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Will the Twins make more moves before the trade deadline? · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: It's trade deadline day in Major League Baseball? What will
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Twins do? Will they add anymore than the
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  Speaker 1: pieces they had to last week? AJ Mintor to the
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  Speaker 1: bullpen and Dean Kramer the starting picture. We will talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. We'll talk about a rough series in Seattle
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  Speaker 1: where the Twins lost the last two games on walkoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll also talk about Dean Kramer, who arrived on
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  Speaker 1: in Friday night, a Friday night deal. But before we
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  Speaker 1: get to all that, the matter at hand. Trade deadline day.
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  Speaker 1: So far, it's kind of gone how we were thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a soft buy I would say for the
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  Speaker 1: Twins so far with I guess you got to count
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Nance too in the picture there in the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: But last we heard on Friday night, Dan, after the
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  Speaker 1: Dean Kramer deal, it still seemed like the Twins were
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  Speaker 1: hoping to get more done. What's the latest there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, they were optimistic as of Friday. I mean
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  Speaker 2: we found out why they were optimistic. They had a
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  Speaker 2: deal they thought was done and we were reported on that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: then the owner of the Astros came in and nixed it,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, the Twins definitely thought that they
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  Speaker 2: were gonna keep doing more. I mean, look, I still
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  Speaker 2: think that there's a chance that they will. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: I'm not certain because I know they've encountered some really
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  Speaker 2: high prices, higher than they were comfortable with on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: and Sunday. But I mean, at the baseline, when we
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  Speaker 2: look at what they've done, they've gone out and improved
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  Speaker 2: the team. And I know fans aren't really excited about
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  Speaker 2: the Dean Kramer and we'll get into that a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later, but that was such a necessary move for
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  Speaker 2: this team to get pitching depth, to get starting rotation depth,
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that the Connor prelib issue doesn't boil
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  Speaker 2: to ahead and they're just stuck without a starter and
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  Speaker 2: doing bullpen games every five days. And Dean Kramer's it's
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  Speaker 2: not sexy, but the guy has a career of just
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  Speaker 2: being a steady fourth guy, fifth guy in a rotation.
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  Speaker 2: So the Twins have that they have a guy that's
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  Speaker 2: been healthy for his career and they didn't go over
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  Speaker 2: bored in the prices. They get him for next year too,
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  Speaker 2: which is always huge for them. And aj Minter I think,
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  Speaker 2: is you know, just gonna make this bullpen that much
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  Speaker 2: better as this is a lefty. They've been looking for
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  Speaker 2: someone steady to replace Anthony Bonda and aj Minterter came
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  Speaker 2: out in the first game and inherited two runners and
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  Speaker 2: got out of it in one pitch. And then on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday came in and you know, facing a righty facing
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  Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez with runners on board, struck him out. So baseline,
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  Speaker 2: they've done a good job. Like you said, it's a
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  Speaker 2: soft BUBE, but I mean I like how they did it,
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  Speaker 2: like efficiently and effectively. I think this team is better
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  Speaker 2: than it was, you know, right before the All Star break.
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  Speaker 2: Especially Tommy NaNs is starting to look pretty solid, but
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  Speaker 2: that sexy move is still avoiding them so far or
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  Speaker 2: evading them so far. It would be kind of amazing
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  Speaker 2: if they pulled something off like that. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're you. I'd say it's a solid b
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  Speaker 2: B plus what they've done so far, because this team
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  Speaker 2: is better. But if there's more, that would be probably
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  Speaker 2: a good idea. Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: As a player, you're you're looking at it. Bullpen help,
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  Speaker 1: starting pitching help. This weekend in Seattle kind of showed
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  Speaker 1: some of the positives of where this team is at
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  Speaker 1: the heart to fight back from from down six to
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  Speaker 1: nothing yesterday and make that a game. But you do
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  Speaker 1: you feel like there's enough there to make a push
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  Speaker 1: or are you still hoping for more as a player
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  Speaker 1: in this situation.
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  Speaker 3: I mean watching the games we were kind of talking
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  Speaker 3: about the you know, the rough starts for all three
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  Speaker 3: guys kind of finished those games this weekend before they
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  Speaker 3: got going, and it's you know, with the move, have
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  Speaker 3: made any difference there?
