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09/17/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Drew, Billy, and Armand bringing it to you. It's the
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: final hour of the Thursday morning program, but we're back
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: at it. Five o'clock club will convene in the PM
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: at Pottawatomie Casino Sportsbook this evening in the Annex. Five
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: to seven by Wayne Larravee. Jameson's going to be there
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: giving away samples and Packers tickets to the opener for
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: the game against the Falcons. And since I love that
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: opening montage of ours, some say it's too long. Some
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: say it gets old after a while. It's just comforting.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: It's like a warm blanket. Our phrase that pays today
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  Speaker 1: when we're at Pottawatomie is going to be cut and crack.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: Cut and crack.
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  Speaker 2: Cut and crack is the phrase that pays to get
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  Speaker 2: that gift card.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. You get a $ 10 gift card if you
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  Speaker 1: come up to Armin today and say cut and crack.
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  Speaker 1: And he will hand you a gift card worth $ 10
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  Speaker 1: to spend on anything you Well, anything except alcohol at
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  Speaker 1: Pottawatomie and gambling. I was going to say gaming and
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: alcohol are the only things that that thing's not good.
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  Speaker 1: It's good at the stands for everything else. Food and souvenirs, snacks,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want.
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  Speaker 2: The gift shop is nice. I think it's called Pottawatomie
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  Speaker 2: Provisions now.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 3: It used to be called Sweetgrass. There it is. I
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  Speaker 3: like that, Billy.
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  Speaker 1: Cut and crack. You had one of the sweet hats
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  Speaker 1: that you were rocking the other day.
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  Speaker 2: It's not at my desk now, but I had the hat.
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  Speaker 2: That's a nice hat. They have some retro stuff there.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of great Packers, Brewers, and Buck stuff as well.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of great sports gear if.
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  Speaker 3: You're into that.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not going to eat, though, at the Sportsbook,
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  Speaker 1: which I would urge you to do, the Marketplace, that
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  Speaker 1: burger is also phenomenal. That might be the easiest place
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  Speaker 1: to grab a burger. I will be grabbing, and I
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  Speaker 1: know we mentioned the talk about what?
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  Speaker 3: How you said it. I couldn't help it.
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  Speaker 1: You said I'll be grabbing. I'll be grabbing a pumpkin
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  Speaker 1: spice latte at the Cream City Coffee before I walk in.
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  Speaker 1: That will be hit up there because, listen, I am. full, uh,
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  Speaker 1: basic white girl when it comes to the pumpkin spice.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you were talking about, um, the apple cider donuts.
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  Speaker 2: They got all kinds of stuff like that. Donuts and
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  Speaker 2: apple ciders and all.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know exactly what the menu is.
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  Speaker 1: They got some kind of pumpkin cream cheese muffin.
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  Speaker 3: They got muffins and all kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's Danish meets a pumpkin muffin. You tell me
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  Speaker 1: your boy's not going to be a part of that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be test driving. Now my question is Billy,
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  Speaker 1: will you be wearing a chunky sweater and Uggs boots? Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know. It depends on if you can
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  Speaker 1: see it over my cool belt that I got over here.
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  Speaker 1: It comes as a set. You got to have the
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  Speaker 1: big turtleneck sweaters. Right. Because it is sweater season now.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm also going to get my big bag that
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to keep on my.
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  Speaker 1: For the majority of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Man, what is it about fall, man? It's so funny.
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  Speaker 2: But people enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: It's great.
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  Speaker 2: And the funny thing is, around here, our fall is
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  Speaker 2: too short, in my opinion. I mean, everyone thinks I
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  Speaker 2: don't like fall because I'm just a hater. No, we
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  Speaker 2: don't have a great, like, long fall because winter starts.
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  Speaker 2: But then again, our, you know, the winter chill in
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  Speaker 2: the air is just our fall. So I guess we're
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  Speaker 2: just more adaptable here in these parts, which is still
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  Speaker 2: a good thing. But the leaves still haven't turned yet.
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  Speaker 2: We have a little bit of summer. So you don't
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  Speaker 2: like fall? I don't like fall, and not because specifically
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  Speaker 2: of fall. I don't like fall because I don't like
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  Speaker 2: what it means. I don't like what it means, the
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  Speaker 2: end of summer and the welcoming of winter. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't like that it's like a two-hour window. Fall around
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  Speaker 2: here is very short. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: To me, fall is... We're nudging into it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we're there yet. The autumnal equinox is next week, right?
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  Speaker 3: And then.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Fall will start when my pool closes, which is coming
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  Speaker 1: up rapid. I was going to say that's probably going
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  Speaker 1: to come up pretty quickly here, huh? Today might be
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: the last day. Based on the forecast, it might be
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  Speaker 1: the last day to splash around. Yeah, and if there's
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  Speaker 1: any time to cut the grass, you might want to
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  Speaker 1: do it now. Because fall to me, listen, summer in Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 1: that's when we're showing off. Make no mistake about it.
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  Speaker 1: We flex during the summer. Those 90 days you go
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  Speaker 1: around Wisconsin, people are like, damn. Mostly the best weather
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  Speaker 1: on the planet. There's no place. I've traveled all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. I'd rather be here. Hard to beat. Fall,
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  Speaker 1: I think, is the second best. That's where I think
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  Speaker 1: we flex a little bit more, especially if you do. Now, Armin,
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  Speaker 1: this is where I think you need to gas up
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  Speaker 1: that beautiful Kia Sportage you got rocking and drive a
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  Speaker 1: little bit around the state.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We get some nice fall colors. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: You start driving around, you will see some impressive. impressive,
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  Speaker 1: impressive sites. One of the reasons why I'm excited to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy our friend I43 coming up next week Thursday when
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  Speaker 1: we go back up to Green Bay and also to
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  Speaker 1: hit up a couple of our friend Tim Van Voren.
