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09/02/26- Hour 1 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Well, Wednesday's hitting a little bit differently than Tuesday, isn't it, folks?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the 5 o'clock club. Welcome to the Huddle,
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  Speaker 1: all of you early risers, insomniacs, sociopaths, waiting the vestibule
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  Speaker 1: at the health club, there were a few of them today.
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  Speaker 1: Good Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, good Wednesday to get in there and grind
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  Speaker 2: right out of the gates, Drew.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now. Get after it. That's what folks are doing.
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  Speaker 1: And you are looking live at a panel of people
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  Speaker 1: ready to talk about a Brewers victory at Wrigley Field
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  Speaker 1: last evening. A little bit rocky in the start. Appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the finish. And I could just hear as the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: were pulling away and, you know, they got the insurance
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  Speaker 1: homer from the previously maligned, now beloved Joey Ortiz. I
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  Speaker 1: could just hear I could just hear like this, this
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  Speaker 1: froggy Armenian voice. Put that in your rom-com on TikTok. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what episode is that? Nine Innings of Love. What episode
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  Speaker 1: is that? What episode of Nine Innings of Love? How
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  Speaker 1: do you like my Nine Innings of Love now? And
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  Speaker 1: then Brewers have a chance at least to have the
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  Speaker 1: series with Miz tonight. Keep the momentum going. Game is,
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  Speaker 1: the lead is eight.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's officially game on like it was on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Just a little bit of a reboot drew on the
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  Speaker 2: game on because man, Bobby Gasser gives you a whole lot. The,
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  Speaker 2: the at bat, I thought of the night before Yellich
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  Speaker 2: flipped the scoreboard around on his two run shot was
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  Speaker 2: Robert Gasser being able to knuckle up, bear down and
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  Speaker 2: go down, go from three. Oh, it's a striking out
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  Speaker 2: PCA on the last one that he faces. and then
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  Speaker 2: get a cool little pep talk from Murph before he
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  Speaker 2: walked off the field. Man, that had all of the
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  Speaker 2: good vibes yesterday, even though we felt like it was
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  Speaker 2: going to be first inning. After the first inning and
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  Speaker 2: that first pitch that Robert Gassett threw, I felt really,
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  Speaker 2: really good. Not nearly as good with a 3-0 deficit,
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  Speaker 2: but it did feel like a night where they were
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  Speaker 2: going to put something together, and once they flipped the
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  Speaker 2: scoreboard around, Cubs didn't have the answer for them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a huge win.
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  Speaker 3: And you had those moments early on, obviously, before the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs took the lead. First of all, Tyrone Taylor terrorizing
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  Speaker 3: his former club.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. You can stop this any time. Why are
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  Speaker 1: you doing this to us, man? He's going to be
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  Speaker 1: in nine innings of love.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he is just terrorizing us. With that jawline, he's
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  Speaker 2: definitely going to be in the team. He's definitely going
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  Speaker 2: to be in the team. So he's been the one,
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  Speaker 2: the bird in our saddle. But, you know, you got
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of, like, for me, there was, like,
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  Speaker 2: here we go again when the Brewers are putting two on.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody out threatening can score.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Cubs get the lead.
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  Speaker 3: But the one thing is, you know, before the big
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  Speaker 3: sixth inning, and that was the one that turned the tide,
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  Speaker 3: obviously the yellow chomer and, the Bach and the Vaughn double.
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  Speaker 3: But the big one for me was the Brewers put
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  Speaker 3: together a small market rally to kind of stop the
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  Speaker 3: bleeding a little bit. Boom, boom, get the RBI single
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  Speaker 3: from Pratt. You get one on the board. It didn't
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  Speaker 3: turn the whole tide. It didn't change the entire game,
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  Speaker 3: but it started the roll a little bit to calm
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  Speaker 3: the waters a little bit and say, all right, we're
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  Speaker 3: just going to take a deep breath. We're down 3-0
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  Speaker 3: where you could feel like, oh, here comes the ball
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  Speaker 3: rolling down the hill again. Are the Cubs poised for
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  Speaker 3: another big night? Let's just stop the momentum a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Take a deep breath and do what we do, and
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  Speaker 3: that's knock a few through the infield, get our first
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  Speaker 3: run on the board, kind of re-stabilize.
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  Speaker 1: And go from there. That was, I think, a big thing.
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  Speaker 3: And a night of big moments for the Brewers, who
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  Speaker 3: really had to storm back and kind of fight that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, I did enjoy that, Drew.
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  Speaker 3: I was running to my Twitter to explode after, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just home run.
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  Speaker 1: It was a pretty exciting moment.
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  Speaker 2: You were exploding last night all over the place?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just flowing. Just flowing. Exploding. My goodness.
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  Speaker 1: No pause. Exploding at Armin Sarian. But a great win
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  Speaker 1: for the Brewers last night. Coming back. Get you with
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  Speaker 1: the big binoc energy. It's weird.
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  Speaker 2: I can't find any of those mouthy Cub fans tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Armin Zarian, just seven short hours ago at Armin Zarian,
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  Speaker 2: the old handle, the new one that you still know
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  Speaker 2: and love.
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  Speaker 1: Still back, still there. Had that one of the favorites, Billy.
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  Speaker 1: Had that one of the favorites. Figured you were ready.
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  Speaker 1: With the binoculars. Oh, my goodness. All right, so there
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  Speaker 1: were a couple of shaky moments, some leaky defense, uncharacteristic
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  Speaker 1: of the Brewers. Cubs played really good defense, and then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, they had their moments. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: had their moments.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and Drew, that is that is very, very apropos
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  Speaker 2: because there was it twice. Now the ball goes over
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  Speaker 2: towards Bryce Terang where you feel like that's a steel trap.
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  Speaker 2: The one double play that is just as assumed as
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  Speaker 2: you possibly can, even though you can't assume a double
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  Speaker 2: play shot right to him rolls right up the glove.
