November 2, 2025 • 41 mins
Dan is back giving the sermons ahead of Week 9 of the NFL kicking off, he discusses the World Series, the Gophers football program, and some Vikings Lions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Only one hour today.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Man, man, this could this probably will breeze by pretty quickly.
This easily could be a day we go two hours
and not run out of things to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Sunday Sermons.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It will be a one hour edition Vikings Football Sunday
will take over at the top of the ten o'clock
hour of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Barrero and blakemore with you until then.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And we all have had, I think, our occasions when,
even if we're way too addicted to and tethered to X,
the world of X, we every once in a while
take the long view and say, I can really admire
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individuals who, for whatever reason have fixated on one situation
or maybe even one individual player athlete, and over a
period of not you know, days, but weeks, months, and years,
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stay committed to whatever bit that they have established, because
that takes time.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Even in the world of acts, who you say, well,
every day.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
They're going they're going back to that particular item and
reinforcing whatever message they are attempting to deliver or whoever
whoever's career they're attempting to chronicle.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You know it.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's not like digging ditches, I'll grant you that, but
it's still you know, you got to be committed to it.
And so today I must congratulate whoever is responsible, whoever
the individual was who once upon a time decided, you
know what I'm gonna do. My bit's gonna be, my
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X handle is gonna be. Did Miguel Rojas hit a
homer today? And as each day would go by, Inel
Rojas's season or I should say, yeah, whatever season we're
talking about, but certainly this season, he'd checked the box
score Los Angeles Dodgers and it would confirm to him
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that Miguel Rojas did not hit a homer today, and
so he just say no, answering the question.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Day after day after day after day, did Miguel Rojas
hit a homer today?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No? Well, you'll notice if you look up that handle
that at this moment, the pinned tweet at the top
of this particular X handle asks the same question, did
Miguel hit a homer today? And of course the pin
to answer is yes. By now most of you probably know,
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even those of you who might not be committed to
the game of baseball. What was once upon a time
the national pastime that a utility player named Miguil Rojas
saved the Los Angeles Dodgers season, maybe even opened the
door to a significant dynasty being reinforced and strengthened. Miguel Rojas. Oh,
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by the way, for the record, if I looked it
up right, because I tried to go back in the
did Miguel Rojas ad a homer?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Today? I found a bunch of no's.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I think the first yes before last night that I
found recorded was seven nineteen, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Rojas had not even had a hit in a month.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
He had only seven home runs all season, none of
them had come off of a right handed pitcher, and
yet at the moment of truth, down four to three,
decisive Game seven, top of the ninth, one out, nobody
on Miguel Rojas went deep to tie the game and
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eventually allow the Dodgers to win it in extra innings
and to win their second consecutive World Series. This, I
will submit to you, and I've said this before. Anybody
listens to this show will not be surprised that I'll
go down this road again. The Rojas play. The Rojas
home run.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
To me.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Distills the significant difference between Major League Baseball postseason and
all of the rest of them. And that is that
at any moment, often a crucial moment, the player who
makes the biggest play is not a superstar, often not
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a star, sometimes the utility player. Now I'm not saying
it never happens in hockey or basketball or football, but
rarely compared to baseball. You can pick almost any year
in baseball, and sure the big knockers have got to knock,
we know that, but you'll find an everyday, ordinary, sometimes
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mediocre player who ends up making the biggest defensive play,
throwing the most important pitch, getting the most important out,
or in some cases, hitting the most.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Important home run.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And that's what I think you either have to love
about the baseball postseason or hate about it because you
can say, well that it comes off more phony if
a guy who's really not that good can make the difference,
I would argue that's the charm of the game, that
it doesn't always have to be your superstar. Who you go,
Did you see what just happened in that game? That's
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the magic of baseball at its best. And let's face
it again, even if you're not a hardcore ball guy,
and it's hard to be in this town right now,
we know that's about as good a in terms of theater.
You can't get much better than what this Major League
Baseball postseason has been, especially as we've gotten to the
to the the AL and NL Championship Series, and then
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the World Series as well. I don't know how you can't.
You had the extra inning, you know, game that went
on forever, You had this finish, you had Game.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Six, the Dodgers are on the ropes.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
They get a double play in the ninth inning to
save them in that game, to extend the series. I
felt last night for the first time in a long time,
I'm hearkening back.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
To nineteen ninety one here.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That's to me the feel I had in this series,
even though of course there was not as much vested interest.
Wasn't covering, it wasn't the local team, but you felt
like you followed it inny after inning, almost eagerly awaiting
another play that you don't think you're gonna believe, or
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a play that might turn it the other direction.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And I think that's what this World Series felt like.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I think it goes both ways too, because there's instant
folklore in baseball and anyone can become that hero. And
I mean, imagine if I mean the Blue Jays literally
came with an inches if Will Smith, I believe, doesn't
put his foot back on home plate because it was close, Yes,
and it was close. And think about you don't even
have to be a player. You can be in Wrigley Field,
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down the third base line and be a legend, or
down the Boston a first base line.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And be an infamous legend.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And then the other note, I wanted to make one
of my favorite accounts like that. If you're a Chicago
Cubs hater, which I'm not particularly but I think it's funny.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
They have the W flag every time they win.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yes, so there's an account just fly the L and
every time the Cubs lose, he just tweets hashtag fly
the every time.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I wonder if that's my buddy Rick Bosich one of
his burner accounts because he's a big white Sox fan
who feels obligated to hate the Cubs as well.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, it's all.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
That's true, and I'm glad you brought up to play
at the plate, and I was to this moment. I'm
still not sure they got the call right, but I
gotta tell you, can you imagine how anti climactic it
might have been for the game to end on a reversal.
On that play, I'm sure Toronto would say would take
it right, But in all honesty, I just the whole
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life taken out of what would have been a great
World Series if it ends up being turned on a
replay reversal. So in the end, I think poetry was
done because we wouldn't have had the poetry that we
had throughout the game. So yeah, I was just captivated
by it by as anybody, and.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I mean, Miguel Rojas has been a good baseball player
round forever. I think he's been with the Dodgers twice.
I think he's a free agent. I don't know if
he's towards the end or not, whatever the case may be.
But I always find it more interesting when it's a
player who's not at the top of his game, where
it doesn't there's nothing logical about Miguil Rowe if anybody's
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gonna get a hit a home run of the ninth
to tie it, that he's going to be the guy
to do it. That's to me what results in the
kind of drama that you're not gonna forget, you know,
that that's not a game or a moment that you're
gonna forget.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And I can't even imagine. You know, we liked it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We feel sorry for ourselves in this town. If it
can go against us, it's gonna go against this. Can
you imagine being a Blue Jay fan right now? I
mean the number of times you felt like this was
our series, going back to certainly Game six. Hell, the manager,
their manager basically said we should have swept them, and
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he might not be wrong, but the opportunities you had
to put it away, and to have it slip away
the way it ended up happening, You're not going to
get over that anytime soon, even if I get it.
