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10/20/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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  Speaker 3: We know exactly what we got to do.
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some tail.
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  Speaker 6: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 1: We got some big plays coming.
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  Speaker 4: What the hell's going on out here?
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  Speaker 1: Yellow Weasel.
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  Speaker 3: We're calling the plays, all right?
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  Speaker 5: It is time.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you think you are?
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen.
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  Speaker 4: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he commanded
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  Speaker 4: your respect.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Schmidt.
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  Speaker 2: That son of a gun is thick.
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  Speaker 1: And Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 2: Daddy Sarian.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the huddle indeed. It's the Tuesday edition.
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  Speaker 5: Broadcasting live from headquarters on 920 in Milwaukee, 1070 Madison.
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  Speaker 5: x and youtube i'm drew wilson joined by mr bill schmidt.
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  Speaker 6: The boys are back that means the huddle it means
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  Speaker 6: basketball boys are back because everybody was clamoring for some
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  Speaker 6: nba on world series tuesday drew it's a good one
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  Speaker 6: to be in here for yeah let's get it come
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  Speaker 6: on now let's get it um you know armin sarian
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  Speaker 6: is here as well helping us with the uh Pushing
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  Speaker 6: the buttons and monitoring that NicoletLaw.com talking text line 877-794-1973.
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  Speaker 5: Though, Armin is more partial to the YouTube comments. He
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  Speaker 5: likes to watch the conversation flow like a river.
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  Speaker 7: It's a living, breathing thing, you know, to watch these
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  Speaker 7: conversations go, to watch the comments pop up.
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  Speaker 6: Not usually supposed to pick favorites, but I do like
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  Speaker 6: that you've. kind of glammed onto and own those ones.
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  Speaker 7: Well, the nice thing is if you are watching us
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  Speaker 7: on our video stream, uh, YouTube X, Facebook, a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of people like to do it.
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  Speaker 7: And, uh, you know, you can see those comments pop
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  Speaker 7: up as well, and you can watch the chat as well.
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  Speaker 7: So you can be more interactive in that sense. Obviously
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  Speaker 7: we love everybody that's listening and interacting with our program.
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  Speaker 7: It's going to be a heavy week of interaction. As
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  Speaker 7: we know, world series match upset historic week in Milwaukee. So,
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  Speaker 7: and of course, as Billy said, the NBA tips off today,
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  Speaker 7: which is what everyone was focused on.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: A 2 p.m. tip on national television, which is fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: So the matchup is set. The Brewers will be playing
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  Speaker 5: the Rays. It is the small market, you know, small
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  Speaker 5: market blueprint versus the mid market with a small market
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  Speaker 5: payroll blueprint. Because Tampa ain't a small market.
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  Speaker 6: No, they've operated like the greatest of small markets, though,
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  Speaker 6: in this baseball realm, Drew.
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  Speaker 2: And it's. It's fascinating to see.
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  Speaker 6: How, as much as the big bad Dodgers are the
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  Speaker 6: one that everybody talks about, rightfully so, the organization that
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  Speaker 6: everybody's trying to be has been the Tampa Bay Rays
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  Speaker 6: for the better part of the last two decades.
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  Speaker 5: It has, and now these teams are going to meet
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  Speaker 5: two teams that do it the right way, two teams
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  Speaker 5: that kind of mirror each other in many ways because
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  Speaker 5: of the way, you know, a bunch of no-names, bottom line. Although,
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  Speaker 5: it's a unique circumstance. Brewers are going to be favored
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  Speaker 5: at the... At the ticket window, I mean, at the
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  Speaker 5: betting windows. Pretty decent series market and game on market.
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  Speaker 5: They're heavily favored on that front. They have the higher
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  Speaker 5: payroll and probably more known players than the Rays do.
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  Speaker 6: I would agree with that. Even maybe one of the
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  Speaker 6: best known players for the Rays. A lot of his
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  Speaker 6: best times were as a Milwaukee Brewer for Freddie Peralta,
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  Speaker 6: the one that ends up winning the award last night.
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  Speaker 5: ALCS MVP, Freddie Peralta. Who'd have thunk when he was
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  Speaker 5: toiling for the Mets?
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  Speaker 2: And with a 6ERA.
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  Speaker 5: It's just amazing. And they were floundering around in last place.
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  Speaker 5: And everybody was like, what's Stern bringing this guy in for?
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  Speaker 2: He sucks.
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  Speaker 5: Well, maybe not.
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  Speaker 6: We were wondering who's going to try and grab him
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  Speaker 6: at the deadline because somebody was going to. You knew
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  Speaker 6: somebody was going to take the lottery ticket, but there
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  Speaker 6: was rightful questions of what exactly are you getting? If
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  Speaker 6: you bring in Freddie Peralta at this point, what is
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  Speaker 6: he going to provide you? Well, provide you the best
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  Speaker 6: two starts that you had outside of right now, who
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  Speaker 6: might be at least performing that way. The best pitcher
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  Speaker 6: in the series does reside with Tampa Bay because Rasmussen
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  Speaker 6: at the moment has been the best starter in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 6: And he going to win the Cy Young in the
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  Speaker 6: American League side? I think Schlittler might. Schlittler is probably
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  Speaker 6: going to win it. Rasmussen is going to be a
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  Speaker 6: hard one to show up after he's performed this way.
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  Speaker 7: Definitely get votes. Of course, another former brewer. He came
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  Speaker 7: up with the Brewers in 2020 and then was involved
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  Speaker 7: in that.
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  Speaker 5: He was the centerpiece of the Adamas trade. Adamas trade.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, it's funny how things come around.
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  Speaker 7: The irony of the twists and turns of what's happened
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  Speaker 7: is almost too overwhelming to mention.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to fathom. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 7: Life is the greatest kind of irony in that sense.
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  Speaker 7: A lot of us were looking for a Freddy Peralta
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  Speaker 7: reunion at the trade deadline, but he was a piece
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  Speaker 7: of trash to a lot of people after what happened
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  Speaker 7: in New York. So example 9 million of why a
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  Speaker 7: change of scenery sometimes can help boost a guy in
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  Speaker 7: the right situation. And Peralta's done that now for the Rays,
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  Speaker 7: and it's going to be quite remarkable. You guys noticed
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  Speaker 7: his velocity was ticked up last night. He said postgame
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  Speaker 7: he didn't even realize it, but he was up around 99,
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  Speaker 7: which is like we're desensitized to.
