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09/15/26 - Hour 3 · The Huddle

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  Speaker 1: Tuesday edition of The Huddle continues from headquarters. Welcome in
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  Speaker 1: to the 7 o'clock club. You're as welcome as the
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  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock clubbers just two hours later.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we won't hold it against you. We won't hold
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  Speaker 2: it against you, but attendance is being.
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  Speaker 3: Taken, so we're glad you're here. You're just different. It's
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  Speaker 3: like when you walk on the plane and the way
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  Speaker 3: those first-class people look at you when you're going back
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  Speaker 3: to coach. They give you that look like maybe if
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  Speaker 3: you worked a little harder. That's how the 5 o'clock
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  Speaker 3: clubbers look at the 7 o'clock clubbers when they enter.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's that judging.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. This is a safe space.
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  Speaker 1: This is a safe space.
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  Speaker 3: All are welcome.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing is, like, You can be in the
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  Speaker 1: 7 o'clock club, and then especially if you're streaming on YouTube,
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  Speaker 1: just go back around the podcast, listen to the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And then you're catching up. Then you're in. Yes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're in.
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  Speaker 3: 100%.
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  Speaker 2: That's a key thing to know when you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: Phrase That Pays comes up on Thursday for the Thursday
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  Speaker 2: Night Huddle.
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  Speaker 1: Very true. We'll be at Pottawatomie Sportsbook in the annex.
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  Speaker 2: You will not just be only able to know the
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  Speaker 2: Phrase That Pays if you were listening at 5. You
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  Speaker 2: can go on YouTube, listen to it all. have the
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  Speaker 2: phrase that pays and make sure you're hanging out on
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  Speaker 2: a Thursday night with us at Pottawatomie sports book in
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  Speaker 2: the annex, because a little birdie tells me this is a.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne Larrabee event that we have coming up. Outstanding.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be the destination.
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  Speaker 3: Dagger and some quesadillas. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's going to dagger.
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  Speaker 2: That patty melt that Drew ordered, that sounds more like
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  Speaker 2: something that might get a dagger. Or a couple of
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  Speaker 2: legendary moments do start with a light. A couple of
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  Speaker 2: lights might get daggered.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Billy. That chicken dinner is pretty strong, too. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. That's a nice thing, man. You get that hot
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  Speaker 3: chicken there. It's like you get your napkins, your bib,
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  Speaker 3: your drink, your beer, man. That's one you just got
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  Speaker 3: to go in on. I didn't go with the bib.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I should have. Maybe I should have put the
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  Speaker 3: bib on. I don't think like ever like a true bib,
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  Speaker 3: but there are sometimes maybe in my- Just the napkin.
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  Speaker 3: The napkin or like, it's so good. I'm eating that
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  Speaker 3: thing over the kitchen sink. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: My grandmother, Mary, used to always bust out the napkin.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. Had to.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Every restaurant, the nicer, the fancier restaurant- The bigger the
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  Speaker 2: bib was potentially going to fire out.
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  Speaker 3: That's old school, man. I love it. All right. Protect
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  Speaker 3: the blouse.
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  Speaker 1: It's buy or sell Tuesday, 877-794-1973. We didn't talk about
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  Speaker 1: it much the other day, but we did have an
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  Speaker 1: immaculate inning the other day.
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  Speaker 2: With this Peyton Tool cat who might not be a
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  Speaker 2: Miz caliber cat, but he is getting a lot of
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  Speaker 2: national attention because he's an interesting one to follow.
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  Speaker 1: That's for sure. Especially when you're going nine from nine.
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  Speaker 1: You're buying or selling that you would want to see
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  Speaker 1: an immaculate inning because I think we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: one with Miz someday.
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  Speaker 2: See, this is probably... I'm going to harmonize it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit here.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Because I would like to see the feet. I do
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  Speaker 2: get the FOMO if the event happens and I'm not there.
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  Speaker 2: I'd prefer that I see the no-hitter before I see.
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  Speaker 1: The immaculate inning in person. Statistically, you are three times
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  Speaker 1: more likely to see a no-hitter than an immaculate inning.
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  Speaker 1: Because I knew one was much more prevalent. 327 no-hitters
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  Speaker 1: in Major League history and then 124 immaculate innings. And
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  Speaker 1: that's nine pitches, nine strikes.
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  Speaker 3: Which is funny.
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  Speaker 1: And it's hot and heavy.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like one is celebrated a lot more, though,
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  Speaker 3: in our public kind of site. Yes. Like no one
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  Speaker 3: has ever, you know, I think we do it more
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  Speaker 3: lately as a sports community, a baseball-watching community, but it's like,
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  Speaker 3: The Immaculate Inning was never something you went to see
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  Speaker 3: growing up. You never thought about it. It's almost like
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't miss it if you weren't paying attention. But
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  Speaker 3: a no-hitter perfect game, even a cycle, people go crazy about.
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  Speaker 1: I saw Doug Jones throw one for the Brewers.
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  Speaker 3: Which is weird because he had all change-ups, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: And Hader had one for the Brewers a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years ago.
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  Speaker 1: That was the most recent. You were slightly more likely
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  Speaker 1: to see someone hit for the cycle. There's been like
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  Speaker 1: 354 cycles, 327 no-hitters. But 124 immaculate innings. Nine pitches,
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  Speaker 1: nine strikes. Strike out the side on nine pitches, all strikes.
