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08/26/26 - Hour 2 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Up and running, the 6 o'clock club open for business
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Speaker 2: It's the morning after a brutal.
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Speaker 1: and controversial Brewers loss in New York.
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Speaker 2: I'm Drew Olson.
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Speaker 1: Armand's behind the glass, and we welcome to the party
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Speaker 1: our pal Bill Schmidt. Holy cow, fellas.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know that we were going to be walking
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Speaker 2: into the Hornet's Nest after a trip to Flushing Park.
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Speaker 2: Goodness gracious. Flushing. Did you wish you were on at
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Speaker 2: 5 this morning, Billy? Probably not. But anyway, you got
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Speaker 2: lathered up early with this discussion.
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Speaker 3: A lot of conversation about the Cooper Pratt situation.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you this, Armin. I actually despise the
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Speaker 2: time away from you guys, especially when it means 60
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Speaker 2: minutes away. from being able to ask you how that
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Speaker 2: diamondback stub felt last night. No, it didn't feel good.
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Speaker 2: I knew you were going to go there. I didn't
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Speaker 2: know you were going to go there right away. You
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Speaker 2: think that I wanted to miss that possibility to walk
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Speaker 2: in here, strutting Vince McMahon style and ask you that?
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Speaker 3: It actually felt amazing to actually wake up. I didn't
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Speaker 3: see the end of it. I went to bed with
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Speaker 3: the Cubs with a, I thought, commanding lead, and I
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Speaker 3: woke up. to my immense delight, my deep breath that
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Speaker 3: the diamondbacks came back and won last night.
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Speaker 2: Cause I, you know, I don't want the Brewers lead
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Speaker 2: to shrink at all.
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Speaker 3: And you know that based on evidence yesterday that I
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Speaker 3: didn't want that.
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Speaker 2: Right, Billy, you know that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: There was a lot of evidence of that as, as drew,
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Speaker 2: we got a chance to go. And as we all
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Speaker 2: departed from the Pottawatomie sports book, we made a couple
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Speaker 2: of investments yesterday and this cat all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: I'm Take one step to go grab a sip of coffee, right?
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Speaker 2: And a little heat and a little cream in there
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Speaker 2: and turn around. And this guy's crafting up the Brewers
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Speaker 2: to lose to the Metropolitans and the Cubs to beat
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Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks. And I just shook my head and walked away.
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Speaker 2: I was disappointed. And at that exact moment. I bit
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Speaker 2: my tongue, and I couldn't wait to get in here
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Speaker 2: to be able to see what the results were. This
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Speaker 2: is what baseball is all about. When you guys were
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Speaker 2: talking last week about the best game and the best
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Speaker 2: sport to follow night in and night out when your
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Speaker 2: team is good, last night was probably the exact example
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Speaker 2: of it, wouldn't it be? Yeah, well, yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you got the shot in Freuda, and it
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Speaker 1: was like it's the upset stomach, the Cubs walk-off loss.
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Speaker 1: was Pepto-Bismol, so soothing it.
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Speaker 2: You've been sitting there for two hours, your stomach is curdling,
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Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, that one brush, and
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, whoa, holy cow. I feel four
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Speaker 2: pounds lighter. I'm going to go stand on the scale.
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Speaker 2: The relief I felt when I saw that score, and
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Speaker 2: the thing about it.
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Speaker 3: Is, it was truly a silver lining, because the Cubs
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Speaker 3: had scored 30 straight runs.
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Speaker 2: I believe was the number. Yeah, so until that moment.
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Speaker 2: That's right, until that moment. All right, Billy, put a
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Speaker 2: quarter in. Come on. You've coached young players. Cooper Pratt's
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Speaker 2: still a young player.
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Speaker 1: I was surprised, and Armin was telling me about all
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Speaker 1: the people that were squawking and ripping Murph for removing
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Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt for an outhouse and compounded on the fact
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Speaker 1: that he didn't get a punt down in his previous at-bat.
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Speaker 1: I'm convinced that had the Brewers won the game, people
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Speaker 1: would be a hundred percent team Murph. Now they're like,
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Speaker 1: he lost them the game because Hamilton made an error
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Speaker 1: and Pratt wouldn't have made that error.
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Speaker 2: And therefore it was crap. Where do you come down? Well, and,
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Speaker 2: and I would have, listen, I can't say that I
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Speaker 2: would or wouldn't have done the same thing. I wasn't
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Speaker 2: thinking about it until he jogged off the field. And
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Speaker 2: I was like, Ooh, should have been in second base, bud.
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Speaker 2: And the first at bat to me was the one
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Speaker 2: that I thought Murph was going to be more frustrated
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Speaker 2: about because it's such a key position point of the
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Speaker 2: game to be able to get a bunt down, move
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Speaker 2: the runners over. And if, if, The second, he pulls
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Speaker 2: back on the first one, a very good one, as
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Speaker 2: Murph said last night. And the second one looked okay,
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Speaker 2: but there were plenty of opportunities to get it down.
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Speaker 2: And the other part of it is, Drew, all's forgiven
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Speaker 2: if Francisco Lindor's glove is pulling a Kevin Durant is
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Speaker 2: in a half inch shorter. I mean, because David Hamilton
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Speaker 2: laces one into the gap. Yeah, lefty on lefty. Lefty
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Speaker 2: on lefty, and he's running for days. You're maybe clearing
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Speaker 2: the bases. And then at that moment, it looks like
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Speaker 2: a great move. So I don't, I have no problem whatsoever.
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Speaker 2: Pat Murphy trying to discipline and get his team rolling
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Speaker 2: the same way. Cause the first person I thought of
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Speaker 2: was the guy that the camera pans right over to
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Speaker 2: in South free. Like he got, he got a couple
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Speaker 2: of those early exits. Exactly. And that's a part of
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Speaker 2: this Myers. And that's a part of the game of
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Speaker 2: having good vets. I mean, you've seen it. You from
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Speaker 2: the long, long time in sports drew that. And one
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Speaker 2: thing that we've gotten away from nowadays is having guys
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Speaker 2: like you would watch during the finals, Bismack, Biambo. I
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Speaker 2: don't think my man played a minute other than when
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Speaker 2: he maybe put Jalen Brunson on his hind parts in
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Speaker 2: game three, right? That's right. Yeah, he did have that moment.
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Speaker 2: But the only thing he was doing, the only reason
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Speaker 2: he was there was to be in the ear of Wemby.
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Speaker 2: And you need to have vets on the team. And
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Speaker 2: Sal Freelick is a young vet, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 2: But these guys have won division titles. They've been in
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Speaker 2: the playoffs. They've been around this coach too many times.
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Speaker 2: that you can only do it if you've got a
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Speaker 2: culture that's set. And I think that's exactly why he
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Speaker 2: pulled it.
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Speaker 3: That was the best thing about last night is you
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Speaker 3: got to see all that on display. You got to
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Speaker 3: see everyone handle it right. You got to see Joey
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Speaker 3: and Sal and Jake in his ear. And I told you,
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Speaker 3: Drew Billy, for as much as I get on Sal
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Speaker 3: about tongue in cheek or not, this is his greatest
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Speaker 3: power and the heart and the soul and the DNA.
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Speaker 3: You want all of that rubbing off onto Cooper Pratt.
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Speaker 3: It was so important to have him back with the
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Speaker 3: big club. You don't find a better guy. and clubhouse
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Speaker 3: guy than Sal Freelick. And he had moments like this
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Speaker 3: when he, I mean, so it's like, it just goes
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Speaker 3: to show you that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think Murph's on the right track and
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Speaker 1: he's doing the right thing and he deserves the benefit
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Speaker 1: of the doubt. And then people, if anyone comes at
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Speaker 1: me and I will just lose it. If there's someone says, well,
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Speaker 1: if they lose the, a top two seed or the
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Speaker 1: division by one game. We're going to look back this. No,
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Speaker 1: you're not because you're going to have 10 more of
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Speaker 1: these between now and the end of the season. And
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Speaker 1: this will not be remembered.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And I mean, so, and I don't know, maybe it's
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Speaker 2: me with that. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm naive. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that I was definitely counting on Cooper Pratt
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Speaker 2: being the one to make that three for 14 with
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Speaker 2: runners in scoring position instead of two for 14 with
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Speaker 2: runners in scoring position. Everybody's focused on the air.
