MNST: Wemby gets ejected and the Wolves tie the series at 2-2

Summary

Garage Logic – Episode Summary

Podcast: Garage Logic (Gamut Podcast Network)
Episode: MNST: Wemby gets ejected and the Wolves tie the series at 2-2
Date: May 11, 2026
Host: Joe Soucheray (“The Mayor”), with Pat, Patrick Ricey, Mark Ellis, and Sports Analysts

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into a pivotal weekend for Minnesota sports, focusing on a thrilling Wild playoff hockey win, discussions about key player performances, and a pivotal Timberwolves game where Victor Wembanyama (“Wemby”) was ejected, allowing the Wolves to even their playoff series. The team also touches on the ongoing MLB season, local sports history, personal anecdotes, and some musings on changing trends in sports and education.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Minnesota Wild’s Playoff Run

Post-game Analysis:

• The Wild’s Saturday night win was described as the best performance a hockey team could give (02:14).
• Despite missing top player Erikkson Ek ("the Eck monster"), the Wild dominated—especially in goal ([02:20]).
• Discussion over goaltender switches between Wedgwood and Blackwood highlighted Colorado’s struggles ([02:36]).

On the Team’s Stars:

• Hughes and Kaprizov ("the Russian") were singled out for their “astonishing” performances and game-changing talent ([04:03], [04:24]).
• Pat muses about the effect of Kaprizov not being able to play internationally, wondering if it impacts his consistency ([05:04]).
• “He's the only guy who can score when there's no angle.” – Pat, on Kaprizov ([04:26]).

Future and Cap Space Dilemmas:

• Concerns expressed about whether the Wild can pay all their superstars, especially Hughes, whose value keeps rising ([06:22]).
• “There's teams right now trying to clear enough cap space so they can sign Hughes and his brother” – Joe ([06:36]).
• Boldy’s contract hailed as a steal, causing a bit of “Catholic guilt” for GM Bill Guerin ([08:04]).

Atmosphere & Culture:

• Observations about the huge street crowds of fans unable to get tickets, “standing out on the street just like a bunch of morons” ([03:21]).
• Hockey culture’s growing popularity, with even outside watch parties swelling in attendance ([02:59]).

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2. Timberwolves Even Their Series – Wemby’s Ejection

Wemby Ejection & Impact:

• The ejection was a big moment, leading hosts to debate its fairness and impact ([12:46]).
• “Before Wemby got kicked out, I was wondering, can a player be evicted from an NBA game? Well, the answer is yes.” – Pat ([12:46])
• Vivid image of Wemby heading back to the locker room: “It's the damnedest thing you ever… I mean, he's seven foot six. He's unbelievable how tall he is.” – Joe ([13:08])

Physicality & Officiating:

• The physical nature of the series compared to the hockey playoffs; Wolves game described as “a war… so physical now” ([14:41], [15:07]).
• Frustration over inconsistent NBA foul calls: “Which is it? ...Would like to know what the guidelines are.” – Joe ([15:28])
• Praise for the referees' ability to control “48 minutes of utter chaos” ([16:07]).

Player Performances:

• Nas Reid and Anthony Edwards praised for their strong play in Wemby’s absence ([14:32]).
• Humor about the toughness of Nas: “One of those Civil War wounded guys with bandages on him…” – Pat ([14:37])
• Commentary on Ant (Anthony Edwards): “He’s a guy 7 foot 6, running around the lane there. That makes it a little harder.” – Joe ([14:03])
• Tangent on fan behavior—chiding those who chant “MVP” without proper context ([17:16]).

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3. Baseball Musings – Minnesota Twins & MLB Trends

Current Season Discussion:

• Twins’ injury worries (Joe Ryan avoids Tommy John surgery) and rare win with only two hits (both by Buxton) ([21:09])
• Historical trivia: First time in Twins history both hits in a win came from the same player ([21:48]).
• The overall meh-ness of the AL Central, with division leaders struggling to stay above .500 ([25:02]).
• Discussion of MLB teams, high payrolls not translating to wins (e.g., the New York Mets) ([26:37]).

Media & Coverage:

• Reflections on staff cuts at The Athletic and local sports journalism's decline ([23:39]).

Player News:

• Carlos Correa’s injury status update; “he's got two bad ankles” ([27:03]).
• Discussion of player trades and the business aspect behind them ([27:31]).

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4. Local Sports History & Ownership Stories

Sports Franchise Ownership:

• Humorous recounting of past attempts to buy Minnesota sports teams—sometimes by potential buyers who didn’t actually have the funds ([32:07]).
• Notable quote: “I got a little suspicious he might not have the money when he was staying at the same Super 8 halfway up to Hinckley…” – Joe ([31:34])
• “If the Wilf sold today, they'd probably get about 5 or 6 billion.” – Sports Analyst ([33:42]).

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5. Life, Education, and Anecdotes

Personal and Family Stories:

• Graduation tales: Pat describes attending a college graduation at South Carolina with massive crowds and plenty of celebration ([38:12]).
• Musings on modern college experiences (“J term”—students traveling abroad, sometimes for more party than school) ([39:16]).
• On the rising cost of college and the “deals” offered by some out-of-state SEC schools ([41:15]).

