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A's deal big blow to Twins, and the need for Walker Jenkins is clear · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: A brutal loss for the twins on Wednesday as they
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  Speaker 1: drop the series in Sacramento to the lowly athletics. Maybe
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't call them so lowly. They just took two
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  Speaker 1: out of three from the twins, but after a hot start, uh,
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  Speaker 1: three solo home runs to build a three, nothing lead
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  Speaker 1: the A's I I'm, I'm fighting the urge guys every
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  Speaker 1: time to say Oakland, but the A's I'll just call them.
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  Speaker 2: I heard them referred to as unhoused the other day,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm house.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: They are the unhoused days. Uh, A's strike for four
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  Speaker 1: runs in the sixth off Andrew Morris and take the
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  Speaker 1: series with a 7-4 victory. That now drops the Twins
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  Speaker 1: to 64-70 overall, and they are fading in the wildcard
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  Speaker 1: standings down to four games back of the Guardians, who
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  Speaker 1: got really fat this week off of the Rockies and
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  Speaker 1: Angels and are now 68-66 in that third wildcard spot
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the Twins there and in the central, the Twins'
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  Speaker 1: six and a half back of the white socks who
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  Speaker 1: are on deck this week in a target field. Also today,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Byron Buxton's latest, uh, injury update,
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  Speaker 1: whether it finally, maybe really actually now is time for
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  Speaker 1: Walker Jenkins. We're going to talk about your ideas to
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  Speaker 1: make the team better. And there were some good ones
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  Speaker 1: in there. And also, uh, tee up this weekend at
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  Speaker 1: target field against the white socks. It's twin cities, territory
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  Speaker 1: or twins podcast here on the foul territory network. And guys, uh,
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  Speaker 1: obviously there is still a lot of season left for
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  Speaker 1: games out is not necessarily over, but spiritually Tyler, that
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  Speaker 1: game felt like it might be the knockout blow of
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  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that one hurts.
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  Speaker 3: Um, you know, especially you jump out early, get a
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  Speaker 3: lead like that. Uh, you, you seem to have the
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  Speaker 3: ball rolling early, you know, getting that cushion started and
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  Speaker 3: then it just kind of fell apart from there. And that's,
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  Speaker 3: it's a tough one. Um, There's a lot of guys
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  Speaker 3: on that off day today. They got in late last night.
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  Speaker 3: It was probably as the sun was coming up, getting
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  Speaker 3: to your apartments.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be some.
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  Speaker 3: Guys licking some wounds, looking at video, trying to figure
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  Speaker 3: out what happened. And we kind of joked about going
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  Speaker 3: into that series, like you can't take anybody for granted
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  Speaker 3: in the big leagues. They're still big leaguers. They're still
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  Speaker 3: there for a reason. They were all first-round picks, X, Y,
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  Speaker 3: and Z, and that's a tough one. You needed all
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  Speaker 3: three of those and at least two, and now– um, you're,
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  Speaker 3: you're coming back home with basically a need to win.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you need to go on a hot streak
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  Speaker 3: and win like six in a row, like, which they
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  Speaker 3: haven't really done all year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think their longest stretch was maybe nine.
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  Speaker 2: If I remember right.
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  Speaker 3: But it's, you got to come home and hit the
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  Speaker 3: ground running because there's no more time. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and it's guys are injured, you know, big piece of
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  Speaker 3: the rotation, Byron going down, like things aren't going well.
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  Speaker 2: Um, it's hard to find some positives right now.
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  Speaker 3: And, So as a team, I'm sure they're, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I doubt they did it last night, but, you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe tomorrow before the game, something like that, like have
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  Speaker 3: a little talk amongst the guys.
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  Speaker 2: You know, maybe Shelty goes in there.
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  Speaker 3: I know he doesn't like doing that, but this is
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  Speaker 3: the time to be like, hey, boys, you know, he
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  Speaker 3: mentioned it's a sprint, and it is fully that now,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just find a way. Tomorrow doesn't matter. Today,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what happened yesterday you can't fix. We got
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  Speaker 3: to play today and win.
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  Speaker 1: Dan, the Twins got what they could have asked for,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, out of Connor Prelip. Last night, you might
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  Speaker 1: even call it a yeoman's effort from Connor.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Dan's not in the mood for jokes today.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Then Andrew Morris came in in the sixth. Things fell apart.
