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09/16/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: Drew Olson, Bill Schmidt, Armin Sarian broadcasting live from Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 2: also known as the city of champions.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome in five o'clock clubbers party is still going on.
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  Speaker 2: It emanated from Pittsburgh with a detour at Wrigley field
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: And here we are in the good land partying.
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  Speaker 2: Today because today five o'clock clubbers is one of those 10% days. 90%
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  Speaker 2: of being a sports fan is getting kicked in the
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  Speaker 2: Kevlar cup. This These are the days that you want
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  Speaker 2: to savor. Now, Brewers win their fourth straight division. And
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to come at us.
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  Speaker 1: With, what does it matter if they don't win the
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  Speaker 1: World Series?
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  Speaker 2: Get the hell out of here today. Yeah, we're not
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  Speaker 2: listening to that today. Ask the Packers if it's fun
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  Speaker 2: and interesting and, oh, I don't know, meaningful to win
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  Speaker 2: a damn division.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't done it in a while. Been some time.
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  Speaker 1: Been quite some time.
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  Speaker 2: If we're to the point where we're spoiled by the
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  Speaker 2: Brewers winning division titles, I don't know what to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I got to be honest with you, Drew.
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  Speaker 3: I did fact check Murph yesterday. When I saw the
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  Speaker 3: letter from you, first off, had Tim to Murph to
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  Speaker 3: go right back to it, had Tim to Murph to
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  Speaker 3: go right back to it.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it when he busted that piece of paper out. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but I did have to fact check him.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't realize since 1994, when the NL central, uh, was
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  Speaker 3: formed via, uh, via the realignment that no team has
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  Speaker 3: won it for consecutive times. There have been some world
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  Speaker 3: series champions in there. There've been a couple of Cardinals
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  Speaker 3: runs to the title and, uh, albeit that Cubs team
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  Speaker 3: that people thought was going to rattle off like five, six,
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  Speaker 3: seven World Series.
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  Speaker 1: They won it a couple of times.
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  Speaker 3: The Cardinals in the mid-2000s won it a couple of times,
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  Speaker 3: three to be exact, but no team doing it four
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  Speaker 3: straight times is a hell of an accomplishment. And as
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  Speaker 3: Adam McAlvey was asking a bunch of people last night,
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  Speaker 3: it did seem fitting that Jacob Mizorowski was the guy
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  Speaker 3: to be on the mound yesterday with the chance to
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  Speaker 3: do it. And if you're with Marc-Antonio, I got my
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  Speaker 3: horse on the mound.
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  Speaker 1: I got the Cy Young on the bump. Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 1: gas up the jet.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Pittsburgh because we might as well get
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  Speaker 3: this thing done here on a Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah. And it went through, you know, Wrigley with
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  Speaker 2: the Braves beating the Cubs.
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  Speaker 3: And that Cubs bullpen, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, man, Drake Baldwin, one shout out to your home state.
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  Speaker 1: That was cool. And sends him right into the basket.
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  Speaker 3: That Ozzie Albee's home run was phenomenal as it happens,
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  Speaker 3: right as it ticks to the bottom of the ninth.
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  Speaker 1: It was cinema last night.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll be the first to admit it stayed up
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  Speaker 3: far too late enjoying all of it because these were the,
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  Speaker 3: these are the good old days. I definitely remember the
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  Speaker 3: chase for that. elusive 81st win that they kept talking
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  Speaker 3: about 21 years ago last night on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: I had to appreciate it. I had to soak it in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you were around for that one 21 years
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  Speaker 2: ago when it was a celebration and young Armand felt
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  Speaker 2: like stripping off his shirt and running down Water Street
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  Speaker 2: because the Brewers finished with 82 wins.
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  Speaker 1: One of the great feelings.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sitting in Bashoota Hall there at Marquette on the
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  Speaker 4: 19th of Wisconsin, jumping and yelling, and everyone's like, what's
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  Speaker 4: going on with this guy? But yeah, it's amazing the
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  Speaker 4: steps you take, and that's why, like you said, it's
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  Speaker 4: so true, guys. You don't ever want to take it
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  Speaker 4: for granted. You don't ever want to feel like it's
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  Speaker 4: old hat to win a division like this. It's pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And the way they did it today, last night, and
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  Speaker 1: then all year, dominating.
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  Speaker 2: Resist the urge, Eeyores, because the first text we got
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  Speaker 2: this morning to the NicoletLaw.com talking text line, 877-794-1973. It
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  Speaker 2: comes from Mike and Racine. Mike, we love that you're
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  Speaker 2: up with us. We love you're a 5 o'clock clubber.
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  Speaker 2: But he said, morning, boys. Honest question. Love the Brewers,
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  Speaker 2: won the division again, and I'm pumped. At the same time,
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  Speaker 2: would it have been better for the Cubs to beat
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  Speaker 2: the Braves and extend the lead for a bye? Mike,
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  Speaker 2: the Braves won. The Brewers have, they're up five games
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  Speaker 2: on the Braves. The Brewers have 11 games left. The
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  Speaker 2: Braves have 10 games left. You want to put some simple,
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  Speaker 2: dirty math to what it would take for the Braves
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  Speaker 2: to pass the Brewers. Basically, the Brewers not winning again
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of the regular season and the Braves
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  Speaker 2: winning out would be it, right? Because the birds haven't
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  Speaker 2: clinched a buy yet, but that's coming. You don't need
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  Speaker 2: to worry about the Braves at this juncture.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what he said is literally correct. I mean, it
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  Speaker 4: is true. That may have been better.
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  Speaker 1: Extendedly for buy from five to six? I think they're
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  Speaker 1: going to get it.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to get a buy. Now it's the only
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  Speaker 2: thing they have to really worry about is the number one.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce took care of their business, which is what's important.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You win.
