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10/16/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle. It's time
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: to talk about the teams you love with the guys
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  Speaker 4: You are looking live.
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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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  Speaker 2: We know exactly what we got to do. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: out and kick some shit. One, two, three.
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  Speaker 5: We got some big plays coming.
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  Speaker 3: What the hell's going.
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  Speaker 2: On out here?
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  Speaker 3: Yellow Weasel.
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  Speaker 2: We're calling the plays, all right?
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  Speaker 5: It is time.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think you are?
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  Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen.
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  Speaker 5: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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  Speaker 5: your respect.
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  Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt. That son of a gun is thick. And
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  Speaker 2: Armin Sarian. Daddy Sarian. Welcome to the huddle. The Brewers
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: have had the ability to come back in game.
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  Speaker 5: There's the first base runner of the day for the
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  Speaker 5: Brewers and it's the speedy Bryce Durang reaching. A one-out walk.
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  Speaker 2: Here in the fourth and it brings up Contreras. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Hard down the left field.
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  Speaker 2: All the way around to the corner. Bounces into the seats.
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  Speaker 5: A double for Contreras.
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  Speaker 2: Get hard towards the right field corner. And James Bowers
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  Speaker 2: has done it again.
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  Speaker 4: Milwaukee's cut him in half with a two-run double from
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  Speaker 4: that man.
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  Speaker 2: Jake Bowers delivering with another.
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  Speaker 4: Quality at bat.
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  Speaker 2: A 4-2 game in the fourth.
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  Speaker 3: There he goes. Goal from Smith. Not in time.
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  Speaker 5: Stolen base, Sal Freeland.
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  Speaker 4: Hamilton grounds one through the base at center field. One
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  Speaker 4: pitch after the stolen.
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  Speaker 2: Base, Hamilton delivers.
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  Speaker 4: Bottom of the order has cut it to one for
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  Speaker 4: the Bakery. Taken for ball four, and Milwaukee has loaded
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  Speaker 4: them up.
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  Speaker 2: From down four to nothing to a 4-3 game. Three
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  Speaker 2: balls and no strikes with nowhere to put him. The
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  Speaker 2: players have tied the game.
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  Speaker 4: They just keep on coming from down four to nothing
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  Speaker 4: to tied up in the fifth. Mitchell sends a fly
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  Speaker 4: ball to right center field. Tucker's going. Here it is gone.
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  Speaker 4: Milwaukee takes the lead. From down four to nothing.
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  Speaker 2: The leading 5-4 in game four.
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  Speaker 6: Tucker.
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  Speaker 2: Three pitches that's got a strike.
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  Speaker 4: Rather looks as short for crack his throw is perfect
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  Speaker 4: ashby's one two.
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  Speaker 2: Strikes him out and gets.
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  Speaker 4: Out of it again that's the hand shadow center field
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  Speaker 4: on comes mitchell it is mitchell to make the catch
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  Speaker 4: as good as a strikeout for ashby no chance for
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  Speaker 4: will smith to advance 1982 Hamilton gets into a ball.
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  Speaker 3: Deep right field.
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  Speaker 6: David Hamilton goes yard.
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  Speaker 4: Something special about these Milwaukee Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: Hernandez to left center field. He gets there.
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  Speaker 4: And for the first time in 44 years, the Brewers
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  Speaker 4: are going to the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: But the bottom line is we aim right now.
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  Speaker 5: They got a bunch of Hall of Famers.
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  Speaker 1: We got a bunch of gamers.
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  Speaker 2: That won't get old for a while. Welcome into the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Drew Wilson and Armin Sarian today.
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  Speaker 2: Billy is off attending a wedding in Rhinelander. He's got
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  Speaker 2: a pep in his step and a smile on his face.
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  Speaker 2: Gotta be. Just like everybody else in the Goodland Brewers fans,
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  Speaker 2: far flung. I was talking to people all over the
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  Speaker 2: country yesterday. I talked to, it was coast to coast,
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  Speaker 2: pillar to post. Talked to our buddy Tom Hardercourt at
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  Speaker 2: his home in Virginia. And he's going to join us.
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  Speaker 2: And I was also chatting with Jeff Cirillo, the icon
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  Speaker 2: from California.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: That's amazing. I realized something yesterday, last night, a couple
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  Speaker 7: hours later. How many people you hear from when something
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  Speaker 7: like this happens? The greatest part about this, yes, of course,
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  Speaker 7: you cheer for the team, the accomplishment, the moment, all
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  Speaker 7: that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Winning is great.
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  Speaker 7: It's how many people you're reconnecting with in that moment.
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  Speaker 7: It's just everyone connects with each other in that moment
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  Speaker 7: over a shared love of something like this and shared
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  Speaker 7: memories and the amount of people I heard from that
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  Speaker 7: I haven't talked to, really. Not that I didn't want,
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  Speaker 7: you know, old friends, college, whatever it is, people that
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  Speaker 7: know what matters to you, you know, so they reach out.
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  Speaker 7: And then like meeting your own friends, the group text
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  Speaker 7: is firing up. And the moment you had together, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: my buddy Jeremy called him like David Hamilton Homer.
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  Speaker 2: He claims his stream might have been ahead. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We're debating that. That's what makes this moment so special, Drew.
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  Speaker 7: Like is the connection, the human connection we have over this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I got, speaking of random kind of reconnections. I was connecting,
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  Speaker 2: and I told people to follow Big Red, Seth McClung.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great one. McClung like a horse. He was
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  Speaker 2: tweeting and reached out, and he's doing it. And I
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  Speaker 2: got a message from a financial planner in the Phoenix,
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  Speaker 2: greater Phoenix area. Former Brewers outfielder Matt Mieske reached out,
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  Speaker 2: and I was chatting with him. I haven't talked to him.
