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08/27/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Thursday edition, Friday Junior. Who's ready? Five o'clock clubbers.
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  Speaker 2: Who's ready to seize this wonderful day in the good land?
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  Speaker 2: Drew Olsen, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian. Raise your hand if
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  Speaker 2: you're ready.
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  Speaker 3: Ready.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm ready. Come on now. We're ready.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Three arms go up. Let's fire up.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a bit tougher today because we
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  Speaker 2: don't have a major player-manager controversy to discuss.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is kind of nice when you get a
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  Speaker 5: couple of those, right? It is nice when you just
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  Speaker 5: get the red meat laid out for you, know exactly
• 0:31
  Speaker 5: what to throw on the grill. Sometimes you've got to
• 0:33
  Speaker 5: sift through that kitchen a little bit and start digging
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  Speaker 5: through the fridge, figure out exactly what you're going to
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  Speaker 5: toss on there, but... Yeah, that ribeye steak of the
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  Speaker 5: Cooper Pratt and Pat Murphy layout was nice to be
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  Speaker 5: able to have.
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  Speaker 1: The buffet's over now. That was almost as good as
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  Speaker 1: an NFL game. Buffalo to feast.
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  Speaker 2: On for a day. Nowadays, the meals only last a day.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good point, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I got to say, Drew, I did not anticipate,
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  Speaker 5: I didn't realize that it was going to be as
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  Speaker 5: hot as it was on MLB Network yesterday. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: every single show, it was one of their main attractions,
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  Speaker 5: main conversations. And then very split decision, somewhat like the
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  Speaker 5: fan base. There were some guys that liked it, some
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  Speaker 5: guys that hated it. Mark DeRosa said, happened to me
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  Speaker 5: at every level.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's like, happened to me all the time. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen.
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  Speaker 5: He will learn it, but he might have to learn
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  Speaker 5: that lesson one more time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing gets people's juices dripping like a good little
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  Speaker 3: culture war with basically anything.
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  Speaker 1: And now, yeah, maybe that was... A lot of times
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  Speaker 1: they flow. Oh, yeah. But, you know, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to anything like a little culture war. Get that checked out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably get some ointment. Maybe a little good Jed
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  Speaker 3: York issue.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, I don't know. Amoxicillin. He didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to drip. He didn't get there. He didn't get that far.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing gets people going like something like that. But you
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  Speaker 1: know what?
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  Speaker 3: It seemed to rebound well last night, two hits for Cooper.
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  Speaker 3: Although they were the infield variety, but they count. They
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  Speaker 3: count the box score. No one's going to care when
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  Speaker 3: they see it down there.
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  Speaker 1: Saw that man hustling.
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  Speaker 5: His way down the line, busting it real quick. That
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  Speaker 5: was definitely learned.
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  Speaker 3: When you drop the head down like a sprinter, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like you're just making sure everyone knows, make sure
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  Speaker 3: you know, make sure everything knows that I'm going all
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  Speaker 3: the way like I'm running the 100.
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  Speaker 1: That's it right here. This is a full.
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  Speaker 3: Sprint in case anyone was wondering. It was great to
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  Speaker 3: see the bounce back. Especially, you know, facing early adversity.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Dustin May taking a lot of the back.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Gasser. How about that kid?
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  Speaker 3: Bobby Gasser stepping up. That's what a team depth is, right?
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  Speaker 1: You know, and that's the thing. You just had a
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  Speaker 1: frustrating loss marked by, you know, benching.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: And then you go out and you leave two men
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  Speaker 2: on in the top of the first. And in the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the first, your guy throws one pitch. Your
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  Speaker 2: big trade acquisition throws one pitch and gets smoked.
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  Speaker 1: In the back. And has to leave.
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  Speaker 3: Ugh.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a recipe. That's not a blueprint necessarily for
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  Speaker 2: great success. And yet, thanks to Gasser and like five
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  Speaker 2: and a third solid innings.
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  Speaker 1: No worries. No. And Mays seems like he's okay. Just
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  Speaker 1: a bruise. Might be ready to pitch in a couple days.
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  Speaker 5: And it's crazy, Drew, how when you look at the
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  Speaker 5: 16 games in 16 days, that felt like as he
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  Speaker 5: walks off the field, you're like, oh my goodness, this
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  Speaker 5: is going to be an absolute marathon that you're going
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  Speaker 5: to have to run through a seven-game and 10-day stretch
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  Speaker 5: against the Cubs at the back end of it. And instead,
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  Speaker 5: the bullpen is going to be pretty saved. I like
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  Speaker 5: McAlvey mentioning that or asking Dustin May that way yesterday. Now,
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  Speaker 5: Gasser was slated to pitch on Friday again, or they
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  Speaker 5: had just announced their probables coming.
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  Speaker 1: Up for the weekend. It was a bullpen day for him,
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  Speaker 1: so it wasn't going to be, you know. All right, sweet.
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  Speaker 1: I got you. I got you in the game.
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  Speaker 5: And potentially, as we had talked about here on this show,
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  Speaker 5: that there might be a Coleman Crowe sighting coming up
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  Speaker 5: sooner rather than later. Maybe September 1st can't come soon
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  Speaker 5: enough after that one. But that was a heck of
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  Speaker 5: a job. Those nails by Robert Gasper.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: And when the team needed it, I mean, when your
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  Speaker 3: depth's tested, I mean, that's what it's all about right there.
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  Speaker 1: Being ready at a moment's notice. Obviously, the Brewers have bigger,
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  Speaker 1: bigger goals, bigger fish to fry, more juices to drip.
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  Speaker 1: Got to get those juices dripped.
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  Speaker 6: Come on now.
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  Speaker 1: The juice is dripping. Come on, let's drip them, baby.
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  Speaker 2: For those of us of a certain vintage, you can't
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  Speaker 2: help but mark that yesterday was their 82nd victory.
