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Speaker 2: Just in case you missed it, it's the top five

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Speaker 3: Well, even before the top five and five begins, Brett Blakemore,

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Speaker 3: a teas for the top five, it would appear Blake

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Speaker 1: Sad.

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Speaker 3: That's from Kave Falness, who also adds you've changed. Do

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Speaker 3: you care to defend yourself.

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Speaker 4: Or I said in the teas preseason talkers, which that

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Speaker 3: While why is it happen Kave Fallness so defensive because

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Speaker 3: you're one hundred percent right that your teas well falls

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Speaker 5: While I don't. He needs to have something to rich.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand. Yeah, I mean he should.

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Speaker 3: You think he'd just be happy that his little hero

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Speaker 3: Carell is signed long term here, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I am you are. He's apparently not enough because that

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Speaker 4: So I text him back on the text line defending myself.

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Speaker 4: But then I text him with my own phone and

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Speaker 4: I say, come on over. You know you're more than

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Speaker 4: welcome the game microphones Yet, well, he said, I'm at

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Speaker 4: home tonight taking kid to hockey. So he's not even

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Speaker 1: So he's not a part of the broadcast.

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Speaker 4: He's probably doing it from home. That's ridiculousiculous. Anyways, that's

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Speaker 4: we'll say that, but here we go. We'll just go here.

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Speaker 2: Time now for the obligatory Kevin Faulness Minnesota Wild minshit.

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Speaker 5: May as well.

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Speaker 4: Your Minnesota while or in Chicago for the final preseason game.

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Speaker 4: This is probably the last chance are going to get

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Speaker 4: I'm just kidding, wow, but I hope not. That's a cheap,

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Speaker 4: but I would like to see them. I thought they've

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Speaker 1: Is there such a.

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Speaker 3: Thing as how does hockey How do hockey teams handle

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Speaker 3: Did you get an interesting text back?

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Speaker 1: I probably can't read. It's probably the same.

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Speaker 3: So what are the rules when it comes to hockey

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Speaker 5: Players as far as just how many they need to play?

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Speaker 3: Do they play all the time? Do they play some

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Speaker 4: I'm actually surprised that they protoclate as much as they did.

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Speaker 4: Like I with Carell had that eye infection, I was

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Speaker 3: So I was told, I wonder if we're broadcasting from that,

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Speaker 4: I would imagine. So I don't know for sure. You

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Speaker 4: The other preseason talker that was, he's the first preseason

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Speaker 3: It will be interesting to see if Tibbs gets another

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Speaker 3: the storylines allegedly are. We want to defend better again.

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Speaker 3: We want to get back the great and allegedly we

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Speaker 3: These are both very noble intentions. Whether they actually will

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Speaker 3: Reminder that we are going to be visiting regularly with

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Speaker 3: Mike's going to stop by our studio late during Monday's

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Speaker 3: some interesting stuff written on Conley regarding a he's much

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Speaker 3: and that will be one of the interesting storylines to follow.

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Speaker 5: Do you want We probably time for one more?

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Speaker 4: Gopher's data destiny.

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Speaker 1: Let's go NFL recap we can do dat of destiny

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Speaker 4: Forty nine Ers beat the Rams last night twenty six

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Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson ruled out Jane Daniels in the Sunday Jane

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Speaker 4: Daniels missed the past two games. Is spring left knee.

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Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson will miss for the Ravens. Myriad Vikings injuries.

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Speaker 4: We talked about some of that with Ben Gestling. I'm

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Speaker 3: This has been a pretty big I think a pretty

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Speaker 1: But he's giddy for.

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Speaker 3: I think other reasons right now, and that includes let

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Speaker 3: Is advancing or has advanced in the Major League Baseball

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Speaker 3: In fact, I listened to the end of the radio

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Speaker 3: He had this year. Let me see if I can

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Speaker 3: find the numbers. He had a terrific year. He hit

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Speaker 3: So good news there for Dan Minnesota and Minnesotan's everywhere.

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Speaker 3: We now have to live vicariously through connections to the

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Speaker 3: October three? On this date, let me see if I

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Speaker 3: on this date, in night eighteen hundred and seventy vit

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Speaker 3: the Twins victory vest was revealed for the first time.

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Speaker 1: And I did not remember that.

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Speaker 3: In fact, the Vikings had stolen this idea, apparently from

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Speaker 3: In fact, there are even some calamitous dates related to

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Speaker 3: this day in Minnesota sports history. On this date, in

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Speaker 3: The Twins lost a playoff game to the Yankees, very rare,

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Speaker 3: Is it sixteen before he broke it? Whatever it would

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Speaker 3: Despite the fact that the immediate Twins decision was to

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Speaker 3: one hundred percent history. Clayton from Rochester writes, Dan, how

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Speaker 3: good is the Cubs Brewers series going to be?

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Speaker 1: Sadly?

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Speaker 3: Here we get to talk about Minnesota sports injuries and

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Speaker 1: The Browns coon Dog Cato. That's a good point. Maybe

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Speaker 3: Let's do this, let's pause and we'll prepare for a

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Speaker 3: visit with Lavell. If you have questions for Lavel, you

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Speaker 1: Let me do the be as succinct as I can

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Speaker 1: on this. I don't need control. I don't. I really don't.

