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The Milwaukee Brewers win their 1st World Series title | FT Postgame · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: They did it.
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  Speaker 2: The Milwaukee Brewers are 2026 World Series champions for the
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  Speaker 2: first time ever. They freaking did it. They were the
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  Speaker 2: best team in baseball. No doubt about it. Scotty Braun,
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  Speaker 2: Todd Frazier, Eric Kratz, who is a former brewer. When
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  Speaker 2: they won the NLCS, they had a bottle of champagne
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  Speaker 2: with Kratz's name on it.
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  Speaker 3: Kratz, do you have some feels right now?
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  Speaker 2: Like, do you get Emotional seeing what you just saw,
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  Speaker 2: spending some good time out there, and having some really
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  Speaker 2: good memories and connections with the fans.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man. You feel for the fans. I watched the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. I watched playoffs for the reaction of the fans.
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  Speaker 1: I love when they have the side shot and you
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  Speaker 1: see all the fans get crazy when it's a home run.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see all the videos tomorrow of
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  Speaker 1: people crying, people in the stands in Tampa, people in
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  Speaker 1: the stands at American... financial field. I just, I love
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  Speaker 1: it for the fans. It's such an awesome thing for
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  Speaker 1: my ex teammates, Yelly, big woo, Jason Lane, hooky, Pat Murphy, everybody. Agreed.
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  Speaker 4: This is a, it's, it's amazing. Honestly. I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: think about Pat Murphy and his upbringing, how he started
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  Speaker 4: with his child and it turned into a man and
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  Speaker 4: had to be this guy that love for everybody and
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  Speaker 4: you know he started in college Arizona State and made
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  Speaker 4: his way up I mean truly remarkable story from management
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  Speaker 4: side and then truly remarkable story for this team who
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  Speaker 4: always found a way to get in the playoffs and
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  Speaker 4: never found a way to win a World Series and
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  Speaker 4: they cruised they absolutely cruised through this and with a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of guys that not many people know about and
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  Speaker 4: they are known about right now it's fantastic it's great
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  Speaker 4: for baseball and man they played the game the right way.
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  Speaker 4: They nickel and dime, little things here and there, get
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  Speaker 4: the guy over, bunt him over, slap the ball the
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  Speaker 4: other way, make the dive and catches, find a way
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  Speaker 4: to get the extra base, and that's Milwaukee baseball. Now
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  Speaker 4: Pat Murphy, I think he can shake everybody's hands now
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  Speaker 4: moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're talking about when they do the introductions
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  Speaker 2: before each series starts or when they go to whatever
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  Speaker 2: park it is.
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  Speaker 3: Cause they do them twice, right? Each series. And Pat's like, nah,
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  Speaker 3: no handshakes.
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  Speaker 2: He's a unique cat and he's a winner.
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  Speaker 3: He is a winner.
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  Speaker 2: So as Matt Arnold, who runs the front office there, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's get into this game first and we can get
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  Speaker 2: back to the Brewers organization talk.
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  Speaker 3: So let's hit it. Full count fueled by marathon. Crats.
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  Speaker 3: Can we start with Ms.
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  Speaker 2: So you talked about, and you've done this multiple times,
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  Speaker 2: how the ball comes out of the hands differently for
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  Speaker 2: many pitchers down in the trop. Did you feel that
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  Speaker 2: way with the Miz? The fastball was buzzing. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: even need anything else most of the time. And he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't a strikeout Wiz. He was just doing what he
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  Speaker 2: needed to do run prevention-wise. So what did you think
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  Speaker 2: of this version of the Miz capping off an incredible
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  Speaker 2: season where he did strike out the world during the
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  Speaker 2: regular season and he's going to win a Cy Young?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he's going to win a Cy Young, and it's
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  Speaker 1: okay to say he wasn't his regular Miz, but I
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  Speaker 1: think he grew in this game, and he was a really,
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  Speaker 1: really good Miz against a team who just says, we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to strike out. The Rays said, we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to strike out tonight. I think it was the
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  Speaker 1: fourth inning, DeLuca, when he finally got his first strikeout,
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  Speaker 1: but what did he get a lot of? Fly balls.
