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08/28/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: And the Indians didn't rally to time.
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  Speaker 2: Hollander wouldn't get another at bat.
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  Speaker 1: But he takes care of it right there.
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  Speaker 2: 39 in a row. How about that? That is something.
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  Speaker 3: Armin with a little stroll down memory lane here on
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  Speaker 3: What were we listening to, Armin? Yeah, 39 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was under the impression it was 39 years
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  Speaker 1: ago yesterday, but I actually got the date wrong, I
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  Speaker 1: learned this morning. It was 39 years ago, two days ago.
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  Speaker 1: There was a wrong listing on the internet, so I'll
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  Speaker 1: blame someone else. Paul Mulder's 39th hit in a row
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  Speaker 1: in 1987. As you know, one of the longest streaks
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  Speaker 1: in the modern era, Drew, in 87, was Paul Mulder's 39th.
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  Speaker 3: 39-game hitting streak.
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  Speaker 1: It ended the next night when Rick Manning, unfortunately, won
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 3: Team streak. People had that.
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  Speaker 1: But pretty cool. And that was August 20, I guess 25th.
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  Speaker 3: So he had 39 in a row. Pretty amazing. Rick Manning,
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  Speaker 3: one of the only players ever to be booed after
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  Speaker 3: hitting a walk-off hit in his home park.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that that was almost 40 years ago, too?
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  Speaker 1: That's hard to believe. But yeah, Rick Manning got booed
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  Speaker 1: for walking him off.
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  Speaker 3: The next night. Right. Uh, Bruce beat the Mets last night,
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  Speaker 3: eight to two in a game highlighted by Jackson Cheerios,
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  Speaker 3: two dingers, four hits. He was four for five, scored
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  Speaker 3: four runs, drove in for, it was the Jackson Cheerio game,
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  Speaker 3: which is saying something. Cause every time Ms. Pitches, it's
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  Speaker 3: a Ms. Game. Yeah. And Mizorowski pitched. Well, it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of sale went crazy last night, but Ms. Is still
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  Speaker 3: kind of the leader in the clubhouse for, the ERA title.
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  Speaker 3: He's at one. He's in the Cy Young award. He's
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  Speaker 3: at 1.73 for his ERA.
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  Speaker 1: It ticked up a bit last night. Cause he gave
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  Speaker 1: up the runs, but it threw a six. But when
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  Speaker 1: you have that low, but ERA, any run is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a threshold.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then I don't know how that, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it was Hamilton's in air. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: go check all that and the scoring and stuff like
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  Speaker 1: that to see if the throw home and that inning was,
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  Speaker 1: was counted. But, Whatever it is, yeah, his ERA is
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  Speaker 1: still remarkable, sparkling, you know, sale there. Sanchez, Chris Sanchez
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  Speaker 1: is still there because of the volume of what he's pitched,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it's Miz's to lose. He's minus 2,000
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  Speaker 1: right now for the Cy Young.
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  Speaker 3: There was an error on Ortiz in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so they didn't give him.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, interesting. They didn't give Hamilton. No. Brewers' magic number
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  Speaker 3: is 22. They got the Rangers. Cubs and Reds, as
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  Speaker 3: Brewers will know, they lead by seven in the division
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  Speaker 3: right now. They lead the Dodgers by three in the
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  Speaker 3: race for the best record. In the National League, which
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  Speaker 3: is also important, finishing with one of the top two records.
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  Speaker 3: So they're in good shape. Magic number 22. They play
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  Speaker 3: the Rangers beginning this weekend. And then we mentioned Monday
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  Speaker 3: starts the tournament. Seven games against Cubs in 10 days.
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  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973 is the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. And guess what?
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  Speaker 3: Ken in the Falls is on line one. Ken's always up.
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  Speaker 3: He's up and around. Usually this is the time he
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  Speaker 3: goes to bed. But he's up and wants to talk
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  Speaker 3: about the Brewers. Good morning, Ken.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. No, I'm always up early. This morning, though,
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  Speaker 2: I'm up early because my brother's having open-heart surgery, so
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  Speaker 2: I had to take him this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Best wishes to your brother, Ken.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully all that goes well.
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  Speaker 1: We're thinking about you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Hopefully all that goes well. Thank you. The
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  Speaker 2: kid's battled through a lot. You guys met him. He
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  Speaker 2: was at one of the last events that we were at.
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  Speaker 2: He had his young son with him.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: He's a diehard Wisconsin sports fan, to say the least.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, with all that being said... The Brewers, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what an amazing team when you look at them and
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  Speaker 2: all the adversity injury-wise that they've gone through this year.
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  Speaker 2: And they've just been able to figure it out. Between
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  Speaker 2: GM Arnold and the skipper Murph, they just continue to
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  Speaker 2: press ahead with what they got. They go, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: We'll figure it out. We'll bring in the guys that
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  Speaker 2: we need to keep this train moving in the right direction.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when they overcame the Cubs months ago, They
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  Speaker 2: just continued to push ahead in a manner that I
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  Speaker 2: don't think anybody in baseball could have ever imagined. You
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  Speaker 2: look at all the injuries this team has had and
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  Speaker 2: still does have. It's just incredible. But now they're getting healthy.