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  Speaker 1: Did you guys see he did a special on the
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  Speaker 1: Places to see and hit on I-43 going to and
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  Speaker 1: from a Packers game. Wow, he did. He did a
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  Speaker 1: sweet special on it for Tim Van Voren. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know anybody has done that drive more than Van Voren.
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  Speaker 1: In recent vintage, absolutely. The rest of the dudes have
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  Speaker 1: apartments up there and stuff. So him and Mickey went
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: through and gave their best spots, their top places to
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  Speaker 1: be able to hit. And in fall, it probably gets
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  Speaker 1: even better because that's a lot of times when those
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: up and downs start happening. Our boy Tim Van Voren,
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  Speaker 1: Fox 6 Milwaukee. Folks in Madison, you may have seen
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  Speaker 1: him in his work. He's incredible. Incredible.
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  Speaker 3: He's great.
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  Speaker 1: Been there forever. Marquette grad, Armin. Yeah. West Bend native.
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  Speaker 1: Grew up watching him. Tim, at a certain point, if
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't already, he's going to look back on his
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  Speaker 1: just storied career.
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  Speaker 4: Very proud.
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  Speaker 1: A pillar of the industry and the community. And he'll say,
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  Speaker 1: I spent so much time in a car between Milwaukee
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  Speaker 1: and Green Bay. And he's going to do the math.
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  Speaker 1: You need to be like, I've spent a year and
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  Speaker 1: a half of my life.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you add up the time waiting for
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: interviews and standing in the locker room and stuff, because
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: when I was on a Perlman's podcast, we talked about that,
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  Speaker 1: all the time that you spend transcribing back in the day.
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: When you do these interviews, you do an hour. Spring training,
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: you do an hour and a half of interviews a
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: day and then spend time typing them and reliving them
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: and typing them. Now they have software for that. But
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: you can't get back the time in the car. And
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  Speaker 1: there hasn't been anybody that has had more of that
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  Speaker 1: windshield time. No. And then the hurrying up and waiting,
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  Speaker 1: Timmy V makes the most of it.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 1: Because he genuinely talks and interacts with everybody. Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And actually cares about the interaction. He knows everybody. He
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  Speaker 1: knows everybody for that simple factor, I think, that you
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  Speaker 1: just hit on. I'm going to look back and say, damn,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to waste all this time. If I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be driving back and forth on 43, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to make it worth it. Because he is one
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  Speaker 1: of the deans and one of the great. No doubt.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: stewards of the broadcast industry, I would say. But yeah,
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of windshield time. That's why I was
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  Speaker 1: excited when I saw 21 minutes. condensing what 30 plus
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: years of drives up and down 43. Those two have
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  Speaker 1: seen some stuff on that highway and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: teach you exactly where to go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is funny because, you know, you talk about
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  Speaker 2: time wasted. I'm sure he looks at it. It may
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  Speaker 2: be at a different perspective is like, no, that's where
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  Speaker 2: like all the conversations, the memories made, uh, things like that.
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  Speaker 3: You have to look at the journey.
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  Speaker 2: As the reward, right? That's, I think the right outlook
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  Speaker 2: because it's, You're right. If you think about the travel
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  Speaker 2: time that you waste, it is a depressing feeling. But
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: look at that as part of the journey or part
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  Speaker 2: of the– sometimes those conversations that you and you two
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  Speaker 2: have on the way back from Lambeau are probably some
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  Speaker 2: of the best memories and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got to look at it that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some harrowing ones in there too, Drew. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my gosh. We're driving home in a major flood.
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  Speaker 2: That one last year, I mean, I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: you guys went through, but you guys went through it.
• 7:29
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• 7:44
  Speaker 1: Very important. Maybe the most important thing. What do you
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  Speaker 1: got for our Current Electric superhero of the day there, Billy? Well,
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: it's going to be kind of tough. A lot of
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: times you can pinpoint one or two individuals throughout a
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: game that need to get highlighted and celebrated. I thought
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: one part would have been Logan Henderson being able to
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: chew up those five innings yesterday. No, he didn't celebrate
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: like everybody else did. And that's where I'd go to
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: one guy that was definitely leading the charge in the celebration.
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: He was the one that said, I think we were
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: running a little bit low on our beer and liquor
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: that we're celebrating and popping bottles with. How about Christian Yelich?
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: Instead of the offer that he was maybe going to
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: have to wear yesterday, delivers the two-run double, the two-run
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: base hit, I should say. It looked like it was
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: about to be a double down that line, but the
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: carom hit. keeps William Contreras at second, scores the two runs,
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: plays Jake Bowers, and gives the Brewers a 5-4 lead
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: that they would ultimately hold on to win with in Pittsburgh.
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: And as much as we talk about, what is it now, 51-26,
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: I believe, at home and 25 games over 500, Drew,
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  Speaker 1: on the road, 43-31 is a really ridiculous mark to
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: look at. The old adage of win two-thirds of your
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: home games and go 50-50 and 500 on the road.
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: they've done way better than that in a large part.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: Being able to beat the Pirates a lot of times
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: wouldn't matter that much. In a year where you've struggled
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh, felt good to be able to get that win.