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Speaker 1: And as I pointed out to Armand, so if Hamilton
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Speaker 1: makes that play or Cooper Pratt makes that play, Base
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Speaker 1: is loaded, two outs. Who's to say the next guy
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Speaker 1: doesn't get a hit?
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Speaker 2: Doesn't lace one into the gap again.
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Speaker 1: So it's like you're ascribing things, and you're looking for
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Speaker 1: someone to blame. And Arm and I, that's where we
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Speaker 1: started this. Why are people caping up for Cooper Pratt?
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Speaker 1: He's a young player who.
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Speaker 2: Learned a lesson.
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Speaker 1: All we ever hear from our listeners and our fans
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Speaker 1: is like, when are you going to hold him accountable?
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Speaker 2: Hold him accountable. And it happens, and it's like, oh,
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Speaker 2: Murphy sucks. I don't get that disconnect. Drew, it's all results-based.
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Speaker 2: And the tougher part is, with it being results-based... To
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Speaker 2: further that point, I'm stunned that it's not more towards
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Speaker 2: the top of the order. Because, like, you get to
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Speaker 2: the 10th inning. You get to the 10th inning, and
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Speaker 2: you are the road team. And by the way, Hamilton's
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Speaker 2: faster than Pratt, and he's on second base. What? What?
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Speaker 2: Is there anybody faster in baseball, maybe, than David Hamilton?
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Speaker 2: And you get it lined up perfectly for you. You
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Speaker 2: get the top of the order, and you get two
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Speaker 2: Ks from your two biggest guys. Who, by the way,
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Speaker 2: were a combined 0 for 10. Yeah, I just I
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Speaker 2: struggle with with that being the reason they lost the
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Speaker 2: game in the bottom of the 10th. And I mean,
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Speaker 2: this is another longer conversation about baseball and why, you know,
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Speaker 2: I think the ghost runner has been one of the
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Speaker 2: more fun rules that they've put in. I know the
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Speaker 2: pitch clock, it's the biggest love, but I think it's
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Speaker 2: added such a different element of competitiveness in these games.
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Speaker 2: You go to the bottom of the 10th inning and
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Speaker 2: you didn't score in the top half. I mean, you're
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Speaker 2: packing your peanuts up and you're putting everything into the
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Speaker 2: bag because you're thinking this thing is wrapped. You're pretty
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Speaker 2: much lucky to get it to. You are very lucky
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Speaker 2: to be getting it through. So when you get Churio
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Speaker 2: and Terang and Contreras and Bowers up there in the
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Speaker 2: 10th inning and you don't plate anything, that would have
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Speaker 2: felt like stolen candy if you would have been able
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Speaker 2: to grab that one back. I agree.
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Speaker 3: I love the way Cooper handled it. And that was
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Speaker 3: the other thing about the entire deal last night. And
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Speaker 3: I said it last night. I said, whether or not
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Speaker 3: you feel Murph's– Course of action was correct, appropriate, fair, whatever.
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Speaker 3: Now it's up to Cooper to handle it correctly and
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Speaker 3: to take the lesson correctly, and he did that in
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Speaker 3: the press conference.
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Speaker 2: We'll play some of the audio. I know we didn't
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Speaker 2: get to it yet.
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Speaker 3: We got to Murph's audio, but at some point we'll
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Speaker 3: get to Cooper's audio, but he was contrite. You mentioned it, Drew,
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Speaker 3: kind of was welling up a little bit. All that stuff,
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Speaker 3: it seemed like he handled it right, learned the lesson.
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Speaker 3: Other than the Brewers not winning, which you guys are right,
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Speaker 3: it's a results-based business for a lot of people, and
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Speaker 3: it just shows you that the results are more important
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Speaker 3: than the process sometimes for fans. which I get the
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Speaker 3: game in front of us is often the most important.
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Speaker 3: Last night, overall, the process was successful in that you
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Speaker 3: had Murphy consistent drawing his line. You had the vets
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Speaker 3: handling it the way they handle it, giving the good lesson.
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Speaker 3: And you had the player handling it the way he should.
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Speaker 2: Have and learned the lesson. That's the way I look
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Speaker 2: at it.
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Speaker 3: So Unfortunately, yeah, and I think that's ironic too, Billy,
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Speaker 3: is that the one guy that almost got the hit
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Speaker 3: that you were looking for all night, besides Yelich got
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Speaker 3: his moment, but the one guy that nearly got the
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Speaker 3: hit and got robbed on one of the great plays
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Speaker 3: of Lindor's career probably. Was the one guy everyone's saying,
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Speaker 3: why was he in there?
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Speaker 2: Was it Hamilton? Because he put a charge into that one.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, Lindor, who got picked off first
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Speaker 2: base to end it. I was going to say he
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Speaker 2: went full PCA in this game.
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Speaker 1: I mean, a dazzling play. And then he gets picked
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Speaker 1: off first. If the Mets lose, that's what everybody's talking
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Speaker 1: about in New York today.
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Speaker 2: And when he struts up to the batter's box, there
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Speaker 2: was no way that I thought that ball wasn't ending
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Speaker 2: up in the right field bleachers. After that kind of
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Speaker 2: sensational play, and then he gets the little duffer off
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Speaker 2: to the right where he's even hitting the Jordan shrug
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Speaker 2: when he's walking back to the first base. I'll take it.
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Speaker 2: I haven't gotten a whole lot of them, so I'll
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Speaker 2: take it. The funny thing is, Drew, you mentioned it yesterday,
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Speaker 2: and we had talked about the bad team in baseball.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes you got to watch out for them. Sometimes you
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Speaker 2: got to be eyed up and nervous about what it
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Speaker 2: could be. That kid last night is Zach Thornton. I'm
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Speaker 2: just glad that we're not seeing him in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this dude has just been nasty against the Brewers.
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Speaker 2: And ever since that Brewers start, he really lined up
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Speaker 2: and has been, you know, sitting him up and standing
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Speaker 2: him down and putting him down. He's been phenomenal the
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Speaker 2: last three months. And he was really, really good again
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Speaker 2: last night. You were lucky to be able to get
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Speaker 2: that thing to extras at a point.
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Speaker 1: So following baseball, and especially when your team is good,
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Speaker 1: baseball is advanced citizenship, right? You can follow it superficially,
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Speaker 1: but if you get into it deeper, you have a
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Speaker 1: little bit more of an understanding. And for the folks, again,
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Speaker 1: who say, well, you know, Murph's decision to take Cooper
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Speaker 1: Pratt off in the middle of the game cost him
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Speaker 1: the game. ignoring all the other things that happened that
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Speaker 1: we're talking about, ignoring the inning. The Lindor play was
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Speaker 1: a great play. The Churrio and Terang 0 for 10.
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Speaker 1: The four strikeouts with runners in scoring position in the
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Speaker 1: last two innings.
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Speaker 2: In the last two innings, yes. Terrific, right? So, okay.
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Speaker 1: But, but, the silent part, the parts that go unseen,
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Speaker 1: two of the guys who have been in the crosshairs
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Speaker 1: and fans have been squawking about came through last night
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Speaker 1: and it's washed down the river because Kristen Yellich had
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Speaker 1: the big hit.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. And, well, he sucks, except for that hit, but
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Speaker 2: that didn't matter because they lost. See, that's why he
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Speaker 2: shouldn't be in the lineup, Drew, because he can pinch
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Speaker 2: hit way better.
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Speaker 1: And then you got an inning and a third clutch
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Speaker 1: out of Sensatella, who... Oh, people notice him when he
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Speaker 1: gives up runs. You don't notice him when he, when
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Speaker 1: he's nails and you know, but Chad Patrick needs to go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Great.
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Speaker 2: Gave up a home run in the first guy.
