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Twins wrap up surprising first half in thick of playoff race · Twin Cities Territory

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Speaker 1: Once again for the Minnesota Twins. Two out of three
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Speaker 1: ain't bad. I'm not gonna sing it. I thought about it.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. We'll just move on. The
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Speaker 1: Twins win for the eighth time in nine series as
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Speaker 1: they take two out of three from the Angels this
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Speaker 1: weekend to end the unofficial first half. Got to say, unofficial,
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Speaker 1: it's the seventh, I believe, of those eight series wins
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Speaker 1: where they've won exactly two out of three games. Bounce
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Speaker 1: back from a Friday loss, one Saturday, one Sunday behind
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Speaker 1: Joe Ryan and TODJ. Bradley, and they head to the
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Speaker 1: All Star Break forty eight and forty nine and tied
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Speaker 1: for the last wild card spot in the hot garbage
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Speaker 1: American League. But we'll take it. This is Twins Citi's
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Speaker 1: Territory Your Minnesota Twins podcast on a file Territory Network
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Speaker 1: guy m Zach Pierce of the Athletic joined as always
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Speaker 1: by Dan Hayes the Athletics, Minnesota Twins beat writer and
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Speaker 1: Tyler Duffy, longtime Major leaguer guys forty eight and forty
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Speaker 1: nine is really pretty much on pace with what most
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Speaker 1: people think about this team going into the season a
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Speaker 1: little bit better, perhaps, But given the vibes around this
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Speaker 1: team heading into the heading into the season, with all
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Speaker 1: the trades last year, given the injuries they've dealt with,
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Speaker 1: dan nothing short of a successful first ninety seven games
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Speaker 1: for the Twins.
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Speaker 2: Did you ever think you'd be so hyped off a
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Speaker 2: club playing for ninety five ball. They're playing four ninety
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Speaker 2: five ball, they're not even playing five hundred ball, And
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Speaker 2: yet here we are hyped off of what the Twins
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Speaker 2: are playing, the way they are playing. It's probably because
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Speaker 2: it's like you said, look, it's unexpected. There are so
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Speaker 2: many people who are gonna be pissed because they took.
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Speaker 3: That ninety one losses. The bet is coming up.
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Speaker 2: The Twins basically have to go like twenty three and
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Speaker 2: I don't know what is that the rest of the
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Speaker 2: way twenty three and forty two the rest of the
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Speaker 2: way to ruin a lot.
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Speaker 3: Of people's bets.
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Speaker 2: And they all thought the Twins were gonna easily blow up,
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Speaker 2: asked that ninety one ninety two losses over And they're
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Speaker 2: not looking like that right now.
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Speaker 3: I mean, look, they're playing selfless baseball.
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Speaker 2: Guys are moving around the diamond, Guys are willingly moving
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Speaker 2: around the lineup. They're they're taking platoon spots, they're playing
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Speaker 2: for each other and they're having fun. And I wrote
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Speaker 2: something about it today at the Athletic Typically the last day,
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Speaker 2: guys are festive, right before they all start break. They're
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Speaker 2: in a good mood because everybody knows they get to
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Speaker 2: go home for four days and they're going to head
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Speaker 2: to a lake or a pool or to the beach
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Speaker 2: and do something like that. And it's they we have
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Speaker 2: this four day break, and everybody was excited that way.
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Speaker 2: But you could tell they stuck around a little bit
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Speaker 2: and they were just soaking up the vibe.
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Speaker 3: Guys were going on vacations with each other.
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Speaker 2: I heard at least multiple players were going on vacations
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Speaker 2: with each other with their significant others. You know, it's
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Speaker 2: a lakes stuff like that. They look, this team really
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Speaker 2: likes playing with each other, and I think that that
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Speaker 2: is showing on the field. They are engaged, they are
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Speaker 2: rooting for each other. I still think the other night
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Speaker 2: when Alan Roaden got the walk off and Kyler Fedco
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Speaker 2: who had come up and essentially taking playing time from him,
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Speaker 2: and Fedco is the first guy out there to greet
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Speaker 2: or celebrate with Rodin.
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Speaker 3: That shows you everything you need to.
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Speaker 2: Know about this team and the way that they are,
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Speaker 2: Like the chemistry that this club has right now, and that's.
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Speaker 3: Hard to replace.
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Speaker 2: It's hard to find or manufacture, and when clubs have it,
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Speaker 2: you can go a long way with it. And I
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Speaker 2: think that right now we're seeing that with this club,
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Speaker 2: sixteen of twenty five going into the break. You know,
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Speaker 2: three weeks ago we were talking about this team being
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Speaker 2: eight under three and a half weeks ago, it's eight
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Speaker 2: under five hundred and the season on the brink, and
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Speaker 2: they entered the break one under five hundred and probably
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Speaker 2: if we're talking this way again in two weeks looking
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Speaker 2: to add at the deadline, and that is a win
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Speaker 2: for the four point three percenters, that's a win for
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Speaker 2: you know, the front office and the organization as a whole.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this stretch of eight series wins in their last
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Speaker 1: nine started right when they had hit that season low
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Speaker 1: point of eight games under five hundred. One sweep they
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Speaker 1: got swept and the one they lost, and then the
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Speaker 1: rest were seven two to one series. And that's how
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Speaker 1: they've climbed from eight to one game under five hundred,
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Speaker 1: A slow climb over a month. But what's been impressive
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Speaker 1: to me, Tyler is I think we talked about it
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Speaker 1: after the Cleveland series. They lost the finale of the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland series. That was the first time in that stretch
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Speaker 1: of the series they had won where they didn't win
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Speaker 1: the finale. So all of these series were tied at
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Speaker 1: one with that final game kind of really mattering for
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Speaker 1: the tone of how players felt. And they've come up
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Speaker 1: big in those games every time in this stretch.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's you know, we've hit on it so many times,
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Speaker 4: but it's it's a good thing to have. It's been
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Speaker 4: a different guy seemingly every weekend, every series, it's someone
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Speaker 4: else stepped up. You know, for felt like a month
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Speaker 4: it was Josh Bell, just two out singles, driving in
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Speaker 4: a run here and there. You know, Roy's hitting homers
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Speaker 4: when he needs to. Clemens has been hot, you know,
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Speaker 4: Kriidler go across board, Key show. The guys have all
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Speaker 4: been contributing, which I think is a great, great precursor
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Speaker 4: for the second half, because no one was like absolutely
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Speaker 4: on fire, carrying the team by themselves. It was all,
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Speaker 4: you know, one guy individually. You know, Buck even hit
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Speaker 4: on it when he was going on the injured list
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Speaker 4: that I don't need to try to play through things
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Speaker 4: because our guys are playing well enough to me feel
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Speaker 4: comfortable staying out of these games for a week or two.
