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Twins rally past reeling Mets, and now it's time for Connor Prielipp · Twin Cities Territory

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Speaker 1: All right, hello and welcome back to Twins Cities Territory,
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Speaker 1: our Minnesota Twins podcast here on the Foul Territory Network,
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Speaker 1: and we are coming to you on Wednesday, April twenty second,
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Speaker 1: fresh off a pretty fun win for the Twins over
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Speaker 1: the reeling New York Mets, who lost their twelfth straight game.
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Speaker 1: It was a heck of a game, guys. Twins looked
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Speaker 1: pretty helpless through the first to five innings against Nolan McLain,
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Speaker 1: but we're able to muster a rally when the game,
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Speaker 1: bullpen stepped up, bats came through when they needed to,
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Speaker 1: and overall Dan who was there in at Cold City Field,
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Speaker 1: probably an important win for a team that had just
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Speaker 1: come off of four game losing streak.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was especially the bullpen like delivering after a
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Speaker 2: really tough weekend where they got blew a couple leads
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Speaker 2: on Saturday Sunday and put in four perfect innings up
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Speaker 2: And it was really funny. By the way, we were
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Speaker 2: talking about last night, Noel McLain had five perfect names
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Speaker 2: to start the game. The Twins bullpen finished it with
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Speaker 2: four perfect names. So we did see sort of a
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Speaker 2: reverse perfect game last night. But to see them rally
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Speaker 2: the way they did, because they looked helpless, listless, just deflated.
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Speaker 2: The first five innings not a single hard hit ball.
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Speaker 2: There was one hard hit ball is ninety five point
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Speaker 2: zero miles prior the hardest hit ball the Twins had
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Speaker 2: was ninety four point nine. They struck out eight times.
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Speaker 2: There was just a lot of weak contact contact when
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Speaker 2: they were able to make it. We did a little
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Speaker 2: mock cheer when they put the ball in play three times,
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Speaker 2: and I think it was the fourth inning because they
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Speaker 2: put the ball in play three times. I mean, McLean,
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Speaker 2: was that good? I still this is my twenty season
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Speaker 2: covering baseball. I have never covered a no hitter. I
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Speaker 2: thought there was a really good chance last night was
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Speaker 2: going to be the night I've seen the Cubs win
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Speaker 2: the War series. In person, I saw Bonds, ty Hank
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Speaker 2: Aaron seeing a couple of cycles. Never seen a no hitter.
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Speaker 2: Noelan McClain had the stuff last night.
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Speaker 3: And what's the closest you've come to seeing, you know.
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Speaker 2: The Technically I started out the Dylan Cease eight and
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Speaker 2: two thirds game against the Twins in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: I left during the middle of the game, so that
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Speaker 2: was technically I started that game. I've gone into the
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Speaker 2: eighth innning a couple of times. Ken Sebida had a
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Speaker 2: really good game in the twenty twenty season for the Twins,
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Speaker 2: but that whole year is blocked out of my memory.
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Speaker 2: I can't remember how close he got. It was very close.
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Speaker 2: I think it was like seven and two thirds or
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Speaker 2: something like that. Yeah, I've never really gotten that close.
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Speaker 2: And it felt like that was the way it was going.
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Speaker 2: They turned it up, and they came back and fire
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Speaker 2: and bucks first, Matt Wallner singled, he Buston then homered,
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Speaker 2: and Buxton said Wallner woke them up because they weren't
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Speaker 2: worried about getting a hit anymore. They could focus on
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Speaker 2: just putting together good at bats. And but you know,
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Speaker 2: Buckston's home run definitely caught the attention of that stadium.
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Speaker 2: And the Mets are miserable right now. You can sense
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Speaker 2: the fans angst with every little swing, and that was
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Speaker 2: a big one. So when Buckston did that, it was like, oh,
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Speaker 2: this actually could happen. And man, it's hilarious that the Twins,
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Speaker 2: with effectively a seventy five million dollar payroll, took down
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Speaker 2: the Mets with their two hundred plus million dollar payroll
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Speaker 2: and added to their twelfth their twelfth straight victory or
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Speaker 2: twelfth straight loss, their longest losing streak since two thousand
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Speaker 2: and two. There was some comedy in that, for sure.
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Speaker 1: I have a I guess it's like an ESPN debate
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Speaker 1: show hot take maybe about Maybe it's mild, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but I think it was the best win of the
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Speaker 1: season so far for the Twins, just because they've had
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Speaker 1: some come from behind victories to this point, but usually
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Speaker 1: it was the kind where like they get down one
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Speaker 1: nothing and then score seven runs and you know, win
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Speaker 1: seven to four, whatever that sort of thing. I know,
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Speaker 1: it's Game twenty three. I know the Mets are now
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Speaker 1: by record, the worst team in baseball. So my usual
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Speaker 1: caveat of not overreacting, but like we talked about it
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Speaker 1: on a Monday Show, Tyler, like you're playing a team
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Speaker 1: that is desperate for a win, eleven straight losses going
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Speaker 1: into yesterday, and I think like as it hit ten
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Speaker 1: and then eleven, the noise around it has really amplified.
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Speaker 1: It's become a national story now, like how bad the
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Speaker 1: Mets have been, and so you're going in there, you
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Speaker 1: know they're you know they're hungry, you're on a losing streak,
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Speaker 1: you know of your own at four games, getting absolutely
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Speaker 1: dominated by Nolan McLain for five innings. Meanwhile, Simon Woods
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Speaker 1: Richardson was laboring through that game like the Mets were
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Speaker 1: not fooled by his splitter at all.
