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9/30/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Reporting for duty on a Wednesday in the good land.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: It's the little show that could. It's the huddle on
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, everywhere on
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  Speaker 1: the iHeart app, streaming live, Facebook X and YouTube. Drew Olson,
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  Speaker 1: Dobie Maxwell in for Billy Schmid today. Hunter Baumgart in
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: for Armin Sarian today. We got him away from the ballpark.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: There's no practice today. Hunter can, you know, hang out
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: with us and then go take a quick nap. And
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: then get ready to go to sleep. Only a couple
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: more sleeps until the Brewers play in the playoffs, Hunter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so excited.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if I make it up tonight for Padres-Cubs
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  Speaker 3: game two at the 9 o'clock start that they have tonight.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: Did you make it for last night's or no?
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  Speaker 4: No.
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we didn't miss anything.
• 0:49
  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Because the Padres put a whooping on the Cubs. Mm-hmm.
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: 8-0 home runs in the first inning by Padres. Tatis,
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: first pitch by Tatis, and then Machado later in the inning.
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: Padres are something to be reckoned with. No doubt about it.
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: Be careful what you wish for. Everybody said, I don't
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: want to face the Cubs. Because the Padres are a
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: wagon right now, and they have been for about two months.
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: Well, hot gets cold at some point. Yeah, that's true.
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: The microwave, you know, eventually it wears off. Pendulum swings. See, read, comma, Tara. Oh, wait.
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 2: That's sexist and awful of me, but it's 5 o'clock.
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: 5 o'clock, clubbers, unite. Welcome in.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: It's a rainy, kind of drizzly, ugly morning out there,
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: and if I was going to go on a rant,
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: I would repeat the rant that I have because I'm like, Dobe,
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: you get to an age, I don't like driving at
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: night anyway. You know, you start to, you lose your
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: visual acuity, and you just, you're not as sharp. You
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: can't see things as well. Correct.
• 1:51
  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 1: one of the things we do that's stupid in this
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  Speaker 1: country is we make, we paint these lane lines and
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: we have black freeways and, uh, the lane lines just
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: go away when it rains and it's, it's dark out.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: And like, why don't we use glow in the dark
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  Speaker 1: paint for those? Or why don't we do something to
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: make those things a little bit more visible? And then
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: speaking of being blinded, I'm, I'm rolling, uh, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I turn on the street that I turn on to
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  Speaker 1: get to the exit that I Beloit Avenue, uh, Right
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  Speaker 1: near the Megaplex here. And there's a dude 150 yards
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  Speaker 1: away from me with the LED high beams on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: And then I don't know if he didn't know he
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: had them on, but he blinded me for 110 yards.
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  Speaker 4: Like, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Scorching your corneas.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, oh.
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  Speaker 1: And then as he's about to pass me, as we
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: go from like 150 yards to about, I mean, he's
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: about 10 yards in front of me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he turns them off.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, buddy.
• 2:48
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, ah, my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like a Kramer with the Kenny Rogers roaster sign.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: My rods and cones are all messed up. Thanks a lot, buddy.
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: Do those things help?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we grew up in, you've owned cars. 237 vehicles, Mr.
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: Olson.
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  Speaker 1: And six of them I got from you. I was
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  Speaker 1: going to say, 237 vehicles you've owned. And you've had
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  Speaker 1: old ones with the old headlamps. Were they that bad?
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  Speaker 1: Like the LEDs? Do they help as much as they hurt?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure some government agency decided to pass a law
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  Speaker 1: because somebody got paid.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm a conspiracy theorist.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it scorches your blind and it's like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, how does that help anybody?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Hunter, where do you weigh in? You're a young kid
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  Speaker 1: with the tech, and you've got better eyes than us.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Get off our lawn, Hunter.
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  Speaker 3: No, when I'm driving and I see that, I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you either forgot that they were on. Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I would think. Or your car is just
• 3:44
  Speaker 3: way too bright. We just don't need that. It's a
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  Speaker 3: pretty well-lit. I'm approaching Highway 100 in Beloit. It's a
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  Speaker 3: pretty well-lit area you're going to.
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  Speaker 1: If the LEDs are so star-spangled awesome, why do you
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  Speaker 1: need your brights on then?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if there's a level above those those lights that
• 4:03
  Speaker 3: you're talking about that you saw this morning, then, boy,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know when those would be needed because you're
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  Speaker 3: already in a in a situation where you're using those lights.
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you, being someone who drove at night
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: after covering a high school basketball game in northern Wisconsin
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  Speaker 3: in the snow, those can you know, those can help
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  Speaker 3: in those situations looking at deer and whatnot.
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  Speaker 4: But.
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  Speaker 2: In a city street.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of deer, minutes ago, as I'm coming up here
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  Speaker 1: as a... Oh, you saw our pets? You see the sign?
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  Speaker 1: It's the yellow sign with the leaping deer.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, when is the last time you saw
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  Speaker 1: a deer? I swear to you, eight seconds later, it
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  Speaker 1: came out. It grazed my car. There's probably a dent
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  Speaker 1: on my car. And the deer turns around, didn't run away,
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  Speaker 1: looks at me like, dude, you're in my living room.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Did you bring me breakfast? There's one that
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  Speaker 1: likes to graze in the 4 a.m. hour right outside here,
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  Speaker 1: kind of where the towers are. You know, sometimes he'll just, like,
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  Speaker 1: look up at it. He basically taunts Billy a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I get in.