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Speaker 4: It's been the pedigree all year is to show up.
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Speaker 4: Somebody else is contributing. Guys playing all over the field,
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Speaker 4: you know defense, Keyshel's playing outfield, now, he's playing center field,
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Speaker 4: running down balls. You know, even at the play yesterday's game,
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Speaker 4: I think it was Larnick just couldn't see the ball.
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Speaker 4: You know, day games there Son's right over the home
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Speaker 4: it's tough to see out and left and Keishall did
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Speaker 4: an instinctive play that a lot of guys probably wouldn't
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Speaker 4: have made. You know, it's little things like that all
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Speaker 4: year that are gonna keep adding up to wins. You know,
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Speaker 4: just playing good, you know, old school, get them on,
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Speaker 4: get them over, get them in baseball, make your defensive plays,
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Speaker 4: don't give up any extra runs, extra bases.
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Speaker 5: It's it's working right now.
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Speaker 4: And not to mention, you got two really solid starters
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Speaker 4: at the top of that rotation right now that are
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Speaker 4: that are helping sure everything up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Duff or Zac, you hinted the rubber match. Six
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Speaker 2: straight rubber match victories for the Twins, and early in
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Speaker 2: the season, you know, they had that one in Baltimore
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Speaker 2: where they went into Sunday and a chance to win
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Speaker 2: the opening series and lost a close game. But we
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Speaker 2: were talking about it early in April that they were
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Speaker 2: missing those opportunities and it happened quite a few times
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Speaker 2: and it felt like wasted opportunities and the team didn't
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Speaker 2: have much root room to let those kind of moments
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Speaker 2: slip away.
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Speaker 3: Well here they are.
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Speaker 2: You know, when they fell to their worst and to
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Speaker 2: win six straight series deciding victories is a really a
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Speaker 2: great stat They're ten and six overall in rubber games
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Speaker 2: this season, so when when it's on the line to
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Speaker 2: win a series, they're playing really good baseball. And we
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Speaker 2: saw it on Sunday, how sound it was. Taj Bradley
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Speaker 2: I wrote it that it was soul sucking heat. We're
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Speaker 2: gonna get a lot of it this week, just start
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Speaker 2: of a heat wave. It was not fun and it
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Speaker 2: was great for seven innings. Just gave up the two solos,
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Speaker 2: really buckled down. He had a first and third and
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Speaker 2: nobody out in the sixth inning and got Jorge Silaire
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Speaker 2: hit a fly ball the week right and runner couldn't
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Speaker 2: tag and then got Joe Adele to hit into a
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Speaker 2: six four three double play. Ryan Kridler with the excellent
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Speaker 2: turn on a very slow chopping with the fast runner.
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Speaker 2: He was great turned it and oh Ryan Kreidler had
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Speaker 2: three outstand name plays yesterday.
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Speaker 3: He hit that diving grabbed to.
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Speaker 2: End the fifth inning, and then he also had kind
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Speaker 2: of the I don't know how you like he swiped
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Speaker 2: his glove at it in the fourth inning, that that
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Speaker 2: hot shot.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, like, he just he's.
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Speaker 2: Been outstanding there, clearly at their best when he is
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Speaker 2: out there at shortstop. Going to Indie yesterday he was
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Speaker 2: plus one defensive run save team is minus fourteen. But look,
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Speaker 2: they're playing clean ball. They're playing good ball in those
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Speaker 2: Sunday games, and those are the hardest ones sometimes because
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Speaker 2: you played Saturday night. You know, you have the emotion
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Speaker 2: of a Saturday night crowd, and then you come back
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Speaker 2: on Sunday and you have to get up early and
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Speaker 2: get your motor going early in the morning. And they're
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Speaker 2: coming out of those those series with wins, and it's
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Speaker 2: definitely part of the momentum that they have grabbed.
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Speaker 1: Might have been a sweep if Nolan Shanwell was a
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Speaker 1: few inches shorter.
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Speaker 6: What a catch.
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Speaker 1: Heck of a play to end Friday night's game on
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Speaker 1: a rocket from Cody Clemens, full extension to make the catch.
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Speaker 1: They were all low scoring games, tight games. Twins again
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Speaker 1: pulled out Saturday and Sunday. They are now, as I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: tied in the wildcard for the last, the third and
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Speaker 1: final wildcard spot with the Seattle Mariners both forty eight
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Speaker 1: and forty nine. It's still very crowded. Red Sox, who
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Speaker 1: they've gotten hot as well, right behind at forty six
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Speaker 1: and forty eight, and then Astros Orioles, Blue Jays all
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Speaker 1: still right there. Tiger's been playing well too. They're coming
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Speaker 1: up and in the Central Twins are three games back
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Speaker 1: of Chicago and Cleveland. I think safe to say, much
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Speaker 1: better than most people. Even those of us who claimed
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Speaker 1: to be four point three percenters I think had our
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Speaker 1: doubts at times while the team was swooning there in May,
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Speaker 1: down to eight games under. But they've set themselves up
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Speaker 1: We uh it's obviously All Star week. The Twins are
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Speaker 1: you this week. We'll have a lot of time Wednesday
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Speaker 1: and or Friday to set up the second half. It's
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Speaker 1: a it's a tough start on the road at against
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Speaker 1: the Cubs and then straight to Cleveland for four games
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Speaker 1: after that. I was shocked listening to broadcast yesterday Glenn
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well I got to go, but I was shocked
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Speaker 4: But yeah, that was shocking that Perk hadn't hit all
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Speaker 4: thirty you know, or every stadium for that matter.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. The other big news over the weekend the Twins
12:35
Speaker 1: have some new players on the roster or in the
12:38
Speaker 1: system after the MLB Draft this weekend, and their most
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Speaker 1: notable selection, the number three overall pick, was Georgia tech
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Speaker 1: catcher Von Lackey. Dan, how about we roll the video first?
12:53
Speaker 1: Should we roll the video first?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I shot some video of Sean Johnson and the Twins
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Speaker 2: vice president of whatever amateur scouting director.
