Latest / The Huddle / 10/26/26 - Hour 1
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- 0:04Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Wisconsin, and welcome to The Huddle. It's time
- 0:13Speaker 1: to talk about the teams you love with the guys
- 0:16Speaker 1: you love.
- 0:16Speaker 2: That's us. Boys, that's us. Watch us on YouTube.
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- 0:20Speaker 1: Just search Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin.
- 0:23Speaker 2: You are looking live.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Now, gather around because it's time to huddle up.
- 0:28Speaker 4: We know exactly what we got to do.
- 0:31Speaker 5: All right?
- 0:31Speaker 2: Let's go out and kick some tail. One, two, three.
- 0:34Speaker 3: We got some big plays coming. What the hell's going
- 0:38Speaker 3: on out here?
- 0:39Speaker 1: Yellow Weasel.
- 0:39Speaker 3: We're calling the plays, all right?
- 0:41Speaker 5: It is time.
- 0:41Speaker 6: What do you think you are?
- 0:43Speaker 2: With Drew Olsen.
- 0:44Speaker 3: When he spoke, he commanded your attention and he.
- 0:47Speaker 7: Commanded your respect.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Bill Schmidt.
- 0:50Speaker 7: That son of a gun is thick. And Armin Sarian.
- 0:53Speaker 7: Daddy Sarian.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Welcome to the huddle.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Come back in game.
- 1:12Speaker 2: There's the first base runner of the day for the Brewers.
- 1:14Speaker 2: And it's the speedy Bryce Durant reaching. And a one-out
- 1:17Speaker 2: walk here in the fourth. That brings up Contreras.
- 1:19Speaker 5: That's it.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Fires out to the left. He'll go down into the corner.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Pops his into the seats. A double for Contreras.
- 1:29Speaker 4: Takes the right field corner.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Jake Bowers has done it again. Milwaukee's cut it in
- 1:36Speaker 2: half with a two-run double from that man. Jake Bowers
- 1:39Speaker 2: delivering with another quality at bat. A 4-2 game in
- 1:41Speaker 2: the fourth.
- 1:41Speaker 3: There he goes.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Not in time. Stolen base, Sal Freeland.
- 1:48Speaker 4: Hamilton grounds one through the base at center field. One
- 1:53Speaker 4: touch after the slalom base, Hamilton delivers. The order has
- 1:56Speaker 4: cut it to one for the 3-3. Taken for ball
- 1:59Speaker 4: four and Milwaukee has loaded him up.
- 2:00Speaker 2: From down.
- 2:02Speaker 3: Four to nothing to a 4-3 game.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Three balls and no strikes with nowhere to put him.
- 2:06Speaker 2: The Panthers have.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Tied the game.
- 2:10Speaker 2: They just keep on coming.
- 2:12Speaker 4: From down four to nothing, they're.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Tied up in the fifth.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Mitchell sends a fly ball to right center field.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Tucker's going. It is gone.
- 2:25Speaker 4: Milwaukee takes the lead. From down four to nothing, the
- 2:27Speaker 4: leading 5-4 in game four. Struck him out at three pitches.
- 2:34Speaker 2: That's got a strike. Robert is a short for press.
- 2:37Speaker 1: His throw is perfect.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Ashby's 1-2. Strikes him out and gets out of it again.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Shadow center field. On comes Mitchell.
- 2:48Speaker 4: It is Mitchell to make the catch.
- 2:52Speaker 2: As good as a strikeout.
- 2:53Speaker 4: For Ashby, no chance for Will Smith to advance.
- 2:56Speaker 3: 1982.
- 2:56Speaker 2: Hamilton gets into a ball.
- 2:59Speaker 6: Deep on the field.
- 3:01Speaker 8: David Hamilton goes yard.
- 3:08Speaker 4: Something special about these Milwaukee Brewers.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Hernandez to left center field, Cherian gets there.
- 3:20Speaker 1: And for the first time in 44 years, the.
- 3:23Speaker 2: Brewers are going to the World Series.
- 3:28Speaker 9: But the bottom line is, we aim, right now, they.
- 3:33Speaker 3: Got a bunch of Hall of Famers. We got a
- 3:37Speaker 3: bunch of game.
- 3:47Speaker 5: Here.
- 3:53Speaker 6: Welcome in to a special Friday edition of The Huddle.
- 3:57Speaker 7: A pennant winning edition of The Huddle.
- 3:59Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin 920, Milwaukee 1070, Madison Worldwide on
- 4:03Speaker 6: the iHeart app. Not quite streaming live.
- 4:05Speaker 7: Soon to be.
- 4:06Speaker 6: Armin, are you streaming live?
- 4:07Speaker 8: I'm Drew.
- 4:08Speaker 7: Armin's behind the glass.
- 4:09Speaker 5: Yeah, we're on and our video's live, but we're just
- 4:11Speaker 5: trying to get.
- 4:12Speaker 7: You locked in.
- 4:12Speaker 5: All right.
- 4:13Speaker 7: Nobody needs to see my face. They will soon. I
- 4:15Speaker 7: scare small children. It's okay. Well, we've only waited 44 years.
- 4:19Speaker 6: Glad to be on the air.
- 4:20Speaker 7: Yes, indeed.
- 4:21Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, right?
- 4:22Speaker 6: Bill Schmidt is off today. He's on assignment. Wedding in Rhinelander.
- 4:28Speaker 6: What are you doing, Drew?
- 4:30Speaker 7: It's killing him.
- 4:30Speaker 3: What are you doing?
- 4:31Speaker 7: It's killing him. killing him.
- 4:32Speaker 6: He has been on a total jihad against October weddings
- 4:35Speaker 6: for this very, very purpose. And Billy's involved in this.
- 4:38Speaker 6: He's given a best man speech and he's got all
- 4:41Speaker 6: that stuff going on.
- 4:41Speaker 5: There's nothing you can do about it when you're in
- 4:43Speaker 5: the best man situation. Like, there's really nothing you can
- 4:46Speaker 5: do about it, unfortunately.
- 4:47Speaker 6: But, oh, it's a glorious day to be a fan
- 4:50Speaker 6: in the state of Wisconsin after 44 years of stumbling
- 4:53Speaker 6: in the desert. Last night was payback for the sting
- 4:57Speaker 6: of last year's sweep at the hands of the vaunted
- 5:01Speaker 6: The Dodgers, the crew of Hall of Famers that Murph
- 5:03Speaker 6: referenced in the opening montage that Armand put together courtesy
- 5:08Speaker 6: of Fox Sports. Yeah, crew of Hall of Famers who
- 5:11Speaker 6: pounded the Brewers last year, made them look like, you know,
- 5:14Speaker 6: the freshmen against the varsity. They switched tracks on them
- 5:19Speaker 6: and completely reversed the situation, sweeping the bewildered, dumbfounded, and
- 5:24Speaker 6: suddenly old-looking Dodgers. In a fashion that no one expected
- 5:29Speaker 6: and that John Smoltz and Alex Rodriguez and David Ortiz
- 5:34Speaker 6: and Derek Jeter are still trying to process because they're
- 5:37Speaker 6: still trying to figure out what happened. So many of
- 5:40Speaker 6: the less than sellout crowd at Dodger Stadium, the Dodger faithful,
- 5:44Speaker 6: they got old all of a sudden. It was a
- 5:47Speaker 6: little bit like watching the post-championship Bucks with Giannis and
- 5:51Speaker 6: Brooke and Chris getting hurt a lot and just trying
- 5:53Speaker 6: to limp their way to another title.
- 5:55Speaker 7: It didn't work.
- 5:56Speaker 6: The Brewers, young, hungry, undaunted, to use the phrase, fearless,
- 6:03Speaker 6: come back off the deck for nothing. You tell me,
- 6:06Speaker 6: raise your hand, if you thought when Otani hit the
- 6:10Speaker 6: home run last night that we thought, not only are
- 6:13Speaker 6: we headed for a game five tonight, the series is
- 6:16Speaker 6: now about to swing and hang in the balance. And
- 6:19Speaker 6: yet the pesky Brewers, as they always have this season,
- 6:23Speaker 6: came back, answered the Six unanswered runs. Big hits.
- 6:27Speaker 7: Galore.
- 6:28Speaker 6: Clutch performances. Great at-bats. Lights out. Relief pitching. Even by
- 6:33Speaker 6: Dustin May, who deserves a shout-out for shutting things down
- 6:36Speaker 6: after he got the bomb to Otani.
- 6:37Speaker 7: That was a big inning. That was a big spot.
- 6:39Speaker 6: But Ashby announcing his presence with authority. Jojo Romero showing
- 6:42Speaker 6: why they traded for him. An epic, epic sweep for
- 6:45Speaker 6: the ages. Now they've got a week off before they
- 6:47Speaker 6: begin the World Series Friday night right here in Milwaukee.