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  Speaker 2: they'll be easily able to figure that kind of stuff
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  Speaker 2: out and calm those waters, I would assume, defensively. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was not a very characteristic night. And they've stacked
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  Speaker 2: that up now over the last, what, like week, week
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  Speaker 2: and a half? They haven't been the hottest with the
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  Speaker 2: glove and defensively. It has been a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a sluggish roll here. But to be able to wake
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  Speaker 2: that thing up, and how good did that feel for
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  Speaker 2: Christian Yellich being able to do that? I don't know
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  Speaker 2: I've ever seen scream around the base paths other than
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  Speaker 2: maybe a homer in the final week of 2018. He
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  Speaker 2: gave a little bit of a selly, and he deserved
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  Speaker 2: to be able to have that round in first base.
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  Speaker 2: It was funny because, and I think maybe B.A. said
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  Speaker 2: it on the broadcast, but that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he shouted it out right away.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember what I was watching, what I'd seen,
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  Speaker 3: if it was a highlight, but it was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that he showed the emotion. The extent of the Elch
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  Speaker 3: emotion was like putting the hand up and like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the only time I remember that, Billy, I think, I
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  Speaker 3: think when he hit the homer in game seven and
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  Speaker 3: 18 against the Dodgers to start that game off, he
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  Speaker 3: gave a big fist pump and a yell. That was
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  Speaker 3: like the extent, like the extent, extent of the emotion
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  Speaker 3: you see from yells, but that was a big one.
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  Speaker 1: So it was warranted.
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  Speaker 3: And you mentioned it, Billy, the basket boys, I think, right.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned how, okay, the, just got to get to
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  Speaker 3: the basket, the basket. And that's what the Brewers did.
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  Speaker 3: The Ortiz Homer. And that one was pretty much in
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  Speaker 3: the basket, a little bit past it. And we don't wow.
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  Speaker 3: Bill's was high off the wall, almost there, but That's
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  Speaker 3: all you need. You know, you don't have to call
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  Speaker 3: me first. You can call me last, but if you
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  Speaker 3: call me, you know, I got the call and that
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  Speaker 3: was basically just, let me put it in the basket.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to hit it on the street. It's
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  Speaker 1: still counts.
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  Speaker 3: We put it in the basket and the Brewers have
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  Speaker 3: just enough with our guys just to put them in
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  Speaker 3: the basket. So it was just, it was exciting to
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  Speaker 3: see it. I said, you know, Christian Yelich, not always
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  Speaker 3: there when you call, but he's always on time. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when you need a big one, he finds a way
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  Speaker 3: to step up.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny. Cause Murph said, He was going to play.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to battle with Yelich after we lose 17
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  Speaker 1: to 3. I love that. Definitely would. Yelich is playing
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  Speaker 1: against lefties. He's playing. We're going to battle with Yelich.
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  Speaker 1: Smart move. Well, that's why he's being considered for his
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  Speaker 1: third straight manager of the year award. Brewers had a
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  Speaker 1: scary moment when Ortiz, Churrio, and Pratt almost collided. That
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  Speaker 1: three-car pileup out in short left field was not pretty.
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  Speaker 1: And it was almost devastating. Like, Ooh, everybody survived that.
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  Speaker 1: And okay. Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: That was after the couple of throws and Pratt goes
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  Speaker 2: right back to the trainer and shows exactly where the
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  Speaker 2: pain's rolling up. I thought he was for sure coming
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  Speaker 2: out of the game at that point.
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  Speaker 1: That's a, uh, Drew, that's, that's Jackson Cheerios ball, correct? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just a priority as he's got it. But you,
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  Speaker 1: if guys are tracking it and it's the, it's the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the audio, it's, it's the yelling. It's like, and if
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  Speaker 1: it's loud and the crowd is loud, You can't hear. No, 100%.
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  Speaker 2: And you could see, like, Jackson kind of as he's
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  Speaker 2: coming in. I don't know if you saw the same
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  Speaker 2: as I did. He was looking, sees it, realizes these
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  Speaker 2: sons of guns are not slowing down. This is either
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  Speaker 2: going to be my kneecap or I'm not catching this thing.
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  Speaker 2: And you kind of saw him back up feeling like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I think I can get a beat on it, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to lose my stuff here. Well, and
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  Speaker 2: Churio and Mitchell almost got it on Monday night. And
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  Speaker 2: that ball was hit 200 feet. It's absolutely the left
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  Speaker 2: fielder's ball if he can get it. But he needs
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  Speaker 2: to be calling it like almost.
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  Speaker 1: Off the bat. Right out of the gates, yes. Because
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  Speaker 1: those guys are going after it, man. And when you're
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  Speaker 1: locked in and you're focused and you're, you know, one
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  Speaker 1: track mind, get that ball, get that ball, especially when
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  Speaker 1: you're as athletic as Cooper Pratt. And Joey Ortiz, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of third basemen aren't even in the mix for that.
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  Speaker 1: Not even tracking that. Joey Ortiz is a shortstop by
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  Speaker 1: trade who can get out and get after that. And, oof, man,
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  Speaker 1: it was a scary. It was a disaster averted because
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  Speaker 1: that would have been.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the way his wrist banged into the knee. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: was it Ortiz's knee? I want to say it was
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  Speaker 3: a Jackson's.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't remember. But the way that Cooper's. I can't
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  Speaker 1: even tell the way they were spinning around. I was
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  Speaker 1: going to say.
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  Speaker 2: And then I couldn't even realize that it was a
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  Speaker 2: wrist injury. The way Cooper Pratt just face planted into
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  Speaker 2: the turf. I did see whose glove went flying.
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  Speaker 1: Was it Pratt's? That was Pratt's. That was Pratt's.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Because all of a sudden, out of the shrapnel, you
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  Speaker 1: see a glove flying to the left. I'm like, oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: Was that a body part? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: It was a hubcap.
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  Speaker 3: His wrist got slammed. But the thing is, that's always
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  Speaker 3: a tough one in no man's land, right? Because, you know, competitively,
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  Speaker 3: you don't want nobody to go for it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's just it. You'd rather have three guys going
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  Speaker 1: for it than have one of those that drops in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of three players. But you can't see it.