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: Definitely felt good for Yellich to be the one to
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  Speaker 1: deliver the swing. Absolutely. We've talked about it like, okay,
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: so Brewers are going to face some, I hate to,
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: sorry about this, cover your ears, Mike, earmuffs, Mike Vassallo,
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: high leverage situations in the playoffs. And we talked about
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: who do you want up? And people would say Bowers
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: because he's been good. Terang's getting hot. And you would
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: say Churio because he's a bad MF. Sure, yeah. He's
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  Speaker 1: that guy. But who do you want up facing an
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: 0-2 count in a clutch situation? Christian Yelich. Christian Yelich
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: in an 0-2 count. Because he's going to give you something.
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: Because the better than not chance, Drew, he's working that
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: thing to 2-2. Better than not, Chance, he's moving that
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  Speaker 1: thing up. And I think the really interesting numbers for him,
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: if you dig in through all of it, yes, there
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: has been months where he has been losing. less than productive,
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: 200 Mendoza line average on some of this stuff, but
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: the numbers with runners in scoring position hidden almost 300
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: at two 93 and his OPS is almost eight 40.
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  Speaker 1: So like that has been the one spot that he
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: is actually delivered well in throughout the year and, And
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: you just look at the last month, the last 30
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: days or so, he's started to swing the bat much
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: more consistently. And it all kind of, you know, I
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: pushed back on it significantly of, well, just move him
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: to eight. Move him to the seven hole and it'll
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: be a lot better. Well, he did move him down
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  Speaker 1: to seven like one day.
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: And then there was an injury and then they moved
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: him back up to five. I think they did place
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: him at seven one day. Moved him down to the
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  Speaker 1: five hole. He's had a lot more runners on base.
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  Speaker 1: And you've seen a lot more productive Yelich since he's
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: been moved down in the order. Well, and that's great
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  Speaker 1: to see.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, doesn't it make us all feel good when
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: Yelich comes through? A, because we want it to happen
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: for our team, but B, for him as well. And
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  Speaker 2: the guy, I'm sure, you know, Murph talks about how
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: much he's grinded, but we've talked about how he's been
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: in the face of this team. And Drew, you talked
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: about him being this era for so long. This is
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: the Yelich era. So if it were to some way
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: cap it off in a great playoff run and those things,
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  Speaker 2: it would be wonderful because that's probably the one thing
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  Speaker 2: you have said about him is, some of the playoff
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  Speaker 2: numbers have left to be desired.
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  Speaker 1: He's had a couple of good moments. I shouldn't say
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: a couple.
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  Speaker 2: He's had a few more than a few good moments,
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: but overall the numbers probably aren't where he wants to
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: be in the playoffs and people get on him about that.
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: And I know he's, you know, every year because of
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: the money he makes every year, it's always, we litigate
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: Yelich and things like that, but it would be nice
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: if he was able to have that type of October
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: that all players dream of would be good to see.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to another opportunity of him having it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way you have to look at these things.
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: I think that's the way you have to approach it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, you don't worry about what's happened in the past.
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  Speaker 2: You look at the next one as the opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: a special.
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  Speaker 4: Story to be made.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well put.
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• 12:08
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• 12:27
  Speaker 1: to join us in the next segment of the program today.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: Kyle Harrison against Wilbur Dottel in the series finale. Now,
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: can Kyle Harrison win himself? A playoff spot here. He
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: can win some hearts and minds.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: This is a great opportunity for him, and Brewers are
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: in a great position to be able to look at
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: these things right now.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: Speaking of which, how about Drone last night?
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: Drone show in the bullpen, which I like to see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and our boy Hunter's loved Shane Drone in the bullpen.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: He's been trying to put Shane Drone in the bullpen
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: for a couple of months now, and if you're going
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: to be able to find a way in, find a
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: way on a team that just might be it. He
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: got that inning ending double play when he came in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm fascinated to see Harrison tonight because with the velocity
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  Speaker 1: going back up, but the hard contact also going up
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  Speaker 1: last outing, that was not something I was anticipating. I
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: thought the, I thought the velocity would bring back may
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: Kyle Harrison. Instead, we may have seen the last of
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: that here in 2026, but let's see it. Come on now.
