Latest / The Huddle / 09/17/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:00Speaker 1: We are huddled up. It's the Thursday edition, the September
- 0:04Speaker 1: 17th edition of the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin, nine 20, Milwaukee,
- 0:08Speaker 1: 10 70 Madison, everywhere on the art app streaming live
- 0:10Speaker 1: Facebook X and YouTube drew Wilson, Bill Schmidt, Armin. Sorry. And,
- 0:14Speaker 1: and there's no hangovers today. Not for us or your
- 0:19Speaker 1: Milwaukee brewers.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Everybody ready to rock and roll. No problems asked. Just
- 0:24Speaker 2: fire up and a show and go. And you're ready
- 0:26Speaker 2: to roll, right?
- 0:27Speaker 1: That's right. Brewers beat the pirates last evening. picking up
- 0:30Speaker 1: a game on both Los Angeles and Atlanta. I'm not
- 0:34Speaker 1: even worried about Atlanta anymore. Just put the, put the
- 0:36Speaker 1: X by them, right?
- 0:37Speaker 2: Yeah. And instead he just keep, keep an eye towards that,
- 0:42Speaker 2: that LA team and any L that they take at
- 0:44Speaker 2: this moment is, is one to be celebrated because they've
- 0:47Speaker 2: started rolling. They've started getting some of their, their horses
- 0:50Speaker 2: off of the IL and, Yamamoto, I saw when seven
- 0:53Speaker 2: innings gave up a hit earlier in the week, Blake
- 0:56Speaker 2: Snell's back pitching. So any, any L's that they can
- 0:59Speaker 2: hold are a good thing. And that was, listen, I'm
- 1:03Speaker 2: glad that they didn't make the owner wait another day
- 1:06Speaker 2: to be able to pop that Kirkland champagne. Drew, they
- 1:09Speaker 2: had everybody in attendance. The ivory tower was there. Let's
- 1:12Speaker 2: fire that thing up. And then we can worry about the,
- 1:14Speaker 2: the rest of the standings on Wednesday night.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Yes.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Right.
- 1:17Speaker 1: The Dodgers can't, it didn't clinch yet yet. It's momentary,
- 1:22Speaker 1: although the Padres are still playing well. Brewers, only thing
- 1:27Speaker 1: left now is to get that number one seed because,
- 1:30Speaker 1: like I said, Atlanta's not catching them. You're up six
- 1:35Speaker 1: with ten to play.
- 1:36Speaker 2: No, that one is not going to happen at this
- 1:39Speaker 2: point in time.
- 1:40Speaker 1: And you're up three with ten to play with the Dodgers,
- 1:42Speaker 1: which sounds more precarious than it is because, as we
- 1:46Speaker 1: always say, the baseline, let's say it's 500. Say the
- 1:48Speaker 1: Brewers win five of their last 10 games and they
- 1:51Speaker 1: win 100 games. I think 100 games is now the
- 1:54Speaker 1: goal because that gets you to 100 for the first
- 1:57Speaker 1: time in franchise history. And it basically puts the Dodgers
- 1:59Speaker 1: out of reach.
- 2:00Speaker 4: Yes.
- 2:00Speaker 1: The magic number is seven. So if the Brewers go
- 2:03Speaker 1: five and five, the Dodgers have to go nine and one.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
- 2:07Speaker 4: I like that. I like that.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Go five and five, win the hundred. And you, That's
- 2:11Speaker 1: what it's about now, I think, for people. It's the math.
- 2:13Speaker 3: I think they assume we're going to even, I think
- 2:15Speaker 3: a lot of people just assume we're getting that one seed.
- 2:17Speaker 4: I mean, it's not a done deal.
- 2:19Speaker 1: It's not a done deal, but it's looking very, I'd
- 2:20Speaker 1: rather be the Brewers than the Dodgers. That's for sure.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Now we're just chasing round numbers. Yeah, so we're just
- 2:26Speaker 1: chasing round numbers. But the math is the math. And
- 2:28Speaker 1: to be up three games with 10 to play is
- 2:31Speaker 1: a very good situation.
- 2:33Speaker 2: And also, whether or not the standings, what the box
- 2:36Speaker 2: score would say, I think the better part at September
- 2:40Speaker 2: 17th than you have felt in years past is at
- 2:44Speaker 2: this moment, knock on some wood, that we're currently getting
- 2:50Speaker 2: healthy as well as your top guys playing better at
- 2:54Speaker 2: the right time. The month of September numbers for Bryce Durant.
- 2:56Speaker 2: They keep flashing them up on Brewers TV.
- 2:58Speaker 4: Disgusting.
- 2:59Speaker 2: And last night, I already know there were plenty of
- 3:03Speaker 2: Brewers fans that were counting out number 22 when seemingly
- 3:07Speaker 2: he does get into an 0-2 count faster than any
- 3:10Speaker 2: other player ever.
- 3:11Speaker 4: That I've watched in his career for as great of
- 3:14Speaker 4: a player as Yelly is.
- 3:15Speaker 2: It feels like he starts in O2, battles back, gets
- 3:19Speaker 2: the two runs on the base hit, and then you're
- 3:21Speaker 2: off and running from there. You're starting to get the
- 3:24Speaker 2: biggest contribution, it feels like, especially offensively, Drew, from your
- 3:27Speaker 2: top guys. And everybody's starting to get hot at the
- 3:29Speaker 2: right time instead of fizzle off.
- 3:30Speaker 4: At the wrong time.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Would be the biggest positive in that regard that they've
- 3:34Speaker 2: had in a while going into the postseason.
- 3:36Speaker 1: You just inspired a flashback because when I was covering
- 3:38Speaker 1: the Brewers many, many moons ago and their star player
- 3:40Speaker 1: was Greg Vaughn.
- 3:41Speaker 5: Absolutely.
- 3:42Speaker 1: I put in the story, you know, sadly, because he
- 3:44Speaker 1: was struggling. And, you know, when you only have one
- 3:47Speaker 1: star and he struggles, kind of makes the whole team
- 3:50Speaker 1: is going to make the engine stalls.
- 3:52Speaker 3: Right.
- 3:53Speaker 1: So I wrote in a story. Unfortunately, the most common
- 3:56Speaker 1: phrase uttered at the ballpark these days is here's the
- 3:58Speaker 1: O2 pitch to Vaughn. And Jim like wet himself. He
- 4:02Speaker 1: thought that was really funny.
- 4:03Speaker 4: That is funny.
- 4:04Speaker 1: That is like, and it was true. Cause it was,
- 4:06Speaker 1: he was in one of those things. Like every cat
- 4:07Speaker 1: was old too. He's always in a hole. And it
- 4:09Speaker 1: was like, yeah, yeah.
- 4:10Speaker 2: When you're, when you're a good, a good guy at
- 4:12Speaker 2: the plate, teams are going to attack you.
- 4:14Speaker 4: They're going to go right after you. And it does.
- 4:16Speaker 2: It feels like just like when the ball will find
- 4:18Speaker 2: you defensively, when you're struggling, man, when, uh, when you're
- 4:21Speaker 2: rolling bad, it feels like yellow shit.
- 4:23Speaker 4: There's never been a guy who's Oh, to an account.
- 4:25Speaker 2: Faster than him but he's battled and they've been able
- 4:28Speaker 2: to work through a number of counts but just feels
- 4:30Speaker 2: like offensively they're hitting much more of a stride than
- 4:33Speaker 2: a swoon as it's felt like they've done in yeah
- 4:36Speaker 2: definitely years past.
- 4:37Speaker 3: Absolutely Pratt with a couple of nice hits Ortiz is
- 4:40Speaker 3: still doing his thing and it was great to see
- 4:43Speaker 3: Alex get you know you didn't want to see him
- 4:45Speaker 3: take the over last night so I'm like well it'd
- 4:47Speaker 3: be great if he got a hit now you know
- 4:49Speaker 3: to rescue this game to get the big in the
- 4:51Speaker 3: big moment and and lo and behold he did it
- 4:53Speaker 3: so That was a good one, kind of a rescue
- 4:55Speaker 3: one last night because the Brewers obviously had the lead,
- 4:57Speaker 3: couldn't hold on to it as the Pirates finally found
- 5:00Speaker 3: the long ball last night.
- 5:01Speaker 4: Boy, blow.
- 5:02Speaker 3: What a season he's had. They've got some nice stories
- 5:05Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh. But rescuing that one last night and Yelly being.
- 5:08Speaker 4: The guy to do it was nice to see.
- 5:10Speaker 3: And then kind of seeing Dro in the late innings
- 5:15Speaker 3: there with his contributions, with Sensantella, Romero, then a rebate
- 5:20Speaker 3: with a big double play, and then McGill looked great
- 5:22Speaker 3: in the ninth, so Great to see for this Milwaukee
- 5:25Speaker 3: Brewers club finding ways to win still.
