Latest / The Huddle / 10/26/26 - Hour 3
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- 0:22Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
- 0:25Speaker 5: We're going back.
- 0:26Speaker 3: We got some big plays coming.
- 0:31Speaker 1: What the hell's going on out here?
- 0:33Speaker 2: Yellow Weasel. Quit calling the plays, all right?
- 0:38Speaker 3: It is time. What do you think you are?
- 0:40Speaker 1: I am. With Drew Olsen.
- 0:42Speaker 3: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
- 0:46Speaker 3: your respect.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Bill Schmidt.
- 0:47Speaker 2: That son of a gun is thick.
- 0:49Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
- 0:50Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
- 0:57Speaker 3: It's the huddle. Monday edition, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Olsen,
- 1:01Speaker 3: Armin Saar, and Billy Schmidt is in Tampa St. Pete
- 1:04Speaker 3: for the game tonight. We just heard from him. Hunter
- 1:07Speaker 3: Baumgart going to join us in about 25 minutes. Glad
- 1:09Speaker 3: you're hanging out with us on Fox Sports Radio, 920 Milwaukee,
- 1:13Speaker 3: 1070 in Madison. Also streaming live on Facebook X and YouTube.
- 1:20Speaker 3: We will turn it over after this hour to Hunter Baumgart,
- 1:22Speaker 3: who will host a two-hour pregame show.
- 1:24Speaker 2: Yes, from Tampa.
- 1:25Speaker 3: Getting ready. On site, he will be getting us ready
- 1:30Speaker 3: for game three. Brewers facing Freddy Peralta, who, fastball Freddy,
- 1:35Speaker 3: since August 26th, which is, by my math, two months
- 1:38Speaker 3: ago from today, exactly, he is 7-0 with a 0.89 ERA. Oh,
- 1:43Speaker 3: my gosh.
- 1:45Speaker 6: That's incredible stuff. And they sure fixed him. I mean,
- 1:48Speaker 6: whatever it was that was ailing him, maybe he was due.
- 1:51Speaker 6: Maybe it's the weather. They've said that in Florida.
- 1:53Speaker 2: He's good.
- 1:53Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:54Speaker 3: He was the American League Pitcher of the Month in September.
- 1:56Speaker 3: He was the MVP of the ALCS. He's crushed for that.
- 1:59Speaker 3: A victory over Cleveland. And he has turned into an ace.
- 2:03Speaker 3: And he's doing it for the Rays, not the Mets,
- 2:05Speaker 3: who traded for him. So Mets fans.
- 2:06Speaker 2: They're the big.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Loser here, right?
- 2:08Speaker 2: I mean, he was really good here, obviously. And then
- 2:09Speaker 2: last year was his best year. That's right. Brewers traded him.
- 2:12Speaker 6: I mean, he was, you know, the Mets are the
- 2:15Speaker 6: big loser in this. They have to be wondering what happened, why,
- 2:18Speaker 6: and how. And, you know, you get the right crew,
- 2:21Speaker 6: you get the right coaching staff, the right environment, the
- 2:23Speaker 6: right change of pace to sometimes tweak a couple things,
- 2:26Speaker 6: the right group of guys around you, and it's worked
- 2:28Speaker 6: for Freddie.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Now, you have to hope he's due to have a
- 2:30Speaker 2: bad one.
- 2:31Speaker 6: I mean, even in his best, most hottest stretches here, Drew,
- 2:34Speaker 6: I don't think he ever had a sub-1 ERA. That
- 2:37Speaker 6: doesn't seem sustainable, even for the best pitchers of all time.
- 2:41Speaker 6: So maybe tonight's the night. They were excited about his
- 2:43Speaker 6: uptick in velocity as well during the LCS winner. They
- 2:47Speaker 6: were talking about that. I know a little bit about
- 2:49Speaker 6: the thought that he.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Might be better in that weather in Florida at home.
- 2:53Speaker 3: In that dome, yeah.
- 2:54Speaker 2: Possibly. Could be. We saw that with some of the
- 2:57Speaker 2: Brewers pitchers, but everyone's good at home, right?
- 2:59Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 3:00Speaker 2: That's part of it.
- 3:01Speaker 6: All right.
- 3:01Speaker 3: Time for our current electric superhero of the day, and
- 3:03Speaker 3: we've got a couple nominees, including Aaron Ashby, who I
- 3:08Speaker 3: think you can make a case is the MVP of
- 3:10Speaker 3: the not just the, he's the playoff MVP.
- 3:13Speaker 2: He might be in the mix. That's for sure.
- 3:15Speaker 3: I mean, man, he'll win the golden boot or whatever
- 3:17Speaker 3: it is, right? World series MVP. And he's getting competition
- 3:21Speaker 3: from his own William Contreras. Who's been incredible. He's making
- 3:25Speaker 3: things happen with his at bats. He's throwing runners out.
- 3:27Speaker 3: He's blocking balls in the dirt. He is being wild bill.
- 3:31Speaker 3: And I had a friend of mine, a national media
- 3:34Speaker 3: type asked me, is he kind of like the, you know,
- 3:38Speaker 3: Yelich is the captain, but is he kind of like
- 3:39Speaker 3: the heartbeat of the Brewers? Yes, he is. If you
- 3:43Speaker 3: watch the Brewers all year, when Contreras is going right,
- 3:47Speaker 3: things are pretty good.
- 3:47Speaker 6: I think you can make a case for that, for
- 3:49Speaker 6: him being the backbone, the DNA, even Freelick, right? I've
- 3:53Speaker 6: kind of looked at Woody as the captain of the pitchers.
- 3:56Speaker 6: I don't know if he feels that way, so there's
- 3:58Speaker 6: something about that as well.
- 3:59Speaker 2: The elder statesman, for sure.
- 4:02Speaker 6: But William Contreras definitely kind of has that emotional pulse
- 4:06Speaker 6: on the team. And he has an impact every time.
- 4:09Speaker 6: I mean, not just at the plate, what he's done,
- 4:11Speaker 6: but the way he's handled the pitching staff has been incredible.
- 4:14Speaker 3: So lots of candidates for the Current Electric Superhero of
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- 4:30Speaker 3: love a redemption story.
- 4:32Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
- 4:32Speaker 3: Well, Cooper Pratt, the redemption story, it writes itself in
- 4:35Speaker 3: game two, right? The error that opened the door to
- 4:37Speaker 3: a four-run inning, and then the superheroes came out of
- 4:40Speaker 3: the bullpen for the Brewers, including Ashby. But then Cooper
- 4:42Speaker 3: Pratt dumps a hit in to drive in the eventual
- 4:45Speaker 3: winning run.
- 4:46Speaker 6: So impressive for a young guy, a rookie like this,
- 4:49Speaker 6: to redeem himself, to stay focused, stay confident, and keep
- 4:53Speaker 6: his faith, not give up.
- 4:55Speaker 2: And especially in that at-bat going down 1-2. That's right.
- 4:58Speaker 3: Stay focused, keep the faith, stay confident. Redemption story. I
- 5:03Speaker 3: think we have to nominate J.J. McCarthy as one of
- 5:05Speaker 3: our current electric superheroes.
- 5:06Speaker 2: Of the day.
- 5:07Speaker 6: Clearly.
- 5:07Speaker 2: I mean, he's playing well all of a sudden.
- 5:08Speaker 3: And his first start for the Giants, coming back off
- 5:11Speaker 3: a game when he nearly let his team back from
- 5:12Speaker 3: a 24-point fourth-quarter deficit. He was rocking, he was rolling,
- 5:18Speaker 3: and he led his team to a victory in overtime yesterday.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Weird stuff happens in the NFL, Drew, all the time.
- 5:22Speaker 2: It's a week-to-week league.
- 5:24Speaker 6: Even Wayne earlier today when he was on said, you
- 5:26Speaker 6: can't really figure what's going to happen because it changes.
- 5:29Speaker 6: But I still think this is just a little bit
- 5:31Speaker 6: of a flash-in-the-pan bump. beginner's luck type stuff. I don't
- 5:35Speaker 6: believe in McCarthy. However, he could prove me wrong and
- 5:38Speaker 6: all of a sudden become this great, consistent thrower.
- 5:40Speaker 3: Well, he had success with the other Harbaugh brother, so.
- 5:43Speaker 6: That's a good point. He did have that in college.
- 5:46Speaker 6: So we'll see what happens. Maybe there's something there. John
- 5:49Speaker 6: Harbaugh's done a good job with the Giants, I think,
- 5:51Speaker 6: we'd all say.