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Speaker 3: And when you assume that if I take a contrary

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Speaker 3: that that must mean I'm trolling, you don't know me

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Speaker 3: I mean, we all have our trolling moments, obviously it's

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Speaker 1: It's just I'm not going.

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Speaker 3: To be obligated to go with the majority opinion simply

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Speaker 1: So please understand.

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Speaker 3: If you assume that if I take a position different

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Speaker 3: It's just perhaps a difference of opinion. And I'll accept

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Speaker 3: But the surest indication I have that you're mad or

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Speaker 3: it must just be because I'm trying to get people going.

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Speaker 3: Fun to do, but not always worth the time either.

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Speaker 3: Lavelle a great contrarian.

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Speaker 3: It isn't time, It is indeed time to chat with

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Speaker 3: Lavelle e. Neil the Third. A lot of questions already

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Speaker 3: coming in Lavelle Joins US via the Connectico Water Systems

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Speaker 3: hotline on this very warm, moist Friday afternoon here in

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Speaker 3: the Twin Cities of Minneapolis, Saint Paul.

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Speaker 1: Was it hotter and we know it's drier in Vegas?

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Speaker 3: Was it hotter in Vegas for your big weekend or

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Speaker 6: Press my apology. I have, I agreed to come out

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Speaker 6: at six o'clock, and I agree to make it. I'm out, shock, shock,

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Speaker 3: On the speaker from It's it's a sound as crystal clear.

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Speaker 3: It's just impeccable. It's it's not surprising you'd forget. You've

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Speaker 6: But I said yes before I got it through it.

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Speaker 6: So the funny is the partner that I'm at a

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Speaker 6: So I don't know if you set me up to

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Speaker 6: The first day we got the vegans was ninety five

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Speaker 3: I am who's going to get the first Rocco interview,

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Speaker 3: which in ink stain Ratchromedia Jackal will get the Rocco

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Speaker 6: Well, I hope it's me. Uh definitely. I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I'm communicating with Rocco uh through text since he's been

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Speaker 6: I think he alone for a while. Yes, the face

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Speaker 3: You know, he Rocco maybe the type that doesn't want it,

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Speaker 3: for a period of time. It's I don't think he's

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Speaker 6: Here's my here's my prediction with that some network will

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Speaker 6: you know, peace well white. He's got friends all over

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Speaker 6: the guy. I enjoyed dealing with him. His reasoning was

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Speaker 3: Well, that's that's the understatement. There's no question about that.

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Speaker 3: I do you ever remember what's the closest to you

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Speaker 3: that you remember him getting to a meltdown? You know,

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Speaker 3: we have managerial meltdowns happen all the time. Because it's

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Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty two game season. Did he ever

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Speaker 6: During the times I was on the beat, Not really.

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Speaker 6: I mean there was times often, you know, once the

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Speaker 6: He is the East Coast guy. He's a row around

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Speaker 6: of the guy, you know, so he does have a

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Speaker 6: That's a good point. He never had a meltdown. But

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Speaker 6: you know, Paul Maner, we never had a meltdown either,

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Speaker 6: you know, Guardy meltdown, TK meltdown. But the last two

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Speaker 6: to his managers, know.

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Speaker 3: May I read to you the last nine texts that

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Speaker 3: have come in since you started chatting.

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Speaker 5: With us today.

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Speaker 6: Oh no, here we go.

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Speaker 3: I'm just going to read them in the order in

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Speaker 1: Scroll down. We can barely understand Lovell.

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Speaker 3: Come on, man, it's always an adventure with Lovel, Lovel

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Speaker 3: sounds like Grandpa calling in to c SPAN. Sheesh, wonderful

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Speaker 3: phone reception again? Is he calling from a potato? He

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Speaker 3: couldn't have left earlier to get there? And Park, I

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Speaker 3: mean you're just getting destroyed.

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Speaker 6: I mean a concerted effort to leave early once I

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Speaker 6: just discovered my scheduling conflict. But driving from Mbergram Heights

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Speaker 6: across four one sixty nine traffic can be unpredictable. So

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Speaker 6: they got a little diceing. I have arrived at my

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Speaker 6: destination here, I'm afraid to try to switch over because

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Speaker 6: I may fall off the line if I do so.

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Speaker 6: But you know, you know, And I warned everybody when

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Speaker 6: I came on it said, hey, I'm driving my car

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Speaker 6: right now, I've got the hands free device and stuff.

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Speaker 6: Who to tooth is on? I'm here to fulfill my

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Speaker 6: my my appearance on the fan.

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Speaker 1: All right here, here's what we're gonna do.

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Speaker 3: Let's do a forty two break, and that will allow

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Speaker 3: you to get off the line hands free, go back

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Speaker 3: to it the very worst, just a regular phone connection,

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Speaker 3: which for you could still be an adventure, but.

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Speaker 1: It might give us a better chance. So we'll do that.

