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NBA Playoff Start, Twins & Cubs win, Transfer Portal updates, Hawkeye talk with Eliot Clough · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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Welcome Miller and Condon on our Wednesday program.
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Welcome back to the Iowa Sports Radio Network as we crank it
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back up for the next 6 hours, two of which will be a Trent
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Condon and myself. Ken Miller will take you until
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2:00 off the bench. At that time, 3 until 2 until 5.
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Here's what's coming up on our program.
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We are going to talk Iowa to begin the show with Elliot
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Clough. Hawkeyeinsider.com with the
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latest on basketball. If there is some news, Elliott
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Clef will share that with us as Ben McCollum trying to rebuild
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his roster. So the latest on that will dip
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our toe into women's hoops and some football as well when
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Elliott joins us coming up here at 12:30.
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Off to Chicago to start the second hour of the program.
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David Kaplan in his normal spot every Wednesday to kick off our
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second hour talking Chicago sports, the Cubs, the White Sox,
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everything all of the teams the Bears 0 win on next week as the
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Take a look at one of the regional teams.
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The Chiefs have two first round picks.
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We'll talk to Nick Athan as to where he thinks that they are
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going to look what see what he's hearing as far as potentially
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moving up because there does seem I'd be a little bit of buzz
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pursuant to the Chiefs and their, I guess, desire to
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capture one of those edge rushers.
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So we'll talk to Nick about that and other topics and he joins us
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at 1:30. Trends, plays of the day are
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coming up. He had Portland yesterday off on
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the right foot. The NBA.
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Mr. NBA. Mr. NBA, You know what?
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You're Mr. WNB? AI am and don't be treading on
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my territory here, anybody. It goes for you Lucas, but
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pretty 2 good games to start right?
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Really entertaining it it was now.
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I didn't get involved in the first game until very late and
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saw. Was the plug pulled when you
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turned in to watch the first game?
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Amazon? I lost the signal.
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Yeah, I saw Awful announcing. He had an article talking about
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that a little bit. No, I, I didn't have that part
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of it, but got involved in last, I don't know, 2 minutes of
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regulation and then got to see OT and it was a wild sequence at
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the end. Fun game though.
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Was it you? Know just getting to know these
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teams a little bit all right, Pam's not out there for the
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heat. Here's this Hornet team is that.
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See how he got hurt? I didn't ball.
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Tripped. Him.
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Oh no. I mean, ball it was, it was kind
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of awkward. I don't think he did it on
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purpose, although there's a lot of folks that do believe he did.
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But as as as Bam was falling backward balls on the ground and
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kind of reached out. I don't know why he reached out
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if he was trying to prevent him from falling or to to help him
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not lose his balance. But in doing so, he kept his
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foot off the ground. So he fell right on his
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tailbone, his back, etcetera. And yeah, that wasn't good.
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But but anyways, so we'll get two more of these games tonight,
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both of which appear on Amazon, and we'll see where we go from
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here. We were.
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Speculating Monday about the reasoning why the 7-8 game in
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the East was tonight as opposed to the way that it was
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traditionally it was because the Flyers were at home.
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Oh, was it? Yeah, they share the same
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building. Yeah.
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Because of that, that was the reason that they had to push it
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back. So it wasn't ATV thing because
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maybe we speculated about it was just a building availability
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thing. So we'll see the Magic and the
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Sixers tonight. Just two teams that there's all
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kinds of. And Embiid is out for the
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Sixers. I think he's out.
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In theory. Well, Lucas was in here earlier
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and he said that he thinks Embiid is out so.
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They have him listed as out here officially, yeah.
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Box score that I go to. There you go with an abdomen
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injury. Yeah, boy, he misses a lot of
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time, doesn't He does, and he's so good when he plays, but
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unfortunately that's not enough. If you're a Sixers fan, will you
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play these games tonight and will you be packing?
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I both, but I do have an angle that I like in the Warriors
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Clippers tonight, and this is what we like to do if you are
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new to our program. Ken and I like conspiracy
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theories. Sometimes we drop our own.
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Yeah, I saw this bandied about a little bit last night on NBA
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Twitter because of course, for the first time in months, a.
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Year, you're back on NBA Twitter.
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Right. I click on a couple of things
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now and all of a sudden there's the algorithm.
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Here you go. And it's way too much.
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But that aside and going down with the theory Clippers
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Warriors tonight, of course, Steph a draw, a name that would
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be great even if it's just one extra game getting him as
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opposed to a very non descript Clippers organization, one of
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the worst organizations in professional sports.
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On top of it though, and this was the one that kind of got my
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wheels turning a little bit, is the ongoing saga with Kawhi and
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the NBA and the shadow company that was put together by
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Ballmer. Oh, of course, yeah.
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Just let's get rid of the clip where.
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Did that OK. You know.
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What are you going to do with them?
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Are you going to give them to another city or you just want
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them out of the league? Well, I I think not quite that
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far. Maybe give up ownership.
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Maybe they're forced to sell. But with a guy with that much?
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Money. I was going to say, isn't he one
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of the richest guys in the in the country?
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Yeah. That's not going away.
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You want to keep those guys in those seats.
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But has the NBA find them or punish them in any way?
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I mean it's owners punishing owner here.
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Yeah, and that becomes a sticky situation too, because then
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there's going to be maybe payback coming up down the line.
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But it was a theory at minimum that got me thinking a little
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bit. So probably going to dabble bit
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on the Warriors money line, jump on that a little bit and
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definitely going to play them grabbing the five and a half
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tonight against the Clippers. It was a theory that at minimum,
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it led to a wager. 4 weeks. So that's one that I have locked
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in. Got a couple others that I'm
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taking a peek at for that one. But yeah, a good start to the
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NBA playoffs. And we've had these times where
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I remember when this first started, like, what is going on
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here? It's kind of difficult to wrap
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your mind around exactly the way that it was going.
