Top 5/Dr. Dan's Inbox/Ode to Joe Senser - Bumper to Bumper 5/7/26 Hour Three

Dan and Gaardsy review the Top 5, open "Dr. Dan's Inbox" and Ode our friend Joe Senser who died today at 69 years old.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
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A bottom of the hour. But let's, without further ado,
get to the top five.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Finchy that didn't like much of it.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
I mean, it's you gotta get off of it, got
to use it as a catalyst for ball movement, which
is what it should be. You know, I thought we
dribbled to tough spots. I thought we were late getting
off of it. I thought our spacing around it wasn't
really good, and our decision making when the ball.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Came out of there wasn't good either. So it's kind
of a chain reaction.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
Other than that, anything else you want. Just told him
we just got punked. I'm sorry, done it?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
What did you say? I just told him we just
got punked.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Yeah, that's a good word for it. One thirty three
ninety five, they trailed by as many as forty. I
think our math confirmed they lost by thirty eight. That
offensive cut. Specifically, he was talking about the Anthony Edwards
getting double teamed the second he crossed half court. It's
a smart play because he can't really move to get
out of it quickly, and he had nowhere to go,

(01:23):
and well, you know, Weld's kicked it all over the yard.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
But you have to get back to I think a
little bit is other people have to bring the ball
up the court a little more often.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
The question is will they because not all of those
folks are used to being point guards. Are you going
to run to the risk that they're not going to
be comfortable with that? But we have done that before.
We do have people who are capable one on one
at least of dribbling the ball up court. To me,
that's one of the things you have to do is
you have to at least getting past the half court line,

(01:52):
put it into somebody else's hands. Conley's playing more right now.
My assumption is Desumu is a long shot at best
to play in Game three. Tomorrow night left with a
heel injury, another injury correct a different injury. Only played
ten minutes last night, and I don't know how much
of that is. We well, he didn't play anything in
the at all in the second half, right, and this

(02:13):
was one of those games where you might at some
point you might as well surrender save your players. I
don't even think Aunt ended up I don't remember how
many minutes he ended up with. But as we said
at this at the top of the show, the disappointment
for me isn't that they lost, but more that they
I think put a lot of confidence back in San

(02:36):
Antonio Davy, that they sort of got their mojo back.
I'm not saying that at the expense of the Wolves
they ever lost it, but they did lose the first
game at home, and their two best players didn't score
very effectively. And so to me, what you best case
scenarios you win both games on the road. Second best

(02:58):
is you play a close game to the wire, and
in doing so, even if they win it, I think
you keep a little bit and perhaps an element of
doubt in a team that.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Really hasn't gone through these wars yet.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
As great as the regular season was, and instead, as
I mentioned, I think you pretty much removed a lot
of that self doubt. Now, that doesn't mean you can't
win the series. Doesn't mean you can't counter in game
number three tomorrow night. But it is a game a
little bit of numbers sometimes, right, I mean, you're just

(03:32):
because you survived Evincenzo being out in Game six against
Denver and in game one, just because you survived to
Sumu not being available in either of those games, doesn't
mean that you're going to be able to continue to do.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
That over a long period of time.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Right, Presumably the law the further you get in the playoffs,
the better the teams are, the tougher the challenges are.
They got a lot of athletic wings that like to
get into you, just like we like to get into them.
I just didn't like how thorough and total it was.
I don't like, even though we've seen it before, not
getting back on defense to the point of what was

(04:12):
a twenty nine to five on fast break points. Yeah,
I don't like that we decided to not go try
to drive the ball to the basket, and I don't
like that right now. Maybe as indispensable players you have
in the Jaden McDaniels was in foul trouble again. Even
though I grant one of those three fouls, I don't

(04:34):
remember if it was the second one or not. Was
a very bad, very bad call. That is in the
classification of I'm a play on guy. If you're gonna
let the offensive player extend his arm to create space,
then at the end of the play, I don't think
you can penalize the defensive player for playing just as

(04:54):
physically as all those moves make. I thought that that
was a really ad call that has larger implications I
think in terms of, you know, an officiating approach in general.
I'm not saying that cost us the game, but on
this night, McDaniels was your most effective player offensively, and
we all know he's vital to what they're doing defensively.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
You know what frustrates me about the McDaniel's call to again,
when you lose by forty, it's never one thing right.
It's certainly not officiating. No, as your galdors Burke is
explaining the highlight and she's going through it and she says,
and here's castle there he is absorbing the contact. No, Like, well,
that's not what's not what happened now, and that happens

(05:39):
too much with some of these crews. Yes, and I'm
such a conspiracy Jurison now delivered the contact exactly all
the way to the end of the drive.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Then he was absorbing it at that point. Yeah, but
you can't leave that front section of it out. And
that to me is again where you go, all right,
I'm gonna let this go for whatever reason. Then, I
as subjective as this.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Is, I think this is what good officiating is. On
that play.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
I cannot penalize Jadeen McDaniel's a defensive player unless he
mauls the offensive player, and he didn't mall him on
that particular play.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
That was that was very bad officiating. You're right.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
No update on Eric Sinek or bro Dean. Neither have
skated since their injuries. That according to John Hines, the
head coach who met the media today, the Wild hat
a little bit of an optional skate counting taking attendance one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine guys at least or on the ice. Will
be a full practice tomorrow, no decision. I'm goalie for

(06:37):
Game three for the Minnesota Wild, which is Saturday night
game three for the Wolves. By the way, tomorrow night
right here on the fan, it will be it will
be the kid. He'll be in a net. I would agree,
you can count on that.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
It's fine.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
It's not official. I know a day you've been waiting for.
March Madness. Starting next season, official will officially expand from
sixty eight to seventy six teams. It's the largest increase
for men and women. By the way, it's the largest
increase in to move from to sixty four teams in
nineteen eighty five. The last time we increased it twenty eleven.

