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every one, Welcome to Guardians' Weekly. Jim Rosanouce along with you from Progressive
Field downtown Cleveland. As we get a little bit closer to the start of
spring training. Next week will be our final show in Northeast Ohio before we
leave for spring training, and then from then on throughout the spring, we'll
bring you the show from Goodyear and the Guardians spring training complex there, so
certainly looking forward to that as excitement builds for a new season ahead. And
coming up on our show today in just a little bit, we will hear
from one of the bright young catchers in the game today. The Guardians very
fortunate to have Bo Naylor behind the plate as their primary catcher heading into the
season, and we'll talk to Bo about some of his ideas and plans for
the season, expectations, and also a look back at last year when he
really made a name for himself at the major league level. We will continue
our look around the American League Central visiting with Chris Addabury the new lead radio
voice for the Minnesota Twins, the defending Division champs. Chris will bring us
up to data on what's been happening with the Twins in the off season,
and he may have seen that the Guardians released their promotional schedule for the twenty
twenty four season. Annie mad Zellen a longtime member of the Guardian's front office.
She will fill us in on some of the great giveaways, promotions,
dollar dogs, all that good stuff that's coming up in twenty twenty four,
and also a big postgame concert appearance by the one and only Shaquille O'Neill.
But first, we had a chance to visit with Bow Naylor at Guardsfest just
a couple of weeks back, and Bow looks great. He really it looks
like he'll be coming into camp a little bit heavier than a year ago,
but muscle heavy. I mean, he looks really really built up and strong
and trying to sustain that wear and tear the major league catchers go through over
the course of a long season. That breakthrough year last year, over all
hit two thirty seven in sixty seven games after he was called up about midway
through the season, eleven home runs, thirty two runs driven in. Here's
the good stuff. You may remember when he was first called up, he
struggled a bit at the plate as he was really trying to focus on handling
a pitching staff and his defense. And he hit just one seventy nine with
four home runs in his first thirty nine games. But you flip the switch
and the last month plus of the season over twenty eight games, bo Naylor
hit three twenty one with seven home runs and eighteen runs driven in. And
here's the big number is OPS. That number that measures on base plus slugging
that so many front offices they look at that as a really good barometer of
some of the top hitters in the game. Anything over eight hundred is tremendous.
Bo Naylor that last month plus of the season had an OPS over a
thousand, the best in the American League's second best in all of baseball.
So a real confidence boost for him heading down the stretch. And when we
caught up with him at guards Fest, we talked to him about dialing it
down and getting away from the game a little bit during the off season before
he really built things up and got going with his preparation for this year.
What does Bo do during the off season to take that time away. For
me personally, I would probably say just a lot of video games, you
know. Yeah, there's a lot of time spent with my brothers. Really
taking that time to just kind of chill, sit down, even if I'm
on the couch all day, but yeah, you know, just kind of
really put your mind in a place where you don't have to worry about being
somewhere at a certain time and really just kind of sit down and you know,
let everything kind of settle. So it was it was a good time.
But you know, shortly after I had to get back to business and
get back in the gym, and I know you have a good setup in
Arizona. Well why is it important for you to get back to the Toronto
area every once in a while and the winter, Oh it's huge. It's
like a it's like a mental and physical reset for me. You know,
that's my homeless where I grew up. Seeing the people that I love that
are still back there. You know, I got to do it and it's
one of the many things that I look forward to doing every off season.
So yeah, you know, I got back there a few times, got
to see some of my family, and really really take advantage of some great
times with them. You finished really strong a year ago. On what clicked
in for you if anything, or was it just the natural progression of getting
more comfortable in the major leagues It allowed you to have a lot of success
later in the year. I definitely think it was the natural progression. I
think I was really trying to take care of the things behind the scenes,
you know, preparation wise, to put myself in a good position in the
game, and I think over time it really fell into place, which I'm
super pleased you mentioned, Adam, and when we talk about improving it,
it's easy to see the offense. How do you feel though about your work
behind the did you feel like you came along just as much and maybe it's
not something that can be measured as well. Yeah, for sure, I
think that I worked really hard to be able to command a staff like that,
and there were a lot of different situations that I was thrown in.
