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Speaker 2: What's up, everybody? Welcome into another edition of Crush City

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Speaker 2: Territory Channel Room, joined by Tyler Stafford and Josh Reddick

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Speaker 2: as the Astros begin a four game series at Camden

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Speaker 2: Yards in Baltimore. They yeah, on paper, should be a

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Speaker 2: get right series. I think anyone that watched what happened

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Speaker 2: not a get right series. And then the Orioles left

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Speaker 2: Dyke and Park and went and took two straight against

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Speaker 2: the Red Sox at Fenway Park. They're playing well. They've

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Speaker 2: got some young kids that have come up and really

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Speaker 2: like injected some energy, some top prospects, and they're still

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Speaker 2: pretty good. They just had an awful April and beginning

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Speaker 2: of May that really just tore their season apart, so

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Speaker 2: they had to sell at the deadline. But the focus

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Speaker 2: should be on the Astros before we get into So

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Speaker 2: what we're gonna do today? I had I wrote a

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Speaker 2: mailbag that went on the Athletic today Thursday morning, got

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Speaker 2: a ton of questions that I couldn't answer. So we're

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Speaker 2: gonna take some of those questions that I couldn't answer

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Speaker 2: and answer them here. But before we get to that, Josh,

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Speaker 2: it came out. It came out yesterday after the Astros

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Speaker 2: of the Tigers, that there was a team meeting, team

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Speaker 2: meeting after Tuesday's game, Carlos Korea apparently among those that talked,

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Speaker 2: and kind of as these things go, there's not much

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Speaker 2: these things go. Everything's kept in the clubhouse. But in general, Josh,

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Speaker 2: where where do you stand on the on the team

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Speaker 2: meeting bit? Do you think it's do you think it's

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Speaker 3: No, it's I mean there's times where it is eyewash,

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Speaker 3: and then there's times where it's needed. And you're looking

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Speaker 3: at time where it's needed. You have there's there's pointless

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Speaker 3: eyewash meetings for the Birds. But you know, this is

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Speaker 1: Where they're not having too many of these.

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Speaker 3: This is you know, I think I could probably count

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Speaker 3: I mean, even in the tough stretches, you need these

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Speaker 3: by nobody talking to each other and not being really

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Speaker 1: When you're going through these stretches, it does kind of

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Speaker 3: The tunes don't hit as well, the vibe is not

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Speaker 1: You know, it's behind us now. We all obviously know

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Speaker 1: that we suck lately. You know, it's it's no secret.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, it's just getting up there kind.

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Speaker 3: Of spitting facts and just putting out there what people

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Speaker 3: So it kind of just gives everybody to kind of

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Speaker 3: I'm all for it, you know, but this is this

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Speaker 1: Some more drastic stuff continues to happen.

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Speaker 3: But after these, it's it's kind of is it does

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Speaker 1: So I'm all for this.

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Speaker 4: I love Carlos Correa so much. I love that he's

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Speaker 4: been here two weeks and he's like, everybody, sit down.

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Speaker 4: I got some stuff to tell you about winning from

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Speaker 4: Minnesota that I learned, and everybone's like, all right, yeah, whatever,

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Speaker 2: Like that.

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Speaker 4: That rules, you know, you can't you can't teach that

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Speaker 4: Go go yell at some people. See if that works,

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Speaker 4: try anything. I appreciate it. Josh, you had your strategy

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that well. Timing of these things

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Speaker 2: There's no there's no shame in not hitting Trek Scooble.

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Speaker 2: No other lineup in baseball hits Trek Schooble. So maybe

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Speaker 4: But it was from or at the team meeting because

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Speaker 1: No excuse me no, because he would have been back

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what happened. That's why it's like, you know,

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Speaker 4: not a belief I held as a child. Is that

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Speaker 4: That was somewhere in my psyche that I decided if

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Speaker 4: recorded it on teams. That's what we do in my company.

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Speaker 4: They can just play it back for fromber or maybe

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Speaker 4: So who knows. But what I'm hearing is Korea fixed everyone.

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Speaker 4: Brombridge just has to get in there.

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Speaker 1: Now do we know that it was like a team

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's like a full disclosure. I was not there.

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Speaker 1: It just sounded.

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Speaker 2: It sounded like a couple guys Korea foremost among them

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Speaker 2: And doesn't sound like again when you see. These are

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Speaker 2: big impact on our offensive production? Yes, but let's go

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Speaker 2: to his first point. Josh, do you see like fundamental

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean you got to look at personnel to

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Speaker 3: There's different people in that lineup that you know, can

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Speaker 3: But I think it's more of like the fundamentals of

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Speaker 3: going at it, because I mean, you see such it's

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Speaker 1: But I don't think so. I just think this is.

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Speaker 3: A game where it already requires failure to succeed, is

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Speaker 3: But I mean you've seen signs of this lineup doing

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Speaker 3: I think, like, yeah, they make guys with a RAS

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Speaker 3: So that is one sign you get to the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's a prolonged season slump. It's just gosh,

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Speaker 1: Are we really talking that much about it? But you know,

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Speaker 3: Thankful that the Seattle Mariners are just as deep in

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Speaker 1: So just be happy you're still in front.

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Speaker 4: What did shock you to learn that they are in

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Speaker 4: They have the tenth lowest team strikeout percentage in baseball?