(07:13):
Do we know how we arrived at seventy six? I
think just add another eight? Why not eighty? Well, they'll
get to that. But here's how they're going to do it.
Because I know you're wondering it is.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, it's a tournament involving the first the last twelve right.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yes, the first four doubleheaders on back to back days
will be replaced by a twelve game opening round.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Twelve games. Yes. The Tuesday and Twindnesdays, then yes.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
The Tuesday and Wednesday of the men's tournament will feature
twelve games played by twenty four teams in two different cities.
There will now be three games each day in Dayton
and three games each day in a second city. I
have to imagine, Indy, it's got to be why would
you move on? Why you move out to May?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Going to be here?

Speaker 5 (08:00):
So anyway, one will be in the Eastern time zone,
one will be in the western time zone.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
I will tell you I.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Last week or the week before, I'm not as offended
as I once was on this.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
I mean, because it's easy to sort of shake your
head and say, God, let's just let everybody into the pool.
But I think I've told this story before. The Bob
Knight n CAA tournament plan years ago.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Was exactly that. He said, let's just put everybody in.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
Everybody's in in high school, right, that's true, Let's just
put everybody in a certain way.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, let's just put everybody in. So I don't know
if that stuck with me. But it's too many. But
I think it was already in that sense too many.
So it's like, Okay, is another eight is that we're adding?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yes? Is that really? That's it?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Beyond the pale? Now at another eight, I don't know
what that anymore, what that number is. It's almost like
And to be honest with you, my guess is setting
it up this way where now you've got two sites
with three games each, I think that's going to appeal
to people more than you think.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
I agree with you.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
I think it's gonna end up being Hey, that just
kind of adds to the fun on the early end
of the tournament. I think it's not gonna be as
offensive to as many people as the purest want to believe.
I think by the time like Saturday hits, I agree,
we won't even I don't even think we really pay
attention to that. We watched the plays, but I don't
think anybody's like mad about the play ins after no.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
You know, it's just yeah. But it's gonna start on
Tuesday and Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Now, well, I think in this way, as weird as
it sounds, it'll feel more like it's a part of
the tournament, right in a way that I'm playing.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
At the two games, well, I'm all confused, that's true.
I think now it actually may feel more normal. I
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I should mention briefly that the Twins were edged. Was
it fifteen to two last night? Yes, and came back

(10:05):
today and lost and lost.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
So actually did.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Come back to tie at five to five, and then
you'll be shocked to learn that their bullpen gave up
two runs in the bottom of the very same inning
and we lost I think it was seven.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
To the finals.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
So they lose two of three to the Nats and
now head to Cleveland to take on the Guardians.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Rubber game of the series.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
All right, let's get a brief pause in got this
kind of like this will be kind of a housekeeping segment,
and then we'll prepare for the inbox to be open
at five thirty. I'm going to sound like a broken

(10:58):
record on the subject to Vikings leadership. I'm aware of that,
but I'm I'm I'm stubborn, and I'm gonna stick with
it because.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
I still don't understand why we.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Feel as satisfied as apparently we do. I still believe,
even if the league has changed some, I still believe
in putting one person in charge of the football operation.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
It certainly.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Seems to be the norm in the NBA. You have
somebody in charge of your basketball operation. That's Tim Conley, right,
is that fairly well established decision maker.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
He's a decision maker.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Bill, Yes, I don't whether you want to call it
a triangle authority, what ever you want to call it.
And look, it's the Will's team until they sell it,
of course, right around the corner.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
But so they can do it however they want.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
And they may say, well, no, we like KOC enough
that this is just part of the deal. If you're
not interested in that, as GM, then see you later.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Then we'll we'll go talk to somebody else who will
accept it.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
And by the way, we're talking to Seaford about the names,
the biggest name there might be John McKay, right, the
son of Rich McKay, former NFL executive, grandson of the
legendary John McKay, former USC coach Tampa Bay Tampa Bay.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Coach as well.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
He's with the RAMS, and by the way, I think
he overlapped with KAOC for a couple of years as
well too, Right, that would make sense. There are other
names on there from other organizations. In fact, I think
one of the other names has actually been a GM
before with the Raiders and ended up getting canned after
like two years. But I I just and I also

(12:59):
know that you know every one of these candidates are
assistant general managers. Is it beyond the role of possibility
that you hire someone who has been I guess one
of the candidates technically has a has been in the
job the main job before.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
I just I don't like the feel of it. I
it and.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
But maybe that's part of the reason that they waited that. Okay,
we're not going to give whoever we hire, we're not
going to give them the opportunity to bigfoot it early
because we're going to already have had the draft take place,
we're going to cement things with with with KOC, and
we don't want somebody in here because in effect, if

(13:47):
you read the quotes from the wils, it's we want
somebody in here who's perfectly satisfied with who we have
and the way we're doing it right.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
And I'll say, again, man, it's it is.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
It doesn't an it's I'm surprised with how easily it's
being accepted here in a way that to me is
contrary to what we see elsewhere, certainly.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
In other sports.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
And you know, we can talk about Andy Reid having
a certain amount of power. He's Andy Reid, for God's sake, right,
He's in another plateau than what we're what we have
going here. No matter how much you like KOC and
think it's only a matter of time to make a
playoff run.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
I'm not here to denigrate him.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
I just it still doesn't feel right to me that
this is the approach you're going to take, and you'll
have people still interested because it's you know, it's.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
A plumb job. There's not many of these jobs a day.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
But I I like, you know, I like having one
person in charge, and obviously the owner is always involved, right,
I mean that I think that's been true no matter
what decade you're talking about. But I like the notion
of doing your due diligence in the higher be deliberate

(15:06):
if necessary, do your homework. But you bring somebody in
who then is in charge of the football operation. But
we just don't seem it's fairly clear that's not where
we're interested in. And in the end, I think it
opens the door to more confusion, potentially again on you know,

(15:30):
breaking ties and some big decisions that need to be made.
I mean, the best example to me and to this day,
I don't know that we know I'm quarterback, okay, right?
The anti Quasy people have framed it in a way
that and this is the way Florio put it again
the other day. This is one of the working theories

(15:51):
that I don't buy that Quasy failed at a time
when Koc was saying we have to hedge our bet
last year even if we like JJ and Quzy said
we're fine, this is the way we're doing it. We'll
get you a backup quarterback. We got the guy, was
it from Seattle? Who then we ended up cutting right

(16:11):
before training camp finished. Maybe that's what took place. I
don't buy it.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
But one eventually you can have all the talking heads
you want.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
You get in a room and we debate the quarterback thing.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
But to me, ultimately you have to have one guy
who's going to make the final call on that. And
it just it feels like it's all by committee here.
And you tell me, like, we heard it again from
Seafort today, we've heard it from Alec Lewis a bunch.
We'll talk to Ben Gesling tomorrow. Well, the reality here
is the head coach and the defensive coordinator have incredible influence.