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Speaker 3: We were talking about like Harrison's road splits and everything.
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Speaker 3: I haven't think he, he was the story in that
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Speaker 3: he got out of some big time jam, big.
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Speaker 1: Time jam, 90 pitches and five isn't ideal, but he
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Speaker 1: got out of jams.
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Speaker 2: He labored. He got through it.
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Speaker 1: Patrick gave up the Patrick didn't get out of his inning,
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Speaker 1: but sends a tele gave you an inning and a third.
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Speaker 1: Ashby was clean as always. And then McGill was going
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Speaker 1: to go in for a six out jam.
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Speaker 2: Right. Yeah. And I mean, he he looked good. At least,
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Speaker 2: you know, there's going to be contact there into that
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Speaker 2: second inning. But it's good to know.
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Speaker 1: The way you want to start 16 games in 16 days.
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Speaker 1: But it's like, you know, a little focusing thing. And
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Speaker 1: the fact that they lost the last game against the Braves,
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Speaker 1: I was I joked at the outset, Billy, that they
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Speaker 1: it was a hangover, not from travel or anything, because
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Speaker 1: they got a day off yesterday. But it was a
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Speaker 1: Little League loss with Little League mistakes last night.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, 100%.
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Speaker 1: Not getting a bunt down, not running hard, striking out
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Speaker 1: in big situations.
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Speaker 2: They got to wash that off after hanging out with
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Speaker 2: the 12-year-olds a little too much.
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Speaker 1: You can say that this is a really ugly game
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Speaker 1: for the Brewers. They lost 3-2 in 10. That's an
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Speaker 1: ugly game.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You're a good team. I'll take it. A hundred percent.
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Speaker 2: And that's where like the, the way Murph mentioned it.
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Speaker 2: And if you missed it, go to Hunter's Twitter page.
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Speaker 2: Cause you've got all of them transcribed as well, where
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Speaker 2: he talks about him just being a young player. There's
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Speaker 2: a part of it. That is very, very true. My
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Speaker 2: man is not going to hit 30 bombs talking about
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Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt, right? Now, maybe he does. Maybe he unlocks
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Speaker 2: that kind of power potential. The eight year, $ 50 million
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Speaker 2: deal is going to be the biggest steal of all
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Speaker 2: of baseball at that point, if that's what you're getting,
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Speaker 2: but you, he's going to have to make winning plays
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Speaker 2: that way. And as difficult as it can be in
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Speaker 2: the moment, you only learn those things through the uncomfortable spot.
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Speaker 2: I also would love to have been, uh, tapped into
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Speaker 2: not the conversation he had with Murph, because I bet
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Speaker 2: that one was kind of quick. They'll maybe have more
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Speaker 2: of a sit-down today. He had a conversation and dug out.
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Speaker 2: I'd love to read what the text from his pops was.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 2: Because remember when Cooper Pratt makes his debut and dad
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Speaker 2: drives 30 minutes the wrong way. He ain't flying. I'm
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Speaker 2: in the car. I'm already there. My man had the
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Speaker 2: coaching shirt on in the stands. You know he was
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Speaker 2: siding with Murph. You know he was potentially– Come on, kid.
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Speaker 2: What are we talking about? You can't be doing this.
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Speaker 2: You already know this is not how you're going to
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Speaker 2: play in the big leagues. That conversation with Pops, that
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Speaker 2: might scare you straight more than walking even into the managerial.
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Speaker 3: I hear you. I'm sure he was thinking about that
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Speaker 3: a little bit. Should we get a couple texts in, guys?
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Speaker 3: A lot of great ones on the NickLayla.com talking text line.
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Speaker 3: It is hot take hump day. Most of them are
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Speaker 3: about this subject, as you can see.
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Speaker 2: As you can imagine.
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Speaker 3: All right, 608. The whole Murph debate reminds me of
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Speaker 3: who's right, teacher versus student. The teacher should always be right.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if the teacher is always right in
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Speaker 3: every situation, but I think in this case, at least,
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Speaker 3: Murph's been consistent, and that's kind of the way I
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Speaker 3: look at it. Right, guys? He's managed this way with
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Speaker 3: his young players the whole time. I mean, he's held
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Speaker 3: those guys accountable in that sense.
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Speaker 2: There definitely hasn't been a real double standard for it either, right?
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Speaker 2: I mean, like, he's now pulled everybody in. And I
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Speaker 2: don't know that the money has everything to do about it,
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Speaker 2: but when money's involved, it's going to be what a
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Speaker 2: lot of people bring it back to. I think there's something, too, like, hey,
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Speaker 2: this kid's obviously appointed. We got to make sure that
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Speaker 2: we're doing everything the right way, because at some point
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Speaker 2: he is going to be counted upon as the guy
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Speaker 2: making the money. Sure, that might be five or six
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Speaker 2: million dollars on this team. But if you're making the money,
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Speaker 2: you got to be one of the leaders. You got
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Speaker 2: to be doing the things right. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: 414 said unnamed. Did Murphy ever pull Freelick, though, late
15:11
Speaker 3: into the year? Every game matters, but not last night.
15:13
Speaker 3: Play the best players. I think his point is that
15:16
Speaker 3: Murph's thing is always every game matters or win tonight.
15:19
Speaker 3: So why didn't you think that way last night? Now,
15:22
Speaker 3: I did look back when he pulled Sal.
15:24
Speaker 2: It was in April, so I guess you can't say
15:26
Speaker 2: it was late. But that just might have been. That's
15:28
Speaker 2: when it happened. It would have been a division game, though, right?
15:30
Speaker 2: I think it was in Cincinnati. That's a good point.
15:32
Speaker 2: I think it might have been, Billy. I don't know.
15:33
Speaker 2: That's when it happened. And Cooper Pratt's a young player.
15:38
Speaker 2: The other thing is, if you're talking about which game
15:41
Speaker 2: more important or whatever. Sure, if this happens on Sunday night,
15:44
Speaker 2: maybe it doesn't happen. Against the Mets, who are 25
15:47
Speaker 2: games under. 500, yeah, that probably would make it more
15:50
Speaker 2: of the time to be able to do it.
15:51
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, and they all matter. You'd be
15:55
Speaker 1: okay with this in April? A loss in April counts
15:58
Speaker 1: the same as a loss in August.
15:59
Speaker 3: And what if this has dividends in October? Now, isn't
16:03
Speaker 3: that more important than last night?
16:04
Speaker 1: Well, and that's the other thing. We were talking about,
16:06
Speaker 1: would he do this in the playoffs? Would he hook
16:08
Speaker 1: a player in the middle of the game in the playoffs?
16:10
Speaker 2: It's unlikely.
16:12
Speaker 1: But it's also unlikely that a player wouldn't hustle to
16:14
Speaker 1: second base in a playoff game, right? Because of the
16:16
Speaker 1: atmosphere of the playoffs. And that's what he's correcting. And
16:19
Speaker 1: to me, that's what makes it a good move is
16:21
Speaker 1: that Cooper Pratt.
16:22
Speaker 2: That's a good point, Drew.
16:23
Speaker 1: His whole career, he's never going to do that again.
16:25
Speaker 3: No.
16:26
Speaker 1: I told the story. And getting a guy in the
16:28
Speaker 1: middle of the game like that, at first you thought, well,
16:30
Speaker 1: did he hurt himself? Was the hamstring hurt or something?
16:32
Speaker 1: You know, like, oh, no, just not hurt. Didn't get
16:35
Speaker 1: a bunt down and then didn't run hard to first.
16:37
Speaker 2: And you're out.
16:39
Speaker 1: Andrew Jones got hooked out of center field for not
16:41
Speaker 1: chasing a fly ball, and Bobby Cox took him off,
16:44
Speaker 1: and he hustled after every fly ball the rest of
16:46
Speaker 1: his career, and it was the best defensive center fielder, arguably,
16:48
Speaker 1: of all time. It never happened again. So Cooper Pratt
16:52
Speaker 1: is never going to happen again. So one step back,
16:54
Speaker 1: and he cost him again.