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  Speaker 2: Who knows?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I mentor pitched in the two games that
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  Speaker 3: he threw in and did his job, you know, which
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  Speaker 3: is what you want to see, you when a guy
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  Speaker 3: settle in quick, you know. And Kramer whenever his turn
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  Speaker 3: through the rotation comes up, I'm not sure when he's
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  Speaker 3: supposed to pitch yet, but you know it's I said
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  Speaker 3: it the other day and it it.
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  Speaker 2: Keeps ringing a bell.
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  Speaker 3: That that stabilizing move to kind of settle things down
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  Speaker 3: across the board.
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  Speaker 2: It's what we need, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And Dan kind of hit you know, the.
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  Speaker 3: Guy that can just cover some innings, guy that you
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  Speaker 3: can depend on and know you're going to get this
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  Speaker 3: every time out. That stabilizes the rest of the guys
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  Speaker 3: behind them. It helps the bullpen settle into a spot.
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  Speaker 3: It helps these new guys get into their spot in
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  Speaker 3: the order coming out of that pen. You know, guys
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  Speaker 3: like Gomez and Morris at the back end have been great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's.
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  Speaker 3: Not necessarily a place where they need a huge move now.
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know whatever, they're going to trade Trevor
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  Speaker 3: and that's for me. That's a weirder spot to be
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  Speaker 3: for him. You know, it adds a wrinkle to the
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  Speaker 3: whole weekend. You know, he wakes up to messages like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I was supposed to be gone and the owner didn't
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  Speaker 3: want it to happen, And it's just a to me,
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  Speaker 3: that's more d.
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  Speaker 2: Interest in making a move. Honestly, it puts thoughts into
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  Speaker 2: guys heads.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a weird one for me, and I
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  Speaker 3: hate every year it happens, you know, and guys are
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  Speaker 3: doing their jobs reporting, but before players even know or
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  Speaker 3: have any idea it's happening, it's the whole world knows,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just a it's a hectic. Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: it can be a hectic week. It can be a
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  Speaker 3: fun week. As someone who's never had to worry about it,
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  Speaker 3: it was always fun to watch. But you know, the
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  Speaker 3: there's the other side of it. You know, Trevor Larnick
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  Speaker 3: wakes up to family and everybody like, Hey, what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: And he's like, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's weird.
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  Speaker 3: It's about to be you know, and you got guys
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  Speaker 3: like Misrowski being interviewed about the Dodgers trades and things.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like, what do I care what they're doing?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I got to do my job while worrying
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  Speaker 3: about all.
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  Speaker 2: This other stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a it's great for the fans, it's great
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  Speaker 3: for me, but as a player, sometimes these situations are
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  Speaker 3: pretty uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be tough Dan hearing that your team
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  Speaker 1: wanted you to be traded and then it fell apart
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  Speaker 1: and now you have to come back to the same
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  Speaker 1: clubouts Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Still here, Trevor Larnick responded, well to home runs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that got on base four out of nine. It was
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  Speaker 2: certainly something that was interesting. Look, the reporter of the
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  Speaker 2: reported I think his name is like Michael Marino. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: knows who this is. Uh, It's like like he's not
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  Speaker 2: affiliated with any outlet. So it seemed like there was
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  Speaker 2: a chance that you know, was just I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that it wasn't accurate. But you know, it's turned out
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  Speaker 2: that a Twins person said, yeah, a deal got canceled
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  Speaker 2: very late. They didn't say that the owner got involved,
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  Speaker 2: but they said the trade that they thought they had
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  Speaker 2: done was canceled very late. And and so Trevor Larnick
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  Speaker 2: dealt with and I know, sorry, I know, Bobby Nightingale
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  Speaker 2: to start tributing, reported that everything he's heard it's one accurate. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was a weird situation. Derek Shelton clearly
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  Speaker 2: was upset about it. He mentioned it a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: People shouldn't talk. He said that on Sunday people just
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't talk. People should be you know, keep it quiet.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly this got out. He had to deal with it
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  Speaker 2: with Trevor Larnick and they had a candid, honest conversation.