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  Speaker 1: One more time.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's a good reminder that, things
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: rolling in the bullpen and all these things is like
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: when you get to the playoffs and we'll talk to Hunter,
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: but when you get to the playoffs, it's not a
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: traditional starter reliever structure. And I think we sometimes tend
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: to forget that as we go through the season, remembering
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: once we get to the playoffs, weird things are going
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: to happen. Unusual decisions that seem unusual are going to
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: be the norm when it comes to pitchers and when
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: you deploy guys, what you're trying to do, because you're
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: just trying to get outs any way you can. I mean,
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: last year was Chad Patrick everywhere, Trevor McGill to open
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: a game, Ashby, things like that. So who knows what
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: the role is, what the situation is. But when these guys,
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: if and when they find themselves on the playoff roster
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: and They got to be prepared to go in any
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: time to help get out to the team. And that's
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: just what it's about. You know, that was the old
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: council thing. And I know we moved up, but it's
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: like 27 outs. You're out getters. We just take them
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: when we can, especially in the playoffs.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Uh, drawing pitching like Murph did that. He's doing Murph's
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: doing some stuff intentionally to put guys in situations and
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: see how they do. It's almost like a little audition
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: for some guys.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: And that's probably what Harrison's thing is tonight. So I
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: like the way he's approaching that. Because, what, three guys
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: for one spot? May, for sure, is going to be
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: your third starter, right? I would really struggle to see
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: anybody else taking that one.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: He's pitching Friday in Baltimore, right? Yeah, but, I mean,
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Gasser has pitched well down the stretch. If he follows
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: it up, maybe he ends up beating out Harrison. I
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: got to think they would like to have Harrison be
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: a part of it. Not that this is about feelings
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: at all, right? This is about winning and being able
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: to somehow piece together that 26-man roster, but You want
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: to ride the horses that got you here. He's one
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: of the biggest reasons why he won so many games
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: in the early portion of the season. But if you
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: get one last chance, young man, one last stand there
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: at the shootout, we'll see if Kyle Harrison answers the
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: bell tonight.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: And that's a tough needle to thread sometimes because on
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: one hand, you're right. The horses that got you there,
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: but you don't want it to be like a Sean
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: Markham situation. where he's totally cooked by the time he
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: gets to the playoffs. So I think the thing is,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: can you find the juice that Kyle Harrison was giving
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: you earlier in the year? Even if it's for a
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: short time, can you tweak and figure out and figure
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: out what's going wrong, why, and how to get back
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: to the dominant Harrison? And if you can, in a
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: certain situation, can you deploy it to help your team
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: in the right moment, in the right situation come playoff time? So, yeah,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: we'll see. There's still questions to be answered, and those
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: are some of them as we approach the playoffs.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: So last night may have been, in some ways, and
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: we'll talk to Hunter about this, a playoff preview in
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: that the Brewers won the game 5-4. It didn't have
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: playoff intensity. We call it the hangover game. That was
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a schnoozer. But the Pirates hit
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: three bombs and the Brewers hit none and still won 5-4.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Can you do that in the playoffs? They'll be the case.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: They're going to have to do it. If you're going
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: to give up bombs, limit the damage. Don't give up
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: three-run jobs. Just do it. Hey, man, when the Brewers
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: trail Major League Baseball, what, the fewest home runs? I
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: think they've also given up the fewest. They've moved up.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: They're not the fewest, I don't think. Let's go 26th,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I think, now in the newest rankings. Let's go.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: A couple more Garrett Mitchell bombs and we'll get up
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: to 24. They gave up three homers in four runs.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: That math will work. But it's all about how many
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: you score. The Brewers' record when they score four or
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: more is pretty uncanny. Yeah, you're spot on on that one.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: And when Logan Henderson gives up three runs or less,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: oh wait, that's every single time he's done that on
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: the bump, they're going to be in a position to win.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: And also, he just doesn't give up free passes. It
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: does feel when Henderson either gives up a bomb, he's
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: going to walk the next guy, or if he does
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: somehow throw four straight balls. that guy's going to come
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: on in on a big fly because the only way
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: to be able to get him is by making him pay. And,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, a little bit of hard contact there in
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the bottom half of the fifth was the toughest inning
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: for him, but Logan Henderson, as advertised. And that Jones
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: kid is pretty solid on the other side, too. He's
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: coming off Tommy and John, but he's a real deal
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: right-hander as well. The Brewers win 5-4. They're in Pittsburgh
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: trying to go for a sweep. They've won the series.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: They're looking for the sweep, looking to chip away again
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: at the only thing remaining on their plate, which is
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: to win the No. 1 overall seed and outlast the
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Dodgers for that. Winning 100 would be nice. I think
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: they're kind of like they're combined. If you win 100,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers aren't catching you. Yeah, you get there. You're fine.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: You make 100 of the goal. Like 5-5 in these
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: last 10, the Dodgers aren't catching you. Just take care
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: of your business. The Brewers do have the tiebreaker against
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. That's true. That 3 out of 4, that
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: was how you do it. So it's basically almost 4 now.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: So there you go, 4 games with 10 left. When
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: we come back, Hunter Baumgart is going to join us
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: from the Berg as he's enjoying a little playoff clinching trip.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: He'll get the day game today and he's going to
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: join us next year in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Drew Billion-Armond, we're here in Milwaukee in the good land
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: and our pal Hunter Baumgart is in Pittsburgh. His last
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: day of the trip as the Brewers get ready to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: try to sweep the series against the Pirates. They're checking
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: all the boxes including clinching the NL Central while Hunter
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: was there for a celebration. Hunter, we Thanks for joining us.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. How are you guys doing this morning?
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Fantastic. Fantastic. Another game last night. Hunter, I'm wondering if
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: that was in some ways a playoff preview because the
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Brewers gave up three homers, all solos, and won 5-4
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: without hitting a homer themselves. That's kind of the blueprint,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: isn't it?