- 5:55Speaker 3: Another entrance for our current electric superhero of the day,
- 5:57Speaker 3: I'm going to say our friend Hunter Baumgart. And the
- 6:00Speaker 3: trio of guys... Who are their night in, night out.
- 6:04Speaker 3: Todd Rosiak, Adam McKelvey, Kurt Hogue. The guys on the
- 6:08Speaker 3: front lines are providing information about this team all season.
- 6:12Speaker 2: Definitely in the mix, yeah.
- 6:13Speaker 3: Going to give them a shout out.
- 6:14Speaker 2: I love that.
- 6:15Speaker 3: As well as the Brewers radio team, they've been on
- 6:16Speaker 3: their game. Levering, Grindle.
- 6:18Speaker 2: And honoring Bob the whole way. That's been special.
- 6:20Speaker 3: And Josh Maurer, who's been getting an inning a night.
- 6:23Speaker 3: One of Levering's innings, because Levering's such a great dude
- 6:25Speaker 3: to let Josh call on World Series games.
- 6:27Speaker 2: Pretty cool.
- 6:28Speaker 3: Dom Catronio, who's been supplying them with stats. Now that
- 6:32Speaker 3: he's done doing that for B.A. on the Turner broadcast,
- 6:36Speaker 3: Dom Cotronio also. I saw a reaction shot of the
- 6:39Speaker 3: boys in the booth when Sal Freelick hit the homer,
- 6:43Speaker 3: and Dom Cotronio is living large. You've got to watch that.
- 6:47Speaker 2: Is that on Twitter somewhere?
- 6:48Speaker 3: Yeah, Dom was going nuts. Couldn't see Ken Somerfeld, but
- 6:51Speaker 3: I'm sure he was as well. But it was fantastic
- 6:53Speaker 3: to watch that.
- 6:53Speaker 2: Of course, Samuel. Yeah, of course, of course.
- 6:55Speaker 3: It's pretty cool. I would say also, current electric superhero candidates,
- 7:00Speaker 3: the folks who You know, our bartenders and servers at
- 7:03Speaker 3: all the watch parties all over town.
- 7:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 7:05Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness. Tip your bartenders.
- 7:07Speaker 2: My goodness.
- 7:08Speaker 6: They've done a great job kind of hosting this, like,
- 7:12Speaker 6: countywide party. I mean, statewide party.
- 7:14Speaker 3: Statewide party.
- 7:15Speaker 2: I mean, it's been just like everybody was partying in
- 7:17Speaker 2: a game, too.
- 7:18Speaker 3: Drew, you knew you.
- 7:19Speaker 6: Were out and experiencing it. Everyone from out of town
- 7:22Speaker 6: with the World Series and just loving it.
- 7:25Speaker 2: And, yes, I mean. They've been the backbone. The service
- 7:27Speaker 2: industry people, we love that. Absolutely.
- 7:30Speaker 3: Armets for the working men.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Blue collar. Stadium workers as well. They had a tough job.
- 7:36Speaker 2: My goodness. Ticket office.
- 7:38Speaker 6: Dealing with people begging and upset and trying to find
- 7:42Speaker 6: any way to get World Series tickets. These people have
- 7:44Speaker 6: been working as hard as any. So I love that.
- 7:48Speaker 6: And all the Brewers fans heading down to Tampa. Farmer
- 7:51Speaker 6: Fred chiming in. And Farmer Fred is one of our
- 7:53Speaker 6: favorite old regulars. Good to see him. Once I remember
- 7:57Speaker 6: seeing him, he's back. I think he's down in Florida. Armin,
- 8:00Speaker 6: if Hunter needs a designated drinker when the Brewers close it,
- 8:02Speaker 6: I'll give him my number. I'll be sitting with my
- 8:03Speaker 6: son in Florida watching game four. Sitting in section 209
- 8:06Speaker 6: with him for game five. Drew, how far this team
- 8:09Speaker 6: has come since Scrap Iron's teams losing with two base
- 8:11Speaker 6: runners standing on second base.
- 8:13Speaker 2: Brewed in five. Give Woody an inning for the win.
- 8:16Speaker 3: Farmer Fred.
- 8:18Speaker 2: I don't remember that specific game, but maybe you do, Drew.
- 8:20Speaker 2: I mean, yes. How far they've come. I think that's
- 8:22Speaker 2: what you reflected on.
- 8:23Speaker 3: This last couple weeks. There were a few teams. There
- 8:25Speaker 3: were a few times when Tom Hardecourt's line is the Brewers,
- 8:29Speaker 3: they just need a second base coach. Because they had
- 8:33Speaker 3: some issues.
- 8:33Speaker 2: Back in the day. And he's been a guest columnist.
- 8:36Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 8:36Speaker 2: Which is kind of cool.
- 8:37Speaker 3: Yeah, Tom Hardecourt. It was cool to see him. So, yeah.
- 8:40Speaker 3: Anybody else you want to nominate for our Hero of
- 8:42Speaker 3: the Day? I got one more for you. Xavier McKinney.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Yeah, for saying it.
- 8:46Speaker 3: For speaking his mind.
- 8:48Speaker 2: We've got that. If you want to hear it somewhere,
- 8:50Speaker 2: I've got a couple cuts of that somewhere.
- 8:52Speaker 3: Let's listen to it.
- 8:53Speaker 2: Yeah, I can pull it up. Just give me a second.
- 8:55Speaker 3: Again, the opposite of the hero of the day would
- 8:57Speaker 3: be the referees yesterday and the referees in general. We've
- 9:01Speaker 3: been talking about it all day. We've been talking about
- 9:02Speaker 3: it for weeks. It's becoming a crisis in the National
- 9:05Speaker 3: Football League. But Xavier McKinney, the fact that he stepped
- 9:09Speaker 3: there knowing he's going to get fined and caped up
- 9:11Speaker 3: for his team. Again, the whole thing with Matt LaFleur,
- 9:15Speaker 3: there are people who are mad that Matt LaFleur isn't
- 9:17Speaker 3: being more, take the fine and just vent and speak
- 9:20Speaker 3: your mind about we're getting screwed on these calls. The
- 9:21Speaker 3: refs have to be better. We put everything into this game,
- 9:23Speaker 3: our heart and soul. Yeah, they want to validate their feelings.
- 9:25Speaker 3: So he's trying to take the high road and I
- 9:27Speaker 3: get it.
- 9:28Speaker 2: And save money.
- 9:28Speaker 3: But it's not, here's the thing to me. It's not
- 9:33Speaker 3: just like, oh, if he bitches about the refs, will
- 9:35Speaker 3: it get better or worse? It can't get much worse
- 9:38Speaker 3: than the Packers have faced.
- 9:39Speaker 2: That's true.
- 9:39Speaker 3: Can it get better? Maybe not. It's going to get
- 9:42Speaker 3: you fined, and the league doesn't like it. But who cares?
- 9:46Speaker 3: I just think in the locker room, if you go
- 9:48Speaker 3: nuts in the locker room, you don't want to create
- 9:50Speaker 3: a culture where your players blame the refs for everything.
- 9:52Speaker 2: And find excuses.
- 9:54Speaker 3: Yeah, find excuses and stuff. And I get that. But
- 9:56Speaker 3: at the same time, if you send the message to
- 9:58Speaker 3: the team that you got their back, when the chips
- 10:02Speaker 3: are down, maybe they'll have your back. That's a good point.
- 10:04Speaker 3: Maybe they'll rise up. So I think him venting would
- 10:08Speaker 3: have been a way to send a message to the team.
- 10:12Speaker 3: And they do that. And with his criticism or lack thereof,
- 10:16Speaker 3: he tacitly backed.
- 10:19Speaker 3: Trey smack yesterday in the post game, you know, tough day,
- 10:22Speaker 3: but when these are kicker, you know, but I think
- 10:26Speaker 3: he missed a chance there. And maybe he doesn't need to,
- 10:30Speaker 3: maybe the locker rooms, the Packers. One thing, the Packers are,
- 10:33Speaker 3: they are playing hard. I don't see a lot of
- 10:35Speaker 3: people dogging anything. Now that Rashawn Gary's taken his talents
- 10:38Speaker 3: to Dallas.
- 10:38Speaker 2: I think the effort was good yesterday.
- 10:40Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 10:41Speaker 6: You just got to make high school kicks and stuff
- 10:44Speaker 6: like that. And, and hold on to hold on to catches,
- 10:46Speaker 6: but the effort's been good. Maybe he can galvanize the
- 10:50Speaker 6: guys by sticking up for them a little bit. But
- 10:52Speaker 6: there's plenty of chances to do it if he decides to.
