November 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Common Man Hour 1 --Engineering License --Peek at the Purple --Love or McCarthy? --Wolves Win --Twins Manager Search --Target Mandate
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Speaker 4 (01:07):
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Speaker 2 (01:11):
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Speaker 5 (01:57):
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they're reading. Many times what you read might or may
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And that's ridiculous. What's off?
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Speaker 2 (03:22):
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five sounds like more than two wanders. Good afternoon, att akkadec.
Can you hear the speaker echoeed like a music on
right now? So that makes a lot more chilling.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Because I have to have it up because this is
the second time in the past two weeks where the
female plug into the male plug yoga bands breast has
snapped off because there's so it's gonna be really good radio.
This is inside radio information for those of you listening.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
We have a.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Shared headset that is into right beneath the console here
right from the countertop. I never use it because I
don't know where PA's been. He puts it on his head.
I don't know if he has lice. I don't know,
and I don't want to know. Right, So I was
unplugged and then plug my own headset in. This is
the second time I've went to take the headset out
(04:20):
and it's snapped off and I can't get it in.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That's gonna be am. I can't get it in. Young fans,
there's a sexual minuendo. We used to do that in
eighth grade. We really love doing that in eighth grade.
Can you hear it? By the way, No, I think
it's long. It's quiet enough. It's good. Maybe I never
have to use a headset ever.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Again.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
I've told you my bit about the day that they
do fire me, then I do the and I'm going
to do it for all radio people. The class action
lawsuit that because I having to wear headphones for forty years,
I've lost my hearing. But to call the plaintiff to
the stand, col do you swear to tell the truth,
the whole truth or some semblance of the truth.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So help you got? I beg your pardon? Case closed.
I went deaf sharing because Warren headsets. So there it is.
So we'll see if we.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Can uh if we can uh get Engineering guy back
here during the next break, because last time it happened.
You know, it's funny to me, it's almost like Engineering
guy was like it was like almost like a NASCAR
pit stop. He has a very short period of time.
(05:37):
Well a lot we have long breaks. It's because we're
very No I broke off in here. No, you're never
gonna be able to get this one out.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Good luck to you. So I told you so.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Engineering guy came, you know, like, well, you're watch a
Nascar They have like seven seconds had a pit stop, right,
that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
They change all four tires and fill it up with
gas and they're gone.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Right. Engineering guy could work at Talladega. He comes in
here and he's got a couple of minutes to completely rewire,
rework aheadset bingo, bengo, bongo.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's done, just like that.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
That was Chad Abbott, who he could get in a
lot of trouble. He no longer he lost his third
class operator's license. Really yeah, and so he's not supposed
to do any engineering whatsoever. I have my third class
engineer's operating license, and I'm able to I still have mine,
(06:39):
and I don't let him forget it either. He can't
remember where he lost it. It was like in a
change from one office to the next, and it's gone.
I still have mine in my office. Physical certificate, Yeah,
my little certificate. I have mine posted in my office.
When did think the last time I was in my office?
Remember when all I wanted I was demanding an office.
(07:01):
We had all these empty offices and I'm like, well,
why can't we have an office? And Greg Sweatberg, who
I never see anymore, said why can't you have those offices?
So that well, that's what I'm saying. So I use
it every day. For about the first week, two weeks,
I haven't been in my office. I actually went there
the other day just to see if it was still there,
(07:22):
and it was, But I don't use it.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Remove the cobwebs. Do you want my office? Sure you
can have I would love it. If you want an office,
you can have it. It's a selfless you are. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
I'll give you my Well, remember when we first had
the cubicles and they had you right next to JG.
And I had the little empty one at the end,
and you asked me if you could have it, because
you use it, I don't you didn't want to be
did quite play out like that? And then I played
it out like, well, no, I'm not giving you that,
And you were bitter.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Well, I was bitter because Abbah had come up to
me before then and said, hey, where would you like
to sit? And I pointed to that spot and then
he marked me down. And then when the desk goverrolled out,
I wasn't in that spot anymore. Yeah, and then and
that's why the guy who's never here is the waning
at the good spot, right, And I pretend to.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That I wasn't going to give it to and then
of course I did, because I just don't use it. Well,
I have that.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I went from the spot I was I was supposed
to sit at into the office was between you and
and and JG in a cubicle section, and it's like,
I don't want to be between the two of you guys.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Plus your backs are to the au.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
It's just a it's a it's the configuration of the
cubicles here is is off.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I don't want to be right next to somebody.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
And yeah, a cube is supposed to be your your corner,
your carry your cornered off right like you're in a cube.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Hey, look at it's fixed. Hold on, I'm gonna put
my headset back in. You doubt it? Chad Abbitt, I did.
I didn't think he could do it. Hello, test there
(09:00):
is Well, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
See, are you mechanically inclined? I mean I can change
a light bulb, right, that's I think most people can
do that. I can watch a YouTube video. Yeah, but
I mean, but are you if you watch a YouTube video,
can you pull it off rather quickly and easily? See
(09:22):
I'm not mechanically inclined like that. There's many things I
cannot do now this weekend? Did I bring this up yesterday?
I spent five hours in my backyard doing fall clean up.
I put it off to the last minute. Did I
talk about this yesterday? If my choice is kind of
keep the yard in nice shape on a Saturday afternoon
in the middle of summer, or go golf, which when
(09:43):
do you think I'm gonna choose?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So we get to last weekend.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
This Monday was the last day that my sanitation company
will take yard waste, so it had to get done
this weekend. Saturday was a nice day. I've got a
fence that separates my yard and a hold pond, you
know where all the rain water drains off to. You know,
they'd like to say it's a beautiful it's a beautiful wetland. No,
(10:08):
it's a holding pond with algae grows right, And that's okay,
it's no big deal. But the the the weeds and
the brush grow through my It's coming through my fans.
It's starting to encroach into my yard. If I waited
another year, would be all the way up to my
patio door. I spent three hours, non stop just cutting
(10:29):
it down with clippers and saws, and it was.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It was a lot of work.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
I was exhausted, but it's done. I can do that
kind of manual labor, things that are simple. It's not
hard to cut brush, repairing a headset plug.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And I can't do that. I just can't.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I mean, I guess if my life depended on it,
I would. I told you my neighbor across the street,
Carl does so many things for me. I'll do the
old I'll text him Carl O buddy, old path. He
knows what's coming. I've got an issue. I talked about this,
but my law more wouldn't start I called the small
engine repair guy. Yeah, probably because it's two hundred fifty
(11:07):
dollars minimum. I said, I could buy a new lawnmower
for three hundred. He goes with, then go buy yourself
a new lawnmower, and I said, okay, thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I hung up.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Carl came took him ten minutes to clean the carburetor out.
From me, it runs like a champ. Would you be
able to clean out a carburetor on a lawnmower. No,
I couldn't even tell you what part of the carburetor is. Well,
it's like the canculator. It's the same kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
So yeah, here's.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Here's a text message. Whoops, I can't find him. Now
here's my or I don't have a button bar anymore.