On the Garage:

• Segment about modern garage floor coatings and the importance of maintaining a clean, functional garage ([18:05]).
• “A coated garage floor just feels better. It's cleaner, brighter, you can clean it. It's more finished in every way…” – Pat ([18:05]).

Social Commentary:

• Jokes and asides about the Pope’s background and family ([10:02]), including: “It's fun to have an American Pope.” – Joe ([10:05]).
• Clever banter about “the room” terminology in sports culture ([09:10]).

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6. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The brilliance of Hughes continues to astonish me.” – Pat ([04:03])
• “He's the only guy who can score when there's no angle.” – Pat (on Kaprizov, [04:26])
• “Hockey’s having a...cultural day...more popular than ever, outside crowds bigger than ever.” – Pat ([02:59])
• “Before Wemby got kicked out, I was wondering, can a player be evicted? Well, the answer is yes.” – Pat ([12:46])
• “It's a war, man… they're lucky they don't kill each other.” – Pat ([16:55], [17:03])
• “What kind of kickbacks do you think colleges are getting from the people? Big time.” – Joe ([40:27])
• “We actually had to go to school.” – Pat ([40:42])

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7. Important Timestamps

• Wild game analysis & Cap issues: [02:14] – [09:10]
• Discussion of the Pope’s family & sports culture: [09:10] – [12:09]
• Timberwolves/Wemby ejection: [12:46] – [17:16]
• On NBA officiating & physicality: [14:41] – [16:55]
• Baseball/Twins segment: [21:01] – [28:17]
• Sports business & ownership stories: [30:55] – [34:07]
• Personal/life anecdotes (graduation, college): [38:12] – [41:24]

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Conclusion

The episode highlights Minnesota’s passion for sports, blending sharp game analysis with humor and broader observations about sports culture, ownership, and life’s daily logic. From Wemby’s ejection and Wild playoff optimism to quirky stories of failed sports moguls and the evolution of “the room,” Garage Logic delivers both insider knowledge and a dose of classic Midwestern common sense.

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Transcript

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[Joe]

And. Pat is Joel.

[Pat]

Saturday night's hockey game was as fine a game as a hockey team can play.

[Patrick Ricey]

Boy, they dominated them.

[Joe]

And without the Eck monster, who's one of their.

[Pat]

Do we know what's wrong with him?

[Joe]

He gets hurt a lot. But they always. Lower body, I believe.

[Pat]

Right?

[Joe]

Lower body.

[Pat]

Well, at least it ain't a concussion.

[Mark Ellis]

No.

[Joe]

But yeah. I think they're better than Colorado.

[Pat]

They can be.

[Joe]

I think they're Better in goal. They.

[Patrick Ricey]

They don't know which wood they want to play. They got the Wedgwood and the Blackwood,

[Joe]

and I thought Blackwood was playing, but it was Wedgwood for the first game, and then they pulled him in the middle of the game.

[Pat]

Plus, they humiliated him.

[Joe]

Yes, they beat him. They beat him bad.

[Pat]

No, no, the coach humiliated him by

[Joe]

taking him out during the game. Yeah. Middle of the game.

[Pat]

It just shows you, though, that these players. I think hockey's having a. What's globally or. What's the word I want culturally or something. It's having a day. They've been more popular than ever, and these outside crowds are bigger than ever. The people that can't get into the building. And I predict the Wild will play the same way tonight.

[Joe]

Now. And I'm very fearful that if the Wild, like, keep advancing, we're going to have those people standing out on the street just like a bunch of morons

[Pat]

we did Saturday night.

[Joe]

Oh, did they on West 7th?

[Pat]

Yes.

[Joe]

Oh, God.

[Pat]

There was giants greens out there.

[Joe]

Really? Oh, so the Wild are now selling drinks, then? Are they trying to sell drinks? No, I think money away from the.

[Pat]

No, no, no. These are people, just not in the building.

[Joe]

Okay.

[Pat]

The Wild aren't out there selling beer.

[Joe]

I'll just. Well, they did one year. A few years back, they had a stand down there. You got. You can't do that to those people on West 7th who die all year long. And then. I know.

[Pat]

And the brilliance of Hughes continues to astonish me.

[Joe]

He had a pretty.

[Pat]

Just astonishing man.

[Joe]

A pretty good game.

[Pat]

That movie made the score where he's skating sideways. Sideways.

[Joe]

Yeah, he's something to put himself in

[Pat]

a lane where he sees an opening,

[Joe]

goes, well, plus, the Russian showed up.

[Pat]

He really showed up.

[Joe]

He showed up.

[Pat]

He's the only guy who can score when there's no angle.

[Patrick Ricey]

You can.

[Joe]

They can go all the way. If he plays like that, they can beat everybody.

[Pat]

You know, I heard an interesting theory about him. See if you agree with this. Cause I'm debating myself. I don't know if I do. The person who told me this was questioning his reliability on a consistent basis. The person who told me this was saying, you know, some games he's a little off, and some games he's really there. And the theory was, you know, he's never been allowed in international competition. You can't be. You know, the Russians weren't in the Olympics. And he's. Who told. The guy who told me this, I'm thinking, I wonder if there's something to that. That you look at Faber and Hughes plan for the America in the Olympics. They took it seriously. It was a big deal. And they won. And this poor, poor Kirill was down in fish.

