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10/26/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 2: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
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  Speaker 4: 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 shit.
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  Speaker 4: One, two, three.
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  Speaker 2: We got some big plays coming.
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  Speaker 4: What the hell's going on? It's the huddle.
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  Speaker 4: Drew Olsen, Armin Sarian.
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  Speaker 2: Billy Schmidt is in.
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  Speaker 4: Tampa St. Pete for the game tonight. We just heard
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  Speaker 4: from him. Hunter Baumgart going to join us in about
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  Speaker 4: 25 minutes. Glad you're hanging out with us on Fox
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  Speaker 4: Sports Radio 920 Milwaukee 1070 in Madison. Also streaming live
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  Speaker 4: on Facebook X and YouTube. We will turn it over
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  Speaker 4: after this hour to Hunter Baumgart who will host a
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  Speaker 4: two-hour pregame show. Yes, from Tampa. Getting ready. On site,
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  Speaker 4: he will be getting us ready for game three. Brewers
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  Speaker 4: facing Freddy Peralta. who, Fastball Freddy, since August 26th, which is,
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  Speaker 4: by my math, two months ago from today, exactly, he
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  Speaker 4: is 7-0 with a 0.89 ERA. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 5: That's incredible stuff. And they sure fixed him. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: whatever it was that was ailing him, maybe he was due.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe it's the weather. They've said that in Florida.
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  Speaker 4: He's good. He was the American League Pitcher of the
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  Speaker 4: Month in September. He was the MVP of the ALCS.
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  Speaker 4: He's crushed for them. Victory over Cleveland. And he has
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  Speaker 4: turned into an ace. And he's doing it for the Rays,
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  Speaker 4: not the Mets, who traded for him. So Mets fans.
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  Speaker 4: They're the big loser here, right? I mean, he was
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  Speaker 4: really good here, obviously. And then last year was his
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  Speaker 4: best year. That's right. Brewers traded him.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he was, you know, the Mets are the
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  Speaker 5: big loser in this. They have to be wondering what happened, why,
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  Speaker 5: and how. And, you know, you get the right crew.
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  Speaker 5: You get the right coaching staff, the right environment, the
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  Speaker 5: right change of pace to sometimes tweak a couple things.
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  Speaker 5: The right group of guys around you. And it's worked
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  Speaker 5: for Freddie. Now you have to hope he's due to
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  Speaker 5: have a bad one.
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Even in his best, most hottest stretches here, Drew, I
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  Speaker 5: don't think he ever had a sub-1 ERA. That doesn't
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  Speaker 5: seem sustainable, even for the best pitchers of all time.
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  Speaker 5: So maybe tonight's the night. They were excited about his
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  Speaker 5: uptick in velocity as well during the LCS winter. They
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  Speaker 5: were talking about that. I know a little bit about
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  Speaker 5: the thought that he might be better in that weather
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  Speaker 5: in Florida at home.
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  Speaker 4: In that dome, yeah. Possibly. Could be. We saw that
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  Speaker 4: with some of the Brewers pitchers, but everyone's good at home, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's part of it. All right, time for our current
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  Speaker 4: electric superhero of the day, and we've got a couple nominees,
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  Speaker 4: including Aaron Ashby, who I think you can make a
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  Speaker 4: case is the MVP of the, not just the, he's
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  Speaker 4: the playoff MVP. He might be in the mix, that's
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  Speaker 4: for sure.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, man.
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  Speaker 4: He'll win the golden boot or whatever it is, right?
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  Speaker 4: World Series MVP. And he's getting competition from his own
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  Speaker 4: William Contreras, who's been incredible. He's making things happen with
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  Speaker 4: his at-bats. He's throwing runners out. He's blocking balls in
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  Speaker 4: the dirt. He is being Wild Bill.
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  Speaker 5: Dude.
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  Speaker 4: And I had a friend of mine, a national media type,
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  Speaker 4: ask me, is he kind of like the, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Yelich is the captain, but is he kind of like
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  Speaker 4: the heartbeat of the Brewers? Yes, he is. If you
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  Speaker 4: watch the Brewers all year, when Contreras is going right,
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  Speaker 4: things are pretty good.
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  Speaker 5: I think you can make a case for that, for
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  Speaker 5: him being the backbone, the DNA, even Freelick, right? I've
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  Speaker 5: kind of looked at Woody as the captain of the pitchers.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if he feels that way. So there's
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  Speaker 5: something about that as well. The elder statesman for sure.
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  Speaker 5: But William Contreras definitely kind of has that emotional pulse
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  Speaker 5: on the team.
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  Speaker 4: And he has an impact every time.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, not just at the plate, what he's done,
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  Speaker 5: but the way he's handled the pitching staff has been incredible.
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  Speaker 4: So lots of candidates for the Current Electric Superhero of
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  Speaker 4: the Day. Call Current.com, the website, to learn about Current
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  Speaker 4: Electric with the superheroes on the side of the van,
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  Speaker 4: superheroes inside the techs, making you and your family safe
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  Speaker 4: and taking care of you with the best service and
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  Speaker 4: the best prices around. Call Current.com. Kind of because we
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  Speaker 4: love a redemption story. Well, Cooper Pratt, the redemption story,
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  Speaker 4: it writes itself in game two, right? The error that
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  Speaker 4: opened the door to a four-run inning, and then the
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  Speaker 4: superheroes came out of the bullpen for the Brewers, including Ashby.
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  Speaker 4: But then Cooper Pratt dumps a hit in to drive
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  Speaker 4: in the eventual winning run.
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  Speaker 5: So impressive for a young guy, a rookie like this,
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  Speaker 5: to redeem himself, to stay focused, stay confident, and keep
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  Speaker 5: his faith, not give up.
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  Speaker 4: And especially in that at-bat going down one-two.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Stay focused. Stay focused. Keep the faith. Stay confident. Redemption story.
