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10/23/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the teams you love with the guys
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  Speaker 1: you love.
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  Speaker 2: That's us.
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  Speaker 1: Boys, that's us. Watch us on YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: You are looking live.
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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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  Speaker 4: You know exactly what we got to do.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some tape.
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  Speaker 3: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 2: We got some big plays coming.
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  Speaker 5: What the hell's.
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  Speaker 4: Going on out here?
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  Speaker 3: Yellow Weasel. We're calling the plays, all right?
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  Speaker 6: It is time.
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  Speaker 5: What are you thinking?
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  Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen.
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  Speaker 7: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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  Speaker 7: your respect.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun is thick. And
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  Speaker 2: Armin Sarian. Daddy Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: Long time coming.
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  Speaker 4: The boys are back.
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  Speaker 2: The boys are back.
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  Speaker 4: When summer is finally forgotten, as daylight dwindles sooner each day,
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  Speaker 4: look around the corner. Just beyond Main Street. Chances are,
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  Speaker 4: there's a game in a backyard. Children in the midst
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  Speaker 4: of imagining. Some with a notion. Innocent, but powerful. You
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  Speaker 4: eagerly followed your team, listening to that distant voice. You
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  Speaker 4: couldn't sleep after a victory. Couldn't wait till the day
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  Speaker 4: when it might be your time. And then that day arrived.
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  Speaker 4: That moment, that affirmation.
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  Speaker 2: When you were told you were special.
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  Speaker 4: And so you worked.
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  Speaker 2: And you sacrificed.
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  Speaker 4: Pointing toward that day in the fall when all of
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  Speaker 4: America would be watching you. Watching your team. The kind
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  Speaker 4: of day dreamed of. In a backyard. Just around the corner.
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  Speaker 4: From Main Street.
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  Speaker 8: It's a dream for everybody, but.
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  Speaker 9: When you believe in something hard enough and you work.
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  Speaker 5: At something hard enough, you stay together.
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  Speaker 3: You go through the rough times.
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  Speaker 2: Fight through it.
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  Speaker 5: You learn lessons that belief is key.
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  Speaker 2: You have to believe. And you have to believe even
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  Speaker 2: more when things aren't going.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just talk.
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  Speaker 2: It's a deep-rooted belief that we can.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe that if we play together and we
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  Speaker 3: play winning baseball, great things can happen.
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  Speaker 2: Bonnie, anything to add?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, no.
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  Speaker 2: He's not the best color man in the league for nothing, folks.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're set to go.
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  Speaker 10: It's been 16,074 days since the Milwaukee Brewers have played
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  Speaker 10: in a World Series, and that drought ends tonight at
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  Speaker 10: American Family Field.
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  Speaker 2: Huddle up. It is time.
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  Speaker 10: Welcome in. I'm Bill Schmidt. Armin Sarian's right there. On
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  Speaker 10: line one is our guy Drew Olson, live from American
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  Speaker 10: Family Field. You can join us on that NicoletLaw.com talk
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  Speaker 10: and text line. YouTube streaming live on Facebook and X
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  Speaker 10: as well. And your Milwaukee Brewers are back in the
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  Speaker 10: World Series. And it is finally here. Drew, you've covered
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  Speaker 10: plenty of these series. You have not in this backyard.
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  Speaker 10: You just sent us a sick video from the field.
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  Speaker 10: How does it look? How does it feel? Couldn't be
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  Speaker 10: a better Chamber of Commerce day for the first World
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  Speaker 10: Series game in over 16,000 days in this brew city.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, boys. I'm coming to you from in front
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  Speaker 3: of Mark Atanasio's seat. right now adjacent to the Brewers' dugout.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to stay here for the whole game, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they'll let me. It looks spectacular. I
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  Speaker 3: can report that it's a glorious day, but as we speak,
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  Speaker 3: the panels and the roof are closing at American Family Field.
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  Speaker 3: It will be a roof-closed environment tonight. The Brewers like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be loud. It's going to be epic.
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  Speaker 3: It will be somewhat comfortable for the people, although, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, 55 degrees to me is comfortable in October
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  Speaker 3: in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, it's surreal. I feel like I caught the space
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  Speaker 3: shuttle this morning and I'm going to lunch with Santa
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  Speaker 3: Claus and the Easter Bunny. It's just bizarre.
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  Speaker 2: That's surreal.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen Tom Hardicourt yet, but when I do,
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  Speaker 3: we are going to get a photo because this is
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  Speaker 3: a day neither one of us could comprehend.
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  Speaker 10: It's a day for history uh no doubt and you're
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  Speaker 10: you're here for it and we're all here for it
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  Speaker 10: and drew uh it would be a little bit you
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  Speaker 10: know it has to be a little chilly today there
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  Speaker 10: has to be a whipping wind a little bit because
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  Speaker 10: this is the fall classic and i feel like we'd
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  Speaker 10: be cheated if it was too hot today and uh
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  Speaker 10: you know yeah you mentioned they're closing the panels tonight
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  Speaker 10: but i don't think that'll dim the excitement of anybody
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  Speaker 10: uh today do you get the sense that people just
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  Speaker 10: want to feel it be part of the energy as
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  Speaker 10: much as they can and soak in.
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  Speaker 2: Every moment.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, it is, I mean, it's going to be perfect
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  Speaker 3: for tailgaters outside. I talked to a friend of mine
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  Speaker 3: who had planned to have eight people at his car.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's metastasized to 20 people want to join him.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody wants a piece of this. I live in a
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  Speaker 3: downtown neighborhood where there was a block party this afternoon,
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  Speaker 3: and it started early this morning. I was walking the dogs,
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  Speaker 3: and they were already having brats and glazers and beers
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  Speaker 3: at like 11 o'clock, and people were camped out in
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  Speaker 3: lawn chairs to get a spot to watch the game
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  Speaker 3: on big screens in a park. At 11 o'clock, 7
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  Speaker 3: o'clock first pitch. That's how excited people are for this.
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  Speaker 3: It is the biggest thing we've seen. And it is
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  Speaker 3: bizarre right now because it's about to get dark in here.
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  Speaker 3: The roof is about 70% closed right now. And the
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  Speaker 3: lights are going on. And it's kind of a funky
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  Speaker 3: feeling right now. I wish we could have at least
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  Speaker 3: kept the roof open for BP, but I'm not in
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  Speaker 3: charge of any of that.
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  Speaker 10: Well, it makes sense that they want to get as
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  Speaker 10: real of a look at that stadium as it will
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  Speaker 10: be for these guys ahead of their most important game
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  Speaker 10: of their lives. Junior Caminero was blasting balls off the scoreboard,
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  Speaker 10: knocking out lights yesterday. So power is not going to
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  Speaker 10: be short here in this World Series. But Drew, I've
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  Speaker 10: been talking about it with Arm in the last couple
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  Speaker 10: of days and joking about it. This is going to
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  Speaker 10: be the hand riggers, the folks that don't watch a
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  Speaker 10: ton of baseball, but want you to know that they
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  Speaker 10: loved baseball at one particular.
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  Speaker 2: Point in time.
