NLCS – Milwaukee Brewers Face 0-2 Deficit to Los Angeles Dodgers | Is Series Over? – Mr. Irrelevant

NLCS – Milwaukee Brewers Face 0-2 Deficit to Los Angeles Dodgers | Is Series Over? – Mr. Irrelevant

Yeah, way we go on a Wednesday edition. Mr. Relevant. I’m Alex Drove with you from the Gubber Loves. This one called Studio at the Avenue in downtown Milwaukee. Joshy Deaggio is here. I don’t know where Will Summers is. I haven’t seen him in like 3 hours. Sent him home. Oh, did you? Oh, okay. All right. You are his boss after all. Uh Hunter Vaughn is here as well at the Everlight Solar Studio in in downtown Madison. Obviously, a lot to get to with the Milwaukee Brewers now facing an O2 deficit in the National League Championship Series after another loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers um last night. And um yeah, we’ll get to that in a moment. I I have a lot of things to say in regards to that game and uh and where the series is at. We will discuss whether or not we believe this series is over as it stands through two games um as this series turns and and takes a travel to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. There’s Will. I was wondering where he can’t hear us yet. Big Willie style. Hey Will. Good to see you. Right on time. What’s up boss? Right on time buddy. Um we’ll talk a little Packers. We’ll of course play one word Wednesday. We will of course get to what we missed uh which is presented Bor County Distillery but but only one place to start. The starting point today um is of course what we are dealing with with the Milwaukee Brewers. Yoshobu Yamamoto complete game three hitter at American Family Field last night after Blake Blake Snell faces the minimum through eight innings in game one. They pull them. The Brewers get to the bullpen and end up only losing that game theoretically by 90 feet. Really, 180 feet, I guess, technically, but um tying run was on third base in game one. So, back-to-back games at Amfam Field, back-to-back losses for the Brewers to start off this best of seven series, and things are looking dim. We talked on Monday about how I believe this is these are the two best teams. These are the two best teams all season long in the National League. this is the matchup you want. This is the matchup you deserve to get in the championship series. But here you are now and it’s looking like it’s all about one team in the Dodgers and it’s all about how they have the superhumans and the super players and the super team and the number one payroll in baseball. And I’m not a fan of excuses. I’m not I’m not I’m not listing these out as excuses because they’re just facts. The Brewers have not been good enough. The Brewers have not been able to generate anything offensively. They had three hits yesterday, including a leadoff first pitch home run by Jackson Turio in the bottom of the first inning, two hits after that as Yamamoto goes 111 pitches the entire game. Their starting pitchers have accounted for 17 of the 18 innings in the first two games of the series. And frankly, as a Brewers fan, as this series travels to Los Angeles, beginning on Thursday, I don’t know that it’s going to get a whole lot better. Tyler Glass now is going to pitch game three. Show Otani is going to pitch game four. If you can’t have quality at bats, and if you cannot hang in there and do what you did all season, you’re not giving yourself a fighting chance. You’re not giving yourself a puncher chance. you’re you’re all but guaranteeing this series is going to end by the weekend, which is frustrating because the team we have seen for the first 167 games, if you will, regular season in the NLDS, is not the same team we have witnessed in the first two games of the championship series. They can’t manufacture base runners. They can’t manufacture hits. They can’t hit a ball out of the infield. And when you do that two games in a row, not only do you put yourself in a massive hole now taking the series to their home field, you don’t give anybody a whole lot of hope that the bats are just all of a sudden going to wake up when you’re playing the best pitching staff in baseball. So yeah, I’m a little discouraged today. I think the Brewers can keep this series alive. I think they’re going to find a way to win some games plural in Los Angeles, but the first two games not encouraging, especially on the offensive side for the Milwaukee Brewers. Got that out of my system, but I have more to say. Joshy, the floor is yours. Um, where to start? It’s been disappointing. It’s been not even looking like they’re getting off the mat. Um, I think if we choose to ignore the disparity in the payrolls and the level of talent that those bring in, I think we’re kind of sticking our head in the sand. Um, I think Will told me the stat about the current construction of their starting pitching has like had two gothroughs of like their one through five. Yeah. All season. Three cycles in the regular season or something like that. Yeah. So, the fact that they’re healthy alto together at the right time, clicking on all the all cylinders is a major difference. And um I think and uh there’s there’s no better time to bring this up than now. Uh oh. But in the postseason, if you hit home runs and you hit the ball far, you go far in the playoffs. And the difference, how many runs have the Dodgers scored that weren’t home runs? Is it They’ve probably double last night by Pahes. Yeah. And then there was late like the Freddy Freeman, right? Well, Freeman hit a home run. I believe he was show who like Yeah. He had a single through the right side. Yeah. So, um the biggest difference is these two teams ability to hit home runs. Now, you can factor in and say, well, when you’re pitching as well as Yamamoto or Snell is, um, obviously they’re not giving up home runs because they’re going so deep into games. But do we not think that if we had our own Freddy Freeman or we had our own Maxy or Yeah, Willie Adam is a fair point obviously who left this off season. But look, I mean, it it goes back to, I guess, the issue I was saying. Yeah, sure. Do they have generational Hall of Fame talent on their side? Of course they do. But you also went through this entire season with guys playing like stars, right? The Jackson Turos, who hit another home run last night, his second. He’s doing all he can. Jackson, he is. But this is where I bring up the Christian Yeliches of the world. Yeah, he’s got he he’s been he’s been about as bad as he possibly could be offensively. He’s been so bad he would have been benched if he didn’t have MVPs in his previous If his name wasn’t Christian Yelich, correct? Yes. Yeah. If his name wasn’t Christian Yellish, I don’t know that he’s still out there. Yeah. He has not had a hit. He has not had a hit since game three of Yeah. the NLB. He looks entirely lost. The thing is is Yeah. Of of course um Yelich isn’t performing, but are you surprised that Caleb Durban hasn’t been particularly impressive? Are you surprised Salic hasn’t looked particularly impressive or Blake uh Perkins or I mean you name it. Sure. Um Andrew Vaughn