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Joe Ryan throws another gem, and Twins cap a winning homestand · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: Joe, Ryan is on a heater. The Twins finish off
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  Speaker 1: as series win over the Astros and a winning homestand
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  Speaker 1: with a win on Wednesday, and they head off now
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  Speaker 1: on a ten game road trip for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the month of May. This is Twins Cities Territory You're
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins podcast here on the Foul Territory Network. I
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  Speaker 1: am Zach Pearce of the Athletic, not a Yale guy.
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  Speaker 1: Just wanted to make that clear today after Dan called
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  Speaker 1: me one yesterday, so we set the record straight. Dan
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  Speaker 1: Hayes of the Athletic as well, he's our Minnesota Twins
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  Speaker 1: beat writer and Tyler Duffy, longtime Major leaguer and former
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Twin. It is Thursday, May twenty, first off day
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  Speaker 1: for the Twins. They're coming off a win over the
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  Speaker 1: Astros that finished off a five and four home stand
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  Speaker 1: got them to twenty three and twenty seven, still in
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  Speaker 1: third place in the Al Central. And guys, given all
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  Speaker 1: that happened on in this stretch with Matt Walner being
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  Speaker 1: sent down, Royce Lewis being sent down, Ryan Jeffers lost,
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  Speaker 1: of course to the old Hamate and uh Twins, the
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  Speaker 1: Twins will probably take a five and four home stand overall, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think so, just saying sign of playing some good baseball,
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  Speaker 2: turn trying to figure things out. And you know, the
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  Speaker 2: two of those losses to the Brewers were one run games,
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  Speaker 2: very winnable, so they're they're showing some signs of improvement.
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  Speaker 3: You know. The thing is that the pitching just keeps
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  Speaker 3: being very consistent.
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  Speaker 2: Starting pitching in particular has been very good most of
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  Speaker 2: this season, despite injuries to myriad guys now Pablo Lopez, mckabele,
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  Speaker 2: Taj Bradley, they just keep turning guys out. Debbie Matthews
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  Speaker 2: has looked really good, and Connor Prelib, Joe ryan Man,
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  Speaker 2: he's been very good lately. And and so anytime you
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  Speaker 2: have that good pitching, you're going a shot. And so
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  Speaker 2: converting these wins has been good because it has been
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  Speaker 2: there's been a lot of turmoil in that clubhouse just.
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  Speaker 3: Through poor, you know, underperformance and.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of a lot of obstacles to deal with,
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  Speaker 2: and the you know, you get a team in like
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  Speaker 2: the Astros who's even more beat up than you, you
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  Speaker 2: want to win that series, and they were able to
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  Speaker 2: convert it. With a very nice victory, and a victory
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  Speaker 2: that showed, you know, a couple of younger guys who
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  Speaker 2: are maybe showing some signs of development, which is what
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  Speaker 2: you're definitely looking for if you're the Twins front office
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  Speaker 2: right now, and what Twins fans.
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  Speaker 3: Should be looking for.
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  Speaker 2: Just any kind of positives like that can help this
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  Speaker 2: team in the long run, and we saw a few
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  Speaker 2: of those, for sure, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of lineup changes obviously, with all the
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  Speaker 1: shifts and the roster, and it's got to be a
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  Speaker 1: boost for a team to see guys like Ryan Kreiler
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  Speaker 1: and Victor Karattini step in to those voids and filled
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  Speaker 1: them pretty well and the win both of those guys
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  Speaker 1: homeward in the four to one win yesterday over Houston.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one we kind of talked about it earlier
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  Speaker 4: in the year, you know, when they were winning, you know,
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  Speaker 4: streaks of if you will, you know, it's contributions across
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  Speaker 4: the board from you know, a different guy. It's seemingly
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  Speaker 4: every night, and you know, it's really good to see
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  Speaker 4: the two guys he got plugged in with between injuries
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  Speaker 4: and options and things, both you know, Karatine hitting the
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  Speaker 4: big homer. Kryler hitting a homer. You know, that's the
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  Speaker 4: stuff that's going to have to happen this year because
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  Speaker 4: you know, Byron's got the target on his back every
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  Speaker 4: pitcher's meeting. It starts with him, and then it's the
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  Speaker 4: guys around him. And so if he the more protection
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  Speaker 4: he has, the more chances he has to get more
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  Speaker 4: pitches to hit. You know, it turns into ops and
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  Speaker 4: all the things that we want from our guys, and
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  Speaker 4: it's you know, it's good to see, especially you squeeze
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  Speaker 4: one out. I think the final was four to one,
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  Speaker 4: you know, close game. That wasn't a slugfest. It was
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  Speaker 4: just pop them for a couple of runs, good pitching
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  Speaker 4: across the board, and go home and get on a
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  Speaker 4: happy flight. You know, that's all you can ask for.
