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09/16/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Rolling through a Wednesday in the good land. A hot
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  Speaker 1: take hump day, if you will. A victory Wednesday. Drew, Billy,
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  Speaker 1: and Armand bringing it to you. Fox Sports Radio, 920 Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers are the champions. of the National League Central Division.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth time in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for reminding me, Drew. It is a victory Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: That means that we should get some chicken today.
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  Speaker 1: We should.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that means we can get that biscuit that
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  Speaker 2: I was craving coming up on Monday that we didn't
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  Speaker 2: end up snagging.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to definitely get some chicken. From where, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but there's a lot of options. We need
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  Speaker 1: some hot takes, Greg. Give them to us at 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 1: That'll get you into the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line.
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  Speaker 1: hot take, one of the things I thought about with
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  Speaker 1: this Brewers team, and again, it's a day, I think,
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  Speaker 1: to reflect, not to look ahead and with dread about
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  Speaker 1: what's come and to worry that they might not win
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate prize. Look back. Look at where this team
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  Speaker 1: has come. We've been talking about the Yelich era from
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  Speaker 1: 2018 on. It's the golden age of Brewers baseball in
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  Speaker 1: terms of postseason appearances, division championships, in terms of victories,
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  Speaker 1: the fourth most victories in all of baseball since 2018,
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  Speaker 1: since Christian Yelich's arrival. We're calling it the Yelich era,
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  Speaker 1: the golden age. So enjoy it. It's a day to
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  Speaker 1: look back. And then I'm thinking to myself, and then
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  Speaker 1: you look around at the current roster, look at what
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  Speaker 1: they've done with this group of guys that I still
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  Speaker 1: think the window is just opening for this team because
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of young guys that are locked
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  Speaker 1: up and they got more guys coming and they're poised
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  Speaker 1: to be good for a while if we have a
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  Speaker 1: season next year.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, whether or not they play
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  Speaker 2: 100 games, whether they play 20, whether they play no games,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to like their chances next year, 28, 29, 30,
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  Speaker 2: best they've been set up in a while.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the thing. As you look at this Brewers roster,
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  Speaker 1: and I was thinking about this because everything is through
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  Speaker 1: the prism of the Packers. What if the Brewers went
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  Speaker 1: into the playoffs? What if they had to play from,
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  Speaker 1: let's say, mid-August? They were without Miz and Terang. Both
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  Speaker 1: had suffered injuries in mid-August. Would you expect the Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: would they have won the division? Would they have the expectation?
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  Speaker 1: Would they perform well in the playoffs without those two guys?
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  Speaker 1: They definitely wouldn't perform well in the playoffs. Winning the
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  Speaker 1: division would.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I could have seen it drew just because
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  Speaker 2: they had a substantial lead.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, right? Maybe they could have made, I think maybe,
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  Speaker 1: but it would have been, but it would have been tough, dude.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about then six weeks of the emotional swoon
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  Speaker 1: that you had, just like when you found out that
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  Speaker 1: Woody wasn't going to pitch two years ago. Exactly. And
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  Speaker 1: the point there is we expected, and we were all
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  Speaker 1: disappointed when the Packers did not play well without Tucker
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  Speaker 1: craft and Michael Parsons.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Still haven't played. Yeah, and they still haven't. Because I
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  Speaker 1: look at Micah Parsons like he's the Packers to me,
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  Speaker 1: the best player on the team. He's the best player
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  Speaker 1: on the team, yep. And arguably in the discussion as
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  Speaker 1: the best player in the league at his position. Tucker Kraft,
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  Speaker 1: maybe second or third best player on the team, one
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  Speaker 1: of the best players in the league at his position.
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  Speaker 1: Don't even want to talk about quarterback rankings. But to me,
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  Speaker 1: the only guys on the Brewers that are the best
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  Speaker 1: players in the position are Miz, who's going to be
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  Speaker 1: named that when he gets the Cy Young Award at
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  Speaker 1: the banquet in New York in January. And maybe Terang,
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  Speaker 1: whose numbers, even though he goes under the radar, are
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  Speaker 1: his numbers. Ain't nobody else in the discussion for the
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  Speaker 1: best in their position, in the league of their position.
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  Speaker 1: Contreras may be on a good day when he's hot.
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  Speaker 1: On a good roll, yeah. On a good roll, but
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  Speaker 1: there are other catchers that you would probably like. That's fair.
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  Speaker 1: One of the guys who played for the Braves. So
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  Speaker 1: you have those guys. What's the minimum? And I would
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  Speaker 1: ask Billy, like, how many teams, first of all, win
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  Speaker 1: playoff games in advanced even playoffs with two of their
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  Speaker 1: best players out, like historically and in recent memory? Did
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks and Patriots, who we've been talking about a
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  Speaker 1: lot because they were the last two? Super Bowl. Did
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  Speaker 1: they have any catastrophic injuries that they lost guys?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, they were graced pretty well with schedule
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  Speaker 2: and injuries. I'm trying to rack my brain. Charbonnet goes
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  Speaker 2: down for the Seahawks, but they had their other running
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  Speaker 2: back won the Super Bowl MVP.
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  Speaker 1: So I can't really say that that was a groundbreaking injury. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's the thing. So a guy did step up, but
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  Speaker 1: they did lose. Yes, 100%. They lost one of their
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  Speaker 1: top running backs. As it turned out, they elevated a
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  Speaker 1: guy who was better. Might have been better. Yeah, which
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  Speaker 1: actually they're I remember a team taking a similar course
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  Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl title, and that was the 2010 Packers,
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  Speaker 1: who had a slew of injuries. And some of the
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  Speaker 1: guys that came in and stepped in ended up performing
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  Speaker 1: better than the guys that they replaced.
