May 20, 2024 • 43 mins
Common Man Hour 3
--Finch
--Game 7 Recap
--JJ No-Show
--Lawn Mower Issues
--Finch
--Game 7 Recap
--JJ No-Show
--Lawn Mower Issues
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Fair So decades in the making.Your Timberwolves are Western Conference Finals bound.
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jeemy I aired, and I'm theonly major market radio talk shows in the
country who can admit when they're wrong. All the others find a way to
talk around it, because I'm allseen and all knowing. I'm not for
commons. But this one says,twins went to the Alcs in two thousand
and two, but your points stillstand. And they did go in two
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thousand and two. But he's right, the point still stands. It's been
a long as Linda Ronstad One singssaying, sung, long, long time.
Timberwolves Game one against the Mavericks Wednesday. Do we have a start time,
tannabe, I've not seen it.I've not looked that far ahead.
I just know who we play.Do we know what time that game?
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I was giving an exact time.I think it's seven or seven thirty.
We don't have the there's only twoseries going on. They're going to the
only game of the night now,so we're not gonna deal with those late
starts anymore, Let's hope not.Why don't you find this by the way,
last night, I let Leo andSamson stay up a little later than
they normally would so they catch intof the game. It's kind of nice
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to be able to make memories withtheir children instead of just putting games at
nine to forty five at week nineweeknights. It's kind of nice to they'll
they'll remember that game for maybe forever, kind of like my first sports moment
memory was being seven years old watchingthe nineteen eighty seven Twins. Can I
say this? Can I say this? What's yet to come will erase any
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memories what happened this weekend? It'sonly the beginning. Maybe Yes, Star
and Friday Night. Some of thequotes that came and these are from fish
Wrap Factory, West Side of theRiver. Chris hind is a terrific job
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covering the Wolves or Ill. Paragraphbefore the quote says in his nine years,
Towns has dealt with his share oflosing, his share of criticism that
he couldn't be a winning player,and here he was contributing in a major
way to perhaps the biggest victory infranchise history. I think it certainly is
the biggest victory in franchise history.Town says, I definitely had a moment.
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I've been here nine years, talkedabout wanting to win and do something
special here for the organization. Allof the failures and all of the things
that materialized and happened, the disappointmentthat comes with it led to this moment.
And it has been a long,cold, lonely winter, or a
long cold, lonely career series.He's had the wine, the women,
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the song, He's had the money, he's had the adulation, the All
Star appearances in Timmby. Didn't heonce win the All Star three get three
point shooting contest? I think hewon that one year, yes, but
that after a while We've talked aboutthis Tenneby. When you've when you've had
the wine, the women in thesong, when you've when you've done everything
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but win. I bet Chuck Barkleywhich would trade some of his millions for
NCAA or for an NBA Championship ring. Don't you think I mean forever?
All of these players, especially theones that are revered that are Hall of
Famers, Ring of honorpions, Jerseyretirement guys. The ones that don't have
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a World championship. I'm sure theytrade a lot of the idolization, pedestalization,
the wine, the women, thesong, and the money to get
a championship. And towns Now canprobably smell it right now. And you
know, I've been a critic ofhis. That's what we do here.
You know, it's the it's thetough love governant here, and he calls
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him as he sees them and thingscan change. That's where where people go,
what you know, what do youthink of Karl Anthony towns Now?
Didn't you talk about trading him earlier? I think most people did. Sometimes
there comes a time in all franchiseswhere guy's gotta go, did we trade
Moss or did he leave va Ifree agency? And we traded him?
Do so eventually sometimes all good thingsmust come doing it, and sometimes you
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have to trade players. Didn't wetrade Kevin Garnett? Yes to Boston?
So sometimes it just happened. Sofor anybody to say, yeah, why
don't you just admit yeah, I'msure I probably brought it up thirteen fourteen
times. I don't remember specifically whenI think earlier this year we discussed it.
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What I need to be reminded ofis and I think this is true.
I don't think Towns ever talked aboutleaving, ever, never talking about,
well, you know, maybe whenthat free agency rolls around, or
you know, maybe if they don'tget me some help, maybe I won't
be around here very long. Youknow, players have done that all over
the world, especially here in theUnited States and the four men's majors.
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They just go somewhere where the grassis greener. Happens in the NBA all
the time. Durantel is a primeexample. Couldn't win one at OKC,
right, so what he do joinedthe party over in Golden State That wasn't
too and he was instrumental. I'mnot suggesting that he didn't have a lot
to do with those championships, butsure is a lot easier to win a
championship with the team that's already wonchampionships and has the same roster. But
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Towns stuck it out here, andmaybe he never had an opportunity to leave.
I don't remember, off I canbarely remember what I have for breakfast,
yesterday. I didn't because I don'tneed breakfast. But you get what
I'm saying. But I don't everrecall him like complaining or whining or talking
about wanting to get out and talkingabout why am I not getting any help?
And so maybe he did, maybeyou know, maybe there were times,
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but if he did, my guesswould be heat of the moment.
I don't think I ever remember himlike, you know, basically saying,
look, I need out, andso he stayed here. So for him,
it's got to be very I wouldthink, very satisfying and very gratifying.
As a matter of fact, Ithink there was a might have been
and I just lost my story.Why does this happen? Hold on?
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I think there might have been aquote from Finch regarding how he felt about
about Towns. Maybe it wasn't adifferent story because there's several stories I've I've
read about the Wolves today here itis he said, no, this was
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just about the series. Anyways.There was something where he said he felt
very good for for Big Meal becauseof what he has gone through here a
lot more losing than winning and nevergetting out of the first round of the
playoffs. Despite the fact that he'sbeen and he's been a polarizing guy.
He has been right absolutely, AnthonyEdwards is still very young, so maybe
just we haven't had the time,but like he's not a very polarizing player.
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Like everyone seems to be on boardwith Anthony Edwards. Where was Carl's
had his detractors, And a lotof it is because he'll have moments where
you see close to brilliance, buthe wasn't wasn't able to ever kind of
like string those along and do itconsistently, even even the last year's playoffs.
He had good moments against the DenverNuggets last year, but not from
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game to game, and he cameup big last night. The head coach,
Chris Finch has been in the background. Literally he's been sitting in the
second row because of the knee surgeryto stay out of harm's way in case
he were you know, he wasinjured because because Conley collided with him on
the sideline during that opening series againstPhoenix. So he's still calling the shots,
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but he's sitting one rollback and what'sthe guy taking a stop? Micanory
is taking a spot. But youcan't minimize what Finch has done. According
to Anthony Edwards, no less ofan expert. Here's what Here's the paragraph
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in the quote from Aunt said theiroffense had been woeful in the first half,
in which the wolveshot thirty two percentant. Said coach Chris Finch wasn't
angry at halftime, but laid thesituation out there for the team with some
helpful video clips. Here's what Edwardssaid. He wasn't really mad today.
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It was more like, I knowwe're going to win this game. We've
just got to do this to winthe game. He wasn't really mad.
It was just like his clips onthe screen were this is what we've got
to do to win this game,and if we do it, we'll win,
and if we don't, we'll lose. And we did just that.
So Finch again. We talked aboutFinch earlier about where Edwards also had the
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quote where he says he plays nofavorites, and you have your prima donnas
in the league tend to be andthere are players that are treated differently.
I don't like to use myself asan example as an analogy. I don't
even like talking about myself. Ireally don't. Kind of embarrasses me a
little bit, but I'm going tomake an exception here. Same thing tend
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to be here. Sometimes I wonderyou know the Power Trip is treated differently
than you went on. Yes,big ticket, JG traded differently than you
and I. Paul Allen and Nordotreated differently than you and I, and
you know, we've come to acceptthat we know our role fourth of the
North, which really isn't true.But we'll play with the bit. But
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apparently Finch plays no favorites. Doesn'tmatter if you're the example I use,
whether you're Anthony Edwards, Karl AnthonyTowns, or whether you're you're Luca Garza,
you're gonna hear it when you don'tplay well. And I'm sure he's
throwing out compliments as well, buthe's not going to pull any punches.
Finch said. We said to oursales all series long, our best is
better than their best. We justhave to play our best. And it
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was and I think the bench didhave a lot to do with it.
You know, they during the seriesthen we got some contributions from their bench.
That was the one game when theirbench completely outscored the Wolves bench.
Was that game three or four?I think it might have been three.
Their bench was terrific. In ourswas let's face it, it was lousy,
and but for the most part wehad guys. Nas coming off the
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bench was superb. Na making hiscontributions. He couldn't hit a shot last
night, No, not last night, but he's had some good defensive exactions.