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It's for TV. It works.
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Yeah, it does. It did yesterday.
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It's the NBA realizing they can monetize these games.
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Why do you think we have the play in game in the NCAA
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tournament? It's demonetized Tuesday and
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Wednesday night. And why wouldn't you?
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Absolutely. And now they're going to expand
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it because they realize that the appetite is there and so are the
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so is the financial impact that comes along with it.
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So I'm with you. I mean, old school isn't 82
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games enough? I mean, if you can't decide
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after 82, what are we doing here?
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But it's it's content, and you and I both love content.
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And the reason last night that I was late getting to the NBA is
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because of the best team in the American.
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League it's unbelievable Trent watching Bucks and so I was I
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was going to bring it up and you know what is it too early Is
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this the year oh. Man, I.
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Mean baseball fans, and I'm a baseball fan.
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I'm a Twins fan. I like the Twins.
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But I want to see Byron Buxton play at a full year at full
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health because we've we've seen glimpses of it and he's been so
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injury struck his entire career and if he could ever have a
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year, I mean, how many times have we set that?
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So many, right? An incredible amount.
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And there's been the times that he's been injured.
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A nondescript place. Yes, yeah.
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He slides in a second comes out. He's broken.
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Finger right, Just weird things that happened.
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Tracking down balls, diving after balls, diving into walls.
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Those are the ones that you anticipate.
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Last year he played the most games he had played since 2017.
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And that number was what? He played 126 games last year.
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If you can get that range, 130. I think every Twins fan would
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probably sign up for that right now.
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Last year in that year where he finally played 126 still
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missing. What, 58 games?
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Yeah, 54. No, no, not that many.
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Well, 126, No 40 something, yeah.
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Yeah, even with that, when he missed the 3630 something, yeah,
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he still had 21 double S, 7 triples, 35 homers, 83 RBI and
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24 stolen bases. Jeez, you.
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Here for a lot of players. You coupled with still great
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defense and maybe he's not at he's not as apex anymore
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defensively, no, but he's still he's a fine center fielder.
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He is great out there. You get that out of him.
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The bats are swinging it. I don't think that they're going
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to be hanging around. But let's say we do get to July.
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This bullpen is still atrocious. Trent, there's always one team
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seemingly that that gets to, you know, the All Star break that
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is, Remember the Royals did it. What was the managers name?
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Tony. Was it Tony Perez?
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No, no, no. Was it, Is it, is it Pena?
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I think it. Was Tony Pena.
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Tony Pena, I think OK, this going way back.
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Oh not wait 20 some of the years is way back.
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They were in it till like September out of nowhere and it
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kind of feels like again, we're April the 15th.
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Tap the brakes a little bit. But the twins were not supposed
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to be off to this start. No, not at.
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All not even close to this and and here they are.
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You throw in just if they're hanging around, they get to
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July. So we got a new poll ad that's
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now running things. Young poll ad right.
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No, this is the older brother, older brother that came in and
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came in with some bravado. He was showing up, though, He
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was at spring training all over the park, all the.
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Is that the guy that does the interviews from the dugouts
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periodically? I've seen him in the Twins
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dugout doing a doing a little media scrum.
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He's more available than the past.
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That's probably him then. More available, but he said, you
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know, they're going to go out there.
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Yes, they want to have a competitive team.
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There was what I believe was the fake offer to Framer Valdez.
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There's no way they were getting him.
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But the big moves was getting Carotini.
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OK, been around. A veteran that's OK at best.
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And Josh Bell? That's not exactly.
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Going to get 2 veterans that Yeah, well, when Bell makes
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contact with the ball, it's going to leave a lot of ball.
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He's got power. Yes, he does.
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He's got. Power.
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But if they are hanging around, all right, put your money where
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your mouth is. You say you're going to work to
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help the team, you got to do it. Or is it just going to be yet
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another poll ad? And I think for most Twins fans,
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that's the anticipation. It's just going to be more of
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the same. What did you see the attendance
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last night? It's what did what did we we
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figured out the season ticket holder base was about 12,016
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thousand last night. So what's it going to?
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How long? I was thinking about this last
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night. Do they spend the weekend in the
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Twin Cities? Do you know?
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Coming up this weekend, they are at home for the Reds.
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So I have to believe with the start that the Twins are having,
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it isn't it time for fans of this ball club to get off their
11:17
you know what's they're a Hardy bunch.
11:19
They won't do it. Can't be the weather just
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keeping them away. Wait, what are they waiting for?
11:23
Is it just a is this just a statement that they're making?
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Absolutely, They've had enough. Yes, absolutely, 100%.
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So get to the All Star break if you're in contention, and then
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maybe I'll buy. I'll come down to the ballpark.
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Even then, really think there's a lot of people that are
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completely checked out. Totally checked out on this
11:38
team. And it's not.
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This is just a baseball thing though.
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We know this year after year after year fans are very slow to
11:44
come back after disappointments. It takes a long time to build it
11:48
back up and it's really your season ticket base.
11:51
There isn't the walk up crowd, even as things get better than
11:55
corporate. Sales base.
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I mean, I'd hate to try and sell ticket packages to groups.
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It's. A different level, but we see
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this across baseball. It is always slower to come
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around than you'd anticipate. And because of the ownership
12:06
problem, because the poll ads have been just basically a four
12:10
letter word in Minneapolis. They've been off for decades.
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It's going to be slow to happen. And yeah, I think it's going to
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be something like that after school gets out, we get into
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June, they're still in contention.
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Maybe you'll see a bump in the crowds, but it's not going to be
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more than 20. Thousand.
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Well, do they go north of 20,000 this weekend?
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Whether or no, you really don't think.
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So. Nope.
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Huh. Well, we'll see Their their
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their team is red hot. They got a chance to sweep the
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Red Sox strength. I know the Red Sox after.
