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Twins blow multiple chances to sweep Tigers; Joe Ryan back soon? · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: Well, that one hurts. Tyler and I had the brooms out,
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. The Twins were on the verge of
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  Speaker 1: a sweep Wednesday night against the Tigers at Target Field.
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  Speaker 1: And then a bunch of missed opportunities, and it all
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  Speaker 1: went haywire in the 12th. An 11-6 loss to the Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: Twins still take two out of three, but a really
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  Speaker 1: tough one with all the chaos in the potato sack
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  Speaker 1: race that is the third American wildcard spot right now.
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  Speaker 1: Third American League wildcard spot, excuse me. Every other team
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  Speaker 1: in the race lost except Toronto, which didn't lose because
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  Speaker 1: they were playing Cleveland and somebody had to lose that game.
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  Speaker 1: But the Twins can't capitalize. They stay three and a
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  Speaker 1: half back still of Cleveland there in that and six
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  Speaker 1: and a half back of Chicago in the AL Central,
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  Speaker 1: their next opponent coming up this weekend. It is Thursday
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  Speaker 1: on Twin Cities territory. A lot to talk about from
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  Speaker 1: that game last night. So we'll get right into it.
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  Speaker 1: They get to the eighth inning down five to two,
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  Speaker 1: and then they finally get a rally going. Brooks Lee
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  Speaker 1: starts off with a single to center. Cody Clemons got
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  Speaker 1: smacked by a pitch right on his arm guard on
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  Speaker 1: the left arm there. Then Ryan Jeffers struck out. Josh
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  Speaker 1: Bell hits a single to left. The bases are loaded,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when things got very interesting with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of substitutions. The Twins ultimately ended up tying the game
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  Speaker 1: in the eighth inning, but Dan just time after time
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  Speaker 1: in this game They would have opportunities, and it just
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't come through for them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not only was it a painful loss, it got
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  Speaker 2: downright nasty in the 12th, the way that it fell apart.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're in a close game the whole way. You
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  Speaker 2: have missed opportunities by that point in the 8th, the 10th,
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  Speaker 2: and the 11th. And the golden opportunities to win, where
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  Speaker 2: just one run does it every time, you don't come through.
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  Speaker 2: And then you give up the homer, but you understand that.
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  Speaker 2: Tommy Nance pitched two innings on Monday, and he was
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  Speaker 2: the last guy they had, and he'd already been in
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  Speaker 2: the mound the inning before. Gives up the homer, and
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  Speaker 2: then that inning kind of falls apart. He hits a
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  Speaker 2: batter in the head and loads the bases. Gets ahead
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  Speaker 2: of Javi Baez, who somehow hits a slider, and Javi
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  Speaker 2: Baez throwing sliders.
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  Speaker 3: To him has been a cornerstone of Twins wins since
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  Speaker 3: he signed with the Tigers a couple years ago.
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  Speaker 2: But he got enough of it to get in the
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  Speaker 2: right field. And Royce Lewis like going all out. If
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  Speaker 2: Royce Lewis doesn't touch it, it drops in one run
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  Speaker 2: scores there. Instead, Royce Lewis gets there and, and man,
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  Speaker 2: he went far to get to it and it kicks
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  Speaker 2: off the glove and loads, unloads the bases. And all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, you know, there's just no gas in
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  Speaker 2: the tank. It's clear that it's over at that point. And,
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  Speaker 2: and it, it ends up looking pretty bad. That was a,
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  Speaker 2: Painful loss four for 21 with runners in scoring position.
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  Speaker 2: Like we said, chances in the eighth, chances in the tenth,
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  Speaker 2: where basically Detroit didn't score in its half of the
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  Speaker 2: tenth and you came up and had a runner in
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  Speaker 2: second and had to get him over and didn't even
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  Speaker 2: get him over. And then in the eleventh, the five-man
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  Speaker 2: infield used by Detroit, you really felt good about your
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  Speaker 2: chances there. And Cody Clemens, I have to think that
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  Speaker 2: he felt the after effects of getting hit directly on
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  Speaker 2: the elbow because you you mentioned it the ball went
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  Speaker 2: straight down afterwards he said his arm just went numb
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  Speaker 2: and it started hurting um so i'm guessing that that
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  Speaker 2: played a role because he got some pitches you would
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  Speaker 2: think he could handle in there and and just kept
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  Speaker 2: fouling it off fouling it off you know he got
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  Speaker 2: that middle middle fastball he was looking for and couldn't
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  Speaker 2: do it and then ryan jeffers grounds out and I
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  Speaker 2: think that was the killer for them, was just not
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  Speaker 2: getting through in that spot because really all it takes
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  Speaker 2: at that point is a little bit of contact, a blooper,
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  Speaker 2: a deep fly ball, anything, and the game is over,
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  Speaker 2: and they walk off happy.