And so we've had players that havestepped up and play played really well
throughout the entire series, and it'sbeen good to say last night, you'd
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call it a good problem to have. But for three quarters of that game,
Karl Anthony Townsen is your best player. He gets kind of into foul
trouble. So nas Reed comes downin the fourth quarter, and nas Reed
was just absolutely brilliant during that stretch. Correct, So I'm sure Finch and
and Micah are like, what dowe do here? We have the guy
who's been our best player all game, and then you have this guy who's
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single handedly kind of I shouldn't saysingle handedly, but you know, carrying
us offensively right now is some bigplays now go bare ended up following out.
So it allowed both of them togo in together and both play.
But they're a good problem to have. But big me Ali was playing so
good and you had to send himon the bench because nav was taken over.
That's correct. I'll leave you withthis, Tim But here's the quote
from Edwards about Finch and about notplaying favorites. Paragraph says leading up to
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the quote says, but when Edwardsturned serious to give because him and Towns
are kind of having fun in thenews conference, it says, but when
Edwards turned serious to give props toFinch, and Finch's a way of coaching
everyone on the team hard, regardlessof stature or paycheck. Here's what Edwards
said, No matter who it is, no matter how high up on the
poll, he's going to get onyou from start to finish. And it
starts with the head of the snake. And he's the head of our snake.
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We all look up to him,listen to him, and he's doing
a great job of making sure we'reready to go every night. And you
know, I sometimes wonder you andI have had this discussion over the years,
how much is it the coach,how much it is the players and
a players play coaches coach, AndI'm always and still believe it's still more
of the players, because no matterwhat the coach says, they have to
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be able to coach. Can youhave the greatest speech in the world,
best inspirational win one for the Gipper'sspeech, And if the players don't perform,
it's not going to matter. Obviously, coach when he when he has
the ear and the respect of theteam, it goes a long way.
And helping the team perform to theto the expectations that that that come with
with being a playoff team and thenbeing able to to live up to them
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common He's tend to be getting allsorts of I'm getting unprecedented response to my
lawnmoar issues. Common I bought mysnowblower at Woodbury's as hardware, a hardware
to get the carburetor cleaning. Itonly costs seventy bucks. That's cheap.
Here's one. Just go online andput it in the make and model to
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buy a new carburetor, and Idon't clean them anymore, just slap a
new one on for cheap. Isaid this before and I'll say it again.
I appreciate the advice, but Tenby, I'd have a greater chance of
performing a successful heart transplant than pullinga carburetor out of the motor. I
drive him like I ain't got adime in. I'm one hundred and seventy
one hundred. I'm one hundred andsixty five pounds. It's all my right
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don't know how to do. Ijust yeah, Google, Hey, I
know. But they were like twentyfive steps. I did that. I
get that, but I looked atit and there was too many steps.
It's like, I don't new touralwalk behind five thirty four Yeah, five
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hundred and thirty four dollars. Imean, I can afford my own lawnmarer,
trust me. But here's my problem. It would be like if your
car had a flat tire, yougo buy a new car. It it
doesn't make any sense. It's likeif all that's needed is a carburetor cleanup.
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Why would I want to buy fivethirty four and a brand new now
again, I wouldn't mind having abrand new lawnmar I'll mo Commons lawn for
the low price of Tennebee's betting ticket. Double room shot there, I think
Tennaby, I don't think that's gonnahappen. You have some breaking news for
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us, This one from Adam Schefter. He tweets wide receiver Justin Jefferson,
who has been in talks with theVikings regarding a contract extension, was not
spotted at the team's training facility todayfor the start of organized team activities.
Pers team sources are OTIS mandatory.Do we know? Do we have any
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indication? My guests would be no. I know everybody wants to think,
and they've been saying this, sooh it's not there's no problem. It's
just a formality. He's gonna sign. He loves it. Maybe he will,
and I certainly hope it is.But I'm just not convinced of anything.
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In this day and age of sports, sports, sports as your whole
life, just sports, I wouldassume he's gonna sign. He's still under
contray. For one another year andthen you can slap tags on them transition
franchise. As you mentioned. Thoughyou do that, you've generally he'll demand
trade it that. Yeah, youpretty much. Well, we don't know
that one percent of my guesses hewould logically speak, yes, logically speaking,
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But I'm there, you know.I'm also not ready to say that
he would do that for sure,much much like I was not ready to
say we were done after we weredown three games to two, though I
think I did, but I don'tknow, if you know, it seems
as though he would be what thesewide receivers want to me, and tell
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me if you think this is rightor wrong. They want a god that
can get them the football, right, that's what they want. They want
to be, especially if you're areally good one. You want to be
part of the game play. Youwant to get your touches. I bet
most of these guys, I mean, they'd like to touch the ball every
play, but they want eight toten touches a game or more, right,
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And a guy like and a guylike Jefferson shouldn't get that many,
right, But if you don't havethe quarterback that can That's why he was
so Remember how how much, howmuch praise he had for Kirk Cousins.
And I don't think that was justhe was doing it because Cousins was currently
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the player on the team. Soit's better to say good things about the
current quarterback than to say bad thingsabout him. But Cousins, Cousins was
the guy that was throwing in theball when he's setting all those records.
Yea, Cousins was able to gethim the ball early often to set records.
And he's seen his share of NickMullens and jarn Hall. That is
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Josh, that is correct, seenthe dark, He's seen the other side
of this. That is correct.So I'd like to think JJ McCarthy and
Sam Darnold are an upgrading over thoseguys. But yes, that's what we
don't know that. You would thinkthough, and maybe I'm wrong, maybe
you can weigh in on this.I would think that JJ jet likes JJ
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McCarthy. I think he said theright things, but we don't know that.
So that certainly is a plus forthe Vikings. Wouldn't you think that
they got They have what they hopeis their franchise quarterback, a real successful
kit. They have a plan inplace, right, they're just not going
into it blind dark. It's not. Hey, let's play it Sam Darnold
for a year and then we don'tknow what our quarterback situation is going to
be in twenty twenty five. We'llhave to see if we can make an
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upgrade at that point. If Darnaldoesn't work out, it's right, we
have our plan. Here's our guyfor the next X amount of years.
And according to I don't remember whoit was, one of those insiders,
is that, and I think itwas a highly regarded inside. We talked
about this last week. There wasa tweet that said, and it was
collected by one of those aggregates,I think purple persuasion, but it basically
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said, the Vikings have a stepby step plan in place. Have JJ
McCarthy start week one. If hereaches benchmarks he could reach week one.
Remember one of the detractors on onon a text bus I said, you
don't pay Sam Darnold ten dollars orten million dollars to ride the pint.
Yes you do if JJ McCarthy,that's what backup money is. And if
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if if JJ McCarthy, now let'ssay he does struggle during otis mini camps,
training camp. He'll get some preseason action, I'm sure. And
let's say he does struggle and he'smaybe in the film room he's having a
little I don't think he will.But let's say he's that s true,
Well, sure, then they're gonnago, Okay, we're gonna go with
Sammy Darnald. Let him watch fora while. But if they feel like
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he's ready, willing and able andraring to go, my guess is he
starts week one and I wouldn't mindseeing that. I really wouldn't. I
think you're right Tennaby that I thinkyou said this. Viking fans might want
to feel like, hey, thisis the year. No, this is
the division stacked up the way itis with Detroit coming out of an NFC
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Championship Game appearance, green Bay seemsto be on the rise again. The
Bears have a lot of good thingsgoing in their favor. This is you
can say competitive rebuild, but it'syou're still putting things together for the next
couple of years, more so thanthis year. I would think. So
if they could get him some goodquality time this year, play some uh,
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get his feet wet. The ideaof You know, there's there's that
talkaboy, you don't want to playa guy in a band situation because it
might it might discourage him and crushhis spirit. If that's gonna crush his
spirit, then he's probably not yourquarterback anyway. Yeah, you just tell
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him too, You tell him,kid, don't worry about You're gonna take
your lumps. If you throw somepicks, we don't care. It's growing
pains. We'd rather you do thatnow in week one or year one,
maybe a little bit year or two, as we continue to refurbish and renovate
the roster and add players to itso that in three years we think we've
filled some of the key pieces ondefense and it continue to build the offense.
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You've got a couple of years onyour belt and we're ready to play.
I think it's way better if youcan to start them right away,
unless you see some magic in Darnoldwhere all of a sudden the quarterback whisper
at us, go his kid's gotit, man, he's really good.
He just didn't get an opportunity.And then ten Toby, as you'd like
to say, that's a what agood problem to have. We'll take a
break, come back one more segmentago Common Man program on the fan.
