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Speaker 1: Lavelle E. Neil, the third columnist for the Star Tribune.

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Speaker 1: He joins nine to noon Old School, Best School from

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Speaker 1: a friendship standpoint. Great to have him here. What did

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Speaker 1: you make of a Faalvie News. Since the last time

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Speaker 1: we chatted, we've texted a lot. Yeah, like the Falvie

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Speaker 1: News into Jeremy zol who was on the radio show

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Speaker 1: an hour ago or whatever. What do you think?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was pretty stunned at the move, But you know,

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Speaker 2: in a way you could have once you once these

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Speaker 2: things happen, you look back and go, oh, those were

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Speaker 2: the signs, those were the signs, or yeah, I can

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Speaker 2: see why this happened. You know, Tom poll Add is

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Speaker 2: not Joe poll Ad and Derek Fowley had a great

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Speaker 2: relationship with Joe. Tom gets in the chair. Oh, by

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Speaker 2: the way, it's no one else up the fire. Now

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Speaker 2: they fired rock. Oh they fired Joe Pollad and now

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Speaker 2: they moved on a fallI I don't know who else

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Speaker 2: they could get rid of.

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Speaker 1: Now, how do you fire an owner?

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Speaker 2: Well, the family voted him off the island, basically, is

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Speaker 2: that what happened?

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it was a family decision. Oh damn.

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Speaker 2: That went from Joe to town. So so Tom does

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Speaker 2: that happen.

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Speaker 1: To make Chris It's weird, don't you think? Gotta be well?

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Speaker 1: Thing about Thanksgiving? My man, I already got the gizzard.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't even seen Joe since the whole thing with them.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: So Tom wants to do his things his own way,

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Speaker 2: and I actually agree with his. One approach is I

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Speaker 2: don't think business operations and baseball operations should be under

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Speaker 2: one person's perview. I think baseball and business should be separate.

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Speaker 2: Fabi was given the business side title. And you know

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Speaker 2: when when Tom held the press conference the day of

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Speaker 2: Fab's uh breakup of Fave Uh, he made a point

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Speaker 2: of we need someone who can one of the one

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Speaker 2: of the qualities. He mentioned a bunch of qualities. One

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Speaker 2: was so went the ability to generate revenue. I was like,

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Speaker 2: that's not something fave. Bobby is an organization builder, he's

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Speaker 2: a team builder. He's a roster constructor constructor. You know,

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Speaker 2: that's that's not what he does. You know, So I

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Speaker 2: can see where Tom was coming from. What is troubling

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Speaker 2: to me is that Fabi could have went back to

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Speaker 2: being director of base operations and just bringing a business person,

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Speaker 2: but they couldn't have a vision for the next few years.

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Speaker 2: So I want to know what did Value see that

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Speaker 2: he didn't like, and what did Tom hear from Valve

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Speaker 2: that he didn't like, and why they broke up and

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Speaker 2: what does that mean for how this team's can be

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Speaker 2: operated over the next.

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Speaker 1: Few years, because let's face it, I had no idea

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Speaker 1: was that deep.

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Speaker 2: Ever since twenty twenty three when the Twins you know what,

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Speaker 2: made the playoffs and knocked off the Toronto Blue Jays

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Speaker 2: in the first round and in the losing streak in

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Speaker 2: the postseason, Valleys had the parrel pulled off from under him.

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Speaker 2: Ninety thirty million dropped after that year. It's down to

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Speaker 2: one hundred and five million. Now. It wasn't his idea

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Speaker 2: to fire Rock. I was the families. It wasn't the

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Speaker 2: idea to enact the fireself. Yeah, trade away the expiring

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Speaker 2: contracts guys like the Harrison Vaders and the ty Francis.

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Speaker 1: But the gut the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: But I you know, getting out from under Carlos's careers

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Speaker 2: contract probably was a good thing, you know, But you

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Speaker 2: know that was all coming from above, you know, So

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Speaker 2: I think his hands kept being tight tighter and tighter

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Speaker 2: as far as what he could do with this roster.

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Speaker 1: And I haven't. I've talked to him, but I have

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Speaker 1: not gotten.

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Speaker 2: Any indications that he feels relieved. But I gotta imagine

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Speaker 2: that he's got to be relieved to be out of

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Speaker 2: this mess. You know, he's gonna get paid for the

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Speaker 2: next couple of years because he still has a contract.