- 10:55Speaker 6: There's no shortage of media opportunities for him.
- 10:58Speaker 2: And Drew, I don't know.
- 11:00Speaker 6: I don't know that it would make a difference other
- 11:01Speaker 6: than validating the feelings of fans that will say, yeah,
- 11:05Speaker 6: say what I'm feeling, which in reality means nothing, but
- 11:11Speaker 6: it'll make his wallet lighter. I don't think that's something
- 11:13Speaker 6: he's excited about. Now, you could sit there and say, well,
- 11:15Speaker 6: what's the big deal? He probably makes a lot of money. Well, Vrabel,
- 11:18Speaker 6: as Billy points out, was fined a quarter million.
- 11:20Speaker 4: True.
- 11:21Speaker 2: That's a chunk for anybody. I don't care who you are.
- 11:23Speaker 6: Yeah, but Xavier McKinney was the one to talk about it.
- 11:26Speaker 6: You want to listen to a couple minutes of that?
- 11:28Speaker 3: Yeah, let's listen. Let's hear what he had to say. Xavier,
- 11:32Speaker 3: as a leader on this team, what do you say
- 11:34Speaker 3: after missed opportunities seem to be the story of the day.
- 11:37Speaker 5: In all three phases? What do I say?
- 11:40Speaker 3: I say it happens.
- 11:46Speaker 5: Sometimes... That's just how the dice roll. I think we
- 11:51Speaker 5: had guys in position to make some plays, but didn't
- 11:54Speaker 5: come down with them. And then just in different phases,
- 11:59Speaker 5: we had guys make plays that had potential to make
- 12:02Speaker 5: plays that didn't make the plays.
- 12:04Speaker 6: It happens.
- 12:05Speaker 3: It's a part of the game.
- 12:06Speaker 5: So I just say that keep working, and that's what
- 12:09Speaker 5: we're going to continue to do. and when those opportunities
- 12:12Speaker 5: present themselves again, we'll make the play.
- 12:14Speaker 3: Last week after a win, we were talking about roughing
- 12:16Speaker 3: the passer calls. This week after a loss, you guys
- 12:19Speaker 3: might be talking about it.
- 12:21Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, what I say, I'm not a big
- 12:26Speaker 5: fan of it. I don't know how the NFL is
- 12:28Speaker 5: going to treat it, but I'm not a big fan
- 12:31Speaker 5: of the refs right now. I don't think it's great officiating,
- 12:34Speaker 5: if I'm being completely honest. I think it's a lot
- 12:37Speaker 5: of the times. I think there are drives where You know,
- 12:41Speaker 5: they make calls that don't even make any sense. For instance,
- 12:46Speaker 5: we had a call. I think it was on– I
- 12:49Speaker 5: forgot who it was on, but the runner was still running,
- 12:53Speaker 5: and we didn't hear a whistle. We tried to get
- 12:56Speaker 5: him down, and then their player hit the ref and
- 12:59Speaker 5: he falls. He gets mad on the ground, and he
- 13:02Speaker 5: just throws the flag. He don't even know who hit him.
- 13:04Speaker 5: So it's just like– it just be– that's going on, calls.
- 13:09Speaker 5: And I can't really tell you because sometimes we're not
- 13:13Speaker 5: seeing the same calls for our quarterback. We're not seeing
- 13:16Speaker 5: the same calls for our offensive guy. So I just
- 13:19Speaker 5: don't really understand. It really don't matter if it's home
- 13:21Speaker 5: or away. It's kind of been consistent throughout the year. So,
- 13:24Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, like I said, it's not to make
- 13:28Speaker 5: it as an excuse, but I just say it got
- 13:31Speaker 5: to go both ways, man. That's all I got.
- 13:34Speaker 2: Well, it's basically a therapeutic.
- 13:35Speaker 3: Xavier McKinney, caping up.
- 13:37Speaker 6: Caping up and I think reflecting the feelings of a
- 13:39Speaker 6: lot of fans and observers. But that's all it is.
- 13:44Speaker 6: I think that's the problem with this is what else
- 13:46Speaker 6: can you really do? Get madder and make something happen.
- 13:51Speaker 6: It's not really necessarily productive. It might work, just like
- 13:55Speaker 6: full-time refs might work, but there's no evidence that it would.
- 13:58Speaker 2: There's no logic that it would. Matt LaFleur can throw
- 14:03Speaker 2: things at the podium. Will that change it? I don't know.
- 14:08Speaker 3: I'm just wondering about the psychology of it.
- 14:09Speaker 6: The psychology is people want their feelings validated, and we're
- 14:12Speaker 6: all mad watching it, and we feel justice to be served.
- 14:17Speaker 6: But short of getting Goodell with the refs himself... to say,
- 14:21Speaker 6: what is this nonsense? And maybe they're doing that today.
- 14:24Speaker 6: Maybe they're getting reprimanded by the league. Maybe there is
- 14:27Speaker 6: some of that closed doors in their assignment, you know,
- 14:30Speaker 6: grading and things like that. If there is, it would
- 14:32Speaker 6: behoove the NFL marketing-wise to show that to people. Hey, look,
- 14:36Speaker 6: we hold these guys accountable. I mean, that's what you
- 14:38Speaker 6: keep hearing from fans, right? I don't know what else
- 14:41Speaker 6: you can do, unfortunately. That's why I think Matt LaFleur's
- 14:44Speaker 6: approach is, It's like, there's nothing I can do except
- 14:47Speaker 6: control what we can control. We're just trying to follow
- 14:49Speaker 6: the rules and play the best we can and adjust
- 14:52Speaker 6: to what's happening. You know, if you get too preoccupied,
- 14:56Speaker 6: I don't know what's really productive. It's like booing. It
- 14:59Speaker 6: makes you feel good in the moment. It's a reaction,
- 15:01Speaker 6: an emotional response. It's like the ref that threw the
- 15:04Speaker 6: flag from his butt. It was an emotional response, right?
- 15:08Speaker 6: It didn't make sense, but, you know, nothing does right
- 15:10Speaker 6: now for the way this team's being officiated.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Spinning through the... The NicoletLaw.com talk and text line. Wildcat Mark,
- 15:20Speaker 3: proud of Tucson, Arizona, said, Who's not hot as the
- 15:24Speaker 3: Packers kicker? I don't even want to use his name.
- 15:27Speaker 3: It makes me cry when I say it.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Yeah, he gets a kick in the balls. There's no
- 15:31Speaker 2: pun intended there.
- 15:32Speaker 3: Trace Mack.
- 15:33Speaker 2: I think quite literally he would be, yeah, he would
- 15:37Speaker 2: be the, unfortunately, the kick in the balls.
- 15:40Speaker 3: That's an awful, awful call.
- 15:45Speaker 2: I believe in being patient with guys. I'm all for it.
- 15:47Speaker 6: And sometimes I think the Packers haven't been enough in
- 15:50Speaker 6: the past with kickers because the threshold is increasing. When
- 15:54Speaker 6: you look at Mason Crosby's first four years, his percentage
- 15:57Speaker 6: was in the 70s. But you can't miss those kicks, Drew.
- 16:03Speaker 3: Can't.
- 16:03Speaker 6: Those are high school kicks. He's made a lot of
- 16:06Speaker 6: tough kicks. He started off hot this year for the Packers.
- 16:09Speaker 6: Made a lot of tough kicks. He's made a lot
- 16:11Speaker 6: of 50-plus yarders. He made as long as one yesterday.
- 16:14Speaker 3: The scouting report on him was that he loses concentration
- 16:18Speaker 3: on shorter kicks.
- 16:19Speaker 2: Because they're too easy.
- 16:19Speaker 3: And that he might struggle from the hash, like an
- 16:22Speaker 3: over-correct and miss balls from the hash.
- 16:25Speaker 2: Kind of what you saw.
- 16:26Speaker 3: Kind of what you're seeing. But you never, ever expect
- 16:28Speaker 3: an NFL kicker to miss a 25-yarder. No, especially inside.
- 16:33Speaker 3: And now Mason Crosby missed, what, four? four field goals
- 16:37Speaker 3: and an extra point maybe in Detroit once, that nightmare
- 16:40Speaker 3: game for him. Then the Packers stuck with him, and
- 16:43Speaker 3: the next year he was 18 for 18.
- 16:45Speaker 2: Sure, up and down, but he had equity built up.
- 16:47Speaker 3: He did.