- 5:27Speaker 4: They really didn't need to yesterday, but they still did.
- 5:29Speaker 2: Pittsburgh offense, they're a confounding team when you really look
- 5:32Speaker 2: into how they got here. When we joked about it
- 5:36Speaker 2: in April and May, they were everyone's flavor of the year.
- 5:40Speaker 2: The Pirates are finally going to make the playoffs again
- 5:41Speaker 2: for the first time since McCutcheon was in his prime
- 5:44Speaker 2: and I was in college. But they have really good starters.
- 5:49Speaker 2: Jones is really, really good. Ashcraft had an all-star year.
- 5:52Speaker 2: Skeen's Being a little bit more pedestrian was probably the
- 5:55Speaker 2: biggest surprise that they had all year. But offensively, you
- 5:58Speaker 2: mentioned it with Brandon Lau. They picked him up from
- 6:02Speaker 2: Tampa Bay, who felt like he had been floated in
- 6:05Speaker 2: conversations for a number of years. And he comes in
- 6:09Speaker 2: and has the best run that he's ever had. And offensively,
- 6:12Speaker 2: they had a number of different guys. Like O'Hearn was
- 6:15Speaker 2: a phenomenal pickup for him. They spent some money in
- 6:17Speaker 2: the offseason.
- 6:17Speaker 4: Crazy idea, Drew.
- 6:19Speaker 2: They could raise the floor of that team, but realize
- 6:21Speaker 2: that the ceiling was still a little bit low for,
- 6:23Speaker 2: for the.
- 6:23Speaker 4: Young ball club there with the Buccos.
- 6:25Speaker 3: But I think for them, I mean, and this isn't
- 6:27Speaker 3: a pirate show, but for them, they could definitely find
- 6:28Speaker 3: excitement in this year.
- 6:30Speaker 4: I mean, they've, they've definitely improved. They've turned things around.
- 6:33Speaker 3: They probably found some hope in the future with this group.
- 6:36Speaker 3: They'll be, they'll hover around 500 probably the rest of
- 6:38Speaker 3: the way. And, and so, yeah, for them, you have to,
- 6:41Speaker 3: I would say, I mean, maybe you don't say it
- 6:43Speaker 3: out loud because whenever you don't make the playoffs in sports,
- 6:46Speaker 3: you don't, you probably aren't going to say it, but
- 6:48Speaker 3: it is probably a successful year for them based on
- 6:50Speaker 3: what they had done the last, you know, decade or so.
- 6:54Speaker 3: So there were as much of a bottom feeder and
- 6:57Speaker 3: seller as well, or in laughing stock as there was.
- 6:59Speaker 4: In the league and to be able to be somewhat competitive.
- 7:03Speaker 2: Hey, you get that many top five picks at some point,
- 7:04Speaker 2: you're going to turn something around, right? At some point
- 7:07Speaker 2: you would think you're going to have a chance to
- 7:09Speaker 2: flip it around.
- 7:09Speaker 4: Cleveland's still waiting. We'll see. We'll see. Maybe week two
- 7:12Speaker 4: is a little easier to the Browns. It's sort of
- 7:14Speaker 4: like what the Brewers were like.
- 7:15Speaker 3: I mean, the Brewers were having so much trouble for
- 7:17Speaker 3: years in the first round. And then you said to yourself,
- 7:19Speaker 3: eventually some of these guys have to hit. Then they
- 7:21Speaker 3: kind of all did for a while. You know, you
- 7:24Speaker 3: had so many hits for a while and then you
- 7:25Speaker 3: kind of built what you have now. So, yeah, I
- 7:27Speaker 3: think that's the idea. You know, as you try and
- 7:31Speaker 3: you try and if you had those picks, you try
- 7:33Speaker 3: and hit on him and see if you can build
- 7:34Speaker 3: something out of it. Yeah.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Our man Hunter Baumgart is on the scene in Pittsburgh,
- 7:39Speaker 1: and he has some reports for us, a post-game report,
- 7:42Speaker 1: some interviews. We're going to hear from Garrett Stallings. He
- 7:45Speaker 1: sent us some audio, so we will not talk to
- 7:47Speaker 1: Hunter live today. We'll let him sleep in, but we
- 7:50Speaker 1: will spin through.
- 7:51Speaker 4: Well, we're going to get him at 725. Assets that
- 7:52Speaker 4: he provided. He is going to come on?
- 7:53Speaker 1: Yeah, he's coming on. All right, let's go. I thought
- 7:55Speaker 1: he was going to take the morning off. I thought you.
- 7:57Speaker 3: Are just a taskmaster. We talked about it and he's
- 8:00Speaker 3: going to do it. He just wanted to make sure
- 8:01Speaker 3: that you guys were good with it and everything.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Oh, that we're not going to talk about the brewers?
- 8:05Speaker 1: I mean, come on.
- 8:05Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's going to work out. We're going to
- 8:08Speaker 4: have him on at 725.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Well, all right. I said correct it because I thought
- 8:11Speaker 1: Hunter was going to take the morning off and just
- 8:13Speaker 1: send us. A bunch of stuff.
- 8:14Speaker 4: Fill up on pierogies and pastrami. Nope, let's go. That
- 8:18Speaker 4: man is working.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Stay away from Cooper Pratt. You don't want to get
- 8:21Speaker 1: anybody ill at this point in the season. Did you
- 8:22Speaker 1: see they did the post-game infield hug after the last
- 8:26Speaker 1: out and Cooper Pratt did it? Just a couple of
- 8:28Speaker 1: air hugs. He did it remotely.
- 8:30Speaker 2: He was like five yards away. Well, listen, let's do so.
- 8:34Speaker 2: We got some practice in social distancing. Now we know
- 8:36Speaker 2: how to actually take care of it. Let's get after it.
- 8:39Speaker 2: That would be the tough deal, though, knowing all of
- 8:43Speaker 2: the fun that everybody was able to have the night before.
- 8:45Speaker 2: And you walk into the clubhouse saying, I mean, I
- 8:48Speaker 2: got a great night's sleep.
- 8:49Speaker 4: But that's about it.
- 8:51Speaker 1: They gave him the T-shirt, the hat, and the bottle
- 8:54Speaker 1: of sparkling cider because he doesn't drink alcohol.
- 8:57Speaker 4: Celebrate at home. There you go.
- 8:58Speaker 1: The Welch's. They gave him the Welch's, so he's included now.
- 9:03Speaker 2: If you're going to go with the bottom shelf of
- 9:06Speaker 2: the absolute worst kind of alcoholic champagne or maybe the
- 9:09Speaker 2: best kind of actual sparkling grape juice, the taste might
- 9:11Speaker 2: be a little bit different.
- 9:12Speaker 3: It might be even better. The sparkling grape juices, I mean,
- 9:15Speaker 3: I haven't. I haven't shopped in that aisle for a while,
- 9:17Speaker 3: but you got a few brands.
- 9:18Speaker 4: Oh, you will now.
- 9:19Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
- 9:20Speaker 4: That's what it is. Or you can just get, you know,
- 9:23Speaker 4: anything bubbly.
- 9:24Speaker 3: You can even get some little, you know, San Pellegrino
- 9:26Speaker 3: sparkling waters, you know. Get store brand LaCroix. You can
- 9:29Speaker 3: get whatever you want. You're there to celebrate. That's what
- 9:31Speaker 3: it's about. You know, that's what it's about.
- 9:34Speaker 4: I do like a good. You're celebrating with LaCroix. Well,
- 9:37Speaker 4: it's sparkling. It's something. You know, you get a flavored version.
- 9:40Speaker 4: I wouldn't.
- 9:41Speaker 3: I would get, you know, probably the store brand. And
- 9:45Speaker 3: stuff like that. Because if you're just going to dump
- 9:46Speaker 3: it out, you probably don't. Because, you know, the price
- 9:48Speaker 3: of aluminum cans these days, it's pretty wild, you know.
- 9:52Speaker 4: But, hey, I'll tell you what.
- 9:54Speaker 3: When you were a kid and the New Year's party
- 9:56Speaker 3: and the and the adults had the champagne you got
- 9:59Speaker 3: that sparkling grape juice and you tried to feel cool
- 10:01Speaker 3: and say hey i feel cool i got like a
- 10:03Speaker 3: sparkling grape juice here i'm like really cool so that
- 10:06Speaker 3: is a good memory so any way you can celebrate
- 10:09Speaker 3: any way you can celebrate right Troy Casper, early on
- 10:13Speaker 3: the YouTube, a lot of comments early on. Guys, let's
- 10:15Speaker 3: get these in quick. Snell left after the first with
- 10:18Speaker 3: groin tightness on a positive note.