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Speaker 4: of the imagination. He also has not cratered to the

438
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Speaker 4: point where he's like embarrassed by this. Like if the

439
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000
Speaker 4: season ends today, he has a one and a half

440
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:08,119
Speaker 4: war which you know, he's been an above average player.

441
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,359
Speaker 4: A lot of that is defense, but he's also he

442
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,679
Speaker 4: has a ninety one ops plus. That's not good, but

443
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 4: it's not like embarrassing for a rookie to have. So

444
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,800
Speaker 4: I mean, the idea that he needs to do something

445
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:25,439
Speaker 4: in order to go into next season feeling good, I

446
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 4: think is a little premature. Like he's already shown that

447
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 4: he can have success at the big league level, even

448
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,439
Speaker 4: if it hasn't been in the last two months. Like

449
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 4: he's shown that, Okay, there's something in me that I

450
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,359
Speaker 4: am capable of doing this, you know, and we talked

451
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,239
Speaker 4: about on the last episode that you know, really what

452
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,159
Speaker 4: it is is just make it through the season without

453
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,639
Speaker 4: like messing him up mentally, where he like goes in

454
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:56,080
Speaker 4: the next season feeling like he needs to prove something

455
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 4: or something's broken with him, and like he's got a

456
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 4: like he's been fine for a rookie who did not

457
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 4: play minor league baseball. He's he's been you know what

458
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:13,359
Speaker 4: you would expect a guy to look like. So you know, yeah,

459
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 4: right now he's not looking good. But I mean again,

460
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Speaker 4: if the season ended now and you started next season,

461
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,120
Speaker 4: I don't think you would come into the season going

462
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,400
Speaker 4: like this is a disaster. They need to fix something

463
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,639
Speaker 4: about him, because he you know, he'll be fine. Like

464
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 4: he's shown that he can do that. He's in a slump,

465
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Speaker 4: like a slump that people go through all the time,

466
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Speaker 4: you know. I mean we talked about al Tuva earlier

467
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,960
Speaker 4: this year where he just looked lost for a month.

468
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Speaker 4: But it's jose Al tuove, so you just assume he'll

469
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 4: figure it out. And I think the first half of

470
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,959
Speaker 4: the season earned Cam Smith enough to say, yeah, he's

471
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 4: in a slump right now, but he'll probably be fine.

472
00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,880
Speaker 4: You know, he's young, he needs at bats, and he's

473
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Speaker 4: shown that he can hit, so you know, figure it out.

474
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 4: It's not it's not like you know, panic mode or

475
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 4: anything like that right now. No career wise, anyway, right

476
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 4: right tomorrow playing I don't know. But career wise, I

477
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 4: think you're fine.

478
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the macro sense, Cam Smith has proven that

479
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Speaker 2: he is a valuable piece of this team's future, like

480
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,879
Speaker 2: he is going to be, and I don't think anyone

481
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 2: questioned that. But but certainly what he did at the

482
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 2: beginning of the season, we're to a point now where

483
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 2: like he's an uncharted territory where like everything he does

484
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,719
Speaker 2: from now on is kind of land yet it's kind

485
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 2: of gravy, Like, you know, he's proven that he's the

486
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 2: real deal. He's had stretches where he's looked every bit

487
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Speaker 2: the top prospect that the Ashers thought that they were

488
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,719
Speaker 2: getting in the Tucker trade. But now he's you know,

489
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 2: the books out on him. He's tired, he's playing more

490
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,639
Speaker 2: than he's ever played in his life, and you're to

491
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 2: a point where it's like, all right, like this is

492
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 2: kind of the wall. You hope next year that that

493
00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,199
Speaker 2: wall is further away, or that wall has been taken down,

494
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 2: that there is none of this that he has to

495
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 2: come confront. But it's where we are, and cam Smith

496
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 2: is going to be the focus of our Draft Kings

497
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Speaker 2: Player Spotlight Josh. One of the things that Tyler and

498
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:20,120
Speaker 2: I talked about on the last episode was it's surprising

499
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 2: to see a twenty two year old kid like camp

500
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 2: Smith who is struggling as much as he is offensively.

501
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 2: Haven't seen him throw a bat, haven't seen him spike

502
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 2: a helmet, have not seen him take his bat at

503
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 2: bats to right field where he is still playing very

504
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 2: good defense. That's not real common for a kid that

505
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 2: has probably never failed to this extent in his life.

506
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Speaker 2: And I think that's something that if you're the askers,

507
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 2: you have to take Solison.

508
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

509
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's definitely not showing frustration at least out

510
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,680
Speaker 3: in the dugout or on the field. So that's one

511
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 3: pause that everybody's not watching, is you know, coming from

512
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,400
Speaker 3: a guy who threw his helmet every force at bat.

513
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Speaker 1: You know, it's showing a lot of things. You know,

514
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 1: when you're young and rookie, you know that that excuse me.

515
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 3: That changes a lot of things too, because you know

516
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 3: when I when I first got called up, the first

517
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 3: few years before I was established, you know, I didn't

518
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 3: do any of that stuff because I didn't want my

519
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 3: teammates to yell at me and have that either.

520
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: So there's no there's no telling what road he's taking.

521
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Speaker 3: But it does show a love of maturity in him

522
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 3: to not have that be shown, because not only is

523
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 3: he slumping, you know, the.

