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09/02/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of the huddle from headquarters. Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt,
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  Speaker 1: Armin Sarian, bringing it to you. Hot take hump day.
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  Speaker 1: Well underway.
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  Speaker 2: 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to all members of the seven o'clock club. Say
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  Speaker 1: hi to the six o'clock clubbers and the five o'clock
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  Speaker 1: clubbers who were here right with us at 5 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Psychos that they were. It's hot take hump day. Get
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  Speaker 1: them to us.
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  Speaker 2: 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: Got anything holstered up? Armin, got any takes? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: You went viral yesterday for venting against Cubs fans. That
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  Speaker 1: was phenomenal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if I can repeat that, although
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  Speaker 3: I guess my hot take is I don't know where
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  Speaker 3: all the Cubs fans are at. I had my binoculars
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  Speaker 3: out looking last night for all those mouthy Cubs fans
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  Speaker 3: that were so excited tonight. two nights ago, and they
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  Speaker 3: weren't there last night. So nice win for the Brewers
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  Speaker 3: last night, guys.
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  Speaker 4: That was pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It was a nice win for the Brewers.
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  Speaker 3: And my other hot take is, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you guys saw it on TV. We're watching it on
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  Speaker 3: the TVs out in the studios. Man, Bryce Terang looking
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  Speaker 3: good in that new commercial for one of the law
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  Speaker 3: firms in town. Yeah, I saw your boy over here.
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  Speaker 3: Armin's saying that he looked like a lawyer. That would
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  Speaker 3: have been a real stretch for Bryce Durang to be
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  Speaker 3: looking like a lawyer to me. Well, he had the
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  Speaker 3: suit on. I mean, he might have had the suit on. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but it was navy blue. They were sitting around the boardroom.
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  Speaker 3: That table looked like maybe oak or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Looked like the out-of-town cousin or brother that comes into
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  Speaker 3: town and you want to bring him in, but you're like, hey, man.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have to put on some nice clothes,
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  Speaker 1: all right? But this is all I got. This is
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  Speaker 1: the nice stuff I got.
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  Speaker 3: Like he's there for the retirement party or for, like,
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  Speaker 3: the engagement party or maybe the guy that, hey, we
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  Speaker 3: brought in our new associate, our paralegal.
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  Speaker 4: He's the ringer for the company softball team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to be on the company softball team.
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  Speaker 1: That's where you're going to find him. Pretty good stuff
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  Speaker 1: right there. We want your hot takes. Here's one for you.
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  Speaker 1: Hot takes. Sometimes you have to dive in amongst the
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  Speaker 1: tire and strip club ads to find. To get where
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  Speaker 1: the real good stuff is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yes. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: The best game in baseball last night was the Pirates
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  Speaker 1: and the Giants. Nuts, wasn't it? Unbelievable. Pirates scored nine
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  Speaker 1: runs in the third. They puked away a six-run lead
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  Speaker 1: and then won on a walk-off error in Pittsburgh. They
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  Speaker 1: won 13-12.
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  Speaker 3: They were up 11-5 at one point after that, and
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  Speaker 3: then slowly got come back on. And also, the headliner
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  Speaker 3: of that, Drew, is two starters from Team USA, the
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  Speaker 3: two starters in the game, because we're used to now
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  Speaker 3: Skeen's getting roughed up. Logan Webb giving up nine in
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  Speaker 3: an inning and not getting out of the third?
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  Speaker 1: That we're not as used to. Pirates, half of the
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  Speaker 1: third inning, they scored nine runs, and it took 30
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  Speaker 1: minutes of time.
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  Speaker 2: Yikes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God for the pitch. And much like the Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: it was a small market rally. They scored nine runs
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  Speaker 1: with no extra base hits. Just a bunch of singles
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  Speaker 1: and walks.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Two bases loaded walks that drew in runs and just
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  Speaker 3: punted the ball around the yard.
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  Speaker 4: That many consecutive outcomes. I mean, that's just wild.
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  Speaker 1: The Pirates bullpen allowed seven runs across the sixth and
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  Speaker 1: the eighth innings.
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  Speaker 2: Yikes.
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  Speaker 1: My goodness.
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  Speaker 3: Well, in the, the, the pirates had were one of
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  Speaker 3: the teams that ended up bolstering at the deadline, beefing
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  Speaker 3: up thinking we're going to make this run. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to try for it. We're going to do everything we can.
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  Speaker 3: And Luke Weaver was one of the big guys that
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  Speaker 3: they ended up bringing in from the Yankees, more money committed.
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  Speaker 4: To him next year.
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  Speaker 3: He was so good with New York and, uh, They're
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  Speaker 3: kind of flat since they've got him there in Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 3: Haven't given a whole lot of save opportunities until yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: and then give him two runs and blow that son
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  Speaker 3: of a gun there in the ninth. Sometimes it's like that.
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  Speaker 3: You never know when you get a guy in the trade.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes they're better than you expected. Sometimes they're worse than
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  Speaker 3: you expected. Sometimes they're about the same. And well, in
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  Speaker 3: pitching is one that's got a lot more variables to it,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't it? Like you can not say that you can
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  Speaker 3: just hit everywhere. But that to me is like a
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  Speaker 3: defense in football. Defense will travel. That bat will travel.
