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08/26/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Let's get it.
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  Speaker 2: The Tuesday edition underway from headquarters. Welcome, 5 o'clock clubbers,
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  Speaker 2: early risers, and sociopaths waiting for the health club to open.
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  Speaker 2: I saw you out there this morning. I'm Drew Wilson.
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  Speaker 2: I am joined by Armin Sarian. Billy Schmid will be
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  Speaker 2: joining us in about an hour on his way to
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  Speaker 2: Green Bay for the Sibling Rivalry edition. of Packers practice,
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  Speaker 2: joint practice with the Arizona Cardinals, featuring a matchup between
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  Speaker 2: Matt LaFleur and his brother Mike and the Melton brothers,
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  Speaker 2: as Doug Russell just mentioned in his update on many
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  Speaker 2: of these here airwaves and interwebs. Let's get after it.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Brewers to talk about as well. We have to.
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  Speaker 2: Required by law. Required by law. A lot to talk
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  Speaker 2: about there, Drew. I have a theory of the case
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  Speaker 2: that the Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: They visited Williamsport and took part in the hoopla there,
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  Speaker 2: and they dropped a game to the Braves. And then
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  Speaker 2: there's a little bit of a hangover from that trip.
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  Speaker 1: It's possible.
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  Speaker 2: Not from the trip, no. But being in the Little
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  Speaker 2: League environment, they played a Little League game last night. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of- Cooper Pratt- Struggling and- Channeled his inner
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  Speaker 2: Tanner Boyle and got removed from the game. And a
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  Speaker 2: scolding by Pat Murphy. Papa Pat.
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  Speaker 3: He channeled his inner Little League manager with like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to teach these kids a lesson.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. He did it to Freelick in
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  Speaker 2: the past. He's done it before. He's hooked pitchers in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of a count. He did it to Durbin.
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  Speaker 2: And now Cooper Pratt has joined the club. Cooper Pratt
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  Speaker 2: was yanked. Well, his first at bat, he didn't get
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  Speaker 2: a bunt down and grounded out.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Physical mistake, I guess. And then compounding it with interest.
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  Speaker 2: He gets a base hit, and he's being urged by
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  Speaker 2: his first base coach to take second, to stretch it.
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  Speaker 3: Or to at least be ready to do it. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's the point.
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  Speaker 1: And he didn't. And so he got removed. He got removed.
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  Speaker 3: And that was a very interesting debate a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people were having last night.
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  Speaker 1: And a.
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  Speaker 3: Lot to talk about there. And I'm sure Billy will
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  Speaker 3: want to in the next hour as well, as we will.
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  Speaker 3: But a very interesting subplot to the game, which I
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  Speaker 3: found was interesting, Drew, because... I was sort of surprised
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  Speaker 3: that this many people kind of questioned Murph on it. Although,
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  Speaker 3: fans initially have recoiled on some of Murph's tactics initially
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  Speaker 3: right away. But when you look back overall, the macro view,
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  Speaker 3: and you look at the results in the long run,
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to really question his methods because he's been
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  Speaker 3: so successful with them.
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  Speaker 1: And it's worked for him. And players have responded to them.
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  Speaker 1: We know that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we know he's already won the manager of
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  Speaker 3: the year and all this stuff. And his teams have
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  Speaker 3: been good. But if you look in the past with
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  Speaker 3: the other young guys he's done this with, right? Durbin
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  Speaker 3: responded very well to it. Freelick responded well to it.
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  Speaker 3: He publicly admonished, was it Ortiz? Or maybe that was
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  Speaker 3: the Durbin one. I thought last year. And I remember
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  Speaker 3: people taking umbrage right away with it. Fans saying, what
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  Speaker 3: are you doing? This is not how you handle it.
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  Speaker 1: Yet it came back and in the end was better
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  Speaker 1: for all those guys.
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  Speaker 3: So it's hard to really question the equity that Pat
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  Speaker 3: Murphy's built up as a manager, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: And this is just, for me, regular MO for him.
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  Speaker 2: He's the two-time manager of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Two-time manager of the year.
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  Speaker 3: And he's also led his team and his young players
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  Speaker 3: through such tactics.
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  Speaker 1: Such as this. Where are you reading if people are
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  Speaker 1: questioning his tactics? What morons do you follow? A lot of...
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  Speaker 1: read a lot of Twitter comments. I read a lot
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  Speaker 1: of replies. I read Reddit. I'm not saying those are
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  Speaker 1: the only comments. It was a ball don't.
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  Speaker 2: Lie moment because Cooper Pratt got removed and then Hamilton
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  Speaker 2: made an error in the 10th inning that led to
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  Speaker 2: the loss. So his replacement, the guy who was in
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  Speaker 2: there instead of Hamilton, I mean, instead of Pratt, made
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  Speaker 2: the error, right?
