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Yeah, I got Kendall Coin with a goal, 10 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 3: Taylor Heisi with a goal, Abby Murphy, you get a goal. 11 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 3: Hailey Skimura makes it five nothing, Kayleb Barnes with a goal. 12 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 3: I thought Laila Edwards has scored one, but she's given 13 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 3: the assist. 14 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: So we will we will keep you posted. 15 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 3: Just a couple of minutes left in the in the 16 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 3: second period here, but I didn't bring Dan Hayes on 17 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 3: to talk about Olympic hockey. 18 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:47,879 Speaker 1: I want to hear about my favorite. 19 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 3: Baseball team, Dan Hayes at Dan Hayes MLB via X 20 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 3: covers the Minnesota Twins for the athletic and he joins me, Now, 21 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 3: how's how's spring training so far? 22 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: Dan? 23 00:00:58,040 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 4: It's it's good. 24 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 5: It's I will say that I came in with you know, 25 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 5: I mean, let's let's not be uh, let's not sugarcoat it. 26 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 5: Nobody really had high expectations from the twins, and I 27 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 5: kind of came into camp like, what am I You know, 28 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 5: this is my twentieth season in baseball, what am I 29 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 5: going to cover? 30 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 1: This is gonna be boring. 31 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 5: I've been pleasantly surprised by the last couple of days here. 32 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 5: It's there's a little bit more upbeat, and I know 33 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 5: spring training always has that, but also everybody reads the clips, 34 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 5: they know what's going on with the twins, and and 35 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 5: I kind of expected kind of a may attitude, you know, 36 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 5: just eh, And it's been a little bit different, a 37 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 5: little bit more upbeat, which works for me because it's 38 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 5: spring and it's way too early for me to be 39 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 5: pessimistic when you have to do this all the way 40 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 5: to October. 41 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 4: So it's it's been an interesting. 42 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: Couple of days. 43 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know you mentioned it, the carrying the optimism. 44 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 3: I mean, doing what you do for a living, and 45 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 3: you're going to have to find your way and sift 46 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 3: through some of the negativity that inevitably presents itself. The 47 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:06,640 Speaker 3: Minnesota Twins sadly are good at finding maybe some things 48 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,519 Speaker 3: that are less than ideal that give you an opportunity 49 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 3: to write an opine on it. But is there is 50 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 3: there any fog in terms of just Foulvey leaving. I mean, 51 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 3: it feels like fundamentally or structurally at least in terms 52 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 3: of spring training, that it should just be business as usual. 53 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: Is that the case? 54 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 5: I think so because they were far enough along with 55 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 5: their planning, and obviously, you know, the real planning needed 56 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 5: to be convincing ownership early in the off season to 57 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 5: keep Pablo Lopez, Joe Ryan and Byron Buxton right. That 58 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 5: was the heavy lifting, and I think once that got established, 59 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,119 Speaker 5: then it became how are we going to round this out? 60 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 5: And Jeremy Zohl has been in this chair for a 61 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 5: year and knows what the day to day stuff is like. 62 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 5: And before that, you know, when they divide up the workload, 63 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 5: and I think there was a lot of Jeremy's Oll 64 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 5: involved when it was Sad Levin and Derek Salby. 65 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: Be Gazoel was. 66 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 5: One of the guys that helped pull off some of 67 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 5: those trades. Twenty twenty two deadline. You know, he the 68 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,640 Speaker 5: trade did not work out great for the twins the 69 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 5: Tyler Mallley trade, but who knew that guy's arm was 70 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 5: going to break? But Zoel was heavily involved in that 71 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 5: and putting it together, reaching out to their assistant GM 72 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 5: at the time, so he's it's not like he is 73 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 5: going to have to be caught up to speed. The 74 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 5: biggest thing for Jeremy's all, I think, is getting on 75 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 5: the same page as Tom Pullad and figuring out how 76 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 5: Tom works, because Tom is a lot more hands on 77 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 5: than Joe Pullad was then Jim Pollad was. So that's 78 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 5: the biggest part to me for and that doesn't really 79 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 5: show up in the clubhouse, right, That's that's behind the scenes, 80 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 5: and you know, since he's been the chair, Jeremy zol Is, 81 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 5: it's it's low wattage all these moves. But I kind 82 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 5: of like what they'd done with the bullpen last month 83 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 5: with Taylor Rogers and Chafin and Hendricks and trading for 84 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 5: Anthony Bonda only because you're adding chances and so like 85 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 5: it feels like, you know, they're adding and players are 86 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 5: definitely enjoying that because there's a lot more personality in 87 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 5: this clubhouse than there was even six days ago. 88 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, I do want to get to some of those names, 89 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 3: specifically Hendrix and and Bonda. This cap from the Dodgers 90 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 3: and maybe he brought it, Maybe he brought a little 91 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 3: little Hollywood with him here to the cornfields. But I 92 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 3: want to start with Byron. You mentioned that, and you 93 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 3: know we want Byron on the team. He says, I 94 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 3: want to be a twin for life. We love all that. 95 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 3: But then some of those you know, I can't say 96 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 3: they're taking out of context. I wasn't there for the conversation, 97 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 3: but you saw the quote and the reporting on it. 98 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 3: You're you're in the mix there with it. Just level 99 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,359 Speaker 3: of level of frustration that Byron might have that the 100 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 3: team maybe didn't be more overt in their loyalty or 101 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 3: to commitment to him. 102 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: Is that a nothing burger or is that a big deal? Look? 103 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 4: I think it's this. 104 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: He's in a good spot being here. 105 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 5: He's excited about the World Baseball Classic. He's excited that Pablo, 106 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 5: Joe Bailey over Ryan Jeffers are here. Because I think 107 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 5: all that group, they were in constant communication this offseason 108 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 5: and going, hey, you know, we got it's on us 109 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 5: to help lead some of these young guys now, like 110 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 5: we are the veterans now, and so there's that safety 111 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 5: and numbers. We're here, we're going to do this, So 112 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 5: there's I don't think I think overall he's in a 113 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 5: good spot, but he sure he absolutely did not hide 114 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 5: the fact that, yeah, he was pretty frustrated. He probably, 115 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 5: I guess you could say his pissed about the fact 116 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 5: that those first two months his name was out there. 