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Do the Twins have any playoff shot now? This weekend is the last stand · Twin Cities Territory

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  Speaker 1: There's tension in the ranks here on Twin Cities territory.
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  Speaker 1: We are all 4.3 percenters, but one of us might
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  Speaker 1: be turning in his badge today. We'll get to that
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  Speaker 1: in just a minute. The Twins have lost two out
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  Speaker 1: of three to the Tigers this week. They have the
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  Speaker 1: day off today. It's Thursday, September 10th. Cleveland on deck
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. We are going to be back tomorrow for
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  Speaker 1: another show, and I want to get this out of
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  Speaker 1: the way. You can see it on the bottom right there.
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  Speaker 1: We are having a mailbag show tomorrow, so please, if
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  Speaker 1: you have any questions, leave them for us. down in
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  Speaker 1: the comments, questions about this season, the offseason, whatever's coming
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  Speaker 1: next for this team. We will get to those on
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow's show. But today is all about another frustrating series
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  Speaker 1: for the Twins. They dropped two out of three in Detroit,
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  Speaker 1: back to eight games under. 500 at 69-77. Still four
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  Speaker 1: and a half out in the wild card somehow.
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  Speaker 2: Still pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Did not lose any ground, but that is becoming a
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  Speaker 1: problem in and of itself because obviously precious few games
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  Speaker 1: left on the schedule. Guys, it was very similar to
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago series. The Twins lost the opener, came back,
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  Speaker 1: won the middle game, and then with a chance to
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  Speaker 1: win that rubber match, which was something they did so
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  Speaker 1: well towards the end of the first half when they
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  Speaker 1: were crawling their way out of this eight-game under. 500 hole,
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  Speaker 1: just did not have much of a fight at all
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  Speaker 1: in that rain-delayed finale on Wednesday. I keep wanting to
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  Speaker 1: write at the bottom of the screen that it's officially done,
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  Speaker 1: but again, they didn't lose ground in the wild-card race.
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  Speaker 1: There's still 16 games left on the schedule. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that in a minute. But one thing that jumped
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  Speaker 1: out to me, Tyler, before Monday's game, Audra Martin had
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  Speaker 1: a piece interviewing some of the players before the game started.
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  Speaker 1: And the subject was Joe Ryan's return, which we'll also
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  Speaker 1: talk about later today. But when talking to Trevor Larnik,
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  Speaker 1: she asked him what kind of a boost that was
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  Speaker 1: to the team. And I wrote down what he said.
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  Speaker 1: Larnik replied, He's an ultimate boost. I think any boost
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  Speaker 1: we can get at the end of the year, I
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  Speaker 1: think guys are running on fumes, and to have him
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  Speaker 1: back on the staff and give us, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: a boost, I think that's huge. Perhaps I'm reading too
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  Speaker 1: much into the running on fumes part, and being a
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  Speaker 1: podcast host now for 70-some episodes, I certainly understand that
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when a microphone's in front of you and you're
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  Speaker 1: asked to speak, you don't always get your point across.
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  Speaker 1: But it jumped out to me because, Tyler, it sure
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  Speaker 1: looks like that's exactly what this team has been doing
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  Speaker 1: for a month. They just, the energy seems gone. They
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  Speaker 1: seem tired and the results are matching it up. And like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think people love to hear that baseball players
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  Speaker 1: get tired and hurt too, compared to other sports. Dan
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  Speaker 1: famously won K fans preposterous statement tournament by suggesting it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to stand for nine innings, but it can be
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  Speaker 1: a real thing this time of year. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's like you say, that reminds me of the, there's
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  Speaker 3: a coach for the twins for a long time and he,
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  Speaker 3: He said the best way to get ready for spring
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  Speaker 3: training every year is go stand in a parking lot
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  Speaker 3: for a couple hours with cleats on and then just
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  Speaker 3: break off in a sprint every couple minutes. And now
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  Speaker 3: do that for 162 games. Trevor, he's one of my
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  Speaker 3: favorites that's still on the team. He's an honest guy.
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  Speaker 2: He works hard. He's a grinder.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of the cage rat. He's always working to
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  Speaker 3: get better, things like that. And hearing him say that, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's disheartening, I guess you could say. But it's the truth.
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  Speaker 3: You know, guys in that locker room, you know, there's
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  Speaker 3: an injury report that comes out and we hear about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the rehabs and things like that. But there's
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  Speaker 3: guys that are showing up to the field every day at,
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  Speaker 3: you know, 1.30, 2 o'clock, and they go straight to
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  Speaker 3: that training room.
