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Twins' bats absolutely rake on 5-1 road trip; mighty Dodgers up next · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: The Twins' bats continue to surge in Arizona as they
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  Speaker 1: take two games over the weekend to finish a five
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  Speaker 1: and one road trip. They are now thirty eight and
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  Speaker 1: forty one and just one game out in the American
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  Speaker 1: League Wildcard race, if you can call it a race.
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  Speaker 1: This is Twins Cities Territory or Minnesota Twins podcast here
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  Speaker 1: on the File Territory Network. I am Zach Pierce of
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  Speaker 1: the Athletic, joined as always by Dan Hayes, the Athletics,
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins beat writer and Tyler Duffy, longtime Major League pitcher,
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  Speaker 1: former Minnesota Twin guys. Heck of a road trip, heck
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  Speaker 1: of way to respond after Friday's loss, a sixteen run
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  Speaker 1: outburst on Saturday, and then a late rally on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: to take the series in Arizona. They now come home
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  Speaker 1: for a showcase series against the best team in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: the LA Dodgers, sitting at thirty eight and forty one. Somehow,
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  Speaker 1: still in this thing, Dan, after a strong week on
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  Speaker 1: the road.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are currently Fangrafts has them at thirty two
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  Speaker 2: point one percent chance of making the playoffs. Before the
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  Speaker 2: road trip, they were at eighteen point eight percent. So
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  Speaker 2: you go five to one on the road and really
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  Speaker 2: you could make an argument they should have swept the
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  Speaker 2: Arizona series infield defense gave it away on Friday late.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, you go five to one on that
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  Speaker 2: road trip, and you all of a sudden have a
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  Speaker 2: one in three chance of making the playoffs. And I
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  Speaker 2: think if you talk to the clubhouse, if you talk
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  Speaker 2: to the four point three percenters, everybody like ownership, front office,
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  Speaker 2: if you told them that here they are after seventy
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  Speaker 2: nine games and are in this position where at least
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs are like a possibility, I think anybody would
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  Speaker 2: take it. When you think about the one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: five million dollars payroll, and you know thirty one million
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  Speaker 2: of that is gone to Pablo Lopez and Carlos Corea,
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  Speaker 2: two players not on this roster. So you have this
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  Speaker 2: seventy four million roster. Few it is if you went
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  Speaker 2: into thinking that, you know, and here they are playing well,
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  Speaker 2: playing some clean baseball, but also the offense being second
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  Speaker 2: in the ALE and runs one run behind the Yankees
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  Speaker 2: for the most run scored in ALE. Look, that's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty promising spot. And you know, I mean, we're saying this,
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  Speaker 2: and here come the Dodgers, and they could very easily
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  Speaker 2: get their asses kicked by the Dodgers right now. But
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  Speaker 2: should be a really fun, lively series, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people at the ballpark, and a good chance just to
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  Speaker 2: test yourself against the best the best. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it's a fair test. They just played two good teams
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  Speaker 2: on the road. The Rangers are under five hundred, but
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  Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks are a good squad and they were above
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  Speaker 2: five hundred. And the Twins outplayed both teams, you know,
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  Speaker 2: really just the whole series or the whole road trip.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a good week.
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  Speaker 1: It was a nine to five loss on Friday. The
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  Speaker 1: Twins jumped out to a three to one lead early
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  Speaker 1: in that game before Arizona got back into it in
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  Speaker 1: the middle innings and pulled away. But the Twins on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: that was That was definitely the most fun game if
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  Speaker 1: you're a Twins fan, Tyler, what's it like as a
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  Speaker 1: pitcher watching your team put up sixteen runs in the
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  Speaker 1: first five game.
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  Speaker 3: That's like I said, we were talking during that game,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's fun. Sometimes as a pitcher you're like, okay, guys,
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad y'all are having fun, but I still got
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  Speaker 3: to like go pitch at some point. So it's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when you're sitting there, like your guys, you
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  Speaker 3: see them throwing plios at the wall or wrapping the
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  Speaker 3: arm with a towel. Like I've gone down in the
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  Speaker 3: batting cages and target field before and like just thrown
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  Speaker 3: into the net because it is it's a long time
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  Speaker 3: to just sit. You know, some guys, especially the older guys,
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  Speaker 3: have their routines to stay loose in those moments because
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  Speaker 3: it's like as soon as you sit down and kind
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  Speaker 3: of let your body think you're done, it's really tough
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  Speaker 3: to get going. So, you know, good on Toads. I
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  Speaker 3: think he gave up two after for one of the
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  Speaker 3: long innings.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, I got.
