MILWAUKEE BREWERS WON 10 STRAIGHT…AGAIN!!!

MILWAUKEE BREWERS WON 10 STRAIGHT…AGAIN!!!

Good morning, Jeff. What’s going on, man? Good morning, guys. Appreciate a little Huey Lewis in the news to bring me in today. Love that. Good work. Yeah. I mean, you’re going to be joining us on Tuesdays. I don’t even know how this started on our show, but every Tuesday is day where we celebrate Huey Lewis in the news. I I don’t know how. I don’t know why. It’s just a thing that we do where we play Huey Lewis in the news on Tuesdays. Big fan. I think there needs to be more Huey Lewis in the news around everywhere. This is so good. Uh Jeeoff, you think the Brewers will lose again this season? Doesn’t feel like it. It sure doesn’t feel like it, Chewy. I I will tell you they will. It will. They will lose again. Yes, they are not going to win 40 straight games, but I mean, I’m going to ride this wave as long as they can, man. This was great. What went through your mind when you saw Andrew Vaughn square up to bunt in last night’s game? um kind of what’s been going on this entire I don’t know last three and a half months. What the heck is happening? Of course, why why wouldn’t he why wouldn’t he square around a bunt in that situation? Why why why would the Brewers be 30 games over 500 at this point on August 12th? Why not have Andrew Vaughn square around? I love how Murf in this postgame conference goes. I mean, I don’t know if he got the sign from Jason Lane. I don’t know if he did it on his own. He was blaming Santa Rosa, California for a little bit. I mean, it was just it was just a straight I’m going to drive this run in. I don’t care how I’m going to do it. And Andrew Vaugh drove the run in. Jeff, why do you think uh Murf switched Freddy’s start till today? I have a theory and I think it’s cuz Murf wants the fans to have burgers. Why do Why do you think he did it? Uh I think it’s twofold. Number one is to give him an extra day of rest. Freddy’s been a little off in his last couple of appearances. So, you can give him an extra day of rest. There was the off day. Kintana was going to throw on his normal 5 days rest. So, you could give Freddy an extra day. He’s been working on five days rest all season long. He hasn’t missed a start in three years. Um, he’s been Mr. Consistency. So, to give him an extra day is not the worst thing in the world. Um, and it also lines him up for Monday for the double header against Chicago. I believe that’s when he would start again. Uh, which would be Monday. So, that’s another part of it. You you’d like to see him start against the Chicago Cubs, too. So, pushing him back a day also allows them to do that. What is it about this team that has allowed them to do what they’re doing? because we’ve Jeeoff, you’ve been around the Brewers long enough and this has been the golden era of Brewers baseball really going back to 2018 and and the number of teams that have been able to make the postseason. I mean, in that stretch, they have the 96 wins that that tied a franchise record for most in a season. But why is this team different? Why does this feel different than some of those other playoff teams that they’ve had? I think both of you guys could speak to this and and Chewy a little more so, but when you’re in a a locker room or a clubhouse and there’s a a genuine care and there’s a genuine love between your teammates and you want to you walk through that door and you are genuinely excited to see everybody and excited to go to work with everybody and you all have the same common goal. Uh, I think that that’s what’s really going on in that clubhouse. They they have this confidence when they show up at the ballpark and and this the game was over last night and Murf posted the lineup for today within 30 minutes. So those guys know as soon as the game is over that game’s done. We’re moving on to tomorrow. I got my lineup set. We got Paul Skins and he’s next. Here we go. And and I think that that players appreciate that. But those guys love each other. And I think when you went to the went went into the trade deadline, there were a lot of conversations about how are we going to how are the Brewers going to improve the team with Slug or whatever they’re going to do. And I’ve always said you you got to make sure that you keep the cohesion of that clubhouse more than anything else. And the the additions that the Brewers made were fantastic. They’ve all fit in so perfectly, but those are the guys that they wanted to go to battle with. The guys that were in that clubhouse before the trade deadline are the ones that want they wanted to win with. And that’s what they’re going to do. And there are par, like you said, Jeeoff, they’re parallels to our 96 team here because we loved our locker room, too. And when everyone asked me, I said, you know, I love the fact that I won it with the guys that I did, but there’s also, you know, the players feel an obligation to the fans. I mean, it had been 26 years or however many years uh in Green Bay since we were relevant, and it’s kind of that same feeling here. And I think the players probably feel it like, man, we can’t let the fans down. We haven’t been to the World Series since 82. This is our year. Couple with that with having fun. And it’s just I just see parallels between between the two teams and hopefully, you know, it comes to fruition. But I feel good. It’s a Yeah, it’s