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  Speaker 2: He said. The part that he I think it helped
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  Speaker 2: him handle it with Trevor was like he and Trevor
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  Speaker 2: have spent all year talking. They have an open line
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  Speaker 2: of communication. Derek Shelton just was honest, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it is weird. It's because if you're Trevor Larnock. That's
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning. You have forty eight hours until the deadline,
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  Speaker 2: and you know that they tried to trade you on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: You have to think you're still getting called. And that's
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  Speaker 2: a weird feeling. But he's really good at compartmentalizing and
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  Speaker 2: just focusing on the work, and he's talked about that.
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  Speaker 2: I've talked to him about this off and on for
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  Speaker 2: three weeks because it just seemed like he was those
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  Speaker 2: guys that was gonna get traded, and he said, you
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  Speaker 2: can't really do anything about it. He's like, at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, no matter what, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 2: out of ballpark, no matter where it is. And so
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  Speaker 2: I just want to keep doing good work and know
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  Speaker 2: and focus on that and making sure that I'm the
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  Speaker 2: best player I can be. He's excelled in that in
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  Speaker 2: that realm throughout all of this, and especially with the
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  Speaker 2: increased awkwardness, uh since Saturdays. So hitting two home runs,
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  Speaker 2: including the one that really jump started them Sunday, lets
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  Speaker 2: me know that he if he's if he's rattled, he's
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  Speaker 2: really good at, you know, handling it. But he's inspired.
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  Speaker 2: It's yeah, and we gotta we got to talk about
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  Speaker 2: what they're going to do here in a little bit today,
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  Speaker 2: what the plan is for them, because I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a genius, Like they definitely are to doing all they
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  Speaker 2: can do to combat it because I think a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys, as Derek Shelton said, have some scar tissue
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  Speaker 2: from last year, you know, like when you had three
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  Speaker 2: or four guys that are with this team that we're
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  Speaker 2: in the room with those guys over and Ryan Jeffers
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  Speaker 2: I believe were both maybe maybe Jeffers wasn't. It was
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  Speaker 2: Bailey Ober was definitely in the hotel room in Cleveland
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  Speaker 2: when Louis Varland started bawling when like after he got traded,
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  Speaker 2: when Griffin Jackson was shocked, Griffin jacks thought that he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going anywhere Joe Ryan thought he was and then
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  Speaker 2: it flipped. Both of them were in the room, like
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  Speaker 2: you know, that was a traumatic day for them last year.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a weird time for players, and it's
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  Speaker 2: even more for players families because hey, we're moving like player,
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  Speaker 2: you know, player, you're you're used to that. I think
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  Speaker 2: you get used to promotions and emotions and get but
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  Speaker 2: you know, somebody's wife, their children, like leaving like just
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  Speaker 2: act instantly. It definitely there's there's a yeah, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of moving parts. Good way to say it.
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  Speaker 1: You can read all about how the twins are spending
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  Speaker 1: this stressful day on the athletic there it is. They
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  Speaker 1: are going to the movies. They rented out of private
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  Speaker 1: theater in Kansas City to watch The Odyssey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, uh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do we have a sense of how many players have
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  Speaker 1: already seen The Odyssey in or is this is this
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  Speaker 1: the first time?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess. Given it to a three hour movie
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  Speaker 2: and we're in the baseball season, not many have seen it.
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  Speaker 2: They do not disturb.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. No one else so good.
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  Speaker 2: We couldn't get a hold of it.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Jeffers said, everybody's ringer will be turned up. So
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: they're they're sitting there expecting, you know, they know it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen, but they want to be distracted as much
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  Speaker 2: as they can be throughout this, which is understandable. That's
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  Speaker 2: a long day and that's a good way to do it.
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  Speaker 2: It's three hour movie. They're sitting down at one o'clock
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  Speaker 2: somewhere in Kansas City in a private in the theater
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  Speaker 2: that they rented out, and they will. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a two hour and fifty two minute movie. So I
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  Speaker 2: think with with you know, previews, that puts them somewhere
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  Speaker 2: in the four o'clock hour and the deadlines of five,
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  Speaker 2: so they'll have a good way to stay distracted, you
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  Speaker 2: know a little.
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  Speaker 1: Like if anything gets reported between one and four o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: you need to find out what that scene was like
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  Speaker 1: in the theater, right if someone gets shipped in the movie, like.