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  Speaker 2: And as they get healthier... they just play better. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're figuring out the RISP. Yeah, they've struggled a little
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  Speaker 2: bit in the last few games, but figuring that part
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  Speaker 2: of the game out and being able to slap the
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  Speaker 2: ball around the diamond, you know, I know their big
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  Speaker 2: knock is that they don't have enough big home run hitters,
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  Speaker 2: but all these guys on this team can hit the
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  Speaker 2: ball out of the park, not necessarily on cue, but
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  Speaker 2: they can do it. So obviously, I'll take a team
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  Speaker 2: that could slap the ball around the diamond and just
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  Speaker 2: keep pecking away and beating down pitching staff. They force
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  Speaker 2: pitching staff into very precarious situations because they've got to
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  Speaker 2: use their bullpens quicker. And these guys are just great
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  Speaker 2: at taking pitches. Their play presence is incredible. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's so fun to watch them and see how they're
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  Speaker 2: doing and knowing that they're the best team in baseball.
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  Speaker 2: This is truly a special season and could be very
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  Speaker 2: well played. A World Series winning season.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my. All right, Ken, I like that. Ken, dropping
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  Speaker 3: some optimism on us. We love it. Yeah, thanks, Ken.
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  Speaker 3: And the vibrations are strong right now. Brewers have overcome
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  Speaker 3: a lot. Well, they have. He's right.
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  Speaker 1: And every team has injuries over the course of a year,
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  Speaker 1: but the Brewers have done well to... Winning in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of all those things.
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  Speaker 3: Not only injuries, but overcoming this massive Yellich slump and
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  Speaker 3: the Contreras drought. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Like any sort of rough waters, they've managed to win
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  Speaker 1: through it.
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  Speaker 3: As we pointed out yesterday, and Ken makes a good point, though,
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  Speaker 3: the resilience. When your starting pitcher comes out and throws
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  Speaker 3: one pitch and leaves the game, most teams, that screws
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  Speaker 3: you up for that game and the three after it.
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  Speaker 3: And they overcame that. Yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So hopefully they got lucky because Dustin may be able
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  Speaker 3: to pitch in a couple of days, but, and now
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  Speaker 3: they have everything lined up. So Ms is going to
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  Speaker 3: pitch twice against the Cubs in the, in the seven
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  Speaker 3: game tournament that's coming up next week. It's like they
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  Speaker 3: got everything lined up. They're going to, it's as good
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  Speaker 3: a position as they can be in. That's what, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and do we know, no hashtag baseball is the most
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  Speaker 3: random and cruel sport that there is when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to the post season. but they're putting themselves in the
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  Speaker 3: best position they can. Indeed, and he's right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the flip side of it is, I'll say this,
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  Speaker 1: the one thing I kind of push back on is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it says the weakness of the power bats
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  Speaker 1: not hitting home runs, they all can.
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  Speaker 3: Hit the ball, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Any major leaguer can hit the ball at the ballpark,
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  Speaker 1: and the Brewers are no exception. They have guys that
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  Speaker 1: can homer, and they have a couple guys that do,
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  Speaker 1: but if the relative lack of home runs and power
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  Speaker 1: shows up in the playoffs, generally, that is it. you know,
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  Speaker 1: that is something that relates to winning more than anything
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  Speaker 1: else in the playoffs. So that could be a problem
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  Speaker 1: come playoff time. If they don't hit home runs, I
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  Speaker 1: like the team.
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  Speaker 3: They are.
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  Speaker 1: I like the way they overcome it. He's absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: We do the small market rallies. We have a lot of,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hits. We put pressure on pitchers, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of walks. Those are all good things, and that's
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  Speaker 1: a big reason why we win so many games. But
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  Speaker 1: those things can dry up in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: So that is the one concern I'll say. That is
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  Speaker 1: a real concern. I mean, they can hit homers. That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean they do it. And they should hit more
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs if they can.
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  Speaker 3: We talked about it yesterday because they had that inning
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  Speaker 3: where they got six straight hits. Yeah. That's unlikely in
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs. And then later in that game, Terang hit
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  Speaker 3: a three-run homer to put it away. And it's rare
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  Speaker 3: to do it consistently. Both are nice, but give me
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  Speaker 3: the three-run homer.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, the thing is, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: win the World Series, which the Brewers do, you have
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  Speaker 1: to have multiple days of that.
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  Speaker 3: Brewers are one of, I think, three or four teams
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  Speaker 3: in the major leagues this year that does not have
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  Speaker 3: they don't have a grand slam. But yet they do
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  Speaker 3: have a bunch of three run. Yeah, that's kind of
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  Speaker 3: they're like near the top and three run homers. But
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  Speaker 3: they were one of the only teams without a grand slam.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little quirky, but obviously the less homers you had,
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  Speaker 1: the less chances you have for grannies. But, I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: that's a real concern. I wouldn't put it aside and
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  Speaker 1: say it's no big deal. No, it is something. But
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  Speaker 1: to Ken's point, you are who you are, and this
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  Speaker 1: team is good and wins because of other things.
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  Speaker 3: Again, as long as everybody, like, as long as they
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  Speaker 3: can avoid, and it's the small sample, but if everybody's
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  Speaker 3: rolling and they're playing the way you expect, again, like,
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  Speaker 3: can you win? They can win playoff series if Yelich
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  Speaker 3: and Contreras struggle. As long as someone else steps up, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's the thing. Got to have a couple guys hot.
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  Speaker 1: And there are definitely guys on this team that have that, like,
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  Speaker 1: to his point, that can hit homers.
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  Speaker 3: I think Churio is that guy. Churio had, like, one
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  Speaker 3: of the best nights of his career last week. And
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  Speaker 3: I was reminded again, because we start to take it
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  Speaker 3: for granted, he's 22. 22 years old.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Churio, Bowers, Terrain.
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  Speaker 3: It's almost like people think he is what he is, and, well,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be a 2020 guy. That's the floor.
