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09/15/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Tuesday edition of The Huddle continues from headquarters. Welcome in
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  Speaker 1: to the 7 o'clock club. You're as welcome as the
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  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock clubbers just two hours later.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we won't hold it against you. We won't hold
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  Speaker 2: it against you, but attendance is being taken. So we're
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  Speaker 2: glad you're here. You're just different.
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  Speaker 3: It's like when you walk on the plane and the
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  Speaker 3: way those first class people look at you when you're
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  Speaker 3: going back to coach. They give you that look. Like
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  Speaker 3: maybe if you looked and worked a little harder. That's
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  Speaker 3: how the 5 o'clock clubbers look at the 7 o'clock
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  Speaker 3: clubbers when they enter.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that it's that judging. No, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think so. This is a safe space. This is a
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  Speaker 2: safe space. All are welcome. And the thing is, like.
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  Speaker 1: You can be in the 7 o'clock club, and then
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're streaming on YouTube, just go back around
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, listen to the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And then you're catching up. Then you're in. Yes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're in. 100%. That's a key thing to know when
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about Phrase That Pays comes up on Thursday
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  Speaker 2: for the Thursday Night Huddle. Very true. We'll be at
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  Speaker 2: Pottawatomie Sportsbook in the annex. You will not just be
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  Speaker 2: only able to know the Phrase That Pays if you
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  Speaker 2: were listening at 5. You can go on YouTube, listen
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  Speaker 2: to it all. have the phrase that pays and make
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  Speaker 2: sure you're hanging out on a Thursday night with us
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  Speaker 2: at Pottawatomie sports book in the annex, because a little
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  Speaker 2: birdie tells me this is a. Wayne Larrabee event that
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  Speaker 2: we have coming up. Outstanding. Let's go. That'll be the destination.
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  Speaker 2: Dagger and some quesadillas, you know? Absolutely. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: going to dagger me. That patty melt that Drew ordered.
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  Speaker 2: That was spectacular. That sounds more like something that might
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  Speaker 2: get a dagger. Or a couple of legendary moments do
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  Speaker 2: start with a light. A couple of lights might get daggered.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Billy. That chicken dinner is pretty strong, too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's a nice thing, man.
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  Speaker 3: You get that hot chicken there. It's like you get
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  Speaker 3: your napkins, your bib, your drink, your beer, man. That's
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  Speaker 3: one you just got to go in on. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: go with the bib. Maybe I should have. Maybe I
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  Speaker 3: should have put the bib on. I don't think like
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  Speaker 3: ever like a true bib, but there are sometimes maybe
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  Speaker 3: in my- Just the napkin.
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  Speaker 2: The napkin or like, it's so good. I'm eating that
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  Speaker 2: thing over the kitchen sink. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: My grandmother, Mary, used to always bust out the napkin.
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: Had to.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. Every restaurant, the nicer, the fancier restaurant-
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  Speaker 2: the bigger the bib was potentially going to fire out.
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  Speaker 2: That's old school, man.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Protect the blouse.
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  Speaker 1: It's buy or sell Tuesday, 877-794-1973. We didn't talk about
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  Speaker 1: it much the other day, but we did have an
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  Speaker 1: immaculate inning the other day.
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  Speaker 2: With this Peyton Tool cat, who might not be a
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  Speaker 2: Miz caliber cat, but he is getting a lot of
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  Speaker 2: national attention because he's an interesting one to follow. That's
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  Speaker 2: for sure. Especially when you're going nine.
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  Speaker 1: If you're buying or selling that you would want to
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  Speaker 1: see an immaculate inning, because I think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: see one with Ms.
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  Speaker 2: Someday. See, this is probably I'm. I'm going to harmonize
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  Speaker 2: it a little bit. All right, because I would like
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  Speaker 2: to see the feet. I do get the FOMO if
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  Speaker 2: the event happens and I'm not there. I'd prefer that
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  Speaker 2: I see the no hitter before I see the immaculate inning.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in person, statistically, you are three times more likely
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  Speaker 1: to see a no hitter than immaculate inning.
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  Speaker 2: Because I knew one was much more prevalent.
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  Speaker 1: 327 no-hitters in Major League history and then 124 immaculate innings.
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  Speaker 1: And that's nine pitches, nine strikes.
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  Speaker 2: Which is funny. And it's hot and heavy.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like one is celebrated a lot more, though,
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  Speaker 3: in our public kind of site.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Like, no one has ever, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: we do it more lately as.
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  Speaker 3: A sports community, a baseball-watching community, but it's like, The
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  Speaker 3: Immaculate Inning was never something you went to see growing up.
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  Speaker 3: You never thought about it. It's almost like you couldn't
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  Speaker 3: miss it if you weren't paying attention. But a no-hitter
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  Speaker 3: perfect game, even a cycle, people go crazy about.
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  Speaker 2: I saw Doug Jones throw one for the Brewers. Which
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  Speaker 2: is weird because he had all change-ups, right? Yeah, pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: And Hader had one for the Brewers a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years ago. That was the most recent.
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  Speaker 1: You were slightly more likely to see someone hit for
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  Speaker 1: the cycle.
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  Speaker 2: There's been like 354 cycles, 327 no-hitters.
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  Speaker 1: But 124 immaculate innings, nine pitches, nine strikes, strike out
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  Speaker 1: the side on nine pitches, all strikes.
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  Speaker 2: It can be a foul ball.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Right. Right.
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  Speaker 2: There can be a little contact. It's just gotta be. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: two count.