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  Speaker 3: And have you seen once you think of the pitch
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  Speaker 3: clock violation leading to the walk leading to the through
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  Speaker 3: run homer.
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  Speaker 5: That's a tough one. That's a huge momentum shift right there.
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  Speaker 4: It's well, it's so tough, like it's you know, in
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  Speaker 4: the moment you're so focused, like I get the pitchclock.
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  Speaker 5: It's making the games are fast.
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  Speaker 4: Now they're two and a half hours, three hours most
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  Speaker 4: of the which is what they wanted. They wanted a
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  Speaker 4: routine for fans. However, you're in the seventh, eighth or
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  Speaker 4: ninth inning and you got to think for a half
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  Speaker 4: second extra before you throw a baseball, like, we don't
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  Speaker 4: we don't want that walk to happen like that.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's just such it doesn't even feel competitive to me,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and I'm sure guys in the moment they're
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  Speaker 4: like happy to get a walk, but there's set little
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  Speaker 4: bit of.
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  Speaker 5: Just like you like when you get for that reason,
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  Speaker 5: you know. But hey, a win's a win's a win.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, we're not going to apologize for that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two pitches later to give up the home run,
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  Speaker 2: just like it's and it's crazy. There was one pitch
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  Speaker 2: that to Carotene during his walk that could have been
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  Speaker 2: challenged too.
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  Speaker 3: It was a fastball at the bottom of the zone.
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  Speaker 2: So like, there was all kinds of happenstance that occurred
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  Speaker 2: before Wodler ran into that three.
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  Speaker 3: Run homer and changed the game.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of it was a wild little sequence
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  Speaker 2: of events between two teams that nobody really cares about
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  Speaker 2: right now. So we're gonna We're gonna document it because
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  Speaker 2: it was pure baseball right there.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: I had to take a walk in softball last week.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine it's a similar feeling the pitchclock violation. It's
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  Speaker 1: like I really didn't want to. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: do it, but the pitch was just that bad and
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  Speaker 1: I was going to hit it. You know, it was
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  Speaker 1: going to beat it into the ground if I swung
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  Speaker 1: on it. So I took my base and didn't apologize
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  Speaker 1: for it. But anyway, the highlight probably of Wednesday, besides
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  Speaker 1: the pitchclock violation walk, whatever they gave to Joe Ryan
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  Speaker 1: after his elbow was sore, give it to everybody else
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  Speaker 1: the team because Joe Ryan, since he has returned from
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  Speaker 1: that brief little hiatus. Three straight I'll say it, Tyler Duffy,
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  Speaker 1: three straight quality starts, go off, King do it.
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  Speaker 5: It's just we've.
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  Speaker 4: Heard a lot about the five inning less than two
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  Speaker 4: is should run things, and I was referring to them
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  Speaker 4: as almost quality starts. You know, for everyone at home,
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  Speaker 4: it's six innings three runs are less as a quality start.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't know what that is, it used to
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  Speaker 4: be like the bread and butter stat for a starting pitcher,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if you weren't doing that next guy up
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  Speaker 4: kind of thing, you know, And with the way everything's now,
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  Speaker 4: so everybody goes five. So I'm sure they'll change it
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  Speaker 4: to a new stat at some point down the road,
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  Speaker 4: but for now it's we'll call them some aqs's, but
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  Speaker 4: some solid actual qs is.
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  Speaker 1: For Joe Ryan lately, Yeah, eighteen innings pitched, one run
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  Speaker 1: allowed in each of those three starts, twenty one strikeouts against,
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  Speaker 1: four walks A one to five oh e r A
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  Speaker 1: in those three starts, Dan, he's us been on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And yesterday in particularly, the swing and miss was
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  Speaker 2: just amazing, like his sweeper was dancing. He had ninety
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  Speaker 2: nine pitches thrown. He threw seventy one strikes, so he
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  Speaker 2: was just he was in the zone. But then what
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  Speaker 2: I love about Joe Ryan is he's accurate and his
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  Speaker 2: command is good and he can be in the zone,
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  Speaker 2: but also he knows when to make.
