UNCHAINED: MLB schedule makers are MORONS

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All right, Patrick

Baseball season is under deckland was at the Saints game last night grinding through 20 walks issued. So oh was that it?

20 walks. Well, by well, just the Saints.

So I witnessed 17 combined walks through four innings. And by the time I got back home, had a bite to eat, watched a television show.

There was 27 walks issued by the end of the bottom of the night.

And we can't blame the uppers because we can, uh, it's got to be that bad, right? Because they they have the challenge system there too, right?

They do, but two things happened yesterday. One, a lot of challenges early in a holy cow this poor triple A on pat.

I mean, when they don't even show the inches when they just show that you missed the down, downward, out of the plate by like three baseballs with you're like,

Oh, wow, that must feel bad. But then Pat at in like the fourth inning, it broke. It went offline.

And they were and the ABS guys next to me were scrambling. They're talking to my league baseball, you know, corporate

And for about an hour, it was just out. It just wasn't working maybe because he was so bad.

They just shut it down and pretended like they did. But, uh, so in other words, the triple A teams and say,

boy, we'd sure like them. That CB Buckner behind the planter.

You could call them correctly.

So I think poor CB is definitely become the the poster umpire for and you know what?

These guys are so much better names to be. It's unbelievable. When they miss it now, it's like an inch or two backs.

And I left back then they didn't care. They'd call it a foot outside. They wanted to get the game moving.

So, uh, you know, it's, you know, he's he's bad, but he's not as bad as I thought he was, you know,

because he's what he misses. It's a half a ball or something like that. So, okay, here's my

tire rate. Why outside of the absolute popularity of the violent game of football, why is the NFL just

make billions and billions for each team? My theory is because you got 32 owners trying to all help

each other make billions and billions and billions. You know, you can try to get somebody else

it's free agent, but when push comes to shove, it doesn't really matter because you're all getting

a big cut of the pie and you're all the schedule doesn't matter. You know, they, okay, you're making

us play on a Monday and a Thursday, but I'm still making billions of dollars. I don't care, right?

So, here's what we got going on baseball, right? The Twins are in Kansas City, a city where they

return to later in the year if something would happen, but they have a Monday game and then you

got to take Tuesday off and then you play Wednesday and Thursday. Why do you allow them to have a

protection day when they can just play it the next day because that team's coming back. And

meanwhile, letting them do this and have a protection day, the twins come home on Friday and guess what?

The weather in the Twin Cities is generally crappier in early April than it is in Kansas City,

right? So, you got a better chance in Kansas City of it not snowing, right? In early April,

but so the twins now have to come home without a protection day because they used it in Kansas City

where it is not needed and now they're going to get snowed out twice and they're either going to

have to play a triple hitter on Sunday or Tampa Bay is going to have to come back here and play

two on some random day in July. What is there anybody in the league office who looks at these

schedules and says, wait a minute, we're not doing it this way. Kansas City does not get a

protection day and we can go back there and play a double hitter whenever we go back there in August

or something. I mean, Pat, what would be wrong with with Major League Baseball looking at the cold

weather outdoor team? So, so Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, whatever like New York, however far you

want to take that and saying those teams are going to play the first nine or 10 games on the road

in warm weather locations and ideally places where you don't have to worry about like making

up games later and then they will play their first home game a week and a half into the season

with a day built into the first series. Wouldn't that next the whole thing? And then you can just have

them home more in May and still give the other teams their summer dates, you know, you can,

you know, we'll have them home a lot in May and then everybody gets to July in August is what

they want. I can see that, but this is what what the hell what did they think that the weather change

or the twins? Their home opener in 1961, April 20th, you know, why? Because they were afraid of

my show. Yeah, they open out the season started 10 days later too, but they took into consideration

where you were playing the games and also another thing that we should steal from 50 years ago

is scheduled double headers to condense the overall season calendar, right? So they like every other

weekend or maybe more for a long time, you had Sunday double headers. And so you could get your

and it fits 154 game schedule and you're playing double headers on Sundays. Now you like knock a month

off your schedule, you know, they got to get it. It got it at least a week shorter at the end

now here pretty soon. No, I mean, they got to do something, but everybody because of season ticket

sales in some places where they sell them, they want to have 81 dates to sell to you. It's a,

in other words, I know fans might like double header, but we want to screw our fans. So they

want to charge it for 76 games instead of, I mean, 81 games instead of 76 games, you know, it's

it is a, I mean, I saw that twin schedule for two straight years and maybe further haven't gone back,

but Dustin Declan brought it up the other day. 19 home games between Friday and May 2nd,

May 2nd, is it? And meanwhile, and as I say, and the Yankees are coming in for those prime midweek

dates in September when our twins will be in their fight and for the, you know, the Godful on

instead of and Toronto's coming. And the last team to come in those 19 games is Toronto,

which if you're playing them in the summer, and they're not still mad at Trump, they might,

you might get 20,000 people from Manitoba to show up here, but instead they're here at the end

of April for God's sake. And the people and the people there are saying, we can get snowed on up

here. Why do we want to go down to Minnesota and get snowed on on May 1st? So it's, it's awful.

