Latest / The Huddle / 09/02/26- Hour 1
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Well, Wednesday's hitting a little bit differently than Tuesday, isn't it, folks?
- 0:06Speaker 1: Welcome into the 5 o'clock club. Welcome to the huddle.
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- 0:16Speaker 1: all of you early risers, insomniacs, sociopaths waiting the vestibule
- 0:20Speaker 1: at the health club. There were a few of them today.
- 0:21Speaker 1: Good Wednesday. Come on.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Good Wednesday to get in there and grind right out
- 0:26Speaker 2: of the gates.
- 0:26Speaker 3: True.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Come on now. Get after it. That's what folks are doing.
- 0:30Speaker 1: And you are looking live at a panel of people
- 0:33Speaker 1: ready to talk about a Brewers victory at Wrigley Field
- 0:37Speaker 1: last evening. A little bit rocky in the start. Appreciate
- 0:42Speaker 1: the finish. And I could just hear as the Brewers
- 0:45Speaker 1: were pulling away and, you know, they got the insurance
- 0:48Speaker 1: homer from the previously maligned, now beloved Joey Ortiz. I
- 0:52Speaker 1: could just hear. I could just hear like this froggy
- 0:58Speaker 1: Armenian voice. Put that in your rom-com on TikTok.
- 1:02Speaker 2: Yeah, what episode is that? Nine Innings of Love. What
- 1:05Speaker 2: episode is that?
- 1:06Speaker 1: What episode of Nine Innings of Love? How do you
- 1:08Speaker 1: like my Nine Innings of Love now? And then Brewers
- 1:11Speaker 1: have a chance at least to have the series with
- 1:14Speaker 1: Miz tonight. Keep the momentum going. Game is, the lead
- 1:17Speaker 1: is eight.
- 1:19Speaker 3: And now it's officially game on like it was on Monday.
- 1:21Speaker 3: Just a little bit of a reboot drew on the
- 1:23Speaker 3: game on because man, Bobby Gasser gives you a whole lot. The, uh,
- 1:27Speaker 3: the at bat, I thought of the night before Yellich, uh,
- 1:30Speaker 3: flipped the scoreboard around on his two run shot was
- 1:34Speaker 3: Robert Gasser being able to knuckle up, bear down and
- 1:38Speaker 3: go down, go from three. Oh, it's a striking out
- 1:40Speaker 3: PCA on the last one that he faces.
- 1:42Speaker 1: And then get a.
- 1:43Speaker 3: Cool little pep talk from Murph before he walked off
- 1:45Speaker 3: the field. Man, that had all of the good vibes yesterday,
- 1:48Speaker 3: even though we felt like it was going to be
- 1:51Speaker 3: first inning. After the first inning and that first pitch
- 1:54Speaker 3: that Robert Gassett threw, I felt really, really good. Not
- 1:57Speaker 3: nearly as good with a 3-0 deficit, but it did
- 2:00Speaker 3: feel like a night where they were going to put
- 2:01Speaker 3: something together, and once they flipped the scoreboard around, Cubs
- 2:04Speaker 3: didn't have the answer for them.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Yeah, huge win.
- 2:07Speaker 4: And you had those moments early on, obviously, before the
- 2:09Speaker 4: Cubs took the lead. First of all, Tyrone Taylor terrorizing
- 2:13Speaker 4: his former club. Come on, you can stop this any time.
- 2:15Speaker 4: Why are you doing this to us, man?
- 2:16Speaker 1: He's going to be in nine innings of love.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Oh, he is just terrorizing us. With that jawline, he's
- 2:20Speaker 2: definitely going to be in the takeoff show. So he's
- 2:23Speaker 2: been the one, the bird in our saddle.
- 2:25Speaker 4: But, you know, you got a little bit of like,
- 2:28Speaker 4: for me, there was like, here we go again when
- 2:30Speaker 4: the Brewers are putting two on, nobody out, threatening, can't score.
- 2:33Speaker 4: And then the Cubs get the lead. But the one
- 2:36Speaker 4: thing is, you know, before the big sixth inning, and
- 2:38Speaker 4: that was the one that turned the tide, obviously, the
- 2:40Speaker 4: El Chomer and the Bach and the Vaughn double, but
- 2:42Speaker 4: the big one. for me was the Brewers put together
- 2:45Speaker 4: a small market rally to kind of stop.
- 2:48Speaker 2: The bleeding a little bit. Boom, boom, get the RBI
- 2:50Speaker 2: single from Pratt.
- 2:51Speaker 4: You get one on the board. It didn't turn the
- 2:53Speaker 4: whole tide. It didn't change the entire game, but it
- 2:56Speaker 4: started the roll a little bit to calm the waters
- 2:58Speaker 4: a little bit and say, all right, we're just going
- 3:00Speaker 4: to take a deep breath. We're down 3-0 where you
- 3:03Speaker 4: could feel like, oh, here comes the ball rolling down
- 3:05Speaker 4: the hill again. Are the Cubs poised for another big night?
- 3:08Speaker 4: Let's just stop the momentum a little bit. Take a
- 3:11Speaker 4: deep breath and do what we do, and that's knock
- 3:13Speaker 4: a few through the infield, get our first run on
- 3:14Speaker 4: the board, kind of restabilize and go from there.
- 3:17Speaker 2: That was, I think, a big thing.
- 3:18Speaker 4: And a night of big moments for the Brewers, who
- 3:20Speaker 4: really had to storm back and kind of fight that.
- 3:22Speaker 2: I mean, yes, I did enjoy that, Drew.
- 3:25Speaker 4: I was running to my Twitter to explode after Yale.
- 3:30Speaker 2: Just home run. It was a pretty exciting moment.
- 3:32Speaker 1: You were exploding last night all over the place?
- 3:33Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just flowing. Just flowing.
- 3:35Speaker 4: Exploding.
- 3:36Speaker 1: My goodness.
- 3:37Speaker 2: No pause.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Exploding at Armin Sarian.
- 3:40Speaker 2: But a great win for the Brewers last night, coming back.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Get you with the big binoc energy.
- 3:45Speaker 1: It's weird.
- 3:45Speaker 3: I can't find any of those mouthy Cub fans tonight.
- 3:49Speaker 3: Armin Zarian, just seven short hours ago at Armin Zarian,
- 3:53Speaker 3: the old handle, the new one that you still know
- 3:54Speaker 3: and love.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Still back, still there. Had that one of the favorites, Billy.
- 3:58Speaker 2: Had that one of the favorites. Figured you were ready.
- 3:59Speaker 2: With the binoculars.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. All right, so there were a couple
- 4:02Speaker 1: of shaky moments, some leaky defense, uncharacteristic of the Brewers.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Cubs played really good defense, and then, you know, I mean,
- 4:11Speaker 1: they had their moments. Yeah, they had their moments.
- 4:13Speaker 3: Well, and Drew, that is that is very, very apropos
- 4:16Speaker 3: because there was it twice. Now the ball goes over
- 4:19Speaker 3: towards Bryce Terang where you feel like that's a steel trap.
- 4:23Speaker 3: The one double play that is just as assumed as
- 4:26Speaker 3: you possibly can, even though you can't assume a double
- 4:28Speaker 3: play shot right to him rolls right up the glove.
- 4:32Speaker 3: they'll be easily able to figure that kind of stuff
- 4:36Speaker 3: out and calm those waters, I would assume, defensively. But yeah,
- 4:39Speaker 3: it was not a very characteristic night. And they've stacked
- 4:43Speaker 3: that up now over the last, what, like week, week.
- 4:45Speaker 2: And a half?
- 4:45Speaker 3: They haven't been the hottest with the glove and defensively.
- 4:48Speaker 3: It has been a little bit of a sluggish roll here.
- 4:51Speaker 3: But to be able to wake that thing up, and
- 4:53Speaker 3: how good did that feel for Christian Yellich being able
- 4:56Speaker 3: to do that? I don't know I've ever seen scream
- 4:59Speaker 3: around the base paths other than maybe a homer in
- 5:02Speaker 3: the final week of 2018. He gave a little bit
- 5:05Speaker 3: of a selly, and he deserved to be able to
- 5:07Speaker 3: have that round in first base.
- 5:09Speaker 2: It was funny because, and I think maybe B.A. said
- 5:11Speaker 2: it on the broadcast, but that.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Oh, he shouted it out right away.
