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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 Channel Roam, joined by Tyler Stafford and Josh Reddick.

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Speaker 1: After the Astros kept the Silver Boot in Houston for

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Speaker 1: I believe the ninth straight year, I think that's why

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Speaker 1: all the graphics said it its nine consecutive years now

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Speaker 1: that the Astros have won the season series against the

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Speaker 1: Texas Rangers and kept the Silver Boot trophy, which is

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Speaker 1: proudly on display in the Astros team store at dyk

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Speaker 1: In Park. If you're ever going to go buy some merchandise,

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Speaker 1: you can go look at the Silver Boot which the

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Speaker 1: Astros maintained after winning last night's game five to two

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Speaker 1: against the Texas Rangers. And Jacob de Gram and Josh

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Speaker 1: we have talked for months, and especially since you know

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Speaker 1: the trade deadline and the run scoring has gone down,

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Speaker 1: We've talked. Carlos Correa has asked for the Astros to

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Speaker 1: have a collective approach as a lineup. I think last

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Speaker 1: night against Jacob deGrom, the first inning especially, but all

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Speaker 1: five innings he pitched, I thought that was maybe their

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Speaker 1: best offensive game, the best five inning stretch we've seen

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Speaker 1: from this lineup really in the second half of the season.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you could be any more correct on

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Speaker 2: that one.

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Speaker 3: That first inning was so fun to watch, and it

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Speaker 3: took a while to get those two runs, but they

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Speaker 3: pushed it across and just made him work and work

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Speaker 3: and work, and they're really just set the tone for

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Speaker 3: him for the rest of the four innings that he

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Speaker 3: was out there. So that was fantastic to see something

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Speaker 3: we haven't seen, like you mentioned, probably at all on

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Speaker 3: a consistent basis this year. But you know, if this

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Speaker 3: team does turn that around and flip that switch and

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Speaker 3: continue to do this down this stretch.

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Speaker 2: Then shoot, this division is theirs. I mean, Seattle is.

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Speaker 2: They wouldn't even matter what Seattle would do. If they

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Speaker 2: kept doing having at bats like that, then they could

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Speaker 2: easily went out and take it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was interesting to see de gram change his

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Speaker 4: approach too, where he really hadn't thrown a lot of

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Speaker 4: curveballs to Riety's all year, and you know, had to

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Speaker 4: make a lot of adjustments in this game. And you know,

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Speaker 4: I don't know if that's just end of the year

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Speaker 4: or seeing something in the astros, but it it didn't work.

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Speaker 4: But you know, he did deviate from kind of what

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Speaker 4: he had been doing, so that that was interesting to see.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if we'll see more of that going forward,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, you're right, Josh, it was. It's good to see.

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Speaker 4: It was definitely My favorite first inning where two runs

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Speaker 4: scored of the series was last night. I didn't love

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Speaker 4: the first time that it happened.

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 1: It was interesting because Joe Spatta and Carlos Carrea pointed

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Speaker 1: to the first pitch of the game that Jacob de

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Speaker 1: Grom throw. He threw Jeremy Panna a slider, and I

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Speaker 1: think everyone remembers the last time the Ashers faced Jacob

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Speaker 1: de Grom and Arlington de Groham threw a first pitch

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Speaker 1: slider to Payna. He swung and missed. The Ashers swung

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Speaker 1: and missed at sixteen of the twenty eight slide that

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Speaker 1: Jacob de Gram threw in that game. And Joe spot

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Speaker 1: has said when Jeremy Panias spit on that when he

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Speaker 1: didn't swing at that pitch, it set the tone and

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Speaker 1: they weren't going to chase that slider. They didn't chase

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Speaker 5: Really against De Gram.

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Speaker 1: I think they had a twenty seven percent outside zone

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Speaker 1: swing percentage, which I think was thirty seven percent the

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Speaker 1: last time they faced de Gram. And remember this is

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Speaker 1: an Astros lineup that only the Rockies chase outside the

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Speaker 1: strike zone more than the Astros. So this has been

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Speaker 1: a problem for them all season is that they do

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Speaker 1: tend to expand the strike zone.

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Speaker 5: They do tend to you know, you know, leave it, and.

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Speaker 1: That that helps a pitcher out last night. You know,

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Speaker 1: look de Gram is he's nasty, he's e lite. He's

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Speaker 1: going to get some strikeouts. He's going to get you

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Speaker 1: to chase just because the stuff is that good. But

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Speaker 1: I mean Christian Walker struck out last night in the

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Speaker 1: first inning. He still saw seven pitches, still fouled off

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Speaker 1: two or three two strike pitches. You know, they worked

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Speaker 5: Grinding, taxing at bats that they have not been working.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked on here at nauseum about how

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Speaker 1: sport that have seen fewer two to zero and three

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Speaker 1: to zero counts than the Astros. So I mean this

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Speaker 1: is a team that swings early. They if you're around

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Speaker 1: there's a balance there, Josh, Like, you can be aggressive, Like,

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Speaker 1: it's okay if that's your identity to be aggressive, but

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Speaker 1: you've got to pick the right pitches to swing at

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Speaker 1: early in the count. Like, if you're gonna swing at

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Speaker 1: everything early and it's out of the strike zone, that's

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Speaker 1: not what you want. But last night that was as

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Speaker 1: from them. And I wonder, Josh, because it was against

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Speaker 1: guy that you're gonna see a guy like that, is

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Speaker 1: that good if not better in the playoffs? And also

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Speaker 1: against the Mariners this weekend, Like how much confidence is

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Speaker 1: that give they were able to execute that game plan

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Speaker 1: against one of the best pitchers in the sport.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's been kind of a trend this

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Speaker 3: They seem to, you know, do very well against the

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Speaker 3: elite guys and the good guys, but it's the guys

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Speaker 3: with and have a hard time with. So it's given me,

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Speaker 3: you know pretty much the confidence this year, like, hey,

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Speaker 3: if you get to the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna face the best.

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Speaker 3: You guys have performed against the best, So that's like

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Speaker 3: one of the positives you can look at as a

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Speaker 2: They performed very well.

