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Twins come up short in Milwaukee; Kaelen Culpepper homers in debut · Twin Cities Territory

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Speaker 1: Oh so close to an impressive series victory on the
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Speaker 1: road against the best team in baseball, but the Twins
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Speaker 1: come up short, drop two out of three to the
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Speaker 1: Brewers in Milwaukee this weekend as their close game woes continue.
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Speaker 1: We also saw the debut of Kaitlin Culpepper and a
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Speaker 1: pretty impressive debut. It was some more solid bullpen pitching
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Speaker 1: from the new additions to the team since the trade deadline.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about all that today on Twins Citi's territory.
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Speaker 1: to have you falling along. Thanks. It is Monday, August tenth.
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Speaker 2: Guys.
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Speaker 1: When you looked at the Brewers series going into it, frankly,
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Speaker 1: I was expecting a sweep. On the wrong hand, that
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Speaker 1: played very well throughout the weekend, just couldn't quite get
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Speaker 1: that last hit Saturday and Sunday. I never need to
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Speaker 1: see Luis Laura again. Goodness goodness, some great catching team
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Speaker 1: made yesterday. But all in all, certainly a lot of
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Speaker 1: good things to take away, but we're getting the time
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Speaker 1: of year where we need wins. Quite happened, but certainly, Dan,
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Speaker 1: I think you come away from that with some things
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Speaker 1: to feel good about for the final forty some games here.
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Speaker 3: I think it is it the saying goes close only
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Speaker 3: counts and horseshoes.
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Speaker 1: And hand grid correct.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, you know, like a very good series, very
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Speaker 3: well played series, and yet you lost two of three
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Speaker 3: and you lost six of nine on the road trip
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Speaker 3: five by one runs. The Twins are playing better, there's
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Speaker 3: no question, but at this point of the year, need
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Speaker 3: to convert those into victories. And it was oh so
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Speaker 3: close on Sunday. I mean to come back on Jacob Mizrowski,
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Speaker 3: who you know, you can make your arguments. It's it's
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Speaker 3: Schemes is down a little bit right now with this velocity.
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Speaker 3: Some weird things going on there with him. So Scuball
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Speaker 3: and Miserroski are the two best pitchers right now. I
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Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know, but Miserowski certainly throws the
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Speaker 3: hardest and is already at two hundred strikeouts for the season.
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Speaker 3: He racked up number two hundred yesterday to come back
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Speaker 3: on him, to hit two home runs on him when
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Speaker 3: his v low in game diminished to ninety nine from
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Speaker 3: one three he was averaging in the first You know,
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Speaker 3: it was impressive to see them do that, and the
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Speaker 3: Twins showed a lot throughout that game. And then the bullpen,
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Speaker 3: you know, Connor Prelip held his own, did a good
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Speaker 3: job because that's a very good Brewers lineup, and you know,
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Speaker 3: they get to the bullpen and the bullpen did a
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Speaker 3: really good job too, and the inherited runner came in.
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Speaker 3: May you look at the Joanders Gomez pitch they threw
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Speaker 3: on two strikes to Jake Bowers. That was a pretty
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Speaker 3: good pitch. It was down in a way, and you know,
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Speaker 3: he just kind of slapped it in the left field
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Speaker 3: and Bryce Terrange was fast enough to beat the throw
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Speaker 3: home from Cody Clemens. But that's how close it came.
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Speaker 3: Because the Twins were one for eleven with runners in
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Speaker 3: scoring position. The Brewers were two for eleven with runners
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Speaker 3: in scoring position. So it's not like either team was,
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Speaker 3: you know, able to do anything on Sunday, and the
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Speaker 3: Twins hung in the whole way and they get a
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Speaker 3: little break here there. Louis Lara doesn't catch that ball
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Speaker 3: hang on to it on the Cody Clemens drive to
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Speaker 3: the wall. Who knows. I don't think he robbed Brooksley
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Speaker 3: of a home run. I think he robbed Brooksley of
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Speaker 3: a double. But I mean, you know, both those those
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Speaker 3: made a big impact in this game, and the Brewers
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Speaker 3: just did a little bit more all weekend. You know,
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Speaker 3: the rally on Saturday. It was extremely close, and the
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Speaker 3: Twins can come out of that going hey, we played great,
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Speaker 3: but also they have to come out of it knowing
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Speaker 3: they lost two or three.
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Speaker 1: I feel like that brooks Lea catch was spectacular because
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Speaker 1: he took a bad path to the ball at first.
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Speaker 1: If he had had the right read, it would have
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Speaker 1: been a pretty pretty standard catch, but a heck of recovery.
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Speaker 1: But yes, the one on Cody Clemens, not sure seemed
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Speaker 1: like it was headed for the wall or further, but
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Speaker 1: what a play. And Tyler I think definitely penciled in
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Speaker 1: the Sunday game against miss Rowski as a loss before
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Speaker 1: it started. But for a team that went into this
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Speaker 1: series with all sorts of questions about its offense, to
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Speaker 1: score three against him felt like scoring one hundred.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was one. Like this is a team in
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Speaker 4: the Brewers that I mean, they're aspirations or World Series,
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Speaker 4: it feels like right now and they're the best team
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Speaker 4: in the league. You know, they're kind of that unstoppable
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Speaker 4: force at the moment, they're just not getting the hype
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Speaker 4: that other teams may. But you know, like Dan said
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Speaker 4: on the one run games, like you went and hung
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Speaker 4: with Milwaukee for three one ball bounces one where or
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Speaker 4: the other. Lara doesn't catch one of those balls, they
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Speaker 4: probably start a rallied, you know, things like that. It's
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Speaker 4: you can take some positives and some losses. You know,
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Speaker 4: obviously you want to win games. It's always better to win.
