WEBVTT - HR. 2 - Shelty 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:12.120 Fan, all right, no wasting time here, Bonds Bones is here, 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.040 Marni Ga Larnar's here, and we have a very very 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:16.040 special guest on the phone. 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:17.880 It smells like spring out their core. 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.520 Yeah, we uh, you know, we're tight with him, so 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:22.439 we get to call him Shelty, but the rest of 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:24.360 you can call him Derek Shelton, the manager of the 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.200 Minnesota Twins. High Shelty, Good. 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.760 Morning, Good morning. What's going on. How you guys doing. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.680 Oh, you know, we're just putting up with this Minnesota 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.160 weather where it blizzards one day and then it's eighty 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.680 the next basically, but you've had a month in Florida, 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.360 so I'm sure it's seventy five and sunny and nice 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:40.840 every day. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:43.839 I ate it, well, not every day. We did go 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.640 through a cold stretch that I feel bad for anybody 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.000 that came down for spring training. We went through a 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:53.120 stretch where we were in like the high fifties, low sixties, 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:54.960 So if you come down from Minnesota, that kind of 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.560 sucks that, you know, you don't get the eighties. But yeah, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.400 it's been nice. But looking forward to north and although 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.800 the weather fluctuates, looking forward to getting the target field. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.720 Well, John Bonas, you just spent a month down there 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:07.760 with the Minnesota Twins, watching a bunch of baseball and 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:09.160 probably getting to talk to Derek. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.120 I was there for that cold snap. Actually, is that right? Yes? 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:12.800 It was. 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:13.360 It was. 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.600 It's terrible, it was it felt it felt like winter 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.760 in in February and Florida. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:20.280 Uh J. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.200 Well, let's just start with the obvious question. How are 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:23.920 you feeling about the team? How do you feel about spring 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:24.600 training right now? 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.240 I'm very pleased. I mean, I think we you know, 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.640 there's definitely some areas we still need to continue to 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:33.039 work on, and I think that's going to go on 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.039 throughout the season. But very happy with the work that 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.080 we've got in, very happy with the individual stuff, and 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.080 I think we're just ready to go. I mean, John, 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:45.120 you were down here for a while, and you understand 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.960 the last few days of the spring, the last week 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.320 of the spring, you know, gets to the point where 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.560 guys start to look forward to getting to Baltimore. 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:54.440 But I've been I've been. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.400 Very pleased that since our last off day on the eighteenth, 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.560 the kind of the attention to what we needed to 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.520 work on with our core group has been there. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.000 You you spoke a lot at the beginning of spring 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:10.080 training about trying to establish certain tenants to certain culture 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.720 around the team. You've now gone through that for five 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.040 or six weeks. Which ones do you think kind of 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.160 took on? What tenants and culture changes do you feel 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.320 like have been implemented in your in your five or 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:22.880 six weeks. So we're seeing things down there. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:25.960 Did I use the word tenants because I don't know 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:26.400 if I'm. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:27.920 Smart enough to use the word tenants. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.040 Don't don't put smart words in my mouth. If that's 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.800 not the case, I'm gonna have to look at Dustin 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:35.640 and have him explained to me what that means before 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.200 I answer this. But uh no, I think the biggest 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.480 thing that we wanted to talk to was like the 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.720 standard of expectation that we had from our group, and 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.720 we've done a nice job with that and that's been 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:51.520 player driven and player executed. But that's something that I've 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.960 really been pleased with. I think our bats over the 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.399 last a couple of days have been more consistent, which 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.920 is encouraging to see. And then you know, our start 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.359 pitching over the course of the spring. It's really I 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:04.760 think gotten better. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:07.840 Shelty, It's meat Sauce. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.560 I'm sure Mark Hallberg is a nice guy, but I 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.800 never got any kind of information about my bench coach position. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.040 Yeah, I apologize for that, Mede. I don't know where 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.920 that was lost in communication. I will say Mark Halberg 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:28.320 is a really nice, really nice person. Actually he I mean, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.520 he's no meat, Sauce. Let's let's be very transparent about that. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:31.959 Thank you. 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.960 I don't understand how that information got lost, and I 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:37.839 apologize and we'll try to figure that out. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:39.560 That's all right, I appreciate it. True story. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.280 During the last commercial break, as Shelty Sauce goes to 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.920 John Bonus, he goes, wait, Grady Size more like the 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.320 baseball player he's here now. 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.640 And it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, the other Grady Size man. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:53.600 But Sauce was. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.160 Very excited that he saw that name. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.920 I don't even know how to attack that. I don't 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.680 even know where I don't even know where to go 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.040 with that number one and number two. Like, dude, we've 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.840 been in spring training for like seven to eight weeks. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.160 If you not looked at anything that has to do 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.240 with the twins, that you don't know who's on the staff. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.400 And I think we talked about it in January that 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:18.599 he was on the staff. 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.279 You definitely did. Yeah, you're one of your coworkers. I'm 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:23.600 just devastating if I'm not. 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.760 IgE coach, I don't understand this. I mean, I wish 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.960 I was in studio so you can see the expression 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.479 and the frustration on my face right now that Sauce 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.159 just can't lock it in. I mean, you told me 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.080 you were going to lock into the Twins and you 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.160 were going to go less wolves and less Vikings, and 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.000 you you basically just lied to me. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:43.880 Well, they are I'll tell you this thing. Are my 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.279 MLB the Show twenty twenty six team. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.120 Oh that's great. I appreciate that they're your video game. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.360 You're gonna have to send him down to the miners. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:54.440 And he is kissing ass. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.800 He is currently wearing a Twins hat and he doesn't 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:58.800 do that very often, but he actually is right now. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.160 Saw that. I actually love that. Hey, just you know 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.840 LaTroy Hawkins is on the staff. Who Yeah, Ryan Jeffers 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.440 is still our catcher. I mean, is it anything else 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:11.200 you need to go over? 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:13.880 No, I got it all. I'm looking at it right now. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.320 I didn't know you guys at a web site. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.960 Yeah, it's awesome. Check it out. We got uniforms, we 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.320 got everything, full schedule. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:28.039 A game, brilliant, Hey, Shelty. Spring training can get a 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.240 little monotonous. It can get long, but obviously there are 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:36.200 reasons for for it. It's it's the preparation you need 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.320 for the season. But when you're a new manager, there 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.760 are so many people you need to not only meet, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:49.000 but like establish relationships with and get to know and 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.800 they need to get to know you. How much of 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.560 spring training for you was that piece of it, like 0:05:55.720 --> 0:06:00.080 personality driven, both them getting to know you and you 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:05.560 getting to know them. Players, personnel, your staff, the training staff, 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.080 all of that. There are a lot of people at 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:08.839 a spring training. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.120 Yeah, Martie, I definitely agree with you, and I think 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.960 that's a really good point, especially for this spring training. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.120 Spring training does get long, it gets monotonous at the end, 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.320 and I would totally agree with that. This being the 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:24.599 first year with the new staff and a new group, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.640 we needed that time because you need the time to 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.520 establish a relationship. I mean, you go through the first 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.280 kind of week or so and it's really like a 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.520 honeymoon phase. Everybody's trying to figure each other out and 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.080 figure out the dynamic of how we work. But as 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.760 we've got later into games, you get the flow of 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.159 how the staff's going to work and communication relationships. So 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.800 probably more so than any spring, the length of it 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.479 has been extremely important just to be able to establish 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:52.440 those relationships. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.719 Well, speaking of length, I was just reading an article 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.880 on twins Daily dot com, great website about how the 0:06:58.920 --> 0:06:59.320 players are. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:06.840 Oh they have a webs I'm. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.839 Reading about the the actual true measurement of each player 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.560 and why it matters now you're not allowed to say 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.760 you're six to one if you're actually five to eleven anymore. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.200 Is because of the strike zone and the fact is 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.080 going to be the the ABS challenge system. Can you 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.880 explain to me, as somebody who was getting to know 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.200 this as a brand new way of living, who's going 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:23.920 to be in charge of telling you whether or not 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:24.640 to challenge a call? 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.040 Well, the player has to be And I thought you 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:29.880 were going to ask me to get a measurement of 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:30.480 how tall you are? 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.880 Actually, I don't want to know. 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.440 The talks has been lying about his height for about 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:37.080 five years. 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.800 Wait to go ahead. 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.720 Oh my gosh, I didn't go there. I did not 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:47.200 go there. 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.680 I deserve it. I didn't know yout a website. 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.960 I went, uh, the player is actually in charge of it. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.040 There can be no help from the dugout. There can 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.160 be no external help. So it's essentially the picture catcher 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.680 or hitter that has to do it, and they have 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.880 to do it within three seconds by tapping the top 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.880 of their helmet or verbally probably doing both saying hay, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.480 I'm in the challenge or touching the top of their helmet. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.880 I think we've seen it work really well in spring training. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.840 It adds a different dynamic to the game because of 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.040 the fact that you know, you're the fans and everybody 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.240 are watching it and finding out at the same time 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.280 on the scoreboard, and it definitely has I think it's 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.560 been beneficial. I actually like it. It's going to be 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.560 interesting to see there's going to be less jockeying from 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.120 the manager the coaches with out fires because it's essentially 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.000 in the player's hands before you run out of challenges. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.280 Are is there some kind of guidelines you're going to 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:41.880 say to your players to make sure they don't do 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:42.520 it too often? 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:43.920 You know? 