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Twins win, Bailey Ober shines on an epic night for Minnesota sports · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: All right, hello and welcome back to Twin City's Territory,
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  Speaker 1: our Minnesota Twins podcast here on the Foul Territory Network.
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  Speaker 1: I am Zach Pearce, editor at the Athletic, joined as
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  Speaker 1: always by Dan Hayes with a cool Foul Territory hat.
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  Speaker 1: I think you were that yesterday too, didn't you? Is
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  Speaker 1: that your did? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 1: He is our Minnesota Twins beat writer at the Athletic,
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  Speaker 1: and back today Tyler Duffy, longtime Major leaguer and former
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Twin. And Tyler, the entire world is wondering, how
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  Speaker 1: did the dentist trip go yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: It's wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Got the cleaning and then you end with a hey
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  Speaker 3: thirteen all.
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  Speaker 1: Right to finish it up.
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  Speaker 4: Are West needs to be touched up?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Got it? Not so bad?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 2: It is?
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  Speaker 1: It is, uh Friday, May first, It's May. Goodness, look
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  Speaker 1: at that uh and it's a glorious morning in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: The sun is out, the weather is nice, and man,
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  Speaker 1: what a heck of a night in Minnesota sports.
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  Speaker 2: Last night Saint Paul Saints won three to one. I
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  Speaker 2: mean that was the same St.
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  Speaker 4: Paul one.
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  Speaker 1: The the Minnesota Twins started it off. Well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if they finished before the Saints did they.
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  Speaker 2: Did, know they did? They? Yes, the Twins started it off.
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  Speaker 1: The Twins won. The Wild and Timberwolves both won game
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  Speaker 1: six close out games to advance to the second round. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: This this is not a hockey or basketball podcast, so
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  Speaker 1: I won't go too deep into my thoughts from last
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  Speaker 1: night to spare everybody. However, Uh, historic night. I thought
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  Speaker 1: for sure after the Twins won cynical person that I
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  Speaker 1: am like, that's going to be the one game we
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  Speaker 1: win tonight, of course, but no, they just won all
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  Speaker 1: of them. That never happens to Minnesota sports. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's the first time in twenty nine seasons in which
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  Speaker 1: there's been both an NBA and NHL franchise in this
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  Speaker 1: state that they are both in the second round of
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs twenty five years twenty five years of Wild
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  Speaker 1: and Timberwolves overlap, and then four years at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the Wolves tenure with the North Stars. First time
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  Speaker 1: both are in the final eight, which I didn't look
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  Speaker 1: up how many times it's happened for other markets. But
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  Speaker 1: I've got to believe that's on the on the back
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  Speaker 1: end of.
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  Speaker 4: The roller fasters hitting the top. It's about to just draw. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know, that was a cool night.
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  Speaker 2: Like really that was what was cool at the game.
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  Speaker 2: At the Twins game, it was clear people were watching
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  Speaker 2: the wild and they got the empty netter to make
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  Speaker 2: it four to two right as the Twins got the
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  Speaker 2: last out, and so you get or it was maybe
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  Speaker 2: half the second before the last out and you hear
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  Speaker 2: the crowd go nuts, and it's like, wait, the game
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  Speaker 2: is still going. Oh oh, that's what just happened. That's
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  Speaker 2: what just happened. And Shelton, Derek Shelton mentioned it after
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  Speaker 2: the game like he was like, that was a cool
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  Speaker 2: moment because everybody knew what happened at that point. And
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  Speaker 2: then he saw the video of the empty netter and
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  Speaker 2: like that was There were good vibes everywhere last night.
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  Speaker 2: It was cool.
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  Speaker 1: And then, uh, you had a night on the town
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  Speaker 1: last night, Dan, how was how was Uh? How is
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  Speaker 1: the scene there? I mean, you behaved yourself, but but
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  Speaker 1: we're fans. We're fans pouring out after the Wolves game
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  Speaker 1: too and everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like right across the street from the
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  Speaker 2: Target Center that was. That place went from having eight
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  Speaker 2: people into being jam packed in twenty minutes. And Jaden
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  Speaker 2: Daniels or McDaniels is a like. That was a stone.
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  Speaker 1: Cold, bona fide superstar, unbelievable, unbelievable series. It truly was.
