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

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Speaker 1: I'm Channeler Roam, joined by Tyler Stafford. Tyler, Remember when

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Speaker 1: I told you it was good news that the Astros

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Speaker 1: were playing six of their next ten games against the

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Speaker 1: Colorado Rockies.

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Speaker 2: Look, I even said it when you said that quite

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Speaker 2: flippantly and said they didn't even do well against these

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Speaker 2: teams last year. That the A's have the Astros numbers

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Speaker 2: the Rockies, I mean, good Lord, getting swept by the

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Speaker 2: Rockies is is not a good look, not not fun

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Speaker 2: at all. They're gonna end up winning forty eight games

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Speaker 2: this year, and eight of them are going to be

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Speaker 2: against the Astros for some reason.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of different ways we could we

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Speaker 1: could attack this to to start, A lot of stuff happened,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously, Like on the field, the results are

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Speaker 1: what they are. The Ashers got outscored twenty three to

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Speaker 1: nine in a three game sweep. They still have Baseball's

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Speaker 1: highest scoring offense even after scoring nine runs in three games.

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Speaker 1: You probably don't want to look at what they're giving

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Speaker 1: up runs wise, but they still do have baseball's highest

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Speaker 1: scoring offense. This reminded me a lot of Uh. Do

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Speaker 1: you remember the series at Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City

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Speaker 1: two years ago? The one Hunter That's when Hunter Brown

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Speaker 1: had the worst start in major league history. They gave

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Speaker 1: up a walk off homer to Salvi Perez in Game one,

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Speaker 1: they got swept. Just looked absolutely lifeless, and that there

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Speaker 1: was a lot of parallels between that sweep and this one.

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Speaker 1: If you want to if you want to have some

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Speaker 1: positivity after that, you know, that was the same Astros

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Speaker 1: team that started the season twelve and twenty four. They

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Speaker 1: came back, won the American League West and made the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So it can be done. This team is nowhere near

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Speaker 1: has at least not yet, is not near that desperate.

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Speaker 1: They're not in that dire of a situation. This team

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Speaker 1: is just six and seven right now. Look they're six

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Speaker 1: and seven, they're one game under five hundred. They're going

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Speaker 1: to go to Seattle on Friday to face a Mariners

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Speaker 1: team that's four and nine. It is still so so early,

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Speaker 1: So you know, freaking it looked bad this week. There's

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Speaker 1: no getting around it. This road trip has been already

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Speaker 1: a road trip from hell, and they have four games

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Speaker 1: remaining on it, but all that being said, it's thirteen games.

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Speaker 1: There's one hundred and forty nine games left. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure now is the time to panic. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: now is the time to declare the season over, to

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Speaker 1: cancel the parades. But they got some real questions, Tyler,

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Speaker 1: they got some real soul searching to do, and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to do it down a couple of guys

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Speaker 1: after just a completely injury marred game here on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: when within a span of five minutes, Jake Myers appeared

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Speaker 1: to injure his oblique while while taking a swing, and

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Speaker 1: then five minutes later Christian Javier threw a warm up

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Speaker 1: pitch before the second inning, began, summon the trainers from

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Speaker 1: the dugout, and left with what the Astros described as

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Speaker 1: right shoulder tightness. Tyler, you're the fan here where how

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Speaker 1: are you feeling, buddy?

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Speaker 2: It's one thing to go one in five to start

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Speaker 2: a road trip. Those things happen. It's a very long season.

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Speaker 2: You know, stuff like that happens all the time. Even

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Speaker 2: the best teams have you know, a couple of series

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Speaker 2: that look like this, as frustrating as they are to watch,

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Speaker 2: But when you couple that with the pitching has not

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Speaker 2: been good, and you just lost Hunter Brown and you're

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Speaker 2: probably gonna lose Christian Hobvier for a long time. How

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Speaker 2: do you fix it?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 2: How does this get better? Like that's the hard part

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Speaker 2: because you know, again, sometimes you have series where the

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Speaker 2: offense just sputters, you have one bad start or whatever.