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  Speaker 3: You can't track the ball and look at each other,
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  Speaker 3: and then you're listening.
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  Speaker 1: When pitchers and catchers report, well, on day three or
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  Speaker 1: whenever it is that the athletes show up, the position players,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much the first drill you do every year is
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  Speaker 1: pop-up priority, and that is what they do. Someone hits it,
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  Speaker 1: or they had a jugs machine shooting balls into the air.
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  Speaker 1: Straight up into the air. And you hear big leaguers screaming,
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  Speaker 1: I got it, I got it, I got it, like
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  Speaker 1: at a little league field. Because a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: when you're at a game and stuff, you don't hear
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  Speaker 1: that communication because of the crowd and the ambient noise
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  Speaker 1: and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: 100%.
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  Speaker 1: Spring training on the backfield at Maryville, you can hear it,
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  Speaker 1: and I've stood there and watched it, and it's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they do it for like a half hour. And
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  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, over here, like who's got, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And they just they practice that in the first day. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they don't do that every. I was just going to say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like it's a foundational drill. I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 1: drills in football, Billy, that you do like the first
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  Speaker 1: day or two and then you don't do the rest.
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  Speaker 1: And then, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then if we go back to our stance drill
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  Speaker 2: at the back end of week number four, we might
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  Speaker 2: have some bigger.
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  Speaker 1: Bigger problems. So they might have to maybe the Brewers
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  Speaker 1: will take infield one of these days and just to read.
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  Speaker 1: and they'll have a couple of days to do stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. And I bet Murph in that week that
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  Speaker 1: they have off, we think with the, with the buy,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you can beat the Cubs on the
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  Speaker 1: field in front of you. And then you look at
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  Speaker 1: the scoreboard and see that the Dodgers and Braves both
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  Speaker 1: lost even better. Let's go. Makes it even better. Giving
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  Speaker 1: you more cushion. Is anybody still worried about the division?
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  Speaker 1: You won last night. I think you calmed everything down.
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  Speaker 1: I think people were like, oh, my God, we could
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  Speaker 1: still lose this. Again, the math is the math. What
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  Speaker 1: is it, 23 games left? Magic number time? There's a
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  Speaker 1: Twitter account. The Brewers magic number. One of the best.
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  Speaker 2: Especially when you're firing that bad boy up on opening day.
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  Speaker 2: That guy is dedicated to the ground. Brewers magic numbers.
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  Speaker 2: To win the Central, 16.
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  Speaker 1: Any combination of 16 wins by the Brewers, losses by
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs. The number one seed magic number is 21.
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  Speaker 1: That is tight. To get an NL by, it's 20.
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  Speaker 1: Even better. Yeah. And that would be losses by the
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  Speaker 1: other teams. And then wins to reach 100. They need 14.
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  Speaker 1: So they need to go 14 and nine to be
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  Speaker 1: the first Brewers team in history to win 100 games.
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  Speaker 1: And that. Yeah, it's achievable.
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  Speaker 2: And it is it is something that I'm eyeing up. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I understand it guarantees you absolutely nothing. It means very,
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  Speaker 2: very little to when you're playing games into October.
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  Speaker 1: That would matter.
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  Speaker 2: But that round number would be something that would be very,
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  Speaker 2: very cool to be able to not cap off because
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  Speaker 2: the cap hopefully is the commissioner's trophy at one of
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  Speaker 2: these points. That is what they call the actual trophy.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, that's what they call the
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  Speaker 2: actual trophy.
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  Speaker 1: He knows the name of the trophy. That's what they
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  Speaker 1: call the actual trophy. It's not the.
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner's cup that you win in hockey for just getting
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  Speaker 2: there and just having the best record. But to be
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  Speaker 2: able to have that feather in the cap of the
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  Speaker 2: first team and the only team to reach 100, I
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  Speaker 2: do think that's meaningful to signal just how good the
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  Speaker 2: team is. And to double up and reemphasize and make
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  Speaker 2: Drew and I and everybody else on this show look
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  Speaker 2: even smarter. When we said preseason, they're going to be better.
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  Speaker 2: Record might not be better, but they're going to be better.
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  Speaker 1: They are better.
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  Speaker 2: Their record should be better than it was a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: And hopefully it's just collateral damage when they hit that
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  Speaker 2: 100 mark.
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  Speaker 1: And we and we love.
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  Speaker 3: Round numbers in sports, especially baseball. And this would be
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  Speaker 3: the biggest one. And the thing is, the Brewers haven't
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  Speaker 3: done it before.
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  Speaker 1: So it'd be cool. Be something you haven't seen before.
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  Speaker 3: Um in the midst of a great season is getting
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  Speaker 3: to 100 you know is it window dressing maybe but
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  Speaker 3: hey we love round numbers we love when our you
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  Speaker 3: know pitchers throw 100 we love when our guys hit
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  Speaker 3: 300 we love those things we love when our guys
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  Speaker 3: hit 50 homers or 40 homers they don't call it
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  Speaker 3: the 38 38 club they call it the 40 40
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  Speaker 3: club like you know what i mean it's just what
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  Speaker 3: it is so it would be pretty cool by the
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  Speaker 3: way commissioner's cup in the wmba too billy i know
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  Speaker 3: you knew that That's one you follow.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's their in-season tournament. Oh, I'm big on the
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  Speaker 1: in-season tournament.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just so focused on the playoffs now that it's
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  Speaker 2: hard out of sight, out of mind.
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  Speaker 1: You just almost forget about it.
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  Speaker 3: No, I agree with you, though, Drew, back to your
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  Speaker 3: original point. I mean, I think when you set up
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  Speaker 3: yourself for a lead like the Brewers have to start
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  Speaker 3: this stretch, the main quote-unquote concern, if there was one,
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: was if the Cubs really ripped off that streak of
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  Speaker 3: you know, sweeping you here and putting, you know, starting
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  Speaker 3: to put that doubt in your mind or planting a seed.
