March Sadness

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So today's show, we normally don't start out like this. It's a sad show for her because it's one of our friends that we lost and one of our colleagues that we lost. Here on the Beer Balley Sports Radio Network and also on Beer Really Sports, Jesse Pierce lost her life in the early mornings of Saturday this past Saturday. She leaves behind three kids, Hudson, Kidd, and Avery. Jesse's been in part of Beer Really Sports for a couple

One quick thing too, my cousin Sean and his wife Mallory noticed some of our social media posts. M hm, and you know, I'm from White Bear Lake to be with, and they are still down there and it turns out they have been friends with that family for since they were in school together. So wow, So there's a personal connection there too, and I just wanted to shout out to them and hope everything's going good for them, because

Know, It's it was tough seeing that that that right away on Saturday morning. I remember texting you guys, I was like, Jesse died and just crazy like all the news and eventually flooded in and stuff and it was it was crazy.

Yeah, and there's not there's not a whole lot more that can be said. I mean, everybody's kind of touched on it. And the impact that she's left is definitely you know, palpable.

Yeah, Yeah, she was one of the greats. And we'll for sure for sure, miss her. Alrighty.

But with that, with that, we're gonna move on and try to do a show and have a good time.

We'll have a great show, because we always have a great show. Should our show, Let's start it.

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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. It doesn't matter where you are. This is Beer Belly Sports Company from the Runway Lounge just south of Bamiji in Narry, Minnesota. If you don't know Narry, Minnesota, Boomiji, Minnesota, just south of Bomigie, not tim minute south of Bomiji. My name is Matt Geffrey. To the very far left and the end of the bar where he normally is an at He's in Bruce's spot today. We welcome back Dustin patten Well, Hello, welcome back, sir.

I like this song a lot better than the other one.

I do too. Yeah, it's a good song. And then welcome a very special guest of the show. He is a a Bomidgi legend, and not just any Bomigi legend. You hear his voice all the time in the Northland here in Minnesota. You hear him call for the Lumberjacks Radio network. You hear him calling amazing soccer games on the Lumberjacks Radio network, and even some baseball games and even some football games. He is now there from Paradise, Pennsylvania, which is we had a great movie about it, from

Other than Joel Hoover, thanks for having me today, Falls.

Hey, welcome to the show. It's I was very well you said, yeah, I'll be on the show. I'm like, oh, we got a local legend on the show.

Class up the joint a little bit, Wait a little bit.

You guys have had some local legends on the show.

Yeah, plenty of time. Yeah, but it's not you.

Well, I'm a little hard to get a hold of sometimes and it's a little hard to make things work schedule wise sometimes with how busy I can be with broadcasting all those games and doing everything with kbun it it gets it gets a little challenging, but yeah, I was. I was really glad that that you asked me. It's I mean, I know the two of you. I haven't got a chance to meet or get to know the other guys. It's funny though tonight was the first time that I got to meet Dustin in person. He's been

Yeah, I remember when you guys first started the show. There you you really encourage you know, if you're out there listening, Yeah, get a hold of us.

Yeah, I love that. I love when when people show that they're listening and engage with what we've got going on with the show.

I love that.

It may not mean we always agree in terms of the thoughts, which is which is part of the fun of it as well. Is just the the dialogue or the chance to have some dialogue. But that's that's enjoyable. And then of course, Jeffery, you've been helping us out at k b U N for a while until your life got busier. But you. But you've been able to help us out with with calling games, which I've loved, and of course you've been a contributor on high.

Noon with.

Your golf and your zany uh zaney calls and and being part of a minority owner of the Minnesota Twins.

Allegedly owner of the Minnesota Twins.

Yeah, minority owner as in point zero zero zero one percent or something like that. But but yeah, calling games which I've loved that that you helped us out with that, So yeah, it's it's fun getting to to now join you guys and and contribute a little And yeah, would have would have loved to get to meet the other fellas too.

Bruce is our comic relief for sure. He's one that kind of makes everything funny. And yeah, and Scott's like a second dad. He'll blind you with the the two degrees he has for business. And then he dad talks me even though he's the youngest out of all of us, which is fine. And then I got Dustin who probably did the same two.

Yeah, I mean I do a little bit, but me and Bruce have a different I'm a different person normally when Bruce is here too, because we've known each other for twenty something years now where we used to play himself all together.

So I will say too, I had wanted to to make this comment anyway coming on the show in light of what happened this weekend, because I thought the timing was the timing was tough that this is my first show that I'm joining you guys just coming off of the tragic loss of not only Jesse Pierce, but but her three kids as well, and that was just so incredibly shocking and heartbreaking to hear about. I did not have the familiarity with Jesse that you guys did. I

I mean when I first saw, like I said, I was blown away, Like how how much response that she got from the world, because there was I was even went to national news, like many different levels on national news, and it was great to see reflecting on her life of amazing life that she had and again being a mom when her husband was busy, she took the kids too, a lot of these interviews, yeah, and doing that and

Yeah she was. I mean, kind of like I said in that one post I made, she was kind of a rising star, you know, just kind of taken off and moving on up, getting more and more respect.

I was blown away too with the the respect that she had garnered from the organization, from the Wild themselves, and from some of the players too. Like reading about the bond that had been created between me Kyle Granlin when he was with the Wild, and her oldest son after he had been born. I saw this adorable picture of Grantlin just staring into his eyes and him as

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More than welcome. Yeah, you don't know if he's happy.

Well, he'll be happy, he's happy, but uh, more than welcome to join us for the draft party. Last year we had the Mayor George Frinch joined us wearing his San Diego Chargers jersey San Diego, San Diego Jersey. He was super pumped about it.

Does he still call them the San Diego charge I think he does. Scott Williams does. Scott. He firmly believes that they belonged still in San Diego, and I couldn't agree more with him.

I do too.

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Why what happened?

And we'll talk about that later.

Yeah, what happened there. Yeah, so the Knob and Kettle just south of Bamigi, great restaurant. Josh and his family take great care of you. Uh we're gonna do another. I believe we'll do another draft party. That's less than a month away, and it's one of our favorite times of years to uh hang out there and meets some of the people. We should do some giveaways, we uh talk, we're more talking.

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Oo the Apollo. That sounds awesome.

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Oh. Scott Chime did fifty years and twenty five in Grand Rapids, So thank you. I don't do I don't usually don't do his ad, but yeah, so Urban Gerbert's been sort of been with us for beginning when Stevel was still here, So the original. That's how long ago we've had Urban Gerbertz as part of our sponsorship. My favorite's probably been the eruptor one of my all time favorites.

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What's the tuna one? For some reason I liked that one.

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Tuna guy, Dustin, you know, once in a while, I'm not a I don't know, I'm not a sandwich shop guy normally.

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All right, I think that guy sounds fair to say. Do you know that guy?

He sounds really familiar weird. Oh I think I heard him on a podcast one time with somebody who sounded a lot like me.

Oh, what's that podcast.

Called Rick and nicktok flicks.

I'm glad I kimi organically. All right, start off first, first beer for us. We're gonna crack this one. It's gonna be Joel Hoover. Let's meet the great Joel Hoover from KBUN and also Paul Bunyan Broadcasting here in Bimidge, also part of the Hubbard team as well too. Hoover, you've been here for ten ten years? Has to be ten years, ten and a half, ten and a half.

That's right over ten and a half now, Okay, yeah, so I do.