I'm in all kinds of trouble.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
This one says, ask abbot, if you can fix my
YouTube TV and get.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
ABC and ESBN back on. I don't think anybody can
do that. That's still a problem right now. There's still
a there's still a logger head, no solution, and it's
because use I mean, I think most people are siding
with YouTube. They're saying ABC, ESPN, Disney that's all Disney. Right,
(12:09):
They're asking way way too much money for ESPN programming,
right they It's it's an arm and a leg. I guess, well,
you know, and and again I'm looking. I'm for the
little guy. I'm the common man, the average man, the
best of louses, lousing the best. That's that's a pretty
high profile property ESPN, right, I mean, they they pay
a lot of money for college football rights, National Football
(12:32):
League rights, Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
They even do some NBA, don't they? Or is that
all NBC? So it's like, well, they sports leader, right,
it's a lot.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Well we're the sports leader but locally, but they're the
sports leader worldwide nationally. So my guess is that it
costs a lot of money to pay those rights, and
so they probably feel like they have to charge it.
And I guess that sounds like I'm sort of sticking
up from it. I just don't none of us know.
You know, we can't get a look at the books.
It's not like Disney's gonna go here, here's our books.
(13:04):
You can see exactly what we pay and how much
we make and how much we pay our employees. Here's
what it all looks like. The only people that can
do that are our price waterhouse. Those are the only
people that get to look at that. Nobody else does.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
I think what happened is YouTube TV always wanted to
be the word the affordable option. Right, you're spending all
this money on cable and you have all these unnecessary channels.
We're gonna minimize this a bit here, and you're gonna
have get what you want and not pay as much money.
The problem is the sports, sports, sports stuff in the
world just keeps going getting higher and higher higher price wise,
that's exactly right, And then now you can't sell yourselves
(13:41):
says hey, we're the cheap option.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
That's you know, you don't have to pay for all
these extra channels. Well pay for what you want, and
you couldn't. You couldn't pay me enough to watch last
night's game. And I love defense, but I wanted a
little bit of offense last night. Did you watch any
Green bay Field? I watch the second half. I mean
it was I mean, and it was really good to
And you know, maybe I'm maybe, maybe I'm starting to
(14:05):
turn the other way because I love defense.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I just love low scoring, but a little better than
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Give me seventeen fourteen, would you maybe get to twenty
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Someone said they just got an email from YouTube TV
for twenty monthly discount. Twenty dollars monthly discount for issue
with Disney.
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What does that mean?
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They're giving them all a twenty dollars discounts. They're not
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It says, considering age, contract, et cetera. If Common was
an NFL general manager, would you rather start his story
franchise National Football League?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Would Jordan Law or JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Love has shown a lot of potential at times, and
I'm all about potential, but he makes a lot of
boneheaded plays.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
JJ's younger and cheaper, but he struggled so far. Curious
as to where you'd.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Lean on this, I guess I've seen more from Law
though he has. Is this year three for him or
year two? This is a year ar three, right, I
think he's made strides every year now. I will admit
I'm not paying his close attention to the Green Bay
Packers in general, specifically Jordan Love is and like I mean,
I watched.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Last night's game.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
I try to catch as much Green Bay football as
I can because they're in the division.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm pretty much a Vikings Lions guy.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Never missed those games, and I try to catch as
much as I can of Packers in Bears as well.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
The other games don't do a lot Fish, I mean,
I should say with Jordan Love, it's year three is
a starter.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
He's been in the league five years, yes, I guess
I did mean starter, but you're right, so right, so
year three is a starter.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I like the way he plays.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I think he's got I think I think there is
still room for growth. It's it's just so early with
McCarthy that it's it's almost like a grade of I mean,
I don't think Love has a complete grade. You know,
I'm not ready to give an aby. If I was
going to give one right now, i'd give a bee,
which in the national football you need to be an
(19:00):
A orn a minus, and so i'd give m a B.
He's played to a B plus at times, but I
would give him a bee. I would stand incomplete for McCarthy.
But if if you said I had to pick one
of them, I guess I would would take Jordan Love.
But here's a text message, or not a text message.
(19:21):
I'm so this was an email. They came in to Common.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yesterday morning nine p fifty one to Common at.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Campeon dot Com says coming to me, boy, these three
young qbs could all be in the same boat. McCarthy
might be the guy, but right now it looks like
he's just not going.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
To be that guy.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Tell the purple kool aid fanboys that the forty nine
ers realize that Lance was either injured or inaccurate, and
they moved on. The Colt spent a third overall pick
on Anthony Richardson, saw how inaccurate he was, how he
failed the eye test over and over, took himself out
of a game because he was tired, and said, we're
moving on leadership.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
That is, franchise over ego.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
The Vikings as of right now, have committed malpractice as
managers of a franchise.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
They had a feeling about a kid and.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Took a fourteen win team and purposely risked it all
for a kid with a smile and infectious energy and
a seed of talent that was really unproven in Michigan
because they didn't throw the ball very much.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They risked it all. And how the Vikings are mediocre
to bad.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
And what's worse, the two quarterbacks they had in their
stable are now on two different teams and are playing
at MVP levels and those two teams are now big
game contenders.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Meanwhile, we've got a kid here that as the.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Fanboys duped into that smile and boyish charm, they're willing
to wait out three years of terrible football for this guy.
The fact is he shouldn't see the field right now
because he's so inaccurate, has no touch on football, and
tricks veteran linemen into false stars because he can't do
a cadence correctly. JJ meaning Justin Jefferson, is one of
the highest character people on the football field, and he
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sees where these balls are thrown and how they're throwing.
He just says, forget it. He cannot believe he was
sixty minutes from the first overall see last year and
now he has to degrade himself to help managers with
their pet project.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Whoa that scathing review of the Vikings.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
It's probably a Packer fan, right, some kernels of truth
in there, I think a little bit right. I mean,
forty nine ers moved on from Lance Colts, moved on
from Richardson.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
These guys don't have it.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
And the Vikings did have two quarterbacks in their stable
that are playing at MVP levels. Latest power rankings from
It's either the CBS or the Athletic Power Rankings. I
have them both in my handheld, which doubles as a
communication device. They both have Seattle Ranches, the top team
in PROFE. One of the two as Seattle Ranch is
the top team in profit. But now again they're just
(21:55):
power rankings. But you could argue that Seattle one of
the best teams in football, if not the best team
in football, and doing large part to the play of
a quarterback we had last year that took us to
were we fourteen and three last year?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yes, I know we had the really bad game.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
And they I think the Vikings it wasn't just the
bad performance against Detroit. I think it was also salary
cap right to give them a hundred million dollars minimum.