(16:51):
And I'll say again, maybe that's good, but it also
strikes me as peculiar in that ultimately they were not
held accountable on some of these personnel moves that clearly
they were involved in, including the big free agency moves
in the last two years, especially including the ones this
last year that didn't work out right. So I don't know,

(17:12):
I just don't love it. May work out fine, but
I still don't love the feel of it, Like almost
as if we have all these pieces in place in
a way that we do not need to upset anything.
And I see upset even challenge what we have tended
to do. And if I'm interviewing for this job, I'm
asking those questions, Well, am I allowed to challenge on

(17:34):
anything or to say, well, you guys are doing it
this way, but this and this my data indicates we
should go a little bit different direction.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
And if all of this, if everything that you just
said is true, it does feel to me that they're
just gonna give it to Rob Berzinski. Maybe why wouldn't
you like That's see, if this is how you want
to do it. The cleanest way to do it is
say we're keeping Rob. Rob's the guy and he's one
of the one of the angles in the triangle. Because

(18:06):
it doesn't make a lot of sense to it happens
a lot like with you know, when PJ has to
replace a coordinator. Coordinator comes in, well, I want to
keep these guys on my staff.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
And it can work.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
It's a risk now too, because the coordinator probably wants
to come in and go, why I like this guy
for DB's more than the guy you got or linebackers
or whatever. Because it's just that's where it's confusing. It's
like this guy is going to come in and what
what's he going to run if everything is already running
exactly and you're.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Just going to be the attractive Is that I guess
other than you say, well, it's good money and it's
nice to put on your on your resume, on your
business card.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
But it's it's it's it is.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
As somebody one of the textus put it, you're it
almost sounds like you're pretty handcuffed from the beginning.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
And again, if you want the job bad enough, I
get it.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
But then I wonder are you getting the best candidates
if you're telling them the front end, uh no, no, no,
these ten things are in place, So you want to
be on board, that's fine. At what point are you
allowed to do your job and we're back to then
what your job is. Maybe it's going to be as
simple as just draft well and shut up and we'll
break all the ties as the owners. I don't know,

(19:17):
I just it just doesn't seem it's it's not an
approach that we tend to approve of as easily in
other sports. It seems to me as we do in
this one or with this team. And I don't I
guess I don't quite understand that because when garn came in,

(19:39):
he inherited the last coach, correct, did he not?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Heinze? Yes? Okay, and well he didn't inherit Heinzy.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
No, he inherited Boudreaux exactly so, you know, and sometimes
that's the way it is. Dean Everson exactly right, it
was Everson. And sometimes that's way it is. When you
make that change and you go, well that you have
to accept this. But eventually Garren is given the right.

(20:06):
So you have the power if you at some point
feel like you have to go different direction on a coach,
go ahead and do it, which he obviously did.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Right, So I don't remember which of the two he
specifically inherited.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
But yeah, I think you're right the second time hockey
coaches fired all the time.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
All right, let's make this the bottom of the hour. Pause.
Oh real quick, Larry Mandello, guy, you did the math.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
The twelve games means twenty four teams quickly and accurately. Maybe,
much like Common is terrible at math, unless it has
something to do with his golf score when he turns
into rain Man, your math skills would improve greatly if
you put everything in the context of a tournament bracket.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
Maybe there's some truth to that. Well, moral is lmg's
back exactly. Yeah, I think he.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Got the message, and we might have motivated. We might
have motivated. There's a punch line there. We don't know
your hot takes or your opinions. We got plenty of those.
Start a podcast.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
If you wanted to give real sports your niche do
not squander it. Right, No one is in that the
LMG category in that sense on this show. Well, I
think so, let's just you know, hang on to that.
That's something to be proud of right.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Maybe maybe maybe the the GM approaches the right one,
you know, just here's your niche accept it and don't
try to be something that you're not.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Maybe that's maybe maybe Larry Mindella guy is the is
the Vikings inspiration.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
By the way, I haven't seen any submissions for him
for Doctor Dan's inbox. So if he is so much
a form of protest and I forgot it, please resend it, okay. Otherwise,
I don't know what you've been doing the last couple
of hours because it's coming up next.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
Hando in Minneapolis. It's all about the shield Dan culture
of collaboration, Rich and Apple Valley. Any chance Dan of
getting Mike Wilbon on during the playoffs, I hope so,
but we we we swung and miss last year. I
haven't reached out to him this year. Yeah, it was
two years ago. We had him on last year. He
I couldn't get a text back. He's busy right now.
Of course he's busy. That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
They get there.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
Maybe that's the way to will do it. But he's
on get up every day now. He's doing first it.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Is two week.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, it's intense week. NBA stretch. It's intense. I think
the money's good, but it's intense. Great, he's the best.
All right, inbox is coming up, and then who knows
what else to get? Get too a couple of texts

