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04/30/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, this man's been on all nine. Armand
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Speaker 1: sorry were ready. Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air,
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Speaker 1: taking no prisoners on a Thursday in the good Land.
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Speaker 1: It's the Huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin, broadcasting live from headquarters.
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Speaker 1: Drew Wilson, Bill Schmid, armand Sarren coming to you on
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Speaker 1: some technical difficulties. This ship got off to a smooth,
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Speaker 1: smooth how about that.
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Speaker 2: Now, let's wait till the bullpen. Let's close the thing
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Speaker 2: all the way out, unlike the Brewers yesterday.
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Speaker 1: But I'm with you. Let's start this thing out hot
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Speaker 1: and heavy, our best stuff right out of the gates.
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Speaker 2: Kind of like Brandon Sprout last night. But true, I
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Speaker 2: appreciate that Armon seems to be coming to our side
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Speaker 2: of the table. Under promise, over delivered.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot better, especially especially on a big, big,
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Speaker 1: big day in the iHeart Milwaukee Megaplex studios here today.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think that's how you got it, guys. You
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Speaker 3: have to absolutely underpromise over deliver, and I think we're
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Speaker 3: on the air. So everything's good, everything's good.
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Speaker 1: We yeah, you can take that.
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Speaker 2: I think you can take that little, that little twinge
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Speaker 2: of nervousness out of your voice.
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Speaker 1: I think I think I think you can.
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Speaker 2: I think you can start. I think you can say
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Speaker 2: with your chest, I think we're good. I think you
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Speaker 2: can be a little bit proud because I think we're
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Speaker 2: ready to rock.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you you want to get this car started,
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Speaker 1: when you drive it at the drive it in the morning, you.
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Speaker 2: Know how it goes. So there's frost out there, which
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Speaker 2: I guess. Hey, now, I remember a sage man yesterday
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Speaker 2: telling me I'm followed by some frost. All right, true,
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Speaker 2: all right, all right. I don't think you were gonna
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Speaker 2: see some frost in the morning. And then all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, Luckily I had that ice scraper still sitting
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Speaker 2: next to me in the driver's seat.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, if we got dumped with one of those
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Speaker 1: really late season snowstorms, like I think, I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 1: I put the scraper away. Oh I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of people did. I think you ran the gas out
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Speaker 1: of the snowblower. What if we got about it ten
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Speaker 1: inch O, that would be completely absurd. It could happen.
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Speaker 1: I happened in May.
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Speaker 3: A little storm is a famous, a famous one, but
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Speaker 3: I mean it would be absolutely the absurd, let's be honest.
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Speaker 3: I agree, Yeah, out of but out of the question.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely not, not out of the question. The one thing
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Speaker 3: I would say is at least it would probably melt quickly.
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Speaker 3: I think that would be a fair assumption. Yeah, that
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Speaker 3: would be a fair thing. Mow the lawn once. So
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Speaker 3: if you mow the lawn once, do you feel like dirty?
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Speaker 3: Having a snowblow after that or shovel after that. It's like,
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Speaker 3: at least let me settle into my next phase of
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Speaker 3: the season.
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Speaker 1: Here, you're just.
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Speaker 2: Trying to get your bearing straight, first full year into
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Speaker 2: the housing, trying to change. Come on, mother Nature, Mother
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Speaker 2: Nature with a bro though, just like when you'd say
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Speaker 2: that to your mother. You don't do that, bro, then
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Speaker 2: she will slap you back with some reality and drop
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Speaker 2: three inches over off at the Sarian household. So I
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Speaker 2: would watch out. I would watch out with her calling
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Speaker 2: nature bro.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: No, it's gonna be cold tomorrow too. So you guys
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Speaker 3: obviously saw the forecast. But hopefully we'll get that regular
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Speaker 3: spring weather of course soon.
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Speaker 1: It's been pretty warm, though, we're gonna say otherwise, the
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Speaker 1: way ahead of days that have been sixty and over,
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Speaker 1: we're way ahead. Yeah, I thought it was very very nice.
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Speaker 1: April flew by in the month of April as we Yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: we're on to May after today, aren't we. Yeah, just due,
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Speaker 1: let's get it on this Thursday. So eight seven, seven,
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Speaker 1: seven nine four one ninety seven three. If you'd like
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Speaker 1: to weigh in with us today on any topics that
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Speaker 1: we cover and what are we going to cover it? Well,
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Speaker 1: obviously start with the Brewers ball game last night. The
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Speaker 1: initial start from Brandon Sprote. How about as promising as
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Speaker 1: you could be to strike out the first three of
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Speaker 1: that lineup and do it in as imposing fashion as possible,
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Speaker 1: and just seemingly ran a little bit out of gas
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Speaker 1: in that fourth inning after you finally trying to get
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Speaker 1: a little bit more of a shutdown, Bryce terrang back
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Speaker 1: to back trips to the plate with two doubles driving
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Speaker 1: in runs and then quickly drew four hitters. Later the
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Speaker 1: game is completely different and Nolan Aernatdo once again at
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Speaker 1: amfam flips the scoreboard. Yeah, that guy is uh, he's
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Speaker 1: a Brewer killer. He'd have to be a core. He's
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Speaker 1: a Brewer killer. And where whatever uniform if whether it's red,
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Speaker 1: it's purple, now it's that weird whatever diamondback, red and
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Speaker 1: black they got going on. He smacks bombs at American
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Speaker 1: Family Field.
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Speaker 2: One of the reasons why, whatever the numbers were, I
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Speaker 2: always thought that would have been a fascinating guy to
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Speaker 2: bring in when seemingly every team that's been on over
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Speaker 2: the last four years has been actively trying to get
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Speaker 2: rid of him. But he finds a home there in Arizona.
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Speaker 2: They got plenty of money and he is still when
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Speaker 2: he comes here as good as he ever was.
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Speaker 1: Who was feeding the Gopher last night? Four homers against him.
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Speaker 3: And that was their entire run production was all home runs.
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Speaker 3: But hey, if you can hit that many home runs,
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Speaker 3: that's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: That would be four times the home runs the Brews
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Speaker 3: have hitting the last nine games.
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Speaker 1: Am I right in that? That would sound about right
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Speaker 1: right on that one. Sadly, we're score thirteen one day
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Speaker 1: to the next hashtag baseball.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well and q the converse the old dad joke
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Speaker 2: of math. They would have just saved some runs for
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Speaker 2: the next day. They would have been able to save
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Speaker 2: a couple for coming back the next day, and you
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Speaker 2: just more than anything, Drew. And this is where Pat
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Speaker 2: Murphy's forgotten more baseball than I ever could dream to know.
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Speaker 2: And a lot of times you get to where you
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Speaker 2: are because of the numbers and because of playing that way.
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Speaker 2: But then even last night when Ba and Vinnie were
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Speaker 2: talking about it a little bit more with Bryce Tray
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Speaker 2: and the development against hitting left handed pitching, you do
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Speaker 2: have a left hander into the rotation and onto the
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Speaker 2: mound for the Diamondbacks. You flip the lineup extremely right handed, heavy,
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Speaker 2: waiting to splice in your Garrett Mitchell after an RBI
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Speaker 2: night the night before, tracking very very well, South Freelick
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Speaker 2: multi hit game the night before, and.
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Speaker 1: It's a give and take.
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Speaker 2: I know that there's gonna be an evening out process
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Speaker 2: at the end of it. But if these are your guys,
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Speaker 2: how much development do you get from needing to face
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Speaker 2: tough left handed pitching. You're never gonna be able to
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Speaker 2: hit tough left handed pitching if you don't face it.