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Sweeping the Tigers. After sweeping the Tigers, I
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know the Red Sox are struggling a little bit here, but they've
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got a chance to do something and we'll see if they can and taking
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two or three Toronto. Yes, yeah.
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Good for the twins, good for the, good for the organization.
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But at the same time, yes, it's good.
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But are they? We don't need to spend money.
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Look what? Look what our team, they're in
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first place. Yeah, just keep rolling.
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It out there just keep yeah, it's worked it's working this
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year. Whatever we did or didn't do in
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this case seems to be seems to be working.
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We'll see Cubs got a big win last night from falling behind
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three and O this Colin Ray story is really something just when
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you think that his career is over they they bring him back
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last year. He played a huge role in that
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team last year, comes in last night as you're, you're right,
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it was a bullpen game. But in the end, it really wasn't
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because Colin Ray just took the ball and because of the fact
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that the Cubs bats came alive and did so in a major way.
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They didn't have to go to that bullpen game.
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It was Colin Ray for I think he probably pitched 66 innings.
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It was all said and done. Yeah.
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It was 6. What did you think of the Martin
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Kid? I thought he was great.
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He played through very few pitches, through strikes and was
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out very quickly. Exactly what you want, yeah.
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And you didn't want is it going to be 1?
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Is it going to be two innings? Whatever it is, He was
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efficient. What sits in the mid 90s?
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Yeah, I think it. Was yeah, right in that range,
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you know, 95, something like that, a good bullpen arm.
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A guy that can help out something.
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Well, this bullpen has been a disappointment, I think, at
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this. Yeah.
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Maton has not been good. No, the old bar has been hit and
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missed. Right.
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And I don't trust that guy as far as I can throw him.
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And that's not very far. It's a bullpen I thought was
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going to be better coming into the season, certainly than they
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been at this point. And we find another guy.
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Riley Martin, career binder leader, Leaguer, 28 years old, I
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think I saw last night during the start.
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And yeah, liked him. Throw strikes.
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He did threw 6 pitches, all of them strikes.
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He got out of it Bing Bang Boom and Craig Counsel and they were
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talking about this on the broadcast.
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Both Boog and JD noticed the council went out of his way to
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go to the other end of the dugout to give him an attaboy
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and put his arm around them. Apparently that's not something
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that Craig Counsel is is known to do.
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So we'll see. But that was that was good last
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night. The getaway game today for those
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Cubs and and the Phillies as we will get to the series clincher.
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The rubber match of all rubber matches takes place today
15:00
Imanaga and Lizardo. Good pitching match.
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Do you have an you know what, Imanaga?
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His last start was pretty good. It was it was pretty good.
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You have an opinion. Have you looked at the baseball
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card closely at? All a little bit.
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I got a couple of things that I have circled at this point and
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cut one more math thing to check out before I fire in the plays
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officially. If I had to make a waiter, I'd
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lean Cubs. You mentioned in Managa last
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time out Lizardo has not been very good this year.
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His area is north of 6 so it would be a lean towards the
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Cubs. But also got to see the price
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out there and when you're shopping for baseball.
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Yeah, go to Circa. Absolutely.
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Go to Circa. I had one yesterday.
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It was a 14 cent difference between their their money line
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and the second best odds that were out there out of the big
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shops in the market. Yeah, it makes it makes a huge
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difference. All right, before we get to
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Elliot Clough, what are you hearing as far as Iowa
15:48
basketball? Are they making any headway?
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And by the way, if you're a Cyclone fan, you've probably
15:53
seen it. But TJ put, I think it was the
15:56
basketball Twitter account tweeted this out.
15:59
Just what TJ's thoughts on all of his transfer.
16:02
So if you haven't seen that yet, go there.
16:04
But Iowa looking to make looking to make some moves.
16:07
What are you hearing as far as McKeever and then Ace Glass, the
16:10
point guard that they want to bring over from Washington
16:12
state. Are they close on either?
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Well, right now Ace Glass is on a visit somewhere else.
16:17
He's on. Was he supposed to come here
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first? You.
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Know no, Okay, but he's on a visit to Vanderbilt.
16:22
All right. Vanderbilt, we know that
16:24
pocketbook has definitely changed with that whole athletic
16:27
department, the way that they have spent recently.
16:30
Another place that McKeever might be visiting Vanderbilt, so
16:34
that appears that's going to be the the battlegrounds for Iowa
16:37
this year in men's hoops is against Vandy and going up
16:40
against Nashville. That's a tough one.
16:43
Was it Barrett Robbins? The Robbins kid that started
16:45
Drake was Minnesota. He ended up at Vanderbilt.
16:47
That has gone very well outside of the bowl game last year.
16:49
So that's the latest on that front.
16:51
One thing with McKeever saw that, I think he enjoyed his
16:56
visit really good, happy with what Iowa was selling, but it's
16:59
asking price keeps coming up because.
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Is it over 3? Have you heard that?
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I don't know, but what I do know is big programs are getting
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involved now. Well, what I was told that his
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his ask was over three at Iowa and there's a team, an SEC
17:14
school. I didn't know, didn't know the
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Vanderbilt thing. It's just now that their offer
17:18
starts with A4. Not surprising right now,
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sniffing around. Michigan has been sniffing
17:23
around. Yukon's been sniffing around.
17:27
That changes the equation. Funds are OK at Iowa, right?
17:32
It's how are you going to allocate those funds?
17:35
So if you missed those two, what where did we go from here?
17:39
Is is it time to start being a little bit?
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Worried well and another guy is on campus right now from well.
17:45
He was at Colorado State North Carolina last year.
17:47
Kai and Evans shot the crap out of the ball two years ago.
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Yep, at Colorado State. Not a traditional point guard.
17:53
He played point guard for Carolina this year and struggled
17:56
that role after the injury that they had.
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He's more of an off ball kind of guy.
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He can handle it but him and Combs together I think
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definitely would make sense. I don't know if this is a
18:06
holding pattern. We'll get Evans ear on a visit.