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  Speaker 3: The climax of the movie, and then it's just yeah,
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  Speaker 3: yeah in the theater.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I saw the movie and like, I really
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed it, but the last seventy five minutes were great,
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  Speaker 2: and you know that's we're getting especially at that time,
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  Speaker 2: you're getting closer to the deadline. That's when the movies
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: are going to happen. I'd be so pissed, like I
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: want to find out what happened with Matt Damon going
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: back and killing guys, and oh man.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: You can't really tell. You can't really tell. Jeremy's old
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  Speaker 1: like chill for those hours because it's like this is it.
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  Speaker 4: I got to do it.
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  Speaker 2: By five, Jeremy, they're pulling the Trojan Horse.
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  Speaker 2: It's going in Detroit like it's happening right now. Man,
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  Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about trades and Dean Kramer
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the show, but we'll address the
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  Speaker 1: series that happened this weekend right now. Twins lost two
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  Speaker 1: out of three in Seattle over the weekend. Both the
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  Speaker 1: losses came on walkoffs Saturday and Sunday, after the Twins
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  Speaker 1: had dug out it early and Tyler. You alluded to it,
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  Speaker 1: but the Twins really shot themselves in the foot in
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  Speaker 1: the first inning in every game, and it may have
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  Speaker 1: been the difference between winning the series and losing it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it was a weird you know, nobody
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  Speaker 3: seemed settled in for whatever reason. I think each guy
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  Speaker 3: had a thirty plus pitch first inning, which is never
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  Speaker 3: what you want. You know, a lot of walks and
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  Speaker 3: just spraying the ball deep count things like that, and
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  Speaker 3: it's it's never a good way to start, you know,
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  Speaker 3: especially being the guy on the mound. It's the last
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  Speaker 3: thing you want to do. And it gets you know,
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  Speaker 3: some of those games, it gets pretty uh hairy out
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  Speaker 3: there and you're like, I got to figure out how
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  Speaker 3: to get through the first inning today.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's never been a thought that crosses your mind.
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  Speaker 3: And then you're in the middle of it and you're
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  Speaker 3: in the heart of an order with bases loaded and
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  Speaker 3: trying to get another out.
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  Speaker 2: It gets dicey.
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  Speaker 3: But fortunately they were able to kind of tamp out
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  Speaker 3: some of those issues. But it you know, you end
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  Speaker 3: up losing games closed by one run, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's you start looking for where it happened. And you
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of it could go back to that
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  Speaker 3: first inning. You Royce had that tough play for a
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  Speaker 3: guy who hasn't played first up until a month ago.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's do you want him to make.
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  Speaker 3: The right decision, of course, but you know he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have that muscle memory yet. You can't anticipate exactly what's
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  Speaker 3: going to have. There's a lot of people moving around
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  Speaker 3: at the same time. You know, it's in the moment.
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  Speaker 3: It's so easy to be like throw the ball to home.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time he's like the competitors like
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  Speaker 3: get the get the first out, you know, try to
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  Speaker 3: make the play. It just you know, little stuff it
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  Speaker 3: changes games. You know, the one extra run here there.
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  Speaker 3: That's why when we're ahead and you know the team
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  Speaker 3: can tackle on that one extra run, it just alleviates
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  Speaker 3: that little bit of stress for the bullpen guys, for
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  Speaker 3: the defense, everybody. It slows down that heart rate a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. And that's you know, where the game of inches.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the one extra run here, the one mistake
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  Speaker 3: there can change everything.
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  Speaker 2: And it showed itself there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the starters had a tough turn through the
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  Speaker 3: first inning basically each time, and they had to dig
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  Speaker 3: out all weekend and you know, the only game we
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  Speaker 3: get the one to win the Royce.
