaker 1: but you can actually just and especially in a pennant
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Speaker 1: race when you're scoreboard watching is more fun in baseball
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Speaker 1: and more prevalent.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like what's your nightly entertainment, you know, and
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Speaker 3: last night in the summer it's it's you have that
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Speaker 3: ability in baseball they have a game every day now,
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Speaker 3: like like last night, right now, they didn't have one,
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Speaker 3: you know, so last night they had the day off.
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Speaker 3: But you're like, all right, well, I'm not paying attention
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Speaker 3: to baseball. But then you realize Ben and Tendi just
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Speaker 3: hit a homer for the Socks and they just go
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Speaker 3: up five to four Wrigley, and then you get to
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Speaker 3: be invested in that game, and that you get to
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Speaker 3: you get to be entertained by that, and you got
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Speaker 3: to have It's always more fun to have a rooting interest,
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Speaker 3: you know, in anything. Like there's games on every night,
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Speaker 3: but if I watch the Angels and the Mariners, like
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Speaker 3: the Angels and the Rockies, the Dodgers, it's not you know,
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Speaker 3: unless it's really affecting your team.
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Speaker 2: A lot of fans feel this way. It's not the same.
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Speaker 3: But when you have something directly affecting you, like the Cubs,
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Speaker 3: obviously it's enjoyable.
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Speaker 2: It's an entertaining thing.
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Speaker 3: It is. Unfortunately Cubs Socks couldn't hold onto their lead
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Speaker 3: last night, but that's another great.
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Speaker 2: But it gave you entertainment, gave me something to look
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Speaker 2: at you.
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Speaker 1: It's your side piece. You got a side piece. You
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Speaker 1: got the entertainment value. Now are you living and dying?
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Speaker 1: If the Athletics are playing the Rangers, that game's going on,
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Speaker 1: and it's like, man, I mean, while back here among
9:18
Speaker 1: the tire and strip club ass exactly, but you have
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Speaker 1: the Cubs front of mine. You're following like the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: and the Braves for the best records. The Birds are
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Speaker 1: actually in like two races, want to win the division,
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Speaker 1: one to finish with one of the two top records.
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Speaker 1: So you have like two side views and you only
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Speaker 1: get in the course of a season, what like twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one days off, like including the All Star breaks
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Speaker 1: kind of the long run money. But you get like
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Speaker 1: one day a week where there's no ballgame.
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Speaker 2: That's why I know.
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Speaker 3: For some people there was always also the flip side
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Speaker 3: of boy, it can be exhausting to follow baseball every
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Speaker 3: day because you.
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Speaker 1: Never get a break of having a exhausting covering it.
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Speaker 1: I want to tell you that it's your job. It's
9:58
Speaker 1: but people would say, you know that wasn' gonna get boring.
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Speaker 1: Don't the games all look the same? Like No, I
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Speaker 1: would say, it's a book with one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: two chapters, and every day something happens where it's like,
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Speaker 1: even even the year the Brewers death march towards one
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Speaker 1: hundred and six losses, every day there was something new, something,
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Speaker 1: there was some it took a twist to turn. There
10:18
Speaker 1: was something going on.
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Speaker 3: And there's always like there'll always be an aspect of
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Speaker 3: when the season that long, where yeah, you know you're
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Speaker 3: ripping pages of the calendar, you know you're getting through
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Speaker 3: dog days and stuff.
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Speaker 2: There's always an aspect of it.
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Speaker 1: But but you're right, and it comes down to how
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Speaker 1: much you enjoyed it in the past, Like, well, the
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Speaker 1: hard os always had the side piece because the heart
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Speaker 1: os and I mean the hardcore fans, yeah, would always
10:41
Speaker 1: like live and die with the minor league results, which
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Speaker 1: have been you know, completely that's fun again too, because
10:48
Speaker 1: the Brewers have such a deep, well stocked organization. Probably
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Speaker 1: Louis Pania moved up to Double A. They're double A team,
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Speaker 1: maybe one of the best minor league teams in history
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Speaker 1: in terms of the talent and like future big leaguers
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Speaker 1: on it. I don't know if they're all gonna end
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Speaker 1: up in Milwaukee, but they're all gonna end up playing
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Speaker 1: in the big leagues at some point and you're writing
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Speaker 1: an incredible story. They're just a little sidebar. And again
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Speaker 1: you got to kind of go find that. And there
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Speaker 1: are people who are really into it and there are
11:14
Speaker 1: people who are just kind of casually aware. But that's
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Speaker 1: a little side hustle. But to me, like last night
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Speaker 1: proved it that you could be invested in a Cub's
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Speaker 1: you know, White Sox game that you otherwise wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: cared about. Yeah, I don't think in Cincinnati they were
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Speaker 1: living and dying with the Cubs. They were busy with
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Speaker 1: no double header last night. But Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, like they
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Speaker 1: aren't living and dying with that because their team's not
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Speaker 1: as good. But baseball offers you that at the highest levels.
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Speaker 1: And again, baseball is also the cruelest sport. As a
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Speaker 1: Bart Giamatti wrote, baseball breaks your heart. It's designed to
11:50
Speaker 1: break your heart, and it's the cruelest sport because it's
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Speaker 1: the most random postseason and there's no you know, rhyme
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Speaker 1: or reasons. Best teams don't always win, blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: But when your team is good and there's atmosphere and
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Speaker 1: the ballparks buzzing in full or you play a series
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Speaker 1: like the Brewers just did in LA. Like when how
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Speaker 1: often in the NBA you get a night where it
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Speaker 1: feels like a playoff game? Yeah, maybe once twice a
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Speaker 1: year here in the Yeah, in baseball you get those regularly.