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  Speaker 1: I just went to my high school... um and had
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  Speaker 1: an optional practice and thrown bp and i'm like guys
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  Speaker 1: if you're under the ball you're probably just a tick
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  Speaker 1: late so if you're popping it up if you're hitting
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  Speaker 1: fly balls when you want to be hitting line drives
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  Speaker 1: you're a tick late so the ms still had him
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  Speaker 1: late he was just getting they were under it every
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  Speaker 1: single time and good for the ms the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: here is the walks. He had one walk. He's not
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  Speaker 1: getting punch outs. Most pitchers go, okay, I'm going to expand.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't do that. Good for him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he had something funky going on with the mound.
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  Speaker 4: That's like the second day now with the dirt. It
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  Speaker 4: seemed like his foot was moving. I mean, listen, no
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  Speaker 4: wonder why his calf or whatever was bothering him during
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  Speaker 4: the game there. I mean, everything was getting overstretched, and
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  Speaker 4: he's still throwing over 100 miles an hour. Weird feeling.
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  Speaker 4: It's got to be on the mound. Never had that
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  Speaker 4: before because I didn't throw with that much force or
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  Speaker 4: throw that hard ever. But ultimately, the race ground crew,
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  Speaker 4: give them credit. It's hard to do that. You might
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  Speaker 4: be a little embarrassed. You might be a little like, man,
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  Speaker 4: what do we got to do here for these teams?
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  Speaker 4: And it is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: He fought through it.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't complain. He wasn't gesturing like, why does this
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  Speaker 4: crap happen all the time? He just went out and pitched.
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  Speaker 4: And guess what? They got the dogs in the bullpen
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  Speaker 4: to come in as much as they want to miss
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  Speaker 4: to keep throwing. Ultimately, they took a precaution there and
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  Speaker 4: they still didn't give up a run until last, you know,
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  Speaker 4: out in the game. Give Chandler Simpson props. The guy
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  Speaker 4: never stopped playing. This dude is going to be a
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  Speaker 4: star moving forward. Fun to watch him play, but just
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  Speaker 4: a little too late.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, we've talked about the mound for Miz
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  Speaker 2: all year, and Kratz was even foreshadowing that it was
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  Speaker 2: going to be talked about quite a bit when he
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  Speaker 2: was on the road. In Milwaukee, they can take even
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  Speaker 2: more care of him, but it still worked out.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Five and two-thirds shutout innings, like Kratz mentioned. One walk,
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  Speaker 2: two strikeouts on 86 pitches. Did have to leave the
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  Speaker 2: game a little bit sooner than he wanted. Maybe one
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  Speaker 2: out sooner, right? Likely was going to go six and
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  Speaker 2: then put a lid on it and head.
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  Speaker 3: To the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This is all you can get and more also over
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  Speaker 2: 50 innings more than the prior season, right? In a
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  Speaker 2: game that is so concerned about innings and pitch count
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  Speaker 2: and all of that. I mean, he soared past what
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  Speaker 2: he did the year before and he looked pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Is it perfect when you're in October? Is it perfect
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  Speaker 2: when you're in October for almost anyone?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: And Tom Verducci said on the broadcast that the zip
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  Speaker 2: on the fastball crats was as good as it had
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  Speaker 2: been all year and the best that it had been since,
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  Speaker 2: He gave some date in July. I'm assuming he's talking
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  Speaker 2: about maybe the vert combined with the velo.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, like we said, it's going to pump
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  Speaker 1: up in Tampa. So I don't know what metrics he's using,
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  Speaker 1: so I won't even comment on that other than the
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  Speaker 1: hitters will let you know, Todd. The hitters are going
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  Speaker 1: to let you know. How's your stuff look? How we're
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  Speaker 1: not squaring them up, coach. Ah, crap. I guess we
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  Speaker 1: got to keep running them out there. And the cramping thing?
