Latest / The Huddle / 09/01/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Sanchez might be ready. Kyle Harrison, not so much. Welcome in,
- 0:08Speaker 1: 5 o'clock clubbers. Let's seize the Tuesday, shall we? Let's
- 0:12Speaker 1: make things better. Let's get past, well, let's get past
- 0:16Speaker 1: a debacle at Wrigley Field. Better to lose like that
- 0:20Speaker 1: than lose, I guess, 4-3 in 10 minutes.
- 0:22Speaker 2: And for an earlier night, that's for sure, and a
- 0:24Speaker 2: long night's sleep on the early foot.
- 0:26Speaker 1: I definitely want to thank Kyle Harrison. For allowing me
- 0:31Speaker 1: to get the best night of sleek I've had in
- 0:33Speaker 1: two weeks.
- 0:34Speaker 3: In quite some time, Drew. I'm glad you and I
- 0:37Speaker 3: were in the same boat. I recovered from that.
- 0:39Speaker 1: I finally recovered from that Packers game and that long
- 0:41Speaker 1: day we had Friday. Because, you know, Billy, you were
- 0:45Speaker 1: doing important golf and bacheloring. But then Friday we were
- 0:49Speaker 1: together at Lambeau and then you went back to it.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Yeah, I needed that.
- 0:52Speaker 1: That was much needed. So kudos, Kyle Harrison. Good thing
- 0:55Speaker 1: he was tipping his pitches and giving up home runs
- 0:57Speaker 1: like Halloween candy. Yeah, and sweating like me on a
- 0:59Speaker 1: normal 70-degree day. Like, man, as he is just sitting
- 1:03Speaker 1: out there wearing it, I came back down after putting
- 1:05Speaker 1: the youngster to bed. He went to bed after it
- 1:08Speaker 1: was 4-0 and said, Daddy, it gets better.
- 1:11Speaker 3: And I'm like, okay, sweet, sounds good. We came back downstairs.
- 1:14Speaker 3: It was 9-0.
- 1:15Speaker 2: I turned that son of a gun off and turned
- 1:16Speaker 2: on the boys on the radio broadcast on the app,
- 1:19Speaker 2: and I think I was down in about 10 minutes.
- 1:23Speaker 2: That is a put the kids to bed early kind
- 1:25Speaker 2: of night. This is one of the great sports fan
- 1:29Speaker 2: debates of all time, right? Better to lose a game
- 1:31Speaker 2: to one or 20 to one last night's a okay way.
- 1:35Speaker 2: As Pat Murphy said, we're not playing for run differential.
- 1:37Speaker 2: We're playing to win as many games as possible. That
- 1:39Speaker 2: thing was done early and quickly. And then, you know,
- 1:43Speaker 2: Andrew Vaughn got to go and blow up his ERA
- 1:46Speaker 2: to 30 for the season. So as tough as it
- 1:49Speaker 2: is now, it's just take two and wake up today.
- 1:52Speaker 2: But Kyle Harrison is, My goodness. My man is opening
- 1:55Speaker 2: up some more conversations. It appears for us to look
- 1:57Speaker 2: at as we get closer and closer to the post season.
- 2:02Speaker 2: And now we have to start figuring out, are you
- 2:04Speaker 2: going to go with a three man rotation or a
- 2:06Speaker 2: four man rotation into one of those playoff series? They've
- 2:08Speaker 2: been running with a six manner and it seems like
- 2:11Speaker 2: they're having a few more questions than answers as to
- 2:14Speaker 2: who's going to be grabbing one of those spots. Cause
- 2:16Speaker 2: I would have told you all year long, Harrison would
- 2:17Speaker 2: have been in there and his last month and a
- 2:19Speaker 2: half would, uh, have a lot of people having some
- 2:23Speaker 2: trust issues sounding like Drake as they roll into the playoffs.
- 2:26Speaker 4: Yeah, he's definitely, he's struggling a little bit, especially on
- 2:29Speaker 4: the road. Now it wasn't as bad in New York as,
- 2:31Speaker 4: as the other ones, but, Last night was a struggle,
- 2:33Speaker 4: and it kind of gives you the heebie-jeebies.
- 2:35Speaker 2: He grinded through that start in New York.
- 2:37Speaker 3: He did. He got through it. Gave up one run.
- 2:39Speaker 3: He got through it.
- 2:40Speaker 4: The numbers ended up being fine, but it wasn't like
- 2:42Speaker 4: a masterpiece without a doubt.
- 2:44Speaker 3: Not to what we were seeing early in the year.
- 2:45Speaker 3: There's no question.
- 2:46Speaker 4: And I guess in the back of your mind, you think, well,
- 2:48Speaker 4: is he going to continue to look this dominant all
- 2:50Speaker 4: the time? You understood there'd be some rough patches, but
- 2:52Speaker 4: it's the splits for the home road that get me nervous.
- 2:54Speaker 4: But the reality is, yeah, it just wasn't there for him.
- 2:58Speaker 4: And he's a sweater, Billy. I mean, he needs all those...
- 3:02Speaker 4: He needs all the iron jock that my man does.
- 3:04Speaker 4: But this was the opposite of the cookies theory game.
- 3:08Speaker 4: The cookies were never in the oven. That cookie dough
- 3:11Speaker 4: was frozen in the back of the freezer with a
- 3:13Speaker 4: frost burn on it.
- 3:13Speaker 2: You didn't even get the flour out. You didn't need
- 3:15Speaker 2: to get the flour out. You didn't smell cookies. You
- 3:17Speaker 2: didn't have to worry about cookies. I'm going to go
- 3:19Speaker 2: preheat the oven, and that son of a gun said
- 3:21Speaker 2: no chance.
- 3:22Speaker 3: You had no thought.
- 3:24Speaker 4: There was not one inkling of a thought that you
- 3:25Speaker 4: might get dessert last night, which does make it easier sometimes.
- 3:28Speaker 2: You don't like saying it that way. Trust me, you
- 3:30Speaker 2: never want to give up nine homers and get your
- 3:32Speaker 2: butt blown in like that.
- 3:33Speaker 3: But the reality is.
- 3:36Speaker 2: It was definitely easier to maintain the process emotionally last night.
- 3:39Speaker 2: Like you said, you went right to bed. My buddy's
- 3:41Speaker 2: complaining about Andrew Vaughn's pitch count. I said, brother, go
- 3:43Speaker 2: to bed. I was texting him. He's like, Andrew, he's
- 3:46Speaker 2: being tongue-in-cheek, obviously. He's like, this is garbage baseball. I'm like,
- 3:50Speaker 2: so why are you watching? I'm like, it's over.
- 3:53Speaker 3: Go to bed.
- 3:54Speaker 4: The best part about last night is you said it, Drew.
- 3:57Speaker 4: This only counts as one game.
- 3:59Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
- 4:00Speaker 4: That's the solace you can take, is they don't get
- 4:03Speaker 4: to squeeze any more wins out of last night's performance
- 4:05Speaker 4: than one.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Yeah, that's, well, for sure. It's one game, it was,
- 4:10Speaker 1: you know, when your velocity's down like Harrison, when you're
- 4:12Speaker 1: sweating all over the place, and when you are you know,
- 4:18Speaker 1: possibly Tipping pitches like he said he probably was. They
- 4:21Speaker 1: kind of knew what was going on.
- 4:23Speaker 2: Yeah, and he fires up the first at bat to PCA,
- 4:27Speaker 2: and as we had talked all day long, like, hey,
- 4:30Speaker 2: don't feed him a couple of first pitch fastballs. Fires
- 4:33Speaker 2: two of those things right in there on the inside
- 4:34Speaker 2: part of the plate. The second, he hit a long way,
- 4:38Speaker 2: just a long way foul, and ends up getting him out.
- 4:41Speaker 2: He was one of the only guys he was able
- 4:42Speaker 2: to get out all night. had to be doing something
- 4:44Speaker 2: true because the velocity has been a question for him
- 4:48Speaker 2: in the last couple of what, for the last maybe
- 4:50Speaker 2: month or so, since he came back from the forearm,
- 4:53Speaker 2: he's had a couple of games where he's been able
- 4:54Speaker 2: to get back to the average VLO on the fastball
- 4:57Speaker 2: on 95, 96, like it was earlier in the year.
- 5:01Speaker 2: And if, if he's going to be playing that thing
- 5:03Speaker 2: at 91, 92, it's going to be a lot more hittable,
- 5:05Speaker 2: especially if he is giving any inclination as to what
- 5:09Speaker 2: he's throwing. Uh, Guys are going to tee off, and
- 5:11Speaker 2: it looked like he was throwing titleists there last night.
- 5:14Speaker 3: He was.
