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

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Speaker 1: Territory Channel. The room joined as always by Tyler Stafford

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Speaker 1: and the Astro's newest outfield instructor, Josh Reddick, fresh off

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Speaker 1: of his first day on the field in West Palm

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Speaker 1: Beach working with the Astros outfielders. Josh, did you wear

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Speaker 1: baseball cleats? And how much are your feet hurting?

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Speaker 2: They're not hurting as much as I thought they would.

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Speaker 2: I had found some old turfs that were already broken

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Speaker 2: in at the house, so cleats are definitely not going

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Speaker 2: to be worn this week. That's a whole different kind

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Speaker 2: of soreness and pain. For those that don't know, just

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Speaker 2: putting on cleats for three hours a day is no

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Speaker 2: easy tasks just walking around, so I don't need the

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Speaker 2: back pain. But no, it was. It was pretty good.

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Speaker 2: I kind of just hung out and in my turfs

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Speaker 2: and talking to some guys and walked around some more.

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Speaker 3: Did they call you coach?

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Speaker 2: No? I did get called sir quite a bit, So

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Speaker 2: that was a that was a wake up call. And

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Speaker 2: as much as I appreciate the respect, I told them,

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Speaker 2: I was like, look, guys, I appreciate it, but I'm

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Speaker 2: not ready for that, not forty yet. So let's let's

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Speaker 2: just hold off off the surf for a while.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's a manager who's like, thirty five, got to you,

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Speaker 3: gotta step it up, So.

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Speaker 2: That's a manager. I'm not a manager. If I was

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Speaker 2: a manager, and even then, even then you don't really

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Speaker 2: say yes, sir. I guess mostly I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: don't know. Some players do, some players don't. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm not ready for it. I'm not ready for the

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Speaker 2: sir comments just yet.

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Speaker 3: What drills were you running out there? What were we doing?

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Speaker 2: We ran several drills. They do it kind of differently here.

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Speaker 2: They do outfield. They did outfield stations yesterday as opposed

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Speaker 2: to when I played, it was all outfitters and one

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Speaker 2: big group and we did all our workouts together. But

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Speaker 2: they seem to have everything spread out running in a

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Speaker 2: station thing now, so it's kind of like they get

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Speaker 2: more individual work as opposed to more standing around like

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Speaker 2: we had in the past. So everybody's constantly moving, which

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Speaker 2: it's actually kind of nice. It keeps you kind of moving,

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Speaker 2: keeps you refresh. You don't do more standing around as

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Speaker 2: an outfielder, because if you don't know how spring training works.

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Speaker 2: Right outfielder, we are the lowest on the totem pole.

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Speaker 2: When it becomes to everything, you know, there's only so

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Speaker 2: much we can do. We're waiting on pitchers, we're waiting

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Speaker 2: on in fielders. So usually when the outfielders are done,

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Speaker 2: we just go back to the cage and get some

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Speaker 2: moving parts coming in. We did some just some route

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Speaker 2: running left, right, back, angle, straight back, straight forward. We

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Speaker 2: did some they call him drop drills where you get

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Speaker 2: the guys in the outfield, two coaches go to home plate,

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Speaker 2: flip a fung go ball, and one coach hits them

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Speaker 2: and they just react off the bats. We were working

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Speaker 2: on reaction times like that, and that was one thing

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Speaker 2: we did in the morning, and then went back in

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Speaker 2: boys got some lunch, and then we watched the game.

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Speaker 2: And I just spent the game watching whoever played the

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Speaker 2: outfield and reading how I thought they should be running

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Speaker 2: off the ball and doing all kinds of things. And

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Speaker 2: I'm still learning names, but I did have a nice

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Speaker 2: conversation to dugout with one of the younger kids. I

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Speaker 2: have to I have to remember to get his name.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember when it was Smith. It was not

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Speaker 2: Cam Smith because he was younger Kathy. He was a

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Speaker 2: non roster guy but didn't play, but just had plenty

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Speaker 2: of questions with just picking my brain. So that was

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Speaker 2: good to help the game not only go a long

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Speaker 2: faster because we know these spring trainings are slow. Spring

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Speaker 2: training games are very slow. But basked some really good

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Speaker 2: questions and he wasn't shy about getting out there and

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Speaker 2: just digging deep into the arsenal of you know, the

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Speaker 2: short book of knowledge that I can offer anybody.

