Latest / The Huddle / 10/06/26 - Hour 2
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Brewers Padres tonight, game three live from Petco Park and
- 0:03Speaker 1: sweltering San Diego. Not often you say that, sweltering San Diego.
- 0:07Speaker 1: Temperatures in the upper 90s. It's getting hot in here.
- 0:10Speaker 1: It's the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison,
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- 0:16Speaker 1: Drew Olson along with Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian, your happy
- 0:20Speaker 1: trio coming at you. Now, boys, the narrative yesterday as
- 0:24Speaker 1: everybody continued to process what we saw unfold Sunday at
- 0:27Speaker 1: American Family Field, They picked up the circus. They packed
- 0:30Speaker 1: it up, moved it west. Our boy Hunter is there. Yes, sir.
- 0:33Speaker 1: And the Main topic was, was Mason Miller, the indomitable
- 0:37Speaker 1: closer for the Padres, tipping his pitches? The Brewers have
- 0:40Speaker 1: an upper hand. Now, no one's saying that anything was illegal.
- 0:42Speaker 1: They weren't banging garbage cans. No, I didn't see one.
- 0:45Speaker 2: I really didn't see one take on this accusing the
- 0:48Speaker 2: Brewers of, like, cheating or anything like that.
- 0:50Speaker 1: It's perfectly within the rules. No buzzers under the jerseys.
- 0:53Speaker 1: The guy at second base to flash a sign to the—
- 0:55Speaker 1: No buzzers, no garbage cans, none of that, you know,
- 0:57Speaker 1: none of that. So that's fine. But was he doing it?
- 1:00Speaker 1: Do you think the Brewers had an advantage? And the
- 1:04Speaker 1: bigger question to me is, does it matter when a
- 1:06Speaker 1: guy's got good stuff and throws a hundred four and
- 1:08Speaker 1: everybody's talking about the take with Jackson Churro in the
- 1:10Speaker 1: middle of his at bat. What about the 17 takes
- 1:13Speaker 1: between Yelich, Freelick and Sanchez who all drew walks without
- 1:17Speaker 1: swinging the bat. That's the story. And the entire bats.
- 1:20Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:21Speaker 3: And, and drew, this was one of the hottest conversations
- 1:23Speaker 3: a couple of years ago when the Michigan football team
- 1:25Speaker 3: went 15 and all and won the national title.
- 1:28Speaker 1: And it was in the midst of the Connor stallions conversation. Um,
- 1:32Speaker 1: I can only.
- 1:33Speaker 3: Look at signs in any sport one way. They only
- 1:36Speaker 3: give you so much. If Barry Bonds, just as I
- 1:40Speaker 3: watched him hit, not all of his 750, whatever it was,
- 1:44Speaker 3: home runs. But sure, the juice will help you hit
- 1:47Speaker 3: the ball longer. It doesn't help you hit the baseball.
- 1:50Speaker 3: There is still the act of doing it that never
- 1:53Speaker 3: changes and never is easier. Now, you might have some
- 1:57Speaker 3: kind of information, and frankly– I've always been if you
- 2:01Speaker 3: ain't cheating, you ain't trying conversation. So I think it's
- 2:05Speaker 3: one that if you have the opportunity and you are
- 2:09Speaker 3: out there on second base, it's one of the reasons
- 2:10Speaker 3: why you steal second. One of the reasons why you
- 2:13Speaker 3: get yourself in a scoring position is you have to
- 2:15Speaker 3: be able to try to pull up and find any tell.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Also, what are you actually getting anymore?
- 2:20Speaker 3: Like you have to be grabbing at the grip that
- 2:23Speaker 3: someone has on the baseball.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Better be right.
- 2:27Speaker 3: You sure better be right from 25, 30 feet away
- 2:31Speaker 3: that I know exactly how he's gripping the slider. And
- 2:33Speaker 3: that's the guess that I'm telling him in the most
- 2:35Speaker 3: important spot and that you're trusting me. I'd say it
- 2:38Speaker 3: on both sides. If it worked out for you, kudos. Congratulations,
- 2:42Speaker 3: Pete Alonzo. It clearly worked when they had to tell
- 2:45Speaker 3: on Devin Williams, hit the three run shot and end
- 2:47Speaker 3: your season.
- 2:47Speaker 2: Yes.
- 2:48Speaker 1: So shoes on the other foot. It happens. Yeah. It
- 2:50Speaker 1: works for you. It works against you. And everyone's trying
- 2:52Speaker 1: to get an edge and you're working on it. You know,
- 2:54Speaker 1: there's a reason the Padres had three iPads open the
- 2:56Speaker 1: dugout at all times. I mean, they've got the MLB
- 2:59Speaker 1: pitch tracker. They had the game on. Everyone's trying to
- 3:01Speaker 1: look for an edge. What are you getting? Maybe an
- 3:04Speaker 1: edge on somebody. Does it?
- 3:05Speaker 2: I think my thing is, Fans assume it automatically guarantees
- 3:09Speaker 2: you success. It was a little bit like this with steroids.
- 3:11Speaker 2: Even like this guy's on roids. He's automatically getting a
- 3:14Speaker 2: home run. I got news for you. If you told
- 3:15Speaker 2: me what pitch is coming, I got no chance. Like
- 3:17Speaker 2: you still have to hit the ball. So there's a
- 3:19Speaker 2: lot of times I'm sure guys get a tell they're right.
- 3:22Speaker 2: And it doesn't do any good. You know, like, like
- 3:25Speaker 2: it's still a lot of times you still can't hit
- 3:27Speaker 2: the ball. I mean, you had the right guy up
- 3:28Speaker 2: in the right situation. Does it give you a smaller
- 3:31Speaker 2: edge to know the pitch coming? It absolutely does. Because
- 3:34Speaker 2: a guy like Mason Miller, I will say, I mean,
- 3:37Speaker 2: What he has on you is the ability to totally
- 3:39Speaker 2: handcuff you because, you know, you're sitting on that breaking ball,
- 3:43Speaker 2: the slider, worried about the fastball, all these things.
- 3:45Speaker 1: So, yeah, I mean, that's just great work. I mean,
- 3:48Speaker 1: that's just one.
- 3:49Speaker 2: Of the many things, many small details that's made the
- 3:52Speaker 2: Brewers a great franchise, a great team, a winning team,
- 3:55Speaker 2: and a great operation. But this has been going on
- 3:58Speaker 2: forever in baseball.
- 4:00Speaker 1: I mean, guy gets to second.
- 4:02Speaker 2: That's why catchers put on the indicator and try and
- 4:04Speaker 2: make the signal up and.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Go through the. Well, they don't anymore. Well, but they
- 4:08Speaker 1: get the pitch come.
- 4:08Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
- 4:09Speaker 1: They got pitch. Yeah, I get it.
- 4:10Speaker 2: But that is originally what the signs. But even then,
- 4:13Speaker 2: you're trying to see where a guy sets up. You
- 4:15Speaker 2: might try and get any sort of indicator on any sort.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Of edge or advantage, you know, and great.
- 4:21Speaker 2: I'm glad like Billy made the greatest point in the
- 4:23Speaker 2: world and that it worked out against.
- 4:25Speaker 1: The Brewers in the worst time. Right.
- 4:27Speaker 2: When, when apparently if Devin Williams is tipping his pitch
- 4:30Speaker 2: to Alonzo.
- 4:30Speaker 3: Well, and that one was clear cut. Like when you,
- 4:32Speaker 3: when you go back and see some of the video drew,
- 4:35Speaker 3: they were scheming it.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
- 4:37Speaker 3: And I mean, you see like where his glove is
- 4:38Speaker 3: positioned and he's moving it. Like it's not only a
- 4:41Speaker 3: looking into the glove, pulling it.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 4:43Speaker 3: If indeed the grabbing at your neck is an indication
- 4:46Speaker 3: of the pitch. Again, I think it's more good on you,
- 4:49Speaker 3: but like to your point, it is.
- 4:51Speaker 1: It's still 104.
- 4:52Speaker 3: He's still on it on 104. And Pierzynski kind of
- 4:57Speaker 3: walked it back on foul territory yesterday. He goes, no,
- 4:59Speaker 3: that's what I was doing. I'm not Jack Centurio. I'm
- 5:03Speaker 3: not as good as that young man in the box.
- 5:06Speaker 3: And at 22 years old, whether you knew what was
- 5:08Speaker 3: coming or not, still had to lay off.
- 5:09Speaker 1: And hit it. I just think we've grown up in
- 5:11Speaker 1: a generation that thinks it's a video game. I think, yeah.
- 5:13Speaker 1: In a video game, yeah.