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  Speaker 1: But the immaculate inning is, um, it's a cool feed.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those quirky things. The cycle to the
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  Speaker 1: cycle is, I try, like, you know, the cycle is,
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  Speaker 1: it's a feed. It's more, it's like a, That, to me,
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  Speaker 1: feels more happenstance-y.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: The cycle is a little bit like a hole-in-one in golf,
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  Speaker 1: where you can be a crappy golfer and hit a hole-in-one.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I know guys who are great golfers playing their whole
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  Speaker 1: lives don't have one. Yeah, all due respect to my
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  Speaker 1: man Damian Miller. And then Kurt goes out and hits
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  Speaker 1: 115 yards.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and somehow it rolls through and it rolls
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  Speaker 1: through and it rolls in only stat where if you're
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  Speaker 1: actively trying to do it in theory, you could try
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  Speaker 1: and do worse than you could do.
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  Speaker 2: Like not your best. If that makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, if you were to try and roll ski ball,
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to roll every a hundred if you can.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're like trying to get one of each,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a different game. So the cycle is
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  Speaker 3: obviously clearly a great day at the plate, like a 180.
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  Speaker 3: But like, if you start with the Homer and the
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  Speaker 3: triple and, And you're actively trying for a cycle. You're
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  Speaker 3: trying not, you know, you're only trying for a single.
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  Speaker 2: It's a weird thing. I don't think anybody ever tries.
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  Speaker 2: That's my point. Maybe if you need a Homer and
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  Speaker 2: your team is up, you might muscle up.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Or if you need the triple and your team, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to try to leg it out.
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: It's more of a state of circumstance.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Yelich had two in a season in his MVP year.
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  Speaker 1: Hit for the cycle twice.
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  Speaker 2: Both against the Reds. Paul Molitor hit for the cycle
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  Speaker 2: for the Brewers. Jody Garrett. So did George Kataris and
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  Speaker 2: Chad Moeller. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And Garrett and all those guys. So it's cool, but
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  Speaker 3: it's also, to me, more of a novelty. I'm more
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  Speaker 3: impressed seeing, you know, can you hit three homers.
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  Speaker 2: In a game? Like that, to me. Two homers and
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  Speaker 2: two doubles is more total basis.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's where, I mean, and maybe this is just chicks
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  Speaker 2: dig the long ball. The multi-homer game, to me, is
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  Speaker 2: cooler than seeing the cycle. And maybe the maybe.
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  Speaker 1: The immaculate inning army, because I think you're on it.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about it now more.
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  Speaker 2: We're big. We're big into efficiency now. Now, though.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Like the whole world is more into efficiency than the
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  Speaker 2: no hitter of throw. One hundred and twenty four pitches.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Like we're never seeing an Edwin Jackson no hitter again.
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  Speaker 2: Where my man threw one hundred and forty five pitches for,
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  Speaker 2: I think, the Rays. and completely blew out his arm.
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  Speaker 3: We're more likely to see team no-hitters now, which then
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  Speaker 3: makes us debate it all the time. Which is maybe
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  Speaker 3: my favorite one for Sports Talk Radio, yeah, because it
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  Speaker 3: gives us a beautiful 15 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: The next day. Which makes what our guy did, Panone,
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  Speaker 2: pretty much all that more special.
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  Speaker 1: Five Brewers pitchers in history have thrown immaculate innings. Doug Jones,
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  Speaker 1: as mentioned, 1997.
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  Speaker 2: That was his ninth inning. Ben Sheets against the Houston
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  Speaker 2: Astros in 2004. Okay, come on, Benny. Rick Helling. versus
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  Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Reds in 06. Wouldn't have had that one
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  Speaker 2: on my card. Mike Fiers in 2015 against the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: A couple soft tossers in there, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Enrique Hernandez, Carlos Frias, and Jock Peterson. And then Josh Hader, St. Louis,
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  Speaker 1: ninth inning in a save.
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  Speaker 2: 2019. Now, that makes it even better in a safe situation.
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  Speaker 3: What matters, we're really there to help your team, not
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  Speaker 3: just some random third inning on a Tuesday in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: And 19 would have been the year that he made
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  Speaker 2: the statement that I'm going to be the closer, correct?
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  Speaker 2: All good point.
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  Speaker 1: The arbitration going into 19 where he said, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: this is when I'm pitching.
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  Speaker 2: And was that ever public? Like that? He said, did
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  Speaker 2: he say it?
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  Speaker 3: Or was that just like figured out eventually that that's
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  Speaker 3: all the brewers were doing with him?
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember. You might be right, Billy. I just honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I remember there being, I don't know that he walked
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  Speaker 2: up to a microphone and told people, no, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: And then everyone started figuring out that he must've had
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  Speaker 3: this demand and maybe council alluded to it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it is pretty interesting. Cause it's like the whole crowd can,
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  Speaker 3: can be aware of a no hitter. but not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: an immaculate inning. And it's interesting that the Brewers, it's
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  Speaker 3: more rare, but the Brewers have had five of them,
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  Speaker 3: and they've only had the one no-hitter, well, plus the
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  Speaker 3: Burns combined one.
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  Speaker 1: The closer immaculate inning is cool. Rick Helling did it
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  Speaker 1: to open the game against Detroit. Curtis Grandison, famous tenor,
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  Speaker 1: Placido Polanco.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And Yvonne Rodriguez, Pud Rodriguez. A couple of pretty good
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  Speaker 2: hitters in there. Good hitters. First inning, nine pitches, nine strikes,
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  Speaker 2: struck out the side. That's the one we're going to see. Right,
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  Speaker 2: like the first inning one from Miz is one that
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  Speaker 2: is coming within the next year.
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  Speaker 1: Rick Helling was generally a pretty good dude. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's from like North Dakota or something. He's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: laid back, chill dude.
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  Speaker 2: Long career, 12-year career, but the Brewers were the end
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  Speaker 2: of his career. Fun to talk to.
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  Speaker 1: But his immaculate inning, this is so Brewers. Like he
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  Speaker 1: opens the game, strikes out the first three batters, three
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  Speaker 1: pitches each, nine pitches. Immaculate inning. Etches his place in history.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers put two on in the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: first with nobody out and don't score. And then opening
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  Speaker 1: the second inning, Helling's facing Maglio Ordonez.