a great recipe for success and the fans have shown up. Even on a Monday night in the middle of summer last night, there were 30,000 people in the ballpark last night. They had seven straight sellouts and eight out of nine in terms of people coming to the ballpark. And think about all of the devastation in the city of Milwaukee and just how crummy it’s been for everybody. And our hearts are going out to everybody that’s dealing with it. We had terrible rain last night. Um, and I mean, you just pack that on to everything else and there were still 35,000 people in the ballpark on Sunday. There were 42,000 tickets sold. People still showed up. People still showed up early to get to the ballpark. I mean, they there was something special going on here in Milwaukee that that we’re all a part of and and we should be really lucky that we’re riding this wave together. Yeah. And as we talk with Jeff Levering, we’ll be on Tuesdays from here on out in the rest of the Brewer season on Jen Gabe and Chewy. The one question I feel that we see a lot or I I hear a lot of fans talking about, well, I mean, with Andrew Vaughn playing like this, what are we going to do when, you know, when when Reese Hoskins gets healthy? Like, I feel that’s also a problem that the Brewers haven’t had in recent like, oh, oh, you’ve got another good bat coming back. I’m sure Murf will figure it out because usually Jeff, it’s been, well, okay, this guy needs a day off, but how do we keep this bat in the lineup? and and now there are just so many guys who are contributing offensively. It it’s a balancing act. It’s a great problem to have. It is. And Reese is still I a couple of weeks away maybe with that that hand injury and and or the thumb I should say at the UCL. Uh but rosters will expand. You’ll only get one position player and one pitcher once September 1 hits. Uh but it is a great problem to have, right? You want your guys to be playing at the best possible abilities at this time of year, right? Jackson Cheerio is gonna come back, right? He’s not even in the lineup. The Brewers haven’t lost without him in the lineup. And you go, “Well, now we’re now we’re gonna add Jackson Cheerio to it.” Think about the lineup that the the Brewers ran out there on Sunday. Think about the lineup that they ran out there on Friday, the first game of the road trip against the Washington Nationals. You would get fined in a spring training game if you sent that to Surprise, right? because you have to have quote unquote regulars travel on a spring training roster. And when you looked at that roster and that lineup on on that Friday, August the 1st or even Sunday against the Mets, you go, “We’re going to get fined by Major League Baseball.” But what they do, they go out and they come from behind and they beat the Mets. What they do against the Nationals? Oh, they pounded out 16 runs. It doesn’t matter who’s in there. Everybody’s contributing. Well, and I mean Reese Hoskins has been contributing even though he’s been injured. I I know that, you know, a couple weeks ago it was William Contras who said, “Hey, I’m I’m crediting Ree for kind of helping me work through some things and now we see William Contrus just tear the cover off the ball.” What What does it say about this team that even though somebody’s injured, they’re finding ways to contribute by being a great teammate? It’s It’s hard when you are on the injured list to have a voice because you can’t contribute on the field, right? But guys have done that time and time again. Uh Reese Hoskins is doing it right now. I think about Brandon Woodruff for the last year and a half until he came back and he’s pitching the heck out of the baseball right now, but he hasn’t been able to he wasn’t able to do anything last year. He wasn’t able to do anything for the first half of this year except for get himself ready to go. But he’s teaching those young kids, Chad Patrick and Logan Henderson, and taking them under their wings and saying, “Hey, okay, how can we get better? This is what your routine should look like.” a Jacob Miserowski, just being a sponge, being next to Brandon Woodruff every day. Those are the those are the ways that your teammates can help you out when you’re not able to perform on the field. Um the Brewers have had a knack of having those guys really help each other. Um even Wade Miley last year, right? He he makes a handful of starts, but he’s in the clubhouse every day. He’s traveling with the team even though he knows he’s not being able to pitch. Um, but he is helping that clubhouse. He’s helping that roster day in and day out. Jeeoff, do you think they need a reset at some point in time? And what I mean by that, in 96, we’re about threequarters through the season. We lose uh at Kansas City, we lose at Dallas, and we’re banged up. We go to St. Louis, who’s terrible. They’re like three and whatever, and it’s tied at halftime. And I’ll never forget we we wind up winning the game, but we come home, the leaders of the team call a team meeting just screaming, no coaches screaming, yelling and said, “We need to run the table.” And we did. And it wasn’t close for the Do you think they need that maybe 20 games from now? Like maybe to get swept in a series and have a reset and go, “All right, now here we go.” No. Thank you. He has been trying to pedal this. Oh, they need a reset. They need to lose four or five games. Like, no. Okay. Actually, they don’t need that. So, I’m glad you maybe he’ll listen to you, Jeff. They need a control altdeite and shut this thing down. No, I listen. They’re running so good right now. I think they’re 25 and4 um since right before the All-Star break, right? since Brandon Woodruff came back that Sunday in Miami. 