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Twins trounced in Field of Dreams game; Byron Buxton returns · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: The Field of Bad Dreams, the Field of screams, anything else,
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  Speaker 1: any other puns.
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  Speaker 2: So we got it.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't good. The Children of the Corn a rough
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  Speaker 1: one for the Twins on Thursday in Iowa. In the
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  Speaker 1: Field of Dreams game, a seven to one loss to
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies. We'll talk about everything from that game. Dan
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  Speaker 1: was there. I want to hear about what that was like.
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  Speaker 1: Byron Buxton is back. Alex Jackson DFA. Two more games
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  Speaker 1: coming up against the Phillies.
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  Speaker 2: It's Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: We're coming to you a day late because yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: complicated for the three of us to find a time
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  Speaker 1: to get together. So here we are on this Saturday
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  Speaker 1: morning on Twins Cities Territory or Minnesota Twins Podcast here
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  Speaker 1: on the File Territory Network. Let's start with the Field
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  Speaker 1: of Dreams game, guys, A seven to one loss to
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies. Not great all around, but I will say
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  Speaker 1: it's one game, and the and the most important thing
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  Speaker 1: in the Field of Dreams game is that somebody please
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  Speaker 1: hit a home run into the corn or else. It's
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  Speaker 1: all for nothing then, and we got it on the
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  Speaker 1: first batter of the games in that sense. Other than that, though,
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  Speaker 1: Dan pretty ugly.
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  Speaker 2: No, it wasn't a good game. You know, Tod Bradley
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  Speaker 2: struggled early on, and I thought Todge Bradley looked like
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  Speaker 2: he was gona recover in the base is loaded, he
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  Speaker 2: was down to nothing. He gets out of that jam,
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  Speaker 2: did a good job, put together two quick innings after that.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, you know, he was making his way back.
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  Speaker 2: That walk, I think it was a one out walk
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  Speaker 2: in the or two out walk in the fourth inning.
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  Speaker 2: Stolen base and then the two run homer. The walks
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  Speaker 2: killed me. He walked four guys. To be fair, if
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  Speaker 2: Luke Keishall can make that play, and that was a
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  Speaker 2: he went a long way he did. Like it's challenging
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  Speaker 2: no matter who that is. That's not a simple catch.
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  Speaker 2: I know it hits the glove, and when it hits
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  Speaker 2: the glove, people think they should make the catch. And
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  Speaker 2: Luke Keishall, to be fair, did say I think I
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  Speaker 2: should have made the catch. I would still say it
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  Speaker 2: was a difficult play. But that really spiraling things out
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  Speaker 2: of control. When when he doesn't get that and it's
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  Speaker 2: four to one, gives up the double, immediately gives up
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  Speaker 2: a single. It's five to one. You know, Paul. Game
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  Speaker 2: was basically over, and the Twins, to their credit, they
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  Speaker 2: did battle back and try to put some things together
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  Speaker 2: Byron Bucks and had the the two out double in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth that led to the bases loaded. Royce Lewis
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  Speaker 2: then super aggressive. Aaron Nolan was very good. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Aaron curve.
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  Speaker 3: They're just no, it's just kept being said. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he used the pitch quite well, and the broadcast
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  Speaker 1: made sure you were aware of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah he yeah, I mean that was nasty, Like Royce
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  Speaker 2: Lewis swung and missed at three pitches and that was
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  Speaker 2: an aggressive at bat, and all of a sudden, you know.
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  Speaker 1: The second you're talking about the bases loaded at bat. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the second one he took and I don't think it
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  Speaker 1: was a strike. They called it a strike, but of
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  Speaker 1: course I don't. We didn't even have then, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: even have the white box on the screen. At least
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  Speaker 1: give me the box. Yeah, that's what I can.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, Oh, I so I did. I couldn't watch.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I had no way to watch the game,
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  Speaker 2: so I didn't. I knew there was no abs, but
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  Speaker 2: but I like no visual.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the second pitch looked a little you know, high
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  Speaker 1: and a way, and I think maybe in an ABS
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  Speaker 1: world he would have he would have tapped the helmet
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  Speaker 1: on that one. And maybe I'm wrong, but obviously would
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  Speaker 1: have changed the bat if it wasn't two for that
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  Speaker 1: third pitch when you knew it and you knew the
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  Speaker 1: knuckle curve was coming, because the broadcast made sure you
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  Speaker 1: knew and you couldn't lay off. But he had that
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  Speaker 1: about He also had in a bat with two on
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  Speaker 1: in the first inning. I want to say, so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not to put it on on Lewis. Of
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  Speaker 1: course he's been one of the few.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, like Nola.
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  Speaker 4: You just ran into number one Nola, not number three
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  Speaker 4: or four Nola.
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  Speaker 3: You know that was vintage.