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  Speaker 3: Instead, they walk off going, man, that's a big missed opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody except, like you said, Toronto lost in front of them.
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  Speaker 3: They could be two and a half out in the
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  Speaker 3: wild card.
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  Speaker 2: They could be half a game behind some of those
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  Speaker 2: teams or a game behind a.
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  Speaker 3: Bunch of those teams. It's Toronto... baltimore.
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  Speaker 2: And who's the third um texas toronto baltimore texas right
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  Speaker 2: yeah you could be right there game them instead you're
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  Speaker 2: two back of all them so definitely a painful.
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  Speaker 1: One yeah let's let's go through it because i just
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  Speaker 1: it was so indicative i think of of why this
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  Speaker 1: team is where they is where they geez that's not
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  Speaker 1: my day today guys but you know i'll bounce back
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  Speaker 1: just roll with it i'm a late inning guy It's
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  Speaker 1: indicative of why they are where they are because in
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  Speaker 1: that eighth inning, start there, Tyler, they load the bases
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  Speaker 1: after Josh Bell's single, and then in the span of
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes, a flurry of substitutions. Ben Ross, who
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  Speaker 1: has just called up from AAA, comes in to run
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  Speaker 1: for Bell. Bell, one of the slower twins on the team.
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  Speaker 1: It makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: You're down three.
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  Speaker 1: You need that run to score. It's the eighth inning.
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  Speaker 1: Time's running out. Trevor Larnik is due up against the lefty.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want that, so the twins announce Gabby Gonzalez. Tigers,
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  Speaker 1: in turn, go to Kenley Jansen. So Gonzalez gets called back.
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  Speaker 1: Victor Caratini goes out to hit for him. Caratini walks.
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  Speaker 1: A run comes in. It's now 5-3. Twins pinch run
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  Speaker 1: Kreidler for Caratini, which, again, makes sense. He loved that
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  Speaker 1: run to score. It's the go-ahead run. And then up
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  Speaker 1: comes Royce Lewis, who smokes a single that probably should
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  Speaker 1: have been an inning-ending double play, or at least got
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  Speaker 1: knocked down and kept in the end. Maybe that's too harsh,
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  Speaker 1: but should have at least been knocked down by Peck.
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  Speaker 1: The baseball guns were in our favor.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: But it gets through, and two runs score to tie
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  Speaker 1: the game. Curious how you feel. The substitutions would leave
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  Speaker 1: the Twins in a tough spot later on because you've
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  Speaker 1: got Ben Ross making huge plate appearances when he just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have the experience. You've got Ryan Kreidler making big
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  Speaker 1: plate appearances when he's been struggling a lot. Culpepper and
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  Speaker 1: Jenkins also just up from AAA. Culpepper's had a great
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  Speaker 1: start but struggled last night. Jenkins struggled last night and
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  Speaker 1: is still trying to find himself. Shelton clearly going for
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  Speaker 1: the win. I don't have a problem with that, but
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  Speaker 1: it just kind of showed the struggles with the Twins' depth,
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  Speaker 1: I think, later in that game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and like we were kind of talking, Jackson is
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  Speaker 4: lingering back there. He's the third catcher. Caratini had been used,
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  Speaker 4: but would his at-bat been of more quality than the
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  Speaker 4: young guys who just got there?
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  Speaker 5: Probably.
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  Speaker 4: He also doesn't see the field very often, so considering that,
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  Speaker 4: it's probably all about the same, but But yeah, it
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  Speaker 4: was a lot of aggressive moves, which everyone wants to see.
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  Speaker 5: That's never a problem.
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  Speaker 4: I think as a fan, as a guy, people like
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  Speaker 4: us who watch with some intent, like that's what you
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  Speaker 4: want to see. And it worked like they made the moves.
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  Speaker 4: We scored the runs to tie it, things like that.