117 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,919 Speaker 5: And I know there was plenty of effort from the 118 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 5: twins behind the scenes to let him know, hey, you're 119 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 5: with us, we want to keep you. But even at 120 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 5: the same time, I think even in some of their 121 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 5: messaging they had to couch it because like what if 122 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 5: Baltimore came in and said, we'll give you Jackson Holiday 123 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 5: and our top five prospects for Joe Ryan, we need 124 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 5: pitching so bad, Like, how would you not at that 125 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 5: point take that trade? 126 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 3: Right? 127 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 5: I think they had to see what was out there, 128 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 5: and they also to hear from ownership if they were 129 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 5: going to have enough money to keep these guys. And 130 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 5: so you know that there was a point at the 131 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 5: GM meetings in Vegas, and that was probably November tenth, 132 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 5: and we were there and that's about the time when 133 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 5: you're starting to have conversations with agents and other teams 134 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 5: about what you're going to do. And even though the 135 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 5: Twins continued to say, we hope that we can keep 136 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 5: these guys, our expectations that we're going to keep these guys, 137 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 5: they weren't having conversations with other teams. They weren't having 138 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,799 Speaker 5: conversations with agents about adding players and filling out their roster. 139 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 5: They were still waiting. And it all got settled because 140 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 5: that messaging had changed totally by the time we got 141 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 5: to you know, December and the winter meetings in Orlando. 142 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,679 Speaker 5: The Twins made it clear. They got it out there 143 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 5: through national reporters. Ken Rosenthal and I wrote something that 144 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 5: they were going to hang on to Byron and Joe 145 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 5: and Pablo. But he still wanted the Twins to say, no, 146 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 5: we're not trading. They wanted he wanted Valve to get 147 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 5: out there and say, yeah, we're not trading Byron. He 148 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 5: wanted the same commitment from them that he gave them 149 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 5: in July at the deadline. In August, at the end 150 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 5: of the season, you know, Barron Buckston said, I'm a 151 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 5: Twin for life, and he wanted sort of quid pro plow, 152 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 5: and I think you know that he. 153 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 4: Didn't get that. 154 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 5: It definitely pissed him off. Now, I will say teams 155 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 5: don't often do that, you know, that's not they don't really. 156 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 5: Even Jerry Reinsdorf said the only player that's untradable is 157 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 5: Michael Jordan, right, Like, yeah, you just don't. You don't 158 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 5: say guys are untradable that kind of thing very often. 159 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 5: But he wanted it, and you can understand why that 160 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:52,119 Speaker 5: was a nasty season for him, just seeing ten guys 161 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 5: get traded, seeing the team get blown up like that. 162 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 5: You think about where they were in twenty twenty three 163 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 5: and where they fell by the middle of season. And 164 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 5: he's committed to this place and he wanted to hear 165 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 5: it and I get that. 166 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 4: So it's sort of a tough situation. 167 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 5: But I think that overall, he's here, he's he's in 168 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 5: a good spot. He's not the kind of guy that 169 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 5: will he'll use it more as fuel than he would 170 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 5: as something to like, he won't sulk, you know what 171 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 5: I mean, That's not that's not his nature. 172 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: He's a worker. 173 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 5: He's here, he's committed to making things better, so he 174 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 5: will brush it off and use it as fuel, but 175 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 5: certainly it wrankled him. 176 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no doubt about it. 177 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 3: Frankly, we don't have enough big timers on the team 178 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 3: to be irk in any of them. 179 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 5: We need. 180 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 3: We need Byron happy, We need Byron running those bases 181 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 3: and doing his thing in the outfield. Speaking of big timers, 182 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:44,559 Speaker 3: how about you wrote this piece on Royce Lewis and 183 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 3: a hitting coach. What's up with that? The guy who 184 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 3: never slumps but kind of slumped. He's looking to avoid 185 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 3: future slumps. So like the first time ever, he's getting 186 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 3: a hitting coach. 187 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, I will say that. You know, Royce has had 188 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,959 Speaker 5: his share of quotes over the last two years three 189 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 5: years that you can definitely say what was he thinking 190 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 5: when he said that this is the by far? This 191 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 5: is a stark contrast. This is Royce having said there 192 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 5: are things I should have been doing better. I'm trying 193 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 5: to make changes, and you know it's the result of 194 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,199 Speaker 5: the worst season of his career. He was lost in 195 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 5: August and we're in Chicago and he said, you know, 196 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 5: when I'm trying to figure things out, I feel like 197 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 5: I'm on an island. And the reason before that is 198 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 5: you know a lot of these guys, I would say 199 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 5: I would bet eighty have their own hitting coaches. 200 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: He's never had one. 201 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 5: It was his dad. His dad's two hours behind. His 202 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 5: dad works a full time job in restaurant. It's not 203 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 5: like his dad got the time to be there every 204 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,199 Speaker 5: day and talk to him. Tory Hunter, he said, he, 205 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 5: you know, Toy's running like six businesses in Fresco, Texas 206 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 5: and very you know, including being a GM of his restaurant. 207 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 5: For he is a very busy dude. So he felt like, 208 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 5: I don't want to be a bother to all these people. 