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  Speaker 3: But if you get one or even you get to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you just the Cubs can't afford to exchange wins.
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  Speaker 3: So even just getting one win, you know, really puts
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  Speaker 3: them behind the eight ball percentage wise money wise.
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  Speaker 1: So I think you're right.
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  Speaker 3: I think you get one, especially if you get another,
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  Speaker 3: then you can really put it to bed in terms
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  Speaker 3: of any fears about the division. That's reflected, obviously, as
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  Speaker 3: well in the odds. Pottawatomie Sportsbook, I think it jumped
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  Speaker 3: all the way up to plus 3,000 for the Cubs
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: to win the division.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: It's just the math of just a head-to-head there. It's
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: the math. Well, in the games remaining, like I was saying,
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: the Brewers could lose all these games to the Cubs
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: and then win the rest of them and still comfortably win.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: With 23 games left, if the Brewers have a horrendous
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: skid and go 10-13, which would be a bad stretch
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: for them in 23 games, the Cubs have to go 18-5.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: And the thing is, if some of those... That's a
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: tall order, man. That's a tall order.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: And if some of those 10 wins are against the
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: Cubs head-to-head, that totally changes the equation, too.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Of course, because those are doubled up. And now the
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: Brewers have a 5-3 lead in the season series, which
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: if they have if they win two of these, they'll
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: clinch that. They'll lock that one up too. So that
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: adds another game. So that puts it, that means that
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: they can't tie you. So that adds basically an F
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: in essence, tax another game onto your lead.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: Andrew, that's where once we really started breaking it down
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: and figuring it out, winning three games was winning this,
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: the division, right?
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: Like winning three of the seven was basically, that's as
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: much of a lock as you can get out of.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: You're just out of time. Now, again, Stuff's happened, and
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: the Indians last year catching the Guardians, catching the Tigers,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: then losing in the playoffs. But then, and the Brewers
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: in 18. It's happened, but it's unlikely. And the way
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: the Brewers are rolling, tell me. And again, that's the thing.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: I just couldn't find that many losses so far. Provided
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: you're going to throw Miz and Henderson out there. The
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: idea that you're going to go twice through the rotation
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: and not win a game.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Unlikely yeah and it is a daunting feeling now you
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: would think for the cubs because you're i was listening
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: and reading and finding more people online last night that
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: are in the cubs stratosphere that we're believing and fighting
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: for the division right i i think they should be
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: more focused on the philly series yes and that race
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: that continues to heat up because they just won't.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Lose that is going to be i think it'll be
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: less intense in terms of like the fans and stuff
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: but in terms of the The stakes. Oh, God, that's
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: a huge flip. Big flip. And that one there.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Everyone yesterday was was dialed in thinking that if you
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: win last night, then you have you put whatever you
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: have out against Mizorowski and you're easily winning three or four.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Now you've got to face the Miz tonight realizing for.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: only a split that you got to be able to
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: beat Harrison. Cause I think a lot of people will
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: look rightfully. So at 32, walking up on their mound
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: as that's us holding an L here tonight. Cause he's
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: just been that damn good. Even on a night where
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: he fights the mound and fights, how tough it was
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: for him to repeat his delivery in Michigan or when
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I was in Michigan, him in New York, I was
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: at six innings, shut out two.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Walks like, okay.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: And wave that's what I'm struggling to find it and
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: figure out all my control issues. And that's where you're
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: living at. Give me a hard baseline for anybody. I
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: think they're, they're making hay against you.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: It is. It's going to be good.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Brewers put out a sweet, sweet shot of the Yelich
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: home run on their socials last night.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Tons of Brewers fans there. Yeah. Real.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: And now it's, I understand it's, it's not a Cubs
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: fans taking over American family field, but there's a decent amount,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: especially in this lower bowl celebrating one young lady in
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: the red cap. I mean, she is going absolutely bonkers
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: once that thing hits the bleachers.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: That's phenomenal.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know about you, but I was thinking you're
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: probably thinking the same thing I was. What are they
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: going to do for nine innings of love? because this
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: whole thing is about the romance and the bleachers. But
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: if there's Brewers fans in there, we're going to really
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: put a plot twist into their little story.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Too much fighting in the bleachers when we were filming
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: a couple weeks ago.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: They rewrote Fever Pitch on the fly while they were
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: filming it. That's right. Just saying, because the Red Sox
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: went and won the damn series.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Some guy was really getting me on Twitter. He's like,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: don't you know how much the Red Sox have done
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: with this stuff?
