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Mishke here joining the GL world to pitch my new podcast, which now comes out twice a week, Wednesdays and Fridays. The show features an extraordinary array of exotic circus performers, forgotten Hollywood, Hollywood starlets, reclusive Fortune 500 CEOs, professional taxidermists. Wait a minute. That's a different promo. Where's the promo for GL ers? Here it is. Let's try this again. Mishke here pitching my new podcast. We're out of time. Could I do it again?
Joe
Yes, sir.
Fritz
Yes. Yes.
Joe
Yes.
Pat Reusse
Was that a woof woof. Cool game.
Fritz
Oh, man, it was. It was. You know, I'm a kind of guy who's been known to change channels during a hockey game, but not that one because I'm afraid I might miss two goals if I did that.
Joe
Wait, I thought you always wait to the last couple minutes.
Fritz
That's basketball, not playoffs. Not playoffs.
Joe
Oh, that's just a regular season. No.
Fritz
Well, you keep my regular season. Hockey is. I watch it for a while and then I. If there's a power play when I click back, then I watch it.
Joe
Or.
Fritz
And if there's five minutes to go and it's within two goals, then I watch.
Joe
Got it.
Fritz
But I like watching power plays because something might happen. But that. So yesterday we start, we got a double header on, you know, another. Another one of those lovely double hitters which causes your games to tip off.
Pat Reusse
And it involved my habs, so I watched it.
Fritz
Yes, and I think your habs should be embarrassed to have won that game two to one with nine shots. Rocket is doing three 60s in his grave.
Pat Reusse
You know what else he's doing before all these fruitcakes holding their white hankies.
Fritz
Oh, yeah.
Pat Reusse
When he played, he said, I didn't need that.
Fritz
Reavers. Yes, sir. The Montreal Canadiens, the La Ha Tub Tons, advance to the second round. Even though they went 26 minutes and 57 seconds without a shot, wasn't nine shots total. Nine shots total. What was it? What was going on? I don't get it.
Pat Reusse
In the meantime, fly out to Denver and tune that one in. They had nine shots in the first 30 seconds.
Fritz
Don't go up to the boys room. Have you just sit there and wet your pants because you might miss three
Pat Reusse
goals that turned into a hold my beer game.
Fritz
Oh, it was, right?
Joe
Oh, yeah.
Pat Reusse
Watch this. Hold my beer. I'll go down and score.
Fritz
I'm down 3 0, and I'm. And we just hurt Cale Makar. And he came back when Hughes and the boys said, ah, the hell with it, let's go.
Pat Reusse
Yeah.
Fritz
And they. It was. The idea that at some point the Wild would lead that game was just preposterous.
Pat Reusse
They were down three, nothing.
Fritz
Boom. And all of a sudden, they had five, four. But it was a game that never tightened up.
Pat Reusse
No.
Fritz
You thought, okay, somebody's gonna. It's gonna be the third period, and we're gonna, you know, start playing defense here and going up.
Pat Reusse
Nobody. Nobody became cloying. No one. They just, oh, wait a minute. What? It's my turn. 14 different people scores.
Fritz
It was amazing.
Pat Reusse
It was 15 goals scored. McCarr got two, 14 individuals scored. First time in history.
Fritz
How about the goal by the older of the brothers, the fileto?
Pat Reusse
Wasn't that nice. No.
Fritz
The younger brother scored, but the other guy was on the. Those guys, when you get them together on the same line, which they haven't done that often, they can be a little mean, too. They can hit you with a stick.
Joe
Speaking of that, somebody on Twitter wanted me to ask you, since you had the nickname for the Tkachuk brothers, the cement heads, do you have a nickname for the Foligno brothers at all?
Pat Reusse
They're not cement heads.
Fritz
No. I like one thing. If they bring Marcus in to talk after a game, he's worth sitting and listening. He's great. He's just a great guy. And the other guys must be wonderful, too.
Pat Reusse
You know who's horrible? Quinn and Boldy. Oh, they're just unbelievably bad. But I think I saw. No, I saw a hint of something. I saw a hint of something after the winner in Dallas. They got Boldy and Hughes.
Fritz
Yeah.
Pat Reusse
And among the questions Hughes was asked was, now you've you've scored two previous playoff goals obviously with Vancouver. And he. And he was asked you remember those. And, and you could see Boldy kind of look at him like this. And Hugh said, I don't remember that. And you could see Boldy smiling.
Fritz
Yeah. Right. Yeah.
Pat Reusse
I think a lot of what they're doing is having a little fun.
Fritz
Well plus they're not going anywhere. He's not going anywhere. To extend the conversation.
Joe
But you did get the one great post game moment with Hughes. Remember after they won the gold and he had the corona. He's like, I. I'm gonna need another one of these.
Pat Reusse
Tell me this, Pat. Two things. It's what who's he better than? Because we're getting to the point where we have to say everybody who when
Fritz
Hughes having the other guy.
Pat Reusse
No, I mean in history. Oh, I have to. I'm gonna go home. You know what I'm gonna do tonight?
Fritz
You know, the defense has played so different.
Pat Reusse
Well, the stay at home defenseman days are done. That's done.
Fritz
But I mean the, the old boy, he's a good puck rusher. Is this an ad? This is controlling the buck for 50% of the time you're on the ice. You got the puck.
