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09/09/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: The air running to the mics to talk about a
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  Speaker 1: walk-off win welcome to the wednesday edition of your favorite
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  Speaker 1: little morning program the huddle fox sports radio wisconsin 9
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  Speaker 1: 20 milwaukee 10 70 madison everywhere on the iheart app
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  Speaker 1: streaming live facebook x and youtube drew olson bill schmidt
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  Speaker 1: And Armin, the TV repairman, Sarian.
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  Speaker 2: You saw that same thing?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Been battling all morning. He's hustling back here.
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  Speaker 1: He's been battling for the last 10 minutes to try
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  Speaker 1: to get the TV in his producer's lair to work.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, the TV in the producer's lair, way
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  Speaker 2: nicer than the ones we watch. It is nice.
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  Speaker 3: And way bigger than any TV that you've ever dreamed
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  Speaker 3: of having in your living room.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I got a bigger wall back here. That's part
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  Speaker 2: of the reason. Pretty big.
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  Speaker 3: See, it's not about what you do the whole game.
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: It's about what you do at the last minute, right?
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  Speaker 2: Louis Lahr showed us that last night.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson Turner showed us that last night. And you know what?
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  Speaker 2: That's what happened right here. It didn't matter. I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get the TV on for the last hour. I got
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: it on now.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know. And not only did he get it on,
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  Speaker 2: his beloved U.S. Open highlights are on.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, it's just in time to
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  Speaker 3: be able to see the American upset pass last call.
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  Speaker 3: Ben Shelton late into the night beating Carlos. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that was a big one. I mean, that's obviously the
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  Speaker 3: biggest story today, right, guys?
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  Speaker 1: That's what it was going up last night when I
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: had a little situation going on upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of youngsters awake right around 2.15, 2.30, 2.45
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  Speaker 2: in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: And this was taking the cake. I ended up watching
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  Speaker 3: the end of this thing live because people were going
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  Speaker 3: bonkers online about it.
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  Speaker 2: So I had to tap in.
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  Speaker 3: Old Bucks coach Nick Van Exel was the one that
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  Speaker 3: I first saw.
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  Speaker 2: He goes, I'm fighting it, boys. I'm fighting it.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm keeping my eyes awake for Ben Shelton.
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  Speaker 2: And my goodness, we had a couple of good wins
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  Speaker 2: last night.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty awesome to see a match go that late into
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  Speaker 3: the night in Queens. And it's great to have an
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  Speaker 3: American making a run here in the U.S. Open, beating
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  Speaker 3: obviously Alcraz's favorite. So Alcraz's longer hair, but Trinity Rodman's
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  Speaker 3: got to love it. The girlfriend of Ben Shelton. So
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  Speaker 3: Trinity Rodman, the U.S. star there as well. So a
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  Speaker 3: star set a couple. And a big win for Shelton.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, obviously we have bigger fish over here
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  Speaker 2: to fry in these parts. Indeed, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: Because I have to say, we've all talked about having FOMO,
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  Speaker 1: fear of missing out, right?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What about FEMO, fear I missed out?
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  Speaker 1: Last night, yesterday afternoon, I was offered a ticket to
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  Speaker 1: see the proceedings last evening.
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  Speaker 2: In a luxury suite. Oh! Way to go. And I declined.
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  Speaker 1: Way to go, Drew. I declined because it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'd probably leave early. So what's the point of even
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  Speaker 1: going in and driving? I was offered a parking pass.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: I was offered a parking pass. That was why I
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  Speaker 1: decided to potentially park in a suite with unlimited food
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  Speaker 1: and bevvies.
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  Speaker 2: And you get to take all those drinks home. Right?
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  Speaker 3: You're supposed to do that, right? You're supposed to fill
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  Speaker 3: up a bag on the way home?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, never mind.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're not supposed to go Giannis and just stuff
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  Speaker 3: him into a bag.
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  Speaker 2: Never mind. I don't bring double bags to the luxury suites.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah. So you could have gone. I could
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  Speaker 2: have gone and didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I think the ticket went unused because a little after midnight,
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  Speaker 1: I got a text from my host, And she said, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe everybody I offered the ticket to, at least they
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  Speaker 1: can take solace in the fact that it was a
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  Speaker 1: crappy game.
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  Speaker 2: At least it was a bad game. At least you
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  Speaker 2: didn't miss much.
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  Speaker 1: So Brewers win a thriller, another come from behind. It's
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  Speaker 1: to the point where the Cubs, you know, we might
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  Speaker 1: have to pull the Pedro Martinez quote.
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  Speaker 2: It's time to tip my cap and call the Yankees
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  Speaker 2: my daddy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh!
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  Speaker 2: The Brewers daddy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was because Pedro once said that famously
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  Speaker 1: and the Cubs got to be looking at this.
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  Speaker 2: Like, what do we have to do? We take a
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  Speaker 2: lead in game is pitched again for the second time
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  Speaker 2: in a week.
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  Speaker 1: And then they come back and those bastards and they
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  Speaker 1: make the play and they get the hit. And their
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  Speaker 1: guy who's over the night looks like he has a
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  Speaker 1: giant hole in his swing, walks it off.
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  Speaker 3: And the guy that loses the last challenge in, what,
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  Speaker 3: the middle of the sixth inning, and Murph didn't even
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  Speaker 3: want to look at him.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what?
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  Speaker 3: Credit to Pat Murphy at that moment for sticking with him,
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  Speaker 3: because I would have thought there would have been a.
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  Speaker 2: Could have been. Why don't we see if Sal Freelick's
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  Speaker 2: going to go in and play right field? after that
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  Speaker 2: i'm sure he was tempted to give the hook there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah and him and nester corridor give a little pep
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  Speaker 3: talk to luis lara as he walks out of the
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  Speaker 3: dugout and there he goes.
