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09/03/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Who's ready to have a great thursday raise your hands
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  Speaker 1: let's go oh the hands are shooting up all over
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  Speaker 1: the good land for the early risers insomniacs and sociopaths
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  Speaker 1: who are awake and members of the five o'clock club
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  Speaker 1: in the huddle fox sports radio wisconsin's drew olson bill
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  Speaker 1: schmidt armin sarian uh lather rinse repeat brewers nine cubs
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  Speaker 1: five At the friendly confines of Wrigley Field, the lead
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  Speaker 1: for the Brewers in the National League Central is a
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  Speaker 1: season high. Nine games as we wake up this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Drew, a season high after a season worst for
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  Speaker 2: your best guy in MVP is a heck of a
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  Speaker 2: way for a team win to come about.
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  Speaker 3: Once that game went to the bullpen, though.
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  Speaker 2: Once that game was in the bullpens, felt pretty confident because.
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  Speaker 1: Bullpen is a full landmines, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: And Palencia, who's maybe been the best one for, uh,
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  Speaker 2: for a while out of all of them, they tag
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  Speaker 2: twice in back-to-back days, uh, just a massive game. And
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  Speaker 2: one where, you know, you were going to see a
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  Speaker 2: mortal Mizorowski start at some particular point in time. It
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  Speaker 2: felt like he was trending that way after the, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the Mets, uh, mound issues, but Last night, and listening
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  Speaker 2: to Lev call it right out of the gates, he
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  Speaker 2: had said it, and he's messing with the mound already.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was like.
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  Speaker 2: Five pitches in, and Jacob Mizorowski's going to go to
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  Speaker 2: that mound landing area again, and you could just tell
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  Speaker 2: the mechanics were off all night.
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  Speaker 1: He threw his bullpen, which is rare on the game mound.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that took a step towards it.
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  Speaker 1: Watch for that to become more of a trend, too.
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  Speaker 1: Guys will start doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: Henderson does the barefoot thing going out to the mound.
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  Speaker 2: They had shown a couple of different times. He will
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  Speaker 2: be doing that today. And as a treat for our smart,
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  Speaker 2: good-looking listeners, the Brewers did not in last night's victory,
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  Speaker 2: as fulfilling as it was, they neither had a triple
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  Speaker 2: nor a triple play. But on this show, The Huddle, today,
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  Speaker 2: you'll get a triple dose.
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  Speaker 1: Of Hunter Baumgart. We got his recap, an interview with
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  Speaker 1: Logan Henderson that we'll play.
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  Speaker 4: What? And.
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  Speaker 1: A visit from Hunter Baumgart himself at 730. A triple
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  Speaker 1: dose of HB4 today.
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  Speaker 2: And you could even say that it's almost a grand
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  Speaker 2: slam of Hunter Baumgart HB4 because he was providing our
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  Speaker 2: update before.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: He dropped a bar that had Armin Sarian over on
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  Speaker 2: the other side of the glass throwing the hands.
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  Speaker 3: Up in the air. That was amazing. Hey, Milwaukee, what
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  Speaker 3: do you say? You have a nine game lead today?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, something like that. Whatever it is, I have
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  Speaker 3: to do that. That's a good hat tip. I do
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  Speaker 3: have to do a little bit of a correction. He's
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  Speaker 3: given us the Logan Henderson one-on-one. We did get the update.
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  Speaker 3: Because of that, he's not going to file a report.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to him a little bit because he wanted
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  Speaker 3: to leave the room for the Logan Henderson. So we'll
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  Speaker 3: still get a triple dose. We're not going to get there.
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  Speaker 3: We don't need the report. We know what happened last night.
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  Speaker 1: We know what happened.
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  Speaker 3: We know the way the Brewers dominated. We know they
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  Speaker 3: came back again.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 3: Again.
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  Speaker 1: Against the Cubs, although they did it right. They got
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  Speaker 1: a lead early, and then Miz couldn't hold it, which
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  Speaker 1: was surprising. But they overcame a rocky start by Miz.
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  Speaker 1: And now the math is the math. If you still
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  Speaker 1: want to freak out about the division, feel free. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: come on. Now it's a matter of when do we
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  Speaker 1: need the plastic on the lockers? Because, again, as I've
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  Speaker 1: said a gajillion times, it's 22 games left. The Brewers
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  Speaker 1: need to go 11-11, and what would the Cubs have
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  Speaker 1: to do in that circumstance?
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  Speaker 4: 20-2.
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  Speaker 1: And now.
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  Speaker 2: 500, and you win the division game. by a lot,
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  Speaker 2: by comfort, by a comfortable margin. And, and probably still
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  Speaker 2: in the final week, you're able to line up your
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  Speaker 2: starters for the post season when you still should be
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  Speaker 2: able to be sitting with a buy. And if anything,
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  Speaker 2: I think guys, this is more of a demoralizing feeling
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  Speaker 2: for Chicago. When you wake up today now, absolutely. So
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  Speaker 2: on Monday, it's a, it's a down in the dumps Monday.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough vibe. When you give up two touchdowns
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  Speaker 2: in a field goal in any game, especially in one
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  Speaker 2: that gets away from you as quickly as that one
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  Speaker 2: did when it was a 9-0 in the fourth inning.
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  Speaker 2: But the last two nights, the Cubs with just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a taste of optimism and twinkle in
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  Speaker 2: their eye of dreaming that they could win the NL
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  Speaker 2: Central and maybe get themselves one of those buys. Man,
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  Speaker 2: now reality has hit them like a big... ice bucket challenge, dumping,
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  Speaker 2: dumping right back to reality of wait, we're in a
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  Speaker 2: wild card race and the Phillies aren't going anywhere. And
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  Speaker 2: now all of a sudden we're staring down the barrel of,
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  Speaker 2: we want to stay at home for the, that three
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  Speaker 2: game series.