(22:32):
and then we'll prepare for the to open the inbox.
This is from Alan out of apton Dan and Vikings. Situation.
Seems pretty clear. Koc is in charge. Everyone else can
share in success or be blamed for the failure. Like ways,
remember the advice from Chris Carter in the NFL. The
first thing you do is to identify your fall guy.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
And that's a fact.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
Doctor Mike on the Haunt of virus. The current hanta
is the Andes type from South America, which is more
easily passed from person to person. The hanta found in
the southwest US rarely spreads person to person. The question
is whether patients zero was infected before they boarded the

(23:19):
cruise ship or after a couple other things to keep
you up at night, Dan, Prairie dogs carry the fleas
that carry a bacteria called Urcinia pestis, which causes bubonic
plague in humans.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
See you later.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Medillos carry the bacteria that causes leprosy in humans.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
There are others. Bill, it's raw at times, it's real raw.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
That's good for now, so maybe think twice before you
get that. Pet Armadillo, A longtime listener and excellent contributor,
Julie to the show, also noting that the incubation is
considered as usually one to eight weeks, which makes it
more more likely that someone was sick when they got
on the ship, not necessarily that it has to do

(24:05):
with conditions on the ship itself. So good help there
from a layperson and from doctor Mike as well. Inbox,
you have to get to We'll got some other things.
We'll try to maybe owe to a dead guy before
we wrap things up.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
But your letters, let's do it. It's dying for doctor.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
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Speaker 2 (24:28):
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Speaker 5 (24:49):
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(25:31):
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Could something like this even happen today, Doctor Dan? With
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chicken bowl, or a Walleye slider go flying out onto
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D Dog, that's good that is the way that it
is worth the way was that?

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Is that who you asked for?

Speaker 5 (26:07):
I know he did. Was We'll get to that in
a minute. Yeah, that's another regular, but slider, buffalo, chicken, bacon, ranch, flatbread,
thrown it chucking up. It's so easy to throw a
dollar dog and you go, well, we're going to go
go back up to the concession to get nine more? Right,
what's the big deal? I think that was the first

(26:27):
year of dollar Dog Night too, was it? I want
to say, because I told you I was at the game,
I didn't throw mine. Yeah, I think I was at
that game too. It was chaos in the concourses? Was
it to get the dogs? The Yankees were playing well?
But I remember it being such a phenomenon done it was.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
The closest, is it is?

Speaker 5 (26:47):
It?

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Would that be the closest that we came in this
town to disco demolition Night, which obviously was a lot worse.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Is that the closest?

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Like is that the most embarrassing from a fan deportment standpoint,
was that the most embarrassing moment in fan deportment at
in Twins history at the Dome probably has to be
that It's twenty five years later and we're still talking
about it, and we can still remember a lot of
things about it.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Now, did any of the dogs hit them? I don't remember.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
And would that be could a dog thrown how much
is your average dome dog?

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Way? I don't know the ounces. So if he had
gotten hit in the head.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
With a dome dog from help, you know, I don't
know one hundred feet or to it, whatever would have been.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Might that have injured him? I don't know that.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
Probably one of them. People were throwing other stuff. They
were throwing coins, and we had money back then. Coins
they used to throw a lot of times.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Back in the old days at Wrigley Field, the bleacher
bums used to this is when they were more bitter,
when the Cubs were terrible.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
They had nothing else to do. They should throw batteries.
I think that might have come up.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
That's not good. No, his batteries could hurt the thing,
Yeah very much. So, Yeah, you're please.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
If the trouble does not stop, let feel the game
will before could.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
The now uk TK was all but blubbering when he
went out there.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
Think about Bob Casey had to go on the public
address anouns or and scold the crowd. Do we ever
get an unofficial number of how many dom dogs were thrown?

Speaker 2 (28:24):
I don't know. No, maybe and the place was packed.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
If you throw a dome dog from the upper deck
from the outfield, yeah, would that be lethal?

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Does it? Does a dog pick up? Is it?

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Is it more dangerous as it's thrown from further away.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Or is it actually the opposite?

Speaker 5 (28:42):
Like well, accelerator details. Yeah, I would think that this
is good. We're getting into science now we've handled math,
We've handled math and grammar this week. I would think
that the momentum of going down, like if you're in
the upper deck where I was, I was on the
third baseline, basically, look like your chuck not blocks me.
I'm looking on the field. I bet it would accelerate
in the gravity, would make it go faster.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
I was true, that's true, that what God tells me.

Speaker 5 (29:07):
But any science teacher somebody'll be able to explain that
to us and let us know what's going on.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, that was well played. PA's time for doctor, Dear
doctor Dan Boulgeur.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
I tried to be nice in game one, as I
only exert an effort on the defensive end to give
the Timberwolves a chance. All that got me was a
loss and a tongue lashing from c Finch about how
how all of my blocks were goaltending the nerve. Well
it was no more, mister nice guy in game two.
I do feel a little bad about dominating my mentor
our Go Bears team, and I hope it'll still be

(29:44):
my pal as we come for the gold in the
twenty twenty eighth Summer Olympics. Our wir that is from
the web, Yama.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Well, it's interesting.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
As we talked about early in the show, we lauded
Finchy for his psychological stroke, master stroke, trying to like,
you know, plant the seed in the referees head for
Game two about potential goaltending calls, and within minutes, no

(30:14):
one was thinking about goaltending calls, whether they were right
or they were wrong, or how many block shots Wemby had.
He and the Spurs were so dominant in a much
more effective way. They didn't just have him float at
the three point line, which I thought he did way
too much of in Game one. They put him closer
to the basket. They put him in some actions and
he was very good. Fox was much better as well,

(30:36):
and that was the story from game one. Both of
them missed a bunch of shots. So we're back to
what the best approach is with him. Is there a
more effective way to get him defensively away from the basket.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
I don't know. I don't want us to.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
I think voluntarily we quit challenging him or challenging anybody
going to the basket.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Now, some of that had to do with turnovers. Would
we end up with twenty five? It wasn't that many,
but it was.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
It felt like it was over. It was I got
the number here, shot up at the box score too.
Twenty two turnovers. Yeah, that's not cherishing possessions as we
like to ask for here on this program.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
It's time for box Oh God, lets due, doctor Dan.
Why don't people like me?