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  Speaker 1: He's not there when I get in, and then, like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: our buddy's out there, you know, and he taunts Billy
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  Speaker 1: when he's driving in.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he looked at me like, you're not Billy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He looked at me like, he knows all the guys
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  Speaker 2: coming in and out of here. That's our security.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's our security out there. That's our security. That's right.
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: Billy must be off today. I'm for animal rights. That's
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: a good thing. Hire the deer. His wife's sleeping in.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: She's the receptionist.
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  Speaker 1: Fear the deer literally fear the deer literally and it's
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: getting to be that time of year where you fear
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: the deer yeah right i'm actually excited about the bucks
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: this year um let's see the milwaukee bucks i was
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: at media day the other day and uh the word
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: culture was used i should have if you'd be hammered
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: if you took a shot every time someone said culture
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  Speaker 1: they're building culture well it's a clean slate and it
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  Speaker 1: really is they're bringing in guys and they're bringing in
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of new guys from miami where heat culture
• 5:56
  Speaker 1: is the buzz phrase of the nba it's like a
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: It's like a given. Also yogurt, so don't get excited.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Yogurt culture.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting that you're excited about that. I've talked
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  Speaker 1: to other people, too, that think, well, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: win 43, 44 games.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't say that. I didn't say that. But I
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  Speaker 2: will say this.
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  Speaker 1: They do seem young and hungry and guys that are
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: kind of like trying to get established. When your biggest
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  Speaker 1: stars are like Tyler Hero and Miles Turner, who have
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  Speaker 1: something to prove. The other phrase that was used, and
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  Speaker 1: we've heard it around here a lot too, chips on
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  Speaker 1: their shoulder. We'll dust off the Pringles or the Ruffles.
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  Speaker 1: Think about Charlie Hero. He's coming home. Would that be fun? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Hero's pumped up. I would dream about that. And
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  Speaker 1: he's an all-star player. Very good player. But they do
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  Speaker 1: have guys that are hungry. And my theory of the
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  Speaker 1: case in the NBA is if you show up and
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  Speaker 1: play hard, you can win 25 or 30 games because
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of teams don't show up every night. And
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: bad teams win games. every night in the NBA because
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: they play harder.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Think of the road fragile.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have been on the road, and I have
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  Speaker 1: been my whole life. Hunter's about to go on the
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: road with the Brewers. Apparently now, likely to San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: Looking like I'm going to go to San Diego for
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: the first time in my life. Bring your tanning gear.
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  Speaker 1: San Diego's a wonderful city. Hunter, you're going to go there,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to go, oh, I see why people
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  Speaker 1: love this. That park is beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: It really is. And you talk to people, and I
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: have friends who live in that area and stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: it's so expensive. It's ridiculous. Yes. California in general. Southern
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  Speaker 2: California specifically, probably. I talked to a friend out there yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Seven bucks for gas.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a, you know, do you get a meal
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  Speaker 2: with that? Right, exactly. Do you get a BOGO or
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: something like that?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Get a sandwich and a Diet Coke?
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  Speaker 4: No, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: That's wild. Yeah, that is something. Yeah, Hunter is headed
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: on the road next week. Brewers, we got the game times,
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: the conditional game times.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When did that pop? Was that during the Brewers workout.
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  Speaker 3: That you had? Yeah, like 4.30, 5 o'clock yesterday. So
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: here are the scenarios. Obviously, it's looking like the Padres
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  Speaker 3: are going to beat the Cubs after last night.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, nothing's over, but when you win game one
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  Speaker 1: and you're at home and you're playing like they are,
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs are going to start Gosman tonight to save
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  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: That's the vagaries of, again, the randomness of baseball. A
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: three-game series, you win game one. We saw yesterday the
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  Speaker 1: best game was the first game, the Phillies-Braves, and it
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: was looking bleak for the home side, and the Braves
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  Speaker 1: got a home run from Austin Riley in the eighth
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  Speaker 1: inning to go ahead, and so they took game one.
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: Then Yankees-Red Sox, which everybody loves. That was a bolt racing.
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: Yep, 9-0 Yankees. And then the White Sox getting a win,
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  Speaker 2: which I enjoyed.
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: I'm cheering for the White Sox on the AL side.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, the times for this weekend. So if it's
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: the Padres, which it looks like it's likely to be,
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: first pitch on Saturday night would be 7.30. So you'd
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: get a Saturday night game at American Family Field. That
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: place would be rocking.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sure will be. On Saturday night. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: 7.30. If they play the Cubs, it'll be an afternoon game.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be 3 o'clock, first pitch at American Family Field.
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  Speaker 3: And then Sunday, either way, It'll be 3 o'clock, which
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: will be right after Packers and Buccaneers as well on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: So you can have a doubleheader for you.
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  Speaker 1: Billy and I will be doing the postgame show with
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: one eye on the television.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. That's happened before, just earlier this year.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got, again, if it's Cubs, it's at 3
• 9:26
  Speaker 3: o'clock on Saturday. If it's the Padres, it's at 7.30
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday. And then Sunday is 3 o'clock either way.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to win more, the Brewers or
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: the Packers on that game, the doubleheader?