Now what he got was from Seattle was one hundred
million dollars for three years, I think, so it was
a lot of loot they were going to have to
pay him, and then they wanted they I think they
(22:35):
were thinking more.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Again, it goes back to that. I do think the
coach and the people around.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Him think that he's got the Mitis touch when it
comes to quarterbacks, and so, hey, yeah, we could give
them a hundred million, but then it's going to be
harder for us to spend money on interior, the offensive line,
in interior, the defensive line. Let's let Sam walk, let's
sign Let's get some people in the interior of those
two lines, and I'll coach the kid up and we
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can do it in a hurry, Because you would think
you're doing it in a hurry if you signed veteran
interior alignment, right, because if you were thinking he was
going to be more of a long term project, like
going to take two or three years to really start
to play football at a high level.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Well, those interior linemen.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
You signed are really going to be really on the
wrong side of thirty, right, And they were injury prone
to begin with, so they're probably not going to be
ready to contribute when your quarterback is.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So it leads me to believe that they thought we
can go forward with McCarthy and not skip a beat.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Now he did miss five games, how much further would
he be along had he not been had the sprained ankle,
the high ankle sprain, maybe a lot further or maybe
no further at all, or maybe we're regressing and we
won't know for a while. And this is by no
means in any way, shape or formal, I suggesting the
Vikings should give up on him, or they blundered it
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when all of it was going down. When the season
ended and we through you know, the first few weeks,
and then through the combines and the free agency period
and the draft and everything. Everybody weighed in on their opinion.
I thought they should have kept the kid, the darnold kid.
I thought they should I thought, you you're you're searching
(24:20):
for your franchise quarterback.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It looks like we have, but they decided not to.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Now again, still a long way to go with McCarthy,
but I'm gonna this that email that brings up some
pretty salient points. So and like someone just said on
the text message, thirty three million a year for an
MVP candidate is a steal, and it really is a steal.
(24:46):
Someone else said, my guess this is poppy biking fan
Trey Lance when we started twenty six games before being drafted.
That's just the forty nine ers being stupid, right, But
at least they realized their stupidity and moved on quickly.
That's the point is you you have to know, and
maybe the Vikings will do. Let's say that McCarthy doesn't
get any better. My guess is the Vikings will fish
(25:07):
and cut bait pretty early too.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You almost have to write, you can't spend three four
years trying.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
To develop a guy. If you don't think he's got it,
but that will we'll learn more. He's showing signs of
some really good play, but he's also had more. He's
had more struggles that he's had successes.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Let's just say that we'll take a break. We'll come back.
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A couple of thirteen fourteen passed the legendary Mark rose
in is in ability. He will join us here just
before two o five.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
It's all the Timberwolves won again. Yeah, they're right hot.
They won five of six.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
They beat the Jazz last night and all that jazz.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Your guy, Anthony Edwards thirty five points. I think I
saw a quote where he says he's he's finding his rhythm.
He's he's got his mojo back. If you'll remember, was
it first couple of games he missed or he played
the first and missed a couple. He has him kind
of a hammy or something. Then his first game back
he had, I mean had fifteen points, which would be
(26:45):
a career day for you or me.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
For him, it's like, what's wrong? And he was playing
a lot of defense and he was five out of I.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Think it was Upstate or maybe it was like, yeah,
he's five for fifteen for fifteen points. I don't remember
exactly what it was. But now he's been scoring like
he has in the past. Yeah, full disclosure. They're being
terrible teams in terrible cities, terrible fans, and terrible stadiums.
But I will tell you this, I'm gonna throw a
bone at the basketball community that thinks I'm too hard
on the Wolves. It's just it's the tough leough covenants. Well,
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that's how we are here.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
You will you will not get praise when praise is
not warranted, and when it.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Is, we'll give it here. We'll throw your bone, we'll
patch you on the head, we'll give you a verbal
slap on the back. But in the past, they've been
known to lose to teams, especially last year. Yeah, last
year was awful. That's why they plummeted to the sixth seed.
And as I brought up on a couple thirteen fourteen occasions,
or at least six seven times, they even.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
At the sixth seed. They still got to the Western
Conference finals.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
So sometimes the seating can be a little overrated unless
you get into the play and thing that's almost more.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Embarrassment than anything, right, But anyway, but.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Hey, they beat teams supposed to because they weren't doing
that last year, so so good for them. Saw another
one story fish rep Factory west Side Bobby Nightingale. Bobby
is a beat writer Fish Rap Factory west Side for
the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
What an awful beat? Oh can you imagine being the
beat writer for the Minnesota Twins next year? See how
do I? How do I spin this ninth loss?
Speaker 7 (28:16):
In a row, I say Aaron Gleaman column within the
last week, and the headline was basically ten bargain bargain
hitters the Twins could go after and free agent you know,
just yeah, bargain beIN free agent hitting.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
That's over.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
That's that's an evergreen column every year, like he's got
to have that written down of here's where I talk
about the value guys thing go after.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Dog days of summer next year, early August, you're Bobby
Nightingale or any of the other beat writers for the Twins,
walk into that press box and drop your laptop down,
open it up. Players are warming up. Me going, uh,
I got to write another loss. Then I got to
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go down to the locker room and have them give
me the same quotes about we're giving it everything we've got,
but sometimes it doesn't work. Guys are laying on the line,
Guys in the training room. It's badwagon really is. Here's
the headline. How the Twins narrowed the list of manager
candidates from eighty to one before hiring Derek Shelton, who
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I think they were going.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
To hire all law is that just.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
They were at eighty eighty eighty candidates. They had a
list of eighty people. That's that's a lot of media
guides you're flipping through, gotten down eighty candidates they had.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
That's what they claimed. Eighty candidates.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Now, don't you go into it though, going like numbers
thirty through eighty really have no shot at the jobs.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
You're really not even considering them.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
So but it says all the Twins narrow the list
of manager candidates from eighty to one before hiring Derek's Shelton.
There were seven people who received interviews, which is sort
of like receiving a death sentence, But there were seven
people who received interviews, and the team tried to leave.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
No stone unturned. Here's what he writes.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
In the first days of the Twin search for a
new manager, the internal list of potential and I love
potential potential candidates swelled about eighty names.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Members of the front office kept an open mind as
they brainstormed. They listed all the former managers and candidates
from other openings around the league, including me. I think
I was on that list because if you remember ten
to me years ago, I was.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
The assistant coach of my oldest nephews little league baseball.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Team back in nineteen ninety nineteen ninety ninety one, I think,
and I can show it to you. I'm met fat.
I'm going to take pictures.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Maybe I've done this already before for Twitter, pictures of
the trophies that I still have proudly displayed in my
basement down in the mangrotto, the trophies that I got
that from coaching little So I have to think, if
there's eighty people there, I was at least as qualified
as six seven of them, right.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I mean right, I mean what does it take to
be a manager? You're you're right down.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
The line up, and then you watch and you add
a boy, and then you flash a couple of signs
and say, why don't we try to sacrifice that guy
over with the bunt? Yeah, why not, let's go ahead
and do that. It is so I think I'm as
qualified as any.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Well, even like back in the day, you'd have to
research the opposing hitter and look at tendencies, and then
you would tell your left fielder, hey, I need you
to move over five spots.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Now they already know it ahead of time, based out
the computer. So they just grabbed the little piece of
paper out of their pocket and they look at it
before I'm like, oh, this is where I'm supposed to
stand when this guy hit you or the manager doesn't
even have to tell you.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
Do you remember about five or six years ago, I
was ripping some outfield over the Twins sand He's pulling
a cell phone out of.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
His back pocket. I thought he was looking at his self.