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Speaker 1: That's the team dance, and it's it's going way back.
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Speaker 1: I remember every time you get like a promising left
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Speaker 1: handed bat, it's like all right, So when you're gonna
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Speaker 1: let him play every day, right because you and he
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Speaker 1: mentioned it with Mitchell, nobody factors it in because he's
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Speaker 1: such a freakishly good athlete. But the diabetes thing, and
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Speaker 1: you got to manage that. You want to keep him fresh.
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Speaker 1: Plus he hasn't played Garrett Mitchell for all the time
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Speaker 1: that he's been in the big leagues, just past like
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Speaker 1: the full season mark of big league right games, you
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Speaker 1: just got to like one sixty two and like five
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Speaker 1: hundred played appearances. So there's there's still this he's still
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Speaker 1: being kind of broken in. Yeah, I don't know. You
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Speaker 1: guys aren't old enough to remember what when you buy
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Speaker 1: a new car, they tell you to kind of break
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Speaker 1: it in. You had to buy a new car, like
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Speaker 1: the first hundred miles. You don't drive over fifty. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you're you're breaking in a car, that's a it's
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Speaker 1: a nice now.
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Speaker 2: A little different than your thoughts of say, breaking in
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Speaker 2: your baseball glove and having your dad sit on it
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Speaker 2: for it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, oil it and put it. Well that sucks, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but uh it is. It's a question is all the time,
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Speaker 1: when are they ready? When when do they get the chance,
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Speaker 1: when do they how do you do it? But at
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Speaker 1: the same time, in terms of trying to win today,
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Speaker 1: which is Murph's mantra, when today when today, Well, if
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Speaker 1: you got to play your backup guys and you got
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Speaker 1: to give a guy occasional day off, you're gonna do
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Speaker 1: it when they're facing the lefty. It's just logical, right,
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Speaker 1: So it's like it's this balance. It's a weird thing.
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Speaker 1: I remember writing this crap about like David Nilsen, you know,
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Speaker 1: back in the day. For sure, when are they gonna
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Speaker 1: start letting them play every day against left because you're
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Speaker 1: just gonna pick your spots. You're gonna you gotta get
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Speaker 1: everybody in there. And that's one of the things the
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Speaker 1: Birds have been good at in recent years is keeping
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Speaker 1: everybody productive and feeling like they're contributing and you know,
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Speaker 1: getting a sweat and don't don't let guys go and
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Speaker 1: you know, get cobwebs on their bat when they have
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Speaker 1: to go grab one out of the rack to go up.
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Speaker 1: It's like, all right, well, and Murph does that in
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Speaker 1: games like did it when they were up thirteen to
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Speaker 1: get guys in all of a sudden pers is playing
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Speaker 1: and they're switching out the lineup. That's all part of it.
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Speaker 1: It's all part of the dance.
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Speaker 2: But and you got to keep the other guys fresh, right,
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Speaker 2: Like you mentioned Perkins, you got to give him some
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Speaker 2: some reps at some point, my man Jones, they got
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Speaker 2: to get in there at some.
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Speaker 1: Point on the team. He's gonna play, right, he's gonna play.
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Speaker 1: Sign up to play. You're here. You gotta if he's
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Speaker 1: gonna be on the roster.
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Speaker 2: But then at some point I wonder if it does,
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Speaker 2: just uh it more, lets you know that they're ready, right,
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Speaker 2: Bryce terrang with a ten home run August last year.
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Speaker 2: Just lets you know, hey, man, uh now, don't worry
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Speaker 2: about that when you're filling out the lineup card.
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Speaker 1: Okay, it kind of does. There is an element and
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Speaker 1: and again the other side of the coin is when
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Speaker 1: you play a lefty and well, and sometimes it'll happen,
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Speaker 1: sometimes it won't. More people bitch about guys not playing, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like why is he playing everything? And let him play,
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Speaker 1: let him learn. And then when they go for four,
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Speaker 1: when they have a bad at bat in a big situation,
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Speaker 1: what the hell you doing? You know he can't hit left?
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Speaker 1: What do you said?
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Speaker 3: A lot of that, and I was gonna say that
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Speaker 3: a lot of times this his face withou like the fan,
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Speaker 3: because fans get really intense and they want to win
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Speaker 3: every day and we all do.
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Speaker 2: And so you think to yourself, all right, I think
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Speaker 2: they want to win more every day than we do.
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Speaker 1: Then we do. Yeah, what it's like exactly like you
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Speaker 1: have a manager.
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Speaker 3: Now that kind of takes that mantra where you might say, Okay,
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Speaker 3: that feels good, right, But then every now and then
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Speaker 3: I'll see a lineup out there, and I'll see fans
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Speaker 3: get upset. Why are we putting this lineup out It's
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Speaker 3: like every day is in Game seven.
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Speaker 1: You can't manage a season that way.
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Speaker 3: That being said, there's a rhyme or reason to everything
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Speaker 3: everything they do, and a lot of it sometimes is
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Speaker 3: matchups and gave them the right guys in there, and
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Speaker 3: over time those numbers are supposed to But then the
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Speaker 3: dance is you're right, when does a guy supersed a
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Speaker 3: platoon matchup? When does a guy not? Or then you
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Speaker 3: see a day like, oh, this is a good opportunity
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Speaker 3: to get him in because there's a lefty and he
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Speaker 3: needed a day off anyway, So it is it is
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Speaker 3: I think the biggest disconnect with fans and sometimes and
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Speaker 3: the org the team that, like fans want to look
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Speaker 3: at every game like they're very important because it's some
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Speaker 3: one in the front of them.
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Speaker 2: Well, but that's also that's also what the manager in
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Speaker 2: the team says every night, right when it's win tonight.
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Speaker 2: That's what their mantra is. That's why the fans take
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Speaker 2: that as their mantra as well. But you know, it
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Speaker 2: probably lends more favorably and is more complimentary to how
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Speaker 2: the Brewers have been able to do this and sustain
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Speaker 2: where they're at over the last couple of years, because
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Speaker 2: it is walking a tight rope. It's winning tonight, and
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Speaker 2: that's gonna be what their focus is every single day,
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Speaker 2: and they're gonna pound that into your heads every time
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Speaker 2: a microphone or a quarters on. However, they gotta continue
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Speaker 2: to develop young players because Drue, that's their only way
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Speaker 2: to win tonight is try to nurse these guys along
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Speaker 2: better and better. And I mean, I'd be the first
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Speaker 2: guy to admit I'm always the fan that looks at
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Speaker 2: the lineup and goes man Tyler Black. Last night, I
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Speaker 2: went three hits, three hits on Tuesday night, out of
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Speaker 2: the line.
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Speaker 1: Are you sitting the mad What are we doing?
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Speaker 2: Cooler, get them out of there, let the highlights run
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Speaker 2: a little bit. But then there's something too. Hey, if
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Speaker 2: my man's got a little bit of confidence rolling, and
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Speaker 2: it's been a tough slog to start here in the
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Speaker 2: big leagues, maybe the best thing after a three hit
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Speaker 2: game is to let them go over four against Rodriguez
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Speaker 2: in face faced some tough pitching. So I get it,
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Speaker 2: it's a tough balancing act. But then last night, when
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Speaker 2: you're unable to continually put up runs and you finally
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Speaker 2: get just a taste of that sweet nectar of home plate,
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Speaker 2: double digchit times, man, you want a little bit more?