- 5:14Speaker 2: If I know an MVP of the old 2Ks, whatever,
- 5:18Speaker 2: that you're pitching me something that's better, but this is
- 5:20Speaker 2: still real life, and it's hard to hit.
- 5:21Speaker 1: There's so many things, and it's the game within the game,
- 5:24Speaker 1: and it's fascinating. I love baseball. Well, yeah, but where
- 5:28Speaker 1: does the catcher set up? Because if a catcher sets up,
- 5:31Speaker 1: and this was a thing, Trevor Hoffman, one of the
- 5:34Speaker 1: greatest closers of all time, got a 600 save when
- 5:36Speaker 1: he was with the Brewers. Class act, right? He threw
- 5:39Speaker 1: mostly change-ups. You knew it's coming, and you still couldn't
- 5:41Speaker 1: hit it. Mariano Rivera threw cutters. You knew it was coming.
- 5:45Speaker 1: You still couldn't hit it. Now, if the guy at
- 5:47Speaker 1: second base is giving location, let's say change-ups one of
- 5:50Speaker 1: your pitches, and you're a change-up fastball guy. Nobody really
- 5:54Speaker 1: ever plans to throw a change-up on the inner half.
- 5:58Speaker 1: Sometimes you do, but a lot of times it gets clubbed.
- 6:01Speaker 1: So when a catcher would set up outside, if the
- 6:04Speaker 1: runner on second gives a signal like, to location, then
- 6:08Speaker 1: you might say, okay, he's the catcher setting up outside.
- 6:10Speaker 1: That means it's likely not a changeup. It's going to
- 6:12Speaker 1: be a fastball. So I'm going to look, I'm going
- 6:13Speaker 1: to look hard away. Okay. Well, that's been going on forever.
- 6:16Speaker 1: And that's, you know, that's the cat and mouse, right? That's,
- 6:19Speaker 1: but that's on the catcher. Don't set up early, wait
- 6:22Speaker 1: until right before. And with the pitch clock now, it's
- 6:25Speaker 1: cut down on some of this, you know, the chicanery.
- 6:29Speaker 1: That's a good point. A very good point.
- 6:31Speaker 3: The, the, the later you can also set up and
- 6:33Speaker 3: you can manipulate the entire clock.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely. So it's a beautiful game too. And then
- 6:38Speaker 1: is it when, if the, you know, the picture's like,
- 6:42Speaker 1: he's expecting this pitch and I know he's expecting this pitch.
- 6:44Speaker 1: So I'm going to throw this pitch, but he's expecting that.
- 6:46Speaker 1: I know that he knows he's expecting that. I know
- 6:48Speaker 1: that he knows I know that. And then you get
- 6:50Speaker 1: into this whole thing. And then the guy on second
- 6:52Speaker 1: base is that is the sign stealing effective or is it,
- 6:57Speaker 1: The idea that they might be stealing signs that makes
- 6:59Speaker 1: you change things and get you out of whack. It's
- 7:01Speaker 1: all the mental side.
- 7:02Speaker 3: Because the video of Fermin immediately saying, hey, he's watching.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Watch that he's watching.
- 7:09Speaker 3: Whether you have the tell or not, you now instantly,
- 7:13Speaker 3: like trash talking in basketball, Drew.
- 7:14Speaker 1: In your head. At least now I'm in your head. Totally.
- 7:16Speaker 3: At least now you have one little extra thing to
- 7:19Speaker 3: think of that I can have you gripping the baseball
- 7:22Speaker 3: maybe a tick more. And maybe that's one of the
- 7:24Speaker 3: things that led to, what did he throw? 40 pitches and...
- 7:27Speaker 3: Twenty five strikes like so maybe that was something that
- 7:31Speaker 3: leads to it with something in the back of your mind,
- 7:34Speaker 3: knowing that they're on it.
- 7:36Speaker 1: I also just.
- 7:38Speaker 3: Very much equate it to what Michigan and the college
- 7:40Speaker 3: football thing and any kind of sport. People are always
- 7:44Speaker 3: trying to steal signs in football. Whether you are sending
- 7:47Speaker 3: somebody with a fake mustache and glasses a week and
- 7:50Speaker 3: a half before to tape the sideline, everybody's going to
- 7:53Speaker 3: have everyone signs probably by the middle of the second quarter.
- 7:56Speaker 3: By the middle of the second quarter, everybody knows what
- 8:00Speaker 3: you're running. And whether it's Luke Keekly in the middle
- 8:03Speaker 3: of the field calling out runner pass and which way
- 8:06Speaker 3: they're running. everybody knows it doesn't mean that you're going
- 8:10Speaker 3: to be able to stop it or be able to
- 8:11Speaker 3: be successful.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Yeah it's just adjusting how many times did aaron rogers
- 8:14Speaker 2: talk about you know when when everything started getting you
- 8:18Speaker 2: know more field mics and mic'd up and he had
- 8:19Speaker 2: to increase dummy audibles and drew you said it might
- 8:22Speaker 2: be not fair but you said it you know guys
- 8:24Speaker 2: are gonna do dummy signs as well on second base
- 8:26Speaker 2: as well and dummy signals it's just like the same
- 8:29Speaker 2: situation so you, you increase dummy audibles, you increase dummy signals.
- 8:33Speaker 1: You had to try and throw teams off. It's a
- 8:35Speaker 1: chess game. It's, it's the game within the game.
- 8:38Speaker 2: And that's one of the reasons it's interesting. I don't
- 8:40Speaker 2: think it's a problem. I think it's a good thing.
- 8:42Speaker 2: Everyone's trying to play strategy and do different things. And
- 8:46Speaker 2: it does make it, you know, it makes the details
- 8:50Speaker 2: fascinating for people that are into it.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Love that stuff. Love that stuff. But yeah, it was
- 8:54Speaker 1: just against it happening to you. It's a perfect storm.
- 8:56Speaker 1: And the crux of it again, to me is this is,
- 9:00Speaker 1: Mason Miller, you asked him to get six outs. You
- 9:02Speaker 1: get past you get north of 30 pitches. You're in
- 9:04Speaker 1: the danger zone. Right. And you in the postseason, it
- 9:09Speaker 1: happens all the time. Managers will ask us to do
- 9:11Speaker 1: stuff that they've never asked him. Let's say you ask
- 9:16Speaker 1: Gary Sanchez to bunt like or somebody to bunt who
- 9:19Speaker 1: never bunted. Pops one up to the catcher. It generally
- 9:22Speaker 1: doesn't work, right? But I get it because it's desperate times.
- 9:26Speaker 1: It's all hands on deck. You may see at some point,
- 9:30Speaker 1: maybe not right now, given where the series is, but
- 9:32Speaker 1: you may see Miz come out in relief. That's what
- 9:35Speaker 1: I was going to say.
- 9:36Speaker 3: When they asked him and he said, give me the ball,
- 9:39Speaker 3: it's because teams are doing it, right? Chris Sale just
- 9:41Speaker 3: did it. Chris Sale did it really, really well on
- 9:43Speaker 3: his midweek, on his bullpen. So I'll throw my bullpen
- 9:46Speaker 3: in the game for an inning and a third and
- 9:48Speaker 3: move us on to the ALDS or NLDS.
- 9:50Speaker 1: It doesn't always work that way. Crochet, what, face four
- 9:53Speaker 1: batters and then get anybody out?
- 9:54Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 9:55Speaker 1: One of the greatest games I ever had the privilege
- 9:57Speaker 1: of attending was the Mariners. walking off the Yankees. with
- 10:02Speaker 1: Ken Griffey Jr. scoring on a double by Edgar Martinez. Yeah,
- 10:05Speaker 1: the mad dash for home. The mad dash. That was
- 10:07Speaker 1: an unbelievable play. In that game, yeah, Randy Johnson came
- 10:10Speaker 1: out of the pen and pitched for the Mariners, and
- 10:12Speaker 1: it's like, how about unleashing that weapon on his throw day?
- 10:16Speaker 1: So it goes all the way back to that. Some
- 10:18Speaker 1: days it works, some days it doesn't. Yeah, it happens.
- 10:21Speaker 3: I very much remember Kershaw not faring very well in
- 10:24Speaker 3: his career coming out of the pen.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:28Speaker 3: Worked out pretty well in game seven but that was
- 10:30Speaker 3: the one time that it actually had fared very well
- 10:33Speaker 3: for him in the.
- 10:34Speaker 2: Playoffs so it's probably you take your you take your
- 10:38Speaker 2: chances at a process decision point with with what with
- 10:42Speaker 2: what you think is the best move at the time
- 10:44Speaker 2: but the result is never guaranteed it goes back to
- 10:46Speaker 2: what we always talk about the results never guaranteed i
- 10:49Speaker 2: mean you know you might think you're you know the
- 10:52Speaker 2: cubs had a role as chapman for that reason. So
- 10:55Speaker 2: they let's roll them out for like, what was it?