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.040 Right now? I mean, I don't think we're going to 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.559 go into any specific guidelines and will monitor as this 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.520 season has gone on. In spring training, actually, our catchers 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.400 Jeffers and Quarantini have been really good at it, and 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.320 you know, I think there's been some times where we've actually, 0:08:57.920 --> 0:08:59.800 even though it's a spring training game, kind of changed 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.720 the course of a game. You know, John may have 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.920 been down there. The one that I think we want 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.600 two in one inning ended up scoring five runs because 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.679 of it. And I think we're going to see, you know, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:13.680 the dynamic of innings changed because of a right call 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:14.800 or an overturn call. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.560 The big question coming into spring training is probably the 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.400 big question coming out of spring training and into the 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.520 regular season, which is the bullpen. I was a little 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.560 surprised to see a couple veterans not make the team, 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.719 and I understand, you know, they give them a try 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.280 out and such, but I guess my question is sort 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.120 of like, where do you feel like you're going to 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:38.079 be getting the high leverage bullpen innings out of from 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.640 the staff that you're kind of reconstructing based on, you know, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.920 the tear down that happened at the trade deadline. 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.839 Yeah, I think we're going to kind of mix and match. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.800 There's not going to be one specific person that's going 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:52.720 to pitch in the seventh, eighth, or ninth. It's going 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.240 to be a collective group and we're going to try 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:59.160 to try to mix and match for the best situations. 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.960 And then ultimately, I think people will pitch themselves into 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.720 the roles that they're going to be at, and it's 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.640 gonna come a little bit by meritocracy. You know, if 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.319 you're pitching, well, you're going to put yourself in a 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.400 position that you're going to get those leverage innings. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.120 How much of the WBC do you watch and what'd 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:15.480 you think? 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.839 I liked it. I watched it. I mean it was interesting. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.920 I did not watch the initial rounds of it. I 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:24.839 think when we got into the final eight, from the 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.840 quarterfinal on, you know, I watched as much as I could. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.000 I mean, the fact that games start at eight o'clock 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.880 and spring training starts really early, as John and Marty, well, 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.200 we'll tell you I was going to bed early and 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.480 not finishing. But it was it was very exciting, you know. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.679 I mean, I think it's a really it's a really 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.280 fun event. It's going to be interesting to see what 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.600 the next steps that they take forward with it, moving 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.080 into you know, the next iteration of it. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.480 How's your March Madness bracket looking. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.560 I did not do a bracket because I don't know 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.760 if we allegedly would play games. Marny, you know well 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:03.920 enough to know that I would not fill out a 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.880 bracket because I don't know enough about it. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.240 But if I. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.000 Did have a team in a certain kind of spread pool, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:11.439 I'm doing all. 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:17.360 Right right now, well said, Well said, good, Hey, do. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:18.320 You have a hawk? 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.719 Do you have that Corey provis highlight from like two 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.520 days ago? Can we play that for Shelty and see 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.040 if he's heard this? You know what we're talking about. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.440 Did you hear the Corey provis call that went viral 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:28.160 Shelty or not? 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.400 Yeah, I'm very aware. I think I told you guys. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.360 I think I told you guys this this winner that 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.040 last year I turned into a volleyball dad and my 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.640 volleyball dad group chat was very much curious what was 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.000 going on in a Twins game the other day in 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.040 spring training. So I was getting multiple texts on h 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.080 on Corey provis and perk going viral. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:51.360 Marny, did you hear about this? 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:51.520 Oh? 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:55.400 It's the best right all? This is it here right here? 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.320 So good start for the twins here the fourth inning. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:11:59.960 You ever seen Buck with his pants down? 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:01.640 Uh? 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.240 No, like it shorts? 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.360 No, like he's got he doesn't have his no socks showing. 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:11.120 I see what you're saying. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:15.920 So, yeah, you ever seen Buck with his pants down? 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:16.600 No? 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.400 Uh? My favorite part of that is you got full 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:26.160 Minnesota accent of perk right there? Hold on, and then 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.360 I don't know if I've ever heard perk, be that 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.959 silent or the long pause that you've had, because there 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.320 were two pauses of like what am I gonna say next? 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.240 Yeah? 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.240 No, no, no, you just dropped the No, that's gonna 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:42.880 be a commercial. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.679 Yes, that's really good. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.000 All right, last question here and then we'll let you go. Shelty, 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.000 you appreciate the time. As always. Baltimore, we haven't talked 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.080 about them and all their your opponent when you open 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.000 up in two days. How far ahead do you start 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.040 scouting and strategizing for Baltimore and what you've seen so far? 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.440 What do you like or just about that squad for Thursday? 