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MLB recap with Matt Snyder, Alec Busse talks Cyclones & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Hour number two, Millery Condon, welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio
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  Network, Trent Condon, Ken Miller to the top of the hour
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  talking sports with you. Lucas and Sean in the afternoon
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  coming up here today. Still to come this hour, Alec
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  Bussey from cyclonealert.com talks Iowa State, but Matt
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  Snyder kicks off Monday 2nd hour I and his normal spot talk in
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  Major League Baseball. Love to have you on Matt Snyder,
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  good to talk to you. How are you?
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  I'm very good. Good to talk to you guys.
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  I have figured out the next manager to be fired in baseball
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  and it's a big name. And this big name Skippers club
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  has gone 3 and 14 in their last 17.
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  And I think they hired the heir apparent last week and it's a
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  former manager is now on staff and his name is Freddy Gonzalez.
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  And I think Brian Snicker's days are numbered in Atlanta.
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  Crazy. No, not crazy.
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  I The only thing is they've they've made it clear like this
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  year's a swan song. He's retiring at the end of the
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  year. It's supposed to be goodbye.
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  And they won. He won the World Series in 2021.
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  It's tough because I do think that there are a lot of people
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  who would support the move of a big portion of the fan base
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  would support the move. You know how bases are when
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  somebody, when you smell chum in the water, you got to fire
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  somebody. That's the only way it will make
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  people happy. I just wonder if they want to
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  avoid that situation. And honestly, as weird as it
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  sounds right now on June 9th to declare the Braves out of it 14
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  games out in the in the NL E, that's done 9 1/2 out of the
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  last National League wild card and five teams in between them
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  in the last wild card spot. So it almost feels like it's a
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  lost season right now. So what's the point in firing
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  him? But after those circumstances, I
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  would say I agree. And right when you said and I
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  figured out the next manager to be fired immediately Brian
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  Center came into my head. So I so it's not crazy at all.
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  Same went through my head as soon as Ken started mentioning
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  that another team that's going through struggles and it
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  continues three in a row. Burns officially shut down as
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  the Arizona Diamondbacks fair even though they're ahead of the
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  Braves in the standings. Can we put a red pen out and put
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  a red line through them? I think we can start watching it
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  pretty closely, yeah. I mean, six out in the in the
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  wild card, but again, three teams to jump over.
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  So it's not like. You know, I always think.
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  A couple of years ago when the the Braves were like 10 games
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  behind the Mets going into June and then they ran them down and
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  they won the divisional. First of all, they played at a
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  ridiculous pace the rest of year.
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  Second of all, there was nobody in between them.
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  It's a lot easier and it's not easy.
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  It's just easier to run teams down when there's nobody in
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  between. When you're talking about
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  leapfrogging four teams and making up that many games, the
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  that gets tough there. Like you need a lot of teams to
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  start losing and some teams are going to win.
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  And the interesting thing about the Diamondbacks to me is,
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  especially with Burns going down, as you said, gallons been
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  bad until last start. Maybe he figured something out,
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  but they could be sellers in front of the trade deadline and
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  reload because Katel Marte and Corbin Carroll are around for
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  the long term. And those are two guys you can
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  build around. So it's not like they're going
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  to tank. But free agent at the end of the
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  year, a Eugenio Suarez, Lourdes Guriel, Junior, Zach Gallon,
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  Josh Naylor, Meryl Kelly, that looks like a team who could make
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  a pretty good have a pretty good return if they sell.
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  And they could look for guys in the upper levels of the minors.
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  They were going to just sell this year and try to win next
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  year. Almost similar to the way the
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  Yankees did all the way back in 2016, remember?
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  Or is it like Beltron or Roll the Chapman?
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  They they sold a bunch of the deadline but it was to reload
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  and not necessarily rebuild. Excellent point.
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  I want to talk about what I thought was going into it was
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  going to be very telling series and that was the Cubs and the
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  Tigers in Detroit. And to Detroit's fans credit,
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  they sold out Comerica every single game, standing room only.
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  We had scuba going against Brent Brown or Brown rather.
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  And I thought Brown was terrific in the game.
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  Scuba was, you know, his normal self.
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  What did you learn in that series, other than the fact that
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  Derek Thomas, the home plate umpire yesterday, is over his
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  head? And he's an Iowan.
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  And he's an Iowan Cedar Rapids Kennedy guy.
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  What did what did you learn in that series about those two
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  teams, if anything? Not a ton, you know, it's you
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  know, you go into the series and you see school pitching for the
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  Tigers and you think, OK, they're going to win two and
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  three because they're going to automatically win the school
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  game. And then the seas will probably
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  split the other two. And that's how it went on the
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  Cubs end. Imanaga is not back yet.
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  Matthew Boyd didn't pitch. Those are probably their one and
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  two right now. All the tie on great on
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  Saturday. That's clearly their top three.
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  And really Friday couple inches right, Like, you know, the the
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  late stop sign with peace at third base that kind of messed
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  up the Cubs mojo that inning. And then the carry Carpenter
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  robbery of stay at Suzuki, which which could have been a three
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  run home run or even a multi run double.
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  And then the Tigers win that 131.
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  That's one of those where it's yes, the Tigers deserve to win
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  and it's a well earned victory and a well played game.