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Speaker 3: It was like a split just let that one go.
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Speaker 1: It's going to fall out of the zone for a ball,
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Speaker 1: and then he makes that mistake to Lindor and three
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Speaker 1: to two. I mean, he wanted to throw a strike obviously,
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Speaker 1: but it was middle middle of the door, puts it
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Speaker 1: into third deck, and like the stadium celebrated like it
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Speaker 1: was a yeah, like it was an eighth or ninth
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Speaker 1: inning game changing home run or an October home run,
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Speaker 1: and they should because they're that desperate for a win.
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Speaker 3: It was a huge moment.
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Speaker 1: And that's my point is like halfway through that game,
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Speaker 1: perfect game against you, you're down three nothing. I think
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Speaker 1: that feeling of we'll get them tomorrow could have crept
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Speaker 1: in pretty easily.
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Speaker 3: It didn't.
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Speaker 1: They obviously came back to bullpen reverse the perfect game,
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Speaker 1: as Dan point out. But what I'm getting to a
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Speaker 1: question for Tyler is I feel like that is the
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Speaker 1: kind of game, regardless of the opponent, regardless of the circumstances,
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Speaker 1: that you can look back on in July, August, September,
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Speaker 1: if you're still contending, and if you know, if it's
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Speaker 1: Trek Scooble or someone else who's dominating you, you can go, hey, like,
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Speaker 1: we've been here before and we know we can still
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Speaker 1: win this game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I kind of mentioned that about the Detroit series when
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Speaker 4: that happened, and the same thing for this one. You
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Speaker 4: know that's McLean used Team USA. You know, he's kind
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Speaker 4: of probably the best guy rolling right now. Like you
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Speaker 4: hung with him, I guess you know he got you
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Speaker 4: for a while, you know, Sim to Sim's defense, you know,
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Speaker 4: when he left the game, it was still close. You know,
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Speaker 4: it was never like you said, it was always within reach.
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Speaker 4: But that through in Homer, like that's that dip and
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Speaker 4: you're just say, Okay, lind Door's here.
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Speaker 3: We don't have a base.
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Speaker 4: Runner yet, Like what are we gonna do? And you know,
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Speaker 4: to like Dan's point to what Buck said, He's like,
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Speaker 4: you know the door was open with Wallner's knock, you
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Speaker 4: know that that kind of all right, the weights lifted off,
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Speaker 4: and that's what we keep coming back to that point.
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Speaker 4: It's got to be somebody different every game, and it
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Speaker 4: still kind of is like Byron did his thing, but
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Speaker 4: it took guys getting on base and things like that
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Speaker 4: to make his homer more valuable. You know, you give
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Speaker 4: a bunch of solo shots, you're gonna be okay. But
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Speaker 4: you have a bunch of throughwn homers, you're gonna lose
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Speaker 4: those games. And so as a hitter, like to Buck's point,
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Speaker 4: you can kind of take that breath and now no
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Speaker 4: next time around, like, hey we got this, we can
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Speaker 4: we can battle this out, we can hold off, you know,
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Speaker 4: get to a team's bullpen, which obviously last night paid
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Speaker 4: huge dividends, like you know, being patient. You know obviously
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Speaker 4: Williams inning kind of fell apart on him there, but that's.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes how you got to work.
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Speaker 4: You just got to fight through the starter or whoever
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Speaker 4: it is and stay in the game, which I think
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Speaker 4: the Twins so far can do. You know, guys have
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Speaker 4: been putting up five six innings with a couple of runs.
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Speaker 3: That's a good recipe for success. And then you know.
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Speaker 4: Sands comes in and close the door. It's you know,
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Speaker 4: it's a two inning outings like is he available to night.
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Speaker 2: Probably not.
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Speaker 4: You know, I don't know how efficient he was on
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Speaker 4: his pitch count, but you know it's a huge one
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Speaker 4: down the road. That will be, you know, a stepping stone,
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Speaker 4: like you said, for some guys, you know maybe.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, we've lost Tyler, Dan Hayes.
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Speaker 3: We'll see if we get him back, and I will
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Speaker 3: try to get in and here.
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Speaker 1: Hey Dan, Uh, it's just you would need for We'll
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Speaker 1: keep going. I'm sure Tyler will call back, but yes,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, Dan.
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Speaker 2: There was a win. Their first win in the season
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Speaker 2: was similar feeling, uh, the Saturday win in Baltimore, where
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Speaker 2: it was a team effort where it took everybody on
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Speaker 2: that group to win. You had lu Keisha with two
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Speaker 2: big hits last night. He had Wallner with the basis
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Speaker 2: load of walk but also the single Cody Clemens doubled.
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Speaker 2: Cody Clemens got the bunt down that set up that
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Speaker 2: disaster ninth inning.
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Speaker 3: He's banned. We're going to get him in here. Yes,
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Speaker 3: he's bad.
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Speaker 2: My bone rang. It freaked out.
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Speaker 1: I had it on do not disturbed.
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Speaker 4: I'm new here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: All that said, it's a huge win because that's a
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Speaker 4: big step forward you know late Lake push all the
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Speaker 4: good things and you know it's a and you buried
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Speaker 4: a team that really needed a win. They're they're down
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Speaker 4: bad today. You know, it's a bad day in Manhattan.
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Speaker 4: What is it about the Bronx Queens? And we covered
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Speaker 4: that last night.
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Speaker 2: Yes, hey on what I was saying, Well, you're down
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Speaker 2: there and duff for a second, this team had a
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Speaker 2: win like this in Baltimore, that first win where everybody contributed.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it.