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  Speaker 2: Brewers for sure.
• 9:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I, you know, it's funny because the way things
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: have evolved, but I haven't talked, I haven't talked to
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  Speaker 1: a soul.
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: Most people are so.
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: Down on the Packers right now. It's just like, they're,
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: they're not checked out because they haven't reached that point.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: You're still like following it and interested Yeah, a lot
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: of season left. If they lose this week, they'll be
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: checked out. Brought in a couple offensive linemen. They had
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: Kevin Zeitler visit, which I advocated for last week.
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: Maybe they'll sign him, too. And they got Mekhi Becton,
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: who's huge.
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  Speaker 1: They got to gas somebody, though, don't they? I mean,
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: I got to believe Jacob Monk better get a bus
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  Speaker 1: ticket somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they've got Lake and Tomlinson, Mekhi Becton, who
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: was part of the Eagles' front-line blocker for Saquon a
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: couple years ago, and he was pretty good then. And
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: he's a massive human being.
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: It's like 6'7, 350. That helps. I've dated women that big. Yeah, exactly.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: And now Zeitler, who's a local kid and would be
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: a great story to have him finish his career with
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: the Packers. And he can still play. He still played
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: at high level. I was stunned that no one signed
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: him after last year. But he's just a rock. He's
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: so experienced, so good. Badger, Wisconsin Lutheran kid. But people
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: haven't checked out on the Packers. But I have not spoken.
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: To a soul.
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: Who would trade a Packers success this year for a
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: Brewers World Series. If the Brewers win the World Series,
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: most of the Packers fans I've talked to said, we
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: can lose every game.
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: I don't care. We'll take it this year. It'll be
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: the trade-off. I would trade that, too. Yeah, I would, too.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking about the one game. And the Brewers
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: have been so good, kind of like the Packers.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting to the point where they're frustrating their fans
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  Speaker 1: by not going further and not taking that next step.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: But to make the playoffs eight out of nine years,
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  Speaker 1: win the division four years in a row, Two years
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  Speaker 1: in a row, you know, setting the franchise record for
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: wins and posting the best record in baseball. Hunter, I
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: know you've been busy and you've been ensconced in it,
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: but we had on my TV show Saturday that I
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: do with Dario and Stefan, Big 12 Sports Saturday, WSN
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: TV in Milwaukee.
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: They were asking if the Brewers.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: You know, what does 100 wins mean and is it
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  Speaker 1: important in the grand scheme? And if they don't win
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: the World Series, is it even notable? And I said, yeah,
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: absolutely it is.
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: Absolutely it is.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's something they've never done before. Even the Milwaukee Braves,
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  Speaker 1: who did win a World Series and went to in
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: their short time here and never had a losing season,
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  Speaker 1: they never won 100 games. 100 games is a– and
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: I said, give me 100 games. Win 100 games every
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: year for five years in a row, you're going to
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: fall into a World Series championship.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're going to be that good to sustain that.
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  Speaker 1: And my point is you can't win the World Series
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  Speaker 1: before October. But the best thing– you've got to play
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: the best you can– And in some ways, isn't it
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: kind of warped that the playoff run, like the way
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: it's constructed now, let's say the Brewers play, you play
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: at maybe 15 games in the playoffs.
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: And you play 162 in the regular season.
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it's 10%. You're focusing on the 10% as opposed
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: to the 90%.
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: You're 90% excellent. Cindy Crawford's 90% excellent. She's got a
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: little mole on her face. You know what? That's why
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: Dobie broke up with her.
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: That's it. I couldn't handle looking at it anymore.
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: Well, and that's what Pat Murphy's been saying for the
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: last week or two is he keeps using the word crapshoot, right,
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: when you talk.
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  Speaker 2: About the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: And it is because it's such a short sample size.
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  Speaker 3: But one question that I've been thinking about, and then
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: I'd be curious to get your guys' thoughts, what's more impressive?
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  Speaker 3: to win 103 games over 162 or to win a
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  Speaker 3: world series. And I, I it's to me, it's pretty close. And,
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  Speaker 3: and it might honestly talk about the word impressive. It
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  Speaker 3: might be 103 over 162 because you have to be
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: so incredibly consistent.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And the randomness of baseball means that, you know, the
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: Sacramento nomads can sweep a series against the Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That's in the regular season.
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: Yes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't cheat your way. You don't fluke your
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: way to a hundred wins. You're a good, you can't,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: there's never been a bad 100 win team in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take it one step further. I think
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  Speaker 1: the four division titles in a row is pretty amazing.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: That too. That too. I mean, 103.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what the Packers need to get back to.
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  Speaker 1: Cause they spoiled their fans by winning the division every
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: year that, that, that became okay. Now what do you got?
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  Speaker 1: Bucks did that too for years. Bucks did it for
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: years as well. But yeah, it, it is. It's, it's
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit warped. Like, we should make a bigger
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: deal of the regular season, but it were so playoffs
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: and title driven.
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: And I get it. I get it.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: I understand it, but to win a hundred games and
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: to post it, my thing is that the season that people,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: basically what the question was, was if they don't win
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: the world series, is the season a failure?