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  Speaker 3: You go in to a pitching staff and you are
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  Speaker 3: working with a whole new operation, new catchers, new pitch
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  Speaker 3: selection process.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Because, I mean, at some point you're not calling your
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  Speaker 3: own pitches. And there's some teams that are trying to
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  Speaker 3: emphasize that, but there's a lot of variables when acquiring
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  Speaker 3: guys at the deadline, especially there. The other interesting one
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  Speaker 3: drew stories around baseball yesterday was this young man who
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  Speaker 3: made his debut on, Lazaro Montez for the Seattle Mariners,
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  Speaker 3: 21 years old, out of Cuba. He had a great
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  Speaker 3: reaction video to him calling his family, calling his family
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  Speaker 3: back home that he was making it to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 3: Emotional video. And all he does in his debut, go
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  Speaker 3: two for four with a bomb at Fenway Park.
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  Speaker 1: Giddy up.
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  Speaker 4: Dead center.
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  Speaker 2: Huge.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, straight away.
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  Speaker 3: And that is a shot there at Fenway to go
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  Speaker 3: straight away. Is that worthy of our current electric superhero.
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  Speaker 4: Of the day?
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  Speaker 3: I think it, I think it definitely would be, but
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  Speaker 3: I was going to give it to Christian Yelich. I
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  Speaker 3: was going to give the, I was going to give
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  Speaker 3: the superhero of the day to Christian Yelich for the
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  Speaker 3: two run shot that flips the scoreboard changes the game.
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  Speaker 3: Joey Ortiz probably also deserves it to hit night as well.
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  Speaker 3: Two hit nights for Jackson Churio, Bryce Durang, William Contreras. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: but we're giving it to Yelich after that two run
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  Speaker 3: shot that, uh, I mean, it ends up being the
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  Speaker 3: difference as it went up 5-3. They tack on and
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  Speaker 3: change the outcome, make it look a whole lot different.
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  Speaker 3: But that ballpark was silent outside of the smattering of
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  Speaker 3: Brewers fans there that were able to celebrate. But, Drew,
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  Speaker 3: the air was taken out of that balloon pretty quick
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  Speaker 3: with that swing. Callcurrent.com, the website. Superheroes on the side
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  Speaker 3: of the van, superheroes inside the trucks that do the
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  Speaker 3: work for you.
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  Speaker 1: Check them out. Always got deals going and stuff. Whatever
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: you may need in terms of keeping your family safe. Right, Billy?
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  Speaker 3: Keep your family safe, especially because the storms are not ending.
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  Speaker 3: We talked to our friends up in the Fox Valley.
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  Speaker 3: Hope everyone's doing better a little later into the morning.
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  Speaker 3: I know we were getting pounded earlier on. Our 5
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  Speaker 3: o'clock clubbers were waking up with us. But you do
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  Speaker 3: not want to be left out in the cold, or
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  Speaker 3: as it would be this week, the heat when your
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  Speaker 3: power goes out. So go and call Current Electric. Callcurrent.com
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  Speaker 3: is the place to go.
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  Speaker 1: Check them out.
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  Speaker 3: They will do a full home assessment, figure out which
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  Speaker 3: one of their generators would be best for your home.
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  Speaker 1: Whole home standby generator.
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  Speaker 3: You hope you never need it, but odds are in Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 3: especially in the summers, you will need it.
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  Speaker 1: Current Electric. Callcurrent.com. All right, hot take for you. Again, 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: Hot take. You can't make a fashion statement and then
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  Speaker 1: deny the fashion statement. Cattell Marte's hat in Phoenix is
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  Speaker 1: a big story. The hat he wore the other night
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  Speaker 1: with the neon trucker hat that said, let the bridges
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  Speaker 1: I burn light the way.
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  Speaker 4: I found it online.
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  Speaker 1: When you just went AWOL for a while. For a week.
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  Speaker 1: And you're going to wear that. And people asked him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what does that hat mean? He said, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know what it was. Just a hat. Just a
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  Speaker 1: cool hat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just a hat, dude.
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  Speaker 4: Just one of the.
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  Speaker 1: Many hats you just slapped on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's hard to believe.
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  Speaker 3: I get guys are getting stuff from different, you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe merchandisers and collaborations and they're getting free stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they just throw one on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You can't tell me you just threw that on by accident.
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  Speaker 3: Is he in like a contract deal or is it
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  Speaker 3: just like a, is there some kind of struggle that
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  Speaker 3: we know of that they're going through? Because Lovolo did
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  Speaker 3: a great job caping up for him, but he also
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  Speaker 3: did let the cat out of the bag. I think
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  Speaker 3: it was this weekend where he's like, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: been three or four years now that we've had him
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  Speaker 3: miss a game.
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  Speaker 1: But we didn't know where he was. In addition to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, talking throughout and explaining his 13 game absence,
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  Speaker 1: Tori Lovolo had to, it was asked about the hat.
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  Speaker 1: His quote was, I want to move past this Cattell
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  Speaker 1: stuff as quickly as possible. I think if you chop
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  Speaker 1: up those words, maybe he's taking some accountability. He feels
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  Speaker 1: like he's done some things and he wants to get better.
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  Speaker 1: That's how I read it. You want to read that?
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  Speaker 1: That's like, ooh. What a great guy. That's a great read.
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  Speaker 1: Some rose-colored reading glasses you're wearing there, Tori. And I
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  Speaker 1: like Tori Lavelle.
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  Speaker 4: He extended it.
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  Speaker 3: He's been getting put into the hornet's nest with this thing.
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  Speaker 1: So then Marte said he didn't know. He just put
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  Speaker 1: it on. and because he's from the Dominican and Spanish
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  Speaker 1: is his main language and stuff, he, he was then
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  Speaker 1: someone read him a translation of, of that, of the hat.