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Speaker 2: Felt like like this is going to be a team
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Speaker 2: that does that for each other all year. This is
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Speaker 2: one of those we we've got each other's backs, and
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Speaker 2: you saw contributions across the board. I mean, Bonda looked
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Speaker 2: as good as he has all season. He had just
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Speaker 2: velocity back. And I'll tell you I had a nice
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Speaker 2: long conversation with him about a week ago where he
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Speaker 2: was freaking out about his velocity being down from ninety
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Speaker 2: five to five to ninety two plus this year, and
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Speaker 2: he finally hit some ninety five's last night. Topa looked good,
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Speaker 2: Like you said, Cole Sands had two, but then you
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Speaker 2: had Kishol with two big hits. Tody Clemens doubled to
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Speaker 2: set up the game time rally and then dropped down
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Speaker 2: the bunch perfect that led to the ninth inning gaff
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Speaker 2: by Vantos trying to cut down the leave runner. Their
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Speaker 2: walner had the single and they drew a basis loaded walk.
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Speaker 2: Everywhere you look there were contributions, and I think that
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Speaker 2: that's gonna be There's gonna be some similar wins like
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Speaker 2: this where they're fun wins and there they are the
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Speaker 2: kind of I think one d up having multiple best
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Speaker 2: wins this season kind of candidates. Because this group like
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Speaker 2: really likes each other and doesn't and wants to play
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Speaker 2: for each other. I mean, you can tell they do.
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Speaker 2: They're they're fired up. They's the postgame celebrations. There's sort
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Speaker 2: of that group that the survivors of last year's trade deadline.
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Speaker 2: They are a strong core. You know, Buckston Ober, Jeffers
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Speaker 2: Pablo who's here, by the way and acted as the
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Speaker 2: twenty one million dollar interpreter yesterday for Kendrick Rojas because
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Speaker 2: the Twins don't have an interpreter, and then Joe Ryant,
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Speaker 2: like there's that that group that and Trevor Larnick even
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Speaker 2: like there's that group of guys that's back that's sort
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Speaker 2: of banded together. And I think they're energy is good
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Speaker 2: for the rest of the group because you have young
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Speaker 2: guys who want to come up and make an impression,
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Speaker 2: but they like playing for each other. That's very clear,
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Speaker 2: and they were. It was a very emotionally good, emotional
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Speaker 2: day because I got to celebrate Taylor Rogers before the
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Speaker 2: game two for his ten years in the BIGS. And
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Speaker 2: I think, you know, this team, really they dig each other,
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Speaker 2: and I think that can be infectious. And I'm not
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Speaker 2: saying it's more than a five hundred team as it's
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Speaker 2: currently constructed, but also it could be a real fun
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Speaker 2: and interesting team compared to where everyone's expectations were og
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Speaker 2: four percent four point three percenters were looking at you.
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Speaker 1: So, heymen, it's entirely possible, of course, that with two
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Speaker 1: games left in the series, that the tone will shift
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Speaker 1: before Friday, but such as such as the case of
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Speaker 1: a long baseball season, we'll take a quick break. We've
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Speaker 1: got more to talk about, including more about Mick Abele's
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Speaker 1: trip to the IL and what the Twins will do
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Speaker 1: with him out, which includes a start from Connor Prelip
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Speaker 1: That's what they call me anyway. Any other lingering items,
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Speaker 1: I guess just one last shout out, Like I think
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Speaker 1: we spent the bulk of Monday Show lamenting the bullpen's
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Speaker 1: issues over the weekend in the Red Series. The game
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Speaker 1: Tuesday was just complete inversion of that series. The starting
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Speaker 1: pitching with Richardson like he managed it okay and got
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Speaker 1: out with just the one door home run, but definitely
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Speaker 1: was the weakest spot of the game. And then the
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Speaker 1: bats did come through in the clutch in this one,
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Speaker 1: and the bullpen stepped up big time. And I forget
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Speaker 1: if there was any errors or not, but it seemed
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Speaker 1: like a pretty clean game to me, certainly not yeah yeah,
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Speaker 1: down the stretch.
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Speaker 2: You were talking about the bullpen and wondering if they
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Speaker 2: used lanes. Just go just talk about that a little bit,
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Speaker 2: like what what you're what you meant? Yeah, I know
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Speaker 2: what you mean.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the roles, you know, having We've talked about having
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Speaker 4: rolls and the closer and things like that a lot,
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Speaker 4: and what the tide has kind of turned to and
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Speaker 4: the Rays. I guess we can thank them or not
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Speaker 4: for this, but they devised a system to basically they
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Speaker 4: predict how certain relievers are going to be effective against
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Speaker 4: certain hitters, and for the most part, they tried to
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Speaker 4: you up for success. Obviously there's pitch, hitting and all
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Speaker 4: the other variables in a baseball game, but it sounds
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Speaker 4: to me like what they're.
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Speaker 2: The Twins are going to try to do for the year.