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  Speaker 1: I I direct you to the Athletic to read all
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  Speaker 1: about both of those if you're interested, If if hockey
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  Speaker 1: or basketball makes you want to you know, StEB a
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  Speaker 1: pencil in your eye or something. There will be time
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  Speaker 1: codes at the bottom. You can skip this, although if
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  Speaker 1: you're still listening to this at this point, you probably
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  Speaker 1: are are in it with us. But anyway, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: back to the baseball. We've only had the one game
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  Speaker 1: since we came to you yesterday, of course, and the
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  Speaker 1: Twins got back in the win column right after we
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  Speaker 1: got done talking about the latest wave of bullpen issues
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  Speaker 1: and bats coming up short and not being there to
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  Speaker 1: support a great game from their starting pitchered in everything.
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  Speaker 1: Of course went back the other way last night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big development moment for Andrew Morris. That's
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  Speaker 2: something that the Twins. They need to see positive developments
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  Speaker 2: in that bullpen and you get the support there. Bailey
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  Speaker 2: over was really good. And here's the part that I'm
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  Speaker 2: really enjoying about it. Bailey over was you could tell
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  Speaker 2: very excited after the game to come through and get
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  Speaker 2: a win like that, and pitch as well as he did.
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  Speaker 2: He was so efficient and fast, and then the offense
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  Speaker 2: just kept adding on. You know, you get the early
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  Speaker 2: Jeffers Homer to give them the lead, Bucks and Homer.
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  Speaker 2: Then the Jays, who are also a fourteen win team,
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  Speaker 2: just like the Twins, started to kick the ball around
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  Speaker 2: and the Twins took advantage and you know added on.
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  Speaker 2: That was a good victory, and you're right, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was needed after the Seattle, the loss of the
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  Speaker 2: rubber match, just because their in need of good vibes,
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  Speaker 2: their need of something to keep themselves from going the
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  Speaker 2: wrong direction. They got road trip next week to d C,
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  Speaker 2: which you know, who knows that the Nats are, but
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  Speaker 2: also Cleveland, so it's gonna get tough. And this to
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  Speaker 2: get that first one against the Jays, who they beat them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they they got them in Toronto two. That
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  Speaker 2: was a big win, just to get things kind of
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  Speaker 2: going back the other way.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Bailey over Dan six innings, pitched four hits,
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  Speaker 1: one earned run another great star. We mentioned the stat
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  Speaker 1: yesterday that the Twins had lost six straight games in
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  Speaker 1: which a starting pitcher had gone at least six nights
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  Speaker 1: and allowed two runed runs or less. A frustrating Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was ready for you drop some wisdom. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: need two or three things to go well, probably to
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  Speaker 1: have a chance. And the hitting in bullpen was not
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  Speaker 1: going well. But last night bullpen solid, did not allow
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  Speaker 1: a run in the three innings. But Bailey ober Dan
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  Speaker 1: getting it done for the Twins this year in what's
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  Speaker 1: been a pretty much all around solid starting rotation. How's
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  Speaker 1: he doing it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's done it with diminished velocity, I mean knows it,
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  Speaker 2: and he is figuring out like how to pitch, and
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  Speaker 2: he's he's shown this one. There's just an absolute sense
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  Speaker 2: of relief on his face. He wore it so hard
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  Speaker 2: last summer. In June, he gave up thirty runs and
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  Speaker 2: thirty innings, gave up a team record I think it
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  Speaker 2: was fourteen home runs in the month. Just you could
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  Speaker 2: sense it the whole way. He was so disappointed. But
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  Speaker 2: more than that, he was searching for answers. Time. He
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  Speaker 2: was not healthy, and he's been the most consistent pitcher
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  Speaker 2: on the Twins for going on five years now. You
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  Speaker 2: could always pencil those starts in for six innings, three
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  Speaker 2: runs or fewer at that point, like that was what
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  Speaker 2: baileyover was gonna give you every time out, and all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden he turned into what he was last year,
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  Speaker 2: which was not good and he knew it. He said
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  Speaker 2: at one point there was a game where he threw
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  Speaker 2: ten straight pitches and had no idea where they were
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  Speaker 2: going because he had no confidence in his lead foot
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  Speaker 2: when he planted and delivered. He worked very hard on
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  Speaker 2: his hip this offseason, and his command is back to
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  Speaker 2: the place where he feels confident that he knows what
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  Speaker 2: he can do with stuff, and like, yeah, the velocity
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  Speaker 2: is down, and you know, a good night for him
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  Speaker 2: right now is like eighty eight point eight mile prior fastball.
