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08/27/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Thursday edition, Friday, Junior, who's ready? Five o'clock clubbers.
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  Speaker 2: Who's ready to seize this wonderful day in the good land?
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  Speaker 2: Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian. Raise your hand if
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  Speaker 2: you're ready.
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  Speaker 3: Ready.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm ready. Come on now. We're ready. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Three arms go up. Let's fire up.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a bit tougher today because we
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  Speaker 2: don't have a major player manager controversy to discuss.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is kind of nice when you get a
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  Speaker 4: couple of those, right? It is nice when you just
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  Speaker 4: get the red meat laid out for you, know exactly
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  Speaker 4: what to throw on the grill. Sometimes you got to
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  Speaker 4: sift through that kitchen a little bit and start digging
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  Speaker 4: through the fridge, figure out exactly what you're going to
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  Speaker 4: toss on there. But yeah, that ribeye steak of the
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  Speaker 4: Cooper Pratt and Pat Murphy. layout was nice to be
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  Speaker 4: able to have. The buffet's over now?
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  Speaker 2: That was almost as good as an NFL game. Buffalo
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  Speaker 2: to feast.
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  Speaker 1: On for a day. Nowadays, the meals only last a day.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 4: I got to say, Drew, I did not anticipate, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't realize that it was going to be as hot
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  Speaker 4: as it was on MLB Network yesterday. Every single show,
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  Speaker 4: it was one of their main attractions, main conversations, and
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  Speaker 4: then very split decisions, somewhat like the fan base. There
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  Speaker 4: were some guys that liked it, some guys that hated it.
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  Speaker 4: Mark DeRosa said... Happened to me at every level. Happened
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  Speaker 4: to me all the time. It's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: He will learn it, but he might have to learn
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  Speaker 1: that lesson one more time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing gets people's juices dripping like a good little
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  Speaker 3: culture war with basically anything.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of times they flow.
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  Speaker 2: But when it comes to anything like a little culture war,
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  Speaker 2: you're a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Some ointment, maybe a little good Jet York issue. But anyway, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Nothing gets people going like something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what?
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  Speaker 3: It seemed to rebound well last night. Two hits for Cooper.
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  Speaker 3: Although they were the infield variety, but they count. They
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  Speaker 3: count the box score. No one's going to care when
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  Speaker 3: they see it down there.
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  Speaker 1: Saw that man hustling his way down the line, busting
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  Speaker 1: it real quick. That was definitely learned.
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  Speaker 3: When you drop the head down like a sprinter, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like you're just making sure everyone knows, make sure
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  Speaker 3: you know, make sure everything knows that I'm going all
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  Speaker 3: the way like I'm running the 100.
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  Speaker 1: That's it right here. This is a full.
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  Speaker 3: Sprint in case anyone was wondering. It was great to
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  Speaker 3: see the bounce back. Especially, you know, facing early adversity.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Dustin May taking a lot of the back.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Gasser. How about that kid? Bobby Gasser stepping up.
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  Speaker 1: That's what a team depth is, right?
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  Speaker 2: You know, and that's the thing is you just had
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  Speaker 2: a frustrating loss marked by, you know, benching.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: And then you go out and you leave two men
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  Speaker 2: on in the top of the first. And in the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the first, your guy throws one pitch. Your
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  Speaker 2: big trade acquisition throws one pitch and gets smoked in
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  Speaker 2: the back.
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  Speaker 1: And has to leave.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. That's not a recipe. That's not a blueprint necessarily
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  Speaker 2: for great success. And yet, thanks to Gasser and like
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  Speaker 2: five and a third solid innings.
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  Speaker 1: No worries.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: And Mays seems like he's OK. Just a bruise. Might
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  Speaker 1: be ready to pitch in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 4: And it's crazy, Drew, how when you look at the
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  Speaker 4: 16 games in 16 days, that felt like as he
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  Speaker 4: walks off the field, you're like, oh, my goodness, this
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  Speaker 4: is going to be an absolute marathon that you're going
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  Speaker 4: to have to. run through a seven game and 10
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  Speaker 4: day stretch against the Cubs at the back end of it.
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  Speaker 1: And instead, the bullpen is going to be pretty saved.
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  Speaker 4: I like McAlvey mentioning that to, or asking Dustin May
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  Speaker 4: that way yesterday. Now Gasser was slated to pitch on
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  Speaker 4: Friday again, or what he is. They had just announced
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  Speaker 4: their probables coming up for the weekend. It was a,
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  Speaker 4: it was a bullpen day for him. So it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: going to be, you know.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Sweet.
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  Speaker 1: I got you. I got you in the game.
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  Speaker 4: And potentially, as we had talked about here on this show,
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  Speaker 4: that there might be a Coleman Crowe sighting coming up
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  Speaker 4: sooner rather than later. Maybe September 1st can't come soon
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  Speaker 4: enough after that one. But that was a heck of
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  Speaker 4: a job. Those nails by Robert Gasper.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: When the team needed it. I mean, when your depth's tested.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's what it's all about right there. Being
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  Speaker 3: ready at a moment's notice.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, the brewers have bigger, bigger goals, bigger fish to fry,
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  Speaker 2: more juices to drip.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta get those juices dripped.
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  Speaker 5: Come on now.
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  Speaker 1: The juice is dripping. Come on, let's drip them, baby.
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  Speaker 2: For those of us of a certain vintage, you can't
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  Speaker 2: help but mark that yesterday was their 82nd victory.
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  Speaker 1: That was it.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, old habits die hard on
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  Speaker 2: this sheet. On August 26th, winning record secured. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there were times.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time that was a dream in a
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  Speaker 1: young boy's eye. There was a time when, yes. A
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  Speaker 1: glint in an eye. Man, it'd be great to have
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers have a winning record. And here they are.
