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08/26/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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