Latest / Twin Cities Territory / We want that radio-fight smoke, labor update, and a Chicago wipeout

Transcript

We want that radio-fight smoke, labor update, and a Chicago wipeout · Twin Cities Territory

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Minnesota and Atlanta have a long history of
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: sporting conflict. The nineteen ninety one World Series, the nineteen
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: ninety eight NFC Championship Game, the twenty eleven and twenty
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: thirteen WNBA Finals, and now in twenty twenty six, we
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: have a radio fight. This podcast against what I'm told
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: is the number one sports talk radio show in Atlanta,
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: at least according to the X profile of the guy
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: who hosts it. This is Twin Cities Territory, You're Minnesota
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Twins podcast on the Foul Territory Network. I am Zach
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Pearce of the Athletic joined as always by Dan Hayes,
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: the Athletics, Minnesota Twins beat writer who really is the
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: reason we're all here today, and Tyler Duffy, longtime Major
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: leaguer and former Minnesota Twin Guys. It's been an eventful
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: forty eight hours for us on this humble, young, growing podcast,
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: as we were called out out buying Atlanta talk radio
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: show for a segment we did last week on Byron Buxton,
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: and I will let that show explain with this clip.
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: I didn't want it to come to this, but I
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: have no choice.
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: We have been in many a radio war.
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: We've done it with folks in New York City, in Philadelphia, Boston.
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: It's happened across the country. I'm not afraid of it.
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: It's fun, but I'll be damned if it's going to
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: happen from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: Do you not know what's happening here?
• 1:28
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: And I'm not aware of this.
• 1:30
  Speaker 5: Somebody else pointing out your early lanes and.
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: Villas, somebody else ignoring Biral Lewis and what this show
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: is done. I want to introduce you to the Twin
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: Cities Territory Podcast.
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: Whatever the hell that is. These three ham and Angers
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: who are hosting this.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: We're discussing Byron Buxton and referencing our conversation last week,
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: and the snark was on full display.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna pause there. First of all, hand up,
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: there was a lot of snark. I cannot, I can.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: I cannot deny that there will probably be more. Apologize.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I just I just said it was true.
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: There's a lot to unpack from that that first forty
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: six seconds. I, for one thing, I gave us a
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: new SoundBite. Every time Dan talks about something I don't
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: understand or even just we mentioned the name of this podcast,
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: I can.
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: Just go like this, whatever the hell that is, and.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: That's gonna be great. We're gonna have a lot of
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: fun with that. What else?
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 2:26
  Speaker 5: He also you know that?
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: But why why will you be damned if this happens
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: from Minneapolis? Which small point, But none of us were
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis during that show or this one. Very rarely
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: are any of us in Minneapolis relatively anyway.
• 2:43
  Speaker 5: I had never thought about it.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: Why why can't we fight like the big boys? You know,
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: we're not New York, We're not in New York, Phille,
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: you or Boston. We can still you know, you know,
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: we're nice about it, but we can still fight a
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: little bit, I would say. Anyway. The real highlight of
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: that was that we were all called ham and eggers,
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: And I'm not sure any of us know what that means. Tyler,
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: you asked your dad? Is that right?
• 3:09
  Speaker 5: Doesn't ask anybody? I don't know what on earth ham
• 3:14
  Speaker 5: and egg It sounds like something that my dad used
• 3:16
  Speaker 5: to say.
• 3:16
  Speaker 6: I feel like maybe the golf term, but never in
• 3:19
  Speaker 6: regards to like a slight at someone. I don't know
• 3:23
  Speaker 6: that's but maybe that means they're eating good.
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 3:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 3:27
  Speaker 4: I would have thought acceptable insults would have been ass hats,
• 3:33
  Speaker 4: loud mouths, know it all. But Ham and Eggers. I
• 3:37
  Speaker 4: was the one that asked my dad, my seventy eight
• 3:39
  Speaker 4: year old father. Then I went to Google. I went
• 3:45
  Speaker 4: to Google. Looks like a nice ham sandwich.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: You're eating there, Zach, I went black Forest with a Friday,
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: some avocado spinach. You got to keep it healthy. So
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: what's quite good?
• 3:58
  Speaker 5: They're making us better?
• 4:00
  Speaker 4: Hey, I think I think that this is this makes
• 4:03
  Speaker 4: me question their ability to evaluate talent because Ham and
• 4:08
  Speaker 4: Eggers means mediocre. Oh that's an upgrade for us. That's
• 4:14
  Speaker 4: not baby second rate fly by Night podcast. We're all
• 4:20
  Speaker 4: rooks here, brand new, we're totally ass hats. And now
• 4:25
  Speaker 4: we're getting pub out. We're getting free pub out of this,
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: and I mean, great, hey, mediocre, I'll take that.