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Speaker 2: You get more of them too, more chances for it,
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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So in more games, more chances for like just more
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Speaker 1: compelling viewing. But you know, okay, So, like the Brewers
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Speaker 1: are what ninety nine percent to make the playoffs, but
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Speaker 1: those four games in LA felt like playoff.
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Speaker 2: Games because they do matter. They matter.
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Speaker 1: It mattered, and it felt like playoff games. So that's
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Speaker 1: why it just dawned on me last night as that
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Speaker 1: was unfolding in Chicago. And that's a great rivalry too.
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Speaker 1: And the White Socks are an incredible story, Like independent
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Speaker 1: of your Brewer's rooting interest. The White Sox opened the
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Speaker 1: season here coming off a horrible season last lat year.
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Speaker 1: The Brewers stomped them. I remember talking to Len Casper
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Speaker 1: and Darren Jackson before a game and their their TV
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Speaker 1: crew friends of the program former of course Lenny being
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Speaker 1: a Marquette guy and a Milwaukee radio guy, and Darren
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Speaker 1: played for the Brewers when I was covering the Brewers
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Speaker 1: back in the day, and so they were like, no,
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Speaker 1: we're better, like we're not this bad again, It's going
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Speaker 1: to be a better season, like we are better. And
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Speaker 1: they were confident and they called it and they are better.
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Speaker 1: But that that's an interesting sidebar. But the fact that
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Speaker 1: you get that little extra watching now again football fans, Well,
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Speaker 1: the Packers aren't playing. I can enjoy Thursday night football.
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Speaker 1: I can bet on it. It's like, yeah, but are you
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Speaker 1: investments aside? Are you living and dying with the result
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Speaker 1: like you were last night, Like you're not.
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Speaker 3: A seam result, but the fantasy football aspect of it,
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Speaker 3: people are, yeah, But you're right, it's not the.
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Speaker 2: Same as all.
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Speaker 3: Right, Well, I mean you do cheer against division rivals
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Speaker 3: a lot. I mean, at least I do, got people
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Speaker 3: like me do. I'm always looking to see the Viking.
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Speaker 1: I get that.
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Speaker 3: But you're right, it's not There can be games that
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Speaker 3: are you know, Jaguars Cardinals that are total dogs that
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Speaker 3: on Thursday night that you're like, Okay, I'm watching it
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Speaker 3: because it's on right and the NFL is still king.
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Speaker 3: But you don't get the same you don't get the
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Speaker 3: same constant rush of flow through that faucet of results,
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Speaker 3: of energy of games, and that's what makes it fun
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Speaker 3: to follow. It also can be like it's fun because
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Speaker 3: our team has been good, right, and when when the
14:28
Speaker 3: Brewers have been had those bad that stretch of bad
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Speaker 3: teams for so long drew. That was also what made
14:34
Speaker 3: it feel daunting for me, like as a Brewers fan,
14:36
Speaker 3: hoping that one day again I'd see my team go
14:38
Speaker 3: five hundred. That was the biggest thing, right. We haven't
14:41
Speaker 3: been five hundred in forever, we haven't won. I remember
14:44
Speaker 3: thinking like the Brewers would put so much into winning
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Speaker 3: a game or two here and then like you could
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Speaker 3: easily lose three in a row. There's so much to do,
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Speaker 3: there's so many times you have to respond to be
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Speaker 3: a good baseball team. I think is it's the hardest
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Speaker 3: of any sport to be good at because you have
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Speaker 3: to constantly win.
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Speaker 2: You have to constantly put out a good result.
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Speaker 3: You know, you can't fool anybody for five ten games
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Speaker 3: and that's enough, Like you know what I mean, You
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Speaker 3: you can't have you know, you can't win a bunch
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Speaker 3: of NFL games by three enough to get make a
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Speaker 3: wild card and it's just in baseball, there are so
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Speaker 3: many games that you have to be legitimately good and
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Speaker 3: you have to prove yourself in that after night. And
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Speaker 3: that was what always made a daunting as a Burst fan.
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Speaker 3: When they were bad, I'm like, it is so hard
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Speaker 3: to win in baseball.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, how come it is?
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Speaker 3: How come this franchise Milwaukee Brewers, Like I cheer for
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Speaker 3: this team and we'd go through our struggles in the
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Speaker 3: nineties and the early two thousands, I'm like, how are
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Speaker 3: we ever gonna win like that many games?
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Speaker 2: That many days?
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Speaker 3: Like it just felt so hard, Like you know, you
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Speaker 3: got Wayne Franklin and west Over Miller starting again, Like
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Speaker 3: it was like.
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Speaker 2: You get a streak together when those guys were in your.
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Speaker 1: Rotation, Like west Over Miller from Iowa. That's a golf guy.
