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07/30/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: who is that behind the glass? Oh, reunited and it
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Speaker 1: feels so good. It's our very own Hunter Bombgarth the Fourth,
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Speaker 1: who is here with us today, tomorrow and Monday, and
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Speaker 1: he loves getting up early to talk sports stuff. Brewers
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Speaker 1: all that.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Hunter, Yes, Hello, and it does. We are reunited
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Speaker 2: and it does feel so good. Instead of a fifteen
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Speaker 2: minute segment with me, you get three hours of me.
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Speaker 2: The next three auditions of the huddle, So we appreciate
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Speaker 2: everyone bearing with me here as we you know what it's,
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Speaker 2: it's we say it, and it's true. It's like riding
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Speaker 2: a bike. So I think by you know, the six
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Speaker 2: o'clock hour, I'll be feeling better about, you know, trying
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Speaker 2: to understand Armine's domain over here.
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Speaker 1: Not that I don't use it.
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Speaker 2: Because I obviously use it for the Baseball Show, but
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Speaker 2: it's just a little different in the morning. So we're
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Speaker 2: getting the hang of it. But all as went smooth
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Speaker 2: so far, and I'm sure it will and we got
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Speaker 2: plenty to talk about, so it's it's fun to be in.
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Speaker 1: Plenty to talk about. Sadly, we probably don't have to
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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time on yesterday's proceedings at Oracle
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Speaker 1: Park in San Francisco, because the Brewers had one of
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Speaker 1: those days, Yeah, where you just pack up your stuff
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Speaker 1: and move on to the next it's the family trip.
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Speaker 1: That game probably should have come with a PG thirteen rating,
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Speaker 1: as the Brewers got shellacked.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, whenever you give up seven runs in an inning,
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Speaker 2: it's not gonna bote. Well, they gave up thirteen runs
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Speaker 2: over three innings in the sixth, seventh, and eighth, they
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Speaker 2: gave up thirteen runs. Now, three of those were charged
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Speaker 2: to mister Andrew Vaughan, who was pitching for the first
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Speaker 2: time ever in a Major League baseball game and actually
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Speaker 2: struck a guy out with a knuckleball, which was awesome.
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Speaker 2: Don't ask me why I was still watching at that time,
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Speaker 2: but I was your hardcore. But yeah, but otherwise, yeah,
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Speaker 2: thirteen runs over three innings just not their day. And look,
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Speaker 2: the Brewers just have not been successful in San Francisco
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Speaker 2: in recent years, and yesterday was another example of that.
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Speaker 2: And you're going to have that throughout the season. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: you want to beat up on these teams that are
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Speaker 2: going to be selling at the deadline. But an off
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Speaker 2: day today and hopefully you can go into Anaheim and
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Speaker 2: get those wins back.
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Speaker 1: Considering that, the Brewers, in an effort to the kind
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Speaker 1: of slide the rotation and give everybody a day, they
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Speaker 1: bring up Thomas Panone to start this game. He's older, lefty,
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Speaker 1: he's north of thirty, and he gives them three innings
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Speaker 1: and it wasn't horrible for him, right, give a couple
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Speaker 1: of hits, a couple of walks, But yeah, I gave
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Speaker 1: up a homer a good inning in the third. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but this game went to the bottom of six with
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Speaker 1: the Brewers down three to two, and then, like you said,
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Speaker 1: they just popped it in the microwave and it got hideous.
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Speaker 1: The Giants put up seven in the sixth, three in
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Speaker 1: the seventh, three in the eighth. They didn't have to
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Speaker 1: bat in the ninth, thankfully. Andrew Vaughan pitching in the
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Speaker 1: eighth inning. I always think, you know, I'm up two
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Speaker 1: minds on this. Some people think it's a disgrace. I
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Speaker 1: heard people the Mets booth talking about how deplorable it
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Speaker 1: is that you don't have enough pictures to get through
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Speaker 1: right a game. Sure, but I was thinking, well, it's
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Speaker 1: that bad, especially with what the situation the Brewers were
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Speaker 1: in a little levity. For sure, let laugh at yourselves
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Speaker 1: and let andrev On pitch and make everybody chuckle, and
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Speaker 1: it starts the process of putting the loss behind you.
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Speaker 1: And then they packed up their stuff and flew to Anheim.
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Speaker 1: All the heaven off. Day to day on the family trip,
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Speaker 1: everybody's gonna go to Disney World and the beaches and whatever.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 1: This is birst team is pretty young. A lot of
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Speaker 1: them don't have families. Yeah, true, but coaches and probably
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Speaker 1: broadcasters and you know, the older, older players with younger kids.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure I don't know. I would think
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Speaker 1: Wood he's on the trip, right, he's been traveling with.
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Speaker 2: A Yeah, I don't know about this one because I
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Speaker 2: believe he's getting ready for searcher.
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Speaker 1: That's probably true. Yeah, that's probably true. So yeah, just
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Speaker 1: you know, wipe that one. Move on, Brewers. They had
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Speaker 1: eight hits, they made three errors, which that's that was
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Speaker 1: the thing. I mean, that's really you know, uncharacteristic.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when the three run home run was hitting the
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Speaker 2: second inning, that was led off by a Garret Mitchell
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Speaker 2: just drop in center field, a drop that.
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Speaker 1: You just do not see him make. That would be
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Speaker 1: your Toyota turning point if you're listening to ot right.
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Speaker 1: They didn't so that they did. Hamilton stole a base
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Speaker 1: I think the head, but to make three errs too
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Speaker 1: of by Sanchez.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and one was really not his fault. Pratt and
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Speaker 2: Terraang were a little miss uh mixed up as far
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Speaker 2: as who was covering second on that. Pratt was late
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Speaker 2: to the base ball goes into center field and Namas
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Speaker 2: gets the third and that's what kind of opened the
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Speaker 2: floodgates in that sixth inning and led to those seven runs.
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Speaker 2: And Chad Patrick wasn't great. Bryce Wilson came into Aaron
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Speaker 2: Ashby charged with five runs as well.
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Speaker 4: Uh he he didn't.
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Speaker 2: He wasn't faring well in just a third of an inning,
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Speaker 2: five runs, four of those earned.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, already sits at three eighty six. But again, yeah,
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Speaker 1: just ugly patch it gave up a couple of hits
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Speaker 1: and yeah, a couple of walks. So yeah, just one
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Speaker 1: of those days. Just flush it, move on. Brewers were
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Speaker 1: two for fourteen with runners in scoring position. Just one
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Speaker 1: of those days, I don't know. And if you really
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Speaker 1: want to go, like what are they doing with the lineup?
