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10/08/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Drew Billion-Armond huddled up on a Thursday morning, our last Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: In the morning. How about that? The memo went out
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: on Monday. We have two more shows, waking up with
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: the Roosters, and then we are moving on to the afternoons.
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  Speaker 2: 2 to 5 p.m. will be the normal time for
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  Speaker 2: the huddle. Right here on these here airwaves and interwebs
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  Speaker 2: will be easy to find. We'll be more rested. We'll
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  Speaker 2: have seen more games. What a way to cap it off.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: I was going to say fully rejuvenated, but we did
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  Speaker 1: have to get sent out one last time.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed. So we can, you know, we will be at
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  Speaker 2: Pottawatomie tonight. So it is the back end of our
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  Speaker 2: double header, but we're still going to be at Pottawatomie
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  Speaker 2: moving forward from five to seven every Thursday that the
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  Speaker 2: Packers don't play or it's not a holiday. We'll be there.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be there and we'll be enjoying ourselves too. 877-794-1973. Nicoletlaw.com.
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  Speaker 2: Talk and text line six o'clock clubbers. We've had a
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  Speaker 2: great time spinning through. The feels, the emotion of the
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  Speaker 2: Brewers vanquishing San Diego. They're on to L.A. Well, L.A.
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  Speaker 2: 's on to Milwaukee. They're coming here. That's right. Sunday night,
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  Speaker 2: game one, NLCS, Scooble against Miz. Likely game two will
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  Speaker 2: be Logan Henderson against... No, I was going to say
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  Speaker 2: Snell and then Yamamoto in L.A.
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  Speaker 3: Three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. If I'm not mistaken, maybe in game three.
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  Speaker 1: Very much so in that ballpark that he knows very,
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  Speaker 1: very well. You thought he pitched a lot in San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: He's thrown a bunch of innings there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The worst spot if you're using him at some point.
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  Speaker 4: So not the worst situation, but you know, it is
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  Speaker 4: what it is. You're going to be having to face
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  Speaker 4: this gauntlet of starters at the Dodgers game. Obviously can
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  Speaker 4: throw out there was a storyline last year will be again, but.
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  Speaker 2: Can you do it this time? Yeah, but again, the
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  Speaker 2: Brewers aren't as fried as they were last year after
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  Speaker 2: beating the Cubs. They'll be rested. They'll be ready. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to go through the same thing they went through,
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  Speaker 2: get a couple days off, get everybody up to their healthy.
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  Speaker 2: There's no devastating injury hanging over it like Woodruff. That's
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  Speaker 2: the biggest one.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of the vibes being down, you're getting huge
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  Speaker 1: contributions and maybe the best postseason in a Brewers uniform
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  Speaker 1: from Christian Yellich. William Contreras is being an absolute pit
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  Speaker 1: bull and fully seems like he's out of the cage.
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  Speaker 1: And you then, I mean, you're making up for one
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  Speaker 1: base hit from Bryce Terang and it was a bloop
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  Speaker 1: job in the ninth inning that ultimately didn't do much
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  Speaker 1: for you in one series to roll through. Their offensive
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  Speaker 1: vibes are much better. You go back to that series
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  Speaker 1: a year ago, Drew, and it At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, especially when you get out to L.A., the
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  Speaker 1: games in L.A. felt a lot more varsity JV. The
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  Speaker 1: one game one, you almost forget just how tight and
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  Speaker 1: highly contested it is. And that's the one that features
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  Speaker 1: that ridiculous Sal Freelick double play where it's a home
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  Speaker 1: run robbery double up. And if Bryce Terang doesn't jump
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  Speaker 1: out of the way of one in the ninth inning.
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  Speaker 1: That could be a great sliding doors moment in that
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  Speaker 1: entire series. If they tie it up, go win it.
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  Speaker 1: What happens after that?
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  Speaker 2: Things could have changed, definitely.
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  Speaker 4: And the thing is, I still think you're going into
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  Speaker 4: the series with an offense that's putting more consistent pressure
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  Speaker 4: on inning to inning. We had 21 hits in the
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  Speaker 4: last two games. Now, we're not necessarily getting crazy numbers
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  Speaker 4: of runs, obviously, granted.
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  Speaker 2: No, but they're getting the traffic. That's what's key. Keep
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  Speaker 2: getting the traffic. Keep getting the traffic. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: got to be a better.
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  Speaker 4: And Scooble is who he is, but he's gotten got
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  Speaker 4: a little bit the second half of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sure. So you can get after him. You can
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  Speaker 2: get him. And same with Snell and the pitch counts
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. You can get him for sure.
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  Speaker 2: And the Brewers do a good job of conjuring runs
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  Speaker 2: up out of nothing, and that's what you've got to
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  Speaker 2: do in the postseason. You've got to manufacture. Because the
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  Speaker 2: idea that you're going to like, well, the Brewers don't
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  Speaker 2: hit a lot of home runs. Obviously, it helps when
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  Speaker 2: they do. But then the idea that you're going to
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  Speaker 2: get six hits in an inning, well, no, but. Billy,
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  Speaker 2: that's the most profound thing I've heard in a long
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  Speaker 2: time about the baseball postseason. If you get a guy
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  Speaker 2: to third base with less than two out and you
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  Speaker 2: don't get him in, it's like giving up a run.
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  Speaker 2: It's like giving up a run. It's like your pitcher's
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  Speaker 2: giving up a run. That's the equivalent. You have to
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  Speaker 2: come through. If you get a man to third base
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  Speaker 2: and you don't get him in, you're going to look
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  Speaker 2: back at that and go, oh, that's where we lost.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't get that guy in and we lost by
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  Speaker 2: a run.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the difference of going in the red zone, Drew,
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  Speaker 1: or having a goal-to-go situation. You have the ball on
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  Speaker 1: the doorstep. You don't score a touchdown. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: be kicking yourself all week long. You can't let those
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  Speaker 1: get away because they're precious. I thought it was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Was it maybe the second or third time Yelich got on?
