NO ONE BETTER THAN US – Milwaukee Brewers up 2-0 against Chicago Cubs

NO ONE BETTER THAN US – Milwaukee Brewers up 2-0 against Chicago Cubs

I I was trying to figure out I was listening to Jen, Gabe, and Chewy on my drive back this morning and I I there were so many moments that were like, “This is what this this is why this is great.” Obviously, Vaughn hitting the three-run home run in the first inning was critical. Um, you know, you get I I the first you’re kind of just settling in and who’s the dude, the Cubs Cubs guy that hit the three-run home run, Suzuki. He hits the three-run homer and I’m thinking, boy, there’s a lot of Cubs fans in here because it got say you later. It got semi- loud. And of course then everybody is saying, well, you know, shouldn’t have pitched Ashby. It was a mistake. And it turns out the old riverboat Pat, he crapped out on that one. Uh, it didn’t work. It just didn’t work. But old boy Vonyie comes back and all right then it’s almost like, all right, the slate’s clean. We eradicated the crap out now. What are you gonna do? And you bring you bring Ashby back out. He labors. And I thought a couple of things then when Mess came in in that second, right, Jesse? And shut that down with first runners on first and second. And I thought there was that’s when you got your first big exhale. So you had your jumping out the gym rockousness. And the weird thing about Vaughn’s home run, most of the times, you know, when it’s the crack of the bat, this thing was so blanking high and the outfielders are good at like not giving it away and you’re kind of like, I think he got it, but you’re you see him still drifting back and then finally the thing ends up going second deck and you’re everybody is just going bananas. It was awesome. So, our seats were out by the left field valve pole. We were some of the only ones I think who could tell off the bat it had the distance. Everyone everyone else in the stadium talking to other people, they didn’t know. We were paused like I think he got it, but I couldn’t tell for sure. And then when it did, everybody erupts. And again, that to me was Yeah, it was obviously a critical spot, but that was more of a All right, slate clean. Let’s go. What now? what are we going to do? And to me, the biggest I for me is when he brought Miz out cuz it showed up that he’s warming up and in the you know after the second and I was kind of looking at it like boy this is old boy is really rolling the dice tonight that you could go with the easy play and bring Pster out and then you have Kintana to pitch down Chicago and and it felt like he was really just saying It reminded me of Major League when Lou Brown brought in Vaughn. It’s like I just got a hunch. You know, they both throw smoke. Obviously, Miz has struggled with location. He he labored a little bit early, but you looked up on that, you know, in the right field box and every pitch is a buck four, a buck three, you know, he’s throwing a hundred and they’re like, “Oh, he’s taking a little bit off.” The Miz was the magic for me last night. And that sounds crazy because, you know, Catrus hits a bomb and does the flex. And that one I knew was gone off the jump. Mhm. But the Miz and getting out of it and pitching three innings, that to me was the highlight of the game last night. Even though there were two three-run homers and a solo shot by Contrarus, the Miz stole the show for me last night and all of that. And then after Miz came out and we had and when Torio hit the the absolute bomb, I love the fact their center, what’s their center fielder’s name? Crow Armstrong. Crow Armstrong. So he fakes like he’s going to catch the ball is like third deck like gone gone off the batter’s eye. And then my favorite part is he’s firing his glove like a petulant child out there that all of that. And then after that it was almost not it was not antilimactic but you know the beauty of playoff baseball is every pitch like if it’s a one-run game or if it’s you’re down one everything is like you’re chewing on your nails. last night once we went up 73 it was kind of like all right and to the Brewers bullpen’s credit there wasn’t any after Miz got out of the game the drama was nada there was no drama one hit they gave up after the first inning so you just got so much action packed in and it was like a sugar rush and by the sixth or seventh sixth seventh inning it was you kind of started crashing. Then I would say it’s 10:30, 11 o’clock, the the mojo of the building was still great, but really after Miz came out and obviously with Cheerio hit the three-run dong, it was a kind of a room service night. And so you got to feel all of the emotions and that now the excitement of we’re one away, we’re one away from hosting an NLCS. And that’s that gives you a little picture of how I worked last night. So when you say it was not antilimactic, but kind of antilimactic once it was 73 and they mowed down 15 straight hitters. Uh and as Jesse mentioned, one one hit, one blank damn hit as uh Bob Uker says in Major