209 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 5: And he you know, he didn't definitely connect with the 210 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 5: hitting coaches last year. I think everybody that was pretty 211 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 5: well documented that, you know, you lose David Popkins who 212 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 5: was very popular, and replaced him those hitting coaches. 213 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 4: Doesn't matter who. 214 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 5: They hired, that person was gonna have an uphill battle. 215 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 4: So hitting coaches weren't. 216 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 5: Much of a help to him, and you know, he 217 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 5: he felt lost. So he went out and got one 218 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 5: and he talked to four H. Pelongko and he said, 219 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 5: Polonko told him, this is the guy that turned my 220 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 5: career around and you'll love him. And he trusted it, 221 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 5: and he met with them first, spent a few days 222 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,079 Speaker 5: with them first to see if they had kind of 223 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 5: got a good vibe, and then he went back up 224 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 5: and you know, Houston's about four hours from where he lives. 225 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 5: So he went back up there like six times and 226 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 5: stayed at Carlos Gray's house and you know, hung out 227 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 5: there over the weekends and worked with the hitting coach 228 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 5: and so it was very mature from Royce and it's 229 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 5: something that you know, it's a needed step for his 230 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 5: career if he wants to reach startom the way he 231 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 5: wants to. So it's encouraging now you see the results from. 232 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 3: It, yeah, indeed, and results in combination with what we 233 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 3: expect is we're putting together this pitching staff. Chatting with 234 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:20,719 Speaker 3: Dan Hayes here who covers the Minnesota Twins for the 235 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 3: athletic at Dan Hayes MLB via X. A couple of 236 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 3: names you mentioned on the front end are intriguing to me, 237 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 3: Liam Hendricks being one of them, former twin, and I 238 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 3: believe it in the front side of his career we 239 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 3: were looking at starting and then of course he found 240 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 3: his way as a member of relief staffs. Some tremendously 241 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 3: good seasons, high heat, the whole thing. But then he 242 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 3: gets cancer and he beats cancer, which is amazing, and 243 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 3: he comes back to the mound only to have Tommy Johns. 244 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 3: I mean, what an awful stretch for him. Glad that 245 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 3: he's healthy, beating cancer would certainly be the a topic. 246 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 3: But now he's here with the Minnesota Twins. How do 247 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 3: you level out expectations given what what he's gone through 248 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:03,439 Speaker 3: personally over the last few seasons. 249 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, and after Tommy John then he had the older 250 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 5: transposition this last September, which is they and I know 251 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 5: another picture has had it with the Twins. I think 252 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 5: it was brock Stewart or was talking about habit. Basically 253 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 5: it's not quite as invasive, but they moved the nerve 254 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 5: from one part of your elbow to the other and 255 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 5: then they tear out scar tissue essentially, and he's still 256 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 5: a work in progress. And look, it is a very 257 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 5: low waterspinion. This is not you definitely wanted Kenley Jansen, 258 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 5: you know, and his seventeen million bucks, but by the 259 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 5: way he signed with Detroit one year deal. He was 260 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 5: not coming to the Twins for the same money. If 261 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 5: I was given the choice of taking Detroit or the Twins, 262 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 5: given on where one team performed last year, Twins would 263 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 5: have to pay like twenty you know, significant amount more 264 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 5: money to get him to choose them over Detroit. But 265 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 5: essentially this was where they were and they were or 266 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 5: they needed to grab something, and I like what they 267 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 5: grabbed because they got a guy who is experienced at 268 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 5: this and it's still a big gift, like this has 269 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 5: to pan out, like there's a lot of work to 270 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 5: be done for this to pan out, I should say, 271 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 5: And I think that, you know, they're going to take 272 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 5: their time. Realistically, I think they'll really know what they 273 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 5: have about a month from now, and it's something where 274 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 5: they could definitely, you know, by taking that time and 275 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 5: letting him really get back, maybe you know, maybe they 276 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 5: don't start the season with him and give him a 277 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 5: little more time. It could pay off big And at 278 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 5: the same time, it could just totally be a nothing 279 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 5: burger and not work out and no harm, no foul 280 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 5: because they didn't spend any money on him. You know, 281 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,959 Speaker 5: it's a minor league deal or with bonuses if he 282 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 5: makes the roster, So it's a good for where they are. 283 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 5: It was a good addition, they had so many holes 284 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 5: in this bullpen as of a week ago, and now 285 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 5: here they are, and they've got at least a few 286 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 5: more guys here that have done the late inning stuff, 287 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 5: and that's better than what they had. So it's still 288 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 5: not a It doesn't look like it could be a 289 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 5: good bullpen. Still looks like pretty bottom of the middle. 290 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 5: I guess, you know, like the seventeenth th eighteenth best bullpen. 291 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 5: But you never know what these things and you never 292 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 5: know if any of the young guys will develop. So 293 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 5: that's better than being the thirtieth bullpen, and I guess 294 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 5: that's where they're at right now. 295 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 3: The other name that you mentioned early on is Anthony Bonda. 296 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 3: Now certainly not the human interest story, the human side 297 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 3: of Liam Hendrix, but he is World Series winner with 298 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 3: the Dodgers, and not that he was absolutely their star 299 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 3: reliever in the postseason, but he did pitch and I 300 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 3: think seventy or eighty games last year, which was up 301 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 3: there among their relief staff. And now he comes here 302 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 3: and they traded him. I mean, this is the thing, Dan, 303 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 3: I feel so dumb when I read some of this stuff, 304 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 3: Like I get designated for a sign, I get some 305 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 3: of the means and ways, but trading him in exchange 306 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 3: for international bonus space, you can tell me if I 307 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:07,720 Speaker 3: got that correctly. 