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Twins bounce back for two important wins in Cleveland · Twin Cities Territory

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Speaker 1: Q the Undertaker Jiff because the Twins are back, baby,
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Speaker 1: back from the dead after we all but buried them
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Speaker 1: on Wednesday show Our Apologies. The Twins win two games
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Speaker 1: in Cleveland to finish with a split in a big
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Speaker 1: divisional series there, and it makes a three and four
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Speaker 1: road trip overall, which Dan on Friday Show we talked
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Speaker 1: about three and Fouri on this trip to start the
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Speaker 1: second half would be kind of the line between good
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Speaker 1: and bad. They finished right on the line, a split
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Speaker 1: in Cleveland, one out of three in Chicago, a four
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Speaker 1: game losing streak that was quite ugly in the middle,
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Speaker 1: but they're back on the right side of things as
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Speaker 1: they head home to Target Field now for home stand
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Speaker 1: against the A's and Royals. This is Twin City's Territory
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Speaker 1: You're Minnesota Twins podcast on the Foul Territory Network. I'm
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Speaker 1: Zach Pierce of the Athletic Joint, as always by Dan Hayes,
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Speaker 1: the Athletics, Minnesota Twins beat writer and Tyler Duffy, longtime
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Speaker 1: Major League former Minnesota Twin. Dan, you were there for
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Speaker 1: all four games. Like I said, we were talking time
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Speaker 1: to sell like this. It's oh really, you know, I
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Speaker 1: think we left the door up in a little bit
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Speaker 1: that it was just, you know, not to overreact to
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Speaker 1: four games, but the Twins certainly were shutting out the
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Speaker 1: noise and got too huge wins the last two days.
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Speaker 2: It was on Wednesday morning, sell sell, sell, get rid
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Speaker 2: of it all, like go everything must go. All those
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Speaker 2: commercials from the eighties like no zero down zero financing, basically,
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Speaker 2: like the Twins heard all that and they just did
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Speaker 2: what they've done all year, which is just you know,
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Speaker 2: not pay attention. I mean, they did a great job.
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Speaker 2: I think I told you guys on Wednesday morning, Tuesday night,
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Speaker 2: after the game, after their fourth straight loss, after thirty
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Speaker 2: four to nine over four games, just non competitive all
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Speaker 2: the way, and the clubhouse was pretty normal. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: like they weren't giddy or anything like that, but that
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Speaker 2: wasn't a normal loss to me. That was like the
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Speaker 2: clubhouse was like just in a good mood and ready
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Speaker 2: to go. And they showed Wednesday, you know, that was
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Speaker 2: a great offensive performance Wednesday to come out and you know,
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Speaker 2: come back and Bailey over was struggling with this delivery
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Speaker 2: and the offense picked him up and scored seven in
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Speaker 2: the middle innings and just took off and Trevor Larna
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Speaker 2: had a massive game, Brooks Lee with the big three
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Speaker 2: and Homer. But then Thursday was the most impressive six
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Speaker 2: Twins pitchers, led by TODJ. Bradley, who went seven and
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Speaker 2: looked great, but six Twins pitchers combined on a three
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Speaker 2: hitter for twelve innings. Cleveland went over seventeen with runners
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Speaker 2: in scoring position. The Twins. The Twins. Yeah, So the
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Speaker 2: Twins based walk off four separate times, nine, tenth, eleventh,
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Speaker 2: and twelve and they stood it down each time. This
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Speaker 2: first time they won the season series in Cleveland. So
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Speaker 2: they won four of six in Cleveland, I believe it is.
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Speaker 2: And for the first time since twenty twenty three, the
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Speaker 2: Twins didn't get walked off in Cleveland. And it was
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Speaker 2: so just out of left field as to who the
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Speaker 2: pitchers were. First it was Bradley, then it was Andrew Morris,
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Speaker 2: then it was Joanris Gomez, but you really didn't know
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Speaker 2: who they were going to turn to at that point.
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Speaker 2: Taylor Rogers came in and was great in the tenth inning,
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Speaker 2: intentionally walked Hose Ramirez with the with the inherited runner
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Speaker 2: and put two guys on just to start getting and
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Speaker 2: breezed through the middle of the order after that, and
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Speaker 2: then you had Tommy Nance come in and shut him
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Speaker 2: down one, two, three, And then you had Jack Anderson.
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Speaker 2: Jack Anderson who got claimed off waivers on July eleventh
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Speaker 2: from Boston, Jack Anderson, who debuted with the Twins on
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Speaker 2: Tuesday night. Jack Anderson became the twelfth pitcher to record
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Speaker 2: a save for the Twins. And by the way, he
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Speaker 2: had never had a major league say before. He had
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Speaker 2: just debuted earlier this year. He had fourteen saves in
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Speaker 2: the minor leagues. But this is a guy that is
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Speaker 2: basically pitching in his biggest, high leverage spot of his
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Speaker 2: entire life, and there was a delay for atential hit batsman.
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Speaker 2: You know, his pitch came close to hitting I think
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Speaker 2: it was Patrick Bailey late, and he ended up walking
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Speaker 2: Patrick Bailey. But there was a delay for about two
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Speaker 2: minutes in the middle of the inning and he had
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Speaker 2: to sit there and sit there and sit there and
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Speaker 2: wear it. He walked Bailey, but then got the next
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Speaker 2: guy weak fly ball left field, and the Twins that
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Speaker 2: was about as improbable a victory because the offense was
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Speaker 2: terrible most of the day Gavin Williams was just unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: He had an immaculate inning in the fourth inning, and
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Speaker 2: they came through right when they needed to. Two out
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Speaker 2: hits in the twelfth by Trevor Larnick, who just continues
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Speaker 2: to be amazing, and Luke Keishaw and the Twins win
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Speaker 2: three to one and escape with a very improbable victory
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Speaker 2: and the most unlikely three and four road trip that
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Speaker 2: I think we could have predicted to. You know, it's
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Speaker 2: one of those ones where you're down two oh and
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Speaker 2: you need a four game split and it just don't
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Speaker 2: expect it. It comes out of nowhere. I mean, if you're Cleveland,
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Speaker 2: how disappointed are you without winning that series? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, complete flip the to Danny. You're mentioning the series
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Speaker 1: win in Cleveland. They won two out of three the
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Speaker 1: last time they were there, so for a seven total
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Speaker 1: for the season. But but that's the last time in Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: unless unless there's a playoff meeting between them, right, But
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Speaker 1: Dan wrote all Dan wrote all about the salvaging of
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Speaker 1: the split for the Twins. Big hit from Alan Road,
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Speaker 1: as we said it was, Wednesday's game was kind of
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Speaker 1: that formula. They used a lot earlier in the season
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Speaker 1: where they had a ton of runs early to help
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Speaker 1: kind of get out in front, and like that that
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Speaker 1: brooks Lee three run homer on Wednesday maybe one of
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Speaker 1: the biggest hits of the season, just because it gave
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Speaker 1: them that game was kind of back and forth at
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Speaker 1: the start, and then that gave them some breathing room
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Speaker 1: to work with. But you you had a great quote
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Speaker 1: Dan in that story from Taylor Rodgers. I'll put it
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Speaker 1: on the screen right now you're watching on YouTube, But
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Speaker 1: he said on Tuesday night, our world was crashing in apparently.