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  Speaker 1: Both the walk off losses ended on plays that were
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: or situations. I guess that that drew some some eyeballs
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: and attention. You mentioned the Royce. Lewis one bases loaded
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: one out, hot shot ground or right to him, he
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: steps on first base and then after a hesitation through
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: home and it was too late. And as a former
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: rec League All Star first baseman, it's like the last
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: thing you're thinking about is what you do if you
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: get the ball. You're thinking about, like, I got I
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: gotta cover that, I gotta do this, And I don't
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: have a problem with stepping on the bag first. I
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: used to do that too. Granted I was playing with
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: amateur that I didn't trust them to throw the ball
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: back to me. But uh, but like this is where
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: it went. Obviously, if you don't get that run in
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: the grass, yeah, if you don't get that runner before
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the runner coming home scores at that point, you lose anyway.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: So if he had, if he had no hesitation thrown
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: home in that situation, better chance of getting was it
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Rodriguez or a rose Raine was and so yeah, it's
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: it's it's unfortunate too, But to your point, like, this
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: is kind of what you get, Dan, I think when
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: you're experimenting with defense all season long and putting guys
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: in spots that they're not fully experienced in.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: That was his thirty ninth game. I believe in first base,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: So if you're talking about four hundred and thirty ninth game,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: he probably has seen that play before and done something
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: with it, you know, And we saw it even on Sunday.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I mean he went straight to second base similar ball,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: so he had to come in on the ball to
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: go to second, but he looked immediately. But yeah, the minute, like,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: let's credit Julio Rodriguez on that play because he's running
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: obviously for the double play, but he realizes what's happened
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: and he slowed down and that allows a rose Raina
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: to come home on the play. If Royce immediately goes
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: home right away like Grounder throws home, the bases are
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: loaded because a rose Raina got a late jump on
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: that play. So a rose Raina wasn't even coming until
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: he saw Julio stop and then he made the play happen.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: It's just a wonky play and a much more experienced
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: first baseman handles it right, which you go to second
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: first even though the bag is right there, and you know, Royce,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: it's so challenging because Col's ball, the spin or the
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: tail even took him into first base. Like it was
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: just perfectly set up for the for the Mariners, with
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: with with all the situations, with the fact that it
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: was a rookie first baseman, so to speak, and you know,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're right, the hesitation, just the briefest of
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: hesitation looking to second base set up the whole thing.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: And and his throw was I mean, that's the thing.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: His throw was still pretty much on on the money.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Vic Tartini was in a weird position. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I saw that too. It's yeah, it's so like the
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: the chances are like it's just a weird play and
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: that costs you on Saturday, and then Sunday happens again.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Another five man infield to five man infields for the
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Twins over the weekend. It's not the first time the
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: year they've done it. They've done it at least once
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: or twice before that, so they're not afraid to do it.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: And uh, in that situation, ball Cole Emerson singles through
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: the five man infield. I don't know what the chances
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: are of hitting a single through a five man infield,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: but that's a pretty rare play too. And uh like
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: and and that ninth they had some controversy too fans.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Some fans were pretty livid they were playing no doubles.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Josh Jayleen Naylor made a hell of a deck on
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Luke Luke Key Shoal who was coming in on the
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: ball and looked like he was slowing down a little
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: bit at second and then race for third got a
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: face full of dirt for it, which was yeah he uh.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: But so all of a sudden and and uh roblists
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: took advantage of nobody on second, so instead of having
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: first and third, they had second and third. Some fans
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: wanted the twins to walk h Emerson Emerson Cole Emerson
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: and load the bases and bring up whoever the nine
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: titter is that's gonna have. I don't know, I can't
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: remember that it was the Bride the brain is fried
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: people with trade deadline and looking at my spring.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: It was Reboss but like the the other note is break.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Behind him was Cole Young, who terrorized the Twins all weekend.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Right, and Derek Shelton sighted Cole Young. So that's what
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: that's the most important player in this. So they could
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: have gone after Revos with the bases loaded and won
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: out and tried to get the double play, and instead
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: they opted they said, look, we don't like the idea
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: that we're going to have to face cult Young. Essentially,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like they didn't want to