524
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Speaker 1: Team slumping, so they can weigh a lot on you

525
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: as a.

526
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Speaker 3: Player, as a teammate, and everything can come crashing down,

527
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 3: so you have to come in that.

528
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Speaker 1: But I think, you know, they probably would like to

529
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: see it a little bit. Maybe it goes underneath it,

530
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 1: does it. I don't know, Maybe it'd show him a

531
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 1: little bit of you know, get.

532
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Speaker 3: It out, just get it out, stop holding in and

533
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 3: let it come out, man, and then maybe things will

534
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 3: kind of turn around.

535
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe just what he needs.

536
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Speaker 4: Okay, So now in addition to the Zoo trip, we

537
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 4: need to add go to one of those like arcade

538
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Speaker 4: games where you can punch the big punching bag and

539
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Speaker 4: see what number you can get to go to the gym.

540
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Speaker 4: We'll make a day of it. Oh yeah, I forgot.

541
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Speaker 4: You could do like actual physical activity. And I don't

542
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Speaker 4: want to.

543
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Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to swipe my

544
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: car for every punch on that machine. And it's like

545
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Speaker 1: two dollars.

546
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Speaker 4: Yeah, uh yeah. So look, I don't I don't expect

547
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Speaker 4: Cam Smith to hit a home run in his his

548
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Speaker 4: NEXIT bats. But when you look at a DraftKings, there's

549
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 4: a couple options that you can do. And the one

550
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 4: that I'm looking at is they have a hits plus

551
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 4: runs plus RBIs kind of total, and here's a set

552
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 4: at one and a half, which means all he has

553
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 4: to do is get a hit with a runner in

554
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 4: scoring position, or get a hit and score a run

555
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 4: after that. And if he's batting ninth and he comes

556
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 4: up to lead off an inning and gets a hit,

557
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 4: you know, I feel pretty confident that you know, that's

558
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 4: that's a good looking one. So that's the one that

559
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 4: I'm looking at. Just get on base, get somebody in,

560
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 4: get yourself in. Let's start there. Building blocks uh, and

561
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 4: and we'll work on it from there.

562
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Speaker 1: Are you ready to commit to the run score part?

563
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Speaker 4: It's all it's all combined, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's all.

564
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 4: It's all in there. Well, I mean, one home run

565
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 4: hits it for you know, So it's fine. He just

566
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 4: has to get two of a combination of a hit

567
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 4: plus a run or an RBI whatever. So that's what

568
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 4: I'm looking at for for Camsmith this weekend.

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Speaker 2: So I lied a little bit. The question I'm going

585
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Speaker 2: to ask you guys, I did answer on Thursday in

586
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Speaker 2: this mail bag, but I thought it was one that

587
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 2: I thought it was one that you two would be

588
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 2: interested to weigh in on. And it's from Nicholas, and

589
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 2: he asked, as we moved into the home stretch of

590
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,239
Speaker 2: the season, who are the two players, one pitcher and

591
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 2: one hitter who will have the biggest impact on how

592
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 2: this team finishes? And why Let's start with pitching. Who

593
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 2: do you guys, I know who, I said. I'll let

594
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 2: you guys talk though. Who do you guys think is

595
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 2: the one pitcher that is going to be the most

596
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 2: maybe instrumental or the most instructive of how this team

597
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 2: does going forward.

598
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 4: I'll let you go first, Josh, because I've got a couple.

599
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 4: So I'll take one that you don't take. Oh you're muted,

600
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 4: Come on.

601
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 2: Me, Okay, all right, it's all my fault. I'll take that.

602
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: I watch my screen.

603
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 2: It's all my fault.

604
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: I said, I'll let you go first, since you already

605
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: had yours in mind.

606
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 4: Okay, Uh, it's Fromber. Romber has to be really good

607
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 4: and he hasn't been and it's only been a couple

608
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 4: of starts. I'm not like overly concerned about that yet.

609
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 4: But if Romber is not ace level Fromber, the Ashers

610
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 4: are not doing anything. You can't rely on Hunter Brown

611
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 4: to carry You can't have one good pitcher and make

612
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 4: it through. They have to have Fromber be good and

613
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 4: be confident out there and be a leader. And if

614
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 4: that's not happened, I mean that the Ashers are not

615
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 4: winning a playoff series where he does not go two

616
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 4: games of six or seven innings and to run ball,

617
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 4: they're just there. That's not gonna happen. They have to

618
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 4: have him be really good. And we've seen what they

619
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 4: can do when he is on, you know, like the

620
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty two, he carried them through the the playoffs.

621
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Speaker 4: So when Fromber is on, there's not a lot of

622
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 4: pitchers like him in baseball and they need him to

623
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Speaker 4: be there in order for the team to do anything.

624
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you.

625
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 3: There, can I just say as a whole the bullpen

626
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 3: like the whole bullpen, like not just one.

627
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Speaker 1: But like you know, this is a point where you know,

628
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: Hater's not coming back. Hopefully you know in the postseason

629
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: he'll get back. But like as a whole, that bullpen

630
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: has to get on the.

631
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Speaker 3: Same page and brianon Brad who just has to be

632
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,239
Speaker 3: closer Brian and Brady who just goes out there and

633
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 3: absolutely just dots everything up. So as a whole, they

634
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Speaker 3: just they, like I said, they just need to come

635
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 3: together and and figure it out.