16:56
Speaker 2: We can argue that. It didn't cost him again. Right, correct.
16:58
Speaker 2: It didn't really cost him again.
17:00
Speaker 1: And again, had the Brewers won, nobody's squawking about it.
17:03
Speaker 1: Everybody's on Team Murph had the Brewers won the game.
17:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I also think the other part is... Or
17:08
Speaker 2: had Hamilton not been involved in the last play. If
17:10
Speaker 2: Hamilton hadn't been involved in the last play, it's totally different, right? Yes, exactly.
17:15
Speaker 2: Even if Ortiz airmails one, now you definitely don't think
17:18
Speaker 2: that's going to happen. But any way different, it happens,
17:21
Speaker 2: and there's no conversation about it. I do think there's
17:24
Speaker 2: something as well, too. If you're going to treat one
17:27
Speaker 2: guy a certain way, you have to treat everybody the
17:29
Speaker 2: same way. And there can be, there was obviously an
17:32
Speaker 2: embarrassment factor when you go in and yank two pitchers
17:35
Speaker 2: mid at bat, right? Like you go up at a
17:38
Speaker 2: two Oh count and you got, get a guy off
17:40
Speaker 2: the mound. That's going to be a part of it.
17:43
Speaker 2: So you can't then let it slide on the base,
17:45
Speaker 2: on the position player side. So, I think that's also
17:48
Speaker 2: a part of it. You don't coach and treat everybody
17:51
Speaker 2: fairly or the exact same, but you do have to
17:54
Speaker 2: have a certain standard of holding people accountable, as we
17:57
Speaker 2: like to say. But you also have to have a standard,
17:59
Speaker 2: and he didn't meet the standard. And he's been consistent
18:01
Speaker 2: with it, I think.
18:02
Speaker 3: You can say that about Murph, and when you're not,
18:04
Speaker 3: I think that's when players really have an issue. But
18:06
Speaker 3: he's been consistent with it. Another angle from Jeffrey in
18:10
Speaker 3: Milwaukee who went the other way. They said, I love
18:12
Speaker 3: Murph sending messages to players in different ways. Look, fans
18:15
Speaker 3: always say these guys are pandered to, so when they
18:17
Speaker 3: get tough love from the coach, it's refreshing to me.
18:19
Speaker 3: They usually respond well. When they get yelled at at
18:22
Speaker 3: a young age, I would assume. Yeah, and I mean,
18:24
Speaker 3: most of the guy, I mean, Durbin was another example, right?
18:26
Speaker 3: And Durbin's went on and done good things, obviously.
18:29
Speaker 2: We mentioned Freelick. So this is just what Murph has done.
18:33
Speaker 2: I do like Derek and Whitewater. Not like Pratt is
18:34
Speaker 2: even that good. Come on. I mean, it is not
18:37
Speaker 2: like they took out prime Derek Jeter, right? Like I'm,
18:41
Speaker 2: what are we 40 games into the season? What are
18:43
Speaker 2: like into his big league career? I did also like
18:45
Speaker 2: Maggie and George as I'm a teacher. We're not always right.
18:48
Speaker 2: We're not always correct either. Good work, Maggie.
18:51
Speaker 3: Good. Love it.
18:52
Speaker 2: Now that's when you are in mid season form as
18:55
Speaker 2: a teacher. And that's a tough, that's a tough thing
18:57
Speaker 2: to know that you're going to be. I mean, August 26th,
19:00
Speaker 2: you want to make sure that you're dusting off those skills.
19:02
Speaker 2: Maggie right there with her fastball at 619 in the morning.
19:04
Speaker 2: That's pretty impressive.
19:05
Speaker 3: I do think Brad's done pretty well so far in
19:08
Speaker 3: his rookie year, though, at a young age.
19:11
Speaker 2: I like Marty and Madison. What do you mean? I mean,
19:13
Speaker 2: it's not like he's the what? It's not like he's
19:15
Speaker 2: the top 15. Shortstop in baseball? Yeah, what are you doing, right, Billy? Well,
19:20
Speaker 2: I don't know. You're upset like that. He's not that
19:22
Speaker 2: good either. It's not like they took out one of
19:24
Speaker 2: their top five players. No, I agree. I know. Yeah,
19:27
Speaker 2: he's done, I think, what he should be doing. You
19:28
Speaker 2: don't have to worry about it. I don't think he's
19:30
Speaker 2: going to have his feelings hurt that he's not that good.
19:32
Speaker 2: Marty and Madison's hot take.
19:34
Speaker 1: If you criticize Murph for pulling Pratt, you don't get
19:36
Speaker 1: to celebrate any of his previous accolades, and you don't
19:38
Speaker 1: get to enjoy any of Pratt's hustle in the future.
19:40
Speaker 1: Sour Brewers fans can go kick rocks.
19:42
Speaker 2: I like that he's gatekeeping early in the morning. Love Murph.
19:44
Speaker 2: Great move. Go, crew.
19:46
Speaker 1: I mean, not everything Murph does is perfect, but in
19:49
Speaker 1: this case... No one's perfect.
19:50
Speaker 2: This is Steve. My hot take. Ortiz and Hamilton are
19:53
Speaker 2: in Pratt's on the bench in the playoffs. I think
19:56
Speaker 2: that might have been the plan already. We had talked
19:57
Speaker 2: about it. How much are you going to be trusting
19:59
Speaker 2: these rookies when you get to the playoffs? Very true.
20:02
Speaker 2: This is discovery time now, isn't it?
20:04
Speaker 1: When we come back, Scott Dolphin is going to join us.
20:07
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the passing of Dolly Parton. We can't
20:10
Speaker 1: agree on whether Murph made the right move, but we
20:12
Speaker 1: can all agree Dolly Parton was a national treasure.
20:15
Speaker 2: That's next. The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. I've always
20:18
Speaker 2: been pretty well-blessed. People are always asking if they're real. Oh,
20:22
Speaker 2: I would never. I would never, you see. No, you
20:24
Speaker 2: don't have to ask. I would not. I'll tell you what.
20:27
Speaker 2: I have certain guidelines on the show. But I would
20:32
Speaker 2: give about a year's pay to peek under there. Oh,
20:37
Speaker 2: Johnny Carson, Dolly Parton.
20:40
Speaker 1: In these fractured times where we can't even agree that
20:43
Speaker 1: today is Wednesday, almost the entire country agreed Dolly Parton
20:47
Speaker 1: was a national treasure.
20:48
Speaker 2: Yeah. She also stayed out of politics. Do you ever
20:51
Speaker 2: notice that does? Yeah.
20:52
Speaker 4: That's why no one hated her. She refused the Medal
20:55
Speaker 4: of Honor. Was it the Medal of Honor from both
20:58
Speaker 4: Trump and Biden? She didn't want to go in the
21:00
Speaker 4: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame either.
21:02
Speaker 2: That's true. She deserved it. Then she went and performed.
21:04
Speaker 2: And she killed it.
21:05
Speaker 3: Yeah.
21:05
Speaker 2: 2022. Yeah.
21:07
Speaker 1: So Dolly Parton passed. Scott Dolphin from the country stage
21:09
Speaker 1: down the hall joins us for halftime. And that was
21:12
Speaker 1: sad news. My wife equated it to Betty White, like
21:15
Speaker 1: women that she wanted to live forever. Yeah, I mean,
21:18
Speaker 1: if you didn't know who Dolly Parton was, it's almost
21:20
Speaker 1: like it's this fictional character that somebody created.
21:23
Speaker 2: I mean, she's born in a.
21:24
Speaker 4: One-room home, one-room home with 12 kids in rural Tennessee
21:29
Speaker 4: and becomes this just not only star of country music,
21:33
Speaker 4: but a film of stage, philanthropy, you name it, she
21:36
Speaker 4: did it.
21:37
Speaker 3: Yeah. Her life seems so full. Sorry, Billy, that I
21:40
Speaker 3: couldn't believe she was only 80. Like that for me
21:42
Speaker 3: was the one thing I realized. Yeah. I was like, wow,
21:45
Speaker 3: she seemed older just because it seemed like she had
21:47
Speaker 3: done so much.
