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10/07/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and salutations. Welcome to the 7 o'clock club. The Huddle,
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin, Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Brewers lose last night. There will be a game four
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  Speaker 1: this evening. Waking everybody up. That's right. It'll be another
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: late night. Earlier this week was, if I'm not mistaken, yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: We heard from my pal Rhett Miller, who's going to
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  Speaker 1: be playing a show at Shank Hall. Well, they've moved
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  Speaker 1: that show up. Start time is now 7 o'clock for
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  Speaker 1: the opening act. And Rhett Miller should be done expeditiously
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  Speaker 1: at like 9.15, 9.30 so people can have the doubleheader
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  Speaker 1: and watch the back end of the Brewers-Padres game.
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  Speaker 2: That's perfect. He'll get off the stage. Brewers will have
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  Speaker 2: a 2-0 lead after the first inning.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 2: When Bryce Terang laces a two-run double off of the
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  Speaker 2: right field wall.
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  Speaker 1: Manifested.
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  Speaker 2: Gets himself out of a slump, rolls this thing through,
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  Speaker 2: and gets some pucker factor over onto the other side.
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  Speaker 2: I do like that, Drew, and I wonder how much
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  Speaker 2: of that planning... goes into events now into October. You
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  Speaker 2: do have to just have the fail-safe, don't you? I
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  Speaker 2: like the fact that it's Brewers where a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times brides and bands would only be thinking of, well,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to get out of the way of Packers games.
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  Speaker 2: Now that you're forcing the hand of there being another
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  Speaker 2: sport and it being late, you've got to have some
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  Speaker 2: of those secondary options. So that's very, very cool of
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  Speaker 2: Rhett and the boys to be able to speed that
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  Speaker 2: thing up.
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  Speaker 1: That's the guy that gets it right there. Also a
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  Speaker 1: good prelim.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're going to have yourself feeling really good
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  Speaker 2: rolling into the game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to do a nap and do
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  Speaker 1: the doubleheader. Smart move. Get your time filler there.
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  Speaker 4: That way you can get something, you know, entertain yourself
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  Speaker 4: while you're waiting because, you know, the waiting is the
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  Speaker 4: hardest part.
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  Speaker 1: And we have to wait a half hour longer tonight,
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  Speaker 1: but it does, you know, Hey, it felt like what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing. It's felt terminally long. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I tried the, uh, I, I didn't try the nap yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I do think I'm going to try. Yeah, me either.
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  Speaker 2: I tried, uh, I actually tried to go complete opposite
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  Speaker 2: and just overload with sugar with a DQ blizzard.
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  Speaker 1: During the afternoon. It didn't work. Tasted phenomenal. Didn't work
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  Speaker 1: very well.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I did a nap, but it's still like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if you can do one during the day,
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  Speaker 4: that's great, but you're still waking up and you're six
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  Speaker 4: hours away. And it's like, you know, you got a
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  Speaker 4: lot to do at that point. You know, it's like
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  Speaker 4: you got a lot of time to fill. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's no question you're fighting it. But, hey, maybe you're right, Billy.
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  Speaker 4: If the Brewers can give us those early runs... Gosh,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't it feel like a dam's about to break with
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  Speaker 4: this offense? I keep feeling that way. But then again,
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  Speaker 4: it's wishful thinking in the playoffs to sit there and say,
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  Speaker 4: you know, maybe we can just get a six or
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  Speaker 4: seven run inning here and blow this thing out and
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  Speaker 4: feel good about it. I do think that's wishful thinking.
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  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: But it just feels like there's some sort of offensive
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  Speaker 4: dam about to break. Like we're going to get a
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  Speaker 4: couple dingers with guys on or maybe just a three
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  Speaker 4: run spot here or there. It feels like the Brewers
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  Speaker 4: are putting enough pressure on to be able to do
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  Speaker 4: something like that. So maybe tonight's the night. You kind
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  Speaker 4: of hope that they can get after San Diego's pitching
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  Speaker 4: a little bit here. You have to think the Brewers
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  Speaker 4: are in a better position in terms of their staff
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  Speaker 4: rest-wise than San Diego is after game three.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we hope. Well, Brewers bullpen, though.
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  Speaker 3: In general.
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  Speaker 1: Rebay, Sensatella, they got guys that they probably don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go to tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say, Drew, what do you
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  Speaker 2: think the workload is after last night? It's not like
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  Speaker 2: they got super taxed. However, you did go to about
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  Speaker 2: five or six guys. I would anticipate they want... big
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  Speaker 2: work out of Patrick and Gasser and then everything else.
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  Speaker 2: But Ashby, I would anticipate for at least three outs tonight,
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  Speaker 2: at least like he's not six.
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  Speaker 1: I would think he's going to be, he's going to
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  Speaker 1: factor in big time as well.
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  Speaker 2: And then you just wonder how much of it will
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  Speaker 2: end up being because of the lineup and where they
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  Speaker 2: think that they can attack this, this group.
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  Speaker 1: They're good. up and down. Last night, it was the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the order, though.
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  Speaker 2: Cronenworth's home run, and then them setting the table for
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  Speaker 2: the top half, and Bogart's getting on to be able
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  Speaker 2: to score.
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  Speaker 1: That's a line that.
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  Speaker 5: Comes at you.
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  Speaker 1: I think Romero is off the shelf tonight, probably. That
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  Speaker 1: sounds right. He's almost two innings. Drone's going to pitch,
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  Speaker 1: I think. Uribe only threw seven pitches in his inning,
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  Speaker 1: so that wasn't bad. He'll be ready to roll. If
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  Speaker 1: it lines up that way, if you need somebody in
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  Speaker 1: the eighth, Uribe, it's not like they have to have
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  Speaker 1: McGill go six outs. Six, do an amazing other thing.