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  Speaker 1: There were some tough breaks there. A bloop single to
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  Speaker 1: start it off against him. That fly ball to center
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  Speaker 1: that scored the two go-ahead runs. A healthy Byron Buxton
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  Speaker 1: probably tracks that down. It's no knock on Luke Kieschel. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: he's playing wherever the Twins need him to play, but
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  Speaker 1: a tough break and especially for a team that spent
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  Speaker 1: its bull, uh, trade deadline assets trying to build up
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  Speaker 1: its bullpen to have that loss come down to that
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  Speaker 1: was just a rough night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Andrew Morris was definitely, I mean, the stuff is still there,
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  Speaker 4: but the location was center cut with his fastballs. And,
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  Speaker 4: and even though, you know, you're right, there were some
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  Speaker 4: bloops and some stuff there was oppo hit by McNeil. Um,
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  Speaker 4: even though that happened, you know, his fastball was in
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  Speaker 4: the middle and the A's were geared up for it. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, with the, with the Williams triple, Luke Keisha
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  Speaker 4: went back and was there. He said it carried a
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  Speaker 4: little further on him than he thought it was, but
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  Speaker 4: he was there and he should have caught it. And
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  Speaker 4: that's what he, he emphasized twice. He had that later
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  Speaker 4: play too, where line drive double over his head. And he,
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  Speaker 4: you know, was out of position. And so basically like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it was definitely a, uh, it was a
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  Speaker 4: tough loss. I mean, they, they had that game early on.
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  Speaker 4: It looked great. You know, you get the Brooks Lee
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  Speaker 4: first inning home run. Uh, but then you come back
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  Speaker 4: on top of that and Trevor Larnik, who's needed to
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  Speaker 4: get going, hits a solo homer. And, you know, he
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  Speaker 4: had a couple other good swings, but he hit it
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  Speaker 4: to center, flew out deep. Like, um, I, I thought
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  Speaker 4: Larnik looked good to play, but, uh, You know, Culpepper
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  Speaker 4: hits just a massive shot. Culpepper had a nice defensive
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  Speaker 4: play in the seventh inning, too. And yet they just
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  Speaker 4: couldn't get any more. They had the bases loaded and
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  Speaker 4: won out. And Royce Lewis hit a pretty deep fly ball,
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  Speaker 4: but it sacrificed fly. They didn't add on. They didn't capitalize.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't do what they needed to do to put
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  Speaker 4: that game away. And it left them susceptible to the beginning,
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  Speaker 4: which has happened to them quite frequently. That's the second
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  Speaker 4: time on this road trip alone. where the beginning really
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  Speaker 4: did them in. There was one in San Diego, too. But, yeah, Morris,
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  Speaker 4: you know, this is something that it's not shocking that
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  Speaker 4: there's some regression. I mean, he has not done this
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  Speaker 4: like this at this level of frequency. He has pitched
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  Speaker 4: mornings in a season, yes, 100%. He has done that.
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  Speaker 4: But he has not gotten his body ready to throw
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  Speaker 4: 99 to 100 miles per hour every other day forever. Like,
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  Speaker 4: this is the first time he's ever done that. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen this a zillion times. It happened to Griffin
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  Speaker 4: Jackson in 2022 where he just started to fade. And
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  Speaker 4: it really isn't the stuff. It's the location. It's the
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  Speaker 4: ability to dial it in at that point because you
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  Speaker 4: are putting all your effort into getting that velo out.
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  Speaker 4: And you are, like, sometimes the pinpoint command goes away.
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  Speaker 4: And that was, you know, there were a lot of
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  Speaker 4: pitches in the middle there. But Kieschel said it. I
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  Speaker 4: should have caught it. I should have caught it. That
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  Speaker 4: potentially changes the game right there because you get to
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  Speaker 4: the later parts of your bullpen if you get through that.
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  Speaker 4: But we even saw Cody Funderburg give up a home
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  Speaker 4: run too. Derek Shelton was pretty disappointed afterwards and very short.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't the shortest press conference. There were a couple
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  Speaker 4: longer answers, but you can tell he knows it's go
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  Speaker 4: time because this team is 6 under 500 and really
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  Speaker 4: struggling for a lifeline right now.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about the season in total, and bear
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  Speaker 1: with me because I brought visual aids. I think back
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  Speaker 1: to before the trade deadline, how we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: this team, and they were in the mix, still around 500,
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  Speaker 1: but in that wildcard mix. And through the All-Star game,
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  Speaker 1: July 12th, they had played 97 games. They were sixth
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  Speaker 1: in baseball in runs scored with 4.85 runs per game.