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  Speaker 3: That's just it. He's going to be 30, 30, or 40,
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  Speaker 3: 40 someday. Right? And it's like, that is... It's really remarkable.
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  Speaker 3: It's remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get a guy like him.
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  Speaker 3: And he signed for, again, you don't have to worry
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  Speaker 3: about it, for like 10 years. Oh, what amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Or at least through 2033. Well, and that's what the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers were hoping with Laura and Pratt, too. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you spike those early deals. But the second one, the
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  Speaker 1: second homer, the way he turned that ball around, tomahawked
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  Speaker 1: it out, was just an incredible piece of hitting skill.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and talent and quick hands. his inside arm
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  Speaker 1: was not even extended. I mean, the way he kept
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  Speaker 1: the elbow and he had to keep it in and
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  Speaker 1: just Tomahawked it right at his eyes, back across the
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  Speaker 1: line drive rope, pulled it. That was one of the
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  Speaker 1: most impressive pieces of hitting you'll ever see to go
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  Speaker 1: up and get that ball. So yes, Ken's right. Like
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers have guys that can hit home runs. They've
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  Speaker 1: showed their ability to have power. The lack of frequency
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  Speaker 1: in which it happens isn't a concern, but you roll
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  Speaker 1: with it. Your team is based on great pitching, and
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  Speaker 1: you hope that those things are enough to get you
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  Speaker 1: through and win enough games in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: So, Jack Centurio, I mentioned, 22. He hit two home
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: runs in a game last night. Brewers have another 22-year-old,
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Fisher. Oh, my goodness. Who hit three homers at
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  Speaker 3: Class A Biloxi last night. Yeah, AA, right? I'm sorry. Yeah, AA. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: AA Biloxi. They win 8-1, and he hit. His first
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  Speaker 3: homer last night was his 40th of the season.
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  Speaker 1: 40 homers in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 3: And then he hit two more. Yeah, unbelievable. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's the most home runs in the minor leagues since
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Howard hit 46 in 2004.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and the funny thing is, like, he's been so
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  Speaker 1: good down there, and he's another one of the names
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about, Andrew Fisher. And you mentioned he's 22,
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  Speaker 1: and that might feel so old because the other guys
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  Speaker 1: that have come up have been so much younger. But
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  Speaker 1: that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's, you know, remember a guy who played
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  Speaker 3: at Duke, so he's a college guy.
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  Speaker 1: A guy that's going to be ready to be next
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  Speaker 1: year whenever it is. And I know we're anxious to
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  Speaker 1: get these kids up and stuff, but he's another one
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  Speaker 1: that's just had an incredible, incredible season.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, 22 years old.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be in the mix next year. 40 homers.
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  Speaker 3: He struck out 167 times.
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  Speaker 1: Not great, but as you know, this is an era
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  Speaker 1: where that's less important.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: His OPS this year in Appleton was 11-19, which is ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: and it's 9-76 right now in Biloxi. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of excitement for him as well now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, if you think about all the
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  Speaker 3: guys that we have. He's slugging 6-46, and his OPS
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  Speaker 3: is 1.045. Just nuts. I mean, that's just, you think
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  Speaker 3: about it and then you think about Mata, you think
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  Speaker 3: about the potential for all these guys to come up.
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  Speaker 3: So it's, it's great to be a brewer.
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  Speaker 1: You're rich in, you're an embarrassment of riches and talent
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  Speaker 1: right now in young talent, because it's great to be
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: a Brewers fan because they've been able to win at
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  Speaker 1: the big league level. They've had this talent, rich farm,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: you know, growing this orchard of trees to take the
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  Speaker 1: next bite, so to speak, to, to use a cliche.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And yeah, it's fantastic. What a year he's had.
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  Speaker 1: If the Brewers weren't so stacked right now in the
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  Speaker 1: big club, they probably would.
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  Speaker 3: Have brought him up at some point this year, right?
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  Speaker 1: Am I wrong, Drew? Maybe not so quickly, but... Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they probably would. It seems like they might have taken
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  Speaker 1: a chance late here in the season to... But there's
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  Speaker 1: no room for him right now.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: There's no room for him.
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  Speaker 3: This is crazy. What a year, though.
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  Speaker 1: To hit 40 in a minor league season is not easy.
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  Speaker 3: So that was impressive last night. Last night was the
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  Speaker 3: Cheerio game in the big leagues, and of course, Miz...
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  Speaker 3: who battled that mound and didn't have his best stuff.
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  Speaker 3: He's slipping around out there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting a little tougher now with the grounds crew.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: Telling him to come fix it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was pretty wild.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you guys look at this here.
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  Speaker 3: Fix this, please. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I remember last year, this year was Angel Stadium. He
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: said the mound in Anaheim was the worst in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Not afraid to say it. But then, so with
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  Speaker 3: his velo down, what does he do? You're right. He pitches,
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: throws other pitches. He wasn't blowing guys away. Slider. Mixing
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: that slider in more. Another quality start for him. So
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  Speaker 3: as we mentioned, the magic number for the Brewers is
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  Speaker 3: now 22. If you want to focus on that, that's
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  Speaker 3: the simplest thing, right? Which is fun to do. On
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  Speaker 3: days when the Brewers win and the Cubs lose, that's
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  Speaker 3: a double. But yeah, any combination of 22 victories by
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  Speaker 3: the Brewers or losses by the Cubs gives the Brewers
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  Speaker 3: the division. 22 with 28 games to play.