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Well?

Speaker 2 (31:31):
I only called out the beloved C.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
Barkley for being a total shell of himself when he
played for the AH Rockets, But he got me going.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
I know that I've had S. Curry, K. Thompson, K.

Speaker 5 (31:40):
Durant, that I've been able to gravy train my championships,
and see Barkley never had that talent to help him.
I know that my entire fake tough guy routine, but
never have flown in the eighties or nineties against guys
like a Mason C.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oakley Ord Rodman.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
But I've played in an era where nobody will stand
up to me, and it made my career about being
a complete nasty bully on and off the court. I
even sucker punched my own teammate, Jay Poole during practice
in twenty twenty two, but he had that coming.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
At a twenty sixteen m State.

Speaker 5 (32:09):
Reunion party, I beat up an active football cornerback that
was half my size, but he was the one running
in his mouth. I purposely get ejected from games that
I know my team is not going to win. See
last year against the Wolves. But that is simply to
stay fresh for the next game. So I ask you,
doctor Dan, what did I do that was so wrong?
This from D Day Day Green. Well, here's the thing

(32:30):
on this is where Day Day D Green fails miserably.
He gets into this back and forth chirping.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Basically saying my career is better than Austin Rivers career
because Austin had criticized him. It's an old saw that
we've talked about on this show many times, the notion
that instead of analyzing the opinion for validity, you decide

(33:03):
that the person who offers the opinion isn't allowed to
because that person was not as good a player. I've
never understood that thinking on that basis, of course, we
can't ever listen to Sean S. Salisbury, and we've talked
about that over and over. That's stupid, that's asinine.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
All Rivers was saying was that day Day objected protesteth
too much, suggesting that basically s Kerr held him back offensively.
That's objectively foolish, provably false.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
That's all that a Rivers. A Rivers didn't say, well,
I was a better player than you were.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
He never said that. But that's where the other guy goes, or.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Other people just trying to defend day Day go out
of desperation, better to deal with the opinion and the
legitimacy of the opinion. But you know what that means,
means the opinion can't be argued with. So what I'll
do is I will just try to denigrate it on
the basis of denigrating the person who was offering it.

(34:14):
Up the idea that if you're not a great quarterback,
you can't comment on other quarterbacks as stupid.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Makes no sense to me.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
But that's how that thing completely, you know, derailed, and
went utterly and completely.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
You're sticking your tongue out back and forth of well
who was the better high school player?

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Then right literally and then they're actually comparing status. I
know it's dumb, and it has nothing to do with
what the original obs vision was. And again a Rivers,
who I think is actually a pretty good analyst. All
he was saying he wasn't even ripping his career. He's
saying your career. His career is unbelievable because he could

(34:54):
be that good, even though he was never much of
a scoring threat. But the notion that any coach hell
him back is poppycock.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
It's time for cod schwallop.

Speaker 5 (35:11):
Actually cod swamp, cod swallow, cod swamps the same. He's
the same thing, doctor san We all experienced challenges and
obstacles as we attempt to reach our ultimate goals, and
our teams are no different as evidenced by our current situations.
But as d Green's book once indicated, there's no time
for cry babies, and in that spirit, our teams are

(35:32):
sure as heck not cry babies, and they're not going
to blame us or use us as excuses for the
challenges that lie ahead. Sincerely, Jay Ericsson Eck and Jay
Brodein's l bodies, D de Vincenzo's achilles, A Desumu's calf
and A Edwards Knees.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Little group project there, group project there.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
I will say in all honesty, as we discussed much
earlier in this.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Program, you know what LEAs see if I can find
it here on the fly, what page would that be?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
I think it's page Is it A or is it
the I think it's Paige b.

Speaker 5 (36:11):
It's the bumper to bumper seal of approval.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
I will, for the.

Speaker 5 (36:16):
Second straight day, despite what I said earlier, offer up
to the Timberwolves head coach the seal of approval yesterday.
It was for his attempt to plant a seed in
the minds of the officials regarding goaltending not being called.
That seems irrelevant today on the basis of the way
the Wolves got slaughtered in Game two.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
But that's why I'm gonna give him credit for there too.
He knows they're not at full strength. Eventually, I'm sure
he'll bring up injuries if this team gets eliminated in
the second round. But that wasn't the thrust of his
conversation after Game two, right. The thrust of his conversation
was very clinical, straightforward critiquing of his team's performance. He

(37:02):
didn't get into well, you know, Io tried it, but
he was only ten minutes and we're still down.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
Dante. He said, what we got punked? He said, we
got beat every way you can. And he did it
without screaming. He just did it in a very, you know,
matter of fact tone. And I prefer that message being
delivered to his team because again, he also could have said,
we went to San Antonio to get one out of two,

(37:28):
and we got it.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
He didn't go down that road either.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
I think he thought it was more important to remind
his players that we saw again last night. If we
don't pay attention to A, B, C and D, we'll
lose again. It won't matter whether we're playing at home
or not. We had to shore things up, and I
think that's where I give him some credit. There was

(37:53):
nothing equivocal about his analysis of what took place in
game two.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
Well, and you know why, I think because he knows
and definitely he thinks they can win the series even
with all that exactly right. They can win, so he doesn't.
He should be focusing on that stuff, and they should
be too.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
They can win this series.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
That's time, doctor dam Why do we get blamed for
every single human disease?

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Ever?

Speaker 5 (38:25):
It's bad press, it's the amphibians I wouldn't trust, but hey,
maybe stay away from It's a small world for a
couple of days. I had a lot of coffee at lunch,
and even big movie stars need to take a leak
in the happiest place on earth. This from M Mouse.
M Mouse, shit, M Mouse checking in. I don't think
we've ever gotten a letter from M Mouse. Yeah, that's
a good one to get. Yeah, it's probably a little.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Unfair that that might well be true if it's too
easy to denigrate the mouse and blame it because they
really can't defend themselves.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
No, I'm not a big mouse guy, though, I'm gonna
tell you who is there.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
I think some people like they think they're misunderstood. I mean,
they are what.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
They are, but I don't need to have anything to
do with them, and I don't want to blame them
for every disease that's out there.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's what people are doing, including maybe the hantavirus. It's
time for a doctor. You're not your dad.