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  Speaker 4: Here it comes, you know it's coming, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: swing like it's a fastball and it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: in the dirt, like it's just one of those. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that pitch is working, Like there are moments
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  Speaker 4: where I had those outings too, and it's like, good luck, boys,
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  Speaker 4: because you're not getting it today. And when he punched
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  Speaker 4: out ten, I think through five, like, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: good luck. You know, get to the bullpen and then
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  Speaker 4: and then they end up throwing Doran up six, like
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  Speaker 4: took away any chance.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, there's the nailing the coffin.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I said this somewhere else yesterday, Like at
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  Speaker 2: that point, I know the Phillies writers pretty well. And
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  Speaker 2: I turned around to them. You know, their right the
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  Speaker 2: row right behind us, and this is a very outdoor
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  Speaker 2: press box. Yeah no, no, there's no corn in the
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  Speaker 2: press box. But I turned to the riders. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: so you got to just throw some fuel on the
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  Speaker 2: fire here. I mean, it's seven to one in the
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  Speaker 2: ninth inning. We're gonna just go. And we already saw
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  Speaker 2: Louis and Riaz go three for five, and now you
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  Speaker 2: got bring in Duran and and just you know, wreck
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  Speaker 2: Twins fans a little bit more with the with the
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  Speaker 2: ninth all around. You know, look it's a one off.
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  Speaker 2: Throw the game out, do not. I don't look at
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  Speaker 2: the game. It's funny. Kyle Schwarber hit two home runs.
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  Speaker 2: I think the two balls they hit the center were
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  Speaker 2: hit better than the balls he hit to right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there was some weird wind coming across the field the
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  Speaker 2: whole game, and like in batting practice, Bucks Byron Buckson
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  Speaker 2: said it. He was like, you know, you saw guys
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  Speaker 2: driving balls and they'd barely get out. So then the
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  Speaker 2: fact that there was no structure around it did create
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  Speaker 2: weird like wind to this game that does not Kyle
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  Speaker 2: Schwarber hit legitimately two home runs. My point more is
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  Speaker 2: maybe Kyle Schwarber could have hit three or possibly for
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  Speaker 2: the little gone much much further. Yeah, like they both died
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  Speaker 2: and the ball died the center field all night. Byron
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  Speaker 2: talked about a post game that when he got the
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  Speaker 2: second after his double, either Stot or I think it
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  Speaker 2: was Trey Turner came over and said jo him, like,
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  Speaker 2: a like the balls being weird, isn't it. He's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you could say that. It's like it was a it
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  Speaker 2: was not a it was a weird conditions. It was
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  Speaker 2: beautiful like everything about it. And we'll get more into
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  Speaker 2: the behind the scenes stuff and a little bit, but
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  Speaker 2: the field was great. It's just it's totally different. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you were there's no concrete building around there to knock
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  Speaker 2: down the winds. You you know, if you play target field,
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  Speaker 2: you know what the conditions are like. If you're the Twins,
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  Speaker 2: you know where to hit it. Brooks Lee hit a
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  Speaker 2: bomb and it died like you just saw it. A
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  Speaker 2: couple of times where balls that normally get out didn't.
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  Speaker 2: It was a weird night. It was kind of mild.
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  Speaker 2: It was at the end it was actually chilly. It
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  Speaker 2: was for Iowa and August. You're expected ninety five and sweaty,
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  Speaker 2: and it was definitely humid, but it was more like
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  Speaker 2: seventy and breezy and humid. It was. It was a
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  Speaker 2: unique experience, and the lack of abs is weird too,
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  Speaker 2: Like Louis rise in the first sinning with the taps
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  Speaker 2: and then realizing it it was, you know, like there
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  Speaker 2: were just some things about it that were different. So
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  Speaker 2: I think you look at that and you go, okay,
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  Speaker 2: well we'll start over again on Saturday. But that's not
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  Speaker 2: to say the Phillies aren't by far. You know, they're
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  Speaker 2: a better team. They are. They're the Phillies there.
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  Speaker 3: They're a huge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is that has been struggling too lately.
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  Speaker 2: It has. Yeah. In fact, their writers were talking about
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  Speaker 2: how they're coming in. Man, things are falling apart, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, they're they're on the outside looking in. As
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  Speaker 2: far as a wild card going into that game. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: the Twins are sixty and sixty two and they're half
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  Speaker 2: game out and they're thrilled. It's just so funny to
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  Speaker 2: see National League teams and the difference in perspective between
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  Speaker 2: the National League teams and what's going on the other
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  Speaker 2: day with Dave robertson the Dodgers are playing like a
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  Speaker 2: wild card team, and I had to look and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, I knew the Potteries had been hot. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: but are the Dodgers not in first? And I looked
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  Speaker 2: at the Dodgers still like a five game lead the
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  Speaker 2: Divisi and I'm like, yeah, that's not a wildcard team.
