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Speaker 3: So yes, Size one o'clock hour begins as always with

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Speaker 3: five three four time now four five questions, Well, actually three,

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Speaker 3: Question number one programming predicaments.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the Timberwolves are at Detroit to take on the

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Speaker 2: Pistons at six pm. That's on FanDuel Sports Network. Plus

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Speaker 2: of course you can listen to it on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: And the Wild hosts the Vancouver Canucks at seven pm

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Speaker 2: on FanDuel Sports Network and you can hear that game

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Speaker 2: right here on the fan. Covin, what are you gonna

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Speaker 2: do about tonight's programming predicaments?

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Speaker 3: We had a couple of thirteen and fourteen nanoseconds of fot.

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Speaker 3: I think I.

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Speaker 4: Will remind me to make you a list of all

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Speaker 4: sorts of.

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Speaker 3: Different old shows that we could put a different one

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Speaker 3: in all the time. You know, variety is the spice

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Speaker 3: of life. And I've been accused of not doing anything

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Speaker 3: new in the past twenty years, so that would be new.

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Speaker 3: Because right now we've had Rodford Files, Gilligan's Island, Cheers

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Speaker 1: Want to make me a new list that I can

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Speaker 2: We're not repeating the yah same song because we don't

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Speaker 3: So yeah, we will do that. That sounds like a

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Speaker 3: really good idea. That sounds like fun. I'm sorry, what

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Speaker 1: Wolves Pistons or wild versus Canucks?

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Speaker 3: I would have said, without even hesitating, Wolves Pistons, Pistons

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Speaker 3: be the best team in in in all of Well,

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Speaker 3: nobody thinks that, do they. But they're one of the

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Speaker 3: best teams in the in the NBA, and the Wolves

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Speaker 3: are fighting for playoff positioning and the Canucks are the

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Speaker 3: worst team in hockey. But after what they did last

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Speaker 3: night to what people consider the best that's isn't it

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Speaker 2: In the beat the Baker was the worst team in

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's it. They let it all they I

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Speaker 3: don't they've used their allotment of goals for a week,

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Speaker 2: They might be coming in a little confidence. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: don't they have three of our former players? So I

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Speaker 2: was going to bring that up. There's two levels of

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Speaker 2: intrigue for the Wild Canucks game to night. One, the

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Speaker 2: Wild can officially clinch a playoff spot tonight. If they

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Speaker 2: That being said, there's also other ways that they lose tonight.

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Speaker 2: There's other teams that can lose that they can clinch

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Speaker 2: a playoffs. They will probably clinch a playoffs spot tonight.

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Speaker 2: The second would be it's Quinn Hughes's first game against

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Quinn hughes against his former team's probably the

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Speaker 2: So I could find the scenarios for you. I guess

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Speaker 3: It is lengthy, right, And it's like when I always

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Speaker 2: So there's there's four scenarios in which the Wild and

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Speaker 2: we're in. Or any result in the King's Predators game

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Speaker 3: So it's the only sport where you have regulation wins.

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Speaker 3: Like that.

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Speaker 2: A day after Fernando Mendoza's pro day, the Las Vegas

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Speaker 2: Raiders agreed to a contract with quarterback Kirk Cousins. Cousins

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Speaker 3: the future. And I would think cousins agent has done

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Speaker 3: But I think that's probably the best he can do.

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Speaker 3: And he's gotten. I mean, I said he's.

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Speaker 3: I think he's got to know that unless they I'm

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Speaker 1: It's very possible.

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Speaker 1: I do think he'll start Week one.

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Speaker 2: like Caleb Williams, right, He's not this generational quarterback.

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Speaker 3: But if you're Kirk Cousins. Do you want to start

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Speaker 2: Common, but the Gophers men's basketball team lost to Baylor

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Speaker 2: sixty seven forty eight last night in the quarterfinals of

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Speaker 2: the College Basketball Crown Tournament in Las Vegas. Kay Tyson

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Speaker 2: scored nineteen points to lead the Gophers, but Minnesota shot

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Speaker 3: even then I don't have a whole heck of a lot.

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Speaker 3: You make big fat stacks of boosh and provided cash.