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I'm over here in the training roomlaying on the line, tend to be
I'm arping my shoulder. I gotI got a tea time later today.
I have a tendon that's kind ofout of place. It's sort of like
that tendon is sort of like achain in a sprocket of a bike.
And you know what happens when thatchain comes off the sprocket Step one,
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that's the signal. That's step oneof my My treatment with the is completed.
So it's like that chain has comeoff the sprocket and I got to
put it back on there, andit takes a number of treatments. You
know, we talked about a littlebit about the twins, and you know
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they've had those odds stretches. Startedout the season, they were just dreadful,
one of the worst teams in theAmerican League. They had I think
the second worst team batting average inall of baseball for the first one right
through April, I think, andmaybe even a part of early May.
Team then got a break in theschedule, White Sox for four, Angels
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for three White Sox for three sweptthose two series, and then I threw
out a challenge to the local line. I doubted them, and now they're
here. I said, Oh,sure, you can beat up on the
Chai Socks and the Angels, theOswalds, the Patsy's of the American lab,
But why don't you see what youcan do against Oh, let's say
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a second place team with a winningrecord like the Boston Red Sox. Let's
see how you can do against thefirst place team like the Seattle Mariners.
And maybe I think Toronto was insecond or third but also had a very
nice winning record. See what youcan do against those clubs and get back
to me. Well they did,and they got back to me. Two
or three from the Socks, threeor four from the Mariners, then two
or three from Toronto. But thenthey lost three in a row to the
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Yankees, now three in a rowto the Guardians. They're our rival here
in the division. And we talkedabout it. Six in a row,
nine runs in those six losses,four in the ninth INNY on Saturday.
Now, I'm not suggesting take thoseaway, but they were like, you
know, you have garbage point timesin basketball or football guy will pad his
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stats as a quarterback because it's comefrom behind. The Twins were down eleven
in the ninth inning when they scoredfour runs. So they scored them,
but they came out at a timenot meaningful. That's exactly right. Paddock
was good yesterday. He gave upa two run homer in the first.
He retired twenty four to the nexttwenty five and one eight innings. And
now they've gone oh to five againstCleveland this year and tray a trail of
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the Guardians by guess what, fivegames. So those five losses have created
that that five game spread between thetwo clubs. And while we're certainly not
I'm not suggesting that well all islost. You know, let's start bringing
up young guys from Saint Paul andsee what they can do it. Something
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just doesn't feel right, and Idon't know if Royce Lewis can cure everything.
First of all, he's got toalso figure out a way to stay
healthy when he plays, because he'sbeen sort of bust in like, not
as often and he hasn't been upfor as long a time. But he
can't stay healthy either. But ifhe can provide the kind of offensive punch
that's possible in Korea. You know, it's I'm not suggesting the Twins can't
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win the division. I just thinkwhen I look at the Yankees, is
and some of the other clubs aroundthe league, some of the teams are
that are going to qualify for postseasonplay. I wouldn't say at this point
in time, things can change,but our chances are really that good.
Well, part of it is thedivision is better than we anticipated, right,
I mean, you used to callthe division the Oswalds yep. And
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there's still plenty of time left inthe season for them to revert to that.
But Cleveland's been terrific. Kansas Cityand Detroit have both been respectable.
We're used to having you know,two maybe three teams in the division they
just absolutely have no chance or someof the worst teams in the entire American
League. We still have that inthe White Sox. But it's a combination
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of the Twins are i but notgreat, and now they've got fiercter competition
within the within the division, whichlessons your margin for air. And then
when you go in six against Cleveland, which is now the that's the difference
in the standings. You're down fiveand a half in the standings and one
six against the team you're chasing.So you know, I don't know if
the al Central competition is gonna rollover like they have in the past,
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at least from two thirds of maniathey have not yet. Thanks for that.
You got me through my second stage. You could see that too,
can You could see me just staringat me. I was trying to,
yeah, stretch it out for you. Well, here's what people. I
have to tell people this all thetime. It's hard when I can't watch
the Twins anymore, and then youwant me to talk about the Twins for
like a minute straight. Oh that'strue. Here, here's what I tell
people, though, tend to belike the trick to talk radio is I
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could tell the story about my lawnmarnot starting and having to have it repaired
and can't find anybody in a twoweek turn around as quickly as I just
did there. But if the segment'snine minutes, that's twenty seconds. Now
I still have eight minutes and fortyseconds to kill. So I think you
know that as well. So thenyou start adding colorful language, not four
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letter words. But and then youstart to just stretch it out a bit
and adds some more detail than younormally would, because that's the only way
you're going to get to the endof the segment. If you just you
know, rat a lot off rightaway and talking a really fast, then
you're gonna go that story's over.And that took thirty seconds, and I've
got eight thirty yet to kill.So you need to try to talk a
little more slowly and pause in theright places and add the right inflections when
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you need to add them. It'sa trick of the trade, and it
can take a few years to doit. I have timby I might be
changing my mind a little bit speakingof the lawnmower thing getting a lot of
response unprecedented as a matter of fact. At the branch on Bryan Kavan text
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of the motar. Replacing one isrelatively easy and requires less knowledge than cleaning
one. Ty Maybe what I shoulddo is accept the challenge of maybe any
of the text messengers messagers is goahead and do what you said, go
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to YouTube and say, how doyou replace a carburetor on a I think
I got a Honda on a Hondawalk behind more and somebody will have put
it together. Matter of fact,I did it before when I had a
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Nissan a Step, a Nissan Ultima. And you know when you have the
electronics start where you push the button, Well, if that ever goes out,
how do you get into your car? Because this car just had the
push button to open or close it. Well, there's a you can pull
on the key fob, a keyand then put it into a but you
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had to find out where that was. I couldn't find out where the key
slot was, and I went toYouTube and said, it could be kind
of tricky, but here's where youfind what you do? Where the door
handle pulls out, you twist theone short and then all of a sudden
you pull and then it exposes whereyou put it in. But I wouldn't
have known that ahead of time.So maybe I maybe I could replace a
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carburetor. I'm not. I mean, the one thing I do know about
tools going to be this. Thisis the one thing I do know,
righty tidy, Lefty, Lucy,have you heard that I got that part
figured out, So what do youdo? Do you think I should you
need to talk for about a minute. Do you think I should rise to
the occasion and try to do itmyself? Knowing you, I will say,
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if the carburettor is as easy toreplace as everyone's saying it is,
then should it not be easier easyfor the guy who you're paying to pay
for it right when you go totake it in for service. They should
be able to put that thing input the thing out in ten minutes.
And it shouldn't cost a whole lot, right because it's so easy to replace.
So from a price standpoint, itshouldn't be dreds and hundreds of dollars,
and not just that, it shouldn'thave two weeks. When I told
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him, I said, look,I need to get it back right away.
My lawn is going to be higherthan the roof of my house.
Couldn't you have said, all right, bring it over on, get her
done right away, because if itonly takes a couple of minutes, I
could have paid him. And ifhe would have said, that's the scam
of they want to make it seemlike it takes him a long time to
put it together, and that they'reso super busy, so then it costs
more to keep it there. Maybethat's exactly that's all scam because like if
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if he would have heard me whenyou hear Rockford Files. By the way,
people are saying, so, didyou watch the Rockford Files? You
know after you know, did youturn for On Sunday's Rockford File starts at
nine and there's only one episode onSundays. Weekday's Monday through Friday, Rockford
Files has two back to back episodesseven o'clock and eight o'clock on Sunday,
Saturdays and Sundays. There's only oneat nine o'clock. I did not watch
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The Rockford Files last night. Ohthat's a big moment. But something that
happens through almost all episodes of TheRockford Files. He'll go in to get
some information from a bartender, andthe guy would the old Yeah, you'll
show him a picture. I've neverseen the guy before, and then Jimmy
pulls out a five dollar bill.You know, it looks a little bit
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familiar. I think I've seen himbefore. He comes here every once in
a while. What's his name?Well, you know, I got kind
of a bad memory. When itcomes to that, I'm really bad with
names, And all of a suddenhe gives him another five tys. So
let's say, lawnmower guy says twoweeks, and I say, well,
what's it going to cost to repairthe car? Bret, God, It's
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gonna cost you one hundred and twentyfive ninety nine. I go one fifty.
Push that timeline up for two weeksa little bit. Oh you know,
I can maybe get it back toyou in a week. How about
one seventy five? Bring it overright now, and all have done in
ten minutes. Right, Maybe Ishould have get to the point where it
just would make more sense to buya new lawnmar get up to that price.
