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10/20/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle. It's time
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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.
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Let's go out and kick some tape.
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 3: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 1: We got some big plays coming.
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  Speaker 3: What the hell's going on out here? Yellow Weasel. We're
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  Speaker 3: calling the plays, all right? It is time.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you think you are?
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen. When he spoke, he commanded your attention
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  Speaker 2: and he commanded your respect. Bill Schmidt. That son of
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  Speaker 2: a gun is thick.
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  Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the huddle indeed. It's the Tuesday edition. Broadcasting
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  Speaker 2: live from headquarters on 920 in Milwaukee, 1070 Madison.
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  Speaker 6: That's Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. Streaming live, Facebook X and YouTube. I'm Drew Wilson,
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  Speaker 2: joined by Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Bill Schmidt.
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  Speaker 2: The boys are back. That means the huddle.
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  Speaker 5: It means basketball boys are back because everybody was clamoring
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  Speaker 5: for some NBA on World Series Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Drew, it's a good one to be in here for. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let's get it. Come on now. Let's get it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Armin Sarian is here as well, helping us with the...
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  Speaker 2: Pushing the buttons and monitoring that NicoletLaw.com talking text line 877-794-1973. Though,
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  Speaker 2: Armin is more partial to the YouTube comments. He likes
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  Speaker 2: to watch the conversation flow like a river.
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  Speaker 7: It's a living, breathing thing, you know, to watch these
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  Speaker 7: conversations go, to watch the comments pop up.
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  Speaker 5: Not usually supposed to pick favorites, but I do like
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  Speaker 5: that you've. kind of glammed onto and own those ones.
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  Speaker 7: Well, the nice thing is if you are watching us
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  Speaker 7: on our video stream, uh, YouTube X, Facebook, a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of people like to do it.
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  Speaker 7: And, uh, you know, you can see those comments pop
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  Speaker 7: up as well, and you can watch the chat as well.
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  Speaker 7: So you can be more interactive in that sense. Obviously
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  Speaker 7: we love everybody that's listening and interacting with our program.
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  Speaker 7: It's going to be a heavy week of interaction. As
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  Speaker 7: we know, world series match upset historic week in Milwaukee. So,
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  Speaker 7: and of course, as Billy said, the NBA tips off today,
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  Speaker 7: which is what everyone was focused on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: A 2 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Tip on national television, which is fantastic. So the matchup
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  Speaker 2: is set. The Brewers will be playing the Rays. It
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  Speaker 2: is the small market, you know, small market blueprint versus
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  Speaker 2: the mid market with a small market payroll blueprint.
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  Speaker 6: Because Tampa ain't a small market.
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  Speaker 5: No, they've operated like the greatest of small markets, though,
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  Speaker 5: in this baseball realm, Drew.
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  Speaker 3: And it's.
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  Speaker 2: It's fascinating to see.
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  Speaker 5: How, as much as the big bad Dodgers are the
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  Speaker 5: one that everybody talks about, rightfully so, the organization that
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  Speaker 5: everybody's trying to be has been the Tampa Bay Rays
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  Speaker 5: for the better part of the last two decades.
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  Speaker 2: It has, and now these teams are going to meet
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  Speaker 2: two teams that do it the right way, two teams
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  Speaker 2: that kind of mirror each other in many ways because
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  Speaker 2: of the way, you know, a bunch of no-names, bottom line. Although...
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  Speaker 2: The unique circumstance, Brewers are going to be favored at
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  Speaker 2: the ticket window, at the betting window. Pretty decent series
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  Speaker 2: market and game on market. They're heavily favored on that front.
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  Speaker 2: They have the higher payroll and.
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  Speaker 6: Probably more known players than the Rays do.
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  Speaker 2: I would agree with that.
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  Speaker 5: Even maybe one of the best known players for the Rays,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of his best times were as a Milwaukee
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  Speaker 5: Brewer for Freddie Peralta, the one that ends up winning
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  Speaker 5: the award last night.
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  Speaker 2: ALCS MVP, Freddie Peralta. Who'd have thunk when he was
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  Speaker 2: toiling for the Mets and with a six ERA.
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  Speaker 6: It's just amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And they were like floundering around in last place and
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  Speaker 2: everybody was like, what's Stearns bring this guy in for?
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  Speaker 6: He sucks. Well, maybe not.
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  Speaker 5: We were wondering who's going to try and grab him
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  Speaker 5: at the deadline because somebody was going to. You knew
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  Speaker 5: somebody was going to take the lottery ticket, but there
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  Speaker 5: was rightful questions of what exactly are you getting if
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  Speaker 5: you bring in Freddie Peralta at this point?
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  Speaker 2: What is he going to provide you?
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  Speaker 5: Well, provide you the best two starts that you had
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  Speaker 5: outside of right now who might be at least performing
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  Speaker 5: that way. The best pitcher in the series does reside
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  Speaker 5: with Tampa Bay because Rasmussen at the moment has been
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  Speaker 5: the best starter in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: And he going to win the Cy Young in the
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  Speaker 2: American League side?
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  Speaker 5: I think Schlittler might. Schlittler is probably going to win it.
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  Speaker 5: Rasmussen is going to be a hard one to... show
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  Speaker 5: up after he's performed this way.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely get votes.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, another former brewer, he came up with the
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  Speaker 7: brewers in 2020 and then was involved in that.
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  Speaker 2: He was the centerpiece of the Adamas trade. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So, I mean, it's funny how things come around. The
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  Speaker 7: irony of the twists and turns of what's happened is
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  Speaker 7: almost too overwhelming to mention.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to fathom. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 7: Life is the greatest kind of irony in that sense.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of us were looking for a Freddie Peralta
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  Speaker 7: reunion to the trade deadline, but he was a piece
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  Speaker 7: of trash.
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  Speaker 2: To a lot of people after what happened in New York.
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  Speaker 7: So example 9 million of why a change of scenery
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  Speaker 7: sometimes can help boost a guy in the right situation.
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  Speaker 7: And Peralta's done that now for the Rays, and it's
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  Speaker 7: going to be quite remarkable. You guys noticed his velocity
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  Speaker 7: was ticked up last night. He said postgame he didn't
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  Speaker 7: even realize it, but he was up around 99, which
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  Speaker 7: is like we're desensitized.
