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Twins take 2 of 3 in Houston, now it's off to (deep breath) New York · Twin Cities Territory

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Speaker 1: The Twins take two out of three in Houston. After
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Speaker 1: a fantastic and record setting start for TODJ. Bradley on
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Speaker 1: Wednesday night on the road, they now head off to
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Speaker 1: New York to play the hated Yankees for three games,
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Speaker 1: the struggling Yankees. I should add as well, This is
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Speaker 1: Zach Pierce of the Athletic with Dan Hayes, the Athletics,
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Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins Beat writer, and this is Twin City's Territory
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Speaker 1: You're Minnesota Twins podcast here on the Foul Territory Network.
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Speaker 1: Tyler Duffy was going to be here with us today
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Speaker 1: but he had technical issues, so no Tyler today, but
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Speaker 1: we will get a video from him that will be
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Speaker 1: at the end of the show talking about some Yankee
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Speaker 1: stadium stories and what it's like playing against that team
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Speaker 1: with the history this franchise has against it. But first,
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Speaker 1: Dan Twins won the rubber game in Houston and Wednesday
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Speaker 1: they're forty two and forty six, still four and a
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Speaker 1: half out in the Central, two and a half out
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Speaker 1: in the Wildcard, but they started off this twelve game
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Speaker 1: stretch to the All Star Break here with a much
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Speaker 1: needed series victory.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, same record as last year. As of right now,
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Speaker 2: and I think they're in a much different spot than
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Speaker 2: that club was because that club had expectations. This club
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Speaker 2: is feeling good right now. And you know, you co
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Speaker 2: go through Arizona and Texas and Houston and all teams.
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Speaker 2: You know, Arizona was the most above five hundred at
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Speaker 2: the time of but all three teams sort of in
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Speaker 2: that same area as they are and to come away
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Speaker 2: with three series victories and you know, realistically could have
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Speaker 2: won that Dodger series as unfortunate the Zebe Matthews game
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Speaker 2: didn't go their way. But they really have played pretty
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Speaker 2: well of late, and you know, dating back to June one,
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Speaker 2: they're fifteen and thirteen, so they're they're hanging in and
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Speaker 2: it's all beyond this because this offense is thriving right now.
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Speaker 2: And Barron Buckston, we talked about it on the show
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Speaker 2: the other day, but Barron Buckston has the ultimate confidence
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Speaker 2: in his team to the point where he doesn't feel
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Speaker 2: like he has to be Superman right now and play
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Speaker 2: three through injury and potentially make that hip worse. And
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Speaker 2: it's because he thinks guys are going to pick him up.
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Speaker 2: And what did they do? Yet again, you know, they
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Speaker 2: scored five in the series an opener against Houston, they
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Speaker 2: came back and had four. The offense wasn't the reason
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Speaker 2: why they lost on Tuesday night, and then they scored
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Speaker 2: eight in the finale on Wednesday, and Josh Bell got
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Speaker 2: him started early with that monster home run. That's the
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Speaker 2: best home run we've seen from him, four under and
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Speaker 2: fifty two feet over the batter's eye.
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Speaker 1: I think the video behind the dugout.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was so great, Like, you know, you could
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Speaker 2: tell he's pumped. He got to play in front of
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Speaker 2: his family, both in Arlington and in Houston, and Josh
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Speaker 2: was just I mean, he was outstanding in all six
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Speaker 2: games in Texas, and you know, if you're a Texas team,
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Speaker 2: you might want to think about signing him in the future.
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Speaker 2: He's played a lot of places, He's not played in
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Speaker 2: Texas yet, but that was really cool. And then an
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Speaker 2: inning later, another family moment when Cody Clemens homeer in
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Speaker 2: the front of Roger Clemens. The one that was more
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Speaker 2: important to Cody because he said he's lost count now
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Speaker 2: and we're only talking about going back to last year
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Speaker 2: where he's homeward in front of Dad, but that's already
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Speaker 2: lost Uh, it's luster for him because he's done it
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Speaker 2: handful of times. He's lost count of how many he's
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Speaker 2: homeward in front of Roger. It's at least five or
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Speaker 2: six now. But Grandma was there last night, his mom's
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Speaker 2: mom was there, and Derek Shelton met Nana before the game,
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Speaker 2: and uh so Cody gave her a shout out after
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Speaker 2: the game saying, Nana is the goat. You just saw
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Speaker 2: it keep going. Luke Keishall had a big home run late.
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Speaker 2: You know, it wasn't all easy last night. TOAJ Bradley
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Speaker 2: was outstanding. We'll talk about that in a minute here.
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Speaker 2: But TODs Bradley was phenomenal. But the bullpen struggled a
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Speaker 2: little bit. The defense tried to give some outs away
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Speaker 2: and for a little bit there was consternation in there.
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Speaker 2: But Luke Keishall made a fantastic running catch at one
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Speaker 2: point in the fifth inning catch TOAJ Bradley gave him
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Speaker 2: the TODJ. Bradley gave him the glove.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was very.
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Speaker 2: He was. I mean, lu Keisha went far for that.
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Speaker 2: But then Lukey was.
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Speaker 1: Just like surprised, like wow, somebody other than Buckston.
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Speaker 2: No, because the one thing that's really true is Lukey
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Speaker 2: Shall might be Lukey Sholl is their second best athlete
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Speaker 2: on this team. He's faster than Austin Martin is. Austin
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Speaker 2: Martin's a really good athlete too, But Lukey Show's faster
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Speaker 2: than Austin Martin. And man, like you could see it,
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Speaker 2: like he's just looked good in right field. I wrote
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Speaker 2: about that a little bit today since he's been there.
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Speaker 2: He had the one miss play over the weekend against
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Speaker 2: Colorado turned a potential double into a triple. But we
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Speaker 2: saw him learn from that already. I just think that
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Speaker 2: that was the picture happy reaction. Like, guys, you know,
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Speaker 2: I loved hearing it. I used to cover Mike Cameron
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Speaker 2: way back in the day for the Yeah And I
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Speaker 2: remember one time that Scott linbrink another and we'll go
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Speaker 2: another way back name said he's saved my bacon so
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Speaker 2: many times. Pictures just love it when their outfielders run
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Speaker 2: down baseballs. So I think that was just an appreciation
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Speaker 2: for Luke Kishall going probably seventy five feet. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I wish that we had stat cast because he went
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Speaker 2: a long way and it was full sprint and then
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Speaker 2: slide on the track to make that catch. But it
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Speaker 2: was just a good win, a feel good victory. They
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Speaker 2: needed it, especially going into the Yankee Stadium, and you know,
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Speaker 2: their vibes are good. And I know we've talked about
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Speaker 2: this a lot, but I mean, it just feels so
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Speaker 2: much different than last year's forty two and forty six.