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  Speaker 4: But then in that moment where, you know, we needed
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  Speaker 4: that one piece, you know, that one single one ball
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  Speaker 4: in play, you know, you left it in the hands
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  Speaker 4: of guys who frankly just don't have that experience. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, sometimes it works out great, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: Roden comes to mind with his late inning at-bats earlier
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  Speaker 4: in the year, but yeah, that was one, it's just
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  Speaker 4: a tough loss, especially after getting the lead back, you know,
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  Speaker 4: tying the game, Royce with the huge hit, like, it
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  Speaker 4: almost felt like a walk-off tying the game, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's so fired up about it, you know, almost got
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  Speaker 4: tagged out at second, but, you know, it's just, it is,
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  Speaker 4: it makes it tough to swallow, and then it just
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  Speaker 4: blows up on you in the last couple innings there
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  Speaker 4: where you know, next you look up and they somehow
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  Speaker 4: put up a five spot, um, you know, really quickly,
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  Speaker 4: but it's, you know, it's one, we can always ask
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  Speaker 4: questions after the fact and wonder what if, but same time, like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's still a righty, it's still this or that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's no way to know, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: it is like your point, we're being really aggressive and
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  Speaker 4: we had another move to make.
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  Speaker 5: Should we have, you know, the results tell us yes.
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  Speaker 1: Also, if, If Royce Lewis is like a half inch
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  Speaker 1: lower on the ball with the bat, that's a shot
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  Speaker 1: into the gap and left center, and maybe Kreidler scores too.
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  Speaker 1: So it was that close to working out just fine
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  Speaker 1: for Shelton. But then after Lewis' hit, Culpepper comes up,
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  Speaker 1: strikes out on three pitches, the last two looking, and
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  Speaker 1: then the saddest ABS challenge of all time when he
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  Speaker 1: hoped that that third pitch was... was not a strike.
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  Speaker 1: And then Jenkins struck out on four pitches.
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  Speaker 5: That's Kiddly Jansen Cutter right there. Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Ninth inning was pretty ho-hum. Jeffers did miss walking it
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  Speaker 1: off by, I don't know, 15 or 20 feet with
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  Speaker 1: his fly out to end it in the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the ninth. But then in the tenth, things got interesting again, Dan.
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  Speaker 1: So here we are. Ben Ross, who's now in the
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  Speaker 1: DH slot for Josh Bell, is up. I think this
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  Speaker 1: is the point where maybe you wonder where could Alex
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  Speaker 1: Jackson have done more here, but He comes up to bunt,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone knows he's going to bunt. It's his second
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  Speaker 1: major league at-bat. Maybe there's a better success rate, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure analytically there is, than letting him swing away and
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  Speaker 1: see what happens there, but it just did not go well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 6: It was a young guy in a challenging spot, and
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  Speaker 6: he got the bunt down, but not before it went
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  Speaker 6: up for Way too long– pardon me.
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  Speaker 2: It hung in the air way too long for Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Jeffers to run on it. It did get down, but
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  Speaker 2: it hung up. And if Jeffers moves, there's as good
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  Speaker 2: of a chance he.
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  Speaker 3: Gets doubled off.
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  Speaker 2: And Dean goes sideways there, and we're yelling about it
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  Speaker 2: that way. And Ross– so Ross gets thrown out. I
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  Speaker 2: think Royce then struck out, I believe. And then Culpepper
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  Speaker 2: flew out. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, any time– the same thing happened with the
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  Speaker 3: Orioles in Colorado earlier in the day where.
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  Speaker 2: The Orioles went to extras and they didn't come up
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  Speaker 2: or they didn't come through.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like, oh, Colorado is up and you got
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  Speaker 3: that chance to win.
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  Speaker 2: And it's got to be such a letdown on the
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  Speaker 2: home bench when all you got to do is put
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  Speaker 2: the ball in play move the runner over and then
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  Speaker 2: you got you know a shot another shot just to
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  Speaker 2: put the ball in play and and the game is
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  Speaker 2: over and um that that was a that was a
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  Speaker 2: tough one I honestly think that the the 11th was
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  Speaker 2: the the one that really.
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  Speaker 3: Stung um yeah but yeah that's.
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  Speaker 2: The thing you when you have a thinner roster, when
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  Speaker 2: you have to play some inexperienced guys and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Byron Buxton's on the IL, Austin Martin's on the IL
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  Speaker 2: right now, how different does the roster look if, if
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  Speaker 2: those guys are around for these, these kind of at
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  Speaker 2: bats or their replacements earlier are different, you know, then
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  Speaker 2: you still have a carotene on the bench at that point,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: That's where the being thin kind of hurts.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, It only happened one time, but that
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  Speaker 2: one time was enough because I really think it comes
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  Speaker 2: down to them not converting in the 8th and them
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  Speaker 2: not converting in the 10th and the 11th. I mean
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  Speaker 2: the 8th and the 11th, those were spots where you
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  Speaker 2: had the guys. Even though Culpepper and Jenkins are young guys,
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  Speaker 2: those are young guys who are super prospects, right?