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  Speaker 1: If you watch the Brewers throughout the year, about May,
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  Speaker 1: he was dealing back-to-back times he had dealt with cramps,
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  Speaker 1: where his actual left hand started cramping up so he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't keep going. But he was like, from then on,
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  Speaker 1: I talked to one of their trainers, and they were like,
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  Speaker 1: he is on a strict regimen, and I never saw
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  Speaker 1: it pop up again until tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Fantastic. There's not much more I can say. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's just a beautiful way to play the game. What
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  Speaker 4: was it, two losses this whole team had in the playoffs, Scotty? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: They lost to the Padres in the DS one game,
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  Speaker 2: and they lost one game to the Rays.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, guys?
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  Speaker 1: No, I was just going to say, Todd, you said it.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, you know what they do? They bunt.
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  Speaker 1: How many bunts did they have in the World Series?
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  Speaker 3: Zero.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they had any.
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  Speaker 1: Zero. Zero. Didn't need it.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't need it.
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  Speaker 1: So let's disband the whole, oh, they bond. They run
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  Speaker 1: all their stuff. Let's just say they want to do
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  Speaker 1: what it takes to win the game, not, well, you
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  Speaker 1: know what? This is what it says it takes. You
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  Speaker 1: know what it needs? You know what it needs? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Smoltz kept calling for it, first and third. Oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is where they're going to safety squeeze. This is where
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  Speaker 1: they're going to– why? Hamilton hit an absolute rocket against
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  Speaker 1: a drawn-in infield where if they were back, it would
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  Speaker 1: have been– Turn in two and you're out of the inning.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's tough to turn two against Hamilton, but
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  Speaker 1: against that rocket of a shot, you could have.
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  Speaker 2: Also, it wasn't the cleanest defensive series for the Rays,
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  Speaker 2: but we talked about this. They're one of the best
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  Speaker 2: defensive teams in the sport. The Brewers and the Rays
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  Speaker 2: would drop down bun hits during the regular season. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure if we look back, a lot of the time
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  Speaker 2: it was against crappy defenses. So take advantage of what's
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  Speaker 2: in front of you.
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  Speaker 3: Game plan. Have a scouting department. These are things that
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  Speaker 3: have been talked about for decades.
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  Speaker 2: They do it. They do it really well. Impressive, impressive team.
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  Speaker 2: And also they built a ridiculous bullpen. Ridiculous in a
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  Speaker 2: different way too, Kratz, because you were part of a
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  Speaker 2: Royals team a while back that had some huge names
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  Speaker 2: and it was a special bullpen, right?
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  Speaker 3: Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Holland.
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  Speaker 3: And who was the third?
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  Speaker 1: Greg Holland.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the difference for me. We can brag about more
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  Speaker 2: than just three here. When we talk back about the Brewers, McGill.
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  Speaker 3: Great today. He was fine.
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  Speaker 2: I think they just flubbed by using him for an
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  Speaker 2: out the other day. Obviously, Ashby is the story. Abner Uribe,
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  Speaker 2: that's the three that if you wanted to compare to
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  Speaker 2: Kansas City, then you could go another three or four
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  Speaker 2: guys that were pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 1: JoJo Romero, take a look at his slider compared to
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  Speaker 1: when he was with the Cardinals to tonight. Some of
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  Speaker 1: those backdoor sliders to righties helped him neutralize right-handed bats.
