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MLB Playoff talk, Matt Postins talks Big 12 football & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Hour number two, welcome back Miller and Condon.
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Still to come this hour, bottom of the hour, Matt Poston's
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We will catch up on the Big 12, get his power rankings, who he
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thinks maybe the 2-3 and four teams are below what I'm
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assuming he will say. Texas Tech at the top of that
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list. We'll do some basketball with
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up a 2 pack. Just American League games
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going in three O 8 seven O 8 First pitch local time, local
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baseball brain and what we've seen and what we think we're
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going to see going forward if Milwaukee comes out of this.
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And it certainly seems like his forecon conclusion.
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I hate to say it. I'd love to see the Cubs advance
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and I just don't feel that. Will they give the Dodgers or
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the Phillies a fight? I mean, is there a chance the
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Brewers could represent? Of course there's a chance in
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sports, but realistically, what's the likelihood that it's
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the Brewers from the National League?
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Well, this was the best team in the National League.
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They played in a division that had two other playoff teams, a
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Cardinals team that hung around, and also a team that had maybe
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the best pitcher in baseball and Paul Skeens.
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So you look at some of the underlying numbers, right, with
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Milwaukee and runners in scoring position, 2 out hitting, Those
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are the kind of things that aren't sustainable to do year
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after year after year. But over the course of a season,
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yes, sometimes they're outliers and that's certainly the case
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for Milwaukee this year. Have you seen anything that says
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out this team slowing down? No.
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And and Cheerio was back in the line up last night.
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That was huge. Huge.
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How about him getting tangled up over at first base?
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Did you see I? Didn't see it.
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No, I didn't see it. It was.
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On the air from DNSP Swanson as he threw it up the left field
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line, you saw that trying to get a force out at second base.
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So Cheerio was the batter and he sculpted that ball, which was
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weird because Dansby Swanson had time, didn't he just made a bad
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throw? And in fact, I was so surprised
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by it, I thought that maybe Horner just missed it.
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Dansby Swanson doesn't do that. Very often.
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But he did there. So as Churrio is rounding, first
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he gets tangled up with Bush over there, and then you kind of
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see him and there's a little bit of a little hitch in the giddy
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up. Oh boy.
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And yet they called time. He ran over then to the third
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base coach, I don't know, instruction, whatever it was.
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And he looked OK now, but he came out of the game late,
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right? He did.
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Was that part of it, do you think?
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I think more than anything it's just rough 73.
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Let's not push because if they are going to beat the doctors.
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No, they need him. They're going to win a World
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Series. They have to have him part of
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life. He is so good.
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No, he's a hell of a player. And so is Christian Yelich.
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Yes, who's playing out of his mind how William did?
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Prayers. He'll, he'll go through those
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stretches where well, he's cooked again and then he pulls
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himself out of it every single time.
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It's incredible what he is able to do time in and time out of
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just being able to find a way. He has been absolutely
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outstanding of that. But if you put up this roster,
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if you put up the Brewers roster and the Brewers starters and
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remove the Cubs, remove the Tigers, because other than
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Scubble and I think we can, well, maybe not Seattle, but
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this is, I mean, who knows these guys?
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Who are these guys? Let's say it's the Dodgers
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because the Dodgers are up to nothing.
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Yeah, Dodgers versus Brewers lineup.
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Big advantage. Starting rotation.
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Brewers come on one through 4. It's the Brewers.
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Take the name off the chest. OK.
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And look at the what this team is, because you told me all
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summer long that the Dodgers don't have it.
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So now let's play this game. The Brewers.
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Woodruff got a chance of getting back.
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Or is he done, done, done I? Think done.
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Done. OK, so Priester's been
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unbelievable. He's been great, I'll give you
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that. Miss Zorowski looked
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outstanding. But out of the bullpen, and I
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think that's where he's going to remain.
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Peralta's had a nice year. And the other side?