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Speaker 1: You are offense. Storytime, story Time. This is one that
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Speaker 1: I left on the cutting room floor, and I just
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Speaker 1: mentioned David Nelson and had struck my memory. But this
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Speaker 1: very conversation about playing guys against lefty. Oh, now we're
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Speaker 1: talking David Nelson. It was nineteen ninety six, arm And
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Speaker 1: how old were you in ninety six? Billy wasn't even
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Speaker 1: reading yet.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was turning twelve the summer of ninety six.
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Speaker 3: All right, One of my favorite brewer teams of that era,
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Speaker 3: because they were the closest to five hundred.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So they get off to a start and they
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Speaker 1: play a four game series and it was a May series,
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Speaker 1: four gamer in Minnesota at the Metro Dome, and they
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Speaker 1: go in and it's a wrap around, so it's like Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
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Speaker 1: and then Monday, Monday game. Okay, Friday night. Brewers get
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Speaker 1: off to a great start, they go twelve. They win
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Speaker 1: twelve to one in the opener, and David Nilson, who
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Speaker 1: had been kind of had a truncated spring training and
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Speaker 1: they were bringing him in kind of slowly. He's always hurt.
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Speaker 1: You remember him right ross River Fever. He was hurt,
12:09
Speaker 1: had bad joints and big dudes. So they're kind of
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Speaker 1: like slow walking him into the season and the guy
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Speaker 1: busts out. Now he had been hitting. He had hit
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Speaker 1: in every game that he played, and he was only
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Speaker 1: in We were in a month end of the season
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Speaker 1: by that point, but he had only played he had
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Speaker 1: been hurt in the opener and then taking like a
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Speaker 1: month off, and so he had been back for about
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Speaker 1: a week. So they're slow walking him and he was
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Speaker 1: at the point where he was at his career, Like,
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Speaker 1: when are you gonna let this guy start facing left him?
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Speaker 1: You know. So first night of the series, Birs went
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Speaker 1: twelve to one. Nielsen hits two homers. He goes three
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Speaker 1: for five with two homers. Now we're talking the trash.
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Speaker 1: Cut to the next night, smash. Cut to the next night,
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Speaker 1: David Nilson hits two more homers any game back to back,
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Speaker 1: selling a bunch of jerseys. So in the first he's
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Speaker 1: got four homers. In the first two games of this series,
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Speaker 1: he has nine at bats, five hits, four homers. And
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Speaker 1: you said it was early in the season, he's raking
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Speaker 1: it was May. It was May seventhe day. It was
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Speaker 1: really early for him. He was playing like it had
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Speaker 1: been hurt on opening Day and they had played for
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Speaker 1: like a week. And then so Friday night, two homers,
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Speaker 1: Saturday night, two homers. After the game on Saturday, I'm
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Speaker 1: in Gar's office, I'm like, hey, Twins are throwing a
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Speaker 1: lefty tomorrow. Rich Robertson, you're gonna play Nilsen. You're gonna
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Speaker 1: sit him. He's like, well, we want to take it
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Speaker 1: easy on him, and I'm like, yeah, I mean you've
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Speaker 1: been babying him against lefties. This would be the spot
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Speaker 1: to give him a day off, but he's just hit
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Speaker 1: two home runs and back to back games. What are
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Speaker 1: you gonna do? He goes, I'm gonna have to sleep
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Speaker 1: on it. And what would you do? I'm like, what
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Speaker 1: are you a naunts? He's a hotes sitter and ball.
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Speaker 1: He's on Sports Center every night. Now, I for sure
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Speaker 1: run run him out there. What do you tell a
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Speaker 1: couple of tickets? Car? What are you doing? He goes, well,
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Speaker 1: I almost sleep on it. You know it's he goes,
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Speaker 1: it's delicate because we don't want to over we don't
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Speaker 1: want to throw too much at him too quick and
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Speaker 1: get him hurt. And you know it's a lefty thing.
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Speaker 1: Almost find and I'll get back to you right And
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Speaker 1: so we had a ten minute conversation about the pros
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Speaker 1: and cons of playing David Nilson on Sunday. Sunday afternoon,
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Speaker 1: lefty starting for the Twins, Nilson goes over and strikes.
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Speaker 1: It looks awful against the leftie found the game walk
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Speaker 1: upound the game walk? Yeah, go ahead, yeah, you found
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Speaker 1: the game box. So he looked awful in that game,
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Speaker 1: and he punched out a couple of times as I
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Speaker 1: recall or maybe he didn't punch out. Let's see if
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Speaker 1: he did. Yeah, he did struck out once, but he
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Speaker 1: was he was oh for four. The Birds won the game,
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Speaker 1: though they won the third game. They won the Sunday
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Speaker 1: despite Neilson. And so I walk in and there's this
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Speaker 1: cadre of you know, the geek media from Minnesota. The
14:37
Speaker 1: stringers and the guys are in the visiting side, and
14:39
Speaker 1: they don't know Carr, and they don't know our relationship,
14:41
Speaker 1: and they don't know, you know, the history. And first
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Speaker 1: question the bird. Now, mind you, the Birds have just
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Speaker 1: won three in a row in the series. They won
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Speaker 1: the series. And I walk in, and my first question
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Speaker 1: is what the hell you doing playing Nielson against the lefty?
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Speaker 1: You know he can't hit lefties. You risk getting him hurt.
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Speaker 1: What were you thinking? So he slams his hat, done
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Speaker 1: you no good about it? He's swearing at me, and
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Speaker 1: it's all theater. It's like a wrestling show. And the
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Speaker 1: other guys I'm looking at him, their eyes are like
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Speaker 1: dinner plates. And the other guys in the media, guys like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, this manager's gonna go nuts. This is
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Speaker 1: scrap iron, this is the guy that I've heard about.
15:14
Speaker 1: He's gonna strangle the beef guy helmet. Yeah, they think
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Speaker 1: it's Hal mc crane. And he's like, you set me up.
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Speaker 1: You know good.
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Speaker 4: I wasn't gonna sit him, and then you told me
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Speaker 4: last night and I played him. And then he goes
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Speaker 4: over and like you you're getting just like harder Court.
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Speaker 4: You guys are unbelievable. He's like, you set me up.
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Speaker 4: You Suddenly he's like, get out of my office. I'm like, yeah,
15:32
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go over the other side. Talked to Tom Kelly.
15:34
Speaker 1: At least he didn't take the hottest hitter and ball
15:36
Speaker 1: and make him ice cold.
15:37
Speaker 5: Right, I'm gonna go talk to a smart man and
15:39
Speaker 5: don't come back. And he's screaming at me, and these
15:41
Speaker 5: guys don't know that it's hilarious. And they had won
15:45
Speaker 5: the game, So had they lost the game, it wouldn't
15:46
Speaker 5: might have been so theatrical.
15:48
Speaker 1: A little bit as but it was hilarious him screaming
15:51
Speaker 1: at me, and it was for effect. And I just
15:53
Speaker 1: played the harder court role. I just I'm like, I'm
15:56
Speaker 1: gonna go talk to Tom Kelly. He's a little bit more.
16:00
Speaker 1: That is so great.
16:01
Speaker 3: That's a great story and it was one of the
16:03
Speaker 3: classic Yes, he was the type of guy I love that.
16:07
Speaker 3: He also was like in the back of his mind
16:09
Speaker 3: taking advice from you. Yeah, that's the thing.
16:11
Speaker 1: What a sign of respect. He was just like, what
16:13
Speaker 1: do you you know, what would you do? I'm like,
16:15
Speaker 1: he didn't listen to me. But then they thinking about it.