Pat Reusse
Let me ask you something. Is it, is it blasphemy that I'm going to go home and I'm going to purposely seek out video of Bobby Orr?
Fritz
Yeah. No, no. I think you should. I wonder how much or played like
Pat Reusse
this did I did or have that skating ability. I'm thinking he did.
Fritz
Well, he probably. But it's not, you know, everything is 20% faster in sports. So when Bobby or played so you know that's, I mean we just had a guy, Joe run the marathon. Yeah. In under two hours in London. In under two hours.
Pat Reusse
Yeah.
Fritz
They were saying, my God, he broke the two 20 minute. Two hour, 20 minute barrier 20 years ago.
Pat Reusse
A lot of players can do the spin around that Hughes does, but they can't do it as fast as he does.
Joe
And by the way, the guy that finished in second place would have also broke the record in that same marathon anyway.
Fritz
The modern athlete is just a different athlete.
Pat Reusse
Well, who's he better than? Is he is. Are we at is 26. He's been around long enough to say who's he better than?
Fritz
Is it.
Pat Reusse
There's no comparison to Gretzky. That's two different animals.
Fritz
Yeah. The different position.
Pat Reusse
Well, I want to compare him to or because or was a kind of a hero of mine.
Fritz
I got look at or that's 50 years ago, though. My God. When. When was. Or done late early 70s.
Pat Reusse
Oh, by 78 or 79 he was trying to play with the Blackhawks and couldn't.
Fritz
He had the bad.
Pat Reusse
His knees were shot. It was that Tony Oliva case.
Fritz
Yeah. Yeah. I mean he was. I think you got to compare the guys for the era that they were playing in and. Or is the more dominant than this guy?
Pat Reusse
Yeah. But if I'm looking for somebody who. Quinn is better there. As of this moment, Orr is the best defender who ever played the game in my estimation.
Fritz
Because he was such an offender.
Pat Reusse
Well, he was such a novel introduction to the game.
Joe
The 7576 season was Orr's final.
Pat Reusse
Really? With the Blackhawks?
Joe
With the Bruins?
Pat Reusse
No, he went to the Blackhawks.
Fritz
Did he come back at the end? I can't remember.
Joe
This is on his Wikipedia page. His final season with the Bruins and it was tumultuous. His contract was ending after the season.
Fritz
No, he went. Yeah, went to the blackouts. Chicago. Oh, okay.
Pat Reusse
Yeah, well, I. That. I find that hard to. Well, see, that's wiki for you. You can't really trust.
Joe
Maybe I go to the NHL sites.
Fritz
All right. Yeah, well, Wiki is a little shaky. Wiki isn't as shaky as what you get now when you Google, you get the AI overview that you are correct.
Joe
78. 79 was his last with Chicago.
Fritz
Yeah.
Pat Reusse
That means war was only with Boston.
Fritz
Here's my prize. I'm wondering what's. What do you think he'll take to stay?
Pat Reusse
I don't know.
Fritz
You're on.
Pat Reusse
I don't know what mountains you move.
Fritz
You're on. You're on the hook for 17 for Caprisov as the highest paid player in the league.
Pat Reusse
And is he worth more than Caprice off? I'm afraid so. I'm afraid so.
Fritz
But. Well, I don't know. You know, the guys on TV were funny last night. The between periods guys on whatever the hell station this was. We were watching them on Peacock or whatever hated the. They came and ripping both teams. This isn't good hockey. They wanted to.
Pat Reusse
Oh, that was great.
Fritz
They wanted. They wanted the one. Oh, you know, it was. You know, nobody was being responsible. I don't know who the coach is. The old coach.
Pat Reusse
This Minnesota has. This kid is so distinctive. What are the. Is Puckett a comparison? What Viking would be a comparison? I can't come up with one. This is superstar quality. That has not been. This is like getting. This is like the Dodgers having Shohei. Oh, Tony. Yeah.
Fritz
Almost Almost.
Pat Reusse
It's like the Yankees of old having DiMaggio. It's like Cleveland having Jim Brown. The people, the players that the whole nation watched and followed.
Fritz
Yeah, yeah, he's.
Pat Reusse
I gotta think there are people elsewhere in the country who tune in to watch Hughes because he's that different from other hockey players.
Fritz
Yeah, they and everybody. The comparison is Makar. Although I think Hughes holds the puck even more than he does.
Pat Reusse
Were you the one today that was on a bench? He looks haunted. Was that in your column today?
Fritz
No, no.
Pat Reusse
Well, I read your piece today. Oh, yours. About Hazy Heinzi.
Fritz
Heinze. He told me Heinze was funny. I said, really? Really. The face never changes. But anyway, yeah, probably not. By the way, that column that today on Heinze, I think I wrote Friday morning.
Pat Reusse
But you know, you know what I would have said yesterday? Pat wrote that it was. Oh, it was late. Late.
Fritz
Late was late. Well, you know what? You know what you find when you look up the result of last night's game, don't you?
Joe
Late. Wait a minute. Monday column you wrote Friday morning.
Fritz
Yeah, we ended up.
Pat Reusse
My Sunday column had to be done by Thursday, 5pm you, as long as
Fritz
you're looking, it was Monday, maybe Friday. I know that. My what? I wrote a Wolfies column. Oh, my Terrence Shannon column. You know, Terrence Shannon, it was a gamer column, was, hey, comes and wins the game. And that was written Friday morning and got in Sunday. It took two days to get that one in.