308 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: I mean, the Dodgers just gonna add Are. 309 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,479 Speaker 3: Are they going to add the next Otani in replacement 310 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 3: of Bonda? They basically get to do anything else. What's 311 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 3: up with Bonda being being on the twins. 312 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a separator for them because they don't. They 313 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 5: surrendered some draft picks to sign free agents, so they're 314 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 5: not gonna have some top you know, first and second 315 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 5: round draft picks that kind of stuff. Yeah, so they 316 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 5: got to make their markt an international bonus pool. And 317 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 5: if they can offer I mean, you look at what 318 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 5: they've been able to do in that space the last 319 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 5: ten years. It's been pretty incredible. And you know, the 320 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 5: Dodgers lost out to the Angels on Otani in the 321 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 5: first place. But if you if if there was the 322 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 5: next Sotani coming right now, that guy want to go 323 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 5: to Dodgers and if they could add you know, there's 324 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 5: only so much money that every team is allotted in 325 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 5: that space, and if you have a little bit more 326 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 5: than another team, if you can offer six point two 327 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 5: million as a signed on us and you know the 328 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 5: Twins have five point eight, you're going to get that 329 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 5: guy because you're giving them more money. So that's what 330 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 5: the Dodgers wanted. It's funny when when Bond's DFA, you 331 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 5: know a lot of times, when you're the fortieth guy 332 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 5: on a roster, you're you're going to jump around to 333 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 5: like six teams and get waved and claimed and waved 334 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 5: and claimed and being a vicious cycle. When you're on 335 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 5: the Dodgers and you're like the thirty eight, thirty ninth 336 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 5: and fortieth man, you know. 337 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 4: It's a pretty good thirty eight, thirty ninth. 338 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 5: And fortieth man. The guy's making one point six million dollars. 339 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 5: There's not a lot of thirty eight, thirty ninth and 340 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 5: fortieth men who are making one point six million. 341 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 4: That's just kind of the Dodgers. 342 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 5: You know, they're ruining baseball with all their money. Well, 343 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 5: when they don't have room for guys on their forty man, 344 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 5: there's gonna be somebody talented that's kind of ejected from 345 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 5: the roster. And that's what the Twins kind of looked into. 346 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 5: Here he's a slider king. He throws it like fifty 347 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 5: percent of the time, he really found his success with 348 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 5: the Dodgers. I think as the areas like three to 349 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 5: one four over the last two seasons. Like you said, 350 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 5: pitched a ton of games over the last two years. 351 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 5: He pitched eight World Series games, and they've had a 352 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 5: ton of bullpen issues and he was sort of stability 353 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:15,199 Speaker 5: for them. He did give up a Graham Sama year, 354 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 5: give up six runs in this World Series, but clearly 355 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 5: a guy that Dave Roberts trusted, and so is he 356 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 5: a seventh or eighth inning guy? Probably is. Would he 357 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 5: be better if it was more lefty specialists? Probably, But again, 358 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 5: you're the Twins and needing anybody to get out. You're 359 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 5: going to take what you can get, and this is 360 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 5: a good take what you can get, especially when it's 361 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 5: already in February. 362 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 3: Just a couple more for you here and I'll let 363 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 3: you get on to enjoy the day, last one on 364 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 3: the Twins before I want to go more league wide 365 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 3: and then and the Dodgers will creep back into that talker. 366 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 3: But just in terms of thus far, like what is 367 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 3: what for you in you know, covering the team, So 368 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 3: there's there's the unbiased, the journalistic nature of it, but 369 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 3: just in terms of a team managing the expectations as 370 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 3: you were talking about not knowing what to expect coming 371 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,239 Speaker 3: down to Fort Myers for a team that is going 372 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 3: to have trouble competing with the Dodgers and Yankees and such. 373 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 3: What is something that's really excited you about this squad 374 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 3: very early on but through your short time down in 375 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 3: Fort Meyers so far, Man, I. 376 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 5: Hate best shape of their life. Okay, but the same 377 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 5: vein I hate those stories, but the same vein is 378 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 5: where Royce Lewis got the hitting coach. Yeah, brooks Lee 379 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 5: weighs the same amount as he did last year, but 380 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 5: he did an entirely different off season program. Okay, and 381 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 5: I'm I'm curious to see what it looks like because 382 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 5: he is skinny but still built, and he's faster, and 383 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 5: it was all in. The goal is to get better defensively, shortstoped. 384 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 5: He was a little bit below average last year. If 385 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 5: he can be a little bit above average, and you know, 386 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 5: the big thing is getting his bat to finally be 387 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 5: what they thought it was gonna be, because he was 388 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 5: not a very good hitter last year, even with the 389 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 5: sixteen home runs, still striking out too much, just not 390 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 5: an average guy. No on base, he has work to 391 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 5: do there, but it's clear that he took some of 392 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 5: those lessons he's learned over his first two years and 393 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 5: has applied them to shortstop. And I think people will 394 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 5: be a little surprised at what he looks like physically, 395 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,239 Speaker 5: and if that translates, that's great for them. 396 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: They need somebody. 397 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 5: Shortstop is the biggest I wrote the other day. Shortstop, 398 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 5: to me is the biggest question that has to be 399 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 5: answered with this team. It's certainly a you know, you go, 400 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 5: you move on from Carlos Korea. You know you have 401 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 5: Kaitlin Culpepper coming. Whether or not he's a shortstop or 402 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 5: a third baseman. 403 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: That's a big question. 