Latest / The Huddle / 10/16/26 - Hour 2
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- 0:27Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
- 0:30Speaker 2: We know exactly what we got to do. Let's go
- 0:33Speaker 2: out and kick some shit.
- 0:34Speaker 3: One, two, three.
- 0:35Speaker 4: We got some big plays coming.
- 0:37Speaker 2: What the hell's going.
- 0:38Speaker 5: On out here? Yellow Weasel. We're calling the plays, all right?
- 0:43Speaker 5: It is time.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Who do you think you are?
- 0:46Speaker 3: With Drew Olsen.
- 0:47Speaker 2: When he spoke, he commanded your attention, and he commanded
- 0:50Speaker 2: your respect.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Bill Schmidt.
- 0:52Speaker 2: That son of a gun is thick.
- 0:54Speaker 3: And Armin Sarian.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
- 1:01Speaker 3: The Brewers have had the ability to come back in game.
- 1:04Speaker 4: There's the first base runner of the day for the Brewers,
- 1:06Speaker 4: and it's the speedy Bryce Durang reaching. A one-out walk
- 1:09Speaker 4: here in the fourth, and it brings up Contreras.
- 1:12Speaker 3: That's it.
- 1:12Speaker 4: Hard down the left field.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Bounces into the corner. Bounces into the seats. A double
- 1:20Speaker 2: for Contreras.
- 1:21Speaker 4: Get hard towards the right field corner. James Bowles has
- 1:27Speaker 4: done it again. Milwaukee's cut him in half with a
- 1:29Speaker 4: two-run double from that man.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Jeff Bowers delivering with another quality at-bat.
- 1:33Speaker 4: A 4-2 game in the fourth.
- 1:34Speaker 5: There he goes. Goal from Smith.
- 1:37Speaker 4: Not in time.
- 1:37Speaker 3: Storm base, South Freeland. Hamilton grounds one.
- 1:40Speaker 4: Through the base at center field. One pitch after the
- 1:44Speaker 4: storm base, Hamilton delivers. Bottom of the order has caught
- 1:47Speaker 4: it to one for the breakthrough. Taken for ball four,
- 1:51Speaker 4: and Milwaukee has loaded them up. And down four to
- 1:54Speaker 4: nothing to a 4-3 game. Three balls and no strikes
- 1:57Speaker 4: with nowhere to put him. The Bears have tied the game.
- 1:59Speaker 4: They just keep on coming from down four to nothing
- 2:06Speaker 4: to tied up in the fifth.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Mitchell sends a fly ball to right center field. Tucker's going.
- 2:12Speaker 2: It is gone.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Milwaukee takes the lead from down four to nothing.
- 2:19Speaker 2: The leading 5-4 in game four. three pitches.
- 2:25Speaker 3: That's got a strike.
- 2:27Speaker 4: Roderick's is short for Pratt. His throw is perfect.
- 2:32Speaker 2: Ashby's one-two.
- 2:33Speaker 1: Strikes him out and gets out of it again.
- 2:38Speaker 2: That's the hand.
- 2:39Speaker 4: Shadow center field.
- 2:41Speaker 2: On comes Mitchell.
- 2:42Speaker 4: It is Mitchell to make the catch. As good as
- 2:45Speaker 4: a strikeout for Ashby, no chance for Will Smith to advance.
- 2:49Speaker 5: 1982.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Hamilton gets into a ball.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Deep right field.
- 2:53Speaker 4: David Hamilton goes yard. Something special about these Milwaukee Brewers.
- 3:06Speaker 6: Hernandez to left center field.
- 3:07Speaker 5: He gets there.
- 3:08Speaker 2: And for the first time in 44 years, the Brewers.
- 3:10Speaker 4: Are going to the World Series.
- 3:20Speaker 1: But the bottom line is we aim right now. They
- 3:25Speaker 1: got a bunch.
- 3:26Speaker 5: Of Hall of Famers.
- 3:28Speaker 3: We got a bunch of gamers.
- 3:29Speaker 7: That won't get old for a while. Welcome into the huddle.
- 3:39Speaker 7: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Drew Wilson and Armin Sarian today.
- 3:42Speaker 7: Billy is off attending a wedding in Rhinelander. He's got
- 3:45Speaker 7: a pep in his step and a smile on his face.
- 3:47Speaker 6: Gotta be.
- 3:47Speaker 7: Just like everybody else in the Goodland Brewers fans, far flung.
- 3:50Speaker 7: I was talking to people all over the country yesterday.
- 3:53Speaker 7: I talked to, it was coast to coast, pillar to post.
- 3:56Speaker 7: Talked to our buddy Tom Hardercourt at his home in Virginia.
- 3:59Speaker 7: And he's going to join us. And I was also
- 4:00Speaker 7: chatting with Jeff Cirillo, the icon from California.
- 4:05Speaker 6: That's amazing. I realized something yesterday, last night, a couple
- 4:09Speaker 6: hours later. How many people you hear from when something
- 4:11Speaker 6: like this happens? The greatest part about this, yes, of course,
- 4:14Speaker 6: you cheer for the team, the accomplishment, the moment, all
- 4:16Speaker 6: that stuff.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Winning is great.
- 4:18Speaker 6: It's how many people you're reconnecting with in that moment.
- 4:21Speaker 6: It's just everyone connects with each other in that moment
- 4:25Speaker 6: over a shared love of something like this and shared
- 4:28Speaker 6: memories and the amount of people I heard from that
- 4:30Speaker 6: I haven't.
- 4:30Speaker 2: Talked to, really.
- 4:32Speaker 6: Not that I didn't want, you know, old friends, college,
- 4:34Speaker 6: whatever it is, people that know what matters to you,
- 4:37Speaker 6: you know, so they reach out. And then like meeting
- 4:40Speaker 6: your own friends, the group text is firing up. And
- 4:43Speaker 6: the moment you had together, I mean, my buddy Jeremy
- 4:46Speaker 6: called him like David Hamilton Homer.
- 4:47Speaker 2: He claims his stream might have been ahead. I don't know.
- 4:50Speaker 2: We're debating that.
- 4:51Speaker 6: That's what makes this moment so special, Drew. Like is
- 4:54Speaker 6: the connection, the human connection we have over this.
- 4:57Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 4:57Speaker 7: I got, speaking of random kind of reconnections. I was connecting,
- 5:02Speaker 7: and I told people to follow Big Red, Seth McClung.
- 5:05Speaker 2: That's a great one. McClung like a horse.
- 5:06Speaker 7: He was tweeting and reached out, and he's doing it.
- 5:11Speaker 7: And I got a message from a financial planner in
- 5:15Speaker 7: the Phoenix, greater Phoenix area. Former Brewers outfielder Matt Mieske
- 5:20Speaker 7: reached out, and I was chatting with him.
- 5:22Speaker 2: I haven't talked to him. I covered him.
- 5:24Speaker 7: When the Brewers played the Padres— I was walking in
- 5:28Speaker 7: the concourse with my sandwich from Maxi's because, you know, Lorraine,
- 5:32Speaker 7: they don't do a press box meal and stuff. You
- 5:34Speaker 7: just got to kind of go out to the concession stand.
- 5:36Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 5:37Speaker 7: And I'm walking back with my chicken sandwich and I
- 5:39Speaker 7: see a bunch of women walking by me. And I'm,
- 5:42Speaker 7: this is kind of an hour and a half before
- 5:44Speaker 7: the game, hour before the game. And it was on
- 5:46Speaker 7: the lower concourse. And I thought, oh, it's probably Padres,
- 5:49Speaker 7: wives and, you know, girlfriends and stuff. Just by the
- 5:52Speaker 7: way they looked, I could kind of tell.
- 5:54Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
- 5:54Speaker 3: I get it.
- 5:55Speaker 2: I get what you're saying. They walk by me, a group.
- 5:58Speaker 7: Of like 12 or 13 of them. They walk by
- 6:01Speaker 7: me and I get like 20 feet past and all
- 6:05Speaker 7: of a sudden I hear, Drew, Drew. And I turn
- 6:07Speaker 7: around and it was Hillary Loretta, Mark Loretta's wife. Mark
- 6:11Speaker 7: Loretta's in the front office. He's an advisor and has
- 6:14Speaker 7: been for a long time with the Padres. And when
- 6:16Speaker 7: he played here, she was one of the, She was
- 6:19Speaker 7: kind of like the leader of the wives charity stuff
- 6:22Speaker 7: and all that. So I got to know Hillary. I
- 6:24Speaker 7: hadn't seen her since Mark left.
- 6:26Speaker 2: That's amazing.
- 6:27Speaker 7: She's like, I was wondering if I would recognize anybody.
- 6:29Speaker 2: How are you doing?