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  Speaker 1: That was it.
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  Speaker 5: I was going to say old habits die hard on
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  Speaker 5: this sheet.
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  Speaker 1: On August 26th, winning record secured. I mean, there were times.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time that was a dream in a
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  Speaker 1: young boy's eye. There was a time when, yes. A
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  Speaker 1: glint in an eye at 82 a year. Man, it'd
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  Speaker 1: be great to have the Brewers have a winning record.
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  Speaker 1: And here they are. More than a month left. with
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  Speaker 1: a winning record.
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  Speaker 3: Times have changed, right? We don't celebrate those milestones the
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  Speaker 3: way we used to.
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  Speaker 5: Some might, but Armin Sarian does because not only was
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  Speaker 5: it that they won.
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  Speaker 1: Their 82nd game, Drew, Brewers clinch win 82.
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  Speaker 5: The signal of, hey, the winning season is here once again,
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  Speaker 5: that's step number one. I don't even know that that
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  Speaker 5: one's on the old Mike McCarthy line anymore.
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  Speaker 1: No, it might not be. Win 86 games. I wonder.
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  Speaker 1: Win 90 games. We're going to be in the medals.
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  Speaker 1: We want to win the North.
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  Speaker 3: We want to take 10 games. Listen, and that's why
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  Speaker 3: I said, you know, that magic number.
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  Speaker 1: I had to be careful.
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  Speaker 3: I said magic number. That number is still magic to me.
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  Speaker 3: When I see 82, it still means something. You don't
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  Speaker 3: want to lose that little glint, that energy when you
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  Speaker 3: were first scrapping, trying to find any way to win
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  Speaker 3: and trying to make this franchise better when you're And
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  Speaker 3: when you're a kid and you're hoping for just the
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  Speaker 3: smallest morsel of hope, that was it right there.
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  Speaker 1: That was the goal. So I don't want to lose that.
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  Speaker 1: I disagree. I do want to lose that. You want
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  Speaker 1: that to be in the rearview mirror, Billy? I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to. You want to move up in stature? I
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  Speaker 1: get it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want to think and make sure that
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  Speaker 5: we remember all of the times for 26 years where
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  Speaker 5: you did. Now, it wasn't 26 years that they weren't
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  Speaker 5: over 500. There were plenty of times. that they were
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  Speaker 5: in the nineties, but you don't make the playoffs. But I, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I do want to forget that. I do want that
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  Speaker 5: to be completely in the rear view mirror. Cause what
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  Speaker 5: you're aligning out is that it's coming back. What you're
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  Speaker 5: trying to do is give me the 70s and 80s
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  Speaker 5: Packers fan conversation of just know it's not going to
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  Speaker 5: be this good.
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  Speaker 1: All the time. We went through in the 70s and 80s.
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  Speaker 1: We heard that a lot. We hear that a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand what you're saying, Billy. We don't want
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  Speaker 3: to go back to those days. But I feel like
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  Speaker 3: never forgetting where we came from is important, right? Because
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  Speaker 3: it reminds us of the struggle. And maybe that way...
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  Speaker 3: But you know what? The standards are definitely higher now.
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  Speaker 3: And I understand what you're saying in that sense. is that, no,
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  Speaker 3: we have higher standards now. We don't want to ever
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  Speaker 3: remember when we had to struggle. So I guess there's
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  Speaker 3: a couple ways to look at it, but that's still
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  Speaker 3: a number that maybe it's PTSD, but that's still a
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  Speaker 3: number that sticks in my head.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first hurdle.
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  Speaker 6: 82.
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  Speaker 3: 82 is the first hurdle. Not 81, because you want 82,
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  Speaker 3: but those days are gone.
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  Speaker 2: Heroes abound last night in Flushing. Gasser had his outing.
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  Speaker 2: Freelick comes back, gets on base four times.
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  Speaker 1: Setting the tone, too. Leading off. Three hits. Setting the tone.
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  Speaker 1: Setting the tone. I say a lot about him. Bryce Wilson,
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  Speaker 1: who they tried to get rid of like a bad penny.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't get rid of him.
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  Speaker 3: Tried to cut him so many times. You're not getting
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  Speaker 3: rid of me, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Brewers had a reliever years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Get my uniform ready. Years ago, the Brewers had a
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  Speaker 2: reliever just like kind of Bryce Wilson. They couldn't quit him.
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  Speaker 2: They cut him, bring him back, send him to the minors,
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  Speaker 2: bring him back, and he was not good. And one
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  Speaker 2: of my media brethren... One of my mentors in the
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  Speaker 2: media referred to him as a buoyant turd that just
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  Speaker 2: couldn't be flushed.
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  Speaker 1: He'll stay floating every day. He stayed floating. Right at
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  Speaker 1: the top of that water. He was a steelhead popping
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  Speaker 1: out of the water.
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  Speaker 2: And he couldn't be flushed. He just kept surviving, spin
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  Speaker 2: after spin of the bowl circling.
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  Speaker 1: Won't you go down? Hey, there's something we said for that, right?
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  Speaker 2: He was resilient, for sure. But Bryce Wilson hasn't walked
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  Speaker 2: a guy in. quite a while, so he's got that
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  Speaker 2: going for him.
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  Speaker 5: He's been good, and for Grant Anderson, listen, it might
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  Speaker 5: not be the high leverage spot that some people want
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  Speaker 5: to see him get into, but whenever you cover the innings,
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  Speaker 5: you cover them when they appear and when they arise,
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  Speaker 5: and that's good stuff for him, but Bryce Wilson, I
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  Speaker 5: still do, I would love to know the mathematics, Drew,
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  Speaker 5: of how many guys have been cut DFA twice in
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  Speaker 5: a week by a team.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty wild.
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  Speaker 5: Like he definitely is going to be in, could be
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  Speaker 5: in the conversation at some particular point. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: that his DFA tags will end up rolling back at
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  Speaker 5: some point because he's just going to be the fireman.