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Speaker 3: Surprise you, like anybody makes some players out there that

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Speaker 3: you were like, Oh, I didn't know you had that

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Speaker 2: No, there wasn't. Nobody really got challenged yesterday. I will

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Speaker 2: say I didn't know that they were working Bryce Matthews

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Speaker 2: with the outfielders, so that was kind of a shock

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Speaker 2: to see him coming out there. But he looks clean

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Speaker 2: little bit. But he he floats out there, He's he's quick,

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Speaker 2: he's soft on his feet, and he really does go

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Speaker 2: seen anything. Maybe tonight with the night game against Venezuela,

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Speaker 2: I'll get to see some moving parts out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we saw obviously last year the big headline was

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Speaker 1: Cam Smith switching from the infield to the outfield. But

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Speaker 1: you know, if Bryce Matthews is going to make this

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Speaker 1: team and if he's going to have any sort of

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Speaker 1: a regular role, which Joe Spottis still maintains, and he's

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Speaker 1: maintained this for his entire managerial tenure that if he's

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Speaker 1: that are prospects, then they need every day playing time

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Speaker 1: because he would rather their player development continue at the

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Speaker 1: minor league level where they can play every day as

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Speaker 1: opposed to the major league level. But with Bryce Matthews,

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Speaker 1: you kind of run into the conundrum of you know,

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Speaker 1: he can do in Triple A. He's taken five hundred

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Speaker 1: age wise, he's going to turn twenty four years old

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Speaker 1: and next weekend. Actually happy early birthday to Bryce Matthew's

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Speaker 1: friend of the pod. But he's in turn twenty four

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Speaker 1: next week. I mean, this is not a situation where

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Speaker 1: they've got to kind of see what they have in him.

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Speaker 1: This isn't probably not in the situation anymore of just

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Speaker 1: let him play every day. Let him play every day.

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Speaker 1: They've done that for two years at Triple A. So

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Speaker 1: as we'll talk about a little bit later and tomorrow

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Speaker 1: the the roster is still unsettled. There is a chance

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Speaker 1: that Bryce Matthews becomes a pretty integral part of the outfield,

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Speaker 1: if you know, some other trades happened, if you know,

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Speaker 1: some roster machinations. But that's interesting to hear that. You know,

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Speaker 1: you you saw him for one You've seen him for

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Speaker 1: one day, Josh and you and you come away and pressed,

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Speaker 1: I guess what is We talked about a little bit

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Speaker 2: Well, the good thing is for him is he's going

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Speaker 2: easiest one of the three. Two react off the ball,

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Speaker 2: go in to the corners, you have those balls that

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Speaker 2: power hook, power slice, the one straight at you, rise,

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Speaker 2: We can just go get it, you know, he doesn't

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Speaker 2: miles an hour. But just watching his routes and the

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Speaker 2: in Unison, as we all know. But the way he

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Speaker 2: But just watching him run direct routes, not a banana route,

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Speaker 2: that doesn't come naturally. We've seen it a lot with

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Speaker 2: he's going to be somebody who's got the ability to

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Speaker 1: What's a banana route shape?

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Speaker 2: Like a banana You do it, You go around, you start,

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Speaker 2: I get my camera, you start. Instead of going directly

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Speaker 3: That's how you go around.

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Speaker 2: The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

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Speaker 1: So they taught you that, and uh, they taught you

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Speaker 2: They taught me that in like middle school in Georgia. Yeah. Wait,

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Speaker 2: they waited a little louder, but we got there. We

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Speaker 3: Mike was MX plus B come on exactly.

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Speaker 1: Sure, did Zach Cole call you, sir, because that's the

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Speaker 3: It was not. It was not.

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Speaker 2: It was not that. It wasn't any it was I

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Speaker 1: But Jake Myers, no one, no one.

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Speaker 3: Brown's dad watches, He's gonna tell on us.