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  Speaker 1: And just to clinch a playoff berth, it's even smaller.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't even have to worry about that because
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers are in such a great position. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to waltz into that soon here in the next coming week.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Pretty good.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Don't be walk. He said the Grateful Dead unis. The
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  Speaker 1: Shuckers were were also pretty sweet. I didn't realize that.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I missed that in the highlight. They were
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  Speaker 1: some Grateful Dead. I love the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 3: Good for them. You're pretty cool. Yeah, that's pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty cool. Derek and Whitewater.
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  Speaker 1: Do we have to make sure the Miz pitches at
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: home in the playoffs that we can? I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you have to worry about that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you probably will. But I mean, if if you
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  Speaker 3: have home field advantage, it's game one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like.
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  Speaker 1: He so he will i would think harrison's a bigger
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  Speaker 1: deal maybe just because of those splits although that's something
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  Speaker 1: else i probably shouldn't be worried about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah i don't think you should.
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  Speaker 1: But but i could see the at least i could
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  Speaker 1: see the logic in that even though it might be
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  Speaker 1: flawed i could see the logic but i don't think
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: you have to worry about it derrick i think he's
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: going to be good anywhere else i think his point
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: is because.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: He knows the grounds and he knows the mound yeah
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: i mean there are other mounds that he hasn't had
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: trouble with so is that gamesmanship Are they going to
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: make it really soft every time he pitches and let
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: your pitcher deal with it too? But he does land
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: further away than most.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Wasn't Earl Weaver, wasn't that his deal? Several guys were
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: paranoid about that.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: If you had a fast team, you might have the
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: grass shorter. If you had a slow team, you want
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: the grass longer. That's what they used to do. You
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: don't water.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: In front of the mound, and sometimes you get those
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: high hoppers, or if you bunt a lot, you want
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: it softer. Yeah, you can manipulate it to your standards
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: a little bit. How much do you water it? If
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: there's a fast guy, if you have a base dealer
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: and stuff, do you really water and pack down and
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: make a fast running track for him between first and second?
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: Or do you want the water loose?
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Or do you want the dirt loose? So it is
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: a little bit.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: I just think sometimes you can... Little tweaks. You can
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: overthink yourself, too.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: You can, for sure.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: You can really overthink yourself. John on YouTube, happy Packers Friday,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: late 5 a.m.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Check-in. Yes, indeed. Packers final preseason. Yes, Wayne Larrabee joins
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: us at 725. Yes, indeed.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: He's scheduled to join us. The voice of the Packers,
• 15:30
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• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you very much. Johnny Cribbage on YouTube
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: is Ms. Moundiva. I think that's a little tongue-in-cheek. Come on.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I like that, though.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Moundiva. It's like.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's a thing, but I think Johnny's
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: been being funny.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Messing around. It's Friday says Vince.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Sanchez liability or question mark concerns the field. I mean,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: he made a great play last night to end the game.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: That was him, right? Yeah.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Jumping off the jumping off the plate to throw out
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: the any beat a ground ball out last night.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: So he did.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: He's a backup catcher.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know. He is what it is. I mean,
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: I think he's the perfect. He's a great in his role.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: In my opinion, he is absolutely the perfect, the quintessential. Guy,
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: for this pitching staff, a veteran guy. You know, we
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: talked about how great Contreras is with pitchers. Sanchez is fine.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: But he's also, I mean, he's a guy who can
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: give you some thump. He hits a home run once
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: in a while. Big bat, you know, coming in against
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: a lefty reliever.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Last week, he carried their offense last week.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I don't know. The Brewers got some problems. I
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: don't know that Gary Sanchez is in the top 20.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, think of the backup catchers the Brewers used to have. Okay,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: no disrespect to Blanco and Keith Osick and Raul Casanova.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is definitely an upgrade. Somebody made me
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: laugh yesterday when I saw this tweet. I don't know
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: who it was, so I want to give credit.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: But they were.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Talking about how, you know, the Pratt situation, how Murph
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: got on Cooper and, like, Well, he doesn't get on
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Sanchez for not running. And the comment was something like,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: how can you prove he's not running? Well, yeah, he's
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: one of the slowest guys in ball.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: He's just very slow, but he's still running hard.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Like, you can't prove he's not running just because it
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: looks different.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: And I laughed about that one. That was good.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just slow.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: That's pretty funny. It was just pretty good. Pretty funny.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Keep the cards and letters coming. 877-794-1973. We'll talk more
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: about Packers and the Josh Jacobs situation. Yes, that's obviously
• 17:24
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• 18:10
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• 18:18
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• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Armin today. Billy's at a bachelor party in the UP. Wow,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: in the UP. Scott Dolphin's here for halftime.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That's a party, right?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: That's a party.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you, my wife and I are huge UP fans.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: We go up there at least twice a year, every year.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: In fact, last year we went up there and spent
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Christmas on Lake Superior.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: We did, yeah. We kind of have fallen in love
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: with the Upper Peninsula. Well, I spent a month in
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Escanaba one night, let me tell you. Hey-o. No, I mean,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: it is nice.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, then there was obviously Mackinac Island I went
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to once, but UP is an interesting place. They got
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the one highway that goes all the way through. And
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: we took that drive and it was like pouring rain.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: So it was kind of a challenge.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: The pictured rocks, national lakeshore.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: It's a pretty place. I mean, there's no question about it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: And Mackinac Island's cool, but there's too much horse poop.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Last summer, there's a national park in the middle of
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Lake Superior called Isle Royale. And you have to make
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: your reservations like a year in advance.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Really? Yeah, they have one lodge on this island. And
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: we did it.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: And you take a float plane out, and we hiked