- 5:15Speaker 2: Especially to Bregman with that massive piece of lumber he's
- 5:18Speaker 2: swinging now after his adjustments.
- 5:20Speaker 1: He was serving them up last night. He was totally
- 5:23Speaker 1: serving them. And, you know, one of those nights. But
- 5:27Speaker 1: if he is tipping and the Cubs had it, kudos
- 5:29Speaker 1: to them.
- 5:31Speaker 3: Sure.
- 5:31Speaker 1: You can do that with film study now. You used
- 5:33Speaker 1: to have to be in the ballpark to kind of
- 5:34Speaker 1: get a guy.
- 5:35Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:35Speaker 1: He puts his hands higher when he's throwing a fastball,
- 5:37Speaker 1: and now you just– probably AI is cracking that code.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Well, and I mean, you saw, we saw it a
- 5:42Speaker 2: couple of years ago with, with, with Alonzo figuring it
- 5:46Speaker 2: out to Devin Williams, as he was holding and tipping
- 5:49Speaker 2: his change up in game three of that wildcard series.
- 5:53Speaker 2: And the hitting coach came over and showed him exactly
- 5:55Speaker 2: what it was. And he realized exactly what it was
- 5:58Speaker 2: pointed to him as he rounds the bases. So I don't,
- 6:00Speaker 2: that that's, that's film study and that's gamesmanship.
- 6:03Speaker 3: That's work.
- 6:03Speaker 2: You got to be able to correct it. And Murph mentioned,
- 6:06Speaker 2: I talked about it after the game as well. It's just,
- 6:08Speaker 2: You got so many young guys. This is now the
- 6:11Speaker 2: longest run of baseball that he's probably thrown in his
- 6:14Speaker 2: entire career. And you got a bunch of dudes that
- 6:17Speaker 2: are now ending the longest years of their professional lives
- 6:22Speaker 2: while you're trying to win the toughest games to win
- 6:24Speaker 2: the last ones into September. So I'm not that worried
- 6:28Speaker 2: about it. However, I do think he gives you some
- 6:32Speaker 2: pause as to how you're building out your rotation come
- 6:35Speaker 2: playoff time because it has been more questions than answers
- 6:40Speaker 2: that he's delivered while he's been on the mound over.
- 6:42Speaker 3: The last, what, month?
- 6:43Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of the challenge with a bunch of
- 6:45Speaker 2: young guys, right? How about Dustin May was going to
- 6:47Speaker 2: be that answer. Yeah, well, and maybe there's still time.
- 6:51Speaker 2: Maybe we'll see what happens in September.
- 6:52Speaker 4: Give all the guys their starts, their moments, and see
- 6:55Speaker 4: who kind of figures it out, who gets through. I mean,
- 6:57Speaker 4: we tend to be a creature of the moment mentality.
- 7:00Speaker 4: in baseball, but you have to look at the big
- 7:01Speaker 4: picture sometimes.
- 7:02Speaker 3: And you're right, Billy. That's what it is. It's one
- 7:04Speaker 3: of those things with the pitch tipping.
- 7:06Speaker 4: It's like, okay, if there is something to figure out,
- 7:08Speaker 4: I'm glad we can figure it out now and not
- 7:10Speaker 4: in game three of.
- 7:11Speaker 3: The wild card series. Yeah.
- 7:13Speaker 4: Like we had to do with Devin, unfortunately. So, Hey,
- 7:16Speaker 4: sometimes it happens like that. The Cubs are a great
- 7:17Speaker 4: offensive team. They've been that all year. That's obviously their strength.
- 7:21Speaker 4: And they had an, they capped off an incredible August
- 7:25Speaker 4: in terms of hitting homers. I think it was the
- 7:26Speaker 4: second most since, an old Yankees team or something like that.
- 7:30Speaker 4: I read the stat quickly, but.
- 7:31Speaker 3: The reality is 10 of them. Yeah. Just ridiculous.
- 7:34Speaker 4: And, and, and all you can say to yourself as well,
- 7:37Speaker 4: they probably won't do that again in September. You hope like,
- 7:39Speaker 4: at least in that regard. So, you know, this is
- 7:43Speaker 4: the strength of the Cubs or their offensive team.
- 7:45Speaker 3: They have a lot of power.
- 7:46Speaker 4: And obviously that's what gives you a little bit of
- 7:48Speaker 4: fear going into October. When you talk about them as
- 7:52Speaker 4: a factor is the way they can.
- 7:53Speaker 3: Hit for power.
- 7:54Speaker 4: But, The reality is the Brewers have earned themselves the
- 7:57Speaker 4: right to have a seven-game cushion still after last night,
- 8:00Speaker 4: and that's what they'll be walking in with today.
- 8:02Speaker 1: Yeah, the math is still mathing. I was thinking about
- 8:05Speaker 1: this even before yesterday. I thought, what if the Brewers
- 8:08Speaker 1: lost every game in this series with the Cubs? They
- 8:10Speaker 1: went 0-7. It was just dismal. But they won every
- 8:13Speaker 1: other game. They'd still win the division comfortably. Oh, they'd
- 8:16Speaker 1: still win it in somewhat going away. Yeah, for sure.
- 8:18Speaker 1: It's like, well, yeah. And the math is the math,
- 8:22Speaker 1: and we had– I think Cleveland made up like 11
- 8:25Speaker 1: games in 24 days against Detroit.
- 8:29Speaker 3: Detroit last year.
- 8:30Speaker 1: And that, that had ramifications into them trading Scooble this year.
- 8:33Speaker 2: It was like, that was the, and then those two
- 8:36Speaker 2: teams played each other into the playoffs and Cleveland couldn't
- 8:38Speaker 2: even enjoy it.
- 8:39Speaker 3: Cause they lost, they.
- 8:40Speaker 2: Lost the playoff series, the quick three game, or that
- 8:43Speaker 2: they didn't even get to a bask in the glow.
- 8:45Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 8:45Speaker 1: And then we had, um, Well, even the Brewers made
- 8:49Speaker 1: up a pretty good chunk in 2018.
- 8:51Speaker 3: Five and a half against the Cubs in 18, yeah.
- 8:55Speaker 1: But again, I still feel pretty good. This was one
- 8:58Speaker 1: game that was awful, and hey, might as well have
- 9:00Speaker 1: one like that. Get your mulligan out of the way, right?
- 9:02Speaker 1: Have Andrew Vaughn pitch two innings because Bryce Wilson has
- 9:04Speaker 1: gone to be the patron saint of garbage time. Bryce
- 9:09Speaker 1: Wilson was great in.
- 9:10Speaker 3: That role, by the way. He really was.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Sucking up innings and putting up zeros when keeping the...
- 9:15Speaker 1: keeping the bleep to shoe level.
- 9:16Speaker 2: Well, and also keeping you in some of those games, given,
- 9:20Speaker 2: I mean, keeping people at the ballpark on Sunday, because
- 9:23Speaker 2: you were within somewhat striking distance. They, the, the momentum
- 9:27Speaker 2: of the next day starting pitcher, just as good. Robert
- 9:31Speaker 2: Gasser came in and saved you a couple of days ago.
- 9:34Speaker 2: That's another very hot and cold proposition though, because there
- 9:38Speaker 2: have been some nights where he has looked phenomenal. And
- 9:40Speaker 2: then there have been other nights where he just has
- 9:42Speaker 2: not been able to locate. Biggest deal is drew. You
- 9:45Speaker 2: gotta be able to throw strikes. And, and as much
- 9:48Speaker 2: as Harrison was, whether or not he was tipping pitches
- 9:50Speaker 2: or not too much was just getting way too much
- 9:53Speaker 2: of the zone. And then it felt like he was
- 9:55Speaker 2: nibbling after a while. And, and I don't know how
- 9:57Speaker 2: you don't get into your own head when you throw
- 9:58Speaker 2: 98 pitches and seven of them get hit.
- 10:00Speaker 3: Out right i mean that's your point.
- 10:02Speaker 1: He can live he was he was living high like
- 10:05Speaker 1: kind of down the middle when he had 95 96
- 10:08Speaker 1: with a jump and when you don't and when you're
- 10:11Speaker 1: throwing 91 and it's not jumping and.
- 10:13Speaker 3: You're living middle middle you're gonna be living.
- 10:15Speaker 1: In the bleachers you're getting crushed especially on humid night
- 10:19Speaker 1: there and it's gonna be hot again tonight the wind's
- 10:21Speaker 1: blowing out like that's gonna be uh that lends itself
- 10:24Speaker 1: to it so it's not that traditional september weather the
- 10:27Speaker 1: question is at what point did you click at what
- 10:34Speaker 1: point did you turn off checkout or did you go
- 10:36Speaker 1: to something else to watch At what point.
- 10:38Speaker 3: Did you say goodbye?