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Speaker 3: We'll break a little bit early for Lovel and get

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Speaker 3: to part two with him, and we'll be able to

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Speaker 3: sort of spread our wings a little bit on this

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Speaker 3: Friday evening. If you have actual questions for him, hit

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Speaker 3: the Bradshawn Bryant KFN text line six four six eighty six.

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Speaker 3: It can be about the Twins. It can be about

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Speaker 3: your Minnesota Vikings. It could be about the Caprice off signing.

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Speaker 3: It could be about the Minnesota Links or the WNBA

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Speaker 3: title round which begins this evening.

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Speaker 1: Whatever is on your mind. Lovel is back for more

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Speaker 1: than a minute.

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Speaker 6: It's the bumper to bumper show wrap.

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Speaker 3: Well, Brett Blakemore reminds me we're actually out of six

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Speaker 3: point fifteen today because we've got Vikings programming to get

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Speaker 3: in ahead of Minnesota Wild preseason hockey. So because we

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Speaker 3: did an early break to give to sort of unburdened

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Speaker 3: Lovel from his horrific car speaker phone situation, we're going

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Speaker 3: the distance. So we'll get a lot more good stuff

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Speaker 3: with Lovell, maybe mix in a couple of other items

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Speaker 3: before we are out at about a quarter after six o'clock.

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Speaker 3: I want to thank as always, Ben Gestling. I'm not

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Speaker 3: sure I want to thank Carl Gerbschmidt, but he was

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Speaker 3: part of the prediction segment between three point thirty and

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Speaker 3: four as well. No sermons this week for the second

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Speaker 3: consecutive week, for the obvious reason that your Vikings are

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Speaker 3: in action pregame show starting at six thirty, although loavel

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Speaker 3: I did say that if the Gophers shock the world

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Speaker 3: and beat Ohio State at the Shoe tomorrow night, I

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Speaker 3: would be in or attempt to be in if I

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Speaker 3: can get cooperation from Blake Moore or somebody else to

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Speaker 3: come in that early for a five a m.

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Speaker 1: Edition of Sunday Sermons. What do you think.

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Speaker 6: I think that's a great idea, and I think you

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Speaker 6: have some listenership because people will be waking up to

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Speaker 6: get ready to go watch the vikings. That's true, absolutely,

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Speaker 6: there definitely, definitely would be an audience for that, although

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Speaker 6: I don't think you're going to have to do it.

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Speaker 6: What's the spread twenty four?

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Speaker 1: It's considerable, it's twenty three or twenty four, you're right?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. So then they Gophers just proven they're just

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Speaker 6: not quite there this year, and with Daris Taylor out

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Speaker 6: some other injuries, you know, and the kid in his

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Speaker 6: first year starting a quarterback, and he's got an arm.

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Speaker 6: He's got talent, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: He looks good last week.

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Speaker 6: Yeah he did, he did so. But I think the

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Speaker 6: house stations got too much going into the Horseshoe coming

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Speaker 6: out with a victory. I was listening, we had Mason on.

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Speaker 6: That was a long time ago when they when they

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Speaker 6: last won there. I'll try I get it mixed up.

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Speaker 6: Was that the game of Dan nine we had a

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Speaker 6: big kick or was that the Penn State game with you?

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Speaker 3: No, the Hot State game. They didn't even need a kick.

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Speaker 3: They dominated. It was like twenty nine seventeen nine sixty.

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Speaker 3: I was there for that game and they were the

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Speaker 3: dominant team. They needed no late game heroics.

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Speaker 6: Now, I was trying to go cover this game. I

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Speaker 6: put in a request to cover it, but it was denied.

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Speaker 6: So unfortunately, Well, just how Randy Johnson are able bodied

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Speaker 6: beat writer on the scene there in the chronicle everything

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Speaker 6: that's going to happen. Although, and the other thing is

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Speaker 6: thinks too. It's a night game, so that's terrible for

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Speaker 6: our our new fango deadlines. I don't know how much

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Speaker 6: is gonna be in the paper the next day. So

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Speaker 6: it makes you go to starting New dot Com for

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Speaker 6: all your gop for coverage.

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Speaker 3: I did mention and we all did that. The QB

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Speaker 3: looked very good, but that was against Rutgers defense. Let

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Speaker 3: me give you the point totals allowed thus far by

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Speaker 3: the Ohio State defense seven zero, nine and six.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty good.

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Speaker 3: So they've done it against bad teams, but they did

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Speaker 3: it against They've done it against legitimate teams, including Texas,

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Speaker 3: who at the time was ranked number one, probably overrated,

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Speaker 3: but they gave up seven in that game. They gave

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Speaker 3: up nine to Ohio. They gave up to six at Washington,

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Speaker 3: so they there are people who think this might be

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Speaker 3: an historically great Big ten defense. They are very good.

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Speaker 3: It's a huge challenge for the Gophers.

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Speaker 6: As you say, yeah, that that Texas game, I believe

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Speaker 6: it was one of the first game. It was the

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Speaker 6: first game of the season. That kind of said harsh

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Speaker 6: manning down the spiral, didn't it?

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Speaker 1: Yes, it certainly did.

