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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Sarah mother, there's too many love your.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Brother.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
There's far too many love you that. I think. Anyone
who puckers up their lips and presses it against their
boss's buttocks and then smoothes doesn't ask us. I seem
to think and everything except my work. I'm good at
my work. Got confine myself to that. All I want

(00:45):
out of life is thirty fare and a twenty grading.
The man's enlarged my mind.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
He's a poet warrior in that in the classic sense.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I'm a little man. I'm a little man. He's he's
a great man. Think of just call it. There's black
and there's white, and in between it's mostly gray. That's us.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Gray is a tough color because it's not as simple
as black and white, and for the media certainly not
as interesting. But it's who we are. Passes You're there,

(02:32):
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Three minutes and eighteen seconds past the hour of three
central daylight time, we welcome you back to a Thursday

(02:53):
production of the afternoon Ardvark on a pretty pleasant, little
yes moist Thursday afternoon here in the Twin cities of
Minneapolis and Saint Paul. My name is Dan Barrero, the
Coast of the program Guards he produces. He'll be here
till just after the top five at five today, and

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we are delighted you are along for today's ride. We
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rest of the five or maybe even into the six
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of this program, and not just this program. But enough
said via Fox nine Big Time.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Now.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I am a little worried about enough said right now?
Is that right? I got an unusual, unusually terse voicemail
from Lori Fisher today. Who's that? Well? She used to
be executive producer of the program. Yeah, Enough Set, But
I'm worried that. Do you think it's possible? I haven't
called her back yet, but is it possible? It's the

(05:00):
all we've been dreading forever that she might be saying, well,
we will allow you to do a couple of farewell shows, sure,
but don't count on us continue Enough Set into the Fall. Well,
here's my is there any or do you know something?
I don't know? I don't.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
My response to be, how would Laurie know? She's never there?
She has no idea what's going on with Enough Set
and she's off again tomorrow. Yes, she's off two more weeks,
I think.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
I thank you're right. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
I did get her from their town ball stop a
couple of days ago because she ran into an old
friend of mine. Laurie loves running into our friends, certainly does,
and then sending us selfies with those friends. She's out
more than we are, at different things, at different events, more.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Than me, for sure. Yeah, you I think are social
butterfly compared to me. But nevertheless, that's very very possible.
So I don't know. Let me know what she says
and when you call her that. I might even call
her back during a break, Yeah, because I'm very very
curious to be to find out what exactly that might
be all about. Are you familiar with Paris Pontiac? That's

(06:05):
how do we shorthand that for people who don't understand
what we mean when we say there goes the Paris
Pontiac account, how do we explain it? Well, it all
started with mar Chev, Yes, correct, that's how it started
where we are.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
I mean we could basically, you criticize somebody and you're
going to lose the sponsorship. You're going to lose the advertising,
dollars and you were the culprit, weren't you?

Speaker 1 (06:27):
I was?

Speaker 4 (06:28):
I was What was once Hubert's in Target Center was
once Nace Smiths. Now it's I think the backcourt clause
when Machev was a sponsor, So.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
That became a shorthand for you, blew a deal for
us for the station or something like that, Suitter Suber.
Here's my question, do we have as of earlier today?
Another example of there goes the Paris Pontiac account that
nobody is talking about. I'm curious, what do we got? Well,
I need clarification because I was half listening, and I
have to admit I want this to be what I

(07:02):
want it to be. But I'm not one hundred percent
sure that it is what I wanted to be the
only way I think to find out is to vet it.
Because our audience is vast, and they listen all many
of them listen all day, so they have heard this
now hottest team in baseball, notwithstanding today's game. You're Minnesota Twins, correct?

(07:25):
Did I read that? Well? We lost this series? With
this loss, right, it was a three game series?

Speaker 4 (07:31):
No?

Speaker 1 (07:32):
Oh no, yeah, we've won the last time. The last
year we won the Sweet I think we've won seven
of the last eight series. Yeah, we're hot, right, We're
back in the playoff chase. Nobody can stop us other
than our own fans. Who I think the attendance yesterday
was like announced at fourteen thousands, not very good.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
More on that late, We've got the greatest innovative broadcast
idea ever.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
We're going to get to that. Oh no, we're going
to get to that. Oh boy, let's just say there
might be a disagreement. Interesting, okay, in any but anyway, everybody,
the vibes are high, right, vibes are high. So what
happens is when vibes are high and there's a day game,
what PA occasionally likes to do is he calls your
guy Dustin Moore, Yes, yes, And the bit is then
Morris kind of is walking around the clubhouse and then