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  Speaker 3: D.L. Hall.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, D.L. Hall. A starter that they got for
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  Speaker 1: Corbin Burns that, you know what? Ah, crappy trade. We
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  Speaker 1: really screwed that one up. Let's flip him somewhere. No,
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  Speaker 1: let's bring him out of the pen so he can
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  Speaker 1: throw 97 to 99 from the left side. And then
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  Speaker 1: you got, and then you have, well, Drohan came out
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  Speaker 1: the other night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sent to tell us, you know, gave him some good innings.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was just more depth there in this bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: You can go four or five deep with a bullpen that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, most of the time you're looking at teams going, eh,
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  Speaker 2: I really, really trust two, maybe three guys. Like three guys,
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  Speaker 2: you're feeling like, okay, I can go one or two
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  Speaker 2: innings with three guys.
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  Speaker 3: I'm special. And Milwaukee can extend that.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's how you– and I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of GMs try to do it at the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 1: try to add that depth. It's just tough to do sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: In 2015, as much as the 14 team is remembered,
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  Speaker 1: 2015 we won the World Series and– Greg Holland got hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Wade Davis became the closer. Luke Hoschever just was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'll just come out off of Tommy John
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  Speaker 1: surgery and dominate everybody. Ryan Madsen was in that pen.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Blanton came and threw innings out of that pen.
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  Speaker 1: Tim Collins was out there. I think he got hurt
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  Speaker 1: that year. But either way, you have to create that
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  Speaker 1: extra depth because you don't know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: And the Brewers had that depth. And they Like they
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  Speaker 1: had traded for Zerpa, the lefty from Venezuela. And everyone
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  Speaker 1: was like, what a trade. This is unbelievable. What a
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  Speaker 1: great job. And I was like, I don't even really
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  Speaker 1: know who this guy is. He wasn't even on the
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  Speaker 1: active roster.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's a special Brewers team.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: And they've got something good going in this organization. And
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  Speaker 2: then let's move to the offense, shall we? Todd Fother,
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  Speaker 2: one of the big differences between the Brewers lineup and
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  Speaker 2: the Rays lineup, is that Milwaukee really gave you more,
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  Speaker 2: here's a theme, length.
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  Speaker 3: Bottom of the lineup did things.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the stars towards the bottom of the lineup,
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt, the rookie, again tonight, right? Driving in a
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  Speaker 2: couple runs for this team and just making the Brewers
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  Speaker 2: look like geniuses for locking him up already to an extension,
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  Speaker 2: bringing him up, trusting him as a rookie shortstop in
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  Speaker 2: the postseason for a team that I think had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of, pressure on it to finally come through in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs right this team is in the playoffs just
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  Speaker 2: about every year for the past decade and their fans
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  Speaker 2: and everybody in baseball is like can they get over
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  Speaker 2: the hump and then there's some people like does this
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  Speaker 2: brand of baseball work in the playoffs they got swept
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  Speaker 2: by the dodgers last year yeah it worked and pratt
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  Speaker 2: was a big part of it and you know there's
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  Speaker 2: other guys there at the bottom that had big moments
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  Speaker 2: freelick hamilton mitchell but pratt over these last few games
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  Speaker 2: man making a big name for himself and And you
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  Speaker 2: see a kid out there who, like you mentioned the
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  Speaker 2: other day, was in high school a few years ago.
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy. I mean, think about how many RBIs that
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  Speaker 4: seven through nine got in this World Series compared to
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  Speaker 4: Tampa Bay. It was a lot. You know, Cooper Pratt's
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  Speaker 4: swing plays, man. It's not a launch angle swing. It's like,
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  Speaker 4: I call it the Tom Amansky swing. You know, A
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  Speaker 4: to B to C. It's just, it's a perfect approach.
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  Speaker 4: of touching a baseball with the perfect part of the bat.
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  Speaker 4: And people understand, well, what do you mean? No, that barrel,
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  Speaker 4: he is hitting the ball on the barrel every single time.