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  Speaker 2: I covered him. When the Brewers played the Padres— I
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  Speaker 2: was walking in the concourse with my sandwich from Maxi's because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Lorraine, they don't do a press box meal
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  Speaker 2: and stuff. You just got to kind of go out
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  Speaker 2: to the concession stands.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm walking back with my chicken sandwich and I
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  Speaker 2: see a bunch of women walking by me. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: just going to hour and a half before the game,
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  Speaker 2: hour before the game. And it was on the lower concourse.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, oh, it's probably Padres, wives and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: girlfriends and stuff. Just by the way they looked, I
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  Speaker 2: could kind of tell. Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 5: I get it.
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  Speaker 2: I get what you're saying. They walk by me, a
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  Speaker 2: group of like 12 or 13 of them. They walk
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: by me and I get like 20 feet past and
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden I hear, Drew, Drew. And I
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  Speaker 2: turn around and it was Hillary Loretta, Mark Loretta's wife.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Loretta's in the front office. He's an advisor and
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  Speaker 2: has been for a long time with the Padres. And
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  Speaker 2: when he played here, she was one of the, She
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  Speaker 2: was kind of like the leader of the wives charity
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  Speaker 2: stuff and all that. So I got to know Hillary.
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  Speaker 2: I hadn't seen her since Mark left. That's amazing. She's like,
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  Speaker 2: I was wondering if I would recognize anybody. How are
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  Speaker 2: you doing? And so we caught up for a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, that's just a random run in. That the
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: playoffs bring. Our friend Trini Kuznarek is going to be
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  Speaker 2: in for the World Series.
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  Speaker 5: That is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's awesome. Our buddy Matty V is going to
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  Speaker 2: be in for the World Series. He's been through it too.
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  Speaker 2: He loves it this time with the Brewers. He loves it.
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  Speaker 2: I saw Darren Sutton tweeting about his memories in the
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  Speaker 2: seat that he had for the 82 World Series when
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  Speaker 2: his dad was such a big part. And a great broadcaster,
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  Speaker 2: of course, as well. Yeah, Darren, good friend. I would
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  Speaker 2: love to see Darren come back. And McClung said he's
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  Speaker 2: going to try to come back. It'll be interesting to
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  Speaker 2: see because I was chatting. It's like a reunion for people,
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  Speaker 2: you know? I was chatting with my pal Tyler Kepner
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  Speaker 2: from the New York Times slash Athletic. And Tyler, we
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  Speaker 2: were in the elevator going downstairs after the Brewers had
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  Speaker 2: won game two. And he said the 82 World Series
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  Speaker 2: was the first World Series he watched as like an
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  Speaker 2: eight-year-old that he remembers. The first one in your consciousness, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he was going through the entire Brewers roster. And
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  Speaker 2: I told him about the Just a Bit Outside, the
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  Speaker 2: Brewers documentary about that 82 team. I said, you got
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  Speaker 2: to watch it. Yeah, you got to find it. You
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  Speaker 2: got to watch it. Find it on Roku, YouTube, Apple TV.
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  Speaker 2: Find it. It's out there.
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  Speaker 4: Tubi.
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  Speaker 2: You can watch it free in a couple places. He
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  Speaker 2: said he's going to watch it. I said, you need
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: to watch that to jog your memory because you're going
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: to be writing about the Brewers in the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: I said this after game two because I'm like, if
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  Speaker 2: you come back, you're going to need to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And I was talking to some friends about who they
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  Speaker 2: could bring back. And, you know, Robin Yount, obviously. Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Braun was part of the celebration last night. He lives
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  Speaker 2: in L.A. He went to the game. He was there
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  Speaker 2: hanging out with the guys. Gomez and Niger Morgan have
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  Speaker 2: come back, CeCe, Sabathia, but the 82 guys, let's celebrate
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  Speaker 2: them while they're still around and have them maybe bring
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  Speaker 2: them in and have them all in at a suite
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  Speaker 2: and let them all throw out a first pitch. That'd
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: be kind of cool. And you know what, Drew?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, that is why that documentary is so special.
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  Speaker 7: That's why the timing of this is so special because
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  Speaker 7: those guys can enjoy it because they're there for it.
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  Speaker 7: And yeah, I mean, all those things coming together make
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  Speaker 7: this that much more special because it's connecting these generations together.
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  Speaker 2: And then you think of those.
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  Speaker 7: That's what I thought about it right away. It's like,
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  Speaker 7: what are these guys thinking? They've got to be happy
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  Speaker 7: being so close. The Brewers have been close now a
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  Speaker 7: couple of times. NLCS is three times now in the modern,
• 8:34
  Speaker 7: you know, you talk about 11, 18 and last.
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  Speaker 2: Year, the modern era Prince Fielder, like whoever your, your
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  Speaker 2: touchstones are. Whether it's, you know, you were joking about
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  Speaker 2: Nick Neugebauer. Oh, yes. My touchdown is this jersey. This jersey.
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  Speaker 2: The 90 Brewers. All those 90s guys. Gerald Williams. The
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  Speaker 2: late Gerald Williams. Rest in peace. Jeremy Burnett.
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  Speaker 7: Burnett.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody wanted a Jeff Juden story from you. Richie Sex
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: and Jeff Juden. You know, guys like that. The guys
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: are all about Raphael Roque. Where is he these days?
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: Raphael Roque. Right?
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, really.
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  Speaker 7: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Jose Valentin.
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  Speaker 7: The group that Gar had in the 90s was a
• 9:08
  Speaker 7: good team that couldn't quite break through.
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  Speaker 2: But Jaha, Nielsen, Vina, Valentin.
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  Speaker 6: Matheny.