I told you this before. When I left RP Broadcasting and KBUN had an opening for sports director, I applied for it, and I'm not gonna lie. I'm so happy you got it because you do an outstanding work. The things you call, the things that you do for Bamidge in general, like the soccer games that you do. No one else in this state does better soccer games than you, Like I'm serious, Like I listened for you. My Hoover's way better and you can. How you paint a picture

Jeffrey, I appreciate that a lot. I'm sorry that it was at the expense of you not getting the position, but no, I appreciate it a lot. It's so fun to get to do this for a living. That's what I'm thankful to be able to get to do this for a living. This was always something that going back to when I was in middle school, that I had wanted to do as a job was get to do sportscasting and to be able to call games and to

With that, And anybody who's ever seen Joel Hoover's book for basketball is mind blowing because Joel will take because I wish I had the book here, but you'll have the rebounds, will have points for each person.

I don't keep Oh okay, I wish to keep rebound.

There's fouls, there's everything. He keeps I when I do it for you with like it's just points and follows, I'm like, all right, that's good enough. And then you keep track of like running scores and stuff. I remember seeing that I try. I'm like, that is outstanding. Nobody else we had Charlieyeger in here. He said the same thing, like keep it up with Hoover's book is amazing how

Yeah.

One mind that I had was against Morehead and Bimiji Boys and more I hit that three point in the corner literally on the right hand side of me if you know where the Pimitji field house is, right hand side of us in that corner he hit that green diit.

I was like, yeah, yeah, that's a tough one. I know you've called games, Dustin. Have you ever called games?

I have not.

Have you ever wanted to?

He's tried to get me in baseball before, but I'm it's just busy.

Can't really you know, it's fun. Yeah, I used to.

Kind of when I was younger, he used to think about it, but I, yeah, no, I don't think I can keep up with the action and a lot of the sports, baseball maybe.

But that's what's nice about podcasting. You can just yeah, go at your own pace.

Yep, do that.

Yeah, that's the thing, especially with radio. That's the challenge with radio. And that's what I love about being on the radio side of things. Like people have asked me if I would want to get into TV, and it was a thought back when I was in college about the possibility of it, and it still plays on my mind a little bit. But radio is a lot of fun because you're painting the picture, just like you talked about, Jeffrey.

That says that that's right, thank you, Captain x y Z.

Celebrity who's right there, Like, yeah, I know who that is.

We're the ones to talk over the moment.

Oh my gosh, no kiddinging the microphone doing it. Yeah, uh, it just let the moment breathe. Radio, though, you have to be on point. You have to be telling the story and being really descriptive about it while also trying to tell the story too. I mean, TV is so much about the narrative and the story. Radio you're describing what's going on, and you're telling the story too. It's it's fun to be able to to mix both of them in.

So one of my things when I do radio is you. I mean you do a lot of background work like you do. I don't know, like a week's worth, within like a couple of days. I try that you do like for me, I don't have to do much of that. I just like the rule of thumb. And I told you two hours early. That's always been a rule of thumb. Chris Tubbs from down in the Cities at WCCO, He's

Yeah, it works great like that. Yeah, I my rule of thumb, I tend to be in the realm of about an hour and a half because I'm doing Usually I'm doing so many games that sometimes if I have a little bit of time, that's a luxury to me. Now, if I'm on the road, I'm at the mercy of traveling with the time, which I love. I love that.

I'm going to ask you about that for like travel with the team, like, like, do you like traveling the team or do you like going separate? Because I know for the most time you like go with the team.

Yeah, I would say for the most part, I absolutely love being with the team. Now, I say for the most part, because you do then have to commit to their timetable because for instance, with basketball and hockey during the winter, we're getting there early because JV is playing first. Now I don't mind that because it gives me time to do things like get my senior spotlight interview if I'm doing one that night, get my coaches interview, get my book ready and written out because I have my

We never went with teams. We always had to drive ourselves. So you talk about doing your book, this is my show prep or my my opener that I had with you for Lewjacks. Yeah, so yeah, I would write all this stuff like literally within those two hours. Though.

That's good, that's good. That's part of what I do sometimes too. I try to come with bullet points in my mind for my opens so that I can make them as natural as possible. But for really really big games, and I'm curious if people have heard this before or can tell that there's a difference, I'll give a little little insider info here. For select really really big games where I know that there's a a clear as day

Like the girls State tournament game this year, did you do that one?

I partially did. Okay, that's a good one. That's a good question. I'm trying to remember the last time that I did write one out. I wrote it out for the Section Championship. For the State game, I came partially prepared with what it was, but that was actually more off the cuff with that one. Yeah, that was maybe a bit surprising yet, thank you. But yeah, for the Section Championship, that one was prepared, and that was one where I was like, I have got to nail this open.

I know what I want to do with it.

I've got to nail it with With the State one, it was prepared partially in my mind. I knew the bullet points I wanted to hit. Plus it was different because I had TJ with me down to State TJG. And because I had somebody else with me. I didn't

It's not it's it's nice having somebody with you. And I'm not used having somebody with me. So it's like I did many, many, many games with solo, but it's so nice having somebody with you to bounce stuff off of and you take a little break and kind of make make the event.

I've done a lot of both, so I know how both go.

Yeah, uh so, oh yeah, can we?

So the the start of one O four five, like the when you guys shifted over to sports and local sports, and then you came along and now suddenly there was a local sports show. How did that come about?

Also, guys would ask me, yeah, really interested? Yeah, great question. So I got here in July of twenty fifteen was when I moved here. I accepted the job in June. Thankfully, they gave me some time to get everything organized in PA because I had just graduated from college in May of twenty fifteen. Graduated from it was then Messiah College, now it's Messiah University. I had gone back home and

Is going to be.

It's absolutely gonna be yes. But then I have a whole weekend to sit on my brain. And that made it hard because now I'm having to think about.

This, well, yeah, you're so young, and then yeah, you know I'm going halfway across the country, Yeah, exactly, to a.

State I had never been to. I had never been to Minnesota before. I only knew of Bmigi because I remembered seeing Bamigi State in the Frozen four and that they had made that run back in nine. But I knew I was going to accept the job. I absolutely knew it. I told my mom and dad that and they're like, yup, it's time. This is this is what, this is God's plan making this possible here. So got a month to be able to pack up and get ready for the move, and off I went. I knew

Ah, and he took care of that.

Yeah, he deserves a bell for that. So keV did the apartment walk through for me. I had never met him in person, only a talk to him via skype.

That was it.

Him and Todd.

They were the only two people I had visually seen from the station.

Did keV still have hair at that time?

I don't mean to throw him under the bus here, but a little bit, a little bit sorry keV. Anyway, he has gracefully moved into his current stage of it follicle awareness so.

No awareness as a show title.

So I yeah, so I get out here, getting back to your question, Dustin, and keV gave me the outline of the plan of what they were looking at doing with one oh four five. He said, we're getting ready to turn this oldie station into a sports station. And he's like, we're gonna have some people who won't be

Me doing it.

I know how to do it. But then yeah, so that launched in September. It was early September that kbun FM launched where we flipped the switch on that going from the oldies to a sports station, and then High Noon was what he pitched me on. Next, He's like, who, we like to get this daily sports talk show going and I went, you want it to be daily? And he says, we want it to be two hours. I was like, you want it to be two hours of content.

I remember when he first when he first started with it. Oh man, you ain keV for the longest time.

Yeah, it was the two of us to start. We would have Scott was a contributor at the start. He would provide a segment's worth of content. He was busier at the time with well he's still busy now, but it was a different busy with the Beavers and with his his hockey work. There and doing football, and he would still provide some content for us every now and then.

And you owned up. You owned all this for yourself, which is great. I mean you you expanded the brand, You expanded Lumberjack's radio network, you expanded High Noon. We have local talent. You have the kids who come in if you have like me who come in just to joke around and make fun of me, which is fine. You have TJ who comes in, you have a lot of other people who are there to help grow the brand.