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Speaker 2: But this was just up and down. The pishing was

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Speaker 2: just awful. I mean just terrible. I mean there's no

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Speaker 2: real redeeming parts of this road trip so far. To

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Speaker 2: that end, I mean outside of Emi who you know,

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Speaker 2: they didn't give up a run in that one win

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Speaker 2: Astros are one in five. They have given up forty

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Speaker 2: six runs in six games. That's bad. That's not what

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Speaker 2: you want. That's almost eight runs a game. If my

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Speaker 2: So I went to the handy dandy stat head over

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Speaker 2: at Baseball Reference. I put in a search of how

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Speaker 2: many times are the Astros allowed greater than or equal

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Speaker 2: to forty six runs over six games. It's happened a lot.

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Speaker 2: It's a long franchise, but it's only happened seven times

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Speaker 2: since the Golden Era began in twenty seventeen. So it

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Speaker 2: did happen once in twenty seventeen. In September of that year,

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Speaker 2: they had a minus thirty three run differential. In those

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Speaker 2: It also happened last season in August, and I think

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Speaker 2: we all remember how we felt in August of last

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Speaker 2: season they gave up There was a stretch last year

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Speaker 2: from August twelfth through the eighteenth they gave up forty

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Speaker 2: if you recall where they they had the walk off

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Speaker 2: out twelve to nothing, and then went to Detroit and

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Speaker 2: got swept and that first game was ten to nothing.

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Speaker 2: So a lot of it is from those two games.

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Speaker 1: But.

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Speaker 2: A historically bad stretch for the last six games. Again,

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Speaker 2: it's only happened seven times since twenty seventeen that they

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Speaker 2: have given up this many runs. And I just I

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Speaker 2: don't know how you think this is going to stop.

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Speaker 2: I mean, who are you turning to? I mean, now

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Speaker 2: it's going to be you know, Colden Gordon, Jason, Alexander

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Speaker 2: filling in for Hunter Brown and the ghost of Christian Javier,

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Speaker 2: who you know, I think everybody wanted to pencil in

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Speaker 2: as a number three starter this year. I was pretty

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Speaker 2: hesitant about that. And now I don't even know that

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Speaker 2: you're gonna see him again. You know, we have no

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Speaker 2: idea what the injury is gonna look like. But you

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Speaker 2: get pulled from a game like that, it's not gonna

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Speaker 2: be a couple of weeks. It's it's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: while before we see him, and so you're gonna really

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Speaker 2: be relying on Emi. And then after that, I mean

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Speaker 2: you're just you're relying on guys that either don't have

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Speaker 2: a lot of service time in Mike Burrows, who's been okay,

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Speaker 2: but you know you're not you're not fist pumping that

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Speaker 2: he's your number two starter. And you've got Lancepa Colors,

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Speaker 2: who you know, we have seen flashes of it, but

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Speaker 2: are you betting on that for a whole season. I

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Speaker 2: don't think so. And then again, just a bunch of

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Speaker 2: but it's there's no real workhorse anywhere in this rotation

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Speaker 2: when you couple that with, you know, the bullpen struggles

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Speaker 2: they're just way overworked. I mean, poor aj blue Ball

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Speaker 2: But he hasn't looked good in the last couple of

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Speaker 2: very nervous for the next one hundred and fifty or

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Speaker 1: There's one hundred and forty nine games left.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 2: That's that's even better one less.

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Speaker 1: There's only three bullpens in the sport that have thrown

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Speaker 1: more innings than the Astros currently, and that's the White Sox,

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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays, and the Nationals. The White Sox and

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Speaker 1: the Nationals are not trying to win, and the Blue

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Speaker 1: Jays have about as bad of an injury bug as

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Speaker 1: the astros do right now. So it's two, it's four

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Speaker 1: teams going in very different directions. Let's take a break,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure this is going to make anybody feel better,

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Speaker 1: but the Detroit Tigers lost tonight. They're four and eight,

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Speaker 1: best rotation in the American League, maybe the best rotation

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Speaker 2: Even don't forget about the the bottom dwellers over in Seattle.

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Speaker 2: I mean they're they're looking way up at the astros.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they can't hit. They can pitch. They haven't

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Speaker 1: We'll find out the unstoppable force versus versus the immovable

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Speaker 1: object this weekend at t Mobile Park. But let's talk

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Speaker 1: about two shoulders. Let's talk about first the one we

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Speaker 1: Brown's Grade two shoulder stream that he sustained. We got

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Speaker 1: a little bit more information from Dana Brown and Joe

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Speaker 1: spotted this this week in Colorado. There is not a

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Speaker 1: timeline for his return. The only timeline that was even

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Speaker 1: expressed by anyone was that he will reevaluated in two weeks.

