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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 Chandler Room, joined by Tyler Stafford from Oklahoma, Josh

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Speaker 1: Reddick from an undisclosed location in a suburb of Houston,

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Speaker 1: and I am back in West Palm Beach, Florida, where

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Speaker 1: I will rejoin Astros spring training tomorrow. We're recording this

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night, so I'll be in camp on Wednesday morning,

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Speaker 1: back with the team until until opening day. Until they

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Speaker 1: break camp. I'll be in him for the rest of

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Speaker 1: spring training. But Josh, you and I were in the

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Speaker 1: same building last night. We deserted. Tyler, we went to

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Speaker 1: dyke In Park. You got to you got to wear

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Speaker 1: a very festive shirt. You wore that same hat that

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Speaker 1: you're wearing right now for obvious reasons. You got to

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Speaker 1: call playball before Team USA beat Mexico five to three.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's just start with the give us, give us

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Speaker 2: your best one. Let's start the off right.

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Speaker 3: That place was nuts.

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Speaker 4: I mean when I didn't like, how cool was it

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Speaker 4: when the top gun theme hit like that was.

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Speaker 3: So like my I got goosebumps as soon as it

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Speaker 4: And then skins just comes up and I'm just sitting

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Speaker 4: there with the microphone for like two minutes, just like

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Speaker 4: fired up.

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Speaker 3: So I'm just ready to go.

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Speaker 4: Like I look at my watch, I'm at like one

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Speaker 4: hundred and fifty two, you know, heart rate. I'm fired off,

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Speaker 4: fired up, like get just injected straight into my veins

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Speaker 4: and like top of my lungs.

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Speaker 3: America, let's play ball. Fired up. Boys did a great job.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it was an electric ball game, had everything.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Paul Skins was, I mean everything he's advertised

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Speaker 4: to be.

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Speaker 1: And then some.

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Speaker 4: Bobby went Junior may be the best defensive shortstop I've

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Speaker 4: seen in twenty.

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Speaker 3: Years, if not more.

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Speaker 4: I mean the two plays he made, one from his

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Speaker 4: knees and he barely got the ball off, and then

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Speaker 4: the next one he popped up and threw the guy

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Speaker 4: out with a ninety nine mile an hour rocket across

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Speaker 3: It was just madness.

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Speaker 4: And then you get like, you know what was the

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Speaker 4: Jared dar rayan ball cut off at home to like

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Speaker 4: kill the momentum for them, and idiot runs on Aaron

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Speaker 4: Judge for some reason or another, Like I was sweet

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Speaker 4: with my buddy, and I'm like, no, if he's running,

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Speaker 4: he's out. He's out, sure enough, three amount, Bam, two run.

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Speaker 4: Jimmy Jack came.

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Speaker 2: Over like, yeah, it was. It was awesome. I was

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Speaker 2: watching on TV up here in Oklahoma, and uh, it

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Speaker 2: looked insane. I mean, I was obviously texting you guys,

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Speaker 2: but I had some other friends at the game too,

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Speaker 2: and they everybody that I talked to was like, this

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Speaker 2: is like easily World Series atmosphere and honestly, probably louder

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Speaker 2: it seemed incredible.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 4: It was just as loud as not louder after Bregman's

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Speaker 4: walk off in Game five of twenty seventeen, like it was.

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Speaker 4: It was that loud when Judge hit his in them

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Speaker 4: when Roman Anthony hit his it was, which was wild

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Speaker 4: because it was mostly Mexico fans in the ballpark last night.

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Speaker 1: Like I'll raise you one, Josh. When when Roman Anthony

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Speaker 1: got thrown out at home, when they did the Duran

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Speaker 1: to whoever the second basement was for the rally to

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Speaker 1: throw Roman Anthony out at home that was still a

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Speaker 1: scoreless game, like that place came un.

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Speaker 3: Glued, it sure did.

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Speaker 4: It was just a sea of green stood up, you know,

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Speaker 4: and it was crazy.

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Speaker 3: How you like, if you've ever been to any kind

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Speaker 4: And I was telling my buddies, like, you realize it

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Speaker 4: from the get go, like all of the Mexico's fans

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Speaker 4: singing their anthem as loud as they can. America comes on,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's silent, everybody's doing their thing, and then

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Speaker 3: And then when.

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Speaker 4: Mexico's hitting, and you know, it's like it's winter ball,

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Speaker 4: it's horns, it's everything going on, and then America's hitting

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Speaker 4: and it's just like crickets and then boom, all of

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Speaker 1: Josh, you hit was nuts too, Yes, the one against

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Speaker 1: the one against Britain. Yeah, that was That was Jordan.

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Speaker 1: That was Jordan's esque. Josh, You've look, I've covered I've

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Speaker 1: covered one game seven of a World Series in that building.

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Speaker 1: I've covered game seven of an ALCS in that building.

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Speaker 1: I'm not one for hyperbole, and I can't I'm not

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Speaker 1: great at comparisons, but that environment last night was was

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Speaker 1: better than about eighty percent of the playoff games I've

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Speaker 3: Was that's a fair assessment.

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Speaker 1: I mean you've played. I mean, Josh, you've played. You've

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Speaker 1: played more games in there than probably Tyler and I

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Speaker 1: have been to in there, like it is. It's you've

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Speaker 1: got the you've got the perspective here, like back me

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Speaker 1: it was it was seventy thirty, seventy five, twenty five

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Speaker 1: when even when they went even when the US went

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Speaker 1: up five to nothing, like it still was lit. They

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Speaker 1: were still hanging on every pitch.