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  Speaker 3: Good misses and get guys to chase.
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  Speaker 2: And he had nineteen swings and misses and ninety nine
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  Speaker 2: pitches yesterday, so he was.
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  Speaker 3: Having another typically good day.
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  Speaker 2: Before we got on air, stuff was talking about Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: radio hosts talking about Byron Buxton being in the outfield there, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta host, the guy has a no trade clause and
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  Speaker 2: he's a ten to five now so.
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  Speaker 1: But he's from Georgia's dan, did you know that he's
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  Speaker 1: from me?
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  Speaker 3: Is?
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  Speaker 5: He is hours away from Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: I would definitely put that in a place in one
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  Speaker 2: of the like maybe two places that I bet you
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  Speaker 2: he'd consider going if the call came. Because it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean the team can't call and be like, hey, Jeremy Zol,
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  Speaker 2: would you trade Byron Buxton? Like it's not like there's
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  Speaker 2: like the Jeremy Zol's numbers disallowed from Atlanta's phone number
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  Speaker 2: because of like, it's not like you punch into a computer.
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  Speaker 2: We want to talk to Team A about Byron Buckston.
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  Speaker 2: Then it's like this call will not be placed. You
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  Speaker 2: can still call, you just get told no. And and
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  Speaker 2: last year teams called about called his agent to try
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  Speaker 2: and figure out if they could get around his.
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  Speaker 3: No trade time. Anyway, Sorry that tangent there, Joe Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly, Joe Ryan keeps doing this, We're going to hear
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  Speaker 2: more and more about him, and then it's Twins fans
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  Speaker 2: cover your ears. But I mean, he's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: lot at the trade deadline. And he's been so good,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on the year, it's a three ZHO two era.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's sixty one strikeouts in like fifty six
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  Speaker 2: plus innings for a guy who is a first time
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  Speaker 2: dad right now, who has clearly knows there's additional eyes
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  Speaker 2: on him because every team that needs pitching is looking
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  Speaker 2: at Joe Ryan. He's handling this all exceptionally well, and
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  Speaker 2: especially when you throw in that elbow scare. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he said he didn't feel very good. He's felt off,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just in delivery. However, like you know, Joe
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  Speaker 2: Ryan's all about the flow, right and he is.
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  Speaker 3: He is not. He was not feeling the flow in.
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  Speaker 2: Those first five six starts, seven starts, and he was
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  Speaker 2: still sitting there with like a three six e RA
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  Speaker 2: at the time or three seventy RA. It's like, man,
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  Speaker 2: what happens if you do feel that? And now we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing what he looks like. He's on a roll, and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's great for him for future earnings, it's great
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  Speaker 2: for if the Twins had to trade him, it's great
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  Speaker 2: for the Twins current chances because he's helping keep them around.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows, maybe maybe Tom Pohlad says, let's buy at
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  Speaker 2: the deadline if they're like twenty two, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: they're four games under five hundred. But somehow everybody up, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I'll believe it.
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  Speaker 2: When I see it. However, you know, you never know.
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  Speaker 2: If they're hanging around like this, maybe they'll be active buyers. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't don't believe that, but you know, anyways, it's
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  Speaker 2: Joe Ryan being good no matter what, Joe Ryan being
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  Speaker 2: pitchank level he's at right now is very good for
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  Speaker 2: all parties interested, whether it's outside the Twins and looking
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  Speaker 2: to add him, whether it's the Twins thinking let's keep
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  Speaker 2: going with him, or whether it's Joe Ryan's agent thinking
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  Speaker 2: about free agency. This is a it's a nice turn
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  Speaker 2: of events. And man, again, he was nasty yesterday. It
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  Speaker 2: was just it was unfair. And the Astros have like
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  Speaker 2: two or three good hitters going in their lineup right
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  Speaker 2: now with Al Tuvay and Korea out. That was he
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  Speaker 2: was just kind of it was like, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: was very easy. It looked very easy for him, and
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  Speaker 2: it has a lot lately.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about going ahead of the trade deadline,
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  Speaker 1: I had to take that sweatshirt off. It's way too
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  Speaker 1: hot in here. But I made my point. Princeton not Yale.