Speaker 5 (39:22):
I'm having trouble finding the right person to hire as
my new boss. Are you potentially looking for work? It's
not a difficult job. You just need to stay out
of the way while I make all the decisions. Your
duty's only coming to play down the road if someone
needs to be held accountable for those decisions parentheses only
if they go poorly. Mind you yours collaboratively, ky O'Connell.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
Yeah, I've said this half serious, half kidding. If he
has as much authority, it is deferred to to the
degree he has been I don't know entirely why the
Wilfs haven't considered.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Give me in both jobs.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
And it might and by the way, maybe it would work.
I have no idea he saved some money. One would
a sup probably, But I it's just it's a strange.
It's a strange circumstance, the way the dynamics seemed to
play out in this organization.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Maybe it'll end for the better. I'm I'm not exactly sure.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Adam and White bear Lake, Dan, if you hit hit
by a thrown battery, it would hurt like hell, unless,
of course, no block throws it at you because he
couldn't hit the broadside of a barn and you would
never get hit unless you were sitting in the first
four rows of the stands.

Speaker 5 (40:35):
That's why he was playing left exactly right, because he
couldn't play second and got the.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Yips, couldn't throw from free second to first base. It's remarkable.
He's not the first, not the last, but it did
happen to him.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
That it's time. Hell a doll player in his prime.

Speaker 5 (40:47):
Now.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
He ran into some bad behavior later off the ice too,
but in his prime gamer, great second basement, good hitter,
just a really good ballplayer.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
You're doctor Dana.

Speaker 5 (41:00):
Couldn't agree more with your opinion on the M Vikings
management and decision making structure. When it comes to player
personnel and salary decisions, you need one person in charge,
much like the M Timberwolves have T Conley, and the
M Wild have B. Garan, and the M Twins have
me and my brothers and my aunts, my uncles and
my cousins.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
This from TV Pola.

Speaker 5 (41:20):
Yeah, yeah, I don't even know what to think of
our management structure at this point.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
There just seems to be so little at stake and
The assumption is whoever the general manager is, they're hamstrung
by a lot of edicts that are put into place
above them. That includes what pay cuts of payroll cuts off.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
I make sixty five.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
Million over the last two seasons. It's the one exception
of the rule, right, because I honestly don't agonize over
the separation of powers inside that organization, because so little
seems to be at stake, right, just there's nothing at stake, which.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
It's really critical, right, Yeah, a couple of quikies. It's
time for box, Dear doctor Dan.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
Believe it or not, our first experiments with gravity actually
involved stale hot dogs. But the mustard did get a
little messy. That from I Newton, I've got some.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Savagery on both of us regarding our any chance we
would have had to figure out the calculations on terminal
velocity would go faster. I don't even think either of
us said we knew. No, I said we want to know. Instead,
people are just mocking being curious. I don't know it's
being curious.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Well, it's Pitchfork Nation. Different.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
All the answers all the time on live Radio's always
easy to have the answers when you're not on the
air live audience. Same as with the TV shows, as
we said, and the game shows. Dear Doctor Dan, this
ain't show friends, it's show business. There are no favors.
Tell see Kilbourn show me the money. This from Kye Pollock.
That's a callback to the news that he's going to
be may have agreed to be take a cameo role

(43:16):
in the new movie Pet Project Vanity Project by our guy.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
See Kilbourne correct, where.

Speaker 5 (43:25):
The protagonist falls in love with someone other than himself.
I love that. I love that line every time. He's
very self aware line, yes so good. There's the inbox
that's well done, standing array of short letters, long letters,
et cetera. Will finish with the return of Larry Mondelo guy.
He's he feels like he's on a heater now.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
To me, the best part of the infamous Dollar Dog
Night fiasco is it is so antithetical to Minnesota behavior
to lose all decorm and waste a perfectly good wiener
straight from the pride of Austin Minnesota. It's like the
Scandinavian persona got inhabited by a bronx spirit. In other words,
we really hated Chuck nablock. That's pretty much it, and

(44:07):
he's hit on it. I mean, there's no you could
argue there's no huge funny punch line here, although you
did laugh. But he's right in that what stood out
about that night is didn't take place in New York
New York, didn't take place in Chicago, didn't take place
in Philadelphia.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
It's we're all looking around, going are we are we
in Minnesota?

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Is this the metro dogs?

Speaker 1 (44:30):
We?

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Is this passive aggressive? This is pretty non passive aggressive.
You're throwing, you know, ten month old hot dogs that's
been sitting in some gruel.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Or brine for the better part of the last year.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
And a poor guy who just wants to play left field,
even though he doesn't really want to play left field,
has to play left field because he can't play second
base any longer.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
That's it, top of the hour. Pause back in just a.

Speaker 6 (44:54):
Minute here in the fan, and now it's time for
old to a dead guy.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
Very sad news breaking earlier today that former Vikings tight
end Joe Sensor has died at the age of.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Sixty nine years old.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
Terrific piece laying out the censor career and background.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
By the wise old owl, Mark.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Craig of the Star Tribune, and of course for a
lot of the kids, they may think of him more
as the restaurant tour that he went on to be
a series of very popular sports bars called Joe Sensors.
Forever I did the ongoing joke Viking's Uncensored at Joe

(46:05):
Sensor that was the show. That was, and that was
the show. Yeah, it was a terrific show. I have
not stated had not stayed in touch with him over
the years. Got to know him recently well, when of
course he was doing color analysis and the Vikings and
kfe N Radio network as well. Always appreciated my time
with him, and his backstory is, as Craig lays out,

(46:31):
pretty remarkable. At the at the front end, he was
at more of a standout basketball player in Pennsylvania than
he was a football pit player. Actually, I think he
only played one year of of high school football, but
he wasn't good enough to be an NBA guy.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
So the Vikings and he.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
Played football at Division two Westchester University that's in Pennsylvania,
and the Vikings took a flyer on him. He was
a sixth round draft choice in nineteen hundred and seventy nine,
did not play his rookie year. Pro bowler in nineteen
eighty one, with a season that has not been topped

(47:18):
statistically by a Vikings tight end ever. He caught one
thousand I don't have the number of receptions he had,
but he was over the thousand yard mark that year.
One thousand four yards receiving in nineteen eighty one. That's
still number one in Vikings history at the tight end position.