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  Speaker 2: This is guy who to thrive at ninety one ninety two.
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  Speaker 2: So that's not you know, we're not we're not talking
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  Speaker 2: about a monster dip, but it's significant. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of wiggle room when you drop down there,
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  Speaker 2: and for him to be successful, he needs to be
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  Speaker 2: just on with everything else and mixing and matching because
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  Speaker 2: he comes from that that high angle and so he
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  Speaker 2: can deceive hitters and just truly pitch. And he said
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  Speaker 2: last night his hand positioning is better. He feels like
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  Speaker 2: he is kind of locked in physically. He said, his
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  Speaker 2: hip that it's making all the difference because he knows
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  Speaker 2: where things are going and when he does. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he was getting into how he set guys up and
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  Speaker 2: he can do that now and not like last year.
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  Speaker 2: It was sort of like this just go because he
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  Speaker 2: just had You know, it's you. You can tell when
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  Speaker 2: a guy is like thrived off command his whole life
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  Speaker 2: and he's dealing with not having it, Like he had
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  Speaker 2: to learn so many tricks last year, and now it's
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  Speaker 2: the healthy version of him applying some of those tricks
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  Speaker 2: they learn, but also able to put the ball where
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  Speaker 2: he once And I mean, there was a look of
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  Speaker 2: relief and just like I don't know he was. He
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  Speaker 2: was very excited, Like you could tell he's just sitting
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  Speaker 2: back and taking in the moment last night, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there's been points where he wondered if it
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  Speaker 2: ever happened again.
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  Speaker 1: For those listening instead of watching Dan describe Bailey Over's
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  Speaker 1: efforts last season as covering his eyes and throwing a pitch.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he absolutely like he absolutely felt so lost
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  Speaker 2: at times last year. And he's a he's a as
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  Speaker 2: down the middle of a guy as you'll talk to,
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  Speaker 2: Like he is just calm, and you could tell he
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  Speaker 2: was pretty rattled last year, like it just was so
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  Speaker 2: far from where he was. And I mean to hear
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  Speaker 2: him say that, and I asked him last night because
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  Speaker 2: he said it at twins Fest. He's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'd have my stuff for a few innings and then
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  Speaker 2: I'd come out and I would throw ten pitches and
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  Speaker 2: not have an idea where a single one of them
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  Speaker 2: was headed. And that can't be like duff have you
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  Speaker 2: have you run into games like that where.
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  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, there's I mean when I when I was starting, especially,
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  Speaker 3: there'd be a batter like you kind of you bring
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  Speaker 3: that leg up to throw and you're like, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: really sure what's gonna happen right now, and you're like
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  Speaker 3: you could probably go back and find him, like it'd
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  Speaker 3: be a random like four pitch walk, like not close
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  Speaker 3: and it's like okay, forget about that one reset you
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  Speaker 3: know kind of thing.
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  Speaker 4: But to your point about the velocity.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised last year, like, yeah, he's a
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  Speaker 3: little dinged up, but you know, in the world of
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  Speaker 3: throwing the baseball as hard as you can, when all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden your villa dips, all you want to
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  Speaker 3: do is try and throw hard again. And I think
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  Speaker 3: what we're seeing this year is Bailey settling into I
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  Speaker 3: don't care that I'm not throwing ninety three or ninety four.
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  Speaker 2: When I reach.
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  Speaker 3: Back, I'm gonna throw this eighty eight and you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: hit a pop up to shortstop, and then the next
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  Speaker 3: guy's going to come up.
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  Speaker 4: And that's pitching. At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's in a world of stuff plus and
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  Speaker 3: all this craziness around.
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  Speaker 4: Throwing as hard as you possibly can.
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  Speaker 3: Like he's pitching, and you know there's a reason everyone
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  Speaker 3: that comes up they know what he's doing. They're out
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  Speaker 3: in front, they're capping it, they're breaking their back, they're
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  Speaker 3: just like they're uncomfortable because he doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: Care that he's not throwing ninety three. He's gonna throw his.