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Speaker 1: I love the apparently, which it feels like a direct
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Speaker 1: reference to those of us who put headlines on their
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Speaker 1: podcast like time to sell question and now we're all
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Speaker 1: feeling good again. This is the natural ebbs and flows
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Speaker 1: of a baseball season. As long as we collectively stay
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Speaker 1: even keel excuse me, that's where we're going to be.
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Speaker 1: There's a little more on that quote as well. You
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Speaker 1: can read that on the Athletic right now. But Tyler,
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Speaker 1: we were talking about this leading into the show before
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Speaker 1: we hit record, like how the narrative, the feeling inside
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Speaker 1: the clubhouse does not always match what we're all talking
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Speaker 1: about out here, right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's sun man. They went to Chicago. They played
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Speaker 3: some tough games, you know, coming out of the break.
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Speaker 3: You get to Cleveland, you win that first game, you know,
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Speaker 3: kind of accept the tone, right, you know, we won
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Speaker 3: game one and then you lose the next two and
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Speaker 3: it's like, you know, in our eyes sitting at home,
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Speaker 3: it's so they're losing, you know, all right, the records here,
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Speaker 3: here's the standings, here's these guys saying these things. And
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Speaker 3: it's a lot of noise, as I referred to when
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Speaker 3: we were talking. But in the locker room, like you're
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Speaker 3: you're kind of protected. You're in a bubble. Like I've said,
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Speaker 3: I've said before, like some guys choose to read everything.
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Speaker 3: Some guys don't. Some guys want to and it doesn't
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Speaker 3: bother them.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 4: Some guys are really invested in it, and.
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Speaker 3: It's you know, the the this clubhouse seems to have
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Speaker 3: a pretty good feel for their own world.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: I've referred to Shelter multiple times of how good he
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Speaker 3: is at you know, checking the pressure on guys and
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Speaker 3: seeing how guys are doing. And I'm sure you know
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Speaker 3: Latroita for that matter, in Pete or checking with their
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Speaker 3: pictures and all the hitting staff. You know, it's it's
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Speaker 3: a it's an environment. You know, you're in the belly
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Speaker 3: of the beast. You know, you go inside those tunnels
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Speaker 3: and it's a different world. You know, it's MLB Networks
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Speaker 3: on TV sometimes or it's not at all. You know, guys,
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Speaker 3: especially in Cleveland, like guys, and they're playing Golden Tea
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Speaker 3: for two hours before the game, like you're, you're doing
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Speaker 3: things to to get yourself ready, to stay relaxed, whatever
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Speaker 3: it is. And clearly these guys aren't worried about it.
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Speaker 3: And a win the biggest thing, a win like yesterday,
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Speaker 3: that getting out of there, winning the season series in Cleveland,
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Speaker 3: like you, I think they took the advantage for the
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Speaker 3: wild card spot if that ends up being a tie,
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Speaker 3: let's say a huge win that that changes so much
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Speaker 3: in the drop of a hat, you know. And it
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Speaker 3: was a twelve inning game. It was a gauntlet of
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Speaker 3: a day game. You're trying to get home. You know,
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Speaker 3: all you want to do is get on that plane
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Speaker 3: to go. I'm sure Dan was ready to leave at
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Speaker 3: some point too, but couldn't. But it was just one
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Speaker 3: of those that's like you're just there and it's like,
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Speaker 3: you know what, boys, we're here. We've been here for
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Speaker 3: three and a half hours, Like we need to win
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Speaker 3: this game. And that game yesterday when they won that
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Speaker 3: any doubt that may have been creeping in that clubhouse
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Speaker 3: was eliminated immediately, and they got on that flight to Minneapolis,
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Speaker 3: got home through their apartments and things like that. They
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Speaker 3: were vibes were high on that plane, you know. And
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Speaker 3: today they're going to show up ready to do it again.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's six out of ten wins against Cleveland so far season.
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Speaker 1: They will play them again in September at Target Field,
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Speaker 1: three game sets. So if Twins win just one of
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Speaker 1: those three games, they would clinch the season series against
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Speaker 1: a team that through chasing in the Central it might
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Speaker 1: be a very crucial tiebreaker. But I like Taylor Rodgers
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Speaker 1: obviously so right about the ebbs and flows of the season.
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Speaker 1: I mean, even if the Twins had been swept in Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: it's not over. Like we thought the Red Sox were
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Speaker 1: done and buried, and then they just reel off fifteen
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Speaker 1: straight wins. So like they've got the A's Kansas City
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Speaker 1: twice in the next four series, Like there's a chance
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Speaker 1: to reel off some victories, and you know, it is
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Speaker 1: a long season, but the fact that they were able
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Speaker 1: to bounce back pretty impressive and also a good sign
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Speaker 1: that a big part of that four game losing streak,
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Speaker 1: and even even Wednesday they didn't get you know, a
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Speaker 1: sparkling outing from Bailey over but the starting pitching came
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Speaker 1: back around on Thursday. Toads, Bradley was fantastic, went toe
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Speaker 1: to toe with Gavin Williams, just made the one mistake
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Speaker 1: to Patrick Bailey. But seven innings, five struck hit one
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Speaker 1: hundred a couple of times that I saw anyway, Now
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Speaker 1: he looked like he was he was back in his
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Speaker 1: top form.
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Speaker 2: He was not nibbling, he was going at guys. You know,
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Speaker 2: Like afterwards, Ryan Jeffers said he felt like it was
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Speaker 2: like ten strikeouts. It was only five. He's like, but
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Speaker 2: for Cleveland, that's a ton. But this, like, look, I
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Speaker 2: don't know if we can emphasize enough that this is
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Speaker 2: the Twins' house of horrors. You know, it's funny Taylor's
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Speaker 2: talking about even Keel and we're not over the moon
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Speaker 2: in that quote, even though this was a big win,
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Speaker 2: and it's like, Okay, Taylor, I can appreciate that, but
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Speaker 2: you weren't here for most of twenty twenty one to
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. You missed that ten walk offs in
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Speaker 2: ten walk offs in those five seasons, and twenty three
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Speaker 2: is the only one where they didn't. Twenty one is
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Speaker 2: the last time the Twins won the series in Cleveland
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Speaker 2: that year. I think they won like six out of
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Speaker 2: ten in that But there have been a walk up
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Speaker 2: and what I said in the story was that doesn't
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Speaker 2: count games where Cleveland went ahead into eighth and then
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Speaker 2: handed the ball to Class And there have been many,
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Speaker 2: many of those. I mean, this has been their you know,
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Speaker 2: the bane of their existence. And it was fun talking
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Speaker 2: to Trevor Larnick about it because he said, I've had
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Speaker 2: a lot of bad experiences here, and I'm sitting there
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Speaker 2: going in my head, yeah, Trevor, me too. I've been
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Speaker 2: here for most of these and He's like, it was
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Speaker 2: nice not to get walked off, and I'm sitting there going,
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Speaker 2: it was nice not to have to rewrite again for
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Speaker 2: the thirtieth time in five years.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're all really worried about.