You know, we would kill to even be have a
chance to get into that position. So it's all relative
as well. A bratchew on Brian Kafan text night is
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open at six four six eight six. Curious to get reaction,
how many of you here's what I like. I'd like
to hear from people who would classify themselves as casual
baseball fans, maybe even non baseball fans who found themselves
a little bit swept up in it last night because
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it just became too good a story to miss and
you sort of wanted to see where it was going
to end? Or is that impossible when the team that
ends up winning it is the team with a one
point three billion dollar payroll, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Where
you go, I can't, I can't possibly can a team
with that kind of payroll actually show grit as well?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Because you can argue.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
That they obviously have these incredible advantages in LA But
there have been a lot of teams with great advantages financially.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
How any of them have won World Series back to back?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's been a while, I think since we've had back
to back World Series winners, So to me, that would
indicate they must have something else going. But is it
impossible to enjoy it in that mythic way it's the Dodgers,
Oh my god, not the Dodgers. Not again, because I
think last night was a night where it was much
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easier to get just get lost in the competition for
almost forgetting necessarily the backgrounds of the two teams involved.
So let me know, six four, six eighty six, we
will preview some final items heading them into Vikings Lions.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Which we'll get to little less.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I guess you could say devastating a weekend compared to
last weekend. Your wild club we win? Was that any
regulation regulation? Over the Canucks? Wow five to two, Wolves
win one twenty two, one.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
To oh five over the Hornets.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I think uh Julius Randall had thirty Gophers win over
Michigan State twenty three to twenty in a game that
we are going to get to here momentarily, and then
the bad news Gopher men's hockey loses two more swept
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swept by the Badgers.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
We are now, when's the last time we've been to seven?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And have we if the Golden Gopher has a whole
Golden Government hockey men's hockey team, ever been to seven
and two.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
At the early part eleven games into a season?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Have we ever only had two victories after having played eleven?
That's what I want to know. Somebody out there there'll
be a historian that might be able to tell us.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And I get it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
We lost a bunch of people, But my god, let's
come back and explain precisely why I found the Gopher
victory over Michigan State slightly unconvincing. There were some people
who applauded that position. Yesterday, some people were very unhappy
with me. Why can't you just take the victory? Why
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can't you just let Gopher fans have their moment? I'll
explain precisely why when we return right here on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Sunday Sermons brought to you by JT. R. Roofing.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
How good must an individual feel, Brett Blakemore when, as
I said, they cultivate a bit day after day after day,
not probably ever imagining it could pay off the way
it did. For whoever is responsible for the did Miguel
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Rojas hit Homer today?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Ex handle? Has he been? I'm assuming he'll be identified.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
He or she if that person has not yet been identified,
should have his or her moment in the sun, because,
as I said, there's a lot of people who cultivate
these things hoping that one day there might be that
kind of payoff. But you can't possibly be that optimistic
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to think it's gonna pay off for me.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
In Game seven, the nineteen of the World Series, did
you catch what the actual handle is? No, the name
of it is didn't a home run, but it's at
Miggy Bonds.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That's too good, brilliant, that is absolutely good, And we
didn't even mention By the way, how about the catch
despite a collision in center field and the ninth to
extend the game another that and of itself would all
That's what we would all be talking about if not
for the drama of what else took place then and
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the rest of that in that earlier in that inning
and the rest of the game as well. You know, again,
I grew up on baseball. I'm not as big a
baseball guy as I once was. Most people aren't, but
last night again confirms the notion that at its best,
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the baseball postseason is the best. At its best, the
baseball postseason is at the top of the list. Lots
of texts coming in. I'm going to get to some
of them as well in just a minute. I I
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don't know what to say about the I'm in a
very difficult position because regarding the Gophers and their victory
over Michigan State twenty three to twenty, because you do
play to win the game, and ultimately it is a
w on the scoreboard. I'm not here to tell you
Michigan State deserved to win that game either, But I
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think we're starting to get messages delivered that you either
are with us or you're against us, you either celebrate
the victory or you have forgotten how bad it was
in the past and how bad it can be. And
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if you create that sort of straw man opposition, then yeah,
you're kind of boxed in. But I'm going to submit
there is a middle place to be that's quite reasonable,
that doesn't have to reveal any sort of irrational hatred
of the head coach no matter what he does.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
PJ.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Fleck and I have enough faith in the average roub
that their eye test should apply. You watch these games.
You watch who Minnesota has beaten, what it has taken
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to beat those teams, and how little resistance little is
the wrong term, no resistance that they've offered playing the
two best teams they've played, And you're allowed to not
want to suggest it's time for another PJ. Fleck contract
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extension on the basis of final way to win Again,
did it again? It's not anybody's fault that the combined
record of the four teams the Gophers have beaten this
year is four and twenty.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Again, they don't have.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
To apologize for the victories. But will you do me
a favor and look up the well, Actually, I already
looked up the records. I'll give them to you in
a minute. Of the teams that we've lost to. It
can't be denied. So to act like, well, that's who
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they're playing. If you're somebody who watches a team week
after week and you notice that in the four victories
the Gophers are plus thirty one and have had to
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scramble to beat probably the two worst teams there, purduing
Michigan State, and that they're minus seventy seven in their
two losses in the Big Ten, you're allowed to notice
that and to say, well, okay, I'm not gonna jump
up and down because the record's four and two. If
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you want a great on the Jim Whacker curve, go ahead, Yes,
is this better? How many times have we said it?
The floor has been raised. The ceiling has not been
raised one bit in twenty twenty five thus far.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Zero.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
They still have a chance to do a little bit
of that. They got a bye week, then they go
to Oregon. That would raise the ceiling a bit. They
find a way to shock the world. Then they got
some tweener games, well one tweener game, really right, Northwestern?
Who else am I forgetting that Wisconsin. That's that's another
bottom feeder team. So it is what it is here.
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So to dismiss any criticism or grousing after game they
win the game, Yes, we know they won the game.
We also know that history was made in the winning
of that game. In that a question, that's what I
would call it. But callable. Well, actually, I don't think
it was a callable pass interference penalty. I think it
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was a very callable holding penalty that got picked up.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
The hanky that got picked up.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
That's never I've I've watched football since.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I was four.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I never, I literally not do not remember a single
time I remember flags being picked up. Huddle, they would
think it through. Somebody else, says Johnny my angle. I
don't think that was a pass interference. Okay, we'll pick
it up. I've never seen a situation. I don't recall
situation which the penalty has been announced, the ball has
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been placed in the position reflecting the penalty, penalty yards,
and the referee that any explanation comes back and says,
how we change our mind.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And you know, and I know that if that happened
to PJ.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Fleck and Golden Gopher fans, they would be calling for
a congressional investigation, and don't tell me about well they
owed us that one. They owed you nothing. You got
a hell of a break. The past interference that was
called after that that led to the Gopher touchdown was legitimate.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Had that was a good call.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
But the way you lose control of a game that
you had it seemed in relative control in the first half.
If you're watching the game, all of this is part
of what goes into it, you're going to give more
of the benefit of the doubt about finding a way
of win.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
That's all we do, is find a way to win.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
If you're finding ways to win against teams that have
ever won, and three of the teams we've played there
two of the teams haven't won at all. Our banner,
in my opinion this year thus far is nobody does
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a better job saving ourselves from endless embarrassment in finding
a way to beat winless big ten teams at home.