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Speaker 2: He could take his time and find another gig. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: Jeremy's Hols thirty five. Man, he's a young buck. He's

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Speaker 2: still you know, he was young when he got here.

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Speaker 2: I think he was like twenty eight. You know, he's

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Speaker 2: got experience with the Angels and the Dodgers, where for

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Speaker 2: executive in all sports.

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Speaker 1: So he's got experienced there.

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Speaker 2: Came here as a farm director, but a hedge with

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Speaker 2: him a couple of times during his first couple of years.

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Speaker 2: You did well, Yeah, because I used to watch the

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Speaker 2: minor league box scores and then I would see, wow,

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Speaker 2: why did Royce Lewis come out of the game here?

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Speaker 2: And after his third bat and I contact Jeremy, so

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Speaker 2: he's like.

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna do this? Every time? That you know

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Speaker 1: you can do this every time on my Ers come

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Speaker 1: up again. So used to do the same thing with

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Speaker 1: Whitey Herzog with John Mayberry at first base.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, No, Carl's beltrack was coming up the World's

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Speaker 2: organization that was called Robson hurt.

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Speaker 1: What's going on here? Not? Why is Bud Black behind

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Speaker 1: Paul split or from the rotation? He's better? Are you

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Speaker 1: kidding me? So?

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Speaker 2: But Jeremy, When the dayd Jeremy joined the Twins, people

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Speaker 2: were saying he's a future GM gym and training, It's

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Speaker 2: gonna lead his own shop one day. Well that day's come,

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Speaker 2: so we're gonna see how how Jeremy rolls with this man.

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Speaker 2: So it's it's really interesting right now.

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Speaker 1: Having a guy.

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Speaker 2: That young running an entire baseball department. That's a big responsibility.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious to see how this goes. I'm curious to

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Speaker 2: see how Tom's going to run the show here for

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Speaker 2: the next few years, because I've got my doomsday scenario

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Speaker 2: here that the family's just waiting until to get on

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Speaker 2: the other side of this labor dispute that's gonna happen

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Speaker 2: after twenty twenty six new television contract that's gonna bring

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Speaker 2: in billions, I mean everybody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, baseball is.

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Speaker 2: So jealous of the NBA right now, the NBA is

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Speaker 2: in the first year of an eleven year, seventy seven

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Speaker 2: I mean Tuesday Night on NBC with Mike Durico.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are you kidding me? That's phenomenal. Michael Jordan's throwing

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Speaker 2: So Baseball wants that, and they also want a salary

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Speaker 2: cap because they feel like that will help the franchise

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Speaker 2: values double, which Tom agreed the day I asked them

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Speaker 2: after the press conference about do you think if you

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Speaker 2: said yes, absolutely, So I think that five years from now,

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Speaker 2: I wants to get on the other side of all

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Speaker 2: this mess. The toys could be worth double than what

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Speaker 2: they are right now. Right and I think that's when

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Speaker 2: the family of cashes in. Yeah, and he tells someone

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Speaker 2: over there strains me on on this, I'm sticking to it.

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Speaker 1: Glad.

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Speaker 3: We asked, is there any element? I mean, it's tough

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Speaker 3: unless they come out and actually say it. But there's

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Speaker 3: part of me is an outsider, and you can tell

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Speaker 3: me if I'm wrong. This kind of feels like Fauve,

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Speaker 3: you know, the mutually parted ways things is almost a

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Speaker 3: polite way of avoiding the idea that maybe Falve just

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Speaker 3: rage quit because you mentioned the the the business operations

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Speaker 3: and how that needs to be separated from baseball, the

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Speaker 3: fact that the family or you know, however it went

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Speaker 3: there was no answer to that, if you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean. And so now fast forward, it's like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: be competitive, of course, and we feel like some good

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Speaker 3: what has been a traditionally in some ways mediocre league

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Speaker 3: or division rather in recent years. And Falve's like, hold on,

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Speaker 3: you make me sell freaking half the team, and now

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Speaker 3: you're grinding on me in the meeting room. I got

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Speaker 3: to figure out something with freaking target field. I'm trying

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Speaker 3: to build a roster. I think I'm lucky. I got

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks from spring training, Like, I'm just out

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Speaker 3: the job that I was that I signed up for.

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Speaker 3: You know, that's kind of how I've seen it framed up,

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Speaker 3: and that feels right to me.