- 10:20Speaker 4: Hey, there we go.
- 10:22Speaker 3: We'll take something there. I mean, I'm not cheering for injury,
- 10:25Speaker 3: but it is something there. Not cheering for injury, but
- 10:28Speaker 3: definitely just cheering for the injury.
- 10:29Speaker 1: I want to win a World Series.
- 10:31Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
- 10:32Speaker 1: I'm not cheering for the injury.
- 10:33Speaker 4: Well, that's good.
- 10:33Speaker 1: Well, I'm not cheering for it.
- 10:35Speaker 4: I mean, I do want to win a World Series.
- 10:37Speaker 4: I'm not going to lie. Okay, groin tightness. It's not
- 10:39Speaker 4: the end of the world for him. You know, if
- 10:41Speaker 4: you can't pitch, you can't pitch.
- 10:42Speaker 5: That's true.
- 10:42Speaker 4: You can get that rubbed out.
- 10:43Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 10:44Speaker 4: Paul K. Pause.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Pause.
- 10:45Speaker 4: Paul K. Paul from Kenosha. Good morning. Great night.
- 10:48Speaker 1: Put it out on a tee.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Laws is from the Dodgers and Braves. Great night with
- 10:51Speaker 4: the Brewers victory.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Good stuff. Well, all right.
- 10:54Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Keep the cards and letters coming. Eight, seven, seven, seven, nine, four,
- 10:58Speaker 1: one 97, three to the Nicolet law.com talk and text line.
- 11:01Speaker 1: So it's another good day to be a sports fan.
- 11:03Speaker 1: It's another 10% day. Packers getting ready for the J
- 11:07Speaker 1: E T S jets, jets, jets. I think if there is,
- 11:12Speaker 1: you tell me, is there a unit in the National
- 11:14Speaker 1: Football League or in any sport more fired up for
- 11:19Speaker 1: an opportunity for redemption than the Green Bay Packers offensive line?
- 11:22Speaker 4: I can't think of one, Drew.
- 11:25Speaker 2: As many times as the old adage would say, your
- 11:28Speaker 2: biggest improvement would be from week one to week two. Well,
- 11:31Speaker 2: there's plenty of plenty of room to improve. Well, there's
- 11:34Speaker 2: not much room to go down. You shouldn't be able
- 11:37Speaker 2: to get worse and there's plenty of room to get better.
- 11:39Speaker 2: So we'll see where the biggest jump ends up being. And,
- 11:42Speaker 2: and yesterday, I think the fascinating part of, you know, listen,
- 11:48Speaker 2: the head coaches can tell you how many times they
- 11:51Speaker 2: think the quarterback was affected and or how many times
- 11:53Speaker 2: NextGenStats wants to put on that, that Jordan Love got hit,
- 11:57Speaker 2: as Adam Senevich corrected. Actually, it was 18 times. It
- 12:00Speaker 2: was not 15 hits, which is clearly just not good enough.
- 12:03Speaker 2: They were so frazzled and littered with miscommunication on Sunday
- 12:09Speaker 2: that any opportunity to get back into an environment where
- 12:13Speaker 2: you're going to actually be able to somewhat be coherent
- 12:16Speaker 2: will help. MetLife Stadium will most likely be that place. Listen,
- 12:20Speaker 2: it's their home opener. There's going to be some excitement.
- 12:22Speaker 4: They just won a game. They haven't won an opener
- 12:25Speaker 4: in how many years?
- 12:26Speaker 2: So there'll be some excitement, no doubt about it, but
- 12:28Speaker 2: there will also be Jets fans ripe with pessimism and
- 12:32Speaker 2: waiting to erupt and fireman Ed fire the coach chance.
- 12:35Speaker 2: So you got to be able to operate a little
- 12:37Speaker 2: bit more cleanly. And I'm, I mean, I'm still just
- 12:41Speaker 2: fascinated to see, and I would love to know just
- 12:45Speaker 2: how different their work was in the last couple of
- 12:47Speaker 2: weeks that led Donovan Jennings to take.
- 12:50Speaker 4: Over for Jagger Burton.
- 12:52Speaker 2: And I'd be interested to see, Drew, if these three
- 12:54Speaker 2: days of practice, if all of a sudden a teeter-totter
- 12:56Speaker 2: evens itself out and maybe the young man gets himself
- 12:59Speaker 2: a shot a little bit easier.
- 13:00Speaker 4: Yeah, this is what I see for a lot of people,
- 13:02Speaker 4: I think.
- 13:03Speaker 1: This is a must-win game in many ways. But it's
- 13:08Speaker 1: just to get right, to shake off that, and just
- 13:10Speaker 1: make that feel like it was an aberration Sunday at U.S.
- 13:13Speaker 1: Bank Stadium. Make you restore some faith. And some good
- 13:16Speaker 1: vibes going into a quick, a short week home opener, right?
- 13:19Speaker 2: Yeah, the short week home opener is another part of it.
- 13:22Speaker 2: And I mean, at least the Jets have, you know,
- 13:28Speaker 2: pass rushers that have done it in the NFL. David Bailey,
- 13:30Speaker 2: second overall pick. There are high expectations for what he does.
- 13:33Speaker 2: Will McDonald's at a 10 sec. You're already in the
- 13:35Speaker 2: in the league. So they have a formidable pass rush.
- 13:38Speaker 2: The Falcons who are going to come in five days
- 13:41Speaker 2: to your home park, they definitely lost the majority of
- 13:45Speaker 2: their formidable pass rush to the point where they went
- 13:47Speaker 2: and signed Zedarius Smith a couple of weeks ago and
- 13:50Speaker 2: pulled him out of retirement. Not a full Aaron Donald situation. Shockingly,
- 13:54Speaker 2: he didn't get nearly as much pub. No, different situation,
- 13:57Speaker 2: different situation.
- 13:58Speaker 4: But he.
- 13:59Speaker 2: They were they were been in the James Pierce situation.
- 14:02Speaker 2: They lost Jalen Walker to a torn ACL and they
- 14:06Speaker 2: are a team that is very should be very easy
- 14:10Speaker 2: to operate against. So the next two weeks, while you
- 14:14Speaker 2: don't like to use hyperbole and it might feel like
- 14:17Speaker 2: it is to say it's a must win. No, you
- 14:19Speaker 2: got to get a win against the freaking New York
- 14:21Speaker 2: Jets and the Atlanta Falcons. If you have any hope
- 14:24Speaker 2: of being a playoff team and it being this early,
- 14:26Speaker 2: you have to perform.
- 14:27Speaker 4: Absolutely.
- 14:28Speaker 3: Billy, there's no excuses here for these two teams in
- 14:30Speaker 3: this situation. I think in some ways that might put
- 14:33Speaker 3: more pressure on this team and the old line, but
- 14:34Speaker 3: maybe that's a good thing. I mean, they have to
- 14:36Speaker 3: be pushed by something because I think they should have
- 14:38Speaker 3: been embarrassed by the performance they put out.
- 14:41Speaker 4: In week one.
- 14:41Speaker 3: And the thing is, all right, now the opportunity is
- 14:43Speaker 3: there guys for you to get right. So now you
- 14:45Speaker 3: have to get right. We talk so much about week one,
- 14:47Speaker 3: sometimes being like an aberration when you go back and
- 14:51Speaker 3: look over seasons and, Sometimes overreactions to week one are
- 14:54Speaker 3: a thing. So I was trying to tell myself at
- 14:56Speaker 3: least don't overreact. But boy, is it hard when that's
- 14:59Speaker 3: the first thing you see from your team in so long. But,
- 15:01Speaker 3: you know, there are times you remember the opener against
- 15:03Speaker 3: the Saints.
- 15:04Speaker 1: What was it?
- 15:05Speaker 3: A few four or five years back, four or five
- 15:07Speaker 3: years back when the Packers lost like 38 to three
- 15:09Speaker 3: and then went on to have a great year.
- 15:10Speaker 4: But there are some.
- 15:12Speaker 3: Times that you remember that week one can be an aberration.
- 15:15Speaker 3: You just hope that that's the case in this situation
- 15:17Speaker 3: as well. You hope that's the thing. That's the hope
- 15:19Speaker 3: you're holding on to, at least as a fan, because
- 15:21Speaker 3: you're like, well, didn't like the way that thing went.
- 15:23Speaker 3: So Jets, Falcons, we talk about chicken soup games. Well,
- 15:27Speaker 3: these should be the ones. And hopefully the Packers can
- 15:30Speaker 3: prove that out to be correct. The Zedaria Smith thing
- 15:33Speaker 3: is interesting. A lot of people probably didn't know. Yeah,
- 15:36Speaker 3: he's still getting in check. I don't know much about
- 15:37Speaker 3: what's going on with him. I do know one thing.