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  But it's one of those that you say, well, that's a toss up that
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  could have gone either way. And that's what was the
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  difference in the the Tigers taking two of three.
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  It tells me they're just two teams that are very good and are
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  very closely matched. Can.
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  I ask you about that. And if you want to say the
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  Tigers are better right now, yeah, that's fine too.
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  I think they're very evenly matched.
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  I agree with you, Kyle Tucker. Can we are we overrating what he
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  means to this team? His bats been ice cold as of
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  late. I know he's great in a batter's
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  box and you won. But I'm I'm so sick of hearing
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  about this Gold Glove that this guy won.
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  It must have been an awful crop of right fielders that year for
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  him to get to for him to come out on top.
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  I mean, I thought it cost his team two runs yesterday when he
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  took a bad route to a ball that cost Horton in the first inning.
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  They're down to zip right after that.
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  Never recovered. A couple of weeks ago in Miami,
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  it's the same thing. We talked about that point.
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  We did. I'm not a fan of Kyle Tucker and
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  he's it's going to cost a half a billion dollars.
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  Is the money better spent elsewhere, do you think?
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  If it gets up to the 500 million, absolutely.
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  I think it'll more be in the threes, maybe low threes.
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  I, I think he, he's just going through a bit of a power outage
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  right now. I do think that defensively, no,
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  he's not that great. I agree with you there.
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  But offensively, I think he's a great, great player.
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  I mean, remember he finished fifth in the LMVP voting two
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  years ago. Last year he was having a better
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  year than that. He just got hit in the shin and
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  couldn't get back on the field. I think he worked wonders for
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  the Cubs offense early, early, he was amazing.
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  I think it helped a lot of other guys residually.
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  And I do think he'll get hot again power wise here in the
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  summer months. So I'm going to have to sort of
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  disagree with you there. I he's not, you know, if it,
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  like I said, if it gets up to $500 million, absolutely not.
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  But I do think, you know, low three hundreds, yeah, I think
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  that he's worth it and he's that good.
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  And he's still only 28 years old and he's got All Star numbers
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  right now. He's he's walked more than he
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  struck out. He has a nice on base percentage
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  even though he's in the middle of a power outage.
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  He still has 12 Hummers. He's stolen 16 bases and
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  seventeen tries. I think he's a great player.
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  For us in the great Midwest, we saw another Sunday Night
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  baseball with another Red Sox. Yankees game rolled her eyes,
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  But Hunter Dobbins added a little bit to something, a
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  little more intrigue and maybe, just maybe, is it fair to say
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  the Red Sox have been a disappointment under 500?
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  I didn't think they were going to win the division, but I
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  thought they were going to be certainly better and and maybe
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  push in upper 80s in terms of wins.
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  Certainly not on that pace. But Dobbins at least added a
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  little intrigue over the weekend as the Red Sox.
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  Maybe this catapults him? Maybe I actually thought about
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  that when they got down early to the Yankees.
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  I started looking ahead at some of the players that they might
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  sell if they were going to be sellers of the trade deadline.
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  It's not as juicy as Diamondbacks, but you know,
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  there were some pieces that they could sell, but then they won.
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  And like, I don't know about 8 1/2 in the East, but they're
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  only four out of the wild card spot.
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  Bregman's probably going to be back in, what, two or three
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  weeks? Duron's better than he's been
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  hitting. You probably think you're going
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  to get a lot more out of several guys in the rotation who are
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  having years that are worse than we thought.
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  I picked them when the AL ES heading into the season, I'll
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  own that they're not going to do that.
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  But I definitely. That was just to say that I
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  definitely thought that they had a lot of talent this year and
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  could make some noise. So sometimes it starts late.
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  Only three games over 500, under 500 right now.
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  And winning a series in the Bronx is the type of thing that
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  can get them going. So yeah, I think so.
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  Look, they need more consistency on the offensive side and they
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  scored ten runs last night and they flashed a graphic that only
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  the Cubs have scored ten runs more often than the Yankees and
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  Red Sox both. They both have done it 10 times.
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  Cubs have done it 12 times. So it's if you have the
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  firepower to score 10 runs, 10 different games through your
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  first 67, you should have a lot more consistency there.
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  So maybe that will come. And Roman Anthony is on his way,
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  so. Yeah.
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  So he's a 500 foot home run. What are they waiting for?
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  Is it as simple as service time? Is there something else that I'm
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  missing? I think that they're they feel
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  like there's log jams on the roster and they're trying to
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  figure out first base too, which if the Devers would just pick up
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  a first baseman and then like David.
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  Or run out of ground ball. Is that too much?
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  Down. Yeah, that might that might have
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  helped. But you know, I still think that
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  they're holding out hope they're going to get something out of
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  Yoshida at DH when he's healthy. I don't know.
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  I mean, I guess they just feel like there's other guys that
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  they want to have opportunities. You wouldn't think they would be
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  worried about something like Super 2 and their situation
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  where they're fighting for a playoff spot and there's such a
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  huge market. It feels like it's something
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  else, like they're trying to sort other things out.
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  You just trade them way early, like they did with Mookie Beck.
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  'S right? Yeah, do that.
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  We got to talk about the Saint Louis Cardinals.