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Speaker 1: Why is uh you know Yellis bat in fifth? And
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Speaker 1: what's the deal? And who cares? They lost?
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Speaker 2: Like, well, he actually had a pretty good day betting
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Speaker 2: clean up yesterday. Who walks?
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Speaker 1: Who walks? And Yellois we always say when he's drawing walks,
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Speaker 1: he's seeing better, right, not just making outs? Just flush it.
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Speaker 1: Cubs lost as well. Cubs lost a I'd rather lose
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Speaker 1: sixteen to three than lose the way the Cubs, did Yeah,
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Speaker 1: play nine innings of scoreless ball. Put up two in
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Speaker 1: your half of the tenth or was it the eleventh
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Speaker 1: or tenth tenth? Yeah, put up two in your half
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Speaker 1: of the tenth, and then give up three. It'll get
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Speaker 1: walked off by a team that you had, you know
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Speaker 1: that you were trying to step on. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: As hot as the Cubs have been, the Brewers continue
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Speaker 2: to hold this six to seven game lead. And that's
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Speaker 2: the incredible part of it. Is as hot as the
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Speaker 2: Cubs have been, and they're a threat, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 2: And as much as we want to talk about the
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Speaker 2: trade deadline helping in October, you got to win the
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Speaker 2: division first. And the Cubs are a very good baseball team,
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Speaker 2: and they're doing it without their full complement of pitching,
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Speaker 2: which they'll probably get some of it back here in
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Speaker 2: the next couple of months. But look, I mean, they
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Speaker 2: have not gained a game. I don't think the.
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Speaker 1: Game on the Brewers, but they have a hefty you know,
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Speaker 1: the Brewers have a six game lead over the Cubs.
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Speaker 1: The Cubs have a four and a half game lead
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Speaker 1: over their closest pursuer in the wildcard, which is Arizona,
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Speaker 1: So they're in pretty good shape. Mm hmm. Right. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: they'd rather win the division, and they got plenty of
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Speaker 1: time to do that, and they got plenty of head
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Speaker 1: to head games left against the Brewers down the stretch
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Speaker 1: they do, so buckle up. We have three games left
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Speaker 1: for the Brewers before the trading deadline, which comes up
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Speaker 1: Monday at what five o'clock, five o'clock Central, five o'clock
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Speaker 1: Central On Monday, Birds will be home at amfam Field,
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Speaker 1: and the drama continues to build. Everybody wondering what's going
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Speaker 1: to happen. Obviously the schoobol stuff has been percolating much
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Speaker 1: of the summer. Will we get a resolution on that soon?
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Speaker 1: Quite possibly? Because did you see what happened to the
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Speaker 1: Tigers yesterday?
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Speaker 2: If there's one way for that schoobl era to end
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Speaker 2: in Detroit, I think yesterday was fitting.
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Speaker 1: So tell folks what happened in that Hunter, because that
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Speaker 1: it was yikes.
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Speaker 2: It was, it was yikes. The Tigers heading into the
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Speaker 2: seventh inning, had a seven to nothing lead in the game.
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Speaker 2: They were they had scored three in the third, two
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Speaker 2: and the fifth, two and the sixth, so they were
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Speaker 2: up seven to nothing.
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Speaker 1: Playing the Orioles. Who are you know, scrappy but not great? Right?
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Speaker 1: Three games under five hid. This was at Comerica on
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Speaker 1: getaway Day.
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Speaker 2: It was so that a lot of people saying this
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Speaker 2: was the last start of Schooble at k America Park.
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Speaker 2: He walked off to a great ovation standing oh he
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Speaker 2: crossed the one thousand strikeout threshold and got a great
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Speaker 2: ovation for that as well. So he pitched into the
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Speaker 2: seventh inning and actually gave up three of the five
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Speaker 2: runs the Baltimore Orioles scored in that seventh inning, and
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden it was a seven to five
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Speaker 2: game after the Orioles scored five runs in that seventh,
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Speaker 2: so seven to five, and then the Orioles scored two
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Speaker 2: in the eight to tie it at seven, went to
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Speaker 2: extra innings. Both team scored two in the eleventh and
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Speaker 2: the Oils scored one in the twelfth, and Orioles won
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Speaker 2: ten to nine after being down seven to nothing heading
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Speaker 2: into the seventh inning. And if anything convinces you if
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Speaker 2: you're the Detroit Tigers to buy or sorry to sell,
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Speaker 2: I think that would be it. And I mean they
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Speaker 2: just lost a series of the Royals and a series
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Speaker 2: of the Orioles, and I just I think that says, Okay,
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Speaker 2: that is going to be a team that's going to
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Speaker 2: be selling.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing. The Tigers are fifty one and fifty eight,
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Speaker 1: which is not great, but they're only five and a
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Speaker 1: half games out of their first place in their division,
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Speaker 1: four games out of the wild card. Yeah, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of teams between them and the wild card, and
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Speaker 1: that's the thing. So it probably, you know, more more
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Speaker 1: realistic to chase the division, but it just feels like
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Speaker 1: they're done atis locker. Scooble said, quote, I don't even
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Speaker 1: know the final score, but to end up losing that,
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Speaker 1: it's tough. For sure. This one hurts. Yeah, yeah, because
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Speaker 1: he probably thought it might be his last time in
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Speaker 1: a Tiger's uniform. Aj Hinch, the manager, I just can't
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Speaker 1: think in hypotheticals. I really can't. I'll have the time
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Speaker 1: to say when and if and where and what, but
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Speaker 1: I just think it's a waste of my time to
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Speaker 1: talk about hypotheticals. Scooble also said, I don't even really
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Speaker 1: want to speculate. I try to live where I'm at
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Speaker 1: right now. Right now, I'm a Detroit Tiger. I don't
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Speaker 1: really want to speculate a ton on what's happening or
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Speaker 1: with the future holds. I don't know. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: understand the questions. I understand what could happen or what
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Speaker 1: could change for a week from now, but I don't
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Speaker 1: really like thinking about it. It's a tough place to be.
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Speaker 2: I think we're at a point where it's almost organizational
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Speaker 2: malpractice if they don't trade him.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing. And when I was when I
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Speaker 1: heard about what had happened and I saw the low
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Speaker 1: lights from the Tigers game, I flashed back to what
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Speaker 1: Doug Melvin used to say. And Doug Melvin is such
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Speaker 1: a sage baseball man that I've learned so much from
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Speaker 1: him and just his wisdom and the stuff that he
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Speaker 1: would say. And you know, when you get to this
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Speaker 1: point and it's evolved more, it's even more pronounced now
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Speaker 1: about should we buy or sell?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 1: Are we in this? Are we not? And he always
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Speaker 1: he would always say, your team will tell you what
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Speaker 1: you need to do. Between the All Star break and
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Speaker 1: the trade deadline, you watch your club and the team
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Speaker 1: will tell you. Interesting, what the hell are the Tigers
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Speaker 1: telling management?