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  Speaker 2: That's a team going through a normal slump in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the season. It's August. It's gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 2: And then Dave Roberts knows that he's just using some
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  Speaker 2: motivational tactics, but like, it's funny because the Phillies definitely
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  Speaker 2: are a loaded lineup, they have some ballpen issues. They're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: The Twins did not play yesterday Friday and actually gained
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  Speaker 1: ground in the wildcard. Speaking of the wildcard, here's the
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  Speaker 1: look at the American League picture. If you're watching on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: Twins still a half game out, Tigers now in that
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  Speaker 1: third slot, but everybody ahead of them, including the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: and Red Sox, not that they're too worried about catching
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  Speaker 1: either of those teams, but everybody ahead of them in
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  Speaker 1: the standings lost. On Friday, Twins tied with the Rangers
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  Speaker 1: half game out. The Tigers, of course, lost to the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox, so Twins lost a little ground in the
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  Speaker 1: al central standings, but there are still six teams within
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  Speaker 1: a half game of that final spot that is currently
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  Speaker 1: occupied by the Tigers, two games under five hundred. So
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  Speaker 1: this very interesting, This slow speed race continues, Twins. You know,
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  Speaker 1: like yet we get so caught up in the micro
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  Speaker 1: moments of the season, and like Thursday was deflating. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: you want to have a better showing in a game
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  Speaker 1: like that. But then you wake up this morning and
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  Speaker 1: the picture is just as good, if not better than
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  Speaker 1: it was Thursday morning. Sows, Twins still have it right
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  Speaker 1: there in front of them, if they can get things going.
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  Speaker 1: One trend that's been not so good, and that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: any different about the Field of Dreams game thirteen of
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  Speaker 1: their last fifteen games. Now the Twins have given up
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  Speaker 1: the first runs of the game and it's happened in
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  Speaker 1: the first inning in ten of those games. Six and
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  Speaker 1: nine is their overall record, and six of their last
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  Speaker 1: seven they've fallen behind in the first inning. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't think the first inning was not the only culprit
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, for sure, but in some of those games
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  Speaker 1: it has been. And it's just Tyler been a real
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  Speaker 1: tough thing, start from behind every single night.
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  Speaker 4: And then we kind of joked about, you know, Clemmens,
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  Speaker 4: you know, throwing extra pitches before outings in the bullpen,
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  Speaker 4: things like that, like who knows what the fix is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, whether it's whether it's a focused thing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know what it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, maybe somebody needs to get a little cattle
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  Speaker 4: fraud out there and just get some adrenaline going. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's just like that sharpness, the effectiveness isn't
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  Speaker 4: quite there in the first inning for whatever reason, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and it it keeps showing itself, and it really is.
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  Speaker 4: It's becoming the trend. But obviously, you know, Phillies they
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  Speaker 4: won by six, but a lot of those other games
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  Speaker 4: it was the difference in the ballgame, and it happened
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  Speaker 4: in the first inning.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's quick two runs and then lose by one.
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  Speaker 4: You know, make us make a push at the in
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  Speaker 4: the ninth to score one, and you lose by one again,
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  Speaker 4: And it's just a it's a tough spot to be
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  Speaker 4: and when it's it's seemingly every single guy. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if that's a plan of attack thing. Maybe we're
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  Speaker 4: going into these innings a little complacent, you know, whatever
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  Speaker 4: it may be, but you've got to be ready to
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  Speaker 4: attack pitch one. You know, you got guys like obviously
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  Speaker 4: Schwarber's unique in himself, but like you got a guy.
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  Speaker 3: Like him, like he comes up ready to hit. You
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  Speaker 3: miss over that play, he's gonna get you.
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  Speaker 4: And and it's just the it seems like guys just
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  Speaker 4: aren't quite locked in, I guess would be the best
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  Speaker 4: way to say it. You know, they're they're not sharp
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  Speaker 4: coming into the strike zone, and then when they get
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  Speaker 4: ahead of guys, they're leaving stuff over the middle. And
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  Speaker 4: it's one of those it's it's happened now long enough
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  Speaker 4: to where it almost I'm sure they're having meetings and
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  Speaker 4: addressing it. You're like, hey, guys, we got to do this,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and you've heard Pete talk a few times
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  Speaker 4: about getting out of the zone with two strikes and
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  Speaker 4: things like that, which are all great, but doing.
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  Speaker 3: It in the game is what matters the most.
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  Speaker 4: And it seems like we're just having small lapses in
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  Speaker 4: some of these moments where it's really affecting the game.
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  Speaker 3: And you know.