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Speaker 1: Close circuit?

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Speaker 3: Boob just met Brownie. He played on Demoitchence your brother

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Speaker 3: Jay or as we like to call him, Jim thorpe Gott.

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Speaker 3: He's part of the renovation crew Brownie. Not only that,

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Speaker 3: so Boot, I know, it's a little different. Boots more tiring,

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Speaker 3: I mean there was We didn't have extras waiting to

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Speaker 3: to finish, so you'd get pretty tuckered out there. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: so Brownie was there a small world. That's what it is.

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Speaker 3: Old school. He's from Coon Rapids, Tough Guy Downnoka Blade,

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Speaker 3: Coon Rapids. There you go, what else do we got?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Now here's another Okay, let me go to my list

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Speaker 3: of things to talk about. It's called notes Bear Stadium.

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Speaker 3: You know this right there? You know they I don't

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Speaker 1: I have it right.

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Speaker 3: They don't want to even do a renovation that they

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Speaker 3: I don't know how much of it is just a

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Speaker 3: that's where you're right, Tennaby, I didn't even think of that.

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Speaker 3: They're just pulling a bluff, is what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: It's sealed threat to move. Yeah, it's like when Twins

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Speaker 2: Ones threatened to be contracted.

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Speaker 3: Dateline Phoenix and the reason it's a date they're not

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Speaker 3: moving to Phoenix. That's where the NFL meetings are. The

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Speaker 3: Bears hope to choose a site from an enclosed stadium

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Speaker 3: That's what Mark, Kevin Warren said. Warren told reporters at

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Speaker 3: the NFL meetings in Arizona. The Bears are in and

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Speaker 3: quote excellent position, as they mall, of course you think

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Speaker 3: they hain't. Hey, who wants this? I mean, think of

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Speaker 3: how many cities if you just said, you know what,

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Speaker 3: But how easy it would it be to get an

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Speaker 3: we're going to move to Schenectady, New York, and the

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Speaker 3: NFL I say, yeah, sure, because we can get there's

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Speaker 3: that outrageous fee for that for effort expansion club warrantal reporters,

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Speaker 3: the Bears aren't excellent positions. They mall building a new

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Speaker 3: last year. Warrens at both sites are excellent. Destroyed Bears

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Speaker 3: wanted to leave historic Soldier Field, where they've played for

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Speaker 3: more than half a century. Indianaalog makers are attempting to

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Speaker 3: lure them from the Windy City with a planned to

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Speaker 3: proposal to build a complex on a three hundred and

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Speaker 3: started trying to lure them. The Bear's focus for a

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Speaker 3: northwest of their longtime home at Soldier Field, though they

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Speaker 3: that the Chiefs might end up moving to the state

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Speaker 3: And then is Kansas City, Kansas or it's Levenworth, I

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Speaker 3: the same type of a situation and it is the

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Speaker 3: old I mean, the teams hold all the cards, right.

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Speaker 3: Who wouldn't want a National Football League team? You think of?

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Speaker 3: We heard the stories here when they talked about building

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Speaker 3: there was one out in the Linden Hills area, and

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Speaker 3: and I were they.

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Speaker 1: Were building hills.

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Speaker 3: We're building hills because I think you and I both

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Speaker 3: And there is tailgating is part of football. I don't

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Speaker 3: and basketball games of hockey because there's so many games

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Speaker 3: blah blah blah. But football, it's a once a week thing,

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Speaker 3: nine of them a year if you don't make the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: So they're kind of special occasions and people like doing this,

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Speaker 3: So I'd like that idea. But as we know, it's

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Speaker 3: that smoke filled room, right. All the powers that be,

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Speaker 3: the people that pull all the levers in Minneapolis, they

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Speaker 3: it was they had to convince, because it isn't just

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Speaker 3: When when who's the big Country and Western guy that

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Speaker 3: threw the chair off the roof, Morgan Wallen. I think

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Speaker 3: He's gonna sell sixty thousand tickets and those they're going

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Speaker 3: might take him there. But anywhere he's not playing, there

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Speaker 3: might be people that travel there. So I understand that.