- 16:48Speaker 6: That's kind of the tough thing. Early in his career, though,
- 16:50Speaker 6: he missed a lot of kicks. We say a lot
- 16:52Speaker 6: based on the threshold of what we expect now, which
- 16:55Speaker 6: is much higher. I mean, we have a higher expectation
- 16:58Speaker 6: for kickers in terms of length, power, and consistency.
- 17:02Speaker 2: That's just the way it is.
- 17:03Speaker 6: If you look at anders carlson has the best field
- 17:06Speaker 6: goal percentage in packer history for a full-time one-year kicker
- 17:09Speaker 6: true and we you know he was chucked aside well
- 17:13Speaker 6: now he missed a lot of extra points i get
- 17:14Speaker 6: that that was his issue but i mean that we
- 17:19Speaker 6: have a different approach and that's fine so there everyone
- 17:23Speaker 6: has been looking at brandon aubrey and for a while
- 17:25Speaker 6: you know once upon a time.
- 17:26Speaker 2: It was um It was Turner, right?
- 17:30Speaker 3: Yeah, Justin Turner.
- 17:31Speaker 6: And you look at those guys and you say, we
- 17:32Speaker 6: need a weapon like this where kickers became a weapon
- 17:35Speaker 6: where they can threaten from 60-plus. And that's all well
- 17:37Speaker 6: and good, and Smack's done a 59-year-old. He's threatened from deep.
- 17:42Speaker 6: Even Habersick did. The problem is short consistency. You can't
- 17:46Speaker 6: have those misses.
- 17:47Speaker 3: Well, and here's the other thing as you look at this,
- 17:49Speaker 3: as you look at Trace Mack. Yeah, if he makes
- 17:51Speaker 3: those kicks, ostensibly the Packers win the game. They lost
- 17:54Speaker 3: by three. He left six points on the board. Josh
- 17:57Speaker 3: Jacobs left six points on the board with a drop
- 18:00Speaker 3: on a touchdown pass.
- 18:01Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
- 18:02Speaker 2: He'd tell you that, too.
- 18:03Speaker 3: The drops by Melton and Golden short-circuited drives that could
- 18:06Speaker 3: have led to points. Evan Williams dropped one, if not two, interceptions.
- 18:13Speaker 2: Well, he caught one, dropped one, but one was called back.
- 18:16Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, the one called back was a C-set.
- 18:20Speaker 4: Oh, was that?
- 18:20Speaker 2: You're right.
- 18:20Speaker 3: You're right. But I'm talking Evan Williams dropped a pick,
- 18:23Speaker 3: and I think I think Goff could have thrown three picks.
- 18:25Speaker 3: He had one, but there were, I think, two others
- 18:28Speaker 3: that were dropped.
- 18:29Speaker 2: And he hasn't thrown one this year, right?
- 18:31Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 18:31Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that wild?
- 18:32Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 18:33Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, so he could have thrown three interceptions.
- 18:38Speaker 4: Yeah, that's for sure.
- 18:39Speaker 3: He lost a fumble. But, yeah, the Packers won the
- 18:42Speaker 3: turnover battle. So, yeah, everything matters. And, again, everything is–
- 18:47Speaker 3: if Josh Jacobs catches that touchdown pass, we're looking at
- 18:51Speaker 3: a different result of some kind. I did have the
- 18:53Speaker 3: feeling throughout, though, the Packers were never really in control
- 18:55Speaker 3: of that game, even when they led in the second half.
- 18:58Speaker 3: It was just a matter of who was going to
- 19:00Speaker 3: get the ball last and how it's going to fall out.
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- 19:52Speaker 3: of those armin when's your birthday august 7th drew all
- 19:56Speaker 3: right august 7th that's not a common birthday okay as
- 19:59Speaker 3: i was just looking at something about the most common
- 20:02Speaker 3: where does your birthday rank i love this August the 7th.
- 20:06Speaker 6: Everyone's counting back nine months now for one of the
- 20:08Speaker 6: most common birthdays.
- 20:10Speaker 3: Well, no, but the thing is, the most common birthdays,
- 20:13Speaker 3: the 10 most common birthdays in the United States, eight
- 20:17Speaker 3: of them are in the month of September.
- 20:19Speaker 2: September.
- 20:20Speaker 6: Ah.
- 20:21Speaker 5: Good.
- 20:21Speaker 3: Do the math on that.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Do the math.
- 20:22Speaker 6: Holidays.
- 20:23Speaker 2: Holidays, New Year's.
- 20:24Speaker 3: December.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Cold days.
- 20:25Speaker 2: Everyone's stuck inside.
- 20:26Speaker 3: The most common birthday, September 9th, number two. Here they
- 20:29Speaker 3: are in order. September 9th, September 20th, September 19th, September 14th,
- 20:34Speaker 3: July 7th, December 28th, and then September 12th, September 10th,
- 20:40Speaker 3: September 18th, and September 21st.
- 20:42Speaker 2: That's uncanny that it's that consistent. That is pretty wild.
- 20:45Speaker 3: Absolutely wild. Now, the rarest birthday, what would you say
- 20:49Speaker 3: the rarest birthday is? If you think about it, it's
- 20:52Speaker 3: the most obvious thing ever.
- 20:54Speaker 1: Really?
- 20:56Speaker 2: Oh, nine months after Christmas?
- 20:59Speaker 4: Well, no.
- 21:00Speaker 3: No, the rarest birthday.
- 21:00Speaker 2: The rarest, well, leap day.
- 21:02Speaker 3: February 29th. Leap day, okay, come on. That doesn't count, though.
- 21:06Speaker 3: Between 1989 and 2024, leap day occurred nine times.
- 21:09Speaker 2: Yeah, but does that really count?
- 21:11Speaker 3: Hard to be on. It's hard to be born on
- 21:12Speaker 3: that day.
- 21:12Speaker 6: Yeah, okay.
- 21:12Speaker 3: Because it doesn't happen, but, you know. The second rarest birthday,
- 21:16Speaker 3: Christmas Day.
- 21:18Speaker 6: Yeah, because nobody wants to go to the hospital, so
- 21:20Speaker 6: they don't induce for those days.
- 21:21Speaker 3: The third rarest day, January 1st.
- 21:24Speaker 2: Yeah, same deal.
- 21:25Speaker 3: The fourth rarest, December 24th. The fifth rarest birthday in
- 21:29Speaker 3: the United States. Fourth of July? July 4th. Fourth of July.
- 21:32Speaker 2: We thought Lennon would come then.
- 21:33Speaker 3: The 6th. January 2nd.
- 21:36Speaker 2: Okay.
- 21:37Speaker 3: Then December 26th. And the last three, nobody wants to
- 21:42Speaker 3: go to the delivery room when they can eat turkey.
- 21:45Speaker 3: November 26th, 25th, and 24th.
- 21:47Speaker 2: So we can control.
- 21:48Speaker 3: Are the bottom three rarest.
- 21:49Speaker 2: You can control some of these.
- 21:51Speaker 3: Isn't that funny how that works? I think you can.
- 21:53Speaker 3: So major holidays are among the least common birthdays. Now,
- 21:56Speaker 3: I have a friend's daughter who was born On St.
- 21:58Speaker 3: Patrick's Day, pretty good birthday.
- 22:00Speaker 2: Well, that's a good one.
- 22:01Speaker 3: And I have a nephew who was born on Halloween.
- 22:03Speaker 3: If you're in your 20s, it's a pretty good day
- 22:05Speaker 3: to have a birthday.
- 22:06Speaker 2: Trick or treat.
- 22:07Speaker 3: I was going to say.
- 22:07Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 22:08Speaker 3: That's pretty wild. So yeah, Christmas Day is one of
- 22:13Speaker 3: the rarest occurring birthdays. And December 28th is sixth most common.
- 22:18Speaker 3: So people do hold off to get through the holidays.
- 22:20Speaker 3: find that interesting i love that it's pretty interesting i
- 22:22Speaker 3: was just reading this uh a website a website called
- 22:25Speaker 3: visualcapitalist.com where they do data breakdowns and stuff i love
- 22:29Speaker 3: that stuff yep fantastic.
- 22:31Speaker 6: Hey madtown ryan wants everyone to mail letters to the
- 22:33Speaker 6: league at least he's giving me something actionable i don't think.
- 22:36Speaker 2: Oh there you go but he's here you go everybody
- 22:38Speaker 2: here's the.