16:19
Speaker 1: They won the Monday game too. Yeah, they ended up
16:22
Speaker 1: sweeping the series and they didn't have sweep suits then,
16:25
Speaker 1: But that I'll never think of that exchange because it
16:27
Speaker 1: was just that, It's amazing. Here's a guy's coming off injury.
16:30
Speaker 1: What do we do well if we're gonna sit and
16:31
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it against the left he and then
16:33
Speaker 1: let him what are you doing? Gar?
16:37
Speaker 3: It just goes to show you too, like the process
16:39
Speaker 3: could be fine, but the result won't be what you want.
16:41
Speaker 3: That's the way sports is, especially baseball, right. Yeah, Like
16:45
Speaker 3: playing him might have been the right move, like over
16:47
Speaker 3: to you know, supersede the platoon, but he's super hot.
16:50
Speaker 1: You have to ride the hot.
16:51
Speaker 3: He kind of got it, you know. You see what
16:54
Speaker 3: he can do if he can stand in a heater
16:55
Speaker 3: and didn't get you know, Jenkins is a left he
16:58
Speaker 3: was a lefty, he getting the same thing. Can we
17:00
Speaker 3: get these mini streaks all the time where all of
17:02
Speaker 3: a sudden goes, oh my goodness, he's nine for seventeen
17:05
Speaker 3: or like five or nine or something.
17:07
Speaker 1: And and there are a lot of times when those
17:09
Speaker 1: guys are hot, like look at his numbers, Like look
17:11
Speaker 1: what he's hitting. He's like, well, that's because they're they're
17:13
Speaker 1: protecting him against lefties and he's not facing the guys
17:15
Speaker 1: and going and sucking up those over fours. That's why
17:18
Speaker 1: he's hot. And that's what people don't appreciate. They just
17:20
Speaker 1: want to see the you know we got like Prince
17:22
Speaker 1: would play every day no matter what. You know, Yeah,
17:25
Speaker 1: and the Prince came in the door hitting lefties right well.
17:28
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. The guys that have to develop
17:30
Speaker 1: into it, the Bryce terrings. When does that ultimately? When
17:33
Speaker 1: when respect ultimately? You know, when does it switch flip?
17:36
Speaker 1: And it's funny too, because like those of us who
17:38
Speaker 1: grew up batting from the right side and wishing we
17:40
Speaker 1: had had that extra step out of the box. You know,
17:43
Speaker 1: it's like you face alrighty when I was growing up,
17:46
Speaker 1: and I face some big league pictures in high school
17:50
Speaker 1: for sure, a Lance Painter pitch for Nicole and Paul
17:52
Speaker 1: Wagner pitch for Germansown. And when when we we never
17:57
Speaker 1: saw a lefties. So for us as like that was
17:59
Speaker 1: not an advantage, it was a disadvantage. Like this guy's
18:01
Speaker 1: from another planets delivering the ball from the first base, dugout,
18:06
Speaker 1: like what the hell is this? Like when we played strikeout,
18:08
Speaker 1: nobody was left handed, Like we never saw left handed pitch.
18:11
Speaker 1: It was like seeing somebody from another planet.
18:13
Speaker 2: But then after watching the Brewers every single night, you're
18:15
Speaker 2: going into the box saying, all right, well this guy's
18:16
Speaker 2: a lefty.
18:17
Speaker 1: I gotta be smacking this dude, I'm for sure. And
18:21
Speaker 1: the latune advantage is real in baseball. People can discount,
18:24
Speaker 1: but it's the facts are the facts, dreams of data.
18:27
Speaker 1: There is a lot of that. But it's funny though,
18:28
Speaker 1: because when you grow up right handed and your face
18:30
Speaker 1: right he's all the time, it's not that big and
18:32
Speaker 1: it is different. The point is real. It's like when
18:34
Speaker 1: you let a guy work through it, become better at it.
18:37
Speaker 1: And there's that.
18:37
Speaker 3: There was always a you know, there was always a
18:40
Speaker 3: slight criticism of Counsole for that reason. Console is so
18:42
Speaker 3: strict in his platoons a lot of times, and so
18:45
Speaker 3: strict with his process that those guys would be able
18:47
Speaker 3: to develop out and then.
18:48
Speaker 1: It became like, well, that's stunting.
18:50
Speaker 2: Stunting well, And in Craig's defense too, they were they
18:54
Speaker 2: were always ahead of making sure that you knew, hey,
18:59
Speaker 2: when we bring this guy in, we're bringing him in
19:00
Speaker 2: because he smashes left handed pitching right like it almost
19:03
Speaker 2: would be in the first clinical This was why we
19:06
Speaker 2: brought him in. So now you're gonna see him only
19:09
Speaker 2: deployed here and Murv has kind of walked and blurred
19:13
Speaker 2: those lines back and forth. But hey, last night, a
19:16
Speaker 2: couple of lefties right out of the gates, the Bryce
19:18
Speaker 2: Terrang and Jake Bowers are the ones that puts you up,
19:20
Speaker 2: and then you know, Nolan Ernatto comes in and smashes
19:22
Speaker 2: him backhead he hit in his career at Miller Park.
19:26
Speaker 2: Now I am Fanfield three twenty five a ten to
19:30
Speaker 2: thirty five ops and a slugging percentage of six fifty
19:34
Speaker 2: with seven fifteen bombs and seventeen doubles.
19:38
Speaker 1: Now, Aeronatto is not in the class of YACHTI Molina
19:42
Speaker 1: or Well that's fair. Yeah, Caleb Williams, he's not in
19:46
Speaker 1: a hated class. So I suppose we should open it
19:48
Speaker 1: up today and send us guys opponents that you hated
19:51
Speaker 1: because they killed the Milwaukee or State teams. But you
19:54
Speaker 1: have respect, but you secretly respected. Yeah. The Walter Payton
19:57
Speaker 1: the type of thing, like nobody in Green Bay really
19:59
Speaker 1: hated one Alter Payton. He was class acting. Yeah, you said,
20:02
Speaker 1: tipic cap. He's a great player, one of the all
20:04
Speaker 1: time great. Hated that you had to play it, hated
20:05
Speaker 1: that you had to play him twice a year and
20:06
Speaker 1: get embarrassed. But Aaron Otto's in that class. He's a
20:10
Speaker 1: classy guy. We don't have that much beef with him.
20:12
Speaker 1: He was with the Cardinals for a while, but they
20:14
Speaker 1: weren't great. So he's one of those dudes and they
20:18
Speaker 1: just you know, there's a couple of them. I was
20:20
Speaker 1: the guy that just left up with Pittsburgh. Bryan Reynolds.
20:22
Speaker 1: Brian Reynolds is a reason to hate Brian Reynolds other
20:25
Speaker 1: than he just awesome. He's just awesome against your team. Yeah,
20:28
Speaker 1: so give us those guys if you can think of
20:30
Speaker 1: them eight seven seven seven nine four.
20:32
Speaker 2: So the only reason to hate Brian Reynolds is that
20:34
Speaker 2: he's not a Brewer exactly. Though it felt like for
20:36
Speaker 2: like three trade deadlines they were actively trying to get
20:38
Speaker 2: get rid of him.
20:39
Speaker 3: Well, that was part of the problem with my The
20:40
Speaker 3: one I was gonna say, which was soup On, is
20:42
Speaker 3: that he killed us so bad with the Cardinals. His
20:45
Speaker 3: numbers against us were so nasty. We couldn't touch him.
20:48
Speaker 3: That he when he became a Brewer, he couldn't get out.
