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Twins sweep Red Sox, set up big series in Chicago · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: The Twins sweep the Red Sox. Royce Lewis is on
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  Speaker 1: an absolute heater in Triple A and more from this
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  Speaker 1: weekend in Twins Baseball. It's Monday, May twenty fifth. This
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  Speaker 1: is Twins City's Territory or Minnesota Twins podcast here on
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  Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network. I am Zach Pierce of the Athletic,
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  Speaker 1: joined by the Athletics Minnesota Twins beat writer Dan Hayes
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Duffy hopefully joining us later. He is just waking
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  Speaker 1: up after a late night on the ball field last
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  Speaker 1: night in Mexico. So we understand Dan, but let's get
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  Speaker 1: to the matter at hand. The Twins had eventful week
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  Speaker 1: last week obviously sent royce Lewis down to Triple A.
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  Speaker 1: Was the headliner last week and since Royce Lewis has
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  Speaker 1: reported to Triple A that happened on Thursday, the Twins
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  Speaker 1: are undefeated four and oh they beat the Astros in
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  Speaker 1: the series finale at Target Field Thursday. And then this
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  Speaker 1: weekend Dan a sweet in Boston and they are now
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  Speaker 1: twenty six and twenty seven and there you see it
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  Speaker 1: with the brooms. I found the emoji button on if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube, so look out could get dangerous
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  Speaker 1: from here. But Dan, we talked a bit on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: kind of teeing up this road trip about it's a
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  Speaker 1: ten gamer, some teams that you need to play good
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  Speaker 1: ball against if you want to be a contender, and
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  Speaker 1: the Twins started it off in the best possible way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, first sweep in Boston since nineteen ninety four, which
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  Speaker 2: is wild if you think about that. And for some
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  Speaker 2: reason the Twins can play the Red Sox even though
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  Speaker 2: they're one of those.
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  Speaker 3: Big scary teams versus the Yankees. Were joke about that.
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  Speaker 3: There's wild.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a Yankee situation at all, that is for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Twins.
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  Speaker 2: Twins took the season series five of six against the
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox. It was just a collective There was just
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  Speaker 2: enough offense. There was great defense, especially on Sunday, the
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  Speaker 2: plays by Austin Martin, the catch by Austin Martin running
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  Speaker 2: like a wide receiver in the deep right field into
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  Speaker 2: that tricky right field and catching the ball, and then
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  Speaker 2: Trevor Larnock and Ryan Kriidler throwing out the tie and
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  Speaker 2: run at the plate in the ninth inning. Those two
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  Speaker 2: facets stepped up and then the pitching was was just enough. Friday,
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  Speaker 2: they have up sick Connor Prelip struggle a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but the bullpen all weekend was outstanding and there was
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  Speaker 2: just good clutch hitting, I mean, and it was you know,
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  Speaker 2: from everywhere in the lineup. There were a lot of
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  Speaker 2: guys with five hit weekends. So you know, they took
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  Speaker 2: advantage of a hapless team. The Red Sox are terrible,
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  Speaker 2: which is which.
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  Speaker 3: Is shocking because there is that.
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  Speaker 2: The Red Sox are the best defensive team in baseball,
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  Speaker 2: and yet they are just terrible. They cannot hit, and
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  Speaker 2: the Twins own them in their own ballpark.
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  Speaker 3: It was a miserable weather weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It was cold, it was wet yesterday the camera and
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  Speaker 2: the ninth inning was fogged up.
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  Speaker 3: So very good start to a ten game road trip.
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  Speaker 2: Very you know this, You're right, this is a part
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  Speaker 2: where the Twins can separate themselves. And here they are
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  Speaker 2: sitting in the sixth spot in the Ale. They are
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  Speaker 2: as of today in the wild card.
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  Speaker 1: And over into the season now, so it's no longer.
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  Speaker 3: Technically today will be one third of the way today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, You're right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So if they beat the White Sox in this
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  Speaker 2: huge upcoming four game series. By the way, let me
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  Speaker 2: just tell you, I've been in Chicago all weekend for
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  Speaker 2: a Memorial Day, you know, pre just scouting, just getting
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  Speaker 2: ahead and scouting things out. Everybody in town is a
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  Speaker 2: buzz talking about White Sox Twins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole town.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the Cats were yelling at the Birds about it.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know that.
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  Speaker 2: That's my that's my worldview, is what the Cats were saying.