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Speaker 1: But see also at the beginning of when we talked

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Speaker 1: Well they parted ways. I mean like, is there more

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Speaker 2: No, I was just it was easy. It's easy for

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Speaker 2: So I just thought it started trickling out of my

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Speaker 2: He's got family, he's got cash, and he could sit there,

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Speaker 2: so just like Rocca did when Rocco was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: He could be spent time with his family, which he

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Speaker 1: But he doesn't. He doesn't like the affiliated Cape cod

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Speaker 1: He doesn't have to.

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Speaker 2: He can do his own thing, and he's got a

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Speaker 2: hell of all out better chance of getting a ring

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Speaker 2: than he would he's doing the twins. Yeah, he leveled up.

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Speaker 2: So those are two guys who probably here are thinking,

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Speaker 2: you know what, I'm coming on the better side.

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Speaker 1: Here thatadd Levine has landed somewhere, and the Rocky it's Milwaukee, yes,

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Speaker 1: because he and I were texting about four or five

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Speaker 1: off the ground and he was gonna like come on

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Speaker 1: the radio show every so often talk about this podcast

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Speaker 1: and not just baseball, but mostly baseball.

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Speaker 2: It's called Rosters and Rings. Are you still doing it?

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Speaker 2: I know he was doing it. Okay, it's called Rosters

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Speaker 2: and Rings. He was doing it with the NBA executive.

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Speaker 2: Oh and they were talking about him and the name

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Speaker 2: of the executive. The guy was with Phoenix, with Phoenix,

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Speaker 2: I believe. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, And so I know

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Speaker 2: Tory Hunter is like one of their first guests, just

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Speaker 2: hit him talking about his life story. But they were

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Speaker 2: they would have guests have him to tell his stories

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Speaker 2: and talk about you know, how you put together winning

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Speaker 2: teams organizations with that that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It ain't my phone that thingmore all

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Speaker 1: the construction bit? I texted that a few days ago

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Speaker 1: and no response yet. All right, so does yours that

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Speaker 1: You know you're gonna have a good rotation.

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Speaker 2: Show me how you're gonna close out games, show me

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Speaker 1: Hey, we're headed down to four Myers here pretty quick. Guys.

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Speaker 2: Jump to me for him, especially at his age, having

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Speaker 1: You know, I just want to say he was getting

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Speaker 3: Let me let us that is land the plane on

437
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Speaker 3: baseball quickly?

438
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Speaker 1: Uh? Does does does it? Does it? Bug? Hardcore baseball fans?

439
00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:04,399
Speaker 1: Or maybe you when the Dodgers casually signed stud Kyle Tucker.

440
00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,159
Speaker 1: I mean just casually. Of course you went there, you

441
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Speaker 1: know what I mean?

442
00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:12,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that drove some people up the wall. You know,

443
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,040
Speaker 2: they've got to where withal to do it, you know,

444
00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:16,960
Speaker 2: to do it until someone tells you you can't.

445
00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,360
Speaker 1: You know, they have every right to do it.

446
00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 2: You know, they've got players who are agreeing to defer

447
00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:28,280
Speaker 2: contracts without interest, which baffles me. And before Falves part

448
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:29,879
Speaker 2: of ways with the Twins, we were talking about that,

449
00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,000
Speaker 2: how these contracts being signed without interest.

450
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like, I'm trying to figure out about it myself.

451
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,439
Speaker 1: How do Dodgers pulling us off? You know?

452
00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,359
Speaker 2: So how come the Yankees and the Mets are following suit.

453
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,720
Speaker 2: It almost feels like the league's doing favorites for the Dodgers.

454
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Speaker 1: But I don't think that's the case.

455
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Speaker 2: But you know, they've got what it's three hundred and

456
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Speaker 2: fifty million dollars a year, I bleave the television dealer

457
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Speaker 2: is geez, yeah.

458
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Speaker 1: Something like that.

459
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 2: The last known number that we have on the Twins

460
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Speaker 2: is fifty eight million. You know, so there's the financial

461
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 2: muscle there. Then other market forces, you know, just make

462
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers of cash calend they can do these things.

463
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Speaker 1: Any idea what the Twins TV bit is this year? No,

464
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,920
Speaker 1: especially not as like it was last year. Twins TV and.