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Speaker 1: Is that he's going to go back to the doctor

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Speaker 1: after two weeks. I presume they will do more imaging. Again,

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Speaker 1: be more imaging and they'll go from there. You can

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Speaker 1: maybe look at other guys that have had similar injuries.

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Speaker 1: But the reason you don't want to compare the two is,

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Speaker 1: you know, we don't know what specific you know, muscles

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Speaker 1: What do you think, Yeah, I'm just going to start

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Speaker 1: Jason Alexander, who pitched very very well in his last

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Speaker 1: Josh Miller and Joe spot It. It's gonna test these

434
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Speaker 1: guys in terms of how to how to maneuver this.

435
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 1: But as far as what they're gonna do beyond Emi

436
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: uh mccullors and Burrows, like, I don't know yet. I

437
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: Spencer Arigatt, He's gonna factor in there somewhere. They could.

438
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: You know, Cody Bolton pitched very, very well in in

439
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,680
Speaker 1: the first game of this Rocky series, you know, gave

440
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 1: him four innings. He was out to about sixty pitches.

441
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 1: Maybe his next time out they could get him up

442
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 1: to seventy seventy five. They have Ryan Weiss, who they

443
00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: seem hell bent on remaining as a reliever, but he's

444
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: got sixty to sixty five pitches in his right arm

445
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: as well. Because you hit the nail on the head

446
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: like they need length, Like they need guys that can

447
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: just go out there and get outs, like eat innings

448
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: and get outs. And it's gonna have to come in

449
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,679
Speaker 1: all shapes and sizes. It's gonna have to come from

450
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: a bunch of different guys. They may do some unconventional

451
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: stuff you may see, you may see. I mean, everyone's

452
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: always asking about openers and stuff you do openers, Like

453
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: the reason the Tampa Bay Rays started deploying openers way

454
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: back when was because they legitimately they did not have

455
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 1: starting pitchers. The Astros are inching toward that point where

456
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Speaker 1: where if they're gonna run a six man rotation out there,

457
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: like they may not have six like bona fide starters

458
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: to run out there. So you could see some piggybacks

459
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Speaker 1: like they did with Bolton and Weiss, you could see

460
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Speaker 1: some openers, you could see some full on bullpen games.

461
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Speaker 1: They're gonna have to get really, really creative, especially with

462
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Speaker 1: thirteen games in a row, and no often.

463
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Speaker 2: I did not have on my Bengo card April eighth,

464
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 2: discussing the possible piggybacking of a fella named Cody Bolton.

465
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 2: That was not what I was expecting the beginning of

466
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 2: the year to look like. But yeah, you're gonna have

467
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 2: to see all kinds of that. You mentioned a couple

468
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 2: of moves that they could do on the forty man.

469
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Speaker 2: Who do they have left that are like the easy

470
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 2: moves to get off the forty man because of injuries

471
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Speaker 2: or stuff like that.

472
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Speaker 1: Let me pull it up. Let me pull it up.

473
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Speaker 1: Just so I don't speak out a term, but there's

474
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Speaker 1: some guys that they can put on the sixty days.

475
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Speaker 2: I think Blanco is still on the.

476
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Speaker 1: Fifty ye ren Old Blanco can go to the sixty

477
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: day IL pretty pretty easily at this point. Like Nate

478
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: Pearson's probably been out so long that they could put

479
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: him on the sixty day, but it wouldn't impact his

480
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: timeline for a return because they are building Nate Pearson

481
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Speaker 1: up as a starter. He's gonna throw a two inning

482
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Speaker 1: SIM game in West Palm Beach this weekend in if

483
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: they're building him up as a starter, he's still got

484
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: a little wayte to go. I don't know what the

485
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: calendar would look like, but again that's a possibility. They

486
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: could put him on the sixty day. To be honest

487
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 1: with you, if they look at themselves and maybe realize

488
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: that Hunter Brown's not gonna be back in an expeditious fashion,

489
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: like they could put him on the sixty day. Again,

490
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: maybe it wouldn't change, you know, maybe the timeline or anything.

