Transcript

09/17/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Drew, Billy, and Armin bringing it to you.
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Speaker 2: It's the final hour of the Thursday morning program, but
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Speaker 2: we're back at it. Five o'clock club will convene in
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Speaker 2: the PM at Pottawatomie Casino Sportsbook this evening in the Annex.
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Speaker 1: Five to seven by Wayne Larravee.
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Speaker 2: Jameson's going to be there giving away samples and Packers
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Speaker 2: tickets to the opener for the game against the Falcons.
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Speaker 2: And since I love that opening montage of ours, some
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Speaker 2: say it's too long. Some say it gets old after
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Speaker 2: a while. It's just comforting. It's like a warm blanket.
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Speaker 2: Our phrase that pays today when we're at Pottawatomie is
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Speaker 2: going to be cut and crack.
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Speaker 1: Cut and crack.
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Speaker 3: Cut and crack is the phrase that pays to get
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Speaker 3: that gift card.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: You get a $ 10 gift card if you come up
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Speaker 2: to Armin today and say cut and crack. And he
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Speaker 2: will hand you a gift card worth $ 10 to spend
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Speaker 2: on anything you Well, anything except alcohol at Pottawatomie and gambling.
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Speaker 1: I was going to say gaming and alcohol are the
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Speaker 1: only things that are not good. It's good at the
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Speaker 1: stands for everything else. Food and souvenirs, snacks, whatever you want.
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Speaker 3: The gift shop is nice. I think it's called Pottawatomie
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Speaker 3: Provisions now.
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Speaker 1: It is. It used to be called Sweetgrass. There it is.
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Speaker 1: I like that, Billy. Cut and crack. You had one
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Speaker 1: of the sweet hats that you were rocking the other day.
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Speaker 3: It's not at my desk now, but I had the hat.
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Speaker 3: That's a nice hat. They have some retro stuff there.
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Speaker 3: A lot of great Packers, Brewers, and Buck stuff as well.
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Speaker 3: A lot of great sports gear if.
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Speaker 1: You're into that. If you're not going to eat, though,
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Speaker 1: at the Sportsbook, which I would urge you to do,
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Speaker 1: the Marketplace, that burger is also phenomenal. That might be
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Speaker 1: the easiest place.
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Speaker 4: Listen.
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Speaker 1: I will be grabbing, and I know we mentioned the
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Speaker 1: talk about what? How you said it. I couldn't help it.
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Speaker 1: You said I'll be grabbing. I'll be grabbing a pumpkin
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Speaker 1: spice latte at the Cream City Coffee before I walk in.
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Speaker 1: That will be hit up there because, listen, I am.
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Speaker 1: full uh basic white girl when it comes to.
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Speaker 3: The pumpkin spice well you were talking about um the
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Speaker 3: apple cider donuts they got all kinds of stuff like
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Speaker 3: that donuts and apple ciders and all i don't know
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Speaker 3: exactly what the menu is.
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Speaker 1: They got some kind of pumpkin cream cheese muffin they
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Speaker 1: got muffins and all kinds of stuff oh he's danish
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Speaker 1: meets a pumpkin muffin you tell me your boy's not
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Speaker 1: gonna be a part of that yeah.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be test driving now my question is billy
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Speaker 2: will you be wearing a chunky sweater and uggs boots Well, yeah.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know. It depends on if you can
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Speaker 1: see it over my cool belt that I got over here.
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Speaker 1: It comes as a set. You got to have the
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Speaker 1: big turtleneck sweaters. Right. Because it is sweater season now.
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Speaker 1: But I'm also going to get my big bag that
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to keep on my.
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Speaker 3: lap for the majority of the day man about what
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Speaker 3: is it about fall man it's so funny but people
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Speaker 3: enjoy it it's great and the funny thing is around
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Speaker 3: here our fall is too short in my opinion i
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Speaker 3: mean everyone thinks i don't like fall because i'm just
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Speaker 3: a hater no i i we don't have a great
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Speaker 3: like long fall because winter starts but then.
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Speaker 1: Again our you know the winter uh chill in the.
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Speaker 3: Air is just our fall so i guess we're just
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Speaker 3: more adaptable here in these parts which is still a
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Speaker 3: good thing But the leaves still haven't turned yet.
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Speaker 1: We have a little bit of summer. So you don't
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Speaker 1: like fall?
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Speaker 3: I don't like fall, and not because specifically of fall.
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Speaker 3: I don't like fall because I don't like what it means.
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Speaker 3: I don't like what it means, the end of summer
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Speaker 3: and the welcoming of winter. And I don't like that
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Speaker 3: it's like a two-hour window. Fall around here is very short.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. To me, fall is.
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Speaker 2: We're nudging into it. I don't think we're there yet.
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Speaker 2: The autumnal equinox is next week, right?
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Speaker 1: And then... I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Fall will start when my pool closes, which is coming
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Speaker 2: up rapid. I was going to say that's probably going
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Speaker 2: to come up pretty quickly here, huh? Today might be
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Speaker 2: the last day. Based on the forecast, it might be
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Speaker 2: the last day to splash around.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if there's any time to cut the grass,
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Speaker 1: you might want to do it now. Because fall to me, listen,
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Speaker 1: summer in Wisconsin, that's when we're showing off. Make no
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Speaker 1: mistake about it. We flex during the summer. Those 90
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Speaker 1: days you go around Wisconsin, people are like, damn. Mostly
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Speaker 1: the best weather on the planet.
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Speaker 2: There's no place. I've traveled all over the place. I'd
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Speaker 2: rather be here.
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Speaker 1: Hard to beat. Fall, I think, is the second best.
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Speaker 1: That's where I think we flex a little bit more,
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Speaker 1: especially if you do. Now, Armin, this is where I
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Speaker 1: think you need to gas up that beautiful Kia Sportage
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Speaker 1: you got rocking and drive a little bit around the state.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: We get some nice fall colors.
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Speaker 4: I agree.
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Speaker 1: You start driving around, you will see some improvements. Impressive,
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Speaker 1: impressive sites. One of the reasons why I'm excited to
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Speaker 1: enjoy our friend I-43 coming up next week Thursday when
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Speaker 1: we go back up to Green Bay and also to
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Speaker 1: hit up a couple of our friend Tim Van Voren.
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Speaker 1: Did you guys see he did a special on the
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Speaker 1: Places to see and hit on I-43 going to and
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Speaker 1: from a Packers game. Wow, he did. He did a
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Speaker 1: sweet special on it for Tim Van Voren. I don't
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Speaker 1: know anybody has done that drive more than Van Voren.
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Speaker 2: In recent vintage, absolutely. The rest of the dudes have
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Speaker 2: apartments up there and stuff.
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Speaker 1: So him and Mickey went through and gave their best spots,
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Speaker 1: their top places to be able to hit. And in fall,
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Speaker 1: it probably gets even better because that's a lot of
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Speaker 1: times when those up and downs start happening.
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Speaker 2: Our boy Tim Van Voren, Fox 6 Milwaukee. Folks in Madison,
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Speaker 2: you may have seen him in his work.
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Speaker 1: He's incredible.
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Speaker 4: Incredible.
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Speaker 1: He's great. Been there forever. Marquette grad, Armin. Yeah. West
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Speaker 1: Bend native. Grew up watching him.
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Speaker 2: Tim, at a certain point, if he hasn't already, he's
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Speaker 2: going to look back on his storied career.
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Speaker 1: Very proud. A pillar of the industry and the community.