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  Speaker 2: Matheny. All those guys. Eldred's a great one. Eldred. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Steve Woodard. Steve Woodard. Guys around.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, it's just the memories.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They're all part. Bob Wickman, for sure. Like, bring back
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: as many guys as you can. Brewers do a really
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: good job with alumni relations. Shout out to Ken Spindler
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: on that front and the guys who do it. But
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: they do a good job with that. But they have
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: a lot of options for first pitches and stuff. At
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: some point, I don't know if a first pitch is
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  Speaker 2: in the cards, but Commissioner Emeritus Seelig, it'd be appropriate
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: to have him recognized. You have to think so. On
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  Speaker 2: the scoreboard and give a wave to people because that
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: would be definitely a great moment as it was. Jeff
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: D'Amico threw the first pitch in a game at Ampham Field,
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  Speaker 2: then Miller Park.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just so many, again, it's just a flood
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  Speaker 2: of memories that's triggered by this and that's part of
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  Speaker 2: what makes this so sweet, just as it was with
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: the bucks. Now I was talking to a friend, the
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: bucks had the deer district and that was in July
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: and it was awesome. And this will be different, but
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  Speaker 2: the depth of this, the people's connection to even the brewers, even,
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: even bad brewers teams is a little bit more, Like,
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  Speaker 2: even bad brewers seem to be like, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that anybody's pining for, oh, I'd love to see Todd
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  Speaker 2: Day come back and, you know, give a wave.
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  Speaker 7: No, I mean, certain of those guys are novelty guys
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  Speaker 7: in your consciousness, in the zeitgeist.
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  Speaker 2: Abdul Nabi, I wonder what, you know, have him come back. Like, no,
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: not so much. But, you know, the brewers, it's a
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: special relationship with, you know, I bring back Jim Powell
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: and Corey Provis. Guys like that. Absolutely. Our guy, Hunter Baumgart,
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  Speaker 2: live from the airport in Las Vegas, working on no
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: sleep and lots of caffeine. Hunter, welcome to the huddle.
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: I am great. How are you guys? You know what?
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  Speaker 5: When something like that happens, it's okay. Even if you
• 10:58
  Speaker 5: get a very limited amount of sleep, it's all definitely
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: worth it.
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  Speaker 2: You're running through it on adrenaline. Hunter's going on adrenaline.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you from experience, having covered playoffs and
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: traveled a lot, Hunter. that the day you get home
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: and it's over, you're going to sleep for like 72 hours.
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  Speaker 5: I can totally imagine that. This is obviously the first
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: time I've went multiple rounds and traveled. It's quite a schedule,
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  Speaker 5: but it's completely worth it when the Brewers win the pennant.
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  Speaker 2: And the days are long. And you get into a bubble,
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: and we're in a bit of a bubble right now
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: because of the Brewers. But Armin and Hunter, we do
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: have some breaking news. Yes, let's get in here right now.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: For folks that are driving around celebrating the Brewers' victory,
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: we have some breaking news. And the breaking news is
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: that Josh Jacobs will be eligible to play for the
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers after Sunday night. They've taken him off
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: the exempt list. They're still considering other punishment, and the
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  Speaker 2: case is still open. But Josh Jacobs will be cleared
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  Speaker 2: to return and be eligible to play week seven. Interesting.
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  Speaker 7: It's like almost, I don't know, Roger Goodell lost his...
• 12:08
  Speaker 7: his battle with the American legal system. He wanted to
• 12:10
  Speaker 7: see that video, but I guess it's not going to happen.
• 12:12
  Speaker 7: So maybe that was his little way of saying, I
• 12:14
  Speaker 7: can still do things. Football activities. Now, will he play?
• 12:17
  Speaker 7: He'll be ramped up.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. We're going to talk to Wayne Larrabee about
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: that at 424, 425, but that's the breaking news. And
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: Hunter will be flying to cover it. No, I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 6: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: So no suspension has been levied. He has not lost
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: any pay. He could still be suspended, uh, and then
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: have to pay back the salary he got in the
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: first six weeks. But, uh, on the review, uh, The
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: first week, it counts as time served. So in any event,
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  Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs will return to the field and practice and
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: maybe a game right after Sunday night football Packers-Cowboys. Anyway, Hunter,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it looked like you've been to a few
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  Speaker 2: of these now. You're getting to be a veteran. I
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: told you to work the perimeter and try to stay
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  Speaker 2: as dry while you're taking your notes and getting your interviews.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of the interviews aren't great when guys
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: are trying to celebrate and dump beer on each other's heads.
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  Speaker 2: But it did look like from the outside, from my couch,
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  Speaker 2: it looked like they turned that clubhouse into a dance club.
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  Speaker 2: It looked pretty electric.
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  Speaker 5: It was electric. Yeah, absolutely. The ground was definitely full
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  Speaker 5: of champagne and beer and everything that they were... celebrating
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  Speaker 5: with in there, that was definitely a celebration. You know,
• 13:24
  Speaker 5: it's kind of been like the division clinch was a celebration.
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  Speaker 5: And then I think the San Diego, well.
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  Speaker 3: That was a celebration as well.
• 13:33
  Speaker 5: It felt like it was building to this. And obviously
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: they win the World Series, and it's probably going to
• 13:38
  Speaker 5: even take another level, obviously, because there was a, and
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  Speaker 5: you saw the celebration on the field. It was, they
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: were happy, but it wasn't, you know, maybe the dog
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  Speaker 5: piles we've seen in the past. I know there's been
• 13:48
  Speaker 5: debate of like, why can't they? Why can't we do that, right?
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  Speaker 5: I knew Armin was going to be on that. As
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  Speaker 5: long as nobody gets hurt, I'm fine with whatever they do.
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  Speaker 5: I do think that last night was electric. I think
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  Speaker 5: what was really cool was Seeing just how proud this
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: team is to do it for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Brewers fans everywhere.