- 6:51Speaker 5: You know, Drew, you put it right and you put
- 6:53Speaker 5: it correctly that... Even the most positive among us probably
- 6:57Speaker 5: could have looked at nothing but a game four loss
- 7:00Speaker 5: after Otani gets the homer, fires up the crowd, has
- 7:03Speaker 5: the big kind of hero moment for the Dodgers. And
- 7:06Speaker 5: you say to yourself, all right, well, I guess they're
- 7:09Speaker 5: in good shape to get one here. Like you kind
- 7:10Speaker 5: of get your dauber down early, but like you're down
- 7:12Speaker 5: four nothing. Obviously, you don't give up on this team.
- 7:15Speaker 5: You never would. The way they keep fighting back, they've
- 7:18Speaker 5: come back every game this series. And what they have
- 7:21Speaker 5: done is just so impressive, inspirational, powerful. just transcend it
- 7:26Speaker 5: that you say to yourself, wow, what if they came
- 7:28Speaker 5: back again to win the pennant in this fashion down
- 7:31Speaker 5: for nothing. And right away, they start chipping right away.
- 7:34Speaker 5: They start, you know, putting pressure on glass. Now, right away,
- 7:38Speaker 5: the good at bats. You know, right away, the woodpecking,
- 7:43Speaker 5: it's pretty incredible. And you put it right. I mean,
- 7:46Speaker 5: the inning by Dustin, to put the zeros right after
- 7:49Speaker 5: was huge.
- 7:50Speaker 7: Just keep chipping away.
- 7:51Speaker 5: And then you could slowly see the confidence waning from
- 7:54Speaker 5: the Dodgers. They were the ones, the back-to-back champs, to say,
- 7:57Speaker 5: here we go again. Like, they were the ones to say,
- 8:00Speaker 5: I can't believe this is happening. Pretty impressive.
- 8:04Speaker 7: It was.
- 8:04Speaker 5: 877-794-1973.
- 8:05Speaker 6: NicolayLaw.com. Talk and text line. Billy's off, so we got
- 8:07Speaker 6: some room today. We have a good show lined.
- 8:09Speaker 7: Up for you. Tim Dillard is going to join the party.
- 8:11Speaker 7: We'll get his thoughts.
- 8:12Speaker 6: Old Tim Dillard from Brewers TV, friend of the program.
- 8:15Speaker 6: He's going to join us at 2.25-ish. Hunter Baumgart is
- 8:20Speaker 6: going to join us, we hope. He's been delayed a
- 8:22Speaker 6: little bit. He's traveling back from Los Angeles. He was
- 8:24Speaker 6: in the midst of it, providing great content on the socials.
- 8:26Speaker 5: He's confident we're going to get him out. He's confident
- 8:28Speaker 5: that the flight schedule should work out. We'll get him
- 8:30Speaker 5: at the Las Vegas airport. All right, we'll get him
- 8:32Speaker 5: at the Vegas airport at 3 o'clock. At 3.30... We're
- 8:36Speaker 5: going to catch up with my partner.
- 8:38Speaker 6: You need some historical perspective on a day like this.
- 8:41Speaker 6: And I put a tweet into the ether last night
- 8:43Speaker 6: about all the people you think of. And I didn't
- 8:45Speaker 6: even scratch the surface of people. I thought of last
- 8:48Speaker 6: night that, you know, a million thoughts go through your mind.
- 8:50Speaker 6: I'm sure everybody felt kind of the same way. Like
- 8:53Speaker 6: this was redemption. This was payback for last year for
- 8:58Speaker 6: Pete Alonzo, for pools and Molina. And, you know, those guys,
- 9:03Speaker 6: Adam Wainwright and, and, uh, La Russa for those guys,
- 9:08Speaker 6: for Sean Markham and the Phillies and Trent Grisham.
- 9:12Speaker 7: All those names.
- 9:13Speaker 6: All the names.
- 9:14Speaker 3: Names.
- 9:14Speaker 7: That's what everyone was going through. All the names through
- 9:17Speaker 7: the ears.
- 9:17Speaker 2: Ron Robinson, names.
- 9:19Speaker 6: I mean, the names, the names, yes.
- 9:20Speaker 7: Nick Neugebauer.
- 9:22Speaker 6: The 82, yeah, the Nick Neugebauers, the Kevin Barkers, the
- 9:25Speaker 6: guys that didn't work out, the Jeffrey Hammonds, Joggin' Jeffrey.
- 9:29Speaker 6: It just comes back to you in a flood. So
- 9:32Speaker 6: today of all days, we'll catch up with my former
- 9:35Speaker 6: running mate in the press box, And one of my
- 9:37Speaker 6: dear friends, Tom Hardercourt, the Prince of Darkness, joins us
- 9:40Speaker 6: at 3.30. He was one of the guys I was
- 9:42Speaker 6: on a text with last night. I was texting a
- 9:43Speaker 6: lot of people as the Brewers capped off this stellar,
- 9:48Speaker 6: stellar run in the NLCS, still going on.
- 9:51Speaker 7: But I was texting Hardercourt.
- 9:53Speaker 6: I was catching up with my pal Dan Needles, the
- 9:55Speaker 6: sports director emeritus at WISN 12 here in Milwaukee. And
- 10:00Speaker 6: we're all just like, you know, is hell freezing over?
- 10:02Speaker 6: This feels surreal. It feels a little bit, and this is, again,
- 10:06Speaker 6: you'll have to take a knee. You youngsters out there,
- 10:09Speaker 6: take a knee. Helmet's not a chair. Gather round. It
- 10:12Speaker 6: feels a little bit like when the Badgers broke through
- 10:14Speaker 6: and started going to Rose Bowls and they got good after, what,
- 10:18Speaker 6: 50 years of ineptitude?
- 10:21Speaker 7: In football.
- 10:21Speaker 6: And when they went to a final four, that kind
- 10:24Speaker 6: of stuff was unfathomable. The bucks, their 50 year quest
- 10:27Speaker 6: to slake that championship thirst. It felt like that. It
- 10:31Speaker 6: felt like when the Packers, you know, if you're not
- 10:33Speaker 6: old enough to remember the Brett Favre run and Reggie
- 10:36Speaker 6: white signing with them and all the things that led
- 10:37Speaker 6: to that Superbowl 31 victory, it just felt that it
- 10:43Speaker 6: feels that.
- 10:44Speaker 7: Fresh again, you know, winning never gets old.
- 10:47Speaker 6: You know, the Dodgers might have been a little blase
- 10:49Speaker 6: after winning two, and that's a big grind and everything,
- 10:51Speaker 6: but it never really gets old.
- 10:53Speaker 7: It doesn't get old, but it does.
- 10:54Speaker 5: Don't you think in some situations it can lose? You
- 10:57Speaker 5: can become a little bit less sensitized?
- 11:00Speaker 6: Maybe, but for us, it couldn't be more fresh because
- 11:03Speaker 6: 44 years is a long time.
- 11:04Speaker 7: So everybody's got their own bank of memories. about the
- 11:07Speaker 7: Brewers and.
- 11:08Speaker 6: All the suffering over all the years and all the
- 11:11Speaker 6: bitching about the good players they had to trade because
- 11:12Speaker 6: they couldn't afford them and, you know, players they couldn't
- 11:15Speaker 6: draft because they didn't want to, you know, spend big
- 11:17Speaker 6: money and all the things that all washes down the
- 11:20Speaker 6: river now. And it's just the only, you know, it's joy.
- 11:24Speaker 6: It's absolute unbridled joy that you feel. And it has become,
- 11:30Speaker 6: I should put it on a t-shirt, trademark it, come
- 11:32Speaker 6: a mantra of mine that 90% of being a fan
- 11:35Speaker 6: is getting kicked in the cup, kicked in the Jimmy,
- 11:37Speaker 6: because you know, you're, you know, you don't get the
- 11:40Speaker 6: date with the pretty girl. She says no, or you
- 11:43Speaker 6: screw something up or you, it just, that's sports is
- 11:47Speaker 6: like that. Your team will not always win. Things don't
- 11:50Speaker 6: always go your way, but this is the exception. This
- 11:54Speaker 6: is the 10%. And we had, You know, we've had,
- 11:57Speaker 6: I like to think that if you grew up at
- 11:59Speaker 6: a certain point, like if you grew up, if you
- 12:01Speaker 6: were born past whatever it was, October 20th, 82, you've
- 12:04Speaker 6: never lived in a time when the Brewers were in
- 12:06Speaker 6: the World Series.
- 12:07Speaker 7: And now you are.
- 12:08Speaker 3: I haven't.
- 12:08Speaker 7: This is a new experience for me, Drew. Now you haven't.