However, I think that I if I failed at them, I'd learn from
them, and if I did well, I took it with me and continue
to try to better myself. And that's just something that I'm looking to try
to build on for the year to come. And when you look at the
managerial change, you'll have a manager who was a former major league catcher for
a long long time. And have you talked to Stephen Vote about that and
how he can be a help for you this year. I think that we
still need to dive into that a little bit more, But you know,
in the conversations that I've had with him, it's been a lot more personal
really just trying to get to know one another and you know what we're about,
and you know how we've kind of gotten to this point in our lives.
So I think it's been a really good start to building a great relationship
in a great bond with him. As I've always said, he's someone who's
super knowledgeable and knows so much about this game. So moving forward, I'm
super excited to be able to pick his brand and a lot of this stuff.
And is it okay still to have your brother on the team. Yeah,
as Josh walked by, But Austin Hedges is back and I know you
just a very brief time a couple of years ago he was here. What
can that mean to have a veteran catcher who has been through all those things
we talked about with Steven Vote a little bit, but someone who's out there
with you, what benefit can that be for you based on what you know
of him? It's huge. He's a special human being and I know everyone
on this team would agree with that statement. I'm very excited, you know,
in that little short span of time, I got to kind of sit
back and see the work that he does to prepare for the game, to
prepare for the pitching stat to command a game and lead a team, and
I think having him along on this journey is it's amazing. I'm super happy
he's back, and I think that he's very excited as well. This time
of year, how excited are you to get it going and see what this
team could be, especially after a season last year. I don't think anyone
was pleased with how it ended. I think there's a lot of talent in
this team, and you know, kind of referencing last year, I think
that, you know, it left the taste in our mouths that we weren't
too pleased with, and honestly, I think that with the right mindset that
this team has, I think that it'll only add fuel to the fire and
be able to help us really go through this season and start it with the
right mindset and kind of help us really bear it down and have that set
mind or have that set goal in our mind of what we want to achieve
how we're going to get there. So I'm excited this group. Like I
said, they have so much talent, so much ability, and I'm excited
to really sit back and be able to see what they do. That's bow
nail Or, a bright young man who, as you may know, has
been working on his Spanish so that he can overcome any type of communication gaps
with the Latin pitchers that are a part of the pitching staff and just generally
trying to help himself out as a teammate to everybody on the ball club.
So a lot of good things going on for Bone Nailor heading into twenty twenty
four. Also a lot of good things off the field. If you're coming
to games this summer, there are not many nights where there won't be some
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all the good stuff. And when we come back, Anni mad Zellen
will join us and talk about the promotions coming up this season. She's the
senior manager of Advertising and Promotions, and she'll be our guest next. Now
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or situations. Bouche shell one Christ Welcome back to Guardian's Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse
back with you from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland, and we are joined now
by Annie mad Zellen, who's the senior manager for advertising and Promotion, and
earlier this week the twenty twenty four promotional calendar was unveiled. Annie, I
know this is something that planning wise goes back to as early as last season.
You have to start looking ahead to the next year. And why don't
we we start with some of the giveaways that will be happening this year at
Progressive Field. What are some of the highlights in your mind as as we
head into the new year. Yeah, thanks, Rosie. I'm really excited
about our bobbleheads for this year. We have Jose Ramirez, Josh Naylor,
Christy McKenzie and our future Guardians Hall of Fame inductee, and I think they're
just really unique and have some really cool details that all of our fans will
really appreciate. So great stuff there, bobbleheads and also some other stuff too
that some of them are repeats. It sounds like from years ago because of
popularity in years past. Yeah, definitely. We did our first Hawaian shirt
giveaway last year in twenty twenty three and it was a huge hit. We
love seeing everyone wear it back to the ballpark, so decided to bring that
back this year, but with a little twist on the design. We went
with a red shirt and it's got the Sugardale hot Dogs integrated into the pattern.
So really excited for fans to see that and grab at the ballpark.
On July third, you mentioned the Sugardale hot Dogs, Dollar Dogs back and
fireworks. Yeah, we have nine Dollar Dogs nights and fifteen fireworks nights.
