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Can the Twins be a playoff team? Plus, a Reds series preview · 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: Minnesota Twins podcast here on the Foul Territory Network. It
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  Speaker 1: is Friday, April seventeenth. There has not been a game
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  Speaker 1: since the last time we talked to you, but that
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  Speaker 1: won't stop us. Zach Pierce, editor for The Athletic, along
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  Speaker 1: with Dan Hayes, our Minnesota Twins beat writer at the Athletic,
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  Speaker 1: and Tyler Duffee, of course, longtime Major leaguer and Minnesota Twin.
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  Speaker 1: Twins are still eleven and eight. As I said, no
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  Speaker 1: games since last time. We're going to talk about a
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  Speaker 1: couple or one lingering item from that last series against Boston.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into a little bit about the Reds this
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  Speaker 1: weekend series coming up, and we'll play a game at
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  Speaker 1: the end name that twin. Dan Hayes will be on
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  Speaker 1: the spot for Twins Trivia. I can't wait. So here
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  Speaker 1: we go, guys. So the first thing we want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that we didn't get to you on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: show is the situation with Red Sox player Jared Duran.
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  Speaker 1: If you if you watch the game on Tuesday, it
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  Speaker 1: was Tuesday, right Dan, that the incident happened. Uh he
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  Speaker 1: was seen on camera sticking up the middle finger to
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  Speaker 1: the fans behind first base on his way back to
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  Speaker 1: the dugout after recording it out. Duran later said that
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  Speaker 1: a fan had told him to kill himself, which.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I went over for that, I did. I was
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  Speaker 2: therefore that we got the alert of the mental finger.
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  Speaker 2: We sat on social media like everyone because nobody saw
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  Speaker 2: it in game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did so.
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  Speaker 2: But a camera picks up everything in a ballpark.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, right, there's we haven't heard We haven't heard
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  Speaker 1: it on audio, haven't seen it on social media. Obviously.
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  Speaker 1: It goes without saying that a horrendous thing to say
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  Speaker 1: to to anyone in any context, certainly a player who
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  Speaker 1: has struggled with mental health in the past. Duran has
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  Speaker 1: also had his run ins with fans in the past.
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  Speaker 1: He had an incident last year where he shouted a
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  Speaker 1: slur at a fan. So a whole lot going on here, Dan.
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  Speaker 1: But after we taped on Wednesday, Yes, after we taped
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, you had had some reporting on the Athletic
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  Speaker 1: about the latest on the situation and the twins looking
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  Speaker 1: into it. Where are we at with it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so let me just give context. I did go
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  Speaker 2: over Tuesday, and I was there for him talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to talk about it. I think he talked
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  Speaker 2: to Red Sox PR for about a minute and all
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  Speaker 2: the reporters from the Red Sox were not sure if
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  Speaker 2: he was going to address it or not, and he
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  Speaker 2: waved us over and he wanted to talk about it
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  Speaker 2: and said, hey, someone told me to kill myself. And
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  Speaker 2: he said, you know it's he blamed it on himself
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  Speaker 2: for bringing it up last year. And I know it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty famously on the Netflix document documentary or that Red
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  Speaker 2: Sox series dated last year where he's had suicidal thoughts
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  Speaker 2: and he's been open to talk about it, and so
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  Speaker 2: you know, he had said that the finger, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: I saw Rickie Henderson off the crowd a zillion times
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  Speaker 2: whenever I went to AIDS games, because he loved to
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  Speaker 2: play with them, Like a middle finger to me at
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  Speaker 2: a ballgame is not that big of a deal. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why there was a big reaction to it
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  Speaker 2: in the first place, but anyway, so we got there
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  Speaker 2: to this and on Wednesday, the Twins really dove into it.
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  Speaker 2: Now the Twins had said they released a statement on
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday morning saying we're looking into this incident. We don't
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  Speaker 2: condone this action and that you know, it's simple. That's
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  Speaker 2: a terrible thing to do for a fan to say.
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  Speaker 2: And essentially they then went and checked with everyone they
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  Speaker 2: could and what they you know, got back by the
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  Speaker 2: end of the game Wednesday, especially within a few hours after,
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  Speaker 2: and they'd talked to enough people where they said they
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  Speaker 2: couldn't robbery and the evidence now that to be fair.