404 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 5: Beyond that, it's like Merrick Houston, the guy they drafted 405 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 5: last year. He's a defensive kind of shortstop dynamo, but 406 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 5: whether he'll hit we'll see. 407 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 1: Short stop is a huge question. 408 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,119 Speaker 4: And so at least brooks Lee has put himself in. 409 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 5: A really good spot to start and try to address it. 410 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 5: I think that's a good sign for them. 411 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: That's awesome. And lastly, so we're loving brooks Lee. 412 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 3: We're loving everything and hopefully healthy and happy and put 413 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 3: something on the field, but league wide. You know, you mentioned, 414 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 3: you know that Jansen for instance, that it would take 415 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 3: more money for the Minnesota Twins to acquire his services 416 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 3: if given the choice maybe of a couple of different markets. 417 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: You mentioned Detroit. 418 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 3: But I just continue to hear this simmering that's kind 419 00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 3: of turning maybe into a full scale boil about the 420 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 3: idea that the Dodgers and the mastering of the manipulating 421 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 3: of the deferred money and what they've done in the 422 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 3: international space, et cetera, that we are actually looking maybe 423 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 3: at not seeing baseball in twenty twenty seven. Is there 424 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 3: a heavy real momentum behind that or is it still 425 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 3: the same old I wish baseball was a cap. 426 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 1: League, and then just everybody moves on. How serious is 427 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: this thing getting? 428 00:20:58,359 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 5: I mean, I think both sides are going to have 429 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,639 Speaker 5: to be very upfront about what they want. I do 430 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 5: think it's serious. There's no question if there's gonna be 431 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 5: a cap, then owners are gonna have to move up 432 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 5: free agency. You know, currently it's six years of team control, 433 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,680 Speaker 5: they're a free agent. There's no way players are gonna 434 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 5: take a cap if they're not at free agency after 435 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 5: like four years, which kind of will stink for fans 436 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 5: because you don't you only get four years with the guy, yeah, 437 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 5: and then he's eligible go somewhere else. 438 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: So I don't know. 439 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 5: I honestly have no feel I know, you know, the 440 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 5: core of me knows that man baseball would really screw 441 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 5: up to have some kind of work stoppage. They've built 442 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 5: up a lot of good momentum. They had a great 443 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 5: World Series. I know it was the Dodgers, and people 444 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 5: are tired of seeing them spend the way they are fans, 445 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 5: there's a lot of griping about that. The Dodgers also 446 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 5: are not the only team that spend. They just spend 447 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 5: the best. You know, this is a team that has 448 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 5: nailed so much, and they have room for mistakes. The 449 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 5: other teams, the Twins, you know, have The Dodgers can 450 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 5: miss on multiple thirty million guys and still be a 451 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 5: great team. The Twins if they paid thirty million. Like 452 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 5: we saw last year, Carlos Great needed to be way 453 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 5: better of a player, and it really hurt the Twins 454 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 5: that he was a below average player with them at 455 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 5: shortstopping at the plate. 456 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 1: That is tough. 457 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 4: That's going to be an inequity that I. 458 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 5: Don't know how they'll ever solved, but you know, there's 459 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 5: a lot of work to be done, and you know, 460 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 5: I want to be optimistic on it. I want to 461 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 5: say baseball knows that they will be killing some of 462 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 5: their smaller clubs if there's a stoppage, but I don't know. 463 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 5: It's too hard to say with any you know, semblance, 464 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,360 Speaker 5: because we're here, we are ten months before this all 465 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 5: takes place, and it is definitely picking up some steams. 466 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 5: So it's it's going to be very interesting, without question, and. 467 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 3: We'll continue to follow you along the way with all 468 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,160 Speaker 3: of this. Man, Just really appreciate I know the busy 469 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 3: schedule down there is. I think full squad practice is 470 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 3: are are kicking up now as well. But just appreciate 471 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 3: you giving me some time today. 472 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: Dan, great talking to man. All right, cheers. 473 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,159 Speaker 3: That's Dan Hayes of the Athletic at Dan Hayes, m 474 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 3: LB down in four Myers for Twins Spring Training cover. 475 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 3: You can read all of his works, subscribe the Athletic 476 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 3: Vathletic dot com and uh, well, let's let's do this. 477 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 3: Let's pause. Women are up five rip on Sweden. It's 478 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 3: a it's a bloodbath as uh, and I think I 479 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 3: saw a Russo post. It was close and it was tight, 480 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 3: and then it's not. And that's how this tournament's gone. 481 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 3: For the women just dominating Sweden in the semi final 482 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 3: game of the Olympics in Italy. I got some some 483 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 3: texts and some talkers and we'll find our way to 484 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 3: the finish line. Final hour, nine to noon on the 485 00:23:42,880 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 3: fan Fare. Safe to say the Americans are going to 486 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 3: win this one, Brett, I think it's looking likely. 487 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: Do you have a do you have a vibe? 488 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:09,959 Speaker 5: No? Oh? 489 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 1: Okay, Oh that's fine. 490 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 3: Women up five to nothing on Sweden five minutes into 491 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:15,959 Speaker 3: the third period. 492 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out with us. Nine to noon. 493 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 3: A couple of vocal maintenance days for the host, including 494 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 3: today a President's Day. 495 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: And I did get I did get this text. Uh. 496 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: I got my interns in. 497 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 3: I got Ava and Stella board Addicted to the radio already, 498 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 3: Brad from Mendota says, thanks for bringing the interns in today. 499 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 3: They provided the most insightful segment I've ever heard nine 500 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 3: to noon. Yeah, doesn't nine to noon feel a little 501 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 3: bit smarter today with my kids in here versus what 502 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 3: you typically will listen to throughout the week nine to noon. 503 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,239 Speaker 1: I always love that one. 504 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 3: Thank you for the thank you for the compliment from 505 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 3: Brad uh and I got another text six four six 506 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 3: eighty six is the Brad Shawn Bryan k and text line. 507 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,640 Speaker 1: Feel free to chime in if if so inclined. 