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  Speaker 3: Change up and then his slider, and then his eighty
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  Speaker 3: eight is gonna play like ninety two, and then you're
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  Speaker 3: out and you know it's for Bailey, like you said
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  Speaker 3: that calmness. I guarantee you he's like, all right, cool,
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  Speaker 3: like I'm just gonna throw it. I know how to throw,
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  Speaker 3: put it where I want, and you're out, and there's
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  Speaker 3: something when you're in that you know. I hear Joe
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  Speaker 3: talking about at times the flow state. Like I guarantee
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  Speaker 3: you he's like, all right, here comes boom. You're out
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  Speaker 3: and that's a great place to be on the mound
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  Speaker 3: and you try and ride that as long as you can,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, hope that it lasts for thirty starts
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  Speaker 3: because what he's doing right now, I guarantee his body
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  Speaker 3: feels great too, because he's not stressing.
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  Speaker 4: He's not fighting every pitch to try and reach back
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  Speaker 4: and do extra.
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  Speaker 2: And we saw him do that earlier. I think in
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  Speaker 2: his second start, you saw him try to get some
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  Speaker 2: velocity and hump it up there and it looked like
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  Speaker 2: he was there was he was max efforting, which when
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  Speaker 2: a six foot nine tall person.
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  Speaker 4: Does that, fall in and yeah, it's just.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can see it, and you're right he did not.
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  Speaker 2: There was one sequence against Vladimir Guerrero where he said
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  Speaker 2: he nearly blew a fastball by him, went away, threw
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  Speaker 2: an off speed I believe away, and then came back
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  Speaker 2: inside and broke his bat with a sinker. And you
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  Speaker 2: could tell he was just kind of geeked off that
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  Speaker 2: because he is pitching and he's setting guys up and
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  Speaker 2: he's focused on that again, and it's that's clear that
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  Speaker 2: that is like he's just in a good spot because
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  Speaker 2: he's worried about that and not the other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, Billy a career worst five point one e or
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  Speaker 1: A last year and twenty seven starts three five five
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  Speaker 1: this year in seven starts close to his career best,
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  Speaker 1: his career best over a full season three four to
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  Speaker 1: wild and Timberwolves out of my head and finish this
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  Speaker 1: podcast strong. But it got very interesting in the seventh
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  Speaker 1: inning when Andrew Morris came in to pitch. Ober started
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  Speaker 1: the seventh game of a single to Ernie Clement. Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Bonda came in for three hitters, which fun fact, I
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Right, anyway, we had two outs two on Andrew Morris
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  Speaker 1: came in Dan to face George Springer in a big
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  Speaker 1: moment in the game. Twins were up four to one
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  Speaker 1: at the time, and Morris has been has had kind
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  Speaker 1: of a wild ride so far for the Twins. He's
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  Speaker 1: had some long relief outings for better or worse, but
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  Speaker 1: came up big in the seventh last night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the first time this season where he's
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  Speaker 2: come in in the middle of an inning, which we'll
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  Speaker 2: get to I want to hear from Duff a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later about that, just the development point there. But
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  Speaker 2: he came in and got George Springer, which you know
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  Speaker 2: that's their second best hitter, right now it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: that was a big spot in the game, and he
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  Speaker 2: thrived like he fell behind two. Oh, but he got Springer.