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  Speaker 2: First pitch, home run. Not sliding one of those things
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  Speaker 2: by me, bud.
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  Speaker 1: And then in the third inning, he faced Ordonez again
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  Speaker 1: and gave up a three-run bomb.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: Helling pitched an immaculate inning to open the game, and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't make it out of the third, and the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers lost 10-1. Yeah, it loses a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: its luster in that moment, doesn't it? It kind of does. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's one for you, because back in the day, when
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  Speaker 1: Ben Sheets.
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  Speaker 2: Kids, sit down. Let me show you the highlights. When
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  Speaker 2: Ben Sheets threw his immaculate inning in 2004, it was
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  Speaker 2: against Houston. And it also came in a loss. And
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  Speaker 2: it comes with an asterisk. Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: Because Sheets was facing, in the order, 9-1-2. He struck
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  Speaker 1: out a pitcher. Pete Monroe struck out a pitcher. It's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't count. Pitch position player hitting a home run
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  Speaker 1: off a pitch player. Yeah, yeah. She struck out Pete Monroe,
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  Speaker 1: the Astros pitcher, Craig Biggio, and Jose Vizcayeno.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Biggio. That's worth two. Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 4: That's worth two.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, right? Well, he's a Hall of Famer, so yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Also, in the NL, you always got pitchers at the plate.
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  Speaker 3: You can't sit there and not count the accounts.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. You can't do it.
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  Speaker 3: Rick Helling won 20 games in 98 through with a
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  Speaker 3: 4-1 ERA.
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  Speaker 2: How is that possible? Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, the game was different. I pitched a lot of innings. But, boy,
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  Speaker 3: it just shows you the quirks of the game. But
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  Speaker 3: you absolutely can count that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You count that. You put that cape on. Some good
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  Speaker 2: pitchers get it. Put that cape on.
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  Speaker 3: All right. A pitcher can draw a fourth foul ball
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  Speaker 3: or a ball.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's how hard it is to solve.
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  Speaker 1: Doug Jones, when he got his, it was a save,
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  Speaker 1: and he struck out the Royals. Johnny Damon, Scott Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: and Rod Myers. And the Brewers won that game 7-4,
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  Speaker 1: but they still lost that day because it was a doubleheader,
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  Speaker 1: and they lost the second game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Doug Jones. Drew, you ever think to yourself, like,
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  Speaker 2: can this guy throw slower? He just would throw slower
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  Speaker 2: and slower. He was awesome. He had that great kind
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: of look to him, too. Like the Wild West kind
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  Speaker 2: of look. He totally did. Yeah. And he was one
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  Speaker 2: of the absolute greatest dudes.
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  Speaker 1: He played with Rock. When we talk to Rock tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: we got to ask him about Doug Jones.
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  Speaker 2: Make a note. We got to ask him about Doug Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Because Rock played with him and then was the announcer
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  Speaker 1: when Doug Jones came back.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. Could he have thrown slower? He would
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: change speeds off his changeup.
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  Speaker 1: Basically, every pitch he threw was a changeup, but he
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  Speaker 1: would change speeds off his changeup. Some were harder and
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  Speaker 1: some were faster. It was unbelievable. It was like a
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  Speaker 1: Bugs Bunny changeup. It really was, because it was like
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  Speaker 1: the cartoon when the guy swings three times before the
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  Speaker 1: pitch hits the plate.
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  Speaker 2: Just waiting for it to get there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He kind of looked like Sanchez. Every pitch is every pitch.
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  Speaker 2: He knows he looked like a mix.
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  Speaker 3: Of like Rod Beck and the young Wilford Brimley, like
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  Speaker 3: a mix of those two guys.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's too wild of a reference.
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  Speaker 2: The diabetes guy. If anyone wants the Wilford Brimley.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyway, he was, but he was really effective for
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: the Brewers for a while.
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  Speaker 3: I remember I had the lead off magazine that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the one you get at the Brewers games and he's
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  Speaker 3: on the cover. I love Doug Jones because those late
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: 90s brewers, you know, obviously didn't etch their their their
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: place in history, but they were pretty good for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Considered to what was good for us in that era.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they were close to 500 and they kind
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  Speaker 3: of were they had good moments. So there were guys
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  Speaker 3: that you get excited about as a kid on some
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  Speaker 3: of those teams, but. Obviously, these are much more exciting times.
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  Speaker 2: These are much more exciting times.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, these are much more exciting times to be a
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers fan, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the thought that you could clinch a division
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  Speaker 3: tonight on the 15th and, like, not care. The best
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: part of this is, obviously, I want the Cubs to lose,
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  Speaker 3: to drop out. But you're right, because the competition they're playing,
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  Speaker 3: you kind of want them to win.
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  Speaker 2: To not have to worry about them.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is just tremendous what the Brewers have
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  Speaker 3: done this year, the place they've put themselves in. They
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  Speaker 3: can get their clinch out of the way tonight. Just fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Clinching this early. You got to love it.
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  Speaker 2: So I hope we do it on a win.
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  Speaker 3: I hope we know that if the Cubs lose that
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: we know they lose when the Brewers win. So they
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  Speaker 3: don't have to have that awkward like 15 minutes later
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  Speaker 3: in the clubhouse or 40 minutes later in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 3: Would be nice to do it on a final out
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  Speaker 3: catch and celebrate. Yeah, they have had a lot of those.