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  Speaker 4: And whether it's a pop out for a sack fly, fantastic,
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  Speaker 4: like he did today, or it's a line drive up
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  Speaker 4: the middle for an RBI, or to right wherever, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: right back up the middle. He squares the baseball up
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  Speaker 4: better than a lot of guys do at his young age.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the whole team. I think they're a contact-hitting team.
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  Speaker 4: They hit strikes really well. They look for pitches out
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  Speaker 4: in their area, and when they get it, they really
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  Speaker 4: didn't miss. And I'm not saying for home runs because
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  Speaker 4: they barely hit any. Cooper Pratt, to me, was an
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  Speaker 4: MVP for sure. And I think he proved it. He
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  Speaker 4: got six hits in a row, a big home run.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, where would they be without that young
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  Speaker 4: man at shortstop? Not really sure because he showed out.
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  Speaker 4: He showed up. And he was absolutely dynamite for a
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  Speaker 4: Milwaukee World Series team.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go through Cooper Pratt's last two seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Biloxi and AA. This is the season. This is his
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  Speaker 1: platform season that they said as a 20-year-old, we're going
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: to offer you eight years, 50-some million dollars. 238 on
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  Speaker 1: base percentage, 343 slugging percentage, 348. So you know when
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  Speaker 1: he gets his contract, maybe he gets hot in AAA. 241, 349, 386.
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  Speaker 1: You know why they gave him that contract? Yes, it's
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  Speaker 1: because of defense. I get it. They gave him that
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  Speaker 1: contract because they understood who he was. They understood Rick Sweet,
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  Speaker 1: AAA manager, understood, you know what, this is the kind
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  Speaker 1: of person that they're looking for in the big leagues
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  Speaker 1: to help this team. Does he fit that profile?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Is he going to change the landscape of this team? Well,
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  Speaker 1: clearly he can because he's getting significant at-bats in significant
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  Speaker 1: spots in the World Series. When they signed him to
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  Speaker 1: extension last year, they didn't go, well, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: he'll be ready in a few years when we're ready
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  Speaker 1: to win a World Series. They knew they were ready
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  Speaker 1: to win a World Series. And so they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to be like, well, we'll just give him the money
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  Speaker 1: and we'll let him marinate for a little bit. They
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  Speaker 1: knew he was going to be a part of this
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  Speaker 1: or they thought he was going to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of this. And so good forward thinking by the Brewers.
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  Speaker 1: And why do other teams not do this? $ 55 million
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  Speaker 1: is nothing. Nothing for a guy that could have won
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  Speaker 1: the MVP in the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe it picks up a theme. There are other
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  Speaker 2: teams like Milwaukee. in terms of being a small market.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: What does a small market mean? Small television market. Your
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  Speaker 2: area of the country that they count is small, none
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  Speaker 2: smaller than the Brewers in Major League Baseball. There are
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  Speaker 2: other teams that are like, why can't we be the Brewers?
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  Speaker 2: Todd Filey played for the Pirates. Why can't we be
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers?
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  Speaker 1: The Reds.
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  Speaker 3: Why can't we be the Brewers? They're both in the
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  Speaker 3: same division. Well, here's an idea.
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  Speaker 2: Identify talent early in the minor leagues and lock them
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  Speaker 2: up like you did.
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  Speaker 3: With Cooper Pratt and say, hey, dude, we believe in you.
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  Speaker 4: One of the best minor leaguers organizations, for sure. I
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: didn't even know Rick Sweet was still coaching. That guy,
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: he coached me at Louisville, dude. That's incredible how he's
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: still managing in AAA, Cratsy.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Enjoy your ring, sweetie.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: You can't say that.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: No, I'm kidding.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: It's better than what I call his first name, so.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of youngsters, Jackson Cheerio, too. A shout out
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: to what he did. He was just a hits machine
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: and a clutch hits machine for this Brewers team. So
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: let's keep moving, though, because I want to talk about
• 17:41
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Let's keep moving here. Merch, World Champs, Milwaukee Brewers.