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Speaker 4: But if you're leaving there as a team, you kind
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Speaker 4: of look around and like, you know, this wasn't our
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Speaker 4: worst series we've had. You know, we didn't make any huge,
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Speaker 4: like glaring mistakes when we just gave up a ghost
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Speaker 4: runner for a walk off. You know, it's just it
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Speaker 4: was a good series, you know, And like you said,
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Speaker 4: face the Mesarowski on a Sunday to finish, you know
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Speaker 4: that it's you put up three on him. You're in
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Speaker 4: that game for ten innings, Like that's all you can
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Speaker 4: really ask for.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 4: It's it's tough to take some of those on the
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Speaker 4: chin like that, But at the same time, you just
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Speaker 4: got to win your division, I guess at this point
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Speaker 4: and look at it that way. You know, the wild
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Speaker 4: card's great, but beat Cleveland when you need to beat them,
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Speaker 4: beat the White Sox and and the rest will take
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Speaker 4: care of itself. And I think that's the perspective to keep.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's great to beat everybody, it's great to
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Speaker 4: win a lot of games, but at the end of
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Speaker 4: the day, win the Central and then that cures all,
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Speaker 4: you know, And I think there's still a chance to
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Speaker 4: do that. They were competitive with a Birers team that
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Speaker 4: is very good, and that's all you can ask for
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Speaker 4: at the end of the day.
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Speaker 1: The loss bumped the Twins back to four games behind
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Speaker 1: the White Sox in the Central in third place. Now
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Speaker 1: behind the Tigers, who nobody apparently told them that they
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Speaker 1: were sellers of the deadline. They keep winning. They are
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Speaker 1: now fifty eight and sixty a half game ahead of
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Speaker 1: the Twins. Twins a game and a half out in
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Speaker 1: the wildcard race. But it was certainly competitive, and it
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Speaker 1: was like that all year against the Brewers. Here's the
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Speaker 1: season series. The three games in Minnesota back in May
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Speaker 1: were all one run games. Twins won one of the
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Speaker 1: three there as well, and then the games this weekend
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Speaker 1: two one run games, and the Twins with the two
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Speaker 1: run win on Friday, combined score from six games against
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Speaker 1: the best team in baseball Milwaukee twenty three Minnesota twenty two,
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Speaker 1: that World Series is going to be great in a
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Speaker 1: couple months, guys, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: That's all I happened.
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Speaker 3: All seven games with the Snow are all seven games
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Speaker 3: going to be forced to be?
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Speaker 5: Right? Milwaukee, They're like, hey, they just set up a
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Speaker 5: bunch of Twins caravans down like they just have they
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Speaker 5: shuttle forty thousand people down for the home games the Twins.
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Speaker 1: Get, I think we can get playing ready on.
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Speaker 4: The building.
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Speaker 6: Us.
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Speaker 3: Thank hey, Duff, did you ever get to pitch in
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Speaker 3: the Metrono?
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Speaker 5: You never know?
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Speaker 4: I was literally like, I think they had Twins fest
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Speaker 4: in there, like the year before I got drafted.
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Speaker 5: That was it.
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Speaker 4: So I never even set foot in the in the place.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 4: All the things that would have been heard, the stories,
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Speaker 4: all of them.
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Speaker 1: You know, I played there. We'll try out for something.
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Speaker 1: Back in the day. As as a.
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Speaker 3: Kid, why were the football I wonder why the dimensions
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Speaker 3: were so wildly different? I mean, I was built as
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Speaker 3: a multipurpose stadium then, so you know, the way that
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Speaker 3: football stadiums and baseball stadiums co existed forever, no longer
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Speaker 3: co exists like a two hundred and eighty foot home er.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what the dimensions are at US Bank,
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Speaker 3: but I know that they are very college friendly and
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Speaker 3: the Gophers are glad to do it. But also I
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Speaker 3: would hate to be a Gophers pitcher. For those games
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Speaker 3: that are on the schedule.
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Speaker 1: We could just put a big wall up for the pros,
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Speaker 1: you know, green type thing.
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Speaker 3: Did that in La. They did that when they played
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Speaker 3: at the LA Coliseum back in the the sixties. That's
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Speaker 3: where the the phrase moon shot came from because Wally
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Speaker 3: Moon the fence in at the LA Coliseum was so
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Speaker 3: short and left I'm gonna look up, how.
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Speaker 4: Like it was build a wall.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he hit let's see, let's let's actually get
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Speaker 3: this LA Coliseum fence baseball. This is great stuff.
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Speaker 1: Live charge for this for the baggy. This is all free.
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Speaker 3: The LA Coliseum back then was two d and fifty
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Speaker 3: two two hundred fifty, two hundred and fifty two feet
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Speaker 3: in left field, but it was a forty two foot
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Speaker 3: high screen. They called it the screen monster. And so
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Speaker 3: imagine playing with the wall two hundred and fifty feet
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Speaker 3: away giant met but Wally Moon could hit it over
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Speaker 3: the two hundred and fifty foot and so they called
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Speaker 3: them moon shots. So anyways, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: So take that one to your part this weekend, everybody,
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Speaker 1: you can drop some knowledge on your friends.
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Speaker 3: Yeah right.
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Speaker 1: The Twins could have used one more moonshot a few
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Speaker 1: different times this week, segues, that's my thing. They on
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Speaker 1: this nine game road trip were one in five in
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Speaker 1: one run games. Of course, lost both of them this weekend,
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Speaker 1: four to three. It's been a trend this season. They're
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Speaker 1: fourteen and nineteen I believe is the overall number now
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Speaker 1: and one run games. But for a team that has,
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Speaker 1: like the pitching has been there, the hitting came back
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Speaker 1: a bit this weekend, but it's just not been quite
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Speaker 1: enough in some key moments this year.
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Speaker 3: Dan Barron Bucks and getting healthy will be a nice key.
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Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, you know, he was on the road trip.
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Speaker 3: I don't really have anything new as as of I
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Speaker 3: want to say, Thursday, we talked to him in Kansas City.