- 15:39Speaker 3: He's going to take it personally. Whatever he's playing, he's
- 15:43Speaker 3: going to play the Packers again. He's going to try
- 15:45Speaker 3: and make it personal because he always does.
- 15:46Speaker 1: He played well against Rodgers. on Sunday.
- 15:49Speaker 2: Yeah, he definitely had some juice in his rushes this weekend.
- 15:52Speaker 2: I can't say I watched the entirety of that game
- 15:55Speaker 2: because shockingly, the 2013 decision didn't pop up on Red
- 15:59Speaker 2: Zone a ton. But I had a nice little eye
- 16:02Speaker 2: on some of what he did. Listen, two sacks is
- 16:04Speaker 2: nothing to sneeze at. The Packers would take that.
- 16:07Speaker 4: You do that every week.
- 16:08Speaker 3: You're in pretty good shape. Yeah, the Packers would love
- 16:10Speaker 3: that right now. And he just always has a little
- 16:12Speaker 3: bit of extra energy. It was just a weird situation
- 16:16Speaker 3: when he walked away.
- 16:17Speaker 1: Right. When he retired.
- 16:19Speaker 4: Well, it's always a full boat.
- 16:21Speaker 1: But well, yeah. But he.
- 16:22Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 16:23Speaker 1: Now, when he had his press conference the other day,
- 16:24Speaker 1: when his like three family members died in short order,
- 16:27Speaker 1: his mother, grandmother and father.
- 16:28Speaker 3: Right.
- 16:28Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 16:28Speaker 4: Filled in the lines a little bit as the.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Yeah. So he retired when he found out his mom
- 16:33Speaker 1: was terminally ill. So it's like, well, who's you know,
- 16:36Speaker 1: who among us wouldn't.
- 16:37Speaker 4: Wouldn't wouldn't drop everything.
- 16:38Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. That was the only way that he could
- 16:40Speaker 2: get out of the deal that he had with the
- 16:42Speaker 2: with the Eagles.
- 16:44Speaker 1: So he said he was in a very dark place. Well, yeah,
- 16:47Speaker 1: I can understand that. And then he signed with the
- 16:50Speaker 1: Falcons because his mom wanted him to play in Atlanta.
- 16:52Speaker 1: I like it.
- 16:53Speaker 2: And also, listen, they're also going to pay, and they
- 16:57Speaker 2: needed some time. They have some reps available, right? That's
- 17:00Speaker 2: another part of it, and who knows? Four or five
- 17:03Speaker 2: weeks from now, he performs like this. They'll flip that
- 17:06Speaker 2: $ 5 million contract or whatever it was into a fourth-round
- 17:10Speaker 2: draft pick, and they'll ship him off at deadlines.
- 17:11Speaker 1: That's the Darius Smith, his whole arc and the story.
- 17:14Speaker 1: Cause I mean, he had the presser and people were like,
- 17:16Speaker 1: that's the most unbelievable press conference I've ever been to.
- 17:18Speaker 1: When he talked about in Atlanta, like why he went
- 17:20Speaker 1: away and what happened. That made me think, I wonder
- 17:23Speaker 1: where BJ Raji is these days.
- 17:25Speaker 4: I still haven't heard from him. I mean, I'm waiting
- 17:26Speaker 4: for that one of.
- 17:27Speaker 1: The unbelievable, like weird. Just disappearances in, in Wisconsin sports history.
- 17:33Speaker 2: And not only the disappearance from the public eye, but
- 17:36Speaker 2: seemingly from all like the teammates disappear. Yeah. Like, I
- 17:40Speaker 2: don't I don't know that many teammates have heard a
- 17:43Speaker 2: lot from him as well, but none of them seem
- 17:45Speaker 2: to be all that worried.
- 17:46Speaker 4: Like as if he's OK. Yeah, probably BJB and BJ. OK, cool.
- 17:51Speaker 2: I definitely thought you'd hear from him at some particular
- 17:53Speaker 2: point when he just suddenly walked. Was that right before
- 17:56Speaker 2: camp or was it in the middle of the offseason?
- 17:59Speaker 1: Great question, Billy.
- 18:00Speaker 4: I'm trying to remember. I kind of felt like it
- 18:01Speaker 4: was closer to camp or like right.
- 18:04Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was kind of like right before
- 18:05Speaker 1: those later.
- 18:06Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 18:06Speaker 4: March 14th. 2016.
- 18:08Speaker 2: And that's clearly right before free agent.
- 18:12Speaker 3: And I don't know, who knows if guys tried to
- 18:15Speaker 3: put the word out, who knows, but he just kind
- 18:16Speaker 3: of went away. So I still think about that same
- 18:20Speaker 3: thing from time to time. What's up with BJ now?
- 18:23Speaker 3: And there was an idea that he might come back
- 18:24Speaker 3: for a couple years, and that was kind of a notion,
- 18:27Speaker 3: but that went away, obviously. And maybe this is one
- 18:30Speaker 3: that we hear from your boy Jeff Perlman eventually, Drew,
- 18:33Speaker 3: where he tracks him down one day or something like that.
- 18:35Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 18:37Speaker 3: Sometimes that's what he does. But I would like to
- 18:39Speaker 3: hear about what he's doing these days, that he's doing okay.
- 18:41Speaker 1: But you're right.
- 18:42Speaker 4: It's a very similar situation.
- 18:44Speaker 3: Kind of mysterious in some ways, but he just wanted
- 18:46Speaker 3: to go off into the sunset.
- 18:49Speaker 4: And some guys, that's fine. I mean, you don't want
- 18:51Speaker 4: to be heard from.
- 18:52Speaker 1: How about the injury report popping out and Lucas Van
- 18:55Speaker 1: Ness and Javon Hargrave in the concussion protocol?
- 18:57Speaker 4: I miss those.
- 18:58Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 18:59Speaker 1: Van Ness, his last play in the game was the
- 19:02Speaker 1: touchdown pass to Jefferson with 355 left. And the replays
- 19:08Speaker 1: like that, nothing happened on that play. So it had
- 19:10Speaker 1: happened before that. And then Hargrave was on the field
- 19:11Speaker 1: for the last play of the game. So he was
- 19:13Speaker 1: still playing.
- 19:14Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 19:14Speaker 2: I was going to say, I, I seem to have
- 19:16Speaker 2: to miss that, that that can not be something the
- 19:18Speaker 2: NFL likes to likes to have out there. I mean,
- 19:23Speaker 2: in week one, in week one, two guys popping up
- 19:26Speaker 2: into protocol post game. Now, maybe that shows that their,
- 19:30Speaker 2: their procedures are working, but that's a, that is a,
- 19:33Speaker 2: that is a puzzling to say the least deal. I
- 19:36Speaker 2: mentioned David Bailey, number two overall pick coming out of
- 19:39Speaker 2: Texas Tech. No gloves, by the way, for David Bailey,
- 19:42Speaker 2: one of the rare cats in the NFL that will
- 19:45Speaker 2: rush without gloves. He lined on the defensive left edge,
- 19:49Speaker 2: 21 of 21. times, generating all six of his pressures
- 19:53Speaker 2: that way, and the super special next-gen stats that ties
- 19:56Speaker 2: that up together lines him up against Zach Bacoboelle, who
- 20:00Speaker 2: allowed seven pressures on 46 pass-blocking snaps it just like
- 20:06Speaker 2: you you see the game transpire drew and and obviously
- 20:09Speaker 2: Donovan Jennings Jacob Monk rightfully so getting a lot of
- 20:12Speaker 2: questions getting a lot of heat a lot of talking
- 20:14Speaker 2: points the other one is the fact that the one
- 20:17Speaker 2: guy that the stalwart of the group the dude that
- 20:20Speaker 2: you count on and pay.
- 20:21Speaker 4: To be one of the best dudes he was.
- 20:24Speaker 2: Not surprising slow coming off the injury so there's there's
- 20:28Speaker 2: a lot to get better at and uh even their
- 20:31Speaker 2: best guy had maybe his worst day on Sunday saying
- 20:35Speaker 2: that even if they don't all of a sudden walk
- 20:39Speaker 2: in and they're the old Washington Redskins-Hoggs offensive line, they
- 20:43Speaker 2: can get better and generally have gotten better throughout the year.
- 20:46Speaker 4: So we've got room for improvement. Week two, biggest, biggest
- 20:49Speaker 4: sign of improvement.
- 20:51Speaker 1: Biggest one.
- 20:51Speaker 2: It needs to be a hell of a big one, though,
- 20:53Speaker 2: because we need to get better throughout the whole year.