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  Speaker 5: This team knew a lot of these guys, and obviously
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: the guys who have been in this organization longer, but
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: the guys who have been here a while, and even
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: some of the new ones, understand because they're under the
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: tutelage of Christian Yelich, a guy who's been here a while,
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  Speaker 5: knows what this means to Milwaukee and Wisconsin. You could
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: just tell that they were proud to do it and
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  Speaker 5: bring that joy home. to the fans. And obviously this
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: team is really tight knit. So they want to do
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: it for each other as well. But I think you
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: could just tell during the celebration that they were, you
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: could kind of just see it in the way they
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  Speaker 5: talked or the, the, in their eyes, how excited they
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: were for Brewers fans.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: Talking to Hunter Baumgart, our baseball go-to guys, coverage brought
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  Speaker 2: to us by community roofing, community roofing.com is the website. Hunter,
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: when it, when it, it looked like, you know, the
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: sweep is the sweep and people are like, Oh, the
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Brewers just, boat race the dodgers well there was a
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: moment when otani hit the home run when i thought
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: not only is there going to be a game five
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: they're facing scuba we might have a game six and
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: then you know the entire series can change but the
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: brewers came back the way they always did what was
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: your mood and what was it like in the ballpark
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: for dodgers fans when they got their otani moment after
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: all his struggles for him to hit a home run
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: the way he did and to put them in what
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: seemed to be a commanding position what was that like
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: and then what was it like when the script.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Flipped It definitely seemed like that was kind.
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: Of the door that opened, right? We kind of been
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: waiting for Otani to do something in the series. And
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: Pat Murphy kept answering the question. You know, he would
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: be asked every day, you know, Otani's struggling or Otani's
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: dropped in the order or whatever it is. And, or
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: Otani's injured, blah, blah, blah. And he'd be like, he's
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: still Shohei Otani. Like we're still going to be careful
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: with him because he can do exactly what he just did,
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: you know, in game four last night. And he went
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: and did it. It was a three run homer, three
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: run home runs. change games. So that all of a
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: sudden makes it for nothing. Dodger stadium is, it was
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: definitely probably the loudest I had heard it up to
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: that point. It, it, I was, I mean, surprised. I
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: don't know if I was surprised, but I was, you know,
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: at least taken aback a little bit by the lack
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: of Dodger fans at that ballpark, especially early in those
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: games throughout most of those games. Crazy. But I, but
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: so that was really the loudest it had been. And
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: then the you, I, at that point I was like, okay,
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: well the Dodgers are probably going to win a game
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: in this series. Like, obviously, like you said, then you
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: have the, their horses coming back as the starting pitchers.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: And you start to look at that a little bit,
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: but I was like, okay, Oh, Tommy home run Dodgers win.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: It all makes sense. And, and then maybe the brewers
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: come back and win tomorrow. And then they start getting
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: it back. And then, you know, you get the, you
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: get the back-to-back doubles and all of a sudden it's
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: four to two. And then at that point, it's like, Oh,
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: two runs is nothing for.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: The 20, 26 brewers. It's just, isn't it incredible? And
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: so it's like, at that point, I'm like, it might
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: as well be tied right now. So that, that is what.
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: Really quick, just the way that you could see it
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: affect emotionally, the Dodgers, like, here we go again. They're
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: thinking we got, we got this four nothing lead. We're
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: going to be at least easy sailing now for one game.
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: Like they won't boa constrict us for one game. And
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: right away, the Brewers did. And I think that devastated
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: them emotionally as well.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, within three innings, the deficit was erased. It was
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: tied at four. And then obviously Mitchell and Hamilton add
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: the home runs, and all of a sudden it's a
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: 6-4 game. And like you said, you could see it
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: in the Dodgers' faces. The Brewers came back to win
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: every game. I think what's most impressive to me is
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: the Brewers just went against Tarek Scooble, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell,
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: and Tyler Glass now, and face the lineup that every
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: night was Otani, Betts, Freeman. You can make a break
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: or what they've done this season, but the names are
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: still the names. And they went and swept them. Like,
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: it's one thing to win the series, and it's all, it's, obviously,
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: we're focusing on first time in 44 years of the pennant.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: But the way in which they just did that to
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: sweep that team, maybe one of the best teams ever constructed.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: I mean, that is one of the best, one of
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: the most impressive feats, I think, in Wisconsin sports history
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: and what they just did.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: You know, Hunter, we talked about it a lot, especially
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: as we got closer to the playoffs.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: The Brewers, they manufacture runs. They do bunt. They do
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: steal bases. They do take the extra base. They put
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: pressure on defenses. They hit defense. It sounds weird to
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: say that they hit into more errors. Like there was
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: more errors committed against the Brewers offense than I think
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: almost any other team in the major leagues. Cause they
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: make fielders rush and, and it's not, not all errors
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: are created equal. Sometimes a ground ball goes for the wicked.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Sometimes the guy's trying to make a quick play and
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: he screws up. But they also mixed in the long
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: ball home runs play in the postseason. They out homered
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers seven to one Garrett Mitchell and guys hitting
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: home runs off lefties and David Hamilton hitting a home run.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: How shocking is that? Because for everybody who says the
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Brewers have cornered the market on small ball, well, they
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: won because, in large part, every time they needed one,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: they got a home run.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: It was incredible, wasn't it? Like, look, it goes to
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: show that you kind of do, home runs help in
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: the postseason. Like, there's no doubt about that. Yes, thank you.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: But it's the pressure in which the Brewers' offense... Home
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: runs help in any game. It can mean spring training,
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: I guess, or regular season. That's a way of scoring runs.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: But I think what the Brewers do well is they
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: set that up with the way they play otherwise. They
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: don't need it, but when they get it, then it
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: leads to a 7-1 record in the postseason. That's what
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: you get when you mix the way they play normally