I think he’s been all right. I think he’s probably had some of the better at bats this postseason but it’s a different game. The game evolves as it hits the postseason. Um I’m not surprised by what I’ve seen. I did think the Brewers would look better. I knew the Dodgers were going to be an absolute challenge, a very difficult one, but it’s looked like we’re not playing the same game. It’s uncompetitive. Yeah. And that’s what’s been the hardest part to stomach thus far. Uh, right. Because I I I think we all anticipated this would be more of a back and forth. It would be more of a You know, I love this word. The bottom of the Dodgers order is hitting like near 500. Yeah, that’s correct. Well, Pas had that home run last night. Yeah. Double was a double. Did he have a home run in game one? No, he didn’t. No home runs last night where Muny Tay Oscar hit a home run. Tommy Edmond had a double too from the bottom of the lineup. Will Smith had a home run, right? The one that sat TK Hernandez sitting like 500 this postseason. The bottom of the lineup has been raking. Yeah. And that was what the Brewers were doing for much of the season. But now that the stakes have risen, it seems like those guys have kind of gotten left in the dust. Yeah. But but it seems like their approach at the plate has changed. And Will and I talked about the chase rate is higher than it has been. Pat Murphy gave credence to that. He said it. Um shout out to our social media queen Maddie for making that available for me. And I I was able to play that on the show. Yeah, that’s race, but that’s kind of like, hey, we’re pressing. They’re trying too hard. It is. If I see one more inning where the the Dodgers pitcher there’s less than 15 pitches because we’re swinging at pitches outside the zone or rolling over after the guy the leadoff guy swings at the first pitch. Like I don’t we need to take these pitchers into deep counts. Like I don’t The one time we got the Dodgers bullpen out, we loaded the bases. We had a chance at winning the game despite how poorly our approach at the plate was the entire game. And I just don’t understand how there wasn’t a slight adjustment. I’m I’m willing to tip my cap to Blake Snell in game one, but the fact that you did not make an adjustment through nine innings of Yamamoto, that’s concerning. So, to your point, the fact that I think all of us so confidently said yesterday prior to game two, well, there’s no way they could do that again. There’s no way their pitcher could go eight innings facing the minimum again. Interestingly enough, they didn’t do it as bad. Yeah, but it was but it felt worse. I was cuz it was the second day of it. We were wrong and right because the pitcher did do that, but this one was more because of the Brewers. He didn’t go the minimum because Jackson Turio hit a lead off run and obviously they had a couple other hits, one pitch. When you have to think back more than three innings about when your last base runner was or when your last guy in scoring position was, that’s an issue. They’ve had one they’ve had like one guy in scoring position this entire series. I believe I saw you know when we got to like that’s disgusting. the fifth, sixth inning, I said to my wife at the game, like the worst thing that could happen to the Brewers was that Cheerio first pitch home run because it made Yamamoto not throw the fast ball and so many of the Brewers hitters are great at hitting a fast ball. So like he went away from it for a stretch there and then that was a part of I think it started the like oh my gosh we’re not like they were pressing because then they started to feel it happening again to them where it was like had had Cheerio gone deep into the count that first one and then hit the home run then I think it’s a different story. But it’s the fact that he went home run right away and it got everybody juiced up. He goes away from the fast ball and it just like it set things up poorly. As weird as that is, I think nine times out of 10, I’ll take a first pitch home run. Yeah, I think you’re analyzing. It was a uh it was the old Mizarowski. I I mean, he was he was throwing that splitter all night. It was It was going to come eventually. I forget whose at bat it was. I think he threw four straight splitters and then a slider. It was Durban, I think. Yeah. And it it was like, well, this guy’s got this guy has absolutely no chance. Oh, yeah. This is he’s in over his head. We’re at the point where if I think Christian Yell struck out looking but saw four pitches, I’d count that as a a quality at bat. That’s a win. That’s a quab. Yeah, that’s a quab. Um, their last hit came in the fourth inning. Yeah, as somebody was there, it felt like it. Yeah. What was the atmosphere? Did it die real fast? electric to start. Jackson hit that home run. I said, “Oh, baby. We’re going to have ourselves a Tide series going to Los Angeles. This is just what I need. I’m in these incredible seats. I’m having myself a blast.” And then the air got sucked out of that stadium so quickly. It was crickets. I Hunter, I don’t know how it felt for where you were sitting, but it felt like it was mid July on like a Tuesday night game at points. It was quiet. Yep. And and I’m not blaming anybody inside AFAM. What the hell am I supposed to cheer about? We had not even a cool foul ball. Yeah, we had a like 20some year old. He I mean he was getting after it and kudos to this kid, but it got to like the seventh inning and he was like running down the stairs to the bottom of section like screaming at people like, “Get up. They’re only down by four.” And I really wanted to just be like, “My brother in Christ down by four to this team, it’s over.” Like be a thousand. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, when they made a four in the eighth, that felt insurmountable. When it was three, I was still feeling good. I found myself feeling good seems a bit I found myself rooting for Bunts a lot. Yeah. I just want to see something happen, some action. It was 2 to1 after the the top of the second inning and then it was 2 to1 at the end of the fifth. What happened? I didn’t get a chance to What happened on that double to Cheerio in right field? It feels like he was in the corner for a long time before I saw the ball. That ball was in the corner for a long partially. Gotcha. Cuz I couldn’t see there. I kept looking and going, “Where’s the ball?” It just tailed down the wall and it kind of popped back out a little bit, but it it was slow rolling. I think I said it on the stream last night. It felt like that ball was there forever. Okay, cuz it felt like that and I couldn’t see down that side and I’m like, is he like laying on the ground? What’s happening? They didn’t change the camera angle either. So, the camera was just following the ball slowly trickling into the corner and with a guy with a injured hamstring going after it. I was sitting right like being able to see right down that line and I was like out loud went, “Oh, that’s a triple.” Like that ball was so slow. I That game was so disappointing. I was so jacked up. I did discover something though. Positive note. We We got to get something positive. I’m a big fan of going to baseball games and keeping score along with the game. That was the first time I’ve ever done that in a major league game. Oh, you scored it? Yeah. I I How would you have done it if you had a had you had an 862 unassisted to third double play? How would you have scored that? Oh, I that would have been a spot I would have just waited to see what they put up on the screen. Yeah, let let them give the score to you. Um, do they they update? Yes, they do. I remember seeing it now. They Yeah, where the count is on the jumbotron, they give you an update. Yeah. Do you guys think front row Amy had the 862 unassisted figured out cuz she’s been scoring games 40 games a year every year. I think she probably have a hard time with it because we didn’t know what happened really, especially those in the stadium. Sure. Um because at at that moment it was kind of like what does what what happened? Hey, we might not have the postseason a whole lot longer, but at least we’ll always have that. Um, I know this is a little late, but when I saw the video of you celebrating S bringing back that home run and Will just saying it’s a home run, Stro, he was so disappointed in you. Okay, in my defense, I thought the same thing and I was like, “Oh, it’s gone. Please don’t react.” I looked I looked away from the television after I saw him landing on his feet and it looked he it looked like he had it. He did for a split second. Now, in your defense, Josh, you were sitting in a stadium, so you were a football field away from him. Yes, I had I had the TV view. Yeah, it’s 400 out there. So, yeah, that’s that’s almost a football field behind home plate that I was as well. It’s probably a football field and a half I was I was away. Um, you know, um I had this thought I actually thought about you, Josh, while I was driving home. Well, mainly this thought came while I was sitting in the parking lot. Uh cuz it took forever to get out of there. Um the I remember back in and this might have been July whenever the Brewers had their first like big winning streak. Uh we had a conversation on this show where Stro was like they’re never going to lose. Like they’re this they’re just going to keep on rolling and you Josh said they are going to come back to earth. They’re going like the law of averages is going to catch up. And I just kept replaying that line in my head in the parking lot like it’s happened. And it’s happened at the worst time. It already happened. Yeah, I think it h I think it started happening in September. Yes, but my brain didn’t want to acknowledge it until now. That’s why I was acceptance. You reached the acceptance phase. Yes, sure. But but the CS is a good spot to be if that’s going to happen. All things. Yes, it is. But it’s sort of playing out exactly the So, can I can I hold on? Hold on. I I just need to be very frank with you. So, I’m eventually going to ask you all is this series over yada yada. We’re going to do that whole conversation because it’s an important day to have it. But I want to be very clear about that. Is it good if you’re teasing something with a yada yada? I say yada yada all the time. Probably not. All right. Stick around for this yada yada yada yada yada. We’re going to do some more. We’re going to do some more things on the show. yada yada this yada yada. But I want to make something very clear. Uh oh. We got a declaration. Buckle in. This is too easy for the Milwaukee Brewers to go out this way. It’s too easy. What I mean by that is we’re Wisconsin sports fans. If we’re going to do Heartbreak, we’re going to do it at the maximum level. So, what could very well happen is the Brewers go to LA and win all three. Okay? Then they come back to Milwaukee two games left, up 3-2, and then they lose both at home. That would be a Wisconsin postseason loss. I So I understand where you’re coming from. You you kind of floated this. You tested you test cased me on this take uh earlier when we were sitting together. I think you’re right. It’s not going to be the same heartbreak as say last year’s playoffs. I that was rip your heart out like I hadn’t felt in a while. Um, but I think the added context of it was the best regular season team in franchise history and you get careful. You potentially get swept in the NLCS. Good. Good save. Good save. I think that would be devastating. It might not feel like it because at the rate it’s going at two more games like this, it’s like It’s almost like sucking the life out of my discipline. Put me out of my misery. Yeah. It’s like it’s like draining me. And it’s it’s like a it’s not the same feeling as a oh my god, we had it there and we lost it. It’s a oh my god, we weren’t actually that good. Which you can’t reverse the record. Your record is your record. You played 162 games. It’s not like over that sample size it was a total anomaly. You definitely could make a case they were probably playing hotter than they should have been, but who cares? That part of the season’s over. But to me, if you look back, you look at the trade deadline, Braden Lockage, you can make a case for I’m really devastated of what I thought this team was capable of and I thought of what the investment should have been in the team and they fell woolfully short. Yeah. Well, could fall. Yes. In that situation, I was playing it out. That was all hypothetical. Yes. Theoretically, in this situation, I was playing playing out. Thank you. Well, good save. Yeah. Well, okay. The point here is two more games of this is looking similar cuz I don’t know if you noticed the next two guys the next two guys they got pitching. Yeah, I know. I know. I know. I know. There’s There’s It’s not You’re not going to It’s not going to get easier. No. No. That was the bad one yesterday. Mhm. Allegedly. Yeah. I mean the worst. But but that’s the one who’s going to get Sai Young votes, right? Well, correct. The only reason the other one isn’t other two aren’t is because they just didn’t pitch enough. Right. Fair point. Yeah. They they would all in in a given year get S Young votes. Super team. Yeah. Yeah. Goliath. Goliath. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. No. Hey, they’re not Goliath, though. Only five Brewers rosters can fit into one of their guys contracts, but not Goliath. They might be Ali. They might be Ali. I called them Frraasier. Now, the part of that analogy is Frasier did win the first fight of Ali and Frasier’s three fights. Ali went on to win the second. Are we playing the years game here or like in the series? No. No. the series so deep into this I’m losing track. So, okay. So, there was the fight of the century has to take aged more poorly that yours not David Goliath in in two days. You got the super team. It was bad. You got you you you had me asking myself questions. There’s a good way out of this. I want to see if he gets there. But with where we’re at now, that’s a that’s a hanging in the rafters. Well, hold on. Slow down. Slow down. You can get at it. So, I I said it’s not David versus Goliath. It’s more Ali Frraasier. And I compared the the Brewers to Ali and the Dodgers to Frraasier. Okay. So, Fight of the Century won, Frasier beat Ali by unanimous decision. Okay. Couple years later, we had Fight of the Century 2, which Ali won. And then a couple years after that, we had the Thriller in Manila, which was their third and final fight between each other. Ali Frasier and Ali won that fight via knockout. So, what I’m thinking is what I’m thinking is games one and two, fight of the century one. Games three, four, five, fight of the centra two. Games six and seven, thrill at Manila. So, just so I’m clear. Yes. Your take is if you completely change the context of what I said two days ago, actually, there’s a good case for me being right here. Yes, that’s what I said. Yeah, that’s what I said. Yeah, that’s what I was I thought I did think that’s where you were going. I just wanted to con confirm. Uh Michael, who is our number one chatter on YouTube right now, says, “Stop giggling. Four nerds that think they are funny. Not good radio. Sispack abs comes back with Mike. This isn’t radio, it’s YouTube. God, his ass. Not really. Michael has it out for me so personally and I never address him and I just love that he’s in I just like that he’s our number one chatter and he’s only said negative things. He is the biggest hater who’s most loyal and uh helping us the most um be via our number. So I I appreciate him. Shout out Michael. He can complain about You can continue to do it all you want. You can’t get enough of us. You can’t You’re addicted. You’re You’re stuck. You’re stuck. I see you every every show we do. Welcome. I’m happy to have you. We’re not the problem. It’s true. It’s well said. So worried about the offense? Yes. I would say I’m mega daunted. Mega daunted. Yeah, I’m daunted. Yeah, I started floating that out there yesterday sitting there as it as you continue to go. I got to say though, one, two, three down and every pitcher we had up was in like a situation with runner and scoring positions. It felt hm this doesn’t feel good to us. You referenced Maddie and her awesome coverage which you could find on on social at ESPN Milwaukee. She posted some clips of Christian Elich after the game. Daunted. Yeah, he sounds a little daunted. I to be fair um playing as poorly as he has. What do you get up and say in front of those people? I believe he said not good enough or something to that to that tune. Which is fair. And I’m sure he’s going up to bat or after every game going, “What the hell’s happening out here? I know how to do this. I’ve done this thousands and thousands of times. It’s just not working. We got to fix it quick. Um I would assume they’re flying to LA this morning and then having some sort of the bats come with them. Yeah. Well, I assume they have some sort of workout. They have two games to work on. Whatever the hell’s gone wrong. Hold on. Idea. Leave them there. All new bats for LA. Yeah, we’ll get Jo, too. Whatever happened, Serious. Whatever happened to the torpedo bats? They’re still being used. Just everyone uses them now, so no one cares. Are the Brewers using them? Probably. I I believe there were a couple guys who were. I don’t know if they stuck with them. Okay. Um Well, I can’t tell if they have. Well, apparently the you know the big the big torpedo bats conversation. Yeah, true. He might. This also feels like Andrew von maybe if they flew out this morning, they probably, you know, just about got there and got out of the airport and everything. Uh this feels like a day where they just need to go to the beach and just be like Murf’s just got to be like we just got to relax. Like we’ve just got to get out of thinking about this and being cut off. That’s a horrible idea. That’s that’s a horrible idea. Not show up with sand in their socks playing tomorrow. Got to wake up. got away. I I need it all about ball right now. And now is the time they don’t I don’t think it’s a I I don’t think this is they’re going to fix it in the batting cage today. Yeah, that hitters. I I I prefer that than yoga and and meditation. Yeah, beach volleyball. I mean, it’s as simple as that. Too busy telling Mikey, thanks for watching. I might be rattled. He said, “Wow, I rattled him score.” You might be rattled. It’s just I’m happy he’s here. I am too. Yep, I’m too. All right. Well, is the series over? yada yada. Is the series over? Um I think you have to win four games for it to be over. So, no, it is not over. Good answer. Well, my take. Good answer. Um, no, it’s not over. Don’t feel great. I just got to say you have to win them a minimum of two in LA. A minimum of two. I felt better. Again, I say a minimum of two. You have to win at least two in LA to keep the series alive. By Sagra. Yes. That would be that would be four wins for them if they didn’t do that and it would be over. Uhhuh. That’s how that works. Uh we called yesterday a must win. This can’t What does that make Thursday? Can’t lose. Yeah, but is that even strong enough after calling yesterday a must-win? Yeah. Can’t lose is strong enough? I don’t know if it is, but I don’t know what’s stronger. Okay. I don’t know what you’re I’ve thrown a I’ve thrown a floppy fish into the middle of this room. Um Ronda the Key is calling us. Can you just wire the wire the board? I’ll take care of it. You don’t need to do anything. Just wire the board for me. Just put him on the air. Let me know when we’re good. All right, Ron and the key. You’re live on Mr. Relevant. Go ahead. Am I the first call in on Mr. Relevant? Uh maybe the YouTube only version. You might be from a traditional I recently I recently learned we could wire callers. This is a new new uh thing I’ve learned. Hang on. Before Ron gets going, no, this is not I told you from the start of this show we could run it through Madison. Don’t you dare lie on this show, Stro. Not letting you do that. Well, no. I I I meant it from an audio delay standpoint. It’s It’s not entertaining. Go ahead, Ron. I’ll do something I’ll do something rare and I’ll be brief, even though you already corrected it. It was worthy of a call. Did your mathematical genius just say that the Brewers have to win a Yeah. Thanks for the call, Rob. Appreciate that. Appreciate that, Rob. Hold on. You weren’t doing a bit. What? When you were saying that you weren’t No, I was doing a bit. That’s why I hung up on Okay, gotcha. Cuz I thought you were No, I didn’t just mathematically realize they have to win two in LA. It was an awful phone call. I hung up on them. That’ll happen. Sometimes you’re hard to read cuz hand up. That’s true. Hand up for you. You’ll make a mistake or two. So will I. Me? Yeah. What the hell are you talking about? Mistakes. Never heard of her. I don’t know what you’re talking about. Um, well, on that note, if you want to be a better call, 80099-3776 is the number. 8009903776. Yeah. No bleep. I knew that. It’s 02. You got to go play three in LA. If they win two of them, that equals four. I know I’m no mathematician math magician, but that’s not hard math. I had that one figured out. Are we give me a little bit of Are we approaching the lady doth to press protest too much? What’s the question? Yeah, we definitely hit that. That’s exactly what this is. The what protest? The lady doth protest too much. I already got it down. Yeah, I was just going to say I might have to write this one. I don’t know what that means. Well, I’m not going to explain it now. I guess we’ll just move on and we’ll we’ll circle back during Will’s final there. Okay. But typically when somebody protests something too much, there might be guilty is sort of what Oh, sure. Okay. I guess I probably could have figured that out in context. You go so far one way, you end up back at the starting point. Oh, no. Sort of. I think it just made me angry because that’s not why we’re here. We’re not here to critique my math skills. We’re all getting a little rattled today. Hand up. Yeah. Hand I’m bothered. I’m bothered. I’m upset. I’m bothered. Raise your hand if you’re daunted. I’m a little daunted. Matty, are you daunted? Little daunted. Little little little deed. Hunter, are you daunted? Oh, yeah. But I mean, I also kind of was after game four against the Cubs cuz was seeing some some red flags there and was not feeling good about things. Was hoping they would correct him. He’s doubling down on his football take. He’s doubling down on this because I saw red flags in their approach and a loss in the playoffs and then they’ve continued those game five. They won the series and then those red flags have now showed up again in these last two games. Like I don’t understand why you’re yelling at me for saying, “Yeah, I was concerned about what I saw in game four. I was concerned about it. Yes, they won game five. I’ve now seen those red flags again the last two games that they have lost. Team plays bad. I was right. I said they played bad. That’s what I’m hearing. They played bad. I was right. Remember when they played bad? Well, they’re playing bad again. Remember that one time they played bad and I told you they played bad? They’re still playing bad. Is that what we’re doing? Seriously, you are so in your head. They got They got absolutely smoked by Blake smell. Blake smell. Blake smell. He did say, “Oh, you are so right.” Was smell you later. We smell you. We can’t be giving impassion speeches and calling them Blake smell. We just can’t just can’t be happening. Remember that Remember that one time in week three when the Packers lost to the Browns? Yeah. Ah, well, if they get a field goal blocked with three minutes left against Arizona, I’m going to I’m going to tell you what. I told you that in week three. I just have to say there’s a lot of lashing out happening right now. Yeah, I’m upset. Yeah, clearly. My goodness. All I said after that game four, we heard you. We heard you. Okay. We heard you. like smell. My god. The Brewers lost the World Series in 1982. They might do it again this year. Michael says, “Uh, if two 0 down in seven game series rattles you, you should get out more.” I’m a little rattled, but I do get out. Um, it’s been The Brewers offense has been so poor. They’re looking to set records of offensive ineptitude. Will Will and I got a call on this issue. They’re not just losing. Well, there’s two of them actually now. They’re not second. They’re not just losing. They are not playing the same game. Go on. The I mean, I don’t know what else to say. One team is hitting well. The other is closer to not hitting at all. and setting all-time lows in terms of base runners, runners in scoring position, and simply the raw thing, the most important of them all, hits. I believe the What’s the lowest amount of runs scored in NLCS? It’s 12 runs in a series. The Brewers are on. We’re on pace for four. Cory SM Cory Sparks. I almost called him Cory Sparks. Well, in my defense, this was his comment from the damn sports show beaver dam. He says, “Uh, Clayton Kleslaw solid. Actually, they could throw Clayton Kleslaw and the Brewers might lose. He might look like Sai Young. The worst one of the worst statistical postseason pitchers of all time might look like and Sai Young. Should have gone Tai Cobb there. Let me get food. Oh, yeah. Good call by Hunter, actually. Good call by Hunter. Yeah. Yeah. Tai Cobb. Wow. All right. So, clearly I’m daunted. Josh is daunted. I think we’re all daunted. I think you’re the most daunted. If we’re at a power rank dauntedness, I just I just can’t stand I love Hunter. Okay. This is not a h this is not an indication of how I feel about Hunter. It’s an indication about the victory lap he’s taking over something he said a series ago. I’m not taking a victory lap if you would shut up and listen to me. All I said was I saw red flags in the way they played. So yeah, I’ve been daunted since then. You asked if I’m daunted. I answer the question and then you tell me out, oh, you’re taking a victory lap. Like, no, I just said, “Hey, I saw this then. I’ve been feeling that way since then about their future in the postseason, and then you’re going to get all pissy with me.” And start yelling at me like I’m somehow the problem. Hey, calm down. No, I’m not going to calm down when you’re completely painting this the absolute wrong way and trying to look like I’m somehow the issue here. Like my goodness, they lost a playoff game and you’re sitting here treating me like I’m doing something wrong because I said, “Hey, saw some red flags. I’ve been kind of concerned since then.” That’s all I said. I answered your question. All right, so fair to say Hunter’s rattled as well. Asked and answered. Moving on. Power rankings. Who do the Packers play this week? Oh, Packers. Well, you might be bottom of the rattled power rankings. Well, I think I can just uh keep my composure a little more than you guys. Well, to be fair, this isn’t your favorite baseball team, huh? I’ve been You’ve been a great fan. I have. But, but but I’m still in there facing the music from the D fans. You’re taking the heat. But, your White Socks are still probably going to lose a hundred games next year. You got that to worry about, too. I wouldn’t say I’m worried about it. That’s fair. Sispack Sispacks chimes in. Salt factory today. Yeah, we might be in the mines. We uh we are. We’re Everyone’s lashing out everywhere. I ran out of normal salt. So, I’ve been a sea salt guy the last couple days. What? What? Do you like the flake salt? The little stuff you’ll dabble on give a nice finishing touch on. I’m pro that. That’s the bees knees. Um seasoning or excuse me, seasoning. reasoning. Um, you can’t solve sea salt. I can’t. We’ve got a problem. Your job is to talk and you’re not doing well at that. You might be having a stroke. This is all things considered. I might be having a stroke. This is your worst talking day I think I’ve ever experienced. And we’re only getting started, baby. Just off and running with you on Mr. Relevant. All right, everybody. Deep breath. All right, all together now. One, two, three. I’m daunted. I’m going to hold my breath until I pass out. I didn’t hear out there. I didn’t hear Joshy. We’re going to do it again until you guys take a deep breath with me. Sorry. I’m on top of being upset with you having some computer issues. I’ve been trying to download a video Will sent me a half an hour ago. I am I am going through it and you’re not helping. So he can breathe into a microphone. An awful audio experience for everybody listening. That’s what we’re doing. Teague chimes in. Get this man a Snickers. Yeah, I might need one. I think I think today’s off day. And when I say off day, our off day from being up watching and grinding out, it’s much needed. Yeah. I think I think we’re all a little tired. I’m starting to lose it a little bit. Yeah, we’re all we’re all a little slap happy. We’re lashing out. Dave Johnson. And guys, you’re better off discussing Bucks preseason at this point, not Brewers postseason. At least there’s light at the end of that tunnel. Is there? Yeah. Woo! Fix feed. Let’s go. Yeah. I mean, the end of the tunnel might be honest. Leaving. What kind of light is that? Heaven. What else we got? Wisconsin football. Maybe they’ll fire their head coach. Hey, Greg Guard might be all right this year. Scotts basketball shaka. Oh, Marquette’s going to struggle. Women’s hockey is great. Great. The Lady Badgers are playing some mean puck. Yeah, this is a puck show now. What are the What are the Admirals up to this time of year? I think their season started, right? I I saw a billboard for a game coming up here when I was driving in. No, no disrespect. I have no idea. No disrespect. No disrespect. I love going to We should do a a team outing to a midday midday Admirals game like on a Sunday. Chuck a puck. I’ll chuck a puck. Love chucking a puck. I also love chucking a puck. Okay, let’s move on because um I believe we’ve all turned against each other on the Brewers. I’m feeling great. Yeah, let’s talk about Packers in the NFL. Um over at ESPN espn.com, this week’s power rankings have the Packers listed as the sixth best team in the in the NFL. What do you Chef Ed chimes in um about 40 minutes into our program. Hello, I’m here. Boy, do you have a lot to catch up on, pal. He he added kosher salt but 3 minutes prior. I don’t know what’s happening. Drown in the key with a good reference to our watch parties. Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan. Did Bubbles make an appearance in the chat last night? Unfortunately not. Bubbles. All right. Over at ESPN.com NFL power rankings, Packers rank as the sixth best team in the National Football League through six weeks, which just kind of furthers the point. despite having a 3-1 record. Um, the last month has not been pretty for them. The loss to Cleveland, a tie to Dallas, a byee, and a win over Cincinnati by nine points still has them as the sixth best team in the National Football League. It just kind of furthers the narrative, and I think this is something I said last week after the bye-week is there’s really no clear-cut favorite in the NFL right now, right? The Bills lose on Monday Night Football. Uh, the Eagles have lost two games in a row. I I I just don’t really know who’s the cream of the crop right now. And Josh, I know you’re eventually going to going to continue to hammer home your point that the Kansas City Chiefs should be viewed as a Super Bowl favorite, which I’m coming around on that take after a big win over Detroit on Sunday Night Football, but ESPN’s power rankings have them as the ninth best team in football right now. I think that’s recordbased. It obviously plays into it, right? You can’t give a what are they three and three team the number one spot in power rankings, right? You really can’t give a top five seed because there’s teams with much better records, right? But I I I still think um I still think overall the Packers are in a good spot. Now, we’ve talked about this. The next couple of weeks are going to really determine how good of a team this is. And I I threw Cincinnati into that loop. It’s a ninepoint win over Cincinnati. You go on the road at Arizona this Sunday. You go on the road next Sunday night at Aaron Rogers and the Steelers who are a good team and in first place at the AFC North and then you return home to play the Carolina Panthers. You should win every one of those games if you are who we think you are. You should win every one of those games. Now, there are a few things I’m still concerned about. The back end of the defense is part of that. The offensive line depth/halth is part of that. Is Matthew Golden actually going to be implemented into the game plan the way he should be going forward? Can the rushing attack continue to build and build and build with Josh Jacobs after a two touchdown week? Those are all big questions I have for this team over the course of the next few weeks. So that that’s what that’s what I’m intrigued to see. But but I think through six weeks of the NFL season, there’s no top dog right now. That’s an interesting perspective on the NFL. It’s as riddled with riddled. I I’ve recently learned I’ve been using the word riddled incorrectly. Riddled is a bad thing. The NFL is filled with parody. Littered is what you’re looking for. Yes, that’s the word. Thank you. I’ve been stuck on that for 3 days. At least someone got a win today. The Annabelle is littered with parody more so than it has been in past years. The fact that that’s a three-day bug for you. What did we say you were at 13% brain power on Saturday? Yeah. Yeah. You’re cruising at you’re cruising. I was running about two right now. I’m tired. Yeah. I’m upset. Yeah. I am distraught. Uhhuh. Um I’m a little bothered. I’m a little daunted. There you go. You’re daunted. How did you find out you were using that wrong? Um I said it about the Dodgers and I cut a clip from that. Uh me talking about the Dodgers and I said they’re littered with generational riddled. Excuse me. I’m glad I have it backwards now. I said they’re riddled with generational talent. And I I was listening to it back and I went, I don’t think that’s right. Doesn’t sound. Did you say that on this program? Because I think I remember that and I just didn’t. It was during my David and Goliath rant. Yeah. Yeah. There’s too much to cover there. Um while we’re on the topic of Stro not saying correct words. Uh your rant the other week about the game to live in infamy. The other week it just popped into my head about the game five uh for the Brewers Cubs. You called it a game for infamy. Infamous. Yeah. Infamous and infamy. Those are words that I feel like the definitions aren’t real because that’s not how words work. Yes. But when people say the infamous Josh Deaggio, it’s not a knock on Josh. People mean that. Like this is my favorite thing you do. I don’t like how the rules are determined, therefore the rules shouldn’t exist. What if everyone else was wrong but me? But have you ever heard anybody say that game will live in fame? No. They say an infamy. Yes, but it’s not right. They’re also talking about that for the team that then loses. Like that’s an infamous game for that team. Like game seven of the 2018 NLCS lives in infamy in Wisconsin sports because it’s a negative remembering. He’s right. I just don’t really know what to say back to. I think we all know that we’re kind of just waiting for you to work through it cuz sometimes you work through them faster than others. Just making sure we’re all in the same boat. So before we get to one word, let’s just all come together for a moment. Are we all on screen? Can we have all four of us on screen for a moment, please? Thank you. Quad box. Quad box. Not my best day. You don’t say. You’ve been talking like you’re swallowing marbles. Do I need to get you a producer for KBN? No. I think I think this will actually elevate KBN. You’re making my head hurt so much. I just ordered blue light glasses on Amazon. Did you really? Why? Is it actually cuz you look at a screen a lot? I think it’s because we’ve been looking at screens a lot since basically I’m just going to net out some of the blame. You order two pairs if you want a pair. You order two pairs? Yeah, I would wear blue light glasses. I think I’d look good enough as long as they don’t look like Ben Brussels glasses. Can I wear them real quick? Thanks. Do we Don’t you have normal glasses? I do. I wore them last night. Yeah. Um, how do I look? Forgive me for my lack of research on this. Sure. They kind of feel like bull honky. Yeah, there’s some research that says that it’s like doesn’t actually do anything. Yeah, I would argue they do. I think I I’m see through a whole different lens. I think there is a there is a difference visually, but I don’t know if that difference functions on the brain the way it’s supposed to. I mean, I’m seeing you differently right now, Josh. even with his glasses on. Like Stro is not even listening to people now. No, he’s checked out. Each and every Wednesday, Hunter comes up with a list of topics. Me, Josh, and Will respond with one word. We call it one word Wednesday. Hunter Terry Gross in us. The floor is yours. Shut up, Bob Ross. These glasses are making me chill, man. something that pops into my head uh as I was leaving Anfam Field last night. Uh so far through the postseason for the Brewers, they are 0 and4 when my wife and I watch games together and like an idiot. I said that out loud. Oh. Oh, you in the doghouse? Um, she was not happy cuz like she likes watching sports with me and I like watching sports with her and me suggesting that we’re bad luck together. Not a great idea. Um, I missed it because Alex Stro continues to not only ruin the show via himself, he ruins the show for the other people. What was the last two sentences of what you said? Cuz I couldn’t hear any of it. The the Brewers are 0 and4 when Sarah and I watch playoff baseball games together. All four of their losses have been games that we have watched together. And I said that out loud while leaving the stadium. Okay. And are you going to be making arrangements to not watch the remaining games together? Well, I’ve got Zimbre’s presentation of Prep Mania Thursday and Friday night. So the next two wins then by default we won’t I’m I’m hearing we’re going to have an even uh series going to in the event that they win these two game five regardless of if you can do it or not you’re then obligated to watch it apart. Correct. Mhm. I would think so. Yes. Okay. What do your words tell us? Um I’m going to hyphenate mine. Good luck. Belly up. Go to the bar. Watch the game there. Also a hyphenated word. Uhhuh. We love a hyphen. All right, I’ll I’ll throw a hyphen in here. Um, divorce. I’m just kidding. Whoa. Don’t do that. I’m just kidding. Um, superstition. Um, you’re you sound a little stitious. Yeah. And I think I’m just like scratching and crawling clawing for anything for the Brewers to like win. Another 30. Another 30. I’m using all my time. Use it or lose it. Use it or lose it. You got one full left. Use it or lose it. The same guy who tells us there’s no such thing as luck is now engaging in superstition about watching a baseball game with his wife mentally. Like that’s just where I’m at with the Brewers. I need an answer and that’s my answer. Yeah, we’re at the no bad ideas portion. Yeah. No, not yet. Not yet. Right. We’re not at the no bad ideas portion yet. That’s three. Will painted a mustache with eye black on his face. It was a good look for him. You looked more like Barrelman to be honest. It was a good look for him. I was nervous it wasn’t going to come off my face. Josh put that thought. I love put you guys know EJ Manuel worked for ESPN. Anyway, all right. Yeah, he does college football coverage. Uh, the 4 in1 Steelers still in the league. The 4-1 Steelers are at the 2 and4 Bengals on Thursday Night Football. Rogers. Oh, no. Actually, let me let me rephrase. Old. It’s Flaco Rogers. Those are the two oldest quarterbacks in the NFL. Old. How many singular words can I use for this? Boring. Uninteresting. old, ugly, annoying. I think he took all my words. That’s this. There’s no need to watch this. And the Steelers are going to have a better record and everyone’s going to be like, “We need to think about this team.” And then they’re going to get their freaking doors blown off in the playoffs and we’re all going to be like, “Huh, I guess we should have seen that coming.” And then we’re going to start it all over again like we do every single time with this damn team. It’s true. And now their quarterback is older, more immobile. Go ahead. My word’s Tomlin. He’s going to do it again. Do what? No seasons under 500 in however many years. Well, yeah. I like that he’s using that word in week week seven. Yeah. Tomlin. Okay. Tommy. Tommy. Uh Jeremy Fowler has Rashan Garry as a possible name for a trade to the San Francisco 49ers. Yeah, it’s been reported on uh I think it was under somebody from underdog sports that reported it. Yeah, I was in an article for week seven rumors. Uh they have called on both Kingslandare and Rashan Garry. And I just saw from um Eastston Butler that the Giants have called on Christian Watson, Dantavian Wixs, and Romeo Dobs. Hit the road, Jack. I mean, we got what, two weeks until the trade deadline, so it’s coming up quick. We’ll see if the Packers are doing anything at the deadline. And I would doubt it given the offseason acquisition of Micah Parsons, but uh in terms of edge rushers, my uh my one word is simply no. Yeah, they just worked out four separate edge rushers. Um I think I gave a stock, maybe I didn’t give a stock down to Rashunger. I can’t quite remember. Um he’s the great he’s a great Houdini of our era in terms of edge rushers, but they’re in no place of comfort to give one up. When you’re having to work guys out mid-season, that generally means you have injury issues, you’re thin at the position and are like looking for bodies. So to give away Rashawn Garry, like you would have for me to even consider it would have to be a first round pick. Mhm. And I don’t know if that’s what Rashan Garry would command based on his contract and all that. My words, impossible. There’s no way the Packers trade an edge rusher like we know they need and still do to a team that they could potentially see in the NFC playoffs. They did do it last year. I guess not to the team they could see in the NFC playoffs, but they traded Preston