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  Speaker 2: When when Adam Jones, when that incident happened in Boston
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  Speaker 2: and there was a racial slur throwing towards him, no
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  Speaker 2: investigation uncovered anything. It's gonna be hard to get someone
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  Speaker 2: to admit to doing this, to say they said kill yourself.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, there was some some thought like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: there were sixteen thousand announced on Tuesday night, but really
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  Speaker 2: there were maybe ten thousand people in the ballpark. It
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  Speaker 2: was pretty quiet and no field might picked it up,
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  Speaker 2: no camera picked it up. They you know, Duran flipped
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  Speaker 2: off the crowd, but Duran didn't like gesture go towards
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  Speaker 2: the crowd. Aside from that, they they didn't he didn't
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  Speaker 2: tell anybody on the Red Sox bench. He didn't want to.
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  Speaker 2: He said he didn't want to distract his teammates, so
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  Speaker 2: the Twins didn't find out until after the game, and
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  Speaker 2: they said they would have investigated immediately. If you know,
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  Speaker 2: if he had gone to security when it happened, they
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  Speaker 2: would have immediately gone over to the fans because there
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  Speaker 2: were probably one hundred and fifty people in that section.
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  Speaker 2: It would have been pretty easy to go check out
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  Speaker 2: what happened. And so they essentially had talked to a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people and they just can't find someone that
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  Speaker 2: said that they heard it. Doesn't mean it didn't happen,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a really it doesn't mean that he didn't
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  Speaker 2: think he heard it too. That's another thing. You're running
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  Speaker 2: down a baseline at full speed and you're used to
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  Speaker 2: this absolutely. I mean, one thing I did here, one
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  Speaker 2: report was that one fan was very proud that Duran
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  Speaker 2: reacted toward him because he had been there the night before,
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  Speaker 2: he had been there that day and had just gone
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  Speaker 2: over and I'm going to guess there were some swear
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  Speaker 2: words involved. I'm going to guess there was some colorful language,
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  Speaker 2: without question, but that fan had contended and this is
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  Speaker 2: third hand reporting, so this is probably not lockdown, but
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  Speaker 2: that fan was very excited that they got the reaction
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  Speaker 2: because they've been trying to wear him out about his swing,
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  Speaker 2: and I a tennis racket may have been used. I
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  Speaker 2: know that was something that he went off about last year,
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  Speaker 2: like that was a.
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  Speaker 3: Key word grig last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't look, I'm not gonna there's no The
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  Speaker 2: reason why I think the Twins said they haven't corroborated
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  Speaker 2: is they I don't think there's definitive word here either way,
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  Speaker 2: but it definitely seems like, you know, they can't find
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  Speaker 2: anyone said it. And again, when when Adam Jones got
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  Speaker 2: called a horrific thing in Boston, no fan admitted to
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  Speaker 2: saying that either. So maybe someone's just trying to hide here,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, who knows what really happened here. Either way,
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  Speaker 2: It's just not a great statement itself. Just fans. Fans
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  Speaker 2: have always been this way. There's Tyler, you can talk
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  Speaker 2: about Philip he has bullpen and have some tales about that.
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  Speaker 2: Fans have always been this way. And you know, I
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  Speaker 2: saw I saw people go at Rodgers players at at
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  Speaker 2: at Candlestick Park growing up, and there was some horrible
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  Speaker 2: shit said over the time. So would it shocked me
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  Speaker 2: if someone said something pretty bad to Jared Durant and
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  Speaker 2: if it was constant over two days it got to him, No,
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  Speaker 2: it would. It shocked me if someone said kill yourself. No,
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  Speaker 2: it wouldn't. I've seen it all said at the ballpark.
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  Speaker 2: Either way, it's kind of an ugly it's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: an ugly incident. But you know, that's where we're at
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  Speaker 2: with it right now, is that the twins have not
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  Speaker 2: been able to corroborate that kill yourself was said.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like a pretty impossible thing to investigate
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  Speaker 1: after the fact, once people have gone home and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But Tyler, you know, talking about this before the show,
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  Speaker 1: it's obviously an issue that's you know, near to your heart,
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  Speaker 1: given that you had to live it for ten years
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  Speaker 1: or however long we we as fans and media, we
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  Speaker 1: only we only see these situations when they crop up
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  Speaker 1: like this one did. But obviously it's happening a lot
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  Speaker 1: more often. Like how prevalent is it? And where do
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  Speaker 1: you think the line is for for fans and players
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  Speaker 1: in these situations? Yeah, it's I'm like going through just places.
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  Speaker 4: Even the funny part is it's probably worse in the
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  Speaker 4: minor leagues, not so much what they're saying, but just
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  Speaker 4: how audibly clear you can hear people, Like especially the
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  Speaker 4: beginning of the year in Minnesota, like there's not a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people, especially it's the eighth inning. You know,
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  Speaker 4: fans have kind of cleared out, and it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: there's that again, and he's just going and the whole
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  Speaker 4: stadium can hear him, you know, to that point, like
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  Speaker 4: Duran had probably been hearing this guy very clearly the
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  Speaker 4: whole series or whatever. He was there, and it's it sucks.