- 22:38Speaker 3: Address well done madtown ryan all right when we come
- 22:41Speaker 3: back hunter bomb guard's going to join the party he's
- 22:44Speaker 3: live in st pete he's at the trop getting ready
- 22:46Speaker 3: for game three of the series and more immediately getting
- 22:49Speaker 3: ready for a two-hour pregame show that will begin right
- 22:51Speaker 3: after the huddle here. Hunter Baumgart is next. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 22:56Speaker 3: Moving forward almost two and a half hours away from
- 22:59Speaker 3: first pitch game three of the World Series between the
- 23:01Speaker 3: Brewers and the Rays with the Brewers holding a somewhat,
- 23:06Speaker 3: somewhat intimidating 2-0 lead. Joining us now live from the Trop,
- 23:10Speaker 3: it's our pal Hunter Baumgart. Hunter, welcome to the program.
- 23:12Speaker 3: Thanks for hanging out with us and thanks for giving
- 23:15Speaker 3: us a view from the field.
- 23:18Speaker 4: No problem. Hopefully you can hear me and see me okay.
- 23:21Speaker 4: We've got... But Brewers.
- 23:23Speaker 7: Fans are arriving in droves so far. The gates opened
- 23:26Speaker 7: just a bit ago. And yeah, you're starting to see
- 23:29Speaker 7: the Brewers fever that is taking over St.
- 23:30Speaker 2: Pete. Yeah, we do. And Hunter, we see it.
- 23:33Speaker 6: We see the top of the trop, the roof that's
- 23:37Speaker 6: white that apparently some Brewers I saw floating around the
- 23:40Speaker 6: internet had an issue with. But hey, this is, you know,
- 23:43Speaker 6: I feel like this time of the year, everyone's played
- 23:46Speaker 6: in every stadium. Most guys have, unless you're like a
- 23:48Speaker 6: rookie and you're kind of used to it. But maybe
- 23:51Speaker 6: they're just... keeping themselves loose, but I don't think it's
- 23:54Speaker 6: anything unusual for these guys at this time of the year.
- 23:58Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting. Jake Bowers just talked about we have
- 23:59Speaker 4: Kurt Hogan of the Journal Sentinel saying a quick hi here.
- 24:02Speaker 2: What's up, Kurt?
- 24:02Speaker 4: On the video stream.
- 24:04Speaker 1: Wow, what a moment.
- 24:05Speaker 4: This is it.
- 24:06Speaker 2: World Series.
- 24:06Speaker 1: Yeah, who knows?
- 24:08Speaker 4: Who knows who's going to drop by? We got everybody.
- 24:10Speaker 7: There's so much media down here right now all doing
- 24:13Speaker 7: their live.
- 24:14Speaker 4: Hits and whatnot, including us here.
- 24:15Speaker 7: So, yeah, Jake Bowers just said, though, that he played
- 24:18Speaker 7: in Tampa his first year in the big leagues, and
- 24:20Speaker 7: he said he never got used to it. The big
- 24:22Speaker 7: problem is... The baseball is the same color as the roof.
- 24:26Speaker 7: And it's the simple answer, but it's the truth. So
- 24:29Speaker 7: as long as you keep your eye on it, you're fine.
- 24:32Speaker 7: But if you lose it, then it becomes a problem.
- 24:34Speaker 7: So they worked extensively yesterday at making sure the guys
- 24:37Speaker 7: were as ready as they can be by shooting pop-ups.
- 24:40Speaker 4: In the air with the machine that they had. And
- 24:43Speaker 4: that really helped.
- 24:43Speaker 2: That was the old Metrodome deal too, right, Drew?
- 24:46Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit, yeah. Well, the thing is, Armin,
- 24:48Speaker 3: not that many brewers have probably played there because I
- 24:51Speaker 3: think the last time they played there, Wasn't it at
- 24:53Speaker 3: Steinbrenner Field when the trough was under repair?
- 24:55Speaker 2: That's a good point.
- 24:56Speaker 6: I forgot about that.
- 24:59Speaker 7: Yeah. 2023 was the last time the brewers were here
- 25:01Speaker 7: at Tropicana Field.
- 25:02Speaker 3: That's what I thought. So Billy mentioned it. You've been
- 25:05Speaker 3: there longer than Billy. You got there yesterday for the workouts.
- 25:08Speaker 3: Are you seeing a lot of Brewer Blue? Are you
- 25:10Speaker 3: seeing a lot of Cheezers? Wisconsin plates, as we like
- 25:12Speaker 3: to say.
- 25:12Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really cool.
- 25:16Speaker 7: The plane that I was on, broke into a Let's
- 25:19Speaker 7: Go Brewers chant after when the people were getting off
- 25:23Speaker 7: the plane. So you could already feel the fever there.
- 25:26Speaker 7: And then just walking around, absolutely, you see a lot
- 25:28Speaker 7: of hats, a lot of jerseys, a lot of shirts.
- 25:30Speaker 7: And just right now, the section I'm looking at right
- 25:33Speaker 7: now has a ton of I'm obviously on the Brewers'
- 25:36Speaker 7: side of the field, so that's a reason why. But
- 25:39Speaker 7: there are just a lot of people in Brewers' jerseys
- 25:41Speaker 7: coming in.
- 25:41Speaker 4: I mean, I got to think.
- 25:43Speaker 7: It's close to 50-50. We're just looking at what I'm
- 25:46Speaker 7: seeing right now coming in. Obviously, I'm on the Brewers' side. But,
- 25:50Speaker 7: you know, if not that, maybe a little less than that.
- 25:52Speaker 3: But I don't know.
- 25:53Speaker 7: It's going to be loud in here when the Brewers
- 25:54Speaker 7: do something good.
- 25:55Speaker 3: It is going to be. Hunter Baumgart joining us live
- 25:57Speaker 3: from site. He brought to us by Community Roofing, communityroofing.com.
- 26:00Speaker 3: All right, Hunter, it seems like the lineup is chalked.
- 26:03Speaker 3: Nothing's changed there. Are you getting any inklings? Was there
- 26:05Speaker 3: anything percolating pregame, any inkling on who might start game four,
- 26:10Speaker 3: or is it all hands on deck tonight? What are
- 26:11Speaker 3: you looking at?
- 26:14Speaker 7: Yeah, there was not very much of an answer there.
- 26:17Speaker 7: I mean, it's interesting because they're following the game, the
- 26:20Speaker 7: NLCS formula a little bit, right, where we saw Dustin
- 26:23Speaker 7: May in game two. And then the, you know, could
- 26:26Speaker 7: he pitch in maybe the bulk scenario possibly in game four?
- 26:30Speaker 4: That could definitely be a possibility.
- 26:32Speaker 7: Obviously, Brandon Woodruff is out there and could be a possibility.
- 26:35Speaker 7: And so I guess it probably depends a little bit
- 26:38Speaker 7: on what happens tonight. What the Brewers have done, you know,
- 26:41Speaker 7: Robert Gassler is able to throw five innings against the Dodgers.
- 26:43Speaker 7: So I don't think he's going to necessarily be, you know,
- 26:45Speaker 7: pulled after like Drowen was after five hitters. I think
- 26:48Speaker 7: it's just see how long he can go. He's proved
- 26:50Speaker 7: to be a guy that could do that. He's been
- 26:52Speaker 7: really good. Nine innings, a.
- 26:53Speaker 4: 1-0-0 ERA so far in the postseason.
- 26:56Speaker 7: His two starts on the road have been good. This
- 26:58Speaker 7: is the San Diego series. They went Dustin May in three,
- 27:00Speaker 7: Robert Gasser in four. They won game four. NLCS, they
- 27:04Speaker 7: wanted to go Gasser in game three. Obviously, they were
- 27:06Speaker 7: able to get five innings out of him there, able
- 27:08Speaker 7: to win that game. So I feel like this is
- 27:10Speaker 7: going to be a similar scenario where they try to
- 27:12Speaker 7: get as much as they can out of Robert Gasser.
- 27:15Speaker 7: And then where the chips fall after that defense may
- 27:17Speaker 7: be where he comes out.
- 27:19Speaker 3: Is my logic flawed, Hunter? I feel like Woodruff has
- 27:22Speaker 3: to either start a game here to get ready and just,
- 27:26Speaker 3: I don't know about an up-down, but let him go
- 27:27Speaker 3: 40 pitches, tops, wherever that may be. Or is the
- 27:31Speaker 3: best scenario for Brandon Woodruff that the Brewers are in
- 27:33Speaker 3: a clinching situation, they're up 10-1, and he gets the
- 27:36Speaker 3: last three outs for the Brewers and is on the
- 27:39Speaker 3: mound when the Brewers win the series?