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  Speaker 1: It can be a foul ball.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: There can be a little contact. It's got to be
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  Speaker 1: 0-2 count. But the immaculate inning is, it's a cool feat.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those quirky things. The cycle, too. The
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  Speaker 1: cycle is, I try, like, you know, the cycle is,
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  Speaker 1: it's a feat. It's more, it's like a, That, to me,
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  Speaker 1: feels more happenstance-y. Exactly. The cycle is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: like a hole-in-one in golf where you can be a
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  Speaker 1: crappy golfer and hit a hole-in-one.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I know guys who are great golfers playing their whole
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  Speaker 1: lives don't have one. Yeah, all due respect to my
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  Speaker 1: man Damian Miller. And then Kurt goes out and hits
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  Speaker 1: 115 yards.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. you know, and somehow it rolls through and it
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  Speaker 3: rolls through and it rolls in only stat where if
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  Speaker 3: you're actively trying to do it in theory, you could
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  Speaker 3: try and do worse than you could do. Like not
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  Speaker 3: your best. If that makes sense. It's like, if you
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  Speaker 3: were to try and roll ski ball, you're trying to
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  Speaker 3: roll every a hundred if you can. But if you're
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  Speaker 3: like trying to get one of each, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: a different game. So the cycle is obviously clearly a
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  Speaker 3: great day at the plate, like a 180. But like,
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  Speaker 3: if you start with the Homer and the triple and,
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  Speaker 3: and you're actively trying for a cycle, you're only trying
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  Speaker 3: for a single, it's a weird thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody ever tries for a cycle.
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  Speaker 3: That's my point.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe if you need a homer and your team is up,
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  Speaker 1: you might muscle up.
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  Speaker 2: Or if you need the triple and you're going to
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  Speaker 2: try to leg it out, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: It's more of a state of circumstance.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Yelich had two in a season in his MVP year,
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  Speaker 1: hit for the cycle twice. Both against the Reds. Paul
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  Speaker 1: Molitor hit for the cycle for the Brewers.
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  Speaker 3: Jody Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: So did George Kataris and Chad Moeller.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and Garrett and all those guys. So it's cool,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also, to me, more of a novelty. I'm
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  Speaker 3: more impressed seeing, you know, can you hit three homers
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  Speaker 3: in a game? Like that, to me.
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  Speaker 1: Two homers and two doubles is more total basis.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's where, I mean, and maybe this is just chicks
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  Speaker 2: dig the long ball. The multi-homer game, to me, is
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  Speaker 2: cooler than seeing the cycle. And maybe the maybe the
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  Speaker 2: immaculate inning army, because I think you're on it. We
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  Speaker 2: talk about it now more.
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  Speaker 3: We're big.
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  Speaker 1: We're big into efficiency now. Now, though, right? Like the
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  Speaker 1: whole world is.
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  Speaker 2: More into efficiency than the no hitter of throw 124 pitches, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like we're never seeing an Edwin Jackson no hitter again,
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  Speaker 2: where my man.
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  Speaker 1: Threw 145 pitches for, I think, the Rays. and completely
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  Speaker 1: blew out his arm.
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  Speaker 3: We're more likely to see team no-hitters now, which then
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  Speaker 3: makes us debate it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Which is maybe my favorite one for Sports Talk Radio, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because it gives us a beautiful 15 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: The next day.
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  Speaker 3: Which makes what our guy did, Panone, pretty much all
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  Speaker 3: that more special.
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  Speaker 1: Five Brewers pitchers in history have thrown immaculate innings. Doug Jones,
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  Speaker 1: as mentioned, 1997. That was his ninth inning. Ben Sheets
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  Speaker 1: against the Houston Astros in 2004. Okay, come on, Benny.
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  Speaker 1: Rick Helling. versus the Cincinnati Reds in 06. Wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: had that one on my card. Mike Fiers in 2015
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  Speaker 1: against the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: A couple soft tossers in there, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Enrique Hernandez, Carlos Frias, and Jock Peterson. And then Josh Hader, St. Louis,
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  Speaker 1: ninth inning in a save.
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  Speaker 3: 2019. Now, that makes it even better in a safe situation.
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  Speaker 3: What matters, we're really there to help your team, not
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  Speaker 3: just some random third inning on a Tuesday in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: And 19 would have been the year that he made
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  Speaker 2: the statement that I'm going to be the closer, correct?
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  Speaker 1: All good point.
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  Speaker 2: The arbitration going into 19 where he said, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: this is when I'm pitching.
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  Speaker 3: And was that ever public? Like that? He said, did
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  Speaker 3: he say it? Or was that just like figured out
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  Speaker 3: eventually that that's all the brewers were doing with him?
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember. You might be right, Billy. I just honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I remember there being, I don't know that he walked
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  Speaker 3: up to a microphone and told people, no, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: And then everyone started figuring out that he must've had
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  Speaker 3: this demand and maybe council alluded to it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it is pretty interesting. Cause it's like the whole crowd can,
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  Speaker 3: can be aware of a no hitter, but not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: an immaculate inning. And it's interesting that the Brewers, it's
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  Speaker 3: more rare, but the Brewers have had five of them,
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  Speaker 3: and they've only had the one no-hitter, well, plus the
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  Speaker 3: Burns combined one.
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  Speaker 1: The closer immaculate inning is cool. Rick Helling did it
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  Speaker 1: to open the game against Detroit. Curtis Grandison, famous tenor,
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  Speaker 1: Placido Polanco.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And Yvonne Rodriguez, Pud Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of pretty good hitters in there. Good hitters.
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  Speaker 2: First inning, nine pitches, nine strikes, struck out the side.
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  Speaker 2: That's the one we're going to see. Right, like the
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  Speaker 2: first inning one from Miz is one that is coming
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  Speaker 2: within the next year.
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  Speaker 1: Rick Helling was generally a pretty good dude. I think
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  Speaker 1: he was from, like, North Dakota or something. He was
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  Speaker 1: a pretty laid-back, chill dude.
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  Speaker 3: Long career, 12-year career, but the Brewers were the end
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  Speaker 3: of his career.
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  Speaker 1: Fun to talk to. But his immaculate inning, this is
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  Speaker 1: so Brewers. Like, he opens the game, strikes out the
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  Speaker 1: first three batters, three pitches each, nine pitches. Immaculate inning.