465
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Speaker 2: It's being operated by Major League Baseball, so I don't

466
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Speaker 2: know how that works from a revenue standpoint. I'm imagining

467
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Speaker 2: they're taking a little bit of hit. Yeah, I don't

468
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Speaker 2: think they get fifty eight million. So that's the other

469
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Speaker 2: thing too, Paul, because a lot of these local TV deals,

470
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Speaker 2: they're all expiring. I think after twenty twenty seven, I think,

471
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Speaker 2: and that's when Baseball wants to take Arabody's television deal

472
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Speaker 2: and sell it as a package to get the streaming

473
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Speaker 2: and get the Amazon Prime and get the Peacock Network

474
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Speaker 2: and a paramount plus you know, Apple plus whatever, get

475
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Speaker 2: all those people involved so they could make their seventy

476
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Speaker 2: seven billion dollars over eleven years.

477
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Speaker 1: That's the plan too.

478
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Speaker 2: I also want to say that owners need to clean

479
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Speaker 2: up their own mess too, because they don't. They put

480
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 2: only a percentage of their local television revenue in a

481
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Speaker 2: pot to be shared by other teams. I believe it's

482
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Speaker 2: like forty percent, and I think that needs to be

483
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Speaker 2: pushed upwards significantly. Put it all in one pot split

484
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 2: it equally. That would help drag down the Yankees and

485
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Speaker 2: the Mets and the Dodgers and the Angels are getting

486
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Speaker 2: a boat load of television revenue, so there's some things

487
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Speaker 2: they could do on their own end instead of automatically

488
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Speaker 2: going to the.

489
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Speaker 1: Players and to say we need a gap. I think

490
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Speaker 1: the Mariners have a fat TV deal also, right, like

491
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Speaker 1: like top.

492
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Speaker 2: Five vatus in the league, and they've made I don't

493
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Speaker 2: want to say a billion, but they've made probably hundreds

494
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Speaker 2: of millions of dollars through the years. Whenever they've signed

495
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Speaker 2: or had a Japanese player, they really reap in advertising

496
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Speaker 2: opportunities across the pond, right you know, And that's that

497
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:46,920
Speaker 2: has been a big cash cow for them, and there's

498
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Speaker 2: a value in that, and I'm sure the Dodgers are

499
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Speaker 2: experiencing that with sho heyl Tani.

500
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Speaker 1: Now former Vikings defensive backs coach Deronte Jones. You know,

501
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Speaker 1: I know over the years that you've become somewhere between

502
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Speaker 1: an acquaintance and a friend with Doronte correct a fair

503
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Speaker 1: way to put it, yep. So when he left for

504
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Speaker 1: the Commanders, were you saddened? Like what'd you think? I

505
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Speaker 1: was happy?

506
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Speaker 2: Actually he's getting a chance to be defensive coordinator, you know.

507
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,880
Speaker 2: And well apparently he interviewed with the Dallas and one

508
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 2: other team I believe too, at least three teams, So

509
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 2: I mean it was his time. I was curious to

510
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Speaker 2: see Hollis is going to work out with B Flow?

511
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Speaker 2: Like if V Flow got a head coaching job somewhere,

512
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Speaker 2: would he bring Doronte on his defensive coordinator with him?

513
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Speaker 1: I'd say eighty percent?

514
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Speaker 2: Okay, right, So I was thinking about that, sir. I

515
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Speaker 2: still don't know how Pittsburgh hard. Mike McCarthy. God, I

516
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Speaker 2: can't believe he's back in the game.

517
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Speaker 1: Who's Mike Holmgrim? Yeah, Lendia Fannie, you know, so I

518
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Speaker 1: had a homegun on the radio show an hour ago.

519
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: You did. Should have brought yeah super Bowl stories. Should

520
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,120
Speaker 1: have brought that up with him. McCarthy's back in the game.

521
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Speaker 1: Next time they were hoping he is, what about you, Mike?

522
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Speaker 3: Right?

523
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Speaker 1: She's uh so no.

524
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Speaker 2: In the time, so I had a chance to talk

525
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Speaker 2: to Dorante, very sharp guy, great background, did a great

526
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Speaker 2: run for him coming from where he came from to

527
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Speaker 2: get to the point he's at now, and he's.

528
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Speaker 1: Having the guts to quit the NFL go to college

529
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Speaker 1: football knowing he would be back, but it was needed

530
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Speaker 1: to get where he is now.

531
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he bet on himself and he's winning, you know.