491
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: But if they need forty man roster spots, you know,

492
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: that'd be the way to do it. But you've also

493
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 1: got you've got some guys on the back end of

494
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Speaker 1: your forty man roster that maybe you could consider, you know,

495
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 1: cutting ties.

496
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,719
Speaker 2: They've got two easy options right now, Like if they

497
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 2: need to bring somebody up, well we talked about JP

498
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 2: France or whoever, like somebody to get one roster spot,

499
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 2: Blanco is an easy one.

500
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like they're gonna have to do that for Taylor

501
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: Tremill because Taylor Tremell's not on the forty man roster

502
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: either because they took him off this winner, but he

503
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: signed a split contract so he's not on the forty But.

504
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 2: They need two spots like right now, so they've got

505
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 2: to put Blanc on and then probably Pearson for this weekend.

506
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Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to commit to

507
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: the Pearson thing yet. But because he began the season

508
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: on the il, like the stent would be backdated to

509
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: opening day, so he's already accumulated. However many days we

510
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: are into the season. But again, they would have to

511
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 1: do the math and see like will he be ready

512
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: to come back, Like when will he be ready to

513
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: come back? If if they think he can be ready

514
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,120
Speaker 1: to come back before that sixty days, like they need

515
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: all the help they can get, like they may not

516
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: risk putting him on the sixty day and losing out

517
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: on that opportunity. So Ronel Blanco is probably the only

518
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Speaker 1: one that I would say without a shadow of a doubt.

519
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how long Zach Cole is going to

520
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: be out. But the problem with Zach Cole would be

521
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: if you put him on the sixty day, I believe

522
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: you'd have to start his major league restart his major

523
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: league service time clock. But again that's that's way down

524
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: in the weeds. But that's way down in the weeds.

525
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: But yeah, they're gonna have to make some forty man

526
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Speaker 1: moves and could be some interesting conversations with some guys

527
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: on the back end of the forty man. But there's

528
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: not a lot spot there.

529
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 2: There's not a lot on the back end that you

530
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 2: could really talk about. It's it's really just pitching that

531
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 2: normally you would be able to to find.

532
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: I mean.

533
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Speaker 2: Maybe like Delo Santos or somebody like that. But I

534
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 2: mean there's not there's not a lot of options. And

535
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 2: then when you get to position players that I don't

536
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 2: I don't think there's anybody that you could look at

537
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 2: that would be somebody that would you you would get

538
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 2: rid of. Maybe maybe you could trade somebody like Zak

539
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 2: Dezenzo or something for just like a single a, you

540
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 2: know whatever, but just to like offload.

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Speaker 1: I think I think she would comes maybe in that

542
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: conversation that makes sense of someone that of someone that

543
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: you could you could cut ties with. I did, I

544
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: did omit. However, the rottery munoz Era is over. We

545
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: did not. We have not spoken about that since we

546
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: got on here. He so technically I completely forgot about this.

547
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: So I was looking at the roster just now. He's

548
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: not on the forty man, So they have an open

549
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: forty man spot right now.

550
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 2: Oh that's right.

551
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 1: So they can get Taylor Tremmell on the forty without

552
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: making a roster move or without making a forty. Yeah,

553
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: and then they could put a Blanco on the on

554
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: the sixty to get a to get another picture on

555
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: the forty if they would need so. So they're actually

556
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: in a better position than I thought because Roddery Munyo

557
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: is no longer on the forty man roster. So but yeah,

558
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of roster machinations, a lot

559
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: of just a lot of they Again, this is very,

560
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: very eerily similar to twenty twenty four when just early

561
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: in the season, you know that was that was the

562
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: year when you know, it just everybody everything went wrong

563
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: at once, like they were getting like Wander Swearrow came

564
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: up and had a random appearance. Like that was when

565
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: they were and you know, random guys up from Triple

566
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: A just to just to fill innings. They were caroselling

567
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: guys back and forth. This is going to be a

568
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: pretty consistent shuttle from from Triple A to the to

569
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: the big leagues, and it could affect some guys that

570
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: they really like, you know, I mean, you look at

571
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: who has options in their bullpen, like Brian King has options.

