Oh, well, Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider. Matting Collar here and joining you from WCCO Radio, Paul O'Donick.

Paul, I was driving around,

going to Taco Bell this week, flipped on 830 on the AM dial,

which still exists.

And then I, and I heard your reporting. I heard you're reporting on how baseball is going to ruin all the downtown businesses.

Thanks, baseball. Hey, has anything ever crushed your interest of a sport like Rob Manfred with baseball I could not care any

less sorry business is close to target field I like target field but Rob Manfred has absolutely ruined any joy I ever got from baseball.

Yes I my family had season tickets when I was younger I was a massive Twins fan even when they were bad like when they drafted I'd

watch the draft the Byron Buxton draft I remember watching it and then like

getting like the M I L B app and like tracking his stats as he's coming up like I was fully into this era of the

twins and then just in the last couple years I just I can't bring myself to watch

much of it if they would have gotten rid of Byron Bucks, and this isn't an MLB podcast,

but if they would have gotten rid of Byron Bucks, and I'm not sure how much I would have watched at all. But yes,

MLB is ruining a lot of things, and one is my viewership so yes happy to be on on this football

podcast but yes I am on WCC radio you can hear me all the time but yeah yeah

you're consistently doing reports there, which is very cool for you, and this is, I think,

week two or three.

So we'll track your progress as well as a reporter as you grow into that role.

So let's get right to it.

I want to start with a report from ESPN

about Aaron Rogers.

And before I even get into the whole report and what it says,

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