- 27:42Speaker 7: I mean, that's the dream, right? That is the dream,
- 27:43Speaker 7: but you can't manufacture that. You can't necessarily hold him
- 27:46Speaker 7: for that.
- 27:47Speaker 4: Now, could he.
- 27:48Speaker 7: pitch you know obviously you can't come back in the
- 27:50Speaker 7: same game but say he I don't know in some
- 27:52Speaker 7: world you pitch an inning tonight right and then he's
- 27:56Speaker 7: available you know the next day probably so like it's
- 27:59Speaker 7: not like you know unless he pitches you know as
- 28:02Speaker 7: a high pitch count or goes more than a couple
- 28:04Speaker 7: innings I'd say he's probably not available for the next
- 28:06Speaker 7: day plus obviously you see how he in the world
- 28:08Speaker 7: he bounces back like there's a lot of factors there
- 28:10Speaker 7: if he were to come into one of these games
- 28:12Speaker 7: You would love to save him for that.
- 28:14Speaker 4: You know, he talked.
- 28:14Speaker 7: To reporters after game two and said, there were some
- 28:17Speaker 7: times where I thought I might come in. So they're like,
- 28:19Speaker 7: it's not out of the realm of.
- 28:20Speaker 4: Possibility if he comes in a close game.
- 28:22Speaker 7: I think they're going to rely more, especially with the
- 28:24Speaker 7: off day yesterday, rely more on those, you know, those guys.
- 28:28Speaker 4: That have gotten them there, right? Ashby, Uribe, McGill.
- 28:31Speaker 7: McGill didn't pitch in game two, so he's going to
- 28:32Speaker 7: be fresh coming in tonight. That's not where Woodruff will be,
- 28:35Speaker 7: but If he doesn't start a game here, whether it's
- 28:39Speaker 7: game four, if there's a game five, maybe that happens.
- 28:42Speaker 7: But otherwise, I think overall, you're probably going to see
- 28:47Speaker 7: Woodruff in a shorter capacity and maybe not save for
- 28:50Speaker 7: that specific time. It would be amazing, and the storybook
- 28:53Speaker 7: would be awesome. That would be the coolest part. If
- 28:56Speaker 7: that could happen, if he's on that mound and the
- 28:58Speaker 7: Brewers win their first ever World Series, there's nobody else
- 29:00Speaker 7: you'd want. But we'll see if that scenario obviously plays out.
- 29:03Speaker 2: It would be amazing, no question.
- 29:05Speaker 6: And I think a lot of it depends on how
- 29:07Speaker 6: everyone else does, how their scheduled plan goes. I mean,
- 29:09Speaker 6: if things go according to plan, you might not need him. But, hey,
- 29:12Speaker 6: if there's a scenario in which one of your stalwarts
- 29:15Speaker 6: is kind of faltering and you might say to yourself,
- 29:17Speaker 6: we need a live arm, we need someone we think
- 29:19Speaker 6: we can do it. And if he's pitching as well
- 29:21Speaker 6: as they think he did.
- 29:23Speaker 2: In the bullpen sessions or in the simulations, it.
- 29:26Speaker 6: Might be him. And who knows who could step up
- 29:28Speaker 6: and be an unexpected hero? I think about Andrew Vaughn.
- 29:31Speaker 6: We haven't seen him yet. Hunter, might there be an
- 29:32Speaker 6: Andrew Vaughn moment, a spot for him in Tampa?
- 29:36Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 29:37Speaker 7: You know, Sanchez just had his second at-bat of his postseason,
- 29:40Speaker 7: and I believe it was game one. So, yeah, these guys,
- 29:43Speaker 7: there can be the unlikely heroes. Like he said, Drew,
- 29:46Speaker 7: they're sticking with the same lineup again, third righty in
- 29:48Speaker 7: a row, third same lineup in a row.
- 29:50Speaker 4: Hey, it's worked these two games. Why not try it again?
- 29:53Speaker 7: But there's a reason then you have your bench, and
- 29:55Speaker 7: I've talked about it, countless times how strong I think
- 29:58Speaker 7: this position for the player group is for the Brewers
- 30:00Speaker 7: that they are so flexible there that they feel like,
- 30:03Speaker 7: you know, if there's a lefty out there, Andrew Vaughn is,
- 30:05Speaker 7: it could be a guy.
- 30:06Speaker 4: Now, are they going to pinch it? You know, for
- 30:08Speaker 4: Christian Yelich, we.
- 30:09Speaker 7: Saw that early in the game in game two and
- 30:11Speaker 7: that decision not to.
- 30:12Speaker 4: Go with Yelich there.
- 30:14Speaker 7: And Murphy talked a little bit about that actually today
- 30:16Speaker 7: and was asked about that. And he's like, it's just
- 30:18Speaker 7: so early in the game.
- 30:19Speaker 4: He's like, if you do that, then, then it sets
- 30:22Speaker 4: up some dominoes.
- 30:23Speaker 7: And then you kind of have to think about, okay,
- 30:25Speaker 7: the Rays now know that they have one less righty
- 30:27Speaker 7: on their bench. And obviously it's, Yellich has also been
- 30:29Speaker 7: hot in the postseason.
- 30:30Speaker 4: So there's that factor, too.
- 30:33Speaker 7: But if these scenarios come up, you're in a one-run game,
- 30:35Speaker 7: a close game, tie game, you've got a lefty up
- 30:37Speaker 7: there or a lefty on the mound, and you think
- 30:39Speaker 7: Van Plon could be the guy, absolutely. So it's tough
- 30:42Speaker 7: to fit him in just because you saw him sometimes
- 30:44Speaker 7: in that DH role, first base when Bowers was going
- 30:47Speaker 7: through the skin splints, but now Bowers is playing every day,
- 30:50Speaker 7: and obviously Yellich has been hot.
- 30:52Speaker 3: It is strange to me, Hunter, that the Brewers use
- 30:54Speaker 3: the bench so much during the year, and now they
- 30:57Speaker 3: really aren't. How much of that is because Mitchell and
- 31:00Speaker 3: Freelick and even Hamilton have been hitting left-handers and Murph's
- 31:03Speaker 3: been letting them have those at-bats that he might not
- 31:06Speaker 3: have even a month ago?
- 31:09Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good. Right, they're having the success against them.
- 31:12Speaker 7: I mean, when you think about the lefty, you know, Mitchell,
- 31:14Speaker 7: you know, and obviously Freelick with the lefty on lefty
- 31:17Speaker 7: home run, like they're just stepping up to the moment
- 31:19Speaker 7: no matter.
- 31:19Speaker 4: Who's on the mound.
- 31:20Speaker 7: So it's, hey, as the question goes, you know, how
- 31:24Speaker 7: do you get better against left-handed hitters, left-handed pitchers if
- 31:26Speaker 7: you're a left-handed hitter?
- 31:27Speaker 4: All you hit against stuff, right?
- 31:28Speaker 7: You get the experience and it seems Murphy's letting that
- 31:31Speaker 7: go a little more. I think, I feel like he
- 31:32Speaker 7: does a little more than maybe other managers would in those.
- 31:35Speaker 4: Scenarios, just because. He goes with feel. I mean, you
- 31:38Speaker 4: think about what Aaron Ashby's doing.
- 31:40Speaker 7: He stays out there in the ninth. I got to
- 31:42Speaker 7: think there are some people saying, I think we should
- 31:44Speaker 7: go to McGill here. So that's the way he manages, though,
- 31:47Speaker 7: and you can't fault him for it because the guy's
- 31:49Speaker 7: in the World.
- 31:49Speaker 4: Series with a 2-0 lead.
- 31:50Speaker 2: No, and what he's done has worked.
- 31:53Speaker 6: And you think about that, but now you have Freddie
- 31:56Speaker 6: on the mound tonight who's been great for the Rays,
- 31:58Speaker 6: totally turned his season around after his struggles. But he
- 32:01Speaker 6: is a righty, and the Brewers do a good job
- 32:03Speaker 6: working pitchers, and they had their pocket of lefties in
- 32:05Speaker 6: there as well. So you kind of hope that that
- 32:07Speaker 6: might be a good matchup for the Brewers with all
- 32:10Speaker 6: those lefties if they continue that patience and try and
- 32:12Speaker 6: get to that middle relief of the race.
- 32:15Speaker 7: I think that's a great word, Armand. Patience tonight against
- 32:17Speaker 7: Freddy Peralta, right? Because you know you can get Freddy's
- 32:20Speaker 7: pitch count up early. We all saw it as a.