So, so it's the worst disorder. The baseball is just so screwed up.

So with, with like the weather that's coming in this weekend and with just, yeah, the general

temperature surrounding the organization here, opening day is always the, the biggest crowd.

The lowest ever target field home opener was last year. It was 36,700, I think.

How low do you think? I mean, it's going to be, it's going to be a new low, I think,

Friday. There's going to be nobody. There's going to be no walk-ups and I can't by

alleged in that any cell. So, oh, one other thing I want to throw in, Tampa Bay, Monday,

first home game of the season. They've been on the road for, first 10 games of the season.

Oh, like, like next Monday. Yeah, Monday when they leave.

They play, they play in Florida. Well, they're playing Tampa, I guess. Either way,

they're either playing indoors or in Tampa, like, yeah. And by the way, you don't want to be

there in the summer because it rains every day at 430. So, you want to out front load it with as

many games as you can. So, why? I don't understand this. They just, I think they're morons.

They just put it in a computer and there's no consideration giving to what the weather might be.

They just put it into the computer. In fairness, they have spent the last 10 years using those

computers to try and get CB Buckner out from behind. They've been, they've been, uh, anyway,

I interrupted you. Excuse me. I just wonder how many people you think you're going to show up on

Friday, uh, with all these elements in play. Actual 28 or 30, I'd say. I'd guess, I don't know,

I haven't heard any. They haven't been bragging about how closely they are to selling out the

opener. They've been, they've been put, you mean, I mean, we're, they're marketing $20 to get in

and $2 pregame, kind of happy our beers, whatever. But I mean, you know, I can tell, they can call

it off now. If you look at the trouble, you know what the other trouble is with weather now.

They tell you what's going to happen. They're right. 92% of the 92% of the time you had

Bud Crowley sitting there guessing what, hey, somebody told me it was snowing and Brookings three

days ago. So we might get it here pretty soon now. Now they know where it is. It's 12 miles away.

Here it comes, you know, so it's, uh, yeah, we're, we're, uh, technology is killing us at the

gate, man. But it's, uh, I, you know, just go back and look at the old schedules when they're in

that stadium. They did, I mean, beyond the shorter season, it was, they, because of double headers

and because, you know, I'm only having to send one seem to the world series. Uh, but the season

still ended at the same time. It ended like October 1st or 2nd. So, uh, they just, you know, they

took into consideration where you were living, you know, when they put the schedule out and, uh,

I, I don't know. I, what do you think? You think we were better off in the Metro?

Wow. I love, I like this fall park. I love everything about it. But, you know, it hasn't,

it hasn't gone particularly well. It hasn't been on a beautiful 80 degree summer day,

where, with, with no day game, it's hard to beat. It just atmosphere. It's amazing. Uh,

so I wouldn't trade those days. No, but Phil, 2011, you weren't spring training, right? Yeah.

And the optimism was off the charts. We just got done drawn 3.3 million. And how did that see,

and you came up with the, it's happening T shirt because, and it's so because in June,

we still couldn't believe they were this bad, right? We couldn't believe it. Well, how did that happen?

What happened? The picture went to hell, but what else happened? I think in 2011, specifically,

I think they had like 15 guys land on injured lists and whatever.

Uh, in terms of a more broad, like 15 years, what has happened? That's, yeah. No, no, I'm saying

2011 change the complete trajectory of this franchise. It was, uh, it was, there were no

indicators. And they've had like, obviously, they've, you know, they want to play off series

a couple of years ago. They've had some, but it's mostly been bad at target field. But going,

to your point, going into 2011, when you had mower in his prime, mornow in his prime, you had,

I mean, you had, even Leriano came back in 2010 and was, was looking pretty good. And on

the, on the end, there were no indicators that they were about to become one of the worst teams

in baseball for. That's the year we danced after we waited 100 wasn't it? Wasn't it? That's right.