• 8:30
  Speaker 5: And whenever they need three innings, there you go. And
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  Speaker 5: if you can't cover us again, then we're going to
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  Speaker 5: have some problems, but he's been phenomenal for him since
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  Speaker 5: they got him from the Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: 22 innings without a walk. Thanks to a contrarious challenge. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's the job. He's doing the job they want, right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, get in there, throw strikes.
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  Speaker 3: And he's happy with that role. It's like, keep cutting me.
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  Speaker 3: I'll keep coming back whenever you need me. I'll just
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  Speaker 3: be waiting right here in the backyard.
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  Speaker 2: Plenty of positives for the Brewers coming off an extra
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: inning loss from the night before. I mean, that was
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  Speaker 2: a good bounce back in many ways. Showing resilience because
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  Speaker 2: of what happened with Dustin May. And he looks like
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be okay. They dodged one there. That's
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  Speaker 2: a scary situation.
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  Speaker 1: That was. He got smoked.
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  Speaker 2: One pitch start for the guy that you went and
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  Speaker 2: got in the trade market is just wild.
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  Speaker 5: But... Drew, I think it's like the second or third
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  Speaker 5: time he's gotten hit significantly this year. He had one
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  Speaker 5: when he was with the Cardinals against the Braves. I
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  Speaker 5: want to say it went off his leg. And he
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  Speaker 5: ended up pitching through it, but then gave up like
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  Speaker 5: four or five runs in that first inning as he
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  Speaker 5: tried to grit through it. So, I mean, everybody can
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  Speaker 5: react differently. As he said last night, he's like, I
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  Speaker 5: just couldn't catch my breath. He's like, I just couldn't
• 9:40
  Speaker 5: catch my breath.
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  Speaker 1: No kidding.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that I would be able to either
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  Speaker 5: if a 100-mile-an-hour screamer came back at me. Or that
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  Speaker 5: I would much want to. That's one of those things, Drew,
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  Speaker 5: where you do realize how that's a very, very short distance,
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  Speaker 5: and that 100 miles an hour comes on you pretty
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  Speaker 5: quick from 60 feet, 6 inches.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. My goodness. And he took it like a G.
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  Speaker 3: He showed no pain initially, and he was just standing there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, is this man hurt? Because I think I
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: would be hurt. Like, and then you could see him
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  Speaker 3: really start to kind of double over because then it
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  Speaker 3: starts to probably throb on you. But that's, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: very painful. And like you said, I mean, the good
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  Speaker 3: thing there is, you know, I'm sure there's a tendency
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  Speaker 3: by a competitor to say I can pitch through it
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  Speaker 3: and this and that. And who knows what kind of
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  Speaker 3: performance it would have been. But discretion, the better part
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  Speaker 3: of valor, making sure to get him out, make sure
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  Speaker 3: he's good. And then I'm sure, you know, having to
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: use Robert was not in the card's for Murph, but
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  Speaker 3: they had to do it, and he got the job done.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm glad they made that move, even though I'm
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: sure it was tempting to see, hey, are you okay, Dustin?
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: How about the Brewers getting six hits in a row?
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  Speaker 1: Little League Rally or Small Market Rally, Billy, right?
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was definitely a Small Market Rally. But for
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: them to get six hits in a row, and I
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  Speaker 2: think they were eight for 15.
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  Speaker 1: With runners in scoring position last night, that gives you
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  Speaker 1: a different look than the two for 14.
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  Speaker 5: Than two for 14, yeah. So which one helped them
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: win the game more, Drew? Cooper Pratt hustling out of
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  Speaker 5: the box twice or the eight for 15?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say the eight for 15. Just like
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 5: I think the two for 14 with runners in scoring
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  Speaker 5: position was more the reason they lost, but hey, it
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  Speaker 5: makes it for a lot more fun.
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  Speaker 2: Got two hits and scored two runs, so. And, oh,
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  Speaker 2: Terang hit a homer on his first in the month
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  Speaker 2: of August.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, after a little late-night batting session with Coach Christian Yelich?
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: He hit his 19th homer after a 19-game drought, his
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  Speaker 2: longest of the season. So those are the types of things. Like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Terang. And that gave him breathing room. That was
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: the game right there when they went up a touchdown. Well,
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  Speaker 2: and think about how much different their season has been.
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  Speaker 2: Their win-loss is right around the same spot. Drew, he
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  Speaker 2: had 10 homers in the month of August last year.
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  Speaker 5: I know. He goes almost three full weeks in the
• 11:51
  Speaker 5: month of August without one this year. Brewers, it was a.
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  Speaker 2: Good night for them, and it'll be a good night
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  Speaker 2: tonight if they can win the series. Just keep winning series.
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  Speaker 2: You got nothing to worry about. The Cubs, don't worry
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  Speaker 2: about it. Win the series.
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  Speaker 5: No, and they lose another full game yesterday to the
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  Speaker 5: Cubbies in the chase for the NL Central.
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  Speaker 1: Six and a half games. Shut out and tossed out.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Pete Crow Armstrong may have earned, definitely earned that ejection. And,
• 12:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's 5-14. We've already hit the pause button.
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: PCA had to hit the pause button on himself yesterday.
• 12:25
  Speaker 5: It was an entertaining postgame for a young man that
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: I did appreciate him saying, hey, man, I'm still not
• 12:33
  Speaker 5: going to apologize for it. I think at the end
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: of the day, I was still right. I like that
• 12:37
  Speaker 5: kind of confidence. I also like when you go one
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  Speaker 5: for 12 in a series. It makes it a lot better.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lot better to watch for us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was the hottest hitter in baseball, or one
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  Speaker 3: of them at least, until that, and he really went
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: through it a little bit, but that was nice. And
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: I can get that audio if you guys want to
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  Speaker 3: hear it, but they were mad about a balk that
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  Speaker 3: wasn't called, which they had a good argument for, I think.