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  Speaker 3: Or potentially out of LA or Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: It's a, it's a sobering reality, especially because it was
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  Speaker 2: the worst Ms.
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  Speaker 3: Start of the year.
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  Speaker 2: And you still won with the, the law firm of
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  Speaker 2: McGill Ashby Uribe right at the back end, add in Joe, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Jojo Romero. And that's going to be a very, very nice, uh,
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  Speaker 2: quartet to be able to throw at teams and shorten
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  Speaker 2: that game up to the six and good.
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  Speaker 3: Six bullpen or six total arms. Cubs use seven. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: their last one was kind of a emergency situation. Cause
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  Speaker 3: Yelich did a good job. Yelich was a last hit
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  Speaker 3: was sort of like that guy, the carnival where you
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  Speaker 3: try and, uh, you try and hit the, you know,
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  Speaker 3: hit it perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: You try and aim it. You try and knock that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And after your 15th rebound, you just throw
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  Speaker 2: it off the card and see if it bounces in.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. And it worked for him, but, uh, So they
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  Speaker 3: had to use Colin Ray at the end there. Shout
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  Speaker 3: out Pipe Bomb. But I think, you know, you can
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  Speaker 3: now start thinking as a Brewer fan, like, all right, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you've stretched this thing out to nine. The
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  Speaker 3: division's over. You've done that work.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Can you start to maybe try and plant seeds of
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  Speaker 3: doubt in the Cubs? Can you use these games to
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  Speaker 3: try and push them down back in the hole a
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  Speaker 3: little bit and send them into a tailspin? I think
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  Speaker 3: that's a tall order, Drew, just because... The wildcard situation,
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  Speaker 3: but the home situation. Yes and no.
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  Speaker 1: Because the Padres and Diamondbacks have to put the paddles
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  Speaker 1: to their.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and Miami's only two back now of the last
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  Speaker 3: wildcard spot in the lost column. So they're still trying
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  Speaker 3: to make noise. So it's not that it's impossible. It's very,
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  Speaker 3: very unlikely. But the thing is, you're right. You can
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  Speaker 3: try and get them out of a home series and
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  Speaker 3: more importantly, get them feeling very bad about themselves heading
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  Speaker 3: into October. So let's make that the goal now. Let's
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  Speaker 3: have high lofty goals here and really Really punish our
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  Speaker 3: enemy here.
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  Speaker 1: The Cubs. Speaking of those Marlins, the Cubs play them
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  Speaker 1: head-to-head in Miami this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting games. Not a good time to be catching them.
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  Speaker 3: And then the.
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  Speaker 1: Cubs have the Braves, and that's not going to be easy.
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  Speaker 1: That's no walk in the park, especially because Atlanta's heated
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  Speaker 1: back up. So after coming to Milwaukee, the Cubs face
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  Speaker 1: the Pirates and Braves at home, and then they go
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  Speaker 1: to Cincinnati, and they have six games against the Marlins.
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  Speaker 4: Hello. Hello. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: And they finish with three against the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 3: Marlins are playing a lot of the teams kind of involved.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of an interesting schedule. We already talked about
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  Speaker 3: the Reds kind of round robin with the Brewers and
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs. Very interesting, but that's why it's nice to
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  Speaker 3: get that win. Especially after dropping the first one, you
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  Speaker 3: get the last two. And love to see this team
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  Speaker 3: pick up Miz. How many times has Miz picked up
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  Speaker 3: the Brewers? Yeah, that's very true. Picked up the offense.
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  Speaker 3: Love to see these guys pick up Miz. It took
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  Speaker 3: 26 starts for him to give up more than three runs.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that is a good season.
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  Speaker 1: 877-794-1973 gets you into the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have, like, a buy or sell feature today.
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  Speaker 1: We're not taking hot takes. We're not giving game balls
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  Speaker 1: and kicks to the balls. But if you just want
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  Speaker 1: to weigh in.
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  Speaker 3: Just having downright fun.
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  Speaker 1: You just want to dump your bucket on those fans.
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  Speaker 3: Like, you know. Which I like, because it was.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is just a cold bucket of water
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  Speaker 2: right on the... lofty expectations for Cubs fans that they
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  Speaker 2: were going to be able to run this thing down
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  Speaker 2: with a, with a miraculous September to remember. And instead,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what have four and six in their last 10.
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  Speaker 2: And now again, they're, they're still putting up a crazy
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  Speaker 2: amount of runs and a momentum's only as good as
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  Speaker 2: your next day starting pitcher, but let's toss Logan Henderson
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  Speaker 2: today and really throw a dagger into their dream.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Logan Henderson won't be pissed at the mound all
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  Speaker 1: day and be able to, you know, find his delivery
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  Speaker 1: and stuff. But, A win today would be chef's kiss
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  Speaker 1: on a great week. In my mind, you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get at least a split here. Yep, I'm with.
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  Speaker 3: You on that.
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  Speaker 1: So you're leaving no worse than you came in, right?
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  Speaker 1: Didn't they enter the series with an eight-game lead? So
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  Speaker 1: if you get a split and be at eight games,
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  Speaker 1: you held serve.
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  Speaker 3: We'll take it.
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  Speaker 2: For the last week and a half, month, as this
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  Speaker 2: thing has been circled, we just said, just go 500
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  Speaker 2: through it and finish it. Go win three of four,
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  Speaker 2: and you win the season series. They can win the
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  Speaker 2: season series today.
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  Speaker 3: Not necessarily expecting it. Would love to. It would be phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: But then you get three opportunities at home to be
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  Speaker 2: able to splice that day.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, you need to win one of the next
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  Speaker 1: four to have the season series, and that removes all doubt,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not a lot of doubt.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, the very, very small little
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  Speaker 2: shreds of doubt. You're looking through this needle in the
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  Speaker 2: haystack for that one.