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  Speaker 1: He did.
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  Speaker 3: He also nearly got the one hit the Brewers were
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  Speaker 3: looking for.
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  Speaker 1: All night and got robbed.
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  Speaker 2: That's where the game flipped is that Lindor robbed him
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  Speaker 2: of what would have been a hit, but You can
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  Speaker 2: weigh in 877-794-1973. It's hot take hump day today. Might
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  Speaker 2: as well fire up the hot take machine right now.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: Here's some tweets, Drew, that I'm just spinning through as
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  Speaker 3: you say.
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  Speaker 1: Pat, turns out, Pat Mayo on Twitter.
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  Speaker 3: Turns out I was wrong and Pat got burned by
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  Speaker 3: not having the two best infielders on the left side
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And Hamilton was 0-2. Okay, now not everyone agree with him.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying these are a smattering of the responses.
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  Speaker 3: He should regret that and will. The decision didn't go. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 3: that support, Sam Malone supporting the decision. What's the point?
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's getting a second on that pop-up. So it just,
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  Speaker 3: it goes back and forth. I'm not saying everyone felt
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  Speaker 3: that way, but more than I realized, looked at this
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  Speaker 3: and said, well, what's he doing? I mean, I saw
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people saying it quote unquote cost them
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  Speaker 3: the game. Because Cooper wasn't in there. I think that's
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  Speaker 3: a totally flawed argument, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Completely flawed. For many reasons.
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  Speaker 3: But some people seem to recoil at the style that
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  Speaker 3: he has. And then I think come around in the
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  Speaker 3: end when they see it, goes, well, I said to
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  Speaker 3: Cooper's credit, I said, this is going to be about
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  Speaker 3: how Cooper handles it. Well, he cried at his locker.
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  Speaker 3: He cried in his locker. I thought he handled it
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  Speaker 3: really well. Do we have that sound? We'll do Hunter's
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  Speaker 3: recap pretty quickly. We'll do Hunter's, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He did say. There's a lot to get to here.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to be better. Stuff that can't happen. It's
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  Speaker 2: not winning baseball. I didn't help the team win. It
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  Speaker 2: won't happen again. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: From not getting the bunt down to not running hard
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  Speaker 1: to first and turning it into a double, it won't
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  Speaker 1: happen again. It's not winning baseball.
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  Speaker 3: This is, I think, deep down, really, the whole process
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  Speaker 3: was an example of how a great organization handles things
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  Speaker 3: like this. like Murph had to set the hard line.
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  Speaker 3: Cooper had to handle it the right way. And the
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  Speaker 3: vets had to handle him the right way. And everyone
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  Speaker 3: did that. And they almost gave themselves, well, I gave
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  Speaker 3: themselves a chance to win anyway. I mean, yellow, you
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  Speaker 3: had to finally had the big double tied it up.
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  Speaker 3: Now the brewers, unfortunately, as we know the story of
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  Speaker 3: the game was many, many, many, many chances not coming
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  Speaker 3: through offensively. And for that case, the Mets until they
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  Speaker 3: finally got their run across in the 10th. But in the,
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  Speaker 3: in the end, you know, you're, The Cubs lost two,
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  Speaker 3: which was also interesting because they had a lead they blew.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they had like, what, 30 unanswered runs, which was
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  Speaker 3: a club record until that moment. So that was kind of,
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  Speaker 3: you're no worse for the wear in that sense, although
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  Speaker 3: you'd like to win the game, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: The Braves beat the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: So a lot there, Drew. And I know there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot there. And people are going to have opinions about
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  Speaker 3: it as we start going through this thing. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people are saying that, you know, the pop-up,
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  Speaker 2: he's coming off a hamstring, but No, he's cleared to play.
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  Speaker 1: You play hard, period.
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  Speaker 3: And I think Murph wouldn't have done that if he
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  Speaker 3: thought it was the hammy or something.
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  Speaker 1: He knows his players. He knows his players.
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  Speaker 3: And Pratt knows himself, and that's why he reacted that way.
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  Speaker 3: And he realized he had a brain fart, and you
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  Speaker 3: can't do that. And the point is not would he
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  Speaker 3: have made it to second or not. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: people are arguing that. I'm like, you're all missing the point.
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  Speaker 3: The point is if Murph doesn't think he's 100% locked in,
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  Speaker 3: He's going to send a message, let him know we're
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  Speaker 3: almost in September. You're the shortstop for a team that's
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  Speaker 3: trying to win the World Series here.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to be locked in. He's, what, 22, 23
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  Speaker 1: years old?