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  Speaker 1: He was on base most of the night last night. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but after he steals second, looks like he's damn near
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  Speaker 1: thinking about stealing third for that exact reason to try
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  Speaker 1: and figure out a way to move yourself up the
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  Speaker 1: extra 90 feet as simple, uh, and obvious as it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like, uh, it's just a massive, massive difference of
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  Speaker 1: being able to be that much closer. And once you're
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  Speaker 1: in that position, you gotta be able to cash in
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  Speaker 1: when Mitchell gets the, was it lead off triple? When
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  Speaker 1: he gets into and slides in or one out on
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  Speaker 1: that triple, you knew that you had to get him
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  Speaker 1: in because otherwise that is going to be the biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing to hang over your head all night long.
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  Speaker 2: Good point, Billy.
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  Speaker 4: When Pratt had the double, the ground rule double, then
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  Speaker 4: you had second and third with no outs, same situation.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the situations you don't want to miss the opportunities.
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  Speaker 4: Brewer still could have done much better that last night, obviously, but...
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  Speaker 4: Enough to get the win last night. When Pratt's bounced over,
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  Speaker 4: I was excited to see it right away because you
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  Speaker 4: knew he was getting that thing down. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: that's extra bases. But then I'm like, that's going to
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  Speaker 4: bounce over. It might cost us. But you're just trying
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  Speaker 4: to think of those things.
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  Speaker 2: Hunter Baumgart was working for us. He's going to join
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  Speaker 2: us at 730-ish. and he sent us some interviews and
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  Speaker 2: some reaction. Armand, dealer's choice.
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  Speaker 4: What do you want to hear? He sent us a
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  Speaker 4: lot of good stuff. He was working all night, still working.
• 5:38
  Speaker 4: Let's do his Robert Gasser one-on-one. Gasser, one of the
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  Speaker 4: stars of the show last night. This was Hunter talking
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  Speaker 4: to him. I'm sure that was Gasser's first thought after
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  Speaker 4: the game.
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  Speaker 2: I have to get to Hunter.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait to get to Hunter. I know I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go to the podium. I'm sitting next to Aaron Ashby,
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  Speaker 1: but hold on. I've got to talk to HB4 first.
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  Speaker 2: Here they are for a minute.
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  Speaker 5: You're on the mound to start the game that sent
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  Speaker 5: your team to the NLCS. How does that feel?
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  Speaker 6: It's electric.
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  Speaker 3: At the start of the year, I couldn't have really
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  Speaker 3: dreamed it up this way, but I'm really happy to
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  Speaker 3: be a part of this team, and I.
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  Speaker 6: Feel like we're in a really good spot.
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  Speaker 5: How did you feel going out there and just throughout
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  Speaker 5: your start tonight? You felt like you bounced back pretty
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  Speaker 5: well inning to inning?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I did my best to keep it simple, feel
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  Speaker 3: like a regular game. This atmosphere is pretty intense, especially
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  Speaker 3: here in San Diego.
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  Speaker 6: I did everything I could.
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  Speaker 3: I did everything I could to keep it cool and
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  Speaker 3: just vote about executing pitches.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what's the key to staying calm in a situation
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  Speaker 5: like that?
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  Speaker 2: Embracing it. You know, it's an opportunity not everybody gets
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  Speaker 2: to have.
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  Speaker 3: So I did my best to take it all in
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  Speaker 3: when I could and, you know, just enjoy it.
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  Speaker 5: How about the guys behind you, Ashby, Rebae, McGill, the guys?
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  Speaker 2: Finish it out.
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  Speaker 3: When you can give the ball to the bullpen and
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  Speaker 3: they don't give up a hit the rest of the game,
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  Speaker 3: you're in a really good spot. And those guys have
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  Speaker 3: done it all year, and I'm so happy for them,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm so proud to be.
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  Speaker 2: A part of this team. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, guys.
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  Speaker 6: No problem.
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  Speaker 2: Robert Gasser and our own Hunter Baumgart. Please tell me
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  Speaker 2: they were dumping a little bit of that on Hunter.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you were thinking the same thing
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  Speaker 2: when he started laughing. I think so.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a full situation with Scuba where they're shoving
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  Speaker 1: bottles of beer down each other's pants, but You could
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  Speaker 1: tell the elation for big game Bob. That was a
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  Speaker 1: pretty slow heartbeat to be able to get out of
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  Speaker 1: that first inning, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: That was pivotal. If that goes sideways, you said it.
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  Speaker 2: First inning is everything in these games. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: If they'd had the lead in the first inning after
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  Speaker 2: game three, it might not have gone.
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  Speaker 1: When Manny Machado is going to start the game with
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  Speaker 1: a bunt single, After the fallout from the tease, Merrill
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  Speaker 1: with a clean base hit, and then Machado hits the bunt.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, my God, they are in full attack mode. What,
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  Speaker 1: did he throw 15 pitches in the first inning? And
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  Speaker 1: he ended up facing six guys. I mean, they were
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  Speaker 1: jumping on him early. And there's a walk in there
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  Speaker 1: to Hayes, which I think was maybe four or five pitches.
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  Speaker 1: They were doing everything they could to get after him quick.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a massive moment. To be able to get
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  Speaker 1: out of it and get four outs in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: inning was also pretty damn big.
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  Speaker 2: But it did. It felt like to.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to score first last night, first time the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers did in the series, as obvious as it sounds,
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  Speaker 1: was just a massive hurdle to be able to clear.
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  Speaker 1: Trailed 2-0 in each of the first three. That's a
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  Speaker 1: good point, Billy.
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  Speaker 2: Well taken.
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  Speaker 4: You finally put the pressure on them for once and
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  Speaker 4: not you. And getting out of that first, when Machado
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  Speaker 4: got that punt single, though, was he fired up?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was so happy. He celebrated that thing.
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  Speaker 2: He was so fired up.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, okay, I guess you're excited about that fundamentals.
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  Speaker 2: A little Tommy Maskey stuff. But the Brewers got out
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  Speaker 2: of it. What other sound do you want to hear, Armand?
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  Speaker 2: This is your dealer's choice. You spin us through it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he also got half a minute one-on-one with D.L. Hall,
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  Speaker 4: who's been huge in this playoffs. I think his ability
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  Speaker 4: to get guys out as a lefty has given Murph
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  Speaker 4: the chance to feel good about putting Ashby anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: So here was Hunter with D.L. Hall.