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  Speaker 4: I think we have to nominate J.J. McCarthy as one
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  Speaker 4: of our current electric superheroes of the day. Clearly. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's playing well. And his first start for the Giants.
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  Speaker 4: Coming back off a game when he nearly let his
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  Speaker 4: team back from a 24-point fourth quarter deficit. He was rocking.
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  Speaker 4: He was rolling. And he led his team to a
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  Speaker 4: victory in overtime yesterday. Weird stuff happens in the NFL, Drew,
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  Speaker 4: all the time. It's a week-to-week league.
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  Speaker 5: Even Wayne earlier today when he was on said, you
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  Speaker 5: can't really figure what's going to happen because it changes everything.
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  Speaker 5: But I still think this is just a little bit
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  Speaker 5: of a flash-in-the-pan bump, beginner's luck type stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe in McCarthy.
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  Speaker 5: However, he could prove me wrong and all of a
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  Speaker 5: sudden become this great, consistent thrower.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he had success with the other Harbaugh brother. That's
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  Speaker 4: a good point. He did have that in college. So
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  Speaker 4: we'll see what happens. Maybe there's something there.
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  Speaker 5: John Harbaugh has done a good job with the Giants,
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  Speaker 5: I think, we'd all say.
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  Speaker 4: Another entrance for our current electric superhero of the day,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to say our friend Hunter Baumgart. And the
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  Speaker 4: trio of guys who are there night in, night out.
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  Speaker 4: Todd Rosiak, Adam McKelvey, Kurt Hogue. The guys on the
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  Speaker 4: front lines are providing information about this team all season.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely in the mix, yeah. Going to give them a
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  Speaker 4: shout out. I love that. As well as the Brewers
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  Speaker 4: radio team. They've been on their game. Levering, Grindle. And
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  Speaker 4: honoring Bob the whole way. That's been special. And Josh Maurer,
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  Speaker 4: who's been getting an inning a night. One of Levering's innings,
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  Speaker 4: because Levering's such a great dude to let Josh call
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  Speaker 4: on World Series games. Pretty cool. Dom Catronio, who's been
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  Speaker 4: supplying them with stats now that he's done doing that
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  Speaker 4: for B.A. on the Turner broadcast. Dom Catronio also. I
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  Speaker 4: saw a reaction shot of the boys in the booth
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  Speaker 4: when Sal Freelick hit the homer. And Dom Catronio is. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't see that. Living large. You got to watch that.
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  Speaker 4: Is that on Twitter somewhere? Yeah. Dom is going nuts.
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  Speaker 4: Couldn't see Ken Somerfeld, but I'm sure he was as well.
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  Speaker 4: But it was fantastic to watch that. Of course, Samuel. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: of course, of course. It's pretty cool. I would say also,
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  Speaker 4: current electric superhero candidates, the folks who are bartenders and
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  Speaker 4: servers at all the watch parties all over town.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness. Tip your bartenders. They've done a.
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  Speaker 5: Great job kind of hosting this county-wide party.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, statewide party. Statewide party.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's been just like everybody was partying in
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  Speaker 5: a game, too. Drew, you knew you were out and
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  Speaker 5: experiencing it. Everyone from out of town with the World
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  Speaker 5: Series and just loving it. And, yes, I mean, they've
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  Speaker 5: been the backbone of the service industry, people.
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  Speaker 4: We love that. Absolutely. Armets for the working man. Blue collar.
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  Speaker 4: Stadium workers as well. Have they had a tough job?
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  Speaker 4: My goodness.
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  Speaker 5: Ticket office. Dealing with, you know, people begging and upset
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  Speaker 5: and trying to find any.
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  Speaker 4: Way to get World Series tickets.
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  Speaker 5: These people have been working as hard as any. So
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  Speaker 5: I love that. And all the Brewers fans heading down
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  Speaker 5: to Tampa. Farmer Fred chiming in. And Farmer Fred is
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  Speaker 5: one of our favorite old regulars. Good to see him.
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  Speaker 5: Once I remember seeing him, he's back. I think he's
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  Speaker 5: down in Florida. Armin, if Hunter needs a designated drinker
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  Speaker 5: when the Brewers close it, I'll give him my number.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be sitting with my son in Florida watching game four.
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  Speaker 5: Sitting in section 209 with him for game five. Drew,
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  Speaker 5: how far this team has come since Scrap Iron's teams
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  Speaker 5: losing with two base runners.
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  Speaker 4: Standing on second base. Brewed in five. Give Woody an
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  Speaker 4: inning for the win. Farmer Fred. I don't remember that
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  Speaker 4: specific game, but maybe you do, Drew. I mean, yes.
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  Speaker 4: How far they've come. I think that's what you reflected
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  Speaker 4: on this last couple weeks. There were a few teams.
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  Speaker 4: There were a few times when Tom Hardcourt's line is
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  Speaker 4: the Brewers. They just need a second base coach. Because
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  Speaker 4: they had some issues back in the day. And he's
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  Speaker 4: been a guest columnist. Yeah. It's kind of cool. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Tom Hardcourt. It was cool to see him. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody else you want to nominate for our Hero of
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  Speaker 4: the Day? I got one more for you. Xavier McKinney. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: for saying it. For speaking his mind. We've got that.
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  Speaker 5: If you want to hear it somewhere, I've got a
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  Speaker 5: couple cuts of that somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: Let's listen to it. Yeah, I can pull it up.
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  Speaker 4: Just give me a second. Again, the opposite of the
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  Speaker 4: hero of the day would be the referees yesterday and
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  Speaker 4: the referees in general. We've been talking about it all day.