21:47
Speaker 2: And it made an impact so much. That was exactly
21:50
Speaker 2: what I was going to say. She almost felt like
21:51
Speaker 2: the youngest 80 year old. I saw that. I saw that. Totally.
21:54
Speaker 2: That interview she did where she's like, yeah, I don't
21:56
Speaker 2: know everything you can do in your 80s. I was
21:58
Speaker 2: doing my thing. I can do a lot more now.
22:00
Speaker 2: Like that just ability to pack all that into one
22:02
Speaker 2: life is wild. I was talking to a friend yesterday
22:05
Speaker 2: about how she started out with that Porter Wagner. And
22:07
Speaker 2: then there was that split. Porter Wagner was always kind
22:09
Speaker 2: of like creepy and stuff, but she came from that tree.
22:11
Speaker 2: She old school country. He did.
22:13
Speaker 4: I mean, he, he really put her on the map
22:16
Speaker 4: on his show. She was on for seven years and
22:18
Speaker 4: really became the star of the show. I think Porter
22:20
Speaker 4: recognized that didn't want to let her go. Didn't want
22:22
Speaker 4: to let her out of his contract, but he did.
22:24
Speaker 4: I think he realized what a huge star she was
22:26
Speaker 4: going to be. And then she wrote, of course, I
22:28
Speaker 4: will always love you to Porter Wagner, not in that
22:31
Speaker 4: sexy romantic way, But in the fact that he was
22:34
Speaker 4: such a huge part of her life.
22:36
Speaker 1: And I saw something about that because obviously that song
22:39
Speaker 1: got new life with Whitney Houston.
22:41
Speaker 2: Big time.
22:41
Speaker 1: But I guess Elvis wanted to record it, but Colonel
22:44
Speaker 1: Tom said Elvis didn't share royalties and stuff like that.
22:47
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, she kept her publishing on
22:50
Speaker 1: it and made money with Whitney Houston on that.
22:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, Colonel Tom was the problem there. Yeah, good move,
22:55
Speaker 2: Colonel Tom.
22:55
Speaker 1: And then took the money she made from that and
22:57
Speaker 1: built a business center, office complex there. in Whitney Houston's hometown,
23:03
Speaker 1: like the house that Whitney built.
23:05
Speaker 2: That's incredible.
23:05
Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff that she did. And the
23:07
Speaker 1: book thing that Armand's subscribed to.
23:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, my daughter has the books. I love that, man.
23:12
Speaker 2: I love that whole part of her life.
23:13
Speaker 4: In her true self-deprecating style, she always talked about that song.
23:17
Speaker 2: That's both Whitney and my song. It's not just my
23:20
Speaker 2: song because I wrote it. She's so humble. I think
23:23
Speaker 2: that song went three times. Dolly herself took that song
23:25
Speaker 2: to number one three different times. When it originally came
23:28
Speaker 2: out in 73, 74, I think it was part of
23:32
Speaker 2: the soundtrack to The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. It
23:35
Speaker 2: went number one again. And then Whitney.
23:37
Speaker 4: Due to public demand, after Whitney in The Bodyguard made
23:40
Speaker 4: it such a mega hit and won a Grammy, Dolly
23:44
Speaker 4: recorded it again, and it went number one on the
23:45
Speaker 4: country charts.
23:46
Speaker 3: Yeah.
23:47
Speaker 2: And she wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You
23:49
Speaker 2: on the same day. Oh, my God. God, that's ridiculous.
23:51
Speaker 2: Same day?
23:52
Speaker 1: She wrote two of her greatest songs and the biggest
23:54
Speaker 1: songs in country music on the same day.
23:56
Speaker 2: What did you do in one day? Yeah, what have
23:58
Speaker 2: you done in one day? I had a sandwich. I
24:00
Speaker 2: made a great sandwich. I made ribs and a steak
24:02
Speaker 2: in one day. Does that count?
24:03
Speaker 1: So here's a quote from in the movie 9 to 5.
24:06
Speaker 1: She wrote that song on set, apparently.
24:09
Speaker 2: Incredible. That song she wrote. Great movie, by the way.
24:10
Speaker 1: She's tapping her fingernails, and she wrote the song on
24:14
Speaker 1: the set. So in Dallas, this is from Roger Ebert.
24:18
Speaker 1: for Siskel and Ebert, sometimes critic. He said, I had
24:21
Speaker 1: been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton. And
24:23
Speaker 1: as we spoke, I was filled with a strange ethereal grace.
24:26
Speaker 1: This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was
24:29
Speaker 1: healing and comforting.
24:31
Speaker 2: Wow.
24:31
Speaker 1: And then, you know, Gene Siskel said he's the exact
24:34
Speaker 1: same thing. He felt the same way. And he said,
24:36
Speaker 1: neither one of them ever had that feeling again, and
24:38
Speaker 1: they talked about it for years.
24:40
Speaker 2: Amazing. Like she had this glow, this angelic glow about her.
24:44
Speaker 2: That's amazing. Yeah, one of the amazing.
24:46
Speaker 4: I've never had a chance to sit down and say
24:48
Speaker 4: hello to her. Only twice did I get close to her.
24:50
Speaker 4: Once I actually got to bring, I intro'd a show
24:54
Speaker 4: when I was still out on the West Coast.
24:55
Speaker 2: It was Dolly and Kenny together in concert. So I
24:59
Speaker 2: brought them on. And then.
25:01
Speaker 4: New York city. We had the CMA awards there in 2005.
25:03
Speaker 4: And I actually, they did a job. Dolly was nice
25:05
Speaker 4: enough to give us about a 30 minute Q and a,
25:07
Speaker 4: as a group of little radio stations. And I actually
25:09
Speaker 4: got to ask her a question where I made eye
25:11
Speaker 4: contact with her. And I still remember her smiling. And
25:13
Speaker 4: I also remember how small she was. She's very, you know,
25:16
Speaker 4: very petite, big at some places, but she's very small,
25:19
Speaker 4: very short. And she was a tiny little thing. She's
25:21
Speaker 4: wearing heels and she was still short, but couldn't have
25:23
Speaker 4: been nicer that day, even though I didn't get to
25:25
Speaker 4: actually a chance to sit down and do it one-on-one.
25:27
Speaker 4: Do we remember the question? You know, I got to
25:30
Speaker 4: go on Channel 4. TMJ4 asked me to come on
25:32
Speaker 4: last night, and they asked me that same question. And
25:34
Speaker 4: I don't remember it specifically, but I know I asked
25:36
Speaker 4: her about who she thought, who she was impressed with
25:38
Speaker 4: in the new female up-and-coming country stars of the day.
25:42
Speaker 4: And I'm sure she said something like Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood,
25:44
Speaker 4: because they were the biggest stars.
25:46
Speaker 2: Also that same way of like being able to carry
25:49
Speaker 2: the torch for everybody that was still doing it that way,
25:51
Speaker 2: like understanding who was big and what her, you know,
25:54
Speaker 2: vote of confidence or, or somewhat endorsement would bring to
25:58
Speaker 2: somebody in music. I feel like she was always fair
26:00
Speaker 2: with that. Always, always.
26:01
Speaker 4: And today all the country stars are chiming in how,
26:04
Speaker 4: you know, John party, she doesn't know John party from Adam, but,
26:08
Speaker 4: she would send him birthday gifts every year. Just this
26:11
Speaker 4: random dude in country music that has become a star now.
26:14
Speaker 2: She was a good.
26:14
Speaker 3: Sewer to the format of the industry. And the thing is,
26:18
Speaker 3: you think of all the great country stars, not so
26:21
Speaker 3: many are female, right? I mean, so many of the
26:23
Speaker 3: biggest stars are female. Not more than ever. Obviously, Patsy Cline,
26:27
Speaker 3: Loretta Lynn, but Dolly was the one of one that
26:29
Speaker 3: paved the way for all the... It must have been
26:31
Speaker 3: a very, very tough industry, music especially, but especially country music,
26:35
Speaker 3: maybe with its traditions.