• 17:58
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• 18:01
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• 18:19
  Speaker 2: is from actually maybe two, three months ago at this point.
• 18:23
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• 18:33
  Speaker 2: co congratulations to world series MVP, William Contreras.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Crats.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: The catchers deserve the credit when they get the knocks,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: they handle the pitching staff, they block the pitches. That's
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the part that always gets overlooked. And then they're just
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: an ABS challenge machine.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: It's that's a new value. We're going to talk about this.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: This is something that swings games. How many one-run games
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: did we play in this five-game series? Four. No, I'm sorry, three.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Three of the five. You had one blowout, you had
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the four-to-one game, and then one-run games. If you think
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: one challenge doesn't matter, then you're just not watching the game.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: It is a talent. He did everything really well. William
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Contreras versus Liam Hicks. Offensively, Liam Hicks had a better
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: year this year. William Contreras was an all-star. William Contreras
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: showed up in this playoffs, could have won the MVP
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: of the NLCS, but goes on and wins the big one,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the World Series MVP.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Look at those numbers too, Todd.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Those are the postseason numbers that he put together.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Over 1,000 OPS.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: That's a beautiful thing right there. I mean, that's video
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: game numbers. He was smooth too. Everything he did, he
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: was under control. He wasn't out of control. He was
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: just cruising. And he's taking that cruise all the way
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: to the World Series Championship. Every time he challenged a
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: pitcher who was there, It seemed like every time he
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: needed to block a ball, he did it. And when
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: they needed a big hit, and not all the time
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: was it a home run, he just found a way
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: to hit a ball square, get a guy over, get
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: him in. Well-deserved. Could have gone to a couple other guys, too,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: as well, but that's the hardest part about MVP. I'm
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: sure Contreras is thinking, no, man, this is great, but
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: I'm sure he's thinking, too, there could have been two
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: or three other guys that could have gotten this, and
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: that's why this team is a World Series champ because
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: there could have been four different MVPs, if not five.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: And Todd Filer, sometimes a team just needs a little bite,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: needs a contraris. I mean, the Red Sox kind of
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: needed a contraris. That one's a little more wild, but
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: this wild bill still brings a little bit.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Of bite to his game, right? Like a confidence, a
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: definitely unique player.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: You know how there's a lot of players still in
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: our sport that are just very, I don't even know
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: how to describe it. They kind of blend in. They
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: don't say anything crazy. I guess that's the word. There
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: are many boring players in our sport.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: It's true.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: We cover our sport. Sometimes we bring on interviews, and
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: they're incredible. And sometimes you're like, hey, dude, are you there?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: You're not going to get in trouble. Just enjoy yourself.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Contreras is having fun out there, and he knows he's good.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Contreras in one year has proven he's a winner by
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: winning the WBC, which does matter. Sorry, AJ. It does matter.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: And by winning... being the main catcher on both. And
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: like the flair and everything, like you see the energy,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you see what he does. It probably pisses you off
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: if you're not a Brewers fan or if you're a
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: get off my lawn type of guy. Like why does
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: he have eye black on that's like this big on
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: both eyes playing in a dome? Like why does he
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: do it? Because there might be a little bit of selfishness,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: but that selfishness gives him confidence. There's flaws in his game.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I think his own coaching staff, his own teammates would
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: say there's flaws. But you know what? Until they were
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: winning 10 to nothing, they didn't have one other person
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: back there. And every year you win a World Series,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you look at who is catching and you say, that
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: was the guy. If you're going into the World Series
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: or the playoffs and you're like, eh, we're platooning this
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: guy here, it's probably not going to work out.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: That's a good call. I mean, have a year.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: WBC in a World Series title is about as good
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: as it gets.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: In our sport, especially when Harry Kane– I don't know
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: if you guys watch soccer at all. Harry Kane won the–
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: what's the MVP of all soccer? He won– I'm trying
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: to think of the award name and it's blanking on
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: me right now. But he won the Bundesliga championship. He
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: got second place in the World Cup. He got second
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: place in the Champions League. Like– And he ended up
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: getting three trophies. And, like, that is my epitome of
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: an MVP. The guy that is able to win wherever
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: he's going and win Contreras, they can never take that away.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Whether you don't like his eye black, you don't like
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: his antics, you wonder if he actually calls the pitches
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: on his own or not, he is a winner. And
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: he had to be that guy back there coming up
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in big spots behind the dish and at the dish.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: And he had support.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Milwaukee brought half their city down to Tampa Bay, to St.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Petersburg, or maybe you were staying off of St. Pete.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Look at that crowd. Careful about what?