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  Speaker 2: They're getting lasers. They're getting needles. They're getting whatever they.
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  Speaker 3: Can to feel 100% for when the first pitch is thrown.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a grind.
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  Speaker 3: Even for the guy who isn't playing every day, who's
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  Speaker 3: on the bench, like, little things just start to creep
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  Speaker 3: up on you during the season. And it's tough. And
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  Speaker 3: we've talked about it like heading into September, being in
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  Speaker 3: the mix, things like that. You know, Shelty mentioned, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's time to kind of for the sprint.
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  Speaker 2: And we're there.
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  Speaker 3: And we talked about Joe coming back, being a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a boost potentially. And, you know, he looked to
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  Speaker 3: be kind of riding the ship and, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: velo ticked up, things like that. But this time of year,
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  Speaker 3: it literally is do whatever you can to be ready
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  Speaker 3: for your outing or your at-bats or whatever it may be.
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  Speaker 3: And it's tough because in these moments, there's no more
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  Speaker 3: resources coming from behind you now.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody who's there is there. You've got injuries.
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  Speaker 3: You've got Martin who he could come back potentially.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Byron, it doesn't sound great, the things that have come
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  Speaker 3: out about him. And so the team right now is
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  Speaker 3: the team. And Joe coming back is that little boost.
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  Speaker 3: But somehow, someway, I keep alluding to Walker Jenkins getting
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  Speaker 3: hot would be the greatest thing ever because he's got
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  Speaker 3: that adrenaline, that fresh breath of air coming to the
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  Speaker 3: big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: He's excited to be there. He's probably not having the
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  Speaker 2: best time right now.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, it's been a bit of a struggle, but it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's the end of the season. It's why you work
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  Speaker 3: out all offseason. You bust your tail to be ready
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  Speaker 3: for this long journey of a season, and it's here.
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  Speaker 2: You've got three weeks left or so.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's how many games, you know, 16 or
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  Speaker 3: 17 games.
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  Speaker 2: It's literally it's time to empty the tank, whatever you have.
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  Speaker 2: And guys are worn out. It's no more. It's not
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  Speaker 2: how much caffeine you can take or anything else.
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  Speaker 3: It's just go play. And it's tough. You lose that,
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  Speaker 3: especially rain delay yesterday. There's nothing worse than showing up
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  Speaker 3: for a day game. You take a 40-minute bus ride
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  Speaker 3: to the stadium in Detroit because we stay out in Birmingham.
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  Speaker 3: You get there, and then you sit, and there's nowhere
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  Speaker 3: to go hang out anymore with all the media and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It's a tough place to ride out of weather delay
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  Speaker 3: and then to lose like that. It's a gut punch,
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  Speaker 3: but it's baseball, man. You're back home off day to day.
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  Speaker 3: Find a way to recharge and get ready for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: The obvious question after we've been talking now for over
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  Speaker 1: a week, now or never, Twins got a win. They
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  Speaker 1: once again did not win. it's over now, right? And like,
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  Speaker 1: it's such a confusing and crowded wildcard picture. And Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: I think you were even trying to look for someone
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  Speaker 1: to help you make sense of it and couldn't find it.
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  Speaker 1: But the scenario is, let's get it on the screen here.
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  Speaker 1: Four and a half games back. Oh, see, there's always
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  Speaker 1: some complications. As I find this I assure you they
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  Speaker 1: are four and a half games back in the wild card.
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland still leads. And there we are. Three teams in between,
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays, Rangers, and Orioles. I think it's still in play.
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  Speaker 1: Dan thinks I'm crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that right, Dan? Yeah, the scenario is everyone boards
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  Speaker 4: that flight to Cancun September 28th. A lot of trips
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  Speaker 4: to Cancun. No, no. We're talking about a sprint, and
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  Speaker 4: they're limping, and it's been painful.
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  Speaker 2: They have been.
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  Speaker 4: You're missing Byron Buxton, and it's very clear how much
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  Speaker 4: of a spark he offers. The offense has just gone.
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  Speaker 4: You look around, and you see Cody Clemens hitting home runs.
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  Speaker 4: They're key. He had a couple nice moments in Detroit,
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  Speaker 4: and that's got to be great for him because That's
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  Speaker 4: the team that drafted him. That's the team that really
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  Speaker 4: didn't give him a chance, and here he is five
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  Speaker 4: years later going back and hitting game-winning home runs on
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  Speaker 4: Tuesday night there. But there's too far and too– there's
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  Speaker 4: just not enough. The words are escaping me right now.