- 32:22Speaker 4: Member of the Brewers.
- 32:23Speaker 7: And the Brewers' offense is better than anybody at getting
- 32:26Speaker 7: that pitch count up. They saw over 180 pitches in
- 32:29Speaker 7: Game 2. And so I think that's going to be...
- 32:32Speaker 7: significant as the Brewers fans here.
- 32:34Speaker 4: Let me just give you a little. The Brewers pitchers
- 32:35Speaker 4: are warming.
- 32:36Speaker 1: Up over there.
- 32:36Speaker 2: The Brewers contingent, Hunter.
- 32:38Speaker 5: Wow.
- 32:42Speaker 7: So we already got let's go brewers chance going. So, yeah,
- 32:46Speaker 7: they're already starting to come out loud and proud here. But, yeah,
- 32:49Speaker 7: the patience, the patience is is the key tonight against
- 32:53Speaker 7: Freddie Peralta.
- 32:54Speaker 4: You know that he's a guy you can make work.
- 32:56Speaker 7: And so that's that's what they that's that's exactly what
- 32:59Speaker 7: they should do.
- 33:00Speaker 4: Keep doing what they do on all postseason. Have good
- 33:02Speaker 4: at bats. Work deep into account. And that's how you
- 33:05Speaker 4: can get to Freddie.
- 33:06Speaker 3: On the way out here, Hunter and Hunter is getting
- 33:08Speaker 3: ready for a two hour pregame show that will follow
- 33:10Speaker 3: this show. Right here tonight, Milwaukee baseball tonight, whatever we
- 33:15Speaker 3: want to call it, the baseball pregame show will fire
- 33:17Speaker 3: up right when the huddle is done. What's the messaging
- 33:19Speaker 3: like from the Tampa side of things? What did Kevin
- 33:22Speaker 3: Cash have to say? The Rays were in those games.
- 33:24Speaker 3: They made their own mistakes. They got to feel like
- 33:26Speaker 3: they were right there on the cusp of beating the Brewers.
- 33:28Speaker 3: So I don't know if confidence is an issue for
- 33:30Speaker 3: them at this juncture, but they're facing, let's call it
- 33:33Speaker 3: what it is, an elimination game. You don't come back
- 33:35Speaker 3: from 3-0 down against this Brewers team. So tonight is everything.
- 33:39Speaker 3: Is it all on Freddie? Is the offense ready? Do
- 33:42Speaker 3: they feel like there's something ready to be unlocked? Are
- 33:44Speaker 3: they ready to eliminate their base running mistakes and their
- 33:46Speaker 3: defensive miscues? What is the messaging coming from the other side?
- 33:52Speaker 7: I feel like they feel that they're not playing their
- 33:55Speaker 7: style of baseball, right? Or they're playing their style, but
- 33:57Speaker 7: they're not doing it as well as they could, right?
- 33:59Speaker 7: You see some of the defensive miscues, and we've seen
- 34:02Speaker 7: that from the Brewers a little bit as well, but
- 34:03Speaker 7: they've overcame, they've kind of made.
- 34:04Speaker 4: Up for that. But the Rays just are making more
- 34:07Speaker 4: mistakes than I think they're used to, right?
- 34:09Speaker 7: Game one, you saw the stolen base, the steal of
- 34:12Speaker 7: third base, and they got thrown out, like maybe not
- 34:14Speaker 7: the time to run there, scoring position with two outs.
- 34:17Speaker 7: You also have other opportunities. that you've missed the drop
- 34:20Speaker 7: ball in left field. These are things that the Rays
- 34:22Speaker 7: have been good. They've been good at the little things. Again,
- 34:24Speaker 7: like the Brewers, they've been good at the little things,
- 34:27Speaker 7: and that just has not necessarily showed up in the
- 34:29Speaker 7: last two games. But they've also had the tying run
- 34:31Speaker 7: at third in the ninth.
- 34:33Speaker 4: Inning both games.
- 34:34Speaker 7: So like you said, they've been in it five, four, three,
- 34:37Speaker 7: two games, all one-run games in the first two games
- 34:41Speaker 7: of this series.
- 34:42Speaker 4: So they're right there. So I think they're excited to
- 34:44Speaker 4: come back home.
- 34:45Speaker 7: But like you said, confidence is not an issue.
- 34:49Speaker 4: But Ronda's not.
- 34:50Speaker 7: In the starting lineup, which is an interesting note. And
- 34:53Speaker 7: I wonder, you know, if Rick Gasser's out there, maybe
- 34:55Speaker 7: when Gasser leaves, he'll be in. Maybe that would, I
- 34:57Speaker 7: would think so. But so just something to watch there.
- 35:01Speaker 7: I just think, like you said, it feels like an
- 35:03Speaker 7: elimination game. You know, one team has ever come back
- 35:06Speaker 7: from 3-0. So obviously that is a hard thing to do.
- 35:10Speaker 7: And the Brewers have all the momentum. They're going to
- 35:12Speaker 7: have a lot of fans here. Brewers have quite the
- 35:15Speaker 7: opportunity this evening here to really just kind of squash
- 35:18Speaker 7: this thing.
- 35:19Speaker 4: Against their former pitchers.
- 35:20Speaker 2: That's for sure.
- 35:21Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 35:22Speaker 3: The, um, an interesting stat shared by Adam McKelvey for
- 35:26Speaker 3: people who say this is tough on their blood pressure
- 35:28Speaker 3: and their heart, perhaps the Brewers have played 90 post
- 35:31Speaker 3: season innings so far. And at the end of 66
- 35:34Speaker 3: of them, the game was within a run either way,
- 35:37Speaker 3: either tied or, you know, one run separate in 66
- 35:41Speaker 3: of the 90 innings. I, I've been talking to people
- 35:45Speaker 3: like just friends and so, and they're like, I'm going
- 35:48Speaker 3: to sleep so good this winter.
- 35:49Speaker 4: I mean, this month has just been amazing.
- 35:53Speaker 7: It's awesome, but it's just the emotions of these games.
- 35:58Speaker 2: I agree.
- 35:58Speaker 7: You feel like you just ran a marathon after these
- 36:01Speaker 7: games because you're so close and there's so many moments.
- 36:05Speaker 2: It's a lot, and if you put a lot of emotion,
- 36:07Speaker 2: it's fun. We know that.
- 36:08Speaker 6: It doesn't mean we're not tired, though, but it's fun.
- 36:10Speaker 6: But if you put a lot of emotional energy into
- 36:12Speaker 6: these games, the playoffs, like a lot of us do,
- 36:15Speaker 6: It is a lot, you know what I mean?
- 36:20Speaker 2: But it's fun.
- 36:21Speaker 4: Not complaining, though.
- 36:22Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 36:22Speaker 3: Not complaining. Hunter, thanks for joining us. Get ready for
- 36:25Speaker 3: your show coming up in just a few minutes.
- 36:27Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
- 36:29Speaker 7: We're going to hear from a bunch of players. We're
- 36:31Speaker 7: going to hear from Robert Gasser. We're going to hear
- 36:33Speaker 7: from Freddy Peralta as well, who met the media, had
- 36:35Speaker 7: some interesting things to say and good things to say
- 36:37Speaker 7: about the Brewers and more. So we'll hear that coming up.
- 36:39Speaker 7: Aaron Ashby, Bryce Ferrang, you're going to hear from. You're
- 36:41Speaker 7: going to hear from Jake Bowers. You're going to hear
- 36:43Speaker 7: from Pat Murphy. All coming up in the next two
- 36:45Speaker 7: hours in the special two-hour edition of the Baseball Pre-Game
- 36:47Speaker 7: Show here from Tampa.
- 36:48Speaker 3: All right, Hunter, enjoy yourself. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
- 36:52Speaker 4: Thanks, guys.
- 36:53Speaker 3: And keep an eye out for Billy Schmidt, too. He's
- 36:55Speaker 3: going to be right there in the middle of all
- 36:56Speaker 3: those fans, I'm sure, when they're celebrating at the end.
- 36:59Speaker 3: Billy will be back with us tomorrow. Hunter's taking over
- 37:00Speaker 3: the airwaves beginning at 5 o'clock. Hunter, of course, brought
- 37:05Speaker 3: to us by Community Roofing, communityroofing.com, the website. We're going
- 37:08Speaker 3: to be back to close up shop and look ahead
- 37:10Speaker 3: to this evening and to what lies ahead, what could
- 37:13Speaker 3: be another glorious week. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 37:18Speaker 3: Armin bringing us back, as he often does, for those
- 37:21Speaker 3: of you not on the stream who can hear the music,
- 37:23Speaker 3: you got to listen to Fox Sports Radio 920 or
- 37:26Speaker 3: 1070 to hear the bump music.