(08:13):
he'll hand the phone. PA will say could you hand
the phone to ket Herbeck yep? And Morris might do
that or to Denard Span or to Steve LOMBARDOZI whoever. Okay,
so today I'm listing at this point and Dustin says,
do you want to talk to Tom? And I'm thinking,

(08:37):
does he mean Tom Pollad? Wow, And that's exactly who
he meant. Wow. So Tom Polad gets on the line
and they do some small talks, some basic stuff, and
there was some kind of again related to the broadcast,
some kind of a bit where they were handing out
twenty dollars bills or something.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Do you know the back story on that kind of
because he wasn't Tom was in the crowd, Yeah, Dustin,
I saw Ora out there. I think Donard was out
there too, that's correct. Yeah, I don't know all of it.
So I wasn't watching, but yes, he was giving money off.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yes he's giving me money on so PA, as I
remember it now, again, I was half listening, So I'll
take help from the audience on this, or even from
PA if he's listening, he can text. I thought he
made a crack like, well, you know, you're Tom paul
at him. Maybe even more effective have been one hundred

(09:27):
dollars bill or something like that. Now he claims he
was not trying to pick from the low hanging fruit
at all. He was not attempting to be snarky. But
the conversation ended after that almost immediately Tom paul At
hands the phone Backhvin Samson did so yes. So what

(09:47):
I'm trying to figure out is was there bad blood created?

Speaker 5 (09:53):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Between well more bad blood created between this station and
the Minnesota Twins. I'm the basis of our purveyor of positivity,
Paul Allen, who he's claiming unwittingly was just talking to talk.
It wasn't like meant to be a larger statement. Although
I would submit to PA, it's a brilliant disc even

(10:14):
if you don't intend it and you feel like it's
unfair because the guy's just.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Picking up the phone. Yeah, the truth, the truth is
on PA's side on this one. I would say the
truth is the defense. Well, now you add it to
the list with PA. I mean he had Mike Zimmer
mad at him, remember and the Mark Craig story at
the end. I don't remember that Zimmer was mad at him.
Oh that's right, Zimmer was mad at everybody was going
to say, which I said, I mean, if if PA

(10:39):
is the guy, I think that says more about you
than it says about him.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
But I did not hear that. And I am getting
a lot of for people. Let me see here what
you got and I got. I'm trying to get into
the hip cricket thing right now, come on, hipp cricket,
let's go.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
No, there's actually people like you that hope it's true
right now.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
No, they don't necessarily know that is funny. Well, because
he say he was sheepish after the fact and said,
I'm not that's not what I'm trying to do. Well,
that's not how he rolls, isn't. But I would say
in this case, too bad, because it's frankly at any
pole ad deserves. I mean, if you want to change it,
change it, that I would say. And by the way,

(11:21):
maybe he'll prove that at the All Star break if
we're still in it this year and we will become
wait for it buyers. Are you holding your bread? I've
got one eye open. I'm curious, are you.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
We've only got like three weeks until the deadline, so
they really only have to hang in for a while,
and if the vibes stay this high, why.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Not give it a shot. Here's the thing, he's a
little bit boxed in, yes, because if he doesn't do it.
Now here's what I fear. I fear they're going to
sell something as an example of going for it or
adding and it's going to be relatively. My honest is
what it's going to be. If we're being really honest
about things. And you know, I worry that the ball

(12:06):
guys might excuse them or say, oh, you know, it's
a sneaky that might be a sneaky good move. What
exactly what big move could they possibly do? That kind
of thing?

Speaker 4 (12:15):
And in relation to what they did last year at
the trade deadline, everything will look like an ad. So
they'll canvas it by saying, well, last year we sold everything.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
This year we added guys. I got, even if it's
not massive. I got a bunch of texts so far
saying may that what they heard was that Tom had
a meeting, was on his way into the meeting. Other
people were joining that meeting. That's why he had to leave.
That he didn't take offense. Yeah, but he's the owner
of the team.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
The meeting starts when he starts with I think, right,
he can be late to his own meeting.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, And now people are confirming that I am uri.
I did read write what PA said said exactly what
you said said to Tom. Maybe you should have had
it out one hundred dollars bills instead of twenty. Since
the cameras are on you, which is again, that's nothing,
that's that's it. But that's the best disc in real
time that you could possibly give, even if you don't