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  Speaker 1: That's sixth in total runs, not the runs per game.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a separate note. Starting pitching ERA was 13th
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  Speaker 1: in the league, bullpen ERA 29th in the league. It
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  Speaker 1: was pretty obvious what this team needed. They needed help
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  Speaker 1: in the bullpen. That offense and that starting pitching can
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  Speaker 1: make you competitive right there. And then even at the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline, there was a little bit of dip in
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  Speaker 1: the run scored and in the starting pitching, but not
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  Speaker 1: to the point of disaster at all. It's still top
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  Speaker 1: 10 offense, or top 10 run scoring offense. The starting
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  Speaker 1: pitcher ERA had dropped two-tenths of a point. Bullpen, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better, but not much. And then they make
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  Speaker 1: all their trade deadline moves, and it's all for bullpen
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  Speaker 1: and Dean Kramer to the back end of the rotation.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the killer. Since then, in 21 games,
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  Speaker 1: all of that stuff has gotten worse than it was
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  Speaker 1: before the trade deadline. Now, obviously, it's a smaller sample size.
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  Speaker 1: It's also a brutal sample size against a lot of
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  Speaker 1: really great teams from the National League.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, playing those 12 teams is a buzzsaw. Playing the Brewers, Padres...
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  Speaker 4: Phillies and Braves, that was a brutal August schedule for them.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. But the run's tied for 22nd since the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline, almost a run a game less than they
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  Speaker 1: were scoring before the All-Star game. The starting pitching ERA
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  Speaker 1: has dropped, obviously no fault of Dean Kramer's in that regard,
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  Speaker 1: but we've seen injuries and other issues. And then the
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  Speaker 1: real killer is the bullpen ERA is basically the same
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  Speaker 1: as it was before the trade deadline. It hasn't really improved.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't been getting... to the late innings with the
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  Speaker 1: lead very often. I think that was the 10th time
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  Speaker 1: since the deadline they, they had the lead and they've
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  Speaker 1: won seven of those games. Obviously last night did not, but, um,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just when, when all of the moves were
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  Speaker 1: designed to fix that one problem and now all of
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  Speaker 1: these other problems have emerged, Tyler, it's just, it's a
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  Speaker 1: double whammy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's one, unfortunately, you know, all season it's been,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the twins are going to be bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
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  Speaker 2: And they played really well. All things considered, for a
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  Speaker 2: long time.
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  Speaker 3: And we kind of talked about it doesn't take much
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  Speaker 3: to kind of knock these off kilter. You know, the
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  Speaker 3: playing clean baseball, the things like that were things early
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  Speaker 3: on that mattered, you know, to win those little games,
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  Speaker 3: scoring four runs, three runs. And now it's really blown
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  Speaker 3: up because you're missing Joe Ryan. You know, Prelip has
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: had his woes here and there. You know, he's pitching
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  Speaker 3: the most he's ever thrown in a season. You're relying
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  Speaker 3: on these guys who are still kind of learning. Taj
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  Speaker 3: has settled in, thank goodness, to be a bit of
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  Speaker 3: an anchor. But it's a lot of things that we
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  Speaker 3: said could potentially happen, you know, and then it happened. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's the end of the year. You've got
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  Speaker 3: young guys in the bullpen, especially, you know, like Morris,
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  Speaker 3: he's throwing leverage for the first time in his life
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  Speaker 3: in the most pressure situations you can be in. And
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's just he's regressed a bit. And so
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  Speaker 3: guys like him, you know, Fundy was on a roll
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  Speaker 3: for a while. He's gave up, you know, that was
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  Speaker 3: a slider up with two strikes. He got taken oppo. Like,
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  Speaker 3: that's when you kind of tip your cap. You know,
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  Speaker 3: was it a great pitch?
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  Speaker 2: No. But, you know, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Just they're regressing back to the mean a little bit. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: it's at a really bad time after you've made all
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  Speaker 3: your moves. You've gotten these bullpen arms that you brought
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  Speaker 3: in to kind of bolster and finish out these close games.
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  Speaker 3: And in my mind, it kind of turns to, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll see it, you're going to start seeing
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  Speaker 3: those guys earlier and probably not necessarily in winning games.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be, hey, you boys.
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  Speaker 3: Do whatever you need, take whatever Advil or whatever it is,
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  Speaker 3: get your mix right, because you're about to throw 15
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  Speaker 3: times in the next 30 days.