That includes two Rock and Blast shows in late August. You mentioned Rock and
Blast and you might not be able to disclose the theme as yet, but
how has that evolved from when it first burst on the scene to where it
is now? Just something that's certainly appointment viewing for so many fans late in
the season. Yeah, it's really amazing to see how it's evolved. You
know, it started as just kind of an expanded show with some scoreboard elements,
and you know, now you look at it, it's a really involved
fireworks show, completely sync music and scoreboard video with you know, additional pyro
effects and lighting effects. You know, my favorite thing is to see the
fireworks coming off of the sun guard at the top of the ballpark. So
it's really really evolved in Our team is always looking at ways we can make
it even cooler for the following year. Andy Matt Zellen joining us. He's
the senior manager for advertising and promotions. Andy, You've been at this a
long time, and I've held off a little bit here in our interview to
talk about this one. My favorite is the postgame concert. You have a
big man coming in to put together a DJ show. Tell us about Shaquille
O'Neil's appearance at the ballpark this summer. Yes, Diesel aka Shaquille O'Neil will
be performing a post game set on June twenty second, So come down on
that game. You get your Josh Nailer bobblehead courtesy of Medical Mutual at the
gates, and then fans can all fans no separate ticket required after the game
and enjoy Shaq's said. I have not seen him live, but I've been
scouring the internet for videos and it looks like it's going to be an amazing
show. Awesome stuff Shaquille O'Neil Diesel with the DJ postgame concert, and that
is definitely an appointment. You you mentioned free uh I think you said free
T shirt Fridays. Those are back and how many are there for that?
Yeah, we have eight free shirt Fridays running from mid May to the end
of August. So really excited to partner with some local artists to bring those
to life this year. You know some of our other fan favorites that we're
bringing back. You mentioned dollar Dogs. We're going to have two dollars pregame
in the district presented by Miller Lyton Course Light on select Fridays and Saturdays,
and we're also bringing back our Lightweight hoodie giveaway in September. This has become
a staple of our promo calendar for the last few years, so look to
come up with a really great design that fans can enjoy this year as well.
How far out do you do some of this stuff in terms of planning
and having to order to make sure all the merchandise is here in time.
We actually start usually in June or July for planning for the following year,
but it's kind of a constant process where we're always looking for different ideas and
making notes of different you know, moments on the field or things that we
reflect back on our players that fans will really kind of get a kick out
of and really kind of kick off the planning and artest. I would say,
you know, June, July, and August, and so definitely working
really hardhead or really far ahead, which can be tricky, but you know,
we definitely want to make sure we have enough time to really develop these
great products for our fans. Well, it's amazing just looking at the calendar.
There are very few games where there is not either a giveaway some sort
of promotion be it the dollar dogs or two dollars pre game in the district
nights, something that's in addition to baseball. And it's a great credit to
your team for sure, Annie, and thanks so much for coming by and
filling us in on some of the great things coming up in twenty twenty four.
Great thanks, Rosie, I appreciate you having me on. If you
want more information, go to cl guardians dot com slash tickets and don't forget
tickets going on sale before our next show next weekend two one six day next
Friday the sixteenth at ten am and you can get first dips on all those
great nights that Annie just talked about for the coming season. Again cl guardians
dot com slash tickets. Stay tuned more to come after this on the Cleveland
Planet Guardians Radio network. Boy, this has got a chance to be a
fun summer game. Welcome back to Guardians Weekly as we continue our look around
the American League Central Division, and it's time now to catch up on the
division champs, the defending division champs, the Minnesota Twins with their fine broadcaster
Chris Addabury, who goes full time now as the radio voice of the Twins.
This will be his initial season and Chris, first off, congratulations,
what an off season for you and I'm sure a dream come true to be
the lead radio voice for a major league team. I mean, we all
kind of want that role, and I think I've been very fortunate. I
came to the Twins the same year you joined Cleveland two thousand and seven.