Well, I'll give people a little background on my history with Jeffrey, because Geffrey at first was at least to me And you'll probably love this, Dustin, And I know Geffery, you'll get a kick out of this. You were this goofy dude who seemed to be pounding down the door line can I do anything for you?

Guys?

It was so funny and yet you were so persistent about it, and I was At first, I was like, Okay, what are we dealing with here? Is this guy like some rando or what exactly is is his angle here? You just wanted to do something, and it was as I got to know you more, I was like, oh man, it was in the It was not like some crazy or like something. This guy shouldn't be on.

The I've emailed you and keV so many times of just like just give me a shot.

And then yeah, keV, Kevin had conversations with you, and then I started having conversations with you, and it was like, Okay, this guy, this guy is a little crazy, little goofy, but he means really well. He means really well.

I remember, I don't know, maybe it was that freedo at the time still or maybe I was that coke. But I texted you and I said, do they have to tie you down when you're in there? Because you do like a tornado?

Uh?

Yeah, practically had to. It was so much like Jeffrey, it's time to get off the air. We got to go to a commercial here.

So well that's what it was. It was fun doing all that where I can literally just I could talk about sports and just like we talk about the Twins. We'll talk twins here a little bit about just it's the official and official owner of the Minnesota Twins. And we have so much time and so much fun and just like just go at it and just like and my whole goal was to get you going, which is very hard to do because I try to say the randomest thing to see if I can accomplisence getting you going.

Well, I know that getting exasperated makes for good radio, yeah, in its own way, and so I do like to lean into that for fun. And sometimes it truly is me going. This is my internal mind, like my thought processing being let loose, but to a point. You know, I'm not gonna let it truly get personal or like get to be too much.

Sometimes with you and Scott oh Man, well, some days you poked a bear and I enjoy it.

We know how to push each other's buttons. I mean, Scott will endlessly try to do that with the Double Happiness in particular.

Or with I love I love the golf stuff. When he's like, oh, I want to do this and he's like he always has some type of rule that you made up. It's hilarious.

I'm playing any games with Scott feels impossible sometimes because he will find way, he will find some way to complain about it or to and I it's in good fun. And he'll he'll come in during commercial breaks sometimes and be like, you know, I'm just giving you a hard time, and I'm there smiling, cackling, going, dude.

I know that's the best when you because you're you're trying to tell a story, but you're trying to keep funny. You're trying to save like you're trying to build a brand, so you're messing with each other and the other side may not know if you guys maybe hate each other at that time, but at the same time, you are creating something and that's what draws ears. People do not know the whatever content you're doing, the negative or positive, and that people just still listen.

That's the one And let me be clear, it's not performative annoyance just for the sake of the show. It is coming from a place of annoyance, but at the same time, I also know how to take it to a point and go it's not going to be much more than this.

So you know, I've I alas enjoyed when I messed with you guys.

It is entertaining sometimes though, I go, dude, what in the world you doing here? So?

Yeah, anything else? Want to get know Joel a little bit more? You want to get moving through? Yeah, feel free to pretty sure it'll be plenty more stuff as we go on, because I know there will be anymore for the moment.

Umm, keep buying my microphone. That's one thing. What did Bruce want me to ask him? Oh, Jeffrey's streak of losing games while he's doing announcing for quite quite the streak, Yeah, twins like almost have you ever had something like that? This is where it didn't matter what you did or if you went to you know, multiple things in a row and then just it was just a bad season.

Well, I try not to take it personally at that point, and I've saw Jeffrey down a little bit with that over text where he'll be like, dude, I'm I don't know whatever it was twelve or something like that.

I was like close to oh and twenty it's it got Well, it wasn't that because I usually about to do twenty games.

I've reminded Geffrey, I'm like, look, you can't take that too personally, because you got to stay doing your work and not being worried too much about that or going, oh, it's my fault. And I attitude on the air is such a big thing, and that that's something that I am constantly working at and trying to remind myself, especially in the moment in games or with teams I have.

It's it's not you, right, it's not you.

It's just it's purely it is purely timing.

And that's why.

Yeah, I told Geffrey that. I was like, dude, it is all timing.

Now.

I will joke about that on the bus sometimes I'll get on the bus, like there was there was a stretch I think early on just after the New Year, when I had just gotten back from visiting my family in PA where I got back. Yeah, hey, you guys can ask away about Pennsylvania by the way too. Where

So it happens. I just have fun with that, all right, move on to the next Yeah we can.

We can touch on some other stuff as we go.

Mm hm oh, prepare yourselves. The boys are gonna talk about twinkies, all right. The Minnesota Twins, they start their season against Baltimore and Baltimore. How many games is Minnesota Minnesota Twins is gonna win this year? Hoover. I'd give you my pick yet, which I totally forgot to give that to you the past two couple of days.

Are you sure they're definitely starting their season here? It seems like people, it seems like everybody who's a Twins fan is wanting to hide under the covers and go, no, please, no, do we really have to do this?

Sell the team? Yeah?

Exactly. In my time here, I can't remember the outlook on the team being so bleak. There have been some some bad seasons since I've been here, which, oddly enough, the two occasions I can think of turned into great seasons. The next year that went above expectation, which, hey, if you're looking for hope, there you go. I can tell you all that. But it is different this year. I've not seen the fan base with this level of angst and frustration with the team since I've been here, And

Shake these guys dollar beer nights out of.

Their shoes and go, we need to invest in this better. We need to invest our money better. Period. These guys dealing with the debt that they have. What in the world all that to say. My guest was seventy two wins. Seventy two is the number that I'm sitting on.

I think that.

Bullpen is atrocious on paper.

I do not see it.

How in the world are you The starting pitching at the top is very good with Joe. Ryan is decent enough. With the young guys that they have. There's some guys who have some potential there, provided that they stay healthy and stay out there. They've got some pop here and there in the lineup, but it's only here and there, and you're banking on potential slash little bits that some guys can do. You've got a new manager who knows

I don't know?

And then they released I mean that text I sent you the other day where they released Hendrix and I'm like, didn't need them. I guess, I don't know.

Like it released a lot of veteran play.

Yeah, Hendricks is he's obviously a bit older by now, and obviously he's gone through a lot health wise with battling cancer like he has. I don't know what he's got left in the tank as far as pitching. But I mean, you look at the lineup that they've got anyway in that bullpen, and you're going, man, I mean, yeah, Taylor Rogers a few years ago was really good. How much does he have left here? He seems like the de facto closer. But it looks like it's gonna be

What are you? What are you picking? Geffrey? I'm going with sixty five?

Sixty five?

Oh my goodness, yeah, sixty five. How about you? Dustin?

Well, I think I guessed too high last year. I'm pretty sure I think you were on the higher end.

I remember. I think you sent a guest into our show. Were you in the low nineties last year?

I don't think I went that high. Okay, maybe maybe I might have. I can't remember. I'm more like the seventy eight or something like that. This year. I think they'll be hovering around. I don't think like you said. I think the starting pitching will keep them in things.

If they if they decide to sell off again at the deadline, though it could that's true.

To really it could turn into I think it will turn bad quick. How many wins do you say?

Seventy eight and you know, losing Pablo Lopez too, that.

Really still hurts. Yeah, Ted Swstler, who is our Twins insider, he said, seventy five.

Seventy five okay, so, which I think is a decent guess, you know, but you've still got the White Sox being at the level that they're.

At, you know, And yeah, he said, like I text him and said, seventy five. Are you insane? He's like, We're not White Sox bad, but we're still gonna be pretty bad.

I mean, even if you look at the bad teams among baseball last year, and the Twins were one of them, you're looking at that mid lower seventies kind of scalm. And the Twins won seventy last year with the season that they had, So I mean, you start there as your your baseline, I guess, and go or do you even want to go lower? Is the question?