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  Speaker 4: We've been talking about it for weeks. It's becoming a
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  Speaker 4: crisis in the National Football League. But Xavier McKinney, the
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  Speaker 4: fact that he stepped there knowing he's going to get
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  Speaker 4: fined and caped up for his team. Again, the whole
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  Speaker 4: thing with Matt LaFleur, there are people who are mad
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  Speaker 4: that Matt LaFleur isn't being more... Take the fine and
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  Speaker 4: just vent and speak your mind about, we're getting screwed
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  Speaker 4: on these calls. The refs have to be better. We
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  Speaker 4: put everything into this game, our heart and souls. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they want to validate their feelings. So he's trying to
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  Speaker 4: take the high road, and I get it. And save money.
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  Speaker 4: But it's not... Here's the thing to me. It's not
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  Speaker 4: just like, oh, if he bitches about the refs, will
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  Speaker 4: it get better or worse? It can't get much worse
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  Speaker 4: than the Packers have faced. That's true. Can it get better?
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  Speaker 4: Maybe not. And it's probably going to get you fined,
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  Speaker 4: and the league doesn't like it. But who cares? I
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  Speaker 4: just think in the locker room, if you go nuts
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  Speaker 4: in the locker room, you don't want to create a
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  Speaker 4: culture where your players blame the refs for everything. And
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  Speaker 4: find excuses. Yeah, find excuses and stuff. And I get that.
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, if you send the message
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  Speaker 4: to the team that you got their back, when the
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  Speaker 4: chips are down, maybe they'll have your back. That's a
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  Speaker 4: good point. Maybe they'll rise up. So I think him
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  Speaker 4: venting would have been a way to send a message
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  Speaker 4: to the team.
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 4: And they do that. And with his criticism or lack thereof,
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  Speaker 4: he tacitly backed... Trey smack yesterday in the post game,
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  Speaker 4: you know, tough day, but when he's our kicker, you know,
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  Speaker 4: but I think he missed a chance there. And maybe
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't need to, maybe the locker rooms, the Packers.
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  Speaker 4: One thing, the Packers are, they are playing hard. I
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  Speaker 4: don't see a lot of people dogging. Now that Rashawn
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  Speaker 4: Gary's taken his talents to Dallas. I think the effort
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  Speaker 4: was good yesterday. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You just got to make high school kicks and stuff
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  Speaker 5: like that. And hold on to hold on to catches,
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  Speaker 5: but the effort's been good. Maybe, yeah, maybe he can
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  Speaker 5: galvanize the guys by sticking up for them a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, but there's plenty of chances to do it
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  Speaker 5: if he decides to. You know, there's no shortage of
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  Speaker 5: media opportunities for him. You know, and Drew, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that it would make a difference other
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  Speaker 5: than validating the feelings of fans that will say, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: say what I'm feeling, which in reality means nothing, but
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  Speaker 5: it'll make his wallet lighter. I don't think that's something
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  Speaker 5: he's excited about. Now, you could sit there and say, well,
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  Speaker 5: what's the big deal?
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  Speaker 4: He probably makes a lot of money. Well, Vrabel, as
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  Speaker 4: Billy points out, was fined a quarter million.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 4: That's a chunk for anybody. I don't care who you are.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but Xavier McKinney was the one to talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: You want to listen to a couple minutes of that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's listen. Let's hear what he had to say. Xavier,
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  Speaker 4: as a leader on this team, what do you say
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  Speaker 4: after missed opportunities seem to be the story of the
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  Speaker 4: day in all three phases? What do I say?
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  Speaker 5: I say it happens.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes... That's just how.
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  Speaker 4: The dice roll.
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  Speaker 6: I think we had guys in position to make some plays,
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  Speaker 6: but didn't come down with them. And then just in
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  Speaker 6: different phases, we had guys make plays that had potential
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  Speaker 6: to make plays that didn't make the plays.
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  Speaker 5: It happens.
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  Speaker 6: It's a part of the game. So I just say
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  Speaker 6: that keep working, and that's what we're going to continue
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  Speaker 6: to do. and when those opportunities present themselves again, we'll
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  Speaker 6: make the play.
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  Speaker 4: Last week after a win, you were talking about roughing
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  Speaker 4: the passer calls. This week after a loss, you guys
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  Speaker 4: will be talking about it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, what I say, I'm not a big
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  Speaker 6: fan of it. I don't know how the NFL is
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  Speaker 6: going to treat it, but I'm not a big fan
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  Speaker 6: of the refs right now. I don't think it's great officiating,
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  Speaker 6: if I'm being completely honest. I think it's a lot
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  Speaker 6: of the times. I think there are drives where You know,
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  Speaker 6: they make calls that don't even make any sense. For instance,
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  Speaker 6: we had a call. I think it was on– I
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  Speaker 6: forgot who it was on, but the runner was still running,
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  Speaker 6: and we didn't hear a whistle. We tried to get
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  Speaker 6: him down, and then their player hit the ref and
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  Speaker 6: he falls. He gets mad on the ground, and he
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  Speaker 6: just throws the flag. He don't even know who hit him.
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  Speaker 6: So it's just like– it just be– that's going on, calls.
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  Speaker 6: And I can't really tell you because sometimes we're not
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  Speaker 6: seeing the same calls for our quarterback. We're not seeing
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  Speaker 6: the same calls for our offensive guy. So I just
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  Speaker 6: don't really understand. It really don't matter if it's home
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  Speaker 6: or away. It's kind of been consistent throughout the year. So,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, obviously, like I said, it's not to make
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  Speaker 6: it as an excuse, but I just say it got
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  Speaker 6: to go both.
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  Speaker 5: Ways, man. That's all I got.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's basically a therapy. Xavier McKinney's caping up.
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  Speaker 5: Caping up and I think reflecting the feelings of a
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  Speaker 5: lot of fans and observers. But that's all it is.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's the problem with this. What else can
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  Speaker 5: you really do? Get madder and make something happen. It's
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  Speaker 5: not really necessarily productive.
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  Speaker 4: It might work.
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  Speaker 5: Just like full-time refs might work. But there's no evidence
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  Speaker 5: that it would. There's no logic that it would.