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  Speaker 1: Etches his place in history. The Brewers put two on
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  Speaker 1: in the bottom of the first with nobody out and
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  Speaker 1: don't score. And then opening the second inning, Helling's facing
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  Speaker 1: Maglio Ordonez. First pitch, home run. Not sliding one of
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  Speaker 1: those things by me, bud. And then in the third inning,
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  Speaker 1: he faced Ordonez again and gave up a three-run bomb.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: Helling pitched an immaculate inning to open the game, and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't make it out of the third, and the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers lost 10-1.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it loses a little bit of its luster in
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  Speaker 2: that moment, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 3: It kind of does.
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  Speaker 1: Now, here's one for you, because back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: when Ben Sheets... Kids, sit down. Let me show you
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  Speaker 1: the highlights. When Ben Sheets threw his immaculate inning in 2004,
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  Speaker 1: it was against Houston. And it also came in a loss.
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  Speaker 1: And it comes with an asterisk.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: Because Sheets was facing, in the order, 9-1-2. He struck
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  Speaker 1: out a pitcher. Pete Monroe struck out a pitcher. It's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't count. Pitch position player hitting a home run
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  Speaker 1: off a pitch player.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She struck out Pete Monroe, the Astros pitcher, Craig Biggio,
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  Speaker 1: and Jose Vizcayeno.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Biggio. That's worth two.
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 3: That's worth two. Come on, right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's a Hall of Famer, so yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Also, in the NL, you always got pitchers at the plate.
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  Speaker 1: Put that cape on, Armin.
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  Speaker 3: You can't sit there and not count the accounts. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: You can't do it. Rick Helling won 20 games in
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  Speaker 3: 98 through.
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  Speaker 1: With a 4-1 ERA.
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  Speaker 3: How is that possible?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, the game was different. I pitched a lot of innings. But, boy,
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  Speaker 3: it just shows you the quirks of the game. But
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  Speaker 3: you absolutely can count that. Yeah. You count that.
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  Speaker 1: You put that cape on. Some good pitchers get it.
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  Speaker 3: Put that cape on. All right. A pitcher can draw
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  Speaker 3: a fourth foul ball or a ball. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: how hard it is to solve.
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  Speaker 1: Doug Jones, when he got his, it was a save,
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  Speaker 1: and he struck out the Royals. Johnny Damon, Scott Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: and Rod Myers. And the Brewers won that game 7-4,
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  Speaker 1: but they still lost that day because it was a doubleheader,
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  Speaker 1: and they lost the second game.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man. Doug Jones. Drew, you ever think to yourself, like,
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  Speaker 3: can this guy throw slower? Jonesy was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: He just would throw slower and slower.
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  Speaker 3: He was awesome. He had that great kind of look
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  Speaker 3: to him too, like the Wild West kind of look.
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  Speaker 1: He totally did.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he was one of the absolute greatest dudes. He
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  Speaker 1: played with Rock. When we talk to Rock tomorrow, we
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: got to ask him about Doug Jones. Make a note,
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: we got to ask him about Doug Jones because Rock
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  Speaker 1: played with him and then was the announcer when Doug
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  Speaker 1: Jones came back.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Could he have thrown slower?
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  Speaker 3: He would change speeds off his change-up.
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  Speaker 1: Basically, every pitch he threw was a change-up, but he
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: would change speeds off his change-up. Some were harder and
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  Speaker 1: some were faster. It was unbelievable. It was like a
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  Speaker 1: Bugs Bunny change-up. It really was, because it was like
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  Speaker 1: the cartoon when the guy swings three times before the
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  Speaker 1: pitch hits the plate.
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  Speaker 3: Just waiting for it to get there? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of looked like... Todd Sanchez, every pitch he knows.
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  Speaker 3: He looked like a mix of Rod Beck and the
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: young Wilford Brimley, like a mix of those two guys.
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's too wild of a reference.
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: The diabetes guy, if anyone wants the reference.
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  Speaker 1: Wilford Brimley, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Anyway, but he was really effective for the Brewers
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  Speaker 3: for a while. I remember I had the leadoff magazine,
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: you know, the one you get at the Brewers games,
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  Speaker 3: and he was on the cover. I love Doug Jones.
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: Because those late 90s Brewers, you know, obviously didn't etch
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: their place in history, but they were pretty good for
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Considered to what was good for us in that era.
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  Speaker 3: They were close to 500, and they had good moments.
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  Speaker 3: So there were guys that you would get excited about
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: as a kid on some of those teams. But obviously,
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  Speaker 3: these are much more exciting times.
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  Speaker 2: These are much more exciting times. Yeah, these are much
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: more exciting times to be a Milwaukee Brewers fan, no
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the thought that you could clinch a division
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  Speaker 3: tonight on the 15th, And like not care. The best
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  Speaker 3: part of this is I, obviously I want the, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs to lose, to drop out, but you're right
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  Speaker 3: because they're, but the competition they're playing, you kind of
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  Speaker 3: want them to win to not have to worry about them.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is just, it's tremendous. What the Brewers
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  Speaker 3: have done this year, the place they put themselves in,
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  Speaker 3: they can get their clinch out of the way tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Not just fantastic clinching this early. You got to love it.
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  Speaker 3: So I hope we do it on a win. I
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: hope we know that if the Cubs lose that we
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: know they lose. when the Brewers win so they don't
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: have to have that awkward 15 minutes later in the
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: clubhouse or 40 minutes later in the clubhouse. Would be
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: nice to do it on a final out, catch and celebrate. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They have had a lot of those, but hey, I'll
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: take it any way they come. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not going to be greedy. I'm not going
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: to be too upset about it. I did see a
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: couple of folks repping the run and repping the already
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: playoff shirts that came out. I saw some folks out
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: at the Waukesha Sports Cards event that they had on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: There were some folks that stayed late into that 20
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  Speaker 2: to nothing decision on Friday night. Drew got themselves that
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: shirt right out of the gates. I like the fact
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: that we're already washed to it to the point where
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: when I was younger, I would have looked up immediately
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: to see what the shirt was.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: I looked at it.