Joe
So we. We stumbled upon something. Pat, I think Joe would appreciate this. Johnny Height had a news story on Friday's Garage Logic broadcast that it turns out appeared in the Pioneer Press, but It was from 10 years ago, even though it was on the Friday edition of the Pioneer Press. So I had said to Joe, maybe this is the future of the Pioneer press. We run 10 year old stories.
Fritz
Accident or were you just running a story for his story that.
Pat Reusse
I don't know.
Fritz
It had to be for historic reasons, right? Right. I don't know.
Pat Reusse
I got Orlando and Detroit last night in basketball. Oh, wait, wait, that was late.
Fritz
Yes.
Pat Reusse
Toronto at Cleveland. Dang it. That ran late.
Fritz
Who on Cleveland one, Right?
Pat Reusse
Yes. I don't know. It's late Toronto.
Fritz
You know what?
Pat Reusse
Your paper, four page sports section today.
Fritz
Yeah, four page.
Pat Reusse
There's no baseball scores.
Fritz
Well, they're all late. Damn. No, there are. There's baseball stands.
Joe
Twins were done by.
Pat Reusse
Oh, here.
Fritz
No, I think. No, those twins got a story in the paper.
Joe
Oh, okay.
Pat Reusse
Oh, yeah, yeah, they won.
Fritz
The rumor is Joe tore it, but I don't think it's official yet. Oh, that's not. The rumor is it's tj, Tommy. Jeff.
Pat Reusse
Oh, no.
Joe
Which you know what that means.
Fritz
They should have traded him in the off season. Yeah, well, I should have done a lot of stuff.
Joe
Yes, you should.
Pat Reusse
Cleveland at the Athletics. That. That was late. Kansas. Kansas City at Seattle.
Fritz
That was definitely.
Pat Reusse
Well, here's one that you know, we'll probably get this one. Texas at Detroit.
Fritz
Oh, that.
Pat Reusse
That was late. That was late.
Fritz
Detroit. That had to be a one o' clock game.
Pat Reusse
So Chicago and San Diego. That was late. New York at the Dodgers.
Fritz
No chance on that one.
Pat Reusse
That was late.
Fritz
I really don't know why we're putting in there late, but what am I, you know. My. My goodness. Anyway, that game last night though was buzzing around in my head so much. I got about three hours sleep. I was, you know, I laid down, slept and then I. Something happened in my dreams and I started thinking about the game again and
Pat Reusse
thinking the stuff you read or watch before you go to bed can affect
Fritz
if you sleep or not, I think.
Joe
So that's what you're told. Stay off your phone before you go to bed.
Pat Reusse
That's not a problem for me. I can stay off.
Joe
Cuz you like to read before bed?
Pat Reusse
I just soon read.
Joe
Yes.
Fritz
Last night. No reading, no hockey game bad. No, I had time to read even last night.
Pat Reusse
Oh yeah? Well, the game was over.
Fritz
Damn thing.
Pat Reusse
In 1144-11.
Joe
Yeah, I was going to say it was after 1030 for sure.
Pat Reusse
Still plenty of reason.
Fritz
It was.
Pat Reusse
But we both vowed we weren't watching the overtime.
Fritz
No, no, no.
Pat Reusse
There was overtime. That turned out not to be a concern.
Fritz
Got it. You know what would have happened if we would have went into overtime? Nine. Nine. Then they would have played like two and a half. Then they would have played two hours. You know, it's just to mess with.
Pat Reusse
I don't think that my Montreal can get by the Buffaloes not shooting nine times.
Fritz
Oh God, no. No. Buffalo win.
Pat Reusse
Carolina must have a hell of a club.
Fritz
I don't know the whole East.
Pat Reusse
Well, they beat.
Joe
I was listening to.
Pat Reusse
No, they didn't play the Penguins. Philadelphia played the Penguins.
Fritz
That's right.
Pat Reusse
Y eliminated or Carolina eliminated? What? Ottawa.
Fritz
I. Somebody four straight. Somebody won four straight. Colorado. Carolina. Right.
Pat Reusse
Carolina and Colorado.
Joe
The.
Pat Reusse
What's your Mount Rushmore podcast.
Joe
There's two things that I think I am almost always. It's hungry and tired. I. I spend. I seriously probably spend 80% of my life, my waking life being either hungry or tired or Both. I will mirror that, but I will add a third one. I'm always also gassy.
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Pat Reusse
What's your Mount Rushmore?
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Fritz
Yeah, that. You know what that third period yesterday, I think that's what you saw. When one team has played two days earlier and the other team has got eight days off. Don't you think that you had better in the third?
Pat Reusse
Well, how long. I wonder if it's even a valid question. When you show up in Denver, how long does it take to get acclimated to 5200ft? AB sea level.
Fritz
That's the other thing too. But it certainly didn't seem to slowly they got it down it. It's. You know what I keep thinking he's playing we have at the downtown at the Grand Casino arena. Going to wait on Saturday. Yeah, there's some. Something on Ice show.
Pat Reusse
Maybe the award winning froster in town.
Fritz
No, they wouldn't. They wouldn't. They would bump them. But this is holiday show. I think there's some. There's something that's booked for months in advance that.