- 10:38Speaker 1: This is over.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Oh, no. I think it was Chad Patrick had came
- 10:44Speaker 2: into the game. I had fallen asleep putting the oldest
- 10:48Speaker 2: to bed, which is generally how that goes. There sometimes
- 10:51Speaker 2: is a race, and we'll see who can win, who
- 10:54Speaker 2: falls asleep first. Dad won last night. And so I
- 10:58Speaker 2: woke up. It was 9-0 after the fourth inning. I
- 11:03Speaker 2: just watched Chad Patrick get out of that inning. and
- 11:07Speaker 2: walked back into the room, flipped on the boys, heard
- 11:09Speaker 2: Lane Grindle for about maybe one or two at-bats, and
- 11:13Speaker 2: then I think it was done. I'm telling you, it
- 11:15Speaker 2: was a very, very early call for me last night,
- 11:18Speaker 2: which is sad. I don't like waving the white flag
- 11:21Speaker 2: like that. However, I could feel like it was. When
- 11:25Speaker 2: they said, Sanchez, you ready? I thought that was Pat
- 11:28Speaker 2: Murphy talking to Gary.
- 11:29Speaker 3: Gary. Gary, that would have been the one for me, too.
- 11:32Speaker 2: But I don't know if his arm was ready to
- 11:33Speaker 2: throw two innings today.
- 11:35Speaker 3: I think he's fatigued, yeah. I mean, Bregman's second homer, maybe? Yeah,
- 11:39Speaker 3: I made it.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Until it was 6-0, and I'm like, well, it's punt time.
- 11:44Speaker 3: Yeah, it's punt time.
- 11:45Speaker 1: And then when I saw guys getting on in the third,
- 11:49Speaker 1: it's like, this is going to be a tough way
- 11:50Speaker 1: to live. Yeah, and then you knew Harrison was just
- 11:52Speaker 1: going to wear it, right?
- 11:54Speaker 2: You could get that sense there pretty quickly that it
- 11:58Speaker 2: was going to be a long night for him. But hey,
- 12:01Speaker 2: how about Cooper Pratt? Come on now, kid. I missed
- 12:04Speaker 2: the homer, but it was nice to see he got one.
- 12:06Speaker 2: And that's good.
- 12:08Speaker 3: So his first game ever at Wrigley, right? Yeah, I
- 12:10Speaker 3: think so.
- 12:10Speaker 2: Now, Armin, Drew and I mentioned over here. Now, were
- 12:13Speaker 2: you fighting with Cubs fans online too long to get
- 12:17Speaker 2: some shut eye last night?
- 12:19Speaker 3: Or did you also... Call it a little early into
- 12:21Speaker 3: the proceedings.
- 12:22Speaker 4: No, I was able to get to sleep and everything
- 12:25Speaker 4: like that and put it to bed early. But as
- 12:28Speaker 4: I do with all the times my team gets beat
- 12:30Speaker 4: in and loses like that, I try and mentally process,
- 12:33Speaker 4: emotionally process the loss, come up with some sort of explanation,
- 12:36Speaker 4: and then put it out to the world now that
- 12:37Speaker 4: I have Twitter back.
- 12:39Speaker 3: But, yeah, it was just like, hey, I just tweeted.
- 12:42Speaker 4: I was taking a walk around the block trying to
- 12:46Speaker 4: kind of cool down because a loss like that.
- 12:49Speaker 3: Get you. Physical walk around the block? Yeah, a little bit. Yeah,
- 12:52Speaker 3: walk around the block. It's good mentally. It's good to
- 12:54Speaker 3: get you. I like that walk it off a little bit. Yeah,
- 12:55Speaker 3: except I'm getting these gnarly mosquito bites. That's a different...
- 12:58Speaker 3: different issue.
- 12:59Speaker 2: Um, no.
- 13:00Speaker 4: And I just said to myself, I take solace in
- 13:01Speaker 4: the fact that we've won every game against the Cubs
- 13:04Speaker 4: that's ever mattered in history.
- 13:05Speaker 3: And that's true.
- 13:06Speaker 4: And any head to head matchup that's ever really mattered,
- 13:08Speaker 4: the Brewers have won. And that's how I went to
- 13:10Speaker 4: bed last night. And if it gets in their algorithms,
- 13:13Speaker 4: which I think it did a little bit, um, that's
- 13:15Speaker 4: even better because it's been a while for me to
- 13:17Speaker 4: get in there and practice getting close.
- 13:20Speaker 3: To football season.
- 13:21Speaker 2: So you got to make sure you're in there, but we.
- 13:22Speaker 4: Haven't had a lot of body bag work in a while.
- 13:24Speaker 4: So we have to get used to the process. And, uh,
- 13:27Speaker 4: It was fun to kind of watch it. And then
- 13:30Speaker 4: the news that they're starting this romance series. We'll get
- 13:34Speaker 4: to that later. But oh my goodness, that was just
- 13:36Speaker 4: too perfect. But just so funny. But yeah, it was
- 13:38Speaker 4: good to get back in their algorithm a little bit.
- 13:41Speaker 4: A physical walk around the block, Drew. I like the
- 13:44Speaker 4: walk around, blow off the steam, reconvene, and settle in
- 13:48Speaker 4: for game number three.
- 13:52Speaker 3: You asked when we went to bed, but that was
- 13:53Speaker 3: when I said, all right, we're going to go to
- 13:54Speaker 3: Cops now. We can leave now and go to Cops. Oh,
- 13:56Speaker 3: a little warm-up Sunday. There we go.
- 13:58Speaker 4: But I'm never getting the blueberry shake again. That's the
- 14:00Speaker 4: first and last time I've tried it because that's a
- 14:01Speaker 4: bad luck shake now. Because I said, I never had
- 14:03Speaker 4: a blueberry shake at Cops.
- 14:04Speaker 1: They have a blueberry shake when the Brewers are playing
- 14:06Speaker 1: the Cubs.
- 14:07Speaker 2: Maybe it's the same guy that fired up two Chicago
- 14:10Speaker 2: Sounders yesterday, Drew, on game balls and kicks to the balls.
- 14:13Speaker 3: Wow. On the day that we start the seven game
- 14:16Speaker 3: and ten there. Armin is the jinx.
- 14:18Speaker 4: Armin.
- 14:18Speaker 2: Oh, man.
- 14:20Speaker 1: Armin's responsible for the touchdown run differential.
- 14:24Speaker 3: Well, maybe. Maybe so. 17 to 3. Brewers lose. So,
- 14:27Speaker 3: all right. We flushed that one. 877-794-1973 to check in.
- 14:29Speaker 3: 5 o'clock, clubbers. What time did you check out?
- 14:33Speaker 1: When Bowers made the error and he and Harrison almost
- 14:36Speaker 1: got killed at first base. And then that was like,
- 14:39Speaker 1: and then Carson Kelly got a hit. I'm like, well,
- 14:41Speaker 1: this isn't going, this isn't going to turn around.
- 14:43Speaker 3: This isn't going to go.
- 14:44Speaker 1: I've seen enough ball to know that after this start
- 14:47Speaker 1: and that play, it's like, it's well, and then it
- 14:50Speaker 1: became like, okay, punt mode. And how much do they
- 14:52Speaker 1: squeeze out of Harrison? And what, how do they manage
- 14:54Speaker 1: the bullpen? Cause again, you got to manage the next game.
- 14:58Speaker 3: That's what it's all about. Yeah.
- 14:59Speaker 1: And so, you know, using Patrick the way they did
- 15:03Speaker 1: and like, And then getting.
- 15:04Speaker 2: To, yeah.
- 15:05Speaker 1: How do they get, what's, who's the bridge to Andrew Vaughn? Who's, who's,
- 15:09Speaker 1: we got to build a bridge to Andrew Vaughn. And
- 15:11Speaker 1: so Hall and Patrick ended up drawing the cards and
- 15:14Speaker 1: having to come into this lost cause and.
- 15:17Speaker 3: I just didn't. Yeah, I wasn't. When they flashed to
- 15:19Speaker 3: Chad before then.
- 15:20Speaker 2: They flashed Chad Patrick in the bullpen, and he tried
- 15:22Speaker 2: to catch the ball, and it bounced out of his glove.
- 15:24Speaker 3: It was emblematic. That was one of those nights. That
- 15:27Speaker 3: was thematic of the night. It was thematic.
- 15:29Speaker 1: One of those nights.
- 15:31Speaker 4: Yeah, and really quick, I see a text, Dustin. He said,
- 15:34Speaker 4: what makes me nervous is this team needs a dozen
- 15:36Speaker 4: hits to score three runs. And that's the reality of
- 15:38Speaker 4: what the Brewers do, small market rallies. It's a cool
- 15:41Speaker 4: romantic notion.