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Speaker 3: He had not started doing baseball activities yet and so
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Speaker 3: you know, but when he comes back that will be
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Speaker 3: a big deal. But right now, the Twins are without
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Speaker 3: there are two all stars Joe Ryan obviously left in
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Speaker 3: the middle of the trip to go home, and they
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Speaker 3: we talked about the other day as a gluten strain,
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Speaker 3: and basically, you know, the Twins need their guys. They
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Speaker 3: need to start converting these close losses because there's not
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Speaker 3: a lot of season left. I mean, you're fifty eight
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Speaker 3: and sixty one, so what is that one hundred and
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Speaker 3: nineteen games, so you got forty three left on the schedule,
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Speaker 3: and you're still within reason of you know, winning your
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Speaker 3: four out in the Central Like you said, Detroit has
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Speaker 3: passed them now. And Detroit looks pretty hot. Their offense
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Speaker 3: has been clicking and then they have enough pitching. But
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Speaker 3: you've got that and you're still within the wild card
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Speaker 3: picture too, So it's time to start turning things around.
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Speaker 3: It's never bad to have a three game homestand starting
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Speaker 3: or a three team home stand starting here tonight with Baltimore.
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Speaker 3: But it gets tough. It's Philly in Atlanta, two very
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Speaker 3: good National League East teams are coming in so but
11:02
Speaker 3: the Twins just you know that Seattle series, two walk
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Speaker 3: off losses in Seattle, the walk off loss yesterday that
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Speaker 3: stuff starts to add up and you just you got
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Speaker 3: to avoid those tough moments. There were some heads hanging
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Speaker 3: in the clubhouse yesterday after the game. We've already seen it.
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Speaker 3: It's not the end of the world for the Twins.
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Speaker 3: They know how to be resilient and bounced back, but
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Speaker 3: they certainly got to do it, you know, pretty much
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Speaker 3: starting today. So it's a big series against the Orioles
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Speaker 3: in Tyler.
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Speaker 1: We we looked it up before we hit recorder. I
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Speaker 1: think it was seven of the nine games on this
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Speaker 1: road trip the Twins gave up the first inning run
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Speaker 1: and just felt like they were chasing most of the
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Speaker 1: entire all three series.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's one it's hard to put a finger
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Speaker 4: on what causes it, you know, whether it's jitters or
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Speaker 4: just not being completely settled in or warmed up enough
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Speaker 4: or whatever it ends up being. But it's it is tough,
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Speaker 4: and you know, being in that position as a starter,
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Speaker 4: you know, I go out in those games and you
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Speaker 4: know you want to have that quick, clean first inning
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Speaker 4: and next thing you know, you're looking up at the board.
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Speaker 4: You're twenty five pitches in. Some guys put some good
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Speaker 4: at bats together on you even if you just give
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Speaker 4: up the one. It's just it feels it's such a
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Speaker 4: labor intensive inning, you know, out of the gate, and
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Speaker 4: it does it. It kind of you know, shocks the
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Speaker 4: system a little bit. Luckily guys have settled in after
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Speaker 4: the fact, but it is it's tough, especially on the road.
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Speaker 4: You know, you're you're not batting last anymore, and so
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Speaker 4: these that's when those walk offs happen. You know, it's
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Speaker 4: it's hard to get that momentum back when you give
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Speaker 4: it away right out of the gate like that. You know,
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Speaker 4: our guys, you know whatever. Offensively, it's quick first inning
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Speaker 4: and then boom boom boom of two spots on the
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Speaker 4: board and you know it's kind of smooth sailing after that.
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Speaker 4: And fortunately, you know, the pen has really kept them
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Speaker 4: in these games to be there. You know, that's like
12:53
Speaker 4: we talked about the bullpen a lot this year, and
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Speaker 4: you know, we've made these moves and they're they're working.
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Speaker 4: You know, it was a great stretch for the pen
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Speaker 4: since we've added our new pieces. It's just you know,
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Speaker 4: getting that momentum early on our dugout versus in the
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Speaker 4: other dugout is real and it's a real feeling. You know,
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Speaker 4: when you jump out on a team, especially on the road,
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Speaker 4: quiet the crowd down, it's it's big for morale and
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Speaker 4: it's instant, like you can just feel it.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 4: It's it's like Byron, you know, jumping on a guy
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Speaker 4: first pitch of the game for a home or it
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Speaker 4: just it sucks the life out of that dugout sometimes
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Speaker 4: and you know, it's who knows what it is or is.
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Speaker 4: And I know, like Roger Clements had talked about when
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Speaker 4: he'd have stretches like that, he used to throw extra
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Speaker 4: pitches in the bullpen pregame, like he knews like I've
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Speaker 4: been having a tough first so I'm gonna go rip
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Speaker 4: thirty more just to like get them out of my hand,
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Speaker 4: you know, things like that. So I'm not saying guys
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Speaker 4: need to go through more. We already have guys on
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Speaker 4: innings limits. But you know, maybe mix in a shot
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Speaker 4: us something pre game, or mix up your cocktail a
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Speaker 4: little different, you know, get the mojo going right for you.
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Speaker 4: But you know, it's the end of the day. We're
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Speaker 4: not giving up twenty runs. It's you know, it's four
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Speaker 4: to three, it's two to one, and it's three to
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Speaker 4: two like you can't ask for much else. It's just
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Speaker 4: one timely hit. You know we'll change most of these
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Speaker 4: games at this point.
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Speaker 1: Dan, I feel like I cut you off there. You
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Speaker 1: had a response.
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Speaker 3: They're gonna say four to seventy six first in in ERA.
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Speaker 3: They gave up nine runs and nine innings on this trip,
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Speaker 3: so that is their second worst inning. The only inning
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Speaker 3: that is worse for the Twins is the on the season,
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Speaker 3: the seventh inning, which I imagine they are gonna be better at.
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Speaker 3: Eric Orsey had allowed thirteen runs in the seventh inning.
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Speaker 3: I believe his ERA is the highest in the seventh,
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Speaker 3: so but yeah, getting the slow starts is not great
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Speaker 3: when you're playing tight games because you're just playing from
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Speaker 3: behind and that certainly makes it difficult to win.
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Speaker 1: You can read more about the twins uh weekend on
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Speaker 1: The Athletic Right now. Dan has a story of this
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Speaker 1: morning about those close game woes and an update on
16:01
Speaker 1: ZEBI Matthews foot blister, which we should probably talk about
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Speaker 1: super easy. Love to have you following along. The other
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Speaker 1: very notable thing of the weekend Caitlyn Culpeper major league debut.