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Speaker 2: That team had so much expectations. This team came in
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Speaker 2: with fewer expectations. The offense is thriving. The offense hasn't
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Speaker 2: thrived like this with Twins probably since the Bomba squad
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Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen. And when you have a group like
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Speaker 2: that going, you know, where a bunch of guys are contributing,
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Speaker 2: it's infectious, and you know, if they can keep it going,
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Speaker 2: it can be the thing that props them up and
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Speaker 2: helps mask some of the flaws that we've talked about
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Speaker 2: that they just need to do that all year. They
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Speaker 2: need to hit to help overcome the shortcomings in the
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Speaker 2: bullpen or the flawed defense. And you know, they did
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Speaker 2: it in this series enough to win the series.
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Speaker 1: I always, I always love when guys make the catch
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Speaker 1: and then dive or slide, and I like to snicker
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Speaker 1: about it, but I think Keishal's was legitimate. He was
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Speaker 1: full speed, Yeah, like the ball was kind of behind him,
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Speaker 1: and also I'm sure he could feel the start. I
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Speaker 1: think he was right on the edge of the warning track,
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Speaker 1: so he's probably worried the walls back there. But it
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Speaker 1: was just a great play, especially considering it's a relatively
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Speaker 1: new position for him, or at least, you know, not
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Speaker 1: as frequent of one for him this season. Go ahead, Nan,
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Speaker 1: you're about to say something.
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Speaker 2: No, he yeah, he like he's expressed confidence. He feels
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Speaker 2: good and comfortable. And I thought the play in the
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Speaker 2: second inning represented it even more than that. Cam Smith
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Speaker 2: hit that screamer to write off the right handed bat,
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Speaker 2: and it was going for that right right field corner,
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Speaker 2: and he knew it was either going to be a
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Speaker 2: home run or that it was going to be off
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Speaker 2: the wall. And the other day at home he went
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Speaker 2: back on a ball and Kram passed him towards the
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Speaker 2: enfield and led to a triple and that run scored
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Speaker 2: and it was three to one Rockies at that point.
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Speaker 2: And that was the disaster game against the Rockies. The
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Speaker 2: not the disaster where they nearly blew the or where
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Speaker 2: they blew the seven run lead, but the middle disaster
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Speaker 2: and he backed off on this ball and knew to
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Speaker 2: play it off the wall almost. You know, Cam Smith's
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Speaker 2: fast guy. He almost got him in second base. But
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Speaker 2: you can tell he's already just learning from the experiences
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Speaker 2: and it's benefiting him. And you know, he's looking like,
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Speaker 2: you know, a guy that can be a guy out there.
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Speaker 2: Because Max Kepler owned right field for so long and
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Speaker 2: Matt Walner we've talked about his struggles defensively this year.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's the worst outfield defender in baseball. This
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Speaker 2: is the opposite of that. And you know, Luke Keishall's
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Speaker 2: getting on base a ton to boot right now. So
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Speaker 2: he's making himself very valuable in just a short time
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Speaker 2: in right field.
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Speaker 1: The Twins efficient night eight runs on eight hits, drew
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Speaker 1: a bunch of walks as well. Three of those hits
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Speaker 1: were from Trevor Larnick, who just continues to rake up
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Speaker 1: to two ninety one on the year, and I was
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Speaker 1: just trying to look up. I think he's his average
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Speaker 1: is up like fifty points in the last two weeks.
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Speaker 1: Yeah he was. He was hitting two forty eight on
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Speaker 1: May twenty second, and yeah, he was still. Oh, he's
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Speaker 1: still still hitting two forty nine on June thirteenth, So
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Speaker 1: there you go.
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Speaker 2: Yes, that road trip to Dallas and Arizona got him going.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And I mean he had the third highest average in
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Speaker 2: the American League in June. And I told him that
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Speaker 2: yesterday because we did the month end of the or
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Speaker 2: the Player of the Month awards. We vote on them
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Speaker 2: every month, hit her, pitcher, rookie, and reliever, and he
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Speaker 2: was third in the ALE and average behind Yondi Diaz
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Speaker 2: and Jordan Alvarez. That's good territory to be in. Not
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Speaker 2: as good as Twin Cities territory, but it's good territory
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Speaker 2: to be in. And one he yeah, he loves like
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Speaker 2: Trevor is not. Trevor is the kind of guy that
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Speaker 2: if you tell him a good stat about himself, he
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Speaker 2: always thanks you. And you can tell he digs it
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Speaker 2: hearing it. He's not seeking it. He doesn't ever. I
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Speaker 2: just like I recognized if you talk to him about
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Speaker 2: a playing and you're like, hey, that was a really
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Speaker 2: nice play, he appreciates it. He likes hearing that stuff,
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Speaker 2: but he uh, you know, and then we were talking
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Speaker 2: about it afterwards. I was like, at one point you
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Speaker 2: were seven fifteen July when he missed out and has
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Speaker 2: lasted bat So he's only carrying a six hundred average
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Speaker 2: so far in July, going three for five last night.
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Speaker 2: But he's been another guy. I mean, it's just that's
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Speaker 2: the part that you can find so many different guys
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Speaker 2: that are doing well. And you know, when we were
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Speaker 2: looking at the ops is for June, I felt bad
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Speaker 2: because Alex Jackson was like a seven eighty and it
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Speaker 2: was like I couldn't include him in my list of
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Speaker 2: guys that were eight hundred because it's so much cleaner
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Speaker 2: to say guys who are above eight hundred. But he
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Speaker 2: had a seven eighty. Like this is a guy who
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Speaker 2: has never really hit in the majors and he is hitting.
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Speaker 2: He had a good year last year with Baltimore, but
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Speaker 2: it was in you know, sparing time, and but you
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Speaker 2: just look around and they are hitting a ton. It's
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Speaker 2: a if. Do we have time before the break here
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Speaker 2: to talk about TAJ or should we do taj R.
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Speaker 1: I'll take the break and we'll talk about Taj. But
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Speaker 1: just last thing about Larnick, Like Buxton is clearly number
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Speaker 1: one on the All Star list, at least among hitters
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Speaker 1: just because of the home runs. But Larnick, I mean.