[Joe]

He went back home.

[Pat]

He went home.

[Joe]

That's why I don't trust him.

[Patrick Ricey]

He's out of Russia.

[Joe]

Why does he go home? If it's a gal, you know, he's got enough money to fly her over here. You know, I don't get it.

[Sports Analyst]

But if it is a gal, I mean, can you blame him?

[Pat]

I'm not questioning his. I'm not questioning his brilliance. He's a hell of a player.

[Joe]

Sometimes. I'm sure that they have two guys whacking him with sticks, you know, for a period. And he gets a little. Gets a little gloomy, but, boy, was he good.

[Pat]

Oh, was he.

[Joe]

He was flying. They're better.

[Pat]

They.

[Joe]

People tell me I'm crazy, but I think they're better.

[Pat]

Well, Hughes is better than Makar and close and. And Kirill can be better than their forward. What's the. No, no. Who's the guy? I'm thinking of their guy. McKinnon.

[Sports Analyst]

McKinnon.

[Joe]

Not David. What am I talking about? They're pretty even. McKinnon's a monster.

[Pat]

What the hell? Is somebody going to have to pay Hughes, and it better be the Wild? Well, what is going to.

[Joe]

They're playing Caprice off 17. He's worth more than that.

[Pat]

Hell, yes.

[Joe]

And I don't think you can pay them both, so I don't know. Hopefully they can. I would think. There's teams right now trying to clear enough cap space so they can sign Hughes and his brother and bring them together and something. You know, supposedly that Jack is really good, too, and he. They want to play together, but I don't buy it. I think he'll. You win a cup here, you just got to figure out how to pay him. I don't know how you do it, but you know what? Here's my theory. There's like, five, six guys that are. Guys that are unreplaceable, above and beyond. And the rest of them are bodies. Yeah, the rest. You get a bunch of bodies and get the superstars out there and go for it. That's.

[Pat]

Well, Faber's a superstar.

[Joe]

Oh, God. He's getting. He has. He had a little. I remember going over there before the Olympics, like, two weeks before the Olympics, and Judley or somebody said, boy, the last month. He looks burned out, man. Or maybe when he first came back. But since he's recovered since the middle of March, he's been fantastic. He's way better than I thought.

[Pat]

You know, Faber's a superstar. Hughes is a superstar. Kaprisov's a superstar.

[Joe]

X. Very good.

[Pat]

X. I'm gonna put him as superstar and Bold a super. I think, I think they have five superstars and maybe a goalie, you know, that's a superstar.

[Joe]

Said this last week. But Bill Garon should really feel guilty that he's got Baldi signed through 20, 30 for 7 million a year. God Almighty, a thief. I told him, you got to go to confession.

[Sports Analyst]

The cheap Leopolds.

[Joe]

He's no, he's a good Catholic boy, Garen.

[Sports Analyst]

Okay?

[Pat]

He got to go to mass every day and say, I'm sorry.

[Joe]

God, he's a mess going.

[Pat]

I took food from his family.

[Joe]

You know, I, I might have, I might have swore in a bar. I might have swore a couple of times when the other team scored. And yes, I, I, I robbed a very fine young man out of a lot of money.

[Pat]

And there's probably no trade in there, is there?

[Joe]

Huh? No.

[Pat]

You think Boldi has a trade clause? I mean, what's Bully gonna do when he sees Everybody else making 17 million?

[Joe]

Oh, no, he signed it. He signed it.

[Pat]

You know, they're a fun, They're a fun. I hate to use this word because you hate it. They're a fun group.

[Joe]

They are a fun group. They're always the group. Yeah, the room. They're good in the room.

[Pat]

They are good.

[Joe]

Everybody uses room now. Yeah, hockey used room 30 years ago.

[Pat]

I told you.

[Joe]

But now we got the quarterback room and the receiver room. And I told you, the kicker, we got holders room.

[Pat]

You know, Man, Nassau County Coliseum during the playoffs, the, the North Stars are playing the Islanders. The Pope gets shot, they all look up at the TV and go, they got him in his own room.

[Joe]

Yes. Right. Yes. I like this Pope. This Pope's a good Pope.

[Pat]

Well, you like him because he's a, he's a strong lefty. Well, they're supposed, that's where it's supposed to be.

[Joe]

Yeah, they're supposed to root for everyone. Yeah, we don't care about those guys that are getting killed and pack. Yeah, they're poor. We don't care about them, you know?

[Pat]

No, he's, he's fun to have an American Pope.

[Joe]

Yeah, it is. It's fun to have a. Do you. Did you realize his mother. I didn't realize his mother was what, the Heishi?

[Pat]

Haitian.

[Joe]

Haitian, whatever. That there's a, the, what the hell Are you talking about she's from somewhere in the Dominican.

[Pat]

Look it up, Reeves.

[Sports Analyst]

What am I looking up?

[Pat]

The Pope's mother.

[Sports Analyst]

Okay.

[Joe]

Pope's mom is from somewhere. One of those.