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  Speaker 1: More than a month left. with a winning record. You
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  Speaker 1: know how times have changed, right? We don't celebrate those
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  Speaker 1: milestones the way we used.
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  Speaker 4: To celebrate some might, but, but Armin Sarian does. Cause
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  Speaker 4: not only was it that they won their 82nd game
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  Speaker 4: drew Brewers clinch win 82 that the signal of, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: the winning season is here. Once again, that's step number one.
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  Speaker 4: I don't, I don't even know that that one's on the,
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  Speaker 4: on the old Mike McCarthy line anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It might not be, but it's one of these six games.
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  Speaker 3: Win 90 games we want to win the north we
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  Speaker 3: want to take uh 10 games uh listen and that's
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  Speaker 3: why i said you know that magic that magic number
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  Speaker 3: i had to be careful i said magic number that
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  Speaker 3: number is still magic to me when i see 82
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  Speaker 3: it still means something you don't want to lose that
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  Speaker 3: that uh you know that little glint that energy when
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  Speaker 3: you when you were first scrapping trying to find any
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  Speaker 3: way to win and trying to make this franchise better
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  Speaker 3: when you're And when you're a kid and you're hoping
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  Speaker 3: for just the smallest morsel of hope, that was it
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  Speaker 3: right there.
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  Speaker 1: That was the goal. So I don't want to lose that.
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  Speaker 1: I disagree. I do want to lose that. You want
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  Speaker 1: that to be in the rearview mirror, Billy? I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to. You want to move up in stature? I
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  Speaker 1: get it. Yeah, I don't want to think and make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we remember all of the times for 26
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  Speaker 1: years where you did. Now, it wasn't 26 years that
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  Speaker 1: they weren't over 500. There were plenty of times that
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  Speaker 1: they were in the 90s, but you don't make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I do want to forget that.
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  Speaker 4: I do want that to be completely in the rearview
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  Speaker 4: mirror because what you're aligning out is that it's coming back.
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  Speaker 4: What you're trying to do is give me the 70s
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  Speaker 4: and 80s Packers fan conversation of just know it's not
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  Speaker 4: going to be this good.
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  Speaker 3: All the time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we went through in the 70s and 80s.
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  Speaker 1: We heard that a lot. We hear that a lot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying, Billy. We don't want to
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  Speaker 1: go back to those days.
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  Speaker 3: But I feel like never forgetting where we came from
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  Speaker 3: is important, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because it reminds us of the struggle, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe that way. But you know what? The standards are
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  Speaker 1: definitely higher now.
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  Speaker 3: And I understand what you're saying in that sense. Is that, no,
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  Speaker 3: we have higher standards now. We don't want to ever
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  Speaker 3: remember when we had to struggle. So I guess there's
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  Speaker 3: a couple ways to look at it. But that's still
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  Speaker 3: a number that maybe it's PTSD, but that's still a
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  Speaker 3: number that sticks in my head.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's the first hurdle. 82.
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  Speaker 3: 82 is the first hurdle. Not 81, because you want 82. But,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, those days are gone.
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  Speaker 2: Heroes abound last night in Flushing. Gasser had his outing.
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  Speaker 2: Freelick comes back, gets on base four times.
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  Speaker 1: Setting the tone, too. Leading off. Three hits. Setting the tone.
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  Speaker 1: Setting the tone. I say a lot about him.
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Wilson, who they tried to get rid of like
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  Speaker 2: a bad penny. They couldn't get rid of him.
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  Speaker 1: Tried to cut him so many times. I'm not getting you.
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  Speaker 1: You're not getting rid of me, guys. Brewers had a
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  Speaker 1: reliever years ago. Get my uniform ready.
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  Speaker 2: Years ago, the Brewers had a reliever just like kind
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  Speaker 2: of Bryce Wilson. They couldn't quit him. They cut him,
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  Speaker 2: bring him back, send him to the minors, bring him back,
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  Speaker 2: and he was not good. And one of my media
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  Speaker 2: brethren said, One of my mentors in the media referred
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  Speaker 2: to him as a buoyant turd that just couldn't be flushed.
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  Speaker 1: He'll stay floating every day. He stayed floating. Right at
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  Speaker 1: the top of that water.
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  Speaker 2: He was a steelhead popping out of the water. And
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't be flushed. He just kept surviving.
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  Speaker 1: Spin after spin of the bowl circling. Don't you go down! Hey,
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  Speaker 1: there's something we said for that, right?
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  Speaker 2: He was resilient for sure. But Bryce Wilson hasn't walked
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  Speaker 2: a guy in quite a while. So he's got that
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  Speaker 2: going for him.
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  Speaker 1: And he's been good.
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  Speaker 4: And for Grant Anderson, listen, it might not be the
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  Speaker 4: high leverage spot that some people want to see him
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  Speaker 4: get into. But whenever you cover the innings, you cover
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  Speaker 4: them when they when they appear and when they arise.
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  Speaker 4: And that's good stuff for him. But Bryce Wilson, I
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  Speaker 4: still do. I would love to know the mathematics of
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  Speaker 4: how many guys have been cut. DFA twice in a
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  Speaker 4: week by a team.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty wild.
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  Speaker 4: Like he definitely is going to be in, could be
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  Speaker 4: in the conversation at some particular point. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: that his DFA tags will end up rolling back at
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  Speaker 4: some point because he's just going to be the fireman.
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  Speaker 1: And whenever they need three innings, there you go.
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  Speaker 4: And if you can't cover us again, then we're going
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  Speaker 4: to have some problems, but he's been phenomenal for him
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  Speaker 4: since they got him from the Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: 22 innings without a walk. Thanks to a contrarious challenge. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's the job. He's doing the job they want, right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, get in there, throw strikes. And he's happy
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  Speaker 2: with that role. It's like, keep cutting me. I'll keep
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  Speaker 2: coming back whenever you need me. I'll just be waiting
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  Speaker 2: right here in the backyard. Plenty of positives for the
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  Speaker 2: Brewers coming off an extra inning loss from the night before.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that was a good bounce back in many ways.