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: with the home runs. And so that's the, that was
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: the incredible part, but yeah, David Hamilton, that was, I mean,
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: that put that game on ice and you look at
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: what he did in the regular season, just four home runs,
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: and he hits one of all people. He had an
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: amazing NLCS.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: He only played in two games, but he was four
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: for seven.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Well, he played great, yeah.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: He stole three bases, and he was awesome, and he
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: obviously had the big home run to kind of one
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: of the two runs was huge there. Ashby was stranding
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: guys at third, left, and right, but you still wanted
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: to get a two-run cushion for Ashby or if they
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: went to McGill, and it worked out, and the Brewers
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: were NL champs.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: That's kind of a great team.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: Also, you couldn't really decide which guy would be an
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: LNB or NLCS MVP. Bowers got it deservedly. So Garrett
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: Mitchell had a monster. You talk about unprofitable homers off lefties.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: But did Mitchell have a hit before his first home
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: run in the series? Oh, man, that's a great question. Yeah,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know. So I guess timeliness is important, too. Yeah,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: timeliness is important. But Ashby was a stud and a
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: rock star last night. I was wondering when or if
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: McGill was going to get in. And Murph just rolled
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: with him, and he was just dominant. And the Romero
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: strikeout of Otani, Hunter, that was more symbolic of Otani's
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: effort in this series than the home run was, really,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: because that's what he looked like.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Totally.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely. And so that, you know, you kind of came,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: he came back and it was like, okay, yeah, you know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: we got a good swing on you, but otherwise that
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: was kind of the Otani that we saw. And I mean, Joe,
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Joe Romero, I mean, man, oh man, talk about an
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: unsung hero.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I know it's, it's, they have them everywhere, right? They're
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: left and right there.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of, it's just.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: It was absolutely. So that was impressive. And they get
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: through that game with Romero and Ashby finish out the
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: final five innings and doing it that way.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Did you get to talk to Dustin May? Cause he
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: gave up the Homer and he was, it was, had
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: to be painful for him. And you could see his
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: reaction when Otani swung, he knew it right away, bad pitch,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: but then he gave him two innings after that.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And it almost seemed to me, it's like, Oh, Mercer's
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: throwing him into the wolves to save everybody for game five.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: And he locked it down. And again, that's the brewer's recipe.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: The bullpen, and this is part of the bullpen last night,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: the bullpen holds them down and gives them chances to
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: peck away.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw the stat today that once the Dodgers
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: got the lead in any of the games, they did
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: not score again. So they got a lead, and then
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: they didn't score. They just continued to not score. I
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: guess when they got their final lead, probably. Because I
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: think they had two leads in game two, I think.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: If I remember right.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: But something like that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: And that's the bullpen holding it down and keeping them
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: in it. And that's what the Brewers' bullpen has done
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: all season, is just those middle guys. And Dustin May
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: was one of them. We didn't get a chance to...
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: talk to her. At least I didn't. I'm not sure
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: if anybody else did, but that he was a key
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: to rebound from that. And look, that's partly why you
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: get a guy like Dustin may who's been there, done
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: that and can.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Shrug that off.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Now, do I really totally trust them? Because look, if
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: the offense doesn't come back last night, it's a different story.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: And we're talking about Dustin may and bad trade and
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: all that. Now it also netted you Jojo Romero. So
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: he's been really good. So there's a trade off there. But,
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: but no, he was able to come back, use his
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: experience and pitching at Dodger stadium once again, and was
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: able to hold them. And that was, that was just
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: so key for what the birds did the rest of
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: the night.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I just retweeted something by the guy who's a white
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Sox fan and a civil engineer and a stats nerd
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: from Chicago, but a mix of things.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: When the Dodgers swept the Brewers last year, They went 4-0,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: as you do in a sweep. They had 149 plate appearances,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: 128 at-bats, 32 hits. They hit 250, which is the
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: batting average, and had an on-base percentage of 347. The
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Brewers had exactly identical offensive numbers. Plate appearances, at-bats, hits...
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: batting average and on-base percentage. That seems impossible.
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: And yet the Brewers scored more runs. Yeah, because they
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: squeezed more out of the orange, of course.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Right, right, right, right. They did. They scored six more
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: runs than the Dodgers did with the exact same. And
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: that was like a slaughter last year.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: And this is the same.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: This is uncanny. It's like Kennedy and Lincoln parallels here.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I got to verify. It almost looks fake, but it's real. Well,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: either way, I'm happy it happened.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I did see that, and I was wondering. I'm like,
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: I kind of want to fact-check that, but I would
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: think that he didn't put it out there.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: It's a Jason Stark-type stat.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: Hunter, that's a lot of work to fact-check a Randall's tweet,
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: but I love it.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: It is. It's real, and it's spectacular.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: Hey, great job, Hunter, and great job out there, Hunter.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: Thanks for bringing the sights and sounds. I tried to
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: catch you on TV. I definitely saw Kurt. I didn't
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: know if I saw you. I tried my best to
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: find you and send a picture, but... Couldn't see it.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: You just did such a great job reporting and such
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: a great job out there. And I hope you got
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: a little bit of champagne all over your, you know, clothes.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there was no last night. It was, you know,
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: instead of staying on the perimeter, it was like, all right,
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: we're just going to go right in the middle and
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: see what happens. And that's what we did and got
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: a chance to talk to Matt Arnold a little bit.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: And just everybody was, yeah, it was quite a moment.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: All the Brewers fans that traveled to L.A. were, you know,
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: really just, yeah, it was electric. You know, when we
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: watched the trophy presentation and everything like that. So, hey,
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: on to the next one. A week from today, the
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Brewers are playing in Milwaukee in the World Series. I mean,
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: that's a sentence, right?