[Pat]

I got a picture of a kid. Of a kid I used to have standing in the Pope's front yard of the house in South Chicago. The kid was playing a ball game there, so they went to see the house.

[Joe]

Okay. Now, is. That's not the one the brother still lives in, is it?

[Pat]

No, I think the brother's got his own house.

[Joe]

Okay. That's my favorite Pope moment, when he calls him up and says. He calls them up, and they're just like. You talking to Paul. Yeah, yeah. And he says, hey. He says, why didn't you. The Pope says, why didn't you answer? I called before. And the guy says, well, there's a. There's a reporter here.

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And he said, he's there right now. Yeah. And the Pope says, I'll call you back.

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Joe]

And he never said, oh, your holiness. He's talking to his brother.

[Sports Analyst]

As of 2026, Pope Leo's mother, Mildred Agnes Martinez Prevost, was born in Chicago. Her background is from Dominican Republic, Haiti, and also there's some New Orleans roots there as well. The family moved from the 7th Ward of New Orleans to Chicago shortly before her birth.

[Joe]

They got some wards down there in Chicago that have. Have pretty great, you know, backgrounds of that, you know, they. They believed in. They had some parades with ghouls and devils. Yeah, stuff like that, you know.

[Pat]

So, anyway, tonight they'll tie the series, I hope.

[Joe]

I think so. I think so. I. You know, the. The odds are bad against you, but my theory is what? So what if they won the first two, you win the next two, then. Then the pressure's back on.

[Pat]

Plus, they went directly from Dallas into that series, basically, and. And Colorado have been terribly rested. Not in the wild before last Saturday night, skiing. They had a good three days off, so that made all the difference in the world.

[Joe]

There's a little violence in this series, but there's more violence in the Timberwolf series.

[Pat]

You know, before. Before Wemby got kicked out, I was wondering, can a player be evicted from a. From an NBA game? Well, the answer is yes.

[Joe]

When you go, boom.

[Pat]

He saw him.

[Joe]

He did.

[Pat]

He looked at him.

[Joe]

He looked at him and banged him off. So, you know, the. The NBA used to be great because that. They had the rule that.

[Pat]

I used to know the rules.

[Joe]

The locker. Yeah. But for us, the locker room door had to open 10 minutes after the game, Brian McCaffrey, we were out there. I was there the. For game three, and it was 20, 25 minutes, really. And I'm sitting there and I'm looking at the stat sheet and down. And this. This. This shadow comes by me and I look up and it's Wembiani without his shirt on and going through the locker room door to go back in the locker room. And it's the damnedest thing you ever. I mean, he's seven foot six. He's unbelievable how tall he is.

[Pat]

You know what Jaden said?

[Joe]

I did what he.

[Pat]

Tall as bleep.

[Joe]

Yeah, right. Yeah, he did. Jaden's pretty good. I have.

[Pat]

That kid is so grow on me. He. I think he's the real deal.

[Joe]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, Ant was funny talking about him, too, after, when they lost game three here. He says, they said, ant, you had trouble finishing today. He says, yeah, he's a guy 7 foot 6, running around the lane there. That makes it a little harder.

[Pat]

You know,

[Joe]

he's.

[Pat]

Would they have won that game last night with Wemby?

[Joe]

I'm sure they would have. I mean, they got eight behind after he got thrown off.

[Pat]

Right.

[Joe]

You know who played great last night? Nas. Nas played great. Anthony played great.

[Pat]

I thought Nas would end up looking like a civil. One of those Civil War wounded guys

[Joe]

with bandages on him, elbow in the face and. Yeah, and he got knocked down, but that. It. You know, they used to talk about the bad boys from Detroit. Now they being beat everybody up. Beat everybody up. But, man, these games are so physical now. There's no, you know, there's. It's that line between that's a foul and maybe that's not a foul. It's the.

[Pat]

Well, here's what I can't.

[Joe]

Here's contact going on.

[Pat]

Here's what I can't take.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Pat]

Jokic and Rudy, for example, can be leaning on each other and grunting and shoving and pushing and how do you decide which. And then some guy goes and shoots a three and somebody's finger touches his arm. And that's a foul.

[Joe]

Yes. Well, which is it? That's. I would like to know what the guidelines are. Me, too. I would like to go to the. When they have the big meeting with the officials before the season starts, and they got somebody in there trying to describe to them what's a foul and what's not a foul. And when they go to New York to review a file, which I hate, but. And to see if they can get it changed or not, it's yeah. Okay.

[Patrick Ricey]

Yes.

[Joe]

He's bodying up. He's pushing him. But it didn't go to the point of being a.

[Pat]

Well, okay, then there's another. Maybe there's another way to look at this that the referees are amazing. They are trying to control. Well, how long is a basketball game? 48 minutes.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Pat]

They're trying to control 48 minutes of utter chaos.

[Joe]

Yes, you're right. Yes.

[Pat]

And maybe they do a miracle job of it.

[Joe]

It's easier to call penalties in hockey. I know when a guy's tripped, Right? Yeah, right. Yeah, right.

[Pat]

They even got signs for it.

[Patrick Ricey]

Well, the good thing about hockey is

[Joe]

you can hit a guy and hold him up.