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  Speaker 2: That was the best just give it to him right
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  Speaker 2: there on the chest.
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  Speaker 1: Brewers baseball if you yeah give it to uh brewers
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: baseball if you had to like okay this is uh
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: what our season has been like well this is it
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: other than mcgill giving up another run i mean i
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  Speaker 1: used to that but Yeah, but after 15 straight scoreless innings,
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: he's given up a couple.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, Monday was a safe situation. Last night, not.
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  Speaker 3: He's not the only closer that we've seen struggle when
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  Speaker 3: it's not a safe situation.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right. What was it? 15 straight games.
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  Speaker 3: He went almost 30. appearances without blowing a save. Yesterday's
• 5:03
  Speaker 3: not a blown save, but a tough one to see.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of hard contact against him over the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of days, but damn, then D.L. Hall comes in
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  Speaker 3: and slams the door and keeps you right there.
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  Speaker 2: That was big. He's been nails. Mitchell throw. That was
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: an awesome, awesome throw. Mitchell throwing out Suzuki at third.
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  Speaker 3: Which I think I first thought they got him sliding
• 5:22
  Speaker 3: over the bag on the overslide, but I think he
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  Speaker 3: got him anyway on the bag.
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  Speaker 1: It was close, but I thought he was in and
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  Speaker 1: then definitely emphatically with the Hamilton with the tag, kept
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  Speaker 1: applying the tag, which is a smart play by him.
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: So Brewers just smart baseball. Again, clutch baseball with Churio.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: The Yelich at bat. A lot of people will forget it.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next time he rolls over or strikes
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  Speaker 1: out with guys on base, that guy sucks. They overpay him.
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: 0-2 to save you. 0-2 to 3-2 to base hit.
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  Speaker 1: We're still alive.
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  Speaker 2: Home run. I mean, that's. There's your team leader. It's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: And Jackson was swinging for Pottawatomie that last night. I mean,
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: like in that last at bat, he was either going
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: to hit the ball harder than he has all year
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  Speaker 3: long or he's going to strike out swinging. But it
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  Speaker 3: was going to be it was going to be one
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  Speaker 3: of the two. He decided total.
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  Speaker 2: Outcome is the is the end game there. And he
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  Speaker 2: caught it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we make a lot, sometimes we make up
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  Speaker 3: a lot of stuff and we make a lot of
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  Speaker 3: nothing in terms of body language police and momentum and
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  Speaker 3: belief and visualizing and clutch. But I've never seen a
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: visual evidence of a guy believing he was about to
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: hit a home run. Then Jackson Trio walk into the
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  Speaker 3: plate with that swagger. Like, I'm a bad boy and
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  Speaker 3: I'm about to do it and I just did it.
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  Speaker 3: So how do you feel.
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  Speaker 2: About it, you know?
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  Speaker 1: It started last year in the playoffs, but he's adopting
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  Speaker 1: some of the brawny and tendencies to just come up
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  Speaker 1: in big moments. When the lineup rolls around and he's up,
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: you're like, all right. I'll give you anybody else on
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  Speaker 1: the team. Who do you want it to play?
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  Speaker 2: That dude. That dude right there. That dude right there.
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  Speaker 3: Two home runs in his, what, second playoff game ever
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  Speaker 3: against the Mets to save you there. And two bombs
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  Speaker 3: last year in the playoffs. And he's also now, I mean, again,
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  Speaker 3: he's third year in, 22 years old. He's, I think
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  Speaker 3: my favorite part of Jack's game right now is the
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  Speaker 3: little bit of Juan Soto-esque swagger he has on takes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, every take he's either shaking his head, he's
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  Speaker 3: looking in, he's looking around saying, oh, I had him
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  Speaker 3: right there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I had him right there. And that kind of,
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Don't look now, but they're starting to finally get what
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: we've been wondering would happen at some particular point during
• 7:23
  Speaker 3: the year. Bryce Terang has been the mayor of Slump
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: City a number of different times. A three-hit night. Seems
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: like that might be waking up. Jackson Churio, hot as
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  Speaker 3: scorched earth over the last couple of weeks. And the
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  Speaker 3: only thing now, Christian Yelich swinging a much, much better
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  Speaker 3: bat since the last two weeks of August. So you
• 7:42
  Speaker 3: get all three of those guys hot at the right
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  Speaker 3: time here coming down the stretch. And look out, because
• 7:46
  Speaker 3: you just have not been able to have that pretty
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: much in the last four years that you're running through
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  Speaker 3: these division titles.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: As great as the tennis was. And as excited as
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: we are about the dawn of football. By the way,
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: it is Christmas morning here because Billy gets to watch
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: him some professional tackle football tonight.
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: The Rossini Bowl. Yeah.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: The Rossini Bowl is back.
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  Speaker 2: And yet it's head to head against Brewers Cubs.
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: And I can't say that that season opener lid lifter
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: for the NFL, despite all the pomp and ceremony. is
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: more compelling TV to me than Brewers-Cubs because I can't
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: get enough.
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: Brewers-Cubs is awesome.
• 8:17
  Speaker 3: These games are always good, and these games are always
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: living up to the billing. And you said it, Drew,
• 8:23
  Speaker 3: of how do you not go into the dugout or
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: in the clubhouse if you're the Cubs.
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: Just shake your head. What else do we got to do?
• 8:29
  Speaker 3: We blast a fastball off your all-star closer off the
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: base of the wall with bases loaded in the top
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  Speaker 3: half of.
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  Speaker 2: The ninth inning.
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  Speaker 3: That should be as defeated as any team would be.