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Speaker 3: Against guys who have done very well all season. I mean,

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Speaker 3: they did it like a crocheting and you know in

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Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe it's like the big moment.

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Speaker 2: That they kind of thrive in maybe so to speak.

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Speaker 3: But you know, you're also not going to get that

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Speaker 3: for them. Two of the playoffs, you're going to see

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Speaker 3: the best of the best, like we know and we

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Speaker 2: Dose for the better partyment. All five have them are

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Speaker 3: In their rotation and when they're all in there and healthy,

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Speaker 3: so it's it's gonna be fun to watch this weekend.

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Speaker 3: This weekend makes the whole season and what it's about

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Speaker 1: It helps too that Jose al Tuve hit a ball

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Speaker 1: high heater from de Gram and did not miss it.

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Speaker 1: We've talked for a very if we've talked for the

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Speaker 1: last month or so, as al two V's numbers have

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Speaker 1: kind of slumped a little bit, that they're not going

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Speaker 5: They're not.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where they hit him, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: where he's at in the batting order, like he's gonna play,

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Speaker 1: and especially with Jordan Alvarez now out for the foreseeable future,

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Speaker 1: And Tyler I thought he looked and we talked about

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Speaker 1: Like I don't think it hasn't looked like vintage Altuve,

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Speaker 1: but the swings are looking better. He hasn't looked completely lost.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't look like he's chasing hits. But I mean

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Speaker 1: de Grom gave him a gave him like ninety seven

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Speaker 1: Like that to be a good sign that things are coming.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean again, Al twove is, he's gonna put

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Speaker 4: true outcome hitter. Although Al two be does lead the

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Speaker 4: team in home runs somehow, he has twenty six home

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Speaker 4: He's just gonna make contact and see where it goes. Right,

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Speaker 4: And sometimes you run into some bad babbit luck and

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Speaker 4: for two weeks you look lost because you're just grounding

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Speaker 4: out to the third baseman. But again, those ground outs

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Speaker 4: like that. But yeah, you're right. When he's when he's

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Speaker 4: pulling the ball down the line, he looks really good.

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Speaker 4: When when he can go the other way, uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: And he's done a lot more of that in the

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Speaker 4: a little bit where he looks like he's you know,

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Speaker 1: Josh, we haven't had you on since Jordan's gruesome ankle injury.

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Speaker 1: It sounds dumb to ask, but just like a team

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Speaker 1: that can absorb much more, like it speaks to their

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Speaker 1: resiliency that they came back and won that game on

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Speaker 5: That over and over again.

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Speaker 1: But just how how do they respond to this? Like

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Speaker 1: how how do you pick yourself up after that? After

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Speaker 1: watching that too, because like that wasn't one of those

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Speaker 1: then he disappears in the clubhouse and like you just

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Speaker 1: don't see him, Like everyone watched it and you knew,

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Speaker 1: like you knew when it happened like this ain't good,

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Speaker 1: Like it ain't good, and he probably ain't coming back for.

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Speaker 5: A while, Like how does it? How do you regroup

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Speaker 3: I'm surprised, first of all, that it had no damage

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Speaker 3: of anything like that was the most surprising part of

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Speaker 3: this whole situation, because you look at that thing at

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Speaker 3: all the angles that you've seen, it looks like it broke.

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Speaker 3: It looks like that they literally broke. And to say

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Speaker 3: have a word for it, just craziness and absolute mind blowing.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I think it's it's absolutely the resiens. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Zach Cole seemed to be a Hall of Famer, so

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Speaker 3: he might be the savior of this of this ball club,

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Speaker 3: like we talked about last week when he made his debut.

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Speaker 3: So but you know, what a great job that kid

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Speaker 3: You know, you got to you pretty much have to

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Speaker 3: He will probably have a big old sleeve over that thing.

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Speaker 1: He's yeah, And Joe has a bench. Joe has a

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Speaker 1: So I would expect Escoc Paradis to be an option

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Speaker 3: Is the email where you can go out there and

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Speaker 3: just absolutely figured it out, go great, and everybody can

440
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Speaker 3: forget about the last six starts, Like this is a

441
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Speaker 3: redemption moment for him if he even chooses to even

442
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Speaker 3: care about it or show he cares about it. But

443
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Speaker 3: he's he's got to go out there, he's got he's

444
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Speaker 3: got to do it. At the end of the day,

445
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Speaker 3: you have to have your team.

446
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Speaker 4: With Yeah, he has a six forty one e r

447
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Speaker 4: A in his last eight games. That's that's not going

448
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Speaker 4: to cut it. Uh, there's yeah, I mean, this is

449
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Speaker 4: the biggest series of the year for the Astros and uh,

450
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Speaker 4: you know you've lined up your aces, uh to to

451
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Speaker 4: be here.

452
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Speaker 5: This is this is.

453
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Speaker 4: What they need from Or to do. And this is

454
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Speaker 4: also what he is going to be telling some team

455
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Speaker 4: that's not the Astros and whatever one mystery team is

456
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Speaker 4: out on him per sources, but you know that's this

457
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Speaker 4: is this is what he's going to get paid the

458
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,960
Speaker 4: big bucks to do, is to go out and shut

459
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Speaker 4: a team down with the season on the line, and

460
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Speaker 4: you know, put a team on his back. And he

461
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Speaker 4: hasn't been able to do that, but of course he

462
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Speaker 4: clearly has it in him like that. That's what Prober

463
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Speaker 4: is and all of that narrative can change in one game.

464
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Speaker 4: I mean, if he goes out and throws seven shutout

465
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Speaker 4: innings and punches out ten, all is forgiven. But you know,

466
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Speaker 4: if it's another four innings, start with five walks and

467
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Speaker 4: you gotta you know, burn through your bullpen before Jason

468
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Speaker 4: Alexander start, you know with the Mariners there, it's it's

469
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Speaker 4: not good. But yeah, I mean a lot of eyes

470
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Speaker 4: on him, certainly, and the Ashes need him to perform.