That's the point. That's the point. I mean as well, just
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buy. I'm with the market forlawnmowers as well. By the way,
I have two help I have twolawnmoarers. Now this is the I think
I've told the story before. Thisis the third lawnmower I've gone through my
own mind. The one before thisstarted on fire. All I know is
blue flames were coming out of theout of the motor, and I said,
this one's probably done. When yousee the blue flames. It was
over. I inherited one from mylate father in law. That one was
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still running. But I'm I'm kindof hard on my on my equipment.
The wheel broke off the axle onone of them. So I suppose I
could fire that one up and ifI could just kind of hold it up
a little bit. As someone who'shad the lawnmower hit your toe before,
I would recommend that. Yeah.Well, and you know that's that's another
reason why I didn't ask you ifI could hire you, because I don't
need I don't need you bleeding allover my lawn and having to call the
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emergency room. You don't need alot more advice for me. No,
certainly do help for me. No, I certainly don't. But so we'll
see how it goes. I youknow, maybe here's what I'll do.
As long as I've got the neighborkid hired for the time being to do
my lawn, maybe I'll maybe I'llgo to YouTube and open it up and
maybe give it a shot. Maybedo it for digital the very less.
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Could you video your videotape yourself watchingon YouTube and trying to put it together
and that's content. That's not abad idea, I might have to It's
no Max screaming down the hallway withhis shirt off saying hoodie who after a
big win by the Wolves. Butthat one viral, didn't it? Oh,
that was very viral last night.I mean, well over one hundred
How many is that I from?When I was told it was well over
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one hundred thousand? Wow? Isup that much? That's what I thought
I saw. That's what I wastold over one hundred thousand views. So
you talk about a hoodie Who,Parker and fox Man. What a That's
a good combination there. You know, it's funny too. How you know
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a guy like Max is really justgetting started in his career saying with Fox.
If you know, Fox will probablybe done with basketball. I mean,
I'm assuming as often as he's appearedon the radio station, maybe that's
what he wants to do in thefuture. Two guys who are like their
son is just starting to rise upin the East, and then you got
the Rosens and the Commons, andour our son is starting to set in
the West. It's almost over forus. And then you got mine that's
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always been up there, but it'sjust been cloudy. You never it's always
been cloudy, and then you sufferthrough an eclipse off in two where you
just don't see it at all.I'm on Max's Twitter account right now,
one hundred and thirty thousand views.Think about it. He's the future,
tend to me, and it's verygood. He's very very good. Yeah,
so we'll see they are. Iguess that they're planning to broadcast post
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game from the cage again, right, yeah, I would think there's pregame
post game for the next well,who knows if it'll be seven games.
Oh how about this, I'll cutyour grass in exchange for a pair of
tennis, smelly used golf shoes andmaybe a tarp shooter. Huh, here's
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one. Just be careful of RubeDan's offer to mow your lawn for free.
They always give you the first tastefor free. Then eventually they have
you hooked. Before you know it, you'll be paying five hundred dollars just
for weed whacking. They used todo that back in my Hate Ashbury days.
STI I always love that one.You like that, Try a little
of this. This is acaboe gowow, man, that's the more pricey.
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They give you that free sample.Tend to be to get you hooked,
is what they do. PJ.Thomas once said, hooked on a
feeling. So maybe he's right.Maybe maybe I shouldn't take him up on
his offer. But you know me, free, free, free, and
I'll take three if that's the case. So I don't know if we'll that'll
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work or not. Here's dude,just get an ego lawnmower. Get rid
of the gas. I have anelectric lawnmower. I tried to charge.
I think it's been sitting too long. I have a battery power one,
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but that's mine. Does what Imean battery power? Yeah, and it
cuts out all the time. Ihave to restart it, like literally,
like forty times mowing the lawn.That drives me crazy. My mother,
God bless her, my late mother. She had a really tiny yarn,
so she bought an electric more.She just thought it was better than happening
to deal with gas and all that, right, and so it worked.
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And then when she passed away,I inherited it and I used it a
couple of times. You know,I just something about it doesn't seem to
work quite as well. It's electric. Maybe I was imagining things. Maybe
I didn't have it, Maybe i'dhave the settings on the wheels quite right,
but it just didn't seem like it. So it's been sitting in my
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garage forever. So when I whenI couldn't get my more, I got
it started yesterday. I just couldn'tget it continue to run. And that
what led me to the carburetor issue. I plugged it in, red light
popped on, and then a littlebit later the green light came on.
I thought it was charged and saysjust lift the handle to start, and
I lived to the handle and itwould not start. So I think that
battery after I will put it thisway. I inherit it in twenty twelve
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and I haven't used it probably inseven or eight years. Yeah, so
that's just fried. There's nothing lefton that right. But then why would
it tell me it's charged. Whywould it say it was red and then
green? So it's it's it's wouldburyproblems. I get it, but i'll
get it tom So I don't knowif I want to do the other Here's
one that dope Tenneby like get anelectric lawnmar I got one and it's awesome.
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Maybe it depends on the electric lawnmore. You know, I'm sure
I probably went the cheaper out common. If you buy a new carburetor,
I'll pull it in for free.Now we're talking, he'll put it in
for free or five by one?Can I get someone to buy one for
me? If I can find somebodyto put it in for free, so
then I would have it. I'dhave both ends taken care of. Somebody
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would buy me my carburetor, andthen somebody would put it in for free.
Ten to be here. This isa sign of relief for me.
Jefferson skipped ODAS in twenty twenty three. Why is it necessary to try to
get fans scared? Well, Iwasn't trying to get him scared. Is
just reporting the news? Just reportingthe news. I didn't know. I
didn't remember that he didn't report lastyear. Well, he didn't report because
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he had contract issues. That's theother thing is like, I'm sure eventually
justin Jefferson's going to sign a contracthere and everything's going to be great.
But this isn't year one of contractnegotiations. This is not your two now,
this is true, and I aimto me there's more of a deadline
this year than there was last year? Common Why aren't your kids mowing the
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lawn? It's not. It hasnothing to do with the kids right now
at this point, it's more ofI don't have a lawn more that works.
My boys always volunteer. I mean, they don't do it like like
hey dad, let me do thiskind of like I guess I could what
age? Oh the lawn? Whatage? Can you let your child know
the lawn? Because for you,they literally asked about it. Yeah,
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that's how they kind of asked.Is there not a lot of enthusiasm when
the ask it's almost like they're doingI don't know how old is Leo?
He's nine. I think that seemstoo young for me. I wouldn't but
he said he wanted to do itthe other day. Now my first chore
he's ever offered to do. Sonow I'd let him drive the car at
nine. That's okay too, justto go to the corner store. I
don't want him on a freeways atnine years old. But nine years old,
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he can drive a car. Oh. I have a picture of baby
brother Peter. I took up himjust to get him to take out the
garbage. His shoulders are slumped,and he's going out the front door looking
like basically like he's like, Ilike, he's been sentenced to a life
prison term I always love to do. I know, but I think he
was milking it is actually what hewas doing. He knew that he wanted.
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He knows the reaction I wanted fromhim, so he gave me the
reaction he wanted to. Like,Oh, you gotta be kidding me anyway,
here's one I think your electric lawnmore wants to work for you after
being blatant. No, do youthink your electrical lama wants to work?
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If you have to be blatantly disregardedfor years and years? It would work
just fine if you weren't so meanto it. I guess that's probably true.
I have ignored it for all theseyears, and then finally this one
tend to me. As we getready to wrap it up and turn it
over to Big Kick and jag GoWolves would tend to be trade his ticket
for an old use carburetor. Idon't think that's going to happen. Your
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ticket has been getting a lot ofoffers. Again, I offered you a
really nice deal today, My teatime later today at Prestwick, an autograph
book, a slightly used tarp shooter, and my firstborn child for my second
wife. My second wife hasn't beenborn yet, so you'mull that over.
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That offer stands until the opening tap. Tend to be on Wednesday, a
game you'll hear on this radio station, and remember generally I take Memorial Day
Monday off, Wolves play game twoSunday night. I'll be here Monday,
joy Cap and other Bulls. Victorysounds like a clogged fuel filter. A
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pair of players in three minutes.Now, I don't know what to do.
Tenny, thanks for having me youas well, and great job on
the It's on the montage. We'reback tomorrow at twelve noon Rolls and will
join us at two Big Ticket JJare next. Enjoy the rest of today,
good night, and good night missusCalabash. Where have you listen?
