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Byron Buxton injured again; is it Walker Jenkins time for Twins? · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: This rollercoaster Minnesota Twins season continues in Sacramento after a
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  Speaker 1: win on Monday that saw the Bats break out for
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  Speaker 1: nine runs and a strong start from Zebby Matthews on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Bats disappeared. Taj Bradley was strong. But the big news
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  Speaker 1: was an injury late in the game to Byron Buxton
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  Speaker 1: who re-aggravated his hip and will surely spark more calls
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  Speaker 1: for top prospect Walker Jenkins. We'll start with that today
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  Speaker 1: on Twin Cities Territory. your Minnesota Twins podcast here on
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  Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network. One and one so far in Sacramento.
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  Speaker 1: One more game to go against the A's on Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 1: It is Wednesday morning today as we talk to you now.
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  Speaker 1: The big news, as I said, Byron Buxton. The Twins
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  Speaker 1: had done nothing all game against Gage Jump, the A's starter.
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  Speaker 1: Finally got back in the game with two runs in
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  Speaker 1: the top of the seventh. And then in the bottom
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  Speaker 1: half of the seventh inning, the A's Henry Bulte hit
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  Speaker 1: a ball into the gap in right center. Byron Buxton
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  Speaker 1: trying to track it down and just like didn't get
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  Speaker 1: down for the ball all the way, rolled under his glove,
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  Speaker 1: went to the wall. Bolte ended up with a triple.
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  Speaker 1: Buxton immediately, uh, shown stretching out in the outfield. Trainers
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  Speaker 1: came out, took him out of the game and he left, uh,
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  Speaker 1: with that injury. And Dan, you were there. Uh, what
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  Speaker 1: was the word after the game on Buxton?
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  Speaker 2: More right hip discomfort and, um, The twins are in
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  Speaker 2: wait-and-see mode is how they described it. Obviously, it's a
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  Speaker 2: weird setup that the training room, because you're at a
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  Speaker 2: AAA ballpark, the training room is not right next to
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  Speaker 2: the clubhouse here, and so they really didn't have a
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  Speaker 2: chance to talk to Buxton before.
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  Speaker 3: The training staff is.
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  Speaker 2: Not there working on Buxton, so they were not able
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  Speaker 2: to get in contact with Derek Shelton, but this is
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  Speaker 2: just something that Byron Buxton has been dealing with off
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  Speaker 2: and on for three and a half months. It's nothing
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  Speaker 2: new as far as what it is. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: about severity. I don't know if he's going to have
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  Speaker 2: an MRI today, what the plan is. We just know
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  Speaker 2: that Byron Buxton exited a game where he ran into
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  Speaker 2: it again. We've seen it happen time and time again
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  Speaker 2: this season. Clearly, this hip is just continue to bug him.
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  Speaker 2: And there's not much that he's been able to do
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  Speaker 2: to get it right. And it's affected his play. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he handled it really well the first, I'd say six weeks.
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  Speaker 3: And that was May and through June.
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  Speaker 2: And he was performing well enough to get an all-star
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  Speaker 2: nod and get voted into the all-star game.
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  Speaker 3: But Really, he's slowed down. I mean, he has not
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  Speaker 3: homered since June 22nd.
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  Speaker 2: It's a span of 104 plate appearances.
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  Speaker 3: Faced a tough pitcher last night after having a really
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  Speaker 3: good game on Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Buxton went three for four and got on
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  Speaker 2: base four times on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: I think he drew a walk also.
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  Speaker 2: And hit a laser towards left that looked like if
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  Speaker 2: he gets a little bit further under it, there's your
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  Speaker 2: home run and you're But to come back the next night,
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  Speaker 2: went 0-3, struck out three times, facing actually a pitcher
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  Speaker 2: who had really good stuff and was making everybody with
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  Speaker 2: the Twins struggle, look rough, just look out of sorts, engage, jump.
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  Speaker 2: But definitely not encouraging to see the way that he
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  Speaker 2: couldn't get down to the ball. That ball, he's running
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  Speaker 2: to his left and– It was just like the body
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  Speaker 2: was unwilling to go down and get the ball and
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  Speaker 2: it scooted underneath. And usually you see him make that
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  Speaker 2: even if he's sliding, you know, there's something there. And
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  Speaker 2: he was it looks like unable to do it. And
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  Speaker 2: so they're saying right hip discomfort. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: it's anything new or different, but it's, you know, comes
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks after that shot. So it's definitely discouraging,
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  Speaker 2: I think, for the twins.