(13:06):
intend it, isn't it. I think it's brilliant. Tom about hundreds. Oh,
it's just too good. It's just too good. But I
hope it doesn't destroy Perizy Pontiac deal because I you know,
I mean, we may have been close to a deal
to put Twins games on and now Pa ruined it. Yeah,
think about it, positivity.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
We've been close seven times in the twenty years that
I've worked here, and this could have been the one.
You think this was the one. This could have been
the one. Yeah, yep, ilive.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Are they audit? What are they on now? Year to year?
I don't even know what they're on. I I don't
know that we're there have been so many hits and misses.
He stops, starts and stops. Yeah, I'm not sure that
we would be in on it again, right because you
had too. It takes two to tango. So I don't
know what we even want. I mean, but here's what

(13:55):
I my guess is, you never know because if we decide,
any company decides, well, it's it's it's something we can
we feel like we can make some money off of
for sure. Then who's to say that we won't. But
as you mentioned, there have been so many false starts yep,
in this relationship, so many times where it was done right,
basically a done deal, until it wasn't the dumb deal.

(14:16):
So going back as far as I was so good,
I remember having conversations with an old boss in the
smoking room here on the fifth floor. Right.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
That tells you how long this has been going on.
We had a smoking room back then.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, I will tell you. I will tell you that
the abruptness, I'm not buying that it was just for
a meeting. I'm I might buy that that's the reason
he gave. But I mean, this is a sensitive guy.
Remember the incident behind home plate. Yeah, this is a

(14:51):
guy who's got his radar up, whether someone's intending to
do the money cheap shot or not. He's got the
red ass about this stuff. So I don't know. Maybe
at some point we can actually play at play the exchange.
Is that possible to do? Of course? Yeah, I wouldn't
mind that at some point. No, no, hurry, now I
know you've got to get out of here eventually. What time

(15:11):
was that about? This would have been God, that's a
good question. I had to get in here early to
do the TV commercial, so I bet you this has
to be I want to say eleven ish, all right,
a little before eleven, all right, I think I and
eleven is when this took place, and it was it's entertaining,

(15:35):
very very entertaining. Paul ad giving the twenties was caught
on camera. Well, look, let's just go along. We've already
blown past the first break, so let's just go to
twenty seven as it is. So here's what's interesting. I'm
also listing and Pa is raving about the avant guarde

(15:58):
almost grateful dead, like all bets are off. No structure
needed in the broadcast of the game on TV. We're
just putting a bunch of ex players out there and
we're just letting them go, right. He loved it. A
lot of people are raving about it. Common brought it
up to me during the relay the Baton exchange and

(16:24):
said he didn't like it, and I said, it's funny
you say that, because when I flip back two or
three times, I was first of all confused, by it,
and then I kind of figured it out. Okay, the
the inmates are running the asylum. Basically, it's that we
have no play by play. We don't have we have

(16:46):
no Corey provis tonight, basically what it sounded like, right,
I didn't like it at all because I don't you
know me, I don't mind humor. I don't mind an
avant garde broadcast. I don't even a broadcast that doesn't
pay all that much attention to the game. But I
got to have some structure, and so I thought, no,

(17:07):
it did nothing for me.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Now did you like it? I like it, I will
be honest. I haven't been watching every single second of it.
I've enjoyed the clips that I've seen on social media.
I like because there's one hundred and sixty two games, right.
I don't mind trying something different, and usually it revolves
around Provis has a vacation or something of his family
that's built into his deal. So rather than maybe bring

(17:30):
somebody else in for each of those occasions, they tried
things differently. I don't mind trying stuff. I don't mind
throwing it out there. I kind of like old teammates
chopping it up for a little bit. It's kind of
like when Louis and Tom Reid are here or Phil Esposito.
It's kind of like that, and there's a game in
the background. So I don't mind it as much. I
kind of like it as a departure from the usual. Yeah,

(17:51):
one sixty two it was too out of control for me.
They definitely get their rhythm by like the third game,
and they probably get in boldened that people are liking
the wacky stuff, and they probably go over a lot.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's true. Well, yeah, because I'm sure there's people there
saying this is the greatest, this is great, this is
the greatest of all time. And the irony of it is,
if you are a if you remain a Twins fan
who's paying attention, the irony of it is it feels
like there was something at stake last night. So to me,
given the circumstance of their hot streak and the position

(18:26):
they put themselves in again, to me, that makes it
even less appealing than if well, they're thirty games out already,
we know the season's over. We're gonna be selling off,
not buying anything. What the hell's a difference? What difference
does it make at this point interesting. This is greg
and Lakeville. So the paul Ads should have held up