• 4:32
  Speaker 5: I want thank you, sir.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: I will admit, first of all, part of what they
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: were upset about was that we did not mention the
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: name of the show. We'll get to that in a minute.
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: It escapes me again for now, but I'll look it up.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: What I'm I'm kind of ashamed because I mean, here,
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: I am playing into it, like like Lonnie Smith going
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: around second base in Game seven. I took the bait.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: I fell for it. I'm eating ham and eggs and
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: what's next, Like, oh, look at that? Look at is
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: that him Mexican Ham Tyler?
• 5:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, whatever you can find.
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: This could be their plan just get me to make
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: poor dietary decisions by you know, basically daring meet in
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: the podcast.
• 5:15
  Speaker 4: Week in the competition.
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I gotta be careful. But so this next
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: clip is is uh, it's from their show, but it's
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: what we said about Byron Buxton reacting to a conversation
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: they had had, and this is how they they broke
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: it down.
• 5:31
  Speaker 7: Talk about Atlanta radio hosts talking about Byron Buxton being
• 5:35
  Speaker 7: in the outfield there, Hey Atlanta host the guy has
• 5:38
  Speaker 7: a no trade clause and he's a ten to five.
• 5:40
  Speaker 5: Now, so what he's from Georgia's argue he is hours
• 5:46
  Speaker 5: away from Atlanta.
• 5:48
  Speaker 8: The jokes, I would definitely put that in a place
• 5:51
  Speaker 8: in one of the like maybe two places that bet
• 5:53
  Speaker 8: you he'd consider going if the call came.
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: A couple of things to these podcasts.
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: Literally always said, well that's you can't walk it back
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: if you're going to be snarky. You got to lean
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: into the snark. I know this well. You have to
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: commit to the bit. You don't say, hey, Atlanta radio
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: host and put some respect on my name. When you
• 6:11
  Speaker 2: see my face on the internet and they saw it,
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: you know something big is happening.
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: Hey McAfee, he recognizes.
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: So when you causse Atlanta radio host, recognition would be helpful.
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: And then don't walk it back by saying the one
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: freaking thing we said that he's got a no trade.
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: Thanks for breaking that news to us Minneapolis Twins territory.
• 6:30
  Speaker 3: You didn't know. I can't read the internet and he's
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: from here. He's from Georgia. No, as Sherlock. He said,
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: if there's one.
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: Or two places, eventually he would acquiesce Atlanta might be
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: one of them.
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: So what are they saying? I'm telling they don't want
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: this smoke.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: They don't want to smoke. Apparently nerve. We did. We
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: hit a nerve.
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: A nerve.
• 6:52
  Speaker 5: It is unintentionally too.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: It is fair that we sub We did subtweet them,
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: which used to be a phrase. Chuck and churn Off
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: is the name of the show on six six eight,
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: six eighty. It's probably six eighty the fan in Atlanta.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: That's the name of the show.
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: Whatever the hell that is?
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: All right, see how that works. I'm sure it's quite
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: popular in Atlanta, of course, just but has it achieved
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: has it achieved infinite growth since mid March like we have?
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see. That's kind of cheating a
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: little bit, I suppose.
• 7:30
  Speaker 5: But they plateaued, Dan.
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: They they weren't mad so much about the fact that
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: we were snarky or or picking on their conversation as
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: they call it. They were mad that you that you
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: very cowardly walked it back, I guess in their eyes.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: But Dan, you remain in the camp and I respect
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: this of throwing cold water all over this this topic.
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: So so please tell us what you were thinking and
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: how you ended up where you did.
• 8:06
  Speaker 4: Okay, a couple things first, I want to apologize. I
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: want to apologize to the two of you because look,
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, just seeing the social media and hearing about
• 8:16
  Speaker 4: these wars that these guys have been in, I'm afraid
• 8:19
  Speaker 4: of what I might have gotten you guys into, Like
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: these are guys you want us to get the I
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: mean real radio wars between Philly and Atlanta and Atlanta
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: and Boston and Atlanta and New York like these. I
• 8:33
  Speaker 4: would hope that these guys came at us, you know,
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: in a gentlemanly fashion and like we can maybe have
• 8:38
  Speaker 4: a duel with nickel plated pistols and pace it out.