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  Speaker 2: That number now. Like everyone comes in and throws a
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  Speaker 2: hundred for Freddie.
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  Speaker 7: Our guy throws, but for Freddie, he's usually around 96, 97,
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  Speaker 7: a take up in velocity. So he was really revved up, obviously.
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  Speaker 7: So it's just amazing to think about it. Freddie Peralta,
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  Speaker 7: LCS MVP for Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to play. Well, it's yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Freddie Peralta debuts in 2018 for the Brewers. Now ALCS
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  Speaker 6: MVP with the Rays. Jake Bowers debuts in 2018 for
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  Speaker 6: the Rays. Now, NLCS MVP for the Brewers and the
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  Speaker 6: two were and Matt Arnold obviously coming here and being
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  Speaker 6: drew one of the greatest holdovers you could have. Pat
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  Speaker 6: Murphy gets a lot of the shine, rightfully so. But
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  Speaker 6: Matt Arnold staying when David Stearns departed for the New
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  Speaker 6: York Mets and has picked up right where he left off,
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  Speaker 6: maybe even better yet. He comes from Tampa Bay. Friedman,
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  Speaker 6: who you just knocked off in L.A., came from Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody's been trying to get a glimpse and a taste
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  Speaker 6: of what the Rays have had for a while. I
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  Speaker 6: do think it is right that the two organizations were
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  Speaker 6: at some point going to meet. It is just funny
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  Speaker 6: now because for a lot of folks, we just heard Colin,
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  Speaker 6: who loves baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Just talking about it.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Listen to Colin show a decent amount, probably more than
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  Speaker 6: a lot of folks do. I don't hear Colin talk
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  Speaker 6: a ton of baseball, but I got to hear him
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  Speaker 6: be very excited about the pure game that we're going
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  Speaker 6: to see.
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  Speaker 5: Drew, you said it. Do it the right way.
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  Speaker 6: There's going to be a lot of grandstanding baseball purists
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  Speaker 6: who probably have not watched a ton of baseball lately,
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  Speaker 6: haven't said that they didn't like the way baseball was going.
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  Speaker 2: Well, maybe the.
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  Speaker 6: Ratings will be better than the networks think, because this
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  Speaker 6: is the way people want to see.
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  Speaker 2: The game being played.
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  Speaker 5: Funny you should say that. Funny you should say that,
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  Speaker 5: because for the second year in a row, the Dodgers
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  Speaker 5: and Brewers met in the NLCS, and it was a sweep.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, we prefer this year's version.
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  Speaker 4: Very much so.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 5: But the four-game series that just finished last week, averaged
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  Speaker 5: 7.5 million viewers across Fox and FS1, which was up 60%
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  Speaker 5: from last year.
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  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 5: The same matchup. 60% higher than it was on TBS
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  Speaker 5: and TruTV.
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  Speaker 7: What an incredible difference. It's not like 15% or 10%.
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  Speaker 7: 60 is remarkable. And once again, it's now doing a
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  Speaker 7: lot of what we last year.
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  Speaker 5: Now you might say, well, Fox is Fox and it's
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  Speaker 5: kind of like more over the air for people. It's
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  Speaker 5: kind of like one of the core, like it's one
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  Speaker 5: of the four or five.
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  Speaker 2: And then TBS is cable.
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  Speaker 5: So, okay. Well, last year, Fox had a seven gamer
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  Speaker 5: with the blue Jays and the Mariners was quite a
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  Speaker 5: compelling series. And you compare the Brewers Dodgers four game
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  Speaker 5: sweep to that seven game series.
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  Speaker 2: And it was up 50%. Unbelievable. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: People love like, People love the Brewer story, and they
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  Speaker 5: love watching the Dodgers lose.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm coming around to. That's very true.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of hate watching of the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: They want to see the little guy topple the villain also.
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  Speaker 5: Brewers-Dodgers, the most watched LCS in either league since 2015
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  Speaker 5: when the Mets swept the Cubs on TBS.
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  Speaker 2: That's obviously two big markets and a compelling story there.
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  Speaker 5: And the most watched on Fox Sports since the last
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  Speaker 5: one to air fully on the Fox Broadcast Network, Red
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  Speaker 5: Sox-Tigers 2013. So.
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  Speaker 2: Another good, good.
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  Speaker 5: And then you add in the out of home viewing
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  Speaker 5: and stuff because people will go to parties and things
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  Speaker 5: like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 5: That's no small feat for a Milwaukee series.
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  Speaker 2: Had huge ratings.
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  Speaker 6: Rightfully so. And I mean, I guess I didn't understand it.
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  Speaker 6: Probably should have probably should have hit me earlier that
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  Speaker 6: it was one of the first two times that 200
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  Speaker 6: plus win teams in the National League had played for
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  Speaker 6: the pennant. And I don't know that that was part
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  Speaker 6: of the reason why. I think a lot of it
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  Speaker 6: was exactly what you said. People like to hate watch
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  Speaker 6: the Dodgers, and a lot of people got to pay
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  Speaker 6: it off that way. Now, I think the Brewers have
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  Speaker 6: grabbed a number of storylines. Well, they will be a
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  Speaker 6: little bit more of the darling going into this. series
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  Speaker 6: and especially when the national idea and sees what the
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  Speaker 6: trial what Tropicana the field turns into because the way
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  Speaker 6: it is going at this moment right now it feels
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  Speaker 6: like it is going to be a raucous atmosphere and
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  Speaker 6: there's going to be a ton of snowbirds traveling down
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  Speaker 6: south the Packers played their early October this one drew
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  Speaker 6: a much more seemingly hot ticket and one that I
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  Speaker 6: think a lot more people are going down for. People
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  Speaker 6: love to go down for the Packers game in Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. But there's a ton going down for this one,
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  Speaker 2: by the way.
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  Speaker 5: And they're conditioned to going down there for Badgers bowl games.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they're used to it. They're used to that trip.