(47:42):
Knee injury in eighty three, played in eighty four. Before that,
knee and.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
Other injuries pretty much forced him to retire at twenty eight.
He retired at the age of twenty eight, and you
wonder whether if he was born later.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
They were the kind of injuries that might have been
more easily dealt with in the two thousands or twenty
twenties than they might have been in the nineteen eighties.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
That's for sure.

Speaker 5 (48:12):
Worked on the Vikings radio network, Craig reminds us from
ninety three to ninety four, and then two thousand and
one to two thousand and six.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
Then he opened the sports bars. The one I was
most familiar with was the one in Bloomington, YEP. But
he had several if I'm not mistaken, correct, Rosville. They're
all closed at this point. I believe, I don't think
they exist. I'm reminding, reminded that in this story that

(48:41):
Censor was eleven years old when a brain tumor killed
his father at age forty seven, and his mother, basically
without the means to feed five children on her own,
sent him to an orphanage one hundred and twenty miles away.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Wow, I never knew that, Wrights.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
He never forgot his humble roots, the cole milking at
five thirty am, the curfews at nine pm, the hard work,
the sports that would become his ticket out. Great quote
from Greg Coleman, his former Vikings teammate, Joe was not
born on a bed of roses, but it taught him
to appreciate life or his life, to not let the
obstacles defeat him. For him, it was don't tell me

(49:21):
what I can't do, Just move out of my way,
as I said. He played football and basketball in high school,
ended up growing into a sixty four to two hundred
and twenty five pound frame, and then eventually was picked
by the Vikings as a sixth round choice in nineteen

(49:44):
seventy nine there's a quote from the team on the
team website from Scott Studwell. Unfortunately his career was cut
short due to a knee injury, or he would have
taken his place as a true legend and would have
had a hugely productive career with the Vikings. But he
still impacted Vikings fans on and off the field, made

(50:04):
his mark in the Twin Cities in a variety of ways,
and with such a caring and support of Soul who
always had a smile on his face and warmth in
his heart. As I said, he finishes with one hundred
and sixty five career catches, eight hundred and twenty two
yards and sixteen touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
As well.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
There's a quote, a great quote from the Coleman regarding
a story he remembers. An injury had kept him from
playing as a rookie, but he was able to practice.
I remember that ye first year, Coleman says, I'm holding
a dummy bag in this drill and Joe flattens me.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
I get up and I'm mad, and Joe.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Was like, sorry, man, but I got to do whatever
I can to make this team.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
I can't fail. Coleman says.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
We became close friends after that, because I appreciated that
everything Joe did was full speed busting his butt. I
had sixty catches with four games left in the eighty
one season. On November twenty nine, nineteen eighty one, caught
eleven balls for ninety eight yards on a touchdown against
Green Bay, but also suffered that knee injury that cut

(51:08):
his career short. It would catch only eight passes the
final three games of the eighty one season, finishing with
seventy nine catches, a record for a tight end that
stood until about ten years ago. Kyle Rudolph had eighty three,
and as we said, he remains the only one thousand
yard tight end in team history. Craig also reminds us

(51:33):
that he set up, you know, the miracle at the
met play which we've talked about over the years, Tommy
kramer forty six yard hail Mary touchdown style passed to
Ahmad Rashad that helped the Vikings beat the Browns on
December fourteen, nineteen eighty The first play of that two
play drive twenty seconds left.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
As Coleman remembers it, it's.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
A play we always had in the playbook, and who
better to make that play? Work than Tommy Kramer, who
could throw a dart, Joe Senser a fast tight end
with two of the greatest myths there ever was, and
Teddy Brown, one of the best athletes I've ever seen.
I'm at play. Censor catches a nine yard pass from
Kramer at the Vikings twenty nine. He then laterals to

(52:17):
ted Brown, who runs another twenty five yards before stepping
out of bounds at the Cleveland forty six with five
seconds to go. The brilliant play before the play is
the way Coleman puts it and put them in range
where you could get a hail Mary pass obviously into
the end zone as well. He suffered a very serious stroke,

(52:42):
as I recall that definitely had a major impact on
his health for a number of years, that's for sure.
And there was one other item I wanted to get
to from.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
His career.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Oh, there was a horrific story involving his wife, Amy.
If you go back to twenty eleven to twenty twelve,
she was convicted in a hit and run crash that
killed a very famous Twin City chef. Amy sentenced at
the time to forty one months in prison. I think
she served most of it in Shokapy and ultimately Amy

(53:24):
later becomes Joe's caregiver after a stroke he suffered that
I think pretty massive stroke, was it not?

Speaker 2 (53:31):
I was pretty debilitating.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
But he's one of those sneaky big names that people
don't you know, maybe have forgotten too much, and one
of those guys who what if. He's in the what
if category because he was obviously on the road to
being a top five National Football League tight end and
unfortunately was just unable to stay healthy.