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: That is pretty much the blueprint. Six pitchers used last night.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Everybody kind of got a taste of that one. Yelich
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: with a key hit. you know, Cooper Pratt with a
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: couple of hits coming off the illness. So the offense
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: was able to get going. I think kind of the epitome,
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: and I asked Pat Murphy about this last night after
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: the game, like the epitome of their offense is two outs,
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: nobody on in the second inning, single, single, single, single,
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: two zero Brewers. I mean, that is the Brewer way.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: And that is how they're going to win down the
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: stretch into the postseason. We all know that. And I
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: think last night was a good example of it. And hey,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: a good example of Coming back after a big celebration
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: to get the win, Pat Murphy saying after the game, hey,
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: you know, our guys might not have went to bed
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: when their moms and dads would have wanted them to
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: last night, but they still came back and played hard,
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: which I thought was a funny joke that he made
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: last night.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: It's okay.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't get. to bed at a reasonable hour either. Probably,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: probably should have been in bed a little bit earlier, but, uh, when,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: when Christian Yelich and the boys stay up late into
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the night, the last thing you want for fans into
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: your mentions Hunter. to be the guy that's unable to
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: come up time and time again. Last night it would
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: have been if he doesn't squeak that thing inside the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: left field line. How cool of a moment was that?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And also, I mean, bigger picture, Bryce Durang in the
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: month of September hitting over 400. Christian Yelich with runners
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: in scoring position, nearly a 300 hitter last month over 290.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: How do you feel like their offense is starting to
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: click at the right time? Most importantly, with the big boppers,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: it's fun talking about Joey Ortiz's offensive production, but the
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: only way they're going to get home in October is
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: if the guys in the top of that lineup start
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: doing what their back of their baseball cards indicate.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: A hundred percent.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, for weeks, we've been talking about how The,
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: if the, the offense is going to improve, it's going
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: to come from within and it's going to come from
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: your guys who you need to rely on the Christian Yelich,
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: the William Contreras, the Bryce to rang, you know, the
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Jackson Cheerio and Cheerio has gotten hot. He's the last
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: few games. He's been a little less than hot and
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: he can be streaky. We know that, but boy, when
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: he's on, he is on and you hope that he's
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: on in October. So we'll see what, what he does,
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: but otherwise, yeah. Bryce to rang is, is in his
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: last 11 games is hitting about 500. Obviously Yelich and
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Contreras starting to contribute more. And that's really good to see.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Just getting better at bats. Bowers is getting on base
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: all the time. And Vaughn is still hitting. 314, and
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: we're sitting in mid-September. I know he maybe hasn't played
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: every day. But it's crazy. I mean, it's just a
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: consistent bat you're getting whenever he's in the lineup.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: And Garrett Mitchell.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: And then what Laura and Pratt have given you. So
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: I think you are in a really good spot with
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: your offense.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I don't feel.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: that any spot one through nine is in a bad
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: spot right now. I think you feel that's how you
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: want to feel heading into the postseason where any spot
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: one through nine can give you a big hit.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: At any time.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: And if, if Joey Ortiz or Cooper Pratt are your
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: nine hitters and they're coming through like they have, I mean,
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: Pratt is still battling the illness. It goes two for
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: four last night with three good at bats. And then
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: of course we know what Joey Ortiz has done, you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Cooper Pratt made his debut about three months ago yesterday.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: And Joey Ortiz since then is hitting about three, 10,
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: three 15.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: So he just continues to hit really well.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: So that, that is the recipe is get those guys
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: at the top of the order to bop. And by bop,
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, your drive, the ball hits some power,
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: get some extra base hits, and then let the Lara's
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: the Pratt's the Ortiz is the Mitchell's do what they do.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: And Mitchell has some power, but, really get on base
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: and let that top of the order cook.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: And that's, that's a good recipe for the playoffs. Yeah.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I was just going to say that Andrew Vaughn story
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: has been really very interesting because this is a guy
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: that we don't always talk about, but he's maintained some
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: of the best numbers on the team in a limited role.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Whereas when he came on last year was kind of
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: that more larger role necessity, kind of a flyer on
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: a former hydra epic. And with the less role, it's
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: been impressive how he's continued to keep that higher level
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: of play, knowing, hey, here's a guy that you can
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: maximize starring in his role, so to speak, when you
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: need him, to the point where I know a lot
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: of fans always ask, when will he play more?
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Totally.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a question pretty much every day. And look,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: obviously you're not going to take Bowers out of the lineup,
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: and Luis Lara's been contributing, and Sal Freelick's kind of
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: the backup there. But Bowers and Vaughn kind of switch off.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: I talked to Garrett Stallings yesterday. pitcher and he's been
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: around the league for a long time. And he pointed
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: that first base position out of like, he's like powers
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: and Vaughn, you know, neither of them complain or anything about,
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: about the playing time or anything, you know, the split there,
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: what Vaughn, maybe he's like Vaughn would play every day
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: on a different team, but he's, he's just, he's, obviously
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: what he'd love to play every day, I'm sure, but
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: he is totally good with doing what the team wants
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: and what the team needs is look, you come and
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: play four innings yesterday and you contribute and drive in
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: a run and a great at bat in his first
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: at bat since, uh, since Friday, I believe that was
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: so he can come in at any time and just
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: give you.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: A good at bat.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Uh, and so that, that is, that is very key. Uh,
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: because you love to have that option off the bench
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: in the postseason, right? You have Vaughn off the bench
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: and Bauer starting. Boy, I think a lot of teams
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: would take a guy hitting 310 to come off their bench.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: We've had variations of this discussion quite a bit, and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: it's like, Vaughn should be playing every day. Look at
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: his numbers. The reason he has the numbers he does
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: is because they don't play him every day.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: They're finding the spots for him, and that's the whole idea.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is to put players in position to succeed. And they
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: are the, he's the opposite. He's not like a stiff,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: but harder courts, aspirin players, you know, you take one
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: aspirin a day. It's okay. You take a hundred of them.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: It'll kill you. The more you play guys that people
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: clamor for, cause they're looking good. The more that their
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: performance goes down. And that's, that's the whole idea. Like,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: that's what we love. That's what the brewers do as
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: well as anybody, if not better.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Platoon of guys and like, oh, this guy should be
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: playing more. He's better than the other guy. Okay. No
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: better example of that than like Joey O, right? I
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: was going to say, yeah, and you find times to
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: be able to get him in and be able to
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: bring the best out of him. Platoon and situational guy
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: always came with a negative connotation, but I think that
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: positional versatility, Hunter, has kind of changed in Major League Baseball.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: I think so, and of course the way the Brewers
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: do it as well. any guys being able to play
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: almost any position, right? I mean, we've seen guys move around.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Andrew Vaughn over at third base some. We've even seen
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: Joey Ortiz a time or two at first base, right? Obviously,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: your best lineup, your best defensive lineup is Bowers or
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: Vaughn at first and Terang at second and Pratt at
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: short and Joey at third, but you're not always going
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: to get that. And so you want to have some
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: advantages offensively if you can while also maintaining your defense
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: in the Brewers. have a roster that can do that.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: And I think your position player group is about as
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: good right now as it has been going into the
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: post season, uh, in, in recent memory. Like if you, if,
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: if you say, okay, your bench heading into the post
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: season includes Freelick and it includes Vaughn. Like I, I
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: think you very much like that. And there's no one
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: really on that bench that you say, oh, I don't
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: like when that guy comes up. David Hamilton has, has
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: great speed and, can bunt and can do something, you know,
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: can come up in a spot and, Hey, we just
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: need a bunt from you here.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Can you go up and get a bunt?