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Snell Outstanding. Snell's looking like a Cy Young
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winner again. What do you think about Tani on
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the Bump? Good, good, good.
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But six innings at most? Yep, Yep.
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Yamamoto Glass now Dodgers don't.
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You go to vain of Dodgers, I would be on the Brewers side
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bullpen. Does the kids, what's the name?
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Saki? Does he pitch like he's been
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pitching since they brought him up for the Miners?
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Well, there's one. Yeah.
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Jack Dreyer is 2. Yeah.
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Bullpen's not great, I'll give you that.
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Give you that. Big advantage.
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Yeah, Will Smith, Contreras push.
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Yeah. Freddie Freeman.
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Andrew Vaughn. Freeman, obviously, but closer
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than you'd. Think.
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Come on, Andrew Vaughn's been. A The Vaughn Great story.
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The Vaughn in a Milwaukee uniform.
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Great story. Closer than you think.
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Yeah, Mookie Betts, DH. Yeah, big advantage.
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Big. Advantage Big advantage for the
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Dodgers. Max Muncie, how about this?
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Advantage in the dugout. Big advantage.
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You know what? One of them's got a World
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Series, Trent. One of them also has the biggest
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payroll in baseball year after year after.
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Year I would take Pat Murphy didn't let me finish my
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question, my answer. I, I was, I was jumping out of
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you because I get it. You were setting it up because
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if you were going to go there, I was going to fire right back in
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you. I'm not a Roberts guy.
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I'm Big Pat Murphy's. Pat Murphy's, I've yet to see
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him push the wrong button. I'm sure he has, but we don't
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watch every Brewers game. But he's really, really good.
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I mean, look at the Brewers want that.
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The great Council. Pat Murphy, who knows what would
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would have happened if Council didn't leave town, right?
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He could still be the bench coach or he could be somewhere
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else doing what he's doing. It's the Dodgers.
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Advantage. What would you lay that series
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price? Let's go to the Ken Miller
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casino here. I am ready to fire away.
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What kind of price are you going to give me on the Milwaukee
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It's. Going to be unfairly priced
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because it's the Dodgers. It is.
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I don't know what do you need plus plus what. 180 Oh, I
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wouldn't even need that much. 160 If I get 160 I am firing on
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the Brewers home field advantage, a team that I like.
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No, I never thought about that. They do have home field
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advantage. You know, I never thought about
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that aspect. But look at the Dodgers.
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They're just in Philadelphia and they won the first two games.
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I don't think it matters to them where they're going.
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I I don't think it does. I think that's what we're going
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to get, obviously. I mean, look at not going very
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far on a limb. The Phillies are down O2 and the
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Cubs are down O2. Phillies are a nice team.
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They're a plucky team. They're a plucky team.
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The Phillies are the small market team.
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Who? The Brewers?
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Oh, the Brewers. Yeah, I think, he said.
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No, no, no. Not the Phillies, the Brew Crew.
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Keith wants to talk about his Brewers.
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Keith, how are you? What are we missing on this
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team? Oh, I don't know, we're missing
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anything at all. I, I, I'm just amazed again at
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the you just alluded to it. And you mentioned something the
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other day also, Ken, about, about Murphy, what he's done in
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these two years. Well, frankly, what he's done
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the last few years with the Brewers.
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But to be honest, it's really amazing.
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I know, I know he's known as the big communicator.
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I know he tells his players that when when he meets them for the
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first time or he communicates and he says you'll never hear me
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say something about you that I don't say to you, which means
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he's very clear with his players too.
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And he's been known. Now, I can't really, I can't
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cite examples, but I know it's been said about him that he'll
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take players out in the middle of a game if he doesn't like the
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pitches that they've taken, they should have swung at or the
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pitches that they swung at, they should have taken.
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Pitch selection also in the field is like it is like their
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demeanor in the field. He might take them out once in a
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while. So there's a tension there.
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So he's a players coach, but also he's he's he's very exact
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about things. And they certainly overachieve
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regarding their payroll and their talent.