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He's already visited Minnesota. Slow play him a little bit and
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then hope to get a weekend visit for ace class.
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This is speculating if that's the case.
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Reading between the lines, I think that's maybe the way that
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they're looking at it and maybe just scheduling it worked out
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better to get Evans here first as opposed to getting Glass here
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first. Who has mentioned is that
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Vanderbilt but has. Evans got another visit coming
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up that you know. Of those were, the only two that
18:31
I really heard early on was Iowa and Minnesota.
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Nico Medved was his coach at Colorado State where he had a
18:37
ton of success, 45% from three and it's down to like 30% this
18:40
year at North Carolina. But not your traditional, not
18:45
the point guard. I think we were thinking of when
18:47
the portal opened up, lead guard.
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You want to use that terminology.
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I guess you could use that with Evans and him and Combs together
18:53
playing in the back court. If it does.
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If that goes awry though, and these three guys or two of the
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three are off the board. One thing I think we're also
19:01
learning and this goes back to, did I mention this yesterday?
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I think I said on my podcast Locked on Hawkeyes, by the way.
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Daily. Just about to ask you, Trent,
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what podcast is that? Locked on Hawkeyes, your daily
19:12
Iowa Hawkeye podcast. Even when you're in South
19:15
Carolina, you're going to do it when you're at a wedding.
19:17
Got to find time to do it. We might.
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Put one in the can. That's a good idea.
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I won't say nothing. No, no, I didn't.
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I didn't say anything to dozens of listeners either.
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Is there was this story that came out and it was sometime
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during the course of the season. It was just, you know, one of
19:31
those regular season interviews and it came out that Ben
19:33
McCollum asked a lot of his players at Northwest Missouri
19:37
State, don't publicize your offer.
19:40
It's something we just ask of you because they knew once they
19:43
offered somebody, everybody else in their league was going to
19:45
offer. And they don't think it takes a
19:48
great leap to believe maybe something is happening here
19:50
because information is slow compared to a lot of the
19:53
programs that are out there. Very slow to get information
19:56
when guys are there. And outside of when we saw
19:58
Mckeeder, I don't think, I don't believe any of the beat guys had
20:02
before he was visiting that he was visiting.
20:05
It was an Instagram picture that he had in Iowa City.
20:06
So he was the one that tipped him off.
20:08
It was known as his own social. Same thing today with Kai and
20:10
Evans. I didn't see a report beforehand
20:13
that he was visiting until there was an Instagram of him in Iowa
20:15
City. So I think we're learning this
20:18
coaching staff as a whole and certainly Ben McCollum, he keeps
20:22
things incredibly close to the vest.
20:24
Now, it's different. How many beat reporters are
20:26
covering Northwest Missouri State?
20:27
Well, true, compared to Iowa. Some more information.
20:30
Northwest Missouri State fanatic.com Yes.
20:33
You you probably had. That Uri had a bunch of.
20:35
That's one that eluded. Me, you have to anticipate, Yes,
20:38
there will be news that gets out.
20:39
But I had 65 at the 66 at the time.
20:42
BCS schools fanatic. So close.
20:45
Yeah, look at my retirement. They got a different one.
20:50
Yeah, a little different, I'll say.
20:52
But that's something that just kind of sticks in my mind a
20:55
little bit with McCollum is I think information is going to be
20:57
much slower than what we've seen in the.
20:59
Past it makes sense. I mean, I, I'm surprised
21:01
actually more coaches don't go down that path because why would
21:04
you just let the let the next guy go or know what's going on
21:07
with you, you know, keep it under the vest.
21:10
And then we get the story today at Tavion Banks.
21:13
Kind of a Montchilovich light type of story, would you say?
21:16
I wouldn't because the way that I read it, he had to enter the
21:22
transfer portal the way that it's set up and if he is given a
21:26
fifth year of eligibility, And I don't know if I had the phrasing
21:29
right or maybe I just read it incorrectly, In order to get
21:33
that extra year of eligibility, though, he had to be in the
21:35
portal and then come back as an Iowa guy.
21:38
He did say that if he has the opportunity, he wants to come
21:41
back to Iowa and that's something that you put on the
21:43
back border and certainly keep a scholarship.
21:45
Open. Absolutely.
21:46
If that's the case, but I read it a little bit different, where
21:50
Manchilovich, he's not coming. Back No.
21:52
He wants to go to the NBA. Banks, I think, realizes there's
21:54
no NBA in my future, right? That's that's not going to be
21:57
the destination for him. I could be wrong on that one.
22:00
Maybe I read it incorrectly, but that's kind of the reading
22:03
through it. I think that is the terminology.
22:06
We'll ask Elliot, maybe he'll have some clarity on.
22:08
It any Fulgaris news percolating out there?
22:10
Haven't seen anything, I guess I haven't been searching.
22:13
Either maybe the maybe the team that school he's talking to is
22:17
asking him not to say anything, right?
22:19
Yeah, apparently that goes for whoever Audie Crooks is talking
22:21
to, because I don't think I've seen anything there.
22:24
I really want to know where she's going.
22:25
I really do. She had the visit to Maryland
22:27
set up at the beginning of this week.
22:29
We know she got on the airplane. She must have been connecting
22:32
through LaGuardia because we got that call.
22:34
Yes, Notre Dame's been talked about.
22:38
Oklahoma, Texas, those were some of the earlier ones.
22:40
I don't know, it takes the right fit.
22:43
Thinking of Brenda Freeze in the way that they play sure doesn't
22:45
seem like a right fit. State connection, but yeah.
22:48
Certainly different the way that they play and that pressing
22:51
style and the way they did play defensively than what we're
22:54
accustomed to seeing from Audie on that end of the floor.
22:57
But she is so skilled offensively and he can find a
23:00
way to find a way to take a talent like that and certainly
23:03
mold her into your system. Yep, Finley added to his roster
23:06
yesterday. Got a a big from from Florida.