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  Speaker 4: In Ta Taj earlier in the year, his you know
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  Speaker 4: that weird outing in Detroit where the ball is like
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  Speaker 4: flying all over the place, and it seems like he
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  Speaker 4: has that a little more often than just then, like
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  Speaker 4: it's you know, maybe once a game now, but he
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  Speaker 4: seems to sail a pitch here and there, like just
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  Speaker 4: straight to the backstop, and he had some grip stuff
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  Speaker 4: it looked.
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  Speaker 3: Like in Iowa. You know, it's I'd be interested to.
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  Speaker 4: Know if there's something, you know, whether he's got a
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  Speaker 4: little thing or it's just like he gets sweaty, like
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  Speaker 4: I don't because he literally will just launch a splitter
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  Speaker 4: to the backstop half the time, and it's just like
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  Speaker 4: every time it catch him off guard, like what said,
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  Speaker 4: because normally it's it's you know, an injury thing, but
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's just a I don't know it's one
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  Speaker 4: of those weird ones. Like I said, go, you know,
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  Speaker 4: take a different set of stairs to the bullpen. You know,
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  Speaker 4: change up your routine, you know, do put on your
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  Speaker 4: cleats backwards.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever. You come up to the owl line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, step on it. You know I used to stop
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  Speaker 3: that thing.
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  Speaker 1: We will take a quick break. Well more on the
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  Speaker 1: Field of Dreams game Byron Buckston Alex Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: Dan, you teased it on our last show, and then
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  Speaker 1: it came true. Shortly before the Field of Dreams game
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, the Twins announced that Byron Buxton was back
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  Speaker 1: off the injured list. Dan wrote about that on The
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  Speaker 1: Athletic in his most recent story from the Field of
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  Speaker 1: Dreams game. Buxton back for the for the time being,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have to make a corresponding move because they
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: got an extra roster spot for the game. But then
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  Speaker 1: after the game dfad Alex Jackson to make room for Bucks.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about Jackson in a minute, but first off, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Buxton coming back Dan a huge boost for the team.
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  Speaker 1: He got a double on on Thursday in the field, smoked.
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  Speaker 2: Past third base. Yes, I think that was a real double.
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  Speaker 2: He spent. The part that was the most important about
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  Speaker 2: that was they had to turn on the jets to
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  Speaker 2: get to second and he said after the game that
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't thinking about the hip, like he said, I'm
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  Speaker 2: comfortab Essentially, he said, it's not something that that he's
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  Speaker 2: preoccupied with, which I think earlier he was. And so
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  Speaker 2: for that reason, that's a great sign. They need him
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  Speaker 2: to be in that spot where he can just go
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  Speaker 2: and be himself. And they chose Thursday because he got
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  Speaker 2: to come back and play. He was the twenty seventh man.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody had to be moved out. I guess part of
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  Speaker 2: the CBA was events like that. You get twenty seven players,
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  Speaker 2: you treat it like a doubleheader just because you're going
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  Speaker 2: somewhere weird Iowa. With all the logistical stuff, you can
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  Speaker 2: bring extra guys, and so they brought him. He played,
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  Speaker 2: and then they had to make the move afterwards. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, with they knew that they had a day
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  Speaker 2: off Friday, and that was the big deal Murner was
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  Speaker 2: now that they give him a day of to recuperate
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  Speaker 2: and then he can go back out and play tonight
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  Speaker 2: because they weren't bringing him back to be the DH
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  Speaker 2: they were bringing him back to the center field and
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  Speaker 2: that was always a priority for them. It sped up
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: real quick because I'm not gonna lie. When we were
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: in Kansas City, I had no idea that Byron Buckson
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: would be back within a week. I would have thought
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: it was gonna still be an other ten days. He
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: started doing work in Milwaukee Friday, Saturday, Sunday, hit on
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: the field on Monday, and it sped up real quick.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: He actually said he hoped to be back last Friday
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: in Milwaukee, but the body wasn't quite ready and he
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: knew it. But he's not in that spot now, and
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: I think he's feeling good. And that's a great sign
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: because here we are, we're talking about you know, I
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: know we're talking about first day and the pitching, but
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: we've talked a lot about the offensive issues, and I
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: think with Byron back a lot of those issues, you've
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: lost your catalyst for most of the second half. They've
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: they've been back since July seventeenth, I think or eighteenth,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: and he's played seven games and he had a very
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: low OPS in those seven games. It was like under
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: I think it was under four hundred. I think it
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: was a three seventy two OPS. He had it, he did,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: he just wasn't right, and I think he if he
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: is right, and we'll see we'll get to approof more
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: and more over this time. If he is right, we
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: will get a good chance to see what he can do.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Because adding him back in, you got Roy slowis going great,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Josh Bell is going great. Luke Keishaw has been on
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: like incredible, like since May two. Luke Keishall's on basis
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: four oh three with a four to twenty slug so
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: like he's starting to drive the ball now to.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: And one the corn big stat.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: There one horn very nice.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Only three players and May Baseball can say that.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I feel like their offense can get back a lot
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: by having Byron Bucks and just having that threat of
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Byron buckson because he's good Bade, He's wear down that pitcher.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yes, exactly.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: So you're playing in an All Star Yeah yeah, he