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  Speaker 1: And he just said, yeah, I didn't, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know what it meant.
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  Speaker 4: I just, I just put it on.
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  Speaker 1: I just put it on.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that's his excuses, that language thing. And I guess
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  Speaker 3: it's possible. I mean, but it's just hard to believe.
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  Speaker 3: That's a tough, that's a tough one to, to get past.
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  Speaker 3: I like the, let the bridges that I burn light
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  Speaker 3: the way, light the way to the talking stick casino.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I just, there's six years, six, 160 million.
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  Speaker 1: He got it.
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  Speaker 3: He extended last April in 2025, April, 2025 extended to
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  Speaker 3: six year, one 16.5 that added 64 more million in
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  Speaker 3: new guaranteed money.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like there's a lot of reasons to be happy.
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  Speaker 3: He just did the deal, so I can't imagine he's
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  Speaker 3: mad again, but maybe about the money.
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  Speaker 4: Who knows? Maybe he's just a different kind of guy.
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  Speaker 1: Very different.
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  Speaker 3: It's tough because you then also, and I heard a
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  Speaker 3: lot of different baseball guys talking about this.
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  Speaker 1: Drew, you saw a lot of things in baseball. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that you saw a guy just go AWOL
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  Speaker 1: for two weeks from the team. No, generally not.
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  Speaker 3: But being able to come back into the dugout, into
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  Speaker 3: the clubhouse, and then like You have to address it.
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  Speaker 1: You can't not.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like obviously he did and he was urged
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  Speaker 3: to and said some of the right things. But there's
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  Speaker 3: only so many times I think that pro athletes are
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  Speaker 3: extremely good at a couple of different things. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 3: athletic parts, they are very, very good at spotting phoniness.
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  Speaker 3: And especially from somebody that's in the clubhouse that they're
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be respecting and following and playing with.
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  Speaker 1: If they found any bit of that.
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  Speaker 3: As not being genuine, I think his time in Arizona
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  Speaker 3: is going to be hard for him not to be
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  Speaker 3: done at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. There was another story. There's much rejoicing in Anaheim
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  Speaker 1: because Stan Kroenke purchased the Angels. Talk about it. Artie
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  Speaker 1: Moreno era is over, right? And that's going to be Kroenke. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Was that $ 4 billion?
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  Speaker 4: Felt like a deal to me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Baseball team in Anaheim.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: That's a record deal for Major League Baseball, too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So hot take Major League Baseball owners and not
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  Speaker 3: happy about the Artie Moreno news. Yeah. As our franchise
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  Speaker 3: value valuations, not skyrocketing as we want being one of
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  Speaker 3: the main impetuses for the labor strike that happens in.
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  Speaker 1: The off season.
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  Speaker 3: 3.9 for San Diego, 4 million for the second team
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  Speaker 3: in L.A. that hasn't done anything in the last 20 years.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like they're kind of going up. It sounds like
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money, and it is.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going up.
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  Speaker 3: They're not tenfolding like the NFL valuations.
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  Speaker 1: The Padres closed their sale for 3.9. 3.9 billion. The
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  Speaker 1: Angels are 4 million now.
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  Speaker 3: $ 4.
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  Speaker 1: Billion, and the Angels have 11 straight losing seasons. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: 11 straight losing seasons. They've had great players.
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  Speaker 3: Two of the best players in the last 25 years
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  Speaker 3: playing there for an extended period of time. I think
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  Speaker 3: for Angels fans, they probably consider this good news because Moreno's.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of been the anchor.
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  Speaker 1: They're dancing in the streets.
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  Speaker 3: I just think, yeah, it's interesting how the NBA, obviously NFL,
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  Speaker 3: and then the NBA, the franchise valuations are skyrocketing.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously.
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  Speaker 3: MLB going up, but maybe not at the same pace
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  Speaker 3: and what that means for a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of things. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Kroenke now owns the Rams. He'll own the Angels when
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  Speaker 1: they close in the first quarter of next year. The Nuggets,
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  Speaker 1: the Avalanche, and Arsenal. And Arsenal. Just won the Premier League.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Odds on favor to go to the Superbowl set almost 70%
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  Speaker 3: chance to go undefeated. Apparently apparently Colorado was the best
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: team in hockey last year until they lost in the
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: Western conference finals. Cause they lost their best player before
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: the series against Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: And Denver just wanted what three, four years ago, three
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  Speaker 1: years ago with Joe Jokic.
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  Speaker 3: If you're looking at this as a angels fan and
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: there are them out there, right? Like it's not a,
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  Speaker 3: they do exist. It's not the Baron fan base. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you're dancing in the streets. This is the best news
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  Speaker 3: that you possibly could have seen. But this is also
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  Speaker 3: going to be into the hot take hump day variety.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of the only owners that's in this new
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  Speaker 3: wave of owners that you do want to have. Because
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  Speaker 3: Stan Kroenke, I think, is about making money, but clearly
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  Speaker 3: about winning. And you're going to start seeing this with
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  Speaker 3: a number of different private equity firms coming through into
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball, NBA, NFL. Just watch it with Mark Walter.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's in some hot water. He's in some different
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  Speaker 3: kinds of things. Wherever that money was potentially coming from,
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  Speaker 3: that will be a fascinating deal to be played out
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  Speaker 3: in real time. But to watch one of the touchstone
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  Speaker 3: franchises in all of professional sports flip for $ 2.