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  Speaker 1: As a 43-year-old softball player, I can certainly relate to
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  Speaker 1: not being able to get down for the ball. I
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  Speaker 1: had one of those a few weeks ago. Tyler, we
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  Speaker 1: were talking before the show about this. Obviously, a bad
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  Speaker 1: break for Buxton. They just keep coming for him. Injuries
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  Speaker 1: have always been a problem, and this one just seems
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  Speaker 1: to keep lingering.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a couple of years now where that hip
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  Speaker 4: has been significant. It's unfortunate that you know, and it
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  Speaker 4: makes you wonder if it's something that maybe he's been
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  Speaker 4: told isn't a surgery thing. Like maybe there isn't a
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  Speaker 4: quick fix, so to speak. You know, and he's tough
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  Speaker 4: as nails. Like, I think that's what we have to
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  Speaker 4: remember is he's been playing through some version of this
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  Speaker 4: for a long time now. And, you know, it's just,
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  Speaker 4: it's wear and tear in his body, man. He plays
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  Speaker 4: a premium position. He's a high octane player when he's
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  Speaker 4: on the field. And it's just, he's frankly, he's built
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  Speaker 4: different than, 99% of the world. And, you know, his
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  Speaker 4: top end is so much different than the average human being.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes things happen and it's, you know, obviously unfortunate,
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  Speaker 4: more importantly for him, but at this point, very importantly
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  Speaker 4: for the twins that, you know, it's, it's putting them
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  Speaker 4: in a tight spot and, you know, you hope, you
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  Speaker 4: hope today goes well and he's, he wakes up and
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  Speaker 4: he's fine. It may be just caught a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: you know, inflammation is weird sometimes in those.
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  Speaker 5: Joints, you know, it just makes you not move as well.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, what was the thing that stood out
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  Speaker 4: to me was him, the lack of attempt to even
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  Speaker 4: go for the ball when it happened. That tells me
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  Speaker 4: that it wasn't just a little like, oh, what was
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  Speaker 4: that twinge? It was, hey, you need to stop moving now.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he's a little hesitant to put weight on
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  Speaker 4: it after the play. You know, like Dan mentioned, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the clubhouse set up there, they're out in right field,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you don't even get to talk to each
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  Speaker 4: other during games. You know, Severino's publicly talked about how
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  Speaker 4: much he hates playing at Sacramento, but Um, you know,
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  Speaker 4: obviously you hope today some good things come out, but
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  Speaker 4: at the same time, it's one, I think Byron's going
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  Speaker 4: to have to make a tough decision, you know, in
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  Speaker 4: the next couple of days, probably today for that matter,
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  Speaker 4: you know, can I go or not? And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: for the twins sake, he's, he's got to make that decision,
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  Speaker 4: which is never easy, but it's something he's going to
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  Speaker 4: have to do because they need somebody who can be
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  Speaker 4: on the field. And if he needs two weeks, take
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  Speaker 4: her two weeks, get somebody up who can just fill
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  Speaker 4: the position. Cause as, as it is now, He was
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  Speaker 4: on base four times, and then.
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  Speaker 5: He's out of the game the next day.
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  Speaker 4: So it's one of those, whether it's workload or whatever
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  Speaker 4: it is, they've got to do something quickly because there's
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  Speaker 4: no runway here.
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  Speaker 1: The first half of the season, obviously, played at all-star level.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it was even on some MVP short lists at
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  Speaker 1: times during that stretch. But I think as the front
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  Speaker 1: office projected for this playoff push they wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: in the second half or to try to add to
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  Speaker 1: the team, He was at the top of the list
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  Speaker 1: of sort of offensive players who were pushing them towards
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  Speaker 1: that decision. With him out, that's certainly a huge blow. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about his struggles and other struggles throughout the
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  Speaker 1: lineup on recent shows. It's only going to raise the volume, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: on your favorite subject of whether or not it's Walker Jenkins' time. Jenkins,
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  Speaker 1: the Twins' top prospect in St. Paul, continues to To
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  Speaker 1: tear it up down there. And if you take a
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  Speaker 1: look now, here's where we're at with the Twins outfield.