- 6:29Speaker 7: And so we caught up for a little bit. It's like,
- 6:31Speaker 7: that's just a random run in. that the playoffs bring.
- 6:33Speaker 7: Our friend Trini Kuznarek is going.
- 6:34Speaker 2: To be in for the World Series. That is awesome, yes.
- 6:36Speaker 2: Our buddy Matty V is going to be in for
- 6:38Speaker 2: the World Series. He's been through it too. He loves
- 6:40Speaker 2: it this time with the Brewers. He loves it.
- 6:42Speaker 7: I saw Darren Sutton tweeting about his memories in the
- 6:45Speaker 7: seat that he had for the 82 World Series when
- 6:47Speaker 7: his dad was such a big part.
- 6:48Speaker 2: And a great broadcaster, of course, as well.
- 6:50Speaker 7: Yeah, Darren, good friend. I would love to see Darren
- 6:53Speaker 7: come back. And McClung said he's going to try to
- 6:55Speaker 7: come back. It'll be interesting to see because I was chatting.
- 6:57Speaker 2: It's like a reunion for people, you know?
- 6:59Speaker 7: I was chatting with my pal Tyler Kepner from the
- 7:01Speaker 7: New York Times slash Athletic. And Tyler, we were in
- 7:05Speaker 7: the elevator going downstairs after the Brewers had won game two.
- 7:09Speaker 7: And he said the 82 World Series was the first
- 7:13Speaker 7: World Series he watched as like an eight-year-old that he remembers.
- 7:15Speaker 2: The first one in your consciousness, yeah.
- 7:17Speaker 7: And he was going through the entire Brewers roster. And
- 7:20Speaker 7: I told him about the Just a Bit Outside, the
- 7:22Speaker 7: Brewers documentary about that 82 team. I said, you got
- 7:24Speaker 7: to watch it.
- 7:25Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to find it. You got to watch it.
- 7:26Speaker 7: Find it on Roku, YouTube, Apple TV.
- 7:30Speaker 2: Find it. It's out there.
- 7:31Speaker 5: Tubi.
- 7:31Speaker 2: You can watch it free in a couple places. He
- 7:34Speaker 2: said he's going to watch it.
- 7:35Speaker 7: I said, you need to watch that to jog your
- 7:37Speaker 7: memory because you're going to be writing about the Brewers
- 7:39Speaker 7: in the World Series. I said this after game two
- 7:40Speaker 7: because I'm like, if you come back, you're going to
- 7:42Speaker 7: need to do that. And I was talking to some
- 7:45Speaker 7: friends about who they could bring back. And, you know,
- 7:48Speaker 7: Robin Yount, obviously. Ryan Braun was part of the celebration
- 7:51Speaker 7: last night.
- 7:52Speaker 2: He lives in L.A. He went to the game.
- 7:53Speaker 7: He was there hanging out with the guys. Gomez and
- 7:57Speaker 7: Niger Morgan have come back, CeCe Sabathia, but the 82 guys,
- 8:00Speaker 7: let's celebrate them while they're still around and have them
- 8:04Speaker 7: maybe bring them in and have them all in at
- 8:06Speaker 7: a suite and let them all throw out a first pitch.
- 8:08Speaker 2: That'd be kind of cool. And you know what, Drew?
- 8:10Speaker 6: I mean, that is why that documentary is so special.
- 8:12Speaker 6: That's why the timing of this is so special because
- 8:15Speaker 6: those guys can enjoy it because they're there for it.
- 8:17Speaker 6: And yeah, I mean, all those things coming together make
- 8:21Speaker 6: this that much more special because it's connecting these generations together.
- 8:24Speaker 6: And then you think of those That's what I thought
- 8:26Speaker 6: about it right away. It's like, what are these guys thinking?
- 8:28Speaker 6: They've got to be happy being so close. The Brewers
- 8:30Speaker 6: have been close now a couple of times. NLCS is
- 8:32Speaker 6: three times now in the modern, you know, you talk
- 8:35Speaker 6: about 11, 18 and last.
- 8:36Speaker 7: Year, the modern era Prince Fielder, like whoever your, your
- 8:39Speaker 7: touchstones are. Whether it's, you know, you were joking about
- 8:43Speaker 7: Nick Neugebauer.
- 8:45Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
- 8:46Speaker 2: My touchdown is this jersey. This jersey. The 90 Brewers.
- 8:48Speaker 2: All those 90s guys. Gerald Williams. The late Gerald Williams.
- 8:51Speaker 2: Rest in peace. Jeremy Burnett.
- 8:53Speaker 6: Burnett.
- 8:53Speaker 2: Somebody wanted a Jeff Juden story from you. Richie Sex
- 8:56Speaker 2: and Jeff Juden. You know, guys like that.
- 8:58Speaker 7: The guys are all about Raphael Roque.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Where is he these days? Raphael Roque. Right?
- 9:03Speaker 1: Yes.
- 9:04Speaker 2: I mean, really.
- 9:04Speaker 6: I mean.
- 9:05Speaker 2: Jose Valentin.
- 9:06Speaker 6: The group that Gar had in the 90s was a
- 9:08Speaker 6: good team that couldn't quite break through.
- 9:09Speaker 2: But Jaha, Nielsen, Vina, Valentin. Matheny. Matheny. All those guys.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Eldred's a great one. Eldred. You know, Steve Woodard. Steve Woodard.
- 9:18Speaker 2: Guys around.
- 9:18Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 9:19Speaker 2: It's like, it's just the memories.
- 9:20Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 9:20Speaker 7: They're all part. Bob Wickman, for sure. Like, bring back
- 9:23Speaker 7: as many guys as you can. Brewers do a really
- 9:25Speaker 7: good job with alumni relations. Shout out to Ken Spindler
- 9:29Speaker 7: on that front and the guys who do it. But
- 9:30Speaker 7: they do a good job with that. But they have
- 9:32Speaker 7: a lot of options for first pitches and stuff. At
- 9:34Speaker 7: some point, I don't know if a first pitch is
- 9:36Speaker 7: in the cards, but Commissioner Emeritus Seelig, it'd be appropriate
- 9:39Speaker 7: to have him recognized.
- 9:40Speaker 2: You have to think so.
- 9:41Speaker 7: On the scoreboard and give a wave to people because
- 9:44Speaker 7: that would be definitely a great moment as it was.
- 9:49Speaker 7: Jeff D'Amico threw the first pitch in a game at
- 9:52Speaker 7: Ampham Field, then Miller Park.
- 9:53Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 9:54Speaker 7: Yeah, there's just so many, again, it's just a flood
- 9:57Speaker 7: of memories that's triggered by this and that's part of
- 9:59Speaker 7: what makes this so sweet, just as it was with
- 10:01Speaker 7: the bucks.
- 10:02Speaker 2: Now I was talking.
- 10:03Speaker 7: To a friend, the bucks had the deer district and
- 10:06Speaker 7: that was in July and it was awesome. And this
- 10:09Speaker 7: will be different, but the depth of this, the people's
- 10:12Speaker 7: connection to even the brewers, even, even bad brewers teams
- 10:17Speaker 7: is a little bit more, pronounced like even bad brewers
- 10:20Speaker 7: seems like i don't know that anybody's pining for oh
- 10:22Speaker 7: i'd love to see todd day come back and you
- 10:24Speaker 7: know give a.
- 10:25Speaker 6: Wave no i mean certain some of those guys are
- 10:28Speaker 6: are novelty guys in your consciousness in the zeitgeist.
- 10:31Speaker 7: But abdul nabi i wonder what you have him come
- 10:33Speaker 7: back like no not so much but you know the
- 10:36Speaker 7: brewers it's a special relationship with uh you know I
- 10:39Speaker 7: bring back Jim Powell and Corey Provis.
- 10:41Speaker 2: Guys like that. Absolutely.
- 10:43Speaker 7: Our guy, Hunter Baumgart, live from the airport in Las Vegas,
- 10:46Speaker 7: working on no sleep and lots of caffeine.
- 10:50Speaker 2: Hunter, welcome to the huddle. How are you doing?
- 10:53Speaker 3: I am great. How are you guys?
- 10:54Speaker 9: You know what?
- 10:55Speaker 5: When something like that happens, it's okay.
- 10:57Speaker 9: Even if you get a very limited amount of sleep,
- 10:59Speaker 9: it's all definitely worth it.
- 11:00Speaker 2: You're running through it on adrenaline. Hunter's going on adrenaline.
- 11:04Speaker 7: I can tell you from experience having covered playoffs and
- 11:06Speaker 7: traveled a lot, Hunter, that that the day you get
- 11:09Speaker 7: home and it's over, you're going to sleep for like
- 11:11Speaker 7: 72 hours.