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Speaker 2: But no, there there was just a couple of young

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Speaker 2: there out of habit and you know, out of respect.

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Speaker 2: So I tipped my cap to those kids. They were

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Speaker 2: they were brought up right, and their parents told them

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Speaker 2: just not ready for it.

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Speaker 1: I heard, I heard Joe gave you a nice little

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Speaker 1: What was that like to to, you know, be on

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Speaker 1: the other side of that, because I'm sure you sat

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Speaker 1: in that I'm sure you sat in that clubhouse a

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Speaker 1: lot and had to listen to managers introduce guest instructors,

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Speaker 1: other side of that different?

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Speaker 2: Very different, very odd? But it was funny, you know.

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Speaker 2: It was a very warm welcome, got a nice round

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Speaker 2: You know, I just talked a little bit about my career,

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Speaker 2: how long I played, you know, go Glove World Series,

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Speaker 2: So those are always great accolades to hear when your

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Speaker 2: name's being associated with them. But you know, I'd already

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Speaker 2: talked to most of the guys at that point, so

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Speaker 2: it was cool. You know, you walk around and you know,

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Speaker 2: one of the first guys I see is Jose get

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Speaker 2: to give him a big hug, and then, you know,

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Speaker 2: not long after that was Korea and just seeing all

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Speaker 2: those guys was cool. Given all the guys that I

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Speaker 2: played with, going up talking to Lance about you know,

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Speaker 2: like that was just some great feelings to get to

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Speaker 2: see those guys and only see them, but talk to them,

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Speaker 3: How to how JP France look, that's his first time

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Speaker 3: So I was, well, you disappeared, Josh. I don't know

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Speaker 2: Sorry timing me. Sorry, Yeah, wife was face timing me

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Speaker 2: His two innings were great. Like I said, he hides

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Speaker 3: So we agree he can touch ninety five and one inning.

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Speaker 2: Shut up.

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Speaker 1: He's a he's a starting pitcher. Mike Burrows continues to

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Speaker 1: He is a It is a quick, quick pace with him.

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Speaker 1: What you do.

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Speaker 2: He's like, you know what you're doing? Right? Yeah? Three

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Speaker 3: Are they gonna let are they gonna let out to

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Speaker 3: not He's off to that. I think, come on, let him,

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Speaker 2: He's probably off the next two days. He's probably off today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Sarasota trip. Are you driving and you're gonna

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Speaker 2: Uh? I don't know yet, Joe said, I have every

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Speaker 3: Grab the Ox and play Crush City for him the

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm gonna be bluetooth connected to the to

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So Becz too Many won't play against Team

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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I mean, you get heartbroken about not

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Speaker 2: If I'm speculating anything for Altuov, it's probably he doesn't

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Speaker 3: Be a lead off both halves of the first inning.

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Speaker 1: kind of step toward home plate. But he hoped that

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Speaker 1: if he could step a little bit straighter and keep

435
00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,479
Speaker 1: himself a little bit more open, that could let him

436
00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:39,320
Speaker 1: use the field a lot more, could let him get

437
00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,200
Speaker 1: some more plate coverage. Not that he needs better play coverage.

438
00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,320
Speaker 1: You can put the battle all basically anywhere. But I

439
00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:49,959
Speaker 1: do think, you know, while results do not matter, I

440
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,520
Speaker 1: think kind of how these guys are making contact kind

441
00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:57,040
Speaker 1: of what it goes into the results, I think matters

442
00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:58,920
Speaker 1: a little bit more. And to see al Tuove going

443
00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,000
Speaker 1: up the middle to see the contact where he wants

444
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,359
Speaker 1: it to be on a line up the middle, I

445
00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 1: think that's encouraging just in the fact that he has

446
00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:11,040
Speaker 1: probably made those stance adjustments, he's made those step adjustments,

447
00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,399
Speaker 1: and it's paying off for him. Albeit a you know,

448
00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:14,840
Speaker 1: first couple weeks of spring training.