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jeemy I aired, and I'm theonly major market radio talk shows in the
country who can admit when they're wrong. All the others find a way to
talk around it, because I'm allseen and all knowing. I'm not for
commons. But this one says,twins went to the Alcs in two thousand
and two, but your points stillstand. And they did go in two
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thousand and two. But he's right, the point still stands. It's been
a long as Linda Ronstad One singssaying, sung, long, long time.
Timberwolves Game one against the Mavericks Wednesday. Do we have a start time,
tannabe, I've not seen it.I've not looked that far ahead.
I just know who we play.Do we know what time that game?
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I was giving an exact time.I think it's seven or seven thirty.
We don't have the there's only twoseries going on. They're going to the
only game of the night now,so we're not gonna deal with those late
starts anymore, Let's hope not.Why don't you find this by the way,
last night, I let Leo andSamson stay up a little later than
they normally would so they catch intof the game. It's kind of nice
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to be able to make memories withtheir children instead of just putting games at
nine to forty five at week nineweeknights. It's kind of nice to they'll
they'll remember that game for maybe forever, kind of like my first sports moment
memory was being seven years old watchingthe nineteen eighty seven Twins. Can I
say this? Can I say this? What's yet to come will erase any
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memories what happened this weekend? It'sonly the beginning. Maybe Yes, Star
and Friday Night. Some of thequotes that came and these are from fish
Wrap Factory, West Side of theRiver. Chris hind is a terrific job
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covering the Wolves or Ill. Paragraphbefore the quote says in his nine years,
Towns has dealt with his share oflosing, his share of criticism that
he couldn't be a winning player,and here he was contributing in a major
way to perhaps the biggest victory infranchise history. I think it certainly is
the biggest victory in franchise history.Town says, I definitely had a moment.
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I've been here nine years, talkedabout wanting to win and do something
special here for the organization. Allof the failures and all of the things
that materialized and happened, the disappointmentthat comes with it led to this moment.
And it has been a long,cold, lonely winter, or a
long cold, lonely career series.He's had the wine, the women,
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the song, He's had the money, he's had the adulation, the All
Star appearances in Timmby. Didn't heonce win the All Star three get three
point shooting contest? I think hewon that one year, yes, but
that after a while We've talked aboutthis Tenneby. When you've when you've had
the wine, the women in thesong, when you've when you've done everything
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but win. I bet Chuck Barkleywhich would trade some of his millions for
NCAA or for an NBA Championship ring. Don't you think I mean forever?
All of these players, especially theones that are revered that are Hall of
Famers, Ring of honorpions, Jerseyretirement guys. The ones that don't have
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a World championship. I'm sure theytrade a lot of the idolization, pedestalization,
the wine, the women, thesong, and the money to get
a championship. And towns Now canprobably smell it right now. And you
know, I've been a critic ofhis. That's what we do here.
You know, it's the it's thetough love governant here, and he calls
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him as he sees them and thingscan change. That's where where people go,
what you know, what do youthink of Karl Anthony towns Now?
Didn't you talk about trading him earlier? I think most people did. Sometimes
there comes a time in all franchiseswhere guy's gotta go, did we trade
Moss or did he leave va Ifree agency? And we traded him?
Do so eventually sometimes all good thingsmust come doing it, and sometimes you
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have to trade players. Didn't wetrade Kevin Garnett? Yes to Boston?
So sometimes it just happened. Sofor anybody to say, yeah, why
don't you just admit yeah, I'msure I probably brought it up thirteen fourteen
times. I don't remember specifically whenI think earlier this year we discussed it.
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What I need to be reminded ofis and I think this is true.
I don't think Towns ever talked aboutleaving, ever, never talking about,
well, you know, maybe whenthat free agency rolls around, or
you know, maybe if they don'tget me some help, maybe I won't
be around here very long. Youknow, players have done that all over
the world, especially here in theUnited States and the four men's majors.
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They just go somewhere where the grassis greener. Happens in the NBA all
the time. Durantel is a primeexample. Couldn't win one at OKC,
right, so what he do joinedthe party over in Golden State That wasn't
too and he was instrumental. I'mnot suggesting that he didn't have a lot
to do with those championships, butsure is a lot easier to win a
championship with the team that's already wonchampionships and has the same roster. But
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Towns stuck it out here, andmaybe he never had an opportunity to leave.
I don't remember, off I canbarely remember what I have for breakfast,
yesterday. I didn't because I don'tneed breakfast. But you get what
I'm saying. But I don't everrecall him like complaining or whining or talking
about wanting to get out and talkingabout why am I not getting any help?
And so maybe he did, maybeyou know, maybe there were times,
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but if he did, my guesswould be heat of the moment.
I don't think I ever remember himlike, you know, basically saying,
look, I need out, andso he stayed here. So for him,
it's got to be very I wouldthink, very satisfying and very gratifying.
As a matter of fact, Ithink there was a might have been
and I just lost my story.Why does this happen? Hold on?
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I think there might have been aquote from Finch regarding how he felt about
about Towns. Maybe it wasn't adifferent story because there's several stories I've I've
read about the Wolves today here itis he said, no, this was
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just about the series. Anyways.There was something where he said he felt
very good for for Big Meal becauseof what he has gone through here a
lot more losing than winning and nevergetting out of the first round of the
playoffs. Despite the fact that he'sbeen and he's been a polarizing guy.
He has been right absolutely, AnthonyEdwards is still very young, so maybe
just we haven't had the time,but like he's not a very polarizing player.
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Like everyone seems to be on boardwith Anthony Edwards. Where was Carl's
had his detractors, And a lotof it is because he'll have moments where
you see close to brilliance, buthe wasn't wasn't able to ever kind of
like string those along and do itconsistently, even even the last year's playoffs.
He had good moments against the DenverNuggets last year, but not from
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game to game, and he cameup big last night. The head coach,
Chris Finch has been in the background. Literally he's been sitting in the
second row because of the knee surgeryto stay out of harm's way in case
he were you know, he wasinjured because because Conley collided with him on
the sideline during that opening series againstPhoenix. So he's still calling the shots,
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but he's sitting one rollback and what'sthe guy taking a stop? Micanory
is taking a spot. But youcan't minimize what Finch has done. According
to Anthony Edwards, no less ofan expert. Here's what Here's the paragraph
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in the quote from Aunt said theiroffense had been woeful in the first half,
in which the wolveshot thirty two percentant. Said coach Chris Finch wasn't
angry at halftime, but laid thesituation out there for the team with some
helpful video clips. Here's what Edwardssaid. He wasn't really mad today.
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It was more like, I knowwe're going to win this game. We've
just got to do this to winthe game. He wasn't really mad.
It was just like his clips onthe screen were this is what we've got
to do to win this game,and if we do it, we'll win,
and if we don't, we'll lose. And we did just that.
So Finch again. We talked aboutFinch earlier about where Edwards also had the
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quote where he says he plays nofavorites, and you have your prima donnas
in the league tend to be andthere are players that are treated differently.
I don't like to use myself asan example as an analogy. I don't
even like talking about myself. Ireally don't. Kind of embarrasses me a
little bit, but I'm going tomake an exception here. Same thing tend
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to be here. Sometimes I wonderyou know the Power Trip is treated differently
than you went on. Yes,big ticket, JG traded differently than you
and I. Paul Allen and Nordotreated differently than you and I, and
you know, we've come to acceptthat we know our role fourth of the
North, which really isn't true.But we'll play with the bit. But
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apparently Finch plays no favorites. Doesn'tmatter if you're the example I use,
whether you're Anthony Edwards, Karl AnthonyTowns, or whether you're you're Luca Garza,
you're gonna hear it when you don'tplay well. And I'm sure he's
throwing out compliments as well, buthe's not going to pull any punches.
Finch said. We said to oursales all series long, our best is
better than their best. We justhave to play our best. And it
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was and I think the bench didhave a lot to do with it.
You know, they during the seriesthen we got some contributions from their bench.
That was the one game when theirbench completely outscored the Wolves bench.
Was that game three or four?I think it might have been three.
Their bench was terrific. In ourswas let's face it, it was lousy,
and but for the most part wehad guys. Nas coming off the
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bench was superb. Na making hiscontributions. He couldn't hit a shot last
night, No, not last night, but he's had some good defensive exactions.
And so we've had players that havestepped up and play played really well
throughout the entire series, and it'sbeen good to say last night, you'd
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call it a good problem to have. But for three quarters of that game,
Karl Anthony Townsen is your best player. He gets kind of into foul
trouble. So nas Reed comes downin the fourth quarter, and nas Reed
was just absolutely brilliant during that stretch. Correct, So I'm sure Finch and
and Micah are like, what dowe do here? We have the guy
who's been our best player all game, and then you have this guy who's
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single handedly kind of I shouldn't saysingle handedly, but you know, carrying
us offensively right now is some bigplays now go bare ended up following out.