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  Speaker 1: To give you credit because, yeah, going into the after
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  Speaker 1: the Twins score ten in the top of the fifth,
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  Speaker 1: you said you indicated you were a little worried about
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  Speaker 1: how long Taj had to sit. Ye, my jerk that
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  Speaker 1: I am poked fun at the actual guy who played
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  Speaker 1: of the three of us and said, yeah, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he's really sweating the sixteen nothing lead and runs here
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  Speaker 1: he does struggle a little bit in the fifth obviously
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  Speaker 1: the Twins.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's it's so big though, Like you know,
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  Speaker 3: to come out and after a loss, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: just swept the team to come in You're like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: like let's get back on track here and just absolutely
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  Speaker 3: erupt like that, Like that's such a We keep talking
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  Speaker 3: about vibes like that's a ViBe's thing to happen. Like
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  Speaker 3: you put up sixteen on anybody, doesn't matter who it is.
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  Speaker 3: The hitters are feeling confident, their chests are up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're feeling good, you know, and it's something to build on,
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  Speaker 3: you know. They and they came back and they kept
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  Speaker 3: scoring runs yesterday. You know you're gonna need the confidence
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  Speaker 3: facing the team that's coming in end today.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's going to be the next step.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, five and one on that road trip and
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  Speaker 3: blowing up for geez on the trip where they score
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  Speaker 3: fifty something runs, it's got to be in the forties
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  Speaker 3: at least twenties.
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  Speaker 2: A bunch of runs, twenty five in Texas and then
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  Speaker 2: what made this.
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  Speaker 1: Score, yeah five Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, wow, So you put up out a lot
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  Speaker 3: of runs this week. So the boys are feeling good.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the old fight at the backrack, so to speak.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, hopefully keep that momentum roll, and that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be tonight will be the big one. They
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  Speaker 3: got to They got to show up and hit them
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  Speaker 3: in the mouth before it gets out of hand.
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  Speaker 1: Early the Twins were eleven for nineteen with runners in
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  Speaker 1: scoring position in that win on Saturday. Just silly stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But what was a funny quirk of the offensive outburst
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  Speaker 1: after they scored ten runs in that inning and they
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  Speaker 1: had scored four the inning before, and it just seemed
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  Speaker 1: like they could they could do no wrong, nobody could
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  Speaker 1: get them out. They then went ten innings without scoring
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  Speaker 1: a run, the last four of that game and the
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  Speaker 1: first six.
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  Speaker 2: Of the next.
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  Speaker 1: So it definitely can ebb and flow. But Dan, overall,
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  Speaker 1: the bats were on fire all road trip. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to put a list on the screen right now
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  Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube, and you'll notice who's not
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  Speaker 1: on the list our Byron Buckston or Royce Lewis, who
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  Speaker 1: did not have a particularly great trip. But obviously that
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  Speaker 1: part is not great for the Twins, but it's awesome
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  Speaker 1: to see other guys step up when when those two
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  Speaker 1: are not bringing it as much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh Bell continued, you know, Josh Bell had I
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  Speaker 2: think they were down two nothing on Sunday and Josh
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  Speaker 2: Bell had that pinch hit single RBI single and got
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  Speaker 2: them going again. And Josh Bell has done a lot
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  Speaker 2: of that on this trip, a lot of that this month.
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  Speaker 2: He's had a really good month. I think his average
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  Speaker 2: is at two fifty now right around that neighborhood continues
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  Speaker 2: to be the team leader in RBIs. But we heard
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  Speaker 2: he's a streaky guy, and he was on decent start
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  Speaker 2: in April and then felt like May he went away
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  Speaker 2: for a while and you know, the swing looked long.
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  Speaker 2: But he's back on a good streak right now when
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  Speaker 2: he's going and you've got Buckston and Lewis, and I
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  Speaker 2: liked what I saw from Lewis at least in Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he struck out seven times in that Ranger series,
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  Speaker 2: and I told you guys that some of the guys
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  Speaker 2: were talking about having a tough time seeing there. He
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  Speaker 2: only struck out twice in Arizona and had a nine
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  Speaker 2: to forty oh ps in that series and homered and
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  Speaker 2: hit the double on Men on Friday. It almost came back.