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Speaker 3: So the Bears, That's why Warren said, we're in a

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Speaker 3: pretty good spot right now. No, really, that surprises me

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Speaker 3: the other. There's something for me about and you know,

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Speaker 3: I don't mind. You know, I'm not completely resistant to change.

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Speaker 3: You know, I still wish that we communicated with Carrier Pigeon.

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Speaker 3: I've admitted that, But I kind of like those older

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Speaker 3: Soldier fields pretty cool? Is it? Is it because it's

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Speaker 3: not domed? I thought they haven't. They've done some renovations.

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Speaker 3: Isn't it still considered a great football stadium on the

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Speaker 3: Dome Stadium will again allow year round you three hundred

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Speaker 3: and sixty five days a year, Morgan Wall and can

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Speaker 1: Well, isn't the.

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Speaker 2: Isn't there something to the Chicago stadium being owned by

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Speaker 3: I know they're not gonna you know, I'm glad they're

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Speaker 3: So the Bears are tenants, not owners. Oh well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's why they went there.

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Speaker 3: On that's the other thing. Let me guess they're willing

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Speaker 3: International Football League owners are really.

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Speaker 2: It's also the smallest stadium in the NFL, just a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the way they've been playing, they could sell more

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Speaker 3: tickets in that, oh gotcha, But some years I don't

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Speaker 3: slap sponsors on all of our stuff too, the branch

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Speaker 3: On and Brian kfag and text line.

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Speaker 2: But they'll become Motorola Stadium, yeah, or craft Heinz.

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Speaker 3: Well, couldn't be. Could it be the new Soldier Field?

435
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Speaker 3: No Motorola Stadium at the new Soldier Field? Right? You

436
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Speaker 3: could still like?

437
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Speaker 1: I still love that one, you know me, I called.

438
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Speaker 3: TCO the TCO Performance Center. I do call them. But

439
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 3: I also called the New Winter Park because I think

440
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Speaker 3: Max Winter got short shrifts. Just because they moved from

441
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 3: there doesn't mean Max didn't mean a lot to the franchise.

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Speaker 3: We'll take a break, come back, we'll tap dance for

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Speaker 3: another half hour. Then the legendary one Mark Rose And

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Speaker 3: will join us measure on the common Man Program on

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Speaker 3: a fan a couple thirteen fourteen Fast on Comedy's Tenna Bee.

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Speaker 3: Legendary one Mark rose And joins us not long from

447
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Speaker 3: Oh boy, what about this ten we had? They taken

448
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 3: our advice and built in arden Hills. They would not

449
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Speaker 3: have played any games at TCF Banks Stadium. They would

450
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 3: have played everything at the Metrodome until the stadium in

451
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Speaker 3: our Hills. Erectly, I think Blair Walsh makes the twenty

452
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Speaker 3: seven yard chip shot inside the metro Dome with his

453
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Speaker 3: eyes closed. So think about that. Deciding to not build

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Speaker 3: an Arden Hills, all the powers that be that make

455
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Speaker 3: all the decisions and pull all of the levers, levers,

456
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Speaker 3: levers and levers, leave it to beaver that pull all

457
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Speaker 3: the levers. The champions of industry wanted to have it

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Speaker 3: here and not in arn Hills. Had they been building

459
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Speaker 3: it in Arden Hills, that game would have been played indoors.

460
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Speaker 3: We want a big game. Yeah, So those of you

461
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Speaker 3: who just like it in downtown think it's a great

462
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Speaker 3: spot to be and you love the way it looks

463
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Speaker 3: like a ship. That's fine. It should have been built

464
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Speaker 3: in Arden Hills. We have the Negatrometer, which we loved.

465
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Speaker 3: That was and that's within the last twenty years. When

466
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Speaker 3: you know, I was accused once. I still don't know

467
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Speaker 3: who it was, but somebody here at the radio station

468
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 3: told the listener of v I the text line that well,

469
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Speaker 3: you know, funny brup common. He hasn't done anything new

470
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Speaker 3: in twenty years, but this was done with the twenty

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Speaker 3: years the negatrometer. The Athletic has what they call a hopometer.

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Speaker 3: Have you heard about the hope meter and the Major

473
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Speaker 3: League Baseball hopefully? Yeah? The results are in the ranking

474
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Speaker 3: ranking fans optimism in twenty twenty six for all thirty teams.