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  Took two or three from the Dodgers.
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  Clayton Kershaw was the one starting pitcher for the Dodgers
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  that got the win yesterday. He went five innings, which is
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  about his Max now, maybe 6 on on a good day for him.
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  But next stop is the Hall of Fame, obviously.
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  But these Cardinals, here they are, they're seven games above
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  500. We thought when the schedule got
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  a little bit tougher, waters were going to get deeper.
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  Come talk to me after they get through this, while they're
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  making their way through it, Matt, and they're hanging.
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  Around, Yeah, they are. They're they're only four games
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  out. I actually had a thought for
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  power ranking my, my intro on there on CBSSports.com.
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  Hey, there's a plug. I usually never plug anything.
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  There's one. I'm surprised.
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  I tried to find the last time that the Cubs and Cardinals were
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  1-2 and it was a close race and I had to go all the way back to
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  1945 when the Cubs won the Pennant over the Cardinals by
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  three-game. Now, 2015, there were only three
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  games apart, but the Pirates were in between. 2016, the
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  Cardinals finished second to the Cubs, but it was 17 1/2 games,
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  so that wasn't a race. So we haven't had a close Cubs,
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  Cardinals 12 race in a long, long, long time, and that could
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  be really fun. You know what, the reason I said
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  I was surprised, not surprised that you have them 9th, just the
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  fact that they are ninth because I thought this team would be in
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  the 20s, right all year. I they're they're better than
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  most people thought they were going to be.
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  They're actually scoring runs. Like you can't say enough about
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  what Brennan Donovan is doing for the Elephants, but also
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  Wilson Contreras has been very good after an awful, awful will
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  start. He's been good ever since then.
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  Seems like they found something with Yvonne Herrera and then in
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  the rotation they Myles Michael is awful for like two or three
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  starts, but he's been great since then.
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  You've got Sunny Gray there. You know, Polante keeps the ball
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  on the ground. Liberatore has palate.
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  Like they've got, you know, good back into the bull 10.
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  They've got some players, I obviously heavy bias here as a
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  Cubs fan, but I don't think they're nearly as good as the
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  Cubs. But hey, they're only four games
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  back right now and they haven't even played each other yet.
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  June 23rd is coming, yeah. Four-game series to start, so
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  Yep, it's coming. In terms of baseball, you never
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  know, and the Pirates proved just that over the weekend
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  against the Phillies as they get the sweep.
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  I did see this though in my e-mail inbox.
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  Paul skins next team betting odds are out there that are
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  available. Don't tell me the Yankees are
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  the Dodgers. Well, your betting favorite is
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  the Dodgers at plus 250. Your second choice is the
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  Yankees at 3:00 to 1:00, followed by the Tigers, Red Sox,
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  but the Pirates, actually. And he'll flirt with the Blue
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  Jays and everyone will think he's going there and then he'll
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  pull the rug. Out.
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  He will not flirt with the twins.
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  I do know that much. Could you see that happening?
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  Trade deadline that Skins has moved and the pirates throw the
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  white flag again. No, absolutely not.
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  Not yet. He he barely has over a year of
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  service time. He's not even getting close to
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  arbitration yet. They, this would be if they
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  traded him this year. It, it would be I, I don't want
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  to say scandal, but it would be dramatic.
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  It would be a situation where we had to say we need to call into
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  question whether or not they deserve to have a baseball team
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  because he was just drafted number one overall two years
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  ago. He started the Austrian last
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  year. He's going to start at this
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  year. He's still making six figures,
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  not even 7 figures. If you can't do that, get a
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  number one pick and turn around and have two years later still
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  keep him on your team, then you don't deserve to have a team.
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  So it would be, I would definitely, I would write an
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  article to say that Major League Baseball needs to get involved
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  in to change ownership or something like kind of like they
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  forced the issue with McCourt with the Dodgers.
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  I would say something like that. They can't do that right now.
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  Speaking to the Dodgers, have we over rated this team, Overvalued
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  this team? They're still good.
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  They're still in first place, but I'm starting to think that
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  they might not get out of the National League.
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  I mean, the Phillies, the Mets are playing out of the mines.
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  These Dodgers, are they? I don't want to say they're up
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  against it, but I don't know how they continue to rate as the
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  favorite. Should they be?
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  Probably not, but then again, we have to pick whoever and
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  somebody else is a favorite. I mean, I, I mean tigers, they
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  definitely look better. They look better.
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  I think the Mets are, Yeah, you said.
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  And the Mets are going to get Manaya and Montas back.
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  And the rotations already been really, really good.
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  And Juan Soto hasn't been himself.
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  So. Yeah, it's interesting.
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  Like I had the number one heading into the year, so maybe
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  I did overrate them too. But I kept cautioning against
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  all this rhetoric about it's not fair for baseball.
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  Baseball needs to change the system.
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  They're too good. All along.
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  I was like, gosh darn man, people, they won one World
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  Series in a row. One, yeah, so we're finding out,
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  yeah, it's not just that easy because they only have a one
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  game lead over the Padres and the Giants.
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  Both are right on their heels. They're in San Diego right now.
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  They might not be in first place in the middle of June after
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  there was so much talk over the offseason about how they're so
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  good. It's not fair.
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  They still might win the World Series.