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  Speaker 2: Right, and that's a lesson to learn. I've told the
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  Speaker 2: story on this very program before when Murph has done
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  Speaker 2: this that I was covering ball. I was not at
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  Speaker 2: the game when Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox of
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  Speaker 2: the Atlanta Braves— didn't like the effort that Andrew Jones
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  Speaker 2: showed chasing a fly ball with one of, I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember which guy it was, Maddox Smoltzer Glavin. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you don't loaf when you're playing defense behind Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Fame pitchers, right?
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't loaf at all. But he loafed after a ball,
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  Speaker 1: and Cox brought.
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  Speaker 2: Him in and sent out the new center fielder in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of a defensive inning. And Andrew Jones was
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  Speaker 2: a very young player then, and he went on to
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  Speaker 2: become a Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the best defensive center fielders in baseball history.
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  Speaker 2: So there's precedent there, and it's happened. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: only time it happened in Andrew Jones' career.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not saying Murph is copying Bobby Cox, but
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  Speaker 1: this is a method that has worked before with young players.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it worked with Durbin. It worked with Freelick.
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  Speaker 1: He's done it before. Tobias Myers. Another example. He's done it.
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  Speaker 1: He did it just the other day, and he's done
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  Speaker 1: it in mid-count before, mid-count. The other night, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, taking pitchers out with a 2-0 count because he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't like the way things are going. That's the pitcher equivalent, right? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not just for Pratt.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Pratt was the one in this case, but
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  Speaker 3: it's for every young player that's going to be there
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  Speaker 3: or come up. It's for Luis Lara. It's for all
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  Speaker 3: these guys to see this is how we're going to
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  Speaker 3: handle things here.
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  Speaker 1: And Pratt, I think he would have been at second
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  Speaker 1: base if he had tried at all, but. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's likely he would have been. It's so weird. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what.
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  Speaker 2: It's weird because usually sports fans, the default setting is
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  Speaker 2: to cape up for management, and you've got to play hard,
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  Speaker 2: and these guys make so much money. But Pratt's a
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  Speaker 2: young player, and I don't know if that's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: If this had been David Hamilton, who's the fastest guy
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  Speaker 2: and runs everything hard, basically... But if it had been
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  Speaker 2: a veteran guy or Luis Ranjifo or something, I think
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  Speaker 2: people would have been blistering.
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  Speaker 1: Totally. That's what kind of surprised me at first.
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  Speaker 2: And especially with Murph, with the goodwill that he's built up,
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  Speaker 2: leading them to records beyond their wildest dreams and steering
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  Speaker 2: the ship and getting to an NLCS and being a
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  Speaker 2: two-time manager of the year.
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  Speaker 1: People are breaking on Murph? That's why it surprised me.
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  Speaker 1: But I have some theories on this. And it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the cost of the game. Well.
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  Speaker 2: For the greater good, right? Because you saw a young
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  Speaker 2: man in tears at his locker who will never.
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  Speaker 1: do that again.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that was, you know, Mission accomplished. Is that worth
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  Speaker 2: trading one game or one play? Now, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: one play didn't swing that game. The Brewers were 0
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  Speaker 2: for a million with runners in scoring positions. Stranded villages
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  Speaker 2: of runners on the bases. That in and of itself
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  Speaker 2: is like, yeah. Empty at bats and strikeouts. Oh, that
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  Speaker 2: error cost me.
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  Speaker 1: No, it didn't. Right. That's a great point because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are going to look at it that way.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a human instinct.
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  Speaker 3: Initially, we're going to say, well, is it worth losing
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  Speaker 3: a game to send a message for the long term?
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  Speaker 3: But of course, that's also a flawed concept. You're absolutely
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  Speaker 3: right because they had other chances to win. But to
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  Speaker 3: your point, Drew, that's what surprised me initially. Because I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to support the manager here. They're going to
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  Speaker 3: support the lesson learned. They're going to support respect. But
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  Speaker 3: it wouldn't have happened if it's Hamilton or Renifo, but
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  Speaker 3: because it's Cooper Pratt. And my theory on this is
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  Speaker 3: we put so much emotional investment in our young players
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  Speaker 3: that are big-time prospects, young stars. Brewers fans have become
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  Speaker 3: so emotionally attached to him, they're inclined to protect him.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's Cooper Pratt. Like, this is our young star. Like,
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  Speaker 3: don't get mad at our favorite son. Don't get mad
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  Speaker 3: at our favorite player. It's like when you have a
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  Speaker 3: star player on a little league team or a travel
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  Speaker 3: ball team.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of parents can relate to this.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people are like, come on, this is
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  Speaker 3: our kid.
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  Speaker 1: This is our guy. Don't get mad at him.