[Pat]

Right.

[Joe]

Just can't do it with a stick or something.

[Pat]

Maybe the. Maybe the NBA guys are really, really good at what they do, you know, because the game has outgrown its original architecture. Be longer and wider.

[Joe]

Yeah, they're not gonna do that because they have to get rid of seats. But it's. It's. It's just a war, man. It's ant was.

[Pat]

And they're lucky they don't kill each other.

[Joe]

Oh, they're not wearing pads. No. And they're.

[Pat]

They don't have helmets on.

[Joe]

They're up in the air and they gotta come down. Yeah. At some point.

[Pat]

Yeah, you got to come down.

[Joe]

That's right. It's. It is a busy. But the crowd, you know, I really. There were some people. Ants missed what, 16, 17 games this year. A lot of injuries. He had. Didn't have a great regular season. He had a good regular season. Some idiots, they show up at the game for the playoffs the other night, and he makes a basket and they're shouting mvp. They're chanting MVP up there. We did that last year. Shut up.

[Sports Analyst]

And I think he's technically ineligible.

[Joe]

He is a ineligible that. He did win it last year when he was great. Shut up. Go to the game and have some idea what you're watching, you jerks.

[Pat]

Hey, do you have the. The coating on your garage floor or you just got a regular concrete floor?

[Joe]

I think we had something on there.

[Pat]

Yeah. You're standing in your garage right now. You're looking at the floor. It looks like grief, man. You. You got to get a hold of. You gotta get ahold of some people and get that taken care of. And the people I'd get ahold of is installed Building Solutions. They do a polyure garage floor that handles everything. And it's not the old school stuff that I got 20 years ago. This stuff will not peel up. From hot tires or it won't crack with temperature swings. A coated garage floor just feels better. It's cleaner, brighter, you can clean it. It's more finished in every way and you know that every time you walk on it, it's non slip. They do it all. It's called installed building solutions. I met these guys, they're fantastic. They're the real deal and I would get ahold of them because you know the garage is part of a house and you got good cars and stuff. You want the finish to stay bright and clean looking. It doesn't yellow over time. Installed Building solutions just go to IBS coating.

[Joe]

One word. Yes, it's clean too.

[Pat]

You drop oil on, you clean it up with a paper towel.

[Joe]

That's what I need.

[Pat]

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[Pat]

In the meantime, the Twins are. They're in a division where they're never going to be out of it.

[Joe]

Well, they.

[Sports Analyst]

Well, another week went by. We lost another starting pitcher.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Pat]

Yeah, but it turns out that Ryan was not destined for Tommy Jones.

[Joe]

No, no, he was somebody. You know, people go. People have like a fringe website that they're commenting on baseball or some other sport and they will put absolutely Sources are telling me that Tommy Joe Ryan, you know, you put that on at 9:00 in the morning, it's a complete lie. There's no sources. But you get hits. That's what counts.

[Pat]

Well, that's why I don't follow it too much. No, I can't take it.

[Joe]

But by the way, I have gotten the answer to my question because Saturday's game, they got two hits, both by Buxton, and they won the game. I asked the question because I didn't know where to go find it. I wonder, in our long and glorious 66 season history, how many times the Twins have won a ball game with two hits and they both came from the same person? Zero. This is the first time. Wow.

[Pat]

Isn't it the first time in all of baseball?

[Joe]

It was a first time that. I'm not sure what it was, but it wasn't the same. It wasn't the same.

[Pat]

Was that the Saturday game?

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Pat]

And then yesterday they lost.

[Joe]

No, they won yesterday.

[Pat]

They won yesterday. See, I was late in the paper, so I didn't get the scores.

[Joe]

It was late. Well, we have a nice story in there today on the 1. Did you, by the way, before you picked up the paper, did you know the Wild had won on Saturday?

[Pat]

Yes, they did.

[Joe]

Okay. Well, we gave it pretty damn good coverage here two days later.

[Sports Analyst]

Apparently this did happen previously. August 4th, 1982. Joel Youngblood had the only two hits for the New York Mets in a day game at Chicago.

[Pat]

But what did they win?

[Sports Analyst]

Oh, okay. That's what I put in there.

[Joe]

I want them to win. All right.

[Pat]

I don't think it's been done with a victory.

[Joe]

Maybe not. Maybe not. Pretty. Pretty rare. Bucks having a hell of a year considering two years ago. Well, he'll never play the outfield again. We got to let him be a DH and hit.250.

[Sports Analyst]

And he got out to a slow start this year.

[Pat]

Somebody made a decision to just play him.

[Joe]

Yeah, play boxed and boxed. Boxed last year said, put me in center field, let's go works. And he's. And he's still the fastest man in baseball. He's got a stride for me to you across his table. It's unbelievable. So. But boy, there's. I see that there's enough lack of interest in the. In the Twins that the Athletic Gleeman announced today that he was told that he could not. They didn't want him to cover the Twins anymore. He could stay at the Athletic and he decided to leave. And he's going back to being aarangleman.com. The Athletic has gone from two twins guys to one in this. In this town. Dan Hayes, who lives in Chicago and commutes.