- 12:10Speaker 6: You had to live it through grainy films, YouTube, and
- 12:14Speaker 6: VHS tapes.
- 12:17Speaker 7: And all the moments we saw and the memories.
- 12:19Speaker 5: And now we have finally, and I know a lot
- 12:21Speaker 5: of people, and we don't know what's going to happen
- 12:22Speaker 5: in the World Series, but Drew, we have a pennant winner.
- 12:24Speaker 5: We have a team that can finally stand side-by-side with
- 12:26Speaker 5: the 82 Brewers.
- 12:27Speaker 7: Side-by-side.
- 12:28Speaker 3: Absolutely.
- 12:29Speaker 6: And maybe they'll get a parade and invite the 82
- 12:31Speaker 6: guys along to wave in the convertibles. But yeah, obviously...
- 12:35Speaker 6: It's funny. The Brewers are headed to the World Series.
- 12:37Speaker 6: It'll start Friday, Milwaukee. They have home field advantage. They
- 12:39Speaker 6: will be heavily favored. And don't worry, folks. For all
- 12:43Speaker 6: the bitching you did about the national media, like favoring
- 12:46Speaker 6: the Dodgers, the Brewers are the show now. They're the
- 12:48Speaker 6: big dog. They're the favorite. They're the freight train. They're
- 12:51Speaker 6: the team that's going to have the bigger payroll. They're
- 12:54Speaker 6: the team with the expectations going in. Because is there
- 12:57Speaker 6: anybody out there who has a preference over Tampa or Cleveland?
- 13:01Speaker 6: I don't think anybody cares.
- 13:03Speaker 5: I mean, I think there's different aspects to both. You know,
- 13:07Speaker 5: in terms of, do you have a preference in terms of,
- 13:08Speaker 5: are you trying to go to a game?
- 13:10Speaker 7: Do you want a crowd? Do you want a style? Yeah,
- 13:11Speaker 7: but in terms of... In terms of matchups, no. No,
- 13:14Speaker 7: you don't have a preference.
- 13:14Speaker 5: I mean, they both have... I mean, Tampa Bay was
- 13:16Speaker 5: technically the better team, but does that mean that Cleveland
- 13:19Speaker 5: couldn't beat you? At this point, it's kind of a
- 13:20Speaker 5: horse apiece, don't you think?
- 13:22Speaker 7: Yeah. I mean, they have, you know.
- 13:24Speaker 5: Cleveland has great play. Kate Smith and Ramirez. And you
- 13:26Speaker 5: think of the guys on each team, Caminero on the race.
- 13:29Speaker 3: Sure.
- 13:29Speaker 7: But I agree with you.
- 13:30Speaker 5: There isn't one where you say, oh, this is a
- 13:32Speaker 5: much better matchup than us. I mean, you're going to
- 13:34Speaker 5: have to win four games against a good team either way.
- 13:36Speaker 5: So I would totally agree with you. I think it's
- 13:38Speaker 5: just personal preference at this point in terms of your own,
- 13:41Speaker 5: you know, situation, but not in terms of a matchup.
- 13:46Speaker 5: I don't care who we play. It would be kind
- 13:48Speaker 5: of cool if it was Cleveland. I think just because
- 13:50Speaker 5: the atmospheres would be better. You know, I don't think
- 13:54Speaker 5: in terms of like, no one's going to look at
- 13:55Speaker 5: you like the 87 Twins now and say, well, they
- 13:58Speaker 5: won the World Series, but this was an 85-win team
- 14:00Speaker 5: and all this stuff.
- 14:01Speaker 7: You just beat the Dodgers and you swept them.
- 14:03Speaker 5: So if you win it all, there's going to be
- 14:06Speaker 5: no Mickey Mouse aspect to this ring at all.
- 14:08Speaker 7: So it doesn't matter who you play at this point,
- 14:10Speaker 7: what matchup it is. No team.
- 14:14Speaker 6: That plays postseason series in any one of the major
- 14:18Speaker 6: North American men's professional sports Had ever swept a team,
- 14:22Speaker 6: it had gotten swept by the year before since Elgin
- 14:25Speaker 6: Baylor's 1967-68 Lakers flipped the script against Nate Thurman's Warriors.
- 14:31Speaker 5: If I hear the names Elgin Baylor and Nate Thurman,
- 14:33Speaker 5: I know we're in rarefied air. That's pretty awesome. What
- 14:39Speaker 5: an amazing lift to the heavens this has been. This
- 14:42Speaker 5: last four, five days, you get the first game and
- 14:46Speaker 5: you're excited. You know, wow, we got a game off
- 14:49Speaker 5: the Dodgers right away. That first one in the mid-start
- 14:52Speaker 5: didn't get swept. Boom, you get another one. You're like, wow,
- 14:54Speaker 5: we're up 2-0 going to L.A. We got a shot
- 14:57Speaker 5: at this thing. You win game three, and then you
- 14:59Speaker 5: start to taste this glory. And then last night, you know,
- 15:04Speaker 5: it was the most, maybe because it was us, Drew,
- 15:06Speaker 5: it felt the most trepidatious of any 3-0 lead. Just
- 15:09Speaker 5: because you know if you're down one, then you have
- 15:12Speaker 5: to deal with Scooble in game five. And then you
- 15:15Speaker 5: might start to pucker if you had to go home
- 15:16Speaker 5: in game six.
- 15:17Speaker 7: No question.
- 15:18Speaker 5: And the reality is you just weren't comfortable even last night.
- 15:21Speaker 5: I mean, what a great comeback to get the lead. Garrett,
- 15:24Speaker 5: a hero moment. However, you had 12 of the toughest
- 15:26Speaker 5: outs you're ever going to get. And JoJo was in
- 15:29Speaker 5: trouble in the sixth. Ashby had to deal with a
- 15:32Speaker 5: guy in third with one out in the seventh and
- 15:35Speaker 5: the eighth. I mean, just getting out of each jam,
- 15:38Speaker 5: just ice water. What an incredible job he's done. And
- 15:42Speaker 5: then David Hamilton. I mean, out of nowhere, with his
- 15:45Speaker 5: hero moment. You guys want an insurance home run from
- 15:47Speaker 5: a guy that never hits homers?
- 15:48Speaker 7: Oh, sure.
- 15:49Speaker 5: Why not?
- 15:49Speaker 7: I mean, that was just.
- 15:51Speaker 5: It's just icing on the cake, Drew, to be able
- 15:54Speaker 5: to sweep this team. Not just win this series. We've
- 15:58Speaker 5: all been happy with that. But to sweep this team,
- 16:00Speaker 5: it just feels like we've been lifted to the heavens.
- 16:03Speaker 5: We've been floating on clouds now for 12 hours.
- 16:06Speaker 6: If you factor in luxury tax and payroll, the difference...
- 16:11Speaker 6: in monetary outlay between these two teams was $ 378 million.
- 16:16Speaker 7: Unbelievable.
- 16:17Speaker 6: Brewers, $ 144 million. The Dodgers, $ 522 million. That is the
- 16:23Speaker 6: David Goliath. That is the ultimate underdog. That is the
- 16:26Speaker 6: United States hockey team beating the Russians, basically. And that's
- 16:29Speaker 6: how shocking this was. But the Brewers, yes, they were
- 16:32Speaker 6: the best team throughout the season. Yeah, can't take that
- 16:34Speaker 6: away from them. But they got swept last year. And
- 16:37Speaker 6: the Dodgers are still the Dodgers. Now, that's a dying dynasty.
- 16:39Speaker 6: They're aging out. They're getting older. But what the Brewers
- 16:43Speaker 6: did is captivating. And so we're reveling in it. We
- 16:48Speaker 6: want your thoughts. 877-794-1973 to get you in. A lot
- 16:51Speaker 6: of texts already.
- 16:53Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 16:53Speaker 6: So, yeah, we'll spin through those. We'll take your thoughts.
- 16:56Speaker 6: And we're just going to have some fun today and
- 16:58Speaker 6: just bask in it. Because, again, this is the payback.
- 17:02Speaker 6: This is the 10% for 90% of getting tortured. And
- 17:06Speaker 6: I talked to someone, the Brewers had the watch party
- 17:09Speaker 6: last night at American Family Field and they capped it
- 17:12Speaker 6: because of staffing and everything.
- 17:14Speaker 7: It was the first time they've done this.
- 17:15Speaker 6: It was 16,000 people went in and had a party
- 17:19Speaker 6: and watched the game. And it was almost, you know,
- 17:21Speaker 6: the next best thing to be in at Dodger Stadium
- 17:23Speaker 6: was being at AmFam Field. There were years when they
- 17:26Speaker 6: averaged 16,000 at County Stadium. That was their average attendance.
- 17:30Speaker 7: It's amazing.
- 17:31Speaker 6: For a championship season game.