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  Speaker 2: To that number now. Like everyone comes in and throws
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  Speaker 2: a hundred for Freddie.
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  Speaker 7: Our guy throws, but for Freddie, he's usually around 96, 97,
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  Speaker 7: a take up in velocity. So he was really revved up, obviously.
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  Speaker 7: So it's just amazing to think about it. Freddie Peralta,
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  Speaker 7: LCS MVP for Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to play. Well, it's yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Freddie Peralta debuts in 2018 for the Brewers. Now ALCS
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  Speaker 5: MVP with the Rays. Jake Bowers debuts in 2018 for
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  Speaker 5: the Rays. Now, NLCS MVP for the Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 5: And Matt Arnold obviously coming here and being, Drew, one
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  Speaker 5: of the greatest holdovers you could have. Pat Murphy gets
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  Speaker 5: a lot of the shine, rightfully so. But Matt Arnold
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  Speaker 5: staying when David Stearns departed for the New York Mets
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  Speaker 5: and has picked up right where he left off, maybe
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  Speaker 5: even better yet. He comes from Tampa Bay Friedman, who
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  Speaker 5: you just knocked off in LA came from Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody's been trying to get a glimpse and a taste
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  Speaker 5: of what the rays have had for a while. I
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  Speaker 5: do think it is right that the two organizations were
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  Speaker 5: at some point gone meet. It is just funny now
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  Speaker 5: because for a lot of folks, we just heard cow
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  Speaker 5: her Colin who loves baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Just talking about it. Yep.
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  Speaker 5: Listen to Colin show a decent amount, probably more than
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  Speaker 5: a lot of folks do. I don't hear Colin talk
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  Speaker 5: a ton of baseball, but I got to hear him
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  Speaker 5: be very excited about the pure game that we're going
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  Speaker 5: to see. Drew, you said it, do it the right way.
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  Speaker 5: There's going to be a lot of grandstanding baseball purists
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  Speaker 5: who probably have not watched a ton of baseball lately.
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  Speaker 5: Haven't said that they didn't like the way baseball was going. Well,
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  Speaker 5: maybe the ratings will be better than the networks think
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  Speaker 5: because this is the way people want to see.
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  Speaker 2: The game being played. Funny you should say that. Funny
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  Speaker 2: you should say that because for the second year in
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  Speaker 2: a row, the Dodgers and Brewers met in the NLCS,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a sweep.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously, we prefer this year's version of the events. Very
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  Speaker 6: much so.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. But the four-game series that just finished last week,
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  Speaker 2: averaged 7.5 million viewers across Fox and FS1, which was
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  Speaker 2: up 60% from last year. How about that? The same matchup. 60%
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  Speaker 2: higher than it was on TBS and TruTV.
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  Speaker 7: What an incredible difference. It's not like 15% or 10%. 60%
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  Speaker 7: is remarkable, and once again, it's spewing a lot of what.
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  Speaker 2: We think of the trends. Now, you might say, well,
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  Speaker 2: Fox is Fox, and it's kind of like more over
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  Speaker 2: the air for people. It's kind of like one of
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  Speaker 2: the core, like... It's one of their core four or
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  Speaker 2: five networks. And then TBS is cable. So, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: last year, Fox had a seven-gamer with the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 2: and the Mariners.
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  Speaker 6: It was quite a compelling series.
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  Speaker 2: And you compare the Brewers-Dodgers four-game sweep to that seven-game series,
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  Speaker 2: and it was up 50%. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: People love, like, People love the Brewer story, and they
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  Speaker 2: love watching the Dodgers lose.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I'm coming around to.
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  Speaker 2: That's very true.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of hate watching of the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: They want to see the little guy topple the villain also. Brewers-Dodgers,
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  Speaker 2: the most watched LCS in either league since 2015 when
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  Speaker 2: the Mets swept the Cubs on TBS. Which is obviously
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  Speaker 2: two big markets and a compelling story there. And the
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  Speaker 2: most watched on Fox Sports since the last one to
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  Speaker 2: air fully on the Fox Broadcast Network, Red Sox-Tigers 2013.
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  Speaker 5: So....
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  Speaker 2: Another good compelling story. And then you add in the
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  Speaker 2: out-of-home viewing and stuff because people will go to parties
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. That's pretty cool. That's no small
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  Speaker 2: feat for a Milwaukee series had huge ratings. Rightfully so. And,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess I didn't understand it. Probably should have.
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  Speaker 5: Probably should have hit me earlier that it was one
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  Speaker 5: of the first two times that 200-plus win teams in
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  Speaker 5: the National League had played for the pennant. And I
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  Speaker 5: don't know that that was part of the reason why.
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  Speaker 5: I think a lot of it was exactly what you said.
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  Speaker 5: People like to hate watch the Dodgers, and a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people got to pay it off that way. Now,
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  Speaker 5: I think the Brewers have grabbed a number of storylines.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they will be a little bit more of the
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  Speaker 2: darling going into this. series.
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  Speaker 5: And especially when the national idea and sees what the trial,
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  Speaker 5: what Tropicana field turns into, because the way it is
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  Speaker 5: going at this moment right now, it feels like it
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  Speaker 5: is going to be a raucous atmosphere and there's going
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  Speaker 5: to be a ton of snowbirds traveling down South. The
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  Speaker 5: Packers played their early October. This one drew A much
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  Speaker 5: more seemingly hot ticket and one that I think a
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  Speaker 5: lot more people are going down for. People love to
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  Speaker 5: go down for the Packers game in Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. But there's a ton going down for this one,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. And they're conditioned to going down there
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  Speaker 2: for Badgers bowl games. Oh, they're used to it. They're
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  Speaker 2: used to that trip. That's about 30 years of history
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  Speaker 2: of Outback and Capital One bowls.
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  Speaker 7: And you know everybody and everyone's answer. and Barb from
• 10:01
  Speaker 7: Oconto has a place down somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: In Naples or Clearwater. You got family down there.
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  Speaker 7: Everyone's got a spot they can go to. They've made
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  Speaker 7: that trip before. And everyone jumped on the thinking that
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  Speaker 7: everyone had. I mean, everyone said the same thing. Let's
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  Speaker 7: go to Tampa. You saw tickets available. You saw what
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  Speaker 7: it was like for their watch party. That's going to
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  Speaker 7: be American Family Field South. And the prices reflect that, guys.
