'We needed a little bit of a break' - Brewers rested ahead of World Series

I don't know the American League. I just don't know the American League that well. You know, we prepare for that team that week, and then it's on to the next. You know, you only play them once, usually. I respect the hell out of them for watching what I've watched this week. I mean, I respect the hell out of them. They've done an incredible job of winning baseball games. Similarities on the field and that kind of thing. Yeah, I mean, they win a lot of games. They've got some real talent. they they try to beat you in different ways which is similar we played baseball that's how we prepared we went out there and played baseball every day and live at bats and you can't recreate real you know what i mean it's a long layoff and if we want to use it as an excuse that let let people use an excuse but i refuse to do that like we needed a little bit of a break it was emotional series in la um big you know cross-country trip all that you know so we had a few days where it was a little lighter but then we've picked it up and gotten a lot of live abs but nothing simulates the game the way way it is but well he hasn't been as crisp you know what i mean and um i don't think anybody's people are up there thinking it's going to be 104 and i think they're elated if it's anything less than that but they're obviously looking in an area they're always trying to exploit everything he's exposed like all these guys get at some point he's exposed so um they're going to attack a certain way and we're going to try to counter that attack the way we we counter it but it's all about Miz and his health and his mental state and it's not easy you know it's not easy what he's going through this kid is way over his what people would call his innings limit i think we'll redefine that in years to come how we approach that but that's another day yeah i mean i don't think there's much at all that needs to change you know obviously the Padres and Dodgers both had a good approach of just fouling stuff off you know I I bet the Tampa Bay's gonna do pretty much the same thing you know um so I mean I think I just gotta stick to my strengths and pound the zone yeah I mean I feel good you know I feel like uh the first one might have been a little under what I expected but the second one was pretty much right where I wanted to be um no I mean I think I just I finally figured it out in game two of not Getting off my end goal and doing what I need to do to succeed and not trying to play their game So I think I need to do more of that You must be so excited to start game one of the World Series and everyone knows how big of a Pokemon fan you are So what Pokemon energy are you bringing to the mound on game one? Oh, you definitely flame. Definitely the flame energy, you know gonna bring What's Charizard's signature move? I think it's fireball, you know gonna bring some fireballs. So I'll be ready