508 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 3: Just think if brooks lee off our conversation with Dan 509 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 3: Hayes last segment, if you would change his number to 510 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 3: a single digit, might be the fastest. 511 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: Man in baseball. I always love that one. 512 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 3: And then uh and then Mac Jones and a trash 513 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 3: emoji that's from Nick and Saint Paul. 514 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: Did you figure out where Chicago State is? 515 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's in Chicago, right, So the whole 516 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 3: the whole point when I when I asked, and I 517 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 3: knew it's. It's the tough thing about just speaking and 518 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 3: sometimes not thinking is especially doing this. You you immediately 519 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 3: hear yourself and you just go, oh oh, that was 520 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 3: an idiotic question. I was thinking specifically in relation to 521 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 3: the city of Chicago, like are we creeping up more 522 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 3: towards the north side? Are we on the south side, 523 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:55,120 Speaker 3: like south from Cicero? Like where where specifically was Chicago State? 524 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 3: But I just kind of left it hanging out there. 525 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 3: How make you have three n this year? 526 00:25:59,280 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 5: Do I four? 527 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: I have no idea. I let me hear them, please, 528 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: all right, so I don't. There's one about Kirk Cousins 529 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:10,199 Speaker 1: where you said this. 530 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 3: I think Kirk would almost be happier just potentially leaving 531 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 3: the league because he's not chasing dollars. 532 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 1: I think he's he legitimately chases wins, not chasing dollars. 533 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: That made it into the tournament. Stupid. Come on. 534 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 3: I think he's made the most money in salary of 535 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:29,959 Speaker 3: the history of the NFL. 536 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: He's up there. 537 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:37,680 Speaker 3: The entire crux of negotiating with him has been maintaining guaranteed. 538 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 1: Contracts for high dollars. I said that. 539 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 3: You said that he's legitimately chasing wins. Well, yeah, he 540 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 3: wants to win, there's no doubt about it. But you've 541 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 3: also had a say in Matchuplier more fairly compensated. 542 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 2: You said quote, I would rather dodge a punch from 543 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 2: Jalen Carter than get spit on. 544 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 3: Oh well, people, people can think that that's being spit 545 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,400 Speaker 3: on is like the lowest I mean, that's disgusting. 546 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: You'd rather get you see double down, you'd rather get punched. 547 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 3: I would rather I would rather have to dodge a 548 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 3: punch from Jalen Carter than get than get spit on. 549 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,919 Speaker 3: And that's not like I'm not talking about like fighting, 550 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 3: like I'm some sort of brute tough guy. I just 551 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 3: mean simply enough, being spit on is so gross, it's disgusting. 552 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 3: I would rather have to dodge a punch from an 553 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 3: NFL sized defensive lineman as tough and as strong as 554 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 3: we all can assume Jalen Carter is. I would rather 555 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 3: do that then just get loogied on. That's awful, and 556 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 3: it's don't you think that's demeaning? But getting socked by 557 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 3: a professional athlete right in the teeth, well it's I mean, 558 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 3: that's the let's be ready to let's be a little bit. 559 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 3: Let's see you know, Hey, I don't look like I'm 560 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 3: that fast. I'll surprise you. Okay, I can get out 561 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,879 Speaker 3: of the way. Uh or and and yeah, okay, I 562 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 3: get that. I get why that's in there too. So yeah, 563 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 3: you have three trying to validate the stupid things that 564 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 3: I say on the radio on a daily basis. 565 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well that's cool. Okay, Well now it's fun. Yeah, 566 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: vote fund bit. 567 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, we can't take ourselves too seriously, that would be 568 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 3: a problem, correct. Yeah, the Mac Jones thing that you 569 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 3: brought up again, We'll continue this tomorrow. 570 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:20,679 Speaker 4: But that is. 571 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 3: I just what does trying to elevate the QB room me? 572 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 3: Does that mean specifically that JJ needs to be better? 573 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 3: We know that, We certainly know that. But in terms 574 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 3: of the type of competition as a rookie, it was 575 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 3: a competition kind of but Sam Donald was always going 576 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 3: to be the starter week one, and we saw what 577 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,719 Speaker 3: kind of season we had this time around. We figured 578 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 3: out quickly, well quickly enough, I suppose, but in some 579 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 3: ways too late, that the Sam Howell and the Brett 580 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 3: Rippin thing that was not adequate competition, that was not 581 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 3: an adequate spot for that QB room to be into 582 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 3: such a degree that we bring in Carson Wentz basically 583 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 3: on the eve of the season, and he gave us 584 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 3: everything he could. Looked like he was dying on the 585 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 3: field against the Chargers, and that Thursday night game shoulder issues, 586 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 3: et cetera. And now that again the spectrum of we 587 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 3: could bring back a Carson Wentz to the other side 588 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 3: of it, we could leverage the next half decade of 589 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 3: the future and package a ton of picks and get 590 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 3: a high end er. You know the borough names out there, Lamar, Jackson, 591 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 3: et cetera. The spectrum and then what that means in 592 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 3: between those two is incredible. So the mac Jones, I'm 593 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 3: with you, Nick and Saint Paul. 594 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 5: I don't like it. 595 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: I need this room to be better and I need 596 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: every option to be on the table. 597 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 3: I just don't look in terms of this room being 598 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 3: better and us getting top half, higher end quarterback play 599 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,719 Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six, I don't believe that that includes 600 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 3: mac Jones, and specifically to the degree of in the 601 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 3: vein of that trade package that Brett said during news, 602 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 3: we're going to f a We're gonna flip a second rounder, 603 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 3: a future compens I think you said a conditional fifth 604 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 3: and a conditional future third. So a second, a third 605 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 3: and a fifth, and then we're gonna get mac Jones 606 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 3: in a third back. 607 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 1: Yes, that's the projective, not even projected. Just throw that 608 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: out there. Bits happen. What's up Common? Common man? Noon 609 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: to three? He's he got here early today. Good for Common. 