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Speaker 2: And he'll say, I spent so much time in a
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Speaker 2: car between Milwaukee and Green Bay. And he's going to
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Speaker 2: do the math. He's going to be like, I've spent
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Speaker 2: a year and a half of my life.
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Speaker 1: I was going to say.
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Speaker 2: And then when you add up the time waiting for
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Speaker 2: interviews and standing in the locker room and stuff, because
5:42
Speaker 2: when I was on a Perlman's podcast, we talked about that,
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Speaker 2: all the time that you spend transcribing back in the day.
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Speaker 2: When you do these interviews, you do an hour. Spring training,
5:50
Speaker 2: you do an hour and a half of interviews a
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Speaker 2: day and then spend time typing them and reliving them
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Speaker 2: and typing them.
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Speaker 1: Now they have software for that. But you can't get
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Speaker 1: back the time in the car. And there hasn't been
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Speaker 1: anybody that has had more of that windshield time. No.
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Speaker 1: And then the hurrying up and waiting, Timmy V makes
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Speaker 1: the most of it.
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Speaker 3: True.
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Speaker 1: Because he genuinely talks and interacts with everybody.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 1: And, like, actually cares about the interaction. He knows everybody.
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Speaker 1: He knows everybody for that simple factor, I think, that
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Speaker 1: you just hit on. Like, I'm going to look back
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Speaker 1: and say, damn, I'm not going to waste all this time.
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Speaker 1: If I'm going to be driving back and forth on 43,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to make it worth it. Because he is, like,
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Speaker 1: one of the deans and one of the great. No doubt.
6:33
Speaker 1: stewards of the broadcast industry, I would say. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of windshield time. That's why I was
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Speaker 1: excited when I saw 21 minutes. condensing what 30 plus
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Speaker 1: years of drives up and down 43. Those two have
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Speaker 1: seen some stuff on that highway and they're going to
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Speaker 1: teach you exactly where to go.
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Speaker 3: Well, it is funny because, you know, you talk about
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Speaker 3: time wasted. I'm sure he looks at it. Maybe at
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Speaker 3: a different perspective is like, no, that's where like all
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Speaker 3: the conversations, the memories made, uh, things like that.
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Speaker 1: You have to look at the journey as the reward, right?
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Speaker 3: That's I think the right outlook because it's, You're right.
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Speaker 3: If you think about the travel time that you waste,
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Speaker 3: it is a depressing feeling. But look at that as
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Speaker 3: like as part of the journey. Right.
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Speaker 1: Or part of the you know, sometimes those conversations that
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Speaker 1: you and you two have on the way back from Lambeau.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Are probably some of the best memories. Oh, for sure.
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Speaker 1: That's so, you know, you got to look at it
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Speaker 1: that way.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: There's some harrowing ones in there, too. Oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 3: Major floods that that one last year. I mean, I
7:27
Speaker 3: don't know what you guys went through, but you guys
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Speaker 3: went through it.
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Speaker 1: Very important. Maybe the most important thing.
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Speaker 2: the day there, Billy? Well, it's going to be kind
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Speaker 2: of tough.
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Speaker 1: A lot of times you can pinpoint one or two
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Speaker 1: individuals throughout a game that need to get highlighted and celebrated.
7:57
Speaker 1: I thought one part would have been Logan Henderson being
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Speaker 1: able to chew up those five innings yesterday. No, he
8:02
Speaker 1: didn't celebrate like everybody else did. And that's where I'd
8:05
Speaker 1: go to one guy that was definitely leading the charge
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Speaker 1: in the celebration. He was the one that said, I
8:09
Speaker 1: think we were running a little bit low on our
8:11
Speaker 1: beer and liquor that we're celebrating and popping bottles with.
8:13
Speaker 1: How about Christian Yelich? Instead of the offer that he
8:17
Speaker 1: was maybe going to have to wear yesterday, delivers the
8:20
Speaker 1: two-run double, the two-run base hit, I should say. It
8:23
Speaker 1: looked like it was about to be a double down
8:24
Speaker 1: that line, but the carom hit. keeps William Contreras at second,
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Speaker 1: scores the two runs, plates Jake Bowers, and gives the
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Speaker 1: Brewers a 5-4 win that they would ultimately hold on
8:35
Speaker 1: to win with in Pittsburgh. And as much as we
8:38
Speaker 1: talk about, what is it now, 51-26, I believe, at
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Speaker 1: home and 25 games over 500, Drew, on the road,
8:46
Speaker 1: 43-31 is a really ridiculous mark to look at. The
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Speaker 1: old adage of win two-thirds of your home games and
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Speaker 1: go 50-50 and 500 on the road. they've done way
8:59
Speaker 1: better than that in large part. Being able to beat
9:01
Speaker 1: the Pirates a lot of times wouldn't matter that much.
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Speaker 1: In a year where you've struggled against Pittsburgh, felt good
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Speaker 1: to be able to get that win. Definitely felt good
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Speaker 1: for Yellich to be the one to deliver the swing. Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: We've talked about it like, okay, so Brewers are going
9:14
Speaker 2: to face some, I hate to, sorry about this, cover
9:17
Speaker 2: your ears, Mike, earmuffs, Mike Vassallo, high leverage situations in
9:20
Speaker 2: the playoffs. And we talked about who do you want up?
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Speaker 2: And people would say Bowers because he's been good. Terrain's
9:26
Speaker 2: getting hot. You would say Churio because he's a bad MF.
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Speaker 1: Sure, yeah. He's that guy. But who do you want
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Speaker 1: up facing an 0-2 count in a clutch situation?
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Speaker 4: Christian Yelich.
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Speaker 2: Christian Yelich in an 0-2 count. He's going to give
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Speaker 2: you something. Because the better than not chance, Drew, he's
9:45
Speaker 2: working that thing to 2-2. Better than not, Chance, he's
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Speaker 2: moving that thing up.
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Speaker 1: And I think the really interesting numbers for him, if
9:54
Speaker 1: you dig in through all of it, yes, there has
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Speaker 1: been months where he has been losing. less than productive,
10:02
Speaker 1: 200 Mendoza line average on some of the stuff. But
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Speaker 1: the numbers with runners in scoring position, hitting almost 300
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Speaker 1: at 293, and his OPS is almost 840. So, like,
10:12
Speaker 1: that has been the one spot that he is– actually
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Speaker 1: delivered well in throughout the year. And you just look
10:19
Speaker 1: at the last month, last 30 days or so, he
10:22
Speaker 1: started to swing the bat much more consistently. And it
10:26
Speaker 1: all kind of I pushed back on it significantly of, well,
10:30
Speaker 1: just move him to eight. Move him to the seven hole,
10:32
Speaker 1: and it'll be a lot better. Well, they did move
10:34
Speaker 1: him down to seven like one day. That's right. And
10:35
Speaker 1: then there was an injury, and then they moved him
10:37
Speaker 1: back up to five. I think they did placement seven
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Speaker 1: one day. Moved him down to the five hole. He's
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Speaker 1: had a lot more runners on base, and you've seen
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Speaker 1: a lot more productive Yelich since he's been moved down
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Speaker 1: in the order. Well, and that's great to see.
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Speaker 3: I mean, doesn't it make us all feel good when
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Speaker 3: Yelich comes through? A, because we want it to happen
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Speaker 3: for our team, but B, for him as well. And
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Speaker 3: the guy, I'm sure, you know, Murph talks about how
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Speaker 3: much he's grinded, but we've talked about how he's been
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Speaker 3: in the face of this team.
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Speaker 1: And Drew, you talked about him being this era for
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Speaker 1: so long. This is the Yelich era.
