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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory.

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Speaker 1: I'm Channeler Roam along with Tyler Stafford, and we are

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Speaker 1: here to give you a play by play breakdown of

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Speaker 1: the Astros loss to the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night. Tyler,

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Speaker 1: would you like to start with the first inning or

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Speaker 1: should I?

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Speaker 2: Uh, I would like to skip that entirely and instead

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Speaker 2: ask you a different question. Does the word colic mean

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Speaker 2: anything to you?

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Speaker 1: Colic like the disease infant skit does.

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Speaker 2: Look at you all right, there you go. I was

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Speaker 2: I didn't think that you would know what that is.

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Speaker 2: I assumed that every parent listening just shuddered. My first

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Speaker 2: two kids were super chill, Camden is struggling, and colic

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Speaker 2: is just catch all diagnosis for Hey, this baby cries

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Speaker 2: a lot and we don't know why, but let me

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Speaker 2: tell you that baby cry a lot. And so anyway,

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Speaker 2: the tie into that was watching Tuesday night, Lance mccullor's

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Speaker 2: ninety pitch four inning start against the White Sox felt

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Speaker 2: a whole lot like colic to me. So That's where

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Speaker 2: I've been at in my life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was uninspiring, to say the least,

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Speaker 1: the entire evening was pretty uninspiring. The Ashers loaded the

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Speaker 1: bases with no outs in the eighth inning against the

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Speaker 1: reliever I had never heard of, and they scored one run.

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Speaker 1: Forty two of Christian Walker's seventy three strikeouts this year

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Speaker 1: have been with runners on base, which is a problem.

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Speaker 1: The Astros desperately need an injection into their lineup. They

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Speaker 1: need to inject some life, some energy. Jordan Alvarez can

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Speaker 1: help that. But the other thing that could help that

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Speaker 1: is the trade deadline that is looming in seven weeks,

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Speaker 1: and as the calendar turns to June, the entire industry

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Speaker 1: does start to speculate on the trade deadline, how it

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Speaker 1: may look, what teams are going to be buyers, sellers,

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Speaker 1: who's on the block, things of that nature. So we'll

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit today a way too early trade

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Speaker 1: deadline assessment of where the Astros are. And I say

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Speaker 1: way too early, and I'm going to underscore underline that

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Speaker 1: fifteen times in bold. The trade deadline is in seven weeks.

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Speaker 1: You can probably start to put in your head the

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Speaker 1: teams that you know are going to be sellers, the Marlins,

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Speaker 1: the White Sox, the team you're watching right now the Rockies.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, there's a lot of teams that are

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Speaker 1: still in the middle right now to where these seven

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Speaker 1: weeks we could add more buyers to the list, we

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Speaker 1: could add more sellers to the list. It is foolish

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Speaker 1: right now to start targeting specific names, to say, like

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Speaker 1: the Ashers need to go after this guy, that guy,

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Speaker 1: this guy, that guy. You don't know who's going to

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Speaker 1: be on the block in four weeks, much less seven weeks.

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Speaker 1: So I think right now the prudent thing to do

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Speaker 1: is to just look at what this team needs. What

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Speaker 1: do the Astros need at the deadline? And Tyler, It's

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Speaker 1: pretty obvious they're two biggest needs. They need a left

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Speaker 1: handed bat and they need a starting pitcher. And wrote

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Speaker 1: something on the Athletic that went live this morning Wednesday morning,

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Speaker 1: kind of given a little bit of a primer as

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Speaker 1: to what the Ashers are going to navigate across the

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Speaker 1: next seven weeks. Talking to people within the organization, people

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Speaker 1: that would know, sounds like right now they don't. They're

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Speaker 1: still kind of on the fence as to what their

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Speaker 1: priority is. Is the priority of left handed bat, is

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Speaker 1: the priority of starting pitcher? I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: it hinges on the health of Luis Garcia, Christian Javier,

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Speaker 1: JP Frantz and Spencer Arighetti. If they are confident those

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Speaker 1: guys can come back and pitch meaningful innings and be effective,

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Speaker 1: I think they'll be very offensive centric at the deadline. However,

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Speaker 1: if those guys aren't going to come back and be

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Speaker 1: healthy and be effective, they're going to really have to

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Speaker 1: be in the market for a pitcher. Tyler, as you

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Speaker 1: look at this team, where would your priority? What would

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Speaker 1: your priority be if you were Dana Brown, if you

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Speaker 1: were the baseball in the Baseball ops department, what would

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Speaker 1: your priority be to add.