636
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Speaker 1: I mean, because like you.

637
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Speaker 3: Said, it can't always be Hunter Brown, it can't always

638
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 3: be fromber At, you know, every start, and you know

639
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 3: after that, who knows.

640
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: But you know, with with.

641
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Speaker 3: The way three four five of the rotation is being

642
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 3: you know, coin flipped around, that bullpen has a pretty

643
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 3: good workload.

644
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: Ahead of him ahead of them, and they just have

645
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: to accept that and find way to get through and succeed.

646
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you could also argue just a dart

647
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 4: throw of any of the three four five guys, like

648
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 4: if any of them, you know, Christian Hobbier, like we said,

649
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 4: has looked good in his two starts, you know, tummy

650
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 4: troubles notwithstanding. But as long as we can keep him

651
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 4: away from bubble guts. I you know, he's looked good.

652
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 4: Like if Christian Hobbier can be what he has been

653
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 4: at his peak, like, that is a season altering pitcher

654
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Speaker 4: to have. And we've talked about it all year. You

655
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 4: need one and a half of the like five guys

656
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 4: that are in that category to catch fire for like

657
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 4: three weeks in October. That's all. That's all it has

658
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 4: to happen. If if Christian Javier can catch fire for

659
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 4: three weeks and be unhittable, the Astros are a much

660
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 4: different team, you know, if if Lance mccullors can find it,

661
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 4: if you know, or Spencerghedty can get back to where

662
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 4: he's just striking out thirteen guys per nine, Like, any

663
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 4: of those things happening makes the Astros a drastically different

664
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 4: team than they are right now.

665
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I answered the question, I picked Hobvier mainly

666
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 2: because of something you know you said it Tyler, like

667
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 2: Fromber has not been good for the past four day,

668
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 2: four starts, but he's got like enough track record, yeah,

669
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 2: to give him the benefit of the doubt that like

670
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 2: he's got to be better. Like, don't get me wrong,

671
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 2: but you kind of just expect him to be better

672
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 2: if they get like three fourths of twenty twenty one

673
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 2: Christian Xavier, Like if he can do what he did

674
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 2: and maybe his first start he went, he was on

675
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 2: a pitch count, went five innings, gave up two runs

676
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 2: to a very very good Boston offense, Like after Bregnan

677
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 2: hit the homer off of him in the first inning,

678
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,959
Speaker 2: settled down, didn't allow another run. If they get if

679
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 2: they can get that every time out, even with the

680
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 2: stuff maybe not being at its peak, a guy that's

681
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: still coming back fourteen months away, Like, if they get that,

682
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 2: that is a I don't think that's hyperbole, tyle, that's

683
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 2: a season. That's a season changing development. Because you know,

684
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 2: we talked about this when we were talking about, you know,

685
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 2: all these pitchers coming back, and I don't want it

686
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 2: to sound like I don't want it to sound like

687
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 2: I'm demeaning anything, but like I did sit here and say,

688
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 2: like Spencer Aarrighetti is still a young starter. He's still

689
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 2: a guy that's only made thirty something appearances in the

690
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 2: big leagues and has a five ra like to expect

691
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 2: him to come back and be this all and to

692
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 2: be like the Savior I thought was a little misguided.

693
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 2: He can miss bats, he can get a ton of strikeouts,

694
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 2: but this is still a guy that's learning at the

695
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 2: big league level. Christian Javier has pitched on the biggest stages.

696
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 2: He had pitched full seasons at an elite level. I

697
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 2: think if they can get him to where he I'm

698
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 2: not saying he's got to be peak twenty two Christian Xavier,

699
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 2: but if they can get him close to that takes

700
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 2: pressure off Fromber, takes pressure off Hunter Brown, and more

701
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: important to take pressure off the bullpen. If he can get

702
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 2: you into the sixth inning and you only got to

703
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,240
Speaker 2: cover nine outs, nine or ten outs, with a Josh

704
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 2: haterless bullpen, you can navigate that much easier than trying

705
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 2: to do, you know, fourteen to sixteen outs, which is

706
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 2: what they've been forced to do unfortunately, with as these

707
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,919
Speaker 2: guys are coming back on pitch counts things like that.

708
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 2: So for me, it's Haavier, what about I think I

709
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 2: know the answer, And if both of you have the

710
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 2: same answer, then we'll put a caveat. But who is

711
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 2: the hitter that falls into this category.

712
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 3: The hitter that's going to help this team get to

713
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 3: where they need to be Yeah, Carlos Korea.

714
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 2: Ooh, okay, I agree.

715
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: I yeah, spotlight man, he loves the spotlight as well.

716
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 1: In the spotlight, he's going to catch fire and it's

717
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: going to be time.

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00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 4: H Yeah. Yeah, I mean Carlos Korea can certainly change

719
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 4: the trajectory of a of a team. I mean, you

720
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 4: can look at a ton of guys in there, but

721
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 4: I'm I'm not going to uh try to pick you know,

722
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 4: the fringe. It's Jordon. If Jordan is really good, like

723
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 4: the Astros are a very good baseball team. If if

724
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 4: he's hitting three hundred and a homer every tenant bats,

725
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 4: which he's capable of doing, like, that's a terrifying lineup

726
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, because again we've talked about they

727
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 4: keep getting guys on, they can't get him in. If

728
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 4: Jordon's coming up with two guys on every other at bat, like,

729
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 4: that's terrifying. If he's if he's on, so yeah, I mean,

730
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 4: if if jord On is is anywhere near peak Jordan,

731
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 4: that is that is a huge boost to the offense.