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I know. I've seen Fever Pitch, guy.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: But that was a Hollywood movie.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: And I liked Fever Pitch.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: This is basically Fever Pitch or a much hopefully better
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: version of Summer Catch. I mean, Summer Catch was terrible,
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: but it was bad in my favorite way, which is
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: why I like it.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: But this is basically the same thing. So I'm not
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: like a hater on baseball romance movies and shows.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: I just think it's funny that the team is doing
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: it right.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: It's also the fact that it's on TikTok now. Yeah.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Is TikTok the version of straight to DVD? Like this generation.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Pretty much exactly. That's how it is. By the way,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I was not going to be seen. By the way,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: it's like we could do a whole show on who
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: was the worst athlete to portray an actor to portray
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: an athlete in a movie because Timothy Robbins delivery in
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Bull Durham. Not great. Not great. He makes Freddie Prinze
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: look like he's throwing with his opposite hand. Yeah, that's true.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Freddie Prinze Jr. is awful. And somewhere right in the middle,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Dajon Love is.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Dajon Love.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Somewhere right there in the middle. Dajon Love is our
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: new spirit animal.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Dajon Love, he might be the superhero of the day,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: the way I'm getting content from him.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Dude, he brought the helmet to a burger spot. Let's collab.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Not for nothing. We're going to fire up game balls
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and kicks. We're going to have Hunter's recap of the Brewers.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Rock, who was not on
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the call last night, but he's itching to get back
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: in the booth when the Cubs come here on Labor Day.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: He was enjoying that one. Yeah, but not for nothing.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: You look at the box score, you watch the game unfold,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and one of the things that's hidden in the Brewers'
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: victory last night was that the presumptive MVP was bottled up.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Once again. Pete Crowe Armstrong was 0 for 4 with
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: three punch-outs. Ooh, and he bat-flipped a K. You want
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: to neutralize that guy against the Cubs? Yes. You're really
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: helping your chances. You're elevating your chances of winning the
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: damn game. Are we as kryptonite really quick, Billy? Are
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: we as kryptonite? Oh, I like that. He has not.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: He doesn't put numbers up. He hasn't put numbers up
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: historically against the Brewers.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Against the Brewers this season, an 067 batting average.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So. Low the legal limits. The presumptive MVP has
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: been quiet. He's been quiet. So keep it that way.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: And Miz, keep it that way.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I would love the back and forth that he had, though,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: with Contreras as he challenges that one that the entire
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: ball is in the zone.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: And you know Contreras said, brother, you just wasted a
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: bad one. I love that one. He looks back and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, are you serious? How about the one when
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Wild Bill was batting and the ump was about, he didn't,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: he was like, he was ready to go to the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: hat and the umpire called the ball. He's like, oh, okay, yeah,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you got that one right. Good, good. I thought you
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: were going to call that strike, so I just, he
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: kind of jumped the route in the wrong direction. He
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: was ready for it. Oh, okay. One of the guys
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: touches the hat and the umpire says ball and he's like,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: all right, we're going to challenge this one. Like, you know,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: you burn it. All right, I guess. If he wants to,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I'll look at it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: If there was one guy to like kind of sit with, like,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: and it's kind of weird because there's no spot to
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: do it, but sit with during the game is probably
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: contrast be probably the funniest guy like the little antics
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: they do the conversations like little things he does it
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: must be one of the most entertaining things I.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Don't know him, him on Sunday with the shades on
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: when he was having a, if he was having a
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: tennis shoes day instead of a cleats day.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: He was having a slides day instead of a cleats day.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: That would be the entertaining one. Yep.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Cause he was, he was living it over there. Fired
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: up after that double though. My man was slamming helmets down.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I'm like, let's go. He got me going. All right,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Brewers are fired up. Brewers got a much-needed victory. Now
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the Miz tonight. It only gets better from here. 877-794-1973,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: your ticket to check in. 5 o'clock, clubbers. You're in
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Here's the 0-2.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Yelich sends it high and deep.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Way back right center.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Goodbye!
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Christian Yelich! A go-ahead two-run home run in the sixth inning.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And that, ladies and gentlemen, is one of probably like
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: 50 reasons that Yelich continued to play through his slump
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: while the Brewers had the best record in baseball. People
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: are like, he's killing them. They got to get them
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: out of there. What are they doing? What are they
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: going to do with Yelich? You're going to let him
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: swing until he gets out of it and hope that
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: he comes up with a home run in a big
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: moment or a big hit in a big moment. Like
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: last night. Like last night, dude.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Drew, and he hits the ball that's out of the zone,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: out of the park. That is about as good.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: As it can be.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: And also makes Cubs fans, I saw last night, immediately
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: second-guessing Craig Council because Palencia had been their closer for
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: a long time, kind of moving him around.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: And B.A. said it. He goes, he's the closer for
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the starter tonight. Yeah. The only one closing the door
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: was Yellich, and he shut the box on that. Yellich
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: could be three for 120. And I still like my
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: chances with him up and a guy on second and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: two outs in a key situation in a big game.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Because he's got that equity. He's got presence. He's got equity.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I've been telling people, I don't think it's a stretch
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: for me to think that the Brewers could play a
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: playoff series where Kristen Yellich has more impact and is
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: more productive than Jake Bowers. Yeah, for sure. Because it's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the way baseball works. Bowers has been so good all year.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: The year's long, and you can go up and down
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and up and down.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: And as Christian Yelich sometimes post-seasons would say, a lot
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: of times the best player on the team doesn't have
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: the best post-season. And whenever he gets hot, you knew
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: that their best talent acquisitions were going to be Bryce Terang,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Jackson Chirio, William Contreras, and most importantly, Yelich, being the
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: hitters that their back of their baseball cards indicate. And
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: at times, all of them have. They haven't gotten all
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: in sync hot at.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: One point yet. And that gives you a lot of
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: confidence rolling through. Yeah, to your point, I've covered many
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: playoff series. Like those Yankees dynasties in the late 90s
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: when they won three in a row. And they had
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: all those stars. And they had Jeter and Rivera, Tino Martinez.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: All over the field, they had stars. And who was
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the glue guy? Who was the gritty guy? Who was
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the guy that you couldn't live without in the postseason?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Scott Brocious.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: That was it. Brocious, Charlie Hayes, those type of guys.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Scott Brocious, and I covered a World Series game that
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: ended with a Luis Soho hit. Yeah, Soho, yeah. Luis Soho, like, okay,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: who had that in their bingo card? It's always guys
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: like that. So with the Brewers, who's that guy? Mitchell.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: You know, Garrett Mitchell, the guy's like, oh, wow, that guy, okay.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: It was Bobby Ortiz. Obviously, he's a first-round pick, but
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Joey Ortiz is the perfect example of a guy. Oh,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: there he is. And Joey Ortiz is carrying the bird.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And that's what happens. And sometimes you're right. The stars
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: do recede. And look at last night. Last night was
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: a playoff game for all intents.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Totally was as close to a playoff game as you
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: can get in the regular season. Basically, it wasn't like,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: you know, it had that atmosphere, had the totally did
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: drew based on last night. And it had the aura.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: And Pete Crow Armstrong was over four with three punch outs.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: And that's he's been the best player in baseball this year.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: And he got struck out by a guy that was
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: wearing Lederhosen's last week. Come on now. How about him?