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  Speaker 2: Showing resilience because of what happened with Dustin May. And
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  Speaker 2: he looks like he's going to be okay. They dodged
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  Speaker 2: one there. That's a scary situation.
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  Speaker 1: That was. He got smoked.
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  Speaker 2: One pitch start for the guy that you went and
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  Speaker 2: got in the trade market is just wild.
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  Speaker 4: But... Drew, I think it's like the second or third
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  Speaker 4: time he's gotten hit significantly this year.
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  Speaker 1: He had one when he was with the Cardinals against
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  Speaker 1: the Braves. I want to say it went off his leg.
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  Speaker 4: And he ended up pitching through it, but then gave
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  Speaker 4: up like four or five runs in that first inning
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  Speaker 4: as he tried to grit through it. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: everybody can react differently. As he said last night, he's like,
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  Speaker 4: I just couldn't catch my breath. He's like, I just
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  Speaker 4: couldn't catch my breath.
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  Speaker 1: No kidding.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that I would be able to either
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  Speaker 4: if a hundred mile an hour screamer came back at me.
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  Speaker 1: Or that I would much want to.
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  Speaker 4: That's one of those things, Drew, where you do realize
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  Speaker 4: how that's a very, very short distance. And that 100
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  Speaker 4: miles an hour comes on you pretty quick from 60 feet,
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  Speaker 4: 6 inches.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. My goodness.
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  Speaker 3: And he took it like a G. He showed no
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  Speaker 3: pain initially, and he was just standing there. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: is this man hurt? Because I think I would be hurt.
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  Speaker 3: And then you can see him really start to kind
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  Speaker 3: of double over because then it starts to probably throb
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  Speaker 3: on you. But that's, I mean, very painful. And like
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  Speaker 3: you said, I mean, the good thing there is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure there's a tendency by a competitor to say
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  Speaker 3: I can pitch through it and this and that. And
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  Speaker 3: who knows what kind of performance it would have been.
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  Speaker 3: But discretion, the better part of valor, making sure to
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  Speaker 3: get him out, make sure he's good. And then I'm sure,
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  Speaker 3: you know, having to use Robert was not in the
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: cards for for Murph, but they had to do it,
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  Speaker 3: and he got the job done. So I'm glad they
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: made that move, even though I'm sure it was tempting
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  Speaker 3: to see, hey, are you okay, Dustin?
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  Speaker 2: How about the Brewers getting six hits in a row?
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  Speaker 1: Little League Rally or Small Market Rally.
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  Speaker 5: Billy, right?
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was definitely a Small Market Rally.
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  Speaker 2: But for them to get six hits in a row,
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  Speaker 2: and I think they were eight for 15 with runners
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  Speaker 2: in scoring position last night, that gives you a different
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  Speaker 2: look than the two for 14.
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  Speaker 4: Than two for 14, yeah. And so which one helped
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  Speaker 4: them win the game more, Drew? Uh, Cooper Pratt hustling
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  Speaker 4: out of the box twice or the eight for 15.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I'm going to say the, just like, just like
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday night, I think the two for 14 with
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  Speaker 1: runners in scoring position was more the reason they lost,
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  Speaker 1: but Hey, it makes it for a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: Fun to hits and score two runs. So And, oh,
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  Speaker 2: Terang hit a homer on his first in the month
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  Speaker 2: of August.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, after a little late-night batting session with Coach Christian Yelich?
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: He hit his 19th homer after a 19-game drought, his
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  Speaker 2: longest of the season. So those are the types of things. Like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Terang. And that gave him the breathing room. That
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: was the game right there when they went up a touchdown. Well,
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  Speaker 2: and think about how much different their season has been.
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  Speaker 2: Their win-loss is right around the same spot. Drew, he
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  Speaker 2: had 10 homers in the month of August last year.
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  Speaker 1: I know. He goes almost three full weeks in the
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: month of August without one this year. Brewers, it was a.
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  Speaker 2: Good night for them, and it'll be a good night
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  Speaker 2: tonight if they can win the series. Just keep winning series.
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  Speaker 2: You got nothing to worry about. The Cubs, don't worry
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: Win the series.
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  Speaker 4: No, and they lose another full game yesterday to the
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  Speaker 4: Cubbies in the chase for the NL Central.
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  Speaker 1: Six and a half games. Shut out and tossed out.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Pete Crow Armstrong may have earned definitely earned that
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: that ejection. And I mean, it's 514. We've already hit
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: the pause button. PCA had to hit the pause button
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  Speaker 4: on himself yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was an entertaining postgame for for a
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  Speaker 1: young man that I did appreciate him saying, hey, man,
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: I'm still not going to apologize for it. I think
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: I think I think at the end of the day,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: I was still right.
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  Speaker 4: I like that kind of confidence. I also like when
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  Speaker 4: you go one for 12 in a series, it makes
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  Speaker 4: it a lot better. It's a lot better to watch
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  Speaker 4: for us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was the hottest hitter in baseball, or one
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  Speaker 3: of them at least, until that, and he really went
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: through it a little bit, but that was nice. And
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  Speaker 3: I can get that audio if you guys want to
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  Speaker 3: hear it, but they were mad about a balk that
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  Speaker 3: wasn't called, which they had a good argument for, I think.