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  Speaker 2: He came back and I think it was a two
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  Speaker 2: to one, got Springer to hit just a weak little
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  Speaker 2: comebacker and it led to a really funny moment because
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  Speaker 2: he was positioned where he looked at second base immediately
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  Speaker 2: and was looking to throw and Luke he said after
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  Speaker 2: the game that Luke Keishall's eyes because Luke Keishall was
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  Speaker 2: nowhere near the bag because the play was first base,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, like, Luke Keishall's eyes lit up like no,
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  Speaker 2: like that slow motion, and and so he was like
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  Speaker 2: and then I just remembered, oh, yeah, I can go
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  Speaker 2: to first base and get out. He totally forgot how
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  Speaker 2: me out to work. I mean, it doesn't surprise me.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big, high leverage moment. You could tell he
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  Speaker 2: was pretty worked up after he came back and got
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  Speaker 2: another three outs into eight and then they pulled him.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the one thing. All his outings had been
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  Speaker 2: like two plus innings and he'd actually been really good
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: for two innings and that third inning giving up you know,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: three run homers or big doubles, but you know, in
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: short stints he's looked really good and looks like he
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: could kind of develop into a like he's a candidate
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: to develop into a leverage guy in this bullpen. And
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I thought that that was just a big point for
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: him to kind of come in, put out a fire
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: and you know, get that notch in your belt, because
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: you can't just come in overnight and be that guy
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: like there is when you're a starter like Duff, I imagine
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: it took a little while to get used to not
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: being ready for the start of a game first, and
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: then you know, routine changes and like when, like what
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: do you remember about your development path and like those
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: kind of check marks moments.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, I uh, well, obviously I started, you know, first
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: two years, and then the out of camp it was like, hey,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: you can be on the team, but you're gonna be
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: in the bullpen.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: I'm like, sweet, don't care. You know, I'm a twin.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: And so in the moment, you know you're gonna say
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: yes to everything, but there is that adjustment period again,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: and like you said, he's had the longer outings, so
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: it's like most of those are the less stress. You know,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: you're already losing early. You know, it's just eat innings
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: like kind of thing. But that last night was one
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: where it's like you got to come in guns blazon,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: and that is the big the big next step is
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: you know, there's no settling into that game. Like you said,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: you come in face George Springer with the runners on base,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: like he's hunting a strike every at that first pitch,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: and so it's like, you know, you got behind to
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: end up getting him out. But that moment for him,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I guarantee you that's he was as full throttle as
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: he's been this year. You know, obviously when he made
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: his debut, you know you're gonna get some energy. But
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: this is that next little bump of like, okay, this
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: is what pitched out the bullpen's like, you know, I
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: know Latroy's down there. He did both, you know, had
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: success and failures doing everything. He's coaching those guys up,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: and that's I think he quietly is probably a huge
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: part of some of these guys' success and figuring out
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: who they are in the bullpen right now. But yeah,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: in that moment, like you know, the phone rings and
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: who knows if he even was expecting it to be him.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: That's the one.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: It's so hard to even like he may have been
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: sitting there with his feed up, you know, like okay,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: it's not me, and then boom, you know, that adrenaline spikes.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: You're in the game, and then you get an out.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: And the toughest part, which of you know, I was
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: that guy for a while, is that come in finishing
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: inning through the next that adrenaline is so high, you know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: you get that out, it's a huge moment.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Everyone the crowd's fired up. Everybody's fired up. You got
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: the out.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: The starter's giving you high five because you saved his ass,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: like it's just great.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: And then it's like okay, now go back out.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: And so you got to keep it going and you know,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: to get that job done, that's huge. And that's a
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: great role to have for a team. You know, have
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: a guy that can come in in the fifth, sixth,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: seventh to slam.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: A door early, get you to the next guy.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Like that's a great role and it's someone that they
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: need right now. And you know, if that's gonna be him,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: like ride the wave, you know, and you'll see his
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: stuff tick up because he's not having to throw as
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: many pitches.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: The only issue with that is you're gonna lose.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Your long guy because then you ask him to go Therefore,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: he's not gonna be like, he may not be as sharp,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: and like you said, after tu innings lately it's been
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: kind of rocky, so it's like, you know, he's your
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: twinning guy, and get him out of there, you know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: And that's just something the season progresses they'll have to
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: figure out.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they definitely if they want to make him get
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: bigger roles, they'll need to sufficiently replace his long man spot.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: But that's like, this is all something that takes time
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: over the course of a season. It does not happen overnight.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Because he is so young. I mean, I don't know
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: if he's done back to back days yet. That's gonna
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: be a challenge on Sloane And yeah, there they'll baby
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: him through it, like they have to baby him through it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: But he's definitely the guy where like you can see
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: it there because his fastball ticks up when he's thinking
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: he's in shorter stints. And if they tell him that
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: that something Cody Funderberg has had to struggle with over
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: the years, it's like, all right, we need you to
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: be two plus. Okay, wait this time out, you're gonna
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: be one inning and yeah, but do you trust that
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: you're one inning because you've been two plus the whole time?