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  Speaker 4: There's just not enough.
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  Speaker 2: You're so angry.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not angry. It's tired. I, too, am tired.
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  Speaker 1: You're running on fumes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I'm absolutely running on fumes. Look, you just look
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  Speaker 4: around in the lineup, and they can't get anything going consistently.
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  Speaker 4: They looked like they had that little hot streak going.
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  Speaker 4: They win the last game against the White Sox at
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  Speaker 4: home on Sunday last week. They blow out Detroit the
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  Speaker 4: first two in a row, and you're like, oh, maybe
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  Speaker 4: this is it. This is the start of a run.
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  Speaker 4: And since then, they are 2-5. And it's just been
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  Speaker 4: a disappointing return. When you look at the The Sunday
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  Speaker 4: night loss against the White Sox. You have a chance
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  Speaker 4: to win this series against the White Sox, and you
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  Speaker 4: just have a dud of a game losing 10-1. A
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  Speaker 4: game you were in, sort of, and then the White
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  Speaker 4: Sox bullpen game, where bullpen just shredded your offense and
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  Speaker 4: struck you out 15 times and you had four hits.
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  Speaker 4: And then you come back, and you're right, hour and
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  Speaker 4: 40 minute delay sucks. That's just, there's really nothing to do,
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  Speaker 4: especially when you get up early to get out. And
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  Speaker 4: you just sit around and wait. I don't like those scenarios,
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  Speaker 4: no matter what team you are. But they just need more,
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  Speaker 4: and they are not finding it. And it's like, you
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  Speaker 4: look at the Royce Lewis's, and we brought up Walker Jenkins,
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  Speaker 4: and Walker Jenkins had the big hit to sort of
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  Speaker 4: get them back in the game on Monday, but then
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  Speaker 4: they couldn't. They came up short. But you look everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: It's not happening. Trevor Larnik's still struggling. Uh, Brooks Lee's
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  Speaker 4: doing some like Brooks Lee defensively has been great, but
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  Speaker 4: he's inconsistent at the plate right now. Like everywhere you look,
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  Speaker 4: everywhere you look, it's this, I'm just saying names, but
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  Speaker 4: I mean, with the exception of like Cody Clemens and maybe, uh,
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  Speaker 4: Josh Bell's had a few good moments here and there,
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  Speaker 4: but I mean, like it's just all sporadic and they
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  Speaker 4: need consistent. They need it now. And yeah, they can,
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  Speaker 4: they can definitely take three from Cleveland. They've owned Cleveland
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  Speaker 4: for most of the year, but also, uh, Byron Buxton
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  Speaker 4: was largely playing a lot of the games. I just
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  Speaker 4: feel like his spark is very much missing from this group.
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  Speaker 4: And it's something that it's very unfortunate the way his
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  Speaker 4: hip has bugged him since May, because he was having a,
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  Speaker 4: probably on pace for the best season of his career.
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  Speaker 4: Last year was the best season of his career. Last
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  Speaker 4: year was amazing. Down the stretch, he was incredible. Down
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  Speaker 4: the stretch, he was hitting home runs consistently. It was
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  Speaker 4: the only thing the Twins had going for them on
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  Speaker 4: the way to 92 losses. His spark, I think, is missing.
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  Speaker 4: It's unfortunate for this team because when you are limping
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  Speaker 4: as they are, any little thing like that can get
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  Speaker 4: you going. That's a big thing that's just been missing
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  Speaker 4: consistently since you know the end of june i mean
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  Speaker 4: his last home run was june 22nd and that has
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  Speaker 4: uh never felt more uh evident than lately um i
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  Speaker 4: mean there were there were good moments in this series
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  Speaker 4: joe ryan um even though it was a little wild
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  Speaker 4: early on actually really wild early on look good and
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  Speaker 4: we'll talk more about him but like you need a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things to go right at this time of
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  Speaker 4: year like how i just don't know how this team
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  Speaker 4: with the way things are going can roll off 10
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  Speaker 4: in a row which basically they're at the point of
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  Speaker 4: right now. I mean, they have to go like 13-3
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  Speaker 4: to make the playoffs, essentially, or maybe 12-4. But they
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  Speaker 4: have to do something crazy like that, and I just
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  Speaker 4: don't think this team is capable of that.
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  Speaker 1: them all to Dan. Let's have everybody ask Dan questions.
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  Speaker 1: He'll love that. All right. Dan says it's over. The
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  Speaker 1: playoff odds basically say it's over 1% now. They have
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  Speaker 1: almost no chance.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: They're the 2.4 percenters.