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  Speaker 2: And seeing Al Harris exhibit A, Al Harris thought he
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  Speaker 2: was going to come back and have his spot. And
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  Speaker 2: they're like, wait a second, we actually really like this
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  Speaker 2: Tremont Williams and Sam Shields cat.
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  Speaker 1: And Tremont, they both rolled. Yes, exactly. So the point
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  Speaker 1: of it is, when you're looking at a team, the Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: it's another thing that they deserve props for. is that
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  Speaker 1: they do this with only two, you know, they don't
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  Speaker 1: have Aaron judge and Stanton, like all this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they'll never go out and be able to sign a
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  Speaker 1: free agent. Cy Young winner, like a guy who's at,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the scoobles of the world. but they developed
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  Speaker 1: one and they have him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And, and they have another one that's pretty dang close
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  Speaker 2: and Henderson that they could have given up for that
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  Speaker 2: run with Scooble.
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  Speaker 1: And sure.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows his seven shutout innings the other night were
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  Speaker 2: pretty dang good. I'm not going to sneeze at what
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  Speaker 2: he's going to do, but they've now developed them and
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  Speaker 2: you're right. They found them in different ways. They have
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  Speaker 2: maybe two guys that would be considered the best guy
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  Speaker 2: at the position. But as Arman mentioned earlier on today,
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  Speaker 2: and Bryce Durant wasn't an all-star maybe for a reason, uh,
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  Speaker 2: The interesting part for where they go in the comparison, Drew,
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  Speaker 2: is Murph talked about it. Like they maybe tasted a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of their own blood and the thought that
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  Speaker 2: they were going to not have to rank. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's three weeks removed now or four weeks ago. But
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  Speaker 2: when he gets the second opinion, we're on here in
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  Speaker 2: the morning saying, I think we all know what that means.
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  Speaker 1: There's a real chance he's not playing for you again.
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  Speaker 1: They get him back.
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  Speaker 2: Coinciding with maybe the biggest couple of wins of the
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  Speaker 2: year that Murph talked about those games in LA where
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  Speaker 2: they didn't have to rang. And there's the adage of,
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  Speaker 2: you have to learn how to win each year, I
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  Speaker 2: think is true. And you see it different times. This
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  Speaker 2: one learned that they could win without them. Then realize
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  Speaker 2: that they weren't going to have to going forward. That
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  Speaker 2: was like getting in a trade that you didn't even
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  Speaker 2: have to make when you knew that you were going
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  Speaker 2: to have him, one of your best guys for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the run.
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  Speaker 3: And there was plenty of injury concerns all summer for
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  Speaker 3: this team. I mean, they were banged up. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Cooper had it for a while and you
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  Speaker 3: go up and down the roster. It's easy to forget now,
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  Speaker 3: but we were concentrating this summer. You're right. The stars weren't,
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  Speaker 3: didn't have the devastating injuries. Like we talk about Parsons
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  Speaker 3: and things like that, but. the team is built on
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  Speaker 3: depth and the completeness of its depth to your point.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not built on one star in that sense.
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  Speaker 3: So that, that puts you in a good position. If
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  Speaker 3: you do have guys going down, even if they are
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  Speaker 3: your best players to try and sustain that.
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  Speaker 1: And the Brewers have been able to do that. It
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  Speaker 1: would be rough. Had they lost in the playoffs at
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  Speaker 1: that point of the season, when Parsons went down, well,
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  Speaker 1: Kraft went down kind of earlier, but like the point
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  Speaker 1: of the season, when Parsons went down is like, to me,
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  Speaker 1: it would have been, early August. I was going to
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  Speaker 1: say that's mid August, early, mid August, right when you
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  Speaker 1: need it, like down the last, the backstretch of the season. And,
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  Speaker 1: and listen, last year they lose cheerio for what? A
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  Speaker 1: week and a half.
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  Speaker 2: He missed like those couple of two weeks where they
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  Speaker 2: ended up having the huge winning streak. He missed six
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  Speaker 2: weeks at the top this year, but he missed six
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  Speaker 2: weeks at the top and he's three steals away from
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  Speaker 2: going 2020 for three consecutive years.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Yelich talked about it last night and he's mentioned it
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times. And as I think it, goes
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  Speaker 2: back to your point of the underdog, can you use
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  Speaker 2: this or not? The guys in the locker room, they
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it, but they have also now started continuing to
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  Speaker 2: point out, we are kind of good players.
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  Speaker 1: We got some good players in here.
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  Speaker 2: And you start realizing they might not have the Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Judge and the top guy at each position, but if
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  Speaker 2: you're top 12 at every position, you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: pretty dang good.
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  Speaker 1: And the.
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  Speaker 1: The numbers on your baseball card say more than the
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  Speaker 1: numbers in your bank account, because there ain't anybody in
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  Speaker 1: baseball who would rather have Kyle Tucker than Jake Bowers.
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  Speaker 1: Hit that bell. That was a bar right there. Who
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  Speaker 1: the hell? I'm just saying, Jake Bowers is... It's a
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  Speaker 1: great point, though. I mean, yes. In When you use
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  Speaker 1: one of the powers, when you see his name in
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  Speaker 1: the transactions, no one's running to the season ticket window.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that they did in LA when they
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  Speaker 1: got Kyle Tucker either, but I'm just saying the principle
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  Speaker 1: is a bird's never signed any of those guys. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they don't need to, if they can get guys who
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  Speaker 1: outperform them for one, one hundredth of the price. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Ours are, we, we signed pre CBA, uh, rookies like
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL, our biggest contracts are the 21 year old.
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  Speaker 3: He was as important to this team as anybody. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: every guy has a story. And in that sense, well,
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  Speaker 3: the Brewers needed some offense early in the year. Jake
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  Speaker 3: powers was carrying this.