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  Speaker 2: And that's kind of what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Position guys, whether Jeffers has got a catch every day
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  Speaker 3: or whatever they need to do, like Things are going
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  Speaker 3: to happen.
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  Speaker 2: It's time to be big boys.
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  Speaker 3: As we joke a lot, it's a man's league, and
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  Speaker 3: it's not for nice guys. And this is a time
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  Speaker 3: when that becomes more true than ever. 28 games to go.
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  Speaker 3: The Twins will have to find some magic if they can.
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  Speaker 3: We will talk about that. We'll talk about Byron Buxton's
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  Speaker 3: injury and Walker Jenkins in just a bit. If you
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
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• 11:52
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• 12:15
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  Speaker 1: Byron Buxton left Tuesday's game with an injury. He was
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  Speaker 1: around the clubhouse on Wednesday and Mr. Hayes caught up
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  Speaker 1: to him. And from that headline on the athletic there,
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  Speaker 1: which says, for those of you listening twins, all-star Byron
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  Speaker 1: Buxton physically quote, not where I want to be unquote
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  Speaker 1: after Tuesday's exit, uh, Dan, that sure doesn't sound good.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it doesn't sound good. I like,
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  Speaker 4: this is something he's dealt with for three and a
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  Speaker 4: half months. Um, the way he described it was, I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to read the quote. I know what soreness is.
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  Speaker 4: It just felt a little different. It stopped me from
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  Speaker 4: bending over to try and get the ball. Um, there's
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  Speaker 4: been good days and there's bad days. It's a little
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  Speaker 4: frustrating right now trying to play through it. We've been
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  Speaker 4: doing everything we're supposed to be doing. So it's probably frustrating,
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  Speaker 4: not only for me, but for everybody. Like, look, I,
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  Speaker 4: Byron Buxton is definitely gonna need some time here, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't know like that. It's that this is more
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  Speaker 4: than what he's dealt with in the past. They didn't
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  Speaker 4: do an MRI yesterday. Um, so like they didn't think
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  Speaker 4: it was to the level where he needed to go
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  Speaker 4: and do that. And he's done that multiple times this
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  Speaker 4: year after having some hip related stuff. So, I think
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  Speaker 4: they think this is another episode. He hopes it's a hiccup.
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  Speaker 4: It certainly is more than some of the instances because, look,
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  Speaker 4: when you ever see Byron Buxton run for a ball
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  Speaker 4: and not be able to lean down and pick it up,
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  Speaker 4: that stood out. And Derek Shelton mentioned it stood out.
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  Speaker 4: But Byron was in the clubhouse, in a good mood.
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  Speaker 4: They did their fantasy football draft pick selection challenge yesterday. And, uh,
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  Speaker 4: we'll get into that in a second. Uh, but Byron,
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  Speaker 4: do we have the team rosters? No, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: But their, their competition for the, their competition to get
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  Speaker 4: the picking. Oh, I see. Oh yeah. The pick to
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  Speaker 4: get the pick, uh, their competition's awesome. But, uh, he
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  Speaker 4: ended up with Keith Beauregard as his, um, as his, uh, night,
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  Speaker 4: so to speak, you know, you get to pick the
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  Speaker 4: night that fights in your honor. Keith Bogard, hitting coach,
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  Speaker 4: is his knight, and they were having some fun laughing
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  Speaker 4: about it. And Byron talked to us and was open
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  Speaker 4: to talking to us. So those aren't signs to me that, oh, man,
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  Speaker 4: he's devastated, he's crushed, this is season ending. But clearly
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  Speaker 4: it's going to take a little time, and this isn't
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  Speaker 4: a time where they have time. I mean, there's 28 games,
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  Speaker 4: and they start with 15 straight against the American League
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  Speaker 4: Central on Friday. So the confluence of those two events,
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  Speaker 4: like it definitely– you know, you probably need some, some help,
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  Speaker 4: at least temporary help. And, you know, it's not going
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  Speaker 4: to shock me at all. If we see Walker Jenkins
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  Speaker 4: on Friday, in fact, I would think we'll see him,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't know that for sure. It just seems
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  Speaker 4: like that could, it just seems like that's a possibility and,
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  Speaker 4: and the odds are better. Now, if you're on Cal she,
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: or if you're doing the prediction market thing, it feels like,
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: and send me a, you know, I'd like a percentage
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: of that just for the educated guests. Insider trading. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Insider trading to a podcast of 500. But no, it
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: just feels like the time is probably now. Byron Buxton
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: has been fighting this for three and a half months.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: He's gone on the aisle twice. And the idea that
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: he couldn't pick up the ball, that kind of gives
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: you an idea of that he is at least a
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: few days away and they just don't have the time
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: That's more than being sore.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Right. And, and I mean, Luke Kieschel has done like
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: worked his butt off to be out there, but Luke
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Kieschel is not a center fielder. And they've asked a
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: lot of him to go from second base to right
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: field to center field and Walker Jenkins plays center field
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: and he's hitting the ball. So it just, it like,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: it feels like it's going to happen. I don't know.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: with certainty it's going to happen, but it sure feels
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: like it's going to happen.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Well, even the Saints feel ready for it. Here's them
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: last night after Walker Jenkins homered yet again. If you're listening,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I'm showing a tweet from them or a post, I
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: guess it is called now. Hello, Minnesota Twins. Walker Jenkins
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: is on line one, lefty on lefty, and he goes
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: deep the opposite way. That pitch was way outside. He