Didn't Cleveland get worse too?

Though?

That's the expectation is that Cleveland's gonna be worse.

Scott Wilson went with seventy five wins, so that's I try to have with Travis and Sam had I think they had they were hovering like in the seventies as well too. Yeah, yeah, it's the twins are gonna be bad. They had two dollars beer night, I think for their opener. In the next couple of weeks they have the they announced their opening roster or they're opening day lineup already. So that's good to see. But man, I honestly don't think out of Joe Ryan. Let's say, let's say we're horrible.

Yeah, whoever's on expirings, you kind of you kind of think that they're gonna be the ones who are gonna end up saying goodbye.

Yeah, probably you're kind of stuck with because he's injured. But I think Joe Ryan Buckston, he was saying bucks and he's staying contractor. I think he'll stay. But he's gonna hate it because last year he's pretty ticked off that like everybody was gone.

He's been a good soldier, Yeah, I think he's been a really good soldier through all this.

So yeah, that's twins. I mean, we'll talk more about it, Tess'll have more about it in the next couple of days. The opening day is fun, Yeah, it is fun. I'm wearing my jersey tomorrow for work, so I'll be around town where.

My Bryce arper jersey ready for tomorrow.

Yeah. What happened to World Classic with.

Him that home.

Was that was a phenomenal moment. Unfortunately top half of the ninth then that was happened.

But did you see this? No life at all in that American team? The pass little last two games, there was zero life in the dugout pitching and defense saved them.

Well when you're yeah, when you're struggling to hit and that's that's a tough place to be for a team, and especially a team that impressive.

So that was.

Yeah, I was a bummer the way, but World Baseball Classic was phenomenal.

It was.

It was a good one. It was good to watch. Overall dust anything else, I've got nothing, nothing, else. All right, moving on to more of a local Uh BUTMIJI women's basketball, but mean State women's basketball. Chelsea decided to resign. Do you what what do you take? Did you? I've assume we talked about on your show on high Noon for kun what would you get out of it?

I'm gonna get a lot more out of it tomorrow because Chelsea is joining High Noon tomorrow.

Yeah, she is. She's one of my favorite people to talk to. She was gonna be on our show a couple of weeks ago, but we got hit with that huge snowstar.

Has she been on with you guys before?

Long time? I thought so, And she's one of my favorites. This is when Steve O was still with us, So that's how long ago that was.

Yeah, Chelsea is just a phenomenal interview and we talked about it a little bit on the show. I was I was talking with Charlie about this yesterday, Charlie Eggert and yeah, there you go. And yeah, I'm gonna talk to Chelsea tomorrow and get to hear more about it from her. But one of the biggest things that I'm gonna miss about her coaching is the energy that she did it with and here's here's a cool stat And I talked about this on high noon. Chelsea got here

And she was going to be on I snapped her that too. I was like, so see on the show, Mayer Shirley. She's like absolutely, yeah. Yeah. I start to talk to her about it and tell her what I mentioned it is getting teed up, tell her how she got teed up. It's one of my favorite all time stories from her, and it's yeah, it's one of the greatest stories. But yeah, well you guys can hear that, of course on a high noon tomorrow with Hoover. But yeah,

We'll see how much of a factor that was. And I'm curious to hear from her about the part that that that just family and home life played into it. And but definitely going to be different not having her next year after all, after eleven seasons, just a lot of just really really cool But I mean, she's she's so well connected here in town too. Of course, having family, I mean the connected the way that she is with

And she's a giant. She went to South Dakota State too for us saw. I saw her snap She's like at South Dakota State cheering them on. She's done in uh swot Falls because she's originally from like I said, from South Dakota. Yeah, so she usually go to down swot Falls and just see some like basketball games, and she went to She's an Augi Girl or USF one of the two one of the suit Fall schools she went to school for end.

Yeah.

Yeah, she is a She can drink beer like no other and she will shit talk to you like no other as well too. And that's one of my favorite things about her. She can talk with you. She can she can get you going, and I can get her going.

To very engaging in conversation. I'm sure we'll see her out at the golf course.

That's another thing. She loves golfing so much.

Yeah, not a surprise. I've seen her out there plenty, see her out there, see coach Boche out there, like yeah that they one they love. They love getting their golf in, and I'm sure I'll get to see her out there a bit too.

I love it, all right, anything else dustin? Nope, moving on? All right? All right? So next one is gonna be the March Madness bracket that we have going off for Beer Belly Sports. Not I mean, well, it's not our bracket that's in the second half, but what we have on ESPN. And I'm not gonna lie. I thought, I the people who know me, I don't watch a lot of basketball. I don't care about basketball, so it's it's still one of the fun times of year. I know Bruce is a diehard fan, but to me, honestly, I

You know where you are in hoops?

Man?

And yours?

Uh?

Not off the top of my head, Okay, but I know I was like in the middle of the middle of the pack, and I'm trying to stall so I can find there. It is trying to find ours. It's trying to stretch and we call them business. We're trying to stretch it out, stretch it out. So people. Yeah, so people in the In the Beverly Sports twenty twenty twenty six March Mans bracket, twenty seven people have entered and person leading the charge Sena, our own she and

And she had like five hundred and twenty points so far.

And then right behind her is Sam from from the Silver Bullet Sessions. He is in second. He picked Michigan.

I'm way down there in like seventh or something.

Over a year in sixteenth.

Yeah, my bracket's not been doing super well.

I was very.

Consolation for me though, was I won my Fantasy Hockey championship this year, so that was a good consolation because watching the bracket wasn't much fun for me. I was like, oh, man, I thought I had a good idea there and then it didn't come off.

The Chad says like, I feel like I'm listening to high Noon here. I mean that's I mean, that's true. I mean basically.

Just because it's my voice.

Basically. Well, you guess Travis who is his name is Jeffrey doesn't know ball which true? He went to Iowa State.

Well, I did see that bracket there. I was cracking up when I saw that. I was like, man, Jeffrey, you are a good speaking of good soldiers. You are a good soldier when it comes to taking the the punches that people.

Like to throw you away sometimes with everybody what well, he can take it.

I think that's part of it, and he encourages it.

I think he kind of does your your personality you like to you like to inspire a bit of that, but I do.

It's always.

By the way, you are sixty six, tied for sixty in Hoove's Madness, So you are right there in the middle, clowns to the left of you jokers to the right.

That is brilliant.

That is you're out doing me, by the way you are.

Yeah, that little that's what we wanted, just a little better than me.

By the way, mister soda jerk, I'm sorry I did not get you the least.

That's right.

There's always next year.

We'll have to make that happen then. So the soda jerk needs a link, so I won't try to remember that.

But yeah, what aiden my son, he he's sixteen, and he's like, I've got to do my bracket. I'm like, that sucks.

He pulled a geffre you.

Well, yeah, I'm a verb now, so are adjective? I don't know. I was not very good school, but the whole town knows. But yeah, the people who win, or if you win, the grand prize is twenty five dollars gift card to the Nobbing Kettle. Sweet, you're almost you can make it.

Did you enter my women's bracket? No?

I did, That's what I forgot.

Okay, yeah that was new this year that I put together. The women's bracket. Got thirty one entries fight, which was great. So yeah, it's wow. Yeah, it's it's fun running both. I love doing my bracket contests. I've got people from Pennsylvania, Minnesota and all over the place. Connections, yeah, connections from back home and beyond who are involved with it. It's it's a lot of fun.

One of our friends, Ryan Rude is in this bracket as well too.

I saw he's in there.

Yeah, pick dude. He's fifth right now. Jared is, uh, Jared's third, so he's there's a lot of lot of local Jared.