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: No, not even close.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: If they lose, if they get swept by the Padres
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: or the Cubs in the first round, it would sting.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: It would suck. And it will make people look back
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: and go, oh, what a waste of time. And then
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: you're going to think about it, and you're going to go, well, wait.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: And Adonazio pissed people off when he said six months
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: of entertainment.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Sure, sure. And David Stern said bites of the apple. Well,
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: that's what you're doing is giving yourselves bites of the apple.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: Get in the playoffs. You can't win the World Series
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: if you don't make the playoffs.
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: This season, right now, if you're giving a grade, is
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: an A-plus and maybe an A-plus-plus.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. I don't see how it can't be an A
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: + +.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: It is. So if you have an F in the playoffs,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: which is 10% of your grade, then what do you
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: take it down to? It's at the most like a B-C.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: It's not an F if they don't win the World
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Series to me.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: No.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Because of the randomness of baseball and the vagaries of
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: the sport.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: You're a small market team, too, so that adds some
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: bonus points, doesn't it? Extra credit. You would think they've
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: done extra credit, but this season is an A +.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: You can't do anything else to get yourself in position
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: to win the World Series.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Now, will you win?
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: No.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: And history is littered with great teams that didn't win
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: the World Series or great teams that didn't win titles.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: 82 players.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the way you set yourself up as good
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: as you possibly can going into the postseason.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Get the five days off. There's nothing you can do.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: And right.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: And people I know worried about all rest versus rust
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: and all that.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: And that's legit because the teams that have the buys
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: are they're only winning like half of the time so far.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: A small sample. I think for the Brewers, it's perfect timing.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I think you guys you got some guys beat up.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: Joey Ortiz, Andrew Vaughn's working his way back from an illness.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: And then I was talking with some guys in the
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: clubhouse yesterday and they're like, yeah, the the pitching at
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: this time of year to get five days off is
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: not a bad thing because your, your arm is, you know, you're,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: you're at a point where you've pitched nonstop for six months.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: And especially you look at starters. Like we talked to
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Ms on Sunday and he's like, yeah, my routine's not
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: going to change. Cause I'm going to have five days
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: off and then we're going to pitch on Saturday. Like
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: his routine stays the same. The position players are just
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: going to, you know, get, hopefully get a little healthy
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: over these five days. And Pat Murphy's, very much stressing
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: to these guys. We're going to practice with intent to
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: this week. And it's, you know, they're especially, he said
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: later in the week, Thursday, Friday, they're going to ramp
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: it up and make sure they're ready to go. And
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: they were last year. Remember they scored what? Six runs
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: in the first inning last year.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. How rusty were they? Right.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: They won the first two games pretty comfortably.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: And then they struggled when they got to Chicago. So
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: it's a crap shoot. It's a total crap shoot.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Like almost more than any other sport in the playoffs,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: other than maybe the NHL where you see eight seeds
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: beat one seeds.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: At times. Yeah.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: But those are all seven-game series, too. And that's usually, yeah.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: And a hot goalie can usually.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Right. That's the thing. A hot goalie is like having.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: If you have a hot goalie in the playoffs, it's
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: like having Miz pitch every inning.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yep.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Basically.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: And that's what, you know. And they can flip series
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: in that sport. How does he not get to Cy Young?
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: He's going to. I think it's going to be unanimous.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe some guy from Philly will vote for their guy.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: But, no.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be unanimous because of the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: stuff that he's done. Talk about a year, man.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Well, and that's the thing. So, all right, here it is.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: It's like it's, you know, we're opening it.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: And again, like last year, and I try to remind
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: people of this every time I can, you win the series,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: you don't play. So if they got swept, they're a
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: one-on-one in the playoffs to me.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: If they get swept in the first round because they
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: didn't have to play the first round because they They
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: tested out of that. Their high school credits transferred and
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: got into college for them, so they don't have to.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I don't have to take Spanish. I don't have to
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: take English composition. I tested out of it. It's in
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the bank and earning interest. So you win the series,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: you don't play. So in my mind, they've already won
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: a playoff series. They didn't spray champagne. They didn't put
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: plastic up over the lockers and have a party, but
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: they've already won a series because now they're just sitting
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: back and waiting for who's going to end resting up.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Again, is that an advantage historically? Not necessarily because baseball
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: is a sport.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Where momentum is real and you don't get many five-day
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: breaks in the season.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: You get one. All-star break. Yeah, and that's it.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: But you're in the rhythm, and they're doing it, and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: they're locking the media out today and tomorrow, and then
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Friday will be the open workout with the press conferences,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: and then Saturday they'll fire it up. It's going to
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: be a blast, and you just buckle up. Imagine the electricity. Yeah,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: and as you see, Like, with the Braves, one swing,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: one swing just can swing the series.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Well, and that's the whole thing.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: If Austin Riley doesn't hit that home run in the
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Philly State game one, the Braves are on the ropes
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: playing for their lives today, and they might be done.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: That was one of the most common questions at the
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: workout yesterday was, you know, you guys obviously, and the
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: players know this too, it's not a team that hits
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: a lot of home runs. You know, can that win
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: in the postseason? And look, the Brewers were right up
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: there and run scored this year. I don't think they're
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: going to have a problem scoring runs. It's not going
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to hurt if they hit home runs. You remember some
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: of the big moments last year, Vaughn, a three run homer, Churio,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: a home run, you know, but but they did, you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: in that first inning that we just talked about against
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Boyd in game one against the Cubs. It was a
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: lot of singles and getting on base like they always do.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: So I'm not incredibly concerned about it because I think
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: this offense won. through nine is solid. And so anybody
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: can do anything at any time. But you did see
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: yesterday to Tieson Machado set the tone in San Diego.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Ben Rice with a couple of homers for the Yankees.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Ben Rice had more hits last night than he did
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: in the whole postseason last year.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. Wow.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Could that be Yelich this year? Yelich could do that
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: exact thing. That's the thing. That's what's the magic of it.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: As they say, it's hard. It's supposed to be hard.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: That's it. It's by design. It's going to be fun.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: We'll buckle up. Hunter's got a bunch of interviews for
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: us to listen to. Yeah, we got some Pat Murphy clips.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: He was... He was he was Pat Murphy yesterday. There's
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: no doubt he was in his bag. I heard a
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: little bit of it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: He was holding court 30 minute press conference yesterday with
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: the media. I also talked one on one with Bryce Wilson,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: who's kind of on the fringe of the roster.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Will he make it? Will he not?