- 10:57Speaker 2: Two or three innings in game seven. Well, he blew
- 10:59Speaker 2: the save. I mean, the Indy, the Indians at the time,
- 11:02Speaker 2: or I believe they tied it. Now the Cubs came
- 11:05Speaker 2: back to win and Carl Edwards gets the, you know,
- 11:08Speaker 2: so at the time they're thinking, this is why we
- 11:10Speaker 2: got this guy. Let's use them all the way, but
- 11:13Speaker 2: it can, it can affect his, you know, his performance
- 11:17Speaker 2: as well. If you use them too much or maybe they,
- 11:20Speaker 2: That had nothing to do with it. Maybe they were
- 11:22Speaker 2: going to score.
- 11:22Speaker 1: Off him anyway.
- 11:23Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe Rajay Davis was going to hit that thing
- 11:25Speaker 3: for 384 feet when it had to go 382 to
- 11:28Speaker 3: get out.
- 11:28Speaker 1: It's just great. That's just sports. That's just baseball.
- 11:32Speaker 2: And as much as we like, look, and, you know,
- 11:34Speaker 2: it might be the Brewers might be in that situation.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Your rebate came in the sixth. Was it the sixth?
- 11:39Speaker 1: You remake. He never does that. So yeah, it was
- 11:42Speaker 1: one of that situation. Usually hook me up after four. Yeah,
- 11:44Speaker 1: everything's backed up. It's it's postseason. It's the playoffs. You're right, Drew.
- 11:48Speaker 1: That's just how it goes.
- 11:50Speaker 3: It also reinforces just how big of a game to
- 11:53Speaker 3: be able to win game one when Miz goes four innings.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 11:57Speaker 3: But to win a game where you commit three errors huge,
- 12:01Speaker 3: just like what the.
- 12:01Speaker 1: Yankees were unable to do last night.
- 12:03Speaker 3: I was reading Max Freed and Jeff Passon putting it
- 12:07Speaker 3: out before game two. He's like They're just not going
- 12:10Speaker 3: to beat themselves. The Brewers, you would say the same
- 12:12Speaker 3: thing for all year long. And then they tried to
- 12:16Speaker 3: by missing a double play and letting runs to double
- 12:19Speaker 3: plays back to back and letting a run cross, which
- 12:22Speaker 3: almost was going to be the decisive one.
- 12:24Speaker 1: You win that game.
- 12:26Speaker 3: It's going to be hard to be able to not
- 12:29Speaker 3: count to 11 to be able to get to the
- 12:31Speaker 3: end goal.
- 12:32Speaker 1: And that's the weird deal in the playoffs. It's like.
- 12:35Speaker 2: The margins are so thin. The Brewers could have definitely
- 12:38Speaker 2: easily lost both first two games. They won both, and
- 12:41Speaker 2: you're riding high. But now you're going to San Diego,
- 12:43Speaker 2: and this thing could still flip quickly. I know we're
- 12:45Speaker 2: feeling great about it, but you've been up 2-0 before
- 12:49Speaker 2: and had to see it go to five games. San
- 12:50Speaker 2: Diego's tough, so it'd be nice to close them out
- 12:52Speaker 2: here like you did against the Rockies in 18, but
- 12:55Speaker 2: you never know.
- 12:56Speaker 1: We as sports fans lose. We live in the moment
- 12:59Speaker 1: and we lose the ability to have perspective because... the
- 13:03Speaker 1: last great thing that happened in our, our area was
- 13:06Speaker 1: the bucks run to the championship. And there were two
- 13:08Speaker 1: series that they were down to, to nothing and had
- 13:11Speaker 1: to survive.
- 13:11Speaker 3: So, and what do they get paid 40 piece than
- 13:14Speaker 3: a game two?
- 13:17Speaker 1: It looked like it was brutal. Lost game one against
- 13:19Speaker 1: the Hawks. Even stuff like that. You know, you're, you're
- 13:22Speaker 1: flying high after that, when you're up on the Hawks,
- 13:24Speaker 1: all of a sudden with two minutes to go, you're
- 13:26Speaker 1: up seven, you blow it, you know, and I know it.
- 13:29Speaker 1: It's funny because our friend Cato Kalin, is the guy
- 13:33Speaker 1: on Twitter who he's just the unhinged fan and he
- 13:36Speaker 1: pisses a lot of people off. Cause he goes off.
- 13:39Speaker 1: There are a ton of people who in the first
- 13:42Speaker 1: like four innings of game one, we're like, you know, Hey,
- 13:45Speaker 1: Murphy didn't have this team ready. This team sucks. Same
- 13:47Speaker 1: old brewers, not going anywhere. Regular season, 103 doesn't mean anything.
- 13:51Speaker 1: People jumping off the ship. And how do you like
- 13:53Speaker 1: it now? Like just let the games happen. And you're right.
- 13:56Speaker 1: If you're the Padres right now, they're not, they're not
- 13:58Speaker 1: a great spot. But they've got nothing to lose tonight.
- 14:01Speaker 1: They're going to give everything they have. They're going to
- 14:02Speaker 1: be playing in front of that maniacal crowd in the heat.
- 14:06Speaker 1: And they think that, well, what the hell? Why not us?
- 14:09Speaker 1: Let's come back. Okay? And the Padres are a good outfit.
- 14:12Speaker 1: And if they win tonight, then they think they're going
- 14:15Speaker 1: to win tomorrow. We just saw the Brewers do this
- 14:17Speaker 1: against the Cubs last year and have to come back
- 14:19Speaker 1: home and play a game five. Their own favorites. So
- 14:23Speaker 1: that's entirely possible that that could happen. I would rather
- 14:25Speaker 1: be the Brewers than the Padres right now. Big time.
- 14:28Speaker 1: And the thing about the Padres is you're right. Like
- 14:30Speaker 1: they came, you know, they had Miz out of the
- 14:32Speaker 1: game trailing after four, which is the perfect scenario. And
- 14:37Speaker 1: then they're, they're a roof and the roof all the
- 14:39Speaker 1: way from stealing that game. And then they've got a
- 14:42Speaker 1: lead in the ninth with their guy, with their Miz
- 14:45Speaker 1: on the back end of the game pitching and the
- 14:47Speaker 1: guy in the Brewers scratch out the winning run. So.
- 14:50Speaker 1: I mean, they couldn't have been. They were right there.
- 14:52Speaker 1: And that's the margins. You're right. Those are the margins
- 14:55Speaker 1: between victory and defeat in the playoffs. All the Padres
- 14:57Speaker 1: could have asked is to give the ball to Morione.
- 15:00Speaker 1: in game one with a lead, and Miller in game
- 15:02Speaker 1: two with a lead. And they lost both of them.
- 15:05Speaker 1: That is a difficult, difficult series to end up winning.
- 15:08Speaker 1: It's just like when you watch an NBA series and
- 15:10Speaker 1: you blow a 15-point lead in the final 10 minutes.
- 15:13Speaker 3: We watched it with Cleveland. Now, Kenny Atkinson still thinks
- 15:16Speaker 3: they're up 3-1 analytically.
- 15:18Speaker 1: Over the Knicks.
- 15:19Speaker 3: But when you have that lead and you're unable to
- 15:21Speaker 3: get it home, now you've got to beat them five times.
- 15:23Speaker 3: In all reality, there's a way you could look at it. Sure,
- 15:27Speaker 3: Padres could be up 2-0. Now they kind of have
- 15:29Speaker 3: to beat them five times because you had them somewhat
- 15:32Speaker 3: beat twice and couldn't finish the job. That's a hell
- 15:36Speaker 3: of a mental edge to be able to get over.
- 15:38Speaker 3: I also, Drew, would like to be where the Brewers
- 15:41Speaker 3: are at. I'd also really like to be where Hunter
- 15:42Speaker 3: Baumgart's at. I get it was very, very hot. I
- 15:46Speaker 3: think I could put up with it for a couple
- 15:48Speaker 3: of days because, man, those visuals from that stadium yesterday
- 15:52Speaker 3: at that workout with the elevator music blasting through and
- 15:55Speaker 3: nice retaliation for what the Brewers did to the Padres
- 15:57Speaker 3: a couple of days ago Oh, did it look gorgeous?
- 16:01Speaker 2: That scenery was phenomenal. That's a nice town for is
- 16:05Speaker 2: living it up.
- 16:05Speaker 1: He's living it up. That's a nice looking town.
- 16:07Speaker 2: Although I did apologize to him yesterday that we're going
- 16:09Speaker 2: to get him up early, early for him, because obviously
- 16:12Speaker 2: he's going to join us at seven.