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  I can't see them missing the playoffs, but I could see them
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  getting bounced in the first round.
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  So it's that baseball is a different animal than other
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  sports, and I feel like sometimes football and
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  basketball minds that creeps on over.
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  Guilty. Yes.
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  Guilty No. Absolutely.
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  Matt, over the weekend, my team, the Twins, Ken's team, the Blue
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  Jays got together. Blue Jays took the series 2 out
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  of three. Good series though, good games,
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  all of them out, compelling games.
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  Both teams sit identical 35 and 30.
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  If you had to take a pick one of these teams who is better
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  equipped to make a run come playoff time, say they're both
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  in there. I'm going to get somebody mad at
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  me. I'll put you.
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  On it and answer that question correctly.
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  I, I, I I lean twins. I do too Slight.
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  It's slight there. I actually don't really trust
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  either one of them. Sorry, no.
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  We're both with you, no? I think you guys probably both
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  agree. I know how fans are.
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  So yeah, fans usually if you have a team that's slightly
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  above average, you always think they're worse than their record
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  and you focus on the negative. So yeah, I, I don't really trust
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  either team, but I'll lean Twins there because I feel like they
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  have a lot more untapped, which is having gotten almost nothing
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  from Royce Lewis so far or Carlos Correa should be a better
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  hitter, stuff like that. It feels like you go, you can go
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  up and down the Twins roster and say there should be more here,
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  there should be more here. Blue Jays definitely should hit
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  more home runs though, so there's a little bit more there
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  too. Absolutely.
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  Matt Snyder, CBSSports.com, CBSSports.com or you can read
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  Matt Snyder. You can hear with Trent tonight,
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  every Monday during the baseball season.
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  Thank you, buddy. Appreciate.
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  We'll talk to you in seven days. Have a great week, Matt.
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  Appreciate it. Sounds good take.
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  Care good to talk to you Matt Snyder So we talked a little MLB
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  and what is a pretty good week of baseball at least to start
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  the to start the week some big series Cubs Phillies I hate the
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  fact that the Phillies got swept was the Cubs arrive in town
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  they'll be in a pissed off mood. Well, they should have been
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  pissed off yesterday and. The day before, right, Padres
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  hosts the Dodgers. That's good.
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  That's really good. That's.
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  My late night viewing for the next couple of nights.
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  Yeah, I think that's where I'll be too.
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  I am. I love that series.
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  They hate each other, the fan bases hate each other.
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  It's. It's not to the extent well, I'm
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  not there. So it it feels like giants
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  dodgers will always be more hate filled.
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  I mean, something got murdered. I mean, I know that's obviously,
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  but you're right. This is a pretty good rivalry.
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  But it's in San Diego. There's vitriol, Yeah, the Big
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  Brother kind of thing. You got that kind of factor been
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  to. That ballpark I'd love to Petco
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  love to go. Yes, or nothing but great
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  things. Same with you.
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  I've never been in San Diego. Oh, it's gorgeous.
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  I know. I continue here.
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  That's where that's where Tara lived her first couple of years.
• 17:49
  Her dad was in the Navy. Yeah.
• 17:52
  So we've always talked about having a return trip, going with
• 17:55
  her mom and her parents and going back to their old stomping
• 17:58
  grounds, that kind of thing. Need to make that happen some
• 17:59
  year. I look Matt's power numbers at
• 18:02
  CBSSports.com. Yeah.
• 18:03
  What do you think? Blue Jays 13, Twins 14.
• 18:06
  Is that where they are? That's about right.
• 18:08
  I agree. So you watched.
• 18:09
  I know a lot over the weekend. Royce Lewis, What did you see?
• 18:14
  Did you see? I saw him smiling again.
• 18:16
  And I told you, you know, last week when he had the double that
• 18:21
  was almost a home run and just seeing that smile and, and the
• 18:24
  goofiness and putting back in the dugout.
• 18:27
  I, I feel like he's close. And I don't know if this is just
• 18:30
  fan want out of me or if you that obviously do not have that
• 18:34
  fan viewpoint if you see the same thing.
• 18:35
  I want him to be good. It's better when the twins are
• 18:38
  good, yeah. Your your Co host is in a better
• 18:42
  mood. I'll tell you the other kid that
• 18:44
  I was called Brooks Lee. Yeah, he's good.
• 18:46
  He's he's just a Sal. He's he's a grinder.
• 18:49
  He's going to be in the league for 1012 years.
• 18:52
  Yeah, he'll probably be at like 4 different stops, but yeah,
• 18:54
  he's a guy. Brooks Lee still collecting a
• 18:56
  paycheck when he's 35. Is is he that?
• 18:58
  Old, no, no, When he's just got that kind of profile that he's
• 19:02
  just going to stick in the league for a long time, just
• 19:04
  going to be able to do a lot of different things.
• 19:06
  Alec Bussey will join us when we come back.
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  Alec Bussey covers Iowa State for cyclonealert.com, part of
• 19:34
  24/7 Sports. So did your fiance get the guy
• 19:38
  the gown ordered? Was that a success?
• 19:41
  Did you scratch or check that box this weekend?
• 19:45
  You know, I don't want to comment too much.
• 19:46
  I don't know too many of the details.