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  Speaker 3: But I did.
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  Speaker 2: I did hear somebody talking about it the movie there yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I went.
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  Speaker 3: I went and saw Mandalorian, So that's that's. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It was a guy, it was a crazy guy in
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  Speaker 2: the corner and it was me. But I mean, like
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  Speaker 2: it was a great.
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  Speaker 3: No. I mean, it's exciting series.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy because the White Socks are coming off of
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  Speaker 2: two of the worst seasons back to back in White
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  Speaker 2: Sox history, including setting the record for the most losses,
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  Speaker 2: and they're playing above their heads. They're playing five hundred ball.
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  Speaker 2: They've got some nice things going on. Their third baseman, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: their first baseman, Mirkami from Japan.
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  Speaker 3: His seventeen home runs leads the American League.
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  Speaker 2: And the Twins are playing you know way better than
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody.
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  Speaker 3: But the four point three percenters gave him credit for so.
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  Speaker 2: To start to get on that plane and come from
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  Speaker 2: Boston with the sweep was a big deal for the
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  Speaker 2: Twins and should be set them up for at least
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  Speaker 2: a road trip where they have a shot here to
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  Speaker 2: come out with a winning record. Was still washing or
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  Speaker 2: the White Sox for four in Pittsburgh after that for
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  Speaker 2: three ahead.
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  Speaker 1: It's ten wins and fourteen games. Now for the Twins,
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  Speaker 1: it's really been a tale of three parts of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven and seven out of the gate, and then they
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  Speaker 1: went through a stretch where they were five and sixteen
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  Speaker 1: over the next twenty one games, and then now again
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  Speaker 1: back finding their winning ways. And I thought what was
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  Speaker 1: encouraging too, dan Is. I think a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: early season's success was score a bunch of runs early
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  Speaker 1: and kind of coast to a win. But two of
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  Speaker 1: these games this weekend were come from behind, including after
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  Speaker 1: falling behind four to nothing on Friday Boston. May be terrible,
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  Speaker 1: but nevertheless still good to see them be able to
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  Speaker 1: climb out of a hole too.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I mean, there's fight, and that's what this team
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  Speaker 3: has done and I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think that that's one thing this team is consistently
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  Speaker 2: done all year, and it helps that the bullpen has
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  Speaker 2: sort of found its its way the last, you know,
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  Speaker 2: during this stretch, because they're keeping the score where it is.
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  Speaker 2: You know they're the last, or we'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: little bit, but I mean the bullpen keeping them in
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  Speaker 2: place allows those those rallies to be rewarded. The you know,
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  Speaker 2: yesterday they were up one, blew the lead up three
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  Speaker 2: to one, Bailey over gave it back and was four
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  Speaker 2: to three, and then the bullpen came in.
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  Speaker 3: And held it in plus and gave up one run.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, like when you have when you have
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  Speaker 2: that consistency and you just see the fight on the
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  Speaker 2: offensive side and it's coming from everywhere in the lineup
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Which is what they really needed.
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  Speaker 2: Once Ryan Jeffers went down, You're they had a great
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  Speaker 2: week without Ryan Jeffers, without Royce Lewis. The offense continue
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  Speaker 2: to put up runs and you just you keep seeing
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  Speaker 2: it and you know, the on base percentage has been good.
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  Speaker 3: The walk the walk rate for the team is good.
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  Speaker 2: You're just putting pressure on the opposing pitching and that's
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  Speaker 2: that's leading to a lot of rallies. I mean the Twins,
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  Speaker 2: it's either ninety five or ninety six played appearances with
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  Speaker 2: the bases loaded this season. That leads major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: So they're getting themselves in spots. Now, that could also
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  Speaker 2: be the station base runners that can't score on that,
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, like there's a little of that, but
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  Speaker 2: there's also a lot of base on balls being drawn,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, you're consistently putting pressure on the opposing
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  Speaker 2: team and taking advantage of it.
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  Speaker 3: You only have to do it so much. We saw
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  Speaker 3: it early on The runners.
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  Speaker 2: In scoring position in that eleven to seventh stretch was great,
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  Speaker 2: and then during the five and sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Stretch it was atrocious.
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  Speaker 2: So could they be a streaky team, Yeah, they very
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  Speaker 2: well could be a streaky team. But as long as
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at a team that can play around this
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  Speaker 2: kind of baseball five hundred, I think people are gonna
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  Speaker 2: at least be pleasantly surprised that it's, you know, there,
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  Speaker 2: versus what we all expected it to be and what
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  Speaker 2: the odds makers expected it to be.