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  Speaker 1: They sure did. Oh, yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 6: I saw four umpires miss a pretty obvious play. When
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: a guy is shoving it down your throat, pause. You
• 13:06
  Speaker 6: got to find any way you can to make something happen,
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  Speaker 6: and that's exactly what I was just trying to do.
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  Speaker 3: That's it, basically.
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  Speaker 1: The pause is there. Maybe I'll save that for Games
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  Speaker 1: and Kicks on Monday. That's pretty good. Yeah. But, no,
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  Speaker 1: they had a good argument with that one. There was
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  Speaker 1: no question about it.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of those that, okay, well, shouldn't that be reviewable?
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  Speaker 2: Because that's a pretty easy review.
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  Speaker 5: That one does feel like the easiest thing to review, right?
• 13:27
  Speaker 5: When a guy starts and stops the motion. A hairline
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  Speaker 5: like that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, come on.
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  Speaker 5: But, hey, I'm very, very glad that Rodriguez was as
• 13:34
  Speaker 5: good as he was yesterday. I mean, talk about an
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: all-star performing like an all-star Eduardo Rodriguez.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: We appreciated that. We needed that.
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: Strike out nine of those sons of guns. But what
• 13:45
  Speaker 5: a flip the series can go. What did they score?
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: What was the stat yesterday? 31 straight runs?
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: Unanswered, yeah.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: 31 unanswered runs.
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: And then in 10 innings, they go 7-0 and lose
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: the series. That's a heck of a turnaround. And some
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: folks would say, a smart man off to my right
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: might say, that's just baseball.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Pete Crow Armstrong was pretty funny last night, I
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: got to say.
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: He was very entertaining. Very entertaining. Also, Quentin Barry knew
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: he was properly jacked up. He had to work out
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: some offensive line tactics right there. He was slide protecting.
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: He was really good. Full good hand placement right in
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: the chest plate. That's exactly what you coach. Thumbs up.
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: And even in the video, in the picture, you can see,
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: thumbs up, you're controlling the man at that point. So,
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: Quinton Berry, as much as the speed demon probably was
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: a wide receiver or something, might have been a good
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: blocking wide receiver with that video that we saw yesterday.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of in the armpits there. It was interesting
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: to hear the breakdown. I don't know if it was
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: John Boy or one of those guys. I'm sure it
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: was John Boy that to the lip reading and stuff.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: It's like, they clearly like get, get Pete out of here.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: We don't want him to get thrown out. This is
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: like a zero, zero game.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: We need him. Like, get out of here, Pete. I
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: got him. And Quentin's just telling me up. I got him.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: I got him. It's no problem here. Don't worry. I
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: got him. Brewers lead the Cubs by six and a half,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: six and a half. They lead the Dodgers by two
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: for the best record in ball. And so that's comforting.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: Dodgers got walked off again last night.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: They're, they're going through it. They've been going through it
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: for a month or so, at least. Dodgers fans are uncomfortable.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, the jubilation of winning the Scooble trade has
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: kind of faded away, and they're trying to figure out
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: how to start winning consistently again.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it has. I won't cry a river for them.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't feel bad for them. I'm just
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: telling you how they feel. But I'll tell you what.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, I shed no tears. Absolutely. But, I mean,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: they did the same thing. If you remember last year,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: they were kind of struggling.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: They had to play the first round in the playoffs
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: and then started dominating people, unfortunately, as we know firsthand.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: On the other end of it. But we'll see.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: But that is interesting as well, a little development in
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: the National League. So lots of follow here down the
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: stretch as we approach September. But a good night for
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: the Brewers.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Plenty going on. Yeah. Plenty going on.
• 15:55
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• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Let's hear from our 5 o'clock clubbers. Give us a
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: check in this morning. How was the vestibule? Loaded up
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: this morning?
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: It was, yeah. They were chomping at the bit on
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: a Friday junior.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Funny, not as many as yesterday, so I don't know what,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: but it's still robust turnout as people were getting ready.
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: I got to think Wednesday a high day, right? Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: Maybe you take Thursday off.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: A little bit. That's awesome. You're right, yeah. Then gear
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: up and then get it in Friday and you're good
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: for the weekend. Yeah, and then you're off and running.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: A little cruise.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Did I hear fake hustle over on that side?
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, Monday and Wednesday, it's like the guys that'll
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: go to the, you know, they'll do their New Year's
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: resolutions in January, but they'll fade away.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: If you're about it, stay consistent.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: No?
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Through Thursday?