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Speaker 2: To this team starting pitching. I mean, I know they

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Speaker 2: need a left handed bat. You're gonna have an aneurysm

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Speaker 2: if you have to say that again. But they have

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Speaker 2: two and a half starting pitchers. You know, they've got

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Speaker 2: a hundred round, They've got Fromber, They've got half of

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Speaker 2: Lance mccolor's, and then just a collection of people who

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Speaker 2: That's not a roulette wheel. I want to spend for

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Speaker 2: the next you know, ninety games of the season, especially

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Speaker 2: when as we've talked about you know, in the playoffs

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Speaker 2: you only need three four starters, and the Astros have

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Speaker 2: top end talent. But to get through a season, you

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Speaker 2: need six or seven solid, you know, options at any

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Speaker 2: the season is way too long and the division is

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Speaker 2: going to be way too close to not have reliable

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Speaker 2: starting pitching from from here on out, they have to

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Speaker 2: go get as I've said throughout the show, they have

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Speaker 2: to just get an adult starting pitcher. Like they don't

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Speaker 2: even have to be good. They have to be thirty

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Speaker 2: two years old with fifteen hundred innings in their arm,

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Speaker 2: and you know they can go five or six innings

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Speaker 2: every fifth day, Like that's bare minimum.

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Speaker 1: What they need, which to be fair, is what they

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Speaker 1: got last year. Like we were having the same we weren't.

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Speaker 1: We didn't have this podcast last year, but in our

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Speaker 1: collective minds, we're having the same discussion last year. The

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Speaker 1: parallels between last year's trade deadline and this one are

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Speaker 1: pretty stark, right Like from the Asher's perspective, like the

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Speaker 1: lineup last year was missing Kyle Tucker for an ex

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Speaker 1: was not thriving without him but still winning games and

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Speaker 1: staying afloat, and the rotation was just a mess due

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Speaker 1: to injuries. This year the exact same thing. The rotation's

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Speaker 1: a mess due to injuries. Jordan Alvarez has been nowhere

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Speaker 1: to be found for two months and there's still somehow

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Speaker 1: stay afloat and winning games. And we were having this

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Speaker 1: same conversation, Man, they just need, like they just need

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Speaker 1: like a three or a four starter, like a guy

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Speaker 1: thought would take that much prospect capital to acquire. But

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Speaker 1: he came over and the Astros did what they do

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Speaker 1: with pitchers, and he was incredible. And if they would

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Speaker 1: pitched them into the Alds. Who knows. But so it's

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Speaker 1: the exact same conversation we were having last year. Do you

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Speaker 1: see any We just talked about the parallels, like what

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Speaker 1: is different about this team maybe offensively that you think

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Speaker 1: should maybe push them to search more, to search for

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Speaker 1: a left handed bat maybe more than they did last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're also missing Kyle Tucker this year. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you've noticed. He hasn't played a lot for

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Speaker 2: is you're very, very confident and Frommer and Hunter Brown.

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Speaker 2: You didn't start to get confident in Hunter Brown until

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Speaker 2: every time. Al two A was a lot better. Last year,

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Speaker 2: you could rely on him a lot more. Geiner was

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Speaker 2: obviously a lot better, and so there's just more holes

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Speaker 2: in the line There's just not as much length in

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Speaker 2: thats not a five or six hitter, and he's hitting

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Speaker 2: there because he's been better than most of the other

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Speaker 2: and he deserves to hit there right now. But that's

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Speaker 2: not a lineup that you want to have over the

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Speaker 2: aren't as many clear positions that you can upgrade, because

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't care what the fan base thinks, Like,

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Speaker 2: you're not gonna get somebody to replace Christian Walker. He's

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Speaker 2: twenty million dollars a year. The Ashers are not going

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Speaker 2: to trade for somebody at first base. Giner's not going

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Speaker 2: anywhere either. You know, they can continue to do some

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Speaker 2: platooning with him and Kartini, but the two main you know, holes,

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Speaker 2: And then at second base, which is their other biggest hole,

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Speaker 2: it's just not an offensive position. Like there just aren't

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Speaker 2: for four months that's hitting six or seventh and can

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Speaker 2: help turn the lineup over, it makes your team a

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Speaker 2: lot better, you know, especially in October where you know

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Speaker 1: It's going to.