Pat Reusse
So they play Tuesday night in Colorado. They don't play again until Saturday night here.
Fritz
That's why they waited so long to announce what the schedule was because they were trying to bounce somebody and person people with the contract said no, you know, I can't. I don't know what it was. It was. I could look it up some kind of a.
Pat Reusse
Well, the rest won't hurt the boys. No.
Fritz
I'm very happy though for Tom Reed and everybody else on West.
Pat Reusse
Oh, they're gonna have another great week.
Fritz
Yeah, that'll be terrific. And this thing's gone. There's gonna be three games played here for sure. I guarantee it. You have my personal guarantee.
Pat Reusse
Well, there you are. Reavers bet against it. Guarantees no you know why I agree with you? Six goals is enough to win virtually any playoff game ever played.
Fritz
Oh, God, yes.
Joe
May 9th, Minnesota Wild versus Colorado. May 10th. Stifle stars on ice.
Pat Reusse
Well, no, it's not the 10th. We're right about what's happening between.
Joe
This is what's happening.
Fritz
They can't play Friday because they got stars on ice.
Joe
Stifle Stars on Ice is the event
Fritz
Patrick was talking about.
Pat Reusse
What about Thursday?
Joe
U.S. olympic gold medalists headline this event.
Pat Reusse
What about this Thursday? Why couldn't they play?
Joe
Can't answer that. There's nothing yet on this.
Fritz
Can I tell you that I don't
Joe
know anything about that?
Fritz
No, I can't answer that.
Joe
Well, aren't the Frost are also playing, correct?
Fritz
I don't know. Well, the Frost, supposedly because of this mess, have to play.
Joe
They're playing in Montreal.
Fritz
I just really don't have frost fever. I got.
Joe
You don't get the fever yet.
Fritz
I think you're gonna. You need more teams. You still only got eight.
Joe
This is the original six.
Fritz
Like watching the original six. Yeah.
Pat Reusse
They're already Stanley cup champions, aren't they?
Joe
Two times.
Fritz
Whatever we call who's.
Joe
We're a dynasty.
Fritz
Well, it must be named after the guy who's financing it. The guy that owns the Dodgers.
Joe
Yeah, the Cup.
Fritz
He gave him 10. He only gave him, I think, 10 million.
Pat Reusse
I looked up who owns the Ave. You know who owns the avs?
Fritz
Yes, I do, but I can't remember.
Pat Reusse
Cronky.
Fritz
Oh, the Rams guy.
Joe
Really?
Fritz
Yeah, he owns the abs.
Joe
God, how much money does he have?
Pat Reusse
That's Walmart money, isn't it?
Joe
Yeah.
Fritz
He's a complete jackass, too, you know.
Joe
Yeah. He wouldn't share the bathroom when he was here.
Fritz
He had security guards for the bathroom when he was leaving St. Louis, he was here watching the. TCF Bank. He's watching the Rams and the Vikings, and he was moving them to Los angeles out of St. Louis. And Jimmy Thomas, a dogged NFL reporter from the St. Louis paper, had been chasing him all over trying to get some quotes. He wouldn't talk to anybody. And, you know, they're here and he's in a suite up there. But they got to use the media. He's got to use the bathroom.
Pat Reusse
This is back in the Dome days.
Fritz
No, he's got to use the. They put a security guard outside the whizzer when Crocky went in there so Jimmy Thomas could run in and interview him when he had it in his hand.
Pat Reusse
Well, wait a minute.
Fritz
Couldn't Go any place.
Pat Reusse
The Rams moved back a long time ago.
Joe
This is when they were playing the Vikings here.
Fritz
Bank Stadium. We've been in a new dump for 10 years.
Pat Reusse
Joe, when did the Rams go back to LA?
Fritz
Right then, whenever.
Pat Reusse
Oh, okay.
Fritz
14, 15. Something like 14, probably.
Joe
Yeah, something like. No, it was 2016. Was our first year.
Fritz
Yeah, 14 and 15. They played in TCF Bank Stadium. Have you been to TCF? Oh, you've been a concert, right?
Joe
No, he went to a Vikings game last year. Remember? We bought him the hat.
Fritz
No, no, TC Bank Stadium.
Pat Reusse
I've been there.
Fritz
Now, something else.
Pat Reusse
I've been there for a concert.
Fritz
Huntington Bank Stadium.
Joe
That the Gophers is Huntington Bank Stadium.
Pat Reusse
I've been there.
Fritz
That's what I'm talking about.
Pat Reusse
Okay. Been there many times.
Fritz
You were for concert, right? Yeah, I've been there six, seven times. Yeah, I was going to write a column and then I got deterred off it. But something I was going to write about how lucky we are to have Finchy and Heinze. And then I was going to say, we got a lot of good coaches in this town, blah, blah, blah. And I was going to say, although the verdict is still out on Kevin o' Connell and PJ Fleck getting fire up here.
Pat Reusse
Is that called trolling?
Fritz
Yeah, that would be trolling. And that would be a successful troll.
Joe
Two quick things. The Rams did move for the 2016 season. And you mentioned the Vikings. Did you see that? Your guy Charlie Walters stirred them all up over the weekend.
Fritz
They're denying it vociferously.
Pat Reusse
What did he say?
Fritz
He might be getting ready to sell? Jerry?