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  Speaker 1: 5 billion. in a year signals, I think a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a shift.
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  Speaker 3: This is no longer drew you finding an owner that
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  Speaker 3: has a vested interest, loves the team, loves ball.
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  Speaker 1: This is a hobby.
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  Speaker 3: This is my, this is as much of my status
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  Speaker 3: logo as possible of I'm going to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I run the team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I got the money. If we make money is what
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 3: This is all about making money because it is the,
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  Speaker 3: there's some of the biggest businesses in the world and
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  Speaker 3: that shift over the next five to 10 years of
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  Speaker 3: how business operates under these ownership groups, I think is
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  Speaker 3: going to be interesting to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Private equity getting involved that they don't make anything better.
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  Speaker 3: They don't make anything better, but you know what they do?
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  Speaker 3: They make a lot of money doing it. They do
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money doing it. It's a churn and
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  Speaker 3: burn thing. Like it's like private equity. You'll see a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these teams probably getting flipped just because the
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  Speaker 3: number hits the threshold as to where you're supposed to
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  Speaker 3: go with the investment.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Artie Moreno was not cheap. He was not successful,
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  Speaker 1: but he was not cheap. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: That is true.
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  Speaker 1: They did not win despite having Otani and Trout, which
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  Speaker 1: is unfathomable. But they had Otani and Trout. Otani bolted. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so that franchise just sold for $ 4 billion. Otani left
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  Speaker 1: and made $ 700 million.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's based on what we know. If
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  Speaker 4: you'll get that money, we don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But in 2019, Moreno stepped up to keep Mike Trout there,
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  Speaker 1: their generational player. That was $ 426. 5 million. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, my God, that's ridiculous. To keep
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  Speaker 1: him there for his entire career. They also brought in Pujols,
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: Josh Hamilton, and Anthony Rendon, and they spent $ 625 million
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: on that trio of underachievers.
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: They've tried. They've tried.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: So they tried.
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: They've dumped money. They just didn't spend it wisely. And
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: I think the idea was that he was too involved
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: in baseball decisions.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: And that begs the question, how was David Stern so
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: good in Milwaukee, and then he got to New York
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: with unlimited resources and not going to make the playoffs?
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: That's how. He's spending the money on guys like that,
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: whereas the Brewers have to be on the margins, have
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: to be right, have to have a guy like Jake Bowers.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: And sometimes players let you down.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Facts.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah.
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, sometimes you sign a guy that's done really well.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Hamilton or Rendon. Six hundred twenty five million for that trio.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: That didn't do much. Did nothing. Especially Rendon. Was it.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: I was going to say who basically quit halfway through.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: It's just like the worst.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: And was it council a couple of months ago made
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: the quote of in some form or fashion? I'm going
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: to be misquoting it, but I think I'm paraphrasing in
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: it of like it can be. And it's an advantage
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: for them to not have as many mainstay guys talking
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: about the Brewers. like not have as many big contract
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: guys where in that same vein, they live on the margins.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: They also live on, as Murphy would talk about it,
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: the threat of that pink slip coming in your locker, right?
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Like when you have seven, six years, seven years, you're
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: going to have to play that guy throughout. And there's
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: never going to be an adjustment that you can have.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: And once you start spending big time cash, you realize
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: that like Stearns did for, for Moreno.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: That's the tough thing.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Cause he definitely, you would think tried, but it also
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: sounds like from people in the know, it's like, we're
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: going to spend big money on this contract. And then
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: we're going to cut costs everywhere else. Hey, Artie, can
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: we get a new pitching machine down in Arizona?
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: This one's good.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: You're talking about this one. Doesn't the one that works.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: It works. Let's use this one still. So there there's
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: a weird back and forth of when you get teams
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: and People only look at the spending on players where
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: the Brewers don't spend, notably so on a ton of players.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Where they did spend their money was on their infrastructure
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: and things around that can supplement it. And that can
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: be your way of being able to play around the margins.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: And 25 years ago, the Angels were drawing 3 million fans.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: They're always kind of like second to the Dodgers in
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: that market. But that's a big, and again, it's almost
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: like two different worlds. Totally. Orange County and L.A., two
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: different worlds.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: And they were drawing $ 3 million there, and they haven't
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: been good. 11 straight losing seasons will dampen your attendance. Now, again,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: attendance isn't everything in MLB anymore. It's all about TV
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: deals and stuff, but hard to generate much TV heat.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: When you're in 11 straight losing seasons, you have the
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: second worst record in all of ball again with a
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: generational player. Mike Trout is one of the great players.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: of this or any generation who's never gotten any juice
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: because they've been so bad. He's been mired on such
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: bad teams for so long.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Just hanging out there in, in, in the middle of mediocrity.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: And the tough thing is like, I've heard again, there's
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: been a lot of people that have said a lot
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: of different things about already as the owner. But one,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I remember when the brewers went out there, maybe it
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: was this year, a couple of years ago, they played
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: a week day series, like a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Monday, Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, whatever.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: It was, and had the getaway game. at night on Wednesday.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: What are they doing? Why are they hosing people?
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Well, it's also a getaway game for his own team,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: but he's not going to deal with the day gate
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: because we're not going to draw anything. They just watched
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: that happen to the USC. If it's a hundred degrees
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: in the middle of the day, nobody's doing anything in LA.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: So like they, they, they try to do everything they
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: can to get some folks in there. And over the
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: last decade, it has been as barren as it possibly
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: could be.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: For that team.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: But a good day for him yesterday. Like, you just
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: lived through all that suck.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Now you got a wild amount of positivity and optimism
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: if you're an Angels fan.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: And hope.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: You know, that's the main thing.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: So, Kroenke helped deliver SoFi Stadium. Angel Stadium needs kind
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: of a reboot or... They need a new one. Either
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: a new one or, yeah. You think he moves it
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: out to Englewood and to the complex?