475
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Speaker 3: This is from two days. The results are in and

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Speaker 3: to no one surprise Steven or Stephen jay Nesbitt for

477
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Speaker 3: the Athletic uh penn this piece. The results are in

478
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Speaker 3: and to no one's surprise, LA Dodgers fans are feeling

479
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 3: rather hopeful about the twenty twenty six to MLB regular season.

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Speaker 1: When aren't they?

481
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,679
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, how could you not be? As the Dodgers

482
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Speaker 3: embark upon their three peat campaign, their fans top the

483
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Speaker 3: Athletics MLB Hopometer for the second consecutive year. Ninety nine

484
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Speaker 3: point eight percent of Dodger fans who participated in our

485
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 3: mid March survey describe themselves as optimistic for the upcoming season.

486
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Speaker 3: And why wouldn't you be? Who's the point two percent

487
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 3: that pessimistic about this? Yeah? They must be right or

488
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 3: you're just not paying as close attention to Dodger baseball

489
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 3: as you want to accidentally hit the wrong button. That's

490
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Speaker 3: possible too. More than eleven thousand fans participated in the

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Speaker 3: fifth annual Hopometer. Overall, seventy two percent reported they were

492
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Speaker 3: optimistic about their favorite team this season, compared to sixty

493
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Speaker 3: six percent in twenty twenty five. Hope springs eternal sixty

494
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Speaker 3: four percent in twenty twenty four, seventy five percent in

495
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, sixty six percent in twenty twenty two.

496
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Speaker 3: Not all fans are hopeful about winning the World Series.

497
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 3: Some are just jews that their rebuilder is on track.

498
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,399
Speaker 3: That's why the team with the optimism score closest to

499
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Speaker 3: the New York Yankees is Chicago Cut or White Sox

500
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Speaker 3: optimistic ninety nine point eight percent for the Dodgers. Right,

501
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 3: that leaves zero point two percent pessimistic. Blue Jay fans

502
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 3: are pretty pumped too, And why not? They were in

503
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 3: the World Series last year and didn't they went to

504
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Speaker 3: s games? Didn't it? If I remember what? You know?

505
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 3: This is how bad my memory is.

506
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Speaker 1: They took them?

507
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, what what affliction do I have?

508
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 1: Was an epic World Series?

509
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say yesterday was determined

510
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 3: to have some affliction narrow mindedness, closed mindedness, something mindedness

511
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 3: that I think everything was in the last ten fifteen years.

512
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Speaker 1: Time blindness.

513
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 3: Time blindness. That's what I've got blinded by the time.

514
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 3: I remember that was a great world series. Mariners fans

515
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:42,360
Speaker 3: are pumped ninety five point Tigers, ninety five percent Royals,

516
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 3: and after what I saw last night, I'd be pretty

517
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 3: pumped up to I'd be off optimistic folk, because you know,

518
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 3: those those last runs were garbage time runs. I mean

519
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 3: it was twelve one at one time, and I'd be

520
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 3: in thirteen to nine. There were people still in the stadium.

521
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 3: It's raining, it's twelve to one. There were still people

522
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 3: there in that I wonder how many were actually there.

523
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 3: And then Duce and I were watching, he saw a

524
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 3: couple of people just wander down and sit in the

525
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 3: box seats for a little while.

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00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 2: Yes, I tuned in for like an inning or so,

527
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 2: and just like random kids sitting there all by themselves.

528
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, but them, And what I like about it because

529
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 3: if that was like a sunny day, and because get

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Speaker 3: out of here, let me see your ticket. They're just

531
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 3: like anybody who's willing to come down here and stay

532
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 3: at the stadium in a pouring rain with a twelve

533
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 3: one game, kid, knock yourself out. Just go ahead, because

534
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 3: the usher he didn't want to come down in the

535
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 3: throw because he didn't want to get rained down either.

536
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 3: But they yeah, they allowed the kids to stay there.

537
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 3: But tenneby you go through the list. We're not going

538
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 3: to go through each number one. But unless you're looking

539
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 3: at it upside down, the Twins are at rock bottom.