471
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Speaker 1: Should be noted that Fromber has made two starts against

472
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Speaker 1: the Mariners this year has allowed one earned run in

473
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Speaker 1: those twelve innings he's pitched against them, So he has pitched.

474
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Speaker 1: It's it's an interesting snapshot of Fromber against the Mariners.

475
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Speaker 1: He's pitched well against them this year, but has not

476
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Speaker 1: faced them since the trade deadline, and since their lineup

477
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Speaker 1: looks a whole lot different, has not faced the lineup

478
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Speaker 1: with Naylor in it or a Henneo Suarez in it.

479
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,480
Speaker 1: Also last year against the Mariners, he made four starts

480
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Speaker 1: and had a five sixteen ERA in those four starts

481
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Speaker 1: against the Mariners. This is a Mariners team that in

482
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Speaker 1: general has hit him pretty well. That I mean, it's

483
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Speaker 1: one of these things too, Like there hasn't been a

484
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Speaker 1: ton of turnover on the Mariners. Like it's the same

485
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Speaker 1: guys that you've seen forever, Like Roley's been there forever,

486
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Speaker 1: JP Crawford and Julio, Like this is a lot of

487
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Speaker 1: veteran guys that have been around for.

488
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Speaker 5: That know how to approach him.

489
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Speaker 1: That you know, they know if you start trying to

490
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Speaker 1: pull Fromber sinkers, it's gonna be a long night. So

491
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Speaker 1: you're gonna see him go the other way a bunch.

492
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Speaker 1: They know that if they lay down a bunch or two,

493
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Speaker 1: then they have the capability to frazzle Fromber because he's

494
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Speaker 1: not great fielding his position.

495
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Speaker 5: They know if they can get him to move off

496
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Speaker 5: the mound.

497
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Speaker 1: Like suffice to say that they have scouted him very

498
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Speaker 1: in depth and they know how to approach.

499
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Speaker 5: Him just because they've seen him so much.

500
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Speaker 1: So I'm he has pitched well against them this season,

501
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Speaker 1: But this is a lineup that in general, when they

502
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Speaker 1: face from Er, it is not u They're not daunted.

503
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Speaker 1: They know exactly what's coming, they know how to handle him,

504
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:14,719
Speaker 1: they know the best way to approach him.

505
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Speaker 5: But again, Josh, his stuff is.

506
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Speaker 1: So good that you can go into a game not

507
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Speaker 1: wanting to pull his sinker. If the curveball's elite, then

508
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you if you're disciplined on the

509
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Speaker 1: sinker and you don't pull the sinker, Like if the

510
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: curveball is elite, you're going to swing and miss at it.

511
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Speaker 1: If the change up's working, then he's got good enough

512
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Speaker 1: stuff to where he can thwart any game plan you have.

513
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he can go either way. I mean

514
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Speaker 2: he can be absolutely.

515
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Speaker 3: All over in the middle of the play, and that's

516
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Speaker 3: where he struggles any sinker like the curveball guy, if

517
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Speaker 3: they go a little part of the play, that's when

518
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Speaker 3: you get hit.

519
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Speaker 2: But if you're if you've.

520
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Speaker 3: Been getting corners, it becomes a long night for any lineup,

521
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Speaker 3: whether you prepared for him, whether you've been well against

522
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Speaker 3: him or not. You can prepare and have great numbers

523
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,360
Speaker 3: against the guy, but if he's just on that night,

524
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 3: there's literally nothing you can do. Like you just you

525
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Speaker 3: got to tip your cat, move on to the next day.

526
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Speaker 2: That you know. This is also, like you said, a

527
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Speaker 2: team that's done.

528
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Speaker 3: Very well against him, so they have that confidence of

529
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,439
Speaker 3: knowing how and what to do to him. And like

530
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Speaker 3: you said, experience is key. They've got so many at

531
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Speaker 3: bats off of him. They've probably been one of the

532
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 3: member of Rangers have probably been the two teams that

533
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 3: have seen him the most out of any other team,

534
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 3: just from the battles for the division in the past

535
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 3: to now. This is just a guy that they've gotten

536
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 3: more and more comfortable with. And not saying frombers anytime

537
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 3: uncomfortable with that. But like you said, when you see

538
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Speaker 3: a guy more, you're gonna have tend to have a

539
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 3: better chance of doing well against him.

540
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Speaker 1: The good thing for the Astros is fromer is gonna

541
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Speaker 1: go on Saturday, but on Friday, they're gonna send Hunter

542
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Speaker 1: Brown out to the mound, who has been an ace

543
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Speaker 1: in every sense of the word for them this season.

544
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Speaker 1: Jacob de Gram getting lit up relatively speaking by the

545
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 1: Astros last night put some distance between Jacob de Gram

546
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Speaker 1: and Hunter Brown and the race to finish second or

547
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,919
Speaker 1: third in the cy Young voting this year behind Trek Scoubele.

548
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,640
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown can solidify that he can if a top

549
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 1: three finishing the cy Young race by going out against

550
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: the Mariners on Friday and pitching well and presuming he

551
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: will do that, he'll finish top three. The Ashers will

552
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 1: get a draft pick. Everybody will be happy, but they're

553
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 1: not worried about the draft pick right now. They're worried

554
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Speaker 1: about beating the Mariners, and Hunter Brown gives them the

555
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:17,720
Speaker 1: best chance to do that. And that's why he is

556
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Speaker 1: the focus of our DraftKings Player spotlight. Hunter Brown, as

557
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: we talked about, has I don't really know if we

558
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 1: can call this a breakout season.

559
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 5: I mean, he obviously was.

560
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: He broke out in the second half of last year

561
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 1: after you know, adding the sinker and becoming so dominant.

562
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Speaker 1: But I mean, you look at everything. He leads the

563
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,760
Speaker 1: American League with a one eighty five ERA A plus.