- 17:33Speaker 5: The biggest attendance in county stadium history. The only time
- 17:36Speaker 5: it went over 2 million, I think, maybe one other time,
- 17:38Speaker 5: was in 83, the year after.
- 17:39Speaker 7: They won the pennant.
- 17:41Speaker 5: And it's just been like the absolute 180 since we
- 17:45Speaker 5: built the new stadium.
- 17:46Speaker 7: Well, new stadium, but like we built the stadium. And
- 17:49Speaker 7: you're right, Drew.
- 17:49Speaker 5: That was, they didn't have that at all. And now, yes,
- 17:54Speaker 5: filling the stadium, being there for just a game. Like
- 17:57Speaker 5: this team, like they have to open this stadium for
- 18:00Speaker 5: the road games, right?
- 18:00Speaker 7: The world series. I mean, we're going to get to
- 18:01Speaker 7: all that. I know you would think so.
- 18:03Speaker 5: I just want to hear from people today in there
- 18:04Speaker 5: and everyone's got a story, a journey, and that this is,
- 18:07Speaker 5: this has been such a long time and a lot
- 18:10Speaker 5: of years of waiting, hoping, dreaming, investing emotion, money, time,
- 18:16Speaker 5: and being a fan, loving your team, genuine love for
- 18:20Speaker 5: your ball club and your, and in your community that
- 18:23Speaker 5: is finally the pay, the taxes paid finally.
- 18:26Speaker 7: To go to a World Series. I mean, this was,
- 18:28Speaker 7: and listen, we get it.
- 18:30Speaker 5: I mean, I think everyone gets the feeling, and I
- 18:34Speaker 5: get why the prices are so high, right, right now,
- 18:36Speaker 5: because everyone wants to go. Everyone gets the feeling, but Drew,
- 18:38Speaker 5: you lived it in so many ways, as described, seeing
- 18:42Speaker 5: so many of those teams, you know, and so many
- 18:44Speaker 5: of those journeys, and in different ways, hope that there
- 18:48Speaker 5: might be a way, like this new group of Brewers
- 18:50Speaker 5: might be the one. This new group of Brewers might
- 18:52Speaker 5: be the one. This team might be the one. And
- 18:54Speaker 5: the fact that we're sitting here October 16, 2026. And
- 18:58Speaker 5: it's real. The Brewers are going to the World Series.
- 19:03Speaker 5: It's an overwhelming thing. You know, it's an awesome moment.
- 19:06Speaker 5: It is.
- 19:07Speaker 6: And again, like a lot of stars on this team,
- 19:10Speaker 6: the way they did it, it's very endearing.
- 19:11Speaker 7: It's captivating. It's historic. It's galvanizing the community.
- 19:17Speaker 6: How about this? The Bucs announced that they're moving their
- 19:21Speaker 6: home opener on Friday. We were talking about the possible conflicts.
- 19:24Speaker 6: By the way, the Packers now have the stage on Sunday,
- 19:28Speaker 6: and we will talk to Wayne Larravee about their game
- 19:30Speaker 6: against the Cowboys on Sunday night football at 4.30. So
- 19:32Speaker 6: if your football fix will be filled on this football Friday.
- 19:37Speaker 7: Badgers have a big game in L.A.
- 19:38Speaker 6: Where they're still cleaning the champagne off the carpets in
- 19:40Speaker 6: the Dodgers' visiting clubhouse.
- 19:42Speaker 7: They had a great time.
- 19:43Speaker 6: Badgers playing UCLA this weekend. Packers against the Bruins at the...
- 19:49Speaker 6: Rose Bowl, which could be epic on Saturday night. Again,
- 19:53Speaker 6: the deck is cleared for you to watch that game.
- 19:57Speaker 6: You've got some Admirals hockey this weekend. The Bucs moving
- 20:01Speaker 6: their home opener next Friday to 3 o'clock to avoid
- 20:04Speaker 6: conflict directly with game one. Game two of the World
- 20:07Speaker 6: Series will go directly against the Badgers and USC. But
- 20:11Speaker 6: these are what we call around here good problems. It's
- 20:15Speaker 6: good problems when your team is vying for a championship.
- 20:17Speaker 6: It's good stuff. Good problems to have. People are, you
- 20:22Speaker 6: know what, ticket prices being astronomical for the World Series.
- 20:26Speaker 7: Also, to me, even though it's frustrating, it's a good problem.
- 20:29Speaker 7: I mean, it kind of is. Better than the alternative.
- 20:31Speaker 7: I've talked to crafty people. It tells you how much
- 20:32Speaker 7: we care. I've talked to crafty.
- 20:34Speaker 6: People who are planning trips to Cleveland and Tampa right
- 20:36Speaker 6: now because they can go for cheaper and go experience it.
- 20:40Speaker 7: They want to be part of it. Everybody wants a
- 20:42Speaker 7: piece of this.
- 20:42Speaker 5: Not to get too far into this discussion, but do
- 20:44Speaker 5: you think the market will settle a bit on these tickets?
- 20:46Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 20:48Speaker 7: I did. I do. But I don't know, man. I
- 20:49Speaker 7: don't know, man.
- 20:51Speaker 6: I brought up the analogy yesterday, and we'll be talking
- 20:53Speaker 6: about it all next week.
- 20:55Speaker 7: But now they got to finish. They got there. They
- 20:58Speaker 7: broke through. Yeah.
- 20:59Speaker 6: And not winning the World Series at this point would
- 21:01Speaker 6: be a little bit like the 1980 Miracle on Ice U.S.
- 21:05Speaker 6: Olympic hockey team losing to Finland in the gold medal game.
- 21:08Speaker 6: And remember, they wouldn't have gotten a medal for that.
- 21:10Speaker 6: There's no medal for second place in the World Series.
- 21:14Speaker 6: They wouldn't have gotten a medal. That's about what it's
- 21:16Speaker 6: going to seem like.
- 21:16Speaker 7: The Brewers are going to go in. Here's the thing.
- 21:18Speaker 6: They're going to flip it. They're going to instantly go
- 21:21Speaker 6: from the hunter and the sweepy to the hunted And
- 21:25Speaker 6: the sweeper. And in the World Series, no matter which
- 21:29Speaker 6: team they face, if they face Cleveland, the Brewers will
- 21:31Speaker 6: have twice the payroll of the Indians. That doesn't happen
- 21:34Speaker 6: during the regular season hardly ever. And it could happen
- 21:37Speaker 6: in the World Series. A lot of them aren't playing.
- 21:39Speaker 6: The Brewers have 25% higher payroll, I think, than even
- 21:44Speaker 6: more than that. Maybe 40% higher than the Rays. So
- 21:47Speaker 6: the Brewers are going to be the big payroll team.
- 21:49Speaker 6: The big spenders. in the World Series. But they're still
- 21:52Speaker 6: going to be the underdog in this market and because
- 21:54Speaker 6: of the way they're made up and because of the
- 21:55Speaker 6: way Murph has them playing. It's just been a blast
- 21:58Speaker 6: and it's only going to get better. It's the Friday
- 22:00Speaker 6: edition of The Huddle. Billy is out. We're going to
- 22:03Speaker 6: go to our bench. Tim Dillard from Brewers TV is
- 22:06Speaker 6: going to join us directly.
- 22:08Speaker 7: You are in The Huddle, Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 22:41Speaker 6: Back on the huddle fox sports radio 920 milwaukee 1070
- 22:45Speaker 6: madison iheart radio app streaming now you can see me
- 22:50Speaker 6: facebook x and youtube for the masses for the for
- 22:55Speaker 6: the people brewers are going to the world series They
- 22:58Speaker 6: need to see you, Drew.
- 22:59Speaker 7: We haven't been able to say that since 1982.
- 23:02Speaker 6: 44 years later, we get to say the Brewers are
- 23:05Speaker 6: headed to the World Series. You can reach us on
- 23:07Speaker 6: the NicoletLaw.com talking text line 877-794-1973. We're going to be
- 23:15Speaker 6: talking to Tim Dillard momentarily from Brewers TV. He's a
- 23:19Speaker 6: brewer through and through. And again, last night was payback.
- 23:23Speaker 6: Last night was a reward. For all the years of disappointment,
- 23:29Speaker 6: nut punches, and everything else that has happened over these
- 23:33Speaker 6: years for the Brewers in between.
- 23:35Speaker 7: It's a payback.
- 23:36Speaker 6: It's like finishing a marathon, except we're still a couple
- 23:39Speaker 6: hundred yards from the finish line.
- 23:41Speaker 5: And there's still games to be played. There is, but
- 23:42Speaker 5: let's not worry about that right now. Not worried about
- 23:44Speaker 5: that right now.