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  Speaker 1: Byron Buxton left the game. We obviously don't know, to
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  Speaker 1: Tyler's point, to Dan's point, if he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: out extended time or what. But that's where we're at
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  Speaker 1: right now. Austin Martin's still on the IL. Trevor Larnik
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  Speaker 1: has really been struggling throughout August. Alan Roden, Luke Kieschel
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  Speaker 1: doing just fine. But Jenkins down there tearing it up
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  Speaker 1: in AAA. And fans will certainly be wondering if he
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  Speaker 1: gets the call. We don't know if it's... jenkins's health
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  Speaker 1: if it's if there's some concerns about his play still
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  Speaker 1: that the team has or if it's a lack of
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  Speaker 1: desire to potentially have him on the 40-man roster heading
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  Speaker 1: into what sure seems like a looming lockout dan but
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  Speaker 1: the twins if buxton can't play are going to have
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  Speaker 1: to do something and obviously his name is going to
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  Speaker 1: be at the top of everyone's list.
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  Speaker 2: It is uh by the way um iron bucks and
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  Speaker 2: 477 ops since the all-star break.
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  Speaker 3: In 18 games yeah so it's, it has not worked
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  Speaker 3: so far.
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  Speaker 2: And like Monday was a good sign, but then like
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  Speaker 2: you said, to come back Tuesday and go over three,
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  Speaker 2: three strikeouts and leave with the injury, uh, certainly leaves questions,
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  Speaker 2: but Hey, Walker Jenkins did not Homer last night.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I was hoping it would have been perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Um, yeah, he's been, he's been incredible, um, that at
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  Speaker 2: AAA and, and the, the calls for him, to get
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  Speaker 2: here will continue to be loud as they should be.
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  Speaker 3: He's a true talent.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, depending on where you look, top 20, maybe
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  Speaker 2: even top 15 prospect in one or two locations. And like,
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  Speaker 2: he's a five tool guy and he's finally hitting for power.
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  Speaker 2: So you can understand why people want to see him.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't know what, what will be the case.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I would think if Byron gets hurt that,
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  Speaker 2: He's the guy, but I don't know that for certain
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  Speaker 2: at all. I don't think that it's possible he'll be
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  Speaker 2: here today or tonight for the finale, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that was going to be the case. It just
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  Speaker 2: didn't seem that way. Post-game last night, things do change
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  Speaker 2: over the course of the night, but they were going
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  Speaker 2: to see how Byron was doing before they made a decision.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't get the sense they were– I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they want Byron to be the guy and– Like, it's
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  Speaker 2: all very tricky and it's all something that I'm really
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  Speaker 2: glad is above my pay grade. But, I mean, Walker
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  Speaker 2: Jenkins certainly has done what he needs to do to
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  Speaker 2: be here.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, it's hard. challenging because at.
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  Speaker 2: Their best, the twins have Byron Buxton going full strength
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  Speaker 2: and Byron Buxton has not really been that since he's
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  Speaker 2: come back after the all-star game. I know there was
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  Speaker 2: hope that he'd come back and yet, you know, going
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  Speaker 2: forward without their two All-Stars has been very, very troubling.
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  Speaker 2: We know Joe Ryan is going to throw a live
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  Speaker 2: bullpen today, but the Twins have gotten 939 ERA out
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  Speaker 2: of Joe Ryan and three post-All-Star game starts and Byron
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  Speaker 2: Buxton with a 477 OPS. This team is not built around,
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  Speaker 2: they need steady contributions from everyone. You know, we've seen
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the offense has not been very good
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  Speaker 2: in August. So, This is just all kind of catching
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  Speaker 2: up to them. They've been doing Yeoman's job of hanging
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  Speaker 2: around and doing what they can to stay in this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeoman? That's how you pronounce that? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that what it is?
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was Yeoman, but you might be right. Okay, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, Zach?
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  Speaker 1: You were right.