610 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 3: We're gonna pause come back final segment more on this, 611 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 3: and I did want to I did want to jump 612 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 3: back to something Dan Hayes was talking about as well 613 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 3: as we watched the women just throttling Sweden USA F 614 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 3: five rip eleven thirty eleven and a half minutes to 615 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 3: go in that one and next out for them. Predictable 616 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 3: as it's looked at times throughout the playoffs or throughout 617 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 3: the Olympics, will continue as they are headed to the 618 00:30:48,600 --> 00:31:11,320 Speaker 3: gold medal game final segments. Next QB Conversation, you want 619 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 3: to talk about Evergreen? As we were talking during the 620 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 3: break common man best of there is no best of today. 621 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 3: We are live and we are local. Happy President's Day? 622 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 3: Is that something you just inter if you interact with 623 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 3: somebody throughout the day, Just hey, happy President's Day, Bob, 624 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 3: you make a great President's Day? 625 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: Or what's your favorite president? 626 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,440 Speaker 3: And then you got to think for a second to 627 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 3: say the least divisive or polarizing one to avoid the 628 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 3: exchangeing of pleasantries followed by the silent seething that would 629 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 3: take place after that. I don't know, is Lincoln the 630 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 3: safest you have to think you would? Lincoln seems pretty safe. Yeah, 631 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 3: you can say Kennedy Yeah, didn't just go and just 632 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 3: go Washington. I think it was gonna was gonna hate that. 633 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 3: You can't argue with Washington. No, the wooden teeth, I 634 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 3: think I would stick. Yeah, Washington, did you Adams, Addison, 635 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 3: em and Row? Now we're digging into the oldies. Yeah, 636 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 3: Washington's the safest one. Are our interns that we have 637 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 3: in studio today. I do have one more remaining question 638 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 3: for them, And this quarterback topic is heavy, ladies. This 639 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 3: quarterback conversation with the Minnesota Vikings, it's going to dominate 640 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 3: the off season. It might dominate our dinner table at home. 641 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 3: Ava unstella. To be honest, and I'm going to need 642 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 3: you know. I don't want to say I'm going to 643 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 3: steal your take. I mean I might discuss certain things 644 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 3: with you and just kind of get your insight. Uh 645 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 3: do you who do you, ladies, think that the Vikings 646 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 3: should should have for us in twenty twenty six? Kirk Chase? 647 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, that is that is an option. So so you 648 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:57,960 Speaker 1: remember him when he was here? Yep? 649 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 3: And Mom got you some Kirk coach change t shirts? 650 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 3: Yeah that you still have and wear periodically. You'd be 651 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 3: cool with Kirk coming back yeah, yeah, definitely, and then 652 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,000 Speaker 3: you'd still get to wear the shirt. 653 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, then it would make sense. That would make sense. 654 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 3: Actually, do you notice when you say when you say 655 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 3: things the same at the same time, the way you 656 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 3: do once in a while as twins, that it's one 657 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 3: hundred percent like those girls in the Shining It totally is. 658 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: It makes me uncomfortable sometimes. Can we do the thing 659 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 1: if you want to? 660 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 4: Yeah? 661 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 1: Do you want to play? Yeah? 662 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 3: No, that's terrifying. That is absolutely terrifying. Now we just 663 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 3: gotta now, we just got to work on. Uh, we 664 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 3: gotta work on mom allowing you to dress. 665 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,840 Speaker 1: Up as the twins from the blood part. Yeah, I 666 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 1: get it, I get it. She's in you know what, 667 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 1: Mama is always right. So that's and that's just what 668 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: we're going to land on, right, Mama's always right. 669 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 3: There you go again, a little more wisdom, a little 670 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 3: more wisdom and insight on a Monday morning. Thank you 671 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 3: ladies for hanging out with me. Happy uh, happy President's Day. 672 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,399 Speaker 3: That sounds sounds weird to say it. Now, Okay, we're 673 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 3: not going to wish people happy President's Day, but I 674 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 3: hope you enjoy the day off. But the quarterback conversation 675 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 3: is indeed going to dominate the off season. Uh, Dan Hayes, 676 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 3: you know, as we just kind of put a w 677 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,360 Speaker 3: R A P on things. I'm just so hot on 678 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 3: this idea of the perceived and there's real and perceived 679 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 3: aspects of it. When it comes to the lack of 680 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 3: parody in Major League Baseball. Our low expectations, bunch, we 681 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 3: we we will continue to hit on pull lads are cheap, 682 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,920 Speaker 3: but are they and can they compete? 683 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:50,279 Speaker 1: Seemingly not? 684 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,239 Speaker 3: Al Central has just mostly been a disaster for the 685 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,080 Speaker 3: larger part of a decade. The last time a smaller 686 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 3: market team had their success and found their way through 687 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,959 Speaker 3: to World Series win would have been the Kansas City Royals, 688 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,839 Speaker 3: I think with twenty fifteen or twenty sixteen ish, maybe 689 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:09,439 Speaker 3: twenty fifteen was that the Cubs in twenty sixteen. I'm 690 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 3: just talking to myself at this point. But the perceived 691 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 3: or lack thereof parody in Major League Baseball, the idea 692 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,239 Speaker 3: of a cap, but then how do you claw that back? 693 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 1: How do you claw back? It's in the billion. 