I really did.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
I had no idea they were doing what you just
said that that they were looking at a car. That
tells the hitter's tendency is So I came on the
other next day and I go Joe Baggan Donuts is
out and right field.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
He's got a cell phone in his back pocket. He's
checking text messages.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
And then you or somebody went Colm and that's a
that's a scouting card he has in his back pocket.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Well, that was one of those want to get away.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
By the way, I thought that will be something the
Savannah Bananas do at some point though. One of them
will have a cell phone. He'll be taking a video
selfie of him catching a fly ball.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
Over the three weeks following the firing of Rock Wabaldelli,
the Twins whittled their eighty names to Derek Shelton, who
became the fifteenth manager in team history.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Shelton, and in respects, was a predictable hire.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
The Twins at history with him after he was their
bench coach in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen. He was
a finalist in their previous managerial eight search eight years ago.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
After all, but through each.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Round of interviews, Twins officials kept coming back to Shelton
as the leader they wanted. It has kept coming back,
So you got the job. But what I find the
most interesting here? Let me see if I can find this.
Go ahead and give it.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Give me the It was a cheap shot of really
wanted to take here, Ash, darn it. Here's what it says.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
The last time the Twins searched for a manager, their
virtual meetings on Google Hangouts were awkward as people tried
not to talk over each other. These small groups covered
different topics such as in game decisions, coaching, staff will,
player development priorities, and community responsibilities. Oh, I remember what
it was I was trying to find. Yeah, here it
is the Zoom interviews. So they interviewed a bunch of
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They had seven candidates that made the cut. Right then
they had the Zoom interviews with each one. The zoom interviews,
which Folby said could last more than six hours. Oh
my gosh, I'm out after thirty minutes. I mean, really,
six hours of interview. If you're onder the managerial candidates
and you're like, you're thinking, well, they should be quick.
Fifteen twenty minutes, asked me some questions that they like me,
they'll bring me in for an interview.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
You're looking at your watch. It's like hour number three,
and then four and then five, six hours. It's like
bathroom breaks.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
They should have had a pitch clock and called it
a manager interview clock. You can't make people sit through
six hours of interviews. Each candidate managed a simulated game,
Falvey said, give them a bullpen card usage, and here's
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what each reliever did last week.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
It was less about did we win or lose the game?
I guess as they lost.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
It was much more about how did you think about
using the bullpen. My answer to them would be, I
think we should use the bullpen not as often. We
should have our starters go a little deeper into games
like they used to do back in the olden Nations.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
So let's get back to real baseball. Let's get guys
to pitch instead. Of throw.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Then I'd been thrown out of the Zoom meeting because
they wouldn't want me, because that's not what the analytics say.
Tannab Saber Metrics and Analytics. A throw as hard as
you can swing for the fences. The in person interviews
concluded after dinner with Zoel he's you know, he's their
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their general manager and fall. They two of the finalist
dinners were at Mara and one was at Porsana, So
that was kind of well, at least you got to
take into a nice restaurant. I don't know about I've
been to Porzana. Have you ever been to up either
of those restaurants in Borrow? I don't know about mar
I know I've been to Porzana. It's an Argentinian steakhouse.
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It's really good too. After three weeks, the Twins managerial
search ended on Shelton, where many expected when it started.
So there you go the eighty people, six hour interviews
and then dinner, dinner in a game, and that was it.
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So they they they came around their people. I give
you my theory why they did Zoom cheaper cheaper? Yeah,
have to fly man, absolutely well, you wouldn't fly eighty guys,
and I just think the eighty.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I don't think eighty of them did six six hour zo.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I just think eighty is just ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
I think eighty was just a list and they crossed
off a bunch at the beginning. There's no way they
interviewed all eight.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
I wouldn't think they would. Then again, you know, it
is the twins ten of me, and they have their
own way of doing things, so maybe that's the way
it went down with them.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I saw this too. I was alerted to this one.
Give me one second. Here, here it is. Did you
see this story? Teenemy? This is a Fox nine story.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Target has issued a new directive mandating that workers smile
at customers.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Smile, damn it.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Demanding mandating, not demanding, mandating that worker smile at customers,
as part of a plan to boot sales headed into
the holidays. According to a Bloomberg report, the new initiative
is called the ten four program ten four ten four good,
but the ten four program.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
According to Bloomberg, Under.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
The program, workers are required to smile, make eye contact,
in wave, or greet a shop who comes within ten
feet of them. If they are closer within four feets.
It's the ten to four rule. The workers required to
ask them if they need help or how their day
is going. The Bloomberg article Drove draws parallels to a
long standing rule for Walmart workers, which carries the same
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ten foot smiling requirement.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
How do you now what if you're like eleven feet?
How you judge?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Don't know?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Because you know?
Speaker 6 (38:22):
And then like let's say you don't smile it and
you're superior, goes you didn't smilet that employee? They were
ten feet nine inches away. They hadn't got to that
magical ten foot place. What if you're what if you're
a target in meat sauce? Is there to buy athletic
socks and he walks out with Blu Ray DVD Home Alone?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Do you smile the meat sauce.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Because he's gone to Target to get athletic socks and
came away with Home Alone two on Blu Ray DBD
And then if they get within four, Now what did
they get with the two feet of you get right
in your face? Can you say, hey, get out of
my face?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Is like inside my bubble? It kind of is.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
And then if you're like me, I'm ongoing in gregarious
I am right. But that being said, if you ever
go into like a clothes well, you buy, you don't.
You don't go, you don't shop.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
You you do mostly online shopping, online chopping.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
Yeah. I like going to the store and trying things
on before I buy something. Right, walk into a store.
I've said this thing, and I say it in a
way that I'm not being a richer. But they'll go like,
can I help you. I've been shopping for my own
clothes for fifty five years now, I don't need any help.
I'll be fine, I'll find it, and if I have
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any questions, I'll come and get you.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
When I was six, my mom shop for my own clothes.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Once I got to be twelve, thirteen, fourteen years old,
I started picking out my own. Now, your wife still
shops for you, right, she picks out.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
Your close it's a while. I know you can't tell
it's been a while. She just picked I'm not wearing
any new clothes.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
But when when you do get new clothes, she picks
them out for you.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Right. The nice stuff, yes, but I just don't wear
that much anymore. Your go to going out, Yeah, we
go to going out shirts. She picks up same thing
when I go to a grocery store and I know
where the frozen food dial is Malvin Kwalski is, I
just wait to run in a rows and he practically
lives there and he can show me around. So I
don't need a lot of help at the store. I
just you know, if I need your help, I'll get it.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
Well, I would say, the vast majority of places that
ask you for help, I don't want help. And then
the places I need help like yes, like home depot
and Low's. I don't know where I'm going. I need
to know exactly the part I need, and that's always
Those are always the places where there's nobody there to help.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
Do you think during those simulated games they made the
would be managerial candidates where it twins uniform to do
they have to flash signs like touch the brim of
their cap and you know, touch their shoulder because you
know how something managers do.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
They flash all those signs to tell the tell the
players what to do.
Speaker 7 (41:10):
Did they think they threw any like trick questions at him,
like all right here, so Joe Ryan's pitching in the
eighth inning, what would you do here? And the real
answer is, well, he should be pitching the eighth inning.