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Or can you pinch run here and steal a base
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: or two? Like, like these guys have great roles that
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: they can fill and you don't feel bad about any
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: of those guys coming up. So I, I think that
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: position player group is in a really good spot.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Were you able to get any more information on what
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Trevor McGill was talking about last night of the casino
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: run that it sounds like the boys had? He talked
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: about the hot roll at the craps table, which is
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: a good thing to be able to run into after
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a celebration night. Was wondering where the boys were going
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to go and celebrate in Pittsburgh. Luckily, there was one nearby.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: But did you hear anything more on who potentially was rolling?
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Because I got to assume Abner Uribe has got a
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: pretty good practice role with how much time and how
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: many times he's rolling dice onto the, onto the pitcher's mound.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: He probably does know kind of how, how, you know, how,
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: how things roll.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: He's lining up those threes Hunter. He's making sure he's
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: rolling a lot of sixes and eights. He's trying to
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: make sure that he's staying as far away from sevens
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: as possible.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: He, he, he knows what he's doing. I, we didn't
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: gather any more information. That was kind of a surprise
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: towards the end of the McGill interview. talking about that
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: they had a casino run, and then he comes back
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: and gets the save last night. So, hey, it all
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: worked out in the end, getting the win last night.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: But that was, again, I think it goes back to
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: what Murphy said about maybe the guys didn't get to
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: bed very early last night, except for Logan Henderson. I
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: think he bowed out a little early. He had to start,
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: and as he said, he had a job to do.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: And look, there's always going to be the next day's
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: starter that's going to have to do that a little bit.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: But Logan Henderson definitely was still able to enjoy it
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: and really talked about how meaningful it was to him,
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: something that he had dreamt about really his whole life
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: about being a part of a clinch celebration like that
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: change Rowan the same way. There's a lot of guys
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: celebrating for the first time here. Trevor McGill was not
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: celebrating for the first time. Uh, and he was kind
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: of the leader of the charge, uh, which, you know, uh,
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: that's just kind of his personality as well of kind
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: of being one of those, uh, more boisterous guys in
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: the clubhouse too.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: So that sounds like true. Uh, when, when, uh, Dan
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Loretta came around with that little envelope.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Three city road trip.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Oh baby. There might've been some nice cash in that envelope.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Hey fellas, just so you guys know, after the game
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and after the celebration, I got a place where we
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: can go triple that thing. All right. I got a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: place where we can go and turn that portfolio.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: It's like the per.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Diem money is still the one of the last cash situations.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Cause they still get it in cash.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Right. I think.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Like, so in a cashless society, it's pretty cool.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: That is one thing.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: And talking about opportunities and being in there, you know,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the Garrett Stallings piece you had earlier, we played it earlier. Hunter,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I loved hearing him talk about the strange long journey
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to get to MLB and not only being on a
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: team or getting there, but getting on a team like
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: this where he's been able to celebrate, kind of sit
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: back and soak it in. Maybe a memory he'll have.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: But not every player gets to gets to do. And
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: every this team is full of small stories like that.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: And he's just one of the many. And I think
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: that's kind of the tapestry of this team is all
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: the small individual stories. And we've talked about each player
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: and we've talked about the uniqueness of each.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: And installings is one of them.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: And I think that's pretty cool to say, you know,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: he said, Hey, I was in, I was on a
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: team that was able to celebrate like this and pop
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: bottles and I could sit back and eat dinner and
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: enjoy that last night.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was really cool to talk to him.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: You could just see the genuine, you know, feeling of
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: gratitude that he had when I was talking to him
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: about it. And I, you know, I saw him standing
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: in his locker. I'm like, you know what, that would
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: be just an interesting kind of insight to think about
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: what was going through his mind as he experienced that
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: last night. And Andrew Vaughn, a former first-round pick who
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: didn't work out so well, had some tough years in Chicago,
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: and now is a key contributor to this team. Jake Bowers, obviously,
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: is the biggest example of that this year, of taking
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: until now to really have his career year and setting
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: himself up well for the future, no doubt about it.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Joey Ortiz.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: Losing his shortstop starting spot and doing even better and
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: being a key contributor down the stretch here for the team.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: There is top to bottom. Shane Drohan has been in
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: the minor leagues a really long time. He's contributed as well.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: And so there are guys. And then you've got the
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: mix of Logan Henderson and Jacob Mizorowski, who are just
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: in their first full years in the big leagues and
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: just lights out. on the mound as well. So you
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: have a great mix there. And then you have the
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: guys like Christian Yelich and William Contreras who are more
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: established and, and leading the team from, from that perspective.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: So they've got a great make Garrett Mitchell's another story,
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: another guy who who's battled obviously injury throughout the last
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: few years and now playing a full season this year.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: And he had the scratched with neck tightness yesterday.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: He's day to day.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: We'll see how he wakes up today and how he
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: feels today. pat murphy saying last night that he didn't
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: know if he could go today so i don't think
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: that they're going to want to push anything at this
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: time of year so my guess is if there's any
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: sign of maybe some tightness still today they would say
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: okay you know what let's just give him one more
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: day and then play him in baltimore this weekend but
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: uh so we'll see we'll see if that comes but
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: you don't want any any sign of any injury at
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: this point.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Hunter uh is today kind of a postseason audition for
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: kyle harrison.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: I would think that today is a big day for him.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: Pat Murphy said yesterday, they're going to treat it like
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: a normal start. Like they don't, you know, they're not
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: going to limit him at three innings or something like that. Now,
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: are they going to let him go a hundred pitches?