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: We'll have that conversation. Talked about a myriad of things
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: with him here from Cooper Pratt as well.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: His first postseason. So a bunch of audio to spin
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: through this morning.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's get after it. Dobie is in for Billy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Hunter is in for Armand. They're both going to be
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: back tomorrow. And tomorrow, special day. Tomorrow is the huddle doubleheader.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Because we'll be huddling up at 5 a.m. here at headquarters.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: And then at 5 p.m., we're at Pottawatomie Sportsbook, the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: annex adjacent to it, doing a show there, getting ready
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: for Thursday Night.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Football, which this week is the bronze against the Stillers. Oh,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Stillers and bronze on Thursday Night Football. And there will
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: be playoff baseball and playoffs. possibly, you know, deciding games,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: game threes, hopefully some deciding games. We'll see what happens today,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: but it's good theater so far, but always a good
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: time at Pottawatomie sports book.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: So we'll be there on Thursday for the doubleheader. The
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: boys will be back.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: And then Armin is off on Friday and it's just
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: me and Billy against the world on Friday. But we're
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: going to, yeah, we'll spin through some Brewers audio. We'll
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: take your thoughts. How are you feeling? It looks like
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it's going to be the Padres. Like anything can happen.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: The Cubs can get off the deck today and win
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and force a game.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Let's hope not. They're sending Kevin Gosman to the mound.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Padres got a really quality start last night, a dazzling
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: postseason start. Now that guy's going to be poised to
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: pitch game two.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: If it happens that way. So we'll kick it all around.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: We will talk about the Packers as they try to rebuild.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: There was a little scheduling shift with the Packers. Packers
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Bears flexed out of the national spotlight to noon.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: That's what it's come to. We'll talk about that as
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: we move forward as well.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Get yourself a comfortable chair and a cold or hot
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: beverage of your choice and sit back and enjoy the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: And he swings at the very first pitch of the
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: game and drives one. Deep center field and a leap.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: It's gone.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: And Machado drives one to deep left center. And gone.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: And what a statement by the hottest team in baseball
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: to start this postseason with a dominant right from the
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: first pitch of the game. Eight nothing win.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Padres waxing the Cubs last evening at Petco Park.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Well, eight nothing final. And it wasn't that close. Yeah.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Now, can I say this? Does anybody like me like
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: to taunt Cubs fans? Hey, how'd the Cubs do? I
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: was out doing, I was out shopping. And profanity comes
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: back on the text. It's like, ah, victory. Those highlights
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: courtesy of NBC, which handled the first round. I did
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: watch Phillies Braves. I watched a little bit of the Yankees.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't see any of the Cubs demise because it
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: was past my bedtime.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: But upon awaking, I did look at that box. Oh,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: that's interesting. Cubs had three hits.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: And the best defensive team in ball made an error
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and played a little flat footed.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Tatis tried to steal second. The ball went into center field.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: He scored. Yeah, that's not great. Not great, Bob. Yeah. They,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: you know, and again, the Padres are wagging. They're sitting home.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: The Cubs did have to grind to get in and
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: then went to Boston and Tampa and then San Diego
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Plains trains and automobiles.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: No excuses, though. You got to step up.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: But.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: it was interesting the way it played out. And again,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: in the small sample, the best, the best defensive team
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: in ball by acclimation this year makes a mistake like
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: that on the biggest stage.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: That's the randomness of baseball. It is.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: And so we'll see what happens in game two. I
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: do think that, yeah, the Cubs 15 and 20 in
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: their last 35 coming in. It just, it, the Padres,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I think have won like 18 of their last 21.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: They're the hot team, right?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: There's always that one team that comes in incredibly hot
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: to the post season. This year, it's the Padres. Looks
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: like the Brewers are going to have to deal with them.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: And I had some people texting me last night like, oh,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: the Padres concern me.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, all right. So, yes. Are the Padres hot? Yes.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Do they have firepower on offense?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Are they going to be a tough out no matter
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: who plays them?