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  Speaker 5: How does it feel to go back to the NLCS?
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  Speaker 6: Man, incredible.
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  Speaker 7: I think we're prepared more than ever. I think we're
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  Speaker 7: ready for the moment. I think all these guys have
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  Speaker 7: been there, and we're ready to rerun it.
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  Speaker 5: How do you feel through this series? You guys were
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  Speaker 5: ready for each moment. You bounced back from whatever was
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  Speaker 5: thrown at you down in a couple games. Tonight, you
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  Speaker 5: guys had runners on, but were able to get out
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  Speaker 5: of those situations. Your team has bounced back all year.
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  Speaker 7: I think that just comes from the experience. A lot
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  Speaker 7: of us have been through it already, and we just
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  Speaker 7: know how to respond. I think that's what makes good
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  Speaker 7: teams great, is we know how to respond.
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  Speaker 5: Congratulations, DL.
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, Hunter wrapped it real quick. Now they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: get the interview when they're spraying champagne. I hope we
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: got a couple drops. There's more substantive things on the
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: field where they're not doing that. I was going to say,
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  Speaker 2: that's where the Murph conversation comes. And Murph obviously goes
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  Speaker 2: to the podium, had a nice young man that was
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  Speaker 2: asking some questions from the Mexican Baseball Association.
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  Speaker 1: Murph was very excited. He did also point out somebody
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  Speaker 1: asked him on the walk up with the two boys, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, your grandkids came with you? Yeah, you wouldn't have
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: been around, have you? Not quite, not quite. And I
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  Speaker 2: get making the mistake.
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  Speaker 1: Murph did have fun dropping that one into the microphone,
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  Speaker 1: but the stuff on the field was definitely better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, with the local media, he did with the local
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: scribes and reporters. Here was Pat Murphy.
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  Speaker 8: You've been to postseason series with this club. Where is
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  Speaker 8: this series among those?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, it's so fresh that you've got to
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  Speaker 9: say it's the best. But I think back last year,
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  Speaker 9: the Cubs series was special. And– This one was every
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  Speaker 9: bit as special. The momentum switched after yesterday and to
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  Speaker 9: come out today and be so diligent in front of
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  Speaker 9: this crowd. I don't know how many were here, but
• 10:42
  Speaker 9: they were loud. It's just a great win all the
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  Speaker 9: way around.
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  Speaker 6: Proud of the guys. They had to do it. They
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  Speaker 6: were resilient, relentless, went pitch to pitch, and we're not
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  Speaker 6: going to be denied.
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  Speaker 8: You had Miz warming up at the end, but Can
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  Speaker 8: you put into words.
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  Speaker 6: To get through this game? That was for show.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I said, McGill, that's you.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go. You're not coming out of this game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: he was going to close it.
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  Speaker 8: To get without using him to get through this game
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  Speaker 8: and then to win and not have a game five.
• 11:18
  Speaker 8: How do you put into words how that sets you up?
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  Speaker 6: It's big. They don't have a game five either. You
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  Speaker 6: know what I mean? So it.
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  Speaker 9: Puts us on even ground that we get to relax
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  Speaker 9: a little bit and and heal up for the guys
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  Speaker 9: that need to heal up and be ready to go
• 11:32
  Speaker 9: first game.
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  Speaker 8: What do you think about it being the same matchup
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  Speaker 8: two years in a row in that round?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it doesn't matter. To be the best, you've got
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  Speaker 6: to play the best, and that's what our goal is.
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  Speaker 6: The guys take it personal. I think the familiarity of
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  Speaker 6: doing that last year and going through it and knowing
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  Speaker 6: how it can go and get away from you quick,
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  Speaker 6: it doesn't matter how good they're going to play. We
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  Speaker 6: got it.
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  Speaker 9: We got to stay.
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  Speaker 6: With the night. The lights went out. So anything goes tonight.
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  Speaker 8: It's almost like playing elevator music during batting practice.
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  Speaker 2: How, how proud are you of these guys?
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  Speaker 8: I am.
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  Speaker 6: I really am proud of them.
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  Speaker 9: You know, like, uh, you get choked up about it
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  Speaker 9: when you start thinking of the guys that are fresh
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  Speaker 9: and you got Cooper Pratt running out there. And, you know,
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  Speaker 9: three months ago, he didn't know if he was going
• 12:18
  Speaker 9: to be in the big leagues or not, you know? Um,
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  Speaker 9: You've got so many guys that maybe didn't have the
• 12:25
  Speaker 9: best results that contributed in a big way today.
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  Speaker 6: It's awesome.
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  Speaker 9: You've got a guy like that, Contreras, that you can't
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  Speaker 9: give him enough credit for how he goes after it
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  Speaker 9: and how he keeps his composure when he's such an
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  Speaker 9: intense guy.
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  Speaker 6: And helps us win every game. You know, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 6: it's amazing.
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  Speaker 9: Especially coming off, whatever he punched out every time he
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  Speaker 9: was up yesterday or thereabouts, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 9: And just didn't look like he was in it. And
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  Speaker 9: then came back today and, you know, he approached me
• 13:00
  Speaker 9: today and we sat and talked and he said, I,
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  Speaker 9: I got a plan tonight.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to be better. Awesome, bro.
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  Speaker 9: But that's the accountability, you know, like he, He knew
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  Speaker 9: he owed it to his teammates to come here in
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  Speaker 9: his best form.
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  Speaker 8: Is Matt Machado fly ball is going up?
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  Speaker 9: I was planning on the extra innings and things like
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  Speaker 9: that and whatever. No, I just took a deep breath
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  Speaker 9: and said, hey, whatever's going to happen is going to happen.
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  Speaker 9: We've got to respond. Ready for the next pitch.
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  Speaker 6: What is it about this group's ability to focus? I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you look at what they were able to do.
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  Speaker 9: From taking the disappointment from last night and then tonight
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  Speaker 9: it seemed like it was tight. They understand what they want.
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  Speaker 9: You know, they understand what, what it takes to be
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  Speaker 9: a winning baseball team.
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  Speaker 6: They've done it all year. Nobody predicted it.