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Good question.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Not sure.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Become the California Angels again?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think he's going to spend money
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: on players. And the other thing is, like, in addition to, like,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: quarter billion dollars on anthony rendon who sucks they had
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: to pay that tyler skaggs uh you know the the
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: oh they had a drug thing that was an undisclosed
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: amount of cash that they had to pay a lot
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: of money out on that settlement so yeah they like
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: i said they spent six hundred $ 625 million on three
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: guys who didn't do much for him.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: They didn't do anything for him. But you know what
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: they wouldn't spend on? A manager's second year on his contract. Yeah.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Kurt Suzuki is working on a one-year deal as the manager. Now,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: maybe it was because he knew that they were going
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: to get sold. Maybe that was part of the deal.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I don't believe so.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: I think it was already said, let's give him a
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: one-year deal. Give somebody a one-year deal that'll take it.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Crockey's good at facilities, so they'll either get Angel Stadium
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: renovated or build a new one somewhere. Would that be
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: a good location? I would think they would stay in
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Orange County. Stay right down there? I would think they would,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: because that's kind of where their history and their roots are.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: I also don't know that he owns the land that
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: SoFi's on. I know he owns the stadium.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: But that's another... That's another one, yeah. I'm not sure.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Because then, if they did, it'd be a heck of
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: a complex, because out there in that Englewood area, they
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: got SoFi, they just built the Intuit Dome.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Which is apparently supposed to be a marvel of, of
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: sport and, and potentially that one too. This is a,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: it just an interesting day, especially when you talk about
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: the labor negotiations.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: For it to fire up right now.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: And this team that a lot of people would not
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: have thought of goes for what ends up being a
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: record amount of money. It fires up and keeps that
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: conversation hot. A couple of hot takes quickly from the
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: talking text line, bill from Madison, hot take Ortiz hitting
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: so well, Murphy leave Hamilton on the bench for a week.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: and let Ortiz rake. I don't know that it'll be
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: a week, but Joey Ortiz is playing.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Himself, Drew, into.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: he's going to be starting potentially a third base or shortstop.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: I think in the playoffs.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's playing himself into one of those spots.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: He's playing in the playoffs and it might just be
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: from what we ended up watching last night that you
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: don't get a 21 year old, 22 year old Cooper
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Pratt in there. We don't want our, we can't be
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: hurting ourselves in a playoff game last night. That's an
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: atmosphere of the playoff. Like down there at Wrigley. Nope.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: When we come back, Bill Schroeder is going to join
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the party from Brewers TV, friend of the program. He
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: actually played for the Angels back in the day when
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: they were owned by Gene Autry and his family. The
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Rock is next. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Continuing the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Armin Sarian. Brewers beat the Cubs last night. There was
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: just a noticeable exhalation, a sigh of relief. The sky
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: seems bluer and the sun is shining and birds are
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: happier in the good land. And we're happy to be
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: joined by our pal from Brewers TV, Bill Schroeder. Rock,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: welcome to the program. Timing is everything, my friend. I'm
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: glad we're talking to you today after a victory rather
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: than a 17-3 setback.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get a sense that you guys are still
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: a little bit uncomfortable with an eight-game lead. I mean... No.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: No, not too comfortable.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I don't have my feet totally kicked up here yet, Rock,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: but I do have my shoes off. Like, I'm getting
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: very close to kicking them up on the ottoman with
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: that eight-game lead.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say this. I mean, you know, Brewers
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: pitching has been just phenomenal all season long. You know, Harrison...
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Had a rough outing a couple days ago, but it
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: was good to see the Brewers' offense get going last night.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, so bottom of the order, getting it done
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: early on, and then the big boys taking over, you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Contreras with that big double and Yelly with the homer.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: And how about Joey O? I mean, he's been phenomenal
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: since the All-Star break, or since July 4th, I think
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Rock, these games feel like playoff games, and it's a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: good preview. And to see Pratt and those guys and
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Lara and those guys get this exposure... It's fun, isn't it?