- 11:15Speaker 3: I can totally imagine that.
- 11:17Speaker 9: This is obviously the first time I've went multiple rounds
- 11:20Speaker 9: and traveled. It's quite a schedule, but it's completely worth
- 11:24Speaker 9: it when the Brewers win the pennant.
- 11:27Speaker 2: And the days are long.
- 11:29Speaker 7: And you get into a bubble, and we're in a
- 11:31Speaker 7: bit of a bubble right now because of the Brewers.
- 11:32Speaker 7: But Armin and Hunter, we do have some breaking news. Yes,
- 11:35Speaker 7: let's get in here right now. For folks that are
- 11:37Speaker 7: driving around celebrating the Brewers' victory, we have some breaking news.
- 11:42Speaker 2: And the breaking.
- 11:42Speaker 7: News is that Josh Jacobs will be eligible to play
- 11:47Speaker 7: for the Green Bay Packers after Sunday night. They've taken
- 11:52Speaker 7: him off the exempt list. They're still considering other punishment,
- 11:56Speaker 7: and the case is still open. But Josh Jacobs will
- 12:00Speaker 7: be cleared to return and be eligible to play week seven.
- 12:04Speaker 2: Interesting.
- 12:04Speaker 6: It's like almost, I don't know, Roger Goodell lost his
- 12:08Speaker 6: battle with the American legal system.
- 12:09Speaker 2: He wanted to see that video, but I guess it's
- 12:11Speaker 2: not going to happen. Maybe that was his little way
- 12:14Speaker 2: of saying I can still do things. Football activities. Now,
- 12:16Speaker 2: will he play? He'll be ramped up. We'll see.
- 12:18Speaker 7: We're going to talk to Wayne Larrabee about that at 425.
- 12:21Speaker 7: But that's the breaking news.
- 12:22Speaker 2: And Hunter will be flying to cover it. No, I'm
- 12:23Speaker 2: just kidding.
- 12:24Speaker 5: No, no.
- 12:24Speaker 7: So no suspension has been levied. He has not lost
- 12:27Speaker 7: any pay. He could still be suspended and then have
- 12:32Speaker 7: to pay back the salary he got in the first
- 12:33Speaker 7: six weeks. But on their review, the first week, it
- 12:37Speaker 7: counts as time served. So in any event, Josh Jacobs
- 12:40Speaker 7: will return to the field and practice and maybe a
- 12:42Speaker 7: game right after Sunday night football Packers-Cowboys. Anyway, Hunter, I'm
- 12:49Speaker 7: sure it looked like you've been to a few of
- 12:51Speaker 7: these now.
- 12:52Speaker 2: You're getting to be a veteran.
- 12:53Speaker 7: I told you to work the perimeter and try to
- 12:54Speaker 7: stay as dry while you're taking your notes and getting
- 12:57Speaker 7: your interviews. And a lot of the interviews aren't great
- 12:59Speaker 7: when guys are trying to celebrate and dump beer on
- 13:01Speaker 7: each other's heads. But it did look like from the outside,
- 13:05Speaker 7: from my couch, it looked like they turned that clubhouse
- 13:08Speaker 7: into a dance club.
- 13:09Speaker 2: It looked pretty electric.
- 13:12Speaker 3: It was electric, yeah, absolutely.
- 13:15Speaker 9: The ground was definitely full of champagne and beer and
- 13:19Speaker 9: everything that they were... celebrating with in there, that was
- 13:23Speaker 9: definitely a celebration. You know, it's kind of been like
- 13:26Speaker 9: the division clinch.
- 13:28Speaker 3: Was a celebration. And then I think the San.
- 13:31Speaker 9: Diego, well, that was a celebration as well. It felt
- 13:34Speaker 9: like it was building to this. And obviously they win
- 13:36Speaker 9: the World Series, and it's.
- 13:38Speaker 5: Probably going to even take another level, obviously.
- 13:40Speaker 9: Because there was a, and you saw the celebration on
- 13:42Speaker 9: the field. It was, they were happy, but it wasn't,
- 13:45Speaker 9: you know, maybe the dog.
- 13:46Speaker 3: Piles we've seen in the past. I know there's been
- 13:49Speaker 3: debate of like, why can't they? Why can't we do that, right?
- 13:51Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
- 13:53Speaker 9: I knew Armin was going to be on that. But whatever,
- 14:00Speaker 9: as long as nobody gets hurt, I'm fine with whatever
- 14:02Speaker 9: they do. But I do think that last night was electric.
- 14:06Speaker 9: I think what was really cool was Seeing just how
- 14:10Speaker 9: proud this team is to do it for Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
- 14:14Speaker 9: Brewers fans everywhere.
- 14:15Speaker 3: This team knew a lot of.
- 14:17Speaker 9: These guys, and obviously the guys who have been in
- 14:20Speaker 9: this organization longer, but the guys who have been here
- 14:23Speaker 9: a while, and even some of the new ones, understand
- 14:25Speaker 9: because they're under the tutelage of Christian Yelich, a guy who's.
- 14:28Speaker 3: Been here a while, knows what this means to Milwaukee
- 14:31Speaker 3: and Wisconsin.
- 14:31Speaker 9: You could just tell that they were proud to do
- 14:33Speaker 9: it and bring that joy home. to the fans, and
- 14:36Speaker 9: obviously this team is really tight-knit, so they want to.
- 14:39Speaker 3: Do it for each other as well.
- 14:40Speaker 9: But I think you could just tell during the celebration
- 14:44Speaker 9: that they were, you could kind of just see it
- 14:46Speaker 9: in the way they talked or in their eyes, how
- 14:48Speaker 9: excited they were for Brewers fans.
- 14:50Speaker 7: Talking to Hunter Baumgart, our baseball go-to guys, coverage brought
- 14:53Speaker 7: to us by Community Roofing. Communityroofing.com is the website. Hunter,
- 14:59Speaker 7: when it looked like, you know, the sweep is the sweep,
- 15:03Speaker 7: and people are like, oh, the Brewers just boat race
- 15:05Speaker 7: the dodgers well there was a moment when otani hit
- 15:08Speaker 7: the home run when i thought not only is there
- 15:10Speaker 7: going to be a game five they're facing scuba we
- 15:11Speaker 7: might have a game six and then you know the
- 15:15Speaker 7: entire series can change but the brewers came back the
- 15:18Speaker 7: way they always did what was your mood and what
- 15:19Speaker 7: was it like in the ballpark for dodgers fans when
- 15:22Speaker 7: they got their otani moment after all his struggles for
- 15:24Speaker 7: him to hit a home run the way he did
- 15:27Speaker 7: and to put them in what seemed to be a
- 15:28Speaker 7: commanding position what was that like and then what was
- 15:31Speaker 7: it like when the script.
- 15:32Speaker 5: Flipped It definitely seemed like that was kind.
- 15:36Speaker 3: Of the door that opened, right?
- 15:38Speaker 9: We kind of been waiting for Otani to do something
- 15:40Speaker 9: in the series. And Pat Murphy kept answering the question.
- 15:43Speaker 3: You know, he would be asked every.
- 15:44Speaker 9: Day, you know, Otani's struggling or Otani's dropped in the
- 15:46Speaker 9: order or whatever it is.
- 15:47Speaker 3: And, or Otani's injured, blah, blah, blah.
- 15:49Speaker 5: And he'd be like, he's still Shohei Otani.
- 15:51Speaker 9: Like we're still going to be careful with him because
- 15:54Speaker 9: he can do exactly what he just did, you know,
- 15:57Speaker 9: in game.
- 15:58Speaker 3: Four last night. And he went and did it. It
- 16:00Speaker 3: was a three run homer, three run home runs. change games.
- 16:03Speaker 9: So that all of a sudden makes it for nothing.
- 16:05Speaker 9: Dodger stadium is, it was definitely probably the loudest. I
- 16:08Speaker 9: had heard it up to that point. It, it, I was,
- 16:13Speaker 9: I mean, surprised. I don't know if I was surprised,
- 16:16Speaker 9: but I was, you know, at least taken aback a
- 16:18Speaker 9: little bit by the lack.
- 16:20Speaker 5: Of Dodger fans at that ballpark, especially early in those.
- 16:23Speaker 3: Games throughout most of those games. Crazy.
- 16:26Speaker 9: But I, but so that was really the loudest it
- 16:29Speaker 9: had been.
- 16:29Speaker 3: And then I, you, I, at that.