That's the banner right now. You want to raise that banner,
go ahead, have at it. We comment on the quality
of victories and losses all the time. We especially are
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willing to do it when it involves other teams. We
go yeah, they got four victories. Trust me when I say,
if you didn't have any vested interest in Golden Gopher
football and you're just analyzing the conference, you say, look
at the Gophers. They they got four wins. You know
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what the next sentence would be, Yeah, wins are wins,
But did you see what the who they've beaten? Nebraska
was legit and they dominated. But the other three teams
are awful. The other three teams I think have one
victory combined, because the comeback to that could easily be well,
they still want them. When you're vested in this thing
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from a fan standpoint or even a media standpoint, that
all suddenly goes out the window, something that when you're
analyzing other teams more objectively you throw into the mix.
So I'm sorry if I can't get excited. I will
get excited when they play and either beat or play
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close to in Iowa, either beat or play close to
an Oregon or in Ohio State, which I know is
hard to do, as Ohio State might well be the
best team in the country.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
It feels hollow to me.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It feels like, okay, we I mean, does anybody was
this the kind of victory where you said, all what
took place last week that tastes out of my mouth. No,
come on, man, not if you're not unless you're so
close to it that you can't help yourself. So what
can I tell you? I mean, has anybody brought this up?
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I'm gonna bring this up to Guardsy Monday. But I'm
in the group that says, Drake Lindsay looks like he's
got a chance to be really good college quarterback. But
I gotta tell you, and maybe this has already been
confirmed and the people who know no, aren't There gonna
be better programs with bigger aspirations than finishing in the
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middle of an okay, big ten.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
That are gonna come sniffing around.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Now, maybe again, he's committed to he's here, got a
great vibe, row the boat, the whole bit.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Maybe it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
But that's what would worry, That's what would scare me,
is if you're Drake Lindsey, you're going, yeah, I appreciate
the effort here, but man, I don't you know, I
don't know if.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I can go where.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That to me is part of the cautionary tale about
another one of these sort of meandering seasons where you're
not awful, you're middle of the pack. There's definitely programs
beneath you right now, for whatever that's worth, but that
there's not a feeling of, you know, that might be
a team that has a chance if they get in
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the kind of a good groove to be in the tournament,
the postseason tournament. That's what I would start to worry about.
You got to you got to get some of that.
I think more of a feeling of we're about more
than finding ways to survive the crappiest teams in the conference.
I just that's the way it felt. Again last night,
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they took advantage of it again. They got the drive late, they.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Needed grant the point.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And we had let's see if you go to the
was it the Purdue game, we got back to back
face mask penalties that gave us thirty yards.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It's on the key drive.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
When I say back to back, it might not have
been consecutive plays, but it was on the same drive.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And then yesterday we got we.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Got to start at the thirty five because the kick
and I think the kick landed. The kickoff landed in
the third row of the stands, So that gives you
automatically thirty five, then a face mask penalty, and.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
They're on the other they're in your territory. You haven't
done anything.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And I yeah, I'm the guy who says part of
being good is avoiding the mistakes the other teams make,
but sooner or later to make me feel like something
substantial is happening this year, those things have to evolve
and take place against better competition more consistently. And so, no,
I didn't come out of that game, thank god. I
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actually am surprised. Nobody said. I don't think anybody stormed
the field. I don't think there was any court storming. Yes,
our field storming, but maybe I missed it. I'm not
exactly sure. I was worried about that. I was going
to send out an X.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Before the game.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
So you know, again, it's it's it's it is what
it is to me, and I don't think, like I said,
it has to be. Well, if you're not loving them
and appreciating them, you're hating on them. No, there's in
between that I'm not inventing. It's based on what I
have watched of this team, what we have all watched
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of this team, and that to me feels like a
lot of food has already been left on the table. Okay,
don't go to Iowa and beat them, or don't go
to Columbus and be competitive, because Columbus is not going
to be allow anybody. Ohio State's not going to allow anybody
to competitive. Okay, if you want to go with that,
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But how about Iowa? So does that get all taken away?
Everything's fine because we hung in there and we showed
what we were made of against an oh to six
team in the in the conference. No, that's not going.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
To tell me.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
That tells me you could outlast one of the worst
teams in the conference. That's all tells me. So you
want to fly a banner out of that, go ahead,
Bratschewan Brian kfan text line has opened six four six
eight six. Gopher fans live for victory over Michigan State.
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Does anyone remember never winning versus them for years? Celebrate
even if it was sketchy. That's from Lindwood Township guy.
Well again, I don't know what Michigan State he I
don't think it's quite the same. Does he think it's
the same because it's the same school name that it
has the same It resonates the same way to beat
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Michigan State.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Okay, knock yourselves out. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I'm not here to tell you how to celebrate. I'm
just here to tell you how I processed it. And
I didn't come out of that game any more convinced
that I did going in that. You know that they've
got a chance to turn this into the sort of
season that will be forgotten as soon as it's finished.
As Okay, they're gonna end up at a bowl. Obviously
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it's going to right now, right now, it's going to
be a crappy bowl. Do they still have a chance
if they if they finished strong, to make it a
better bowl. Yeah, that's possible, and that might happen, even
going to even going to Wrigley and winning over Northwestern,
there would be obviously a better victory. I haven't looked
at do Will you check Northwestern's current record. They've been
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tough against a lot of teams. I know that, and
obviously you can change everything if you go to Oregon
and shock.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
The world, but we have not seen quite much of
that lately.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Northwestern five and three, three and two in the conference, right,
so yeah, in the middle so, but certainly not horrible
by any means.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
So we'll see where that where that goes. But again,
and I if I.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
If I'm a Michigan State fan or I'm I mean,
if you're a Michigan State fan, there's a part of
me that would say, well, how can we really wind
that much about losing because of the number of mistakes
that we committed.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You know, the the.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
The domination statistically in the second half for much of
the half was dramatic. Then they missed the chip shot
field goal. They had a horrible possession leading up to
that field goal, they had the had a couple of
other key they dropped the pass in the end zone.
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So that's not on penalties, but I will admit I
don't know, I think And the guy who was doing
the officiating analysis in the game admitted it he didn't
think that it was a pass interference call that was
originally flagged on that play in overtime against the Gophers,
But he granted the most important point you can't reverse
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it that late, and you can't reverse it after you've
spotted the ball. Again, We've all seen flags picked up
and sometimes we agree with that decision, sometimes we don't.
And to me, it looked very much like this is.
I think we were reminded why coaches lose their minds
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in that situation and never stop lobbying.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
PJ Fleck.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Went even by PJ flex standards insane on the sidelines,
and it almost felt like it got to them.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
It almost felt like.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You know, yeah, you know, yeah, but Johnny, we already
spotted the foul.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, but we're home here. It's PJ and he's awful adamant.