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  Speaker 3: And I think there's a lot of that kind of familial, like,
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  Speaker 3: matriarchy involved with our young players around this fan base.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, we feel bad when one of our own
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  Speaker 3: kids who thinks a nice kid that's playing well, that
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  Speaker 3: we wanna be, gets admonished. Don't get mad at him.
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  Speaker 3: It's really interesting to me. I agree with you, though.
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  Speaker 3: I was taking it back at first, cuz I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think that there'd be any sort of backlash on.
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  Speaker 1: Murph for it.
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  Speaker 3: But I read more than I realized if people thought
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  Speaker 3: he handled it wrong. I thought everything went the way
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  Speaker 3: it was supposed to, except for the Brewers coming up
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  Speaker 3: back and finding a way to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That was the last thing. But I think you're right.
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  Speaker 3: I think because it's Cooper Pratt, people reacted differently. And
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  Speaker 3: you just get attached and love these young players.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to.
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  Speaker 3: See them. Maybe some thought he was blamed unfairly or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: but Cooper Pratt clearly didn't feel that way, the way
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  Speaker 3: he reacted.
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  Speaker 1: And I said that was the big thing. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see how he was going to react post-game, and
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of what I hoped for. He was contrite.
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  Speaker 3: He acknowledged he could have been better, and he's approaching
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  Speaker 3: it and handling it the correct way, learning his lesson.
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  Speaker 1: That was a good thing. But not every player handles
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  Speaker 1: it that way.
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt learned what a lot of players... Things are
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  Speaker 2: different in New York. Everything's magnified in New York. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: if he had done that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think Murph would have reacted differently, but
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  Speaker 1: in New York at this point of the season, is
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  Speaker 1: it different than it would be playing... the A's in
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  Speaker 1: Vegas or the A's had they played them in Sacramento,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in a different form, but they're getting closer
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  Speaker 1: to September here, Drew. And for him to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And even when you, even I will say this, even
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  Speaker 2: when the Mets are out of it and they saw,
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  Speaker 2: and I did, by the way, is there a smart
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  Speaker 2: host that told people don't look at records and don't
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  Speaker 2: go into series thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're going to beat them. They stink. That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter this time of year. It's hashtag baseball. Yes, Drew,
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  Speaker 1: well done on that. That's why I think strength of
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  Speaker 1: schedule is a joke. Oh, the strength of schedule. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Pirates beat the Padres yesterday, won nothing. Kicked the crap
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  Speaker 1: out of them.
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  Speaker 3: And listen, these teams have good players.
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  Speaker 2: None of that matters. Teams that are playing out the strength,
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  Speaker 2: there's something mentally freeing about not giving a bleep.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually, you know, it's the... I don't know. Your
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  Speaker 1: risky business was not your movie. The movie Risky Business.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 1: But there's the subtle art of not giving a bleep.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Is freeing.
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  Speaker 2: Like when you see an attractive young lass that you
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  Speaker 2: like arming a calf freeze on a Thursday night.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: And you want to go talk to her and you're
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  Speaker 2: all nervous and tight and, you know, couldn't pull a
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  Speaker 2: needle out of your ass with a tractor. How's it
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  Speaker 2: going to go? Usually not well. Right, because you're tired.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're in the I don't care mode and
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  Speaker 1: just being like, let it lie. Totally. Lay it out there.
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  Speaker 1: Assign less importance. It's hard to get to that zen-like
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  Speaker 1: phase of life. But when you do, you find it liberating.
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  Speaker 2: The Mets, like now, they're thinking about tea times and vacations.
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  Speaker 1: And, oh yeah, we got a baseball game. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: out and have fun. And let's, you know. Right. Try
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  Speaker 1: to put up our numbers and try. It's liberating.
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  Speaker 2: I've covered bad Brewers teams that- Beat people they didn't
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  Speaker 2: have any business beating, and it happens daily across baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's talent on all these teams.
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  Speaker 3: Of course. I mean, the Mets might be the Mets
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: this year. The best players in the world. But Lindor,
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, all these guys are great players.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Lindor is elite. Totally. So, again. He took away that
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: hit from Hamilton. That was an amazing play. That was, yeah.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: That was, I mean, that was. Think about how that
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: game is different.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: That ball is an inch to his right. And Lindor
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: can't get it, the Brewers win. And we're talking about
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: them winning.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: And then maybe Hamilton doesn't kick a ball.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Right, that probably never would have happened. And we're talking
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: about him coming in and being the hero for Pratt
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: and Pratt learning his lesson and all the good things.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: I love the way right away, I've thrown some playful
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: barbs at Sal. Over the years, right?