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: face cult Young with if they get this is really.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Great, They don't want to face the period. They just
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: don't want to face him, right.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: So in no situation, if you double up Revus cool,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: you get out of the inning right and no harm
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: or no foul. But if you don't him, if you
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: don't get him, then you do face cult Young, who's
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: seven for fourteen the series. He was four for five
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: on Sunday. Derek Derek Srulton was like, he's it felt
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: like he had fifteen hits in the series. Yeah, yes,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: he was on them all day and just didn't want
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: to face that again. Also, the one thing he wouldn't say,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: but you know is in the back of his mind,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: is you wonder Gomez has walked fifteen batters in thirty
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: two and two thirds innings with the Twins. The guy
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: is not like mister he needs that empty base. Yeah right,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying you throw a guy in a situation
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: that he really hasn't been in too often. That's the
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: kind of spot where that guy walks in a guy
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: like the crowd is amped that there's forty thousand out there,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: like Onders Gomas has been very good for the Twins,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: and yet like when you have that situation, I get
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: what they went for and and pault Emerson who was
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: hitting like what one ninety going into yesterday or not
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: very good anymore even through yea, So like I don't
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I don't understand why, like you can like the there
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: was thought that went into this. There was a lot
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: of thought that went into the the process. I mean
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: they went to a five man infield, like they were
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: pulling out all the stops. That's the thing that was
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: really kind of strange, Like between Saturday and Sunday, Derek
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Shelton managed his ass off, like tried to do everything.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: The bullpen management on Saturday to keep them in that
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: game was crazy because you get like aj mintorin for
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: a batter and then Thunderberg gets a batter after he
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: got four outs the night before, and like, just don't
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: nance for the seventh, Like he just rolled out like
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: he had match up heaven and he finally had a
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: bullpen to be able to do some of the things
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: he wants to do. And it went well until the
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: ninth inning, and it went well until the ninth inning yesterday,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: So kind of crazy on both both fronts.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I think the the not walk or not walk Emerson
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: is arguable, but I guess what I would say is
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: it like, either way, if things go well, you're gonna
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: end up facing cool Young in a situation where he
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: hit scores a run. But at least if that's the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: tenth with the ghost runner of course, to start the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: tenth inning, If that's if you get there, there's at
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: least that chance you've scored a run in the meantime.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Whereas in that case it's Cole Young one swing to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: win the game guaranteed. So you could go either way.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: But they did what they did, can't win them all.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I guess should we leave it at that? Yeah, shrug.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Hey, let's let's go over the fact that they were
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: down six nothing, although I will say I thought they
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: were they were pretty solid against Kirby, Like there were
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: about six or seven hard hit balls that found gloves.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Royce Lewis hit one to the warning trag and center
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: earlier in the game, and the Twins were hitting Kurby
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: pretty well. Seattle played outstanding defense behind them behind him,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: and Twins, you know, put up a goose egg against
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Kirby and seven innings, five strikeouts. He looked really good
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: on the line. I the Twins were closer than that
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: at that point, but Larnick woke them up. And then
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Trevor Or Royce Lewis hits a three run homer after
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Larna hits the tool, and then Luke Kishaw, who's been
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: looking really good at the plate lately, went opposite field
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: off Andris Munos to tie it. That's the first home
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: run Andris Munos has allowed since May twenty sixth or
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: twenty eight, and I think it was his first to
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: a right handed hitter this season. I could be wrong
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: on that, but I think I heard that in the
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: press box after the game. So it was a great rally.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: It's funny they lost too, and there were tough losses,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: and yet you could easily see a shot at them
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: having swept this series, like you get why they're enthusiastic
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: about where they are, even though that is a really
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: when you come away, there's no there's no silver linings,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: nothing like that. There really aren't. You need wins, you
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: need the stack wins. But they played really well all
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: weekend in a tough place, facing really good starting pitching
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: all weekend, and without Byron Buckston too, so I thought
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: that they showed well and even walking away with a series.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Loss fifty six and fifty seven, four games out in
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the Central one out in the wildcard races. They head
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: to Kansas City this week off on Monday on deadline Day,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: and then back to it Tuesday. There we'll talk about
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Dean Kramer and some more trade thoughts next.