So it allowed both of them togo in together and both play.
But they're a good problem to have. But big me Ali was playing so
good and you had to send himon the bench because nav was taken over.
That's correct. I'll leave you withthis, Tim But here's the quote
from Edwards about Finch and about notplaying favorites. Paragraph says leading up to
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the quote says, but when Edwardsturned serious to give because him and Towns
are kind of having fun in thenews conference, it says, but when
Edwards turned serious to give props toFinch, and Finch's a way of coaching
everyone on the team hard, regardlessof stature or paycheck. Here's what Edwards
said, No matter who it is, no matter how high up on the
poll, he's going to get onyou from start to finish. And it
starts with the head of the snake. And he's the head of our snake.
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We all look up to him,listen to him, and he's doing
a great job of making sure we'reready to go every night. And you
know, I sometimes wonder you andI have had this discussion over the years,
how much is it the coach,how much it is the players and
a players play coaches coach, AndI'm always and still believe it's still more
of the players, because no matterwhat the coach says, they have to
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be able to coach. Can youhave the greatest speech in the world,
best inspirational win one for the Gipper'sspeech, And if the players don't perform,
it's not going to matter. Obviously, coach when he when he has
the ear and the respect of theteam, it goes a long way.
And helping the team perform to theto the expectations that that that come with
with being a playoff team and thenbeing able to to live up to them
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common He's tend to be getting allsorts of I'm getting unprecedented response to my
lawnmoar issues. Common I bought mysnowblower at Woodbury's as hardware, a hardware
to get the carburetor cleaning. Itonly costs seventy bucks. That's cheap.
Here's one. Just go online andput it in the make and model to
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buy a new carburetor, and Idon't clean them anymore, just slap a
new one on for cheap. Isaid this before and I'll say it again.
I appreciate the advice, but Tenby, I'd have a greater chance of
performing a successful heart transplant than pullinga carburetor out of the motor. I
drive him like I ain't got adime in. I'm one hundred and seventy
one hundred. I'm one hundred andsixty five pounds. It's all my right
(14:58):
foot. But I could not Whatif you tried YouTube? Basically everything I
don't know how to do. Ijust yeah, Google, Hey, I
know. But they were like twentyfive steps. I did that. I
get that, but I looked atit and there was too many steps.
It's like, I don't new touralwalk behind five thirty four Yeah, five
(15:22):
hundred and thirty four dollars. Imean, I can afford my own lawnmarer,
trust me. But here's my problem. It would be like if your
car had a flat tire, yougo buy a new car. It it
doesn't make any sense. It's likeif all that's needed is a carburetor cleanup.
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Why would I want to buy fivethirty four and a brand new now
again, I wouldn't mind having abrand new lawnmar I'll mo Commons lawn for
the low price of Tennebee's betting ticket. Double room shot there, I think
Tennaby, I don't think that's gonnahappen. You have some breaking news for
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us, This one from Adam Schefter. He tweets wide receiver Justin Jefferson,
who has been in talks with theVikings regarding a contract extension, was not
spotted at the team's training facility todayfor the start of organized team activities.
Pers team sources are OTIS mandatory.Do we know? Do we have any
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indication? My guests would be no. I know everybody wants to think,
and they've been saying this, sooh it's not there's no problem. It's
just a formality. He's gonna sign. He loves it. Maybe he will,
and I certainly hope it is.But I'm just not convinced of anything.
(16:52):
In this day and age of sports, sports, sports as your whole
life, just sports, I wouldassume he's gonna sign. He's still under
contray. For one another year andthen you can slap tags on them transition
franchise. As you mentioned. Thoughyou do that, you've generally he'll demand
trade it that. Yeah, youpretty much. Well, we don't know
that one percent of my guesses hewould logically speak, yes, logically speaking,
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But I'm there, you know.I'm also not ready to say that
he would do that for sure,much much like I was not ready to
say we were done after we weredown three games to two, though I
think I did, but I don'tknow, if you know, it seems
as though he would be what thesewide receivers want to me, and tell
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me if you think this is rightor wrong. They want a god that
can get them the football, right, that's what they want. They want
to be, especially if you're areally good one. You want to be
part of the game play. Youwant to get your touches. I bet
most of these guys, I mean, they'd like to touch the ball every
play, but they want eight toten touches a game or more, right,
(18:00):
And a guy like and a guylike Jefferson shouldn't get that many,
right, But if you don't havethe quarterback that can That's why he was
so Remember how how much, howmuch praise he had for Kirk Cousins.
And I don't think that was justhe was doing it because Cousins was currently
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the player on the team. Soit's better to say good things about the
current quarterback than to say bad thingsabout him. But Cousins, Cousins was
the guy that was throwing in theball when he's setting all those records.
Yea, Cousins was able to gethim the ball early often to set records.
And he's seen his share of NickMullens and jarn Hall. That is
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Josh, that is correct, seenthe dark, He's seen the other side
of this. That is correct.So I'd like to think JJ McCarthy and
Sam Darnold are an upgrading over thoseguys. But yes, that's what we
don't know that. You would thinkthough, and maybe I'm wrong, maybe
you can weigh in on this.I would think that JJ jet likes JJ
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McCarthy. I think he said theright things, but we don't know that.
So that certainly is a plus forthe Vikings. Wouldn't you think that
they got They have what they hopeis their franchise quarterback, a real successful
kit. They have a plan inplace, right, they're just not going
into it blind dark. It's not. Hey, let's play it Sam Darnold
for a year and then we don'tknow what our quarterback situation is going to
be in twenty twenty five. We'llhave to see if we can make an
(19:33):
upgrade at that point. If Darnaldoesn't work out, it's right, we
have our plan. Here's our guyfor the next X amount of years.
And according to I don't remember whoit was, one of those insiders,
is that, and I think itwas a highly regarded inside. We talked
about this last week. There wasa tweet that said, and it was
collected by one of those aggregates,I think purple persuasion, but it basically
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said, the Vikings have a stepby step plan in place. Have JJ
McCarthy start week one. If hereaches benchmarks he could reach week one.
Remember one of the detractors on onon a text bus I said, you
don't pay Sam Darnold ten dollars orten million dollars to ride the pint.
Yes you do if JJ McCarthy,that's what backup money is. And if
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if if JJ McCarthy, now let'ssay he does struggle during otis mini camps,
training camp. He'll get some preseason action, I'm sure. And
let's say he does struggle and he'smaybe in the film room he's having a
little I don't think he will.But let's say he's that s true,
Well, sure, then they're gonnago, Okay, we're gonna go with
Sammy Darnald. Let him watch fora while. But if they feel like
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he's ready, willing and able andraring to go, my guess is he
starts week one and I wouldn't mindseeing that. I really wouldn't. I
think you're right Tennaby that I thinkyou said this. Viking fans might want
to feel like, hey, thisis the year. No, this is
the division stacked up the way itis with Detroit coming out of an NFC
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Championship Game appearance, green Bay seemsto be on the rise again. The
Bears have a lot of good thingsgoing in their favor. This is you
can say competitive rebuild, but it'syou're still putting things together for the next
couple of years, more so thanthis year. I would think. So
if they could get him some goodquality time this year, play some uh,
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get his feet wet. The ideaof You know, there's there's that
talkaboy, you don't want to playa guy in a band situation because it
might it might discourage him and crushhis spirit. If that's gonna crush his
spirit, then he's probably not yourquarterback anyway. Yeah, you just tell
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him too, You tell him,kid, don't worry about You're gonna take
your lumps. If you throw somepicks, we don't care. It's growing
pains. We'd rather you do thatnow in week one or year one,
maybe a little bit year or two, as we continue to refurbish and renovate
the roster and add players to itso that in three years we think we've
filled some of the key pieces ondefense and it continue to build the offense.
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You've got a couple of years onyour belt and we're ready to play.
I think it's way better if youcan to start them right away,
unless you see some magic in Darnoldwhere all of a sudden the quarterback whisper
at us, go his kid's gotit, man, he's really good.
He just didn't get an opportunity.And then ten Toby, as you'd like
to say, that's a what agood problem to have. We'll take a
break, come back one more segmentago Common Man program on the fan.
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I'm over here in the training roomlaying on the line, tend to be
I'm arping my shoulder. I gotI got a tea time later today.
I have a tendon that's kind ofout of place. It's sort of like
that tendon is sort of like achain in a sprocket of a bike.
And you know what happens when thatchain comes off the sprocket Step one,
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that's the signal. That's step oneof my My treatment with the is completed.