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: How about Romero's debut? That was big. No doubt.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: And first, Jojo Romero's like, wait a second. I thought
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: this was the best defensive team in baseball. And this
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: is what's happening on my first one. Barrels down and
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: buckles down and does it. And he's pitched there a
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: number of different times. And that lefty is going to
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: look really.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Good coming out of that. Uribe coming back. I just
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: love his vibe, man. His swag. It adds a lot.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: When you're pumping a 100-mile-an-hour sinker like that and the
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: one that he pays up PCA on is disgusting.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: And just his whole demeanor and having him, he's such
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: a weapon. It was a race to the six last night.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: And the depth of options you have in the bullpen
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: is huge come playoff time. And that's one thing, if
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: there's a soft underbelly for the Cubs, I mean, they're
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: kind of middle of the road in bullpen performance and ERA.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: That's kind of where they've been searching still here and there.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: You mentioned how Palencia.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Has been moved around. You know, that might be it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: So that's I think that's where, you know, the Brewers
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: have a superpower is is the depth of, you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: we talk about their lack of power on offense as
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: being a detriment. But they have so many depth of
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: options in the pitching staff, starters and relievers. You know,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: you talk about the job that that they've had with
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: McGill and Uribe.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: But look, even like D.L.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Hall and those type of guys, Patrick stepped up in
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: big moments.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I have Romero.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: You hope since Intel is starting to settle in there.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Depth of options in the bullpen in October is so
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: huge because, as you know, you're just mixing and matching
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: in a lot of games just to get out.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: And they brought in Zephyr Hand from the Angels at
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the deadline. Obviously, Boyd has been one of the only
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: guys that's made it through the— Somewhat the entire year
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: he's been on and off of the aisle throughout the year,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: but he's going to be one of their playoff starters.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: And you tag him for three in a night where
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: it looked like he had everything going early. He leaves
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: with an underwhelming line and a frustration.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: In the dugout. That's as good as it can get.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: And I also think the more and more that you
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: see Yelich back.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Into that role. We talked about it.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I know we've thrown the, uh, the idea of just
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: put the C on his chest, uh, throughout the season.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: But if he is the guy that ends up having
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the biggest moments come playoff time, uh, you saw anybody
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: see the, uh, shot of Andrew Vaughn in the dugout
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: as Yelich rounds the bases. I mean, there's a, there's
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: an old family guy, a vinegar stroke, uh, video that
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: rolls through. I mean, my man is grabbing onto the
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: railing and his face, eyes roll back as he screams
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: and lets out just a primal yell. And it also
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: looks better because he's bald, right? Like the shaved head
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: gives it an even bigger allure. Like he is screaming
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: to the heavens for Yellich. And dude is, I mean,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: he has had as much frustration of a year as
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: you possibly can have. But everybody in that dugout, you
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: could tell how much and how happy they were all
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: for him as he let that thing go yesterday.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you mentioned that, Bill, because I was
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: going to say, like, I don't know. I mean, obviously,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: there's no way you can measure something like this. But
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know if there's a guy that when he.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Comes through, will fire the team and energize the team
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: up more than him.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: The two guys that hit homers last night.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Those two guys.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Because when you're in the dugout and you grind with
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: your guys every day, especially a guy that is respected
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: as a veteran and everyone likes him. If they struggle,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: you feel for them and you go through it with
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: them because you want to see them come through, especially
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: a vet like Yelich when he obviously multiple reports and
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: he puts the work in. And Murph is always a
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: big fan of kind of talking about that because Yelich won't.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: So when you see that guy come through for you,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: you just naturally, it just fires that team up, fires
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: that dugout up more because that's the guy they want
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: to see come through.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Is their vet.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to imagine a fires up Murphy more
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: than normal. I like Murphy. Usually, you know, he'll be
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: chill about his situation and he'll always kind of temper
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: down enthusiasm, but the way Murphy really wants Yelich to
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: be able to get rewarded for the work he puts in. And,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: and it clearly gets, he's the one guy he gets
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: really personal about and frustrated when he doesn't do well
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: because he respects him so much. So I can imagine
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: how doubly excited Murph was when that Homer went over
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: the wall last night, not just because it helped his
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: team win, but because it was Yelich himself coming through
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: in the big moment. You can't really measure the excitement
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: and the impact and the energy it gives a young
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: dugout like that.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Well, and I think to the point of, you know,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: you never know who's going to be the biggest guy.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas on a team of, what, four, five, six
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Hall of Famers. They lose the World Series last year
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: if it's not for a solo shot that he hits
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: in the bottom or the top of the ninth inning
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to keep the thing alive. and has Dave Roberts sitting
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: there just apoplectic as they flash it over to the
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Dodgers dugout. And, I mean, for every David Ortiz, there's
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: a Mark Bellhorn. So you don't necessarily know who it
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: ultimately is going to be delivering the big swings. Good reference, yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: 877-794-1973.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Steve said, great win last night. All my nagging got
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: yellowed yesterday, and it paid off. Come on now, let's go.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I got a buddy like that.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: He always would say, one of those guys you would
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: rip on, usually it was a Marquette thing, right? like
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: basketball they have a good game he goes it's because
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: i was riding him it's because i heard me you take.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: The credit for it i love that i love that
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: way to go man steve said uh i'm wondering what
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: happened with our clumsy defense uh our clumsy play and
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: that was hard to watch.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Well i think that the the no man's land collision
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: is one that just happens sometimes now yeah you do
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: have gasser dropped the ball at first that was kind
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: of a blunder i mean there was a couple moments
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: but You know, sometimes.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: It just happens. I mean, that was a bang-bang play.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: That one was definitely– that's a moment where you just
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: feel like it's not going to go your way because
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: that's a heck of a range for Maughan to even.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Get to that one. Exactly. Our 5 o'clock clubbers from
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the Fox Valley are telling us that they're getting pounded
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: with a bad thunderstorm out there. Okay. All right, hang
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: in there. Come on, Mike. Which is nerve-wracking. Yeah, they've
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: gone through it this summer. Yeah, based on the summer
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: that they've had. You know how that is. I hear
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the sirens now and stuff, and I'm like, whatever. I
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: think we'll be okay. But when you've lived near that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: devastation that hit Menasha this year, it hits different. Yeah,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: it's scary. And I like Mike and Marilyn.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: We're having a hell of a thunderstorm up here, but
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: it's crickets from Cubs fans.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that. Let's go. You can hear that, baby.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: You know who's got a big man crush on the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Brewers these days based on his tweets and his comments
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: on the panel last night?