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Speaker 4: You know, if you're not going to get a closer
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Speaker 4: and lock him in as a guy, you know, you
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Speaker 4: show up to the field. Sometimes it's a sheet of paper,
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Speaker 4: Sometimes it's just a coach. You know, you get out
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Speaker 4: to the bullpen. Latroy's got it in his book if
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Speaker 4: you want to see it, and he's going to be
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Speaker 4: like yeah, like you know, for me, it was you know,
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Speaker 4: the ones that come to mind. It was like Detroit
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Speaker 4: and it was going to be like you know, Kinsler,
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Speaker 4: J D. Martinez, Migual Cabrera in the seventh or eighth,
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Speaker 4: Like that was just what I was going to do
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Speaker 4: that day, you know, Cleveland, it was going to be
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Speaker 4: Lindora and Ramirez and somebody else. And it's like okay,
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Speaker 4: like you know, which is great because like you know
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Speaker 4: what's coming. But then it definitely when it's not your
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Speaker 4: turn and you can see it, you're like, well, I'm
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Speaker 4: not pitching to day, and sometimes you check out and
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Speaker 4: then it's still you and that's when it backfires because
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Speaker 4: you know it's like, oh, there's lufties coming up, you know,
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Speaker 4: or whatever it may be.
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Speaker 3: But you know.
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Speaker 4: It's hopefully it's something that they can maintain and make work.
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Speaker 4: And you know, guys going two innings at a time,
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Speaker 4: you know works, but you also need rest in between those,
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Speaker 4: and you know, towards the end of the year, those
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Speaker 4: get taxing. So it's a you know, they've had their
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Speaker 4: ups and downs already, and you know, I think it'll
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Speaker 4: it'll iron itself out, it always seems to, you know,
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Speaker 4: or Twinsky playing well and go make some noise and
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Speaker 4: go get a big time closer from somebody.
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Speaker 2: You never know, the thing I liked about it. That
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Speaker 2: was absolutely the case with Bonda, and and you know
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Speaker 2: mentioned that he had his velocity, but they had two
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Speaker 2: lefties scheduled for the ending that Bonda came in, and
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Speaker 2: they pinch hit multiple right handers, so Bonda didn't face
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Speaker 2: a single lefty in that bunch. It was clear that
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Speaker 2: was his lane. Was Hey, we're gonna put you in.
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Speaker 2: I think he came in in the sixth when it
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Speaker 2: was three to two, and I liked the way he
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Speaker 2: responded because he clearly got a different batch of hitters
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Speaker 2: than he was going to and he looked really good.
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Speaker 2: He struck out two, just had an easy inning, hit
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Speaker 2: one of his best innings. And if he ever gets
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Speaker 2: back to the ninety eight ninety nine he was throwing
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Speaker 2: last year, they will have a real weapon in him
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Speaker 2: that can pitch more higher leverage spots later in games.
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Speaker 2: Obviously they're trying to get him healthy. It had been
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Speaker 2: six days since his appearance last appearance when he pitched yesterday,
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Speaker 2: but he said he felt good last night. Just just
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Speaker 2: seeing him adjust was huge, because you're right, I think
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Speaker 2: they're going to mix and match, and this is you
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Speaker 2: know lanes, this is mix and match. This is what
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Speaker 2: we've always heard in bullpens. It's it's very I mean
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Speaker 2: I just saw an interview with John Schneider and Dave
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Speaker 2: Roberts talk about the ninth inning and if Game seven
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Speaker 2: of the World Series and like how that was a perfect,
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Speaker 2: essentially lane for Jeff Hoffman. That's gonna be how this
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Speaker 2: this bullpen gets by, and we'll see them have their hiccups,
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Speaker 2: there's no question. I mean, it's not a stuff group.
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Speaker 2: And let Andrew Morris is in a dedicated short inning
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Speaker 2: role and he can throw ninety eight tick and yeah, absolutely,
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Speaker 2: but if he's asked throw two three innings, that can
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Speaker 2: serve a little bit, and you throw ninety five ninety
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Speaker 2: six and you'll see different. So if you don't have
18:17
Speaker 2: pure stuff guys, and you don't have guys that are
18:20
Speaker 2: in set roles as pure stuff guys, you're gonna have
18:22
Speaker 2: to do this all season and we'll see them scramble
18:25
Speaker 2: at times without question. But that's why you applaud the
18:28
Speaker 2: good ones like this.
18:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think too.
18:31
Speaker 4: On Bonda particularly, we can't forget that he was in
18:35
Speaker 4: the World Series last year and pitched for you know,
18:38
Speaker 4: nine months, you know, so it's that that old World
18:41
Speaker 4: Series hangover thing is real, you know, and his body
18:44
Speaker 4: may just.
18:45
Speaker 2: Still be like getting acclimated.
18:47
Speaker 4: You know, it's come July August, like he's gonna be
18:50
Speaker 4: who he is, you know. I think there's just some
18:52
Speaker 4: it's you know, getting your feet under you, you know,
18:54
Speaker 4: selling in a new spot, you know, the whole thing.
18:57
Speaker 4: And uh, you know, I think he'll end up being
18:58
Speaker 4: just fine.
19:00
Speaker 2: I mean, to go from pitching high leverage for the
19:02
Speaker 2: Dodgers to uh makeshift bullpen that the Twins have, There's
19:08
Speaker 2: no difference there at all.
19:13
Speaker 3: Not at all.
19:14
Speaker 1: And with that we transitioned to uh tonight, second game
19:19
Speaker 1: of the series, and this is going to be the
19:23
Speaker 1: major league debut correct for Connor.
19:26
Speaker 4: Prelimp beer shower inbound.
19:29
Speaker 1: Beer Shower Inbound called up the other day after Mick
19:33
Speaker 1: Abel was sent to the injury list. We talked about
19:35
Speaker 1: that in our special little Bonus show on Monday. Uh
19:40
Speaker 1: pre lip twenty five years old? Was or is so far?