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Speaker 2: Dan Is. Yeah, it's funny when when work no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: it is funny that their experience mine has mirrored them
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Speaker 2: because I'm covering this team and so when they have
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Speaker 2: the same exact game play out over and over and
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Speaker 2: over in Cleveland. I mean in twenty twenty two, Duffy,
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Speaker 2: you remember that series, It was the Wes Johnson Leave series.
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Speaker 2: You guys got walked off two or three times in
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Speaker 2: that series. Tyler Thornberg was pitching on you guys split
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Speaker 2: to end a four game series and he threw Tyler
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Speaker 2: thorn gave it a three run bomb. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 2: it was I think it was Jimenez. I think it
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Speaker 2: was Jimenez to hit the three run bomb to walk off,
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Speaker 2: walk it off. But there are so many moments like
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Speaker 2: that in all the years. And Taj Bradley stepped up
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Speaker 2: and delivered, and yeah, he was gonna he walked off
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Speaker 2: trailing one nothing. He was so good. Gavin Williams was
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Speaker 2: immaculate for whatever reason. Gavin Williams is great against the Twins.
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Speaker 2: And and you're going into eight then and going, oh man,
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Speaker 2: just because he's good.
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Speaker 4: He's pretty good against the field.
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Speaker 2: He's he's been inconsistent and and uh so like he
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Speaker 2: basically like you know, he he's been really good against
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Speaker 2: the Twins. But he has a three sixty e r
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Speaker 2: A in July and somehow that's with facing the Twins
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Speaker 2: and kill them twice. So you know that there's been
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Speaker 2: some there's been some rough ounds in there, but you know,
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Speaker 2: like you're going into the eighth inning and you know
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Speaker 2: that Gaddis and cade Smith are coming and it's like, oh,
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Speaker 2: Prince repeat one nothing. You think it's just gonna be
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Speaker 2: a one nothing moss and that probably is better than
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Speaker 2: losing on a walk off yet again. But then Alan
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Speaker 2: Roaden came through with just the biggest pinch hit and
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Speaker 2: off Cad Smith just ripped a fastball in the middle.
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Speaker 2: And you know he's not hitting a ton overall, but uh,
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Speaker 2: he's hitting like two fourteen. But he's had some big
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Speaker 2: moments for them. He got on based five times on
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Speaker 2: Wednesday night. Three were by error, even though one or
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Speaker 2: two of those might get changed to hits. You know,
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Speaker 2: he like he's he's had some moments like but like
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Speaker 2: just for them to escape Cleveland their personal house of horrors,
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Speaker 2: and I've seen it before. The Padre's house of horrors
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Speaker 2: was Corusfield. You know, you just go someplace and you
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Speaker 2: know it's gonna be bad for you base yeah, or
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Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium is sometimes after the Twins. Obviously that's unquestionably
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Speaker 2: that too, But this is their local one in Cleveland,
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Speaker 2: and Cleveland just owns them. They have that guardian magic
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Speaker 2: that just keeps happening, and you're like, you're stunned when
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Speaker 2: it doesn't.
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Speaker 1: We'll take a break, we'll come back, we'll talk a
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Speaker 1: little more about the winds, we'll talk about what the
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Speaker 1: Twins should do. Now are we buyers again? And we'll
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Speaker 1: look ahead to the weekend when we come back.
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Speaker 1: came back. Hamante Bone, by the way, look great, Kevin
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Speaker 1: Williams was unhittable, and the Twins still won both games.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it doesn't make a lot of sense, but here
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Speaker 1: they are fifty one and fifty three, still hanging out
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Speaker 1: in the American League Central, four and a half back
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Speaker 1: now and three back of Cleveland in second place, and
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Speaker 1: still outside the Wildcard picture as well. The Red Sox
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Speaker 1: have lost finally, but they also won on the same
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Speaker 1: day they lost because it was a double header. But
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Speaker 1: Twins two and a half back there in the Wildcard
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Speaker 1: some winnable games coming up. We'll get to that in
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Speaker 1: a second. The question that will continue to hang over
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Speaker 1: this team for another week plus though, is what to
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Speaker 1: do at the trade deadline. We were pretty convinced it
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Speaker 1: was time to sell on Wednesday, and now we've updated
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Speaker 1: it to are we back around the other way? And
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Speaker 1: are they buyers? And Dan, what's your what do you
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Speaker 1: do with this team right now?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great question, your question.
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Speaker 2: I think the thing I said all along was this
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Speaker 2: will really be determined by what happens in the next
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Speaker 2: six games. Like it's really they're going to figure out
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Speaker 2: what they're going to do going like into that Seattle trip.
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Speaker 2: That's when things pick up. Really is they get to
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Speaker 2: Seattle next Friday morning, the deadlines on Monday. That's when
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Speaker 2: everything's going to occur Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Because
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Speaker 2: that's what happened last year. It always happens about three
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Speaker 2: to four days before the deadline, when when the Twins
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Speaker 2: were going through it last year. You know, they came
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Speaker 2: out of the break with the just absolute doud of
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Speaker 2: a trip. Chris Pattock gave up four runs to the
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Speaker 2: first four batters in Colorado to start the second half,
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Speaker 2: and they lost two of three in Denver. Then they
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Speaker 2: lost two of three in LA But they had a
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Speaker 2: shot to win the finale and win two of three
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Speaker 2: and Griffin Jacks had a meltdown and Harrison Bader couldn't
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Speaker 2: come up with Will Smith line drive to left field
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Speaker 2: and they got walked off by the Dodgers. They could
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Speaker 2: have put that trip and gone three and three and
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Speaker 2: come home and played well. And the thing was that
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Speaker 2: they came home and they played terrible. They've lost the
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Speaker 2: series to the Nationals. And that was like the last gasp,
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Speaker 2: right was those were the three days before the week
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Speaker 2: leading up to the deadline, and that's when the plug
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Speaker 2: was pulled. So really everything will be determined based off
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Speaker 2: of these six games against the Athletics and then Kansas City.