(18:47):
a meeting that you know nothing about for a stupid
sports guy who all of a sudden is on the
bandwagon because he can't talk Vikings twenty four to seven.
If I were Paul Add, I would have told him
to pound sand Also. Oh too tough guy. Okay, I
mean that that's I don't even know what to say
to that. Where else did this go? Oh? There was

(19:12):
another couple more. I think the twins are technically in
the iHeart family down the do on one O two
point nine? Is that at one of our frequencies? You know,
one O two point nine? Yeah? Is that us? I
don't even know.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, that's K one O two, isn't it? Or they
want O two point one? I thought they were one
O two point one. Yeah, they're one O two point one.
Maybe he's just confused. Wouldn't be the first time I'm
trying to find poll ad for you.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
Here.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
I've got a couple of options, so it's going to
take Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
That's no problem, I mean, and it can be later.
I I I didn't mean it had to necessarily be
uh be this minute, let me find the other thing.
So I give I do. And here's what's interesting, is
it when it comes to talk radio, you can go
two ways. When a player comes out of nowhere and

(20:06):
becomes a hero on the basis of let's say, a
game winning hit Allah Alan Roden last night. Yeah, you
can pretend that you're a ball guy and that you
know all about who Alan Roden is. Or when I
think also the phone might have been handed to him

(20:27):
or that was gonna be another possibility. Both Nordo and
Pia admitted that they were googling the name as it
was being raised to them. And I actually think the
latter is better because it's more honest. Yes, and Alan Roden,
now I think that's the guy we got in the
Varlin deal. Yes, But beyond that, I didn't know much

(20:49):
about him at all. I didn't know that he's been injured.
I don't know he's been battling injuries and a number
of different things. That's sort of the position that the
twins are in right now. Unless you're hardcore ball. If
you're cleaning, obviously you know everything about him. He probably
are ready to write his life story. Yep. But that
was another I thought. Funny moment from the bit today
is the name is brought up to them and they're going,

(21:15):
let's google that, and let's let's google the name. I
loved it. I loved it for the honesty. That's like
radio row when you're out there you are talking. Yeah. Sure,
let me think about that a little bit. Oh yeah,
I remember. That'd be fine.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
We'll do that coach from southern Utah, No problem, we'll
put them on.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
That's the reason why Zimmer and Pa got a horse divorce?
Is that true? Horses? Yeah, but that was Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
I don't know if they got a horse divorce because
of that, but it was brought up. Zimmer mentioned how
he was down with He apparently thought Pa was critical
above something and was like, we were friends, we had
horses together. Yeah, that's why you never you've always said,
you've always told me, never buy a horse with a
coach you cover.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
It can only add, it can only end one way.
Somebody's asking whether we're gonna have a Twins apology segment
on the basis of, you know, the fact that they've
kind of gotten hot again again, notwithstanding today's game. I
don't know. I don't feel like my position remains unchanged.
I can't pretend that their record isn't better for the

(22:28):
last six weeks than I thought it would be, and
that they're not in a better position than they were.
I think offensively, I think they've scored more runs than
any team in the American League this year, So facts
do matter, But I think the crowd. I don't know
what the attendance was today, what the announced attendants was today.
Last night it was it was fourteen thousand and change

(22:51):
on a pretty Now it was muggy, yeah, and it
was a little rainy. But it's July July. The team's
playing better, and I'm saying that's all that the paul
Ads still need to know is people are dug in now.
Will it reach a point if they stay in it

(23:12):
and even end up in a strong position for the
wild card, that they cave. I'm not sure, but I
can't say, even though again we are it's almost mid
jelyzed soly ninth. I can't blame people for saying not.
I'm trying to be. I feel the way I would

(23:33):
look at it is it's hard for me to take
what what I've been told by a couple of Texterters
is you're doing a disservice to the players, who, whatever
they the limitations that they that they've had to face,
have done relatively well with it. And I get the message.

(23:55):
But my comeback would be that you should still be
at ownership for doing the because if there's disservice, then
it's they are in effect or have ignored the progress
that this team seemingly has made on the field by
giving them more material with which to work. Now, maybe

(24:17):
we'll blow it wide open at the All Star break
and make three major moves. I wouldn't count on it,
boys and girls. Maybe we will, not sure, but it's
I've said before, It's been my mantra for a while.
If the not the players, if the team and ownership
doesn't take this operation seriously enough to do something with it,

(24:40):
then I'm out or I'm I shouldn't even say I'm out.
I'm less invested that I'm going to be in any
other team, even if the team itself seems to be
sort of playing above what it should be playing on
the basis of talent and injuries, et cetera. Let's see,