- 5:15Speaker 4: I'm trying to remember what I was watching, what I'd seen,
- 5:18Speaker 4: if it was a highlight, but it was that he
- 5:21Speaker 4: showed the emotion. The extent of the Elch emotion was
- 5:24Speaker 4: like putting the hand up and like, yeah, the only
- 5:26Speaker 4: time I remember that, Billy, I think, I think when
- 5:29Speaker 4: he hit the homer in Game 7 in 18 against
- 5:31Speaker 4: the Dodgers to start that game off, he gave a
- 5:33Speaker 4: big fist pump and a yell. That was like the
- 5:35Speaker 4: extent of the emotion you see from yells, but that
- 5:38Speaker 4: was a big one, so it was warranted. And you
- 5:41Speaker 4: mentioned it, Billy, the basket boys, I think, right? You
- 5:44Speaker 4: mentioned how, okay, the Brewers can get to the basket,
- 5:46Speaker 4: and that's what the Brewers did. The Ortiz homer, and
- 5:48Speaker 4: that one was pretty much in the basket, a little
- 5:50Speaker 4: bit past it, and Wild Bills was high off the wall,
- 5:53Speaker 4: almost there, but that's all you need.
- 5:55Speaker 2: You know, you don't have to call me first.
- 5:57Speaker 4: You can call me last, but if you call me,
- 5:59Speaker 4: you know, I got the call and that was basically just,
- 6:01Speaker 4: let me put it in the basket.
- 6:02Speaker 2: I don't have to hit it on the street. It
- 6:04Speaker 2: still counts.
- 6:05Speaker 4: We put it in the basket and the brewers have
- 6:07Speaker 4: just enough with our guys just to put them in
- 6:08Speaker 4: the basket. So it was just, it was exciting to
- 6:12Speaker 4: see it. I said, you know, Christian Yelich, not always
- 6:14Speaker 4: there when you call, but he's always on time. You know,
- 6:16Speaker 4: when you need a big one, he finds a way
- 6:18Speaker 4: to step up. It's funny.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Cause Murph said, Um, he was going to play, uh,
- 6:22Speaker 1: I'm going to battle with Yelich after we lose 17
- 6:24Speaker 1: to three. I love that. I love that. Yelich is
- 6:27Speaker 1: playing like against lefty. He's playing. We're going to battle
- 6:31Speaker 1: with Yelich. Smart move. Well, that's why he's being considered
- 6:35Speaker 1: for his third straight manager of the year award. Brewers
- 6:37Speaker 1: had a scary moment when Ortiz, Churio and Pratt almost collided.
- 6:41Speaker 1: That three car pile up out in short left field
- 6:44Speaker 1: was not pretty. And it was almost devastating. Like, whew,
- 6:48Speaker 1: everybody survived that and okay? Oh, my goodness. That was.
- 6:52Speaker 3: After the couple of throws and Pratt goes right back
- 6:54Speaker 3: to the trainer and shows exactly where the pain's rolling up,
- 6:57Speaker 3: I thought he was for sure coming out of.
- 6:58Speaker 1: The game at that point.
- 6:59Speaker 3: That's a... Drew, that's Jackson Turio's ball, correct?
- 7:03Speaker 1: Yes. And that's just... Pop-up priority as he's got it.
- 7:06Speaker 1: But if guys are tracking it and it's the audio,
- 7:12Speaker 1: it's the yelling. And if it's loud and the crowd
- 7:15Speaker 1: is loud, You can't hear. No, 100%.
- 7:17Speaker 3: And you could see, like, Jackson kind of as he's
- 7:20Speaker 3: coming in, I don't know if you saw the same
- 7:21Speaker 3: as I did, he was looking, sees it, realizes these
- 7:24Speaker 3: sons of guns are.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Not slowing down.
- 7:26Speaker 2: This is either going to be my kneecap or I'm
- 7:29Speaker 2: not catching this thing.
- 7:30Speaker 3: And you kind of saw him back up feeling like, hey,
- 7:33Speaker 3: I think I can get a beat on it, but
- 7:34Speaker 3: I'm not trying to lose my stuff here.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Well, and Churio and Mitchell almost collided on Monday night.
- 7:40Speaker 1: And that ball was hit 200 feet. It's absolutely the
- 7:43Speaker 1: left fielder's ball if he can get it. But he
- 7:45Speaker 1: needs to be calling it almost off the bat. Right
- 7:47Speaker 1: out of the gates, yes. Because those guys are going
- 7:50Speaker 1: after it, man. And when you're locked in and you're
- 7:53Speaker 1: focused and you're one track mind, get that ball, get
- 7:56Speaker 1: that ball, especially when you're as athletic as Cooper Pratt.
- 7:59Speaker 1: And Joey Ortiz, a lot of third basemen aren't even
- 8:02Speaker 1: in the mix for that. Not even tracking that thing, no.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Joey Ortiz is a shortstop by trade who can get
- 8:07Speaker 1: out and get after that. And, oof, man, it was
- 8:09Speaker 1: a scary. It was a disaster averted because that would
- 8:13Speaker 1: have been.
- 8:14Speaker 4: Well, the way his wrist banged into the knee. I mean,
- 8:17Speaker 4: was it Ortiz's knee? I want to say it was Jackson's.
- 8:19Speaker 1: I couldn't remember.
- 8:19Speaker 2: But the way that Cooper's wrist.
- 8:21Speaker 1: I can't even tell the way they were spinning around.
- 8:23Speaker 1: I was going to say.
- 8:23Speaker 3: And then I couldn't even realize that it was a
- 8:26Speaker 3: wrist injury, the way Cooper Pratt just face-planted into the turf.
- 8:30Speaker 1: I did see whose glove went flying. Was it Pratt's?
- 8:33Speaker 1: That was Pratt's. That was Pratt's, yeah. Because all of
- 8:35Speaker 1: a sudden, out of the shrapnel, you see a glove
- 8:37Speaker 1: flying to the left. I'm like, oh, man.
- 8:39Speaker 2: Was that a body part? Yeah.
- 8:41Speaker 4: No.
- 8:41Speaker 2: It was a hubcap.
- 8:42Speaker 4: His wrist got slammed. But the thing is, that's always
- 8:44Speaker 4: a tough one in no man's land, right? Because, you know, competitively,
- 8:48Speaker 4: you don't want nobody to go for it.
- 8:49Speaker 1: Well, that's just it. You'd rather have three guys going
- 8:51Speaker 1: for it than have one of those that drops in
- 8:53Speaker 1: the middle of three players. But you can't see it.
- 8:56Speaker 2: You can't track the ball and look at each other
- 8:58Speaker 2: and then you're listening.
- 9:00Speaker 1: When pitchers and catchers report, well, on day three or
- 9:03Speaker 1: whenever it is that the athletes show up, the position players,
- 9:06Speaker 1: pretty much the first drill you do every year is
- 9:08Speaker 1: pop-up priority. And that is what they do. Someone hits it,
- 9:12Speaker 1: or they had a jugs machine shooting balls into the air.
- 9:14Speaker 1: Straight up into the air. And you hear big leaguers screaming,
- 9:17Speaker 1: I got it, I got it, I got it, like
- 9:19Speaker 1: at a little league field. Because a lot of times
- 9:21Speaker 1: when you're at a game and stuff, you don't hear
- 9:22Speaker 1: that communication because of the crowd and the ambient noise
- 9:25Speaker 1: and stuff. 100%. Spring training on the backfield at Maryville,
- 9:28Speaker 1: you can hear it, and I've stood there and watched it,
- 9:30Speaker 1: and they do it for like a half hour. And
- 9:34Speaker 1: it's like, okay, over here, like who's got, you know.
- 9:37Speaker 1: And they practice that in the first day. Now, they
- 9:40Speaker 1: don't do that every day. I was just going to say, yeah,
- 9:42Speaker 1: for sure. But it's a foundational drill. I'm sure there's
- 9:44Speaker 1: drills in football, Billy, that you do the first day
- 9:46Speaker 1: or two, and then you don't do it the rest
- 9:48Speaker 1: of the year. And then, yeah.
- 9:48Speaker 3: And then if we go back to our stance drill
- 9:51Speaker 3: at the back end of week number four, we might
- 9:53Speaker 3: have some bigger problems.
- 9:54Speaker 1: Yeah, you have bigger problems. So they might have to,
- 9:56Speaker 1: maybe the Brewers will take infield one of these days
- 9:58Speaker 1: and just to, you know, reiterate. They'll have a couple
- 10:01Speaker 1: of days to do stuff like that. For sure. And
- 10:03Speaker 1: I bet Murph in that week that they have off,
- 10:05Speaker 1: we think, with the bye. By the way, you can
- 10:09Speaker 1: beat the Cubs on the field in front of you
- 10:10Speaker 1: and then you look at the scoreboard and see that
- 10:11Speaker 1: the Dodgers and Braves both lost. Man, even better now.
- 10:14Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Makes it even better. Giving you more cushion. Is anybody
- 10:18Speaker 1: still worried about the division?
- 10:21Speaker 3: You won last night. I think you calmed everything down.
- 10:24Speaker 3: I think people were like, oh my God, we could
- 10:25Speaker 3: still lose this. Again, the math is the math.