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: It's just like this is as good as regular season
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: baseball can get in September.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, any time you get into Wrigley Field, I don't
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: care what the records of the two teams are. It
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: does give you kind of an exalted sense of the game, right?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a playoff atmosphere. I mean, the Brewers
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: fell behind once again yesterday, and then all of a sudden, And,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: you know, the Brewers are able to take advantage of
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: a struggling Cubs bullpen this year. That's the big difference
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: between these two teams. I know Cubs hit a lot
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: of dingers. They hit a lot of homers. They score
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of runs. But starting rotation has been really
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: good for them. But, you know, you can tell that,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: you know, the bullpen, it's a big difference. I mean,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: the Brewers' bullpen has been great. You know, the Cubs
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: have not. But, yeah, it's good to see a team
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: that is so young to be able to handle the
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: pressure and all of that. At Wrigley Field, you know,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: last night, I mean, you got 21, 22-year-old kids playing
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: in huge games against teams that are very, very, they're experienced.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Cubs have got a team that's been
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: around a while. These guys know what they're doing, and
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the Brewers have been able to handle it pretty well.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: And you look at it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Bill, and you've called so many of these games and
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: like last night and enjoying it like us on the couch,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: these games are stressful. Like these brewer cub games are
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: a different kind of stress and there's such a heightened
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: importance on seemingly every pitch feels like a playoff game, but,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: but is it as exhausting to call as it is
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: sitting on couch to watch? Cause it is, I mean,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: these games are never over. And last night was another
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: great example of it. They just play some thrilling games.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I find that, you know, doing the games, I mean,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: it can be a little bit more, you know, straight
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: down the line. You know, you don't get as emotional.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I have. I get upset sometimes. But, you know,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: you don't want to watch. You don't want to sit
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: with me watching a game on television at my house
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: because I, you know, say things. I do things that
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: normally I would never do. I'm a fan. The Brewers,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: that's my life. I get emotional. But yes, I just
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: get a sense that you win the Wrigley Field, you
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: have an eight-game lead. I mean, all the pressure, every
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: bit of the pressure is on the Cubs. And the
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: guys responded extremely well. But you're right. I mean, every pitch.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I thought B.A. and Vinny did a great job setting
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: the scene yesterday and talking about the importance of of
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: these games and the importance of the experience that these
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: young brewers are getting through all this. And, you know,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: it's good to have an eight game cushion. I mean,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I think that every time you beat the Cubs now,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: they knock two games off the magic number. What was it?
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I think I heard it was like, what is it?
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: 16 right now is the magic number for the brewers.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, the brewers, you know, every time they win
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: a game goes down. Every time the Cubs lose another
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: game goes down. So they knocked off two games yesterday. So,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I think the Brewers are in great shape. Maybe they've
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: got a month left. Anytime you beat the Cubs, it's
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: always a big deal. I don't care what the records
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: of the two teams are. It could be last place
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: and next to last. They're always more intense when you're
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: playing the Cubs.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: That's always fun. You're telling us that when things get
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: really intense and you're sitting at home, Kate and Rupert
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: have to go to a different room.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kate will just look at me and start waving
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: her finger at me and say, that's enough. That's enough.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: And then Rupert goes right into his bed and covers
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: his head up. He's out.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Rupert.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I like it when Dad gets mad. Rupert the Super Docs.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. I turn from broadcaster that has been doing
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: it for a long, long time. and try to maintain
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: composure and be kind of down the middle a little bit.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: So if I'm in my house and I'm watching a game,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: that is all gone. Every bit of it is gone.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I am just a big fan, and I get crazy.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Not that I'm screaming and yelling the whole night, but,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a different mentality when I'm in my basement.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: When stuff goes bad.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: One of us. All right. Yeah.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Rock, to have that last night's game, a total bounce back.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: And our buddy Todd Rosiak asked Murph on Monday, are
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: you confident your team has the resilience to come back?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: And Murph's like, why wouldn't I be? And Murph brought
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: that back last night. I was asked last night if
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I was. And the Brewers to come back from 3-0
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and win that game was huge. And then today you're
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: rolling Miz out there. So now you feel like you
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: totally have the upper hand. The psychological impact of having
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Miz and rolling out that big gun is huge.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Isn't it? Yeah, especially if you just won a big game.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's one of those things where
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: you got Miz out there, and then you got Peterson
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: for the Cubs, who has had kind of a rough
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: season from time to time, but he's always pitched well
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: against the Brewers, even when he was with the Mets.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, he really came up with some pretty good starts, but.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: You've got Miz tonight, and then you've got Logan Henderson,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: who has been unbelievable where it starts. You can understand
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: why the Brewers did not want to give up Logan
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Henderson in all those trade talks with Scooble and the
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: rest of those guys. This guy's going to be a
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: good one for a long time. You win yesterday. I
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: thought Gasser was really good. Brewers bullpen once again. dynamite,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: and now you've got the Miz and Logan Henderson, a
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: chance to win three out of four at Wrigley and
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: pretty much put this thing away.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can put it to bed. You win three
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: of four, and you can put the kids to bed
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: and be safe for the rest of the month. When
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: you see a guy like Joey Ortiz, you mentioned him
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: off the rip, Rock. When he has the shot to
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: the bow of Cooper Pratt coming up, he signs the contract,
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: knows what's going on, understands it, but then doesn't flinch
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: and goes and takes a new position and just takes
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: off with it. What can that be for not only
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: his career, but for the team? Because it does feel
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: like he's primed to come through in a huge moment
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: in October because he's now just become the guy that's
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: come through for the last two months.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a big home run that he hit yesterday.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, that gave him a nice little cushion, the
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: fiber and cushion, and you could see how excited he is.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: He was, but you know what? One guy that isn't
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: getting enough credit for what Ortiz has been able to
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: do is Pat Murphy. I mean, when that all happened,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: when Joe was really struggling at the plate, but this
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: guy's a wizard in the infield. He said play made
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: at third base yesterday. I mean, incredible job for him.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: But Murph told him when Pratt came up, he said, look,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: you're still going to be an important part of this team.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Keep working. I mean, he's a tireless worker. Anything you
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: do offensively is going to be a bonus for us
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: because of how good you are defensively. But all of
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: a sudden, then, he gets that confidence just because Pratt
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: is up there that he's not going to be sitting
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: on the bench the whole time. So, or getting sent
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: down or getting traded or anything like that, Merck showed
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: confidence in him even when Pratt came up. And I
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: think it had a big impact on how he's been
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: able to play.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Talking to Bill Schroeder, Brewers TV here on the huddle, Drew, Billy,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and Armin. Okay, Rock, got to take you back. One
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: of the controversies yesterday, it's nice that we don't have
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: to talk about it, but Andrew Vaughn pitching two innings.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: It used to be funny, and I've always been a
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: fan of position players pitching, but it's happening now across
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: baseball almost on a nightly basis. Is it too much?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Is there anything anybody can do?