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  Speaker 2: But hey, they definitely have. They come. It doesn't matter. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be greedy. I'm not going to
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: be too upset about it. I did see a couple
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: of folks repping the run and repping the already playoff
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: shirts that came out. I saw some folks out at
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: the Waukesha Sports Cards event that they had on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: There were some folks that stayed late into that 20-0
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  Speaker 2: decision on Friday night, Drew. Got themselves that shirt right
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: out of the gates. I like the fact that we're
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  Speaker 2: already washed to it to the point where when I
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  Speaker 2: was younger, I would have looked up immediately to see
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  Speaker 2: what the shirt was. I looked at it, didn't register
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  Speaker 2: into my mind that they had already clinched the night before.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you have the in and already that you
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: were the first team to be able to do it.
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: Nike ended up debuting the 2026 playoff. Look with you,
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: which is kind of cool. Yeah. It's the design. No time.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: Like October is the tag on the sweatshirt sweatshirt looks
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: pretty sweet. So they always have something new, the new tag.
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: And yeah, so I'll be looking forward to seeing those, um,
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: at the clubhouse sale this winter.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: But, well, you never know. Probably next year. Next year, right, exactly.
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: But they actually kind of look cool. And then when
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: they have to come out with the playoff gear, I
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: do like the.
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: I got a hoodie from last year's playoff. I really
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: like the playoff hoodie this year. It's sweet. It's super awesome.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: It's got the MLB logo right above the Brewers.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: Right, right.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: Cool look. And it's got the blue and red logo,
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: not the team specifically. I'm wearing my Hank Aaron giveaway shirt. Yeah,
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: you're wearing the jersey today. That's right. I noticed that today.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: Throw them fours up, baby. The best thing about this
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: is the sponsor tag.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: They've got the little Brewers old school logo and then
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: the UW credit unit tag down at the bottom instead
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: of on the shoulder.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Instead of on the sleeve, yes. It also looks more natural.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: It looks like the Mitchell and Ness. It looks kind
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: of like the Mitchell and Ness.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: The majestic thing or something or the Rawlings or whatever
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: it was.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: No.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's a really, really well done tribute to Hank too.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: They had a couple of good ones here.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: I don't generally wear gear, but Hank Aaron was like
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite athletes of all time.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: Well, he's a special one. I think every, yeah. Hank
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Aaron gets a, uh, that that's a special exemption for everybody.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: And the fours are just still one of the best
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: looks hammer and Hank. And the four, four is one
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: of still the best numbers you can have.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: That's why is that your Franklin looks sweet trotting around
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: in that green and gold this weekend. And you know,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: this one, of the 10 highlights of the, what this
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: thing that I call a career is like the three
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: times that Tom Hodgecourt introduced me.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: To Henry Aaron. Did you say Mr. Aaron each time?
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Did he correct you each time? Or did he just, no,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: not alone. He's like, yeah, that's true. I am.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: I called him Mr.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Aaron.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: And I wouldn't call him Hank. No, a hundred, a
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: hundred percent.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: Always.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Selig always referred to him as Henry. Yeah, but there's
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: certain people that you throw a mister in front of.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: And then I got to be a fly on the
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: wall and watch him chop it up with Uke.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. That's a winner. Career highlights, those are
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: up there.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: That must have been incredible. Watching them break each other's
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: balls was incredible. It was great. So good. Too good.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: It was so good.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, Tom, because Tom had a relationship with Hank,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: going back to when Tom started his career in Richmond
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: covering the Braves farm team and Hank was the farm director.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: And Tom's wife, Trish, was then the assistant general manager
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: of that team in Richmond. And she had a great
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: relationship with Hank. So Hank loved Trish more than Tom.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: I was going to say many people probably did. Three
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: times in my career, Tom dragged me over to introduce
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: me to Hank. That's awesome. It's like, let's go say
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: hi to Henry. Okay. Let's do it. Yes. All right.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Sweet.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Let me be around that guy. Let me definitely not
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: act too excited as we walk over here. Buy or sell.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: This is something before we get to Hunter and flip
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: it over to some more baseball that we should be
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: concerned with. Dan Orlovsky of the Four Letter Network puts
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: out three teams who surprised me playing so well up
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: front in week one. Arizona Cardinals, Las Vegas Raiders, and
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: the New York Jets. Three teams who I'm concerned with
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: how poorly they played up front. The Denver Broncos, the
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles, and your Green Bay Packers. I like me
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: some Dan Orlovsky. I like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I really,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: I like Dan a lot. And I guess I'll have to,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I guess I'll have to pain myself to go watch
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: the game that only a sports book could love of
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: the jets and Titans. If he was impressed by how
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: well the jets played up front. I mean, it is a,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: as you do the strength of schedules all off of
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: how teams did a year ago, the jets were pitiful
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: a year ago. They didn't get an interception a year ago.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: They also heard people talk about that for an entire
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: year and now actually maybe have some competent quarterback play
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: and Gino Smith. I will have plenty of time to
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: be able to dive into what we think of the Jets.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I just was not expecting somebody that I respect and
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: enjoy their NFL acumen saying that we had to be
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: concerned about the Jets this week.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Makes me nervous.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Of course it does, Armand. Of course. I mean, why
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: wouldn't it? I mean, everything about this team does right now. Yeah,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: that's true. When we come back. Boots on the ground.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Our correspondent.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: HB4.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart covering the Brewers in another ballpark. I know
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: he's been to Wrigley. I don't know if he's been
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: to any other ballparks covering games. Do you remember him traveling?
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Did he make a St. Louis trip last year? Might have.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: That sounds right. White Sox, maybe?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: He's supposed to be great, though. He's a great park.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I got some buddies that went out there.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I was supposed to go this year, and somebody forgot
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: to make the reservations, and I'm still wearing that one.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Hunter will join us next. Great job, Dad.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: You are in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio. Drew Billion-Armond
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: bringing it to you on this Tuesday in the good land.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, baby.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart is in Pittsburgh covering the Brewers in a
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: potential clinching scenario at PNC Park this week.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: He joins us now. Good morning, Hunter.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Good morning, guys. How are we doing this morning?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Fantastic. How's the Berg treating you? What do you think? Majestic,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: isn't it?