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  Speaker 3: It was a learning experience.
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  Speaker 2: Kenley Jansen– I don't know how many times Caelan Culpepper
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  Speaker 2: has seen a guy that looks like that in the
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  Speaker 2: minor leagues where it's all cutters the whole time. And
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  Speaker 2: then Jenkins gets Tyler Bolton, who's a nasty lefty, and
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  Speaker 2: struck out pretty easily.
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  Speaker 3: He was on his way.
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  Speaker 2: He struck out three times last night. He had a
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  Speaker 2: productive bat in his last one where he grounded out
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  Speaker 2: and moved the runner to third. But, I mean, like
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  Speaker 2: he didn't come through. Shelton said, look, that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be something where it's a learning experience. But it certainly points,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you can't get away with it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: And that 10th inning exposed how thin sort of the
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  Speaker 2: roster is at the end right now. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: certainly could use some guys back. And it was not,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there was a lot that.
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  Speaker 3: Went wrong last night.
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  Speaker 2: Made four for 21 runners in scoring position. Illustrates that
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  Speaker 2: pretty well. But you mentioned, Tyler, kind of like the
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  Speaker 2: aggressively going for it and wanting it. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: how the bullpen.
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  Speaker 3: Got deployed last night. and we saw Dean.
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  Speaker 2: Kramer get pulled before the fifth, and that kept them
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  Speaker 2: in the game. Kramer was struggling. There was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of hard contact against him early on, and Detroit was
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  Speaker 2: kind of having its way with the Twins through the
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  Speaker 2: first seven innings of that game, and I thought Shelton
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  Speaker 2: making the move there, but it caught up to you
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  Speaker 2: again because at that point, Nance, who pitched two innings Monday,
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  Speaker 2: has to go back out for a second inning last night,
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  Speaker 2: and even though it was just the one batter, that
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  Speaker 2: second up is always, always a, you know, with a reliever,
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  Speaker 2: you never know what you're getting with that second up,
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  Speaker 2: and adrenaline wears off quick, it does, and, and, and
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Morris had pitched the night before, and thrown 30
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  Speaker 2: pitches as the opener, and so he was only going
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  Speaker 2: to come in in the 13th, they had to extend
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  Speaker 2: it one more time to the 13th, and obviously that
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  Speaker 2: didn't happen, but You know, that's the aggressive management there
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  Speaker 2: also caught up eventually.
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  Speaker 3: But here's the thing. I agree that it catches up
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  Speaker 3: and it doesn't look good when those things happen.
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  Speaker 2: But you put yourself in enough good positions earlier that
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  Speaker 2: you should have won the game earlier.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the, you know.
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  Speaker 5: It saved them. It saved them.
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  Speaker 4: Like you said, bringing them in early kept them in
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  Speaker 4: that game. And they were fresh. So it's like, why not?
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  Speaker 4: You know, they had the off day today. And they
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  Speaker 4: looked great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Gomez going, he went two. Mentor came in,
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  Speaker 4: did his thing. Hoffman came in. Like I said the
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  Speaker 4: other day, Hoffman came in down a couple runs, and
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  Speaker 4: that's going to be the new job is keep it
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  Speaker 4: close enough for us to make the little comeback, and
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  Speaker 4: that was a perfect example of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Gomez, that was Gomez's best in a while.
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  Speaker 2: He walked the first batter, got the double play to
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  Speaker 2: end the ninth inning, and then came back.
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  Speaker 3: The next inning and went one, two, three, and just
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  Speaker 3: looked amazing. got swing and miss that he hadn't been getting.
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  Speaker 3: And that had to feel good for him.
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  Speaker 1: With the runner on second, of course.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, right.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And you, you saw him do a little leap off
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  Speaker 2: the mound when he got the one, two, three and
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  Speaker 2: the 10th and the runner never advanced.
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  Speaker 3: And like he needed that. Uh, that was a good
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  Speaker 3: moment for him. So it's, it's weird. And it's just
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  Speaker 3: one of those games that you got to get done earlier.
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  Speaker 2: You can't let people hang around and hang around. It's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Anybody hanging around like that, you give them too many
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  Speaker 2: chances and there's enough talent. Spencer Torkelson's the 1-1. Of
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  Speaker 2: course he's going to hit a hanging slider.
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  Speaker 4: When he was tired of getting drilled all series, I
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  Speaker 4: think he got hit three times.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Luke Kieschel did too.