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  Speaker 7: Here it is from Kayak right here. $ 1, 900 for a ticket.
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  Speaker 7: Those prices jumped up for a plane ride to Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: Add some roots.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, people.
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  Speaker 7: It's just amazing. It's just amazing to think about that.
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  Speaker 7: I guess this is a good time to get the
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  Speaker 7: RV fired up. I mean, if you take that thing
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  Speaker 7: down for Daytona anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, just start driving. I mean, you know, right
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  Speaker 7: after game two is over and you'll get there right
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  Speaker 7: into I mean, you'll get there.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I was sitting on Armin Sarian's favorite website,
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  Speaker 5: American Airlines website yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 5: The fight as the was the eighth inning when Cleveland's
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  Speaker 5: mounting the comeback.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: So it's five one. They got the bases loaded. They
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  Speaker 5: hit the guy like, all right, Drew, I got it.
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  Speaker 2: Everything.
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  Speaker 5: Pulled up here, flying out Monday morning, coming back Tuesday
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  Speaker 5: to join you guys and be ready to roll for
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  Speaker 5: game number four. But get down there for game three.
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  Speaker 5: Had the tickets for a week and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh. five, three. Yeah, this is getting a little sketchy.
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  Speaker 5: All right, we'll hold off for a tick as Yandy
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  Speaker 5: Diaz rounds the bases for the, the electrifying dagger shot
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  Speaker 5: that he puts in the bottom of the eighth inning.
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  Speaker 2: That was the click.
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  Speaker 5: That was the hit send, finish it off and polish
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  Speaker 5: it off. Now the damage was, was definitely done. It's
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  Speaker 5: definitely a round trip ticket is not a cheap one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no.
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  Speaker 2: But we got it for, I think six 70. That's
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  Speaker 2: a good price round trip.
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  Speaker 5: Now it, like you said, I mean, his balloon doubled up,
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  Speaker 5: but I still think there's a lot of folks that
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  Speaker 5: are doing the math and realizing that math is mathing.
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  Speaker 5: If I really feel like I need to be at
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  Speaker 5: one of these games and really desperately want to go,
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  Speaker 5: the affordable option is going all the way down to
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  Speaker 5: Florida and driving at 19 hours or flying.
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  Speaker 2: The driving.
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  Speaker 7: I think that math is starting to change now when
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  Speaker 7: you start to see the prices jump up for games
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  Speaker 7: in Tampa to like the 800, 900 range to get in.
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  Speaker 2: And the flights. But you're right, Billy. If you got
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  Speaker 2: on it at the right time, like you did. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll have.
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  Speaker 7: Our Brewers reporter insider Hunter Baumgard and noted travel agent
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  Speaker 7: in next to talk a little bit about that, too. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: it's been just pretty wild. But look at it this way.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, hey, that's like they're going to be home games.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, not really.
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  Speaker 7: But, yeah, the fan support is going to be there.
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  Speaker 7: The Brewers will have their support. We know how excited
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  Speaker 7: everyone is for this. And it's going to be a
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  Speaker 7: lot of fun. And it's going to be, like you said,
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  Speaker 7: they're playing. their mirror image in the AL. I think that's,
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  Speaker 7: what's interesting about this. It's like, okay, you had to
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  Speaker 7: beat the villains, the Dodgers. Now you have to beat yourself.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 7: That's like the, isn't that like the end of every Epic,
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  Speaker 7: every Epic novel or every, you know, grand story is
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  Speaker 7: eventually the battles with yourself and the brewers can see
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  Speaker 7: themselves in the mirror with the rays in some ways.
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  Speaker 7: So a lot of compelling storylines. I think that's why the.
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  Speaker 2: Ratings are good and they're going to be good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think this is going to be better than people think.
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  Speaker 2: The NBA is underway. Pistons, Celtics kicking off. What is it,
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  Speaker 2: a quadruple header today?
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  Speaker 5: They got a triple. They get this one, and then
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  Speaker 5: it is the debut in the Sixers blue for LeBron James. Because,
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  Speaker 5: let's be honest, as much as Jalen Brown going back
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  Speaker 5: to Boston, that would have been a great storyline. the
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  Speaker 5: center of the NBA universe still is LeBron James in
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  Speaker 5: year number 24. So he's going to be in the
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  Speaker 5: headline game on banner night against the New York Knicks.
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  Speaker 5: And then the game that everybody's going to be excited for.
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  Speaker 5: And luckily drew as we start week, number two of
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  Speaker 5: the afternoon huddle two to five here, the one that
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  Speaker 5: we get to stay up for and enjoy Oklahoma city
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  Speaker 5: and San Antonio tonight. Cause if there's two teams that
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  Speaker 5: despise each other, those are the two. And after signing
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  Speaker 5: up for all of the games that we got last
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  Speaker 5: year in the Western Conference Finals, I'll sign up for
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  Speaker 5: about 15 more of those battles because I got a
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  Speaker 5: feeling they're meeting in the playoffs again. We'll get it
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  Speaker 5: here tonight to kick off the NBA season.
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  Speaker 6: That'll be all right. 877-794-1973. The name Jake Woodford coming
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  Speaker 6: up a lot today.
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  Speaker 2: Woodford Reserve. Jake Woodford started the season with the Brewers,
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  Speaker 2: was released, went to the Cubs, signed with the Rays.
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  Speaker 2: Pitched like 23 innings for the Brewers and a couple
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  Speaker 2: innings for the Rays.
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  Speaker 6: He's the one guy guaranteed a ring.
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  Speaker 2: He secured the bag.
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  Speaker 6: He's locked in.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to get a ring and at least a
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: partial share of the World Series share, which I think
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: last year's winner's share of the World Series is about 400K.
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  Speaker 5: So does he get in for all of the previous rounds, too,
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  Speaker 5: with both teams? Or is it only a championship one?
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  Speaker 5: I think it might be only a championship.
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure how that works.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: I think they do. Well, you do.
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: Let's say the Dodgers.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: They have a pool of money that they'll get to
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: kick around and divvy up, and then they'll determine who
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: gets a full share. Players vote, right?