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Speaker 5: Right?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 1: Sell like we got nothing. We just were coughing wheezing.
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Speaker 1: Now could they if they keep Schooble and ride it
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Speaker 1: out and try to push, could they conceivably rise up
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Speaker 1: and get hot and play up to their potential? And yeah, maybe,
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Speaker 1: but with the bullpen as bad as it is and
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Speaker 1: the amount of leads that they've lost, like the games,
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Speaker 1: the games that they've puked away from the seventh inning on,
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Speaker 1: it's like a Greek tragedy. Yeah, it's hideous. And so
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Speaker 1: trading Schooble and getting some major league assets back might
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Speaker 1: actually give them a lift of some kind because it
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Speaker 1: would like take pressure off in some ways, like, well,
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Speaker 1: they traded our ace, so I guess they don't think
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Speaker 1: we're in it. And then that pressure release valve gets
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Speaker 1: hit and it might be the like the reverse of
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Speaker 1: what everybody thinks. They might trade Schooble and then go
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Speaker 1: and win you know, eight out of ten, right, right?
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Speaker 1: Could happen? It could? It could. So it's not that
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Speaker 1: they can't win without him, but hikes man, So he's
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Speaker 1: trying to live in the moment. Brewers fans are pining
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Speaker 1: for him because that would be a great addition if
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Speaker 1: you if you rolled, you know, Schoobl in the miz
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Speaker 1: out there ain't nobody really looking forward to those games
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Speaker 1: one and two.
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Speaker 2: No, and I there's there's a little more smoke to
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Speaker 2: the fire than there is usually with the Brewers and
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Speaker 2: the top trade deadline commodity. Like usually there's like, oh yeah,
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Speaker 2: the Brewers could, but there's not a lot of smoke
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Speaker 2: to that fire. There's a fair amount of people who
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Speaker 2: have been connecting Schooble to the Brewers. So I don't
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Speaker 2: think it's out of the round possibilities. Do I think
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Speaker 2: it's likely. I still don't necessarily think it's likely. I
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Speaker 2: think it's one of these other teams. I know there
12:48
Speaker 2: was a report from The Athletic last night saying that
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Speaker 2: the Cubs view Schooble as their blockbuster option. Obviously they're
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Speaker 2: gonna be looking for pitching, but their farm system is
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Speaker 2: not as deep as maybe the Dodgers and the Brewers are.
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Speaker 1: I know there was a.
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Speaker 2: Report earlier this week from the La Times saying that
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers were unlikely to trade for schoobl I think
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Speaker 2: I don't know about that. I think they are just
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Speaker 2: as likely as anybody, considering their farm system and their
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Speaker 2: ability to just go for it and buy players right now.
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Speaker 2: Obviously things could change with the CBA, but I don't
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Speaker 2: know how drastic that would be in the immediate future.
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Speaker 1: So I still think it's.
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Speaker 2: Dodgers probably as the most likely as we sit right now.
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Speaker 2: But I think the Brewers are at least entertaining the
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Speaker 2: idea now. As you talked about what the Tigers are
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Speaker 2: going to want back, because they're still technically in the
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Speaker 2: mix in the AL despite being seven games under five hundred,
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Speaker 2: they're probably going to want to major league pitcher back.
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Speaker 2: And that's where we talked about Logan Henderson. I saw
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Speaker 2: Jim Bowden on Fell Territory talking about, well, maybe they
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Speaker 2: could give up Brandon Sprout.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I feel like the Tigers in a schoobl trade would
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Speaker 2: ask for Henderson instead of Sprout, just because of the
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Speaker 2: proven nature of what Henry has done. Henderson through his
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Speaker 2: first fourteen starts, has one of the best ras in
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Speaker 2: Brewer's history. Through his first fourteen starts, I mean, this
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Speaker 2: guy has been really good. And so if you say, oh, well,
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Speaker 2: you know, we need schoobl for the playoffs, and obviously
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Speaker 2: that would be big, you put Logan Henderson out there
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Speaker 2: in a Game three scenario, and I also like my
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Speaker 2: chances there. But he does have an injury history, so
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Speaker 2: you have to consider that he is young. How is
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Speaker 2: he going to do with this workload. There's all those questions,
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Speaker 2: and schoopl is a more known commodity, although he did
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Speaker 2: miss some time with the injury as well. But so
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Speaker 2: there's different sides to this. It's going to be fascinating
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Speaker 2: and it's wild because really the Angels and Rangers made
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Speaker 2: a trade last night, but otherwise everybody's waiting til the
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Speaker 2: last minute because of the whole buyer and sellers people
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Speaker 2: thinking they're going to be buyers when they really probably
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Speaker 2: should be sellers.
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Speaker 1: The Tigers, this was getaway game yesterday that they puked away,
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Speaker 1: and they're heading on a three city West coast trip
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Speaker 1: and they won't be headed to Detroit until a week
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Speaker 1: after the deadline. So there's a very good chance that
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Speaker 1: our school was going to have a full suitcase if
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Speaker 1: he gets traded after this first series, and he'll be
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Speaker 1: you know, he'll have a week's worth of clothes packed
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Speaker 1: and ready wherever he ends up. Acquiring him would cost
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Speaker 1: unless the Tigers were to offset some nine point six
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Speaker 1: million for the rest of the season, big chunk for
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Speaker 1: the Brewers. It is, that is that's something to consider.
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Speaker 1: The other thing is the Dodgers want him and the
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Speaker 1: But the Dodgers. He's a Northern California kid, grew up
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Speaker 1: in the Bay Area, and most people conventional wisdom is
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Speaker 1: he'd probably like to pitch for the for the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: be on the West Coast, and then you'll play a
15:38
Speaker 1: couple times a year up in San Francisco, be in
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Speaker 1: the division to his family. Uh So, the Dodgers, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if this will enter their thinking or not.