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: our butts off out there.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: We were out there a week. It was incredible. Oh,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: that is so cool. There's moose and wolves and people,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: a few people. That's it. Yeah, so that's where Billy is.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of golf involved. Nice. And Billy's going
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: to slide out from the festivities and join me for
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Packers OT tonight. He's going to do that? He'll be
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: at the Packers Cardinals game tonight. Oh, he's addicted to football.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Come on. He loves Bachelor Party, and he is the
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: best man for this gathering.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: But it worked out. I mean, it's relatively close. I
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: don't want to say it's super close, but it's not
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: that bad of a drive.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: He's going to be fine. The Upper Peninsula starts kind
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: of just north of Green Bay. Is it Menominee? Michigan? Yeah.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Laura, I remember I was telling Laura about this, and
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: she was surprised. I'm like, well, we went to Mackinac Island.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: We stopped in Green Bay to eat, and then we
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: were there in an hour where we were going to go. So,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: you know, in Menominee or Marquette, I don't remember where
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: it was, but it was like, it's right there. It'll
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: be a good time. So, yeah, and then tonight, Cole Swindell.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: It's a country night with the Brewers.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Cole Swindell's doing a post-game concert, so it's
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: like kind of what the Admirals do. You get two
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: things for the price of one. You pay your ticket
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: to get in, and you get the ball game and
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: the concert.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Cole Swindell, prolific writer of many hits and performer of many.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's a guy that was, I don't want
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: to say discovered by Luke Bryan, but Luke kind of
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: took him under his wing. He actually worked For Luke,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: I don't know if he was a merch guy or something.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: They went to the same school together and became friends.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: And so that was kind of his pathway to superstars.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I love guys like that because, I don't know, there's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: something cool about, you know, you're looked at as a
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: writer in the industry, but you get discovered as a performer.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: And maybe people didn't believe in you, but somebody believes
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: in you.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: It's just something really cool about that. There were Sigma
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Chi frat brothers at Georgia Southern. Is that what it was? Yeah. Okay.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: And a lot of people think he's wearing a coat.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Wendell hat, but it's actually a Georgia Southern hat that
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: he wears on stage. He had the song of his
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: career with She Had Me at Heads Carolina, which he
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: brought Jodie Messina on to sing on, and that song
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: was just out of this world.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: The one I bumped in with is his Monster hit,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Let Me See You Girl.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Let Me See You Girl. Love is a great hit.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: And he did. He was his merch guy.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: How about that? Started opening shows. That's incredible. Wrote some
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: songs with him.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: There's a little bit of a radio kind of story
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: in there, too. Because, like, how many people on radio
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: started off as promotions or something like that and just
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: kind of kept working? I just love stories like that.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: My partner right now. I was going to say, Shanna. Yeah,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Shanna did it. She did.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: There was that thing I thought of you because of
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: my radio vets, but there was that thing going around, too,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: on Twitter. It's like, what was your first radio job
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and how much you made? You know, everyone was talking
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: about how, like, what a random place they started and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: how they didn't make money in it.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I love the journey. I love the grind.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Well, I made 14 large, 14.5 to be exact, in
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: my first radio job, overnights in the Quad Cities, WHBF,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Rock Island, Illinois.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: And you probably thought you were living on top of
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the world.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: I had rent money and beer money, and I drove
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: a $ 275 beat-up Chevy Impala from the 70s, and I thought,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: what else do I need?
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: What more do you need?
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Everybody lived check to check or rent to rent or
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: whatever you call it back in those days.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Paycheck to paycheck. My first radio paychecks were getting 50
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: bucks to do a 15-minute segment a week with Bob
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: and Brian. Exactly. That's it? That's all they paid you? Well,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: that was 25 years ago.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a big effort, but that's what I started
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: out with. I worked Saturday night, Sunday night producing, and
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: it was like, wow, here I am.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Dude, I did that, too, as part of my first job,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: and I loved doing it. I did the Major League
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Baseball game of the week.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's amazing.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: On a Sunday night baseball on national. It was CBS
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: radio in those days, and I loved that. You had
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: to be, you know, I took great pride in getting
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: us back to the network right on time.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what it is, and so it's pretty cool.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, everyone's got that. But then everyone
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: says the same thing. Oh, that was my favorite time
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: when we were just starting. And, you know, your eyes
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: are bright and you're hopeful and all that.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: It was the 80s for me, man. I had a
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: lot of fun before I settled down and.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Got married and had kids.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: That's just it. I didn't know what true happiness was.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Then I got married and had kids and it was
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: too late. The Glinton Dolbs. Hey, listen.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: You know, his first job, I had a tiny little apartment.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: You had a crappy car in a tiny apartment, like
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: no responsibilities.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Walking distance down the street to my favorite bar, the
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Rock Island Brewing Company, who always brought in national headline
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: entertainment on a Friday night. It was just a fun
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: time to be alive.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: It was funny because the funny thing for me is like,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: you know, you're in college and it's your first job
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and you're working these odd hours and it's a unique job.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Like your friends might be at a cubicle from nine
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: to five with their first job. And, you know, it's
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Saturday night, and, you know, they're just, you know, they're out.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, this is why I'm working. And
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: it's like, you get off at midnight, and your.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Friends are calling you.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Like, where are you?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I'm at work.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: It's so funny. It's just such a unique experience. I'd
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: get off at 530 in the morning, and then I
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: would go. I worked for Godfather's Pizza. You remember Godfather's Pizza?
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I'd go there and make dough and chop up vegetables
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: in the morning.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: That's an amazing second job.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: It was fun. I got to work by myself, basically.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: That was pretty cool. Making the dough. I love it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Making the dough.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: That's the most important part of the dough composition, right?