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  Speaker 1: They sure did. Oh, yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 5: I saw four umpires miss a pretty obvious play. When
• 13:01
  Speaker 5: a guy is shoving it down your throat, pause. You
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  Speaker 5: got to find any way you can to make something happen,
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  Speaker 5: and that's exactly what I was just trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, basically. The pause is there. Maybe I'll save
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  Speaker 1: that for Games and Kicks on Monday. That's pretty good. Yeah. But, no,
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  Speaker 1: they had a good argument with that one. There was
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  Speaker 1: no question about it.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of those that, okay, well, shouldn't that be reviewable?
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  Speaker 2: Because that's a pretty easy review.
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  Speaker 4: That one does feel like the easiest thing to review, right?
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: When a guy starts and stops the motion. A hairline
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  Speaker 4: like that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, come on.
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  Speaker 4: But, hey, I'm very, very glad that Rodriguez was as
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: good as he was yesterday. I mean, talk about an
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: all-star performing like an all-star Eduardo Rodriguez.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: We appreciated that. We needed that. Strike out nine of
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: those sons of guns. But what a flip the series
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  Speaker 1: can go. What did they score? What was the stat yesterday?
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: 31 straight runs?
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: Unanswered.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 31. And then in 10 innings, they go 7-0
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: and lose the series. That's a heck of a turnaround.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: And some folks would say, a smart man off to
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: my right might say, that's just baseball. Yeah.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: Pete Crow Armstrong was pretty funny last night, I got
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: to say.
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: He was very entertaining. Very entertaining. Also, Quentin Barry knew
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: he was properly jacked up. He had to work out
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: some offensive line tactics right there. He was slide protecting.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: He was really good.
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: Full good hand placement right in the chest plate. That's
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: exactly what you coach. Thumbs up. And even in the video,
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: in the picture, you can see thumbs up. You're controlling
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: the man at that point. So Quentin Barry, as much
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: as the speed demon probably was a wide receiver or something,
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: might have been a good blocking wide receiver with that
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: video that we saw yesterday.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of in the armpits there. It was interesting
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: to hear the breakdown. I don't know if it was
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: John Boy or one of those guys. I'm sure it
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: was John Boy that. to the lip reading and stuff.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: It's like, they clearly like get, get Pete out of here.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: We don't want him to get thrown out. This is
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: like a zero, zero game.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: We need him like, get out of here, Pete. I
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: got him. And Quentin's just telling me up. I got him.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: I got him. It's no problem here. Don't worry. I
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: got him.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: Brewers lead the Cubs by six and a half and
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: a half. They lead the Dodgers by two for the
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: best record in ball. And so that's comforting.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: About Dodgers got walked off again last night.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: They're, they're going through it. They've been going through it
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: for a month or so, at least. Dodgers fans are uncomfortable.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, the jubilation of winning the Scooble trade has
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: kind of faded away, and they're trying to figure out
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: how to start winning consistently again.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it has. I won't cry a river for them.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't feel bad for them.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: I'm just telling you how they feel. But I'll tell
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: you what. I mean, I shed no tears.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. But, I mean, they did the same thing. If
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: you remember last year, they were kind of struggling.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: They had to play the first round in the playoffs
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: and then started dominating people, unfortunately, as we know firsthand.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: On the other end of it. But we'll see.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: But that is interesting as well. A little development in
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: the National League. So lots of follow here down the
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: stretch as we approach September. But a good night for
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: the Brewers.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Plenty going on.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Plenty going on.
• 15:55
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• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Let's hear from our 5 o'clock clubbers. Give us a
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: check in this morning. How was the vestibule loaded up
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: this morning?
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: It was, yeah.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: They were chomping at the bit on a Friday junior money.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Not as many as yesterday. So I don't know what.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: But but still robust turnout as people were getting ready.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: I got to think Wednesday a high day.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Maybe maybe you take Thursday off a
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: little bit. You're right. Yeah.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Then gear up and then get it in Friday and
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: you're good for the weekend.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: And then you're off and running a little cruise. I
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: hear fake hustle over on that side.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I mean, Monday and Wednesday.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: It's like the guys that will go to the you know,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: they'll do their New Year's resolutions in January, but they'll
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: fade away.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: If you're about it, stay consistent.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: No?
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Through Thursday?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Monday, Wednesday, Friday isn't consistent? I mean, if you want
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: to be about it, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. You
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: got to give yourself an off day, JJ Watt.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Geez, sorry. I didn't realize bodybuilder Armin Sarian over there
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: was just ripping out five days a week. Well, at
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: least I don't pretend to work out. That's the whole game.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, there you go.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Pete Chang on YouTube. Happy throwback Thursday, fellas. Great response
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: from Coop and Gas last night.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Murph loves work.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Moves.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Murph's moves work. He probably loves work, too. Nice return
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: for Sal. Tough break for May, though. I mean, I
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: say a lot of things about Sal. Some deserve, some not, probably.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Some passes, some aggressive. But there's no questioning his value
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: for this team. And it's sometimes not measured. But the
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: way he was able, you know, he comes back, leads off, boom,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: right away.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Base hit, set the tone. Three hits last night.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: You just got to love a guy like Sal for
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: those things. For what he can give you. And sometimes
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I talk about the things he doesn't give. But the
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: things he does give, the important glue guys there. Last night,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: mentoring Cooper in the dugout. Tonight, two nights ago. Then
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: last night, boom. I'm going to make my impact right
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: away at the plate, get this place fired up, yelling
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: it into the dugout.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: You got to love that. Got to love it. Huge.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Packers going to have a little walkthrough today because they've
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: got their preseason finale coming up Friday night against the
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals, who were in for a joint practice. And
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Billy was on the perch with the voice of the Packers,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Wayne Larrabee. Yesterday, we're going to talk about that. Everything
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: that Billy saw. We're going to talk about that as
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: we move forward.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: The wins, the losses.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Also going to talk to our friend Tim McCormick from
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Mile.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: In fact, we could do that next. Sounds good. And