That's not how we do it here. You got to
pull him after five?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Or did? They asked him? Is where women's under our
party at turn On? I might have been a question
as well. We'll pause when we baby the legendary Mark
Rose and will join us here on the fan.
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An average man? Do you realize what it means to
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Hundreds of deals that I've done, hundreds hundreds. Welcome back
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Okay, I didn't say that common don't put words in
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I'm always as it did to believe what I you
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they're reading. Many times what you read might or may
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Speaker 3 (02:13):
Rachmaninoff talk about guys stealing from one to three love
You want to pay that station to be on there?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And that's ridiculous. What's off?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Alex, he's the clown from Brown. He's the fourth in
the north. This is the common man Dan.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Cole, and the growing begins in five, actually three. The
five sounds like more than two wanders. Good afternoon, att akkadec.
Can you hear the speaker echoeed like a music on
right now? So that makes a lot more chilling.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Because I have to have it up because this is
the second time in the past two weeks where the
female plug into the male plug yoga bands breast has
snapped off because there's so it's gonna be really good radio.
This is inside radio information for those of you listening.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
We have a.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Shared headset that is into right beneath the console here
right from the countertop. I never use it because I
don't know where PA's been. He puts it on his head.
I don't know if he has lice. I don't know,
and I don't want to know. Right, So I was
unplugged and then plug my own headset in. This is
the second time I've went to take the headset out
(04:20):
and it's snapped off and I can't get it in.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That's gonna be am. I can't get it in. Young fans,
there's a sexual minuendo. We used to do that in
eighth grade. We really love doing that in eighth grade.
Can you hear it? By the way, No, I think
it's long. It's quiet enough. It's good. Maybe I never
have to use a headset ever.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Again.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
I've told you my bit about the day that they
do fire me, then I do the and I'm going
to do it for all radio people. The class action
lawsuit that because I having to wear headphones for forty years,
I've lost my hearing. But to call the plaintiff to
the stand, col do you swear to tell the truth,
the whole truth or some semblance of the truth.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So help you got? I beg your pardon? Case closed.
I went deaf sharing because Warren headsets. So there it is.
So we'll see if we.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Can uh if we can uh get Engineering guy back
here during the next break, because last time it happened.
You know, it's funny to me, it's almost like Engineering
guy was like it was like almost like a NASCAR
pit stop. He has a very short period of time.
(05:37):
Well a lot we have long breaks. It's because we're
very No I broke off in here. No, you're never
gonna be able to get this one out.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Good luck to you. So I told you so.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Engineering guy came, you know, like, well, you're watch a
Nascar They have like seven seconds had a pit stop, right,
that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
They change all four tires and fill it up with
gas and they're gone.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Right. Engineering guy could work at Talladega. He comes in
here and he's got a couple of minutes to completely rewire,
rework aheadset bingo, bengo, bongo.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's done, just like that.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
That was Chad Abbott, who he could get in a
lot of trouble. He no longer he lost his third
class operator's license. Really yeah, and so he's not supposed
to do any engineering whatsoever. I have my third class
engineer's operating license, and I'm able to I still have mine,
(06:39):
and I don't let him forget it either. He can't
remember where he lost it. It was like in a
change from one office to the next, and it's gone.
I still have mine in my office. Physical certificate, Yeah,
my little certificate. I have mine posted in my office.
When did think the last time I was in my office?
Remember when all I wanted I was demanding an office.
(07:01):
We had all these empty offices and I'm like, well,
why can't we have an office? And Greg Sweatberg, who
I never see anymore, said why can't you have those offices?
So that well, that's what I'm saying. So I use
it every day. For about the first week, two weeks,
I haven't been in my office. I actually went there
the other day just to see if it was still there,
(07:22):
and it was, But I don't use it.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Remove the cobwebs. Do you want my office? Sure you
can have I would love it. If you want an office,
you can have it. It's a selfless you are. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
I'll give you my Well, remember when we first had
the cubicles and they had you right next to JG.
And I had the little empty one at the end,
and you asked me if you could have it, because
you use it, I don't you didn't want to be
did quite play out like that? And then I played
it out like, well, no, I'm not giving you that,
And you were bitter.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Well, I was bitter because Abbah had come up to
me before then and said, hey, where would you like
to sit? And I pointed to that spot and then
he marked me down. And then when the desk goverrolled out,
I wasn't in that spot anymore. Yeah, and then and
that's why the guy who's never here is the waning
at the good spot, right, And I pretend to.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That I wasn't going to give it to and then
of course I did, because I just don't use it. Well,
I have that.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
I went from the spot I was I was supposed
to sit at into the office was between you and
and and JG in a cubicle section, and it's like,
I don't want to be between the two of you guys.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Plus your backs are to the au.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
It's just a it's a it's the configuration of the
cubicles here is is off.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I don't want to be right next to somebody.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
And yeah, a cube is supposed to be your your corner,
your carry your cornered off right like you're in a cube.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Hey, look at it's fixed. Hold on, I'm gonna put
my headset back in. You doubt it? Chad Abbitt, I did.
I didn't think he could do it. Hello, test there
(09:00):
is Well, let me ask you a question.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
See, are you mechanically inclined? I mean I can change
a light bulb, right, that's I think most people can
do that. I can watch a YouTube video. Yeah, but
I mean, but are you if you watch a YouTube video,
can you pull it off rather quickly and easily? See
(09:22):
I'm not mechanically inclined like that. There's many things I
cannot do now this weekend? Did I bring this up yesterday?
I spent five hours in my backyard doing fall clean up.
I put it off to the last minute. Did I
talk about this yesterday? If my choice is kind of
keep the yard in nice shape on a Saturday afternoon
in the middle of summer, or go golf, which when
(09:43):
do you think I'm gonna choose?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So we get to last weekend.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
This Monday was the last day that my sanitation company
will take yard waste, so it had to get done
this weekend. Saturday was a nice day. I've got a
fence that separates my yard and a hold pond, you
know where all the rain water drains off to. You know,
they'd like to say it's a beautiful it's a beautiful wetland. No,
(10:08):
it's a holding pond with algae grows right, And that's okay,
it's no big deal. But the the the weeds and
the brush grow through my It's coming through my fans.
It's starting to encroach into my yard. If I waited
another year, would be all the way up to my
patio door. I spent three hours, non stop just cutting
(10:29):
it down with clippers and saws, and it was.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It was a lot of work.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
I was exhausted, but it's done. I can do that
kind of manual labor, things that are simple. It's not
hard to cut brush, repairing a headset plug.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
And I can't do that. I just can't.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I mean, I guess if my life depended on it,
I would. I told you my neighbor across the street,
Carl does so many things for me. I'll do the
old I'll text him Carl O buddy, old path. He
knows what's coming. I've got an issue. I talked about this,
but my law more wouldn't start I called the small
engine repair guy. Yeah, probably because it's two hundred fifty
(11:07):
dollars minimum. I said, I could buy a new lawnmower
for three hundred. He goes with, then go buy yourself
a new lawnmower, and I said, okay, thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I hung up.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Carl came took him ten minutes to clean the carburetor out.