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  Speaker 2: But Mike, why are you looking for the cloud? Why
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  Speaker 2: are you looking for?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're the one reading it. He sent it in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sharing it because I want it to be a
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  Speaker 1: cautionary tale. I want it to be a cautionary tale
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  Speaker 1: to tell.
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  Speaker 2: What did I open the show saying? Celebrate this. It's
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  Speaker 2: a 10% freaking day. Don't be thinking about, well, what?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter if they don't win the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: You want to buy a t-shirt that says Central Driven Champs?
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  Speaker 2: You want to wait until they win the pennant?
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever you want to do, but they're the central division champs.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy it. Roll around in it. It's like you just
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  Speaker 2: won a billion dollars in the lottery. Get a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of cash and put it on the mattress and roll
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  Speaker 2: around it. That's what I would do. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: about you guys, but that's one of the first things
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  Speaker 2: I would do. Roll around in it. Don't worry about, oh,
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  Speaker 2: what about the wild card? What about the Braves?
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  Speaker 1: The Braves beat the Cubs. No, that doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: The true Eeyore would have been like, though, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 4: be like, yeah, but McGill gave up a run again
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  Speaker 4: or like Ashby let some hard contact. Like, Ashby lets
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  Speaker 4: him hard. That would have been the true Eeyore, but
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  Speaker 4: you're right. Listen, guys, this is a day of celebration.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I'm urging people to enjoy this.
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  Speaker 2: Every step you saw your team, again, standing in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room with the champagne spray in.
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  Speaker 4: Which was a nice locker room to have one in,
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  Speaker 4: and they had the table skirt, which I liked, on
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  Speaker 4: the champagne, and it was a wide open space.
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  Speaker 1: Great locker room for a celebration.
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  Speaker 2: If you want a nitpick, you can nitpick, and we
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  Speaker 2: can blame Armin Sarian for his projection mistakes. yesterday when
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  Speaker 2: you said, I hope they don't like win the game
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  Speaker 2: and then have to watch on TV for something else
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  Speaker 2: to happen. It'd be nice if they just won the
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  Speaker 2: game and like knew that they were the champs. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that didn't work out that way. It worked out pretty
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  Speaker 2: sweet either way. Brewers history holds that you have to
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  Speaker 2: watch another game on TV. It's happened numerous times in
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  Speaker 2: their celebrations.
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  Speaker 4: It must have been exciting to be in there, anticipate
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  Speaker 4: that moment. So we'll talk to Hunter because he was. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I love the tap dance they did.
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  Speaker 2: Not letting anybody in the clubhouse, making guys available in
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  Speaker 2: the hallway, getting their reactions.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and I was losing my mind when Brewers TV,
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  Speaker 3: they have Jeff and Timmy D. hanging out late enough
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  Speaker 3: where they turned the lights off on them inside of
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  Speaker 3: the PNC press box last night. But they knew that
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  Speaker 3: they needed an Armin Sarian back at control panel because
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  Speaker 3: they knew that they needed one more break right as
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  Speaker 3: Murph grabs the bottle and walks into the center.
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  Speaker 1: That's when they go to the break. Well, we needed
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  Speaker 1: to get it done. We needed to get it done.
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  Speaker 3: And it was worth it because they got the letter
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  Speaker 3: from you and they got the celebration started the right way.
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  Speaker 3: I was more just surprised. Man, Tim Dillard. You could
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  Speaker 3: tell he wanted to get down there so bad. He
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  Speaker 3: wanted to get in there so bad. Jeff told him
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  Speaker 3: a couple of times, hey man, why don't you get
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  Speaker 3: on down there? Why don't you get on down there?
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you go on in and have some fun?
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  Speaker 1: I got it up here.
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  Speaker 4: And I did think it was kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I saw the videos of Voguey and it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's like feeling like he's still a player.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's like, it's all right. I'm still in there celebrating.
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  Speaker 4: Like I'm still one of the guys, even though I'm
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  Speaker 4: technically a coach now, I'm still, I'm the camp counselor,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm still a camper.
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  Speaker 1: That's just, that was awesome too to see. And I
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  Speaker 1: love seeing Woody in there too.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, everybody wants to get into celebration like that.
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  Speaker 4: It was a great one last night, and what a
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  Speaker 4: great season, what a great team. And it was kind
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  Speaker 4: of like last night encapsulated that, right? I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 4: having Miz do what he does, but the bullpen carry
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  Speaker 4: through the end, and the way they scored their runs
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  Speaker 4: last night, you know, no huge homers. I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: do have the RBI hits, but no homers, obviously, no
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  Speaker 4: huge extra base hits. Just great pecking away, getting the
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  Speaker 4: runs you needed at the times you needed to rally
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  Speaker 4: and letting your pitching and defense do the rest.
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  Speaker 1: So that was nice to see as well. Also the
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  Speaker 1: 24-ounce cans, the best part of the whole thing. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Get the big ones in there. Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: No time to waste with the 12-ounce cans. Let's get
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  Speaker 3: as big of ones as possible. And you could tell
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  Speaker 3: once they started dumping buckets of water that maybe they
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  Speaker 3: didn't get enough beer.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they didn't bring quite enough beer.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see how it capped off on the field
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  Speaker 2: when the grounds crew gave William Contreras a hose? She
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  Speaker 2: takes that picture and quickly runs around. Fireman Bill.
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  Speaker 1: Get that in his sights right out of the gates.
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  Speaker 2: Fireman Bill becomes spraying everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely a good time. Are we done here? Sweet.