- 10:29Speaker 1: What is it? 23 games left. Magic number time. There's
- 10:31Speaker 1: a Twitter account. The Brewers magic number. One of the best.
- 10:35Speaker 3: Especially when you're firing that bad boy up on opening day.
- 10:38Speaker 3: That guy is dedicated to the ground.
- 10:40Speaker 1: Brewers magic numbers. To win the Central, 16. Any combination
- 10:43Speaker 1: of 16 wins by the Brewers, losses by the Cubs.
- 10:46Speaker 1: The number one seed magic number is 21. That is tight.
- 10:49Speaker 1: To get an NL by, it's 20. Even better. And
- 10:53Speaker 1: that would be losses by the other teams. And then
- 10:56Speaker 1: wins to reach 100, they need 14. So they need
- 10:59Speaker 1: to go 14-9 to be the first Brewers team in
- 11:02Speaker 1: history to win 100 games. Achievable.
- 11:05Speaker 3: Yeah, it's achievable, and it is something that I'm eyeing up.
- 11:08Speaker 3: I understand it guarantees you absolutely nothing. It means very,
- 11:12Speaker 3: very little to when you're playing games into October.
- 11:14Speaker 1: That would matter.
- 11:15Speaker 3: But that round number would be something that would be very,
- 11:18Speaker 3: very cool to be able to not cap off because
- 11:21Speaker 3: the cap hopefully is the commissioner's trophy at one of
- 11:23Speaker 3: these points. That is what they call the actual trophy.
- 11:26Speaker 2: I was going to say, that's what they call it.
- 11:27Speaker 3: That's what they call the actual trophy. Billy knows the
- 11:28Speaker 3: name of the trophy. That's what they call the actual trophy.
- 11:30Speaker 3: It's not the commissioner's cup that you win in hockey
- 11:34Speaker 3: for just getting there and just having the best record.
- 11:38Speaker 3: But to be able to have that feather in the
- 11:40Speaker 3: cap of the first team and the only team to
- 11:42Speaker 3: reach 100, I do think that's meaningful to signal just
- 11:46Speaker 3: how good the team is. And to double up and
- 11:49Speaker 3: reemphasize and make Drew and I and everybody else on
- 11:51Speaker 3: this show look even smarter, when we said preseason, they're
- 11:54Speaker 3: going to be better.
- 11:55Speaker 1: Record might not be better, but they're going to be better.
- 11:59Speaker 1: They are better.
- 12:00Speaker 3: Their record should be better than it was a year ago,
- 12:02Speaker 3: and hopefully it's just collateral damage when they hit that
- 12:04Speaker 3: 100 mark.
- 12:05Speaker 2: And we love round numbers in sports, especially baseball. Yeah,
- 12:08Speaker 2: we do.
- 12:08Speaker 4: And this would be the biggest one. And the thing is,
- 12:10Speaker 4: the Brewers haven't done it before, so it would be cool.
- 12:12Speaker 4: It would be something you haven't seen before. in the
- 12:15Speaker 4: midst of a great season is getting to 100. You know,
- 12:17Speaker 4: is it window dressing?
- 12:18Speaker 1: Maybe.
- 12:19Speaker 4: But, hey, we love round numbers. We love when our,
- 12:21Speaker 4: you know, pitchers throw 100. We love when our guys
- 12:23Speaker 4: hit 300. We love those things. We love when our
- 12:25Speaker 4: guys hit 50 homers or 40 homers. They don't call
- 12:28Speaker 4: it the 38-38 club. They call it the 40-40 club.
- 12:31Speaker 2: Like, you know what I mean? It's just what it is.
- 12:32Speaker 2: So it would be pretty cool. By the way, Commissioner's
- 12:35Speaker 2: Cup in the WNBA too, Billy. I know you knew that.
- 12:37Speaker 2: That's one you follow. Oh, that's their in-season tournament. That's
- 12:41Speaker 2: the in-season, yeah. Oh, I'm big on the in-season tournament.
- 12:43Speaker 3: I'm just so focused on the playoffs now that it's
- 12:46Speaker 3: hard out of sight, out of mind.
- 12:47Speaker 2: You just almost forget about it. No, I agree with you, though, Drew,
- 12:51Speaker 2: back to your original point.
- 12:52Speaker 4: I mean, I think when you set up yourself for
- 12:54Speaker 4: a lead like the Brewers have to start this stretch,
- 12:57Speaker 4: the main quote-unquote concern, if there was one, was if
- 13:00Speaker 4: the Cubs really ripped off that streak of sweeping you
- 13:04Speaker 4: here and starting to put that doubt in your mind
- 13:07Speaker 4: or planting a seed. But if you get one or
- 13:10Speaker 4: even you get two, the Cubs can't afford to exchange wins.
- 13:14Speaker 4: So even just getting one win really puts them behind
- 13:18Speaker 4: the eight ball percentage-wise, money-wise.
- 13:21Speaker 2: So I think you're right.
- 13:22Speaker 4: I think you get one, especially if you get another,
- 13:24Speaker 4: then you can really put it to bed in terms
- 13:26Speaker 4: of any fears about the division. That's reflected, obviously, as
- 13:29Speaker 4: well in the odds. Pottawatomie Sportsbook, I think it jumped
- 13:31Speaker 4: all the way up to plus 3,000 for the Cubs
- 13:34Speaker 4: to win the division. It's just the math of just
- 13:37Speaker 4: a head-to-head there.
- 13:38Speaker 1: It's the math. Well, in the games remaining, like I
- 13:41Speaker 1: was saying, the Brewers could lose all these games to
- 13:42Speaker 1: the Cubs and then win the rest of them and
- 13:44Speaker 1: still comfortably win. And so easily win. With 23 games left,
- 13:47Speaker 1: if the Brewers have a horrendous skid and go 10-13,
- 13:49Speaker 1: which would be a bad stretch for them in 23 games,
- 13:54Speaker 1: the Cubs have to go 18-5.
- 13:56Speaker 2: And the thing is, if some of those.
- 13:58Speaker 1: That's a tall order, man. That's a tall order.
- 14:00Speaker 4: And if some of those 10 wins are against the
- 14:02Speaker 4: Cubs head-to-head, that totally changes the equation, too.
- 14:04Speaker 1: Of course, because those are doubled up.
- 14:05Speaker 2: Right.
- 14:05Speaker 1: And now the Brewers have a 5-3 lead in the
- 14:07Speaker 1: season series. which if they win two of these, they'll
- 14:11Speaker 1: clinch that. They'll lock that one up, too. So that
- 14:14Speaker 1: adds another game, so that means that they can't tie you,
- 14:17Speaker 1: so that basically, in essence, attacks another game onto your lead.
- 14:21Speaker 3: Yeah, Andrew, that's where, once we really started breaking it
- 14:24Speaker 3: down and figuring it out, winning three games was winning
- 14:27Speaker 3: the division, right? Basically, winning three of the.
- 14:30Speaker 1: Seven was basically as much of a lock as you
- 14:34Speaker 1: can get. You're just out of time. Now, again, Stuff's happened,
- 14:37Speaker 1: and the Indians last year catching the Guardians, catching the Tigers,
- 14:41Speaker 1: then losing in the playoffs. But then, and the Brewers
- 14:44Speaker 1: in 18. It's happened, but it's unlikely. And the way
- 14:47Speaker 1: the Brewers are rolling, tell me, and again. That's the thing.
- 14:50Speaker 1: I just couldn't find that many losses so far. Provided
- 14:52Speaker 1: you're going to throw Miz and Henderson out there. The
- 14:54Speaker 1: idea that you're going to go twice through the rotation
- 14:56Speaker 1: and not win a game.
- 14:58Speaker 3: Unlikely yeah and it is a daunting feeling now you
- 15:02Speaker 3: would think for the cubs because you're i was listening
- 15:05Speaker 3: and reading and finding more people online last night that
- 15:08Speaker 3: are in the cubs stratosphere that we're believing and fighting
- 15:10Speaker 3: for the division right i i think they should be
- 15:13Speaker 3: more focused on the philly series yes and that race
- 15:15Speaker 3: that continues to heat up because they just won't lose that.
- 15:17Speaker 1: Is going to be i think it'll be less intense
- 15:20Speaker 1: in terms of like the fans and stuff but in
- 15:23Speaker 1: terms of the Oh God, that's a huge flip, big flip.
- 15:27Speaker 3: And that one there, everyone yesterday was, was dialed in
- 15:32Speaker 3: thinking that if you win last night, then you have,
- 15:34Speaker 3: you put whatever you have out against Mizorowski and you're
- 15:38Speaker 3: easily winning three or four. Now you got to face
- 15:40Speaker 3: the Miz tonight realizing for. only a split that you
- 15:44Speaker 3: got to be able to beat Harrison. Cause I think
- 15:45Speaker 3: a lot of people will look rightfully. So at 32,
- 15:48Speaker 3: walking up on their mound as that's us holding an
- 15:51Speaker 3: L here tonight.