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: So like, how do you empty the tank out? Because
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: what if the manager needs me to go back and
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: and I've just emptied everything and like so you know,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: it's all baby steps. It can't happen. It doesn't happen
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: overnight unless you are say like yoan Duran where you're
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: throwing one hundred and four and you know, like then
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: they're like, yes, you are an elite reliever possibly here where.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: That's what we're gonna do with you. You're a high
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: leverage guy. Don't worry about going long. Maybe they'll have
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: you go to and in some days. But so watching
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: how that develops over the course of the season is
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: gonna be interesting because they need people to step up
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: like that. They they were hoping it's gonna be mark
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: A Wry he's struggling at triple A right now. You know,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: there's a chance maybe we'll see John Klein. There was
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: in the off season there was talk that Connor Prelip
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: might be that guy, and then he went to velocity camp,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: or he went to pitching camp in January and added
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the curve ball, and now it's like, oh, Connor prelip
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: might instead be a starter because he has the he
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: has a soft pitch to pair with all of his
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: really hard pitches, and like someone has to step forward
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: because you know, Louis Arland came back last night and
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: they could really use Louis Arland right now and they
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: don't have one, you know, like or they don't have
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: one that they isn't known quantity yet because it took
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Louis Arland three years to become this and so yeah,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: so it's like the start one of those first moments
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: in the process where you it happened, and you could
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: tell that was a big moment for Andrew Morris because
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: LaTroy came over after the game and was a giving
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: him shit about the forgetting how men outs they were
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: and like it was a classic LaTroy. But then also
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: you could tell it was like coming over to reaffirm
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: and and let everyone wan like talk to him in
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: front of a bunch of guys and like just make
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: sure he knew that was.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: A big moment, right, No, that goes a long way, man,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: like when somebody comes up after something like that and
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: they're like, hey, that was like you did a hell
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: of a job to day, Like it's you know, you
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: did that.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: But then the teammate telling you or a coach like
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: singling you out like that, that matters a lot.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: That's huge.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's anything in life, right, the validation from
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: from your peers, that's that's fantastic. Well, a few more
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: things to talk about from last night, and then we'll
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: take a peek at the weekend the rest of the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: series with Toronto as well.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Now it's time for our daily Dingers from FanDuel and
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: let's uh, this is a new segment. Let's let's talk
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: about Ryan Jeffers and just what he's done a little
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: bit lately. Ryan Jeffers, I, you know, I was wondering
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: how he's gonna respond. He's going into a walk here
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: in free agency, and I was one wondering how he'd
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: handle it. He's been he had one of his better
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: years at the plate last year, but he didn't have
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: power the way he had. You know, he's hit twenty
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: one and sixteen in previous seasons. In last year he
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: had nine, but he put together really good at bats,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: and you know, it was just sort of like it
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: was a good year. But I know he wants big
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: things for himself in free agency, expecting to get to
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: free agency, and so I was like, is he gonna
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: put too much pressure on himself? I don't know. I
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: wonder how he responds. And starting with the abs stuff,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: he's been really good at just making himself valuable. Even
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: when he is he's found another way to add value
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: to his game, Like he's very good at colin. He like,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: you know, he's the challenge king. I believe he has
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: the most challenges in baseball. If not, he's top two
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: or three. And I wonder if that's set a tone
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: for him because he has now just taken off at
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: the plate too. You know, he's got nine oh four
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: ohps on May one, and it's four home runs. The
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: slug is up one hundred points from last year to
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: four eighty eight, and you can just like the home
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: run last night was a game changing moment for the Twins.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: They were down one nothing. You're wondering, is that gonna
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: be enough? Kevin Gosman's on the mound, he's so good,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: and is that could be enough? And Jeffers comes up
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: and follows there was another Trevor Larnick walk. Trevor Larnick
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: and Austin Martin each have eighteen walks and are getting
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: on base all the time, but they're not being driven
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: in all the time. And Jeffers sits at home run.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: It was a big park plug for them. And then
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: you know, Bucks and Homer and they took off. But yeah, so.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Right, Dan, you got you gotta make your pick. Now,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: you gotta make your pick. I'm going right Jefers. Okay,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: all right, Tyler, who's your pick to Homer tonight for
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the twins.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: So it's Friday night, the lights are going to be on,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: you know, big TV game. Royce is gonna take one
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: of those left handed sliders and deposit.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: It in the second deck. I think he's gonna he's
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: gonna get a hold of one. Join the party.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I like it. I'm gonna say, Byron Buston, even if
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that's cheating, just because odds are right now anyway, Yeah
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: take it. So there you have.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: It's checking Nelson Cruz in nineteen.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Jeffers, Royce, Lewis, Byron Buston Head over to.