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  Speaker 3: And instead, the Peckers just poke away. And then you
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: hit a ball that's six, seven inches out of the
• 8:48
  Speaker 3: strike zone into the outfield for the game winner.
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: That is a deflating moment.
• 8:52
  Speaker 3: They also end up not losing any ground in their
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: chase for the first wildcard spot. Phillies ended up losing
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: last night. But that is now the race they're in.
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: And the race you're in is for the number one seed.
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: And it ended up being a big win last night because...
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: Don't look now. That Dodger team is starting to.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Get a little bit hot and starting to roll out
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: there in L.A.
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  Speaker 3: As they've won six consecutive games. And they beat the
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: Reds again last night. So you hold off them for,
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: once again, a game-and-a-half lead for that series and for
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: that hold of potentially winning the number one overall seed.
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: Good night for you to steal one out of the
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: jaws of defeat. Yeah, just amazing stuff.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: Let's hear from the Eeyore contingent in the 5 o'clock club,
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: led by Armin Sarian.
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, there's no Eeyores today right here.
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Brewers have a nine-game lead over the Cubs with 16
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  Speaker 1: to play.
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: Well, it was over already. I know.
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  Speaker 3: But if you had any fleeting thought that it might
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: not be, let me disabuse you of that notion right now.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: The magic and the way we can tell there's juice
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: with the Brewers is that people were hitting us on
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: the talk and text. line in the late evening hours
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  Speaker 1: last night. That's when you know it's a good one.
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: I gotta let these guys know because I'm not gonna
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: be there early. He was hitting us up.
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: Come on now. Rhonda in the 715. Rhonda! Let me
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: have another mug of cubby tears. I ain't driving. Go Brewers.
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: Mmm.
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey from Milwaukee hitting us up Like, are you freaking
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: kidding me? Let's talk some brewers at 5 o'clock They
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: were calling their shot That's what I'm talking about, Jeff
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: That's the way to set the appointment, Jeff Ken the
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: Car Guy, there's nothing sweeter than beating these arrogant goofs Oh,
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: yes I mean, and that's what's great about these games Like,
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: every game is like a three-act epic drama Yeah, exactly
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: And then the other one was, what's the magic number now?
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: That's from the 608 just this morning Well, the magic
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: number is 7.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: Seven, but it's lower for the play. I'm going to
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: get my website up here. It's seven.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: For the postseason, it's five. Well, the schedule adjusted postseason, three.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: But end up postseason, five. And then seven for the
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: Central Division is the magic number.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, correct. To get the number one seed overall, it's 15.
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: And to get a bye in the first round is 14.
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: With 16 games left. Still on pace for 100 wins, technically.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: They need to go 10 and 6 in the final
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: 16 to win 100, because they're the first team to
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: hit 90. They hit 90 last night. If they keep
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: their pace, yeah. Rolling along, that's a magic number. But
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: the division, if you do the math again, like a
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: nine-game lead with 16 to play.
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  Speaker 2: And one more head-to-head left, I mean.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's math that even I can do. And not
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: only that, yeah, there was that. That whole thing about
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: the tiebreaker and stuff.
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: No, they do have a tragic number of 29 for
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: the Eeyores out there. I do like the Cubs magic
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  Speaker 3: number for the division.
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  Speaker 2: Cubs magic number for the division is 29.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: I think it's 29, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: So they would need 29 victories by the Cubs and losses.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: So they need all 16 losses by the Brewers. I
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: say this dripping in sarcasm. I like that we do
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: call it a tragic number. Now, I do appreciate Brewers
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: magic number. That account has been doing this ever since
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: opening day. They fire in 90 wins, nine game lead,
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: nine tolls to get back to Hammond, estimated.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, let's go.
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: Now, the schedule adjusted postseason... Can you explain that to
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: the dummies like me over on this side? Would that
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: be like the tie breakers that you have? Because they
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: don't do.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: Yes, if there's multiple ties or there's... Because it's like the...
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: The birds don't have the season series with the... Wait,
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: they lost it to the Phillies? I think they lost
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: it to the Phillies. They won the Dodgers one. They
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: won the Cubs. Okay, that's what I figured. I figured
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: it had to do something with tiebreakers or something. But
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: I like throwing it in there.
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: Don't confuse the hell out of too many people because
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: I look at that and I have no idea what
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: it means. But the fact that your now magic number
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: is seven to win the division.
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: Cap that thing off. Do it on the road.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Do it on the road, destroy someone else's clubhouse, then
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: come back home.
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  Speaker 2: And feel a lot better about it. Yeah, there you go.
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: Do it in Pittsburgh.
• 13:03
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: I think that's a great place to be able to
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: do it. That's a good place to do it. That
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: would be a phenomenal spot.
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: But yeah, the whole call them daddy thing, that's when
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: you know it was a big game locally is that
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: everybody was watching.
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe the ballpark was full. Oh, it was packed.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: And but but the ratings were also huge and you
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: got rock and ba the the world just seems right
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: right now the way the brewers are playing and beating
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: cubs in these you know intense back and forth games
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: and a lot of cutaways to counsel.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: A ton yesterday i did think my favorite cutaway though
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: now they didn't they didn't go to and they probably
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: should have iso'd it a little bit better was after
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: the suzuki slide in the 10th inning did you see
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: your boy clinton barry I mean, he goes full surrender
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: Cobra in that third base coaching box, and.
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: You've got to be kidding me, dude. I didn't see that.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: He throws the hands up on the head and screams like, what.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: Are we doing right now?