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Speaker 3: So if it were to some way cap it off
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Speaker 3: in a great playoff run and those things, it would
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Speaker 3: be wonderful because that's probably the one thing you have
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Speaker 3: said about him is, some of the playoff numbers have left.
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Speaker 1: To be desired. He's had a couple of good moments.
11:16
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say a couple.
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Speaker 3: He's had a few more than a few good moments,
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Speaker 3: but overall the numbers probably aren't where he wants to
11:21
Speaker 3: be in the playoffs and people get on him about that.
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Speaker 3: And I know he's, you know, every year because of
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Speaker 3: the money he makes every year, it's always, we litigate
11:27
Speaker 3: Yelich and things like that, but it would be nice
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Speaker 3: if he was able to have that type of October
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Speaker 3: that all players dream of would be good to see.
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Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward to another opportunity of him having it.
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Speaker 3: That's the way you have to look at these things.
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Speaker 3: I think that's the way you have to approach it
11:41
Speaker 3: is like, you don't worry about what's happened in the past.
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Speaker 3: You look at the next one is the opportunity for
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Speaker 3: a special story to be made.
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Speaker 2: He's going to join us in the next segment of
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Speaker 2: the program today. Kyle Harrison against Wilbur Dottel in the
12:32
Speaker 2: series finale.
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Speaker 1: Now, can Kyle Harrison win himself today? A playoff spot here.
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Speaker 1: He can win some hearts and minds.
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Speaker 3: This is a great opportunity for him, and Brewers are
12:42
Speaker 3: in a great position to be able to look at
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Speaker 3: these things right now.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of which, how about Drone last night? Drone show
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Speaker 1: in the bullpen, which I like to see.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, and our boy Hunter's loved Shane Drone in the bullpen.
12:52
Speaker 1: He's been trying to put Shane Drone in the bullpen
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Speaker 1: for a couple of months now. And if you're going
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Speaker 1: to be able to find a way in, find a
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Speaker 1: way on the team. That just might be it. He
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Speaker 1: got that inning ending double play when he came in. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm fascinated to see Harrison tonight because with the
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Speaker 1: velocity going back up, but the hard contact also going
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Speaker 1: up last outing. That was not something I was anticipating.
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Speaker 1: I thought the I thought the velocity would bring back
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Speaker 1: May Kyle Harrison. Instead, we may have seen the last
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Speaker 1: of that here in 2026. But let's see it. Come
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Speaker 1: on now. One more time. Let's see what happens. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think it's a good reminder. Things are on the
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Speaker 1: bullpen and all these things is like when you get
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Speaker 1: to the playoffs and we'll talk to Hunter. But when
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Speaker 1: you get to the playoffs, it's not a traditional starter
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Speaker 1: reliever structure. And I think we sometimes tend to forget
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Speaker 1: that as we go through the season, remembering once we
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Speaker 1: get to the playoffs, weird things are going to happen.
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Speaker 3: Unusual decisions that seem unusual are going to be the
13:47
Speaker 3: norm when it comes to pitchers. And when you deploy guys,
13:50
Speaker 3: what you're trying to do, because you're just trying to
13:52
Speaker 3: get outs any way you can. I mean, last year
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Speaker 3: was Chad Patrick everywhere. Trevor McGill, the opening game, Ashby,
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Speaker 3: things like that. So who knows what the role is,
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Speaker 3: what the situation is. But when these guys, if and
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Speaker 3: when they find themselves on the playoff roster, they got
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Speaker 3: to be prepared to go in any time to help
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Speaker 3: get out to the team. And that's just what it's about.
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Speaker 3: You know, that was the old council thing. And I
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Speaker 3: know we moved, but it's like 27 outs.
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Speaker 1: You're out getters.
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Speaker 3: We just take them when we can, especially in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Drawing.
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Speaker 2: Pitching like Murph did that he's doing Murph's doing some
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Speaker 2: stuff intentionally put guys in situations and see how they
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Speaker 2: do it's almost like a little audition for some guys
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Speaker 2: yeah and that's probably what Harrison's thing is tonight so
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Speaker 2: I like the way he's approaching that because.
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Speaker 1: It what three guys for one spot may for sure
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Speaker 1: is going to be your third starter right like I
14:40
Speaker 1: would really struggle to see anybody else taking that one
14:43
Speaker 1: but he's pitching Friday in Baltimore right yeah but I
14:46
Speaker 1: mean Gasser has pitched well down the stretch if he
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Speaker 1: follows it up maybe he ends up in beating out Harrison.
14:52
Speaker 1: I got to think they would like to have Harrison
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Speaker 1: be a part of it. Not, not that this is
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Speaker 1: about feelings at all, right? This is, this is about
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Speaker 1: winning and being able to somehow piece together that 26
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Speaker 1: man roster, but you want to ride the horses that
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Speaker 1: got you here. He's one of the biggest reasons why
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Speaker 1: he won so many games in the early portion of
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Speaker 1: the season. But if, if, You get one last chance,
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Speaker 1: young man. One last stand there at the shootout. We'll
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Speaker 1: see if Kyle Harrison answers the bell tonight.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a tough needle to thread sometimes because
15:21
Speaker 3: on one hand, you're right. The horses that got you there,
15:23
Speaker 3: but you don't want it to be like a Sean
15:24
Speaker 3: Markham situation.
15:25
Speaker 1: Where he's totally cooked by the time he gets to
15:27
Speaker 1: the playoffs.
15:28
Speaker 3: So I think the thing is, can you find the
15:31
Speaker 3: juice that Kyle Harrison was giving you earlier in the year?
15:33
Speaker 3: Even if it's for a short time, can you tweak
15:35
Speaker 3: and figure out and figure out what's going wrong, why,
15:37
Speaker 3: and how to get back to the dominant Harrison? And
15:40
Speaker 3: if you can, in a certain situation, can you deploy
15:43
Speaker 3: it to help your team in the right moment, in.
15:45
Speaker 1: The right situation come playoff time? So, yeah, we'll see.
15:48
Speaker 3: There's still questions to be answered, and those are some
15:50
Speaker 3: of them as we approach the playoffs.
15:53
Speaker 2: So last night may have been, in some ways, and
15:55
Speaker 2: we'll talk to Hunter about this, a playoff preview in
15:58
Speaker 2: that the Brewers won the game 5-4. It didn't have
16:01
Speaker 2: playoff intensity. We call it the hangover game. Mm-hmm.
16:04
Speaker 1: That was a little bit of a snoozer.
16:05
Speaker 2: But the Pirates hit three bombs and the Brewers hit
16:08
Speaker 2: none and still won 5-4. Can you do that in
16:10
Speaker 2: the playoffs?
16:11
Speaker 1: They'll be the case. They're going to have to do it.
16:13
Speaker 2: If you're going to give up bombs, limit the damage.
16:17
Speaker 1: Don't give up three-run jobs. Yeah. Hey, man, when the
16:21
Speaker 1: Brewers trail Major League Baseball, what, the fewest home runs?
16:24
Speaker 1: I think they've also given up the fewest. They've moved up.
16:26
Speaker 1: They're not the fewest, I don't think. Let's go 26th,
16:29
Speaker 1: I think, now in the newest rankings. Let's go.
16:32
Speaker 4: Come on.
16:32
Speaker 1: A couple more Garrett Mitchell bombs and we'll get up
16:35
Speaker 1: to 24. They gave up three homers in four runs. Okay.
16:38
Speaker 2: That math will work. But it's all about how many
16:42
Speaker 2: you score. The Brewers' record when they score four or
16:45
Speaker 2: more is pretty uncanny.
16:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're spot on on that one. And when Logan
16:52
Speaker 1: Henderson gives up three runs or less, oh, wait, that's
16:55
Speaker 1: every single time he's been out on the bump, they're
16:58
Speaker 1: going to be in a position to win. And also,
17:00
Speaker 1: he just doesn't give up free passes. Like, it does
17:03
Speaker 1: feel when Henderson either gives up a bomb, he's going
17:06
Speaker 1: to walk the next guy, or if he does somehow
17:09
Speaker 1: throw four straight balls. that guy is going to come
17:12
Speaker 1: on in on a big fly because the only way
17:15
Speaker 1: to be able to get him is by making him pay. And,
17:18
Speaker 1: I mean, a little bit of hard contact there in
17:19
Speaker 1: the bottom half of the fifth was the toughest inning
17:22
Speaker 1: for him, but Logan Henderson, as advertised. And that Jones
17:27
Speaker 1: kid is pretty solid on the other side, too. He's
17:28
Speaker 1: coming off Tommy and John, but he's a real deal
17:32
Speaker 1: right-hander as well.
17:36
Speaker 2: The Brewers win 5-4. They're in Pittsburgh trying to go
17:40
Speaker 2: for a sweep. They've won the series. They're looking for
17:42
Speaker 2: the sweep, looking to chip away again at the only
17:46
Speaker 2: thing remaining on their plate, which is to win the
17:48
Speaker 2: number one overall seed and outlast the Dodgers for that.
17:51
Speaker 2: And winning 100 would be nice. I think they're kind
17:53
Speaker 2: of like they're combined. If you win 100, the Dodgers
17:56
Speaker 2: aren't catching you.
17:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get there. You're fine with the goal.
17:59
Speaker 2: Like five and five in these last 10, the Dodgers
18:01
Speaker 2: aren't catching the Brewers. Just take care of your tiebreaker
18:03
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers.
18:03
Speaker 1: That's true. That three out of four. That was how
18:05
Speaker 1: you do it. So it's basically almost four now. So
18:07
Speaker 1: there you go.
18:08
Speaker 2: Four games with 10 left. When we come back, Hunter
18:10
Speaker 2: Baumgart is going to join us from the Berg as
18:13
Speaker 2: he's enjoying a little playoff clinching trip. He'll get the
18:16
Speaker 2: day game today and he's going to join us next
18:19
Speaker 2: year in the huddle.
18:20
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
18:22
Speaker 2: Drew Billion-Armond, we're here in Milwaukee in the good land
18:25
Speaker 2: and our pal Hunter Baumgart is in Pittsburgh. His last
18:28
Speaker 2: day of the trip as the Brewers get ready to
18:31
Speaker 2: try to sweep the series against the Pirates. They're checking
18:34
Speaker 2: all the boxes including clinching the NL Central while Hunter
18:37
Speaker 2: was there for a celebration. Hunter, we Thanks for joining us.
18:40
Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
18:42
Speaker 4: Absolutely. How are you guys doing this morning?
18:43
Speaker 1: Fantastic. Fantastic. Another game last night.
18:48
Speaker 2: Hunter, I'm wondering if that was in some ways a
18:50
Speaker 2: playoff preview because the Brewers gave up three homers, all solos,
18:53
Speaker 2: and won five to four without hitting a homer themselves.
18:55
Speaker 1: That's kind of the blueprint, isn't it?
18:58
Speaker 5: That is pretty much the blueprint. Six pitchers used last night.
19:01
Speaker 5: Everybody kind of got a taste of that one. Yelich
19:04
Speaker 5: with a key hit. you know, Cooper Pratt with a
19:07
Speaker 5: couple of hits coming off the illness. So the offense
19:10
Speaker 5: was able to get going. I think kind of the epitome,
19:13
Speaker 5: and I asked Pat Murphy about this last night after
19:15
Speaker 5: the game, like the epitome of their offense is two outs,
19:17
Speaker 5: nobody on in the second inning, single, single, single, single,
19:20
Speaker 5: two zero Brewers. I mean, that is the Brewer way.
19:24
Speaker 5: And that is how they're going to win down the
19:26
Speaker 5: stretch into the postseason. We all know that. And I
19:28
Speaker 5: think last night was a good example of it. And hey,
19:31
Speaker 5: a good example of Coming back after a big celebration
19:35
Speaker 5: to get the win, Pat Murphy saying after the game, hey,
19:38
Speaker 5: you know, our guys might not have went to bed
19:40
Speaker 5: when their moms and dads would have wanted them to
19:42
Speaker 5: last night, but they still came back and played hard,
19:45
Speaker 5: which I thought was a funny joke that he made
19:48
Speaker 5: last night.
19:49
Speaker 1: It's okay I didn't get to bed at a reasonable
19:50
Speaker 1: hour either probably probably should have been in bed a
19:52
Speaker 1: little bit earlier but when when Christian Yelich and the
19:55
Speaker 1: boys stay up late into the night the last thing
19:58
Speaker 1: you want for fans into your mentions Hunter to be
20:01
Speaker 1: the guy that's unable to come up time and time again.
20:04
Speaker 1: Last night, it would have been if he doesn't squeak
20:06
Speaker 1: that thing inside the left field line. How cool of
20:09
Speaker 1: a moment was that? And also, I mean, bigger picture,
20:13
Speaker 1: Bryce Durang in the month of September hitting over 400.
20:17
Speaker 1: Christian Yelich with runners in scoring position, nearly a 300
20:20
Speaker 1: hitter last month over 290. How do you feel like
20:24
Speaker 1: their offense is starting to click at the right time?
20:26
Speaker 1: Most importantly, with the big boppers, it's fun talking about
20:29
Speaker 1: Joey Ortiz's offensive production, but the only way they're going
20:33
Speaker 1: to get home in October is if the guys in
20:34
Speaker 1: the top of that lineup start doing what their back
20:36
Speaker 1: of their baseball cards indicate.
20:37
Speaker 4: 100%.
20:39
Speaker 5: I mean, for weeks, we've been talking about how the,
20:42
Speaker 5: if the, the offense is going to improve, it's going
20:44
Speaker 5: to come from within and it's going to come from
20:46
Speaker 5: your guys who you need to rely on the Christian Yelich,
20:48
Speaker 5: the William Contreras, the Bryce to rang, you know, the
20:51
Speaker 5: Jackson Cheerio and Cheerio has gotten hot. He's the last
20:54
Speaker 5: few games. He's been a little less than hot and
20:56
Speaker 5: he can be streaky. We know that, but boy, when
20:58
Speaker 5: he's on, he is on and you hope that he's
21:00
Speaker 5: on in October.
21:01
Speaker 4: So we'll see what, what he does, but otherwise, yeah.
21:04
Speaker 5: Bryce to rang is, is in his last 11 games
21:07
Speaker 5: is hitting about 500. Obviously Yelich and Contreras starting to
21:11
Speaker 5: contribute more. And that's really good to see just getting
21:13
Speaker 5: better at bats. Bowers is getting on base all the time.
21:17
Speaker 5: And Vaughn is still hitting 314 and we're sitting in mid-September.
21:21
Speaker 5: I know he maybe hasn't played every day, but it's crazy.
21:25
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just a consistent bat you're getting whenever
21:29
Speaker 5: he's in the lineup. And Garrett Mitchell and then what
21:31
Speaker 5: Laura and Pratt have given you. So I think you
21:34
Speaker 5: are in a really good spot with your offense.
21:35
Speaker 4: I don't feel.