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  Speaker 4: You know, sometimes you can give him, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: glancing look.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen guys get guys thrown out.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: New York comes to mind for me, especially like playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Yankee Stadium. You're kind of in that little
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  Speaker 4: it feels like you're in the zoo, like it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: they're all up above and around you, and you know
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  Speaker 4: the only place to go, like anywhere else is inside
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  Speaker 4: the plexiglass room. And so you know, there's some things
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  Speaker 4: that are yelled and you're like, okay, Like some of
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  Speaker 4: them are funny, some of them are just flat out
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  Speaker 4: and just like aggressive and wild, and you know, to
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  Speaker 4: that point, sometimes you know, you go over and you
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  Speaker 4: give a little courtesy, you know, talk to the police officer,
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  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, it kind of calms down
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  Speaker 4: for a minute, like you don't have to say anything.
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  Speaker 4: You can, like guys would just go act like they're
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  Speaker 4: saying something to them about a fan, and they'll just
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  Speaker 4: kind of work itself out. But yeah, it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's been some times I'll chirp back a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: You know, guys will get pissed because it is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, like we're all individuals, and.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever makes you angry or makes someone else angry is different.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, in the cotton the wrong moment and
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  Speaker 4: they heat attle like you're gonna let it fly, And
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think it's important to remember.
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  Speaker 3: That, like, yes we are athletes, Yes we are getting.
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  Speaker 4: Paid money to do something for entertainment, but I'm still
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  Speaker 4: a grown man who will willingly come meet you.
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  Speaker 3: Face to face. And I think people forget that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, once you're at that stadium, it's no longer Instagram,
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  Speaker 4: it's no longer Twitter, and it's it's real. Like I'm
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  Speaker 4: kind of getting fired up thinking about it. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes you just want to go grab somebody. And the
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  Speaker 4: problem is we do that, the cameras zoom in, you know,
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  Speaker 4: but when this guy is sitting in the crowd, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: it's just a drunk fan, you know whatever, And after
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  Speaker 4: the fact, it's kind of no big deal.
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  Speaker 3: In a week from now, nobody's gonna care. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's a middle finger.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure some guys who played did much worse to fans,
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  Speaker 4: you know, before cameras were everywhere. You know, it's just, uh,
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  Speaker 4: it's part of the times.
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  Speaker 2: No, look, it's a middle finger. He didn't go at
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  Speaker 2: the crowd. He didn't he didn't know anything back and
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  Speaker 2: the only reason we saw it was because the camera
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  Speaker 2: picked it up on Instagram or and somebody put it
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  Speaker 2: on Instagram a little later. As far as what his
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  Speaker 2: reaction was was pretty ok. I can own that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I you know, look, maybe a little kids thought and
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  Speaker 2: you don't want the little kids seeing that. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like his reaction was not horrible, the fact that we
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  Speaker 2: were there to ask him about it. But it's it's
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  Speaker 2: based off his prior history, that's it. I would bet
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  Speaker 2: that happens, yes.
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  Speaker 3: And he's got a target on his back for the
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  Speaker 3: rest of it.
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  Speaker 2: Right right, correct, and so you know, like it's not
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  Speaker 2: like he did something so egregious. Nobody even recognized it
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  Speaker 2: in the press box when it happened. I bet you
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  Speaker 2: ninety nine percent of the stadium was not aware of
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  Speaker 2: it at the time. I bet you. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: still a bunch of people that aren't not on social media,
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  Speaker 2: that were at the game. They have no idea this happened,
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  Speaker 2: except that it's.
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  Speaker 3: The third grade.
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  Speaker 4: Like you're in class and your buddies next to you
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  Speaker 4: and you give them the ha, you know, flip them
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  Speaker 4: off by your ear like it's just like yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right exactly. So it's like, I don't think that what
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  Speaker 2: he did was egregious. If you're getting worn out for
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  Speaker 2: two days, look, it's fair game to me. Like the
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  Speaker 2: you know, I I uh, it's always my favorite those
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  Speaker 2: one of the guys getting heckled and and then hits
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  Speaker 2: a home run. That's the best. That's the best reaction
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  Speaker 2: is you're getting heckled for you can't hit, and then
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  Speaker 2: you hit a home run. Seen that a few times.
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  Speaker 2: That's the best way to do it. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's unfortunate because no matter what. Like you said, he's
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  Speaker 2: got Target for the rest of his career. And you
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  Speaker 2: know it's the end of series and I you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure both parties want to move on.