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Pizza making. Dolph, Brewers win last night. They win the series.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: They've kind of, they recovered from a rough one on
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Monday with the Cooper Pratt benching and all that that
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: we were worried about. And they're in pretty good shape
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: going into this weekend, going into the final stretch here.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: And the tournament with the Cubs starts Monday. It does.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: They have seven games left and they're up seven on
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: the Cubs. I think it's over for the Cubs. I mean,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: if you do them, you think, oh man, the Cubs
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: are going to be dangerous and they're going to be
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: a good playoff team, obviously. But When you do the
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: math on it, if the Brewers finish 500, what would
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: the Cubs have to finish?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: They'd have to have 20-some wins. 21-7 or something like that.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: They'd have to go on a heater. That's not going
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: to happen. Yeah, the math tells you that. More importantly,
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: it's three up on the Dodgers right now.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, for the best record. And they won the season series. Firstly,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: one of the two best records, because as I say,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: you win the series, you don't play. The other thing
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: about the Dodgers is they just got swept by the Braves.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: They've looked vulnerable, right? Now, granted, their compromise is always,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: and they don't, they can calibrate and pretty much.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: But they're not going to get like last year, if
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: they play and have, they played Cincinnati last year, right.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: In the first round. Yeah. What if they have to
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: play Arizona, San Diego or Philly? Like that's a legit series.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: And like, it is, you hope for them to not
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: get the buy. So they have to play that first,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: you know, sir. So cheering for Atlanta to pass the
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Dodgers for a second.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: And the Brewers, you know, they get a Texas Rangers
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: team tonight that is under 500, but they're in the
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: American league. They're still, they're, fighting for the playoffs. They
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: have names you recognize. It's not like it's going to
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: be a pushover. It's not going to be like the Mets. No,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I mean, even the Mets took one from
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: the Brewers. They did.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: But that's baseball.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: You're not going to win every game. It is.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: We're just so used to winning around here the last
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: four years. I mean, that's what it is.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Nine of the last ten seasons winning record. And I
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: think we were at 80 wins or more at this point.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: For the last four years.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Remember when you used to get excited about a 500 season?
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: We were just talking about it yesterday. Yeah, Brewers are
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: at 83 wins now.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I put on our big shot sheet headline, Brewers clinch
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: 82nd win, because that was once upon a time the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: biggest deal of my life.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: It was last year, the all-time mark? Is that the record? Yeah, 97? 97. Yeah.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: They could pass that. They could win 100 games. It's possible.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Something they've never done.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I think it's getting to be more of a stretch,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: but I don't know.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Brewers have never won 100 games, and only once have
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: they lost 100 games. And that was right when Miller
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Park opened, wasn't it? Yeah, that was the 0-2 debacle.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: God awful team. The year of the All-Star game. 2002.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Ironically, they had two All-Stars that year. Sexton and Jose Hernandez.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: They did indeed. Jose Hernandez was an All-Star. He was.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: He actually had a pretty good power season. He'd look
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: better in the analytics era. Because he struck out a lot,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: and a lot of people were like, how could he
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: be an all-star?
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: That was before strikeouts were accepted.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: No, but I'm like, he was back in his war
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and stuff.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: That's the cost of doing business.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Speaking of second jobs, I worked at the team store.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: It was called the Fan Zone back then. And his
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: wife wanted a bunch of pencils to send back to
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Dominican or wherever he was from.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I can't remember.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Brewers and the Pencils. But she wanted them unsharpened or sharpened.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I can't remember.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: There was something we had to do for her. Oh, wow.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: To sharpen the pencil.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Well, you were a full-service employee, Armin. You took care
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: of that. You're kidding me? As a brewer's wife, I'll
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: do anything.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Maybe Puerto Rico.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I was going to do anything. I mean, you know.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: When one of the players' wives came in, we dropped
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: all the, you know, pull out all the stops to
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: make sure they were okay. We got a wag alert.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Wag alert. Exactly. Make sure everything's good.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: What kind of hats would you like, Mrs.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Hart?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure. It's too funny. Yeah. That is too funny.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: All right. So we got country music night and it
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: just happens to be against the Texas Rangers.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Ironically, right. They were choosing Texas for their opponent for
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: the country music night. Oh, I made myself throw up.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: What do you expect out of it? And then shift
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: gears to the Packers. What do you expect out of
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: this third and final preseason?
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: A bunch of guys vying for practice squad positions, like
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: nobody of significance playing too much. It's, it's going to
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: be for the diehards, but it's, it's Lambeau. It's the Packers.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: And then cut down day is Sunday. We were talking
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: about that. So they had the big practice on Wednesday
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: that Billy and Wayne narrated. That was the, and they
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: started out gangbusters and they didn't finish well. They didn't
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: do well in the two minute drill. Apparently they went
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: over for first offense and first defense lost. And then
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: second units both lost small sample. Is that more important than,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: than playing in the final preseason? Yeah, that was the,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: for the starters, that was the final preseason game basically.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: So now they're going to end the decisions. Like, do
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: we really think if someone has an interception or, breaks
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: a long run or something like, is that going to sway?