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So nervous about, you know, you got to win three.
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You can't just win 2. So still kind of nervous about
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this. The other thing is, you know,
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Craig Council gets a lot of heat from Oh my God, he's a he's a,
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he's a great guy. You know, him and him and Murphy
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are very close. Murphy reviews him.
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He's just he's a he's a, he's a man's man.
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He's just a kind, caring man. So it's hard to root against
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him. But I am because I'm a rumors
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fan. So somebody has this Keith in
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the scenes council obviously was the face, he was the manager.
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How much, how much maybe credit should Murphy get for those that
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for the council achievements for those Brewers years where he was
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the manager? I know Murphy wouldn't want it
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because he's his bench coach, but how much, how much credit do
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you think should should ultimately go to to Pat Murphy
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for that council success? Well, I think probably most of
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it if you just go by deduction, by reasoning.
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I know, I know when council left to go to Chicago, there are a
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lot of players are saying, well, thank God Pat is still here,
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which it doesn't sound like a lot back then, but now when you
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think about it, you're saying, oh, wow.
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And don't forget now, Ken, the Brewers themselves, the front
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office, I'm not sure they knew because don't forget, they
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offered council a contract. That council turned out an
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extension before he signed with Chicago.
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So I'm not sure what the Brewers knew, what they had in Pat
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Murphy. And Woodruff is out, correct?
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I mean we, we, we won't see. That's what I hear.
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Yeah, I know he's out this series, obviously, maybe the
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World Series if if they get there.
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I have not heard that, but but I'm I'm waiting, but I, I'm
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anxious so I can't count my chickens before they hatch.
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I'm I'm anxious perhaps for a, for a Dodgers, Brewers, you
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know, final, but you know, again, you got to win three.
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You can't just win 2. So we'll see.
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But thanks guys. Yeah, Keith, appreciate the
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call. Good luck to your Brewers.
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It's going to be a fascinating series.
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I think it's over, personally. Tayon, who pitches tomorrow for
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the Brewers. Have they named their starter
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yet? Will it be Priester?
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Yeah, Priester is listed here, so.
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He's had a hell of a year. Yes, he has.
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Three what? A bit funny was good last time,
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no? Absolutely, yeah.
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I mean, he's the guy that I trust most, you know, certainly
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out. Of the cage Horton injury,
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right? What could have been?
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Jesus, what could have been. But you know what?
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As well as he's pitched, the bats aren't coming live.
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The bats are just completely and that's been the story of this
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Cubs team, you know, in the middle of August to the end of
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September. They had their moments where
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they broke out of it and scored some runs.
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But PCA has not finished the season.
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Why you can go down the list. I mean, it's a long list of
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guys. You think they're going to
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they're going to regret the trade.
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Cam Smith for Kyle Tucker, is that a miss?
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They got to the playoffs. They won a playoff game in
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Wrigley for the first time in what?
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You know, eight years and won a series, Yeah.
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I would say no. I mean, it was time to push but.
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He had two hits in the He had two hits in the series.
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But I mean, it was singles. It was time to push your chips
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out. OK, It didn't work.
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No, that's going to happen in trades.
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Give you that? Yeah, you're right.
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Give them credit for trying. Yes, they tried.
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Because look at. That's been a time knock on this
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front office. Yes it has and it was again in
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this trade deadline when they didn't go out and get a starter.
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But if they would have got a starter, you know who to.
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If you get a frontline starter, you know who everybody's ask was
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Kate Horton. Right.
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What are you going to do? Well, that that was not.
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Negotiable. It was not negotiable, right?
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And if that's the return, well, that's what you have to do, you
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know, kind of going forward. Who do you like in the Mariners
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Tiger series? Now is that?
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Trent, that's though, that's kind of the one that I've least
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paid attention to. 232 games, but then they're up against
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Sunday night, they're up against all the college games on
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Saturday I saw. The Mariners have school's
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number. Yeah, they have school's number,
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I think. The Mariners, I think.