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  Speaker 10: But I don't like it now because it's not as
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  Speaker 10: good as it used to be. It's not as good
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  Speaker 10: as it once was. Now, those folks, I mean, Colin
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  Speaker 10: Cowherd's talking about it all week. He can't wait for
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  Speaker 10: this series because I think this is going to be
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  Speaker 10: a beautiful blend of Yandy Diaz can hit the ball
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  Speaker 10: as far as anyone. Junior Caminero can hit the ball
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  Speaker 10: into the third deck. We've seen Bryce Durang put on
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  Speaker 10: incredible shows of power and athleticism. But this is a
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  Speaker 10: baseball fan's World Series, and it feels like we're going
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  Speaker 10: to get treated to a classic.
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  Speaker 3: It sure seems that way, Billy.
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  Speaker 8: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: The Brewers-Dodgers series was the highest rated in more than
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  Speaker 3: a decade for the LCS, which I think that tells
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  Speaker 3: you something. People love dynasties. And yeah, Yankees-Dodgers, it draws eyeballs.
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  Speaker 3: But people also love underdogs. And both of these teams
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  Speaker 3: have never won a World Series. They're both underdog stories with...
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  Speaker 3: players that are relatable and, you know, without star power
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  Speaker 3: and they play the game the right way. So this
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  Speaker 3: has a lot of appeal. And as the series goes
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  Speaker 3: on and people get introduced to the storylines and they see,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Cheerio and, and Contreras and tonight's opening act,
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  Speaker 3: let's face it. When Miz pitches, when he pitched in
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  Speaker 3: the all-star game two years ago, he was the talk
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  Speaker 3: of the, of the, of the week. And he's going
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  Speaker 3: to be again tonight. And people will tune in just
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  Speaker 3: for that freak show of a guy throwing 104. So
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  Speaker 3: it's got everything we want. It's got everything you're looking
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  Speaker 3: for in a World Series.
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  Speaker 10: I think there's also something to be said for, yes,
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  Speaker 10: these are small markets in that sense, or people perceive
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  Speaker 10: them that way, and not the biggest, sexiest names in
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  Speaker 10: terms of.
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  Speaker 2: you know, Yankees, Dodgers. So people will assume, okay, the
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  Speaker 2: ratings will be down.
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  Speaker 10: But I think there's something to be said for the
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  Speaker 10: fact that these were two, the two best teams in baseball.
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  Speaker 10: I think people want to see that as well. They
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  Speaker 10: want to see the greatness of the, of the best
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  Speaker 10: of the AL, the best of the NL. And you're
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  Speaker 10: seeing that as opposed to, you know, the lower rated series,
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  Speaker 10: like when it was Texas and Arizona, they weren't those,
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  Speaker 10: those season long best teams. I think that's part of
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  Speaker 10: it too, Drew.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're right, Armin. That's a good point. I
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  Speaker 3: saw the stat in the pregame notes packet, but I
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  Speaker 3: just glanced at it. I think this is only the
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  Speaker 3: sixth time in the wildcard era since 1995 that we've
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  Speaker 3: seen the two best, the champions of each league, the
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  Speaker 3: teams with the best record in each league play for
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  Speaker 3: the World Series. So it doesn't happen very often. It's
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  Speaker 3: usually whoever gets hot in October, right? But these are
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  Speaker 3: the teams that did it all year long, and they
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  Speaker 3: did it in the shadows. They weren't leading sports center
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  Speaker 3: at all. And so that makes it fresh for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: If you had one of these teams, it would be
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  Speaker 3: a compelling series. If it was the Brewers against the Yankees,
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  Speaker 3: it'd still be compelling because it's David against Goliath. But
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  Speaker 3: having the two upstart teams makes it a special equation.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's going to translate. I think people
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  Speaker 3: are going to dig it.
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  Speaker 10: Drew Olsen's live at American Family Field. We are some
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  Speaker 10: seven hours and 15 or 10 minutes away from first pitch.
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  Speaker 10: 716 is when Miz will let the first ball fly.
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  Speaker 10: I got to guess around 104, Drew. I know he's
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  Speaker 10: topped out at 105.4, I think he said, all year long.
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  Speaker 10: Hard to not think he breaks the radar gun. with
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  Speaker 10: the excitement here today. But as you can feel the
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  Speaker 10: excitement growing, I know the conversations and the pressers are
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  Speaker 10: starting up right now and Woodruff's been the talk. Miz
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  Speaker 10: generally is the headliner of everything. How has it been
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  Speaker 10: down there today with the news that Big Wu is
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  Speaker 10: on the roster and now going to maybe let out
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  Speaker 10: a little bit of what their plans are for him?
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  Speaker 3: He's about to step to the podium with Logan Henderson.
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  Speaker 3: It was going to be a Logan Henderson solo show,
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  Speaker 3: but now Woodruff will be at the podium with him.
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  Speaker 3: So you guys will get to that in about five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: And everybody I've talked to is excited about it. They
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  Speaker 3: think it's pretty cool. They know it's a risk. because
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  Speaker 3: he hasn't pitched that much. But they didn't use Chad
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  Speaker 3: Patrick at all. And that was the swap. It was
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  Speaker 3: right-hander for right-hander. So I don't know how they're going
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  Speaker 3: to use him. I envision him being an opener, maybe
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  Speaker 3: in game three or four. But I guess we're going
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  Speaker 3: to find out together when Woody and Murph get to
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  Speaker 3: the podium just in a little bit.
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  Speaker 10: The Brewers are the first team in Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 10: history to reach the World Series without a win from
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  Speaker 10: a starting pitcher in the postseason. They'd also be the
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  Speaker 10: first team in World Series history to start. Game one
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  Speaker 10: and game two, if chalk would hold, and it'd be
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  Speaker 10: Mizorowski-Henderson game one. First team in Major League Baseball history
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  Speaker 10: to start back-to-back guys under the age of 25 to
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  Speaker 10: lead off a World Series. And it's funny to think, Drew,
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  Speaker 10: that's kind of how they've gotten here. The bullpen, absolutely
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  Speaker 10: a massive part of it. But Nick Martinez on the
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  Speaker 10: other side has been a tough customer. What's the rumblings
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  Speaker 10: after that decision? Because some questioned it like myself. Now
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  Speaker 10: thinking about it and maybe you save yourself with more
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  Speaker 10: of Rasmussen and Freddie Peralta back end.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it sets themselves up nicely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the interesting calculus on the Tampa Bay side, Billy,
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  Speaker 3: is that, you know, do you want to have Rasmussen?
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  Speaker 3: You want to use him in a game that missed pitches?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you want to line them up against, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a slightly lesser version of of that. And then I
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  Speaker 3: think their thought is whatever they have to do to
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  Speaker 3: steal one of these games here in Milwaukee. And then
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  Speaker 3: they've got the home field advantage. I know that from
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  Speaker 3: a brewer standpoint, when you talk about it, it seems
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  Speaker 3: like if they don't win with Ms on the mound,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like a double loss. And maybe there's that
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  Speaker 3: feeling with them and Rasmussen and people were surprised that
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  Speaker 3: Peralta is not pitching here in a park that he's
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  Speaker 3: still familiar with, but he's been good in Tampa. He
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  Speaker 3: clinched it for them there. So there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: layers to this and a lot of chess match going
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  Speaker 3: on before we even start the actual games, which is,
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  Speaker 3: You know, another fascinating thing that goes on roster construction,
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  Speaker 3: starting rotations, how are the bullpens going to be used tonight?