- 15:52Speaker 1: Cause he's just been that damn good.
- 15:53Speaker 3: Even on a night where he fights the mound and fights,
- 15:56Speaker 3: how tough it was for him to repeat his delivery
- 15:59Speaker 3: in Michigan or when I was in Michigan, him in
- 16:02Speaker 3: New York, what was it?
- 16:02Speaker 2: Six innings shut out two walks. Like, okay.
- 16:05Speaker 3: And if that's what I'm struggling to find it and
- 16:07Speaker 3: figure out all my control issues and that's where you're
- 16:10Speaker 3: living at, Give me a hard baseline for anybody.
- 16:12Speaker 1: I think they're making hay against you.
- 16:14Speaker 2: It is.
- 16:14Speaker 1: It's going to be good.
- 16:15Speaker 3: Brewers put out a sweet, sweet shot of the Yelich
- 16:19Speaker 3: home run on their socials last night.
- 16:21Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah. Tons of Brewers fans there.
- 16:24Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 16:25Speaker 3: Now, I understand it's not Cubs fans taking over American
- 16:29Speaker 3: family field, but there's a decent amount, especially in this
- 16:31Speaker 3: lower bowl celebrating.
- 16:33Speaker 1: One young lady in the red cap.
- 16:34Speaker 3: I mean, she is going absolutely bonkers once that thing
- 16:38Speaker 3: hits the bleachers.
- 16:39Speaker 1: That's phenomenal.
- 16:40Speaker 4: I don't know about you, but I was thinking, you're
- 16:41Speaker 4: probably thinking the same thing I was. What are they
- 16:43Speaker 4: going to do for nine innings of love? Because this
- 16:46Speaker 4: whole thing is about the romance and the bleachers. But
- 16:48Speaker 4: if there's Brewers fans in there, we're going to really
- 16:50Speaker 4: put a plot twist into their little story.
- 16:51Speaker 3: Too much fighting in the bleachers for them to film
- 16:53Speaker 3: in a couple weeks ago.
- 16:54Speaker 1: They rewrote Fever Pitch on the fly while they were
- 16:57Speaker 1: filming it.
- 16:57Speaker 2: That's right.
- 16:58Speaker 1: Just saying, because the Red Sox went and won the
- 17:00Speaker 1: damn thing.
- 17:00Speaker 4: Some guy was really getting me on Twitter. He's like,
- 17:02Speaker 4: don't you know how much the Red Sox have done
- 17:03Speaker 4: with this stuff?
- 17:04Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I know. I've seen Fever Pitch Guy,
- 17:06Speaker 2: but that was a Hollywood movie.
- 17:07Speaker 1: And I liked Fever Pitch. I loved.
- 17:09Speaker 4: This is basically Fever Pitch or a much, hopefully, better
- 17:13Speaker 4: version of Summer Catch. I mean, Summer Catch was terrible,
- 17:14Speaker 4: but it was bad in my favorite way, which is
- 17:17Speaker 4: why I like it.
- 17:18Speaker 2: But this is basically the same thing.
- 17:20Speaker 4: So I'm not like a hater on baseball romance movies
- 17:22Speaker 4: and shows. I just think it's funny that the team
- 17:24Speaker 4: is doing it, right? It's also the fact that it's
- 17:26Speaker 4: on TikTok now.
- 17:26Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 17:28Speaker 2: Is TikTok the version of straight to DVD?
- 17:32Speaker 1: Like this generation? Pretty much exactly. That's how it is.
- 17:35Speaker 1: By the way, it's like we could do a whole
- 17:37Speaker 1: show on who was the worst actor to portray an
- 17:42Speaker 1: athlete in a movie because Timothy Robbins' delivery in Bull Durham.
- 17:46Speaker 2: Not great.
- 17:47Speaker 1: Not great. He makes Freddie Prinze look like he's throwing
- 17:50Speaker 1: with his opposite hand. Yeah, that's true.
- 17:52Speaker 2: Freddie Prinze Jr. is awful. And somewhere right in the middle,
- 17:56Speaker 2: Dajon Love is. Yeah, Dajon Love. Somewhere right there in
- 17:59Speaker 2: the middle.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Dajon Love is our new spirit animal.
- 18:01Speaker 4: Dajon Love, he might be the superhero of the day,
- 18:03Speaker 4: the way I'm getting content from him.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Dude, he brought the helmet to a burger spot. Let's collab.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Not for nothing. We're going to fire up game balls
- 18:09Speaker 1: and kicks. We're going to have Hunter's recap of the Brewers.
- 18:11Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Rock, who was not on
- 18:13Speaker 1: the call last night, but he's itching to get back
- 18:15Speaker 1: in the booth when the Cubs come here on Labor Day.
- 18:17Speaker 1: He was enjoying that one. Yeah, but not for nothing.
- 18:22Speaker 1: You look at the box score, you watch the game unfold,
- 18:25Speaker 1: and one of the things that's hidden in the Brewers'
- 18:27Speaker 1: victory last night was that the presumptive MVP was bottled up.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Once again. Pete Crowe Armstrong was 0 for 4 with
- 18:35Speaker 1: three punch-outs. Ooh, and he bat-flipped a K. You want
- 18:39Speaker 1: to neutralize that guy against the Cubs?
- 18:41Speaker 4: Yes.
- 18:42Speaker 1: You're really helping your chances. You're elevating your chances of
- 18:44Speaker 1: winning the damn game.
- 18:46Speaker 2: Are we as kryptonite really quick, Billy? Are we as kryptonite? Oh,
- 18:50Speaker 2: I like that.
- 18:51Speaker 1: He hasn't put numbers up historically against the Brewers.
- 18:54Speaker 2: Against the Brewers this season, an 0-67 batting average.
- 18:58Speaker 1: Yeah. Low the legal limits. The presumptive MVP has been quiet.
- 19:04Speaker 1: He's been quiet. So keep it that way. And Miz,
- 19:06Speaker 1: keep it that way.
- 19:07Speaker 3: I would love the back and forth that he had, though,
- 19:10Speaker 3: with Contreras as he challenges that one that the entire
- 19:13Speaker 3: ball is in the zone. And you know Contreras said, brother,
- 19:17Speaker 3: you just wasted a bad one.
- 19:18Speaker 1: I love that one. He looks back and I'm like,
- 19:20Speaker 1: are you serious? How about the one when Wild Bill
- 19:22Speaker 1: was batting and the ump was about, he didn't, he
- 19:25Speaker 1: was like, he was ready to go to the hat
- 19:26Speaker 1: and the umpire called the ball. He's like, oh, okay, yeah,
- 19:28Speaker 1: you got that one right. I thought you were going
- 19:30Speaker 1: to call that strike, so I just, he kind of
- 19:32Speaker 1: jumped the route in the wrong direction. He was ready
- 19:34Speaker 1: for it. Oh, okay. What if a guy touches a
- 19:37Speaker 1: hat and the umpire says ball and he's like, all right,
- 19:39Speaker 1: we're going to challenge this one. Like, you know, you
- 19:40Speaker 1: burn it. All right, I guess. If he wants to,
- 19:43Speaker 1: I'll look at it.
- 19:43Speaker 4: If there was one guy to like kind of sit with, like,
- 19:45Speaker 4: and it's kind of weird Cause there's no spot to
- 19:47Speaker 4: do it, but sit with during the game. It's probably
- 19:49Speaker 4: be contrarious. Be probably the funniest guy. Like the little
- 19:52Speaker 4: antics they do, the conversations, like the little things he does.
- 19:55Speaker 2: It must be one of the most entertaining things. I
- 19:58Speaker 2: don't know. Mic him up all game.
- 19:59Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 20:00Speaker 3: Him on Sunday with the shades on, if he was
- 20:04Speaker 3: having a tennis shoes day instead of a cleats day.
- 20:07Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
- 20:07Speaker 2: He was having a slides day instead of a cleats day.
- 20:09Speaker 2: That would be the entertaining one. He was living it
- 20:12Speaker 2: over there. Fired up after that double though. My man
- 20:15Speaker 2: was slamming helmets down. I was like, let's go. He
- 20:18Speaker 2: got me going.
- 20:19Speaker 1: All right. Brewers are fired up. Brewers got a much
- 20:21Speaker 1: needed victory. Now the Miz tonight. It only gets better
- 20:24Speaker 1: from here.
- 20:24Speaker 4: 877-794-1973.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Your ticket. To check in, 5 o'clock clubbers, you're in
- 20:29Speaker 1: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Here's the 0-2.
- 20:33Speaker 2: Yelich sends it high and deep.
- 20:36Speaker 1: Way back right center.
- 20:38Speaker 2: Goodbye!