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Speaker 1: Good one Bonds very modern day Barry Bonds. Yes, after
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Speaker 1: two games a one point three ops, two fifty nine
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Speaker 1: ops plus, I mean it was a painful to fifty
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Speaker 1: nine homerd on Friday, had some adventures in the field,
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Speaker 1: got hit twice on Saturday, which welcome to the Bigs kid,
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Speaker 1: and then did not play yesterday. But it is not
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Speaker 1: there's not an injury concerned. It was more of a yeah,
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Speaker 1: but overall, that's about as much as you could ask
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Speaker 1: for out of the first two games of a major
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Speaker 1: league career, on base four times plus a home run,
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Speaker 1: and here he is talking about how he got the
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Speaker 1: jitters out.
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Speaker 6: Definitely felt great, you know what I mean, fell behind
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Speaker 6: the count, but I mean it didn't change anything.
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Speaker 3: I feel.
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Speaker 8: I got stribed with two strikes, so I took to
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Speaker 8: my approach, I got my hands back, I saw some
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Speaker 8: about to drive, took a really good swing on it.
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Speaker 8: So I just I had a couple more of those.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, what was I know, Saint Paul could be
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Speaker 3: loud for the forty two thousand first Twins rivalry like
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Speaker 3: that atmosphere? What was that like?
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Speaker 6: And just adjusting to it forty two thousand, Yeah, I've
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Speaker 6: never played in front of many people in my life.
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Speaker 4: It was crazy. It was loud, it was kind of
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Speaker 4: tough to hear, like the.
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Speaker 6: Pitch colon in my ear at times, even talking to
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Speaker 6: like Cryler and Roy's and stuff. But it was fun.
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Speaker 3: We were having a lot of fun out there.
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Speaker 4: Even if I couldn't hear anything, I could just see
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Speaker 4: everybody's teeth, you know. Everybody was smiling and stuff.
17:59
Speaker 6: And she's really big.
18:00
Speaker 4: I know I was out there. So what's that feeling like?
18:03
Speaker 3: When you get to the dot all your teammates greet
18:05
Speaker 3: you with that reaction.
18:07
Speaker 6: It makes me feel special, you know what I mean,
18:10
Speaker 6: especially at the moment.
18:11
Speaker 3: It was a special moment. Uh. Yeah, how'd you feel
18:17
Speaker 3: out how short stop? I felt pretty good.
18:19
Speaker 6: Definitely thing I need to work on, but for the
18:22
Speaker 6: most part, got the first game out of the way,
18:24
Speaker 6: you know what I mean.
18:25
Speaker 4: A lot to improve, a lot to learn from grow from,
18:28
Speaker 4: for sure. I'm just happy to get that person out
18:31
Speaker 4: of the way.
18:31
Speaker 5: Uh.
18:32
Speaker 4: I feel like I had a solid date, so just
18:35
Speaker 4: keep it moving forward, for sure.
18:36
Speaker 3: I know you said you were trying to get the
18:38
Speaker 3: first at bat out of the way, and like the
18:40
Speaker 3: knowing and the nervous but were the jitits there for
18:43
Speaker 3: a lot of the game.
18:43
Speaker 4: Or were they Was it easy to get rid of them?
18:46
Speaker 4: I'll say after my first at.
18:47
Speaker 6: Bad you know, once you you know, if you feel them,
18:50
Speaker 6: I guess pressure or whatever. And then after that, it's
18:52
Speaker 6: just like, all right, now I'm here, now let's go. Yeah,
18:55
Speaker 6: got that first thing out of the way. First wing
18:57
Speaker 6: he missed. I'm like, okay, I'm here now, so don't
19:00
Speaker 6: again myself. But like I said, I was just out
19:02
Speaker 6: there having fun. Like I said, lots of girl friends
19:05
Speaker 6: for sure. But in the day we got the way as
19:07
Speaker 6: auto matters. Uh so yeah, just keep it moving that way.
19:12
Speaker 1: That camera yeah, excellent, Yeah, good sound quality. Everything was
19:17
Speaker 1: was perfect, Tyler. I want to get your impressions on
19:21
Speaker 1: just him in general after two games, and also what
19:24
Speaker 1: is the pitching equivalent of homering in your MLB debut?
19:28
Speaker 1: Is just striking somebody out.
19:30
Speaker 4: Not what I did in mind? I don't know, you know.
19:33
Speaker 4: It's uh, it's special, man, That's one. You know, every
19:36
Speaker 4: kid dreams of getting there and getting to do it,
19:38
Speaker 4: and especially like you heard there, it's getting to do
19:42
Speaker 4: it in front of forty thousand people. You know, he
19:45
Speaker 4: got the full experience of a debut, which is incredible,
19:49
Speaker 4: you know, and then hitting that homer like that's you know,
19:52
Speaker 4: family's there, the whole thing, like it's it's such a
19:55
Speaker 4: you can't really describe the feeling, like I know, for
19:58
Speaker 4: me pitching, like you know, I warmed up up and
20:00
Speaker 4: felt great, you know, and then you kind of lose
20:03
Speaker 4: feeling in your legs and you're like, okay, like what's
20:05
Speaker 4: going on? And then you get on that mound for
20:07
Speaker 4: me and you just kind of try to do what
20:10
Speaker 4: you've done your whole life, and sometimes it works, sometimes
20:13
Speaker 4: it doesn't. You know, Luckily, these guys have you know,
20:16
Speaker 4: the baseball is so sped up now. These guys have
20:19
Speaker 4: been playing showcase ball and doing things and preparing for
20:22
Speaker 4: these moments for a lot longer than I did. And
20:26
Speaker 4: you know, it's just one it's great to see. It's
20:29
Speaker 4: great to see him, you know, realize like, hey, there's
20:31
Speaker 4: some stuff I got to work on clearly, you know,
20:33
Speaker 4: and field the game gets fast. That's my biggest takeaway
20:37
Speaker 4: from all of it. Uh, it's it feels like you
20:40
Speaker 4: blank at times, and you know and at bats passed
20:43
Speaker 4: by the ground balls happened for me pitching you know,
20:46
Speaker 4: you give up the three or four six runs very
20:49
Speaker 4: fast and you look around and you're like, what just happened?