26:37
Speaker 1: Her business acumen too, like Dollywood and all that. She
26:41
Speaker 1: took a dilapidated thing and made it into a tourist attraction,
26:44
Speaker 1: get people jobs, and she owned radio stations and stuff.
26:47
Speaker 2: She did, yeah. Her portfolio was huge.
26:49
Speaker 4: And an anomaly in the showbiz era because she was
26:52
Speaker 4: married to the same dude for 60 years.
26:53
Speaker 2: Which is a rarity there, too, you know? Yeah, 60 years.
26:56
Speaker 4: And she lost him, met him right as she moved
26:58
Speaker 4: to Nashville within the first couple months, and then, of course,
27:00
Speaker 4: he died last year, and you wonder if that had
27:02
Speaker 4: something to do with her demise a little bit, too.
27:04
Speaker 1: So, yeah, it's like in these fractured times, I think
27:07
Speaker 1: everybody could agree she was a national treasure.
27:09
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Because she stayed out of the fray, and she just,
27:12
Speaker 2: you know, What an example. What a life. She just
27:15
Speaker 2: made you smile. Whether it was in one of the
27:17
Speaker 2: movies she did. That is a thousand percent it. Just
27:19
Speaker 2: put a smile on so many people's face. I almost,
27:22
Speaker 2: I mean, again, like, don't know or have any bit
27:25
Speaker 2: of that for Adam. I can't tell you. Actually. Thank
27:28
Speaker 2: you for the introduction. There's a large swath of the
27:30
Speaker 2: listening audience, I think, that is now learning that she
27:33
Speaker 2: wrote the I Will Always Love You song to Whitney
27:35
Speaker 2: Houston saying, I dropped my phone. I'm like, damn, Dolly Parton?
27:40
Speaker 2: That is one that you did just feel like was
27:42
Speaker 2: going to almost live forever. Because what? Betty White was what, 99?
27:45
Speaker 2: She was. She was like days from 100 when she passed.
27:49
Speaker 2: That is a perfect example. Yeah, I mean, she's crazy.
27:52
Speaker 1: And one of the guys said in her obit, she
27:54
Speaker 1: didn't seem to have any enemies. And even if you
27:57
Speaker 1: didn't get her, it was impossible not to like her.
28:00
Speaker 1: Everyone liked her, and she liked everybody. And her appearance
28:03
Speaker 1: and stuff, and obviously the jokes for years. It was
28:05
Speaker 1: a cultural joke about her front court, shall we say.
28:08
Speaker 2: Right, yeah. And you just heard Johnny Carson. Those guards. Yeah,
28:12
Speaker 2: Johnny Carson, he would.
28:13
Speaker 1: Have probably been canceled for that little exchange back in
28:17
Speaker 1: the day that those things were okay. But the way
28:20
Speaker 1: she leaned into that, she's like, yeah, it costs a
28:22
Speaker 1: lot of money to look this trashy. And she just
28:25
Speaker 1: leaned into it and made you laugh about it.
28:28
Speaker 2: Good, dude. Unbelievable.
28:32
Speaker 4: Her voice is one that you don't have to say, God,
28:34
Speaker 4: who is that? That sounds like so-and-so. You knew when
28:36
Speaker 4: you heard Dolly Parton sing, it was Dolly Parton. And
28:38
Speaker 4: she had, you're right.
28:39
Speaker 1: Though, Dolph, her re-releasing that song and the resurgences, because
28:42
Speaker 1: she did some stuff with Jack White.
28:44
Speaker 2: She did. And that was cool.
28:46
Speaker 3: Wow, really?
28:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jack White did Jolene with her.
28:49
Speaker 4: Within the last decade or so, she's done that a
28:52
Speaker 4: lot with different people from different genres.
28:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just huge because people were kind of
28:56
Speaker 2: tipping the cap. Jack White, by the way, loves Nashville.
29:00
Speaker 2: He did some stuff with, I think, Loretta Lynn before
29:02
Speaker 2: she died as well. That too, yeah. which is pretty cool.
29:06
Speaker 2: Jack White, he's an interesting cat. Big baseball guy, too.
29:10
Speaker 2: I was going to say, he is kind of a
29:11
Speaker 2: sports fan, isn't he? I think we learned some of
29:12
Speaker 2: that when he did the Thanksgiving game.
29:16
Speaker 1: Huge baseball guy, Jack White, but from Detroit. A buddy
29:21
Speaker 1: of mine was past president of the Hall of Fame,
29:24
Speaker 1: and Jack White would come twice a year and get
29:26
Speaker 1: the special tour and put on the gloves and swing
29:29
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth's bat and stuff and go down.
29:30
Speaker 2: Into the archive. He was just Just geeking out about everything. God,
29:35
Speaker 2: that's fun. And when he goes on tour, the crew,
29:38
Speaker 2: they find the game. to play. They pick up baseball
29:41
Speaker 2: and stuff. What'd the babes swing? About a 38-44? Pretty much.
29:46
Speaker 2: I was going to say, that's a piece of lumber
29:48
Speaker 2: right there. That is a piece of lumber.
29:50
Speaker 1: So, Dolph, we've been weighing in on this whole Cooper Pratt,
29:53
Speaker 1: the Brewers thing. Bad loss to start a stretch of
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Speaker 1: 16 straight games.
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Speaker 2: But the Cubs lost. Yeah. Oh, how about that? In
30:01
Speaker 2: walk-off fashion, again, this is a rough road trip for
30:04
Speaker 2: the Cubs so far. First, they set a record. They
30:08
Speaker 2: had scored, like, I don't know, 19 or 20 unanswered runs.
30:11
Speaker 3: 30.
30:11
Speaker 2: Is that what it was? 30 unanswered runs, I think.
30:14
Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. Only to get walked off in the desert.
30:17
Speaker 2: That's beautiful. Could not be better at that point. Love that.
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Speaker 4: So that's the thing with the math right now. I
30:23
Speaker 4: think Hunter put something up on social media. You know,
30:25
Speaker 4: if the Brewers go above 500, they still have a
30:27
Speaker 4: really good chance of winning the division.
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Speaker 2: Exactly. At this point, five and.
30:30
Speaker 1: A half up with 30 to play. And that's why, again,
30:33
Speaker 1: you get in. We're about to start next week. We'll
30:35
Speaker 1: be in the belly of the beast because Monday they
30:37
Speaker 1: start seven games in 10 days against the Cubs head
30:40
Speaker 1: to head. And I figure it's mostly going to be
30:42
Speaker 1: like pretty even three and four, four and three.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
30:45
Speaker 2: I mean, as long team goes six and one, that
30:47
Speaker 2: might swing it a little bit, but But it's going
30:49
Speaker 2: to be hard to see anybody getting goose that way.
30:52
Speaker 2: As good as both of these two teams are playing
30:54
Speaker 2: right now. Is either team going to run the table
30:56
Speaker 2: and go 7-0? No. More likely it would be, I think,
30:59
Speaker 2: in that Phillies-Braves series that is kind of going on
31:02
Speaker 2: at the same time. They got seven games head-to-head against
31:05
Speaker 2: each other in that chase for the and L East.
31:07
Speaker 2: And then this one, same deal, almost at the exact
31:09
Speaker 2: same time. I know.
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Speaker 4: Correct me if I'm wrong. Is it kind of a
31:12
Speaker 4: weird schedule quirk with, okay. So they had the game
31:14
Speaker 4: in Pennsylvania, three in New York home against the Rangers.
31:17
Speaker 4: And then they're right back out on the road to Chicago.
31:19
Speaker 4: And then, yeah, they don't do it often for the
31:22
Speaker 4: one series at home. Yeah, they definitely don't, but they
31:25
Speaker 4: only have what three home series left.
31:26
Speaker 2: That's pretty much it. Cause I think they have the
31:28
Speaker 2: cub series and they have a Cardinal series to wrap up,
31:32
Speaker 2: but they go on a good thick three city road
31:34
Speaker 2: trip and uh to what baltimore.