- 20:40Speaker 1: Christian Yelich!
- 20:42Speaker 3: A go-ahead two-run home run in the sixth inning.
- 20:50Speaker 1: And that, ladies and gentlemen, is one of probably like
- 20:53Speaker 1: 50 reasons that Yelich continued to play through his slump
- 20:57Speaker 1: while the Brewers had the best record in baseball. People
- 20:59Speaker 1: are like, he's killing them. They got to get them
- 21:00Speaker 1: out of there. What are they doing? What are they
- 21:02Speaker 1: going to do with Yelich? You're going to let him
- 21:03Speaker 1: swing until he gets out of it and hope that
- 21:06Speaker 1: he comes up with a home run in a big
- 21:07Speaker 1: moment or a big hit in a big moment. Like
- 21:09Speaker 1: last night. Like last night, dude.
- 21:11Speaker 2: Drew, and he hits the ball that's out of the zone,
- 21:13Speaker 2: out of the park.
- 21:14Speaker 1: That is about as good as it can be.
- 21:17Speaker 3: And also makes Cubs fans, I saw last night, immediately
- 21:21Speaker 3: second-guessing Craig Council because Palencia had been their closer for
- 21:24Speaker 3: a long time, kind of moving him around.
- 21:27Speaker 1: And B.A. said it. He goes, he's the closer for
- 21:29Speaker 1: the starter tonight. Yeah.
- 21:32Speaker 2: The only one closing the door was Yellich, and he
- 21:34Speaker 2: shut the box on that.
- 21:35Speaker 1: Yellich could be three for 120. And I'd still like
- 21:38Speaker 1: my chances with him up and a guy on second
- 21:40Speaker 1: and two outs in a key situation in a big
- 21:43Speaker 1: game because he's got that equity. He's got presence. He's
- 21:47Speaker 1: got equity. I've been telling people, I don't think it's
- 21:51Speaker 1: a stretch for me to think that the Brewers could
- 21:53Speaker 1: play a playoff series where Kristen Yellich has more impact
- 21:56Speaker 1: and is more productive than Jake Bowers. Yeah, for sure.
- 21:59Speaker 1: Because it's the way baseball works. Bowers has been so
- 22:01Speaker 1: good all year.
- 22:02Speaker 5: Well.
- 22:03Speaker 1: The year's long, and you can go up and down
- 22:06Speaker 1: and up and down.
- 22:07Speaker 3: And as Christian Yelich's sometimes post-seasons would say, a lot
- 22:09Speaker 3: of times the best player on the team doesn't have
- 22:11Speaker 3: the best post-season. And whenever he gets hot, you knew
- 22:16Speaker 3: that their best talent acquisitions were going to be Bryce Terang,
- 22:20Speaker 3: Jackson Chirio, William Contreras, and most importantly, Yelich, being the
- 22:24Speaker 3: hitters that their back of their baseball cards indicate. And
- 22:27Speaker 3: at times, all of them have. They haven't gotten all
- 22:29Speaker 3: in sync hot at.
- 22:31Speaker 1: One point yet. And that gives you a lot of
- 22:33Speaker 1: confidence rolling through. Yeah, to your point, I've covered many
- 22:36Speaker 1: playoff series, like those Yankees dynasties in the late 90s
- 22:39Speaker 1: when they won three in a row, and they had
- 22:41Speaker 1: all those stars, and they had Jeter and Rivera, Tino Martinez,
- 22:44Speaker 1: and all over the field they had stars. And who
- 22:48Speaker 1: was the glue guy? Who was the gritty guy? Who
- 22:50Speaker 1: was the guy that you couldn't live without in the postseason?
- 22:52Speaker 1: Scott Brocious.
- 22:53Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
- 22:54Speaker 2: That was it. Brocious, Charlie Hayes, those type of guys.
- 22:57Speaker 1: Scott Brocious, and I covered a World Series game that
- 23:01Speaker 1: ended with a Luis Soho hit.
- 23:02Speaker 2: Yeah, Soho, yeah.
- 23:03Speaker 1: Luis Soho, like, okay, who had that in their bingo card?
- 23:06Speaker 1: It's always guys like that. So with the Brewers, who's
- 23:08Speaker 1: that guy?
- 23:09Speaker 2: Mitchell.
- 23:10Speaker 1: You know, Garrett Mitchell, the guy's like, oh, wow, that guy, okay.
- 23:13Speaker 1: It was Bobby Ortiz. Obviously, he's a first-round pick, but
- 23:16Speaker 1: Joey Ortiz is the perfect example of a guy. Oh,
- 23:19Speaker 1: there he is. And Joey Ortiz is carrying the bird.
- 23:21Speaker 1: And that's what happens. And sometimes you're right. The stars
- 23:24Speaker 1: do recede. And look at last night. Last night was
- 23:26Speaker 1: a playoff game for all intents, right? Totally was. As
- 23:29Speaker 1: close to a playoff game as you can get in
- 23:32Speaker 1: the regular season, basically. It wasn't like, you know, it
- 23:35Speaker 1: had that atmosphere. It had the aura. It totally did, Drew.
- 23:37Speaker 1: Based on last night, it had the aura. And Pete
- 23:40Speaker 1: Crow Armstrong was 0 for 4 with three punch outs.
- 23:42Speaker 1: And he's been the best player in baseball this year.
- 23:45Speaker 1: And he got struck out by a guy that was
- 23:46Speaker 1: wearing Lederhosens last week.
- 23:48Speaker 2: Come on now.
- 23:49Speaker 1: By the way, how about him? How about Romero's debut?
- 23:51Speaker 2: That was big.
- 23:52Speaker 1: No doubt.
- 23:52Speaker 3: Off the hook, yeah. And first, JoJo Romero's like, wait
- 23:56Speaker 3: a second. I thought this was the best defensive team
- 23:57Speaker 3: in baseball.
- 23:58Speaker 1: What are we doing?
- 23:58Speaker 2: And this is what's happening on my first one? What?
- 24:01Speaker 3: Barrels down and buckles down and does it. And he's
- 24:03Speaker 3: pitched there a number of different times. And that lefty
- 24:05Speaker 3: is going to look really good coming out of that.
- 24:07Speaker 3: Uribe coming back. I just love his vibe, man.
- 24:10Speaker 1: His swag. It adds a lot.
- 24:12Speaker 3: When you're pumping a 100-mile-an-hour sinker like that and the
- 24:15Speaker 3: one that he pays up PCA on is disgusting.
- 24:21Speaker 1: And just his whole demeanor and having him, he's such
- 24:24Speaker 1: a weapon.
- 24:24Speaker 2: It was a.
- 24:25Speaker 1: Race to the six last night.
- 24:26Speaker 4: And the depth of options you have in the bullpen
- 24:28Speaker 4: is huge come playoff time. And that's one thing, if
- 24:31Speaker 4: there's a soft underbelly for the Cubs, I mean, they're
- 24:33Speaker 4: kind of middle of the road in bullpen performance and ERA.
- 24:37Speaker 4: That's kind of where they've been searching still here and there.
- 24:39Speaker 4: You mentioned how Palencia has been moved around.
- 24:41Speaker 2: You know, that might be it.
- 24:42Speaker 4: So I think that's where, you know, the Brewers have
- 24:45Speaker 4: a superpower is the depth of, you know, we talk
- 24:48Speaker 4: about their lack of power on offense as being a detriment,
- 24:51Speaker 4: but they have so many depth of options in the
- 24:53Speaker 4: pitching staff, starters and relievers. You know, you talk about
- 24:56Speaker 4: the job that they've had with McGill and Uribe, but look,
- 25:00Speaker 4: even like D.L. Hall and those type of guys, Patrick
- 25:02Speaker 4: stepped up in big moments.
- 25:04Speaker 2: Now you have Romero.
- 25:05Speaker 4: You hope Sensantella's starting to settle in there. Depth of
- 25:09Speaker 4: options in the bullpen in October is so huge because,
- 25:12Speaker 4: as you know, you're just mixing and matching in a
- 25:14Speaker 4: lot of games just to get outs.
- 25:15Speaker 3: And they brought in Zephyr Hand from the Angels at
- 25:18Speaker 3: the deadline. Obviously, Boyd has been one of the only
- 25:21Speaker 3: guys that's made it through the Somewhat the entire year.
- 25:24Speaker 3: He's been on and off of the aisle throughout the year,
- 25:27Speaker 3: but he's going to be one of their playoff starters.
- 25:29Speaker 3: And you tag him for three in a night where
- 25:31Speaker 3: it looked like he had everything going early. He leaves
- 25:35Speaker 3: with an underwhelming line and a frustration in the dugout.
- 25:39Speaker 1: That's as good as it can get.
- 25:40Speaker 2: And I also think the more and more that you
- 25:43Speaker 2: see Yelich back.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Into that role. We talked about it.