21:37
Speaker 5: that any spot one through nine is in a bad
21:41
Speaker 5: spot right now. I think you feel that's how you
21:44
Speaker 5: want to feel heading into the post season where any
21:46
Speaker 5: spot one through nine can give you a big hit
21:48
Speaker 5: at any time.
21:49
Speaker 4: And if, if Joey Ortiz or Cooper.
21:51
Speaker 5: Pratt are your nine hitters and they're coming through like
21:54
Speaker 5: they have, I mean, Pratt is still battling the illness.
21:56
Speaker 5: It goes two for four last night with three good
21:58
Speaker 5: at bats. And then of course we know what Joey
22:01
Speaker 5: Ortiz has done, you know, Cooper Pratt made his debut
22:04
Speaker 5: about three months ago yesterday. And Joey Ortiz since then
22:07
Speaker 5: is hitting about three, 10, three 15. So he just
22:10
Speaker 5: continues to hit really well. So that, that is the
22:13
Speaker 5: recipe is get those guys at the top of the
22:16
Speaker 5: order to bop. And by bop, I mean, you know,
22:19
Speaker 5: you drive the ball, hit some power, get some extra
22:21
Speaker 5: base hits, and then let the Lara's the Pratt's the
22:24
Speaker 5: Ortiz is the Mitchell's do what they do. And Mitchell
22:27
Speaker 5: has some power, but, really get on base and let
22:30
Speaker 5: that top of the order cook.
22:31
Speaker 4: And that's, that's a good recipe for the playoffs.
22:34
Speaker 1: Yeah.
22:34
Speaker 3: I was just going to say that Andrew Vaughn story
22:37
Speaker 3: has been really very interesting because this is a guy
22:39
Speaker 3: that we don't always talk about, but he's maintained some
22:42
Speaker 3: of the best numbers on the team in a limited role.
22:44
Speaker 3: Whereas when he came on last year was kind of
22:46
Speaker 3: that more larger role necessity, kind of a flyer on
22:49
Speaker 3: a former hydra epic. And with the less role, it's
22:52
Speaker 3: been impressive how he's continued to keep that higher level
22:55
Speaker 3: of play, knowing, hey, here's a guy that you can
22:58
Speaker 3: maximize starring in his role, so to speak, when you
23:01
Speaker 3: need him, to the point where I know a lot
23:02
Speaker 3: of fans always ask, when will he play more? Totally.
23:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a question pretty much every day.
23:08
Speaker 5: And look, obviously, you're not going to take Bowers out
23:10
Speaker 5: of the lineup, and Luis Lara's been contributing, and Sal
23:14
Speaker 5: Freelick's kind of the backup there. But Bowers and Vaughn
23:17
Speaker 5: kind of switch off. I talked to Garrett Stallings yesterday.
23:21
Speaker 5: pitcher and he's been around the league for a long time.
23:24
Speaker 5: And he pointed that first base position out of like,
23:26
Speaker 5: he's like Bowers and Vaughn, you know, neither of them
23:28
Speaker 5: complain or anything about, about the playing time or anything,
23:31
Speaker 5: you know, the, the split there, what Vaughn, maybe he's
23:34
Speaker 5: like Vaughn would play every day on a different team,
23:36
Speaker 5: but he's, he's just, he's obviously what he'd love to
23:40
Speaker 5: play every day.
23:40
Speaker 4: I'm sure.
23:41
Speaker 5: But he's totally good with doing what the team wants
23:45
Speaker 5: and what the team needs is look, you come and
23:47
Speaker 5: play four innings yesterday and you contribute and drive in
23:50
Speaker 5: a run and a great at bat. And his first
23:52
Speaker 5: at bat since, uh, since Friday, I believe that was
23:55
Speaker 5: so he can come in at any time and just give.
23:58
Speaker 4: You a good at bat.
23:59
Speaker 5: Uh, and so that, that is, that is very key, uh,
24:03
Speaker 5: because you would, you love to have that option in
24:06
Speaker 5: off the bench in the post season, right? You have
24:08
Speaker 5: Vaughn off the bench and Bauer's starting. Boy, I think
24:11
Speaker 5: a lot of teams would take a guy hitting 310
24:14
Speaker 5: to come off their bench.
24:15
Speaker 2: We've had variations of this discussion quite a bit. And
24:19
Speaker 2: it's like Vaughn should be playing every day.
24:21
Speaker 1: Look at his numbers. Like the reason he has the
24:23
Speaker 1: numbers he does is because they don't play him every day.
24:27
Speaker 3: Yeah.
24:27
Speaker 2: Like they're they're finding the spots for him. And that's
24:30
Speaker 2: the whole idea is to put players in position to succeed.
24:32
Speaker 1: And they are. He's the opposite.
24:35
Speaker 2: He's not like a stiff, but harder courts, aspirin players,
24:39
Speaker 2: you know, You take one aspirin a day, it's okay.
24:43
Speaker 1: You take a hundred of them, it'll kill you.
24:45
Speaker 2: The more you play guys that people clamor for because
24:49
Speaker 2: they're looking good, the more that their performance goes down.
24:52
Speaker 2: And that's, that's the whole idea. Like, that's what we love.
24:56
Speaker 2: That's what the brewers do as well as anybody, if
24:58
Speaker 2: not better.
25:00
Speaker 1: Right.
25:00
Speaker 2: Just play guys and like, Oh, this guy should be
25:03
Speaker 2: playing more. He's better than the other guy.
25:05
Speaker 1: And okay. Uh, No, no better example of that than
25:08
Speaker 1: like Joey. Oh, right. I was going to say, yeah.
25:11
Speaker 1: And you find times to be able to get them
25:12
Speaker 1: in and, and be able to bring the best out
25:15
Speaker 1: of them. Platoon in situational guy always came with a
25:18
Speaker 1: negative connotation, but I think that positional versatility Hunter has
25:21
Speaker 1: kind of changed in major league baseball.
25:24
Speaker 4: I think so.
25:25
Speaker 5: And of course the way the brewers do it as well,
25:27
Speaker 5: any guys being able to play almost any position, right?
25:30
Speaker 5: I mean, we've seen guys move around Andrew Vaughn over
25:33
Speaker 5: at third base, um, We've even seen Joey Ortiz a
25:36
Speaker 5: time or two at first base, right? They can, obviously your,
25:39
Speaker 5: your best lineup, your best defensive lineup is, is bought
25:43
Speaker 5: Bowers or Vaughn at first and terrain at second and
25:45
Speaker 5: Pratt at short and, and Joey or third, but you're
25:47
Speaker 5: not always going to get that. And so you want
25:50
Speaker 5: to have some advantages offensively, if you can, while also
25:53
Speaker 5: maintaining your defense and the Brewers have a roster that
25:56
Speaker 5: can do that. And I think your position player group
25:59
Speaker 5: is about as good right now as it has been
26:01
Speaker 5: going into the post season and, uh, in, in recent memory.
26:05
Speaker 5: Like if you, if, if you say, okay, your bench
26:08
Speaker 5: heading into the post season includes Freelick and it includes Vaughn. Like, I,
26:13
Speaker 5: I think you very much like that. And there's no
26:15
Speaker 5: one really on that bench that you say, oh, I
26:17
Speaker 5: don't like when that guy comes up. David Hamilton has,
26:20
Speaker 5: has great speed and can bunt and can do something,
26:23
Speaker 5: you know, can come up in a spot and Hey,
26:25
Speaker 5: we just need a bunt from you here. Can you
26:26
Speaker 5: go up and get a bunt or can you pinch
26:28
Speaker 5: run here and steal a base or two? Like, like
26:30
Speaker 5: these guys have great roles that they can fill and
26:34
Speaker 5: you don't feel bad about any of those guys coming up.