20:52
Speaker 4: And you know, and then for me, it was getting
20:53
Speaker 4: busts back to triple A, you know. And luckily for him,
20:56
Speaker 4: he's you know, he's going to be a superstar. He
20:59
Speaker 4: seems to have a great head on his shoulders, the
21:01
Speaker 4: right attitude. You know, it's it's all the right things,
21:04
Speaker 4: and it's a it's all you can ask for, you know,
21:07
Speaker 4: And luckily for him, he didn't. He may say you
21:09
Speaker 4: wanted to face Misrawski, but you know he got to
21:11
Speaker 4: sit back and watch the guys try to handle him
21:14
Speaker 4: his first weekend in the big league. So you know
21:17
Speaker 4: it'll be fun, especially you know, getting into Target Field
21:20
Speaker 4: now you know this is your home stadium. You know,
21:22
Speaker 4: going to his locker for the first time, I mean,
21:24
Speaker 4: that's what you know. That'll that's the coolest part. You
21:27
Speaker 4: walk in the first day and it's like it's like kindergarten,
21:29
Speaker 4: you know, you walk in and it's all the new
21:31
Speaker 4: things and people, and you know he's been around spring training,
21:35
Speaker 4: but you know it's it'll be another today will basically
21:38
Speaker 4: feel like another debut for him, which would be a
21:40
Speaker 4: lot of fun.
21:41
Speaker 1: Yeah. Stat of the day provided by Dan Hayes and
21:45
Speaker 1: his latest ad.
22:02
Speaker 3: And I'll give that TV credit. TV I think is
22:04
Speaker 3: the one that came up with that.
22:05
Speaker 1: No, not me.
22:06
Speaker 3: I just heard it and parroted it because who cares
22:11
Speaker 3: like he got hit by two pitches? Like, you know,
22:13
Speaker 3: it's weird talking about yesterday, and it's like it reminds
22:17
Speaker 3: me of what about Bob. There's a part where the
22:22
Speaker 3: Bill Murray classic goes sailing. Do you remember, remember he
22:26
Speaker 3: goes sailing and they last. Yeah, he's like, he's like,
22:32
Speaker 3: you know, it's really nothing. I just let the boat
22:35
Speaker 3: do all the work. Camin Culpepper. He really is nothing.
22:38
Speaker 3: He just let the ball do all the work. He
22:40
Speaker 3: got hit by and uh, you know, there's not much
22:43
Speaker 3: you can do about that. Just I don't know, do
22:46
Speaker 3: some like matrix type the ball.
22:49
Speaker 1: So overall though, Dan, I imagine, uh, well, at least on
22:53
Speaker 1: Friday night before the two hit by pitches, a good
22:56
Speaker 1: vibe in the clubhouse after the wind and what they
22:58
Speaker 1: saw from.
22:58
Speaker 3: Him, absolutely, I mean, this is a guy that they
23:02
Speaker 3: really like. Like he's upbeat guy, he's friendly, he's you know,
23:08
Speaker 3: he is he personifies good vibes and there's so much
23:11
Speaker 3: energy that comes from him. Adding a twenty three year
23:13
Speaker 3: old to the roster, just who's coming up and wants
23:17
Speaker 3: to make this team better. That's gonna That's exactly the
23:22
Speaker 3: kind of player this this group will really thrive. You know,
23:26
Speaker 3: can can help him enhance his game, but that they
23:31
Speaker 3: can help thrive. And I think that when they see him,
23:35
Speaker 3: they were excited. In fact, the teams often do the
23:39
Speaker 3: silent treatment when a guy hits a home run. And
23:42
Speaker 3: I asked Josh Bell about it, and he's like, we
23:45
Speaker 3: realized is a big moment in a big game, because
23:47
Speaker 3: they were down four to two when he hit the
23:48
Speaker 3: home run, and they he said, we were all so loud,
23:52
Speaker 3: and we decided that we couldn't stop, and we weren't.
23:55
Speaker 3: We weren't going to do the silent treatment. And so
23:59
Speaker 3: he got lucky. That's how Bell said it. He got lucky.
24:01
Speaker 4: They'll get him another time.
24:04
Speaker 3: They got him in post game. They got him in
24:06
Speaker 3: post with the shower.
24:10
Speaker 4: The shower, Yes, I did see. He was talking about it.
24:14
Speaker 4: He's like, whatever they could find was on me.
24:15
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I mean he was in he
24:17
Speaker 3: was covered in baby powder when we walked into the
24:20
Speaker 3: clubhouse like and and he like. We saw him about
24:24
Speaker 3: ten minutes later and he was still just there was
24:26
Speaker 3: still crap in his hair. I mean stuff that they
24:29
Speaker 3: put in that mustard. They use baby powder, they use mouthwashed,
24:34
Speaker 3: they use shaving cream, everything, every substance they can find
24:38
Speaker 3: they put in that that shower. It's it's pretty disgusting.
24:41
Speaker 3: So his luck ran out uh later after the game,
24:44
Speaker 3: but he was he was excited about it. Anyways. I
24:48
Speaker 3: thought it was a good overall first weekend. We did
24:51
Speaker 3: see the defensive jitters a little bit on Friday night.
24:54
Speaker 3: I do think that was a little bit just getting
24:57
Speaker 3: used to the speed of the game, playing in front
24:58
Speaker 3: of forty two thousand p people and we'll see a
25:02
Speaker 3: better representation of what he is capable of defensively as
25:07
Speaker 3: he you know, keeps going. But there were certainly those
25:11
Speaker 3: two plays that he couldn't get to the ball that
25:14
Speaker 3: was to his far right and dropped it. And then
25:17
Speaker 3: he came in on another one and took some long
25:20
Speaker 3: steps before he got rid of the ball. So he
25:23
Speaker 3: didn't he has a strong arm. We saw that he
25:26
Speaker 3: was accurate with the arm, but he he definitely needs
25:30
Speaker 3: to get the timing down, but I don't see that
25:32
Speaker 3: as being a concern. This is a guy the Twins
25:34
Speaker 3: really thought made some serious strides defensively this season, and
25:38
Speaker 3: I would imagine if he's capable of that, you know,
25:42
Speaker 3: growth is in there.