20:50
Speaker 3: So he killed U twice. Yeah, he did, And that
20:54
Speaker 3: was the one he I remember doing the I'm like,
20:56
Speaker 3: this is great. You know, we signed soup On. He's
20:58
Speaker 3: a good picture. We're get him in a free agency
21:00
Speaker 3: and now we don't have to face him, so that
21:02
Speaker 3: you give us five winds years.
21:03
Speaker 1: Someone called me when that trade happened and like it
21:05
Speaker 1: was a four year deal. It was Christmas Eve, and
21:08
Speaker 1: I did a radio hit and I'm like, well, the
21:09
Speaker 1: first man's are gonna like it. The first year tolerted,
21:12
Speaker 1: the second year, and then the last two years are
21:14
Speaker 1: going to be choppy. Well it was pretty much called
21:16
Speaker 1: that shot.
21:17
Speaker 3: It was true, but you go back and look at
21:19
Speaker 3: those numbers that the contract was just so much smaller
21:22
Speaker 3: than would have been.
21:23
Speaker 1: Now they had to give it to him. He's coming
21:24
Speaker 1: off an NLCS MVP season and he was like, you
21:28
Speaker 1: know they had you wanted him, You had to give
21:31
Speaker 1: him the fourth year. That's what got him in. That
21:33
Speaker 1: buzz on the Christmas Eve though, was so we got
21:38
Speaker 1: soup On.
21:39
Speaker 2: We got to like everybody at an Kareem's house was
21:42
Speaker 2: talking about that that.
21:43
Speaker 3: Because we had this this idea of soup On totally
21:46
Speaker 3: different than any other club because yeah, you knew what
21:48
Speaker 3: he could do based on his regular work in the MLB,
21:51
Speaker 3: but we always saw him pitch amazingly because he killed
21:55
Speaker 3: us every time he was he was cy young against us.
21:59
Speaker 3: It was it was size. That was our joke until
22:01
Speaker 3: he became a brewer.
22:02
Speaker 1: All Right, we're off and running, shooting shirts are off.
22:05
Speaker 1: It's the Thursday edition. Dolf's gonna be here for halftime.
22:07
Speaker 1: Hunter Bombuard, it's going to join us to talk about
22:08
Speaker 1: to Hunter today at seven point thirty, You're in the
22:12
Speaker 1: huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. But clean inning.
22:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean listen one and a third and
22:22
Speaker 2: up and down, come right back out in your major
22:24
Speaker 2: league debut, Get a good workout in that MLB debut patch.
22:28
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
22:29
Speaker 2: I just love seeing the crowd shots of the parents
22:31
Speaker 2: being able to enjoy that moment and.
22:33
Speaker 1: Short flight up here to Nashville.
22:35
Speaker 2: I don't know the route that they ultimately had to
22:36
Speaker 2: take might have been a little bit more cumbrous to
22:39
Speaker 2: be able to get here, but at that point kept
22:41
Speaker 2: him in the game. And then sadly, Grant Anderson, who
22:44
Speaker 2: has been really good at keeping them in ball games,
22:46
Speaker 2: gives up back to back to Martell and Carrol and
22:49
Speaker 2: now it's onto game three and a matin ad to
22:51
Speaker 2: day to try to win the series. It feels underrated,
22:55
Speaker 2: but drew in a time where they are just trying
22:58
Speaker 2: to keep their head above water with these injuries. Talk
23:00
Speaker 2: and Mark Outinassio on the broadcast last night, Matt Arnold
23:03
Speaker 2: on the broadcast last night, it's it's not desperation mode.
23:07
Speaker 2: But if you can come out of this homestand where
23:10
Speaker 2: you're getting perfect gamed in the first game until the
23:13
Speaker 2: seventh inning, and you can come out of here three
23:15
Speaker 2: and three with a win today, that feels pretty good. Yeah,
23:17
Speaker 2: you'll take it. Normally, three and three homestand is the
23:20
Speaker 2: baseline of expectation. But in this case, you'll take it
23:23
Speaker 2: and win today would be nice, and winning the series
23:25
Speaker 2: would be nice series. And you know, and the the
23:28
Speaker 2: injuries keep piling up, and now we got to have
23:31
Speaker 2: the on hell Zerpa discussion because he goes on the
23:35
Speaker 2: aisle fore arm tightness, that's you know, and then and
23:40
Speaker 2: then we're gonna have the we're gonna peel back that
23:42
Speaker 2: onion like well, you know that World Baseball Classic pictures
23:46
Speaker 2: ramping up early because he hasn't been you know, extremely
23:50
Speaker 2: effective in his stint in Milwaukee's been actually it's been
23:54
Speaker 2: okay if you know ish Yeah, right, I mean like
23:58
Speaker 2: his first well, his first three appearance's first four appearances
24:01
Speaker 2: were nails.
24:01
Speaker 1: He was to start the year, he was phenomenal and
24:04
Speaker 1: then you would give it up.
24:05
Speaker 2: Came off of it, Yeah, it came off of the
24:07
Speaker 2: WBC and probably was a little bit hotter than everybody else,
24:10
Speaker 2: and now everybody's caught up.
24:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's there's that layer of it. But then
24:15
Speaker 1: it's just like there's a guy that were coming on.
24:16
Speaker 1: But in terms of the Brewers and their record, we
24:19
Speaker 1: talked about it. They were late May last year until
24:22
Speaker 1: they took off. Now, again. My my theory of the
24:25
Speaker 1: case this year was or the Brewers at one point
24:27
Speaker 1: last year thirty and five or something ridiculous like that.
24:29
Speaker 1: What was the run the thirty and four st yeat
24:32
Speaker 1: like I don't. I said, you know with the outside,
24:35
Speaker 1: they're not going to do that again this year, but
24:36
Speaker 1: hopefully they won't have to do that again, right and
24:39
Speaker 1: again they never got too far under five, but they
24:42
Speaker 1: did catch fire. Are they gonna win ninety seven this year?
24:44
Speaker 1: I bet the under Yeah? I would too, And doesn't
24:48
Speaker 1: mean they can't win ninety And if you're you know,
24:51
Speaker 1: he just if you, I've been saying it and I
24:54
Speaker 1: will say it, and you can put it on my
24:55
Speaker 1: damn tombstone. When you're a good team, five hundred's your baseline, right,
24:59
Speaker 1: you don't want to get That's why it's such so
25:02
Speaker 1: shocking that the Mets and Phillies go ten under this early,
25:05
Speaker 1: because that just buries you and it's so hard to
25:06
Speaker 1: get away from that. But if you're five hundred on
25:09
Speaker 1: September first, you can win the damn World Series.
25:11
Speaker 2: Man, there's really only one team that I can remember
25:14
Speaker 2: that I came back from being into that cellar of
25:17
Speaker 2: like ten twelve games under five hundred than Nationals in
25:21
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. They were brutal in the month of May
25:23
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden with the hottest team involved,
25:25
Speaker 2: but drew.
25:26
Speaker 1: Like you said, it sets you so far behind the
25:28
Speaker 1: eight ball.
25:29
Speaker 2: But I'm also fascinating to see what ultimately happens once
25:32
Speaker 2: these teams start playing each other, right Like, once these
25:35
Speaker 2: teams actually start playing each other and you see some
25:39
Speaker 2: more divisional series and rounds, then I'll understand and have
25:43
Speaker 2: a better clearer idea of it, Because, I mean, the
25:46
Speaker 2: Pirates have played the most of twelve games in the division.
25:48
Speaker 2: Everybody else has played one series, so it's tough to
25:52
Speaker 2: really have much of a fear as to where you
25:56
Speaker 2: slot other than just again keeping your head above water.