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Speaker 3: The titles are too long, but.
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Speaker 2: Shawn Johnson's been the guy for about ten years running drafts,
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Speaker 2: and we talked to him after the draft.
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Speaker 3: They were clearly excited about gating Von Lackey.
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Speaker 1: All right, So here is Shawn Johnson on Von Lackey.
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Speaker 8: You mean to at a guy like von Lackey to
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Speaker 8: the organization, Oh, it means the world. Just a great
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Speaker 8: fit for organization on every front. Fantastic player, fantastic human being,
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Speaker 8: great character.
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Speaker 3: The more work we.
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Speaker 8: Did on vonn over the last few months, going back
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Speaker 8: to last summer, like the glowing reviews, he has raving
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Speaker 8: fans wherever he's been just a fantastic teammate. Beyond the skills,
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Speaker 8: you know, we think he's a great catcher with even
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Speaker 8: more upside there Defensively, it's been great to see the
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Speaker 8: offensive adjustments he's made since he stepped on.
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Speaker 3: Campus at Georgia Tech.
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Speaker 5: And you know, these.
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Speaker 8: Guys are always fun when there. You just see these
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Speaker 8: guys blossom and bloom. Lad You know, Vonn's a guy
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Speaker 8: who didn't play organized baseball until he was eleven, and
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Speaker 8: you see some of these guys on these five you
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Speaker 8: travel teams.
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Speaker 3: It's the opposite of that.
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Speaker 8: So, you know, really excited our rooms, ecstatic about the
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Speaker 8: outcome there and can't be more excited that we've just
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Speaker 8: drafted Vonn.
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Speaker 3: Was the was it clear or what was then?
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Speaker 5: Certainly like that was ahead. Happened ahead of you guys.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, you wake up every morning on draft day and
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Speaker 8: you hear some rumblings.
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Speaker 5: You hear sometimes it's super quiet.
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Speaker 8: So we had more confidence probably that he was gonna
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Speaker 8: be the guy that made it to our pig. So
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Speaker 8: that was helpful and really exciting. Obviously, we like the
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Speaker 8: two players that went ahead, but you know, Vaughn is
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Speaker 8: an excellent outcome, and as far as our room's concerned, the.
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Speaker 3: Other two guys could.
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Speaker 1: All right, uh, catcher number three. Overall, there were three
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Speaker 1: players do at the at the top of the draft
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Speaker 1: that you were kind of rougher seeing it there in
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Speaker 1: the question. There was some uncertainty how that would go.
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Speaker 1: But the Twins, of course they're going to say they're
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Speaker 1: happy with how it went. But it seems like Lackie
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Speaker 1: was a guy that was pretty much zeroed in on
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Speaker 1: from the start, is probably going to be there at
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Speaker 1: three and probably a very realistic selection. Yeah, Baseball is
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Speaker 1: not draft for need the way the NFL is, Like
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Speaker 1: you go in the draft, you need an offensive linemen,
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Speaker 1: come in next year and start with baseball because the
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Speaker 1: time it takes.
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Speaker 2: For prospects to reach the majors, you can't just draft
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Speaker 2: for need. The Twins do need catching help, and they
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Speaker 2: were able to draft for need, but do it with
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Speaker 2: hoping to get impact talent in von Lackey. Here Also,
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Speaker 2: they drafted Carson Tinney out of the University of Texas
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Speaker 2: with the forty third pick, another catcher, and so it's
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Speaker 2: crazy the Twins had not drafted a catch very high
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Speaker 2: for a long time Ryan Jeffers in twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 3: They grabbed him in the second round.
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Speaker 2: It had been a while and they felt like they'd
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Speaker 2: been shut out on that front, and when they had
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Speaker 2: a chance to draft, they saw it, they took it.
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Speaker 2: They didn't want to get shut out again. They just
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Speaker 2: said these guys fell to them. But von Lackey looked
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Speaker 2: super athletic. Thirty four stone bases in college over three years.
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Speaker 2: One game in March he played every position but pitcher,
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Speaker 2: so he can move around, but obviously his his value
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Speaker 2: is if he stay as a catcher. And this is
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Speaker 2: a guy that had a really good sophomore season. He
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Speaker 2: had like nine to twenty one ops, hit three forty seven,
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Speaker 2: but at the time only hit six home runs and
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Speaker 2: worked on launch agle specifically going into his junior year.
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Speaker 2: Was willing to accept. He said, missus being in the
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Speaker 2: air versus on the ground as they had been in
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Speaker 2: the past, and turns around hits a twenty home run season,
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Speaker 2: his ops shot up to twelve ninety one. Georgia Techs
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Speaker 2: offense as a whole was great. Burists the outfielder also
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Speaker 2: was part of that group, but von Lacky was clearly
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Speaker 2: the guy and the Twins are very hyped about getting him.
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Speaker 2: I think when you look at the group, you know,
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Speaker 2: if Rock Chilowski, by the way.
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Speaker 3: Chilaoski, Rob Man, if you need some tough Rock Chilowski.
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Speaker 1: How did he say it?
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Speaker 2: I thought, I thought he said, he said, Chiluski. It's
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Speaker 2: like he went to double he went to Taco Bell
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Speaker 2: late night and got a double decker Taco Supremian at Chiloopa.
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Speaker 3: Uh, good job commission, just nailing the first name at
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Speaker 3: the draft that.
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Speaker 2: I hope they go back and tape that again, so
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Speaker 2: that like the video from now on? When could you
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Speaker 2: imagine and Rock Chilawski gets in the Hall of Fame
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Speaker 2: and they play his hype video and d video exists
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Speaker 2: twenty five years later. He said, Rock Chialuski. Oh Man, Anyways,
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Speaker 2: enough of that. I think if Chilawski, Greg Emerson or
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Speaker 2: von Lackey was there, the Twins were very excited about it.
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Speaker 3: Obviously they knew all three were gonna be there.
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Speaker 2: Lackie's the guy though that that kind of put himself
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Speaker 2: in the group the most this year, going back in December,
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Speaker 2: when the Twins got the third spot in the lottery,
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Speaker 2: they were Chilowski was the number one on the board
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Speaker 2: at the time. Brady Emerson was a known quantity having
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Speaker 2: played for teamsa four times and then he went out
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Speaker 2: and put together this great high school season at a
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Speaker 2: smaller school. But any of those guys would have been sufficient.