23:10
Don't know much about her. Don't know anything about her
23:12
other than she averaged 2 points and two rebounds a game.
23:15
Played about 8 minutes. So we'll see what we'll see.
23:18
And some breaking news as the Iowa women have just added from
23:22
the portal. Another piece to the puzzle as
23:25
Amari Whiting from Oklahoma State has made her commitment to
23:28
the Hawkeyes. Lot of rumblings about this
23:32
yesterday on social media. Nobody was willing to break it
23:34
though they'd say her name looked like it was trending this
23:37
direction. Really like good defender and
23:39
after losing Fear Bach who was their best on ball defender, she
23:42
was somebody that can definitely help on that end of the floor.
23:45
Not a great 3 point shooter. Good off the bounce though is
23:47
definitely her strength. A different kind of player but
23:50
the defensive end of the floor that what steps up.
23:52
Coach's kid. Their mom was a coach at BYU.
23:55
You coupled that with a year at Oklahoma State and our final
23:57
year will be in Iowa City. 6 foot tall, kind of a small all
24:00
forward type. Decent offensively, more of a
24:03
driver than a shooter, but defense always need defensive
24:06
like that out of Whitey. All right, 1225, more on Iowa.
24:09
Coming up next, we will talk to our Elliott Clough from
24:12
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Miller and Condon back to talk Hawks on the other side's the
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Iowa Sports Radio Network. I'm Miller Cotton, welcome back
25:31
12:30 right on the button. That never happens.
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We're always late. Not today.
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Elliot Clef told him 1230 And here we are to talk Hawks with
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25:43
cover. Elliot.
25:44
Thanks for coming on Trenton. Ken, how are you, Sir?
25:47
I'm good. How are you guys doing?
25:48
OK, lots of news to get to. I guess we'll start in the world
25:53
of college hoops. Ben McCollum trying to make an
25:56
impact on his roster. We'll get to that in a second,
25:59
but sounds like Jan Jensen's had a productive morning.
26:03
She has. I would love to tell you more
26:06
about it. I don't know much about it being
26:10
on the, the men's beat. I, I did see that that she got a
26:14
commitment this morning and adding to the roster, which is
26:18
always good, of course. And I, I know Jan is really
26:22
focused on culture. So I'm sure it was all about
26:25
culture fit on top of production.
26:27
So yeah, looking forward to to seeing what what they're able to
26:31
do with the the portal and how things come together.
26:35
Mari Whiting out of Oklahoma State made her commitment to the
26:37
Hawkeye. So let's get into the men and
26:40
let's jump things off. A visit happening currently with
26:43
Kai and Evans that is in Iowa City currently going through his
26:46
visit. Let's start right there, came
26:48
together Minnesota connection. Nico Medved is going to Colorado
26:51
State, obviously up there now with the Gophers.
26:54
That's where his first visit went.
26:55
And it sounds like comes down to money.
26:57
I was probably in a better shape certainly than the Gophers are
27:00
in terms of NIL. But what are you hearing on his
27:02
recruitment and what kind of fit is he when you think about
27:05
potentially him in the backcourt with Kale Combs?
27:08
Yeah. So basically everything you said
27:11
right there trend, I mean, it's going to come down to Iowa and
27:14
Minnesota. Obviously that Nico Medved
27:16
connection is is big. I mean that that's kind of the
27:20
way we've been viewing it to this point just because
27:23
Minnesota, I mean, when he was at Colorado State, that was the
27:28
the best year of his career so far.
27:30
Obviously had a dip down at UNC this last season, but in terms
27:34
of a fit at Iowa, like you said, money is probably going to be
27:37
better at Iowa. Fit might even be better at Iowa
27:40
as an off ball guard. That can sort of complement some
27:43
of the things that Kale Combs does in the back court.
27:46
Probably more of a consistent shooter, a guy who has played at
27:50
some really tough opponents in the ACC.
27:53
So we come in and bring in that experience.
27:55
And don't forget it's actually same high school as Cam Manny
27:58
out, so previous previously teammates there in Kansas City.
28:02
So there's some connections at Iowa for him too.
28:06
So not quite that lead guard that you'd like to get, IE like
28:10
a Bennett third, but but a guy that can help out, provide some
28:13
extra shooting, plus an experienced player that that can
28:17
help in in his one year with with Iowa.
28:21
Ace Glass would fit that role as that point guard that perhaps
28:24
Iowa needs the latest on the Washington State transfer.
28:29
He's he's going to make his way eventually, apparently to Iowa
28:33
City. What?
28:33
What do you know about Ace Glass Junior and the likelihood that
28:37
he becomes a Hawk? Right.
28:40
So he hasn't like you said, he hasn't made his visit to Iowa
28:43
City yet. As far as we know, there's
28:45
there's no official day that he's planning on making the
28:48
trip. And by the sounds of it that you
28:51
know that that partnership might not probably not going to
28:56
happen. Doesn't sound like the Hawkeyes
28:58
are are having a set at the top of their their priority board at
29:02
this point in time. So would probably honestly,
29:06
guys, be pretty surprised if it comes together.
29:09
But I mean it, you know, don't count out Ben McCollum if if he
29:13
wants to go after Glass, then it it wouldn't surprise me if if
29:17
that's that's what happened. But yeah, it doesn't sound like
29:21
he's going to he's going to end up a Hawkeye.
29:23
If they get him to campus then and they actively want him then,
29:27
then things could come together. But at the moment, from what
29:30
we've been told, it doesn't sound like he's he's a huge
29:32
priority for the Hawks. So is it I will moving on or
29:36
maybe not a reciprocating from East Glass to Iowa City, what a
29:39
what could he have fill in kind of the details on that front?