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  Speaker 1: You shouldn't have to.
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  Speaker 4: But you can give you a, I think you can
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  Speaker 4: give you a fourth one if you really need it.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a, I think you're right. It's
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  Speaker 1: a Gasser-Patrick-Droen game, maybe? And figure out where, yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: then slot Ashby in on the back end. and maybe
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  Speaker 1: lay off Uribe, depending on if it's righties, lefties, who
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  Speaker 1: we've got to face. I was going to say, and
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  Speaker 1: luckily tomorrow's an off day, right?
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  Speaker 2: That does help you knowing that tomorrow's an off day
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  Speaker 2: before it'll be all hands on deck in game five.
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  Speaker 2: We did have a hot take on here that our
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  Speaker 2: friend Armin Sarian bashed right out of the gates. Our
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  Speaker 2: friend Steve said, here's my hot take. Miz is starting tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Dude, come on.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Well, guys, it's a hot take.
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  Speaker 2: We can't ask for hot takes and then immediately just
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  Speaker 2: be salty.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, if it's a hot take prediction, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be wrong. If you're saying your hot take
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  Speaker 1: is Miz should start tonight, show your work. Why do
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  Speaker 1: you think that's advantageous as opposed to holding him for
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  Speaker 1: a game five potential, you know, we got to win
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  Speaker 1: or save our arses or game one of the NLCS. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: I get that. Show your work. What makes tonight the
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  Speaker 1: game you got to get that you'd employ the big gun?
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you watched what Sale did of throwing on
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  Speaker 2: his bullpen day, King threw on his bullpen day, you've
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  Speaker 2: seen a lot of guys go, Yamamoto did it multiple times.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you not start it?
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  Speaker 1: With Ms.
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  Speaker 2: To get Tatis Merrill Machado, then roll into the back end.
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  Speaker 2: If he's going to throw the 20 pitches for his bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: Now that probably would have been yesterday because of how
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  Speaker 2: it would line up. But that would have been mine.
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  Speaker 2: Like if that, if, if I got to show my work,
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  Speaker 2: I would have wanted him to face Machado Tatis and
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  Speaker 2: Merrill one more time and get you in, get you
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  Speaker 2: through those first three guys and then roll it.
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  Speaker 1: That is a.
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  Speaker 4: More interesting strategy. Do one inning and And take your
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  Speaker 4: chances there. Although, I think the other thing you'd say is, look,
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  Speaker 4: we think there's value in not letting this team find
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  Speaker 4: their way to shore at all. We want to keep
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  Speaker 4: them to deep water. We want to try and drown
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  Speaker 4: them early. You tried last night. You couldn't do it.
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  Speaker 4: And you try and drown them tonight with Miz and
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  Speaker 4: not even let them see a game five and give
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  Speaker 4: themselves confidence.
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  Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember Trevor McGill starting a game
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Game five, yeah. Yes, which was a choice.
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  Speaker 1: It worked. Worked pretty well, yeah. It was a choice.
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  Speaker 1: But with Miz, again, the danger zone to me, asking
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  Speaker 1: people to do stuff that they didn't do during the
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  Speaker 1: regular season doesn't always work. Worked for the Padres last night.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have a lot of options. Their two main
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  Speaker 1: guys on the back end were unavailable for duty. So
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  Speaker 1: that was kind of a desperate time. Whereas the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: have plenty of options other than Miz. And it's his
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  Speaker 1: bullpen day, but he doesn't usually, I don't think he
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  Speaker 1: throws 104 in his bullpens. Like he would with the
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  Speaker 1: crowd and everything.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, he's going to throw 20 pitches. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not humping up in between. He's had this
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  Speaker 1: thing where it's worked and I'm like, leave that guy
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  Speaker 1: alone and save him for game five or game one.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, let him be fresh for that and
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  Speaker 1: focus on that.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't, again, I don't disagree, but I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if you want me to show my work, I'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you exactly why I would want those guys to have
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  Speaker 2: to face him one more time.
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  Speaker 1: Cause I, yeah, you can wait it for game five
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  Speaker 1: and hold on to it for game five. Absolutely. For
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  Speaker 1: game one.
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  Speaker 2: I totally get that. But I think game one is
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  Speaker 2: still going to be on Sunday regardless.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, whether or not they win, if your
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  Speaker 2: concern is to set a tone in the first inning,
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  Speaker 2: Dustin may did that.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't give up a run in the first inning.
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  Speaker 1: It's true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm talking about trying to get the 27.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as much of a set. I need to
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  Speaker 2: get those guys out. And again, then he's still on
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  Speaker 2: regular rest for game one of the NLCS if, to
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  Speaker 2: Armin's point, I'm finishing it tonight and I'm throwing my
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  Speaker 2: best guy tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You say that, but is he on regular rest? Because
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  Speaker 1: like I said, his normal 30, 40, 50 pitch bullpen
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  Speaker 1: isn't getting ready to throw in front of 47,000 screaming
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  Speaker 1: zealots with the pressure of a game. I understand it, Drew,
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  Speaker 1: but again, this is the.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Look at around all of these teams now. Sale has
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  Speaker 2: come out of relief. They brought Snell out of relief.
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  Speaker 2: They brought Yamamoto out of relief again. So everybody does it.