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the players usually vote. It's a partial share.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it can get pretty contentious. I've heard stories of
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: guys just, you know, like veteran players with big paychecks,
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: and sometimes even younger players against veteran players saying, why
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: are you being so cheap? That guy stretched you every day. Like,
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: how can you stiff him?
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: You know, how do you? It gets a little bit.
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: It can get a little contentious.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: Brewers players in the past, for example, they used to
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: vote Bob Uecker.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say, famously, and he'd
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: give it to his charity. And he would kick it
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: into charity and stuff because he didn't, you know.
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: But he was honored that he felt like he was
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: part of the team. They made him feel that way.
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: They gave him a share.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, this year it's about $ 400, 000, which is not shabby.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: That's nothing to sneeze at.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: You could buy some World Series tickets with that.
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: He was traded to the Brewers from the Rays. Yeah,
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: and then they brought him back at the end of
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: the year. And then they brought him back in the
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: end of the year.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: I like that. He just had a full circle season.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: And he's also from St. Pete.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: He's played for seven teams.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's perfect. He was with the Cubs. Yeah, he's
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: been with a bunch. He was with the Guardians once, too,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: I think. So he's got a lot of connections to
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: this playoff run. But Brewers-Rays, everybody will say it's a
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: network's nightmare. No one's going to care. That's the first
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: instinct people say, but deeper looks at it, right? And
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: you can talk all you want about media bias and
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: all that, and people still mad about what the panel
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: had to say during the LCS. Rosenthal, Verducci, the guys
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: who are there all the time, they love this. They
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: love this. They love Brewers-Rays. First of all, it's the
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: two best teams from the regular season. It's not a
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: novel concept that they should be playing for the title.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: There's no cheapy, hot run. Best team in the NL
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: against the best team in the AL. Fire it up
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: and see who's better.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: Great for a guy like me who loves to gatekeep
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: against those 84-win teams.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: But this is like when people talk about style of
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: play and small market and taking extra bases and playing
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: clean defense. These are both teams as opposed to collections
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: of all-stars. Yeah, and they're well-developed guys, that's for sure.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: These are teams that can't afford to sign Juan Soto,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: but Juan Soto's at home watching them play.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: But both organizations have been, I think, uniquely have tried,
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: and tried in better fashions than others have. Famously, Tampa
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: tried to go and get Otani three years ago from L.A.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: They couldn't, and probably lucky for them, because they wouldn't
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: have Junior Caminero sitting there in the middle of the lineup.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: He's their cheerio, by the way.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: And for the crew, you're sitting here saying, yeah, it
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: would be really, really nice to have Tarek Skubal, but
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: with a few more guys out of that farm system
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: as well.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: They've taken swings.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: They've tried to take bigger ones, but they do it
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: their way, and they finally end up getting to win
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: and enjoy it. I also like The thing that networks
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: will hate even more are sweeps. As much as if
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: there's anything that a network definitely doesn't like, it's the
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: lack of inventory. They don't necessarily care as much who wins.
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: They definitely don't want four games. They wanted to make
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: sure that they were able to fill it up a
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: little bit more throughout this.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Week and weekend. Yeah, there's no question about it.
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: You'd love to have compelling storylines for people to follow,
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: and then you're right, Billy, the total number of games,
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: which it's interesting. I saw somewhere that The most common
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: amount of World Series games, the most common length of
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: a World Series game is seven games. I don't know
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: why I wouldn't have guessed that. But, hey, that's the
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: most likely. That's the most common, I should say.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: The most common is seven games for a World Series?
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Apparently, yeah. Apparently. Did you AI that?
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Because that doesn't sound right to me.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: No, I was a guy on Twitter, so it must
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: be right. Nah, it doesn't sound right to me. It
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: didn't sound right to me either.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it doesn't sound right to me. There aren't that
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: many games.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe I'll go for one tonight. Why is game
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: seven such a spine-tingling phrase? Because for all the Tostitos,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: and it doesn't happen that often. I would say there's
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: more decided in six than in seven. That's what I
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: voted on the guy's poll. I'll find it. In terms
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: of the gambling aspects, Brewer's favorite, minus 160 is the
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: number I saw.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Is that what Pato's got for you?
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Pato at minus 175. Juiced a little bit more into
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: a different direction for the crew.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: And Tampa was plus 140. But the futures bets, if
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: you went.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Down and put $ 1, 000 on the Brewers to win the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: World Series back in April.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: You're cashing a nice $ 35, 000 check.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: Brewers are the 14th highest odds, and the Rays are
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: the 22nd highest to start the year.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: So you're talking about two of the longest shots.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: The Rays were 80-1. 80-1 in the beginning of the year.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Brewers got 30-1. That'd be the longest shot the.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: Rays won since the 91 Twins, who were a very
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: good team, legitimately. And that was one of the great
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: World Series ever, Drew, as you remember, the 91 World
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: Series with the Braves.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: But that would be the longest shot. Drew Rasmussen against
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Miz in game one. That's going to be electric. Yeah.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: And again, Rasmussen has been by far the best starter
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: in the playoffs. And for somebody that he had, what, two?
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: I want to say he had two significant arm injuries
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: before he was into the big leagues with the Brewers.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: And there were some folks that didn't necessarily know how
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: long his career would be. He pitched at Oregon State,
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: I believe, and was an absolute menace in the development
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: time and was highly, highly lauded. But a lot of
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: folks just didn't know that he was going to be
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: able to last this long. And he's continued to soar
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: through their expectations.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: He pitched an inning in relief for the Brewers in
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: the postseason in 2020. So he was with the Brewers
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: in 20 and 21. Before he went to the Rays.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: And he was shipped off in one of my favorite moves.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: That was made in baseball. Because it was right during
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: the time. Where generally there weren't trades. I believe the
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Freddie Peralta. Or the pardon me. Willie Adamas trade with
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: the Rays. Happened like the beginning of June. Late May.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: And it was right after a sequencing. Of probably three games.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: And seven days.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Where Luis Arias.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: They were trying to hand this guy the shortstop position.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Begging him to be the shortstop. He was not trying
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: to take it, was not living up to the hype,
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: especially on defense. And at one point counts in a
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: postgame says, if you're trying to play in the playoffs,
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: you just can't.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Make plays like that.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: You're just not going to be able to do that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Two days later, Willie Adonis was the starting shortstop. So
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: they had to find someone. The Rays definitely needed to
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: get rid of him at the moment because they had
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Wander Franco coming up, who was the best prospect in
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: all of baseball.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: And they would then sign to an 11-year, $ 180- some million contract.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: And that.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Blows up in their face. And they're still three years
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: later into the World Series. It shows how good both
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: of the organizations have been. And for the Rays, now
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: they've won their third pennant in what? They won their
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: first one in 08 was when they played the Phillies?
