Torii Hunter

Yeah.

You know, Torii Hunter, like...

And then you look across the, the current Major League Baseball.

Okay, how the, well, how the hell are the, the, the Tampa Bay Rays about to win 95, you know, if they get hot here, maybe 100 games? And there's a lot of things internally that they do really well that are kinda secret sauce that teams try to steal from.

This random Twin-

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... was pro baseball teammates with Torii Hunter, Byron Buxton, Bobby Keuel, and J.C. Romero, among, you know, like, hundreds of other pr- I don't know, however many other pro baseball teammates.

But just a few highlighted teammates that he-

You might have really good, smart people, which I do think there's people in the front office that are smart, um, that the Twins do have.

But is there someone else that you can add to this that isn't just this collection of noise from around you, of people telling you, "You know, Tom, you're doing a really good job and we need to keep the Twins foundation like this"? It's okay to listen to other outside opinions, and I would c- be curious to see if Tom is willing to get another baseball executive that doesn't have ties to the Twins, or just getting Torii Hunter back.

You know, like, you know what I mean? Like, finding things that would work for the Twins way, but also figuring out ways to make the Twins better from outside perspective.

... hose.

Uh, Brett Gardner, they were teammates with the Yankees, another outfielder.

Tory Hunter.

Is a hunter, is that a, is that labor, Jeff? Is that a job? People do that, right?

I, it's-

I was getting emotional watching the hype reel that the Tigers posted for his celebration.

I, to the majors, my favorite podcast had Tori Hunter on, which is like to the majors sort of varies between having guys like that who are like basically like Tori Hunter's like an almost Hall of Famer and like random guys who are like, you know, I had like six years in the MLB, you know, and talk about their journey.

And Tori Hunter was talking about Justin.

Because they did a kind of like do an all Torrey Hunter team, like all the guys you played with.

Right.

From the waist down for a guy that's got speed Hello! [laughs] That's not good at all So Um Mm This is a tough one man These injuries for this guy They just keep on coming I don't There's gotta Be Something Going On Man I Don't Know It's Weird It's weird You Feel Bad I feel terrible For this dude because He's a freak Of An Athlete You know And He talks About wanting to Being In Minnesota And finishing Out his Career And all that Kind of stuff I Mean mm This One Hurts

Tori Hunter Probably one of the More Eloquent speakers Incredible player Great person I heard Him talking About Buxton And Trout Now we know What trout Has done We know trout Has had Injury issues And Tori On that Interview Said Kinda feel Like kinda feel like buxton has a higher ceiling than mike trout for that's that's not some joe schmoe like me saying something like that like tori hunter knows what he's looking at when he's talking about center fielders in the game and it will always be tied to injuries my issue is if he's trying to get back out there for a team today on september fourth that's three and a half back behind three other teams then it's probably what he's done most of his career like i'm trying i'm trying to stay out there and does that make the injury worse i don't know only him and the medical staff will know but i'd hate for the him to stay out there on a bad hip and it becomes something else that then crops up later in you know next season that he kind of you use too much because when something's hurting you have to mitigate it by leaning on something else and that's the last thing that you want you want him to be a hundred percent healthy whenever he can be

Hot corner Hold Up hold up So this show Had Dana Brown The former General manager Of the Astros On the other Day Okay He Was fired The Houston Astros Might Not Just Make The Playoffs They might Not just Win the Division They might Receive First Round Bye They won Three of Four Games Against the White Sox Just now Look At the Standings Wow So The Rays Are in a Good Spot Right now Although they Need to Still wrap up the Division With the Yankees The White Sox Are One and a Half Games up On the Astros You Want to be Able to Try and catch up to a Team you Face them Head-to -head Do what you Need to do Astros did That Hunter brown In this Last Game Hmm To swing it Their way Varsho Two run Triple Altuve Two Run Home Run The Houston Astros might receive a bye.

They might be in a position, Kratz, where they have one of the better pathways to make a World Series, right? We've talked about the seeding and how it's going to put a team like the White Sox or now maybe the Astros in a favorable position.

And then some others below $100 million that did not work out too well.

Uh, Torii Hunter was fine.

Um, and, and Weaver had his moments.

C.J. Wilson got hurt.

Guess what he did? He showed up every day.

I played with Mark Buehrle, Paul Konerko, Torii Hunter.

Name them.

I played with all these guys, right? These are all some of the best players of all time.

As you know, Big Ten football.

So once this ball gets behind Torii Hunter, i- it's, it's ...

And Mark Kotsay will talk about it.

He was 30 years old, so it wasn't like he was an old player.

Game tied 2-2.

You hit a sinking line drive.

Torii Hunter's one of the best center fielders of his generation.

At what point when you're rounding the bases, or when did you see the play in front of you, did you go, "I got a shot at this"?