From me, it runs like a champ. Would you be
able to clean out a carburetor on a lawnmower. No,
I couldn't even tell you what part of the carburetor is. Well,
it's like the canculator. It's the same kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
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ABC and ESBN back on. I don't think anybody can
do that. That's still a problem right now. There's still
a there's still a logger head, no solution, and it's
because use I mean, I think most people are siding
with YouTube. They're saying ABC, ESPN, Disney that's all Disney. Right,
(12:09):
They're asking way way too much money for ESPN programming,
right they It's it's an arm and a leg. I guess, well,
you know, and and again I'm looking. I'm for the
little guy. I'm the common man, the average man, the
best of louses, lousing the best. That's that's a pretty
high profile property ESPN, right, I mean, they they pay
a lot of money for college football rights, National Football
(12:32):
League rights, Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
They even do some NBA, don't they? Or is that
all NBC? So it's like, well, they sports leader, right,
it's a lot.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Well we're the sports leader but locally, but they're the
sports leader worldwide nationally. So my guess is that it
costs a lot of money to pay those rights, and
so they probably feel like they have to charge it.
And I guess that sounds like I'm sort of sticking
up from it. I just don't none of us know.
You know, we can't get a look at the books.
It's not like Disney's gonna go here, here's our books.
(13:04):
You can see exactly what we pay and how much
we make and how much we pay our employees. Here's
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Speaker 7 (13:19):
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be the word the affordable option. Right, you're spending all
this money on cable and you have all these unnecessary channels.
We're gonna minimize this a bit here, and you're gonna
have get what you want and not pay as much money.
The problem is the sports, sports, sports stuff in the
world just keeps going getting higher and higher higher price wise,
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(13:41):
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Speaker 6 (13:43):
That's you know, you don't have to pay for all
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you couldn't. You couldn't pay me enough to watch last
night's game. And I love defense, but I wanted a
little bit of offense last night. Did you watch any
Green bay Field? I watch the second half. I mean
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And you know, maybe I'm maybe, maybe I'm starting to
(14:05):
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Speaker 2 (14:07):
I just love low scoring, but a little better than
ten to seven.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Give me seventeen fourteen, would you maybe get to twenty
one points?
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Someone said they just got an email from YouTube TV
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It says, considering age, contract, et cetera. If Common was
an NFL general manager, would you rather start his story
franchise National Football League?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Would Jordan Law or JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Love has shown a lot of potential at times, and
I'm all about potential, but he makes a lot of
boneheaded plays.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
JJ's younger and cheaper, but he struggled so far. Curious
as to where you'd.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Lean on this, I guess I've seen more from Law
though he has. Is this year three for him or
year two? This is a year ar three, right, I
think he's made strides every year now. I will admit
I'm not paying his close attention to the Green Bay
Packers in general, specifically Jordan Love is and like I mean,
I watched.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Last night's game.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
I try to catch as much Green Bay football as
I can because they're in the division.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm pretty much a Vikings Lions guy.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Never missed those games, and I try to catch as
much as I can of Packers in Bears as well.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
The other games don't do a lot Fish, I mean,
I should say with Jordan Love, it's year three is
a starter.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
He's been in the league five years, yes, I guess
I did mean starter, but you're right, so right, so
year three is a starter.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I like the way he plays.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
I think he's got I think I think there is
still room for growth. It's it's just so early with
McCarthy that it's it's almost like a grade of I mean,
I don't think Love has a complete grade. You know,
I'm not ready to give an aby. If I was
going to give one right now, i'd give a bee,
which in the national football you need to be an
(19:00):
A orn a minus, and so i'd give m a B.
He's played to a B plus at times, but I
would give him a bee. I would stand incomplete for McCarthy.
But if if you said I had to pick one
of them, I guess I would would take Jordan Love.
But here's a text message, or not a text message.
(19:21):
I'm so this was an email. They came in to Common.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yesterday morning nine p fifty one to Common at.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Campeon dot Com says coming to me, boy, these three
young qbs could all be in the same boat. McCarthy
might be the guy, but right now it looks like
he's just not going.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
To be that guy.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Tell the purple kool aid fanboys that the forty nine
ers realize that Lance was either injured or inaccurate, and
they moved on. The Colt spent a third overall pick
on Anthony Richardson, saw how inaccurate he was, how he
failed the eye test over and over, took himself out
of a game because he was tired, and said, we're
moving on leadership.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
That is, franchise over ego.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
The Vikings as of right now, have committed malpractice as
managers of a franchise.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
They had a feeling about a kid and.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Took a fourteen win team and purposely risked it all
for a kid with a smile and infectious energy and
a seed of talent that was really unproven in Michigan
because they didn't throw the ball very much.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They risked it all. And how the Vikings are mediocre
to bad.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
And what's worse, the two quarterbacks they had in their
stable are now on two different teams and are playing
at MVP levels and those two teams are now big
game contenders.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Meanwhile, we've got a kid here that as the.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Fanboys duped into that smile and boyish charm, they're willing
to wait out three years of terrible football for this guy.
The fact is he shouldn't see the field right now
because he's so inaccurate, has no touch on football, and
tricks veteran linemen into false stars because he can't do
a cadence correctly. JJ meaning Justin Jefferson, is one of
the highest character people on the football field, and he
(20:54):
sees where these balls are thrown and how they're throwing.
He just says, forget it. He cannot believe he was
sixty minutes from the first overall see last year and
now he has to degrade himself to help managers with
their pet project.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Whoa that scathing review of the Vikings.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
It's probably a Packer fan, right, some kernels of truth
in there, I think a little bit right. I mean,
forty nine ers moved on from Lance Colts, moved on
from Richardson.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
These guys don't have it.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
And the Vikings did have two quarterbacks in their stable
that are playing at MVP levels. Latest power rankings from
It's either the CBS or the Athletic Power Rankings. I
have them both in my handheld, which doubles as a
communication device. They both have Seattle Ranches, the top team
in PROFE. One of the two as Seattle Ranch is
the top team in profit. But now again they're just
(21:55):
power rankings. But you could argue that Seattle one of
the best teams in football, if not the best team
in football, and doing large part to the play of
a quarterback we had last year that took us to
were we fourteen and three last year?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yes, I know we had the really bad game.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
And they I think the Vikings it wasn't just the
bad performance against Detroit. I think it was also salary
cap right to give them a hundred million dollars minimum.
Now what he got was from Seattle was one hundred
million dollars for three years, I think, so it was
a lot of loot they were going to have to
pay him, and then they wanted they I think they
(22:35):
were thinking more.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Again, it goes back to that. I do think the
coach and the people around.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Him think that he's got the Mitis touch when it
comes to quarterbacks, and so, hey, yeah, we could give
them a hundred million, but then it's going to be
harder for us to spend money on interior, the offensive line,
in interior, the defensive line. Let's let Sam walk, let's
sign Let's get some people in the interior of those
two lines, and I'll coach the kid up and we
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can do it in a hurry, Because you would think
you're doing it in a hurry if you signed veteran
interior alignment, right, because if you were thinking he was
going to be more of a long term project, like
going to take two or three years to really start
to play football at a high level.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Well, those interior linemen.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
You signed are really going to be really on the
wrong side of thirty, right, And they were injury prone
to begin with, so they're probably not going to be
ready to contribute when your quarterback is.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So it leads me to believe that they thought we
can go forward with McCarthy and not skip a beat.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Now he did miss five games, how much further would
he be along had he not been had the sprained ankle,
the high ankle sprain, maybe a lot further or maybe
no further at all, or maybe we're regressing and we
won't know for a while. And this is by no
means in any way, shape or formal, I suggesting the
Vikings should give up on him, or they blundered it
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when all of it was going down. When the season
ended and we through you know, the first few weeks,
and then through the combines and the free agency period
and the draft and everything. Everybody weighed in on their opinion.