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  Speaker 4: Matt LaFleur can throw things at the podium. Will that
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  Speaker 4: change it? I don't know. Yeah, I'm just wondering about
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  Speaker 4: the psychology of it.
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  Speaker 5: The psychology is people want their feelings validated, and we're
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  Speaker 5: all mad watching it, and we feel justice to be served.
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  Speaker 5: But short of getting Goodell with the refs himself... to say,
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  Speaker 5: what is this nonsense? And maybe they're doing that today.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe they're getting reprimanded by the league. Maybe there is
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  Speaker 5: some of that closed doors in their assignment, you know,
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  Speaker 5: grading and things like that. If there is, it would
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  Speaker 5: behoove the NFL marketing-wise to show that to people.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, look, we hold these guys accountable. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 4: what you keep hearing from fans, right? I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what else you can do, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I think Matt LaFleur's approach is, There's nothing
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  Speaker 5: I can do except control what we can control. We're
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  Speaker 5: just trying to follow the rules and play the best
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  Speaker 5: we can and adjust to what's happening. If you get
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  Speaker 5: too preoccupied, I don't know what's really productive. It's like booing.
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  Speaker 5: It makes you feel good in the moment. It's a reaction,
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  Speaker 5: an emotional response. It's like the ref that threw the
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  Speaker 5: flag from his butt. It was an emotional response. It
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  Speaker 5: didn't make sense, but something does right now for the
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  Speaker 5: way this team is being officiated.
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  Speaker 4: Spinning through the... The Nicoletlaw.com talk and text line. Wildcat Mark,
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  Speaker 4: proud of Tucson, Arizona, said, who's not hot as the
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  Speaker 4: Packers kicker? I don't even want to use his name.
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  Speaker 4: It makes me cry when I say it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he gets a kick in the balls. There's no
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: pun intended there. But I think quite literally, he would be, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he would be the, unfortunately.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: The kick in the balls.
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  Speaker 3: That's an awful, awful call.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: I believe in being patient with guys. I'm all for it.
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  Speaker 5: And sometimes I think the Packers haven't been enough in
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: the past with kickers because the threshold is increasing. When
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: you look at Mason Crosby's first four years, his percentage
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: was in the 70s. But you can't miss those kicks, Drew.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: Can't.
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  Speaker 5: Those are high school kicks. He's made a lot of
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: tough kicks. He started off hot this year for the Packers.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: Made a lot of tough kicks. He's made a lot
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: of 50-plus yarders. He made as long as one yesterday.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: The scouting report on him was that he, like, loses
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: concentration on shorter kicks. Because they're too easy. And that
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: he might struggle from the hash, like, and overcorrect and
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: miss balls from the hash. Kind of what you saw.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Kind of what you're seeing. But you never, ever expect
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: an NFL kicker to miss a 25-yarder. No, especially inside.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: And now Mason Crosby missed, what, four? four field goals
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: and an extra point maybe in Detroit once, that nightmare
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: game for him. Then the Packers stuck with him, and
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: the next year he was 18 for 18. Sure, up
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: and down, but he had equity built up. He did.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: That's kind of the tough thing. Early in his career, though,
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: he missed a lot of kicks.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: We say a lot based on the threshold of what
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: we expect now, which is much higher.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we have.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: A higher expectation for kickers in terms of length, power,
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: and consistency.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: That's just the way it is.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: If you look at anders carlson has the best field
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: goal percentage in packer history for a full-time one-year kicker
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: true and we you know he was chucked aside well
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: now he missed a lot of extra points i get
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: that that was his issue but i mean that we
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: have a different approach and that's fine so there everyone
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: has been looking at brandon aubrey and for a while
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: you know once upon a time it was.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Um It was Turner, right? Yeah, Justin Turner.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: And you look at those guys and you say, we
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: need a weapon like this where kickers became a weapon
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: where they can threaten from 60 plus. And that's all
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: well and good. And Smack's done a 59. He's threatened
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: from deep. Even Habersick did. The problem is short consistency.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: You can't have those misses.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Well, and here's the other thing. As you look at this,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: as you look at, you know, Trace Mag. Yeah, if
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: he makes those kicks, ostensibly the Packers win the game.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: They lost by three. He left six points on the board.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Josh Jacobs left six points on the board with a
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: drop on a touchdown pass. Oh, yes. He'd tell you that, too.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: The drops by Melton and Golden short-circuited drives that could
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: have led to points. Evan Williams dropped one, if not two, interceptions. Well,
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: he caught one, dropped one, but one was called back. Yeah. Well,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: the one called back was a C-set. Oh, was that?
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: You're right. You're right. But I'm talking Evan Williams dropped
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: a pick, and I think I think Goff could have
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: thrown three picks. He had one, but there were, I think,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: two others that were dropped. And he hasn't thrown one
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: this year, right?
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, isn't that wild?
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, so he could have thrown three interceptions. Yeah,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: that's for sure. He lost a fumble. But, yeah, the
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Packers won the turnover battle. So, yeah, everything matters. And, again,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: everything is– Josh Jacobs catches that touchdown pass. We're looking
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: at a different result of some kind. I did have
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: the feeling throughout, though, the Packers were never really in
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: control of that game, even when they led in the
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: second half. It was just a matter of who was
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: going to get the ball last and how it's going
• 19:02
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  Speaker 4: birthday august 7th drew all right august 7th that's not
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  Speaker 4: a common birthday okay as i was just looking at
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  Speaker 4: something about the most common where does your birthday rank
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: i love this August the 7th. Everyone's counting back nine
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: months now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: One of the most common birthdays. Okay. Well, no, but
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: the thing is, the most common birthdays, the 10 most
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: common birthdays in the United States, eight of them are
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: in the month of September. September.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Ah. Good.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Do the math on that. Do the math.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Holidays.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Holidays, New Year's. December.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Cold days.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Everyone's stuck inside. The most common birthday, September 9th, number two.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Here they are in order. September 9th, September 20th, September 19th,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: September 14th, July 7th, December 28th, and then September 12th,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: September 10th, September 18th, and September 21st. That's uncanny that
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: it's that consistent. That is pretty wild. Absolutely wild. Now,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: the rarest birthday, what would you say the rarest birthday is?