• 8:42
  Speaker 4: But you know, I'm just thinking with their experience, there's
• 8:45
  Speaker 4: a chance that these are the kind of guys that
• 8:47
  Speaker 4: might put a bomb in your car or you know,
• 8:49
  Speaker 4: might invite you to a restaurant. It's stabby in the
• 8:52
  Speaker 4: back of the head with the with the screwdriver, sook.
• 8:55
  Speaker 4: I have toolog for bringing you guys into this, but like,
• 8:58
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm I mean so like. But here's the thing.
• 9:03
  Speaker 4: When we did this, Zach, you and I had our
• 9:05
  Speaker 4: old podcast and we've heard Byron Buckston rumors for about
• 9:08
  Speaker 4: eight years, running NonStop, and they always are speculation. And look,
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: radio speculation is fun.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 9:17
  Speaker 4: It drives fan traffic, it's creative, and it's a way
• 9:21
  Speaker 4: to talk about your sport right there. It's interesting. But
• 9:24
  Speaker 4: when you hear it consistently for as long as it's
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: come along, it gets tiresome. And here's the thing. I
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: will say one that they're accurate that Atlanta will continue
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: to pursue Iron Buckson. I reported in August, two days
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: after the deadline, that six teams basically went around the
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: Twins front office and tried to convince Byron Buckston's agents
• 9:50
  Speaker 4: that the grass was greener with their team, and the
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: two strongest teams of that were the Atlanta Braves and
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: the New York Mets. That will continue, There's no question,
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: because here's the thing. Everybody looks at the Twins and
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: just assumes that because they traded the way they did
• 10:07
  Speaker 4: last year, that they're still gonna be selling off. And
• 10:10
  Speaker 4: I understand that perception from a national point of view.
• 10:13
  Speaker 4: But the fact of the matter is is that, like
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: I just think that that is fiction. That is, if
• 10:20
  Speaker 4: you're on the ground and you got the facts from
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: what we've seen the last six months, I think that
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: that is going to be more like green eggs and
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: ham than actual fact. Look, here's here's why let me
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: get to that right now, is that I think if
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: Tom Pollad was to trade Byron Buxton, the fan base
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: will just disintegrate at that point. And here's here's where
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: we're gonna go from this. When the trade deadline happened
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: last year, Twins fans, as devastated as they were, were
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: clinging to hope that the pole Ad family was going
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: to sell the team after forty plus years ownership, and
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: thirteen days later, surprise, not gonna sell, guys. The team
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: is off the market. We are doing a partial sale.
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: We are surrendering no power. We are getting all the money.
• 11:08
  Speaker 4: It's basically a cash bailout to help the team get
• 11:11
  Speaker 4: rid of its tremendous amounts of debt. But the pole
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: Add family is going to continue running it. And when
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: the sale ended in December, when that partial sale was
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: finally closed out, Tom Polead took over and Tom Polladd's
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: first action basically was to say, we've screwed up with
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: the fans we have, We've screwed up with the players
• 11:29
  Speaker 4: in our clubhouse. We need to rebuild trust with the fans.
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: We did this. We had a series of missteps, and
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: those series of missteps and Tom laid it out for
• 11:38
  Speaker 4: us to Twins mess, he said, cutting the payroll after
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: the twenty three season in the playoff success by thirty
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: million dollars, that was a poor mistake. Then when the
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: twenty four team proved to be playoff worthy, they didn't
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: add it to trade deadline. There was another mistake. Then
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: last year's trade deadline was another misstep, and they know
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: that they've driven a wedge between them and fans. It's
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: how we got to the four point three percenters, right,
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: This is how there's the hope meter for the Twins
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: going into the season is four point three percent because
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: for three years it's just been bad stuff that they've
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: had to deal with. And Tom Pohlad decided, I'm going
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: to come in. I'm going to be a hands on owner.
• 12:14
  Speaker 4: I'm going to rebuild trust, I'm going to get us,
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: I'm going to do things to show the players that
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: ownership supports them, give them that support. One of the
• 12:23
  Speaker 4: first things that Tom Poulad did after talking to us
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: about that, and Tom Poulet has talked to the media
• 12:28
  Speaker 4: four times since he took over in December. That's about
• 12:32
  Speaker 4: three more times than previous ownership had. Really, you know,
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: you get the owners maybe once a year, and it
• 12:38
  Speaker 4: was probably about once every two years before that with
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: the other members of the Poli family that were running it.
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: But one of Tom Polad's first actions after that was
• 12:46
  Speaker 4: to fly to Baxley, Georgia and go and see Byron
• 12:51
  Speaker 4: and basically say, hey, look, I'm here for you. I
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: want to start this, I want to rebuild this. You're
• 12:56
  Speaker 4: our guy, and this is a I need you to
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: believe in this.