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Speaker 1: I hate to bestray him, but those were the That
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Speaker 1: was the way it felt. So so it goes both
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Speaker 1: My point is it goes both ways, right, And that's
15:57
Speaker 1: what's great about baseball is you have you have the
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Speaker 1: drama unfold every day, you have the you have the
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Speaker 1: daily entertainment of the drugs, and that's that would be
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Speaker 1: the argument against the nothing matters but playoffs and championships. Yep,
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Speaker 1: it's like in baseball, if your team's good, you have
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Speaker 1: you're getting the constant dopamine rush of entertainment every day.
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Speaker 2: Like you can't tell me that doesn't matter more in
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Speaker 2: baseball than anything.
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Speaker 1: seven seven nine four one three. Am I just waxing romantic?
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Speaker 1: Am I drunk on the Pennant race? Well, porty agree?
16:33
Speaker 1: Because to me, last night was just proof that baseball
16:37
Speaker 1: is the most fun sport to follow when your team
16:39
Speaker 1: is good. And I just the fact that you get
16:43
Speaker 1: these little sidebar you know, diversions that you can on
16:48
Speaker 1: a rare day off you still get to scratch it.
16:50
Speaker 1: You get, like you said, the dopamine hit, that the
16:53
Speaker 1: Cubs playing a meaningful baseball And now the Cubs picked
16:56
Speaker 1: up a half a game. The Brewers can win it
16:58
Speaker 1: back today by beating the Mariners. But it's a it's
17:01
Speaker 1: just fascinating because that you're in it for the long haul.
17:04
Speaker 1: You only have in an entire course of a summer
17:07
Speaker 1: from you know, late March into early October, you get
17:11
Speaker 1: like eighteen to twenty days off. Yeah, there's no game.
17:14
Speaker 3: It's it's the as the gamblers would say, it's the
17:16
Speaker 3: constant action. You're always in action, yep. And when you
17:19
Speaker 3: crave the action, you want to stay in the action
17:21
Speaker 3: all the time because that's the energy that you're craving.
17:24
Speaker 1: Got a couple other sidebar corollary discussions today. We're going
17:27
Speaker 1: to talk about this weird situation with Diamondback Star.
17:30
Speaker 3: That's that one is just kind of up as ours
17:33
Speaker 3: the second time. He's kind of gone.
17:34
Speaker 1: Ale early bizarre al last night in Boston and it's
17:38
Speaker 1: been placed on the restricted list and it's just now
17:40
Speaker 1: there's the team again. They're trying to focus on being
17:43
Speaker 1: in the race and have to deal with this now.
17:47
Speaker 1: Really weird and they got spanked in the game, but
17:50
Speaker 1: not surprisingly, but there's bigger fish to fry there. They
17:53
Speaker 1: got bigger problems and as Buster Only friend of the
17:56
Speaker 1: Show points out, we start today with three teams tied
17:58
Speaker 1: for the third Ale wild Card with sixty one and
18:01
Speaker 1: sixty four records. Crazy, seven teams are within two games
18:04
Speaker 1: of each other in the race for the third wild Yeah,
18:06
Speaker 1: I mentioned it quickly. Yesterday drew, but it's all say
18:09
Speaker 1: a game.
18:09
Speaker 3: No team has ever made the MLB playoffs in the
18:12
Speaker 3: non COVID shortened year with a record below five hundred.
18:16
Speaker 3: This could be the first year in the AL because
18:18
Speaker 3: it's been so topsy turvy the balance of powers NL
18:22
Speaker 3: So we'll see. Now.
18:25
Speaker 1: Another corollary is that we're talking about PCA and there's
18:28
Speaker 1: the race that he has going on individually for the
18:30
Speaker 1: MVP award. PCA hits the walk off last night, He's
18:34
Speaker 1: got he's the thirty thirty guy ingers last, has a
18:37
Speaker 1: chance to be the Cub's first forty forty Guytty.
18:41
Speaker 2: You're in if you're into analytics. I mean his are
18:43
Speaker 2: just going wild.
18:43
Speaker 1: And his defense has been spectaclor. Cubs are, by the way,
18:46
Speaker 1: one of the better defensive teams in recent memory. Yeah,
18:49
Speaker 1: and he's a big part of that. So there's that race,
18:53
Speaker 1: and that got me thinking, who's the Brewers MVP this year?
18:58
Speaker 2: Good question.
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19:30
Speaker 2: That sounds right. And Drew, it's been as opposed to
19:34
Speaker 2: some years.
19:34
Speaker 3: I don't want to jinx it. Knock on for Micah here. Uh,
19:38
Speaker 3: they've had great weather up there.
19:39
Speaker 1: Well. I was just thinking about that because if if
19:42
Speaker 1: it rains today, it's only concerned today, I think, which
19:46
Speaker 1: I think it's going to in Greenville. Yeah, but maybe
19:48
Speaker 1: late I think they might be. They might have a
19:50
Speaker 1: window of decent weather.
19:51
Speaker 3: Today because the due points really dropped a couple nights ago,
19:55
Speaker 3: and it is so comfortable out there. It last night
19:58
Speaker 3: was probably one of the greatest weather nights you could
20:01
Speaker 3: ever have.
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Speaker 2: It was pretty good. I mean the fact it was warm,
20:04
Speaker 2: but it was comfortable.
20:06
Speaker 3: The due point is low, like in the fifties, when
20:09
Speaker 3: that thing drops, when that thing drops that due point.
20:12
Speaker 2: You don't get humidity.