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  Speaker 2: So this, it's another step. I'm saying to enjoy this.
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  Speaker 2: And enjoy this and look back. And if you want
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  Speaker 2: to reflect, don't look. This isn't a day to look
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  Speaker 2: ahead and say, oh, we've got to beat the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. We're going to have to get through them.
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  Speaker 2: I might have to face the Yankees in the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: Don't look ahead today. Look back. This is the golden
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  Speaker 2: age of Brewers baseball. I'm calling it the Yelich era.
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  Speaker 2: Because since Yelich arrived in 2018, they've gone to the
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  Speaker 2: postseason eight times. They've won the division title six times.
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  Speaker 2: And there's only three teams in all of ball, all
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  Speaker 2: of whom spend more money than the Brewers, have a
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  Speaker 2: better record since 2018 than the Brewers. Their fourth best
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  Speaker 2: baseball record in baseball since 2018 in the Yelich era.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and it's funny that the team that ultimately in
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  Speaker 3: that run becomes the best farm system in baseball, the
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  Speaker 3: move to start and catapult that was one that people
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  Speaker 3: thought was going to decimate your farm system when you
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  Speaker 3: trade four guys to go get Yelich in the prime
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  Speaker 3: of his career, albeit, what, 48 minutes after you signed
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  Speaker 3: Lorenzo Cain, to at that point, the largest free agent
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  Speaker 3: contract any brewer's ever signed. Still to this point, the
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  Speaker 3: largest contract any brewer free agent has ever signed. So
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  Speaker 3: as much as they then backfilled with the draft and develop,
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  Speaker 3: kick-started it with a couple of big-time signings, or a
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  Speaker 3: couple of huge moves on that January 9th, and it
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  Speaker 3: carries through. They, did they believe Christian Yelich was going
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  Speaker 3: to become the MVP of the league that year?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not. I don't know that Yelich did.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know anybody necessarily did, but they haven't even
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  Speaker 3: had that level of performance since. And they've been able
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  Speaker 3: to sustain it because of, you know, It's crazy what
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  Speaker 3: one time breaking through can do and figuring out that,
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  Speaker 3: all right, we can win this division. We can be
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  Speaker 3: the best in this five team cluster. And now all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden we know and have seen it. We've
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  Speaker 3: seen what the standard is to be able to start
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  Speaker 3: winning games consistently. And they've been able to put that
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  Speaker 3: into putting while they've lost what many people thought was
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  Speaker 3: going to be the two most important pieces and pillars
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  Speaker 3: of that foundation have gone elsewhere. And one was having
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  Speaker 3: his name stand Fire Stearns, and the other one was
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: losing the game last night that ultimately let you pop bottles.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty wild. Just reflect where they are. Savor it.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy it. Don't eeyore it. We still have to get
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  Speaker 2: through the Dodgers, and we have to finish with the
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  Speaker 2: best record.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do. They might win 100 games.
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  Speaker 3: I will say, though, to maybe defend some of the
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  Speaker 3: fans in that regard, the players immediately last night, that
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  Speaker 3: was all they said.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: As much as the celebration rolled through, they're.
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  Speaker 2: Not supposed to talk about home runs in the dugout,
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  Speaker 2: but on your couch, you can. So it's like the
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  Speaker 2: players should have that attitude. Like there was one step
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  Speaker 2: we've been here before. I want that hunger from them,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm telling people just to enjoy this day. Like
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  Speaker 2: I know everybody you're right. That's the messaging and that's Murph, right?
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  Speaker 2: That win tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I would say I was, what I was
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  Speaker 3: going to say was, I think it was different this
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  Speaker 3: time around than others. Like, I mean, I've now that
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  Speaker 3: we have heard it, what? four straight times in five
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  Speaker 3: of the last six years. I think that talk about
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  Speaker 3: October was different this year than it's been in the
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  Speaker 3: last five out of the six years. There's been more
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  Speaker 3: of a conversation throughout the entire season to get to
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  Speaker 3: this point. I mean, Matt Arnold talked about it back
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  Speaker 3: in July when they were talking about how they were
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  Speaker 3: ramping up and bringing back different starters for it. So
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  Speaker 3: as much as I get it, this is an urging
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  Speaker 3: of celebrate and enjoy and remember 2002 when you lost
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  Speaker 3: 104 games. this one feels different because they're talking about
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  Speaker 3: it differently. You have a group of guys now that
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  Speaker 3: are veterans who have been there for four years, albeit
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  Speaker 3: they're the young players that are ultimately leading the charge
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  Speaker 3: like Garrett Mitchell and South. So it's a, it's a
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  Speaker 3: weird dynamic that they've now gone from the young players
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  Speaker 3: that people couldn't wait to get to the team store
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  Speaker 3: to get their Jersey. Cause they're here for a while
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  Speaker 3: to now the most successful regular season core that the
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  Speaker 3: Brewers have ever had.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: And then eventually, that's a great thing, and you're right.
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  Speaker 4: Eventually, you want to be known as a great regular
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  Speaker 4: season team core that won a World Series. So I
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: always wondered how those teams or those groups handled the conversation,
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  Speaker 4: like the Braves in the 90s until they got one,
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  Speaker 4: or when the Bills would get to the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: and lose, but make it.
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  Speaker 1: Every year, or.
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  Speaker 4: The Jazz every year, making deep runs for 15 years
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  Speaker 4: but never quite reach. I always would wonder how the players–
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  Speaker 4: internally handle those conversations because obviously it's there, it exists
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  Speaker 4: and everybody knows what the goal is, but you still
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  Speaker 4: have to pursue the steps of that goal every year,
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  Speaker 4: even though it might feel like, and that's always the
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  Speaker 4: tough thing. It's like, well, what are we going to
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  Speaker 4: be tired with? I mean, you're never just happy not
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  Speaker 4: reaching the ultimate goal, but you know that you still
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  Speaker 4: have to make those, you know, achieve those accomplishments getting
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  Speaker 4: to that point. So How you're able to try and
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  Speaker 4: dig in on a daily basis is still the important
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  Speaker 4: thing for teams.