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  Speaker 3: Although to be fair, you and I both were predicting
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  Speaker 3: above the odds makers on team wins.
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  Speaker 1: Twins sweep and more.
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  Speaker 1: Back here on Twins City's territory, talking about the twins
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  Speaker 1: sweep of the Red Sox this weekend, and joined now
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  Speaker 1: by Tyler Duffy live from a rooftop in Mexico. Hi, Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: welcome in. Uh really, Taj Bradley returned this weekend. Another
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  Speaker 1: good news item for the Twins. Pitched on Saturday, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a heck of a game. Five innings pitched
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  Speaker 1: the five and dive, perhaps as Tyler likes to call it,
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  Speaker 1: but three hits, one run, seven strikeouts, and it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of like he never left.
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  Speaker 3: D Yeah, and it was a good sign.
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  Speaker 2: It was the only thing that was showing that he
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  Speaker 2: was gone was he threw seventy three pitches because he's
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  Speaker 2: coming back from the injury and so he's limited that way,
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  Speaker 2: but he was unlimited in every other way. Ninety seven
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  Speaker 2: point six average on miles, prowers on the fastball, the cutter,
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  Speaker 2: eight swings and misses. He threw it twenty three times.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's crazy when you think about how many times,
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  Speaker 2: like for one third of his cutters to generate swings
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  Speaker 2: and misses. I was talking to one of the Red
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  Speaker 2: Sox reporters after the game and he said, we learned
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  Speaker 2: Taj is good today, and like, well, where you've been
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  Speaker 2: all year? Because this guy's been great the whole way.
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  Speaker 2: It just a great sign for them because the Twins
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  Speaker 2: have had really good starting pitching, but you had some
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  Speaker 2: injuries pop up and you're starting to see some of
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  Speaker 2: the depth guys come up, and you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: keep going down that road too far, and so for
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  Speaker 2: him to come back and be as strong as he was,
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  Speaker 2: it's a really good sign. So I you know, you
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  Speaker 2: look at it and you think this definitely is some
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  Speaker 2: stained power because they're starting.
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  Speaker 3: Pitching has been good. But what what did you see? Duff?
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  Speaker 3: Just out of what?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: He I mean, like you said, the the stuff you
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  Speaker 6: want to see came back his villas there. You know,
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  Speaker 6: it didn't look like he's holding back at all, So
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  Speaker 6: you hope maybe it was, you know, just the mandatory.
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  Speaker 6: I think how long was he out the fifteen exactly
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  Speaker 6: like I, so you know it may have been a
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  Speaker 6: one week thing and he got to go get some outings,
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  Speaker 6: you know, with with the minor league club out of
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  Speaker 6: it basically to maybe probably go work on that cutter,
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  Speaker 6: like he probably went down and probably made it a point.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I don't know his pitch totals from that game.
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  Speaker 6: I know one got shortened, was of weather or something.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he had he threw, He threw forty two
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  Speaker 3: pitches total, but he threw twenty three in the bullpen
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  Speaker 3: because he ran into his pitch count.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so there you go.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I'm sure he had, you know, in mind,
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  Speaker 6: maybe even they floated like, hey, you know, how's this feel?
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  Speaker 6: Or maybe maybe a little minor change to something like
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  Speaker 6: who knows, but you know, to be able to roll
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  Speaker 6: out of bed and third ninety seven is a god
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  Speaker 6: given ability and it seems to still be there for.
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  Speaker 7: Him, you know.
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  Speaker 6: And it's it solidifies things for people, you know. It's
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  Speaker 6: when a guy like that shows back up it it
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  Speaker 6: makes a little confidence per cup and then, not to
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  Speaker 6: mention sweeping an Al East opponent, you know that that
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  Speaker 6: always helps. So yeah, coming back like that, punching out
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  Speaker 6: seven and doing your job, you know, he can't ask
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  Speaker 6: for much else from him.
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  Speaker 2: There one point three miles prior he topped out at
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  Speaker 2: which is just insane.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know what that feels like.