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: I know I'm not so sure about that, but I
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: think for, for Kyle Harrison, he just needs to see
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: some results today. Like it just, you know, even if
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: he doesn't, you know, let's say he gives up two
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: runs over five innings. I think that's going to be
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: a great win for Kyle Harrison.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Like I, I, two runs over four innings, maybe.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just, at this point you just need
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: that little bit of success to get his confidence back.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: Cause I mean, it's like, okay, let's move to the
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: bullpen and see what he can do in a relief role.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: And then he comes in and he doesn't record an
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: out in five batters. And it's like, man, and some
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: of those were soft hits and things like that. So
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: it's like, it's you just, but you just want to
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: see that those results and hopefully he's able to get
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: them today. And hopefully that, that can, I, you know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: I think they'll really take everything into account, whatever happens
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: in the next, 10 games into account for Kyle Harrison.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: I don't think everything will hinge on today, but a
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: good portion of it might just to see if he's
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: at least on the right track.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: And they've been working diligently.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Chris Hook, everybody's been working diligently and trying to figure
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: out what's going on. And hopefully today can be the
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: start of him getting back to, it doesn't have to
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: be the first half form, but if it can be
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: somewhat close, just kind of back to average and not
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: just obviously the poor results he's getting lately, that can
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: help the Brewers.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: In the playoffs.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: That'd be interesting. Are you flying back? What's the status
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: of the show tonight? Are you staying in Pittsburgh one
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: more night?
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: So staying till tomorrow morning, we've got Milwaukee baseball tonight
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: leading into you guys on the Thursday night huddle. So
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: four to five this evening, basically going to be a
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: celebration of the year so far.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Basically, we'll hear a sound from the clinch. Awesome.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: If you missed the Garrett Stallings interview this morning, we'll
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: have that for you. Just kind of looking back at
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: not only the success of this season, but also just
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: the sustained success that this organization has had and kind
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: of a big picture look. So it'll be mostly talking
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: about that, looking ahead to the final three series of
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: the season. And that'll be from four until five on
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: Fox Sports 920 in Milwaukee. Just an audio only version there.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: You can listen on the iHeart app or 920 in Milwaukee,
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: and that'll lead into the Thursday night huddle with you
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: guys at five.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Outstanding.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Great.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: What a great setup we got going here. That's a
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: hell of a trip. Amazing. Amazing. Hunter's visits brought to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: us by Import Minded, your trusted source for vehicle care
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: on 27th Street, just north of 894. Hunter, enjoy your
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: final days in Pittsburgh. How's the pregame spread in the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: dining room? I remember it being pretty good, usually.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, actually, it is pretty good. Absolutely.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: PNC Park, I have really no complaints about PNC Park, honestly.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: It is so good. The getting in, getting out is
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: very easy. Like it's just a very smooth, enjoyable process.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I wish you were on the rest of this trip too.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Cause Camden yards is a great ballpark. And then in Philly,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: you get a good ballpark, a competitive team and Frankie
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: two scoops, giving you ice cream. That's the restroom.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: Do they all have a little kidding?