532
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,400
Speaker 2: And so now he's one step from being a head

533
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Speaker 2: coach in the NFL, you know, because once you get

534
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 2: to being a good defensive coordinator. Although the path for

535
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 2: defensive coordinators to become head coaches to getting tougher, it

536
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 2: seems like everybody wants to have offensive minded head coach

537
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 2: slash play caller, you know, in that spot. You look

538
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 2: at how many offensive minds were hired in this last

539
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 2: hiring cycle. How many were defensive guys Robert Salah, right,

540
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 2: I don't know who.

541
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Speaker 1: Else mentor mentor Yeah, that may be it. Rest of

542
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 1: the guys may have been the offensive oriented.

543
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:51,160
Speaker 2: So that's one challenge for him, But at least he's

544
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Speaker 2: taken another step to forward his career.

545
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Speaker 1: That's a luxible football. And now I just ever since

546
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Speaker 1: I returned yesterday and a little bit whenever, is I've

547
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: wrapped myself up in the importance well just basically looking

548
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 1: at the NFL through the prism of being force fed.

549
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: It is a passing league and the rules have changed

550
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: the favor offenses to us. I agree, and I get

551
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: all that. I mean. I brought this up a little

552
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Speaker 1: bit after the Vikings got bounced into the playoffs last year,

553
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: and I know there were nine sacks, But when it

554
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: comes to what I saw offensively from the Rams, then

555
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 1: what I saw from them this year then really what

556
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 1: I saw from your team, the Bears, I don't care

557
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: if it's great at show on turf, perception, throwing the

558
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 1: ball forty times a game, and yeah, having the right

559
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,479
Speaker 1: quarterback matters, no doubt, but it never will have an

560
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:52,880
Speaker 1: expiration date. Having three tight ends who can all do

561
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: things differently. They're very good at what they do individually,

562
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Speaker 1: and having a couple of running backs who can get

563
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Speaker 1: you anywhere from four yards and a cloud of dust

564
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: to bust to catching it to bust in one long

565
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 1: like with you guys, ma'am ok? Yeah, Well Loveland high end,

566
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: her first round came through. Cole Comet looks like he

567
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: could have a ten or fifteen year career in the

568
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 1: NFL if he wants. He ain't great, but he does

569
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: things well enough in a lot of areas to last.

570
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: But then you get the Notre Dame kid Durham Smythe,

571
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: and when Durham was with Miami barely played basically was

572
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Speaker 1: in for pass protection and a little bit of run

573
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Speaker 1: blocking because they're running backs weren't great and they didn't

574
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Speaker 1: have Ben. That was such a smart signing, bringing Durham

575
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Speaker 1: Smyth from the Miami Dolphins to compliment the other two

576
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Speaker 1: for the two backs, and you get one deep in

577
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: the draft from Rutgers, the others a cast off that

578
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:52,360
Speaker 1: you sent away when you were with the Lions. Ben Johnson, well,

579
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: that thing worked with DeAndre Swift a lot better than

580
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: I thought it would. And so it's never a bad

581
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: thing man to approach offense with three multifaceted tight ends

582
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: who play a lot and a couple of good backs.

583
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 2: And usually when you see three tight ends on the

584
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 2: coming out in the fear to go God, they're gonna

585
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 2: just load up on the line and just.

586
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: Plot for it helps the play action man.

587
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 2: No, Johnson has showed how many different things, how many

588
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 2: different things you can do in scheme with three tight ends.

589
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll throw, and Ben's like, we'll throw to Durham.

590
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: We may not throw to him for a month, but

591
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: go ahead and put the wrong guy on him. And

592
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: we only need six yards. Watch us exactly like.

593
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 2: The Bears have sold that that gone to that thirteen

594
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,199
Speaker 2: personnel tried to sell like a screen pass. But then

595
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,360
Speaker 2: they're hitting the wide receiver, running a post over the top.

596
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 2: You know you can do things like that. Yes, Sean

597
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 2: McVay is doing some of that now.

598
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: With the Rams. You know, that's where I got the

599
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,719
Speaker 1: idea last year because they had Higbee. Then they had

600
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: this tight end Allen I can't remember. It might have

601
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: come from Miami. Right. They had a couple of guys

602
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 1: where I'm like, okay, well, yeah, I know their names

603
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: a little bit. But then then you watch the game,

604
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: you watch it back, You're like, holy cow. When you

605
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: have Cooper Cup and Pooka Nakua, two of the bad

606
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: a run blocking wide receivers in the NFL. Right, they

607
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: get tight to the formation right before the snap, and

608
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: you got these three tight ends. Now they're all fast.