Joe
He said the Vikings lack of spending this year. He was speculating maybe the Wilfs are preparing to sell because the.
Pat Reusse
I think he makes that up. Well, are we hearing that on the streets?
Joe
No, we're not. Charlie was basically the only one that pointed out there, but I thought it was great because he got great reaction from it.
Fritz
We're not selling, you know.
Joe
Well, the reason it was suggested is the Seahawks are projected to sell for somewhere between 9 to 11 billion dollars.
Fritz
Yes.
Joe
Foot.
Fritz
But you know what I mean. The Zigmeister is What, in their 70s? Probably late 70s, but yeah. Hold it. Five more years, it'll be worth 15 billion.
Joe
Yeah, that's a good point.
Fritz
Well, unless. Unless something.
Pat Reusse
Did we do the Joe Ryan thing on the air?
Fritz
Off.
Pat Reusse
You might as well make it on.
Fritz
Yeah, I don't think it's official yet, but.
Pat Reusse
What are you hearing?
Fritz
Well, it's out there that he blew it out. You know, he left Yesterday, after nine pitches with a bad elbow, they're saying that, you know, he hadn't thrown that well all year. Basically he hasn't had command. So he's had a dip in velocity, I would guess.
Pat Reusse
Is this Tommy John land?
Fritz
Oh, yeah. And. Well, I think he's only got a one year contract. What's the deal?
Joe
No, he's got one more year of control. I know, but after this year, if
Fritz
he's going to TJ and then he's a free agent and you're hurt like that, I don't know. Do they have the right to just release you?
Joe
Well, they could non tender them, I guess.
Fritz
Yeah. Yeah, that's what I mean. Do they have the right to non tender?
Joe
I believe they would, sure. Why not?
Fritz
Yeah, that's just.
Joe
That's too bad.
Fritz
And the other thing, you know, I've been saying, if they didn't have bad luck, they'd have none. Because that able kid comes, you know, they've run him out there two, three times. He's terrible. Then he looks like Jim Palmer and now he's. Then he's got a bad arm too. So they, they're not real fortunate. That's right. And they're not real smart.
Pat Reusse
And you know, how come Don Drysdriel never had a bad arm? How come camilo Pasquale throwing six different kinds of breaking? God Almighty.
Fritz
They're all throwing 98. And you know what they don't do? Because everybody's so bullpen happy. Do you realize this? When, when the major league roster limit was 25, there were generally now, right now it's 26 and you got 13 pitchers and only 13 position players. For decades with a 25 man roster, you had 15 or 16 position players and 9 or 10 pitchers. So you know, Tom Seaver goes out to the mound, he has a 1, 2, 3 first. He ain't saying, boy, I gotta go back out there and throw 100 again. He's just getting them out. And then, you know, Verlander's kind of the last generation of that guy who would get him out with 92 when he could and go as long as he could. And then if he started, you know, catching up to him, then he'd go to 98, you know, boom. So the human guys are going 98 from the get go.
Pat Reusse
And the human arm can't do it.
Fritz
I don't think so. Too many breaking balls, too many different kinds of breaking balls. It's, you know what, I, I turn on the ball game now and rarely do I Hang in there the whole time. I mean, I watch, but I click and.
Pat Reusse
You know, it'd be interesting for baseball if a Quinn Hughes developed a pitcher who went nine. Went nine every time. Yeah, every time.
Joe
Well, the. The other guy the Dodgers got, he's kind of been like that. Yamamoto.
Fritz
Oh, yeah, he's been pretty good. And he. He doesn't want to leave, you know. No.
Joe
Well, remember the World Series? He threw a com. Almost a complete game or whatever it was, and then he came back and relief the next game. Now, granted, it's the World Series, it's different, but
Fritz
you know, one of the iron men, though, our guy, Jose Barrios, who did not miss a game for. You know, he had hundreds of starts without missing a start. He's on the. He's on the disabled.
Pat Reusse
He. With Toronto still.
Fritz
He's on the disabled. You know, when baseball went to hell, when we became so politically correct that it had to be the injured list instead of the disabled list.
Pat Reusse
Oh, for Pete's sake.
Fritz
When did we change that? I still put in my print all the time. He's on the DL and I change it like it's the D. ED or
Joe
we worried about a fed.
Fritz
It's the injured list. I said, not in Fulda, Minnesota. It's not the injured list. The hell with you. I hadn't even noticed.
Pat Reusse
You're right.
Joe
I gotta tell Pat my nugget. So we've been mentioning the cities in Minnesota that are flying the old Minnesota state flag. And a listener had said, well, in Windom, Minnesota, they are flying it. And I said, the neat thing about Windom is their ballpark. The Wyndham Pirates on the river has a pirate ship as their left field wall. And we got an email from a guy, hey, thanks for giving. He said he listens to Monday night sports talk in GL saying, thanks for giving us a shout out.
Fritz
That's where I hurled and had to relieve myself. I've told that story 50 years. What happened? We're in the ballpark on the lake.
Pat Reusse
Yeah.
Fritz
You know, this is on the river down there on the. I think it's the cottonwood. Maybe it's the.
Joe
I think you might be right.
Fritz
But it's all in the right field behind 100ft behind the right field fence. And they were good. And.
Pat Reusse
And I said high school.