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: If you think about it, it's the most obvious thing ever.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, nine months after Christmas?
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: No.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: No, the rarest. The rarest. Well, leap day. February 29th.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Leap Day, okay, come on. That doesn't count, though. Between
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: 1989 and 2024, Leap Day occurred nine times. Yeah, but
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: does that really count? Hard to be on. It's hard
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: to be born on that day.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Because it doesn't happen, but, you know. The second rarest birthday,
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Christmas Day.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because nobody wants to go to the hospital, so
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: they don't induce for those days.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: The third rarest day, January 1st. Yeah, same deal. The
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: fourth rarest, December 24th. The fifth rarest birthday in the
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: United States. Fourth of July? July 4th. 4th of July.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: We thought Lennon would come then. The 6th. January 2nd. Okay.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Then December 26th. And the last three. Nobody wants to
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: go to the delivery room when they can eat turkey.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: November 26th, 25th, and 24th. So we can control. Are
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the bottom three rarest. You can control some of these.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Isn't that funny how that works? I think you can.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: So major holidays are among the least common birthdays. Now,
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I have a friend's daughter who was born. On St.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Patrick's Day, pretty good birthday. Well, that's a good one.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: And I have a nephew who was born on Halloween.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: If you're in your 20s, it's a pretty good day
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: to have a birthday. Trick or treat. I was going
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: to say. Yeah. That's pretty wild. So, yeah, Christmas Day
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: is one of the rarest occurring birthdays. And December 28th
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: is sixth most common. So people do hold off to
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: get through the holidays. Find that interesting. I love that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: It's pretty interesting. I was just reading this at a
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: website called visualcapitalist.com where they do data breakdowns and stuff.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: I love that stuff. Yep. Fantastic.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Hey, Madtown Ryan wants everyone to mail letters to the league.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: At least he's giving me something actionable.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I don't think. Oh, there you go. But here you go, everybody.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Here's the address.
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  Speaker 5: Fantastic.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Well done, Madtown Ryan.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: When we come back, Hunter Baumgart's going to join the party.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: He's live in St.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Pete.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: He's at the Trop getting ready for game three. of
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: the series and more immediately getting ready for a two-hour
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: pregame show that will begin right after the huddle here.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Hunter Baumgart is next. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Moving forward
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: almost two and a half hours away from first pitch
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: game three of the World Series between the Brewers and
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: the Rays with the Brewers holding a somewhat, somewhat intimidating
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: 2-0 lead. Joining us now live from the Trop, it's
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: our pal Hunter Baumgart. Hunter, welcome to the program. Thanks
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: for hanging out with us and thanks for giving us
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: a view from the field.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: No problem. Hopefully you can hear me and see me okay.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: We've got... Brewers fans are arriving in droves so far.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: The gates opened just a bit ago, and yeah, you're
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: starting to see the Brewers fever that is taking over St.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Pete. Yeah, we do, and Hunter, we see it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: We see the top of the trop, the roof that's
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: white that apparently some Brewers I saw floating around the
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: internet had an issue with, but hey, this is, you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: I feel like this time of the year, everyone's played
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: in every stadium. Most guys have, unless you're like a rookie,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: and you're kind of used to it, but maybe they're just...
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: keeping themselves loose, but I don't think it's anything unusual
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: for these guys at this time of the year.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting. Jake Bowers just talked about it. We
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: have Kurt Hogan of the Journal Sentinel saying a quick
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: hi here.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: What's up, Kurt? On the video stream.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Wow, what a moment.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: This is it. World Series. Yeah, who knows?
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Who knows who's going to drop by? We got everybody.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: There's so much media down here right now, all doing
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: their live hits and whatnot, including us here. So, yeah,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Jake Bowers just said, though, that he played in Tampa
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: his first year in the big leagues, and he said
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: he never got used to it. The big problem is...
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: the baseball is the same color as the roof. And
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: it's the simple answer, but it's the truth. So as
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: long as you keep your eye on it, you're fine.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: But if you lose it, then it becomes a problem.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: So they worked extensively yesterday at making sure the guys
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: were as ready as they can be by shooting pop-ups
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: in the air with the machine that they had. And
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: that really helped.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: That was the old Metrodome deal too, right, Drew? Yeah,
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: a little bit, yeah. Well, the thing is, Armin, not
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: that many brewers have probably played there because I think
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: the last time they played there, Wasn't it at Steinbrenner
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Field when the TROP was under repair? That's a good point.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: I forgot about that.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah. 2023 was the last time the Brewers were here
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: at TROP Canofield.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: That's what I thought. So Billy mentioned it. You've been
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: there longer than Billy. You got there yesterday for the workouts.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Are you seeing a lot of Brewer Blue? Are you
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: seeing a lot of Cheezers? Wisconsin Plates, as we like
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: to say?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really cool. The plane that I was on,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: broke into a Let's Go Brewers chant after when the
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: people were getting off the plane. So you could already
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: feel the fever there. And then just walking around, absolutely,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: you see a lot of hats, a lot of jerseys,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: a lot of shirts. And just right now, the section
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at right now has a ton of A brewery.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, the brewery side of the field. So
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: that's that's a reason why. But there are just a
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: lot of people in brewers jerseys coming in. I mean,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: I got to think it's close to 50 50. We're
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: just looking at what I'm seeing right now coming in. Obviously,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I'm on the I'm on the brewer's side. But I
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: you know, if not, that may be a little less
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: than that. But I don't know. It's going to be
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: loud in here when the brewers do something good.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: It is going to be Hunter Baumgart joining us live
• 25:57
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• 26:00
  Speaker 4: All right, Hunter, it seems like the lineup is chalked.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Nothing's changed there. Are you getting any inklings? Was there
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: anything percolating pregame? Any inkling on who might start game four?