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  Speaker 5: That's about 30 years of history of Outback and Capital
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  Speaker 5: One bowls. And you know everybody and everyone's answer. and
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  Speaker 5: Barb from Oconto has a place down somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: In Naples or Clearwater. We got family down there. Everyone's
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  Speaker 2: got a spot they can go to. They've made that
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  Speaker 2: trip before.
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  Speaker 7: And everyone jumped on the thinking that everyone had. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: everyone said the same thing. Let's go to Tampa. You
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  Speaker 7: saw tickets available. You saw what it was like for
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  Speaker 7: their watch party. That's going to be American Family Field South.
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  Speaker 7: And the prices reflect that, guys. Here it is from
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  Speaker 7: Kayak right here. $ 1, 900 for a ticket. Those prices jumped
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  Speaker 7: up for a plane ride to Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: Add some roots. Come on, people. It's just amazing. It's
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  Speaker 2: just amazing to think about that. I guess this is
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: a good time to get the RV fired up.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, if you take that thing down for Daytona anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, just start driving. I mean, you know, right
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  Speaker 7: after game two is over and you'll get there right
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  Speaker 7: into I mean, you'll get there.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I was sitting on Armin Sarian's favorite Web site,
• 10:47
  Speaker 6: American Airlines Web site yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 6: The fight as the was the eighth inning when Cleveland's
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  Speaker 6: mounting the comeback.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 6: So it's five one. They got the bases loaded. They
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  Speaker 6: hit the guy like.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Drew, I got it. Everything.
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  Speaker 6: Pulled up here, flying out Monday morning, coming back Tuesday
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  Speaker 6: to join you guys and be ready to roll for
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  Speaker 6: game number four. But get down there for game three.
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  Speaker 6: Had the tickets for a week and a half.
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  Speaker 5: Ooh.
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  Speaker 4: 5-3.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, this is getting a little sketchy. All right, we'll
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  Speaker 6: hold off for a tick. As Yandy Diaz rounds the
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  Speaker 6: bases for the electrifying dagger shot that he puts in
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  Speaker 6: the bottom of the eighth inning, that was the hit send,
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  Speaker 6: finish it off, and polish it off. Now, the damage
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  Speaker 6: was definitely done. A round-trip ticket is not a cheap one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 6: But we got it for, I think, 670?
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  Speaker 2: That's a good price right now.
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  Speaker 6: Round-trip? Now, like you said, I mean, his balloon doubled up,
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  Speaker 6: but I still think there's a lot of folks that
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  Speaker 6: are doing the math and realizing that math is mathing.
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  Speaker 6: If I really feel like I need to be at
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  Speaker 6: one of these games and really desperately want to go,
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  Speaker 6: the affordable option is going all the way down to
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  Speaker 6: Florida and driving at 19 hours or flying.
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  Speaker 2: The driving.
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  Speaker 7: I think that math is starting to change now when
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  Speaker 7: you start to see the prices jump up for games
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  Speaker 7: in Tampa to like the 800, 900 range to get in.
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  Speaker 2: And the flights. But you're right, Billy. If you got
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  Speaker 2: on it at the right time, like you did.
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  Speaker 7: And we'll have our Brewers reporter, insider Hunter Baumgart, and
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  Speaker 7: noted travel agent in next to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 7: about that, too. But, yeah, it's been just pretty wild.
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  Speaker 7: But look at it this way. I mean, hey, that's
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  Speaker 7: like they're going to be home games.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, not really.
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  Speaker 7: But, yeah, the fan support is going to be there.
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  Speaker 7: The Brewers will have their support. We know how excited
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  Speaker 7: everyone is for this. And it's going to be a
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  Speaker 7: lot of fun. And it's going to be, like you said,
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  Speaker 7: they're playing– their mirror image in the al i think
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  Speaker 7: that's what's interesting about this it's like okay you had
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  Speaker 7: to beat the villains the dodgers now you have to
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  Speaker 7: beat yourself all right that's like the isn't that like
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  Speaker 7: the end of every epic every epic novel or every
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  Speaker 7: you know grand story is eventually the battles with yourself
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  Speaker 7: and the brewers can see themselves in the mirror with
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  Speaker 7: the rays in some ways uh so a lot of
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  Speaker 7: compelling storylines i think that's why the.
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  Speaker 2: Ratings are good and they're gonna be good Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 5: Think this is going to be better than people think.
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  Speaker 5: The NBA is underway. Pistons Celtics kicking off. What is it,
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  Speaker 5: a quadruple header today?
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  Speaker 6: They got a triple. They get this one, and then
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  Speaker 6: it is the debut in the Sixers blue for LeBron James. Because,
• 13:17
  Speaker 6: let's be honest, as much as Jalen Brown going back
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  Speaker 6: to Boston, that would have been a great storyline. the
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  Speaker 6: center of the NBA universe still is LeBron James in
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  Speaker 6: year number 24. So he's going to be in the
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  Speaker 6: headline game on banner night against the New York Knicks.
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  Speaker 6: And then the game that everybody's going to be excited for.
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  Speaker 6: And luckily drew as we start week number two of
• 13:40
  Speaker 6: the afternoon huddle two to five here, the one that
• 13:43
  Speaker 6: we get to stay up for and enjoy Oklahoma city
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  Speaker 6: and San Antonio tonight. Cause if there's two teams that
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: despise each other, Those are the two. And after signing
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  Speaker 6: up for all of the games that we got last
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  Speaker 6: year in the Western Conference finals, I'll sign up for
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  Speaker 6: about 15 more of those battles because I got a
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  Speaker 6: feeling they're meeting in the playoffs again.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get it here tonight to kick off the NBA season.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be all right.
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  Speaker 5: 877-794-1973. The name Jake Woodford coming up a lot today.
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  Speaker 2: Woodford Reserve.
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  Speaker 5: Jake Woodford started the season with the Brewers, was released,
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  Speaker 5: went to the Cubs, signed with the Rays. pitch like
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  Speaker 5: 23 innings for the Rays, pitch a couple innings for the,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, pitch 23 innings for the Brewers and a
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  Speaker 5: couple innings for the Rays. He's the one guy guaranteed
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  Speaker 5: a ring.
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  Speaker 2: He's locked in.
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  Speaker 5: He's going to get a ring and at least a
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  Speaker 5: partial share of the World Series share, which I think
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: last year's winner's share of the World Series is about 400K.