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Speaker 2: Highlight the need for the length of a lineup. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, gosh, it's funny looking back how people freaked

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Speaker 2: of a trade acquisition as you say Kakuchi, I would.

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Speaker 2: I would take that in a heartbeat. That would be

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you want a guy with a one

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Speaker 1: the luxury tax is going to come into play here.

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Speaker 1: Everything the Astros did this winter, from trading Ryan Presley

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Speaker 1: the Braves demonstrated that they are pretty dead set on

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Speaker 1: Jim Crane is known if if they get to the

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Speaker 1: on June eleventh, excuse me, the Ashers have a realistic

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Speaker 1: This is a wide open American League. There is no

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Speaker 1: Now we're saying this on June eleventh, a lot of

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Speaker 1: things can change. Jim Crane's also a guy that when

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Speaker 1: he sees that realistic chance, he also is not going

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Speaker 1: to go over the CBT for a marginal upgrade for

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Speaker 1: a guy like we were just talking about that, Like hey,

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Speaker 1: a one oh five ops plus second hit sixth over

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Speaker 1: Jake Myers in the lineup, Like if he's going to

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Speaker 1: like he went over the luxury tax for the first

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Speaker 1: Just is you're telling me that the twelve and fifty

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Speaker 2: the nicest thing I can say about the Rockies. Great

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Speaker 1: But if Jacob Meltin falls on his face across the

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Speaker 1: Like other teams have called about Chas McCormick before he

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Speaker 1: Catch Chas McCormick because of his style and the way

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Speaker 2: And that was before Melton came up and his Zenzo

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Speaker 1: And I know that there will be a segment of

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Speaker 1: But Mauricio Dubon making five million dollars as the utility guy.

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Speaker 1: But Maurcia Dubon's making five million dollars, He's got one

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Speaker 1: I mean that that HIV commercials all by a thread.

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Speaker 1: for sure. Right He's like he's He's makes too much

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Speaker 1: sense for him.

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Speaker 2: Although it is the Madden curse of the Astros franchise,

434
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Speaker 2: you almost don't want your guys to be in the

435
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 2: hib commercial. It's it's been a it's been a sore subject,

436
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Speaker 2: but it's it's working out for Pania, not Penia Pania.

437
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Speaker 1: So you see, I don't get to watch the h

438
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Speaker 1: because I don't have k I don't have cable, and

439
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: I don't watch the broadcast obviously when I'm at the

440
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Speaker 1: ballpark on the road, Like, I don't watch the broadcast,

441
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Speaker 1: so I don't I've seen the Penia Pinia one. I've

442
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: seen that one. I haven't really seen many others, Like

443
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Speaker 1: are they good this year? Like how did Dubon do?

444
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 1: Is he a good actor?

445
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 2: The Dubon's good? Dubon is funny, like you can tell

446
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,239
Speaker 2: he's he knows what he's doing. The one that they

447
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 2: played at the beginning of the year that they've stopped.

448
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,440
Speaker 2: They started doing teaching Orbit to Talk. But at the

449
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 2: beginning of the year they did this weird like parody

450
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,639
Speaker 2: version of take Me Out to the Ballgame, but it

451
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 2: was about like getting food at HGB and jose Al

452
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 2: Tube can do a lot of things, he cannot sing.

453
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 2: That thing was auto tuned like crazy and it was rough,

454
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,880
Speaker 2: So I can see why they stopped playing that one

455
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 2: and went with Pinya no Penia. But truly, that's on

456
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 2: probably four times ago game. So if you're watching the

457
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 2: game at home, like, like I do I have that

458
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,360
Speaker 2: commercial memorized? I could do it beat for beat.

459
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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: There are a few other ones like that too. Listen

461
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Speaker 2: on the radio. There's like eight commercials that they play

462
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Speaker 2: over and over again.

463
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Speaker 3: Uh.