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Speaker 4: When Duran hit the two run pump or the solo pump,

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Speaker 4: was that he had a two run shot or solo

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Speaker 3: The first one he hit, like it was like a

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Speaker 4: Been awakened, like these these this these fans that were

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Speaker 3: As my man hit this ball, it was.

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Speaker 4: Literally like everybody, man, he go, man go, Like it

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Speaker 3: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Like it was.

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Speaker 4: It was nuts, Like it was like my adrenaline was

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Speaker 4: a lucky perspective of hearing everything from that. But like

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Speaker 4: I'm with you, like Game five to the seventeen walk off,

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Speaker 4: like was probably the best comparison I could give you,

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Speaker 4: and it was probably right there, if not more. You know,

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Speaker 4: like I said, like I've I've been in all those games,

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Speaker 4: and it doesn't that one didn't even compare.

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Speaker 3: And I wasn't even playing, And I don't think I've

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Speaker 1: Life.

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Speaker 2: It rules, man, I'm I'm so. I mean, we talked

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Speaker 2: about it. Look, people who don't care about the WBC,

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Speaker 2: I understand this is an Astros podcast whatever, But we

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Speaker 2: It's so fun to see the country represented, to see

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Speaker 4: What you're here in Houston, like it's in your city,

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Speaker 4: Like get out there experience, like go to the game

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Speaker 4: and experience what these guys are doing. Like this is

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Speaker 4: this is different. You know, this is you know, this

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Speaker 4: like experience because there's nothing like going to that ballparker

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Speaker 4: you can wear your Astros gear us all one, hundreds

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Speaker 3: That ballpark last night.

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Speaker 4: Go on, show these boys some love, because like, even

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Speaker 4: if you're not into it, as soon as you sit down,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh being on you, I mean I was on

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Speaker 1: the day. But what was it like to just see

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Speaker 4: To see in person, it is, and from what I've

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Speaker 4: Like even if you don't know Aaron Judge and baseball,

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Speaker 4: and it was like looking like just a lab and

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Speaker 4: That's what it felt like watching every person walk out

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Speaker 3: It was madness. And then watching Group one, Group one.

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Speaker 4: That might have been the best four or five rounds

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Speaker 4: of batting practice I have ever had the pleasure to

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Speaker 2: That's a good group.

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Speaker 3: There was one ball that was not hit on the barrel.

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Speaker 4: One in about thirty to thirty five swings per hitter,

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Speaker 4: I was talking to I think it was Sean Casey

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Speaker 4: never seen anything like that. Like what I just saw

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Speaker 4: the most impressive round of batting practice that has ever

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Speaker 4: been on this green Earth.

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Speaker 1: Also, Roman Anthony's a stud. Like I know, we talk

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Speaker 1: about everybody else on that team, Roman Anthony is probably like, dude,

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Speaker 1: maybe the forgotten guy. That guy is a stud.

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Speaker 4: He was hitting balls into the Budweiser bar, like on

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Speaker 4: the air, and like these weren't juice balls, these weren't pearls.

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Speaker 4: These are like yesterday's batting practice.

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Speaker 3: So it's like no doubt.

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Speaker 4: Harper hit one off the blue banner above the hitter's eye,

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Speaker 4: like the very last banner that's hanging on the wall. Tyler,

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Speaker 1: as we look toward the Astros. Josh, you're now back

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Speaker 4: My takeaway is nobody was really hitting it, so that

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Speaker 4: I think they had one win before I showed up.

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Speaker 4: And that's that's surprise.

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Speaker 4: You guys keep and you guys keep paying me. That's

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Speaker 4: As much as I could for for Bell, for JB.

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Speaker 4: Like I got down dirty with like Cam Smith, I

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Speaker 2: You like, you don't need to figure out like you

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Speaker 3: Ball, throw it that way one hundred percent.

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Speaker 4: Train your stuff to be able to spin and throw

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Speaker 1: And I.

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Speaker 3: So I was like, yeah, there's the things add up, man,

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Speaker 3: because you.

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Speaker 4: Know that's that's a six to three ball game. You know,

442
00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,080
Speaker 4: Judge doesn't throw the guy out. That's you know, another run.

443
00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,600
Speaker 4: That just changes all kinds of aspects. And this is

444
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Speaker 4: a chess game. So what I say at the beginning,

445
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Speaker 4: get to the ball, get rid of it, and let

446
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Speaker 4: everybody else handle it.

447
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Speaker 1: Aside from Josh maybe like interviewing him every now and

448
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Speaker 1: then when you're on when you're on the Space City broadcast,

449
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Speaker 1: this is probably the first time you really got to

450
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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time with Cam. And I think

451
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Speaker 1: the one thing that always stands out when when we

452
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Speaker 1: talk about Cam is one of the reasons that the

453
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Speaker 1: Astros felt so comfortable moving him so quickly was the

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Speaker 1: makeup was what's between the ears, was the kind of

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Speaker 1: cerebral nature and his ability to take coaching. I guess

456
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Speaker 1: from spending as much time as you did with him,

457
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Speaker 1: what did you come away from maybe off the field,

458
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Speaker 1: like as a as a player, as someone that accepts coaching,

459
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Speaker 1: and kind of what's going on between his ears.

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Speaker 3: He's just young, I mean kids young, I mean what

461
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Speaker 3: else can you what.

462
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Speaker 4: Else can you say? He just doesn't have the experience yet.