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: can hit with the best of him.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: It's it's it's a trade deadline move.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: That's right. I love how those are always like that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: The timing's critical. I mean, this is a they're playing
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Philly for two more, they play Atlanta for three, they
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: play at San Diego, and really the Twins, I feel like,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: if they can get through this, if they could win
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: four of these eight somehow and you're at home for
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: five of them. If you can win three against Philly
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: and Atlanta, that's good. It's gonna be a challenge. I'm
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: not even trying to pretend like it's not. But if
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: you can win three somehow and get to San Diego
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: and win one and you get through this stretch of
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: games at four and four, you know you're one. You're
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: feeling good about yourself because that's a tough spate of games,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: but also like you're probably not gonna fall out too
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: far in the wild card race by doing that. And
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: then you have a whole bunch of White Sox and
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Tigers back to back to back, and you just need
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: to get you know, through this and get into the
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: American League again. And there's also the Athletics series at Sacramento,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: so Buckston being back is critical for sure.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So this is all about the next twelve days
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: or however it is. Just get to that stretch of
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: is it fifteen straight games against Ale Central teams.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I think Cleveland comes at the end of that.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, put yourself in in no worse position than you
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: are now entering that stretch. You've got a shot, right.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Treada tread water till you play the Central and then
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: you got to just take two out of three from
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: everybody and that's all you gotta do, sweep or crazy like,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: keep winning.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: And then it's an advantageous ending to four in LA
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: against the Angels, three in San Francisco against the Giants,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: and then three at home against Texas, which might still
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: be in it at that point. But handle them in
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Texas and at least will be at home for the finale,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: so we'll see if they can get there. But the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the on the other end of the Buxton situation, Alex
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Jackson sent out the faid he had done very well
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: as as sort of the fill in with Jeffers hurt,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: of course, but seemed to inevitable with three catchers on
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the roster and needing to lose somebody that it would
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: be him with Jeffers back now healthy, but still what
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: was he hitting Dan three hundred over three five?
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: And I think it just came down to since Jeffers
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: came back. I looked it up and was he played
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: eight times in twenty nine games, and at least one
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: of those was as a pinch runner. It might have
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: been two as a pinch runner which he has that
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: value faster, faster guy for a catcher. He didn't, I
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: didn't look the twenty sixth spot is not going to
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: crush it too often when you're when you're healthy, you're
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: not really playing that twenty six man very often at all.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: You can look at the bats historically, it's just it's
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: a spot you can get away with hiding somebody. But
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: when Buckson came back, it kind of made it moot
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: because they were going to keep Allen Road and give
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: him more chances in the outfield, and I think it
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: just became time. I know Tyler like has a really
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: good point about this with keeping him, but like, like
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: the one thing with it real quick, Uh, they wanted
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: to get him through the Field of Dreams game. They
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: acknowledge Ales Jackson's been a really good teammate. They like this.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Photo he was.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: And they were happy for him on that. And it
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: was funny after the game we saw him hugging and
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: we saw him and we're like, they're not going to
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: just leave him here right like he had. They're gonna
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: put he did get on the plane. Sometimes it does
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: because I I the first series I recovered the White
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Sox in twenty twelve, there was a veteran lefty and
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: he got rocked at target Field, gave up five out
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: of the bullpen and they dfad him. And I heard
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: the quote afterwards was Kenny Williams said, your teammates don't
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: He wanted to go to New York because his family
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: was meeting him in New York where where the White
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Sox were going, and his family was there, and Kenny
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Williams said, they don't. You're not going. They don't want
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you on that plane, and they didn't let him go
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: on the team plane. Alex Jackson did go on the
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: team plane back from Iowa. That would be pretty tough
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: to find a flight from Dubuque to Minneapolis, so that's
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Minnesota and ice right logistically. Yeah, but yeah, it was.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: It was definitely. They acknowledged it was a tough decision.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: They were glad he got to at least play be
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: at the Field of Dreams, but they acknowledged it was
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a difficult decision.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And uh Tyler a bit unfortunate to lose him. Obviously.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know all the machinations that were discussed around
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline, but it seems like he could be
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: someone that gets scooped up pretty quick.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, like you Dan kind of mentioned,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: I texted you. It was like, you know, kind of
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: odd time, not odd timing, just unfortunate to have to
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: make that move because a week and a half or
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: however long ago, two weeks ago, you could have moved
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: him and gotten something. You know, he's a serviceable catcher
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: in the big leagues. He's hitting three or five in
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: a small sample. You can pinch run, he can move
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: around the field like he had some value for another
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: team potentially, you know, and being obviously expendable at this point,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: you know, over other guys that maybe you could have