540
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 3: This is their fan base.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: Four point three percent of Major League fans of Twins

543
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,959
Speaker 3: fans are optimistic about the twins chances. Four point three percent,

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00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 3: which would be LaBelle sou Han. Who else is on

545
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 3: that pole out pocket particular list?

546
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: Rosen and uh And I'm assuming some of the poleouds

547
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: filled out the circle.

548
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 3: They did it as well. Four point three percent of

549
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 3: Twins fans are optimistic about the season. Ninety five point

550
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 3: seven are pessimistic. And that's at the very bottom of

551
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 3: the list. How sad that is. And it's they're all

552
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 3: it's all their own doing, as we know. I mean, look,

553
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 3: let's say even if they had spent more in the payroll,

554
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 3: you know, after the year that they finally, remember we

555
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,959
Speaker 3: were owing eighteen. It was the longest post game postseason

556
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 3: losing streak of the major four current I mean, I

557
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 3: think there's been longer than that. I think that, you know,

558
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 3: I don't think that was of all time, and that

559
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,239
Speaker 3: was currently they were owing eighteen. They finally, hey, they

560
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 3: they they they they broke through the glass ceiling. They defeated.

561
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 3: I think it was they beat the J's and lost

562
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 3: to the Strows. Or did they beat the Strows and

563
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 3: lose to the J's, whatever doesn't matter much anymore. And

564
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 3: then that's when they announced that we're gonna right size

565
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 3: the payroll, and they cut payroll, so they brought all

566
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 3: of this upon themselves. Though, had they even said, you

567
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 3: know what, we're gonna increase the payroll, We're gonna go

568
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 3: out and get some free agents, this still might not

569
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 3: have ended up winning. But I still think most fans

570
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 3: would have said, hey, and it's one, two, three strikes,

571
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 3: you're out of you all old ball game. You know,

572
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 3: we'll route for the home team. So I think most

573
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Speaker 3: most fans, most Twins fans, would have would have said, hey,

574
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 3: at least they tried, right. It wasn't for a lack

575
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 3: of effort. Now, there would be the gad flies out

576
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 3: there and say, well, I was great that you increased

577
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 3: the payroll, but but, but, but you spent it on

578
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 3: the wrong players. And that would be if if let's

579
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 3: just play this out, had they signed some free agents

580
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Speaker 3: to some expensive contracts in those ages would not have

581
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 3: lived up to what you would expect them to with

582
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 3: the monetary compensation, well then yeah, you could make that

583
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 3: point that you signed the wrong guys. And we did

584
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 3: it with the Vikings, right. I think we all we

585
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 3: all thought interior the offensive line, you spot on Koc,

586
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 3: you're seeing just what we're seeing. You're a bright guy,

587
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 3: you know football, because we all watched the interior of

588
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 3: the Bikings offensive line. It was it was like bullfighters.

589
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 3: It was ola right. And the defensive line they had,

590
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 3: they really had trouble rushing the passer for the interior line.

591
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 3: So they made the changes. They spent the money on

592
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 3: the wrong guys. Right, one guy played all games. I

593
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 3: can't remember his name, but he was good, he was solid,

594
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 3: and then the other guy was concussion and he's now retired,

595
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 3: I think. And then the defensive guys just didn't play

596
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 3: very well. They had their moments, but certainly not what

597
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 3: we wanted. But you can't blame I don't blame the

598
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 3: Bikings for not trying. At least they they recognized, they

599
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 3: were cognized their woeful shortcomings and inadequacies, and they tried

600
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 3: to address them. They just addressed them with the wrong people.

601
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 3: So had the Twins not cut payroll? And really, again

602
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 3: is is? And I know the Twins have this four

603
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 3: hundred dollars million debt or whatever it was, and that's

604
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 3: the reason they apparently sold percentages of the team and

605
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 3: we still don't know who those people are. They still

606
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 3: remain unnamed. That was you know, most people figure the

607
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 3: Twins did that. And now they were able to keep

608
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 3: the team because they probably sold about four hundred million

609
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 3: dollars worth of the team and they got that money.

610
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 3: They were limits, yeah, and so they got some limiteds.