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  Speaker 2: Here's an analogy for you. This is a Dan Needle stretch,
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  Speaker 2: but imagine you're running a marathon, and you're a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good runner.
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  Speaker 1: I really have to imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, really. Think deeply. Billy, you could do it.
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  Speaker 1: Think deeply. Think deeply.
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  Speaker 2: You have those wheelies on for when you get tired
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  Speaker 2: and you can coast on your wheels a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Are kids still using Heelys? I don't know, man. I
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  Speaker 1: saw somebody at the mall with it. One of the
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  Speaker 1: absolute weapons. It was a rocket.
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  Speaker 2: No, they got scooters now. But I did see a
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  Speaker 2: kid at the mall with Heelys. I'm like, what the hell?
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  Speaker 2: He also had a rat tail.
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  Speaker 1: Go figure. I like that. I like to go to
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  Speaker 1: the mall.
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  Speaker 4: I think it comes with the start again. I think
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  Speaker 4: everything you said there was amazing. I saw a kid
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  Speaker 4: at the mall starting with that.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. All right, let's start there. I mean, that was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: How rare is it to go to the mall? Exactly.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: I actually went to a Barnes & Noble, but it
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: was in a mall connected to a mall.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: There's still a Barnes & Noble. Yeah, there's still a
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: Barnes & Noble. It's amazing.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: It's not a hospital.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Well, the one on Nevermind.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: Anyway, you're running a marathon, and you're an elite runner,
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: and the first time you're wondering if you belong, you
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: see the guy stretching in the low numbers at the
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: front of the pack. Do I belong here? And then
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: you run, and it's like, well, all right. And it
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: went okay. And I could see the, the, the guys
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: up in front and the course was really hard. And the,
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: the season, the marathon, lots of Hills and everything. And
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: then you run it the next year and you're a
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: little closer to the front of the pack. You're in
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: with those guys and you're in. And then the third
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: year you run and you're with those guys to start.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: And you know where the Hills are and you know
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: where the, you know, where, where you can coast and
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: where you can cook. That's what, I think that's, what's
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: happening here is the DNA is being imprinted where they know, like,
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: They know not to get that excited. There was a
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: giddiness the last couple of years. It was like, yeah,
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Oh my God. And because they surprised the world, surprised themselves.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: Now there's an expectation and there's a knowledge that yeah,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: we still got more to go. And like, we're not
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: there because one of the things you do when you're
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: running a race and I've done this one, I didn't
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: run many races, but when I do is like, sometimes
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: it's like being in Vegas, like that building's right over there.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Let's walk.
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: The finish line, you misjudge the finish line.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: You misjudge where you are.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: And it was like, Oh, I, they kind of, hate
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: to say it, look at the way last year played out,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: ran out of juice in the four most important games
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: of the year. They were kind of out of juice
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: because they had spent it. I it's, it's a, it's
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: a tale as old as time in sports. Like the,
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: the far Packers had to get through the Cowboys and
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: the 49ers and pay their dues till they could.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Drink the wine. It's a lot of times how people
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: want it to be.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: And that's exactly sometimes now in this instant age of
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: free agency and like college, like Indiana university, like, Oh,
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden we're in the worst program in
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: the world to the best program that everybody wants to
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: emulate there. There are those stories, but those are the outliers.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: And the brewers are like, people say, Oh, the Dodgers
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: are turning it on now. Cause they know what it takes. Well,
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: they do know what it takes because they have guys
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: that have been there and they're trying to win their
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: third straight. But I remember reading as a kid, um,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: when Gretzky was on the ascent and when he, you know,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: his teams in Edmonton, those great teams with a great player,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Yari Curry and Mark Messier and Grant Fuhrer, the incredible
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Paul Coffey, incredible hall of fame guys.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: They were young.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: They were like the Cheerios. They were the, the, the
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: band of young guys. And they played the Islanders who
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: had winning. They were winning every year. And the Islanders
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: won a couple in a row. And the Islanders were the,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: the Islanders were the Dodgers.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I think they won like four in a row.
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: They did. Yeah.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: And like, Gretzky said when one year they lost the
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Stanley cup and he walked by the, uh, the Islanders
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: locker room expecting to see this wild celebration and they
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: had won their fourth row. He's like, it looked like
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: a mash unit. There were guys like getting IVs and
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: they were on training tables because they had given everything
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: to win. They emptied the tank and he's like, oh,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: that's what it takes.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: That's what it is. That's and it clicked for him.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: And then he won and he knew, but he, even he,
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: the greatest player in the sport and the history of
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: sport had to learn. what it took to get to
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: the next level. The bucks tasted it and they got there.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: And Giannis drove them there and we all know what
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: it took, but then it fell apart when they tried
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: to maintain it. Brewers are on the ascent. They're learning
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: what that takes, you.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: Know, and.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: And that's a drew.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: I think that the race analogy is one of my
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: favorite ways of saying it. Cause like the getting good
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: is the best time for you to be a fan
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: of a team.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: When you're coming out of the doldrums, getting good this,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: you're still on that. You're still on that upward trajectory, right?
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Like you are not at the plateau where you have
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: to look around at the mountain and say, Oh dang.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Now, how do we get down from here?