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: That's correct. So third in 20 years. David Price, yeah.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: And they've been knocking at the door ever since. And
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: they've had some of the best players in ball roll
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: right through that place in the trop.
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: So they've never won a World Series. They've only been
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: at it 30 years.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Lightweight, right? Brewers have scuffled and struggled a lot. That
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: was a May 21st trade in 2021 for Adamas. That
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: sent Rasmussen and J.P. Fireeisen south to Tampa.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Not a general time where you're making massive blockbuster moves.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Not at all.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: But it was one of those good baseball trades. Helped
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: both teams. Rasmussen's been good for them. Adamas was very...
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: No one's going to say Adamas' impact in Milwaukee was huge.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Huge.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, he was so good.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: No question.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: No question about it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: The Brewers didn't get anything in terms of the playoff
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: success you would have wanted, and there's no chance anybody
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: would take that trade back.
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: Nope.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: Not a chance.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, totally.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Not a chance.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: All right, we're off and running with the Tuesday edition.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Packers off today, so it's kind of a potluck. I
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: think today we can probably bring back game balls and
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: kicks because we got to none of them yesterday. Why not?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Might as well.
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: Might as well.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Armand's got the sound effects ready. We might as well
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: go with them. Hunter Baumgart going to join us next. Yes.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Is he in the building?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: He's in the building, yes. All right, because I know
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: he was going to join us because he's doing another
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: baseball program tonight. We're all Hunter all the time. After
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: us from 5 to 6, but we can't get enough baseball,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: so Hunter is going to join us next.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: You, smart, good-looking listener, are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Brewers, Brewers, let's go Brewers. Let's play some baseball today. Oh, baby.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Brewers.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Somebody sent a CD
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: to the station. We still have CDs? I don't know
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: how you're playing that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I figured I'd get Carlo a spin here.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Brewers, Pocos, and it's like four Brewers songs. I definitely
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: heard this before.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: From different eras.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: All right, Carlo. I've heard these before. These aren't new.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Good job.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: KH Films, so I got your song in. Sort of
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: a banger, right? No, definitely not.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: No, no.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: He was smart enough to put it on YouTube because
• 23:53
  Speaker 7: this is not.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Not functioning? Shockingly so. Largest radio company. We don't have
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: CD players. Glad somebody burned it. Well, Drew, that's sort
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: of understandable these days.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: I'm just saying.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: It's like we don't have reel-to-reel either. Hunter Baumgart is
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: here with us. He's our baseball go-to guy brought to
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: us by Community Roofing. He's been covering the Brewers all
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: season long, including the clincher in Pittsburgh, the series in
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: San Diego, and the series that just wrapped up the
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: highest rated NLCS in years. Hunter was on the scene
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: at Dodger Stadium, and he's getting ready. Have you heard
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: anything about workouts here? Are they going to do a
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: public workout before Thursday, or are we just locked out
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: until then?
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Um....
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I think it's just Thursday.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know if you were not ready to be.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Able to upload that information there.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Sorry. No, I was. I just realized. I mean, there
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: was just a planning meeting. There was just a planning
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: meeting on Zoom. Did you jump onto that? There was.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: I was in a different meeting, and I unfortunately was unable.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: To do that.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Ah, I missed it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Well, they're just suggesting story ideas and things like that.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: So that's not that big a deal.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: But, Hunter, what's new with us and what I want
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: to ask you is now we know it's going to
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: be the Rays. So Freddie Peralta win the MVP of
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: the LCS last night. Fastball Freddie and the Rays are
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: coming to Milwaukee. What does this matchup look like to you?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Because we talked about it yesterday. I remember next to
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: nothing of that series that the Rays played here at
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: the end of March, early April. I remember next to
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: nothing about it.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: And I think these two teams are very different when
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: it comes to where they were at in late March
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: and where they're at now. Obviously we pointed out that
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: when he fo hit clean up for the brewers and
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: then hit that series. Uh, so I think that is,
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: that is very different than where they are now, but
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: I do also think that. These two teams are very
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: similar in the way they get things done. When I
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: was watching that series between the rays and the guardians,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: the rays remind me of the brewers. They, they have speed,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: they get on base. That's not always the home run.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Obviously common arrow had the big one last night, but
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: otherwise it's a lot of that type of ball. that
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: you see from the Brewers. And I think that makes
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: it more evenly matched. I still think the Brewers are
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: the better team in this series, but I do think
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: that the Rays were the best team in the American league.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: So they are at least the toughest team to come
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: out of that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: The AL was inferior to the national league on all
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: counts this year.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: Well, the only division that wasn't was the AL East, right? Like,
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: and that was the only one that they had to
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Duke out quite a bit with, with three teams coming
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: out of there. And, Toronto still pushing towards the end.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: The one that was an eyelash away two or three
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: different times last year from winning the whole thing. So
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: that was one of the most competitive divisions in ball.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: And for them to be able to come out of
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: it and pitch through it, I think that well shows
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: one of the reasons why they're here. Hunter, like even
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: though they went and grabbed Peralta and he wins the
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: LCS MVP. And I don't know that that really shows
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: and shines just how good their pen is. And I mean,
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: their back end of the pen with Baker is he's
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: been as good as any closer in ball this year,
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: if not better than everyone else.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Totally.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: And so I don't know. I think I look at
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: that pitching staff and I say they're a tough pitching staff.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: When you talk about the top two starters, when you
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: talk about the bullpen, you just mentioned the closer. But
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: then I also say to myself, yeah, but they just
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: beat Scooble, Yamamoto, Snell, and Glass now in four consecutive games.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: And they beat Morajon and they beat Mason Miller. I
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: don't know. You can't get much better than that. Yes,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Rasmussen and Peralta and Baker, and they're a good staff,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: but look what the Brewers did against those elite pitchers
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: in San Diego and L.A., And I think they can,
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: if they just continue, I think the big key for
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: them is continue to have the good at bats. We
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: saw the really good at bats, both in the San
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Diego series and the LA series. They scored more in
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: the LA series because they took advantage of some situations
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: that they maybe didn't against San Diego. Those at bats