Jared's been doing pretty well. I got all the media guys in on on Hoo's madness, Jared, Charlie Leo, they were all all jumping in there for so yeah, a lot of fun getting those guys in.

Pretty much, Florida ruined my bracket because I had I had them in the final four.

So yeah, look, yeah I had them losing to Vandy, but I had Vandy losing to Houston in the Elite eight. I've still got my Final four intact. If it's just some of those picks where I try to be clever. Gonzaga going to the Elite eight. That was a bad idea that they're not as good this year.

No one ever thinks I always pick Gonzaga to like go a little bit far, but never make it to like the Sweet sixteen, and when I do, and I'm like, oh, I'm an idiot when I do that.

There were a few years where they were good value for it. This was not the year nope.

All right, anything else I don't believe.

So for the bracket, yeah, for the bracket, and then I just crossed out the last one.

So okay, it's like a quick break. Women come back. We got the second half. We have my favorites, we have misconnections. Whoever you're gonna get to be a treat with this one. Man, we're gonna play Wiskipedia. If you don't know Wiskipedia, it's basically we just we do trivia and Hoover is gonna be in the box for this one.

I do like trivia.

Oh perfect, Then we coulda do our March Madness bracket beer Belly Sports style.

It is the eventer ding yourself for that one. You just use a trademark whatever. They come after me if they want to.

I am really excited to see what you guys came up with for this bracket.

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So we're just gonna wing it. There's a big difference between winging it and seeing what happens. Now, let's see what happens. So there was that Be Yourbelly Sports Podcast, Welcome back to be a really sports where we continue to be the semi pro sports talk. My name is Matt Geffrey. And then the man, the myth, the legend, the local talent here in bamidgie Joel Hoover, Oh yeah, oh yeah, you two over there.

I thought you were talking about well, yeah, come on you.

Yeah YouTube Dustin Patton over there, but our special guest is Joel Hoover from KBUN and also uh for Paul on Community Paul on your broadcasting.

Yeah, I was gonna say, please don't leave rog Dustin. I'm just your guest. He's one of your co hosts.

He's fine.

I'm kind of like a guest these days too.

That's that can be true sometimes, but it's okay though.

Yeah, thanks for having me, Thanks for having me.

You're welcome. This is uh, this is for people who do know. This is one of my favorite times. Chad Airy chimed in about miss connections already, and everybody's looking forward to miss connections. So let me explain to you what misconnections is. Have you ever heard of miss connections?

I don't think so.

Okay, So this is basically people pouring out their hearts on the Internet. They're trying to find love, not always in the right man, and I have to read it word for word verbatim. That's free you got it. I know, I've, I've sometimes I just messed with them and say verbatim because it's fun.

Yeah you messed with us, right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, casaus.

But it reminds me of it reminds me of the montage of mispronounced words that Stu Gotts would do on the damn Levatar. Oh my gosh, it's it.

If you find that on.

YouTube, it is. It is hilarious and whole horrible to listen to.

One of the one of the games I want to bring back and then you'd be great at this is hit the Post.

I love hitting the post.

It's one of my favorite things. Now great.

I love when the common man does that.

I've that's another good one too. I love when so we have in the radio business, we have timers that go off like it tells you when the lyrics are going to hit. But for what we do, it is you have to know the song and know when that lyric is going to start. You have to tap dance yourself like you got it. You have a uh call, you have your call call letters, your station mascot, and you have to tap dance till that thing hits. And

And it takes a lot of practice to do it well.

Hilarious.

If you do it well, it's a lot of fun.

Yeah, Steve was obviously really good at because he worked in radio for many, many years.

Used to do a lot more with music before we got a little bit afraid of using all these.

Yeah, there's been a few times I get like hit kicked back and they're like, this is illegal.

I love when Common does it for Sauce Alito Summer Night. And my favorite, though, might be for Olivia Newton John's make a move on me when he said that he worked at a radio station where I was the last call letter, and so he'll say it, he'll say the first three letters and then he'll let the I be said by Olivia Newton John. Absolutely brilliant, brilliant.

Yeah, great, all right, So let's do miss connections.

Ever have an awkward encounter with the supermarkets and don't know where else to turn searching for love on the Internet. It's time for missed connections with Matt.

Jeffrey Dustin's not looking forward to this at all.

No, this is I was talking to uh, our good buddy that's not here tonight about this, and Uh, I said, you know, of all of our segments, I think this is the one. Just it gives me the heb gbis because whover's there or no all the time?

Chad said, Matt, you kick ass. It's hard reading Jibberidge. You know what? Not wrong? All right? Misconnections again. I find love on the internet, either on Reddit, which is a cesspool itself, or on Craigslist, which is even worse. Yeah, people post that it is hilarious.

And the pop up I don't even know what to say. Trying to find love on Reddit or on Craigslist.

One of my favorite second like the last.

Two places that I would look correct, That's why I love them.

All right.

I will not be taking that under consideration.

From Yah, don't please don't, because I will read it and I'll make fun of everybody. This is in Madison, Wisconsin, misconnection north Side Lounge on the third or sorry, March twenty third, A little bit of long one, Take a breath. You were a middle age blonde woman sitting at a bar. You talked NonStop at a volume I never experienced before. It was incredible, the endurance you must have have to be able to shout at the volume for that long. Wow minding. My friend Megan and you were not even

Why does it sound like you're doing spoken word for a song with the music here in the background.

Oh, I also want to know why use a word definating? Oh?

Thanks, George Bush? Is deafening definiting? Your name was Diana, Banger.

It feels like you should be singing it along with the again with the music here in the back.

Should good call? Ralph Nader held you as a baby, and you said, and you said we you said you were a sweet baby. Also, a member of the Talking Heads held you as a baby, you lived in Flagstaffed. You also want Bernie Sanders for the rest of your life. I guess I wonder how sore your throat is today after yelling at at the absolute top of your lungs for an extended period of time. Maybe that's your normal

In Madison that is loud? Then yeah, have you ever been to Madison?

Uh? South cooda guests but not Wisconsin?

No, Okay, that is a loud place.

Okay.

I can't tell if that's a misconnection or just oh that was really funny.

That's more really funny. I thought it's hilarious.

Doesn't seem like the person is all that's sad that they missed out on Diana. It feels more like they just want to put her on blasts.

All right, dating over sixty misconnections? Oh my, these are the great ones.

I'm starting to see why you cringe a lot at this, Dustin. For me, the phrases shrivel up like a raisin.

Makes you read them on your show?

No, this is your bit?

Oh okay, have you been stealing your bit? I'll read it for you. Want to do it?

Some of them, probably wouldn't.

I look at the phone on the table and I'm like, oh, here comes Jeffrey calling again with another misconnection that he wants to read on KBUN. I mean I would probably would, Yeah.

I mean it could be worse than it could be worse than the Wonderlick test.

Well, then we that was great radio. We'd get Dustin to change the channel though, if you would come on reading these So yeah.

All right, moving on, then do be dating over a sixty misconnection? Have you ever met someone in a public situation, such as a big box store, strike up a brief conversation over something on the shelf and wish it could have gone farther? But in the moment to try this stuff, you should write right this down. But in the moment you didn't exert yourself and ask for more information that could have went, that could have furthered the conversation and

That's child all right?

Got it right? Hell yeah, I chied myself for not for not thinking quickly and taking a chance. This has kurt twice this month. Maybe it's because spring is in the air, but I wish I could have been more open to the spontaneous chance. Sixty one female, it's a lated you know that is.

Kind of relatable in its own way. I had an experience like that at a wedding one time. The couple was trying to set me up with a friend of theirs. Problem was it was just too loud in there.