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: Monday, Wednesday, Friday isn't consistent? I mean, if you want
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: to be about it, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. You
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: got to give yourself an off day, J.J.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Watt.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Geez, sorry.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: I didn't realize bodybuilder Armin Sarian over there was just
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: ripping out five days a week.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Goodness gracious. At least I don't pretend to work out.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: That's the whole game. Oh, there you go.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Pete Chang on YouTube. Happy throwback Thursday, fellas. Great response
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: from Coop and Gas last night. Murph loves work. Moves.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Murph's moves work. He probably loves work, too. Nice return
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: for Sal. Tough break for May, though. I mean, I
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: say a lot of things about Sal. Some deserve, some not, probably.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Some passes, some aggressive. But there's no questioning his value
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: for this team. And it's sometimes not measured. But the
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: way he was able, you know, he comes back, leads off, boom,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: right away. Base hit, set the tone. Three hits last night.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: You just got to love a guy like Sal for
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: those things. For what he can give you. And sometimes
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I talk about the things he doesn't give. But the
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: things he does give, the important glue guys there. Last
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: night mentoring Cooper in the dugout. Two nights ago. Then
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: last night, boom. I'm going to make my impact right
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: away at the plate, get this place fired up, yelling
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: it into the dugout.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: You got to love that. Got to love it. Huge.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Packers going to have a little walkthrough today because they've
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: got their preseason finale coming up Friday night against the
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals, who were in for a joint practice, and
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Billy was on the perch with the voice of the Packers,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Wayne Larrabee.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Yesterday, we're going to talk about that. Everything that Billy saw.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that as we move forward.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: The wins, the losses.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Also going to talk to our friend Tim McCormick from
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Mile.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: In fact, we could do that next. Sounds good. And
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: get some cream puffs this weekend. Come on now, baby.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Let's find out for some cream puffs. It's race week
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: at the Milwaukee Mile. They've got a doubleheader coming up
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: this weekend. Nationally televised. Big implications for the championship. We
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: can talk about that next and then spin into Packers.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Who knows what direction we're going to go in. That's
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: why you join us here. The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Back on the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, 920 Milwaukee,
• 18:44
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• 18:47
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• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Drew Wilson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian, bringing it to you.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: You know, boys, when you think of doubleheaders, you might
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: think of, in the past, Monday Night Football or baseball.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: But we got a racing IndyCar doubleheader at the Wisconsin
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: State Fair, the Milwaukee Mile, the historic oval in West Allis.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: And here to talk about it this weekend's proceedings is
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Communications Director for the Wisconsin State Fair.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: It's Tim McCormick. Tim, thank you for joining us. I
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: know you're busy. It is going to be a big
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: weekend at the oval.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: The only doubleheader on the schedule for the 2026 season.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: So we're very excited, thrilled. There's still a lot up
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: for grabs in the point standing, so a lot of
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: action to be decided this weekend.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: And Tim, as somebody who went to my first race
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: at the mile, IndyCar, with my dad, he's been going
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: to races for years and years and years. What is
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: the best part about this exact track? As you mentioned,
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: it's the oldest continuously operating motor speedway. It's, it's a
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: part of the schedule and being back on with the
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Grand Prix and the doubleheader, it makes it unique because
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: it's such a unique spot.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: It's got all that great history, just like you were
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: talking about. I loved when I get to encounter some
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: of the old-timers that have been here to see Al Unser, A.J. Foyett,
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: all those great classic names here. But I think it
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: was a year or two years ago, there was the
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: site for the race here at the Milwaukee Mile that
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: was the most passes that had taken place out of
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: any of the entries throughout the season here. So I
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: was talking to somebody else the other day, and they
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: say that you're never out of the race. There's always
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: an opportunity to come from behind, to make that pass,
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: to get the checkered flag. And then you add in
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: just the fair fun that we get to have here.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: So we're going to have a lot of the vendors
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: that will still be open. maybe even providing some of
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: those sporky finalists. If you didn't get a chance to
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: try those during the State Fair, we'll have a DJ spinning.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: And then, again, the access to those racers. There's fan forums.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: There's autograph sessions. You can check out the whole schedule.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: We do open Friday for practice laps, in addition to
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: the Makers and Fixers, 250 on Saturday, and then the Snap-on,
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: 250 on Sunday. Check out wistatefair.com to find your tickets
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: and then figure out the schedule of when you want
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: to be here.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Good to have racing back at State Fair Park in
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: West Dallas after about eight years.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: It's going to be awesome.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: The drivers seem to get very excited. They sense the
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: history of the place, but they also like the oval.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Or maybe is it that they like, you know, custard
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: and cheese curds and sporkies and cream puffs, maybe. I
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: don't know, but you talk to these guys. They seem
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: to really, I don't think it's fake. I mean, I'm
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: sure they're like comedians or musicians. Great to be here
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: in Cert City here. But they seem to really dig
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: this spot.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: I think we had a couple of people enjoying some
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Miller Lights with the fans last year. And, of course,
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: I don't know if there's a more iconic winner circle
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: once you get that cream puff in the face after
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: you get the checkered flag. Again, for fans, for race cars, drivers,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: for the organization, for our friends at Indy, everybody talks
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: about what a unique experience it is. We're very excited
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: that it's really coming down to the wire for who's
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: going to take the title for the 2026 season home.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: So like I said, a lot to be determined. All
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: the drivers are going to be going all out because
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: there's just a few races. We've got two this weekend
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: here at the Milwaukee Mile, one more out in California
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: to finish off the season. So they'll be trying to
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: get every point they can for those end-of-year standings.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Well, and that's where the real money's made. Now this
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: is money time when it's on the table. And being
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: able to put this on the table and on the docket,
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: what has the reaction been like for fans and race
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: fans in the city? Because the mile is a unique place,
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: and it's something that's very important to people in Milwaukee.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: And being able to be back in the state and
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: have racing again, it feels like a big win for
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: the folks of the area.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. We're very excited. The investment that Indy has shown
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: in Wisconsin, not only here at the Milwaukee Mile, but
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: also out at Road America. Just a fantastic event and
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: course there, of course. But once you're talking about a
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: track that's older than the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, we date
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: back to 1903. I think the racers, the fans, everybody
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: realizes that history is literally made at every turn here.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: So when you get that ticket, again, there's so much
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: more than just the action on the track. We've got
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: a custom car show. Again, those autograph sessions, the fan forums.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: everybody's very excited that we get the chance to show
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: off Wisconsin and show off the Milwaukee Mile for just
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: about the last races of the season here.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Tim McCormick, communications manager for Wisconsin State Fair, joining us
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: here on the huddle, Drew, Billy, and Armin. Okay, what's
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: the turnaround been like for you and your team? Because
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: you just said goodbye to State Fair, and now you're
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: having another huge event. You guys running on fumes, no
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: pun intended?