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: It is really cool. It is really cool.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: I haven't gotten a chance to walk around quite yet,
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: but I'm looking forward to doing that. I have a
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: high school friend who works here. He used to actually
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: be on the Pirates grounds crew. So I saw him
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: last night and he kind of gave me a little
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: lay of the land so I know where things are.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: And I saw a really cool lookout last night, a
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: view of the city and Steelers Acquisher Stadium or whatever.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: It should be Heinz Field still.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: It should have still got a Heinz bottle on there.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Right. Right.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: They had Heinz ketchup at the restaurant we went to because,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: you know, it's a it's a Heinz Heinz city.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's it's a really cool. It's really cool.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Well, we talked about it earlier on here, Hunter.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Not not a great town for for the limited gluten options,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: because the pierogies and the money sandwich is probably not
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: going to be in your wheelhouse.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: But it is good eating there. I mean, there's a
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: lot of good time stuff and potentially a lot of
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Iron City getting shipped into the Brewers clubhouse here today.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: What are the vibes like? Did you run into more
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Brewers fans that made the pilgrimage like you did yesterday
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: as you were a gallivanting around PA?
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: There were definitely some on the flights, uh, both from
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Milwaukee and then the connecting flight, um, as Armin was
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: tracking me from, uh, from Baltimore to Pittsburgh. And then,
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: and then there was, and then when I walked into
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: the hotel, there was a guy with a, with a
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Milwaukee shirt on. So Yeah, there are definitely going to
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: be a very, I think there's going to be quite
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: a contingent of travelers. And I think people probably were like, oh,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: you know what? They could clinch here. If we're ever
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: going to go to see PNC Park, this would be
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: a time to do it and have kind of that
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: playoff-like atmosphere when you talk about a chance to clinch
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: and how exciting those games can be. And hey, if
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: you're coming for this series, you're seeing Miz, you're seeing Henderson.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: And of course, Dustin May on Thursday. But you're seeing
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: really right now kind of the top three for the Brewers,
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: especially your top two. And with Miz on the mound
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: and a chance to clinch the central. Oh, that sounds wonderful.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: And the weather does look clear tonight.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: I know they were predicting some rain last week, but
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I think it's clear tonight, but possibly the next two days.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: So Brewers, I'm sure we'd love to get it done tonight. Hunter,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: is that what you're seeing? How's the weather out there?
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is going to be beautiful tonight, tomorrow. Rain
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: chances come in on Thursday, but we'll see if it
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: looks later in the day right now. So hopefully they
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: can get in the game 1235 Eastern, 1135 Central on Thursday.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: But hey, wrap this up tonight. You know, just win
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: tonight with Miz on the mound.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: And then, you know, the Cubs lose to the Braves
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: after they, I mean, Braves had.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: The tying run at the plate last night in the
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: ninth inning after the Cubs are up seven to nothing.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: That bullpen, you never know what can happen. So we'll
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: see if it does happen tonight, but the weather looks great.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a bummer. The Braves scored all their
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: runs in the seventh, right?
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Two on, nobody out in the eighth. Threatened in the ninth.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hunter, are you within walking distance?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Is your hotel within walking distance.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Of the ballpark? Yeah. So I'll go over that.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: That's key. Right over the Clementi Bridge.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and today's Clementi Day in baseball, which is really cool. Wow,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: that is cool. So cool to be in Pittsburgh for that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: So you'll see.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: That kind of, well, I saw MLB social media has
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: went to that logo for the, for their, uh, you know,
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: profile pictures. And so that's going to be cool. Christian
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Yelich was named the Roberto Clemente, uh, nominee for the
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: brewers yesterday for his work. He does not only in Milwaukee,
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: but beyond as well. So of course that's kind of
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: like the, it's a good equivalent of the Walter Payton
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: man of the year award in.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: The NFL, right?
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Where you have the off the field, uh, uh, contributions
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: that you get honored for. So Yelly is it's his
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: second nomination. 2023 was his last one. So yeah, that's
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: really cool. And it's going to be cool to go
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: over that bridge and be in this Pittsburgh vicinity on
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: this day.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: They, uh, the 21 jerseys through my, uh, my toddler
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: for a loop last year, uh, while we were at
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Clemente day, uh, as many get to honor it and
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: it's a good one to be able to cool to
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: be in the city. When you get this kind of
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: a matchup and Miz on the mound, I don't know
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: if there's any other push. Listen, they got 15 days
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: to be able to clinch this. We got an idea
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: that it's going to happen sooner rather than later. But
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: did you feel any kind of drumbeat this weekend, Hunter,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: to try to get this out of the way? You
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: get Miz on the mound tonight. Obviously, Henderson backs him up.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: You need a little bit of help, at least from Atlanta,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: to be able to fully get the clinch. But did
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: you feel a little sense of urgency might be the
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: wrong word, but a little sense of urgency to get
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: this out of the way and then build towards what
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: the rest of the postseason ultimately is?