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So today it's Logan Gilbert against Jack Flaherty.
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And what if didn't Flaherty pitch well in his last start?
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He did, yeah. He was good against the
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Guardians. Logan Gilbert, on the other
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hand, he, it's like they're, they're not ready for him to go
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out there. A lot of people thought he was
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going to get the start in Game 2.
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They pushed him to game three. I don't know the, the numbers
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look OK, but I just something to wonder about at minimum with
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Logan Gilbert. I give the advantage certainly
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to Seattle on that front for this game.
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They're -140 something like that in Detroit.
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I don't know. Is it a fate of Flaherty?
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I might get involved in some pepper pitcher props.
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So we got that coming up here at 150 all.
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Right, We're going to talk to Matt Postons on the Big 12
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coming up. I'm guessing he'll have Texas
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Tech right at the top of that heap.
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Houston's the favorite basketball wise, right?
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Have you seen any basketball numbers from from the Big 12
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yet? As far as conference odds, they
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have to be. Texas Tech would be on that
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list. I'm I wonder where Kansas is.
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They were. When we went through the Bart
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Torvick numbers last week, I think they were listed six that.
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Far down in. The Big 12, which is, I mean,
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it's unthinkable, right? It is.
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We are just so used to that team.
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Where was Iowa State? 4th, if memory serves.
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So let me find conference winner, all right, Regular
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season conference winner. This is from DraftKings Houston,
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the betting favorite. Pretty significant.
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Plus 145 BYU, the second choice. Sneaky one.
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Yeah, the number. One player in the country coming
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in plus 425 on the Cougs. Texas Tech with all that money 6
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to 1. Kansas is the 4th betting
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choice. A + 750.
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Arizona 8:00 to 1:00 and then Iowa State 9 to 1.
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Where's Baylor? Baylor, 25 to one.
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Wow. If you want to jump aboard, no I
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don't. The Bears.
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I've already jumped aboard Texas Tech.
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I got a Texas Tech 2. Step football and basketball.
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Now there was Bart Torvik numbers Houston, the number one
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team in the country, number one of the Big 12.
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BYU second, Arizona third, Iowa State 4th and the 15th ranked
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team in the country. Kansas at 17.
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Texas Tech down at 27 in the numbers from Bart Torvik, 35th
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in the country for Baylor. Cincinnati, in fact, in front of
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them in the Big 12 with his numbers.
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All right, we'll take a time out.
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Poston's from Heartland College Sports.
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joins us. Hello Matt Postons, how are you?
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I'm good guys. How are you?
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Doing well. Obviously we'll get to Texas
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Tech in a second, but I want to start with BYU, if you wouldn't
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mind. They are on Iowa State schedule
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coming up here toward the end of October.
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They're five and O, and they're five and O overall, 2 and O.
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Thus far, they've been really good.
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Your thoughts on this BYU squad? Are you buying this team?
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They've beaten who? They've beaten Colorado and West
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Virginia. So not the who's who of the
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conference, but is BYU. I think potentially, I think
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we'll know in a couple of weeks. You know, there was a they got
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to go to Arizona and that's a game like the Wildcats really
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have their eye on in terms of trying to get themselves in a
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position where they could be, you know, competitive with the
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top half of this conference. And then they get Utah after
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that. And obviously that's a huge game
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for them every year. I was at that game last year at
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Utah, and we all know how that ended and what their athletic
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director said after the game. It was it was quite the theme.
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But, you know, I think those two games are going to tell us a lot
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about where they're at going into the back half of the
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conference plate. I think the good thing for Iowa
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State, if you're really thinking of it from a strategic
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standpoint is you're getting them after that game.
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And last year they beat Utah. They lost the next two games.