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Speaker 2: It's really good.
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Speaker 1: It is a piece should be right there too.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's been outstanding. He look, he hits rockets
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Speaker 2: like everything you see it. They are just he's got
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Speaker 2: that swing. And I remember thinking it when they drafted him,
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Speaker 2: when we saw him in spring, that he had the
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Speaker 2: hit factor. It really has never been amazing at the
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Speaker 2: major league level, but he's always been a consistent guy,
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Speaker 2: and it's clear this year that he sacrificed some power
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Speaker 2: to just be a better hitter. And man, he is
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Speaker 2: hitting the ball well and he's running well, which helps
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Speaker 2: because in the past he's had a bunch of foot
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Speaker 2: stuff that slowed him down. But he is, you know,
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Speaker 2: he's coming to his own, especially as a hitter, and
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Speaker 2: knows what he wants to do. And when they're facing
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Speaker 2: the writing they put him at the top, there's a
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Speaker 2: pretty good chance that they feel like he's gonna get
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Speaker 2: on base. So's it's been one of his best stretches
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Speaker 2: for sure the last two and a half three weeks,
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Speaker 2: and he's set in the table for them.
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Speaker 1: We'll take a quick break come back talk Taj Bradley
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Speaker 1: Byron Buxton and more on Twin Cities Territory right after this.
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Speaker 1: Dan. The other biggest thing from Wednesday night a fantastic
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Speaker 1: outing from Taj Bradley was injured a little while ago,
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Speaker 1: came back, had some rough outings, has been really good lately,
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Speaker 1: and Wednesday was the cherry on top so far.
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Speaker 2: He three weeks ago. I remember talking to you about
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Speaker 2: it after Detroit where he had that start where he
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Speaker 2: was just flustered and had no answers about what was
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Speaker 2: going wrong and was just confessed to me and a
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Speaker 2: freelance reporter that was there, like, guys, I got nothing,
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Speaker 2: we have to go back in review. Yeah, and you
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Speaker 2: know it was it was a very honest moment, And like,
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Speaker 2: I wonder if that like sometimes you're talking your stuff out.
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Speaker 2: Because he found it immediately and he acknowledged it, like
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Speaker 2: the middle of the week. He's like, maybe it's just
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Speaker 2: like you say it and you admit the issue and
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Speaker 2: then you're able to get past it. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if that's something, because he really did. I'm not trying
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Speaker 2: to make this a mean thing. I think in the moment,
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Speaker 2: like he just was able to vocalize that he had
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Speaker 2: no answers at that time, and it was like he
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Speaker 2: let go, and man, he's been outstanding ever since. Like
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Speaker 2: the next outing was Saint Louis and it wasn't perfect,
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Speaker 2: but it was like Taj was back, the early version
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Speaker 2: of him was back, and he said that he saw
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Speaker 2: light at the end of the tunnel, and like I
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Speaker 2: wrote it today, he's been speeding through that tunnel ever since.
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Speaker 2: And the only thing slowing him down right now is
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Speaker 2: this offense just dragging out innings and making him sit
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Speaker 2: on the bench forever. It's like, can we get Taj
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Speaker 2: Bradley a normal quick inning? And of course he wants
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Speaker 2: the runs. He doesn't want to he doesn't. He's not
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Speaker 2: complaining about him at all, but he's having to be
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Speaker 2: inventive in finding ways of staying hot in between innings
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Speaker 2: right now, because you know, he warms up in the
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Speaker 2: bullpen last night and the offense came out and Bell
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Speaker 2: hit the two out, two run homer, and then the
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Speaker 2: Twins loaded the bases after that. They sent eight men
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Speaker 2: to the plate in the first inning against Emi, and
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Speaker 2: like they looked good and it was a long inning.
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Speaker 2: So Taj of course went and threw some pitches in
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Speaker 2: the hallway tunnel on the way to the clubhouse, and
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Speaker 2: then you recognizing it was a long inning, he couldn't
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Speaker 2: throw any more pitches. He's by the way wearing a
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Speaker 2: towel at this point to stay warm. And what he
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Speaker 2: said he does if it's a really long inning and
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Speaker 2: he needs to stay loose and warm, he'll start doing
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Speaker 2: some of his dynamic exercises to stay loose and hot.
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Speaker 2: And he's been doing an awful lot of that because
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Speaker 2: if you remember, he was on the mound for the
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Speaker 2: seven run game against Colorado that the bullpen blew and
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Speaker 2: then they won on the Friday night in extras, and
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Speaker 2: he was on the mound for the ten run inning
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Speaker 2: in Arizona, the night when they set their season high
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Speaker 2: and runs and hits. So his last three starts have
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Speaker 2: been carbon copies. And the thing that has been awesome
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Speaker 2: is that just the performance he's put up in each
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Speaker 2: of those games in spite of really challenging conditions. I mean,
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Speaker 2: to sit for twenty minutes in between innings can be
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Speaker 2: very challenging for a pitcher. You find a rhythm, you attack,
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Speaker 2: you might lose your deliver, you might just get out
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Speaker 2: of sorts. Maybe you lose it mentally, there's there's so
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Speaker 2: many factors and he has not lost it. You know,
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Speaker 2: in the middle of that start, he struck out ten
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Speaker 2: batters in a row. He recorded I was it was
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Speaker 2: recorded to consecutive outs, yes, because there were fourteen batters.
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Speaker 2: It was over the stretch of fourteen batters. He gave
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Speaker 2: up I think two hits and walked to in that stretch.
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Speaker 2: But all ten outs that he recorded the last out
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Speaker 2: of the first inning, all the way through the fourth
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Speaker 2: were all strikeouts and he was just dominant. I mean
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Speaker 2: it was. That's a powerful, good lineup there, fourth in
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Speaker 2: the American League, and home runs, they score a lot
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Speaker 2: of runs. I don't know how you get Jordan Alvarez
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Speaker 2: out right now. He's incredible. It's scary every time he
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Speaker 2: comes to the plate, and they're thrilled that they are
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Speaker 2: done with him for the regular season. You know, they
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Speaker 2: don't face him again. They already faced him in May
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Speaker 2: and now they faced him here. But he just carried it.
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Speaker 2: And you know, to be at ten strikeouts after four
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Speaker 2: and the only thing it did was run up his
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Speaker 2: pitch count a little bit. But I think if they
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Speaker 2: hadn't been up by such a big score, maybe they
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Speaker 2: would have tried to squeeze a sixth inning out of him.