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  Speaker 6: So does he get in for all of the previous
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  Speaker 6: rounds too with both teams? Or is it only a
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: championship one? I think it might be only a championship.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure how that works.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: I think they do. Well, you do. Let's say the Dodgers.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: They have a pool of money that they'll get to
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: kick around and divvy up, and then they'll determine who
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: gets a full share.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Players vote, right?
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the players usually vote. It's a partial share. Sometimes
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: it can get pretty contentious. I've heard stories of guys just,
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: you know, like veteran players with big paychecks, and sometimes
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: even younger players against veteran players saying, why are you
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: being so cheap? That guy stretched you every day. Like,
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: how can you, how can you stiff him? Like, you know,
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: how do you, it gets a little bit, it can
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: get a little contentious. Brewers players in the past, for example,
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: they used to vote.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: Bob, you're going to say famously and he'd give it
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: to us and.
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: He would kick it into charity and stuff. Cause he didn't,
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: you know, but he was honored that he felt like
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: he was part of the team. They made him feel
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: that way. They gave him a share. Oh yeah. This
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: year it's about $ 400, 000, which is not shabby.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: That's nothing to sneeze at.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: You could buy some World Series tickets with that.
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: He was traded to the Brewers from the Rays. Yeah,
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: and then they brought him back at the end of
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: the year. And then they brought him back in the
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: end of the year.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: I like that. He just had a full circle season.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: And he's also from St. Pete.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: He's played for seven teams.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's perfect.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: He was with the Cubs. Yeah, he's been with a bunch.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: He was with the Guardians once, too, I think. So
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: he's got a lot of connections to this playoff run.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: But Brewers-Rays, everybody will say it's a network's nightmare. No
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: one's going to care.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: That's the first instinct people say, but deeper looks at it, right?
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: And you can talk all you want about media bias
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: and all that, and people still mad about what the
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: panel had to say during the LCS. Rosenthal, Verducci, the
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: guys who are there all the time, they love this.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: They love this. They love Brewers-Rays. First of all, it's
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: the two best teams from the regular season. It's not
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: a novel concept that they should be playing for the title.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: There's no cheapy hot run. Best team in the NL
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: against the best team in the AL. Fire it up
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: and see who's better.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: Great for a guy like me who loves to gatekeep
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: against those 84 wins.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: But this is like when people talk about style of
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: play and small market and taking extra bases and playing
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: clean defense. These are both teams as opposed to collections
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: of all-stars.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: And they're they're well-developed guys.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: These are teams that can't afford to sign Juan Soto.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: But Juan Soto is at home watching them play.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: But both organizations have been, I think, uniquely have tried
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: and tried in better fashions than others have. Right. Like famously,
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Tampa tried to go and get Otani two or three
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: years ago from L.A. They couldn't and probably lucky for
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: them because they wouldn't have Junior Caminero sitting there in
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: the middle of the lineup.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: He's their cheerio, by the way.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: And for the crew, you're sitting here saying, yeah, it
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: would be really, really nice to have Tarek Skubal, but
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: with a few more guys out of that farm system
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: as well.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: They've taken swings.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: They've tried to take bigger ones, but they do it
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: their way, and they finally end up getting to win
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: and enjoy it. I also like The thing that networks
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: will hate even more are sweeps. As much as if
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: there's anything that a network definitely doesn't like, it's the
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: lack of inventory. They don't necessarily care as much who wins.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: They definitely don't want four games. They wanted to make
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: sure that they were able to fill it up a
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: little bit more throughout this week and weekend.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no question about it.
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: You'd love to have compelling storylines where people will follow,
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: and then you're right, Billy, the total number of games,
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: which it's interesting. I saw somewhere that The most common
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: amount of World Series games, the most common length of
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: a World Series game is seven games.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: I don't know why I wouldn't have guessed that. But, hey,
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: that's the most likely. That's the most common, I should say.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: The most common is seven games for a World Series?
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Apparently, yeah. Apparently.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: Did you AI that? Because that doesn't sound right to me.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: No, I was a guy on Twitter, so it must
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: be right.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Nah, it doesn't sound right to me.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: It didn't sound right to me either.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it doesn't sound right to me. There aren't that
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: many games.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe I'll go for one tonight.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Why is game seven such a spine-tingling phrase? Because for
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: all the Tostitos, and it doesn't happen that often. I
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: would say there's more decided in six than in seven.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: That's what I voted on the guy's poll. I'll find it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: In terms of the gambling aspects, Brewer's favorite, minus 160
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: is the number I saw. Is that what Pato's got
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: for you?
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Pato at minus 175. Juiced a little bit more into
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: a different direction for the crew.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: And Tampa was plus 140. But the futures bets, if
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: you went down and put $ 1, 000 on the Brewers to
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: win the World Series back in April.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: You're cashing a nice $ 35, 000 check.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: Brewers are the 14th highest odds, and the Rays are
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: the 22nd highest to start the year. So you're talking
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: about two of the longest shots. The Rays were 80-1.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: 80-1 in the beginning of the year. Brewers got 30-1.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: That'd be the longest shot.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: The Rays won since the 91 Twins, who were a
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: very good team, legitimately. And that was one of the
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: great World Series ever, Drew, as you remember, the 91
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: World Series with the Braves.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: But that would be the longest shot.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Drew Rasmussen against Miz in game 1. That's going to
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: be electric.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and again, Rasmussen has been by far the best
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: starter in the playoffs. And for somebody that he had, what, two?