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I hate it. I don't like it. I mean, you know,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: if you need to add another pitcher to the roster,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: go ahead. But, I mean, you know, when the Brewers
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: won that game 22-0, you know, you had– it was
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: like slow pitch, no limit softball, no pitching arc. I
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: can't stand it. I don't like it. I don't think
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: the teams like doing it, but you've got to protect
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: your pitching. But two innings is a bit much. I
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: think that if you're going to throw a pitcher out
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: there or a position player, I should say, Make it
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: be the eighth inning. I mean, it kind of makes
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: a mockery of the game. I don't like it. Nobody
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: likes it. Murph doesn't like it when he has to
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: do it. I know no manager does, but it's the
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: way it is. If you've got a 15-run lead, down
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: by 15 runs, I mean, what other choice do you have?
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: You don't want to blow out all your pitching for
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: the rest of the series.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: And the game is just so analytically driven and numbers
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: driven that we were talking about it, and Drew mentioned
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: it in the accounts, you say, like, The numbers guys
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: would tell you to do it when you're down four
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: in the seventh inning because you're like, coming.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Back is so low. But it does. It gives you
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: such a weird thought.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Mine was that, like you said, add another pitcher or
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: if somebody's got to wear it, you have the opportunity
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: to bring somebody up at a certain point the next day.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: They've got to be able to find something to it
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: because these games are too entertaining to all of a
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: sudden have that thing stunted right there at the back end.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: And the game's so good right now, Rock, that there's
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: no reason to have. Now, listen, if Gary Sanchez is
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: going to pitch more, I am going to be interested
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: to watch because I want to see Al Crackett.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Fire that thing. Well, that's true. But, Rock, we were
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: talking about one of the things that's missing is a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: knuckleballer that can pitch every day. Remember, like, Steve Sparks,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: back when there were knuckleballers. Ashby's the closest thing to it.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: When there were knuckleballers, those guys could pitch every day
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and eat up those innings.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how about a, you know, throw a knuckleballer, you know,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: every day, but, you know, if you're a catcher, you
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: hate that. Yeah, true. You see the umpire last night
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: wear one right in the mask yesterday, tipped off of Contreras' glove,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: but that happens quite a bit with a knuckleballer, but... Yeah,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: you're right. I mean, you know, the game is the game.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: The game is doing so well right now. And, you know,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: runs sometimes are hard to come by, but then all
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: of a sudden you've got stretches like now where, I mean,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: teams are racking up, you know, 10, 15, you know,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: 20 runs. I mean, it's been kind of crazy the
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: last month, hasn't it? Yeah.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: You're seeing it on the regular and this is, It's
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: not the 40-man roster debacle we used to have in
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: September's past when, you know, you'd have a whole bunch
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: of guys, unlimited pitching. A bunch of dudes no one's
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: heard of, too. But that was almost better in a way.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind expanding the rosters, you know, for pitching. But,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: you know, the three-batter rule will kind of eliminate the
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: whole Tony La Russa. You know, have a guy come
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: in for one hit or do that three, four times
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: in a row. That kind of gets crazy in September. Yeah.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, you've got to protect your pitching, especially teams
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: that are going into the postseason.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Rock, one of the things I want to ask you,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: because you're on the record on this program telling us
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: you'll never refer to the Cubs' presumptive MVP by his initials,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: but the Brewers have done a good job.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Never, never.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Never, never.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you. 0-4 with three punch-outs last night, and I
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: think one of the keys to beating the Cubs, if
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: I had Rock's keys to the game on a graphic,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: is hold down the blue-haired kid.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's what Vinny was saying in his scouting
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: report yesterday. But don't say that too soon, Drew. I mean,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: we've still got five games left with these guys. And
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: he can turn things around, you know. I think that,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, the way the Brewers have been able to
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: handle Pete Crow Armstrong. And, you know, I texted VA yesterday.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Enough with the PCA. Enough with the PCA. He didn't
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: listen to me.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you the emoji he sent
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: back to me, but anyway.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: He's one of us.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: The partners getting after each other. Oh, my goodness.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: That's incredible.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Absolutely incredible. He's a good player. They've got to hold
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: him down.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: I'd enjoy him if he was on any other team,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: but he's got that damn blue and red on.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I can't stand him. If he goes over, you like
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: your chances because he's such an engine for them.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, you keep the big boys down.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: You know, Seiya Suzuki and Bregman now has been knocking
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: the cover off the ball. When the Brewers played these
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: guys early in the year, none of those guys were hitting.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Now they are, and they're hitting in a big way. But,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: you know, you've got to take advantage of the bullpen
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: for the Cubs when they come in. That's their Achilles heel.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: And that's the secret, get in the bullpen. Rock, thanks
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: for joining us. Have a great day. We know you're
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: chomping at the bit to get in the booth for
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Brewers Cubs on Labor Day.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: No, I can't wait. I mean, you know, Labor Day, Cubs, Brewers, yeah,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: it's going to be great. Hopefully I see you guys
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: in the ballpark.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: We'll see you there, bud. Take care.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, guys.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: The great Bill Schroeder joining us here.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: He says you don't want to see me watching a
• 34:31
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• 34:33
  Speaker 1: No, I disagree. I think everybody wants to watch a
• 34:36
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• 34:37
  Speaker 4: That's why we love you, Rob.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I'm going to FaceTime Kate and have her put the
• 34:40
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• 34:43
