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08/17/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: joined by mister Bill Schmid. Good morning, sir, how are
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Speaker 1: we feeling this morning? Let's ride standing and arman sorry
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Speaker 1: and the band is together again today and what a
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Speaker 1: glorious weekend. We have to recap game balls and kicks
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Speaker 1: to the balls. That can wait a little bit. How
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Speaker 1: about them.
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Speaker 2: Brewers, oh my goodness, just up off the mat and
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Speaker 2: calming down, just channeling their inner Jake Bowers. Not only
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Speaker 2: the four hits yesterday, how about we just calmed the
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Speaker 2: out call it took. Whether it was in the locker
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Speaker 2: room or the fan base, it seems like it might
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Speaker 2: have worked.
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Speaker 1: From the worst series of the season two arguably the
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Speaker 1: best series of the season, all in one week, Brewers
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Speaker 1: wrap up the death March day off today. They finally
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Speaker 1: made it to the finish line. Yes, and they finished
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Speaker 1: this series. This stretch of seventeen games in seventeen days,
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Speaker 1: which included kind of overlapped. We had two West coast
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Speaker 1: you know, to West coast runs ending it and they
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Speaker 1: were ten and seven.
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Speaker 3: My goodness, amazing.
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Speaker 1: You don't know they were ten and seven. That doesn't
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Speaker 1: sound that impressive. But a ten and seven with all
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Speaker 1: the guys on the IL and with all the guys
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Speaker 1: who running it ten and seven running Andrew Vaughan at
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Speaker 1: third and Gary Sanchez at first, and guys that didn't
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Speaker 1: even know anybody showing up and playing that day from
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Speaker 1: other organizations parachuting in to start games, that's pretty impressive.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a.
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Speaker 2: Base sighting, a Johnny Rocket sighting. I thought that was
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Speaker 2: only in cafeterias in Vegas, and then apparently now he
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Speaker 2: runs through and plays second base. And in the midst
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Speaker 2: of you came into it, or went through stretches of
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Speaker 2: it with like a sub two hundred Christian Yelich and
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Speaker 2: William Contreras in the midst of it, right like Tarang
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Speaker 2: goes down in the midst you get hopefully woken up
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Speaker 2: Contreras here at the end of it, and it wraps
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Speaker 2: up a hell of a lot better than the eighteen
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Speaker 2: games and seventeen days did right now, there was a
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Speaker 2: four or five four games in five days series in
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Speaker 2: Saint Louis. You won four of those five in that
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Speaker 2: run of eighteen games and seventeen days up until the
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Speaker 2: All Star break. But you almost didn't even get to
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Speaker 2: enjoy that part of the meal because the dessert was
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Speaker 2: so awful. All anybody could talk about on the way
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Speaker 2: home and into the break was that three game sweep
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Speaker 2: at Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know that anybody's remembering.
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Speaker 2: The San Diego swoon that happened, because now everybody's just
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Speaker 2: juiced up by the finish in LA and guys, the
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Speaker 2: Carni Bowl that was yesterday, Yeah, yesterday for Matt Arnold
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Speaker 2: and the Milwaukee Brewers. Matt Arnold's gotta be flexing, strutting
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Speaker 2: into that office today, gotta be feeling good, smiling, and
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Speaker 2: maybe he just call Scott Harris up with the Detroit
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Speaker 2: Tigers just says you mad, Sorry, Bob, Sorry, Bob. We
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Speaker 2: knew it, we knew something. Didn't want to give up
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Speaker 2: Logan Henderson. And then he has a career day against
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Speaker 2: the man that they wouldn't trade him for.
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Speaker 4: That was just dessert yesterday amazing in this stretch. I mean,
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Speaker 4: you really can't question what they've done at all. If
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Speaker 4: you really can't question him, he's always right. I mean,
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Speaker 4: he always basically doesn't miss in the front office. And
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Speaker 4: it's remarkable the way those things work out. Remarkable this way,
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Speaker 4: the way this team always bounces back from adversity. Coming
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Speaker 4: back off that San Diego series, guys, was like, you know,
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Speaker 4: obviously one of the toughest of the year.
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Speaker 3: You know, you're facing adversity in the face.
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Speaker 4: Your lead is down to three or four at that point,
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Speaker 4: and boom, you come back and take three or four
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Speaker 4: against the Dodgers when you need it the most. This
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Speaker 4: team has defined themselves on it. When they did it again,
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Speaker 4: but not really just this year, over the last few years.
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Speaker 4: I mean, when the foot slips a little bit, they
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Speaker 4: always find a way to get back and get stronger
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Speaker 4: up the hill. And it's just pretty amazing. And they
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Speaker 4: did it again this weekend three or four. And it's amazing.
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Speaker 4: You talk about erasing the memory of the San Diego series,
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Speaker 4: you know, it's amazing how different a three and four
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Speaker 4: West Coast road trip looks after you win the three
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Speaker 4: in LA and like, not if you swept San Diego
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Speaker 4: and got swept by the Dodgers.
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Speaker 3: It's just we just love it.
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Speaker 4: We love getting the better taste in our mouth coming
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Speaker 4: back at the end of the series. So awesome, awesome performance.
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Speaker 4: It started with Thursday changing the momentum around that rally
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Speaker 4: to win the game. It's one of those you're gonna
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Speaker 4: look back on and say, that was quite a turning
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Speaker 4: point for the year. Uh, you know when you had
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Speaker 4: to you know, extend the arm a little bit, and
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Speaker 4: now you're at a five game lead. So awesome stuff.
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Speaker 1: The next big thing lurking is at the end of
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Speaker 1: the month when they play the Cubs seven times in
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Speaker 1: ten days.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, nationally Central Division Championship.
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Speaker 1: But folks, folks who like focus on that and freak
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Speaker 1: out again, like the Bruis and Cups are evenly matched.
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Speaker 1: Let's just look at what the Bruers just did against
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Speaker 1: the Padres. And you know, if you do that, if
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Speaker 1: you go three and four, not great, right, but you've
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Speaker 1: lost a game.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, but they'll pick up a game.
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Speaker 2: Good luck with that one. Yes, that's the thing.
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Speaker 1: It's like, unless it's in serious like, oh great, we
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Speaker 1: get to play them. Had to head, Well, you better
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Speaker 1: win like six games if you want to pick up.
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Speaker 3: Totally Yeah and drew.
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Speaker 2: The other part of how this ended up being so
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Speaker 2: big was what happened at Wrigley the Saint Louis Cardinals
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Speaker 2: going in, yeah and taking care of some business for you,
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Speaker 2: where Mike Vasallo put it out yesterday. They started the
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Speaker 2: run of seventeen games in seventeen days, up five and
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Speaker 2: a half in the division.
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Speaker 3: They finish it up five to five, vision.
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Speaker 2: And a half game with the Cubs playing their asses up,
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Speaker 2: just dominating, rolling, and instead you swipe three or four there,
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Speaker 2: you change up the mathematics going into the back end,
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Speaker 2: and you're right that Now it just continues to get
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Speaker 2: more and more daunting as the Cubs, yes, can continue
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Speaker 2: to breathe life into their division title hopes because of
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Speaker 2: that those head to heads. But you really got to
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Speaker 2: be doing some work, and hard to say either one
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Speaker 2: of these teams is light years better than anyone. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that you can say any team right now
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Speaker 2: in baseball is light years better than the Brewers, especially
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Speaker 2: currently constructed. Dodgers will get healthy, but the Brewers will
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Speaker 2: get healthy as well.