26:37
Speaker 4: So I, I think that position player group is in
26:40
Speaker 4: a really good spot.
26:41
Speaker 1: Were you able to get any more information on what
26:43
Speaker 1: Trevor McGill was talking about last night of the casino
26:46
Speaker 1: run that it sounds like the boys had, he talked
26:49
Speaker 1: about the hot role at the craps table, which is
26:51
Speaker 1: a good, good thing to be able to run into
26:54
Speaker 1: after a celebration night. was wondering where the boys were
26:57
Speaker 1: going to go and celebrate in, in Pittsburgh. Luckily there
26:59
Speaker 1: was one nearby, but did you, did you hear anything
27:02
Speaker 1: more on who potentially was rolling? Because I got to
27:05
Speaker 1: assume Abnery rebates got a pretty good practice role with
27:09
Speaker 1: how much time and how many times he's rolling dice
27:11
Speaker 1: onto the, onto the pitcher's mound.
27:13
Speaker 4: That's true. He probably does know. kind of how things roll.
27:18
Speaker 1: He's lining up those threes, Hunter. He's making sure he's
27:21
Speaker 1: rolling a lot of sixes and eights. He's trying to
27:23
Speaker 1: make sure that he's staying as far away from sevens
27:25
Speaker 1: as possible.
27:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, he knows what he's doing. We didn't gather any
27:30
Speaker 4: more information.
27:30
Speaker 5: That was kind of a surprise towards the end of
27:33
Speaker 5: the McGill interview, talking about that they had a casino run,
27:37
Speaker 5: and then he comes back and gets the save last night. So, hey,
27:40
Speaker 5: it all worked out in the end, getting the win
27:43
Speaker 5: last night.
27:43
Speaker 4: But that was... Again, I think it goes back to
27:47
Speaker 4: what Murphy.
27:47
Speaker 5: Said about, you know, maybe the guys didn't get to
27:50
Speaker 5: bed very early last night, except for Logan Henderson.
27:53
Speaker 4: I think he bowed out a little early. He had
27:55
Speaker 4: to start. And as he said, he had a job
27:57
Speaker 4: to do.
27:57
Speaker 5: And look, there's always going to be the next day's
27:59
Speaker 5: starter that's going to have to do that a little bit.
28:01
Speaker 5: But Logan Henderson definitely was still able to enjoy it
28:03
Speaker 5: and really talked about how meaningful it was to him.
28:06
Speaker 5: Something that he had dreamt about really his whole life
28:08
Speaker 5: about being a part of a clinch celebration like that.
28:11
Speaker 4: Change Rowan.
28:12
Speaker 5: The same way there's a lot of guys celebrating for
28:14
Speaker 5: the first time here. Trevor McGill was not celebrating for
28:16
Speaker 5: the first time. And he was kind of the leader
28:19
Speaker 5: of the charge, which, you know, that's just kind of
28:22
Speaker 5: his personality as well of kind of being one.
28:25
Speaker 4: Of those more boisterous guys in the clubhouse, too.
28:29
Speaker 1: So that sounds like true. When when Dan Loretta came
28:33
Speaker 1: around with that little envelope.
28:35
Speaker 4: Yeah.
28:36
Speaker 1: Three city road trip. Oh baby. There might've been some
28:39
Speaker 1: nice cash in that envelope. Hey fellas, just so you
28:41
Speaker 1: guys know, after the game and after the celebration, I
28:43
Speaker 1: got a place where we can go triple that thing.
28:45
Speaker 2: All right.
28:45
Speaker 1: I got a place where we can go and turn
28:47
Speaker 1: that portfolio. It's like the per.
28:48
Speaker 3: Diem money is still the one of the last cash situations.
28:51
Speaker 3: Cause they still get it in cash.
28:52
Speaker 1: Right.
28:53
Speaker 3: I think like, so in a cashless society, it's pretty cool.
28:58
Speaker 1: That is one thing.
29:00
Speaker 3: And talking about opportunities and, and being in there, you know,
29:03
Speaker 3: the Garrett Stallings piece you had earlier, we played it earlier. Hunter,
29:07
Speaker 3: I loved hearing him talk about the strange long journey
29:09
Speaker 3: to get to MLB and not only being on a
29:12
Speaker 3: team or getting there, but getting on a team like
29:14
Speaker 3: this where he's been able to celebrate, kind of sit
29:16
Speaker 3: back and soak it in. Maybe a memory he'll have
29:19
Speaker 3: that not every player gets to gets to do. And
29:21
Speaker 3: every this team is full of small stories like that.
29:25
Speaker 3: And he's just one of the many. And I think
29:27
Speaker 3: that's kind of the tapestry of this team. is all
29:30
Speaker 3: the small individual stories. And we've talked about each player
29:32
Speaker 3: and we've talked about the uniqueness of each.
29:35
Speaker 1: And Stallings is one of them.
29:36
Speaker 3: And I think that's pretty cool to say, you know,
29:38
Speaker 3: he said, hey, I was in. I was on a
29:40
Speaker 3: team that was able to celebrate like this and pop
29:42
Speaker 3: bottles and I could sit back and eat dinner and
29:44
Speaker 3: enjoy that last.
29:45
Speaker 5: Night yeah that was really cool to talk to him
29:47
Speaker 5: you could just see the genuine you know feeling of
29:51
Speaker 5: gratitude that he had when I was talking to him
29:53
Speaker 5: about it and I you know I saw him standing
29:55
Speaker 5: in his locker I'm like you know what that would
29:56
Speaker 5: be just an interesting kind of insight to think about
29:59
Speaker 5: What was going through his mind as he experienced that
30:02
Speaker 5: last night? You know, and Andrew Vaughn, right, a former
30:05
Speaker 5: first round pick who didn't work out so well, had
30:08
Speaker 5: some tough years in Chicago and now is a key
30:10
Speaker 5: contributor to this team. Or Jake Bowers, obviously, is the
30:13
Speaker 5: biggest example of that this year of, you know, taking
30:16
Speaker 5: till now to really have his career year and setting
30:19
Speaker 5: himself up well for the future.
30:21
Speaker 4: No doubt about it. Joey Ortiz.
30:23
Speaker 5: Losing his shortstop starting spot and doing even better and
30:27
Speaker 5: being a key contributor down the stretch here for the team.
30:29
Speaker 5: There's there is top to bottom. Shane Rowan has been
30:32
Speaker 5: in the minor leagues a really long time. He's contributed
30:34
Speaker 5: as well. And so there are there are guys. And
30:38
Speaker 5: then you got the mix of Logan Henderson and Jacob Mizorowski,
30:41
Speaker 5: who are just, you know, in their first full years
30:43
Speaker 5: in the big leagues and just, you know, lights out.
30:46
Speaker 4: On the mound as well. So you have a great
30:48
Speaker 4: mix there.
30:48
Speaker 5: And then you have the guys like Christian Yelich and
30:51
Speaker 5: William Contreras who are more established and, and leading the
30:54
Speaker 5: team from, from that perspective. So they've got a great
30:57
Speaker 5: make Garrett Mitchell's another story, another guy who who's battled
31:01
Speaker 5: obviously injury throughout the last few years and now playing
31:04
Speaker 5: a full season this year.
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Speaker 4: And he had the scratched with neck tightness yesterday. He's
31:08
Speaker 4: day to day.