- 16:14Speaker 1: We are going to wake him up. Oh, yeah.
- 16:15Speaker 2: He said he said he'll do it. I mean, I'm
- 16:17Speaker 2: talking about, hey, I know it's going to be early
- 16:19Speaker 2: for you. West Coast time. But, you know, he goes, hey,
- 16:21Speaker 2: I'm out here. Oh, he's getting up to make an
- 16:23Speaker 2: English muffin, isn't he?
- 16:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's too excited. I mean, you think
- 16:28Speaker 1: he's not going to walk the beaches? It's game day.
- 16:31Speaker 1: You know, sunrise, he's going to walk the beaches of
- 16:33Speaker 1: Del Mar. I mean, you know, send some selfies back.
- 16:36Speaker 2: Del Mar.
- 16:37Speaker 1: Well, you know, I just try to think of any place.
- 16:39Speaker 1: La Jolla, I don't know San Diego that well. I
- 16:42Speaker 1: don't know.
- 16:43Speaker 2: I don't know all the fancy lingo for it, but
- 16:45Speaker 2: that waterfront is gorgeous. I don't even know Aaron used
- 16:47Speaker 2: to have a house in Del Mar. That's the only
- 16:49Speaker 2: thing I know about. Hunter's probably staying within walking distance.
- 16:52Speaker 2: He doesn't have a car, so he's probably within walking
- 16:54Speaker 2: distance of the ballpark. But if you're in walking distance
- 16:56Speaker 2: of the ballpark, you're in walking distance of the beach,
- 16:58Speaker 2: if I remember correctly.
- 16:59Speaker 1: Right? Like, you're close enough at least to the harbor.
- 17:02Speaker 1: You're by the water. Yeah, there is some water there.
- 17:04Speaker 1: I don't know about a beach, but is there water
- 17:05Speaker 1: there for sure? In a car, you go to, like,
- 17:07Speaker 1: Pacific Beach. Well, there's got to be some sand somewhere.
- 17:12Speaker 1: I mean, Hunter, you're right. Just walk downtown. He's probably Hunter.
- 17:14Speaker 1: The Gaslamp District.
- 17:15Speaker 2: You know, Hunter's not messing around with vacation stuff and
- 17:18Speaker 2: pools and beaches. He's slamming away at the ballpark or
- 17:21Speaker 2: the hotel room just working.
- 17:23Speaker 1: I know him. That's him. Sending back audio. So, yeah,
- 17:25Speaker 1: we'll talk to Hunter. We're getting him up. I told him,
- 17:28Speaker 1: don't worry. Make sure that sound machine's also an alarm clock.
- 17:31Speaker 1: Let's fire that thing up. Yeah, he's good with that.
- 17:32Speaker 1: He's good with that. I told him, you're probably where
- 17:34Speaker 1: he's staying as a continental breakfast. I said, you don't
- 17:37Speaker 1: want to miss the free breakfast anyway. Because then you
- 17:39Speaker 1: can load stuff up in a bag and bring it
- 17:41Speaker 1: back to your room, you know, for a sec. Oh,
- 17:45Speaker 1: my God. 877-794-1973. NicoletLaw.com. Talk and text line. Hit us
- 17:48Speaker 1: up there. Share your thoughts. It's not nerves. It's excitement.
- 17:53Speaker 1: It's like a burst. This is a closeout game. I'm giddy.
- 17:56Speaker 1: This is, you know, did they travel with champagne and
- 18:00Speaker 1: plastic for the lockers? They better have. Better have. They
- 18:02Speaker 1: better have. Dustin May tonight has good numbers against the Padres,
- 18:07Speaker 1: and he's a veteran guy.
- 18:08Speaker 3: This is why you got Dustin May. I know this
- 18:11Speaker 3: might be a hot take. I'm expecting the Brewers to
- 18:13Speaker 3: win tonight.
- 18:13Speaker 1: Come on now.
- 18:14Speaker 3: And if you tell me how the first inning goes,
- 18:18Speaker 3: I can tell you how the next two games go.
- 18:19Speaker 2: And I know a lot of people are saying, oh,
- 18:21Speaker 2: Dustin made this and that. You check out his splits
- 18:23Speaker 2: against San Diego this year.
- 18:25Speaker 1: They're nasty. He just pitched real good there in August
- 18:28Speaker 1: when they had the Brewers. And three starts at 1.23 ERA.
- 18:32Speaker 1: We have PTSD from that series in San Diego when
- 18:35Speaker 1: the Brewers got swept. Two of the games were one-run games.
- 18:37Speaker 1: One went 11 innings, and then they got blown out
- 18:39Speaker 1: in the middle game. It wasn't as big a debacle
- 18:42Speaker 1: as it seemed at the time. It seemed like, oh,
- 18:44Speaker 1: my God, here they are. They can't play these guys.
- 18:46Speaker 1: Then they went into L.A. and took it to the
- 18:48Speaker 1: Dodgers three out of four. Kind of like the last
- 18:50Speaker 1: two games we just watched here.
- 18:51Speaker 3: They were close. They were tight. These two are going
- 18:53Speaker 3: to be tight, too. And it's, I mean, I guess
- 18:56Speaker 3: we still have to focus on the Padres. And then
- 18:58Speaker 3: we're on to the NLCS.
- 18:59Speaker 1: But in terms of being an Armin and wanting to
- 19:03Speaker 1: pick your opponent, again, it's like, oh, you'd rather face
- 19:05Speaker 1: the Braves than the Dodgers. Well, the Brewers could lose
- 19:07Speaker 1: to either of those teams for starters. But if the
- 19:11Speaker 1: Dodgers get vanquished. And if the Yankees get vanquished on
- 19:14Speaker 1: the other side, it's like then. you can't let your
- 19:18Speaker 1: guard down because you're still going to face good teams.
- 19:20Speaker 1: But it wouldn't be as magical to me. It's a
- 19:23Speaker 1: little bit, and people said, when the Packers broke through
- 19:26Speaker 1: with Favre and they didn't get to play the Cowboys
- 19:28Speaker 1: at Lambeau, they had to play Carolina. The Cowboys weren't there.
- 19:31Speaker 1: It's not their fault, and it didn't diminish the... But
- 19:33Speaker 1: it's like, it would have been sweeter if we'd have
- 19:35Speaker 1: beaten the Cowboys on the way and paid them back.
- 19:38Speaker 1: It would be, maybe, but I'll disagree that it won't
- 19:40Speaker 1: be as sweet. I mean, I don't care. I mean,
- 19:42Speaker 1: if I can taste that wine... That's... it. I'm just saying,
- 19:46Speaker 1: I don't care why she likes me. You beat San Diego,
- 19:49Speaker 1: the Dodgers and the Yankees. Plus the narrative, plus the
- 19:52Speaker 1: narrative going into this labor unrest. It would have been
- 19:54Speaker 1: kind of fun.
- 19:55Speaker 2: Well, I was going to say the story will be
- 19:56Speaker 2: way better. I mean, yes, the story is better.
- 19:59Speaker 1: And if it's, if it ends up being two of
- 20:01Speaker 1: the best teams, if it ends up being Tampa Bay,
- 20:04Speaker 1: against Milwaukee in the World Series. People are like, oh,
- 20:05Speaker 1: the ratings are going to suck. First of all, no,
- 20:08Speaker 1: it probably won't if it's good ball, and it's going
- 20:09Speaker 1: to be good ball. But I get it. You're right
- 20:12Speaker 1: in Major League. Good games will play. The two little teams,
- 20:14Speaker 1: that's what the players are going to be like. What
- 20:16Speaker 1: do we need a salary cap for? Look at this.
- 20:18Speaker 2: Oh, the players can't wait. The players are begging for
- 20:20Speaker 2: Tampa and Milwaukee. It's going to be a lot of
- 20:22Speaker 2: layers to that onion.
- 20:23Speaker 1: I get the story part of it. You're right.
- 20:25Speaker 2: I mean, you're not right in Major League without the
- 20:26Speaker 2: Yankees being the opponent or the Mets.
- 20:29Speaker 1: It's always that. I just like the history of it
- 20:31Speaker 1: because the Milwaukee Braves won their championship. Against the Yankees. Yep. Symmetry.
- 20:36Speaker 1: But hey, let the Yankees go. Let the chips fall.
- 20:39Speaker 1: Champions fear no one. Play whoever's in front of you.
- 20:41Speaker 3: I just wouldn't mind playing the Braves because that means
- 20:44Speaker 3: that there will be some trip for Hunter to Magic City,
- 20:46Speaker 3: which I just think that.