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Speaker 4: Dave Roberts Shure doesn't think so. Some of his post
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Speaker 4: game stuff was interesting. We'll try and spin through that,
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Speaker 4: but yeah, I mean basically.
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Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing, and this is what makes it
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Speaker 1: impressive is this was for eh, okay, the season series
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Speaker 1: against the Dodgers, which could end up.
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Speaker 3: Being big, but end up being big.
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Speaker 1: You don't know, Yeah, it's the Dodgers, And Dave Roberts
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Speaker 1: admitted this. We really we wanted to win this game.
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Speaker 1: They had their A lineup in on a Sunday, they
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Speaker 1: had their ace that they went and traded for at
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Speaker 1: the deadline, and the Boston barrister friend of the program
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Speaker 1: hit me up and he said, a showing like this
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Speaker 1: against their A lineup with their ace on the mound.
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Speaker 1: This may not be playoff baseball, but I feel better
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Speaker 1: about this game than I did last season about the series,
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Speaker 1: the season series sweep last season.
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Speaker 2: Totally agree, Totally agree, because last year it felt like
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Speaker 2: in the sweep at Dodger Stadium, not like it was
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Speaker 2: that you could you know, laugh at it or anything
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Speaker 2: or sneeze at it a year ago, but it did
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Speaker 2: feel like you were facing off against Emmett Sheehan and
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Speaker 2: a bunch of other random Cats that were collecting.
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Speaker 3: Their Dodger blue.
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Speaker 2: We were just ding their time and they're waiting for
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Speaker 2: Glass now Snelling everybody role. But now all those guys
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Speaker 2: are coming back, right Snell just pitched Glass now's doing
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Speaker 2: rehab starts. You faced Yamamoto and Scooble in this run,
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Speaker 2: h And that's pretty damn good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And Robeleski, who you put on the ila, he was
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Speaker 2: their all star this year.
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Speaker 4: They all star, and I mean they're forcing him in
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Speaker 4: a long relief. Yeah, you talked to were about ten
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Speaker 4: out of ten and seven. You know, I think that's
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Speaker 4: like a ninety five win year if you do that
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Speaker 4: over the course of a year like that's so that's
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Speaker 4: pretty impressive.
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Speaker 3: That's baseball, right though. I mean you have been trying
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Speaker 3: and get those edges.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, well, what an incredible weekend for the Brewers
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Speaker 4: to bounce back and you're and you saw your guys
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Speaker 4: showing up, you know, I mean, obviously Bowers has continued
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Speaker 4: his great year, transformational, but you know, miss, I mean
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Speaker 4: getting out of that rally in the fourth on Saturday night,
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Speaker 4: you know when that was the tipping point right there.
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Speaker 4: But that's the that's the guy you want, and you
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Speaker 4: need to do those type of things.
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Speaker 3: You know, if you're gonna.
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Speaker 4: Be in a spot competing with the team like that
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Speaker 4: where you hope to be this year, you need your
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Speaker 4: best players to be their best and now is a
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Speaker 4: great example of that too.
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Speaker 3: So all weekend you saw examples of that.
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Speaker 4: Mary's in already Good morning fellows, go Bruce sign Jake.
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Speaker 3: Now ooh, Mary, I love where your head's at. I did.
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Speaker 2: Now that shows where the different small marketisms come to,
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Speaker 2: because I looked at the Jake Bauers contract as to uh,
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Speaker 2: does he have time where they would be able to
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Speaker 2: flip him in the off season and he be able
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Speaker 2: to cash it on a career year from from Jake
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Speaker 2: Bowers well timed by the young man well timed going
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Speaker 2: into a contract year uh to be able to have
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Speaker 2: this kind of renaissance. He making himself just barrels of
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Speaker 2: cash for barrel man Bowers over the last couple of months.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean it's changed his life this year. Yes, no, no,
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Speaker 3: you are.
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Speaker 2: He's walking himself into what you would assume would be
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Speaker 2: a two to three year deal somewhere and making legit
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Speaker 2: money for a guy who has had the battle, scrape
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Speaker 2: and claw for everything he's gotten in the major leagues.
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Speaker 3: It's incredible to see.
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Speaker 2: And I did like him last night when he could
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Speaker 2: taken the victory lap with Sophia. It's like, I think
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Speaker 2: everybody listened to you, Jake.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that anybody listens to me. I don't
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Speaker 3: know that anybody's listening to me, but I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: I just think we got to remember that we're a
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Speaker 2: good baseball team and that we're pretty dang good. And
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Speaker 2: now they get a day off in their own bed.
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Speaker 2: When was the last time they had that. I think
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Speaker 2: one of the last off days was drew in LA
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Speaker 2: which again worst cities to have an.
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Speaker 3: Offense family trip when they all went to the went
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Speaker 3: to Disneyland.
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Speaker 2: But now to be able to relax, kick your feet up,
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Speaker 2: play with the kids, and then get back to ball
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Speaker 2: tomorrow night. Uh, perfect time for them to refocus with
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Speaker 2: what thirty some games left. I mean it is getting
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Speaker 2: it's getting late, and it's getting back to the to
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Speaker 2: the closing mark, and then you almost forget about because
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Speaker 2: the last two games are so dang good and so sweet.
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Speaker 2: They almost swiped Friday night too. I mean you wake
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Speaker 2: up and look at that box score the next day
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Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, okay, sweet, nothing offensively, and then
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Speaker 2: you go back and watch Diaz almost come bust again
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Speaker 2: on Friday night in the ninth inning. That would have
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Speaker 2: been no, I'm not there's no knockout blows to anybody.
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Speaker 3: That would have been a hard one to go back to.
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Speaker 2: If you're Dave Roberts night night after a vote of
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Speaker 2: confidence and he gives up a two run lead. There, uh,
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Speaker 2: perfect Brewer baseball throughout the four games out there now.
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Speaker 4: Definitely wonder if it's gonna make them think about Diz
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Speaker 4: and going forward, if you're in that situation, maybe in
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Speaker 4: the playoffs, you believe you can get a guy like
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Speaker 4: that and make again his cage raddled a little bit.
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Speaker 3: So that's important too. Even though you don't get the wins.
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Speaker 1: Missing Tarang, missing your Rebay missing like you know, a
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Speaker 1: bunch of dudes.
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Speaker 4: A lot of guys and missing a lot of guys
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Speaker 4: even though they're playing their bats like me.
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Speaker 3: You know, that's the other thing. Yeah, a lot of
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Speaker 3: guys aren't even hitting right now. I was playing right now.
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Speaker 1: But you forget Freelick was a starting player. Like there's
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Speaker 1: there's guys that it's been pretty incredible.
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Speaker 2: So it sounded like Freelick might be back coming up
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Speaker 2: this week, potentially back on Tuesday as well. Now, so
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Speaker 2: we're what were we Where did your nervousness got all
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Speaker 2: at any point throughout the week with terrang Because when
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Speaker 2: I hear the second opinion, drew and uh oh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: he totally could have bat it tonight, totally could about it.
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Speaker 2: But we're going to get a second opinion. I was
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Speaker 2: wondering if that was we're worrying if we have to
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Speaker 2: go under some anestiegia and go under the knife with
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Speaker 2: this thing, or if we can put it off for
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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, put it off for a couple
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Speaker 2: of months.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, now they're saying, like, you know, he
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Speaker 1: was out running and doing testing it out when.