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  Speaker 5: There's like 10 hit-by-pitches a series.
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  Speaker 3: It was not the finest pitch series.
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• 16:19
  Speaker 1: We talked a good amount about the bottom of the
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: 11th already, but, uh, Tyler, Cody Clemons has had so
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: many big moments for this team this year, and baseball
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: is just kind of like that. The best hitters only
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: get it right 30% of the time. You're going to
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: have some struggles. It was particularly jarring that all he
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: needed was a fly ball, five infielders. But as we
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: were joking about before the show, I didn't quite make
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: it as far as you did in baseball, but.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Man if i there's so many times when i saw
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: a pitch that looked like a beach ball just so
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: perfect for me to hit and i ended up popping
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: up or following it off and it just wasn't cody's
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: at bat and maybe the arm uh was factoring into
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: it but it just happens.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah it's uh and stuff it's one you.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Know like i've joked about with with walker jenkins like
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: it's hard to go up there and decide to play
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: hero on a given night like you you can think
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: positively and do all those things but you can't go
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: up there and say like, I'm about to, you know,
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: I'm going to hit a homer. Like you hear the
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: stories here and there where it does happen. Um, but
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: a lot of times you just got to let the
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: game come to you. And that moment, you know, like
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: rodents one has had several this year. It just comes
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: to mind, you know, Royce with the bases loaded, just
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: seemingly all the time, you know, it's just guys have
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: a knack for getting into situations and Cody's hit some
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: clutch homers and things like that this year. And, um,
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: you know, it's, it's one, I think we've started to
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: depend on it almost. And, you know, it's unfortunate that
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: it didn't happen, and like Dan was saying, like we
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: were talking about, like, you get drilled in the elbow,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: even with that guard on, you still feel it, and
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: whether that, you know, whether he would admit that or not,
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: if it affected him, like, it probably did, you know,
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: he probably went to go, and it just lagged a
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: little bit, you know, in baseball, it's, you know, fractions
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: of seconds, and then you're behind, so, you know, it's funny,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: he probably wishes he had it back, but at the
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: same time, like, it's baseball, like you said, three out
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: of ten is a Hall of Fame career, so, If
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: he gets one tomorrow, I think he'll make sure and
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: capitalize on it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Kreidler, Ross, Culpepper, and Jenkins, after that Lewis single in
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the eighth, were 0-7, four strikeouts and a walk. Just
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: illustrating again the issues with the depth and not having
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the big bats available and the missed chances. So the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Twins will try again starting Friday in Chicago. It's not
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: over yet, 4.3 percenters. That one stings, but it's not
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: over yet. We'll talk a little bit more about what's
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: next for the Twins in a minute, but first, an
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: update on Joe Ryan, who made a AAA start on Tuesday, Dan,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: and now sounds like he might be getting very close
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: to a return to the bigs.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently that Nebraska corn, I don't know what he
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: ate while he was there, but he's.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Got some healing powers.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Some good beef out there, too.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, some Omaha beef. He was in Omaha. So, no, he.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: he came back and felt good and Derek Shelton got
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: a good read from what he heard from Joe Ryan
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: they sat down early yesterday and talked and kind of
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: mapped out what's next and what is next is a
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: bullpen session in Chicago over the weekend I would bet
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Saturday maybe Friday but I think it's gonna be Saturday
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: and then his next outing would be to be determined
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: at that point and I asked Derek Shelton point blank
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I was like is there a possibility that that could
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: be in the majors and he said.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: That That door is open. We're not there yet. But,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, the idea that there was.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: to say that tells me if if all goes well
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: on Saturday for Joe Ryan that he'll be pitching in
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Detroit maybe Monday Tuesday but that's that's a huge step
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: for these guys they they need we saw that they
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: they uh they mentioned that the opener for Connor Prelip
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: was partly to just have him not face the top
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: of The lineup and get to.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Your chances of coming in.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Are increased when you're facing 4-5-6 or 5-6-7 versus 1-2-3.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: But also part of that plan is like, hey, we
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: need Connor Prelip to be efficient because he is running
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: out of innings, and they know that. So getting Joe
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Ryan back would be critical. He threw three and 42
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: pitches in Omaha and got that third up, and that