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  Speaker 2: No wait, let's be honest when it comes to me,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, it's your school is very good, but
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  Speaker 2: you're all relevant to me when it comes to March
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  Speaker 2: in the Mountain or the matt NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 1: So well, that's right, we're Yeah. Dan is a San
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  Speaker 1: Diego State guy, right.
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  Speaker 3: Big basketball, Yeah, basketball fan, that's like the one thing.
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  Speaker 1: And we shared a Sweet sixteen venue a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years back.
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  Speaker 3: We did we did THEA on that road trip. Coming up.
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  Speaker 3: The manager, I believe you called some of his games.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Willna Yeah, yeah, I did some play by play
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  Speaker 1: for Princeton baseball back in the day, some pa announcing.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you did Princeton basketball.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: I did that too football as well.
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  Speaker 3: Will Vennible and Chris Young all time Princeton.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah he was. He was gone before I got there,
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  Speaker 1: of course he was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you went a long time ago, but
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  Speaker 3: it did.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but well Cannibal, I know was was there
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  Speaker 2: at the same time as you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, think you think you're older than me though, Dan, So.
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  Speaker 5: No, you know not at hard.
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  Speaker 1: Moving on, there's a there's a couple more things we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about from that Astro series. I do
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  Speaker 1: want to get back to kind of looking ahead to
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  Speaker 1: to trade deadline and this upcoming road trip. But but first,
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  Speaker 1: another interesting development from Wednesday, Dan was Andrew Morris, who
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  Speaker 1: has mostly been kind of in that long relief role
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  Speaker 1: so far in his debut season, got a shot at
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  Speaker 1: closer and did not did not miss.
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  Speaker 3: No, he didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Ten pitches right through the heart of the order, got
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  Speaker 2: Yortn Alvarez. Quite quiet series from yord On Alvarez. That's
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  Speaker 2: a rare thing against the Twins. It's a rare thing
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  Speaker 2: against anybody, but got through the heart of the order
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  Speaker 2: and Andrew Morris like afterwards, we asked Derek Shelton about him.
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  Speaker 2: He said, he's got a low heartbeat and that's a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful thing. And we've seen Andrew Morris get more and
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  Speaker 2: more of these high leverage roles early on his first
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  Speaker 2: six games, every one of them was one plus inning,
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  Speaker 2: so he got out there on went to thedegout and
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  Speaker 2: came back for a second inning. But you know, four
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  Speaker 2: of them were at least two and two thirds, so
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  Speaker 2: he was pitching a long man role. And he's worked
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  Speaker 2: his way. He's shown some signs. They had to get
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  Speaker 2: him over the hump and get him pitching on back
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  Speaker 2: to back days. And then you know, this was three
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  Speaker 2: and four in this one, and Shelton said he was
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  Speaker 2: looking for a sign with the Velo because three and
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  Speaker 2: four is really a step up and workload. And the
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  Speaker 2: first pitch was ninety five and he knew that Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Morris was good. And Andrew Morris average ninety six to
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  Speaker 2: six with his fastball. I don't look, do I think
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  Speaker 2: he's a closer. I don't know right now. He's like
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  Speaker 2: a guy that could close for them, But I do
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  Speaker 2: think he's got high leverage potential for sure. Like these
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  Speaker 2: are good signs we've seen from him. He comes in
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  Speaker 2: even in the game against the Brewers where he gave
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  Speaker 2: up to two runs had they not had the obstruction call,
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  Speaker 2: he gets, makes a pitch, gets a grounder, and they
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  Speaker 2: get that lead runner that might have changed the entire inning. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: he gives up two runs that inning. But I just
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  Speaker 2: like what I've seen. I like the how he handles it.
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  Speaker 2: Some guys fight the role switch from starting pitcher to reliever,
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  Speaker 2: and he said he wants to do something meaningful, and
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  Speaker 2: if that means go to the bullpen and handle it
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  Speaker 2: and do something to help with the team, he's doing
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  Speaker 2: it like so I like the way he's approaching it.