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  Speaker 1: They're the 2.4. Their playoff chances have dropped below the
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  Speaker 1: amount of people who believe in them, so that's not
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  Speaker 1: a great sign. I'm going to go back to my
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  Speaker 1: visual aid here with the wildcard standings. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: caveat over the whole thing. I realize it's extremely unlikely. However...
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  Speaker 1: When you look at these wildcard standings and you look
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  Speaker 1: at what's happening this weekend, the Twins are playing the Guardians, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: They're four back in the loss column there. The Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jays and the Orioles are playing, so some losses are
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  Speaker 1: going to get handed out there. Texas is at Seattle
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon to finish a series with the Mariners and
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  Speaker 1: then goes to Arizona to play the Diamondbacks, who are
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  Speaker 1: playing well and are in the NL wildcard race, which
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  Speaker 1: is a much better wildcard race than this one. It
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  Speaker 1: is entirely possible... that the Orioles take two of three
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  Speaker 1: from Toronto, that Texas loses two of those four games
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, and that all three of those teams are
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  Speaker 1: sitting on 76 losses. So if, if the Twins could
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  Speaker 1: sweep Cleveland, they would be one game back in the
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  Speaker 1: loss column of all three of those teams with 13
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  Speaker 1: to go. I realize it's a big if, and it's
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  Speaker 1: almost impossible right now to imagine this team sweeping anybody
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  Speaker 1: But it was kind of hard to imagine that a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks ago when they swept the Braves, a much
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  Speaker 1: better team out of nowhere at home too. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: the spark has to come from somewhere. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that it will. Walker Jenkins hasn't provided it yet. Royce
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  Speaker 1: Lewis has gone way back in the opposite direction. Basically
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  Speaker 1: the bottom third of their lineup has been just a
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  Speaker 1: dead spot for the last month. Pitching has been hit
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  Speaker 1: or miss. Every reason to think it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: happen and it may not. But if somehow they can,
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  Speaker 1: even if they can win this series, Tyler, yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: got the Yankees after that. That's scary. Aaron Judge is back.
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  Speaker 1: But then those final 10 games are winnable. And just
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  Speaker 1: because of the way everyone else is playing like crap.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Cleveland, they had a seven game winning
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  Speaker 1: streak over San Francisco, Colorado, and the Angels, three of
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  Speaker 1: the worst teams in baseball. But outside of that, they've
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  Speaker 1: been 16 and 27 since the All-Star break. So like,
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  Speaker 1: Toronto's playing pretty well or has been, but other than that,
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  Speaker 1: all these teams are sort of a crapshoot. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of playing against each other. Twins still have Texas
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  Speaker 1: to end the season. It really does have to start
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  Speaker 1: right now, Tyler, but they're not cooked just yet.
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  Speaker 3: No, and that's the best part, I guess you could say,
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  Speaker 3: however you want to look at it. It's a realistic
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  Speaker 3: chance still.
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  Speaker 2: I know 1%, you're 2.4%.
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  Speaker 3: Anyone could have a bad week. And sometimes a blind
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  Speaker 3: squirrel finds a nut. You know, it's the twins like
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  Speaker 3: we've talked about a lot. They've they've never gone on
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  Speaker 3: that hot streak. Now, I'm not saying it's going to happen,
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  Speaker 3: but it is very realistic. All the scenarios you just said,
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  Speaker 3: like if they just have a little more than just
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  Speaker 3: a pulse for the next week and then you go
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  Speaker 3: into that last week, say say we get to two
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  Speaker 3: games out with that last week ahead of us. The
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  Speaker 3: rest of the teams are matching up against teams that
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  Speaker 3: are going to be just as good or if not better.
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  Speaker 3: The American League has just been so weirdly just not
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  Speaker 3: good other than the handful of teams.
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  Speaker 2: We're not getting our hopes up.
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  Speaker 3: There is still a realistic chance.
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  Speaker 4: In my mind.
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  Speaker 3: And as a player, those guys are thinking that. They
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  Speaker 3: aren't looking at it going, oh, okay, season's over, blah, blah, blah. It's, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 3: we legitimately can get into this wild card very easily.