- 15:41Speaker 3: Four walks helps. That does help too. But you're right.
- 15:45Speaker 4: There's not a lot of power in sight sometimes for
- 15:47Speaker 4: this team that you do see it with the Cubs.
- 15:49Speaker 4: And that is something legitimately that would scare you because
- 15:52Speaker 4: we know how important that play is in the playoffs.
- 15:54Speaker 3: Absolutely. It's a fair point.
- 15:55Speaker 1: When you're facing the best pitching, it's hard to get
- 15:57Speaker 1: five straight hits.
- 15:58Speaker 5: It is.
- 15:58Speaker 2: It is. And that's kind of what, you know, we
- 16:00Speaker 2: find ways to explain it away because we do it
- 16:03Speaker 2: very well and this is our team and they do
- 16:04Speaker 2: really well.
- 16:05Speaker 3: And they win a lot of games doing that. But
- 16:07Speaker 3: it is a concern. It's fair.
- 16:09Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 16:09Speaker 1: Um, just, it was the Cubs night starting with, uh,
- 16:13Speaker 1: Taylor Tyrone Taylor.
- 16:15Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 16:15Speaker 2: And, uh, he, I liked BA mentioning all about this rivalry,
- 16:20Speaker 2: talked about it when he, when he came back over
- 16:22Speaker 2: and that's a good shot in the arm. It also, again,
- 16:24Speaker 2: helps when it's middle middle for about 92 and that,
- 16:27Speaker 2: that is going to be, it's just, it's going to
- 16:30Speaker 2: be a thing drew. And I wonder how much they
- 16:33Speaker 2: can even. I mean, Murph talked about it after the game.
- 16:36Speaker 2: They're going to run their guys out there. These are
- 16:38Speaker 2: the dudes that have gotten them to the best record
- 16:42Speaker 2: in the National League right now. But it begs a
- 16:45Speaker 2: real question about Harrison as to how much is he
- 16:47Speaker 2: going to be able to give you if his velo
- 16:50Speaker 2: is going to be like this or if it was
- 16:51Speaker 2: one of those nights. And I don't know if they
- 16:54Speaker 2: feel like they can skip a start where there's 16
- 16:56Speaker 2: games in 16 days. You might just have to be
- 16:58Speaker 2: able to try to work this thing out. There's not
- 17:00Speaker 2: a whole lot of time to be trying to work
- 17:02Speaker 2: yourself out of a velo problem with three starts left.
- 17:04Speaker 1: Not much you can do. Did he say, were we
- 17:08Speaker 1: talking about him tipping pitches in Vegas when he got shellacked?
- 17:12Speaker 1: Or was that just like the mountain air and just
- 17:13Speaker 1: this big joke of a ballpark?
- 17:15Speaker 2: That was definitely a tipping pitches kind of thing. There's
- 17:18Speaker 2: history here. There's definitely some.
- 17:20Speaker 1: There's history here, and he maybe slipped into an old
- 17:22Speaker 1: habit or something. But sometimes you just suck. And I
- 17:25Speaker 1: know sometimes it's like, hey, you must have been tipping.
- 17:27Speaker 1: And I've seen teams when guys suck. They just go, well,
- 17:31Speaker 1: we got to figure out. He had to be tipping
- 17:34Speaker 1: to get lathered that bad.
- 17:35Speaker 3: And it's like, no, he just really sucked.
- 17:37Speaker 2: Just was really rinsing it in.
- 17:38Speaker 3: Just throwing BP.
- 17:39Speaker 1: He's just throwing middle, middle and stuff. So flush that one.
- 17:43Speaker 1: We'll help you. 7 o'clock hour, we're going to talk
- 17:46Speaker 1: to Hunter Baumgart about last night's game. And before that,
- 17:49Speaker 1: we'll talk to Bill Schroeder. I was going to say
- 17:52Speaker 1: Hunter and then Bill Schroeder.
- 17:52Speaker 2: The seven o'clock hour is going to make us flush
- 17:55Speaker 2: it real quick though.
- 17:55Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
- 17:56Speaker 2: When we get Hunter and then rock, that'll make us
- 17:59Speaker 2: feel very good going into game two tonight.
- 18:02Speaker 3: That is right. Absolutely.
- 18:04Speaker 1: And meanwhile, we still have Packers roster stuff and NFL
- 18:07Speaker 1: machinations and the delusion I saw yesterday when the graphic
- 18:13Speaker 1: and I'm, it's like, it's actually a talking point where
- 18:16Speaker 1: I'm so I mourn for our, our national media, uh,
- 18:19Speaker 1: The industrial complex.
- 18:20Speaker 3: Oh, I'm excited for this one.
- 18:22Speaker 1: It's just, it's another one of those bottom line chyrons.
- 18:24Speaker 3: I look up on ES panel. I'm like, really? Really?
- 18:28Speaker 3: It's still happening.
- 18:29Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 18:29Speaker 3: We'll talk about that and more. Buckle up. You're in
- 18:31Speaker 3: the huddle.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Huddled up on a Tuesday. Drew
- 18:37Speaker 1: Billion-Armond bringing it to you live. 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison.
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- 18:43Speaker 1: and YouTube. Let's get the comments flowing.
- 18:46Speaker 4: 877-794-1973.
- 18:46Speaker 1: Nicoletlaw.com. Talk to text line. It's a buy or sell Tuesday.
- 18:52Speaker 1: We'll get to those props later on. But I did
- 18:55Speaker 1: mention and I did tease and I did remember through
- 18:58Speaker 1: the course of our little commercial break that the thing
- 19:02Speaker 1: that grabbed me yesterday is in the wake of the
- 19:06Speaker 1: Aaron Donald signing. Can the Rams go undefeated?
- 19:12Speaker 3: Oh, it's fired up. Will the Rams go undefeated?
- 19:15Speaker 1: We can't just say that they're going to be a
- 19:17Speaker 1: good team and they've added another generational defensive player.
- 19:21Speaker 3: Will they go undefeated?
- 19:22Speaker 4: Really?
- 19:24Speaker 3: We have to leap right to that?
- 19:27Speaker 2: Because it's no fun to just say that they're the
- 19:30Speaker 2: overwhelming Super Bowl favorites.
- 19:32Speaker 3: It's no fun.
- 19:33Speaker 1: And by overwhelming Super Bowl favorite, you say... that they
- 19:37Speaker 1: have like a, what, 16, 17% chance to win the
- 19:39Speaker 1: Super Bowl?
- 19:40Speaker 3: Yeah, against the field, yeah. Against the field? And it's like, okay.
- 19:43Speaker 1: But to make that leap and say, will they go
- 19:46Speaker 1: undefeated in the course of an NFL season?
- 19:50Speaker 4: Is that just the natural inclination for us every year
- 19:54Speaker 4: to throw out that talking point for the best team
- 19:56Speaker 4: or what everyone considers the best team?
- 19:58Speaker 2: Because people have dreamed about somebody going undefeated since the
- 20:01Speaker 2: Patriots did it in 07. Right now, I mean, at
- 20:05Speaker 2: the Pottawatomie Sportsbook, they make money on it yearly because
- 20:07Speaker 2: they put it up. and 14 to one, uh, for
- 20:10Speaker 2: any team to go 17 and oh, I do good
- 20:13Speaker 2: luck taking it.
- 20:14Speaker 3: Uh, because they also, and.
- 20:16Speaker 2: It's just the most incredible disrespect for the team that
- 20:20Speaker 2: last time I checked drew. won the Super Bowl that
- 20:25Speaker 2: plays in their same division. That they kind of beat
- 20:29Speaker 2: twice last year in the final two months to go.
- 20:32Speaker 1: The Niners are always pretty good, too.
- 20:34Speaker 3: It's crappy.
- 20:35Speaker 1: But just like, why do we have to go there now?
- 20:38Speaker 1: You could start talking about an unbeaten season if they're 13-0.
- 20:41Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean, they were doing this with the.
- 20:44Speaker 2: Remember when Nnamdi Asamoah signed with the Eagles and they
- 20:48Speaker 2: signed Vince Young as their backup.
- 20:50Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. And the people don't learn. And
- 20:52Speaker 1: now it's those kids. It's the kids of those producers.
- 20:56Speaker 1: I mean, they're just like everything. Why does everything have
- 20:59Speaker 1: to be.
- 21:00Speaker 3: But I don't... I guess I should....
- 21:04Speaker 2: Question that this is just now i mean i feel
- 21:06Speaker 2: like they've been trying to do this with the best
- 21:08Speaker 2: team in the sport for the last 10 15 20
- 21:11Speaker 2: years we've been throwing this thing out 97 packers this
- 21:13Speaker 2: was the storyline going into the year this is going
- 21:15Speaker 2: to be the best team ever and we're going to
- 21:17Speaker 2: go undefeated then we lose to the eagles in week
- 21:19Speaker 2: two on a.