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: Again.
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: By the way, Tom poll At smart to fly direct
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: to Baxley. When I went in twenty twenty two during
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: the lockout, I flew to Atlanta and then drove the
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: three and a half hours. Byron is now, Yeah, Byron's
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: got a nice little private jet action to get back
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: and forth at this point because it's so far. But look,
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: so Tom Pole had does that right? And then Tom
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: Pole ad basically starts showing up in the clubhouse. He
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: went to spring training. He's never really been around the Twins,
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: even though his families owned the club since nineteen eighty four,
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: won the World Series in eighty seven and ninety one.
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: I think he had an internship with MLB for one year,
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: but he's been on the business side of things with
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: the family forever. He decided I'm going to spring training
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: for a month. Nobody understood why, like spring training when
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: you're the owner, the players don't want to be there
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: that month. The players are getting ready for the season.
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: But nobody wants to be there for that month, but
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: Tom went to be there and have his hands on
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: the process and to get to know his club, and
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: they reassuring people and all that's happened since then. And
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna claim the Twins are contenders, but here
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: we are. We've just passed the one third mark of
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: the season, and beyond the first four teams in the
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: American League, everything else is pretty may you know, everybody's playing.
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: I guess you could say it's a bunch of ham
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: and eggers. You know, you got a bunch of teams
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: that are pretty mediocre. But the Twins are. They're competing
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: right now, right and and it's because their pitching is
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: grown up. And I still think that people perceived this right.
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: People outside perceive this as a place that is going
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: to continue selling. And it's gonna be hard to convince
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: me that Joe Ryan won't field offers. Because Joe Ryan's
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: value is super high, and Ryan Jeffers is a free agent,
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be shocked. But also Tom Pole has talked
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: about being aggressive. Tom Pollet has talked about giving these
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: players and fans the team that they deserve and they want.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: And I think he recognizes that this team is at
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: a critical point with its fan base, and regardless of
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: whether or not they trade some of the other guys,
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: I cannot see them trading Byron Buckston for prospects. So
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: then it comes to like, what's Atlanta to give up?
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: That's so exciting because we're talking about the most popular
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: player on the team and the most popular player for
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: what duff when you played with him, was there anybody
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: that got that lad of cheers?
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: Maybe Joe Mauer, right, yeah, Joe at times.
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: But Byron is you know, I mean all through the
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: miners and everything was Byron is the guy we got.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: To get it. Take a little break, we will come back.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: No wait, wait, hang on, hang on, hang no, let
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: me finish this point. I'm almost about to wrap this up.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: I'm about to wrap this up. I just can't see
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: the Twins trading their most popular guy, Like how what
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: could you do?
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: As Minnesota?
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: And he has said it. Byron Buxton has said it repeatedly.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Byron Buxton knew the agents were coming to his new team,
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: We're coming to his agent at the All Star break
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: last year, and he used his platform at the All
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Star Game to say I am staying in Minnesota. He
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: confirmed that to me a couple of days after the deadline.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: I said, I heard teams were going to your agents.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: He said yes. I said, did you use that platform
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: at the media session at the All Star Game to
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: say I'm a Minnesota Twin for life? Intentionally? He said yes.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: He made it clear. He made it clear again after
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: the deadline. He made it clear. At the end of
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: the season. He could change his mind. There's no question
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: he could change his mind. He's competitive, he wants to win.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: If the Twins were to sell it off, but I
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: don't think that they are trying to do that, and
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: I don't think Tom pol Ed thinks he could trade
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Byron Buckson because then he will run the most popular
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: player out of town. And you're going to just shred
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: this already fragile fan base.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: And just so it's left a keeps talking after the break,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: you can keep talking after that.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: I'm enjoying this. I'm enjoying this.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Win for another minute and a half after you said.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: He's been he's been holding his breath for three days
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: getting ready for this.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: We'll be right here.
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: It's getting hot out there.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: People. Let's talk.
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: Mack Weldon fashion show real quick. AJ's got the Pima
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: crew neck t shirt, Froth Heeather.
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: Yes, Frost Heather's. It's got little pieces of gray heather
• 17:18
  Speaker 10: in there. It's nice, it's soft, it fits really well.
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: It's great for summer down here in Florida. And I
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: got a couple of linen shirts and linen pants that
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: are gonna look nice when I go to Europe here
• 17:29
  Speaker 10: in a couple of weeks.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Very nice.