572
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: He ain't going to nowhere. He's been their best reliever

573
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: all He's been their best reliever all all season. AJ

574
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: blue Ball has options. Kaiwai Tang has options. Cody Bolton

575
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: does not have options. Ryan Weiss has options. Like that,

576
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: there could be some some hard decisions made, and there

577
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: could be some decisions that are made, just again to

578
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: get arms up, to get available arms up, like AJ

579
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: blue Ball through how many pitches today, like forty something,

580
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: Like he's probably down for a little bit. Like if

581
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: they use Ryan Weiss in a lengthy role in one

582
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 1: of these games in Seattle and they need a fresh arm,

583
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: like it may be Ryan Weiss goes down to the

584
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: minor leagues. Like again, like they are in a position

585
00:31:58,560 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: where they're.

586
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 2: Just saying White has options or no, he does, no,

587
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 2: he does Okay.

588
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: So yeah, yep.

589
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 2: Good news is is they're scoring a lot. I mean

590
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 2: today notwithstanding, but as we mentioned, they are leading the

591
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 2: league in runs scored. They have scored seventy nine runs.

592
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 2: The next closest are the Dodgers at seventy five. Just

593
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,479
Speaker 2: for fun, the Reds are down at the bottom. They

594
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 2: have scored thirty eight runs, which seems like not a lot.

595
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 2: They should probably try to score more. The Astros have

596
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 2: also given up the most runs in baseball at seventy eight,

597
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 2: so that they've scored one more run than they have

598
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 2: given up. But both of those lead all of baseball,

599
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 2: which is pretty impressive to do.

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Speaker 1: If you're watching on YouTube. We have the current offensive

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Speaker 1: leaders on a team offensive leaders, and I mean, look,

602
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: I know the Ashers just scored eighteen just scored two

603
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: runs and eight in the last eighteen innings in course Field,

604
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: where which is kind of unfathomable. But they still, like

605
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: you said, they lead the league and run score of fine.

606
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I.

607
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: Do wonder though, and listen, no, I don't think anyone

608
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: could have envisioned this when the series started. That you know,

609
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: jord And Alvarez's first three starts at Coursefield, I don't

610
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: think he got a hit or he if he did,

611
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: he got one hit, it was not a one.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: I do wonder. You know, you look, you looked at

614
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: this series. You know he didn't do much. Carlos Carreo

615
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: was out for two of the three games with a

616
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: with feeling under the weather. He had a he had

617
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: he had you know, he got sick after the Monday game,

618
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: so he missed two of those three games. Jordan didn't

619
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Speaker 1: do much. Altuve had had a very nice series, but

620
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: you know, Paynya didn't didn't do a ton either. Like again,

621
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Speaker 1: for how good this offense has been, it remains a

622
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: very you know, you need the top five or six

623
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: guys in the lineup to perform. You know, the bottom

624
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: of their order in this series was not great. You know,

625
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: the Jiner Diaz who whomever played out of Bryce Matthews

626
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: and Joey Loperfdo and Jake Myers. You know, it wasn't

627
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 1: a great showing for them this weekend. So this week

628
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: excuse me. So this is still a top heavy offense.

629
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: This is still an offense that needs its big boys

630
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: to produce like big boys. And you know I'm not

631
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 1: I mean, jord and Ava has been on another planet

632
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: for the first ten games of the year. You're not gonna,

633
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: you know, blame him for this, but like, yeah, he

634
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: he just had three games where it just he didn't

635
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: produce and the offense you know, struggled with him. But

636
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 1: cam Smith, however, holy hell, that ball he hit on Monday,

637
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.

638
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 2: Was a big fan of that. I didn't know that

639
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 2: was he's got He's perfected the the launch and stay.

640
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 2: He's had that on his last couple of MOVI shots

641
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 2: of just staring at the ball in the way that

642
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 2: he kind of like leans back and then snaps back

643
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 2: up right after his great Uh. Yeah, did not know

644
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 2: he had that.