611
00:32:55,120 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 3: But had they had they at least made the effort,

612
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 3: And who knows, had they made the effort and and

613
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 3: got the right players, they may have repeated and gone

614
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 3: to the playoffs and maybe advanced, but we'll never know that.

615
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 3: Now it's hard to beat what the Dodgers are trotting

616
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 3: out there every game. Yes, I mean, it really is.

617
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 3: I mean, and that's where you know, I know the

618
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 3: pull out pocket protectors always talk about they vilify the

619
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 3: ownership themselves, not just not Twins ownership, but but you know,

620
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 3: because ownership, I think, well it's not just say it.

621
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 3: Also the players Association. I don't think the players Association

622
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 3: really wants a salary cap either, right do they? Because

623
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 3: they liked the idea that they can make as much

624
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 3: money as they possible. What team I I I wouldn't

625
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 3: want a salary cap here, would you tend to be?

626
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,719
Speaker 3: I'd like them to just pay whatever they wanted. Well,

627
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 3: they kind of do that anyway. But you know what

628
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 3: I'm saying. So I had the had the Twin we

629
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 3: don't know where they would have been. But they but

630
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 3: but but the pessimism that permeates the Twin Cities and

631
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 3: the Upper Midwest for that matter, Twins fans everywhere is

632
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 3: because it was it was brought upon yourself, for the

633
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 3: most part, by by the the we're going to right

634
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 3: size the payroll, and then you didn't try to improve

635
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 3: on the team. And they've always sort of kind of

636
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 3: done that. As we said, they try to run it

637
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 3: like it's the were they Pepsi or Coca Cola? They

638
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,320
Speaker 3: were they owned? Did they still own Pepsi? I know

639
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 3: they were in botteling, they were in automotive, they were

640
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 3: in banking. They had money in a lot of different places.

641
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 3: I think maybe in real estate as well. But it's

642
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 3: it's like you if if I think most fans if

643
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 3: the team. For me, what the Vikings did wrong was

644
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 3: they they they they let the quarterback walk out of

645
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 3: the building. That's where I had my annoyance and where

646
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 3: I thought they made their The real mistake they made

647
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 3: was letting Darnold lead be of I free agency when

648
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 3: you had the franchise quarterback in your building. I don't

649
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 3: fault them for the guys they signed. You know, when

650
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 3: they signed those guys, it sounded good to me on paper. Tennabee.

651
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 3: They were all veteran players. Now, they had all had

652
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 3: injuries at one time or another, some very recent, but

653
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 3: they were players that had been considered some of the

654
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 3: better players at their position, and so you're just kind

655
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 3: of hoping if they can, if they can bring to

656
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 3: the grid Iron for the Vikings what they did for

657
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 3: most of their career. Vikings might have had a chance

658
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 3: to go some places, But then maybe that wouldn't have

659
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 3: happened because of what they did with the quarterback situation.

660
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:34,800
Speaker 3: I think that was part of it, right, You know,

661
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 3: the quarterback situation wasn't all just the interior alignment, you know,

662
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 3: sabotage the season. It was also the quarterback just couldn't

663
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 3: figure it out because he didn't couldn't connect his eyes

664
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:46,240
Speaker 3: with his feet.

665
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 2: So you know the preposter statement from the Dallas Mavericks

666
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 2: GM last year after he traded Luka Dancechev he knew

667
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 2: the fan base liked Luka, but he didn't know to

668
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 2: what extends, right, right, Like ridiculous.

669
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: At the time, I still kind of look at that

670
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: as the.

671
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 2: The twins situation where not understanding after how the fan

672
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 2: base would feel after finally winning a playoff series, and

673
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 2: then that is the year, that's the timing you choose

674
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 2: to come out and say, hey, we got to cut

675
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 2: the payroll. We got it, Like how you wouldn't understand

676
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 2: why the fan base. You finally had the fan base

677
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 2: on your side, right, Like there have been lots of

678
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 2: people against the pole Ads, including yourself, champion that cause

679
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: for years. I think they had finally gotten the entire

680
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 2: fan base invigorated and together, and to completely blow it

681
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 2: up that.

682
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: Quickly, not understanding the timing of that spot on.