- 20:55Speaker 2: So we need to set a heck of a bigger
- 20:58Speaker 2: floor because right now we have been in the absolute basement.
- 21:02Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to hear from Hunter
- 21:04Speaker 1: Baumgart who was in Pittsburgh chronicling the Brewers Division Championship
- 21:08Speaker 1: and their quest for the number one overall seed and
- 21:11Speaker 1: 100 victories for the first time in franchise history. Hunter
- 21:14Speaker 1: Baumgart is next. We are glad the 5 o'clock clubbers
- 21:16Speaker 1: are with us. If you're up and around, check in 877-794-1973. NicoletLaw.com.
- 21:21Speaker 1: Talk and text sign. You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 21:26Speaker 4: Terenzo is one of the best defensive catchers in baseball.
- 21:30Speaker 4: It's that one in his favor. And Encarnacion Strand pops
- 21:33Speaker 4: an 0-2 up.
- 21:33Speaker 2: Lindor ranging out into shallow left.
- 21:36Speaker 4: And the ball will drop. Lindor, Bichette, and Soto.
- 21:40Speaker 7: About a billion dollars worth of Mets out in left field.
- 21:45Speaker 1: And none of them could pick it up.
- 21:48Speaker 5: Originally, I thought this was Francisco Lindor's ball.
- 21:50Speaker 3: Agreed.
- 21:51Speaker 4: This definitely is Francisco's ball.
- 21:53Speaker 5: And once you go out as a third baseman, Bichette
- 21:56Speaker 5: is waiting to hear Francisco Lindor say, And right there, too,
- 22:00Speaker 5: like he did hear something. Maybe not Lindor or not,
- 22:03Speaker 5: but you anticipated.
- 22:06Speaker 1: Oh, great moment. City Field.
- 22:10Speaker 4: Orioles. There's your picture.
- 22:11Speaker 1: Going to host the Brewers over the weekend. Orioles against
- 22:14Speaker 1: the Mets. And Orioles announcer Kevin Brown making the great
- 22:18Speaker 1: off the cuff. About a billion dollars worth of Mets
- 22:20Speaker 1: out there. And the ball fell between three guys. Combined,
- 22:23Speaker 1: worth about a billion dollars.
- 22:25Speaker 4: So good.
- 22:27Speaker 2: Right into the Bermuda Triangle of David Stern's spending.
- 22:32Speaker 1: Soto, Lindor, and Bichette.
- 22:34Speaker 3: Does anything give a better, more accurate picture of the
- 22:36Speaker 3: 26 Mets than that?
- 22:38Speaker 4: I mean, it's pretty wild. It is wild.
- 22:40Speaker 3: It is incredible to think of that much talent and
- 22:42Speaker 3: not being able to, in this case, catch a baseball,
- 22:45Speaker 3: but in general, perform well enough to make the team better.
- 22:48Speaker 4: But yeah, well, that's the call of the year right there.
- 22:51Speaker 1: That is. 877-794-1973.
- 22:54Speaker 2: Had to enjoy that because it made us chuckle. I
- 22:56Speaker 2: do like the former players right away. Well, see, I
- 22:59Speaker 2: thought it was actually the North trying to move right off.
- 23:01Speaker 4: Break it down.
- 23:02Speaker 2: Let's bask in the glow of the bar that Kevin
- 23:04Speaker 2: Brown just dropped right here. As Juan Soto is trying
- 23:06Speaker 2: to save that thing from being a ground rule double
- 23:09Speaker 2: on the shortest fence.
- 23:10Speaker 5: In the league.
- 23:10Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 23:11Speaker 3: And no one.
- 23:11Speaker 4: Yeah, I know they want to go right to the analysis,
- 23:13Speaker 4: but no one's going to laugh. I mean, that's funny.
- 23:15Speaker 4: I mean, someone's got to chuckle at that.
- 23:17Speaker 1: Brewers are going to play the Orioles, which means Pete
- 23:20Speaker 1: Alonso had another homer last night, by the way. I
- 23:22Speaker 1: think it was his first at-bat.
- 23:24Speaker 2: Are they sniffing around on the wild card race? I
- 23:27Speaker 2: know that they were somewhere in the vicinity. I know
- 23:30Speaker 2: the Blue Jays have still started to slide themselves right
- 23:34Speaker 2: back down the dinosaur.
- 23:35Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 23:36Speaker 4: They were for a while, but I don't think they're
- 23:38Speaker 4: totally out of it.
- 23:40Speaker 1: Two and a half with their elimination number is eight.
- 23:44Speaker 4: One thing you can say is in the American League wildcard,
- 23:46Speaker 4: no one's ever out of it. Well, that's the thing.
- 23:48Speaker 2: I mean, they're three games under, but they're two and
- 23:50Speaker 2: a half games out.
- 23:50Speaker 4: Now they'd have to jump three teams, which isn't the
- 23:53Speaker 4: easiest thing.
- 23:53Speaker 2: But I don't know a whole lot of people were
- 23:54Speaker 2: anticipating the Chicago White Sox being the last wildcard team.
- 23:57Speaker 1: Right. But now they're the Orioles are not as dead
- 24:00Speaker 1: as the Tigers, but they're close. The Corpus.
- 24:03Speaker 4: OK, I like that.
- 24:04Speaker 3: Well, and Cleveland and the Sox have this big series
- 24:07Speaker 3: going right now, or they did at least.
- 24:09Speaker 4: I don't know if it might be done yet. I
- 24:10Speaker 4: haven't followed.
- 24:10Speaker 3: But it's funny to think that whoever doesn't win the
- 24:13Speaker 3: AL Central might still have a wild card. But that's
- 24:15Speaker 3: how bad that kind of the American League's been at
- 24:18Speaker 3: that level that the Sox could still. So I guess
- 24:21Speaker 3: if they win a bunch of games here, they do
- 24:23Speaker 3: have a shot at it. I mean, nobody really wants
- 24:25Speaker 3: to take control of any playoff spot, it seems.
- 24:28Speaker 2: White Sox dropped the third game of that three-game series.
- 24:32Speaker 4: They lost to a three.
- 24:33Speaker 2: The only runs they scored were on a three-run shot
- 24:35Speaker 2: by Tommy Pham, who they got.
- 24:37Speaker 4: He's ready to fight always.
- 24:39Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like damn near fought the GM. It
- 24:42Speaker 2: was like, dude, activate me. I'm ready to play.
- 24:46Speaker 1: Put me in, coach.
- 24:47Speaker 4: I'm ready to play today. He's competitive. Walked out, hit
- 24:51Speaker 4: a three-run shot. That was the only runs they got.
- 24:53Speaker 4: They lost 6-3.
- 24:53Speaker 3: Man, I remember the audio he had after that Brewer
- 24:56Speaker 3: scuffle a couple years back, or was it last year?
- 24:58Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, Tommy Pham.
- 25:00Speaker 5: Hey, look.
- 25:01Speaker 4: We're not taking that from the Brewers.
- 25:04Speaker 3: That's why I fight in the offseason or something like that.
- 25:06Speaker 4: That's true.
- 25:07Speaker 1: He does do kickboxing workouts. What an interesting scenario.
- 25:10Speaker 3: I heard some White Sox people say, well, Listen, a
- 25:12Speaker 3: wild card berth would still– I guess we'd still take
- 25:14Speaker 3: that as a consolation. I'm like, you're the White Sox.
- 25:17Speaker 3: Of course you'd take it as a consolation. This is
- 25:19Speaker 3: all fine money for you.
- 25:20Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't deserve to get greedy at that point
- 25:23Speaker 2: with what type of playoff spot you get.
- 25:25Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I get that you lost the division
- 25:27Speaker 4: lead here in the middle of September. You haven't become
- 25:28Speaker 4: accustomed to a certain standard of living. Yeah, come on.
- 25:30Speaker 3: I mean, you were kind of– you were surprising people
- 25:33Speaker 3: for five months here, even being there.
- 25:35Speaker 4: But if the cream is slowly rising, I don't know
- 25:38Speaker 4: if you call.
- 25:38Speaker 3: Cleveland Guardians cream, but– it's a half game difference now
- 25:41Speaker 3: in the AL Central. So if you're looking for a
- 25:43Speaker 3: fun race, that's the one left.
- 25:45Speaker 2: AL West is tied up in the top two with
- 25:47Speaker 2: the Astros and Rangers. And they're right there in the
- 25:50Speaker 2: wild card too. So, I mean, the expanded playoffs for
- 25:54Speaker 2: traditionalists like Armin, who don't necessarily love the variance that
- 25:59Speaker 2: it's thrown into the baseball postseason, sure has given this
- 26:02Speaker 2: a whole lot more to watch.
