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Twins take 2 of 3 from Rockies, now head out on road for a big week · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: The Twins take two out of three from the Colorado Rockies.
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  Speaker 1: Connor prelib with a fantastic ten strikeouts start on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Bonda injured also in that series finale on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: and a wild one to start things off on Friday
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  Speaker 1: Night with the Twins blowing a seven run lead only
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  Speaker 1: to come back and win it. This is Twin City's
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  Speaker 1: Territory You or Minnesota Twins podcast here on the Fouled
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  Speaker 1: Territory Network. Guym Zach Pierce of the Athletic joined as
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  Speaker 1: always by Dan Hayes, the Athletics, Minnesota Twins beat writer,
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  Speaker 1: and Tyler Duffy, longtime Major leaguer and former Minnesota Twin guys.
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  Speaker 1: This one is going to be a test of how
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  Speaker 1: rose colored your glasses are. On the one hand, the
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  Speaker 1: Twins took two out of three from the MLB worst
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  Speaker 1: Colorado Rockies can ever complain about winning two out of
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  Speaker 1: three in series. On the other hand, it was anything
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  Speaker 1: but easy. We mentioned the wild Friday night game Sunday
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  Speaker 1: was a close one as well. Also, the Twins passed
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees this weekend for most runs scored in the
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  Speaker 1: American League. They've played two more games in the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: but still the offense continues to put up runs. On
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, they also got outscored in the series
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  Speaker 1: by the Rockies. Overall, eighteen seventeen was the final tally. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the injury to an already beleaguered bullpen doesn't help things.
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  Speaker 1: But Dan, overall, are we yay or nay about the weekend?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's yay or nay on the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm flying to Houston right now. But
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  Speaker 2: the way with the Twins.
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  Speaker 3: Luck this weekend, I feel like I should be going
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  Speaker 3: to Vegas because.
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  Speaker 2: It is that there were lucky that they're sitting in
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  Speaker 2: this position having won two of three.
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  Speaker 3: Friday could have been the kind of epic disaster that
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  Speaker 3: sinks seasons.
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  Speaker 2: Blowing a seven to nothing lead after Taj Bradley through
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  Speaker 2: a gem for seven and then left.
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  Speaker 3: With two runners on and the bullpen, you know, blows it.
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  Speaker 2: But the thing that came out of that was Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Morris delivered in the tenth just a crystal clear, perfect inning,
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  Speaker 2: not allowing that inherited runner to go, and they come through.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they they came back with the Byron Buckston
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  Speaker 2: like That was a good ninth inning for them, the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the ninth, not the top. The top was horrific,
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  Speaker 2: but it was a good bottom of the ninth to
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  Speaker 2: come back and respond, even if there was some luck
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  Speaker 2: involved with the bounce that Byron Buxton got, because that
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  Speaker 2: could have been a double play. I don't think Byron
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  Speaker 2: grounds into double play, but you never know. It's a
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  Speaker 2: hot shot the third, so they escaped that and then
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  Speaker 2: they get the win voice Lewis with his first career
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  Speaker 2: walk off. You have to feel extremely lucky, or you know,
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could say it was a ludicrous victory
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  Speaker 2: that they have on Friday night.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: But then you come back and on Sunday and you
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  Speaker 2: have a good wind and Connor Prilip was really good Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: You're in your bullpen day, Mike Greatest, although he's turned
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  Speaker 2: it into like a five inning game now, but it's
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  Speaker 2: it's still a bullpen day. Look, you get who you
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  Speaker 2: get in the schedule, You play who you play. You
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  Speaker 2: want to win, regardless of where they are, what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: The Rockies offense is not the Rockies offense of the
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  Speaker 2: first part of the season. It's a pretty good group
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  Speaker 2: and man Hunter Goodman really was outstanding in this series, and.
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  Speaker 1: I got a real good look at that. I finally
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  Speaker 1: made it out to a game for the first time
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Yes, I used Seki code territory ten uh.
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  Speaker 1: And of course it was the one loss of the series.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, Hunter Goodman, sign me up that guy three.