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  Speaker 3: What inning do we see Uribe? You know, he's now
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  Speaker 3: rested and how's he going to look? And the Brewers
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  Speaker 3: have that kind of longer layoff to deal with, which
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  Speaker 3: has not been kind to other teams in this circumstance.
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  Speaker 3: So there's just a lot of levels to this. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait for the games to start. So we get,
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  Speaker 3: you know, some, some, something other than conjecture. We got
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  Speaker 3: something concrete to look at some answers.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And, and, you know, the razor very analytic forward, just
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  Speaker 2: like the Brewers.
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  Speaker 10: So it does make you wonder, do they see something
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  Speaker 10: in Freddie pitching in Florida and not in Milwaukee? Is
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  Speaker 10: it simply the extra day of rest? Like you said,
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  Speaker 10: Drew is, do they want to double up? You and
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  Speaker 10: I were kind of chatting about it last night in
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  Speaker 10: the sense that, you know, it's, it's a, it seems
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  Speaker 10: like a decent plan and all plans are well laid,
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  Speaker 10: you know, like Billy, all, all bets are good when they,
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  Speaker 10: when they receive comes out.
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  Speaker 2: And it prints out, it's a winner.
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  Speaker 10: But you know, if the, if Ms crushes tonight and
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  Speaker 10: the brewers go up one, nothing, and you get that
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  Speaker 10: punch in the face, you might feel a little bit
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  Speaker 10: different if you are, if you're Tampa, it could be.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, we'll, we'll see how that plays out.
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  Speaker 3: It might be a stroke of genius. I mean, imagine
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  Speaker 3: if they steal tonight and then they got Rasmussen going tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: The Brewers are totally on their heels, right? You know,
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  Speaker 3: they're best pitchers. So there's a lot of ways to
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  Speaker 3: slice this. But push comes to shove. They still got
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  Speaker 3: to get out there and play between the lines. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what we're waiting for, boys. Can't wait till 7-15. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Call me a skeptic, Drew. I think there's going to
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  Speaker 10: be some big swings in the series. There just always are.
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  Speaker 10: I know the Brewers were, what, 28th in ball and
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  Speaker 10: homers last in the National League. But it feels like
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  Speaker 10: both of these teams... Got here because of some big swings.
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  Speaker 10: And I feel like early there's going to be one
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  Speaker 10: to leave the yard. And not that the team that
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  Speaker 10: scores first is going to win. We've watched the Brewers
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  Speaker 10: come back in every one of these wins that they've
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  Speaker 10: had in the playoffs. They're 7-1 in their eight playoff games.
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  Speaker 10: They've fallen behind in all of them. But it does
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  Speaker 10: feel like there's going to be a big swing and
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  Speaker 10: a big fly to kick this thing off at some point.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're right, Billy. I mean, they've done this before. Remember,
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  Speaker 3: they had the layoff two years ago when they faced
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs here and put up six in the first inning.
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  Speaker 8: Good point.
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  Speaker 3: The building's going to be ready to take off. And
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  Speaker 3: I do agree. And the Brewers have hit some home
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  Speaker 3: runs in the postseason. I think they've scored, what, 38%
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  Speaker 3: of their runs on home runs, which is high for them,
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  Speaker 3: but below the major league average of 40% for the season.
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  Speaker 3: So they're playing at about the major league average now
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  Speaker 3: playing the long ball. But I'm with you. I think
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  Speaker 3: with the roof closed here, I think the ball is
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  Speaker 3: going to jump a little bit. And I do expect
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  Speaker 3: somebody to run into one, whether it's Contreras or Churio
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  Speaker 3: or heaven forbid, the captain gets a hold of one.
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  Speaker 3: I think they might blow.
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  Speaker 8: The roof off of the joint.
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  Speaker 10: You don't even want to know about that. You don't
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  Speaker 10: even want to know what's going to happen to me
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  Speaker 10: if that happens. But listen, this is going to be
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  Speaker 10: a long set for all of all the all the
• 14:43
  Speaker 10: motives out there that like me, all the ones that
• 14:45
  Speaker 10: are feeling this consequence of carrying nervousness. This is going
• 14:48
  Speaker 10: to be a long series anyway. So it's time to
• 14:50
  Speaker 10: get in the trenches and try and just enjoy it.
• 14:53
  Speaker 10: enjoy what we can because, Drew, the rollercoaster of emotions
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  Speaker 10: throughout a six-month season, you mentioned it once, it all
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  Speaker 10: is going to get encapsulated in a very tight seven
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  Speaker 10: games here or however long this series goes.
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  Speaker 2: And everything will matter.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: That's so true. Everything that matters. Every play is magnified.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: Every 1-1 count is important. It all matters tonight. And
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: you're going to remember it all. And as you drink
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: it in, You see how that, you know, something that
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: happens in the second inning affects what happens in the seventh.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: And it's going to be fascinating. Boys, it's like.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: I just, it's hard to express like, you know, a
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: lot of my writer buddies that I haven't seen in
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: a long time, uh, descending on our city. Uh, my friend,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Steve Kettman, who is a baseball author and used to
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: be a beat guy. His best friend was Pedro Gomez.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: I had lunch with him today at Staz's and we
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: came to the ballpark and he's not been here since 1998.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: He's never been to American family field. He was, you know,
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: and a lot of the national guys, they might've been
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: here for the all-star game in oh two. And maybe
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: for a playoff series here and there or the LCS.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: But a lot of guys are making their return to Milwaukee.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: And before I let you get to those press conferences,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: I will tell you, when I started covering ball in
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: the mid-90s, the guys who were the old heads then,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: like I am now, they would tell me, hey, we
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: got to get Milwaukee back into the World Series because 1982,
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: that was the best party of any World Series.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: That's what I like to hear.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: It was their all-time. These guys were drinking at Goolsby's
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: and they were drinking until 4 or 5 in the
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: morning and back then in Milwaukee, bars stayed open until
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: 3.30 on Saturday nights. These guys had themselves a time
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: And they drank it in, and they kind of leaned
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: into the emotions of the city. And I was regaled
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: with stories about guys, you know, maybe running into a
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: female companionship, getting drunk, maybe scraping up against the law.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe having to talk their way out of tickets and
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: using their World Series badges to get out of tickets
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: and out of legal trouble. They said it was incredible.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: So I say let's double it up. It's been 44 years.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Let's make it happen. Let's make it happen.
• 17:00
  Speaker 10: And Drew, hopefully some of them had some fun and
• 17:03
  Speaker 10: realized that they could still get another beer for another
• 17:05
  Speaker 10: hour and a half if they went over to Waukesha
• 17:07
  Speaker 10: County as well at one particular point in that venture
• 17:11
  Speaker 10: of those long nights.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, man.
• 17:13
  Speaker 10: We can't wait to have this thing start up.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Glad you're there. Enjoy it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Bask in it.