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: I want to say he had two significant arm injuries
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: before he was... into the big leagues with the Brewers,
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: and there were some folks that didn't necessarily know how
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: long his career would be. He pitched at Oregon State,
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: I believe, and was an absolute menace in the development
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: time and was highly, highly lauded, but a lot of
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: folks just didn't know that he was going to be
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: able to last this long, and he's continued to soar
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: through their expectations.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: He pitched an inning in relief for the Brewers in
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: the postseason in 2020. So he was with the Brewers
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: in 20 and 21. Before he went to the Rays.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: And he was shipped off in one of my favorite moves.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: That was made in baseball. Because it was right during
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: the time. Where generally there weren't trades. I believe the
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Freddie Peralta. Or the pardon me. Willie Adamas trade with
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: the Rays. Happened like the beginning of June. Late May.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: And it was right after a sequencing. Of probably three games.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: And seven days. Where Luis Arias.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: They were trying to hand this guy the shortstop position.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Begging him to be the shortstop. He was not trying
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: to take it, was not living up to the hype,
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: especially on defense. And at one point counts in a
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: postgame says, if you're trying to play in the playoffs,
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: you just.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Can't make plays like that.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: You're just not going to be able to do that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: Two days later, Willie Adonis was the starting shortstop. So
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: they had to find someone. The Rays definitely needed to
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: get rid of him at the moment because they had
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Wander Franco coming up, who was the best prospect in
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: all of baseball. And they would then sign to an 11-year,
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: 180-some-million-dollar contract. And that blows up in their face. And
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: they're still three years later into the World Series. It
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: shows how good both of the organizations have been. And
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: for the Rays, now they've won their third pennant. They
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: won their first one in 08 was when they played
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: the Phillies.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: So third in 20 years.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: And they've been knocking at the door ever since. And
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: they've had some of the best players in ball roll
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: right through that place in the trop.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: So they've never won a World Series. They've only been
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: at it 30 years.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Lightweight, right?
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Brewers have scuffled and struggled a lot. That was a
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: May 21st trade in 2021 for Adamas. That sent Rasmussen
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: and J.P. Fireeisen south.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: Not a general time where you're making massive blockbuster moves.
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: Not at all. But it was one of those good
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: baseball trades. Helped both teams. Rasmussen's been good for them.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Adamas was very... No one's going to say Adamas' impact
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: in Milwaukee was huge. huge oh he was so good
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: no question no question about.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: It the brewers didn't get anything in terms of the
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: playoff success you would have wanted and there's no chance
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: anybody would take there would take that trade back.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Nope not a chance totally chance all right we're off
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: and running with.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: The tuesday edition packers off today so it's kind of
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: a potluck i think today we can probably bring back
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: game balls and kicks because we got to none of
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: them yesterday why not might as well might as well
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: armand's got the sound effects ready we might as well
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: go with them hunter bomb guard gonna join us next Yes.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Is he in the building?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: He's in the building, yes.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: All right, because I know he was going to join
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: us because he's doing another baseball program tonight.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: We're all Hunter all the time.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: After us from 5 to 6, but we can't get
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: enough baseball, so Hunter is going to join us next. You, smart,
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: good-looking listener, are in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Brewers, Brewers, let's go Brewers.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Let's play some baseball today.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, baby.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Brewers.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: The huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Somebody sent. A CD
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: to the station. We still have CDs. I don't know
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: how you're playing that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I'm into it. I figured I'd get Carlo a spin here.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: Brewer's Pocos and four Brewer's songs.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: I've definitely heard this before. From different eras. All right, Carlo.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I've heard these before. These aren't new. Good job. KH Films,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: so I got your song in. Sort of a banger, right? No,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: definitely not.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: No, no.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: He was smart enough to put it on YouTube because
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: this is not... Not functioning? Shockingly so.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Largest radio company. We don't have CD players. Glad somebody
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: burned it. That's sort of understandable these days. I'm just saying.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: It's like we don't have reel-to-reel either. Hunter Baumgart is
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: here with us. He's our baseball go-to guy brought to
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: us by Community Roofing. He's been covering the Brewers all
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: season long, including the clincher in Pittsburgh, the series in
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: San Diego. And the series that just wrapped up the
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: highest rated NLCS in years. Hunter was on the scene
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium and he's getting ready. Have you heard
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: anything about workouts here? Are they going to do a
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: public workout before Thursday or are we just locked out
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: until then?
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I think it's just Thursday.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, I didn't know if you were not ready
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: to be.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Sorry. No, I was.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I just realized.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: There was just.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: A planning meeting.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: There was just a planning meeting on Zoom. Did you
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: jump onto that?
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: There was. I was in a different meeting, and I
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: unfortunately was unable to do that.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Ah, I missed it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Well, they're just suggesting story ideas and things like that.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: So that's not that big a deal.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: But, Hunter, what's new with us and what I want
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: to ask you is now we know it's going to
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: be the Rays. So Freddie Peralta win the MVP of
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: the LCS last night. Fastball Freddie and the Rays are
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: coming to Milwaukee. What does this matchup look like to you?
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Because we talked about it yesterday. I remember next to
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: nothing of that series that the Rays played here at
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: the end of March or early April. I remember next
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: to nothing about it.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: And I think these two teams are very different when
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: it comes to where they were at in late March
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: and where they're at now. Obviously, we pointed out that
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Renhipo hit cleanup for the Brewers in that series. So
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: I think that is very different than where they are now.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: But I do also think that These two teams are
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: very similar in the way they get things done. When
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: I was watching that series between the Rays and the Guardians,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: the Rays remind me of the Brewers. They have speed.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: They get on base. It's not always the home run. Obviously,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Caminero had the big one last night. But otherwise, it's
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: a lot of that type of ball that you see
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: from the Brewers. And I think that makes it more
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: evenly matched. I still think the Brewers are the better
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: team in this series. But I do think that the
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Rays were the best team in the American League. So
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: they are at least the toughest team to come out
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: of that.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: League this year.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: The AL was inferior to the National League on all
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: counts this year. Yeah, well, the only division that wasn't
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: was the AL East, right? And that was the only
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: one that they had to duke out quite a bit
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: with three teams coming out of there and Toronto still
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: pushing towards the end. The one that was an eyelash
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: away two or three different times last year from winning
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: the whole thing. So that was one of the most
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: competitive divisions in ball. And for them to be able
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: to come out of it and pitch through it, I
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: think that well shows one of the reasons why they're here. Hunter,
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: like even though they went and grabbed Peralta and he
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: wins the LCS MVP.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: And I don't know that that really shows and shines
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: just how good their pen is. And I mean, their
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: back end of the pen with Baker is he's been
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: as good as any closer in ball this year, if
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: not better than everyone else.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: And so I don't know. I think I look at
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: that pitching staff and I say they're a tough pitching staff.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: When you talk about the top two starters, when you
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: talk about the bullpen, you just mentioned the closer. But
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: then I also say to myself, yeah, but they just
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: beat Scooble, Yamamoto, Snell, and Glass now in four consecutive games.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: And they beat Morajon and they beat Mason Miller. I
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: don't know. You can't get much better than that. Yes,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Rasmussen and Peralta and Baker, and they're a good staff.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: But look what the Brewers did against those elite pitchers
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: in San Diego and L.A., And I think they can,
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: if they just continue, I think the big key for
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: them is continue to have the good at-bats. We saw
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: the really good at-bats both in the San Diego series
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: and the LA series. They scored more in the LA
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: series because they took advantage of some situations that they
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: maybe didn't against San Diego. Those at-bats in the playoffs
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: for the Brewers have been just really good. You look
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: at what they've done on the hitting side, they're hitting 250.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: The Rays have hit 232 in the postseason. So it's
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: a significant difference between the two. The Rays are the
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: third best team when it comes to batting average. The
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: home runs is still wild. The Brewers lead all of
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: baseball and home runs in the postseason at 10. Tampa's
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: at 7. So the average is there. The OPS, the
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Brewers have the OPS difference between the teams. OPS, 739
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: for the Brewers. For the Rays, down at 649. So
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: you have a significant advantage there. I mean, you look
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: at walks. The Brewers have walked 34 times. The Rays
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: just 21. The Brewers' offense has been significantly better than
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: the postseason.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: And without looking, Hunter has stats, but without looking, Billy
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: and Armin, who's the Brewers' leading batter in terms of
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: batting average and maybe even slug in the postseason?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Well, slugging you would be Terang. Slug 12-14 in that LCS,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: I think. Yeah, I would have thought I would have
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: thought Bowers, maybe, but I guess.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Hunter, who's the Brewers batting average leader in the post?