- 20:48Speaker 1: Would be so fun. Lemon pepper wings. You know. The
- 20:53Speaker 1: lemon pepper barbecue, you know, there's also the bill Bartholomew
- 20:59Speaker 1: angle of the brave stole the Milwaukee's team. And it'd
- 21:01Speaker 1: be payback to take a world.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Yes.
- 21:04Speaker 1: And they stole ours in 21 to keep them from
- 21:07Speaker 1: going to the world series would be amazing. All right.
- 21:09Speaker 1: When we come back, Dolph is going to join us.
- 21:10Speaker 1: It's halftime of the Tuesday edition boys. This is our
- 21:12Speaker 1: last Tuesday in the morning. If you missed the memo
- 21:15Speaker 1: beginning Monday, heartbroken, we go from 2 PM to 5 PM.
- 21:20Speaker 1: You're in the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin. Rolling along,
- 21:25Speaker 1: Tuesday edition of the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, Drew, Billy,
- 21:28Speaker 1: and Armin. Happy to welcome our halftime correspondent, Scott Dolphin,
- 21:31Speaker 1: wearing his Brewers shirt today to represent Game 3 tonight
- 21:35Speaker 1: at Petco Park.
- 21:36Speaker 4: I've pretty much depleted my Brewers wardrobe over the past six,
- 21:39Speaker 4: seven days, so I had to dig deep in the
- 21:41Speaker 4: closet for this.
- 21:41Speaker 1: That's a good one. Is this an extra long nap
- 21:45Speaker 1: day so you can watch more of the proceedings tonight?
- 21:47Speaker 1: I think so. We're planning it that way.
- 21:49Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'm going to have a late afternoon
- 21:50Speaker 4: nap as opposed to when I first get home. So
- 21:53Speaker 4: I don't know if I'll make the end, but I'll
- 21:55Speaker 4: definitely get through half the game.
- 21:57Speaker 3: I was going to say, because now the veteran napper
- 21:59Speaker 3: in you, it's just push the start time of the
- 22:02Speaker 3: nap back. It's not extended longer because a lot of
- 22:04Speaker 3: times you do that. You might just be grass for
- 22:07Speaker 3: the rest of the day.
- 22:08Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, I can't do that.
- 22:09Speaker 4: So, yeah, I'll try to get my solid hour 15,
- 22:12Speaker 4: but maybe just do it later in the afternoon.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Is that the sweet spot?
- 22:15Speaker 3: The 75 ish minutes, 90 ish minutes right there.
- 22:18Speaker 2: Perfect.
- 22:19Speaker 1: It's great that we're getting Dolph's nap advice when we have,
- 22:22Speaker 1: you know, what? Yeah, right as we finish it off.
- 22:24Speaker 1: Three more early alarms. You heard the news yesterday that
- 22:27Speaker 1: we're moving on up to the east side and going
- 22:29Speaker 1: from two to five starting on Monday. I'm going to
- 22:30Speaker 1: miss our little visits. I got to be honest with you, fellas.
- 22:32Speaker 1: I know. We're going to miss you. And then you're
- 22:34Speaker 1: the player to be named later in the Shanna Quinn
- 22:36Speaker 1: trade because Shanna's going to be popping in with us
- 22:38Speaker 1: a couple times a week now. Just like old times.
- 22:40Speaker 1: What are you going to do at this time now?
- 22:42Speaker 1: You need to have open time. You actually have to
- 22:44Speaker 1: work more and get stuff done. Drink more coffee. Drink
- 22:46Speaker 1: more coffee. Watch Love Island.
- 22:48Speaker 2: Get his steps in a little bit. I mean, we
- 22:49Speaker 2: have been taking 20 minutes of.
- 22:51Speaker 1: Both walk time away. I mean, taking all this time
- 22:53Speaker 1: away in the morning.
- 22:54Speaker 4: So we record certain segments of our show during this time.
- 22:57Speaker 4: So I guess maybe we'll have to go back to
- 22:59Speaker 4: do those live.
- 22:59Speaker 1: I don't know. Just for us, man. Up to Shannon.
- 23:02Speaker 1: Love you, man. Thank you. Leave it to the boss.
- 23:03Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 23:04Speaker 1: We're going to miss you too, man. People are asking like,
- 23:06Speaker 1: can Dolph still come in? I'm like, well, he's got
- 23:09Speaker 1: stuff to do during the day when you're, when you
- 23:11Speaker 1: work that shift, the rest of your day is yours.
- 23:13Speaker 1: If you're bored, want to come back to work just
- 23:15Speaker 1: for us in the afternoon. I will definitely pop. Well,
- 23:17Speaker 1: and we especially need you maybe on Monday for our
- 23:21Speaker 1: maiden voyage. Cause it's bear week and the Packers play
- 23:22Speaker 1: the bears and like, this is going to be glorious. So, um,
- 23:26Speaker 1: And this could be the ultimate Dolph doubleheader. Go watch
- 23:30Speaker 1: the Bears-Packers at Lambeau and then go to game one.
- 23:32Speaker 1: Great call. I would love that. I would love that.
- 23:35Speaker 4: I already have tickets to game one if it happens
- 23:39Speaker 4: on Sunday afternoon. Or is it going to be Sunday night?
- 23:41Speaker 1: Do we know a time on that yet?
- 23:42Speaker 3: I believe it'll be Sunday night.
- 23:43Speaker 1: Sunday night. Because it'll be... It'll be a Fox game.
- 23:47Speaker 1: So then they'll have it right after they're done with
- 23:49Speaker 1: their football games. So it'll be a night game. And
- 23:51Speaker 1: then we were just talking about it because game two,
- 23:54Speaker 1: folks are wondering, well, will it be at five or
- 23:55Speaker 1: will it be at eight for game two? And well,
- 23:59Speaker 1: that kind of depends on your Yankees. Because if the
- 24:02Speaker 1: Yankees take a powder and we're looking at Chicago, Tampa, well,
- 24:07Speaker 1: that might be the early game. And then.
- 24:10Speaker 3: Then they'll push that thing back in, especially if the
- 24:12Speaker 3: Dodgers find their way through.
- 24:14Speaker 1: And if it's the Braves, well, then all bets are
- 24:17Speaker 1: off because then you don't have that West Coast factor, right?
- 24:19Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Braves, I mean, obviously it's a big market,
- 24:22Speaker 3: so it would be one of the bigger markets. But
- 24:24Speaker 3: the White Sox would be an intriguing game, and that
- 24:26Speaker 3: would be game two opposite game one. I don't know
- 24:28Speaker 3: where that, if that matters at all in the mathematics.
- 24:32Speaker 1: It might, the mechanics of it might be that the
- 24:34Speaker 1: teams playing game two are traveling, and so they want
- 24:36Speaker 1: extra time. So they want to play early, right. Early
- 24:38Speaker 1: to get them out.
- 24:40Speaker 4: The White Sox, I mean, the fact that they're where
- 24:43Speaker 4: they are. They haven't lost yet. They haven't played a
- 24:45Speaker 4: home game yet. They haven't played a home game yet,
- 24:47Speaker 4: and they're running the table.
- 24:49Speaker 1: And it's interesting because we're starting to hear the grumblings,
- 24:52Speaker 1: and I get it, but people are starting to grumble. Like,
- 24:54Speaker 1: the national media doesn't talk about the Brewers enough. Well,
- 24:57Speaker 1: first of all, everybody's talking about Churrio, and everybody talks
- 25:00Speaker 1: about what happened Sunday. Your radar is just off. By
- 25:04Speaker 1: the way, who's the national media anymore? I mean, anybody online?
- 25:07Speaker 1: That's the thing. I guess how dare those guys on
- 25:11Speaker 1: the panel pick. you know, the Padres to win game two, the,
- 25:15Speaker 1: the way they did, like everybody except on trail and
- 25:17Speaker 1: that's Gershon. They were playing great ball.
- 25:19Speaker 3: I don't have them to go and three over against
- 25:23Speaker 3: Logan Henderson.
- 25:24Speaker 1: They were ahead in the game with Mason Miller. They
- 25:26Speaker 1: should have won. Their logic was not flawed, but if
- 25:30Speaker 1: you're going to get sensitive about that, just let that slide.
- 25:33Speaker 1: I don't understand. And, and to the point, the big,
- 25:35Speaker 1: the larger point is they're not talking about the brewers enough.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Is there a better story in sports right now than
- 25:40Speaker 1: the white socks?
- 25:41Speaker 2: No.
- 25:41Speaker 1: Probably not. No. Three straight 100-loss seasons and they're a
- 25:44Speaker 1: game away from the LCS?
- 25:45Speaker 4: And if you get your news from ESPN, I mean,
- 25:48Speaker 4: you're going to sit through 45 minutes of NFL before
- 25:50Speaker 4: you even.
- 25:51Speaker 1: Maybe get a sliver of baseball.