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Or is it all hands on deck tonight? What are
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: you looking at?
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't. But there was not very much of
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: an answer there. I mean, it's interesting because they're following
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: the game, the NLCS formula a little bit, right? Where
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: we saw Dustin May in game two. And then the,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: you know, could he pitch in maybe the bulk scenario,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: possibly in game four? That could definitely be a possibility. Obviously,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Brandon Woodruff is out there and could be a possibility.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: And so I guess it probably depends a little bit
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: on what happens tonight. What the Brewers have done, you know,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Robert Gassler is able to throw five innings against the Dodgers.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: So I don't think he's going to necessarily be, you know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: pulled after like Drowen was after five hitters. I think
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: it's just see how long he can go. He's proved
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: to be a guy that could do that. He's been
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: really good. Nine innings, a 1-0-0 ERA so far in
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the postseason. His two starts on the road have been good.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: This is, you know, San Diego series. They went Dustin
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: May in three, Robert Gasser in four. They won game four. NLCS,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: they wanted to go Gasser in game three. Obviously, they
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: were able to get five innings out of him there,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: able to win that game. So I feel like this
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: is going to be a similar scenario where they try
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: to get as much as they can out of Robert Gasser.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: And then where the chips fall after that defense may
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: be where he comes out.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Is my logic flawed, Hunter? I feel like Woodruff has
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: to either start a game here to get ready and just,
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: I don't know about an up-down, but let him go
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: 40 pitches, tops, wherever that may be. Or is the
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: best scenario for Brandon Woodruff that the Brewers are in
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: a clinching situation, they're up 10-1, and he gets the
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: last three outs for the Brewers and is on the
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: mound when the Brewers win the series?
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's the dream, right? That is the dream,
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: but you can't manufacture that. You can't necessarily hold him
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: for that.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Now, could he.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: pitch you know obviously can't come back in the same
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: game but say he I don't know in some world
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: you pitch an inning tonight right and then he's available
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: you know the next day probably so like it's not
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: like you know unless he pitches you know as a
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: high pitch count or goes more than a couple innings
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I'd say he's probably not available for the next day
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: plus obviously you see how he in the world he
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: bounces back like there's a lot of factors there if
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: he were to come into one of these games You
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: would love to save him for that. You know, he
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: talked to reporters after game two and said, there were
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: some times where I thought I might come in. So
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: they're like, it's not out of the realm of possibility
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: if he comes in a close game. I think they're
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: going to rely more, especially with the off day yesterday,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: rely more on those, you know, those guys that have
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: gotten them there, right? They've asked me or eBay McGill,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: McGill didn't pitch in game two. So he's going to
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: be fresh coming in tonight. That's not where Woodruff will be, but.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: If he doesn't start a game here, whether it's game four,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: if there's a game five, maybe that happens. But otherwise,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: I think overall, you're probably going to see Woodruff in
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: a shorter capacity and maybe not save for that specific time.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: It would be amazing, and the storybook would be awesome.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: That would be the coolest part. If that could happen,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: if he's on that mound and the Brewers win their
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: first ever World Series, there's nobody else you'd want. But
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: we'll see if that scenario obviously plays out.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: It would be amazing, no question.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: And I think a lot of it depends on how
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: everyone else does, how their scheduled plan goes. I mean,
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: if things go according to plan, you might not need him.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: But hey, if there's a scenario in which one of
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: your stalwarts is kind of faltering and you might say
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: to yourself, we need a live arm, we need someone
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: we think we can do it. And if he's pitching
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: as well as they think he did. In the bullpen
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: sessions or in the simulations, it might be him. And
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: who knows who could step up and be an unexpected hero?
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: I think about Andrew Vaughn. We haven't seen him yet. Hunter,
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: might there be an Andrew Vaughn moment, a spot for
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: him in Tampa? Yeah.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: You know, Santa has just had his second at bat
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: of his postseason and I believe it was game one
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: so yeah these guys there can be the unlikely heroes
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: they've like he said Drew they're sticking with the same
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: lineup again third righty in a row third same lineup
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: in a row hey it's worked these two games why
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: not try it again but there's a reason then you
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: have your bench and I've talked about it countless times
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: how strong I think this position for the player group
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: is for the Brewers that they are so flexible there
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: that they feel like You know, if there's a lefty
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: out there, Andrew Vaughn, it could be a guy. Now,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: are they going to pinch it, you know, for Christian Yelich?
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: We saw that early in the game, in game two,
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: and that decision not to go with Yelich there. And
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Murphy talked a little bit about that actually today and
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: was asked about that. And he's like, it's just so
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: early in the game. He's like, if you do that then,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: then it sets up some dominoes. And then you kind
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: of have to think about, okay, the Rays now know
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: that they have one less righty on their bench. And obviously...