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  Speaker 4: Homers on Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he hurt some baseballs, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: I think we joked on Friday night that that's the
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  Speaker 1: kind of win that starts the Championship DVD. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it certainly would have been the most demoralizing loss of
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  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just.
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  Speaker 5: When you're the bullpen, like it's obviously been the biggest
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  Speaker 5: glaring sign all year, and when the team is firing
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  Speaker 5: on all cylinders otherwise, that's when it really gets exposed,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and zoomed in on, and you know it
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  Speaker 5: stinks because like there's games like that where you're that
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  Speaker 5: guy or a couple of guys that had the bad
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  Speaker 5: day and you come in everybody's fired up and you're
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  Speaker 5: just like, yeah, you know, I did a great job today.
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  Speaker 5: Guys who like we're slapping hands, But it definitely sticks
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  Speaker 5: with you for a minute if you're that guy. But
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  Speaker 5: at the same time, to win that game, you show
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  Speaker 5: up the next DA, everybody's still fired up. You know,
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  Speaker 5: you don't assume somebody's gonna hit three homers off of
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  Speaker 5: you that day either. But winning that game, like you
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  Speaker 5: said at the intro, I mean, if you had lost
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  Speaker 5: that game, that is the one that's just like, oh no,
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  Speaker 5: like what just happened. But you know, powering through that one,
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  Speaker 5: slamming the door, you know, Byron getting the balance that
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  Speaker 5: he needed, All the right things happened, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: baseball gods were on our side, and you know that's
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  Speaker 5: all you can do is is go play. You got
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  Speaker 5: to make every out, you know, twenty seven out sometimes more.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the game has to be played. You can't
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  Speaker 5: run the clock out, you can't take a knee, you can't.
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  Speaker 4: Do anything else.
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  Speaker 5: And so until that last out's made, these guys aren't
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  Speaker 5: going to quit. And they've we've seen that over and
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  Speaker 5: over again.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we even saw it on Saturday, although Zach,
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  Speaker 2: I think you did not see it at that point.
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  Speaker 3: But they I did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, shame, but I mean, yes, there was a little rally,
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  Speaker 2: like there was even a little light down eight to two,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, that's that's one thing I keep
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  Speaker 2: seeing the fans that do pay attention say, is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: last year the team had expectations and was very disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: This year's team went in with little expectation, and the
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  Speaker 2: way they play is like it brings some enthusiasm for
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  Speaker 2: fans because you just you can't turn the TV off,
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  Speaker 2: you don't. You can't really ever just say it's over
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  Speaker 2: with the offense the way it is, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that that has really helped this team endure the pitching
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  Speaker 2: struggles that it's had, because yes, they are the number
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  Speaker 2: one runs scoring offense in the American League. And if
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  Speaker 2: they're not the team that's given up the most runs
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  Speaker 2: in the American League, they're really close.
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  Speaker 3: I mean their pitching staff has been great and the
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  Speaker 3: worst yes, a yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like when you think about that, that's wild. Here we
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  Speaker 2: are talking about this team still enthusiastically. When you have
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  Speaker 2: the most prolific run scoring.
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  Speaker 3: Offense and the pitching staff it gives up the most runs.
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  Speaker 2: So it says a little bit about this group and
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  Speaker 2: why they're fun even though they are what.
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  Speaker 1: They are well and all of that was on display
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, Like, seventeen runs in three games is still
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  Speaker 1: over five runs a game.
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  Speaker 3: That's great, It's great.
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  Speaker 1: The starting pitching was was pretty solid across the board.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Mike Crady's struggled but still kept the damage
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  Speaker 1: to a minimum and again is more than doing his
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  Speaker 1: job as the stop gap starter. But then the bullpen
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  Speaker 1: eleven runs in nine and two thirds innings, although on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday they were very solid when they absolutely have to
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  Speaker 1: be because there weren't any extra runs to give up there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and that's we've Tyler, you can talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: The stability and then bonda injury is definitely troubling for
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  Speaker 2: that reason. We don't know what it is. It's only
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  Speaker 2: been described as a side so far.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows if that's oblique, who knows if that's a lot,
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  Speaker 3: who knows what.