732
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I picked Alvarez, but I could get

733
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 2: on board with correct I can get on board with

734
00:35:55,040 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 2: Christian Walker. Christian Walker because in how I believe Joe

735
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,399
Speaker 2: will construct the lineup when Alvarez is back, you could

736
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 2: see Christian Walker hitting behind him a lot. And if

737
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 2: teams are not going to pitch to Alvarez, if they're

738
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 2: gonna circle Alvarez before the series is like, all right,

739
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 2: we don't think anybody after him can can beat us,

740
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,240
Speaker 2: and they're gonna give Alvarez nothing to hit. The onus

741
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 2: is on Christian Walker to make that a mistake, to

742
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 2: make them regret that mistake. So it's pretty obvious that

743
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 2: Jordan is gonna be the guy that can change the

744
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 2: complexion of this thing and can really kind of get

745
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 2: them going in the right direction. But you know, Christian

746
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 2: Walker behind him, that's certainly a guy that could benefit

747
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 2: a lot from hitting behind Alvarez, just the types of

748
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 2: pitches he sees, how he's approached things like that, I

749
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 2: think it'll be a benefit to him as well. Let's

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Speaker 2: Because that sounds awesome and it's worth a lot.

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Speaker 2: Josh. You got any fun memories in Baltimore Yeah, I

780
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 2: did you there, he did. I knew that. I definitely

781
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 2: knew that.

782
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 1: What was that first hit, first homer?

783
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: Who's the first homer off of Brian Bass.

784
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 3: Righty reliever, sinker slider guy Apo Taco actually.

785
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 2: Sinker away Taco here in Baltimore. Yeah, it's hard to

786
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 2: hit the.

787
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: Ball left left of the bullpen. It was, it was,

788
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: it was, it was. It was a it was a

789
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: bald and carried that really well back then.

790
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 3: But yeah, followed my first weekend, debuted at twenty two,

791
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 3: got my first hit, my first start, got my first

792
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 3: homer the next day.

793
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty pretty.

794
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: Cool memories there.

795
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 3: And then I was also a part of the twenty

796
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 3: eleven Red Sox walk off of Robert and Dino that

797
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 3: year and then Longoria literally two minutes lighter hits to

798
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 3: walk off to go to the playoffs.

799
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 4: Oh, you were in the game one.

800
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: I wasn't in it. I was. I was in the dugout.

801
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 3: I never started that year, but Jad Drew magically got

802
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 3: better like four days prior to that, so he.

803
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 4: Was pretty good.

804
00:38:58,840 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 1: He was pretty good.

805
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

806
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 4: I didn't really. Yeah, man, I don't know about y'all,

807
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 4: but my YouTube algorithm about once a month is like, Hey,

808
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 4: you want to watch that video again of the last

809
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 4: game of the season from twenty eleven, And it's just

810
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 4: like a twenty minute long video and it's kind of

811
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 4: time stamped of each game happening at the same time,

812
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 4: and every time it pops up, I'm like, yeah, I'm

813
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 4: interested in watching that.

814
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: Bro.

815
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 3: We had a I think we had a two round

816
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 3: lead that night and we left Carl Crawford and left field.

817
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, like what I think this guy has no

818
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 3: arm I get it, he's fast, but ah man, I'm

819
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,439
Speaker 3: just like, I probably throw the guy at home.

820
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 4: I'll send you. I'll send you a screenshot next time

821
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,240
Speaker 4: it pops up on my YouTube because it does happen

822
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 4: quite a bit.

823
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, heartbreaking.

824
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure we've talked about this, but I'm looking

825
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 2: now back that you maj your debut on July thirty, onest,

826
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Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. You pinch hit for Rockobaldelli. I

827
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 2: did pinch hit for a major league manager. Was that

828
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 2: was Tito managing the Red Sox that he wanted to

829
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 2: give you. I think you took a pinch hit at

830
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 2: bat in the ninth inning. That was your debut? Was

831
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 2: that to kind of to kind of calm the nerves,

832
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 2: get the first hit, bat out of the way, the

833
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 2: first stuff out of the way, and then go in there.

834
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Speaker 3: I think so, I think so yeah, because like I

835
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 3: wasn't nervous the whole night. I mean, the whole day

836
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,240
Speaker 3: was just a big blur and a freaking heart attack,

837
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 3: to be honest, because I thought I'd gotten traded, being

838
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 3: the deadline coming out, you know and everything, and we

839
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 3: had just traveled like eight hours in double a after

840
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 3: a night game.

841
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: So like got woken up at like eleven.

842
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 3: After getting in at around like seven am.

843
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:40,760
Speaker 1: And then like, go downstairs.

844
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 3: My managers goes, hey, we need all your get all

845
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 3: your stuff and meet me in the lobby.

846
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: Okay, traded, get down there. He's like, we don't know

847
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: what's happening. Just hang out. Okay. Like hour goes by.