Fritz
Yeah. I was. I was the starter for the Fuller Raiders. Oh, and I was a strike thrower. Yeah. Without very much on it, but I could throw strikes.
Pat Reusse
Yeah. You are a control pitcher.
Fritz
This is also Joe the 60s. You know what Was, you know what was not only legal, it was encouraged. Taunting. Yeah, taunting. I didn't make it through the first two guys. Eddie Morris, Eddie Morris, who was a great athlete, and Roger Stempfle both hit balls out the right field. I thought they're gonna go in a river. And they got like six, seven runs off me. And I. They're just. They're just taunting the hell out of me. They knew who I was. Cause my old man was the undertaker. And I go to third base and they bring in. They bring in Charlie Brighton that you're
Pat Reusse
going to play third base.
Fritz
I played third base. Yeah, I went to third base. I stayed in the game because this wasn't free substitution. And Charlie, who had a good arm but a tendency to be wild, couldn't throw any strikes. And then we brought in Steinhorst who I think got us through the first, but we're still in the first. Now this story, like nine in the first and this is no 10 run, no mercy, no nothing. This is. You take it. And then Steinhorst came in to start the second and he couldn't throw any strikes. They come out and they waved me in from third base to pitch again. And I wish I had a tape. I wish back then we had tape recorders.
Pat Reusse
You relieved yourself.
Fritz
He's back. He's back. Then how did you.
Pat Reusse
How'd you do? The second time I get a few hours.
Fritz
I think they got bored. We finished the game.
Joe
They lost interest.
Fritz
They lost interest. The crap that was being thrown over the plate didn't change. Oh my God. That was. It was the modern day umpire or the coach or something would tell him to cool it. But could you.
Pat Reusse
Could a high school do that today?
Fritz
Oh, no, no.
Joe
You mean taunting or.
Pat Reusse
No, I know they can't taunt, but could a guy come back in the game?
Joe
Oh yeah, yeah. There's reentry in town.
Fritz
Ball. Oh, I went to. By Saturday morning, I'm doing something on the kid from Edina. A boo guard who was the tailback over beat Morehead in the state final. 300 yards. And then the goalie.
Joe
He's the goalie.
Fritz
Yeah. And now he's a left fielder. And that's probably going to be a baseball player. So I went over and see him play and saw Edina play. You're Creighton Raiders. Yeah, and Creighton is, you know, Buzz Hanahan's coaching them. And they, they got off to an early lead and then they kind of kicked it around and got beat and. But was a. Don't you Have a beautiful day.
Joe
A young one playing for Cretan, or did you?
Pat Reusse
No, no.
Joe
Oh, I thought you did.
Fritz
Okay, well, anyway, Creighton's good, you know, Cretins, they got. They got a mower or two on the way. Uncle Nieces.
Pat Reusse
I had a grandkid on the team, headed to the team and he blew out his arm.
Joe
Oh, that's what it was. Okay. Yeah, I remember. Okay.
Pat Reusse
Freshman, junior, he never made the varsity.
Fritz
So. What is terrible what he did?
Pat Reusse
He's fine. He's just. Yeah. Everything hurt. I mean, he just couldn't figure it out.
Fritz
Yeah. Even at that age, they're trying to get him to throw pitches, you know.
Joe
Well, I'm dealing with it. At 11 years old, I said, just throw your fastball.
Fritz
Yes.
Joe
You don't have to worry about no Leland.
Fritz
See that kid right there?
Joe
Just throw it straight.
Fritz
Yeah. Don't quit.
Joe
Quit getting fancy.
Pat Reusse
There's nothing wrong with letting them put the ball in play.
Joe
That's right.
Fritz
I gotta start staying away from Luke's games though. Last year, let's go here. Last year we went to the 14 year old game on a Sunday afternoon or Saturday afternoon and they'd played their East Ridge and they played Woodbury, arch rival Woodbury, and they just got done beating them 22 to 3. Now they're playing a second game. They got beat, really kicked it around like a bunch of morons and they got beat. The other day we went out there, it's 50 degrees, we're freezing to death. They'd beaten Woodbury like 18 to 3 the day before. They got beat again by Woodbury. They kicked it around and lost the game.
Pat Reusse
Did you have unkind remarks after that game?
Fritz
Not really. I just wonder how they, you know, you know what the secret of baseball is at all levels, but particularly that one when you hit the ball to you, if you can pick it up and throw it to first base, things are going to go pretty good. If you're not. That's what I said about when we played at Creighton. I told you this. The 14 year old team played at Creighton and the top of the first inning, they hit three, you know, fairly firm ground balls to the left side of the infield. And these Creighton guys picked it up cleanly and threw it directly to first base. No drama, right? Nobody kicking it around. Pick it up, throw it to first, run off.
Pat Reusse
And you're saying, that's a key, that's a key.
Fritz
And then. And the leadoff hitter for Creighton is getting in the box. And they're saying from his dugout. Come on, Maurer, get us started. I knew the East Ridge boys were in trouble.
Joe
Another Mauer.
Fritz
It was Jake's kid, I guess. Okay, Jake's kid. They got a bunch of them.
Joe
Speaking of baseball, I was alerted by a loyal listener. And I was gonna make sure that I promised to bring this up to you, too. I know you. This is on the list of things you don't like. We had 102,000 people at Texas A and M's Kyle Field for the Savannah bananas. 100.