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  Speaker 2: It wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world. But again,
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  Speaker 2: you're saying starting a game. You want Miz to start it.
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  Speaker 2: So you're saying it's.
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  Speaker 1: More likely for Miz. But I'm talking about three outs.
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  Speaker 2: So whether that three outs is in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the game or in the beginning of the game, it's
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  Speaker 2: the same three outs, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to get himself ready to go in the
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  Speaker 2: same buildup for either one.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're going to deploy Miz at any point
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  Speaker 1: during this game, would you do it in the first inning? When,
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  Speaker 1: you know, again, Dustin Maythorpe, there aren't that many runs
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  Speaker 1: scored in the first inning, statistically. You would deploy him later.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to use him, I would use him
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  Speaker 1: later in the game. You could do that.
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  Speaker 3: Not to open.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. That's why I'm saying the logic
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  Speaker 1: is flawed to say start Mews on his bullpen day. Like, okay.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: But then you would pitch him tonight. So you'd have
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  Speaker 1: him ready to go tonight. No, it's situational because if
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  Speaker 1: it's the 11th inning and we scored two in the
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  Speaker 1: top and our other guys have been chewed up, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I break the glass there and let him throw his ball.
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  Speaker 1: Like I would have him throw his ball, but after
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  Speaker 1: the game, in case of that, and they generally do
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  Speaker 1: that in the playoffs anyway, but I still think that's
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  Speaker 1: with all the options they have and all the other guys,
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  Speaker 1: I think the, again, like the, the idea of the
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  Speaker 1: opener was to have your starter pitch deeper into the
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  Speaker 1: games and stuff. And like the first guy, like Dustin
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  Speaker 1: may have, who gasser any of those guys could throw
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  Speaker 1: a scoreless first.
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  Speaker 2: Very much very much good that worried about you know
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  Speaker 2: i want my if but if again if i'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: throw him and i know he's gonna throw i want
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  Speaker 2: him to go up against the best guys and so
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  Speaker 2: i don't know if that's gonna be we're down three
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  Speaker 2: one into the seventh inning well then i'd miss my
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to go to him when tatis machado and merrill
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  Speaker 2: come up so like i do get it of let's
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  Speaker 2: save it for the better time and it's always be
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: a better spot, but you don't always know that that
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: one's coming just like in game two. And again, I'm,
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  Speaker 2: bad manager because I would have pinch hit Vaughn in
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  Speaker 2: the seventh inning instead of the ninth inning in game
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  Speaker 2: number two. So again, I don't know that I would
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  Speaker 2: throw him, but I definitely would want him to be
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  Speaker 2: ready to roll.
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  Speaker 1: He said that he was ready to go anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm not against trying to find any opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to have my best guy thrown.
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  Speaker 1: It is an interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Idea to think, you know, we, we just, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to save them for those three guys or save them
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  Speaker 4: for that one inning, maybe multiple times in both games,
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  Speaker 4: instead of just committing to one traditional type start. That's
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  Speaker 4: interesting thought. And if he tells you, you can do it,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you got to trust your guy. It's sort
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  Speaker 4: of like, and the idea of using somebody when you can,
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  Speaker 4: when it works or when it's worth it, when you
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  Speaker 4: still have a chance, that's that whole idea. When, when
• 10:48
  Speaker 4: hater went in early in the game and game seven
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  Speaker 4: in 18, I think that was part of the idea too.
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  Speaker 4: We want to make sure not to waste our chance
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  Speaker 4: to use them in a leverage situation. What makes me
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: kind of nervous is if it's a short lead, or
• 10:59
  Speaker 4: a tie game or some situation like that. And you
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  Speaker 4: have to get through that tough part of the lineup
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  Speaker 4: and like the, say the fifth or the sixth withdrawing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that's the thing that makes me nervous. It's like,
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  Speaker 4: that's what I really thought. I was thinking like, you
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  Speaker 4: know what, Ms. Can I crank you up for one
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  Speaker 4: inning here? Cause I want to get through these guys
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  Speaker 4: with you instead of drone and then try and win
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  Speaker 4: the game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: That, that is a tempting idea. Now that one right there,
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  Speaker 1: I could see being.
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  Speaker 2: A better chance tonight. Seeing the mound, Jacob Mizorowski or
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Harrison.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I mean, unless we're up by 14 runs,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I'm sorry. Or if it goes extras. Well, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: You guys want to call here? We have a Tony
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  Speaker 4: with a question about the tag.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. All right, Tony. Hey, Tony, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the huddle.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, gentlemen. Um, so during yesterday's game, when
• 11:52
  Speaker 6: Cooper Pratt scores on that short fly ball, the right
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  Speaker 6: field or out of left field, um, Shouldn't have Sal
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: tagged and gone to third. Now, Sal's my guy. I
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  Speaker 6: love Sal. But I thought Sal should have tagged. And
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  Speaker 6: then he would have scored on that infield single. Just
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  Speaker 6: my thought. And then from what I understand, he had
• 12:18
  Speaker 6: that chance to steal home as well. later on in
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  Speaker 6: that same inning, but he didn't. So there's something about
• 12:27
  Speaker 6: that sequence there that, boy, that could have been handled better,
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  Speaker 6: in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? Thanks for the call, Tony. That
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  Speaker 1: ball was so shallow that the outfielder could have probably
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  Speaker 1: tagged Sal.
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  Speaker 2: I also wonder if there was part of it that
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  Speaker 2: Sal was more surprised than just as surprised of all
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  Speaker 2: of us that Cooper went.