Trying to set me up. The lady down too.

We did some poka dancing in Wabashah.

Yeah, that's story. Tell later. That was a fun time.

Long distance misconnection.

We will that's off air. That is a book of Matthew's story for off air. Okay Vegas connection. This is gonna be a long shot.

Can't even imagine, but figured why not?

Life is short. When I was when I was thirty eight female in my early twenties, I spent the night walking around Las Vegas with a tall, handsome white guy who gave me his phone to add my number, and I drunkenly forgot to save it. Been there. We stayed up all night together walking the strip smoking some greenies, and he said he wanted to save our first kiss for something more romantic or something like that. Again, this

Ha ha ha ha, all right, fun time, I got nothing.

Yeah, this is the Internet equivalent of a hail Mary.

Yep, this throw that is good, brilliant quick trip, this is in. This is now we go to more local.

It was that a quick trip?

No, no, that would be brilliant quick trip in Lady Smith, Wisconsin, seven ten am, Zach time. I guess you're a tall, wiry ginger slash blonde man. Maybe had a kid in an orange coat with you?

Maybe that's what's the question mark.

I'm a blonde with time out, time out?

Is this person wearing an orange coat and the kid was in the coat or the kid was in an orange coat along with that?

Maybe I had a kid in an orange coat with you.

So maybe all right, But you know, seeing weird things, just flushing out details.

They don't blame you. I'm a blonde with glasses. Go on. We made eye contact at the coolers.

What are you doing well?

I just want to see you. Told me I was I was beautiful while I was getting coffee. I look for you when I left, but I couldn't find you. It's tough. It's tough.

Wow, all right?

A couple more Walmart shopper and Egan. I know. I was shopping and then I saw you. You are a very a very nice female woman. Yep.

And I need some help finding the unpartment of Redundancy departments where you get shopping Wait, that's oh my god.

Here, Dustin, get write down show titles for me because I can't do it. I was shopping and then I saw you. You were a very nice female woman, and I needed some help finding some underwear and shirts department. You seem very easy going and I wanted your attention, but was too shy to ask for your text number. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to talk talk with you if you if you want me, send me a message. I'm about five seven, one hundred and sixty

Sure, okay, yeah, you're gonna get some rand then open the door to some randos.

All right, this is my favorite one. This might be in the greatest hits.

O where's my parachute?

No?

No, no, no no no A female woman? Yes, respond to my texts, Rochester, Minnesota. I wish you respond to my text Do you want to know which se d you gave me? Oh my god, that's what we call a walk off. And that's it for my misconnections this week.

Thank you, goodbye?

Yeah see, it's all my favorite segments. Wow. Anyways, I have missed connections this week? So what'd you learn from that? There?

I learned, don't be redundant. Don't be redundant when you are talking to some buddy using a different word that means the exact same thing.

I was had to read it twice.

I was also reminded again, I do not shoot my shot all that often.

They yeah, shoot your shot me, boy. I mean, what did Michael Scott say?

I'm pretty sure Wayne Gretzky said it first.

Whatever, close enough?

Michael Scott took credit though, Yeah you missed one hundred percent of the shots. You never taake. There you go, Yeah, yeah, some people just have different ways of doing it.

There you go. That's one of them.

There's no question about it. Different ways of shooting your shot, absolutely, no question about it.

All right, sir, what do you want to do next?

I thought we're gonna do the trivia?

Do the trivia? Might I got it? Yep, let's do trivia right now? Then all right, so next we're gonna do whiskey Pedia. Now whiskey peda could be literally it's trivia. Gabe Hoover is one of the smartest guys I know. He's a lot smarter than you know some people in the show.

You're setting me up to face. No, no, no, no disclaimer like that.

No, it's it's what. It's one of our favorite it's one of our favorite segments in Hoover. This one is. It's a good one. It's a fun one. But again, it's not what we know. It's what Joel Joel Hoover knows from KBU.

Or doesn't know.

I mean there's that too. We'll see, we'll see. I find the music for it, all right, Chad said, I'm a professional at not shooting my shot, Joel, really, good job. Shout out to you, Chad, good job, Chad. All right, Whiskipedia again, it's not what we know, it's what Hoover knows. We're gonna do five. All right, our Dalmatians.

Wait, hold on, we're not doing the guessing thing. No, well, we'll just go right, go right through Homa.

All right? Uh does he? I don't think Scott put his answers down? Okay, yeah, I did. Okay, it just it didn't look like he. Oh now I messed it up. Hold on, take two? All right, Wiskipedia. Are Dalmatians born with or without spots? Are Dalmatians born with or without spots?

But it's made me think of the cartoon all of a sudden, one one Dalmatians. You know, the question makes me think that that they're not. I'm gonna say without.

That's right, right, got one? You got one? That's I mean, it's basically I really need to get one, all right, next one. The three most common units of temperature measurements are what The three most common units of temperature are measured in are what?

Well, I'm gonna go with fahrenheit and celsius.

Okay, that's right off the start.

Oh, what's the other one?

Is it?

Kelvin?

That is absolutely right beautiful. Two, the Mississippi River flows through how many states before reaching to the Gulf of Mexico? My word, how many states does it flow through?

You know what this makes me think of? It makes me think of the the big board, that three D board that they have at headwaters. Yeahaska State Park there, and you can pour some water on it and it'll flow all the way down. Well, we got Minnesota, there's Iowa. I mean it touches states on the way through too. That's that's what makes a tricky Minnesota, Uh, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, of course, Mississippi itself, Tennessee. I think Oklahoma is in there, Kansas, Arkansas,

I wouldn't even waste the time trying. I would just throw it an arbitrary number.

Doesn't touch Texas too, that'd be twelve. I'm gonna say twelve.

Bummer ten is the answer ten. It is Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Yeah, it cuts in.

Yeah. We used to like point you said Nebraska. I was like ooh and then he said TEXTA was like ooh. In Oklahoma was like, oh man, he's way off. Yeah.

I lost lost track there of where it diverts and goes in.

So yeah, too bad, all right? Number four? Remember doing five Earl James. Earl Jones character mister Myrtle in the nineteen ninety three stand Loot was a blind was blind because of.

What he was hit by a pitch.

I'll take that. That's fine.

Yeah, hit by a pitch.

Okay, okay, yep.

I stepped up in Powell. I just remember him saying, Powell, great movie.

They got hit like that.

Yeah, I love that movie, all right.

Last one, Number five. The tallest building in Beltrami County is at the Bumiji State University and is known as Trek Hall.

Tamarack.

Tamarack. How many stories. Hi, is it? Oh man?

Great question? Trying to remember if somebody ever told me how many stories it is?

Scott found out for us I drafted Tarak Hall in my last fantasy draft.

I've been on one of the higher floors there at Tamarack. How many stories? How many floors?

How many stories?

How many stories? Once again, I'm gonna have a lot of locals. Man, if I get this one wrong, which very well might, I'm gonna say eight.

The answer is twelve. It is twelve.

I had twelve go through my mind where I had made the guests of twelve earlier there at the States, and I.

Was like, is it twelve?

Is it really that tall? I should have gone with my gut bummer is twelve. So yeah, that is a Whiskipedia to all. Very fun, fun, very very fun. I like good trivia. I like doing trivia on the show. Being on the other side of it, of course it's challenge.

Different, yeah, different.

That reminded me a lot of when I administered the wonderlick to you that's fun, which I said on the air. I was like, that is hard for somebody to do verbally like that, and you just the willingness that you had to do it and to go through with it. Like I, I enjoyed that you were willing to lean into the bit, even if it made you look silly.

I had a lot of fun with it. It was a lot of fun.

I had a lot of fun with that too.