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: bent down and got it. Maybe it would be a
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: warning track fly out in target field. I don't know,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: but impressive because of the way the camera is angled
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: always off to the right side the lefties throwing the
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: lefties just looks so nasty compared to righties throwing the
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: righties so it's always more impressive to my dumb brain
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: but Tyler on our show yesterday you were pretty passionate
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: that like you gotta call them up you gotta give
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: it a chance and see what happens and it seems
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: with Buxton not about to come back at 100% tomorrow
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: it's now or never Yeah.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: And all respect to Keish, as Dan just said too,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: they've asked a lot and he has answered the bell
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: over and over and over again. But at the end
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: of the day, and I'm not even going to disrespect
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: the corners saying they're easier, but playing center field in
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: the major leagues is not easy to do.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Not everybody can do it.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: It's something that there's a reason those guys are the
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: best athletes on the field nine times out of ten.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: It's just a whole different world out there. You have
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: a guy who has played outfield his whole career that
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: is ready to come up and do his thing. The
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: stars are aligning a little too easily right now for
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: me in my head.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Again, I'm not a GM, nor will I ever.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Be, but you've got a kid who's cranking homers, lefty-lefty.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: He's hitting them pole side out of stadiums. He can
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: play any position in the outfield. He seems to be
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: made for the moment. I've seen his interviews, things like that.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: He's what you want.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: He's the reason you take a guy with a pick
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: like that. He does all the right things. He seems
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: to be saying the right things. It makes a lot
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: of sense, and they need it. They don't have anyone
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: else to plug in right now. Guys that have been
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: there all year kind of have struggled. This is your
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: last chance to make a push, and what difference does
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: it make in a month, unless you try it, you know, it's,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: you got to do something.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Otherwise you might as well tell him now, Hey, we're not,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: we're not going for it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: The logic of, of not calling him up. Um, we,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: we talked about it. This also on last, last show,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: maybe it's, maybe it's his health. Maybe it's his play.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: They don't think he's ready, but also there's the very
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: real roster situation realities of the roster, where if he
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: gets called up to the 40 man, he would be
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: part of the lockout. If there is one next year,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: can't play in the minors, can't keep developing. I think
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: after last night's loss, I had convinced myself, like, just
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: don't just don't do it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: It's too late.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: And I think I saw, you know, I saw some
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: other chatter of that too. Like almost as if some
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: sentiment is turning to like, if you were going to
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: do it, why not two or three weeks ago when
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: maybe it could have helped make a difference in some
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: of these games. But, uh, Dan, I guess punk fans
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: like me are just going to have to live with it.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah. Like if that's the case, like if
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: they bring them up, yes. Um, Look, the lockout, I
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: get that. I do get not bringing him up in
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: case that. But they brought up Caelan Culpepper, so it's
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: clear that's not something that they're believing there. And they
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: brought up Caelan Culpepper when they had a clear need.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: And with Byron dinged up, I think this is as
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: clear of a need as they're going to see. It's
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: unfortunate because it's four days until they can expand rosters
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: or five days until they expand rosters by the one
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: position player. So they're going to have to make a
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: tough decision right now And who does that impact? Because
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: the lefties that are in the outfield right now, Roden
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: and Larnik, Larnik has had a rough August ever since
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: he basically found out he was going to get traded
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: and then wasn't traded. But Roden's got, I think, their
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: second or third highest OPS in the month of August.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: He's close to 900. He had a nice night again
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: last night just getting on. Unfortunately, he had a bid
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: for Was it a three-run homer, and he flew out
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: to the track, or it was either a three-run homer
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: or a grand slam hit?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, no.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Larnik had a three-run shot later in the game, and
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: did homer, obviously, early.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, both of them had good swings.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Right, exactly. Jackson just hasn't played, and I get that.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: You want the depth, but Alex Jackson has not played
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: at all. It has allowed them to use Ryan Jeffers
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: as a DH on days he's not catching. But, you know,
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: it's definitely, it's a tricky spot, but I mean, the
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: need seems to be trumping it at this point with Byron,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: you know, in the air as far as when, when
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: you can expect him back. And again, Byron's like hopeful
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: that this isn't long, but, you know, and he is
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: going to be the guy that plays through it. It's
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: just when you see that moment where he pulls up
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: and just doesn't go down and get a ball that,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: that stands out as like, wow, that's a little different.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: It just feels like you can't send away a healthy
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: outfield body right now. Like, yeah, just, I mean, is
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: there any update on Austin Martin?