That's a bad, bad look.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That's a bad precedent that you're setting, and Gopher fans
would be rightly whining about it if the if the
roles were reversed, the situation was.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Reversed.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I've got the proverbial enjoy the season we're supposed to
enjoy because we suffer through these games when they are
actual losses. We have standards on this show, and I've
learned the hard way. For some of you, they might
be too lofty. But I have enough faith in a
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lot of people who listen to this show, and a
lot of fans who bleed maroon and gold, who love
the school, who say, well, you don't ever, you know,
have to give the victory back. You don't have to
apologize for the victory, but I'm not sure anybody should
be celebrating this in a way that is there any
way we could lock in PJ for life now? Anything
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else we can do to make sure that he's happy
with all these jobs, it might be available. That's basically
the way I look at it. I you know, believe me.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I wish, I really do wish that.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Michigan State had a better record than Owen six in
the conference. I really do wish Purdue had a better
record than Owen six in the conference.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I really do wish.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I think records is one and five, I really do.
But that's their records. And again, if you're honest about
it as a Gopher fan and you're evaluating teams around
the country and comparing records, well there's that four and two,
and there's this four.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
To who the victory's come against.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Well, the Nebraska one is We've said I celebrated, and
I spent the whole sermon show celebrating that, but also
cautioned you got to do something with it, and they
really haven't done all that much with it since an
unconvincing victory here and a terrible loss in which which
they were never competitive against Iowa that if you didn't
have that vested interest, you wouldn't just be saying so win, though,
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you'd be saying, well, okay, who who they play? How
do we compare that against other people? Going oh, okay,
that's you don't apologize for it, But that's not exactly
a sign that they're on the edge of putting together
what would be classified as a great college season.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
It's not that.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Difficult when you say we have standards on this show
and that it could be too high for some people.
We got this text and I think it okay, I
think it illustrates it perfectly. Uh six one two guys
says when where christ some more? Damn? I added in
the danh PJ consistently wins seven to nine games every year.
We've only had that happen with one another coach, God
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bless you want to go back to that.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
How many games they play this year compared to back
these days and compared to earlier periods.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
But that's fine, seven or nine wins. Just get it.
Just get us to the Motor City Bowl and we'll
throw a parade for you.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Well, on the basis of what they're said, why aren't
they why aren't they mad that we're not ranked?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Should can we be top twenty five?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Then if it's just about the number of victories we've won,
come on, man, get serious. Let's come back and talk
some Vikings Lions game. Because this is a big one
for your club. We talked a lot about it Friday.
It's a plant your feet opportunity for your club. The
more important question might be are the Vikings currently equipped
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even if they want to mentally, you know, do the
commit to quote unquote planting their feet? Are they physically
able at this point good enough to follow through on that?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
We'll get to that question.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Continue to receive texts from the Gopher whole crowd and
much more.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
How's Yata doing? By the way, then we checked in
with Yadad at the booth. Is he optimistic for today's
Vikings Lions game? That's what I want to know.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Spread.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Isn't this spread like eight and a half? Eight and
a half for a division game is not encouraging sign
By the way, before we get to some Vikings talk
here late nine and a half. Yeah, and that's that's
a lot of points. I didn't even get to the
fact that the quarterback didn't score.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
He didn't score.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Now, it probably wouldn't have mattered because they were at
the one inch line, and obviously you got to go
for it in that situation. But that's another humongous call
that went in our favor, even though we never get
the calls, and they owe us so many more calls
before we're even going to get close to being a
fifty to fifty. But I digress. We could spend the
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entire rest of the show on a go for texts. Fortunately,
there are a number of individuals who understand and get
that the cliche you never have to apologize for winning
is true, but you're also allowed to analyze is how
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you got it and who you got it against, something
we do routinely when it involves other teams. And as
far as I'm concerned, this team has played one really
good game this year.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
One that's it.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I mean, we know about the non conference that nonsense,
it's utterly meaningless.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
They're not the only team that does it. They've had.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Three chances to create a certain legitimacy to this season.
Cal on the road they failed, Ohio State and Columbus
failed miserably. Iowa City or Iowa in Iowa City failed miserably.
I can't take that away. They played those games. Now
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they get a buy. I don't think Oregon's good, but
I don't think Oregon is like unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
So maybe you go.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
If you go to Oregon and you get a moral victory, yeah,
probably feel better, a little better about where this team is.
If God forbid you win, then maybe we talk contract extension, certainly,
but that's just the reality of the way this season's
played out. The Nebraska game, which we celebrated closer to
two one eight. Guy, he may have missed that show.
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We su spill celebrated that show for an out about
an hour. Might have been a two hour sermons weekend,
and we did it for an hour outstanding. I would
coach the opposition. I would play the opposition. By the way,
the coach who was out coached, he was rewarded with
a contract deal that's better than Kurt Signettes. Explain that
to me. We've got a lot of soft, easily manipulated
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athletic directors around the United States of America. I mean,
there's just no question about that at all, all right,
I asked the question.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Friday, I asked the.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Vike the Vikings to channel their inner pat Riley, the
famous does pat Riley plant your feet story when the
Los Angeles Lakers were in crisis. But of course there's
a number of people pointed out, well, it's easy for
Ryles to say that he had the greatest point guard
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in the history of the game, Irvin Magic Johnson. He
had one of the greatest forwards in the history of
the game, James Worthy, And he had one of the
greatest centers in the history of the game, carew A
dul Jabbar. Pretty easy to say plant your feet when
you got people who know who are good enough to
plant their feet. So even if the Vikings are mentally
willing to plant their feet and say, yeah, that's what
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we got to do at this fork in the road
moment of the season, the question is whether they're good
enough to do it. That's the fascinating open ended question
I asked here. I don't have a good vibe about it.
I did pick the Lions to cover, but players always
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have the last word. That's the beauty of it. And
all it takes is the Lions making a couple of
uncharacteristic mistakes. Viking's taking advantage of those mistakes and maybe
the QB comes in Lucy Goosey and flings the ball
around a little bit. They get a couple of big
plays and suddenly he feels like I'm back.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
And let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
If the Vikings go to Detroit and find a way
to win the game, you know, moral victories really don't
count in the NFL all that much. They find a
way to win that game, steal that game starting Monday,
people are going to feel very differently.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
About this season.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Now. They may be overreacting even to that, because you've
got to sustain it. But that's how quickly things can
change in the league. If you change the story by
planting your feet in how you play, people will look
at it differently. I'm not optimistic because I just think
Detroit's too good at this point and we just haven't
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established enough, and I tark for me to believe we're
going to be able to establish enough.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
In this game.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
On the other hand, they go to Detroit and lose,
that may be liberating to the extent that for the
people that for the mac Bobo's out there who are
all about developing the kid, he'll be free to be
developed the rest of the season, and people will accept
the mistakes if it's leading to somewhere better, and we
just say, well, it wasn't quite the season that we
thought it was for this year, but we're going to
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get a better idea about whether we do have a
quarterback for the future.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Question is can he be the.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Quarterback for the present, because he's got to be quarterback
for the present, as unfair as that might be to
put that heat on him to sort of change the
story today. A Vikings football Sunday is coming up next Sunday.
I should say bumper to bumper back tomorrow at three o'clock.
Liber We hope Adam Thielen, Johnny Athletic among a cast
of thousands enjoy the football and the fan. We'll talk
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to you tomorrow three
Only one hour today.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Man, man, this could this probably will breeze by pretty quickly.