19:44
Speaker 1: I want to know with a two point three e
19:46
Speaker 1: r A at Triple A Saint Paul in four games
19:49
Speaker 1: this year, Dan, what else do we need to know
19:52
Speaker 1: about the Twins new starter?
19:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, minor League picture of the air last year, and
19:57
Speaker 2: it was partly because he finally was healthy and on
20:01
Speaker 2: the field. He had eighty two and a third innings
20:03
Speaker 2: or eighty two and two thirds innings last year. Struck
20:05
Speaker 2: out in ninety eight prior to last year, we're talking
20:09
Speaker 2: about with that eighty two and two thirds. He now
20:12
Speaker 2: between college and the miners, over six seasons dating back
20:18
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty, has one hundred and fifty six in
20:20
Speaker 2: the third innings. He's had two Tommy Johns. He's got
20:24
Speaker 2: electric stuff still he throws ninety five. I would love
20:27
Speaker 2: to see what it looks like al the bullpen. But
20:29
Speaker 2: last year they had him on like a six day schedule.
20:33
Speaker 2: They basically pitched him once a series, and it was
20:36
Speaker 2: to build up his workload because he hadn't pitched at
20:39
Speaker 2: that point. He's one hundred and twenty eight and a
20:41
Speaker 2: third professional innings, and eighty two and two thirds of
20:44
Speaker 2: him came last year. He got drafted in twenty twenty two.
20:47
Speaker 2: He's been on the sideline for a long time, so
20:51
Speaker 2: he's still young in his development, even though he's already
20:53
Speaker 2: twenty five and started to add a curveball in this year.
20:58
Speaker 2: Very a guy they've been very excited about. You know,
21:02
Speaker 2: our Athletic Top forty twins prospect rankings had him number five.
21:06
Speaker 2: I think that's a pretty accurate read. It's a guy
21:10
Speaker 2: who definitely they would like to see succeed, being the
21:14
Speaker 2: forty eighth overall pick. And you know, he's a no
21:18
Speaker 2: frills guy. He was not. He did not. You can
21:22
Speaker 2: tell he's excited to be here, but he's pretty low key.
21:25
Speaker 2: Loves the golf. We asked him, we asked him for
21:29
Speaker 2: a description on getting called up and he just said
21:33
Speaker 2: it was awesome. That was it. That was the whole.
21:36
Speaker 5: Uh So, I think he does a lot of us talking,
21:41
Speaker 5: which is his stuff, and he's a guy that will
21:45
Speaker 5: go at hitters and he's catching the opponents at the
21:48
Speaker 5: right time.
21:49
Speaker 2: Although Jan Soda does return tonight, I believe for the Mets,
21:53
Speaker 2: so that should be, uh throw a little wrinkle in there,
21:57
Speaker 2: and but the Mets are are down so much and
22:03
Speaker 2: I think, you know, he got to be on the
22:05
Speaker 2: team plane on Monday with them. He was here. He
22:09
Speaker 2: came up at the same time as Kendrick Rojas and
22:12
Speaker 2: spent yesterday in the clubhouse. That was kind of crazy.
22:15
Speaker 2: Taylor Rodgers said that. One of the reporters asked, Taylor,
22:19
Speaker 2: is it weird that on your ten year service time
22:22
Speaker 2: that two guys are celebrating their first day in a
22:24
Speaker 2: big league clubhouse? And give a good answer about that.
22:29
Speaker 2: And so Rojas and Prelip got to experience yesterday together,
22:33
Speaker 2: and I think, you know, that should help settle him
22:36
Speaker 2: in a little bit so that it's not just show
22:38
Speaker 2: up in New York and go from Saint Paul to
22:41
Speaker 2: New York and just be there and get going. So
22:45
Speaker 2: it should be fun to watch night. Definitely a lot
22:48
Speaker 2: of talent there.
22:49
Speaker 4: Well, a little different than when I got called up
22:51
Speaker 4: and I watched David Price's debut for the Blue Jays
22:54
Speaker 4: and then I had to face him.
22:55
Speaker 3: The next day. Amazing.
22:59
Speaker 2: Wow.
23:00
Speaker 1: He's also from Toma, Wisconsin, which of course is where
23:04
Speaker 1: the ninety four and ninety freeways come together.
23:07
Speaker 2: Famous all the time driving on my.
23:10
Speaker 1: Commune, convenient to get to southern Minnesota or the Twin Cities.
23:14
Speaker 1: It's it's uh, it's perfect, Tyler. When you watch a
23:19
Speaker 1: pitcher make his major league debut, what do you anything
23:22
Speaker 1: you have your eye on in particular?
23:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you look for the yank, like offspeed that's
23:29
Speaker 4: just in the other box, or the fastballs that are
23:31
Speaker 4: you know, flying arm side. You know that's pretty common.
23:36
Speaker 4: You know, you just you try and do a little
23:38
Speaker 4: more sometimes, you know it's it's one though. Some guys
23:42
Speaker 4: show up and they're just locked in. You know it
23:44
Speaker 4: maybe usefully got they I'm assuming they were at the
23:47
Speaker 4: game last night. I don't know how that works when
23:48
Speaker 4: you're taxi if you can go outside or you got
23:51
Speaker 4: to stay in the clubhouse, whatever, but you know they
23:53
Speaker 4: got to experience it. They got to experience a fun win.
23:56
Speaker 4: You know, stuff like that matters. And you know, to
23:59
Speaker 4: my about my debut, like I had the antithesis of that,
24:03
Speaker 4: and so it's just, uh, it's it'll be.
24:05
Speaker 3: A fun one.