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's very smooth, very thin. I'm wearing the eighteen
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: hour Jersey short and heather gray. I'll leave that down
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: here for you. And the Pema short sleeve Henley. The
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: color on mine is desert spring, but it really resonates it.
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: It fits in kind of matches with everything in the
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: wardrobe too. It's the classic look. They know what they're
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: doing here, so check it out. We've got the code
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: for you to get moving with mack Weldon Comfortable Anywhere.
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: Go to Mack Weldon dot com get twenty percent off
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: your first order of one hundred and twenty five bucks
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: or more with promo code foul. That's m A c
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: k W E L d O N dot com code
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: f o U L.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: All right, Dan finish your thought.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Look, speculation is gonna continue to happen. I'm gonna even
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: participate in myself all July. It's gonna be a lot
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: of fun. It always is. Bring eyes to the sport.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: It's what we do.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I understand.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: I just think that, you know, I'm going to dump
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: some cold water on stuff when if Doctor Seuss down
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: there is going to keep telling, you know, doctor, I'm
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: gonna if we're gonna have to, we're gonna have to
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: bring the cold water here like this is just what
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna do.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, broadcast Essentially, doctor.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: I have said nothing derogatory to this point. For the record, well.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Dan I I appreciate your apology, first of all for
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: dragging Tyler and I into this with.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Your I was trying to with you guys, and also
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I tried some diplomacy at first there.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: But it is my fault at the end of the
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: day because I saw the clip and got a laugh,
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: so I sent it and it was harmless at the time.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: You know, It's one of those you know, you never
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: could have imagined what happened down the road, but here
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: we are.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: It's still pretty harmless, I would say, But I do
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: have some bad news for you, Dan, because our friends
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: at Matt and Oliver, Chuck and Schernoff sorry, are already
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I have already made up their minds about you, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: much like Charlie Lee Brant going out of the eleventh
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: in game six, they have decided that you might not
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: be the man for the job.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: But I was digging it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: They were going after us, and then you could tell
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: the one guy's probably the journalist. Journalist was like, let
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: me make sure we mentioned.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: He's from Georgia. Yeah, so let me show this again
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: because I'll tell them where they went wrong.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: Talk about Atlanta radio hosts talking about Byron Buckston being
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: in the outfield there. Hey, Atlanta host guy has a
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: no trade cause and he's a ten to five now so,
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: but he's.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: From Georgia's gonna stop that was But he's from Georgia.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: You know that, right, You know, he's.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: A ten to five guy. And the one guy was
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: doing like a little Jim Rome. Hey, Atlanta radio host,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: you're off to a good start. I like what you're doing,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: but you gotta then double down on the snark instead
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: they did this, he is.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: For hours from Atlanta.
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: I would definitely put that in a place in one
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: of the like maybe two places that I bet you
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: he'd consider going.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: The call came, yeah, okay.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Thanks for that.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: That guy is fired.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Whomember that guy is not in line with the other
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: two with the snark and committing to the bit that
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: dude's fired.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: So the takeaway is that Tyler and I were committed
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to the bit we're good. Dan is fired. Unfortunately Dan,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I was anyways, that job sucks.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Look, I was gonna quit. That job sucks. The boss
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: is terrible. That guy, that guy's in charge of hiring
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: a firing. So yeah, no, I tender my resignation.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Well, if you would like to support us in our
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: radio fight against Chuck and churn Off, you can. If
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube, you can subscribe right now with
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: that QR code. We're on our way to five hundred subscribers.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: This fight is not slowing down anytime soon. I would say,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: like like Ron Gant trying to get back to first base,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: it has momentum and it's gonna on its own power,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: just keep going without any sort of assistance needed to
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: get to get further. Too far even maybe you might say, so,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens next week.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: That's just make sure when you just when you turn
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: your cars on next time, just if you hear a
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: little weird noise with technician.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense. Let someone else say that guy
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: was really mad that the other guy, Chuck was really
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: mad about my Georgia comment. And I honestly wasn't making
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: fun of the people of Georgia. It's just it's It's
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the whole thing for me is every time a good
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: player is on a bad team, this comes up, like, well,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: you know, they're from New Jersey, so they'd love to
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: play for the Yankees or Mets. That's all. It was
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: more of a comment to people in general than Georgia.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: It was definitely snarky, though again, hand up, we are
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: going to talk about some real baseball things, and I
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: hope that if you don't care about any of this,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: that you noticed the other topics and the time codes
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: down below in the description and have already moved on.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: But if you stuck with us through that, you are
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: one of the four point three percenters for our show,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: which we appreciate very much. Before we get to those
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: two awful twins games that happened since the last time
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: that we talked to you, there was some rather large
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: national news in baseball this week, guys, with both Major
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: League Baseball and the Players Union kind of presenting there
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: are cases here in the ongoing labor fight as they
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: try to maybe avoid or at least lessen what looks
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: like it could be a lockout in twenty twenty seven,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Dan sort of can you give us the lay of land?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: What happened there where we're at.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the owners established they want a cap, and the
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: owners established they would be willing to put a floor in.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: The players had a floor in THEIRS, no cap in THEIRS.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: The players reacted the way you would expect because they've