31:37
Speaker 1: Uh baltimore pittsburgh philly yeah baltimore philly yeah you're right.
31:40
Speaker 3: It's winding down i mean that's the way we're in
31:42
Speaker 3: september almost so.
31:43
Speaker 1: It's winding they have three standalone three game or no
31:47
Speaker 1: three three game series at home okay that's it yep
31:49
Speaker 1: yeah in september cubs reds and cardinals anybody going to
31:53
Speaker 1: get their jackson cheerio cheerio bowl this weekend.
31:55
Speaker 2: I am potentially being tasked to– actually, the Cereal Bowl
32:00
Speaker 2: I can't because I'm going to be in Michigan on
32:02
Speaker 2: Saturday night. But I'm potentially supposed to be coming back very,
32:06
Speaker 2: very early on Sunday. Because that height poster is the
32:10
Speaker 2: one that is very, very desired in our house. Because
32:13
Speaker 2: we want to know how many Jackson Cheerios we are.
32:15
Speaker 3: Oh, man.
32:16
Speaker 2: We want to know just how many Jacksons we are.
32:18
Speaker 2: And I think we might be... Two Carsons might make
32:21
Speaker 2: a Jackson. I think it's the way it's going to go.
32:23
Speaker 2: Great height posters of all time in this market. Giannis
32:25
Speaker 2: had a very.
32:26
Speaker 3: well-known one, I think, early on, because he was growing.
32:28
Speaker 3: That was the green and growing thing. And then I
32:30
Speaker 3: think Robin.
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Speaker 2: Yount had one, maybe. Was it Yount? I think it
32:34
Speaker 2: was Yount.
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Speaker 3: One of the two had it, and I remember that
32:36
Speaker 3: was a big one to have, so I didn't have it.
32:38
Speaker 2: Everyone else did, but I didn't have it. When it
32:40
Speaker 2: comes to the Bucs, my favorite was the Brooke Lopez.
32:42
Speaker 2: See how big your feet are? That's another one. Yeah.
32:45
Speaker 2: That was ridiculous. Paul Molitor, 1985 youth height poster right there.
32:50
Speaker 3: There it is.
32:50
Speaker 2: And a lot of people that had it. Good nutrition
32:53
Speaker 2: with Wonder Bread. I love that. He's slinging hostess. That's
32:59
Speaker 2: great nutrition. He's slinging white bread. Check your height with
33:03
Speaker 2: your own personal growth chart from Wonder Bread.
33:05
Speaker 3: Also, I always keep this one next to the board
33:07
Speaker 3: here just for inspiration. Billy knows I love this Paul
33:09
Speaker 3: Milder baseball card, the police card. On the back, it
33:13
Speaker 3: has the Paul Milder says, playing baseball in major leagues
33:15
Speaker 3: is a life ambition of many youngsters. When I was
33:17
Speaker 3: a kid, I dreamed of playing in the big leagues.
33:19
Speaker 3: We all know that everyone can't make it. Some of
33:21
Speaker 3: us have God-given.
33:21
Speaker 2: Talents, some don't.
33:22
Speaker 3: Participate in sports and practice a lot, but also work
33:25
Speaker 3: and get good grades in school. If you don't make
33:27
Speaker 3: it to the big leagues, you'll be able to get
33:29
Speaker 3: a good job.
33:29
Speaker 2: Nice. Molly telling it like it is. Kid, you're not
33:32
Speaker 2: good enough. I used to love those things in the back.
33:34
Speaker 3: I used to take those lessons on the back of
33:36
Speaker 3: the police cars like those guys were actually riding those.
33:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. I love the fact that Molly came out
33:40
Speaker 2: of the corn wearing the Brewers jersey. That was awesome.
33:43
Speaker 2: Made some people mad, but not me. Twins fans were triggered. Well, good.
33:46
Speaker 2: He does radio for them. Let them be triggered. Let
33:49
Speaker 2: them be triggered. He's not going to wear twins. He
33:50
Speaker 2: went into Cooperstown as a brewer. Exactly. Well, it looks
33:53
Speaker 2: like we got two of them. Looks like Robin Yount
33:55
Speaker 2: and Paul Molitor each had a growth chart. All right.
33:58
Speaker 2: That's why my memory was a little bit worried. Well,
33:59
Speaker 2: Robin Yount is actually brought to you by Country Home WBCS.
34:04
Speaker 2: I don't know what that used to be. That's the old... Oh,
34:08
Speaker 2: that was the old country station. One of the old
34:10
Speaker 2: country stations. Yes, in fact, my station, that was a
34:13
Speaker 2: battle for one before I was here, but in the 80s...
34:16
Speaker 2: They used to air the Admirals games, too. Really? They
34:20
Speaker 2: became the Hog, and now they are... They were Laser,
34:23
Speaker 2: and now they're the Hog. I love this radio. That's right.
34:25
Speaker 2: They were your main competitor? I guess who won, huh?
34:28
Speaker 1: That was my first exposure to radio because my roommate
34:32
Speaker 1: at the time, Pete Lipsy, was a board op there.
34:34
Speaker 2: That's awesome. So I would go hang out with him
34:36
Speaker 2: during his shifts. It's the first time I went to
34:37
Speaker 2: a radio station. Billy, they had some cool giveaways with
34:40
Speaker 2: the sponsors.
34:41
Speaker 1: He was like the pipe bomb producing the... Doug Pettit
34:44
Speaker 1: was on the call.
34:45
Speaker 2: Wow. He used to do the little updates and stuff.
34:49
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
34:49
Speaker 2: That is awesome. I can't wait for Pipe Bomb to return. Also,
34:52
Speaker 2: brought to you by Century Foods and my man Robin
34:54
Speaker 2: Youts rocking the McDonald's wristbands. Century was all over Brewers
34:58
Speaker 2: marketing back then. Back in the day, for sure.
35:00
Speaker 3: I had the Century Brewers lunch bag, I think, or
35:04
Speaker 3: something like that.
35:04
Speaker 2: And now what do we have, five or six left
35:06
Speaker 2: in the area total?
35:08
Speaker 3: If i'm into a century in years my mom used
35:11
Speaker 3: to love century wiggly wiggly so my.
35:12
Speaker 1: So doll for you guys playing some dolly songs we
35:14
Speaker 1: are all day long i figured as much yeah you
35:17
Speaker 1: know we played her before on throwback weekends not so
35:19
Speaker 1: much of her you know she doesn't have a lot
35:20
Speaker 1: of current stuff but yeah all day today you're gonna
35:22
Speaker 1: hear a lot of your favorites figured as much thanks
35:24
Speaker 1: for coming in appreciate it all right thanks gonna take
35:26
Speaker 1: a quick break you're in the huddle fox sports radio wisconsin.
35:37
Speaker 2: I love that movie. Nine to five. Dabney Coleman. He's amazing.
35:42
Speaker 1: Continuing Wednesday edition of the huddle Fox sports radio, Wisconsin
35:45
Speaker 1: drew billion Armin, bringing it to you. Billy's about ready
35:48
Speaker 1: to head to green Bay for a Packers combined practice,
35:51
Speaker 1: sibling rivalry on display, Mike and Matt Lafleur and Bo Melton.
35:55
Speaker 2: And what's his brother's name?
35:56
Speaker 3: Max.
35:57
Speaker 2: Bowen Max. Bowen Max. Number 16 Melton. Now, I'm wondering,
36:01
Speaker 2: did the LaFleurs take the Meltons out for dinner? Because,
36:04
Speaker 2: you know, that check is a little bit larger, I
36:06
Speaker 2: would assume. What do you think? Because Wayne asked me
36:09
Speaker 2: at the end of Training Camp Live on Monday, what
36:12
Speaker 2: do you think the LaFleur family does? Does Matt have
36:15
Speaker 2: everybody over to the house? They all just go to Chives? Like,
36:19
Speaker 2: where do we find? Because there's got to be a
36:20
Speaker 2: good meal here. And mom and dad got to be very,
36:23
Speaker 2: very excited for this one. Pool party. That's fair. Probably
36:25
Speaker 2: a good pool party. That's what I'm thinking. Chives, though,
36:29
Speaker 2: getting so much love. Thanks to Aaron.