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: get some cream puffs this weekend. Come on now, baby.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Let's fire up for some cream puffs. It's race week
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: at the Milwaukee Mile. We've got a doubleheader coming up
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: this weekend. Nationally televised. Big implications for the championship. We
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: can talk about that next and then spin into Packers.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Who knows what direction we're going to go in. That's
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: why you join us here. The Huddle Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Back on the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: 1070 Madison, everywhere on the iHeart app, streaming live on
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Facebook X and YouTube. Drew Wilson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: bringing it to you. You know, boys, when you think
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: of doubleheaders, you might think of, in the past, Monday
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Night Football or baseball. But we got a racing IndyCar
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: doubleheader at the Wisconsin State Fair, the Milwaukee Mile, the
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: historic oval in West Allis. And here to talk about
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: it this weekend's proceedings is Communications Director for the Wisconsin
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: State Fair. It's Tim McCormick. Tim, thank you for joining us.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I know you're busy. It is going to be a
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: big weekend at the oval.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: The only doubleheader on the schedule for the 2026 season.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: So we're very excited, thrilled. There's still a lot up
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: for grabs in the point standing. So a lot of
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: action to be decided this weekend.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: And Tim, as somebody who went to my first race
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: at the mile IndyCar with my dad, he had, he's
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: been going to races for years and years and years.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: What is the best part about this exact track? As
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: you mentioned, it's the longest continue, oldest continuously operating motor speedway.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: It's a part of the schedule. And being back on
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: with the Grand Prix and the doubleheader, it makes it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: it unique because it's such a unique spot.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: It's got all that great history, just like you were
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: talking about. I love it. when I get to encounter
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: some of the old-timers that have been here to see
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Al Unser, A.J. Foyett, all those great classic names here.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: But I think it was a year or two years ago,
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: there was the site for the race here at the
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Milwaukee Mile that was the most passes that had taken
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: place out of any of the entries throughout the season here.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: So I was talking to somebody else the other day,
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: and they say that you're never out of the race.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: There's always an opportunity to come from behind, to make
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: that pass, to get the checkered flag. And then you
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: add in just the fair fun that we get to
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: have here. So we're going to have a lot of
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: the vendors that will still be open. Maybe even providing
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: some of those Sporky's finalists, if you didn't get a
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: chance to try those during the State Fair. We'll have
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: a DJ spinning. And then, again, the access to those racers.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: There's fan forums. There's autograph sessions. You can check out
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: the whole schedule. We do open Friday for practice laps,
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: in addition to the Makers and Fixers, 2.50 on Saturday,
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: and then the Snap-on, 2.50 on Sunday. Check out wistatefair.com
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: to find your tickets and then figure out the schedule
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: of when you want to be here.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Good to have racing back at State Fair Park in
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: West Dallas after about eight years.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: It's going to be awesome.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: The drivers seem to get very excited. They sense the
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: history of the place, but they also like the oval.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Or maybe is it that they like, you know, custard
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: and cheese curds and sporkies.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: And cream puffs, maybe.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: But you talk to these guys. They seem to really,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's fake. I mean, I'm sure they're
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: like comedians or musicians. Great to be here in Cert
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: City here. But they seem to really dig this spot.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: I think we had a couple of people enjoying some
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Miller Lights with the fans last year. And, of course,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: I don't know if there's a more iconic winner circle
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: once you get that cream puff in the face after
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: you get the checkered flag. Again, for fans, for race cars, drivers,
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: for the organization, for our friends at Indy, everybody talks
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: about what a unique experience it is. We're very excited
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: that it's really coming down to the wire for who's
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: going to take the title for the 2026 season home.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: So like I said, a lot to be determined. All
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: the drivers are going to be going all out because
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: there's just a few races. We've got two this weekend
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: here at the Milwaukee Mile, one more out in California
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: to finish off the season. So they'll be trying to
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: get every point they can for those end-of-year standings.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Well, and that's where the real money's made. Now this
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: is money time when it's on the table.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: And being able to put this on the table and
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: on the docket, what has the reaction been like for
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: fans and race fans in the city? Because the mile
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: is a unique place, and it's something that's very important
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: to people in Milwaukee. And being able to be back
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: in the state and have racing again, it feels like
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: a big win for the folks of the area.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. We're very excited. The investment that Indy has shown
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: in Wisconsin– not only here at the Milwaukee Mile, but
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: also out at Road America. Just a fantastic event and
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: course there, of course. But once you're talking about a
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: track that's older than the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, we date
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: back to 1903. I think the racers, the fans, everybody
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: realizes that history is literally made at every turn here.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: So when you get that ticket, again, there's so much
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: more than just the action on the track. We've got
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: a custom car show. Again, those autograph sessions, the fan forums.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: everybody's very excited that we get the chance to show
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: off Wisconsin and show off the Milwaukee mile for just
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: about the last races of the season here.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Tim McCormick communications manager for Wisconsin state fair, joining us
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: here on the huddle, drew billion Armin.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: What's the turnaround been like for you and your team?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Cause you just said goodbye to state fair. And now
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: you're having another huge event.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: You guys running on fumes, no pun intended.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, no tires. Again, it's just fantastic that you
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: get to work. Again, it's tough to pull them off back-to-back,
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: but we've got an incredible team here. We have been
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: working on this all year round, even years in advance,
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: knowing what the calendar is going to bring to us,
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: knowing that the fair wraps up, and then you've got
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: to get your focus onto the race. But when you're
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: inviting tens of thousands of your favorite rowdy friends to
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: come cheer on those race car drivers for the fastest
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: sport on earth. It makes things a little bit easier
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: when you know you're going to be delivering those smiles and, again,
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: all the fun to be had throughout all three days
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: of the weekend.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I know you have tickets available at wistatefair.com, right? Does
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: that include garage passes and infield passes? If I want
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: to go, how do I maximize my experience? How do
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I VIP myself?