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, no tires. Again, it's just fantastic that you
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: get to work. Again, it's tough to pull them off back-to-back,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: but we've got an incredible team here. We have been
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: working on this all year round, even years in advance,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: knowing what the calendar is going to bring to us,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: knowing that the fair wraps up, and then you've got
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: to get your focus onto the race. But when you're
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: inviting tens of thousands of your favorite rowdy friends to
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: come cheer on those race car drivers for the fastest
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: sport on earth. It makes things a little bit easier
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: when you know you're going to be delivering those smiles and, again,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: all the fun to be had throughout all three days
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: of the weekend.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I know you have tickets available at wistatefair.com, right? Does
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: that include garage passes and infield passes? If I want
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: to go, how do I maximize my experience?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: How do I VIP myself?
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Check it out at wistayfair.com. Not only just those
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: tickets to the grandstands, but if you want to get
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: those couple of add-ons, those additional experiences that will last
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: a lifetime, we have you covered there. But again, there's
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: even the free family zone. If you just want to
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: check out, get up close and personal to a show car, again,
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: try to check out those autograph sessions for the Indy
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: NTT and NXT drivers on Friday at a lot of
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: opportunities to get in on the action.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: I was just going to ask, the family-friendly zone, that area,
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: because listen, I've got three and a one-year-old, but when
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: they see the cars, they're going to be excited. Show car,
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: nothing in the garage, they can touch, they can be dangerous,
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: but something good that you can get up close and
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: personal with available.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Again, our friends at Vintage Indy will be bringing
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: some of those cars from races gone by. There's a
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: classic and custom car show taking place on the 29th
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: and 30th. So, again, just for pretty pictures, for things
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: that make you go, ooh, when they go vroom, we've
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: got you covered in spades.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Man, I don't know who's going to like that more,
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: my dad or my son.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Grandpa or grandson might be having more.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Fun with that one. Isn't that fantastic? I mean, that's
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: been our modus operandi for the state fair as well
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: as for the Milwaukee Mile and all the racing action here.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: It's rare that you get an intergenerational outing like this
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: that's going to bring smiles to everybody. And you just
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: nailed it there. It's going to be grandma and grandpa
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: hanging out with grandsons and their kids just enjoying themselves.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: The weather looks ideal. Knock on wood that Mother Nature
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: still cooperates with us. But a rare opportunity that you
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: get the whole family out for an outing like this.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Tim, when you go to a major golf event, oftentimes
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: it's fun to just go around on the practice day,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: on the Wednesday or the pro-am day.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: You know, it's cool.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: So what is the vibe like on Fridays? It's obviously
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: more casual, relaxed, because it's not a race. It's just practice.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: But what is the vibe like for people on Friday
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: who might have other plans on Saturday and Sunday?
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got very lucky. I got to try to
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: get up and close and personal with a testing day
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: earlier this summer here. And just seeing those guys, you know,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: they make it look easy for these practice laps, but
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: I tell you, it's anything but. So we open up
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: at noon on Friday. That's the garages, the grandstands, and
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: the free fan zone. Those all open up at noon.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: 245 to 345, you've got the NTT IndyCar driver autograph session.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: 4 to 445, the NXT broadcast. by Firestone driver autograph session,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: and then the practice sessions going on throughout the day.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: It is an opportunity, again, that I don't know you
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: can have with other sports, with other experiences, where you'll
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: be able to get up close and personal and see
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: how they tinker, see how they work on their engines,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: see how they work on their game, and then, again,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: get the chance to maybe ask them a question or
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: two as you're getting your hat or your shirt signed.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: What's more complicated when it comes to loading in it
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: would be that the cars and all the stuff and
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: all the equipment or the fox tv camera crews coming
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: in to get ready so who's got you know logistically
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: who's the bigger pain.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: They're all a dream to work with we're very happy
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: to have those partners at fox who are broadcasting throughout
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: the world here um giving us a chance to show
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: off milwaukee show off wisconsin we've got some some Little
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: tricks up our sleeve here that we're excited to reveal
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: come race days. I think everybody has been fantastic to
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: work with. They're getting towards the end of the season,
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: so they've got this load in and load out down
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: at this point. They're just looking for the action on
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: the track as well.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: They should be relieved because coming to the oval, there's
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: so many advantages to the oval.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: It makes it unique, but you're just coming off of
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a D.C. race. You know, drive through the streets of D.C.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: around the Capitol.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: And so it's like it couldn't be a more stark
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: change for everything. Logistics and even, you know, camera angles
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: and positions and stuff like that's got to be pretty
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: easy for them.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: For them and then also a huge advantage for how
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: we have the grandstands and how the Oval is set up.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: You can see the entirety of the action, you know,
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: like you're talking about in D.C., If you're stationed at
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: one part of the road course, you're not seeing a
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: whole lot else except for when they turn by there.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: So it's an amazing opportunity to see the full-fledged race,
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: all of the action. cruising around on that historic oval
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: that dates back to the 1900s here.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: All right, and now food. You're talking to the fat
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: guy on the show. Last thing, Tim. When we talk
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: about the fair food that's going to be there, can
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: I lock in the fact of a cream puff, maybe
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: a blue ribbon brownie? What can be some of the
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: teasers that we can have for the tasting that rolls through?
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're very excited. A lot of our vendors that
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: have featured items that you saw on the Sporkies and
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Drinkies menu. Very excited. Our good friends, Blue Moon Tavern
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: in the Park, will be bringing out their Chicharrones, which, again,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: was a finalist for the Sporkies this year. Badger Bites,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Pistol Pete's, Wild Dog Saloons, Pop's Paradise. I could go
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: on and on, but somebody's going to get mad at
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: me for not listing them. But just know, come hungry,
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: and we've got you covered there as well.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. All right, Tim, here's a personal question for you.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: How many cream puffs do you consume in the month
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: of August?
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Don't out the guy like that. I'm just wondering, because personally, because,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: you know, if you work at the Hershey plant, you
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: might not have a candy bar every day, but you're there,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: you're ensconced in it. What's the tally? How many?