This easily could be a day we go two hours
and not run out of things to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Sunday Sermons.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It will be a one hour edition Vikings Football Sunday
will take over at the top of the ten o'clock
hour of the show.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Barrero and blakemore with you until then.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And we all have had, I think, our occasions when,
even if we're way too addicted to and tethered to X,
the world of X, we every once in a while
take the long view and say, I can really admire
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individuals who, for whatever reason have fixated on one situation
or maybe even one individual player athlete, and over a
period of not you know, days, but weeks, months, and years,
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stay committed to whatever bit that they have established, because
that takes time.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Even in the world of acts, who you say, well,
every day.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
They're going they're going back to that particular item and
reinforcing whatever message they are attempting to deliver or whoever
whoever's career they're attempting to chronicle.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You know it.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's not like digging ditches, I'll grant you that, but
it's still you know, you got to be committed to it.
And so today I must congratulate whoever is responsible, whoever
the individual was who once upon a time decided, you
know what I'm gonna do. My bit's gonna be, my
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X handle is gonna be. Did Miguel Rojas hit a
homer today? And as each day would go by, Inel
Rojas's season or I should say, yeah, whatever season we're
talking about, but certainly this season, he'd checked the box
score Los Angeles Dodgers and it would confirm to him
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that Miguel Rojas did not hit a homer today, and
so he just say no, answering the question.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Day after day after day after day, did Miguel Rojas
hit a homer today?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No? Well, you'll notice if you look up that handle
that at this moment, the pinned tweet at the top
of this particular X handle asks the same question, did
Miguel hit a homer today? And of course the pin
to answer is yes. By now most of you probably know,
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even those of you who might not be committed to
the game of baseball. What was once upon a time
the national pastime that a utility player named Miguil Rojas
saved the Los Angeles Dodgers season, maybe even opened the
door to a significant dynasty being reinforced and strengthened. Miguel Rojas. Oh,
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by the way, for the record, if I looked it
up right, because I tried to go back in the
did Miguel Rojas ad a homer?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Today? I found a bunch of no's.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I think the first yes before last night that I
found recorded was seven nineteen, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Rojas had not even had a hit in a month.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
He had only seven home runs all season, none of
them had come off of a right handed pitcher, and
yet at the moment of truth, down four to three,
decisive Game seven, top of the ninth, one out, nobody
on Miguel Rojas went deep to tie the game and
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eventually allow the Dodgers to win it in extra innings
and to win their second consecutive World Series. This, I
will submit to you, and I've said this before. Anybody
listens to this show will not be surprised that I'll
go down this road again. The Rojas play. The Rojas
home run.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
To me.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Distills the significant difference between Major League Baseball postseason and
all of the rest of them. And that is that
at any moment, often a crucial moment, the player who
makes the biggest play is not a superstar, often not
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a star, sometimes the utility player. Now I'm not saying
it never happens in hockey or basketball or football, but
rarely compared to baseball. You can pick almost any year
in baseball, and sure the big knockers have got to knock,
we know that, but you'll find an everyday, ordinary, sometimes
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mediocre player who ends up making the biggest defensive play,
throwing the most important pitch, getting the most important out,
or in some cases, hitting the most.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Important home run.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And that's what I think you either have to love
about the baseball postseason or hate about it because you
can say, well that it comes off more phony if
a guy who's really not that good can make the difference,
I would argue that's the charm of the game, that
it doesn't always have to be your superstar. Who you go,
Did you see what just happened in that game? That's
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the magic of baseball at its best. And let's face
it again, even if you're not a hardcore ball guy,
and it's hard to be in this town right now,
we know that's about as good a in terms of theater.
You can't get much better than what this Major League
Baseball postseason has been, especially as we've gotten to the
to the the AL and NL Championship Series, and then
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the World Series as well. I don't know how you can't.
You had the extra inning, you know, game that went
on forever, You had this finish, you had Game.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Six, the Dodgers are on the ropes.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
They get a double play in the ninth inning to
save them in that game, to extend the series. I
felt last night for the first time in a long time,
I'm hearkening back.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
To nineteen ninety one here.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That's to me the feel I had in this series,
even though of course there was not as much vested interest.
Wasn't covering, it wasn't the local team, but you felt
like you followed it inny after inning, almost eagerly awaiting
another play that you don't think you're gonna believe, or
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a play that might turn it the other direction.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And I think that's what this World Series felt like.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I think it goes both ways too, because there's instant
folklore in baseball and anyone can become that hero. And
I mean, imagine if I mean the Blue Jays literally
came with an inches if Will Smith, I believe, doesn't
put his foot back on home plate because it was close, Yes,
and it was close. And think about you don't even
have to be a player. You can be in Wrigley Field,
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down the third base line and be a legend, or
down the Boston a first base line.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And be an infamous legend.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
And then the other note, I wanted to make one
of my favorite accounts like that. If you're a Chicago
Cubs hater, which I'm not particularly but I think it's funny.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
They have the W flag every time they win.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yes, so there's an account just fly the L and
every time the Cubs lose, he just tweets hashtag fly
the every time.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I wonder if that's my buddy Rick Bosich one of
his burner accounts because he's a big white Sox fan
who feels obligated to hate the Cubs as well.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, it's all.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
That's true, and I'm glad you brought up to play
at the plate, and I was to this moment. I'm
still not sure they got the call right, but I
gotta tell you, can you imagine how anti climactic it
might have been for the game to end on a reversal.
On that play, I'm sure Toronto would say would take
it right, But in all honesty, I just the whole
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life taken out of what would have been a great
World Series if it ends up being turned on a
replay reversal. So in the end, I think poetry was
done because we wouldn't have had the poetry that we
had throughout the game. So yeah, I was just captivated
by it by as anybody, and.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I mean, Miguel Rojas has been a good baseball player
round forever. I think he's been with the Dodgers twice.
I think he's a free agent. I don't know if
he's towards the end or not, whatever the case may be.
But I always find it more interesting when it's a
player who's not at the top of his game, where
it doesn't there's nothing logical about Miguil Rowe if anybody's
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gonna get a hit a home run of the ninth
to tie it, that he's going to be the guy
to do it. That's to me what results in the
kind of drama that you're not gonna forget, you know,
that that's not a game or a moment that you're
gonna forget.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And I can't even imagine. You know, we liked it.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
We feel sorry for ourselves in this town. If it
can go against us, it's gonna go against this. Can
you imagine being a Blue Jay fan right now? I
mean the number of times you felt like this was
our series, going back to certainly Game six. Hell, the manager,
their manager basically said we should have swept them, and
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he might not be wrong, but the opportunities you had
to put it away, and to have it slip away
the way it ended up happening, You're not going to
get over that anytime soon, even if I get it.