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  Speaker 1: Bradley's now five and one two point seven seventy or
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  Speaker 1: that's easily a career best in his four seasons in
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  Speaker 1: the league. The heck of a start, And definitely Dan
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned the depth. It's been great to see the
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  Speaker 1: depth guys step up when the Twins have gone through
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  Speaker 1: kind of a string of injuries here to the rotation,
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  Speaker 1: but at some point, very nice to get get the
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  Speaker 1: get the main guys back in the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: It is, and you know, I think they're hoping the
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  Speaker 2: same from Mickabel. He's been out for a while now.
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  Speaker 2: Was playing catch at ninety feet when we left for
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  Speaker 2: the road trip. But it's you know, TODJ. Bradley can
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  Speaker 2: be a difference maker.
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  Speaker 3: When you have TODJ. Bradley.
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  Speaker 2: It's scary to think what would have happened if Pabula
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  Speaker 2: Lopez hadn't been hurt to have Pablo Lopez, Joe Ryan
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  Speaker 2: and Todge Bradley at the top of the rotation. As
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  Speaker 2: it is, it's still been a very good rotation. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they were somewhere around seventh in the ARA last week
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  Speaker 2: before they removed him.
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  Speaker 3: In Wood Richardson, you just.
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  Speaker 2: Look across the board everywhere you look, and Bailey over
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  Speaker 2: struggled on Sunday and he's still got the win. Give
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  Speaker 2: up four over five innings, give up a couple of
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  Speaker 2: home runs, but he's been so consistent. And then you've
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  Speaker 2: had guys fill in and like Zebbie Matthews and Connor
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  Speaker 2: Prelip have been.
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  Speaker 3: Very good as guys who have come up from Triple A.
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  Speaker 3: So the depth in the rotation that's been really solid.
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  Speaker 2: I like how they're handling it right now with Connor
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  Speaker 2: Prelip where they're trying to space him out as much
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  Speaker 2: as possible. That'll be really challenging here in this stretch
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  Speaker 2: because they're playing I believe, seventeen in a row right
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  Speaker 2: now without a day off. So if they go to Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: they go to Pittsburgh, they come home for Chicago, and
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  Speaker 2: they come home for Kansas City, and then there's a
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  Speaker 2: day off before they go to Detroit. So like, starting
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  Speaker 2: pitching will be key in this stretch because you want
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  Speaker 2: to keep your bullpen as healthy and fresh as possible
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  Speaker 2: so that.
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  Speaker 3: They can keep doing what they've been doing.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it was a nice, nice, uh pick me
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  Speaker 2: up on Saturday for tas just step in and do that.
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  Speaker 1: What a segue, Dan Uh to the bullpen. These stats,
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  Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube, came to me from Dan. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know we're gonna we're gonna trust him.
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  Speaker 2: But San Diego State math involved here, San Diego State.
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  Speaker 3: Math, no questions.
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  Speaker 1: Since the last Monday bullpen two and oh five saves
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  Speaker 1: a one point eight seven e ra A with twenty
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  Speaker 1: four strikeouts and I couldn't fit it, but in twenty
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  Speaker 1: four innings pitch as well. It has been a source
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  Speaker 1: of struggle for a lot of the year. To see
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  Speaker 1: that sustain over a week. Tyler, Uh, congrats to your
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  Speaker 1: boys in the bullpen. That's a great that's a great stretch.
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  Speaker 7: With here we're locking in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So it's you know, it's like we talked about last
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  Speaker 6: time and others. It's it's settling in. It's got as
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  Speaker 6: kind of figuring out a role or getting comfortable with
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  Speaker 6: the just not having a role thing.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 6: I think the new arms that have kind of filtered
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: in have settled in as well, you know, getting save
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: opportunities left and right for everyone. It seems like, you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: even Roger coming in to put out a fire at
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: the end of one of those there it's just you know,
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: it's it's.
• 17:14
  Speaker 7: Part of the.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: Enjoyment and the craziness of being a bullpen guy. Sometimes
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: you know, it's there's a plan and then something happens
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: and then you just got to go and you know,
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: it's one of those conversations you have. It's like the
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: phone rings, and it used to be like one guy
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: would kind of stir, and now phone rings and it's
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: like the whole group's just ready, you know, And it
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: makes for some rough times at moments, but at the
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: same time, if you just embrace it and just say, hey,
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: when my name is called, it's my turn to pitch
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: until they say I'm done, it's gonna work out. And
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: that's the that's the big you know wave of pitching
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: it's been. You know, you get your outs and go
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: and the easier that you can believe in that and
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: get behind it, it works. And that's what you know,
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: when Tampa started doing it so long ago, that was
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: you know, everyone's bought in, is what everybody's said all
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: the time, because that's just what has to happen, because
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: if you don't all buy in, then it makes it
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: a rocky road.