24:05
Speaker 4: Man, it's one you know you're warming up, you don't,
24:09
Speaker 4: you're just adrenaline buzz and you know, somebody, one of
24:12
Speaker 4: my good friends, equated it to trying to dance without
24:15
Speaker 4: being able to feel your legs. You know, it's just
24:17
Speaker 4: like sometimes you just float and you don't really know
24:20
Speaker 4: what's going on you and you blink and it's over.
24:23
Speaker 4: But you know it's one of if he comes out
24:25
Speaker 4: and trusts his stuff, obviously he's got electric. You know,
24:28
Speaker 4: fastball and Church got great off speed to follow it,
24:31
Speaker 4: you know, being the prospect he is. So it's just
24:33
Speaker 4: one go out and attack, you know, that's all you
24:35
Speaker 4: can really do and let yourself speak for itself, because
24:38
Speaker 4: if you start trying to get cute and then he'll
24:41
Speaker 4: get away from you really fast and next thing you know,
24:43
Speaker 4: you'll be on the on that six am flight back
24:46
Speaker 4: to Saint Paul. So you know, just just go out
24:48
Speaker 4: there and have some fun and you know, let it
24:50
Speaker 4: fly man. You know worst can happen you and give
24:52
Speaker 4: a homer to one Sodo.
24:53
Speaker 2: You know he he'll get the start, and I wouldn't
24:57
Speaker 2: be shocked because Kenry Rojas has picked he backed before.
25:02
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked if we see Kenry Rojas get
25:05
Speaker 2: in this game tonight and follow him and Rohastal through
25:07
Speaker 2: a ninety eight ninety nine. Both of them have really
25:10
Speaker 2: good secondary stuff. Rojas started to get loose last night
25:15
Speaker 2: when the Twins were down three nothing, and then Bucks
25:17
Speaker 2: and Homer and quickly Rojas sat down at that point
25:20
Speaker 2: because they were could give him a one run game.
25:23
Speaker 2: But this should be a really if you're a Twins
25:26
Speaker 2: fan and you're looking for intrigue about the future. This
25:30
Speaker 2: is a kind of a must watch game in my opinion,
25:33
Speaker 2: just because these two guys, they're number five and nine
25:36
Speaker 2: prospects in the system. They're the top two pitching prospects
25:40
Speaker 2: in the system right now, and that one through ten,
25:43
Speaker 2: one through eleven in the Twins pitching or overall system
25:48
Speaker 2: is pretty talented. I mean, when you get down to
25:51
Speaker 2: like the tenth or eleventh guys in the system, you're
25:53
Speaker 2: still talking about guys who look like they could be
25:56
Speaker 2: regular major leaguers, regular guys, you know, not a lot
25:59
Speaker 2: of system and have that depth, and so that should
26:03
Speaker 2: be I mean, if Rojas gets in, this is the
26:06
Speaker 2: guy that came over as the main guy in the
26:08
Speaker 2: Louis Arland trade. In the front office was very excited,
26:11
Speaker 2: even though he is not from Brainer, even though he
26:14
Speaker 2: is not from Saint Paul like Louis Arland. He's five
26:19
Speaker 2: years younger than Louis Arland, and he has electric stuff,
26:22
Speaker 2: and so I think there should be kind of a
26:25
Speaker 2: fun watch, even expecting hiccups. You know, we don't know
26:30
Speaker 2: what they're gonna do. Because the crowd last night we
26:33
Speaker 2: saw it, and I'm sure you guys heard it in
26:35
Speaker 2: the background, but when Austin Warren came in with the
26:37
Speaker 2: bases loaded after Devin Williams just flub of an inning,
26:42
Speaker 2: the crowd really got going real quick. They're looking for
26:45
Speaker 2: anything right now, and that.
26:47
Speaker 3: It's the Mets fans.
26:49
Speaker 2: There's yes any signs of life, and rookies tend to
26:52
Speaker 2: provide that with an ill timed walk or a wild
26:56
Speaker 2: pitch or a bok or anything. And so like Austin
27:02
Speaker 2: Warren gets going and there's Austin Warren, m VP chants
27:06
Speaker 2: and Austin Warren, it was amazing. Mets fans are looking
27:11
Speaker 2: for anything right now, and so this could go sideways
27:14
Speaker 2: quick for the Twins, no question. But also I'm just
27:18
Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing what these guys have and how
27:21
Speaker 2: it can play out at this level.
27:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of the theme of this season is seeing
27:27
Speaker 1: what they've got everywhere across the board. On Monday, we
27:33
Speaker 1: asked for your Twins questions and we got a few,
27:36
Speaker 1: so we thought we'd take a minute to answer. Somebody
27:42
Speaker 1: asked us what the Twins will do without mick Abel
27:44
Speaker 1: for two weeks. I think we've pretty well covered that
27:47
Speaker 1: between the follow up show we did on Monday, and
27:49
Speaker 1: then that segment just now that's.
27:53
Speaker 2: Going to be the guy for now. Kendrick Rojas is
27:56
Speaker 2: the guy that's probably here temporarily because Cody Funerberk should
28:00
Speaker 2: be back in a couple of days coming off the
28:01
Speaker 2: baturningy List. I wouldn't be shocked if we saw Prelip
28:05
Speaker 2: get a couple of starts, although who knows, maybe Kendrew
28:09
Speaker 2: Kendrick Rojas isn't built out as much right now as
28:12
Speaker 2: Connor Prelip is, and there's a couple of days off
28:14
Speaker 2: built in coming up, so I think they can get
28:17
Speaker 2: him in here and you know, get a couple of starts,
28:20
Speaker 2: So that that's likely how it's going to go, at
28:23
Speaker 2: least early on while Abel's out.