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.040 Yeah, I mean it's a good club. They did a 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.640 really good job building their starting pitching staff. They added 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.760 Bassett and Shane Boss to go along with Rogers at 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.160 the front end. I mean, it's an American League East 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.520 team that's deep. Jackson Holliday most likely is not going 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.640 to start with them because of a hamdmates bone. You know, 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.120 a team that kind of had a down start to 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.320 the last year. We've seen him a couple of times 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.439 in spring training this year. To answer the first part 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.439 of that question, we started watching them about four or 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.200 five days ago, because now you're getting into the situation 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.600 where you have a general idea. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.000 Of what their club is. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.560 So a club that did a really good job building 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.600 their starting pitching this offseason, but we have been paying 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.679 attention to him for about the last four or five days. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.200 One one follow up question for that for the Beat writers, 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.880 what restaurants? I assume you also scouted the restaurants as 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.320 such in Baltimore. That you mean we learned to trust 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.640 his taste when it comes to road places and restaurants. 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.200 What do you got recommended for Baltimore? 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.120 Yeah, any place in little Italy. Baltimore had such a 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.760 great little Italy area. And then there's also a really 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.719 good Irish pub that's right over by, uh, right over 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.480 by the hotel we stay at that you can get 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.320 a pint of Dennister too, So those are probably anything 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.800 in little Italy would be what I would recommend. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.320 Let's go sounds good, Sheltery, you're the best man. Best 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.120 of luck on Thursday, and best of luck this season. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:23.000 We'll talk to you down the road. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.240 I appreciate. I look forward. I'll see you Baltimore, thoughts. 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.360 We'll be there for me. Yeah. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.400 Grady Sizemore, he's on the Toby, he's on the bench, 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.080 all right, thanks, Shelty, appreciated, Buddy. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.080 I guess the best. He is the best. That's the 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.200 manager of the Twins right there. Yeah, he's just chilling. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:39.760 That's the best. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.200 By the way, all this brought to you my friends 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:46.200 at the Saint Paul Saints. Speaking of baseball, Tuesday, March thirty, first, 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.120 it's opening game down at cchs Field. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:50.000 Let the games begin. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:54.280 The Saints Opening Day features white jersey hoodie giveaways presented 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.320 by Cochs for the first thousand people. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:03.240 I believe that. Yeah, white jersey hoodie. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.600 It's like a snuggie what it was called snuggy or whatever. Yeah, bonus, 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.200 are you going to Baltimore? 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.760 You you're not going bim that right? And I can't 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.000 make the Saints open to either because in Vegas, so. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.160 You you restaurant recommendations and you're not even going, Oh 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:19.560 for sure. 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.840 Okay, I thought you were asking. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.120 Because you were going, not like I'm never going to 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:27.400 be in Baltimore. That's fair. He's looking up for the beat, right. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.560 I had a great lobster roll in Baltimore, and I 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.000 have to think about the restaurant. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:32.840 I have to make a text. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:40.760 What was the restaurant called McDonald's Johnson's. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:43.120 Now that you said, yeah, yes, that's a bold name 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.040 for a non McDonald's restaurant. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:46.360 I had it first. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.400 Yeah, all right, all right, all right, thanks to the twins. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.280 Thanks to uh to Dustin and Mitch for helping out 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:52.840 with that as well. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.720 Uh saws, you want to do sports when we get back, 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:55.240 I'd love to. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:16:04.520 Okay, cool, that's after this on the fine. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.520 Join Meat, Sauce and Miller Light at d Michael Bees 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.000 in Albervildis Thursday from five to seven. 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She been on an all winner. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.760 Come on, when do you crack it open? 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:45.920 Like? 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:46.120 May? 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:46.440 Well? 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.000 We actually we did open it. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.440 Matt had it open on Sunday and was just like 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.080 cleaning it and just just to be around it and. 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.480 Just just to get a math house. That's her. H oh, 0:16:58.240 --> 0:16:59.760 I thought your neighbors. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.159 Man, it's not. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.960 Don't is he getting some sun on them? 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:11.280 Thanks? 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.080 Please don't hold back the official. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:23.879 Opening and yeah where they actually listen to. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.480 And there a trail like going real tra trail. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.600 Double can eat it and be in it. 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Honestly, what if 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.000 you get like a mid April snowfall. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:41.720 Put the cover on. 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.800 It's not gonna freeze like the water cover on him. 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:51.159 They actually so we go through performance pulling spots the company. 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:52.040 But they the. 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.440 First dates is March twenty. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.119 Fifth, and that's tomorrow, tomorrow. 0:17:59.200 --> 0:17:59.720 That's nuts. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:01.680 That's the first opening. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.080 The second date is April ninth, that's the day we 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.280 took and then there's like a late April. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.680 But basically it just means they get the water flowing. 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.439 March twenty fifth, by the way, which is tomorrow is 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:20.880 Grady's April twenty quick. 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:26.600 Follow quick follow up to that? Who is that? That 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:31.720 is your child? That it borgs from my ballet? 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:33.720 Got it? So that's your son? Yeah? Got it? 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:38.000 Eighteen tomorrow date, and then. 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.760