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  Speaker 1: And then let's just focus on Miz a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want a Skeens-like drop-off in October for sure,
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  Speaker 1: but you want Miz feeling good about himself. All it'll
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  Speaker 1: take probably is a home start against the Cubs next week.
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  Speaker 1: He'll probably be more ramped up because he'll like the
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  Speaker 1: mound more. But the idea that any series you start,
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  Speaker 1: you're probably going to have Miz in game one. It's
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  Speaker 1: like at home. that's pretty, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, it'll, it'll be comfortable for him. He'll know exactly
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  Speaker 2: where he's going to go. Would you be tempted to
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  Speaker 2: try to skip him or something or, or try to
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  Speaker 2: ease up any bit of the workload going into October
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  Speaker 2: for him?
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  Speaker 1: They're going to, they're going to be able to do
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  Speaker 1: what they want.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to have that, that luxury. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think that however they want to do it, they kind
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  Speaker 1: of were doing it for a while with his shorter starts,
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  Speaker 1: but then when you take some 90 pitches to get
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  Speaker 1: through four innings, know yeah 100 last night shortest so
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  Speaker 1: he kind of what i mean my plan last night
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  Speaker 1: was probably an extreme example it was just he scuffled
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  Speaker 1: you're right and it was like you're right you're due
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  Speaker 1: for one of.
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  Speaker 3: Those control but it was very humid as well control
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  Speaker 3: humidity i think caught that one ball that would have
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  Speaker 3: helped yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um you know the the illegality of spider tack or
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  Speaker 1: whatever the guys need that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, yeah, there's only so much
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  Speaker 2: rosin and sunscreen you were throwing on last night.
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  Speaker 3: That was going to give you a whole lot of grip.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen that a lot in this series because it's
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  Speaker 1: ridiculously humid out. But hey, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And again, Brewers are in great shape. So now it's
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  Speaker 1: just keep everybody healthy, keep everybody rolling. Yelich enters the
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  Speaker 1: game for Gary as a pinch hitter and ends up
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  Speaker 1: getting a couple of hits. Is he finally back to
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  Speaker 1: being hot, can we say?
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  Speaker 3: His number's been good.
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  Speaker 1: He's trending hot, but it doesn't feel quite hot yet.
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  Speaker 1: He's not carry the team hot, but he's contributing.
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  Speaker 3: Big time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, anything was going to be hotter than the hot
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: plate being put into the back of the cabinet and
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: forgetting that you even had it to be able to
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: heat up the water and get that thing boiling. But,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, over the last, what, 15 days? You look
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  Speaker 2: at his splits the last 15 days, he's hitting almost 350. So, like,
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  Speaker 2: being able to just get a glimpse of this, because
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  Speaker 2: if you get this kind of yell at you into
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  Speaker 2: the postseason, watch out.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't had that.
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  Speaker 2: And frankly, I mean, he hasn't been able to play
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  Speaker 2: in some of them due to injury and hasn't had
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  Speaker 2: a real hot one since parts of 18. So like,
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  Speaker 2: if that's the guy you get phenomenal back half of August,
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  Speaker 2: it was a lot better.
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  Speaker 3: And now I.
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  Speaker 2: Think you can safely say that at least the confidence
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  Speaker 2: is back. Like, it looks like when he's swinging the bat,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't anticipate it to be a four, three rollover.
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  Speaker 3: And it definitely looks better. I mean, I would say
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  Speaker 3: at least just from the naked eye, we know the,
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  Speaker 3: we know the, you know, the fraught risks of the
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  Speaker 3: eye test. However, it sure looks like he's seeing the
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  Speaker 3: plate better. He's making hard contact. I mean, he's made
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  Speaker 3: plenty of hard contact into gloves. Well, he, he found
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  Speaker 3: two basically all glove in a body and still got
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  Speaker 3: two hits out of it. It's just, if you hit
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  Speaker 3: it hard enough, eventually you'll get those things to work.
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  Speaker 3: And last night it did again, like Billy mentioned, the
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  Speaker 3: splits have been really good last couple of weeks. His
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  Speaker 3: OPS and average have jumped up 30 points, I think,
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  Speaker 3: in the last couple. He's registering a positive war now,
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  Speaker 3: which is a positive thing. All those things in general help.
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  Speaker 3: I think the reality is he's been a platoon player
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  Speaker 3: kind of– You know, if you really watch it, except
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  Speaker 3: for the other night when he started against the lefty,
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  Speaker 3: when he hit the homer, you know, he's been only
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  Speaker 3: batting against righties, which is fine. If that's what puts
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  Speaker 3: him in the best position to win the Brewers, that's
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  Speaker 3: what matters.
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  Speaker 1: And Bowers has been playing against lefties and hitting pretty
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  Speaker 1: well too, but Bowers is a little dinged up.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a guy that you can protect a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: That would be a good one to give a week
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  Speaker 2: or so to. My man seems like he's got four injuries. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: give him a couple days to let things quiet down.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he doesn't want this party to end. He's got
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  Speaker 3: a heck of a year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're going to have, like I said, so they're
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  Speaker 1: going to have this luxury of playing guys when they
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  Speaker 1: want and pitching guys and lining stuff up and getting
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  Speaker 1: the guys their work. So it's as good as, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you work for. That's why you have this lead.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly it.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be in a situation, and people, whether, well,
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  Speaker 1: they should win 100, should they win, whatever they do,
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  Speaker 1: that there's going to be a situation where there just
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  Speaker 1: isn't a lot of pressure on games and that can
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  Speaker 1: be good and bad, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They can be very good. Put the pedal down.