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: was huge. And I think he may have gone to
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: the bullpen and gotten another up but he struck out four.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: His velocity was not very impressive. It was 91.4 was
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: the average, and he topped out in 92.6, but there's definitely.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Majors, and I think.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: That's what they're probably counting on is that Joe Ryan
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: will bounce back with the adrenaline rush of the major leagues,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: so we will know more basically from Saturday, but I
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: would be I would suspect Joe Ryan's in the majors next.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Tyler, that would put him in line for as many
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: as four starts, perhaps, for a team that needs wins.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: If he's anything like the old Joe Ryan, that could
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: be huge.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's, at the end of the day, like,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: you know, talk about pre-lift needing some barrests here and there.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: That's a pretty, in my mind, a pretty easy piggyback situation.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: You know, with pre-lift stuff especially, like, hey, we're going
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: to run you out for three innings today.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: You know, Joe covers the first few.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: And Prelip can kind of go let it eat for
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: a couple innings and then finish it off with closer,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: whatever you need to do. There's scenarios where they can
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: make this work, and Joe obviously is a major component.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: He's been kind of the horse. Taj has carried that
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: torch well as Joe's been missing some time. But he's
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: the guy in this rotation that we look to every
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: time through for a win. And if he can be
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: even close to that, call it four wins out of
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: his four starts. then you can kind of count backwards
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: there and figure out, all right, what do we need
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: to win with these other guys? Where can we afford
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: to split? So on and so forth. And it's just huge.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Having him back in general, it's a lift for the clubhouse.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: The lineup knows when he's on the mound what kind
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: of game they're going to get, the kind of run
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: support they need to provide, things like that. And it's
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: just a settling thing. I've talked about it before, like
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: back when Irvin Santana was rolling or when Jose was
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: rolling or Kenta or pick the guy. you could kind
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: of show up to the yard that day knowing, like,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: all right, as a reliever, I don't really need to
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: be locked in until about the sixth. The hitters know,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: all right, if we just get a couple runs, we're
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: good today. And it's just a weight off of a
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: lot of guys' shoulders, like these moments we're talking about
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: with these other guys in this extra inning game. It
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: just creates a little bit more levity for the whole
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: clubhouse when a guy like Joe's available.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Noticing on our ticker at the bottom of the screen
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: that some of– Some relevant games are already live right now.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: So whenever you're watching this, that ticker will be a
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: little outdated. But Cleveland and the White Sox both playing
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and losing at the moment on this Thursday afternoon. In
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: light of the Twins' recent struggles, we asked a question
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel the other day. How many wins
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: do you think that they would end up with? And
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: a surprising number of you are quite optimistic, 66%. Had
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: them pegged for 79 or more, that would be above
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: 500 record from the time at which I asked this question,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: which was yesterday afternoon. So that was before the loss
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to Detroit last night, which surely many of you were
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: probably putting in the win column on the sunnier side
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: of those predictions. But when the Chicago series was getting
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: started last week, there were 28 games left. I had
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: said 18 and 10, somewhere around there, probably puts them
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: in contention. They're 3-3 since then, so now we're looking
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: at like a 15-7, not helping things. But I want
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: to get your guys' take on where do you think
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: this is going to end up over the last 22 games.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: We've got at Chicago, at Detroit versus Cleveland versus the Yankees,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and then at the Angels for four, at the Giants
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: versus Texas. There's still a chance, Dan. It's getting late,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: but there still is a chance.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, there definitely is a chance, but it just
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: seems like.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: This team has been able to step forward a couple times,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: and then they step right back.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I like the mix. I like the energy.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I'd like it more if Byron Buxton was healthy. I
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: think that's a big factor here. And we don't know
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: what we're going to see from Joe Ryan, although I'm
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: probably on the optimistic side on that. But, I mean,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of work to be done,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: you know, The fact that it's seven games against the
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Angels and Giants, that's nice. That's definitely... There's a chance
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: to take advantage, and you have three more against Detroit.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: There's a chance to take advantage. But, I mean, this
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: team really hasn't done that, and to see them capitalize...