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Speaker 3: Let me get to a couple of other texts for

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Speaker 3: you before we cover some other stuff. Hold on a second,

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Speaker 3: let me scroll down a little bit because there's a

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Speaker 3: bunch oh I said via x that you would name

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Speaker 3: the next Twins manager if you had to make a

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Speaker 3: prediction on who the next Twins manager would be, give

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Speaker 3: me a name.

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Speaker 6: Well, here's the thing. If you rank the attractiveness of

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Speaker 6: the eight chounces out there, it's one of the probably

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Speaker 6: fifth or six maybe have it depends on your on

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Speaker 6: your situation. So that's going to that's a knockout. You

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Speaker 6: know proven managers. You know, there's been talking about Bruce

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Speaker 6: Bochie having one last ride with the Giants. Don't know

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Speaker 6: if that's gonna happen or not. You know, Bob Melvin's

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Speaker 6: out there, you know, he's he's been incredible manager. Guys

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Speaker 6: that ilk, you know, are are gonna I don't think

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Speaker 6: you should can't count on uh Skip Schumakers Like he's

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Speaker 6: headed to Texas to take over the Rangers. Well he's

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Speaker 6: already working there in the front office. That he's highly

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Speaker 6: thought of. You know, Brandon Hyde is a possibility because

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Speaker 6: he did interview a lot of times. You go back

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Speaker 6: to the people on your list, your interview list from

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Speaker 6: the previous third and the Twins that bring in Brandon

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Speaker 6: Hyde for an interview. So that's one guy to keep

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Speaker 6: out with. I'm looking at either a return of Derek

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Speaker 6: Shelton or giving James Rautson, the current Yankees hitting coach,

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Speaker 6: uh his first manager, he will look. I don't know

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Speaker 6: how much the Twins are willing to spend for a manager.

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Speaker 6: They still have to pay rock Off for the option

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Speaker 6: they picked up for twenty twenty six, and the managers

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Speaker 6: that have to come in with hard questions about what

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Speaker 6: directions is program headed? Are we going to fund a

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Speaker 6: decent roster? You could be good point toward the pharm

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Speaker 6: system as as a plus, but what are they gonna

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Speaker 6: do to, you know, bring in quality talents to make

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Speaker 6: the major league roster better? And my colleague Bobby Nightingale

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Speaker 6: Junior pointed out that you never see a team have

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Speaker 6: a fire sale at mid season and turn around and

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Speaker 6: start spending during the off season. So that's gonna turn

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Speaker 6: some managers off. So that's why I think it's gonna

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Speaker 6: be you know, Shelton, who's been here before. He was

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Speaker 6: well liked and did a good job before I got

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Speaker 6: hired by the Pirates, which is a worse organization than

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Speaker 6: the Twins. The Twins were one of the few teams

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Speaker 6: I didn't lay off anybody during COVID. The Pirates froze

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Speaker 6: pension plan funding, you know, and they have not been

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Speaker 6: very active at all on the free agent market, so

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Speaker 6: hered actually be coming to a better situation than he

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Speaker 6: was in Pittsburgh. I think Rowson's been I know he's

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Speaker 6: been wanting to be a manager for many years. He's

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Speaker 6: been at the Fort with different organizations. He's coached everyone

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Speaker 6: from Alex Rodriguez to Aaron Judge. He worked under Don

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Speaker 6: Manneleague in Miami as a bench coach slash offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 6: They created a position for him. I just think he's

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Speaker 6: built himself up for a shot. And the Twins, you know,

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Speaker 6: love this time, loved him from the time he was here.

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Speaker 6: So I'm looking at those two guys as the top

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Speaker 6: possibilities for being the next manager.

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Speaker 3: The twin seven sixth three guy asks for you, or

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Speaker 3: he wants to get an answer from you. The Paul

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Speaker 3: Ads seem to have made a calculated bet that the

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Speaker 3: payroll reductions going into twenty twenty six will be larger

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Speaker 3: than the ticket sales reductions, thus making the team more profitable.

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Speaker 3: I think they will be pleasantly or rather unpleasantly surprised.

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Speaker 3: What type of box office punishment does Lavel expect next

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Speaker 3: year regarding reduced ticket sales.

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Speaker 6: I think that the ticket sales will be less than

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Speaker 6: they were this year. They drew at one point eight

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Speaker 6: sold one point seven million tickets, which was a low

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Speaker 6: for the history of target Field. Based on what I

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Speaker 6: just laid out before, I don't think they're gonna make

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Speaker 6: any splashy personnel moves during the offseason. There's still more

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Speaker 6: of a concern that they may trade Pablo Lopez or

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Speaker 6: Joe Ryan, and that's gonna deflate the fan base even more.

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Speaker 4: So.

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Speaker 6: I can see it. I can see it going down,

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Speaker 6: So you know, and there's there's there's a belief out there.