- 21:19Speaker 3: Field goal by law i mean so i i don't
- 21:22Speaker 3: know if it's.
- 21:22Speaker 2: New even the even the chiefs three years two three
- 21:25Speaker 2: years ago when they won is sure are they going
- 21:27Speaker 2: to go 17 and oh the best team ever or
- 21:30Speaker 2: like that was like And Packers were closest team doing it.
- 21:33Speaker 3: I mean, they were 15 and one until they lost.
- 21:35Speaker 4: I think that it is a romantic notion for some
- 21:38Speaker 4: to see how far, you know, how great it can be,
- 21:40Speaker 4: but you're right.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Position that as even like a conversation worth having.
- 21:45Speaker 3: Oh, fair.
- 21:46Speaker 1: And you got, I have NFL experts and we got
- 21:48Speaker 1: to toss this one around and like, and we have
- 21:50Speaker 1: to pretend that we're, you know, considering the possibility at
- 21:54Speaker 1: this point.
- 21:54Speaker 3: It totally could happen. Yeah, maybe totally. It totally could happen.
- 21:58Speaker 1: And they're also a Stafford injury away from being like 3-14.
- 22:01Speaker 4: I mean, Billy, the last 24 hours has me questioning
- 22:05Speaker 4: the Rams because since Billy's talked about it yesterday and
- 22:07Speaker 4: you were bringing up some good points, Billy, I'm like,
- 22:09Speaker 4: are we too high on the Rams too?
- 22:10Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Seahawks are still good.
- 22:13Speaker 3: Come on.
- 22:14Speaker 1: They do it to get you mad, Drew. I just said,
- 22:16Speaker 1: why do we have to leap there?
- 22:18Speaker 3: To get you upset. Yeah, that and the— It worked.
- 22:21Speaker 1: The chyrons of, who's under more pressure this year, the
- 22:25Speaker 1: Ravens or Lamar Jackson?
- 22:28Speaker 3: Well, how about this one?
- 22:29Speaker 1: That's a dumb question, too, because aren't they intertwined? Aren't
- 22:34Speaker 1: their fortunes tied together somewhat in a major way?
- 22:38Speaker 3: It's about setting narratives. Exactly. Like, Dan Orlovsky, a guy
- 22:43Speaker 3: who I like. I enjoy his content.
- 22:45Speaker 4: I like him, but he went yesterday with the, if
- 22:48Speaker 4: Matt Stafford wins another one, are we talking about top
- 22:50Speaker 4: five all time?
- 22:51Speaker 3: I'm like, are you kidding me?
- 22:53Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it when I saw that clip, but
- 22:55Speaker 2: it's what he throws out there.
- 22:56Speaker 3: So are we just not supposed to talk about it?
- 22:58Speaker 2: If he wins another one, he then leapfrogs two of
- 23:02Speaker 2: your favorite of all time.
- 23:04Speaker 4: It depends how you look at what makes someone the best.
- 23:07Speaker 4: If it's just Super Bowls, yeah, he does. He does
- 23:09Speaker 4: with Super Bowls, but... Not in MVP, not in all pros.
- 23:13Speaker 4: Look at his counting stats as well. He's one of
- 23:15Speaker 4: the best quarterbacks ever.
- 23:16Speaker 1: With an underperforming team. He had a great run with
- 23:20Speaker 1: an underperforming team, though he had good weapons.
- 23:22Speaker 2: But I also would like to quibble that anybody was
- 23:26Speaker 2: going to win in the organization of the Detroit Lions
- 23:29Speaker 2: in the early 2000s.
- 23:30Speaker 3: Even with legendary weapons.
- 23:32Speaker 2: Yeah, you can have a first ballot Hall of Famer,
- 23:35Speaker 2: no doubt about it.
- 23:35Speaker 3: But with that organization, I don't know you were winning.
- 23:37Speaker 4: But I don't think anyone would look at you straight
- 23:39Speaker 4: in the face really... in your eye and say they
- 23:41Speaker 4: think Matt Stafford ever is going to be top five,
- 23:43Speaker 4: which is fine.
- 23:44Speaker 3: He's still a great quarterback. He'll probably be a hall
- 23:47Speaker 3: of famer.
- 23:47Speaker 4: He is.
- 23:47Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, yes, he is a hall
- 23:49Speaker 3: of fame. Okay, fine.
- 23:50Speaker 2: He is, but not top five and he'll never be.
- 23:52Speaker 3: And that's fine. I don't think anyone should really, but
- 23:55Speaker 3: the fact that, or He.
- 23:56Speaker 1: Can win the next two Super Bowls, and I'll still
- 23:58Speaker 1: say Aaron Rodgers is the better player.
- 24:00Speaker 3: I'm also not going to say that. Of course. I
- 24:02Speaker 3: think everyone knows that.
- 24:03Speaker 2: I don't know that everybody would, though. I think most would.
- 24:06Speaker 2: I think a vast majority.
- 24:07Speaker 3: I think here a lot of people would. I think
- 24:09Speaker 3: a vast majority would, and I'll stand on that.
- 24:11Speaker 1: I don't think you're going to talk to— People whose
- 24:12Speaker 1: opinions I respect would say Aaron Rodgers is still the
- 24:15Speaker 1: better player, even though.
- 24:16Speaker 3: What are we talking about here? But my point is
- 24:19Speaker 3: that doesn't make him a bad player.
- 24:20Speaker 5: No.
- 24:21Speaker 2: And it doesn't mean Orlowski's not— I think he's excited
- 24:24Speaker 2: to talk about things like that. Somebody said, well, this
- 24:27Speaker 2: is his friend, and that's why he's saying, well, I
- 24:28Speaker 2: don't believe that either, necessarily.
- 24:30Speaker 4: I think he just gets excited about thinking about things
- 24:32Speaker 4: like this and maybe jumps to a little hyperbole, which
- 24:35Speaker 4: we all do in sports a little bit.
- 24:37Speaker 1: I think maybe it's a function of there's so many
- 24:40Speaker 1: outlets and there's so much content, and in order to
- 24:42Speaker 1: stand out and to kind of like, you have to
- 24:44Speaker 1: kind of... Of course, you want to get viral moments
- 24:46Speaker 1: and things. You have to go from A to Q. Like,
- 24:50Speaker 1: let's take this all the way to the extreme. Like,
- 24:54Speaker 1: we're two weeks away from seeing, are the Sixers going
- 24:57Speaker 1: to be the best team in the history of the NBA?
- 24:59Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't know how we're acting like this
- 25:01Speaker 2: is just happening now. Like, this has been happening for
- 25:04Speaker 2: the last 10 to 15 years. This is not just
- 25:07Speaker 2: a brand new thing that's firing up.
- 25:10Speaker 1: The dumb questions on ESPN, especially on those morning panel shows,
- 25:15Speaker 1: are legendary. And they've... But they have to keep pushing themselves,
- 25:19Speaker 1: and this is just an extension of it.
- 25:21Speaker 3: Because there's more content to be filled now. Exactly. There
- 25:23Speaker 3: used to be two papers in town. Now there's a
- 25:25Speaker 3: million podcasts.
- 25:26Speaker 1: The more pressure conversations and the stuff like that. Who's
- 25:28Speaker 1: under more pressure, the Cubs or the Brewers? Because the
- 25:31Speaker 1: Brewers lost 17-3. Now we have to go all the
- 25:34Speaker 1: way to one side and say that game counted for
- 25:38Speaker 1: more than it did. one game.
- 25:40Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 25:40Speaker 2: But I mean, I get, I totally, I understand, but like,
- 25:43Speaker 2: I just, I don't know how we're acting like this
- 25:45Speaker 2: is brand new stuff to like the sports world or
- 25:47Speaker 2: the entertainment world.
- 25:49Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 25:49Speaker 2: They've been doing lists like this for 15 years. We've been,
- 25:53Speaker 2: we've been debating who's the best quarterback. Who's the best team.
- 25:55Speaker 2: When does this matter more? Who's going to be under
- 25:58Speaker 2: more pressure for.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Last year at this time, who was pounding a, show
- 26:02Speaker 1: me someone who was pounding the desk saying that Seattle
- 26:06Speaker 1: is And New England were the teams. There might have
- 26:09Speaker 1: been one guy, maybe Nick Wright or somebody. Shows why
- 26:11Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive how they did it. I mean, Seattle
- 26:13Speaker 1: at one point was 60-1 to win the Super Bowl
- 26:15Speaker 1: last year.