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So I think we'll see where they're at in the next couple of
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games. I think they're, I think they're
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kind of for real. But I always worry about a true
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freshman, a quarterback that's a that's a lot to ask for true 2
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freshmen to lead a A-Team to a potential conference
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championship that. It was a 10/3 game with Texas
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Tech in Utah, and then the fourth quarter happened and the
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final score I don't think was indicative of what happened in
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that game. Are we maybe too quickly pushing
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Utah to the side? How much do you believe in Kyle
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Whittingham's team and what they're going to do here in the
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back half of the season? Do you still consider them a
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contender to get to the championship and ultimately
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maybe win the championship? I think if they beat Arizona
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State this weekend, I think they're a contender.
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I think if they lose Arizona State this weekend, I think
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they're done. From that standpoint, they still
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have a good season. They could still finish seven
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and two in conference. But I mean, for all intents and
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purposes, to me, this is the game that either, you know,
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keeps them in the conference race or doesn't.
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Because if you think about how things ended up last year, four
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teams ended up tied for first, seven and two.
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Three others finished tied for fifth at six and three.
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If you lose 2 conference games, you're unless a lot of things,
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unless a lot of parody happens in the conference, you're pretty
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much toast when it comes to that.
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So with Utah already, with the loss to Texas Tech, they have to
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beat Arizona State because if they lose this game, think about
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this, they would have tiebreaker deficits against Texas Tech and
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West Virginia. They've still got Baylor on
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their schedule. They still got Kansas on their
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schedule. They still got BYU on their
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schedule. So for me, we find out this
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weekend if they're going to be a contender, they have to find a
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way to beat Arizona State. What did you see when you
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watched Iowa State? Cincinnati, obviously.
19:59
Iowa State. Both of their starting corners.
20:01
Runners around, as you know, they couldn't stop the run in
20:04
the first half. They shored that up a little
20:06
bit, but Cincinnati was the better team on the field.
20:09
What do you make? What was your take away from
20:10
Iowa State? Still top 25 ranked, but now
20:14
fall to five and one, two and one conference.
20:17
It's unfortunate they came out of the, the, by the way, they
20:19
did. I mean, that's kind of the when
20:22
you're thinking about whether or not you come out of a bite, do
20:24
you come out sluggish? Do you come out sharp?
20:25
And they, you know, admittedly they came out pretty sluggish.
20:28
I think the good thing for them is it's just one loss.
20:30
And you know, we just talked about if you've lost a game,
20:33
you're still kind of in it. If you lose 2 or more, you're
20:36
going to have a really hard time staying in it.
20:38
So, you know, for them there are two good things.
20:41
One, I think their schedule is a little bit more manageable the
20:45
rest of the season and some of the other teams in the
20:47
conference, although obviously they do still have that game
20:50
with Arizona State coming up. But I think every other game on
20:53
their schedule I think is winnable for them.
20:55
And they have a game on everybody else because they
20:56
played the other conference game early.
20:58
So they have a little, to me, they have a little more margin
21:01
for error. But whoever you know that, you
21:04
know, with their starting cornerbacks down, that new group
21:08
of starters is going to have to come on and come on quick.
21:11
Because, you know, that's where Cincinnati exploited them on
21:13
Saturday was, you know, being able to get down the field and
21:16
get past that last line of defense.
21:18
Those guys are going to have to pick it up and pick it up quick.
21:21
I suspect the run game will get better over the next few weeks.
21:24
I think Cincinnati was really geared toward trying to stop the
21:28
run and did a good job of that. You know, I, I, I just feel like
21:32
they're still in it. But you know, that Arizona State
21:35
game to me is the game that's going to tell me if they can
21:38
stay in it for the long haul or not.
21:40
Speaking of Cincinnati, watching them now the last couple of
21:42
weeks against Kansas and of course Iowa State last week,
21:45
this team could score. I don't know defensively what
21:47
exactly they got over there and getting Corley on, but that
21:50
definitely helped. But they got a lot of work to do
21:52
on that side. But Soresby, the way he's
21:54
chucking around Goody has got as much speed as anybody in the Big
21:56
12. They could run it.
21:58
This is a very dangerous team. Just enough to be a contender,
22:02
though. Or they're a nice team.