564
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Speaker 1: If not for Terrek Schouble, he would be a top

565
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Speaker 1: the list of the American League and basically every category,

566
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Speaker 1: maybe aside from strikeouts. Garrett Crochet does have the upper

567
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Speaker 1: hand and strikeouts, but eight strikeouts away from two hundred

568
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: four Hunter Brown. So that's something he can they can

569
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 1: strive for these last two starts.

570
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 5: Of the season.

571
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna maybe reach one hundred and eighty inning plateau

572
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: if he can go six innings against the Mariners. But

573
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: all that aside, like from a team perspective, like they

574
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: need him to they need him to be the ace.

575
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: They need him to go out there and demonstrate his

576
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: ace abilities against a fellow All Star and against a

577
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 1: Mariner's pitcher and Brian wu that has just as good

578
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Speaker 1: as numbers.

579
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, Hunter Brown has been incredible all

580
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Speaker 4: all year. He has been one of the best pitchers

581
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Speaker 4: in baseball. Like you said, it's no longer a surprise

582
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 4: like this is just who Hunter Brown is. I will

583
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Speaker 4: say in the like you know, since June or so,

584
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 4: walks have been more of a concern. And he's pitched

585
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 4: eighteen games since June first. How many of those games

586
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 4: do you think he went without giving up a walk.

587
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 5: I'm going to go none two.

588
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 4: Two games out of eighteen with no walks Since the

589
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 4: trade deadline. The Mariners have the seventh highest walk percentage

590
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 4: in baseball. So if you're looking at DraftKings, I think

591
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 4: I would lean towards the over on walks. I think

592
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 4: that's you know, something that he is, you know, dealt with.

593
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 4: And the Mariners are also going to be a patient team.

594
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 4: They know, you know, not to chase. They've had a

595
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 4: good walk right They've added a lot of disciplined veteran

596
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 4: hitters at the trade deadline, so that's something to look for. Meanwhile,

597
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 4: Fromber the entire year has had one start where he

598
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 4: did not have a walk, so something to look for there.

599
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean it's going to be a great matchup.

600
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 4: I'm really looking forward to it. It's gonna be really good.

601
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 4: Like I said, he's struggle a bit with command. Strikeouts

602
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 4: are a little down from the beginning of the year,

603
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 4: walks are up, but he's still getting those results. And

604
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 4: I think with the season on the line, here. Uh,

605
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,199
Speaker 4: this seems like the type of game where he's not

606
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Speaker 4: going to back down.

607
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 3: Uh.

608
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 4: And that that's also why I think you could probably

609
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 4: see a couple more walks where it's you know, you know,

610
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 4: maybe maybe you need to pitch around a few guys.

611
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 4: But knowing that he's got the stuff to to blow

612
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 4: away the guys that that he can go and get.

613
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 3: Down get higher, does Joe let him go longer in

614
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,479
Speaker 3: pitch count for this weekend if he needs it.

615
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 4: He's had one O seven one o eight his last

616
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Speaker 4: two starts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're already seeing it like Joe is. The training

618
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Speaker 1: wheels are off like the the he is. You ride

619
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Speaker 1: your you ride your ace until he can't go anymore.

620
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Speaker 1: That's that's what it's been. That's what it's been the

621
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Speaker 1: last two starts. I would imagine that's what it's going

622
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Speaker 1: to be in this start. They've done a good job

623
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Speaker 1: of giving him ample rest. They think he's healthy. I mean,

624
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: he's showing he's healthy. The stuff still looks incredible. So

625
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Speaker 1: as long as he's getting out, So as long as

626
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Speaker 1: it's a fishing hunter, Brown's going to pitch for a while.

627
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Speaker 1: And I agree with I agree with Tyler that you

628
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Speaker 1: know the Mariners the way to get I mean, there's

629
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Speaker 1: two ways you're gonna approach a guy like like Hunter Brown.

630
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Speaker 1: You either going there and you know you're gonna get

631
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Speaker 1: one pitch to hit, and if it's early in the bat,

632
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: you you hack early and that lets him get deeper

633
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: into games. Or you go and just wait him out.

634
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,719
Speaker 1: You wait him out, get him out of the game,

635
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: and get into the Asher's bullpen. I think, like Tyler said,

636
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Speaker 1: I think the Mariners will probably out for the ladder.

637
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: Knowing that Hunter's command hasn't been the best, hasn't been

638
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Speaker 1: pinpoint recently, so that would help on DraftKings. And also,

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Speaker 1: like remember that it is week uh, it's gone week

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641
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Speaker 1: head to DraftKings and do some NFL bets. I would

642
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Speaker 1: stay away from anything Texans offense related because they look anemic.

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Speaker 4: But they I'll take the under on Joe Burrow's passing

644
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Speaker 4: yards this week.

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Speaker 1: Josh, you were uh you you had some thoughts about

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Speaker 1: the Mariners lineup earlier this season?

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Speaker 5: You did not? You were not.

666
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Speaker 1: You were not a as maybe has enamored with them

667
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: as a lot of other.

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Speaker 2: Guys. Naylor and.

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Speaker 5: Yeah they're better.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? I'm just in general though, up

671
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: and down. Like Josh Naylor is a patient contact hitter,

672
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: never gonna strike out like I like the Suarez was

673
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Speaker 1: like the bell of the ball at the deadline because

674
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Speaker 1: he was on an insane heater right before the deadline.

675
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Speaker 5: Has not really bad.

676
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Speaker 1: He's been bad for the Mariners, but I thought Naylor

677
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: was the much more shrewd pick up for them, just

678
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: a team that has had problems striking out in the past.

679
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: Like put that guy in the middle of the order.

680
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: That is I don't know if it's a perfect parallel,

681
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: but that is your estoc paratus. Like season, a ton

682
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: of pitches is gonna get on base, is gonna.

683
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Speaker 5: Put the ball in play.

684
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Speaker 1: Like I think he has changed the dynamic in that lineup,

685
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Speaker 1: maybe any more than a Heno Suarez has.

686
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's I mean easily.

687
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Speaker 3: This this kid comes in and you know, has always

688
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Speaker 3: been known for working counts.