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Speaker 6: I'm not saying I actually embraced this, but there's a

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Speaker 6: belief out there that if they're looking ahead to twenty

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Speaker 6: twenty seven, when there possibly could be a labor impass

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Speaker 6: and a lot of teams are looking at that too,

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Speaker 6: and if there's people who believe that there's going to

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Speaker 6: be a reduction in big time free agency signings because

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Speaker 6: of potential labor strikee coming up, and if they could

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Speaker 6: wait out the next couple of years, get a new

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Speaker 6: CBA that has a salary cap, and have the television

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Speaker 6: revenue issue figured out, which the league is trying to

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Speaker 6: work on that franchise. Batters go up, the toes will

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Speaker 6: be worth way more than they are now, and maybe

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Speaker 6: they'd be more willing to sell in within that. In

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Speaker 6: the short term, that stinks for the fans. That means

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Speaker 6: you got two to three years of this to put

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Speaker 6: up with. So yeah, I expect more of a hit.

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Speaker 6: I can't see how group sales are going to improve

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Speaker 6: during office. He's not usually a big fielder of revenue

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Speaker 6: having groups. When I want to come in from all

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Speaker 6: parts of ten Twins torritory to watch games, They're not

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Speaker 6: gonna be motivated and can watch a team that has

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Speaker 6: like one hundred and twenty million dollars payroll, I don't think.

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Speaker 6: So it doesn't look good unless they suddenly have a

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Speaker 6: change of heart that these new investors come in and

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Speaker 6: pay down their debt and they've got some flexibility. But

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Speaker 6: I don't see that happening.

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Speaker 3: Larry Mondela guy is ripping you. That's not new. But

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Speaker 3: let me read it what he had to say earlier.

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Speaker 3: Let me get this straight. The only comment Label has

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Speaker 3: been able to get from Rocco is that he really

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Speaker 3: appreciates him and enjoyed their time working together, Larry Mandela

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Speaker 3: Guy wants more.

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Speaker 1: Is he being unfair or unrealistic?

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Speaker 6: No, it's fair. I mean there's some other stuff in

654
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 6: the text swap. We swapped two or three texts, and

655
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 6: I'm not going to divulge everything that was given out

656
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 6: at the time, But yeah, he did say.

657
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 3: So you're suggesting that maybe the rest of the conversation

658
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,879
Speaker 3: was meant off the record. That certainly didn't stop your

659
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 3: gal and the FISA Collier from her revealing her conversations

660
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Speaker 3: with the much maligned, be leaguered commissioner of the w

661
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Speaker 3: n b A.

662
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Speaker 6: She had a script, She had a prepared script because

663
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 6: she walked up to the table that sit down certainly did.

664
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Speaker 6: That was deliberate, and she at the timement was right

665
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 6: for her to there. She allowed the media gathered and

666
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 6: she knew that she was going to get the coverage

667
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 6: and the attention that she wanted out of those comments.

668
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 6: A private conversation with you know, the swapping text with

669
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 6: a guy is totally different than that.

670
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 3: Well, no, why is it different? That allegedly was a

671
00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 3: private conversation.

672
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:02,959
Speaker 6: I'm talking about.

673
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what I talked.

674
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 6: That was her prerogative to disclose that to help pure

675
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 6: her narrative.

676
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: So I'm not.

677
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 6: Here to fueler any narratives about how RockA feels about

678
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 6: the play.

679
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: All right, that's fair.

680
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 3: I I, in all seriousness think because the commissioner is

681
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 3: under siege and she's earned a lot of that, it's

682
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 3: become very easy to just gloss over the fact that

683
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 3: that was one would assume with no microphones around conversations

684
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 3: about negotiations and what.

685
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: I guess.

686
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 3: The point I'm trying to get to is that if

687
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 3: we if we didn't like the individual as much as

688
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 3: we like Nefisa, and if we didn't despise the individual

689
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 3: that we do the commissioner, would we be more bothered

690
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 3: a little bit by that? In other words, if if

691
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 3: if if you, as a reporter divulged and off the

692
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 3: record conversation with Rocco or with the Visa collier or

693
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 3: with anybody else, believe me, you would get blowback and

694
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 3: push back from the links. You would get pushed back

695
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 3: from I'm guessing rock or whatever the case may be.

696
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: And I I'm a little bothered.

697
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 3: That we've just sort of glossed over that part of

698
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 3: the story that Noah, no big deal. We would, believe me,

699
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 3: there are plenty of athletes who, if it happened to them,

700
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 3: would feel that a trust was violated under that circumstance.

701
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: That's the only point I'm trying to make now, I.

702
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 6: Mean, no, that's it's a pap point, Dan, I choose

703
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 6: not to burn my bridges, okay, and Fee does not

704
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 6: care at this point, and she decided to break this

705
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 6: trust wherever. Maybe she didn't have any trust with the

706
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 6: with the commissioner that motivated her to do that, to

707
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 6: reveal that conversation. So yeah, I you know that was

708
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 6: her decision. I would not have done the same thing.

709
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 6: And it's really interesting considering one she has. She's a ranking,

710
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 6: she has ranking v Player's association, she's part of negotiations,

711
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 6: and she owns the she founded the unrival league as well.

712
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 6: That's another tentacle to the whole thing. It is. Well,

713
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 6: so yeah, that was an interesting tact if I was

714
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 6: if I was here, and maybe I just don't have,

715
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 6: you know, the degumption that she has, I would not

716
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,320
Speaker 6: have devoted to information.