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Do you have a composite box anywhere? I do.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: So, yeah, hitting leader in the postseason for the Brewers
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: would be Contreras at 367.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, of course. Yeah, I should have thought of that, too.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: That was a good one.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Contreras at 367, and then second would be. Cooper Pratt. Now,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: David Hamilton, I think, is also hitting like 450. These
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: are probably qualified guys. I'm looking at Hamilton at the
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: highest average. Yeah, 455.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: In his limited, but, you know. Four of seven in
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: the LCS will do that for you. Indeed. And Jackson's
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: had the big moments.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's hitting 171.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: He's hitting 170, but he's got the big moments. The
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: thing to me when I watch, and Hunter Baumgart is here,
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: thanks to our friends at Community Roofing, communityroofing.com, the thing
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: that strikes me about the Rays is the that if
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: you can shut down Common Arrow and Diaz, you're in
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: pretty good shape.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: And then, you know.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: The Brewers are like, oh, we got to shut down Yelich,
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: or we got to look at how the Brewers come
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: at you and look at David Hamilton hitting a home
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: run in a clinching game.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Like, who had that on their bingo card, right?
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: It seems like the Brewers have a more diverse attack
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: that can get you more ways. I just feel like
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: if you get past the first four of the Rays lineup,
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: the drop-off is... Sure, the bottom of their order can
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: set the table and get things going, just like the
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: Brewers have done in the past, but I just think
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: the Brewers have more of everything. More starting pitching, more
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: and better bullpen options, and more offense.
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, not to sound like one of the
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: guys on the Fox broadcast, but Johnny DeLuca doesn't necessarily
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: scare me. Like, that name's not going to jump off
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: the page in Strikes of Fear. Although my man had
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: a nice hit sack fly, so he had a nice
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: moment last night.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: And at any point that they can do it, they
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: racked up what?
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, something like that, seven runs.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: They're going to be as well as you are, and
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: you're going to have to be able to play some
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: of the most competitive games. We talked about it in
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: the last segment, and... The numbers at least at 2020
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: is when this story came out with MLB.com. But 40
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: different World Series in the best of seven format, 39
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: in the best of seven format. There was one in
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: the best of nine format that they used to play
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: in the World Series way back when.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: I knew about that. Best of nine. 40 different World
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Series have ended in seven games. The most by far
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: out of any other outcome that you possibly could have.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: This one does feel like a long, long series that
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: you're coming up for.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Could definitely be that. It does.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: I also thought that about the Dodgers series, though, and
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: then that went really fast.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: You just never know.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but we also have to be realizing this Dodger
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: team looked and played old. They did like as much
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: as as much as you absolutely do. And everything will
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: be changing with that curve. That is not the same
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: big bag Dodgers that just went through and won the
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: World Series a year ago.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: They also had the lead in every game.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: So things could have happened differently.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Things could have gone either way.
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: It's not that the Brewers swept them, but I wouldn't
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: say they dominated them every game. They dominated them in
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: the way they overall approach the series, but it could
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: have gone either way in that one.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: You're right, though, Billy.
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: They maybe were a shell of themselves in that sense.
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: Freddie Freeman, you want to talk about those numbers? They
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: were one of 14.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. The offense was definitely a shell of itself.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: You had no fear of Otani. Scooble looked good.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: Yamamoto's really the only one that didn't. Snell looked was
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: amazing through those first five, six innings.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: To the Brewers' credit on a lot of those guys. Yamamoto,
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: they were able to work. You're right about that. And
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: Snell did look good until he didn't look great until
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: he didn't. It's funny how this game is.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I think this is a longer series. I
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: do agree. But man, that would be.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: They've clinched every series on the road. Well, they clinched
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: the division on the road, and then they clinched the
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Padres and LA on the road. It would be fun
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: to win the World Series at home, but I think
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: a lot of people would just say win the World
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Series wherever it is.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Where did we clinch the division? I can't remember now.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh. Right, what am I saying? So they've clinched everything
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: on the road. Maybe that's the way this is destined
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: to be. However, it's done. I don't think Brewers fans
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: will be pretty upset in terms of the matchup, though.
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: In general, the secondary numbers do suggest that, you know,
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: even though the Rays 198 games, the Brewers were significantly better.
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: The Rays didn't have a run differential kind of that reflected.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: That great record.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: They was like.
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: Plus 80 something. And the Brewers are plus 214, I
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: want to say, or Tuesday. So in that sense, the
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: Brewers secondary numbers are much better. Now, does that matter
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: once you get to a seven game series? Obviously, the
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: sample is so small. that anything can happen, but as
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: good as the rays were, and they were, and they
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: earned what they'd.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Gotten this year. They did play a little bit ahead
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: of their run differentials here in terms of record.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: I think the Brewers are the better team. I think
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: the Brewers are the better team in the series. I don't,
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: I don't, and especially the way they're playing the, where
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: their bullpens throwing.