463
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Speaker 4: And as we know, the more reps you get, the

464
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Speaker 4: better you're gonna be. So like he's gonna have to

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Speaker 4: learn to find that way of like I said, step

466
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Speaker 4: taking that step back, not doing so much all the time.

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Speaker 4: We also talked about like what he does away from

468
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Speaker 4: the ballpark. Like I asked him like, hey, do you

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Speaker 4: do you have like an escape? And he's like, what

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Speaker 4: do you mean? I was like, do you have a

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Speaker 4: way to escape baseball when you're gone? Like, when you're

472
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Speaker 4: away from the field, do you find a way to escape?

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Speaker 4: Like He's like no. I'm like, but you gotta find something.

474
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Speaker 4: You gotta find some video games to play. You gotta

475
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Speaker 4: find something. I was like, I can bro I said,

476
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Speaker 4: I had two dogs.

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Speaker 3: Why are you laughing so much?

478
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Speaker 2: I'm waiting for you to tell him where his escape

479
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Speaker 2: can be. I've been preaching it.

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Speaker 3: Josh, ho to Houston Zoo, go to the hot do

481
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Speaker 3: something with Tyler. We'll meet you there.

482
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Speaker 4: We got I got securities number camp, we got private

483
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Speaker 4: security to escorts you round.

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Speaker 1: There.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna look at some penguins. They're right in the

486
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Speaker 4: gate they're the best animal on the planet. But he's

487
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Speaker 4: got I said, you gotta find brother. I had two

488
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Speaker 4: dogs my whole career, I said. I was just I mean,

489
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Speaker 4: I was single. I lived by myself.

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Speaker 3: I said.

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Speaker 4: When I came home and I saw two wagon tails

492
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Speaker 4: at the door, like baseball went out the window. You

493
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Speaker 4: have to have that escape. This is, you know, one

494
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Speaker 4: hundred and eighty eighty plus game season, if you include

495
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Speaker 4: spring training and then more for playoffs.

496
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Speaker 3: Like, it's just so much to take in. You can't

497
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Speaker 3: take your work home with you.

498
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Speaker 4: You got to have a way to get out of

499
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Speaker 4: the game of baseball and just go into your own realm.

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Speaker 4: That's my video games are so great because everything shuts

501
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Speaker 4: off and you just go into whatever it may be.

502
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Speaker 3: You're playing, pick go, playing, just something, find something, my man.

503
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Speaker 2: I've got the new Pokemon. I got leaf Green Cam.

504
00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 2: So if you want to get fire Red, we can fee.

505
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 2: We can trade back and forth. I did just beat Giovanni.

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Speaker 3: Who's your starter? Have we asked too? The who's your starter?

507
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Speaker 2: You know, normally I go Charmander, but this time around,

508
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Speaker 2: I went Squirrel. I was just feeling it.

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Speaker 1: Chandler thoughts, I hate you guys, I'm gonna go Charmander

510
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent a game of playing that.

511
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Speaker 2: Because he learned steel Claw and he can just get

512
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Speaker 2: through Brox so quick.

513
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't give him the steal. If I

514
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Speaker 4: go the old school way, I train up the other Pokemon.

515
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Speaker 4: Let him get his XP.

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Speaker 3: In the two hole.

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Speaker 2: Sure, smart, did we move on? Okay?

518
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Speaker 3: Back to baseball? What you got, Chandler?

519
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, these YouTube comments are gonna be fun

520
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 1: while you're there. Click like on the video, click like

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Speaker 1: on the video. That helps spread.

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Speaker 3: The game, Chandler, we're spreading the game.

523
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Speaker 2: We are all kinds of games.

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Speaker 1: Like like the video. Subscribe to the channel. It helps. Josh,

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Speaker 1: you're left handed hitting outfielder Zach Cole.

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Speaker 3: They won't sign me playing, They won't let me play.

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Speaker 1: They won't, they won't. They need they need someone about

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Speaker 1: your age to be a left handed hitting outfielder out there,

529
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Speaker 1: as you have just detailed to us. But you're left

530
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Speaker 1: handed hitting outfielder. Zach Cole's a left handed hitting outfielder.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of a would you think of

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Speaker 1: your impressions of him? A guy that's judging by the

533
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Speaker 1: box scores and judging by the numbers that I've looked at.

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Speaker 1: He's hitting the ball hard. He's hitting the ball very

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Speaker 1: hard in camp. Maybe it's going two people, maybe it's

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Speaker 1: on the ground, but he he he can hit it hard.

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Speaker 1: The exit velos are there, it's going to be getting

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Speaker 1: in on a line. And his pitch selection, Yeah, he

539
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Speaker 1: hits the ball very hard.

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Speaker 4: When he barrows that thing, it goes really hard. Got

541
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Speaker 4: to cut down those swings and misses.

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Speaker 3: Especially.

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Speaker 4: It seems like Joe likes him in the middle of

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Speaker 4: the lineup. I mean, I think every time he played

545
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Speaker 4: he was like.

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Speaker 5: Hitting he was hitting fourth. Oh yeah, I mean not

547
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Speaker 5: when Christian Walker was hitting fifth. So I mean, like,

548
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Speaker 5: where do you read into these things? Like at what

549
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 5: point do you start reading into it? Taylor, Like, I

550
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Speaker 5: don't know, spring training lineups don't matter.

551
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Speaker 4: And if they didn't matter, you want to get Christian

552
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Speaker 4: Walker in the front for more bats.