I thought they should have kept the kid, the darnold kid.
I thought they should I thought, you you're you're searching
(24:20):
for your franchise quarterback.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It looks like we have, but they decided not to.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Now again, still a long way to go with McCarthy,
but I'm gonna this that email that brings up some
pretty salient points. So and like someone just said on
the text message, thirty three million a year for an
MVP candidate is a steal, and it really is a steal.
(24:46):
Someone else said, my guess this is poppy biking fan
Trey Lance when we started twenty six games before being drafted.
That's just the forty nine ers being stupid, right, But
at least they realized their stupidity and moved on quickly.
That's the point is you you have to know, and
maybe the Vikings will do. Let's say that McCarthy doesn't
get any better. My guess is the Vikings will fish
(25:07):
and cut bait pretty early too.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
You almost have to write, you can't spend three four
years trying.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
To develop a guy. If you don't think he's got it,
but that will we'll learn more. He's showing signs of
some really good play, but he's also had more. He's
had more struggles that he's had successes.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Let's just say that we'll take a break. We'll come back.
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Speaker 2 (26:07):
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in is in ability. He will join us here just
before two o five.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
It's all the Timberwolves won again. Yeah, they're right hot.
They won five of six.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
They beat the Jazz last night and all that jazz.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Your guy, Anthony Edwards thirty five points. I think I
saw a quote where he says he's he's finding his rhythm.
He's he's got his mojo back. If you'll remember, was
it first couple of games he missed or he played
the first and missed a couple. He has him kind
of a hammy or something. Then his first game back
he had, I mean had fifteen points, which would be
(26:45):
a career day for you or me.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
For him, it's like, what's wrong? And he was playing
a lot of defense and he was five out of I.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Think it was Upstate or maybe it was like, yeah,
he's five for fifteen for fifteen points. I don't remember
exactly what it was. But now he's been scoring like
he has in the past. Yeah, full disclosure. They're being
terrible teams in terrible cities, terrible fans, and terrible stadiums.
But I will tell you this, I'm gonna throw a
bone at the basketball community that thinks I'm too hard
on the Wolves. It's just it's the tough leough covenants. Well,
(27:13):
that's how we are here.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
You will you will not get praise when praise is
not warranted, and when it.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Is, we'll give it here. We'll throw your bone, we'll
patch you on the head, we'll give you a verbal
slap on the back. But in the past, they've been
known to lose to teams, especially last year. Yeah, last
year was awful. That's why they plummeted to the sixth seed.
And as I brought up on a couple thirteen fourteen occasions,
or at least six seven times, they even.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
At the sixth seed. They still got to the Western
Conference finals.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
So sometimes the seating can be a little overrated unless
you get into the play and thing that's almost more.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Embarrassment than anything, right, But anyway, but.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Hey, they beat teams supposed to because they weren't doing
that last year, so so good for them. Saw another
one story fish rep Factory west Side Bobby Nightingale. Bobby
is a beat writer Fish Rap Factory west Side for
the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
What an awful beat? Oh can you imagine being the
beat writer for the Minnesota Twins next year? See how
do I? How do I spin this ninth loss?
Speaker 7 (28:16):
In a row, I say Aaron Gleaman column within the
last week, and the headline was basically ten bargain bargain
hitters the Twins could go after and free agent you know,
just yeah, bargain beIN free agent hitting.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
That's over.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
That's that's an evergreen column every year, like he's got
to have that written down of here's where I talk
about the value guys thing go after.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Dog days of summer next year, early August, you're Bobby
Nightingale or any of the other beat writers for the Twins,
walk into that press box and drop your laptop down,
open it up. Players are warming up. Me going, uh,
I got to write another loss. Then I got to
(29:01):
go down to the locker room and have them give
me the same quotes about we're giving it everything we've got,
but sometimes it doesn't work. Guys are laying on the line,
Guys in the training room. It's badwagon really is. Here's
the headline. How the Twins narrowed the list of manager
candidates from eighty to one before hiring Derek Shelton, who
(29:25):
I think they were going.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
To hire all law is that just.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
They were at eighty eighty eighty candidates. They had a
list of eighty people. That's that's a lot of media
guides you're flipping through, gotten down eighty candidates they had.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
That's what they claimed. Eighty candidates.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Now, don't you go into it though, going like numbers
thirty through eighty really have no shot at the jobs.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
You're really not even considering them.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
So but it says all the Twins narrow the list
of manager candidates from eighty to one before hiring Derek's Shelton.
There were seven people who received interviews, which is sort
of like receiving a death sentence, But there were seven
people who received interviews, and the team tried to leave.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
No stone unturned. Here's what he writes.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
In the first days of the Twin search for a
new manager, the internal list of potential and I love
potential potential candidates swelled about eighty names.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Members of the front office kept an open mind as
they brainstormed. They listed all the former managers and candidates
from other openings around the league, including me. I think
I was on that list because if you remember ten
to me years ago, I was.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
The assistant coach of my oldest nephews little league baseball.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Team back in nineteen ninety nineteen ninety ninety one, I think,
and I can show it to you. I'm met fat.
I'm going to take pictures.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Maybe I've done this already before for Twitter, pictures of
the trophies that I still have proudly displayed in my
basement down in the mangrotto, the trophies that I got
that from coaching little So I have to think, if
there's eighty people there, I was at least as qualified
as six seven of them, right.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I mean right, I mean what does it take to
be a manager? You're you're right down.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
The line up, and then you watch and you add
a boy, and then you flash a couple of signs
and say, why don't we try to sacrifice that guy
over with the bunt? Yeah, why not, let's go ahead
and do that. It is so I think I'm as
qualified as any.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Well, even like back in the day, you'd have to
research the opposing hitter and look at tendencies, and then
you would tell your left fielder, hey, I need you
to move over five spots.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
Now they already know it ahead of time, based out
the computer. So they just grabbed the little piece of
paper out of their pocket and they look at it
before I'm like, oh, this is where I'm supposed to
stand when this guy hit you or the manager doesn't
even have to tell you.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
Do you remember about five or six years ago, I
was ripping some outfield over the Twins sand He's pulling
a cell phone out of.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
His back pocket. I thought he was looking at his self.
