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Sponsored by North Star Remodeling, Fine Edition's Kitchen to Bass since 1972. I am John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com, and with me, Aaron Cleman, of Baseball Perspectus. As always, I wish we could record, I guess we could, what goes on in the break or right before the show i literally heard our theme

song start up and i went oh yeah we got to do a show so now it'll get much more less

interesting than the conversation we just had where we were revealing all but uh here's where we

stand the twins are hopefully moments away from winning the final game of this uh weird it's been

a weird week it's been a weird week uh we're going to talk a lot about it. It's important they win this one. Yes. It's just to get a 500 a week. And just as importantly, the Indians first gave up five runs in the eighth inning just now to the Royals. Right. To turn a 3-3 game into an 8-3 game that the Royals were leading. Then the Royals' bullpen coughed it all right back up to make it 8-8 and send it to 10 innings. And then Ryan O'Hern, the Royal's first basement, hit a home run in the 10th inning. And then the bullpen held up that one-run lead and the Indians lost. So it's potentially here. Twins are a couple. Right now the Twins are four games up in the loss column. Three games over.

If they win this, they'll be three. Indians lost. So it's potentially here. Twins are a couple. Right now the Twins are four games

up in the loss column. Three games over. If they win this, they'll be three and a half

games over. It's still four games up in the lost column. John fancies himself the loss column,

which I do too, because basically wins, you can get as many games as there are left. You can

win hypothetically.

You can't take back the losses.

And so being up for in the loss column, those are in the books already.

Also, you know, good teams tend to win.

Do you know what I mean?

If you're talking about good teams, it's the losses that are the rarer of the things.

Well, right.

And it also, if you get down to the end of the season, you're a couple up in the loss column,

you can really truly, you know, control your own destiny. It's just don't lose, and you can't get... cough it back up. It has been... It's an interesting week in that the... The losing two out of three to the White Sucks at home, obviously, a disappointment. And the week overall was sort of a missed opportunity to really jump out a little bit further. But they're going to end up going three and three in the week. Right. Knock on something close to wood, whatever this is. One out of way, we'll update that when that goes final. But really, the only issue I had with the White Sox series, aside from, you know, some specific sloppiness or bad

pitching or whatever, was the first game. Right. If they win that first game. That first Monday game. Right. Which is a long time ago. Then they ended up taking two out of three from both, and that's not great. You'd like to sweep, especially the tigers. But you end up taking two or three because, you know, getting shut out by Gialito is not a result you want. But Gialito's been doing that to a lot of people lately. Yep. So I didn't

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