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. Check it out at wistayfair.com. Not only just those
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: tickets to the grandstands, but if you want to get
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: those couple of add-ons, those additional experiences that will last
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: a lifetime, we have you covered there. But again, there's
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: even the free family zone. If you just want to
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: check out, get up close and personal to a show car. Again,
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: try to check out those autograph sessions for the Indy
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: NTT and NXT drivers on Friday at a lot of
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: opportunities to get in on the action.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: I was just going to ask the family friendly zone,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: that area. Cause listen, I got three and a one-year-old,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: but when they see the cars, they're going to be excited.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Show car, nothing in the garage. They can touch. They
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: can be dangerous, but something good that you can get
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: up close and personal with available.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. Again, our friends at Vintage Indy will be bringing
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: some of those cars from races gone by. There's a
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: classic and custom car show taking place on the 29th
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: and 30th. So, again, just for pretty pictures, for things
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: that make you go, ooh, when they go vroom, we've
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: got you covered in spades.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Man, I don't know who's going to like that more,
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: my dad or my son.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Grandpa or grandson might be having more fun with that one.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Isn't that fantastic? I mean, that's been our modus operandi
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: for the state fair as well as for the Milwaukee
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: Mile and all the racing action here. It's rare that
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: you get an intergenerational outing like this that's going to
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: bring smiles to everybody. And you just nailed it there.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: It's going to be grandma and grandpa hanging out with
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: grandsons and their kids just enjoying themselves. The weather looks ideal.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Knock on wood that Mother Nature still cooperates with us.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: But a rare opportunity that you get the whole family
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: out for an outing like this.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Tim, when you go to a major golf event, oftentimes
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: it's fun to just go around on the practice day,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: on the Wednesday or the pro-am day.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: You know, it's cool.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: So what is the vibe like on Fridays? It's obviously
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: more casual, relaxed because it's not a race. It's just practice.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: But what is the vibe like for people on Friday
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: who might have other plans on Saturday and Sunday?
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I got very lucky. I got to try to
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: get up and close and personal with a testing day
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: earlier this summer here. And just seeing those guys, you know,
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: they make it look easy for these practice laps, but
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: I tell you, it's anything but. So we open up
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: at noon on Friday. That's the garages, the grandstands, and
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: the free fan zone. Those all open up at noon.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: 245 to 345, you've got the NCT IndyCar driver autograph session.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: 4 to 445, the NXT broadcast. by Firestone driver autograph session,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: and then the practice sessions going on throughout the day.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: It is an opportunity, again, that I don't know you
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: can have with other sports, with other experiences, where you'll
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: be able to get up close and personal and see
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: how they tinker, see how they work on their engines,
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: see how they work on their game, and then, again,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: get the chance to maybe ask them a question or
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: two as you're getting your hat or your shirt signed.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: What's more complicated when it comes to loading in? Would
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: it be the cars and all the stuff and all
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: the equipment, or the Fox TV camera crews coming in
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: to get ready?
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Logistically, who's the bigger pain?
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: They're all a dream to work with. We're very happy
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: to have those partners at Fox who are broadcasting throughout
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: the world here. giving us a chance to show off Milwaukee,
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: show off Wisconsin. We've got some little tricks up our
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: sleeve here that we're excited to reveal come race days.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: I think everybody has been fantastic to work with. They're
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: getting towards the end of the season, so they've got
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: this load in and load out down at this point.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: They're just looking for the action on the track as well.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: They should be relieved because coming to the Oval, there's
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: so many advantages to the Oval. It makes it unique,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: but you're just coming off of a D.C.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Race.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: You know, drive through the streets of D.C. around the Capitol.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: And so it's like it couldn't be a more stark
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: change for everything. Logistics and even, you know, camera angles
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: and positions and stuff like that's got to be pretty
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: easy for them.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: For them and then also a huge advantage for how
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: we have the grandstands and how the Oval is set up.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: You can see the entirety of the action, you know,
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: like you're talking about in D.C., If you're stationed at
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: one part of the road course, you're not seeing a
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: whole lot else except for when they turn by there.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: So it's an amazing opportunity to see the full-fledged race,
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: all of the action. cruising around on that historic oval
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: that dates back to the 1900s here.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: All right, and now food. You're talking to the fat
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: guy on the show. Last thing, Tim. When we talk
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: about the fair food that's going to be there, can
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: I lock in the fact of a cream puff, maybe
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: a blue ribbon brownie? What can be some of the
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: teasers that we can have for the tasting that rolls through?
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're very excited. A lot of our vendors that
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: have featured items that you saw on the Sporkies and
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Drinkies menu. Very excited. Our good friends, Blue Moon Tavern
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: in the Park, will be bringing out their Chicharrones, which, again,
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: was a finalist for the Sporkies this year. Badger Bites,
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Pistol Pete's, Wild Dog Saloons, Pop's Paradise. I could go
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: on and on, but somebody's going to get mad at
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: me for not listing them. But just know, come hungry,
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: and we've got you covered there as well.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: That's fantastic. All right, Tim, here's a personal question for you.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: How many cream puffs do you consume in the month
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: of August?
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Don't out the guy like that. I'm just wondering.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Because, you know, if you work at the Hershey plant,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: you might not have a candy bar every day, but
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: you're there, you're ensconced in it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: What's the tally? How many?
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: I'm not trying to break any records, but I do
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: know it's very nice to have those at hand when
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: you do get the craving, which I say is often
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: because you can't get them any other time. It is
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: fantastic to have them. In the backdrop of the Wisconsin
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: State Fair at the Milwaukee Mile, we will have those
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: original cream puffs available for you. So you let me
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: know how many you down, and I'll try to do
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: one more.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Let's see if we can match it. That'd be amazing.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Let's take out one of those three packs.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: You mentioned Gates open at noon on Friday with the
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: practice starting at 5. Well, the practice goes on 2, 4,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: and 5, right?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: And the IndyCar's at 5?