25:59
Speaker 2: And the most important thing last night, even though they
26:01
Speaker 2: dropped the game, is Churio and Vaughan come out of
26:04
Speaker 2: their rehab stint unscathed, and both of them get up
26:08
Speaker 2: into the biter's box and get back in here by
26:11
Speaker 2: at latest end.
26:12
Speaker 1: Of next week May May twenty fourth.
26:14
Speaker 3: Last year back the Brewers were twenty five and twenty eight,
26:17
Speaker 3: so they still were Obviously, they weren't even five hundred
26:19
Speaker 3: at that point they won it all the way through.
26:21
Speaker 3: You know, they went in their run. Those runs are
26:23
Speaker 3: rare to happen. Like you said, it probably won't happen again.
26:26
Speaker 3: But ninety seven winning seasons are rare. So if we
26:28
Speaker 3: make that the expectation, we're going to be disappointed more
26:31
Speaker 3: often than not. The reality is, you're we overemphasized the
26:35
Speaker 3: ear lyad the year because baseball started it's April to May.
26:37
Speaker 3: But the book is not written. The book is not written.
26:39
Speaker 3: There's a lot of season left. That being said, you
26:41
Speaker 3: still want to win games, of course, you still want
26:43
Speaker 3: to do what you can and put yourself in good position,
26:45
Speaker 3: especially if the division looks like it's gonna be tough.
26:47
Speaker 3: But like you said, Bellie, there's a lot we don't
26:49
Speaker 3: know yet, there's a lot we still don't know about
26:50
Speaker 3: what this team can do.
26:51
Speaker 1: So yeah, and they're you're gonna get those guys back.
26:54
Speaker 1: You haven't had priest Or, you haven't had you don't
26:56
Speaker 1: have Yelich, you don't you're missing your three, like three
26:59
Speaker 1: of your best pass and the guy who was your
27:02
Speaker 1: best starter last year. Yeah, and you're and you're still
27:04
Speaker 1: like not buried and now you're gonna be down Zurpa,
27:07
Speaker 1: And to clarify, I don't know it's gonna start the discussion.
27:12
Speaker 1: Did the WBC and his five and a third innings
27:14
Speaker 1: of high leverage, high intensity early before the season the
27:19
Speaker 1: workload did that impact him? I don't know. Did his
27:22
Speaker 1: career high sixty nine appearances last year caused the injury?
27:26
Speaker 1: You know, just you can't quantify, you don't know, one
27:31
Speaker 1: hundred for every guy that gets herd to play in
27:33
Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic, there's a guy who has confidence
27:35
Speaker 1: and plays a great you know, Bryce Terrank's gonna have
27:37
Speaker 1: a great season World Baseball Classic heard him, I was
27:39
Speaker 1: gonna say it started there and and that that to
27:42
Speaker 1: me is difficult.
27:43
Speaker 2: And listen, you're not Tay putting that toothpaste back in
27:45
Speaker 2: the tube. It's way too successful and way too good
27:47
Speaker 2: for them to not push for more of these guys
27:49
Speaker 2: to all.
27:50
Speaker 1: But I'm with you on more of it being the
27:52
Speaker 1: workload from last year.
27:53
Speaker 2: That's where Zurpa, being one of the outsiders, I think
27:57
Speaker 2: gave yourself a little bit of hope that he would
28:01
Speaker 2: be one of the more underutilized guys from a year
28:04
Speaker 2: ago where you worked your pen a ton early we
28:07
Speaker 2: saw that and thought maybe that was the issue with
28:09
Speaker 2: Trevor McGill when he first started to sputter. It hasn't
28:12
Speaker 2: like you've seen a tremendous abner your rebay, the best
28:15
Speaker 2: version of your rebay yet, so you wonder if his
28:18
Speaker 2: workload from a year ago is catching up to him,
28:20
Speaker 2: and he clearly did to Jared Kanig because he hadn't
28:22
Speaker 2: been the same guy and then finds himself in the
28:24
Speaker 2: same spot that Zerpa is. So I think the more
28:27
Speaker 2: concerning thing to me right now with that is how
28:30
Speaker 2: many leverage guys can you lose before?
28:34
Speaker 1: And Hunter's going to join us later on today.
28:35
Speaker 2: He's kind of mentioned it with Chad Patrick until maybe
28:38
Speaker 2: you have to start doing some creative things when Priester
28:41
Speaker 2: comes back and somebody you didn't plan on being a
28:45
Speaker 2: bullpen more leverage arm finds himself into the back end
28:48
Speaker 2: of the bullpen because you can only pitch Aaron Ashby
28:50
Speaker 2: every day, right, apparently every day you can only pitch
28:53
Speaker 2: Trevor McGill your rebay and them so many times because
28:56
Speaker 2: you don't want them to be sitting there like Knig,
28:58
Speaker 2: I should be such a freak wild good but Kang
29:02
Speaker 2: is a perfect example because like, oh he's hurt, well,
29:04
Speaker 2: he threw seventy two games last year.
29:06
Speaker 1: He was in almost every day. I mean, it's unbelievable.
29:09
Speaker 1: Seventy two outings, heavy work and that's gonna yeah.
29:12
Speaker 2: And that's a lot of striking up that that old
29:15
Speaker 2: country song in their fires up winning Yeah right, ray again.
29:19
Speaker 1: But Fitzpatrick was hilarious. What is that? What one was that?
29:23
Speaker 1: I don't know? Our boy Dave gasper knew it right
29:25
Speaker 1: out of the gates, Okay, I was like, I had
29:26
Speaker 1: never heard that. Uh, Fitzpatrick came in and Fitzpatrick was
29:30
Speaker 1: drafted in the same class as miss So they're kind
29:34
Speaker 1: of like their draft buddies.
29:35
Speaker 2: There a large young man pause. I mean, yeah, a
29:38
Speaker 2: big York young gun coming out of there. I like
29:41
Speaker 2: that a lot like.
29:42
Speaker 1: Town, New York. Yeah. So again, Bres tread and water
29:48
Speaker 1: a little bit. But that's better than the alternative very much.
29:51
Speaker 1: They're just they are riding it out and get your
29:53
Speaker 1: injuries out of the way because every team's gonna have them.
29:55
Speaker 1: Cubs have had a few, Cubs are missing them to
29:58
Speaker 1: some tough guys.
29:59
Speaker 2: That's all you're trying to right out well, and that's
30:00
Speaker 2: where the tough one for the Cubs is that they
30:03
Speaker 2: are dinged up and they are also rolling right now.
30:05
Speaker 2: Outside of that Dodgers series, they have won what twelve
30:07
Speaker 2: of fifteen won again last night.
30:09
Speaker 1: Their team's pretty good, really really good right now. They're
30:11
Speaker 1: starting to put it together. Yeah, you know, I know
30:15
Speaker 1: there were anti counts for a while down there, but
30:17
Speaker 1: I think now they're starting to dig the he's starting
30:19
Speaker 1: to get the culture there.
30:20
Speaker 3: Well.
30:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is also getting rid of Kyle.
30:23
Speaker 3: Obviously, Billy right, they're talented, Yeah, talented.
30:28
Speaker 1: He's a good manager.
30:29
Speaker 3: But this is a long cross of the desert this
30:31
Speaker 3: six months, so there's a lot Did they peak early?
30:33
Speaker 1: I don't know.