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: moved on from potentially. So it was just an odd one.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, like carrying three catchers is
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: super rare, you know. I remember we did it a
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: couple of times my years of Minnesota and it was
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: one of those it's like, you know, they they barely
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: see the field, you know, And Dan said that historically
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: they're super small, you know, amounts of games played in
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: at bats. But you know, it's one that it's good
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: for him. You know, somebody's gonna grab him, you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: you hopefully for him. It's a contender or or a
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: team who needs someone to go catch every day, and
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: like it would be a great opportunity for him. And
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: you know that's part of part of the game that stinks.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: And you know it's confusing for fans sometimes because it's
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: you know, there's the releases, there's the DFAs, there's this
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: and that. They're all versions and this one's basically like, look,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: we have this guy in a contract.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: We just can't keep him for whatever the reason is.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: So big league team can grab and plug him straight
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: in and you know, hopefully, like I said, hopefully he
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: gets an opportunity because he doesn't have options. Obviously, that's
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: probably why they had to let him go. They would
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: have loved to keep him. But you know, he'll he'll
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: do with another club.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: A chance there's a chance he could sneak through. He's
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: making a little bit more money than a typical guy,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, with a sliver more. But and and I
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: feel like the White Sox were in need for catching
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: they just acquired like there we'll see, Like it just
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: depends on how some of the contenders are feeling about
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: that second catcher spot that they have. It's possible that
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: he sneaks through. Well, we'll get some clarity on that
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: in the next couple of days.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, Seattle had a tough deal. They kind
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: of got some musical chairs over there. Wouldn't be surprised
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: if they grabbed him, honestly, now that.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Yankee solved theirs. The Yankees solved THEIRS by grabbing Mitch
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Garver after Seattle release.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so is he a rail rider right now? I didn't.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if you got something.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I think he is. I think he is. It wasn't
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: gonna be down there long. But the Bombers is strong there.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: So ten Or Swanson connection.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, he was one of his first proteges, like
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: those guard was like his guide, and so it is Jeffards.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that that'll be interesting to see what happens in
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: free agency there with ros Uh.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the Yankees, I perhaps conveniently overlooked that after
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the Ale Central stretch of the schedule and before that
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: advantageous ending I talked about, there's three games of the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yankees at target Fields.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: They are They're at Target Field and the Yankees are rolling.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: The Death Star does come to tell them and maybe
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Aaron Judge will be in for that.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: But uh, they.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Do not have. Maybe it's the purifying waters of Lake
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Minnetonka that take the Yankee power away. I don't know,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: they're they're not quite as dominant here as good as
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: they are and they've always been. Obviously we know historically
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: how good they are. But the Twins at least usually
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: win one at home against the Yankees.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Maybe they can still see as long as d D
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: is not in the lineup, they should be okay.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: True true.
• 26:18
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• 27:23
  Speaker 2: This all right?
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Uh, the Field of Dreams game has come and gone.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: My first my first thought watching the broadcast was do
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: do the players like walking out of the corn? I
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: feel like that would be just terrible for my allergies.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: But I mean it is a once in a lifetime thing.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: What do we think, Dan, they bought it, they loved
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: They ate that stuff up. I edited myself, Stances, Field
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: of Dreams, that's a PG. Maybe I edited myself absolutely.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I think what really sold it was the the Hall
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: of Famers. I think twenty six famers. Yeah, those most
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: That was most Hall of Famers in one place for
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: a game. Obviously they do Coopersown every year, and you know,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: fifty sixty guys show up for that but most Hall
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: of Famers in attendance for a game since the two
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: thousand and eight All Star Game at Yankee Stadium. Guys
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: were going crazy about that because they got to meet
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: them all for like ten or fifteen minutes before the game.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: That's why I say this is all one off. You're
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: walking through the corn, you know, there's so many different things,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: like you're doing an on field introduction, like it was
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: like an Opening Day type event. Essentially. It had the
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: really slow national anthem, like the painfully long national anthem.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Basically you look at all of it, it just takes
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: its fish out of water essentially. But they loved everything
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: about I mean, guys were in awe and it's hard
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: not to be. Look, Barry Bonds is on the field
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: before the game, Albert Pools there was My favorite conversation
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: of the day was looking over and there's Barry Bonds,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: there's Albert Poohles, and there's Tory Hunter, and it's like
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Zebbie Matthews, Travis Adams, Louis Arise, Louis Ramirez twins assistant
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: pitching coach, Like could you imagine being Zebbie Matthews and
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Travis Adams in this conversation with Poohles Bonds, Tory, Louis Rise,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Like Louis Rise is the rookie novice in that conversation
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: as a hitter, right man, he can hang in that
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: conversation with those guys even though he's still got some
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: years to go in his career. Three time batting champion.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: It's hardware.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like it was a spectacle and and