- 25:46Speaker 3: I know we've thrown the, uh, the idea of just
- 25:48Speaker 3: put the C on his chest, uh, throughout the season.
- 25:51Speaker 3: But if he is the guy that ends up having
- 25:53Speaker 3: the biggest moments come playoff time, uh, you saw anybody
- 25:57Speaker 3: see the, uh, shot of Andrew Vaughn in the dugout
- 25:59Speaker 3: after as Yelich rounds the bases. I mean, there's a,
- 26:03Speaker 3: there's an old family guy, a vinegar stroke, uh, video that,
- 26:07Speaker 3: that rolls through.
- 26:08Speaker 2: I mean, my man is grabbing.
- 26:11Speaker 3: Onto the, onto the railing and his face roll, eyes
- 26:15Speaker 3: roll back as he screams and lets out just a
- 26:19Speaker 3: primal yell. And it also looks better because he's bald, right?
- 26:23Speaker 3: Like the shaved head gives it an even bigger allure.
- 26:25Speaker 3: Like he is screaming to the heavens for Yelich. And
- 26:28Speaker 3: dude is, I mean, he has had as much frustration
- 26:31Speaker 3: of a year as you possibly can have. But everybody
- 26:33Speaker 3: in that dugout, you could tell how much and how
- 26:35Speaker 3: happy they were all for him as he let that
- 26:37Speaker 3: thing go yesterday.
- 26:37Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad you mentioned that, Bill, because I was
- 26:39Speaker 4: going to say, like, I don't know. I mean, obviously
- 26:42Speaker 4: there's no way you can measure something like this. But
- 26:44Speaker 4: I don't know if there's a guy that when he
- 26:46Speaker 4: comes through will fire the team and energize the team
- 26:49Speaker 4: up more than him.
- 26:49Speaker 2: The two guys that hit homers last night. Yeah, exactly.
- 26:52Speaker 2: Those two guys.
- 26:53Speaker 4: Because when you're in the dugout and you grind with
- 26:56Speaker 4: your guys every day, especially a guy that is respected
- 26:58Speaker 4: as a veteran and everyone likes him. If they struggle,
- 27:02Speaker 4: you feel for them and you go through it with
- 27:04Speaker 4: them because you want to see them come through, especially
- 27:06Speaker 4: a vet like Yelich when he obviously multiple reports and
- 27:10Speaker 4: he puts the work in, and Murph is always a
- 27:12Speaker 4: big fan of kind of talking about that because Yelich won't.
- 27:16Speaker 2: So when you see that guy come.
- 27:18Speaker 4: Through for you, you just naturally, it just fires that
- 27:21Speaker 4: team up, fires that dugout up more because that's the
- 27:24Speaker 4: guy they want to see come through.
- 27:26Speaker 2: As their vet. And I'm going to imagine it fires
- 27:29Speaker 2: up Murphy more than normal.
- 27:30Speaker 4: Like Murphy, usually, you know, he'll be chill about his
- 27:32Speaker 4: situation and he'll always kind of temper down enthusiasm. But
- 27:36Speaker 4: the way Murphy really wants Yelich to be able to
- 27:38Speaker 4: get rewarded for the work he puts in and, and
- 27:41Speaker 4: it clearly gets, he's the one guy he gets really
- 27:43Speaker 4: personal about and frustrated when he doesn't do well because
- 27:46Speaker 4: he respects him so much. So I can imagine how
- 27:49Speaker 4: doubly excited Murph was when that Homer went over the
- 27:51Speaker 4: wall last night, not just because it helped his team win,
- 27:53Speaker 4: but because it was Yelich himself coming through in the
- 27:56Speaker 4: big moment. You can't really measure the excitement and the
- 27:59Speaker 4: impact and the energy it gives a young dugout like that.
- 28:01Speaker 1: For sure.
- 28:03Speaker 3: Well, and I think to the point of, you know,
- 28:06Speaker 3: you never know who's going to be the biggest guy.
- 28:09Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas on a team of, what, four, five, six
- 28:12Speaker 3: Hall of Famers. They lose the World Series last year
- 28:16Speaker 3: if it's not for a solo shot that he hits
- 28:18Speaker 3: in the bottom or the top of the ninth inning
- 28:20Speaker 3: to keep the thing alive. and has Dave Roberts sitting
- 28:22Speaker 3: there just apoplectic as they flash it over to the
- 28:25Speaker 3: Dodgers dugout. And, I mean, for every David Ortiz, there's
- 28:28Speaker 3: a Mark Bellhorn. So you don't necessarily know who it
- 28:31Speaker 3: ultimately is going to be delivering the big swings.
- 28:33Speaker 2: Good reference, yeah.
- 28:36Speaker 4: 877-794-1973.
- 28:37Speaker 1: Steve said, great win last night. All my nagging got
- 28:39Speaker 1: yellowed yesterday, and it paid off. Come on now, let's go.
- 28:42Speaker 2: I got a buddy like that.
- 28:43Speaker 4: He always would say, one of those guys you would
- 28:45Speaker 4: rip on, usually it was a Marquette thing, right? like
- 28:47Speaker 4: basketball they have a good game he goes it's because
- 28:50Speaker 4: i was riding him it's because i heard me he'd
- 28:52Speaker 4: take the credit for it i love that i love
- 28:55Speaker 4: that way to go steve.
- 28:56Speaker 1: Said uh i'm wondering what happened with our clumsy defense
- 28:59Speaker 1: uh our clumsy play and that was hard to watch.
- 29:01Speaker 4: Well i think that the the no man's land collision
- 29:04Speaker 4: is one that just happens sometimes now yeah you do
- 29:07Speaker 4: have gasser dropped the ball at first that was kind
- 29:10Speaker 4: of a blunder i mean there was a couple moments
- 29:12Speaker 4: but You know, sometimes.
- 29:14Speaker 1: It just happens.
- 29:14Speaker 2: I mean, that was a bang-bang play.
- 29:16Speaker 3: That one was definitely– that's a moment where you just
- 29:18Speaker 3: feel like it's not going to go your way because
- 29:20Speaker 3: that's a heck of a range for Maughan to even.
- 29:22Speaker 1: Get to that one.
- 29:22Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 29:23Speaker 1: Our 5 o'clock clubbers from the Fox Valley are telling
- 29:27Speaker 1: us that they're getting pounded with a bad thunderstorm up there. Okay.
- 29:30Speaker 2: All right, hang in there.
- 29:30Speaker 4: Come on, Mike.
- 29:31Speaker 2: Which is nerve-wracking. Yeah, they've gone through it this summer.
- 29:34Speaker 1: Yeah, based on the summer that they've had. You know
- 29:37Speaker 1: how that is. I hear the sirens now and stuff,
- 29:41Speaker 1: and I'm like, whatever. I think we'll be okay. But
- 29:45Speaker 1: when you've lived near that devastation that hit Menasha this year,
- 29:50Speaker 1: it hits different.
- 29:50Speaker 2: Yeah, it's scary. And I like Mike and Marilyn.
- 29:53Speaker 3: We're having a hell of a thunderstorm up here, but
- 29:54Speaker 3: it's crickets from Cubs fans.
- 29:56Speaker 1: Oh, I love that.
- 29:57Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 29:58Speaker 1: You can hear that, baby. You know who's got a
- 30:00Speaker 1: big man crush on the Brewers these days based on
- 30:03Speaker 1: his tweets and his comments on the panel last night?
- 30:05Speaker 4: Me.
- 30:06Speaker 2: Oh.
- 30:06Speaker 1: Armand, no. Besides that. On TNT? Pedro Martinez.
- 30:11Speaker 4: Ooh.
- 30:11Speaker 2: Pedro does like us, yes.
- 30:13Speaker 4: Pedro.
- 30:13Speaker 2: I've seen a couple clips, yeah.
- 30:14Speaker 1: His tweet, yeah, a couple. But he said to Pat Murphy,
- 30:16Speaker 1: I hope every young manager and player out there learns
- 30:19Speaker 1: from him about how he expresses himself about his team,
- 30:22Speaker 1: about being genuine, about being honest and a real human.
- 30:26Speaker 1: Pedro's phenomenal on that set.
- 30:28Speaker 3: He gives such great perspective and also just is able to...
- 30:35Speaker 3: talk about the game, especially pitching, in such a way
- 30:39Speaker 3: where he can break it down very, very acutely, but
- 30:42Speaker 3: not make you feel like an absolute idiot for not
- 30:44Speaker 3: understanding every single thing that he's saying. But also the
- 30:47Speaker 3: heartbeat is the thing that he always is talking about.
- 30:49Speaker 1: On that side.
- 30:50Speaker 4: I love that when he does that, the emotions and
- 30:52Speaker 4: stuff like that.