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Speaker 2: In Kansas City, it's good timing. Bobby Witt is on
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Speaker 2: the aisle with a back injury. It's been something that's
18:33
Speaker 2: bugging him for a while. Finally he just had to
18:37
Speaker 2: go and that happened this week, so he will not
18:39
Speaker 2: participate in that series. The Twins need to win. Yeah,
18:43
Speaker 2: they're very upset about that that they won't be playing
18:46
Speaker 2: Bobby Witt. But you gotta win four of six. Maybe
18:51
Speaker 2: you should win five of six. You need to put
18:54
Speaker 2: yourself in position because right now Cleveland goes to Tampa
18:57
Speaker 2: Bay and you got to catch up to them, and
19:00
Speaker 2: this is your shot with the A's first. And I mean,
19:02
Speaker 2: these are two terrible teams come to town. The one
19:05
Speaker 2: thing I like about this Twins team is they're not
19:07
Speaker 2: the type of team that takes anybody for granted. You know,
19:09
Speaker 2: this is not a group that like, they don't sit
19:12
Speaker 2: back and go, we should just beat this team. Because
19:14
Speaker 2: they're underdogs, they know it themselves. They can't just rely
19:17
Speaker 2: on that. So this is the kind of series where
19:19
Speaker 2: you need to see the offense slug slug slug and
19:24
Speaker 2: keep going. I mean, look, I think they should take
19:28
Speaker 2: advantage of these series, and they will, So I'm leaning
19:31
Speaker 2: towards buying again, but I think it's going to be
19:33
Speaker 2: a mid buy and sell. I think they're gonna try
19:35
Speaker 2: and trade off the major league roster and stuff. I
19:37
Speaker 2: want to know what you think about that in a second.
19:39
Speaker 2: But if you, I don't know, that would be Trevor Larnick.
19:42
Speaker 2: That would be very disappointing, just because the clutch moments
19:47
Speaker 2: he continues to stack up. But could I see a
19:49
Speaker 2: world where they trade Trevor Larnock for pitching help and
19:52
Speaker 2: then bring up Walker Jenkins, Yeah, I could. Or maybe
19:55
Speaker 2: maybe they figure out a way to maybe Kylen Culpepper's
19:59
Speaker 2: the next guy. But I don't see both rookies coming
20:01
Speaker 2: up at once. But I think it's one or the
20:04
Speaker 2: other to like, I just think you nurse one or
20:07
Speaker 2: the other the rest of the way. But it wouldn't
20:09
Speaker 2: shock me if Trevor Larnak had enough value that they
20:11
Speaker 2: went out and traded him and get, you know, go
20:15
Speaker 2: with Jenkins and get some pitching help. So I don't know,
20:18
Speaker 2: it's I'm leaning towards By, but it's really not gonna
20:22
Speaker 2: be decided for another week. In fact, we have three
20:24
Speaker 2: more shows before they're really gonna make their decision.
20:29
Speaker 1: Tyler was your gut ad right now?
20:31
Speaker 2: I don't know.
20:32
Speaker 3: I mean, I've said it before. I think the guys
20:35
Speaker 3: we have in house are obviously good enough to be
20:39
Speaker 3: where we are, like they've gotten us to this point,
20:42
Speaker 3: you know, from the ashes of the beginning of spring
20:44
Speaker 3: when they were going to lose one hundred and sixty
20:46
Speaker 3: two games. You know, I think the prospects that are
20:51
Speaker 3: in Triple A, like the saying goes or you know
20:56
Speaker 3: Snell has said up before Koln guy's slap sticks. It's
21:00
Speaker 3: prospects are prospects until they're not. And once you call
21:04
Speaker 3: them up and they say they don't pan out, well
21:06
Speaker 3: they're they're gone, you know. And it seems like there's
21:09
Speaker 3: a few guys there that are they're not sure on
21:11
Speaker 3: who's gonna come up yet or not. You know, Larnick
21:14
Speaker 3: has been kind of a table setter at times to
21:17
Speaker 3: Dan's point, which would be it'd be so weird for
21:19
Speaker 3: me to see him in another uniform, you know, But
21:22
Speaker 3: he's a West Coast guy. You know, he maybe wants
21:24
Speaker 3: to go there, maybe he's okay with it, like who
21:26
Speaker 3: knows what conversations have been had or not for that matter.
21:30
Speaker 3: It's it's one it's just hard for me to imagine
21:33
Speaker 3: them not at least trying. I won't say they'll be buyers,
21:38
Speaker 3: but they can't give up on this season. At this point,
21:42
Speaker 3: you are within one seat. You're gonna sweep of the
21:45
Speaker 3: White Sox, I guess, and you're even with him if
21:47
Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, three or four games.
21:50
Speaker 4: So like you, you get hot.
21:51
Speaker 3: We haven't even played the White Sox early this year,
21:54
Speaker 3: so you've just got to beat them more than you
21:56
Speaker 3: lose to them. And you take the lead at this point,
21:59
Speaker 3: and so it's like you can't especially as a player.
22:02
Speaker 3: You're in there, like all right, we're doing our job,
22:04
Speaker 3: like we're we're here, we're in the mix. We're having
22:07
Speaker 3: these conversations right here about what to do because we
22:09
Speaker 3: are relevant, and I think the guys are confident. I
22:12
Speaker 3: think the team is in a great spot, you know.
22:15
Speaker 3: And I keep saying it. It's it's not going to
22:17
Speaker 3: take a major move.
22:19
Speaker 2: Now.
22:19
Speaker 3: If a team calls you with a guy that you
22:21
Speaker 3: weren't expecting to be handed and you make a move
22:24
Speaker 3: for that, so be it. I think as a player,
22:28
Speaker 3: you want your move, whatever it is, to make the
22:30
Speaker 3: team better. You want to feel like you got better,
22:32
Speaker 3: you know, even if that means giving up a major
22:34
Speaker 3: league guy, whether it's a Larnic or like I've referred
22:37
Speaker 3: to Jeffers or the one of the three catchers we have.
22:40
Speaker 3: You know, move a catcher, a big league ready catcher
22:43
Speaker 3: for a guy, your team still gets better. You're not
22:45
Speaker 3: really you know, cutting the rug from under yourself. You know,
22:48
Speaker 3: there's moves to be made without giving up too much
22:53
Speaker 3: as as far as the team goes. You know, you
22:55
Speaker 3: got to you want to stay competitive. You can't, you know,
22:58
Speaker 3: like Joe Ryan's one. I if they give a Joe
23:00
Speaker 3: Ryan for anybody, you might as well just call it
23:03
Speaker 3: a year and see it spring training, regardless of who
23:05
Speaker 3: you get.
23:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, because literally, like it.
23:08
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter who you get. You took your ace out
23:10
Speaker 4: of the hole and threw him to another team.
23:12
Speaker 3: And so it's just you can't if they make any
23:14
Speaker 3: move like that, like, regardless of what is being said,
23:17
Speaker 3: they're given up. But if you make a move for
23:19
Speaker 3: a big league ready guy, maybe move a one of
23:22
Speaker 3: your top tens, Like I don't know the whole list.
23:24
Speaker 4: You know, Dan would know better than I.