• 19:48
  I don't think I'm allowed to know too many of the details.
• 19:52
  I. I think she has finalists.
• 19:54
  I guess I would put it that way. She's narrowed it down.
• 19:58
  Yeah, I'll have no idea what they look like.
• 19:59
  I assume it'll be black. Oh yeah, that's not good.
• 20:03
  That's not a good way to go into it Well.
• 20:05
  I'm kidding. I.
• 20:07
  Know and I hope she doesn't listen.
• 20:12
  I want to I guess what I want to start with you is do do we know
• 20:15
  any more about Jet Tamala? Seems like Cyclone Nations kind
• 20:18
  of on the edge of their seat. It's an Alabama offer.
• 20:22
  I would hope that they would understand, you know, if indeed
• 20:24
  that's the direction he decides to go.
• 20:27
  What? What?
• 20:28
  What's the Where do we stand on Monday, June the 9th?
• 20:31
  Alec Bussey. Yeah.
• 20:33
  I mean, I think that IO States visit with Jet Tamala went well.
• 20:37
  I don't know how many details I would say got in terms of where
• 20:41
  he is particularly leaning one way or the other.
• 20:44
  I believe he's competing in like A7 on seven thing today in Iowa.
• 20:48
  I've seen some videos of him online throwing to tight end
• 20:51
  target Isaac Jensen, who took an official visit to Iowa State at
• 20:55
  the beginning of the month, May 30th to June versus when he was
• 20:58
  on campus. I do think that Iowa State is
• 21:02
  aware obviously of there being serious thoughts from Tamala and
• 21:06
  his family about Alabama's pursuits.
• 21:09
  I also do think that Iowa State should feel confident about
• 21:12
  their relationships with Tamala and knows being in a spot where
• 21:16
  they keep Iowa State in the mix. For sure.
• 21:19
  Right. Like if he didn't feel strongly
• 21:21
  about where he was at with Iowa State, I don't think that he
• 21:23
  would have followed through with his official visit this past
• 21:26
  weekend after visiting Bama a week prior.
• 21:29
  So I do think that there's a lot to kind of consider for him and
• 21:32
  his family. And I'm sure that there's going
• 21:33
  to be a lot of thought, a lot of discussion had over the next
• 21:37
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  commitment over the weekend to Iowa State.
• 22:00
  He is 67275. He is a big one now just reading
• 22:05
  and we've seen a couple of the highlights that are there on
• 22:07
  24/7. He is not projected as a left
• 22:10
  tackle at the Big 10 leveled right or Big 12 level.
• 22:13
  Is this more right tackle maybe interior guy?
• 22:16
  You just footwork what I see the physicality and that's what's
• 22:19
  brought up first. You think probably not the foot
• 22:21
  to be a left tackle. Is that fair?
• 22:23
  Yeah, I think we'll see where he ends up playing on either left
• 22:27
  or right side. He definitely is a tackle frame
• 22:29
  though, right? Like he's 6 foot 7.
• 22:30
  He's already approaching 300 lbs and have to double check his
• 22:33
  weight, but he's a big kid. He's certainly really physical.
• 22:36
  Ryan Clinton, IA State's offensive line coach, absolutely
• 22:39
  loves the physicality that he plays with.
• 22:42
  That's something that Clinton doesn't want to have to teach
• 22:44
  him. With the guidest, they certainly
• 22:45
  will not have to worry about that.
• 22:46
  He is a very violent hitter. He will finish, finish defenders
• 22:53
  and run blocking. I need to see more from him and
• 22:56
  pass production to get a great read from where his footwork is
• 22:58
  at there. Obviously pass protection is
• 23:00
  harder to evaluate. There's not as much of it for a
• 23:03
  lot of high schoolers, especially when they have a
• 23:06
  strong offensive line. You try to just run the ball as
• 23:08
  best as you can. But he has a good get for IO
• 23:10
  State. He's our third offensive lineman
• 23:12
  in the class when he made some band hour.
• 23:14
  A legacy commit from Colorado and then Ethan Beckman will
• 23:18
  likely play on the interior. I would say continuing to pursue
• 23:22
  Owen Winder, a three star tackle from Dexter, MI.
• 23:25
  I think I would say it sits well with him, but he's going to keep
• 23:27
  his recruitment open for at least another weekend as he
• 23:30
  prepares to take an official visit to BYU this week.
• 23:34
  Interesting stuff. So you mentioned Jensen, the
• 23:36
  tight end. I thought are are they close
• 23:39
  with him? Yeah, good question.
• 23:42
  I think that they are in his upper tier.
• 23:47
  I going into the month, I know that Missouri and Florida State
• 23:50
  were viewed as the favorites for Isaac Jensen.
• 23:53
  I don't think that Texas A&M was maybe as well positioned as
• 23:56
  those two schools were. They obviously have a good
• 23:59
  connection at Millard South with Tamala being in the class and
• 24:02
  obviously a Marion, Marion Jackson receiver defensive back
• 24:06
  in the class as well. So I think that helps.
• 24:08
  I also think it helps Iowa State that Nebraska is not involved at
• 24:11
  all. The Jensen doesn't have much of
• 24:13
  an interest in even hearing Nebraska out from what I
• 24:15
  understand right now and Iowa State success in Omaha is
• 24:19
  certainly something that he is aware of and something that a
• 24:21
  lot of those prospects of the Omaha area.