I really did.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
I had no idea they were doing what you just
said that that they were looking at a car. That
tells the hitter's tendency is So I came on the
other next day and I go Joe Baggan Donuts is
out and right field.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
He's got a cell phone in his back pocket. He's
checking text messages.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
And then you or somebody went Colm and that's a
that's a scouting card he has in his back pocket.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Well, that was one of those want to get away.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
By the way, I thought that will be something the
Savannah Bananas do at some point though. One of them
will have a cell phone. He'll be taking a video
selfie of him catching a fly ball.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
Over the three weeks following the firing of Rock Wabaldelli,
the Twins whittled their eighty names to Derek Shelton, who
became the fifteenth manager in team history.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Shelton, and in respects, was a predictable hire.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
The Twins at history with him after he was their
bench coach in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen. He was
a finalist in their previous managerial eight search eight years ago.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
After all, but through each.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Round of interviews, Twins officials kept coming back to Shelton
as the leader they wanted. It has kept coming back,
So you got the job. But what I find the
most interesting here? Let me see if I can find this.
Go ahead and give it.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Give me the It was a cheap shot of really
wanted to take here, Ash, darn it. Here's what it says.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
The last time the Twins searched for a manager, their
virtual meetings on Google Hangouts were awkward as people tried
not to talk over each other. These small groups covered
different topics such as in game decisions, coaching, staff will,
player development priorities, and community responsibilities. Oh, I remember what
it was I was trying to find. Yeah, here it
is the Zoom interviews. So they interviewed a bunch of
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They had seven candidates that made the cut. Right then
they had the Zoom interviews with each one. The zoom interviews,
which Folby said could last more than six hours. Oh
my gosh, I'm out after thirty minutes. I mean, really,
six hours of interview. If you're onder the managerial candidates
and you're like, you're thinking, well, they should be quick.
Fifteen twenty minutes, asked me some questions that they like me,
they'll bring me in for an interview.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
You're looking at your watch. It's like hour number three,
and then four and then five, six hours. It's like
bathroom breaks.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
They should have had a pitch clock and called it
a manager interview clock. You can't make people sit through
six hours of interviews. Each candidate managed a simulated game,
Falvey said, give them a bullpen card usage, and here's
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what each reliever did last week.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
It was less about did we win or lose the game?
I guess as they lost.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
It was much more about how did you think about
using the bullpen. My answer to them would be, I
think we should use the bullpen not as often. We
should have our starters go a little deeper into games
like they used to do back in the olden Nations.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
So let's get back to real baseball. Let's get guys
to pitch instead. Of throw.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Then I'd been thrown out of the Zoom meeting because
they wouldn't want me, because that's not what the analytics say.
Tannab Saber Metrics and Analytics. A throw as hard as
you can swing for the fences. The in person interviews
concluded after dinner with Zoel he's you know, he's their
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their general manager and fall. They two of the finalist
dinners were at Mara and one was at Porsana, So
that was kind of well, at least you got to
take into a nice restaurant. I don't know about I've
been to Porzana. Have you ever been to up either
of those restaurants in Borrow? I don't know about mar
I know I've been to Porzana. It's an Argentinian steakhouse.
(36:07):
It's really good too. After three weeks, the Twins managerial
search ended on Shelton, where many expected when it started.
So there you go the eighty people, six hour interviews
and then dinner, dinner in a game, and that was it.
(36:33):
So they they they came around their people. I give
you my theory why they did Zoom cheaper cheaper? Yeah,
have to fly man, absolutely well, you wouldn't fly eighty guys,
and I just think the eighty.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I don't think eighty of them did six six hour zo.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I just think eighty is just ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
I think eighty was just a list and they crossed
off a bunch at the beginning. There's no way they
interviewed all eight.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
I wouldn't think they would. Then again, you know, it
is the twins ten of me, and they have their
own way of doing things, so maybe that's the way
it went down with them.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I saw this too. I was alerted to this one.
Give me one second. Here, here it is. Did you
see this story? Teenemy? This is a Fox nine story.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Target has issued a new directive mandating that workers smile
at customers.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Smile, damn it.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Demanding mandating, not demanding, mandating that worker smile at customers,
as part of a plan to boot sales headed into
the holidays. According to a Bloomberg report, the new initiative
is called the ten four program ten four ten four good,
but the ten four program.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
According to Bloomberg, Under.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
The program, workers are required to smile, make eye contact,
in wave, or greet a shop who comes within ten
feet of them. If they are closer within four feets.
It's the ten to four rule. The workers required to
ask them if they need help or how their day
is going. The Bloomberg article Drove draws parallels to a
long standing rule for Walmart workers, which carries the same
(38:11):
ten foot smiling requirement.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
How do you now what if you're like eleven feet?
How you judge?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Why?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Don't know?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Because you know?
Speaker 6 (38:22):
And then like let's say you don't smile it and
you're superior, goes you didn't smilet that employee? They were
ten feet nine inches away. They hadn't got to that
magical ten foot place. What if you're what if you're
a target in meat sauce? Is there to buy athletic
socks and he walks out with Blu Ray DVD Home Alone?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Do you smile the meat sauce.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Because he's gone to Target to get athletic socks and
came away with Home Alone two on Blu Ray DBD
And then if they get within four, Now what did
they get with the two feet of you get right
in your face? Can you say, hey, get out of
my face?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Is like inside my bubble? It kind of is.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
And then if you're like me, I'm ongoing in gregarious
I am right. But that being said, if you ever
go into like a clothes well, you buy, you don't.
You don't go, you don't shop.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
You you do mostly online shopping, online chopping.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
Yeah. I like going to the store and trying things
on before I buy something. Right, walk into a store.
I've said this thing, and I say it in a
way that I'm not being a richer. But they'll go like,
can I help you. I've been shopping for my own
clothes for fifty five years now, I don't need any help.
I'll be fine, I'll find it, and if I have
(39:46):
any questions, I'll come and get you.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
When I was six, my mom shop for my own clothes.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Once I got to be twelve, thirteen, fourteen years old,
I started picking out my own. Now, your wife still
shops for you, right, she picks out.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
Your close it's a while. I know you can't tell
it's been a while. She just picked I'm not wearing
any new clothes.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
But when when you do get new clothes, she picks
them out for you.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Right. The nice stuff, yes, but I just don't wear
that much anymore. Your go to going out, Yeah, we
go to going out shirts. She picks up same thing
when I go to a grocery store and I know
where the frozen food dial is Malvin Kwalski is, I
just wait to run in a rows and he practically
lives there and he can show me around. So I
don't need a lot of help at the store. I
just you know, if I need your help, I'll get it.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
Well, I would say, the vast majority of places that
ask you for help, I don't want help. And then
the places I need help like yes, like home depot
and Low's. I don't know where I'm going. I need
to know exactly the part I need, and that's always
Those are always the places where there's nobody there to help.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
Do you think during those simulated games they made the
would be managerial candidates where it twins uniform to do
they have to flash signs like touch the brim of
their cap and you know, touch their shoulder because you
know how something managers do.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
They flash all those signs to tell the tell the
players what to do.
Speaker 7 (41:10):
Did they think they threw any like trick questions at him,
like all right here, so Joe Ryan's pitching in the
eighth inning, what would you do here? And the real
answer is, well, he should be pitching the eighth inning.
That's not how we do it here. You got to
pull him after five?
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Or did? They asked him? Is where women's under our
party at turn On? I might have been a question
as well. We'll pause when we baby the legendary Mark
Rose and will join us here on the fan.
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