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  Speaker 2: And we talked about it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, before the route, one side is going to
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  Speaker 3: eliminate all the good teams are going to be playing
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: each other. And so it's it's a crapshoot of who's
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: actually going to end up getting in. But but it's
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: a real chance in my mind from the players perspective.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Like if I just we eke out a couple games,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: you know, you got to take care of Cleveland. That's
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: going to be the big one. Like you got to win.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: You have to win at least two of those games.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Like sweeping them would be incredible. You know, but all
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: the other teams are beating up on each other. So
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: they're just kind of going to go bounce it back
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: and forth, but you can jump your big opponent at
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: this point in Cleveland and get them off of that spot. It's,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: it's one, you know, Joe, Joe's going to have a
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: longer leash this week. He's going to get to go
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: a little more innings. Like it's, you know, we saw
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: the bullpen get used kind of like a playoff scenario
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: in these Detroit games. Like the, the, the moves are
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: starting to happen as if we're, we're trying to, um,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: you know, hard at that point. And, you know, Zebby,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: obviously it's yesterday's outing was a weird, I think it's
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: when you're sitting for that long, especially as a starter,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: like you're prepping, he was prepping last the night before
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: to get ready for that start. And then you get
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: to the field, start getting ready. You know, I've had
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: weird rain out, rain delays in Detroit where it actually
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: never rained. And then it rains like once the game starts,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: like it's just a weird weather place sometimes.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: And it was weird.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Like it's literally happened where it never rained a drop.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: We sat for two hours and then played and it rained. Um,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: So it's just that, you know, chalk that one up
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: to some, whatever you want to call it, bad luck,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: bad juju, whatever. But it's as a, as a player,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: like me looking at it and hearing the schedule, it's,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: there's still a chance. Like that's the greatest part about baseball.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Like you have to play all of the games, no
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: matter what, like, you know, Jose Ramirez could stub his
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: toe and miss the series. You know, like crazy things
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: can happen. You know, there's been teams that get sick,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: you know, 15 guys have the flu and you don't
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: hear about it because it's behind closed doors. But like,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Crazy things happen. And that's the only reason I can
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: be optimistic is because I've been in those scenarios where
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: it's like, you know, we've gotten rid of guys at
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: the deadline and still made a push at the end
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: and made a wild card. You know, it's, there's just,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: there's still too many games for me to say no,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: unlike Dan. But it's, you know, it's just one, I've
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: still got some hope in me, just a smidge.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Dan, I promise you and all of our listeners that
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: if the opposite happens this weekend and the Twins get swept,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I'll turn a little more negative.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Come back unshaven, looking like you're hungover, that kind of– no,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: that's good. Zach will have.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: To eat some pie.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You'll be on the beach already.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: This Duff sounds with, when he's like, I got a
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: little hope in me. It sounds like Luke, Luke Skywalker
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: talking about dark, Darth Vader. He's still got a little
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: bit of good left.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: There's a little light left.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: There's a little light, There's a little bit left. I mean,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: I would totally agree with you guys if I saw
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: any signs of life from like Royce Lewis. Zach, you
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: were mentioning the stats. What are the stats since August 13th?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: He's hitting 180 with a 468 OPS, one homer, three
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: doubles among his 16 hits in that span.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is a guy that we're counting on
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: to carry them This is a guy that the Twins
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: looked at and said at the start of the year,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: we need to unlock his potential and get him back
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: to the guy he was. And we saw little snippets
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: of it after he came back from AAA in June.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: But we have not seen it consistently this whole summer.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: It's been inconsistent. He's played at career-high games right now.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: He's got career-high plate appearances. And this is a guy
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: that hit nine or ten home runs consistently. in a
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: month and carried them in June of 2024. And he
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: had a terrible slump at the end of the season.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Like his last two months of the 2024 season, he
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: had a sub 600 OPS and like he needs to
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: break that trend. You know what I mean? They need,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: they need Royce Lewis because when Byron Buxton's down, you
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: need your guys with star potential to step up. And like,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: we just haven't seen it there. We haven't, but it's
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: not just him. There's so many guys where it just
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: hasn't clicked yet. I mean, it does not seem like
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Larnik has been the same guy since he found out
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: he was almost traded. He came back and hit those
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: two home runs. The morning the trade rumor came out
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: of the Brian Abreu for Trevor Larnik, he hit a
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: home run in Seattle. I think it was his first
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: at bat. And he hit a home run the next day.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: And since then, he's really struggled too. But I mean,
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: it's everywhere. And it's just hard to see them. getting
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: going to roll seven or eight in a row off.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: And yeah, the schedule is 100% there to take advantage
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: of that. Although the giants just swept St. Louis and
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: are playing a little better out there. But like, you know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the twins haven't fared well against those bottom feeders as
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: it is all season. That's been one of their, their
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: weaknesses is not stepping up and taking advantage.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: So it's like, how are they going to better against
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the Yankees in some ways?