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  Speaker 1: all that. Now, so anyway, we are back. We had
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  Speaker 1: talked on Wednesday show about taking some mail bag questions,
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  Speaker 1: and then we never actually solicited any mail bag questions,
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  Speaker 1: so we don't have any, but we decided instead we're
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  Speaker 1: just going to talk about what is I guess probably
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  Speaker 1: the prevailing question with the team, which is broadly, can
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  Speaker 1: they keep this up? Eleven and eight, still in first
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  Speaker 1: place in the Central. What this means in that sentence,
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  Speaker 1: I guess is kind of up to you, But I think, broadly,
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  Speaker 1: just can they stay competitive? Can they potentially be a
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  Speaker 1: playoff team? There's some reasons to say yes, sence of
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  Speaker 1: reasons to doubt it maybe, And I want to hear
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  Speaker 1: one reason from each side, from you guys, and let's
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  Speaker 1: start with Tyler.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there is a world where it can
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  Speaker 4: be the five being.
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  Speaker 3: Five hundred can be maintained.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to say keep in first place, you know,
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  Speaker 4: all that, because that's so hard to predict, but I
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  Speaker 4: think maintaining something near where they're at now is possible.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they're getting great performances out of most of
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  Speaker 4: the rotation at the moment. That's going to go in waves,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think the bullpen will settle into a
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  Speaker 4: kind of hit on that before and other shows. I
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  Speaker 4: think they'll settle into some roles which will create some comfortability.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure there's some guys in Triple A that are
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  Speaker 4: going to make some noise and like maybe show that
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  Speaker 4: they're ready, maybe get the little injection of some some
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  Speaker 4: fresh arms, things like that coming.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's gonna warm up.
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  Speaker 4: Guys are going to hit their strides, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: I said, Byron's just now getting hot and guys around
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  Speaker 4: him are going to get more comfortable because of that.
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  Speaker 4: And I think for the main part of it, those
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  Speaker 4: are you know, the three I mean that's three big
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  Speaker 4: pieces you know, starting rotation in the lineup. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's maintainable to an extent, you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be some pickups, but I think holding five hundred
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  Speaker 4: is very much a realistic place to be because it's,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they're they're not doing anything that's like crazy
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  Speaker 4: over the top. You know, they're hitting well with runners
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  Speaker 4: in scoring position, which you kind of try to do anyways.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's.
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  Speaker 4: One you know, you can put the ball in play,
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  Speaker 4: you know, basically that's all you got to do, and
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  Speaker 4: easier said than done at times. But you know they're
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  Speaker 4: they're not like they're not pitching one one nothing shutouts
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  Speaker 4: every night and winning the game. You know, it's they're
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  Speaker 4: blowing people out when they're winning, and they're kind of
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  Speaker 4: getting blown out when they lose. And that's not a
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  Speaker 4: horrible formula. You know, it gives guys breaks when you
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  Speaker 4: need them, you know, bullpen arms, things like that. So
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  Speaker 4: it's it's a weird way to win and lose. But
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  Speaker 4: at the same time, if you're winning and doing that
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  Speaker 4: more than losing, it's gonna work out.
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  Speaker 2: So let me start with the reason I think they
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  Speaker 2: won't run a huge like run away and be a
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  Speaker 2: like a wildly successful team right infield defense. Infield defense,
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  Speaker 2: and we saw it surface look there's it's not a
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: rangy group. There're gonna be a lot of well placed
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: hits getting through the middle of the infield. That's gonna
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: happen all year. And the other day we saw it
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: surface in the worst way where Luke Kishall tried to
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: do a lot on the bases, loaded play, booted it
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: and then still tried to throw to first base and
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: make the play and it led to two runs, but
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: it kept the rally going and turned into a five
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: run rally. The infield defense definitely is just the biggest
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: question mark about this team we've thought that. I mean,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: obviously the bullpen is a question mark two, just because
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: you're right, there's guys there, there's interesting guys there. They
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: still need gas in that bullpen. But like the infield
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: defense definitely has a chance to when you don't have
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: strikeout guys in the mound, put them in harm's way
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: because when balls are in play and they're not being caught,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: they lead to inevitable rallies that could happen. We haven't
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: seen the Twins play Cleveland yet. This team that loves
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: to capitalize on that kind of thing. So that's why
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: they won't run away and be you know, I can
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: see them. I think I said on opening day or
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: right there, seventy nine and eighty three, you're in that
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: five hundred range. I can see them like you, like
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: you Tyler maintaining that now. The reason why I can
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: see them being good, why I don't think this is fake,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: is I do believe in Joe Ryan, TODJ. Bradley, Mick
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Abel and Mickabel's cat stir Ralphington and Lord, I can't remember.