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  Speaker 1: Dean Kramer the latest arrival to the Twins. He was
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse Sunday in Seattle and here's who he is.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: He comes over from Baltimore, thirty year old right hander
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: seven years in Major League Baseball, has a multiple pitch
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: mix there even throws in a slider occasionally as well.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: He'll be arbitration eligible after next season, so I think
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Dani alluded to that earlier, a little bit, a little
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: bit more control with him career four three seven ERA
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and seven hundred and seven and two thirds innings pitched.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Been a little rougher this year, but that's mostly due
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to his last two starts, which were quite bad. He
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: was out until July with a quad string started off
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: this season right about on that four point one four
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: point two eer A line. Uh So, the Twins will
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: obviously be hoping that he can get back to that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: sort of baseline, but he had he has been fairly
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: consistent with those numbers throughout his career. Dan and the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Twins are, as you said, obviously hoping that he will
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: help them avoid the every fifth day bullpen game situation.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I think that's huge. I mean, freeze you up. I
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: know Kendrew Rojas struggled on Sunday, but Kendrew Rojas coming
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: in and being deployed at whatever way the Twins want
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: versus being an automatic long man helps the bullpen. And
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I think you know, Kramer has been so consistent. It's
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: just been the same guy for his whole career, seven
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: plus seasons in the in the big leagues, and like
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: a four to two sixth are come into this year,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: it's about eight strikeouts per nine innings. It's it's not flashy,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: but you if you can get a guy that can
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: go deep into a game and give you six and
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: three every time, I think you feel good with this offense.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: When that's your fifth guy in your rotation, it just
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: it keeps the team, the bullpen fresher to have consistency
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: in the rotation. And we know that Connor Prelip at
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: some point is going to hit the Indians limit and
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: they're gonna have to say no. And maybe maybe they
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: choose to use him in a bullpen roll towards the
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: end of the season. I doubt they will, but I
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: mean like, it just sets you up better, and it
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: sets you up in the case of injury, which the
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Twins need to do because right now I don't know
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: who they turned to a triple A if somebody gets hurt.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: So adding Kramer was a good move. It's not flashy
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: at all. Fans are upset because depending on what subscription
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: service you use for prospects, you know it was a
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: race jump Nardo. Yeah, he's number the Nard Dog, the
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Nard Dog Dog. Great, Yeah, number twelve on Baseball America
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: number twenty four on MLB dot Com. That's a huge disparity.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: You don't know. He really only just now got to
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Fort Myers. He hit in the Complex League. That is great.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: The Complex League is just the wild West of prosperates.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Scary like I've seen. I saw a guy debut a
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago in the Complex League. He was
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: like twenty two or twenty three years old. Time he
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: came in, he struck out five of six batters. He
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: looked good, and I'm going, oh, this guy's got a shot.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: He's out of baseball like a year later. The Complex
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: League is all young kids that have just come over
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: from Dominican Summer League. Sometimes it's guys that just got drafted.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: It's it's a very it's rookie ball. Yeah, it's rookie ball.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: So and this is not to say that can't be
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: a good player. This is this is not at all
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: saying that there's a chance, there's no question, but you
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: have to give up something to get something. They gave
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: up a guy that they don't think is gonna be
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: in the majors in the next four years to get
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: a starter that they not only think can help them
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: this year but he adds depth to the rotation next
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: year too, because you know, who knows what it's gonna
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: look like with Paba Lo Lopez coming back from Tommy
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: John and who knows where Joe Ryan's gonna be next year,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Like what's gonna is Mick Abel gonna be ready to start.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: There's still gonna be questions about that twenty seven rotation.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: If there's a twenty twenty seven Adding Dean Kramer, there's
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: value there because he's gonna go out every fifth day
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: and in we got a little bit of an interview
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: with him. Yeah, I just liked what I heard from
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: him over the course of the time there. And you know,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: he found out eleven thirty on Friday night and had
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: to go to Camden Yards super early on Saturday morning
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: and pack and said he only got to say goodbyes
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: to some of the guys because I believe that had
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: a night game on Saturday and then had to get
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: out of there and got to Seattle at like nine
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: o'clock on Saturday night and was at the ballpark on
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Sunday throwing a bullpen.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Here is Dean Kramer with his thoughts. You may have
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: to turn up a little bit we did the best
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: we could with the volume, but here it is not
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the best hump or I.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: But you know, is what been suing part?
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: What were the emotion It's like you're going one organization
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: for your entire cards at this point, so leaving that
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: and then looking ahead to a new chap or what
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: was that kind of like to get?
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm grateful for every opportunity that could
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: be Audio is making.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: I'm excited to be here, but it's sad, but at
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: the same time happy and excited for.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: For a here opportunity. I'm really excited to hear what
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: is exciting the most about this opportunity joining a club.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: That is making waves to you know, kind of have
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: that final step and sent me first things really.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: To our former Yeah, I mean, I'm happy to help
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: here in any in any way I can.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: But watching from afar, these guys.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: So have been wearing their tails off and and uh,
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: I'm really making.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Up rest playoffs and yeah, I'm happy to help you.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Did you have any sense anything like this could happen? Uh?