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Speaker 2: But now they get a catcher and Ryan Jeffers is
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Speaker 2: a free agent after this year. They have struggled to
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Speaker 2: secure catching depth in recent years. They spent three and
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Speaker 2: thirty on Christian Vosquez a couple of years ago. They
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Speaker 2: spent two and fourteen on Vic Carratini going into this season.
18:42
Speaker 3: So I think they would love.
18:43
Speaker 2: If they had some homegrown catchers, and we saw them
18:45
Speaker 2: focus on it at the deadline last year. You know,
18:48
Speaker 2: they got Tay from the Phillies and the Joan Durant trade.
18:52
Speaker 2: They got Jimenez from the Tigers in the Chris Paddock trade.
18:56
Speaker 2: Those two guys are at high a Cedar Rapids right now.
19:00
Speaker 2: But it's clear that the focus is, Hey, we'd love
19:03
Speaker 2: to develop some more catching on our own and not
19:05
Speaker 2: be relying on free agency and go out and do that.
19:08
Speaker 2: Because they had to trade, you know, a guy and
19:10
Speaker 2: Peyton Eels this year for also to go out and
19:14
Speaker 2: grab a.
19:16
Speaker 3: Sorry Alex Jackson.
19:17
Speaker 2: So there's been a it's been interesting how they drafted
19:22
Speaker 2: and then they went.
19:23
Speaker 3: Pitcher heavy the rest of the way.
19:25
Speaker 2: But I think Lackey, you know, I don't know, we
19:28
Speaker 2: see college guys gets the majors.
19:31
Speaker 3: Fast catcher is a pretty tricky position. But you know,
19:35
Speaker 3: maybe he's a two year guy and he could be here.
19:38
Speaker 2: He just turned twenty one last week. But there's no
19:41
Speaker 2: question the athleticism is there. And you know, the Twins
19:44
Speaker 2: have fared pretty well drafting athletic catchers the last time
19:47
Speaker 2: in the first high in the first round. The last
19:49
Speaker 2: time they drafted an athletic catcher high in the first round.
19:54
Speaker 3: You know, Joe Mauer in two thousand and one was
19:55
Speaker 3: the number one pick. I think he did okay, I
19:58
Speaker 3: can't remember how it panned out.
19:59
Speaker 1: But you can voluntary quarterback too though, that's you know,
20:03
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, everything, Tyler, Like, what
20:11
Speaker 1: uh is it about baseball that makes that pathway from
20:16
Speaker 1: draft to the pros so much longer than it is
20:20
Speaker 1: usually for NFL or basketball?
20:22
Speaker 4: It's just development, Like you know, the one that comes
20:25
Speaker 4: to mind with catching especially is a lot of these
20:28
Speaker 4: guys don't even get to call their own games anymore.
20:30
Speaker 5: It's all on a wristband.
20:32
Speaker 4: Coming from the dugout, you know, learning game calling, you know,
20:35
Speaker 4: managing games like they're they're getting the reps and the
20:38
Speaker 4: practice and all the things, you know, as far as
20:41
Speaker 4: the I call it like the showcase skills, like guys
20:43
Speaker 4: are going to hit for power, they're going to throw
20:45
Speaker 4: to second base, well, things like that. But it's the
20:48
Speaker 4: the game calling and the smaller pieces that you've got
20:52
Speaker 4: to get right, uh, you know, having the heads up
20:55
Speaker 4: decisions to you know, the back picks or calling the
20:58
Speaker 4: steel or the slide steps. It's little things that you
21:02
Speaker 4: just have to get game speed reps that now you know,
21:06
Speaker 4: when he shows up, I'm sure he'll go to low Ay.
21:08
Speaker 5: You know, they got rid of rookie ball.
21:09
Speaker 4: I guess now, I don't even know what exactly league
21:12
Speaker 4: it is, but the game just gets a little bit faster.
21:15
Speaker 3: You know.
21:15
Speaker 4: The hitting, he'll probably fine because hitting everything in college
21:19
Speaker 4: is basically it's close, you know, as far as vlo
21:22
Speaker 4: and everything else.
21:23
Speaker 5: Execution is different.
21:25
Speaker 4: But it's all the smaller, you know, fastest of the
21:28
Speaker 4: game that you know that you just have to really
21:31
Speaker 4: sharpen your skills. And you know I speak on I
21:35
Speaker 4: don't know Vonn obviously, but like I said, most coaches
21:38
Speaker 4: now in college it's coming from the dugout. You know,
21:41
Speaker 4: nothing is on their own anymore, and it's it's not
21:44
Speaker 4: helping these guys because they're having to learn a lot
21:47
Speaker 4: very quickly, and especially like him, he's coming out of college,
21:50
Speaker 4: they're gonna want him to develop fast, and you just
21:53
Speaker 4: hope that, you know, there's a great plan in place
21:55
Speaker 4: for him. You know, pitching, like myself, if you've got
21:59
Speaker 4: good stuff, you can kind of just show up and
22:01
Speaker 4: keep going.
22:01
Speaker 5: You know, you learn how to manage games.
22:03
Speaker 4: You know, throw certain pitches when you need fly balls
22:06
Speaker 4: or ground ball, you know, looking in the on deck circle,
22:09
Speaker 4: seeing who's coming up, maybe walk a guy or pitch
22:11
Speaker 4: around him. Like it's just little things that you know,
22:14
Speaker 4: you could go on forever about that. He's just going
22:16
Speaker 4: to learn, hopefully quickly, and contribute fast, because it sounds
22:19
Speaker 4: like the bat could be ready quickly. It's just whether
22:22
Speaker 4: you can put him behind that plate for however many
22:25
Speaker 4: games you want him every year, and it's going to
22:27
Speaker 4: work out.
22:29
Speaker 3: Well.
22:30
Speaker 1: We shall see somewhere down the line with Von Lackey
22:33
Speaker 1: newest Minnesota Twin also worth mentioning they drafted a guy
22:36
Speaker 1: named Steele Murdoch just want to I just want to, like,
22:39
Speaker 1: you know what I'm looking for.
22:41
Speaker 2: Sounds like a guy that should have been in that
22:43
Speaker 2: ae W wrestling match they had after the game on
22:47
Speaker 2: him Steal Murdoch, you know, like, Uh, bring him out
22:53
Speaker 2: and have him That was wild by the last breaking
22:56
Speaker 2: and the lightning talk about that. They had about five
23:00
Speaker 2: wrestling matches. The owner of the Jaguars, his son runs
23:04
Speaker 2: ae W and Daniel Adler, who works for the Twins
23:08
Speaker 2: and is one of their assistant GMS.