683
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 2: It's just even if you had to right size the

684
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 2: payroll because you were in debt, like somebody should just

685
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 2: spoke up and I go, should we maybe wait a

686
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 2: year on this?

687
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: Like the timing is just not good right now.

688
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 3: Even keep it at where it's at. You don't even

689
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 3: really have to increase it much, but at least keep

690
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 3: it where it's at. This text message on the ratch

691
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 3: on Brian came text line says, the thing that just

692
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 3: bothers me is if you are strapped for cash because

693
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 3: of a stadium and can't fill it with players, how

694
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 3: can the league even seem you see you as financially

695
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 3: competent to own a franchise. Well, I don't know. I mean,

696
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 3: I guess when you own it, you own it, and

697
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 3: they were at the time financially competent. I mean, each

698
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 3: team gets to make their own businesses. You're there private.

699
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 3: You know, you belong to a league or an association,

700
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 3: but you are allowed to run the under the I

701
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 3: guess the rules and regulations of the league. You can

702
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 3: run it like it is for me, I also felt like,

703
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 3: and this is obviously water that's way under the bridge,

704
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 3: but I felt like we were sold to bill of

705
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 3: goods when they said we cannot compete without a new stadium.

706
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,439
Speaker 3: We cannot compete without a new stadium. And I guess

707
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 3: there was sort of It depends upon how you define compete,

708
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 3: because that first year they did. If you remember the

709
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 3: first year the stadium opened, they went to the playoffs.

710
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 3: They lost to the Ankle. They were up. I think

711
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 3: I have this correct Game one against the Yankees. I

712
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 3: was at the game Game one, first playoff game ever

713
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 3: at the Goose that laid the Golden Egg. We were

714
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 3: up three to nothing, I say we, and then of

715
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 3: course with the Yankees went ahead, I said they were behind,

716
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 3: but it was who was our lefty Liriano? I think

717
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 3: didn't Loriano start Game one?

718
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: Yes?

719
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 3: And we were up three to nothing, and then I

720
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 3: don't remember what happened. We well, Yankees outscores thrust of

721
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 3: the way, That's what happened, and we lost in a sweep.

722
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 3: And then after that they they and I don't have

723
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 3: the payroll for each and every year in front of me,

724
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 3: because it did go up occasionally. I mean, you know,

725
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 3: it fluctuated by a few million here and there, but

726
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 3: it was never its It's really more than anything. It's

727
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 3: it's the payroll has been shrinking over the years to

728
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 3: where it is now, where it's like, why I thought

729
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 3: you said you needed the stadium to compete. We all

730
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 3: took you at your word that that meant the money

731
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 3: that was generated by that. For I remember tend to

732
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 3: be going online the morning they were selling tick because

733
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 3: I wanted to see the stay. I wanted to take

734
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 3: the boys to the baseball game right uh deuced baby

735
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 3: or the Peter and my lovely wife Potato. And I

736
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:22,240
Speaker 3: was on h sitting on that computer, waiting and waiting

737
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 3: and waiting and waiting. I finally got tickets site and

738
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 3: I don't even know them because I'm technologically inept. I

739
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 3: don't even know if I got them through the comman

740
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 3: I ended up getting. It's still my favorite story. The

741
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 3: tickets I got were the last row third deck in

742
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 3: center fields for Potato didn't go is Deuce, and I'll

743
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 3: never forget as long as we get to the top.

744
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 3: Deuce turns around the looks he goes, these are the

745
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 3: best seats in the house.

746
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 1: I always love that one.

747
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 3: I like being way up high for I don't and

748
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 3: I've been you know, you know, I've been privy to

749
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 3: some numbers, and I got some hour numbers that are

750
00:39:58,760 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 3: really big.

751
00:39:59,360 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: Yeah.

752
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 3: Had I was they had seen, they might still left

753
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 3: season tickets. They had season tickets behind the camera well

754
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 3: on the third base side, so I had those one time.

755
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 3: I got a pair of those, and those are It's

756
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 3: it's fun being that close to the action. But I

757
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 3: for baseball, I kind of like being up on top

758
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 3: like that and looking down and seeing the entire field.

759
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 3: So we had a good deal.