689
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Speaker 2: His energy is always super high, and like when you

690
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Speaker 2: get into this postseason race, you see the emotion flow.

691
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Speaker 3: Out and that's something that you know, you don't really

692
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 3: think about when you think about the Mariners, Like, yeah,

693
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Speaker 3: they got Julio Rodriguez and they've got some guys there,

694
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Speaker 3: but like you don't think about the guy who just

695
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 3: is there to get the team pumped up and on

696
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 3: their feet, and when he does that, it's electric to

697
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 3: watch and he does it against Righty's, he does it

698
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Speaker 3: against let's.

699
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Speaker 2: He's not gonna chase no matter what arm you're throwing

700
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 2: with up there.

701
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Speaker 3: But you know it's I think with the switch with

702
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Speaker 3: sure as he kind of evens out Josh Naylor's patientness

703
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Speaker 3: and not the ability to strike out with all his strikeouts.

704
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Speaker 3: So you're kind of getting the average player between the

705
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Speaker 3: two of them. But Josh Naylor is everything you needed

706
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Speaker 3: in this lineup because, like I said, he can he

707
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 3: can do it all when it comes when it comes

708
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Speaker 3: to getting on base against any guy.

709
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Speaker 4: Naylor.

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Speaker 1: At least seed me up for that one that should

711
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Speaker 1: have been that's that's Josh's, that's joshus. What what should

712
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Speaker 1: we make of cal Rawley. I mean, he's having an

713
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Speaker 1: incredible year. Like, don't get me right, Well, I have

714
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Speaker 1: an al MVP vote, so I have to not say

715
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Speaker 1: anything about this at all.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's just my opinion.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I but he's a guy that.

718
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Speaker 1: I think are we possibly underrating what he's doing just

719
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Speaker 1: from advantage point of he's catching, he's catching, like the

720
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Speaker 1: fact that he has done this as a catcher, like

721
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Speaker 1: the most demanding position on the field, and the fact

722
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Speaker 1: that he has stayed relatively fresh. You do start to

723
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Speaker 1: look at the offensive profile and it is a lot

724
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: now of home run or nothing. Like, there was a

725
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: stretch there where I think from a thirty at bat stretch,

726
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: like he had five hits and they were all homers.

727
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: But I think in some ways we don't talk about enough,

728
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: just the wear and tear that has been on him

729
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: all year, and the fact that he has been able

730
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Speaker 1: to still post and hit and stay this consistent while catching,

731
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Speaker 1: while playing such a demanding position, Like you don't see

732
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Speaker 1: this often. It is so rare what we're seeing from him.

733
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Speaker 1: But what have you just made in general, both of you,

734
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: of what you have seen from cal Rale this season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, jose Al Tuve has daged more games this year

736
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 4: than cal Raly, Like that's that's wild. He is he

737
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 4: is catching a ton. I mean, yeah, he's he's been great,

738
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,240
Speaker 4: you know, like he's been a very very good player

739
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 4: for his entire career. He plays every day. He has

740
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 4: always been a good hitter, and I mean just to

741
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 4: to see him go out and he's got fifty six

742
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 4: home runs, it's crazy. Uh So, yeah, I mean he's

743
00:34:54,880 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 4: been good. He's been Yeah, well, run I mean he's

744
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 4: he's a pretty good hitter as well. But yeah, I mean, yeah,

745
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 4: he's been unbelievable. Yeah, I mean you you certainly could

746
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 4: argue one way or the other if it's if it's

747
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 4: him or Judge. I also think there's just voter fatigue sometimes,

748
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,280
Speaker 4: so you know, Judge has always been in the conversation.

749
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 4: We have a new face in there. I can certainly

750
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 4: see that playing that way. But I mean, where would

751
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 4: the Mariners be without cal Raley this year? Like he

752
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 4: is just every day carried that. I feel like every

753
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 4: time I get on Twitter, it's another two home runs

754
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 4: for for Raleigh.

755
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 3: Well, let's covered by every MLB account too, so you're

756
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 3: gonna see it regardless. But I mean, I don't I

757
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 3: wouldn't say underrated would be the word for Calradi because

758
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 3: I think he's definitely getting his flowers and he absolutely

759
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 3: deserves every flower given to him at this point, because

760
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 3: you see what catchers go through on a small basis,

761
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 3: and been considering what a clubhouse sees them go through.

762
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 3: Like it's not like a catcher's just sitting in the

763
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 3: clubhouse and his locker, you know, resting for the game,

764
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 3: Like this guy is he s does to do everything that

765
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 3: we have to do is to go to the banning cages.

766
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 2: He has to go. He goes to her video, he

767
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 2: has to talk to there. Oh, pretty much all the pictures.

768
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 3: He's got to do a pictures and catchers meeting every

769
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 3: day for the starter. He's got to go over the

770
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 3: lineup every day with his bullpen and his starter. He's

771
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,720
Speaker 3: got to go up there and worry about facing Jacob

772
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 3: deGrom that night and then battle about.

773
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 2: The worried about I'm not gonna get slider. I'm gonna

774
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 2: GT one hundred down the middle.

775
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 3: So it's like it's not just the body that's being taxed,

776
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 3: it's the mind full to its fullest extent and its.

777
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 2: Body to his fullest extent.

778
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 3: So he's getting the maximum version of everything wearing down

779
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 3: on him. But yeah, I mean, I think it's definitely

780
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 3: special what he's doing.

781
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

782
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 3: Is he a great hitter, and your Don Alvarez is

783
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 3: a great hitter. Cal Ra pretty good hitter. I'm not

784
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 3: a huge but like you just said, Chan, if you're

785
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 3: going to thirty stretch and you only got five hits

786
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 3: in their homers, that's that's that's just another conversation to have.

787
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 3: But he definitely should be in the MVP race and

788
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 3: in all the talks in the world because of what

789
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,959
Speaker 3: he's doing. But I just can't put anything past Aaron

790
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 3: Judge right now. The guy said he's stid him with

791
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 3: three forty at this.