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Yelich has also been hot in the postseason. So there's
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: that factor, too. But if these scenarios come up, you're
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: in a one-run game, a close game, tie game. You've
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: got a lefty up there or a lefty on the mound.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: If you think Van Plon could be the guy, absolutely.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: So it's tough to fit him in just because you
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: saw him sometimes in that DH role, first base when
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Bowers was going through the skin splints. But now Bowers
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: is playing every day, and obviously Yelich has been hot.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: It is strange to me, Hunter, that the Brewers use
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: the bench so much during the year, and now they
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: really aren't. How much of that is because Mitchell and
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Freelick and even Hamilton have been hitting left-handers and Murph's
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: been letting them have those at-bats that he might not
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: have even a month ago? Yeah, it's good.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: They're having the success against them. I mean, when you
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: think about the lefty, you know, Mitchell, you know, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: obviously Freelick with the lefty on lefty home run, like
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: they're just stepping up to the moment, no matter who's
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: on the mound. So it's a, as, as the question goes,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: you know, how do you get better against left-handed hitter
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: left-handed pitchers? If you're a left-handed hitter, all you hit
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: against stuff, right? You get the experience and it seems
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Murphy's letting that go a little more. I think, I
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: feel like he does a little more than maybe other
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: managers would in those scenarios just because. He goes with feel.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, you think about what Aaron Ashby's doing. He
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: stays out there in the ninth. I got to think
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: there are some people saying, I think we should go
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: to McGill here. So that's the way he manages, though,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: and you can't fault him for it because the guy's
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: in the World Series with a 2-0 lead.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: No, and what he's done has worked.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: And you think about that, but now you have Freddie
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: on the mound tonight who's been great for the Rays,
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: totally turned his season around after his struggles. But he
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: is a righty, and the Brewers do a good job
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: working pitchers, and they had their pocket of lefties in
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: there as well. So you kind of hope that that
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: might be a good matchup for the Brewers with all
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: those lefties if they continue that patience and try and
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: get to that middle relief of the race.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: I think that's a great word, Armand. Patience tonight against
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Freddy Peralta, right? Because you know you can get Freddy's
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: pitch count up early. We all saw it as a member.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Of the Brewers.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: And the Brewers' offense is better than anybody at getting
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: that pitch count up. They saw over 180 pitches in
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Game 2. And so I think that's going to be...
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: significant as the Brewers fans here. Let me just give
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: you a little. The Brewers pitchers are warming up over there.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: The Brewers contingent, Hunter.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: So we already got let's go Brewers chance going. So, yeah,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: they're already starting to come out loud and proud here. But, yeah,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: the patience, the patience is is the key tonight against
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Freddie Peralta. You know that he's a guy you can
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: make work. And so that's that's what they that's that's
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: exactly what they should do. Keep doing what they do
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: on all postseason.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Have good at bats.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Work deep into account. And that's how you can get
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: to Freddie on.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: The way out here. Hunter and Hunter is getting ready
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: for a two hour pregame show that will follow this show.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Right here tonight, Milwaukee baseball tonight, whatever we want to
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: call it, the baseball pregame show will fire up right
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: when the huddle is done. What's the messaging like from
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: the Tampa side of things? What did Kevin Cash have
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: to say? The Rays were in those games. They made
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: their own mistakes. They got to feel like they were
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: right there on the cusp of beating the Brewers. So
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I don't know if confidence is an issue for them
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: at this juncture, but they're facing, let's call it what
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: it is, an elimination game. You don't come back from
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: 3-0 down against this Brewers team. So tonight is everything.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Is it all on Freddie? Is the offense ready? Do
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: they feel like there's something ready to be unlocked? Are
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: they ready to eliminate their base running mistakes and their
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: defensive miscues? What is the messaging coming from the other side?
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: I feel like they feel that they're not playing their
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: style of baseball, right? Or they're playing their style, but
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: they're not doing it as well as they could, right?
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: You see some of the defensive miscues, and we've seen
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: that from the Brewers a little bit as well, but
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: they've overcame, they've kind of made up for that. But
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: the Rays just are making more mistakes than I think
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: they're used to, right? Game one, you saw the stolen base,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: the steal of third base, and they got thrown out,
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: like maybe not the time to run there, scoring position
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: with two outs. You also have other opportunities. that you've
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: missed the drop ball in left field. These are things
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: that the Rays have been good. They've been good at
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: the little things. Again, like the Brewers, they've been good
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: at the little things. And that just has not necessarily
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: showed up in the last two games. But they've also
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: had the tying run at third in the ninth inning,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: both games. So like you said, they've been in it five, four, three,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: two games, all one-run games in the first two games
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: of this series. So they're right there. So I think
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: they're excited to come back home. But like you said,
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: confidence is not an issue. But Ronda's not in the
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: starting lineup, which is an interesting note. And I wonder,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: you know, if Rick Gasser's out there, maybe when Gasser leaves,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: he'll be in. Maybe that would, I would think so.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: But so just something to watch there. I just think,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: like you said, it feels like an elimination game. You know,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: one team has ever come back from 3-0. So obviously
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: that is a hard thing to do. And the Brewers
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: have all the momentum. They're going to have a lot
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: of fans here. Brewers have quite the opportunity this evening
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: here to really just kind of squash this thing. against
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: their former pitchers.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: That's for sure. Yeah, an interesting stat shared by Adam McKelvey.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: For people who say this is tough on their blood
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: pressure and their heart, perhaps, the Brewers have played 90
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: postseason innings so far, and at the end of 66
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: of them, the game was within a run either way,
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: either tied or one run separate in 66 of the
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: 90 innings.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: I've been talking to people, just friends, and they're like,
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: I'm going to sleep so good this winter. I mean,
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: this month has just been amazing. It's awesome, but it's
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: just the emotions of these games.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: You feel like you just ran a marathon after these
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: games because you're so close and there's so many moments.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: It's a lot, and if you put a lot of emotion,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: it's fun. We know that. It doesn't mean we're not tired, though,
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: but it's fun.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: But if you put a lot of emotional energy into
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: these games, the playoffs, like a lot of us.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Do, It is a lot, you know what I mean?