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I've kind of thrown, not shade, but I've talked about
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: his weaknesses.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: And for all he doesn't do greatly, Sal and the
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: barrel rate and the power and inconsistency. This is exactly
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: the right time and situation you want to sell back
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: with the big team. Like to help handle the leadership,
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: the heart and soul DNA, like everything he's about.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: You want all that to rub off on Cooper.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: So. That was a great time to have him back
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: with the big team. Because the vibe is just different
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: when Sal's there. I will admit that. He has that intangible.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: To have him and Joey and I think Jake Bowers
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: right away talk to him. that was a very important situation.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: You know, you had the vets there doing it like
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: that and they're, they're going to be lost. Like you said, Drew,
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: you're going to.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Lose games, right?
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah. You don't want to lose games. You're going to lose,
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: but you're going to lose games to teams. You think,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: you know, Brewers fans are accustomed to winning this year. They're,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: they're getting used to it. They think you should roll
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: into New York and sweep this team. Look where the
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Mets are, but that's not.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: How it works. That's not how it works. Yeah. In
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: any way.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: So the, so the, the, the advantages of what happened
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: last night, like the, Well, it's the first of 16 straight. Yes.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: And you want to set a good tone. You want
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: to set a tone. We're going into September here. And
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: you can, I guess, to me, it's like you have
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: to give Murph the benefit of the doubt. Now, would
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: they have been better served with Pratt out there defensively? Probably.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: But Hamilton's a good defender. It is. I mean, I
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: don't know for sure what would have happened.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: And, you know, you're, I got to see the number,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: but it was, what, two for... Two for 14. Two
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: for 14 runners in scoring position. And in the last
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: two innings, 0 for 4 with four punch outs.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Right. And you had... And Hamilton.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Who is one of the fastest guys in ball, was
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the zombie runner at second base in the 10th.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: And you didn't move him. You didn't score him. So, yeah.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: It's an L. You're chasing a comeback win.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: And now.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: So, again, look at what we're talking about.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: This was a bad.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Night for the Brewers on a number of levels. And
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: they got walked off and lost by a run. And
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: that's a bad night.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: So, again, your bad nights are better than most teams'
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: good nights, really. Well, and you had a lot of
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: good in it.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, for all what– yeah, but that's a great point, Drew.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, that the floor is higher. And the fact
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: that the pitching was pretty good.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Well, really good. Really good.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Well, and one of the things– and this is one
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: of the instances where everything that happened with Pratt and
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Murph and the way the Mets won– took the onus
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: off of Chad Patrick because a lot of fans would
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: be like, oh, Chad Patrick sucks, he blew the game.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Because he gave up a homer. Well, he's been pitching
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: really good, and he gave up a homer, right? But
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: it's just hashtag baseball again. Like, relievers do give up
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: homers once in a while. But the pitching was really good.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: And since Intel did his job, Harrison overcame the reverse
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: split thing, the Holton Broad split, to have a nice start.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: And he got out of early jams, big strikeouts.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: McGill had a nice moment.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: There were good things about the pitching in that game.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: They kept them in the game.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: For all the frustration you had as a Brewers fan
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: about not hitting with runners in the scoring position, Mets
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: fans had it most of the night.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I mean, you're right.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you nearly win a game where all
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: those things happened, that's just an indication of how good
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: you are.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, like, I think Cooper Pratt's
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: going to be fine. There's going to be no hangover
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: from this. He's lesson learned, and he's a sharp kid
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: and a good player. And again, Andrew Jones overcame the
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: embarrassment of being hooked to the middle of the inning
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: and had a Hall of Fame career.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Just like Caleb did and all those guys. And that's
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: why I love what happened last night overall.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Now, here's the thing. It's like the mental part of it.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: And you're playing in New York. He's playing in the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: big leagues. He's 22, 23. I get it, right?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: You're just like, you might, your concentration might slip. You
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: want everybody to be perfect, but you're not. Jack Centurio
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: right now can't get out of his own way. He's
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: not swinging at any strikes. They're not throwing him any strikes.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: He's struggling, yeah. He's chasing everything. And people are like,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: why don't you bench him? Well, his isn't.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: It's not an error. He's trying, right? It's not an
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: error of efforts right thing or just a mental uh
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: it's not a mental shortage right focus problem yeah he's