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  Speaker 1: I think so, too. Yeah, I don't think he was
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  Speaker 1: anticipating that. Where's he going running up the guys? And
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  Speaker 1: what if Cooper Pratt puts the brakes on and goes back?
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  Speaker 1: It's like, that's a risky.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was risky for Pratt, and that's a longer distance
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  Speaker 1: away than the throw would have been. Also, Sal, I
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  Speaker 1: don't fault Sal for not advancing.
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  Speaker 2: No, because, well, and also Matt Erickson's probably the one
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  Speaker 2: calling for both of them.
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  Speaker 1: And like that, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that anybody was anticipating Pratt sending it home,
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  Speaker 2: just like Sal was there.
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  Speaker 1: At the corner.
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  Speaker 2: But again, you just got to get one more hit
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  Speaker 2: with the runner in scoring position. You had too many opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: So many guys. 11 men left on base last night.
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  Speaker 2: And keep knocking on the door. You're going to pop
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: those things through. Bob Nightingale did say late into the night.
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  Speaker 2: Maury Hone and Miller expected to be available for the
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  Speaker 2: Padres tonight. So they'll have all hands on deck. We'll
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: see how many of the Brewers' hands are on deck.
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  Speaker 1: 877-794-1973. Oh, by the way, our current electric superhero of
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: the day, he retired, Lane Johnson. Hey, man. Good on you, Lane.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: Tired and do not pass go. Just collect your gold jacket.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Best to ever do it. Two-time Super Bowler, two-time All-Pro, multiple,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: multiple Pro Bowlers. A dominant player. Only two-time All-Pro.
• 13:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: Only two-time All-Pro. Wow, that's crazy. Dominant player, though. One
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: of the best to ever do it. Joe Thomas with rings. Yeah,
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: and also a former quarterback.
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Juco quarterback, tight end.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: Quarterback, tight end.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: Turned offensive tackle. Turned tackle. Right tackle. And a damn
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: good one at that. Damn good. One of the best ever.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: He was fantastic. So he is our current electric superhero.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Call current.com, the website, to check them out. And they
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: have superheroes on the side of the van. Now that
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: we mention it, you're going to see them all over town.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: Damn straight. Damn straight.
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: And you're going to be smiling because you know somebody's
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: getting taken care of right now.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Admirals' home opener is Saturday night. That's part of the
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: stew of stuff that's going to happen this weekend in
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: the good land. El Jefe joins us next. You're in
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and Armand
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: bringing it to you. The huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison, everywhere on the iHeart app. We've
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: been talking a lot about the Brewers, their loss last evening.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Been talking about Packers-Bears, which is coming up. Badgers on
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: a bye. But, oh, the weekend's buffet of sports does
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: include the home opener for the Milwaukee Admirals.
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, president of that club
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: and friend of our program, El Jefe himself, John Greenberg,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: is with us.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: Hello, Greeny.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: Good morning, bleary-eyed sports fans.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed. I was thinking about it because we've been
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: talking about double-headers tonight. Rhett Miller's playing Shank Hall and
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: then the Brewers. You had a double-header last night, didn't you,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: watching the Preds play in Toronto and then the Brewers?
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and neither one ended up the right way. So,
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: you know, Preds had a Had a 3-0 lead and
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: lost 5-4, which is never good. Brewers just one big
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: hit away last night.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: I caught the highlights of the Preds game. They get
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: the lead, and they didn't hold the lead. I thought
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: to ask you, Greeny, what's more deflating? I think I
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: know the answer to this, but when you're playing overtime
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: and you lose 14 seconds in or 14 seconds from
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: the end of overtime, what's more deflating?
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: Frankly, probably the 14 seconds in because it was like
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: we just, you know, what happened?
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: What happened?
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: We just got up. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: But you got a point out of it.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: You got a point out of it. It's not a
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: point you feel very good about, but a point's a point.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: A point's a point. Well, all right. So the Admirals
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: winning their opener on Saturday night and the home opener.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: This is always exciting. You had people excited coming to
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: a preseason game not long ago. So what's the vibe
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: going to be like in Panther Arena at 6 o'clock
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: when you drop the puck on the home season?