28:26
Speaker 1: We will start with a softball question for Dan. Dan's
28:30
Speaker 1: cat made a cameo on a recent show, and a
28:33
Speaker 1: fan named Mustache Steve asks, is Dan's cat named after Kreamer?
28:40
Speaker 1: Cat's name is Cosmo? My late dog was named Bosco,
28:44
Speaker 1: which is a Seinfeld reference as well. Dan, is your
28:46
Speaker 1: cat named after Cosmo?
28:48
Speaker 3: Kramer?
28:49
Speaker 2: Yes? I did not get to do the naming, but
28:51
Speaker 2: let's just say that when Seinfeld is on in syndicated reruns,
28:56
Speaker 2: at seven o'clock in the off season, and you know
29:00
Speaker 2: it happens every three to six months where it aligns
29:04
Speaker 2: on one of those channels that's typically what we watch.
29:08
Speaker 2: So yes, that cat is named after Cosmo Kramer. The
29:11
Speaker 2: girl cat is named Salem, after the cat from Sabrina,
29:15
Speaker 2: the teenage witch that does not. We watch a lot
29:20
Speaker 2: of TV.
29:21
Speaker 3: Do you watch Sabrina?
29:23
Speaker 2: I did not. Again, I didn't get to name either
29:25
Speaker 2: of these cats. I was. I was allowed to say
29:29
Speaker 2: yes in the selection of the cats or no in
29:32
Speaker 2: the selection of the cats, but I did not get
29:35
Speaker 2: to name them. But oddly enough, that cat's first name
29:39
Speaker 2: was Gilbert when we got them from a rescue. Does
29:41
Speaker 2: not fit his personality. He's much more of a Cosmo,
29:44
Speaker 2: so he's yeah, yeah, big into birds.
29:52
Speaker 1: Bright BH eighteen twenty asked what I thought was a
29:55
Speaker 1: fun question in how how modest it is, who is
29:59
Speaker 1: the single most important player in the entire Twins system
30:03
Speaker 1: if they are going to be competitive slash make the
30:05
Speaker 1: playoffs in twenty twenty seven, We're not gonna ask about
30:10
Speaker 1: this year.
30:10
Speaker 3: We're gonna look ahead.
30:11
Speaker 1: Who do you guys think is the most important player?
30:14
Speaker 1: I guess, just in general, in the organization.
30:18
Speaker 4: For me, not knowing much of the depth or anything,
30:21
Speaker 4: the guys starting to night seems to be a pretty
30:23
Speaker 4: good choice. I mean, if he shows up in his
30:25
Speaker 4: lights out, like there's a starter for next year, you
30:28
Speaker 4: know that you can kind of write and pin. You know,
30:32
Speaker 4: it's it's always good to have starting rotation. You know
30:35
Speaker 4: that you can't argue with that. You know, there's that's
30:37
Speaker 4: the hottest commodity there is. And from the rest of
30:40
Speaker 4: the guys down you know they fill in bullpen arms
30:42
Speaker 4: or whatever. But you're asking me, it's having a starter
30:45
Speaker 4: that you know you can depend on. Especially this guy's
30:47
Speaker 4: gonna come out third ninety five as a starter, Like,
30:50
Speaker 4: go ahead and ride him into the sunset, you know.
30:54
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm gonna totally weezle out of giving a
30:58
Speaker 2: set answer on this because it's April and I want
31:04
Speaker 2: to see what brooks Lee can do at shortstop. It's
31:07
Speaker 2: been defensively not great so far, his minus six defensive
31:10
Speaker 2: runs safe. I also think over the course of the
31:13
Speaker 2: year that could be closer to like a minus two,
31:16
Speaker 2: which is still not what you know, you need better
31:19
Speaker 2: than that at shortstop. The twins are eleven defensive runs
31:22
Speaker 2: saved behind Bobby Witt and Kansas City. They're plus five
31:28
Speaker 2: at shortstop, So it could be Kayln Culpepper potentially, because
31:32
Speaker 2: that's likely the guy that's got to come up. But
31:35
Speaker 2: I still think he needs a lot of time. Just
31:38
Speaker 2: I think his bat can play right now, and talk
31:39
Speaker 2: to people about that. His bat could play right now.
31:42
Speaker 2: There would be inconsistencies with the bat, but he has
31:45
Speaker 2: absolutely got the skill set to do it. I think
31:48
Speaker 2: they want to see defensive consistency out of him at shortstop,
31:51
Speaker 2: and there's questions about whether or not Kayln Culpepper is
31:54
Speaker 2: a long term shortstop himself. He might project better to
31:57
Speaker 2: be a third baseman. So I will go with either
32:01
Speaker 2: Emmanual Rodriguez or Walker Jenkins because Matt Wallner is getting
32:07
Speaker 2: the service time up there, Trevor Larnick is getting the
32:11
Speaker 2: service time up there. James Outman, we don't know what
32:14
Speaker 2: his future holds with the Twins, and those are three
32:17
Speaker 2: of the guys blocking the paths of Emmanuel Rodriguez and
32:20
Speaker 2: Walker Jenkins who are potential stars. So I think Rodriguez
32:28
Speaker 2: has made some really good strides and is a very
32:31
Speaker 2: interesting prospect. These first three four weeks of the season
32:36
Speaker 2: at Triple A. So far, his swing. You know, he's
32:40
Speaker 2: been a selective hitter early on, and he's had trouble
32:44
Speaker 2: standing on the field over the course of his career.