20:13
Speaker 3: I mean you the weather was so nice it can
20:16
Speaker 3: bring you to tears. I mean it is so wonderful
20:18
Speaker 3: out there, you know what I mean. It could bring
20:20
Speaker 3: you to bring you a young young man. It was beautiful,
20:23
Speaker 3: windows open to sleep, and we should have another good day,
20:25
Speaker 3: a good week for that. I don't think the Duke
20:27
Speaker 3: points are gonna heat really heat up.
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Speaker 1: Should be pretty good, all right, eight seven, seven, seven, nine,
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Speaker 1: four one ninety seven three. All you five o'clock clubbers
20:34
Speaker 1: check in, say hello and give us your thoughts on Uh. Well,
20:38
Speaker 1: we're focused on PCA because the last night Pete Crow
20:42
Speaker 1: Armstrong Rock will never call him PCA. I'll only call
20:46
Speaker 1: him Pete Crow. I love that. But we're focusing on
20:50
Speaker 1: him because he had two home runs, including a walk off,
20:53
Speaker 1: which is he's having a summer. Thirty homers, thirty steals
20:57
Speaker 1: and platinum probably are arguably best in the league. Defensive
21:01
Speaker 1: player puts him on at the top of the MVP
21:04
Speaker 1: pyramid right now. Yeah, show Hayes there too, but he's
21:07
Speaker 1: he's got a chance, got a chance to be the
21:10
Speaker 1: Cub's first forty forty in history as well. So that
21:14
Speaker 1: got me thinking, who's the Brewers MVP? And this is
21:17
Speaker 1: a spirited debate. Yeah, love this one because Arman is
21:20
Speaker 1: a Denzian of wins above replacement. I do love that
21:23
Speaker 1: stat wins above replacement projectivity. In my winds above replacement.
21:27
Speaker 1: Give you one player and another player right on his heels, yeah,
21:31
Speaker 1: and then a guy who's uh, the people's champion kind
21:37
Speaker 1: of like behind them considerably, and that would be Bryce.
21:41
Speaker 1: Terrang leads the Brewers in war at five point three.
21:45
Speaker 1: He's the one, and he did the same thing last year.
21:47
Speaker 1: His just combined the offensive was position and his defensive prow.
21:52
Speaker 2: Is combined make him super valuable in the analytics world.
21:54
Speaker 1: He leads the Brewers and runs scored. He leads the
21:56
Speaker 1: Brewers in hits, He's quite obviously there, leaves in doubles
22:01
Speaker 1: he is second, Yeah, third, I believe in homers, behind
22:05
Speaker 1: Tario and Bowers. Yes, he's stolen sixteen bags. He has Uh,
22:12
Speaker 1: he's put up a three fifty eight OBP, which is
22:15
Speaker 1: pretty good, only behind only Powers if I'm not mistaken, Well,
22:19
Speaker 1: I guess three ninety, but his numbers are right up there.
22:23
Speaker 1: Platinum level defense.
22:26
Speaker 2: He leads that defensive war at that position.
22:28
Speaker 1: He's played in one hundred and fifteen games, which is
22:32
Speaker 1: a lot out of one hundred and twenty five, so
22:35
Speaker 1: he's giving you.
22:35
Speaker 2: The most so total cumulative value.
22:39
Speaker 1: Conversely, though he pitches only every five days miss on
22:43
Speaker 1: his way to a cy Young Award.
22:44
Speaker 2: He's right there too.
22:45
Speaker 1: It's a five point one war, which is right behind
22:48
Speaker 1: Tank's five point three.
22:50
Speaker 3: It becomes it is it's becomes a discussion of whether
22:53
Speaker 3: or not you know to give the MVP to a
22:55
Speaker 3: starter starting picture.
22:56
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, some people want to break it up already. Well,
22:58
Speaker 1: he's the pitching say kind of that way, and then
23:01
Speaker 1: Bowers is in the discussion. His war is only two
23:04
Speaker 1: point four.
23:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think part of that's because he plays
23:08
Speaker 3: first and it's kind of a complicated stat but it
23:10
Speaker 3: is there's.
23:11
Speaker 2: So much offense that comes from first base.
23:13
Speaker 3: It's really hard. It doesn't mean you're not valuable or
23:15
Speaker 3: putting up And in fact, I would actually eskew from
23:18
Speaker 3: my normal war and say Bowers has to get a
23:21
Speaker 3: stronger argument here because you think about the topsy turvy
23:25
Speaker 3: year the Brewers have had with some of their offensive
23:28
Speaker 3: players that they count on, and Bowers year has been
23:32
Speaker 3: so good and such a constant revelation. There are some
23:37
Speaker 3: days you would have wondered, especially early in the year,
23:40
Speaker 3: where would the Brewers have been without Jake Bauers offense.
23:43
Speaker 3: I mean, Jake Bowers has been so important to this
23:45
Speaker 3: team as bats, so he should definitely get some consideration.
23:48
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Terrang has more played appearances and at bats
23:53
Speaker 1: they've scored.
23:54
Speaker 2: That's the other thing.
23:55
Speaker 1: Played a similar amount of runs. And again Terrang has
23:59
Speaker 1: him by like seventy played appearances. Yeah, so Rangu scored
24:03
Speaker 1: seventy four runs, Bowers has scored seventy one. Tereng has
24:05
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty hits, Bowers has one hundred and four.