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: For everyone to kind of get out and have success.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Joenders Gomez another good weekend.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: He had a little bit of a slippage in the
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: ninth inning on Sunday and Travis Adams had to come in.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: And bail them out.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: But Janders Gomez came in in the eighth inning and
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: put out a fire. I think he came in with
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: first and third and Twins ahead by two and he
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: got a strikeout and a pop out to get out
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: of that jam. He's got seven and two thirds with
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the Twins, nine strikeouts, one run, aout. He did give
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: up a run in the ninth inning on Sunday. Those
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: conditions were miserable. That just the constant rain the mound.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: He slipped on it and balked. It was a little
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: bit you know, tricky there. But him being there and
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: helping settle in has been a big deal for the
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Twins just because he's got enough stuff.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Along with Andrew Morris who've seen it.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: And then the lefties are coming through Bonda and Taylor Rodgers.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: The Taylor Rodgers one out save was huge. And that
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: was Saturday. Yeah, that was Saturday. Imagine that was such
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: a great game pitching wise, and it almost all went
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: up in flames. In the ninth inning, they you know,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Todge Bradley gives up the run over five.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Kenry Rojas has been lights out fourteen innings one twenty six.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: E arra a for him.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: He came in and followed TODs Bradley with three scoreless
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: and then they nearly blow it. Andrew Morris got the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: ninth and struggled a little bit. Taylor Rodgers came in.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Derek Shelton gave Andrew Morris's main chances.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: As possible to get that out of that he walks
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: in a run to make it four to two.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Taylor Rodgers came in and I have to think it
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the most satisfying kind of save possible because he went
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: got ahead of Jaron Durant Oates, who tried to get
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: him chased, missed with, missed with a couple of fastballs
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: away and then went three to two slider upstairs and
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: it clipped the top of the zone and Duran challenged
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: trying to draw the walk, and the challenge came back
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: and it was strike three, ball game over. That must
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: be like, honestly, you played with the abs a little bit.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: That has to be especially to have the batter challenge it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: That must be a fun.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Way to be like nuh uh no, See they were right.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: It is well, and it's so tough because it's a
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: pitch anyone watching the game, the high slider, the high curveball.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: So it just looks so bad, like it just doesn't
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: look aesthetically pleasing at all. And then it just technically
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: does clip that top rail and we all know it does,
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: but even as pitchers, we just we kind of tipped
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: our cap to the fact that it's like, I'd rather
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: get the low strike than that awful curveball or slider
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: be called. And now it's it's backwards k left and right,
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: and so it's just like it is rewarding now, like
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: for so long not having.
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: That pitch get called. It is like the give and
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: take of it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: You know, there's pitches now that you want that are
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: that far off the corner that used to be strikes
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: for a thousand years and now we can't do that anymore,
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: and so it's like it's good to get something back
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: of it. And you know that was the initial talk.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: When the abs is rolling, it's like, guys are going
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: to figuret a way to clip the bottom of the
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: zone or the top with the breaking balls. And that's
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: the perfect example of it. You know, it's just whether
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: you're willing to try to throw hanging breaking balls at
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: the top, risking of the homers left and right. But no,
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: it's like you said, it's great for you know, come
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: in and slam that door like that and get the
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: big punch out.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: It's it's good for everybody.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Danny noted before the show that the Twins have set
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a fun team record already in their fifty three games
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: this season, and because we spent time making this little slide,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I don't want it to go to waste. The Twins
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: have eleven different players who've recorded a save this year,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: which beat the previous record of nine. Was it, Dan correct?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Nine?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: And if you're watching eleven with two thirds of the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: season to go, they've set the record. A three way
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: tie for first place with two each between Taylor Rodgers,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Luis Garcia and Justin Topa, Eric Orsey, Anthony Bonda, Andrew Morris,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Cody Funderberg, Cole Stands, Travis Adams, excuse me, Joan Driscomez
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: and Cody Lawyerson or the others.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: So far, I think four of the guys have been
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: added during this last six games, I believe. So Bonda
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: joined on Friday and and Travis Adams came in with
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: the one pitch save yesterday, put out the fire with
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: what a wild.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Ninth thing that was.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Taylor Rogers got in a little trouble and or no,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Taylor Rodgers got in trouble in the eighth.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Gomez came in. Gomez got in trouble in the ninth,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: and the.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Big play by Trevor Larnick, the throwout at home plate
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: kept them ahead. And at that then the ball happened
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: and a walk and it just got all kinds of messy.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: And Travis Adams had a nice weekend. He came in
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: on Friday. He pitched you in Friday and got the
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: win and then Bonda got to save that night. Bond
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: has been coming along nicely and now that's why he's
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: not been DFAD.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: For a reason.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Uh and you can see it when he's pitching as
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: well as he is lately.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's crazy.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Five guys are not on the team currently that were
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: on that list this show. Louis in fact Taylor Rodgers.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: If you're watching, watch out man, because Luis Garcia and
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Justin Topa were the team leaders and both.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Got DFA in the last week.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Don't get too valuable, don't get too valuable.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Cole Sands' is on the il Cody Lawyerson's on
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the il Cody Thunderbirks at Triple A. So five of
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the eleven guys on that list are not on the
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: team currently, although I think Sands and thunder Work will
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: be back somewhat soon.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: And probably even Lawyers or Lorison. Sorry, it's a very
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: fluid list there.