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: How do I cut Mike let me see, And in fact,
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: we found the social media account the other night and
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: I immediately went up to him and showed him my
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: two cats.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: The next day it was great. So I like what
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I've seen from Mickable the last two times out I
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: like twice on spring training. I really like what I've
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: seen from TODJ. Bradley, And I like what I've heard
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: from Taj Bradley, like when you got those two guys
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: with the stuff they have and Joe Ryan in front,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: and even with Bailey Over's velocity search for velocity continuing on,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: he does know how to get outs. He's he's got
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: to get better. He's been prone to the big mistake
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: the three run Homer and it's it's messed up his lines,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: but he I certainly believe he could be a five inning,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: two run guy and keep them in games. Simon Wood
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Richardson has had a really interesting last two Wednesday was tough.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: His stuff was amazing. Actually, he was hitting ninety six
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: on Wednesday. So I believe the rotation can keep them
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: in this And that's one reason I do believe that
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: this is a team that's got stay in power is
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: if they can solve some of those other issues, if
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: they can get some guys that throw hard in the bullpen,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: and Andrew Morris, what role he pitches in will be interesting,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: just because we saw him in a long role in
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: his first one. But he throws hard out of the bullpen.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: That could be where he ends up, never know and
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: bringing up other guys figuring that out if they're around
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: at the trade deadline, it's possibility, Like it would be
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: funny if the Twins went out and needed to acquire
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: bullpen help at the trade deadline because they're.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: In a race.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: So so I think that there is reason for staying
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: power just on the rotation alone. I like the offense.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I like what I've seen and It's not like anybody's
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: going crazy and doing something that they don't do other
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Tristan Gray. Tristan Gray is his production is better than
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: at any point in his career. And I don't know,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: you know, he's a thirty year old, Like you get
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: to that point, you can have career years, and guys
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: do do that, there's no question. But I don't know
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: that we can really count on him to be on
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: one hundred and ten home run pace or one hundred
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: and ten rbi pace the whole season. That might be unrealistic.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Thirty was one of my better years for sure, a
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: long time ago. Now the tyler you mentioned the runners
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: in scoring position thing, it's it's wild. I mean they're
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: hitting three fourteen with runners in scoring positions right now,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: best in the league, and that's almost there is eighty
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: three points better than their overall average of two thirty one.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: So that you know, is is that is that clutch?
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Is it luck? Is it? Whatever? We'll see it is.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: The hitting group too, like we've hit on, like they've
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: had great plans for these starters, Like maybe they've gotten
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: guys to realize, you know, I'm seeing bunts all all
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: of a sudden all these games. Think Milwaukee Bunnett three
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: times in one inning yesterday to score a run, like
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: small balls.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Kind of creeping back in. Maybe. You know that's used
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: to be the Minnesota way. Man it was, you know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: get them on.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Get him over, get him in. And you know you
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: have Molly calling the game. The other day, I was
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: thinking about it. It's like, man, like, just put him
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: down there and tell him you'll lay down a good
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: bunt here. You gonna slap it the other way, I mean,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: choke choke up a little bit, shoot one the other way.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: That's that's how you maintain that, you know, And it's
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: it's and here, and it's only three sixteen, Like that's
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: not like they're hitting five hundred.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, it's still they're still getting out.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: So and that's without Royce hitting with the bases loaded,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: so you know it's right, plug him in.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: You know that's guaranteed four spot.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's to Dan's point, you know, the the
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: loves are potentially there, but you know, I think the
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: rotation can still maintain. And as you know, Simeon maybe peaks.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: You know, another guy has a rough one. You know
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: that balance is out. You know, things like that happen,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: and so you know there there's there's a track where
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: this could work out. And like I said, just being
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: five hundred gets you a shot, like that's all you
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: can ask for, you know, being a mix towards the
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: end of the year.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean if you're if you're three games better
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: than five hundred, you're probably in the playoffs.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: You're in.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so in that.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: We're we're an equal time Sir Ruffinson, Kat and Lady Rory, I.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you for thank you for clearing that up. Yes, yes,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Lady Lady Rory.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, And they have their own Instagram and there's a
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: picture of one of them mewing for Mick Able when
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: he was pitching there.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Well, sometime, Dan, if you ever have to do this
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: show by yourself, you can dedicate it to cat discussion,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: just cat pictures.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, Angela the Office.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I like it. I think that I'll just tape a
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: show one day without you guys even knowing it. I'll
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: just go the cat hour with Dan.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Let's let's very emphatically move on from that discussion and
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati in town for a weekend series a night game
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Friday night and then afternoon games both Saturday and Sunday.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: It has been an absolutely beautiful week in Minnesota, and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: it's a little rainy here right now and the temperature
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: is back down in the forties for the entire weekend.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: It looks like so here here they are riding high
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and a home weekend series after this beautiful weather. But
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: it's still going to be a little dicey there at
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the ballpark. But the Twins have Joe Ryan, Taj Bradley,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and Bailey Ober lined up to pitch against a trio