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Speaker 2: He was that good. And afterwards I loved his quote
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Speaker 2: and he said we Matthew Leach was there and asked
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Speaker 2: with me, you know you struggle for a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Do you feel like you were at the point where
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Speaker 2: are you? Are you getting back to where you want
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Speaker 2: to be? Like how do you feel? And this quote
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Speaker 2: was perfect and let me just find it here and
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Speaker 2: read it. He said, I feel like I'm right where
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Speaker 2: I want to be mentally or need to be mentally,
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Speaker 2: physically everything he said, I'm not closer. I'm at the
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Speaker 2: destination now. I'm just keeping it knowing who I am
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Speaker 2: and staying on that track. And I was like, that
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Speaker 2: was just an amazing quote. I mean, this guy clearly
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Speaker 2: has found something this year with the Twins. And when
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Speaker 2: he is going like this, you know they are a
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Speaker 2: hard team to be.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it seemed like the right call. He was right
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Speaker 1: out one hundred pitches, just shy he'd been, Yeah, had
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Speaker 1: all those long waits like you mentioned, the game was
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Speaker 1: taking forever like five innings. Done, good job, big Lea.
18:12
Speaker 1: Let the bullpen take it from there. But Bradley now
18:15
Speaker 1: seven three eight, six ERA in sixteen starts for the Twins,
18:22
Speaker 1: seven wins.
18:23
Speaker 2: Strikeouts innings. It's because it's got to be more than one.
18:27
Speaker 1: Hundred and two strikeouts in eighty eight and two thirds innings.
18:32
Speaker 2: It is. Look, I love Gryffin Jacks. I love what
18:35
Speaker 2: Griffin Jacks brought to this team. But that trade is
18:38
Speaker 2: looking very good for the Twins right now because Taj
18:42
Speaker 2: Bradley has multiple more years and Gryffin Jackson is a
18:45
Speaker 2: free agent after next year, and he has been looking
18:48
Speaker 2: pretty solid himself. Pitching at a starter for the Rays.
18:52
Speaker 2: That's something that had been talked about a little bit here,
18:55
Speaker 2: and Jackson even considered it, and they're having him do it.
18:59
Speaker 2: But I mean todsh Bradley's younger, Tosh Bradley is rolling
19:02
Speaker 2: in his arsenal. He blew one hundred by guys at
19:05
Speaker 2: the top of the zone yesterday multiple times. When Duff,
19:08
Speaker 2: when Duff is reacting, Duff was sitting next to me
19:11
Speaker 2: at that game. And when Duff is reacting the way
19:13
Speaker 2: he was, you know how good it is because Duff
19:16
Speaker 2: is pretty. He's pretty. He keeps it close to the
19:19
Speaker 2: best unless somebody really sucks. But he doesn't seem to
19:24
Speaker 2: be easily impressed. I mean, he played with some really
19:26
Speaker 2: hard throwers and he when Bradley threw that hundred was
19:31
Speaker 2: his reaction was genuine like wow, where did that come from?
19:34
Speaker 2: And you know we've seen it a lot this year.
19:37
Speaker 1: This is Bradley's fourth season and he's one win away
19:40
Speaker 1: from tying his career high already, which came in twenty
19:43
Speaker 1: twenty four with Tampa Bay. So two point zero on
19:48
Speaker 1: the war according to Baseball Reference, pretty good for reliever trade.
19:53
Speaker 1: I would say.
19:55
Speaker 2: Fourth season, but after this year he will only have
19:59
Speaker 2: three three plus years of service time, so Twins have
20:04
Speaker 2: him for three more years after this before he would
20:06
Speaker 2: become a free agent, which is very encouraging. That's why
20:09
Speaker 2: they made the trade.
20:12
Speaker 1: The other notable thing from Wednesday night you probably missed
20:15
Speaker 1: this dan being at the game and not watching it
20:17
Speaker 1: on TV, but Corey provis not a World Cup guy.
20:21
Speaker 1: We learned last night because the US men's national team
20:26
Speaker 1: game ended during the Twins Astros game, so they talked
20:29
Speaker 1: about it on air and Anthony Recer had to educate
20:32
Speaker 1: him on many things World Cup, including the US's next opponent.
20:36
Speaker 1: But Provos was a good sport about it. And you know,
20:39
Speaker 1: I think he might be a fan now going forward.
20:41
Speaker 1: So next time you see him, just just be aware
20:44
Speaker 1: he can't hang with you in the World Cup. Talk Dan,
20:46
Speaker 1: you because you are somebody, of course who almost bought
20:48
Speaker 1: tickets to a game, so you know a lot.
20:52
Speaker 2: Hey, I will tell you that my interest is peaked
20:56
Speaker 2: with this. This is the most wins right by the
20:58
Speaker 2: US and any World Cup correct.
21:00
Speaker 1: The three?
21:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I know, look, look, I know there's
21:05
Speaker 2: extra rounds, Okay, I get it. But this is the
21:07
Speaker 2: best team that we've had in our lifetime.
21:10
Speaker 1: I think it legitimately is the best team they've had.
21:13
Speaker 1: It just also happens to be the expanded World Cup
21:15
Speaker 1: where it's of.
21:16
Speaker 2: Course, it feels like it feels like there's so many
21:20
Speaker 2: guys that can score. And the free kick, especially when
21:24
Speaker 2: you're down one of your best strikers. It's not your
21:27
Speaker 2: best striker, that's free kick. That's amazing. You should see
21:31
Speaker 2: You should have seen it in the press box. It
21:33
Speaker 2: was hilarious because the press box WiFi was so slow
21:38
Speaker 2: because everybody was watching the game on their damn computers.
21:42
Speaker 2: And I turned to Leach and Brian McTaggert from MLB
21:45
Speaker 2: at the end and I'm like, guys, WiFi is about
21:47
Speaker 2: to get a hell of a lot better. This match
21:49
Speaker 2: is almost over and what do you know, it's sped
21:51
Speaker 2: up like just ten times. So many people were watching it.
21:55
Speaker 2: Houston's a pretty big soccer city Mexico player. The night
21:58
Speaker 2: before when we left, there were so many fans that
22:01
Speaker 2: come downtown to watch Mexico and man, I do not
22:05
Speaker 2: I do not envy England going to Mexico City.
22:08
Speaker 1: It's going to be amazing the stuff they.