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: guys very much ate it up. You could tell and look,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: I will say a lot of guys probably watched the movie,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: like some of the younger guys probably watch it for
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: the first time. In the couple days leading up. I
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: know that some guys refresh themselves on it. And like
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the day before Ryan Jeffers made a great joke he said,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I bet you some of these guys, the younger guys
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: didn't even know that they were on a movie set.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: But like, you arrive right, and so I think I
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: walked up at one forty five and first pitch was
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: at six point thirty. You walk up to the movie set.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: That's the first thing you can actually access is the
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: movie set, the house, the original ballfield and the cornfields
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: and walk up and there's fans out there, but there
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: is walking around. There's Byron Buckston with his family. There's
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Joe Mauer and his son. There's Justin Moore know and
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: his son, and fans are kind of interacting with them.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: They're playing catch out there. There's all the nineteen nineteen
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Chicago White Sox players, the Black Sox. Those guys are
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: in their uniforms wandering around and like it was so
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: surreal and like Pabula Lopez is out there taking pictures.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: You know, the whole day is different. And then you
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: do the walking through the corn thing, and it's funny.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I actually didn't walk through the corn. I I did
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: not do that part, but we like you still like
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: it's hard not to get caught up in it. For
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: what is probably the sixth or you know, seventh or
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: eighth or ninth or tenth best baseball movie, it's it's
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: not good. It's I say look, I will say that
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I still eat up. Look. The thing is, obviously they
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: went for a lot of emotional manipulation in that movie.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: The dad have a catch and all these guys had
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: to catch with their dads. It was awesome.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, post game with the Rocket.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: You could tell Corey Provis was stoked because that was
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: the first time he took his kid. I think his
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: kid's eleven years old, and you know, Corey does all
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: the games on TV. It's the first time that Corey
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: took his kid to a game because there just hasn't
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: been opportunities. So imagine getting to go with your son,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: like so father's son thing. For that reason, I get it.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: It's it's awesome. But like the movie itself, like I
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: got Bull Durham major League you're just not a Costner guy. Yeah,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: that's probably it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: We need. We need a major league rebuild Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Get Charlie Sheen out there, let's go. That's that's what
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: we need to be talking about.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: But yeah, but but I think guys very much bought
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: into it. Byron Buckson said that that looking over and
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: seeing Fergie Jenkins, who was his dad's favorite picture, and
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: he said he could remember his dad saying, hey, if
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: you're going to pitch, you do it like Fergie Jenkins,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: and like that was ingrained into Byron's memories. And he
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: looks over and there's Fergie Jenkins, and Byron then even better,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Like the thing I really liked was the perspective He's like,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I looked over and there's Molly, Paul Malder, there's there's
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Joe Mauer, and you know, He's like, we see these
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: guys around us all the time, and then you see
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: them out there. Yeah, yes, exactly, they are normal regular guys.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Paul Malterers like, honestly, Paul Martor is one of the
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: most thoughtful friendly. He's he's reserved. But you walk up
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: and you talk to him and he engages you, and
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: you're like, wait a minute, you have three thousand hits,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: you're like one of the best players ever, and you're
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: like engaging in this thoughtful conversation with me. So you
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: get used to them, right if you're the Twins. But
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Byron's like, but then you look out there and you
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: see they're standing next to Adrian Beltray, They're standing next
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: to you know, Steve Carlton, Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton. That
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: was one of his first public appearances in Forever, and
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: and you look around. You're like, Byron's like, you just
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: don't maybe you shouldn't take it for granted that these
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: guys are that amazing, and here they are. They're just
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: at the Twins all the time. It was very cool.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: It was everybody. There was nobody that was walking away
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: from that. And here wait one last part. The dad thing.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Tommy Tommy Nance, his dad passed away last year from als. Yeah,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: he and his dad. Yeah, like so fifteen months ago
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: he's written his name, his and his dad's initials in
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: the mound since he came back to the Majors last year.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: He said, Field of Dreams was that movie for them
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: before every game? Hey dad? Yeah? Yes, for every appearance,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: every every appearance. Yeah, he said, Field of Dreams was
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: their movie. He said, the hey dad, can I have
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: can we have a catch? Is very tough for him.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: It gets him every time, which I understand that watched
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: it there night. Damn it, there was you know, dust
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: in the room again, every time that scene comes on,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: there's a dust storm in my house. So weird. But
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: Tommy Nance gets in the game and got to draw
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: his dad's initials on the mound and had a nice inning. Said.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I asked him about it afterwards, He's like, it was
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: really cool to do that and be a part of
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: it because he couldn't be there, so I got to
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: at least share the experience that way with him. And
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: he said his dad's been with him since he's passed.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Anytime the situation gets big or tough, he will actually
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: have a conversation with him on the mound, like a
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: little conversation. He said, It's helped him out so much.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Love that part, you know, like all that stuff, the
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: nostalgia part is very real. And so is it contrived? Sure?