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, Pat Murphy, you know, kind of he's
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: like at this point of the year, you can get
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: caught up in all the milestones you're trying to check off.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: And there's a bunch of them that they obviously want
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: to check off with. He's like, you know, we have
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: lofty goals and we want to get. We want to
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: get as far as we can. So this is another
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: milestone to check off and, and to achieve what they
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: ultimately want to achieve. This is the next goal to do.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's get it out of the way.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: I think they're, they're very good. And I, I asked
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Pat Murphy this over the weekend, like they're obviously focused there.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: We know Pat Murphy's mantras win tonight.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: So when you have a win tonight mantra throughout the season,
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: How much does that help when you get to this
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: point in the season when you can catch yourself looking, oh,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: how many wins do we need for a bye? How
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: many wins do we need for the division? How many
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: wins do we need for this and that and the
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: other thing? But when you're so ingrained in what Pat
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Murphy instills in his players of win tonight, then you
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: get to this point in the season, and that's probably
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: a bit easier to do. And that's what Pat Murphy said.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: He's like, that is how we kind of have to
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: live around here. That's the mantra we go by. And
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: so that's not going to change this time of year.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: So I do think it's really day to day. but
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: also they are going to celebrate, right? They are going to,
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: they did the toast with the post-season clinch. And so
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: now it's going to be obviously a bigger celebration for
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: the division. So they are making sure to, of course,
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: have their eye on the lofty goals, also stay in
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: the day-to-day, but then celebrate the moments. And Garrett Mitchell
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: talked to us about that when they clinched the post-season
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: over the weekend. Like, you can't take these for granted.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: He knows that, right? He's been, of course, around the
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: team for some of these, but has, has rarely been
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: kind of.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: In the thick of things, obviously as much as he
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: has this year.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: What, 130 some games played already for him, which is awesome.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: So they're definitely going to cherish these moments and also
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: make sure to keep it on the day to day.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Cause they want, they want the buy. They want the
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: one seat. They want, they want all of it.
• 25:12
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• 25:22
  Speaker 1: this underdog thing when you win in the division again
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and you're going to have this likely the best record
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: of major league baseball again? And I just saw a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: story on ESPN dot com where they did a survey
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: of people like who are the teams to beat and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the team to beat in the National League by a
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: single vote over the Dodgers is the Brewers. They got
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: six votes to five for the Dodgers. And then I
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: think the Phillies and Cubs got. also receiving votes.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Can they lean into that? Are they embracing that?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I know Murph often throws in, especially in national interviews,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: nobody knows who our guys are, blah, blah, blah.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Is that a vibe? Is that a thing? Is that
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: one of their rallying cries?
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, he probably will throw that in. Knowing Murph,
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: he'll probably throw that in a little bit. Is it
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: as valid as it was two years ago? Probably not, right?
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: I think just because simply the success that they have had.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: And look, players, especially players, but fans around the league,
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: media around the league, they know what the Brewers are
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: doing now. It's not like they're just winning the division
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: by a game or two. They're looking to have the
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: best record in baseball for two years in a row.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: So I think that is significant. The team to beat,
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: the Brewers are not the team. That I disagree with.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: I think there's still an underdog component because of the
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: payroll difference with the Dodgers.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: The Dodgers are looking for their third straight World Series.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: How in the world can the Dodgers not be the
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: ones to beat?
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: That makes sense.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: That's what I thought.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: It looks like they're waking up at just the right time.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Billy mentioned Scooble's on track. It's crazy how that happens.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: They know how to coast through and then turn it on.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: They're that good.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: They do. That is strange. I don't know if people
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: are just trying to get well.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: I guess Hunter, your, your answer to that are people
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: trying to get clicks. Yes, but not that.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: And it's not downplaying the brewers, but it's, it's just
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: the fact that like the Dodgers are the team to
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: beat because of the payroll, the star power, the three
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: Pete that they're trying to go for.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: No doubt. Are the brewers, have the brewers been the
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: best team up to this point? Yes.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: So, so you could argue that maybe that's, you know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: the reasoning that they're taking. But I do think brewers
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: are still an underdog of the Dodgers. Otherwise I think it's, it's, Otherwise,
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: it'll be a close as far as who's favored if
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: they play the Braves or the Phillies or the Cubs.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: I think it's going to be very close on all
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: of those, and we'll see where those open up.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: It might be close, Hunter, on the Phillies. Might be
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: close on the Cubs. It will not be close on
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. They will be a sizable underdog when they
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: face the Dodgers. There's no doubt about it. What about
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: maybe the underdog story? Perfect timing? Less than perfect timing.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Nobody has had worse timing ever. then Brandon Woodruff in
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: terms of injuries, when it comes to September's to forget
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: for him, how do we make this one to remember?
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Is there, is there any update on this five week
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: throwing program? Is he actually just getting ready to throw
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: out the ceremonial first pitch at game number one? What's
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: your feeling here on this Woodruff thing? Because the story
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: has been weird. However, it might be like the perfect
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: way to tie a bow on the disappointments that he's
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: had in September.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it would be amazing if somehow he's able to
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: come back. Right now, he's still in that throwing program.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: He has two weeks of it left, I believe, starting
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: tomorrow because I believe he would finish up his third
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: week tomorrow or thereabouts. It was like the 29th of
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: September was the end of it. So that's probably a
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: question we'll ask Murph this week of just kind of
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: is there any update on him and how he's progressing
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: or if there's been any.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: We haven't heard of any setbacks.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: So again, it's a long shot just because he he's
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: throwing and then he'd have to like throw off a
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: mound and then he'd have to.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of steps he would have
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: to go through. It'd be amazing.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: And I think you just as fans and literally as
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: a team, Murph said this the day that, you know,
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: he announced that he's not going to have surgery. Like
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: if there's any chance of Woodruff coming back, you want
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: to believe in it. So I think that's what we're
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: just choosing to do. I still give it a very
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: small chance of happening, but. he's been around the team.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: I've seen him throwing out there on the field frequently.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: So it's, you know, it's not like he's doing it,
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: you know, hiding or anything like that or not doing it.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: He's definitely doing it out there. And it's a, it's
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: a weight and see for Woody.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: All right, Hunter, I'm going to channel Armin here in
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: that the Brewers are facing the pirates. They're missing skeins.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Whose next turn is Friday. Braxton Ashcraft is on the IL.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: They got Ms. Going in a bullpen game today. Brewers
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: have been on a little bit surging offensively, we could say,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: especially in the wake of scoring 20 runs on Friday night.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: But the Pirates have had their number. What is it
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: about this matchup? I mean, because, you know, Armand can
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: find the cloud in any sunny sky, right?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: So are you nervous about Pittsburgh this week, Armand? Come on.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: You know you are.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I'm not nervous that the Brewers are going to lose
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: because the Brewers are going to clinch a division at
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: some point here. Um, but yes, I mean, when you
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: think of Pittsburgh on the road, you don't think of like,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: you know, this is going to be easy money because
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: they've struggled so much. So am I expecting it to
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: go just swimmingly and not always in Pittsburgh?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: So I get your point. So yeah. What say you Hunter?