So I've been around a minute in a variety of roles, you know,
pre and posed, and i'd always call, you know, anywhere twenty to
fifty games a year. But to be the league guy with Corey going to
TV is super exciting and honestly we joke about it all the time. But
I owe it mostly to Cleveland because I think I've done like ninety percent of
my big league games have been in Cleveland because Danny's never in Cleveland. So
without my yearly three trips to Cleveland to be on the air, maybe I
wouldn't be in this spot. So now I get to spread my wings into
every ballpark and not just your beautiful ballpark. Well, and you had an
opportunity late last season to be on the mic for the division clincher and then
also obviously working through the postseason. But for the Twins, you know,
a year ago division tie obviously a big deal, but maybe a bigger deal
they won a postseason series, and you know, obviously that was a tough
stretch of years where they would make the postseason and not only not win a
series, but not win a game. A gigantic sigh of relief or was
it more than that when when they got past the Blue Jays and then really
played well against the Astros too. Yeah, I think it was a little
of both. Like it was definitely relief, Like you can only hear that
narrative so long, and yet you can't argue with it. You know,
every single year I heard a new group of players or front offices or coaches,
well, we're not It wasn't our streak. We weren't around for that,
And I'm like, yeah, y are now you know, you just
you just lost a couple more. It was almost an incomprehensible streak until you
started digging into it and realized that, you know, for ninety eight percent
of those games, the other team was better, and most of the time
that other team was the Yankees, and they were better. If you're starting
ccs of Athy and we're starting Brian Gunny in Yankee Stadium, like, you're
probably gonna win in the peak of CC's career. So we had our chances
to win some games in there. They didn't go our way. So to
finally this guild of a hump was nice. I think there's still some disappointment
though, because you know, after stealing one in Houston, you know it
was all there for the taking force. I think that we match up really
well with Texas. They didn't want anything to do with us. We saw
them late in the season and really dominated them in every fast of the game.
Houston was always a tougher matchup for US. We had Sonny Gray at
home in front of crazy crowds, and we just we couldn't get it done.
And so I think while there's a level of satisfaction for winning a division
and winning a series, I don't feel like this team came anywhere close to
living up to its potential last year. So hopefully we can do that this
year and not just kind of muddle around for five months and then play well
for a few weeks. Like I think it's a team that has the talent
to really dominate in the division, and yet, as you've seen up close
and personal, rarely does that happen, right. We always just kind of
kind of linger around and hope for a late push, And I think that's
the hupe we have to get old. Well. Well, we'll talk about
the team heading into twenty twenty four shortly, but first, Chris, I
imagine just a super special day recently when Joe Mauer was announced as a Hall
of Famer. He'll go into Cooperstown this summer. What a great story.
I'm not sure how many Hall of Famers are that hometown kid who made good.
And what was the reaction among Twins fans and just in general in the
Twin Cities to the announcement that Mauer had made the Hall. Well, I
think it's fantastic. And you know, now Saint Paul has four Hall of
Famers, which is more than any town or city of any size. You
look at Winfield and Mallitor and Morris and now Joe Oh, which is crazy,
you know, and they all literally grew up within like a two mile
radius of one another. So it's pretty spectacular. And I think for me
it's cool because you know, I got here an O seven, fresh off
Joe's batting title, first batting title, and Joe could do no wrong in
the Twin Cities. Is the perfect hometown euro And then he got hurt,
and then there was the inevitable backlash, Well, why doesn't he hit more
home runs? He's not touching anymore, Joe's overrated. And then now I
think we finally get to just settle all that garbage yeah, Joe's awesome and
he's a Hall of Famer. It was always, well, he's good,
but he could have been, you know, as inevitably happens when someone doesn't
make any missteps, when they're just consistently a good person. There's no drama,
you know, there's no redemption story after getting in trouble off the field.
He was just consistently really good at being a husband and a father and
a son and a baseball player. And then now instead of is he or
isn't he, you know what, he's a first ballot Hall of Famer.
Well three catchers. Ever, that conversation is in the dustbin forever, and
we can just appreciate it because, as you well know, anymore, the
Hall of Fame process, I feel like it's more like picking at what people
didn't do as opposed to celebrating just how phenomenal all of these players who are
even considered for the Hall of Fame are. And so I think Joe is
well deserved. I don't think there was ever a catcher like him. We
may never see a catcher like him again. And I feel very blessed to
have been in the front row to watch most of that career and my favorite
antidote about Joe Mauer, could you please describe the establishment across the street from
his high school baseball field that features some of the best burgers you'll ever have
and a bowling alley in the basement. Yeah, the Nook. Yeah,
the Nook is home of one of the one of the birth spots of the
Juicy Lucy. There's a bit of an argument on each side of the river
here, Matt's Barr in Minneapolis, the Nook and Saint Paul. I'm a
Nook guy myself, and it's right over fittingly the left center field wall.