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  Speaker 2: I talked to Anthony Bonda yesterday about it, just how
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  Speaker 2: what his impressions have been, and he said he can
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  Speaker 2: already see Andrew Morris trying to figure out during the
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  Speaker 2: game what his lane might be when there might be
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  Speaker 2: a run of right handers coming up he's gonna face,
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  Speaker 2: and to see him start moving around and getting ready
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  Speaker 2: for that potential spot that Morris is picking that stuff
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  Speaker 2: up and we're talking about two months in, so like,
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  Speaker 2: clearly he's got the mental side for this. I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you come back from that game against the
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  Speaker 2: Brewers where he took the loss, and to come back
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  Speaker 2: and have pitched well now twice since then is a
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: good sign.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: And beyond that, he's got the mustache, which you know.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I think the mustache gives him some closer type vibes
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: for right now.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, he looks like a little kid out there still.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, you got to deliver that. If you have
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: a mustache, you gotta deliver. That's the rule.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're setting yourself up.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyler, what goes through your head the first time
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: you get a shot in a high leverage situation.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: It's I mean, that's my Like I started up until
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: twenty seventeen, and then they're like, hey, you made the team,
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: You're going to the bullpen. I'm like, sure you, And
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: then I started that You're kind of the same. I
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: wonder how closely timed it is, but like I started
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: the year as the long guy. You know, I think,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: go with three innings in Detroit, like first series of
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: the year, whatever, and then is you know, everybody got
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: their shots and the next thing. You know, I got
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: a shot in the sixth, and then it was you know,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: a little more leverage early, and then it was the seventh.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Then you can you feel it coming, and to dance
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: point talking to Banda like, when you can feel it
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: coming and then it starts happening, you start to get
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: a little bit of that confidence. And that's what seemingly
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: happening right now with Morris is you know, he knows
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: his spot's coming. He's starting to figure out, all right,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: it's the guys or it's the big riety with whoever's
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: around him, you know, get ready for your lane, and
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: that builds confidence. And that's you know, when we've talked
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: about roles and having an idea, that's what it really
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: starts to become is just knowing you can look at
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: a lineup and pick out your spot, you know. And
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: at this point now it's if it's going to be
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: the ninth, makes it even easier. You know, it might
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: be the eighth, but it's going to be the heart
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: of the order or who's ever's up in the ninth
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: with the lead and that, and that becomes easy to
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: get ready for it, to get up for you know,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: you're not as Trevor May and I remember talking, it's
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: just this all day slow trickle to get ready to
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: pitch at some point, and it's it's hard to do
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: that for one sixty two.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: But you know, when you know you.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Got a roughly eight ninth inning leverage spot, it's easy
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: to get up for it.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: He became the the ninth Twin to earn at save
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: this season, which is just shocking to me.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: The eighth we we got too briefly the other day,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: but it was Taylor Rodgers in that Monday game.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Cool stat that the Twins passed along and involves one
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: of us here, but Taylor Rodgers last save in of
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Twins uniform before the other night on Monday.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: I think it was against Houston.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Was I twenty third twenty twenty one versus the La Angels.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: This is courtesy of Twins Radio. That was seventeen hundred
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: and sixty days in between says it's the most days
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: in between saves for a Twins player. Steve Luber was second,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: was sixteen hundred ninety six days between his two from
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: nineteen seventy one to nineteen seventy six. Jesse Crane third
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: with fourteen hundred and thirteen days. Tyler Duffy, fourth between
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: twins saves thirteen hundred and seventy one days in between, says,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: I mean they did up with with.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: The you got you got one in twenty seventeen and
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: then not another one until twenty twenty one.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: That they didn't let me have it too often. I
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: mean we always had a closer that was much better
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: than I was.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: But what was it?