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: There has not been an update on Austin Martin while
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: we're on the trip, but he didn't come on the trip.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: He could be the guy that comes up September 1
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: because it didn't seem like it was going to be
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: a long-term thing. But it also seems like an easy
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: thing to stretch out until September 1 and you get
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: him back and put him back in the platoon.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Well, we asked you yesterday for your ideas on how
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: to spark the team outside of calling up Walker Jenkins,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: which we know you all want. We'll get to that
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: right after this.
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• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Dan put out a post on X yesterday. I should clarify,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: it was my idea to ask this question because a
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: lot of you responded very passionately to the question. To
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: give us your idea, if you were in charge of
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the twins, besides calling up Walker Jenkins, because we know
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you want that first and foremost, what else would you
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: do to try to give this team a spark? And
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: we definitely got a lot of responses. Most of them
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: were sarcastic, but we kind of distilled the serious ones
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: down to a few different areas and we'll put them
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: on the screen right here. First, the most common one
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: was probably calling up Emmanuel Rodriguez, also at AAA. Another
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: one was bringing back Matt Walner, who was also tearing
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: it up in AAA and we haven't talked about a
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: whole lot. And then my favorite on here is, uh,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: from Waylon Miller extending Ryan Jeffers or Joe Ryan. They've
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: extended maybe two players in the past six years. Um,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I don't have much to say about that. I think,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I think those are all fine ideas. Certainly Tyler, like
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: if they started handing out extensions in August, that would
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: definitely give the clubhouse a little bit of a jolt,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I think. Yeah.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: It gets some, some particular guys excited in the locker
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: room anyway, but you know, I don't know if that's
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: going to change, uh, the way they play tonight. But yeah,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: it's a, it's, yeah, it's, it's a tough time. And
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: like we just said, with rosters, everything else, it's just a,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: it's a tough part of the year. And the guy
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: like Walner, like that's the crazy thing with baseball. Like
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: it's been Jenkins, Jenkins, Jenkins. Well, he's quietly been, I
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: think it last I saw, he was close to like
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: a home run record for St.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Paul.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Like he's been tearing the cover off the baseball. It's just,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: it's weird.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Now they're going to have this surplus of left-handed hitting.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: which is normally never an issue. So it's like, okay,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: now we've got all these left-handed outfielders.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: What do we do with them?
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: So it'll create some interesting things come next year, but
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: there's definitely some options. The world with the pitchforks and flames,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: we all know who they want, but at the end
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: of the day, there's guys that get above my pay
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: grade that are going to make some of these decisions.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: No, it's funny. The Twins have a tree. that grows
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: left-handed outfielders, especially the last six or seven, eight years.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: It's been a problem. They have trouble finding right-handed hitting
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: outfield right now. They can't. Look at it. Larnik, Walner, Jenkins,
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Emmanuel Rodriguez, Max Kepler. Go back. Keep going. Roden. They
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: traded for Roden. Jack and the Magic Beanstalk came to
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: the Twins and it just, it grows left-handed. Yeah. Yeah.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: It's like the, the move is the move is Walker Jenkins, right?