- 37:29Speaker 6: You got to.
- 37:30Speaker 3: But you're bringing us back with Glory Days. Is that
- 37:32Speaker 3: the Brewers' version of We Are Family? It seems to
- 37:35Speaker 3: have become... It's their victory song, but it is not
- 37:37Speaker 3: indeed like a rallying cry.
- 37:39Speaker 6: So the Brewers have always had victory songs, I think,
- 37:42Speaker 6: mostly at the stadium. They've had the same song, but
- 37:45Speaker 6: I think they've won so much... It's becoming a little
- 37:48Speaker 6: more ubiquitous. I like that word drew. Is this kind
- 37:51Speaker 6: of becoming our, our thing? Like I I've long thought
- 37:55Speaker 6: the brewers have lacked that like a, you know, a
- 37:59Speaker 6: song that everyone sings in the park, kind of our tradition,
- 38:02Speaker 6: not necessarily go Cubs go like a unique song, but
- 38:04Speaker 6: something where, where it's our thing, where, you know, besides
- 38:07Speaker 6: roll out the barrel and it's kind of been picking
- 38:11Speaker 6: up everyone's, you know, glory days has become the theme.
- 38:14Speaker 6: I guess that's what I'm looking for. Is this becoming
- 38:15Speaker 6: our theme? And do we need that? And would there
- 38:18Speaker 6: be a better pick? I don't think there would be.
- 38:19Speaker 6: To have a Bruce song, everyone singing at the same
- 38:23Speaker 6: time in the crowd.
- 38:24Speaker 3: If the Brewers win, maybe Bruce can come and perform
- 38:26Speaker 3: this for Pat Murphy as a favor for all the
- 38:28Speaker 3: publicity he's been giving him.
- 38:29Speaker 6: I just feel like a lot of these teams and
- 38:31Speaker 6: franchises that have a tradition like that where everyone's singing together,
- 38:35Speaker 6: that would be pretty nice if that was this song.
- 38:38Speaker 2: You see it a lot in college.
- 38:40Speaker 6: Somebody told me everyone's picking up like a tradition now.
- 38:43Speaker 6: Like we're some college fan base. The whole stadium sings
- 38:46Speaker 6: like bright side or whatever. Mr.
- 38:49Speaker 3: Bright side. Yeah. Where do you come down as a
- 38:52Speaker 3: Marquette alum and a golden Eagle slash warriors loyalist that
- 38:56Speaker 3: the brewers have appropriated a jump around for late innings
- 39:00Speaker 3: in between innings?
- 39:01Speaker 2: Oh, that's I get it.
- 39:02Speaker 6: I mean, this is Wisconsin and that's become synonymous with
- 39:05Speaker 6: the state.
- 39:06Speaker 2: So I have no problem with it. I mean, yeah.
- 39:09Speaker 2: Are you asking me if I will jump around?
- 39:12Speaker 3: Yes.
- 39:12Speaker 2: I'll do it for the Brewers. How about that?
- 39:14Speaker 3: You will.
- 39:15Speaker 2: I'll do it for the Brewers.
- 39:17Speaker 6: Of course, how many people jumping at Camp Randall are
- 39:19Speaker 6: actually jumping, except besides the students?
- 39:21Speaker 3: I think a lot. People were jumping at AmFam the
- 39:26Speaker 3: other night.
- 39:27Speaker 2: They were jumping at AmFam, that's for sure. We're jumping
- 39:29Speaker 2: for this team.
- 39:30Speaker 6: I'm curious to know what it's going to be like
- 39:31Speaker 6: tonight at AmFam for the watch party.
- 39:34Speaker 2: This is going to be a packed watch party, and
- 39:35Speaker 2: I'll be there. I'll be there.
- 39:36Speaker 3: Here's the thing. Oh, you'll be there, okay.
- 39:37Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going tonight and tomorrow.
- 39:38Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. Tonight's going to feel like the
- 39:40Speaker 3: World Series because it's the first game at home for
- 39:43Speaker 3: the Rays, and they're going to do the full-on introduce
- 39:45Speaker 3: everybody thing. It was scaled back between game one and
- 39:48Speaker 3: game two.
- 39:49Speaker 6: Right?
- 39:50Speaker 3: The pregame production. They didn't have Rinaldi.
- 39:52Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 39:53Speaker 3: Did you see the Rinaldi video? Was that because I
- 39:55Speaker 3: know Fox had a football game go overtime or something?
- 39:57Speaker 6: No, I watched the whole thing because I tried to
- 39:59Speaker 6: stream it on the app so that way I could
- 40:01Speaker 6: watch the whole thing.
- 40:01Speaker 2: You had the whole Rinaldi masterpiece.
- 40:04Speaker 3: Yeah, so Friday night. I was wondering about that. But yeah,
- 40:07Speaker 3: was it Friday for game one?
- 40:08Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 40:09Speaker 2: And I knew one person that was involved in the crew.
- 40:12Speaker 2: The cards? They flip all the cards over?
- 40:14Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 40:15Speaker 2: Had to go to rehearsals and stuff like that. I
- 40:16Speaker 2: don't know how she got involved in that.
- 40:18Speaker 3: I saw a couple of people that I know were
- 40:20Speaker 3: in that as well. But the atmosphere was fantastic. I'm
- 40:23Speaker 3: sure it's going to be rocking at the Trop. But
- 40:25Speaker 3: the fact that it could be half Brewers fans.
- 40:28Speaker 2: It's going to be remarkable.
- 40:30Speaker 3: It will be remarkable.
- 40:32Speaker 6: And you hope that that makes a big difference because
- 40:34Speaker 6: wouldn't that be great?
- 40:36Speaker 3: And the Dodgers fans. How did game three go for
- 40:40Speaker 3: the Dodgers? In the NLCS. Game four, they were up
- 40:43Speaker 3: early and lost. They blew a four-run lead, which the
- 40:45Speaker 3: Rays just did on Saturday night.
- 40:47Speaker 2: Correct.
- 40:48Speaker 3: But game three, it had to be tempered a little bit,
- 40:51Speaker 3: because when you get your first game of a series
- 40:54Speaker 3: at home, you're fired up, but you're down 2-0. You're
- 40:56Speaker 3: in a hole.
- 40:57Speaker 2: Right, so there's that natural kind of woefulness.
- 40:58Speaker 6: It's like starting down three runs. Yeah, there's a natural woefulness.
- 41:02Speaker 6: For the excitement, and then you get the excitement, and
- 41:04Speaker 6: you feel like you're already behind the eight ball. I'm
- 41:06Speaker 6: sure the Rays fans are charged up, but it's not
- 41:08Speaker 6: what it would be if they were up.
- 41:09Speaker 3: 2-0 at this point.
- 41:10Speaker 2: Clearly.
- 41:11Speaker 3: So the fan psychology will be fascinating tonight. And we've
- 41:16Speaker 3: got Billy there as boots on the ground. We've got
- 41:18Speaker 3: Hunter Baumgart there. Hunter is about to take over the
- 41:20Speaker 3: airwaves and interwebs with a two-hour pregame show, chock full
- 41:23Speaker 3: of information and a lot of interviews that he's conducted.
- 41:29Speaker 3: It's going to be spectacular. I mean, it's, and here
- 41:32Speaker 3: we are the first time in our lives, Armin, with baseball,
- 41:35Speaker 3: a going concern locally and, In the dying days of October.
- 41:40Speaker 2: I mean, this is almost November, so wow.
- 41:43Speaker 3: It's going to make the winter a lot shorter around here,
- 41:45Speaker 3: especially if the Brewers win. And then we can start
- 41:47Speaker 3: thinking about, if they win tonight, we can start thinking
- 41:49Speaker 3: about parades.
- 41:51Speaker 2: Let's hope.
- 41:51Speaker 3: Potential roots.
- 41:52Speaker 2: One day at a time, and let's hope.
- 41:54Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we'll see. It's all in the balance tonight.
- 41:56Speaker 3: Fastball Freddy against Bobby Diesel. Hope everybody has a great time.
- 42:00Speaker 3: If you're going to the watch party, just chilling at home.
- 42:01Speaker 3: If you're going to a bar, have a great time.
- 42:03Speaker 3: And we will see you tomorrow at 2 o'clock for
- 42:06Speaker 3: The Huddle.
- 42:07Speaker 1: Peace.