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: Because I was going to bring up Matt Erickson throwing
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: up a late stop sign on Terrain.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: Late stop sign, yes. That was one of the hugest
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: plays of the game, but I didn't see Quinton.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: And I like Quinton Berry. I do like Quinton Berry, yeah.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: He signed my ball when I.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: throughout the first pitch that one time that was my
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: guy oh that's right yeah so i liked him but
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: that was i want to go see that now i
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: still want to experience to witness that drew had mentioned
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: matt erickson yesterday a little bit of a rising star
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: in the coaching ranks um is matt erickson the man
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: in waiting i mean i don't know i know that
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: i know that because ricky weeks that was supposed to
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: be the case we haven't heard about that in a
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: long time by the way maybe to support pat murphy's
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: uh Manager of the Year candidacy.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: Is he the only one doing it without a bench coach? Ooh,
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: that's another. Could be. That's a good one. I mean,
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: they got a lot of coaches. One guy's just not designated.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, they have like three offensive
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: coordinators now. So they have plenty of guys. They don't
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: have a coach. They also didn't have a bench coach.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: They used to have an associate manager. It's more like
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: a coaching staff or like an offensive staff.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: But when Weeks walked back into the front office, just
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: out of the dugout, I think some people were kind
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: of wondering that because Murph didn't get any younger.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm wrong.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: But at some point, you wonder if there would be
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: somebody in Matt Erickson, Wisconsin guy, that would be.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: They could do a hell of a lot worse.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Then be grooming in the guy that ran the Timber Rattlers,
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: and then third base coaches all the way up through
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: the ranks with the Brewers to hand over the job
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: to at some particular point in time.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: That might be the case. No one's ever won three
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: times in a row manager of the year, I believe.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: No one had won it twice in a row before
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: last year with a man vote.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Not in the National League. Not in the National League.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: A man vote both last year ended up going back
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: to back.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: So this could be totally uncharted territory if he does
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: get it.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Not sure if he will or not. We'll see if
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: voters have fatigue on that or not.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Well, Weiss is going to Make a good run. That's
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: a really tough one to beat out. And frankly, Mattingly,
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: and I saw... Mattingly's been terrific. You know, that's the narrative.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: So Mattingly's going to get a lot of juice. Can
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: I tell you who I would vote for? And I
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: know that people are going to hate this and, you know,
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: maybe chastise me. If they make the playoffs, Tori Lovello
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: wins the manager of the year. for navigating everything with
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: the Burns getting hurt.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: He came back last night.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: And maybe your best player going AWOL and playing craps
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: at the casino while you're playing in the seventh inning.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: That's very fair.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Like that would to me, I would struggle to not
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: give him my vote.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: But he also presided over it.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: That's true.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: He let him have it. He could have let it happen.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: He could have let it happen. Well, so it's like
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: that happens on your watch as well.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: So, yes, he gets credit for overcoming it, but you
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: created the environment where your best player won AWOL.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: That's true. It could be.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Whether that was, you know. I think it's hard to
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: blame him for Marte. I'm just saying.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: But I get your point. It's a good devil's advocate
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: to the conversation.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: That's the thing. Because you would. You have to go
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: devil on the shoulder of both sides.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Mattingly took over a team that was in complete disarray. Now, granted,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: they were a really good team that was underachieving. And that,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: but that's a narrative like, okay, Manning, look, he put
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: the paddles, this thing. And, you know, they're, if the
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: playoff started today, they'd be hosting the Cubs. Hosting the
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs for three.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: That's what we want.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Diamondbacks are three games behind the Cubs. I want the
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Cubs in the race for the second. On the road
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: in the first round. That would be, that's what I want. Hey, listen,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: there's so many good options because the NL's been so good.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, let's be honest.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: If the playoff started today, it would be what? Diamondbacks, Braves,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: and Phillies, Cubs. Sign me up for those. Just be
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: straight chilling. I'll take two helpings of that. And then
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: the Brewers would play the winner of the Cubs Philadelphia series.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I don't want that.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: I don't want that one. But it is what it is.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're going to face tough teams. If you're
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: going to get to the World Series this year, you're
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: going to have to beat two great teams, wherever they are,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: whoever they are. The NL is absolutely stacked, you know,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: higher than a wedding cake.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Do you want the reference point here of Drew's reference
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: here for the daddy?
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: This was Pedro Martinez. Oh, please do. Referring to the
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Yankees as his daddies. All right, here it is. I
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: thought I pitched a better game today.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: It's just that I made a couple, I made some
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: pretty good pitches and they battled their butt off. And, uh,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Sierra is a good example, hitting good pitches. Matsui did
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: it earlier in the game, too. Abel hit pretty good pitches.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, what can I say? Just tip my hat
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: and call the Yankees my daddies.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: There you have it. A quote that will live in infamy.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: He hit my head and called the Yankees my daddies.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: He said it so matter-of-factly, too. I love that.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Pedro, by the way, has been saying a lot of
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: good things about the Brewers. Loves Murphy.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: He loves. He's an incredible analyst. Yeah, great analyst. He's
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: effusive in his praise of the Brewers.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: But he's fun, he's honest, and he's, I think, very
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: well-versed in what's going.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: On in baseball.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: He was a great guy to cover, man, for sure. Yeah,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: he doesn't just fill a chair. He was riding a
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: roller coaster.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Pedro and I got to hang out with Curtis Granderson
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: a little bit earlier on this year.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: And we got to talk about that show.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: And you can tell how much fun all of those
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: guys do have.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, those were some dogs, too, when you're talking
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: about Jimmy Rollins, Curtis Granderson, 40 home run guy.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Those were loved, too. I mean, as teammates, Pedro, no
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: one liked facing him. No one liked facing him, but
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: everyone loved him in that dugout.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: No doubt about it. He was great in the playoffs.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: He wasn't afraid to stick up. You know, he still
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: was in that... you know, 90s, early 90s, old school,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: where you throw at guys if you needed to.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Some people love that.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: In a world where people like to make fun of
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Dan Orlowski, the career backup quarterback, the number one guy
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: on ESPN, you got three guys that were the dudes
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: on those teams hanging out on that set.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: That is a good show. It is.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: A hot take hump day for us. We're going to
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: have some fun today. Humping hot takes. That will fire up.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: You can reach us, 877-794-1973. Obviously, Brewers will talk Packers
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: as well. maybe even mix in a little college football
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: talk like LSU blinked.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: They folded their hand.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: They don't need pro guys to make a run at
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the college football playoff.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: And they said, we're sorry, we're sorry. Everything's forgotten, right?