609
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: Two of them can't catch, but they do things individually

610
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: that help Kyron Williams or Blake Krum Right. And having

611
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 1: two backs also is a big thing.

612
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that basically was people overlook because you

613
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 2: see you see I'm Ross Brown and Detroit. But you

614
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 2: overlook the fact that with Jamir Gibbson and David Montgomery,

615
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 2: what Ben Johnson was doing with those two guys in Detroit.

616
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: Well, the Lions, I mean, their drop was precipitous when

617
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: they lost Sam Laporta and the brock Wright.

618
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 2: Right, and I think both losing both the coordinators too,

619
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 2: had a lot to do.

620
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: The Seahawks going to Stumbowl right now.

621
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Speaker 2: You know, they're kind of a ball control offense with

622
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 2: two big time running backs. But the other guy got

623
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,719
Speaker 2: hurt yep, which is up and Charbonn they got injured.

624
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 2: So but you see, you've seen it around the league.

625
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: A little bit. That's what they're trying to do. Man.

626
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 2: I guarantee you Andy Reid in Kansas City is going

627
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 2: to have an answer for this too.

628
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: He's gonna he's gonna, I bet you, I bet you.

629
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 2: He drafts running back somewhere in the first couple of

630
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: rounds to pair which with your boy there and try

631
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 2: to get a little funky here with them.

632
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: Maybe get a tight end to pair with Barner, yeah,

633
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: you know, and then build that thing that way Walker

634
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: and Sharpernay, you can win with those two, Yes, you

635
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: can absolutely so.

636
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean that's a great point you brought

637
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 2: up about how teams are going with going with that,

638
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 2: with the with the three tight end formations.

639
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: Man, it's fun to watch.

640
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 2: It's fun when it works out because the defense starts

641
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 2: wondering what's coming up here? And then with three tight ends,

642
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 2: you may have a slower you may have a slower

643
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 2: linebacker covering one of them, or you may have a

644
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 2: defensive back of one that could get posted up there

645
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 2: you go. You know there's flexibility there.

646
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: In the Star Tribune for the columns, What what are

647
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: you writing about these days?

648
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 2: And why I've been on I've been on an Olympic

649
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 2: preview bitch last two three weeks. I've been the recurling

650
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 2: curling centers in town. I didn't even know Frockton had

651
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 2: a curling curling.

652
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: Club, so I would think they got a big one

653
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Speaker 1: out by where an Order lives. The one in Chaska. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. I went to that. Awesome really, I

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Speaker 1: went to the Chasca one a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: You got a crooked pint there? Did you grab a

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Speaker 1: pint and some chicken tenders?

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Speaker 2: Well, map Quest told me you have arrived ritz, it said,

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Speaker 2: mad Quest said, you have arrived at your destination.

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Speaker 1: I look over. I see rooke about air house. I said, no,

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Speaker 1: I see a bar. I don't see a curly club.

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Speaker 1: And I turned the corner. Oh, there's a curling club.

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Speaker 1: It's connected to the bar. You know. So if there

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because all basically the entire USA curling team is

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Speaker 2: from Minnesota. This year, all of the curlers are living here.

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Speaker 1: That's great.

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Speaker 2: So they were all at this the Tasca Club trying

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Speaker 2: on their new gear and being an interview for by

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Speaker 2: NBC for Olympic stuff, so.

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Speaker 1: I had access to them.

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Speaker 2: And then I talked to the peers and sisters at

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Speaker 2: the St. Paul Curling Club, and I talked to Danny

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Speaker 2: Casper at frog Town Club.

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Speaker 1: Doing a bunch of women's hockey stories.

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Speaker 2: I got three or four Olympic preview stories, all a

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Speaker 2: thousand words, like Athletic Link stories that are running this week.