And the deal was if you hit the Nook with a home run, you
got like a free burger. The funny thing is they have burgers in there,
and Juicy Lucy is the molten lava cheese inside the burger, and so
like you take a bite and in like this, there's a lot of oozers
out the sides. And you know, he and Glenn Perkins they rented out
that whole bowling alley innovation for they al Suday in twenty fourteen. It was
a pretty cool deal. But they named the burgers after famous ALUMSA Cretan so
there's a Paul Mahllerderberger, and there's a Chris wank Berger and a Steve walsh
Berger and all these different guys, and then there's the Mala And they named
it all the things you could name it for a hometown hero. They named
it the Mallard double play Burger. And Joe who hit into his fair share
of you know, four six threes and got much relied for it. He
never understood that. He's like, they named it that because it was Jake
and Joe older brother and Joe, and he's like, I get it,
man, but like, Jake's not playing anymore, But you have to call
it a double play Burger for real. That's all you can come up with.
And so hopefully now they'll change it to the Hall of Famberger or something,
because the double Playburger was a all time low key slight of Jojo from
his buddies a nook. Hopefully he shed some light on that and provides some
clarity in his Hall of Fame speech. Coming up in Cooperstown this summer.
Chris Adabury joining us. He's the new full time radio voice, lead radio
voice, we should say, the Minnesota Twins coming up this season, and
let's take a look at at twenty twenty four for the Twins, So they
win the division title in twenty three, have a playoff run and not a
whole lot happening. I think fans here in Cleveland can identify there's a TV
situation in terms of income coming in that is kind of Trim's budgets and they're
kind of waiting to see what happens there. But what's going on for the
Twins to try and get better in the twenty twenty four season and stay ahead
of the competition in the division, Well, that's a big question, right.
I think undoubtedly we had the best team last year. It wasn't easy,
but eventually they won the division. I think we have the best team
on paper again this year. But I think it's gonna be another absolute dogfight.
I think it's gonna be Cleveland no matter what. They're gonna be in
the mix. What if we've played in the last five years, maybe three
games that we're just out of my two runs or less between these two teams,
and then I think Detroit tell me come too. I think they're gonna
be a lot better. But for the Twins, the TV things a real
deal. I mean, I know Cleveland's in the middle of it, but
the Twins even more so. They literally their contract ran out with the old
Ballet slash Diamond slash Sinclair slash whatever, fake company. They're going to come
up with the Hyder money and push the deadlines, and so we were ready
to move on to a league package or whatever else was out there. And
then now with all of this bankruptcy court and all this stuff that's outside of
your control, they're probably gonna be left with very few options and maybe get
sucked back in at a low ball number by the same snakes that put you
in this spot in the first place. That's a bad business model, right
like that puts you behind the eight ball big time. Where you're a team
like the Twins or the Guardians who really rely on that money to balance out
your budget, to not know if it's coming or how much it's gonna be
is really difficult. So they made their one move. They traded Hori Polanco.
I know Cleveland won't be sad to see him go because he's had some
games against you guys through the years. He's out best at that you need
to switch hitter. He's a pros pro and we're really gonna miss it.
He was our longest tenured guy. But I'm not surprised. You know,
d Sclafani gives you at a starter. He's not sunny gray, but he's
a legit guy. Topa the reliever. You know, only has one year
in the big leagues. He's thirty two. He had one year in the
big leagues. He was a good year, but you know, it remains
to be seen. He's an ex arm in the fen, a tough at
bat, you know, sinker ball die and then a couple of prospects.