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Careful, the Rays. The Rays fans. They came at me
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: after I said something about this.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I'm a Florida resident, so I'm talking to my people here.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And also, someone was really going off on socials that
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: like a third of The Tampa area is not from there.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Whatever that means. I mean, from there. They're all from
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: New Jersey.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: There are a lot.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: NBA.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: No.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: But for sure. New York and New Jersey.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Dude, Milwaukee traveled.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: One guy came at me. One guy came at me
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: and goes, yeah, where would everybody want to go and
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: watch a game where people vacation? I'm never going to
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: stupid Wisconsin. And I was like, what?
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: You're not even able to get a ticket there because
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you don't even go to the Rays games. But anyway, Scott,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: be careful. Be careful. They're a spiteful crew.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, easy example because I lived this. I
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: can speak for the fan experience, right? This wasn't this
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: past year, but the year before, Knicks were finally good
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: in the last few years, right? So tickets were crazy,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: and I flew with my dad to Indianapolis. I wasn't
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: going to Indianapolis for vacation, guys. I was going to
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Indianapolis to watch a Knicks game. You fly out there
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: if you want to do it. I will make this point, Kratz.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Remember before the Dodgers series, we were doing one of
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: our segments about tickets. And I asked you if you
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: thought there would be many Brewers fans there. And you're like,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: probably not.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And you were right.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: It didn't feel like Brewers fans were taking over LA.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: They took over the drop. First of all, it's World Series.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: It's different.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Second of all, part of this was the fact that
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: there's only so many people that can go to World
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Series games online.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: In Milwaukee. And it was a hefty ticket.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: And they looked and they said, hey, I can get
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: a much better situation if I fly down to the Trop.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: And also I might be able to get a clinch
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: in there. And they did if you stayed down there
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: for game five.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: And good for them for going down there. You think
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the players didn't feed off of it? You're lying because
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: they'll never be able to tell you what it's like
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to play in a World Series like we played in
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: San Francisco. and you go up and you're winning the
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: game in the eighth inning, and there's three sections, one
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: above your dugout, about 15 rows up, one way up
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in left field in the upper, upper deck, and then
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: one behind home plate in the upper deck. And you
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: know those are the only Royal fans in the entire
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: stadium because they didn't feel it. So I know it
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: helped the Brewers.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: You know, actually– What I was thinking about today when
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt had his sixth consecutive hit at one point,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Todd Father, how in Milwaukee they say Coop. And if
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: they're trying to boo him because he's playing so well,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: boo and Coop, basically the same thing.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: So everybody's just Coop. Yeah, I heard a lot of Coop.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: He's like, thank you. Yeah, a lot of Coop.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Maybe a little boo, but they're all the same.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Man, you boom when he comes to the plate. You
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: don't boom after he gets the hit. I mean, you
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: don't see that really in baseball unless the guy's jawing
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: to the crowd and giving some gestures or whatever. So
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: they were all coops there in Tampa Bay too.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Coop, coop.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was good.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: All right, a couple more things to do. First off,
• 27:06
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• 27:28
  Speaker 2: We have a super chat I've heard. We can show that. Oh,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: and I think it's an important one. Eric, when you
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: think of the Brewers franchise, and what is this, year
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: 57 of the Milwaukee Brewers? Or was it 54 of
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: the years was Duke behind?