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: And then what about Saturday and Sunday?
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Because you can get there pretty early to fire.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Up on Saturday.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: You can. Yeah, Saturday, open up at 7 a.m. We're
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: here all day through 8 p.m. is when we're going
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: to have to tell you you don't have to go home,
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: but you can't stay here. Sunday, opening up at 7.30,
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: ending at 5. But make sure to check out the
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: entire schedule at wistatefair.com. Check it out. High noon on Sunday,
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: the snap on Milwaukee Mile 250. And then the snap
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: on Makers and Fixers on Saturday kicks off at 1.30
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: with the green flag.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I imagine there will be robust business at Pauly's and
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Tompkins and Liquid Johnny's and some of the establishments nearby,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: people getting ready.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: That's going to be pretty epic. It should be a
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: pretty good weekend.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Tim, thank you for joining us, man.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Best of luck.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Hope the weather holds for you like it has been.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Much appreciated. We'll see you at the races.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: You bet.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Tim McCormick, communications manager for the Wisconsin State Fair, wistatefair.com.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Buy your tickets. That's going to be so good. Cream
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: puffs and raisin? What's better than that? And beer?
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: If you're old like me, you remember it used to
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: be the Indy 500 would be held, and then they'd
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: go to Milwaukee. Everybody goes from Indy to Milwaukee, and
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: it was right there, and you'd be pouring the milk.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Now it's like you're later in the season. It's a
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: good date, though, pre-Labor Day in this window.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: What a perfect time to have one more thing before
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the end of summer.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: And to have the races Saturday and Sunday. Fox on
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Saturday will have it at noon. And then Sunday, the
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Indy race is Saturday. It's going to be pretty wild.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: And it's cool that you can roll throughout the day, right?
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: The early stuff for the kids, maybe walk around, get
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: a nap in, come right back for the race, make
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: a long day a little shorter for the younger ones,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: you know, or for the older ones like me.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: There you go. That's a good, good day.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's 1.30 TV time on Saturday and I
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: believe noon on Sunday on Fox, on Big Fox.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And then they give away to football pretty soon. So
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: it's kind of the last hurrah there. And I'm taking
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: my boy Kyle Kirkwood. Pretty sweet. There you go. Come on, Kyle.
• 32:37
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• 32:37
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• 32:38
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• 32:40
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• 32:42
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• 33:17
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• 33:20
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• 33:23
  Speaker 2: and he provides a recap for us after most Brewers games,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: including the palate-cleansing victory last evening in New York. I
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: wonder if nags was at that game too. He was
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: at the first game.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: He, uh, he actually was a little peek behind the curtain.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: We were supposed to do a carry the G radio,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: the podcast last night. And then I get a text
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: as a, I'm getting ready to pull into the driveway
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: from Aaron Nagler said, Hey man, I'm really sorry.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I got a Danny Whalen on this thing tonight and
• 33:48
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• 33:50
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• 33:52
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• 33:55
  Speaker 1: It's a great excuse, isn't it? I mean, yeah. Fantastic.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Uh, take it away, Hunter.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Thanks, guys.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: The Brewers get a nice bounce-back blowout victory, 8-1 over
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: the Mets last night. They'll go for the series win
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: with Miz on the mound tonight. How about on the
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: offensive side, a four-run second inning, six straight singles in
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: that inning. The Brewers have the most four-plus-run innings without
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: a home run this season at 22. The next-closest team
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: has 18. How about last night, eight hits with runners
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: in scoring position. That is double. What the Brewers had
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: in their prior two games to that combined. So all
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: in all, a good night for the offense. Al Freelick
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: was on base four times in his return from the IL.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Bryce Durang with his first home run in August. So
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: hopefully that's a sign of good things to come. On
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: the pitching side, Robert Gasser was the hero of the night.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Threw 82 pitches, five and a third. We knew he
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: was available out of the bullpen coming into the game.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: But he was also set up to start on Sunday.