- 16:32Speaker 9: Point I was like, okay, well the Dodgers are probably
- 16:34Speaker 9: going to win a game in this series. Like, obviously,
- 16:36Speaker 9: like you said, then you have the, their horses coming
- 16:38Speaker 9: back as the starting pitchers. And you start to look
- 16:41Speaker 9: at that a little bit, but I was like, okay, Oh,
- 16:42Speaker 9: tiny home run Dodgers win. It all makes sense. And,
- 16:45Speaker 9: and then maybe the brewers come back and win tomorrow.
- 16:48Speaker 9: And then they start getting it back.
- 16:50Speaker 3: And then, you know, you get the, you get.
- 16:52Speaker 9: The back-to-back doubles and all of a sudden it's four
- 16:54Speaker 9: to two. And then at that point, it's like, Oh,
- 16:56Speaker 9: two runs is nothing for the 20.
- 16:58Speaker 1: 26 brewers.
- 16:59Speaker 5: It's just, isn't it incredible? And so it's like, at
- 17:02Speaker 5: that point, I'm like, it might as well be tied
- 17:04Speaker 5: right now. So that, that is what.
- 17:06Speaker 6: Really quick, just the way that you could see it
- 17:08Speaker 6: affect emotionally, the Dodgers, like, here we go again. They're
- 17:12Speaker 6: thinking we got, we got this four nothing lead. We're
- 17:15Speaker 6: going to be at least easy sailing now for one game.
- 17:17Speaker 6: Like they won't boa constrict us for one game and
- 17:20Speaker 6: right away the Brewers did.
- 17:21Speaker 2: And I think that devastated them emotionally as well.
- 17:25Speaker 5: Yeah, within three innings, the deficit was erased.
- 17:28Speaker 3: It was tied at four.
- 17:29Speaker 5: And then obviously Mitchell and Hamilton add the home runs,
- 17:31Speaker 5: and all of.
- 17:32Speaker 3: A sudden it's a 6-4 game.
- 17:33Speaker 9: And like you said, you could see it in the Dodgers' faces.
- 17:38Speaker 9: The Brewers came back to win every game. I think
- 17:41Speaker 9: what's most impressive to me is the Brewers just went
- 17:44Speaker 9: against Tarek Scooble, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, and Tyler Glass now,
- 17:50Speaker 9: and faced a lineup that every night was Otani, Betts, Freeman.
- 17:53Speaker 3: You can make a break or what.
- 17:54Speaker 5: They've done this season, but the names are still the names.
- 17:57Speaker 3: And they went and swept them.
- 17:59Speaker 5: Like, it's one thing to win the series, and it's all, it's, obviously,
- 18:02Speaker 5: we're focusing.
- 18:03Speaker 3: On first time in 44 years of the pennant.
- 18:05Speaker 9: But the way in which they just did that to
- 18:08Speaker 9: sweep that team, maybe one of the best teams ever constructed.
- 18:12Speaker 9: I mean, that is one of the best, one of
- 18:15Speaker 9: the most impressive feats, I.
- 18:16Speaker 5: Think, in Wisconsin sports history and what they just did.
- 18:19Speaker 7: You know, Hunter, we talked about it a lot, especially
- 18:22Speaker 7: as we got closer to the playoffs.
- 18:23Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
- 18:24Speaker 7: The Brewers, they manufacture runs. They do bunt. They do
- 18:26Speaker 7: steal bases. They do take the extra base. They put
- 18:28Speaker 7: pressure on defenses.
- 18:29Speaker 2: They hit defense.
- 18:30Speaker 7: It sounds weird to say that they hit into more errors.
- 18:33Speaker 7: Like there was more errors committed against the Brewers offense
- 18:36Speaker 7: than I think almost any other team in the major leagues.
- 18:39Speaker 7: Cause they make fielders rush and, and it's not, not
- 18:42Speaker 7: all errors are created equal.
- 18:43Speaker 2: Sometimes a ground ball goes to the wicked. Sometimes the
- 18:45Speaker 2: guy's trying to make a quick play and he screws up.
- 18:48Speaker 7: But they also mixed in the long ball home runs
- 18:51Speaker 7: play in the postseason. They out homered the Dodgers seven
- 18:53Speaker 7: to one Garrett Mitchell and guys hitting home runs off
- 18:56Speaker 7: lefties and David Hamilton hitting a home run. How shocking
- 19:00Speaker 7: is that? Because for everybody who says the Brewers have
- 19:03Speaker 7: cornered the market on small ball, well, they won because
- 19:05Speaker 7: in large part, every time they needed one, they got
- 19:07Speaker 7: a home run.
- 19:07Speaker 3: It was incredible, wasn't it?
- 19:11Speaker 9: Look, it goes to show that you kind of do,
- 19:14Speaker 9: home runs help in the postseason.
- 19:15Speaker 3: There's no doubt about that.
- 19:16Speaker 2: Yes, thank you.
- 19:17Speaker 3: But it's the pressure in which the Brewers' offense... Home
- 19:21Speaker 3: runs help in any game.
- 19:22Speaker 9: It can mean spring training, I guess, or regular season.
- 19:25Speaker 9: That's a way of scoring runs. But I think what
- 19:28Speaker 9: the Brewers do well is they set that up with the.
- 19:32Speaker 3: Way they play otherwise.
- 19:34Speaker 5: They don't need it, but when they get it, then.
- 19:36Speaker 9: It leads to a 7-1 record in the postseason. That's
- 19:41Speaker 9: what you get when you mix the way they play
- 19:45Speaker 9: normally with the home runs. And so that's the, that
- 19:48Speaker 9: was the incredible part, but yeah, David Hamilton, that was,
- 19:51Speaker 9: I mean, that put that game on ice and you
- 19:54Speaker 9: look at what he did in the regular season, just
- 19:56Speaker 9: four home runs, and he hits one of all people.
- 19:59Speaker 3: He had an amazing NLCS. He only played in two games, but.
- 20:01Speaker 5: He was four for seven.
- 20:02Speaker 2: Well, he played great, yeah.
- 20:03Speaker 3: He stole three bases, and he was awesome, and.
- 20:06Speaker 5: He obviously had the big home run to kind of
- 20:09Speaker 5: one of the two runs.
- 20:10Speaker 3: Was huge there.
- 20:11Speaker 9: Ashby was stranding guys at third, left, and right, but
- 20:13Speaker 9: you still wanted to get a two-run cushion for Ashby
- 20:15Speaker 9: or if they went to McGill, and it worked out,
- 20:19Speaker 9: and the Brewers were NL champs.
- 20:20Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of a great team also.
- 20:21Speaker 6: You couldn't really decide which guy would be NLCS MVP.
- 20:25Speaker 6: Bauer's got it, deservedly so. Garrett Mitchell had a monster.
- 20:28Speaker 6: You talk about unprofitable homers off lefties.
- 20:30Speaker 7: Yeah, but did Mitchell have a hit before his first
- 20:33Speaker 7: home run in the series?
- 20:35Speaker 2: Oh, man, that's a great question. Yeah, I don't know.
- 20:38Speaker 2: So I guess timeliness is important, too.
- 20:39Speaker 7: Yeah, timeliness is important, but Ashby was a stud and
- 20:42Speaker 7: a rock star last night. I was wondering when or
- 20:45Speaker 7: if McGill was going to get in, and Murph just
- 20:46Speaker 7: rolled with him, and he was just dominant. And the
- 20:49Speaker 7: Romero strikeout of Otani, Hunter, that was more symbolic of
- 20:55Speaker 7: Otani's effort in this series than the home run was
- 20:57Speaker 7: really because that's what he looked like.
- 21:01Speaker 3: Right.
- 21:01Speaker 5: Totally.
- 21:01Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely.
- 21:02Speaker 9: And so that, you know, you kind of came, he
- 21:04Speaker 9: came back and it was like, okay, yeah, you know,
- 21:07Speaker 9: we got a good swing on you, but otherwise that
- 21:09Speaker 9: was kind of the Otani that we saw. And I mean, Joe,
- 21:12Speaker 9: Joe Romero, I mean, man, oh man, talk about an
- 21:14Speaker 9: unsung hero.
- 21:15Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:17Speaker 3: I know it's, it's, they have them everywhere, right? They're
- 21:20Speaker 3: left and right there. There's a lot of, it's just, It.
- 21:24Speaker 8: Was, absolutely.
- 21:25Speaker 3: So that was impressive.
- 21:27Speaker 9: And they get through that game with Romero and Ashby,
- 21:30Speaker 9: finish out the final five innings and doing it that way.
- 21:34Speaker 2: Did you get to talk to Dustin May?
- 21:35Speaker 7: Because he gave up the homer and it had to
- 21:37Speaker 7: be painful for him. And you could see his reaction
- 21:39Speaker 7: when Otani swung. He knew it right away, bad pitch.
- 21:43Speaker 7: But then he gave him two innings after that, right?