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: It might. It's their closing argument for guys. But most
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: of the work has already been done. I think most
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: of those decisions, if they had to make their cuts
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: today to get to 53 without seeing the game, they
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: could do it. And I don't know if they'd be
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: that much different.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: And for a lot of these guys, it's their last
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: chance to live a dream and go play.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And they're putting stuff on tape for other teams.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: And then there's going to be guys like, you know,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: there hasn't been as much hand-wringing. But there's these Packers
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: of guys like the Shepard kid and the Nair, and
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: they have talented receivers who aren't going to make the 53.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: And everybody's like, oh, if we put them on waiver,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: somebody's going to claim them. And every other team has
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: guys like that. Absolutely. So you keep your own. And
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: so the Packers will keep who they want, put them
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: on the practice squad. The other ones will go off
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: about their lives, like Armand saying, it might be their
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: last time suiting up. Right. Oh yeah.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: And you love these success stories where guys on their
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: fourth or fifth team, and they've never gotten off a
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: practice route. And then all of a sudden they catch
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: fire with the team and they become, I always remember
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Keenan McCardell.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Yes. The Jaguars player.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Who just couldn't, he just, he got cut and cut
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: and cut. And then finally he just caught fire and
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: became great.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: And him and Jimmy Smith were a good duo.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Jacksonville. That's an interesting story, always, the Keenan McCardell story.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: There's probably not a bigger story than Kurt Warner. Well,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: that's the one. The Barnstormers, right? Yeah, Iowa Barnstormers, Amsterdam Admirals.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: And then, you know, with the Packers, you see that
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: famous photo of him, like, fourth in line at quarterback
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: in summer camp with the Packers.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Favre Brunel, him, and I want to
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: say Ty Detmer or somebody.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Sounds right. Yeah. Packers opened against the Steelers. And they lost.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: They beat the Broncos on Friday night. So does anybody
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: care about tonight? Like completely. But it's LeFleur against LeFleur.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: That's cool. But it's vanilla and it's backups, you know.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: So there isn't much to be gained from tonight. Although
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Trace Mack apparently struggled in the combined practice Wednesday. We'll
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: see if he can stay perfect on the preseason.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: I think everybody's zeroing in on Vikings September 13th right now.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's the cut down thing. Yeah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: I don't remember the reason why they didn't. They changed
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: the cut down. I'm sure there was some science behind it.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Instead of going from 92 to 82 to 60 or whatever,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: now it's just 92 to 53.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Boom. Everybody gets cut at the same time. Yeah. I
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: don't know the advantage of that either. But that'll happen tonight. And, well, obviously,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: there might be some injuries tonight. But Wayne Larrabee's convinced
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: that there's going to be some cuts that surprise us. Yeah.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: We'll schedule a talk to him the next hour. We'll
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: see if he still believes that.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: That's right. And one of the things that, again, the cloud,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs. Yeah. Going to be charged and like, we
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: don't know. It's interesting.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: It's misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor criminal damage to property. When
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: you saw the police report, it looked like really, really
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: serious stuff. It's still serious, but when you see the
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: word misdemeanor in front of it... They didn't think they
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: could make it stick. Yeah, Goody's saying that the team
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: is prepared.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: They're ready for a suspension if it happens. It seems
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: like his initial appearance... is November 13th. And like, if
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: you push that past the holidays, then you're into January.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: And it's like, it seems to me like he's going
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: to be able to play this year with a cloud
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: over him.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: And usually the NFL, if I'm not wrong, but it
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: seems like the NFL's precedent is to wait for the
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: legal process to complete before they suspend, which would mean months.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, really could be months. I mean, that was
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Billy's prediction yesterday.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: That's the thing is that it could take, you know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: and this is his last year in green Bay anyway.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: So most likely, I mean, contract wise, contract wise. So
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: but something could drop like he could get a six
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: game suspension or an entire season, but they need more
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: information or a conviction or the video to come out.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: And apparently there are videos from different angles, including into
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: the garage.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: And that's what the one and that's what they were.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: It took a while. That's what. the delay was in
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: this investigation took him a couple months to extract that
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: or forensically, however they got it, but everything. Yeah. And
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: he's have it. But if that gets released, the league
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: might do something.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: But short of that, well, you always remember that for
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: the Ray Rice. Yeah. Short of that, I think it
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: looks like he's going to play the whole season, but
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: he plays with the cloud. I'm wondering if he touches
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: the rock in the first home game when they play
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: on that Thursday night, what the reaction will be.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Does he get booed? Does he get cheered? Be very interesting.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Luke warm is a very emotional topic for a lot
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: of people.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: It is for sure. Who's the home opener against, uh,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: I'm blanking. Is it Cleveland? No. I'm blanking, too. Me, too.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know why I'm blanking all of a sudden.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: It's week three.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: It's their week three. I'm locked into the week in
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: front of us.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah. There's a lot on your mind. We got college
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: football this weekend, too.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: There's a lot to think about. Oh, my God.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wild.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Falcons. Atlanta.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Is that right?
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Atlanta. You're right.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Packers are at Vikings, at Jets, then home against the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Falcons in week three.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: That's right. So get two of the, I think, what,
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: four of their last five are at home. So the
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: back-loaded cold-weather home schedule. The only one is not is
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Christmas Day against the Bears, probably.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Is that the only one? That's the only one. That's
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: the only one. Yeah, it's going to be bizarre.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Bill Belichick and his team playing tomorrow in Ireland.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Week zero, that's the first game.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Week zero. 11 o'clock tomorrow morning against TCU, North Carolina.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: And then the Badgers play there next year. Yeah, against Pitt. Pitt, Wisconsin.
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: I mentioned this yesterday. We were there two years ago
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: for that game. It was a fun atmosphere. And such
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: a contrast in fan bases.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: It was Florida State against Georgia Tech.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: And you got all the Seminoles in from Tallahassee making
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: a lot of noise, wearing their sweatpants.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: And then the Georgia Tech crowd was very refined.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: You know, distinguished-looking couples strolling around Dublin.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Southern Atlanta socializing.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, with money, obviously, that's a good smart school, right?