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to break any records, but I do
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: know it's very nice to have those at hand when
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: you do get the craving, which I say is often
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: because you can't get them any other time. It is
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: fantastic to have them. in the backdrop of the Wisconsin
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: State Fair at the Milwaukee Mile. We will have those
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: original cream puffs available for you. So you let me
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: know how many you down, and I'll try to do
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: one more.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: We'll see if we can match it. That'd be amazing.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Let's take out one of those three packs.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: You mentioned Gates open at noon on Friday with the
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: practice starting at 5. Well, the practice goes on 2, 4,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: and 5, right? And the IndyCar's at 5?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Yep. And then what about Saturday and Sunday? Because you
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: can get there pretty early to fire up on Saturday.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: You can. Yeah, Saturday, open up at 7 a.m. We're
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: here all day through 8 p.m. is when we're going
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: to have to tell you you don't have to go home,
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: but you can't stay here. Sunday, opening up at 7.30,
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: ending at 5. But make sure to check out the
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: entire schedule at wistatefair.com. Check it out. High noon on Sunday,
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: the snap on Milwaukee Mile 250. And then the snap
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: on Makers and Fixers on Saturday kicks off at 1.30
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: with the green flag.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I imagine there will be robust business at Pauley's and
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Tompkins and some of the establishments nearby, people getting ready.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: That's going to be pretty epic. It should be a
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: pretty good weekend.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Tim, thank you for joining us, man.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Best of luck.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Hope the weather holds for you like it has been.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Much appreciated. We'll see you at the races.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: You bet.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Tim McCormick, communications manager for the Wisconsin State Fair, wistatefair.com.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Buy your tickets.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: That's going to be so good. Cream puffs and raisin?
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: What's better than that?
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: And beer?
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: If you're old like me, you remember it used to
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: be the Indy 500 would be held and then they'd
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: go to Milwaukee. Everybody goes from Indy to Milwaukee and
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: it was right there and you'd be pouring the milk.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Now it's like you're later in the season. It's a
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: good date, though, pre-Labor Day in this window. What a
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: perfect time to have one more thing before the end
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: of summer.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: And to have the races Saturday and Sunday. Fox on
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Saturday will have it at noon, and then Sunday, the
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Indy race is Saturday.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: It's going to be pretty wild. And it's cool that.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: You can roll throughout the day, right? The early stuff
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: for the kids, maybe walk around, get a nap in,
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: come right back for the race, make a long day
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: a little shorter for the younger ones or for the
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: older ones like me.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: There you go. That's a good, good day.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's 1.30 TV time on Saturday and I
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: believe noon on Sunday on Fox, on Big Fox. And
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: then they give away to football pretty soon, so it's
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: kind of the last hurrah there.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: And I'm taking my boy Kyle Kirkwood. Pretty sweet. There
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: you go. Come on, Kyle. All right, all right. Billy's
• 32:38
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• 32:42
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• 33:17
  Speaker 2: perch with Wayne Larivey, the voice of the Packers. But first,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: our go-to guy on all things Brewers is Hunter Baumgart,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: and he provides a recap for us after most Brewers games,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: including the palate-cleansing victory last evening in New York. I
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: wonder if Nags was at that game, too. He was
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: at the first game.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: He actually was. A little peek behind the curtain.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: We were supposed to do a Carry the G Radio,
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: the podcast, last night, and then I get a text
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: as I'm getting ready to pull into the driveway from
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Aaron Nagler.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: He said, hey, man, I'm really sorry.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: I got a Danny Whalen on this thing tonight, and
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: I got to punt it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Got to punt. Got free tickets to the Brewers game. Outstanding.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: All right, go get us a W, and that's all
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: good in the neighborhood. That's a great excuse, isn't it?
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah. Fantastic. All right, take it away, Hunter.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Thanks, guys.
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: The Brewers get a nice bounce-back blowout victory, 8-1 over
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: the Mets last night. They'll go for the series win
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: with Miz on the mound tonight. How about on the
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: offensive side, a four-run second inning, six straight singles in
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: that inning. The Brewers have the most four-plus-run innings without
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: a home run this season at 22. The next-closest team
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: has 18. How about last night, eight hits with runners
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: in scoring position. That is double. What the Brewers had
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: in their prior two games to that combined. So all
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: in all, a good night for the offense. Al Freelick
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: was on base four times in his return from the IL.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: Bryce Terang with his first home run in August. So
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: hopefully that's a sign of good things to come. On
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: the pitching side, Robert Gasser was the hero of the night.
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: through 82 pitches, five and a third. We knew he
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: was available out of the bullpen coming into the game,
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: but he was also set up to start on Sunday
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: and he was dynamite. Dustin May had to leave after
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: just one pitch, getting hit in the back with a
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: line drive. Pat Murphy said after the game, it looks
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: like he's going to be okay. X-rays were negative, so
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: we'll monitor that. But Robert Gasser, five and a third,
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: one earned run, two walks, six Ks. Remember last time out,
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: He was taken out in the middle of an at-bat
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: because Pat Murphy didn't like how he was pitching with
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: a lead. Well, he pitched much better with a lead
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: last night, and the Brewers get the victory. By the way,
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: 82 pitches for Robert Gasser. That means that is the
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: most by a Brewers reliever since Quinn Priester through 86
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: last July 11th. So, the Brewers going for the series win,
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: as I mentioned, tonight against the Mets. Jacob Mizorowski on
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: the mound for the crew tonight. I'll have you for
• 35:32
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• 35:34
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• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Back to you guys.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Hunter B. Always erstwhile Hunter Baumgart. He will
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: join us at 725, as mentioned. Only Hunter is going
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: to find a stat on the most pitches in a
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: relief appearance.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: That's why we love him.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: But that being able to not be the piggyback plan
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: ends up being a heck of a save for Robert
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: Gasser yesterday. And, I mean, it really is impressive that
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: the two guys that in the most recently had caught
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: the right hand of Murph, the wrath of the manager,
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: end up both being successful and being one of the
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: big reasons why they had the blowout. And, Drew, I
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: do like the small market rallies. I'm a big fan
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: of being able to string singles together, score a bunch
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: of runs.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: It is fun.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: That three-run homer is pretty nice. I would love to
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: know how we can unlock just a few more of those.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: We don't need to hit more home runs than anybody else.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: I know the Brewers are in the top five or
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: six in baseball in this category, which You hit them
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: as long as you make them count.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Let's just find more chances to get the three-run home.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: That would be nice. They can keep all the solo
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: shots somewhere else.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: The volume is fine. We just want the quality of them.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Let's find out how to hit more of them with
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: two guys on.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be nice.