792
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 4: Point, So yeah, he Raley is also on the Jordan

793
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 4: Alvarez Memorial team friendly contract. He's signed a six year,

794
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 4: one hundred and five million dollar extension through twenty thirty

795
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 4: one for twenty five million dollars a year. Like they

796
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 4: have locked him up in quite the team friendly contract over.

797
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: There certainly a bargain and he's certainly showing that it's

798
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: a bargain doing this like literally the first year of

799
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: the extension. Yeah, I mean that sounds you hear is

800
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: like Mariners ownership just like celebrating the fact that they

801
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,439
Speaker 1: have locked this dude in for this such a team

802
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: friendly deal.

803
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 5: Tal.

804
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously cal Raley gets all of the the

805
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: when you talk about the Mariners, he's like the first

806
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: guy you talk about out. But Julio is doing what

807
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: Julio usually does. In the second half, he has a

808
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: nine oh one OPS and is slugging five sixty nine

809
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 1: since July first, is a game changer and is as

810
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: dynamic a player as there is in the sport. Unfortunately,

811
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: you just don't get to see it much because he

812
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: is pretty streaky, and he plays on a team that

813
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: plays in the West Coast and plays pretty late, so

814
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: you don't get to.

815
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 5: See a lot.

816
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: And with cal Raley doing what he's done this year,

817
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: and he talk about the Mariners, you know starts with

818
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: cal Raley. So Julio's on one. He's been really, really

819
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: good Randy rose Arena. The astros don't need to the

820
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: askers don't need me to tell them what Randy rose

821
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: Arena does in big moments, especially after what he did

822
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty in the COVID season.

823
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you.

824
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Speaker 1: Look at the one thing about this Mariners team that

825
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Speaker 1: I think has not gotten talked about enough. Maybe like

826
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: Brian Wu was really good, Brian Wu. They're the guy

827
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Speaker 1: who's gonna pitch on Friday, All Star pitcher, all Star starter,

828
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: like he has been excellent for them, But this rotation

829
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:13,839
Speaker 1: has not been what it was last year, Like it's

830
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Speaker 1: why when we talked, it's why when everyone talked last

831
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: year about what they wasted, like they wasted last year

832
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Speaker 1: a once in a generation rotation, a rotation where all

833
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: five guys pitched incredibly well all season, none of them

834
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: got hurt, and it was every day you knew your

835
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Speaker 1: starter was going to go out there and get you

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Speaker 1: into at least a sixth inning and give up, you know,

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Speaker 1: three or fewer runs. They've been okay, Like the rotation

838
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: has been good this year, don't get me wrong, but

839
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Speaker 1: it has certainly not been what it was last year.

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Speaker 1: And if you look at their pitching staff as a whole,

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Speaker 1: the Mariner's pitching staff on the road, they played today,

842
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Speaker 1: if they play the Royals today Thursday, so this is

843
00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:01,399
Speaker 1: all stats entering Thursday. On the road, opponents are hit.

844
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Speaker 1: Opponents have a seven to seventy one OPS against Mariner's pitching.

845
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Speaker 1: They have a six forty five OPS against them. At

846
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Speaker 1: T Mobile Park, Mariner's pitch the marriage pitching staff is

847
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Speaker 1: a four to six y four ERA on the road.

848
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Speaker 1: They have a three two six ERA at T Mobile Park,

849
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Speaker 1: which Josh, as you know, T Mobile Park is one

850
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: of the most difficult places to hit in the sport.

851
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Speaker 1: It is a run suppressing environment. Sometimes it's just the

852
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Speaker 1: literally the air. Sometimes it's just hard to hit up there,

853
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: and it's a ballpark that no one hits well there,

854
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: and the Mariners have constructed their team to thrive in

855
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Speaker 1: that environment.

856
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Speaker 5: They have a very.

857
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: Good pitching staff that pitches very well in that ballpark.

858
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Speaker 1: But on the road they're gettable, and you have seen

859
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: that they have been gettable this year. This is not

860
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: the shut down, Oh my god, Like no one's going

861
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: to score a run on the Mariner's pitching staff like

862
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: you saw last year. This is a gettable staff and

863
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 1: I think from what from how we started this podcast,

864
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: you know, you saw last night probably the most encouraging innings,

865
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: first encouraging stretch from this Astros lineup all season.

866
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Speaker 5: Doing that before.

867
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Speaker 1: A Mariners team that can be got comes in, that

868
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: has to be you know.

869
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Speaker 5: That has to be a positive for the Astros going

870
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Speaker 5: into the series.

871
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, to know that they've already gotten you know, some

872
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,919
Speaker 3: of these guys here at home too earlier in the season.

873
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 3: I think I was covering a series against them when

874
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 3: they got to some guys pretty pretty early as well,

875
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 3: So they know they've had success. Obviously last year was

876
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 3: a different story. But yeah, when you look at those numbers,

877
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 3: that's a huge drastic change. These guys obviously love pitching

878
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 3: at home, which every pitcher should, like you said, you know,

879
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 3: as playing there, it was never a fun place to

880
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 3: hit balls, just die. They don't go anywhere there, and

881
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 3: it's very depressing. Not big gaps either, so you're not

882
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 3: really trying to You can't split too many gaps.

883
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 2: You kind of just have to take your singles and

884
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 2: move on and go that way.

885
00:41:55,960 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 3: But it is it's gonna be fun to watch, as advertise,

886
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 3: But when you get these guys on the road, you

887
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 3: look at.

888
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 2: Those numbers, at what they can do. I just think

889
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 2: these guys need.

890
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 3: To look back at those bats they head at home

891
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 3: against them this year, not worry about, you know, the

892
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 3: bats in Seattle.

893
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 2: Just go ahead and highlight the home at bats for

894
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 2: the Astros. See what they do there.

895
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,760
Speaker 3: Who knows, you could be a different competitive and shaped

896
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 3: mountain for them as well too. That might be something

897
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 3: that speaks volumes, because we always talked about when when

898
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 3: people would go to Oakland, they somehow got more movement

899
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 3: on certain pitches because the ma all the mounds seemed to.