- 30:52Speaker 1: Another Pedro tweet, and he was glowing about them on
- 30:54Speaker 1: the panel, but he also went to X. Milwaukee continues
- 30:57Speaker 1: to bring in players who fit exactly what they do best,
- 30:59Speaker 1: play great defense, pitch well, and execute the fundamentals almost
- 31:02Speaker 1: to perfection, and they have the right manager to make
- 31:04Speaker 1: it all work. And then his tip for tonight to
- 31:08Speaker 1: the Miz.
- 31:08Speaker 3: Come on.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Mizorowski, keep trusting what you have and don't fear anyone.
- 31:12Speaker 1: I trust you, so trust yourself. Oh, that's what I'm
- 31:15Speaker 1: talking about, Pedro. That's from Pedro to Jacob Mizorowski. Let's go.
- 31:19Speaker 1: I trust you, so trust yourself.
- 31:22Speaker 4: And I do love that a lot about, you know,
- 31:24Speaker 4: talking about the genuine emotions and the vulnerability. And Murph
- 31:29Speaker 4: is always not afraid to talk and say things that
- 31:32Speaker 4: most big league managers, in terms of big league coaches,
- 31:35Speaker 4: professional coaches, they kind of keep hidden now.
- 31:37Speaker 2: So it's good to see that. Good to see Pedro
- 31:40Speaker 2: respect that, yeah.
- 31:41Speaker 1: He's got to do better. Did you see, like, who
- 31:43Speaker 1: was it? Was it Freelick that had a foul ball
- 31:45Speaker 1: that kind of hit Murph? The other day in the dugout,
- 31:48Speaker 1: and Murph was just kind of like... The look that
- 31:50Speaker 1: he got. It was hilarious.
- 31:52Speaker 4: Hey.
- 31:53Speaker 1: Patches O'Hoolan. Hey, you want to be on the lineup tomorrow?
- 31:57Speaker 2: How about you hit it anywhere else in this dugout?
- 31:59Speaker 1: Son of a gun.
- 32:00Speaker 4: You do get the feel, especially for some of the
- 32:02Speaker 4: young guys, that you might have a long career, but
- 32:04Speaker 4: you might never have a manager like Pat again. And
- 32:06Speaker 4: it just feels like one day we're going to hear
- 32:09Speaker 4: about all of them talking about the impact he had
- 32:11Speaker 4: on them as young players.
- 32:12Speaker 2: That's special.
- 32:14Speaker 1: Craig Council played for him, what, 35, 40 years ago?
- 32:17Speaker 1: 30 years ago? And still talks about stories and the
- 32:21Speaker 1: stuff that Murph said and how they would imitate him
- 32:23Speaker 1: on the back of the bus and stuff. Yeah. Nothing
- 32:27Speaker 1: sticks with you like a coach. Good first. Yeah, and
- 32:29Speaker 1: if you're like the Prats and Laras and Churrios, great
- 32:32Speaker 1: first manager to have.
- 32:34Speaker 4: By the way, counsel with the readers, I'm sorry. With
- 32:36Speaker 4: those glasses. We always talk about how he never looks old.
- 32:39Speaker 4: He's getting a little cold.
- 32:40Speaker 1: He used to make fun of it. We talked about
- 32:42Speaker 1: that one time. He's like, yeah, I used to look
- 32:43Speaker 1: in the coach's office and see everybody with their glasses
- 32:45Speaker 1: on and laugh. Look at these guys. I got to
- 32:49Speaker 1: look at those charts. It comes at you fast.
- 32:51Speaker 2: Damn spreadsheets are smaller and smaller. I saw his daughter
- 32:54Speaker 2: committed to Butler, I think.
- 32:55Speaker 1: Yeah, she's going to Butler. Yeah, let's go. Kind of cool.
- 32:59Speaker 1: That's kind of cool.
- 33:01Speaker 2: 877-794-1973.
- 33:01Speaker 1: When we come back, Hunter Baumgart joins the party. We'll
- 33:04Speaker 1: have his recap of last evening's proceedings. A much happier
- 33:07Speaker 1: result for Hunter. Thank goodness. Man, he stayed up.
- 33:12Speaker 3: Had to watch that entire 7.3 and then talk about it.
- 33:15Speaker 1: Had to wait for it to go final before he
- 33:16Speaker 1: could file his report. We'll have Hunter's report. Bill Schroeder
- 33:19Speaker 1: joins the party at 7.25. Dolph at 6.25. You're in
- 33:22Speaker 1: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. I mean, if it
- 33:27Speaker 1: wasn't so early, we'd be welcoming Caitlin Sharkey to the
- 33:29Speaker 1: party to talk about this Chicago-Milwaukee thing.
- 33:32Speaker 2: Yeah, what are we doing here?
- 33:33Speaker 1: It's her walk-up song. It makes me think of The
- 33:35Speaker 1: Great Shark.
- 33:36Speaker 2: Is that the only time I can play it, Billy?
- 33:37Speaker 1: Friend of the program. No, I just enjoy it. I
- 33:42Speaker 1: enjoy the song.
- 33:42Speaker 2: No, I know.
- 33:43Speaker 1: Yeah. Old school.
- 33:45Speaker 2: Great banger, though.
- 33:47Speaker 1: It's a good banger. Brewers-Cubs, 9-4 victory for Milwaukee last evening,
- 33:51Speaker 1: evening the series, letting the population exhale. And Miz on
- 33:55Speaker 1: the mound tonight. You feel good about the Brewers' chances again.
- 33:59Speaker 1: We've been talking about it. Bill Schroeder is going to
- 34:01Speaker 1: join us at 725. Let's swing it to our own
- 34:03Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart for his take on last night's proceedings at
- 34:07Speaker 1: Wrigley Field. Take it away, Hunter. Good morning, guys.
- 34:11Speaker 5: A Milwaukee Brewers win and a big one. A bounce
- 34:14Speaker 5: back 9-4 victory last night. And there was just so
- 34:18Speaker 5: much good out of the game, right? Lara and Pratt.
- 34:21Speaker 5: contributing early, a four-run sixth inning highlighted by a Christian
- 34:24Speaker 5: Yelich home run. Pat Murphy said before the game that
- 34:28Speaker 5: this was a game he wanted Christian Yelich to play.
- 34:31Speaker 5: He knew they were facing a lefty, but he left
- 34:33Speaker 5: him in the lineup. And then when he faces the righty, Palencia,
- 34:36Speaker 5: he puts one in the seats to give the Brewers
- 34:38Speaker 5: the lead, and they never look back. How about Joey
- 34:40Speaker 5: Ortiz with his seventh home run since late June? The
- 34:43Speaker 5: man just keeps hitting and staying hot, which is awesome.
- 34:47Speaker 5: And then on the pitching side, Robert Gasser was pretty
- 34:50Speaker 5: good overall, and Pat Murphy had some encouraging words for
- 34:54Speaker 5: him on the mound as he took the ball from him,
- 34:56Speaker 5: and then the bullpen was absolutely dynamite. How about Abner
- 34:59Speaker 5: Uribe with a strikeout of PCA, gets Suzuki to fly out,
- 35:03Speaker 5: and then a strikeout of Bregman. PCA not having a
- 35:06Speaker 5: good series, just one hit through the first two games,
- 35:09Speaker 5: which is really good to see. You don't want to
- 35:11Speaker 5: let that guy beat you, and boy, he has not.
- 35:15Speaker 5: So the attention turns to Game 3 tonight, 640 first pitch.
- 35:18Speaker 5: Jacob Mizorowski on the mound for the crew. David Peterson
- 35:21Speaker 5: on the mound for the Cubs. I'll have you for
- 35:23Speaker 5: the baseball pregame show, 5.30 on Fox Sports 920. And
- 35:27Speaker 5: also our social channels. Also, one more note about last night.
- 35:30Speaker 2: How about this?
- 35:31Speaker 5: First three-plus run comeback for the crew at Wrigley Field
- 35:35Speaker 5: since April of 2022. It was not only a bounce-back win,
- 35:39Speaker 5: but a comeback win for the crew last night. This
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- 35:48Speaker 1: Back to you guys. Well done, Hunter. Thank you for
- 35:51Speaker 1: the recap. Thanks to Import Minded. Now, yeah, with Miz
- 35:54Speaker 1: on the mound, you hope he puts up zeros and
- 35:56Speaker 1: maybe you can play from in front today. That'd be
- 35:58Speaker 1: kind of nice. It would be nice.
- 35:59Speaker 2: Let's get out to a lead early and give the.
- 36:02Speaker 1: Guys some run. And the bullpen has been so good.
- 36:06Speaker 1: They have been absolute nails.
- 36:08Speaker 3: And to not have to run McGill out there at
- 36:13Speaker 3: the back end of it, I thought was even better.