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Me.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Armand, no.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Besides that. On TNT? Pedro Martinez. Ooh. Pedro does like us, yes.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Pedro.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I've seen a couple clips, yeah. His tweet, yeah, a couple.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: But he said, Pat Murphy, I hope every young manager
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and player out there learns from him about how he
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: expresses himself about his team, about being genuine, about being
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: honest and a real human. Pedro's phenomenal on that set.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: He gives such great perspective and also just is able to...
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: talk about the game in especially pitching in such a
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: way where he can break it down very, very acutely,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: but not make you feel like an absolute idiot for
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: not understanding every single thing that he's saying, but also
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: that in the, the heartbeat is the thing that he
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: always is talking about on that side.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: I love that when he does emotions and stuff, another
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Pedro tweet, and he was glowing about them on the panel,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: but he also went to X Milwaukee continues to bring
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: in players who fit exactly what they do best, play
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: great defense, pitch well, and execute the fundamentals almost to perfection.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: And they have the right manager to make it all work.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: And then his tip for tonight to the Miz.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Mizorowski, keep trusting what you have and don't fear anyone.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I trust you, so trust yourself. Oh, that's what I'm
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: talking about, Pedro. That's from Pedro to Jacob Mizorowski. Let's go.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I trust you, so trust yourself.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: And I do love that a lot about, you know,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: talking about the genuine emotions and the vulnerability. And Murph
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: is always not afraid to talk and say things that
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: most big league managers, in terms of big league coaches,
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: professional coaches, they kind of keep hidden now.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: So it's good to see that. Good to see Pedro
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: respect that, yeah. He's got to do better. Did you see, like,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: who was it? Was it Freelick that had a foul
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: ball that kind of hit Murph? The other day in
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the dugout, and Murph was just kind of like... The
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: look that he got. It was hilarious. Hey. Patches O'Hoolan. Hey,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: you want to be on the lineup tomorrow? How about
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: you hit it anywhere else in this dugout? Son of
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: a gun.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: You do get the feel, especially for some of the
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: young guys, that you might have a long career, but
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: you might never have a manager like Pat again. And
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: it just feels like one day we're going to hear
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: about all of them talking about the impact he had
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: on them as young players.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: That's special. Craig Council played for him, what, 35, 40
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: years ago, 30 years ago? And still talks about stories
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: and the stuff that Murph said and how they would
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: imitate him on the back of the bus and stuff. Yeah.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Nothing sticks with you like a coach. Good first. Yeah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: And if you're like the Prats and Laras and Churrios,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: great first manager to have.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: By the way, counsel with the readers, I'm sorry, with
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: those glasses. We always talk about how he never looks old.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: He's getting a little old. He used to make fun
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: of it. We talked about that one time. He's like, yeah,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I used to look in the coach's office and see
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: everybody with their glasses on and laugh. Look at these guys.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I got to look at those charts. It comes at
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: you fast. Damn spreadsheets are smaller and smaller. I saw
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: his daughter committed to Butler, I think. Yeah, she's going
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: to Butler. Yeah, let's go. Kind of cool. That's kind
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: of cool. 877-794-1973. When we come back, Hunter Baumgart joins
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the party. We'll have his recap of last evening's proceedings.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: A much happier result for Hunter. Thank goodness. Man, he
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: stayed up.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Had to watch that entire 17-3 and then talk about it.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Had to wait for it to go final before he
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: could file his report. We'll have Hunter's report. Bill Schroeder
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: joins the party at 725 Dolph at 625. You're in
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. I mean, if it
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: wasn't so early, we'd be welcoming Caitlin Sharkey to the
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: party to talk about this Chicago-Milwaukee thing. Yeah, what are
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: we doing here? It's her walk-up song. It makes me
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: think of The Great Shark. Is that the only time
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I can play it, Billy? Friend of the program. No,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I just enjoy it. I enjoy the song. No, I know. Yeah.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Old school. Great banger, though. It's a good banger. Brewers-Cubs,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: 9-4 victory for Milwaukee last evening, evening the series, letting
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the population exhale. And Miz on the mound tonight. You
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: feel good about the Brewers' chances again. We've been talking
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: about it. Bill Schroeder is going to join us at 725.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Let's swing it to our own Hunter Baumgart for his
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: take on last night's proceedings at Wrigley Field. Take it away, Hunter.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Good morning, guys.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: A Milwaukee Brewers win and a big one. A bounce
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: back 9-4 victory last night. And there was just so
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: much good out of the game, right? Lara and Pratt.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: contributing early, a four-run sixth inning highlighted by a Christian
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Yelich home run. Pat Murphy said before the game that
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: this was a game he wanted Christian Yelich to play.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: He knew they were facing a lefty, but he left
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: him in the lineup. And then when he faces the righty, Palencia,
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: he puts one in the seats to give the Brewers
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: the lead, and they never look back. How about Joey
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Ortiz with his seventh home run since late June? The
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: man just keeps hitting and staying.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Hot, which is awesome.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: And then on the pitching side, Robert Gasser was pretty
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: good overall, and Pat Murphy had some encouraging words for
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: him on the mound as he took the ball from him,
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: and then the bullpen was absolutely dynamite. How about Abner
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Uribe with a strikeout of PCA, gets Suzuki to fly out,
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: and then a strikeout of Bregman. PCA not having a
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: good series, just one hit through the first two games,
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: which is really good to see. You don't want to
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: let that guy beat you, and boy, he has not.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: So the attention turns to Game 3 tonight, 640 first pitch.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Jacob Mizorowski on the mound for the crew. David Peterson
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: on the mound for the Cubs. I'll have you for
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: the baseball pregame show, 5.30 on Fox Sports 920. And
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: also our social channels. Also, one more note about last night.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: How about this?