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: Didn't, register into my mind that they had already clinched
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: the night before. That's how you have the in and
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: already that you were the first team to be able
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: to do it. Nike ended up debuting the 2026 playoff.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Look with you, which is kind of cool.
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's the design. No time. Like October is the
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: tag on the sweatshirt sweatshirt looks pretty sweet. So they
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: always have something new, the new tag. And yeah, so
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: I'll be looking forward to seeing those at the clubhouse
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: sale this winter, but well, you never know.
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Probably next year, next year.
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: Right. Exactly. But they actually kind of look cool. And
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: then when they have to come out with the playoff gear,
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: I do like the.
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: I got a hoodie from last year's playoff. I really
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: like the playoff hoodie this year.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: It's sweet.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: It's super awesome.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: It's got the MLB logo right above the Brewers.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: Right, right.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: Cool look.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: And it's got the blue and red logo, not the
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: team specifically.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: I'm wearing my Hank Aaron giveaway shirt.
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're wearing the jersey today. That's right. I noticed
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: that today.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Throw them fours up, baby. The best thing about this
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: is the sponsor tag. They've got the little Brewers old
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: school logo and then the UW credit unit tag down
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: at the bottom instead of on the shoulder. Instead of
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: on the sleeve, yes. It also looks more natural. It
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: looks like the Michelin nest.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: It looks kind of like the Michelin nest.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: A majestic thing or something or a Rawlings or whatever
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: it was.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: That's a really, really well done tribute to Hank too.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: They had a couple of good ones here.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: I don't generally wear gear, but Hank Aaron was like
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite athletes of all time.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: Well, he's a special one.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, Hank Aaron gets a, that's a special
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: exemption for everybody.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: And the fours are just still one of the best looks.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: Hammer and Hank, the 4-4 is one of still the
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: best numbers you can have. That's why Zaire Franklin looks
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: sweet trotting around in that green and gold this weekend.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: And, you know, of the 10 highlights of this thing
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: that I call a career is like the three times
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: that Tom Hodgecourt introduced me to Henry Aaron. Did you
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: say Mr. Aaron each time?
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Did he correct you each time? Or did he just... No,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: not at all. He's like, yeah, that's true.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: I am Mr. Aaron.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: That's true, yeah. I called him Mr. Aaron, yeah. And
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't call him Hank.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: No, 100%. Henry?
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Selig always referred to him as Henry. Yeah, but
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: there's certain people that you throw a mister in front of.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: And then I got to be a fly on the
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: wall and watch him chop it up with Uke.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: That's a winner.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Career highlights, those are up there.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. That must have been incredible.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Watching them break each other's balls was incredible. It was great.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: So good.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Too good. It was so good. But, yeah, Tom, because
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Tom had a relationship with Hank, going back to when
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Tom started his career in Richmond covering the Braves farm
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: team and Hank was the farm director. And Tom's wife, Trish,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: was then the assistant general manager of that team in Richmond.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: And she had a great relationship with Hank. So Hank
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: loved Trish more than Tom.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: I was going to say many people probably did. Three
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: times in my career, Tom dragged me over to introduce
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: me to Hank.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: It's like, let's go say hi to Henry. Okay.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Let's do it. Yes. All right. Sweet.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Let me be around that guy. Let me definitely not
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: act too excited as we walk over here. Buy or sell.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: This is something before we get to Hunter and flip
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: it over to some more baseball that we should be
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: concerned with. Dan Orlovsky of the Four Letter Network puts
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: out three teams who surprised me playing so well up
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: front in week one. Arizona Cardinals, Las Vegas Raiders, and
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: the New York Jets. Three teams who I'm concerned with
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: how poorly they played up front. The Denver Broncos, the
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles, and your Green Bay Packers.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I like me some Dan Orlovsky.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I really, I like Dan
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: a lot.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: And I guess I'll have to, I guess I'll have
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: to pain myself to go watch the game that only
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: a sports book could love of the Jets and Titans.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: If he was impressed by how well the Jets played
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: up front. I mean, it is as you do the
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: strength of schedules all off of how teams did a
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: year ago, the Jets were pitiful a year ago. They
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: didn't get an interception a year ago. They also heard
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: people talk about that for an entire year and now
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: actually maybe have some competent quarterback play and Gino Smith.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I will have plenty of time to be able to
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: dive into what we think of the Jets.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I just was not expecting somebody that I respect and
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: enjoy their NFL acumen saying that we had to be
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: concerned about the Jets this week.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Makes me nervous.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Of course it does, Armand.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Of course. I mean, why wouldn't it? I mean, everything
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: about this team does right now.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. When we come back. Boots on the ground.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Our correspondent. HB4. Hunter Baumgart, covering the Brewers in another ballpark.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I know he's been to Wrigley. I don't know if
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: he's been to any other ballparks covering games. Do you
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: remember him traveling? Did he make a St.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Louis trip last year?
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Might have.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: That sounds right. White Sox, maybe?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: He's supposed to be great, though. He's a great park.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I got some buddies that went out there.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I was supposed to go this year, and somebody forgot
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: to make the reservations, and I'm still wearing that one.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Hunter will join us next. Great job, Dad. You are
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: in the huddle, Fox Sports Radio. Drew Billion-Armond bringing it
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: to you on this Tuesday in the good land. Oh, baby.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart is in Pittsburgh covering the Brewers in a
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: potential clinching scenario at PNC Park this week. He joins
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: us now. Good morning, Hunter.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Good morning, guys. How are we doing this morning?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Fantastic. How's the Berg treating you? What do you think? Majestic,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: isn't it?