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Like you're still rolling up. However, you do understand.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Damn.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: It takes everything you've ever thought of and then a
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: little bit more to get to the next round. And
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: then you get to that next round, you realize it's
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: everything you got and a little bit more. Holmgren used
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: to say, wasn't that always one of his tags during
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: the 96 season was, I got to ask you for
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: a little bit more.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: A little bit more. I need a little bit more
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: in this game. And you start learning that.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: That was one of the beauties of North American sports
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: was guys went through the Jordan run. You win the
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: first round. Then you win the second round. Then you
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: get to the conference finals. And, uh, listen, exactly. Step
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: ladder's a success, but you're right. They've, uh, they've, They've
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: got up that ladder a little bit. They've checked the
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: boxes and now they know, okay, we got to go further.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Like now we've got to win the damn pennant and
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: then we'll worry about the world series.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And Merv said it, man.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: It's pretty impressive when Jackson Cheerio, 23 year old, is
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: there a 22 year old doing this again? How they've
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: all now grown with the expectation and the standard of winning.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: It's not just, this is how you play big league baseball.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: This is how you play big league baseball and win.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And that's as important as anything. Cause you have the
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: expectation for winning.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: And so long in Milwaukee with baseball, it was, The
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: expectation of losing and to turn that carrier ship around,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: to be able to do that is one of the
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: most incredible accomplishments. I always said the Badgers did it
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: in the early 90s with football and basketball when the
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: legacy wasn't there to turn that ship around. to be
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: a consistent winner in both sports when you weren't before.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: And now to do, you know, it's a great example
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: of how hard it is to do. The brewers have
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: done it. Now you, now you reach toward an ultimate goal, but.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: You're right, Billy. It's like, there's nothing that feels better
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: as a fan.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Then when you first come back to try and to
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: try and become good again, there's when you get that
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: first meal, when you've starved that long, Nothing tastes better.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just the nature of the beast. It's
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: it's the accomplishment is just as great and just as
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: important and just as impressive. But it doesn't feel the
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: same when you've been doing it for a while. It's like,
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: all right, well, we're back again. Like, you know, Bill's fans,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: no way they felt the same going to the Super
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Bowl for the fourth time. They did that first time.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: So sometimes you have to hold on to it because
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: it's a crazy. in time in a moment but then
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: sometimes you have to remember to say you know what
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: this is what it should feel like every time and
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: I'm going to make sure I'm going to refuse to
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: take it for granted that's what we're.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Trying to do here there you go that's what we're
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: doing Hunter Baumgart has all kinds of reports for us
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: from the owner we're going to hear from the GM
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: we're going to hear from the manager and others we're
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: going to hear from Hunter Stick with us. This is
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: a 10% day. Let's enjoy it. Whether it's sunny or
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: not outside, it's sunny in here.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: You're in the huddle.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Drew Billion-Armond bringing it to you
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: from headquarters. 920 Milwaukee, 1070 Madison.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Everywhere on the iHeart app.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Streaming live. Facebook, X and YouTube. Brewers are the NL
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Central Division champions. Fourth straight year.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: It didn't take long.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Their first chance to clinch and they needed help from
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: the Braves beating the Cubs. Typical like Brewers game though, right?
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Because it's like Small market rallies again.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: As Miz said last night, we'll single you to death.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Might not have the big power, but we'll single you
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: to death. Brewers get a couple extra base hits, but
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: otherwise it was mostly a bunch of... Meanwhile, the Braves
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: beat the Cubs on three two-run homers, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: so Cunha, Albies, and Drake Baldwin, Madison's finest, delivers the
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: biggest swing. And I think PCA actually was the man
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: at bat for the final out. And, well, It sounded
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: like Jeff Levering enjoyed being able to give that part
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: of the call on Brewers TV.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Hey, thank you, Jeff.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: He did joke about it with Timmy D yesterday when
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Tim goes, why don't you tell.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Us what's happening? He goes, you mean you can play
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: by play?
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: You can work overtime? I mean, I guess. Yeah, I
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: guess I will. I guess I will. Jeff, thank you.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: You did a great job working the OT yesterday.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: But I'm sure deep down, I mean, every broadcaster dreams
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: of giving that championship call, and he wasn't quite able
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: to do it. because he had to wait for the
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: result in Chicago. I lamented that a bit yesterday, but
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to focus on that today. But I'm
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: sure he would have liked to say, and the Brewers
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: have won the NL Central Division, but hopefully he'll have
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: better calls coming in the coming months here.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: That's what we're hoping for.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Miz is 15-5. His ERA dropped a little bit, down
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: to 1.89. He's your presumptive Cy Young winner by acclimation.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: I would think at this point, he's the one.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: He's only going to probably make one more start, I
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: would think.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, 11 games to go, one more start, probably
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: a little shorter. Was yesterday a little longer of a
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: start for him than you were anticipating? Or right around
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: where you thought? I thought it would have been longer
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: had the game been different. If the Brewers not scored
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: the runs they did in the top of the sixth,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: he'd have gone out there for a little bit more
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: to stretch a little more, and then it's like, oh,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: we can pull the plug. And then you can pull
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: it through, yeah. Because I was wondering if you were
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: going to go 75-75 and then try to ramp him
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: back up. once game one came, but we'll see. They
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: have plenty of time now to mess around with.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: All those mathematics.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they can figure it out, and maybe it'll be
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: game dependent if they're still going, if the Dodgers somehow,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers keep hot, but the magic number now for
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: the number one seed, I think, is nine? Yeah, six
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: for the bye, nine for the one seed. Brewers have
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: 11 games left. I think the Dodgers have 11 too, maybe.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I know the Cubs, the Braves only have 10 left,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: so we're right in that math, so.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Eh, just keep winning. 11 games to go, yep.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: The wild card's kind of clearing up. A couple good
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: races left in the AL, obviously, West and Central.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, really good ones.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: But yeah, if you are curious about the Miz thing,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: his main, well, most think, or some think his main competition, Sanchez,
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: gave up five last night for the Phillies.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, I think it's clearing up for him now. Yeah,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: he's going to win. He's done some historic things. He's