23:26
Speaker 3: And that's one Honestly, those cool packets, you know, I
23:29
Speaker 3: don't know if this is inside intel kind of, but
23:31
Speaker 3: like the little packets they put out for us inside
23:34
Speaker 3: the clubhouse. Sometimes it's got all the media stuff in it,
23:37
Speaker 3: and then it'll have like every minor league affiliate things
23:40
Speaker 3: like that. So like this time of year, it's fun
23:42
Speaker 3: to go peek through those and say, like, all right,
23:44
Speaker 3: who's this kid hitting four fifty? You know, it's there's
23:47
Speaker 3: always some that someone that pops up. And then the
23:50
Speaker 3: best is it'll be a guy who's tearing the cover
23:52
Speaker 3: off the ball and he's just like a non prospect.
23:54
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, it's not gonna be him, and you're like, well,
23:56
Speaker 3: why can't it be him?
23:58
Speaker 2: So it's it's a.
24:00
Speaker 1: Did you see the number four?
24:01
Speaker 2: Here?
24:01
Speaker 4: Look at this number, Look at it. It's right here. No,
24:05
Speaker 4: it's the one.
24:06
Speaker 3: I will never be a GM because they know much
24:08
Speaker 3: better than I had to run a baseball team. But yeah,
24:10
Speaker 3: it's it's always a fun time of year, though, trade deadline,
24:13
Speaker 3: because you wake up and something crazy happen.
24:16
Speaker 2: You know what. It's crazy crazy that Cleveland just took
24:20
Speaker 2: its third straight l.
24:22
Speaker 1: Yes, breaking news. I was just going to say, the
24:25
Speaker 1: NBA can make the schedule now, Oh, Lebron to the Sixers. Sorry,
24:30
Speaker 1: Timberwolves fans.
24:32
Speaker 4: It officially official.
24:33
Speaker 1: It's official. He's announced it.
24:36
Speaker 2: Eight million, two years million total love it love love
24:41
Speaker 2: see this dude who's probably in the top twenty five
24:43
Speaker 2: players still in the NBA. It's probably like right outside
24:46
Speaker 2: that top two tiers, but he's still a difference maker,
24:49
Speaker 2: and he's gonna make four million a year to join
24:51
Speaker 2: a team and win a championship. But two years and
24:53
Speaker 2: eight million, so he's playing for two more years. That's
24:56
Speaker 2: two years of sixers on Christmas.
24:58
Speaker 1: Day and every other national of the year coming. It's
25:06
Speaker 1: very we'll get back to baseball here now. It's very
25:10
Speaker 1: easy to look at what's right in front of you
25:11
Speaker 1: and think this is the biggest deal. We The Chicago
25:14
Speaker 1: Cleveland swing to start the second half felt like a
25:17
Speaker 1: telltale stretch, but actually it might be this one because
25:19
Speaker 1: they are playing two very bad teams right before the
25:22
Speaker 1: trade deadline, Like you should do well, and if you do,
25:27
Speaker 1: by the time the trade deadline comes around, this team
25:29
Speaker 1: could conceivably be back in a wild card spot. Seattle
25:33
Speaker 1: is ahead of them in the standings and they play
25:34
Speaker 1: them right before the deadline, so that's a big series too.
25:37
Speaker 1: But if they don't play well against bad teams, which
25:40
Speaker 1: they haven't this year. I think it was seventeen and
25:44
Speaker 1: nineteen in the first half against teams that finished the
25:47
Speaker 1: first half five games under five hundred or worse, which
25:50
Speaker 1: the A's and Royals both are. So Yeah, to Dan's point,
25:55
Speaker 1: obviously four out of six, for sure you would hope for,
25:58
Speaker 1: and really five would be indicative of a team trying
26:02
Speaker 1: to try to make a push, just win.
26:05
Speaker 2: They Kansas City series in June. Remember Kansas City came
26:09
Speaker 2: in and took three of four in early June. You
26:12
Speaker 2: got to remember that and and puint those box scores
26:15
Speaker 2: up every day and remind guys they had that one.
26:18
Speaker 2: They were gonna win the series or they were gonna
26:20
Speaker 2: win this finale and split the series. And they took
26:23
Speaker 2: the lead and uh Rcia hit the home run in
26:26
Speaker 2: the bottom of the eighth, and then the bullpen came
26:29
Speaker 2: in and blew it in the bottom of the ninth
26:30
Speaker 2: and they are in the top of the ninth and
26:32
Speaker 2: they lost three. Two gotta win. But that you know what,
26:35
Speaker 2: that's I do think that that Cleveland Kansas or Cleveland
26:38
Speaker 2: Chicago was huge because those are two really good teams
26:42
Speaker 2: and it's a meat grinder to start the second half
26:44
Speaker 2: when guys are just getting back from relaxing, guys are
26:47
Speaker 2: just trying to get fired up again after a four
26:49
Speaker 2: day break to go three and four. There was sort
26:51
Speaker 2: of like a placeholder, like get through this and don't
26:54
Speaker 2: just don't let it be a disaster. And on Tuesday
26:57
Speaker 2: it was looking like it was gonna be an absolute
26:59
Speaker 2: disaster at one and four, and to get there and
27:02
Speaker 2: get three and four and just get through that portion
27:06
Speaker 2: of that difficult portion of the schedule to this meaty, juicy
27:09
Speaker 2: part of the schedule. These teams are playing terrible and
27:14
Speaker 2: but you just can't let down. I mean, look, Hawk
27:16
Speaker 2: Harrelson said, every team wins sixty, every team loses sixty,
27:19
Speaker 2: and it's what you do with the games in between
27:21
Speaker 2: that determines everything. So these teams can win games. They
27:26
Speaker 2: are capable. They have major league talent. The Athletics have
27:30
Speaker 2: nice hitters, Yeah they are they are.
27:34
Speaker 1: Twins also lost two of three in Kansas City at
27:37
Speaker 1: the very beginning of the season.
27:38
Speaker 4: So no, no, Bobby is going to be tough for
27:41
Speaker 4: those guys.
27:42
Speaker 1: That is helpful.
27:44
Speaker 4: Is a special talent the Twins.
27:46
Speaker 1: Yes, relative good luck missing important players on the other team.
27:52
Speaker 3: We need to go back in the tail to tape.
27:55
Speaker 3: Look at all the all stars that have missed the
27:57
Speaker 3: series against.
27:59
Speaker 2: Pictures Spirit for that time that they won this series
28:03
Speaker 2: at Yankee Stadium. He was there. He was standing on
28:06
Speaker 2: the top row. There you go. Uh, we'll take on
28:09
Speaker 2: a real quick break.
28:09
Speaker 1: Come back, talk a little more about what's ahead for
28:11
Speaker 1: the Twins after this.
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Speaker 1: The Twins had some injury news and notes over the
29:51
Speaker 1: week as well. Byron Buxton came back off the the IL.