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: It is really cool. It is really cool.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: I haven't gotten a chance to walk around quite yet,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: but I'm looking forward to doing that. I have a
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: high school friend who works here. He used to actually
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: be on the Pirates grounds crew.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: So I saw him last night, and he kind of
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: gave me a little lay of the land so I
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: know where things are. And I saw a really cool
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: lookout last night, a view of the city and Steelers'
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Acquisher Stadium or whatever.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: It should be Heinz Field still.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: It should have still got a Heinz bottle on there. Right, right.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: They had Heinz ketchup at the restaurant we went to because,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: you know, it's a Heinz city.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, it's a really cool place.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Well, and we talked about it earlier on here, Hunter.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Not a great town for the limited gluten options because
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: the pierogies and the permanent sandwich is probably not going
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: to be in your wheelhouse. But it is good eating there.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of good time stuff. And
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: potentially a lot of Iron City getting shipped into the
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Brewers Clubhouse here today. What are the vibes like? Did
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: you run into more Brewers fans that made the pilgrimage
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: like you did yesterday as you were a gallivanting around PA?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: There were definitely some on the flights, uh, both from
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Milwaukee and then the connecting flight, um, as Armin was
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: tracking me from, uh, from Baltimore to Pittsburgh. And then,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: and then there was, and then when I walked into
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: the hotel, there was a guy with a, with a
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Milwaukee shirt on. So Yeah, there are definitely going to
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: be a very, I think there's going to be quite
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: a contingent of travelers. And I think people probably were like, oh,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: you know what? They could clinch here. If we're ever
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: going to go to see PNC Park, this would be
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: a time to do it and have kind of that
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: playoff-like atmosphere when you talk about a chance to clinch
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: and how exciting those games can be. And hey, if
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: you're coming for this series, you're seeing Miz, you're seeing Henderson.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: And of course, Dustin May on Thursday. But you're seeing
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: really right now kind of the top three for the Brewers,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: especially your top two. And with Miz on the mound
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: and a chance to clinch the central. Oh, that sounds wonderful.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: And the weather does look clear tonight. I know they
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: were predicting some rain last week, but I think it's
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: clear tonight, but possibly the next two days. So Brewers,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I'm sure we'd love to get it done tonight. Hunter,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: is that what you're seeing? How's the weather out there?
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is going to be beautiful tonight, tomorrow. Rain
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: chances come in on Thursday, but we'll see if it
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: looks later in the day right now. So hopefully they
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: can get in the game 12-35 Eastern, 11-35 Central on Thursday.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: But hey, wrap this up tonight. Just win tonight with
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Miz on the mound. And then the.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Cubs lose to the Braves after they... I mean, Braves had.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: The tying run at the plate last night in the
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: ninth inning after the Cubs were up 7-0. That bullpen,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: you never know what can happen. So we'll see if
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: it does happen tonight, but the weather looks great.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a bummer. The Braves scored all their
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: runs in the seventh, right?
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: And then.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Two on, nobody out in the eighth. Yeah, and then
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: threatened in the ninth. Yeah, Hunter, are you within walking
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: distance as your hotel within walking distance.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Of the ballpark? Yeah, so I'll go over that.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: That's key. Right over the Clementi Bridge.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and today's Clementi Day in baseball, which is really cool.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Wow, that is cool.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: It's cool to be in Pittsburgh for that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: So you'll see you'll see that kind of, well, I
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: saw MLB social media has went to that logo for the,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: for their, uh, you know, profile pictures. And so that's
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: going to be cool. Christian Yelich was named the Roberto Clemente, uh,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: nominee for the brewers yesterday for his work. He does
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: not only in Milwaukee, but beyond as well. So of
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: course that's kind of like the, it's a good equivalent
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: of the Walter Payton man of the year award in.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: The NFL, right?
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Where you have the off the field, uh, uh, contributions
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: that you get honored for. So Yelly is, it's his
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: second nomination. 2023 was his last one. So yeah, that's
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: really cool. And it's going to be cool to go
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: over that bridge and be in this Pittsburgh vicinity on
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: this day.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: They, uh, the 21 jerseys through my, uh, my toddler
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: for a loop last year, uh, while we were at
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Clemente day, uh, as many get to honor it and
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: it's a good one to be able to cool to
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: be in the city. When you get this kind of
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: a matchup and Miz on the mound, I don't know
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: if there's any other push. Listen, they got 15 days
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: to be able to clinch this. We got an idea
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: that it's going to happen sooner rather than later. But
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: did you feel any kind of drumbeat this weekend, Hunter,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: to try to get this out of the way? You
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: get Miz on the mound tonight. Obviously, Henderson backs him up.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: You need a little bit of help, at least from Atlanta,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: to be able to fully get the clinch. But did
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: you feel a little sense of urgency might be the
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: wrong word, but a little sense of urgency to get
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: this out of the way and then build towards what.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: The rest of the postseason ultimately is?
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Pat Murphy, you know, kind of he's
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: like at this point of the year, you can get
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: caught up in all the milestones you're trying to check off.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: And there's a bunch of them that they obviously want
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: to check off with. He's like, you know, we have
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: lofty goals and we want to get We want to
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: get as far as we can. So this is another
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: milestone to check off and to achieve what they ultimately
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: want to achieve. This is the next goal to do.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's get it out of the way.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: I think they're very good. And I asked Pat Murphy
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: this over the weekend. They're obviously focused. We know Pat
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Murphy's mantra is win tonight, right? So when you have
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: a win tonight mantra throughout the season, How much does
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: that help when you get to this point in the
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: season when you can catch yourself looking, oh, how many
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: wins do we need for a bye? How many wins
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: do we need for the division? How many wins do
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: we need for this and that and the other thing?