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I could see them in that 28 going 14-14, 15-13.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: I'd feel a lot better about their chances if Byron
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Buxton was there. Um, so I don't, you know, I
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: don't know if there's enough gas in the tank. Realistically,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I want to see it obviously. And I do think
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: that the bullpen is as sound as it's been in
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: a while. Um, there's a lot of things to like,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: but you know, the, the skeptic, like the skeptic in
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: me thinks that going much more than 500 is not
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: what this team is. This team has just shown that
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: they're 500 all year and, or, or just below it.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: So, it wouldn't shock me if they come up just short.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: It's like two or three, two or three games short,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: two or three games short. Sorry.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, so just to the last day, that's what you're saying.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Like last series.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Um, I don't know.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I keep, I keep thinking about Cleveland and their pitching
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: is so good. I think it's going to come down
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: to some luck. Honestly, I don't think they're going to
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: play bad there, you know, but going 15 and seven,
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: I guess that would be the finish after the last six. Um,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: you'd have to like miss Gavin Williams and like have
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: their bullpen be taxed before we come in for the series.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Like there's just going to be some stuff, things that
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: have to kind of align in our favor, which very
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: well could happen. You know, that's, it's stranger things have
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: happened in baseball. I mean, you know, teams have gone
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: on crazy winning streaks, things like that. But I think the,
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: the starters have to stay, they have to maintain their pace.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: You know, Kramer, we'd love to see him kind of
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: get back to what he was right when he got here.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: which he's had a weird up and down year. He's
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: had some good ones and bad ones. So a guy
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: like him stabilizing and Joe being back, starting rotation has
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: got to be big.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: I don't think the bullpen is going to be the issue.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: And then I don't know.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: I would love to see a guy like, honestly, Culpepper
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: or Jenkins, pick your favorite, but one of them to
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: just get white hot and just tear the cover off
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: the baseball for the last few weeks. Something like that's
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: going to have to happen because like Dan said, without Byron,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: that spark plug just isn't in the lineup.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: We don't have that. Keish has done a great job.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: He's a great table setter, but he's not that dynamic,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: game-changing player.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: When they come up into the box, that's like, oh, man,
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: what's this guy going to do?
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: So feel free, anybody who wants to do it, put
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: their hand up and volunteer. But baseball is a weird game,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: and you never know. They could go into Chicago and
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Chicago could just lay a couple eggs. Baseball is a
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: crazy game. That's why it's 162 games, and that's why
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: it's going to come down to that last two series
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: with the Angels and Giants for sure.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I just look at this second half of the season,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and they started it with a win in Chicago against
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the Cubs to get to 500, and you're like, all.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Right, here we go. Got our hopes up.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Followed immediately by four straight losses, two to Chicago, two
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: to Cleveland. Then they won seven out of nine. Over 500,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: here we go. Then four straight losses to Seattle and
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Kansas City. Then they win the opener in Milwaukee. Okay,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: here we go. Then they lose the next two. Baltimore
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: was after that, then swept by Philadelphia, and we're thinking,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: oh boy, five games under 500, here we go. Then
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: they sweep Atlanta out of nowhere. Then they get swept
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: by San Diego. Struggle with the A, struggle with Chicago,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: get a little three-game winning streak going here against Detroit,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: and of course that came to an end last night,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: but That's all to say I have no idea where
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: this is going to end up. The potential exists. Look,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Bailey over– I'm sorry. Zebby Matthews has been really.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Good pitching lately, right? Yeah. He goes Friday. By the way,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: we should say this.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: The twins are realigned their rotation for the White Sox.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: So Bailey was online for Friday. Now Bailey is Sunday,
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: and it will be Zebby Friday and Taj Bradley on Saturday.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: That's your two best, hottest pitchers right there, Taj Bradley
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: and then Zebby Matthews. Taj Bradley also struggles in Chicago.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: So what do we– like that's the thing. It's like, yeah,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: I want Taj Bradley taking the ball right now. Also,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: his history is not pitching well against the White Sox.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: So like what happens?
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: This guy has been– he had immaculate inning and his
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: stuff was amazing in Sacramento. He was outstanding the other
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: day against Detroit. But which version of him is going
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to be in Chicago? You've got Zebby. Like Zebby has
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: been lights out. Can he keep that going? Because if
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: those two can keep it going, you like your chances
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: against the White Sox team. If the result holds on Thursday,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: they've lost three of four in Houston and got a
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: little dose.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Of their own medicine.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: But things happen in baseball, and you just never know.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: And I tend to think with teams that hover around 500,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: they just sometimes can't get out of their own way, whether.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: It's the injuries and the depth.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Again, if Byron Buxton is healthy, even for two weeks,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: if they got him back and he's healthy for two weeks, hey,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: You might change my mind. But also, I don't know
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: if he's capable of that just because that hip is
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: so tricky. And it does sound like surgery is on
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: the table for him after the season. So, I mean,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: that's just a huge wild card to throw in this
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: wild card race. There's so many variables that you're just going,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: what could sink them potentially will?