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  Speaker 9: You know, when I look back at some of the predictions,
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  Speaker 9: I save them, you know, and it's, it's important to
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  Speaker 9: me because I show them, this is what people thought,
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  Speaker 9: you know what I mean? But together we can do
• 13:54
  Speaker 9: a lot of things and you can't underestimate it. Maybe
• 13:56
  Speaker 9: we're not built for the post season. It's been said,
• 13:59
  Speaker 9: you know, we're not built for the post season. We
• 14:01
  Speaker 9: were more built for the regular season where you don't
• 14:05
  Speaker 9: have bullpens on top of you. You're not playing matchups
• 14:07
  Speaker 9: every game. But I guess we're proving them wrong again.
• 14:14
  Speaker 9: We can be the number one seed when no one
• 14:16
  Speaker 9: believed it. Nobody even thought we'd win the division. To
• 14:19
  Speaker 9: be there and to execute that, a lot of naysayers,
• 14:23
  Speaker 9: so what? These guys just keep rolling up against it.
• 14:26
  Speaker 9: We'll go against a really, really packed team. Again, playing
• 14:30
  Speaker 9: really good at this time of year and That's the
• 14:33
  Speaker 9: way it is.
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't want to go through it any other way.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Pat, what did you say to the guys afterwards?
• 14:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, howdy, boys.
• 14:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and he said, I don't know if I'm going
• 14:41
  Speaker 9: to be able to help you in the next series
• 14:43
  Speaker 9: the way I knocked down that one.
• 14:45
  Speaker 6: But, yeah, it's special.
• 14:49
  Speaker 9: What does it mean to have those letters still being
• 14:51
  Speaker 9: part of this? That's what it's all about, man. You know,
• 14:54
  Speaker 9: Uke will be with us forever. You know, he's part
• 14:56
  Speaker 9: of our fabric. And when you think about it, What
• 14:59
  Speaker 9: motivates these guys, they understand who they play for. They
• 15:02
  Speaker 9: play for the Milwaukee Brewers, and they understand that city
• 15:06
  Speaker 9: and that state is behind them.
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: And think of the people that don't get to come
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: to the game.
• 15:11
  Speaker 9: There are fans, but they don't get to go to
• 15:14
  Speaker 9: the games very often because they live three and four
• 15:16
  Speaker 9: hours away, but they're from Wisconsin and they're proud. And
• 15:19
  Speaker 9: that motivates our guys, you know, that they want to
• 15:22
  Speaker 9: do it for them too. And we've got a monumental task,
• 15:25
  Speaker 9: I guess, you know, based on what I know of
• 15:28
  Speaker 9: the Dodgers. You know, there's like an all-star at every position.
• 15:31
  Speaker 6: But you know what? Teams win. And we've got to
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: play as a team. Do you think you still haven't
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: played your best yet? I know you've talked about that.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: Do you think there's another level there? Yeah.
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: I mean, when you say that, it's like there's places
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: in the game where we didn't get the big hit
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: today with the bases loaded. We didn't– there's a couple
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: non-winning baseball things we did early that you're like, ugh.
• 15:59
  Speaker 9: Why would we swing at the first pitch there? Why
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: would we be in such a rush? But to try
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: to explain it definitively is hard, but you know winning baseball.
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: When it's being played, and can we do that better? Yeah,
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: of course we can.
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: But the intent and the focus is there.
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: Murph, one thing, you go to a seven-game series now,
• 16:21
  Speaker 8: and the starting pitchers sort of bump up a little
• 16:25
  Speaker 8: bit in importance. I don't know if you agree with
• 16:26
  Speaker 8: that or not. But to have Gasser kind of perform
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: under pressure the way he did tonight, how important was that?
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and somebody also had to step up, too.
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: I mean, Gasser's been doing it, you know, and our
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: pitching coaches do not receive enough credit, by the way.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: I just mentioned that.
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: When you know the job that Jimmy Henderson does, you know,
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: he's like the bench coach, you know what I mean? Like,
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: him and I are discussing the thing every day, disagreeing
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: every day.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: We're as opposite as you.
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: Can be, but You know, and Hookie doing what he
• 16:58
  Speaker 9: does and Sandoval and Charlie Green in the bullpen. Those
• 17:01
  Speaker 9: guys don't get enough credit for what these guys do.
• 17:03
  Speaker 9: And the way they perform, how ready they are, yeah,
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: it's a great thing.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: But, yeah, starting pitchers will, you know, play a role
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: in it, of course, but whatever it takes.
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: Look at Ashby today. Give him three innings and I
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: almost left him in, you know. And he wanted to, but,
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: you know, sometimes you just have a feel. So three innings,
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: what a call for tonight, and he got it done.