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Speaker 3: This is the guy who's a season VET. Get him

554
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Speaker 3: in there and get him out of the game. I'm

555
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Speaker 3: just saying, I mean, who are you going to I mean,

556
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Speaker 3: who you're gonna hit? I mean whatever might as well.

557
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Speaker 4: But he seemed like he did pretty good pitch selection

558
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Speaker 4: for me. It's it's the high one that gets him

559
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Speaker 4: the high fastball. And we talked about that too, because

560
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Speaker 4: he did one where I told these guys, I said, look,

561
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Speaker 4: pictures are stupid, bottom line, Like, pictures are the hitters

562
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Speaker 4: are dumb. Let's not let's not take away from h

563
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 4: we're dumb. We're just pictures are stupid sometimes. And that

564
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,880
Speaker 4: was a perfect example where he got like O two

565
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Speaker 4: on like ninety six up swung through him. Picture throws

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Speaker 4: like a back door cutter for some reason, and he

567
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Speaker 4: hits a rocket for like a double one to the

568
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Speaker 4: right center gap for an RBI with two outs, and

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Speaker 4: I'm like, come to the dugout and I go, hey,

570
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Speaker 4: pictures are stupid, aren't they?

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Speaker 3: And he goes, yeah, they are. I was like, that's

572
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Speaker 3: all it takes. Like that's all it takes.

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Speaker 4: Like if if you find ways just to like eliminate

574
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Speaker 4: that one or just like foul that pictures.

575
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Speaker 3: Just told him, like foul pitches off.

576
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Speaker 4: Man, Like, if you have to foul pictures off, they're

577
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Speaker 4: eventually going to leave some of the plate and you're

578
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Speaker 4: gonna act the living heck out of it.

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Speaker 3: So like pick your spots, pick your pictures. Do what

580
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Speaker 3: you have to do.

581
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Speaker 4: But like, go up there with a plan, stick to

582
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Speaker 4: that plan, don't don't run away from that. And then

583
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Speaker 4: that way, you know, this game is already so much

584
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 4: seventy percent plus failure. Like even on our best days,

585
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Speaker 4: we're going to fail. Like that's just the bottom line

586
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Speaker 4: of it. Like, go up there with that plan, stick

587
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Speaker 4: to it that way, you know, like, hey, I went

588
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Speaker 4: down with my plan. I stuck to it and it

589
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Speaker 4: just didn't work out. Next time go up there. If

590
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Speaker 4: you got to change it, you change. If not, you

591
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Speaker 4: stick with it until it works out. Like you could

592
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Speaker 4: go up there with a plan three times, do everything

593
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Speaker 4: right and be O for three with you know, a

594
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Speaker 4: double play and a strikeout, like it's just how it

595
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Speaker 4: works in baseball.

596
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Speaker 3: But have that plan. Don't just go up there swinging.

597
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Speaker 4: But like again, he's young, he doesn't have the experience,

598
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Speaker 4: and you know he'll get there.

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Speaker 3: We're all. You know, he's a swinger. He's not really

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Speaker 3: a hitter yet.

601
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Speaker 4: He's more of just that young swinger that can still

602
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Speaker 4: hit everything in his mind.

603
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Speaker 3: And speaking from experience, I was that kid.

604
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Speaker 4: Victor Rodriguez, the hitting coach for the Houston Astros, can

605
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Speaker 4: tell you I was the exact same kid. We had

606
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Speaker 4: that conversation with multiple hitters down there about who I

607
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 4: was as a hitter when I was young. But it

608
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Speaker 4: took just taking pitches to get me to better counts.

609
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 4: And if that's what you have to do, that's what

610
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 4: you have to do. Like if you feel like you

611
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 4: have to take the other strike, good if you take

612
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 4: the first pitch every at bat. That was my plan,

613
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Speaker 4: I told these guys in fifteen. I think I swung

614
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 4: at like twenty five first pitches in my total year,

615
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Speaker 4: just because I wanted to take more pitches, and I

616
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 4: ended up being like the top ten in the league

617
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 4: and pitches seen per played appearance just from taking the

618
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 4: first pitch every time. So like little things add up

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Speaker 4: and that just goes back, Like pitchers are stupid. They'll

620
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Speaker 4: try to do this little flip me over curveball that

621
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Speaker 4: goes nowhere, and then they go fast up and away,

622
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Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, you're sitting sexy with a

623
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Speaker 4: two zero fastball count.

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Speaker 1: The one thing about the one thing about the whole

625
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Speaker 1: outfield group that I always find just this is kind

626
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: of a quirky thing, but something that I find just

627
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Speaker 1: fascinating about them. They're all kind of the same personality.

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Speaker 1: They're all very nice. They're very nice young men. That's

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Speaker 1: what they are, like very polite. Two of them say

630
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Speaker 1: sir a lot, like say yes sir, no, sir, and

631
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Speaker 1: they're like it's it's kind of weird, but not weird.

632
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: It's just like that's who they are.

633
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Speaker 3: They all said.

634
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Speaker 4: They all said yes sir, except your on every one

635
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Speaker 4: of them like guys, no.

636
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Speaker 1: No, you told you told Jordan, yes, sir?

637
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, pretty much.

638
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it was great. Like he came out, I

639
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 4: think and then the six six or ninety seven workouts,

640
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 4: six workouts in the six days, I think I saw

641
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 4: have an.

642
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Speaker 3: Outfield group work twice.

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Speaker 2: Good.