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: It'll be very electric in there, and it's going to
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: be a lot of fun. I know our guys are
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: excited to get back in front of our fans and
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: play a game that matters. The preseason game was great.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: We had a handful of guys in that game who
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: are not on the team now, so now you get
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: the roster. Short of Matt Murray, who's now backing up,
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: you say Soros up in Nashville. This is going to
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: be our team, and We'll see where it goes, but
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: the guys are excited. I'm excited. This is my 20th.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: second home opener. So this is, uh, it never gets old.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: That's for sure.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: No, they really don't.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: And to be able to start up the year is
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: always fun and be to be there on Saturday night.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I'm very much looking forward to a greenie, but being
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: able to then know the kind of success that you
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: guys had, obviously in the stands and, uh, the entertainment
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: and the, the number of people through the doors last year, uh,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: were pretty historic and great for the organization, but on
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: the ice, uh, the success has been pretty impressive. That
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: also has to give you a different level of excitement
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: knowing that, you know, each and every year over the
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: last three or four, but not only competing, but one
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: of the last ones kind of standing and.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Fighting for it.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. Um, you know, there's nothing like making
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: the playoffs every year. Um, you know, that was something
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: that was foreign to me, frankly, in my time in baseball, uh,
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: you know, I left and they started winning, so they
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: probably should have got rid of me a long time
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: before that. It's been great to see the consistent success.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: willingness to win Nashville's commitment to giving us good players
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: to always be competitive. And that's a good thing. You know,
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: last year our playoff run was short and everybody did
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: not like that. So I really liked the way this
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: team was shaping up and I liked the way we
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: played last week and I think it's only going to
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: get better. So I think it's worth your time to
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: come out and check out our hockey team.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: You know, now with the, you mentioned our strong relationship
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: with Nashville, We got to get Coach Saban up here
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: now that he's a minority owner.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: In the National Predators.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: I mean, come on.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Let's get Saban up here.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Let's get some honey buns. Let's advertise for this documentary.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Get him up here and get the boys fired up.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: That would be nice.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Get him in here. Maybe interview the game hosts, right?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: That could work out.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: That's the worst. We could probably get him to maybe
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: do a little hype video for us. I think that'd
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: be a lot of fun.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: That would be phenomenal.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: As much as Armin in the email out from a
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: year ago will get people fired up, I do think.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Coach Saban has probably a better chance.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Now, Saturday night, season opener, the one to get the
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: tickets for right away, but October 16th, Hocktoberfest Stein Package,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: which is up at milwaukeeadmirals.com. That is a very cool one,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: and for folks that enjoy drinking a Pilsner... two or six,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I think they're going to want to check.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: This one out.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. Oktoberfest is something we've been doing the
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: last several years. Obviously, it's our little fun with Oktoberfest.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: And yeah, there's a ticket package that includes a Admiral's
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: beer stein. And this is the third different beer stein
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: that we've done. So you get that and then you
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: can go over to the old German beer hall around
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: the corner from us and get a free beer with
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: that with the ticket package, and then come to the game.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: We'll give you another free beer. So it's a lot
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: of fun with some German music, and we'll theme it
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: up and have some fun with it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Octoberfest, always a lot of fun. It kind of ushers
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: in hockey season in my mind. And I'll be there
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: for that one. I'm not going to wear Lederhosen, though.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: He's drawing the line.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Are you committed to the bid or not?
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, true.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Speaking of now, we know baseball players are superstitious. I
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: would have to think hockey community is, too, as much
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: as I remember. Because I saw Coach Taylor, Carl Taylor,
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: wearing the Brewers hat during practice. Now, that was ahead
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: of Game 3. So is he superstitious, do you think?
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Will he be donning Brewers gear at practice again? But
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: since they lost Game 3, What do you think Coach
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Taylor is going to do? If you know his personality, Greeny,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: what do you think?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've found Carl to be stitious. Not necessarily superstitious.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: My guess is he'll probably be getting into Avril's game
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: mode for the rest of the week. I will say
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: if there was one last night, we probably would have
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: told him he had to wear the hat. Exactly. Yeah,
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: so my guess is he'll be at Adderall's Gear for
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: practice this morning.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I love it. Armisen looking at it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: That's how I am, Drew. I might not be superstitious,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: just a little. Just a little.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Anything you can tease us with as far as game
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: production coming up on Saturday night? Greeny, anything exciting in
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the building?
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Well, hey, I'll tell you this. Development, you know, the
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: grab-and-go has become a common thing in sports facilities where
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: You don't necessarily have to wait in line for people
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: to serve you things like that. We've now got one
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: of those in Panther Arena, which we're very excited about.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: six-year-old building to be able to add new technology and
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: things like that to make that a possibility is a
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: heavy lift. So we're excited about that. It's located just
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: outside of Section 228 and brand new, nice and shiny.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: Come and pick your beverage out of the cooler. There's
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: some snacks on racks in there as well, and that'll
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: be debuting on Saturday night.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Racks of snacks. That's phenomenal. That's a bar. Racks of snacks.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: That sounds like a start of a song right there.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and a lot of new stuff. I was checking
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: out MilwaukeeAdmirals.com. A lot of great new gear in as well. Obviously, online,
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: if you're looking for all that gear, and I know
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: at the arena, a lot of new stuff every year.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: That's always exciting for fans. There's a lot of stuff. Greeny,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out with us. We appreciate it. Best
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: of luck on Saturday in the opener.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. Plenty of tickets available. No Brewers game on Saturday,
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: so come out and have some fun with us. You
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: never know who might show up.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: That is a good tease.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: That is a really good tease.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I can't wait. I cannot wait for Saturday night. Thanks, Greeny.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: You bet, guys.
• 22:58
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• 23:30
  Speaker 1: It's 536 in San Diego. And we welcome Hunter Baumgart,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: our Breaking of Dawn correspondent, on the Brewer's Beat for us. Hello, Hunter.
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: Hello, good morning, guys. It is 536, but we're ready
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: to talk some Brewers baseball. How about that? I guess
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: we're a little less happy. We're less chipper, I guess, because.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Of the loss.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was a taut game, a couple of
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: hard-hit balls by the Brewers. It was one of those
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: kind of just tip your cap, the other guys won games,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: wasn't it?