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• 34:45
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• 35:40
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• 35:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit as we go into a Wednesday and
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: get ready for Brewers Cubs game three with Miz on
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the mound. Oh, nothing better. That is some sweet, sweet
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: taste of victory maybe tonight. All right. I got you
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: here for this one, Drew.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Now, I don't know that there was any waking and
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: baking going on, but I do know there was some
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: good work, some good camaraderie, and potentially way too many
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: dudes on a Malibu boat over the weekend for the
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee Bucks hanging out in Austin, Texas. Miles Turner put
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: it out online. It looked like they might have been
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: doing some swimming.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Why not? I hope some guys get out of that boat.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Miles Turner had the fellas down for a players camp.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Got some good workouts in. Everybody had their gear.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Doing some stretching, doing some five-on-five, little shooting drills, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of good hanging. Now, like a lot of,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: you know, good guys weekends. There's a really, really sweet
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: 45 second cinematically shot video of the entire thing.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Recapping it, edit.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Video, edit a lot of good clips. It's like, yeah, we're.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Putting, there's a wildly well-timed shot.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Of, uh, Yaka Jonas. Am I pronouncing that correctly? Yaka Jonas.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: I think so.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: The young man, they got formerly of Illinois from Miami
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: shooting some pool.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Hitting it in the corner pocket. Some really nice little
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: hat tips for the boys down in Texas. They're spinning
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: the paddle, playing some ping pong, a big old Tomahawk steaks.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: And then a shot that is only going to be.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Rivaled by potentially the New York football giants going out
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: on the boat the week between the Packers game to
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Lambeau for the wildcard round. Where we got, like, the
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: whole team on a 28-foot Malibu. This is not a, like,
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: it's a nice boat, but it's not that huge. That's
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: a very expensive boat. I mean, it's very nice. The
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: little bit that I know about boating, a Malibu ski
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: boat is nothing to sneeze at. But this isn't like,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: you know, the Queen Mary boat. Like, this isn't like
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: the Wisconsin river boats. We got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: at least 11 dudes all on this boat. Not one
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: wearing a shirt. I also wouldn't if I looked like this.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: No.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: It's probably hot down there.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: You might jump in the water.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: There's no swim shirts going on.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: But I think it's just a fair question to ask
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: on a hot take hump day Wednesday. 11 shirtless dudes
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: on boats.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Too many dudes.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: How many guys on a boat?
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Too many dudes.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: How many dudes do you feel comfortable with hanging out
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: on one boat? Again, this isn't a yacht. This is
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: like a, again, max 30 foot ski boat. This is
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: not like the, the, the Vikings love boat. This is
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: not even like.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: We don't know. It could have been, there could have
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: been two boats.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: This isn't because there was, there were two boats for
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: the Minnesota love boat situation. One where it was really
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: going down. And one where, you know, Nate Burleson famously
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: tells a story. He was just hanging out, having a
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: nice drink, hanging out, looking at the views. Even the
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Stefan digs daddy on the boat was a bigger boat.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Right? Much larger, much larger, much larger. This is great.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Cause this is team building bonding. I love, we probably
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: had some sick wake surfing going on here. I see
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: the wake boards over on the side. I mean, there's
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: gotta be a couple of bags of sun chips in
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: the bottom there somewhere.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: But even the, the boat is the pizza, the pool,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the shots up.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Basically when you're a kid, what you wanted your birthday party.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Sleep over to St. Edwards university is where they were
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: working out and, and hooping and hooping. Like, Great.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: It's great to see this.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I'm interested. Did the Buck social team accompany them? Who
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: put this together? Because it's very well crafted. The video
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: is amazing. That's what I was going to say, because
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: it comes out on Miles Turner.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: I didn't know if Miles booked the video crew to
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: be like, hey, man, come film this. Let's make sure
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Bucs fans know that I'm about that action. He had
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: the private chef cooking for him. I think that guy
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: wasn't on the Bucs that was cooking all those tomahawks.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: That guy is definitely not on the Bucs. Now they
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: probably should have had Chef Adam Pavlak.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: They should have.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Let's be honest, if Adam would have been there, the
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: boys would have been eating.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: And Miles Turner earlier this offseason got engaged, right? Yes.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: In Italy.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: He's having quite a time. Having a good offseason. And
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: you know what? He was on a boat during that engagement.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Whatever it ends up being, Cam Jones, Armand's boy, is
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: in there.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: He's doing some sweet lunges. I don't know they're going
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: to hit the... I don't know they're going to win
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: 25 games. But these vibes are a lot better. These
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: are fun vibes for a young team. I like the
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: feeling that we're all hanging out, getting together. Teams bond
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: a lot more around steaks and kegs than they do kale.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: And this one feels like a good one.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: My final hot take is that the Bugs will exceed expectations.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Damning by faint praise, I know, because there are virtually
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: no expectations.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Very low expectations.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: It's the flip side of when Wendy Seligpreep told Hardcore, Tom,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: we're not as bad as you think we are. And
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: he said, Wendy, you couldn't possibly be as bad as
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I think you are. So, Bucks will be better. Bucks
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: will be better.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Better than that. Join us at 5 a.m.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: We'll be talking Ms.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Cubs.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a blast. We'll see you then.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Peace.