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• 27:26
  Speaker 1: All right, we're back.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: It was not the longest commercial on the history of
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: commercials right there.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: That wasn't It's supposed to be a minute long. But
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: that's okay. You're you're feeling it well.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: And to your point, Dan, I noticed last night Jeffers
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: has been walking out to duffelbag Boy, so I think
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: he's fully bought into I'm gonna go get mine, So
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: maybe it's a whole mantra for the season.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Jeffers had the two run homer last night. I think
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the the My favorite moment though, is what when you hit?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: What I see now has gone in the scorebook as
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: a fielder's choice. It was certainly a choice at bottom
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: of the eighth to pop up in the infield that
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: fell Byron. Buxton was on first at the time, and
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I forget if it was was it Okamoto the third
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: baseman who.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Picked it up and tried to throw it and just
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: came barreling in, Yeah.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Through it in the center field. Boxton went to third.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Twins ended up scoring two in the inning thanks to
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: part another error, So even the defense was going the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: other direction last night. It was just one of those
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: nights where it all came together. But looking forward to
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the weekend, three more games with the Blue Jays, guys,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: heck give a way to start. But they also started
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the Seattle series off pretty nice as well. Who knows,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: it's one of those sports. But Simonon Woyd's Richardson on
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the mound tonight, Dan, who's probably been the one starter
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the Twins haven't gotten as much out of as they
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: would have hoped so far.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's had a weird couple of starts. I mean,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: he looked really good in that Kansas City start early on,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: but there's just been some inconsistency there that and this
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: is a guy who has drived off being one of
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: their guys that you just don't see coming and gets
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: out there and gives you six or five and two
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: thirds and keeps them in the game every time, and
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: that hasn't quite happened the last few times out so
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: will be a big start for him, especially against his
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: former team. He and Austin Martin of course coming over
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: in the Jose Barrios trade in twenty twenty one. So always,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: you know, guys get a little geared up extra for
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: that he had. He had the Mets also, like on
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: that road trip last time, and he originally was drafted
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: by the Mets and then traded to Toronto. So he's
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: getting a couple of his old teams here out of
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: the way early in the season. But they definitely need
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: him to find that level because you know, you look
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: at it and Mick Abel is gonna get back sooner
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: or later. And with Connor Prelip there, like, you never
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: know like that that if it keeps going that way,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Connor Prelip might just be too good to leave the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: major league rotation for a team that needs as much
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: as you can get. And what that would mean for
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: whoever's struggling, that's that's an interesting question.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: That's about to be in.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Tyler. Uh when I know, starting pitching is maybe a
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: different some somewhat different world. But when you when you're
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: fifth on the list, how does that can't feel too comforting.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: For a player?
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can see it coming, you know, it's one
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: like well, especially when as first up, like you don't
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: think about it because you're just like flying by the
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: seat your pants. But then you know, you settle in
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: and it's like, oh, so and so's coming off the
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: DL or so and so is almost done with their rehab.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: You know, how do they look? And it definitely starts
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: to trickle into those thoughts.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: You know, I think.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: It's it's unfortunate, but at the same time, you know
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: you're the fifth guy, and you know you're the back
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: of the rotation. That's the always a kind of revolving door,
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: unless you're just on a loaded staff. And now to
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: this point they kind of overnight have a pretty good
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: staff with a rookie who's come up and kind of
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: settling in pretty well, he's got nasty stuff. You know,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: nobody else is going anywhere. You know, you got it's
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: time to pitch, you know, and he's having these conversations
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: inside you know between whether it's his agent or pitching
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: coaches stuff like that. It's like, hey, Bud, like, you know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: this is where we're at. You know where you're at.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Like it's it's time to you know, put up or
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: shut up, you know. Unfortunately, and sometimes it's it's.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: A good thing. You know.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: You go down and you know, I got options plenty
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: of times and you go down. It pitches you off
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: a little bit and you focus in a little bit more.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: You figure out like what's going on, and you'll have to, like,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: for example, my debut gets shelled.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Go down there. I'm throwing an angry bullpen and Marty.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Mason was my pitching coach, and he's like laying down
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: in the bullpen looking up at the sky and listening
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: to me yell, and he's like, you need to calm down.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: You know, you know how to pitch. You're doing this,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: you know you have this stuff. You know.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: He broke it down and simplified it sometimes, and it's
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: sometimes that's what needs to happen is just a little