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  Speaker 3: It's 8.30 in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: I got home late last night.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care. I don't care. It was a late
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  Speaker 3: night at the ballpark. So much fun to cover stuff
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  Speaker 3: at the ballpark, the way it went, especially like a
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  Speaker 3: seventh inning injury. Oh, it was, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways, I'm tired. It's yeoman's work. They've been doing a
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  Speaker 2: great job of hanging around, but they're thin. The roster's
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  Speaker 2: always been thin. We've known this all year, and it's
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  Speaker 2: catching up to them right now. They're three out in
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  Speaker 2: the wild card, and they're thin or getting thinner at
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  Speaker 2: a time when Derek Shelton said yesterday it's a sprint
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  Speaker 2: after today, and they can't overlook the athletics because the athletics'
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  Speaker 2: two best starters are going Tuesday and Wednesday, but you
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  Speaker 2: can't overlook them, and yet you have 15 coming up
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  Speaker 2: against Chicago, Detroit, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough time to beat then, and certainly Walker
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  Speaker 2: Jenkins would make sense to me to be on this roster.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that that's going to happen or not, though.
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  Speaker 1: Confirmed. It is Yeoman. Looked it up just to be
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  Speaker 1: sure we know.
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  Speaker 5: Is that what I heard?
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: Webster's Merriam online.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, exactly. Dan, you were getting at a point
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to make too about, you know, again, so
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  Speaker 1: much of the stuff that was true in the first
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  Speaker 1: half of the season has not been true in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. Joe Ryan, has not been locked down, reliable.
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  Speaker 1: Byron Buxton has had his injury issues and performance problems.
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  Speaker 1: There's been others on the list too. In a world
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  Speaker 1: where this second half is going a little bit better,
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  Speaker 1: but the Twins were still having some of these issues,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the outfield, maybe it makes more sense to
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  Speaker 1: bring up Walker Jenkins right now. But if I'm the
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  Speaker 1: front office, I'm looking at this right now. Okay, we're
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  Speaker 1: three games back. We can't hit against the A's, gauge
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  Speaker 1: jump perhaps a star on the rise and was lights
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  Speaker 1: out on Tuesday, it does happen. But you're going to
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  Speaker 1: call them up when you're five games under. 500, three
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  Speaker 1: games out in the wild card, maybe have them pinned
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  Speaker 1: into the 40-man roster in the lockout, Tyler. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of considerations here, and I certainly wouldn't be surprised
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  Speaker 1: if they continue to not do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we've talked a lot about the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: being available, and I think this is one moment where
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  Speaker 4: This is a door, unfortunately, that could be opening to
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  Speaker 4: get him, no matter what, like, here's 25 games.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to play every day. Go get them.
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  Speaker 4: And, you know, you're three games out. If Jenkins comes
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  Speaker 4: up and tears the cover off the baseball, does he
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  Speaker 4: help you take over that lead?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: If he doesn't, he gets to be up there in
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  Speaker 4: a playoff race, where games matter, get the full experience
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  Speaker 4: of Major League Baseball in September, pushing for something important,
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  Speaker 4: and that makes them that much more ready for whenever
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  Speaker 4: next season comes, assuming they even play. But I think
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  Speaker 4: at this point, especially with the way the season's gone
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  Speaker 4: with Polads and company doing what they've done and trying
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  Speaker 4: to get fans excited and get people ready, I think
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  Speaker 4: for me it's a layup of a move that regardless,
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  Speaker 4: because Walker Jenkins is going to be a big leaguer.
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  Speaker 4: There's new things in place with the past CBA that
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  Speaker 4: will help the twins. If he shows up and he's
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  Speaker 4: a top five MVP finisher or he's a top rookie player,
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  Speaker 4: there's incentives in place to call up these guys now.
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  Speaker 4: I think this is, depending on what Byron says today,
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  Speaker 4: what comes out of it. For me personally, if it's
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  Speaker 4: a window where he's got free reign of center field
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  Speaker 4: for the next month.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Go for it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if Buck's healthy, all right, plug him in,
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  Speaker 4: slide Jenkins over, whatever you want to do. But, like,
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  Speaker 4: if he stays hot like he is right now and
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  Speaker 4: he's up there on that roster, you're going to win
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  Speaker 4: baseball games. It's just as simple as that. And it's
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  Speaker 4: a spark. It's inspiring. It's your top guy. It's your
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  Speaker 4: best guy. It's all the things. Like, it's hard for
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  Speaker 4: me to see why not. You know, it's also an opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't see yourself being here. you're three games out
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  Speaker 4: of a playoff spot. What else do you need?