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Tech, I mean, yeah. Yeah, that's just wild. Dolph,
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: what do you got going this weekend? Let's see.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: We have our secret show tomorrow on FM 106 down
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: at the Cooperage in Milwaukee.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a good spot, and it's always a
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: good event. We never know. We don't even know. Shanna
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: won't tell us who's going to be there. I love
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: that she keeps you guys in the dark. It's better
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: that way. Not even a heads up for you and Shanna.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Then you're not tempted to leak it by accident anywhere,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: you know?
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and she knows us too well not to tell us, obviously.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: And then I'm going to play a little golf on
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Sunday before it rains, hopefully.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Good call.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of the calm before the storm, right? Sounds
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: like a plan. Before football season starts.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: All right, have a good one. You too, guys. Have
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: a great weekend. Thanks. All right, we're getting close. Wayne
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Larry joins us at 725. You're in the huddle, Fox
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Churrio to left. It is up.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: It is gone for Jackson Churrio. A four-hit day, and
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: he caps it with a second home.
• 35:31
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  Speaker 3: Two homers last night, four hits tie in a career high.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: One of the best games of his career. And you
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: remind yourself, he's 22 years old. That's right. Same as
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: the Brewers' magic number. 22-year-old hit. Led him yesterday. Magic
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: number is now 22 for the Brewers to win the
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: NL Central for the fourth year in a row. Who
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: else is hot? Miz. Well, he's hot all the time, basically. Miz.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Even in kind of like a night where he's battling
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: with the mound, six innings, give up two runs. Yeah.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: 89 pitches.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Chris Sale, you have to say, is pretty hot.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Chris Sale is on the who's hot list, absolutely. No doubt.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, the way he.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Crushed last night.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Chris Sale pitched a complete game shutout, beat the Dodgers,
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: won nothing. Kicked the crap out of the Dodgers, won
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: nothing as the Braves swept the series.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Who's hot, not hot? Fernando Mendoza, a little bit of
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: a struggle again.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Fernando Mendoza is at the top of my list of
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: who's not hot because he had a decent debut, a
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: mech Second game. And last night against the 49ers, they
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: sent him out there. The cousins played two series, I guess.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: But Mendoza during his stint, seven for 14. And you're like, oh,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: that's not horrible. But 57 yards, an interception, no touchdowns,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: two sacks, and a passer rating of 31. He was
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: overthrowing guys. He was late with his reads. Now, he
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: was under pressure.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot last night.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: But was he under pressure because he's holding the ball
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: too long? Or was he under pressure? Was he? Was
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: he rattled because the pressure was bad? That's one of
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: those chicken and egg things, right? He seemed to be
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: going through his reads. He threw a pick on his
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: second snap, and then it was like, oh, okay. Then
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: he seemed to be going to check downs a lot.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: He wasn't good. Right. Now he's a rookie. He looked
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: like a rookie.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: It's preseason. Cousins has obviously been more steady in that role. Obviously,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: you have time and all that stuff. It's not like
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: we like to litigate early on quarterbacks now, which I
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: think is a mistake. However, He was under pressure, but
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: it's been a little bit of a rocky road from
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the last couple games. With that being said, he could
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: have been blazing fantastic in these preseason games, and then
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: if the season started and he wasn't, people wouldn't care. True, true.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Really what matters now doesn't matter results-wise.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: They did a smart thing in bringing in Cousins, though.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, to help bridge the gap. I think it would
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: be a smart idea to let Cousins play a little bit.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, I think they're going to. They're not going to
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: announce a starter, but I think that's going to happen.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: They won't announce a starter, but I think they're going
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: to let Cousins play. Why not? Because otherwise you lose
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: the locker room.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: And you don't want Mendoza to lose confidence.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: No, and you don't have to. That's why you signed
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins, to kind of babysit and win some games
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: along the way. But developing Mendoza is obviously their goal,
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: the job won.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: But that being said, it's always a reminder. What happens
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: in preseason really doesn't matter.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: True. And who else is not hot? Tua. Tua Tungvalu,
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: they're closing out against Miami. And Tua's probably, even though
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Michael Penix just got back, it looks like he might
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: win the starting job because Tua's been so underwhelming in
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: the preseason.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: He really has, and it seems like, you know, we
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: talked a lot about that yesterday. What's his desire level?
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Does he look timid?
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Does he want to be there?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: It is a lot of questions right now for Tua
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: and his career and his life, I'm sure. So all
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: that stuff. And we mentioned Andrew Fisher earlier. obviously he's
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: hot oh my god we're surpassing 40 homers another another
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: few bombs yesterday and what what to do with him
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: with you know red hot Tim not was asking me
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: on the on the talk and text line do you
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: bring up a triple a the season's about to end
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: so I'm not sure it matters but there's a lot
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: of excitement for him as well so A lot of
• 39:48
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• 39:52
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• 40:03
  Speaker 3: of our week here, Friday edition of The Huddle. The
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: highlight of the final hour of our program and the
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: highlight of the program and one of the highlights of
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: the week is when we get to catch up with
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Wayne Larrabee, the voice of the Packers. He joins us
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: at 725. We'll find out what he thinks about What's
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: at stake tonight? Guys are playing for their futures, but
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of the hay is in the barn. So,
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, can a single great performance, there might be
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: a position or two where there's a guy playing for
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: his job tonight, you know? And for those guys under
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: that pressure, this is anything but a meaningless game. So,
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: we shall see. We'll talk to Wayne coming up at 725.
• 40:41
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