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: But also. did the Brewers just win 103 games? Yes.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Do they have Miz on the mound in game one?
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Yes. Is Miz better than Matthew Boyd showed last night? Absolutely.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: So I get it, and you obviously are, that's just
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: what we're trained to be, is a little scared of
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: the opponent, whoever that is. Even if it's the Cubs,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, it's the rivalry. What if we lose?
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: The Brewers are set up so well. They're so solid
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: in every different facet that I think in order for
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: them to lose, they would have to play uncharacteristically bad
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: against whoever they play. Now, could the Padres win the series?
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: But I just think you have to be a little more.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: I'm a little more confident in this Brewers team than
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: maybe years past because of how good this team is.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I'm with you there. And with Henderson's kind of another one.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: You're coming out of the shoot with two of the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: best pitchers that you can throw out there. They match
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: up with anybody. Now, again, like, could the Brewers lose
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the Padres?
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Sure. Mm-hmm.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Could they lose to the Braves or the Phillies?
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Could they lose to the Cubs?
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Now, should we read anything into one of the– I've
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: been saying it, and I don't know if you agree, Hunter.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of stuff going around, and you
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: were in the clubhouse. And I know Dom did the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: video last week asking guys, what was your favorite game
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: of the season?
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: And several of them mentioned the snatchback victory on the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: Huge.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. They came back and beat the– and then
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: they ended up– that was the springboard. They won three
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: out of four in that series. Damn near swept them
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: in four games.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: And that came on the heels of getting skunked in
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: San Diego.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: They were skunked in San Diego in three, and they
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: just got sand kicked in their faces, right?
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Is that, like, if you want.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: To obsess about that and say, how are the Brewers
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: going to win after that happened? What about when the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Brewers skunked the Dodgers 7-0 during the regular season?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: The year before. Yeah, last year. The year before. Yeah,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: last year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then lost.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Got boat raced in the play. That doesn't matter. It's
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a clean slate. So if you want to worry about that,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: go ahead. But that's not that relevant because what's relevant
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: is how you plan today.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Win tonight. Play today. Totally.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: The reality of the situation, the Brewers went two and
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: four against the Padres this year. The Padres also won
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: two of those three games in the sweep by one run,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: and one of them was an extra innings. A 4-3
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: extra innings win, a 3-2. The one they got blown
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: out was a tough Kyle Harrison start, 11-2. Otherwise, they
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: lost by one run. They were playing, again, uncharacteristically bad. Now,
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: the Brewers, since that series, lost one more series. They
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: otherwise they either split or won every single series the
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: rest of the way.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: And so that really that Thursday night in L.A. was
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: so big.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: You're down heading to the ninth inning against Edwin Diaz.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: You score three. You win the game. And then since then,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: they lost one series. And that was a series in
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: Cincinnati over Labor Day weekend. Otherwise, they were they basically
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: took it off the sheet after that.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: They did. Yeah.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: And.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: There's just so many ways to look at it, and
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you can obsess about it, but it's a baseball game.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: You're going to play a series, and the Brewers have
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: been clicking off series wins much the same way as
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the Padres. Are the Padres technically hotter in terms of
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: record than the Brewers in the last month of the season?
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: And I'm wondering, does that even matter? Right, and the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Brewers went 18-6 in September and 15-3 in their last 18th.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: So it's hard to play much better than the last 11.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: So you don't want to talk about hot. The brewers
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: are nearly as hot as the Padres. Yeah, they might be,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: but you guys have both been around baseball more than
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the average Joe, which I consider myself. What makes a
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: team hot? Is it, is it a play? Is it
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: come together? Is it an attitude?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Is it a vibe?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: You know, it is a vibe. It's like a contagion. Well,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: first of all, winning. I mean, that's, you know, uh, okay.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's the, it's the little things. It's, um, the, the,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: The Brewers have a blueprint where they, you know, get
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a lead and then hold the lead because their bullpen
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: is really good. And then they turn it over and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: McGill closes it out, right? Now, there are some games
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: they will come from behind. They're capable of that, again,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: because of their bullpen. If they're down four runs in
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the third inning, the bullpen will keep it at that
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and let you peck away at it. And then the
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: next thing you know, you're in the eighth inning and
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the tying run's on second, right? So they do have
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: that capacity, even though they don't hit homers. The interesting
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: thing about the playoffs, and I heard Murph say this,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and Hunter, when we come back, we'll spin through some
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: of the sound that you gathered.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: But I heard Murph mention it, too.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: The interesting thing is you're facing the top of teams'
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: pitching staffs because you don't have guys on the shelf
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: because I don't want to pitch them four times in
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: five days. The schedule has breaks in it so that
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the most you're going to play in a row is three, right?
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: In a 2-3-2?