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  Speaker 2: It is that but that group between Gomez and Morris
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  Speaker 2: and Bonda had been really stabilizing to the point where
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  Speaker 2: at least you're going to get the ones you think
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  Speaker 2: you should get.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel like, you know, the crap shoot.
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  Speaker 2: Part definitely makes the managers job tough in the fifth
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  Speaker 2: and sixth things, But when you have guys in seventh
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  Speaker 2: eighth and ninth that.
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  Speaker 3: You think can at least get you through with it.
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  Speaker 3: It has to give a team some some confidence.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's just like having the top of your
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  Speaker 5: order come up, or you know, you equate it to
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  Speaker 5: your best starter coming out. It's like, all right, we've
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  Speaker 5: got a three run lead. We're going into the seventh
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  Speaker 5: or eighth. We know X, Y and Z are coming
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  Speaker 5: in to finish the game. You know, forever it was
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  Speaker 5: Perk for so long. You know, it was Roger for
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  Speaker 5: a minute, whoever it was. It was just like, there's
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  Speaker 5: our guy, this game's over. And now it's kind of
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  Speaker 5: feeling like that way, we're getting close. But at the
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  Speaker 5: same time, all uh, you know, a couple of times
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  Speaker 5: this weekend it's it's not that and you know, Shelta's
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  Speaker 5: mentioned in a couple of times, like it's it's not
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  Speaker 5: the easiest navigating the back end of some of these
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  Speaker 5: games because you simply don't have that length, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the depth of quality, you know, not even quality that true,
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  Speaker 5: like you know exactly what you're going to get every
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  Speaker 5: time out, and you know, the consistency just hasn't been there.
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  Speaker 5: It has been at times, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 5: relievers are going to throw up some downs just like
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  Speaker 5: starters and hopefully Bonda.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it was a cramp.
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  Speaker 5: You know, maybe it was a hydration thing more than
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  Speaker 5: it was something actually being injured. Because he goes down,
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  Speaker 5: you just lost the lefty that was thrown ninety five
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  Speaker 5: ninety six that you don't really have one to just
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  Speaker 5: plug back in.
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  Speaker 4: That's a tough piece to fix. Right there, we'll.
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  Speaker 1: Talk a little bit more about Anthony Bonda's injury. We'll
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  Speaker 1: look ahead to the Houston series. I have a story
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are back here on Twin City Surgery.
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  Speaker 1: Apologies for the airport noise in the background of Dan
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  Speaker 1: Hayes's a traveling Man's Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Right, seriously, what a jerk?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: We we mentioned Anthony bond injury. He left Sunday's game
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  Speaker 1: in the top of the ninth inning, hit the first
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  Speaker 1: batter of the inning and then immediately gestured to the
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  Speaker 1: dugout and appeared to be favoring his side. Dan, what
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  Speaker 1: what do we know about the ad?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all that was. I wasn't there, but the
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  Speaker 2: reporters that were there said that they were. They were
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  Speaker 2: told this his side. If you look at it, you
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  Speaker 2: don't know because I remember when Tyler texted the group
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  Speaker 2: after it happened, going oh no, and you could see
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  Speaker 2: like his initial reaction was was it the shoulder because
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  Speaker 2: the way he signaled it it looked weird his side. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it looked like that. Apparently it's his side. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what that means. Honestly, we'll probably have a better
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  Speaker 2: idea later tonight. You can see that, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: I get something to put it on Twitter on Blue
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  Speaker 2: Sky and you can check it out there. But certainly
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  Speaker 2: it's troubling because this is the guy that has been
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  Speaker 2: especially since early May. You know, he gave up the
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  Speaker 2: three run homer on Friday and gave up three runs
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  Speaker 2: in the.
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  Speaker 3: I was a goodman hit the three run homer off
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  Speaker 3: him to put.