848
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,359
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm gonna go get some breakfast since

849
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 3: I'm up. He's all right, come straight back. I come

850
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,240
Speaker 3: back with my food. He's like, all right, nothing's happening,

851
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 3: and go back to your room. I'm like, all right,

852
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 3: Literally walk in my room. My phone rings.

853
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: He says, hey, I need you right back down to

854
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: the lobby. I'm like, holy, like what is going on?

855
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: He goes, all right, well, here's the deal, Like they

856
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: don't know if Elsbury or.

857
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 3: I can't know what Elsbury or somebody maybe gosh, that

858
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 3: would have been Jason Bay. I think whoever whoever was

859
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 3: going down in the DL might have gone to the DL.

860
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 1: You're gonna take a three hour car ride to Baltimore,

861
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: may or.

862
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 3: May not be activated, hang out in the hotel for

863
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 3: two days maximum.

864
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: If they don't call, you're gonna come right back to us,

865
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 1: all right.

866
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 3: So like the whole time, I'm like, hearts racing, like

867
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 3: I might make my big league debut.

868
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: I might not make my big league Like this is

869
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: just all crazyness.

870
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Speaker 3: So I'm calling everybody telling them to plan get to

871
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 3: my hotel. And that was the cool part because if

872
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 3: you know anything about Red Sox, that's like Sock Finway

873
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 3: South Socks fans well mean no, no, but used to travel.

874
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 3: There was a home game for us, so the team

875
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 3: hotels just full of Red Sox fans. Very high five

876
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 3: to me because I've got my Red Sox bat bag.

877
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,399
Speaker 3: I got my Red Sox bag on like.

878
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: They know who Josh Reddick is. At this point it's

879
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: Red Sox fan.

880
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 3: So go up to my room, put my key card in,

881
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 3: and I go to walk into my phone rings and

882
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 3: it's Steel says, hey, we need to get the ballpark. I'm like,

883
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 3: all right, So I just throw my suitcase in and

884
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 3: turn around, come right back down and then like get

885
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 3: a standing ovation, hop in the taxi and go straight

886
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 3: into the locker room, straight outside for batting practice. I

887
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 3: got there like five thirty, I think, so didn't really

888
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 3: have time to kind of mingle around, but then went

889
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 3: in there and had my first big league spread and everybody.

890
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: Came and congratulated.

891
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 3: That's what you remember, Hey, it was a good spread

892
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:35,760
Speaker 3: coming from double a man.

893
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 2: That that happens, and Josh, you know this. That happens

894
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 2: more than you think. When like a guy, especially if

895
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: a team's on the road and they don't know if

896
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 2: they're gonna put some mindy in the il or not,

897
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,439
Speaker 2: they'll fly a guy to Like I'm just gonna say,

898
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 2: like Anaheim. Let's just like that's a random location. Like

899
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 2: let's say the Ashers are an Anaheim and they're iffy

900
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 2: on if this guy's gonna be able to play or not,

901
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 2: and if they're going to put them on the il.

902
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't just get a guy to Anaheim

903
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 2: in the snap of a finger. So a lot of

904
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 2: times they will fly a guy ahead and just have

905
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 2: them hang out at a hotel for like an afternoon.

906
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to say who, but there have

907
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,280
Speaker 2: been a couple of instances where they have flown guys

908
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 2: to certain destinations, guys that have not been in the

909
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 2: big leagues. So like, these guys think they're going to

910
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 2: make their debuts and then it just happens that, oh, like,

911
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 2: he came in feeling better today, so we're gonna we

912
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 2: can carry him on the roster and they've got to

913
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 2: go back to Triple A. Now, I do know that

914
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 2: everyone that that has happened to has ended up making

915
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 2: their debuts and has gotten into the big league. So

916
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 2: it's not one of those situations where you know, they've

917
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 2: denied a guy like that. That would be pretty callous,

918
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 2: but it kind of kind of speaks to the business

919
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 2: of it all. Though, Like I can't imagine being I mean,

920
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 2: you were in those shoes. I can't imagine thinking like,

921
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 2: oh man, I'm close to like a dream, I'm close

922
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 2: to fulfilling like the biggest life goal I've ever had.

923
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 2: I want to be told, oh yeah, okay, go back

924
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 2: to sugar Land, go back to yeah wherever.

925
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. It was you know it was. It

926
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: was stressful and you know, kind of crazy. But I mean,

927
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: I remember the.

928
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 3: Whole car ride was I was living on the phone

929
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 3: the whole time, Like I had my phone plugged in

930
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 3: and was just literally talking to people of the whole time,

931
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 3: the whole car ride. And so that I mean that

932
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 3: that kind of helped in a sense because I don't

933
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 3: know if I would I would have done, if I

934
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 3: would have just had headphones in or whatnot, because that

935
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 3: would have been just where my mind could have been racing.

936
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 3: So yeah, and then it was it was crazy because

937
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 3: I didn't eveann like I said, I didn't have to

938
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 3: sit down and think about it at all, not even

939
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:34,879
Speaker 3: when I got.

940
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: To the hotel room.

941
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 3: So and even when I got there, like it was,

942
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 3: like I said, it was just run in, throw on

943
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 3: your stuff, go out there, and just straight to banning practice.

944
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 3: So that probably definitely helped. And then you know the

945
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 3: eight innings that I got to just hang out and

946
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 3: the dugout and mingle with the guys because I did

947
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 3: go to Big League camp that year, so that definitely

948
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:52,920
Speaker 3: helped me.