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: got the narrative. He checks all the boxes. Murph very
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: well could win another manager of the year, although I
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: thought it was going to be either Mattingly or Weiss,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: just a voter fatigue. But Murph might have charmed everybody again.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Has a little bit of a chance.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: When he busts out the letter from you, I just
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: had tears in my eyes, and I just could not
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: stop laughing. Because you know he heard all of the
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: incredible response last year of how dare you play with
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: our emotions and our minds like that.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Well, let me do it one more time. Do it again.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Jannie and Appleton on the Talking Text Line, 877-794-1973, NicoletLaw.com,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Talking Text Line. I am enjoying so much of this day.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: What a fantastic celebration. I'm immensely proud of my Brewers
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: and what they have accomplished so far. As much as
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I want them to go far in the postseason, Drew,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Jannie's listening, I just want to bask in this moment,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: number 15.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Janie and Apple.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Awesome. Way to go.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: We're talking about Jeffrey in Milwaukee. I love that.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I am a fan who celebrates the regular season achievements
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: for all of my teams and that I root for them.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: The Brewers winning the central for the fourth freaking time
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: is amazing. I do think that this team is overall
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: better than even last year. And even with the starting
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: pitching questions after Miz and Henderson, but who cares where
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: the Kings of the central again, and that is the,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: you know, as we start hearkening back to our predictions,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: you know, We all might not be right on this
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: show a lot of times, but I think we all
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: unanimously said that they were going to be a better
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: team this year in terms of talent, in terms of development.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Maybe the record wouldn't indicate it, right? Maybe at the
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: end of the year, they wouldn't have once again, a
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: franchise record in wins. And here we are, they get
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: four more and they're going to have a franchise record
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: in wins. And I think it's pretty clear they're better
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: baseball team than they were even a year ago.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: And I always say, play 500 even at your worst.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: If they go six and five, they win a hundred.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: They win a hundred games. That's amazing.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Amazing.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: It's incredible.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: That's an incredible feat. Something that they've never done in
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: franchise history. So, uh, and again, like, you know, last night,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: guys like Lara, he was the kind of the igniter
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: last evening and.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Joey three for four.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Well, and there's Joey, like he's now a cult hero.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: That guy is, if that's not like exhibit a of why,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: like if you're ready to just write off the Packers
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: this year, and say the season's over because they sucked
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: and the offensive line sucked and there's no way they
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: can win. Absolutely can't see them winning a Super Bowl today. Well,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: that's great. Could you have seen Joey Ortiz getting standing
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: ovations at American Family Field back in May? Could you
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: have seen him hitting. 270 and being a guy that
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: you want up in big situations now?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Full.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: 180.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I did not. It's amazing. Nobody did, and that's sports.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: But our rush to just declare everything is like, My
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: final judgment is this guy sucks and this team sucks
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: and this team will never win.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Is Ortiz maybe the best example of a travel ball
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: coach's favorite player? Or like the youth baseball coach's favorite
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: player to point to.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Look what he did, guys. I want to use him
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: as an example.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Michael Jordan got cut as a sophomore.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, exactly.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: But there's a guy here that had everything going against him.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: We took his position away. Got benched in game three.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Guy called up for him, made more money, took his
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: position away. But you know what? He never did. He
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: never pouted. He never put his head down. He never
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: gave up. He never pouted. He came to the ballpark
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: every day, did what was asked of him, and guess what?
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Now he's reaping the benefits.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Because he worked hard, and it started here in the
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: practice field, and it started right up here with the
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: mental attitude, all that stuff.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, 90% of the game is half mental. That
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: whole deal is mental for Joey Ortiz. You've known that
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: he's had the talent, especially defensively. He showed it every
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: single time he'd be on the field. But offensively, Drew,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: obviously there's a little bit of weight that comes off
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: the shoulders, I think, when you realize.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, dang, the boogeyman is up here and I'm still
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: on the team.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Merv mentioned that in, in the, what was that middle
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: of June when they called up Pratt, June 19th, June 20th,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: something like that. And, uh, that he looked at him
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: and said, dude, you're still on the team and you're
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: still a huge part of it.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: So.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Go get it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: And as much as he knew that he was hitting
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: a buck 80 at the time, a buck 75 soaking wet,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: that you're going to have plenty of opportunity to remain
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: on the squad and any bit of confidence that you
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: can instill in between your own head ultimately is the
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: most important stuff.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: And the confidence to know now what his role is
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: and not wonder, okay, am I keeping this job?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Am I holding this job? No, I am what I am.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I'm right now in the third baseman and or utility
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: infielder and probably third baseman because I'm hitting. And now
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: it's settled and Cooper's in short and let's just go play.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: So I think there's got to be a burden lifted
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: in that regard as well.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: We have a report from Hunter and then we have
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: a bunch of sounds. So how do you guys want
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: to do this?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll hear the report.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Come on now.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Spin through some of the interviews. I know Hunter had
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: to be in heaven. He texted me the, you know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I was asking him something about what was, I needed
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: some information from Hunter about the, something that's going on
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh. And he is saying how much he enjoyed the,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: he's enjoying the city. And this was before the game.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: He's like, this is a great ballpark, great city. This
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: is amazing.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: It looked like an awesome time.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: It only got better after that. Yeah.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: And I mean, uh, like Janie sent in the picture of, uh,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: her and her significant other on their trip out to, uh, Pittsburgh,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: hanging out on the Clemente bridge to do it on Clem,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Roberto Clemente night in Pittsburgh as a, Beautiful, beautiful scene
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: last night for the celebration. Any bars stay open late
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: there in PA?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: That's a good question.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Are they able to find an establishment, or are they
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: able to go over to Greendale, Pennsylvania, and go over
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: to Big Mike, that bar? Are they open up there
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: on a Tuesday night?