644
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely, and we're doing like he did the

645
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 4: same drill every day, and like it was funny because

646
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 4: all the coaches know, like if like you're you're you're basically.

647
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 3: Trying to hit it right at him. Don't make him move.

648
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 3: He's out here. Let's just let him get some face

649
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 3: time getting back to the bed.

650
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Speaker 2: But to the cages, well, I told you your main

651
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 2: job was to make sure that he did not pull

652
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 2: a handy in your outfield drills. So I'm proud of you.

653
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Speaker 3: The crazy thing is about all how funny this all is?

654
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Speaker 3: Like You're done.

655
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 4: Is a pretty dang good outfielder. Yeah, like legit good outfielder.

656
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 4: Chandler's he is better than a lot of people I've

657
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Speaker 4: seen out there.

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Speaker 1: He's a a tick below average, but that's more. That's

659
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: like him. I give him like, I get him like.

660
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:17,959
Speaker 3: I get him below average.

661
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 2: Okay, that's like speed, that's a speed issue. That's I mean,

662
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: he's like good at the fundamentals of being.

663
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 4: His routes are his routes are efficient, he gets good reactions,

664
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 4: and he's got a pretty good arm.

665
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 3: But he's not I mean, he's not fast.

666
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: But like he's a better athlete than he's given credit for.

667
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 3: He's not awful.

668
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 4: He's not like a defensive liability out there that they

669
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 4: make him out to be.

670
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: No, but I also don't think he's the guy that

671
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: you want out there eighty to one hundred times.

672
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely not, absolutely not. I'm thinking like fifty, Like

673
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 4: get him on his legs. He's a better like even

674
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 4: he'll say it.

675
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 3: He's a better player and he plays like his body

676
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 3: feels and I.

677
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 4: Can attest to that, like your body feels much better

678
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 4: when you're actively moving as opposed to just d H

679
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 4: all the time. Like he's not Billy Butler. He's not

680
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 4: Country breakfast, and I love that's that's that's that's I mean,

681
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 4: that's not a bashed in my boy Billy.

682
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 3: I love Billy Butler.

683
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 4: But it's just two different you know, it's just two

684
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 4: different body types that you know, Billy just didn't do

685
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 4: as much cardio as the next guy.

686
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 2: I think there's an easy comp too, of like David

687
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 2: Ortiz and he is significantly.

688
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 3: More oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and that guy didn't do

689
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:26,479
Speaker 3: any cardio.

690
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 2: But even like young David or you know, like at

691
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 2: the same age as that, like jord On is way

692
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 2: more athletic, but they hit so similarly that I think

693
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 2: that's an easy comp And so you just think like, oh,

694
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 2: don't put him out there, but no, he's he can

695
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 2: hold his own. But I again, get him out there,

696
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 2: let him run around a little bit.

697
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 3: It's gotta be managed the right way.

698
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 4: I mean, you gotta you get you get you know,

699
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 4: eighty one at home, like he could play in like

700
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,479
Speaker 4: forty of those never a day game, always a night capper.

701
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 3: Like give him a lot of night games.

702
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 4: There you go to Boston, give you one or two

703
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 4: days out there, just they could fill it around enough

704
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 4: with with ballparks. Obviously, we're not putting even left in

705
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 4: Anaheim or Detroit, like you can manage that pretty well.

706
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 4: We're Sacramento or definitely not Sacramento.

707
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 3: Gosh no, not.

708
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: Not not Globe life because they can't play on the

709
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: turf affects them all. And that's a real thing too,

710
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: like Michael, like when Mike, when Mike was on the team,

711
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: like they would they would not play brandtly in the

712
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: outfield and Globe life because the turf would met them

713
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: so bad, especially as you get older.

714
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 4: But yeah, like, yeah, I mean nobody plays every game

715
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 4: and turf anymore.

716
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: Josh, you said fifty times for album, Like his career

717
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: high games played in left field is fifty six?

718
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 3: Stupable?

719
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 2: Great?

720
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: Do that? I now everything that I have been told,

721
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: everything that has been communicated publicly and you know privately,

722
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: is that that number will not be threatened this year.

723
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think he's out there sixty

724
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: times this year. I don't think he's out there fifty times.

725
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: I if Joe Spotta will never put a number on

726
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: it if you made me guess, I'd say the target

727
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: would be thirty to thirty to thirty five, and thirty

728
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: five's on the high side. I'd say like high twenties

729
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: to mid thirties.

730
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 2: That's about unless all these young guns are hitting one

731
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 2: fifty in May and then he'll he'll be out there

732
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 2: right whatever. Yeah, and they do have I mean they

733
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 2: have young guns.

734
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: But I mean, Josh, you watched him a little bit, like,

735
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: and he's having one of the better springs of anybody

736
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: in nashers camps. Taylor Tremmell's had a nice spring, my goodness.

737
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: And I mean he was a first round pick. Like,

738
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: it's not as if this is a guy that they

739
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: found on the scrapy. Like he's tooled, like he's got

740
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: the tools. It's just you kind of kind of put

741
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: it together. And I mean, they can do worse in

742
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: a pinch. If these kids don't pan out, then having

743
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: Taylor tremmel he's he's probably about a league average player.

744
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: He's probably a zero win player. But you know what

745
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: that's better than running these kids out there and messing

746
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: their minds up.

747
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, this this guy has got it. He

748
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 3: knows what it takes.