Both. Uh, and Michael Dyer told Trevor Pluth that was the most embarrassing thing he'd ever seen

on a baseball field. I'd have to go, I gotta go back and look at that closer at that season.

It's just unbelievable that it happened. And then they made the, you know, uh, you know,

when it's all started, though, when he decided that we had to make good trade for Matt Capson

get, uh, to preserve the, uh, the, the winning streak in 2010 and turned out to be, you know,

in 2010. No, they ended up, you know, they had Roush who was a tall Matt Caps, basically.

Yeah. I sure missed him when he left. What a, what a, what a fun interview that guy was.

God. He was full of joy. Wasn't he? Uh, so the angry, angry, a duck, that one, an angry six foot

nine man. You don't want to ask a question. That's, you know, he was impossible to ask a good

question to, you know, Bailey Ober can't throw a ball over 90 miles an hour, but at least

a really nice guy, you know, like he, he's not, he's not a mean guy. He knows there are other

people on the planet unlike Roush. I don't think who was, uh, uh, unbelievable. But, uh, by the way,

I did, I did pull up the 2011 baseball reference page for, for the twins here. They had 18 different

position players back at least a hundred times. Wow. And there, you know, there's some usual

suspects because they, you know, Joe Mauer, that was the, that was the bilateral leg weakness season.

Yeah, air quotes. That one does. That one doesn't got kicked in the head.

That was, I believe, or was it 10 2010, he got kicked in the head at the deadline.

Because he was, because he didn't play in the playoffs that year. That's right. Yeah, that team.

But man, he was going to be the MVP again that year too. He was tearing it up that year.

He was back in like 360 when he was better. But here are some other players that

batted that you're wondering, what happened in 2011? Well, here are some other players that

batted at least a hundred times for the twins. Renee Rivera. Huh?

Catcher. Okay. Third catcher. Yeah. Uh, Renee Tassoni. Jason Repko. Wow. I can't remember him.

Jason Repko was a Dodgers outfielder for a while. Kind of a defensive guy. Uh,

Matt Tolbert, Luke Hughes, Ciyoshi Nishiyoka. Oh, yeah. You know, that might have been the end.

That might have been the start to the end. Cap's trade and then bringing in, we brought in

Nishiyoka for 11, right? And trading some more speed. And traded JJ Hardy who won three more

gold gloves in Baltimore. Yeah. Yeah. Hardy. Yeah. That was, uh, we were going to market ourselves

in Japan. We were going to beat the Dodgers in Japan for marketing. Uh, that didn't quite work out

either. Boy, that is unbelievable. That's, he said, that is, you know, I was looking for some, uh,

right for opening day. I was going to write like, uh, 15 things we've learned on opening days.

And then you can, you can pretty much just come with the complete opposite what happened that day

on opening day with their like, but 12 of those, but it might be 2011 this season that should still

live an end for me because it, you know, some good things have happened since, but not that many.

That's for sure. No, it's, uh, man. And then I know it's, it's only been four games, but there,

I feel like the twins only chance to do something interesting this year was to not start in a hole.

You know, like, and, and it's only one in three. It's not the biggest hole, but now you got to win

three to climb by over 500 and then so, and if they can't, I mean, if it turns out they can't hit,

that's, uh, that's not going to be great. So don't tough to win baseball games if you can.

Yes, it is. Yes, it is. It's, uh, it's, uh, yeah, there, uh, I actually thought pitching was

going to be a bigger problem, but, uh, I guess I'm wrong. I still like Keishel low dammit.

I think Keishel's going to be a good player. I think he's going to be a good player.

Just leave him a second. Don't bother him. And, uh, and, uh, and, you know, and if you ray,

if you ranked every twins player that you've ever covered in your entire career, he's probably top 10

among guys who look like a baseball player. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can run and you can, you know, he's,

he's, uh, he's, he's going to be fine, but boy, oh boy, it's going to be, uh, you know,

you start off this way and, uh, and you're going to have your worst opening day and,

and then it'll all be, and then it all feeds on itself. And then, then, then the whole conversation

becomes at 27,000 for their opener and nobody, blah, blah, blah. They're tenants and,

and April is going to get them off to such a bad start that, uh, uh, I don't know.

I don't know. It's going to be, it's going to be tough out there, but I don't think, come on out.

Two-dollar beers, free game, twins pass. Let's go. She's like, how about something free?

Every time the umpire misses a pitch and missed a pitch in the twins favor. Yeah. You know,

you're going to, you get a two bucks off every time the baseball probably wouldn't like that.