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah. How are they expected to buck these trends? Sometimes
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: you are what you are. I think we've seen that
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: out of this team for a while. The part that
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: sucks about it is that this is a very likable group.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: They are enjoying playing with each other. There's been so
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: many parts of this season that have been highly entertaining.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: There's been good development. This isn't a lost season by
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: any means. That's not it's more just like, all right, it's,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: it is what it is at this point. And that's
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: where I'm at. But also you're right. You guys are correct.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: It like, I've seen a Rockies team dead in the
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: water when 14 in a row, that was my first season.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: I was covering the Padres and the Rockies look just,
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: they looked like ass. They were terrible. They, and they
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: roll off 14 in a row and made it all
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: the way to the world series by winning seven more
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: in the playoffs. But I mean, you know, That's like
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: an all-time application. That is an all-time team that was
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: able to do that. The Twins have the vibes internally,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: but externally, I don't know that that's possible.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: We'll see. We've talked about this many times, but the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: mushy middle here of the American League has changed the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: tone of the conversation around the team to this point,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: at least on this podcast. Obviously, there are plenty of
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: problems that need to be addressed, and this is a
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: team that's tracking still to be 70-some wins. In a
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: normal season, we would have spent the last two months
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: talking about how it just wasn't good enough. Instead, we've
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: been distracted by this playoff race, which continues with 16
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: games to go. Fear not. We have a long offseason
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to address all of the many things. Obviously, there are
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: issues and things to fix that come up. We'll take
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: one more break, come back, talk about a few more
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: things from the last couple games in Detroit right after this.
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• 25:00
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• 25:02
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• 25:05
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• 25:11
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• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the series in Detroit. Joe Ryan made his return on Monday.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: We mentioned it earlier. And it was rocky at times.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Some control issues. Hit a couple guys. Knocked in a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: run that way, I believe, right? By hitting a batter.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: But overall, the line, four innings, seven strikeouts, I think.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: A couple of earned runs, and it was definitely better
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: than the starts that preceded his trip to the IL, Dan.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Seven strikeouts, 12 swings and misses in the 60-something pitches
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: it was, whatever it was. 66 pitches. All of his
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: stuff was up. His fastball velocity over the year was
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: up by half a mile per hour. So those are
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: good signs. That's what they needed. And, you know, it's
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: kind of funny because Joe Ryan, like as my cat
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: is cleaning herself in the background there, we saw like
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: signs of life that were good. And he's got, you know,
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: maybe three more starts left potentially. I imagine they'll try
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: to optimize him as much as possible in this run
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: and get Joe Ryan out there. So if that's what
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: they can get from him, I think the first time,
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: and Tyler can talk about this, but the first time
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: you stand in with batters in there, you see how
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: your stuff is playing. You have to adjust. And so
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: it didn't shock me that he was a little wild,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: especially given that all of his stuff was up. So
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: his slider was 1.7 miles per hour faster. His knuckle
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: curve was 1.2 miles per hour faster. Um, like he's
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: working with stuff. They probably hasn't had that good of
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: feel for, for a while. And, and it didn't shock
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: me that there was some rust, uh, early, but then
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: he dialed it in and, and to walk away one,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: I was shocked. He went for, um, because you see
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: the pitch count climbing and you're like, Oh no, this
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: isn't going to be good. And two for him to
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: get the seven strikeouts, uh, they were losing. Obviously pre-lit
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: came in and gave up the home run and, and they,
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: that game got away from them. They tried to rally
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: and couldn't get back. But, there was some encouraging signs
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: from Joe, I thought.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it looked good.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: And coming back, like you said, it's, it's one thing
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: to go pitch in the minor leagues. It's comfy, you know,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: it's a lot less stressful environment, things like that. You know, but,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: but to go and do it, you know, I think
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: it was in Omaha at that point too.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: So it's on the road. Like, it's just a very.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Much, I don't want to say complacent kind of start,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: but it's just like, you're making sure you feel good.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: And that's all you're really worried about. You know, as
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: someone who didn't go on any rehab ever, I don't
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: know exactly what that feels like, but it is one.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: It's tough. Definitely for a hitter.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: It's probably a lot easier to come out of versus
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: as a pitcher, like you've got to get that adrenaline.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: You've got to feel it. You know, and.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: He definitely, whether he did admit it or not, there
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: was a little tick up probably in some nerves, things
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: like that. Just get back on that mound the first time.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: And it's, it's one, when it does come out hot
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: like that, like I'd have days randomly where the ball
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: is just moving a little different.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: You're like, all right, well, this is what we got today.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: And then that's, That's part of baseball.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you show up to the yard and one day