717
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 3: Well, to be honest, part of it is, let's face it,

718
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 3: what and part of the reason the players of rally

719
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 3: to her is the this is their negotiation mode. That's

720
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 3: what they're in, and so they're going to try and

721
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 3: I don't begrudge this, They're going to try to do

722
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 3: everything they can to improve their position put the pressure

723
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 3: on the other side. I just think people have to

724
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 3: be cognizant of that and have their eyes keep their

725
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 3: eyes open to that. That Again, this commissioner is not

726
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 3: anyone I've necessarily defended, although frankly, what I've been told

727
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 3: is from a business standpoint, she's done very well in

728
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 3: terms of the new TV deal, in terms of expansion.

729
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 3: The problem is she is tone deaf on other aspects

730
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 3: of her job, and it may well be she was

731
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 3: better made as a VP in charge of business as

732
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 3: opposed to being the commissioner of the league.

733
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 6: Perhaps, definitely, perhaps. And I don't know what the ins

734
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 6: and outs of negotiates. I don't know what proposals have

735
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 6: been traded back and forth. I also know this, you know,

736
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 6: just from reading about this over the last few months.

737
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 6: The NBA has underwritten this league for a number of years.

738
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:23,919
Speaker 1: No doubt.

739
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 6: And there are owners that want a return on their vestment. Yeah,

740
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 6: you know, now do they have to? Should they understand

741
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 6: that there's some sunk costs? With starting the league like that,

742
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 6: sure we did, or do that have to be a

743
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 6: little bit more reasonable on what they want to get back,

744
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 6: and that's that'd have been another tentacle to this whole

745
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 6: thing as well.

746
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 1: Well.

747
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 3: The the the interesting issue for me is how it

748
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 3: goes forward, because there are a lot of predictions of

749
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 3: that that that the players are willing to walk and

750
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 3: I will say, for the reasons you just laid out,

751
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 3: I think that would be a I think the only

752
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 3: thing that would be a bigger disaster than a lockout

753
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 3: out would be a walkout. I think either side, if

754
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 3: they are interested in cementing this team, this league's future,

755
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 3: they won't stop if they I don't a workstoppage in

756
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 3: this league at this point, I think it's very dangerous

757
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 3: and I don't know what the answer is because it's

758
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 3: very clear the two sides are very far apart about fairness.

759
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of tentacles to this level.

760
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,720
Speaker 3: The valuations have gone through the roof, but that doesn't.

761
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: Mean that the league is making money yet.

762
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 3: That's the irony of this situation, right, and that's what

763
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 3: makes it really tricky regarding how far you go when

764
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 3: it comes to we ain't gonna play unless we get

765
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 3: exactly what we want.

766
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,760
Speaker 6: And the other hand, though, the way that the rhetoric

767
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 6: has against the league has been going, if they lock

768
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 6: out the players, I will just be viewed as fight

769
00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 6: out Trcnian and make them look even worse. So both

770
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 6: sides have something to lose if they decided to make

771
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 6: this draw the line here one.

772
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 3: Hundred percent true a couple of other texts. Let me

773
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 3: get to a couple of other texts here quickly. Well,

774
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 3: let's talk a little Vikings while we're at it. As

775
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 3: you know, they're back in London for their second consecutive

776
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 3: game in Europe, in this case it's against Cleveland. Cleveland

777
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 3: has made a quarterback change. The Vikings offensive line, we know,

778
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 3: is in tatters. They're going to be starting three backups,

779
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:32,800
Speaker 3: including a center who's never played the position at any level,

780
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 3: which is a little on the dangerous side. We got

781
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 3: changes at right tackle and guard as well. On the

782
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 3: other hand, I argued early in the show that at

783
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 3: some point you just got to go win a game,

784
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 3: don't you. If you're gonna If you're as good as

785
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,760
Speaker 3: you think you are, even with the injuries, the Vikings

786
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 3: are favored for a reason one would assume them by

787
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 3: three and a half points. The odds makers pay attention

788
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 3: to injuries, and yet somehow they still have the Vikings

789
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 3: favored by three three and a half points.

790
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: I'm not sure i'd take that half. I think the

791
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: half might be dangerous.

792
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 3: But what's your view on the current condition of the

793
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 3: club and how does this fall into the classification of

794
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 3: a must game for the Purple even though it's the

795
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 3: first week in October.

796
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 6: Well, on Michael Ram's podcast, The Daily Delivery, we discussed

797
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,879
Speaker 6: this very subject and we both arrived at the same

798
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 6: conclusion that this is definitely a must win, that there's

799
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 6: there's a two and three versus a three and two

800
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 6: record at take here, and you go into the Biden

801
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 6: and you've got your schedule gets tougher after this. I

802
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 6: will say this, so an NFL has got exactly who

803
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,919
Speaker 6: you play, but when you play them, when you catch

804
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 6: those teams that matter. But you still have to take

805
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 6: care of business and they have to be prepared to

806
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,479
Speaker 6: win a six to three game, a thirteen to ten game,

807
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,720
Speaker 6: however other it's going to be. They got to figure

808
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 6: out a way here. They got a rookie quarterback, He's

809
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 6: not even a first round draft pick. He's a third

810
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 6: round draft pick that they have to get after that.