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Pretty much.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: A lot of the parks do. Absolutely. There was a
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: woman in Kansas city. I don't know what, I don't
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: remember her name, but, uh, you used to refer to
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: her as aunt B. from the, uh, from the Andy
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Griffith show.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: And he loves, love him. So she always had to,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: she'd bring him over some cobbler. I knew you wanted something, Bobby.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Aunt B here. Oh, thanks Aunt B. It was, I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: don't know what the hell her name was, but might've
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: been Beverly or somebody called her Aunt B. Uh, Hunter,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: enjoy your time. We will be listening this afternoon and, uh,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: we'll get back here safely.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, we'll do. Thank you guys.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: Uh, yeah, I've been a great week out here and,
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Happy to bring the experience of the clinch and a
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: team that's absolutely rolling. You think about a 5-1 homestand,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: they've won the first two. They're 7-1 in their last
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: eight games.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: It's almost like we're there with you. It's amazing. Thanks, Hunter. Good.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: See you, buddy. When we come back, we've got to
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: close up some shop here. The show's gone by quickly,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: but it's only like the first half. Just cruised for us.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Because we are at Pottawatomie Casino tonight. The Sportsbook Annex
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: right there, just to the side of it. Getting you
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: ready for Thursday Night Football. Wayne Larrabee's going to be there.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Our friends from Jamison are going to be there giving
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: out some samples and some swag, and they have a
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: pair of tickets to the Packers' home opener, which is
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: a week from tonight. One week from tonight, Lambeau Field
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: live on Prime. And we'll remind you now and once
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: more before we get out, the phrase that pays is
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: cut and crack. Walk up to Armand tonight at Pottawatomie,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: say cut and crack, and he's going to hand you
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: a $ 10 gift card. And you are going to cut
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: and crack right over to the sportsbook window, grab yourself
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the two-piece chicken dinner. And enjoy and thank us. Fantastic.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: All right. Closing ceremonies next year in the huddle. Fox
• 36:28
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• 36:32
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• 36:34
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• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Brewers and Pirates, 1130 first pitch. And then that's just
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: a warm-up and then the huddle. Thursday Night Huddle, live
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: from Pottawatomie Sportsbook in the Annex. Us three jabronis, Wayne
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Larravee joining the party, our friends from Jameson giving away
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Packers tickets. Ooh, that's perfect. For the opener Thursday night.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: A week from today, Packers open at Lambeau. But there's
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: this little trip to Manhattan and to the swamps of
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Jersey beforehand. That work trip out there to the East Coast, Drew,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: is an important one. And you have to be able
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: to come out of there with a victory. You have
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to come out of there. This is not a directional
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: school game, though. I know that there are some Packers
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: fans that will look at the Jets on the schedule
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: as the Western Illinois matchup that the Badgers got last
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: weekend or Eastern Michigan coming up 11-30 kickoff at Camp
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Randall this weekend. Definitely not that. They just come off
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: of a two-score win on the road against Tennessee. They're feeling,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: as Aaron Glenn said, flying high. Who wants to fly
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: with those Jets? Is the good, better, best version for
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn this year with the New York jets. He
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to bust out his super special
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: head coaching celebration last year.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: A whole lot.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: They didn't win a lot for him to be able
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: to celebrate in the post game locker room. So they
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: got good vibes rolling. You're going to have to, you're
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: going to have to beat them and you're going to
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: have to be able to slow down a pass rush.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: That is going to Steno talked about it yesterday. There's
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: going to be teams that are going to go outside
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: of what they plan to do defensively, Drew, to see
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: if you're able to over-communicate and pick up the kind
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: of simple walk-up rushes like the Vikings were doing.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it will not be an easy, fun experience there.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Packers may come out with a win.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I hope they do in their favor, too, but it
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: won't be an easy experience.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: One of the last trips I can, the last two
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: trips I can remember to Jet Life Stadium were not
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: all that fun.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: No, absolutely not.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: There was an overtime victory in a year that the
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Packers were bad there against the Jets.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Well, early on.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: A 9-0 victory in 2010.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Had to rescue, yeah, 2010 was a great defensive performance
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl year, but you're right.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: What an ugly game.
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: It was an ugly game. It wasn't any sort of masterpiece.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: It wasn't like a walk in the park experience. And
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: let's face it, the Packers have to prove that they're
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: not the directional school team right now.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, they're the ones that need to win. They
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: haven't won in a long time.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Teams might be looking at them that way. So let's
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: hope they can right this ship coming up.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Department of Corrections Department, we were talking about MLB meal money.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: They've actually scaled it back, Billy. Ooh, okay. By law,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: it's $ 117. 50 a day. So if you're going on a
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: 10-day trip, they peel off like $ 1, 100, right? That's not bad.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: But if the club provides a meal in the clubhouse,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: which they do now. Oh, for sure, yeah. It drops
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: down to $ 35 a day. Oh, basically now because they
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: travel and they've got nutritionists and chefs and stuff like that.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: And it's worth 80 bucks, I guess.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: They, uh, well, so they're kicking the players eat basically
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: two meals a day. I was going to say that
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: they're eating a couple of meals a day. They might
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: go out for lunch, but a lot of guys get
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: there right around one and they eat lunch in the
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: clubhouse and then go about there getting ready for the,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: if they're getting anything that they're bringing into the stadium,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: they're getting a Chipotle bowl or something and walking in
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: and crushing it before they Or, yeah, some guys will
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: do it, but other guys are so hardcore. It's amazing. Well, still, luckily,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: a 10-day road trip, $ 30 a day, a little $ 400
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: to throw on the craft table. Let's see if we
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: get this thing rolling. Let's see if somebody can hit
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a streak. Exactly. Everyone likes a
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: little spending money. How about making some money and some
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: investments at Pottawatomie? We're going to see you there at
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock tonight for The Huddle, Thursday Night Huddle Live,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: leading you into Bill's And Lions, a great Thursday night matchup.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: The new first game in Highmark Stadium. And Wayne Larrabee's
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: going to be with us. And Jamison's going to be
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: giving away Packers tickets and samples. It's going to be
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: a blast. What else would you want to do on
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: your Friday, Junior? Come out and huddle up with us.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Going to have some fun there. Thanks for hanging out
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: with us. We'll be back at it tomorrow. Wayne will
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: join us on the show tomorrow if you miss him
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: at the huddle tonight. We'll see you at 5 a.m.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Peace!