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  Speaker 1: He's on the rush. More of the most important guys
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  Speaker 1: in the season. Absolutely. And that's the thing about this team.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of guys.
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  Speaker 3: Even you get performances from guys, even if it didn't
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  Speaker 3: sustain as great players, Kyle Harrison, the first three months
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  Speaker 3: was performing as a Cy Young candidate. Now, obviously he's
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  Speaker 3: had a struggle since then, but you got that production
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  Speaker 3: walking into the, and every year it's been, you know,
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  Speaker 3: walking into the season. Did anyone think the Brewers would
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  Speaker 3: do this with zero contribution from Quinn Priester?
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  Speaker 1: Last year, it was Quinn Priester. And Woodruff. And Woodruff.
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  Speaker 1: And the year before was Tobias. The $ 22 million guy
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the rotation hasn't pledged. Most they've
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  Speaker 1: ever spent on a pitcher. Priester was last year's Logan Henderson.
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  Speaker 3: Right. They replenished the candy machine with these guys. And
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  Speaker 3: the thing is, they performed at that top level, even
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  Speaker 3: if they didn't sustain it. Or you'd say, well, he's
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  Speaker 3: a great player in this league.
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  Speaker 1: And nowadays, Joey Ortiz is one of those guys, a
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  Speaker 1: top-level guy. That's another great example. But he was buried
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  Speaker 1: this year. But that's the thing, Armand, like, The guys
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  Speaker 1: who are the best in the league of their position,
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  Speaker 1: they do it all year. They don't just do it
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  Speaker 1: for two months. Like they do it all year. And totally,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm working my way into, well, the Packers
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  Speaker 1: might not be as bad as I thought. Cause they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have like Josh Jacobs, one of the top guys
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  Speaker 1: at his position, Michael Parsons, definitely like in the discussion,
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  Speaker 1: you can part, you can parse that if you want.
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  Speaker 1: He's top three, but he's like in the discussion. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, okay. Those field tilters are what matters now. Another,
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  Speaker 1: since it's hot take hump day, another hot take. And
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  Speaker 1: we talked about a little bit off the air. And
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  Speaker 1: since I've now dubbed this the Yelich era, because the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers golden age, coincided with his arrival in the winter
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  Speaker 1: of 2018 our buddy ben.
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  Speaker 2: Said he also arrived in 2018 so he wanted some
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  Speaker 2: credit too.
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  Speaker 1: So okay okay my hot take is though there are
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  Speaker 1: other players in franchise history with better numbers i just
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  Speaker 1: don't see any way the brewers don't retire 22 when
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  Speaker 1: christian yelich says that's uh decides to wave goodbye debate.
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  Speaker 3: I love a conversation i love this is a beautiful
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  Speaker 3: beautiful evergreen one Yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Like Braun had better numbers. Braun had a cloud. And
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  Speaker 1: Braun was beloved, the California guy, by the owner. So
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  Speaker 1: was Yellich. So was Yellich. Yellich signed the deal and
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  Speaker 1: committed to Milwaukee. So did Braun. They both did. Similar past.
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  Speaker 1: Braun has played more games to put up better numbers.
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  Speaker 1: But for what he meant to the team and what
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  Speaker 1: he meant to this era of the team, to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's like 22 should be up in the. I know
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  Speaker 1: they have a Hall of Fame standard there. And it's like,
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  Speaker 1: how can you say that when they didn't retire Cecil Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: who was here 11 years and put up unbelievable numbers,
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  Speaker 1: or Jim Gantner, who was part of the trio and
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  Speaker 1: meant so much to those early teams. But Yelich has
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  Speaker 1: defined the best era in the franchise's history, especially if
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  Speaker 1: they win a World Series. Yelich does anything at all
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  Speaker 1: along the way. If they win one, he's guaranteed to
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  Speaker 1: go up there. That's, that's the thing. But to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, man, he deserves it now, whether aside from that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm with you.
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  Speaker 2: And for a couple of reasons, first off, I'm not,
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  Speaker 2: people aren't going to like this one, but, but it's
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  Speaker 2: fact of the matter. And, It's the Atanasios baseball team.
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  Speaker 2: They want to put Christian Yelich's name up there and
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  Speaker 2: put the 22 up. They got every damn right to.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever standard had been set or somebody else did when
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  Speaker 2: they owned the team, that is what it is. The
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  Speaker 2: other part for him presiding and being the anchor, one
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  Speaker 2: of the pillars of their most successful run in ball,
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  Speaker 2: they get to a World Series, I think for sure
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  Speaker 2: it goes up. I don't even necessarily, if they win it, guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: They get there, I think for sure, and it won't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily be argued that much. The tough thing about the
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  Speaker 2: other guys that you mentioned, you point Cecil out there.
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  Speaker 2: I hear a lot of people mention Jim Gantner a
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  Speaker 2: number of different times. The other part is the commitment
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  Speaker 2: to signing on the dotted line as to when he did.
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  Speaker 2: It was right after, if you remember, it's right after
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  Speaker 2: Mike Trout signs a $ 435 million contract. Yelich had just
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  Speaker 2: won the MVP and inks for 220 at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he gave up a lot of money. So, again,
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  Speaker 1: would he have gotten that same money after the injury?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But that all happens after the fact. The commitment to
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  Speaker 2: stay when he did, I think, is the other reason
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  Speaker 2: why he's a really, really tough guy to pass on
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  Speaker 2: and why you just probably wouldn't in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: I think if you do lift.
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  Speaker 3: That whatever self-imposed Hall of Fame restriction, you would definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Put him up there. And not for nothing, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: a factor or not, the Brewers unofficially retired 17 in 1992.
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  Speaker 1: Ganner's never been issued. He's never been issued. Nobody's been
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  Speaker 1: worn number eight since Braun left in 2020. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: nobody wants 17. No one's out there looking for 17
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  Speaker 1: as a number. I'm just saying. 17's a decent-looking number.