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Speaker 1: But for the Brewers, he's a rental. For the Cubs. Well,
15:51
Speaker 1: there's a chance you could sign him to an extension
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Speaker 1: and keep him and not rent him. He'll be the
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Speaker 1: biggest contract, and the Dodgers could get him and keep
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Speaker 1: him and just slip him in because it's doesn't they
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Speaker 1: don't know if Otani's going to be able to pitch again,
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Speaker 1: and get a couple of guys on the the down
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Speaker 1: the bottom of their rotation that their question marks because
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Speaker 1: of injury, and they'll just have him and you know,
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Speaker 1: just add yet another piece, right. I don't know how
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Speaker 1: that would echo in the current CBA. You know negotiations
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Speaker 1: if the Dodgers go and get you know, the prime
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Speaker 1: piece and then keep him and just hoarding all the assets.
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Speaker 1: But the Brewers are a better story. Breuce have the
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Speaker 1: fharm system. They could go get him. They could make
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Speaker 1: the best offer. Will they I have no idea, But
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Speaker 1: people are asking me all the time. I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: Brewers in on Freddy Peralta. You want him a lot.
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Speaker 1: There's a story. Uh, I didn't even see who wrote it,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of teams think that they could fix
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Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta and that they could get Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Will Salmon of the athletic who covers the Mets used
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Speaker 2: to cover the Brewers, that's right, Yeah he was. He
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Speaker 2: talked about how, Yeah, executives think that this is kind
16:57
Speaker 2: of a combination of an inexperienced pitching code, some bad
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Speaker 2: defense being played behind Freddy Peralta in New York. But
17:04
Speaker 2: then there is the other part of it where there's
17:06
Speaker 2: also the numbers are the numbers, and there are some
17:10
Speaker 2: numbers that the metrics are the metrics. As one evaluator said,
17:15
Speaker 2: his extension is down nearly half a foot, which is
17:18
Speaker 2: not something that's easily fixable during the season. His average
17:21
Speaker 2: velocity his fastball is also down from ninety four point
17:23
Speaker 2: eight to ninety four point two. So there are actual
17:26
Speaker 2: tangible things that are down, But then there's also things
17:29
Speaker 2: that can be tweaked. Especially with an organization that knows
17:33
Speaker 2: Freddy Peralta and a pitching coaching staff like Chris Hook,
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Speaker 2: Jim Henderson and the entire staff that knows him. I
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Speaker 2: would be for it. I think that would be a
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Speaker 2: positive acquisition. I don't think I know that pitching is
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Speaker 2: going to be at a premium here at the trade
17:49
Speaker 2: deadline and teams are going to ask for significant returns.
17:52
Speaker 2: I just can't think that that's going to net a
17:55
Speaker 2: super significant return considering he's a rental and he's also, uh,
18:00
Speaker 2: you know, not had a great year.
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Speaker 1: So I would like to see the Brewers do that.
18:05
Speaker 2: But there's also some other names in there that I
18:06
Speaker 2: think maybe we haven't thought of, whether it be Robbie
18:09
Speaker 2: Ray or you know, Kevin Golossman, there's other guys that
18:13
Speaker 2: are out there that could provide that veteran rotation help.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're definitely going to do something. What it is,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I couldn't tell you at this point.
18:24
Speaker 1: For alta end school would be good. Yeah, what that
18:27
Speaker 1: bolster's the bullpen because it lets you slide some guys
18:29
Speaker 1: back into the bullpen. Yeah, like a drone or something
18:32
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Speaker 5: But everybody had a good summer. As we start here,
22:09
Speaker 5: I just kind of want to take a minute. I
22:11
Speaker 5: thought some prayers going out to everybody in the Fox
22:13
Speaker 5: Cities with that tornado going through there. You know, we
22:16
Speaker 5: have obviously a lot of friends. My kids go to
22:18
Speaker 5: school down there, so I know they're going through a lot,
22:20
Speaker 5: so you know, prayers for them. We all takes some questions.
22:26
Speaker 4: All good.
22:27
Speaker 1: I don't know what your offensive line will look like today,
22:30
Speaker 1: but if you had the same offensive.
22:33
Speaker 4: Line in week seventeen, and.
22:35
Speaker 5: When you start jammed, I think good. I'm not trying
22:39
Speaker 5: to remember who started in week seventeen. But now I
22:42
Speaker 5: like our group, you know, I like the depth of it.
22:45
Speaker 5: I think we'll get Aaron Banks back out there today.
22:47
Speaker 5: He'll do some stuff so we come off pup, which
22:49
Speaker 5: is good. And yeah, no, I mean I really liked
22:52
Speaker 5: that group. I've always talked about the versatility of that group.
22:55
Speaker 5: I think we've got some guys in places this year
22:58
Speaker 5: that make a little bit more sense and I think,
23:00
Speaker 5: you know, that continuity hopefully, if we can stay healthy,
23:03
Speaker 5: well benefit us moving forward.
23:05
Speaker 4: I think I said the season with George Moore, we're
23:08
Speaker 4: gonna have a lot of tackles.
23:09
Speaker 1: But he did in off the last preseason, moving that
23:11
Speaker 1: job kind of now that he's there where.
23:16
Speaker 5: He had a great spring, I mean, we're going to
23:18
Speaker 5: practice one, you know, so we've got a lot of
23:19
Speaker 5: work to do as a team. So but I got
23:21
Speaker 5: a lot of confidence in him, you know, I think
23:23
Speaker 5: hopefully keeping him in that one spot, you know, allow
23:27
Speaker 5: allow him to progress a little bit quicker. But uh,
23:29
Speaker 5: he had a great spring, so we're excited about him.
23:32
Speaker 4: Goody with Obviously you're not going to get Parsons back
23:35
Speaker 4: for a lot. You have a lot of young rush community.
23:41
Speaker 4: What is what do you want?
23:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know they were there were a lot of
23:46
Speaker 5: those guys, some really good things to spring, but we're
23:48
Speaker 5: not in pads right, so you know, it's always tough
23:51
Speaker 5: to to to try to evaluate those guys when they're
23:53
Speaker 5: not in pads too much. So as the pads come on,
23:56
Speaker 5: as we get into the physical part of a day,
23:58
Speaker 5: just the consistency, you know, kind of went in with bulrushes,
24:01
Speaker 5: kind of went in with power. But I'm I'm I'm
24:04
Speaker 5: pretty bullish on that group. I think it's a you know,
24:07
Speaker 5: there's enough guys in there, there's going to create some
24:08
Speaker 5: pretty good competition.
24:10
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I'm kind of excited.
24:13
Speaker 5: You We've we've put some resources into that up in
24:15
Speaker 5: the last couple of drafts, you know, so we got
24:17
Speaker 5: some young guys that I think are eager to for
24:18
Speaker 5: their opportunities and yeah, excited to see what they're gonna
24:22
Speaker 5: be able to do this year.