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: been fighting the idea of a cap forever. The owners
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: said that one way they'd do it is by taking
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: all of the money for local TV revenues essentially, and
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: that's a huge area of disparity where the Yankees and
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: the Dodgers have this mass. I mean, the Dodgers have
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Japan's money coming in for Otani, they have a full
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: nother TV contract. They can just crush everyone.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: And so the.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Owners basically said, we'll pool all the resources together and
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: make every team have more revenue to spend. It's about
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: what you know, both sides reacted exactly how I kind
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: of thought they would. This is the first offer that's
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: never gonna be the kind of thing that is gonna
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: be taken. And that's what I take it with a
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: grain of salt, because this is the first proposals and
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: this is to be a long road, and I'm more
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: curious to hear what you know, Tyler is a former player,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: thinks about just where what the union always has thought
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: about the salary cap and you know everything around that.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the big one is you kind of touched on
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: it the opening of the books. I think that would
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: make a lot of conversations change their directions, regardless of
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: what you know final goal was or is, because that's
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: the big.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Number that no one truly knows.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: You know, we can make estimates and guests, you know,
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: all right, how many people went to games this year,
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: things like that, but those are like you said, you know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: the LA's, the New York's, the Seattle. So whoever's of
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: the world who have these bigger deals, you know, they
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: all it's all in the same pot and that idea.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: But the floor is the one that I think it
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: makes the most sense, and I think everyone could get
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: on board with because that makes those teams then have
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: to do something versus just sitting there collecting checks every year.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: And I think that's the one. Like I don't know why,
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: it's it's kind of like bills that we use in
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: our country for things. It's like we put all this
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: good stuff and then we plug this one really not
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: useful thing in and it's like, well, guys, we can't
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: do that, you know, and it stops everything.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: And so it's the ceiling.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: It just the cap is scary because it limits in
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: the eyes of the players, it limits.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: The opportunity to make money, you know. I think that's
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: at the end of the day, that's what it does.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: And you know, the other stuff, the player pool stuff
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: is great, you know, helping rookies. You know, the progress
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: that's been made has been wonderful for players. And I'm
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: sure any rookie right now would tell you, like, it's
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: wonderful having you know, they're making seven hundred and fifty
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: eight hundred thousand dollars h first year.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: I think my first year is five fifteen maybe, you know.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: And then on top of that, if you play well,
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: you get a bonus you know, your team, it's kickbacks.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: If you play well and contribute to your team winning. Like,
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: it's a lot of stuff that makes sense, and it's
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: frustrating for fans, I know, to hear us as players,
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: you know, who are very fortunate arguing with billionaire ownership
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: groups who are obviously very fortunate. You know, it's it
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: can be a little off base, but you know, at
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: the same time, it's it's what's fair at the end
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: of the day, you know.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: And then you look at like the NBA, it's.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: Less players, they have a cap, but then those salaries
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: are just astronomical because there's so few people, and so
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: it's like we have more players and all it's it's
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: a logistical nightmare. But I think Bruce and all the
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: guys with the union, you know, they have the right ideas.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: It's just getting all the owners individually, with all their
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: little ideas to have one central idea. I think it's
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: going to be the big problem because there are you know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: the woe is me within that group, who are going
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: to be the speed bumps that have to get over.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: And you know, the good.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: Thing is that it's only June, not even June, so
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: we have some time. But if that's going to be
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: what they start with in response like it's it could
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: take a while.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: It seems like, at least if you're a Twins fan
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: of a salary floor is more helpful than a cap,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: like yes, forcing them to spend up to a certain level,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: versus saying you can't spend more than this.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the proposal, what was the owner's like seventy like
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: that would be a Twins record.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: Payroll, Yeah, which is like eighty.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're current high payrolls like one sixty two, one
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: sixty three, so they would with the salary floor would
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: be would be more money than they've ever spent. So yeah,
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: of course, and I'm sure it would be slowly kind
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: of metered in because you look at the Dodgers payroll
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: right now, how are you going to make the Dodgers shed,
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: you know, over over nine salaries right like be really difficult,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: but it can't be something that's overnight. But it's just
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: it seemed lofty, and I know the players are going
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: to fight that one a lot. That's just that's my
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: sense from it. The salary cap has been something. I mean,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: their proposal or their response to the first proposal was
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: we've been fighting this for thirty years. It's why the
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: MLPA is as strong as it is. It's considered the
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: best union in sports. Players are guaranteed their salaries. You
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: can be terrible and if you signed a two undred
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: million dollar deal you're getting you can be Anthony Rendon
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: and play. You know very little of that huge monster
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: contract that he got he didn't and if you're in
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: the NFL, there's only so much of it's guaranteed. I
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: just wonder how players are ever gonna give up, you know,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: the idea of guaranteed money. They they're a strong union.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: It's it's gonna be tough.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: We'll see where this goes. Like Tyler said, a lot
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of time and also not very much time before the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: next season gets here, we'll see how negotiations progressed. Quick break.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back. We'll talk about the Twins after this.