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Speaker 5: We'll see how he wakes up today and how he
31:11
Speaker 5: feels today. Pat Murphy saying last night that he didn't
31:14
Speaker 5: know if he could go today. So I don't think
31:16
Speaker 5: that they're going to want to push anything at this
31:18
Speaker 5: time of year. So my guess is if there's any
31:22
Speaker 5: sign of maybe some tightness still today, they would say, okay,
31:26
Speaker 5: you know what, let's just give him one more day
31:28
Speaker 5: and then play him in Baltimore this weekend. But so
31:31
Speaker 5: we'll see, we'll see if that comes, but you don't
31:33
Speaker 5: want any, any sign of any injury.
31:35
Speaker 4: At this point.
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Speaker 2: Hunter is today kind of a post-season audition for Kyle Harrison.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I would think that today is a big day for him.
31:44
Speaker 5: Pat Murphy said yesterday, they're going to treat it like
31:46
Speaker 5: a normal start. Like they don't, you know, they're not
31:48
Speaker 5: going to limit him at three innings or something like that. Now,
31:51
Speaker 5: are they going to let him go a hundred pitches?
31:52
Speaker 5: I know I'm not so sure about that, but I
31:55
Speaker 5: think for, for Kyle Harrison, he just needs to see
31:58
Speaker 5: some results today. Like it just, you know, even if
32:00
Speaker 5: he doesn't, you know, let's say he gives up two
32:02
Speaker 5: runs over five innings. I think that's going to be
32:04
Speaker 5: a great win for Kyle Harrison.
32:06
Speaker 4: Like I, I, two runs over four innings, maybe.
32:08
Speaker 5: I mean, it's just, at this point you just need
32:10
Speaker 5: that little bit of success to get his confidence back.
32:12
Speaker 5: Cause I mean, it's like, okay, let's move to the
32:14
Speaker 5: bullpen and see what he can do in a relief role.
32:16
Speaker 5: And then he comes in and he doesn't record an
32:18
Speaker 5: out in five batters. And it's like, man, and some
32:20
Speaker 5: of those were soft hits and things like that. So
32:22
Speaker 5: it's like, it's you just, but you just want to
32:24
Speaker 5: see that those results and hopefully he's able to.
32:27
Speaker 4: Get them today.
32:28
Speaker 5: And hopefully that, that can, I, you know, I think
32:31
Speaker 5: they'll really take everything into account, whatever happens in the next,
32:34
Speaker 5: 10 games into account for Kyle Harrison. I don't think
32:37
Speaker 5: everything will hinge on today, but a good portion of
32:40
Speaker 5: it might just to see if he's at least on
32:42
Speaker 5: the right track.
32:42
Speaker 4: And they've been working diligently.
32:44
Speaker 5: Chris Hook, everybody's been working diligently and trying to figure
32:47
Speaker 5: out what's going on.
32:48
Speaker 4: And hopefully today can be the.
32:51
Speaker 5: Start of him getting back to it doesn't have to
32:52
Speaker 5: be the first half form, but if it can be
32:55
Speaker 5: somewhat close, just kind of back to back to average
32:59
Speaker 5: and not just obviously the poor results he's getting lately
33:02
Speaker 5: that can help the Brewers in the playoffs.
33:05
Speaker 1: That'd be interesting.
33:07
Speaker 2: Are you flying back? What's the status of the show tonight?
33:09
Speaker 2: Are you staying in Pittsburgh one more night?
33:13
Speaker 1: Yeah.
33:13
Speaker 5: So staying till tomorrow morning, we've got Milwaukee baseball tonight
33:17
Speaker 5: leading into you guys on the Thursday night huddle. So
33:19
Speaker 5: four to five this evening, basically going to be a
33:23
Speaker 5: celebration of the year so far.
33:24
Speaker 4: Basically, we'll hear a sound from the clinch. Awesome.
33:28
Speaker 5: If you missed the Garrett Stallings interview this morning, we'll
33:30
Speaker 5: have that for you. Just kind of looking back at
33:33
Speaker 5: not only the success of this season, but also just
33:36
Speaker 5: the sustained success that this organization has had and kind
33:39
Speaker 5: of a big picture look. So it'll be mostly talking
33:42
Speaker 5: about that, looking ahead to the final three series of
33:44
Speaker 5: the season. And that'll be from four until five on
33:48
Speaker 5: Fox Sports 920 in Milwaukee. Just an audio only version there.
33:51
Speaker 5: You can listen on the iHeart app or 920 in Milwaukee,
33:53
Speaker 5: and that'll lead into the Thursday night huddle with you
33:56
Speaker 5: guys at five.
33:57
Speaker 1: Outstanding.
33:57
Speaker 3: Great.
33:58
Speaker 1: What a great setup we got going here. That's a
34:00
Speaker 1: hell of a trip. Amazing. Amazing.
34:03
Speaker 2: Hunter's visits brought to us by Import Minded, your trusted
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Speaker 2: source for vehicle care on 27th Street, just north of 894. Hunter,
34:10
Speaker 2: enjoy your final days in Pittsburgh. How's the pregame spread
34:13
Speaker 2: in the dining room? I remember it being pretty good, usually.
34:16
Speaker 3: It is.
34:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, actually, it is pretty good. Absolutely.
34:21
Speaker 5: PNC Park, I have really no complaints about PNC Park, honestly.
34:25
Speaker 5: It is so good. The getting in, getting out is
34:29
Speaker 5: very easy. Like it's just a very smooth, enjoyable process.
34:35
Speaker 2: I wish you were on the rest of this trip too.
34:37
Speaker 2: Cause Camden yards is a great ballpark. And then in Philly,
34:39
Speaker 2: you get a good ballpark, a competitive team and Frankie
34:42
Speaker 2: two scoops, giving you ice cream.
34:44
Speaker 4: That's the restroom.
34:46
Speaker 1: Yeah.
34:46
Speaker 4: Do they all have a little kidding?
34:48
Speaker 1: Pretty much. Yeah. A lot of the parks do. Absolutely.
34:51
Speaker 2: There was a woman in Kansas city. I don't know what,
34:53
Speaker 2: I don't remember her name, but, uh, you used to
34:56
Speaker 2: refer to her as aunt B. from the uh from
34:59
Speaker 2: the andy griffith show yeah and he loves love him
35:02
Speaker 2: so he always had to she'd bring him over some cobbler.
35:05
Speaker 1: I knew you wanted something.
35:06
Speaker 2: Bobby yeah and be here oh thanks aunt b it
35:09
Speaker 2: was i don't know what the hell her name was
35:10
Speaker 2: but might have been beverly or somebody called her aunt
35:12
Speaker 2: b uh hunter enjoy your time we will be listening
35:16
Speaker 2: this afternoon and uh we'll get back here safely yes.
35:20
Speaker 5: We'll do thank you guys uh yeah i've been a
35:23
Speaker 5: great week out here and Happy to bring the experience
35:27
Speaker 5: of the clinch and a team that's absolutely rolling. You
35:29
Speaker 5: think about a 5-1 homestand, they've won the first two.
35:31
Speaker 5: They're 7-1 in their last eight games.
35:33
Speaker 1: It's almost like we're there with you. It's amazing. Thanks, Hunter.
35:37
Speaker 3: Good.
35:37
Speaker 4: Thanks, guys. See you, buddy.
35:39
Speaker 2: When we come back, we've got to close up some
35:40
Speaker 2: shop here. The show's gone by quickly, but it's only
35:43
Speaker 2: like the first half. Just cruised for us. Because we
35:46
Speaker 2: are at Pottawatomie Casino tonight. The Sportsbook Annex right there,
35:50
Speaker 2: just to the side of it. Getting you ready for
35:52
Speaker 2: Thursday Night Football. Wayne Larrabee's going to be there. Our
35:55
Speaker 2: friends from Jamison are going to be there giving out
35:56
Speaker 2: some samples and some swag. And they have a pair
35:59
Speaker 2: of tickets to the Packers home opener, which is a
36:01
Speaker 2: week from tonight.