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  Speaker 1: One might come up wearing it, and Gander played 17 seasons.
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  Speaker 1: You don't think that's a good look? I think it
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  Speaker 1: looked right on Jimmy, but I don't think it's a number.
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  Speaker 1: The point is, yes, that's the ultimate honor, and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't take that step, but In effect, they did with Gantner.
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  Speaker 1: Gantner still shows up and dresses up once in a while.
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  Speaker 1: Unofficially retired. And so same with Braun. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: Shogar and Tony Migliaccio would ever hand somebody. They're not
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  Speaker 1: suggesting somebody that number. They're not handing that jersey out
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  Speaker 1: in spring training. You'll get like 79 or something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're not giving that out to people. If someone came,
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  Speaker 1: what if they traded for a star who wore that
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  Speaker 1: number already and was going to roll in? Might be then.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Jayden Daniels didn't have to call him and ask him. Yeah, probably.
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  Speaker 1: Or what the Packers did for Micah.
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  Speaker 3: In theory, they wanted to unofficially retire number one, but
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  Speaker 3: they're like, nah, you can have it, Micah.
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  Speaker 1: If you really want it. But, yeah, it's just because
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be shorthand, and in 10 years, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I heard the Yelich era. Like, his time here is
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  Speaker 1: going to be looked back on. It's also just the other,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, again, maybe this is wrong. Maybe this is
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  Speaker 1: too naive. It's the... It's their team.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: You can put whoever you want up there, and as
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: difficult as whatever the standard is and the self-imposed standard,
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: that wasn't ours. I understand there's a stewardness of the governorship,
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: as they like to say in the NBA, but I
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: think it's different when that ownership changes hands, just like
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: it was luckily for the Bucs when, frankly, Marcus Johnson
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: deserved the honor for a long time, but it wasn't
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: going to happen.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: It wasn't going to happen with the previous ownership. So
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: there was time that it passed, changed, boom, put them
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: up there and celebrate it. So I just, I think
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: he's meant too much to, to the Antanasio family as well.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: And like when Mike takes over, that's going to be
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: a part of it. I did appreciate though. Mark stayed
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: up in that booth for a long time last night.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: He realizes when he, when he's got the headset on,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: they score runs and he was not moving out of
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: that chair.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: It's good. It's good.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Juju.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You want to have, they
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: don't want to jinx the team. So everyone's superstitious. Absolutely.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: And I haven't missed one of these. I wouldn't either.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Out of the things that I might miss, out of
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: the 162 as an owner of a team, the game
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: that we clinch and I get to enjoy and soak
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: up the champagne shower, I'm going to gas up the
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: jet and we're going to get there to PNC.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Hot take. One of the reasons you love baseball is
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: even when your team's not in it, you can have
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: great moments at the yard. I don't know if it's
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: a great, it was a great moment. at city field
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: last night. Oh, that was a cool moment. That was
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: a very cool moment. Returns gets the heroes welcome and
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: then hits a tying Homer in the ninth inning is
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: 300th as a, of his big league career into the
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: stance to tie the game that the Orioles went on
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: to win an extra innings. I mean, David Stearns, it
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: wasn't a great, but yeah. And he gets a curtain
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: call by the home fans. Everybody in the ballpark. Now
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: granted there's some Orioles fans who make the trip to
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: New York. Sure. But there were The place was full
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: of Pete Alonzo fans.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, who cares if the Mets
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: win this game? They're not doing anything. And they're already eliminated.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: And so then the guys who catch it, they go
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: meet him. They load him up with swag. And there's
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: like they're everybody's thrilled. pete alonzo grew up there he's
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: a mr matt basically and then they let him go
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: and he comes back and hits not only a home
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: run a game time home run and a milestone home
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: run are you kidding me yeah.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: He was supposed to hit the 300th in that stadium
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: in queens only in new york right the way he
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: chucked that bad he loved it oh yeah every moment.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Of it and like just even the words pete alonzo
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: should and a shiver down the spine of Brewers fans.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, I definitely don't have a
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: whole lot of love loss for the cat, but he
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: is one of those guys that's difficult to hate because
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I love watching him swing.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I love watching him hit.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: He's had 264 of his 300 bombs with the Mets,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: and he might be the one that they despise David
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Stearns for the most. Out of all the moves that
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: have happened under his watch, it feels like Alonzo walking
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: out for the contract to the Orioles. was the one
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: that Mets fans were aggrieved by the most. The one
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: that frustrated and pissed them off the most.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Of all the money they spent, that's the guy that
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: wanted them to spend the money on the game.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: And they didn't.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: And instead, Pete was like, wait, last year at the end,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: I very distinctly remember him in that postgame being like, well,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: it's been fun, guys.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. I'm hitting free agency. I'm getting out
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: of here. I'm not watching somebody.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not watching this team collapse like we just did
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: down here in Miami and be eliminated from the playoffs anymore.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Times i'm gonna go finish fourth in the al east
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: with the orioles.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: I saw one mets account or blog say something like
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: they were the one people uh disrespectful as a mets
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: fan to to cheer against your team and to cheer
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: for somebody else but no one agreed with them it
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: was pretty interesting how that worked.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you if you um if you're a legendary figure.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Enough that will pervade even that will sustain even if
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: you're on a different team in a different uniform and
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: a lot of yeah a lot of signs we miss
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: you pete and all that stuff last night so That
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: was quite interesting.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: And you saw, he gave a little smirk.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: When he heard the, um, when, when the curtain called
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: turned into a fire stern, a little smirk, he gave
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: a little smirk, but man, talk about the penthouse to
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: the outhouse.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Like sterns was the guy that they've been talking about.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Like we talk about Matt Arnold, you know, for so long.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: And now everyone's like, this guy stinks and everything like that.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: It's funny how fortunes change.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: When results change. Results do change. Expectation changes. I know
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: we got to take a.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Break and we're going to get to halftime here coming up, but, uh,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know that it's a hot take on today.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: It's more of a game ball and kick to the balls.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: What a kick to poor Cooper Brad. How do you
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: think he enjoyed that hotel room last night? He was
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: out with an illness. He used to stay away and
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: just have to sit there and watch everybody having.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: A good old time. He was probably on social. Yeah.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Watching Hunter's feed, Hunter be on air, just sitting there scrolling.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Through like, dang, that looks fun. Hunter's going to join
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: us in 40 minutes. Scott Dolphin joins us next. We've
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: reached halftime of the week, halftime of the program. It
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: is the Wednesday edition, the Hot Take Hump Day edition
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: of the Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Good morning. Welcome. Thanks, Drew.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: The city of champions. Yes. We're enjoying our day.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: I didn't realize that they're the first team to win
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: four straight division titles. Now, the division's only been around, what,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: about 30 years? Back in the days when the Astros were.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Still a part of it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I went and fact-checked it, Dolph, because I didn't believe it.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I thought Murph was pulling something over us and maybe just,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: you know. Listen, he said it's St. Peter's tough up there, apparently,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: on Uke. I mean, it's a third catcher? That's a
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: tough lineup to crack, but I thought he was just
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: making anything up into there. I had to fact check
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: him on the four times pretty and no team ever
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: doing it again.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Yep. I thought it very humorous.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Was it yesterday or the day before when Barstool Big
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Cat was just going off on Murph how much he
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: hates him?