- 25:52Speaker 2: Is it only about ESPN? Is it only about what's
- 25:55Speaker 2: on first take? Because, like, Okay, they're not going to
- 25:57Speaker 2: talk about the Brewers much, maybe, but they... Well, that's
- 26:00Speaker 2: just it. They're not going to talk about it. So
- 26:03Speaker 2: that would be why you're disappointed. Like, I do get it.
- 26:06Speaker 2: I understand that it is cooler to be above it.
- 26:09Speaker 2: But we're sensitive Milwaukeeans. We're the small market. Of course
- 26:12Speaker 2: we're going to be defensive about it. But when A-Rod drew.
- 26:15Speaker 1: Hold on.
- 26:15Speaker 3: When A-Rod comes on and the one thing he's going
- 26:18Speaker 3: to say nice after you have... I'm going to steal
- 26:20Speaker 3: Armin's word.
- 26:21Speaker 1: Generational. Generational.
- 26:22Speaker 3: Victory in a playoff game. And he says the only
- 26:24Speaker 3: good thing I can say for the Brewers right now
- 26:27Speaker 3: is that the Packers won. That's freaking disrespectful and embarrassing.
- 26:32Speaker 1: You're absolutely right.
- 26:35Speaker 3: I get that we're going to defend the media, but
- 26:36Speaker 3: when that's the Stuff that you're going to put out there.
- 26:39Speaker 1: You deserve to get it. I'm going to tell people
- 26:41Speaker 1: not to get too mad about it because you know
- 26:43Speaker 1: going in that Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter don't spend
- 26:46Speaker 1: a lot of time watching the Brewers. Clearly. They had
- 26:48Speaker 1: no idea what was going on.
- 26:49Speaker 3: But if you're going to win 103 games, when are
- 26:52Speaker 3: you going to watch them?
- 26:53Speaker 1: They're in the industry, but they don't pay a lot
- 26:54Speaker 1: of attention.
- 26:54Speaker 3: I think it's a fair question to ask.
- 26:56Speaker 1: I agree with that. Okay. Those three guys for sure. Well,
- 26:59Speaker 1: maybe not Ortiz as much. Those two guys. You're going
- 27:01Speaker 1: to have the games. Yes.
- 27:02Speaker 3: It's been clear for the last two and a half
- 27:05Speaker 3: months that this team was most likely going to have
- 27:08Speaker 3: one of the buys. You might want to, I don't know,
- 27:11Speaker 3: watch the third and fourth starter that you could pronounce
- 27:13Speaker 3: their names correctly.
- 27:16Speaker 1: I don't know. That could be a crazy concept. He's
- 27:19Speaker 1: not on the panel now, but Pedro Martinez has done
- 27:21Speaker 1: nothing but gush about Murph and the Brewers. So it's
- 27:25Speaker 1: a balancing act. Some guys are, some guys aren't. And
- 27:28Speaker 1: be careful what you wish for, because when you get
- 27:30Speaker 1: people talking in a national spotlight about the Brewers, you
- 27:33Speaker 1: get an idiot like Dave Portnoy saying that they should
- 27:36Speaker 1: be penalized for having a dumb roof. There's another clown. Yeah,
- 27:38Speaker 1: but again. That's a dumb. So it's going to be dumb, too.
- 27:41Speaker 3: But we're going to hold three Hall of Famers to
- 27:44Speaker 3: the owner of Barstool in the same accord.
- 27:46Speaker 1: I'm saying everybody. I don't know what those are saying.
- 27:49Speaker 1: Everybody says media, and it's a one story. One size
- 27:52Speaker 1: fits all thing.
- 27:53Speaker 4: Mike Wilbon going off on the roof, too, saying that's ridiculous.
- 27:56Speaker 4: The Padres were screwed. You know, and Tony Kornheiser came
- 27:58Speaker 4: to the defense of the Brewers saying most people thought
- 28:01Speaker 4: it was going to be foul, Mike.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's... Well, at least he's... My position on
- 28:05Speaker 1: this has evolved. My position on this has evolved because
- 28:08Speaker 1: I do think it also was going to be foul.
- 28:10Speaker 1: And the main thing is, look at the hitter. When
- 28:12Speaker 1: you hit a ball and you think it's going out,
- 28:13Speaker 1: there's a way you react as opposed to standing and
- 28:16Speaker 1: waiting and kind of, it was the Carlton Fisk thing.
- 28:18Speaker 1: He was hoping. It was the Carlton Fisk where he
- 28:21Speaker 1: was going to go.
- 28:21Speaker 4: He was kind of balancing back on his feet going,
- 28:25Speaker 4: what's it going to do?
- 28:26Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think, yeah, probably we'll never know, but
- 28:29Speaker 1: the trajectory probably would have been fair.
- 28:31Speaker 2: We'll never know. I'm glad we'll never know. I'm glad
- 28:34Speaker 2: we'll never know that I got to figure it out.
- 28:36Speaker 1: It was hit high enough, hard enough. It would have
- 28:38Speaker 1: cleared the fence, but it probably would have been a foul.
- 28:40Speaker 1: It happened again last night in Tampa. Did you see that? Yes.
- 28:43Speaker 1: How ironic. This game is amazing. But now theirs happens
- 28:46Speaker 1: like once a homestand, right? It happens a lot. And
- 28:50Speaker 1: their rules are bizarre, so it depends on what ring
- 28:52Speaker 1: it hits. The certain catwalk is a homer. The certain one,
- 28:55Speaker 1: dead ball. Yeah, it's like when you're in your backyard. Okay,
- 28:57Speaker 1: if it hits the wall. Yes. But if it hits
- 29:00Speaker 1: the garage, it's out.
- 29:01Speaker 3: We had, and my buddy Brent's house, he had two
- 29:05Speaker 3: power lines. One was way too low. But if you
- 29:07Speaker 3: cleared that one in between the other ground rule double,
- 29:10Speaker 3: you hit over the highest one, home run, and you
- 29:13Speaker 3: got to do the drive.
- 29:14Speaker 1: But let me ask you a question. That's the rules
- 29:15Speaker 1: everyone in the neighborhood established, and they accepted it, right? One,
- 29:18Speaker 1: that was the rules. So once you accept the rules, no, no.
- 29:22Speaker 2: So nobody's that's the rules.
- 29:23Speaker 1: You don't complain about it. Everyone accepts.
- 29:25Speaker 3: You're going to act like Frankie P and Johnny C.
- 29:28Speaker 3: We're not freaking out when that ball, we thought cleared
- 29:31Speaker 3: the first one. And instead it cleared the second one.
- 29:33Speaker 2: Well, if it acted, come on, maybe there's controversy on
- 29:36Speaker 2: which one it cleared, but you know, I will go
- 29:38Speaker 2: to my buddy's house on, on his Lefkoe.
- 29:40Speaker 1: Roof was a ground rule double. You had rules and
- 29:42Speaker 1: everyone accepted them. I didn't go home and cry about
- 29:45Speaker 1: it to their mom.
- 29:45Speaker 4: And that's what we do at Tropicana Field, home of
- 29:47Speaker 4: RV shows and controversial baseball for about 25, 30 years.
- 29:51Speaker 1: That used to be called the Thunderdome. It was Thunderdome.
- 29:54Speaker 1: Mark had played the NCAA tournament there in 94. Oh, wow.
- 29:57Speaker 1: No one cares, but I just thought I'd mention that.
- 29:59Speaker 3: They moved the Thunderdome then in Tampa Bay to the
- 30:03Speaker 3: WWE Performance Center during COVID because it's in Tampa.
- 30:07Speaker 1: They turned the Thunderdome. That's where they did all of
- 30:09Speaker 1: their wrestling. Yeah. For like a year and a half
- 30:12Speaker 1: while everybody else was locked up. Pretty fun.
- 30:14Speaker 4: Well, last night it was a house of horrors for
- 30:15Speaker 4: the Yankees, who had three, should have had four errors
- 30:17Speaker 4: in the first inning.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Yeah, what was the scoring change?
- 30:20Speaker 2: What's it like to have Cam on the mound, probably
- 30:22Speaker 2: him in the ALNBC, Cy Young.
- 30:24Speaker 1: Yeah. He has to deal with three errors in the
- 30:26Speaker 1: first inning. And it kind of affected him moving forward, too.
- 30:29Speaker 1: The thing is, they were still in the game, rising
- 30:30Speaker 1: to the homer. Yeah, they were. He had two homers, but,
- 30:32Speaker 1: you know, that was all they had. Right off the top,
- 30:35Speaker 1: the errors.
- 30:36Speaker 4: You know, Freddie Peralta was good, not great last night
- 30:38Speaker 4: for the race, but good for him for kind of
- 30:40Speaker 4: resurrecting his season down there.