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  Speaker 2: Them ahead, and it was jarring because that's the first
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  Speaker 2: time he's looked humid in a while. And I mean
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  Speaker 2: it was something like going into that one run in
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  Speaker 2: his last like eighteen innings or something.
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  Speaker 3: Some ridiculous stretch.
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  Speaker 2: But he's been so solidifying because he's thrown hard again
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  Speaker 2: and we've talked about it before death, but that the
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  Speaker 2: World Series hangover, he is definitely early in the year
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  Speaker 2: as basketball velosity was ninety one ninety two, he was going,
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  Speaker 2: where is my velocity? Wedens it come back? And this
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  Speaker 2: is a guy that's pitch deep in October two years
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  Speaker 2: in a row. Probably just the body was waiting for
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  Speaker 2: some warm weather.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's and it's tough, man.
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  Speaker 5: That's a lot of innings, a lot of ups and downs,
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  Speaker 5: you know, for that matter, adrenaline to finish the year
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  Speaker 5: where you're just riding on just caffeine and whatever they're
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  Speaker 5: giving you, and you know, it just takes a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I've just talking the other day with guys about even
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  Speaker 5: just shown up to spring training in the past was such.
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  Speaker 5: It is an easy ramp up into his season and
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  Speaker 5: you get ready and now it's you're expected to show
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  Speaker 5: up game ready. You know, like it's excuse me, like
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  Speaker 5: it's August and it's it's hard on your body. It's
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  Speaker 5: hard to maintain that for a regular season, let it alone.
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  Speaker 5: Back to back World Series, Like, that's just it's a
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  Speaker 5: huge difference that it's hard to even explain.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a tax.
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  Speaker 5: You get done and your body is just like, please,
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  Speaker 5: can I just like do nothing for a couple of days.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, Roger and I used to joke about
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  Speaker 5: the rigor mortis sets in on the off days because
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  Speaker 5: you get to the field sometimes and it's like your
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  Speaker 5: joints just don't work anymore, you know. But Bonda, hopefully
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  Speaker 5: it's just a quick little something, get a massage or
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  Speaker 5: two and some heat packs on there, and get him
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  Speaker 5: back out there while he's hot, because, like you said,
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  Speaker 5: he's given up I pulled out. He's since May tenth.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's given up three runs. So we need
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  Speaker 5: him out there.
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  Speaker 1: In the before Friday Night's two runs loud, the previous
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  Speaker 1: nineteen innings one run, four seventy or a.
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  Speaker 4: He had me that line out.
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  Speaker 1: So well, We'll wait to see what comes of Bond
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  Speaker 1: his injury. But on the bright side, from the pitching
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  Speaker 1: perspective for the Twins, some great starts in a very
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  Speaker 1: encouraging outing Sunday from Connor Prelip, Dan, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Connor Prelip, The stats were amazing and look, what I
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  Speaker 2: like about this best is that this was because they
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  Speaker 2: engineered a few extra days off for him. We've talked
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  Speaker 2: about how many you know, this is a guy with
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  Speaker 2: too Tommy John surgeries and that he is going to
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  Speaker 2: his workload just isn't there. I mean, he had eighty
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  Speaker 2: two innings last year and that was a professional high.
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  Speaker 2: It was about I think he hit forty before that
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  Speaker 2: over the previous like five years, dating back to high school.
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  Speaker 2: This is a guy who just hasn't been on the mound.
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  Speaker 2: So they're going to have to manage the workload. And
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  Speaker 2: they gave him extra days. When when Joe Ryan was sick,
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  Speaker 2: they threw it extra day. You know, they pushed him
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  Speaker 2: back a day, which pushed back to bullpen day. And
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  Speaker 2: basically they moved prelip from Wednesday all the way to
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  Speaker 2: Sunday to give him extra built in days.