464
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Speaker 2: The one that is driving me crazy right now is

465
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Speaker 2: guys by Now you've heard me talk about collars and

466
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Speaker 2: cove and it's some golf polo shirt and it doesn't wrinkle.

467
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,880
Speaker 1: And I heard that, shut up. We can't advertise people

468
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Speaker 1: that don't pay us. Don't give them, don't give them

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Speaker 1: the satisfy.

470
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Speaker 4: I don't know that it was.

471
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Speaker 2: I mean, that was a good ad read, but that was.

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Speaker 2: That's the other one that I've got just down.

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Speaker 1: My two favorite HGB commercial fan outrage things were so

474
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Speaker 1: for full disclosure, they film these, I believe most of

475
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Speaker 1: the most of the past, it has been on the

476
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Speaker 1: one of the off days in spring training. Okay, yeah,

477
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,159
Speaker 1: they whoever the four guys are, will go on the

478
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Speaker 1: off day and one off dan spring training and they

479
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: will just film them all that day. One the year

480
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Speaker 1: that Altuve broke his thumb in the WBC, they hadn't

481
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: filmed them yet. So he filmed those HB commercials with

482
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Speaker 1: a cast on and I think you can see and

483
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Speaker 1: at least one of them he is holding his right

484
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Speaker 1: hand behind his back the whole time. Like they did

485
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Speaker 1: a very good job of not having his hands or

486
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Speaker 1: not making him use his hands in the commercials so

487
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Speaker 1: you couldn't really see it. But there is one that

488
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Speaker 1: I saw. You can see him very clearly, like holding

489
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Speaker 1: his hand behind his back so the cast is not seen.

490
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Speaker 1: And then the other one was one of the year's

491
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Speaker 1: mccullors started the year on the il like all the

492
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Speaker 1: fans lost their mind when like the first homestand of

493
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Speaker 1: the season, all the HIB commercials come out, and it

494
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Speaker 1: was one of the words.

495
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Speaker 2: You're getting ready for the season instead of filming these.

496
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Speaker 1: It was one of them when I think it was

497
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Speaker 1: him and Pania and like he held Panya up in

498
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Speaker 1: like a dance scene or something, and everyone's like, oh,

499
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Speaker 1: his elbows in ten pieces, but he can hold Paana

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Speaker 1: up in an HIV commercial. It's like, guys, they do

501
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: it in spring training, they do it on an off day.

502
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: These were filmed like two months ago.

503
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Speaker 2: Like chill out when when the Red Sox are in town,

504
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Speaker 2: can you ask Bragman if he'll come on, if we

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Speaker 2: promise to only talk about the AGB commercial for like

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Speaker 2: ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: I think he'd like that, Okay, I think he would

508
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Speaker 1: enjoy that. The Ashers probably aren't going to trade for

509
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Speaker 1: Alex Bregman. If Justin Verlander is available, who knows. Jim

510
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Speaker 1: Crane if he gets in back, if he gets If

511
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Speaker 1: Jim Crane gets his way, then who knows it could happen.

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Speaker 1: But Tyler, I know you've got a list of players

513
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Speaker 1: that you looked up that you would like to see

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Speaker 1: in Asher's uniforms. We can talk about a few of

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Speaker 1: But this is what the people want. They want to

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Speaker 1: Bottled Tyler, You deserve Hazard pay for looking at the

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Speaker 1: Marlins and the Rockies and whoever the hell else or

546
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Speaker 1: through twenty five names, but give me three or four

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552
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Speaker 1: why they may not be.

553
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Speaker 2: Okay, So you're right, I just went to the standings

554
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 2: picked all the bad teams. I'm gonna start with a

555
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 2: couple of guys that are contingent on Jacob Melton not

556
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 2: being the answer. So the Astra is still needing a

557
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 2: left handed hitting outfielder. There's a few guys that you

558
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 2: know are free agents after this year on struggling teams.