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: But when you're so ingrained in what Pat Murphy instills
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: in his players of win tonight, then you get to
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: this point in the season, and that's probably a bit
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: easier to do. And that's what Pat Murphy said. He's like,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: that is how we kind of have to live around here.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: That's the mantra we go by. And so that's not
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: going to change this time of year. So I do
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: think it's really day to day. but also they are
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: going to celebrate, right? They are going to, they did
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: the toast with the post-season clinch. And so now it's
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: going to be obviously a bigger celebration for the division.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: So they are making sure to, of course, have their
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: eye on the lofty goals, also stay in the day-to-day,
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: but then celebrate the moments. And Garrett Mitchell talked to
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: us about that when they clinched the post-season over the weekend.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Like you can't take these for granted. He knows that, right?
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: He's been, of course, around the team for some of these,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: but has, has rarely been kind of in the thick
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: of things, obviously as much as he has this year, what,
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: 130 some games played already for him, which is awesome.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: So they're definitely going to cherish these moments and also
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: make sure to keep it on the day to day.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Cause they want, they want the buy. They want the
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: one seat. They want, they want all of it.
• 25:12
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  Speaker 1: just North of eight 94. Hunter, can they lean into
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: this underdog thing when you win in the division again
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and you're going to have likely the best record in
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball again? And I just saw a story
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: on ESPN.com where they did a survey of people, like
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: who are the teams to beat, and the team to
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: beat in the National League by a single vote over
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers is the Brewers. They got six votes to
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: five for the Dodgers, and then I think the Phillies
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and Cubs got also receiving votes. Can they lean into that?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Are they embracing that? I know Murph often throws in,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: especially in national interviews, nobody knows who our guys are, blah, blah, blah.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Is that a vibe? Is that a thing? Is that
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: one of their rallying cries?
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, he probably will throw that in. Knowing Murph,
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: he'll probably throw that in a little bit. Is it
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: as valid as it was two years ago? Probably not, right?
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: I think just because simply the success that they have had.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: And look, players, especially players, but fans around the league,
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: media around the league, they know what the Brewers are
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: doing now. It's not like they're just winning the division
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: by a game or two. They're looking to have the
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: best record in baseball for two years in a row.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: So I think that is significant. The team to beat,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: the Brewers are not the team. That I disagree with.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: I think there's still an underdog component because of the
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: payroll difference with the Dodgers. The Dodgers are looking for
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: their third straight World Series. How in the world can
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: the Dodgers not be the ones to beat?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: That makes sense.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: That's what I thought, yeah.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: It looks like they're waking up at just the right time.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Billy mentioned Scooble's on track. It's crazy how that happens.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: They know how to kind of coast through and then
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: turn it on. They're that good.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: They do.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that is strange. I don't know if people are
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: just trying to get well.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: I guess Hunter, your, your answer to that are people
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: trying to get clicks.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, but not that.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: And it's not downplaying the Brewers, but it's, it's just
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: the fact that like the Dodgers are the team to
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: beat because of the payroll, the star power, the three
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Pete that they're trying to go for.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: No doubt.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Are the Brewers, have the Brewers been the best team
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: up to this point?
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: So, so you could argue that maybe that's, you know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: the reasoning that they're taking. But I do think Brewers
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: are still an underdog to the Dodgers. Otherwise I think it's, it's, Otherwise,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: it'll be a close as far as who's favored if
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: they play the Braves or the Phillies or the Cubs.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be very close on all
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: of those, and we'll see where those open up.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: It might be close, Hunter, on the Phillies. Might be
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: close on the Cubs. It will not be close on
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. They will be a sizable underdog when they
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: face the Dodgers. There's no doubt about it. What about
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: maybe the underdog story? Perfect timing? Less than perfect timing.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Nobody has had worse timing ever. then Brandon Woodruff in
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: terms of injuries, when it comes to September's to forget
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: for him, how do we make this one to remember?
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Is there, is there any update on this five week
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: throwing program? Is he actually just getting ready to throw
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: out the ceremonial first pitch at game number one? What's
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: your feeling here on this Woodruff thing? Because the story
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: has been weird. However, it might be like the perfect
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: way to tie a bow on the disappointments that he's
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: had in September.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it would be amazing if somehow he's able to
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: come back. Right now, he's still in that throwing program.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: He has two weeks of it left, I believe, starting tomorrow.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: Because I believe he would finish up his third week
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: tomorrow or thereabouts. It was like the 29th of September
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: was the end of it. So that's probably a question
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: we'll ask Murph this week. Is there any update on
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: him and how he's progressing? We haven't heard of any setbacks.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: So again, it's a long shot just because he, he's
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: throwing and then he'd have to like throw off a
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: mound and then he'd have to, I mean, there's a
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: lot of steps he would have to go through. It'd
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: be amazing. And I think you just, as fans and
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: literally as a team, Murph said this the day that,
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: you know, he announced that he's not going to have surgery.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Like if there's any chance of Woodruff coming back, you
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: want to believe in it. So I think that's what
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: we're just choosing to do. I still give it a
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: very small chance of happening, but, he's been around the team.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: I've seen him throwing out there on the field frequently.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: So it's, you know, it's not like he's doing it,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: you know, hiding or anything like that or not doing it.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: He's definitely doing it out there.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: And it's a, it's a weight and see for Woody.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: All right, Hunter, I'm going to channel Armin here in
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: that the Brewers are facing the pirates. They're missing skeins.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Whose next turn is Friday. Braxton Ashcraft is on the IL.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: They got Ms. Going in a bullpen game today. Brewers
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: have been on a little bit surging offensively, we could say,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: especially in the wake of scoring 20 runs on Friday night.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: But the Pirates have had their number. What is it
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: about this matchup? I mean, because, you know, Armand can
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: find the cloud in any sunny sky, right? So are
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you nervous about Pittsburgh this week, Armand? Come on.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: You know you are. I'm not nervous that the Brewers
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: are going to lose because the Brewers are going to
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: clinch a division at some point here. Um, but yes,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, when you think of Pittsburgh on the road,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: you don't think of like, you know, this is going
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: to be easy money because they've struggled so much. So
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: am I expecting it to go just swimmingly and not
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: always in Pittsburgh? So I get your point. So yeah.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: What say you Hunter?