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was Longer Leaf in Chicago and
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: then the Rangers probably. I think it was to save
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: I had to come in. I think I can't remember
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: what happened. I think I got to save it at
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: the new Rangers Park.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: That's pretty incredible that the recall.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Grown man save for the first one.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: I remember Joe giving me the ball and I was
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: just like it's like fifteen to one and we just
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: like blew them mouth kind of thing, and it's like yeah, cool,
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Like this is okay, wait, so.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: This actually you were close. The Rangers save was the
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Rangers saved was a month later. Your first one was
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: actually at Cleveland in ten innings.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: There were you guys.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: You guys scored three as May twenty third, twenty twenty one,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: and who hit the three run homer was that Kyle
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Garlic Kyle Carlic hit a home run off James Left.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: I was right, No, it wasn't. It wasn't. It was
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: a right writing homer.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Oh Man, Karen Chack, I still remember the game where
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: rock o'haden the umpire's check his hair.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: For for we but yeah, so yeah, I thought that
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: was a good start. He told me that the other day.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Good for this can be a good news segment. Just
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: we pick an old Tyler Duffy game that Dan also
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: covered and just reminisce about it would be a good one.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: In between which ones not to pitch?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good point. Yeah, we'll vet them first. In
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: between Joe Ryan and Andrew Morris. Dan another picture with
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: a fine relief outing that you wanted to touch on.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yonder scomes with two innings, pitch, five k's and no runs.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Duff give your impression first, what did you see from
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Yonder Scomez? It was like a forty eight thirty six
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: pitch outing or something like that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: And yeah, he looks great. You know, we got him
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: from Tampa. I guess he had been dfaide, which you
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: know sometimes that's because they have too many guys you
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: never know why you guys get the a faide always
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: it's you know, sometimes just a roster crunch or whatever.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: But he seems to be thriving in Minnesota at this point.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, put him in some spots. He's getting the
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: job done. I think you got to save like his
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: first outing, right, Yeah, you know, he's just he's pitched everywhere,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: He's gonna do everything, and at that point you get
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: deafade like he's happy to be in the big leagues.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: I'm sure he's doing stuff behind the scenes.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: That is, he's trying to get better and better and
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: keep working because you get new life like this, it's
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: it's it's a golden opportunity to go and utilize everything
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: that they have in that clubhouse. And pitching wise, it's
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: you know, it's good to see guys were grabbing that
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: are doing well.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a guy that he's walked four point
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: three per nine for his career and mostly has been
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: a starter. He's only twenty six still too, so this
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: is like a find a guy with less than your
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: service time. It's if it works out, he is a find. Obviously,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: long way to go to see that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: But one thing he.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Pitched for the White Sox down the stretch in twenty
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: twenty five, after pitching a little bit of relief for
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: the Yankees and the Dodgers earlier in the season. But
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: he the White Sox thought he nibbled too much. Clearly
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: the Walks illustrate that. So they asked him to throw
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: four pitches. And for most of his career he has
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: thrown a two seamer, a cutter, a change up, a sweeper,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: and a fastball. Like even this year he's thrown four
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: of those pitches seventeen and a half percent or more.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: But the Twins are saying, look, you're a reliever. Now,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: let's your fastball's got some special characteristics to it. Beyond
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: that it's averaging ninety five. We don't have a lot
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: of that, and so why don't we just make you
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: a sweeper fastball guy right now? And those two pitches
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: now account for eighty five percent of all his pitches.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: He's thrown fifty six percent fastballs for his career, he's
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: like a thirty four percent or the last two years
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: his thirty four percent fastball. So clearly they see something
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: and they're mixing it up. Led to five strikeouts and
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: two innings, but we did see it in the last
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: time out, he walked two batters, and so he needs.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: To attack with this fastball.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: That's clearly the key, and he needs to be sharp
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: with it. We saw second inning. You know, it comes
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: out and strikes out the side. In the first inning,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: body comes back and falls behind cam Smith three to
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: one and gives up a single, and Victor Carrettini went
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: out for a mound meeting immediately and was like, hey,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: let's let's relax here. Whatever he said, he didn't, you know,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: but it calmed him down. He came back, he threw
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: two balls for missed with two fast balls, but fought
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: back and got the out and then retired the next
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: two and got, you know, two clean, really really clean innings,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: encouraging innings. He's got six strikeouts in five and a
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: third so far with the Twins. We'll see what it
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: can be. But he's gonna get chances.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Too, because they clearly like the mix and he's given
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: him some results.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: So you got to hope, Like when you're in the
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: twins position, with all these open spots in the bullpen,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: that guys pan out and you're clearly turning over every
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: looking for talent, and you know, they got him for
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: cash on May sixth, and we've see him pitching a
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: lot of late innings and I mean, he's gonna get
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to keep doing that for right now, and maybe it
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: turns into something.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: A six point two to three e er for Gomez
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: and seventeen and a third innings with Tampa and then
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: five and a third innings across seven outings for the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Twins so far, a goose egg. Not a single run