22:11
Speaker 2: Pulled off against Ecuador. Stuff the fans did, staying up
22:15
Speaker 2: all night playing music and move Azelda's outside the hotel
22:19
Speaker 2: and then intentionally creating a traffic jam so that the
22:22
Speaker 2: bus was late to the game, Like like that's that
22:27
Speaker 2: is amazing stuff. Ye, so yeah, it's easy to get
22:30
Speaker 2: into it. I'll have to give Corey some crap about this.
22:33
Speaker 1: I said England might be better off just hanging out
22:35
Speaker 1: in Atlanta until the morning of the game and then
22:38
Speaker 1: but you know, yeah, altitude, acclimate, all that. I get
22:41
Speaker 1: it off of the World Cup Talk not a World
22:45
Speaker 1: Cup Cut podcast, but we do have a little bit
22:47
Speaker 1: of an update on Byron Buxton and what's going on
22:49
Speaker 1: with him? He's been out last couple of games. Dan,
22:51
Speaker 1: What what do we hear yesterday from Derek Shelton.
22:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, so chill. Derek Shelton the other day left some
22:59
Speaker 2: wiggle room in when he talked about it that I
23:03
Speaker 2: took it first to think, man, you know, he said,
23:05
Speaker 2: we're in a weird spot where we have a day
23:07
Speaker 2: off today Thursday, and then we have a day off Monday.
23:10
Speaker 2: And I was like, Oh, that means they think they
23:11
Speaker 2: could maybe manage him and he'll come back in New
23:14
Speaker 2: York and play Friday and maybe Sunday, and then with
23:17
Speaker 2: the day off, you know, maybe they do Friday and
23:19
Speaker 2: Saturday and then. But then I recognized maybe Shelton was
23:24
Speaker 2: talking about, well, we are we have these two off days,
23:27
Speaker 2: so Byron would only miss eight games if we put
23:30
Speaker 2: him on the aisle for ten. And so I asked
23:32
Speaker 2: him about that in the manager session pregame if that
23:35
Speaker 2: was why he kind of left that wiggle room in there,
23:38
Speaker 2: and he said that it was a possibility, of course,
23:41
Speaker 2: but they weren't there because they'd seen progress from Byron
23:45
Speaker 2: Buckson with his hip impingement, and so they weren't even
23:49
Speaker 2: remotely thinking that. As of Wednesday, I think going to
23:52
Speaker 2: New York, the flight to New York, Man, they got
23:55
Speaker 2: in super late, like they were scheduled. If the game
23:58
Speaker 2: had been on time, it was gonna be like a
23:59
Speaker 2: three forty five am arrival in New York. And then
24:02
Speaker 2: the game went ridiculously slow. So I bet you they
24:06
Speaker 2: didn't get their hotel until four thirty. But we'll see
24:08
Speaker 2: how he responds after them play, right they don't correct, Yeah,
24:13
Speaker 2: and so that's four days off for him right now
24:15
Speaker 2: since the last time he played. They'll get a sense
24:18
Speaker 2: for him for Friday in New York. If it's not
24:22
Speaker 2: going well, they know that they can pull the back
24:25
Speaker 2: date on the aisle and you know, he'll miss eight games.
24:29
Speaker 2: So I think that they feel like they're in an
24:33
Speaker 2: okay spot to handle it. But you know, it didn't
24:37
Speaker 2: sound like they were ready to even consider that at
24:40
Speaker 2: all because of the progress he's made. So we will see.
24:42
Speaker 2: I'm glad we don't have a Daily Dingers to pick
24:45
Speaker 2: for the Friday game, because I would probably pick Byron
24:48
Speaker 2: to hit a home run at New York Yankee Stadium.
24:50
Speaker 2: But it's it sounds like it's progressing well. Enough.
24:56
Speaker 1: We will take a quick break and be back to
24:58
Speaker 1: t up that series Yankee Stadium right after this.
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Speaker 1: The Twins are headed to Yankee Stadium this weekend a
26:09
Speaker 1: three game set Friday through Sunday. If you haven't heard,
26:14
Speaker 1: they've struggled against the Yankees in recent years. I hate
26:16
Speaker 1: to break it to you, but since two thousand and two,
26:21
Speaker 1: the Yankees are one hundred and eleven and forty four
26:25
Speaker 1: against the Twins in the regular season, which is just
26:28
Speaker 1: an astounding statistic. That is, obviously, if you were to
26:33
Speaker 1: extrapolate that as a team's record over a full season,
26:36
Speaker 1: historically good for the Yankees, historically bad for the Twins.
26:39
Speaker 1: In the playoffs, It's sixteen and two the Yankees' record
26:44
Speaker 1: against the Twins. I was saying before the show. Fun fact, Dan,
26:48
Speaker 1: I personally attended the first and most recent of those
26:51
Speaker 1: sixteen playoff losses to the Yankees in that span, two
26:54
Speaker 1: thousand and three at old Yankee Stadium. So you're saying
26:57
Speaker 1: it was you, I think I think it's my fault. Yeah,
27:00
Speaker 1: they are. They are still stuck under my curse, got
27:04
Speaker 1: my hat stolen in the bleachers. It was a great
27:05
Speaker 1: day back then, and uh I remember that crazy yeah,
27:10
Speaker 1: But brad Radkey started that game. Tory Hunter smacked a
27:14
Speaker 1: homer to center field, to tie it in like the
27:16
Speaker 1: fifth or sixth, and then the Yankees, as they always do,
27:19
Speaker 1: did what they do, did what they do. The difference
27:24
Speaker 1: maybe this time around, is that the Yankees stink hot
27:27
Speaker 1: garbage right now.
27:29
Speaker 2: They do.
27:30
Speaker 1: They're beat up too. They're beat up. They've lost seven
27:33
Speaker 1: in a row. What could go wrong? Dan, Everything's everything's
27:37
Speaker 1: looking up.
27:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, No, No, that's exactly. Hey, we got them
27:41
Speaker 2: where we want them, No, Aaron Judge in this series, Hey,
27:44
Speaker 2: we're the Yankees are struggling right now. Stanton's on the
27:48
Speaker 2: I L. Grisham's on the I L. Ryan McMahon, I
27:52
Speaker 2: think is on the I L. Like they are beat up,
27:56
Speaker 2: So got them right where they want him, prime for
27:58
Speaker 2: Yankee sweep right now. We know that's just how it like,
28:02
Speaker 2: Like the Yankees see the Twins come to town, They're
28:04
Speaker 2: like time to get fat boys. This is it. But
28:07
Speaker 2: in all reality, like this is a the Twins are
28:12
Speaker 2: in a good spot to go in here and battle
28:14
Speaker 2: those demons. And I know that Duff is gonna contribute
28:18
Speaker 2: a little bit here before the episode on video with
28:21
Speaker 2: what it's like to go there.