25:44
Speaker 1: And it's obviously been a position where the Twins have
25:46
Speaker 1: not had an answer all season. And after the deadline
25:51
Speaker 1: passed and all of a sudden, we're looking at oh Man,
25:54
Speaker 1: this team doesn't have enough hitting.
25:56
Speaker 6: Now.
25:57
Speaker 1: That was one of the levers, or the only remaining
25:59
Speaker 1: lever they could pull, is to go to the farm
26:00
Speaker 1: system and get the bats. So if we can keep
26:03
Speaker 1: up that one point three o ps maybe in a
26:06
Speaker 1: slightly less, slightly less painful way for him, that would
26:09
Speaker 1: be certainly welcome for this team. We'll talk about probably
26:13
Speaker 1: Zebbie Matthews, talk about what's coming up on the schedule
26:16
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Speaker 1: So a frustrating road trip is over. The Twins back
27:25
Speaker 1: at target Field for three series with a stopover in
27:29
Speaker 1: a cornfield in the middle of it for one game
27:33
Speaker 1: Baltimore first than filling in Atlanta. We'll talk about that
27:35
Speaker 1: in a second, but a few other items from the weekend.
27:37
Speaker 1: Zebbie Matthews Dan is going through it a little bit
27:41
Speaker 1: with the foot.
27:42
Speaker 3: It sounds like, yeah, I wrote it like this. If
27:45
Speaker 3: you're squeamish, stop reading now. If you're squeamish, stop listening now.
27:50
Speaker 3: Fast forward just a little bit. Zebbie Matthews has a
27:53
Speaker 3: laceration on his right foot. It was, I guess, a
27:56
Speaker 3: blister caused by the mound in Yankee Stadium on July fourth,
28:02
Speaker 3: and it ripped open again the other night. It has
28:07
Speaker 3: constantly been ripping open and they're doing what they can
28:11
Speaker 3: to manage it. But I'm gonna guess until Zebbie Matthews
28:14
Speaker 3: gets like ten days off, which the Twins hope is
28:17
Speaker 3: not for another two and a half to three months,
28:20
Speaker 3: but the end of the season obviously is end of September.
28:24
Speaker 3: But he currently they're managing it. They're doing what they can.
28:29
Speaker 3: I think they said they use a laser in there
28:32
Speaker 3: to try and clean it up. They're doing all they
28:36
Speaker 3: can to close it up, but it gradually just rips
28:40
Speaker 3: open basically every time. They're using a pitching toe, which
28:43
Speaker 3: is designed so that when he drags his foot through
28:48
Speaker 3: the mound, it doesn't wear at that point of his shoe,
28:52
Speaker 3: so they're doing what they can, but it's something that
28:54
Speaker 3: just constantly is an issue and I imagine will be
28:57
Speaker 3: an issue until he can stop drowing for a little while.
29:00
Speaker 3: But you know, it didn't surprise me because as much
29:03
Speaker 3: as they have a dome there, it's always still hot
29:05
Speaker 3: and sweaty in that building in August in Milwaukee, so
29:10
Speaker 3: it was it was a humid, moist weekend in Milwaukee,
29:14
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, Zeby was going. He wanted to
29:18
Speaker 3: keep going. I think it ripped at the end of
29:19
Speaker 3: the second inning and he kept going three more innings
29:23
Speaker 3: with it because he didn't want to kill the bullpen.
29:25
Speaker 3: But it's certainly something that they will be working on
29:29
Speaker 3: and monitoring as much as they can over the course
29:31
Speaker 3: of his starts the rest of the way.
29:34
Speaker 1: ZEBBI obviously back up because Joe Ryan is back on
29:38
Speaker 1: the aisle. We talked about Joe Ryan a lot on
29:41
Speaker 1: Friday show, I believe or Thursday show last week. He
29:44
Speaker 1: then went to the aisle shortly after we published that show,
29:47
Speaker 1: But no update there. I'm assuming Dan just still at
29:50
Speaker 1: least a week out before we'll see Joe again.
29:53
Speaker 3: Right, I mean again they I think they feel glad
29:56
Speaker 3: that it was a mild gluten string and then it's something.
29:59
Speaker 3: But it's fifteen day I l so I don't know
30:04
Speaker 3: that we'll hear anything. I'm guessing he'll get shut down
30:06
Speaker 3: for a week, six seven days something like that and
30:10
Speaker 3: then and then they'll figure it out. But he is
30:14
Speaker 3: definitely out, and so that means Zebie Matthews is in
30:16
Speaker 3: and Caitlin or Chemicle Pepper Connor Prelip is still going.
30:20
Speaker 3: So you know they're gonna have to figure things out.
30:23
Speaker 3: Kendry Rojas I know through forty five, I believe on Friday,
30:26
Speaker 3: and they were gonna maybe up the number as they go,
30:30
Speaker 3: but that was play by ear so we could see
30:32
Speaker 3: Kendry Rojas in the future. But it's certainly something with
30:35
Speaker 3: Matthews that will impact him. So it's it's a it's
30:40
Speaker 3: an interesting wrinkle on the plant.
30:43
Speaker 1: Foot laseration doesn't sound very fun, Tyler, No I had.
30:48
Speaker 4: I had one time. I had a little thing. It
30:50
Speaker 4: was actually during the spring training, thank god. But it's
30:53
Speaker 4: the same like we were talking about the other day.