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: So the super chat from Ref, 54 years behind the mic,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Duke finally gets his ring, Milwaukee.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: This one's for Mr. Baseball.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: My question was going to be, who do you think
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: about when you think Milwaukee Brewers? It's not even close.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I was blessed to be able to meet him a
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: couple times and actually have a conversation.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, geez.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: A plus plus plus hall of fame legends, uh, passed
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: away a little bit ago.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Doesn't get to see this, but everybody felt like he
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: was there.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: A hundred percent. And he'll always be there in, in
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Brewer fans minds in there. The legend of the Brewers.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Why did the Brewer fans go down to Tampa? Why
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: did they sell out the stadium? Because there's generations of
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: fans that have fallen in love with this organization and
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: The best logo. The best logo in all of sports.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: The M and the B. And they've fallen in love
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: with it. Small market, you know what? They're like, this
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: is our small market. This is our small market. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the voice that is connected for them is the Uke.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Uke is connected for them for whatever you think of
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: baseball in Milwaukee. And then you go and meet the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: guy when I played there. for him to invite my
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: sons up to the press box to do an inning
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: with him, he was like, yeah, let's do it in
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Somebody else was like, I don't think we're
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: allowed to do it in the playoffs. He's like, ah, whatever.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: He was like, this team's good. They'll have more games.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And he was just that guy. And radio sometimes gets
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: your imagination going. TV sometimes. You're losing it when you're
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: watching it, but that voice, that audio will always be
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: in the minds of the brewer. So good for you.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: He gets his ring.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Radio is tougher. It's a tougher job too. Todd, you've
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: done some radio, right? You've done some radio. Yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: It's, it's tougher because you got to paint the picture.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: You can't play to what people are seeing. You don't
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: lay out on radio for long, right? You can't just
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: be like, I'm not going to talk. Let's just, Have
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: everyone enjoy the moment here. They need to know what
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: you're seeing. It's a really difficult job. And to combine
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: painting the picture, entertaining, informing, he was the best.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, listen, I, I, you know, Kratz, you
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: said it very well. I couldn't have said it any better.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: You've been around him more. I met him once or twice.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Fantastic human being. I can't wait to see what Murph has,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: what he has to say, what you told him, you
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: know what I mean? With his, I call him when
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: he comes out and says, oh, I got a message
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: from old man Bob. So we'll see if he comes
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: up with one here and he has a letter waiting
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: for sure.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: And we're going to have FT, but this is the
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: last day of baseball in 2026. We're not going to
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: beat around the bush here, not on this show. Baseball
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the way it should be covered. This might be the
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: last baseball game for a while, for longer than we'd
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: like it. to be subscribed to FT. We are all
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: over coverage in November where there are going to be
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: a good amount of moves, definitely way more than you're
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: used to in November because then Rob Manfred is going
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: to make an announcement on December 1st that the sport
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: is locked out due to the primary reason in their
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: mind that small markets don't.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Have a chance.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you say that on a podium
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: this year.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: That's a tough one.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Also, the Brewers didn't just win this year. The Brewers
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: look like they're going to be tough for a while.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: The best prospect in baseball.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Pretty much everybody coming back.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Everybody coming back, Todd.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: The best prospect in baseball's name is Jesus Made. He
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: didn't play this year in the major leagues. He's cooking
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: in the minor leagues, ready to go next year if
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: the sport will let him, if the sport's going to play.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: This team looks like it's going to be a force
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: for a while.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: We'll do so much more.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: On the next edition of FT, we're on every single day,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: 1 o'clock Eastern time, up until 3. So catch us there. Again,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers. What a dominant year. What
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: a dominant run through the regular season and then the postseason.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: They were, by far, the best team in baseball. Pop
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: that champagne, Milwaukee.