559
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 2: First one is a guy that I've wanted on the

560
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 2: Astros forever, and that's Cedric Mullins of the Orioles. He's

561
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 2: having a down year, but I don't care. Cedric Mullins

562
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 2: is good. He's a left handed hitting outfielder and play

563
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Speaker 2: center field. So if you're if you're trading away Myers

564
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 2: or McCormick plus Michael Eyas would love to dig through

565
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 2: the Astro system again, it would be like a treat

566
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Speaker 2: for him. So that's one. Another guy in that same

567
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Speaker 2: vain is Brian Reynolds on the Pirates again. Another guy, Oh, actually,

568
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Speaker 2: never mind. I looked him up and then I selected

569
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Speaker 2: him away because I saw that I forgot that the

570
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Speaker 2: Pirates signed a huge extension. Yes, I forgot about that.

571
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Speaker 2: I clicked him off. So Cedric Mullins, I, like I said,

572
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 2: wanted him on the Astros for a long time. That's again,

573
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Speaker 2: if Melton is not the answer. Another one from a

574
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Speaker 2: bad team that's a left handed hitting outfielder that Astros

575
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Speaker 2: fans may be aware of is Andrew ben ATTINDI again

576
00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 2: signed a longer deal with the White Sox, but he's

577
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Speaker 2: not that good. He's not worth fifteen million dollars a year.

578
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 2: So that's one that you could potentially acquire for not

579
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Speaker 2: having to give up a lot. All it takes is

580
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Speaker 2: Jim Crane opening up the pocketbook, which is easy for

581
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Speaker 2: me to suggest, just do that instead. Another guy that

582
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Speaker 2: I think the Astros should trade for just so he

583
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 2: doesn't have to face the Astros anymore is Louise Robert.

584
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Speaker 2: That dude, so watching this was a fun set here,

585
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pull it up. So watching the Astros last night,

586
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 2: Louise Robert, in my opinion, is better than Mike Trout

587
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 2: and Aaron Judge in games that I'm watching. And I

588
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 2: was curious, so I went and looked it up. Are

589
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Speaker 2: you familiar with the stat t ops plus?

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Speaker 4: No?

591
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 2: Okay, so ops plus is obviously one hundred is average,

592
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Speaker 2: Above is better, below is worse. So TPS plus essentially

593
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Speaker 2: grades a player's ops plus against themselves relative to the

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Speaker 2: different teams that they play. So their average, no matter

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Speaker 2: what type of hitter they are, is one hundred, and

596
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Speaker 2: then if they hit better against a team, their tops

597
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: plus would be one ten, one twenty. Whatever they hit worse,

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Speaker 2: it'd be below. So I was curious and I went

599
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Speaker 2: and looked it up because I was like, Aaron Judge

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Speaker 2: is terrible. I've never seen him be good once in

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Speaker 2: my life. I know he's incredible, he's I've never watched

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Speaker 2: him be good. Sure enough. His tops plus so relative

603
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Speaker 2: to his average hitting is forty three, so he is

604
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Speaker 2: awful against the Astros. He is slashing one ninety eight

605
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Speaker 2: three oh eight four nineteen against the Astros. Mike Trout

606
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Speaker 2: seventy eight, so again way below his average against the Astros.

607
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 2: Luis Roberts tps plus against the Astros is one ninety five.

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Speaker 2: He's hitting three seventy five, four h five, seven fifty

609
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Speaker 2: against the Astros. So go get him just so I

610
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Speaker 2: don't have to watch him destroy the Astros anymore. And

611
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Speaker 2: then on the pitching side, there's a few more options.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of guys this year who are older

613
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Speaker 2: adult starting pitchers on bad teams with contracts expiring this year.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot that you could go get.

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Speaker 2: Some are reclamation projects, like Sandy al al Contra from

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Speaker 2: the Marlins. He has one year left to team control,

617
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Speaker 2: but he has a seven fourteen ERA right now.

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Speaker 1: You say Kakuci had like an eighty right when they

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Speaker 1: got in last year or so.