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Greg Sankey said, no. We're having a meeting. No.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: No, it's not forgiven. It's not forgiven.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: And Governor Jeff Landry? You might be the reason why
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: we're having that conversation. That's a fun one. This is
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: the first time an SEC member institution actually backed.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Down to anything. Hot takes aplenty.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: We're glad you're hanging out with us.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Five o'clock clubbers. So see pass. Early risers.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: They were outside that health club.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Outside that health club waiting for it to open.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: We're glad you're with us.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: We're running to these microphones to talk about a walk-off win.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: It is amazing how quickly just a little bit of
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: wind in the sails can get you up out of
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: bed and realizing that you get to talk about a
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Brewers victory. And them beating the Cubs is just so
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: much sweeter. Like there's good wins. There's great wins. There's
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: the most important win of the year. I don't know
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: anybody saying that about last night's game. But I do
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: think there'll be a lot of people that say last
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: night's the most satisfying.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Win of the year. It's a good point. Like, we
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: didn't need this one.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: It wasn't going to turn the season around, but it
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: was sure like the most fun win or one of
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: the most fun wins you're going to remember. I mean,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: you think right back that Dodgers comeback obviously is being
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: a pivotal one, an important one. You maybe think about,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: you know, the even last week, getting the two against
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: the Cubs to come back because, you know, that really
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: solidified your division standing. You know, you're winning the division.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: You're going to the playoffs, even if you don't come
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: back and win last night. But boy, was that fun
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: or what? Like, that's the reason you love baseball. It's
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: the reason you love your team. It's the reason you
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: love to watch and follow. It's the reason you enjoy
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: watching this great game that we call baseball. And last
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: night was a great example of when your team does it. Boy,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: was that a lot of fun. And just when you
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: do it against the Cubs. And you get another one tonight.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: And you get another one tonight. You know you have
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: the series. You're going for the sweep. It's kind of like,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: can you get that extra piece of dessert tonight? And
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: you just don't know what the game has in store
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: for you. And that's what's so great about these games. Yeah.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: These Brewers Cubs games.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Tonight does feel like what slice of pie am I
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: going with, right? You already filled up on Thanksgiving. Now
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: you got to decide, am I going to go, God,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: there's a pecan pie. There's a pumpkin pie. But Aunt
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Marge brought that apple pie, and you know that that
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: thing smacks with a little bit of ice cream.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: So now you're just debating which one you're going to have. Yeah,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: it's dessert. It's not about sustenance anymore. We've eaten the
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: meal we need to.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: It's just about getting fat. You may have already had one.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: You're wondering, I end up the second.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Piece at this point. It's just about getting fat and
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: pushing the blood sugar and all that stuff. And I'm
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: good at that one. Yeah, and I'm good at that one.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: The Dodgers comeback is a tough one for me to
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: overlook as like the biggest one because you had just
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: gotten swept by San Diego.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: That was a big win.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: And if there was a time that the naysayers were rolling, Drew,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: and you had to let, as Reese Davis would say,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: let a naysayer know, that would have been it. That
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: was it to be able to come back against L.A.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: That night.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Every game has kind of an inflection point, and that
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: was it for the season. It was that series in L.A.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: after getting just frustrating and up against it and to
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: bounce back and to win that series.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: That was it. And it was, you know, again, media
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: starts with me. He taught us that one very well.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: That was, for us, maybe the one that brought the
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: most wind in our sails because we had Packers OT
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: that night talking about a long preseason game.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: God, of a preseason game. We got to watch the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Brewers and Dodgers the whole night.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Otherwise, we would have missed the entire comeback of that night.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: We would have had to watch it on the recap.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of great stories that happened through
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: a baseball season. Last night's a good one. And Carson
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Kelly's standing at second base. fired up after a lace
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: and a double off the wall and then you come
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: back and yeah send them home sad that's a tough
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: way to be able to live we got really quick
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: we got just man on youtube reporting for duty 5m
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: club number 99 just man what up just man love
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: how the announcers called the jackson biggie yeah that ba
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: was all over it and bob wolfgram senior let's sweep
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: him today on facebook all right bobby you got a sweep.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Would be all right senior push the lead up to
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: 10 just for good measure Why not? We like round numbers,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: don't we? In the three, what is it? It'll be
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the three years that Craig has been gone, right? Murph?
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: That's right. Manager of the year twice.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Now, I'm predisposed to say he ain't winning a third
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: in a row. That's just a really, really tough thing
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: to win. And I don't think, I mean, you can
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: make a case he deserves it, but it's not a
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: travesty if he doesn't win this year.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Correct. Yes.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: There's very deserving candidates around the league.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: He led the team to the best record in baseball.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: It's like, yeah. which was what he did last year.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: So it's like, yes, yes.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: So is there an expectation there? Voters love a narrative.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: They love that Mattingly parachuted in and put the paddles
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: to a team that I actually thought Rob Thompson was
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: a good manager, but he was just, they were just
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: scuffling and they fired him and it worked.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Rob Thompson took him to the World Series, right?