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Like they're playing three in a row right now,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: this week in the wildcard series, that's the most you're
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: going to face. And then guys, so you're facing the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: top guys out of the bullpen are generally always available. Now,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: if you're going from one series to the next or
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: starters need their normal rest and all that, that's baked in.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: But you're facing the best pitching.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: And so that makes it hard, I've been saying, to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: get five or six hits in an inning because it's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: hard to get that against the top pitching. So you
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: might not get that many walks. That's why we always
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: say homers play. And what Austin Riley did, one swing.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Against Duran, who's been one of the best in baseball.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: They brought him in early. They went aggressive. And it backfired.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: And so one swing. And that's how games can turn.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: And baseball games can turn on one or two plays
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: like that. But you put yourself in position. And the
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: other thing that Murph mentioned was when you will talk
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: about roster construction, there's no ghost runner. So you might
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: have a 15 inning game. So you need to prepare
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: for that.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: True, too. So you need like, oh, we don't need
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: that many pitchers. Yeah, you do.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Or, you know, you have to think about that being
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: a possibility. And so you got to keep some fresh
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: arms in case that happens. And the Brewers are blessed
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: in that way because they have a scheme where they
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: have multiple guys who can go multiple innings.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: And that's going to help. For sure.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And then do you, do you keep, and that's where like, uh, that,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: that do you think about keeping a Kyle Harrison or
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: a guy who's stretched out, who struggled, but he stretched
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: out and you might need him like, you know, or
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: a Shane drone could be that guy or, and I've
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: talked to a lot of people who are like, ah,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: they're going to get into a big thing and they're
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: going to have a bullpen day.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Cause they, they've used Henderson and Ms.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: But that's the way baseball is now. And it happens
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: in the world series. You see bullpen games. Like that's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: just the idea of having, a set starter for every game,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the way they did in the eighties, that doesn't happen anymore.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: No, no.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I would think game four, if they would get to
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: that scenario would likely be that type of, that type
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: of just who is available.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Is it Ashby? Is it drone?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Is it, well, there's a, is it even may for,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you know, as long as he can go and then
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: somebody in next, as soon as he gets in trouble.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: So that's, and that's how the playoffs go. Like you're
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: in any different role. You know, we.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Saw Trevor McGill start game five last year, right? There,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: there are, there are different roles that these guys are in,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: in the post season. And the Brewers are set up
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: well with a pitching staff that I think the bullpen,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: you feel pretty much good about pretty much anybody that
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: comes in. That last kind of spot in the bullpen,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: that last spot in the pitching staff on the roster,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: it's going to be interesting. You talk about Kyle Harrison
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: or maybe a Bryce Wilson or even maybe an outside
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: shot of a guy who's like Garrett Stallings, who pitched
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: really well at the major league level, didn't finish the
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: season well. at the major league level, but maybe he
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: is considered for it. Murph did talk about Harrison. We'll
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: get to that in the next segment as well.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, we're going to spin through some of the sound
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: that Hunter gathered yesterday. It was really good. Murph was good,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: as always.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: As always. Mount Rushmore of Brewers people, don't you think?
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he is 100 games over 500 in his first
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: three seasons.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: That's unbelievable. 293 and 193. Yeah, that's pretty unbelievable. Patches
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: over your hand. Yeah, that's stunning.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, we got plenty to get to. It's also Hot
• 32:48
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• 32:51
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• 32:57
  Speaker 1: We'll start firing those out beginning at 6 a.m. And
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: then when we get to the end of the show
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and we're feeling and we're dragging a little bit, our
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: first in-season visit with our pal El Jefe John Greenberg,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: president of the Milwaukee Admirals.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Hockey season started last night in the NHL. Admirals fire
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: up on Saturday night in Rockford.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Already i haven't set my valentine's out yet and it's
• 33:18
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• 33:21
  Speaker 1: radio wisconsin huddled up on a wednesday drew olsen doby
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: maxwell in for billy hunter bomb guard manning the controls
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: here at headquarters for arm and sarian the band will
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: be back together tomorrow uh and tomorrow's the doubleheader day
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: we got the huddle at 5 a.m and then the
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: evening huddle at pottawatomie sports book your sport, our stadium,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: great place to watch games, Thursday night football. Come hang
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: out with us. Great food at the sports book. Great people,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: great vibe. A lot of action. We look forward to
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: that every week. We weren't there last week because Packers
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: played on Thursday night, but we'll be back in all
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: of our glory at 5 o'clock on Thursday. All right,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Hunter was covering the workouts. Brewers are working out today
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and tomorrow. Closed to the media. They want to go
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: underground and not let people see. You got to see
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the simulated game. You got to watch the proceedings from
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: the press box afterwards. after doing the interviews and stuff. Hunter,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: what do you got? What did you come back with?
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: What do you want to spin for us?
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the sim game yesterday, Logan Henderson threw a.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Considerable amount.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, probably his regular work, staying fresh between starts.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: How many up-downs? I want to say like four. Four
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: or five.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: That's what they call them is when you pitch to
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: a couple batters and then you go sit down and.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Then you come back. It's a simulated game.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Grant Anderson threw a couple of pitches. Who was hitting
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: against him? Everybody or Vaughn was in there. Laura was
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: in there. Lockridge was in there. Vaughn, you know, trying
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: to come back from he lost 10 pounds because he
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: was sick in the last couple of weeks.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: So he's trying to kind of get his footing back.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: So that's why they had him in there. But Pat Murphy,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: of course, stole the show a bit. Talking about so
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: many different topics. I pulled a few different interesting clips.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Let's start. We talked about it last time.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: And Kyle Harrison said, He had two scoreless innings in
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: his last outing of the season, trying to kind of
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: get back to that first half form. And even if
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: he's not back to that dominant form he was in,
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: just having Kyle Harrison back close to that would be
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: big for this team. This is what Pat Murphy said
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: about Kyle Harrison, what he's done lately, and his chances
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: of making the roster.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, you look at his total body of work,
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: it's really good. You look at the last, what, how
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: many outings? Six or seven, eight?