- 23:45Speaker 6: Joining us now on the NicoletLaw.com talk and text line
- 23:49Speaker 6: from Brewers TV is our pal and yours. Tim Dillard
- 23:52Speaker 6: and Dilly, I was thinking of you last night because
- 23:54Speaker 6: you are a live wire when you watch games. What
- 23:56Speaker 6: was your reaction when Churrio ran down that ball for
- 23:59Speaker 6: the final out to send to the Brewers to the
- 24:02Speaker 6: World Series?
- 24:04Speaker 3: I left my seat.
- 24:05Speaker 9: I was up in the air, probably the highest I've
- 24:07Speaker 9: been in a while since I stopped doing box jumps
- 24:11Speaker 9: when I was a player. But yeah, it was the
- 24:14Speaker 9: only natural reaction. Like you just, ball was hit, you.
- 24:16Speaker 3: Were just in your seat and then boom.
- 24:19Speaker 9: I mean, hard to describe, but especially when I got
- 24:22Speaker 9: my 11 year old jumping just as high as I am.
- 24:25Speaker 3: I mean, it's a great feeling.
- 24:26Speaker 6: So there's so many heroes in this game, so many
- 24:28Speaker 6: stories just in a single game, and that's the way
- 24:31Speaker 6: the Brewers have been. You're starting to get, it's almost
- 24:35Speaker 6: like when the memory card on your computer or your
- 24:38Speaker 6: phone gets overflowing and you've got to delete some stuff,
- 24:42Speaker 6: like the cheerio at bat against the Padres and all
- 24:45Speaker 6: the big stolen bases, the big hits, the big Jake
- 24:50Speaker 6: Bowers at bats and Ashby, everything, all of it. What
- 24:54Speaker 6: stands out to you? as the top two or three
- 24:58Speaker 6: things that have happened last night or in the series
- 25:00Speaker 6: in general during this playoff run?
- 25:03Speaker 3: Wow. I mean, like you said, that's a lot to
- 25:06Speaker 3: cover there. You know, so we.
- 25:07Speaker 9: Have this thing that we do, broadcasters, and it's called
- 25:12Speaker 9: a Slack channel or.
- 25:13Speaker 3: Something that goes to sport radar.
- 25:15Speaker 9: If you have an obscure question about statistics or anything.
- 25:18Speaker 3: Like that, you can type it in. Anyway... I use
- 25:21Speaker 3: it every once in a while during the season.
- 25:23Speaker 9: And I actually got on there yesterday before the game
- 25:26Speaker 9: because I was curious about something. And they hadn't actually
- 25:29Speaker 9: been active since our last game that we covered in September.
- 25:32Speaker 3: So I just typed out and said, hey, is there
- 25:34Speaker 3: anyone there? And somebody typed back.
- 25:35Speaker 9: And my question was, when was the last time a
- 25:39Speaker 9: team in a championship series, National League, American League, whatever,
- 25:44Speaker 9: pitched or started three rookies? And the guy hit back
- 25:50Speaker 9: later and said it's only happened one other time in
- 25:52Speaker 9: the history of the game. And that was in 2020.
- 25:54Speaker 9: It was the Braves versus the Dodgers. So as soon
- 25:57Speaker 9: as Shane Drowan started the game, that means that the
- 25:59Speaker 9: Brewers started three rookies in the series. That, to me,
- 26:05Speaker 9: just speaks to how young this team is and how
- 26:10Speaker 9: amazing that is that they are able to accomplish this.
- 26:13Speaker 9: I mean, you can have.
- 26:15Speaker 3: all the veteran people that are out there or whatever,
- 26:18Speaker 3: but to play the.
- 26:19Speaker 9: Way they play, they're athletic, the youth helps. But when
- 26:24Speaker 9: you have a pitching staff, especially a starting staff this young,
- 26:27Speaker 9: that to me stands out big time. I mean, I
- 26:29Speaker 9: know there's a lot of big moments, but overall, just
- 26:32Speaker 9: the youth of this team and having this much success
- 26:35Speaker 9: is crazy.
- 26:36Speaker 6: Didn't last night encapsulate things, though, when Otani gets up
- 26:40Speaker 6: off the deck, hits a home run, he has his
- 26:42Speaker 6: moment of greatness.
- 26:43Speaker 7: You're down 4-0.
- 26:44Speaker 6: And it looked bleak. It looked like, all right, we'll
- 26:46Speaker 6: get them in game five. You know, the sweep is over.
- 26:48Speaker 6: And the Brewers clawed their way back with May shutting
- 26:51Speaker 6: them down and Romero and then Ashby. And just David
- 26:55Speaker 6: Hamilton with a home run.
- 26:57Speaker 3: Amazing.
- 26:58Speaker 6: I mean, Mitchell with another home run off a lefty.
- 27:00Speaker 6: The back-to-back home runs in game three with the lefty left.
- 27:03Speaker 7: I'll never off the Snell. Those you're never going to forget.
- 27:06Speaker 6: But the way they won that game, Dilly, when Otani
- 27:09Speaker 6: hit the home run, I thought, oh, we're at an
- 27:10Speaker 6: inflection point here because I thought the Dodgers were going
- 27:13Speaker 6: to win that game. And then, you know, then you're
- 27:14Speaker 6: facing Scooble. So it was as impressive as the sweep is.
- 27:20Speaker 6: There was a moment last night when it felt precarious.
- 27:24Speaker 9: Yeah, you're throwing a lot of big words at me.
- 27:26Speaker 3: I'm curious.
- 27:28Speaker 9: Inflection, I don't... I will say that the way they overcame,
- 27:34Speaker 9: you talked about a lot of the hitters, but what
- 27:36Speaker 9: about the starting staff for the Los Angeles Dodgers?
- 27:39Speaker 7: I mean, you're right.
- 27:40Speaker 3: They don't mess up a lot.
- 27:41Speaker 9: So when you start recycling and, okay, here comes Scoogle again,
- 27:45Speaker 9: here comes Yamamoto.
- 27:46Speaker 3: Here comes.
- 27:47Speaker 9: Blake Snell, I mean, these guys are no jokes. And
- 27:51Speaker 9: not to say that they got lucky to get past.
- 27:53Speaker 3: Them, but I will say that these guys are good
- 27:57Speaker 3: for a reason. They make adjustments. They make serious adjustments.
- 28:00Speaker 3: They got the glass now last night.
- 28:02Speaker 9: It's moments like that where you're just like you as players,
- 28:07Speaker 9: they have to feel like they can beat anybody and
- 28:10Speaker 9: you can coach all you want.
- 28:11Speaker 3: You can build in. I mean, same thing with your kids.
- 28:14Speaker 3: You can build them up.
- 28:15Speaker 9: You can talk about how good they are, but until
- 28:17Speaker 9: they go out there and actually, you know, beat a
- 28:19Speaker 9: juggernaut like that, I mean, that just fills these guys
- 28:23Speaker 9: with so.
- 28:23Speaker 3: Much energy that they can do anything.
- 28:25Speaker 9: So I, I mean, for them to kind of put them,
- 28:27Speaker 9: put a stop to it, sweep them and not have
- 28:30Speaker 9: to cycle back through those pitchers and But yeah, I
- 28:33Speaker 9: do want to bring up David Hamilton because I don't
- 28:35Speaker 9: know if y'all heard about what Pat Murphy said, told him- Yes,
- 28:37Speaker 9: that was awesome.
- 28:39Speaker 3: That is awesome. I mean, I wasn't there for that,
- 28:43Speaker 3: so I assume it's a true story. That is a
- 28:45Speaker 3: real thing. If you're going through the lineup, if you're
- 28:48Speaker 3: in the bullpen, and you're like, okay, what's this.
- 28:50Speaker 9: Guy done during the game? This guy's going to do this.
- 28:52Speaker 3: We've got our third baseman up in the grass. He's
- 28:55Speaker 3: probably going to bunt.
- 28:56Speaker 9: You start thinking about everything else except for, let me
- 28:59Speaker 9: just execute this pitch. You're not thinking about keeping the
- 29:01Speaker 9: ball in the yard. I thought that was brilliant. And
- 29:04Speaker 9: believe me, stuff like that is real in baseball.
- 29:07Speaker 7: Okay.
- 29:08Speaker 6: I was going to ask you a different question, but
- 29:09Speaker 6: you've opened it up to Murph's. And managers don't usually
- 29:14Speaker 6: give out anecdotes like that because they're kind of like, oh,
- 29:16Speaker 6: look what I did, right? But Murph let that one
- 29:19Speaker 6: slip last night. And I'm wondering, he does a lot
- 29:22Speaker 6: of that stuff. And people are, you know, the whole
- 29:25Speaker 6: gamers and Hall of Famers thing that he dropped at
- 29:27Speaker 6: the end, people are like, oh, did you have that
- 29:29Speaker 6: one in the, you know, did you pre-cook that one up?