[Pat]

So the twins are 19 and 23.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Pat]

This, this says 18 and 23 because it doesn't have yesterday's game.

[Joe]

But they're at the American League standing 2 1/2 out. Yeah, but look at everybody except the top two teams in the American League east, the Yankees and the race.

[Pat]

Everybody else is nine out.

[Joe]

Yeah, yeah, but look at the record. Look at the first place records in the Central and the West.

[Pat]

First place record in the Central is Cleveland at 21 and 22.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Pat]

And look at the Tampa Bay is 26 and 13. The athletics are 21 and 19. Cubs are 27 and 14.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Pat]

Atlanta's 27 and 30. What are you trying to tell me

[Joe]

to tell you there are two teams in the American League that are like 15 games over and everybody else is 500 or less.

[Pat]

Right.

[Joe]

You got leaders of divisions who aren't 500.

[Pat]

Right.

[Joe]

So.

[Sports Analyst]

Well, that wouldn't even be updated because it was late. Your. Your Cleveland guardians are 21 and 21, Joe. Well, they lost yesterday, but I have MLB.com right here.

[Pat]

Well, they were 20. Did the. Wait a minute. Did your paper have this game yesterday? Yes, I'm sorry. This wasn't late.

[Joe]

This was. It was not late.

[Pat]

The twins beat Cleveland 5 to 4 yesterday.

[Sports Analyst]

Game started at 12:30.

[Pat]

Well, these are up to date then.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Pat]

In terms of Cleveland and Minnesota.

[Joe]

Yes. Yes.

[Sports Analyst]

Hey, we're only two and a half games out of first.

[Pat]

What I'm trying to tell you.

[Sports Analyst]

That's true.

[Joe]

Tell us anymore what the deadline is.

[Pat]

It's just. Is it floating?

[Joe]

Because they're afraid that we will let.

[Pat]

If they say it's 4:30, you'll use

[Joe]

it, we'll use it. We'll take advantage. They want, you know, they want when you wake up in the morning to be done. You know that's what they want. They want that copy early.

[Sports Analyst]

How about the fact that the team with the highest payroll in baseball has the worst record? Your New York Met are 15 and 25.

[Joe]

Are they still the worst?

[Sports Analyst]

Yes. 300.

[Joe]

What? 50 million.

[Sports Analyst]

I thought it was more than that, but you're probably right. They're a game behind. The Colorado Rockies were 16 and 21.

[Joe]

Can't be to it. And he could have had Correa if he didn't back off.

[Pat]

Now Correa is hurting out for the.

[Joe]

The other. The.

[Patrick Ricey]

The good ankle is fine.

[Joe]

The bad ankle is the one that here's the good news. The bad ankle is not. Is not the bad one.

[Sports Analyst]

No.

[Joe]

It's the other one that's now injured. So he's got two bad ankles. We got out of 33 million. We got out cheap getting rid of him. You know what? I. I saw somebody though making a big deal of the fact that the pitcher that they got for him.

[Sports Analyst]

Matthew Mikulski.

[Joe]

No. Yeah, basically Matthew Mikulski. He's probably had better stuff but he was a 26 year old in low a ball who had never been on a roster or anything. You have. And they're writing as though they really got robbed on this trade. You have to take a player, right. The. The Astros said we're not going to take the bulk of the deal and also give you a player of some worth. Right. So they just gave them a body. But these guys are. Oh boy, they really got screwed on this deal because my Matthew Mikulski got. Got released or something. You know.

[Pat]

They're off today, aren't they?

[Joe]

Yes. Yeah.

[Pat]

And then they're home for a stretch.

[Joe]

So I met man right down the street the we'll be playing game four. And Mancini's has their St. Paul hall of Fame dinner tonight and they did not move it it. I thought maybe they would.

[Pat]

Are you going?

[Joe]

I. They are honoring Mike Augustine and Greg Wong. So yes, I'm going in half.

[Pat]

I'm how to get there in that mess.

[Joe]

I'm gonna go this way.

[Pat]

Oh yeah.

[Joe]

And I'm not gonna go downtown first but the. You know. So I gotta talk for five, six, seven minutes or something about. About two of the great human beings of all time.

[Pat]

Wonderful. I didn't know they were going in.

[Joe]

Augie's been gone for 30 years. I think 96. I think 1996 was when he died.

[Pat]

All I remember a small cemetery in St.

[Joe]

Cloud. Yes. Yes. That's when my wife said to you, Joe, this is the first person from our age group, a friend of ours that died. And she said you said to her. And thanks for that, Katie. Thanks for. Thanks for telling us that.

[Pat]

Yeah, thank you. I didn't need to know that.

[Joe]

But yes.

[Pat]

Well, he's young. He was too young.

[Joe]

Yeah, he was 50. Little mid-50s maybe. Yeah, yeah. Went quick too. Man, what a beauty.

[Pat]

Longer's going in tonight, but he's still with us.

[Joe]

Yeah, Wonger's with us, but he's got that terrible memory problem. Yeah.

[Pat]

Will he be there tonight?

[Joe]

Great. But. But Donna, his wife's coming and she's bringing a nice Delegation.

[Pat]

So wonderful.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Pat]

What else do we got?