36:32
Speaker 3: I mean, that place will always be in business because
36:33
Speaker 3: everyone knows Aaron went to Chives and everyone loves Chives.
36:36
Speaker 2: I got to get there for sure. Well, I'm sure
36:38
Speaker 2: we all do, don't we? Let's do it. Now, Max,
36:40
Speaker 2: of course, short for anybody.
36:43
Speaker 3: Malachi so so neither of the melton boys use their
36:46
Speaker 3: first name which i think is interesting i love that
36:48
Speaker 3: i love that all right so miles bokeem melton.
36:51
Speaker 1: This is uh our last look at the starters basically
36:54
Speaker 1: yes in in in you know in the heat of
36:57
Speaker 1: the best look yes so what are we looking for
36:59
Speaker 1: today i mean first of all aaron banks ain't seeing
37:03
Speaker 1: the field again like he's He's still getting a check.
37:06
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was going to say, it's gotta, it's gotta
37:07
Speaker 2: be that offensive line. Banks was, was dialed up with
37:10
Speaker 2: the first team on Monday and he was throughout, he
37:14
Speaker 2: was getting the first run with the first team every
37:17
Speaker 2: time they hit team. So we'll see if that, if
37:19
Speaker 2: that goes here today, if he plays and Zach Baco,
37:22
Speaker 2: but well, if he can go, I think when Zach
37:24
Speaker 2: talked about it, wanting to get some reps in earlier
37:27
Speaker 2: in camp and maybe wanting to play in the preseason games,
37:29
Speaker 2: then I think there was a conversation of, Hey, Why
37:32
Speaker 2: don't we do that on our field? Why don't we
37:33
Speaker 2: do that on our field in our backyard? But we're
37:35
Speaker 2: going to get you some reps. So I think Zach
37:37
Speaker 2: is going to get a decent amount of run here today,
37:39
Speaker 2: mostly because he hasn't played real football against somebody else
37:44
Speaker 2: since he had the patella injury. So I'm really going
37:47
Speaker 2: to be looking at the offensive line and Burton and Monk.
37:50
Speaker 2: Jacob Monk has looked really good at practice. How does
37:52
Speaker 2: that happen on the other side? Because I think they're
37:55
Speaker 2: same deal as it was a year ago. It's the
37:57
Speaker 2: biggest problem. hindrance for them being the offense that I
38:00
Speaker 2: think they could be, which is a really, really explosive
38:02
Speaker 2: and one of the better ones in football. They have
38:04
Speaker 2: three extremely talented wide receivers on the outside that one
38:08
Speaker 2: in golden, I think is primed for a huge year.
38:11
Speaker 2: That's going to surprise a lot of people and craft
38:14
Speaker 2: is pound for pound. One of, if not the top
38:17
Speaker 2: three tight ends in football, the other guy on the
38:20
Speaker 2: other side here today in Trey McBride is is probably
38:23
Speaker 2: the one that's going to win that argument because of
38:25
Speaker 2: the volume of catches he gets. So I think they're
38:27
Speaker 2: going to be very explosive on offense if they can
38:30
Speaker 2: hold up. And that's the one thing that Arizona presents
38:32
Speaker 2: is that they can get some pressure on the quarterback.
38:34
Speaker 2: Josh Sweat came off the PUP yesterday. He's not going
38:36
Speaker 2: to go. Some Packers fans were hoping that maybe that
38:39
Speaker 2: would happen because I think there's a lot of Packers
38:41
Speaker 2: fans that were wondering about that Josh Sweat conversation. But
38:45
Speaker 2: to see Morgan and Baco Buele, the two tackles against
38:49
Speaker 2: other competition is That's a big one for me because
38:52
Speaker 2: we've seen Lucas Van Ness look good, but I want
38:54
Speaker 2: to know if it's, you know, because of what 90
38:56
Speaker 2: is doing or if, you know, it's more of a
38:59
Speaker 2: problem with what our lines got.
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Speaker 1: Does Jordan Morgan deserve the trace Mac award in that
39:03
Speaker 1: he went from being a story to not being a story.
39:05
Speaker 2: Not a story at all.
39:06
Speaker 1: Just playing solid. He's holding it down. It's like, okay,
39:08
Speaker 1: we're not worried about left tackle anymore. Let's move on
39:10
Speaker 1: to something else.
39:11
Speaker 3: Yeah.
39:11
Speaker 2: And, and then he's also going to have them. If
39:13
Speaker 2: he continues this way, drew, have them answering a lot
39:16
Speaker 2: of questions as to why they didn't go to him
39:18
Speaker 2: last year.
39:19
Speaker 1: I've had that question better than Rashid. I thought about
39:21
Speaker 1: it last year. It's like, what are we going to miss?
39:24
Speaker 1: I mean, how big is the drop-off going to be
39:25
Speaker 1: and why not start putting this in the bank for
39:27
Speaker 1: the next year?
39:28
Speaker 2: Cause he was going to be the starter anyway. And
39:30
Speaker 2: you're going to get some interest on it, right? Like,
39:31
Speaker 2: so that's, it's going to be a fascinating conversation. And
39:35
Speaker 2: if he continues to just trend the way he is,
39:37
Speaker 2: he is going to make that ranks up there with
39:40
Speaker 2: the Packers, not playing Edger and Cooper enough when he
39:42
Speaker 2: was a rookie. Yep. Like, what are you doing? What
39:45
Speaker 2: are we waiting for? We can see it. Like, what
39:46
Speaker 2: are you waiting for? Like, what are you? And how
39:48
Speaker 2: quickly will that question get asked of LeFleur? Because what
39:50
Speaker 2: was it like week one? He goes, yeah, we were
39:51
Speaker 2: pretty dumb for not putting him on the field, weren't we? Yeah.
39:54
Speaker 2: I was in with the Butch and the boys. Yes.
39:58
Speaker 2: We didn't say we didn't start playing the guy till
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Speaker 2: halfway through the year. Like, look how good he is.
40:02
Speaker 2: And Cooper as well. Like, I don't know if Jeremiah
40:05
Speaker 2: Love's going to go. I would kind of doubt it.
40:07
Speaker 2: He's working his way back off that high ankle sprain.
40:09
Speaker 2: But I wanted to see Cooper trying to track down
40:11
Speaker 2: Jeremiah Love because that kind of speed is different.
40:14
Speaker 3: On the field.
40:14
Speaker 1: Plenty on display today. And then this is it. This
40:19
Speaker 1: is the game. Because Friday night, what we're going to
40:21
Speaker 1: see and what we're going to talk about on Packers
40:23
Speaker 1: OT afterwards is going to be the bottom of the roster, guys,
40:26
Speaker 1: and see who can stay healthy. And guys put stuff
40:29
Speaker 1: on tape trying to get jobs elsewhere.
40:31
Speaker 2: And this is the day. That's going to be Mark
40:33
Speaker 2: Perry's Super Bowl. There's going to be a lot of
40:35
Speaker 2: guys that are trying to make the practice squad on
40:38
Speaker 2: Friday night. Last one for you, Brandon Cisse, Marvin Harrison Jr.
40:43
Speaker 2: Like that matchup, Keyshawn Nixon, Marvin Harrison Jr. Those one-on-ones
40:48
Speaker 2: might even get me to look away from the offensive.
40:50
Speaker 1: And defensive line. It's an 11-30 start today, and you
40:52
Speaker 1: guys are on 11-1.
40:53
Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And JP Shadrick, voice of the Cardinals,
40:56
Speaker 2: is going to join us as well.
40:57
Speaker 3: Right.
40:58
Speaker 1: Training camp live from Lambeau. Billy's on his way up there.
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Speaker 1: Safe travels, my friend. We'll be right back. You're in
41:04
Speaker 1: the huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.