Speaker 5 (53:54):
You're seeing a lot of tributes about him. And I
loved what that quote from Studwell because obviously we all
worked with him here on Vikings Broadcast and we got
to know him. And I always said, if you're ever
feeling bad about yourself, talk to Joe Sensor for like
five minutes.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
It's astonishing. You're gonna feel that air. You're gonna feel
like you can fly.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
Yeah, And we used to do Actually, Tipsy Steer is
a derivative of the people that ran Joe Sensors. The
restaurants run Tipsy Steer now, so we still do it
with quote unquote the family. But it was at the
Censors in Roseville and he was always there and even
before I was hosting it. I would always go just
to be around the coach and to go for people
and do whatever. And Joe was always there on Tuesdays

(54:35):
and he would sit there and my first couple of
years when I'm doing it, you know, I don't know
if I'm doing anything right. I'm just trying to survive it.
And every single week he'd just be like, you guys
are unbelievable. Mike Grimm and you and Darryl. I just
love listening to you guys. I get a kick out
of just what you're doing here. You're doing a great
job when you're like twenty seven trying to figure it out,
like that stuff is such gold today.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Haven't forgotten it. I never will.

Speaker 5 (54:57):
Yeah, And I even think about when when we did
the Prep Bowl, Pa, Coleman and Censor did the Prep Bowl.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
I don't know why.

Speaker 5 (55:04):
I was talking to Abbit about this and I was
helping out, just spotting for Pierre whatever. Well, Coleman had
never really been in the booth, so he was jacked,
he was fired up, he was stepping on touchdown goals,
he was everywhere, and Censor's face while it was all
going on, like this is important for Greg Greg's excited
to do this. I don't need I'm taking the back seat,
like just watching him take the back seat so that

(55:25):
his guy Greg could be the analyst for that night.
Is I think just says a lot about him. And
there's a lot of tributes from people kind of in
my generation that have been helped out and and was
you know, he was just so kind to all of
us when he didn't need to be.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
And I we'll never forget that.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
The way to that end that he struck me is
at first, it's it's it's you're not buying it for sure,
You're going, oh, come on, he's he's just it's an
he's playing a game here, he's just going through. He
can't really be either this interested or this kind of
case maybe, and then it starts. Over a period of time,

(56:02):
it dawns, Oh, that's him every time. That's exactly him.
My late father met him at the Sensors in Bloomington.
I didn't even know what the occasion was one night,
and he couldn't have been kinder. They ended up spinning
all kinds of football stories just because my dad was
a football you know, an NFL fan from way back.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
But he had that air about him and it was
not phony. No, it was not phony. Is one hundred
percent who he was.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
And you know, if you're a cynic like I am,
or going wait a minute, now, what's your angle?

Speaker 2 (56:32):
Is this real?

Speaker 3 (56:33):
And then he wears you down and at some point
you realize there's no angle.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
This is his nature. That's who he was.

Speaker 5 (56:39):
That's why we called him Uncle Joe. That's very true
because he was like just your uncle that just wanted
the best for you.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
No question about that. Let's get a final pause in.
That's definitely Joe Sensor under the gone but never forgotten category.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
For sure. We'll wrap things up next year.

Speaker 5 (56:52):
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Speaker 2 (56:58):
It's the bumper to show rap at your point is
it's not good at Dan? Tick the hell out of here.

Speaker 5 (57:06):
Doug Brian missed it through the left again and the
Viking's only lead by two. Come on, Oh, what a
good moment that was with Pa and uh Brian.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Was that the name of the kicker? Doug Brian Brian, Yeah,
Joe sensor.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
On the emotion rather than the color analysis. That's just
pure Vikings fan emotion or a forward player.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
That was a heck of a day and that that happened,
And I think it was the first and only time
a player has been cut on Vikings fan line because Tyson.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
All day, that's right to.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
Fan line and said we're calling Gary Anderson. He's going
to be here tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Like what time think about that?

Speaker 5 (57:45):
Now, that's that's twenty years ago or whatever that was.
Tyson called in the fan line. Fans knew. I get it.
It was like the did you see the game? It's
as good as it gets. Yeah, Tyson cut him on fanline. Basically,
there's absolutely no question about that. Standing a real guest today.
I want to thank each and every one of them.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Craig Kilbourne extended time with him on the Wolves and
a number of other things between three point thirty and
about four fifteen. Kevin Seaffert on some names emerging that
the Vikings are going to apparently interview, at least in
his first round he joined at four point thirty. The
inbox was excellent again today, great contributions from you the listeners.

(58:24):
Tomorrow is Friday Football Beast Day and that'll include a
visit with Ben Gesling. Tom Creen is going to join
the show tomorrow to help.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
Us see preview Wolves Spurs game number three, a game
you can hear I'm the fan tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
Wild, of course, are not back in action until Saturday night.
That game also on the fan. Maybe we add a
hockey guest tomorrow. We'll see how indeed that goes, because
there's some pretty important questions facing that club because they're
not coming back home one to one. They're coming back
home down oh two, So there's not really I think

(59:04):
we'll agree much margin for error. Uh, that's what we
call in the business, must win, uh, territory for you're
in Minnesota, Wild, But that's indeed. We'll be on on Saturday.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
I can't remember. Were you who was the bigger Taylor
Heineke fan on this show?

Speaker 2 (59:21):
You were me? Or either? I like because I think
I guess he's announced his retirement.

Speaker 5 (59:28):
Enough, Okay, we liked him for a minute. Was he
the one that broke his foot? Taylor de Calm Taylor,
Tyler Taylor. Yeah, it's Taylor Taylor. Either way. He beat
us one time, didn't he know? He was clowning us
and we ended up beating him. Yes, that's exactly terrible pick,
and I think we ended up winning that. Yeah, I
think we did.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Yeah, it's very very true.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Davey Good good to help out from the audience, including
doctor Mike on the Haunt of Virus. We learned a
lot there, learned a little bit more about how lethal
a throne wiener can be. Is it more dangerous with
the bun or without the bunt? Gotta be well, I
don't know. Again, I'm afraid to answer that question too.
I'm so intimidated now when it comes to math and science.

(01:00:11):
I'll leave it to others. Six one two guy with
a nice compliment. Late, people that are not aware of
your show are really missing out. Three to six pm.
Well played, Thank you. The tickets will be in the
mail talk tomorrow three