• 24:24
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• 25:00
  Speaker 1: professional player who's on a tear. It's safe to say
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: that the Omaha Stormchasers want nothing to do with Royce
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Lewis ever again since his demotion to Triple A and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Saint Paul Lewis has six hits, four home runs and
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: four games and whatever whatever they did to hit the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: reset button, they found it for sure down there so
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: far in Triple A, Dan, what are you hearing about
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Royce and how is everyone feeling about that?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I'm sure they are very excited, the Twins, just because
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: this is they wanted to see him get some confidence
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: and just go up there and look, it's Triple A
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: meatballs he's hitting.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: There's no question. This is not.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Great pitches, but he's executing and he's doing stuff. There
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: was a meat ball that he missed against the Brewers
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: on Saturday for the you know, ninety five over the
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: heart of the plate, something he should hit out and
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: he missed it, and he missed a lot of those lately.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: The whole point here was to go and work on
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: some swing things, but just to feel confident again and
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: find himself again, and he's doing that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: This is four games. It's not gonna be Royce's back
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: here in five games. Like they're going to need to
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: see this extended. I would imagine it's a couple week
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: process minimum. But when he's hitting home runs four hundred
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: and forty one feet like he did on Saturday night,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: one hundred and ten off the bat, and you know,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: doing things he was not previously showing. I mean, he
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: just looks comfortable at the plate right now, the swing,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: he's seeing the pitch and just executing. I don't it's
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: hard to say what is different. Looks like maybe they're
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: doing something with his footwork, but I mean, like it's
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: not a.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: You know, there's not been a ton of time to
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: do this.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: It's just that they've been working on stuff over the
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: last couple of weeks and I'm sure he's getting a
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: chance to figure it out without worrying about that one
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: sixty three batting average at the major league level. And
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: he looks so confident, and it's a great start. This
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: is what the Twins need from him. They need him
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: to rediscover himself and be the force. And it is
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: interesting because this is all occurring when he's bad at
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the top of the lineup, and I do think for
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Royce that matters. And most of the season he's hit
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: you know, seventh, eighth, ninth, so who knows what it means.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: But it's a great start and it's something that they
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: absolutely needed to see from him.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: We lost Tyler Duffy there for a second, but he's
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: back off the rooftop. Tyler. We were just talking about
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Royce Lewis and the Triple A versus Major League difference
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: obviously has got to be a tough thing to weigh
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: for a player, Like how how confidence is great, but
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: how much do you know in the back of your
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: head it's only because I'm down here and not up there.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: And how do you balance that?
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you gotta, you know, take it with the
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: grain of salt. I guess, you know, week one of
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: getting sent down. You know, we we can't forget that
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: fast what it was, unfortunately, and I know the team doesn't.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: But you know, it is great to see him go
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: and hit the balls hard and be on time. You know,
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: pulling stuff in the air like that most of the
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: time means you're doing something right. You know, the swing
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: looks a little different. It looks like he's already changed
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: his front leg a little bit, you know, with the
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: toe tap.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: And stuff like that.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I'm sure they had a note or a
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: plan in place. You know, it seems to be working
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: well thus far, but so the same time, you know,
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: do they want to see him do something particular.