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: And he was dynamite. Dustin May had to leave after
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: just one pitch. Getting hit in the back with a
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: line drive. Pat Murphy said after the game, it looks
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: like he's going to be okay. X-rays were negative, so
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: we'll monitor that. But Robert Gasser, five and a third,
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: one earned run, two walks, six Ks. Remember, last time out,
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: he was taken out in the middle of an at-bat
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: because Pat Murphy didn't like how he was pitching with
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: a lead. Well, he pitched much better with a lead
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: last night, and the Brewers get the victory. By the way,
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: 82 pitches for Robert Gasser. That means that is the
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: most by a Brewers reliever since last Quinn Priester threw
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: 86 last July 11th. So the Brewers going for the
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: series win, as I mentioned tonight, against the Mets. Jacob
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: Mizorowski on the mound for the crew. I'll have you
• 35:32
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• 35:34
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• 35:46
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• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Back to you guys.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Hunter B.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: Whew.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Always erstwhile Hunter Baumgart. He will join us at seven 25,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: as mentioned, only Hunter's going to find a, a stat
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: on the most pitches in a relief appearance.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: That's why we love them.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Uh, but that being able to not be the piggyback
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: plan ends up being a heck of a save for, uh,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Robert Gasser yesterday. And I mean, it really is impressive
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: that the two guys that in the most recently had
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: caught the right hand of Murph, the wrath of the
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: manager and, uh, both, uh, being successful and being one
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: of the big reasons why they had the blowout and
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: uh drew i do like the small market rallies i'm
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: a big fan of being able to string singles together
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: and score a bunch of runs it is fun that
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: three run homer is pretty nice like i i do
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: i would love to know how we can unlock just
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: a few more of those we don't need to hit
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: a more home runs than anybody else i know the
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: brewers are in the top five or six in baseball
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: in this category which You hit them as long as you.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Make them count. Let's just find more chances to get
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: the three-run home. That would be nice. They can keep
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: all the solo shots somewhere else.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: The volume is fine. We just want the quality of them.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: Let's find out how to hit more of them with
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: two guys on.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be nice.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: Also, that home run proved that I'm still undefeated and
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: not being able to tell when it's a homer off
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: the bat.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: That thing looked like a fly ball on TV off
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the bat. I don't know about you guys. It looked
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: like a pop-up. All of a sudden, the thing's going
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: over the wall. I thought he got it pretty good.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I'm just bad at it. I am just bad at it.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: You just got to watch Bryce. He has no reaction ever, though.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding? He held the bat up there for
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: a good two seconds. He knew exactly what he had
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: just done. I feel like he shows no emotion, so
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I could never tell.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: When he leans back on it and holds the pose
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: for a quick second, you know that.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: He liked it.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when he looks annoyed at himself for hitting a homer,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: that's when you know it's gone. That's his default. Did
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: we pack up? too early on the Murph Pratt thing.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: It's like, okay, that was yesterday's news. It was yesterday's topic.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: We can load up on it. Adam McAlvey has a
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: good story kind of recapping it. And the headline, which
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't think Adam writes, but Pratt's
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: benching was about Brewers culture, not just him. And so
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: what Adam did was spun through the clubhouse, went to
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: the unofficial team captain, Kristen Yellich, talked to him, talked
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: to Freelick and Bowers, who talked to Pratt on the bench.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Love that, yes.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: And talked about the whole thing about the It's the Brewers.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: We talked about it yesterday. It was the Brewers' culture.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Quote from Christian Yelich. I think stuff like that is
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: done for a bigger picture. Being around Murph, he does
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: that stuff with the goal in mind of performing and
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: winning in October. Those games are won and lost on
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: the margins and execution and no mental or physical lapses.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Great lesson to learn. Great time to be able to
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: do it. He always puts it in perspective, Yelly. He's
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: so good at that.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Freelick.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Coming from a guy who's been benched multiple times by Murph,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: it's not always 100% directed at the person getting benched,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: and there's a thousand different reasons. From the past, when
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I've seen guys get benched, including myself, it's usually when
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: a few days have piled on of not playing to
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: that standard. A message needs to be sent. I don't
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: think anybody was surprised when it happened last night.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: That was a big point by Hunter talking to him
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: in the office yesterday. It's like it wasn't just one play.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: It wasn't just for Pratt because it doesn't happen in
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: a vacuum. Everybody else watches it. That's a great point.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: And that's probably what they were telling Cooper in his
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: ear in the dugout. And that's why.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Jake Bowers, arguably the Brewers MVP this season.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: I think if you ask Cooper, he's going to tell
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: you that he should have got the bunt down and
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: he should have been on second base. I do think
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: there's times for messages to be sent, especially as we're
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: coming up on the playoffs here. We're getting a bunt
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: down with runners on first and second. Nobody else can
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: be the difference of a playoff game.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: Amen.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: And if the lesson is nothing else besides I need
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: to make sure I'm locked in enough to get the
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: job done, then that's what it takes.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: And also like for a rookie player, years old to
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: be called upon to get the bunt down and to
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: not get the bunt down, brother, that is going to
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: be part of why you're on the team, right? That's
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: going to be a fact of how you're going to
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: be able to make yourself in October.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Christian Yelich.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: In my personal opinion, I don't really think it had
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: a whole lot to do with not going to second there.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: I think it was a culmination of events with a
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: greater goal in mind for six weeks from now, if
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: you want my honest opinion.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I love that. We do want the honest opinion. I
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: love that. Let's go.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: And why is it still unofficial?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Are we keeping to some tradition? Make him the captain.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Is there some unofficial? What is the whole point of it?
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: We don't do captains. I get it, but put a
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: C on it.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Great quote from Murphy. It was his message just for Pratt.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: He said, do we have any teams that are vying
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: to be the top team this year with three kids
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: in their lineup who are 22 and younger?
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Probably not. I love that.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Then you have other guys who are two years in
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: or three years in and guys who've been part-time players.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're piecing it together with non-veterans, so to speak.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: For us, I think it's crucial they get it.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: He also said, after I watched the video, I'm like, oh.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: He didn't dog it as much as I thought he did.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: But I think the ball was up there long enough.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: I think it was up there long enough. After I
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: watched it, maybe I gave you a little.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Bit of slack. However, I was not liking the way
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: you were looking. That's exactly what all those guys explained
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: in the culmination of events. That's the, I just don't
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: want to see your face anymore. The best quote of
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: the entire, this is a great piece by Adam. I
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: encourage everybody to read it at Brewers.com. But the best
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: quote comes from Freelick, not surprisingly. Freelick's a stand-up guy,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: and he's the A student. He is a good teacher, Pat,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: no doubt about it.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Freelick said, as the team took it, there wasn't one
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: person who disagreed with it, the Pratt benching. And there
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: also wasn't one person who was mad at Koop for
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: anything he did.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: It's just how we play. There's a standard of how
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: we play.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Perfect.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: That's how it's supposed to be.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: So that was it. No one's mad at Koop or Pratt.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: No one's mad at Murph. Let's go and go get
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: them tomorrow. Let's go win it tomorrow. That's a hell
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: of a mantra. That's a hell of a way to
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: go about it. When we come back, we'll get Billy's
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: recap of Packers Cardinals, the controlled scrimmage, which was actually
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: like a preseason game.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: That's next. The huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin.