WEBVTT - Previewing Cubs-Brewers 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:10.280 Oh, and welcome to another episode of Brewer Territory. I'm 0:00:10.300 --> 0:00:14.560 your host, Kurt Hogue. It's Corey. It's JP. And it's 0:00:14.620 --> 0:00:17.270 Sunday night. The Brewers just wrapped up a three-game series 0:00:17.290 --> 0:00:19.170 with the Texas Rangers. They won two. They lost the 0:00:19.190 --> 0:00:23.150 game Sunday. It was three and a half bad hours 0:00:24.370 --> 0:00:27.250 of my life. Corey, you were just saying that's like a... No, 0:00:27.370 --> 0:00:29.690 it's not that bad. Three and a half? That's like 0:00:29.730 --> 0:00:34.760 a four-hour pre-pitch clock game, but it was... It was 0:00:34.860 --> 0:00:38.090 not the Brewers' best game of the year. All right, 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.050 let's get into it. They're 33 games above. 500, so 0:00:42.070 --> 0:00:46.470 let's start off with the thing that was crappy, Dustin May. 0:00:47.370 --> 0:00:51.290 He didn't pitch great. He didn't pitch great. It was his– 0:00:53.220 --> 0:00:55.200 I guess it was his second straight poor outing. You 0:00:55.220 --> 0:00:57.380 got to kind of disregard the one in New York 0:00:57.420 --> 0:01:00.340 where he threw one pitch. This one a little different. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:01.880 He got hit harder, I think, when he gave up 0:01:01.900 --> 0:01:05.240 the seven runs in two innings. he wasn't getting, he 0:01:05.260 --> 0:01:06.940 was getting kind of dinked and dunk. And this, this 0:01:06.980 --> 0:01:10.250 time they hit some balls off him, four doubles, a 0:01:10.310 --> 0:01:13.890 home run. He walked three, he hit a batter. I 0:01:13.930 --> 0:01:16.669 think we've been pretty high on Dustin Mays potential on 0:01:16.690 --> 0:01:19.230 this show. I know I have for sure. And so 0:01:19.270 --> 0:01:22.210 this is a bit of a reality check in that front. JP, 0:01:22.890 --> 0:01:25.250 what are you seeing from him right now? And kind 0:01:25.270 --> 0:01:26.490 of what do you think he needs to fix? 0:01:27.830 --> 0:01:28.010 Yeah. 0:01:28.050 --> 0:01:32.929 I mean, just these past couple outings haven't been his best. And, um, 0:01:33.430 --> 0:01:35.890 you know, that last one getting hit in the scap and, 0:01:36.390 --> 0:01:39.130 and coming back and throwing, you know, you never know 0:01:39.150 --> 0:01:40.990 what you're going to expect out of that one. So 0:01:41.850 --> 0:01:43.360 I feel like it's just been a couple of bad 0:01:43.420 --> 0:01:46.020 outings for him. And like we said, we're high on 0:01:46.060 --> 0:01:47.720 him because we both played with him and we like 0:01:47.780 --> 0:01:51.100 him the guy is so that that's tough for us. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.320 But you know, I think that for him, he's just 0:01:54.340 --> 0:01:56.850 got to get better in the zone early on in the, 0:01:57.030 --> 0:01:58.730 in the game, it looked like he had some decent 0:01:58.770 --> 0:02:01.740 stuff and then it kind of, went a little haywire 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:02.540 in the end, and. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.140 The defense didn't exactly play the best behind him either. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.120 But, I mean, I think that for him he's just 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.070 got to get the ball on the ground more, get 0:02:11.510 --> 0:02:13.990 his double plays, and kind of that's how D-May gets 0:02:14.030 --> 0:02:17.690 through games is, you know, guys in play with weak contacts. 0:02:17.730 --> 0:02:20.190 So if he can get back to that and getting 0:02:20.230 --> 0:02:22.990 away from the barrels and the doubles and the home runs, 0:02:23.030 --> 0:02:24.950 I think that's going to be the ticket for him. 0:02:25.050 --> 0:02:28.590 So hopefully he can start just missing barrels. That's the 0:02:28.630 --> 0:02:29.450 goal for him right now. 0:02:30.270 --> 0:02:32.989 Corey, what are you seeing from a stuffed perspective? Cause right. 0:02:33.010 --> 0:02:36.090 That might be some of the concern, like actual, if 0:02:36.110 --> 0:02:38.029 there was, if there was like long-term concern, I guess 0:02:38.090 --> 0:02:40.390 is what I'm saying is if, is if you're seeing 0:02:40.410 --> 0:02:42.150 the stuff like, Hmm, that doesn't look right. What do 0:02:42.169 --> 0:02:42.669 you see in there? 0:02:43.270 --> 0:02:43.530 Yeah. 0:02:43.590 --> 0:02:47.240 I mean, obviously it's, he was missing the ball over 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:51.260 the plate a little more, which, you know, we saw, yeah. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:52.820 Like you said, not the last outing in New York, 0:02:52.900 --> 0:02:55.260 but the item before that, you know, even though it 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:56.700 was a lot of blooms and. 0:02:56.660 --> 0:03:00.340 Dunks, it's still missing the ball right over the plate. And, Tonight, 0:03:00.380 --> 0:03:01.520 I guess, who was it? 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:03.940 Durant. 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:05.060 Who's the guy that hit. 0:03:04.980 --> 0:03:05.920 The– Durant. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:06.540 Yeah, Durant. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.119 Zito Durant, yeah. 0:03:08.590 --> 0:03:11.230 Obviously, not a terrible pitch. 0:03:11.330 --> 0:03:13.790 No, not a bad pitch. It was actually probably one 0:03:13.810 --> 0:03:17.090 of his better executed two-strike pitches. Fastball, got it up 0:03:17.169 --> 0:03:17.750 at the letters. 0:03:18.710 --> 0:03:23.910 Velo, obviously, it doesn't look like it's as– it's confident 0:03:24.230 --> 0:03:28.150 almost as– as when he first came over here in 0:03:28.250 --> 0:03:30.710 his whole season with the Cardinals. You know, the VLOs, 0:03:31.330 --> 0:03:34.550 it's there, but it just doesn't look as, like, confident. 0:03:34.710 --> 0:03:38.450 So, okay, so, yeah, tell me what you mean by that. Because, 0:03:38.470 --> 0:03:40.590 you know, someone like me will look at the VLO, right, 0:03:40.690 --> 0:03:43.300 and will say, well, he's throwing 97. The VLO's up. 0:03:44.100 --> 0:03:46.320 What do you mean when you say that you're watching 0:03:46.340 --> 0:03:48.500 him and you're like, the VLO doesn't look confident? 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:49.980 I don't know. 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.480 I mean, from some of the pitches that I saw, 0:03:53.220 --> 0:03:55.480 in tonight's game. It just, it looks like, right. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.980 He's trying to guide it. 0:03:58.370 --> 0:04:00.570 Right. You could still throw hard. I mean, me and 0:04:00.610 --> 0:04:02.830 JP have been there, right. We're trying, you can, you 0:04:02.850 --> 0:04:04.870 can throw it hard, guiding it. But when you're just 0:04:04.930 --> 0:04:08.170 like ripping it, there's a, a different kind of feeling 0:04:08.190 --> 0:04:13.080 where it just, it's a very competent fastball rip, knowing 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.420 that really, no matter where it goes, you got no 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.909 chance rather than like, now it's, it's a, it's guiding it. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.980 Like I, I gotta, I gotta place it here. 0:04:21.100 --> 0:04:26.370 And, um, It's hard to describe it from how you 0:04:26.470 --> 0:04:31.239 see it more than how you go about it mentally 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:32.140 going in there. 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:34.680 It's a conviction, right? 0:04:34.740 --> 0:04:38.200 That's what you're talking about. It's a conviction and feeling 0:04:38.250 --> 0:04:41.410 good that the pitch that you're throwing is the right one. 0:04:41.890 --> 0:04:44.530 He might be a little bit shaky after having that 0:04:44.589 --> 0:04:47.890 last blip of an outing. The one before that being 0:04:48.150 --> 0:04:51.330 that he didn't have his best stuff either. So, you know, 0:04:51.670 --> 0:04:53.810 it is that part of the year too, right? I mean, 0:04:53.870 --> 0:04:55.810 it's the dog days. We're getting at the end of August. 0:04:56.710 --> 0:04:59.299 So guys are, you know, starting to feel the wear 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.870 of the season. So, I mean, he's just had a couple– 0:05:03.180 --> 0:05:05.479 getting hit in the scap is never a good time. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.070 Not fun. No, no. I mean– 106? Yeah, yeah. And so, 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:15.979 I mean– Hopefully he gets back on it. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.640 We've already seen some good outings from him and seen 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.740 good stuff from himself. It's not like a crazy panic. 0:05:24.020 --> 0:05:27.640 Just that baseball, it's a long season. You're going to 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.099 have these struggles. 0:05:30.300 --> 0:05:34.460 And the Brewers didn't get him to pitch in August. 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:35.479 No. 0:05:35.980 --> 0:05:39.450 Not that what he does now is completely inconsequential, but 0:05:40.529 --> 0:05:42.550 I'm going to decide if this trade was good or not. 0:05:43.220 --> 0:05:47.740 depending on how that ball was chucked in October. With 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.600 where the Brewers are, you could have a CeCe Sabathia 0:05:50.620 --> 0:05:53.779 run in the regular season and then have CeCe Sabathia's 0:05:53.779 --> 0:05:59.169 2008 NLDS start. That's not doing anything for what the 0:05:59.190 --> 0:06:03.390 Brewers need right now. They need production from him in October. Frankly, 0:06:03.410 --> 0:06:06.510 he's going to need to figure some stuff out. Before then, 0:06:06.589 --> 0:06:11.430 the execution hasn't quite been there, but there's a ton 0:06:11.450 --> 0:06:15.040 of reason to be. necessarily massively concerned because the stuff 0:06:15.100 --> 0:06:17.380 is there. And what are you pitching to right now? 0:06:17.420 --> 0:06:19.460 Game four? Is he a game four starter? 0:06:20.980 --> 0:06:23.120 Yeah, I mean, he's a game four guy, or he's 0:06:23.170 --> 0:06:25.150 a long guy if you need him. 0:06:25.270 --> 0:06:27.090 At some point in time. Yeah, if you go three. 0:06:27.110 --> 0:06:31.710 I think you need four for the NLDS this year, though, 0:06:31.730 --> 0:06:32.750 with the way the schedule is. 0:06:33.450 --> 0:06:33.710 Yeah. 0:06:33.950 --> 0:06:36.200 Last year he got away with three. 0:06:36.220 --> 0:06:36.520 Yeah. 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.920 A lot of teams go bullpen day on that fourth day. 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.060 I could see us doing that too with a combo 0:06:44.660 --> 0:06:50.320 of Shane and Chad and stuff like that. We have 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.520 so many options right now. We just got to get 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.640 there healthy. Like you said, we'll decide if this was 0:06:57.690 --> 0:07:02.049 a winning trade come October. 0:07:04.550 --> 0:07:05.630 Talking about Patrick too. 0:07:05.690 --> 0:07:09.610 When's the last time His last few outings I've been seeing, 0:07:10.070 --> 0:07:13.290 it's been one inning. He hasn't had a lot of 0:07:13.370 --> 0:07:17.790 his multi-inning outings. 0:07:17.870 --> 0:07:22.850 Let's see, Corey. Let's see. Let's see. His game logs 0:07:22.890 --> 0:07:26.390 want to load. He did go two. Okay. He went 0:07:26.470 --> 0:07:29.750 two on Saturday, two plus on Saturday to save the pen. 0:07:30.350 --> 0:07:34.330 But before that, it had been a little bit. He 0:07:34.350 --> 0:07:36.560 had gone one or fewer. He went less than one. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.440 in some of those articles too. He had been kind 0:07:39.460 --> 0:07:41.770 of a shorter guy. Yeah. I think honestly for the postseason, 0:07:41.830 --> 0:07:45.630 he's more matchup. That's what I, that's the kind of 0:07:45.670 --> 0:07:48.590 the vibe I'm getting from how they're, they're using him 0:07:48.650 --> 0:07:51.170 right now is it's not so much fire, man. It's 0:07:51.190 --> 0:07:54.910 not so much long bridge. It's like, here's the pocket 0:07:54.970 --> 0:07:59.700 where we're going to want you, which that's still a pretty, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.940 pretty versatile or pretty valuable role. Cause if you're, you know, 0:08:03.060 --> 0:08:07.780 if you're facing the, the Cubs, the, For instance, that 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.420 might be Seiya. Once PCA is done, it's Seiya. It's 0:08:11.540 --> 0:08:16.480 Ian Happ. It's the other guys. I'm having brain farts. 0:08:16.660 --> 0:08:20.300 They've got good hitters in the middle. Bregman. Those sort 0:08:20.340 --> 0:08:27.750 of guys. I was looking at the– I'm trying to 0:08:27.790 --> 0:08:30.030 project the playoff roster today, and it wasn't a very 0:08:30.090 --> 0:08:31.810 fun exercise. I had three and a half hours to 0:08:31.830 --> 0:08:33.270 kill the game, so I was like, yeah, let's just 0:08:33.290 --> 0:08:35.250 start doing this. And then two minutes later, I was like, 0:08:35.290 --> 0:08:36.030 that wasn't even fun. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:37.840 We know who it's going to be. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:43.800 They're healthy. There's not a lot of decision really here 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.580 to make. We'll get into that on future shows, but 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.420 you kind of know who your four starters are and 0:08:50.460 --> 0:08:54.850 then your eight relievers or nine if you want to 0:08:55.050 --> 0:08:57.850 carry 13 pitchers. I guess that's maybe their decision. Okay, 0:08:57.870 --> 0:09:02.410 we did talk briefly not much about the Cubs, but 0:09:02.429 --> 0:09:04.969 let's talk about the Cubs some more. That guy at 0:09:05.010 --> 0:09:09.929 the top of their order PCA, Pete Crow Armstrong, the 0:09:10.050 --> 0:09:14.050 runaway frontrunner for most valuable player. He's having a phenomenal season. 0:09:14.090 --> 0:09:16.630 He's flirting with 40-40. He just keeps hitting leadoff home runs. 0:09:16.750 --> 0:09:20.089 So he had a 6th of August on Sunday after 0:09:20.130 --> 0:09:24.030 hitting three homers in Saturday's game. He is smoking hot, 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.600 has turned the corner fully into superstardom. All right, pinchers, 0:09:28.620 --> 0:09:30.979 how are you going to stop him? The floor is yours. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.020 Take it from there. It's that easy, right? 0:09:34.660 --> 0:09:35.360 It's that easy. 0:09:36.429 --> 0:09:39.750 First pitch strike. First pitch strike. 0:09:39.809 --> 0:09:41.349 What if he swings and what if he's swinging at it? 0:09:41.890 --> 0:09:45.240 Perfect. It's either it's a one pitch homer or it's 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:46.100 a one pitch out. 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.790 I mean, seriously, I think that's like what they're talking 0:09:55.809 --> 0:09:58.550 about with him right now is his plate discipline right 0:09:58.570 --> 0:10:00.880 now compared to what it was last. 0:10:00.670 --> 0:10:02.339 Year is swing percentages. 0:10:03.030 --> 0:10:06.660 Like he's just a way better, more patient hitter right now. 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.580 So I think that you've got to get ahead. I mean, 0:10:10.620 --> 0:10:13.320 that is number one ticket to getting people out as 0:10:13.420 --> 0:10:16.520 getting ahead and puts them in a, you know, that 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.040 situation where your odds are in your favor and, From there, 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:24.100 start throwing some nasty stuff. You know, I mean, we've 0:10:24.380 --> 0:10:27.820 got the arms. He hasn't been playing the Brewers all August, 0:10:27.900 --> 0:10:29.190 so we're not worried about it. 0:10:29.300 --> 0:10:33.860 Yeah, the Brewers have pitched him pretty well. I mean, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.020 this is a fully different version than I think the 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.980 version the Brewers have seen. Because even when they faced off, 0:10:39.020 --> 0:10:41.000 they faced off early this season, he was hitting like 0:10:41.260 --> 0:10:44.020 six or seven. Remember that blunder he made in center field? 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:45.830 And that was kind of like indicative of where he 0:10:45.870 --> 0:10:49.610 was at. Just really struggling. totally different player. There's still 0:10:49.650 --> 0:10:52.429 some chase and some whiff in there. I just don't know. Like, 0:10:52.450 --> 0:10:55.070 can you rely, like, are you, are you just, are 0:10:55.110 --> 0:10:56.030 you just going out of the zone? 0:10:56.050 --> 0:11:02.600 I mean, honestly, looking at the spray chart here and yeah, 0:11:02.660 --> 0:11:06.280 majority of guys that you see, you're going to want 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.380 to be able to pitch them away out of the zone, 0:11:09.500 --> 0:11:10.219 get them to chase. 0:11:10.260 --> 0:11:12.410 And when you've got guys that are throwing like our 0:11:12.450 --> 0:11:15.790 guys do, man, it's going to be tough to, I 0:11:15.809 --> 0:11:16.209 know he's. 0:11:16.110 --> 0:11:20.780 Got great plate discipline and, Obviously, when you got Miz, 0:11:20.900 --> 0:11:22.780 and this guy's seeing the ball really well, but when 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:23.660 you got Miz up. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.420 There and you got Harrison. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:31.280 Left on left here, I mean, that's– dude, I'm feeling 0:11:31.350 --> 0:11:35.589 confident with Miz, Harrison, and Henderson in there. And that's– 0:11:35.650 --> 0:11:38.070 like JP said, you just got to have guys that 0:11:38.110 --> 0:11:40.370 are confident enough to go in there and get ahead 0:11:40.390 --> 0:11:40.990 of those strikes. 0:11:41.150 --> 0:11:41.410 Yeah. 0:11:41.690 --> 0:11:43.010 And I know that's what our guys can do. 0:11:45.050 --> 0:11:47.680 Also, it's Wrigley. So, I mean, depending on which way 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.059 the wind's going, you pitch him in or out. Pitch 0:11:50.340 --> 0:11:54.720 him in or out, exactly. Sometimes it works that way. 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.219 Were you guys flag guys? No. 0:11:58.780 --> 0:12:03.380 No, that was just that. You're still going to throw 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:03.819 your pitch. 0:12:04.500 --> 0:12:07.020 Yeah, exactly. I think we talked about it once, right? 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.579 When you're coming in from the hotel to the stadium. 0:12:13.210 --> 0:12:15.010 All the hitters on the bus, they look at the 0:12:15.070 --> 0:12:17.469 lake like, ooh, wind's blowing out today. 0:12:18.929 --> 0:12:19.610 Whatever, man. 0:12:21.890 --> 0:12:23.720 We'll see when we get there, but no matter what, 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:24.360 it's going to change. 0:12:25.059 --> 0:12:30.959 It can swirl. It can have different patterns. At night, 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.420 it can get different, but in the summer, I feel 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:37.939 like that thing's going out quite often. I think, Corey, 0:12:37.980 --> 0:12:39.420 you were spot on with that. It feels like the 0:12:39.460 --> 0:12:43.020 brewers are They're going to go after him. That's what 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.220 they do. Like if this feels like this is going 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.300 to be a challenge series, and they haven't always done 0:12:47.350 --> 0:12:49.010 that with him. You think back to the playoff series 0:12:49.050 --> 0:12:51.410 last year, they had a lot of success against this 0:12:51.450 --> 0:12:55.410 guy by making him expand, not throwing him anything, him 0:12:55.429 --> 0:12:59.270 getting himself out. Well, he's a totally, totally different player 0:12:59.490 --> 0:13:04.010 now than he was back then. But maybe that's the 0:13:04.050 --> 0:13:08.319 approach is challenge him. And if the first pitch homer, 0:13:08.340 --> 0:13:09.800 it's a first pitch homer, and you move on to 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.829 the next guy. Can't let the other guys beat you? 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:14.300 Yeah. 0:13:14.910 --> 0:13:17.850 I mean, JP's spot on, too, right, with this guy. 0:13:18.170 --> 0:13:21.790 I mean, he's leadoff, right? So, you know, you throw 0:13:21.830 --> 0:13:24.530 that first pitch. It's a homer, homer, or it's an out. 0:13:24.850 --> 0:13:25.580 You know, so be it. 0:13:26.010 --> 0:13:28.390 But I think, yeah, no matter what, man, you're going 0:13:28.429 --> 0:13:29.350 to have to. Well, I mean, yeah. 0:13:30.490 --> 0:13:35.479 If you locate it, you know, I'm taking our guys. 0:13:36.220 --> 0:13:36.420 Yeah. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.410 You know, as long as it's not a– right in 0:13:39.470 --> 0:13:44.570 his bread basket. Right. Like I feel like we'll be good. Yeah. He's, 0:13:44.610 --> 0:13:47.010 he's hot, but there's cold stretches coming. 0:13:47.910 --> 0:13:50.699 So that's true. That does happen in baseball. That is 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:51.780 how the game works. 0:13:52.220 --> 0:13:53.220 It does happen. 0:13:53.340 --> 0:13:54.400 Claps to you on that one. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:54.900 So, okay. 0:13:54.940 --> 0:14:00.160 A question pitching philosophically strategy I have for you guys 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.880 is you think of there's lineups, right? I think back 0:14:02.900 --> 0:14:06.380 to the San Diego series, Murph was saying that in their, their, 0:14:06.700 --> 0:14:09.420 their game plan, it was don't let Jackson Merrill beat us. 0:14:09.620 --> 0:14:11.440 That's the one guy here we can't let beat us. 0:14:13.070 --> 0:14:16.470 Is there a world in which it's like we can 0:14:16.929 --> 0:14:20.550 let PCA, like there's a guy we can let beat us? 0:14:21.990 --> 0:14:25.850 Like I want to attack this guy and then if 0:14:25.890 --> 0:14:27.750 the other guys happen to beat us, then congrats. 0:14:29.550 --> 0:14:31.070 Yeah, no, I think that. 0:14:32.810 --> 0:14:36.250 Guys like, especially since he's hitting leadoff, I think that 0:14:36.490 --> 0:14:39.090 you got to attack him and go after him and, 0:14:39.370 --> 0:14:41.490 and be like, if he beats us with solar homers, 0:14:42.070 --> 0:14:44.410 I mean, we got to count on our, our offense 0:14:44.450 --> 0:14:47.010 to score more runs than a couple, you know? So that's, 0:14:47.150 --> 0:14:49.540 that's a, I feel like the number's always three. So 0:14:49.780 --> 0:14:51.660 if our offense can score more than three runs, I 0:14:52.420 --> 0:14:54.640 think with our pitching, I think if we attack him, 0:14:54.660 --> 0:14:57.560 he's not going to, I mean, yeah, he hit three homers. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.700 I think, was it tonight or last night? 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.960 Saturday, Saturday. Yeah. Saturday hit three. 0:15:02.380 --> 0:15:02.620 Okay. 0:15:02.700 --> 0:15:02.960 Yeah. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.830 So, I mean, Rare game, but I think we'll be fine. 0:15:06.890 --> 0:15:11.890 It's just another series against him. He's just been really, 0:15:12.050 --> 0:15:14.880 really hot right now, and I'm sure that our guys 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:15.840 are ready to go after him. 0:15:17.300 --> 0:15:20.640 It should be a good series. I want to say 0:15:20.700 --> 0:15:26.450 it's a big series, but that's the question. How big 0:15:26.530 --> 0:15:29.080 is this series? The Cubs... I think they're still losing 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:30.920 at the time of recording this. I got it up here. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.080 I think it's seven, seven, four in the night. So 0:15:33.100 --> 0:15:36.110 assuming they lose this, it's still an eight game lead 0:15:36.150 --> 0:15:40.310 with 25 to play. Not a lot of teams. Where's 0:15:40.350 --> 0:15:43.010 the wood on your wood have blown that sort of 0:15:43.050 --> 0:15:48.600 lead in big league history. How big is this series? 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.820 I mean, we got seven more games left against, against 0:15:54.860 --> 0:15:59.770 these guys. playing them at Wrigley four game series. I mean, 0:15:59.790 --> 0:16:03.010 this is, I wouldn't say it's like the biggest series, 0:16:03.090 --> 0:16:08.080 but I mean, a tie, a tie goes a long 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:08.460 way there. 0:16:09.220 --> 0:16:11.600 I think a single win goes a long way. 0:16:11.820 --> 0:16:12.380 Two out of four. 0:16:12.420 --> 0:16:13.340 You're, you're doing great. 0:16:13.540 --> 0:16:16.880 Yeah. JP. Yeah. 0:16:17.020 --> 0:16:20.200 I mean, I think just, I, even like we said, if, 0:16:20.740 --> 0:16:22.680 even if we get swept type of thing, which it's 0:16:22.740 --> 0:16:25.630 not going to happen, we're the, We play good baseball. 0:16:25.650 --> 0:16:28.450 We don't get swept besides maybe once this year or 0:16:28.510 --> 0:16:29.130 twice this year. 0:16:30.930 --> 0:16:33.130 No, we're going to be fine, and we'll play good baseball. 0:16:33.170 --> 0:16:34.410 It's going to be a good series. 0:16:35.610 --> 0:16:38.050 I mean, we just got to come out and play 0:16:38.110 --> 0:16:40.030 our brand and not this brand that. 0:16:39.950 --> 0:16:42.630 We played on Sunday. I would say that maybe it 0:16:42.650 --> 0:16:44.350 was a good time to have an off game. 0:16:44.390 --> 0:16:45.670 It kind of was. 0:16:46.290 --> 0:16:46.510 Yeah. 0:16:46.530 --> 0:16:48.980 It kind of was because these guys don't really have 0:16:49.620 --> 0:16:51.160 extended stretches of clunkers. 0:16:52.050 --> 0:16:55.090 No, exactly. They play one bad one and then they 0:16:55.110 --> 0:16:55.870 start playing. 0:16:55.650 --> 0:16:58.430 Good baseball again. It kind of helps when you've got 0:16:58.450 --> 0:17:00.430 Miz out there every fifth day. 0:17:01.030 --> 0:17:01.510 Exactly. 0:17:01.860 --> 0:17:04.470 This whole series. 0:17:06.660 --> 0:17:08.740 I mean, I'm going to guess it feels like a 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.420 playoff series just because it's Brewers-Cubs and it's. 0:17:11.780 --> 0:17:13.179 You know, and Wrigley and. 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.140 Night games, which, I mean, you play more day games 0:17:17.220 --> 0:17:21.120 at Wrigley than more than often, so. The night game 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:22.800 feel will probably give it a little bit of playoff 0:17:22.820 --> 0:17:23.520 baseball feel. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.879 Yeah. I mean, it'll feel like a good atmosphere. 0:17:27.900 --> 0:17:28.820 Yeah. 0:17:29.300 --> 0:17:31.600 Which maybe is the most important thing. I'm just not sure. 0:17:31.619 --> 0:17:36.480 I'm just not sure that the implications for me are 0:17:36.500 --> 0:17:39.620 really there. Like the Brewers could lose. Worst case scenario, 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:44.480 you lose all seven games. Yep. Still in first place. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:46.790 The Cubs still need to win. 0:17:47.350 --> 0:17:49.530 Exactly. Like you're still in first place. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:50.280 Yeah. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.300 So, I mean, that would still be a very bad scenario. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.119 But even if it's a pretty rough stretch where, what 0:17:57.140 --> 0:17:59.590 did I play in, Corey? Math Man 7 games, you said? 0:18:00.050 --> 0:18:03.790 They go 2-5. You lose three games in the standings. 0:18:03.830 --> 0:18:06.230 That's not even close to the end. 0:18:06.170 --> 0:18:06.550 Of the world. 0:18:06.590 --> 0:18:09.550 That would be the Brewers' worst stretch of baseball in 0:18:09.570 --> 0:18:12.330 a long time if they go 2-5 in these next 0:18:12.430 --> 0:18:17.430 two weeks against Chicago Cubs. It'll be exciting, though. 0:18:18.190 --> 0:18:20.620 Yeah, it will be. I'm excited for it. I think 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.840 the boys are going to make it a good show. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.640 They love playing the Cubs. They do love playing the Cubs. 0:18:29.340 --> 0:18:32.619 How was that for you guys? When you were coming around, 0:18:32.660 --> 0:18:36.550 they were... Sorry, JP. You pitched in front of no fans. 0:18:38.210 --> 0:18:41.110 No fans. I pitched in Wrigley with fans, though, as well. 0:18:41.690 --> 0:18:45.830 That's true. Early 21? Yep. 0:18:46.190 --> 0:18:48.419 When I was with the D-backs, which was way different, but.... 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:50.190 A little bit. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:51.340 Which was way different? 0:18:51.900 --> 0:18:55.800 Yeah, than Milwaukee and the Cubs and the D-backs and 0:18:55.820 --> 0:18:56.300 the Cubs. 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.240 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so there's no rivalry. 0:18:59.820 --> 0:19:03.500 With the D-backs. Okay, but for your adrenaline and your feelings, 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:04.720 is it any different? 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:10.480 No, it's still the same, but I mean, the buzz 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:15.199 around it isn't nearly the same as what Wisconsin fans 0:19:15.540 --> 0:19:20.600 and Chicago people, those are Febs down south, you know. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:22.639 Undertones, we call them. 0:19:24.100 --> 0:19:26.119 Undertones, there you go. 0:19:26.140 --> 0:19:28.950 Corey, you were at the center of what is really 0:19:28.990 --> 0:19:32.130 becoming a rivalry again in 2017. Yeah, right. 0:19:32.630 --> 0:19:36.550 There were still so many Brewers fans too. That was 0:19:36.609 --> 0:19:42.080 so cool seeing that with how many Cubs fans show 0:19:42.220 --> 0:19:46.580 up to Miller Park and Fan Fields at those series 0:19:46.740 --> 0:19:48.940 and then Yeah, I mean, there's still a good amount 0:19:48.980 --> 0:19:51.220 of Brewers fans that show up. up to Wrigley, but 0:19:53.580 --> 0:19:56.959 I don't think we played a single game when us 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:57.860 two faced each other. 0:19:57.940 --> 0:20:00.300 Even whenever we. 0:19:59.859 --> 0:20:04.609 Stank, man, in 15 and 16, it was still. 0:20:06.290 --> 0:20:08.850 The Cubs were awesome. A unit. 0:20:09.230 --> 0:20:13.050 My first game, I was interning for MLB.com in 2016. 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:17.159 My first game. Just finished school. The next day I 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:21.160 drive out. I'm covering it. Chase Anderson takes a no-no 0:20:21.500 --> 0:20:24.680