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Is it? Is it a little corny? Sure? But you
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: know what this game is a it's all about family.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: It's all about generations of family, and like so I
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: love it for that and it was enjoyable.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Well, I think like they do such a good job
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: of making it feel like an event on par with
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: All Star game or a big, you know, World Series game,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: And like this, this team is in the playoff race
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and has been playing in front of sparse crowds where
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: you know, the pregame festivities are you know, here's Chris
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Lindall throughout the first pitch. Sure it's not quite the same,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: this is my point. And like, I don't know, maybe
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: maybe that's a nice little experience for them Tyler going
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: into these last forty games, be like, hey, this is
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: what it's like when baseball matters, and you could get
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: playing in a lot more of these games if he
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: starts stringing together some wins.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, it does.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: And I've been sitting here this whole time just thinking about,
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: you know, the fact that the Hall of Famers were there,
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: Like that's something I don't think everyone fully grasped that
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: situation like that doesn't happen other than at the Hall
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: of Fame ceremony and that event. Like those guys aren't
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: all together for anything ever. Yeah, and so to have
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: that many of them in one spot like that is
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: a huge you know for all of those guys, that
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: that experience is incredible, you know, and to that point,
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: having those guys around, maybe maybe it opened some eyes
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: for these young guys, especially like realizing like, oh shit,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: oh I did it. You know, these guys are in
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: our locker room once a week. You know, they're around
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: all the time. And it's just the the gravity of
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: it is incredible to see it on TV and not
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: not alone being there, but yeah, it's definitely gonna get
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: you know, did you get that juice?
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: Man?
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: It's when you go to a stadium, even that place
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: it is smaller, whatever, but just that hole, the electricity
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: of that moment is so real and playing against a
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: great team like Philly. Like that's a lot of those
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: guys probably first time playing against Bryce Harper, you know,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: seeing Kyleigh Harber in the box, Like that's a team
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: who has World Series aspirations and you just got to
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: go out there and do something like that. Like that's
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: a big push for a lot of these younger guys
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: for sure, you know.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: And it's one.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: That like I keep talking about this momentum, like it's
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: you got to keep building, you added Byron back. You're
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: playing a good team now. You know that all the
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: cards are starting to kind of line up.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: As long as we.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Can keep our guys on the field, you know, there's
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: no reason to we can't go win a few every
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: week and come up in September, I mean half a
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: game out of the card and you know who knows
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: you you tear up the White Sox a few times,
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: like you jump them completely, you.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Could mess around and win the division pretty quickly.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: That starts tonight two more versus the Phillies at Target Field.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: The bad news is Jesus Lozardo gets the ball for
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: the Phillies tonight. He is their old sister Christopher Yes
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Andrew Painter on Sunday against Dean Kramer Lozardo Tonight against
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Connor pre Lip. As Dan said, tough stretch Philly, Atlanta,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: San Diego, all playoff worthy teams in the NL. But
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: as you kind of already talked about, Dan, if they
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: can find a way to just tread water in the series,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: they're going to come out the other side of it
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: in all likelihood with still a chance here in the central.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, get through this. Get to the point where Joe
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Ryan's healthy. Joe Ryan went on IL eight days ago. Yeah,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: eight days ago, something like that. Get him back healthy,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: get your rotation going again. The part that's good is
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: they have shortened games where it's a five inning game
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: with the bullpen editions now, So if your offense can
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: get going again, and that's what was such a big
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: part of the first half of them was the offense,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: and it's been mostly dormant. There have been moments where
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: it showed up. The Baltimore series was great. Just get
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: back to that spot where your offense keeps making it
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: a threat to be like, no games out of reach,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: that kind of thing, even if you're down. But it
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: would be great for the Twins if they can get
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: through the first inning without giving up a run. As
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: you guys said, that's it's been so critical and.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: It's just like the end of the day. Maybe take
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: the bullpen, sacrifice.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: A live chicken. You know they were in Iowa. I'm
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: sure they could find a live chicken to bring back
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: on that plane to sacrifice, So maybe they could do that.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: See, this is why we need a major league game
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: like the opportunities here. Just get Joe bu out there.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: It'll be Oh, that would be awesome.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Guys would know who you're trying to say.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ can and hit a curveball.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: All right, that's the best line movie. It's the baseball
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: movie ever.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: All Right, I think that's our que. We will be
• 40:10
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• 40:13
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• 40:23
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• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Thanks everybody, Bye bye,