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: Also, that home run proved that I'm still undefeated in
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: not being able to tell when it's a homer off
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: the bat. That thing looked like a fly ball on
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: TV off the bat.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know about you guys. It looked like a pop-up.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, the thing's going over the wall.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I thought he got it pretty good. I'm just bad
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: at it. I am just bad at it. You just
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: got to watch Bryce. He has no reaction ever, though.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding? He held the bat up there for
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: a good two seconds. He knew exactly what he had
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: just done. I feel like he shows no emotion, so
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I could never tell.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: When he leans back on it and holds the pose
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: for a quick second, you know that.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: He liked it.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when he looks annoyed at himself for hitting a homer,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: that's when you know it's gone.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: That's his default. Did we pack up? too early on
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: the Murph Pratt thing. It's like, okay, that was yesterday's news.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: It was yesterday's topic. We can load up on it.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Adam McAlvey has a good story kind of recapping it.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: And the headline, which I don't know, I don't think
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Adam writes, but Pratt's benching was about Brewers culture, not
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: just him. And so what Adam did was spun through
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: the clubhouse, went to the unofficial team captain, Kristen Yellich,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: talked to him, talked to Freelick and Bowers, who talked
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: to Pratt on the bench.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Love that, yes.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: And talked about the whole thing about the It's the Brewers.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: We talked about it yesterday. It was the Brewers' culture.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Quote from Christian Yelich. I think stuff like that is
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: done for a bigger picture. Being around Murph, he does
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: that stuff with the goal in mind of performing and
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: winning in October. Those games are won and lost on
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: the margins and execution and no mental or physical lapses.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Great lesson to learn. Great time to be able to
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: do it. He always puts it in perspective, Yelly. He's
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: so good at that. Yeah. Freelick.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Coming from a guy who's been benched multiple times by Murph,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: it's not always 100% directed at the person getting benched,
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: and there's a thousand different reasons. From the past, when
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I've seen guys get benched, including myself, it's usually when
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: a few days have piled on of not playing to
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: that standard. A message needs to be sent. I don't
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: think anybody was surprised when it happened last night.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: That was a big point by Hunter talking to him
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: in the office yesterday. It's like it wasn't just one play.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: It wasn't just for Pratt because it doesn't happen in
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: a vacuum. Everybody else watches it. That's a great point.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: And that's probably what they were telling Cooper in his
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: ear in the dugout. And that's why.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Jake Bowers, arguably the Brewers MVP this season.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: I think if you ask Cooper, he's going to tell
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: you that he should have got the bunt down and
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: he should have been on second base. I do think
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: there's times for messages to be sent, especially as we're
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: coming up on the playoffs here. We're getting a bunt
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: down with runners on first and second. Nobody out can
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: be the difference of a playoff game.
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: Amen.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: And if the lesson is nothing else besides, I need
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: to make sure I'm locked in enough to get the
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: job done.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Then that's what it takes.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: And also, like for a rookie 21 years old to
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: be called upon to get the bunt down and to
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: not get the bunt down, brother, that is going to
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: be part of why you're on the team. That's going
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: to be a fact of how you're going to be
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: able to make yourself in October.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Christian Yelich.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: In my personal opinion, I don't really think it had
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: a whole lot to do with not going to second there.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: I think it was a culmination of events with a
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: greater goal in mind for six weeks from now, if
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: you want my honest opinion.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I love that. We do want the honest opinion. I
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: love that. Let's go. And why is it still unofficial?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Are we keeping to some tradition? Make him the captain.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Is there some unofficial? What is the whole point of it?
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: We don't do captains. I get it, but put a
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: C on it. Great quote from Murphy. It was his
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: message just for Pratt.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: He said, do we have any teams that are vying
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: to be the top team this year with three kids
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: in their lineup who are 22 and younger?
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Probably not. I love that.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Then you have other guys who are two years in
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: or three years in and guys who've been part-time players.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're piecing it together with non-veterans, so to speak.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: For us, I think it's crucial they get it.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: He also said, after I watched the video, I'm like, oh.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: He didn't dog it as much as I thought he did.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: But I think the ball was up there long enough.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: I think it was up there long enough. After I
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: watched it, maybe I gave you a little bit of slack. However,
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: I was not liking the way you were looking. That's
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: exactly what all those guys explained in the culmination of events.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: That's the, I just don't want to see your face anymore.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: The best quote of the entire, this is a great
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: piece by Adam. I encourage everybody to read it at Brewers.com.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: But the best quote comes from Freelick, not surprisingly. Freelick's
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: a stand-up guy, and he's the A student. He is a.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Good teacher, Pat, no doubt about it.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Freelick said, as the team took it, there wasn't one
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: person who disagreed with it, the Pratt benching. And there
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: also wasn't one person who was mad at Koop for
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: anything he did. It's just how we play. There's a
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: standard of how we play.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Perfect.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: That's how it's supposed to be. So that was it.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: No one's mad at Koop or Pratt. No one's mad
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: at Murph. Let's go and go get them tomorrow. Let's
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: go win it tomorrow. That's a hell of a mantra.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: That's a hell of a way to go about it.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll get Billy's recap of Packers-Cardinals,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: the controlled scrimmage, which was actually like a preseason game.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: That's next. The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.