30:34
Speaker 3: Are they peaking early? There's no way to tell any
30:35
Speaker 3: of this stuff. You win games when you can. I
30:37
Speaker 3: know fans are always like, oh, we gotta get hot
30:39
Speaker 3: late in the season. We can't get hot now, Well,
30:41
Speaker 3: you gotta get a hot whenever you can. And and
30:43
Speaker 3: the Cubs are winning games right now to that to
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Speaker 3: that level. Are they gonna keep it up? We'll see.
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Speaker 3: They were doing some of that portions of the time
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Speaker 3: last year the year before as well, So there's no
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Speaker 3: question though they're a talented squad, like you said, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll get our first dose of Hunter.
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Speaker 1: How we're talking on this Thursday, we counter is going
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Speaker 1: to join us a chep thirty, but we'll get his
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Speaker 1: recap from the ballpark last night, the injuries, the home runs,
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Speaker 1: just a Brewers loss one of those nights, and they
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Speaker 1: will see it up today at twelve forty and then
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Speaker 1: get away games special uh with Brewers and Diamondbacks and
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Speaker 1: Brandon Woodroff pitching for a series victory. And what he
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Speaker 1: pitched pretty well against Skens on Friday night.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, and a ton of fastballs early.
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Speaker 2: Let's see if that's the exact same recipe here.
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Speaker 1: In almost a quality start. He pitched his five and
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Speaker 1: we'll see. I bet I'm sure he'll probably keep him
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Speaker 1: in the game. He's the guy who knows how to
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Speaker 1: work this lineup.
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Speaker 2: He's a you know, And we'll see if the Brewers canna,
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Speaker 2: you know, do something that they've only done once now,
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Speaker 2: and what nine games, ten games, hit the ball over
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Speaker 2: the fence. That would be something that would be that
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Speaker 2: would be fun thing to start finding a way to
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Speaker 2: do it.
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Speaker 1: Would enjoy a routine. He's gonna run into over with
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Speaker 1: all there. You know, I'm waiting for a wild bill.
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Speaker 1: When's he gonna start, you know, jacking.
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Speaker 2: That's a good question because his his offensive outburst output
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Speaker 2: has been a little a little bit lacking as a
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Speaker 2: just to.
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Speaker 1: Touch, just to touch. Well here from Hunter Bomgret when
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Speaker 1: we come back, we want to hear from you. We're
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Speaker 1: having the Nolan Aronado tip the cap to your opponent discussion.
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Speaker 1: Who are those enemies that you respect and don't hate
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Speaker 1: as much? As like, I don't want to hear about
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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams and you know Yachti Molina and
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Speaker 1: LaRussa And Pujo was like, no, I want to hear
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Speaker 1: about guys that you you grudgingly just respect, you just
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Speaker 1: hate what they do to your squad.
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Speaker 2: And I'm staring at the guy that I hated the
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Speaker 2: absolute most but love the most when he mooned the crowd.
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Speaker 1: Randy Moss was.
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Speaker 2: The coolest guy, was the coolest guy to like when
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Speaker 2: he was with Minnesota, but hated him because it was
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Speaker 2: every single time he was walking in here.
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Speaker 1: It was one of his seventeen touchdowns in a season.
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Speaker 1: That's a good example we're huddled up on a Thursday.
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Speaker 1: It's the huddle. Fox Sports Radio was calmed he missed
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Speaker 1: the show, but he was listening back. I was the
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Speaker 1: guy behind the spaghetti dinner at the ballpark, happy to
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Speaker 1: give you the explanation behind it. All right, that's awesome.
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Speaker 1: Should have known it was one of our listeners that
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Speaker 1: spearheaded the spaghetti night at the ballpark.
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Speaker 3: And there was someone else, Yeah, someone else taking it
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Speaker 3: on Twitter.
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Speaker 1: I believe all of you. It's just funny how many
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Speaker 1: people are coming on buddy Er. Is it gonna be covered? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Eric and his buddies like and I know my pal
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Speaker 1: did reach out to me on the socials and he
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Speaker 1: was texting me telling me, hey, that was me. I'm like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we talked about you, man. We gave you a pop
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Speaker 1: one of those.
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Speaker 3: Deals where you know you have the idea, you do
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Speaker 3: it and then boy, everyone all of a sudden you're
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Speaker 3: the greatest.
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Speaker 1: And was like, yeah, oh you know that has a
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Speaker 1: story about it.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I'm excited. I'm wondering if we're
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Speaker 2: seeing up tickedough like I would. I would assume if
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Speaker 2: you talk to some mushers at am FAM, you're gonna
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Speaker 2: start seeing a little bit more spaghetti dinners.
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Speaker 3: Not now, but I'm sure in fifteen twenty years. But
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Speaker 3: I knew all those guys. I knew it was one
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Speaker 3: of those guys. I was one of those guys. We
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Speaker 3: did the spaghetti thing. That was hilarious. So did you
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Speaker 3: got to tell all the kids what we used to
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Speaker 3: do when we were when we were younger guys?
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Speaker 1: We went to the game. You guys, Yeah, who were
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Speaker 1: the opponents that you respected? You wanted to hate, but
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Speaker 1: you really couldn't, but you hated what they did to
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Speaker 1: your team. Maggie and Georgia gave her to gave us
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Speaker 1: her honor. Roll John Randall, Yeah, I never liked him, John.
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Speaker 1: He has a good player. Peanut Tillman the peanut punch.
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Speaker 3: Now that's an interesting one because I remember he threw
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Speaker 3: out a first pitch at Miller Park Park and that
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Speaker 3: wrangled some people.
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Speaker 1: Jared Allen, Oh God, what that's celebration. These are guys
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Speaker 1: you respected, though, Yeah, that's it. Adrian Peterson, guys, you
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Speaker 1: respected that you hated. You didn't hate him except for
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Speaker 1: what they did to your team. You respect him because
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Speaker 1: they were a good players. Okay, he said yes, I
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Speaker 1: hate the Vikings as much as Armand does. By the way, uh,
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Speaker 1: I knew Peanut was a bear. I could do this
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Speaker 1: all day, Yeah, Meggan, we got all day. We're here
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Speaker 1: till a sweet.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 6: I know.
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Speaker 2: Arm It's gonna be tough for you to say and
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Speaker 2: give any credit to any of these guys if they
34:42
Speaker 2: play for a different teams.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I had that problem. Yeah, that's a that's a thing, right.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know I had one of my rivals,
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Speaker 1: but I guess that's part of the exercise. That is
34:52
Speaker 1: the exers. That's the exact exercise.
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Speaker 2: If there's anybody that wore a different uniform that you
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Speaker 2: gave a little bit of nod, you'd be like, man,
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Speaker 2: that son of a gun was way too good to hate.
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Speaker 3: Droy Troykasper was a good one. Barry Sanders and he
35:05
Speaker 3: chimed on the YouTube. Lions were not our hated rival,
35:08
Speaker 3: but they were a rival. And Barry Sanders and the
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Speaker 3: Lions played us a lot in the playoffs in my youth,
35:13
Speaker 3: and he was a thorn on our side. But it
35:15
Speaker 3: was hard not to respect Barry Sanders, right, one of
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Speaker 3: the greatest to ever do it, you know, And one
35:19
Speaker 3: of the most fun guys to ever watch play football,
35:22
Speaker 3: without a doubt.