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: So he'll get a few days off and might have
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: to do that two or three times next week.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Great stuff from Pat Murphy, Brewer Skipper, on the field.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Hunter Baumgart, how about that? So good. I mean. Oh,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: he's just a monster. He's there all day. He's grabbing
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: the content, and our bosses sent him to this thing,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: and you knew you were going to get your money's worth,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: and they are.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: That is one, Drew, where there's only so much that
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: you can get from Zoom calls, from YouTube links, and
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: to have boots on the ground is very, very important,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: and we can't thank them enough. We also can't thank
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Hunter enough, because for him to be able to get
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: in there and take it, I know that is a battle.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: It's such a labor to go into that celebratory clubhouse,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: but also... You get different things when you see guys
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: all year long. The honest joy in Robert Gasser's voice, Drew,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: he didn't have that at the podium talking to people
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: he'd never met before.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: That's a good point.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: When you cover the team all year long, cool that
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Hunter is able to cash in on that and be
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: able to see that last night.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: He's built a rapport. He's built up equity with those guys.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, he has.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Side note about the Brewers, of all the guys who
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: played yesterday, eight of the starters got hits. Okay, come
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: on now. Contreras had multiple hits, but eight of the
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: nine starters had, that's a balanced offense right there, Billy.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: That's how you're going to win. You're going to win
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: games that way.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: And Joey Ortiz probably deserves a better fate than being
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the only guy without a hit.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: That's right. Great point. That's a great point.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: And you know, I know it's always like kind of
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: a fantasy of baseball fans, Bruce fans, but all baseball fans,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: they have their whole lineup hitting at the same time
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: at the right time. We're not putting up crooked numbers
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: score-wise yet, but these guys are all putting pressure on.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: They're all putting good at-bats together. You even got a
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: base hit from Bryce Terang last night. That's what I'm saying.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Knocked his average up to 125. Hey, robust. I know
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: something's coming from him. Even Churrio's overall average isn't amazing,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: but they've all been impactful.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: He just happened to drive in a run in all
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: four games.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Yes. All-important generational runs. Yeah, hit 188, but when you
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: get four hits and they're all RBIs. They were generational runs.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Generational runs, baby. They were all generational. Absolutely. And the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: only blemish on the pitching line was the home run
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: on a 1-2 pitch by Tatis, which wasn't a horrible
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: pitch anyway. All right, we are cooking. We've reached halftime.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: of the Thursday edition. Well, actually, halftime is at the
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: end of the show because we have another show coming
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: up tonight. Very true. What's the phrase that pays? Should
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: the phrase that pays be something simple and pithy like
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: beat L.A.? Yes. That's 1,000% what it should be. We'll
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: steal it from the Boston people. Beat L.A.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Is the phrase that pays. If you say it tonight,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: you'll get a little prize. We're going to bring some
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: of those huddle koozies. We've got huddle koozies for your seltzers.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Good call, for sure.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: We're going to bring some of those to give away
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: tonight as well.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: And also for your bottles of water or your bottles
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: of Fanta.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: We could give one to Cooper Brad. He would like one. Absolutely.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: When we come back, Scott Dolphin is going to join
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: the party. Halftime. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: and Armin huddled up.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: On a Thursday in the good land, first half of
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: our doubleheader will be at Pottawatomie this evening from 5
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to 7.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Hope to see you there. The phrase that pays is
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: beat LA, because that's the Brewers' mission now, to beat
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles. They've vanquished them. It's halftime of the show.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: We welcome Scott Dolphin to the party. And Dolphin strikes me,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: because one of the core tenets of our program is
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: that 90% of being a fan is getting kicked in
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: the cup. It is. It's so true.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Today's a 10% day for Brewers fans. And you, on
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the other hand, are the.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: You're in the even-Steven 50-50 year because your Bears are
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: riding high and your Yankees have been vanquished for the
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: 17th straight season without a title.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: In New York.
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: Which I think is the— I don't want to make Brewers
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: fans feel bad. I think that's the longest stretch in
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: my lifetime, and I've been alive for a long time,
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: that it's been 17 years without a ring.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I know they've been there a couple times. They've been
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: stuck on 26 forever. Yeah, since what, 2009? Is it
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: 26 or 27? 27. 78 to 96 would have been
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: the longest stretch. As a youth, I got spoiled.
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: Now, they won in the early 60s, but that either
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: was before I was born. But as a kid, they
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: won 77, 78, and then they won again that great
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: stretch with Jeter and all those guys in the late 90s.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: 96 was the....
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: I saw there's a documentary somewhere, I'm trying to remember,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: maybe Peacock, on the 1990 Yankees and how much of
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: a mess they were.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: And how bad. They lost 99 games, dude.
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: Which was unheard of for them, right? I got to
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: check that out. Those were atrocious teams. But, you know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: I remember going. I was living in the Bay Area
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: at the time, and I remember going to Oakland because
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: I wanted to see Ricky Henderson set the steals record.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Sure. So I was at this game. I'm the greatest
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: of all time. I'm the greatest. I was there that day.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: You were there.
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: That Yankee team was terrible, but Matt Noakes was the
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: catcher for the Yankees, and he threw Ricky out, I think,
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: twice at second base that day before Ricky finally stole
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: third base to get the record. But those early 90s
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: teams were atrocious.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: It is a luxury, though.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Like, if you're a Yankees fan, you have one 90-loss season,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: and they had to make a documentary out of it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Like, that's how lucky you are because you're always winning. Like,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: think about that. That's about being spoiled. And it was
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: just a different time. I mean, that was the evil empire.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: George didn't tolerate– both Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone would
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: have been gone a decade ago under George Steinbrenner. I mean,
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: all those guys are still there with the Steinbrenner family.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: It's a miracle. They're much kinder and gentler. Matt Noakes
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: signed with the Brewers and was in camp with them
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: and then– Just drizzled out. It was the very end
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: of his career. He was a good catcher on a
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: terrible team. I don't remember who else. I'm going to
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: watch that documentary, Armand. I think Mel Hall might have
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: been on that team, too, but they were not good.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I knew you'd enjoy it. I just, you know. Yeah,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. He was in Detroit, and then he
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: went to the Yankees. But anyway, what did you think
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: yesterday watching the Brewers come through? It was Bobby Gasser.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: How about that? And it's so funny because the way
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: baseball works, you know, we were hearing yesterday, like, they
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: got to get the, they got to get, Mitchell out
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: of there.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: He's killing them. They've got to get rid of Terang.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Get Terang out of there. They've got to get Vaughn
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: in the lineup. And Murph stays the course, and his
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: guys came through for him.
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: Yeah, Mitchell had come to Murph earlier in the day
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: and said, you know, I've got a different approach.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I've got something. I'll make it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Sounds like he's lobbying to stay in the lineup. And
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I like Murph like, all right, bro.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Sounds good. Sounds good. I hope you do. So he
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: scores a run. He drives in a run. He triples.
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: He has the Big catch on Manny. I think you
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: more than made up for it, Gary.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Reminds me, I wonder if it was like when I
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: went to the coach in fifth grade flag football with
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: all these ideas for plays, and I probably thought he
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: was listening.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: He's probably like, great. I wasn't worried about it. I
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: don't need to hear you talk.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Well, the double reverse pass is a hard thing to
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: execute in fifth grade flag football.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I was drawing stuff up, copying it from Matt, and
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think he cared.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Now that I look back. Dude, we can't run duo.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: It doesn't work that same way.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: But I think Murph was probably like, you know, you're
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: playing either way, right?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: You didn't need to litigate. But that's pretty cool that
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: he came in and said, I got this big meeting ready,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and I'm going to call for a meeting and all
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: this stuff. Yeah. Just like McGill, he's like, yeah, you're
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: the guy. You're in this, okay? You're pitching.