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: aloud so early yet, as you pointed out, Dan, but
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: encouraging start for sure. The Twins now head out on
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a ten game road trip. They're not back at Target
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Field until June first, don't have another off day after
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: today until June eighth, so a couple of weeks straight
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: of games. They're first in Boston, then off to the
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: play the White Sox, and then ending in Pittsburgh the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Derek Shelton Revenge Series. The Twins will pass the one
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: third mark of the season on this road trip. It's
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: still early. It's not as early as it was the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: first two weeks of this podcast, where we mentioned that
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: it was early every single day, But right the American
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: League overall is still pretty average. The Rays and Yankees
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: have separated a bit. The Guardians might be on their
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: way to doing that too, but everyone else is on
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: one side of five hundred barely or the other or worse.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: If the Twins can come back from this series with
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: a winning record, they will be right in that mix
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: for wild card positioning, obviously, and they're playing teams that
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: if you want to be in the playoffs, you should be.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Boston is just coming off a sweep over Kansas City
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: but still under five hundred. The White Socks are right
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: ahead of the Twins in the AL Central twenty five
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: and twenty four. The Pirates are in last place in
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the NL Central but above five hundred in that very
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: tough vision right. They also have Paul Skins, so it's
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: not as with as always with the Twins. This could
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: go a lot of ways, but it feels like this
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: series Dan could, or this this stretch could potentially kind
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: of set the tone for what happens in the next
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: two months as we head towards the trade deadline. Did
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: they come out of this road trip in good position
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: or bad? It could if they fall too many games,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: but five behind five hundred, I could see it digging
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: a hole that they can't get out of.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's definitely the case. You got to hope for
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: a five hundred trip here, you know, ten games, that's
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: a long trip, and they are going through all kinds
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: of issues on that offensive side, just with those guys,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: with Walner and Lewis being out, you know, or at TRIPLEA.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: But they've played pretty well lately.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: They won three of their last four series, and even
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: in that Milwaukee series losing two or three.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: They were in it the entire way.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: They got to keep going that way, this direction, and
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: you know it's possible to get Todd Bradley back. There's
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: a tv A for the second game in Boston. He
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: threw a bullpen on Wednesday. His bullpen previously I believe
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: was on Monday. Was very encouraging, or they were.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: They've been excited to see what he's done.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: He had pitched in Saint Paul over the weekend too,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: and so you know, sorry, actually Monday, he came in
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: from Saint Paul and felt good. That was the update then,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: And he threw a bullpen Wednesday, and seems like he
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: could be returning to the rotation.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: That'd be a nice boost to get to. But with
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: the pitching they're getting.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: The starting pitching is they they have a chance to
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: keep going and being in every game. It's figuring out
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: those late innings and it's figuring out our way to
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: get enough runs. Crazily enough, the Twins I think are
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: third in the American League in offense, but they.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Just seem to be a little bit streaky.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: We've seen them with their downturns withston scoring position. This
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: would be a good time take advantage of some pitching
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: because Boston's pitching is not good.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: They've been they've been struggling. So I mean, yeah, you
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: you you can't keep going.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Three and seven on road trips of this magnitude, so
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: you you really got to play five hundred ball otherwise
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: your chances you're you're more likely ending up on life support,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: and that's definitely where they'd like to avoid, at least
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: before June one.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that four game set in Chicago is
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: going to be you know, it's the.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: Heart of the road trip, but it's also first time
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: seeing them and they're right there with us, and so
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: it's like that's going to be a really good it's
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: gonna be the full roster worth your four games are
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: going to be everybody twice. You know, the hitters are
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: going to get a full look at everybody and vice versa.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: It's it'll be a good one, especially our first encounter
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: with I'm blinking on his name at the moment, south
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Side Samurai.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: What is his name, Omer Kami?
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, hearing the cover off the baseball, you know, it's
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: a it'll be a good that's the one. I'm excited
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: to see that series because you know, the White Sox
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: are making a little noise over there.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I think one sixty ops plus from amuracamy uh and yeah,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: seventeen homers, which leads a league, nine thirty four ops,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: five point fifty two slug.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: He's been and and just bringing them life. Because the
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: White Sox twenty.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Five and twenty four, I don't know that I know
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: their fans are very excited. I don't know anybody saw
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: them being right here at this point and taking two
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: or three from the Cubs, and you know, taking down.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: PC the Cubs looks pretty invincible.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: And then then the Cubs just got swept by the Brewers.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: So yeah, what a what a week it's been for
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: the Cubs and the White Sox are a prominent part
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: of that. So it is a good test without question.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Starts in Fenway Park this weekend. Connor pre Lip gets
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: to start on Friday, Bailey over Saturday, Kendrick Rojas scheduled
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: for the Sunday finale, and.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Then we Fridayhead. Wait, wait, Friday bobblehead Day. Guess whose
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: bubblehead it is at Fenway Park? David Ortiz, Roger Clemens?