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Speaker 2: I think the toughest one for me was as a
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Speaker 2: dude that had it felt like it was going to
35:28
Speaker 2: have no issue being a player that you could love
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Speaker 2: watching because he was going to be all the way
35:34
Speaker 2: out west and was never going to really impact your
35:36
Speaker 2: favorite team for me was Larry Fitzgerald and then that
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Speaker 2: son of it in twenty fifteen had to just Fitzgerald
35:42
Speaker 2: you and knock you right up out of the playoffs
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Speaker 2: one in back to back plays. Because that run that
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Speaker 2: he had I means of outside of the playoff game,
35:50
Speaker 2: I'd have to look up all of the numbers to
35:52
Speaker 2: know exactly what he did against the Packers. I bet
35:54
Speaker 2: it was awesome, because I think his numbers are probably
35:57
Speaker 2: pretty awesome against just about everybody. But that run that
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Speaker 2: he had in the playoffs to go to the Super
36:04
Speaker 2: Bowl with Arizona early on was one of the most
36:06
Speaker 2: impressive perform like stretches of games youre I think I'd
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Speaker 2: ever seen a wide receiver half he had that NFC
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Speaker 2: title game where he had like three or four touchdowns
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Speaker 2: against the Eagles. He was just the best player on
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Speaker 2: the planet for a while, and it felt like he
36:18
Speaker 2: was unstoppable for that two year stretch. And then all right, sweet,
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Speaker 2: I can just give a tip of hat, don't have
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Speaker 2: to worry about it.
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Speaker 1: And then and then that play in overtime. Thanksgo, I
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, eight seven, seven, seven, nine four
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Speaker 1: one ninety seven to three. We mentioned Brewers lose last night.
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Speaker 1: Getaway game today twelve forty first pitch brewis Diamondbacks woodrof
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Speaker 1: on the mound. Let's take it to Hunter Bombgart's recap
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Speaker 1: from last even brought to us by import mind it
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Speaker 1: take it away Hunter, Thanks guys.
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Speaker 6: The Brewers fall out of the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday night,
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Speaker 6: six to two. The final score not much to write
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Speaker 6: home about. When it comes to the game. Offense missed
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Speaker 6: some opportunities. Brandon Sprote was just okay as the starting pitcher,
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Speaker 6: but Brian Fitzpatrick was the one the spotlight. He was
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Speaker 6: called up earlier in the day when they had to
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Speaker 6: place on hell Serpa on the il with left forearm tightness.
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Speaker 6: Fitzpatrick was selected from Triple A Nashville, came up, made
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Speaker 6: his major league debut. Came in late in the seventh
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Speaker 6: inning and then pitched the eighth inning one to the third
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Speaker 6: of scoreless baseball. I asked him about when he could
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Speaker 6: soak in the entire experience. Was there a moment you
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Speaker 6: were able to just kind of take everything in tonight.
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Speaker 1: And whatever it happened to be before, after.
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Speaker 7: During, right right now, seeing everybody, seeing my family, and
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Speaker 7: you know that that kind of made it settle a
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Speaker 7: little bit. And you know, just thanking them, thanking them
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Speaker 7: for believing in me, and thanking them for being here
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Speaker 7: to you know, it's a short notice, and the amount
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Speaker 7: of people that turned out it was, you know, it
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Speaker 7: was awesome.
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Speaker 1: I was incredibly grateful.
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Speaker 6: And when he came into the bottom of the seventh,
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Speaker 6: the very first batter he faces in the major leagues
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Speaker 6: was Corbyn Carroll. Now Corbyn Carroll got on with a
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Speaker 6: soft hit, but otherwise he was able to neutralize that
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Speaker 6: middle of the Arizona Diamondbacks order.
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Speaker 1: For his manager, Pat Murphy.
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Speaker 8: Was a proud Fitzpatrick. I couldn't be more thrilled for
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Speaker 8: the kid to come in and face the hitters that
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Speaker 8: he faced, you know, to face some of the best
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Speaker 8: hitters in the league. You know what I mean, to
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Speaker 8: come in and face those guys and do the job
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Speaker 8: that he did, give up two scratch hits and get
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Speaker 8: four outs for US.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: So Brian Fitzpatrick and the crew will try to win
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Speaker 6: the series today twelve forty first pitch as they face
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Speaker 6: the Diamondbacks with Brandon Woodruff on the mound. And don't
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Speaker 6: forget Milwaukee Baseball. Tonight comes your way from six until
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Speaker 6: seven this evening, I'll have a recap of the series
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Speaker 6: finale and look ahead of the weekend series against the
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Speaker 3: Back to you guys, Thank you very much, Hunter Bombard,
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Speaker 3: great report for the low's level. I'd like to try
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Speaker 3: and figure out where he's at Bay, where's hunterry background here?
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Speaker 1: And where's Spencer Look? Can't forget Spencer Williams cameraman to
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Speaker 1: the stars. I want the Spencer drop in againer in
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Speaker 1: the corner. That was way too thanks, just the guy
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Speaker 1: behind the guy behind the guy. Yeah, make him a star?
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Speaker 1: That is it? Make him a star? Hit us up
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Speaker 1: eight seven seven seven nine four one ninety seven three.
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Speaker 1: You can be a star as well and help us
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Speaker 1: shovel on this Thursday.
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Speaker 2: How about a couple of good ones Kavic and Madison
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Speaker 2: or Kevik and MAUI up with us early? Now I
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Speaker 2: don't know if he's up early with us or up
39:15
Speaker 2: to l us Goose Gossage.
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Speaker 3: Okay, come on, now, that's a good old school loving
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Speaker 3: those old lady.
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Speaker 1: At the seventies early eighties Yankees teams yeah, Ron Goudrie
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Speaker 1: and pronounce he'sa lightning Ron Guidry.
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Speaker 3: So that would have been the eighty one playoffs, right,
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Speaker 3: that was yeah, br Bruce.
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Speaker 1: Yankees had quite the rivalry back late seventies early eighties.
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Speaker 1: That was one of the turning points for the franchise
39:37
Speaker 1: was the series they had against the Yankees. I kind
39:39
Speaker 1: of seen it was a brawl Mike Caldwell and the
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Speaker 1: brawl Reggie Jackson like that, you know it, and the
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Speaker 1: Brewers started theater, they started turning things around seventies. Get
39:47
Speaker 1: fifty thousand people in the barn to watch that, and
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Speaker 1: it was something else.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like Ason Wakshaw, I'm going all the way back.
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Speaker 2: But Maurice Cheeks from the seventies six.
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Speaker 1: Years well, I hated other guys on that team too, Dawkins,
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Speaker 1: Bobby Jones, Caldwell Jones, Doctor j Well. It was on
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Speaker 1: that you know, point the Bucks for the eighties.
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Speaker 3: You know, the Bucks were always good, but it was
40:04
Speaker 3: an exercise and frustration in the playoffs when the Celtics,
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Speaker 3: when the Sixers would block them, right, that was always
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Speaker 3: the issue. So yeah, those guys were a thorn in
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Speaker 3: their side.
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Speaker 2: But that eighty what was the eighty six team up
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Speaker 2: for one of the best teams of all time? Right,
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Speaker 2: talking about the eighty two seventy six Ers, Oh, eighty
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Speaker 2: three they won the title, So I would eighty eighty
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Speaker 2: three Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Moses Malone.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, when they got Moses and then they finally won
40:30
Speaker 3: because they were blocked a lot by the by this
40:33
Speaker 3: they lost to the Celtics in eighty one, right, they
40:35
Speaker 3: lost in Game seven, a Magic's great game in the
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Speaker 3: finals in eighty Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Definitely, Billy, those those teams were actual. I was I
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Speaker 1: was a Sixers fan back then because I love doctor
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Speaker 1: j It was my favorite player. Yeah, hard not to
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Speaker 1: absolutely all right, one hour of the books you're listening
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