League. Did you consider consider an early departure? No. You start postgame shows early, but you were not leaving early. Well, I just think when when you looked at it, you’re the game felt totally in control. I would agree. You just put it once you got past Miz and there’s a little bit of, oh, Patrick’s coming in. Okay. And you know, then you don’t even realize. I didn’t even realize he’s throwing 97 98 mph seeds, too. It’s like you just And I loved council getting booed all the time. Like the just the the whole mojo in the building was just phenomenal. Like you can’t beat playoff baseball. I said that yesterday. Say it all the time. Um it’s just different. and this team. What I think you love about it is the resiliency, but you just never felt like obviously Vaughn’s home run was huge. I don’t know if they would have started pressing if it didn’t go, but you just always feel like there’s different ways that they find to win. Last night it was the long ball. I don’t know what it’s going to be down in Chicago. I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s going to be a grinder and we’re going to have to come back. Now I’m just fascinated. It sounds like midnight Murphy puts out that Priest’s going to pitch game three, right Jel? I mean he they said he was going to probably pitch in game two for a week and then he didn’t. So who know? No, I mean he announced it I think last night. I believe Prister is pitching tomorrow. Yes. So just the gamesmanship and the fact they put Turner in to start the game and like all that jostling and it it’s just fun. It’s just fun and obviously it’s a lot more fun when your team wins because that may factor in. I feel like this morning’s conversation, let’s say we lose 3-2 last night, um I feel like we would be crushing Pat Murphy this morning because what he the the roll of the dice that he went big on failed like and it failed pretty violently like three run violently. But to go to the Miz, we didn’t know if the Miz would pitch. And then to trust that he could go three innings and to do what he did. First off, give Miz a ton of credit for being able to step in there and calming himself. And yeah, I it was just I I don’t know about you, Jesse, I just felt as if that was everything. You go to a game and you hope for a lot of fun and a lot of drama and you got it for about five or six innings and then fans like to be able to just bask in winning and see the Cubs fans all pouty and mopey and an old boy firing his glove like a petulant child. It it just covered everything. That’s what I liked. Uh PCA seems like he’s one of those guys that’s kind of easy to dislike if he’s not on your team. Am I reading that correctly? Very much. He made a great catch in the gap in left center last night. I don’t know. He He is a smooth center fielder. He’s smooth but unlikable. Uh Jesse, how was your experience after you hung out with Stacy Bruner at Meooz? Uh we had an awesome time yesterday. So uh Joe and I got together in the afternoon. Uh we got down to Mecoos, took the shuttle in, enjoyed some coolers light, saw a couple of friends in the stadium as we were getting our way over to the seats. We got in like an hour and a half before first pitch. So, we had a lot of time to bounce around, kind of take in the atmosphere. Uh, got to our seats out in left field. And time did you go down there? 9:00 a.m. Uh, no. We a little bit later in the day. Cory and Rufus were over until about 1:00 yesterday afternoon. So, we had we had a nice little day yesterday. You still think that was the right move? Yeah. Oh, okay. Nobody else does, just so you know. It’s fine. Um, it was it was so fun. Uh, Talsh had all the the major points. I mean, the the drama um the realization that we came to sitting out in left field once Miz came in in the third inning that Holy smokes. Did you think did you think that was crazy? Uh, I I just assumed what we had heard for two weeks going into this thing was it was Freddy Peralta game one, Quinn Priest game two, and then we’ll figure it out. And then all of a sudden they they announced Sunday that Ashby was starting. Okay, that’s interesting. Like play the lefty matchups at the start and then expect Priestster to come in and all of a sudden Nick Mirs comes in and gets out of the J and then the Miz comes in and when the Miz came in Joe and I look at we’re like he’s not pitching Priest today. That rascal Pat Murphy rascal he’s not pitching Priest today and the fact that it’s time to have a conversation about Pat Murphy’s pitching rotation. The fact that seven pitchers and six combining for one hit baseball throughout the course of that game after the Ashby flub in the first inning, that was remarkable. It was pushing all the right buttons perfectly. And now it sets you up where you get Freddy Peralta on full rest, Quinn Pester a chance to pitch tomorrow to close it out, and then you still have another chance if for whatever reason both of those don’t work, you have another opportunity to try and go win it. three chances to win