- 30:42Speaker 1: They've really fixed him. They moved him to the other
- 30:44Speaker 1: side of the rubber. They've changed his mechanics, and they've
- 30:47Speaker 1: really put the paddles to him.
- 30:48Speaker 2: It's amazing how that works. It's like, you know, you
- 30:50Speaker 2: go somewhere else, you get a fresh start. After his
- 30:52Speaker 2: Mets experience.
- 30:53Speaker 1: It was terrible. It took a while because he wasn't
- 30:55Speaker 1: good right away for Tampa. Yeah. And they kind of
- 30:57Speaker 1: tweaked him a little bit. And now he's like, and
- 30:59Speaker 1: he's back popping the fastballs back a little bit.
- 31:01Speaker 2: And he's getting out in the most important times, which
- 31:03Speaker 2: is in the end what matters in the playoffs.
- 31:05Speaker 1: Hey, I mean, how are we going to feel if
- 31:07Speaker 1: he comes back and pitches against the Brew crew in
- 31:09Speaker 1: the World Series? That'd be weird. That'd be weird. Are
- 31:12Speaker 1: we going to do the Freddie chance? He definitely will.
- 31:14Speaker 2: I mean, at the race.
- 31:15Speaker 1: We better.
- 31:15Speaker 3: It worked.
- 31:15Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
- 31:17Speaker 3: I would give him a little Wrigley treatment when he
- 31:19Speaker 3: rolls in there. And, of course, they also have Drew Rasmussen.
- 31:22Speaker 1: Who has pitched the best game of the playoffs so far.
- 31:26Speaker 1: Definitely a Brewers flair to that Rays lineup. Yeah, that's
- 31:29Speaker 1: one that, you know, people are stung because of the,
- 31:32Speaker 1: what's his name, Tristan Peters. Oh, Tristan Peters. Yeah, the
- 31:36Speaker 1: Savannah Banana has been going off. Like, the entire league
- 31:38Speaker 1: missed on that guy. It wasn't just the Brewers. But
- 31:41Speaker 1: the thing with Rasmussen, like, yeah, he'd be great to have,
- 31:45Speaker 1: but did you like Willie Adamas? Did he help you
- 31:47Speaker 1: win some playoff series and stuff? Yeah.
- 31:49Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 31:50Speaker 1: Yeah, always. Technically, no. He actually didn't help you win
- 31:53Speaker 1: any playoffs. He got to the playoffs, though.
- 31:56Speaker 3: He helped you win two or three division titles, a
- 31:58Speaker 3: big part of it.
- 31:59Speaker 1: 30 and 100, and good defense hit you okay? Oh, yeah.
- 32:03Speaker 1: They didn't win a playoff series with Willie.
- 32:05Speaker 3: No, they would have lost in 21 to the Braves.
- 32:07Speaker 3: They would have lost in 23 to the Diamondbacks and 24.
- 32:11Speaker 1: To the Mets. That's true. The last walk-off was Moose.
- 32:14Speaker 1: What was that, 2018? 2018 against the Rockies, game one.
- 32:18Speaker 3: After Jeremy Jeffress started the greatest commonality of the 20, 20,
- 32:22Speaker 3: 2018 playoffs, him blowing a safe.
- 32:25Speaker 1: That's the problem is I remember that more than the
- 32:28Speaker 1: Brewers haven't won a game past the divisional series since 18.
- 32:32Speaker 2: Right.
- 32:32Speaker 1: So because they have. Yeah, that was the first time
- 32:34Speaker 1: they won one of the CS. Fortunately, man, that's yeah. Well,
- 32:38Speaker 1: this is the year, I hope. This is the year.
- 32:40Speaker 1: It's starting to feel that way. It feels like the
- 32:42Speaker 1: planets are aligning.
- 32:42Speaker 4: I'm more and more confident looking at Dustin May's numbers
- 32:45Speaker 4: against the Padres.
- 32:46Speaker 1: Over the years, too.
- 32:46Speaker 4: He's been good, and I forgot how good he was
- 32:49Speaker 4: in the middle of August when they went out there
- 32:51Speaker 4: despite the fact they lost the game.
- 32:52Speaker 1: Well, that's what we were saying, is that everybody remembers
- 32:54Speaker 1: that sweep as being abysmal, but two of the games
- 32:56Speaker 1: were one run. One was 11 innings, and they got
- 32:58Speaker 1: blown out in the middle game. And he went seven? Seven, yeah.
- 33:02Speaker 3: I think seven scoreless, wasn't it? And it was May
- 33:04Speaker 3: versus Ray, if I'm not mistaken, right? They had just
- 33:07Speaker 3: traded for Robbie Ray. You had just traded for Dustin May,
- 33:10Speaker 3: and it was like, all right, which one's going to
- 33:11Speaker 3: be better? The interesting thing for San Diego, Ray started
- 33:15Speaker 3: game one.
- 33:16Speaker 1: I did it again.
- 33:17Speaker 3: Dollar in the car. But Ray started game one. Casey Mize,
- 33:21Speaker 3: they also got... on deadline day from the Tigers, he's out.
- 33:26Speaker 3: So he ended up not helping them. A lot of
- 33:28Speaker 3: these teams that brought these guys in, like the Cubs.
- 33:30Speaker 1: Clay Holmes. They went and got Clay Holmes. He didn't
- 33:32Speaker 1: even pitch in one of those two games. Right.
- 33:34Speaker 4: Yeah, he probably would have if they would have lasted
- 33:36Speaker 4: longer than two, right?
- 33:38Speaker 3: You would have thought, you would have hoped that he
- 33:39Speaker 3: would have been able to pitch in game three if
- 33:40Speaker 3: they would have made it there.
- 33:41Speaker 4: But you look at May's numbers when he was with
- 33:43Speaker 4: the Dodgers again. I think an ERA around three or
- 33:47Speaker 4: even under three.
- 33:47Speaker 1: It's a good trend. You hope it continues. You're right.
- 33:50Speaker 2: Because he only started three games against the Padres this year,
- 33:52Speaker 2: I believe.
- 33:54Speaker 1: And what? Did he complete game them when he was
- 33:57Speaker 1: with the Cardinals? That I don't know.
- 33:59Speaker 2: I just know his numbers are nasty. His ERA is
- 34:03Speaker 2: one point something. His opponent batting average is like really good.
- 34:09Speaker 2: But then you tell yourself, okay, is the sample size
- 34:10Speaker 2: too small? Also, it's the playoffs. I mean, all bets
- 34:13Speaker 2: are off. You just hope for the best, but it
- 34:15Speaker 2: does look like a good trend line.
- 34:17Speaker 4: 3-5 with a 3.14 ERA and 16 regular season appearances
- 34:21Speaker 4: against the Padres. He threw three scoreless innings in two
- 34:24Speaker 4: postseason games against the Padres when he was with the Dodgers.
- 34:27Speaker 4: August 12th, seven innings of one run ball. He didn't
- 34:30Speaker 4: get a decision. And on June 15th with the Cardinals,
- 34:33Speaker 4: he threw a one-hit shutout. Struck out nine.
- 34:36Speaker 1: Let's go, Dolph. Let's go. Come on, Dustin May.
- 34:39Speaker 3: And this is the kind of show prep we're going
- 34:40Speaker 3: to lose in the afternoon.
- 34:42Speaker 1: Exactly. It's going to be tough that we're going to
- 34:44Speaker 1: lose somebody to a show prep.
- 34:45Speaker 4: That wasn't off the top of my head. I just
- 34:47Speaker 4: read that when I was having coffee this morning.
- 34:50Speaker 1: Remember when we started Mark Kotze in the playoffs in 11? Oh, yeah.
- 34:54Speaker 1: Just because his splits were so good against that. I
- 34:56Speaker 1: can't remember who. Did we start Jeff Supan? He hit
- 34:58Speaker 1: a homer in St. Louis. That was the one.
- 35:00Speaker 2: And so I always would defend that decision. But everyone's like, well,
- 35:04Speaker 2: he blew two.
- 35:05Speaker 3: That game three against the Cardinals, the one that will
- 35:07Speaker 3: sit in your craw, great chances. They scored three in
- 35:10Speaker 3: the first inning, never get back at them.
- 35:12Speaker 1: All right, so if you have to pick, and Churrio's
- 35:15Speaker 1: the obvious one, we should probably take him off the table.
- 35:17Speaker 1: Who's your pick to click tonight? If the Brewers are
- 35:19Speaker 1: to clinch, who are we talking about? Who's your hero?
- 35:22Speaker 1: Who's the MVP of the series? I'm going with Yelley.
- 35:26Speaker 3: He's due.