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I just remember a memorable night in the Berg where
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Ken Sommerfeld found us an after-bar party, and we were
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: out until about 6 in the morning. If anybody can,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Sammy can find a party. So, yes, indeed.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: All right. 877-794-1973 gets you in.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Brewers are winning.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: We're basking in it. There's some parallels here and things.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a cautionary tale. The Joey Ortiz thing. Cautionary
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: tale for the Packers. But we're going to draw some
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: parallels between the two franchises and their current paths in
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: just a little bit. Hunter's Report live from Pittsburgh is
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: coming up next.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: You're in the huddle.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Drew Billionaire, I'm bringing it to you. Brewers are the champs. Packers.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: didn't lose yesterday. They didn't practice.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: They didn't do anything yesterday, really.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: That means it's a good day, Drew. No one got
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: beat off of the line of scrimmage.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: More.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, pause.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: There's more. You beat me to it.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: There's more of the more film study going on. Kurt
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Benkert showing some. Great examples of what the hell is
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: going on out here. Guys going the wrong way.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Kurt's fired up.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: He loves getting into it on Twitter now.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: It's a good business.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: It's an industry for him.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: You know what? You know who else loves what they do?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart. Our man on the scene has a report
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: for us. He's in Pittsburgh.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Do we have to bring him home now to save
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: money for the next round, for the next celebration?
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, I think we need to
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: expedite his trip home.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Save the hotel room, you know?
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Sorry, but I know you have maybe a tour scheduled
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: at Accresure Stadium later on this afternoon.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it could be.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know if we got the non-refundable tickets.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: It could be.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. In any event, our guy Hunter
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: has a report for us, and he's got a whole
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: bunch of interviews that we're going to enjoy throughout the day.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: It's savor the steps day. It's let's enjoy the smell
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: the roses day here in the huddle. And take it away, Hunter.
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: Thanks, guys.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: The Brewers did it again. Fourth straight NL Central title
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: for the Brewers. No team has ever won the NL
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: Central four straight times. There have been teams that have
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: done it three times. Nobody's done it four. And the
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: Milwaukee Brewers have. Just incredible. The run of success this
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: organization has.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: Has had.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: Brewers manager Pat Murphy, when reflecting on the season last night,
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: talked about when he thought a pivotal moment happened about
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: a month ago, and when he thought, man, this team
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: could maybe do it again.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: We get swept by the Padres in San Diego, and
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: all three games could have went our way. Everything we
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: did backfired. Then we go to L.A. We don't have terrain.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: We played Vaughn at third base. We played Gary Sanchez
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: at first base. Johnny O'Neal was at second base. And
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: we beat the Dodgers, whatever it was, three out of four. That,
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: to me, was a pivotal moment. Like, hey, there's something
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: special about this group.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: Brewers president of baseball operations and GM Matt Arnold talked
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: about how important Pat Murphy is to this entire organization
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: and how he's won three straight NL Central titles as
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: the manager.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: It's incredible. Yeah, he's the man, and he's a special
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: guy to be around.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: You guys see it every day. He lives and breathes it.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: He's the first guy at the ballpark. He's the last
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: guy to leave, and nobody cares more than Pat Murphy.
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: So now it's on to the final 11 games of
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: the season. Starting tonight, Logan Henderson will get the ball
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: at 540. I'll have you for the baseball pregame show
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: from PNC Park in Pittsburgh at 430. Looking forward to
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: bringing you some more of the reaction to the NL
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: Central title for the Milwaukee Brewers. They've got 11 games left. They,
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: of course, have 194. So that means they only need
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: four more wins to achieve the franchise record in wins
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: at 98. And they need six more wins to win
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: 100 games And also, they're trying to keep that best
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: record in ball and have home field advantage throughout the
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: playoffs and a bye in the NL playoffs. This report
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• 32:48
  Speaker 6: I'll join you at 7 a.m. live from Pittsburgh.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Back to you guys.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Hunter. Great stuff. We will hear from Hunter live.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: We're going to hear from Bill Schroeder from Brewers TV,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: who I'm sure had some FOMO last night. Because he
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: enjoys doing those interviews in the clinch days.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to say, I did miss Rock in
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: the dugout and in the clubhouse because you just always
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: go back to the first time. Feels like the first
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: time in 08 when they're all standing there watching it.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: And he grabs the mic and gets some of the
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: best reaction because he's been there.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Everybody sees him. Everybody knows him.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Everybody knows how much he loves Brewers baseball and how
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: much the Brewers mean to him. And you could tell
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: the reaction as well to Sophia last night of just
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: how much, to borrow the Matt LaFleur term, Drew, time
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: on task.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Time on task.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of time on task. Sophia Minard has
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: with that baseball team.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: And, you know, you start looking at all the other
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: people last night that you celebrate and that they were
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: celebrating with that are not the South Felix or the
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: David Hamilton's, the guys that end up being significant pieces
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: and players to it. They got to celebrate all the
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: other people that were around them. And the reaction to
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Sophia last night, I don't know. She did an interview with,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: where she didn't have at least one to four bottles
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: dumped on her. I think that's, that's an impressive run
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: for self yesterday that she was able to continue.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Going through there.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: And she said, you got to earn the burn with
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Woody on the, the eyes is what he said. It's like,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: I ditched them glasses a couple of years ago.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: He's too tough for that. He's old school, man. He's
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: old school South. And I got to embrace the burn, man.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: I took the glasses off a couple of years ago.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: It was way better.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: The truth is, you know, when you start to see