So it's like that chain has comeoff the sprocket and I got to
put it back on there, andit takes a number of treatments. You
know, we talked about a littlebit about the twins, and you know
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they've had those odds stretches. Startedout the season, they were just dreadful,
one of the worst teams in theAmerican League. They had I think
the second worst team batting average inall of baseball for the first one right
through April, I think, andmaybe even a part of early May.
Team then got a break in theschedule, White Sox for four, Angels
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for three White Sox for three sweptthose two series, and then I threw
out a challenge to the local line. I doubted them, and now they're
here. I said, Oh,sure, you can beat up on the
Chai Socks and the Angels, theOswalds, the Patsy's of the American lab,
But why don't you see what youcan do against Oh, let's say
(25:00):
a second place team with a winningrecord like the Boston Red Sox. Let's
see how you can do against thefirst place team like the Seattle Mariners.
And maybe I think Toronto was insecond or third but also had a very
nice winning record. See what youcan do against those clubs and get back
to me. Well they did,and they got back to me. Two
or three from the Socks, threeor four from the Mariners, then two
or three from Toronto. But thenthey lost three in a row to the
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Yankees, now three in a rowto the Guardians. They're our rival here
in the division. And we talkedabout it. Six in a row,
nine runs in those six losses,four in the ninth INNY on Saturday.
Now, I'm not suggesting take thoseaway, but they were like, you
know, you have garbage point timesin basketball or football guy will pad his
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stats as a quarterback because it's comefrom behind. The Twins were down eleven
in the ninth inning when they scoredfour runs. So they scored them,
but they came out at a timenot meaningful. That's exactly right. Paddock
was good yesterday. He gave upa two run homer in the first.
He retired twenty four to the nexttwenty five and one eight innings. And
now they've gone oh to five againstCleveland this year and tray a trail of
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the Guardians by guess what, fivegames. So those five losses have created
that that five game spread between thetwo clubs. And while we're certainly not
I'm not suggesting that well all islost. You know, let's start bringing
up young guys from Saint Paul andsee what they can do it. Something
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just doesn't feel right, and Idon't know if Royce Lewis can cure everything.
First of all, he's got toalso figure out a way to stay
healthy when he plays, because he'sbeen sort of bust in like, not
as often and he hasn't been upfor as long a time. But he
can't stay healthy either. But ifhe can provide the kind of offensive punch
that's possible in Korea. You know, it's I'm not suggesting the Twins can't
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win the division. I just thinkwhen I look at the Yankees, is
and some of the other clubs aroundthe league, some of the teams are
that are going to qualify for postseasonplay. I wouldn't say at this point
in time, things can change,but our chances are really that good.
Well, part of it is thedivision is better than we anticipated, right,
I mean, you used to callthe division the Oswalds yep. And
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there's still plenty of time left inthe season for them to revert to that.
But Cleveland's been terrific. Kansas Cityand Detroit have both been respectable.
We're used to having you know,two maybe three teams in the division they
just absolutely have no chance or someof the worst teams in the entire American
League. We still have that inthe White Sox. But it's a combination
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of the Twins are i but notgreat, and now they've got fiercter competition
within the within the division, whichlessons your margin for air. And then
when you go in six against Cleveland, which is now the that's the difference
in the standings. You're down fiveand a half in the standings and one
six against the team you're chasing.So you know, I don't know if
the al Central competition is gonna rollover like they have in the past,
(28:10):
at least from two thirds of maniathey have not yet. Thanks for that.
You got me through my second stage. You could see that too,
can You could see me just staringat me. I was trying to,
yeah, stretch it out for you. Well, here's what people. I
have to tell people this all thetime. It's hard when I can't watch
the Twins anymore, and then youwant me to talk about the Twins for
like a minute straight. Oh that'strue. Here, here's what I tell
people, though, tend to belike the trick to talk radio is I
(28:36):
could tell the story about my lawnmarnot starting and having to have it repaired
and can't find anybody in a twoweek turn around as quickly as I just
did there. But if the segment'snine minutes, that's twenty seconds. Now
I still have eight minutes and fortyseconds to kill. So I think you
know that as well. So thenyou start adding colorful language, not four
(28:56):
letter words. But and then youstart to just stretch it out a bit
and adds some more detail than younormally would, because that's the only way
you're going to get to the endof the segment. If you just you
know, rat a lot off rightaway and talking a really fast, then
you're gonna go that story's over.And that took thirty seconds, and I've
got eight thirty yet to kill.So you need to try to talk a
little more slowly and pause in theright places and add the right inflections when
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you need to add them. It'sa trick of the trade, and it
can take a few years to doit. I have timby I might be
changing my mind a little bit speakingof the lawnmower thing getting a lot of
response unprecedented as a matter of fact. At the branch on Bryan Kavan text
line six four six eighty six.This one says you can replace the carburetor
(29:44):
yourself for like twenty or thirty dollars, could be more depending on the size
of the motar. Replacing one isrelatively easy and requires less knowledge than cleaning
one. Ty Maybe what I shoulddo is accept the challenge of maybe any
of the text messengers messagers is goahead and do what you said, go
(30:04):
to YouTube and say, how doyou replace a carburetor on a I think
I got a Honda on a Hondawalk behind more and somebody will have put
it together. Matter of fact,I did it before when I had a
(30:26):
Nissan a Step, a Nissan Ultima. And you know when you have the
electronics start where you push the button, Well, if that ever goes out,
how do you get into your car? Because this car just had the
push button to open or close it. Well, there's a you can pull
on the key fob, a keyand then put it into a but you
(30:47):
had to find out where that was. I couldn't find out where the key
slot was, and I went toYouTube and said, it could be kind
of tricky, but here's where youfind what you do? Where the door
handle pulls out, you twist theone short and then all of a sudden
you pull and then it exposes whereyou put it in. But I wouldn't
have known that ahead of time.So maybe I maybe I could replace a
(31:07):
carburetor. I'm not. I mean, the one thing I do know about
tools going to be this. Thisis the one thing I do know,
righty tidy, Lefty, Lucy,have you heard that I got that part
figured out, So what do youdo? Do you think I should you
need to talk for about a minute. Do you think I should rise to
the occasion and try to do itmyself? Knowing you, I will say,
(31:32):
if the carburettor is as easy toreplace as everyone's saying it is,
then should it not be easier easyfor the guy who you're paying to pay
for it right when you go totake it in for service. They should
be able to put that thing input the thing out in ten minutes.
And it shouldn't cost a whole lot, right because it's so easy to replace.
So from a price standpoint, itshouldn't be dreds and hundreds of dollars,
and not just that, it shouldn'thave two weeks. When I told
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him, I said, look,I need to get it back right away.
My lawn is going to be higherthan the roof of my house.
Couldn't you have said, all right, bring it over on, get her
done right away, because if itonly takes a couple of minutes, I
could have paid him. And ifhe would have said, that's the scam
of they want to make it seemlike it takes him a long time to
put it together, and that they'reso super busy, so then it costs
more to keep it there. Maybethat's exactly that's all scam because like if
(32:15):
if he would have heard me whenyou hear Rockford Files. By the way,
people are saying, so, didyou watch the Rockford Files? You
know after you know, did youturn for On Sunday's Rockford File starts at
nine and there's only one episode onSundays. Weekday's Monday through Friday, Rockford
Files has two back to back episodesseven o'clock and eight o'clock on Sunday,
Saturdays and Sundays. There's only oneat nine o'clock. I did not watch
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The Rockford Files last night. Ohthat's a big moment. But something that
happens through almost all episodes of TheRockford Files. He'll go in to get
some information from a bartender, andthe guy would the old Yeah, you'll
show him a picture. I've neverseen the guy before, and then Jimmy
pulls out a five dollar bill.You know, it looks a little bit
(33:00):
familiar. I think I've seen himbefore. He comes here every once in
a while. What's his name?Well, you know, I got kind
of a bad memory. When itcomes to that, I'm really bad with
names, And all of a suddenhe gives him another five tys. So
let's say, lawnmower guy says twoweeks, and I say, well,
what's it going to cost to repairthe car? Bret, God, It's
(33:20):
gonna cost you one hundred and twentyfive ninety nine. I go one fifty.
Push that timeline up for two weeksa little bit. Oh you know,
I can maybe get it back toyou in a week. How about
one seventy five? Bring it overright now, and all have done in
ten minutes. Right, Maybe Ishould have get to the point where it
just would make more sense to buya new lawnmar get up to that price.