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a classic. Thank you, Hunter. Safe travels.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: You bet. See you guys soon.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Hunter Baumgart on his way back from Dodger Stadium. He
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: didn't have to stay an extra day. Saved the company
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: some money. Now he can go on the road to
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Cleveland or Tampa for the next year. I hope they
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: thank him for that. Fantastic. Tom Hardercourt is going to
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: join us next. We'll get thoughts from the Prince of Darkness.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Back on
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, Drew Olson, Armin Sarian.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Billy is out today. Brewers are going to the World Series.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I haven't uttered that since I was a young lad,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: but the Brewers are going to the World Series for
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: the first time since 1982. I had a lot of
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: thoughts last night. A lot of people came to mind,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: and this gentleman that joins us now on the NicoletLaw.com
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: talk and text line is at the top of the list.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: My friend and former teammate, my press box seatmate, the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Prince of Darkness himself, Tom Hardicore joins us from the Williamsburg,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Virginia Bureau of the Huddle. And Tom, my first question
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: to you is, did you put a lampshade on and
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: run around your living room last night when the Brewers
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: won the pennant?
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: You know, it was hard to process, wasn't it? And
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: tell me if I didn't have a wrong read on that.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: Didn't the players look subdued on the field after the
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: last down?
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: You know, I felt that way, Tom, yeah, about this.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: But I think the era is increasing more and more
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: with that. Maybe they'll tell you they have bigger fish
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: to fry. But I expected a little more of a
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: dog pile. You did just win the pennant, I mean.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: They looked a little stunned themselves.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: But, I mean, it's surreal because it's something none of us,
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: people that are only 43 have never experienced it.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: You know, I got.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: To Milwaukee in 1985, the old Sentinel, before Drew and
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: me merged into our Journal Sentinel partnership in 1995. But
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: when they hired me in 1985 in-season, it was two
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: months ago, they needed a new beat writer in-season. And
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: so I went there, and I, after watching the team
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: for one week in August of 1985, I turned to
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: journal beat writer Tom Flaherty, the late, great Tom Flaherty,
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: and I said, this team was in the World Series
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: three years ago? I mean, that team fell apart fast.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: And then, you know, there were some decent seasons, but,
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: you know, the 90s were pretty dreadful and the small
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: market thing became just so bad in Milwaukee. You know,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: and I will always, historians of the Brewers will always
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: look back to the new ballpark and new ownership as
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: being the fulcrums of getting the organization going. But it
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: is really hard to tell. So if my math is right,
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: and it often is not, They've won 110 games, right?
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: That's correct, yeah. 103 plus seven, right? Yeah, 110 games.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: In the 90s, that's what we call two good seasons.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: You're not wrong. You're not wrong, Tom. It is a
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: little bit surreal. They've been close before, but to turn
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the tables and sweep the Dodgers who kicked sand in
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: their faces last year, it felt like the varsity against
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the freshman this year was I mean, last year. And
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: then this year, Tom, the Dodgers all of a sudden
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: looked old. And I know it all probably relates to
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Otani not being Otani. Because having a guy like that
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: changes the way you pitch him and pitch the guys
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: around him. It changes everything. And he wasn't himself in
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: this series. Anything else stand out to you from either
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: just this series alone or the whole playoff run for
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: the Brewers?
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Well, just the fact that a team... that usually doesn't
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: hit home runs, hits some monster home runs in LA.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: That's a big fact.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: Monster home runs. You know, Garrett Mitchell's home run off
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: Tanner Scott is one of the damnedest things I've ever seen.
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: I don't think Tanner Scott had given up a home
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: run to a left-handed batter all season, and he had
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: dominated the Brewers left. The Brewers are a little subject
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: to left-handed pitching because they have a lot of left-handed hitters.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: And he goes 0-2 and you just figure he's going
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: to bury Mitchell.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Then ball one, ball two, ball three. And then all
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, booming home run.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: I was talking with Todd Rosiak on the phone a
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: little while ago. They're stuck in a Hellish travel nightmare
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: in L.A. They may make it home by midnight if
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: they're lucky. But we were just talking about this. I said, Drew,
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: you and I often went weeks without getting to write
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: a good story on the Brewers.
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: They have like 15.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Stories hit them in the face every day.
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: Mitchell's an unbelievable story.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Guy's been hurt his whole career.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: Finally stays healthy and he's what he thought he always
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: could be. Jake Bowers. You know, everybody knows the story.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: He only kept playing because he needed health care.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: For a new kid. Just, you know, Ashby, remember when
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Ashby looked like he was going to be a colossal boss?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: And then he, you know, and then he got hurt.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: It's just up and down the line because you're so,
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: you know, Hamilton hits a home run last night.
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: You know, I.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Always have maintained that.
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: I don't really believe in destiny and karma.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: But, We've seen a ball hit the roof.
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: We've seen 12-pitch at bats that ended home runs. We've seen,
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: you know, Curio hit a 105-mile-an-hour pitch up the middle,
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: 110-mile-an-hour out. How about last night in the seventh and
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: eighth innings? Runners on third and one out from the Dodgers.
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: And Otani not only strikes out, he strikes out on
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: the pitch in the other batter's box.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: And then Kyle Tucker, who, you know, actually hit some
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: pretty good balls in that series, pops out at the
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: shallow center.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: But the only two things that don't score a run there,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: a strikeout and a pop-up.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the most amazing sequence there was.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: So it's just, it's just, it really is.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: It really is an amazing story.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: I do think that, um, from watching the games on TV,
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: there seemed to be more chatter about what's wrong with
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: the Dodgers than what's right.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: With the Brewers.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: Because to me, the headline of that series is Dodgers
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: lose the best team.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: In National League. That's the headline.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: That should be the headline. We're talking to Tom Hardercourt
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: here on the huddle, Drew and Armin. Tom, the thing
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: to me and the thing, we're feeling it in August
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: and into September. This team is different. This feels different.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: And I couldn't put my finger on what it was.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: And then Tim Dillard, who joined us earlier, He crystallized
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: it for me. The Brewers, it used to be to
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: beat a team like the Dodgers, they had to play
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: a perfect game. And I don't mean 27 up, 27 down.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: They had to catch the ball. They had to get
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: big hits. They had to have a strong start. The
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: bullpen had to be lights out. And throughout these playoffs
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: against the Padres and the Dodgers, they have not played
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: anywhere near a perfect game yet. And they've been able
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: to overcome it.