449
00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,000
Speaker 3: I'll know, I'll know when he's locked in when we

450
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,359
Speaker 3: see the tongue flick, when he's up there waggling and

451
00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:24,879
Speaker 3: giving us one of these, that's that's when we know

452
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:25,760
Speaker 3: that he's locked in.

453
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he looked fine yesterday. He got a

454
00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:30,600
Speaker 2: hit I think in the sixth hole yesterday on an

455
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,879
Speaker 2: off speed pitch, a little off the end, but stayed

456
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,639
Speaker 2: through it really well, drove it to the left field.

457
00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,199
Speaker 2: I think he hit did hit one maybe up the

458
00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,640
Speaker 2: middle towards second base yesterday. But yeah, like you said,

459
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,000
Speaker 2: this is this is not a result driven you know,

460
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,560
Speaker 2: I want to say industry because it is. But like

461
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,439
Speaker 2: especially in screen training. For these guys, you could come

462
00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,639
Speaker 2: out of here hitting sixty and it's not going to

463
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 2: matter as long as your swings look great. You're swinging

464
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 2: at good pitches and you're hitting the ball hard. So

465
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 2: a lot of guys hit the ball hard. Yes, he

466
00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 2: didn't have a lot of hits to show for it,

467
00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:01,320
Speaker 2: but man, the win here has been. I forgot how

468
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,640
Speaker 2: bad the win here. This isn't this ballpark because it's

469
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,520
Speaker 2: like going into third base. It's not going like straight in,

470
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 2: but it's coming from like center field in the third base,

471
00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,119
Speaker 2: so it's just killing everything that gets hit to the outfield.

472
00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,560
Speaker 2: There could have easily been at least four home runs

473
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,119
Speaker 2: hit yesterday, but it just wasn't in the cards with

474
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,440
Speaker 2: the wind blowing. But from what I saw and everybody's,

475
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 2: everybody's already taken really great at bats for it being

476
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,440
Speaker 2: a couple of games in the spring training games.

477
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I saw the first first second and

478
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,639
Speaker 1: Carlos crushed the ball. Carlo's crushed the ball to right field.

479
00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 1: That just that just died.

480
00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,679
Speaker 2: I think the guy took like five steps back and

481
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 2: then coming back in for like three steps and it

482
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,720
Speaker 2: was probably hit. It probably was hit over one hundred

483
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,040
Speaker 2: and four hundred and five miles an hour.

484
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Speaker 1: So, Josh, I mean, you've had one day, so you'll

485
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Speaker 1: be there for the rest of the week. What will

486
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Speaker 1: you be looking for. I guess as you look at

487
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 1: this young outfield group, as you look at you know,

488
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: Cole cam Jake Myers, Joey Loperfito, those were probably the

489
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Speaker 1: four guys that they camp ended two tomorrow. Those are

490
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:05,240
Speaker 1: probably the four outfielders on your opening day roster. All

491
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 1: of them have major league experience, three of them not

492
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,800
Speaker 1: as much as as Jake Myers. But what specifically are

493
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,160
Speaker 1: you hoping to see from them that give that will

494
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of optimism and hope that

495
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 1: these guys can maybe that the experience level maybe doesn't matter,

496
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,400
Speaker 1: that these guys can if they are the starting if

497
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 1: there are the four guys on the opening day roster,

498
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Speaker 1: that they can hold their own and hold that position

499
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Speaker 1: all season.

500
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Speaker 2: Oh. I mean, if we're talking about roster making and

501
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 2: you know, improving, it's I'm watching at bats. You know,

502
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 2: we can work on defense all we want, but you know,

503
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 2: at this point, I think offense is going to take,

504
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:44,160
Speaker 2: you know, take priority over defense right now. But from

505
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:45,959
Speaker 2: what Joe has told me, you know, get out there,

506
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 2: work with those guys. If you see something that needs

507
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 2: you know, a little bit of improvement on the defensive side,

508
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,240
Speaker 2: get in there and talk to them. So I'm just

509
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,400
Speaker 2: watching their pre setup, watching how they react off the bat,

510
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 2: watching how their routes are run, who they're throwing the

511
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,119
Speaker 2: ball to, are they making their decision getting the ball in,