one game. Will he start Ashby again? I mean, I hope it doesn’t come to that. I think Priest pitches tomorrow. I hope they close them out in Wrigley and that’s it. No, blank blank. But I’m asking if I I could definitely see whether it’s against the Dodgers in the NLCS or against the Cubs if it goes a little longer than we hope here. I could see him running the same plan out there again based on matchups. Yeah. So, I thought one of the things that we that probably is going to get overlooked because I hit most of the big talking points of how the game played. Can we can before you say that, can we just again emphasize how good the Miz was and how like the home run from Vaughn is enormous. I I get that two three-run homers in the same game like from a team that was allegedly not uh homeorrific enough, but for Miserowski to pitch the way he did given the control issues and the concerns about him heading into the postseason, for him to do what he did and the fact that he kind of admitted that he didn’t want to throw that ball to first base cuz he didn’t might know where it was going to go. Like I I just thought that that was the game cuz if he goes in there and starts walking guys left and right and doesn’t have control, suddenly the Cubs have life. Yeah, they would have pulled him. But yeah, the Miz I I again if you go one of two, which is what I think Murf did last night with his dice rolls, it crapped out. But with the Miz, you know, when you’re throwing dice and craps, you want the dice shaker, and in this case, he handed the dice over to Miz, you want him to hold the dice. You don’t want him crapping out. And it got a little ugly. Put a couple of hard points out there, a four, maybe an 11, maybe a 10. And, you know, he’s out there sick, but he’s never he never rolled that seven to crap out. He kept getting it. And as you kept going, you kept raking in that cash. you kept getting it and you just kept allowing your team to try and chip chip chip away. So if you can do that and you can overcome the really the the miscue or it turns out you won the game so you can’t be overly judgmental but it didn’t work the way he wanted at all. He didn’t even get through two innings. He had to bring mirrors in all of that. But I thought one of the sneaky parts of this and the back end of your lineup which they’ve been good and they’ve been criticized. I thought when Derpin got hit and then I don’t remember who made the out. Was it uh who’s who’s hitting in the eighth slot last night? Blake Perkins. Perkins gets out. So there’s two outs and Ortiz is up and you’re kind of like at that point at this point it’s 4-3. You’re kind of like all right whatever. Ortiz not a great hitter, right? He’s it is what it is. Good great fielder and he just kept battling and when he got that base hit to extend the inning. I think that part of the game everybody’s going to talk Cheerio, everybody’s going to talk about Vaughn, everybody’s going to talk about the Miz and you’re going to talk about the bullpen. I think that at bat signifies everything you need to know about this team. And for him to battle, battle, battle, and then find a way on and an old boy hits the absolute bomb and then the kid out in center’s firing his glove like a petulant kid. That to me encapsulated everything about last night. Petulence, peninsula, what’s your favorite word these days? Because I’ve heard a lot of petulin today. Um, well, go ahead and look at what he did. He threw his glove like he threw his glove like you know like like a like a Kiwi kid. Yeah. Uh I I am one other thing. It’s fun to me when you break somebody like that. That’s what’s beautiful about the psychology of sport. I agree. He’s obviously incredibly invested. He’s a really good player and first off you see the picture of him trying to rob that home run. I mean he literally is off by 100 feet. You know it’s I get a kick out of that and then he takes his glove and fires it like a petulant kid. Yeah, it’s fun to watch that. That that’s when you know you’re in somebody’s head and they knew at that point our road to trying to advance this playoff just got a lot tougher after he tried to rob that 410 419 ft home run and he’s sitting there at 385 ft. Um what about the fact that we didn’t know if Churio was going to play? That was the other dice roll to me and that obviously came up big time. So, you’re not going to win big if you don’t make some big moves. That was I think I thought I saw him grimacing a little bit. He made a great catch down probably by Jesse down on that left field line. And I thought he was a little grimacey, but at this point I think unless he’s Yank City USA, he going to be out there. And man, what a performance by him. Great. I’m I should have probably taken him as my Steinhoffer. That’s the thing I learned. That’s a lesson learned. Well, you’ve also learned an important lesson that others need to learn, and that is if you’re going to get new windows, you need to get them for Pella. 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