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they're a great defensive team that has not played
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: great defense in the postseason. They made some really good plays.
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you one thing. Don't sleep on that bullet
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: that Cooper Pratt backhanded in short last night in the ninth.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Great, amazing play.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: I think it was 110 off the bat.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was really important. Get that further.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: That was really important.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: And he's been a little shaky at times.
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: I mean, he is a 22-year-old rookie. A damn good one,
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: it looks like.
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: Who had him as the first Of all those great
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: infield prospects they have, who had.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Him as the first guy up? I sure did.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, only Matt.
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: Arnold and his guys.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: They knew what they were doing when they came on
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: that contract extension. But that was.
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: An absolute bullet, and he turned it just to his
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: feet the first time. You can't let the time run.
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: you know, get on base and no out.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: And his resilience, and Luis Lara's made some good plays too,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: but his resilience, like, I was so impressed when he
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: got his cap spun around with a 103-mile-an-hour fastball and
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: then stayed in. I thought, well, that's the end of
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: this at bat. And then he gets a base hit.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: And it's like, oh my goodness. Like, this kid, like,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: holy cow. Good point, yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: I think first rookie, first rookie in Brewers history to
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: have a three-hit game in the LCS round. So, I mean,
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: just so many firsts by that team.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: They are... I think they are very confident.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: I do think that last year they were just... They
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: were a little drained after beating the Cubs, and they
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: got to the Dodgers. You know, their pitching was stupid
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: good last year in the postseason, and they went on
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: and won it all again.
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: But I think the Brewers realized... playing last year, what
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: it took, you.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: Know, to take that next step. And they were just
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: more ready this time around.
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: Their offense... is just, I think they, don't they call
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: them the woodpecker? They just keep cutting.
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: Away, pecking away. So when Otani hit that home run
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: last night, my wife, Trish, and I were watching, she goes,
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: oh boy, Ford and Alton, this one's over. I said, Trish,
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: this is only the second inning, and these guys have
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: a knack for coming back.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: And part of that is because the bullpen's so good,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: they lock them down and let them, you know, give
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: the birds chances to come back, which is complimentary baseball.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: Well, that's the thing.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: If you take away May's three-run homer, he gave up
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: to Ohtani, which had unique circumstances, starting pitcher.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Pitching him really poorly in the game.
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: I think the bullpen gave up with one bird in
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: the first season or two.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Pretty crazy.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, Ashby....
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: He's the new rally famous. You know, he goes in
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: expecting at this point.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: He is. Tom, couple things on the way out here.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: First of all, you covered Robin Yount on the back
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: end of his career after, you know, three years after
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: his MVP World Series season. And you also covered Christian Jelic.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: You see the similarities. They gave Jelic the C. He
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: asked for Yount's blessing for that. You know, could you
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: speak to the impact that those two guys have had
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: and the legacies they're leaving with this organization?
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: Well, I do think they're two peas in a pod.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: They're professional the way they go at their business, underspoken,
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: not looking for the limelight. Yeah, I think the LX
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: was a little bashful about taking that C, and just
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: the fact that he asked for Robin's blessing, that just
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: spoke volumes. I know he had a tough year, and
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: I know people have thought that he should have played
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: better after 2019-20. But here's the bottom line on Christian Yelich.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: He was signed before the 2018 season, and since then
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: they've been through the playoffs all but one year.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. And the last thing I
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: got for you, Tom, we've covered managers good and bad.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Some were underregarded, like we thought Gar was pretty smart.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: He just didn't have the horses, and then he... went
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: and got Houston to a world series. Ned Yost went
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: to two world series after he left Milwaukee. Uh, you
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: had a pretty good relationship with counts and Murph on
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: your way out before retirement, by the way, Tom retired
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: and they put in the pitch clock and the Brewers
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: are going to the world series. I don't know if
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: these two things are related.
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: Or not, but, uh, I would suggest that they have
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: successfully overcome my retirement.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: That's true. They have. But what are your thoughts watching
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Murph and the way he goes about things and the
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: way he's blossomed in this role? And somebody said the
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: other day, he's not only the best manager in baseball,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: he might be the best coach in any professional sport
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: He was a guy that was ready for this, just
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: needed the chance. Nobody realized the way it would come.
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: It was his best buddy, counsel, leaving. Nobody saw that
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: one coming.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: But he was ready for this.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: And sometimes you just got to get that chance.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: Sometimes you're not ready earlier or later, but right at
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: that moment in time, you are ready. And he's very real.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: He's very real. The players always know where he stands.
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: He knows how to do tough love. He was just
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: perfect for that role. He builds confidence. And.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: He was just ready to do it. That's just part
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: of the karma of this team.
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: If he gets manager of the year this year, I
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: don't know if he will because they may give it
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: to the San Diego guy or Mattingly for turning the
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: Phillies around. But, I mean, they won 103 games and
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: everybody picked them second again.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: People will start believing in Murphy and the Brewers.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to believe it. I did channel my
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: inner Prince of Darkness when I tweeted out that Three
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: years after he moved into Craig Council's office, he's doing
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: it again next year at the All-Star Game at Wrigley Field.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: What he takes over is the manager of the National
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: League team with his staff. And a couple of Cubs
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: fans were like, oh, what a punch in the nuts
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: that is.