760
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 2: I like the Rosie seats and Champions Club ycause then

761
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 2: you can actually see balls and strikes right anywhere else

762
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 2: in the stadium. You don't know if the strike well

763
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 2: mostly they always laugh when the yeah it's called a

764
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,359
Speaker 2: ball instead of strike, and everyone starts booing as if

765
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:33,760
Speaker 2: they can see it from left field.

766
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what. The umpire's got the best

767
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 3: seat in the house, and most of the time he

768
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 3: can't tell them it's a ball or strikes. Hold on

769
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 3: last night the Twins. Hold On. I saved this story too.

770
00:40:47,480 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 3: Give me one second. This is from the Athletic I

771
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 3: think this was before This is Dan Hayeses was yesterday. Yeah,

772
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 3: updated April Fool's Day at eleven sixteen pm, So this

773
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 3: was after the game. It said, Well, at least the

774
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 3: twenty twenty sixth Minnesota Twins lead the league and something.

775
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 3: During an ugly, rainy thirteen nine loss to KC, the

776
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 3: Twins major League Baseball's most aggressive automated ball strike Challenge

777
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 3: system team set season highs for challenges requested nine overturned

778
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 3: calls eight in combined challenges in a game eleven they

779
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 3: requested nine, and eight of them were overturned. So not

780
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 3: only is it hard to see if it's a ball

781
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 3: or strike from the last row the third deck in

782
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 3: center field at the Goose had laid the golden egg

783
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 3: sitting right behind home plate as the umpire.

784
00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 2: They're playing right now, and I just they just had

785
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 2: they just had to of them go their way where

786
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 2: the umpire called, you know, they were pitching. Umpire called

787
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 2: them both balls. Jeffers, is he playing catcher? Is it

788
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 2: the I think that Seratine's playing catcher. Challenge both got

789
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 2: them both right?

790
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I read another story h via via the Athletic.

791
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 3: If you're really into that inner ball stuff and want

792
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 3: to dive deep into it. It is, you know, yesterday,

793
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 3: I think it was yesterday the day before. I was

794
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 3: telling her I was all for it, and I guess

795
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 3: I am because I like instant replay. I do. I

796
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 3: like getting I like getting the call right. But man,

797
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 3: it does got to grind on you if you're in

798
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 3: an umpire, you know, because it's like, okay, I missed it,

799
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 3: but I was. I was one one hundredth of an

800
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 3: inch off. It's like, how do you expect the naked

801
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 3: eye to see that? And that's why we were and

802
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 3: that's why when they originally were going to do it,

803
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 3: I thought, this is because I don't pay close enough attention.

804
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 3: I thought what they were going to do was the

805
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 3: camera was going to call balls and strikes every single

806
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 3: pitch of the game, and that the umpire behind one

807
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,320
Speaker 3: play would be there to you know, make the safe

808
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 3: at home or out at home calls, but also they

809
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 3: need somebody to signal it right. So he would be

810
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 3: behind there and he'd have the little earpiece in and

811
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 3: the pitch would go across and right away it would

812
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,720
Speaker 3: be ball, and then he would just signal ball strike

813
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 3: and that. But no, it's a challenge system, and it

814
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 3: seems like the challenges are going more right than they

815
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 3: are wrong. In other words, the umpire is getting overruled

816
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 3: more often than you might expect. But I guess it

817
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 3: is what it is. We'll see what The legendary Mark

818
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 3: Rose and things. I texted him last night during the game,

819
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 3: and I said, your favorite player just let off the

820
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 3: game with the singles fair. I don't if he let

821
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 3: off the game. It was the second matter. Bobby wit

822
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 3: as Rosen's favorite player. That's what he told us. Remember

823
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,399
Speaker 3: that his favorite player and then his favorite player also

824
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 3: stole the base last night too. But yeah, Twins got

825
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 3: just absolutely wallot last night. I know the score looks

826
00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 3: a little closer than the game. It's thirteen nine, but

827
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 3: they were twelve one at one point. We'll take a break,

828
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 3: we'll come back. The legendary one joins us here on

829
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 3: the Common Man Program, along with Tennebee here on the

830
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 3: Fan