29:55
Speaker 1: I always have to pause and make sure I say
29:57
Speaker 1: IL these days they list anymore, you cannot understandably so
30:04
Speaker 1: and Connor Preli looks like he's close. Also Victor Karattini
30:07
Speaker 1: followed ball off his knee, which I did that twice
30:11
Speaker 1: in my life and was on consecutive pitches. Somehow, it
30:14
Speaker 1: doesn't That does not feel good, Dan, what's the latest
30:16
Speaker 1: on on some of these these injuries here?
30:20
Speaker 2: Let's go with KROTENI. I think that's the one that's
30:22
Speaker 2: really important, just because he fouled it off his knee cap.
30:26
Speaker 2: He looked like he had shot himself. It looked like
30:29
Speaker 2: incredible pain. He could hear it.
30:31
Speaker 1: He could hear him hollering.
30:33
Speaker 2: Yeah it was it was million mics they do. And
30:39
Speaker 2: so he walked off under like with the help of
30:41
Speaker 2: the trainers. He was better that night. Did an X ray,
30:44
Speaker 2: you know, X ray was negative, which always a reminder.
30:47
Speaker 2: X ray being negative is good. He uh, he was
30:52
Speaker 2: better in the clubhouse, but they weren't going to catch
30:54
Speaker 2: him on Thursday. I don't think they're gonna catch him
30:57
Speaker 2: on Friday. Might see him in the field. Almost got
30:59
Speaker 2: him in the game late on Thursday in that twelfth inning.
31:03
Speaker 2: He was like emergency and I think he was okay
31:06
Speaker 2: to go, but they're gonna You know, the reason why
31:09
Speaker 2: that's actually like important is they need him to get
31:12
Speaker 2: back there as soon as they can. Because Ryan Jeffers workload,
31:15
Speaker 2: they are still monitoring that closely with his left hand
31:18
Speaker 2: with after the hamate bone. He basically, by the way,
31:23
Speaker 2: I love how we've adopted Hamante bone, and there are
31:25
Speaker 2: people on social media who refer to it in the
31:28
Speaker 2: dimensions too, but he basically they're not gonna play Jeffers
31:35
Speaker 2: behind the plate every day. They they've got a monitory.
31:38
Speaker 2: They said, look that he's handling it well, and we've
31:42
Speaker 2: seen it. His power has been back. He's got two homers,
31:44
Speaker 2: he's got doubles since he's been back. He's hitting well,
31:46
Speaker 2: but the workload's still like it's taken nerves time to
31:51
Speaker 2: readjust and like there's just no longer a bone there
31:54
Speaker 2: and so the whole area and you see Ryan all
31:57
Speaker 2: the time with an ice pack, a huge ice pack
31:59
Speaker 2: on that rich after games. It's something that he won't
32:02
Speaker 2: catch every day, like like Shelton said, he won't be
32:05
Speaker 2: ready probably for five months after when they originally happened,
32:10
Speaker 2: that was on May eighteenth, So we're talking about into
32:14
Speaker 2: the offseason where he will be not at full strength.
32:16
Speaker 2: So they're just gonna have to kind of monitor him well.
32:18
Speaker 2: Jeffers is supposed to catch Friday night. He caught all
32:21
Speaker 2: twelve names Thursday. It's gonna be the first time they
32:23
Speaker 2: put him back to back, but they weren't not gonna
32:25
Speaker 2: catch him on Saturday. So it's either gonna be Caroteni's
32:28
Speaker 2: back and ready or they go to Alex Shackson. Which
32:32
Speaker 2: it is good to have three catchers on the roster,
32:34
Speaker 2: especially right now, you know, but the drop off is
32:38
Speaker 2: definitely that, you know, KROTENI is the more experienced game caller,
32:42
Speaker 2: and like that's even on the challenges. Kroten is the
32:46
Speaker 2: better option on abs challenges, So you'd like to have
32:50
Speaker 2: him back there. I think it's trending in the right direction.
32:53
Speaker 2: Connor Prelip. He threw on Sunday. He pitched maybe it
32:58
Speaker 2: was Saturday at Triple A. Three innings, three strikeouts. Looked good,
33:03
Speaker 2: all reports were good. The Twins felt like it was
33:05
Speaker 2: so good they wanted to actually see him. This is
33:07
Speaker 2: so strange. They flew him to Cleveland to check out
33:10
Speaker 2: his blister and have him throw his bullpen in front
33:13
Speaker 2: of Pete McKee in Cleveland, even though the team is
33:15
Speaker 2: returning home because they wanted to see so he came
33:18
Speaker 2: in on Wednesday. He threw his bullpen Thursday morning in
33:22
Speaker 2: front of Mackie. It sounded like he showed Nick Popparest,
33:27
Speaker 2: the Twins head athletic trainer, the blister. I only asked
33:31
Speaker 2: Connor and I didn't ask Shelton. But the assumption was
33:34
Speaker 2: that if everything went well, that it was going to
33:36
Speaker 2: be potentially prelip on Saturday, slotting into the rotation. And
33:41
Speaker 2: after the game Connor said everything went good. So based
33:44
Speaker 2: off of what the pitcher himself said, not a team official,
33:47
Speaker 2: I think we'll see Connor prelip on Saturday. So you know,
33:52
Speaker 2: like those two are critical. Cole Sands through a scoreless
33:56
Speaker 2: inning Thursday at Saint Paul. That's the second time in
34:00
Speaker 2: three days that he pitched. That's a huge hurdle for him.
34:02
Speaker 2: He threw two innings over the weekend, struck out three
34:05
Speaker 2: in that so his last four innings he's gone four scoreless.
34:08
Speaker 2: I think he went five scoreless all in all in
34:10
Speaker 2: this rehab. We could see him soon. That would be
34:13
Speaker 2: a nice development for the bullpen, just to get another arm.
34:16
Speaker 2: And you mentioned Bucks and Bucks had played in three
34:19
Speaker 2: or four. The day off Wednesday was planned. That was
34:22
Speaker 2: always going to be the case they weren't gonna play
34:23
Speaker 2: him all four games. I think we'll see him Friday night.
34:26
Speaker 2: He seemed to be in very good spirits come out
34:29
Speaker 2: of it. Like you can tell he's not going you
34:31
Speaker 2: can tell he's still tentative on that running, but he
34:35
Speaker 2: is not like he's not going full out buck. But
34:38
Speaker 2: at the same time, I didn't see anything that made
34:40
Speaker 2: was concerning during that series that that you go, oh man,
34:44
Speaker 2: that that doesn't look like he's healed. It's hard to tell.
34:48
Speaker 2: He's you know, he's good at masking these things. Sometimes
34:50
Speaker 2: I'm playing through stuff. Bucks a warrior, so but so far,
34:55
Speaker 2: so good. He played all twelve innings on Thursday, and
34:59
Speaker 2: you know, that's basically it on the injury front that
35:03
Speaker 2: can think of. But it does worth watching.