23:11
Speaker 3: He used to work for the Jaguars.
23:13
Speaker 2: In fact, he was on the headset with Gus Bradley
23:16
Speaker 2: and Daniel Adler would be the guy calling in the one.
23:20
Speaker 2: He was like the time management guy, but also like suggesting, Hey,
23:24
Speaker 2: it's fourth and two. There's like a sixty percent chance
23:27
Speaker 2: we are fourth and two. We're going for it. We're
23:29
Speaker 2: going for it, like he was the analytics guy. Anyways,
23:32
Speaker 2: he worked with the owner's the owner's son to bring
23:37
Speaker 2: aw wrestling out to target Field for that it was
23:42
Speaker 2: so weird man, I tweeted some pictures from him the
23:45
Speaker 2: other day, just to see a wrestling ring and right field,
23:48
Speaker 2: and I went out and checked it out real quick.
23:50
Speaker 3: But it was packed.
23:51
Speaker 2: There were probably a couple thousand people, three thousand people
23:54
Speaker 2: watching it upper deck, truly deck where the the like
23:58
Speaker 2: luxury club is, and then people in the right field corner.
24:01
Speaker 3: I mean it was it was jam packed. So it
24:03
Speaker 3: was pretty funny.
24:04
Speaker 1: They set it up back there, like in right field
24:07
Speaker 1: behind the gate.
24:08
Speaker 2: They did in that gate thirty four Yeah, okay, And
24:11
Speaker 2: I mean people were very much into it.
24:13
Speaker 3: And you know, I've never I've never done wrestling a
24:16
Speaker 3: wrestling match before like that.
24:18
Speaker 2: I've been to MMA, I've been to some UFC fights,
24:21
Speaker 2: but a similarly hyped crowd, you know. And and they
24:25
Speaker 2: stuck there was the biggest crowd of the weekend was
24:28
Speaker 2: Friday night and at least three four thousand people stuck
24:30
Speaker 2: around for that.
24:33
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24:35
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Speaker 1: Sounds great, and that sounds great. Who's in the home
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Speaker 1: run derby? That's my first question.
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Speaker 3: Bryce Harper is, Kyle Schwarber is, Let's see.
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Speaker 1: Junior Caminero, Ben Brice, Wilson, Contreras, Jordan Walker, Munataka Murakami
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Speaker 3: Right? All right?
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Speaker 1: Dan? Your idea? Who you got?
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Speaker 3: Wow? Okay, I'll get you. I want to go with
26:04
Speaker 3: the hometown guy. I mean, I'm gonna leave.
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Speaker 2: I want to leave the layup to you guys, and
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Speaker 2: if one of you doesn't take Schwarbur, I'm gonna be
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Speaker 2: extremely pissed.
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Speaker 3: But I'm gonna go.
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Speaker 2: Junior Caminaro, the runner up last year, won because he's
26:19
Speaker 2: young and has the strength, and he's done it and
26:22
Speaker 2: uh knows how to do it and put on.
26:24
Speaker 3: An amazing, amazing show last year. He gets it done
26:27
Speaker 3: this year. Junior A right.
26:31
Speaker 5: Tyler is a tough one.
26:33
Speaker 4: I'm imagining how cool it would be to have the
26:35
Speaker 4: showdown be between Harper and Schwarber.
26:38
Speaker 5: To finish like that would be electric. You know that
26:40
Speaker 5: city would city would.
26:42
Speaker 4: Be on fire after that. Either way it goes, I
26:45
Speaker 4: don't know. I guess I gotta take the I'm gonna
26:48
Speaker 4: go Shwarber's He's got that short compact swing. He ain't
26:51
Speaker 4: gonna run out of gas. He's just gonna send see
26:54
Speaker 4: how many people you can give a concussion out and bright.
26:56
Speaker 1: Field all right, I'm gonna go off book and say
27:02
Speaker 1: Jordan Walker it's my pick too, because just because I
27:08
Speaker 1: remember him slaughtering the balls against the Twins.
27:11
Speaker 3: Dude, he's got a pretty swing.
27:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think he hit third deck, and if
27:15
Speaker 2: he didn't hit third deck, he was really close at
27:18
Speaker 2: target field.
27:19
Speaker 3: But he's got a really pretty swing.
27:21
Speaker 2: And duff, if you want that final, all that Rob
27:25
Speaker 2: has to do is call in the FIFA officials and
27:28
Speaker 2: they will help us set it up and get us
27:30
Speaker 2: Schwarber versus Harper. Well, they'll find some extra home runs
27:33
Speaker 2: for one of them.
27:34
Speaker 4: Everybody else will get the squish balls, and then Schwarver
27:37
Speaker 4: and Harper can get the twenty nineteen balls.
27:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, there, you exactly exactly.
27:46
Speaker 1: We shall see every time the home run door he
27:48
Speaker 1: comes around. I think about the year that more And won,
27:52
Speaker 1: but everybody was pissed because Josh Hamilton put on that
27:56
Speaker 1: on the whole show but just got tired and didn't
27:59
Speaker 1: win the final. But it yeah, it was just everybody
28:03
Speaker 1: gushing about Hamilton, like he didn't win.
28:05
Speaker 3: Hamilton won it, right exactly. Uh there.
28:08
Speaker 2: It's always funny guys put on some incredible like second
28:12
Speaker 2: rounds and then they run out of gas.
28:14
Speaker 3: In that third round, but you see some amazing displace.
28:17
Speaker 2: I still remember the Ken Griffey Junior at Camden Yards,
28:20
Speaker 2: and I think that was ninety three or ninety four
28:23
Speaker 2: where he just it was so much fun. That's when
28:27
Speaker 2: Home Run Derby was like still peak.
28:31
Speaker 3: It didn't run.
28:34
Speaker 2: Electric they were and now this feels like we have
28:38
Speaker 2: like there's just so all these different rules that they incorporate,
28:41
Speaker 2: and they changed the format multiple times, and it's like,
28:44
Speaker 2: so I think this year is the number of pitches total,
28:48
Speaker 2: or maybe it's outs total.
28:49
Speaker 3: I don't know. If it's outs, that's cool.