900
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 2: Be a little bit taller, so to speak.

901
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 3: But you know, maybe they just get more confidence on

902
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 3: the road, you know, or when the team is on

903
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 3: the road facing them. But I just think they just

904
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 3: look back at the success from early on this year,

905
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 3: building that confidence, and that's where you go from there.

906
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 4: Don't look now. But if the Tigers lose today, the

907
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 4: Astros are one game back of the Tigers. Tigers own

908
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 4: the tiebreaker there, so they're really two games back. But

909
00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 4: I mean, this is just a massive series. I mean,

910
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 4: it can't be oversaived. If the Astros are able to

911
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:07,359
Speaker 4: take two of three here, you can you know, you

912
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 4: can set your rotation presumably for uh, you know, the

913
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 4: first round of the playoffs. Uh, this is this is huge.

914
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 4: And Josh, to your point about riding Hunter Brown, like

915
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 4: if you can, if you can use him and get

916
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 4: a win, even if he throws one hundred and fifteen pitches,

917
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:26,479
Speaker 4: if you can take this series, you may not even

918
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 4: have to have him pitch again, you know you can.

919
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 4: You can rest him up for the beginning of the

920
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 4: series so or the beginning of the playoffs. So I mean, yeah,

921
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 4: this is just going to be a huge, huge series.

922
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 4: Can't wait to watch. Uh, just just fun baseball, man,

923
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 4: This is this is going to feel like a playoff atmosphere.

924
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 4: It's a weekend series at home.

925
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 5: It's going to be rocking.

926
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 4: I'm excited.

927
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 2: How many you get in Houston?

928
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.

929
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 5: I'm glad. I'm glad though, I'm glad they flex that game.

930
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 1: I'm it's on ESPN because like we like we talked about,

931
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: like the Mariners. I mean, it's good for the Astros too,

932
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,240
Speaker 1: but like the Mariners don't get a ton of national

933
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 1: eyes because they play on the West Coast, and like

934
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: I mean, cal Rawley's obviously having a season for the Ages,

935
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: like that deserves to be on primetime, just.

936
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 5: Like the Astros.

937
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: Like Jason Alexander's gonna pitch on Sunday. Like Jason Alexander,

938
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: for what he has done the last two months or

939
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 1: more than that, like almost three months, like he deserves

940
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 1: some flowers, he deserves some national praise. He deserves for

941
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: an entire country to be able to watch him. And

942
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: that is going to be nice. It's gonna be cool.

943
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,359
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun weekend. I don't do predictions

944
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 1: just in general, Like I think predicting baseball games is

945
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: kind of weird because it's such a there's so much variance,

946
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: there's so much weird shit stuff.

947
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 5: The FCC. The FCC is coming for us. They've been busy.

948
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 5: They've been busy lately.

949
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:58,240
Speaker 1: Though I don't do predictions, h If you guys would

950
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: like to offer predictions, go ahead. How do you think

951
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: the Sins Astra's Mariners for the American League West? For

952
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:06,800
Speaker 1: all intents and purposes, how do you think the Sins

953
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: Tyler go first?

954
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 4: Two out of three? I think you win probably the

955
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 4: Hunter Brown and Jason Alexander start, but I think I

956
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 4: think two out of three here and you're set up

957
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 4: for the rest of the season. They've they've looked good.

958
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 4: You know, the offense has been bounced back really since

959
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 4: the Brave series, so it's it's been a week now

960
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 4: of looking good. If somehow, Yesaw Brady's is able to

961
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 4: play and add that to your lineup, I think that

962
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 4: changes the whole dynamic of the Astros offense, just having

963
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 4: a guy like that in the middle of the order.

964
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 4: Like you said, Josh Zach Cole is Babe Ruth, so

965
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 4: you know he's due for four or five home runs

966
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 4: this series. We'll see. But yeah, I mean, I think

967
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 4: that's what you're looking at here, and hopefully that's the

968
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 4: way it goes for the Astros.

969
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 3: I was having this conversation with a buddy yesterday about

970
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 3: how I thought the last ten games are going to

971
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,439
Speaker 3: go for these two teams that we're going to see,

972
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 3: and I see He's like, I don't know, Man, the

973
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 3: Manners are so so hot right now. Said year they

974
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 3: want ten in a row. They're not going to win

975
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 3: ten more in a row. I'm predicting Manners go five

976
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 3: and five in their last ten. Stros are going to

977
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 3: go seven and three. There you go, you heard it

978
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 3: and easily to start, but I can't it. Is it

979
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 3: ten now or nine?

980
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 2: Loud now? Even left?

981
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 5: Nine now?

982
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 2: Nine? So nine yees? So they got to go.

983
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 4: We you can count the last game.

984
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 3: Five and five for the Manors. Astros tak the division.

985
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 3: We're not gonna predict records and buys and all that

986
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 3: kind of stuff.

987
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 2: Work on just that, just that record to run it out.

988
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,879
Speaker 1: It should be noted that, uh after the after they

989
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,479
Speaker 1: complete the series against the Astros, the Mariners are gonna

990
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: go home and play the Rockies three times at T

991
00:46:55,520 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: Mobile Park. I don't know if that impacts your prediction, Josh, Okay.

992
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 4: There you go.

993
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 2: They gott wrong, I think they got hot at the

994
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 2: wrong time.

995
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 3: They got hot in a stretch where you know they

996
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 3: should have already been ahead in this division. Yeah, they

997
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 3: because they absolutely stunk when the Astros absolutely stunk. And

998
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 3: they're a very streaky team. So you won't ten straight.

999
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 3: It doesn't really unless you're a very very lucky team.

1000
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 3: Usually that's when those teams start to any team when

1001
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 3: he starts to kind of falter off after a good

1002
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 3: stretch like that. So that that's my prediction for that.

1003
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 3: Let's hope I'm right.

1004
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 1: It has been fascinating that like neither of these teams

1005
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: have gotten on opposite streaks, Like the Mariners have never

1006
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: been hot when the Astros are cold, and the Astros

1007
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 1: have never been hot when the Mariners are cold.