You know, we would kill to even be have a
chance to get into that position. So it's all relative
as well. A bratchew on Brian Kafan text night is
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open at six four six eight six. Curious to get reaction,
how many of you here's what I like. I'd like
to hear from people who would classify themselves as casual
baseball fans, maybe even non baseball fans who found themselves
a little bit swept up in it last night because
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it just became too good a story to miss and
you sort of wanted to see where it was going
to end? Or is that impossible when the team that
ends up winning it is the team with a one
point three billion dollar payroll, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Where
you go, I can't, I can't possibly can a team
with that kind of payroll actually show grit as well?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Because you can argue.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
That they obviously have these incredible advantages in LA But
there have been a lot of teams with great advantages financially.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
How any of them have won World Series back to back?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's been a while, I think since we've had back
to back World Series winners, So to me, that would
indicate they must have something else going. But is it
impossible to enjoy it in that mythic way it's the Dodgers,
Oh my god, not the Dodgers. Not again, because I
think last night was a night where it was much
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easier to get just get lost in the competition for
almost forgetting necessarily the backgrounds of the two teams involved.
So let me know, six four, six eighty six, we
will preview some final items heading them into Vikings Lions.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Which we'll get to little less.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I guess you could say devastating a weekend compared to
last weekend. Your wild club we win? Was that any
regulation regulation? Over the Canucks? Wow five to two, Wolves
win one twenty two, one.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
To oh five over the Hornets.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I think uh Julius Randall had thirty Gophers win over
Michigan State twenty three to twenty in a game that
we are going to get to here momentarily, and then
the bad news Gopher men's hockey loses two more swept
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swept by the Badgers.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
We are now, when's the last time we've been to seven?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And have we if the Golden Gopher has a whole
Golden Government hockey men's hockey team, ever been to seven
and two.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
At the early part eleven games into a season?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Have we ever only had two victories after having played eleven?
That's what I want to know. Somebody out there there'll
be a historian that might be able to tell us.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And I get it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
We lost a bunch of people, But my god, let's
come back and explain precisely why I found the Gopher
victory over Michigan State slightly unconvincing. There were some people
who applauded that position. Yesterday, some people were very unhappy
with me. Why can't you just take the victory? Why
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can't you just let Gopher fans have their moment? I'll
explain precisely why when we return right here on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Sunday Sermons brought to you by JT. R. Roofing.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
How good must an individual feel, Brett Blakemore when, as
I said, they cultivate a bit day after day after day,
not probably ever imagining it could pay off the way
it did. For whoever is responsible for the did Miguel
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Rojas hit Homer today?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Ex handle? Has he been? I'm assuming he'll be identified.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
He or she if that person has not yet been identified,
should have his or her moment in the sun, because,
as I said, there's a lot of people who cultivate
these things hoping that one day there might be that
kind of payoff. But you can't possibly be that optimistic
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to think it's gonna pay off for me.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
In Game seven, the nineteen of the World Series, did
you catch what the actual handle is? No, the name
of it is didn't a home run, but it's at
Miggy Bonds.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
That's too good, brilliant, that is absolutely good, And we
didn't even mention By the way, how about the catch
despite a collision in center field and the ninth to
extend the game another that and of itself would all
That's what we would all be talking about if not
for the drama of what else took place then and
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the rest of that in that earlier in that inning
and the rest of the game as well. You know, again,
I grew up on baseball. I'm not as big a
baseball guy as I once was. Most people aren't, but
last night again confirms the notion that at its best,
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the baseball postseason is the best. At its best, the
baseball postseason is at the top of the list. Lots
of texts coming in. I'm going to get to some
of them as well in just a minute. I I
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don't know what to say about the I'm in a
very difficult position because regarding the Gophers and their victory
over Michigan State twenty three to twenty, because you do
play to win the game, and ultimately it is a
w on the scoreboard. I'm not here to tell you
Michigan State deserved to win that game either, But I
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think we're starting to get messages delivered that you either
are with us or you're against us, you either celebrate
the victory or you have forgotten how bad it was
in the past and how bad it can be. And
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if you create that sort of straw man opposition, then yeah,
you're kind of boxed in. But I'm going to submit
there is a middle place to be that's quite reasonable,
that doesn't have to reveal any sort of irrational hatred
of the head coach no matter what he does.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
PJ.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Fleck and I have enough faith in the average roub
that their eye test should apply. You watch these games.
You watch who Minnesota has beaten, what it has taken
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to beat those teams, and how little resistance little is
the wrong term, no resistance that they've offered playing the
two best teams they've played, And you're allowed to not
want to suggest it's time for another PJ. Fleck contract
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extension on the basis of final way to win Again,
did it again? It's not anybody's fault that the combined
record of the four teams the Gophers have beaten this
year is four and twenty.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Again, they don't have.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
To apologize for the victories. But will you do me
a favor and look up the well, Actually, I already
looked up the records. I'll give them to you in
a minute. Of the teams that we've lost to. It
can't be denied. So to act like, well, that's who
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they're playing. If you're somebody who watches a team week
after week and you notice that in the four victories
the Gophers are plus thirty one and have had to
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scramble to beat probably the two worst teams there, purduing
Michigan State, and that they're minus seventy seven in their
two losses in the Big Ten, you're allowed to notice
that and to say, well, okay, I'm not gonna jump
up and down because the record's four and two. If
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you want a great on the Jim Whacker curve, go ahead, Yes,
is this better? How many times have we said it?
The floor has been raised. The ceiling has not been
raised one bit in twenty twenty five thus far.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Zero.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
They still have a chance to do a little bit
of that. They got a bye week, then they go
to Oregon. That would raise the ceiling a bit. They
find a way to shock the world. Then they got
some tweener games, well one tweener game, really right, Northwestern?
Who else am I forgetting that Wisconsin. That's that's another
bottom feeder team. So it is what it is here.
(19:46):
So to dismiss any criticism or grousing after game they
win the game, Yes, we know they won the game.
We also know that history was made in the winning
of that game. In that a question, that's what I
would call it. But callable. Well, actually, I don't think
it was a callable pass interference penalty. I think it
(20:07):
was a very callable holding penalty that got picked up.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
The hanky that got picked up.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
That's never I've I've watched football since.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
I was four.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I never, I literally not do not remember a single
time I remember flags being picked up. Huddle, they would
think it through. Somebody else, says Johnny my angle. I
don't think that was a pass interference. Okay, we'll pick
it up. I've never seen a situation. I don't recall
situation which the penalty has been announced, the ball has
(20:42):
been placed in the position reflecting the penalty, penalty yards,
and the referee that any explanation comes back and says,
how we change our mind.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And you know, and I know that if that happened
to PJ.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Fleck and Golden Gopher fans, they would be calling for
a congressional investigation, and don't tell me about well they
owed us that one. They owed you nothing. You got
a hell of a break. The past interference that was
called after that that led to the Gopher touchdown was legitimate.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Had that was a good call.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
But the way you lose control of a game that
you had it seemed in relative control in the first half.
If you're watching the game, all of this is part
of what goes into it, you're going to give more
of the benefit of the doubt about finding a way
of win.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
That's all we do, is find a way to win.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
If you're finding ways to win against teams that have
ever won, and three of the teams we've played there
two of the teams haven't won at all. Our banner,
in my opinion this year thus far is nobody does
(21:56):
a better job saving ourselves from endless embarrassment in finding
a way to beat winless big ten teams at home.