749
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 4: Too, like and he's he's he's got that edge too,

750
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 4: Like I love talking with Tram down there, Like he's

751
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 4: got that little salt edge to him, like road Spence

752
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 4: a good bit the whole time I was there. So

753
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 4: it's good that, like they have that guy who's got

754
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 4: you know, a little fire under him, so they like

755
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 4: keep these guys honest. And you know what he said,

756
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 4: what was his line? He told me, he's like, you

757
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 4: got to be held accountable. And he's like, red, and

758
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 4: you make me accountable and then these kids can't do

759
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 4: anything right, then it makes me accountable. So it's like

760
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 4: he's got a good feel for it. He's good for everybody,

761
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 4: and he's looking he seems to be good for that

762
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 4: dug out in that clubhouse. So but yeah, I mean

763
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 4: this guy has been swinging the bat, whether he starts,

764
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 4: whether he gets in there in the seventh or eight thinning,

765
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 4: he just seems like he's hitting rocket after rocket. I

766
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 4: saw him line out in the first base like three

767
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 4: games in a row, three at bats in a row,

768
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 4: like hard line outs, and they went higher as they went.

769
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 3: It was like knees the chest and the guy like

770
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 3: jumped and robbed him. It was it was. It was

771
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 3: pretty good.

772
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 4: But yeah, this guy can can definitely be He may

773
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 4: not be a full time solution, but he can definitely

774
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 4: be a temporary solution for when you need him in

775
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 4: a pinch.

776
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:18,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyler, what do you think of the Terek schoolbl

777
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: saga switching gears completely? As we get back to the WBC,

778
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: would you think of the as I'm curious as like, obviously,

779
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 1: like I'm attached to it because like I interviewed him

780
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: like both nights, like it was one of those like

781
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: I was in the middle of the story, Josh, you

782
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: were like this exactly. Josh, You're obviously like you've got

783
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: strong thoughts as a former player. But Tyler, I'm curious, like,

784
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: from a neutral observer's perspective, what did you think of

785
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: just the entire saga, the Terrek Schooble saga.

786
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 2: I think the most telling thing was the quote that

787
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,919
Speaker 2: he said yesterday or today whenever, you know, he kind

788
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 2: of made his decision, and that was he thought this

789
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 2: was going to feel like an All Star game. This

790
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 2: is going to feel like an exhibition game because you know,

791
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,879
Speaker 2: players obviously like you want to go to the All

792
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 2: Star Game or whatever. But he've been around a while.

793
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 2: If you're a guy of Terrek Schoogle's, you know quality,

794
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 2: it's not like you're circling the All Star Game every year.

795
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 2: It's like I can't wait to go to this, you know,

796
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 2: I'm You're trying to just get ready for the season.

797
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 2: That's all you care about it. I mean we've seen

798
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: it with like you know, older at like Altuveay, you know,

799
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 2: he'll he'll get selected, but then won't go because he

800
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 2: doesn't want to, you know, it's not worth his time,

801
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 2: and so he you know, made it seem like that's

802
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 2: what I was expecting it to feel like. And then

803
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 2: it was very clear that the second he took the mound,

804
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: he was like, oh no, this is not at all.

805
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 3: I can't buy that. I can't buy that.

806
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 4: I can because this is a co many guys in

807
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 4: that clubhouse have played in one, like they were like

808
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 4: how many guys were just the last one? Like yeah,

809
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 4: but I had the I mean, I know you don't

810
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 4: feel that, but like all the guys that have been

811
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 4: there be like, bro, it's not even closely All Star Game,

812
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 4: Like yeah.

813
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 2: But until you until you're out there in front of

814
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 2: the fans, until you get too until you wear a

815
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 2: uniform this is USA on it and you've got it on, like,

816
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 2: I get it, because the WBC has been fun for

817
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 2: me and it's been like I've been enjoying it the

818
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 2: past few times. But let's not pretend like it has

819
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 2: been the focal point of the baseball world until and

820
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 2: really until the finals four years ago and in the

821
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 2: USA and then and then it suddenly was like, oh

822
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 2: this matters to be like this, this means something. But

823
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 2: terror School wasn't around for that, and he has exploded

824
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 2: in those years between, so you know, it wasn't like

825
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 2: he was a superstar then and everybody was telling him,

826
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 2: like you got to be a part like he's become

827
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 2: the superstar in the in the kind of interim between that,

828
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 2: and so I get it. I mean, it's it seems

829
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 2: like he obviously wanted to stick around and it just

830
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 2: didn't work out with the timing for him starting opening

831
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 2: day the Tigers, And I get to you, if the

832
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 2: Tigers were going to be bad this year, he would

833
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 2: have found a way to stick around. But they've invested

834
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 2: so much and they're playing you know that they've got

835
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: World Series aspirations more. I mean I would imagine that

836
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 2: their favorites in the a L right now, just because there's.

837
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 4: It's a contract year too, right, he's this contract. Everything

838
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 4: that's the big picture too is.

839
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: Something right like yeah, even last year he would like

840
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 1: every everything's equal, but this is last year and he's

841
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: a year away from free agency. Yeah, yeah, it's totally different.

842
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: And yeah, but what.

843
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,439
Speaker 2: I hope this does is that is a big enough

844
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 2: star that now for the next round, the next WBC.

845
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 2: If you if you get invited to this team, you're in.