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: You're like, ugh.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of reasons for that, but he's still
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: young in the game. But that last outing meant something,
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: and it was in leverage, you know. So, yeah, I'm
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: looking forward to seeing what this week brings. It's not
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: a tryout, but we're looking for consistency and secondary stuff
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: to be consistent. And I think he could definitely– grab
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: a spot.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Here I think that last quote is probably the most
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: important that he could grab a spot in the postseason
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: roster a week or two or go you know maybe
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: after his rough outing in Pittsburgh you could have thought
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know if he's really even has a chance
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: at the postseason roster but he's turning around a little
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: bit the question is if you have Kyle Harrison on
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: on your roster where where do you feel comfortable putting
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: it putting him in because we've seen him get knocked
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: around a little more than we would have liked. And
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: so let's say, oh, Hunter with a four-run.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Lead, I'll put him in.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, do you really want a guy who can give
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: up hits and bunches and hits a guy and walks
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: a guy? Like if that's the Kyle Harrison you get,
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden you could have the tying run
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: at the plate real quick in an inning like that.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: But if they see enough this week, well, like you said, Drew,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: behind closed doors, it's possible that he is on this
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: roster and maybe grabs that last spot from the pitching staff.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: We'll see. Yeah. It sounds like they're, they want him there.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: I think so. I think that's a good point. And
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: as we've been saying, like, okay, how stretched out is
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: he now though?
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: True.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I think he's more of a couple inning guy. I
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: don't know. He's not going to start again. Well, you're
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: not going to start again, but I just mean like,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: I'm talking.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: About those extra inning scenarios and stuff where you're, you're
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: pitching until you can't go anymore and that kind of stuff.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: It's, That's possible because, I mean, he's not as stretched
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: out probably as he was when he was throwing six innings.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: But can he give you three? Probably.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: And I heard Murph say it the other day, as
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: good as Logan Henderson has been on this back end
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: of the season, that's what Harrison was the first half
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: of the season. And I know a lot of people like, oh,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: the guy sucks now. And well, perfect example. We talked
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: about Yelich being a potential, you know, we're in the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: sea and being a potential playoff hero.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Austin Riley sucked like a shop vac this year.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: And then the biggest moment yesterday in the eighth inning
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: with his team down, he swats a home run and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: wins the game.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: It's like Rojas in the World Series last year. Oh, yeah. Yep.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: And that's that again. Hashtag baseball. What else you got, Hunter? Yeah,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: let's go through.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: This is Pat Murphy talking about the pitching plans for
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: game one and two. Obviously, you can probably guess Miz
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: and Henderson are part of those plans. He kind of explains.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: And he said, you know, you never know.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: But that's what he's leaning towards.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: This also starts with how he started the press conference
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: and wanting everybody to cite their name and affiliation, even
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: though he knew most of the people in the room.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: So take a listen.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Hi, Kurt.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: How are you? Fine, thanks. Would you announce your name,
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: full name, and who you work for? Nice. Is that
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: a local paper? Yes, the local person. At this particular
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: point in time, would you care to announce.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Your game on the starter?
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think that pretty much everyone realizes that
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: we're going to go with Miz and Henderson.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Predominantly.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: It's going to be, you know, as the obvious, there
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: are two top starters right now. It'll probably be the
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: way we go. I mean, subject to change. You never
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: know how things go. I'll follow up on that, Jim.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Thanks. Name, please.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I'm Adam McElvey, MLB.com.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: Your first year?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: First year, yes, sir.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: When you think about, you know, you have Friday lined up,
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: and then.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot more to it.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: When you have a five-game series.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: You've got to decide how you want to line that up.
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: So there's a lot more thought than just, well, those
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: are the two top guys, so they'll pitch one and two.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: There's a lot more to it. You want to squeeze
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: as much as you can out of your best guys,
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: but you kind of also have to read and react
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: because you have three other games, and we don't have necessarily,
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: depending on who we play, we don't necessarily have it
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: all lined up for sure.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: There you go, Pat Murphy. Pat Murphy. Yeah, good stuff.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Pitching plans. That is a game changer.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I heard Chris Hook say recently, yeah, last year it
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: was Freddie Peralta, and we'll figure the rest out.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Now you got.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Matt Arnold said that before the playoff series last year.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: It was literally like Freddie Peralta, and then it's all
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: hands on deck after that.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: And now it's Miz and Henderson, and hopefully we're up 2-0,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: and then we'll see where we're at and match it up.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: And see who we have to use out of the
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: pen behind the guys.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: So it's fascinating. Good problem to have.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: The chess match is ongoing. But at least, yeah, now,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: back in the day, you had three or four starters
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: you could pencil in. But now, nope, hardly anybody has
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: that anymore. You might have three, but after that, it's
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: generally mix and match. All right, hot takes are going
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: to be fired up. We're going to hear more from
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Hunter and the Brewers players. We've got some one-on-one interviews
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: coming up as well.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Buckle up. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.