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: My biggest issue last night was I went to bed
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: three times. I watched until the Brewers batted in the sixth,
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: went to bed. Laid there for 20 minutes, played a
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: video game on my phone, and then before I turn
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: the light on, I'm going to check the score.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: And I look.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, it's second and third. Nobody out. Sal's up.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Might as well watch a little bit more.
• 24:48
  Speaker 10: Rush back to the family room. I watch Sal's sacrifice fly.
• 24:51
  Speaker 10: And then the next two hitters hit absolute seeds, including
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: Joey Ortiz. So I thought, they're going to win this
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: damn game. They are all over this Padres pitching staff.
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: So I go back to bed. Of course, now I
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: can't sleep. So another 20 minutes, I get back up.
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: And I go watch another 20 minutes. So finally, when
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: it was 3-1, I thought, I got to go to sleep.
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: I got to sleep. So I don't know what time
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: that was, but I finally closed my eyes, and then
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: I set my alarm early, got up and watched the
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: last couple innings this morning for it.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: See, now that would have been the smarter thing to do,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: because then the energy and adrenaline would have just continued
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to ride through. Because once the final out hits, I'm like,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: all right, sweet. Lights off, boom.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Well, then I'm... It's on. The TV's on. Well, I
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: might as well.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Now I want to hear what Murph has to say. Oh,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: now he's going to be on with the guys. All right,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: now Yelich is on with the guys. I look, it's
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: almost one in the morning.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: This is unbelievable.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I told the guys earlier that I tried to convince
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: myself that I was doing like one and a half
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to two minute interval naps. in commercial break, starting in
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: about the fifth inning. And in the eighth inning, it
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: definitely was working because it's all about mind over matter.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I told myself that I got about six or seven
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: minutes of sleep. Really, I was just deep breathing and
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: almost hyperventilating probably on the couch to calm down.
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: Sometimes that's just as good. What did you guys think
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: after the game? It looked like a Wednesday night in
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: April in Pittsburgh. Okay, they get the final out, you know,
• 26:14
  Speaker 10: and it was just like any other random.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: The normal handshake line, yes.
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: They go out, they do the bro hug, everybody, you know,
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: the art fielders get together. It wasn't like they just
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: advanced to the NLCS. I kind of liked it. I thought,
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: this team is built different.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: It was so incredible to see because... It didn't match
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: my exuberance and excitement. I'm like, oh, man, I'm ready
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: for a dog pile. But they're so chill with it.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: They're like, we felt like we were going to win
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: this game, and they did. And it's like, all right,
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: we do our hug. Big daps for everybody. Nice dap obsession.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: And then what's next?
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: They show Manny. They show Mason Miller. They show Cronenworth.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: All those guys are just sitting there staring.
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: And the Brewers are just doing their typical handshake line,
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: just like it's a Thursday night in April.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: That did have to be quite deflating to Jackson Merrill
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: as he was wiping the tears away, realizing that they're
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: not even celebrating. They're just going to do their hugs
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and stuff into the dugout. I'm not even going to
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: give some kind of celebration a watch. Maybe they were
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: doing the Padres a favor.
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: How many times do we hear a losing team in
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: that situation say, hate to see them celebrate on our field?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Well, they didn't have to see that last night. That's true.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: They just routine them to death with their celebration. Pretty much.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: And just waited.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Act like you've been there. Just destroy that visiting clubhouse.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: They're going to need some new.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I got to think they're going to need some new
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: carpet in that thing. Well, they got to. They just
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: didn't rip it up.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: If every game was 10 to 1, too, I would
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: have understood it more. But that series was so close
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: and so tense. Every moment was tense, close. I would
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: think there'd be some sort of unleashing of a. you know,
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: of an emotion, right? But, hey, that's great. I mean,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: they did a little bit in the locker room, obviously.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: You know, got some champagne going and beers and stuff.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: You're right. Incredible series.
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: Are we done with Poppy and A-Rod and Jeter now?
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Just getting started. I think they'll be here Sunday. They're
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: going to be freaking Poppy. I think they're done.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: I think they're done because I don't know what kind of–
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: They don't seem like they really are into this.
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: Well, Bobby yesterday said, well, they're a good team. They're
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: not a great team. And he's still calling the Padres
• 28:05
  Speaker 10: a winner. Well, source is close to my situation. Matt
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: Vaskersen is coming to town. He'll be here Sunday. They're
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: doing it live from game one.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: He's doing the pre and post on Fox. And so
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I assume it's going to be those guys.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because Burkhart's going for NFL duty, obviously, as the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: number one guy.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: And I assume we'll have Joe Davis. I don't know.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, Joe Davis will do it, I think.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Will he be okay? He had laryngitis.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: He hasn't called the last two games because his voice
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: is gone.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: If he's, you know, he's got, he's got four days.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I think you would hope they ended up having a
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Kenny Albert call game three of Dodgers and Braves down
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, which wore my heart.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I love Kenny Albert. Who's your favorite Albert brother. Kenny
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: is the best Albert.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Sorry.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: What about Al? No, Kenny's great.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: I'm not, I mean, Marv is, you know, obviously the
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: NBA iconic guy, but Kenny's great.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: And last night they ended up having Brandon Godden who
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: calls NFL games for Fox. He, Voice of Madden for
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: a couple of years there as well. But he is
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves television guy. He ended up pinch hitting
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: last night because of Joe Davis's issues.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm sorry.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I know people used to, you know, it was a
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: target and all that stuff, but you really think it
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: makes you miss Joe Buck. I mean, he was just awesome.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: I thought at these games, I don't know. It's just
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: my opinion.
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 29:24
  Speaker 10: I also have to ask you, JS online did a
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: whole thing on it today. How Brewers fans were fed
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: up with the, with the, the team in the booth.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. Adam Amin, he seemed like he
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: was excited about teams. I mean, Wainwright is just a guy.