- 21:45Speaker 7: And it almost seemed to me, it's like, oh, Merce
- 21:47Speaker 7: is throwing him into the wolves to save everybody for
- 21:49Speaker 7: game five. And he locked it down. And again, that's
- 21:52Speaker 7: the brewer's recipe. The bullpen, and this is part of
- 21:55Speaker 7: the bullpen last night, the bullpen holds them down and
- 21:57Speaker 7: gives them chances to peck away.
- 21:59Speaker 9: Yeah, I saw the stat today that once the Dodgers
- 22:05Speaker 9: got the lead in any of the games, they did
- 22:08Speaker 9: not score again. So they got a lead, and then
- 22:11Speaker 9: they didn't score. They just continued to not score. I
- 22:16Speaker 9: guess when they got their final lead, probably. Because I
- 22:20Speaker 9: think they had two leads in game.
- 22:22Speaker 5: Two, I think.
- 22:22Speaker 3: If I remember right.
- 22:24Speaker 5: But something like that.
- 22:25Speaker 9: And that's the bullpen holding it down and keeping them
- 22:28Speaker 9: in it. And that's what the Brewers' bullpen has done
- 22:30Speaker 9: all season, is just those middle guys. And Dustin May
- 22:32Speaker 9: was one of them. We didn't get a chance to.
- 22:34Speaker 5: talk to her.
- 22:34Speaker 9: At least I didn't. I'm not sure if anybody else did,
- 22:37Speaker 9: but that he was a key to rebound from that.
- 22:40Speaker 9: And look, that's partly why you get a guy like
- 22:43Speaker 9: Dustin may who's been there, done that and can shrug
- 22:45Speaker 9: that off. Now, do I really totally trust them? Because look,
- 22:50Speaker 9: if the offense doesn't come back last night, it's a
- 22:52Speaker 9: different story. And we're talking about Dustin may and, and, and,
- 22:55Speaker 9: you know, bad trade and all that. Now it also
- 22:58Speaker 9: netted you Jojo Romero. So he's been really good. So there's,
- 23:01Speaker 9: a trade off there. But, but no, he was able
- 23:05Speaker 9: to come back, use his experience and pitching at Dodger
- 23:08Speaker 9: stadium once again.
- 23:09Speaker 3: And was able to hold them.
- 23:10Speaker 9: And that was, that was just so key for what
- 23:13Speaker 9: the birds did the rest of the night.
- 23:14Speaker 5: All right.
- 23:15Speaker 7: I just retweeted something by the guy who's a white
- 23:17Speaker 7: Sox fan and a civil engineer and a stats nerd
- 23:20Speaker 7: from Chicago, but.
- 23:22Speaker 2: A mix of things.
- 23:23Speaker 5: Okay. Yeah.
- 23:24Speaker 7: When the Dodgers swept the Brewers last year, They went 4-0,
- 23:30Speaker 7: as you do in a sweep. They had 149 plate appearances,
- 23:33Speaker 7: 128 at-bats, 32 hits. They hit 250, which is the
- 23:39Speaker 7: batting average, and had an on-base percentage of 347. The
- 23:42Speaker 7: Brewers had exactly identical offensive numbers. Plate appearances, at-bats, hits...
- 23:49Speaker 7: batting average and on base percentage.
- 23:51Speaker 2: That seems impossible.
- 23:52Speaker 6: And yet the Brewers scored more runs. Yeah, because they
- 23:55Speaker 6: squeezed more out of the orange, of course.
- 23:57Speaker 2: Right, right, right, right. They did.
- 23:58Speaker 7: They scored six more runs than the Dodgers did with
- 24:00Speaker 7: the exact same.
- 24:01Speaker 2: And that was like a slaughter last year.
- 24:05Speaker 6: Right.
- 24:05Speaker 2: And this is the same.
- 24:07Speaker 5: Wow.
- 24:07Speaker 2: This is uncanny.
- 24:08Speaker 7: It's like Kennedy and Lincoln parallels here.
- 24:10Speaker 5: That's crazy.
- 24:10Speaker 2: I got to verify. It almost looks fake, but it's real. Well,
- 24:14Speaker 2: either way, I'm happy it happened.
- 24:17Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 24:17Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 24:19Speaker 9: Yeah, I did see that and I was wondering, I'm like,
- 24:21Speaker 9: I kind of want to fact check that, but I mean, I.
- 24:23Speaker 5: Would think that he didn't put it out there.
- 24:25Speaker 2: It's a Jason Stark type stat.
- 24:27Speaker 6: Hunter, that's a lot of work to fact check a
- 24:28Speaker 6: Randall's tweet, but I love it.
- 24:31Speaker 3: It is.
- 24:31Speaker 2: It's real and it's spectacular.
- 24:32Speaker 6: Hey, great job, Hunter. And great job out there, Hunter.
- 24:35Speaker 6: Thanks for bringing the sights and sounds. I tried to
- 24:37Speaker 6: catch you on TV. I definitely saw Kurt. I didn't
- 24:39Speaker 6: know if I saw you. I tried my best to
- 24:41Speaker 6: find you and send a picture, but. couldn't see it
- 24:44Speaker 6: in the, you just did such a great job reporting
- 24:46Speaker 6: and such a great job out there. And you, I
- 24:48Speaker 6: hope you got a little bit of champagne.
- 24:49Speaker 2: All of your, you know, clothes. Oh yeah.
- 24:53Speaker 9: Yeah, there was no last night. It was, you know,
- 24:55Speaker 9: instead of staying on the perimeter, it was like, all right,
- 24:57Speaker 9: we're just going to go right in the middle and
- 24:59Speaker 9: see what happens. And that's what we did and got
- 25:01Speaker 9: a chance to talk to Matt Arnott a little bit.
- 25:02Speaker 9: And just everybody was, yeah, it.
- 25:05Speaker 5: Was quite a moment.
- 25:06Speaker 9: All the Brewers fans that traveled to L.A. were, you know,
- 25:09Speaker 9: really just, yeah, it was electric. You know, when we
- 25:12Speaker 9: watched the trophy presentation and everything like that.
- 25:15Speaker 3: So, hey, on to the next one.
- 25:17Speaker 9: A week from today, the Brewers are playing in Milwaukee
- 25:20Speaker 9: in the World Series.
- 25:21Speaker 3: I mean, that's a sentence, right?
- 25:23Speaker 2: It's going to be a classic. Thank you, Hunter. Safe travels.
- 25:27Speaker 3: You bet.
- 25:28Speaker 5: See you guys soon.
- 25:29Speaker 7: Hunter Baumgart on his way back from Dodger Stadium. He
- 25:31Speaker 7: didn't have to stay an extra day. Saved the company
- 25:33Speaker 7: some money. Now he can go on the road to
- 25:34Speaker 7: Cleveland or Tampa for the next year. I hope they
- 25:36Speaker 7: thank him for that.
- 25:37Speaker 2: Fantastic.
- 25:37Speaker 7: Tom Hardercourt is going to join us next. We'll get
- 25:39Speaker 7: thoughts from the Prince of Darkness.
- 25:41Speaker 2: You're in the huddle.
- 25:42Speaker 7: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 25:47Speaker 2: Back on the huddle.
- 25:48Speaker 7: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Olson, Armin Sarian. Billy is
- 25:51Speaker 7: out today. Brewers are going to the World Series. I
- 25:55Speaker 7: haven't uttered that since I was a young lad, but
- 25:57Speaker 7: the Brewers are going to the World Series for the
- 25:59Speaker 7: first time since 1982. I had a lot.
- 26:02Speaker 2: Of thoughts last night. A lot of people came to mind.
- 26:04Speaker 7: And this gentleman that joins us now in the NicoletLaw.com
- 26:07Speaker 7: talk and text line is at the top of the list.
- 26:09Speaker 7: My friend and former teammate. My press box seat make.
- 26:13Speaker 7: The Prince of Darkness himself, Tom Hardicore, joins us from
- 26:16Speaker 7: the Williamsburg, Virginia Bureau of the Huddle. And Tom, my
- 26:20Speaker 7: first question to you is, did you put a lampshade
- 26:22Speaker 7: on and run around your living room last night when
- 26:24Speaker 7: the Brewers won the pennant?
- 26:26Speaker 5: You know, it was hard to process, wasn't it? And
- 26:31Speaker 5: tell me if I didn't have a wrong read on that.
- 26:34Speaker 5: Didn't the players look subdued on the field after the
- 26:37Speaker 5: last down?
- 26:38Speaker 2: You know, I felt that way, Tom, yeah, about this.
- 26:40Speaker 6: But I think the era is increasing more and more
- 26:43Speaker 6: with that. Maybe they'll tell you they have bigger fish
- 26:45Speaker 6: to fry. But I expected a little more of a
- 26:48Speaker 6: dog pile. You did just win.