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: in the playoffs for the Brewers have been just really good.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: You look at what they've done on the hitting side,
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: they're hitting two 50. The rays have hit two 32
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: in the post season. So it's a significant difference between
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: the two. The rays are the third best team when
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: it comes to batting average. The home runs is still wild.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: The Brewers lead all of baseball and home runs in
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: the postseason at 10. Tampa's at 7. So the average
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: is there. The OPS, the Brewers have the OPS difference
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: between the teams. OPS, 739 for the Brewers. For the Rays,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: down at 649. So you have a significant advantage there.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, you look at walks. The Brewers have walked
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: 34 times. The Rays just 21. The Brewers' offense has
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: been significantly better.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Than the way he is in the postseason.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: That's true. And without looking.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: And they face better pitching, too. Hunter has stats, but
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: without looking, Billy and Armin, who's the Brewers' leading batter
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: in terms of batting average and maybe even slug in
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: the postseason? Well, slugging, it would be Terang.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: He's slugging like 12... Slug 12-14 in that LCS, I think.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have thought.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I would have thought Bowers, maybe, but I guess... Hunter,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: who's the Brewers batting average leader in the post? Do
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: you have a composite box anywhere? I do.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: So, yeah, hitting leader in the postseason for the Brewers
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: would be Contreras at 367.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, of course. Yeah, I should have thought of that, too.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: That was a good one.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Contreras at 367, and then second would be Hooper Pratt. Now,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: David Hamilton, I think, is also hitting like 450. These
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: are probably qualified guys. I'm looking at Hamilton as the
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: highest average.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, 455.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, 455.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: In his limited, but, you know.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: Four of seven in the LCS will do that for you.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: Indeed.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And Jackson's had the big moments.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's hitting 171.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: He's hitting 170, but he's got the big moments.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: The thing to me when I watch, and Hunter Baumgart
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: is here, thanks to our friends at Community Roofing, communityroofing.com,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: the thing that strikes me about the Rays is the
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: that if you can shut down Common Arrow and Diaz,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: you're in pretty good shape.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: And then you, you know, the.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Brewers like, oh, we got to shut down Yelich or
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: we got to look at how the Brewers come at
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: you and look at David Hamilton hitting a home run
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: in a clinching game.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: Like who had that on their bingo card? It seems
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: like the.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Brewers have a more diverse attack that can get you
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: more ways. I just feel like if you get past
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: the first four of the Rays lineup, the drop off
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: is Sure, the bottom of their order can set the
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: table and get things going, just like the Brewers have
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: done in the past, but I just think the Brewers
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: have more of everything. More starting pitching, more and better
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: bullpen options, and more offense.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, not to sound like one of the
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: guys on the Fox broadcast, but Johnny DeLuca doesn't necessarily
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: scare me. Like, that name's not going to jump off
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: the page in Strikes and Fear. Although my man had
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: a nice hit sack fly, so he had a nice
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: moment last night.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: And at any point that they can do it, they
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: racked up what?
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, something like that, seven runs.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: They're going to be as well as you are, and
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: you're going to have to be able to play. Some
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: of the most competitive games we talked about in the
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: last segment and the numbers at least at 2020 is
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: when this story came out with MLB.com. But 40 different
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: World Series in the best of seven format, 39 in
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: the best of seven format.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: There was one in the best of nine format that
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: they used to play in the World Series way back when.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: That's right. I knew about that.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: Best of nine. 40 different world series have ended in
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: seven games. The most by far out of any other
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: outcome that you possibly could have. This one does feel
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: like a long, long series that you're coming up for.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Could definitely be that. It does.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: I also thought that about the Dodgers series, though, and
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: then that went really fast.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: You just never know.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: We also have to be realizing this Dodger team looked
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: and played old. They did like as much as, as
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: much as you absolutely do. And, and everything will be
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: changing with that curve. That is not the same big
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: bag Dodgers that just went through and won the world
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: series a year ago.
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: They all said the lead in every game. So things
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: could have happened. Things could have gone either way. It's
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: not that the Brewers swept them, but I wouldn't say
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: they dominated them every game. They dominated them in the
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: way they overall approached the series, but it could have
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: gone either way in that one. You're right, though, Billy.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: They maybe were a shell of themselves in that sense.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman, you want to talk about those numbers? They
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: were one of 14 or whatever.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: The offense was definitely a shell of itself.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: You had no fear of Otani. Scooble looked good.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: Yamamoto's really the only one that didn't. Snell was amazing
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: through those first five, six innings.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: To the Brewers' credit on a lot of those guys. Yamamoto,
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: they were able to work. So you're right about that.
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: And Snell did look good until he didn't look great
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: until he didn't.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: It's funny how this game is, you know?
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I think this is a longer series. I
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: do agree. But man, that would be.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: They've clinched every series on the road. Well, they clinched
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: the division on the road, and then they clinched the
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Padres and LA on the road. It would be fun
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: to win the World Series at home, but I think
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: a lot of people would just say win the World
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Series wherever it is.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Where did we clinch the division? I can't remember now. Pittsburgh.
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: Pittsburgh.
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: Right, what am I saying? So they've clinched everything on
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: the road. Maybe that's the way this is destined to be.
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: However it's done, I don't think Brewers fans will be
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: pretty upset. In terms of the matchup, though, in general...
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: The secondary numbers do suggest that, you know, even though
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: the Rays 198 games, the Brewers were significantly better. The
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: Rays didn't have a run differential kind of that reflected
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: that great record. They was like plus 80 something. And
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: the Brewers are plus 214, I want to say, or Tuesday.
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: So in that sense, the Brewers secondary numbers are much better. Now,
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: does that matter once you get to a seven game series? Obviously,
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: the sample is so small that anything can happen.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: But.
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: As good as the Rays were, and they were, and
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: they earned what they'd gotten this year, they did play
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: a little bit ahead of their run differentials here in
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: terms of record.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the Brewers are the better team. I
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: think the Brewers are the better team in the series.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: And especially the way they're playing, the way their bullpen's throwing.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: But the way is that Peralta now, who wasn't there
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: for most of the year either.