35:08
Speaker 1: It's another factor in both their hopes for the season
35:11
Speaker 1: and just the trade deadline plans. Tyler that there's uh,
35:14
Speaker 1: there's still some health to be gained from from some players,
35:17
Speaker 1: hopefully coming back to full strength soon.
35:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, plugging pre look back in.
35:22
Speaker 3: Obviously, the workload has been the talk all year, but
35:26
Speaker 3: this has kind of been a built in break, whether
35:28
Speaker 3: it was, you know.
35:30
Speaker 4: Good for the team or not.
35:31
Speaker 3: He got a break out of it some time off,
35:34
Speaker 3: you know, some shorter outings to kind of ramp back
35:37
Speaker 3: up and all those things. So, uh, without taking too
35:40
Speaker 3: big a hit while he's been gone, like he's about
35:43
Speaker 3: to come back.
35:44
Speaker 2: You know.
35:44
Speaker 3: Cole Sands is a guy that's thrown the ninth if
35:46
Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken in the past, and so like that's
35:49
Speaker 3: an arm that's been in leverage.
35:51
Speaker 4: He's got stuff.
35:53
Speaker 3: You know, it's a new piece to to add to
35:55
Speaker 3: the deck, so to speak. And you know it does
35:58
Speaker 3: create moves on the other end, so the roster's got
36:00
Speaker 3: to change a little bit.
36:02
Speaker 4: So you'd be interested to see what those are.
36:06
Speaker 3: You know, sometimes those are conversations like in Triple A,
36:08
Speaker 3: I've been there, you know, when it happens and it's
36:10
Speaker 3: like trade deadline comes around and it's hey, you know,
36:13
Speaker 3: keep these guys out of the game. You know, you
36:15
Speaker 3: see tweets about it all the time. It's like so
36:18
Speaker 3: and so's not in the lineup today and the whole
36:19
Speaker 3: world's on fire kind of thing waiting for it, and
36:22
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, it's just a day off, you know whatever,
36:24
Speaker 3: But it's definitely good news to you know, especially he's
36:29
Speaker 3: he's been so fun to watch kind of figure it
36:32
Speaker 3: out on the fly, and they've had to be so
36:35
Speaker 3: careful with him.
36:36
Speaker 4: It's, you know, a testament to him.
36:37
Speaker 3: He forced their hand and it's like, hey, I'm here
36:39
Speaker 3: to stay, so y'all got to figure out how to
36:41
Speaker 3: handle me, you know. And and fortunately I think he
36:45
Speaker 3: got this little break. You know, obviously you don't ever.
36:47
Speaker 4: Want to go on the d L.
36:48
Speaker 2: Sorry I L.
36:50
Speaker 3: But you know he's he comes back guns blazing like
36:54
Speaker 3: he was before he went down. That's a huge piece
36:56
Speaker 3: to add into that mix. Whether you piggyback them things
36:59
Speaker 3: like that. It's it's moves like we've talked about trying
37:03
Speaker 3: to make a move without getting rid of people. Well,
37:05
Speaker 3: these are the ones that can happen, you know, and
37:07
Speaker 3: it unintentionally, but you get two arms that are big
37:10
Speaker 3: league ready back and then that that piece that you
37:13
Speaker 3: need now is maybe a little smaller than making a
37:16
Speaker 3: big splash.
37:17
Speaker 4: So it's it's when it can change overnight.
37:19
Speaker 2: You know.
37:19
Speaker 4: Krotene's knee hurts like it's crazy. Things happen.
37:23
Speaker 3: You know, somebody can step out of bed and roll
37:25
Speaker 3: an ankle today. You know, it's just it's it's the
37:27
Speaker 3: craziest time of year and it's so fun though. That's
37:29
Speaker 3: why baseball is so crazy, because it's you play one
37:32
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty two games, but this week matters more
37:34
Speaker 3: than anything else at this point.
37:36
Speaker 4: So it's just like, you know, it's truly, Uh, it's
37:39
Speaker 4: the best.
37:39
Speaker 3: You know, best time of year all start game and
37:41
Speaker 3: then to break it's a you know, trade deadline comes.
37:44
Speaker 4: It's it's a lot of fun.
37:45
Speaker 2: Hey, duff, you said col Sans has pitched to nine. Dude,
37:49
Speaker 2: everybody's pitched the ninth for this team, every single the list.
37:55
Speaker 2: By the way, let's do a shout out to Alex Jackson.
37:57
Speaker 2: Did we do this? Did we tell them that? Do
37:59
Speaker 2: we tell that the other day? Alex Jackson just prevented
38:02
Speaker 2: them from being the first team or the Cleveland when
38:07
Speaker 2: they were scoring. They scored seven straight innings there night.
38:10
Speaker 2: Alex Jackson pitched that scoreless eighth Yes, stop, did we
38:16
Speaker 2: mention this, did we say Alex Jackson? We probably did,
38:22
Speaker 2: and we were just so Yeah, Alex Jackson pitched that
38:27
Speaker 2: ninth or eighth inning and shut down and prevented Cleveland
38:31
Speaker 2: from being the twenty second team all time to score
38:34
Speaker 2: in every inning that it hit. Had they done it,
38:37
Speaker 2: it's eight or nine innings. It counts for both Cleveland
38:42
Speaker 2: would have in that game against the Joe Ryan game.
38:44
Speaker 2: Maybe that was Monday night, but yeah, yes, so but anyways, yeah,
38:50
Speaker 2: Cole Sands, that would be a big addition. But I mean, hey,
38:53
Speaker 2: Jack Anderson is pitching the twelfth, which is essentially is
38:56
Speaker 2: the ninth yesterday, So like everybody.
38:59
Speaker 3: Things are the same him. Talk to the people. Every
39:02
Speaker 3: inning's the same, that's right. And we can't forget we
39:06
Speaker 3: got Clemmons on the bench.
39:07
Speaker 2: We need an arm.
39:08
Speaker 4: He's punched out on Tommy, so oh yeah, yeah, we
39:11
Speaker 4: really need somebody.
39:11
Speaker 2: We got one there, we go.
39:13
Speaker 1: You can bring it back Astidio too if we need,
39:16
Speaker 1: you know, some spot work.
39:20
Speaker 2: Up next.
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Speaker 1: The Nomadic A's come to target Field, uh Friday, Saturday,
39:25
Speaker 1: Sunday seven ten start tonight six ten on Saturday, one
39:29
Speaker 1: ten in the afternoon on Sunday Zebbie Matthews against Jacob Lopez.
39:33
Speaker 1: Tonight Sunday is Joe Ryan and Jeffrey Springs. Saturday has
39:37
Speaker 1: no pitchers listed, so Conterprierlip maybe maybe they'll just set
39:40
Speaker 1: a t out there. I don't know what the plan is,
39:42
Speaker 1: but Lopez and Springs both some pretty fat eras on
39:46
Speaker 1: those two. Obviously, the A's have been struggling all year,
39:50
Speaker 1: uh an opportunity that they really need to take advantage of.