- 29:31Speaker 6: Were you holding that one? He's like, no, it just
- 29:33Speaker 6: came to me. And I kind of believe that. But
- 29:36Speaker 6: his impact on this team, Dilley, you've seen it. We've
- 29:39Speaker 6: all seen it. since he took over. There were times
- 29:41Speaker 6: during the season. And even during the playoffs, when I thought,
- 29:44Speaker 6: why is he letting Mitchell face a lefty here? He
- 29:47Speaker 6: he's got, you know, Sanchez or Vaughn or somebody could
- 29:49Speaker 6: come in and pinch it.
- 29:50Speaker 7: And like, you could, I'm, I'm managing the game. Like,
- 29:52Speaker 7: why is he doing this?
- 29:53Speaker 6: And then you see Mitchell hit home runs off lefties.
- 29:56Speaker 6: And you're like, Oh, that's why he was putting into
- 29:58Speaker 6: the bank. And one of the things I've heard about
- 30:01Speaker 6: Murph and Dilly, you tell me if this is right,
- 30:03Speaker 6: that part of Murph's brilliance is managing veteran guys like
- 30:07Speaker 6: Yellich and Woodruff and coaching younger guys like the Cooper
- 30:12Speaker 6: Prats and Luis Laras who are still wet.
- 30:14Speaker 7: In the ears.
- 30:16Speaker 9: Well, I think, yeah, I think the common thread through
- 30:19Speaker 9: all this and what's something that Murph has mastered is
- 30:24Speaker 9: is being consistent. The whole game of baseball is built
- 30:28Speaker 9: on consistency. How many times can you do whatever.
- 30:32Speaker 3: It is the right way?
- 30:34Speaker 9: How many times can you get it done? And I've
- 30:37Speaker 9: had coaches in my career, you know, whether it's wherever
- 30:41Speaker 9: I've been all over the place, uh, that are just
- 30:44Speaker 9: inconsistent people. You don't know who you're going to be
- 30:47Speaker 9: in contact with the next day. You may have a
- 30:49Speaker 9: manager that's screaming at you. And the next day he's
- 30:52Speaker 9: trying to be your buddy. It's like, what in the world?
- 30:54Speaker 9: Or maybe you never see your manager, or maybe you
- 30:56Speaker 9: got a pitching coach. That's trying to tell you how
- 30:57Speaker 9: to throw a knuckle curve ball, you know, and once
- 31:00Speaker 9: you throw 30, I'm in a bullpen. And then next day,
- 31:03Speaker 9: then you bring it up like that, you This weird
- 31:05Speaker 9: stuff of just being a consistent person. Murph stepped into
- 31:09Speaker 9: this role and he was fully prepared in the way
- 31:12Speaker 9: that the team is going to react to a guy
- 31:16Speaker 9: the best way when he is transparent and authentic because
- 31:21Speaker 9: he's not going to do anything just to do it.
- 31:23Speaker 9: they trust him because he's a trust. He's a person
- 31:26Speaker 9: that they can, that is consistent. And to me, that
- 31:30Speaker 9: is what everything else is built around is the fact
- 31:32Speaker 9: that he is forthcoming. And yes, I think he shares
- 31:35Speaker 9: probably more than he should with us in.
- 31:37Speaker 3: The press on the media side. I mean, but we
- 31:40Speaker 3: love it. We love it. This stuff is great. He
- 31:43Speaker 3: is teaching the game of baseball, not just to his players,
- 31:46Speaker 3: but he's teaching it to us as well. And the fans.
- 31:49Speaker 7: It's one thing with the young players. Okay.
- 31:51Speaker 6: Cooper Pratt, not running out of ball, but then William Contreras,
- 31:55Speaker 6: not running.
- 31:55Speaker 7: Out of ball, right?
- 31:57Speaker 6: Taking pitchers out in the middle of a count. And,
- 31:59Speaker 6: you know, that, that, those are the kinds of things
- 32:01Speaker 6: fans love that kind of stuff. But Dilly, some managers
- 32:05Speaker 6: that can go awry. I remember covering a game. The
- 32:07Speaker 6: Brewers were placed. We're playing the Phillies in Philadelphia. Larry
- 32:10Speaker 6: Boa was managing them and his pitcher, his starter. I
- 32:13Speaker 6: don't remember who the kid was, but the starter went
- 32:15Speaker 6: three Oh on the first batter and Boa's.
- 32:17Speaker 7: On the top step screaming.
- 32:18Speaker 6: And I could see from the press boxes, jugular vein, uh,
- 32:21Speaker 6: And it was the first batter of the game. And
- 32:23Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, man, like, what is that? What's that
- 32:26Speaker 6: doing to the kid? What's that doing to the rest
- 32:27Speaker 6: of the team? And kind of like what you're saying
- 32:30Speaker 6: is a guy like that who's wired like that. That'd
- 32:33Speaker 6: be a lot to take over 162 games if he's
- 32:36Speaker 6: like that all the time.
- 32:38Speaker 9: Yeah, but it's your job as the manager to motivate
- 32:40Speaker 9: your squad. And I think he has the inside jokes
- 32:44Speaker 9: with every player. I think he has a relationship with
- 32:46Speaker 9: every player. He not just has a relationship with the team.
- 32:49Speaker 9: I think he tries to build relationships with every player.
- 32:53Speaker 9: And when you want to sit there and make a point...
- 32:56Speaker 9: You know, he can't play favorites. You can't just only
- 32:59Speaker 9: bench the young guys. You can't always find a young guy,
- 33:01Speaker 9: a position player, and be like, all right, I'm going
- 33:03Speaker 9: to bench this guy to prove a point. But I
- 33:06Speaker 9: don't think you're going to see a lot of managers
- 33:07Speaker 9: across baseball go and sit one of their studs.
- 33:10Speaker 3: And let's be honest, Chris, the stud, like, take him out? Like,
- 33:15Speaker 3: are you kidding? Why are you going to do that?
- 33:18Speaker 3: But I think his.
- 33:18Speaker 9: Bigger goal is I'm willing to sacrifice this moment, maybe
- 33:21Speaker 9: even this game, to set– the tone for.
- 33:25Speaker 3: What he wants. And it's almost like your kids, right?
- 33:28Speaker 9: You've got to play the long game. If you're one
- 33:30Speaker 9: of the parents out there that has a 10-year-old and
- 33:32Speaker 9: you're climbing the fence screaming at their coach about a game.
- 33:37Speaker 9: You're not playing the long game. The long game is
- 33:39Speaker 9: you want to raise good adults.
- 33:43Speaker 3: You want to raise a good ball player with perspective.
- 33:46Speaker 9: And that's the kind of thing that Murph is looking at.
- 33:48Speaker 9: So when he does stuff early in the season or
- 33:50Speaker 9: spring training and onlookers on the outside, we're like, what
- 33:53Speaker 9: does this mean?
- 33:54Speaker 3: What is he doing? He is playing the long game.
- 33:57Speaker 3: That is what he is doing. And that takes patience.
- 34:01Speaker 3: That takes some foresight.
- 34:02Speaker 9: You have to really get out and try to figure out, okay,
- 34:04Speaker 9: what's going to hinder this club?
- 34:07Speaker 3: And then you try to put a plan in place.
- 34:09Speaker 9: And a lot of that has to do with building
- 34:11Speaker 9: those relationships, building that trust, knowing that you do have
- 34:16Speaker 9: a plan and this is going in a direction that's
- 34:19Speaker 9: going to succeed for the team.
- 34:21Speaker 6: Tim Diller joining us from Brewers TV, friend of the program.
- 34:24Speaker 6: All right, Dilly, I've often said you can't win the
- 34:27Speaker 6: World Series before October, right?
- 34:30Speaker 7: People say, oh, you can't win it.
- 34:31Speaker 6: And I had a lot of people say, well, 103
- 34:33Speaker 6: wins is going to mean nothing if they don't win
- 34:35Speaker 6: the whole thing. I'm like, well, that's not really true.
- 34:37Speaker 6: But seeds can be planted. This is what we're talking about.
- 34:40Speaker 6: And to me, it's like I think the Padres Series
- 34:43Speaker 6: and the Dodgers Series in some ways were won When
- 34:46Speaker 6: the Brewers won the division in Pittsburgh, they didn't lay down.
- 34:49Speaker 6: They kept grinding. They got to 100. They got to
- 34:51Speaker 6: the best record, the number one overall seed. They kept
- 34:53Speaker 6: the foot on the gas. And then in the midst
- 34:56Speaker 6: of that, Murph made Yellich the captain and gave him
- 35:00Speaker 6: the seat. Everybody knew he was the captain, but they.
- 35:01Speaker 7: Made it official.