• 24:23
  They have 4 commits I think from Omaha in this in this cycle have
• 24:28
  all discussed how how cool it is that they're all traveling up
• 24:31
  north to play names. And obviously they would like to
• 24:34
  add Isaac Johnson to that group if it's something that he
• 24:37
  chooses to do. I believe he has his official
• 24:39
  visit to Florida State this week after visiting Missouri this
• 24:42
  past weekend. You.
• 24:44
  Know when you talk, talk about that connection to Omaha, not I
• 24:46
  think only a couple of those guys have had over the last
• 24:49
  couple of years have had Nebraska offers.
• 24:51
  Is it Nebraska? I mean, talking to Nebraska
• 24:54
  people, is it that they're just maybe recruiting at a bigger
• 24:57
  footprint? They're not looking at Omaha as
• 24:59
  much can. Can you read anything into it
• 25:01
  from also the Nebraska side of things, why so many of these
• 25:04
  good prospects, Yeah, are, are leaving there and leaving
• 25:07
  without a Nebraska offer, which was a rarity for these top end
• 25:10
  prospects. Yeah, certainly a really good
• 25:12
  question. Trent.
• 25:14
  In the Jet Somala instance, Nebraska's quarterback commit is
• 25:18
  the little brother of Dylan Rayola.
• 25:20
  I'm blanking on what his first name is right now.
• 25:22
  So I that is why they didn't ever.
• 25:26
  Yes, it does. It's something Derayola.
• 25:28
  I don't know what it is, Devin, maybe something like that.
• 25:31
  I would need to double check. That is why they never showed
• 25:35
  any significant interest in Jet Somala, or at least one reason.
• 25:39
  I presume there was never any Nebraska interest in him.
• 25:43
  I do think that they have offered Jensen.
• 25:46
  I just don't necessarily think Jensen is super interested in
• 25:49
  going there from what I've understood.
• 25:52
  I don't want to speak too much on it just because I'm not too
• 25:55
  in tune with things. Obviously, Matt Rule had his
• 25:58
  comments shoot about a month or two ago now where he discussed,
• 26:02
  you know, their lack of success or, or or lack of investment.
• 26:06
  I guess you could say in in offering kids from the state and
• 26:09
  recruiting kids from the state, which traditionally Nebraska has
• 26:11
  been very good at doing. He spoke about meeting kids that
• 26:16
  are good enough to play Nebraska while also talking about meeting
• 26:21
  those players to be good enough to beat Ohio State in Michigan
• 26:24
  and the other great schools in the Big 10.
• 26:27
  I do think that it's worth pointing out, and I just watched
• 26:29
  Andrew Ivins of 24/7 say this on a clip I saw on social media,
• 26:33
  Mr. Brassic, class will be smaller.
• 26:35
  They've taken a lot of transfers and obviously rule is on a large
• 26:39
  roster overhaul in the first couple of years that he's been
• 26:42
  there. So that we have 4 commits right
• 26:44
  now. I think their average player
• 26:45
  ranking is about an 88. So it's not obviously a cost, a
• 26:49
  little ton of value or a ton of star players right now.
• 26:53
  But obviously you probably want to be a little bit further along
• 26:57
  at that point. But I don't cover Nebraska
• 26:59
  recruiting super closely. But you know, you want to have
• 27:02
  more than 4 commits at this point in the cycle.
• 27:05
  But maybe things will come together for Nebraska here this
• 27:08
  week or next week. I would need to pay more
• 27:11
  attention to to where they're at on the recruiting side to be
• 27:14
  able to discuss it more deeply. You you might not know the
• 27:17
  answer to this Bandauer, a legacy recruit.
• 27:21
  Obviously his dad Todd, was a quarterback there.
• 27:24
  I'm trying to figure out. Did he lose his job to Sage?
• 27:27
  Was it a late 90s for Oh boy for Todd Bandauer?
• 27:30
  I'd have to go back. I think it was.
• 27:34
  Yeah, that's me before my time where I was born.
• 27:38
  I think that was I, I remember looking at his staff and he was
• 27:41
  very productive when he ranks highly in a lot of Iowa State's
• 27:44
  passing categories all time. Obviously Purdy is passing in
• 27:48
  some of those. Rocco Bech will pass him in a
• 27:50
  lot of those as well by the end, by the end of his career.
• 27:53
  But he's like a top five, top 10 passer in a lot of categories
• 27:57
  for Iowa State. I think he was their starting
• 28:00
  quarterback like 96 to 2000 or something.
• 28:03
  In that time I would have to double check what I wrote down
• 28:06
  in previous stories. I think he was the Iowa State
• 28:08
  quarterback when I went on the air in. 95 is when he began.
• 28:13
  He went 42 and 90 passing that year, played just a couple of
• 28:17
  games in 96 and then was a starter in 97 and 98.
• 28:21
  So Sage took over for him then, right?
• 28:24
  Because he won the Insight, but he was a quarterback for the
• 28:27
  inside bowl and 2000 was that 2000 or 2001?
• 28:31
  And. He was the quarterback to end
• 28:33
  the streak. Yeah.
• 28:34
  No, he was. Yeah.