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, he was the Mattingly that took him in.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: And Rosenthal was talking about it yesterday, Drew, and said
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: it like, you know, there shouldn't be voter fatigue. They
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: outdid expectations again. Well, maybe the problem's not the fatigue.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's the expectations. Maybe it's your prognostications as to
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: where we're putting.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: This every single year. Everybody says they're going to win 82.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe you're the problem here. They lost Peralta. It's like,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: are you not paying attention?
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Like, you know, they also lost Quinn Priester, a name
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: you haven't heard, and Brandon Woodruff.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: And Woody.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: That's the amazing thing about this franchise. So three of
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: your mainstay starters from last year, like the, you know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: that you're banking on. Now, I don't want to get
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: too excited, but Adam McAlvey... Get excited. Adam McAlvey did say, today, Wednesday,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: is Wednesday.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: The start of week number three for Brandon Woodruff's super
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: special secret growing program that apparently he's doing right now.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: This is, again, the moment where right now, That would be...
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: September 9th, this is the time where he would get
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: the flexor strain. This is where he would start getting
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: hurt and you'd realize you're not.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Going to have Woody.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Don't you feel like he's just getting ready to throw
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: out a first pitch before a playoff game? If he
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: throws out the first pitch of game one and that's
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: all he does, I'm fine with it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: I think that's in the cards. I'd be totally fine
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: with it. I'd be fired up if that place got
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: to send him off. I honestly just think his presence
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: in the dugout would help, even if he's not in
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: the active roster.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? For sure. But you're right.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: If he threw out the first pitch, although I don't
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: know if Yeah, I mean, that's awesome. I know he
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: wants to pitch in real games like that's in his mind,
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: but you're right, Billy. Well, but even if it ends
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: up being a one inning thing and that's all he
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: can do. Exactly. What if he was your opener and
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: then it's piggybacked by somebody, right?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Like, I mean, the psychological impact of him, Willis reading
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: it out there. Well, yeah, it would be in it
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: of itself.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: You got to do it at home for the crowd pop.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's fair.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: You can't, you can't waste that one somewhere else. Can't
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: waste that one. It's a long Kenosha.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Good morning, everyone.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Great experience and confidence builder for the young players last night. Well,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: it's one thing to get your confidence built after you
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: make the play. But when the manager walks up to
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: you with the translator, that's my favorite part. Because as
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: a translator, you have a very important job. You have
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: to translate Murph's message with that same, but it's.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Not just that, Billy. You have to do it with
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the same vigor, gusto.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: And verve that Pat did it. When he's tapping you
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: on the chest saying, are you ready?
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Are you ready? And you know- I believe in you. Yes,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I believe in you. Is that what he said?
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to get the rest of the translation here.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Another piece of confidence, if anyone is worried, by the way,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: about the National League Central, which it shouldn't be, it
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: looks like it's off the board now upon a lot
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: of me in the future.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: You can't even bet it anymore. Can't even bet it?
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: That's good news. Unless they're just adjusting it right now
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: and they're going to repost it.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: The thing with Murph, though, is last year was the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: power of friendship. How about the power of communication? Murph's
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: telling him, hey, we believe in you. Kid goes up, delivers.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Mitchell camped under a fly ball and Shurio's screaming at him, tagging, tagging, tagging.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: And he comes up and throws a laser.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: You know, because otherwise you might have lollipopped it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: It's a good call. Good point. I didn't even see it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: That is, you know, the communication. Now, fired up those
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: guys get.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Like, I think it's kind of, you know, Luis Lara's
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: brought that extra special intensity to the outfield.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: When he makes a play. Now, Garrett Mitchell's doing it.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: He's fired up when he made the play. Like, I
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: just love that.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: This is one from one of the grainy VSH tapes of.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Harmon's youth, but he's got some Ben Ogilvie qualities. Yeah, yeah.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Ben Ogilvie's nickname was Spider-Man because he had kind of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: like unorthodox movements and stuff.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Very gangly like ways to go.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Lara's a little bit Spider-Man-esque. Not as tall, but yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit. He's rangy like that. He'll get smoother,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: but he's making plays that we've seen other guys. Corey
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Hart notoriously was not great going back on balls. No,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: he's not good.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Especially early in his career. But, you know, you adjust
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: to those things. And hopefully, I mean, Jackson has.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: You can very easily understand why they saw and said, yeah,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: we got some great prospects, but let's make sure that
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Lara is one of the ones that we get up
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: under that contract pretty quickly. I'm still waiting for him
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: to hit his first real homer. I know the first
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: one was.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Is that when you're going to buy the freaking jersey? No,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I got to get to the game. What else does
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: he have to do here? I don't really, unless I
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: haven't seen it, I haven't found the regular. I'm getting
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: the t-shirt, not the jersey. The t-shirt.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Is your wife not warm enough? No, she is important
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: and she'll wear it. But I don't think, she's not
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: going to wear a jersey. I think a t-shirt for sure, though,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: is definitely good enough. T-shirt, jersey, the jersey, you know.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: That's fine.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I mean- I don't need to buy- All right, so
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: he's only got the one homer, and it was off
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: a position guy.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: But what about the- I don't want to DHK it.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I don't want to DHK it. What about the seven
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: doubles and two triples? No, that's great. That's great. Apparently,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: that's not good enough. That's not good enough. Slugging matters.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I want to see him get a real- You know
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: what's petite enough?
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: You could probably get away with the kids jersey and
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: save 40 bucks. I thought about the kids. We're still-
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: I got to get to the store and check them out,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: you know? He's got a positive war and 168 plate appearances.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Into his career. Oh, he's been awesome.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: People go back and like, okay, so what did PCA
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: do in his first 168 plate appearance?