- 26:03Speaker 3: Well, it definitely does. It usually brings a level of
- 26:06Speaker 3: excitement to the last week, always. So that part is
- 26:09Speaker 3: a positive. But then you have to watch the Houston
- 26:13Speaker 3: playoffs or one of these tracks.
- 26:15Speaker 4: It is what it is.
- 26:16Speaker 1: You know what else is positive? Us having Hunter Baumgartner
- 26:18Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. Yes, indeed. Young Hunter making the road trip.
- 26:23Speaker 1: Boots on the ground. Be in there when the plastic's
- 26:26Speaker 1: on the lockers and the champagne is flying. Hunter has
- 26:29Speaker 1: a report for us from last evening. And he's going
- 26:32Speaker 1: to join us at 725. Take it away, Hunter B.
- 26:37Speaker 6: Thanks, guys. The Brewers may have clinched the NL Central
- 26:39Speaker 6: on Tuesday night, but last night they got another win.
- 26:42Speaker 6: That's what they do, right? 5-4 over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- 26:44Speaker 6: Their 95th win of the season. They're now 38 games over.
- 26:47Speaker 6: 500 for the first time in franchise history at 95-57.
- 26:50Speaker 6: The Dodgers lost, so they have a three-game lead for
- 26:53Speaker 6: the top seed in the National League. The Braves also
- 26:56Speaker 6: losing last night, so that's a good sign as well.
- 26:58Speaker 6: Six-and-a-half-game lead over the Braves now for a bye in
- 27:01Speaker 6: the National League. So all things pointing up. You've also
- 27:04Speaker 6: got the Brewers going for the sweep now today at
- 27:07Speaker 6: 11.35 this morning. Kyle Harrison is going to get the start.
- 27:11Speaker 6: And Pat Murphy said they're going to treat it like
- 27:13Speaker 6: any other start and see how he does. Hopefully he
- 27:15Speaker 6: can build some of that confidence back. Dustin May will
- 27:17Speaker 6: start tomorrow. And then on Saturday, it'll be Robert Gasser, TBA,
- 27:21Speaker 6: for the series finale in Baltimore on Sunday. But last night,
- 27:24Speaker 6: Logan Henderson, five innings, three earned runs. That's his 22nd
- 27:27Speaker 6: straight start. to start his career, allowing three runs or less.
- 27:33Speaker 6: That is second most since 1893. Zach Gallin did it
- 27:37Speaker 6: in 23 straight starts to start his career. Logan Henderson
- 27:41Speaker 6: could match that next time out. Also, Christian Jelich delivered
- 27:45Speaker 6: a two-RBI single in the seventh inning to put the
- 27:46Speaker 6: Brewers on top for good at five to four. The
- 27:49Speaker 6: Brewers used six pitchers tonight, pretty much all pitching well,
- 27:52Speaker 6: and Trevor McGill got the save, and he said they
- 27:55Speaker 6: may have clinched the central already, but they're gonna keep
- 27:57Speaker 6: playing hard.
- 27:58Speaker 1: I think we're just going to play hard.
- 28:00Speaker 7: I mean, it's what, another.
- 28:01Speaker 4: Month of baseball, two months of baseball, month and a
- 28:03Speaker 4: half maybe, whatever it is.
- 28:06Speaker 7: Why not just finish hard?
- 28:07Speaker 5: We're already here.
- 28:08Speaker 6: And that seems to be what Pat Murphy's message is
- 28:10Speaker 6: as well. Now, Garrett Mitchell was scratched from the lineup
- 28:13Speaker 6: just a bit before the game last night with neck tightness.
- 28:17Speaker 6: Pat Murphy's saying it's about a day-to-day thing. We'll see
- 28:19Speaker 6: how he comes in today. Follow me at Hunter B
- 28:21Speaker 6: on air. on socials for updates on that. And I'll
- 28:25Speaker 6: join you guys at seven 25 to talk more about
- 28:27Speaker 6: the crew. This report brought to you by import minded,
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- 28:36Speaker 4: Baby at a baby, such a gorgeous site.
- 28:39Speaker 2: I mean, that is one of, uh, they said it
- 28:42Speaker 2: and everybody raves about it. The best sight lines in baseball,
- 28:45Speaker 2: but a hunter usually will dabble around in American family field,
- 28:49Speaker 2: find some different spots for the, for the post game video.
- 28:52Speaker 2: That's the spot that shot of downtown Pittsburgh onto the skyline.
- 28:57Speaker 2: That is the shot there into the press box to utilize.
- 28:59Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 28:59Speaker 4: That's the money shot. I mean, everyone loves that.
- 29:02Speaker 3: Yeah. Everyone loves that shot at PNC and the skyline
- 29:04Speaker 3: and everything like that. So he's utilized it well. So
- 29:06Speaker 3: it's been great having a hunter out there and he's
- 29:08Speaker 3: getting a lot of good stuff out there for us.
- 29:10Speaker 3: Some post game also got a one-on-one with Garrett Stallings.
- 29:13Speaker 3: We'll play at some point today about his in the
- 29:16Speaker 3: next segment of the program.
- 29:17Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 29:18Speaker 4: Road through the minors. So But you're right, Billy.
- 29:21Speaker 3: Hunter understood the assignment, finding the best backdrop for his
- 29:24Speaker 3: reports in Pittsburgh.
- 29:26Speaker 1: There's many great vistas in that ballpark.
- 29:29Speaker 2: That ballpark has a ton of them, but he found
- 29:32Speaker 2: a couple of good ones.
- 29:33Speaker 4: They didn't say that about Three Rivers, did they, Drew? No,
- 29:35Speaker 4: they did not. It's really different.
- 29:37Speaker 1: It was that same thing.
- 29:40Speaker 4: Basic kind of ballpark everyone had in the 70s and 80s.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Absolutely. They called them the cookie cutters, the flying saucers.
- 29:45Speaker 1: They were just the So those stadium three.
- 29:50Speaker 2: Rivers would RFK kind of be in that same vein
- 29:53Speaker 2: a little bit, a little bit different.
- 29:55Speaker 1: And then Cincinnati, when they had their riverfront stadium, because
- 29:59Speaker 1: they're all like the same block.
- 30:01Speaker 2: So now that's what people's frustrations are with NFL stadiums,
- 30:04Speaker 2: because the the commanders just yesterday released the full on
- 30:09Speaker 2: image of their new stadium as they're moving back to
- 30:12Speaker 2: the RFK site in D.C. doing an ode to old
- 30:16Speaker 2: RFK stadium. But with a cover on top.
- 30:19Speaker 4: Yep.
- 30:19Speaker 2: And people are losing their minds, Drew. Everybody's just doing
- 30:23Speaker 2: the same dome stadium. Everyone's doing the same stadium.
- 30:27Speaker 4: Well, Cleveland has that big.
- 30:28Speaker 2: I don't know that there's a whole lot of different
- 30:30Speaker 2: ways to make one, but I mean, it works out if.
- 30:32Speaker 3: You want to keep it covered, which the NFL wants
- 30:35Speaker 3: all the stadiums covered. I wouldn't say I would say
- 30:37Speaker 3: at least.
- 30:37Speaker 2: And I don't necessarily know as much. That's it, Armin. Like,
- 30:40Speaker 2: I don't know as much that it's the league. The
- 30:43Speaker 2: league would like it, I guess. But the league wants
- 30:46Speaker 2: to utilize those places for a Super Bowl. And you
- 30:50Speaker 2: can't have one in D.C. unless you got a cover
- 30:52Speaker 2: on the stadium. I mean, there's just no way to
- 30:54Speaker 2: do it. And a Super Bowl in D.C. would be sweet.
- 30:56Speaker 2: And they'll get one now. Probably now they'll get one right.
- 31:00Speaker 2: Like this is where a lot of these stadiums are
- 31:02Speaker 2: starting to learn. And these teams like, oh, sweet. Well,
- 31:05Speaker 2: we'll become New Orleans. We'll just get in the rotation.
- 31:09Speaker 4: No well indy's still waiting to get back in the
- 31:11Speaker 4: rotation there's a.
- 31:13Speaker 2: Lot of teams that think that minnesota's still waiting to
- 31:15Speaker 2: get back into the rotation they'll wait for a while
- 31:18Speaker 2: you'll get one and hopefully hopefully it's worth it when you.
- 31:20Speaker 1: Get it the um packers going to metlife stadium that
- 31:25Speaker 1: has like it's no character it's just a that's a
- 31:27Speaker 1: big spaceship in the middle of nothing right it's like
- 31:30Speaker 1: and It looks like it's shaky. And most people are.
- 31:33Speaker 1: There's nothing like romantic about it other than it's in
- 31:36Speaker 1: New York.
- 31:37Speaker 4: Zero. Well, yeah.