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: This episode is brought to you by FanDuel Baseball Fans.
• 29:14
  Speaker 11: The MLB season is in full swing and FanDuel is
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: giving you a chance to call your shot with daily dingers.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Joining the action is easy.
• 29:23
  Speaker 11: Just make your free pick on who's hitting a home
• 29:25
  Speaker 11: run in their game, and if you're right, you'll get
• 29:28
  Speaker 11: a profit boost to use on your next bet for
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: a chance at extra winnings. It's just another reason why
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: FanDuel is the home of home runs. So are you
• 29:37
  Speaker 11: ready to play your game? Head over to FanDuel dot
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: com slash podcast to get started. That's FanDuel dot com
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: slash podcast. To opt in for daily dingers, make your
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: free pick on who's hitting a homer? Playball swing for
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: the Fences on FanDuel, an official partner of Major League Baseball.
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: No purchase necessary, opt in required. Bonus issued as non
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: withdrawable profit boost Hoke and restrictions apply, including any token
• 30:02
  Speaker 11: expiration and max wager them out. See terms at sportsbook
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: dot FanDuel dot com. Gambling problem caller tax one eight
• 30:08
  Speaker 11: hundred gambler, All right.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: We're back. We lost one. Don't worry. He's okay. He
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: didn't get taken out by Atlanta radio hosts Wi.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Fi cut out. He started screaming, I don't know.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: We hope to hear from him again. We are going
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: to talk about the twins finally. I guess we talked
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: about buying Byron Buckston technically at the beginning, but it
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: was a really bad couple of games in Chicago since
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the last time we talked to you. Twins were outscored
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: twenty one to four two losses, ended up losing this
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: series to Chicago three games to one. They are now
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: four and three on this road trip, Tyler five and
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: a half back of Cleveland and the central two and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: a half back now of Chicago. Pretty Much nothing went right,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: but the pitching was especially glaring these last two days.
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, anytime those numbers are on the board,
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: you know, that's when you kind of look around at
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: the end of the game, if you're in the bullpen,
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: you're like, all right, I'm just kind of glad it
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: wouldn't meet today kind of thing. But you know, it happened,
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: and that's you know, like you said, still four and
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: three thus far. You know, so it's one. You know,
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: you got the positives where you can at some point.
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: But yeah, it wasn't great. You know, this start for
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: them did not go well. You know, Shelter, I think
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: eventioned on it. It's a tough spot to be put in,
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: you know, Hey, forty five bus for the game. Hey
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: you're starting, you know, Kendres is out with the elbow,
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: you know, and and then it just flat out he
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: never got any traction. It just never went smooth.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: You know, I think you give up five or six.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: Uh, you know, you got hit pretty hard at times,
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: and you know the bullpen kind of tried to salvage
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: some of it. But you know, just at that point,
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: once you get out to a big league like that
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: team gets momentum, they can feel it. It's just hard
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: to dig yourself out, and you know, it didn't go well.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: And hopefully they can, you know, get to Pittsburgh and
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: change the scenery and play a team they haven't probably
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: seen except maybe once or twice at spring and you know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: go go in at least one or two more games
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: to get home with the what that would be a
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: split for the road? How many games they played seven
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: to ten games on the road, right, so it could
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: go home five and five at least, that'd be big.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we talked a week ago about as
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: we previewed this road trip, about coming home with a
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: winning road trip would be a nice statement heading into
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the you know, the key two months ahead of the
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: trade deadline. Even five and five is certainly not something
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to hit the ejectory's seat over. You mentioned, Kenny, right,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: here's the latest article. Sorry about that technical blip from
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Dan Hayes on the athletic Kendrey Rojas with a left
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: elbow injury. He is out. The Twins have called up
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Cody Thunderbert and Cody Lawson, and Travis Adams was optioned
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: back to the minors, so some movement there around around
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the bullpen. Obviously, Simmon Wood Richardson was forced into to
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: short or emergency duty, I should say, in the finale
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: against Chicago. So hard to really know what to make
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: of just a couple of games where the Twins really
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: weren't right, but nevertheless disappointing a couple of losses. But
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: they head down to Pittsburgh the Derek Shelton Revenge Series,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the team he used to manage, and the Pirates are
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: are a very hard luck last place team in the
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: NL Central. They're twenty nine and twenty eight, but every
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: team in the NL Central is over five hundred and
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: they are last among them. But a tough team for sure,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and to your tyler, like, even getting one win there
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: gets the Twins home five and five and pretty successful
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: ten days overall.