- 26:49Speaker 2: The pennant, I mean.
- 26:52Speaker 5: They looked a little stunned themselves. But, I mean, it's
- 26:59Speaker 5: surreal because it's something none of us, people that are
- 27:04Speaker 5: only 43 have never experienced it. You know, I got
- 27:08Speaker 5: to Milwaukee in 1985, the old Sentinel, before Drew and
- 27:14Speaker 5: me merged into our Journal Sentinel partnership in 95th. But
- 27:19Speaker 5: when they hired me in 1985 in-season, it was two
- 27:21Speaker 5: months ago, they needed a new beat writer in-season. And
- 27:24Speaker 5: so I went there, and I, after watching the team
- 27:28Speaker 5: for one week in August of 1985, I turned to
- 27:31Speaker 5: journal beat writer Tom Flaherty, the late, great Tom Flaherty,
- 27:35Speaker 5: and I said, this team was in the World Series
- 27:37Speaker 5: three years ago? I mean, that team fell apart fast.
- 27:44Speaker 5: And then, you know, there were some decent seasons. But,
- 27:50Speaker 5: you know, the 90s were pretty dreadful and the small
- 27:52Speaker 5: market thing became just so bad in Milwaukee. You know,
- 28:00Speaker 5: and I will always, historians of the Brewers will always
- 28:03Speaker 5: look back to the new ballpark and new ownership as
- 28:07Speaker 5: being the fulcrums of getting the organization going. But it
- 28:12Speaker 5: is really hard to tell. So if my math is right,
- 28:15Speaker 5: and it often is not, They've won 110 games, right?
- 28:19Speaker 2: That's correct, yeah. 103 plus 7, right? Yeah, 110 games.
- 28:27Speaker 5: Okay. In the 90s, that's what we call two good seasons.
- 28:31Speaker 2: You're not wrong. You're not wrong, Tom.
- 28:34Speaker 7: It is a little bit surreal. They've been close before.
- 28:40Speaker 7: But to turn the tables and sweep the Dodgers, who
- 28:42Speaker 7: kicked sand in their faces last year, it felt like
- 28:44Speaker 7: the varsity against the freshman this year... I mean, last year.
- 28:48Speaker 7: And then this year, Tom, the Dodgers all of a
- 28:50Speaker 7: sudden looked old. And I know it all probably relates
- 28:53Speaker 7: to Otani not being Otani. Because having a guy like
- 28:57Speaker 7: that changes the way you pitch him and pitch the
- 28:59Speaker 7: guys around him. It changes everything. And he wasn't himself
- 29:04Speaker 7: in this series. Anything else stand out to you from
- 29:06Speaker 7: either just this series alone or the whole playoff run
- 29:10Speaker 7: for the Brewers?
- 29:12Speaker 5: Well, just the fact that a team... that usually doesn't
- 29:16Speaker 5: hit home runs, hits some monster.
- 29:18Speaker 3: Home runs in L.A.
- 29:20Speaker 2: That's a big fact.
- 29:20Speaker 5: Monster home runs. You know, Garrett Mitchell's home run off
- 29:24Speaker 5: Tanner Scott is one of the damnedest things I've ever seen.
- 29:27Speaker 5: I don't think Tanner Scott had given up a home
- 29:30Speaker 5: run to a left-handed batter all season, and he had
- 29:33Speaker 5: dominated the Brewers left. You know, the Brewers are a
- 29:36Speaker 5: little subject to left-handed pitching because they have a lot
- 29:38Speaker 5: of left-handed hitters. And he goes 0-2, and you just
- 29:43Speaker 5: figure he's.
- 29:44Speaker 8: Going to bury Mitchell. Then ball one, ball.
- 29:46Speaker 5: Two, ball three, and then all of a sudden, booming
- 29:49Speaker 5: home run. I was talking with Todd Rosiak on the
- 29:54Speaker 5: phone a little while ago. They're stuck in a Hellish
- 29:57Speaker 5: travel nightmare in L.A. They may make it home by
- 30:00Speaker 5: midnight if they're lucky. But we were just talking about this.
- 30:05Speaker 5: I said, Drew, you and I often went weeks without
- 30:09Speaker 5: getting to write a good story on the Brewers.
- 30:11Speaker 8: They have like 15.
- 30:13Speaker 5: Stories hit them in the face every day.
- 30:16Speaker 8: Mitchell's an unbelievable story.
- 30:18Speaker 5: Guy's been hurt his whole career. Finally stays healthy and
- 30:21Speaker 5: he's what he thought he always could be. Jake Bowers.
- 30:24Speaker 5: You know, everybody knows the story. He only kept playing
- 30:27Speaker 5: because he needed health care for a new kid. Just,
- 30:31Speaker 5: you know, Ashby, remember when Ashby looked like he was
- 30:34Speaker 5: going to be a colossal boss? Yep.
- 30:36Speaker 8: And then he, you know, and then he got hurt.
- 30:39Speaker 5: It's just up and down the line because you're so,
- 30:44Speaker 5: you know, Hamilton hits a home run last night.
- 30:47Speaker 8: You know, I.
- 30:48Speaker 5: Always have maintained that I don't really believe in destiny
- 30:51Speaker 5: and karma. But, We've seen a ball hit the roof.
- 30:56Speaker 5: We've seen 12 pitch at bats that ended home runs.
- 31:01Speaker 5: We've seen, you know, Cheerio hit 105 mile an hour
- 31:05Speaker 5: pitch up.
- 31:06Speaker 8: The middle, 110 miles an hour out.
- 31:09Speaker 5: How about last night in the seventh and eighth innings?
- 31:13Speaker 5: Runners on third and one out from the Dodgers. And
- 31:18Speaker 5: Ohtani not only strikes out, he strikes out on the
- 31:20Speaker 5: pitch in the other batter's box.
- 31:22Speaker 2: And then.
- 31:24Speaker 5: And then Kyle Tucker, who, you know, actually hit some
- 31:27Speaker 5: pretty good balls in that series, pops out at the
- 31:29Speaker 5: shallow center. But the only two things that don't score
- 31:32Speaker 5: a run there, a strikeout and a pop-up.
- 31:36Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the most amazing sequence there was.
- 31:41Speaker 5: So it's just, it's just, it really is, it really is.
- 31:47Speaker 8: An amazing story.
- 31:48Speaker 5: I do think that, um, from watching the games on TV,
- 31:53Speaker 5: there seemed to be more chatter about what's wrong with
- 31:55Speaker 5: the Dodgers than what's right.
- 31:56Speaker 8: With the Brewers.
- 31:58Speaker 5: Because to me, the headline of that series is Dodgers
- 32:01Speaker 5: lose the best team in National League. That's the headline.
- 32:05Speaker 2: That should be the headline.
- 32:05Speaker 7: We're talking to Tom Hardercourt here on the huddle, Drew
- 32:08Speaker 7: and Armin. Tom, the thing to me and the thing,
- 32:10Speaker 7: we're feeling it in August and into September.
- 32:13Speaker 2: This team is different. This feels different.
- 32:16Speaker 7: And I couldn't put my finger on what it was.
- 32:18Speaker 7: And then Tim Dillard, who joined us earlier, He crystallized
- 32:22Speaker 7: it for me. The Brewers, it used to be to
- 32:25Speaker 7: beat a team like the Dodgers, they had to play
- 32:26Speaker 7: a perfect game. And I don't mean 27 up.
- 32:29Speaker 2: 27 down.
- 32:29Speaker 7: They had to catch the ball. They had to get
- 32:30Speaker 7: big hits. They had to have a strong start. The
- 32:33Speaker 7: bullpen had to be lights out. And throughout these playoffs
- 32:36Speaker 7: against the Padres and the Dodgers, they have not played
- 32:37Speaker 7: anywhere near a perfect game yet. And they've been able
- 32:40Speaker 7: to overcome it.
- 32:42Speaker 5: Yeah, they're a great defensive team that has not played
- 32:45Speaker 5: great defense in the postseason. They made some really good plays.
- 32:50Speaker 5: I'll tell you one thing. Don't sleep on that bullet
- 32:53Speaker 5: that Cooper Pratt backhanded in short last night in the ninth.
- 32:56Speaker 2: Great, amazing play.
- 32:58Speaker 5: I think it was 110 off the bat.
- 33:00Speaker 2: Yeah, that was really important. Get that further.
- 33:03Speaker 5: That was really important. And he's been a little shaky
- 33:08Speaker 5: at times.
- 33:09Speaker 8: I mean, he is a 22-year-old rookie. A damn good one,
- 33:12Speaker 8: it looks like.