Smith last year. Also, Christian Watson just like can’t be traded. He just signed a deal. Yeah. Yeah. Um, what do we think? Romeo or Wix? If the compensation’s similar, obviously it’s Wix. Yep. But if the price is better for Romeo, got to do it now, too. He’s got a lot of touchdowns so far. And can I make a case even though Matt Laflur the half season even though Matt Laflur has put his foot down and said, “This is how we do offense.” Even though every year we look at your offense and go, “Wow, it seems like you didn’t get everything you could have out of those guys this year.” Um, they’re going to continue to distribute the ball. Joshy the Laflur slander. But what if instead of nine targets going to Romeo Dobs in the offense, we split those up, gave them to Tucker Craft, Matthew Golden, and then eventually Jaden Reed or Christian Watson. What do you think about that? offense seems a little more explosive, doesn’t it? Does I I I don’t know. We’ll see. I I doubt they deal anybody worthwhile. No, I just I don’t see it happening where they’re at 311. They’ve seen the injury bug hit them at different capacities already this year. They know if they want to reach their goal of winning a championship, they can’t do that. So, it just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Teams are going to call. It always happens. But I just don’t think Brian Gudakun is interested in a real conversation. Maybe I’ll be wrong. I just I just have a hard time believing that. James Franklin was fired from Penn State after his third loss in a row. Yeah, the word’s fickle. Um, seeing the buyout of $50 million get paid by Penn State for them to go in a different direction, uh, makes me think, um, well, the the Badgers and and and the pressure on the University of Wisconsin all of a sudden has to be kicked up a notch. So, fickle my word. My word, and I’m looking for the specific one. I’m uh, mitigate. Wow. James Franklin has a duty to mitigate and search for a new job, be it in broadcasting or another coaching position, to potentially offset the amount of money he is owed from Penn State, which is funny cuz how do you guarantee somebody’s actually truthfully looking for a job, especially in a incredibly incestuous world of college and football as a whole? Hey buddy, do you guys need somebody to do XYZ position? It would require this amount of money. No, sorry, we can’t pull it off. Oops, I looked. Like, if he wants to stick it to Penn State, it’s not going the proof that would be required to prove he’s not actually looking for a job would be very difficult to get there. I think he’s already stuck it to Penn State by being such a fraud. That’s my word, fraud. And when Penn State fans look back on these, I think he was there for 11 years. Yeah, he was there for a while. The talent that they had on the team and all the preseason hype, it is going to make Penn State fans sick to their stomach that they did not walk away with a national championship at one point. I don’t know that it was any if it was worse at any juncture of of his tenure though than this year. Nobody has lost more big games than James in any sport. 100% true. He is He’s got a big game bugaboo. Like Mount Rushmore frauds. He might be on there twice. Wow. One last one. Passion take on James Franklin. Speaking of big games, number 11 Tennessee is at number six Alabama on 6:30. It’s on at 6:30 on ABC this Saturday night. Go Brewers. Game five. Kintana. I’m back to being undaunted. Somebody check this. I’m not daunted anymore. What voice are you doing? All right, that’s enough. Sad. Sad Burman. I’m not I’m not daunted anymore, which would make you undaunted. Time now for what we missed and what we learned, which is presented by D County Distillery. Locally produced and crafted award-winning spirits made locally in Dor County. Whisies, gins, rums, bries, all the in-betweens, vodkas. Do County Distilleries got you covered. Check out their website, dc county distillery.com. Find the retailer nearest you. If you’re in Beaver Dam or Milwaukee, they’ve got the Bat Bleet bourbon available near you. Not in Madison, but it is in Beaver Dam and it’s in Milwaukee. Bat bourbon. It’s got a bat on it. Sweet. It’s bourbon. Spooky. It’s good for this time of the year. Check it out. It’s very good. The bourbon’s delicious. But, uh, that’s a special uh special October brand of their bourbon, which you can find at a retailer nearest to you. door county distillery.com. What’s wrong? Nothing. You just giggled to the microphone. Share with the class. Apparently, we’re wasting Chef Ed’s time by not reading his comments aloud, which I don’t I did. I I I read his kosher salt, which which I don’t think is how this whole situation works. Anyway, all right. Well, what’d you miss? The lady Doth protests too much. Me thinks It’s when someone is denying something so vehemently that stop stop. No, I don’t know. Vent. Oh. Oh. Yes, you do. Like uh they’re like overdoing it. Like they’re um Yeah. Strongly. Yes. Yeah. Vehemently that they are likely hiding the truth. Since this is a sentence, I think it’ll be tough. So, I’ll just describe a situation that could be applied. Sure. stro farted and then vehemently denied that it was him and tried blaming it on other people. So I said the lady Doth protests too much. Me thinks now do you know the origin? Is that a real scenario? No. Oh god. Uh Shakespeare. Which one? Bill. Oh, that was right. You were. Yes. Now, now which play up the origin of it? I didn’t look up the origin. Hold on. A Google search should have showed that Big Beth. I just know that that’s what Pat Murphy referenced in his press conference at Wrigley Field. How many Shakespeare plays can you All right. We could go back and forth on this cuz I got two. All right. I got I got Romeo and Juliet. Well, I thought I got to go first. You just did you with McBth. Oh, it’s back to me. Yeah. This is definitely wrong. Matilda. That’s rolled doll, isn’t it? Makes room fly. It just popped into my head. How about the BFG? Have you ever heard of Hamlet? Oh, do we? Oh, Hamlet. Yeah, I know. I already said Mc Beth, right? Yep. A Midsummer’s Night. Oll. Give me a Titus Andronicus. King Lear. Oh, come on. Hunter, do you have a list in front of you? No, I took a Shakespeare class in high school. Loved it. Oh god, I was going to say I know none of these. A whole class for Shakespeare in high school. This may come as a surprise to some, but I do not read Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew. One of the best comedies ever written. Love that one. All right, we got to go. We’re back with you Friday at 12:30 central Milwaukee. I don’t know if anybody said anything less surprising in the history of this program than we’ll say. Believe it or not, I don’t Shakespeare may shock some. Can’t wait to be back with you Friday. We will continue to talk NLCS. We will also get a preview of Packers Cardinals coming at you on Friday. Appreciate y’all hanging with us. This was a um this was a weird one. We’ll try again on Friday. Talk to you then. Peace.

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