811
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,919
Speaker 6: Brian Flores has to be salivating over how he can

812
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 6: attack this guy, get him some use and make him,

813
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 6: make him make mistakes. On the other hand, you got

814
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 6: the Vicus offensive line which is an absolute tatters, absolute tatters,

815
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 6: and they're down and running back as well, you know,

816
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 6: So it's gonna be Jordan Mason and Xavier Scott and

817
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 6: whatever Carson Wentz can do, hopefully gets the ball with

818
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 6: handquick before the rust the pressure gets on him. I'm

819
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 6: putting t J. Hawkinson on a big game. I think

820
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 6: he's gonna be viol in this situation here, and I

821
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 6: think the Vicers will win. It's gonna be ugly, it's

822
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 6: gonna be monkey, but they're going have to muck it

823
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:33,919
Speaker 6: up in order to get the three and two.

824
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: One hundred percent true.

825
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 3: But given the schedule we have coming up after the buye,

826
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 3: they're they're very close to a must win situation.

827
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: Have we seen things change?

828
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 6: Got here? I did not hear your entire conversation with

829
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 6: Ben Gessling. Did he Did he talk about the lack

830
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 6: of access today?

831
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: Yeah? Well I did I brought it up, and he's

832
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: not there.

833
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 6: You know.

834
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 3: He came back, as you probably know, so he was

835
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 3: just there for the Dublin game. But I did talk

836
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 3: about what I felt might be the zimmerization of Koc

837
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,280
Speaker 3: continuing this week early in the week with some comments

838
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 3: that indicated a great deal of he was much more

839
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 3: frontal about penalties and the players responsible for those penalties.

840
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 3: And I've ever heard him before which told me he

841
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 3: knows they're they're in a dangerous predicament if they don't

842
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 3: start winning games. And then we come to find out

843
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,240
Speaker 3: he was apparently very unhappy with your colleague a column

844
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 3: Jim Suhan wrote today talking about the fan conspiracy theory,

845
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 3: which he kind of knocked down. I don't think he

846
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 3: necessarily tried to give it oxygen that j McCarthy is

847
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 3: not hurt at all. And so what I heard was

848
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 3: he was unhappy with that. He's unhappy about some other

849
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 3: things there by that were written by other people, and

850
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 3: that he closed the locker room to the media jackals

851
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 3: the zimmerization of KOC. That's the story of this week

852
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 3: going into the game.

853
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: I think, so there are.

854
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 6: Others, there are other stories that he wasn't happy about it, right, Okay,

855
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 6: I wasn't aware of that. Interesting. Interesting, I'm surprised he's

856
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 6: taking that tact. If he's doing the right thing, he

857
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 6: really should not act like this. If he's if JJ's

858
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 6: really injured and they're doing and they're being careful with him,

859
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 6: sure he should not be acting in this way. With

860
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 6: the fact that he's responding this way actually gives that

861
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 6: oxygen to borrow your word, that does the possibility of

862
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 6: a conspiracy is is real?

863
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's well, that's that's and again I don't

864
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,479
Speaker 3: think I think he's hurt. I also think it's fair

865
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 3: to assume that, given the state of the offensive line,

866
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 3: they might be relieved that JJ McCarthy is hurt, and

867
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 3: they would might They would probably prefer given his challenges

868
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 3: early and how overwhelmed he looked, to bring him back

869
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 3: at a point where they're getting some greater health in

870
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 3: the offensive line, even if it's against the Eagles in

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Speaker 3: that game after the buye that's not an easy that's

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Speaker 3: not a soft landing either, But you'd rather have it

873
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Speaker 3: if you have more offensive line options.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's very possible.

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Speaker 3: I think they probably don't mind that if you want

876
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Speaker 3: to look at this way, they're sacrificing Carson Wentz in

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Speaker 3: the interim against two good defenses Pittsburgh and probably a

878
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Speaker 3: better defense in Cleveland with a terrific front. And that's

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Speaker 3: one of the big concerns coming into the game this week.

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Speaker 1: What time go ahead?

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Speaker 6: If it's a hyakle sprain, that's at least four weeks longer.

882
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't play until the

883
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Speaker 6: Chargers came. To be honest with you, they does not

884
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Speaker 6: even play against Philadelphia, and you've see how Wentz does.

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Speaker 3: Do you make that decision, then yeah, well, Wentz can

886
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Speaker 3: make it hard or easy, depending on how you look

887
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 3: at it. If he plays well, if let's say he

888
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Speaker 3: plays better than he did a week ago, the line

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Speaker 3: holds up well enough, or they figure out some other

890
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Speaker 3: stuff to move, then I think it becomes easy to

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Speaker 3: maybe extend him for the reason.

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Speaker 1: That you lay out.

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Speaker 3: And I'm a big believer in you keep playing the

894
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 3: guy who's winning until he fades, and then you'll have

895
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Speaker 3: plenty of My guess is you'll still have plenty of

896
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Speaker 3: time to get to get McCarthy back in the lineup.