32:46
Speaker 2: He's averaged fifty nine games a season for his career
32:48
Speaker 2: so far. But he has been a lot more aggressive
32:53
Speaker 2: early in counts and we're seeing at payoff and he's
32:56
Speaker 2: looking like this is something they clearly have worked on
32:58
Speaker 2: with him for a while and he's showing it, and
33:01
Speaker 2: this is changing his prospect profile. I think he will
33:04
Speaker 2: jump up the charts if he can stay on the
33:07
Speaker 2: field and continue this level of production with the aggressiveness
33:10
Speaker 2: of the plate. He's got a good eye, he just
33:13
Speaker 2: always has been very selective. So realistically, the difference maker
33:18
Speaker 2: for me out of everybody that's close potentially is him.
33:22
Speaker 2: I mean, Walker Jenkins looks like a future stud, but
33:25
Speaker 2: he's also really young. I mean, we're talking about a
33:27
Speaker 2: guy who's twenty one. So I think Manu Rodriguez most
33:31
Speaker 2: likely would be that answer. But I do need to
33:33
Speaker 2: see what brooks Lee can provide more than twenty three
33:37
Speaker 2: games at shortstop. I want to know that it's better
33:40
Speaker 2: than this or this is what we should expect and
33:44
Speaker 2: needs to be moved off the position because if it's
33:47
Speaker 2: minus six defensive runs, say when it gets warm and
33:51
Speaker 2: he's moving freer all that stuff, when everybody's moving freer
33:55
Speaker 2: on the field, that's not tenable. But if he can
34:00
Speaker 2: because he was about minus two over the last two
34:03
Speaker 2: months of season in August and September, I think he's
34:07
Speaker 2: more that. But and if his bat is playing, I
34:11
Speaker 2: think you can live with that for a while. But
34:13
Speaker 2: you know where everything is right now. I'm in the
34:17
Speaker 2: holding pattern on that answer. And you know, we only
34:20
Speaker 2: we have till twenty twenty seven based off of who
34:22
Speaker 2: was the question? Was it? You said, Bryce, Sir?
34:25
Speaker 3: Bryce?
34:26
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, Bryce, it's an answer he does we
34:31
Speaker 2: have time.
34:32
Speaker 1: That was Actually that was a two for one because
34:34
Speaker 1: the final question we had was what is the path
34:37
Speaker 1: for Manuel Rodriguez to get called up? And basically the
34:41
Speaker 1: answer is injuries. Yeah, one of those guys has to
34:45
Speaker 1: get out of the way.
34:46
Speaker 3: Somehow or another.
34:48
Speaker 1: Rodriguez twenty three years old, he's at Triple A right now,
34:51
Speaker 1: hitting to seventy one in seventeen games of this season.
34:55
Speaker 3: But as Dan said, one.
34:56
Speaker 1: Of the top prospects in the system. That's all the
35:01
Speaker 1: questions we had for today. We did forget to get
35:04
Speaker 1: to one fun item earlier. That I guess is a
35:06
Speaker 1: nice note to end on. The Twins social media team
35:09
Speaker 1: up to it again. Last night they had a little
35:11
Speaker 1: fun after the win. They tweeted out or sorry, posted
35:16
Speaker 1: to x things you can get in a dozen eggs, roses,
35:22
Speaker 1: mets losses. That is, they went for it there, guys.
35:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is like the third time that
35:32
Speaker 2: they because they got some headlines out of this. I
35:34
Speaker 2: saw John Haymon mentioned it this morning. I saw Awful
35:38
Speaker 2: Announcing wrote a story about it. This is they're getting
35:42
Speaker 2: some traction. This feels a lot like you know, ads.
35:46
Speaker 2: We want to figure out what value it has and
35:49
Speaker 2: what it's adding to the team. I wish social media
35:53
Speaker 2: could add wins and losses to the team because Cassie
35:56
Speaker 2: and her crew are killing it. They're having some fun
36:00
Speaker 2: and hey, they're making waves. It's it's entertaining.
36:04
Speaker 3: Between this and the Timberwolves.
36:08
Speaker 1: Jaden McDaniels calling out every single Denver nugget defender the
36:11
Speaker 1: other night.
36:12
Speaker 2: That was my that's my Minnesota. One of my good friends,
36:16
Speaker 2: Tom Schreier, his question, I heard his voice in the background.
36:20
Speaker 2: I was like, that was that was just an innocent question.
36:23
Speaker 2: Jane Daniels was throwing him under the bus man.
36:25
Speaker 1: It was like, it's like entirely too much trash talk
36:29
Speaker 1: from Minnesota sports right now.
36:30
Speaker 2: I'm right, Hey, they've been kicked. Minnesota sports has been
36:35
Speaker 2: kicked for so long. It's nice to see, uh, some
36:39
Speaker 2: of these outsiders ignoring Minnesota nice and just killing people.
36:46
Speaker 3: With that.
36:47
Speaker 1: Wednesday six' Ten Central Star time For Connor Prelibs Major league. Debut,
36:53
Speaker 1: thursday also Six Tennant Star time for the. Finale That's
36:56
Speaker 1: Joe ryan back on the mound for that. One The
36:59
Speaker 1: twins are off To tampa after that for weekend. Series
37:02
Speaker 1: we'll be back with You friday to recap what happened
37:05
Speaker 1: In New york and set up The tampa. Series until,
37:09
Speaker 1: then good luck To connor, prelip Go, wild Go, timberwolves
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