- 31:38Speaker 2: And in the swamps of Jersey and like and you
- 31:40Speaker 2: look over into East Rutherford and you see what looks
- 31:43Speaker 2: like a big Costco.
- 31:45Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. It is often been said the most
- 31:49Speaker 4: their stadium in the NFL.
- 31:51Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 31:52Speaker 1: I mean, it's nicer. It's got wider concourses and some
- 31:54Speaker 1: new amenities. But for the most part, it's just meh.
- 31:57Speaker 3: It is open air, I guess. For some people, that's important.
- 32:00Speaker 3: Just like Buffalo, they kept it open air, but they
- 32:02Speaker 3: tried to protect it. It's open air, and you know
- 32:03Speaker 3: what else? 70% chance of rain Sunday.
- 32:05Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 32:05Speaker 1: On that turf is going to be a question mark, too.
- 32:08Speaker 1: On that turf could be slick, and it could be wild.
- 32:10Speaker 4: Maybe there's nothing you can do at football stadiums to
- 32:12Speaker 4: make them look cool. Maybe that's what this lesson is.
- 32:14Speaker 1: Well, SoFi is supposed to be. That's the one I
- 32:16Speaker 1: want to see.
- 32:16Speaker 4: If you're not Lambeau, you're nothing.
- 32:17Speaker 1: See what it's like. When we come back, Hunter Baumgart
- 32:20Speaker 1: and Garrett Stallings go one-on-one. Hunter joins us at 725.
- 32:23Speaker 1: Dolph will be here for halftime. You are enjoying the
- 32:27Speaker 1: huddle on Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew, Billy, and Armin
- 32:34Speaker 1: huddled up on a Thursday in the good land. It's
- 32:37Speaker 1: a doubleheader for us today. The 5 o'clock club convening
- 32:40Speaker 1: at Pottawatomie Stadium. Sportsbook tonight.
- 32:43Speaker 4: Let's go.
- 32:44Speaker 1: Thursday night huddle, 5 o'clock, kickoff. We're there until 7,
- 32:47Speaker 1: getting ready for what should be a very entertaining Bill's
- 32:50Speaker 1: Lions tussle.
- 32:52Speaker 2: Nobody circles the Thursday night wagons like the huddle or
- 32:55Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills at home.
- 32:57Speaker 4: William's already talking about first touchdown scores with me in
- 32:59Speaker 4: the hallway. It's got to be Josh. It's got to
- 33:01Speaker 4: be Josh. He's got to score that first touchdown on
- 33:03Speaker 4: that new stage.
- 33:03Speaker 3: I was thinking James Cook, but you're probably right. How
- 33:06Speaker 3: is he going to ever give it to any? He's
- 33:07Speaker 3: not giving it to anybody else, right? Second goal from
- 33:10Speaker 3: the two. You think that he's handing that thing off?
- 33:11Speaker 4: He's changing that play. Give me that rock.
- 33:13Speaker 1: Not that you need extra incentive to come and see us,
- 33:16Speaker 1: but if you wanted to make a day of it,
- 33:17Speaker 1: you could go watch the Brewers play 1130 first pitch
- 33:20Speaker 1: and bam in the sports book and then just kind
- 33:22Speaker 1: of avail yourself to some gaming and then come and
- 33:24Speaker 1: see us at five and then watch Thursday Night Football.
- 33:26Speaker 1: Could be a whole day. But if you come and
- 33:28Speaker 1: see us, our friends from Jameson are giving away a
- 33:30Speaker 1: pair of Packers tickets for the home opener coming up
- 33:33Speaker 1: a week from tonight. Packers open at home at Lambeau Field.
- 33:37Speaker 1: We would love to see you out there. They're going
- 33:38Speaker 1: to be doing some sampling out there. They usually have
- 33:40Speaker 1: some swag to give away and a pair of tickets
- 33:43Speaker 1: in the home opener. That's a win right there.
- 33:45Speaker 4: That's a win right there.
- 33:46Speaker 2: You're already going to be winning when you come out
- 33:48Speaker 2: to the Thursday Night Huddle because Wayne Larrabee is going
- 33:50Speaker 2: to be joining us tonight at the Thursday Night Huddle.
- 33:52Speaker 4: That makes it even better.
- 33:54Speaker 2: And yeah, Jameson Jameson fires out their green and gold
- 33:57Speaker 2: cocktails there at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Now it is a
- 34:02Speaker 2: their little twist on a on any kind of Jameson
- 34:07Speaker 2: and ginger that you're going to get, but it's going
- 34:09Speaker 2: to be a special one. Cause it's going to be
- 34:10Speaker 2: a green and gold celebration of our green and gold.
- 34:12Speaker 2: And also have you getting a chance to maybe get
- 34:15Speaker 2: those tickets. That's a heck of a prize to be
- 34:17Speaker 2: able to have. And I'll tell you one thing at Potawatomi,
- 34:20Speaker 2: there's free stuff.
- 34:21Speaker 4: People are going to be excited.
- 34:21Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
- 34:22Speaker 2: So if there's a chance to win something, people at
- 34:26Speaker 2: Potawatomi are going to be excited.
- 34:27Speaker 4: So it's going to be a fun time tonight. Giving
- 34:29Speaker 4: out those things. Sometimes people are walking around those waffle maker,
- 34:31Speaker 4: whatever it is, but yes. Uh, Yeah, thanks, Jameson.
- 34:34Speaker 3: It's going to be via raffle, and you have to
- 34:36Speaker 3: be present to win at the end of the broadcast.
- 34:39Speaker 4: Present to win. You got that?
- 34:41Speaker 2: Just like the football feast, you could not be out
- 34:43Speaker 2: smoking a black and mild while we gave away the tickets.
- 34:46Speaker 4: You got to be there to win when we give
- 34:48Speaker 4: them away.
- 34:49Speaker 3: Present to win via raffle at the end of the broadcast.
- 34:51Speaker 4: So why don't you just come and listen to the
- 34:53Speaker 4: whole show?
- 34:54Speaker 1: Yeah, come and hang out.
- 34:54Speaker 3: Thanks, Jameson.
- 34:55Speaker 1: Come and see us. Come and say hello. We're at Pato,
- 34:57Speaker 1: 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock. Now, we won't have a
- 34:59Speaker 1: show next week for the very reason we just stated.
- 35:01Speaker 1: The Packers are playing the Falcons in the home opener.
- 35:03Speaker 1: So we're going to take a little week off. So
- 35:05Speaker 1: we have one of the books. We'll have another one.
- 35:07Speaker 1: Then we'll take a week off.
- 35:08Speaker 2: But if you're a creature of habit and you're one
- 35:10Speaker 2: of those people, Drew, that, well, I want to go
- 35:12Speaker 2: on Thursday nights. to Pottawatomie. If I'm going to start
- 35:15Speaker 2: going with Drew and Billy and Armin, every single one.
- 35:17Speaker 2: Next week's a good night to be there. They give
- 35:19Speaker 2: away shots on Packers touchdowns. That's right. Never a bad
- 35:23Speaker 2: time to be at the Pottawatomie Sportsbook. Thursday nights, might
- 35:27Speaker 2: as well just put it in your calendar, set it
- 35:28Speaker 2: and forget it. Give yourself a calendar invite so you
- 35:31Speaker 2: never forget to go to the Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
- 35:33Speaker 1: Thursday night, 5 o'clock tonight, and we will be with
- 35:35Speaker 1: Wayne Larrabee, the voice of the Packers, who is awesome.
- 35:38Speaker 1: We're going to have some fun. All right. What are
- 35:40Speaker 1: you doing? Yeah, what are you doing, Armin?
- 35:42Speaker 4: Professional man in his teeth. I'm excited.
- 35:45Speaker 3: I was thinking about Potawatomi and the huddle and being there,
- 35:48Speaker 3: and I hit the wrong button.
- 35:50Speaker 4: Sorry about that.
- 35:50Speaker 1: All right. Well, hit the button that has Hunter's interview
- 35:54Speaker 1: with Garrett Stallings, because Hunter is in Pittsburgh talking to
- 35:57Speaker 1: every brewer he can find and get to sit down
- 35:59Speaker 1: with him. And he had a catch-up with a reliever
- 36:02Speaker 1: who had a pretty good turn the other day. Pretty
- 36:04Speaker 1: good twirl.
- 36:06Speaker 4: Pretty good run.
- 36:07Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Let's send it to Hunter Baumgart
- 36:10Speaker 1: and Garrett Stallings.
- 36:12Speaker 6: Garrett, first question for you. You've had obviously a long
- 36:14Speaker 6: journey to get to where you are now. How gratifying
- 36:17Speaker 6: was last night for you?