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Speaker 2: I saw him doing when I saw him doing the
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Speaker 2: blocking sleet, that doesn't look like somebody with a tormentiscus, No,
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Speaker 2: I feel a lot better. They'll be very mum and
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Speaker 2: we might hear about it maybe if they do. Brewers
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Speaker 2: on deck in February, right, like if he does get
11:37
Speaker 2: it cleared up. But there were some moments there where
11:39
Speaker 2: I was wondering if you were going to see him
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Speaker 2: again with that kind of news and that kind of
11:42
Speaker 2: conversation around the knee. That that was a dicey conversation
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Speaker 2: for a couple of days.
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Speaker 1: So the sweep by the Padres was basically like going
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Speaker 1: and losing to the Pittsburgh right before the break this
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Speaker 1: That's what it felt like. And then to bounce back
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Speaker 1: and get three out of four. The whole the whole
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Speaker 1: thing swung with the Thursday Night thriller we watched at
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Speaker 1: the end of Packer's ot and that like laid the groundwork,
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Speaker 1: and you're right, they could have won Friday, miss pitch Saturday,
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Speaker 1: and then you better win when miss pitch to win Sunday,
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Speaker 1: when you know, like I said, the Dodters were rolling
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Speaker 1: their a game out there. Their ace pitcher Roberts was
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Speaker 1: they were playing to win, They wanted to win. They
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Speaker 1: kicked it around a little bit. Brewers took advantage. And
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Speaker 1: it's like I happened to be at State Ferry yesterday
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Speaker 1: and let's go within earshot of the bud pavilion, was
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Speaker 1: able to hear the.
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Speaker 2: Little bit of a roar of the crowd or the crowd.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, those people were enjoying.
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Speaker 1: I was there before all hell broke loose and there
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Speaker 1: were fights and a cop got punched apparently even yeah
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Speaker 1: last night. You know it's tradition. Unlike any other people
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Speaker 1: the MERI didn't get punched in the face and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that.
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Speaker 4: Well, it must be when they when they give the
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Speaker 4: awards out to the cows that last day and they judged.
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Speaker 3: I think that's against people fired up, you know what
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Speaker 3: I mean? Well, I was.
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Speaker 2: I was at one of the cow auctions, uh earlier
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Speaker 2: in the fair. Yeah, the governor, you talk about big money,
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Speaker 2: they get some big That was impressive stuff. And like
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Speaker 2: the gambler in me was very much having fun. Those
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Speaker 2: numbers are being thrown around. I was having I was
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Speaker 2: having a.
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Speaker 3: Lot of fun.
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Speaker 4: I just like that to know that those guys are
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Speaker 4: good enough to look at an animal like that and say,
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Speaker 4: you know that's gonna be where we get that rump
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Speaker 4: ros That nice Ribbi that you know the short loine,
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Speaker 4: they know where the meat's gonna come from. So I'm
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Speaker 4: pretty impressed by that. But yeah, Billy, it gets it
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Speaker 4: gets well. I thought the ribbies were only coming from
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Speaker 4: Joey Ortiz. Yeah, he's the man's best ops in the
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Speaker 4: n L over the last six weeks. I just think
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Speaker 4: about the players that are in that that's amazing, Like
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Speaker 4: Jordan Walker, who just had three extra base hits yesterday. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: all the guys in this Dodger lineup that went through.
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Speaker 4: They were talking about Joey Ortiz, an eight or and
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Speaker 4: nine hole hitter in there, and last year Drew. We
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Speaker 4: had a lot of fun towards the end of the
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Speaker 4: NLCS in the midst of our copes, Arman, and I
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Speaker 4: did I know bs of going through the Dodger line
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Speaker 4: I've been thinking, well, that would be the highest paid
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Speaker 4: player on the Brewers. Yes, oh yeah, we got all
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Speaker 4: the way down to Tommy Edmond would have been the
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Speaker 4: highest paid player on the Brewers. So seeing Tommy Edmund
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Speaker 4: boot potentially too. Now did they give that error to bets?
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Speaker 2: Where would where there was a weird it was a
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Speaker 2: weird situation. Brian Anderson was not a big fan of that,
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Speaker 2: that ruling and scoring decision, but weird one flipped over.
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Speaker 2: Edmund probably could have caught it, but it was hot potatoes,
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Speaker 2: so weirdly from Bets, I think he ended up getting
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Speaker 2: the air on it.
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Speaker 4: I was like the guy in a playground that would like,
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Speaker 4: whip whip it at your knees from two feet of Wednesday.
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Speaker 3: Why did you catch what? Did you catch it? To it?
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Speaker 3: It was right there?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but the second one was right there and Edmund
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Speaker 2: unable to get it with the infield playing in just
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Speaker 2: an absolute death nail right at the end. And I
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Speaker 2: love to see their best guys. As you mentioned, they
14:47
Speaker 2: tried out their A lineup. They ran everybody out there
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Speaker 2: and the only one that had much to show for
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Speaker 2: it was Pahz. Huge, huge moment from Aaron Ashby though
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Speaker 2: yesterday he gets as he trots out to face show
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Speaker 2: Hao Tani and then they listed off show Hao Tani's
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Speaker 2: resume against Aaron Ashby like five of nine or five
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Speaker 2: of seven in.
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Speaker 3: His career, two of three this year. You sure this
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Speaker 3: is the matchup we're going to You're like, oh.
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Speaker 2: This is what we're wanting, And all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: ground into a double play started by Johnny Rockets. That
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Speaker 2: was impressive moment and you could feel the wind get
15:23
Speaker 2: taken right out of that stadium with that at path.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, if you think about that moment and then the
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Speaker 4: mis Mizerowski won on Saturday Night, Like in the totality
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Speaker 4: of the series, you're like, how many times can you
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Speaker 4: play the fire with giving Otani a chance like that?
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Speaker 4: Now Miss, You're like, okay, miss is the chance to
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Speaker 4: strike anybody out, you know, and he does. He gets
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Speaker 4: him in Freeman back to back. But then with Ashby
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Speaker 4: and you're like, oh boy, here we go because you're
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Speaker 4: just opening for the best in that situation. And gets
15:50
Speaker 4: in the roll over like that and you get the plate. Wow, huge,
15:52
Speaker 4: huge play. And I did like Ashby, uh now is
15:55
Speaker 4: like sprinting everywhere to first like I know you guys,
15:57
Speaker 4: oh yeah, like yeah, with a little sense of you
16:00
Speaker 4: know where. I do like that as well. But it's
16:01
Speaker 4: a good reminder how big Ashby's been. I mean, he
16:03
Speaker 4: pitches so much that you know, you have really good
16:06
Speaker 4: moments a lot of times, you also have some moments
16:08
Speaker 4: of struggle, and he's had that recently. But that was
16:10
Speaker 4: as big of a double play as you're gonna.
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Speaker 3: See all year. So that was a monster monster play.
16:14
Speaker 3: Ashby learned his lesson.
16:15
Speaker 1: Hopefully he'll never have to worry about throwing running the
16:18
Speaker 1: first base hard again.
16:19
Speaker 3: Cool cheek powers over at first base, swift witness.
16:22
Speaker 4: That's what we need, a little self improvement, self awareness
16:24
Speaker 4: and improving on that.
16:25
Speaker 2: You know, that's right well, and I also like Logan
16:27
Speaker 2: Henderson channel and his inner misz get this ball.
16:30
Speaker 3: I'm not throwing this thing. I'm way too fired up.
16:33
Speaker 3: I'm stepping on that bag and run right to the shower.
16:35
Speaker 3: What a job by him?