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Speaker 2: I'm actually doing one. I'm actually finishing one to day

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Speaker 2: on the piers and sisters there. There's like a handful

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Speaker 2: of female Olympians who are moms and particularly sub for

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Speaker 2: the first time because the peers and sisters had babies

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Speaker 2: during the cycle. Kendall Cooin's Goldfield of the Frost just

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Speaker 2: had a baby two years ago, and so I talked

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Speaker 2: to him about being an athlete and having to starting

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Speaker 2: a family and all this stuff. Kendall Cooin Scholfield told

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Speaker 2: me she kept playing hockey throughout her first trimester and

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Speaker 2: she didn't tell any about it. The only people knew

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Speaker 2: were her husband, former NFL aligneman Matt Scholfield, who was

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Speaker 2: with the Bears briefly, and her doctors.

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Speaker 1: So she want a story.

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Speaker 2: She gave me a money cold. She says, Wait, so

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Speaker 2: basically your son was playing with you. He just doesn't

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Speaker 2: know yet. She said, Yeah. I always said we had.

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Speaker 2: We were making committed a pony for two many men

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Speaker 2: and I no one just.

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Speaker 1: Not to tie. So that's the best, just like you. Man.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that stuff's coming out. Man, So you gotta see

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Speaker 2: hockey and curling stories for me all week.

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Speaker 1: Folks. You're you're fantastic. Thank you for coming by. I

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Speaker 1: look forward to seeing your zoom. Thanks for having me

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Speaker 1: in man. Lavell E. Neil, the third columnist, Star Tribune.

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Speaker 1: Back after that, I cant wait. I can't wait. Until tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Go tomorrow, your soldier field is silenced.

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Speaker 3: You could hear a snowflakes the crossball.

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Speaker 1: Wait until tomorrow, manions back in passes over the middle incomplete.

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Speaker 1: Oh come no, we could in minute Heinsey tomorrow Heinsey

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Speaker 1: John Hines, coach of the Minnesota Wild. Uh, that'll be

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Speaker 1: the final chat we have with beloved Heinze until a

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Speaker 1: date to be determined. It's what's the any idea, what

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Speaker 1: the time differences from here to Milan, Italy?

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Speaker 3: Oh, Milan Italy feels I'm going to go seven or

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Speaker 3: eight feels it feels like a seven or eight, seven

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Speaker 3: or eight.

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Speaker 1: So we will try. We'll try to chat with heinsee

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Speaker 1: with Heinze.

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Speaker 3: B we got Parker Our, I mean he might be

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Speaker 3: our become our side side rink analyst. Yeah, during the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: But we're on the chill. I mean from tomorrow's game

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Speaker 3: in Nashville. I think they come out of the break

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Speaker 3: and it might be the Avs next on the schedule.

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Speaker 3: But that's February twenty six. Yeah, kind of a nutty

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Speaker 3: stretch there. Yeah, that long it is it is.

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Speaker 1: With Yeah, with Parker Man when you know we were

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Speaker 1: chatting with him yesterday about his trip to Milan. I

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Speaker 1: think he leaves Sunday. It's like, you know, power Trip

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Speaker 1: gets first call. I mean they you know you're on

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Speaker 1: with the Power Trip. Also, so if if those loving individuals,

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Speaker 1: you know, one of them, we don't want over you,

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Speaker 1: that's the bottom line. Then he's like, Power Trip hasn't

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Speaker 1: said a word about it. And I'm like, okay, well

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Speaker 1: let's go alphabetically here, Cove Hockey, Saucy Lambert Allen, Allen's

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Speaker 1: inn A. Yes, let's start there. And he set in

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Speaker 1: not sure of the timing of the the USA Women's

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Speaker 1: Olympic Hockey Games. I don't have the schedule in front

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Speaker 1: of me. How I'm trying to find local time in

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Speaker 1: Milan right now, I think we're on four to seven six, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: four to seven pm Alon time. One of those suckers

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Speaker 1: drops in at five o'clock. I mean, Parker is going

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Speaker 1: to need to be on his phone in the arena

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Speaker 1: with something we are.

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Speaker 3: Watching, which could be so weeet tall. We get a

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Speaker 3: little play by play from Parker. It looks like they're

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Speaker 3: seven hours ahead. It's almost seven o'clock in Milan right now,

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Speaker 3: So We'll be ready to.

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Speaker 1: Rock all right. We got Heinze tomorrow Heinzy yep. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for the good times for Nordo and Paul Allen have

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Speaker 1: a good day. Yep. But Temple rear Off is in credit.

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Speaker 1: Double toin. It's time for two more personal foul perfect

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Speaker 1: let me we got nine to Noon. Couldn't Lose their Money?

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