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: the other end of your career, you realize those are
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: the memories you want to keep, and that memory will
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: be burned in when you embrace the burn, right? So
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: that's the whole thing. You've got to love seeing that. Yeah,
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: love to see how they got Sophia a little bit.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: I was wondering, and I didn't know who to contact.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: It wasn't going to bother Todd or anybody.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: Can you guys get someone to dump it on Hunter? No,
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: I wanted someone to dump it on Hunter.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's fair. That would be super cool.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Now, I don't want to make Hunter uncomfortable either because
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: I know he's a pro and he wants to do
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: his job and he's focused and he's doing a lot
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: of things, but that would have been some fun video
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: to see Hunter get part of that a little bit.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: It was just awesome. I spent a little twinkle in
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: his eye, too, in that report. You love to see it,
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: but yeah, it was great to see them.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: You're right, Billy.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: Celebrate with the ones that are always there, you know,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: because they do become like part of a family, the
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: traveling media, and obviously the embedded reporter like Sophie has been.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: One of the things we kicked around yesterday, and I
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: asked Hunter about the vibe of this team. I'm like,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: can we put aside the underdog thing, the average Joes,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: when they've won four straight divisions and they're going to
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: win Like they're going to win the most games in
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: baseball for the second straight year. It's like, are they
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: still the average Joe, the underdog? Or is that, does
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: that narrative need to be retired now? They still are.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: And when they play the Phillies and the Dodgers, they'll
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: probably be underdogs, right?
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Definitely the Dodgers.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: There'll be a betting under sure. But do we have
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: to put that away? Cause I was watching big cat
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: become unglued yesterday on his social, the brewer's problem.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, you know, like, and that's, he was talking
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: about how he hates Murph. Cause Murph constantly hammered that.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Nobody knows who we are. And like, We don't have
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: any good players.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I think there's a yes and no answer to it. Like,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: they are nobody's underdog at this point. Everybody now knows
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: who they are and knows that they're going to be
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: a difficult out. But the pieces and the ingredients to
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: the soup are still the same. If anything, you're still
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: using this all with store brand stuff. Not one of
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: these is a name brand. We're going straight great value
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: and Kroger brand to be able to get you the
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: best flavor food that you're going to have all baseball season.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, the best player in the Brewers and one
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: of the best players, if you look at war, and
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: I know some people hate it, so okay, fine, ignore
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: me if you want. Bryce Terang wasn't even considered to
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: be an all-star. It was, for a lot of people,
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: not even considered, but he's, I think, an encapsulation of it.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: You do have Miz, who's become a star now, which
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: is great, and you have other players, but the part
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: I'll say is that it's still literally true.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, unless.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: Unless they start getting picked to win the division, which
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: they still weren't again. They were still picked to win
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: 80-whatever games. So in that sense, you can still say
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: the underdog. Whatever they had done, they still hadn't gotten
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: the respect in that sense. They weren't on covers of magazines. Well,
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: magazines don't exist anymore. But it's not like they were
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: anointed to be the next one's cover magazine, predicted it
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: would at all. Not by many, at least. Maybe some
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: people did. Like the Packers were in 95 going into 96,
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: for instance. The Super Bowl, Packers are next, and all
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: these things. So I would agree with the fact that
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: you can still make that case or kind of farm
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: that field of saying, yeah, we're the underdog because, once again,
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: we didn't get picked to do anything special. Once again,
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: everything we did in the past was cast aside and said, yeah,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: but it was all fake. It was all smoke and mirrors.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: This team's going to eventually come back down to earth.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: And so I would defend it in that way. But
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: people do know where the Brewers are now. They're not
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: sneaking up on anybody.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: ESPN ran one of those. We asked all these experts,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: and most of them said the Brewers were the team
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: to beat in the National League.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: That's because they won a bunch of games. They didn't
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: say that in April or March.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: No, but they're saying it now through the fog of
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: clearing the smoke of the regular season. They're saying, yeah,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: into the playoffs. They're projecting. They're saying, yeah, the Brewers are.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: And especially at home. And one of them even said
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: in that ESPN piece, like, yeah, when they're at home,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: they even hit some home runs at home when they're
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: at home, like lately, especially.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Because you can actually, you can find some homers in
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: that ballpark, right? And that's where, however they end up
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: building the team, it might be different if you played
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: in a cavernous spot like San Francisco. But you're going
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: to be able to find some home runs in that
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: small ballpark.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: They might be different when you add Andrew Fisher to
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: the roster.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Our Volves come up and Fisher and Burke start hitting
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: 50 a year combined.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. The whole script could be flipped. It's
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: a fascinating day to be a sports fan in Wisconsin. 10% day. Yeah, yeah,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: it's one step. Yeah, let's enjoy. Let's just put that aside.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Let's win. Let's just enjoy the wins. This little scrappy
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: team you followed. What do you think Jose Hernandez did yesterday?
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: You think he was celebrating the win?
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: Probably.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: We had like some former brewers. I mean, I know
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Cirillo has been in and out of ball and all
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: over the place. Does he give a little nod last night?
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Does he get excited? I do want to know that
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: some of those brewers that suffered through those years take
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: some solace and some enjoyment last night.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: I might have to text the icon today. Grab a
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: couple of fingers of whiskey and enjoy it. Good call.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Good call. We'll hear more from Hunter in his interviews.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Brock's going to join us at 725. You're in the huddle.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.