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  Speaker 1: Let's win. And maybe he will push them to win
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  Speaker 1: a hundred just to keep that carrot in front of
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  Speaker 1: them and stuff. I don't know, but you're going to
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: have the luxury of, it's going to feel like the
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  Speaker 1: last week of spring training when, okay, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: line everybody up and we got, we want to go
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  Speaker 1: into our, We want to go into that series with
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  Speaker 1: a rested bullpen. And then it becomes, what do we
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  Speaker 1: do in those couple days? We're going to do a
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  Speaker 1: little inter-squad game. They've been here before, so it's not uncharted.
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  Speaker 3: That's really a good point. At least they've got the
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  Speaker 3: experience of it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think when you played, what did they score,
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  Speaker 2: five runs in game one?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Last year in the DS, I think it worked early
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  Speaker 2: keeping themselves fresh.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they did anything wrong that way. It is.
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  Speaker 2: It's a heck of a balancing act, Drew, because at
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  Speaker 2: least they are still in the race for the one
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  Speaker 2: seed and the kind of keep you going that way,
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  Speaker 2: but it'll keep you going instead of in the middle
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: of September where you're looking here saying, all right, we
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: got two and a half weeks of games left. We're
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: playing the Orioles who are out of it. And Now
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: we got to ramp ourselves back up. They're going to
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: stay in the chase mode until probably that last week.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Then you can give yourself a full chance to just
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: get a runway and get yourself lathered up and ready
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: to roll.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: You want to throw a miss for like three innings
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: in his last start. Go ahead.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: And I was going to say, yeah, I definitely think
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: there's one of those probably coming.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. There's that whole thing we get to this year
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: and it's a good problem to have a luxury when
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: you get, like you said, this whole thing this year about, okay,
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: when you had the big lead, do you want to
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: stay hot? Do you want to rest? It's always that
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: kind of decision, that kind of back and forth. I
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: think it's important to get certain guys rest. The nice
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: thing is I think once you get that first-round bye,
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: I think once you get that clinch, because you can
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: tell your guys, hey, you want your break? We'll get
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: our bye. Get the bye, and that's our three-day break.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: That's our four-day break. That's huge. But getting certain pitchers
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: rest if they need it is going to be huge.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, you want these guys primed as much as
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: we can for the playoffs. Don't know if that's the
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: issue with Harrison and Miz, these starts, if they're hitting
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: the wall. I know, Billy, you've talked about the possibility
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: of that, too. I think it's possible, but I don't
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: think a rest ever hurts. They are 24 years old.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: That part of it is a really tough deal. It's
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: a big jump in workload. You remember going into the
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: playoffs last year, Miz was a huge question mark.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Big time.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: Because he had started off so well, but then the
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: effectiveness kind of waned. Some people were thinking, do you
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: even put him on the playoff roster? Obviously, they did.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: And obviously he became one of their most consistent pitchers
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs because of that live arm. You're never
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: going to give up on it. So it's one of
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: those things where, yeah, you get a little rest for
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: these guys. You think when the dew point drops and
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: it's cooler, all those things should go to help. And
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: at least you give yourself that luxury once you clinch
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: a bye. So I think it's good to give these
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: guys rest. Can I give you one shout out for
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: the use of the word fraught? Fraught, baby. At 5.13
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: in the morning.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: Fraught.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: An adjective that means filled with something bad or causing
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: extreme worry, tension, or stress.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: I think there are a lot of people that felt
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: like Christian Yelich at bats were fraught.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Fraught with concern. That's incredible use at 5.13 in the morning.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Was that on the word of the day calendar? I'm
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: dumping the bag, Earl. I'm using my challenges earlier.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: He's using that to... Hanging out that Marquette shingle for us.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: He's not leaving them in the bag, though.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: No, I'm not leaving them in the bag. I like that.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Put it out on the table and let them see it.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: All right, check in with us. 877-794-1973 gets you in.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: So we got Hunter all over the program today.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: We do. Updates. So you know it's going to be
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: a good show.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: A Logan Henderson interview that we will play in just
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: about 20 minutes for you.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: He's excited for this one. It's a six-minute masterpiece. Yeah, man.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: One-on-one exclusive.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: And Logan Henderson's pitching tonight.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: We'll hear from the man who's taking them on tonight
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: as the Brewers try to win the series. Not just
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: split the series, but win the series. Anybody check on
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Brie DeLeo yet?
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Does she pause? That's a good question.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Let me see.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: What about that guy who watches Cubs games and screams
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: at his TV? I did watch a little bit of
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: M-Bone last night on TikTok Live. That's an entertaining watch, dude.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: M-Bone.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: I'm waiting for the montage. That is an entertaining watch.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: But the thing is, you do miss pitch by pitch.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: There is a close freakout on every single one.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I had to take the Apple Watch off because I
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: was laughing so hard. It was like, hey, man, you're
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: going to hurt yourself right now.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Shades of when we used to have Armin on Twitch
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: watching Packer games.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Armin and that guy need to meet.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Because they're a lot closer kindred souls, I think, than
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: he would like to be.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I probably am more of a kindred, yeah. You would
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: like him, Bone, I think. Than Bree farming the content. However,
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I got to say, there's like a little delay, right?
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: So you know you have to be ready for something
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: when the play happens. That was the best part. I
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: think for some people of the, of the mic'd up
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: thing or something like that is you see the play first.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: So you're like, Oh, something big's about to happen from
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: this guy. He's about to react. And then you see it.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: So I don't know if that's how it is a Billy.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Cause I didn't ever watch it live, but that'd be
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: pretty fun.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: That was my first taste. And I'm telling you, they
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs. That is how I will be watching.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: That's how you're going to watch.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I will definitely have that out for you. Second screen. Well,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: what he's selling is working. You got to give him credit.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Maybe they should let him cameo in nine innings to love. So,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Anything's to love.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, or a cameo like Dajon Love was trying
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: to do. He said he only needed a quick $ 5, 000. Yeah,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: that's right.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: That's all.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Some of my teammates are already on it.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: They're already on it. It's all good. Man, there are
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: more Dajon videos and DMs coming out.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: What would a Brock Purdy cameo go for? Not $ 5, 000.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Not even close. Maybe $ 200?