16:36
Speaker 1: Eight seven seven seven seven three is your ticket to
16:39
Speaker 1: get in. There are a couple of people and we're
16:41
Speaker 1: going to read through some texts. There are a couple
16:43
Speaker 1: of people who are again who kind of predicted this.
16:45
Speaker 1: We were trying to be positive playing in the Dodgers.
16:49
Speaker 1: Not a reason to just give up before you start.
16:52
Speaker 1: It's an opportunity. Great moments made from great opportunities. This
16:56
Speaker 1: has been a great season for the Birds and that
16:57
Speaker 1: was quite the roller coaster of a week. They get
17:00
Speaker 1: a day off to reflect a couple of like, you know,
17:03
Speaker 1: you think winnable series again, don't take anything for granted,
17:05
Speaker 1: it's gonna say we keep rolling, just keep rolling, just
17:08
Speaker 1: keep just checking boxes until you can get to where
17:11
Speaker 1: you want to be, which is again entering the playoffs
17:13
Speaker 1: as a top two seed.
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Speaker 3: That's the mission. We will talk about that.
17:16
Speaker 1: Holding off the Cubs sweet to do that on the way,
17:19
Speaker 1: but the mission is get one of those top two
17:21
Speaker 1: seeds and then let the rest take care of itself.
17:23
Speaker 1: We're off and running. We're cutting and cracking on a
17:26
Speaker 1: Monday edition. We've got game balls and kicks firing up
17:29
Speaker 1: after seven. No Dolf today, so we'll have to improvise
17:32
Speaker 1: at halftime. We'll get through it, clean it out. No
17:34
Speaker 1: Hunter either, he's off as well, but he'll be He'll
17:36
Speaker 1: be back in the fold.
17:38
Speaker 2: Could you imagine that vacation of Hunters and the family
17:41
Speaker 2: break is He's all excited and everyone's like this, hey, Hunter,
17:43
Speaker 2: can we do something? Not watch the Brewers here?
17:46
Speaker 3: Sorry? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
17:49
Speaker 2: Floaded with one out, all right, we're cutting a crack
17:54
Speaker 2: and you're in the huddle.
17:55
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio, Wisconsin.
17:58
Speaker 2: Other than hung to win it ropes one into the cap,
18:02
Speaker 2: Cherio on his horse.
18:04
Speaker 3: That's all the way to the wall.
18:05
Speaker 2: Cherio round third, he's gonna score and Jake Powers is
18:11
Speaker 2: red hot.
18:13
Speaker 3: It's an RBI double.
18:15
Speaker 2: It is three to one Milwaukee sevent d for Powers,
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Speaker 2: a club leader.
18:19
Speaker 3: Now Vaughn smokes one through a base hand. They're gonna
18:22
Speaker 3: wind out Powers. Here he comes, Hernandez throw.
18:25
Speaker 2: He is on a hot to.
18:26
Speaker 1: Tag not in time.
18:29
Speaker 3: Powers with a great slide.
18:33
Speaker 1: Rake Bowers the star of the weekend for the Brewers,
18:36
Speaker 1: who win three of four against the Dodgers. If you
18:39
Speaker 1: predicted that, if you urged positivity in the wake of
18:42
Speaker 1: that U loss series loss, deflating series loss in San Diego,
18:46
Speaker 1: today's your chance to be bopping scat to peacock around.
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Speaker 3: Tell people how smart you are.
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Speaker 1: Five o'clock lovers eight seven seven, seven nine four one
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Speaker 3: Brewers obviously the main.
19:00
Speaker 1: Becus Packer's had a live tackle football practice.
19:02
Speaker 3: There's some developments there.
19:04
Speaker 1: We got word from Keishawn Nixon feels like he's being
19:06
Speaker 1: punished as on that. But obviously Brewers are front of
19:11
Speaker 1: mind right now as they have their first day off
19:13
Speaker 1: and nearly three weeks and two and a half for sure,
19:17
Speaker 1: and it's I don't think that this weekend changed my
19:22
Speaker 1: opinion of the Birds. I've always thought they were a
19:23
Speaker 1: good club, but folks were flagging and the Cubs were rolling.
19:27
Speaker 1: And I've had people ask me, when do you get
19:29
Speaker 1: nervous about the Cubs. I'm like, well, you got forty
19:31
Speaker 1: games left, you're nervous about them every day, or you're
19:33
Speaker 1: not nervous at all.
19:34
Speaker 3: That's a good point, right, it's on it. Yeah, I
19:38
Speaker 3: like that. It is what it is.
19:39
Speaker 1: It's like you you can't control what they do. You
19:43
Speaker 1: can control what you do, and you can if you
19:45
Speaker 1: want to scoreboard watch and you feel better at five games.
19:47
Speaker 3: What does the lead have?
19:48
Speaker 1: What does it have to be going into that Cub series?
19:50
Speaker 1: And what we're now two weeks away from Brewers and
19:53
Speaker 1: Cubs playing seven games in ten days, and like I said,
19:56
Speaker 1: it's very likely going to be four and three, three
19:59
Speaker 1: and for say one game either way, one team wins
20:02
Speaker 1: five if they're really on a heater.
20:04
Speaker 3: But for the most part they're evenly matched.
20:06
Speaker 1: And that's I used to see it being, you know,
20:08
Speaker 1: give and take win one, lose one like and if
20:11
Speaker 1: that's the case, the Cubs aren't picking up that much ground,
20:13
Speaker 1: So that's not that's an opportunity for them, but it's
20:16
Speaker 1: not any reason to panic in my mind.
20:19
Speaker 3: No, this is also the fun part.
20:21
Speaker 2: I just this is the this is the part that
20:23
Speaker 2: makes it so much fun is getting the Brewers game
20:25
Speaker 2: to start at three fifteen yesterday and at two o'clock
20:28
Speaker 2: on whatever it was ABC, Cubs and Cardinals and getting
20:31
Speaker 2: to cheer the heck out of yourself against that other team.
20:34
Speaker 2: You got like three or four different teams to watch
20:36
Speaker 2: for where the pennant race is, and I don't know
20:39
Speaker 2: that there's necessarily a numerical number on it, Drew. You
20:43
Speaker 2: just want to see the team playing their best, and
20:45
Speaker 2: they were. They've been playing so far from their best version,
20:49
Speaker 2: at least offensively over the last one long two months,
20:52
Speaker 2: three months, seemingly. But the pitching is so impressive. The
20:56
Speaker 2: young pitching has been just dynamite. Their bullpen this month
20:59
Speaker 2: has been lights out best in baseball almost every number,
21:04
Speaker 2: and so.
21:05
Speaker 3: That part of it.
21:07
Speaker 2: The scars for the opposite side for the Cubs from
21:10
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, I think it was five and a half
21:12
Speaker 2: going into September. Any number can be made up, no
21:15
Speaker 2: doubt about it. But if you're sitting here at five games,
21:19
Speaker 2: I don't see any team sweeping the other and I
21:22
Speaker 2: don't see only one side getting one win in that
21:25
Speaker 2: seven game series. So I think now you're gonna come
21:27
Speaker 2: out of it with the lead. You just got to
21:30
Speaker 2: be playing better and to see William Contreras have the
21:33
Speaker 2: kind of day that he had after even the defensive blip,
21:37
Speaker 2: what was that Tuesday night in San Diego when he
21:39
Speaker 2: dropped the ball coming in like there's just there have
21:42
Speaker 2: been too many moments where he has just not looked
21:45
Speaker 2: like the leader in the MVP for back to back
21:47
Speaker 2: seasons of your team offensively and desperately need to have
21:51
Speaker 2: him looking somewhat like yourself. So it's not necessarily the
21:54
Speaker 2: number to me, it's more about how they're rolling and
21:56
Speaker 2: their vibes were brutal there for a second.