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Like that is the true move. I like Emmanuel Rodriguez.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: I think he is ready for the challenge, man. He
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: would be amazing for us for quotes. He is a,
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: like he likes media. You can tell he's ready to
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: be that star. He has not stayed on the field.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Like he, you know, we've talked about both Walker Jenkins
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: and him have just had tremendous health setbacks over the
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: last couple of years. Rodriguez's thumb has bugged him. He,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: you know, he was going to possibly get called up
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: in somewhere in April, May, and he slid headfirst in
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: the first base and hurt his thumb and it cost
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: him a couple months. And he's been back and, you know,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: doesn't shock you that he didn't have surgery. He rehabbed it.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: He's had a game or two where he's missed it
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: because of soreness and But that's to be expected. You know, Walner,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: the defensive issues early in the year combined with the
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: slump were pretty detrimental. And, you know, you look at
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Rodriguez and you look at Walner– or you look at
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Jenkins and Rodriguez and they are better defenders for sure.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: And you can understand why potentially they've moved ahead on
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: the food– whatever. I'm tired. The food chain, the food pyramid. Yes.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: I think, I think that, you know, what happens to
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Walnars could be really interesting because it does feel a
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: little similar to what Larnik was like going into last
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: off season where everybody was like, Oh, he's gone for sure.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: But then Larnik stayed and has had the best year
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: of his career. So, I don't know what happens with Walner.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know what happens in the future with Larnik.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: It just seems like we're at this point where it's
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: probably time to be Jenkins and then Rodriguez.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to let this segment end without showing
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: some of the fun ones as well.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: So here we go.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Some of my favorite of your sarcastic responses to our question.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: First off, promote Walker Jenkins twice. That's a good one.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: If you could have two of him.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: That would be great.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Uh, we have add a fourth catcher to the active roster. Smart, smart. Uh,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: this one's a little risque, but we have pants, optional
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: nights for players and fans. I'm not sure that we
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: really want that, but.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's every day.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: There's actually three in a row here.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Three in a row here with a common theme, uh,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: male rally dancers. How about that? I thought about playing,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: playing in speed. Please don't. Play in Speedos. That's, again,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: pants optional in that option as well. Hire an Etsy witch.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: You know, a little voodoo, a little good juju. That
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: could do well.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Or the rally sausage.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Rally sausage. Bring back the rally sausage.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: It had a good run.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Probably the best one here is a beat right or
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: track race during the seventh inning stretch yeah.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Jay lanky is fired i i answer his tweets too.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: He's fired we need.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: That one rally dancers male rally dancers much better.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Than the writers y'all gotta wear the the little runner's
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: shorts you know the ones that cut like all the
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: way up to your hip So stiff breeze.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Get a free one.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Who would win the beat writer warning track race, Stan?
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Bobby Nightingale would crush us. Yeah. He runs.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: He's a runner. Well, no, no.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: I shouldn't say like he's a runner runner, like, but he,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: like he, he actually goes and, Like he works out.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Physical activity. Yeah. Okay. Right. I, I, I, my, my
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: physical activity is, I can, I can bike with the
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: best of them. You know, I can do a, yeah.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: You do bike race too. I do not. Yeah. I
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: don't run.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Do some laps around.
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Good job on that pronunciation.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Nicely done.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: No, but I think, I think the male rally dancers, uh,
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: that sounds great, but yeah, Jay Lenke, Jay apocalypse. No,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: you were fired for suggesting beat writer. I do not
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: do that.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Maybe we could do the mascots.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Since we're talking about funny challenges, I want to put
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: out what the twins are doing for their fantasy football
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: draft pick competition. They put names in a hat of
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: different staff members yesterday. Grady Sizemore, Pete Mackey, their coaches,
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: and then trainers and stuff like that. and every player
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: picked a name. Yep. Cody Clemens ended up with Masaabe,
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: and he was thrilled and got in and did FaceTime
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: with him. But what they're doing is an exit velo competition.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Derek Shelton will throw batting practice on the field on Friday,
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: and those coaches will hit. And whichever player or whichever coach, staffer,
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: produces the highest exit velo, that player then, like, so
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Mick Abel landed Grady Sizemore. If Grady Sizemore produces the best. Yeah.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: If Grady Sizemore produces the best X of ELO, Mick
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Abel gets to choose where he picks in the draft. Basically,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: they're just competing to last year was fun to Tommy Watkins,
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: their third base coach hit fungos with bait numbered baseballs
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: towards a bucket in the outfield. And whatever ball landed
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: the closest to the bucket, that guy got to pick
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: where they drafted and so on and so forth. So,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: I like how teams are being inventive. It was pretty
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: entertaining yesterday. Harry Welsh is one of the video guys.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: He also does advanced scouting on the pitching side. Jeff
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Hoffman landed him, and I heard Harry say that he
