Green Man and the Geek

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I guess it feels like the Dead Days of June edition. That's going to be a really long title, John. Dead Days of June edition. Do we put the ellipsies in there where you paused? I'm John Bonas of Twinsdaily.com with me, Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic.com. Does that not feel like that, though? Maybe it's because it's a West Coast road trip and they've got night games. Maybe it's because they've got like three off or two off days here and like in the next week and we just had an off day yesterday.

You just think we've gotten to the season where everything just sort of starts blending together and it's like these are the middle games basically. Yeah. And we got past that, you know, that one test that we're kind of looking forward to, the nine game test, right? And now we're kind of like, the truth is that the next two weeks are pretty important all of a lot of them. They wouldn't have been, you know, if we were previewing this a month ago, well, in fact, we did a month ago. Actually, like three weeks ago. We tossed Cleveland into the, you know, losing team pile because at the time they were a couple games below 500. Three games, three, four, five games. And we were like, they're going to play 21 straight versus losing teams. Then they're going to play nine, which they just finished against the ALE East. Then they're going to play like 15 more against losing teams. Well, now that's no longer the case because Cleveland is four games above 500, three games above 500.

And they're only two back, two flat back. losing teams. Well, now that's no longer the case because Cleveland is four games above 500,

three games above 500.

And they're only two back, two flat back of the twins.

And as we'll talk about, the twins play Cleveland eight times in the next two weeks,

basically.

Right.

A three gamer here, this upcoming week. that starts Tuesday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

Yeah, Tuesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, because they got Monday out, another off-day on Monday.

And then next week, after that, they play five games in four days with the scheduled double header.

Very similar to that.

Detroit, which, by the way, was a little bit disastrous. little bit. Playing five games in four days versus on the road. That's like a little, you're a little bit pregnant. No, you're just pregnant. That was a disaster. They lost four or five. Yeah. So all of a sudden now, you know, there's been so much focus always on the White Sox as the, you know, the big rival that needs to be toppled or held off by the twins.

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