28:22
Speaker 1: But we are going to have time with Tyler still.
28:25
Speaker 1: We hope. We haven't haven't gotten the video yet, though
28:27
Speaker 1: I'm a little worried.
28:28
Speaker 2: I don't think we have. I don't think we have.
28:30
Speaker 2: But I've seen some unbelievable crap over the years where
28:33
Speaker 2: I'm like, how what just happened? I mean, base running, gaffs,
28:39
Speaker 2: stuff that just doesn't ever happen. And you know, the
28:42
Speaker 2: Twins seem to hang when the Yankees are in Minnesota.
28:46
Speaker 2: But it's like when Minnesota goes to this particular stadium.
28:49
Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't even feel this way when they're
28:51
Speaker 2: playing the Mets. You know, it's not a New York thing.
28:54
Speaker 2: It's a Yankee thing. It is much more a Yankee
28:57
Speaker 2: thing than anything else, because the Twins will go to
28:59
Speaker 2: New York and play the Mets. They were down and
29:02
Speaker 2: remember early on in April that Ryan Jeffers game time
29:05
Speaker 2: Grand Slam. It was this They were down like seven
29:07
Speaker 2: to one and they came back and tied. They lost
29:10
Speaker 2: that game, but they don't have fear on the other
29:12
Speaker 2: side of the Apple. It just seems to be in
29:13
Speaker 2: the Bronx. And I don't know if Minnesota and ice
29:16
Speaker 2: doesn't play well in the Bronx what it is, but
29:19
Speaker 2: it just historically has been insane, and I remember talking
29:23
Speaker 2: to Rocco Baldelli about it because i'd seen it in
29:25
Speaker 2: eighteen when we went in with the Twins. You know,
29:30
Speaker 2: they'd been coming, they'd just come off that wild card loss,
29:33
Speaker 2: and I remember you and I had a you. I
29:36
Speaker 2: had a long story I was set to publish in
29:39
Speaker 2: eighteen and it was gonna be about how they don't
29:42
Speaker 2: believe in this curse. But we got hung up, both
29:45
Speaker 2: of us, and I couldn't get it to you until
29:48
Speaker 2: just before the first game, and the Twins got their
29:51
Speaker 2: asses kicked so badly that this was like a thirty
29:54
Speaker 2: inch story and we just decided not to run it.
29:57
Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, let's just chalk that one up.
29:59
Speaker 2: And they lost three four. If they didn't get swept
30:01
Speaker 2: in four in that series, it was something like that.
30:04
Speaker 2: And I just remember Rocco coming in the next year
30:07
Speaker 2: and thinking this is all bs, and then just seeing
30:10
Speaker 2: him defeated by the fact that they were just ghosts
30:13
Speaker 2: for the Twins at Yankee Stadium over the years, that
30:16
Speaker 2: they always exist no matter how good the team is
30:19
Speaker 2: coming in. You know, they did win a series a
30:21
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. I think it was in twenty
30:23
Speaker 2: twenty three, and it was like, oh, this, that's why
30:25
Speaker 2: this team is real.
30:26
Speaker 1: That's the one year since two thousand and one that
30:29
Speaker 1: they have won the season series against the Yankees. It
30:32
Speaker 1: was twenty twenty three.
30:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and they got him early in Yankee Stadium.
30:37
Speaker 2: I think it was April before before I don't know,
30:40
Speaker 2: before things could get going into the season. And it
30:42
Speaker 2: was so stunning that they won that series.
30:44
Speaker 1: But yeah, three out of four Yankee Stadium that year. Wait, yeah, no,
30:48
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Yeah, and it was they split at Yankee
30:52
Speaker 1: Stadium and then won two out of okay, target Field.
30:55
Speaker 2: Okay, well, hey, a split a splittory is like, that's
30:58
Speaker 2: like winning the world for the Twins. Seriously, that's that's
31:03
Speaker 2: just how I don't believe in this crap, right, And
31:06
Speaker 2: you know, I loved the story of the Red Sox
31:08
Speaker 2: curse and the Cubs curse and you and I'm like,
31:12
Speaker 2: none of this is real. These curses aren't jinxes, no
31:15
Speaker 2: hit or jinxes aren't real. And yet I kind of
31:19
Speaker 2: believe that the Twins are cursed at Yankee Stadium.
31:22
Speaker 1: I would love to ask Tyler about this, and we
31:24
Speaker 1: will on Monday if we remember, but having been to
31:30
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, not just for that game, but for others,
31:33
Speaker 1: it it's a different place. Like the There's something about
31:37
Speaker 1: the energy and the crowd that just feels maybe because
31:40
Speaker 1: you've seen it on TV a million times in big games.
31:43
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the lighting. Maybe it's that old dude who
31:46
Speaker 1: used to do the PA who was so great. What
31:47
Speaker 1: was his name, Bob Shepard, Bob Shepherd rip, I believe
31:52
Speaker 1: at this point, sorry, but fantastic PA guy. There was
31:57
Speaker 1: just the aura of that place. I really do think
31:59
Speaker 1: it like it's tough to play there in a way
32:02
Speaker 1: that it isn't in apologies to Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Like
32:06
Speaker 1: it just isn't the same revironment. And I think I
32:10
Speaker 1: think some players would agree with that. Maybe I'm crazy,
32:12
Speaker 1: but no, Okay, look, I very much think there are
32:17
Speaker 1: three places that are exceptionally hard to play for the aura.