29:43
I I'd probably say a little bit of a combination of both, but
29:47
Ben is very, very picky when it comes to how he, he adds in the
29:51
portal. There's a reason they haven't
29:53
signed anybody yet, right? Like they, they take their time,
29:56
they're doing the background, they're seeing how they fit in
30:00
terms of culture because he is very protective of that of that
30:03
culture in Iowa City. So I would learn more towards
30:06
Iowa, just not not want, not necessarily not wanting to move
30:10
forward, but not prioritizing Glass as much as some people may
30:15
have thought. Glass not a great defender.
30:17
That's one thing that jumped out of his numbers.
30:19
You, I know we all like to look at the offensive things, but
30:22
that's some of the defensive metrics.
30:23
Not exactly strong for ace Glass, big guy that was on
30:27
campus already. Oh yes, Andrew Mckeeter, 7 foot
30:31
three. It's not just Iowa, though.
30:34
There are a lot of programs that are after him.
30:35
Vanderbilt also involved in the mix on that one.
30:38
Yukon, Michigan starting to sniff around.
30:40
What can you tell us about 7 foot three out of Saint Mary's?
30:43
Andrew McKeever. Yeah, You know, there was a
30:46
point in time where it felt like Iowa was not necessarily a lock,
30:50
but that they were at a really good spot.
30:52
And I still do think they're in a good spot in terms of how he
30:55
feels about the program and what he sees in the Hawkeyes.
30:58
But man, that price tag just keeps going up and up and up and
31:02
up like you'd expect. And of course, we expected it to
31:05
be high because he's a big. That said, 7 foot 3 and average
31:09
near double double has the single season record in terms of
31:13
rebounding percentage in the West Coast Conference.
31:15
So everybody would could use that.
31:17
Everybody could use that size, that rim deterrent.
31:20
But the way you know, you mentioned other programs
31:24
involved, man, it's it's just going to be hard to be able to
31:28
pony up that type of cash to bring in a guy like that at a
31:32
program like Iowa. Now they could if they wanted
31:34
to, but it also depends on who they also want to go get at that
31:38
point guard spot and as well as that off ball guard position.
31:42
So it depends on how Iowa wants to allocate that money.
31:46
But McKeever is not going to be cheap guys like we're we're
31:49
talking three $4 million for for one, one big man.
31:54
And that that, you know, like I said, Iowa has the fun, but to
31:59
spend it all on a big guy when when you've got other needs is
32:02
not exactly how Ben McCollum is probably going to go about it. 4
32:06
for four for three years would be one thing, but that's not the
32:10
case. Nope.
32:12
Nope. Yeah, McKeever is going to be
32:14
expensive. So I want to go back to Ace
32:16
Glass for a second because if they if they don't, if there's
32:20
not, not anything that comes together there, he still needs a
32:24
point guard. What are you hearing?
32:25
Is there another name or two that might make sense that that
32:30
maybe not everybody is this guy's appeared on everybody's
32:33
radar yet. Where's McCullum going if he
32:35
doesn't get Ace Glass to fill the point guard spot?
32:38
For right now, it appears it'll be Tyree Coleman that they're
32:42
really going to prioritize a guy that they actually recruited
32:46
when when they were at Drake, Ben McCollum and his staff.
32:49
So there's a prior relationship there.
32:51
He is visiting other programs like a Nebraska.
32:54
I can't remember who else is involved at the top of my head,
32:56
but other power for high major programs are involved here.
33:00
Iowa is towards the end of his official visit list.
33:03
So as long as he can get there, it sounds like Iowa is in a good
33:06
spot and and this is a guy that they would want so and I mean
33:10
think about another point guard that that Iowa are.
33:13
Yeah, the staff recruited out of high school and almost got a
33:17
Drake and eaten Waggler. So obviously they've done a
33:20
pretty good job of, of recruiting these point guards
33:23
and finding talent that they feel they can develop.
33:26
So Tyree Coleman would be the guy to, to keep an eye on there
33:30
as long as he gets through all these official visits and
33:33
doesn't commit elsewhere on the spot.
33:34
Because, I mean, we all know recruiting and even in the
33:38
transfer portal can be super volatile.
33:40
So as long as you can get him on campus, I think Hawkeye, the
33:43
Hawkeyes are, are going to be in a decent spot to to go and get
33:46
him. Coleman shot over 40% from 3:00
33:48
during his freshman campaign at Illinois State and he is,
33:51
according to defensive metrics, a good defender.
33:54
Coleman maybe is a little bit better fit.
33:56
Let's jump over do some football.
33:58
Elliott Clough joining us from hawkeyeinsider.com.
34:00
Elliott, before we get into spring practice, just your take
34:04
away from yesterday, the vacating of the four wins handed
34:07
down by the NCAA and reading on the message boards at
34:10
hawkeyeinsider.com. A lot of frustration from the
34:13
Hawkeye fan base. Yeah, to be expected.
34:17
I mean, it's just silly. Like, first it was the betting
34:20
situation. Now it's that these are things
34:22
that are running rampant across college football.
34:25
And the only difference with Iowa is that they admitted to it
34:27
and instituted their own their own suspensions or, or, or what
34:36
would you call it? Obviously, Kirk suspended
34:38
himself for that one game. And of course, the Noah Shannon
34:41
issue. But like, I was the only program
34:44
that owned up to it. And meanwhile, we've got
34:47
programs. I mean, like we know Bennett
34:49
Thirst was recruited out of the portal, offered millions of
34:53
dollars to go elsewhere when he had a do not contact tag on his
34:57
decision to enter the portal and go to Iowa.
35:00
Like, we we know, know that for a fact.
35:02
I mean, these are it's just there's an avalanche and they
35:06
caught a snowflake with a program that actually took
35:09
responsibility for the things that minorly did wrong and
35:13
slapped them not on the wrist across the face.
35:16
It's really just silly. It's like a kid telling a little
35:19
white lied. Be like, OK, now we need you to
35:22
tell the truth. We love you.
35:25
We just want you to listen. We want you to speak somebody
35:27
who's known to tell the truth. And then you ground him for a
35:30
month, say, oh, you can't watch TV for a month.
35:33
It's just it's it's so silly like and and to have it all
35:36
happen over cave freaking McNamara of.
35:38
All people, come on. Yeah, what are we doing?
35:41
Yeah, of all people, I couldn't agree with you more.
35:44
Hey, I want to go back to one that I had on campus that there
35:48
was some speculation that Jake, is it Narat is how do we say his
35:51
last name, the quarterback and legacy that there that Iowa was
35:55
in a pretty good spot for? I believe he's certainly highly
35:59
regarded. I know where you guys had him
36:01
ranked, but I believe he's a four-star, but he's going to, of
36:04
all places, Lexington, KY to play for the Wildcats.
36:10
Did Iowa, I mean, does does this seem like it was going to
36:13
happen? And if so, what went wrong at
36:16
the end, if anything? Or was this always a long shot
36:18
at best? So I would say that Iowa was
36:22
definitely in a good spot. I mean, when you've got a legacy
36:25
quarterback on campus who is from the Chicago area, that's
36:30
always going to be a position that's going to be favorable for
36:34
Iowa. And for a kid that knew the
36:38
program, grew up around the program, it would it would make
36:41
a lot of sense. But as he he started to rise up,
36:45
those rankings ended up #2 with the other play, it just it
36:50
became a situation where he blew up more than Iowa expected him
36:54
to. And therefore, again, price tag
36:57
increase as well. Competing.
36:58
You get programs like Kentucky, like Oregon, like Kansas State.
37:03
I mean, when when you're a new coach there who who's coming
37:06
over from Oregon, obviously he's got some pedigree with what he's
37:10
done. Will Stein with quarterbacks at
37:13
Oregon. And then you're in a position
37:15
where you need to build a program.
37:17
OK, here you go, here's your money.
37:19
And this is the situation where Iowa didn't value him quite as
37:23
much as some of these other programs and said, OK, we'd love
37:26
to have you, but we're not going to throw out the red carpet.
37:29
We're not going to throw out a bag of cash.
37:31
And therefore now right there he goes.
37:33
He ends up at Kentucky, which if if that's where he wants to be,
37:37
there you go. Iowa, like I said, wasn't going
37:40
to, you know, spend more than they felt like they needed to.
37:44
We jump into practice, the actual things going on.
37:48
A lot of good Nuggets you guys have over at Hawkeye Insider.
37:51
Let's start, though, with the most obvious the quarterback
37:53
position. What are you hearing?
37:54
Jeremy Heklinski against Hank Brown.
37:58
Man, I tell you what you guys, I I can keep giving you the same
38:02
update for the next few. Months because.
38:04
That's the way. It's just the way what we're
38:06
hearing. You know, I'll quote a source
38:08
and and say that it appears like it's going to go again and I
38:14
quote down to the wire. So this might be one we don't
38:17
find out fully until we get that first depth chart and who knows
38:21
we might not even get it then we might have get a big ol or right
38:24
there. So we might not know until the
38:27
1st snap against against Northern Illinois and Phoenix
38:30
Stadium on September. I think it's September 5th, but
38:34
yeah, I, I it's just one of those things where one guy has a
38:37
great day, the other guy doesn't, and then vice versa.
38:41
They got they bring different things to the table.
38:43
Hank Brown more of a, you know, a mechanical guy that actually
38:46
has had some experience playing college football.
38:48
Where is that? Kolinsky hasn't, but then again,
38:51
had Kolinsky is is the gamer that a lot of people really like
38:55
that can extend plays, make tough some tough throws, but
38:59
also will take a risk here and there.
39:02
So Hecklinski, a guy that could win you a game but also could
39:08
lose you a game. And then you look at Hank Brown
39:10
and he's a guy that probably won't win you a game but might
39:13
not lose you a game too, depending on, you know, the
39:17
throws and the decisions he makes.
39:18
So both need to become better decision makers.
39:22
Both still have a lot to learn. So yeah, I'd love to tell you
39:26
right now, oh, Hank Brown or, or Jeremy Hecklinski is going to be
39:29
the guy. In my opinion, it should be
39:31
Hecklinski, but we we'll see. We'll see how things develop.
39:35
We still got quite a while before before that first snap.
39:39
Yeah, and you know what, it's it's great for business, but for
39:42
both the websites and certainly for talk radio, the longer it
39:45
goes, the better it is for everybody.
39:47
So here's hoping that this thing drags out for a while.
39:51
What else you watching, Elliot? What's, what's the position at
39:54
that's caught your eye that you'll pay maybe closer
39:57
attention? I mean, obviously it's hard not
39:59
to watch the quarterbacks, but once we get to a week from
40:02
Saturday, what will you be watching?
40:05
I'm really intrigued at the the safety those two new safeties,
40:09
Anthony Hawkins and Tyler Brown. Anthony Hawkins from Villanova,
40:12
Tyler Brown from James Madison, both received their accolade.
40:16
Their previous schools been hearing a lot of good things.
40:18
Tyler Brown wasn't in practice when we were there.
40:21
Just sounds like it was minor bumps and bruises.
40:23
So that's why he didn't practice that day.
40:25
So be one that I want to watch. We'll be watching corners.
40:29
I mean, you know, kind of know what you're going to get from
40:31
Deshawn Lee at this point, but sounds like there's going to be
40:34
a real competition between Jalen Watson and Rashad Godfrey for
40:37
that second corner spot. You have these moments where you
40:40
see Godfrey do really well and run support, and he's a bigger
40:45
guy that can kind of compliment maybe what Deshaun Lee does on
40:48
the field. And then Jalen Watson sounds
40:50
like he's just a playmaker kind of known for that at a high
40:54
school speed ability to stick with guys.
40:57
And then, yeah, I mean, linebacker is going to be really
41:00
fun to watch too. I think.
41:02
I mean, I just keep hearing really, really good things about
41:04
Cam Buffington. So that's that's when we're
41:07
going to keep an eye on. And then defensive line, it's a
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whole new group other than Kenneth Merriweather.
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You lose all four starters, plus Brian Allen.
41:15
So basically the entirety of the defense is what I'll be finding
41:20
at this point. But I mean, and there's so many
41:22
new faces all over the place, like 25% of this roster, you
41:26
basically know what you're going to get.
41:27
But then there's 75% where we just really don't know how.
41:31
How are the snaps going to go with Kate Peeper?
41:33
Is he going to be thinking too much about what's happening?
41:36
If he's if he's playing center, who's going to be at right
41:38
guard? Leighton Jones taking over at
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left guard, Who's going to be is it going to be Jack Dosler at
41:44
right tackle? Do we know that for sure?
41:45
Is Canon Leonard going to get a shot?
41:47
I mean, and then you throw LJ Phillips in the transfer from
41:49
South Dakota, Evan James, receiver from Furman.
41:53
So this time of year is always really fun just because of all
41:56
the new faces. But this time it's going to be a
41:58
lot of new faces and just basically pretty much every
42:02
position. Ellie Clef, hawkeyeinsider.com
42:05
have it covered over there along with David Icolt as they keep an
42:09
eye on iowahawkeyeinsider.com, part of 24/7 Sports.
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Ellie, thanks for giving us a few minutes today.
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Appreciate it. Yeah, thanks, Ken.
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Don't forget Sean Bach too. Thank you.
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Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for reminding me.
42:23
I'm glad you got that in there. Sean Bach as.
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Well, and I got to meet Sean down in Houston.
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You did, yes. Did you have a beer with?
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Him, he did, yes. We chatted for a little bit.
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First time we've actually met in person, conversed a little bit
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online. But yeah, it was good to
42:35
actually meet him in person as he was getting ready to head
42:37
over to the arena much earlier than I did.
42:41
I had to get another beer. Why wouldn't you?
42:42
Oh, absolutely. You're there for fun, not.
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For work I had to get revved up. Yeah, primed up and away you
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went. Good stuff.
42:50
We'll take a time. I will come back and finish out
42:52
our hour. What?
42:52
What is going on with live golf? If you've been paying attention
42:55
to this story at all, it's hard to miss it if you're on Twitter
42:58
as much as I am. I mean, one, one guy I read
43:00
they're folding up shop. They're still entertaining what
43:03
to do. The players have no ID if
43:05
they're coming or going. They're supposed to have an
43:07
event. I believe it's in Mexico, Mexico
43:09
City this week. They don't know if they're going
43:11
to get started, but all that money behind them tried to buy a
43:14
league for a while like in my, but it certainly did.
43:17
Not I never believed. No, it was, it's, it's so hard,
43:21
right? It's it's like that God forsaken
43:23
thing that they're trying to do in football.
43:25
But the Spring League. Whatever it is, and they've got
43:28
some bad, I mean, right, Mike Ripoli owns this league for
43:31
essentially owns St. John's, you love that.
43:33
Guy I just do because I love his stories.
43:35
I mean, puts a little something in water, calls it vitamin
43:39
Water, makes billions. Good for him.
43:41
Miller and Condon, Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Iowa. So Fast forward to Saturday for
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for sports fans in the Twin Cities, we know they're not
44:22
going to the ballpark middle of the afternoon.
44:25
They can watch the Nuggets go up against the Wolves.
44:30
So T Wolves on the road in Denver, 2:30 in the afternoon.
44:34
At the same time, the Stars will be hosting the Minnesota Wild.
44:40
It's the state of hockey self. Proclaimed.
44:42
Self-proclaimed, and I agree with them by the.
44:44
Way. Yeah, there's probably not
44:45
another North Dakota Navy. I can't think of which one would
44:49
Michigan. Michigan.
44:50
A lot of good hockey there. Yeah, but no, it's Minnesota.
44:52
It's Minnesota, yeah, but I just like to give people hard times
44:56
when they self-proclaimed themselves things like the
44:58
Minnesotans do. It's hockey.
45:00
It is the Timberwolves. It's been a nice story,
45:04
obviously built up. They've gone through an
45:05
ownership change and that has definitely, I think, helped the
45:08
relations with the fan base. But it's about the wild.
45:11
If they win a series again, the Timberwolves get to the second
45:15
round, I think that'll build up again.
45:17
But yeah, it's the wild there, and you've told me they got a
45:20
real shot. They do.
45:21
They gotta get by. They get by the stars.
45:23
They think they can win it all. And by the way, Joe O'Donnell,
45:25
the voice of the Wild will join me as Trent's off tomorrow and
45:28
Friday will join me in the first hour of the program to more to
45:32
preview Wild stars and and the rest of the playoffs for you NHL
45:35
fans out there. What are you most excited to see
45:38
that game? That that that series?
45:40
Yeah. Buffalo getting in.
45:42
That's a great story. Yeah.
45:43
Great story but if I could only watch one series it's it's
45:46
Dallas and Minnesota. The good thing is.
45:48
You don't have. To you don't have to.
45:49
We both know you will not only watch one series, oh heck no,
45:53
you will be watching it all. It's such a great time of year
45:55
for me. Love it, love it, love it.
45:57
Stanley Cup playoffs, We'll talk to Joe O'Donnell tomorrow.
46:00
Stars and the Wild, they collide Saturday afternoon, same time
46:04
the Nuggets and the T Wolves put the ball in the air.
46:07
We'll head to Chicago next at the Kansas City with Nick Gathan
46:11
on the Chiefs. They have two first round picks.
46:13
We'll start to focus in on some of our regional NFL teams.
46:16
Trent will make some picks. Circus Sports sponsor those.
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Hour 2 is next, Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio
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