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: But the way is that Peralta now who wasn't there
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: for most of the.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Year, a hundred percent.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: You had to look at that.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah. That boy. I mean, that, That is an indictment
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: on the Mets more than anything. I mean, you got
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: that guy in your rotation, and then he was as
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: bad as he was only to go to the Rays
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: and then be fixed by the Rays, who obviously are
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: very good at doing what the Brewers do, right? Them
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: and the Brewers are very good at taking in a
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: pitcher who's not pitching well and bringing them to their strengths.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Also, shout out to the Rays. I mean, they bring
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: in Liam Hendricks, right?
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: Or Liam Hicks, pardon me, the catcher at the deadline.
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: Not a lot of teams bring in catchers at the deadline.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: That's not a rare thing to be able to pick up.
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: He's come in and been nails, and he ends up
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: catching the final out last night. Seemed kind of apropos.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: So we need to finally be able to hammer out
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: the Woodruff thing. That is right now. Seemingly the exciting little.
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: just potential present that might be under the tree. You
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: didn't think you were getting the red rider BB gun. Now,
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: all of a sudden you're tagging that one right there.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Red rifle.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Red rider, red rider.
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: You didn't think you were getting that, but all of
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: a sudden dad walks downstairs and places something behind the
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: chair and says, yeah, we might open that one later.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, then you know something good. Well, what the hell, Dad? Like,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: you can't just leave us hanging like that.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: Now, I can't wait to be able to find out
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: till Thursday to see if there's any way that he
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: possibly does. Because if he is, then it really comes
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: into when do you deploy him? And are you really
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: going to take the chance, Drew, late in the game
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: with somebody that hadn't pitched like that?
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: If I can get three outs from Brandon Woodruff at
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: some point, just the emotional lift.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Just for vibes.
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: For vibes and stuff.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: Totally. I think, to me, the biggest... the bigger question
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: is where would you use him rather than should he
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: be on the roster? Cause you could definitely make an argument.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: He's on the rock. You can put them on the roster.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Like people are like, where are you going to put them?
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: I'm going to say you used 11 pitchers. Kyle Harrison's
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: not pitching. Cause we don't have to worry about rain
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: delays in this series.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: True.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: We don't have to worry about that.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: And there's no, you do have to worry about extra innings.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: You do have to worry about extra innings. And I
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: think the brewers have coverage in that department without Kyle Harrison.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: So you could say, Woody's been here, and even if
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: it's a ceremonial, honorary-type appointment to the roster, if he
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: can pitch an inning and get three yards.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Then the fascinating discussion becomes, where do you put him?
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Because there's arguments for a lot of different... I mean, right.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: Behind the starter in Game 3, or as the opener...
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: Do you start?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: But then do you risk falling behind? Cause you, he
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: is a wild card as much as we want to
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: believe that Brandon Woodruff is going to be the Brandon
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Woodruff of old or Brandon Woodruff. We've seen this year
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: where he's able to navigate.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: You're right. You gotta be realistic.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: There is a wild card there. So we also are like, okay,
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: do you want him to open a game? Do you
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: want to say, okay, well he'll come out of the
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: bullpen at some time in the middle innings. Does that
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: opportunity ever present itself? Or does Murphy go? I also
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: got Dale Hall and Aaron Ashby.
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: Middle innings almost seems tougher to me because then the
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: game is in the flow.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: You're really going matchups. Drew, that's where you.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: Said opener, and that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm opening
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: him in game two. I'm opening him in game two
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: at home for the boost.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: You got 30 pitches to have fun with. Get us
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: three out.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Or 30 to 40 pitches, maybe. Maybe not even an up-down,
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: but then he's facing their best guys. Like I just said,
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: if you can hold down Diaz and Caminero, is it
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: better to have him in the second inning behind somebody else?
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: With the opener, it's all fluid, right?
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: It is. That's very fair. It could be a rebate
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: starting out, and then you give it. Then you hand
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: it to Woodruff to get six outs. Because what's the
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: worst thing that happens? All of a sudden, his arm goes,
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: can't play. Then you can, can you flip somebody in?
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: I L somebody in with him. It makes no sense
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: to not. If you think he can be, if he
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: can get a bit of an emotional, that's.
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: The last, that part's the main part at the end.
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: Cause you also, this is still a world series. You
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: want to be careful, but you don't want to just
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: play for vibes. You did just have one of your
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: best guys though. Walk three guys in the bases loaded.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah but that you don't plan for that he's been
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: pitching well so how.
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: Many guys didn't pitch against the dodgers i don't the
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: sensatella didn't.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: Pitch did he harrison sensatella oh i don't think he
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: pitched game one did he oh maybe jojo pitched.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Uh chad and kyle have not pitched.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: At all chad patrick hasn't gotten in either well who
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: would have guessed that until the last game everyone got
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: the start so that's to me the start that you'd
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: give woodruff with drawing behind him maybe or or you
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: know dustin may maybe i was gonna say dustin.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: May too tell i didn't pitch in the dodgers series
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: i never put that i noticed that he had plenty
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: of arms and they signed him to to pitch in
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: that series which i thought because he had experience in
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: that division and that part but well georgia.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: You got you i'm thinking right guys it worked out
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: But it definitely worked out.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: OK.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Well, when you have a sweep that does, you know,
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: you need.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: To get it right. You need to get like a
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: 10 run lead in the clinching game and let Woodruff
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: pitch the final.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: We'll see. And that's the thing. Do you hold him
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: for that? But then what if that opportunity never presents itself?
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: That's why.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: And I think.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: Cause of what he's gone through and stuff, having him
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: open and having him start. And then, you know, even
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: one inning done rush one inning done.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: He walks off the mound, does exactly what McGill did
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: in game five yesterday. Yeah. Last year against the Cubs
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: throw him in a sweatshirt for the rest of the series.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: And congratulations. You spent 22 million and it was well
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: spent and it was well spent. How about that?
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Here's the, here's my brain working here. The best theater,
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: the best story. I mean, what if it's going to
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: be an inning, right?