24:22
Speaker 4: Ban and your time in Green Bay not just as jam.
24:25
Speaker 4: How much is this time of year changed for you?
24:27
Speaker 4: Forty six days.
24:28
Speaker 5: Until the first real game but as we all know,
24:30
Speaker 5: sometimes those first few weeks of real football are still yeah,
24:35
Speaker 5: how m Yeah, it's really changed from when I first started,
24:38
Speaker 5: and a lot of you guys were you know back
24:40
Speaker 5: there back then too, where we had the two practices
24:42
Speaker 5: to day sometimes we have two padded days, you know,
24:46
Speaker 5: we have one in the morning, we come back, watch
24:47
Speaker 5: a film, eat launch and get ready for the second practice.
24:51
Speaker 5: Come back that night, watch a film. We had less
24:55
Speaker 5: I think we're at an eighty man roster at that time.
24:57
Speaker 5: You know, we had smaller practice squads as we went
24:59
Speaker 5: into cut down, so it was it was a lot different.
25:03
Speaker 5: You know, I'm the longer I do this more. I
25:06
Speaker 5: just keep reminding myself of Ted, you know, as far
25:08
Speaker 5: as like just getting with injuries.
25:10
Speaker 4: Just trying to get through it healthy.
25:12
Speaker 5: But uh, at the same time, understanding what you have
25:14
Speaker 5: to do to become a good football team and how
25:16
Speaker 5: important this time of year is. So it's changed quite
25:19
Speaker 5: a bit, I think certainly, you know, science and technology
25:24
Speaker 5: have changed some things about how we go things. Obviously,
25:26
Speaker 5: the CBA rules have changed some things about how we
25:29
Speaker 5: how we go about it. But at the end of
25:30
Speaker 5: the day, there's still there's so much value in this
25:34
Speaker 5: time of years coming together as a team, and it's
25:37
Speaker 5: extremely important. It really sets the tone for the entire season.
25:43
Speaker 1: What's your hole photoger Craft And I know he keeps
25:45
Speaker 1: saying like he wants to be ready these.
25:46
Speaker 5: Once possibility, Yeah, very much possibility. In fact, I you know,
25:51
Speaker 5: I anticipate again him being out there sooner rather than later.
25:56
Speaker 4: The more work he can get with Jordan, particularly even when.
25:58
Speaker 5: He maybe he's not ready for the team part of it,
26:01
Speaker 5: the more individual work he can get done with Jordan
26:03
Speaker 5: is going to be important for him as he is
26:05
Speaker 5: he heads into end of the season. So we've had
26:07
Speaker 5: a lot of discussions about that and the timing of that,
26:09
Speaker 5: and you know, obviously we want to be protective. He's
26:13
Speaker 5: coming off of major injury, and he said he's you know,
26:15
Speaker 5: he's still about that eight and a half month mark, but.
26:18
Speaker 4: By the way he looks, you think he'd ready.
26:21
Speaker 5: He's ready to go, because when you see him out there,
26:23
Speaker 5: it's a little bit like Christian, you know, those guys
26:25
Speaker 5: just you.
26:26
Speaker 4: Know, they look really really good early.
26:28
Speaker 5: But there's a lot of science behind the nine month mark,
26:30
Speaker 5: and so we'll be very cautious as we head into its.
26:33
Speaker 4: Urgency and to try to region extension before the season.
26:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's been discussions, and certainly I think it's all
26:41
Speaker 5: both us and him. It's the best interest to try
26:43
Speaker 5: to get something done. But these things take time, and
26:45
Speaker 5: you know, we've gone through a bunch of this. This
26:47
Speaker 5: this a bunch of extensions this summer, kind of knowing
26:50
Speaker 5: this was going to be the one. Right about now
26:52
Speaker 5: we have a little bit of time because he's just
26:53
Speaker 5: not there yet. But I would expect hopefully that would
26:56
Speaker 5: get done. But you never know how that, you know,
26:59
Speaker 5: you never know how they're going to go.
27:00
Speaker 4: We're gonna fight Usurprian.
27:02
Speaker 3: What's your confidence that you got some moving bill ed
27:04
Speaker 3: John Fitzpatrick blocking physicality general.
27:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Josh did a really nice job for
27:10
Speaker 5: us and the opportunities he had last year, and we
27:14
Speaker 5: you know, I think, you know, I think certainly when
27:17
Speaker 5: Tuck gets back, he's going to handle a lot of that.
27:20
Speaker 5: You know, Luke's dealing with something right now that was
27:22
Speaker 5: a little bit unexpected as we had it outside O
27:24
Speaker 5: t A.
27:24
Speaker 4: So we'll kind of see how that goes.
27:26
Speaker 5: But there's a concern there from a death perspective, just
27:28
Speaker 5: because we don't have a lot of guys that played
27:30
Speaker 5: a lot of football there, so we'll kind of see,
27:33
Speaker 5: you know, as as training camp transpires, if we decided
27:36
Speaker 5: to do something there or not.
27:37
Speaker 3: He's like checking both boxes.
27:41
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think you know, I may have mentioned
27:43
Speaker 5: it before, but you know, he's a little bit of
27:46
Speaker 5: a genetic freak, so things come pretty easy to him.
27:48
Speaker 5: And again, he's still obviously got a long ways to go.
27:52
Speaker 5: But uh, and again, these are major injuries. So as
27:55
Speaker 5: you go through these things and how hard they have
27:58
Speaker 5: to work to get back, you know, there's always gonna
28:01
Speaker 5: be a little setbacks here and there.
28:02
Speaker 4: But he's doing great right now.
28:03
Speaker 1: So you had a point with his recovery where you're
28:06
Speaker 1: are you leaving the door open that he might be
28:08
Speaker 1: on p PE sometime in camp where you kind of.
28:11
Speaker 4: Resigned to that. Yeah, I wouldn't.
28:13
Speaker 5: I think I'd like to have enough flexibility to leave
28:15
Speaker 5: leave the door open, but that would be unlikely just
28:17
Speaker 5: from a timing perspective.
28:20
Speaker 4: We've invested a lot in him, so.
28:21
Speaker 5: I think we want to make sure that you know,
28:23
Speaker 5: he's he's ready to go before we even think about
28:25
Speaker 5: putting him out there.
28:26
Speaker 4: Right, you little kid picking many extensions on. I think,
28:30
Speaker 4: you know, if you're in the office, a lot of
28:32
Speaker 4: times you get a job. And we watched the test
28:34
Speaker 4: free agency. Yeah, was there circumstances? Yeah, Tom, I think
28:39
Speaker 4: that's a good question.