That's the banner right now. You want to raise that banner,
go ahead, have at it. We comment on the quality
of victories and losses all the time. We especially are
(22:19):
willing to do it when it involves other teams. We
go yeah, they got four victories. Trust me when I say,
if you didn't have any vested interest in Golden Gopher
football and you're just analyzing the conference, you say, look
at the Gophers. They they got four wins. You know
(22:40):
what the next sentence would be, Yeah, wins are wins,
But did you see what the who they've beaten? Nebraska
was legit and they dominated. But the other three teams
are awful. The other three teams I think have one
victory combined, because the comeback to that could easily be well,
they still want them. When you're vested in this thing
(23:02):
from a fan standpoint or even a media standpoint, that
all suddenly goes out the window, something that when you're
analyzing other teams more objectively you throw into the mix.
So I'm sorry if I can't get excited. I will
get excited when they play and either beat or play
(23:26):
close to in Iowa, either beat or play close to
an Oregon or in Ohio State, which I know is
hard to do, as Ohio State might well be the
best team in the country.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
It feels hollow to me.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It feels like, okay, we I mean, does anybody was
this the kind of victory where you said, all what
took place last week that tastes out of my mouth. No,
come on, man, not if you're not unless you're so
close to it that you can't help yourself. So what
can I tell you? I mean, has anybody brought this up?
(24:05):
I'm gonna bring this up to Guardsy Monday. But I'm
in the group that says, Drake Lindsay looks like he's
got a chance to be really good college quarterback. But
I gotta tell you, and maybe this has already been
confirmed and the people who know no, aren't There gonna
be better programs with bigger aspirations than finishing in the
(24:30):
middle of an okay, big ten.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
That are gonna come sniffing around.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Now, maybe again, he's committed to he's here, got a
great vibe, row the boat, the whole bit.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Maybe it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
But that's what would worry, That's what would scare me,
is if you're Drake Lindsey, you're going, yeah, I appreciate
the effort here, but man, I don't you know, I
don't know if.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I can go where.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
That to me is part of the cautionary tale about
another one of these sort of meandering seasons where you're
not awful, you're middle of the pack. There's definitely programs
beneath you right now, for whatever that's worth, but that
there's not a feeling of, you know, that might be
a team that has a chance if they get in
(25:19):
the kind of a good groove to be in the tournament,
the postseason tournament. That's what I would start to worry about.
You got to you got to get some of that.
I think more of a feeling of we're about more
than finding ways to survive the crappiest teams in the conference.
I just that's the way it felt. Again last night,
(25:43):
they took advantage of it again. They got the drive late, they.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Needed grant the point.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And we had let's see if you go to the
was it the Purdue game, we got back to back
face mask penalties that gave us thirty yards.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It's on the key drive.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
When I say back to back, it might not have
been consecutive plays, but it was on the same drive.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And then yesterday we got we.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Got to start at the thirty five because the kick
and I think the kick landed. The kickoff landed in
the third row of the stands, So that gives you
automatically thirty five, then a face mask penalty, and.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
They're on the other they're in your territory. You haven't
done anything.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
And I yeah, I'm the guy who says part of
being good is avoiding the mistakes the other teams make,
but sooner or later to make me feel like something
substantial is happening this year, those things have to evolve
and take place against better competition more consistently. And so, no,
I didn't come out of that game, thank god. I
(26:49):
actually am surprised. Nobody said. I don't think anybody stormed
the field. I don't think there was any court storming. Yes,
our field storming, but maybe I missed it. I'm not
exactly sure. I was worried about that. I was going
to send out an X.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Before the game.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
So you know, again, it's it's it's it is what
it is to me, and I don't think, like I said,
it has to be. Well, if you're not loving them
and appreciating them, you're hating on them. No, there's in
between that I'm not inventing. It's based on what I
have watched of this team, what we have all watched
(27:24):
of this team, and that to me feels like a
lot of food has already been left on the table. Okay,
don't go to Iowa and beat them, or don't go
to Columbus and be competitive, because Columbus is not going
to be allow anybody. Ohio State's not going to allow anybody
to competitive. Okay, if you want to go with that,
(27:45):
But how about Iowa? So does that get all taken away?
Everything's fine because we hung in there and we showed
what we were made of against an oh to six
team in the in the conference. No, that's not going.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
To tell me.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
That tells me you could outlast one of the worst
teams in the conference. That's all tells me. So you
want to fly a banner out of that, go ahead,
Bratschewan Brian kfan text line has opened six four six
eight six. Gopher fans live for victory over Michigan State.
(28:24):
Does anyone remember never winning versus them for years? Celebrate
even if it was sketchy. That's from Lindwood Township guy.
Well again, I don't know what Michigan State he I
don't think it's quite the same. Does he think it's
the same because it's the same school name that it
has the same It resonates the same way to beat
(28:46):
Michigan State.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Okay, knock yourselves out. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I'm not here to tell you how to celebrate. I'm
just here to tell you how I processed it. And
I didn't come out of that game any more convinced
that I did going in that. You know that they've
got a chance to turn this into the sort of
season that will be forgotten as soon as it's finished.
As Okay, they're gonna end up at a bowl. Obviously
(29:14):
it's going to right now, right now, it's going to
be a crappy bowl. Do they still have a chance
if they if they finished strong, to make it a
better bowl. Yeah, that's possible, and that might happen, even
going to even going to Wrigley and winning over Northwestern,
there would be obviously a better victory. I haven't looked
at do Will you check Northwestern's current record. They've been
(29:36):
tough against a lot of teams. I know that, and
obviously you can change everything if you go to Oregon
and shock.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
The world, but we have not seen quite much of
that lately.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Northwestern five and three, three and two in the conference, right,
so yeah, in the middle so, but certainly not horrible
by any means.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
So we'll see where that where that goes. But again,
and I if I.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
If I'm a Michigan State fan or I'm I mean,
if you're a Michigan State fan, there's a part of
me that would say, well, how can we really wind
that much about losing because of the number of mistakes
that we committed.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You know, the the.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
The domination statistically in the second half for much of
the half was dramatic. Then they missed the chip shot
field goal. They had a horrible possession leading up to
that field goal, they had the had a couple of
other key they dropped the pass in the end zone.
(30:37):
So that's not on penalties, but I will admit I
don't know, I think And the guy who was doing
the officiating analysis in the game admitted it he didn't
think that it was a pass interference call that was
originally flagged on that play in overtime against the Gophers,
But he granted the most important point you can't reverse
(31:01):
it that late, and you can't reverse it after you've
spotted the ball. Again, We've all seen flags picked up
and sometimes we agree with that decision, sometimes we don't.
And to me, it looked very much like this is.
I think we were reminded why coaches lose their minds
(31:21):
in that situation and never stop lobbying.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
PJ Fleck.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Went even by PJ flex standards insane on the sidelines,
and it almost felt like it got to them.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
It almost felt like.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You know, yeah, you know, yeah, but Johnny, we already
spotted the foul.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, but we're home here. It's PJ and he's awful adamant.