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I'll check it out now.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know what's the most expensive cameo,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: but that's funny.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: All right, when we come back. Rock's a very affordable one. Sorry,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I didn't mean to interrupt. Rock, very affordable.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: $ 25, $ 30.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Good one.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And he put some good work into it. Lev gives
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: all his out to the charity.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: And Lev does a lot of, it is still close
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: to fantasy football time. He was doing drafts. He was
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: doing draft orders. So if you were wanting that, go
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: and check that thing out. Cameo, Brock Purdy.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: I can't find it here. Book a business video. That's
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: the only one you can get. $ 10, 000. Oh, my gosh.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: All right. Is that because they don't want these guys
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: to say anything bad anymore?
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Tell your buddy.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Veiled racist stuff.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Tell your buddy that lost his fancy football he sucks
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: and something weird.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: When we come back, Murph had a comment yesterday that
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I thought was very interesting. Basically, every day he says
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: something very interesting. But yesterday, even more so. We will
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: discuss that. Hit us up with your thoughts. It's a
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: good day to just relax a little bit. Everybody can exhale.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Brewers beat the Cubs again. All is right with the world.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Speedy runner at third. Vaughn up the middle.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Ground ball through. Here comes Churio. He'll score the tying run.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Andrew Vaughn. Plutch. RBI single.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: And we're all tied at five in the fourth inning.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Go ahead and run at second base. Contreras into right center.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Base hit.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: Tarang around third. He'll score easily. Throw comes into third.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: And Wild Bill puts the Brewers in front once again.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: It's an RBI.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, sweet montage from Brewers TV. Armin Sarian on the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: ones and twos this morning in the huddle. Fox Sports
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Radio Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, everywhere in the iHeartUp,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: streaming live, Facebook X, and YouTube. All right, so Pat
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Murphy is a beat writer's best friend. Great quotes, generally speaking,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: you know, and he fills the notebook. But yesterday he
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: said something pregame that caught my attention regarding Jackson Turio.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I know where this is going. He said, you know,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Churio was a little amped the other night when he
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: got thrown out trying to steal third. He's been a
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: little amped. And Murph said, quote, no one knows it
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: quicker than Jack-Jack. He knows when he messes up. Jack-Jack's
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: like a young Kobe Bryant when he forced shots.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: It's going to happen. But careful.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: That guy settles in and kind of knows how to
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: play at a certain temperature. Last night he was playing
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: a bit hot. You just saw it. So I could
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: tell you little things where you saw it. In his takes,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: and he was just running a little hot, he turns
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: it down a little bit and gets in that right mode. Yeah,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: look out.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: And look out last night.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: A young Kobe Bryant. I know Murph is a big
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Kobe guy. Murph has his Muhammad Ali, Kobe Bryant, Derek Jeter. Yeah,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: he's got definite favorites. His poster's on the wall. But
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to compare him to a Kobe Bryant is fascinating to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: me on a number of levels. Because I don't think
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: We see Churio, and it seems like he's been here forever,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and it seems like he's a baseline. Okay, well, he's
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: going to be 20-20 and hit 270 or 265.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Just expect good numbers every year, basically.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I think we're just scratching the surface. I think he's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: going to continue to get better and better, and it's
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: like I think he could be a 40-40 guy.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Definitely.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: He could very much be having a season. I don't
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: know defensively he's going to do it, but I think
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: he could have very much the same offensive season that
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: PCA is having right now.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: He could. Right, like at some point.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Just be that guy where you're knocking on 40 homes.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: He's got potential, absolutely, to do that. Yeah, to be 22, like,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: come on. Give him a couple years of just continued development.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And like Murph said, as he figures it out and
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: he plays at the right temperature.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Because he was.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: The temperature thing is a good point, because you could
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: tell he was feeling himself a couple.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Of different times.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Well, we had the thing where we had the near
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: collision with the three-car pileup. We had the ball that he,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: in the first night when he and Mitchell kind of
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: like got in each other's way a little bit. Stuff
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: like that. You know, he's playing at Armand energy.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: You know how caffeinated Arman is?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's playing with Arman energy.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And maybe it'll be just a more relaxed, let the
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: game come to you, just be yourself kind of thing.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I can't get enough of his confidence right now in
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the batter's box. His takes, the way Murph was saying that,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: the nods that he hits every single time. Last night
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: he was so mad at himself that he missed that
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: sweeper that was middle-middle.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: But the other part of it is the other night
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: he grounded out and beat out an infield hit. and
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: his time to first was blistering, one of the fastest
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of the year from home to first as a right-handed batter.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: It was just four seconds even or something.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: He has all those tools.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: And the feet per second, it was like 31. It
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: was just ridiculous.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Miles per hour, all those tools he has. Yeah, they
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: do that feet.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Per second thing. And so his sprint, and you forget that,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: how incredibly fast he is. And then he gets thrown
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: out trying to steal third, which was not a great look. But-
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: that was part of what Murph was saying. He's got
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to play at the right temperature. He's running a little hot.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: He shouldn't be trying to steal.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: With his aggressiveness, he's going to take just about any
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: opportunity to take a big swing like that. Lev had
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: said it either last night or the night before, and
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: it does put it into perspective.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: The guys that are.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: All in the midst of the rookie of the year
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: balloting in the National League, Jackson Turio is younger than
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: all of them. I mean, that's a crazy thing, and
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: he's into year three of his eight-year contract. He's also
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: missed a month of each of the last two years,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: and last year was not himself going into the playoffs.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: The production, you wouldn't have noticed.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: The way he swung the bat, you wouldn't have known
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: in that Cubs series, and he's got a hell of
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: a feel and a knack for the moment where the
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Kobe comparison feels even better.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: His thing is... If you spend a lot of time
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: looking at baseball reference, like I do, okay? You start
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: doing that. Yeah, it's just fun. But it's very interesting
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: to look at players' careers. And everyone seems to have
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: different career arcs, right? They're not all created equal. You
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: have some players that are great players that are consistently
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: good for years. You have some that are consistently great