846
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 2: You are all in and you care deeply about because

847
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 2: they're going to have enough people now for the next

848
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 2: round where it's like everybody wants to be a part

849
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 2: of this. And when you see a raining cion, you

850
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 2: know back to back winner say, I wish that I

851
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 2: could have stayed out there for this event that means

852
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 2: something to people. So I mean, I think overall and

853
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 2: ended up being a good thing. I mean, I wish

854
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 2: I could keep watching him pitch because he freaking rules

855
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 2: and I love watching Derek school pitch. He's so good.

856
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 2: But I don't know, I mean, I don't I don't

857
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 2: think of it as like a moral quandary or any

858
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's not like he did anything wrong

859
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,399
Speaker 2: by doing that. He just was like, oh, I'll pitch

860
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 2: in this event for you guys, sure or whatever. He

861
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,439
Speaker 2: didn't know that it was going to mean as much

862
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 2: to him as it did until he got out there.

863
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: Trek schoobl said yesterday on Let's Today, Taysus he said

864
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: on Monday, the day that he left, the day of

865
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: Mexico game, he said something that I think a lot

866
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: of fans don't appreciate, and I think it goes into

867
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: what you just said, Tyler. He said, his spring training

868
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: schedule has been planned since January. Yeah, he sat down

869
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: with the Tigers in January and was like, all right,

870
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 1: I'm pitching this day, this day, this day, and it's

871
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: getting me to opening Day. And in January he had

872
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: committed to the WBC. He committed to pitch, but in

873
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: consultation with a lot of people, said I'm making one start,

874
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: so they or they constructed the schedule that way. So

875
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: this schedule has been constructed since January. But you know,

876
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 1: what that goes to show is that he's being honest

877
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: and that he just thought this was gonna be a

878
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,240
Speaker 1: one off exhibition like go out throw a glorified bullpen

879
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: or like throw your two innings at no intensity and

880
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: leave the game. Because because of the fact that he

881
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: just he stated up front, yeah, I'm only gonna make

882
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: one start, like I'll do it, but I'm just gonna

883
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 1: make one start like now. I mean, he even said,

884
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: he said, I'm signing up for the twenty eight Olympics.

885
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: He said if they'll have me, I think they will.

886
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: And he said he's gonna pitch in the next WBC,

887
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: and I guarantee you the next WBC he's going to

888
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: say I'm here for the duration, like just like Paul

889
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 1: Steins is doing right now.

890
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 2: This is what we talked about too, with like the

891
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 2: upcoming CBA and stuff and all of the insurance stuff.

892
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 2: Like what I think has happened this time around is

893
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 2: that this has clearly meant a lot more to the

894
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:22,280
Speaker 2: players than owners and the front office anticipated it. Meaning

895
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 2: it's grown so much in the last round since the

896
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,879
Speaker 2: last one, and to me, I think it is very

897
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 2: clear that the next round of the WBC is going

898
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 2: to be treated in the same way that the World

899
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 2: Cup is treated for you know, your EPL, Laaligo whatever,

900
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 2: Like teams will bend to like they will rearrange schedules

901
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 2: to let these players go and play in this tournament

902
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 2: because it means something to them. And I mean again,

903
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 2: especially with the CBA negotiation negotiations coming up, I could

904
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 2: certainly see that being a part of the negotiations where

905
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 2: it's like, look, if this guy wants to play for

906
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 2: his country in this tournament, he's going to and you

907
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 2: can't tell him no, like you You're going to let

908
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 2: them do that, which is awesome, Like that would be

909
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 2: so much fun if the WBC had all of the

910
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 2: best I mean they already do. Like the I mean

911
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 2: level around this tournament is crazy, but imagine at four

912
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 2: years from now what the town's going. It's gonna be

913
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 2: so much fun.

914
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 4: And it's already every three hole hitter from their respective

915
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 4: team hitting in this lineup, like christ Terang is like

916
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 4: being the best hitter on this team right now and

917
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 4: he's hitting ninth. Like, yeah, they did intentionally want Aaron

918
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 4: Judge last night to get to college.

919
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 1: What with the Raleigh standing on deck with sixty homers

920
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 1: last year.

921
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 2: It rules. I love it. It's so fun, I.

922
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: Think, and this could be an unpopular opinion, but I

923
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: really do think what A lot of this has to

924
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 1: do with Tyler is that this Team USA team cares, Yeah,

925
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: in a way that in a way that previous Team

926
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: USA teams did not care. And I'm not trying to

927
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: say that they didn't try the one obviously three years ago,

928
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: like they they were getting a little more into it,

929
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: but they hadn't fully maybe leaned into it as much

930
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: as they had. Like this team cares. Like getting all

931
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: of these dudes care.

932
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 2: Getting beat by Shohetani and Team USA and Team Japan

933
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 2: in the finals I think is the best thing that

934
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 2: could have happened for the WBC because I think they

935
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 2: got so close. Then they saw this MLB superstar and

936
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 2: what it meant for him and his country, and everybody went,

937
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 2: I got to have that for my country, And yeah,

938
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 2: you're right, Team USA cares. And that means that MLB

939
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 2: has to care because these are all the biggest stars

940
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 2: in LB and they're gonna have to figure out a

941
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 2: way to make it work. And it's already awesome, so

942
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 2: I can't wait for the next one. Uh.

943
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 4: Every bat these guys take like it's it's intense, Like

944
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 4: I mean, you just watched like at the end of

945
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 4: the game last night like Harper does, like the big

946
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 4: fist pump at base after catching the ball, like you

947
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 4: watched the dugout after like big big out just to

948
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 4: strike out, and they're all just locked in top step.