- 26:16Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 26:16Speaker 1: And no one touted them. And no one had Sam
- 26:18Speaker 1: Darnold or Drake May in their top 10 last year
- 26:20Speaker 1: of quarterbacks. They ended up being the final two. which
- 26:22Speaker 1: made them the best then. And now they're better than everybody.
- 26:24Speaker 1: Now everybody else has to catch up.
- 26:25Speaker 3: I'm not seeing that.
- 26:26Speaker 2: I haven't seen anybody put Sam Darnold in the top
- 26:28Speaker 2: 15 of the best quarterbacks in football.
- 26:31Speaker 3: It also shows the greatness of this league.
- 26:33Speaker 4: Like you just don't know what to expect and to
- 26:35Speaker 4: try and figure it out and tell the future. And
- 26:37Speaker 4: this league is, is impossible. And that's what makes it great.
- 26:39Speaker 4: The margins are thin. It's unpredictable.
- 26:41Speaker 1: And that's why last year was kind of refreshing after
- 26:45Speaker 1: the Patriots run. And then the chiefs run. It's like,
- 26:47Speaker 1: it's nice to have a little, you know, turnover. At
- 26:50Speaker 1: the top, isn't it?
- 26:51Speaker 3: Like, it was refreshing. Oh, sure. It was a bit
- 26:53Speaker 3: of a palate cleanser.
- 26:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 26:54Speaker 3: I agree with that. Just as it would be.
- 26:57Speaker 2: I enjoyed the Chiefs run. I know a lot of
- 26:59Speaker 2: people got bored with the greatness. I thought it was
- 27:01Speaker 2: the master class. I thought it was amazing.
- 27:03Speaker 3: They were fun to watch. Yeah. And then they got old.
- 27:06Speaker 3: They got a lot of fatigue, no doubt about it.
- 27:07Speaker 3: And we'll see. But I just.
- 27:10Speaker 2: it is cool to see how we hate having a
- 27:14Speaker 2: pinnacle in a team to shoot for and a benchmark.
- 27:16Speaker 2: And now for the next three years, we'll be looking
- 27:19Speaker 2: for somebody to be there and begging for somebody to
- 27:21Speaker 2: be that team.
- 27:21Speaker 1: Same thing happened in baseball when they didn't have a
- 27:23Speaker 1: repeat champion. And then the Dodgers do it. And it's like, Oh,
- 27:25Speaker 1: we got to fix the whole system.
- 27:26Speaker 3: We complain about not having dynasties in So we had them. Well,
- 27:31Speaker 3: in college football now, too. We're never happy as sports fans. Oh,
- 27:34Speaker 3: for sure. We're never happy. We always want the other thing.
- 27:37Speaker 1: I said that we have the new Beyond the Booth
- 27:41Speaker 1: podcast with Wayne Larrabee. I was doing it yesterday with
- 27:43Speaker 1: Wayne Hall.
- 27:43Speaker 3: Hell yeah. And we talked about that.
- 27:45Speaker 1: And now there's probably 15 teams that can say that
- 27:48Speaker 1: they're going to win the championship. They have a chance
- 27:50Speaker 1: to win the college football playoff because of the way
- 27:52Speaker 1: it lays out. Whereas in the past, it might have
- 27:53Speaker 1: been four.
- 27:55Speaker 2: Maybe.
- 27:55Speaker 3: Yeah. Three, four, five.
- 27:57Speaker 2: When they had four teams in there, there were realistically
- 27:59Speaker 2: three teams that could probably win the title every single year.
- 28:02Speaker 1: And before the playoff, it was like, okay, three or
- 28:03Speaker 1: four again.
- 28:04Speaker 2: Maybe.
- 28:05Speaker 3: Yeah. A hundred percent. Maybe.
- 28:06Speaker 1: And now we're in a different era. So it's like, it's,
- 28:09Speaker 1: it's opened up a little bit in the, when we
- 28:11Speaker 1: were talking about the portal stuff too, how impossible it
- 28:14Speaker 1: is to.
- 28:16Speaker 2: From when Wayne was calling games on the Big Ten Network,
- 28:18Speaker 2: it is a completely different sport.
- 28:22Speaker 1: College programs now, we were talking about how they don't
- 28:24Speaker 1: spend as much. Recruiting has changed. It's not, hey, we're
- 28:27Speaker 1: going to watch this kid play at a camp, and
- 28:29Speaker 1: we're going to go to his high school game.
- 28:30Speaker 3: We're going to go in the living room and talk
- 28:31Speaker 3: to the parents.
- 28:32Speaker 1: No, we're going to go find a guy that we
- 28:34Speaker 1: can pay more at a Mac school.
- 28:36Speaker 3: We're selecting.
- 28:37Speaker 1: We're using the smaller schools as our farm system in
- 28:39Speaker 1: high school. Well, it's nice to get a high school
- 28:41Speaker 1: kid once in a while, but if he's a local
- 28:43Speaker 1: or if he's a five-star that we like, But for
- 28:45Speaker 1: the most part, it's like we're going to shop at
- 28:47Speaker 1: the used bin.
- 28:48Speaker 3: That's what it is now. And then the.
- 28:51Speaker 1: Flip side of that is college programs are reminding me
- 28:54Speaker 1: of the Admirals. The Admirals do a great job with
- 28:58Speaker 1: their game production. You guys are part of it, and
- 29:00Speaker 1: they have great theme nights and stuff. They don't really
- 29:03Speaker 1: market their players because their players, when they get good,
- 29:05Speaker 1: are gone. Same thing with the Timber Rattlers. They do
- 29:08Speaker 1: a great job of that, but you can't really market players.
- 29:11Speaker 1: You have to say, come and see Jesus Mati while
- 29:13Speaker 1: he's here because he's going to be in Biloxi soon.
- 29:15Speaker 1: They have to market, and it's become that way where
- 29:19Speaker 1: college fans aren't identifying and latching on to players for
- 29:22Speaker 1: four years anymore it's like they're just like enjoying while
- 29:24Speaker 1: they're here and we like this guy and then who's
- 29:26Speaker 1: this guy now.
- 29:27Speaker 2: No you are a fan of the brand you got
- 29:29Speaker 2: you are a fan of the brand it's.
- 29:32Speaker 1: The brand and it's the shirt it's the brand and
- 29:34Speaker 1: it's and you like that and which is it's sustainable
- 29:36Speaker 1: Cause clearly like the admirals and the T rats, they
- 29:38Speaker 1: do an incredible job and serve their fans and fans
- 29:40Speaker 1: have a great time at their games.
- 29:42Speaker 3: But again, it's not focused on the players.
- 29:44Speaker 1: It's focused on the brand and the, the vibe and
- 29:46Speaker 1: the atmosphere because the players change over so much.
- 29:49Speaker 3: College didn't used to be like that. Now it is.
- 29:51Speaker 3: Now it's like one and done, one and done.
- 29:54Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I don't know because when I think
- 29:57Speaker 2: of college athletics, the reason why it is as popular
- 30:01Speaker 2: and exciting and popular big time and why the pageantry
- 30:05Speaker 2: is what it is. Because people care more about the brand.
- 30:07Speaker 2: People care about the school. Armand's going to care way
- 30:10Speaker 2: more about Marquette than any player that's ever played there.
- 30:13Speaker 2: You're going to care more about the institution far more
- 30:16Speaker 2: than any player.
- 30:16Speaker 3: Absolutely. The traditions, all that stuff.
- 30:18Speaker 2: Yeah, so even though now the players are getting paid,
- 30:21Speaker 2: I don't know that that completely flipped it, but I
- 30:23Speaker 2: wonder in the next three to five years, now that
- 30:26Speaker 2: the school is paying the player real money in terms
- 30:29Speaker 2: of revenue sharing, if you're going to see more... billboards
- 30:33Speaker 2: with an alley beers on it because they're going to
- 30:35Speaker 2: bring in some NIL cash. Cause that's where you're ultimately
- 30:38Speaker 2: going to be able to keep guys.
- 30:40Speaker 1: Guys from the generation ago, like Butchie is a, you know,
- 30:43Speaker 1: Butchie's from the state and he's a badger.
- 30:45Speaker 3: Right.
- 30:45Speaker 1: And we have guys like, you know, JJ Watt is
- 30:48Speaker 1: a badger.
- 30:49Speaker 3: JJ Watt is a badger.
- 30:51Speaker 1: And there, there are guys that are, and then there
- 30:53Speaker 1: are guys who aren't from here who become badgers, right?
- 30:56Speaker 3: Guys from Kaminsky.
- 30:58Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 30:58Speaker 3: Guys that were coming from out of state, but the
- 31:01Speaker 3: Kaminsky will be a badger.