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: And they just– Flipping like four different quarters and hoping
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: they match up.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: We've seen 140 games of evidence of this.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Right. It's like– And we keep talking about them in
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the context of the playoff race because they're very much
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: in it, but it's not your typical means of being
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: in a playoff race.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: Usually you're 10 games over 500. And no one for
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: that matter.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: That's why we're still here. Everybody kind of is, yeah. So– Sorry,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: go ahead, Dan.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like I've seen a team like this happen before
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: too where they do figure it out and turn it on.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I covered the Padres in 2007. It was my rookie year.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: And the Colorado Rockies were just– I get the sense already.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: They were horseshit.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: And then they won 14 in a row at the
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: end of the season. And they won 21 in a
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: row and made the World Series.
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: Like they– I was a little late. You were, but
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: they were terrible. But they got hot, and it was Rocktober.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: And again, Matt Holliday still hasn't touched the plate. Game
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: 163 was like a 13-inning massacre. Scott Harrison hits a
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: two-run home for the Padres in the top of the 13th.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: And then Trevor Hoffman, Bud Black had managed that in
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: his rookie year well enough that Trevor Hoffman was available
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: to pitch the bottom of the 13th. And he gave
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: up a two-run triple to Lewicki and then Matt Holliday
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: still hasn't touched the plate. Anyways, you say this against
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: the context of they're 500 or they're below 500 and
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: they can't get out of their own way. But there's
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: examples of it where teams get caught.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: So it's not saying it can't be done. It just
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: doesn't seem right.
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  Speaker 5: Like it will be angels in the outfield.
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  Speaker 1: And there's also the question of how hot are they
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: going to have to get? That depends on those other
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: five teams in the running too. Like they, could they
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: go eight and four in these next 12 games? I
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: think they could, they could also go four and eight
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: and either one of those records might still have them
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: in this thing. Even at that point, just depending on
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: how everyone else does or not. Like if some, if
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: one other team does get hot and it's not the twins, it's,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Even if they do okay, this thing could be over
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: pretty quick. But if they can just get to that
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: 10 game, I know they've played terribly against the worst teams,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: but if they can just get to that last 10
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: game stretch, four in LA against the Angels, three in
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco, and three at home against Texas with a chance,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: can they go eight and two in those 10 games?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: They could. like they still could be an 80, 80
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: plus win team. And that just might be enough.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: And they could just as easily go four and six.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: It could be exactly who we thought they were. Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So this is, this is one of those seasons that
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: makes you hit your head on the, the window or
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: the wall.
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  Speaker 3: Like you're bouncing, like it just, you're all over the
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  Speaker 3: map emotionally. I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 2: Like, it's nice to be detached last night.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Like for me, like for me, just trying to be as,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: you know, down the middle, You don't get there and
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: you're writing and you go, okay, what am I going
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: to write about here if this happens?
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: What am I going to write about if this happens?
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: And it's different than being emotionally invested where you're like.
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: Just get the bunt down.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: You know, just– yeah.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: Anywhere else.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Social media is fun on those kind of nights, by
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: the way. Watching social media is fun on those nights.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Look, everyone is frustrated by this team's flaws. You're absolutely
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: right to be frustrated. I'm going to stay out of
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the 95.7% as long as mathematically possible for now.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I'm still finding ways where maybe, maybe they can make
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: a run. And it'll start this weekend in Chicago real quick.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Three games, Friday through Sunday, all are evening games. 6.40
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: start Friday night, 6.10 Saturday, 5.20 on Sunday. We mentioned
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Zemi Matthews on Friday against Eric Fetty, Taj Bradley Saturday
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: against Anthony Kaye, Bailey Ober against Sean Burke. on Sunday, and.
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: Tyler, I.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Could see anything. I could see them getting swept, and
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: it's not even a contest, or I could see the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: surprise series win against the division rival on the road
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: to get us back in the positive side on Monday,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: but here we go. It's getting close to the final verdict.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I've said it a lot. I've always loved playing in Chicago.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Something about that place, it's just like, I don't know,
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: they get Good crowds. I'm sure they're going to do well,
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: especially being in the mix like they are. Dan would
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: probably know better than I. But, you know, they're going
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: to have good fans. There's going to be some fistfights
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: in left center. There's going to be all the things.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: It's always a great time there. It's just one of
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: those you show up, you know, and everything's black and gray.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: It's just like kind of that medieval feel. And it's
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: just like, all right, let's go play some ball, you know.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: And it's always a place they got me geared up
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: a little bit to play. I'm sure there's guys in
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: the locker room that feel the same way. With games
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: meaning what they do, no matter what's hurting right now,
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: it makes it really easy to play baseball when you're
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: playing games that matter right now.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: We will see you on Monday after that series. We'll
• 36:04
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• 36:06
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