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: We're going to hear from Woody and Logan Henderson. We'll
• 17:21
  Speaker 10: talk to you in a little bit. All right.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: I'll try to hit you guys up later. Take care.
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: There he is, Drew Olson, live from American Family Field,
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: leading us off our leadoff hitter on World Series Friday. Yeah,
• 17:32
  Speaker 10: it's got to be like a summer camp reunion for
• 17:34
  Speaker 10: him where he's the host now.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: I was just going to say, that's the cool thing.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: He gets to.
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: Then go show everybody around all the good nooks and
• 17:40
  Speaker 10: crannies that Drew's been knowing about this park forever. Well,
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: back then, they probably all slammed into Stormer and Vukes
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: on 25th and National, which is long gone, unfortunately. But
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: that was their bar, I think, that a lot of
• 17:51
  Speaker 10: those guys went to. And during the Major League taping,
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: but that was a whole different situation. So that probably
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: would have been the haunt. But now it's time to
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: make new memories, Billy, without a doubt. Anybody going to
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: have what Brewer is going to haul off and have
• 18:04
  Speaker 10: a barbecue sauce after this World Series? That's a great question. Now,
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: what the branding deal? Is anyone going to find a
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: Storm and Gorman's kind of barbecue sauce.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: That we're going to get here? Yeah, or something like that.
• 18:15
  Speaker 10: Listen, we all need a little bit of special sauce,
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: and the Brewers have had it throughout this playoff run.
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: And we're going to hear from one guy that is
• 18:22
  Speaker 10: adding to it coming up on the other side. One
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: of the biggest surprises that the World Series has been
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: able to give us in a while, Brandon Woodruff going
• 18:30
  Speaker 10: to make his debut today. re-debut at some point maybe
• 18:35
  Speaker 10: maybe not maybe he'll go way of anthony sanzatella chad
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: patrick kyle harrison not pitching an entire series as he
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: takes the spot on the world series roster of chad
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: patrick brandon woodruff and logan henderson at the microphone we
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: go live there on the other side we're getting you
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: ready we want to hear from all of you where
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: are you tailgating how are you getting ready did you
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: tailgate i had the early uh Lunch tailgate.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: You were the early tailgate.
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: Grilled out some burgers earlier on today because I just
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: couldn't wait.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Was tough.
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: We'd say chamber of commerce. Sometimes I think we use
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: that a little too loosely. You step outside on this
• 19:12
  Speaker 10: Friday afternoon.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: You want to crack one.
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: And tell me it is not one of the greatest
• 19:16
  Speaker 10: Fridays in late October you have ever had in the
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: city of Milwaukee.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Is that the moment you regretted the afternoon show? Show shift.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: You could have done that.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Brother.
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: You could crack one now. I don't think anyone cares.
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: Drew said Saz's. I saw a bottle of Saz's Sassy
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: Barbecue Sauce in my fridge and some ribs that could
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: have been on the smoker all day long.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been times. Might be a couple of times.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: We're enjoying it throughout.
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: Only three players in this series with World Series experience,
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: two of.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Which on the Rays' side.
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: Steven Matz hadn't pitched in a World Series since 2015.
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: Only Brewer with World Series experience. Dustin May.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I was going to say May.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Maybe.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, did JoJo?
• 19:57
  Speaker 12: No. May.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Maybe one of your game... Three, four starters? I think
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: you have to figure he's going to be involved somewhere.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's doubled up with Woody. We'll find out.
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: Maybe Woody's just going to tell us exactly when he's
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: going to pitch.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Coming up on the other side.
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: I doubt, but we can give a two-clap and a
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: woo for Big Woo returning to the bump for the crew.
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: Nick Martinez opposite... Jacob Mizorowski in game one of the
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: World Series. We're getting set for it. We'll talk to
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: Hunter Baumgart down at the park. We'll hear from Pat
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: Murphy before this. We're also going to get you ready
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: for Packers and Lions throughout the day.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: That little ditty starts up 325 kickoff.
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: On Fox Sports 920 here in Milwaukee, your AM home
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: for Packers football throughout.
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: True things.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: It's so close to being here. It's so, so close
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: to being here.
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: Armin, I drove by another like three of the pop-up
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: merch stands with, it's so nice outside.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: My man doesn't even put up the tent.
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: He puts the framework of the tent up just to
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: hang the shirts, but doesn't even put the top over
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: it because he wants to bask in the glow in
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: the sun. That's when you know it's real. And it
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: has been real to me, damn it. And it feels
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: like there's more. I mean, there was one in 84th
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: and Layton and like 76th and Layton.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I'm like, that close? High 100, Layton. They weren't messing around.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Andy's getting into the mix.
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: You know business is good when that many Mussarowski shirts
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: are available. I did see a couple of Cheerios. That's okay.
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: You got to make it happen whatever way you can.
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: But I did see one that actually I thought I
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: liked almost better with the old World Series logo with
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: just a big trophy.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: See, there you go.
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: Just a massive commissioner's trophy. That's what it's all about.
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: That's what it's all about. It is not just a
• 21:37
  Speaker 10: hunk of metal. It is not just a hunk of metal,
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: despite what the commissioner may have said at some particular
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: point in time. Brewers are trying to win that thing
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: for the first time ever. One guy that's going to
• 21:48
  Speaker 10: have the chance to maybe help out somebody that in
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: the early portions of July thought his season was done
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: once again with another shoulder injury coming to Brandon Woodruff.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Instead, the miracle of life happened. Not just rehab.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: No.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: His wife ended up birthing their, I believe, third child.
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: And instead of having surgery right away on that shoulder,
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: Woody needed to help out around the house.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: So maybe I'll delay.
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: It a couple of weeks. Then nature took over. Some
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: natural healing. Captivating that capsule muscle. Being able to build
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: some strength around it. And all of a sudden here,
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: as we are on October 23rd, he is activated for
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: the first time since... the 250th birthday of our nation
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: on July 4th.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: Wow, it's amazing.
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: This man rolls up, our patriot, Brandon Woodruff, along with
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: Logan Henderson. Earlier on here today, maybe your game two
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: and game three starter.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: We'll find out. Maybe Woody has the answers.
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: And Logan Henderson trying to be the first pair, him
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: and Jacob Mizorowski, of under 25 starters for game one
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: and two of a World Series ever.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Take it away from American Family Field, boys.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: Question, we can start down here on the left, second row.
• 23:06
  Speaker 13: Woody, congratulations on making it back to the roster. When
• 23:09
  Speaker 13: were you informed of the decision? How were you informed?
• 23:13
  Speaker 13: And have they talked to you about what roles you
• 23:16
  Speaker 13: might fill, whether it be beginning of games or out
• 23:18
  Speaker 13: of the bullpen?