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: But it's fun.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Not complaining, though.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: Not complaining. Hunter, thanks for joining us. Get ready for
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: your show coming up in just a few minutes. Yeah, exactly.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: We're going to hear from a bunch of players. We're
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: going to hear from Robert Gasser. We're going to hear
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: from Freddy Peralta as well, who met the media, had
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: some interesting things to say and good things to say
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: about the Brewers and more. So we'll hear that coming up.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Aaron Ashby, Bryce Durang, you're going to hear from. You're
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: going to hear from Jake Bowers. You're going to hear
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: from Pat Murphy. All coming up in the next two
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: hours in the special two-hour edition of the Baseball Pre-Game
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Show here from Tampa.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: All right, Hunter, enjoy yourself. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Thanks, guys.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: And keep an eye out for Billy Schmidt, too. He's
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: going to be right there in the middle of all
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: those fans, I'm sure, when they're celebrating at the end.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: Billy will be back with us tomorrow. Hunter's taking over
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: the airwaves beginning at 5 o'clock. Hunter, of course, brought
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: to us by Community Roofing, communityroofing.com, the website. We're going
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: to be back to close up shop and look ahead
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: to this evening and to what lies ahead, what could
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: be another glorious week. You're in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: Armin bringing us back as he often does. For those
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: of you not on the stream who can hear the music,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: you got to listen to Fox Sports Radio 920 or
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: 1070 to hear the bump music. But you're bringing us
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: back with Glory Days. Is that the Brewers version of
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: We Are Family? It seems to have become... It's their
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: victory song, but it is not indeed like a rallying cry.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: So the Brewers have always had victory songs, I think,
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: mostly at the stadium. They've had the same song, but
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: I think they've won so much... It's becoming a little
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: more ubiquitous. I like that word drew. Is this kind
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: of becoming our, our thing? Like I I've long thought
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: the brewers have lacked that like a, you know, a
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: song that everyone sings in the park, kind of our tradition,
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: not necessarily go cups go like a unique song, but
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: something where, where it's our thing where, you know, besides
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: roll out the barrel and it's kind of been picking
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: up everyone's, you know, glory days has become the theme.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: I guess that's what I'm looking for. Is this becoming
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: our theme? And do we need that? And would there
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: be a better pick? I don't think there would be.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: They have a Bruce song. Everyone singing at the same
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: time in the crowd.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: If the Brewers win, maybe Bruce can come and perform
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: this for Pat Murphy as a favor for all the
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: publicity he's been giving him.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: I just feel like a lot of these teams and
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: franchises that have a tradition like that where everyone's singing together,
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: that would be pretty nice if that was this song.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: You see it a lot in college.
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: Somebody told me everyone's picking up like a tradition now.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: Like we're some college fan base. The whole stadium sings
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: like bright side or whatever.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: Bright side. Yeah. Where do you come down as a
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Marquette alum and a golden Eagle slash warriors loyalist that
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: the brewers have appropriated a jump around for late innings
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: in between innings? Oh, that's I get it.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, this is Wisconsin and that's become synonymous with
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: the state.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: So I have no problem with it. I mean, Are
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: you asking me if I will jump around? Yes. I'll
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: do it for the Brewers. How about that? You will.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: I'll do it for the Brewers.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: Of course, how many people jumping at Camp Randall are
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: actually jumping, except besides the students?
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: I think a lot. People were jumping at AmFam.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: The other night.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: They were jumping at AmFam, that's for sure. We're jumping
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: for this team.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: I'm curious to know what it's going to be like
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: tonight at AmFam for the watch party.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: This is going to be a packed watch party, and
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: I'll be there. I'll be there. Here's the thing. Oh,
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: you'll be there, okay. Yeah, I'm going tonight and tomorrow. Well,
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: here's the thing. Tonight's going to feel like the World
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Series because it's the first game at home for the Rays,
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: and they're going to do the full-on introduce everybody thing.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: It was scaled back between game one and game two.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: The pregame production. They didn't have Rinaldi. I don't know.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: Did you see the Rinaldi video? Was that because I
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: know Fox had a football game go overtime or something?
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: No, I watched the whole thing because I tried to
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: stream it on the app so that way I could
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: watch the whole thing.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: You had the whole Rinaldi masterpiece. Yeah, so Friday night.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: I was wondering about that. But yeah, was it Friday
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: for game one?
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: And I knew one person that was involved in the crew.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: The cards. They flip all the cards over.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Had to go to rehearsals and stuff like that. I
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: don't know how she got involved in that, but I
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: saw a couple of people that were, that I know
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: were in that as well, but the atmosphere was fantastic.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: I'm sure it's going to be rocking at the trop,
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: but the fact that it could be half brewers fans,
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: it's going to be remarkable. It will be remarkable. And,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: and it's, you know, you hope that that makes a
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: big difference. Cause when that'd be great. And the Dodgers fans,
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: like how did game three go for the Dodgers? In
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: the NLCS. Game four, they were up early and lost.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: They blew a four-run lead, which the Rays just did
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: on Saturday night. Correct. But game three, it had to
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: be tempered a little bit, because when you get your
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: first game of a series at home, you're fired up,
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: but you're down 2-0. You're in a hole. Right, so
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: there's that natural kind of woefulness. It's like starting down
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: three runs. Yeah, there's a natural woefulness.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: For the excitement, and then you get the excitement, and
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: you feel like you're already behind the eight ball. I'm
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: sure the Rays fans are charged up, but it's not
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: what it would be if they were up 2-0 at
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: this point.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Clearly. So the fan psychology will be fascinating tonight. And
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: we've got Billy there as boots on the ground. We've
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: got Hunter Baumgart there. Hunter is about to take over
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: the airwaves and interwebs with a two-hour pregame show chock
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: full of information and a lot of interviews that he's conducted.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: It's going to be spectacular. I mean, it's here we
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: are the first time in our lives, Armin, with baseball
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: a going concern locally. In the dying days of October. October.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is almost November, so.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: It's going to make the winter a lot shorter around here,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: especially if the Brewers win. And then we can start
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: thinking about, if they win tonight, we can start thinking
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: about parades. Let's hope. Potential roots. One day at a time,
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: and let's hope. Yeah, well, we'll see. It's all in
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: the balance tonight. Fastball Freddy against Bobby Diesel. Hope everybody
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: has a great time. If you're going to the watch party,
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: just chilling at home. If you're going to a bar,
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: have a great time. And we will see you tomorrow
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: at 2 o'clock for The Huddle.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Peace.