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: 100%.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: You had to look at that.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Boy, I mean that. That is an indictment on the
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Mets more than anything. I mean, you got that guy
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: in your rotation, and then he was as bad as
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: he was only to go to the Rays and then
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: be fixed by the Rays, who obviously are very good
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: at doing what the Brewers do, right? Them and the
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Brewers are very good at taking in a pitcher who's
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: not pitching well and bringing them to their strengths.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: Also, shout out to the Rays. I mean, they bring
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: in Liam Hendricks, right? Or Liam Hicks, pardon me, the
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: catcher at the deadline. Not a lot of teams bring
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: in catchers at the deadline. That's not a rare thing
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: to be able to pick up. He's come in and
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: been nails and he ends up catching the final out
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: last night. Seemed kind of apropos. So we need to
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: finally be able to hammer out the Woodruff thing. That
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: is right now. Seemingly the exciting little thing. just potential
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: present that might be under the tree. You didn't think
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: you were getting the red rider BB gun. Now, all
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: of a sudden you're tagging that one right there.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Red rifle.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: Red rider, red rider BB.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: You didn't think you were getting that, but all of
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: a sudden dad walks downstairs and places something behind the
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: chair and says, yeah, we might open that one later.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, then you know something good. Well, what the hell, Dad?
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: You can't just leave us hanging like that.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: Now I can't wait to be able to find out
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: until Thursday to see if there's any way that he
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: possibly does. Because if he is, then it really comes
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: into when do you deploy him? And are you really
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: going to take the chance, Drew, late in the game
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: with somebody that hadn't pitched like that?
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: If I can get three outs from Brandon Woodruff at
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: some point, just the emotional lift. Just for vibes. Right,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: for vibes and stuff.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: Totally.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: I think to me, the biggest... The bigger question is
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: where would you use him rather than should he be
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: on the roster? Because you could definitely make an argument
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: he's on the roster. You can put him on the roster.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: People are like, where are you going to put him?
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: I was going to say, you used 11 pitchers in
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: each of the last two series.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Kyle Harrison's not pitching because we don't have to worry
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: about rain delays in this series.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: True.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Also true. We don't have to worry about that. You
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: do have to worry about extra innings. I'm sorry. You
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: do have to worry about extra innings. And I think
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: the Brewers have coverage in that department without Kyle Harrison.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: So you could say, Woody's been here, and even if
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: it's a ceremonial, honorary-type appointment to the roster, if he
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: can pitch an inning and get three yards.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Then the fascinating discussion becomes, where do you put him?
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Because there's arguments for a lot of different.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, right behind the starter in Game 3, or
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: as the opener... Do you start? Okay.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: But then do you risk falling behind? Cause you, he
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: is a wild card as much as we want to
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: believe that Brandon Woodruff is going to be the Brandon
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Woodruff of old or Brandon Woodruff. We've seen this year
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: where he's able to navigate.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: You're right. You gotta be realistic.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: There is a.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Wild card there. So we also are like, okay, do
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: you want him to open a game? Do you want
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: to say, okay, well he'll come out of the bullpen
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: at some time in the middle innings. Does that opportunity
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: ever present itself? Or does Murphy go? I also got
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: Dale Hall and Aaron Ashby.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Middle innings almost seems tougher to me because then the
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: game is in the flow.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: You're really going matchups.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: Drew, that's where you said opener, and that's exactly what
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: I'm doing.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: I'm opening him in game two. I'm opening him in
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: game two at home for the boost. You got 30
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: pitches to have fun with.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Get us three outs.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Or 30 to 40 pitches, maybe. Maybe not even an up-down.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: But then he's facing their best guys. Like I just said,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: if you can hold down Diaz and Caminero, is it
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: better to have him in the second inning behind somebody else?
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: With the opener, it's all fluid, right?
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: That's very fair.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: Could be a rebate starting out, and then you hand
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: it to Woodruff to get six outs. Because what's the
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: worst thing that happens? All of a sudden, his arm goes,
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: can't play. Then you can, can you flip somebody in,
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: IL somebody in with the injury? So it makes no
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: sense to not, if you think he can be any
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: bit of an emotional.
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: That's the last, that part's the main part at the end.
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: Because you also, this is still a World Series. You
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: want to be careful, but you don't want to just
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: play for vibes.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: I don't know, you did just have one of your
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: best guys, though, walk three guys and the base is loaded.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you don't plan for that. He's been pitching well.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: How many guys didn't pitch against the Dodgers? Sensatella didn't pitch,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: did he? Harrison Sensatella. Sensatella didn't pitch.
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: I don't think he pitched.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Did he?
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I don't think he pitched in game one. Did he?
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: JoJo pitched.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Chad and Kyle have not pitched at all.
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: Chad, that's right. Chad Patrick hasn't gotten in either.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Well, who would have guessed that?
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: That's the arm.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Drowen hadn't until the last game.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Drowen got the start, so that's to me the start
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: that you'd give Woodruff with drawing behind him maybe, or
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Dustin May, maybe. I was going to say Dustin May, too.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: That's a tell I didn't pitch in the Dodgers series.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: I never put that together. He had plenty of arms.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: And they signed him to pitch in that series, which
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: I thought, because he had experience in that division and
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: that park. Well, Georgia, you got you on with the
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: right guys. It worked out. But it definitely worked out.
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: Well, when you have a sweep that does, you know,
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: you need.
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: To get a 10 run lead in the clinching game
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: and let Woodruff pitch the final.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: We'll see. And that's the thing. Do you hold him
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: for that? But then what if that opportunity never presents itself?
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: Well, sure. That's why. And I think.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Because of what he's gone through and stuff, having him
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: open and having him start and then get even one
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: inning done.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: One inning, done.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: He walks off the mound, does exactly what McGill did
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: in game five yesterday, last year against the Cubs, throw
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: him in a sweatshirt for the rest of the series,
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: and congratulations. He spent $ 22 million, and it was well spent.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: And it was well spent at that point. Here's my
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: brain working here. The best theater, the best story. I mean,
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: Woodruff's going to be an inning, right?