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, I like that. Probably maybe a little less than what?
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: He's been, you know, Luis has been great. And then
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: the war has been there. Yeah. I don't think he'll
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: ever have the power of some of those guys have,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: but he didn't need to, you know, you.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Don't think he'll ever have the power.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: You don't think he's going to grow into it a
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: little bit?
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Did you see Giannis when he arrived in town? Yeah,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: but I don't think Lars is going to hit 40
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: home runs. No, I don't think Lars is going to
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: get 40 homers ever. I don't think he's that kind
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: of guy. I mean, maybe I'm wrong. Not yet.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: All right, I'd love to be wrong. Maybe he'll go
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: 40-40 next year, guys.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: He's a smaller dude, but I don't know.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: El Tuve figured it out. El Tuve did it. Don't
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: know that size matters. Height matters. I like how optimistic
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: you're being about it. I love that. That's great.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Well, no, you're just typecasting like you did with Sal
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Freeland pretty quick.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at a kid who's 21, and I know
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: that you get that man strength.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: You talk about dad strength. He's still going to get
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: that second growth spurt.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I don't need him to do it.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: He still hasn't even gotten the wheat boost from drinking
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: beer yet.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I don't need him to do it.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: He's fully formed and looks like he's not, you know,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: he's like. His growth plates might be full. But yeah,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: even Cooper Pratt's going to put on muscle and stuff.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: He's going to get bigger.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Bryce Durant, what was it?
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: It was second or third year into the big leagues
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: where he really started to find some of his power.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: And it was a lot of, it's not like he
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: got markedly bigger, but he grew into his own power
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden hits 25 to 30. I
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: also think, Armin, you should look for the Air Lara shirt.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: That Breaking Tea has going on. I like that one
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: a lot. I'm thinking about that one. More importantly, it's $ 30.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: So I think that one is much more in your
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: wheelhouse than anything else that.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: You're going with.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: There's somebody on Etsy that's got to be making one
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: for like, you know. You don't want.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: To put a couple of bucks in his pocket with
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the Players Association? I'll spend $ 30 on a t-shirt for sure. Armin,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: to your point, though, like the first two years and
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: to Billy's, like the first two years that Terang was
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: hitting five, six, seven homers.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he turned around totally. I mean, he's become a
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: hitter that I didn't see coming. Well, and that was
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: in his 23 and 24 seasons.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden now he's got a
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: baseline of where you expect him to hit 20.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, his OPS was like in the 500. Bryce Durant,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, was the biggest hole in
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: the lineup. It was a great defender, but it was like,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: all right, well, this guy's not going to hit.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he was also 23-24 figuring it out. Exactly.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: As Lara figures it out and gets stronger. Well, J.J.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Hardy's a good example, too. He didn't show much early
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: on offensively, and then all of a sudden he exploded.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: But I also don't think men, I mean, maybe I
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: am wrong.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Maybe there are a lot of 22, 23, 24-year-olds hitting
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: 35 bombs a year. Well, PCA, that's the whole point.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: We compared him to that. I don't think he's going
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: to do that. That's my only point. I'm not saying
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: he doesn't.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Have more to grow or more to do in his career.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: He's going to be doing more. He's got a great future.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Anybody saw that from PCA with power?
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: I honestly don't know about his prospect ratings on power
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: and all that stuff.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: But you're probably right. No one saw him. No one's
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: projecting that he's going to be Andrew Fisher, right? But
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: he'll hit some homers.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I believe that. I think we have more to come
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: from him. I just never thought of him as like...
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: You just wanted to sell him. No, this is not
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: about trying to downplay Luis.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I love Luis Lara.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Right now, he's a good hitter, and his defense is
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: probably two best attributes. But he's, you know, and he's
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: shown speed and intensity and intangibles.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I just don't know how much power to expect.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: If it happens, though, and that's the next stage of
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: his game, boy, would that be amazing. That would be
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: a huge coup for the Brewers because that's kind of,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: I don't want to say found money, but. Boy, would
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: that make his value go crazy. Because he's already a
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: very valuable player because of his outfield abilities. And it's
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: hard to get him out consistently. Can we just bask
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: in the glow one final time of just how bad
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: that challenge was by Matt Shaw?
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Ooh.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Try, try.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: The bestest.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: I had Levering and Grindle tapped in on the earpiece
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: because I was trying to fall asleep. I was trying
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: to be responsible. I was trying to fall asleep. May
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: or may not have turned off the game with like
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: an hour or two to go in the bottom of
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: the ninth inning and just saw it luckily on the iPad.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: But Jeff Levering just goes, and that's the worst challenge
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: you'll see all year. Just as bluntly as possible, and
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: I would struggle to see a different one. The ABS
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: challenge is like, besides its ability to get calls right,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: which is why we originally wanted it. Its ability to
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: add this twist to the game to disrespect players.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: It's so funny. It's just hilarious.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Just to be able to make fun and embarrass players
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: or vice versa. It's just added a lot to the
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: game in that sense. So I guess I have to
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: give Bob Manfred a tip to my cap on that one.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: The hot take hump machine is going to fire up.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: What a deeper look. A little lazy fly ball into
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: left center field. Mitchell makes the catch. Suzuki's going to tag.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Mitchell's got a.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Good arm to catch the tag.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: And he's out!
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: See ya!