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Like, give me a break, dude. He's saying your average shows,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: you win every year. You win more games than anybody else. Yeah,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: we thank you for it. I understand.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: I think it's actually a sign of when he does
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: something like that, you know, he's just coping because he, like,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: is jealous.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: So it makes it a more sign of respect than
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: anything else.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess so. It's so obvious what it is, right?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I guess so, yeah. Well, Dolph's visit is my reminder
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: that we have Luke Bryan tickets to give away. Alpine Valley,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: September 26th. The Word on the Street Tour. Drew Baldrige,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Lauren Watkins, and Raelynn opening. Armin, pick a caller number. 877-794-1973.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Who you got, Armin?
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Well, you just said it. So it's going to be
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: caller number four for four straight division titles.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Four.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Classy.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: That's a good move. Caller number four.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: 877-794-1973.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: And speaking of concerts, Dolph. You had to hold out
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: on us yesterday because when you left us, you went
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and made a big old announcement about a concert at
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: American Family Field. Yeah, that's a big one.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: You know, it's kind of a, I don't want to
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: call it, it's sad, but it's always, you get that
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: hollow feeling when Kenny, if you're a country fan or
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: if you're a Kenny Chesney fan, when he doesn't play
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: our ballpark in the summertime.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: It's just about every other year.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: And this one, my God, it's a throwback to 2013
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: when a young Eric Church opened for him. Eric Church
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: is now a major headliner who headlined the stadium. You
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: were there, Billy, not that long ago.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: He's the opening act on this, if you want to
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: call it that, or you can call it duo headliners. Yeah,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: it's Eric Church, Kenny Chesney. Oh, and Sheryl Crow.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Sheryl Crow?
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I was going to say Sheryl Crow was the one
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that my wife got very excited for. How about that?
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: That's a pretty good bill. It really is.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: And, you know, and it's just it's just a good vibe, man.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, you don't even have to be a country.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Jimmy. No Shoes Nation. Is that it? Yeah.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: And you can pick up his cocktails if you want.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: But I think he's slowly going to try to take
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: over that Jimmy Buffett type of vibe.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Just out there having a good time on a summer night.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Went to the Farm Aid gig when they were. Was
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: that his first time playing? Kenny? Yeah, that's the first
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: time he played our baseball stadium. 2010, I believe.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Before that, he had sold out Summerfest. And then I
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: remember the first year he did. I think he played
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Summerfest six years in a row.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: At the amphitheater.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: And then he wasn't there. And I'm thinking, yeah, we
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: just lost Kenny to the arena and amphitheater.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Now he's playing stadiums.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Well, in Dolph, because there needed to be somebody to
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: take over the Jimmy Buffett crowd, because.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: That is one of that being yearly.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: An annual occurrence was the best time for people to
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: bring in, you know, shout out to Mark Antanasio, bring
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: in some sand, drop that thing down into a pool
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: and have just the craziest adult party you could have.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: parking lot going to be a party for this kenny
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: show i mean like that gonna be they're gonna start
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the music probably at four or five but nobody's gonna
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: walk in until nine or ten with the kind of
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: party they're gonna.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Be i mean you could go and just tailgate if
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: you wanted to i mean i've known a lot of
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: people that have done that there's bars in the area
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: that uh you know rent out the sausage house with
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: all you can eat all you can drink and people
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: can just do that and go home or you can
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: stay for one of the best.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Music i was gonna say but there's gonna be a
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: lot of people that want to I mean, a lot
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: of people think that they're going to stay and watch music.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: There's going to be a lot of people that I
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: think are going to be retired that night before they
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: make it in. That's a problem if you're spending that
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: kind of money on a ticket. Graylin James, Old Dominion,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Sheryl Crow, Eric Church, Kenny Chesney. You could split that
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: bill in half and it would still be strong. Graylin James,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know that name, but he's
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: a hell of a songwriter.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: He's written hits for Jelly Roll and Jordan Davis and
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: all kinds of people.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: That's just wild. All right, so, Dolph, we're talking about,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: you know, the main theory of our show is 90%
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: of being a fan is getting kicked in the cup. Well,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: this is a 10% day. You get to just enjoy
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: surfing through the videos. I see Hunter walking through the clubhouses.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: They're spraying champagne. It's just cool.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: And was he dressed in something that he didn't mind
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: getting soaked?