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: of Reds who have eras over five, so they've got
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: to like how things stack up.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Dan, Yeah, just having that pitching going is going to
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: be You're gonna find yourself in games when you have
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: two of your best going in two of those three
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: and a real good chance to extend this series win
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: streak to four when in the Reds have played well.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: This is a team. It's not like, Okay, I would
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: be lying if I said I saw what their last
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: series was, but they were nine and six a couple
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: of days ago. They're at least five hundred or better.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: So this is a good team. And Ellie da la
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Cruz is an amazing player and someone I really like watching.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: But when you your starters going, you're lined up that way,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: that's good Friday night. The thing I really like tonight
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: is the night where they told everybody they had an
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: opening day ticket, come on out and your your opening
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: day ticket is worth a ticket tonight. So they're clearly
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: looking to get a bigger crowd and get that kind
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: of fun atmosphere. And I know it's two dollars beers
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: again tonight pregame and two dollars pregame beers again tomorrow,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: but definitely is a chance for It's too bad it's
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: so cold. It's just that's I mean, especially when Zach,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: I think you said it was like Santa Monica weather.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, it was unbelievable yesterday. It took me to take
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: me back. Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I walked to the ballpark every day this week because
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: it was minimum sixty degrees and that's a nice way
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: when you live over in the area. It's easily walkable
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: for me. And if it's like forty, I'm not I'm
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: getting a ride with somebody. I'm I will definitely walk
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: in sixty. And it was like Wednesday was amazing, and Thursday,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I you know, I left yesterday, but it felt amazing
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: when I left. It's just unfortunate Midwest baby, Midwest spring.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: So hopefully summer energies, yes they.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Are, and the rest of it keeps the cost of
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: living somewhat within reason. I guess we'll go with that.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Tyler, I don't really have a question for
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: you about this series other than yeah, it seems like
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: it lines up well.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: It'll be a good series, you know. Yeah, you have
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: the top of our rotation going. That's what you can
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: ask for.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: That's all you can ask for going into weekend, you.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Know, Friday night lights. You know, like Dan said, get
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: the crowd out there hopefully, you know. And the Reds
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: are they're a good team. I mean they're good. They
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: got good players, They got rookies that are up with
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: the kids. Sal you know, he's been tearing the cover
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: off the ball, so trying to silence him.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: You know, Ellie's a good ballplayer to it. It'll be
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: it'll be a fun series.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: There'll be a lot of between Ellie, you know, Buck
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: and those guys.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: There's some electric players on that field this weekend and
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: then uh, you know, trying try and rough up a
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: couple of lefties. I think that's part of the mix
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: for their guys starting against the.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Teams seem to create lefties. They like like materialize out
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: of thin air to face the Twins. It's like we asked,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: we asked Shelty about it. It was like, the Reds
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: have two coming up. He's like, I can't remember his reaction,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: but he made a great joke off of it, and
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: he's They're just they are shocked at how many lefties.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I think the entire ship has made eye lefties from
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: the opponents' it's just continually happening.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe more reason to be optimistic about their batting stats then,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: But all right, well we'll see what happens. See if
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: can keep the series win streak going. As you mentioned, Dan,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and with that, we finally have time. We don't have
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: to we don't have to do apologies to Matt Damon again.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: It's time to name that twin Ladies and gentlemen. So
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: some caveats here. I have no idea if this will
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: be fun or interesting, or too easy or too hard.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure one of us is going to look silly, Dan,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: either either me or you.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: But that's the point of it, is to embarrass me.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Let's be yeah, nine years.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: True, no historian, true? Yes, yeah. So I'll explain the game.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: It's simple in concept. I'm going to give you one season,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to give you some context about that
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: season that's relevant, and then I'm going to give you
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: a single statistic. It could be a batting average, era
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: whatever about a player, and with the idea being that
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: that statistic is somewhat remarkable. I'm not gonna, you know, say,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: who had three saves in the nineteen eighty four season
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. So I will give you some
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: context around the season and the stat and see if
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you can guess the player. You get one guess. If
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: you can't, I will give you a clue, and there
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: will be up to We'll continue that way one guess, clue, clue, clue,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and the clues will get progressively more obvious, three clues
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: in total, such that if you don't get in on
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the last clue, I'm you know, I need to make
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: some adjustments to the game I guess or work.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: So here's let's just say this. I'm going to be
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: terrible with this, Okay, My Twins knowledge prior to twenty
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: eighteen is pretty terrible. However, I would like to note
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: that when we played out of the Park Baseball during
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the pandemic in twenty twenty, it was me Zach lifelong
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Twins fan, Aaron Gleeman, lifelong Twins fan. We each got
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: to draft Twins players best off their three top three
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: year peaks, and the owner of it out of the park,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: because Gleeman knows him, made their cards their player cards
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: based off the three year peaks. So like, if you
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: drafted Kirby Puckett, you got his three best years, what
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: he looked like, and who won that? Zach?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Just like by a lot, I forget. I think it
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: was what what a.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Non Twins fan won that by a lot? Definitely a reporter.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: The real question is is did anyone draft Duffy for
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the bullpen?