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: just not going good so does giving him a day
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: off and playing free lick or does it does it
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: refocus him or is it better to let him swing
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: his way out of it that i don't know and
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: that's like that's the one of the that's unknowable and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: it's a certain point you might sit cheerio and But
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: you wrote it out. By the way, who got the
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: big tying hit last night for the Brewers? Yelich.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: It was great.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, that was set to become a great storyline
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: in the game, in my opinion.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: It would have been.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: We got cheated out of that. Yeah, to me, that's
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: what I was getting excited about. Like, look at this
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: veteran come through yelling.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Shurio was 0 for 5 at bat, and the 10th
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: inning was abysmal. Right, really bad.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, when he goes bad, he chases everything and
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: isn't getting strikes. But Contreras is starting to look better, right?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Which is good news. So you're going to have these moments.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is what a team is. Yeah.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Up and down.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: So I just wanted to really quick, and we'll get
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: to a break here. We've had a nice segment.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But the opinion was split.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: But I just look, Hunter always, it's a great barometer
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: for me to get a pulse of what people are
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: talking about in the fan base, reading Hunter's tweet responses.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Because Hunter has a lot of people following what he's saying, obviously,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: as he covers the team and will get his report.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: And after his tweet about manager Pat Murphy's reasoning for
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Benji Cooper Pratt, he had the whole text there. Taz,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Pat's decision led directly to the bat getting taken out
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: of Joey's hands in the ninth and Hamilton's wide throw
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: in the tenth. James, he quite literally ran and hesitating
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: as naturally. It would have been out at second anyway.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Bad look by Murph. And then you have some people
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: supporting it. You know, Cooper will learn from this. Props
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: to Murph for being one of the few managers to
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: hold people accountable in pro sports. D-Mize, yet the move
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: lost the game. So maybe take some accountability, Murph. John Williams,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: the Aaron throw happened because Murph pulled the better player.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Murph needs to take a good look in the mirror.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: But that's what I'm saying. That surprised me a little bit.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: And it's all anecdotal, and I understand it's just Twitter.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: But it was, you know, because I agree with you, Drew.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I think Murph has to manage the way he has
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: to manage.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think he's done that. I think he's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: earned the benefit of the doubt. He's had the benefit
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: of the doubt, and he's been consistent here. Yeah, I'm
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: with you.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: And I think if that ball by Hamilton- And the
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: ninth is just a few inches to the right. Lindor
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: makes one of the great plays of his career. We're
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: talking about a Brewers win and overcoming this sort of
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: bump in the road.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Good outing by Harrison. 90 pitches through five. Not as
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: efficient as usual, but good outing. Big strikeouts, though.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Patrick had, you know, the homer that he gave up.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: And, again, not an abomination, but it was an ugly game.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: And it was coming off the Little League thing. There
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: were some Little League moments.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: But, hey.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: It's a new day today. 877-794-1973. Get us your hot takes.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: We'll fire those up early.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Billy will be in at 6 on his way.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: To Packers practice. Biggest Packers practice of the year today.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Bar none.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Biggest Packers practice of the year. It's a joint practice
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: sibling rivalry. You got LeFleur on LeFleur and Melton on Melton.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: We'll talk all about that when Billy arrives. Get Billy's
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: take on the Brewers. And, oh, by the way, Let's
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: have a drink for the Diamondbacks for overcoming a 4-0
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: deficit and walking off the coach.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Well, that was big last night. That took some of
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the sting away. So that's where we're at as a
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: populace today. You are in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Our iHeartRadio Music Festival. In Flushing. And Brewers lose a game.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: It's interesting stuff there.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: It's funny, too, because people were caping up for Pratt.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Hamilton made an error, right? Yeah, I mean,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that did happen at the end, right?
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: A lot of people were trying to define that as
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: the losing decision by Murph, right?
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But what about the.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: A lot of these people, the Venn diagram of people
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: who are going to cape up for Pratt and say
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Murph was being too hard on the young lad and
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: shouldn't have.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Done it and cost him the game. Aren't they the
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: same people who scream about bunting and got to be
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: able to get a bunt down and should be automatic?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: That's why I'm shocked by it. It's the cognitive dissonance.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I think what it is is.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: There are a lot of people that look at the
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: game in front of them as the most important game
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: of their lives, right? And this is not about last night.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, Murphy made a decision for a much bigger picture, right?