Pat Reusse
I saw that last night. Doing some clicking. I couldn't believe it. I was wondering where that was being played. I didn't know.
Joe
The Texas A and M football stadium.
Fritz
This is the league has started, Right? I saw us up in these 60s. They had a 60, but they're all like the Washington Generals playing the Harlem globetrotters, right?
Joe
Yep. 102.
Fritz
When are they here?
Joe
Is it in June?
Fritz
What do we want? What do we like that you catch the ball behind your back. What do you do?
Joe
Theatrics. We like the theatrics. Here's what this is all about, boys.
Fritz
I can't watch it.
Joe
This is all about Instagram and stuff. The people that want to post that. I'm at the Savannah Bananas game so I can be on my Instagram reel. That's what this is all about. This is all fueled by.
Pat Reusse
I saw enough of it to see that Banana's pitcher didn't wear a hat. He wore a head shirt, the bandana. And then when he struck somebody out, he kind of did a little dance.
Fritz
Okay.
Pat Reusse
And then I quickly knowing the commercial was over in the hockey game.
Fritz
Two games or three?
Joe
I'm looking it up right now. Let me pull up their schedule.
Fritz
I know somebody at the paper's gonna have to go, but it ain't gonna be me.
Joe
We're in Milwaukee June 7th at the Brewers Stadium.
Fritz
Wouldn't we be coming in?
Pat Reusse
Will they sell that out?
Joe
Oh, God. Y.
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Fritz
Who will they play?
Joe
They're playing the Texas something or others.
Pat Reusse
Oh, they have a team that follows them around.
Joe
There's a couple. There's four of them, I believe in the same league.
Pat Reusse
So the Bananas aren't in a league.
Fritz
Do they do the same things, the other teams, or they just play baseball?
Pat Reusse
They're the Patsies.
Fritz
Okay.
Joe
Saturday. Excuse me. Friday, August 7th. And Saturday, August 8th, we are Target Field.
Fritz
Okay. And I. Tickets are going like hotcakes, I guess
Joe
I would imagine they've got to be sold out. By now.
Pat Reusse
Who will they play here? The Saints.
Joe
They are playing. I'm trying to look. This won't pull up their logo, but it's at the very top. Hang with me.
Pat Reusse
Are the Bananas in a league?
Joe
Yes.
Fritz
Well, they formed it.
Joe
They are playing the Long Beach. No. What is that? Loco Beach Coconuts, when they come to.
Fritz
Exactly.
Joe
Yeah, well, they were playing the Texas Tailgaters in College Station over the weekend. 102,000.
Fritz
The first shamed major leaguer who has no money left. Who pissed all his money gambling. He's 32 years old and he spent a year in jail.
Joe
Oh, I got it.
Fritz
Fraud. He's gonna end up. Who's gonna be the first big leaguer?
Joe
Hey, Patryshka, I got us an idea. I'm your new agent, Jake Screw Elko Baseball. We're going to the Savannah Bananas.
Pat Reusse
Okay, I'm still trying to get this straight.
Joe
Yes, sir.
Pat Reusse
They're in a league with standings and everything. I mean, in other words, they created it. Yeah, well, everything's created. The minor leagues are that thing the Saints are in.
Fritz
I don't think. Are these other teams playing each other in a pre game before the other one or they play someplace. Are they. Do they do some of this silly stuff in smaller towns or what? That.
Joe
I don't know.
Fritz
I guess I heard something in the background saying league play. But if you watch ESPN's top 10 now.
Joe
Oh, they're on.
Fritz
There's a fighting chance of Bananas gonna be on there.
Joe
I've seen ahead of a major league baseball highlight.
Fritz
Yeah, yeah. You know what? What the hell?
Joe
What did in Roy.
Fritz
I'm glad.
Joe
Banana ball.
Fritz
I'm glad I'm 80. I'm glad I'm 80. Four or five more years of this crap. To hell with it. See you people later. See you people later.
Joe
Hey, Rob Manfred says. I got an idea. Let's bring banana ball to the big stage.
Fritz
That's right. That's right.
Joe
Have him take on Houston.
Fritz
You know, I'm convinced, I'm not joking, that five years from now, each NFL team will have an AI player on the field. We'll have a 1A. We'll have one AI player.
Pat Reusse
I'm not changing my prediction for the NFL. It is going to morph into a kind of a reality TV quasi sport.
Joe
You've already nailed that. We're there.
Pat Reusse
Yeah. You can't keep going like this because either that or you'll accept. Accept death.
Fritz
Yes.
Pat Reusse
You'll accept a lot of.
Joe
Yeah, but what was his 40 type?
Pat Reusse
Yeah.
Joe
When he died?
Pat Reusse
That. That Would be the ultimate. What's coming up on the Ride League? Well, we lost three players. Well, who's playing this week?
Fritz
What's coming up? What was the original ones coming up on the Ride?
Joe
You had Joe because Joe was. It was during a major. I know that because Joe was terribly distracted by golf on the television and not listening.
Fritz
I was talking about someone who died.
Joe
No, you know yourself, Joe. What happens if I come in here with I got pancreatic cancer? What's coming up on the Ride?
Pat Reusse
No, it was because we were running out of time.
Joe
Yeah. You saw the clock and the light went on. The monkey hit the button. He had a job to do. Hey, I have to ask you.