[Joe]

What else? Who do we have, Pat?

[Pat]

I landed in Charlotte, North Carolina, to go to Columbia, South Carolina.

[Joe]

I went to. I ever been there those places? A few times. Yeah.

[Pat]

The airport in Charlotte is the biggest airport I've ever been in.

[Sports Analyst]

Really?

[Joe]

They must have expanded it quite a bit since I flew down.

[Pat]

Well, it's bigger than o'. Hare.

[Joe]

It spread out.

[Pat]

It's spread out.

[Sports Analyst]

Okay.

[Pat]

But I'm thinking they got football and basketball.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Pat]

They're going to end up with all four. That's a million people. It's growing like crazy.

[Joe]

It's the baseball. You know, was.

[Pat]

That's home of Quail Hollow.

[Joe]

The baseball's talking about Nashville, though.

[Pat]

More.

[Joe]

More so than. Yeah, Quail Hollow. But, yeah, it's a. It's a booming town. There's no doubt.

[Pat]

Oh, my word.

[Sports Analyst]

Didn't they almost steal our guys? Wasn't the buyer from North.

[Joe]

Or that area he was from.

[Sports Analyst]

Was it North Carolina?

[Joe]

Yeah, but it was from some smaller. Okay, remember what the town was.

[Sports Analyst]

Was there Don Beaver.

[Joe]

Yeah, that was Beaver.

[Sports Analyst]

Don Beaver.

[Joe]

Yeah. Was it Beaver? Yeah, wasn't it?

[Pat]

Then it was announced he didn't have the money.

[Sports Analyst]

One small problem.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Pat]

Just didn't have the finance.

[Joe]

Unlike the Greek, who we wouldn't sell the Vikings to. We should have sold him. I. I don't know. I got a little. I got a little suspicious he might not have the money when he was staying at the same Super 8 up and halfway up to Hinckley or something. But that's one of my.

[Pat]

Didn't he have the Greek fishing hat, too?

[Joe]

What was his name? Yeah.

[Pat]

Castellanus.

[Sports Analyst]

No, All I can think of is Clancy. I can't think of who.

[Pat]

Clancy was a front for somebody. He didn't. He. He had some money, but he didn't have football money.

[Joe]

So. Johnny Devolas. Yeah, he's a Greek favorite. Greek. Yeah. So I call up Johnny and. Because this guy's up there and he's look up the Greek. We had the black fella who was gonna. Watkins was gonna buy the Twins, Right?

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Turned out he didn't have any money. Right. And we were accused of racism for not. For suspecting that he didn't have the money. So I called up Johnny and did this piece on Johnny as a Greek. Are you offended that we aren't taking this man seriously? And, you know, they have this thing, the Greeks have this Order of the Hellenic, or Hellenic. It's a sub. It's kind of a social club. And so I Did this whole thing with Johnny being upset that we weren't taking it was all satire and I made it clear. But the next morning, the guy tracks down Johnny and ask him if he wants to invest.

[Pat]

Oh, my God.

[Sports Analyst]

All I'm seeing, according to the AI overview of the timeline, is just the Wilfs. Obviously Tom Clancy, Reggie Fowler, and, well, obviously with Red McCombs.

[Joe]

But the Greek was.

[Pat]

This was for twins.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Sports Analyst]

Oh, I thought you said the Vikings.

[Joe]

I'm sorry, Wasn't it?

[Sports Analyst]

I thought. I thought Pat said the Vikings.

[Joe]

It was the Vikings.

[Pat]

Maybe it was the Vikings. I don't know, I can't remember.

[Sports Analyst]

But it was.

[Pat]

Remember the Greek?

[Joe]

Greek. Who was gonna buy Vikings that probably won't show up.

[Sports Analyst]

By the way, do you know what the purchase price Clancy tried to get in 1998 was?

[Joe]

100 mil.

[Sports Analyst]

$200 million.

[Joe]

Clancy, you should have borrowed 200 million in 1998.

[Pat]

Wow.

[Sports Analyst]

And if the Wilf sold today, they'd probably get about 5 or 6 billion.

[Joe]

Oh, at least. What did. What did the guy from Texas pay for Red?

[Sports Analyst]

200.

[Joe]

200.

[Sports Analyst]

Red ended up giving 200 and I. He sold. What did he say?

[Pat]

Red got about 600 million for it.

[Sports Analyst]

Something like that. I think you're right.

[Joe]

Yeah. So. But no, they're saying like 10, 12 million billion for the next NFL franchise.

[Sports Analyst]

Well, that's what. Seattle's on the market right now and they're expected to go for around.

[Patrick Ricey]

Yeah, that doesn't work.

[Pat]

They expected to stay in Seattle.

[Joe]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They. They showed me that. That doesn't work because they're talking about the Byzantine empire here when I put that in there. So that won't be any good. That was a long time ago. That was a long time ago.

[Pat]

Look up your column about the guy.

[Joe]

Oh, God, I don't know how I find that.

[Pat]

It's got to be, what, 25 years ago?

[Joe]

Yeah, at least. How long the Wilfs.

[Sports Analyst]

Oh, five is when the Wilfs took ownership.