21:58
Speaker 1: And as I've said, ad nauseam, and I've learned this
22:02
Speaker 1: over all these years of watching ball, if you're a
22:05
Speaker 1: good team at your baseline, you're five hundred, right, and
22:08
Speaker 1: this birus were ten and seven in this seventeen game stretch,
22:10
Speaker 1: which is better than five hundred, Yeah.
22:12
Speaker 3: Better than that. So you're at your worst, you're five hundred.
22:16
Speaker 1: So if you get to a situation where let's say
22:18
Speaker 1: there's like, you know, thirty games left and you have
22:24
Speaker 1: a five game lead, oh yeah, it seems like, well,
22:26
Speaker 1: that's a lot of time to make it up. Okay,
22:28
Speaker 1: But if you play fifteen and fifteen in those five
22:31
Speaker 1: games in order to make it up, that other team
22:33
Speaker 1: it's on them that they have to play really well.
22:36
Speaker 4: They have to basically go like twenty one and nine,
22:40
Speaker 4: twenty one and nine.
22:41
Speaker 1: So the math is the math, and that's people lose
22:44
Speaker 1: track of that too, because it's like it seems like, well,
22:47
Speaker 1: depending on where you are, if you're five games back,
22:50
Speaker 1: it seems like you're within an eyelash of Yeah, if
22:52
Speaker 1: you're five games ahead, you're hanging on for dear life.
22:54
Speaker 1: But that's not insignificant. Even two and a half games
22:57
Speaker 1: when you're not playing head to head, it's not insignificant, right,
23:00
Speaker 1: It's like it And if you stay and stay the
23:03
Speaker 1: course and be five hundred, just play better than five hundred,
23:06
Speaker 1: play at the pace the Brewers are as they were
23:09
Speaker 1: in the seventeen games.
23:10
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we always focus and maybe because recently
23:13
Speaker 4: we've been in first place a lot, which is a
23:15
Speaker 4: good thing. But we focus so much on the pressure
23:17
Speaker 4: a team will put on the team that's leading the division,
23:20
Speaker 4: right or the lead horse. Like we talk about the
23:22
Speaker 4: pressure you put on from a team like the Cubs
23:24
Speaker 4: who were hot for a long time and keeping the
23:26
Speaker 4: pressure on the Brewers. But I think it's underestimated a
23:29
Speaker 4: lot the pressure you can put on a team chasing
23:31
Speaker 4: you if you continue to win in that stretch. And
23:34
Speaker 4: the Cubs have played so well now for so long
23:36
Speaker 4: and have not been able to really they got close, right,
23:39
Speaker 4: they got to three now it's back to five. Have
23:41
Speaker 4: not been able to break through that close, that meaningfully
23:43
Speaker 4: close to the Brewers because they've played so well, And
23:46
Speaker 4: I think that wears down the team chasing you as well.
23:49
Speaker 4: And I think we saw a little bit of it
23:50
Speaker 4: this weekend with the Cubs and how they let a.
23:53
Speaker 3: Couple big ones go against the Cardinals.
23:55
Speaker 4: You know, you work that long to try and catch
23:57
Speaker 4: up to a team, you play that well for.
23:59
Speaker 3: That long, you don't see the fruits of your labor.
24:01
Speaker 4: Sometimes it can energize the team that you're chasing, and
24:04
Speaker 4: I think we saw that a little bit this weekend.
24:07
Speaker 4: Hopefully that continues. I also have to give the Cardinals
24:10
Speaker 4: a little credit. They're in a wildcard race as well,
24:11
Speaker 4: so they're trying to fight for a wild card spot.
24:13
Speaker 2: I thought they and I thought they had packed it in.
24:15
Speaker 3: I thought they were.
24:16
Speaker 2: I thought they were already, said Cabo a couple of
24:18
Speaker 2: days ago, a couple of weeks ago. And then they
24:19
Speaker 2: get a kid to come up here and hit three
24:22
Speaker 2: home runs in his major league debut.
24:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty good if.
24:25
Speaker 4: You can do that.
24:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, now, if you do that every three home runs
24:27
Speaker 2: and his major league good was he playing on rookie mode? Yeah?
24:30
Speaker 3: Good game, son, I mean keep doing that. Yeah?
24:32
Speaker 2: God, yeah, that was incredible. I guess the regression of
24:35
Speaker 2: the mean dred. He didn't even hit a homer yesterday.
24:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, how terrible. That must suck. That's just something else.
24:39
Speaker 3: He had a four home run game in the minors.
24:43
Speaker 3: Another good day.
24:44
Speaker 2: What I just and I could the only thing as
24:48
Speaker 2: I'm watching in their telling in book Shambi and David
24:50
Speaker 2: Ross and the whole ESPN crew telling you about him,
24:53
Speaker 2: as he walks up into the batter's box first off,
24:55
Speaker 2: strapping lad forearms like Popeye. Just yoke though, and uh,
25:01
Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine what Brewers Twitter would be doing if
25:04
Speaker 2: this kid was hitting four home run games down at
25:06
Speaker 2: Triple A and your offense is struggling, And could you
25:09
Speaker 2: imagine how satisfied you'd be as one of those fans
25:13
Speaker 2: that had been beating the drum for four months for
25:15
Speaker 2: him finally to come up.
25:17
Speaker 3: And he just wakes like that.
25:18
Speaker 4: I'd say, I agree with you, but I would say
25:21
Speaker 4: that except Andrew Fisher's doing similar things down there.
25:24
Speaker 3: He had another home But yeah, you're right, I mean.
25:26
Speaker 2: So to your point, you'd almost want Andrew Fisher to
25:28
Speaker 2: come up and go like two for twenty when he
25:30
Speaker 2: first goes to calm down some of the exciting I
25:33
Speaker 2: I did know Jack Centurio treatment.
25:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did note earlier this year like this has
25:37
Speaker 4: been a unique year and that the Bruer's been in
25:38
Speaker 4: first of all year. But we've talked so much about
25:40
Speaker 4: the guys coming up, like Hooper and Laura, but yeah,
25:42
Speaker 4: who's next? Yeah, that would be pretty funny. But could
25:44
Speaker 4: you imagine Burers fans but like, get this guy in
25:47
Speaker 4: the big league roster. We need these home runs now.
25:49
Speaker 4: You're absolutely right, Billy, it would be pretty funny. And
25:52
Speaker 4: they're always I mean listen, we're talking about Brewers fans.
25:54
Speaker 4: All right, this seems already won seventy seven games, and
25:56
Speaker 4: I still saw some tweets complaining about how certain guys
25:59
Speaker 4: aren't hitting, and like, I guess it, like we want everybody,
26:02
Speaker 4: we want everybody to be perfect. All I get it,
26:04
Speaker 4: But it's like now you're like we need orties every day.
26:06
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, you were probably the guy a month
26:08
Speaker 4: ago that and that's.
26:10
Speaker 1: Where again Contreras and Yelich will get hot again.
26:13
Speaker 3: And it's like, you.
26:14
Speaker 1: Know, fathom it now, because how at what point could
26:21
Speaker 1: you have you know, like you said, I'm gonna go
26:22
Speaker 1: back in the way back machine, and six eight weeks
26:24
Speaker 1: ago you got you're pining for Joey Artist to get
26:27
Speaker 1: more at bast Oh god, I mean exactly on what
26:30
Speaker 1: universe is that possible?