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: bit of a shake and you're like, hey, calm down.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: You didn't forget how to pitch overnight or anything else.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: And it's just a weird, the humbling and settling experience.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: In a way.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: And you know, obviously you don't want it to happen.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: I don't wish that on anybody.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: But it's baseball, and the game continues no matter who's there.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: And you know, that's we'll just have to see when
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: it comes back with the move is because it's you know,
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: at this point, regardless of what he does, he's been
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: for this outing. If it's five days from now, it's
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: still probably Hi.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: That's the worst.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Part the and this is you you know that six
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: am flight way too well, that Rochester Express like you
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: like Zach, like that's what they called it, right, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: and here's.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, well there's only one flight there, so
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: like yeah, called up to Minnesota. You're set in an alarm
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: for four to go pitch a night game at seven,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: you know, and there's you know four on the East
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: coast flying the central time. You know, there's one time
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: my hotel room wasn't ready. I had to go lay
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: in the locker room at the field. You know, it's
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: it's it's gritty.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it is. And but you could always tell,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: because like in eighteen and nineteen, you could tell when
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Duff was getting the bad news. There's a door in
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: between the manager's office into the clubhouse that I know
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: that sound is permanently imprinted on my brain when it's
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: the door getting hit. Uh yeah, and like because dude,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: like it was a real committment.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: We were just in this.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean you're like, they're like, that was a
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: real thing and you had to get on a really
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: crappy flight to go back to Rochester and like, a
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: there's only one direct and if you don't catch a
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: director getting a nice connector through Detroit or Scharlare, and
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: it's like yeah, yeah, exactly, And so now at least
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: it's a little easier. And a lot of these guys
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: live directly across the street. And even if they're Saint Paul,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: they're staying I wouldn't.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: I would never do that. That's way too close.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's that building that that we're talking about cast
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: the Glare, and I think I bet you there's ten
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: guys that live in that building without a question, and
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: and a few of them are triple A guys and
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: just decided they wanted to.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Live over in the front office through their window.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Tell you, how do you do a dentnis appointment during
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: the season. Well, you just try to try to go
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: for an off day or what.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately that's when they end up happening. Yeah, I know
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: some guys I don't know. For some reason, Buck comes
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: to mind.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: There's a few where it's like, you know, he had
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: to get one, like day of game, and so he'd
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: be like he'd pinch hit later.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: But like when it's an emergency, you just got to go.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: But yeah, unfortunately it's most of the time you got
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: a ruin an off date by getting your teeth drilled on.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: So it's a it's not the best.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, the team sets a lot up, a lot
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: of stuff for you, so it's like, hey, like I
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: need this, and it's like overnight, you know, magic happens,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: you know, mixed going to the doctor in the real
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: world suck afterwards, but while you're in the big leagues,
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: it's it's at least the hassle of going to the doctor.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Isn't I thing.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: It's like, what time do you have to be at
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the park for like a standard night game.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Uh, when I was first up, I was getting there
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: around one ish, okay, one thirty at the latest, Like
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: I say that there's times you're there at till thirty
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: because you're just scared.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: You're like, I need to be there looking like I'm
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: doing something, but you.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Know, and then you settle into the little bit later arrivals,
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: and then there's you know, it's always one of those
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: envy moments where you see the vet walk in at
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: like four for like four thirty VP, and you're just like, damn,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: that's sick.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: I can't wait, you know. But at the same time,
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: then you're panicked if you're not ready.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: You're like, oh my god, yeah, you gotta go, but
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: or somebody is looking for you, like you'll get a
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: phone call where are you.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: It's like I thought it was good to like show
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: up at three today, but I guess I wasn't.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's what military time on the phone, remember exactly.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, once you get comfany that somebody will let you
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: know you're getting comfy.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: I saw Ricky Henderson when I was a kid, run
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: into the oak and call CEM ninety minutes before first pitch.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: That is some all time epic. That is probably hit
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: probably hit home run in still two bases, Hall of Famer, amazing.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: All Right, have some good story time. Simeon Woods Richardson
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: versus Patrick corbyin tonight Friday. Saturday is an afternoon game
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: connored prelip against Dylan Ceas and then Sunday in eleven
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: thirty five in the morning start Thank you peacock.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the one.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Sunday that'll be Joe Ryan against the pitcher with the
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: best name in baseball, Trey Yes. Saturday, Yeah, he's back,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: and then we'll be back with you on Monday. That's
• 37:06
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• 37:09
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• 37:12
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• 37:14
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• 37:20
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