32:21
Speaker 2: And at any time, at any time, not just when
32:25
Speaker 2: the team is going like well, Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park,
32:30
Speaker 2: and Dodger Stadium. Dodger Stadium, you've been there, you know
32:34
Speaker 2: they have those big ass speakers in center field and
32:37
Speaker 2: it's just like a rock concert at all times. The
32:41
Speaker 2: Dodgers have made it much harder to do this now
32:43
Speaker 2: because they're so good with all their stars. But they
32:47
Speaker 2: used to bring the stars out on the field and
32:49
Speaker 2: you'd see Mary Hart and you'd see I'm not even
32:53
Speaker 2: gonna go over the amount of people I've seen, but
32:56
Speaker 2: I saw Danny Trejo a couple of years ago. He
32:58
Speaker 2: was out there selling tequila and I'm like, oh my god,
33:01
Speaker 2: that's Danny trayho And you go with very hard all right, Well,
33:07
Speaker 2: Danny tray Hoo is like one of those guys. You
33:09
Speaker 2: see him, you know exactly who it is, you know
33:10
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like it's Jane Seymour has been there,
33:14
Speaker 2: it's Larry Davids, like everybody's there, right, and and anytime
33:19
Speaker 2: those people are there, everybody around is like, yeah, it's
33:23
Speaker 2: like any other day that ends in a wy at
33:25
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. There's like this weird just star quality and
33:29
Speaker 2: you get caught up in it and it's so different.
33:32
Speaker 1: It's a different, but it still exists. Yeah.
33:37
Speaker 2: Right, It's like seeing the Lakers and looking over at
33:41
Speaker 2: the court side and there's Jack you know. It's like
33:44
Speaker 2: like that you're under the eyes of the world when
33:47
Speaker 2: all those stars are out and Yankee Stadium in a
33:49
Speaker 2: baseball way, and that stupid noise they play every time
33:54
Speaker 2: they strike out a batter. It's a local electronics commercial.
33:57
Speaker 2: It's like this annoying whistle. Got it. Hate that thing.
34:01
Speaker 2: Fenway Park is the same way. Fenway Park is so
34:04
Speaker 2: games switched so quick there because the Monster and the
34:08
Speaker 2: Red Sox knowing how to use it that it can
34:11
Speaker 2: be the same thing. And just the energy of the fans.
34:13
Speaker 2: They know how to turn it on at the right
34:14
Speaker 2: point because it's instilled in them. It's part of baseball tradition.
34:18
Speaker 2: You see it other places when they're going good. Wrigley
34:22
Speaker 2: Field can be that way. At and T Park in
34:25
Speaker 2: San Francisco can be that way. When teams are playing great,
34:29
Speaker 2: their home field can be an advantaged so Twins have
34:31
Speaker 2: had it. Target Field. Target Field can be an intimidating,
34:34
Speaker 2: loud place, even with twenty thousand people at times like
34:38
Speaker 2: they can pump it up. I'm not saying when it's
34:42
Speaker 2: thirty nine, it's real like the playoffs in twenty three,
34:45
Speaker 2: that was a real home field advantage for the Twins.
34:47
Speaker 2: That place can be deafening, but there's but they just
34:51
Speaker 2: don't compare, because like Yankee Stadium, it's like.
34:54
Speaker 7: That eighty one of eighty one, you know, and you
34:58
Speaker 7: see guys expecting it and knowing it's there. So I think,
35:02
Speaker 7: and I think Duff is going to chime in here
35:04
Speaker 7: on video and tell us because in twenty nineteen, in
35:08
Speaker 7: that place, that postseason, the Twins went in and you know,
35:13
Speaker 7: they had tied the Bombas squad had tied the Yankees
35:16
Speaker 7: for the all time home run record that season, both
35:19
Speaker 7: teams hit three hundred and seven home runs.
35:21
Speaker 2: The Twins went in very confident and like, hey, the
35:25
Speaker 2: past is the past. We're not that team. And man,
35:28
Speaker 2: they got their asses kicked in the two games of
35:31
Speaker 2: the Yankee Stadium, and weird stuff happened. Louis a Rise
35:34
Speaker 2: dropped that pop up or maybe it was a maybe
35:37
Speaker 2: it was a yeah, he dropped the pop up, and
35:39
Speaker 2: then his relay on a double play ball skipped past
35:43
Speaker 2: c J Cron. Jose Burrios pitched way better than his
35:48
Speaker 2: line indicated and left losing and like, you know, should
35:51
Speaker 2: have been winning, and the defense failed him. And then
35:54
Speaker 2: the Yankees blew out the bullpen and won like twelve
35:57
Speaker 2: to four, and then Game two is Randy Dobnack and
36:00
Speaker 2: that's all she wrote, folks, Because no way the Twins
36:02
Speaker 2: are coming back and winning three four at home and
36:05
Speaker 2: then winning five in Yankee Stadium like it was over. Yeah,
36:09
Speaker 2: and everybody was just stunt because that was one of
36:11
Speaker 2: the best offenses and they couldn't do anything in that postseason.
36:14
Speaker 1: Yeah. Remember, Tyler made the point that this team doesn't
36:21
Speaker 1: really have any connection to the twenty four years of failure.
36:27
Speaker 1: But I feel like we've had that turnover a few
36:29
Speaker 1: times over in the last twenty four years where it's
36:31
Speaker 1: like this core, most of them should have no recollection
36:35
Speaker 1: of these past failures and some shit, it keeps it
36:37
Speaker 1: keeps happening. If we get that video.
36:39
Speaker 2: From Tyler, issue there, Yeah, connective tissue or connective fiber
36:43
Speaker 2: in there somewhere.
36:46
Speaker 1: If we get that video from Tyler, we will insert
36:48
Speaker 1: it here.
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Speaker 8: Playing in Yankee Stadium is always an exciting, you know experience.
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Speaker 8: It's one that's not always great. Sometimes it's a blast,
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Speaker 8: but either way, it's you know, a lot of these
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Speaker 8: guys is going to be their first time and it's
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Speaker 8: somewhere that is it's a historic place. Granted it's a
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Speaker 8: new building, but it's still the same Yankees uniforms, the
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Speaker 8: same ghosts are still in the stadium, you know, monument
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Speaker 8: parks out there, all the incredible features that they have,
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Speaker 8: and then not to mention the spread inside.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's just a it's a one of one
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Speaker 3: experience as a fan, as a player.
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Speaker 8: You know, it's a place that can get loud and
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Speaker 8: get crazy quickly, especially on a big weekend like this,
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Speaker 8: Holidays are coming. You know they're going to have somebody cool,
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Speaker 8: probably doing the anthem and things like that.
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Speaker 3: Like it's a it's a unique place.
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Speaker 8: It's you know, Finnways up there for me, but as
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Speaker 8: far as baseball places where you know, destinations, it's probably
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Speaker 8: up there for everybody as one of one and it's
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Speaker 8: just a special.
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Speaker 3: Energy they have. It's an incredible environment.
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Speaker 8: You know the names that are in those lineups, you
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Speaker 8: know they're missing some unfortunately for us, but it's still
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Speaker 8: the Yankees and and games can get out of hand
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Speaker 8: quick there.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's it's just special place to play a game.