• 28:36
  Unbelievable. As Moses JJ Moses that day.
• 28:38
  Was amazing. We'll end on this TJ and the and
• 28:43
  the crew getting back together. Not this week right at
• 28:45
  basketball. The summer practices start at
• 28:48
  the this coming weekend. Help me out with the schedule.
• 28:52
  Yeah, players are expected to be on campus June 14th.
• 28:56
  That's the mandatory report date by I believe, and then practices
• 28:59
  should start on the 16th. I know there's been a lot of
• 29:02
  discussion out there about Mason Williams, a transfer from
• 29:06
  Eastern Washington, about his status and what his, you know,
• 29:10
  injury status is. I think that's something that I
• 29:12
  will say will evaluate once he gets to campus.
• 29:15
  And Audie Crooks had a nice honor come her way today.
• 29:18
  Did I see that and Addie Brown or just one?
• 29:22
  I think both, but I need to double check that it was a Team
• 29:25
  USA thing. I don't remember what was on the
• 29:27
  graphic. I think Brown, I think they both
• 29:29
  were, but I I know Audie Crooks was for sure.
• 29:31
  Anyways, good stuff as always, Alec, appreciate what you do for
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  us, what you do for KX and O here as I know you're on the
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  morning show here this morning. Keep up the good work brother.
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  Good stuff. I will talk to you next week.
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  Thank you, Alec Bussey. Thank you guys, looking forward
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  to have a great rest of. The day you too good to talk to
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  you Alec Bussey 24/7 Sports cyclonealert.com I'll say this
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  about Cyclone Alert. They sure hire good talkers on
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  the radio. They do They're.
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  Even really fortunate we really have.
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  Olson. Swain, you know, Bussy Yeah.
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  Monts. Yes, absolutely.
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  Dylan, Dylan Monts Now they've been, we've been very fortunate.
• 31:07
  And so they over there. All right, good stuff.
• 31:10
  Trent's plays of the day or next.
• 31:11
  I'm trying to find a box score from that 98 game.
• 31:15
  I'm not finding anything. For what?
• 31:17
  What? What 98 game?
• 31:18
  You should DIY mistake. Oh, are you?
• 31:19
  Yeah, wouldn't when the quarterback Todd Bandauer, that
• 31:24
  year he threw 14 touchdowns, completed 50.4% of his passes
• 31:30
  and that 20 picks. Did he?
• 31:32
  Yeah, year before, as a junior, 20 touchdowns, 9 interceptions
• 31:37
  in that season. But I'm clicking.
• 31:39
  Around bet he had the bet he had a Davis in the backfield.
• 31:41
  Yes, yeah, they had. So that was my freshman year.
• 31:45
  Was it? I knew nothing.
• 31:47
  About 98 was your freshman year. I knew I had no memories at all
• 31:53
  of Iowa State winning a football game in my life.
• 31:56
  I show up, Jesus, game number two.
• 32:00
  Well, here comes another clubbing and I will will roll
• 32:03
  right And an 18 year old and eviated Trent Condon learned
• 32:08
  something new that this rivalry is changing.
• 32:10
  Yeah. It was about to.
• 32:11
  In a big time for. The better because it wasn't
• 32:14
  much of a rivalry. And the number of Cyclone fans
• 32:17
  were not plentiful that day in connection.
• 32:19
  No, no, no, no, no, no. But they were loud.
• 32:22
  Yeah. And 70,000 were in the stands
• 32:24
  and it might have been at that time, 3000 it seems.
• 32:28
  To me that that you can trace that and and clearly Pollard's
• 32:32
  billboards to the resurgence of I don't want to call it hate
• 32:36
  'cause I don't think it's hate. Do you think it is?
• 32:39
  There's certain segments, but I mean, they're, they're loony
• 32:42
  birds, right, Right. It's.
• 32:43
  Not there's there's worse, yes, hate rivalries absolutely in in
• 32:47
  the sport. But that to me was those, those
• 32:51
  two, I don't know, points on the in history seem to elevate this
• 32:57
  to new levels. Pollard took it to a whole new
• 32:59
  level. I mean, the billboards were so
• 33:01
  good for business. But it was it was already
• 33:03
  trending. It was absolutely Dan McCartney.
• 33:05
  Yes, I mean it was. The khakis should have their
• 33:08
  place in the Hall of Fame because with the sweat stains in
• 33:10
  them. The billboards were seven years
• 33:12
  after the streak end. The billboards were, I mean,
• 33:16
  things have been going on for a while.
• 33:18
  Bruce van de Velde was steering the ship.
• 33:21
  I think another component to that though is it was the
• 33:25
  Eastern component. I've told you before and you,
• 33:27
  you, you look at me like I. Don't know.
• 33:28
  I don't know you're. Right.
• 33:29
  It's it's not a rivalry like it is here.
• 33:33
  Des Moines is its own entity for this rivalry.
• 33:36
  Central Iowa is different and the same thing.
• 33:39
  Growing up, even in North Iowa, Ames is closer than Iowa City.
• 33:42
  But I was I was state was an afterthought in the 80s because
• 33:46
  mostly the football program for the general sport fan of that
• 33:50
  time and what the winning streak ending then six straight from
• 33:55
  Iowa State after that. I'll be just year after year
• 33:58
  after year that. Iowa couldn't get past them.