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. He's managing.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: In baseball, you have to manage tonight's game, tomorrow's game,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: next week's game.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Next season. And next season. You're right.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: So with a young player like that, you are absolutely
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: shaping the game.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: His future well it goes to show you there are
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: many people that might espouse a principal.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Drew but they're willing every night.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: They're willing to throw it away if it'll mean one
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: win i mean that's just the way it goes um
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: so i you know that's why i i kind of
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: appreciate him like this is like a decision i gotta
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: make it's a legacy decision for what i'm gonna do
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: here yeah whether or not it pays off now.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Or in the long run It's a story Cooper Pratt
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: will laugh about in 15 years when he's getting ready
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: to retire. And it probably was going to stick in
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the back of his mind the next couple, you know.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Now, Cooper Pratt will be out there in the starting
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: lineup today. And again, like, you know, again, like the
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: plays and the.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Had the Brewers won, Murphy would be a hero.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: The people who are ripping Murph, had the Brewers won
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: the game, oh, man, that's our manager, man.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Hold them accountable. Because it's all about results.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: All we ever hear is from any team doesn't perform
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the way people want.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: When are you guys going to hold people accountable? Murphy
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: did that last night. And people are mad at him. Sure.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Had the Brewers won, if they prevailed in extra innings.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Yes. he'd be a hero and everybody would flip their opinion.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: So it's basically all results-based. All results-based. It's the human instinct.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: It's a short-sighted thing. It's all results-based, not process-based. That's why,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: you know, it's process-based. And, you know, did you weaken
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: your defense in a moment? Did it end up okay?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: But still.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Would he have done this in the playoffs? I get
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: it because it's hard because results do matter in sports.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: That's why we watch. You don't do it in the playoffs.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: He wouldn't have done it in the playoffs. I agree.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: This is not probably something that would have happened.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: In the playoffs.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: And you would hope that in the playoffs, an error,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: and I don't mean an error, I mean a mistake
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: or a mental thing like that. you'd hope that it
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: would be a guy trying too hard and trying to
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: get to second when he's out by 30 feet.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: An aggressive decision. Yes, as opposed to what happened.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: And again, it's compounded because you had a young player
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: that didn't get a bunt down, and Murph just said, like,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: there was the first pitch, okay, second pitch, down the middle.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: It wasn't one thing. Didn't get it down. And so
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, these heads not in it.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I will say this, and Armin, you're going to find,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I got to see the attendance last night.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: What is the attendance? It was a three-hour game. All right, 28,942.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: So not a small crowd, but not huge. Decent, but
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: it's New York.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Probably not throbbing because the Mets are just playing out
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the string, and they're horrible. But anytime you play in
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: New York, especially when you're playing and coming from Milwaukee,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: there's an energy there, and there's kind of like a
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: psych-out thing.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: You know you're in New York.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Like, it's late August. The Mets aren't playing for anything.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: And you're walking to the box and you glance to
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: your right and Jerry Seinfeld's there.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: It's just not, it's an elevated, it's hard to explain
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: to people because I even felt it like as a writer,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: like pregame and like the media types that are walking around.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Like, here we are.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: The people who are there. It's like, oh, you're in
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: the belly of the beast. It's like, it's Broadway. It's
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: the big stage.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: And everything's magnified in New York. Like, I don't know
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: if they. I'll have to check to see if the
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Mets made the back page. Probably not against the Brewers
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: because the Yankees are the number one concern. They're kind
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: of back among the tired.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Strip club fans.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Right, right, right.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: They'll have prize headliners. Anyway, Brewers pitched well enough to win.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: They hit. They were terrible. Hitting-wise. That was the worst part.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what lost the game. Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, Churio and Terang were 0 for 10 at
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: the top of the lineup. Hard to overcome that in
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: most cases. Yeah, you had opportunities.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: And the irony of it is, people are saying, like,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: you lost the game because you had Hamilton in there
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: and not Pratt. You know, Hamilton's the one guy that
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: almost got the hit. Like, he's the one guy that
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: put a good bat in the ball together to get
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: a hit.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: He should have got a hit.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: That was the irony of it to me.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: And I saw so many people, so it's just... It
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: was one of those nights, but you had to look
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: at it with a bigger picture. You had to.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: And thank goodness the Cubs ended up blowing their lead
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: because it's easier to stomach it today.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I'll admit that.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: That is for sure. And it shouldn't be because it's like,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: it should be independent. It should be independent, but that's
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: the human in us.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: That's not always.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: It is. Yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: But in theory, you're no worse with a wear.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: That was, uh, that was the Pepto Bismol after your,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: you know, upset stomach.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: That was it. Okay.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: That soothed it a little bit, but, um, We're not
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: going to agree. People are going to say Murph screwed up.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: You want to blame Murph or you blame Pratt or
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: you blame, you know, Churio and Terang and the Empty
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: at Pats and whatever. We can get some comments. Yeah,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: we can get some comments if you want.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though. It's like people aren't going to agree.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: But I do say, and you have to check yourself,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: if you're screaming out Murph and he costs him the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: game and you're mad, are you ignoring his body of work?