(25:00):
I would rather listen to Common showing his damn lunch
on air than a Twins broadcast. Wow, well, come on,
that's vicious. Yeah, that's that's really I think that's a
little I think what people are suggesting is like you
can get the technically. I think you can get the
broadcasts via the iHeart app radio app. Because you can
get you can get other stations that we that aren't

(25:22):
part of our family through the app.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Did you know that I did know something of that.
I've never done it. I have, Yeah, we've done we
had that. That's that's how big iHeart is. Yeah, everybody
wants a piece. Everybody wants a piece because it's a
free app and it's easy to use about it. You
can make it like an old school radio with the presets,
which I would recommend you doing. To one eight guy,
we are dug in. I'm not going back to Targefield

(25:45):
until the team is sold. You used to go to
fifteen to twenty games per year after work.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
That is from not surprisingly sell the team, guy, all right,
bottom of the hour break. Eventually we might have a
little bit of the sound of Pa blowing the pereezy
Pontiac deal this morning in the figurative sense, not the
literal sense. And uh, we'll prepare for much more when
we return here in the fantom.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Did I see you like slide him at twenty or something?
Did you lose a bet to Trevor Boll.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
I swear to god it happened completely organically. I went
to say hi to Trevor on the way. I heard
that he was handing out twenty and he had commented
that I need to reimburse them. So, in going to
say hi to him, said I handed him a couple
of twenties and said, Hey, I'm reimbursing you. Amen, and
behold I was on camera.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Oh so you didn't know that was on camera. I
did not know I was on camera.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Well, actually you know that. You know we've got people
lining up for twenties from both of us.

Speaker 5 (26:48):
Well, of course, I mean you know, if you'd known
it was on camera, you probably would have given him
a hundred.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
It's better for the image, right, Hey, my man?

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Okay, it's fun.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yep, nice chatting with you. Yep, I got that.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
I probably got to go to Tom so yeah, I probably. Okay, anyway,
can you give the phone back to Dustin?

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Oh it's even better, But I've heard it the second
time because now I'm actually listening one hundred percent rather
than getting ready. That's no meeting. Come on, man, he's annoyed,
and with that I need to go. I do appreciate
your call. That thing there, reasy Pontiac deal is is squashed.
It's over, and I don't think it matters that after

(27:29):
the fact, p He's like, I hope he didn't think
I was doing the low hanging fruit thing being snarky.
You know, he gave him the fake reporter laugh though
Tom Pole did. It sounded very much like a Kessler laugh.
It was that fake yeah, yeah, right, God, that's so good.
So that was earlier today. If you're just joining us,
I had mentioned that I thought PA had unwittingly annoyed

(27:51):
the latest poll ad who's in charge of the Minnesota Twins.
And I think that might well confirm it. No matter
what pa These intentions were, it's just it's just perfect
with the backdrop that exists here. Is it not better
for the image if you dropped a hundred? Yeah? Do
you think I love it? Do billionaires do they carry

(28:15):
do they even carry twenties around?

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Or do they carry hundreds? Well, they must carry I
mean this, Paul had carried twenties. I can't speak for
all billionaires, but he must have carried he had at
least one twenty because he had to give.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
It to plufy We He said he gave him a couple.
Oh yeah, he gave him two twenties. So I guess, yeah,
you're right, he must. I'm just saying, I'm just assuming
you don't even mess with twenties. If you're a billionaire,
you just say here, you know, just the lowest denomination
if you're gonna work in cash at all. Right, my
assumption is the lowest denomination you're gonna work with this hundreds?
But does any of it matter to that? You know
what I mean? True?

Speaker 4 (28:47):
They probably don't even know what bills are. Yeah, it's
just yeah, just take whatever cash I have and it's
all meaningless.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
All petty cash is meaningless. That's very true. What does
this mean? This is Charlie. Haven't we suffered enough this
summer with all the soccer broad Now you're talking about
broadcasting the Twins Mercy. That's from Charlie Man. So he's
anti soccer. He hates the beautiful game. He hates the
beautiful game. Is that we got a game that's already started.
What channel we on probably just on Fox Regular Fix.