[Joe]

It's funny how good a reputation they have with the public, though, because every time they do something, I send out a tweet and says, cheap Wilfs. You know, Cheap, Wilson, cheap. You know, it's amazing. Anyway, all right, can we hear about

[Sports Analyst]

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[Pat]

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[Joe]

That's right.

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[Pat]

So you're going to Mancini's tonight but you're not, you're not going to the game.

[Joe]

I, I can't because they'll be going but I will see people watching the game that'll be sure.

[Sports Analyst]

Maybe just go to the watch party.

[Pat]

There will be probably when you step out the door of Mancini's tonight, you will see a watch party sea of people.

[Joe]

Oh down the street. I think we're a mile point mile and 2.

[Pat]

Tennis is a bit away.

[Joe]

They're kind of the. Yeah, they're. They're the end of the road so

[Sports Analyst]

you can get some steps in and

[Patrick Ricey]

walk down and I would like. You know what?

[Joe]

I love to own Tom Reeds today. Everybody else but the one I'd really love to own is that truck.

[Pat]

The Truck park.

[Joe]

The Truck park. Yeah. Truck Place bar. That place is huge.

[Pat]

Is that on 7th Street.

[Sports Analyst]

It's right on the corner.

[Joe]

Yeah. And they can open her up. Yeah, they can open up the windows. And when I was roaming down there, when that. On that first Saturday playoff, they had to have 600 people in there. It was unbelievable. And the youth. The youth likes to drink.

[Sports Analyst]

Yes, they do. Yes, they do.

[Pat]

I just came from a college graduation.

[Joe]

Was there alcohol involved?

[Pat]

Boy, was there ever.

[Joe]

Now why do they graduate down there at South Carolina?

[Pat]

How many people? Yeah, I went to.

[Joe]

I choose. It depends upon which.

[Pat]

I went to two ceremonies. I went to her department deal and then the main one, which filled the basketball arena, which is the size of Target Center.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Pat]

And that was the entire class. And it took two hours to name all the names. I don't know what the number of people was.

[Sports Analyst]

You weren't counting.

[Joe]

She get. She foreigned on there and she go an extra year. Four years. She only went four and done.

[Patrick Ricey]

Well.

[Joe]

The last college graduation I went to was Ryan's out at Regis and we got there on Monday and he was still waiting to. He didn't have his final grade from one three credit class that he had when he was in Ireland for a month. I always described it as Guinness 101.

[Pat]

Guinness 101.

[Joe]

But he still had to. And his father, who. His father had paid the tariff for him and he was. He'd flown out there with his new wife and everything and he wasn't in a real good mood when it appeared. It appeared that the guy he did, you know, Ryan was a five year. And the guy he'd been paying for five years was not gonna graduate because he hadn't turned in a three page paper from Ireland when he was over there for the greatest scam. Education is J term. This kid, I did, she. She had to have a J term here, there and everywhere.

[Pat]

I got pictures of her riding a camel across the desert in Africa.

[Joe]

Yeah, that's J term.

[Pat]

And they camped in beautiful things that were set up for them. And then the food was brought in. And then.

[Joe]

This is education.

[Pat]

This is education. And then Madrid.

[Joe]

Yeah.

[Pat]

Florence, Italy.

[Joe]

Yes.

[Pat]

That wasn't school. That was parte.

[Joe]

What kind of kickbacks do you think these colleges are getting from the people? Big time. Where they.

[Pat]

I bet they're all affiliated with the travel business.

[Joe]

Yeah, I bet they are. Yeah.

[Pat]

It's those kids today in your modern school.

[Sports Analyst]

Oh my.

[Pat]

Those kids. Have fun. We actually had to go to school.

[Sports Analyst]

Yeah, we're starting to get hit up too. It starts early too. We're starting to get hit up for. Hey, we're gonna send them to DC and we're gonna send them to begins early.

[Joe]

So. Yeah, we got, I got one of the grandkids is gonna be a senior and she's, she's looking at Iowa for some reason.

[Pat]

Let me tell you what I learned. These SEC schools are not as expensive as you think.

[Joe]

I mean, they'll give you a lot of help if you have good grades.

[Pat]

That was cheaper for her to go there than an in state school in Illinois. Really?

[Joe]

Wow.

[Pat]

Wow.

[Joe]

Well, it cost a lot of money. That's, you know, I don't know. I heard that. I heard Iowa was going to be kind of pricey. Even when you eat, they're all damn near an A student and they're all expensive. And now they got. The boy is doing driving, he's got the permit. So, so when you get two of them like that, do you get away with one car? You gotta have two. You get away because I asked the boy, the boy was over and I said, so you wanna, you Wanna convertible with 70,000 miles on it? And, and he said yeah, but I don't know that, that I can't. I imagine a convertible would be even more expensive for the, the insurance. Right.

[Pat]

Plus when they roll over, you want

[Joe]

them to have a hard time. Yes, that's right. That's key. When, when they're in the car and there's people with them and there's a lot of hi jinks going on.

[Pat]

Well, we're going to root for that not to happen.

[Joe]

No, we are, we are, we are. So.

[Pat]

All right, I got to go meet a concrete guy.

[Joe]

All right, good.

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