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Who has more guns? Who has more equity in this situation,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Murph or Cooper Pratt? That's my question. It's clearly right.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Murph deserves the benefit of the doubt in this case.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: He's earned an in-game decision that you can question, but,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's earned the benefit of the doubt.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: And we love our young players, and that's what Cooper is,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: and he's played well. So there's an emotion tied to it.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I get that.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: And we're not going to agree on this. It's funny, too,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: because I was thinking about it. Stuff like this, people
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: are going to draw their lines in the sand. Kind
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: of like earlier this year, there was a play with
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Jake Bowers at first base when Miz was on the mound.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: People argued whether it was a hit or an error.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: You're never going to change people's minds, right? And I
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: was thinking about this yesterday, Armin, because in our society,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: as fractured as we are, The passing of Dolly Parton.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton was like the one person that everybody all
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: agreed on almost universally.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Everybody loved Dolly Parton. Someone say that. There's no one
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: making a snarky comment about her today. No.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: It was like she was universally loved and she played
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: it down the middle. She never said anything political or partisan.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: She gave to charities.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: She had. There's that book program where she gave books
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: to kids. My daughter has her books. Yes. Subscription for
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: books until you're zero to five.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: It just goes to show you, you could be that person.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: You know, that's the way I look at that. So
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: rest in peace, Dolly.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: There aren't many.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: She was an angel and she was beloved in like
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: the Dollywood thing and her whole 3,000 songs.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Legend in many ways. Obviously in music, but in life.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: This will get you because when I informed my wife
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: of what happened, I informed my wife for passing.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this is a bummer. And she goes, oh, man.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Her and Betty White.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: They didn't want.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: To see him go. Everybody universal. We'll talk to Dolph
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: at 620, obviously. We'll have a lot of reactions.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, for sure. I want to get his thoughts on that, too.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: I had a great Johnny Carson cut.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I'll save it for you. Yeah, play that for Dolph.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Who's commenting on the YouTube, Armand? What do you got?
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Let's get him in before we get to a break
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: because I know we want to get Hunter's report. We're
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: going to get Hunter's recap real quick. Let's see here.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Mary Goldbeck.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Good morning, fellas. Watching the stream on the Mets channel.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: They came back after the McGill pickoff and said he balked.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Big bats need to be better. Terrain, cheerio, top of
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: the lineup. I think we would agree with that. We've
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: talked about that.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Paul K. Good morning, gentlemen.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: A new day, new start for our Brewers. If anything,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: the Cubs lost as well. Way to stay positive, Paul.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I like that. Andrew Frisch. It obviously goes.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Without saying that Murphy's a great coach, but that was
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: an error in judgment on his part to play in
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: the exact same way if he sprints out of the box.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: And I would say Andrew right there, focusing on the result,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: not the process. It wasn't about getting the second.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, it kind of is. It kind of is.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Murph said he would have been on second. Right. He
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: would have been. The ball was in the air a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: long time.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Murph's point is his mentality should have been in a
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: different place. Like, his focus should have been in a
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: different place.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Like, whether or not he gets the second is one thing.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: He almost could have got to second after it bounced.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: I think if he sprints the whole way, he probably
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: gets there. It might have been close.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I think he did not. But again, I don't think
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: that's the point. I think absolutely, if he sprints out
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: of the box, a lot of times, I know when
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I played you know i hate to say that because
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: you know you played you know high school and you
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: played in softball and stuff but when i popped up
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: like that i'd be pissed at myself and run hard
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: out of anger anger.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: I guess my point is that was my thing if
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: but if cooper had dug it all the way out
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: of the box made a real hard turn and decided
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: out of caution not to go to second murph would
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: not been as upset because he would have seen his
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: focus was in the right place yeah That's the.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Point, I think. Here we go. One from the 414.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Why is Murphy teaching lessons this late into the year?
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Aren't we supposed to win tonight? Favoritism in my mind.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: P.S. Hamilton sucks. There you go. Hamilton's won games for
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the Brewers this year. He's been fantastic. Hamilton's been a
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: really good player in his role. Absolutely. And he was
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: good last night.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: That's just delusional. And why is he teaching lessons? Because
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt's a young player. He hasn't been there all year.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: He's just been there for like a couple months. He
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: just got called up. Also, you teach lessons all the time.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. It's not. This is not like. Culture doesn't
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: take time off because it's the calendar. He might have
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a point with the win tonight thing, but. No. He
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: thought he had a better option in Hamilton last night
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: because Cooper wasn't focused. Cooper wasn't. Yeah, exactly. That's his point. Exactly.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: And the night that Cooper was having, who's to say
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: he makes a clean defensive play?
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: He should have won anyway. And they should have won. Exactly.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: You'll hear from Hunter Baumgart when we come back.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: His recap brought to us by Import Minded. Get yourself
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: a comfortable chair and a cold or hot beverage of
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: your choice because we're going to have some fun today.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Billy will be in at 6. We'll get ready for
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Packers practice. Dolph will join us at 625. We'll talk
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: about Dolly Parton and her passing. You are in the huddle.