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Speaker 3: So we'll see how it goes. Enjoy your big event,

898
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Speaker 3: and we will.

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Speaker 1: What do you got? What's the Sunday column?

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Speaker 6: I try to have a little lighthearted call him, you know,

901
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 6: because they they renamed part of Seventh Street ninety seventh

902
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Speaker 6: Street by the arena. Yeah, I'm sorry, Gran, because you arena.

903
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Speaker 6: I wrote a lot how to columns arguing that they

904
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Speaker 6: should just keep it in ninety seventh Street. Because here's

905
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Speaker 6: the thing. There's a street behind cchs Field that's been

906
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Speaker 6: renamed positively for it. Mike Beck push for it in

907
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,839
Speaker 6: honor Bob Doylon. So they already have a president. They

908
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 6: renamed the streets for people, so why not. He's going

909
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 6: to be the best player in wild history that has

910
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 6: some fun with it, and it's just for like a

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00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 6: two blocks stretch.

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Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, well I have no problem with that. That'll

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Speaker 3: be Sunday. We'll read and we'll react as always.

914
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Speaker 6: Thank you, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: It's a pleasure.

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Speaker 3: Lavelle e Neil the third, I think the connection actually

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Speaker 3: did get better once we left his speakerphone. A couple

918
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Speaker 3: of people have have said, and this is a fair

919
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Speaker 3: counter to the comments I made regarding Kyle you're going

920
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Speaker 3: public with what we're what are supposed to be private

921
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Speaker 3: negotiations with management when it comes to the new collective

922
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Speaker 3: Barney agreement. Nafisa, unlike Lavel, isn't a journalist. She owes

923
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Speaker 3: a commissioner know off the record respect, I'm fine. I

924
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Speaker 3: would say to three to two ozero guy if he

925
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Speaker 3: would be if if that individual is consistent with it,

926
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Speaker 3: and would say the exact same thing. If the commissioner

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Speaker 3: revealed aspects that might not be all that flattering to

928
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Speaker 3: members of the players committee during those of that negotiating

929
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Speaker 3: or during that during that process, then I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: If you're consistent with it, I get it. But presume

931
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Speaker 3: there's a reason that conversations that took place months and

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Speaker 3: months ago didn't go public, because what I need to

933
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Speaker 3: know is context. What I need to know is, well,

934
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Speaker 3: what else what might have been said in negotiations? They

935
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Speaker 3: are generally not held in public for a reason, right

936
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Speaker 3: because people, it's it's it's it's tense, it's difficult, it's challenging.

937
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Speaker 3: It might even be a little bit of a game

938
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Speaker 3: that the two sides rhetoric that has used to make

939
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Speaker 3: a point that might not literally be meant so, if

940
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Speaker 3: you're consistent with that, I'll get that. My point was

941
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Speaker 3: never that Nefisi is a journalist. The question is she

942
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Speaker 3: did not go public with this and the Again, as

943
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Speaker 3: much fun as it is to pound away on the

944
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Speaker 3: commissioner who has asked for it on many occasions, it's

945
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Speaker 3: a little too easy for me in that environment. I

946
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Speaker 3: want to know what might have been said on the

947
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Speaker 3: other side that could have been viewed as at the moment,

948
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Speaker 3: a little bit over the top or a little bit outlandish,

949
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Speaker 3: whatever the case may be. It's it's a rather one

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Speaker 3: sided conversation. She can do it, absolutely, it's her right

951
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Speaker 3: to do it. But the irony here the last couple

952
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Speaker 3: of days is I'm being told apparently I don't have

953
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Speaker 3: a right to react to it, or I am obligated

954
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Speaker 3: to swallow all of it without throwing some nuggets into

955
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Speaker 3: the air that might be under consideration, including, as I said,

956
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Speaker 3: this notion that we're supposed to be moved by the

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Speaker 3: fact that Nefisa believes that the management that the leadership

958
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Speaker 3: posed by her husband in the three on three league

959
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Speaker 3: is on the other on the polar opposite.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, maybe so, but.

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Speaker 3: That's rather convenient and generally if we hear that from

962
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Speaker 3: significant others, we go well, I'm not sure necessarily that

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Speaker 3: that would be the last word on that as well.

964
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Speaker 3: Thanks for everybody listening today. As I mentioned, Vikings podcast

965
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Speaker 3: is going to follow us and then it's Minnesota whild hockey.

966
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Speaker 1: Is this our last preseason game? This is see it?

967
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 3: This is Treshearsal, Oh my god, this is Big Caprice.

968
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Speaker 3: Is he playing as far as I know, yes, yeah,

969
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:07,399
Speaker 3: but I'm not houses eye.

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Speaker 1: Is it better? I hope? So yeah, we hope. So

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Speaker 1: that's for sure.

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Speaker 3: Enjoy your weekend, Enjoy Viking. Sunday morning six point thirty

973
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Speaker 3: is when the pregame show begins and will there be

974
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Speaker 3: a Sunday Sermons only if the Golphers knock off the

975
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Speaker 3: Ohio State Buckeyes tomorrow night also on the fans, so

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Speaker 3: be ready.