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Speaker 2: Great, I mean, you know, and he was out all

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Speaker 2: of last year. I mean he's only like and even

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Speaker 2: the year before in twenty twenty three when he pitched,

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Speaker 2: he had a four plus ERA, so you know, he

624
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Speaker 2: hasn't been anywhere near the level that he was in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one twenty twenty two. But definitely a guy

626
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Speaker 2: the Astros could go get on the higher end. Now,

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Speaker 2: my ideal higher end starter is a guy on a

628
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Speaker 2: team that is still you know, it's still too early

629
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Speaker 2: to give up on. But the Braves are bad this year. Weirdly,

630
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Speaker 2: they have all the same players because they've signed them

631
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Speaker 2: all to fourteen year contracts, So the entire Braves team

632
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 2: is going to be together until the sun explodes except

633
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Speaker 2: for one guy, and that's Chris Sale. Chris Sale's making

634
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Speaker 2: nineteen million dollars this year. He's a free agent at

635
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Speaker 2: the end of this year. He does have a club option,

636
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Speaker 2: so obviously it would cost even more. But the Braves

637
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Speaker 2: love young, controllable pieces. So the Ashers have a lot

638
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 2: of guys like that where you could conceive of a

639
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Speaker 2: way that they could acquire him. I know that's not

640
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Speaker 2: gonna happen, but that is what I would love. And

641
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 2: then there's just a ton of like, look, this guy

642
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 2: can pitch. You know, he's not gonna cost me.

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Speaker 3: You know.

644
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Speaker 2: Cal Quantrill from the Marlins is another guy that's a

645
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,879
Speaker 2: free agent after this season. Uh, not gonna cost a lot.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

647
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Speaker 2: The White Thus also have Astro's legend Adrian Hauser on

648
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,720
Speaker 2: the team. Could go get him, he's a free agent

649
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 2: after this year. The Royals have Texas a and m

650
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 2: legend Michael Waka. Uh, you could go get him. He

651
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 2: did sign a longer deal. But the Royals are bad.

652
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: The Royals are good.

653
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 2: Uh, No, you're wrong. It's it's the Uh, it's the uniforms.

654
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 2: I don't believe them until they.

655
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 1: Prove it to me. I agree that it'd be hard.

656
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: It'd be hard for the Royals to trade to an

657
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: American league, especially when like they're probably gonna make the playoffs,

658
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: Like it'd be hard to trade Michael Waka to the

659
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: Astros to like, well, that would be your demise if

660
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: the Astros beat you for the last wildcard spot or something.

661
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,240
Speaker 2: People wanted us to argue, So this is me arguing

662
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 2: with you, You're a dummy. They're going to go get them,

663
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 2: Change up, merchant, Michael Waka. The Pirates are bad. I

664
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 2: don't know if you've heard. They don't have a lot

665
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 2: that you can trade for other than the one guy

666
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 2: that everyone would want to trade for. And hot take

667
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: if they trade Paul Skans, I think the team should

668
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 2: have to be sold. I think if you trade Paul Skans,

669
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 2: that is a white flag that says you're no longer

670
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 2: a major league owner. But they do have a guy

671
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 2: like Bailey Falter who still has a lot of team

672
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 2: control left, but you know, is a valuable trade piece.

673
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,439
Speaker 2: So if the Pirates are looking to build around Paul

674
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 2: Skans and want to get guys like Jacob Melton, Jake Myers,

675
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe some other younger arms around him,

676
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 2: certainly somebody that they could look to move. They also

677
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 2: have Andrew Heeny, and is the guy that I zero

678
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 2: percent chance that he stays on the Pirates.

679
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: Andrew. If you're looking at the Pirates Andrew Heen, he's

680
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: probably the guy that I would circle. Left handed, I

681
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,399
Speaker 1: mean left handed, dir like the exact kind of arc

682
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 1: type that they need. Just a guy that veteran will

683
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: take the ball every five days. We'll get you into

684
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: the sixth inning. Some days he'll give up a bunch

685
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: of runs, some days he'll be good. Like he's pitched

686
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: well for the Pirates this year, and he's making like

687
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,320
Speaker 1: five million dollars on a one year deal, So he

688
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't He wouldn't cost you a lot? Can I interest you?

689
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 4: And everyone?

690
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: Please go look up what he's done lately. I know

691
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: he was awful to start the year, but Charlie Morton's

692
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: been pretty good for the Orange.

693
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 2: Bring him back, give me a ground, Chuck, I'll take shit.

694
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: He's his last twenty five or so innings has an

695
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: era around four is on. He signed a fifteen million

696
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: dollar deal, so it's gonna be a little expensive. The

697
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: back end of what's left on that deal but again

698
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,959
Speaker 1: that he need's probably the or cost conscious and better option.