- 35:03Speaker 6: And what went into that stew? Because the Brewers have
- 35:06Speaker 6: had the best record before, but it almost felt like, ah,
- 35:10Speaker 6: these games don't mean that. They were still grinding. Before
- 35:14Speaker 6: the clinching game last night, they had early BP, and
- 35:16Speaker 6: there were a bunch of guys taking early BP. So
- 35:19Speaker 6: how key was that, that stretch after they won, and
- 35:22Speaker 6: how key was that that they went through this last
- 35:24Speaker 6: year to help them this year?
- 35:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
- 35:27Speaker 9: And you can even go back before the All-Star break.
- 35:29Speaker 9: They got swept by the Pirates. And they go in
- 35:33Speaker 9: the all-star break. I mean, I had to leave a
- 35:35Speaker 9: bad taste. So to come full circle, they clinch in Pittsburgh,
- 35:39Speaker 9: and then they go out with their A lineup and
- 35:41Speaker 9: their A studs.
- 35:42Speaker 3: To win the next day. I love that. Nothing changes.
- 35:47Speaker 3: Haven't reached the goal. Just keep playing this baseball.
- 35:50Speaker 9: And there's all this thing, well, we got to get
- 35:52Speaker 9: guys rest.
- 35:53Speaker 3: We got to get guys rest. So there was a
- 35:55Speaker 3: game where we were broadcasting. I think they were in,
- 35:57Speaker 3: I think, Philly.
- 35:59Speaker 9: And we were broadcasting from the UW Credit Union Plaza
- 36:02Speaker 9: outside the stadium.
- 36:03Speaker 3: And anyway, there was a game where.
- 36:07Speaker 9: They had someone out there. They left him out there
- 36:09Speaker 9: too long. They had a rebate up. And anyway, I
- 36:12Speaker 9: brought up on the show, like, man, why would you
- 36:13Speaker 9: get a rebate up right? Or yeah, like, why would
- 36:17Speaker 9: you get them up now?
- 36:18Speaker 3: It's too late.
- 36:18Speaker 9: And so anyway, I was kind of second guessing Murph.
- 36:21Speaker 9: Murph actually pulled me aside in the clubhouse when they
- 36:23Speaker 9: got back to town. He was like, I heard you
- 36:27Speaker 9: were unhappy with some of my moves.
- 36:30Speaker 3: And so I kind of explained that.
- 36:32Speaker 9: What the move was like, why would you get this
- 36:34Speaker 9: guy up if you weren't gonna.
- 36:35Speaker 3: Put him in?
- 36:36Speaker 9: And if you're gonna get him up, why didn't you
- 36:37Speaker 9: get him up sooner? And he kind of let me
- 36:40Speaker 9: behind the curtain a little bit on what he was
- 36:42Speaker 9: thinking and what he had going. So this guy wants
- 36:46Speaker 9: to win. He is pulling moves to win. And I
- 36:52Speaker 9: respect that because he didn't have to come and explain anything.
- 36:56Speaker 9: He's the manager, he can do what he wants.
- 36:59Speaker 3: I think that right there has tripled to every player
- 37:03Speaker 3: that this guy.
- 37:04Speaker 9: Wants to win, and you should too. And it starts
- 37:07Speaker 9: in the minor leagues. I mean, I've been on a
- 37:09Speaker 9: text thread with a lot of brewers. Rich Sweet, the
- 37:12Speaker 9: AAA manager, he's on there. And we're just praising him
- 37:16Speaker 9: because he is teaching these minor leaguers that it's all
- 37:20Speaker 9: about winning. And it's all about winning all the time.
- 37:23Speaker 9: And then, of course, the big leagues, you're expected.
- 37:26Speaker 3: To do that.
- 37:27Speaker 6: I'm thinking of guys like that, like Rick Sweet. I
- 37:29Speaker 6: go back to you, too, Dilly. Reed Nichols.
- 37:32Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 37:33Speaker 6: Jack Zarensik. Guys who had a hand. Tom Flanagan, who's
- 37:36Speaker 6: been there forever. It's a group effort and a group accomplishment.
- 37:39Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 37:39Speaker 7: A lot of guys people don't see. That's a great point.
- 37:42Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. In five seconds, I will.
- 37:45Speaker 9: Tell you, I have been a part of this organization
- 37:47Speaker 9: in some capacity since 2001.
- 37:49Speaker 3: When I was drafted.
- 37:50Speaker 9: There are people that have been here longer than me
- 37:52Speaker 9: that are getting to witness this World Series, and I
- 37:55Speaker 9: just want to give a shout out to them. There
- 37:56Speaker 9: are so many people that have sacrificed for decades. And
- 38:00Speaker 9: it's got to be sweet for them, and I hope
- 38:02Speaker 9: they enjoy it because this is an organization that has been.
- 38:06Speaker 3: Outstanding to me, to my family, to my friends.
- 38:09Speaker 9: To the people that I know. And this is just
- 38:12Speaker 9: a wonderful highlight on such a great organization.
- 38:15Speaker 7: That's awesome.
- 38:16Speaker 2: It is.
- 38:16Speaker 7: Thank you, Timmy.
- 38:17Speaker 6: All right, Dilley, we're going to talk to you more
- 38:19Speaker 6: as we move forward and get ready for Friday night.
- 38:20Speaker 6: Can't wait for Friday night. But on the way out,
- 38:23Speaker 6: this is the one thing I had to ask you.
- 38:25Speaker 6: As a pitcher, is there any part of you that
- 38:27Speaker 6: said Ashby should have gotten at least a chunk of
- 38:29Speaker 6: that MVP trophy? Bowers was awesome.
- 38:31Speaker 7: He deserved it. But so did Ashby.
- 38:35Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 38:36Speaker 9: I mean, you could also have probably gone Contreras, too.
- 38:39Speaker 9: I mean, there's a lot of different directions it could go.
- 38:42Speaker 3: Yeah, Mitchell. I mean, I get it.
- 38:44Speaker 9: But as a reliever, I have a shirt that I
- 38:47Speaker 9: used to wear around in the clubhouse.
- 38:48Speaker 3: A lot of us did. It said, relievers are people, too.
- 38:52Speaker 7: I love that.
- 38:53Speaker 3: That is awesome.
- 38:54Speaker 6: Well, I mean, Ashby's not wired that way, man, and
- 38:57Speaker 6: he'd pitch whenever, wherever you want him, but my God,
- 39:01Speaker 6: he was incredible.
- 39:01Speaker 5: Especially last night. I don't know how you get out
- 39:04Speaker 5: of those jams multiple times. And with all that was
- 39:07Speaker 5: on the line, he was so calm.
- 39:10Speaker 9: He's been in some big moments too, right?
- 39:12Speaker 3: He's married, got kids. This is the stuff that happens.
- 39:16Speaker 3: The more experience you get, you're able to handle those moments.
- 39:19Speaker 3: I thought his poise.
- 39:20Speaker 9: Throughout this entire playoff has been absolutely amazing.
- 39:25Speaker 3: If you're a reliever out there and you're trying.
- 39:26Speaker 9: To break in, watch what this guy does, how he prepares.
- 39:30Speaker 9: Watch how he is not overcome by the moment. That
- 39:32Speaker 9: is what they are trying to get all relievers to
- 39:34Speaker 9: be like.
- 39:35Speaker 6: It's spectacular. Dilly, let's enjoy the ride. We'll talk to
- 39:38Speaker 6: you next week, my friend.
- 39:39Speaker 3: All right, brother. See you then.
- 39:41Speaker 6: Tim Dillard, Brewers TV, friend.
- 39:42Speaker 7: Of the program. Oh, his perspective is so awesome.
- 39:44Speaker 6: It's fantastic. Yeah, we're going to be talking more about Murph.
- 39:47Speaker 6: Tom Hardicourt's going to join us as well as Hunter
- 39:49Speaker 6: Baumgart in the next hour of the program.
- 39:50Speaker 7: You're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
- 40:10Speaker 8: Mitchell sends a fly ball to right center field.
- 40:14Speaker 2: Tucker's going back.
- 40:16Speaker 8: Here it is gone.
- 40:29Speaker 7: Milwaukee takes the lead.
- 40:31Speaker 6: Here at Mitchell, Home Run bringing us back. Fox Sports
- 40:33Speaker 6: Radio Wisconsin, the huddle. Drew Wilson-Armond starting today. Billy is
- 40:37Speaker 6: out and it's killing him. He's in Rhinelander at his
- 40:39Speaker 6: buddy's wedding. The whole family.
- 40:41Speaker 5: Yeah, but he did tell me he's happy they swept
- 40:43Speaker 5: because he would have.
- 40:45Speaker 7: Missed game five.
- 40:46Speaker 3: I know.
- 40:47Speaker 7: Because he was doing speeches at the rehearsal.
- 40:48Speaker 6: He would have been doing speeches and been at the
- 40:49Speaker 6: reception and stuff, right?