949
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 3: Like you don't get that at everyday baseball games.

950
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:09,240
Speaker 2: And I are sitting down, I think it's so cool

951
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 2: too that you know, you have a seventeen year old high.

952
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: School kidun like.

953
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,800
Speaker 2: So fun because I mean, look, I love major League baseball.

954
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 2: It's the best of the best all the time. Even

955
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 2: the sixth reliever out of the Rockies bullpen is the

956
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 2: best picture of that town will ever see in their life.

957
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 2: You know where they came from whatever, Like those these

958
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 2: athletes are just unreal, And I think it it's really

959
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 2: cool for baseball to get to see at a high

960
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:46,240
Speaker 2: level what it looks like with like the talent difference,

961
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 2: and what it shows is like these guys are great.

962
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,280
Speaker 2: This seventeen year old got outs against like it's.

963
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 3: The best against the best.

964
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 2: It rules. I I hope that it continues to grow.

965
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 2: I hope the Czech Republic guy gets to come back

966
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 2: out again, the electrician he comes out. I hope they

967
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 2: find plumbers who can play right field. And hit dingers

968
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 2: like it's awesome. I love it so much. I'm glad

969
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 2: that people seem to be enjoying it, because I mean,

970
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 2: I was gonna love it no matter what. So I'm

971
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,280
Speaker 2: glad that it's catching on with people.

972
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: And you still have time to see it too, and

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976
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: There will be a quarterfinal at Dyke and Park. They

977
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: are going to play tomorrow night too. Team USA won't play,

978
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: but it will be Mexico and Italy, and that is

979
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: going to be a consequential game because, as we have

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Speaker 1: been recording this, Italy has scored two more runs to

981
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 1: have a seven to nothing lead on Team USA at

982
00:44:56,360 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: Dike and Park. Again, time for the US to there

983
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: is time for the US to come back, and that

984
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: lineup's incredible. But seven run holes a seven run holes,

985
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: So that'll make if Italy does hold on, that'll make

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00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: tomorrow Tomorrow night's quarterfinal game at Dyke and Park or

987
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 1: tomorrow night's poll finale game at Dyke and Park a

988
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: lot more consequential because it's going to determine who's gonna

989
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: move on to the quarterfinals. Remember, the top two teams

990
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: and each pool move on. And if Italy wins tonight,

991
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: they'll be undefeated going into that game against Mexico, which

992
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: obviously is two and one, the US will be two

993
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Speaker 1: We'll be back at Astro's camp tomorrow. Talk to the

1013
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: people about what I've missed, what's going on, anything you're uh.

1014
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: We got about two weeks of camp left, opening day

1015
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: March twenty six, of sixteen days away from right now.

1016
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 1: Is there one specific thing that you are interested to

1017
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:50,280
Speaker 1: see these next sixteen days to make you a little

1018
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: more crystallize kind of your vision for this season for

1019
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: the ASTROSK.

1020
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 2: I need Christian Javier to find another or two. Yeah,

1021
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 2: I'm getting worried. I'm getting worried about Christian Hobvier. You know,

1022
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 2: there's still time, but come back from a lot of injury.

1023
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 2: He already did not throw very hard, so much of

1024
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 2: his success was on his invisible that was sitting ninety

1025
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,319
Speaker 2: three down the middle. But if it's sitting ninety one,

1026
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 2: it's it's not invisible anymore. And they're they're tattooing it

1027
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 2: right now. So I'm nervous about that. They'll the hitting

1028
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 2: is up and you know you'll figure that out. But

1029
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 2: I mean, that's the one that I'm like circling because

1030
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 2: a lot of the astros rotation is, you know, expecting

1031
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 2: Hobbier to be able to fill that out and if

1032
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:49,399
Speaker 2: he's not, you know, luckily they have fifteen starters, so

1033
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,640
Speaker 2: you know they'll be able to do that. But it's

1034
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 2: a that that's making me nervous for sure.

1035
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:57,720
Speaker 3: I look at the outfield.

1036
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 4: Who's going to hit, who's gonna try, Who's who's gonna

1037
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 4: who's gonna step up?

1038
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 3: Somebody's gotta step up. Two guys got to step up.

1039
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 4: Who's gonna be the guy that steps up and just

1040
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 4: you know, runs away with it like it's open for

1041
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:13,959
Speaker 4: every person out there to just take it and run.

1042
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 3: There's nothing set in stone just yet, but somebody's got

1043
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 3: to do it. So somebody step up, let's se who

1044
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 3: it is.

1045
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is the this is the time because

1046
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,479
Speaker 1: guys are starting to play longer games. Now, you're seeing

1047
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: the starters stay in five to seven innings. Now you're

1048
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: gonna get into where they're gonna be playing complete games

1049
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,399
Speaker 1: probably here in a week. The bats are gonna dry

1050
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: up like they're the guy the regulars have to get

1051
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: there at bats for the season. So these young guys

1052
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: these guys that are buying for spots every at bat

1053
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: now in spring. While the results are not the end

1054
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 1: all be all, they can't go out there and fall

1055
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: in their face because they're they're competing for jobs. And

1056
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: if there's one group that spring training results do matter for,

1057
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: it's this group. So they've got to get that figured out.

1058
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: And that's gonna happen across these next sixteen days. And

1059
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:04,440
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1068
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1070
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Speaker 1: and have a good night.

1071
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Speaker 2: Best of luck to Astro's legend Zach Dezenzo against Team

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Speaker 2: Mexico tomorrow. Bye