30:55
Speaker 4: You know, stuff goes up the chain and affects everything,
30:58
Speaker 4: but something on your foot, it's wrong as a pitcher,
31:03
Speaker 4: it definitely makes it tough, like you know, and you
31:06
Speaker 4: know he's battling through that, trying to do and you
31:09
Speaker 4: know you try to give him some leeway, but that
31:11
Speaker 4: is one at what points have become detrimental, you know
31:15
Speaker 4: versus I don't I don't even want to say d
31:18
Speaker 4: l but like just skip a start, you know kind
31:20
Speaker 4: of thing, or give it some time to see the
31:22
Speaker 4: world deal because like Dan said, it's just it's kind
31:25
Speaker 4: of not going to go away until you can take
31:27
Speaker 4: a bit of a breather, right. You know, those lasers
31:30
Speaker 4: you know they do they like stimulate the body that
31:33
Speaker 4: kind of like fix itself a little quicker than it
31:35
Speaker 4: would normally. But there isn't like a cure for like
31:39
Speaker 4: a hole in your foot. You know, it's just a
31:42
Speaker 4: it's a bad spot to be right now. You know
31:45
Speaker 4: what made eight more starts?
31:48
Speaker 3: Wait, you're you're saying that they got freaking laser beams.
31:51
Speaker 4: They got oh, we got lots of laser beams back
31:53
Speaker 4: there there's machines you don't even know about. No there
31:57
Speaker 4: there it's and it's some of it does work, but
32:00
Speaker 4: like again, it's a lot of pressure being put into
32:03
Speaker 4: the ground. It's crazy that it happened in Yankee Stadium
32:06
Speaker 4: because that's like the best mound to ever pitch on.
32:09
Speaker 3: So maybe that weekend was ridiculously hot.
32:12
Speaker 4: From what I heard, that was hard.
32:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, why is this the best mound?
32:19
Speaker 4: It's the first time I went on there. It's like
32:22
Speaker 4: the the top dressing, so like the color you see
32:26
Speaker 4: on TV. That's like a top dressing on top of
32:28
Speaker 4: the clay. So like Twins have, they kind of use
32:30
Speaker 4: some multicolored stuff. It looks really nice and beautiful that
32:33
Speaker 4: the Yankees. It's like this little bit finer texture and
32:37
Speaker 4: the clay underneath is like just tacky, I guess would
32:40
Speaker 4: be the best way to say it. So like when
32:42
Speaker 4: your foot cuts through that clay, like it does not
32:45
Speaker 4: move like it was. Remember the first time I threw
32:47
Speaker 4: on it, I was like, this is amazing, And like
32:49
Speaker 4: you know, you hear stories. I guess when big leaders
32:51
Speaker 4: would rehab for them, like they would make sure the
32:54
Speaker 4: mound was exactly the same, like in Scranton or wherever,
32:57
Speaker 4: they were like it's it was a even the bullpen mound.
33:01
Speaker 4: Like you get on there, you're like, man, I feel
33:02
Speaker 4: powerful because you're just you're just locked into.
33:04
Speaker 1: That clay, right. Interesting. Yeah, and they can't duplicate elsewhere
33:10
Speaker 1: or is it just.
33:11
Speaker 4: I think it's just preference, Like it's just there. I
33:14
Speaker 4: remember it vividly, like feeling very different under my feet
33:19
Speaker 4: than any other mount I had been on, you know.
33:21
Speaker 4: And then the White Socks guy he started turface. So
33:24
Speaker 4: they use that stuff like it's going out of style.
33:27
Speaker 4: The White Sox.
33:27
Speaker 1: Stadium proprietary groundskeeper secrets you don't, you can't.
33:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the magic mix keeps the field ready to go.
33:39
Speaker 1: We have teased it, but the Twins are back at
33:41
Speaker 1: Target Field this week. Baltimore is up first, then Philadelphia,
33:45
Speaker 1: the Atlanta The Field of Dreams game is Thursday. We
33:48
Speaker 1: can tee that up a bit more on Wednesday's show.
33:51
Speaker 1: But uh, this is the easy one of the bunch
33:56
Speaker 1: on the Twins upcoming schedule, and it's not necessarily easy.
33:58
Speaker 1: The Orioles are right there with Twins in this ugly
34:02
Speaker 1: race quote unquote for the third and final wildcard spot
34:06
Speaker 1: in the Ale. They are fifty seven and sixty one,
34:07
Speaker 1: just a half game back of the Twins, no way
34:12
Speaker 1: around it. At this point where at the part of
34:13
Speaker 1: the season where the wins have got to start coming
34:15
Speaker 1: to The Twins obviously went one in two against each
34:18
Speaker 1: of the three teams on this road trip. They needed
34:22
Speaker 1: to flip that around. Starting pretty quick here.
34:25
Speaker 3: Dan, I'd say, yeah, you want to get back as
34:29
Speaker 3: quick as possible. You get you've dropped four behind the
34:32
Speaker 3: White Sox. You want to have them within two or
34:34
Speaker 3: three when you play them. So this stretch, you play Baltimore,
34:39
Speaker 3: then you play Philly, then you play Atlanta, then you
34:42
Speaker 3: go to San Diego. That'll be tough. They get or
34:46
Speaker 3: they played the A's in Sacramento, and then it's twelve
34:50
Speaker 3: against Detroit and Chicago. So you need to play well
34:54
Speaker 3: enough in these next fifteen to give yourself a shot
34:57
Speaker 3: when you're played like playing all Division games. I think
35:01
Speaker 3: this team is well positioned. As far as the pitching
35:03
Speaker 3: goes right now, this is probably some of the best
35:05
Speaker 3: we've seen, although I imagine the bullpen's a little tired
35:08
Speaker 3: because a lot of guys got a lot of work.
35:10
Speaker 3: Hoff And pitched three straight. Didn't pitch yesterday. Gomez and
35:15
Speaker 3: Morris I believe were three or four. Everybody's been getting
35:19
Speaker 3: used fun. He's been looking really good.
35:20
Speaker 5: Lately.