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: How about it's game three. Freddie Peralta against Brandon Woodruff,
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: your starting pitchers. I think Freddie may start.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: And Billy will be there.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: I will be there ready to rock.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: Freddie may start. He started Monday, right?
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. He could put you on for Sunday.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: They could.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: He could. Or Saturday.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he could pitch game two.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: It might be because that probably gives them the best chance.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: But I was thinking if they held him back.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: It's technically not short rest because it's four days in between.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you this.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: If he pitches at American Family Field and everybody that
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: was at that that's at that world series game watched
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: what happened when he went to wrigley field last year
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: and they chanted his name every single moment and those
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: 41 000 aren't berating him for the entire run that
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: would be the.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: Problem we're gonna have to talk about this more for
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: the show oh my god.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: No i'm not disagreeing i'm just curious about this oh
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: you have to You don't want to do it too
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: nice to Armin?
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Armin has some arguments that he was letting me know
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: about earlier today.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe in his head, he could easily consider that, oh,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: this is still my home park. They're cheering for me. Like,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: he could play a mental game. I don't know.
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: We'll see.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Hunter's going to be back. He's preparing a show for us.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: It's going to air at 5 o'clock.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Vinny Retino is going to join me for a second.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Outstanding.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Hunter.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: Thank you, guys.
• 40:06
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• 40:07
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• 40:20
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• 40:21
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  Speaker 5: welcome to the huddle.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Gentlemen, it's great to hear you out in the afternoon finally.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: So you don't have to call in in the morning.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Hey, you had to be up at that point.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: We phoned in regularly in the morning then. Just saying.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like you start early, Ken, this afternoon.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: I start at 5 a.m. every day, but the last
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: time I called in, my brother was having an open-heart surgery,
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: if you remember.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: I remember. I do.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: And, yeah, the kid's doing fabulous, you know. He battled cancer,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: and now he battled that. So let's get off of that.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: All things are good. Here's the deal, and this is
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: going to be controversial. I don't want to see Woody
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: on this roster.
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: Stop.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Why? For a number of reasons. He had his opportunities
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: when the Brewers in 18, 19, whatever. The fact of
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: the matter is you don't want to take a guy
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: off the roster that has contributed all year for a
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: feel-good moment. No, we're not doing that. First of all,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: This ain't even going past five games. There isn't five.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Boom.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: There isn't five.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but what have they done, guys? They've won every
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: series on the road. It's going to stay that way.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: This team is that damn good. And this pitching staff
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: is outstanding. So when you look at it from that standpoint,
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: it ain't getting back to Miller Park. So people, if
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: you bought, or, okay, I'm sorry. Usually I say County Stadium, Drew,
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: because you and I are the same age. But the
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: fact that, exactly, but the fact of the matter is
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: that the way this team has played all year long,
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: They've been outstanding on the road. They're 32-16 against American
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: League teams. They are not going to struggle against this
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Tampa Bay team. Tampa Bay, you've got your hands full.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Not only can we pitch well, but we hit well
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: and we come from behind. So even when we're down
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: by a little bit, it's irrelevant. We're going to beat you.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Not only are we going to beat you, We're going
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: to beat you bad.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Ken's fired up.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Ken.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you. I like that.
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: A little feeling of inevitability are the Milwaukee Brewers.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: I like that one.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: Brandon Woodruff was supposed to face hitters today at the
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: ballpark in a simulated game, and they're going to have
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: a meeting and decide. Well, Ken Rosenthal from The Athletic
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: has a piece talking about they're not sure because MLB
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: rules state that a player on a postseason roster can
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: be replaced only if he suffers an acute, non-chronic injury
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: or ailment. And the Brewers feel with Woodruff they might
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: interpret his ongoing struggles. You know, July 4th he went down.
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: That's the last time he pitched. And then they announced
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: he was going to have season-ending surgery. And then in
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: late August they said, well, he's going to start a
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: throwing program instead. And now he's ramping up. He's where
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: you would be at the beginning of spring training basically
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: right now. Yeah, and he's– First spring training outing.
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: They had the miracle baby because they had the child,
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: the youngster, if I'm not mistaken, the same week. Yeah,
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: that he had the injury and he's like, well, I
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: can't have surgery now.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I got to hold a baby.
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: So I got to help out. And then the natural
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: healing kind of progressed and gave him the opportunity. And
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: the only thing I would go against with Ken's point,
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: because I do get.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: The I do get the point.
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: Why are we going to take it away from somebody
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: that's been out there all year? Well, you kind of
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: did that with Chad Patrick and froze him out for
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: the last two series. And now my man's warmed up
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: a couple of times, but he's barely even taking that
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: super cool postseason sweatshirt off.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: So Harrison, too.
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: I got no problem trying it and seeing if it
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: can work because of drew the emotional lift and also
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: the kind of player he can be. But so what
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: you just said is if all of a sudden Woody
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: is feeling the shoulder and you know that that arm
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: is here. There's only one thing to do. You got
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: to throw one more pitch and roll the hell out
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: of your ankle. And you walk out of there with
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: two of your best friends carrying you off the field.
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: And everybody knows you just pulled one over on him.
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: Or we get a second circuit judge like the SEC
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: and just overrule it.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, we need some of those
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: judges up here, right? Those SEC judges. Go down to
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: the court. We find one.
• 45:11
  Speaker 7: I just, the romantic in me has this image of
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: him throwing the final out and getting carried off the field.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: You know, up on the shoulders. He said, I'm thinking
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: about that final out of the World Series. I'm thinking
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: of getting any outs in the World Series. That's a
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: good point. Any of them. Yeah. Be pretty wild. All right.
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: We are off and running. Oh, we're tied. Boston and Detroit.
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: Boston and Detroit. 39-39 if you're invested in that game.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Live sports during our show for once. And not like
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: an Australian Open.
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: This game is actually being played in Detroit. Even though
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: people thought that Detroit was turning into a third world country. No,
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: it's in America and they're playing it live in America
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: right now.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Did you hear that Detroit? Billy's coming at a concept.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: We're not Detroit at the ticket in Detroit. I'm still
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: not Detroit.
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: You are hanging out with us in the huddle Fox
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: sports radio, Wisconsin.