28:40
Speaker 5: I think you guys kind of probably, you know, over
28:42
Speaker 5: the last year and a half or so, you know,
28:45
Speaker 5: we had some pretty good draft classes in there where
28:47
Speaker 5: a lot of these guys really produced, and we had
28:49
Speaker 5: to make some decisions, and as we did that, I
28:50
Speaker 5: think we decided, you know, obviously, with the decisions we made,
28:52
Speaker 5: we wanted to lock these guys up early and let
28:55
Speaker 5: these guys grow together, particularly you know, on the offensive
28:57
Speaker 5: side of the ball, with Christian and Jade and see Jordan.
29:01
Speaker 5: Hopefully we can get Tucker done. You know, Matthew's going
29:04
Speaker 5: to be here. He's under contract obviously for a few years.
29:06
Speaker 5: So if those guys can grow together, we think that's
29:07
Speaker 5: a really positive thing, the continuity of that. So I
29:11
Speaker 5: think we kind of went down the road this summer
29:15
Speaker 5: thinking this was what we wanted to do.
29:16
Speaker 4: You never know how that's going to go.
29:17
Speaker 5: And certainly I think when you when you do it
29:19
Speaker 5: a year early, it puts a little bit of risk
29:21
Speaker 5: on the club, you know, and if you play it
29:23
Speaker 5: out to put it a little bit risk on a player,
29:25
Speaker 5: So I think, you know, but I think all these
29:28
Speaker 5: deals were were good deals for both With.
29:31
Speaker 4: DeVante specifically did in that one Donalds, what did you
29:33
Speaker 4: see from him last year? Especially Petra with Kenny how
29:36
Speaker 4: we kind of moved into that. Yeah.
29:38
Speaker 5: Sure, I think Vonta quite frankly, every time we've given
29:40
Speaker 5: him opportunities in snatch, he's produced, particularly as a pass rusher,
29:44
Speaker 5: and I think he really grew as rundefender since he's
29:46
Speaker 5: been here.
29:47
Speaker 4: Obviously he's had some health.
29:48
Speaker 5: Things where he hasn't been healthy as much as we
29:50
Speaker 5: would have liked, but when he's been in there, he's.
29:52
Speaker 4: Been very, very impactful.
29:53
Speaker 5: He was on a fifth year option with something we
29:56
Speaker 5: wanted to do. We wanted to extend him. It helps
29:58
Speaker 5: our cap a little bit too by doing that, So
30:02
Speaker 5: you know, again, that was something I think coming out
30:04
Speaker 5: of even even with the injury coming out of the
30:06
Speaker 5: season last year, we felt we were going to do.
30:08
Speaker 3: And you evaluate the roster over the next month and
30:11
Speaker 3: determine some of those final roster spots.
30:13
Speaker 5: Besides what they put on film that there are other
30:16
Speaker 5: aspects that you're really looking for from someone.
30:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and Matt preaches this to them, and
30:20
Speaker 4: it's true.
30:20
Speaker 5: But eyes an them all the time, you know, how
30:22
Speaker 5: they how they handle things, how they're their preparation, how
30:26
Speaker 5: they handle themselves as teammates. Again, well, their production on
30:29
Speaker 5: the field is what matters most, right, they gotta be
30:31
Speaker 5: able to play the game and help us win. But
30:34
Speaker 5: but eyes around them all the time, you know, and
30:36
Speaker 5: how they fit into our culture with the long term
30:41
Speaker 5: possibilities for those players that are that are competing for
30:43
Speaker 5: a roster spot for the first time, all that, you
30:46
Speaker 5: know comes into play. But at the end of the day,
30:48
Speaker 5: everybody gets different opportunities, and you got to make the
30:51
Speaker 5: most of the opportunities that you have as excited as
30:54
Speaker 5: you did years ago, again, just as excited as you
30:59
Speaker 5: did all of your year today. Probably sometimes, But I mean,
31:05
Speaker 5: I think those of us that are fortunate enough to
31:08
Speaker 5: work in this building, uh, in this profession, I mean
31:12
Speaker 5: it really it's always been a blessing for me. I'm
31:15
Speaker 5: not good at very much else. I think I could
31:17
Speaker 5: bartend a little bit when I was in college, and
31:19
Speaker 5: this right, so I love it. I love the scouting
31:22
Speaker 5: aspect of the team building part of it. Yeah, I
31:25
Speaker 5: really do like the training camp you know, process and
31:28
Speaker 5: watching guys go through these days and the ups and
31:33
Speaker 5: downs of it, and so yeah, this is this is
31:36
Speaker 5: every I think across the league. Everybody's really energized right now.
31:39
Speaker 5: It's a brand new year. So no matter what happened
31:42
Speaker 5: last year, it's it's it's it's it's different, and you're
31:44
Speaker 5: everybody's excited about what what they have ahead of them,
31:47
Speaker 5: and that never really changes. So, Brian, what's the status
31:51
Speaker 5: of Josh Jacobs headed into training camp here?
31:53
Speaker 4: Yeah? Really, nothing's changed.
31:54
Speaker 5: I mean those things are obviously legal matters that are
31:56
Speaker 5: out of our hands and so but you'll be out
31:58
Speaker 5: there and we look for or to to him being
32:01
Speaker 5: out there. You know, he's obviously such a big important
32:04
Speaker 5: part of our football team. So and he's healthy and
32:06
Speaker 5: I think he looks really good.
32:07
Speaker 4: Right.
32:08
Speaker 5: How often has a guy coming into camp and really
32:10
Speaker 5: surprised wound you with what he's able to do versus
32:13
Speaker 5: what happened in O t as or And are there
32:16
Speaker 5: certain positions that are more grown to I.
32:18
Speaker 4: Opens, Yeah, yeah, no, that's a good question.
32:22
Speaker 5: I think this goes back to when I was when
32:25
Speaker 5: I wasn't up here for those springs. But every spring
32:27
Speaker 5: you'd hear you call into the office and you know,
32:29
Speaker 5: the Regie McKenzie's and the door seas of the world
32:31
Speaker 5: will be telling you about how this guy was tearing
32:32
Speaker 5: it up and that guy was turning About time we
32:33
Speaker 5: get to pads that completely flipped, right, you know. And
32:36
Speaker 5: uh so it changes because of the physical nature and
32:40
Speaker 5: the and the pads aspect of it, for sure. So
32:43
Speaker 5: there's some guys that will stand out in OTAs and
32:45
Speaker 5: then they might hit a wall when they get here.