699
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: But like that's the what you're looking at. You're looking

700
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: for like a rental that can get you into the

701
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: sixth inning every fifth night. And I think Keen he

702
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,800
Speaker 1: probably gives you more confidence he can do that than Morton.

703
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 1: But don't don't be surprised if Charlie Morton's out there,

704
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: and I think the Orioles would surely entertain trading him.

705
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: Maybe that's where they look. I think, to go back

706
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,919
Speaker 1: to where you started, Mullins makes a lot of sense,

707
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: and not only because he's a left handed hitter, but

708
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 1: there is a parallel to a deal like this happening

709
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: with this team. It didn't come in Dana Brown's regime.

710
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: It came when James Click was here. Cedric Mullins For

711
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 1: those that don't follow the Orioles intently, Cedric Mullins is

712
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: a lifer there. Like he was there when they were awful,

713
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: he survived the awful rebuild, got to when they were

714
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: really good, and now he's kind of on the tail end.

715
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 1: The Astros traded the traded for someone very similar to

716
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 1: that from the Oriols a couple of years ago in

717
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: Trey Mancini. It was, and literally like it was a

718
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: situation where Mancini came in here. He wasn't gonna play

719
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: every day, but they needed someone to give them another

720
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: option in the lineup, and he played a little bit

721
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: of first he played a little bit of left field

722
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: with the Crawford boxes HEDHD. Mullins would probably come in

723
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: here again, presuming that the outfield remains as it's constructed

724
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: with L two bay and left Myers and center Smith

725
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: and Wright, Melton somewhere in there, Descenzo somewhere in there.

726
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: Mullins would probably come in here. Probably wouldn't play every day.

727
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: They probably try to face them against some right handed

728
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: pitching that he'd be good against. A good defensive He's

729
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: been a great defensive replacement late in games they got

730
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: to pull L two v out in close games. That one,

731
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: to me, you can see the parallels there between what

732
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: the Ashers did with Trey Mancini from the Orioles and

733
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: what the Ashers could do maybe with Cedric Mullins with

734
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: the Oarls. But the reason it's kind of foolish to

735
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: start throwing names out like yeah, I think Mullins is

736
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: certainly a guy they're going to entertain trading no matter what.

737
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: But like the Orioles who played better and recent weeks, like,

738
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: do they look at this season as man, we started terribly,

739
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: but the infrastructures still there were still pretty good. Like,

740
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: let's just stand pat, finish this season out and go

741
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: spend a bunch of money next offseason and get better. Now,

742
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: the reason that that wouldn't work in this situation because

743
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: Malls is a free agent to be Now, whether they.

744
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 2: Would they could have spent a whole bunch of money

745
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 2: to get better this offseason and they didn't.

746
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: Well, maybe well maybe this, maybe this is like the

747
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: lesson that they needed that yes, you do have to

748
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 1: go spend on a rotation to to survive in the

749
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: big leagues.

750
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 2: How about Uh, Christian Walker for Josh Naylor straight up?

751
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 2: Just trade Walker back to the Diamondbacks take his replacement. Uh.

752
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: The DBAs are fascinating because they've got a lot of

753
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: that's a that's a fascinating team that you could start

754
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: to pick over because they have gain. They have not

755
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: played well, They've they've played okay, they've been disappointing. That's

756
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: a brutal division that they're in, and do they get

757
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: to the deadline, and do they really think they can

758
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: challenge for a wild card spot in that in the

759
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: National League. I'm not sure. That's why doing this now

760
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: is a little bit dumb. But we need the clicks

761
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: and we need the views, so we're doing it. But

762
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: because like you don't know what the diamond like the

763
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,919
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks still want to play this out for another month,

764
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: Like the Orioles, to a lesser extent, still want to

765
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: play this out for another month, Like the Red Sox

766
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: have been a colossal disappointment, Like if they stink for

767
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: the next month, then like who knows.

768
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,280
Speaker 2: Where they end up, Like go get bragmant.