- 33:13Speaker 5: Who had him as the first Of all those great
- 33:17Speaker 5: infield prospects they have, who had him as the first
- 33:19Speaker 5: guy up? I sure did.
- 33:20Speaker 2: Yeah, only Matt Arnold and his guys.
- 33:24Speaker 5: They knew what they were doing when they came on
- 33:26Speaker 5: that contract extension. But that was an absolute bullet, and
- 33:31Speaker 5: he turned it just to his feet the first time.
- 33:34Speaker 8: You can't let the time run.
- 33:37Speaker 5: You know, get on base and no out.
- 33:40Speaker 7: And his resilience, and Luis Lara's made some good plays too,
- 33:44Speaker 7: but his resilience, like, I was so impressed when he
- 33:47Speaker 7: got his cap spun around with a 103-mile-an-hour fastball and
- 33:50Speaker 7: then stayed in. I thought, well, that's the end of
- 33:51Speaker 7: this at bat. And then he gets a base hit.
- 33:54Speaker 7: And it's like, oh my goodness. Like, this kid, like,
- 33:56Speaker 7: holy cow.
- 33:57Speaker 2: Good point, yeah.
- 33:59Speaker 5: I think first rookie, first rookie in Brewers history to
- 34:03Speaker 5: have a three-hit game in the LCS round. So, I mean,
- 34:06Speaker 5: just so many firsts by that team.
- 34:09Speaker 3: They are.
- 34:10Speaker 5: I think they are very confident. I do think that.
- 34:14Speaker 8: Last year they were just.
- 34:16Speaker 5: They were a little drained after beating the Cubs, and
- 34:18Speaker 5: they got to the Dodgers. You know, their pitching was
- 34:23Speaker 5: stupid good last year in the postseason, and they went on.
- 34:27Speaker 8: And won it all again.
- 34:29Speaker 5: But I think the Brewers realized....
- 34:35Speaker 8: Playing last year, what it took, you know.
- 34:38Speaker 5: To take that next step. And they were just more
- 34:40Speaker 5: ready this time around. Their offense... is just, I think they,
- 34:47Speaker 5: don't they call them the woodpecker?
- 34:48Speaker 8: They just keep cutting.
- 34:49Speaker 5: Away, pecking away. So when Otani hit that home run
- 34:53Speaker 5: last night, my wife, Trish, and I were watching, she goes,
- 34:56Speaker 5: oh boy, Ford and Alton, this one's over. I said, Trish,
- 34:58Speaker 5: this is only the second inning, and these guys have
- 35:02Speaker 5: a knack for coming back.
- 35:03Speaker 7: And part of that is because the bullpen's so good,
- 35:05Speaker 7: they lock them down and let them, you know, give
- 35:08Speaker 7: the birds chances to come back, which is complimentary baseball.
- 35:11Speaker 8: Well, that's the thing. Yeah, that's the thing.
- 35:13Speaker 5: If you take away May's three-run homer.
- 35:17Speaker 8: He gave up to Ohtani, which had unique circumstances, starting pitcher.
- 35:21Speaker 5: Pitching him really poorly in the game. I think the
- 35:23Speaker 5: bullpen gave up with one bird in the first season
- 35:26Speaker 5: or two.
- 35:27Speaker 2: Pretty crazy. I mean, Ashby....
- 35:31Speaker 5: He's the new rally famous. You know, he goes in
- 35:34Speaker 5: expecting at this point.
- 35:36Speaker 2: He is. Tom, a couple things on the way out here.
- 35:38Speaker 7: First of all, you covered Robin Yount on the back
- 35:40Speaker 7: end of his career after, you know, three years after
- 35:42Speaker 7: his MVP World Series season. And you also covered Christian Jelic.
- 35:47Speaker 7: You see the similarities. They gave Jelic the C. He
- 35:50Speaker 7: asked for Yount's blessing for that. You know, could you
- 35:54Speaker 7: speak to the impact that those two guys have had
- 35:57Speaker 7: and the legacies they're leaving with this organization?
- 36:00Speaker 5: Well, I do think they're two peas in a pod.
- 36:03Speaker 5: They're professional the way they go at their business, underspoken,
- 36:07Speaker 5: not looking for the limelight. Yeah, I think the LX
- 36:11Speaker 5: was a little bashful about taking that C, and just
- 36:15Speaker 5: the fact that he asked for Robin's blessing, that just
- 36:18Speaker 5: spoke volumes. I know he had a tough year, and
- 36:21Speaker 5: I know people have thought that he should have played
- 36:25Speaker 5: better after 2019.
- 36:27Speaker 8: Than he had.
- 36:28Speaker 5: But here's the bottom line on Christian Yelich. He was
- 36:32Speaker 5: signed before the 2018 season. And since then, they've been
- 36:37Speaker 5: through the playoffs all but one year.
- 36:39Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point.
- 36:41Speaker 7: And the last thing I got for you, Tom, we've
- 36:43Speaker 7: covered managers good and bad. Some were under regarded. Like
- 36:45Speaker 7: we thought Gar was pretty smart. He just didn't have
- 36:47Speaker 7: the horses. And then he went and got used into
- 36:49Speaker 7: a world series. Ned Yost went to two world series
- 36:52Speaker 7: after he left Milwaukee. Uh, you had a pretty good
- 36:54Speaker 7: relationship with counts and Murph on your way out before retirement,
- 36:58Speaker 7: by the way, Tom retired and they put in the
- 37:00Speaker 7: pitch clock and the.
- 37:01Speaker 2: Brewers are going to the world series.
- 37:02Speaker 7: I don't know if these two things are related or not, but, uh, What.
- 37:05Speaker 5: Are your thoughts? I would suggest that they have successfully
- 37:10Speaker 5: overcome my retirement.
- 37:12Speaker 2: That's true.
- 37:12Speaker 8: They have.
- 37:13Speaker 7: But what are your thoughts watching Murph and the way
- 37:15Speaker 7: he goes about things and the way he's blossomed in
- 37:17Speaker 7: this role? And somebody said the other day, he's not
- 37:19Speaker 7: only the best manager in baseball, he might be the
- 37:21Speaker 7: best coach in any professional sport right now.
- 37:23Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
- 37:25Speaker 5: He was a guy that was ready for this, just
- 37:28Speaker 5: needed the chance. Nobody realized the way it would come.
- 37:31Speaker 5: It was his best buddy, Council, leaving. Nobody saw that
- 37:38Speaker 5: one coming. But he was.
- 37:39Speaker 3: Ready for this.
- 37:41Speaker 5: And sometimes you just got to get that chance. Sometimes
- 37:43Speaker 5: you're not ready earlier or later. But right at that
- 37:47Speaker 5: moment in time, you are ready. And he's very real.
- 37:54Speaker 3: He's very real.
- 37:55Speaker 8: The players always know where he stands.
- 37:58Speaker 5: He knows how to do tough love. He was just
- 38:04Speaker 5: perfect for that role. He builds confidence. And... He was
- 38:10Speaker 5: just ready to do it. That's just part of the
- 38:12Speaker 5: karma of this team. If he gets manager of the
- 38:16Speaker 5: year this year, I don't know if he will because
- 38:18Speaker 5: they may give it to the San Diego guy or
- 38:20Speaker 5: Mattingly for turning the Phillies around. But, I mean, they
- 38:26Speaker 5: won 103 games and everybody picked.
- 38:28Speaker 8: Them second again.
- 38:29Speaker 5: Of course. People will start believing in Murphy and the Brewers.
- 38:32Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to believe it.
- 38:34Speaker 7: I did channel my inner Prince of Darkness when I
- 38:36Speaker 7: tweeted out that Three years after he moved into Craig
- 38:40Speaker 7: Council's office, he's doing it again next year at the
- 38:42Speaker 7: All-Star Game at Wrigley Field. What he takes over is
- 38:44Speaker 7: the manager of the National League team with his staff.
- 38:47Speaker 7: And a couple of Cubs fans were like, oh, what
- 38:50Speaker 7: a punch in the nuts that is.
- 38:51Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, people were devastated when Craig left. And
- 38:58Speaker 5: Murphy just stepped in the breach and made them not
- 39:01Speaker 5: be devastated.
- 39:02Speaker 2: Instead of booing Craig when he comes back, they should
- 39:04Speaker 2: thank him.
- 39:08Speaker 5: Well, you know, like you said, I've known him for
- 39:10Speaker 5: a long time, so I won't say anything yay or
- 39:13Speaker 5: nay about just how that all played out. But I
- 39:16Speaker 5: will say that Murph, to his credit, was right.
- 39:19Speaker 8: And you know, the Bruins didn't have.
- 39:20Speaker 3: To give him the job either.
- 39:21Speaker 5: They could have gone outside the organization. It's true.