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I look, history is always what we
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: look towards when we're trying to predict what's going to
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: happen in sports. I mean, that's literally like we're comparing,
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: you know, games. I heard you guys comparing, you know, the,
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: the Browns game for the Packers compared to that, like
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: We always compare just in our history and how, how
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: can we project what the Packers are going to do
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: or the Brewers are going to do based on history? Well,
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: history would tell you that, that last time the Brewers
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: were at PNC park, it did not go well. So yeah,
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: I think there is a little bit of worry there,
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: but I also think this team is playing better baseball
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: than they were at that time. They're coming off a
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: five and one homestand. The offense was clearly clicking, you know,
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: in that red series and overall, um, in the last,
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: you know, three out of the last four games. So
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: I think this team is in a little better shape
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: now they're pitching. They're still going to be smart with
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: their guys. Uh, you know, we, we saw drone have
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: a little bit of a shorter start and I think
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: that'll be a trend with this. Some of these guys
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: to try to save them as they approach, you know,
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: innings limits or go over or not limits, but where
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: they have been in their history, as far as how
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: how deep they've went innings-wise in a season. So I
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: do think you're going to see some of that, but
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: I think this is a team that is rolling a
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: little better than they were in July.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: The other thing is, there was a time when the
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Pirates might have had little wildcard pipe dreams, and
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: they had it down to four last week, but the Padres'
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: streak has pretty much taken them out of it, so
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: that might be the other thing.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: They're like seven back now. It's pretty much over.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: For them, so maybe they're going to mentally pack it
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: in two. That could be a thing as well. You
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: hope that they're thinking Cabo on three. So just another
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: food for thought there about the Pirates.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Two weeks left in the season. They can gut it out.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, they still got time to
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: be able to make those arrangements. They're deciding if it's
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: going to be Cabo. They can go San Juan. They
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: can gut it out. Difficult time. Yeah, that's true.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Hunter, Dolph was in for his halftime hit, and he
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: was sitting on some big news.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, his song. FM 106.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: We don't know at this point whether the Brewers will
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: be playing at American Family Field in 2027, but we
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: know that Kenny Chesney will. Kenny Chesney coming to American
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Family Field next summer, bringing a packed lineup. The show
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: is July 10th, just announced by Dolph and Shannon over
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: on FM 106. The original Vibe Room Tour featuring Kenny Chesney,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Eric Church, Sheryl Crow, and Graylin James.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: The return of one of our biggest Bucs fans. That
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: was kind of fun.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Tickets on sale Friday, September 25th. Pre-sales begin Wednesday at
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: 10 a.m., tomorrow at 10 a.m., so.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Giddy up on that. So somewhere right around the All-Star break,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: if that would be the time that they'd be able
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: to have the All-Star break next year.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Chesney has played American Family Field six times in the past.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: This will be his seventh headlining appearance.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Ooh.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I got to go to one of these shows.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: He also played Farm Aid and then headlined in 13, 16, 18, 22,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: and 24. So like Dolph said, basically every other year.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: That makes sense.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: The Brewers have a three city road trip into the
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: All-Star break next year. So that is exactly why that
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: that concert is happening there in Cleveland, I believe, that
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: weekend into the All-Star break.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: So that's why.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: And how nice is it that you and how nice
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: is it that you can actually have the schedule and
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: look at it and not have to wait till the
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: middle of May to be able to rip off when
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: they start playing?
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: It could not be more opposite the way baseball and
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: football does.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: It's like a.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: Random Wednesday in July and baseball's like, yeah, here's the
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: schedule for next year.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: And then it's like the NFL. It's like, oh, we're
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: going to drink.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: And we actually have spring training games with start times.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: With start times.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then college football's like, here, hold this hams.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Let me tell you when Penn State, Wisconsin kickoff.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Do we know when that is yet, by the way?
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: We did find out. Four o'clock.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, hey.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Well, before four o'clock was what I saw. Four o'clock
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: on Peacock. Come on now. That's what I heard. Oh,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: just so funny how that works. And Peacock. Yep. Sorry, Peacock.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Fanta on that call.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Hey, is the win our way? Sorry if you guys
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: mentioned this. I saw the tweet when the Brewers clinched
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: the win our way. We've been looking for a slogan
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: all year. Or is that just like the MLB? Are
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: they trying to make that our thing?
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Win our way?
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: No, no, that's the Brewers thing. I think there'll be
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: a different one for MLB overall. But I think that
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: actually really does fit.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: There's it's funny. I was.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Sitting next to Kurt Hogan, the journal Sentinel, when, when
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: the video, so they clinched the post-season, they played a
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: nice cool video to lead into what that slogan was.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: And Kurt's like, Ooh, are we going to find out
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: what the slogan is this year? And then we started
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: looking up like previous ones. And that was that, that
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: was fun because it's like, you know, you go back
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: to claws up or, you know, 2020, they even had
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: one MKE history trying to make history as an eight
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: seed to go all the way.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, Jed Jericho and the birds could not do that. Otherwise,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: unfortunately it didn't, But yeah, but that is that is
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: the Brewers. And I like it.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: I think it fits really well because, you know, Undaunted
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: was one.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Magic Brew was the one that we had last year.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: That one felt a little weak. I like this one
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: a little bit better. Yeah, it is.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: This is this is more, I think, a little more intense. Now,
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: Magic was part of the season last year, it felt like.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: So like that, I think they wanted to include that.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: But this win our way makes a lot of sense
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: because the Brewers do win their way. And yeah, I
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: think that's going to be cool. on t-shirts and sweatshirts.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: I know what they already are on t-shirts.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: And it'll be on the big old banner outside American
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Family Field. I've been waiting to figure it out. I've
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: been waiting to figure out what they're going to do.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: These guys are laughing at me. We might just not
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: have one. We got a good one.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: I thought you meant when we win the World Series
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: and add a banner, it might be 2026 World Series
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: champs and then win our way at the bottom.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Put that on there. Why not? We won the World Series. Well,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: we're going to. So why not put it on there?