22:03
Maybe they're eight and four. What do you see out of the
22:05
Bearcats? I think they're an interesting
22:08
team because they're they're better than I expected them to
22:11
be, to be honest. And you look at their next two
22:14
games, UCF, Oklahoma State, very manageable games to me.
22:17
If they win both of those, they're going to be both
22:19
eligible. First of all, under Satterfield
22:20
for the first time. And then the back half of their
22:22
schedule, they've got Baylor, Utah, Arizona, BYUTCU.
22:26
It sets them up for a pretty tough November.
22:29
But you know, The thing is if you're 4 and O at that .5 and O
22:32
in that point come in in the conference, that part of
22:35
conference play, then then you're a contender.
22:37
So I feel like I put UCF as my most important game of the week
22:41
in my piece up at Heartland today.
22:44
And I put it up there because if Cincinnati does want to be a
22:46
contender, that's not a game they can lose.
22:49
They can't afford to lose the UCF.
22:51
They can't afford to lose the Oklahoma State.
22:53
Those are the games you have to win if you want to be a
22:56
contender in this conference because they've got some
22:58
difficult games coming up. I'm I'm kind of on the fence
23:01
that they're going to lose one of those next two games either
23:02
to UCF or Oklahoma State, and that might burst the bubble.
23:05
But I still think they can get to a bowl game and have a good
23:08
zoo. What did you take?
23:09
What was your take away from a TCU who struggled?
23:14
I thought in the 1st 3/4 of the game against Colorado Hoover was
23:18
good. I mean he's threw 4 touchdowns.
23:20
Hard to be critical of that but I thought he left some throws on
23:23
the field. Does TCU belong in the
23:26
conversation? Might and we know when when the
23:28
smoke clears. Might be TCU on the podium
23:31
getting the trophy. Yeah, I was at that game on
23:34
Saturday for Colorado, and the thing that really struck me is
23:37
just their continued struggles to be able to run the football.
23:40
And the interesting thing right now is they're really not trying
23:44
to do anything exotic running the football.
23:46
They're running between the tackles.
23:47
They're running inside plays. They're not running to the
23:50
outside very much. And, you know, granted, they're
23:51
kind of banged up on their offensive lines.
23:53
That limits what they're able to do with their, you know, state
23:56
pulling guards and trying to run stretch plays and things of that
23:58
nature. But, you know, they didn't do
24:00
anything exotic from a run play standpoint in Colorado.
24:02
Did a good job of stuffing, was there.
24:05
I've always said this is a team that could contend if everything
24:08
goes right. I still stand by that.
24:11
You know, they've got a loss there is in the state.
24:13
If everything goes right and they finish up 8:00 and 1:00,
24:15
then yeah, they'll be in Arlington playing in the
24:17
championship game. But the running game really
24:19
concerns me because they've got to find a way to take some
24:23
pressure off of Josh Hoover. He had a great game.
24:27
He was very consistent throughout that game, even if
24:29
the numbers didn't come to the fourth quarter.
24:30
But they've really got to get some semblance of a running game
24:34
going so that they can take some pressure off of him, give him a
24:38
little bit more, you know, a little bit more room to play
24:41
with in the pocket. Otherwise, teams are going to
24:43
really start teeing off on him from a pass rush standpoint.
24:46
As the season goes on, they'll observe a lot more abuse and you
24:49
know, that's probably going to limit their chances to be a
24:51
contender in this conference. Texas Tech is now nationally
24:56
recognized top ten team. Lot of buzz, obviously what they
24:59
did in the offseason, this spending.
25:01
How important is it for Texas Tech now to have that special
25:05
season, maybe at worst be 11 and 1 going into that championship
25:09
game just to have them part of the conversation for the
25:12
playoff, maybe more than just getting in.