25 and four. They don’t lose back-to-back ball games. It again, it’s it’s one of those things where you play every day. I I get it where you play once a week and you really wear it, right? You really wear it. But in baseball, they have this ability to flush things so fast. And I have this little toilet with me in my office. I can just I can just flush things really easily. Um that’s what that’s what baseball players do. They flush it. it’s done. Game’s over. You lose one, you’re gonna come back and try and win the next ball game. So, I I think that they don’t need a reset. And these guys have been so resilient. The first six weeks of the season was such a grind. They found that edge, as Pat Murphy likes to say. And um they don’t need a four-ame losing streak to get their mind right. For sure. Does Bryce Tang just hit bombs now? Is that what he does? Apparently, he and William Contrarus, they just they just do nothing but hit bombs. It’s amazing. uh leadoff homer for Bryce Terrain yesterday. Eight game hitting streak. It’s got what five or six homers in his last two weeks. It’s unbelievable. I was at the game last night and he hits the first. I was sitting up the the the the third base line and he hits it and you could, you know, it’s kind of going to that left center gap and it’s like, oh, he probably didn’t get it. Then I look up and I went, wait, 105 exit velocity. Now he’s just hitting oppo bombs. Like what? Aren’t you supposed to wear down as the season goes on? What’s going on here? So, you were in the ballpark. How loud was that home run? It was loud. It felt like a thunder clap, right? Yeah. It was It was uncelable the way that he’s been. And that’s honestly that’s that’s what gets me excited. Jeeoff, you mentioned the the injured guys that are going to be coming back, whether it’s Reese Hoskins, Jackson Chur, we haven’t even mentioned Jacob Mizowski who’s going to to help solidify that rotation, but also if if you think and and look, Andrew Vaughn’s not going to continue to hit like like Aaron Judge probably not going to happen. He can still be a really good player, but when you see things like, oh, William Contrus, who’s been underperforming all year, starting to look like the William Contreras we’re used to, that’s what makes you go, oh, okay, they can have enough pop in this lineup. There are they do have enough guys that can do a lot of damage in this lineup once they’re feeling good and healthy. Yeah, we had uh Matt Arnold in the TV broadcast last night and Arnold said that that Murf’s been giving Cheurio a bad time saying, “Dude, I mean, we don’t need you. We don’t need you. We’re fine. Dude, we’re we’re 10 and0 without you, homeboy. So, take your time. And I Go ahead. He’s kind of joking around at that point. But, I mean, he’ll be back. He’ll be great and and it’ll it’ll work like clockwork, but he it’s great to have Murf have that levity with those guys, too. Jeeoff, one more dumb question. You know, I was talking about the obligation the players feel to the fans. Do they know the 12 wins will get the fans burgers? Oh, yeah. I mean, they got to 11 earlier this year. Yeah, they got to 11 earlier this year and I mean George Webb’s just sitting there going, “Oh man, this is great.” You get the promotion, people are camping out. This is amazing. But yeah, but then then you get to 11 and they don’t win the 12th, but we got all the the advertising. You didn’t have to give away the burgers. So now, I mean, now you’re getting close. You want to give those burgers away. You want to do it. I know they do. The fans know. Fans know. Fans definitely know, but the players know, too. They know what’s on the line. All right. Well, they got a tough one tonight. Tonight’s the tough one. Ski on the mound. Should be a fun one. You’ll be on the call over on television side. Jeff, appreciate you jumping on with us and we look forward to talking to you the rest of the season. You got it, guys. We’ll talk to you next Tuesday. Hey guys, it’s Jen from Jen, Gabe, and Shuy. Thanks for watching our clip. I’m sure it was super informative and educational. I’m just kidding. I love those knuckleheads. And we do it live every Monday through Friday from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. on 945 ESPN Milwaukee. Make sure that you like and subscribe and hit that notification bell so that you get informed anytime we drop new content.

The Milwaukee Brewers are ON FIRE! 🔥 After dominating the Pirates for their 10th straight win, the Crew is making MLB history — and it feels like something special is brewing in Milwaukee.
Broadcaster Jeff Levering joins Gabe Neitzel and Mark Chmura to break down how the Brewers have caught lightning in a bottle. From clutch hitting to shutdown pitching, they explore what’s behind this unforgettable streak and whether the Brewers are true World Series contenders.

📈 Current Record: 74–44
🔥 Longest Win Streak of the Season: 10 games
🗣️ Guests: Jeff Levering, Gabe Neitzel, Mark “Chewy” Chmura

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