Yeah. All right, time for our draft draft, all right, racket, bracket, All right, So this year's bracket is the worst moments in Minnesota sports history. Now, the committee was hard at it the past couple of weeks trying to figure out what they wanted to go with, leaning into it and uh, the competiting was not me.

I stay out of it until today. I'm gonna help me, see it.

I had I had to do that. Normally I don't do it.

So what the seeding was, how we how we did it is we had the list compiled, We had the number one seeds put in already, and then me and Jeffrey pretty much fantasy drafted the rest of them, like based on what we thought. Just you just want me to start reddling off?

Go ahead, start off?

All right?

In each region, all right, the first region is the gant was out region. The number one seed is and I'll give a little bit of if I know anything.

Oh, also a little uh. We all have these posted on our Facebook page, probably tomorrow morning because I'm going to put it all together. So let's ay every week people vote. Last year we did the TV characters, and Bruce was pretty pissed because George stands I gotta beat up by Jennifer Haaniston. Now, the person who picked the photo for Jennifer Aniston might have been that might have been this.

Leading greatest TV character of all time?

What the greatest TV character of doonet even picked her from friends, but people voted.

Wait, hang on, it was Jennifer Aniston versus George Rachel Green. We don't even want to get into I can't believe George lost that. I mean, Rachel was iconic, yes, no question about it. But George could Stan Yeah, I don't. Yeah, you should have Scary DiMaggio Mantle, Costanza can't leave you lost?

Saw how early Welter White went out? That was INFI yeah, no, it's bad.

Yeah, where was I I should have voted on that would have just made me that much more seven more votes. I can't believe he got voted out early like that. One of the greatest TV characters ever one of the most loathsome but one of the greatest.

Blew my mind.

All right, good, go ahead, sir, all right, the number one seed and with the first round by besse, we have what twenty four?

Yeah we did? Uh?

The north Stars leaving in March nineteen ninety three with poor attendance, failure to build a new arena, and financial issues. Our favorite person or moved the Minisota north Stars Green.

The uh.

The five versus six matchup is number five. The dome collapse encapsulating the teams collapse after two thousand and nine. The dome did a mean impression. The number sixth seed is the Teddy Bridgewater injury, which costs the Vikings two first rounders to replace him with Sam Bradford.

Quick story on the dome collapse because I remember seeing that from AFAR back in Pennsylvania. I remember that that making national news. When the dome collapse like that, I was stunned. I was just in stunned disbelief that that happened. When when that thing collapsed in on itself, I was like, are you kidding me? Did this really just happen here with this place? Yeah?

Really?

Really, I couldn't believe it.

I also remember because that was what was that twenty ten?

Yeah, when that happened.

Yes, yeah, I remember because that was the uh actually it was late two thousand and nine, right December.

I thought it was two thousand and ten because they had a place the second year.

Oh yeah, it was the second year, afar. I remember that because.

NFL scene has always confused me with their double years.

Yes, and I remember that because my Packers won the Super Bowl that year. Nobody cares, sorry, all right?

And the yeah, well you know what, I've skipped the number two seed because they also have a bye. We went to ninety seven Gophers Final four scandal.

Oh my goodness. You know, it's funny when I hear people talk about that who are trying to rewrite history in some respects, like yeah, get the banners out.

Yeah, let's sell. Who cares. It's like they broke the rules? What are we doing? Yeah?

For the longest time, I could remember the name of the lady that wrote the papers for the kids too, and now I can't.

But oh my gosh.

All right, So then the three and four matchup is Number three is the Twins eighteen game losing streak from October fifth, two thousand and four to October third, twenty twenty three. The Minnesota Twins lost eighteen straight playoff games. Yep, and the number four number four is Walsh wide left. The Vikings lost ten to nine on a frozen field with a short sleeve, but Grant in attendance over.

Watch that in stunt tune now loved it. Couldn't believe it.

Twenty seven yard couldn't believe it.

The season can't add like that.

The next bracket is the meat raffle bracket.

Hell yeah.

The number one seed overall with the first round by is the Herschel Walker trade. Walker was traded for five players, eight picks, three first three seconds, and a third.

What happened those picks? I get on it, guys.

I have good news for you. I think that trade has been surpassed for worst trade in history, the Lukadancics trade. It looks worse every day. The Vikings, I think might be off the hook. It's certainly the worst trade in Minnesota sports history, but for sports history, I think the Donchetz trade might have beaten it by now.

Yeah yeah, And I'm just realizing that these two are in the same region. This one is also a horrible, horrible passing on Steph Curry twice in two thousand and nine for Ricky Rubio and Johnny Flynn.

I say it all the time, Steph Curry may have never become the Steph Curry that we know if he had been drafted by the Wolves.

That is true.

Surely you can't be serious, all right?

Number five?

I am serious, and don't call me Shirley brilliant.

Five to six matchup is this Johann Santana trade the twins Man Twins ended up with Carlos Gomez who had a moment, and Phil Humber and two people that I didn't even bother writing down. Number six is the love Boat Vikings. We won't go into specifics because we already got all crazy with Matt with the stuff there. So if you need any details about the love Boat, maybe check them out on a Wikipedia or yeah, talk to Matt.

I say, nay, nay.

You know a lot of moments come to mind. I thought of the Love Boat very very quickly when I when you guys were talking about this brack and I was like, I wonder where it's gonna show up here?

Alrighty? And then the three to four matchup is the untapped potential of the maur Morno Boys. Dude injuries. Neither one of them really reached their total potential, and the team never peaked with them. Number four is the Wolves PAYE Joe Smith under the table. They were fined three point five million, stripped of five first round picks, and Smith's contract was avoided. I think they ended up getting

I'm I'm so glad the Wolves have had a stretch of competency the last few years because looking back on their history, when I got here getting into it more, I was I was utterly, utterly blown away at how bad and how tragically bad they've been. Of you guys really did that well they.

Did that in nineteen ninety nine, and then by two thousand and four they were in the Western Conference, you know, which is kind of crazy, but they had no depth.

Really, Yeah, exactly, KG and friends, all right, the Cassell's free. Well yeah, all those guys.

Yep, can't feed my family, Okay. Next region is the Deer Camp Region. The number one seed is the nineteen ninety eight Minnesota Vikings fifteen to one, the highest scoring offensive all time at the time, and then, of course we all know what happened.

Oh yeah, happened.

H Gary Anderson. That sucks all right?

Here makes me think of Pat summerle Gary Anderson and Gary miss the field goal.

Oh yeah, I think that's where the announcers jinx, that's happened.

Good.

I try not to do that at any games. I tried to sleep of like a good policy. Good policy, yep.

Because I don't want to. You be like, why'd you say that? I don't know.

The number two seed in that bracket is Kirby Pucket's early retirement after being hit by Dennis Martinez. He later developed glaucoma and hung him up, probably about six years earlier than he would have.

Boo. Yep.

The number five six, Sorry, somebody take that away from him. The number in five, number five and six is the original hail Mary Pearson and Stobach team up to on a fifty yard pass for seventeen to fourteen win in nineteen seventy five divisional playoff game.

Damn it.

Number six up against that hil Mary is Jack Morris bailing on the Twins after winning the championship in nineteen ninety one and heading north to win some more with Boo our neighbors to the north.

That second one with the blue Jays especially hurt. That was at the expense of my Phillies.

Yes, and I was rooting for the Phillies that year. My brother was a was rooting for Toronto and I.

Was in will Mitch Williams mile thing.

Why do you have to fail us Minnesota on that Philly team that year too? Jim eisbrich Ah, I did Saint Cloud. Oh yeah, that's right.

That yeah, that does ring a bell.

Yep.

I remember that, all right?