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: No, not not really. Uh it wasn't the last thing
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: I expected, But also it wasn't the first thing I expected.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: H Again, I'm grateful for for every opportunity though I
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: was gave me, you know, but again, I'm I'm I'm
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: really happy to hear it.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: But do you feel like you've been pitching this year?
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Click covers are up, but you want stuff is really? Yeah? Stuff?
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Stuff has been normal.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: Uh yeah, a little bit on unluckyness and as well
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: as uh some some damage but you know, keeping all
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: bit the guys here and helped me out.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Dan figured out the video, so that's good. But the
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: audio is the next turtle we're gonna have to get over.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: It's at a little tough.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Hey, hey, we're not going to do many of these dugouts. Okay,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: typically we were in the dugout. I usually look for
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: soundproof spots, but that was he was coming off the field.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: You gotta work with what you have, Zac And your
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: voice was in my head horizontal not vertical. You take
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I believe that's how you said I believe that's how
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: you said it. You idiots, And and I you know,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: you've scarred me enough with your verbal abuse. And even
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: though you never verbally abused me, and I'm making this
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: up on the floor, did you allud to it?
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: But the obviously a move for the starting irritation, but
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: by extension, also a move for the bullpen. Tyler, do
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: you do you do the bullpen? Guys hate bullpen games
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: or love bullpen games because you get to.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: It's the worst I mean on it. Well, I'll take
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: some of that back.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Once the opener became a thing that was kind of
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: sought after spot because it means you got to pitch
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: and then just go chill for.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: The short day.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: If it didn't if it didn't go well, it wasn't
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: very fun. But I think I did it like I
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: think it did against New York once. I think I
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: threw a first pitch slider actually, and it's just one
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: like it's a wonky day for sure, because everyone's on edge,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: you know, for the bullpen especially, it's this roller coaster
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: that's slowly going up all day until it's your turn
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: to pitch. And on those days it's like everybody better
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: lock in early, be ready to go. It's you know,
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: now nowadays, it's we're gonna do matchups for this game,
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: you know, so whoever's turn it is is just gonna
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: go away, and it's it gets hectic and you know,
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: like we're hitting there he had a solid started guide
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: to that rotation. You know, Pratis went down, Rojas has
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: been doing what he's been doing pre lips limited. It's
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: it's the ripple effect of just having a little bit
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: more stability added and and it's gonna be it'll pay
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: off dividend when those guys who may have had to
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: throw two innings only had to throw two outs or
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: just finish it in or whatever that their day may
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: look like. It just it takes that little bit more
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: of a buffer for them, and it just keeps you
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: more fresh. You know, a lot of guys will tell
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: you you have relievers. You just have quick, quick outings,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: you know, fifteen pitches or less. You can kind of
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: do that every day.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Granted, some guys they're Velo drops or location, you know,
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: they managed that thing, those things pretty well. But guys
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: can go pitch every day if you keep it within
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: a certain threshold. And once those guys go out there
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: for that second up or have to warm up twice
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: in a game and then go into the game, it
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: gets a little different. You know, on the body, it's taxing,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: and mentally you're just you know, you're adrenaline spiking and
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: settling down again, you get worn out, and having a
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: guy that you can just send out there that's going
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: to give you five strong, that's all we can ask for.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: And if he goes six, even better. And that's you know,
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: like I keep saying, I've said it several times this year.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: For Shelty, that's helpful, for the pitching staff, that's helpful
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: for everybody involved it.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: It's a good thing to have.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: And I'm excited to see him get on the mound
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: in the Twins uniform.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: And that'll be Wednesday in Kansas City against Noah Cameron,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: who was quite good, quite good blast. The game had
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: a nice ending, but until then it was pretty rough
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: for the Twins.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: But yeah, dobnak and so we're gonna get them both. Yeah, yep.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: We are about six and a half hours away from
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline as we sit here right now. We
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: will see what the Twins do, if anything, between now
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: and then. We're going to bring you another show soon,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, to recap whatever the final tally
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: looks like from the show. So we'll see you then.
• 37:45
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• 37:47
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• 37:50
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• 38:01
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• 38:04
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