24:08
Speaker 1: Terrang has twenty eight doubles Bowers as eighteen triples are
24:12
Speaker 1: a wash three for Terrang, two for Bowers. Bowers has
24:16
Speaker 1: twenty one homers and seventy RBI. Terrang is at sixteen
24:19
Speaker 1: and seventy five. Okay, so fewer homers for Terrang, but
24:23
Speaker 1: more RBI and steals. He's almost doubled him up at
24:27
Speaker 1: sixteen to nine. It's it's a close race, but I
24:33
Speaker 1: think in terms of the numbers. In terms of numbers,
24:36
Speaker 1: you would say Terrang in terms of vibe, you would
24:39
Speaker 1: say Bowers.
24:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, just because of the power he's provided you.
24:42
Speaker 3: Now, it's kind of tough to judge him defensively because
24:46
Speaker 3: he's played a couple of positions and mostly at first,
24:48
Speaker 3: and he and Bowers hasn't played every day, right, So
24:51
Speaker 3: Tereng's given you that every day kind of up. Yeah,
24:53
Speaker 3: well he played a lot of days, but a lot
24:55
Speaker 3: of days but not Yeah, I guess yeah, more than
24:58
Speaker 3: more than. He's close to it, but he's not every day.
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Speaker 1: Where Terrang powers is fourth on the team in games played.
25:05
Speaker 1: You know who's ahead of him, well, Terrang, Terrang, and
25:09
Speaker 1: I'm not not sure because he was banged up, or
25:14
Speaker 1: Ortiz honestly leads. Yeah, one sixteen Garrett Mitchell, Terrang is
25:20
Speaker 1: one fifteen. Garrett Mitchell's one thirteen, one twelve, and said
25:26
Speaker 1: that nobody else is over one hundred.
25:28
Speaker 3: No, it's what's fantastic about it is what he's done.
25:31
Speaker 2: But the thing with Terrang is when you threaten a gold.
25:34
Speaker 3: Glove from your position at all times, you're just giving
25:36
Speaker 3: a team more value.
25:38
Speaker 2: And he's had another great defensive year. That's not to
25:40
Speaker 2: take anything away from Bowers, but.
25:42
Speaker 3: That's probably where you tip the scales if you were
25:44
Speaker 3: to judge one or the other. Now, there's going to
25:47
Speaker 3: be some out there, and and Andrew Fritz here chiming
25:49
Speaker 3: in on on YouTube is one of them. It's obviously,
25:52
Speaker 3: Miss clear cuts I young with a month, and I
25:54
Speaker 3: have to go the value of a dominant starting pitcher
25:56
Speaker 3: like that, Drew, when you need a stopper the most,
25:59
Speaker 3: when you need a guy you can content all the time,
26:01
Speaker 3: when you know you can highly increase your chances of
26:04
Speaker 3: winning every time he steps in the mound, it's hard
26:07
Speaker 3: to replace that value too.
26:09
Speaker 2: Very true, you know, So that's very true, Miss.
26:11
Speaker 1: But again intellectually, and I'm the first to say that
26:16
Speaker 1: a starting pitcher affects He pitches once every five days,
26:20
Speaker 1: but he affects three of the five games because you
26:23
Speaker 1: generally you can manage your bullpen a little differently. It's like, oh,
26:26
Speaker 1: we got Miss going tomorrow, we can kind of empty
26:28
Speaker 1: the bullpen a little bit, and then you got Miss.
26:30
Speaker 1: And then the day after because he's generally gone seven
26:33
Speaker 1: innings or six strong, you have a fresher bullpen, right,
26:36
Speaker 1: So he impacts the games around the games that he pitches,
26:40
Speaker 1: But you know missus started twenty three games. Yeah, I
26:46
Speaker 1: mean it's amazing what he'd be the MVP when you've
26:49
Speaker 1: started one hundred and twenty three games and well the
26:53
Speaker 1: team has played one hundred, i mean twenty three games
26:54
Speaker 1: out of one hundred and twenty five.
26:56
Speaker 3: Well, should they give the should they give the MVP
26:58
Speaker 3: to pitchers? I mean that's also the big that's a big,
27:01
Speaker 3: a big debate over the years, and uh, some you know,
27:03
Speaker 3: some guys are that good. I personally like Cy young
27:07
Speaker 3: as being the MVP for pitchers, so I like separating him.
27:10
Speaker 3: But if you're just talking about one player, it's a
27:13
Speaker 3: mis verse terrang probably, and then.
27:15
Speaker 2: Then Terrain gives you the every day Yeah, I mean.
27:17
Speaker 1: It's hard to kind of well, Steve on the talking
27:20
Speaker 1: text line says, the pitching MVP is McGill.
27:24
Speaker 3: You know, you could make an argument for him or
27:25
Speaker 3: your Rebay. I don't want to forget your Rebay.
27:28
Speaker 2: There.
27:28
Speaker 3: Those two have been pretty good stalwarts at the end
27:30
Speaker 3: of the bullpen, well the back end where no one,
27:33
Speaker 3: no one thought about him.
27:34
Speaker 1: You know, well, you're you're a war fan. Mizerowski's War
27:38
Speaker 1: is five point one, which is spectacular. Yeah, McGill's is
27:43
Speaker 1: one point seven, which ranks him fifth in the delta
27:46
Speaker 1: pledge class, which behind Abner Urebey at one point nine
27:49
Speaker 1: and behind Kyle Harrison and Logan Henderson are both that
27:52
Speaker 1: two point one.