32:48
Speaker 4: Some the guys continue on and they're able to do that.
32:51
Speaker 5: Other guys maybe that didn't look you know, great, because
32:53
Speaker 5: maybe they're not the athletes some other guys were.
32:55
Speaker 4: But when the pads come on, and it's a different story.
32:58
Speaker 5: So I think you're always so prized every year by
33:01
Speaker 5: a couple of guys and maybe the you know, good
33:03
Speaker 5: and bad. But it's uh, I think you expect that,
33:07
Speaker 5: you know, you expect to kind of have some of that,
33:09
Speaker 5: and you know, hopefully we'll have some of that this
33:12
Speaker 5: year as well.
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Speaker 4: Josh, have you.
33:13
Speaker 1: Gotten any indication from the league that you don't have
33:16
Speaker 1: if you're.
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Speaker 4: Running back this season. Again, I'm not going to get
33:19
Speaker 4: into any of that stuff.
33:20
Speaker 5: It's it's really it's out of our hands right now,
33:23
Speaker 5: and it's kind of an illegal thing. And until that
33:25
Speaker 5: stuff transpires, I'm not sure that legal get really involved
33:28
Speaker 5: in it.
33:29
Speaker 3: Can you can you kind of talk about your thought
33:32
Speaker 3: process since drafting trade and how you've handled the kicking situation,
33:37
Speaker 3: Like long Wall kicked for a Super Bowl team, is
33:40
Speaker 3: a rookie.
33:40
Speaker 4: Mason kick for a nasty championship.
33:42
Speaker 3: So it's not that the lookie can't do it.
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Speaker 4: The same time.
33:45
Speaker 3: I think it was in the twenty two you said,
33:47
Speaker 3: if you have a championship caliber team, you have to
33:49
Speaker 3: have a championship.
33:50
Speaker 4: Type of kickers.
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Speaker 3: So how how have you kind of approached it since
33:53
Speaker 3: you picked him in different ruleship?
33:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.
33:57
Speaker 5: Obviously we just made one right, you know, so we
33:59
Speaker 5: had a the creed came in and kicked her well
34:02
Speaker 5: first and will work out the other day, and you know,
34:04
Speaker 5: so we made that movie. He's also an international player
34:06
Speaker 5: as well, so that gives us some flexibility as we
34:08
Speaker 5: head into you know, at the end of the season
34:10
Speaker 5: as far as practice squad. And we also signed a
34:13
Speaker 5: tight end that has a had tag as well, so
34:17
Speaker 5: which is part of the process there. Obviously, we really
34:20
Speaker 5: like Trey. It was in something we went into the
34:21
Speaker 5: draft lastye said, hey, we're gonna go target a kicker
34:23
Speaker 5: and try to draft a kicker. But he was the
34:25
Speaker 5: highest ranked guy on our board when that fell, and
34:27
Speaker 5: so we felt that he has a chance to be
34:30
Speaker 5: a very very good kicker in this league and be
34:32
Speaker 5: one of those championship level kickers.
34:33
Speaker 4: Otherwise we wouldn't have taken him.
34:35
Speaker 5: As we know with all positions, but particularly kickers, it
34:39
Speaker 5: can take some time to become a great kicker in
34:41
Speaker 5: this league. So we really like Trey, we really like
34:45
Speaker 5: what he's made of, and we'll kind of see how
34:47
Speaker 5: it goes, but we're really optimistic that he has a
34:51
Speaker 5: chance to be one of those guys.
34:53
Speaker 1: That's Brian good because first day of school press conference
34:56
Speaker 1: from the Packers general manager. Interesting stuff. There, couple of interestings,
35:01
Speaker 1: including the kicking game. We'll talk more about that and Billy,
35:04
Speaker 1: you'll talk about it. They didn't even really practice field
35:06
Speaker 1: goals on the first day because Matt Orzik was out,
35:10
Speaker 1: the long snapper was out. Sean Ryan did some stuff,
35:12
Speaker 1: but they didn't really they didn't really focus on the
35:16
Speaker 1: field goal. The competition hasn't begun yet, so we will
35:20
Speaker 1: spin through more of the comments, will parse it. Billy's
35:23
Speaker 1: gonna drop in the seven o'clock hour of the program.
35:26
Speaker 1: Continue to take your thoughts about the brewers and the deadline,
35:28
Speaker 1: because we've got our brewers. Go to guy here Hunter
35:30
Speaker 1: Bombguard sitting in for Armin Sar and you are enjoying
35:34
Speaker 1: the Thursday edition of The Huddle on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
35:39
Speaker 1: Huddled up on a Thursday, the heat and humidity coming
35:42
Speaker 1: back today after a nice little respite. Got to enjoy it.
35:45
Speaker 1: Well we can, because by the time we reconvene for
35:50
Speaker 1: this program next week on Monday, we'll be on to August.
35:55
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's our last day at July. Hunter, Wow, hell has happened?
35:58
Speaker 2: That's I seems like just yesterday we were setting off
36:02
Speaker 2: fireworks for the fourth of July.
36:06
Speaker 1: We just heard from Brian Kudakutz the stories from Packers Camp,
36:10
Speaker 1: many of them. Micah Parson's on the shelf, but he's
36:13
Speaker 1: a genetic freak. Takes one to know one, but yeah,
36:19
Speaker 1: he's going to be out for a while no matter what. Yeah,
36:22
Speaker 1: and the puplist is lengthy, but the news is encouraging
36:29
Speaker 1: on other guys. Tucker Craft. Tucker Craft's like not even
36:32
Speaker 1: a question of he's going to be ready at his locker.
36:35
Speaker 1: There's a lot of bravado at your locker, but he
36:37
Speaker 1: says he's going to be ready and sooner than later.
36:40
Speaker 2: Ye, just eight and a half months too. I mean
36:42
Speaker 2: that is you talk about genetic freaks. They have a
36:44
Speaker 2: couple of them. Mike is not the only one on
36:46
Speaker 2: that roster we're covering from an ACL.
36:48
Speaker 1: Tucker Craft of course looking for that big extension too.
36:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think that that'll get done. It could
36:54
Speaker 2: even get done before. I wonder if it's something where
36:56
Speaker 2: they do you think they want to see him in
36:59
Speaker 2: a game before or they sign on.
37:01
Speaker 1: I don't know that they have to. I don't think so.