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, trying to limp in, you know, at least get
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: one more, you know, if you can sneak one in there,
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: you know, that's the thing. Other than the last two
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: in Chicago, the games have been well played, close games,
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: so you squeak one out here or there, you know,
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: somehow get a second one in. I don't know who's
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: lined up to start for the Pirates and all those
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: games obviously, you know, match up with schemes wouldn't be ideal,
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: you know, but it's one you just got to shake
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: yesterday off. You know, it's day game to Pittsburgh. You know,
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: go have some dinner somewhere maybe, you know, take your
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: mind off of the game for a little bit, you know,
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: and hopefully come out tonight guns blazon and make a
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: statement early.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: That's a big thing in a series.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: You know, you come in first inning of the first
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: game and you kind of pop somebody in the mouth.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: You know, they take notice and it put them on
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: guard and you know, make somebody uncomfortable.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: It's it's been a little bit of everybody trying to
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: contribute at times, and that's got to continue.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: That's the big thing.
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: It's got to be somebody each day, you know, who
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: wants to be the hero to in whatever moment presents
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: itself and you know, obviously you always want Byron to
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: do his thing and guys, but uh, you know, it's one.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: It's Pittsburgh's a fun place to play. There'll be some
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: good energy in the park. I'm sure Friday night, you know,
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: it'll be a good time. And like that Chelte, I'm
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: sure he's he's gonna want to win more, maybe a
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: little bit more than he would normally want to win
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: a game, so you know it could make for some
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: some fun. I'm sure we have some good quotes for
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: us after you know, today's.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: Game, or even before the game. But you know it'll
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: be it'll be a good one to watch.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: The Twins continue to get blessed by missing star pitchers.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Paul Skeans pitched last night against the Cubs, so it's
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: not in however, it's it's not really ever easy against
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the Pirates. But Friday Jared Jones against Taj Bradley. Saturday
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: is Mitch Keller and against Bailey Over Keller having a
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: strong year three six, four r A and then and
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Braxton Ashcraft Sunday afternoon even stronger with a team seven
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: to five this year. That is a that is a
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: name that sounds like one of my t ball kids.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: We were officially at that point where, yes, these these
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: names that I associate with the next generation are now
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: just adults playing.
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: That is Yeah, the mouth the mouthful kids names are
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: definitely a thing.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: It's it's something they all throw fuel.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: I'm sure the kids on the teams they're all they're
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: all throwing ninety eight and at six years old, you know,
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: it's a great time.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Zebbie Matthews gets the game on Sunday for the Twins,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: just to wrap up that starting pitching rundown. And then
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the Twins are off Monday, first time they've been off
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: in a minute. And then they oh, wait a minute,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm looking at.
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: The pirates say they're in the seventeen straight heater.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: We spend all our creative energy on the on the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: first part of this show today. As you can tell, uh,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: they're back home. White Sox rematch starting Monday, June first.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: It's a seven game homestand Chicago and then Kansas City
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: through next weekend. So we'll be back with you on
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Monday to recap whatever happened in Pittsburgh set up the
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: homestand and the game against Chicago. One more reminder if
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: you like what you heard, Please drop us a like,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: a subscribe a comment. We'd love to hear your feedback.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: If you're watching on YouTube, there's a QR code there
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: on the screen that makes it really easy. Support our
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: radio fight against those big bad memis from Atlanta. Help
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: us keep in the score, help us feel better. All that.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you listening. We'll catch you next time on
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Twin City's territory. Bye bye.