• 34:01
  But then you put those. Scores the 25, seven or some
• 34:03
  weird score. 27/9. 27 nine, OK. That was the beginning, though,
• 34:09
  and then when you put those billboards up in eastern Iowa,
• 34:13
  that was something that hadn't been seen.
• 34:15
  OK, we see them once a year. It's an annoying rivalry because
• 34:18
  they're winning now after 15 straight.
• 34:21
  But that was kind of it, that we're coming into your
• 34:24
  territory. Yeah.
• 34:25
  And then he changed the get in price one year for the.
• 34:28
  That was a big one. Like you had to buy season
• 34:30
  tickets and the Iowa game was 100 bucks.
• 34:34
  Yep, and that at the time seemed like you out of your mind.
• 34:39
  It worked. You've.
• 34:39
  Absolutely worked. Look at what they do in terms of
• 34:42
  ticket sales. You look at the numbers of
• 34:45
  tickets sold and throw well you got you could get hillside seats
• 34:49
  for cheap OK. Still, if you watch this
• 34:52
  football program in the 80s and most of the 90s, they were lucky
• 34:57
  for a good conference game outside of Nebraska to have
• 34:59
  40,000 people there and they needed.
• 35:01
  Nebraska to bring the Phyllis Stadium.
• 35:03
  It was 2530 thousand people actually in the stands for big A
• 35:07
  football games and now we got the what?
• 35:11
  Second biggest stadium? Second in the Big 12.
• 35:13
  In the Big 12. This program has come a long.
• 35:17
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• 35:30
  final segment today can got to skip out just a couple minutes
• 35:33
  early for his, well, his day job.
• 35:36
  So he had to duck out of here a little bit early.
• 35:39
  Of course, he'll be back with us though, right away to kick off
• 35:42
  the show tomorrow on Tuesday. Well, before we get into my
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  picks of the day, as always presented by Circa sports high,
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  low up and down. We'll try it and we have what, 4
• 35:53
  games on tap here today. We'll get to them momentarily.
• 35:57
  Talk with Alec Bussey little bit earlier on, Alec mentioned that
• 36:01
  Audie Brooks along with Addie Brown, they have been invited
• 36:04
  for the 2025 USA Women's America team training camp later this
• 36:09
  summer trying to make the cut and make themselves a part of
• 36:13
  that team. Also on that team, Hannah Stalky
• 36:16
  also has been invited to those team trials.
• 36:18
  We'll have a little bit of local flavor.
• 36:20
  Always good to have something local in there to make that
• 36:23
  happen and I'll get that connection going there.
• 36:26
  Also, another update that happened here during our show
• 36:28
  today, if you're hoping for the return of Caitlin Clark, and you
• 36:33
  know, it's crazy last summer, what had morphed into with our
• 36:36
  program and, and I know just in general, the sports conversation
• 36:40
  in the state of Iowa, how the WNBA had become such a big part
• 36:43
  of the lexicon. And now with Caitlin Clark being
• 36:47
  injured these last couple of weeks, just how quickly that is
• 36:50
  dissipated and completely falling off and falling off the
• 36:52
  radar. Didn't see one bounce of the
• 36:55
  ball in the Fever Sky game on Saturday night on Cbsi did click
• 36:59
  it on just for a moment in the pregame show, but that was it.
• 37:03
  Actual gameplay didn't even get there.
• 37:05
  And there was not a whole lot going on outside of baseball on
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  Saturday evening, but the Fever dominated that one.
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  An update though is the Fever are back in action tomorrow as
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  they'll be down in Atlanta taking on the dream at 6:30.
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  Caitlin Clark is going to remain out.
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  Just saw a little clip also from Stephanie White, the Fever head
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  coach, and she mentioned that still hasn't been cleared for
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  basketball activities. Now we see her hopping around
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  out there during the highlights and and Macon plays from her
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  teammates and and doing that. But interesting that at least
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  the terminology that I saw from Steph White that she has not
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  been cleared for basketball activities.
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  So something to keep an eye on. There is.
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  And now we're going on 2 1/2 weeks without Kate and Clark out
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  there for the Fever. All right, picks of the day
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  presented by Circa Sports. Let's get into them here in our
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  final moments of the program. We got 2 plays in baseball.
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  Don't love this. Two favorites tonight.
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  I'm jumping aboard with Wheeler and the Phillies tonight.
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  The losing streak continues. Wheeler, though, coming off of
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  the birth of a kid, see if he got enough rest.
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  He was bad the last time out. I just don't think the Zach
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  Wheeler's going to be bad two times in a row.
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  I'll lay the -124 with the Phillies.
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  Do the same with my boy Kikuchi and the Angels tonight against
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  the A's -135 The Price with the Angels going to play the
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  Panthers tonight in the Stanley Cup.
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  Game three, I'll lay the -142 with the Panthers and one more
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  with the WNBA. Give me the Valkyries tonight.
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  Golden State plus 6 1/2. Think A7 out there in the
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  market. We'll grab the points tonight.
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  Golden State at La, the Valkyries over the Sparks.
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  That'll do it for today. My picks of the day each and
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  every day brought to you by Circa Sports.
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