1008
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,320
Speaker 3: Like it's you talk about the Rockies going to Seattle,

1009
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 3: the Astros go to Sacramento, Oakland, West, Oakland, Sacramento, whatever

1010
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 3: you want to call it.

1011
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 2: And then what Anaheim ended out right, it's kind of

1012
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 2: like they're both really similar. I don't know who the

1013
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 2: Mariners in their season with.

1014
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 5: They in their season with the Dodgers, but there could

1015
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:06,879
Speaker 5: be there's a possibility to down players because the.

1016
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: Dodgers could have locked into the three seed in the

1017
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,959
Speaker 1: NL and have no reason to play, so they could

1018
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: do like the Astros could do in in California, and

1019
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: if they need to line they're pitching up for a

1020
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: wild card series, like you could see guys you've never

1021
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 1: heard of pitching for the Dodgers against the Mariners. So

1022
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: there's still so much up in the air, Like no

1023
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: one cares about this, but like I have a flight

1024
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: book to Anaheim from Sacramento, I don't have a flight

1025
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: back from Anaheim. I don't know where the Ashers are

1026
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: going to go. There's a distinct possibility that they could

1027
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: go Sacramento Anaheim, then to back to Seattle for a

1028
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: wild Card series, and then if they win the Wildcard series,

1029
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: you go straight from Seattle to Detroit or Toronto. Like

1030
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: there's a possibility they could be on the road for

1031
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: three weeks, three and a half, four weeks. God bless

1032
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: Juan he Tron, the Astros traveling secretary. God bless him.

1033
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 5: This is going to be a keep buddy phone charge.

1034
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: It was funny he was walking in the clubhouse in

1035
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: Toronto last week with like a I don't know what

1036
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: you call those, like plastic like things that have the

1037
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: drawers in them, like a like Tyler.

1038
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,760
Speaker 4: You probably have a cube like a like a cube

1039
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 4: with older like an organizer, the accordion folder.

1040
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: No, it's like it's like one of those plastic like

1041
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: shelves that has like the pull out drawers. Yeah, had

1042
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,279
Speaker 1: it had all of the passports in them, I'm just like,

1043
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to. He's going to carry those on

1044
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: this road trip to California because they can end up

1045
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: in Toronto. And Josh, I think, as you know, no,

1046
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 1: you guys are not making sure all twenty seven guys

1047
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: or twenty eight guys keep track of their passports.

1048
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,800
Speaker 5: It's probably easier for the traveling secretary.

1049
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 2: Oh, without a doubt.

1050
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 3: I think when I I think when I played, I

1051
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 3: don't think mine ever came out of.

1052
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 2: My backpack until we went to Toronto.

1053
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 3: Stayed in my backpack, went on every road trip in

1054
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 3: the you know the hiding zipper spot in the back.

1055
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 2: So when you needed it, I pulled it out and

1056
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 2: gave it to him.

1057
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 3: And I'm pretty sure we gave it to him before

1058
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 3: we got on the plane and didn't get it back

1059
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 3: to we got to the hotel. So it's probably the

1060
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 3: best way to do that when you look in at

1061
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 3: baseball players, because we're not very responsible in that regard.

1062
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, if the Ashers are lucky, they won't even need

1063
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: their passports. They can come back here after the last

1064
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 1: road trip of the season, come back here maybe in

1065
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: host a wild card series, or you know, like Tyler

1066
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: you just mentioned, they're a game and a half will

1067
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,800
Speaker 1: two and a half games back of the Tigers for

1068
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: the two seeds.

1069
00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:36,720
Speaker 5: So the buye is still a possibility.

1070
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:40,760
Speaker 1: Getting the first getting a first round, by which everyone

1071
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: would say is advantageous. But if you look at the

1072
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: odds as of right now, according to Fangrafts eleven fifty

1073
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:51,439
Speaker 1: eight am on Thursday, the Ashers of a thirteen point

1074
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: seven percent chance to clinch a bye. They have a

1075
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:56,800
Speaker 1: forty five point three percent chance to win the American

1076
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 1: League West, and they have a ninety three point three

1077
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: percent chance to make the playoffs.

1078
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 5: But all of those odds go up if you win games.

1079
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 1: And that begins tomorrow at Dyke and Park Brian Woo

1080
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: against Hunter Brown in the biggest series of the season

1081
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: and one of the bigger regular season series in whatever

1082
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: the Downtown Ballpark has been called in the last couple

1083
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: of years, like really one of the biggest regular season

1084
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: series that place is hosted in a while, so it'll

1085
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 1: be fun to watch. We will be back with you

1086
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 1: when it is over, to either commiserate with you or

1087
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: to if you want to celebrate, celebrate with you.

1088
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 5: Who knows. Until then.

1089
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: You can follow me on X at Chandler Underscore Room.

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00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: You can follow Josh at j Red Dub Deuce, and

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00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: you can follow Tyler at Tyler C.

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Speaker 5: Stafford.

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Speaker 1: As always, please rate and review us on Apple and Spotify.

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00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: Please subscribe to the YouTube channel Crush Shitty Territory so

1095
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: you can get notified every time we post a new video.

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Speaker 5: As I said, we will be back at some point

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Speaker 5: Sunday or Monday.

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Speaker 1: Sunday night baseball is going to make it a little

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Speaker 1: difficult to get some stuff done that night. Maybe it's Monday.

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Speaker 1: I'm flying Sacramento on Monday, so we'll have to Well,

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Speaker 1: we're working around a lot of weird schedules, but that's

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Speaker 1: going to be the rest of this season. The rest

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Speaker 1: of this run. The schedules are going to be weird.

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Speaker 1: Not too sure when we'll be able to record, but

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Speaker 1: we'll get it to you.

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Speaker 5: Don't worry. We'll make sure to keep it coming.

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Speaker 1: But until then, thank you for listening and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you soon.

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Speaker 4: Everybody say a quick parades, games go well.

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Speaker 5: Bye,