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  Speaker 2: They blew that lead. You know, the defense just gave
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  Speaker 2: away so much in the fifth inning. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was I can't remember, but it was like between brooks
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  Speaker 2: Lee and Tristan Gray there were it felt like three
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  Speaker 2: runs that were unnecessary in the middle of that game,
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  Speaker 2: and like the Dinbacks had put the game away, and
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  Speaker 2: then you see Belle Homer in the eighth and Royce
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  Speaker 2: Lewis Homard and all of a sudden they're back in it.
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  Speaker 2: And again the bullpen, there's just not enough meat there
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  Speaker 2: on the bone. They were in a spot where they
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  Speaker 2: had to get two out of Travis Adams and Corbyn
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  Speaker 2: Carroll came through. But like you just look at the
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  Speaker 2: like how they play and that they never really give in.
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  Speaker 2: It's infectious and I feel like that's something you can
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  Speaker 2: sense every time you walk in the clubhouse. These guys
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  Speaker 2: just truly like each other and they play like it.
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  Speaker 2: And for fans, it's fun to watch because there's no
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  Speaker 2: point where you go, Okay, game's over, we're down seven
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  Speaker 2: to one. Because that Pittsburgh series, they're down seven to one,
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  Speaker 2: they came back and tied it and they lost ten
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  Speaker 2: to nine that Saturday. But I mean, man, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: just a been a good run for this offense. And
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  Speaker 2: when you see it going like that, it's entertaining baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Like I've asked you this before, Tyler or something similar.
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  Speaker 1: But seventy nine games now, like we're you know, as
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  Speaker 1: of Wednesday, I can no longer say it's early because
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  Speaker 1: we will be officially on the back nine of the
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  Speaker 1: regular season. But just a week ago we were the
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  Speaker 1: team's eight games under five hundred, were thinking, Okay, they
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  Speaker 1: are what we thought they were since then seven and two,
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  Speaker 1: and they're kind of right there again, Like does the
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  Speaker 1: team ride and die with these emotions or is it
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  Speaker 1: sort of just like steady as we go?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is steady. You know.
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  Speaker 3: When I was in Arlington, I think it was Dan
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  Speaker 3: that had asked kind of about the trade deadline and
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  Speaker 3: standings and things like that, and Chelsea made a point
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  Speaker 3: to say there was only four teams above five hundred
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  Speaker 3: I think in the American League at the time or
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  Speaker 3: something like that. So the reality, the message probably being
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  Speaker 3: sent is like, guys, just keep playing and we don't
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  Speaker 3: have to win one hundred games.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to do anything.
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  Speaker 3: We just have to show up and do our jobs
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  Speaker 3: every day and you're gonna have a chance of the
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  Speaker 3: postseason like that. That's at this point. They're playing the
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  Speaker 3: way they are. They're you know, three and a half
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  Speaker 3: back of the division. So there's nothing that really has
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  Speaker 3: to change drastically. It's beat Cleveland in a series a
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  Speaker 3: couple times and you take them down and then everybody
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  Speaker 3: else kind of, you know, works sort their way behind you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's nothing that needs to change, which I
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  Speaker 3: think is a cool thing to have perspective on it.
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  Speaker 2: This part.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're almost halfway. You know, you're never supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be in this season this year, and here we are,
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  Speaker 3: like do we buy the deadline? Do we hold pat
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  Speaker 3: at the deadline? Like we're not so much worried about
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  Speaker 3: the guys being gone again. It's now okay, maybe we
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  Speaker 3: go get somebody or just keep our guys here, which
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  Speaker 3: is huge, you know, So I think it's in that clubhouse.
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  Speaker 3: It's got to be a good feeling. Especially this week
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  Speaker 3: did huge things for them. You know that that's a
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  Speaker 3: you go win five games on the road, ever, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you're you're feeling pretty confident and positive, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think, like I said, Chelt's he's got a good
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  Speaker 3: feel for locker rooms. That's kind of what That's what
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  Speaker 3: I remember most about being around him was him checking
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  Speaker 3: the tires on everybody frequently. And I'm sure he's got
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  Speaker 3: his coaches trying to do the same. Like it's just
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  Speaker 3: he's got a good feel. You know, the guys in
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  Speaker 3: there have a great group going some arroaderie building, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's no reason why it can't be them
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  Speaker 3: at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they were able to absorb this loud jackass
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  Speaker 2: coming in on Wednesday in Texas. There's this gad that
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  Speaker 2: they used to play with and he came in maybe
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  Speaker 2: that was Thursday, and they were like, it's just how
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  Speaker 2: good luck. That's all I know.