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  Speaker 1: It would fit the messaging from the trade deadline, right?
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  Speaker 1: The team wasn't fantastic then either, and they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to tear down a team that was surprisingly competitive, still
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  Speaker 1: not great, but surprisingly competitive. They're not out of it,
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  Speaker 1: and if you want to continue to show faith in
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  Speaker 1: the clubhouse, it seems at some point with enough struggles,
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  Speaker 1: enough injuries, I agree. If you're not going to do it,
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  Speaker 1: it's sort of punting on your last big lever that
• 17:22
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• 17:26
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• 17:29
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• 17:33
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• 17:38
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• 17:41
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• 17:44
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• 17:46
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• 18:06
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• 18:11
  Speaker 1: my part, but I'm just sticking with it. Anyway, what
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: else from these two games? The Twins, as we mentioned,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: have slipped three games back now in the wildcard. The
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Guardians can't lose. All of a sudden, they've won six
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: straight and are a game over. 500, still chasing the
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: White Sox in the Central Division. Twins are five and
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: a half behind. Chicago will have a chance to do
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: something about that directly in pretty short order here. But
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: let's talk about something positive to break this string of
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: doom and gloom. Taj Bradley, first immaculate inning in Minnesota
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Twins history, or at least you said it apparently today
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: in your story, Dan. Is there some... Right. We don't
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: have records to a certain point?
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: There were like 12 guys that have won in three
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: strikeouts in Twins history before this.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: And the database is inaccurate.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: They couldn't say it with 100% certainty, but they believe
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: it is, but.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: They just can't confirm it. And like the MLB film room,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: you can't go back and watch those games. They're just
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: not available.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: It's like Babe Ruth's conspiracy.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: But as far as MLB goes, MLB lists this as
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: the Twins' first one. But even they couldn't confirm it.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: MLB had two of their people looking into it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: But it doesn't matter.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: It was a fantastic inning. And Todd Bradley last night
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: was dotting everything. It's weird to say that, give up
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: four runs. He made about three mistakes. Oakland seemed to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: hit all three of them, but he was, you know,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I liked, I liked the Victor Caratini line. Cause I
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: talked to him afterwards. And, and he said, basically like
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: he had one inning, like, he's like, it's weird to
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: say some, I'm paraphrasing them, but he's like, it's weird
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: to say, a.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Guy that gave up four runs was really, really good.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: But he was like, he was executing everything. He was
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: ahead of everybody. You know, he got chase pitches. He got,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: he got looking like calls looking.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Um, everything that you could do, want to do. He did.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Um, and, and I said, so were you aware that
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: the immaculate inning, uh.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Was in play?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: And he said, that's why I called a fastball on
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: the last one. He's like, yeah, that's why I called
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: fastball on the last one.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Best pitch.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Screw it.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Screw it. He knew what he was going to get,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: and he got 100 miles an hour. They're 99.8 at
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: the top of the zone and got Bolte looking to
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: end that immaculate inning. I mean, it was a great mix.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I think there were four swings and misses in the
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: inning and five called strikes, and that was representative of
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: the whole night. I think he ended it with 18
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: swings and misses. But he was just on the zone.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: It was a very pretty performance. He left the cutter
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: up in the second inning.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: You're supposed to be spin down to that guy. And
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: he left it up and in.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Nitro.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Two-run homer.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: But it looked like what Taj Bradley is supposed to
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: look like.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: You mentioned he was throwing dots, Dan. Here's a look
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: at the three pitches to the last batter, Bolte, of
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the inning. I mean, this is insane. If you're listening,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: it's a screenshot of each of the three pitches, and
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: they are all scraping the edges of the zone. The
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: first one was a cutter just diving down and in
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: that somehow barely caught both the bottom and inside corners.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Second one was a splitter that was outside the entire
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: time and then just ducked back and clipped the line
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: on the outside corner. And then the third one was
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: that fastball that Dan mentioned. I I was surprised that
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Bolte didn't challenge any of those. They still had two challenges,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: but also I think they were all strengths. They were
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: just so good.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was not going to– and the ump did
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: not have the– Jim Wolfe missed.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Like there was– he was a little off. There was