36:04
Speaker 1: One week from tonight, Lambeau Field live on Prime.
36:08
Speaker 2: And we'll remind you now and once more before we
36:11
Speaker 2: get out, the phrase that pays is cut and crack.
36:13
Speaker 2: Walk up to Armand tonight at Pottawatomie, say cut and crack,
36:16
Speaker 2: and he's going to hand you a $ 10 gift card.
36:18
Speaker 1: And you are going to cut and crack right over
36:20
Speaker 1: to the sportsbook window, grab yourself the two-piece chicken dinner,
36:23
Speaker 1: and enjoy and thank us. Oh, fantastic. All right.
36:27
Speaker 2: Closing ceremonies next year in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
36:30
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36:33
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36:46
Speaker 2: 1130 first pitch. And then that's just a warm-up and
36:50
Speaker 2: then the huddle. Thursday night huddle, live from Pottawatomie Sportsbook.
36:54
Speaker 2: In the annex, us three jabronis, Wayne Larravee joining the party,
36:58
Speaker 2: our friends from Jameson giving away Packers tickets.
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Speaker 1: Ooh, that's perfect. For the opener Thursday night.
37:03
Speaker 2: A week from today, Packers open at Lambeau. But there's
37:05
Speaker 2: this little trip to Manhattan and to the swamps of
37:08
Speaker 2: Jersey beforehand.
37:09
Speaker 1: Hmm. that work trip out there to the East coast
37:13
Speaker 1: drew is an important one. And you have to be
37:15
Speaker 1: able to come out of there with a victory. You
37:17
Speaker 1: have to come out of there. Not, this is not
37:19
Speaker 1: a directional school game though. Right? Like I know that
37:22
Speaker 1: there are some Packers fans that will look at the
37:24
Speaker 1: jets on the schedule as the Western Illinois matchup that
37:28
Speaker 1: the Badgers got last weekend or Eastern Michigan coming up
37:31
Speaker 1: 1130 kickoff at camp Randall this weekend. Definitely not that. Yeah.
37:36
Speaker 1: They just come off of a two-score win on the
37:39
Speaker 1: road against Tennessee. They're feeling, as Aaron Glenn said, flying high.
37:43
Speaker 1: Who wants to fly with those Jets? Is the good, better,
37:47
Speaker 1: best version for Aaron Glenn this year with the New
37:49
Speaker 1: York Jets? He didn't get a chance to bust out
37:52
Speaker 1: his super special head coaching celebration last year a whole lot.
37:56
Speaker 1: They didn't win a lot for him to be able
37:58
Speaker 1: to celebrate in the postgame locker room. So they got
38:01
Speaker 1: good vibes rolling. You're going to have to beat them,
38:04
Speaker 1: and you're going to have to be able to slow
38:05
Speaker 1: down a pass rush that is going to. Steno talked
38:08
Speaker 1: about it yesterday. There's going to be teams that are
38:12
Speaker 1: going to go outside of what they plan to do defensively, Drew,
38:16
Speaker 1: to see if you're able to over-communicate and pick up
38:20
Speaker 1: the kind of simple walk-up rushes like the Vikings were doing.
38:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, it will not be an easy, fun experience there.
38:25
Speaker 3: I mean, the Packers may come out with a win.
38:27
Speaker 3: I hope they do in their favor, too, but it
38:28
Speaker 3: won't be an easy experience.
38:30
Speaker 1: One of the last trips I can, the last two
38:32
Speaker 1: trips I can remember to Jet Life Stadium were not
38:35
Speaker 1: all that fun. No, absolutely not. There was an overtime
38:38
Speaker 1: victory in a year that the Packers were bad there
38:41
Speaker 1: against the Jets. Well, early on. A 9-0 victory in 2010.
38:45
Speaker 1: Had to rescue.
38:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, 2010 was a great defensive performance in the Super
38:50
Speaker 3: Bowl year, but you're right.
38:51
Speaker 1: But an ugly game. It was an ugly game. It
38:52
Speaker 1: wasn't any sort of masterpiece. It wasn't like a walk
38:56
Speaker 1: in the park experience.
38:58
Speaker 3: And let's face it, the Packers have to prove that
39:00
Speaker 3: they're not the directional school team right now.
39:02
Speaker 1: I mean, they're the ones that need to win. They
39:03
Speaker 1: haven't won in a long time.
39:06
Speaker 3: Teams might be looking at them that way. So let's
39:08
Speaker 3: hope they can write this ship coming up.
39:11
Speaker 2: Department of Corrections Department. We were talking about MLB meal money.
39:14
Speaker 2: They've actually scaled it back, Billy.
39:19
Speaker 1: Ooh, okay. By law, it's $ 117. 50 a day.
39:21
Speaker 2: So if you're going on a 10-day trip, they peel
39:23
Speaker 2: off like $ 1, 100, right?
39:25
Speaker 1: That's not bad. But if the club provides a meal
39:28
Speaker 1: in the clubhouse, which they do now. Oh, for sure, yeah.
39:31
Speaker 1: It drops down to $ 35 a day.
39:34
Speaker 2: Oh, basically now because they travel and they've got nutritionists
39:37
Speaker 2: and chefs and stuff like that.
39:38
Speaker 1: And it's worth 80 bucks, I guess. Yeah. Well, so
39:41
Speaker 1: they're the players eat basically two meals a day. I
39:43
Speaker 1: was going to say that they're eating a couple of
39:45
Speaker 1: meals a day.
39:46
Speaker 2: They might go out for lunch, but a lot of
39:48
Speaker 2: guys get there right around one and they eat lunch
39:50
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse and then go about.
39:51
Speaker 1: They're getting ready for if they're getting anything that they're
39:54
Speaker 1: bringing into the stadium. They're getting a Chipotle bowl or
39:56
Speaker 1: something and walking in and crushing it before they Or, yeah,
39:59
Speaker 1: some guys will do it, but other guys, you know,
40:01
Speaker 1: are so hardcore. It's amazing. Well, still, luckily, a 10-day
40:04
Speaker 1: road trip, 30 bucks a day, a little 400 to
40:07
Speaker 1: throw on the craft table and see if we get
40:09
Speaker 1: this thing rolling. Let's see if somebody can hit a
40:11
Speaker 1: little bit of a streak. Exactly.
40:14
Speaker 2: Everyone likes a little spending money. How about making some
40:16
Speaker 2: money and some investments at Pottawatomie? We're going to see
40:18
Speaker 2: you there at 5 o'clock tonight for The Huddle, Thursday
40:21
Speaker 2: Night Huddle Live, leading you into Bill's And Lions, a
40:25
Speaker 2: great Thursday night matchup. The new first game in Highmark Stadium.
40:28
Speaker 2: And Wayne Larrabee is going to be with us. And
40:29
Speaker 2: Jamison is going to be giving away Packers tickets and samples.
40:32
Speaker 1: It's going to be a blast. What else would you
40:34
Speaker 1: want to do on your Friday, Junior? Come out and
40:36
Speaker 1: huddle up with us. Let's go.
40:37
Speaker 2: Going to have some fun there. Thanks for hanging out
40:39
Speaker 2: with us. We'll be back at it tomorrow. Wayne will
40:41
Speaker 2: join us on the show tomorrow if you miss him
40:43
Speaker 2: at the huddle tonight. We'll see you at 5 a.m.
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Speaker 3: Peace.