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  Speaker 1: For those who are listening and not watching, the stats
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  Speaker 1: on the screen just showed how good the twins were
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  Speaker 1: on offense this road trip. Trevor Larnick, Ryan Krayler, Victor
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  Speaker 1: Karattini all over five hundred for the trip. Josh Bell
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  Speaker 1: was four fifty five for the trip, ten hits and
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  Speaker 1: twenty two at bats. Alex Jackson was also fifty yeap
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  Speaker 1: Luke Keishael and brooks Lee were both ever three hundred.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have Buston on there, but he had seven hits,
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  Speaker 1: including a grand Slam which was just like a footnote.
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  Speaker 2: Market. That Larna kit yesterday was so huge too. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're up three to two going into the
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  Speaker 2: ninth inning and just added an extra run. Marnick just
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  Speaker 2: had an amazing he's like a one twenty two ops
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  Speaker 2: plus his road trip, what was it was? He eight
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  Speaker 2: for fourteen on the trip with eight RBIs eight.
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  Speaker 1: For twenty sorry, twelve for twenty three overall.
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  Speaker 2: Oh sorry, that's right. Yeah. On the set, I mean
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  Speaker 2: he's just hitting rockets everywhere. Yeah, yeah, he's smarling a
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  Speaker 2: collective way.
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  Speaker 1: That was a good road trip overall, as we just
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  Speaker 1: talked about, but not everything was great, Dan. Probably the
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  Speaker 1: most notable bit of band news for the Twins last
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  Speaker 1: week was mick Abel, who was all set to return,
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  Speaker 1: was with the team right in Arizona and then had
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  Speaker 1: a setback at the last minute. Tell us what's going
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  Speaker 1: on there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he threw a bullpen, like a twenty pitch bullpen
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  Speaker 2: on Friday, and I think the plan was to start
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  Speaker 2: him yesterday against Arizona in the finale, and sometime between
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  Speaker 2: Friday and being done and Saturday, he reported that he
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  Speaker 2: had had some kind of issue. Twins didn't say specifically
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  Speaker 2: what that is, but obviously you're dealing with guy with
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  Speaker 2: right elbow inflammation. It's not hard to think what that
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  Speaker 2: could be. So he is having an MRI today, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll talk about that Wednesday. But it's just unfortunate
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  Speaker 2: just because that was a real spot of optimism. Mcabele
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  Speaker 2: could potentially come back. He's just been lighting up the radar,
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  Speaker 2: looking good off speed, good swings and misses in his
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  Speaker 2: rehab and for him to have that setback, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it just means that we'll see some more and it's
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  Speaker 2: not a terrible thing because, you know, like all good
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  Speaker 2: things that come from San Diego State, Mike Paradis has
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  Speaker 2: done a good job filling in, you know, like not
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  Speaker 2: that biased or anything, but you know, Mike, Mike Pradis
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  Speaker 2: threw again on Sunday, pitched five innings. He did leave
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  Speaker 2: losing two to nothing. Their rookie had a really nice debut,
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  Speaker 2: pitched into the six two and and so both teams
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  Speaker 2: called it a bullpen day, and both teams had their
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  Speaker 2: starters go into the sixth inning. That's a great bullpen
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  Speaker 2: day if you're managers. Yea. But Paradis, that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: they came back, they rallied to win. That's three starts
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  Speaker 2: for him. He's pitched twenty innings overall in five games.
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  Speaker 2: But that's three starts for Mike Pradis. They won all
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  Speaker 2: three of his starts. He does not have a win.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday is the first time he would have qualified for one.
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  Speaker 2: But that's why the win stat is BS. Mike Bradis.
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  Speaker 2: The twins are three and zer. When you're on the
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  Speaker 2: mountain man, and you know it's a four oh five
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  Speaker 2: area that there's there's room for some regression in there.