949
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 1: Know the guys at least a little bit.

950
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,439
Speaker 3: Granted I was just this twenty two year old kid,

951
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 3: but they'd at least seen my face knew that I was.

952
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: Around, so that that that helped him.

953
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 3: David Ortiz, if you know anything about David Ortiz, is

954
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 3: one of the best humans on the planet. Came over

955
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 3: and gave me a big old bear hug like he

956
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 3: does everybody, and told me congrats and welcome, and.

957
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: During the game just talked to me the whole time.

958
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 3: I remember talking to him, played Buckolts a lot during

959
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 3: the whole game and.

960
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: Just sat there and took it all in. Man, and

961
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: Baltimore is a cathedral.

962
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 3: It's freaking huge, so when you when you do the

963
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 3: old three six, you're like, man, this place is massive.

964
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 1: So it was it was definitely good to get it

965
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: in there. And then if anybody knows who Clay Meredith

966
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 1: is relief picture.

967
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 3: That was my debut picture guy who throws under arm,

968
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 3: side arm, whatever you want to call it, at about

969
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 3: eighty nine.

970
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: Of disgusting sync. So not the most comfortable debut at bat.

971
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, and of course you didn't have time to like

972
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 4: prep anything either, right, like you're.

973
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 3: No no cage, Like he didn't even give any time

974
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 3: to warm up and like go to the cage.

975
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: But it wouldn't have mattered because.

976
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 4: They didn't have they didn't have the iPads back then

977
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 4: or anything to Yeah, it's just like good luck.

978
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 3: Back then, the visiting cage during the game in Baltimore

979
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 3: was a pop up net in the freaking clubhouse.

980
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: And you know what I'm talking about where you walk

981
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: from the dugout up. Yeah, right, there was the cage.

982
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: So I didn't have time to do that. I was

983
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: just sitting there and Tino goes up, hey kid, you're

984
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:17,919
Speaker 1: going to lead off for ball?

985
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 2: DELI.

986
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: I'm like, the inning's over the heads up. So I

987
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: literally just went out there on the debt on debt loosened.

988
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 3: Up and I had a one hot rocket to the shortstop.

989
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 2: Though, so hey you put the ball, put the ball

990
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 2: in play. How's Paedroita? How's Pa droit of?

991
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: The best?

992
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 2: Really best?

993
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 3: To me, he was the best, and it didn't really

994
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 3: have it until eleven, twenty eleven. I was lockered next

995
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 3: to him when I became like a regular. So that

996
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 3: was when also when New Balance was first coming into

997
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 3: baseball and he was their poster child.

998
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 1: He was the guy.

999
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 3: They were based in Boston, so like they were in

1000
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 3: our cup house, every home stand bringing him new designs

1001
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 3: and yours. Truly got every design as a rookie except one.

1002
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 1: It was like his custom made style. I had like

1003
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: red and black camo.

1004
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 3: I had gray and red camo for Roade cleats like

1005
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 3: PEEDROI had the baddest cleats ever.

1006
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: And New Balance was really good and comfortable.

1007
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 3: So I was like, I was this rookie with like

1008
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,719
Speaker 3: ten pairs of cleats in my locker, which back then

1009
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 3: was rare, super rare, and you know, usually.

1010
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: Back then it was just the generic ones.

1011
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 3: But he just talked to me every day about hitting

1012
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 3: and just listening to him talking at his concept of

1013
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 3: hitting and how he prepared, watching him prepare.

1014
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,120
Speaker 1: He goes red. When I go out, I want.

1015
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 3: You to follow me and go out. So every time

1016
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:35,400
Speaker 3: when he'd go to the cage, I'd go to the

1017
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,320
Speaker 3: cage with him. When he'd go out for BP, I

1018
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 3: go out with Like when he walk out, I go

1019
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 3: out for the game, and if you know, PDP would

1020
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 3: be out of the dugout like six thirty for a

1021
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 3: seven to ten game, and so I made sure I

1022
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 3: was on his ass every time, every time he was

1023
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 3: doing something, I was trying to learn from him because

1024
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 3: he was just I think he just kind of wanted

1025
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 3: to teach somebody and it showed his work ethics. So

1026
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 3: that's why I usually became one of the first ones

1027
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 3: to come out in the dugout pretty much most of

1028
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 3: my career. If you remember, I'd always be the first

1029
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 3: one out in Houston. I was always one of the

1030
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 3: first ones out in Oakland. So it was just about

1031
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 3: being out there and being early and being prep so

1032
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 3: and he gave me the best advice and it was

1033
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,919
Speaker 3: so simple, like red when in the off season, don't

1034
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 3: even worry about your chest, like do your core work.

1035
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 3: He said, you work on those legs because you're gonna

1036
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,840
Speaker 3: play one hundred and sixty two of these things and

1037
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 3: that's all that matters. So I learned a lot from

1038
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 3: him and a lot from actually David, Like Ortiz was

1039
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 3: always like, if you're not coming out of batting practice

1040
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 3: and your back legs not hurting, you didn't do it right.

1041
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: So there's just some you know, there were legends.

1042
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 6: In that clubhouse, man.

1043
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about a veteran clubhouse. I was

1044
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: this twenty four year old kid, you know.

1045
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 3: I think the next oldest guy was Elsbury at like

1046
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 3: twenty eight, twenty nine, and you know.