25:14
But doing that, when you look at the league as a whole, is, is
25:17
there a lot riding in your mind on Texas Tech having a
25:20
successful year? Yeah, I think there is at this
25:23
point. I mean, if they had a loss on
25:24
their schedule, that'd be one thing.
25:25
But I mean, they're they're 5 and 0.
25:27
Their defense is ranked #22 in the country in total defense.
25:31
And I talked to Joey McGuire before the season and, you know,
25:34
I said, what are the things you guys need to get better at?
25:36
He said we got to get better on 3rd down.
25:37
We got to get better in the red zone in terms of forcing teams
25:40
to settle for field goals, and we got to get better at rushing
25:43
the quarterback. And they've been much better at
25:44
all three of those pieces of the puzzle.
25:46
And that's why their defense is in the top 25 in total defense.
25:51
You know, to me, they're now in a position where I feel like
25:53
they're playing the best football with anybody in the
25:55
conference. I still don't think they're
25:57
going to finish undefeated in the league, but I think 11 and 1
26:00
is a very reasonable possibility there.
26:03
Arizona State's their toughest remaining game.
26:05
Not that Kansas isn't dangerous this weekend, but you know,
26:08
areas of the state is that game where I feel like they're
26:10
they're playing a legitimate top 25 contender in the conference.
26:14
After that, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, BYUBYU is going to
26:17
be a tough game. UCF, West Virginia, there's a
26:19
pathway for them to finish 11:00 and 1:00.
26:21
And if they do, I think that helps the profile of the
26:24
conference overall. It but I also think it also it
26:27
helps, you know, a couple of teams that might be trying to
26:30
get into that, you know, 10 win, 11 win position as well.
26:35
You know, if you're, if you're BYU, if you're Arizona State,
26:39
Cincinnati, Iowa State, those are all teams with, you know,
26:43
four or five wins, but one loss overall.
26:46
Big 12 really needs two teams that are 10 win teams going into
26:50
the Big 12 championship game that that will help them
26:53
potentially get 2 teams into the playoffs because they saw it
26:55
last year. You know, they didn't take a
26:57
nine and three Alabama, they took a 10 and 211 and two SMU.
27:02
So I think ten wins over the course of the season, once you
27:06
get the Selection Sunday, matters to the committee, and I
27:09
think Texas Tech is well positioned to do that.
27:12
The question is whether a second team can follow them.
27:14
I'll get you out of here on this, at least for for me there
27:18
Texas Tech's booster, Cody Campbell.
27:20
There's an offensive lineman at Texas Tech.
27:22
Do I have that correct? I think you played old line
27:24
there. But it seemed he loves
27:25
basketball as well because he played football.
27:29
Did would it mean more for for Texas Tech to win a a Football
27:33
Conference championship or basketball?
27:36
Or does he want them both and he's in it?
27:38
Where did he make his money? Is he an oil guy or an energy?
27:41
Kind of one of the same, right? Oil and gas, oil and gas.
27:44
So I believe he used to own a company called Energy Transfer.
27:48
I think he and his partner sold out a year ago and they made out
27:50
with like 4 billion or something like that.
27:52
I mean, they're they're he's got money and his money's got money.
27:58
So, yeah, I mean, I football would obviously matter to him a
28:01
great deal. But the great thing about Texas
28:03
Tech, and this is one of the reasons why they've done NIL
28:05
well since this space opened up is they've they have worked hard
28:09
to support football, both basketball teams, baseball and
28:12
softball, those those Big 5 sports that most universities
28:16
have on their campus. They've done a really good job
28:18
of balancing out their NIL and making sure all those different
28:21
athletes are supported. Yes, sure, they, they really
28:24
push their chips to the table for football this year, but
28:27
basketball has been well supported.
28:29
So is baseball obviously softball Najari candidate, their
28:32
pitcher signed a reported $1 million NIL deal.