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  Speaker 3: And now his next one comes with the day off
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  Speaker 3: two because there's a day off in between Houston and
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  Speaker 3: New York.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to have to do this and give him
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  Speaker 2: extra time so that his workload just doesn't spiral out
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  Speaker 2: of control. But the way he responded on like a
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  Speaker 2: nine day rest was outstanding. No walks and I know
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  Speaker 2: he hit two batters but ten strikeouts.
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  Speaker 3: He had really good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And again that Rockies lineup for the last like two
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  Speaker 2: weeks has been red hot. They've been one of the
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  Speaker 2: best offenses in baseball the last two weeks. He's the
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  Speaker 2: first guy to cool down Hunter Goodman and Hunter Goodman
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  Speaker 2: hit four home runs between Friday and Saturday, and Prilips
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  Speaker 2: struck him out in the last matchup.
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  Speaker 3: I just I liked the way he attacked. His off
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  Speaker 3: speed is so good.
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  Speaker 2: There was some real good consistency with this fastball ystrada
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  Speaker 2: that we that's his pitch that you see come and go.
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  Speaker 2: He just doesn't command it at times and gets him
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  Speaker 2: in trouble and he gets out of it with his
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  Speaker 2: slider and his curve.
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  Speaker 3: And he is man.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, do you think about this, he taught himself
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  Speaker 2: or the twins helped him develop that curve this year
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  Speaker 2: in January, that curve has come along that much to
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  Speaker 2: be a slow pitch to mix in there. When you
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  Speaker 2: think about that that he's been throwing the curve for
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  Speaker 2: six months and where he is development wise, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is encouraging.
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  Speaker 3: And you again, you have to be worried. You have
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  Speaker 3: to watch that workload.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: You can't overload him and just you gotta let his
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: body absorbed this year. So yeah, next year and then
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: the year after that because this stuff is so good.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a tough spot.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Tyler rest versus rust for a picture. Where are we
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: at on.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: The obviously he responded, I mean very well to having
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: the full nine days off.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: He did not.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: It did not have the opposite. He was rejuvenated.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he was sitting and felt like ninety
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: six ninety seven early on even and I was like, okay,
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: like you know, you put it ran an average guy
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: on the shelf, shelf for that long. You know they're
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: going to take an inning or two to get back
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: and get their feet under him. But it seems like
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: he's responding well to it. The weird one will be
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: that the trouble spot is down the road come August
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: September when you need him to pitch, and it's like,
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: what do we do? You know it kind of they
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: kind of worried about it when they called me up
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: the first time to start, and I was, you know,
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: on an innings limit and the minor leagues they set
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: in place and I went up and made ten starts,
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: and basically every time I pitched her like how you feeling,
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: and it's like.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: I don't I feel like a pitch. You know what
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: do you?
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: What do you want from me? So I think it's
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: gonna be one. They're gonna have to trust him and
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: at times maybe they're gonna have to say, hey, you're okay,
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: or maybe he's maybe just skip them all together one
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: time through. Like they're gonna have to get, you know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: tricky with it to make it work. But you know,
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: you have to keep an arm like his, like Dan says,
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: you got to keep him healthy for the long term
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: because this is a guy that you drafted and you
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: have now that he's here and he's going to contribute,
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: it's just keeping him on the field now.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: It's the biggest priority.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: One thing that's interesting, Okay, so we have the day
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: off in between Houston New York, so there's a day
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: off for his next one, so he goes on six
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: days there. I believe there's a day off right after
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: New York too, going into that Cleveland series, So you
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: have two days off to give him extra time between
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: all his starts into the start break and then we'll