- 36:15Speaker 3: That two-run shot by Ortiz in the eighth can sit
- 36:18Speaker 3: down McGill and allow you to send D.L. Hall to
- 36:21Speaker 3: the bump for the ninth and keep him fresh. Because
- 36:23Speaker 3: if you can win... When one of these next two,
- 36:26Speaker 3: you win tonight. And then again, if indeed there are
- 36:29Speaker 3: any of those folks flying L flags today that are
- 36:33Speaker 3: hoping for the division, that title becomes very, very difficult
- 36:37Speaker 3: to math out if they end up catching a fat
- 36:39Speaker 3: L here tonight against the Mets.
- 36:41Speaker 2: Love that.
- 36:41Speaker 4: YouTube, really quick, a couple comments. Pete Chang said, happy
- 36:44Speaker 4: hump day, fellas. Biggest victory of the year last night.
- 36:48Speaker 4: Gasper was huge, and the offense came through late. lead
- 36:50Speaker 4: back to 8-9 after tonight. He's predicting a victory. And
- 36:53Speaker 4: I got to say, he's up there with the biggest
- 36:55Speaker 4: victory of the year. I mean, they're all big.
- 36:57Speaker 2: They're all raisins in the trail mix.
- 36:58Speaker 4: But last night felt pretty big because it really felt
- 37:01Speaker 4: like you're kicking them back down.
- 37:02Speaker 1: Last night felt good.
- 37:04Speaker 3: I don't know that I'm going to have one that's
- 37:06Speaker 3: going to feel as good as the one in L.A.
- 37:09Speaker 1: When you snatch it back.
- 37:10Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Down three in the ninth, right? That's going
- 37:14Speaker 2: to be a tough one to best.
- 37:15Speaker 3: But last night, especially when Hunter rips out that nugget
- 37:17Speaker 3: of the First three-run comeback since how long at Wrigley Field?
- 37:21Speaker 4: That's pretty dang good. Indeed, that was a good one. Guys,
- 37:24Speaker 4: I did a little research, too. You're talking about divisions
- 37:26Speaker 4: and stuff like that. No team in the history of
- 37:29Speaker 4: Major League Baseball has lost an eight-game division lead when
- 37:34Speaker 4: September started. Now, there have been situations when a team
- 37:39Speaker 4: in September has had an eight-and-a-half game lead, but when
- 37:43Speaker 4: the calendar turned to September... If you have an eight-game lead,
- 37:47Speaker 4: no one's ever blown that lead. Now, the Brewers had
- 37:49Speaker 4: a seven-game lead when the calendar turned, but you get
- 37:52Speaker 4: it just for some reference. Historically, if you're worried about
- 37:55Speaker 4: late-season collapses, the 2011 Braves had an eight-and-a-half-game lead on
- 37:59Speaker 4: September 5th, and they collapsed. It's extremely, extremely rare to
- 38:03Speaker 4: lose a lead now at this point. If you're still
- 38:06Speaker 4: thinking about that, some history.
- 38:08Speaker 1: I like that. It doesn't include this Brewers team. Close to.
- 38:13Speaker 2: It doesn't, but it gives you a little frame of reference.
- 38:15Speaker 1: But it would let you know.
- 38:16Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 38:16Speaker 1: Probably not going to happen.
- 38:17Speaker 4: There you go. 64 Phillies famously blew. Famously.
- 38:22Speaker 1: You know what?
- 38:22Speaker 3: Actually, Drew, I was just talking about the 64 Phillies
- 38:26Speaker 3: blowing it.
- 38:26Speaker 1: We were just talking about that.
- 38:28Speaker 2: My dad talks about that a lot.
- 38:30Speaker 4: He was an 11-year-old in that area when they blew
- 38:32Speaker 4: a six-and-a-half game lead with 12 games remaining in the season.
- 38:35Speaker 2: That's probably still the worst one because there's only 12
- 38:37Speaker 2: games to go. Yeah. And then the Braves, I said,
- 38:41Speaker 2: an 11, 8.5 game lead.
- 38:43Speaker 4: Last year, the Tigers had an 8 game lead through
- 38:45Speaker 4: August 31st and lost the division crown.
- 38:47Speaker 2: But the calendar didn't flip, so whatever. It's statistics.
- 38:50Speaker 4: But it has happened somewhat in terms of having a
- 38:54Speaker 4: big lead in this month, but it's super rare and
- 38:57Speaker 4: never when the calendars flip.
- 38:58Speaker 1: So hold on. Hold on. You said the Tigers had the.
- 39:01Speaker 4: They had an 8-plus game lead through August 31st and
- 39:03Speaker 4: then lost the division crown. So I don't know how
- 39:05Speaker 4: they fit into this last stat I was looking at.
- 39:08Speaker 4: I was going to say, it seems like someone's lost
- 39:10Speaker 4: an eight-game lead.
- 39:10Speaker 2: I was going to say, it sounds like somebody lost
- 39:12Speaker 2: the eight-game lead last year.
- 39:13Speaker 4: You can have an eight-game or eight-game-plus lead in September
- 39:17Speaker 4: and blow it.
- 39:19Speaker 3: But you said at the end of August, they were
- 39:21Speaker 3: down eight games. Yeah, so I'll have to go back
- 39:23Speaker 3: and look. September 1st definitely happened. Maybe there's one example
- 39:27Speaker 3: I didn't see. So September 1st might be the one.
- 39:29Speaker 3: So I'll have to look at their division lead as
- 39:30Speaker 3: the calendar turns. So they might be the one example. Well,
- 39:32Speaker 3: good digging on that stat.
- 39:34Speaker 2: Well, I didn't really do that great because I.
- 39:36Speaker 1: Might be wrong. You know what you tried, though? You
- 39:39Speaker 1: relied on AI.
- 39:40Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 39:41Speaker 1: You didn't cross-verify it.
- 39:42Speaker 2: Well, I did Google it.
- 39:43Speaker 1: Treat.
- 39:44Speaker 2: Yeah. That's AI. That's AI. Here we go again. That's AI.
- 39:48Speaker 1: Did you verify? Yeah. Did you click onto the link?
- 39:51Speaker 1: Everything except the Tiger.
- 39:52Speaker 2: One is what I'm looking at here.
- 39:54Speaker 1: Trust but verify. If mom says she loves you, get
- 39:57Speaker 1: it confirmed by a second and third source.
- 39:59Speaker 4: Come on, go verify that thing. Verify it. The Tigers
- 40:02Speaker 4: might be the turd in the punch bowl here for me.
- 40:04Speaker 4: I'm going to check it out.
- 40:05Speaker 2: I do like the work that you just put in there.
- 40:08Speaker 1: You're looking through 150 years of baseball history and miss
- 40:11Speaker 1: what happened last year.
- 40:13Speaker 2: Well, I think that's because, you know.
- 40:15Speaker 1: Well, we were talking about the 64 Phillies, Drew. It
- 40:17Speaker 1: just happened.
- 40:17Speaker 2: It's so recent. But more, yeah, I was so focused
- 40:20Speaker 2: on figuring out when the Phillies.
- 40:22Speaker 3: I have so much fun talking about the 64 Phillies, too.
- 40:25Speaker 1: I sometimes lose my wits about me.
- 40:28Speaker 2: I think it's like a topic of conversation.
- 40:30Speaker 1: Mike and Racine, morning, fellas. I have several Cubs fans
- 40:33Speaker 1: in my neighborhood who hopefully are flying the L today
- 40:36Speaker 1: since they pretentiously display the W flag. That's what I'm
- 40:41Speaker 1: talking about. My morning walk will be glorious, and I
- 40:44Speaker 1: may pause at each house just to smile. Just enjoy
- 40:48Speaker 1: and soak it in.
- 40:49Speaker 3: Come on now. And if they don't fly one, Mike,
- 40:53Speaker 3: no one's saying you can't on your property. That's actually
- 40:57Speaker 3: a really, really good thing for you to potentially do.
- 40:59Speaker 1: Absolutely. All right, as we move forward, we're going to
- 41:01Speaker 1: talk Packers. We had a little audience with Goody and
- 41:04Speaker 1: Matt LaFleur last night. The new guys are working their
- 41:06Speaker 1: way in.
- 41:07Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 41:08Speaker 1: And we got more layers to the Josh Jacobs situation. Like,
- 41:12Speaker 1: were the comments appropriate? Should the Packers be standing by him? Like,
- 41:16Speaker 1: LeFleur more than Goody. I was going to say LeFleur
- 41:18Speaker 1: very much. LeFleur's in, and Goody's like, well, we're going
- 41:21Speaker 1: to see how it goes. You got a little bit
- 41:23Speaker 1: of a mixed message on that one. You heard what
- 41:25Speaker 1: I heard, too. Interesting takes on that. We're just getting rolling.
- 41:29Speaker 1: It's The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.