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: not the best zone.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, his zone was interesting. A little low.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: You know what I don't like is the late call,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: the delayed call.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Like– that's uh frustrating i imagine to both batters and
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: to pitchers because it's the i'm gonna do this i'm
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: gonna do this now like he he gives he gives
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: a two second pause to where you're like wait is
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: that a strike and he makes you think about it
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: and then he's like yeah strike i i that uh
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: that would be frustrating.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: It was great to hear uh they had pete he
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: actually had saw two different interviews during the two games. Uh,
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I think Zebby and then Taj, but he was talking
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: about Taj yesterday at the, what we had been talking
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: about was this first inning issues at times. And he said,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: they've like talked about it and got them to finish
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: up those warmups pregame. Like, Hey man, let's get on
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: the throttle here for these last 15. Kind of like
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: we talked about, uh, you know, get more game, like
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: get a little more emphasis, you know, get the adrenaline
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: going somewhat, you know, and he's, it seems he's kind
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: of hit a new, you know, wave of it and,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: and move, moved on because he was other than the, like,
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: like we said, he made a couple of mistakes, but
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: it wasn't spraying the ball.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: It wasn't, you know, like what's happening out here.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: It was just one mistake here, one mistake there to
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: a big league hitter, but he was absolutely dialed in
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: from pitch one.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: It seemed.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: And, you know, he, I mean, it's, it's incredible.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: This get these guys now that are just, he can
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: throw 99 for a hundred pitches and it's just, he
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: doesn't even seem like he's breaking a sweat at times.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: It's been, he and.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Zebby, the last two days, like I was watching those games,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: just their, their execution, you know, the one on the
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: curve ball, Jeffers, like called for Zebby, like, Hey man,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: rip it down. And you saw him just hammer that thing.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Like it was, it was fun. The last two days
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: starting pitching has been a lot of fun to watch.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Shout out also to Corey Provis, who is all over
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: that immaculate inning and like setting up the stakes for
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: it on the, on the broadcast. Like some people think
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: broadcasters should not, you know, be jinxing no hitters and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: things like that. But, If you're not paying super close attention,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you could totally miss that as a fan.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, without a doubt.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: And so to be able to actually build it up
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and make me turn my head towards the screen to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: watch the end of that inning was super cool. And
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Zebby Matthews. Wait, wait.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Let me just– hang on.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I want to actually relay my own experience on that.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Because fans are watching it and Corey is building it up.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: And I'm not watching the broadcast. I'm watching the game
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: from the booth. And I put down some tweet and like,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: it took a second for me to actually realize it
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: happened because I'm not listening to somebody else.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Tell me this.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: And the, the press box, I'm the only person in this,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: this visiting press boxes. It's not a great setup, but
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: somebody immediately, I put like, I put down a stat
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: and I did not put those in Maculane. So I
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: got a snarky response, like nothing about the immaculate ending.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I'm like, it took a second to actually realize.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: What had happened.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: Do your job, Dan.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: It's so funny because they creep up on you so quick.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: But that's the second one this year.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: It is. It is. It's the second one this year
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: that they've been involved in. Gavin Williams got one against them.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: I believe it was like July 23rd.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: And they had one against them two years ago.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: It was Michael Kopech. That was right when he... like
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: became a badass reliever.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: And like a week later, he.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Got traded to the Dodgers. Um, they were at the
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: white socks and like July 24th. And he finally listened
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: to the pitching group about pitch mix and had a
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: nine pitch. Just there's so much fun when they happen
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: like that. Uh, they, they're because it's the picture at
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: their nastiest, everything is going as well as it can.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: And the batters have zero shot. I mean, it is,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: it's overwhelming and it's so fast. So, I apologize that
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I was not Corey Provost and dialed in the way.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: So anyways, time to move on.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Just in case there's any confused listeners, Immaculate Ending is
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: three strikeouts on exactly nine pitches, meaning every pitch, a strike.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: And it's rare. And it's hard to notice in the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: moment sometimes unless you're Corey Provost.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: I guess.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: But good job, Corey. We'll be right back. Some more
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: thoughts from the game and we'll wrap it up right
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: after this.