26:33
Speaker 3: Great reminder never give up on a guy.
26:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I mean, in the month of July,
26:37
Speaker 2: Garrett Mitchell is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
26:40
Speaker 3: And now he can't hit a hundred. Yeah, August, he's off.
26:44
Speaker 3: It's a game of streaks. That's just how it goes.
26:46
Speaker 2: And it's impressive when you have enough guys that are
26:48
Speaker 2: able to make up for both of them, right, and
26:50
Speaker 2: like that those guys being able to fly under the radar.
26:53
Speaker 2: Vaughan over at third base has been more impressive than
26:56
Speaker 2: I would have thought, Like just calm and saw Kurt
27:00
Speaker 2: ho yesterday. Even they're trying some other little matchurations. Christian
27:03
Speaker 2: yellis doing some first base ground balls over there. You know,
27:07
Speaker 2: they got to find some way to move dudes around
27:09
Speaker 2: because Gary Sanchez, I don't know if you caught that
27:12
Speaker 2: on Saturday night when Murph said, h yeah, I think
27:14
Speaker 2: he's I think he's kind of done playing first base
27:16
Speaker 2: and they tried it out in the fifth inning with
27:17
Speaker 2: his shitting guard on.
27:18
Speaker 4: I think he's probably ready to ready to get off
27:20
Speaker 4: of that glove. That ball couple ate him up. I
27:22
Speaker 4: mean that that's true. But the Brewers had to do
27:24
Speaker 4: this patchwork.
27:25
Speaker 3: Thing and they've won in spite of any any face.
27:29
Speaker 1: Put your best setup guy on the aisle, you went,
27:32
Speaker 1: You're playing without your basically your your double play combination.
27:37
Speaker 1: We're starting shortstop and second basement shelves.
27:40
Speaker 2: They like holy cow, ESPN did the top ranking of
27:44
Speaker 2: the top fifty players like updated last week. Miz came
27:47
Speaker 2: in like three or four in the big leagues and
27:50
Speaker 2: Bryce Strange was the sixteenth ranked player in Major League Baseball.
27:53
Speaker 3: You just played that whole.
27:54
Speaker 2: Series without him, right like so, and and you'd right, so,
27:58
Speaker 2: he's your your best offensive player, but your best weapon
28:00
Speaker 2: all year long, and you're playing without him with some
28:03
Speaker 2: real question in there and just bringing random guys off
28:06
Speaker 2: people's Triple A clubs Drew to come and play for you.
28:08
Speaker 1: That is the thing, like bringing in Bay like and
28:12
Speaker 1: then like not only they come in, they walk right
28:14
Speaker 1: into the starting lineup and they don't even know who
28:16
Speaker 1: everybody is, and they're shaking hands with guys in the
28:19
Speaker 1: dugout don't even know who they are.
28:21
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome to the big leagues. Kid. You're facing terror
28:23
Speaker 3: school today. Good luck. It is crazy.
28:26
Speaker 4: We got one of the nicklie a lot dot com
28:28
Speaker 4: talking text line. The text are rolling in some of
28:30
Speaker 4: you two commings as well. I'm waiting for Ronda to
28:32
Speaker 4: get up and take her victory.
28:33
Speaker 3: Lap Rona did already.
28:34
Speaker 2: She hit it in last night. She fired us in
28:36
Speaker 2: last night.
28:37
Speaker 3: I go back a little bit. Come oh yeah, baby,
28:39
Speaker 3: go Brewers hit us, she said.
28:41
Speaker 2: The negative Nellies can go pound sand Rond in the
28:44
Speaker 2: seven one to five. Also some good pick good pick
28:47
Speaker 2: plays at Packers camp Sunday. Great seeing Tucker Craft back
28:50
Speaker 2: catching passes. We'll be talking about that coming up a
28:53
Speaker 2: little bit later. But yeah, Ronda got in there last night,
28:55
Speaker 2: I think right as the final out was recorded.
28:58
Speaker 4: Awesome, love that and we got we got Steve. This
29:00
Speaker 4: is Steve morning.
29:01
Speaker 3: Guys. Hey, it's not just winning the division and.
29:03
Speaker 4: Having the best record, but we need to be playing
29:04
Speaker 4: our best ball going into the playoffs. So we don't
29:06
Speaker 4: want to just get in there, you know, playing like
29:08
Speaker 4: we've been playing the last three weeks. We got got
29:11
Speaker 4: to get some things straightened out here in the month
29:13
Speaker 4: of September, and I think we could get a go Brewers.
29:15
Speaker 4: Well I'll get it go Brewers right now. But yeah,
29:17
Speaker 4: I mean, playing your best ball is a subjective thing.
29:20
Speaker 4: It's kind of like the eye test. But they got
29:23
Speaker 4: seventy seven wins, so they're doing something right now. I
29:25
Speaker 4: understand that we got some guys that neediot start hitting
29:27
Speaker 4: a little bit, there's no question about that. I think
29:30
Speaker 4: it's a good sign though, that you're winning in spite
29:32
Speaker 4: of it. I mean, those guys are gonna talk about regression.
29:34
Speaker 4: The mean, well, the means up right now from a
29:36
Speaker 4: lot of those guys, Mitchell Contreras and those guys obviously,
29:40
Speaker 4: so I about to think that they got some runs coming.
29:42
Speaker 4: And if you're winning in spite of it, that's pretty
29:44
Speaker 4: good the way. Now, Yeah, this is Steve was one
29:46
Speaker 4: of the guys I know. I think he might have
29:48
Speaker 4: predicted that the Brewers sweep LA.
29:50
Speaker 2: But he was predicting that they were going to go
29:52
Speaker 2: in there and handle the Dodgers earlier last week. Drew
29:55
Speaker 2: Like you said, Brewers fans every once in a while,
29:58
Speaker 2: we are right, every once in a while. Hey, you
30:00
Speaker 2: gotta celebrated a little bit. We definitely let you guys
30:03
Speaker 2: know what we are. So let us know here at
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Speaker 2: eight seven seven, seven nine.
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Speaker 1: Three absolutely absolutely all right. We'll just get day off
30:11
Speaker 1: and then who are they playing on Tuesday?
30:13
Speaker 3: Sattle? What is cal Rally hitting a buck forty?
30:17
Speaker 2: Now?
30:17
Speaker 3: He's that?
30:18
Speaker 4: I think one of the underdiscussed stories all in Baseball's
30:20
Speaker 4: here is how big of a drop off his head?
30:23
Speaker 3: I don't know how you explained stuff like that, I mean.
30:25
Speaker 2: A seismic drop, just crazy one fifty eight with a
30:30
Speaker 2: five sixty eight ops.
30:32
Speaker 3: And there's a guy that everybody said, should have been
30:34
Speaker 3: the MVP last.
30:34
Speaker 4: Year, and maybe I mean his numbers. How can you
30:37
Speaker 4: dominate the league so much? And oh, this is a
30:40
Speaker 4: crazy game though wild results are never like promised, that's
30:44
Speaker 4: always nonlinear, like gets.
30:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just yeah, like I said, you fail seven
30:49
Speaker 1: out of ten times, you gotta go.
30:51
Speaker 3: You got a chance to go to Cooperstown.
30:53
Speaker 4: Get a point war this year. It hit a seven
30:55
Speaker 4: point two last year.
