Every Monday at 8:30am StarTribune sports writer Michael Rand stops into the Morning Show to share the latest news in Sports.

Today Michael Rand chatted with The Morning Show's Jill Riley and Steve Seel about the slowdown of baseball and the Twins being a part of the problem, fun roadtrip games to check out, and tennis hot shot Rafael Nadal.

Michael Rand writes about Sports for the StarTribune in his blog RandBall. You can also follow Michael on Twitter.