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that was mainly the sentiment in the clubhouse last night.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: We put ourselves in a lot of great scenarios, couldn't
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: come through. The Padres came through one more time than
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: we did, That was kind of the sentiment in the
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: clubhouse last night, and the Brewers had done that to
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: the Padres in the first two games. They came through
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: one more time than the Padres did in the first
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: two games.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: It has been.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: Incredibly close, incredibly intense. Each and every game has been,
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: it feels about the same. The Padres have been out
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: to a 2-0 lead in each game.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: The Brewers have.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: Come back to at least tie it in each game.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: So it has been kind of the same script, and
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: either team could have probably won all three games at
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: some point. If they would have blown it open, nobody
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: has yet. We'll see if tonight is a night where
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: one of these teams can blow it open, hopefully the Brewers.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: That's a good point, Hunter. At some point, it feels
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: like the dam is going to break, whether it's on
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: our side or theirs. And whether the other commonality between
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: the two games is the road team has left a
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: small village on the base paths, right? 20 in the
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: two games here for San Diego, 11 for the Brewers
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: last night. It's second-guessing the light for a couple of things,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: but when you go back to where you're at in
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: the lineup a couple of different times, Yelich gets the
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: first base hit. Are you surprised they didn't try to
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: apply more pressure on the base pads? Last night, San
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Diego steals two bases, gets thrown out one time. The
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: stolen bases lead to runs. Are you surprised the Brewers
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: didn't put anyone in motion with how many guys they
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: had on yesterday?
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it feels like obviously that's part of their success,
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: part of their game. So you're a little surprised. With
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: that as well, the Padres seemed like they had a
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: tell on Dustin May as far as going. It felt
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: like they knew when that guy was going to throw
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: to the plate and when he was maybe going to
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: try to pick him off.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: They were getting huge leads.
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: Whenever you have an opportunity to do that, you're obviously
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: going to try to take a base there because you
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: have a really good chance to do so. Contreras did
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: have another caught stealing later in the game, which was good.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: That's part of their bread and butter. Obviously, it's easier
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: to do that if you have the lead, if you
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: have the momentum. There's part of that there as well.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: And so that's, you know, when you're down to nothing
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: or in those scenarios, it's a little harder. But then again,
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: this team is really good at, at stealing a base.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: We were talking in the press box when Churio was
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: up and Hamilton was on first, do you try to
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: swipe it here? But then again, you don't want it
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: to take, you know, an at bat away from Jackson
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: Churio right now, considering the fact that he can put
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: one in the seats at any moment and give you
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: the lead.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: So, that, that is a debate for sure.
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: And maybe we'll see a little bit more of the
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: stolen base tonight, depending on how they feel about it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Hunter, you talked to a lot of guys in the clubhouse.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Obviously you talked to Bryce. Is there any, you know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: obviously he's been slumping, struggling to get it going here.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Any idea or a sense that his confidence is shaking
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: a bit, or has he kind of given you that
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: same stoic kind of Bryce terrain as he always does?
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: Very even keel Bryce terrain. I, and we talked to
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Pat Murphy about it before the game yesterday. And he said, no,
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: he's like, I, I like what we're seeing from Bryce
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Durang overall. He just needs the results. And obviously to
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: see one at least just fall, albeit a diving miss
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: in the outfield, hey, that's maybe what you need to
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: hopefully open the door for Bryce Durang. So, no, I mean,
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: he's going to keep battling, and that's what he said.
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: It's interesting because he finished the year very hot, hitting
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: very well. So it seems like he just kind of
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: lost the rhythm a little bit over the bye week.
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: And so hopefully he can regain that. And maybe last
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: night is the start to that. So I don't think
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: the confidence is shaken there. We didn't get a chance
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: to talk to Bowers or Mitchell. Those two have struck
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: out six of their 11 at bats in the playoffs
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: so far. So that is, I think if you're looking
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: at where the lineup and terrain was, was part of
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: the problem, I think in the first couple of games
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: and a little bit into last night, but the main
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: problem right now is, is those two, obviously they, you know, Mitchell, look,
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't say they both been a problem throughout the
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: whole entire series. Last night was obviously huge. Both of
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: them came up in some big spots and didn't come through.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: But when you have those six strikeouts and 11 at bats,
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: that means you're coming into scenarios where you maybe have
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: a runner on or a chance to advance a runner
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: or something like that, drive a guy in and you're
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: not even putting the ball in play. And that's the,
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: that's the tough part because in the playoffs, obviously every
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: run is huge and not putting the ball in play can,
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: can cost you. So that's a little bit concerning and,
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: and powers.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: Talking about a little in the press box last night,
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: we wonder if maybe those injuries are starting to catch
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: up with him a little bit. You're getting towards, obviously,
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: your sixth month into the season. You wonder how much
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: the shins are affecting him and everything. Obviously, we know
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: we can't really play the outfield. So how much is
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: that affecting his day-to-day? He had four strikeouts last night.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart joining us live from San Diego. Hunter, reading
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the tea leaves. Who's your guess? What does your gut
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: say for the Brewer starting pitcher? And did last night's
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: 40 pitches over two innings take Michael King out of
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the equation for the rest of this series?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: That was key. That was key.
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: Obviously, they didn't have more a hone or Mason Miller
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: last night. So that was why they go to King
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: there to save their season.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: And he did a nice job. You know, it was Tuesday.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be.
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: Shocked if King comes back for at least a short
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: time in game five. Hopefully there's not a game five
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: and we don't have to worry about that. But maybe
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: Michael King there has a chance to do so. But otherwise,
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: for tonight, for the Brewers, I would say Robert Gasser
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: would probably be my pick right now. But then again,
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: Brewers are in the same spot they were heading into
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: last night.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: They have all fours. of their length guys, right?