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: see them use it again and manipulate.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: It where he gets a low extra.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Look, I've seen this done before, Chris Sale in twenty twelve.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: You know, you just they they had to find a
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: way because of like his workload too.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: To build in days. You're right, they will have to
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: give him a start off. Here.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: There one positive development I think that you know, at
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: least there's a sign, a good sign after the Mickabel news,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Bailey over threw a start at Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: He threw fifty seven pitches. He was supposed to throw fifty.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: He went three and thirty. He gave up seven hits.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I don't care about the stats. I don't care about
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the runs. He gave up seven hits in three runs.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: It was they was up and down in that fourth time.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And they're going to try and get Bailey back here. Clearly,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I would bet he gets another one the minors, just
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: because that's the responsible thing to do, especially with the
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: days off. But you'll see Bailey back soon enough that
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: they need that help, and then maybe if they're still
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: in it like this, maybe then you you explore getting
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: another starting pitcher at the end of the month. To
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: just manage this because you need starting pitching, especially with
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: free lip in the spot.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: He is.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Before we move on quickly, I just want to address
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the elephant in the room. Yes, I did leave Saturday's
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: game early. The there's just no variety in the selection
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: of wine at target Field, and I have to fix that.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know the background. Maybe maybe dark Horse is
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: paying the Twins handsomely for the right to basically own
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the wine situation there. But like you've got so many
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: different types of beers. You can get any cocktail you want,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: but one brand of wine. It can be tough for
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: some people who like flying to want to stick around
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: for a nine inning baseball game. That's all I'm That's
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: all I'm saying.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, variety is the spice of life, right
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: like they should.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, you have you can.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Get bloody Mary with a cheeseburger on it, but a
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: bottle of wine.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I mean it's like going to the liquor store for beer.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: There's thirty or forty different kind of like every stand
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: has something different, but wine. No, anyway, it's tan.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Are you saying wait, wait, are Zach are you saying
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: that if they had more wine different types of wine.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: You'd be back more often? Like should we You know
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: they have the seedon ticket.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Allder program where they're giving fifteen percent discounts for every game.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Like, if there's more wine, would you attend more often?
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: It would be easier to convince people to accompany me,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: which would probably bring me to the game more often.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think that's a cell. That's a real good
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: selling point. There you go, get that one up the
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: food chain to leadership.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Get on at twins. All right, we're moving on. Guess what, guys,
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I think I'm gonna pop over Sarah. The boys get
• 21:20
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• 21:23
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• 21:23
  Speaker 1: We'll see nice Peter Lambert is on the mound right
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: handed picture a little stingy on the home runs this year,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: only seven allowed, but has allowed one at least and
• 21:32
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• 21:35
  Speaker 1: twins this year. We'll start with Dan today.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Who you got.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Cody Clemens. Didn't one deep in
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: the heart of Texas, like he loves the dramatic home
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: runs where dad has played and.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: The place that he grew up.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, he lives there year round, and like, you know,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: the place that he was most present for his dad's
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: career was Houston. He loved, you know, that was the
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: only place that he was really old enough. He got
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: out some Yankees obviously too, but he remembers a lot
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: of the Houston time.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: And so he, you know, last year came.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Up and had that big home run at Fenway with
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Roger in the building, as he calls him, Roger Clements.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: I would think that.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: He Roger Clemens will be in the building again today
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: and this whole series. Let's go with Cody Clemens with
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: the home run today.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: All right, Tyler, I'm going with another Texan. You know
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: he played well with the Rangers. I'm going Josh Bell.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I like him in that, especially in What's it now?