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I think he knew. Yeah, I think he knew. I
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: know Sophia was wearing a raincoat, but she got just doused.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: It did not matter. It did not matter. She got
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: absolutely soaked. I think protecting your eyes is probably the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: most important thing, right? You know, with the goggles.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Is that from the burn of the champagne or the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: popping of the corks? I never, I was never sure.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I think some of it is
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: just to look cool. Like, cause I get it. It
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: does burn when it gets into your eyes, but that
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: is part of the fun. The, the real deal with
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: the goggles is they got to get some kind of
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: sponsor on there, right? Like that, that's gotta be a
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: big time sponsor deal. And then let's just act like
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: absolute 10 year olds for as long as possible. And
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: you could tell last night, they're like, wait, We're already
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: out of our Kirkland brand champagne. Can somebody go get
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: us some more? Are they actually closed at 1030 at night?
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: I did notice a lot of nice product placement for
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: ice cold Miller Lite.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: The jumbo size cans making their way through the clubhouse.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the 24s. Billy said that already. You got to
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: go with the bedwetters if you're going to have a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: night like that. You might as well. Well, obviously, a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: nod to the Milwaukee Roots and to Uke.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: And I have the Miller and I had wondered if
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: it was a little bit of a Jordan covering up
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the Reebok logo and wanting everybody, you know, because a
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: lot of for a long time, this was always a
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Budweiser pumped in by Major League Baseball.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And the Brewers are like, excuse me. Yeah. Some control
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: over that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: In my opinion, legendary moments start with a light. That
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: was a legendary moment. That was started with a lot
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: of lights.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Last night, you know, and props Dan Heiser Bush for
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: getting that done. But this is one town out of
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: the 30 in major league baseball.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: That it's, it's, you gotta be a Miller.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Well, that's why I think it's why I'd fired so
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: many people up when they stopped serving it at Pfizer.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: That was a big, the controversy.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Remember, remember when they put that huge, massive bud billboard, right?
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: outside Miller Park. It was right on the freeway.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I was like, wow. Bud's really making inroads in Milwaukee.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Is it true they brought their own beer, Drew, to
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: the 82 World Series so they wouldn't have to drink
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Bud in St.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Louis? That was always the rumor, all those funny... I'm
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: not sure, but I did see the shot of the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: champagne being delivered to the Brewers Clubhouse last night. That
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: getting walked in was beautiful. They were holding it in
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: a storage unit because they didn't want, I guess, superstition.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: They didn't want anybody to walk by and see it
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: or something. That's fair. Or keep it cold. Hunter had that.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: That was awesome. I love that.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: How many times have you seen stories where everything's on ice,
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: ready to go, and then a team melts down?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, get it away. Get it out of here. Get
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the plastic off the lockers. Oh, Major League II, that happened, too. Oh, yeah,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Major League II. Yeah, there have been a few of
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: those where they had everything ready for the celebration, and then, oh,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: not so fast. Yeah.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: So does every party have a guy that somebody yells
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: put a leash on and put him back in his
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: cage as they did to William Contreras when he grabbed
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: the fire hose last night and started dousing everybody?
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: That's amazing. He's a fireman or fireman bill. He's spraying
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: everybody with the hose after they took the team picture
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: on the mound with the flag. McGill should have brought
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the L flag just to make the Cubs fans even
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: more pissed.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Well, because they right at the end, it was just
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: as they're about to sign off on Brewers TV. And
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody got the video, but Abner
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Uribe gets interviewed by Sophia Minnert. She signs off. He
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: runs back and goes, wait, wait, wait. We got a
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: message that we want to say to the Cubs. And
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden they cut the feed.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I must i missed that it was right at the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: it was the last thing they did in the in
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the clubhouse amazing and levering goes okay let's take that's
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: amazing we're gonna grab that probably good we didn't have
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: that one on tv.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: I did enjoy i assume it was it was levering
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: and uh and dillard they had the feed before the
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: locker room did so they're doing the play-by-play of the
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: cubs losing oh.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: These guys aren't gonna see it for another minute and a.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Half or whatever and then finally we see the locker
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: room celebration.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I also did like that the like any good party after, uh,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: after they figured out what the game was, they just
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: turned down the office. There's one TV while they're in
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: there celebrating. There's an episode of the office just playing
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: on the one TV that's still on, not covered up.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Like everybody left the party. The people there trying to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: go to bed. It's just chill out, hang out time.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it feels like when you wake up and
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden that load music on Netflix is
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: just sitting there still watching.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess three guys watching jackass clips on YouTube,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: you know, Same old thing.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: So today, I'm sure they had a nice celebration, but
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: then the boys had to go to bed because, you know,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: normally this is a day you put everybody in the
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: bench in the game, but you're too up on the
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Dodgers with a lot to play for yet.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: That's true. The bye is going to happen. Do you
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: think the Dodgers don't really care? Do they finish one, two, like?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: probably not it'd be nice but they're not gonna care
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: one two they're not gonna kill themselves to try to
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: beat the pass the brewers and get home field like
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: no i do think they would want to not be
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: in that three game right like i think they're they're
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the one they'll quest for would be the one to
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: be second and they yeah they're happy being second like
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: they don't really does it matter one two no as
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: i recall they won a game seven in milwaukee.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah they did well and i think that that's one
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: of the the sneaky parts of the baseball playoffs is,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: is the second place spot actually the best one to
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: have where you don't have to ever get back on
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the plane and you get three at home right after
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: you play two on the road with a two, three,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: two format.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: It's different. Yeah.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: As far as being the, if there, if the Brewers
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: are the two seed, you're going to get a tough
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: opponent regardless in the next round. It's what Phillies against
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Cubs Braves against whoever is that other wild card. The
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Dodgers now lead the Braves by what, three, three and
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: a half, something like that?