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: I'm sure there's something they want.
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: It's you know, obviously getting comfortable and hitting homers is great,
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: but they want to see some maintained, sustainable change that
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: they know is going to continue when they call him up,
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: because they don't want to call him up right now,
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: and then it go back to what it was again,
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: and then you have to figure out now, okay, now
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: we're gonna option again, you know, and then you run
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: into that. I don't I think the rule is at
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: three dan what you can even be sent up and
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: down anymore? I can't remember the exact number. No, it's
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: but five five five, okay, I know that. You know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: the Rochester Express didn't have a limit when I was
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: on it, but I know there's there's limitations now. But
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: to that point, that's not going to happen. However, he
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: does need to stay. He needs to work on a
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: lot of things.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: It was just it wasn't just hitting to that point either.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: It's like we want to see the stud that we
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: all know Royce Lewis when he comes back, and I
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: think for better for worse, he needs to stay down
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: there a little bit, you know, just make sure you're
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: getting ready face some quality arms, which I'm sure he will.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: You know, some stuff will be in in those games.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: You know, it's triple A. You know, there's some guys
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: down there. It's like you're throwing one hundred and one,
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: you know, whatever, it's there. There's plenty of talent, so
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: he'll get some. Maybe he's against some tougher competition for sure,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: you know, and when the time's right, he's gonna get
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: up there.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: You know, the Twins aren't going to mess this one up.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: They're going to do everything in their power to make
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: sure it goes well when it comes back. And that's
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: all you can ask for as a player or as
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: a fan.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: You know, they do.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: You want the best opportunity and the best results possible,
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: and they're going to try and you know, manipulate situation
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: to their their best interest for sure.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, uh, you can't pick Royce Lewis and Daily Jingers,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to pick somebody from the actual
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: major league roster today. Now we're a little we're a
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: little bit embarrassed coming into this prediction portion of the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: show because our streak is over. Dan Hayes ruined it
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: last week by picking an injured player to Homer, who
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: did not play in the game. Later we had been
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: three for three picking out a twin to Homer day
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: of But we will, we'll try to start a new streak.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Anthony ka on the mound this afternoon. Yeah, it sucks
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: left hander, good stuff, and so it could be one
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: for the twins here. But quickly, Dan, who you got.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I'm going Austin Martin, who's only hit two home runs
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: this season, had five hits over the weekend.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: That outstanding catching right field.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: It's eighty plus degrees today and that is the unfriendly
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Pictures Park when it warms up like this.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: So I could see him now over the left field
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: corner physics.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I like that good stuff, all right, Tyler, your thoughts.
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna jump on the buck train if it's open.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: Take him Lefty, I know, and I played with k
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: He's got you know, some cutter slider stuff like that
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: gonna be feeded into that zones.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: He's playing today. Right, We're not gonna do Yeah, we're
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: not gonna do this, aguestion.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: He sat Sunday.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: He sat Sunday, So we'll see see.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: There's no lineup yet. It's only eight am, so who knows.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: We don't just playing today. Yeah, hopefully bucks in there.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I have a I have a brooks Lee feeling today.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go brooks Lee.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Brooksley went four, had four hits the last two days,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: So that's a that's a good guess. And hey, this
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: is an interesting one. Twins arrived home or probably got
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: in last night at eight thirty. White Sox left San Francisco.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: That game ended around six thirty pm Central time, and
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, so Tyler, do the quick math real quick. I
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: know we're about to sign up. But if the game
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: ends at six thirty, two hours to the airport.
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you're not leaving until eight thirty. Probably you're trying
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: to leave the field by eight and then the airport
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: sometimes it's far, and then that's what a three hour
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: flight going back three and a half at least.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Plus two hours lost in the air.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the White Whites got it, probably got home like
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: twelve thirty or one am.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Is my guest.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. Could be five straight wins.