28:51
Speaker 2: Do you guys remember that old Home Run Derby show,
28:54
Speaker 2: the television show where it'd be like Duke Snyder takes
28:57
Speaker 2: on Willie Mays and you'd see old reruns on ESPN,
29:01
Speaker 2: like I remember growing up and see him when you
29:02
Speaker 2: come home and and that show would be on and
29:05
Speaker 2: you get nine innings of three outs for each guy,
29:08
Speaker 2: and then they'd have these wholesome interviews with the play
29:12
Speaker 2: by play man in between innings.
29:14
Speaker 3: Like, boy, Willie, you really got that one? You really
29:17
Speaker 3: got going? Yeah, Bob, you know, I just found my
29:19
Speaker 3: groove this inning. It was.
29:22
Speaker 2: It was an awesome TV show that, like Home Run
29:25
Speaker 2: Derby is times you never know that would hey, that
29:29
Speaker 2: would be cool with retired guys, you know, get Barry
29:32
Speaker 2: Bonds out there, get Jose Canseco, who I'm still sure
29:35
Speaker 2: could be show the White.
29:37
Speaker 5: So Place yesterday.
29:40
Speaker 3: Was he in that home run baby for the White Sox?
29:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, Daniel Paulka posted about it, and so I was like,
29:44
Speaker 4: what is going on? And then I saw the picture.
29:46
Speaker 4: It's like Larry Garcia Paulka and then it's like jose
29:50
Speaker 4: Canseco over there. I was like, what the hell is
29:52
Speaker 4: going on?
29:54
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
29:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Gordon Beckham was the runner up. I
29:58
Speaker 2: think I saw that he still looks like he could play.
30:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a cool idea.
30:02
Speaker 2: Twins did a home run a softball home run derby
30:05
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago with a bunch of the guys.
30:07
Speaker 2: I remember that, and uh, you know, I think ploof
30:11
Speaker 2: on that shocker. But you know, those fan events.
30:16
Speaker 3: Can be pretty cool. And uh, I'm you know what.
30:18
Speaker 2: No matter what, having two hometown guys in the home
30:21
Speaker 2: run derby in Philly, that will be a pretty.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's gonna be cool.
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31:04
Speaker 1: Other news of note from the weekend, The Twins perhaps
31:08
Speaker 1: started the buying process. We talked on Friday about Tom
31:11
Speaker 1: Polad's comments about how this team needs to be invested in,
31:15
Speaker 1: not torn down, and the Twins maybe took their first
31:18
Speaker 1: step in that direction trading for reliever Tommy Nance, who
31:22
Speaker 1: came over in a deal for catching prospect after we
31:26
Speaker 1: just got done talking about the Twins trying to get
31:28
Speaker 1: more homegrown catchers Ryan Sprock on the way out, Tommy
31:32
Speaker 1: Nance and some international bonus money in Nance actually pitched
31:36
Speaker 1: on Saturday and got the win. More on that in
31:38
Speaker 1: a minute, but Dan the first step in that direction,
31:41
Speaker 1: it seems for the Twins trying to bolster the bullpen.
31:45
Speaker 2: This is definitely a low wattage move. It's not gonna
31:48
Speaker 2: grab headlines. But Nance has more strikeouts than innings. He's
31:52
Speaker 2: got a one hundred and sixty major league innings. He's
31:55
Speaker 2: been a journeyman, pitched for the Cubs at one point
31:58
Speaker 2: the last couple of years for the Blue Jay. But
32:02
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse it played well because we got Byron
32:04
Speaker 2: Buckston on Saturday. We hadn't really talked to him since
32:08
Speaker 2: he went on the IL made the decision to skip
32:11
Speaker 2: the All Star Game, which he, by the way, said
32:14
Speaker 2: winning here is more important.
32:16
Speaker 3: It wasn't a big deal. He's played in two All
32:18
Speaker 3: Star Games, so I think the novelty of that is off.
32:21
Speaker 2: And beyond that, he's got voted in as the starter
32:24
Speaker 2: this year, so he got his flowers from the national
32:27
Speaker 2: fan face and I think basically he's okay sitting it out.
32:32
Speaker 2: But the one thing that struck me was Byron Buckson
32:35
Speaker 2: said that both he and Royce were excited by the
32:37
Speaker 2: trader for Tommy Nantz because this is a guy that
32:40
Speaker 2: you know, not a lot of people have heard of.
32:42
Speaker 2: They knew who he was, and they said they were excited.
32:44
Speaker 2: They never have to face him again. So it's a
32:47
Speaker 2: guy he's been a starter, so he has four pitches
32:49
Speaker 2: and can mix it up.
32:51
Speaker 3: His first one was a little rough.
32:53
Speaker 2: There's a fly ball in front of Trevor Larnock that
32:55
Speaker 2: if Austin Martin's playing, maybe gets caught, and it fell
32:59
Speaker 2: in and led.
33:00
Speaker 3: To a game time single.
33:02
Speaker 2: But you know, he was the first guy they hope
33:07
Speaker 2: of a few more to add to the bullpen along
33:09
Speaker 2: with you know, they added Go last week and we
33:11
Speaker 2: saw both those guys pitch Saturday, and that's where the
33:14
Speaker 2: Twins are brand new to the team. Doesn't matter, as
33:17
Speaker 2: Derek Shelton said, Usuk Go has been a closer in Korea,
33:23
Speaker 2: so he's at least used to big.
33:25
Speaker 3: Moments and right now they're gonna get tried out.
33:27
Speaker 2: So the Twins, I would have to think, are hoping
33:30
Speaker 2: they'll get some more guys, some more arms in that
33:33
Speaker 2: bullpen to kind of build things out and bridge it
33:37
Speaker 2: to Andrew Morris and Juandros Gomez, who were big finds
33:40
Speaker 2: in the first half. So it's a start and you know,
33:45
Speaker 2: who knows where it goes from here. But certainly, like
33:48
Speaker 2: fire and Buckson said, you feel excited because it feels
33:51
Speaker 2: like they're at least doing something.
33:53
Speaker 3: So that's good to know. How it played.
33:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely been the spirit of the team in general,
33:59
Speaker 1: just get out there and play. Yeah, I need you
34:03
Speaker 1: in center field today, I need you in shortstop. Like
34:06
Speaker 1: I think they showed a graphic on the broadcast yesterday
34:08
Speaker 1: of the opening day defense versus how it looks now
34:13
Speaker 1: and totally totally different. But Tyler, we talked about how
34:18
Speaker 1: it feels as a player to hear your owner talk
34:20
Speaker 1: about adding but then once it starts happening, that has
34:23
Speaker 1: to feel a little bit extra, a little extra nice.
34:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's cool. And you know, we talked about pull
34:30
Speaker 5: at it. You know, it is.
34:31
Speaker 4: It's a lower blottage move to quote Dan there, but
34:35
Speaker 4: it's a move that is a guy honestly, is probably
34:38
Speaker 4: one of those underlying you know, the stats are good,
34:41
Speaker 4: but he was pitching whatever innings, wherever he was, and
34:45
Speaker 4: they're gonna say, hey, Bud, here's some leverage.
34:48
Speaker 5: You know, here's an opportunity.
34:49
Speaker 4: He's got a lot of the spin, which I know
34:52
Speaker 4: the Twins have always liked, especially if you have some
34:54
Speaker 4: Vila with it, you know, and he was I think
34:56
Speaker 4: he's up to ninety five ninety six with two different
34:59
Speaker 4: breaking balls. So that's probably why Royce and Buck didn't
35:02
Speaker 4: like facing them too much. But it's it's moves that
35:06
Speaker 4: make you know, positive changes, you know, and that's.
35:08
Speaker 5: All anybody can want. You've got guys.
35:11
Speaker 4: Settling in, you know, and it's been all hands on
35:14
Speaker 4: deck all year and it's guys are are thriving in
35:17
Speaker 4: some of these roles, and I think it's going to
35:19
Speaker 4: make decisions now easier for Chelsea and the pitching staff
35:23
Speaker 4: to to, you know, bridge together these games. You know,
35:26
Speaker 4: you you've got two to three starters that you can
35:29
Speaker 4: kind of mark down and pen for what's going to
35:31
Speaker 4: happen and the others you're not sure. And now that
35:34
Speaker 4: you can start writing some names in that bullpen and
35:36
Speaker 4: pen like that creates stability and that's all anyone wants
35:40
Speaker 4: in any aspect of life. But in a baseball game,
35:43
Speaker 4: you know, you got to that bullpen, you know, in
35:45
Speaker 4: the eighth or ninth like it's going to be Morris,
35:47
Speaker 4: It's it's gonna be Gomez and company. Uh, It's it's
35:51
Speaker 4: good things. It's it's setting concrete pieces that you know
35:54
Speaker 4: are going to be reliable for you. And it's definitely
35:58
Speaker 4: it's exciting even for me doing this show, thinking about like, Okay,
36:02
Speaker 4: who's the next move going to be. You know, what,
36:04
Speaker 4: what are we going to get? So it definitely gets
36:06
Speaker 4: the ears perked up. I'm sure it gets the fans
36:08
Speaker 4: a little, you know, Okay, what's next? You know they
36:11
Speaker 4: might start asking for more, that's the only problem. But
36:14
Speaker 4: at least you know, within days of talking about spending
36:17
Speaker 4: some money, we actually went out and did something.
36:20
Speaker 5: And that's all you can ask for work. I was
36:22
Speaker 5: wondering if that was a child.
36:26
Speaker 2: There's a screaming child in the backgrounds very opinion.
36:32
Speaker 4: It's gonna work out well, all right, even though he
36:36
Speaker 4: vultured the wind, you know, Zach, But you know, he
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Speaker 4: came in and did the job.
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Speaker 1: All of our kids like to like to make cameos
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Speaker 1: on the show. Yes, Tommy Nance did did vulture the win.
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Speaker 1: On Saturday, Joe Ryan left after six innings with a
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Speaker 1: three to two lead. Nance gave gave up the run
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Speaker 1: Twins score at bottom of the seventh win to Tommy Nance.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure the Twins will take it and maybe.
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Speaker 2: Wait, wait, wait that fire you up a little bit, Zach,
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Speaker 2: that Tommy Nance got the victory there.
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Speaker 1: I hate the rule. It's not Tommy Nance's fault. I
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Speaker 1: want to be you thought I was gonna shred Tommy nance.
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Speaker 1: It's not his fault. But I don't think that should
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Speaker 1: be a win. I don't know. I don't know who
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Speaker 1: should get it.
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Speaker 5: But no, I think it might be a snake.
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Speaker 4: There's vultures when it's like just the blowout and one
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Speaker 4: guy just gets it. Because but the snake, I think
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Speaker 4: is the that situation if I remember correctly, because he because.
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Speaker 1: That would be a that's a blown save, right, I
37:37
Speaker 1: mean it was.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, like it's a bad day, right, yeah, so bad day,
37:40
Speaker 4: but got the wind, you.
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Speaker 3: Know, right.
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Speaker 2: No, My favorite was I remember David Robertson came in
37:47
Speaker 2: when he was pitching for the White Sox, and it
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Speaker 2: was he had he was not great on the third
37:53
Speaker 2: day in a row. And you know, we don't see
37:55
Speaker 2: a lot of guys doing three days in a row anymore.
37:57
Speaker 2: But he came in on the third day and gave
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Speaker 2: up like two or three solo bombs and it went
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Speaker 2: from like a Chris Sale three nothing victory to them
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Speaker 2: having to win in the bottom of the ninth and
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Speaker 2: I tweeted out Dave Robertson earns the victory, and it
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Speaker 2: pissed off so many fans.
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Speaker 1: Oh Lord, all right, we'll wrap up the first half
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Speaker 1: of our show from this season with a segment that
38:24
Speaker 1: was Dan's idea. So I'm going to make him go first.
38:27
Speaker 1: We're all going to say one thing we liked about
38:28
Speaker 1: the Twins' first half. Take it away, Dan, what did
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Speaker 1: you like about.
38:34
Speaker 2: They had open tryouts for the bullpen? There was nothing
38:38
Speaker 2: functional about not functional. There was nothing set in stone
38:41
Speaker 2: about this group. In March, Liam Hendricks and Andrew Chafin
38:46
Speaker 2: were hopefully going to be part of it, and Liam Hendrick's,
38:51
Speaker 2: you know, experience was got maybe win him the job.
38:55
Speaker 3: They brought in.
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Speaker 2: Taylor Rogers, so the three guys who were the most experienced.
39:00
Speaker 2: Taylor Rodgers has still had some pretty good moments for
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Speaker 2: this club. He's also had some rough ones at times too.