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: for years. And then you have some that have the
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: peak years and they aren't as good as the rest.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Like the Chris Bryans of the world and stuff like that.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Like PCA has having... incredible year, obviously, and kind of
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: having a peak type of year early, but Churio could
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: be one of those guys where those peak years are
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: still coming years away, but his floor is so good.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you like, he has now, he's got
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: exactly 21 homers every year.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Incredibly consistent right now. He could still get more this year.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: This is the best batting average and the best OPS
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: of his career, but it was two 75, seven 91,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: two 77. So it's like, if this is his floor
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: where he's still emerging into a level of greatness, that's
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: what his real talent is to me is obviously one day,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: maybe getting the top end years, the MVP years, but
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: it's almost like you look at Hank Aaron's kind of career.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Like he never went below a certain threshold and that's
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: what made him great was the consistency of performance. And
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Jackson is basically putting that type of career together early
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: on where we might not have seen the top five
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: MVP year yet, and maybe that's coming. But think about Robin.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: He came up early, just like Jackson did. And he
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: had three or four years that were good but not amazing.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: And then by his eighth year was his 10-war MVP year,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: and then more to come, obviously.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Your best five-year stretch surrounds that age 27 year. So 26, 27, 28,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: 29 years. And then either side of that, a year,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: give or take, that's the peak years. He's not even
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: close to that yet.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Not even close.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Not even close to that. So what does he look
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: like as he builds towards that? Because I think he's
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: going to eventually, he's going to go from being a
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: 20-20 guy to a 30-30 guy to maybe a 40-40
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: guy and put up what the PCA is doing and stuff.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: And defense is good enough. Not great, but good enough.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Good enough, especially in left field. And just let him go. But, man,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: and he's going to be a team leader. He's going
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: to be. The older he gets, he's the real deal, man.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: They did not screw up by giving him an eight-year deal.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: No, and the way Murph talks about him, you can
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: definitely tell, as Murph cares so much about the heartbeat
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: and the ticket and what kind of guy you have,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: he definitely has the confidence, but also the.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: reverence of the game.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: And I think kind of the respect on, on the
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: other side of like, that's, that's the kind of competitor
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: that you need to have.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: He's going to be able to do it in between
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the lines, but he also is going to have a
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: healthy respect for what the other guy's doing. He's also
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: right now tied for the franchise record and post-season.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Home runs already. That's amazing.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: As in his age, 20 and 21 years, like that's
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: a ridiculous number in 12 playoff games.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Andrew Jones came up as a 20 year old, 19,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: 20 year old. And, boom, was hitting home runs in
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the World Series. That was a pretty good sign that
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: he was going to be a good player when you
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: got that kind of huevos.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Hold on, really?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I like that.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: I'm with you on that. And as we talk about
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: power in the playoffs and how important it is and
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: how hard it is sometimes to get, if that's one
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: of his biggest values, Billy, is like you said, postseason homers.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, you can really set a legacy just doing that,
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: especially when they're More and more of the conversation is
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: surrounded about needing home runs in the postseason.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Three-way tie. He's tied with one other two all-time Brewers.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Only one of them is an all-timer.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Because the Brewers didn't play a lot of playoff games
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: for Robin and Paul and those guys.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Not a lot, no.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Neither of them. Paul Molitor is second with three. Well,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Yelich has at least two. It is not Yelich. Ben
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Ogilvie has two. I think. Is it Ben Ogilvie? It
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: is not Ben Ogilvie. Okay, okay, okay. All recent Brewers.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: All recent guys, right? That's kind of how this goes.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: That's how this goes.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Prince.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: That's Prince.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Prince with four, and the other one is the toughest one.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Orlando Arcia.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, baby.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: No way.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I love baseball.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Orlando Arcia with four playoff bombs and 15 playoff games
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: for the Brewers.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Love it.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Do you remember any of them? That's the amazing. Not really.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: No.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I remember his four-hit day in game 163. He had
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: four postseason homers. I love baseball.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Here's a text from Steve again. 877-794-1973. Nicoletlaw.com. Talk and
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: text line. Should the Brewers re-sign Jack Jack right now?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I know he's got a lot of years left, but
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: if we could lock him up for another five years
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: after this contract, it would be great.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, throw it in front of him.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Steve, let's go. Come on.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: It's not going to happen. Let's be serious.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Eight years is plenty. I mean, there might be an
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: injury in there. I think we get the option years, too.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I think it turns out to be almost 10. I'm
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: not against the idea. I mean, if you can do it,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys are laughing about it. That's a
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: little silly.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Well, he wouldn't do it, I don't think.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: No, that's a little silly.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: But this is why you make the deal.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: That's why you make this deal. You make this deal
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to buy out stuff, and then you don't have to
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: worry about it.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: I'm happy where we're at. This is why you buy
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: the insurance, Armin.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta's pitching great at a low price. We should
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: give him more money.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Like, why? No, we should. We got one right. He
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: gave him that money.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: As Sal Bando told me when he was at Brewers Jam,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: he was like, it's not like they give us money
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: back when they have a bad year.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I'm waiting for that one to happen. And everybody's like, hey,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: you should give that guy a raise and lock him up. Like, yeah, well,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: they don't give us money back.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: I get it. But if someone told me tomorrow morning, hey,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: by the way, the Brewers added two years on, I'm
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: not going to be unhappy about it.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Well, then if you thought it was an eight-year deal,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: they just added two more years onto it because they
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: have two club options.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: The club options, I know.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: $ 25 million. So basically a 10-year deal.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: So let's not worry about that. More immediately, it's like people,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: as you look, as you think about, as you're trying
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to find stuff to occupy your time and not worry
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: about playoffs and playoff positioning and what's going to happen
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: in October. You think, okay, well, are they going to
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: ride it out with Contreras the way they did Adamas?