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: thinks he can get pretty close on this. There's going
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: to be some fun little battles with this.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Some injuries, I'm sure. I think they're figuring out.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: That they're creating their own way to spark themselves. Cause
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: they don't need me standing like on a bucket in
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: the middle of the room, giving a speech. Like that's not,
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: that's not it. I don't do speeches.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Hey, that'll definitely get the boys loose. Get them shake
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: off whatever they're thinking about today. I'll tell you that.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: That'll be good. Good for the morale.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Well, they should probably make a cardboard cutout of Dan
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Hayes where they can peel sections off for the rest
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: of the season, like Rachel Phelps in Major League, because
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: they're going to need some wins the rest of the way.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: They probably won't do that, but cardboard cut out of you.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: They will definitely not. I don't like that idea, but yeah,
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I know they need to get going right now. I mean,
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: it's 15 in a row. It's the sprint, as Derek
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Shelton said, and it starts Friday against the White Sox,
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: and man, are they ever in the need of At
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: least they can, you know, it's in their own hands.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: That's what they're saying. This is in our own hands
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: and we can all decide it together. But, man, they really,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, they need to get going. They need to
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: get home and get healthy. And, you know, you're running
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: out of, like, this was a very defeating road trip
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: every step of the way.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Here's what it looks like the rest of the way. Chicago,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: as we mentioned. at Target Field this weekend, followed by
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: the Tigers, and then White Sox and Tigers on the road,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: then the Guardians at home. That's the 15-game stretch against
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the Central, which is so critical. Well, they're all critical
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: at this point. Then after that, home Yankees at Angels
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: and Giants and against the Rangers. And it's 28 games, guys.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, probably need to go like 18-10 to have
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: a shot at this. I'm going to say 18-10 because
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: that would make them 82-80, which is what I predicted
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season. So I'll take that
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: no matter what. Um, they've done it before. They were,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: they woke up on June 14th, uh, 32 and 48
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: games under 500, which was their season low that they've
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: hit a couple of times. And then over the next month,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: plus they went 17 and nine to get back to 500, uh,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: just after the all-star break when they, when they beat
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the Cubs on the road in Chicago. So it's not
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: unheard of certainly nothing from their recent play. has uh
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: suggested that it might happen tyler um and it's just
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the their play against the bad teams continues to be
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: crushing them they're they're now 21 and 29 against the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: bottom 11 teams in baseball besides themselves they are now
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: in that group as well but um so there's a
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: couple of those teams left on the schedule but there's
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: also a lot of uh a lot of the teams
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: in the middle that they've been doing pretty well against
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: they found a spark in june they got to find
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: one again now.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I've said it all along.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: It's weird that it seems like they haven't really played
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: their own division a lot. They played the Royals here.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: They played Cleveland once that I even remember. So it
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: is ultimately like you're kind of controlling your own destiny here.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: You've got familiar foes.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: You haven't seen each other in a while, so there
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: will be probably some fresh faces on both sides of
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: the ball. It makes for fun baseball at the end
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: of the day because it's– Guys who circle every year,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: you know, or at the beginning of the season, it's like, oh,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: these teams are going to be good, whatever.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: You know, but.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Playing the White Sox, you know, it's one of those
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: places I've always, for whatever reason, there's always some animosity
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: there between us. I don't know if it was, you know,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: the Todd father and the other dugout, you know, whatever.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: There's just always something. And so it made it really
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: easy to get fired up. and get a little extra
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: adrenaline for those games, and you're going to need it.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: It's one you do.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: The two teams ahead of you are who you're playing,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: or three, I guess, for that matter. I can't remember
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: exactly the standings now, but if you beat the teams
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: you're playing for the next two weeks, you're going to
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: make big moves overnight over and over again, and that's,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: I think, the best way to look at it is
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: every win for the next 15 games moves you substantially
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: to where you potentially, like if you get hot right now,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: you don't have to worry about the wild card because
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: you can just bypass the teams ahead of you in
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: your own division.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: So it's one.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Winning at the end of the day, it always cures all,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: but no more than, than now it's like, you know,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: just somehow two out of three, if you can sweep
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: somebody even better, but just, just when these series and
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: you're going to gain ground.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: 18 and 10 would be the equivalent of winning two
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: games exactly in each of their final series. So it's, it's,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: it's a hill to climb for sure. Not over yet.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Thanks, everybody, for listening. We'll be
• 37:20
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• 37:24
  Speaker 1: we hear about Mr. Jenkins at any point. But until then,
• 37:28
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• 37:38
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• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Bye-bye.