• 26:55
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• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Monday's game was much more fun for the Twins, except
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: for Yoandris Gomez, which we maybe will mention that too,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: but a 9-6 win for Minnesota in that one. It
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: was 9-2 going in the ninth and well in hand
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: before Gomez ran into a little bit of trouble in
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: his first outing in about a week, but uh, Zeddy Matthews,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: his second straight strong start, Dan, after a rough stretch,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: he has a one, four, two ERA and 12 and
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: two thirds innings over his last two against Atlanta and
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the A's got to feel good for him.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: And I think it even goes back further.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: It's about six starts where he's got one blow up
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: in there, but the other five were really very solid or,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: or better performances. Twins are five and one in those games.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: He's got three 74 ERA in that, that span, even
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: with the blow up, um, And what I think stood
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: out to me on Monday was he had swings and
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: misses three whiffs on six of his pitches, like to
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: go fastball, curveball, slider, like everything. All six pitches were
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: dialed in to the point where he can get three
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: swings and misses out of each of them. He got
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: eight out of the slider. There's been work on that
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: to get depth on it. They recognized the slider was
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: an issue after he got kind of, crushed at Wrigley
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: to start the second half, and Zebby's starting to show
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: some consistency, and you see it. If he can ever
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: eliminate the big blow-up game, he can push forward, but
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: even where he is, he's a solid back-end starter right now.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: If he can keep this consistency going. I think he's had.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: A little bit of a learning experience, and it's something
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: that doesn't shock me that it takes a little while
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: to get there because 24 was a blur for him.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: He got to the majors and you're just like thrilled
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: to be.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: In the majors after starting the year at A ball
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: and 25 was disappointment.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I think we've seen the growing and the learning coming now.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: If this trend continues, that's a great sign for them
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: because Zebby has really good stuff.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Getting swing and miss was always the key. The other night,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: he had 23 swings and misses. That's a career high
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: for him out of 105 pitches. He threw 70 strikes.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: He was just all over the zone.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: And seemed to make pitches every time he needed to.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Early on, he got some traffic. He got ground balls
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: that could have been double plays. I think he got
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: two double plays. It's funny that the one run he
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: gave up, he put his glove down. Kaelin Culpepper was
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: right behind him. Would have made the play and instead
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: of kind of scooted off towards left center and Culpepper
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: tried to track it down, but really had no shot.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: But, you know, it's looked good. It's looked encouraging. I
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: really like what.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I've seen and like what I've heard too. And a
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: lot of it seems to have stemmed from he's gotten,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: they showed on the broadcast every time that toe, uh,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: the protective toe on his cleat has apparently helped him
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: with the, the blister slash slash laceration issue.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: That is a lot. That's a mouthful.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Uh, slash laceration toe doping.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: It sounds like, uh, Tyler, the twins have stayed afloat
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: because of, players like Zebby, who, you know, he was
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: sent down after the trade deadline to make room for
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the new additions and then quickly called back and has
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: been pretty rock solid. As Dan mentioned, I picked out
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the last two starts, but it has been going back
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: six starts now that he's been very sharp and the
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Twins have needed it now more than ever with Joe
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Ryan out and with some other struggles.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: And to what I was mentioning earlier about Pete and
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: his breakdown, they were talking about, you know, ground ball
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: rates have kind of started to trend upwards. I think
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: for the staff as a whole, but I think Zebby
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: in particular as well. Part of that's figuring out your
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: pitch mix and how things work. Like Dan said, they've
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: been working on the slider to get it a little
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: more depth, things like that. Pitching is such a, with
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: the times, you've got to just constantly adapt.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: As hitters have figured out now, they've got.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Machines that throw 100 miles an hour at the top
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: of the zone, top rail.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: Guys can hit that. If you can snipe a guy
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: with a.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Heater, I used to call it the freeze heater, When
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: you've got a lot of breaking balls, a lot of
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: good off-speed, things like that, and Zebby's fastball, to me,
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: even watching it on TV, it's kind of sneaky. He's
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: not our super twitchy guy, and he gets it up
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: there 96, 97 at times. He's got plenty of fastball
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: with his pitch to really be dominant, and you can
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: tell he's figuring out how to use things. I'm sure