35:21
Speaker 3: That bullpen looks good. They need the offense to step
35:25
Speaker 3: up and give them some run support tonight and Dean
35:27
Speaker 3: Kramer's gonna make his home debut he looked good the
35:29
Speaker 3: other night and his twins debut in Kansas City. This
35:33
Speaker 3: one will be challenging. Not only is his home debut,
35:35
Speaker 3: but he gets the bases old team immediately go sure,
35:39
Speaker 3: that will be a little bit emotional, right, So this
35:42
Speaker 3: is a big one. Just they need to start getting
35:46
Speaker 3: back on track and winning series. And I think they
35:48
Speaker 3: can do it. We've seen it. They just they just
35:51
Speaker 3: got to find that way to get back over the hump.
35:55
Speaker 1: They need to push Tyler like that every time they
35:58
Speaker 1: win a couple of games and it feels like maybe, know,
36:00
Speaker 1: here comes the momentum. It hasn't happened yet, and they
36:03
Speaker 1: need they need something to get themselves out of this,
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Speaker 1: out of this tier below the playoff teams and get
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Speaker 1: in and it's not going to be easy, but they're
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Speaker 1: at home and be good. It'd be a good time
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Speaker 1: for it for sure.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the all those folks that went to Banana Ball
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Speaker 4: just keep coming for this next homes just continue that trend.
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Speaker 4: You know, it's one of it's this is you know,
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Speaker 4: I hate to say it. You know, it's on players
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Speaker 4: to go play and all that stuff too, but that
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Speaker 4: home field advantage can become a thing. It's something that's real.
36:35
Speaker 4: You know, I say that jokingly, but you know, fans
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Speaker 4: are in the crowd, make it tough on the other team.
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Speaker 4: Things like that matter. You know, it's something that's it's
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Speaker 4: a small portion, but all those little things put together
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Speaker 4: that you know, feeling of you know, when I was there,
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Speaker 4: like being a twin and like that stadium getting loud
36:52
Speaker 4: for us, things like that, it's huge. Especially when there
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Speaker 4: it's like you said, it's just a little push, like
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Speaker 4: we're competitive, we're we're one. We're losing by one run
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Speaker 4: over and over again. Like it's you know, it sucks,
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Speaker 4: it's not what you want at all. But at the
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Speaker 4: same time, that one push to get that ball rolling
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Speaker 4: back down the hill, you know, it picks up such
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Speaker 4: momentum and you just kind of start to feel a
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Speaker 4: little invincible. And you know, like at times it was
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Speaker 4: like when we were the Bombas squad, you know it
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Speaker 4: was like, all right, well we're down four, but as
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Speaker 4: long as you don't give him any more runs, We're
37:24
Speaker 4: gonna score like seven more, you know. Now, not say
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Speaker 4: that's gonna happen, but the guys have the lineup has
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Speaker 4: scored runs consistently late in these games all year. It
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Speaker 4: feels like and and they're not giving up at bats.
37:36
Speaker 4: They're not quitting on these games. And it's one they
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Speaker 4: they do. Dean needs to have a good one tonight.
37:43
Speaker 4: It's gonna be tough. He's gonna be pitching, you know,
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Speaker 4: an inspired game, if you want to call it that.
37:47
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's his old team, first game at home.
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Speaker 4: You know, Culpepper's gonna get probably I would imagine he's
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Speaker 4: in the lineup tonight, you know, his home debut. Like
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Speaker 4: there's gonna be some energy in that stadium for a
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Speaker 4: lot of good reasons and things, and it's it's something
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Speaker 4: to build on. It's you know, you gotta you gotta
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Speaker 4: get these games, especially you know Baltimore. Of the few
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Speaker 4: coming up, they're your best chance to get some wins.
38:11
Speaker 4: I guess you know the Phillies are they made some moves.
38:14
Speaker 4: You know, they plugged Luisa Rise in between a bunch
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Speaker 4: of sluggers. So like it's gonna be a tough series, Uh,
38:20
Speaker 4: it's just when they need this win tonight would be huge,
38:24
Speaker 4: you know, like Dan said that, coming in that clubhouse yesterday,
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Speaker 4: getting walked off on a Sunday against Mazarowski and all that,
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Speaker 4: it's just, you know, they need something.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 4: But at the same time, it's go out and play
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Speaker 4: your our brand of baseball and just keep fighting. You know,
38:38
Speaker 4: that's all you can really do is show up and
38:39
Speaker 4: do your job individually. Nobody needs to do anything miraculous
38:43
Speaker 4: all of a sudden. It's just it's one bounce here
38:46
Speaker 4: there and the momentum shift and you'll see it on TV.
38:48
Speaker 4: You guys will be excited and you know all that
38:50
Speaker 4: good stuff. You know, it feels like one of those
38:52
Speaker 4: where Roy hits the Homer, you know, pick the guy.
38:55
Speaker 4: It just kind of turns the sales a little bit,
38:57
Speaker 4: and you know, it's it's one. It's but that's part
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Speaker 4: of the game. You got to play one sixty two.
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Speaker 4: You know, who knows what next week will look like
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Speaker 4: in the week after that, but you know, all you
39:07
Speaker 4: can do is put your head down and wait till
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Speaker 4: the last game of season.
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Speaker 1: Between now, I guess really between Friday and September seventeenth,
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Speaker 1: the Twins have all of one series against a team
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Speaker 1: that isn't at least fighting for the playoffs, if not
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Speaker 1: firmly in the playoffs, and that's at Oakland. Every other
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Speaker 1: team in that stretch is in the mix, so it's
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Speaker 1: a relentless stretch. Sometimes it seems they tend to play
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Speaker 1: better when when the competition is tougher, so maybe that's
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Speaker 1: good for them. We'll see. But Dean Kramer against Trevor Rodgers,
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Speaker 1: a lefty for Baltimore Tonight six forty start, Bailey over
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Speaker 1: and Brandon Young tough one there, six forty Tuesday night,
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Speaker 1: and then Wednesday in the finale. Zebi Matthews Maybe no,
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Speaker 1: not with that blister, right, you know I think.
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Speaker 3: Bradley is Yeah, I know, I would think he is
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Speaker 3: tas Bradley on Thursday at the Field of Dreams. So
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Speaker 3: Zebbie sits in there.
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Speaker 1: There For now, it's Zebbie Matthews against Shane bozz twelve
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