694 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 3: It's got to be like one point two one point 695 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 3: three billion in deferred cash alone that the Dodgers have 696 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 3: on the books, their ability to just go out and go, 697 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,840 Speaker 3: oh yeah, you need sixty I got sixty. How about 698 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,720 Speaker 3: five years of sixty million dollars a year? Their ability 699 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 3: to do that, the lack of I guess in totality, 700 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:47,080 Speaker 3: revenue sharing, Twins requiring butts in seats versus the Dodgers, 701 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 3: who certainly will sell out games, but you know their 702 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 3: money coming elsewhere. And how you create parody in this 703 00:35:54,800 --> 00:36:00,600 Speaker 3: league and claw that back without a substantial disruption to 704 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,399 Speaker 3: the league. And all this pops in my head where 705 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,560 Speaker 3: the there's a competitive element to it. Does that create 706 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:10,840 Speaker 3: apathy among the fans? 707 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:11,360 Speaker 1: Certainly? 708 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,239 Speaker 3: Does I keep hearing from Twins fans at anytime, just 709 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 3: just chatting baseball with Dan Hayes today, those that you 710 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 3: know you're not going to go until the pole ads 711 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,400 Speaker 3: sell the team, et cetera. I've seen a ton of that. 712 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,880 Speaker 3: So there's an apathy and a frustration there at fans. 713 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 3: How does that impact younger fans? Baseball is in an 714 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:32,320 Speaker 3: absolute hideous spot now on the other end of things, 715 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,000 Speaker 3: did we just get another goal from the Americans or 716 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 3: is it still five nothing? 717 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 2: Brett I didn't know if they were doing like a 718 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,839 Speaker 2: miked up replay because obviously we don't have the sound 719 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 2: on as we're trying to talk. But I think it 720 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,880 Speaker 2: was like an action replay of maybe someone micd up, 721 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 2: so it's still okay, or they might have scored. 722 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:51,839 Speaker 3: I don't know, so it's still five nothing as far 723 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 3: as we know, and they're just doing the close ups 724 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,040 Speaker 3: right now. Wouldn't mind a little score update please, But 725 00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,600 Speaker 3: you can see they're pores. They're zoomed in so close 726 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,400 Speaker 3: but somewhere else. But maybe this is something that we 727 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,920 Speaker 3: can bring up tomorrow during the talker Tuesday, because it's 728 00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 3: going to be a little polpa re like as well. 729 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 3: As I joked in in the Monday that the weekend 730 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,640 Speaker 3: wrap is Northern Fire rolls back in. 731 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,240 Speaker 1: It's like, hey, we're pumped. We're Minnesota sports fans. 732 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 3: We love the Vikes, we love the Wild, we love 733 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,240 Speaker 3: the Wolves, who love our favorite teams, and we're excited 734 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,120 Speaker 3: to jump back in with the fan again. And of 735 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 3: course he picked the Monday when there's no hockey, there's 736 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,480 Speaker 3: no baseball, it's Olympics and sadly a couple of struggling 737 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 3: go for sports teams. But right now, whether it's it's 738 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,120 Speaker 3: Mikeletti in the mix tomorrow on not just the Olympics 739 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 3: but the NHL meet. Saus and I are going to 740 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,759 Speaker 3: run through some draft bits, expecting to have Lavelli and 741 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,080 Speaker 3: Neal the third, and might jump back down to Fort 742 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,600 Speaker 3: Myers with a guest as well. But it's all part 743 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,680 Speaker 3: of a talker Tuesday in which whether it's texts, it's talkbacks, 744 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 3: there's going to be a giveaway opportunity. I do want 745 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,200 Speaker 3: to hit a little bit harder on this baseball thing, 746 00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,080 Speaker 3: because the idea of a work stoppage, the implication of 747 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,359 Speaker 3: around that, but then a future in which a cap 748 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,800 Speaker 3: exists so that mid market, middling market squads have the 749 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:11,520 Speaker 3: ability to compete with those on the coasts, and what 750 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,760 Speaker 3: that leans into and what that leads to I should 751 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,920 Speaker 3: says as this league moves forward, potentially the good thing, 752 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,080 Speaker 3: but the ugliness around and behind it. Three minutes left 753 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,880 Speaker 3: Team USA still up five rip they will be, it appears, 754 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,080 Speaker 3: advancing to the gold medal game and then the men 755 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,560 Speaker 3: on the chill until Wednesday, and that's lat Vius's that's 756 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,840 Speaker 3: Sweden as well, right, so they'll face the winner of 757 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:36,839 Speaker 3: Sweden and lat Via. 758 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:37,440 Speaker 1: That's correct. 759 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably the worst out of the remaining teams 760 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,960 Speaker 2: you could possibly get would be Sweden because everyone else 761 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 2: got to buy. So yeah, that's not an ideal matchup 762 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,080 Speaker 2: for the US and the quarterfinals, but you get to buy, 763 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:48,719 Speaker 2: get some rest. 764 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:53,279 Speaker 3: Why so, I mean, the cool thing about Sweden is 765 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,399 Speaker 3: basically we'd get to watch all of our favorite wild 766 00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:02,800 Speaker 3: players game all in one game. Gus boss Jojoe, Eric Sinak. 767 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:04,800 Speaker 3: Who else am I missing? Who am I missing? 768 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:04,920 Speaker 5: With? 769 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:05,840 Speaker 1: With Team Sweden? 770 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,600 Speaker 3: Valstet Valstett? Yeah, but I mean Valstett and Gus Busteny. 771 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,400 Speaker 3: You think they're going to play at the same time? Brett, Well, 772 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,160 Speaker 3: in the Olympics, did the Olympics chain who's on the 773 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,000 Speaker 3: Olympic roster? No, that's fair, that's that's a very very 774 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,360 Speaker 3: very fair point. But big thanks to Brett for producing 775 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,960 Speaker 3: nine to Noon today. Uh alec lewis on his way 776 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,040 Speaker 3: to the Combine a week from now, of course, but uh. 777 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,359 Speaker 1: The ability to check up, the ability to check up 778 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:30,920 Speaker 1: with him. 779 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 3: And then Ryan Carter in studio as well, So it's 780 00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:37,120 Speaker 3: all podcastable with the free iHeart Radio app and again 781 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,439 Speaker 3: tomorrow we'll be back with you. Some vocal maintenance days 782 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,120 Speaker 3: for the host before Wednesday, jumping back in Arnest PA 783 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:44,560 Speaker 3: returning and will be. 784 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,120 Speaker 1: Full strength that particular morning. 785 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,279 Speaker 3: Thanks so much for listening to the fan the grum 786 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 3: is next, have an awesome afternoon. 787 00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:01,400 Speaker 1: That's perfect, perfect to coming and clean up. 788 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:05,760 Speaker 4: Lucky we got. 789 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,879 Speaker 2: That's a Fact podcast Today's Paul Allen Show, or listen 790 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,600 Speaker 2: back to previous show and interview. 791 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,799 Speaker 1: So I go into the iHeartRadio app or kfan dot 792 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:23,080 Speaker 1: com