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I look, history is always what we
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: look towards when we're trying to predict what's going to
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: happen in sports. I mean, that's literally like we're comparing,
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: you know, games. I heard you guys comparing, you know, the,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: the Browns game for the Packers compared to that, like
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: We always compare just in our history and how can
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: we project what the Packers are going to do or
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: the Brewers are going to do based on history. Well,
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: history would tell you that last time the Brewers were
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: at PNC Park, it did not go well. So, yeah,
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: I think there is a little bit of worry there,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: but I also think this team is playing better baseball
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: than they were at that time. They're coming off a
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: 5-1 homestand. The offense was clearly clicking in that red series. Overall,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: in the last three out of the last four games.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: So I think this team is in a little better shape.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Now they're pitching. They're still going to be smart with
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: their guys. You know, we saw Jerome have a little
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: bit of a shorter start, and I think that'll be
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: a trend with this. Some of these guys to try
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: to save them as they approach, you know, innings limits
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: or go over or not limits, but where they have
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: been in their history as far as how how deep
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: they've went innings-wise in a season. So I do think
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: you're going to see some of that, but I think
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: this is a team that is rolling a little better
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: than they were in July.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: The other thing is, there was a time when the
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Padres might have had little wildcard pipe dreams, and
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: they had it down to four last week, but the Padres'
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: streak has pretty much taken them out of it, so
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: that might be the other thing. They're like seven back now.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: It's pretty much over for them, so maybe they're going
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: to mentally pack it in two. That could be a
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: thing as well. You hope that they're thinking Cabo on three.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: So just another food for thought there about the Pirates.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Two weeks left in the season. They can gut it out.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, they still got time to
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: be able to make those arrangements. They're deciding if it's
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: going to be Cabo. They can go San Juan.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: They can gut it out. Difficult time. Yeah, that's true. Hunter,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Dolph was in for his halftime hit, and he was
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: sitting on some big news. I was going to say,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: his song. FM 106. We don't know at this point
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: whether the Brewers will be playing at American Family Field
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: in 2027, but we know that Kenny Chesney will. Kenny
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Chesney coming to American Family Field next summer, bringing a
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: packed lineup. The show is July 10th, just announced by
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Dolph and Shannon over on FM 106. The original Vibe
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Room Tour featuring Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Sheryl Crow, and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Graylin James.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: The return of one of our biggest Bucs fans. That
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: was kind of fun.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Tickets on sale Friday, September 25th. Pre-sales begin Wednesday at
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: 10 a.m., tomorrow at 10 a.m., so... Giddy up on that.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: So somewhere right around the All-Star break, if that would
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: be the time that they'd be able to have the
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: All-Star break next year.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Chesney has played American Family Field six times in the past.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: This will be his seventh headlining appearance.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Ooh.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I got to go to one of these shows. He
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: also played Farm Aid and then headlined in 13, 16, 18, 22,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: and 24. So like Dolph said, basically every other year.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: That makes sense.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: The Brewers have a three-city road trip into the All-Star
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: break next year. So that is exactly why that concert
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: is happening there in Cleveland, I believe, that weekend into
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: the All-Star break.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: So that's why.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: And how nice is it that you can actually have
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: the schedule and look at it and not have to
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: wait until the middle of May to be able to
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: rip off when they start playing?
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: It could not be more opposite the way baseball and
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: football does. It's like a random Wednesday in July, and
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: baseball's like, yeah, here's the schedule for next year. And
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: then it's like the NFL, it's like, oh, we're going
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: to drink.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: And we actually have spring training games with start times.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: With start times, yeah. And then college football's like, here,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: hold this hams.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let me tell you when Penn State, Wisconsin kickoff.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Do we know when that is yet, by the way?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: We did find out, 4 o'clock.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, hey.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Well, before 4 o'clock was what I saw. 4 o'clock
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: on Peacock.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Come on now.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: That's what I heard.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, just so funny how that works.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: And Peacock. Yep.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Sorry, Peacock. Fanta on that call. Hey, is the win
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: our way? Sorry if you guys mentioned this. I saw
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: the tweet when the Brewers clinched the win our way.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: We've been looking for a slogan all year. Or is
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: that just like the MLB? Are they trying to make
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: that our thing?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Win our way?
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: No, no, that's the Brewers thing. I think there'll be
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: a different one for MLB overall. But I think that
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: actually really does fit.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: There's it's funny. I was.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Sitting next to Kurt Hogan, the journal Sentinel when, when
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: the video, so they clinched the post-season, they played a
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: nice cool video to lead into what that slogan was.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: And Kurt's like, Ooh, are we going to find out
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: what the slogan is this year? And then we started
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: looking up like previous ones. And that was that, that
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: was fun because it's like, you know, you go back
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: to claws up or, you know, 2020, they even had
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: one MKE history trying to make history as an eight
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: seed to go all the way. Unfortunately, Jed Jericho and
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: the Brewers could not do that. Otherwise, unfortunately it didn't,
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: That is the Brewers, and I like it. I think
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: it fits really well because Undaunted was one.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Magic Brew was the one that we had last year.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: That one felt a little weak. I like this one
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: a little bit better.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: This is more, I think, a little more intense. Now,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Magic was part of the season last year, it felt like,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: so I think they wanted to include that, but this
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: win our way makes a lot of sense because the
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Brewers do win their way, and yeah, I think that's
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: going to be cool on t-shirts and sweatshirts.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I know they already are on t-shirts.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: And it'll be on the big old banner outside American
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Family Field. I've been waiting to figure it out. I've
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: been waiting to figure out what they're going to do.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: These guys are laughing at me. We might just not
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: have one.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: We got a good one.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: I thought you meant when we win the World Series
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: and add a banner, it might be 2026 World Series
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: champs and then win our way at the bottom. Put
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: that on there. Why not? We won the World Series. Well,
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: we're going to. So why not put it on there?