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: I enjoy AJ Brzezinski just being a smartass half the time.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Brzezinski posted and it was perfect.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: He posted something and then somebody said, why don't you
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: stop rooting for the Brewers? And then the next tweet was,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: stop rooting for the Padres. Padres fans, both fan bases
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: were pissed at him.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: It's true. You know you're doing a good job. That's
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: what you're doing. Because they're supposed to call it on
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: the line, but we're tribal. Well, and that's the thing
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: is like, when you watch the NFL, you're getting, you know,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: every game is a national game, right? You're getting, you
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: don't have, you know, you want, you want to listen
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: to Wayne Larrabee and Larry McCarron. You can listen to them,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: avail yourself. But in baseball, you watch the entire summer.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: People watch 150 games with Lev and BA and rock.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: And they're used to like the brewer's slant. And when
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: somebody gets a fact wrong or they're slightly off on a,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: And Vasgurjan wears this all the time.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: They pound him. And they say, you don't know what
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the hell you're doing, and you're immediately dismissed. You can
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: call everything else perfectly, but you get one thing wrong,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and you're an idiot who shouldn't have the microphone.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I know you hate this, Drew, but that's the fun
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: of being a fan.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Like, every fan base does this across the country.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: They do it, but it makes you look small. I
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: don't know if the Dodgers fans really do that. Is
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: everybody against them because they have all the things? Dodgers
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: fans were frustrated with B.A.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: 's Teoscar Hernandez game two home run last year, said,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: this is unbelievable.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Sounds like I'm watching a game in a library. Okay.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: So it does.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: Everybody does it.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: That's sports. I know, but it's like, it just makes
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: you seem small, small town to me. It's like, you'd
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: get over it. I mean, it's a, and, and okay,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: here's the thing. You really think, and we said this before,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: we had this argument. A-Rod and Derek Jeter, they're actively
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: rooting for one team over the other. They don't care.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: They're showing up and getting a check. They don't care.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Barkley and Shaq and those guys, they don't care who wins.
• 31:31
  Speaker 10: Now, what Billy said the other day, I think is accurate.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Hey, maybe watch a Brewers game this year before you
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: do the playoffs.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: That would be fine with me. But I've enjoyed Wainwright and...
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: I thought they were fantastic.
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: I find him funny as hell. I mean, yesterday, Wainwright
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: said something about, well, you can tell, this is a
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: big important... I'm paraphrasing here, but it was something about
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: this Padres pitcher... you know, really locking in because he
• 32:00
  Speaker 10: knows how important that is. AJ says, you think?
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if they lose, they're done. Alex Rodriguez
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: has not paid for his insight because before the game,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: or even like he's like, well, if you're the Brewers,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: you want to close them out. If you're the Padres,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: you want to stay alive. That's brilliant. No, you are
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: paid for your insight, Drew. You're on the national preview show.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: You're paid because you're A-Rod.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: You're paid because of the celebrity that you are. You're
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: paid because you're the Hall of Famer. Then give insight,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: not just stand there and pump your skin down. But
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: he's paid to look pretty and be A-Rod, and he's
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: not really... Well, has he ever said anything that's really trenchant? Right,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: but I think you're making the point. If you're going
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: up there only being paid, you're paid to give analysis.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: If your insight is nothing... then maybe you find somebody else.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe then you watch a different show. Maybe there's other
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: people that could be better.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: During the Bucks run, it was like... I think you're
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: making the point for everybody.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: No, it's not.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: It's like, well, again, it's like... But my thing is,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: why get worked up about it? It is what it is.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: You're the one that seems pretty worked up. I think
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: every fan base gets upset about it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Fans do across sports.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: In the NCAA tournament, when Charles is on the NCAA tournament,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: he doesn't watch a college game all year.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: He barely watches the NBA. I will say this.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: If you're going to get mad and say, well, he's
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: slanted against Kansas, or he's slanted, no, he just doesn't know.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: He's just there to be Charles.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: If everybody's trying to be Barkley, More than anything, this
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: is a better case study. Everybody wants to be inside
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the NBA. No other show is going to be, I mean,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: all of these shows are dreaming of having that rapport
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: and having the ability to be able to play.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: What team is that Joker on? They can play those games.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: However, those guys care about when they get things right.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: And when they get things wrong, nobody reminds each other
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: when they, when they get predictions wrong. All I care
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: about basically is the play by play. I, I'm not
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: a Smoltz guy and I'm not a Jim Nance guy.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I don't really like Jim Nance on football. I don't like,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: you know, I like him saying hello friends, but I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: don't like Jim Nance's calls, but it's personal preference. But
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: to get inflamed about it to where it's ruining your
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: experience and you're mad at like every play, turn down
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the sound, turn on the radio, whatever you got to do. Like,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: don't let it ruin the last night.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: It was good. Don't let it ruin your experience.
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: I got a little triggered yesterday afternoon by Poppy saying, well,
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: Milwaukee's not a great team. Uh, and in fact, and
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: he pretty much without saying it called the Padres, we're
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: going to come back and win both games four and five.
• 34:24
  Speaker 10: But I think there's some, you know, when it comes
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: to the national, I think Pedro, Pedro's fun.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: After game two, he was shoveling dirt on the Padres.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: So that just goes to show you that there's no,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: there's not a lot of intellectual consistency there. They wake
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: up and say what they say.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: And, I agree with this, Drew, in the sense of
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: I don't care anymore if they like us or we
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: gain a national audience. It doesn't really matter to me.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm going to be happy if we win
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: or lose, not if Poppy or Derek Jeter like us.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's a sense that people want the popular
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: kids to like you or say good things about you.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: It's like you don't need anyone to do that. Jeter
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: and maybe even Jeter and A-Rod. They look at Milwaukee
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: the way LeBron looks at Milwaukee. I get it. Right?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: It's a place I don't want to go. Stephen A.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Smith called it a terrible city.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: So, again, why would you not be tribalistic when people
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: are talking bad about it?
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: If that's the case, I think you do react. You
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: do react.