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  Speaker 1: Stunt just well, he's excelling when he shouldn't be, necessarily
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  Speaker 1: because of the San Diego state excellence.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Dan's gonna on the desk when when comes.
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  Speaker 2: A little rudy action. Uh. He like twenty innings. He's
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  Speaker 2: got nine walks and that could catch up to him,
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  Speaker 2: there's no question, and only eleven strikeouts, so he's putting
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  Speaker 2: the ball in play a lot and depending on like
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  Speaker 2: how the infield's aligned, you know, they better have their
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  Speaker 2: good defense out there those days. But I will say,
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  Speaker 2: like he just goes after guys, he attacks. I like
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  Speaker 2: what I see, and that no nonsense. I'm here to
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  Speaker 2: do this and I'm not gonna nibble. It's it's working
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  Speaker 2: for him, and the Twins are really rewarding him. You know,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: they didn't give him run support during the game astery
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: but again three and nine and he starts pretty good
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: fill in when you're looking at you know, still trying
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: to work around the Bailey overloss and at some point
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: you're you're trying to get you know, able back and
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: cut down Connor Prelib's innings. There's a lot of stuff
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: to be done here, for sure.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Three starts for Parade's if he's made five appearances this year,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: but three of them were starting t wins, bullpen games
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: over the last few weeks, twelve and two thirds innings,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: pitch a three five five era tyler. You can't ask
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: for much more out of a patchwork. Put him in
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: there because you need to know somebody, some fresh arm starter.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: Well yeah, and ultimately, like who knows what they even
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: said to him when they brought him in to pitch,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: you know, the first time they called him up. You know,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: it's like, hey, you're going to pitch wherever, you know,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: make the most of it kind of thing. And I
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: think sometimes that would take some pressure off of a guy.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: It's like, look, it doesn't matter what I do. Whenever
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: X y Z player comes back, I'm gone. And so
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: he's made a statement. He's honestly, he's making an argument
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: for him to stay in whatever role it is. I mean, honestly,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: you could say should be in the rotation. You know,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: he's going five innings against competitive teams, like you know,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: when the time comes to make a move, he's no
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: longer that expendable guy. He's now all right, where do
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: we slide him to keep him available? Which is all
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: you can ask, you know, they say when guys get
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: optioned or you know, you you think you're getting screwed
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: in triple A, it's like, well, you need to force
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: a team's hand to keep you around, and he's doing
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: that and he's competitive. Like I've watched every game, I
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: feel like that he's in and it's like he's like
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Dan said, he's attacking guys. He's making them swing, and
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: that's that's a key to success.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: It's guys come up and are timid to throw, and
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: you get behind and you walk and you go up
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: the big homer and it's it happens fast. But he
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: seems like the game's moving slow for him right now,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: and he's you know, he's got nothing to lose, so
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: why not go out and do what you can and
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: show what you got? And you know he's making the
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: most of his opportunity, that's for sure.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I think it's like a development success story. I look,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: this is a guy that was drafted lower down. I
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: can't remember around, but it's somewhere in twelve to fifteen.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: You don't expect a lot of those guys. I know
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: he did wholesale changes. He worked on his body. He
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: did a whole bunch of stuff. And the Twins said, hey,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: we're gonna point you in a direction. This is your
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: pack from the Major is similar to what they did
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: with Kyler Fedco. He said, I'll give it a shot.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: What do you have to lose? And that's how he's
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: treating it at the big league level, which is he
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: came in Pittsburgh and they needed length. It was right
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: when Bailey went down, it was you know, they were
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: just shorthanded. Rojas had gone down. He, by the way,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: just got back to this team over the weekend, Henry Rojas.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: But like, you didn't have much of a path, and
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: you forced one and created one by just going at
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: it and going after it, and you got like that,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: like and it is something. Was talking to Anthony Bonda
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: before the day game in Texas and he was like,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: this guy he's made an impression on those guys because
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: he comes in and he's not scared by the moment
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: and he keep showing it. That's what you need when
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: you're when you're that guy, when you're Mike Paradis, the
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: San Diego State only gets you so far.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: So unfortunately threw the hat down.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: They claim the win.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Also notable that the bullpen has had his back in
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: these bullpen games eight and the third score listenings out
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: of the out of the bullpen behind the parade Is
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and his last two starts, and they were both four
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to two wins, so not a lot of room for
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: error in those games and got the job done. It's
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: not just happening on the Mount Dan. Twins also are
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: still waiting for Ryan Jeffers to come back, and the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: replacements there at catcher have certainly stepped up.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully we'll hear some more on Jeffers in the
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: next couple of days, just an update. But he's right
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: now about a month in and it was somewhere between
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: six to eight weeks of the brom broken hammet bone.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: But Victor Karattini and Alex jack And are hitting a ton.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: They had a great road trip that you know. Krotene
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: had three hits and three RBIs in the sixteen run outburst.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Alex Jackson had the game tying slash go ahead single
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: on Sunday, he would have tied it. There was the
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: throwing error that hit Josh Bell who was going first
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: to third on the play and he had to score,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: so the Twins went ahead. But the I tweeted out
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: a stat the two catchers are hitting a combined like
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: three point fifteen with three eighty one on base, four
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: ninety five slug, four homers, seventeen RBIs in the months
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: since Jeffers has gone down. Look, the Twins went out
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: of their way to acquire Yeah, they knew, you never
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: go through a year with two catchers, right, they were
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: hoping you do. You always hope you get through a
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: year with two catchers. But the Twins have had bad experiences,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: like many teams, when you get to the lacking depth
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: and you suffer a major injury. So what did they
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: do this year? They signed Victor Karattini to two year,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: seven million our deal one that gives them a potential
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: catcher for next year if Ryan Jeffers, when Ryan Jeffers
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: leaves via free agency or possibly being traded, but Kartini
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: like he's going to be here next year. They know that.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: They also acquired Alex Jackson in November before they signed Karattini.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: It was sort of more of like, we're going to
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: have this guy in a budget deal. But they kept him.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: They didn't trade him in spring training. He's making one
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: point three million. He's arbitration eligible. They knew he was
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: going to be starting the season at TRIPLEA, but they
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: wanted him just in case because he's a backup with
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: experience at the major league level. It's not a ton
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: of experience, but he was coming off his best career
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: offensive season last year with Baltimore. It took him a
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: little while to get going. He's fast, you know, behind
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the plate. I think Jeffers is probably their best, especially
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: on the challenge side. Kartini's really good on the challenge side,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: but Jackson is doing a really good job filling in
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: where you don't have to feel like you have to
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: force Kartini to play every day, and that's a That's
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: really what you hope for when you acquire depth like that,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: is that you don't want to have to use it,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: but if you do, it's good to have it. And
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: their production has been very big for them at a
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: time when we all thought the catchers were going to
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: fall on their face because Kroteni had a really rough
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: start to the season. He was just not hitting in
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: mid May, and now he's getting consistent bats. It's it's
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: been very good the last month and they've they've held
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: up even though they lost probably Jeffers would have been
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: like an all star pace nine to fifty ops. That's
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: a big bat to lose, and they've they've been able
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: to hold up.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Did you say we're getting an update soon on Jeffers Dan,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: The end of a road trip. We'll see him and
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: he'll give his an idea. Last yes, he was. He
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: had taken two days of dry swings, I believe last
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: time before we left, and that was, you know, ten
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: days ago or dry whatever the hell that is is a.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Dry swing, no hand with no ball, Okay.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no tea, no flips.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Basically what you do in the morning when you're standing there,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: when your kids are getting you know, riled up. It's okay,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: what am I going to do today with these guys?
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Right? Okay? Got it?
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: The more you know, as minimal effort as you can
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: put into a swing.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: All right, with that, Guess what, guys, it's time to
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: put our streak on the line. Oh yeah, we gotta
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: do it. Dan Hayes saved us at the death on
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Friday night. Royce Lewis with an eighth inning home run
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: on Friday to keep our daily dinger stretch going. I
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: think we're I've lost count. I think we're eight of nine,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: maybe nine of ten. I think we only got it
• 24:44
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• 24:46
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• 25:24
  Speaker 1: He's allowed sixteen home runs on the year. That's a lot,
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• 25:31
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• 25:35
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• 25:39
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• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Should I start? I feel like it's been a while,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: sin time. Yeah, I'll go last, I Matt I didn't pick
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Carrotini on Friday, but I think thankfully Royce Lewis came through. Yeah, Tyler,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Tyler is trying to help me out here. I am.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with the hot hand and go Trevor Larnick.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: It's boring.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: But lower Lowers, No, no, no, Heylower's gotta his splits
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: are dead. Even left he's at seven fifty five ops
• 26:21
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• 26:23
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• 26:27
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  Speaker 2: I like that. I like it.
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• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's worked out well, don't I gotta Buck's gonna
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: make a statement tonight at some point, Right, they got
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: somebody's gotta show up and papam early. Why not our
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: guy that should be an all star.
• 27:01
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• 27:04
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• 27:07
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• 27:13
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• 27:17
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• 27:21
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• 27:24
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• 27:32
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• 28:24
  Speaker 1: As we've mentioned several times on this show, a big
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: series is starting tonight, Monday Night for the Twins. They
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: have the best team in baseball coming into town, the
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Mighty Dodgers. They're gonna have to be at their best, Dan,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: and you know, like I don't think anyone expects them to,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you know, sweep the series and get to five hundred.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: A winn or two would certainly be something, but it's
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: it's definitely we're gonna have to see the version of
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the Twins that put up sixteen runs in three innings
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: more than the one that struggles and can't get anybody out.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I like their chance obviously, yeah, exactly. I like their
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: chances right now, way better to show up and compete
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: in this series, way better than a week ago, ten
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: days ago, before that Cardinals series, just because we've seen
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: them come out and just play with confidence, continue fighting,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: and they talk about that all the time, the twenty
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: seven outs thing. But it's real with them, and the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: offense is just it's there's no safe spots right now
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: in the offense when Luke Kishaw is in the ninth
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: spot getting on base all those times, when Josh Bell is,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: you know, dumping two out hits in the center field
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: or left center field and killing pitchers with two out
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: RBIs in the middle. After you get past Royce Lewis
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: and Buxton and Larnick getting protection from Buxton and really
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: taking advantage of it, it just feels like it's a
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: much better group and you have good timely hitting from
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: brooks Lee and you know everywhere you look. It's so
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I like that they're in this spot Donaquin's Dodgers. But
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a hell of a test. This
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: really is a You do get the one of their
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: worst pitchers tonight, that's great. You also get one of
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: their best pitchers on Wednesday in show Hey Otani and
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: show Hey who's a dad again? For the second? Is
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: it second child? Or is this is this their second.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: With that going yeah, hopefully there, hopefully you got no
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: sleep on this private plane wherever we have been flied.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: And in between is Justin Ribleski, who's no slouch either,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: So uh A tough, a tough last couple of games.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: It'll be Zebbie Matthews tonight against Loward, Joe Ryan against Rableski,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and Connor Prelip the unfortunate soul who goes up against
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: show Hey Otani h I'll put the tail of the
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: tape on the screen here since I worked really hard
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: on this earlier today. But Dodgers, we said they have
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the best record, they have the best starting pitching e
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: r A, the twelfth best bullpen team average. Oh I
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: didn't actually end up putting the ops on their ops,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and the best team run differential. They spend a lot
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: of money. It's actually about three hundred million, not eleventy
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: billion dollars on the payroll. But the Twins, as you
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: can see, are are lagging behind significantly in all those metrics.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: It is David versus Goliath, but Tyler, anything can happen
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: in baseball.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and to that point about Prelip against show Hey,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: I had the opportunity, I guess you'd call it. I
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: think it was in fifteen. I kind of slid into
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: that number one slot in the rotation, and every time
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: out I was facing Chris Sale for lander like Kykole
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: and it's like, what do you have to lose today?
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Kind of like we're talking about Prietus. So for a
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: guy like Prelip, you kind of go into it almost
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: if you want it to be a relaxed you're like,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: hey whatever, man, like we're facing show. Hey, so I
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: just got to go get somebody out. And sometimes that
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: relaxed feel like allows you to perform better than you'd
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: even imagine, so you never know what can happen. You
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: got to play the twenty seven ounce like Dan just said,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: like it's you still can it just show up and win.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: You got to go out and compete, and you know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: hopefully for him to he'll probably get a bump out
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: of playing the Dodgers. Who knows who might rip out
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: one hundred out of nowhere. You know, he never crazier
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: things have happened.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: You got to be playing your best too, and that
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: for the Twins defensively, I really want to keep hammering
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: this point. I think it means Ryan Kreiler's your shortstop.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Look good player. Tristan Gray, he is. Tristan Gray had
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: some good hits early on in this season. A lot
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: of it was when he's playing sometimes shortstop, sometimes third base,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: moving all over. He's had two Grand slams, he's had
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: some big three run doubles off the wall, stuff like that.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Me has twenty eight RBIs. But at shortstop, he's played
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty four innings. At shortstop, he's minus
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: seven defensive runs saved. That is tied for last amongst
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: all major league shortstops with brooks Lee at minus seven. Now,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: for context, one hundred eighty four innings, I think Bobby
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Witt is it six hundred and sixty one innings right now.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: So Tristan Gray has played a little less than a
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: quarter of the innings and he's the worst defensive shortstop
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: in baseball by metrics. Again, he's a solid player, but
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: he's a utility guy. He should be moving around and
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: playing matchups. And you know, Derek Shelton's talked about doing
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: the thing that's best first team when he replaced Luke
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Keyshlfer defense late in that game in Detroit. I mean,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I just think Kreidler is that we keep seeing it.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: He had like three dazzling plays on this road tray,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: but then beyond the dazzling plays, he makes every other play,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: even the hard ones look rooutine, and he's just so one.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: He's the best athlete, he's got the best range. His
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: offense will drop off most likely, there's just no way
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: that he can keep up this eight to fifty ops
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: facing the toughest right handers. But honestly, you got to
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: the run prevention side needs come in. You got to
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: take care of your pitchers and Kreidler. You know, I
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: wonder where they were where they are if Kreiler is
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: at short on Friday night because they had the double
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: play ball where Tristan Gray flipped it a little too
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: far for Luke Kishel and they didn't get the turn
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: and it leads to more runs, and I know he
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: h had another misplay. Like look, I just Kreidler seems
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: until Kylen Culpepper comes up, Kreyler seems like he is
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: the best fit to start, you know, five times a week.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Still get Gray. You want to keep him involved, You
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: want to keep all your guys involved. And I do
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: get that. Maybe he plays twice a week, but I
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: think the matchups maybe should go out the window here
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: because the plus on the defensive side will make up
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: for the lack of offense that you might get from Kreidler.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: And also Kreidler's having a career year and he's done
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: some things at the plate to make himself. He says
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: he feels like an athlete again that he figured out
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: in the offseason how to simplify things and get more
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: into the swing that he used to have when the
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: swing that got going to be a third round draft pick.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And you know, I mean, this guy knows who he
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: is and he's starting to hit with power and authority.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Like we saw him hit an afo home run at
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Texas their day into the bullpen. It's not an easy
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: place to homer and he hit it the right center.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: So anyways, that's my that's my.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Did Kreidler go to San Diego State too?
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Nobody? No, you want to know something funny. He grew
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: up in San Diego. Okay, okay, and okay, wait, two
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: guys on the one of the two. Now he didn't
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: one of the No. You know why I know that
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: because his dad is a sports writer and we we don't.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: We sports writers do not live in Coronado, not unless
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: we inherit it at home from someone. So one of two,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: one of two players on the team whose fathers was
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: a sports writer or broadcast.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: The Twins will pass the halfway point of the season
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday. That's Game eighty one, and this is the
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: beginning of an interesting stretch for the Twins. It's a
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: six game homestand the Rockies come after the Dodgers for
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the weekend, but also eighteen games to go till the
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: All Star Break, three of them against the Dodgers, three
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: at against the Yankees in New York, three against Cleveland.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: To Tyler's point, a team that Twins are chasing in
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: the Central and if they can do well in just
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: those series, that's a big boost. But they also have
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the NL worst Rockies, the ALE worst Angels, and the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Astros in there too, So a good stretch against some
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: competition that is certainly going to be in the playoffs
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: in LA and New York, some others that might be
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: like Cleveland and Houston, who's right there with the Twins
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: in the wildcard race, and also a couple series they
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: definitely should win if they're a serious team to be
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: reckoned with as we go forward, all three games this
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: week against the Dodgers are night games as well, So
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: how about that no Yeah show, Hey, we'll pitch at night,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: not on a getaway day game. We'll be back with
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: you Wednesday morning, I guess probably before that show Hey
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Otani game, and we'll see whether we're talking about wins, losses,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: one of each or whatever week sweep get the brooms ready,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: hopefully in the right direction. We'll find out. But that's
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