Green Man and the Geese.

Green Man and the Geese.

Green Man and the Geese

Talking baseball every week.

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Sponsored by ByG-G-O-Rody Trial Attorneys in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Check them out at buygoth.com, B-Y-E-G-O-F-F.com. I'm John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com. And across from me, Aaron Gleeman of Baseball Perspectus.com. Enjoying the hot, steamy weather, aren't you? Yeah. I was outside yesterday. Doing some day drinking, and that's about it. I know you're a big fan. For the next month. Of hot and steamy weather. Yeah, we chose the bars. We went to based solely on what we thought would have the best air conditioning situation. And one, we walked in, and I, like, assessed it. Like, okay okay there's an overhead fan here there's

a C we don't have to sit by the window and the lady's like is it cool enough and I'm like you

know what good work we're going to spend a hundred dollars here like good you kept it under

70 degrees and that's really I don't know why we didn't just stay in the apartment and do that

other than maybe we would have had to buy some mixers for our alcohol but yes exactly right yeah but yes it is actually you probably don't even have to that's true

you just go to the grocery store yeah I'm a foot from a grocery store the the twins offense is just

as hot and steamy no no it's not it's not really not really no it's the cold and icy. It's more like the weather. I prefer the twins. I feel like we keep every week, I'm trying to think, like, there's been maybe one really, like, good week that we've, on a Sunday, maybe two, the whole season, on a Sunday where we've come in here and gone, all right, here we go. Yeah, here we go. And instead, almost every week, and this is one of them, certainly pending, you know, what happens right now they're playing. But it's one of those we're like, can they just be on track? Like, and they just can't climb over the, they can't get to 500, let alone climb over it. Right. I remember the two days yet. I mean, had we been doing the show on Tuesday afternoon? Yeah.

Or Wednesday and our Tuesday afternoon, it would have been a whole different story Tuesday night. And I think, you know, that's the frustrating part is, you know, last night was the seventh walk-off loss that they've had, which is, you know, the end of near like over a quarter of their losses that been of the walk-off variety. And it's tied for the most in the history of baseball through, what are they, 47 games, 46 games. There's only been one team, I think, Pirates team in the 60s had eight walk-off losses through this same point in the season. How did they do that year? I'm going to guess they didn't do too well, but I didn't check. That's a good question. Maybe in the break I'll check. But it's like an excruciating way to lose because it's not only losing one run games, which are the twins I look. They're three in ten and one run games. And there are two things that sort of make or break can turn a mediocre team, which I think the twins are plus or minus, plus or minus a couple games of 500 in terms of true talent.

We thought that coming in the season, it was based on last year's record, all that stuff. And the thing that can turn that from like 75 wins to 90 wins and somewhere in between is one-run games and runners and scoring position success.

And we've seen it go both ways for the twins, really, and for a lot of years under Garden Harry, when they had really good bullpins, Joe Nathan and the setup man DeJure, Rincone and Neeshach and Romero and all those guys, they were quite good in one-run games. And so that is a... And this bullpen is not terrible. Right. And that's the odd thing.

But I think last night was an example of, oh, you have all these walk-off losses, seven of them.

And you have your three-and-10 in one-run games.

If they were 10 and one-run games, they'd be in first place.

Right.

We'd be talking about how clutch they are.

And they'd be on pace for, I mean, truthfully told, if they were seven and seven, or seven and six in one of the games, they'd be in first place.

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