• 35:16
  Speaker 10: But I don't, you know, with the play-by-play team last night,
• 35:20
  Speaker 10: I didn't have any.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I think Adam Amin's done a great job. And Wainwright's
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: really good. And he's a good dude. And, like, Pruszynski's
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: kind of funny, and he has his moments. And Pruszynski's
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: in it, like you said, Billy. I like their pod.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Pruszynski's in it, and he knows every team. And he
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: can speak eloquently about just every team and, like, what's
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: good and bad about them, what their strengths are.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: He's fully fluent in the league, which is sometimes a
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: lost art.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Which is what you're hoping for when you go
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: on Big Fox. Go watch, you know, you saw Boog
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Shambi stand up when Churio got the hit.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: He's paid by the Cubs. One of his best friends
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: on the planet is the Cubs manager, who everybody here hates.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: He did it as a pro. He just called the game.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: And if there's one moment where something goes and he
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: calls out a Brewers player for making a mistake, oh,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: he's against the Brewers because he paid by the Cubs.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I think you're blowing this so far out of proportion.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Where are you reading all of this?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: People are pissed. You are freaking out about this. When
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Wayne Larvey came to the Packers, he came from the Bears,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: and it took like five years for a lot of
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: fans to accept him as not being a Bears fan
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: or Bears guy. It's like, they're just announcers. These guys
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: are my friends. I mean, they take it, Veskers. And
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: every time they do a national game, they get pounded.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: And it just sucks. I do think it gets to
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: be some point. It's the job, though.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: I mean, come on.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: And Joe Buck and Aikman didn't hate and never hated
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: the Packers. Go back and watch those games. They weren't
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: rooting against the Packers. Troy Aikman wasn't rooting for the Cowboys.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: If you want to hear that, you can train your
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: ear and hear it that way. There we go.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: But he really wasn't. I mean, they're playing it straight.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: We get it.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we know. We get it. But it is part
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: of the job. You're going to get crushed. That's a
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: part of it. That's what you sign up for.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: And what those guys do, what people see as rooting,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the only thing they root for is a better game.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: When games are blowouts, they'll tell you, well, this team
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: could come back. They want people to be interested. It's
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: their job to keep people watching.
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: My favorite part of that Boog Shambi highlight you mentioned
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: where he stands up calling that sure go hit was...
• 37:20
  Speaker 10: The counterbalance of, was it Doug Glanville? Yeah, Glanville's just chilling.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the way he has always, even on
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: the field, he was like that. But that's great that
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: he laid out. He laid out, yeah. That's a good guy.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: He didn't step on the highlight. He just laid out.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: He didn't give him the Kevin Harlan arm. He moved
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: in and gave him the arm.
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: Amazing, amazing.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Well, Dolph, we're diving more into Packers-Bears, but we got
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: this little side thing going on with the Brewers.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: I completely understand. Completely. And we'll pour one out for you, Yankees. Yeah.
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: Well, this certainly helps with the Brewers winning last night.
• 37:51
  Speaker 10: I'm just heartbroken for them.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Armand called it ball don't lie for Jeffrey Mayer.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: 30 years later, yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: How about that?
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Ball don't lie.
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: I thought we were going to get a Jeffrey Mayer
• 37:59
  Speaker 10: moment on that Mitchell catch, by the way. That dude
• 38:01
  Speaker 10: made contact with his glove.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: That ball drops. We got a whole different story. That
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: was pretty good. Yeah, that's right. Billy said he should
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: get an and one for that catch.
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: That was amazing.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Very well done. Thanks, Dolph. Appreciate it.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: All right, Hunter's going to join us on his way
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: to the airport, on his way back to the good land.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: He'll be with us in about 30 minutes. From right now,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: you're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: and Armin, time for our current electric superhero of the day.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Who do we like today? Callcurrent.com is the website. Superheroes
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: on the van, superheroes, the techs. I would like to
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: potentially give a shout out to the young lady that
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: heard me singing this song into the break room when
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I thought it was Armin. You know, I hear somebody
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: putts it around, filling up some coffee.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I definitely think it's Armin.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I thought it was you maybe heating up the coffee
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: because Armin's very good, doesn't waste it, goes.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: And reheats it. I don't want to waste it. I
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: need it hot, though.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Instead, I just yell out, someone pour me up a
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: double shot of whiskey. She goes, yeah, I could use one, too.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: So that would be a possibility there. But I'm really
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: struggling guys. Obviously it feels like the Garrett Mitchell game
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: last night, but have we given up enough credit for
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Aaron Ashby?
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Three, no hit innings, two walks, three Ks.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: And I mean, I don't know if I totally agree
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: with Murph as he was at what, like 36, 37
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: pitches drew, but he goes, I kind of wanted to.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Send him back out there for one more. I was
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: ready to send it back out there for one more.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: I want to keep spamming that button.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: There's a team of heroes. I think on this team,
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: all these guys are chipping in doing their thing. Obviously,
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: it's a different star maybe every night, but the star
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: of the team is the team.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Not to sound too cheesy. Everyone's starring in their role.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Ashby's magnum opus last night. Let me ask you this.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: If you're going to go as a Brewers player for Halloween,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: is Ashby the easiest costume? Oh yeah. That's definitely the
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: one that dads can use. Get the goggles. Yep. The
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: shaved head for all the dads out there that are
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: wondering about it. Nerd goggles. And yeah, every dad wants
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: to be McGill, you know, pack a little child, like
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: look cool. Like, you know, I covered up, but I
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: go with Sal every day. So there you go. Still
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: going in on that one. I'm still, still going with that.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Oh boy. Texted it to me. So I reminded me,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: I look like Sal.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Massachusetts Gatorade Football Player of the Year, Armin Sarian.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Tennessee Volleyball Player of the Year. Doubles, though, because he's
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: a team player.
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: Doubles.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: That stolen base, Drew, it looked like he was running
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: a little read option. Maybe the Packers bust out a
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: little bit of that this weekend. Get Jordan Love moving
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: around with his legs. Listen, they can't have any worse
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: rushing offense. So maybe if you utilize the quarterback's legs,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: it can get a little bit better. I'm excited that
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: we get this win, and now then I can start
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: focusing in and figuring out how on earth you beat
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: the Bears as a home underdog.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: I'll get an answer for you. Yeah, it's a tough look, though.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: We'll be looking for it. We'll talk about that at
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: the huddle at Pato tonight between 5 and 7. Hunter
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: joins us, 20 minutes. You're on the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.