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to stay positive. See, no more dark clouds.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Doing a great job of it, kid. What a great
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: job of it. We're proud of you.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Fantastic. Hunter, enjoy your time in Pittsburgh. We're glad that
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: you're there. Hope you have a good run there and
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: hope you get to cover a celebration tonight. The plastic's ready.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Find out for us if the brewers travel with their
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: own champagne or if they made Pittsburgh's clubbies buy it.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: That's a good question for me.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Ooh, that is a good question. I will. I'll do some.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll do some investigative reporting on that and I'll
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: join you guys tomorrow. And then I'll join you guys Thursday.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: And hopefully tomorrow we're talking about a clinch and we
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: have some great interviews.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: That'd be swell. Miz and Henderson and the Pirates have
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: a bullpen day today. So I like the chance. Feels
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: like a good time. Take care of it yourself. Who
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: cares about what the Cubs do? Win it yourself. Take
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: care of business.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, win two games and you're good.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be good. Thanks, Hunter.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Thanks, guys.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Hunter Baumgart joining us here. You're in the huddle. Fox
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Time to close up shop. Tuesday edition
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: of the huddle. Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin. Brewers and Pirates tonight.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: You heard Hunter. He's going to be on hand. That's
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: going to be so awesome. Looking forward to that.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Now, there's a lot of places where celebrations are a one,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: one of which is Chicago. That is the one where
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: you always feel good knowing you get to ruin their
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: visiting clubhouse and apparently ruined it so much that they,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: after game 163, it's 2018 Brewers on a Monday and
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: then the Rockies on Tuesday and they redid the club
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: visiting clubhouse. They were planning on doing it, but it
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: made it a little bit better to do it. Then
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Cincinnati is a fun one. Brewers have been able to
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: do it in St. Louis a few times.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's just the, calmness in me at this point
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: i don't have any real venom for pittsburgh i almost
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: feel bad wrecking their place right like there's a lot
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: of places like it's the one buddy's house where you
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: know that their mom is going to be really really
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: upset if there's beer cans left up like i don't
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: want to do this here like go somewhere else and
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: drink some red's apple ale so let's not mess this place.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Up right even though you're right even though we've had
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: our problems at pittsburgh they've never bothered me they've never
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: been like a team where i've wanted you know I
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: never had that.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I don't got a lot of hate in my heart
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh pirates. Never did ever. No Cardinals.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Cubs.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Yes. They were never that like Vikings Providence vibe for me.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: I just didn't have it. I still don't. So I
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: want the brewers to win, but it's nothing to do
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: with like disliking them, but yeah. Cool time to be
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: there on Clemente day. Should be a fun day. That
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: is cool.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: That is a cool part. That is awesome. It ends
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: up being on Clemente day.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: No doubt about it. Yeah.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: That's a fun city. I'm telling you Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: If you're going on a baseball trip, underrated it, Underrated cities.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Yearly and pretty unanimously gets voted as one of the
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: top three ballparks in the sport.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it absolutely does.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: From vibes, experience, accessibility, use. It's always one of the
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: top ones.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: People there are nice. It's a lot like Milwaukee. Well,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: that's the other part, too. You're on the nice side
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania. You can wear a Brewer's jersey and not
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: have to worry about getting your ass kicked.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Right, you go to the east side of the state
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: and you wear a Brewer's jersey, you're going to get
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: not only a Pomani's Brothers sandwich shoved up somewhere, you're
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: going to get beat down by the Liberty Bell.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: You're going to get a cheesesteak bludgeoning.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: You will.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Let's make sure that we don't have Hunter have to
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: go there. Let's finish this out quickly. Get him back
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: to Milwaukee.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, unless it's the playoff.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: But you're right.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do that. Get him back home. And yeah, nice.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: You know, I didn't know if he'd drive, but he flew,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: which is great, obviously. But I don't know if he'd drive.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: We talked about that yesterday. Billy wondering if he would.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: It's only an hour drive. So maybe there'll be a
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Brewer fan contingent out there to watch the clinch. I'm
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: not really sure. I doubt it, but hey, you never know.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Pirates are ready to throw a bunch of relievers tonight,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: and the one long guy who doesn't get in tonight's
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: game will probably start on the getaway game. I was
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: going to say start on the getaway.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: He'll get the Thursday assignment, right? This would be a
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: fun one to be at, man. I love getting a
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: good cruise.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Eight hours?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: You could make it there by first pitch if you
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: left right now. Giddy up.
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Get some good seats, I'm sure.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't imagine the prices are wild here tonight.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: On the secondary market in PA. I like the Brewers'
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: chances of clinching. We'll see if it's tonight. Miz on
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the mound. We'll be talking about that tomorrow. Bill Schroeder,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Brewers TV, going to join us tomorrow on the program.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: We are going to be locked and loaded with crew.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Double shot of Brewer stuff. Yeah, we'll have Hunter as well.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Rock is not on this trip, but he's going next
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: week to Philly because that's where he's from. He's going
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: to go see his family and broadcast the games from
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Park. Get a couple of cheesesteaks. All right.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: We covered a lot of ground today. Thanks for hanging
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: out with us. We'll see you again tomorrow at 5 a.m.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: Peace.