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Are you going, Dan?
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: No, I'm going to do the Pittsburgh and I have
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: to give my people to get me one. You're gonna
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: have to give my Kerman a call and say, give
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: me a Roger Clemens bobblehead.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: I'll call Breslo see if you can grab me.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: One to the top.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I like it.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: I'm sure he's got nothing going on.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, before we go, we have to get to something
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: very important. If it's a new it's a new segment.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I'm calling explain yourself, Dan. If you follow Dan on
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Twitter or x, which I recommend for the Twins content,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: but not for any of the rest of it. He's
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: got some good ones in there. I shouldn't say that,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: but he had an interesting week checking out umpire pants.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Dan noticed some differences in the styles, which is unusual.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Usually they like to match, and it happened not just
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: against the Brewers, but then again against the Astros. Dan,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: first of all, please please explain your fashion fascination with
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: this story, and can you tell us anything about what
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: happened here in this.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: I can I can't, okay, all right, First someone else
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: noticed it and tweeted at me, and so in both
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: cases I got tipped off because it's not like you're
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: out there looking at uniforms right like everybody's writing.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Sure, but you still like notice nobody.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: But but like, like somebody tweeted at me, and then
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: once you see it, you can't like unsee it.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: It's impossible to unsee because these guys.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Usually are wearing gray pants and with their their black tops,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: and it's very uniform, and here they are wearing jeans
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: and runners and all kinds of different pants out there.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: It was wild and like I took the photo from
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Afar and then zoomed in on it and put it
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: on social media, and we actually requested to talk to.
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: The Umpires and one of our pool reporters went down
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: there Friday night after the Brewers game to find out
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: what happened, because there was a lot of fascination online
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: with umpire pants because yeah, it's stupid, and we're baseball
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: fans and there's one hundred and sixty two of these
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: things and when something's different.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: But they declined to interview with.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Bobby Nightingale, and I don't think they wanted to make
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: the company look bad that.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: So what happens is umpires have trunks. They don't.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, you know, I'd bring my clothes
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: just in my own bag. But there's so much equipment
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: that they have, they ship it in the trunk, just
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: like teams ship all of their equipment with the team plane.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Umpires do the same thing. And in both cases, the
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: trunks arrived late. The first game, apparently it got there
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: ten minutes before the game, but the guys already had
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: to be on the field at that point, so nothing
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: you could do about it. So they would go in
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: in between innings and change. There is one solution, the
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: home plate umpire. There's always a pair of plate umpire
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: pants at each ballpark. There's an emergency Yeah, I know,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: it's crazy. There's an emergency trunk at the ballpark and
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: the clubbe's they don't even have access to it unless
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: they reach out the league and.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: Get the code company.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, so like legitimately, and apparently, you know, because it's
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: umpire pants, they're baggy because you gotta get some extra
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: equipment and you're doing the lean down right, like they
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: want comfortable pants. So I think whoever was working the
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: plate Friday did already have their umpire pants and someone
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: else was offered the secondary pairt and they're like, they
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: said no because they look like I'm gonna date myself.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: MC hammer pants and so they didn't want to change.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: So we had that happen on Friday, and I was like, okay, cool,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: And then Monday it happened again. And I've never seen
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: this before. I know it happened with Joe West way back.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Somebody sent me a photo of it. But yeah, it
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: happened again. And apparently about ten minutes before the two
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: hour rain delay ended on Monday, the trunk arrived and
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: so the guys were able to change back.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Into their Yes. Yes, so yeah, yes, I have a
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: pant umpire pants fetish, I guess we can say. And
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: so I'm gonna.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Keep diving into this and yeah, you know, I would
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: have thought they just carried them in there like suitcases
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: and brought a second suitcase and checked down the plane
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: and you know, maybe the bags got lost, but no.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: Trunks this year.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Across the board, pants cake for doing it, irons pants
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: down up down rankles.
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