27:53
Speaker 2: They have two bullpen arms. With that, I have a war.
27:55
Speaker 3: It means they're both spectacular because it's hard to generate
27:58
Speaker 3: that number as a reliever just because it's that war
28:02
Speaker 3: status based so much on volume of performance, like on
28:05
Speaker 3: volume of well, that's the thing.
28:07
Speaker 1: Well, and there you have it. Because if you're going
28:09
Speaker 1: to make the case for McGill, like I said, MS
28:12
Speaker 1: has pitched spectacularly, he's going to be the cy Young
28:15
Speaker 1: is the best pitcher in the league. But he's pitched
28:16
Speaker 1: twenty three games. McGill and Uribe, who's hurt now and
28:19
Speaker 1: on the aisle, have both pitched in.
28:21
Speaker 2: Forty nine games, so they've.
28:22
Speaker 1: Impacted as many games.
28:24
Speaker 2: You're impacting, not as many innings, but not more games.
28:27
Speaker 1: But more games. Yeah, and those are high leverage innings.
28:31
Speaker 1: To use a phrase that I don't generally like. So
28:34
Speaker 1: you ate that, yeah, not as much as Mike Vasalo,
28:37
Speaker 1: but I don't like it. So it's fascinating and by
28:40
Speaker 1: the way Miss with the two hundred and ten strikeouts
28:42
Speaker 1: is incredible.
28:44
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the thing. It's hard to re place.
28:46
Speaker 1: Miss has been the most dominant, there's no question, there's
28:48
Speaker 1: no question question, and MVP for this team.
28:51
Speaker 3: Whether or not you want to call him the pitching
28:53
Speaker 3: MVP or the other MVP, I don't know.
28:57
Speaker 1: So I don't know if I could put him in
28:59
Speaker 1: an MVP race of Terrang and or Bowers. And I
29:02
Speaker 1: think Terank's been more valuable than Vowers, but it's close,
29:05
Speaker 1: Like I said, in the numbers, in the counting and
29:09
Speaker 1: the intellectual stats and Bowers and the vibes, because Bowers
29:13
Speaker 1: seems like he's gotten big hits and he's done things
29:15
Speaker 1: when nobody else is doing anything.
29:16
Speaker 2: Especially power numbers early totally.
29:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he was this team doesn't hit that
29:20
Speaker 3: many homers, and he's the one was the one guy
29:22
Speaker 3: doing it.
29:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rake Bower's nickname. Terank's just steady and he's just
29:27
Speaker 1: there and you just count on him. And and Terraang
29:29
Speaker 1: does come up with big hits, but a lot of
29:31
Speaker 1: times they're part of rallies. And oh yeah, by the way,
29:34
Speaker 1: Terraang had a double in that three run rally, whereas
29:36
Speaker 1: Bowers seems like he gets the standalone spotlight a lot.
29:40
Speaker 1: You know, he comes through a lot in the uh,
29:43
Speaker 1: you know, he comes through a lot in just big situations.
29:46
Speaker 1: He and Hey, man, you need guys like that. You
29:49
Speaker 1: need if you're a good team. It's good to have
29:53
Speaker 1: a discussion where you have three or four guys that
29:56
Speaker 1: you can make the case for being your envy.
29:58
Speaker 2: This is a great thing to have.
29:59
Speaker 1: This is you need. It's absolutely buddy.
30:01
Speaker 3: And Kenosha says, no defensive wizards the season, so I'll
30:04
Speaker 3: say Rake Bowers is MVP. Well, the numbers suggests Terrang
30:07
Speaker 3: has been defensive wizard.
30:09
Speaker 2: And the thing is.
30:10
Speaker 3: That's part of the reason his war is so high.
30:11
Speaker 3: That's the main reason it's jumped up so high. And
30:14
Speaker 3: the thing about the thing about Terrang is it's kind
30:16
Speaker 3: of a hidden value to the naked eye because even
30:19
Speaker 3: though you can see while he's a good defensive, defensive
30:22
Speaker 3: second baseman, you ask yourself, how much does it really
30:25
Speaker 3: contribute to wins? And that's what War tries to get at.
30:27
Speaker 3: And the thing is, and that's why I said it before.
30:29
Speaker 3: I remember it was one of my hot take lump
30:30
Speaker 3: days that Terrain could be an MVP one day if
30:34
Speaker 3: he has fifteen more years like he did, because he
30:36
Speaker 3: because he can. His defense always puts him in a
30:39
Speaker 3: number where if he's playing close to gold glove worthy defense,
30:43
Speaker 3: which he usually does, the analytics love it, the war
30:48
Speaker 3: number loves it, and he's always going to be had
30:50
Speaker 3: that value quoted where he's gonna just add that number up.
30:54
Speaker 3: And that's kind of what PC is doing is well
30:56
Speaker 3: in Chicago, and that's what voters vote on now. So
31:00
Speaker 3: as much as it pains me to realize we probably
31:01
Speaker 3: won't be able to keep Terrang long term, I always
31:04
Speaker 3: said that was the one guy I would have signed
31:06
Speaker 3: and invested in because he provides you so many wins
31:09
Speaker 3: win values because of the defense. And he did it
31:13
Speaker 3: last year. He's doing it again, Drew. Yeah, his total
31:15
Speaker 3: war last year is five and a half. Twenty four
31:18
Speaker 3: was four point eight. You're talking about seventeen point one.