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Let's play fantasy franchise.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: They're going to do that with Tarang and ride out
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: with him and then let him just walk and take
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the draft pick because you've got the replacement.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Waiting in the wings. I'd give all of our money
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: to Tarang. How do you do it?
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, what do you do?
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: You'd give all the money to Tarang when the number one.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Prospect in baseball is waiting to come up and get
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: one of those 10-year, $ 80 million deals and play at
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a level.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: I'm happy about that, but Tarang's a bird in the
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: hand right now. He is.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: He also has a lot of value, and if you
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: were to trade Terang preemptively, you could get a lot
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: of stuff back, a lot of pitching back.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Could you sign Contreras for almost half of the total
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: money and then still make that deal?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: And then trade Terang? I'm not mad about that. I mean,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: it's an asset definitely to use. But we'll talk about
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: all these.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about all these two weeks after they win
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: the title like Harmon did when when P.J.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Tucker's. Yes. Thank you.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: When we come back, when we come back, we're going
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: to hear from the guy who's pitching and he's going
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to be walking around barefoot at Wrigley. Yes.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I love this dude. What a Texan.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart interviewed Logan Henderson. We will spin through that
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: when we return.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: You're in the huddle.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. And Drew, Billy, and Armin bringing
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: it to you huddled up on a Thursday in the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: good land. It's a good Thursday. Brewers beat the Cubs.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: They go for the series win tonight. Logan Henderson on
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the mound for Milwaukee at the friendly confines. As it happens,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: our own Hunter Baumgart caught up with Logan Henderson before
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: they left for Chicago. And we're going to listen to
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: that conversation right now to get you ready for Logan
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Henderson's start. Take it away, Hunter.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: Logan, first question for you. We're about a month left
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: here in the regular season. How are you feeling overall
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: as we approach September?
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, feeling good. Um, I mean, can't complain, so just
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: gearing up for the next start.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: When you are going between starts, what's kind of your
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: main goal as you go in the five, six days
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: between starts each and every time?
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, main goal is to, you know, get back to, like,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: the best physical form I can, and obviously mentally too,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: but just giving myself the best opportunity to feel good
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: mechanically and physically going into the next start, and that's
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: definitely the main purpose.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: When you are on the mound, you've last month or
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: so faced some teams that are in contention, pitched long,
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: deep into games. How have you felt you have been
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: able to keep your poise the most on the mound
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: when maybe something doesn't go right or maybe you have
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: some runners on base? How do you feel mentally you're
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: able to do that?
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think preparation, but also experience, just,
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: you know, pitching– Being in those moments my whole life,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: you know, whether maybe not quite in the big leagues, but,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: you know, you deal with traffic, like pitching at any level. So,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: you know, it's just going back to, you know, being
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: rooted in the moment and just knowing that I need
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: to make the pitch in that moment. So, yeah, not
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: trying to be outside of, like, just the presence, the presence.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: Is that kind of the same when you look at
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: the atmospheres you're in, whether it be Dodger Stadium or
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: here with a full crowd on Friday night, like those
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: types of situations? Is it being in the moment, is
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: that kind of the biggest thing that helps you get
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: through those situations?
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I mean, there's definitely mental cues
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: to go to when you're in a moment like that,
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: but I think an atmosphere like that, if you allow
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: it to, it can definitely... allow you to hone in and, um,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: and focus really, really on the moment. So, um, I
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: think pitching in those environments can definitely be to.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Your advantage if you take advantage of it.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: How can a crowd like Friday night help you, uh,
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: you know, as you go through your seven innings, cause
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: a sellout crowd here, how, how can that help you
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: on the mound?
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, you, you feel the energy and you try
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: to capture the energy. I think we got the best
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: fans in baseball and, um, You definitely feel it. You
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: sense it. Like I said, you try to capture it
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: and use it as energy. When you play at home
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: with the crowd that we have pumping 40,000 a night,
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: especially on the weekend like Friday, it's definitely to our advantage,
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: I feel like.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: Brewers pitcher Logan Henderson joining me here. I just saw
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: you guys come from watching Robert Gasser's bullpen there. How
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: much are you guys feeding off each other as a
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: starting staff and kind of learning from each other, whether
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: it be bullpens, whether it just be talking in the dugout, clubhouse,
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: off time, whatever it is, how much are you guys
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: feeding off each other and each other's successes?
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, very much so. I think we have the next
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: guy up mentality. I think there's a I think we're
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: all very competitive and we're competing with each other in
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: a healthy environment. Like you said, there's a ton of
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: dialogue about how we can get better. I think we
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: watch each other's throwing programs and bullpens and just trying
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: to pick up stuff from each other. It's definitely a
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: collaborative effort and a team effort. We definitely make each
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: other better.
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: Speaking of conversations... How much, you know, Jim Henderson, Chris Hook,
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: how have those conversations helped you throughout the season? You know,
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: and just, I'm sure there's many little things that you
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: try to improve on. How much are they instrumental in
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: your success?
