Welcome to Talking Baseball. We have a different conversation for you today. We talked with an MLB Authenticator.

What's going on everybody? Welcome back to Talking Baseball. My name is Jimmy. I got Jake here. I got Trev here. We just wrapped up a conversation with Trev's colleague.

Jake, were you ex-colleagues? Is that even a thing? I know what you both worked for the twins.

Vanika was a mainstay. She works in the front office with the twins. Still keeping contact with her over Twitter. We were always racking our brains. Who can we talk to? Let's mix up the monotony of talking to players.

One of the first people I thought about was V because memorabilia is hot right now. Everybody's into it. The authentication of all these items is kind of a new thing in baseball. It was really cool to pick her brain on what can be authenticated.

What are some stories about some of the stuff she shared? A ton of awesome info. At the end we got into some stuff about how to get more women in the front offices. She provided some good information and some resources for anybody looking to get into the game.

It made sense very quickly why you wanted to have her on. She was great. Some good stories about the gig and stayed till the end for even better stories.

That felt like we cracked the code and we entered a whole new realm. We entered a whole new podcast with her for a little bit. That was a lot of fun.

I love this stuff. I love getting into other people's like every profession has little nuances and outs that only other people's and I love learning about those.

We are joined by Venika Streeter, the manager of authentic and retail sales for your Minnesota twins.

We are joined by Venika Streeter, the manager of authentic and retail sales for your Minnesota twins. V, how you doing?

I'm good. Thank you guys for having me on. This is pretty cool.

Thanks for coming on. How are you doing?

I'm good. I'm kind of locked in my house right now. I go into the ballpark a couple of times a week. I was in yesterday. So today I'm staying home and doing this podcast with you and with answering some emails and stuff before it is because the job never stops. But yeah, just hanging out at home right now.

I know you ended up coming on. Obviously we have a relationship dating back to my time in Minnesota. They call talking baseball the most well-rounded pod in the land.

And lately we've been just doing so many player interviews with everybody at home. We were talking like we got to switch some stuff up. So with kind of how the memorabilia side of things has been heating up a ton.

You were one of the first people I thought of because you have a hand in that amongst many other things that I found out since asking that question.

But we yeah, we're definitely excited to have you on and kind of just talk about.

I mean the front office perspective, the memorabilia perspective, even coming from the woman's perspective in a male dominated industry. So there's a lot of great things that we want to get into today. But again, thanks sir.

I'm excited. Am I the first front office person you guys have had on this pod before?

I think so. Yeah.

I think I have a front office person is going to be trying to get Sam fold on here a few times. We're big Sam fold proponent. Trevor mentioned Sam fold like way too much. And we're like you have to stop.

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