- 40:51Speaker 7: Rehearsal dinner and all that, I would think.
- 40:53Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah.
- 40:53Speaker 7: The rehearsal dinner tonight. Yeah, that's right.
- 40:55Speaker 2: I'm sure.
- 40:55Speaker 7: I know my man Billy would have had his phone.
- 40:57Speaker 3: Ready and everything.
- 40:58Speaker 7: And no conflict with the Packers game on Sunday.
- 41:00Speaker 6: We'll talk to Wayne Larrabee coming up at about 425 today.
- 41:05Speaker 7: You can reach us 877-794-1973. Loving your text.
- 41:08Speaker 6: Time for our current electric superhero of the day. We
- 41:10Speaker 6: just talked to Tim Dillard. We're going to split it.
- 41:12Speaker 6: We're going to split the baby today, Armin. Got to
- 41:14Speaker 6: give it to Ashby and Bowers. A lot of guys
- 41:15Speaker 6: deserve it. I mean, actually, yeah, this whole Brewers team.
- 41:18Speaker 6: I mean, let's give it to the whole team. Current Electric, callcurrent.com,
- 41:21Speaker 6: the website for the best electricians in the area. They
- 41:24Speaker 6: have superheroes on the side of the van, superheroes inside
- 41:27Speaker 6: the van, superheroes with the customer service that they provide.
- 41:30Speaker 6: Check them out, callcurrent.com, this entire Brewers team.
- 41:34Speaker 5: You had a great post last night about that.
- 41:36Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
- 41:37Speaker 6: I would also say, I don't think legally, I mean,
- 41:41Speaker 6: maybe in a news hit we can during a top
- 41:44Speaker 6: of the hour or something. I don't think we can
- 41:46Speaker 6: play Jeff Levering's call.
- 41:47Speaker 7: No, but you hear it. It's out there.
- 41:48Speaker 6: If you know, you know.
- 41:50Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 41:50Speaker 6: Oh, my God.
- 41:51Speaker 7: The Brewers have won. He did an homage to Harry Doyle.
- 41:53Speaker 7: My knees buckled when I heard that.
- 41:55Speaker 6: He worked in a Uke reference, which he's done slyly
- 41:58Speaker 6: in previous occasions. I think the first home run. that
- 42:02Speaker 6: the Brewers hit after Uke's passing. He had to get up,
- 42:04Speaker 6: get up, get out of here. I mean, that dude is,
- 42:07Speaker 6: Jeff is on point. He had a great call last night.
- 42:09Speaker 6: The call you just came back with, I mean, Joe
- 42:12Speaker 6: Davis was pretty excited about a Garrett Mitchell home run.
- 42:14Speaker 5: I think we should all note that. He sounded great, too.
- 42:16Speaker 5: His calls were fantastic. Joe Davis is really good.
- 42:18Speaker 7: I don't want to hear about it.
- 42:19Speaker 6: They were good. Don't worry about the panel. Don't worry
- 42:21Speaker 6: about anything.
- 42:21Speaker 7: They're going to be picking.
- 42:22Speaker 6: They're going to be loving the birds. They're going to
- 42:24Speaker 6: be glazing your favorite team. David Ortiz was glazing Wisconsin.
- 42:27Speaker 6: They really were. Talking about Appleton, Green Bay. Even the
- 42:32Speaker 6: back half of the... of the A-Rod quote that everybody
- 42:35Speaker 6: got mad at. It was really tough to watch. It's
- 42:37Speaker 6: like when Mike Tyson got beat the first time, he
- 42:40Speaker 6: was trying to compliment the Brewers through the lens of
- 42:42Speaker 6: the Dodgers and whatever. We're not going to go down
- 42:45Speaker 6: that line because it's stupid.
- 42:47Speaker 5: No, but when you say heroes, I think about everybody,
- 42:49Speaker 5: like all the guys involved. And, you know, you talk
- 42:52Speaker 5: about the people you covered, Drew, all those years. Well,
- 42:54Speaker 5: Doug Melvin, Gord Ash, Jack Zarensik. I mentioned Tom Flanagan,
- 42:58Speaker 5: who used to be a clubhouse kid. Yeah.
- 43:00Speaker 7: And is now the farm director, and he's been there
- 43:02Speaker 7: from the beginning.
- 43:03Speaker 6: Tony Migliaccio is the guy that, when I think of
- 43:06Speaker 6: the Brewers, I think of people like that. People that
- 43:07Speaker 6: worked in the late Tom Skibosh, the PR director, Mario Zeno,
- 43:11Speaker 6: I think of Dick Hackett. I think Betty Grant, the
- 43:14Speaker 6: old receptionist at County Stadium that I used to deal
- 43:16Speaker 6: with all the time when I would call to talk
- 43:18Speaker 6: to Sal Bando.
- 43:19Speaker 5: Everyone's favorite Bob Kozlowski. Everyone's favorite Lorraine in the press box.
- 43:22Speaker 5: Sal Bando, like the ushers, the guys that you know.
- 43:25Speaker 5: Randy Olowinski, the director of security. Steve Ethier, who's in
- 43:27Speaker 5: charge of the building.
- 43:28Speaker 6: Rick Schlesinger, who's on the brink of retiring and might
- 43:30Speaker 6: do it with a ring and ride off into the
- 43:33Speaker 6: sunset and go to Arizona. And all these people have
- 43:35Speaker 6: put so much into it over the years. The development guys,
- 43:39Speaker 6: the farm system guys, and even like I mentioned Tony Migliaccio,
- 43:43Speaker 6: but there's also Jason Schager, the equipment guy, Dan Larea,
- 43:46Speaker 6: the traveling secretary.
- 43:47Speaker 7: I see them.
- 43:47Speaker 6: Everybody's like, oh, are you rooting for the brewers? I
- 43:50Speaker 6: root for them. I want them to be happy because
- 43:52Speaker 6: I've known them.
- 43:53Speaker 7: For a long time.
- 43:53Speaker 6: And I know the blood and sweat and tears that
- 43:56Speaker 6: they put into it. And Phil Rosowitz, who runs the
- 43:59Speaker 6: visiting clubhouse, all these guys, you know, are part of,
- 44:03Speaker 6: to me, they're the fabric of the Brewers.
- 44:05Speaker 3: They are.
- 44:06Speaker 5: They're the lifeblood of it. I mean, they're the ones
- 44:08Speaker 5: that keep you connected with the memory, and that's what's
- 44:10Speaker 5: so cool about it.
- 44:11Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 44:12Speaker 7: Matt Arnold and his crew, the Ivory Tower guys, like,
- 44:17Speaker 7: The scouts.
- 44:18Speaker 3: Sure.
- 44:18Speaker 6: The scouts who beat the Bushes and find the Cooper
- 44:20Speaker 6: Prats of the world and develop relationships and help sign them.
- 44:22Speaker 5: It was Verasierto and Luis Perez, the guys that first
- 44:25Speaker 5: watched Jackson Cherry was a 14-year-old in Venezuela.
- 44:28Speaker 7: Somewhere they were doing it.
- 44:29Speaker 6: I'm thinking about, you know, even the guys down at
- 44:32Speaker 6: the Timber Rattlers who are a part of this, too. Like,
- 44:34Speaker 6: everybody's connected to it in some way, and it's cool
- 44:37Speaker 6: to see them. And the unsung coaches like Jim Henderson, well,
- 44:41Speaker 6: Chris Hook, of course, Jim Henderson, Daniel Vogelbeck, And Charlie Green,
- 44:46Speaker 6: who has a huge role on this team, developing catchers.
- 44:49Speaker 6: He made Contreras a good catcher. And he runs the
- 44:51Speaker 6: bullpen and gets those guys fired up and confident. It's
- 44:55Speaker 6: just everybody. But I go back and back and back
- 44:58Speaker 6: to Phil Garner. Guys that were really good baseball people,
- 45:03Speaker 6: very close, worked very hard to try and have this
- 45:05Speaker 6: dream come true for the Brewers. And Ned Yost, who
- 45:08Speaker 6: went on and went to a couple World Series with
- 45:10Speaker 6: the Royals, winning one. He helped change the culture back
- 45:14Speaker 6: in the day. It didn't lead to instant benefits, but
- 45:16Speaker 6: he laid the foundation. I think a Craig Council had
- 45:19Speaker 6: a hand in this.
- 45:20Speaker 7: Going to piss people off.
- 45:20Speaker 6: There's no question it's true, though. I mean, he has
- 45:23Speaker 6: a relationship with Pat Murphy. Yeah, Murphy wouldn't be here
- 45:25Speaker 6: if it wasn't for counsel. We'll talk about all this
- 45:28Speaker 6: and more. Hunter Baumgart's going to join us from the airport.
- 45:30Speaker 7: Coming up, you're in the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.