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: They have Patrick, Harrison, Drohan, and Gasser all ready to
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: go and haven't pitched yet in the series. We saw
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: Drohan doing some stretches in the bullpen. We saw Patrick
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: up at one point last night, but none of them
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: have gotten in the game because Gasser's been so consistent
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: and because he hasn't pitched yet. Like I thought maybe
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: last night, If you would have told me who's going
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: to pitch in this game, I would have thought Mayan
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: at least, like a Droen or a Gasser or someone
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: like that. But that didn't happen. So they're in a
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: good spot in that respect. I would think it'll be
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: Robert Gasser. We'll see. Padres have announced Walker Buehler. He
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: hasn't pitched in the postseason yet, so we'll see how
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: he does. He had a 4-6-3 ERA and a 9-6
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: record in the regular season. But I would think Robert
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: Gasser is my pick right now as far as who's
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: going to start tonight.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: So it could be like three guys going one time
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: through the order basically.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Could be, could be. I mean, you have the ability
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: to do that right now. Plus you.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: And you've used your leverage guys. You've used Abner three times.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: You've used.
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: Some of these guys a lot, and so you wonder
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: how much you want to try to get some innings
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: out of some other guys.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: They'll stay away from Romero tonight, and I think they
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: stay away from Uribe if they can, although he only
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: threw seven pitches last night.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: But at some point, you probably don't want them to
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: keep seeing him, right? As much as however many of
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: the pitches is, you just don't want that many eyes
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: on him. When you start to look at what they
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: might do offensively, obviously Luis Lara's shortly used in the postseason.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: We saw Cooper Pratt last night. Conversation after the game,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: what'd you take from him kind of owning the mistake?
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: And where'd you see that one? Because like Drew said,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: it hits the dirt, so it's got to be on
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: the throw. But you said next to Jake Bowers, I
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: think he's going to be stewing with himself for not
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: being able to make that pick.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, for sure. Absolutely.
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: It's probably on the guy who throws it. But then again,
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: like you said, Bowers is a guy who can pick
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: that and has picked that. And just didn't there, his defense,
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: but a little more shaky than we saw in the
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: regular season. In fact, I mean, obviously all their deep,
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: the whole team's defense has been a little more shaky
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: better last night, obviously than the three errors in game two,
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: but that's been something to watch. And, and, you know,
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: a wild pitch leads to a run, you know, just
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: different things that have happened defensively for the brewers that have,
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: have cost them again. And I said this yesterday, and
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: I'll continue to say it. The only way the Brewers
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: lose these games is if they beat themselves. And that's, again,
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: another example. I know the bat was flying, and you
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: had a runner in front of your face and all
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: of that. But you could tell Pratt was pretty mad
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: at himself last night for not making that play. And
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: he definitely thinks he should have made that play, obviously,
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: and gotten that throw higher. So is Bowers totally not
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: to blame? No, because as the first baseman, that's part
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: of your job, obviously. But at the end of the day,
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: Pratt's got to make that throw and kind of, you know,
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: maybe not rush it or not be as distracted by
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: what's going on in front of them. That obviously leads
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: to the eventual game winning run. So that's what makes
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: it even tougher. So, you know, and Pratt's learning, obviously,
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: the postseason thing. His at bats the last two games
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: have obviously looked better than they did the first one.
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: The first one, you could tell there was a little bit,
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: you know, as Pat Murphy said a little there, he's
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: a little amped up. Uh, but this, these last two,
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: even on the road last night, he had some good
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: at bats. Um, you know, the moment didn't seem too big,
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: just kind of rushed the throw there. So I like
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: what I'm seeing from him, Luis Lara.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: I mean, South Felix having a good series and he's
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: been impactful whenever he's been out there. So I, you know,
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: I would be tempted to keep going with him, you know,
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: but you know, if they, obviously if they face a lefty.
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: At some point, they might consider the Lara option.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: The juice Sal gives you now, there is something to
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: be said for it now. And you're right, Cooper hit
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: the ball hard. The whole team really did. 11 hits
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: on her. That's the irony of last night is probably
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: their best and most consistent at-bats with hard contact, getting hits.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: So you have to think as a team, they're going
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: to take confidence from that. I mean, they had 11 hits.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: They could have definitely had more last night.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: That was a main theme in the clubhouse for sure.
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: Bryce Durang mentioned it. Yelich mentioned it. Just the at-bats
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: up and down the lineup, they were good. They were
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: hitting a lot of balls hard, some great defensive plays,
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: whether it be Merrill or Bogarts or whoever was making
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: a good play out there and robbing them of some hits.
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: And so hopefully those find a way to fall because
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: if they do, boy, you're in a different scenario and
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: you might put up six runs in that game. And
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: then obviously it's a different result. So I think that
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: obviously gives the team confidence. They're having good at-bats against
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: these guys. They're seeing the bullpen more. The Padres had
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: to use everybody except their two big guns basically last
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: night in the bullpen. So that's good. And tonight we'll see.
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: It sounds like they're both going to be available tonight,
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: which does play a role. So you hope to get
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: out to an early lead. That was something last night.
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: Like the crowd... it was, you know, it felt a
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: lot like Milwaukee in the way that it was that
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: nervous energy that we, that the Brewers faithful had, and
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: especially down a couple of runs on Sunday, that was
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: kind of the energy you could feel. And I'm talking
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: with Kurt of the Kurt Hogan, the journal Sentinel. He's like,
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: this feels like last year, Wrigley where the Brewers didn't
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: get a lead, the cups, like, the Cubs fans were
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: nervous because you're down 2-0. So you start the game
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: kind of nervous. It was loud-ish, but it wasn't wild.
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: It only got super loud in the last few innings.
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: And you had a chance to kind of step on
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: it there and be able to kind of really take
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: them out of it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: If you would have scored first, they don't.