37:03
Speaker 1: I think they've seen enough of his work to say, yeah,
37:05
Speaker 1: he's up there and they're watching him work out and
37:08
Speaker 1: run around, so I don't think he's going to be compromised. So,
37:11
Speaker 1: you know, interesting stuff. As we mentioned, Billy and Wayne
37:14
Speaker 1: are up there for training camp live. They're on the
37:16
Speaker 1: air from eleven to one. I see on the talking
37:18
Speaker 1: text line because it's archived that they got some interaction
37:21
Speaker 1: from smart, good looking listeners during their broadcast yesterday, which
37:24
Speaker 1: was terrific, and we will be glad to catch up
37:27
Speaker 1: with Billy as we move forward on the program. Also
37:31
Speaker 1: again Brewers the trade deadline. It's it's such an energizing
37:37
Speaker 1: time that Brewers they're going to make some kind of move.
37:39
Speaker 1: They're not going to stand pat. I just can't see
37:42
Speaker 1: them standing pat with all the assets they have. And
37:45
Speaker 1: it's funny because I've been talking to people, and I'm
37:47
Speaker 1: sure you have two hunter about who they would throw
37:50
Speaker 1: in a deal, like a month ago, or it might
37:54
Speaker 1: have been three weeks ago when I threw out there
37:56
Speaker 1: that you know, South Freelick to me is a guy
37:58
Speaker 1: that you could throw it and people will got pissed,
38:00
Speaker 1: like how could you now? And he's been hurt. And
38:03
Speaker 1: you've seen a little bit of young mister Laura Woo.
38:06
Speaker 2: I like what I see five doubles in his first
38:09
Speaker 2: like twenty three days in the big leagues.
38:11
Speaker 1: He's yeah, he runs, can catch it. A couple of
38:14
Speaker 1: shaky plays, but that always happens when you had a
38:16
Speaker 1: third deck to the stadium, a couple of shaky places.
38:18
Speaker 1: But he looks like He's going to be a more
38:20
Speaker 1: than capable big leaguer, in fact, an exciting big leaguer. Yeah.
38:25
Speaker 1: His is his start to his career. If you can
38:29
Speaker 1: remember back two years ago, is it more or less
38:32
Speaker 1: exciting than Churios. I was trying to think of what
38:34
Speaker 1: Churio did. Churio opening day drew a walk in his
38:37
Speaker 1: first bat and stole a bag, and it said, okay,
38:39
Speaker 1: let's go. I remember that in New York. And then
38:42
Speaker 1: he had like a little lull where he struggled a
38:44
Speaker 1: little bit, and then he got pretty hot. And I'm
38:49
Speaker 1: having a hard time remember because he's just like you're
38:50
Speaker 1: so used to him now, it's just Jackson Churio, I know.
38:53
Speaker 1: And he's still scratching the surface of his talent. He's
38:56
Speaker 1: nowhere near his peak. Churio's like four years away from
39:00
Speaker 1: his peak.
39:01
Speaker 2: That's the thing about that too, And he is he
39:04
Speaker 2: has more room in there. I mean he started Cheurio
39:08
Speaker 2: started his career with a five game he his street.
39:10
Speaker 2: Churio got a hit in one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
39:15
Speaker 2: nine of his first ten games. Wow, Lara didn't do that. No,
39:20
Speaker 2: drove in a bunch in those games.
39:22
Speaker 1: He's like a month in, not even a month in
39:25
Speaker 1: three weeks in and he's got he's bat in almost
39:27
Speaker 1: three hundred. Yeah.
39:28
Speaker 2: That's the thing too with Lara, and you talk about
39:31
Speaker 2: the Laura Freelick thing, and yeah, yeah, there is there
39:35
Speaker 2: is a discussion to be had there. But I think
39:38
Speaker 2: that this team and this roster is the best down
39:40
Speaker 2: the stretch if you have both of those guys on
39:42
Speaker 2: your in your lineup, and then you can mix and
39:44
Speaker 2: match however you want to. Your bench is way better
39:47
Speaker 2: with Laura or Freelix sitting on it than it is
39:48
Speaker 2: Perkins or even Lockridge. I know we haven't seen Lockridge
39:51
Speaker 2: in a while, but it just is. I mean, you
39:53
Speaker 2: look at what Trelick's done, you will look at what
39:55
Speaker 2: Lara is doing. So I'm I am eager to see
39:58
Speaker 2: them both back on the roster again.
40:00
Speaker 1: I mean, if you could throw Lockerach in a deal,
40:01
Speaker 1: if that's a sweetener, sure you would do it. But
40:03
Speaker 1: if if free, like if somebody wants a major league
40:05
Speaker 1: ready guy with a gold glove on his resume. Yeah,
40:08
Speaker 1: and you know, did you see who hit the home
40:11
Speaker 1: run to help the Red Sox yesterday? Monasterio and Durban's
40:15
Speaker 1: lightened it up. Now Urban's been lightened it up. And
40:17
Speaker 1: they traded for a third baseman who instantly got hurt, right,
40:20
Speaker 1: and then Durban was gonna have to move and now.
40:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Mead went over to Boston. It looks like
40:25
Speaker 2: he might be up for the years.
40:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, baseball works in mysterious ways. But so the Brewers again,
40:31
Speaker 1: they have the pharm system, Like who would you part with?
40:33
Speaker 1: I talked to somebody over the weekend like I would
40:35
Speaker 1: trade Andrew Fisher. I'm like, would you really? Because the
40:37
Speaker 1: thing about the Brewers is, yeah, they can afford a
40:40
Speaker 1: rental if they want to. They have shied away from
40:43
Speaker 1: that generally speaking since what granky. Yeah, this guy they
40:48
Speaker 1: basically rented. I mean they knew and that was a
40:51
Speaker 1: longer period, but they kind of knew that they weren't
40:53
Speaker 1: going to be able to afford him. So I just
40:57
Speaker 1: it's fascinating to me the way this is gonna play out.
41:01
Speaker 1: They've never been better positioned. But the thing is, no
41:03
Speaker 1: matter what they do, and if they even if they
41:04
Speaker 1: give up a prospect, that makes it makes it sting
41:07
Speaker 1: a little bit. Damn. It looks like they're in position
41:10
Speaker 1: to rule this division for another five years with the
41:12
Speaker 1: guys they got coming. It's crazy, they got depth. Yep, crazy.
41:16
Speaker 1: I think Billy's gonna pop in in the next hour
41:18
Speaker 1: of the program. Continue to take your thoughts again. Getting
41:21
Speaker 1: close brewers off today so we won't have a game
41:23
Speaker 1: to talk about tomorrow. But damn we got this trade
41:25
Speaker 1: deadline and the sooner they can make a move, the better.