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to stay positive. See, no more dark clouds.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Doing a great job of it, kid. What a great
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: job of it. Good job, Herman. Fantastic. Hunter, enjoy your
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: time in Pittsburgh. We're glad that you're there.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Hope you have a good run there and hope you
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: get to cover a celebration tonight.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: The plastic's ready.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Find out for us if the Brewers travel with their
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: own champagne or if they made Pittsburgh's clubbies buy it.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: That's a good question for me.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: That is a good question.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: I'll do some investigative reporting on that and I'll join
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: you guys tomorrow. And then I'll join you guys Thursday.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: And hopefully tomorrow we're talking about a clinch. And we
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: have some great interviews. That'd be swell.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Miz and Henderson and the Pirates have a bullpen day today.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: So I like the chances. Feels like a good time. Hey,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: take care of it yourself. Who cares about what the
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Cubs do? Win it yourself.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: You know, take care of business.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, win two games and you're good.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be good. Thanks, Hunter.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Hunter Baumgart joining us here. You're in the huddle.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Time to close up shop. Tuesday
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: edition of the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Brewers and
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Pirates tonight. You heard Hunter. He's going to be on hand.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: That's going to be so awesome.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Look forward to that. Now, there's a lot of places
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: where celebrations are a one, one of which is Chicago.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: That is the one where you always feel good knowing
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: you get to ruin their visiting clubhouse and apparently ruined
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: it so much that they after game 163, it's 2018
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Brewers on a Monday and then the Rockies on Tuesday.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: they redid the club visiting clubhouse. They were planning on
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: doing it, but it made it a little bit better
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: to do it. Then Cincinnati is a fun one. Brewers
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: have been able to do it in St. Louis a
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: few times. I don't know. Maybe it's just the, calmness
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: in me at this point i don't have any real
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: venom for pittsburgh i almost feel bad wrecking their place
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: right like there's a lot of places like it's the
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: one buddy's house where you know that their mom is
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: going to be really really upset if there's beer cans
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: left up like i don't want to do this here
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: let's go somewhere else and drink some red's apple ale
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: so let's not mess this place.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Up right even though you're right even though we've had
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: our problems at pittsburgh they've never bothered me they've never
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: been like a team where i've wanted you know I
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: never had that.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: I don't got a lot of hate in my heart
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Never did, ever.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: No.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Cardinals, yes. Cubs, yes.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: They were never that, like, Vikings, Providence vibe for me.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: I just didn't have it, and I still don't. So
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: I want the Brewers to win, but it's nothing to
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: do with, like, disliking them. But, yeah, cool time to
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: be there on Clemente Day. Should be a fun day.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: That is a cool part. That is awesome that it
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: ends up being on Clemente Day. No doubt about it. Yeah,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: that's a fun city.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Pittsburgh and Cleveland, if you're going on
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: a baseball trip, underrated.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: It Underrated cities. Yearly and pretty unanimously gets voted as
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: one of the top three ballparks in the sport. Yeah,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: it absolutely does. From vibes, experience, accessibility, use. It's always
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: one of the top ones. People there are nice. It's
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: a lot like Milwaukee. Well, that's the other part, too.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: You're on the nice side of Pennsylvania. You can wear
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: a Brewers jersey and not have to worry about getting
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: your ass kicked. Right, you go to the east side
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: of the state and you wear a Brewer's jersey, you're
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: going to get not only a Pomani's Brothers sandwich shoved
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: up somewhere, you're going to get beat down by the
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Liberty Bell.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: You're going to get a cheesesteak bludgeoning. You will. Let's
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: make sure that we don't have Hunter I have to
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: go there. Let's finish this out quickly. Get him back
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: to Milwaukee. Well, yeah, unless it's the plant, but you're right.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: That let's do that. Get him back home. And yeah, nice.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: You know, I didn't know if he'd drive, but he flew,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: which is great, obviously, but I know if he'd drive,
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: you talked about that yesterday, Billy wondering if you would,
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: it's only an hour drive. So maybe, maybe there'll be
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: a brewer fan contingent out there to watch the clinch.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: I'm not really sure. I doubt it, but, hey, you
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: never know.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Pirates are ready to throw a bunch of relievers tonight,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: and the one long guy who doesn't get in tonight's
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: game will probably start on the getaway game.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I was going to say start on the getaway.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: He'll get the Thursday assignment, right? This would be a
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: fun one to be at, man. I love getting a
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: good cruise. Eight hours? You could make it there by
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: first pitch if you left right now. Giddy up. Get
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: some good seats, I'm sure.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't imagine the prices are wild here tonight on.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: The secondary market in PA. I like the Brewers' chances
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: of clinching. We'll see if it's tonight.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Miz on the mound. We'll be talking about that tomorrow.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Bill Schroeder, Brewers TV, going to join us tomorrow on
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: the program. We are going to be locked and loaded
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: with crew. Double shot of Brewer stuff. Yeah, we'll have
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Hunter as well. Rock is not on this trip, but
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: he's going next week to Philly because that's where he's from.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: He's going to go see his family and broadcast the
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: games from Citizens Bank Park.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Get a couple of cheesesteaks. All right.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: We covered a lot of ground today. Thanks for hanging
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: out with us. We'll see you again tomorrow at 5 a.m.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Peace.