- 39:24Speaker 2: Yep, everybody does. There's credit.
- 39:26Speaker 7: Things are rolling good. Tom, it's a pleasure. It's great
- 39:29Speaker 7: to catch up with you.
- 39:30Speaker 8: You.
- 39:30Speaker 2: We'll give you a shout next week.
- 39:31Speaker 7: Is this, it's still going to take a week for
- 39:33Speaker 7: us to process that the Brewers are in the world
- 39:35Speaker 7: series and it's going to happen at home on Friday,
- 39:38Speaker 7: a week from today.
- 39:38Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, bud.
- 39:41Speaker 5: Thanks, guys. Appreciate you having me.
- 39:42Speaker 2: You bet.
- 39:43Speaker 7: Tom Haudricourt, retired baseball scribe, Brewers historian, the Prince of
- 39:47Speaker 7: Darkness himself.
- 39:48Speaker 2: You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 39:50Speaker 6: Continuing the Friday edition of the huddle.
- 40:06Speaker 7: The Brewers are going to the World Series edition of
- 40:08Speaker 7: the huddle. Drew Olsen, Armin Sarian from headquarters.
- 40:11Speaker 2: Billy's off.
- 40:12Speaker 7: He'll be rejoining us. Well, he'll rejoin us on Sunday
- 40:14Speaker 7: night for Packers OT.
- 40:16Speaker 2: That's right. Live from Lambeau Field. No conflict with a
- 40:18Speaker 2: game of six. Which is, yeah, now unencumbered.
- 40:20Speaker 5: Yes.
- 40:20Speaker 2: Yeah, unencumbered. Absolutely.
- 40:23Speaker 7: Time for a little Who's Hot, Who's Not brought to
- 40:24Speaker 7: us by Donovan Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Your HVAC.
- 40:27Speaker 5: Experts.
- 40:27Speaker 7: DonovanJorgensen.com. Employee owned for 45 years.
- 40:30Speaker 2: Who's Hot? All the Brewers. For sure. Well, indeed.
- 40:34Speaker 3: Indeed.
- 40:34Speaker 6: Especially, I mean, you have to think of Garrett and Jake, obviously, right?
- 40:38Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 40:38Speaker 2: And Ashby, of course. All the Brewers.
- 40:41Speaker 7: But who's not hot? I got to go with Bo Nix,
- 40:46Speaker 7: the quarterback of the Denver Broncos.
- 40:48Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 40:48Speaker 2: It's a good one.
- 40:49Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 40:49Speaker 7: Broncos won a game in overtime yesterday, but Bo Nix
- 40:52Speaker 7: was 17 for 27 for 107 yards. He played the
- 40:56Speaker 7: whole game and threw for 107 yards in overtime.
- 40:58Speaker 2: No touchdowns. No interceptions. And no completions, Armin, beyond the
- 41:03Speaker 2: first down marker.
- 41:04Speaker 6: You know, it's really interesting that there's a lot of
- 41:06Speaker 6: quarterbacks now, I think, that are young, have a great
- 41:08Speaker 6: first year, and then totally look different.
- 41:09Speaker 2: I mean, Jaden Daniels comes to mind, obviously health factors.
- 41:12Speaker 6: How do you not have a completion past the first
- 41:14Speaker 6: down mark when you had such a great year last year?
- 41:16Speaker 2: This is Bo Nix.
- 41:17Speaker 4: What happened?
- 41:17Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Drake Mays had his struggles this year.
- 41:20Speaker 6: It's really hard to imagine how it's possible, why, but
- 41:23Speaker 6: I would have to think it's a number of factors,
- 41:25Speaker 6: not the least of which, you know, defenses start to
- 41:28Speaker 6: figure things out, maybe. I don't know what it is,
- 41:30Speaker 6: but that is a shocking, shocking thing to see, his decline.
- 41:33Speaker 7: I was busy watching the Brewers, and I'm not going
- 41:35Speaker 7: to re-watch this game, but Seattle gained 353 yards, ran
- 41:37Speaker 7: 82 plays.
- 41:37Speaker 2: The Broncos....
- 41:42Speaker 7: Ran 57 plays for 168 total yards.
- 41:46Speaker 2: How'd they win? I don't know, man.
- 41:48Speaker 7: It's hard to believe. But Thursday night, you know. Broncos
- 41:50Speaker 7: were three for 14 on third down.
- 41:52Speaker 5: Wow.
- 41:52Speaker 7: They had five sacks, eight penalties. It was a horrific,
- 41:56Speaker 7: horrific game. 17 to 14. Yeah.
- 41:59Speaker 2: Good luck trying to figure out the NFL, right?
- 42:00Speaker 8: I mean, that's what it is.
- 42:01Speaker 7: And the Broncos are four and two, but nobody feels
- 42:03Speaker 7: good about it. The funniest thing I heard about that
- 42:05Speaker 7: was some Broncos fan on Twitter said that Sean Payton said,
- 42:09Speaker 7: would rather lose uh 38 to 34 than win 17
- 42:13Speaker 7: to 14.
- 42:14Speaker 6: Yes yes but well i say quarterbacks in general or
- 42:17Speaker 6: you know now when you talk about who's going to
- 42:18Speaker 6: be playing ravens ruled out jackson jalen hurts we know
- 42:21Speaker 6: the situation a lot of high-end quarterbacks were on this
- 42:24Speaker 6: league right now it just shows you what's important uh
- 42:27Speaker 6: depth at that position yeah absolutely wow.
- 42:30Speaker 7: Um So that's Who's Hot, Who's Not brought to us
- 42:33Speaker 7: by Donovan Jorgensen, heating and cooling. Special shout out to
- 42:36Speaker 7: the Bucks for reading the room and moving the time
- 42:38Speaker 7: of their home opener to 3 o'clock next Friday so
- 42:41Speaker 7: that folks can go to that game and watch that
- 42:43Speaker 7: game and then consume the Brewers in the World Series.
- 42:46Speaker 6: And the Admirals are hot, too. They have a big weekend.
- 42:48Speaker 6: Tonight is Hoctoberfest. I'll be there hosting. They have a
- 42:51Speaker 6: big game then and then one tomorrow night. And thankfully,
- 42:54Speaker 6: those are unencumbered.
- 42:56Speaker 2: Yeah, and they've got Colorado in, right? They've got Colorado, yes.
- 42:59Speaker 7: Yes, and it's dog day tomorrow night at the rink.
- 43:01Speaker 7: That'll be a lot of fun. Bring your pooch to
- 43:04Speaker 7: the park while it's still kind of nice outside. Kind
- 43:06Speaker 7: of a fun deal. It's always a fun game.
- 43:08Speaker 6: It's always a fun game, and if you're looking for
- 43:10Speaker 6: something to do, and your plans are free now because
- 43:12Speaker 6: the Brewers aren't playing, get down to the arena for
- 43:14Speaker 6: some Admirals hockey. It's a great way to kick off
- 43:17Speaker 6: the season. Kind of feels cold out there, so it
- 43:19Speaker 6: feels like hockey weather.
- 43:20Speaker 2: I've said it before.
- 43:21Speaker 7: When one team is thriving like the Brewers are right now,
- 43:24Speaker 7: it just gets people pumped for sports.
- 43:27Speaker 2: It's going to help.
- 43:27Speaker 7: I think it'll help like Badger Football Pack. It'll help
- 43:30Speaker 7: the awareness and the excitement for stuff like the Admirals.
- 43:33Speaker 2: People want more of it.
- 43:34Speaker 7: They see how exciting it is and how it builds community,
- 43:37Speaker 7: and they just want more. So a rising tide lifts
- 43:39Speaker 7: all boats, and that's what's going to happen with the
- 43:42Speaker 7: Brewers in the wake of their... run, which is going
- 43:44Speaker 7: to continue a week from today.
- 43:45Speaker 6: Indeed, and they tweeted an hour ago, they've announced a
- 43:47Speaker 6: schedule change as well to celebrate the Brewers hosting game
- 43:50Speaker 6: one of the World Series. Their home game against Chicago,
- 43:53Speaker 6: originally scheduled for Friday, October 23rd, has now been moved
- 43:56Speaker 6: to Sunday, October 25th at 1 p.m. So that Friday
- 43:59Speaker 6: game is going to Sunday. So another great call reading
- 44:01Speaker 6: the room. Obviously, they want to watch, you know, Woj
- 44:04Speaker 6: and Greeny and those guys want to see the games.
- 44:06Speaker 2: Come on now. That's right. Smart move by the Admirals
- 44:09Speaker 2: as well. Great call.
- 44:10Speaker 7: We got Wayne Larravee set to join us at about 425.
- 44:13Speaker 2: You are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.