(29:13):
I would think they're all on Fox. Now. We have
more sound you have of our guy Koc with Dan Patrick.
That's getting a lot of attention. We're gonna get to
that later. I sent you a conversation involving LaMelo Ball
and at least one, maybe two of his brothers, which

(29:34):
I think has already been cleaned up. But we'll we'll,
we'll save that for a little bit later. You can
do me a favor now and hit the UH as
soon as you can find it. The bumper to Bumper
Seal of Approval. I do want to get to that.
It's the bumper to bumper Seal of Approval, and in

(30:01):
this case it is I thought I had saved it,
but oh here it is. No, that's Jade McDaniels. We'll
get to that story a little bit later. You know,
maybe I did not save it, but I'll give you
the short version of it and then I'll try to
find the exact quotes. So Candace Parker, is she still
on National Broadcast when it comes to I know NBA

(30:23):
WNBA two, I don't know the latter. I don't know
where she is in that pecking order. But we've seen
her on some NBA stuff correct, yes, a lot, some
college stuff, and she has weighed in. I think we
talked about this late last week that for the WNBA
All Star Game, the players in the vote in their
voting had Caitlin Clark eleventh among guards, which is of

(30:46):
course preposterous. And she noticed, and she basically said, what
are we doing? What are we doing? She even mentioned
she said, there were you know, there were players rights.
I played against that, including Tarasi I didn't like. But
you got to rise above that a little bit. If

(31:09):
the voting is going to have any integrity, correct, it's
it's And I'm just glad she's weighed in on it
because this has become a new debate that one of
the ESPN alleged expert analysts is basically is disagreeing with
the note, rejecting the notion that any of that has

(31:33):
anything to do with envy and jealousy, that this is
what any with it. And while new thing that's highly
touted coming into any league always has to deal with
being constantly tested, and I'm here to tell you that's
a lie. Tested, yes, on the court, challenged on the court,

(31:57):
but generally speaking, most of the time, there's been a
grudging understanding that well, player's good. That's part of it.
Can't be denied. I might, I might not like all
the steam, I might be annoyed by all the steam,
but I can't deny it. So I give her credit

(32:18):
for opening up a little bit on the subject and
basically calling out. She didn't name names because I don't
know that she knows who voted what, but but basically
calling out the whole deal. Did you find the story?
It was in the New York Post. I thought I
had saved it. I can't hear it. My printer is
not working again, so I can't get anything printed. Yeah,

(32:38):
that's a long story. Nobody cares about it. But yeah,
if you've got audio on it, even better.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
Let's listen. And if one of these players she was
with Eleah Boston.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
That's just that was the podcast exactly right.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Obviously Clark's teammate here. So if they're swearing, I'll dump
in the stream, will get something fun? Why not let's
roll the dices July night.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Yeah, it's also kind of crazy, like I wholeheartedly believe
that there needs to be some rules with the WBA
players because this is getting out of hand. Kaylyn Clark
voted eleventh best guard by WBA players. That's crazy. Kelsey
Plumb finished twelfth in player rank, But she'd be percolating

(33:14):
all over your deepense. You be chasing her downhill on screen.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Kind of it's kind.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Of crazy, Like I I wardedly, well, I think people
need to look at themselves in the mirror and realize, like, man, you.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Got some you got some insecurities.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
If you're sitting down on it put and Caitlyn Clark
as the eleventh best.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Guard, that's perfect id y'all.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Y'all need to go to a therapist and figure out
what childhood issues you have.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Because I'm very well said, because she wasn't necessarily ranting.
She's just almost matter of factly saying this is absure, right,
and she's got you know again. It helps when it's
people with credibility in this business. Well what are we
doing here? So I you know again, the hard part

(34:05):
is you can't legislate. There can't be. She talked about rules, Well,
I mean there can't really be. You can't, so you
really can't. People have to vote for it. But it
is telling and it's why the idiots who continue to
cling to the notion that there was that envy and
jealousy have nothing to do with this. They're just making

(34:27):
it up because they they're tired of the discussion. I'm
tired of discussion. I think you're tired of discussion. Everybody's
tired of discussion. And it does run the risk of
them being as we talked about, to an over overly
too much protection when it comes to Caitlin Clark, where
people overreact to stuff that really is not that big

(34:48):
of a deal or might involve any other player. That's
sort of the business. Unfortunately, that's the position and the
condition that we're in at this time now. Somebody said,
and we probably would have to like turn the sound
way up. Did you hear the part where Morse handed
Joe Pollad Tom pull at his phone and said it's

(35:09):
Paul on from Camvan. You could hear Tom in the
background saying I'm gonna kill you to more. No, did
he say that. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
I didn't hear that part to the end. Yeah, I'll
listen during the next break. That'd be tough. Dustin's worked
there a long time. That'd be tough.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
I think he's I think to established Yeah, Dustin is phenomenal.
He's yeah, he's at stand. He's a great big title.
He's got too big a title now, he's huge. They
can't do anything to him. I wouldn't think at this point.
But what do I know. Oh he owns the team.
That's the problem. He does. Yeah, Tom does. Yeah, that's true. Yeah,
the pole Heads do they want? Yeah they can. That's
a scary thing. They can do pretty much anything they want.