- 36:19Speaker 7: It's pretty special. I think you're in this game long
- 36:22Speaker 7: enough and you realize not every team gets to pop bottles,
- 36:26Speaker 7: especially the Brewers doing it four years in a row.
- 36:30Speaker 7: It's pretty special. Just even being in the room and
- 36:33Speaker 7: being a part and helping any way I can, it's
- 36:35Speaker 7: been special.
- 36:36Speaker 6: What have you noticed since you got to this organization?
- 36:38Speaker 6: Since you got to really the the major league level
- 36:42Speaker 6: with this team about what they do that makes them
- 36:44Speaker 6: so successful.
- 36:45Speaker 7: Sure i think yeah you can only compare it to
- 36:48Speaker 7: what you know and where you're at so i think
- 36:50Speaker 7: immediately when i walked in the building you know the
- 36:52Speaker 7: first day just like this selfless energy that everyone has
- 36:55Speaker 7: like not knowing not caring who gets the credit or
- 36:59Speaker 7: you know you see we've got bowers and vaughn playing
- 37:02Speaker 7: first base and it's like vaughn would probably play every
- 37:05Speaker 7: day at some other team and it's like they're just
- 37:07Speaker 7: happy to come in and play and get the wins
- 37:09Speaker 7: and Then you go to the pitching staff, and it's like,
- 37:12Speaker 7: who's starting, who's not, all these different things. But I
- 37:15Speaker 7: think there's just this energy and expectation that Murph helps set.
- 37:20Speaker 7: Four years, a decade down, there's just expectations that they
- 37:24Speaker 7: set you to a high standard, and I think you
- 37:26Speaker 7: combine all of those aspects, and you get the Milwaukee Brewers.
- 37:29Speaker 1: Absolutely.
- 37:30Speaker 6: How freeing is that for you to just know your teammates,
- 37:33Speaker 6: your bullpen fellow pitchers have your back when you go
- 37:36Speaker 6: out there?
- 37:37Speaker 1: No, it's incredible.
- 37:38Speaker 7: I mean, when I first got here, I was welcomed
- 37:41Speaker 7: with open arms. And, you know, luckily, signing back with
- 37:44Speaker 7: the Brewers, I kind of knew everyone. You know, obviously
- 37:46Speaker 7: a few new faces, but I kind of knew how
- 37:49Speaker 7: the bullpen operated with Charlie Green and doing stuff at
- 37:52Speaker 7: spring training and different things. So, again, it made me
- 37:54Speaker 7: even more comfortable. And then going out there and just
- 37:57Speaker 7: myself having success, the team having success, and kind of
- 37:59Speaker 7: wrapping it all together. And it's been a really fun
- 38:02Speaker 7: ride so far.
- 38:03Speaker 6: What's been your key on the mound to you think
- 38:06Speaker 6: to your success at the major league level so far?
- 38:09Speaker 7: Honestly, I think just really being myself. I know I
- 38:11Speaker 7: keep saying that in every interview, but like I'm going
- 38:14Speaker 7: out there and look down there in the bullpen.
- 38:16Speaker 1: I mean, everyone throws a hundred.
- 38:17Speaker 7: Miles an hour, you know, I go out there and,
- 38:19Speaker 7: you know, I rely on movement and throwing strikes and
- 38:22Speaker 7: changing speeds. And I think just the combination of, you know,
- 38:26Speaker 7: fighting for a long time in the minors and, you know,
- 38:28Speaker 7: coming up and knowing that I've gotten a lot of
- 38:30Speaker 7: major league hitters out over the last few years and
- 38:33Speaker 7: then getting here. And, you know what, I've faced a
- 38:35Speaker 7: lot of these guys just now at a different level.
- 38:37Speaker 7: So I think just going, being myself, and now, you know,
- 38:41Speaker 7: just keep working too.
- 38:43Speaker 6: Was there a moment last night where you could kind
- 38:44Speaker 6: of sit back and soak it all in a little bit?
- 38:48Speaker 7: I don't know. You know, I think it's one of those,
- 38:49Speaker 7: I think, having to wait to see what happened with
- 38:52Speaker 7: the Cubs game, you know, just having a second to
- 38:54Speaker 7: just eat dinner and kind of anticipate. You know, I
- 38:56Speaker 7: think it's hard to put into words, like, you know,
- 39:00Speaker 7: the long season and, you know, being in first place
- 39:02Speaker 7: and all of these things. And, you know, I had
- 39:04Speaker 7: done it one time before at the Orioles in AAA
- 39:07Speaker 7: where we won the whole thing. And even then it
- 39:10Speaker 7: felt special, you know. So, like, just celebrating your wins
- 39:13Speaker 7: when they are, but then again knowing we still have
- 39:15Speaker 7: some work to do as well. So I think that
- 39:18Speaker 7: Murph's done a really good job of saying, like, enjoy yourself,
- 39:20Speaker 7: but the job's not done.
- 39:22Speaker 6: Absolutely, Garrett. Really appreciate the time.
- 39:23Speaker 4: Congratulations.
- 39:24Speaker 1: Thanks so much.
- 39:25Speaker 6: Appreciate you.
- 39:27Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart, Garrett Stallings, live from Pittsburgh. Live on tape
- 39:31Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh, PNC Park. Love Hunter when he's like, it's quiet.
- 39:35Speaker 1: It is weird when you want to do a broadcast interview. Very, right.
- 39:40Speaker 1: The flip side of that is when there's a cacophony
- 39:42Speaker 1: of noise around you and like doors slamming, especially on
- 39:44Speaker 1: getaway day when the bats are going in the bags,
- 39:47Speaker 1: shoes are getting clapped together. You get the mud off
- 39:49Speaker 1: the cleats and stuff like it's, you know, but, but
- 39:53Speaker 1: in the, I'm sure that was probably conducted in the
- 39:54Speaker 1: pregame in the afternoon, the clubhouse is open and it is,
- 39:58Speaker 1: you don't want to bother anybody else.
- 40:00Speaker 2: No, you're trying and you're trying so hard to just
- 40:03Speaker 2: blend in. And now Hunter is a little easier for
- 40:07Speaker 2: Hunter to blend in, a little smaller slender cat than I.
- 40:11Speaker 2: When this used to be my gig that I used
- 40:13Speaker 2: to have to do for the pregame show in a
- 40:15Speaker 2: previous radio life, Drew, I would only do it if
- 40:19Speaker 2: what you were talking about was happening. If there was
- 40:22Speaker 2: music being blared through, if there were bats being dropped,
- 40:25Speaker 2: there were cleats rolling through. Because otherwise, you're talking and
- 40:28Speaker 2: you're trying to be quiet But everybody's listening to every
- 40:32Speaker 2: single thing you're saying. And there's no way that's not
- 40:35Speaker 2: uncomfortable for everybody saying, hey, man, I do appreciate you're
- 40:37Speaker 2: trying to do your job. We're also trying to just like, hey,
- 40:40Speaker 2: live life in here. So would you keep it down
- 40:42Speaker 2: a bit?
- 40:42Speaker 3: Yeah, like the guy listening to on his phone or
- 40:44Speaker 3: talking on his phone without headphones on on the bus
- 40:46Speaker 3: or something like that.
- 40:47Speaker 4: The guy on speakerphone checking out at the at the store. Yes,
- 40:51Speaker 4: that's you. But I really enjoyed hearing that.
- 40:53Speaker 3: You know, Garrett Stallings talking about the dream of trying to.
- 40:57Speaker 3: get through the minors, get to the big league club,
- 40:59Speaker 3: celebrate a moment, being able to appreciate a moment for
- 41:01Speaker 3: a lifetime. The belief in being able to say to yourself,
- 41:04Speaker 3: I can do this. I can get major league hitters out.
- 41:06Speaker 4: That was enjoyable. Good stuff there, Hunter. And something about
- 41:09Speaker 4: Garrett Stallings talking about popping bottles, man.
- 41:11Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 41:12Speaker 4: It's just like it.
- 41:13Speaker 1: Yeah. Pretty good stuff. 877-794-1973 to the Nicolet law.com. Talk
- 41:18Speaker 1: and text line. Scott Dolphin joins us for halftime. We'll
- 41:20Speaker 1: have Luke Bryan tickets to give away. It's the first
- 41:23Speaker 1: part of a doubleheader for us. We're going to be
- 41:24Speaker 1: at Pottawatomie Sportsbook in the annex tonight for Thursday Night
- 41:27Speaker 1: Live with our friends from Jamison giving away free Packers
- 41:29Speaker 1: tickets and Wayne Larravee. Oh, baby, get yourself a comfortable
- 41:32Speaker 1: chair and a hot or cold beverage and enjoy the
- 41:35Speaker 1: huddle on Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.