- 31:03Speaker 1: When in 15 years, when he's chasing his kids around
- 31:07Speaker 1: and wants to tune in college football, what team will
- 31:10Speaker 1: Billy Edwards cheer for? of the four that he's played for,
- 31:14Speaker 1: the four schools that he's been for. Like, which one
- 31:16Speaker 1: is he going to cape up for? Which one is he, oh,
- 31:18Speaker 1: I'd like to get the broadcast job there.
- 31:19Speaker 4: Right.
- 31:20Speaker 3: Guys are mercenaries now. Exactly. Can't fathom it, right?
- 31:25Speaker 4: There might be something, or they might have multiple teams
- 31:27Speaker 4: he roots for, or it could be one of those teams, like,
- 31:29Speaker 4: wherever he had the best memory.
- 31:31Speaker 3: I'm not singling out Billy Edwards. No, I get it.
- 31:33Speaker 1: No, that's an individual question for everybody. We joke about
- 31:35Speaker 1: him having, like, you know, a whole closet full of
- 31:38Speaker 1: gear from four different schools. AJ Store, like, guys like
- 31:41Speaker 1: that is, like, it's, you lose a little something in that.
- 31:45Speaker 3: And it's the cost of it. And it is what
- 31:47Speaker 3: it is.
- 31:47Speaker 1: And again, I'm not mad at the culture because it's
- 31:48Speaker 1: a river and we can't change it. But it's like,
- 31:51Speaker 1: it is a thought that crosses my mind.
- 31:53Speaker 3: It's interesting. Part of the thing about college is there are.
- 31:56Speaker 1: Guys who make like, you know, the smart guys who
- 32:00Speaker 1: make connections and business, the Robert Frozina's of the world who,
- 32:04Speaker 1: you know, used playing at Marquette. as a way to
- 32:06Speaker 1: meet business leaders and to like connections and stuff like
- 32:09Speaker 1: that and to further your, your network and your career.
- 32:13Speaker 3: Guys do that. Well, maybe they're doing that at every
- 32:16Speaker 3: stop and collecting that.
- 32:17Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 32:18Speaker 2: There are definitely some that are doing it. We also, though,
- 32:21Speaker 2: we see and glam onto the numbers that are in
- 32:23Speaker 2: the portal. We jump at the numbers that are there.
- 32:27Speaker 2: There are still 70% of college athletes that are staying
- 32:30Speaker 2: at the same school. There are still a large portion
- 32:33Speaker 2: of the players that are still doing exactly that same
- 32:36Speaker 2: one that are going to have a place to come
- 32:37Speaker 2: back to, and you hope that you're able to have
- 32:40Speaker 2: more Mason Posas And Eugene Hilton's hopefully, because.
- 32:43Speaker 1: Eugene's going to have a huge year coming up under
- 32:45Speaker 1: Colton Joseph.
- 32:47Speaker 2: You want to speak into existence that you get guys
- 32:49Speaker 2: in there for a couple of years and they roll through.
- 32:51Speaker 2: Like USC just had the number one high school recruiting class,
- 32:54Speaker 2: but they got guys on the field right away. They
- 32:56Speaker 2: had a dude, Luke Waffle, who was starting at the end,
- 32:59Speaker 2: true freshman playing in his first game, playing like 50 snaps.
- 33:02Speaker 2: You're going to get young players that are going to
- 33:04Speaker 2: be playing because you're not just going to be able
- 33:05Speaker 2: to sit them there forever in whatever these institutions.
- 33:08Speaker 3: Are going for. That's right, Billy.
- 33:09Speaker 4: There are still a lot of guys that go to
- 33:11Speaker 4: a school because they got the offer there.
- 33:12Speaker 3: They grew up wanting to go.
- 33:14Speaker 2: Oregon's taking like 10 transfers.
- 33:16Speaker 3: They're bringing in 30 players. They're bringing in most of
- 33:19Speaker 3: those guys from high school.
- 33:20Speaker 1: If you bring in high school guys and you play
- 33:22Speaker 1: a bunch of them right away because that's what you
- 33:24Speaker 1: got to do. And then you take your lumps. Do
- 33:26Speaker 1: they then start looking for the exits to go play
- 33:28Speaker 1: for somewhere that's winning right away?
- 33:30Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying? Possibly. For sure.
- 33:33Speaker 2: But again, the best schools, the best teams, look at
- 33:36Speaker 2: a lot of the best teams. Most of their best
- 33:38Speaker 2: players are all still coming through.
- 33:40Speaker 3: You'd hope. The high school recruit. I mean, I don't
- 33:44Speaker 3: even know that's a hope.
- 33:44Speaker 2: You look at the best teams in college football, the
- 33:47Speaker 2: main core of their players are all going to be
- 33:49Speaker 2: guys that they brought in. Like Ohio State. You look
- 33:51Speaker 2: at Jeremiah Smith, best player. He was brought in early.
- 33:54Speaker 2: There will be a number of guys that come in
- 33:56Speaker 2: and out, but the core is still going to be
- 33:59Speaker 2: because otherwise you're just going to be too transient. Yeah.
- 34:02Speaker 2: Like you can't live like Lane Kiffin bringing in 40
- 34:04Speaker 2: new players. And I think in football, we call it
- 34:06Speaker 2: a quarterback slot and quarterbacks. Basketball is totally different. Your
- 34:09Speaker 2: roster is completely different.
- 34:10Speaker 1: You might have a knipple. but then you got like
- 34:13Speaker 1: four transfers around him. And maybe one to two high
- 34:15Speaker 1: school kids on a basketball team, no doubt.
- 34:17Speaker 4: And you have program guys that'll stay, but those are
- 34:20Speaker 4: generally not the good players because if they have value,
- 34:22Speaker 4: they're usually getting offers for more money. You get the,
- 34:25Speaker 4: remember Matt Helt?
- 34:26Speaker 3: He was from Nina.
- 34:27Speaker 4: He played at Marquette for four years. He was like the,
- 34:29Speaker 4: his nickname was the milk man. He, everyone liked him
- 34:31Speaker 4: program guy, but he wasn't a great player. He was
- 34:34Speaker 4: a nice role player and he was off the bench
- 34:35Speaker 4: and he was a nice program guy. But if a
- 34:38Speaker 4: guy like that is actually any good, They're probably getting
- 34:41Speaker 4: a bunch of offers. They either have to get the
- 34:43Speaker 4: money somewhere else or stay there and keep money.
- 34:46Speaker 3: That's how it rolls.
- 34:47Speaker 1: When we come back, Hunter Baumgart will give us the
- 34:49Speaker 1: gory details of a gruesome Brewers outing last night, 17-3
- 34:53Speaker 1: at Wrigley.
- 34:54Speaker 3: Just one game.
- 34:55Speaker 1: Hunter had to stick around until the end. We'll get
- 34:57Speaker 1: his recap next, and he'll join us live at 7 a.m.,
- 35:01Speaker 1: followed by Bill Schroeder from Brewers TV. You're in the huddle,
- 35:04Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Drew Billion-Armond huddled up on a Tuesday.
- 35:10Speaker 1: Picking through the rubble. We're trying to avoid picking through
- 35:13Speaker 1: the rubble. The 17-3 Brewers loss at Wrigley Field last night.
- 35:16Speaker 1: One of those nights, flush it and move on. And
- 35:20Speaker 1: let's see if the Brewers can do that with Bobby
- 35:22Speaker 1: Gasser on the mound tonight.
- 35:24Speaker 2: Good night to be able to get yourself prepared for,
- 35:27Speaker 2: I mean, listen, they do six months of this where
- 35:29Speaker 2: they have a result and then have to put it
- 35:31Speaker 2: to bed.
- 35:32Speaker 3: But a good little test.
- 35:33Speaker 2: Drew, for once you get into the playoffs because as you,
- 35:36Speaker 2: I think they're going to only have one off day
- 35:38Speaker 2: in that DS series. You're going to have to put
- 35:42Speaker 2: painful loss to bed real quick and be able to
- 35:44Speaker 2: be your best the next night.
- 35:46Speaker 1: 17-3, maybe the market will correct today. Cubs have been
- 35:48Speaker 1: on a roll lately, hitting some home runs, but they've
- 35:51Speaker 1: also still lost their, what, four and seven in their
- 35:57Speaker 1: last 11.
- 35:58Speaker 2: And they haven't necessarily been great on the mound. Outside
- 36:02Speaker 2: of Holmes, Clay Holmes has been the best of the
- 36:04Speaker 2: guys today. that they got at the deadline. Kevin Gosman's
- 36:07Speaker 2: been a little bit of a mixed bag. Imanaga's been
- 36:10Speaker 2: up and down. So you've been able to tag their
- 36:13Speaker 2: pitching staff, and hopefully the Brewers are able to do
- 36:15Speaker 2: that tonight. Clay Holmes was phenomenal last night. Your pitcher,
- 36:19Speaker 2: as Pat Murphy said, our guy, our guy.