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Jeffers and Caratini have helped him a lot as well.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Like Dan said, when you're a young guy just thrown
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: in the big leagues, you've kind of got to figure
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: out if your stuff works or not and then go
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: from there. And he's had that opportunity and now he's
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: kind of getting to settle in a bit and really
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: learn about himself as a big leaguer. And, you know,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: like you said, he's been dependable. He's, you know, he's
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: not the top end guy. He's not your ace, whatever
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: he could be in a year or two, you never know.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: But it's one, it's been great to watch him learn
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: and figure it out and become a guy that they
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: can depend on, you know, to get through five or
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: six innings, quality starts here and there. um you know
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: i mean giving up one run against any big league
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: team is is a win and he's he's been able
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: to do that and uh it's it's like i said
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: it's been fun to watch him figure it out as
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: as a guy who pitched on 100 loss team and
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: made 26 starts kind of flying blind like it's great
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: to see a guy get up there and a team
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: that matters and he's gonna end up pitching games that
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: matter you know in the next couple weeks he's gonna
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: be a guy that is a leverage piece for them
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: and you know, he's going to get to put his
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: foot in the ground and create a good foundation for
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: himself heading into the next seasons and so on after that.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Also Monday, Kalen Culpepper, four-hit game, all singles. He also
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: got the Twins going really on Tuesday with his double
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  Speaker 1: into the gap that scored Cody Clemons the first hint
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: of life against Gage Jump in that game, with all
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: due respect to Royce Lewis, who had the two hits prior,
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  Speaker 1: one of them being a pop-up that somehow fell in.
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  Speaker 1: But Culpepper, whew, pretty good start, hitting 435 in his
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: last six games, 333 overall. He's hit safely in 12
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: of his 15 games in the bigs. And I looked
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: it up, only six twins have a better batting average
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: in the first 15 games of their career. And it's
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: a list, guys. We've got Chris Parmelee, Jasmiel Pinto, Tim Tufel,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Kirby Puckett, Dave McCarty, fellow World Series hero to Kirby,
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  Speaker 1: Gene Larkin, and then Kalen Culpepper, Luke Kieschel right behind.
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  Speaker 1: That's with a minimum of 50 at-bats. If I don't
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  Speaker 1: cherry-pick like that, there's a few other names on there
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  Speaker 1: like Luis Uriahs and so forth. But heck of a
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: start to Culpepper's career, at least offensively. And then finally,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: before we go, Dan, did you have something to say there?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Did I cut you off?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, not at all. Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Before we go, old friend of the program, Matt Chernoff
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: was in the news again, guys.
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  Speaker 5: Just a bit outside.
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  Speaker 1: He threw the first pitch at the Atlanta Braves game
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  Speaker 1: last night. Matt Chernoff, of course, the Atlanta radio host
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: who we got into a brief but delicious radio war with.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Here he was before the first pitch looking very confident,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: kind of walking out to the mound, tossing the ball
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: in his hand, probably debating if he wants to go four-seam.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know what his pitch mix is. And then
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: here's the after picture. That is high and either tight
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: or outside. Look at the mascot. The mascot is very
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: concerned about where that pitch ended up. At least he
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: didn't bounce it, I guess I'll say, guys. But here's
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: my challenge to the Minnesota Twins. Let's keep this bit going.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Pick one of the three of us. to throw out
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the first pitch at a twins game and we'll see
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: if we can do better than sure enough. And I'm
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: going to just randomly choose Tyler, pick Tyler. Oh, um, I,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know why I make that choice, but let's,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: let's just do it and see. Yeah.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: I agree with that.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: You know, I miss, I miss a lot of home
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: games because I do more road games.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: So I'm unreliable. And even though you're in the area,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: you have two small children.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So, right. You know, it's hard to get nights off.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Very accurate arm for two small children, yeah. Right, right.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Might be a conflict of interest for you too, Dan.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe even for me, honestly. Yeah, correct.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: Right, we work it for media.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Just give me a ramp up period so I can
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: make it like a tryout.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll give you a bullpen session beforehand. We'll figure
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: it out. There's a lot of things we can do there.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, I can play catch and warm me up
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: on the field. If you want, I can play catch
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: and warm me up on the field.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, there we go. I like this.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Good branding.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Thanks, everybody, for listening. We'll be back with you again.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Quick turnaround tomorrow morning. We'll recap this series for the Twins.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Really need this one tonight. The Twins do. And we'll
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: tee up the weekend in Chicago. And hopefully we'll answer
• 37:17
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• 37:19
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