The number three seed up against number four seed is number three is kg trade. The Timber was traded Kevin Garnett to the Celtics for Richard Jefferson. Uh, some guy named Ratliffe, THEO Ratliffe, A yeah, theo. The all time great Sebastian telfairt and two.

First round picks started the Big three era.

Yep.

And number four is the Twins outright releasing David Ortiz. He was due about two million in sellary arbitration, but injuries and love of the small ball made the Twins go in a different direction.

Are you kidding me? No, that's tough.

Yes, it was.

That's why. That's why you see the minsil of the Twins always hang on players. Why is the kN so no, as long as they possibly can to.

See Yeah, I remember with Miguelson now it was always the conversation, is this another Ortiz kind of situation?

Ye have?

Big Poppy came in October, Legend.

And our final region, the Ludifisk Region. We've got the number one seed. The Lakers moved to LA That was caused by the retirement of George Miken. So it saw declining sales, ticket sales, the building was falling apart. Pretty much every reason the North Stars left is why the Lakers left. The number two seed in that region is the two thousand and nine NFC Championship. Far across the body. This isn't Detroit man bounty Gate enough said what we do right?

Then?

We've got the number five to six matchup. Number five is two thousand and three Michigan Gophers. Game tough the Gophers. We're going into that game six and oh up against Michigan who was four and two. The Gophers led twenty eight to seven in the third quarter and blew the game. It could have been a a program changing game. They would move to seven to zero. They did finish that season, I believe ranked in the top twenty anyway at a ten and three, and Michigan I believe went to the

Scott, there was a well, we could do autiable mentions. I mean, we've already gone through a lot, but there was a lot of you could do. But one am I that I liked was the Gophers back in two thousand and six where they had Maroney and Barber against Texas Tech in the in a bowl game. They were up by three touchdowns and got their teeth kicked in by Texas Tech.

Isn't that what got Mason fired?

Yes?

Yeah, I can't believe forty one donut didn't make it. You're very surprised at.

That as an honorable mention. Now the committee needs they did all this.

I heard the Vikings defense was like chairs out there. That's what I've been told.

Anyway, We've had so many losses in playoffs. They just forgot all about that one. You know. The other one too that we were talking about, and I was like, should I cross something out? Was what's his name we were talking about earlier? The Yes, yeah, that's his name,

Years and then it turns into a wasteland.

Tunes into wasteland here, and then he wins a national championship.

Yeah, it's fine. Everything is fine. It's fine.

So, yeah, that's the bracket.

There's a lot to pick fro him, isn't there?

Unfortunately? I called it March Sadness.

March Sadness, right, yeah, the thing you're there.

On the show title or maybe both want but.

Yeah, So that is our March Madness bracket bracket for the Beer Really Sports. I'll have it posted tomorrow morning. You get a chance to vote. Every week we slide into a new one and it'll be a fun time.

I'm gonna I'm gonna vote for Walter White every time he's in there in lieu of missing out on last year's bracket.

He's in there. Well, I'm pretty sure I got you, Walter, Pretty sure Bruce would be like Droge g Stands every time.

Every time him, Hey, I'd write him in.

All right. So yeah, that is our our bracket again, to be out tomorrow morning.

And yeah, it's not a lie if you believe it true.

Uh, Scott said, miscutting Josh Harding NHL career short to be. I don't know who they even is.

Well, we had to cutch some of them out. We'll get twenty something.

I don't know who that even is. So, I mean, Scott's a huge hockey guy. I don't know.

I just barely goodbye with like, but I know it's still it still amazes me that the guy like Dan Minnesota has done the calendar of Calamity and that you can even put something like that together. You have that many choices to pick from.

That's why I'm like, we're trying to figure out, like, what do you want to do this year? And I had chat TBT help me like your bracket and it said worst moments than Minnesota sports history. I'm like, love it.

I mean, yeah, it's it's a it's a stunning list. I mean, you guys like I may not like the or Slash support the Minnesota teams, especially in the case of the Vikings, like they are rival a rival of the team that I support, but at the same time there's such an immense respect for Minnesota sports fans that I have because of the dedication as you wait and hope and search for a title like the one that

The collective vates to Marty Wahlberg, Well.

Hey, I mean the inspiration, I suppose, but the the the way that the left that it lifted a collective weight off the shoulders of everybody. I mean, yeah, you have to go back almost almost a generation now, like the Twins winning those two titles, those before I was born. I was born in number two eighty seven and ninety one. That's before I was born.

Like, it's it, It is stunning.

And and so you guys, I mean, you've had the links in the WNBA and what they've done there. There's been success there, There's been bits and pieces here and there, but you guys, you guys stick it out impressively with the Big Four.

I was six and ten when they won their championships, and I mean to be that age when they win and then not get them back. You just thought we were gonna win all the time.

You want one when there's an adult, like when the Packers won with FARV. They're in the nineties. I was too young to remember that. I can remember that night and having a watch party with family, but I don't remember the game when they want my senior year when they won with Rogers and beat the Steelers. That was special. That that's right up there. It's not my all sorry, it's not my all time favorite sports moment, but it is right there. It's it's close. It's think Samuel jard Sorry, sorry.

My AI picture of the jersey I'm wearing. You're talking about that that Super Bowl? Yeah, yeah, I'm wearing a bloodshow jersey in the oh.

Yeah look at that.

Yeah, bloodsow jersey with a I think a newer style Patriots jersey there. But all that to say, you guys are impressive. It's it's really impressive. The dedication and the passion and the love that's there, even even through just another gut wrenching loss or gut wrenching moment. But it's it's bonded Minnesota sports fans together.

Yeah, in its own way, made us all self loathing.

My goodness. Chad said, whoa Joe making me feel old being born in eighty six.

I'm sorry, got I also born in the I'm sorry.

So yeah, it's it's fine.

I hate making hate making people feel old.

No, it's fine, it's fine. Sure you do it to Kevin. I'm sure you do it to No.

You know I have people who I have people who are either my age or younger than me go wow, I'm old when they think of something and I'm like, you don't have to think about it that way. I genuinely try to not think that way where it's like I'm just getting older. It's the passage of time, is what it is. But I try not to think about it that way.

All right, Twins show been a good show. Ye been a fun show. Got two hours in. That's about where I wanted to be. It's a perfect Thanks for having me, guys, this is a blast. You can be a way for You don't have to do this anymore. You could just want it anymore, but you don't have to like do this part. You just be in front of a mic. Now.

You know, it's fun watching you be on that side of it, Jeffery, because that's me for high noon essentially.

That it's literally you the entire time, and I see Amy like I know Zach what he's doing every time. All right, Joel, we learned today? What did you learn on the show?

Don't be redundant, don't be redundant? Shoot my shot more often?

Maybe, yeh boy? All right?

And then I've learned a few things being here in the Upper Midwest. It helped me with trivia and about there.

Okay, Dustin, what did I learn?

Yeah, I learned that I'd be perfectly fine if we never did misconnections ever again. Ever again. No, perfectly fine.

No, we got to keep it upper management wants.

But also learned that after a tough week, it's good to get together half fun with people.

So yay.

Absolutely.

What I learned today is that Hoover can be himself and I really love that you could be yourself and you are being yourself more and I and I like seeing that more sarcastic Hoover came out today.

In moments and now I have a genuine appreciation for where I am, and I tell people I try not to be a persona on the air as much as possible. What you get on high noon, what you get when I'm calling games. I hope is the well pretty close to how I am in everyday life, you know. And then if there's stuff that I need to work on, Lord willing, I'll keep working on it and by the grace of God and try to get a little better every day with it. But it's a lot of fun

Yeah, well yeah, then you will.

See would love to make it back.

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