(35:46):
But Morse could be in that like and they have
a couple of people like this. Well, here's the problem
with not The problem is he's good on the radio himself.
Oh yeah he could. You know me, I've tended to
like I don't want media relations people on the air.
I I love him. I respect the job they do.
It's harder and harder all the time, but it's behind

(36:06):
the scenes kind of thing. He's so smooth. Yeah, he's slick.
He can, he's a good guest. He's good just sort
of playing that role very effect. They have him to
do TV stuff everywhere. No, he is, he's very good
because he's he's not even done videos over time right
where it's almost like he has become an an asset
in a way that generally media relations guys and gals

(36:29):
can't be or are not likely to because he's it's
almost like he's got that media sensibility to him. He's
a smart dude. Yeah, he really is. There's no question
about that. He's got a few years.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Left to be like Munichy level with the Wolves, where
it's like, no matter what happens, you've got to leave
him in bulletproof. Should be in my opinion, should be.

Speaker 5 (36:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
A couple other people said they heard it, Oh, that's great,
be a bit I'm just playing. Yeah, of course it
could mean. Well, let's put this way, if we find
out Dustin's on has been suspended for like two weeks,
we don't hear from him. I think we know it
might have something to do with this entire episode, because
I don't, like I said, I don't think I have
the honess to get rid of him. He's too valuable.

(37:08):
But you know, maybe some kind of a message being
sent right, like he disappears for a road trip or
right right man, you can rule any of those. Well,
now something else to follow to follow with the club
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Speaker 5 (37:28):
And you are participant number one in this cold call Covenant?

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Are you in?

Speaker 3 (37:35):
I'm gonna kill Dustin? Sure?

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Oh yeah, that was not muttered under his breath, but
that was. He can jocular his way out of that
and just say he's just playing with it. You know,
he's just being loosey, goosey, being Tom Pollen. Yeah, you
know what he's known for. It. It's just hanging around
the club with the fellows. That's it. When he's not
yelling at fans who are seated next near him that

(38:00):
has a sign or a ball cap that they don't
or a T shirt that has a message they don't
particularly like. Whatever it was. Bumper wrapping up our number
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N dot com. I already am suffering from World Cup FOMO.

(38:20):
I will fully admit it, and I don't apologize for it.
I know there's a segment of our community that's glad
that the US is out because they didn't care about
it from the beginning. I'm watching Morocco Frost. It's a
barn burner zero zero almost forty nine minutes, so we're
in the extra time. They're supposed to go to about

(38:41):
fifty three or so. No less than that fifty Actually
I can't even I can do that math. But so far,
no score. I just saw a terrific Say, let's put
this way on a you know how sometimes a goalie
comes out to try to beat an attacker to the ball.
Let's just say the Morocco goaltender did a better job

(39:04):
of that than the US contenter against Belgium. That was
the pear shape moment there. I know, just felt like, yeah,
you felt like it's amateur hour again. I mean that
that that that that took so much starch out of
the whole thing, and it may not have mattered. But
in any case, Neil Neil, I'm I'm one hundred percent
now on the La Roja bandwagon. I bet they haven't conceded,

(39:28):
is what we say in soccer A goal yet I
did hear that? I mean, is Brian Flores running this
defense or what b flow? It's it's unbelievable. So they're not.
They're not very as explosive offensively as they used to be.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
They know who they are, though they do know who
they are. They must if we can't score, So we're
not gonna let the other.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Team isn No, I wish we'll get to that in
a minute. No breaking news. Twins have just issued a
release that Dustin Morrison I'll be in charge of the
Fort Myers Mighty Muscles Get to Know Him program Fort
Myers Mighty Muscles Get to Know Them program. It could

(40:13):
be just temporary, but help him out there apparently, which I.