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: This was twenty twenty, so we only had his twenty
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: nineteen stats to go off.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: He didn't want he didn't want anything prior to nineteen.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: All right, maybe fifteen, so yes.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, but it was but it would have to
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: be three consecutive years, so we would have taken you, oh,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: you're twenty nineteen through twenty twenty one. That would have
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: been a draftable as a reliever.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Of that era.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah all right, So yes, Dan did win this made
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: up fantasy game that we created out of thin air.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: So I will give you that.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: There's the pandemic everybody where, you know.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, are you ready? Dan?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I am is there?
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I forgot the sound effects.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I can just listen right.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, no, I didn't stick around.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, We've put Tyler.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: In his soundproof booth so I can't hear you.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this. I'm going to make this a
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: two player game going forward. But so Tyler, Tyler cannot
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: hear us right now. I think he's adjusting his volume. Okay,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: so Tyler's out, He's I guess he'll try after the year.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: The year is two thousand and eight.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Twins fans will remember this year as as narrow miss
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: of the playoffs. They made it to a game one
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: sixty three for a one game playoff. It is not
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the game one sixty three of Twins fan lored that
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: came the following year of the one against the Tigers
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: at the Metrodome that they wanted extra innings and became
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the last happy moment at the Metrodome because target Field
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: debuted the next year. This game won sixty three was
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: against Dan Hayes's Chicago White Sox in Chicago.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Just because they covered them doesn't make very good.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a It was a picture's duel, John
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Danks versus Nick Blackburn.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I knew it was Nick Blackburn. Okay, I'm feeling good
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: so far.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Okay it it was a one nothing White Sox victory.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Tyler maybe should have listened to this part so that
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I don't have to repeat it. But whatever, a one
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: nothing White Sox victory is. So they clinched the Central.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: The Twins ended up in second place and out of
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, and the one run for the White Sox
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: came courtesy of the bat of Jim Tony sold the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: home run future twin Jim Tony, who would help make
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the target Field debut season so electric one nothing final
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: White so won the AL Central went to the playoffs.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: My question really has nothing.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: To do with that game, and oh great, thank you.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: My question has to do with a season long stat
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: of some note that that was achieved that year. A
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: player on that team did something that only thirty players
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: in Major league history have ever done. A total of
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: a total of thirty four times by thirty different players.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: And that is that this player played all one hundred
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: and sixty three games. That is a funky shadow I
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: have on that stat. I did not mean to do that.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: But so that's the question. Dan, which two thousand and
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: eight Minnesota twin played all one hundred sixty three games.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: This is a shortstop.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I can't give you any clues. Well, you'll get
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: clues if you if you guessed incorrectly, So you know
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: couple of things. It's not a picture.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Is Christian goose Wan's still on the team? Then he
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: was not? Yeah, he's too early. My goodness. That wasn't
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: JJ Hardy? Here was it?
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: All right? That's that's two guesses. Now you've you've is that?
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Is that your guest?
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Can you tell me if JJ Hardy was on the team?
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I can. I'm not sure if I want to.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna say JJ Hardy.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: It was not JJ Hardy?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: And he was looks like he was not on that team.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, your first is terrible.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Your first clue.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Uh, this player played one hundred and fifty five of
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: those one hundred and sixty three games at his primary position,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: and the people who filled in the eight games he
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: did not play that position were Mike Lamb, Michael Cadier,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and Brian Busher.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: It's gotta be out Fueler Lamb's third base, right man?