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Very much so. I think those two guys and Sandy
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: have had just a huge impact on myself and everybody
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: on the pitching staff.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, I mean, I.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: I give them a big amount of credit for the
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: success I've had and, you know, for the stuff that
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: I've learned over the last couple years. And, yeah, I mean,
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: I think we're good for a reason, and they're a
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: huge part of that.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: Next, coming here at Wrigley Field, what have you learned
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: about kind of the rivalry and the exciting games that
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: you guys and the Cubs have played, and how can
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: you kind of prepare for what that atmosphere will be
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: like on Thursday?
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's exciting. It's a great rivalry.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: You know, I've actually never pitched against the Cubs.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Right, that's what I thought. I'm excited for it.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: You know, I got to go to Wrigley earlier in
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: the year and obviously watched the playoffs last year. So, yeah,
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: I'm prepared for it. And I know that the environment
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: is going to be hectic. And, I mean, this is
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: what you ask for. This is what you dream of. So,
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: very much looking forward to it.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: And it's going to be a good series.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Speaking of on the road, one of the things that
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: has been documented that you do is go out on
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: the mound and kind of get a feel for the
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: mound before you go out and pitch. What goes into
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: that for you, you know, going out there with, you know,
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: obviously not a game going on or anything like that?
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: Is it just your sight lines, how you're going to see,
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: how you're going to feel? What does that give you
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: going into a start on the road?
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I do it here too, but I
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: definitely do it. Yeah, I do it before every start
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: regardless of where I'm at. But, yeah, I mean– There's
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: a lot of emotions and feelings that come with start day,
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: and I think me going out and getting a visual
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: and just feeling the mound and looking at home plate
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: is just a reminder of, hey, this is home for you,
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: or home for me, and knowing I'm not going to be,
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: it's not too long before I'm out there, and it's
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: kind of peaceful, so.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: I really enjoy it. Absolutely.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: Logan, really appreciate the time and best of luck here
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: the rest of the way.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart and Logan Henderson. How about that? A conversation
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: with the guy who's taking the ball tonight at Wrigley Field,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: his first ever start against the Cubs as the Brewers
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: try to win a series and put a dagger in him,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: go up by 10.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I was going to say this, a dagger. Wayne Larrabee
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: could even, even give this one. And he was calling
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Cubs games at one particular point in time.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: He was indeed.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Drew, I got to wonder though, like all of, as
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: he said, there's a lot of emotion. There's a lot
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: of stuff that goes into a, to start day. It's
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: got to just be a moment where you're like, I
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: just got to get away from everybody. Everybody is trying
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: to weirdly stay away from me. No one really wants
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: to talk. I kind of want to talk, but don't
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: really want to talk. There's so much that's got to
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: go into it. It does have to be nice to
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: just get 15 minutes to yourself and be like, I'm
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: gonna lock myself in a little bit.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: It's funny.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Cause that is the tradition. And it was funny. Cause
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Ben sheets was a guy like, You walk in and
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: you didn't know if he was starting or not. Maybe
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: chirping with everybody. Hey, did you see what happened? I'm like, hey,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: what do you think about my fantasy draft? He's asking stuff.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: When should I take a quarterback? Aren't you pitching today?
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to talk to you. That's like the
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: unwritten thing in baseball is you don't talk to the
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: guy who's starting that day. Especially if you're media.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: 100% media, yes. I was going to ask you that.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Do you have to kind of know the guy in
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: that situation to see if that tradition still holds?
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, some guys you don't even want to
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: look at. Like, they're in the zone and like they're.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Or if it's like Ruben Quevedo walking with his walkman,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: dragging a 30 foot cord because he's too lazy to
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: carry the disc player, the disc man across the clubhouse.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: And the old.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Tradition in like a no hitter, a perfect game, which
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know if still holds because. we don't think
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: about the same way but i mean that guy don't.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Talk to him during no hitter except for the guys
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: that are is he sitting there with the coach going
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: over the ipad yeah you know.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Not talking to everybody that he'll look at but the
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: tradition of like a no hitter a perfect game was
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: that image in late innings when guys would get further
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: and further away and he's sitting all alone on the
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: corner the.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Thing is everybody has their own routine and they from
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the time you're in You develop your own process.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: You learn it probably at some point. You have your process.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: But as Gasser pointed out the other day when he
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: got the call, he hadn't even sat down in the
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: pen when Dustin May gets smoked. And he's like, all right,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: you're up. Like, okay. He's like, oh, maybe we don't
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: need to go through all that crap. Maybe I don't
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: need to not look at anybody. Maybe I can pitch
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: effectively without all the rigmarole and putting all the pressure
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: on them.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's just not good.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I have to eat at this exact moment and
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I have to go out to the pen and I
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: have to do these exercises in this order. It's like, eh,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: maybe I don't need that. Maybe not.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: When your ritual is forced to break and you still
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: be able to form.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, man, I guess they were right. I guess that
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: actually doesn't help. That was the definition of cold jocking.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: You know, when they just like, oh, it's a show
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: and go. That whole thing. Like, we're not going to.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You guys had a long night of travel. We're
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: just going to show up to the ballpark and play
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: like no BP, no nothing. Just stretch on your own.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Get after it. You're going to show and go today.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: I like, I like you're in a, I can't remember.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: It was Brent Suter when Woody was supposed to start
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: in St. Louis a number of years ago. And he's like, yeah,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I was sitting in the clubhouse eating wheat dens. And
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Murph came up to me and asked, Hey, can you
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: start in 25 minutes?
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: All right. Oh yeah, sure. Yeah, sure. I got my
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: pants on.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. We're off and running
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: with the Thursday edition of the huddle. Oh, good stuff.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Good stuff. Hunter Baumgart joins us at seven 25 for
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: more brewers conversation. And it's delicious brewers conversation. We're also
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: going to talk Packers. And we're going to talk, believe
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: it or not, Clippers.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: The penalty came down. Finally.
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: Oh, man.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Pablo Torre, the winner of the day.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.