645
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: I have a funny story about that. So he So

646
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: that game in the inning I think it was the

647
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: inning or two before, was when Correa and Alvarez both

648
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: hit deep flyballs that were like one hundred and ten

649
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: off the bat straight to dead center field and they

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Speaker 1: both died at the track, just like they didn't get

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Speaker 1: it up, and I like what I but they were

652
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 1: both crushed and like off the bat. It was Korea

653
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: and Alvarez off the bat. I'm like, oh, those balls

654
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: are gone and they died at the track. So Cam

655
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Speaker 1: comes up. Either it was either the next inning or

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Speaker 1: the enning after, I can't remember what the timing was.

657
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: But so he comes up and he hits the exact

658
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: what looks like the exact same flyball to dead center field,

659
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Speaker 1: and I saw him do the stop and stare thing,

660
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, no, he pimped a flyout. Oh no,

661
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: I feel so bad for him. And then the ball

662
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: just kept going and I was like, oh my god,

663
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: he got all of it and like four hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty two feet. It is the It was the ninth

665
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: longest home run by an astro since stat Cast started

666
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 1: tracking that in two thousand and eight. It is the

667
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: longest home run in Major League Baseball this season. We

668
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: asked him, I think I asked him yesterday. I said,

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Speaker 1: is that the Is that the farthest you've ever hit

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00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: a ball? And he said with a wood bat, yes,

671
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Speaker 1: which made me wonder what he's done with the which

672
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: maybe wonder what he did in Florida State with the

673
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 1: aluminum ones. But I asked him, I go, is that

674
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: the hardest you can hit the ball? He goes, I

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00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess we'll see. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That was that was That was impressive. He's looked good.

677
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:49,280
Speaker 2: Good thing they made everybody play center field in spring

678
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:54,919
Speaker 2: training because you're gonna have to run who knows out there.

679
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 2: I assume it's going to be mainly low Perfedo starting

680
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 2: in center. Yeah.

681
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,760
Speaker 1: The Mariners are basically an all right handed pitching staff,

682
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,439
Speaker 1: especially their rotation, they have a lot of right handed

683
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: hitter right handed pitching, excuse me, So I could see

684
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Speaker 1: Loperfido getting some time in center as we just I

685
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: think we discussed this a little bit on a previous pot.

686
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Speaker 1: But Jordan, I believe, will be a factor in left

687
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Speaker 1: field in Seattle. He's played I think nine career games

688
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: in left field at Tea Mobile Park, which demonstrates that

689
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 1: they are at least comfortable playing him out there. And

690
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: given the state of this pitching staff right now, Joe A.

691
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: Spotta has to run his best offensive lineup out there

692
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: every day because they're gonna have to score a ton

693
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: of runs. So I would imagine that Jordan plays at

694
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: least two games in left field, two of the four

695
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: games in Seattle in left field, and then you've got

696
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: Lowperfido in center, and you'll have Camon right you can

697
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: dg sock paratus. Uh so, yeah, they'll they'll be able

698
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: to run maybe a more funk, not a more functional,

699
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: but just a deeper offensive lineup than they did at

700
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 1: course Field, where they did not want Alvarez to touch the outfield,

701
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: which is which is for the best.

702
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the obviously it's a big loss losing

703
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 2: Jake Myers, but it also makes playing Jordon and left

704
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 2: field a little bit more difficult when you don't have

705
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 2: somebody like Myers patrolling center field where Jordon just knows

706
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 2: he's going to get to most everything. Low Berfeedo is

707
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 2: a fine center fielder, but he's not Jake Myers and

708
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 2: doesn't have the same level of experience that that Myers

709
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 2: has had out there. So it does make playing Jordon

710
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 2: and left a little bit more difficult.

711
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think they I think they will be

712
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: able to do it in Seattle and then you know

713
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: they're going to come home. I think they have what

714
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: like eight in a row at home after that, so

715
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: be able to come home and they'll have no Dyke

716
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: in park, he'll be able to be able to better

717
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: play him out there. But yeah, I do wonder, and

718
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about it till we were just

719
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: talking this out, Like because of where the pitching staff

720
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: is and because of who they're going to have to pitch,

721
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: it's probably going to prompt Joe a spot at it

722
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 1: maybe make some more drastic decisions about playing Jordan Alvarez

723
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: more in left field so he can get Estcock Paradus

724
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: in the lineup so he can eliminate what we just

725
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: talked about, like the bottom of their order was not

726
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: great at course field, Like putting estock paradis in their helps.