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: How about it's game three? Freddie Peralta against Brandon Woodruff,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: your starting pitchers. That's a trap.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: I think Freddie may start.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: And Billy will be there. I will be there ready
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: to rock.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Freddie may start. He started Monday, right?
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: He could put you on for Sunday. They could. He could.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: Or Saturday.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he could pitch game two. It's just too unbelievable
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: for us.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: It might be because that probably gives them the best chance.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: But I was thinking if they held him back.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: It's technically not short rest because it's four days in between.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you this.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: If he pitches at American Family Field and everybody that
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: was at that that's at that world series game watched
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: what happened when he went to wrigley field last year
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: and they chanted his name every single moment and those
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: 41 000 aren't berating him for the entire run that
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: would be the.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: Problem we're gonna have to talk about this more for
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: the show oh my god.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: No i'm not disagreeing i'm just curious about this oh
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: you have to You don't want to do it too
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: nice to Armin?
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Armin has some arguments that he was letting me know.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: About earlier today.
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: Maybe in his head, he could easily consider that, oh,
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: this is still my home park.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: They're cheering for me. Like, he could play a battle game.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: We'll see. We'll see.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Hunter's going to be back. He's preparing a show for us.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: It's going to air at 5 o'clock.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Vinny Retino is going to join me for a second.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Outstanding.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Hunter.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: Thank you, guys.
• 40:06
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• 40:07
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• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Gentlemen, it's great to hear you out in the afternoon finally.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: So you don't have to call in in the morning.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Hey, you had to be up at that point. We
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: phoned in regularly in the morning then. Just saying. Well,
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: it sounds like you start early, Ken, this afternoon.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: I start at 5 a.m. every day, but the last
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: time I called in, my brother was having an open-heart surgery,
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: if you remember.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: I remember.
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: I do.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: And, yeah, the kid's doing fabulous. You know, he battled cancer,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: and now he battled that. So let's get off of that. Oh.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: All things are good. Here's the deal. And this is
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: going to be controversial. I don't want to see Woody
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: on this roster.
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: Stop.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Why? For a number of reasons. He had his opportunities
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: when the Brewers in 18, 19, whatever. The fact of
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: the matter is you don't want to take a guy
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: off the roster that has contributed all year for a
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: feel-good moment. No, we're not doing that. First of all,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: This ain't even going past five games. There isn't five.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Boom.
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: There isn't five.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: I like that. Yeah, but what have they done, guys?
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: They've won every series on the road. It's going to
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: stay that way. This team is that damn good. And
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: this pitching staff is outstanding. So when you look at
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: it from that standpoint, it ain't getting back to Miller Park.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: So people, if you bought– okay, I'm sorry. Usually I
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: say county stadium, Drew, because you and I are the
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: same age. But the fact– exactly. But the fact of
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: the matter is that the way this team has played
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: all year long, they've been outstanding on the road. They're
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: 32-16 against American League teams. They are not going to
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: struggle against this Tampa Bay team. Tampa Bay, you got
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: your hands full. Not only can we pitch well, but
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: we hit well and we come from behind. So even
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: when we're down by a little bit, it's irrelevant. We're
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: going to beat you. Not only are we going to
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: beat you, We're going to beat you bad.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Ken's fired up.
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Ken. Appreciate you.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: A little feeling of inevitability are the Milwaukee Brewers.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: I like that one. Brandon Woodruff was supposed to face
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: hitters today at the ballpark in a simulated game, and
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: they're going to have a meeting and decide. Well, Ken
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Rosenthal from The Athletic has a piece talking about they're
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: not sure because MLB rules state that a player on
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: a postseason roster can be replaced only if he suffers
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: an acute, non-chronic injury or ailment. And the Brewers feel
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: with Woodruff they might interpret his ongoing struggles. You know,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: July 4th he went down. That's the last time he pitched.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: And then they announced he was going to have season-ending surgery.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: And then in late August they said, well, he's going
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: to start a throwing program instead.
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: And now he's ramping up. He's where you would be
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: at the.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Beginning of spring training basically right now. Yeah, and he's–
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: First spring training outing.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: They had the miracle baby because they had the child,
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: the youngster if I'm not mistaken, the same week. Yeah,
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: that he had the injury and he's like, well, I
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: can't have surgery now.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I got to hold a baby.
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: So I got to help out. And then the natural
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: healing kind of progressed and gave him the opportunity. And
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: the only thing I would go against with Ken's point,
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: because I do get the I do get the point.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: Why are we going to take it away from somebody
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: that's been out there all year? Well, you kind of
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: did that with Chad Patrick and froze him out for
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: the last two series. And now my man's warmed up
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: a couple of times, but he's barely even taking that
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: super cool postseason sweatshirt off.
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: So Harrison too.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: I got no problem trying it and seeing if it
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: can work because of drew the emotional lift and also
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: the kind of player he can be. But so what
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: you just said is if all of a sudden Woody
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: is feeling the shoulder and you know that that arm
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: is here, there's only one thing to do. You got
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: to throw one more pitch and roll the hell out
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: of your ankle. And you walk out of there with
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: two of your best friends carrying you off the field.
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: And everybody knows you just pulled one over on him.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Or we get a second circuit judge like the sec
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: and just overrule it.
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: I was going to say, we need some of those
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: judges up here, right? Those sec judges go down to
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: the core.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: We find one.
• 45:11
  Speaker 7: I just, the romantic in me has this image of
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: him throwing the final out and getting carried off the field.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: You know, up on the shoulders.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: He said, I'm thinking about that final out of the
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: World Series. I'm thinking of getting any outs in the
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: World Series.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: That's a good point. Any of them.
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 45:25
  Speaker 6: Be pretty wild.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: All right. We are off and running.
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, we're tied. Boston and Detroit. Boston and Detroit. 39-39
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: if you're invested in that game.
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: Live sports during our show for once. And not like
• 45:38
  Speaker 7: an Australian Open.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: This game is actually being played in Detroit. Even though
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: people thought that Detroit was turning into a third world country.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: No.
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: It's in America and they're playing it live in America right.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Now at 2 o'clock. Did you hear that Detroit? Billy's
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: coming after you.
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: What a concept.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Throwing strays at you. We're not Detroit. At the ticket
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: in Detroit. I love it. We're still not Detroit. You
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: are hanging out with us in the huddle.
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.