• 23:19
  Speaker 14: We had a few discussions about that. I had a
• 23:23
  Speaker 14: great conversation with Matt Arnold and Murph yesterday evening. And
• 23:29
  Speaker 14: I found out later in the evening yesterday after I'd
• 23:31
  Speaker 14: already gone home from the field.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: So I just.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 23:36
  Speaker 14: I expressed, um, you know, how I felt about things
• 23:40
  Speaker 14: and kind of where I was and I was very truthful, um,
• 23:45
  Speaker 14: and very open and, and it came down to, I
• 23:50
  Speaker 14: want one thing, whether if I was on the roster
• 23:51
  Speaker 14: or not, and that's to win. So, you know, whatever
• 23:54
  Speaker 14: was decided, I was, I was, um, I was good with. So, uh,
• 23:59
  Speaker 14: obviously I love to compete and I want to pitch, um,
• 24:01
  Speaker 14: but I understood the other side of it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: So, um, Yeah, excited.
• 24:06
  Speaker 14: I'm ready to go and just helping. And my message
• 24:09
  Speaker 14: was help in any capacity Murph needed me to get out.
• 24:12
  Speaker 14: I didn't really care what that looked like.
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: Stay in the second row, Adam.
• 24:17
  Speaker 15: Brandon, there's like the logic that has to be worked
• 24:21
  Speaker 15: through in this decision.
• 24:22
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 15: And then there's like the emotional part of it and
• 24:26
  Speaker 15: the symbolic part of it. Where are you on the
• 24:30
  Speaker 15: symbolic part of it and what.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: It means to, get to do this.
• 24:33
  Speaker 14: That was the first thing I said. I didn't want
• 24:35
  Speaker 14: this to be a charity pick. Um, you know, that's,
• 24:39
  Speaker 14: that was important to me. I wanted to feel like
• 24:42
  Speaker 14: I could, um, I want to be on the roster
• 24:45
  Speaker 14: cause I felt like I could help win. Um, so
• 24:47
  Speaker 14: I did not want that to be, um, part of
• 24:50
  Speaker 14: the decision. Um, and I was very straightforward about that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 14: So that, that was, that was number one. I just
• 24:58
  Speaker 14: wanted to win and I want, I felt like I could,
• 25:00
  Speaker 14: could help win and, and, give innings any way possible.
• 25:03
  Speaker 14: And that was just the message. I did not want
• 25:06
  Speaker 14: that to be, um, really factored into that.
• 25:10
  Speaker 16: We'll stay in the second round in the middle, Steve,
• 25:13
  Speaker 16: having not been able to pitch in the post season.
• 25:15
  Speaker 16: So I think it's 21 because of all the variety
• 25:17
  Speaker 16: of injuries, just how much sweeter is that kind of
• 25:19
  Speaker 16: make this to finally have this opportunity now after everything
• 25:22
  Speaker 16: you've been through, not just this year, but in previous years.
• 25:25
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 25:25
  Speaker 14: You know, I'm trying to stay where my feet are
• 25:28
  Speaker 14: right now. I think, um, our team's in a great place. Um,
• 25:35
  Speaker 14: and we've gotten here by doing a lot of great things. And, um,
• 25:41
  Speaker 14: if that opportunity comes for me, uh, you know, I'm,
• 25:44
  Speaker 14: I'm going to be, I'll be ready for the moment. Um,
• 25:48
  Speaker 14: and I'll give it everything I've got. You know what
• 25:50
  Speaker 14: I mean? We don't know how things are going to
• 25:52
  Speaker 14: work out for us ever as athletes. Um, but, the
• 25:56
  Speaker 14: one thing you can do is be prepared. And, um,
• 25:59
  Speaker 14: that's one thing I'll be, I'll be, I'll be prepared
• 26:01
  Speaker 14: if my opportunity comes.
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: Go up to the, near the top on the aisle, Logan,
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: for you, for someone who has watched Brandon work his
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: way back from this injury, what does it mean to
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: you and this team to have him on the roster?
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:14
  Speaker 12: I mean, I think it truly means everything to this
• 26:16
  Speaker 12: team and to the, to the city, you know, for
• 26:19
  Speaker 12: those of us that are in the clubhouse and see
• 26:21
  Speaker 12: the work that he puts in day in and day out, it's, um,
• 26:24
  Speaker 12: It's really cool to see it be rewarded and for
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: him to get a shot to be on the roster.
• 26:31
  Speaker 12: It's hard to put the words together to say how
• 26:33
  Speaker 12: much he means to this club. It's pretty cool to
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: see him part of it.
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: Go to Kurt, third row in the middle.
• 26:41
  Speaker 17: Brandon, when you came back in August and started talking
• 26:44
  Speaker 17: about how you didn't need surgery and that kind of
• 26:47
  Speaker 17: changed your long-term trajectory, I'm curious, you mentioned that you
• 26:52
  Speaker 17: didn't have any expectations. You had no idea if this
• 26:54
  Speaker 17: was possible.
• 26:55
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 17: If you had to put a percentage on it, what
• 26:58
  Speaker 17: percent at that time did you think this was actually
• 27:01
  Speaker 17: a possibility that you could pitch a World.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Series in two months?
• 27:06
  Speaker 14: No idea. I can tell you the first couple weeks was,
• 27:09
  Speaker 14: I mean, I didn't throw for, you know, six to
• 27:13
  Speaker 14: eight weeks, I guess somewhere in there. Heck, I was
• 27:15
  Speaker 14: at home for three weeks getting ready to have surgery,
• 27:18
  Speaker 14: and then things kind of turned around for me. So
• 27:23
  Speaker 14: I was there maybe being at home with my family
• 27:25
  Speaker 14: to kind of help things heal up, you know what
• 27:27
  Speaker 14: I mean, take a little time away. And I was
• 27:30
  Speaker 14: very fortunate that the brewers kind of let me do that.
• 27:33
  Speaker 14: They were on the road a lot during that span,
• 27:35
  Speaker 14: so that was kind of easy. But I didn't have a–
• 27:39
  Speaker 14: I knew what surgery meant for me. And, you know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 14: I had no expectations. I truly didn't. Once I had
• 27:46
  Speaker 14: my visit with Dr. Meister and he was like, get
• 27:48
  Speaker 14: back to throwing. Don't want you to shut down. I
• 27:51
  Speaker 14: don't think at that moment there was ever like, hey,
• 27:56
  Speaker 14: I'm going to pitch again this year or the World
• 27:59
  Speaker 14: Series could be it. But as we started getting later
• 28:02
  Speaker 14: and kind of things started playing out, that became a conversation.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: And then.
• 28:07
  Speaker 14: As throwing progressed, it was kind of like the message
• 28:11
  Speaker 14: I stayed in contact with Dr. Meister. And it was
• 28:15
  Speaker 14: the big thing was just kind of keep dangling that
• 28:17
  Speaker 14: carrot in front of your face. And if the opportunity
• 28:19
  Speaker 14: presents itself, I know what's in front of me. There's
• 28:26
  Speaker 14: risks there, but that's something that I was willing to take,
• 28:29
  Speaker 14: and I made that clear when I had my visit
• 28:33
  Speaker 14: with Dr. Meister and Murph when I sat down with them.
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: Come down to the front for the twin strikers.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Congrats on getting to the World Series, and Brandon, congrats
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: on getting back. Logan, the Rays struggle against the fastball
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: a lot. How are you going to utilize the fastball.
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: Against them tomorrow?
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, my fastball is a big part of
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: my game.