Pat Reusse
You know what?
Fritz
I'm glad that when I had to go back Rochester three times. Times I didn't have Bank Gratic. That's true.
Joe
Because then Joe would have had to
Fritz
say, there's no ride left. He's gone.
Joe
He's dead. Hey, how many derbies did you cover?
Fritz
Just one.
Joe
You both just did one.
Fritz
Strike the gold is the one I covered.
Pat Reusse
Who won when I did it? Affirmed.
Fritz
Did you see where this one came from?
Pat Reusse
His last place?
Fritz
Yeah. And they had their highest. I think they're now figuring out how to put streaming into their ratings now because everybody's claiming the biggest audiences.
Pat Reusse
I meant to ask you. This Friday, there was a time when we would all have Derby fever. We knew the horses. We were making Best with Friends.
Joe
What happened?
Fritz
I don't know what happened, but they had their biggest TV audience in years.
Joe
And I was at the new place next to Canterbury, the boardwalk that our buddy Mr. MoneyTalk has a hand in. The place was packed.
Fritz
Now, what is it?
Joe
It's called. It's literally on the first turn of the Canterbury racetrack in Shakopee. It's fantastic. Yeah, it's really cool.
Pat Reusse
Really.
Fritz
I haven't been out there. I was gonna go out next. They opened the 23rd for racing.
Joe
You should stop by. It's a really. It's a really cool spot.
Fritz
And you can gamble there, too.
Joe
I don't know if you can, but there's a fine dining restaurant area. There's a place where bands can play, and there's a huge patio.
Fritz
Well, they had to do something when the tribe stopped. Stopped giving them 10 million a year.
Joe
They're also opening up that brand new amphitheater that's out there. And that place is.
Fritz
That's what we need, more amphitheaters. Everybody's building one. Mini. Isn't Minneapolis building one? Somebody else?
Joe
I think so.
Fritz
We're gonna have. We're gonna have too many options. If poor Mick. Mick brings. Brings his crew to town for this one, they're going to kill themselves going to amphitheaters, man. Are they done? The Stones, are they done?
Pat Reusse
They were gonna go out and Keith said, I'm not going. So now they took a little time and they probably. He'll probably go out again.
Fritz
He's gotta work on his knees. He's gotta bend, get oxygen and then get up.
Joe
I'll go up, but I want to sit.
Fritz
He's had to have knees. He's had to have knee replacements, I would guess, you know, so. Because, you know, I. Even with my new knee, I don't know if I could get down there like that and then pop right back up and.
Pat Reusse
Can you believe they're outliving it?
Fritz
Is. It is.
Pat Reusse
It's amazing.
Fritz
Yeah. There's no.
Pat Reusse
They got a new album.
Fritz
There's no rhyme or reason to who. Who makes it and who doesn't, you know.
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Fritz
Oh, God. It was an old time, but this one had to take down in honks.
Pat Reusse
Well, yeah, that's how they do it.
Fritz
Well, I watched them.
Pat Reusse
They're gonna let it fall on Harold's house.
Fritz
I watched the five Hispanic fellas take down my big pine last year. Yeah, that was pretty impressive. Right next to the house, one of them fellas went up there and climbed up there. The branches are getting thinner. They got ropes on them. They're making sure they follow the right guy. Hour and 15 minutes, this big tree. You didn't know there'd been one there. They didn't leave out, did they?
Pat Reusse
Get rid of the stump, everything. Boom.
Fritz
Yeah.
Pat Reusse
So you gave me his number once. I would need it again.
Fritz
I think I got her.
Pat Reusse
You gotta hang on to that guy.
Fritz
1500. That's cheap. Nothing. That's not to get rid of this stuff.
Joe
Call me now.
Fritz
I threw in an extra.
Pat Reusse
I'm afraid to say anything.
Fritz
I threw an extra 102 just because you were impressed.
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Pat Reusse
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Fritz
Did you have to ding the bell? Yeah, I got one.
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GARAGE LOGIC PODCAST SUMMARY
Episode: MNST: Joe wonders if Quinn Hughes is the best NHL defenseman of all-time
Date: May 4, 2026
Host: Gamut Podcast Network (“The Mayor” Joe Soucheray and co-hosts, including Pat Reusse and Fritz)
This episode centers around a spirited discussion of NHL standout Quinn Hughes and the provocative question: Is he already the best defenseman in hockey history? The show is signature Garage Logic—rooted in Midwestern humor, dry commentary, and a blend of nostalgia and present-day sports wisdom. The conversation dives deep into current NHL playoffs action, the evolution of hockey, and parallels to legends like Bobby Orr, with plenty of digressions into Minnesota baseball, youth sports, and general cultural observations.
The episode is quintessential Garage Logic: irreverent, opinionated, full of in-jokes and references to Minnesota culture, and always skeptical of modern trends and hype. The banter feels like eavesdropping on seasoned friends at a neighborhood tavern, dissecting hockey, bemoaning injuries in baseball, and shaking their heads at the latest internet-fueled sports crazes.
Listeners come away with a richer appreciation for Quinn Hughes’ place in contemporary hockey, renewed nostalgia for the legends of the past, and classic Garage Logic commentary on how the sports world—like everything else—keeps changing (and not always for the better). Charming as ever, the crew invites listeners to consider both stats and soul in debates about sports greatness.