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Dyke in Park as if I'd say en Roun. You know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: getting that Texas air in his lungs gives guys some
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: power sometimes.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna go with Josh.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: You took mine, Tyler, But that's all right. You guys
• 22:51
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• 22:54
  Speaker 1: hits in the Colorado Series tops for the Twins.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: He's hot. We'll go.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: We'll go back to him. I think I picked him
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: last time too, but that's allowed. That's okay. Brooks Lee
• 23:04
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• 23:07
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• 23:11
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• 23:13
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• 23:14
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• 23:18
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• 23:21
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• 23:35
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• 23:41
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• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Guys.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: We talked about it already, but the Twins are off
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: to Houston and Tyler's backyard for a three game set.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: They met a target field earlier this year, back in May,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and the Twins took two of three then, and they
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: sure could use it again, Dan.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: That could Zebbie Matthews tonight. That's a big one.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: He's been pitching pretty well of late, just got to
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: keep that going. Keep you know, there's going to be
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: a mistake. You're facing yourd On Alvarez. There's a chance
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: he's going to get you. Let him get you with
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: the solo home run, move on, beat the rest of
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: this team.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Like that's just you've got to keep the momentum going
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: the way you had it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Dodgers series took a little bit away, almost blew it
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: on Friday.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: We'll find out about Anthony Bonda today.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: But you know you have Zebbi going, and then you
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: have Joe Ryan in this series too, So you gotta
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: anytime you have that, you got to try and win
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: two a three, and you gotta keep them moment I'm.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Going Tyler, Uh, you mentioned sorry Dan, you mentioned Joe Ryan.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: He faces Mike Burrows on Tuesday, and then Wednesday, also
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: in night game, Taj Bradley against Tots. Tyler, It's uh,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: it feels like the start of a Maybe I say
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: this every week, but it's a pretty faithful stretch of
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the Twins schedule.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: After this, they're in New York where.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Nothing can possibly go wrong. Uh, then then home against
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Cleveland obviously division leaders or actually didn't look at the
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: standings today I'm not sure if they're ahead of the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: White Sox at the moment, but they're right there. And
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: then the Angels come to town as well. If you
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: if you can find a way to win more than
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: half of these games, you're feeling pretty good about yourself
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: going into the All Star Break. If it goes the
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: other direction, though, head to the All Star Break on
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: a down note with that trade deadline looming. Uh, it
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: feels like this series, especially given that Houston is right
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: there in the wildcard race as well, hit a couple
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: of games ahead of the Twins is especially important.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're the Astros aren't trying to to lose either.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: You know, at the end of the day, and like
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Dan said, the big one is jord On for this series,
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: you know that we gave up. It was mentioned, I
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: think Lamar mentioned it, and some of the show covered
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: the game coverage. You know, solo Homers are fine.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Whatever. One run is not going to beat you three
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: mite sometimes.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: But you know, at that point, we got our guys going,
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: you know, the top of the rotations coming through, especially
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: here against Houston. It's a good way. We've just won
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: two games. You won the Sunday game. Get some build
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: some momentum before you head to New York. Obviously you're
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: you would rather have Joe and and todj thrown in
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: that series, probably, But at the same time, you know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: it's they're still hitters. They're they're beat up to, they're
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: not the same Yankees of of you know, even opening day,
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: they're still going to be good. You know, I think
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Paul Goldschmidt's been tearing the cover off the ball, but
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: for the most part, they're They're human at the end
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: of the day. And I think that's what you know, Shelty,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: we talked about him a lot. It's he's he's relaying
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: these messages. It's like, guys, you still got to go
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: play baseball. You know, you can't worry about the result,
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: you anything like that. You just got to do your
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: job today. And you know, with guys that are out
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: and guys that are playing wherever they're playing, it's it's
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: show up and do the job you're asked to do.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: And and when it's your turns over, it's next man up.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: And you know.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Coming here to Houston, like I said, they played well
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: and with the against the Rangers last week or whenever
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: that was, Uh, you know, I think guys will settle
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: in quick.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: It's a comfy pace to play.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: It's you know, they've got the roof, it's seventy four
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: degrees inside and a short porch and left. So hopefully
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: our offense keeps putting up numbers like they are and
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: they just put up more than we allow. You know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: that's that's a great recipe to win a baseball game.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Are you guys going to get together at all while
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: you're there?
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'll be up there.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: I'll get my fancy sticker press badge, and oh I'll
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: get some ice cream. I'm now learning about the eats
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: of the media crew. They got their whole lounge up
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: there with all the good stuff.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Why got blow up my spot? Why got blow up
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: my spot like that?
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: The hottest ticket in town is the media lounge, all right?
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Well, as Dan and Tyler make plans to do some
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: serious damage to the food spread at the Houston Astros
• 28:30
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• 28:57
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• 29:00
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• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the weekend in the Bronx, which has usually been a
• 29:06
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• 29:08
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• 29:12
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• 29:16
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• 29:20
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• 29:23
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• 29:29
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• 29:33
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• 29:37
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• 29:40
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