That's a bad, bad look.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That's a bad precedent that you're setting, and Gopher fans
would be rightly whining about it if the if the
roles were reversed, the situation was.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Reversed.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I've got the proverbial enjoy the season we're supposed to
enjoy because we suffer through these games when they are
actual losses. We have standards on this show, and I've
learned the hard way. For some of you, they might
be too lofty. But I have enough faith in a
(32:36):
lot of people who listen to this show, and a
lot of fans who bleed maroon and gold, who love
the school, who say, well, you don't ever, you know,
have to give the victory back. You don't have to
apologize for the victory, but I'm not sure anybody should
be celebrating this in a way that is there any
way we could lock in PJ for life now? Anything
(32:59):
else we can do to make sure that he's happy
with all these jobs, it might be available. That's basically
the way I look at it. I you know, believe me.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I wish, I really do wish that.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Michigan State had a better record than Owen six in
the conference. I really do wish Purdue had a better
record than Owen six in the conference.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I really do wish.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I think records is one and five, I really do.
But that's their records. And again, if you're honest about
it as a Gopher fan and you're evaluating teams around
the country and comparing records, well there's that four and two,
and there's this four.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
To who the victory's come against.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Well, the Nebraska one is We've said I celebrated, and
I spent the whole sermon show celebrating that, but also
cautioned you got to do something with it, and they
really haven't done all that much with it since an
unconvincing victory here and a terrible loss in which which
they were never competitive against Iowa that if you didn't
have that vested interest, you wouldn't just be saying so win, though,
(34:08):
you'd be saying, well, okay, who who they play? How
do we compare that against other people? Going oh, okay,
that's you don't apologize for it, But that's not exactly
a sign that they're on the edge of putting together
what would be classified as a great college season.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
It's not that.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Difficult when you say we have standards on this show
and that it could be too high for some people.
We got this text and I think it okay, I
think it illustrates it perfectly. Uh six one two guys
says when where christ some more? Damn? I added in
the danh PJ consistently wins seven to nine games every year.
We've only had that happen with one another coach, God
(34:43):
bless you want to go back to that.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
How many games they play this year compared to back
these days and compared to earlier periods.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
But that's fine, seven or nine wins. Just get it.
Just get us to the Motor City Bowl and we'll
throw a parade for you.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Well, on the basis of what they're said, why aren't
they why aren't they mad that we're not ranked?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Should can we be top twenty five?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Then if it's just about the number of victories we've won,
come on, man, get serious. Let's come back and talk
some Vikings Lions game. Because this is a big one
for your club. We talked a lot about it Friday.
It's a plant your feet opportunity for your club. The
more important question might be are the Vikings currently equipped
(35:24):
even if they want to mentally, you know, do the
commit to quote unquote planting their feet? Are they physically
able at this point good enough to follow through on that?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
We'll get to that question.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Continue to receive texts from the Gopher whole crowd and
much more.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
How's Yata doing? By the way, then we checked in
with Yadad at the booth. Is he optimistic for today's
Vikings Lions game? That's what I want to know.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Spread.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Isn't this spread like eight and a half? Eight and
a half for a division game is not encouraging sign
By the way, before we get to some Vikings talk
here late nine and a half. Yeah, and that's that's
a lot of points. I didn't even get to the
fact that the quarterback didn't score.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
He didn't score.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Now, it probably wouldn't have mattered because they were at
the one inch line, and obviously you got to go
for it in that situation. But that's another humongous call
that went in our favor, even though we never get
the calls, and they owe us so many more calls
before we're even going to get close to being a
fifty to fifty. But I digress. We could spend the
(36:39):
entire rest of the show on a go for texts. Fortunately,
there are a number of individuals who understand and get
that the cliche you never have to apologize for winning
is true, but you're also allowed to analyze is how
(37:00):
you got it and who you got it against, something
we do routinely when it involves other teams. And as
far as I'm concerned, this team has played one really
good game this year.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
One that's it.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I mean, we know about the non conference that nonsense,
it's utterly meaningless.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
They're not the only team that does it. They've had.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Three chances to create a certain legitimacy to this season.
Cal on the road they failed, Ohio State and Columbus
failed miserably. Iowa City or Iowa in Iowa City failed miserably.
I can't take that away. They played those games. Now
(37:49):
they get a buy. I don't think Oregon's good, but
I don't think Oregon is like unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
So maybe you go.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
If you go to Oregon and you get a moral victory, yeah,
probably feel better, a little better about where this team is.
If God forbid you win, then maybe we talk contract extension, certainly,
but that's just the reality of the way this season's
played out. The Nebraska game, which we celebrated closer to
two one eight. Guy, he may have missed that show.
(38:20):
We su spill celebrated that show for an out about
an hour. Might have been a two hour sermons weekend,
and we did it for an hour outstanding. I would
coach the opposition. I would play the opposition. By the way,
the coach who was out coached, he was rewarded with
a contract deal that's better than Kurt Signettes. Explain that
to me. We've got a lot of soft, easily manipulated
(38:44):
athletic directors around the United States of America. I mean,
there's just no question about that at all, all right,
I asked the question.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Friday, I asked the.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Vike the Vikings to channel their inner pat Riley, the
famous does pat Riley plant your feet story when the
Los Angeles Lakers were in crisis. But of course there's
a number of people pointed out, well, it's easy for
Ryles to say that he had the greatest point guard
(39:16):
in the history of the game, Irvin Magic Johnson. He
had one of the greatest forwards in the history of
the game, James Worthy, And he had one of the
greatest centers in the history of the game, carew A
dul Jabbar. Pretty easy to say plant your feet when
you got people who know who are good enough to
plant their feet. So even if the Vikings are mentally
willing to plant their feet and say, yeah, that's what
(39:37):
we got to do at this fork in the road
moment of the season, the question is whether they're good
enough to do it. That's the fascinating open ended question
I asked here. I don't have a good vibe about it.
I did pick the Lions to cover, but players always
(39:59):
have the last word. That's the beauty of it. And
all it takes is the Lions making a couple of
uncharacteristic mistakes. Viking's taking advantage of those mistakes and maybe
the QB comes in Lucy Goosey and flings the ball
around a little bit. They get a couple of big
plays and suddenly he feels like I'm back.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
And let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
If the Vikings go to Detroit and find a way
to win the game, you know, moral victories really don't
count in the NFL all that much. They find a
way to win that game, steal that game starting Monday,
people are going to feel very differently.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
About this season.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Now. They may be overreacting even to that, because you've
got to sustain it. But that's how quickly things can
change in the league. If you change the story by
planting your feet in how you play, people will look
at it differently. I'm not optimistic because I just think
Detroit's too good at this point and we just haven't
(40:57):
established enough, and I tark for me to believe we're
going to be able to establish enough.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
In this game.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
On the other hand, they go to Detroit and lose,
that may be liberating to the extent that for the
people that for the mac Bobo's out there who are
all about developing the kid, he'll be free to be
developed the rest of the season, and people will accept
the mistakes if it's leading to somewhere better, and we
just say, well, it wasn't quite the season that we
thought it was for this year, but we're going to
(41:24):
get a better idea about whether we do have a
quarterback for the future.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Question is can he be the.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Quarterback for the present, because he's got to be quarterback
for the present, as unfair as that might be to
put that heat on him to sort of change the
story today. A Vikings football Sunday is coming up next Sunday.
I should say bumper to bumper back tomorrow at three o'clock.
Liber We hope Adam Thielen, Johnny Athletic among a cast
of thousands enjoy the football and the fan. We'll talk
(41:50):
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