39:53
Speaker 2: Dan The A's are three and thirteen in July, they
39:57
Speaker 2: have been out scored one twenty one to sixty four,
40:00
Speaker 2: so it is time for the offense. Zebi Matthews has
40:02
Speaker 2: struggled a little bit lately. Time for Zebbie Matthews to
40:05
Speaker 2: just get right. But that can just be seven innings,
40:09
Speaker 2: four runs. He would help out the bullpen on a
40:11
Speaker 2: big give them a big lift. And the way you
40:14
Speaker 2: can do that is by scoring a ton yourself and
40:17
Speaker 2: given Zebie Matthews some cushion. So a nice twelve to
40:20
Speaker 2: four victory Friday would really set them up well for
40:22
Speaker 2: the weekend because that bullpen, even though most guys were
40:26
Speaker 2: one inning, they got the victory of the night before
40:28
Speaker 2: and so guys had to pitch in that. So you
40:31
Speaker 2: want to keep the usage as low as you can
40:34
Speaker 2: on Friday. This is a key one for them because
40:37
Speaker 2: if you can give you your key guys, if you
40:39
Speaker 2: can give Morrison Gomez an extra day like we very
40:42
Speaker 2: mail very well, may see like if it was a
40:46
Speaker 2: close game, Tommy Nance and Jack Anderson pitching again in
40:50
Speaker 2: the eighth and ninth innings on Friday, just because Gomez
40:53
Speaker 2: and Morris both pitched two days back to back in Cleveland.
40:56
Speaker 2: So offense, you know, offense take advantage this as team
41:01
Speaker 2: is averaging allowing nine runs a game so far this month,
41:06
Speaker 2: and that's that's probably a good time. Now, granted the
41:08
Speaker 2: A's there splintered. Sacramento is a terrible ballpark. Did you
41:13
Speaker 2: ever get to pitch their duff So we've never played PCL.
41:17
Speaker 2: I've heard the four stories from everyone.
41:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then well then they played that Vegas series
41:23
Speaker 3: and they give up like a thousand runs in three
41:25
Speaker 3: days between the two teams combined, like it was a
41:28
Speaker 3: launching pad.
41:29
Speaker 1: So yeah, boys to hit tonight, shout out Tommy. Answer
41:36
Speaker 1: that that play in the bottom of the tenth yesterday
41:40
Speaker 1: behind the back reached behind his back to feel that ground.
41:43
Speaker 1: That ball might have been a problem if he hadn't
41:45
Speaker 1: got it, and certainly if he has like just that
41:47
Speaker 1: at it.
41:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Guardian magic, he's a sorcerer. He shot it down.
41:55
Speaker 4: Is that what those statues are? Are they magical? Is
41:57
Speaker 4: that what they are, maybe.
41:59
Speaker 1: The tech, the city, yeah, right.
42:02
Speaker 4: Protect the lake that's on fire.
42:04
Speaker 2: Right Tyler.
42:08
Speaker 1: Teams always say, you know, all the right things about
42:11
Speaker 1: how you every game, you kind of treat it the
42:13
Speaker 1: same way, but like, is there anything different that sneaks
42:16
Speaker 1: in mentally when you have a team coming to town
42:19
Speaker 1: that isn't loaded with superstars and you feel like you
42:21
Speaker 1: should beat.
42:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the what happens is you get caught off
42:26
Speaker 4: guard that that one inning or that one moment where.
42:29
Speaker 3: The lapse and judgment happens, and then next thing, you know,
42:33
Speaker 3: you know, like for me as a reliever, you come
42:35
Speaker 3: in and it's like, oh, I got two on and
42:38
Speaker 3: no outs and we're in a two run game here,
42:40
Speaker 3: Like I gotta I gotta lock in quickly, and that's
42:43
Speaker 3: when you know, you get popped for that big hit
42:45
Speaker 3: or the homer or whatever it may be. And so
42:47
Speaker 3: it's I've said it a few times, like when we
42:50
Speaker 3: played some of these other series where you got to
42:52
Speaker 3: show up tonight, don't mess around, don't don't wait for
42:55
Speaker 3: them to make a move. You know, first inning tonight
42:58
Speaker 3: you need to jump on some people, you know, and
43:00
Speaker 3: like we hinted at their they're opposing starters. The ras
43:03
Speaker 3: aren't great. You know, there's a reason for that. They're
43:06
Speaker 3: gonna make mistakes, they're gonna leave them over the plate.
43:09
Speaker 3: You know, maybe their defense is a little shoddy. Put
43:11
Speaker 3: pressure on early, give your guys to give your arms
43:15
Speaker 3: some room to work and and and let it play
43:17
Speaker 3: itself out, because if you let them take any of
43:20
Speaker 3: the momentum, the team, like the A's is waiting for
43:24
Speaker 3: any glimmer of hope at this point, and so when
43:26
Speaker 3: they see that moment, they're just they're they're going to
43:28
Speaker 3: raise themselves.
43:29
Speaker 4: Up to the moment.
43:30
Speaker 3: They're going to try to anyway, And so you can't
43:32
Speaker 3: let that happen. You've you've got to show up ready
43:34
Speaker 3: to rock. You know, I keep saying it. You've got
43:37
Speaker 3: to pop them in the mouth early and keep the
43:39
Speaker 3: throttle down because this is we keep hitting on it.
43:41
Speaker 3: This is a big series. You got to win these
43:44
Speaker 3: trying to sweep them. Honestly, you can't hope for two.
43:46
Speaker 3: You got to hope for three, you know, and settle
43:48
Speaker 3: for two hopefully, and it's just one. Yeah, you got
43:52
Speaker 3: to show up tonight and make a statement and let
43:54
Speaker 3: them know they're.
43:55
Speaker 4: Not going to come in here and sneak one out.
43:58
Speaker 2: This is a team that earlier in this week lost
44:00
Speaker 2: its number one prospect, Joshua Coroda, Joshua Caroda grower who
44:09
Speaker 2: foul the pitch off and ruptured his I saw that, Yes,
44:13
Speaker 2: the top ten prospect in all baseball.
44:16
Speaker 4: This guy like hit it's gone.
44:19
Speaker 2: Yeah he's he's uh Mitch Garver r I p like
44:24
Speaker 2: like he uh this guy Like that's that's how down
44:28
Speaker 2: bad they are right now? Like their best their best
44:32
Speaker 2: and this is a team that can hit. Yeah this
44:35
Speaker 2: Nick Kurtz remember how good he was last year. Jacob
44:38
Speaker 2: Wilson's a stut Like, this is a team that can hit.
44:41
Speaker 2: So yeah, keep them tamped down. Corona, they're they're they're
44:45
Speaker 2: struggling across the board.
44:47
Speaker 1: But that inspired by their fallen comrade there.
44:54
Speaker 2: Yeah.
44:55
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see the biggest series until the next one
44:59
Speaker 1: starts U Tonight. Twins first game.
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45:07
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