• 28:55
  Speaker 12: It's a great question. So it'll definitely be thrown tomorrow. But,
• 28:58
  Speaker 12: you know, it comes down to execution and throwing it
• 29:01
  Speaker 12: in the right count. So, you know, we're prepared for it.
• 29:05
  Speaker 12: And we're going to sit down and have a meeting
• 29:08
  Speaker 12: before the game tomorrow and talk about our game plan. And,
• 29:11
  Speaker 12: you know, I got a lot of trust with William
• 29:12
  Speaker 12: behind the plate. So definitely throw some fastballs tomorrow.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 29:18
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: We'll go up to the far left, second to last row.
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: Brandon is the longest tenured brewer currently on the roster.
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: What does this whole journey mean to you? And when
• 29:28
  Speaker 11: you actually heard from Murph and Matt, were you like
• 29:30
  Speaker 11: one of those people that had so much adrenaline going
• 29:32
  Speaker 11: through you, you could lift a car or lift a
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: house or something like that?
• 29:35
  Speaker 14: No, honestly, I think you're going to be a little
• 29:38
  Speaker 14: underwhelmed by, you know, they called me. I was actually
• 29:42
  Speaker 14: driving home yesterday and, um, and, and Murph just, you know,
• 29:48
  Speaker 14: basically he broke, you know, told me the news and,
• 29:51
  Speaker 14: you know, I was, it didn't really hit me. I
• 29:55
  Speaker 14: was kind of like, you know, just thank you for
• 29:57
  Speaker 14: the opportunity. And, and, um, basically let's go win this thing.
• 30:01
  Speaker 14: And that was pretty much the extent of the conversation.
• 30:04
  Speaker 14: It was like, you know, there's, they got work to do.
• 30:08
  Speaker 14: I got a job to do and to mentally prepare.
• 30:11
  Speaker 14: And I just thanked them. And that was pretty much it.
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: Go to Todd third row in the middle.
• 30:19
  Speaker 17: Hey, Logan, what would you say you've learned from your
• 30:22
  Speaker 17: first two starts and how valuable do you think those
• 30:24
  Speaker 17: are going to be going into your game to start here?
• 30:28
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think there's definitely value in having thrown in
• 30:30
  Speaker 12: a couple games now rather than, you know, just getting
• 30:34
  Speaker 12: activated and throwing the first time in the playoffs in
• 30:36
  Speaker 12: the World Series. I think, yeah, there's some value to it.
• 30:38
  Speaker 12: But kind of just, you know, the preparation leading up
• 30:43
  Speaker 12: to it, you know, there's a lot of feelings you're feeling,
• 30:47
  Speaker 12: you know, on the day of. So it's kind of
• 30:49
  Speaker 12: just knowing how to take those feelings and, you know,
• 30:54
  Speaker 12: move forward with it and, just treat the game the
• 30:58
  Speaker 12: same way I did in the regular season. You know,
• 31:00
  Speaker 12: I think tensions are going to be higher, adrenaline's going
• 31:02
  Speaker 12: to be higher, but, you know, going back to those
• 31:04
  Speaker 12: two games, you know, learn some things about myself within
• 31:07
  Speaker 12: the game that would, you know, help me moving forward.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, I think throwing those two games helps.
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: Go up near the top in the middle.
• 31:16
  Speaker 9: Brandon, knowing all that you've been through to get back
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: physically and that you were a teammate at one point
• 31:22
  Speaker 9: of Drew Rasmussen and knowing he's come back, three major
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: elbow procedures. Do you have a greater appreciation for what
• 31:27
  Speaker 9: he's been through to get to this point and how
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: good he's been doing it?
• 31:30
  Speaker 14: I do.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: It's, uh, it's not easy.
• 31:33
  Speaker 14: Uh, Drew is an unbelievable person. Um, that was very
• 31:39
  Speaker 14: evident the first time I got to meet him after
• 31:41
  Speaker 14: being drafted and getting to watch some pitch here. And, um,
• 31:44
  Speaker 14: you know, after he was traded and then going through
• 31:46
  Speaker 14: the elbow injury again, you know, and just, you have
• 31:49
  Speaker 14: sentiment for guys who go through that kind of stuff
• 31:52
  Speaker 14: and have to battle back. And, um, Man, he had
• 31:55
  Speaker 14: an unbelievable year. He's throwing the heck out of the ball. And,
• 31:57
  Speaker 14: you know, that's props to him. But I think first
• 32:01
  Speaker 14: and foremost, Ras is a great guy, dude. He's a
• 32:05
  Speaker 14: great teammate. And that's what I remember most about him
• 32:08
  Speaker 14: being here. And he works his tail off for sure.
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: Go up to Hazel on the far right.
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: Brandon, what were the last couple of boxes you needed
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: to check off that told you you were.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Ready to come back?
• 32:21
  Speaker 14: Facing hitters. I think once I got on the mound,
• 32:26
  Speaker 14: each step, it's, it's basically like the buildup process kind
• 32:28
  Speaker 14: of in the off season, whenever you're getting ready for
• 32:30
  Speaker 14: spring training, you're always going to be, there's going to
• 32:33
  Speaker 14: be some new sorenesses. They're going to be, you know,
• 32:35
  Speaker 14: stuff along the way. And then your body just kind
• 32:37
  Speaker 14: of adapts and gets stronger. And, but once I, once
• 32:41
  Speaker 14: I got through about two, two bullpens, you know, I
• 32:43
  Speaker 14: knew that there was, there could be a shot in
• 32:46
  Speaker 14: some capacity to, to be able to help.
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: And, Then throwing in the.
• 32:51
  Speaker 14: Scrimmage game the other day was the big test for me.
• 32:54
  Speaker 14: It was a big day for me. This is almost
• 32:58
  Speaker 14: 10 years, and I treated it as I was at
• 33:02
  Speaker 14: a showcase and trying to make the team, you know
• 33:05
  Speaker 14: what I mean? And I wouldn't want it any other way,
• 33:08
  Speaker 14: and that's kind of the way you have to treat it.
• 33:11
  Speaker 14: But I would say probably after the first couple of bullpens,
• 33:14
  Speaker 14: I kind of knew there could be a shot for sure.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: In the second row, Tyler. Logan, I want to ask you, like,
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: who did you root for growing up? And, like, you know,
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: what were some of the first World Series memories that
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: you had? Did you ever go to any games or
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: just anything on TV that stands out?
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Grew up a big Astros fan, so.
• 33:34
  Speaker 12: Was fortunate to watch that, you know, run that they
• 33:38
  Speaker 12: went on when I was in high school.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: And my dad had always said, if they go to
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: the World Series, we'll go.
• 33:43
  Speaker 11: So, yeah.
• 33:46
  Speaker 12: I've actually been to four World Series games, one in
• 33:48
  Speaker 12: each year that Houston went. So, you know, some of
• 33:52
  Speaker 12: the moments that stand out to me was Bregman's walk
• 33:56
  Speaker 12: off in game five in 2017.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: You know, Jordan had a huge homer in 2022.