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: It was three and a half yesterday. And both teams won.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: So it's a three and a half game lead with
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: 11 to play.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Well, and to your point, I think we made it
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Billy yesterday. I think the interesting thing is, you know,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: we've talked so much about who the third starter is,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: but maybe the way the playoff schedule works out, would
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: you need a fourth guy or at least a guy
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: ready to go a few innings to start the game?
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Once you go both pen, Mike, which has had the question,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: who's the three behind Ms. And Henderson, maybe Gosser, maybe
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: May is four. I think those are the questions to
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: be worked out now on the next coming day.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: I also, and I hope I don't jinx anything, but
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: I peeked ahead and you guys may have talked about this,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: but the, if they win one series, the NLCS starts Sunday,
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: October 11th, which is also Packers. Are you kidding me?
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: 25 kick Packers bears, which.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Means, wow.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: Hopefully it's going to be a 730 game.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: No, I know exactly what window that is. That's the
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Packers OT window. Son of a gun, Drew. Don't they
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: know that they want to listen to us after the game?
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: It's everyone's favorite part of the game. Now, again, we
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: got to get there. We got to get to the
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: NLCS first.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: But that's a potential small good problem to have.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Well, the even better problem is going to be, you know,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Dolph is going to have to– wipe the champagne out
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: of his eyes for october 31st because the brewers are
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: going to win the world series on october 30th right
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: then it's going to be badgers in iowa they're on
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: on the 31st i.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: Didn't know that date so interesting so uh we're not
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: going to play november baseball this year.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: No game seven of the world series on halloween okay
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: so whether they're wrapping that thing up if necessary on
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: the 31st interesting brewers in six has a nice little ring.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: To it either way and i mentioned like the brewers
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: are there it's a foregone conclusion just like the division
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: to me they're going to finish top two Because I
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: just don't see the Braves making up five games in ten.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: You're five games back with ten to play. I don't
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: see it. And I don't know who they're playing, but
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: with the Brewers. Braves have the Phillies, I think, too. Yeah,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: they played them last weekend. They closed with the Marlins. No,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: it's Cubs, Astros, Reds, and Marlins. But Marlins are pesky.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: They just gave one to the Diamondbacks in extra innings
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: last night. It looked like the Diamondbacks were going to pick.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Up another game. On that wild card chase, they would
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: have won last night. They would have only been three
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: and a half, I believe, back of Chicago for that
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: last wild card spot. So it's closing in here in
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: the last week and a half.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Also, side baseball. Did you see the Pete Alonzo? Home
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: run last night.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Followed by the curtain call and then the Fire Stearns chants.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful ring right into it. It's like a
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: band at a concert when they're like, you know what?
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: We're not going to do a little speaking interlude in
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: between these songs. Just rip right into it with the
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: verse chord.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, the magic number for clinching a bye is six.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Six for a bye, nine for the one save. Yep.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: So to me, it's like that's a done deal. They're
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: going to beat them. We'll finish it up, yeah. They're
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: going to get a bye. I don't know, one or two.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: It'd be nice to finish one. So you have eight
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: games left on the road trip. Go four and four,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: and you're going to clinch the bye.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Like we've said, you win the series, you don't have
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to play. And by bypassing that, that's a win. Now
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the question is, if you do wrap up the bye,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: or do you wait until best record, or do you
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: have another champagne celly or just another toast? What are
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: we doing? You've got to have a toast if you
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: win 100 games for sure. For sure. Right? I think
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: you do.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe you don't go full Fireman Bill and start spraying
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: everybody with the hose.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Special gear. But you've got to enjoy something. I don't
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: know if they will. A special shirt? I don't think
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: there's another shirt.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: That's interesting, though, because the franchise has never won 100 games.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Would there be a banner hung if you win 100
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: ballgames for the first time ever?
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: You sure could. Just make sure we do it on
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: opening day next year. Let's not put that up before.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: They never hung a 106 for the 2002 Brewers. Thank God.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I bet there's some Brewer fan in the state that's
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: got one. Only once in their history have they lost
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: 100 games. That was it. They've never won 100. Let
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: me tell you something.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: If they win 100 and there's games left, I want
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: them to tank the rest to keep it at 100.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: And then you make the shirt called Keep It 100
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: 2026 Brewers.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: In the olden days, though, they had years where they
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: won 95 or 98 games and just finished like third.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I was going to say third in the division. 79 Brewers.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Didn't they win like 95? Yeah, they won 95 and never.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: And they lost the division by eight games. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: those were the days. I didn't even look.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: How many division champions is this total for the Brewers
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: if you go back to the 80s?
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: 12 total playoffs, but I'm trying to think of division titles. Well,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: 82 they won it, right?
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, 81 was a second-half title because they had the split.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: That's right, yeah, 82.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Depends how you look at that one. They're sixth NL
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Central title, I believe.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, so six division titles pretty much, or, well,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: seven total. Right, seven, because they won one. So, yeah,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: seven division titles. So it's not anything to poo-poo. We're
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: celebrating it. Yeah. Might as well. Yeah, I mean, this
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: is their era, obviously. Five of the last six. No question.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: The Yellich era has been the golden age of Brewers
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: baseball since 2018. Yelly and Woody, the only two holdovers
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: since 2018. That's right. Absolutely. Dolph, thanks for popping in.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it, as always. Armin, who won the tickets? Scott
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: and Greendale. Way to go, Scott. Way to go, Scott.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Enjoy the show September 26th at Alpine. We'll have another
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: pair to give away tomorrow, and then we'll have some
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: concert tickets to give away on Friday that you're really
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: going to enjoy, I think. Those are fantastic. Keep it
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: right here for that. Hunter's going to join us. We
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: have our superhero. He might be our superhero of the day,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart, just drying his clothes from all the champagne.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to him coming up after 7. Bill Schroeder
• 34:07
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• 34:15
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• 34:19
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• 34:25
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• 34:27
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• 34:31
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• 34:46
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• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Hunter had occasion last night to speak to Brewer's principal owner,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Mark Atanasio. And Milwaukee resident now? That's the rumor. Wisconsin resident?