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Speaker 8: Can't say that enough, but you know it's one a
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Speaker 8: lot of guys will be their first time on that field,
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Speaker 8: first time on that immaculate mound, they have.
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Speaker 3: They've used some different dirt.
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Speaker 8: I don't know what it is, but it's even just
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Speaker 8: warming up for that game, you feel special. It's really
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Speaker 8: is that. Like I'm in the big leagues. You know,
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Speaker 8: you get it a few times, face people things like that,
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Speaker 8: but once you get on that mound in that stadium
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Speaker 8: and see those people all up on top of you, it's.
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Speaker 3: It's such a special experience.
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Speaker 8: And it's one that guys will you know, you'll remember
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Speaker 8: you do something special there or have a rough one
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Speaker 8: there like I have.
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Speaker 3: You remember it for a long time, and you know,
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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it's baseball.
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Speaker 8: It's ninety feet and it's sixty feet six inches. And
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Speaker 8: I think as long as those guys can remember to
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Speaker 8: do that and don't make it more than it is,
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Speaker 8: you know, get out tonight and try to take Game
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Speaker 8: one and get some momentum going. You know, the Yankees
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Speaker 8: been struggling a little bit, trying and keep a roll
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Speaker 8: going for the Twins and get those boys hot, you know,
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Speaker 8: and got some good guys in that lineup short porches
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Speaker 8: to both sides, so you know, the Twins have been
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Speaker 8: hot hitting Homer, so might as well keep that going.
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Speaker 1: We'll move on to more practical matters with this series.
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Speaker 1: Three games sets starting Friday night, six ozho five start
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Speaker 1: Mike Parides against Garrett Cole. On Saturday twelve thirty five start,
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Speaker 1: Twins are actually moving up Zebbie Matthews. That should have
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Speaker 1: been Connor Prelip spot, but it'll be Zebie Matthews against
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Speaker 1: Carlos Rodon. And then on Sunday twelve thirty five start
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Speaker 1: on Peacock and that'll be Joe Ryan against Ryan Weather's
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Speaker 1: a battle of Ryan's. So Dan. A couple of things
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Speaker 1: of note, Connor Prelip getting held off of a Yankee
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Speaker 1: Stadium start, and also the Twins are going to miss
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Speaker 1: Cam Schlittler. I have to be very careful how I
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Speaker 1: say that name well good and who is obviously a
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Speaker 1: cy young candidate. So another starting pitching break for the Twins.
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Speaker 1: But the Twins felt the best not to put Prelip
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Speaker 1: out there given his Tommy John sergeries. Why don't you
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Speaker 1: explain danil'll do a better job than I.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's already coming up. I bet they have ear
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Speaker 2: marks like one hundred and twenty innings for Connor Prelip
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Speaker 2: because he threw eighty two last year, maybe maybe one
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Speaker 2: twenty five, somewhere in that range, maybe one thirty, who knows.
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Speaker 2: It's fluid. It's gonna be dependent on how Connor Prelip
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Speaker 2: is feeling, because they don't want to blow him out.
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Speaker 2: We talked about this before that they need his talent
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Speaker 2: around for years, and you saw it on Sunday how
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Speaker 2: good he could be. So they're going to give him
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Speaker 2: days when they can. And with these two days off today,
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Speaker 2: Thursday and then Monday, it's a chance to push him
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Speaker 2: back to either Tuesday or Wednesday of that next series
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Speaker 2: and maybe you know if it's if it's if they
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Speaker 2: did Thursday, if they because they can wiggle room it
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Speaker 2: to that point, If they put him on Thursday to
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Speaker 2: end that in the Guardian series, then he goes into
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Speaker 2: the All Star Break and that's his last start. He
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Speaker 2: doesn't pitch again. Even actually Wednesday would be the case.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, sorry doing the math here as on three
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Speaker 2: hours sleep. And look, they're going to get one more
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Speaker 2: start from Connor Prilip before the All Star Break most likely,
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Speaker 2: unless they pitch him Tuesday, I doubt they will. I
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Speaker 2: just think Bailey Over is gonna come back in there
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Speaker 2: and they can fit him in on that final weekend
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Speaker 2: against the Angels, and then you've managed Connor prelip at
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Speaker 2: a time where you want to manage him and give
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Speaker 2: him extra days. And I asked him about it before
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Speaker 2: Wednesday's game. He said, and he's just throwing extra bullpens
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Speaker 2: and he's working in it, and he was really pleased
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Speaker 2: with how he felt. I think it was nine days
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Speaker 2: rest the last time he pitched on Sunday or it
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Speaker 2: was either eight or nine days rest. He looked outstanding,
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Speaker 2: and he'll get to do this again. I don't think
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Speaker 2: he's at all phased by the extra days. I know
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Speaker 2: he knows they're taking care of him. It's working out
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Speaker 2: well with the schedule, and you can get him two
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Speaker 2: starts at the end of the first half, which has
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Speaker 2: been a physically taxing first half for him, but it's
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Speaker 2: been a very good one and it's a way to
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Speaker 2: try and manage him to keep him giving you innings
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Speaker 2: in that second half too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll see what happens. The Twins off today Thursday,
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Speaker 1: and we're coming to you on Thursday instead of Friday
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Speaker 1: this week because there is no game tonight. And we
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Speaker 1: started taping and thought, why not just publish the show
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Speaker 1: after we're done rather than saving it for Friday. Give
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Speaker 1: you a little more time to tee up for the Yankee,
42:17
Speaker 1: especially if you're headed out July fourth weekend. Maybe you're
42:19
Speaker 1: already in your car and your way to your cabin.
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Speaker 1: Give you something to listen to. I'm sure your kids
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Speaker 1: will love it. It's a great show for kids. Right
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Speaker 1: you haven't you haven't? Yeah, you haven't cussed in like weeks, Dan,
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Speaker 1: I'm surprised.
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Speaker 2: I think I have one swear this season, maybe too,
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Speaker 2: at least maybe.
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Speaker 1: A two in one show. But that's neither here nor there.
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Speaker 1: We'll see what what happens this weekend. The Twins are
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Speaker 1: off Monday, and then get ready for an even bigger
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Speaker 1: series at home against Cleveland, who they're chasing in the
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Speaker 1: al Central, and then after that three with the Angels.
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Speaker 1: That's it before the All Star break. But we'll see
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