31:21
Speaker 3: He's gonna be top twelve and Brewers War in a
31:23
Speaker 3: year or two. All time. I mean, in terms of
31:26
Speaker 3: what guys contributed, that's nothing to shake a stick at, Like,
31:29
Speaker 3: you know, nothing seems that like, So it's pretty impressive
31:32
Speaker 3: stuff from Terrang I think that's why you always have
31:35
Speaker 3: him in the mixes team mvpng's stats.
31:39
Speaker 1: You want to go deep into the weeds of the stats.
31:42
Speaker 1: Baseball Info Solutions has a stat defensive runs saved above average,
31:47
Speaker 1: the number of runs above or below average the player
31:49
Speaker 1: was worth based on their overall defense, combining a whole
31:52
Speaker 1: bunch of other numbers. Terrang is at like seventeen. That's
31:59
Speaker 1: pretty wild. It's not run saved above average powers is
32:03
Speaker 1: minus seven.
32:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, see that, That's what I'll do it to you.
32:08
Speaker 1: That's where your war discrepancy comes in.
32:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, some people and some people don't like over lines
32:14
Speaker 3: on the stat and some I understand that, Like I
32:17
Speaker 3: always look for you know, there's so much eye test
32:19
Speaker 3: in baseball. That's why I think we love the numbers
32:22
Speaker 3: so much. We've it's always been a statistic sport, and
32:25
Speaker 3: this is just another one of them.
32:26
Speaker 2: To me.
32:26
Speaker 3: It's an objective standard. You try and find context. Prince
32:31
Speaker 3: Fielder is twenty fourth all time in Brewers War with
32:33
Speaker 3: sixteen point eight. Terrang's already passed him, so by that
32:36
Speaker 3: measure alone, he's already been more valuable in the franchise
32:40
Speaker 3: than Prince Fielder is now I'm sure a lot of
32:41
Speaker 3: people would not agree with that. Yeah, you know, and
32:43
Speaker 3: that's sortally fair, but it's just kind of a it's
32:46
Speaker 3: just kind of a reference point for people to think about.
32:49
Speaker 1: Rang, by the way, is twenty six, and baseball players
32:52
Speaker 1: generally hit their peak at twenty seven, and they enjoy
32:55
Speaker 1: their peak between twenty six and thirty. Just saying same
32:59
Speaker 1: thing with Mitchellie twenty seven. If he and William so
33:02
Speaker 1: it seems like he's been playing forever, is only twenty eight.
33:05
Speaker 3: If Terrang, it's nine hundred oh ps, he could be
33:07
Speaker 3: an MVP one day. It's it's similar to what PC's
33:09
Speaker 3: doing this year, and he's at eight hundred this year,
33:11
Speaker 3: which is really good obviously.
33:13
Speaker 2: So yeah, I.
33:15
Speaker 3: Read Andrew's text already, Uh Pink Flamingo talking about how
33:20
Speaker 3: it's how the baseball is the ultimate dopamine rush game
33:23
Speaker 3: every day. In football, there's no room for air. You
33:24
Speaker 3: only play seventeen games. If you lose two in a row,
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Speaker 3: suddenly it feels like your playoff hopes are gone.
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Speaker 2: That's true too, I guess in football.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, and I've said for years that
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Speaker 1: college football regular season is really good because the games
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Speaker 1: mean so much. Whereas the NFL. How many times you
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Speaker 1: see teams start, you know, two and three and then
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Speaker 1: been talking about the Brewers. Who's your MVP? Just make
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Speaker 1: a vote. We'll do a straw poll here. I would
35:48
Speaker 1: say the leading candidates are miz Terrang and Bowers. Again,
35:53
Speaker 1: like they have varying cases and Bowers is more about
35:56
Speaker 1: the vibes, sure than the numbers. But the numbers tell
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Speaker 1: those shoes, make yourself a voter, give us your ranked
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Speaker 1: three or ranked five, because you can make a case
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Speaker 1: Contraras is pretty valuable to that team. Yeah, even when
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Speaker 1: he's been struggling offensively, what he does with the pitchers
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Speaker 1: and defensively is you.
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Speaker 2: Still need him there. I mean that's the thing.
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Speaker 3: Obviously it's not as been his best season in that sense,
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Speaker 3: but you still need them there to make that case
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Speaker 3: as well.
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Speaker 2: What about it?
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Speaker 1: I mean which of they there? Which of the Yeah, Harrison,
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Speaker 1: uh for sure? Which which one of the guys? Though?
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Speaker 1: Will get here? They's gonna fish with the best record
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Speaker 1: in baseball and they might not have anybody in the
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Speaker 1: top ten of the m.
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Speaker 2: V p BO And that's amazing, and that's kind of
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Speaker 2: been their moment.
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's because MS is gonna get he gets his
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Speaker 1: Flowers on the sy Young side, but Terrang should be
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Speaker 1: in there and Bowers maybe as well. In fact, maybe
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Speaker 1: they'll crack and get a couple.
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Speaker 2: Well, Terrang's been criminally under.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the Milwaukee guys will vote for him. Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: would think give him like seventh or something.