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: it's just something feels different. And you've got to adapt
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: on the fly and work with it, especially when you're
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: trending upwards. Like, all right, I just need to attack today.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: If your fastball is playing up and you're a curveball guy,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: it's like, hey, we're throwing number one today until they
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: hit it. And him coming back, getting to that pitch count,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: I think that's probably why he stayed out as long
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: as he did. They wanted to make sure he got
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: his pitches in. You know, and kept it close. Swing
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: and miss is always a good thing, especially with Joe. Like,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: that's his game is getting the bad swings, you know,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: swinging at the fastball that they just seemingly can't hit.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: You know, and hopefully that means, hey, if he goes
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: smooth and cruises, keeps his pitch down, like, he can
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: get to the sixth with 75 pitches pretty easily. So
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: that's one of those things. It's hard to give up
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: hope at this point because there's some things that are
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: still there, you know, and Clemens and Bell, in my mind, like,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: got hot and you know hits the oppo homers like
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: there's guys that are in place that can do it
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: it's just like dan said it's it can't be one
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: guy every day it's kind of got to be the
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: team at this point you know we can't get picked
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: off a first base you know in the first inning
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: like stuff like that just can't happen um so it's
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: it's i don't know it's a tough road but it
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: can definitely happen. I'm not giving up.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Tuesday's win in Detroit was great for anyone who was
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a fan of the trade deadline moves because Dean Kramer,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: a nice start for the Twins. Two runs in, I think,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: five innings it was. Minter and Hoffman each threw a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: clean inning. Gomez with the save, obviously not part of
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline. But also in that game, the Twins
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: were up 1-0. Dean Kramer was holding on, and he
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: had two outs in that fifth inning. And then just
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: like that, a single in Anapo Homer, and the Twins
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: are down 2-1. And I admit, I'm like, that's it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: It's over. This team can't hit right now, can't come
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: back from a deficit, even such a small one. But
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: then in the sixth inning, What do you know? Cody Clemens,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a two-run homer. He had another one yesterday. And in
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: that same period of time that Royce Lewis has been
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: struggling so bad, since August 13th. August 13th, by the way,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: was the Field of Dreams game in which Clemens also homered.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: 293 average and a 914 OPS for Clemens since then.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: He took over the team home run lead from Byron
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Buxton yesterday with his 26th of the year. Buxton obviously
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: a lengthy drought without one and now not playing. But Tyler, it's,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: it's been a huge summer for Cody Clemens for sure.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: He's you know, we keep talking about the twins going
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: to spend more money and things like that. Like he's
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: going to get a nice little payday first year, which
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: is good for him, man. He's that's a guy who's
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: persevered over some tough spots. You know, he's, I guess
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: he came up with Detroit. I remember seeing him, you know,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: kind of got a shot there, but not really, you know,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: bounced around to Philly and, And the Twins gave him
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: an opportunity. They saw a guy that could potentially be
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: a good fit, and he's gotten comfy. He's gotten to
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: know the lay of the land. He's playing all over
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: the field. I think he made a nice catch and
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: left the other day. He's done everything they could possibly
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: ask of him, and that's what you want. He's taken
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: over that kind of super utility role. Lee's sliding to third.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Culpepper is short now. Keyshaw seemingly is going to be
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: an outfielder now. Um, you know, it's Clemens has been
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: the guy that they can kind of plug and play
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: to keep them in that lineup. And that's, you know,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: a cornerstone piece that will technically be affordable regardless of
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: what he makes, um, compared to other guys that are
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: putting up those numbers. I mean, he's, he's got a
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: chance to get 30 homers this year and hitting what
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: two 60, two seven 50, whatever it is. Um, you know,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: that's a, that's an above average in my mind, offensive
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: player in today's game. And, um, it's been fun to
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: watch him, you know, he's come up clutch so many
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: times and, and he just seems to be the right
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: guy at the right time more often than not. And,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: you know, that, that helps those young guys around him
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: to see like, it's, it's takes some time. It's, it's developing,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: it's learning yourself, figuring out what you're good at and,
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: and using that to your advantage. And he's taken his
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: opportunities and he's made a huge run with it. And,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: you know, it's one, regardless of how the season goes,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: I would love to be able to pencil him in as,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: you know, two hole, three hole, whatever it is.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: For next season. He's going to be a big piece.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: We get so much time to talk about what next
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: year's team is going to look like.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Real quick. I mean, Cody, we've been struggling. The writers
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: have been talking about it with Byron down who the
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: team MVP is just because there's not a surefire candidate,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm thinking the way he's performed of late and
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: his home runs are all meaningful. Every single, like it just,
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  Speaker 4: you look at it, the percentage of them, And what
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  Speaker 4: they've done to tie or put the team ahead, it's
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  Speaker 4: been consistent. One, since I have been down most of
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  Speaker 4: this episode, I'll give you guys one.