769
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: Sure he still may be hurt by then, but like again,

770
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: it's one of these things like and to be completely honest,

771
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: like I know we haven't brought up Fromber yet, but

772
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: I don't expect this to happen. But if the Astros

773
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: go on a nose dive the next six weeks and

774
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: they they're five under five hundred at the deadline, then

775
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: you have to make Fromber available, like you have to.

776
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: So there is so much that can change in the

777
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: next seven weeks. I don't think the Ashers are going

778
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: to free fall. I don't think fromber Beldez is getting traded.

779
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: The only way that Farmerveldes would get traded is if

780
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: a free fall happens, which I don't envision. The Astros

781
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 1: their needs are going to be the same no matter

782
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: what happens across the next six weeks, like they're going

783
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: they need They've been a bat short since they broke camp.

784
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: We talked about that, and it just because Alvarez has

785
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,399
Speaker 1: gotten hurt and Yiner and Christian Walker of underperformed. It's

786
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: just exacerbated the fact that they've they needed another bat

787
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: since March, and now they probably need to.

788
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 2: Is there a rule preventing you from trading for someone

789
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 2: before the deadline and then trading them again the same year.

790
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 2: I mean, no, no, That's why I don't understand why

791
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 2: teams don't make these trades in May or June. Like,

792
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 2: go get a starting pitcher, now, give up whatever you

793
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 2: need to, and then if you're, like you said, if

794
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 2: the Astros do tank, just trade them again. Go get

795
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 2: the similar return back that you just gave up. I've

796
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 2: never understood why they don't just start doing it now,

797
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,919
Speaker 2: Like it's not like, well.

798
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: The thing that became the thing that became in vogue.

799
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: A couple of the Angels did it when they were

800
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: trying to make the run with Otani. They traded for

801
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: all the they trained for, like Randall, Gritchik and all

802
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: these guys like right at the deadline, and then they

803
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: played like crap for the next three weeks and we're

804
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: out of it, and they put all those guys on waivers.

805
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: Gilito was on there, like, they put all of them

806
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: on waivers like the day before they had to the

807
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: day before they had to be in another team to

808
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: be playoff eligible, and so they could get the money

809
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: off the books for the CBT. So that's the closest thing.

810
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: Like you still function with the deadline. But like let's

811
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: say the Astros, like if there really are worried about

812
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: the CBT, if they go out the deadline and do

813
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: what they do and then they play like crap in August,

814
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: it's like, well, we could put all these guys on waivers,

815
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: get their money off the books, and they don't have

816
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 1: to pay the taxes. That's the closest thing. But the

817
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: reason teams don't make trades early is because, like a

818
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out who they are and be like,

819
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: we just have talked about this for forty minutes. Like this,

820
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,280
Speaker 1: the bona fide sellers are so few and far between

821
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: that the asking prices are astronomical pardon the pun, for

822
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: like the few guys that you know are available. So

823
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: deadlines drive decisions, and as you get closer to the

824
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: deadline and the supply is still there, like the ask

825
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: is inherently going to go down, so that's why it

826
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. But the waiver thing is a loophole that

827
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: they've found the last couple of years that who knows

828
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: could be in play again this deadline. I don't. Maybe

829
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: for the next couple of days you can watch the

830
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: White Sox and dream about Andrew Bin and Tendi being

831
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: in the outfield. You can dream about whatever no name

832
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,959
Speaker 1: reliever came and closed them out last night. The White

833
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: Sox are one of the few sellers that you can

834
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: look at definitively and say you want to pick over

835
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: their team. But in the next seven weeks, I think

836
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: more of those will manifest and the astros will be

837
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: able to really ascertain kind of who is out there

838
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: who is feasible for them to get And I think

839
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 1: the big folkerm all this where JP Frantz and Luis

840
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: s Garcia Christian Javier Spencer Araghetti. When they have a

841
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: better answer for that, then they'll have a better answer

842
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 1: for what they're gonna go after the deadline. But we

843
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: tried to answer a couple questions today about what they

844
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: could need early. You can follow me on X at

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00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: Chandler Underscore Room. You can follow Tyler at Tyler C. Safford.

846
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: We'll be back with Josh Reddick tomorrow to talk about

847
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: trades and Jordan Alvarez and John Boy getting bought by MLB.

848
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: Josh has some real thoughts on that, shockingly, so we'll

849
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,360
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Speaker 4: Hi,