• 34:02
  Speaker 12: You know, I was drafted at that point, but, you know,
• 34:07
  Speaker 12: still watch them pretty closely. But, yeah, I think honestly,
• 34:11
  Speaker 12: my first World Series memory is like St. Louis and
• 34:14
  Speaker 12: Texas in 13. that was a really good, really good series, but, um, yeah,
• 34:19
  Speaker 12: I grew up in Astros, man.
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: So, did you, uh, do you remember which game, like,
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: did you go to the Bregman game, the walk-on game?
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: I went to the game before that, I went to
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: game four.
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: Game four, yeah.
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Um, and the Alvarez home run game?
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: I wasn't at that one, um, in 21, I was at.
• 34:33
  Speaker 12: The game, at game six when Atlanta won it, when
• 34:36
  Speaker 12: Solaire cleared the train track, so I was pretty cool
• 34:39
  Speaker 12: as a fan, um, I was a fan of Houston, but,
• 34:42
  Speaker 12: you know, I was a fan of the game, but, Yeah,
• 34:44
  Speaker 12: those are the two games that stick out.
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: Thank you. Go to Zach, middle of the second row.
• 34:49
  Speaker 14: Hey, guys, this is for both of you.
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: There was an eight-day layoff in between that LCS and today.
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: I'm just curious what your guys' emotions were like showing
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: up to the stadium today and also what you guys
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: are expecting from, like, the fan reception on your line
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: of announcements.
• 35:03
  Speaker 10: Later.
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: You may take it, man.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Take it, man.
• 35:06
  Speaker 14: It's been pretty cool. I think the layoff has been,
• 35:10
  Speaker 14: you know, after, um, the San Diego series or before
• 35:13
  Speaker 14: the San Diego series, it really helped us prepare, kind
• 35:16
  Speaker 14: of know how to get ready for, you know, the
• 35:18
  Speaker 14: series with LA and then leading into this. But I
• 35:21
  Speaker 14: would just say around the city, it's been, it's been
• 35:23
  Speaker 14: pretty crazy. Um, as soon as we got back, I,
• 35:27
  Speaker 14: you know, I took my kids out, you know, just
• 35:29
  Speaker 14: to the local parks and stuff and getting them out
• 35:31
  Speaker 14: of the house and people are, are decked out in gear. And, um,
• 35:36
  Speaker 14: you definitely catch a lot more people taking pictures of you.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: In the wild.
• 35:39
  Speaker 14: And that can be kind of awkward sometimes when you
• 35:43
  Speaker 14: catch them. But, man, the fans are ready. We're ready.
• 35:48
  Speaker 14: And it's been so cool to see how much they've
• 35:53
  Speaker 14: been behind us up to this point.
• 35:58
  Speaker 12: Yeah, to piggyback on that, it's just a lot of excitement.
• 36:03
  Speaker 12: You feel the buzz around the city. I think we're
• 36:05
  Speaker 12: really excited to see the seats filled again today and
• 36:10
  Speaker 12: most electric atmosphere in baseball. So we're looking forward to
• 36:14
  Speaker 12: it for sure.
• 36:15
  Speaker 10: That is Logan Henderson, Brandon Woodruff before game one of
• 36:20
  Speaker 10: the World Series. Woody going to be a part of
• 36:22
  Speaker 10: it on the 26-man roster. Logan Henderson listed going to
• 36:25
  Speaker 10: start tomorrow's game number two. And I love the question
• 36:30
  Speaker 10: that he gets asked by the youngster talking about fastballs.
• 36:33
  Speaker 10: First baseball question. Nice that we have some real seam
• 36:36
  Speaker 10: heads in there.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Thanks for asking about ball. It was a good question.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Childhood memories and stuff like that. All this waxiness. The
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: kid's like, hey, man, let's talk about ball. I'm trying
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: to know.
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: How many fastballs are you pumping? Are you ready to pitch?
• 36:48
  Speaker 10: What's your sequence going to be? I like that we
• 36:51
  Speaker 10: get into some actual X's and O's.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Let me hear something. Yes, I will use the fastball.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: It's like, all right, there we go. Let's go. I
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: did like that you said that. I'm playing on throwing
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: some fastballs.
• 37:01
  Speaker 10: You better throw that heater, Logan, because if you don't
• 37:03
  Speaker 10: throw the heater, get people off that changeup, could be
• 37:06
  Speaker 10: a long day. More than anything, Logan Henderson in game two,
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: most important throw I'm worried about, Armin, first base. Well, obviously,
• 37:15
  Speaker 10: he had the issues in the LCS, but come on.
• 37:19
  Speaker 10: I got no problems with Logan Henderson throwing straight to
• 37:22
  Speaker 10: William Contreras. My question is, how is he throwing the
• 37:25
  Speaker 10: ball to Jake Bowers or Andrew Vaughn standing over at
• 37:27
  Speaker 10: first base? And I understand that's our memory of it,
• 37:30
  Speaker 10: but I fully expect that he can make that throw.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: And we'll do it.
• 37:32
  Speaker 10: I mean, isn't that a rarity? I mean, that was
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: never an issue before. Wasn't it an issue for Chuck
• 37:38
  Speaker 10: Knobloch before it was?
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing.
• 37:40
  Speaker 10: I mean, but you don't let yourself think that this
• 37:42
  Speaker 10: is going to be the start of the yips or
• 37:44
  Speaker 10: something or John Lester style. No, you got to believe,
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: you got to come in confident, ready that he's going
• 37:50
  Speaker 10: to be able to handle that. Although I will say
• 37:51
  Speaker 10: if he gets a slow roller off to the right
• 37:53
  Speaker 10: side and he's walking over to first base, why don't
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: we try an underhand?
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Maybe we just... Discretion is the better part
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: of valor. We're doing the underhand flip.
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: If we can. We're not going full-on rookie of the year,
• 38:06
  Speaker 10: float it. But he's got a nice little soft toss.
• 38:09
  Speaker 10: Lay that thing into the glove and let's get into
• 38:11
  Speaker 10: the dugout. I think you do bring up a good
• 38:13
  Speaker 10: point with that. And we're going to get the break
• 38:15
  Speaker 10: here in a second. These games, you know, the game
• 38:18
  Speaker 10: itself is the same. This is the game of baseball.
• 38:20
  Speaker 10: And these guys have played it all year. They've won
• 38:22
  Speaker 10: 110 games doing it this year. But these are different games.
• 38:25
  Speaker 10: These are different outs. These are different plays to make
• 38:28
  Speaker 10: than they ever will be. I really think the challenge, Billy,
• 38:31
  Speaker 10: is tricking yourself into thinking it's not. when you're on
• 38:34
  Speaker 10: the mound, when you're on.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: The field, I don't know.
• 38:36
  Speaker 10: I've never been an athlete at that level, but I
• 38:38
  Speaker 10: would think you're trying to tell yourself, this is not
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: anything different than everything I've done the whole time. Cause
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: if you start thinking that way, that these are supposed
• 38:47
  Speaker 10: to be harder plays to make, is there more important games? Well,
• 38:50
  Speaker 10: then all of a sudden we do have who's you
• 38:53
  Speaker 10: got it.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: I got it. There's hesitation.
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: So I think maybe that's one way to fight against it.