That's the point. That's the point. I mean as well, just
(33:42):
buy. I'm with the market forlawnmowers as well. By the way,
I have two help I have twolawnmoarers. Now this is the I think
I've told the story before. Thisis the third lawnmower I've gone through my
own mind. The one before thisstarted on fire. All I know is
blue flames were coming out of theout of the motor, and I said,
this one's probably done. When yousee the blue flames. It was
over. I inherited one from mylate father in law. That one was
(34:07):
still running. But I'm I'm kindof hard on my on my equipment.
The wheel broke off the axle onone of them. So I suppose I
could fire that one up and ifI could just kind of hold it up
a little bit. As someone who'shad the lawnmower hit your toe before,
I would recommend that. Yeah.Well, and you know that's that's another
reason why I didn't ask you ifI could hire you, because I don't
need I don't need you bleeding allover my lawn and having to call the
(34:30):
emergency room. You don't need alot more advice for me. No,
certainly do help for me. No, I certainly don't. But so we'll
see how it goes. I youknow, maybe here's what I'll do.
As long as I've got the neighborkid hired for the time being to do
my lawn, maybe I'll maybe I'llgo to YouTube and open it up and
maybe give it a shot. Maybedo it for digital the very less.
(34:52):
Could you video your videotape yourself watchingon YouTube and trying to put it together
and that's content. That's not abad idea, I might have to It's
no Max screaming down the hallway withhis shirt off saying hoodie who after a
big win by the Wolves. Butthat one viral, didn't it? Oh,
that was very viral last night.I mean, well over one hundred
How many is that I from?When I was told it was well over
(35:14):
one hundred thousand? Wow? Isup that much? That's what I thought
I saw. That's what I wastold over one hundred thousand views. So
you talk about a hoodie Who,Parker and fox Man. What a That's
a good combination there. You know, it's funny too. How you know
(35:34):
a guy like Max is really justgetting started in his career saying with Fox.
If you know, Fox will probablybe done with basketball. I mean,
I'm assuming as often as he's appearedon the radio station, maybe that's
what he wants to do in thefuture. Two guys who are like their
son is just starting to rise upin the East, and then you got
the Rosens and the Commons, andour our son is starting to set in
the West. It's almost over forus. And then you got mine that's
(35:58):
always been up there, but it'sjust been cloudy. You never it's always
been cloudy, and then you sufferthrough an eclipse off in two where you
just don't see it at all.I'm on Max's Twitter account right now,
one hundred and thirty thousand views.Think about it. He's the future,
tend to me, and it's verygood. He's very very good. Yeah,
so we'll see they are. Iguess that they're planning to broadcast post
(36:22):
game from the cage again, right, yeah, I would think there's pregame
post game for the next well,who knows if it'll be seven games.
Oh how about this, I'll cutyour grass in exchange for a pair of
tennis, smelly used golf shoes andmaybe a tarp shooter. Huh, here's
(36:50):
one. Just be careful of RubeDan's offer to mow your lawn for free.
They always give you the first tastefor free. Then eventually they have
you hooked. Before you know it, you'll be paying five hundred dollars just
for weed whacking. They used todo that back in my Hate Ashbury days.
STI I always love that one.You like that, Try a little
of this. This is acaboe gowow, man, that's the more pricey.
(37:16):
They give you that free sample.Tend to be to get you hooked,
is what they do. PJ.Thomas once said, hooked on a
feeling. So maybe he's right.Maybe maybe I shouldn't take him up on
his offer. But you know me, free, free, free, and
I'll take three if that's the case. So I don't know if we'll that'll
(37:38):
work or not. Here's dude,just get an ego lawnmower. Get rid
of the gas. I have anelectric lawnmower. I tried to charge.
I think it's been sitting too long. I have a battery power one,
(38:00):
but that's mine. Does what Imean battery power? Yeah, and it
cuts out all the time. Ihave to restart it, like literally,
like forty times mowing the lawn.That drives me crazy. My mother,
God bless her, my late mother. She had a really tiny yarn,
so she bought an electric more.She just thought it was better than happening
to deal with gas and all that, right, and so it worked.
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And then when she passed away,I inherited it and I used it a
couple of times. You know,I just something about it doesn't seem to
work quite as well. It's electric. Maybe I was imagining things. Maybe
I didn't have it, Maybe i'dhave the settings on the wheels quite right,
but it just didn't seem like it. So it's been sitting in my
(38:42):
garage forever. So when I whenI couldn't get my more, I got
it started yesterday. I just couldn'tget it continue to run. And that
what led me to the carburetor issue. I plugged it in, red light
popped on, and then a littlebit later the green light came on.
I thought it was charged and saysjust lift the handle to start, and
I lived to the handle and itwould not start. So I think that
battery after I will put it thisway. I inherit it in twenty twelve
(39:06):
and I haven't used it probably inseven or eight years. Yeah, so
that's just fried. There's nothing lefton that right. But then why would
it tell me it's charged. Whywould it say it was red and then
green? So it's it's it's wouldburyproblems. I get it, but i'll
get it tom So I don't knowif I want to do the other Here's
one that dope Tenneby like get anelectric lawnmar I got one and it's awesome.
(39:30):
Maybe it depends on the electric lawnmore. You know, I'm sure
I probably went the cheaper out common. If you buy a new carburetor,
I'll pull it in for free.Now we're talking, he'll put it in
for free or five by one?Can I get someone to buy one for
me? If I can find somebodyto put it in for free, so
then I would have it. I'dhave both ends taken care of. Somebody
(39:51):
would buy me my carburetor, andthen somebody would put it in for free.
Ten to be here. This isa sign of relief for me.
Jefferson skipped ODAS in twenty twenty three. Why is it necessary to try to
get fans scared? Well, Iwasn't trying to get him scared. Is
just reporting the news? Just reportingthe news. I didn't know. I
didn't remember that he didn't report lastyear. Well, he didn't report because
(40:12):
he had contract issues. That's theother thing is like, I'm sure eventually
justin Jefferson's going to sign a contracthere and everything's going to be great.
But this isn't year one of contractnegotiations. This is not your two now,
this is true, and I aimto me there's more of a deadline
this year than there was last year? Common Why aren't your kids mowing the
(40:36):
lawn? It's not. It hasnothing to do with the kids right now
at this point, it's more ofI don't have a lawn more that works.
My boys always volunteer. I mean, they don't do it like like
hey dad, let me do thiskind of like I guess I could what
age? Oh the lawn? Whatage? Can you let your child know
the lawn? Because for you,they literally asked about it. Yeah,
(40:59):
that's how they kind of asked.Is there not a lot of enthusiasm when
the ask it's almost like they're doingI don't know how old is Leo?
He's nine. I think that seemstoo young for me. I wouldn't but
he said he wanted to do itthe other day. Now my first chore
he's ever offered to do. Sonow I'd let him drive the car at
nine. That's okay too, justto go to the corner store. I
don't want him on a freeways atnine years old. But nine years old,
(41:19):
he can drive a car. Oh. I have a picture of baby
brother Peter. I took up himjust to get him to take out the
garbage. His shoulders are slumped,and he's going out the front door looking
like basically like he's like, Ilike, he's been sentenced to a life
prison term I always love to do. I know, but I think he
was milking it is actually what hewas doing. He knew that he wanted.
(41:42):
He knows the reaction I wanted fromhim, so he gave me the
reaction he wanted to. Like,Oh, you gotta be kidding me anyway,
here's one I think your electric lawnmore wants to work for you after
being blatant. No, do youthink your electrical lama wants to work?
(42:04):
If you have to be blatantly disregardedfor years and years? It would work
just fine if you weren't so meanto it. I guess that's probably true.
I have ignored it for all theseyears, and then finally this one
tend to me. As we getready to wrap it up and turn it
over to Big Kick and jag GoWolves would tend to be trade his ticket
for an old use carburetor. Idon't think that's going to happen. Your
(42:29):
ticket has been getting a lot ofoffers. Again, I offered you a
really nice deal today, My teatime later today at Prestwick, an autograph
book, a slightly used tarp shooter, and my firstborn child for my second
wife. My second wife hasn't beenborn yet, so you'mull that over.
(42:49):
That offer stands until the opening tap. Tend to be on Wednesday, a
game you'll hear on this radio station, and remember generally I take Memorial Day
Monday off, Wolves play game twoSunday night. I'll be here Monday,
joy Cap and other Bulls. Victorysounds like a clogged fuel filter. A
(43:10):
pair of players in three minutes.Now, I don't know what to do.
Tenny, thanks for having me youas well, and great job on
the It's on the montage. We'reback tomorrow at twelve noon Rolls and will
join us at two Big Ticket JJare next. Enjoy the rest of today,
good night, and good night missusCalabash. Where have you listen?
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