39:05
Speaker 2: You know, the loss in Pittsburgh was stinging, the walk off,
39:09
Speaker 2: But he like he's been the only one of those
39:12
Speaker 2: three that's contributed to this bullpen. And yet here they
39:14
Speaker 2: are forty eight and forty nine at the break, having
39:17
Speaker 2: traded five guys last year, including Louis Varland. Would be
39:21
Speaker 2: is an All Star? Joan Durant Is he an All Star?
39:24
Speaker 2: If he's not, he's having a great season. Griffin Jackson
39:28
Speaker 2: has been converted to a starter in Tampa, but he's
39:30
Speaker 2: having a good year too. You traded away all that
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Speaker 2: certainty last year. You came in with basically hoping things
39:36
Speaker 2: would pan out. And I love what I've seen from
39:40
Speaker 2: jo Andris Gomez coming in and just being a guy
39:43
Speaker 2: off of a waiver claim or I'm sorry, acquired for
39:46
Speaker 2: cash in late April or early May, wherever that trade was.
39:51
Speaker 3: Andrew Morris starting.
39:53
Speaker 2: To rely on the cutter because the sweeper early on
39:56
Speaker 2: wasn't getting in the strikes they wanted, and so pairing
39:59
Speaker 2: the with the ninety eight to one hundred mile prior fastball,
40:03
Speaker 2: it has become a guy. And suddenly they have two
40:07
Speaker 2: guys in the back of the bullpen right now. And
40:10
Speaker 2: when you have those two guys who are some certainty
40:13
Speaker 2: for you, it makes it easier to build the rest
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Speaker 2: in and it gives Derek Shelton some comfort knowing if
40:19
Speaker 2: we lead after seven, we got a shot. Andrew Morris
40:22
Speaker 2: on Sunday was outstanding, going two innings as a long outing.
40:26
Speaker 2: Mike Greatest really was on the verge of coming in
40:28
Speaker 2: because Morris was on his thirty fifth pitch, but you know,
40:33
Speaker 2: just seeing what this team has managed to do with
40:36
Speaker 2: where the bullpen was has been definitely a plus, because man,
40:41
Speaker 2: they really had nothing certain going into the season.
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Speaker 4: Tyler, I'm gonna try and stick to one because all
40:50
Speaker 4: these things are going through.
40:51
Speaker 1: Because Dan just said seven.
40:53
Speaker 4: I'm trying to make it a concise point of like,
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Speaker 4: guys kind of maximizing some opportunities between three that come
41:01
Speaker 4: to mind immediately, or Clemens Bell and Larnick. You know, Larnick,
41:05
Speaker 4: people were all up in arms that we kept him.
41:08
Speaker 4: You know, they're worried about it, things like that. He's
41:11
Speaker 4: our leadoff hitter as far as I'm concerned at this point,
41:13
Speaker 4: he's I don't know what the exact numbers were, they're
41:15
Speaker 4: talking about it on air, but he's done great in
41:18
Speaker 4: that spot. He has kind of become a cornerstone at
41:21
Speaker 4: the top of the order. Bell all season has contributed
41:24
Speaker 4: two out hits. Like I talked about earlier, it's it
41:27
Speaker 4: seemed like for a few weeks stretched there, he was
41:30
Speaker 4: just pepper in the outfield with baseball's when runners were
41:32
Speaker 4: in scoring position, and.
41:34
Speaker 5: It's a huge reason why we're where we are.
41:36
Speaker 4: And then Clemens Van it's just the clutch Homers, especially
41:39
Speaker 4: when Pops is in town, have been you know, incredible
41:42
Speaker 4: to watch, you know, some great defensive plays.
41:44
Speaker 5: He's been all over the field.
41:46
Speaker 4: I think those particular, you know, even Kroteni for that matter,
41:49
Speaker 4: comes to mind. It's guys that are getting a chance
41:51
Speaker 4: to just play and they're taking advantage of it and
41:54
Speaker 4: it's helping the team win.
41:57
Speaker 1: Okay, I Dan just brung this on us, So I'm
42:01
Speaker 1: trying to think of something that duplicative of what you
42:05
Speaker 1: guys just said. But excuse me, I guess I'll use
42:09
Speaker 1: Is it time for my solo camera shot? I'll need
42:12
Speaker 1: some artist, need some art over on this side. Okay,
42:16
Speaker 1: I I think it's for me. Like there's a handful
42:21
Speaker 1: of teams that are within it was a bunch of
42:24
Speaker 1: teams that are within a handful of games, I should say,
42:26
Speaker 1: a five hundred one way or the other. A lot
42:29
Speaker 1: of them are probably not happy about that, but it
42:31
Speaker 1: feels like this team had a narrative coming into the season,
42:34
Speaker 1: You're not going to be good. They had every excuse
42:37
Speaker 1: in the book, and they still have a lot a
42:40
Speaker 1: long way to go to maybe make the playoffs or whatever.
42:43
Speaker 1: They're going to do this season. But the fact that
42:45
Speaker 1: they have been like the fun kind of five hundred team,
42:49
Speaker 1: the team that's playing together, playing hard, that the guys
42:54
Speaker 1: stepping up, going everywhere or wherever they're needed on the field.
42:58
Speaker 1: It's it's an easy team like for that for that reason,
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Speaker 1: like the you know, I think I've said this before,
43:04
Speaker 1: but we Minnesota fans get accustomed to cheering for the
43:09
Speaker 1: little guys who kind of punch above their weight, and
43:13
Speaker 1: that's what they've been doing. If they can keep it up,
43:15
Speaker 1: we'll see. But to to to have those vibes going
43:19
Speaker 1: into season, to slump in May and get down to
43:22
Speaker 1: eight games under five hundred and come back and be
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Speaker 1: in this position, it's been fun to watch. And we'll
43:28
Speaker 1: see if they can keep it up. That's all I got.
43:33
Speaker 1: How do I do like solo one kind of five Yeah, okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it is gonna work on the background, that's right. They
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Speaker 1: will try again. They'll try again to.
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Speaker 5: Get back to free in Minneapolis. The highway is.
43:52
Speaker 1: Almost did you round up there? Then you should round
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Speaker 1: down then it would be four ninety four.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think it was here. Wait wait,
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Speaker 3: let me look.
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44:27
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44:29
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44:33
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44:36
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