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  Speaker 2: Upbeat.
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  Speaker 4: I thought Andrew Morris, that was a really big moment
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  Speaker 4: for him Tuesday night. He's struggled. Like we've just seen
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  Speaker 4: the rookie, the rookie like hit the wall, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in basketball, it's the, in college basketball, they always talk
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  Speaker 4: about the freshmen when they hit the 15 or 20
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  Speaker 4: game mark hitting a wall and like, physically struggling and
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  Speaker 4: for relievers i've talked about it all year but morris
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  Speaker 4: came in mentor gave up the leadoff walk uh then
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  Speaker 4: stolen base um and the ryan jefferson throw went in
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  Speaker 4: the center field so all of a sudden detroit down
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  Speaker 4: by a run has the runner on third and mentor
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  Speaker 4: got the first out but morris came in and got
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  Speaker 4: two outs and just Location was better. Command of executing
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  Speaker 4: pitches to where he wanted to was better. But just
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  Speaker 4: I thought that was a good moment for him given
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  Speaker 4: everything that he has struggled with lately. And it's kind
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: of just I've thought to expect those struggles would come along.
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  Speaker 4: But to get a big bounce back moment there and
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  Speaker 4: contribute to a win had to be good for him
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  Speaker 4: because they need him. Like you look at that game
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  Speaker 4: and Kramer went five and it's like how are they
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  Speaker 4: going to cover these four innings? if Morris isn't part
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  Speaker 4: of that picture, it was like, that means that Hoffman
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  Speaker 4: or mentor is going to have to go one plus
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  Speaker 4: in here somewhere. Um, you knew that they were going
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  Speaker 4: to kind of have to work around that and Hoffman,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Hoffman or mentor was going to each have
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  Speaker 4: to go one plus in there. Uh, mentor did go
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  Speaker 4: 1.1 and, um, Hoffman went the one closed out, but yeah, they,
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  Speaker 4: they need Morris to contribute. Um, he's been really good
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  Speaker 4: all year. It's been unfortunate run for him. But there's
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: a lot to like there, especially going forward, as to
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  Speaker 4: what he can be in a setup-type role. Because, man,
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  Speaker 4: his stuff when it's on is electric.
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  Speaker 3: No, to that point, I think Sheltie putting him in
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  Speaker 3: that spot, that's that reassuring confidence that sometimes we can't
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  Speaker 3: create ourselves as players. You need to know the head
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  Speaker 3: honcho wants me in this spot. And that's the only
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  Speaker 3: way sometimes to shake it is, you know, who knows
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  Speaker 3: whether he was expecting or not.
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  Speaker 2: But when he heard.
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  Speaker 3: That phone ring and it was him in that moment,
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  Speaker 3: I guarantee you there's a little bit of like, oh, shit,
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  Speaker 3: it's me.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: But it works.
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  Speaker 3: Like sometimes that's what it takes. And he looked like
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: the guy we saw the first half. And that's if
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: he again, little sparks, if he can be the guy
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  Speaker 3: that ran hot for that two months or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 3: that's a huge boost to that pen to the rest
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  Speaker 3: of it. The depth just keeps getting better. And that's
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  Speaker 3: one of those little things that a manager and a
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  Speaker 3: pitching coach and staff can do to like get a
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  Speaker 3: guy out of a funk and, you know, who knows,
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  Speaker 3: say he goes hot and doesn't give up a hit
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's, that's a guy you can lean on.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about Andrew Morris's struggles on Monday. He promptly
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: comes out and has a, A clutch outing. We talked
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: about Walker Jenkins' struggles on Monday. He came out and
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: had a two-RBI double the next day. So let me
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: just say, the Twins are terrible, and there's no possible
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: way they can sweep Cleveland and come back in this wild.
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  Speaker 2: Could never happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's not happening.
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  Speaker 6: No way.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Well, that's enough for today. Dan's ready to go to
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  Speaker 6: Bye-bye.