• 32:55
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  Speaker 1: Real quick before we go. We've talked about it quite
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: a bit already, but looking ahead this week, the road
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: trip continues. It's a big series against the White Sox.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: The Twins are a half game behind Chicago right now
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: in the AL Central and Wildcard standings. Dan the White
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Sox at twenty six and twenty six. We had mentioned
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: on Friday show teeing up this road trip that at
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: least I think I said that, you know, if you
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: come back from this road trip with a winning records,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: that's a pretty strong, pretty strong building block to the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: you know, the run up here to the trade deadline
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and maybe changes some minds about what should be done
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: with the team. Couldn't have started much better in Boston,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: and now a chance here to really make a mark Dan.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: This week, there is, and they're going to run into
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: some guys that have some serious home run power because
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Moonutaka Mirrorkami outstanding seventeen home runs.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: I think it's still seventeen home runs.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Colson Montgomery seems to kill the Twins, and Miguel
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Vargas is hitting well too, So this will be fun
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: because I think in the next couple of years these
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: two teams are gonna be interesting, and they're probably both
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: a year early here right now, even playing like this.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: And I know that's funny because we're talking about twenty
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: seven and twenty six and twenty seven versus twenty six
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: and twenty six. But these are two teams that not
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: many expected much from and yet here they are playing
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  Speaker 2: baseball that their fans are probably enjoying. I do know
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: for real that White Sox fans are excited by what
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: they've seen. I don't think they have high expectations, but
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: it's it's definitely better than it has been the last
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: couple of years, and the Twins are pitching some outstanding
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: baseball right now.
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  Speaker 3: So if they can get that starting pitching through.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: This series, they have a real shot at coming out here,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: at least with the sweep. They always seem to play
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: well at Chicago, and also they play the longest games
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: in the world at Chicago. It feels like these two
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: teams know each other well and drag out in like
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: three and a half hours is for even with the
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: pitch clock is a regular occurrence and killing my life,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: let's pitch, let's play.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: A better guys, cleaning up.
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  Speaker 6: We're just trying to give the fans more time for
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: fistfights in the left center field bleachers.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Well, and just just the way the standings are playing
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: out this year. I mean, again, still over one hundred
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: games to go, but five hundred is probably going to
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: be in the mix all the way to the end. Tyler,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And like, how do you like, you know, I imagine
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: that you feel a lot differently about five hundred baseball
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: if you're in contention, right, it's not.
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's one that we've we've hit on a couple
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: of times.
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  Speaker 6: It's what it's what it's going to take to win
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: the Central like that you just be somewhere at or
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: above five hundred, you're going to be in the mix.
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: Nobody's gonna run away with it.
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: I don't think, you know, unless Cleveland like just decides
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: to score a ton of runs for the rest of
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: the year, and you know they have another Shane Bieber
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: emerged from the Ashes, you know, which they probably will.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: But it's just like, yeah, you just got to stay relevant.
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: Winning this series against Boston, sweeping more importantly, is a
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: huge bump just to start this trip. Now, you know, Okay,
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: we go to Chicago, win two of these games, Like,
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: you're right where you need to be. You know that
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: no matter what, you split the trip, you know, and
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: if you go out ahead on that, like you take
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: that step forward, you pass the White Sox.
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: You know, it's just it's as simple as ad.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: And I think as long as you keep your aspirations
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: at a an acceptable level, you know, you're gonna be
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: excited because you can't expect to seem we're not gonna
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: win one hundred games.
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: You know, it's it's just not what it's supposed to be.
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: But winning the division is very much a real possibility.
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: And you know, with the the way the bullpen's been
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: working and seemingly different guys contribute over and over again,
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: like it's the pieces are there, it's just now maintaining
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: the health I think will be the big one the rotation.
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: If they can stay who they are and to that point.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: Excuse me, if they go and you know, make a
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: little move here, Like I'm not saying you're gonna get
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: anybody crazy, but if we're in the mix and there's
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: an opportunity to get somebody on a good deal or
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: maybe who's about to be a free agent, you know,
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: it's something you never know what could happen, and you
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: get hot in September.
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: And make a little run.
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: You know, it's where I mean, it's almost June. You
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: know it's time to kind of have those conversations. And
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: I'm sure they're already trying to figure out who they
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: could go.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Get buyers at the deadline. Don't tease us, Tyler, all.
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: Right, but they're here first.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: The American League has three teams that are nine games
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: or more above five hundred, and no one else is
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: above five hundred. So it is those last two wild
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: card spots, at least for now, are very much for
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: the taking. Even as Cleveland has separated themselves a bit
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: here in the Central we'll see what happens. Four games
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: in Chicago Monday through Thursday, starts with an afternoon game today.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: We will be back with you at some point in
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the middle of this series to talk about what's happened
• 38:42
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• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Thanks very much, and we will catch you later this
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: week on Twin Cities Territory. Bye bye.