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: And I think that's kind of what leads to that
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: crowd being as lit up as they were towards the
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: end of the game.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: One of the greatest games I ever covered was a
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals in Madison Square Garden.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: They hadn't won since 1940. Right. But it wasn't as
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: loud as I thought it would be because there was
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: that fear.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: The nervous.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: It was a nervous. Yeah, it wasn't the same as
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: like a full-throated, let's get after it. It would be different.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Like when you have a chance to clinch and then.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Makes it a little different. Right, but those fans were
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: playing not to lose, and maybe there was an element
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: to that with the Padres fans. They'll be back at
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: it again tonight, and it'll be loud. I think for sure.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart's reports brought to us by Community Roofing. Visit
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: communityroofing.com for more information. Anything else you want to impart, Hunter?
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Anything else that we should be watching today? Obviously, the
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Padres stole some bases. People were saying they outbrewered the
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Brewers in a way with the infield hit that set
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: things up and the bunting and stealing. Anything else we
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: need to be watching? Any other themes you've detected?
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they played some good baseball. The Padres played some good,
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: you know, fundamental baseball last night.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Brewers did as well.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: Obviously, that send of Cooper Pratt by Matt Erickson was
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: really good. You know, trying to scrape out a run there,
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: make a play, knowing that the arm out there is
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: not great, you know, in left field and Harris comparatively, obviously,
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: to Merrill. So, you know, surprising that that didn't happen.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: or that Maryland catch that ball, but great send by
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: Matt Erickson and Cooper Pratt being able to get in there.
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: At first, you're thinking... I was thinking, like, send him
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: for sure, just make him make a play, but then
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: he got in there well... He was well safe, and
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: that was not expected when I first saw where that
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: ball was caught. So really, he was able to speed
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: down that line, and Brewers using their speed that they have.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: So something you may see... Who knows?
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: Maybe you do see a little more stolen bases tonight.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: And just again, they just have to come through with
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: these opportunities. They have an opportunity after opportunity in this postseason.
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: You want to continue. We can continue that. The one
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: thing that I said, I was I was thinking about
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: this yesterday. The Tatis Machado, they've been fine. They haven't
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: been great and they haven't had a moment yet. So
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: you want to continue that. Because, you know, those guys
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: are too good not to have a moment at some point.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: So I feel like you, you know, the longer the
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: series goes, the more opportunities you have, you know, are
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: giving them to have a moment. So hopefully they can
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: kind of keep them at bay coming up tonight, no
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: matter who is up on the mound and continue to
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: keep the Padres off the home run board. I know that,
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: you know, they've scrapped across some runs in some different ways.
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: But they only have one home run through three games,
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: and that's Cronenworth. I think that's a win for the Brewers.
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Because that team can hit home runs, obviously, more than
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: the Brewers.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: I agree.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. If those guys have moments, hopefully it's in
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: two weeks in Cabo.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, look at you. I like that.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: They've been cankering. Maybe they have a nice time and vacation.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I bet Jackson Merrill would have some fun in Cabo.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they all would.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Good looking guy.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: I assume he's doing all right. I assume he's doing
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: all right for himself. I assume that works out. Were
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: you guys in the press box able to avail yourself
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: and hear Pat Murphy's hot mic interview with Tom Verducci
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: in the Merrill moment last night? Or were you guys
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: too busy working to enjoy that little giggle that we
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: all got?
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: Oh, I saw it pop up on social media and
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: immediately had to dig into it.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. I mean, that's just That's him.
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: That is, you know, it's like, and I love how
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: he said it before he even caught it. I love
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: how it was.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: And he just a peek inside his mind. Sorry, Hunter,
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: just a peek inside instinct in his mind.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Before he even caught it, he knew it.
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: Was like, get, get in the gap for sale. And then, oh,
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: you know, and then what he says, but it, it, then,
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: you know, he hasn't even caught it yet. And he,
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: you know, he, he just knows that he's tracking it
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: and Meryl's going to do what he does out there. So, Yeah,
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: that was that's that's Pat Murphy for you. You know,
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: that's in the last night after the game saying, you know,
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: let's I know they've you know, they've lost now. They
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: haven't won a road playoff game since 2018. He's like, hey,
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: let's not beat up the old brewers. OK, you know,
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: let's let's let's let's not get on those those of
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: the past.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: So beat up Ulysses. That is tough. That is tied
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: for now. A major league record. How can that be?
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: We have to break that.
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, we got to.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: That's what they say.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. saying.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: He's a little good this playoffs. He can break a streak, too.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Line drives all over the place. I know, I know.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Anything else?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Any parting words for us, Hunter?
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: Pre-game show at 8 o'clock tonight from San Diego again.
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: We'll hear from a bunch of players and Pat Murphy
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: on Fox Sports 920.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: So when they win tonight, have you planned? Are you
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: going to join us in the first hour and just
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: not sleep? Or are we going to tie up in
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: the back end?
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Pause.
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: That's a really good point because I do fly out.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: I do, yeah. We'll be in touch.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, good, good.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: I just want to know.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: We might have no sleep, Hunter. That'll be fun.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: You just tell me either way what you want to do.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: You just tell me either way.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: We're going to figure it out. One way or the other. Hunter,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: enjoy yourself. Thanks for the report.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Thank you, guys.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart, live from San Diego. Boots on the ground.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: You can see him realizing it as we talked about it. Oh, yeah,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: you're right, guys. We're halfway through our final week patrolling
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the mornings. If you missed the memo, we're going to
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: 2 to 5 p.m. beginning Monday, huddling up in the afternoon.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: But we're going to get after it. We'll be back
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: after it tomorrow, 5 a.m., hopefully talking about Champagne Dreams.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: See you then.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: Peace!