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Speaker 3: But the real strength of this Brewers team has been
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Speaker 3: that they aren't a team built on like a bunch
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Speaker 3: of big you know, very true Jim and Egg. It's
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Speaker 3: been a it's been a collective, especially for the pitching
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Speaker 3: staff all these years, and and and from the front office,
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Speaker 3: Logan Henderson has been great.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's another that's another guy who was and
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Speaker 1: you mentioned McGill and your rebate pitch a lot in
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Speaker 1: important situations. I mean, you know, a low key, under
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Speaker 1: the radar glue guy is Ashby. Yeah, with the volume
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Speaker 1: of wark he does on that side of it, it's he.
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Speaker 2: Was really starting, you know, he kind of had a
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Speaker 2: rough patch in the year.
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Speaker 1: But so as as we as this lays out, and
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Speaker 1: again one of the things that Birds have avoided this
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Speaker 1: year is drama, and we got drama in Arizona. Crazy.
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Speaker 1: The d Backs are trying to make a push and
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Speaker 1: trying to get into them, and Billy's been bullish on
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Speaker 1: them for a while because they're going to get some
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Speaker 1: pitchers back and uh, here they go to Boston for
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Speaker 1: kind of a big series, two kind of surging teams. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and the the d Backs are derailed by Katel Marte
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Speaker 1: flying to Boston with the team. He was seen at
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Speaker 1: a are uh the night before the game. He posted
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Speaker 1: on his Instagram like I was there, I think from
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Speaker 1: the flight and stuff a photo from the of the
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Speaker 1: flight landing and he reposted like a graphic of the
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Speaker 1: game preview and then he didn't show up for the game. Now,
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Speaker 1: one really quick thing on this, and we're gonna hit
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Speaker 1: the top of the hour, so we'll get into it more.
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Speaker 2: But I was going to ask you, Drew the confusion.
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Speaker 3: There seemed to be some confusion at first if he
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Speaker 3: was in Boston right for the series at first, but
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Speaker 3: from the team and they knew that he was there,
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Speaker 3: and then there you said he posted from the flight
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Speaker 3: and I was like, well, don't they know he was
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Speaker 3: in the flight.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, or he was with the team. He traveled
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Speaker 1: with the team.
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Speaker 2: The team knew that then. Yeah, okay, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: For some reason, I thought there was confusion on that.
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Speaker 1: They held the lineup. He didn't show up. They held
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Speaker 1: the line up till the less possible minute and then
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Speaker 1: they called it a personal matter. Now he was on
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Speaker 1: the phone and Tory Lavulo, their manager is very close
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Speaker 1: to him and was in text contact with him, wouldn't
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Speaker 1: reveal what they were talking about. Lavilla got very emotional
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Speaker 1: talking about it. He had was going to start as
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Speaker 1: the DH and they held the lineup back until twenty
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Speaker 1: minutes before the game, and then they submitted that he
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Speaker 1: was not playing and they changed it.
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Speaker 3: Now, this happened before. We need to go home and
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Speaker 3: attend to something, right, and I forget what country. Well,
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Speaker 3: it was coming out of the All Star break.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was like they couldn't reach him and he
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Speaker 1: was in the Dominican Republic and Republic. Okay, he went home,
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Speaker 1: but anyway, Lavulo, they lost eleven to one last night
39:24
Speaker 1: amid all the distraction, Lavulo said, quote, it's been a
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Speaker 1: crazy day. All I know is that he's dealing with
39:29
Speaker 1: personal issue. We're trying to figure that out. He didn't
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Speaker 1: show up today and he was put on the restricted list.
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Speaker 1: That's as much as I know right now. I was
39:35
Speaker 1: just doing my best to reach out to him and
39:37
Speaker 1: there was very little coming back.
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Speaker 3: Well, it could be a number of things. Is we
39:42
Speaker 3: know Drew, It could be a number of things. The
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Speaker 3: first thing you hope for is at.
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Speaker 2: All is well with him and his family. Like you
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Speaker 2: just never know.
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Speaker 3: We had this situation with Romeo Dobbs when he just
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Speaker 3: was not you know, he's kind of a a wall
39:53
Speaker 3: for that week. Yep, and you go through and you
39:55
Speaker 3: realize some guys, there's a lot going on for some guys,
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Speaker 3: and we have really had no idea what so it'll
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Speaker 3: be interesting as Yeah, that's unfolds in the coming days.
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Speaker 1: Geraldo Perdomo, who's a short sep one of Marte's closest
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Speaker 1: friends on the team, said, I don't know anything. I
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Speaker 1: just came here to play. I didn't see him here
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Speaker 1: and we haven't talked yet. At the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: we're a family. We're going to support everybody no matter what.
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Speaker 1: So we just came here to play. That's the only
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Speaker 1: goal we have right now. Just to win. Right, they're
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Speaker 1: battling for a National League wildcard spot. Now they're one
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Speaker 1: game behind the Padres, who also lost last night. In
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Speaker 1: the race for the final wildcard spot. There are two
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Speaker 1: games behind the Phillies, who have the number two spots,
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Speaker 1: so the Diamondbacks are right in it. Corbyn Carrol, I
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Speaker 1: think you could sum it up as a weird day,
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Speaker 1: that's for sure. I thought the coaches did a good
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Speaker 1: job of handling it, making sure we were prepared. Interesting stuff,
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Speaker 1: drama outside of Milwaukee. Billy Schmid's going to join us momentarily.
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