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, people were devastated when Craig left. And
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: Murphy just stepped in the breach and made them not
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: be devastated.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Instead of booing Craig when he comes back, they should
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: thank him.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, like you said, I've known him for
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: a long time, so I won't say anything yay or
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: nay about just how that all played out. But I
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: will say that Murph, to his credit, was right.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: And, you know, the Brewers didn't.
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: Have to give him the job either.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: They could have gone outside the organization.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: That's true. Yep, everybody deserves credit. Things are rolling good. Tom,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: it's a pleasure. It's great to catch up with you.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: You.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: We'll give you a shout next week. Is this, it's
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: still going to take a week for us to process
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: that the Brewers are in the world series and it's
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: going to happen at home on Friday, a week from today.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, bud.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: Thanks, guys.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you having me.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: You bet. Tom Haudricourt, retired baseball scribe, Brewers historian, the
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Prince of Darkness himself. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Continuing the Friday edition of The Huddle, the Brewers are
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: going to the World Series edition of The Huddle. Drew Olsen,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Armin Sarian from headquarters. Billy's off. He'll be rejoining us. Well,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: he'll rejoin us on Sunday night for Packers OT. That's right.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Live from Lambeau Field. No conflict with a game of six.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Which is, yeah, now unencumbered.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, unencumbered. Absolutely. Time for a little Who's Hot, Who's Not?
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Brought to us by Donovan Jorgensen Heating and Cooling. Your
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: HVAC experts. DonovanJorgensen.com. Employee owned for 45 years. Who's Hot?
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: All the Brewers. For sure. Well, indeed, indeed. Especially, I mean,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: you have to think of Garrett and Jake, obviously, right?
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: And Ashby, of course. All the Brewers. But who's not hot?
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: I got to go with Bo Nix, the quarterback of
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos. Yeah, it's a good one.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Broncos won a game in overtime yesterday, but Bo Nix
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: was 17 for 27 for 107 yards. He played the
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: whole game and threw for 107 yards in overtime. No touchdowns,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: no interceptions. And no completions, Armin, beyond the first down marker.
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: You know, it's really interesting that there's a lot of
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: quarterbacks now, I think, that are young, have a great
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: first year, and then totally look different. I mean, Jaden
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: Daniels comes to mind, obviously health factors. How do you
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: not have a completion pass the first down mark when
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: you had such a great year last year?
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: This is Bo Nix. What happened? I mean, you know,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Drake Mays had his struggles this year.
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: It's really hard to imagine how it's possible, why, but
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: I would have to think it's a number of factors,
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: not the least of which, you know, defenses start to
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: figure things out, maybe.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but that is a shocking,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: shocking thing to see, his decline. I was busy watching
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: the Brewers, and I'm not going to rewatch this game,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: but Seattle gained 353 yards, ran 82 plays. The Broncos...
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: ran 57 plays for 168 total yards. How'd they win?
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: I don't know, man.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: It's hard to believe, but Thursday night, you know. Broncos
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: were three for 14 on third down.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: They had five sacks, eight penalties. This horrific, horrific game,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: 17 to 14. Yeah. Good luck trying to figure out
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: the NFL, right?
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: And the Broncos are four and two, but nobody feels
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: good about it. The funniest thing I heard about that
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: was some Broncos fan on Twitter said that Sean Payton said,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: would rather lose uh 38 to 34 than win 17
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: to 14 yes.
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: Yes but well i say quarterbacks in general or you
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: know now when you talk about who's going to be
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: playing ravens ruled out jackson jalen hurts we know the
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: situation a lot of high-end quarterbacks were on this league
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: right now it just shows you what's important uh depth
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: at that position yeah absolutely wow.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Um So that's Who's Hot, Who's Not brought to us
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: by Donovan Jorgensen, heating and cooling. Special shout-out to the
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Bucs for reading the room and moving the time of
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: their home opener to 3 o'clock next Friday so that
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: folks can go to that game and watch that game
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: and then consume the Brewers in the World Series.
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: And the Admirals are hot, too. They have a big weekend.
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: Tonight is Hoctoberfest. I'll be there hosting. They have a
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: big game then and then one tomorrow night. And thankfully,
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: those are unencumbered.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they've got Colorado in, right? They've got Colorado, yes. Yes,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: and it's dog day tomorrow night at the rink. That'll
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. Bring your pooch to the
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: park while it's still kind of nice outside. Kind of
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: a fun deal. It's always a fun game.
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: It's always a fun game, and if you're looking for
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: something to do, and your plans are free now because
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: the Brewers aren't playing, get down to the arena for
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: some Admirals hockey. It's a great way to kick off
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: the season. Kind of feels cold out there, so it
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: feels like hockey weather.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: I've said it before. When one team is thriving like
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: the Brewers are right now, it just gets people pumped
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: for sports. It's going to help. I think it'll help
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: like Badger Football Pack. It'll help the awareness and the
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: excitement for stuff like the Admirals. People want more of it.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: They see how exciting it is and how it builds community,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: and they just want more. So a rising tide lifts
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: all boats, and that's what's going to happen with the
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Brewers in the wake of their... run, which is going
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: to continue a week from today.
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: Indeed, and they tweeted an hour ago, they've announced a
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: schedule change as well to celebrate the Brewers hosting game
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: one of the World Series. Their home game against Chicago,
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: originally scheduled for Friday, October 23rd, has now been moved
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: to Sunday, October 25th at 1 p.m. So that Friday
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: game is going to Sunday. So another great call reading
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: the room. Obviously, they want to watch, you know, Woj
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: and Greeny and those guys want to see the games.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Come on now. That's right. Smart move by the Admirals
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: as well. Great call. We got Wayne Larravee set to
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: join us at about 425. You are in the huddle.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.