1047
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: Gosh, go around our infield.

1048
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 3: We had Adrian Gonzalez was there, Pedroia, Marco Scuterro, Eucolist, Lowell,

1049
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 3: veritec Salt, Lamachia, Crawford, Elsbury, JD.

1050
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: Drew, look at you.

1051
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 3: Rotation was Beckett, Lester, Bucklets, Wakefield, Lackey.

1052
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 4: That's that's some old guys.

1053
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: Paple Bond was the closer.

1054
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 3: Bard was the setup guy, like we had Franklin Morales.

1055
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:18,280
Speaker 4: It's honestly not It's not unlike Josh what cam Smith

1056
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 4: is in right, like twenty two year old like coming

1057
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 4: into a very veteran clubhouse and it's just like, hey,

1058
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 4: you're here, you know, do your best. So I mean,

1059
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 4: I I think that is a similar setup. And I

1060
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 4: would imagine if you could design a setup for a

1061
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 4: rookie to come in like that's that's what you would want.

1062
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 4: It's like, hey, come up, do your best, but the

1063
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 4: rest of the team's got you. I also just appreciate

1064
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 4: that you are like the Lieutenant Dan of of cleats.

1065
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 4: You're you're just you're very concerned about how how comfortable

1066
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 4: the cleats are, where you're getting the cleats. You're you're

1067
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 4: Lieutenant Dan telling everybody to change their socks. But it's

1068
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 4: just make sure you get pedroious cleats you got.

1069
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: He just along he goes read cleats. I were like, Yeah,

1070
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 1: who's gonna say no to these these cool looking cleats? Man?

1071
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 3: Like, you know, this is this is twenty eleven, this

1072
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 3: is you know, fourteen years ago before like custom cleats

1073
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 3: were a thing in baseball, So like this was so

1074
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 3: awesome to be a part of.

1075
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 1: Is you know over twenty four year old rookie, Like

1076
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: come on, and.

1077
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 2: Do you know how good Kevin UCLAs was.

1078
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 4: Oh he's so good?

1079
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, two thousand and eight to twenty ten, Like he

1080
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,879
Speaker 2: was incredible, Like doesn't get talked about enough, like how

1081
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 2: good he was.

1082
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 1: And.

1083
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's try that one batting practice.

1084
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: He was very good. Everybody's tried that. Everybody's done that.

1085
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 3: Everybody's done the Craig Council, everybody's done all that.

1086
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,720
Speaker 4: Garry Sheffield the one you gotta try.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I've ever felt older than I

1088
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 2: forget who it was in spring training. It was it

1089
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 2: was an NRI in spring training, I can't remember, but

1090
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 2: I watched him take a little bit of BP and

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00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 2: he held he didn't have the Council stance, but like

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00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:04,839
Speaker 2: he held the bat. He wagged a little bit, and

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00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 2: so like in spring training, you're always looking for just

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00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 2: like reasons to go, like talk to these NRIs that

1095
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 2: are like sitting there looking like they're scared of their shadow,

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00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 2: like they're they're in the big league clubhouse, like not

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00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 2: one to interfere with anyone. So like I can't remember who,

1098
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 2: but I went up to him. I was like, hey, man,

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00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 2: like I saw you taking some VP, like you got

1100
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 2: a little Craig Council in your in your batting stance.

1101
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 2: And he goes, oh, like the manager of the club.

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00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,240
Speaker 1: I was like yeah, yeah.

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00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 2: He was like, oh, Like what do you mean by

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00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 2: his stance?

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00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: I was like he played.

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00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:36,839
Speaker 2: He's like, oh no, no, no, He's like, oh no, no,

1107
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 2: I know he played, Like don't I've never seen his bat.

1108
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 2: I was like, you've never seen his bat. I have

1109
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 2: never felt so old. I never felt so old in

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Speaker 2: my life.

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Speaker 1: That's not on you, that's on that kid.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Again, Like YouTube gives me like unique batting stance clips

1114
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 4: all the time. I get those. I get Hideo Nomo

1115
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 4: pitching one of Dontrell Willis. I tried that in the

1116
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 4: backfield a million times.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're on social media and you followed

1118
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: plenty of.

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Speaker 3: Baseball accounts and those where like, yeah, you see, like

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Speaker 3: I'm at my kid's birth name She's birthday party like

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Speaker 3: eight beers deep and it's just highlights of like guy

1122
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 3: by Barry Bonds hitting kids.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great party where, Yeah.

1124
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 3: That's where you're gonna be come on, Like it was

1125
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,720
Speaker 3: always gonna be a Greig Council meme or a video somewhere.

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00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 4: Speaking of Josh, we went to a birthday party a

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00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago and Olivia was one of the

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Speaker 4: youngest ones there and is also very small. But there

1129
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 4: was a pinata and that girl was ripping the She

1130
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 4: was the one knocking stuff off. All the parents around

1131
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 4: us were like, look at that swing. Like I was like, Okay,

1132
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Speaker 4: we're doing something right over here.

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Speaker 1: So that just goes to that she's watching a lot

1134
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Speaker 1: of astros.

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Speaker 4: Basically, Oh, she's watching plenty. Despite her best efforts. She

1136
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Speaker 4: she has to watch some baseball with me.

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1157
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1158
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1159
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1160
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