727
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 1: It bumps everyone down or wrong. It lengthens the lineup

728
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,479
Speaker 1: and it's a deeper lineup. You know what did Joe

729
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: say this offseason when every time he was asked about

730
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: Alvarez in left field? You know, he said, we don't

731
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: want to like he's going to play out there, but

732
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: the plan right now is to not do it. But

733
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 1: he also would come back and say, you know, the

734
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: plan last year was for jose L Tuve to be

735
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: the everyday left fielder, and that plan changed because circumstances changed. Well,

736
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: circumstances have very very much changed thirteen games in this season.

737
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Speaker 2: If I can too, I have no interest in seeing

738
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 2: either Yin or Diaz or Christian Vasquez written as a

739
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 2: DH in a lineup. Again, Don't I don't need that,

740
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 2: I you just find somebody else. I don't. I don't

741
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 2: need either one of them taking up a designated hitter role.

742
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 2: Those that is not the words that I would use

743
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 2: to describe either one of those two gentlemen at the moment.

744
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: It was probably and I probably should have. Oh man,

745
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: I could have made this a great lead in my story.

746
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 1: I'm kicking myself now because it was probably a harbinger

747
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 1: of things to come. That Cody Bolton, the guy that

748
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: started this series for the Astros, on the third pitch,

749
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: got smoked in the back by one hundred and two

750
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: mile an hour line drive and went down to the

751
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: ground and needed a trainer to come out and make

752
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: sure he was all right. That was the third pitch

753
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: of this of this.

754
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 2: Week, was the best pitcher of the series.

755
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: And it was probably a harbinger of what was to

756
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: come for an Astros team that is reeling, that is

757
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: very injured, that does not know who is going to

758
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: fill a ton of innings for them going forward, but

759
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: is all things considered in an okay spot. They are

760
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: again as we talked about their six and seven. You

761
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: look at the division. The defending division champs, Seattle Mariners

762
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,959
Speaker 1: are four and nine, the Tigers are four and eight.

763
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: Around the sport, there's a lot of teams that would

764
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: like to be record wise where the Astros are, but

765
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: it's going to only get tougher from here. There's thirteen

766
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: games and thirteen days looming, a pitching staff that is

767
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: beset by injuries, a bullpen that cannot stop walking people,

768
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: and an offense that's going to have to basically carry

769
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: this team to wherever it wants to go, and where

770
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: it's going is Seattle, where I will be starting tomorrow,

771
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: and we will be back with Josh Reddick on Friday

772
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: morning from Seattle to preview the series. We'll get Josh's

773
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,320
Speaker 1: thoughts on his trip to Scotland. We'll get Josh's thoughts

774
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: on him being on base for George Springers four hundred

775
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Speaker 1: and seventy six foot home run back in twenty eighteen, which.

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00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 2: Is the longest There. I was there, you were, I

777
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 2: was sitting down. I was I was sitting down the

778
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 2: right field line. That's the one that was in like

779
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 2: the first inning right that he's hit to the like

780
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 2: the batter's eye.

781
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: Like, wait, you were in the you were in the Colosseum.

782
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: It was at the Colosseum.

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00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,399
Speaker 2: It was oh no, he had one.

784
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Speaker 1: Oh you know what.

785
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 2: It was right before stat cast. I remember, I'm talking

786
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 2: with my friends of the pod Sesspen his family, Barberacast

787
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,800
Speaker 2: over there. It was right before stackcast. He must have

788
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 2: hit one four hundred and eighty feet at at minute made.

789
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 2: I'll have to find the video because it's it's ridiculous.

790
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 2: But uh yes I was. I was there for that one,

791
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 2: not the one at the coliseum.

792
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: Well, Josh was there, so Josh, Josh'll give us his recollection.

793
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: Shout out to Jordan and Jordan and Jake, Cesspas Barbecue great,

794
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: uh great friends of the pod. Love them. We'll have

795
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: them on at some point, but before we do. You

796
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 1: can follow me on x at Chandler Underscore Room. You

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00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,480
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799
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Speaker 1: new podcast, which will be on Friday morning from Seattle

802
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: with Josh. Until then, we will talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 2: Good news, it's a it's a long season. Bad news

805
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 2: it it is a long season. Bye.

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Speaker 1: Mhm m m hm

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Speaker 2: Hm