Speaker 4 (40:17):
Don't want anything bad to happen, so I will say this.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
It would be funny. It can't happen.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
No, it would be funny if it did, for like
a week, if he did, like get in trouble and
we got to react to that too.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Good. You mentioned Lebron. I was forced yesterday to go
down the road I hadn't intended because I was accused
by Larry mondelo guy of raising his hopes on US
World Cup possibilities to a degree that he actually was
more devastated than he otherwise would have been when the

(40:48):
US lost to Belgium for once. Sure, so in that
vein saying well, the last thing I want to do
is get people's hopes up again. Yesterday I just said
end your fantasy. Lebron James is not coming to Minnesota.
Not gonna happen where it's gonna be. I think we're
probably gonna know either later this week, I think more

(41:10):
likely early next week. But I don't think he's coming.
I don't think there's any reason to believe he's coming.
And I know we got people saying we're in it,
and we go about we have him been eliminated and
all that stuff. I think this is the whole Lebron
James productions, the production. They're enjoying this whole bit. And
I'm not even saying their approach is pernicious necessarily. I

(41:31):
just think they're having fun with it. But I will
give you this, this falls out of the classification of
a very misleading stat that I don't really think illuminates.
This is from you're familiar with cal Shei Hoops. Yes,
Jaden McDaniels has more twenty plus points on ninety percent

(41:55):
total shooting percentage games in the last five seasons than
And here's the list. Giannis Durant, Tatum Curry, Embiide Booker,
Jalen Brown, Kawhi Sga, Lebron Luca Jalen as In Brunson,

(42:17):
Anthony Edwards, Donovan Mitchell, and Victor Wibanyana. Now look, I'm
not here to denigrate Jade McDaniels. I'm glad he's still
on the team. He's got a wonderful opportunity ahead of
him to become maybe literally the second option on this
team offensively, and he might be ready for it. We

(42:40):
know what he can do defensively. But the problem with
that stat is that it leaves out how many fewer
shots that Jaden has taken in those guys. And that's
to me why it's misleading, And it doesn't say what like, oh,

(43:01):
he's as good as those guys. Well, to prove you're
as good as those guys, you have to take a
far more steady diet of shots every night, not just
some nights, not just when it's feeling right. Whatever the
case may be. They've had the responsibility of they have
most of those places have no choice but to shoot

(43:22):
right fifteen times a game. It's up to them twenty
times a game, twenty five times a game. Now, maybe
Jaden will be up to that because he's gonna, i think,
be given the green light in a way he hasn't
had before. Can he get there? Maybe, but that can't
be left out of the discussion, right because it's a
stat that I think people are getting too excited about, like,

(43:45):
well why not us? Why not? Now? We'll find out
because it's this isn't rocket science, right. If if you
have to take instead of taking nine shots or you know,
ten shots or seven shots and are hitting a high percentage,
you got to take You got to take seventeen, right,
you got to take twenty two, you gotta take twenty three.
Well that's a horse of a different color, is it not?

(44:06):
It is?

Speaker 4 (44:06):
And that's part of what has been interesting about the
Jalen Brown efficiency stuff this season in particular. Yeah, you know,
I'm not the biggest Jalen Brown fan.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Of all time. You're talking him, well, he couldn't dribble,
and it just bothered. But he did. I mean he
learned to dribble because he can drive now he can. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Yes, However, I think it's gotten a little silly when
people are talking about his analytics numbers.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
And the efficiencies and all that. That got crazy.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
It's like, but look at what he had to do
this year for this team with the best player on
the team.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
Essentially meaningless and they have.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
They obviously want a title, so they have and a
lot of those pieces are still there, so it's not
like they have a bunch of stiffs with him. But
it wasn't like everybody had to level up a little bit,
and it was on him most nights to kind of
get that thing going. Your numbers, your efficiency numbers aren't
going to look as pretty no as somebody else like
Jade McDaniels, who on most nights is at best the

(44:56):
third option on the team. Historically, at best the third
some nights maybe the second. Usually he's low third, high
fourth option on the team. Innu factor in aunt Randall. Obviously,
Nas was in there for a while like not as
much was expected of him, and so he wasn't getting
the number one assignment. He wasn't getting the attention. It

(45:17):
was gonna look a little different. It's gotten a little
crazy by the way. They're just showing first half highlights
that I missed this part. Imbope had a penalty kick stopped.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Interesting so that a late shot. Great goaltender moved there
as well. So it's it's France Morocco nil nil at halftime.
I don't know how heavily favored frances Is. I think, hey,
they become the popular choice. Yeah, right to win the
whole thing. And I don't think Morocco. I think Morocco

(45:47):
is good. But nevertheless, that's where're at. We're at halfway
through it at neil nil, so we'll keep an eye
on on that game the rest of the way. I
think La Rojas tomorrow during the show two o'clock, I believe,
is that correct against Belgium it was supposed to be
our match. Yeah, that's true, yep, And no it's not
our match. No, we're done, is there? There is not
a consolation bracket in the knockout round in World Cup?

(46:11):
Not yet. Not yet.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
They'll find a way that they can monetize it that
they probably would do it. Yes, televise it, monetize it.
Everybody gets a trophy, no question about that. Our number two.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
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