30:56
Speaker 1: All right, start formulating your game balls and kicks. It
30:58
Speaker 1: should be a robust one. Maybe some uh, some state
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Speaker 1: Fair themed game balls. Couple going to State Fair. Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: indeed we might have to. Uh, we'll spin through some
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Speaker 1: of those. Can't wait to get to the game balls
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Speaker 1: and kicks. We will talk Packers. We got the uh.
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Speaker 3: We got the word from Keishaw Nixon.
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Speaker 1: He's both positive and also at the same time strikingly negative.
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Speaker 3: He's a conundrum. That guy.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about Kishawan as we move forward. You are
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Speaker 1: in the huddle Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin Drew Bill and
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Speaker 1: Arman huddled up on a Monday in the good Land
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Speaker 1: reach us eight seven seven seven nine four one ninety
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Speaker 1: seven three.
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Speaker 3: Nicolay Low dot.
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Speaker 1: Co'm talking text line about to be popping with your
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Speaker 1: game balls and kicks. Fire those in if you got them,
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Speaker 1: we'll take them early, we'll take them off and you
31:48
Speaker 1: don't have to wait until six o'clock for it. But
31:51
Speaker 1: we courage the five o'clock clubbers just to say, hey,
31:54
Speaker 1: let us check in. Love to hear from you, Love
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Speaker 1: to know that you're up and around on this uh
32:00
Speaker 1: Monday again, little spring in your step. After the Brewers
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Speaker 1: took three out of four from the Dodgers, I maintained
32:05
Speaker 1: my stance with the Brewers. Like you look at the
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Speaker 1: past week. They can beat anybody. They can lose to anybody,
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Speaker 1: but they can beat anybody. And for all of our
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Speaker 1: obsession with the Cubs and Dodgers, I mean the Padres,
32:18
Speaker 1: the Braves, the Phillies, they're.
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Speaker 2: All good, yeah, and and they're showcasing it at the
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Speaker 2: bottom end of that wildcard race.
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Speaker 1: All have like they all have things that I don't
32:26
Speaker 1: want to face those Phillies first too. No, I really
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Speaker 1: what you want about mis and May and Logan Henderson.
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Speaker 1: Those guys are good too. Zach Wheeler and Carlos saw
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Speaker 1: Padres phenomenal.
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Speaker 3: They're there. Us are so hot right now that you're
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Speaker 3: worry about them regressing their their.
32:45
Speaker 2: Lineup is so is so stacked, and uh, I still
32:48
Speaker 2: think one of the best dark horses in the team
32:50
Speaker 2: that you definitely don't want to face towards the end
32:52
Speaker 2: of it would be Arizona because of the arms they're
32:54
Speaker 2: getting back, like they're gonna get.
32:56
Speaker 3: Burns back here right for the stretch run.
32:58
Speaker 2: They get Zach Allen back for this stretch run, and
33:01
Speaker 2: they've been hot over the last month and a half
33:03
Speaker 2: as they've climbed back into it. So no one's gonna
33:06
Speaker 2: be easy. It's never gonna be easy getting home. But
33:08
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have been the one that stood in your
33:10
Speaker 2: way at the end both of the last times you've
33:14
Speaker 2: gotten close enough right the last two nlcs is, and
33:17
Speaker 2: I know they keep throwing. In the twenty twenty playoff,
33:20
Speaker 2: I think the Burwers were under five hundred when they
33:22
Speaker 2: made that sixty game playoff, and nobody anticipated they were gonna.
33:26
Speaker 3: Do anything in that run to the title.
33:28
Speaker 2: For the Dodgers, but three and whatever it is, eight years,
33:32
Speaker 2: they're the one that you still will look at. I
33:34
Speaker 2: just I'm fascinated to see how much longer they're in
33:39
Speaker 2: this funk because they are going to break out of this,
33:41
Speaker 2: right like that offense is gonna break out of it.
33:43
Speaker 2: They've been kind of inconsistent, for Dave Roberts said for
33:45
Speaker 2: the last four to six.
33:46
Speaker 3: Weeks, but they're too good. Man.
33:48
Speaker 2: Team that's been really rolling those is Atlanta and they've
33:51
Speaker 2: got You don't really think about how many power bats
33:54
Speaker 2: they have in that lineup until you see them.
33:55
Speaker 3: We'll see him at the end of the weekend.
33:57
Speaker 2: But that lineup is pretty dense as well, and they
34:01
Speaker 2: get to throw Chris Sale at you, right. So, like,
34:03
Speaker 2: the amount of cy young winners in this playoffs on
34:06
Speaker 2: the National League is hilarious.
34:07
Speaker 3: There's so much talent in the National League in the playoffs.
34:10
Speaker 4: And meanwhile, in the American League, the current last qualify
34:13
Speaker 4: in the wild Card is sub five hundred. The Orioles
34:15
Speaker 4: are sixty one and sixty three, which is that's never
34:18
Speaker 4: happened in baseball except for the COVID year, where there's
34:20
Speaker 4: been a sub five hundred playoff team. I don't know
34:23
Speaker 4: if it really can happen, but we'll see. I mean,
34:25
Speaker 4: if it started today, it would, so it's kind of
34:27
Speaker 4: the imbalance has been interesting this year. The league's right now,
34:30
Speaker 4: the NLS definitely dominant. But hey, all the more reason,
34:33
Speaker 4: like you said, to try and achieve that first round
34:36
Speaker 4: by if you can, so you can avoid one of
34:38
Speaker 4: these teams because you mentioned it. Chris Sale, you know
34:41
Speaker 4: you got Wheeler, you got all these guys. Sanchez, you
34:44
Speaker 4: don't want to be facing these guys if you don't
34:45
Speaker 4: have to.
34:46
Speaker 1: No, but I guess championsphear, no one. Brewers can beat anybody,
34:51
Speaker 1: as we've just seen, and they could lose anybody's that's playoffs, man.
34:54
Speaker 2: And in the losing to anybody though, like where my
34:57
Speaker 2: mind first goes, Drew is like, yeah, they can the
35:00
Speaker 2: Pirates and the Giants and the Nationals.
35:02
Speaker 3: Luckily you won't see any of those teams.
35:04
Speaker 2: Right, Like the frustrations of yeah, I mean you can't
35:07
Speaker 2: beat the bad teams, Well you don't see any of those.
35:09
Speaker 2: You see the good teams that they actually that they
35:12
Speaker 2: maybe rise to the occasion to face. You could tell
35:14
Speaker 2: the energy in that dugout was electric yesterday, and I
35:18
Speaker 2: don't know how much of it was knowing that the
35:21
Speaker 2: off day was at the back end of it getting
35:23
Speaker 2: some win back into the sales. But the team wins
35:26
Speaker 2: when Logan Henderson pitches what are they now? Thirteen and
35:29
Speaker 2: three in his sixteen starts like there's and and that's
35:34
Speaker 2: not a nothing burger.
35:35
Speaker 3: He is a fascinating dude to watch on the mount.
35:38
Speaker 2: I love Kurt Hoag's video of him going out and
35:40
Speaker 2: Mac collins ing it barefoot up on the mound and
35:43
Speaker 2: going through his progressions.
35:45
Speaker 3: You get untouchable at all costs.
35:47
Speaker 2: Now at Logan Henderson's starting to get there for me,
35:49
Speaker 2: of I want to protect the guy as well, if
35:51
Speaker 2: that's going to be the human that.
35:52
Speaker 1: He's rocking and for the pitcher that he can. Ultimately,
35:55
Speaker 1: he has yet to allow more than three runs, right.