- 35:26Speaker 1: He's had good at-bats. Yeah, and he owns this guy.
- 35:30Speaker 1: He's had good at-bats. He's a West Coast guy, too.
- 35:32Speaker 1: He's got two or three homers, and his average is ridiculous.
- 35:35Speaker 2: He was close to a homer, obviously had the walk.
- 35:37Speaker 2: He's had a couple other hits, had a big double.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's RBI-less since when in the playoffs? Since 2018,
- 35:42Speaker 1: game settled. I don't want to hear about that anymore.
- 35:44Speaker 1: First inning. This is it. He's due. Tonight's the night.
- 35:48Speaker 2: Mine would also be another California guy. He's going to
- 35:51Speaker 2: be in the lineup, better be in the lineup.
- 35:53Speaker 1: Give me Jake Bowers. Yes.
- 35:55Speaker 3: He says, and it's in a walk-up song, my life
- 35:58Speaker 3: in the sunshine. A lot of sunshine out there in
- 36:00Speaker 3: San Diego. Get some heat on that skin. My man
- 36:03Speaker 3: thought about retiring a couple of years ago. Feels reborn
- 36:06Speaker 3: with a homer here today. He came back for the
- 36:08Speaker 3: health insurance because he had a baby. Isn't that an
- 36:11Speaker 3: amazing story? I mean, and now he is one of
- 36:13Speaker 3: us because who else isn't working for the insurance?
- 36:15Speaker 1: Totally. You got to take care of the kiddos.
- 36:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 36:17Speaker 4: SoCal guy. Brewers could start an all-star team of SoCal guys, though.
- 36:20Speaker 3: True.
- 36:21Speaker 1: I mean, is it like half the lineup? Where's Bryce from? Mitchell. Mitchell.
- 36:24Speaker 1: Terang's from down there. All the good players. You know,
- 36:27Speaker 1: and the pitchers, too. Trevor McGill.
- 36:31Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be pretty amazing. Bryce is due, so that'd
- 36:33Speaker 2: be my guy.
- 36:33Speaker 1: Yeah, Bryce is over. Yes. He is totally due. He's
- 36:36Speaker 1: lost at the plate a little bit. Oh, my goodness. Dolph,
- 36:39Speaker 1: get a good nap. You're our inspiration today because it
- 36:42Speaker 1: is a nap night. We've got to be up. Late
- 36:45Speaker 1: afternoon nap. That's what I'm talking about. See if the
- 36:47Speaker 1: Brewers can put some plastic up over the lockers.
- 36:49Speaker 4: You guys should just try to sleep six, seven hours
- 36:51Speaker 4: this afternoon slash and then get up for the game
- 36:53Speaker 4: and then just stay up.
- 36:54Speaker 1: It's actually not a bad idea. It's not going to happen,
- 36:56Speaker 1: but I've wheeled it around. That's kind of sick and deranged,
- 36:58Speaker 1: but I just might do it. We just did that
- 37:00Speaker 1: last week with the Packers. By the way, Michael Penix,
- 37:04Speaker 1: do you feel better, Packer fans? I actually do. Look
- 37:07Speaker 1: at this offense now. It's the best team in football.
- 37:10Speaker 3: A buck 45 from Bajon. Also, primetime Bajon Robinson might
- 37:13Speaker 3: be Walter Payton and Gail Sayers combined.
- 37:16Speaker 2: He should get looks for MVP. I don't care what
- 37:18Speaker 2: anybody says. Him and Kenneth Walker, maybe.
- 37:21Speaker 1: We're getting close to having Hunter Baumgart join us live
- 37:23Speaker 1: from Smoldering. Red hot. San Diego. That's coming up. Thanks, Dolph. Thanks, boys.
- 37:29Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. huddled up
- 37:34Speaker 1: on a Tuesday, drew billion Armin time for a little
- 37:37Speaker 1: who's hot. Who's not brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen,
- 37:39Speaker 1: heating and cooling Donovan Jorgensen.com employee owned since 1985. Your
- 37:43Speaker 1: experts for all things HVAC, Billy, who do you got?
- 37:46Speaker 1: Let me start out with some who's not hot last night.
- 37:49Speaker 3: Guys, did you know that the Milwaukee bucks fired up
- 37:52Speaker 3: their first preseason game last night?
- 37:54Speaker 1: They played last night. How about that? Yeah.
- 37:56Speaker 3: One guy that also played was Gary Trent jr. In
- 38:00Speaker 3: the midst of a current NBA investigation into the four-year,
- 38:04Speaker 3: $ 64 million contract that the Bucs signed Trent Jr. to,
- 38:10Speaker 3: he made some waves on the internet for a sequence
- 38:13Speaker 3: in the early portion of the second quarter where Gary
- 38:17Speaker 3: Trent got not one, not two, but three rather wide-open
- 38:21Speaker 3: threes and missed all three of them. People asking, Oh,
- 38:26Speaker 3: that's why the Bucs are under investigation for signing him
- 38:28Speaker 3: to 64. Bad time to miss shots. Half time to
- 38:30Speaker 3: miss shots. But hey, it's the first preseason game. Sorry
- 38:33Speaker 3: we can't all be LaMelo Ball and start out three
- 38:37Speaker 3: for six in our debut with our new team. Go
- 38:39Speaker 3: up with 11 points. Everybody got some action last night
- 38:42Speaker 3: for the Bucs. Good one for Ryan Rollins. He had
- 38:44Speaker 3: 15 points and was six of 12. So as much
- 38:47Speaker 3: for Khalil Ware, the newcomer, 14 points for Ware in
- 38:52Speaker 3: his debut with the Bucs. The other one in the
- 38:54Speaker 3: NBA preseason. Again, NBA preseason opener. Who's not hot? Dylan
- 39:00Speaker 3: Brooks and John Collins got into a fight last night.
- 39:02Speaker 2: How about that? We haven't seen NBA preseason fights in
- 39:06Speaker 2: a while. NBA preseason scuffle for Dylan Brooks. For 99.99%
- 39:11Speaker 2: of the league, you'd say, there's no way anybody's scrapping
- 39:15Speaker 2: with a held ball in the first preseason game.
- 39:18Speaker 1: That. 001 percenter. Is Dylan Brooks. So he had to
- 39:23Speaker 1: get in there last night. Not hot. John Collins and
- 39:25Speaker 1: him getting into a scrap. Who's hot.
- 39:27Speaker 3: Bijan Robinson on primetime, a buck 40. on the ground
- 39:30Speaker 3: last night, drew 19 totes, two tugs. Drake London didn't
- 39:34Speaker 3: have 195 yards through the year like he did against
- 39:37Speaker 3: the Packers, but did have 96. And Robinson Robinson, Well,
- 39:41Speaker 3: he was good. The other Robinson, even better.
- 39:44Speaker 1: Who's hot?
- 39:45Speaker 3: Brian Robinson Jr. 14 carries, 62 yards, and three TDs.
- 39:51Speaker 3: Didn't have a long of 59 like Bijan. How about
- 39:54Speaker 3: that Falcons team? Five rushing touchdowns, another 205 on the ground.
- 39:58Speaker 3: They ran it just under six a carry last night
- 40:02Speaker 3: in New Orleans.
- 40:03Speaker 1: Them and the Bears are probably the two best rushing
- 40:05Speaker 1: attacks right now in the league. That would be correct, Armand. Lethal. Lethal.
- 40:08Speaker 1: I just, you can't say, just.
- 40:11Speaker 3: I got some bad rushing numbers for the Bears as
- 40:14Speaker 3: we get into Bears Packers week. I'm just talking to Dolph.
- 40:17Speaker 3: I'd really like to be more confident than I am
- 40:19Speaker 3: going into this week.
- 40:20Speaker 2: Well, it'll be a great day for trends to change.
- 40:24Speaker 1: It does not look good.
- 40:25Speaker 2: Oh, my.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Who's hot? Who's not? Brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen.
- 40:29Speaker 1: Heating and cooling. Also, who's hot? Ben Rice. Who's not?
- 40:31Speaker 1: The rest of your team. The Yankees defense. Is that fair? Yeah.
- 40:35Speaker 1: I mean, goodness gracious. That defense was offensive last night.
- 40:38Speaker 1: Tyler Hero had a couple of turnovers early as I
- 40:40Speaker 1: was checking in.
- 40:43Speaker 3: I also thought my 24 broadcast. I like the score bug.
- 40:46Speaker 3: I like the first little versions of it. I liked
- 40:48Speaker 3: the first taste.
- 40:49Speaker 1: It looked okay. Hour number two in the books. Hunter
- 40:52Speaker 1: Baumgart joins us at 725. If we can wake him up,
- 40:55Speaker 1: we'll find out together. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.