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Garrett Mitchell! Guns down Suzuki! It's a double play! What
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: a throw by Mitchell. And how about David.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: Hamilton putting the tag on, keeping it on there.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: I think it came off the bag. But Hamilton kept
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: the tag on him. What a throw.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Letting run at third.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: Brian Anderson, Bill Schroeder, and a cast of thousands now.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I didn't go to either of the first two games
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: of this series. I didn't really feel like I missed
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: anything on Labor Day because, you know, I was getting
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: cool and hanging out in the neighborhood. Feeling good in
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood. Good day to be at home. But last night, again, Fimo,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: fear I missed out. I would have liked to have
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: been in the house, but then I knew I would
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: have to leave early and I would have missed the
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: comeback and all the machinations.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: But I was going to be in a sweet... I
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: was going to say, that's pretty sweet. Rubbing elbows with
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: some people in the legal profession.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: And I didn't go.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: I did the tap dance all day where I thought
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: about it. And I asked my wife a couple of times, like,
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: do you think we should go? And I got the
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: one look of... Well, you can go.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, emotional damage. And we know what that means. That
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: means good luck. That means good luck.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Because we do know football season's around the corner.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: And I already know that you're going to be MIA
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: for the next six months. Yeah, why not? Why not
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: go to the ballgame? Yeah, go to the ballgame. You
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: want to go? You want to just go? Or you
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: could be here and put the kids to bed. We
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: could go. Yeah, nice try on that one.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: We.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Amongst the highlights of last night, you heard the defensive
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: play by Mitchell.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Miz looked like Miz again. We didn't even talk about that.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Pumping 104, 103. Shaky first inning. And he looked a
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: little frustrated. 25 pitch first inning. But then he ends
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: up going six and a third. Limited it to one
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: run that they scored in the first. And nine punch outs.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Seemed like a good game plan by the Cubs to
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: at least frustrate him in that first inning.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he was throwing 100-304 again. Now, like this
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: was the high fashion game, right? Now you can just
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: kind of, if he's pitching and they got a chance
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to clinch, Maybe I ride him a little bit.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Now I'm just in maintenance. Like, get him ready. He's
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: not throwing more than 90 pitches in these next couple
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: of starts, right? I don't think so. I don't even
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: know if he gets there. I'd be shocked. Even if
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: he gets there, yeah.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: No, like last night, McGill's thrown two games in a
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: row and given up some runs. He was due because he's,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: get that out of your system, because he had gone
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: 15 scoreless.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Straight.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: And then Ashby was pitching. I think he pitches every
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: day now. And, like, he's got to back off of
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: him a little bit. And Hall looks really good in
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: his role because he's really good. But you got to
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: back off Ashby and ramp him back up, but just
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: lay off him for a little bit. Let him put
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: some more gas in the tank. And then Miz, like
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: I said, if there's a chance to clinch and Miz
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: can go deep, okay. But everything is just getting ready now.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: You're treating these last 16 games like the last week
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: of spring training.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: I was going to say Sproat, maybe a Coleman Crow. Hell,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Thomas Pannone might deserve one. Now, he's not on the 40-man,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: so maybe we can't get him up here. Thomas Pannone's getting.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: A World Series ring. He pitched a game for the
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Brewers this year. Oh, that's true. Yes, he did. He
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: pitched a game. He started the game, and the Laws
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: got crushed by San Francisco.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: They got rung.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: It was like 14-2. Appreciate your service.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he pitched the game, so he'll get a ring. Frankly,
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: come on up for the celebration. But I think I
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: got it circled here, Drew. That run in Pittsburgh, he'll
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: start the middle game. Him and Henderson, the last two. That,
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: to me, feels like a spot where they very much
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: could be clinching, right? With the look of the division
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: and that be it. And I've heard some people mention
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: the 2021 Brewers as a cautionary tale of you don't
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: wasting through to the playoffs. Luckily, the run in the
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: race for the one seat, I think, is going to
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: keep them engaged enough. But this is about making sure
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: that you're healthiest and most prepared for the postseason.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: And it wouldn't just be this.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: I don't believe it would just be these last couple
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: of months, or last couple of weeks. Because you've heard
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: for the last couple of months, Matt Arnold and, frankly,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Murph kind of mentioned it like, yeah, we definitely want
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: to be, we're winning every night, we're hoping here. But
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: we're going to be extra careful and give maybe Logan
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Henderson an extra three weeks because we want to make
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: sure that he's ready for October. We want to see
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: if we can hold Kyle Harrison's arm and velocity. Now,
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: maybe that one didn't work very well by giving him
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: an extra couple of weeks. I think they've been crowbarring
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: some of these through where it's not just a, hey,
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: now we're here.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Reach the finish line. Let's hang out for the next
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: week and a half. It's this.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Been slowly doing some of these processes to get ourselves
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: ready and be as well prepared and much of a
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: well-oiled machine as you possibly can be when you go
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: and play finally in that division.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Series. Absolutely.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: We've got, I mean, it's just, it's, it's, it's a
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: good problem, right? Well, we got to navigate that week off.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: How do you do it? Well, that's a good problem.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: I would urge them to have one of those big
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: scrimmages again. Or one of those, what do they do,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: like an open practice.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Kind of thing?
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: That was a phenomenal way of getting the folks in
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: and have some fun.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I could see that happening again. Why not? Also, do
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: we know what the tagline on the team is yet?
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I think we're a little late for it to be.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: T-minus three weeks before the playoffs start. Do we have
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: a slogan?
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: I think it's too late.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: I don't know. We just don't need one. No slogan
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: should be the slogan.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: How about that? Well, okay, we'll come up with something
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: for the playoffs. I don't know what we do. I
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: think they need to. I know, but at this point. Yeah,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: at this point, I don't know.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Most important run is still here. Most important month is
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: still ahead of you.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: It'll be the baby brewers. All right, get your hot
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: takes ready. We're going to start humping those directly. Thanks
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: for being in the 5 o'clock club. We welcome the
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: 6 o'clock clubbers.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Next, you're in the huddle, Fox Bank.