- 36:22Speaker 3: Far from good.
- 36:24Speaker 2: Far.
- 36:24Speaker 3: Far from good. So we got a better opportunity here tonight.
- 36:28Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to our pal Hunter Baumgart and
- 36:30Speaker 1: his recap of last night's proceedings brought to us by
- 36:33Speaker 1: Import Minded.
- 36:34Speaker 3: Take it away, Hunter.
- 36:36Speaker 5: Thanks, guys. You already know what happened last night, so
- 36:39Speaker 5: we'll leave it at that. One positive note out of
- 36:42Speaker 5: last night, Cooper Pratt, Luis Lara, their first games at
- 36:45Speaker 5: Wrigley Field ever, and Cooper Pratt, first at bat, 106-mile-an-hour single.
- 36:51Speaker 5: Luis Lara doubled down the line in his first at
- 36:54Speaker 5: bat at Wrigley Field, and then Cooper Pratt got the
- 36:56Speaker 5: Brewers on the board with a two-run home run a
- 36:58Speaker 5: little later. But let's move on to tonight, shall we?
- 37:01Speaker 5: Robert Gasser on the mound for the crew. His only
- 37:03Speaker 5: regular season start against the Cubs came back May 27, 2024.
- 37:09Speaker 5: You may remember that day for other reasons. That was
- 37:13Speaker 5: the first day that Craig Council came back to Milwaukee.
- 37:15Speaker 5: in a Cubs uniform, and the Brewers won 5-1. He
- 37:18Speaker 5: threw six shutout innings that day. Let's see if he
- 37:21Speaker 5: can do it again tonight at Wrigley Field. He is
- 37:24Speaker 5: on the mound for the crew. I'll have you for
- 37:25Speaker 5: the baseball pregame show at 5.30 this evening on Fox
- 37:29Speaker 5: Sports 920 in Milwaukee and our social channels. This report
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- 37:37Speaker 5: The Brewers have a seven-game lead in the National League
- 37:40Speaker 5: Central with 24 games to play. I'll join you guys
- 37:43Speaker 5: at 7 o'clock to talk more about the crew. Back
- 37:45Speaker 5: to you guys.
- 37:47Speaker 3: Thank you, Hunter. Thank you, Import Minded. Also, shout out Hunter. Yeah,
- 37:51Speaker 3: you guys know what happened last night.
- 37:54Speaker 2: I didn't stay up all this time to have to
- 37:56Speaker 2: go through every single thing.
- 37:58Speaker 3: I'm going to come out with some positives.
- 37:59Speaker 2: And that is a nice couple of little positives. Luis
- 38:02Speaker 2: Lara and Cooper Pratt getting into the hitter's circle with
- 38:07Speaker 2: their first games against the Cubs. And Cooper Pratt, Drew,
- 38:11Speaker 2: didn't get to play in those playoff-like atmospheres out in
- 38:13Speaker 2: San Diego and L.A. Good for him to be able
- 38:15Speaker 2: to get a couple in here today. So it's supposed
- 38:18Speaker 2: to be just hot and humid all week, right? So
- 38:20Speaker 2: they're going to be launching these pro V ones all
- 38:22Speaker 2: weekend long. You keep the ball down, keep the ball
- 38:24Speaker 2: down and stop feeding these inside middle, middle fastballs that
- 38:28Speaker 2: we were seeing last night.
- 38:29Speaker 3: Bobby Gasser though, has.
- 38:30Speaker 2: Been definitely up and down, but has been better, more
- 38:34Speaker 2: good than bad over the last one month and a half.
- 38:37Speaker 2: It feels like the core of his starts have been
- 38:41Speaker 2: relatively good. Although did, you know, we all know that
- 38:45Speaker 2: he got pulled out in the middle of a two
- 38:47Speaker 2: Oh a count with a 6-0 lead a couple of
- 38:49Speaker 2: weeks ago, but other than that, it's been all right.
- 38:52Speaker 1: That Cubs lineup is pretty, against lefties, they're pretty well
- 38:55Speaker 1: set up, right?
- 38:55Speaker 3: They are. They're set up for success. They're loaded, man.
- 38:58Speaker 3: They are just, it's a powerful lineup. It's really incredible.
- 39:02Speaker 1: It is, and it makes you appreciate that the Brewers
- 39:05Speaker 1: have this lead against the team like this. because the
- 39:07Speaker 1: cubs and i know we're not supposed to say this
- 39:10Speaker 1: the cubs are a good freaking team.
- 39:11Speaker 2: Oh they're definitely good and especially they look they look
- 39:15Speaker 2: the part like when you see them on paper you
- 39:17Speaker 2: see their numbers nobody would.
- 39:18Speaker 1: And they're without a couple of their top pitchers and
- 39:20Speaker 1: like they have they've lost some dudes along the way.
- 39:23Speaker 1: They made some upgrades that there made some acquisitions at
- 39:26Speaker 1: the deadline.
- 39:27Speaker 2: It's why like it is understandable why the, the Cubs
- 39:30Speaker 2: get the respect they do in the preseason, uh, and
- 39:35Speaker 2: the preseason win totals, it is more confusing as to
- 39:38Speaker 2: why the Brewers don't get as much respect as they
- 39:41Speaker 2: deserve over the last number of years for what they
- 39:43Speaker 2: continue to put on tape.
- 39:44Speaker 3: But make no mistake about it.
- 39:46Speaker 2: On paper, and you just look at the rosters, I
- 39:48Speaker 2: understand why the Cubs are the preseason betting favorite to
- 39:51Speaker 2: win it the last couple of years.
- 39:53Speaker 3: I just have smiled.
- 39:54Speaker 2: Even more than when we go down to the Pottawatomie
- 39:55Speaker 2: Sportsbook and win on plus money.
- 39:57Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 39:57Speaker 2: Because you are going to be fighting uphill. Murph, well,
- 40:02Speaker 2: I know he said, you know, you can call us
- 40:04Speaker 2: the underdogs if you want. Murph calls them the underdogs
- 40:06Speaker 2: all the time. Justifiably so when you look at that
- 40:09Speaker 2: lineup one through nine. And as he said, and I'm pregnant,
- 40:13Speaker 2: you pay him 30 million bucks. It's almost more than
- 40:14Speaker 2: our whole team.
- 40:16Speaker 3: Yeah, and it really is.
- 40:17Speaker 4: And it's a good team. And they're a good team,
- 40:19Speaker 4: you know, independent of what the Brewers do. The difference
- 40:22Speaker 4: is with the Brewers, I guess it's been how great
- 40:24Speaker 4: our starting pitching and our bullpen's been. That's really carried
- 40:28Speaker 4: this team to heights beyond, you know, that overcome a
- 40:31Speaker 4: lineup like the Cubs have and things like that. So, yeah,
- 40:34Speaker 4: it is nice to be able to win the plus money.
- 40:37Speaker 4: You're right, Billy, because when people don't believe in you,
- 40:39Speaker 4: it's a good way to go. I appreciate it.
- 40:42Speaker 3: But you're right. The Cubs looked the part.
- 40:45Speaker 1: The soothing number for you. And again, 24 games left.
- 40:50Speaker 1: And what is my mantra about teams and playing 500?
- 40:53Speaker 1: If you're a good team, 500 is like as bad
- 40:55Speaker 1: as it gets. Yeah, that's your low watermark. That's your
- 40:57Speaker 1: low watermark. The Brewers win 12 of their next 24.
- 41:00Speaker 1: They go 12 and 12. It's not hard to imagine that, right?
- 41:04Speaker 1: They would tie last year and they would finish with
- 41:06Speaker 1: 97 wins. And in order to catch them, the Cubs
- 41:10Speaker 1: would have to go 19 and five. I'll take my chances.
- 41:14Speaker 1: And then the winner of the season series gets a tiebreaker.
- 41:17Speaker 1: So if the Brewers can win three of the next six,
- 41:20Speaker 1: they win the season series, and that's like essentially a
- 41:22Speaker 1: game because you win a tie.
- 41:24Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 41:24Speaker 3: So that gives you another game in hand, right?
- 41:26Speaker 2: That's why tonight is important because, Drew, you're right. You've
- 41:29Speaker 2: got to now just count to three. That's why the
- 41:32Speaker 2: three and four in the seven games that we talked
- 41:34Speaker 2: about yesterday was a hell of a lot more appealing
- 41:36Speaker 2: because it's an extra win.
- 41:37Speaker 1: That's right.
- 41:38Speaker 3: We will be back. Hunter joins us at 7. Rock
- 41:41Speaker 3: at 7.30.
- 41:41Speaker 1: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.