• 38:58
  Speaker 10: I'm not really sure, but yeah, These are going to
• 39:00
  Speaker 10: be different outs. The moment you start thinking is the
• 39:03
  Speaker 10: moment you stop playing.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: That's why I don't think.
• 39:07
  Speaker 10: It's a very, very easy thing to say. A lot
• 39:10
  Speaker 10: harder to do and put into practice. Excited to see
• 39:12
  Speaker 10: how they're actually able to do it. Coming up here
• 39:15
  Speaker 10: later on tonight.
• 39:16
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 39:16
  Speaker 10: Not only the only game going on here. We got
• 39:19
  Speaker 10: some Bucks basketball that's about to tip off. That, from
• 39:22
  Speaker 10: the looks of it on my 24, Armin, everybody is
• 39:25
  Speaker 10: at this game.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I don't I mean I understand.
• 39:29
  Speaker 10: Yeah I mean it is what it looks like it
• 39:30
  Speaker 10: was the second hottest second hottest ticket in the city
• 39:33
  Speaker 10: tonight because uh looks like there might be some open
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: air as Bob Uecker would say plenty of room for
• 39:38
  Speaker 10: you to come on out and join us at Pfizer
• 39:40
  Speaker 10: Forum if you want I see a lot of Brewers
• 39:41
  Speaker 10: jerseys walking in as they get ready for the home
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: opener of Bucks and Bulls Let's start, but you know what?
• 39:47
  Speaker 10: First game on free TV. I like seeing Craig Cashon outside.
• 39:51
  Speaker 10: And let's get a look at these finite matchups. Diaz-Mizorowski
• 39:55
  Speaker 10: to start is a phenomenal one.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: It really is.
• 39:58
  Speaker 10: Obviously, Caminero is the one that's going to get a
• 40:00
  Speaker 10: lot of the run throughout it. But Diaz has kind
• 40:04
  Speaker 10: of been the dude that they've rode here through the playoffs.
• 40:07
  Speaker 10: And he's the biggest one arming for me. First batter,
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: first sequence. You know it's going to be a lot
• 40:14
  Speaker 10: of fastballs. If somebody can tell me how you time
• 40:17
  Speaker 10: up 104, I haven't necessarily seen it quite yet. But
• 40:21
  Speaker 10: as MLB Network wanted to put together a sweet sizzle
• 40:23
  Speaker 10: reel of all the Jacob Mizorowski home runs that he's
• 40:26
  Speaker 10: given up this year, the only way to beat him
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: for a portion of the year. We'll just start early
• 40:31
  Speaker 10: enough and step on one. And that is the one
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: fear of getting out of this first inning here. Well,
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: that's the thing in the early innings might tell us
• 40:37
  Speaker 10: a lot. You know, we'll miss have that command. We
• 40:40
  Speaker 10: had the control because that's been the issue sometimes is
• 40:42
  Speaker 10: being excited to overthrow.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: So you had to throttle it back a little bit.
• 40:45
  Speaker 10: And obviously when guys have gotten him, even when he's
• 40:48
  Speaker 10: pitched his best. you know it's kind of jumping on
• 40:51
  Speaker 10: one early and that's the thing so it would be
• 40:54
  Speaker 10: uh like you said i don't know how you time
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: it up but if somebody can i think that's why
• 40:57
  Speaker 10: the control is important there bill because you want to
• 40:59
  Speaker 10: make sure you're in the zone uh if you can
• 41:01
  Speaker 10: be if someone gets you they get you and you
• 41:03
  Speaker 10: have to just buckle back down and go back at
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: it you can't let it affect you the rest of
• 41:07
  Speaker 10: the way you can't let it affect the rest of
• 41:09
  Speaker 10: what you're doing it's gonna be a long game long
• 41:10
  Speaker 10: series as we know but uh It does seem like,
• 41:14
  Speaker 10: you know, we haven't seen as good as Miz is.
• 41:17
  Speaker 10: We haven't seen his best yet in the playoffs. So
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: what better time than tonight to start off game one?
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not wrong about that.
• 41:24
  Speaker 10: We definitely have not seen the good Jacob Mizorowski quite yet.
• 41:28
  Speaker 10: We have seen some good ABs by Brewers hitters against
• 41:32
  Speaker 10: game one starter Nick Martinez.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: You want some good news?
• 41:36
  Speaker 10: William Contreras, five for 18.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: With a double and two homers. Yeah, there we go.
• 41:42
  Speaker 10: I want more of that. Good for a 944 OPS
• 41:45
  Speaker 10: against Martinez. Gary Sanchez, I don't think he's going to
• 41:48
  Speaker 10: get in that bad here. But three for seven with
• 41:50
  Speaker 10: a double and a bomb and three driven in as
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: well as a walk. A 1,500 OPS against Martinez's career.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: You know what? And they're looking at that stuff.
• 42:00
  Speaker 10: And that's a good ace to have in your back
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: pocket if you need a pinch hitter. I would imagine
• 42:04
  Speaker 10: he might be the one. It's also going to be
• 42:06
  Speaker 10: interesting to see how long these guys go. i mean
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: we've talked so much about the starters but this is
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: an out-to-out game now so the brewers job is to
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: is to battle these guys wear them down and get
• 42:17
  Speaker 10: them out of the game and get to that middle
• 42:18
  Speaker 10: relief i think and the rest of the crew garrett
• 42:21
  Speaker 10: mitchell not bad four for 12 with a pair of
• 42:25
  Speaker 10: doubles against martinez in his career the captain five for
• 42:29
  Speaker 10: 19 with a double and a bomb i like this
• 42:31
  Speaker 10: stuff Dig up some more of these numbers for you.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Bryce Durang hadn't fared too bad.
• 42:35
  Speaker 10: I mean, only hitting 250, but two of those four
• 42:38
  Speaker 10: hits have been doubles and one left the yard. Brewers
• 42:40
  Speaker 10: have hit six home runs against Nick Martinez in his career.
• 42:44
  Speaker 10: Would love to be able to see one of those
• 42:46
  Speaker 10: here early. I said it to Drew an hour ago, Armin,
• 42:49
  Speaker 10: or in the beginning of the hour, whatever it was.
• 42:52
  Speaker 10: I do think as much as these two teams manufacture
• 42:56
  Speaker 10: bunt for singles and sack buns and stolen bases, I
• 43:00
  Speaker 10: do believe it's going to be a big fly and
• 43:02
  Speaker 10: it's going to be an early one that sets the tone.
• 43:04
  Speaker 10: And the one that gets the first big swing is
• 43:05
  Speaker 10: going to be the team to win game one. I like,
• 43:07
  Speaker 10: you know, home runs, obviously, poor 10 victories. So hopefully
• 43:10
  Speaker 10: that's ours. Hopefully we get them and we get, I'll
• 43:13
  Speaker 10: take multiple.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: If it's not ours, it might be our arse. We'll see.
• 43:18
  Speaker 10: Brewers minus 205 now at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Bucs tipping
• 43:21
  Speaker 10: off with their home opener coming up in a matter
• 43:24
  Speaker 10: of moments. Pat Murphy speaking right now.