28:36
So I think Cody Campbell, the way he talks on Twitter about
28:40
wanting to make sure the Olympic sports get preserved and things
28:43
like that, I think he he wants to make sure everyone at Texas
28:46
Tech is supported. But yeah, football would
28:49
obviously mean a great deal to them.
28:51
They haven't won a solo conference championship, I don't
28:54
believe until the since the 50s when they were in the Border
28:58
Conference. They shared a a four way
29:00
championship with the three other teams in the Southwest
29:03
Conference. I believe in 94.
29:05
And they went to the Cotton Bowl because they were the team in
29:08
the conference that had gone the longest without going to the
29:10
Cotton Bowl. That was how they broke the tie
29:13
because they had four different teams tied for first play.
29:15
So yeah, it would it would mean a great deal not just to him,
29:18
but that to that entire fan base that they're able to win the Big
29:21
12. Go to the college football
29:22
player. It would be a a validation of
29:25
all the work they did in the offseason.
29:27
Speaking of tiebreakers, you wrote about tiebreakers this
29:29
week at Heartland College Sports.
29:30
There's another tiebreaker. A couple years ago, we had
29:33
tiebreakers. We had tiebreakers last year.
29:35
Are you all polished up? Are you ready to go when we get
29:37
into the middle of November? We're going.
29:39
To need you. This thing is an absolute mess,
29:42
and it's not just a Big 12 thing.
29:43
It's everybody. I want to go this direction.
29:46
Do you like the way the way that the tiebreakers are now set up
29:49
in the Big 12? I think so.
29:55
I mean, you're always going to have these what ifs when you
29:58
have an unbalanced schedule the way they have like the way
30:01
everybody has in the Power 4 conferences now.
30:03
But I, I think, you know, I think right now they're probably
30:08
in a pretty good place. I would feel better if you know,
30:11
the Big 12 moved to some sort of a pod system like the SEC is
30:15
doing with their schedule. I think that would help make
30:17
tiebreakers a little bit easier, especially if you're playing
30:20
three consistent teams every year.
30:21
Would help us preserve Kansas State, Iowa State and things of
30:24
that nature. I think that would be somewhat
30:26
helpful because that way you're playing 3 core teams every year
30:30
and you're playing every other team at least once every two
30:34
years. I think it would help with a
30:36
tiebreaker standpoint. But I mean, you think about
30:38
this, there's 16 teams in this conference.
30:40
You're playing a nine game schedule.
30:41
You're not playing six of them. So inevitably there's always
30:46
going to be a scenario or two where you're like, oh gosh,
30:49
please don't, please don't let that happen.
30:51
Like, there's one person I think on Twitter, and I wish I had
30:53
bookmarked this, somebody came up with a scenario where you can
30:56
have 5-8 and one teams in the Big 12 this year going into the
30:59
season. They like mapped it out how how
31:01
could 5 different teams finish eight one?
31:03
And there was a way to do it. And, you know, until we have a
31:07
little more balance in the schedule divisions, what have
31:11
you, I don't know. But you know, there's always
31:13
going to be that couple of nightmare scenarios that
31:16
nobody's thought about like a couple of years ago with
31:18
Oklahoma State. So I, I think the tiebreakers
31:21
are certainly in a better place, but I wouldn't rule out a little
31:24
chaos the last couple weeks of the season.
31:26
I will say this, I think the Big 12 did a much better job of
31:28
communicating where tiebreakers were the last couple of weeks of
31:32
the season, communicating how those would work and, and what
31:35
had to happen for for these sorts of things to happen.
31:37
So that aside, after the first year where they really did, they
31:40
can do a very good job at that. They did a better job at that
31:42
last year. Matt Poston's Heartland College
31:44
Sports. Heartland College Sports for all
31:46
your Big 12 news and information, etcetera.
31:49
Heartland College Sports. Matt, thank you.
31:51
All right. Thanks guys.
31:53
Appreciate it. Yeah, appreciate.
31:54
You coming on thank you very much Matt Poston's heartland
31:57
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