You get, you get half-priced brat horse every time the umpire fails. It's great. I love this idea.

It's kind of like, you know, like at the end of an NBA game in the fourth quarter, regardless of

the score, if the opposing team, this is two free throws. It's two free throws. That's right. Yeah.

If we get a successful challenge, if the off, uh, it gets two unsuccessful challenges in an

inning, you get to go and uh, get a free beer and some damn thing like that. I love that idea.

Let's make it happen. Anything. We'll take it to the top. I mean, do we? Is it,

is it just all twins or people just down on baseball too? I mean, I'll, Declan might have a

better read on this. I feel like baseball is kind of like baseball is going back up to the right

with a lot of different metrics like the in ABS is making more interesting. And the twins are

against the grain of baseball's improvement by their brand going the wrong way. That's how I,

yeah. I think it's going that way. But again, I also think the number of Americans who sit down

and watch a game from the first bits to the last pitches really diminished. But, you know,

I guess they don't really care if, uh, if the 18-year-olds are all watching a bunch of videos and

then want to go with a ball game, that's fine too. I mean, I'm not, I'm not opposed to that. But, uh,

I got to say with, you know, what has hurt baseball? TV options. You don't have to watch. You can

get on. There's, if the game is getting boring, there's 74 other things you could watch.

You know, back when we had four channels, it was a little bit. You had a better fixated crowd.

Yeah. Last night, the Mackeys had a choice. Do we watch a random baseball game or the Lamar

Odom documentary that came out on Netflix to find out about what really happened at the bunny ranch?

Uh, that's kind of a no brainer. Yeah. I think, uh, I think my upstairs, the, uh, the young

ladies, uh, also an expert on Lamar because he was, uh, Chloe's, uh, Chloe's, uh, boyfriend.

She never married him. Did she? No, they got, they got married after like 30 days.

Yeah. Well, that was, you know, the first, the first guy who was dating her was that, uh,

guard for the, uh, the guy from that Timberwolf. So it was his name, the guy from the restaurant.

Yeah, it was. He was there and he was, she caught him cheating. So I was watching one episode one

day or she suspected strongly that he was, he was cheating. So he had somebody from, uh,

expensive jewelry store come out and with a, a big, uh, container for her to pick out what she

wanted from the jewelry store. He wasn't making that much money. You know, he, he had got like one,

two, two, one contract. I don't think he, he ever made it to the end. Did he?

Well, but this is where we need an ABS challenge system in real life. When nearly out comes

and where, when Chloe comes in and says, I think you're cheating on me. No,

yeah, right. Yeah, right. She does. She does. She's, uh, she's had some beauties. I, I was, uh,

I saw on one of the bullets and saw on the news that Chloe was getting divorced.

But again, I don't know how many times this has happened to her, but

I mean, I get, I get, I get confused. Chloe's the one who used to be big, but now she's smaller,

right? She's got, she's got, it's price fair, I guess. And, uh, and, uh, but she's some country

singers. She caught another guy cheating. I think I don't know what happened. So, okay. Yeah,

I haven't, I haven't fully listened. I, well, Tristan Thompson is who she was with for a while after

Lamar Odom. And then they broke up. Some singer, country singer. God,

Thompson, somebody I think will invest, we'll investigate that and have a follow up on the

next Royce. I think, I think maybe we should start having now the current actions aren't

as popular as they were. We can have them. They try to actually not wait. These shows could be

30 seconds. Did the twins win or not? No, okay. That's happening in pop culture with past. Yes,

yes. You know what I did discover though when, uh, with, when, uh, cat started dating at

Jordan. What is it, Jordan? What's, yeah. And they're getting married now, right?

Yes, they are. I didn't realize I started looking up to see was there's a whole media

place frenzy out there of eight or 10 websites just fighting for the latest news and

and it was a big deal at Jordan and one of the Kardashians were, were feuding and they were,

she still sent her a birthday card, but it wasn't as full of praise. This is the previous year's

birthday card or something. I mean, they're out there, man. There's a lot of people who aren't that

interested in the twins opener. They got other things to worry about. They got other things to worry

about. So anyway, down with the major league baseball office, get somebody in there that's got

two brains for God's sake. It's, I think we go. Let's, let's have the opener in Alaska. Juneau

allowed. Yeah. Outside. Yeah. They're home. They're home March 28th, 29th and 30th and they get

snowed out. That's their problem. Okay. Yeah. All right. All right, Pat. We'll see you next time.

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