35:58
Speaker 3: Yes, and he's said start set an MLBU record on
36:01
Speaker 3: that one.
36:01
Speaker 4: I'm trying to find the actual stat that I did read,
36:04
Speaker 4: But for first to not allow that many runs and
36:08
Speaker 4: how many appearances and MLB history or something like that.
36:11
Speaker 4: I'll try and effort that, guys. But it's been remarkable
36:14
Speaker 4: to see him. And when he start thinking about playoff rotations,
36:17
Speaker 4: maybe it's a little early for that, but I don't
36:18
Speaker 4: think it is.
36:19
Speaker 3: You start wondering, you know, is.
36:21
Speaker 4: He shoehorned himself into a definite has to start in
36:23
Speaker 4: the playoffs. If he keeps pitching like this, when you
36:25
Speaker 4: think about you know May obviously, and what Harrison does,
36:28
Speaker 4: you have some options there well.
36:30
Speaker 2: And Kyle Harrison might be doing himself in the Brewers
36:33
Speaker 2: favor and taking him right.
36:34
Speaker 3: Out of it.
36:35
Speaker 2: Yeah right, right, Like the last couple of months, you
36:37
Speaker 2: see the fastball usage and the dipping velocity. Maybe Kyle
36:40
Speaker 2: Harrison goes out and you got other options as to
36:43
Speaker 2: who can be in there, because again, I know he's
36:45
Speaker 2: only pitched what two games for the Brewers. I want
36:48
Speaker 2: more dustin May in the playoffs, right, yeah, like I
36:50
Speaker 2: want that fiery competitor, and they traded the prospects to
36:52
Speaker 2: have him. One of these guys gonna get pushed into
36:55
Speaker 2: the bullpen. There's gonna be multiple, right because Droan's gonna
36:58
Speaker 2: go in at the end of this next cicle, and
37:01
Speaker 2: one to two more of these guys. Will Henderson's probably
37:03
Speaker 2: close to his most innings he's ever thrown for a
37:06
Speaker 2: guy that's got a lot of injuries.
37:08
Speaker 3: Creeping up for sure, for sure.
37:10
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, headline at the New York Post, Oh, I love this,
37:13
Speaker 1: Paul Skien start pushed back after velocity current concerns and
37:16
Speaker 1: showing off dad bought on Miami beach trip with Livy Dunn.
37:20
Speaker 3: Am I the only oneman I did not think it
37:24
Speaker 3: was he looked that big. I don't know what everyone
37:26
Speaker 3: is talking about, Like that's a problem. I'm in big
37:29
Speaker 3: trouble people.
37:30
Speaker 1: You know, we want our multi million dollar stars to
37:34
Speaker 1: be you know, they think he's.
37:35
Speaker 3: Gonna look like DK mess. Don't get it. I mean,
37:37
Speaker 3: he's not an MMA fighter. He's a pitcher. I know,
37:41
Speaker 3: I know, starting pitcher especially, come on, well.
37:43
Speaker 2: It's also tough when, like when Livy Dunn is rocking
37:46
Speaker 2: abs that people like pay for, Yeah, that's a tough thing.
37:50
Speaker 3: And so we're standing next to that's very true. Yeah
37:53
Speaker 3: she is. She raises the.
37:54
Speaker 2: Bar as you ripped up, and I don't know anybody
37:57
Speaker 2: was looking at the LSU hat that she was rocking,
37:59
Speaker 2: but like to see that as you're compared, it's gonna
38:03
Speaker 2: be a tough deal, Paul, Like, you're gonna have to
38:04
Speaker 2: take a lot of this heat or you're gonna start
38:06
Speaker 2: having a pump heat again. And I don't know that
38:08
Speaker 2: he's doing it this year.
38:09
Speaker 4: But it's not like he's Jim told me out there
38:11
Speaker 4: walking out of the corn looking like three of them.
38:13
Speaker 4: You know that was he's just looking at the man
38:15
Speaker 4: that guy did.
38:16
Speaker 3: Jim tell me know he could have unbuttoned the jersey,
38:18
Speaker 3: could have done it.
38:19
Speaker 4: You could have just gone open there and but it
38:22
Speaker 4: might have been a better idea. I don't know, man,
38:24
Speaker 4: that was something.
38:25
Speaker 2: There were a couple of players, though they're in the
38:27
Speaker 2: field of dreams that did take that idea.
38:29
Speaker 1: And Drew just leave the thing open. It's all good,
38:31
Speaker 1: Let it flow, get a little breeze. Can Griff is
38:34
Speaker 1: looking thick these days, and you know it's right. You
38:36
Speaker 1: never thought you the kid looks like we're getting old.
38:39
Speaker 1: The back of a little sorry, I have a little
38:41
Speaker 1: bit of patting around it. Paulk at the YouTube comments,
38:45
Speaker 1: Good morning, guys.
38:46
Speaker 4: I was hoping the Brewers were to win one or
38:47
Speaker 4: two against the Padres, but I believe we would win
38:49
Speaker 4: three against the Dodgers.
38:51
Speaker 3: So are taking the lap. Just focus on winning one
38:54
Speaker 3: game at a time, absolutely all right.
38:57
Speaker 1: But it was more important to win three or four
38:59
Speaker 1: from the Dodgers than like avoiding the say they win getaway,
39:03
Speaker 1: get the getaway game in San Diego and then go
39:05
Speaker 1: to and two.
39:05
Speaker 3: Same number, not the same results. Different.
39:09
Speaker 1: It feels like a more win in your sales beating
39:12
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. There's, you know, all the Waxy build up
39:14
Speaker 1: from last year.
39:15
Speaker 2: Just like Thursday Night, that team, that game could have
39:18
Speaker 2: happened against anybody else and it wouldn't have felt as
39:20
Speaker 2: big as it did. Winning it and come back in
39:22
Speaker 2: Chevez Ravine three or four just feels different against the Dodgers.
39:25
Speaker 2: And again, maybe it doesn't come down to it, maybe
39:27
Speaker 2: it ultimately doesn't matter. But if this thing and both
39:29
Speaker 2: teams end up at ninety nine wins and they got
39:32
Speaker 2: to come and play Game seven at your place because
39:35
Speaker 2: of the win of the season series, it matters somewhat.
39:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely matter really quick, Dobbler. What's some Dobbler?
39:40
Speaker 4: Never change with the healthy Lockridge and when Freelik is ready,
39:44
Speaker 4: then move that loser Garrett Mitchell to the minors permanently.
39:46
Speaker 4: He was lucky the locker to injury gave more playing time.
39:49
Speaker 4: Never changed, Dobbler.
39:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, just hate our good players.
39:53
Speaker 2: Geezha, does that make you to be able to interest?
39:59
Speaker 2: It's not all of these out and the one negative
40:02
Speaker 2: one arm and is making sure that he can feast
40:04
Speaker 2: on and jump on there.
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Speaker 3: I'm reading our texts, that's all. It's a beautiful thing.
40:08
Speaker 3: Beautiful thing.
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Speaker 1: Keep him coming, ro about to fire up game balls
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Speaker 1: and kicks eight seven seven seven nine three. Nick lay
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Speaker 1: Lott co I'm talking text on, going to be popping.
40:17
Speaker 1: Hoping for robust discussions today and there will be some
40:20
Speaker 1: Packers talk as we move forward as well. They don't
40:23
Speaker 1: play until Friday night in Denver, but we got plenty
40:25
Speaker 1: to talk about from the weekend.
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Speaker 3: Auercraft is back, thank god, and we'll be back. You're
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