So I think they did well in terms of the mass of the trade,
but it's certainly not a needle moving trade. I think what the Twins are
banking on is not only having a solid foundation to their rotation. When you
start with Pablo Lopez, who I think is a legit cy young type candidate,
Joe Lyons still has room to get better. Bailey Ober, I think
legitimized himself as a major league starter, will get Chris Paddock back, who
look great in the postseason. You got the Spliffani and then Louis Varlin floating
around and a really strong bullpen that will be better. I think from the
beginning than a year ago. But really you're banking on your highest paid players
currently playing more and playing better, and as all starts at Byron Bucks,
if Byron can play geez even eighty games in center field only got a lot
better. And if Carlos Korea can, for the first time in a Twins
uniform, actually perform offensively like the All Star that he has been in the
past. I mean, he carries himself like then suddenly our offense gets a
lot better, and then we give Royce Lewis for a full year. So
I think that's where we're banking on the improvement full year of Royce Lewis,
who's a legit star type human being, a healthy and hopefully at long last
productive year from Carlos Korea. You know, Carlos came in talking I want
to be in the Hall of Fame as a Twin and this, and that
he hadn't hit like one at all. He's played amazing defense and was great
in the postseason, But aside from you know, a pretty good September two
years ago and he was playing for a contract, he has not performed offensively
in any way, shape or form the way he did in those good years
in Houston, and obviously some things risk you. And then Byron just wasn't
healthy. So you're talking about three potential superstars and and two of them didn't
either play enough for play like superstars a year ago, and the other guy
did but he only got half a season. So I think that's where you're
looking to get an improvement of the Twins baseball team is already existing players playing
more and playing better. Yeah, it's interesting we do this interview in early
February, and I feel like the Twins are kind of in the same boat
as the Guardians for the reasons you mentioned TV contract wise and the uncertainty there.
We can have a lot different teams or or at least some moves or
maybe not. But you get the feeling the off seasons not over yet and
it might not even be when the season begins, if that makes sense.
Well, and that's kind of always been Derek salve'sm right. We traded our
closer on opening day a couple of years ago in the Taylor Rogers Chris Paddock
deal. We added Donovan Solano after camp had already started. You know,
Korea was a late edition, so we've always made the arise Lopez. We've
always made late moves. I don't think the Polanco deals the last year we
made before we report, I feel that there's a move out there, and
we'll have to give up talent to do it. But I think there's a
move out there that will involve bringing back a starting pitcher who's a bit higher
ceiling and more controllable, younger guy than a Discofani. I really believe that
that's kind of the guys we've targeted. We built a rotation by trading for
good pictures from other teams, whether it was a number one pick in Chase
Petty to get Sonny Gray, and we traded for Pablo Lopez. You know,
we traded for Joe Ryan, We traded for Chris Paddock. We traded
even for the ones that didn't work out, guys like Lancelin and Tyler Malley.
We traded for those guys. We have kind of said, okay,
you know, we've got some developmental issues in our pipeline where we're creating good
relievers. Bailey overs made the jump, but we struggled to find top notch
starters. Developmental wise, we're not Cleveland yet right where you're spinning new starters
off your assembly line every year, and so we've had to find an alternative
means almost like they comes used to do it. Okay, we grow in
some bats, let's go trade those bats for pitching. So even getting this
like Gabriel Gonzalez is the prospect as part of the Polanco deal. You know,
see a guy, then you can flip in a bigger deal to get
another arm back. But I do think we'll make another deal that. The
one thing that you guys can't do is you can't replace a guy who has
maybe the greatest manager whoever set a dugout right like, so you can.
You could change all the faces you want, and I love Stephen got as
you will know. But to me, man, that's the biggest loss in
the whole division is when Terry Frank Coote is no longer then the big X
factor heading into twenty twenty four absolutely for Cleveland, no question about it.
We won't know until the season develops and you see how things go, especially
when you go through those tough patches. But we'll see Chris. Look,
it's always exciting when your team's the defending division champs and you've been to the
postseason, so certainly Minnesota has that going for them heading the spring training.
Enjoy your time down in Florida and we'll look forward to seeing you when the
teams meet during the regular season. Yeah, you avoid the cactie out there
in uh in Arizona. You're in charge of keeping. Tell me on schedule
throughout the spring uh, and then we will see you guys all too soon.
I'll tell you. My biggest bummer about the balance schedule is if we
only see you guys, you know, a couple of times in your place
and a couple of times at ours, and as opposed to three every year,
I would have preferred. I would have preferred to keep it the old
way so we could spend one more time together. We will for John Wards
somehow. But hey, thanks, thanks for the time today, and and
go go Montana State. How's that? Ah? I like that you almost
said Montana I wanted to. I would have had to not talk to you
for the uh you know for a while. That's like me saying, go
Lea. You know you want that. If I came in here saying go
LEI, what would you say? All right, hang up on you?
That'd be enough. Chris. Thanks for the time. Pal, all right,
you always pleasure. That's Chris Adderbury, the play by play voice on
the radio side for the Minnesota Twins. Stay tuned Morticom after this on the
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