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: First three-plus run comeback for the crew at Wrigley Field
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: since April of 2022. It was not only a bounce-back win,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: but a comeback win for the crew last night. This
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• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Back to you guys. Well done, Hunter. Thank you for
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: the recap. Thanks to Import Minded. Now, yeah, with Miz
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: on the mound, you hope he puts up zeros and
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: maybe you can play from in front today. That'd be
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: kind of nice. It would be nice.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Let's get out to a lead early and give the
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: guys some run.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: And the bullpen has been so good. They have been
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: absolute nails.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: And to not have to run McGill out there at
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: the back end of it, I thought was even better.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: That two-run shot by Ortiz in the eighth can sit
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: down McGill and allow you to send D.L. Hall to
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: the bump for the ninth and keep him fresh. Because
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: if you can win... When one of these next two
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: you win tonight. And then again, if indeed there are
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: any of those folks flying L flags today that are
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: hoping for the division, that that title becomes very, very
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: difficult to math out. If they end up catching a
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: fat L here tonight against the men. Love that YouTube.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Really quick comments. Pete Chang said, happy hump day fellas.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Biggest victory of the year last night. Gasper is huge.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: And the offense came through late. lead back to 8-9
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: after tonight. He's predicting a victory. And I got to say,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: he's up there with the biggest victory of the year.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're all big.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: They're all raisins in the trail mix. But last night
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: felt pretty big because it really felt like you're kicking
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: them back down.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Last night felt good.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know that I'm going to have one that's
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: going to feel as good as the one in L.A.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: When you snatch it back. Oh, yeah. Down three in
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the ninth, right?
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: That's going to be a tough one to best. But
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: last night, especially when Hunter rips out that nugget of
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: the first three run comeback.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: From how long since how long at Wrigley field. That's
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: pretty dang good. Indeed.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: That was a good one guys. I did a little
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: research too. You're talking about divisions and stuff like that.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: No team in the history of major league baseball has
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: lost an eight game division lead when September started. Now
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: there have been situations when a team in September has
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: had like eight and a half game lead, but when
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: the calendar turned to September, If you have an eight
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: game lead, no one's ever blown that lead. Now the
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Brewers had a seven game lead when the calendar turned,
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: but you get it just for some reference. So historically,
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: if you're worried about late season collapses, the 2011 Braves
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: had eight and a half game lead on September 5th
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: and they collapsed. So it's extremely, extremely rare to lose
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: a lead now at this point. So if you're, if
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: you're still thinking about that, some, some history.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I like that. So it doesn't, it doesn't include this
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Brewers team. It does. It doesn't, but it gives you
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: a little frame. It would let you know.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Probably not going to happen. There's 64, 64 Phillies famously blue.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Uh, six famously. I, you know what actually drew, I
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: was just talking about the 64 Phillies blowing it.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Yes. We were just talking about that. My dad talks
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: about that a lot.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: He was an 11 year old in that area when
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: they blew a six and a half game lead with
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: 12 games remaining in the season. That's probably still the
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: worst one because there's only 12 games to go. Um,
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: And then the Braves, I said.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: An 11, 8.5 game lead.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Last year, the Tigers had an 8 game lead through
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: August 31st and lost the division crown. But the calendar
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: didn't flip, so whatever.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: It's statistics.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: But it has happened somewhat in terms of having a
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: big lead in this month, but it's super rare and
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: never when the calendars flip.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: So hold on. Hold on. You said the Tigers had the.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: They had an 8-plus game lead through August 31st and
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: then lost the division crown. So I don't know how
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: they fit into this last stat I was looking at.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, it seems like someone's lost
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: an eight-game lead. I was going to say, it sounds
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: like somebody lost the eight-game lead last year. You could
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: have an eight-game or eight-game-plus lead in September and blow it.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: But you said at the end of August, they were
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: down eight games.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I have to go back and look. September
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: 1st definitely happened.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Maybe there's one example I didn't see. So September 1st
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: might be the one. So I have to look at
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: their division lead as the calendar turns. So they might
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: be the one example. Well, good digging on that stat. Well,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: I didn't really do that great because I might be wrong.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: You know what you tried, though? You relied on AI. Yeah.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: You didn't cross-verify it. Well, I did Google it. Treat. Yeah.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: That's AI. That's AI. Here we go again. That's AI.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Did you verify? Yeah. Did you click onto the link?
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Everything except the Tiger one is what I'm looking at here.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Trust but verify. If mom says she loves you, get
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: it confirmed by a second and third source. Come on.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Go verify that thing. Verify it. Verify it.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: The Tigers might be the turd in the punch bowl
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: here for me. I'm going to check it out.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well. I do like the work that you just
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: put in there. Yeah, so you're looking through 150 years
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: of baseball history and miss what happened last year. Well,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I think that's because, you know, we were talking about
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: the 64 Phillies, Drew. It just happened. It's so recent.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: But more, yeah, I was so focused on figuring out
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: when the Phillies. I have so much fun talking about
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the 64 Phillies, too. I sometimes lose my wits about me.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I think it's like a topic of conversation. Mike and Racine, morning, fellas.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: I have several Cubs fans in my neighborhood who hopefully
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: are flying the L today since they pretentiously display the
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: W flag. That's what I'm talking about. My morning walk
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: will be glorious, and I may pause at each house
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: just to smile. Just enjoy and soak it in. Come
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: on now.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: And if they don't fly one, Mike, no one's saying
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: you can't on your property. That's actually a really, really
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: good thing for you to potentially do.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. All right. As we move forward, we're going to
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: talk Packers. We had a little audience with Goody and
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Matt LaFleur last night. The new guys are working their
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: way in.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: And we got more layers to the Josh Jacobs situation. Like,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: were the comments appropriate? Should the Packers be standing by him? Like,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: LeFleur more than Goody. I was going to say LeFleur
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: very much. LeFleur's in, and Goody's like, well, we're going
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: to see how it goes. You got a little bit
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: of a mixed message on that one. You heard what
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I heard, too. Interesting takes on that. We're just getting rolling.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: It's The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.