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't hear. I was doing something. I walked out
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: of the room, and he said that during the broadcast
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: with Levin and Dilley. He already is a Milwaukee resident.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: In that he owns a home. I was going to
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: say he owns a spot. A nice condo in downtown,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a two-story penthouse. No shack. But if he wants to
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: move here, then maybe be closer to the grandkids. I
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: don't know. But in any event, Hunter talked to Mark Adonazio.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Take it away, Hunter.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: You had said on the broadcast, you know, we're thinking
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: back to 2005 and getting to 500 here in this ballpark.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Week.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: We had to win one of the final two games,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and we lost them both.
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: We had Champagne just like this in 2005, just to
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: get to 500.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: And now it's.
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: Division title, first time ever, if you heard Murph say,
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: in the NL Central, a team has won four times
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: in a row.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: That's since 1994.
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: Pretty unbelievable. What is it about this team that you're
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: able to keep doing it with the way that you
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: build a club year after year? I think the credit
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: goes to everybody who works, you know, in the organization,
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: the baseball ops people who pick the players, the manager
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: and coaches, all the way down through the system. So
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: guys like Luis Lara and Cooper Pratt, when they come here,
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: they're ready to play Major League Baseball, even though they're
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: only 21 years old.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: So I think it's a credit to.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: All the staff, manager, coaches, and, of course, Matt and
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: his team.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Does this.
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: Team feel any different to you than any of the
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: other ones?
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: You know, Murph touched on it where this year we
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: didn't sneak up on anybody. And last year, frankly, I'm
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: not sure we expected it. This year we did expect
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: it as we finally got our footing. And, you know,
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: we all expected to be here. And, you know, this
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: is just step one to what the team wants to accomplish.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: How about how high the standard is now set here to,
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: you know, fourth straight division title? That's the standard you
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: guys have set now.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: You know, it's something that you get a playoff spot
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: now when you have like a champagne toast and.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Go back to work.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: And tomorrow, by the way, these guys will be ready
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: to play. I love that we set that standard. I
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: love that we have all those banners. But now we
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: need to make the next step this year. Make the
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: next step and, you know, win the National League.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Brewers principal owner Mark Adonacio in the scrum, in the
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: belly of the beast. Hunter Baumgart bringing us that auto.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: He also talked to Matt Arnold, the general manager and
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: architect of the roster. Let's listen to that.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: I'll tell you what, it's a special group. We've been
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: talking about that for all year, frankly. I'm just hoping
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: Sal doesn't put his cigar out on my neck like he.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Did last year.
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: I got a scar for life from that one, but
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: I'll wear it like a champ. No, it's a special
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: group and a good group of people, and that's where
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: it starts and ends for us, honestly. It's just the
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: guys in the room that do an incredible job, the
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: people that that are watching our game tonight at Third
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: Street Market Hall that work in our front office. You know,
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: the people in the Dominican Republic that are watching it.
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: It just means so much to everyone in this organization.
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: We're all proud to be a part of it.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: And the support of just how the team has come
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: together and the team supporting each other in every different
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: role that these guys have played throughout the season.
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they pick each other up every night. You know,
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: you see it where if somebody doesn't do their job,
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: it's okay. It's just pass it towards the next guy.
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: You know, Murph preaches that, and it's a real thing, honestly.
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: The guys believe in each other. to do what they
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: can just to, you know, put the best foot forward
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: every single night. And it's just a really special group.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: As this team, we talked to Merv about this. I
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: don't want to say defined by you, but there's been
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of young distributors who.
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: Have really stepped up.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's youth in there, but there's a lot of
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: guys with a lot of experience too, you know. And
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: I've just been through a lot, you know what I mean.
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: And it's so important to have just the balance that
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: we have, guys that have done it, you know, a
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: long time, guys that are brand new here, You know,
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: it's just a really good mix, and, again, I'm excited
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: for what they're about to do.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: How about your manager winning a third straight division title
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: as the manager?
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: It's incredible. Yeah, he's the man, and he's a special
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: guy to be around. You guys see it every day.
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: You know, he lives and breathes it. He's the first
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: guy at the ballpark. He's the last guy to leave,
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: and nobody cares more than Pat Murphy.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: On our Baumgart, our current electric superhero of the day,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: getting us that sound, asking the questions, dodging the champagne sprays.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: So good.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: And Matt Arnold, man, he, uh, he said it was Sophie.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: He's like, I'm just so, I'm so glad to just
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: be a small part of this brother. You're a little
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: bit more than.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: A small part.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: A little bit more than a small part. He is
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: as good of a deflector as there ever has been.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Very true. It's impressive.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he remains pretty humble when it's pretty obvious what
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: his role has been. You know, you see Stearns leave
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: and struggle where he struggled, and the importance of what
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Matt Arnold has done has been becoming more and more obvious,
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: and he's stayed.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Humble about that. So, Sal... So Sal put the cigar
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: out in his neck. Well, he didn't put it out.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I think it was just accidental burning or something. You
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: just got to wake up and let everybody know. That's
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: like when somebody would fall asleep.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: And it was their turn. You know, it's puff, puff,
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: burn if you're not going to wake up and grab it.
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