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: This killing me? Okay, wait, this is killing me. Can
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I get a clue? Is can phone a friend?
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: This person is still around the team.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I had no more clues, no more clues. Okay, so well,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I mean there's two more clues, but they're Mike clues.
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  Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I can't believe. I went with J. J.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Hardy, go with your gut, go with your gut morning
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: justin Moreno, that is correct? Is that what you said?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Just really?
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Yea, that is correct. He played all one hundred and
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: sixty three games, one hundred and fifty five of them
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: at first base and the rest of the DH he
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: was second in m VP. This was two years after
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: he won MVP, I believe.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: In three years. But yeah, he should have won it
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: that second.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Time and and you know, obviously would have the wow
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: concussion issues later on, But that year he was in
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the lineup every single game.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: That's impressive. Wow, I don't let's okay, Tyler.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Let's go, Tyler, Tyler, come back, come back, Tyler. There
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: we go. Yeah, hello, you listen to listen to some music.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: All right, it was immaculate grinding.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Oh nice, all right, Well I should Rodgers was on
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: there today. I should have left you on for the big,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the big explanation of the whole thing. But basically two
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: thousand and eight. Uh, they went to a game one
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: sixty three against the White Sox lossat on the bottom. Yeah,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: so that's the stat who played one hundred and sixty
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: three games on the two twenty eight Twins.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Who played for the Twins and eight besides Joe Mauer
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: and do I get to ask questions?
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: You you pick a player and guess, and then if
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: it's not correct, I'll give you a clue that should
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: help you narrow it down, and then another one in
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: another one if you need it.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of who like.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Like named Yeah I stuck, I had I guess Christian.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Christian gooseand.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: I guess J. J. Hardy and Christian Gooseman, neither of
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: who was on that team.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like eight I was.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: I don't mean, I don't want to hurt anybody feelings.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: I was in high school.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Still I was too. Actually it was long. I was stuck.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: So you're saying the thirteenth, thirteenth senior year.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: But I mean so if they played one sixty three,
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: that's it can't be Jill in a way.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: He caught every game.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: It's somebody you'd wanted the line up every game. Yep,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: not a picture obviously, trying to think who had been,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: like d H guy playing in a position it's like
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: left field, center fielder. God, because I didn't Yeah, I
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: don't have think Tory.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Was gone at this point.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tory left after the two thousand and seventh season.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Oh so okay, who was there? Was Presensky was gone?
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: That was yeah, Well, well I guess yeah, Joe came.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Was that? Yeah?
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: I can't remember that hole when they traded or left
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: or whatever happened. Hell, there's only like three people I
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: can even think of. Well, Doug Evan Kaevich was there.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe he was gone, he was on the yeah, exactly.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: See, this is why I can't like put things in
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: their place. If he's glitterally jumping through his hands in the.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Air, No, I don't ever, It's it's like the New
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: York times games. I don't want them to be too
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: hard that you don't want to come back and play again.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh for sure.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: The only one I can think of is morning.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: It's justin mornew congrats. First guess for Tyler.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: When did he he won the MVP?
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Did two thousand and six? Two one? So now I
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: can show the answer. Yes, it is justin Mornew. He
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: he he won in two thousand and six. He was
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: He finished second that year in two thousand and eight,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: and uh, yeah, played one hundred That's the clue I
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: gave to Dan was one hundred and fifty five of
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: those games were at his primary position. So DH DHD
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: eight times and played first the rest. And that's that's it.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: That's named that twin. I'm gonna I'm gonna have to
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: go back to the lab on that one a little bit.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: But hey, let us know in the comments if you
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: a if you liked it, be if you got it
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: right without cheating, of course, but yeah, it's Uh, there's
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: actually been a few players who've played one hundred and
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: sixty four or one hundred and sixty five games in
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: MLB history because back in the sixties and seventies. They
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: would settle division tiebreakers with the best of three series.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, so Morey Wills of the Dodgers is
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: the only one to ever play one hundred and sixty
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: five in a season.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: But that's crazy.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: This would be a hard game to play with the
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: Royals going back who played one C three is like
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: the whole lineup?
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well that's it. I I'm sorry, guys.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I'll try to go easier on you next time. But
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I told you I wasn't going to pick an obscure player,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: so I at least came through.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: I got a first try, so I don't know why
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: it was hard.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Twins and Reds Friday through Sunday. The Twins are then
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: off on Monday. We'll be back with you on Monday
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: to break down the whole series and set up the
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: week for the Twins that are in on the road
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: at the Mets and at Tampa Bay before coming home
• 40:57
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• 41:00
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• 41:10
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