512
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 2: how quickly they get that ball in, But mostly at bats,

513
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 2: Like if I'm worried about who's going to make the team,

514
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,400
Speaker 2: I'm watching how these kids are taking it bats. That's

515
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 2: gonna be the biggest factor for me looking in and

516
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,640
Speaker 2: whether I'm going to make that call for the roster

517
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 2: or not. So just and you know, not even just games,

518
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,119
Speaker 2: going about how they go about their day, like just

519
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 2: kind of like silently sitting there, and how do they

520
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 2: approach their cage work, how do they approach their outfield work, like,

521
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 2: cause you know, work work I think speaks a lot

522
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 2: of volumes in this game, not only just talent wise.

523
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,959
Speaker 2: So if you're just in the cage to hang out

524
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 2: and not getting your work done, that's a different story.

525
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 2: But just floating, floating, floating around outfield floating around the

526
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 2: cages and just chiming in whenever he says I feel

527
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,360
Speaker 2: like I need to chime in, and if these guys

528
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 2: have questions and feel free to tell them what you know.

529
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 2: And that's kind of my job right here. This week

530
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 2: is kind of just a float around cages, outfield work,

531
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 2: and then as the game progresses, just finding angle so

532
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 2: I can get look at every guy that's out there

533
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:55,919
Speaker 2: playing at the right time.

534
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,679
Speaker 3: Did you get to direct any traffic from the bench

535
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 3: of the outfielders, you get to share anybody?

536
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,359
Speaker 2: I did not? I help, I helped the I think

537
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 2: it's I think it's one of the minor league guys

538
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 2: who's kind of running shop with Clarky since JB's with

539
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 2: the Classic team right now. So I'm just kind of

540
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 2: standing top step letting him do his thing, but also

541
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 2: like talking to him as well, talking a little bit

542
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,919
Speaker 2: with Dave and just kind of understanding how these guys function,

543
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 2: how they work, so I have a better understanding of

544
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 2: how I can kind of approach them and understand what

545
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 2: they're doing out there. But I haven't moved any guys yet,

546
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 2: but I did give me and Clarkey had a great

547
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:35,360
Speaker 2: talk yesterday about and you probably remember this Chandler back

548
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:39,120
Speaker 2: when Clarkey was the outfield guy for like thirteen, fourteen,

549
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 2: fifteen or whatever those stretch was, and it always looked

550
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 2: like he had one of those like floating dog training toys,

551
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 2: like the orange ones that they throw to the dogs

552
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 2: that jump off the dock. And so I remember, like

553
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 2: all of us in Oakland were just making fun of him,

554
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:54,199
Speaker 2: like this is what they have to use to move

555
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 2: their outfielders. And you know, we obviously took a little

556
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 2: farther because like if you just yelled, they could hear

557
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 2: you because there was nobody in the stand, but that's

558
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 2: you're there. So like I said, hey, was that a

559
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 2: Is that a floating dog toy you used all those

560
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 2: years ago? And he goes, no, it's actually a towel

561
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 2: and like the orange pre wrap. So I'm kind of

562
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 2: bummed that after twelve years I've been making fun of

563
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 2: this dog floating toy and it wasn't even a floating toy.

564
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 2: So uh, it was good to get on the joking

565
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,639
Speaker 2: side of things as well, being able to kind of

566
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 2: get out there and kind of have some laughs as

567
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,639
Speaker 2: well as me serious at a time. So no directing

568
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,959
Speaker 2: traffic yet, but we will see. We'll see how many

569
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 2: people make the trip tomorrow. Maybe I'll get that roll tomorrow.

570
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 3: Do you have a good coach whistle? Can you? Can

571
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 3: you blow it out there?

572
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 2: What is this basketball? Soccer? Like?

573
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want the like, oh no, I want the

574
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 3: old yeah.

575
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no no.

576
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 3: Every little league team's got one guy that can just

577
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 3: blare it.

578
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 2: The thing that works. The best I've learned over my

579
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 2: career playing is not the whistle. It's not the yell.

580
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,239
Speaker 2: Is when you just like if you're especially if you're

581
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 2: out there, if you just give it like a little

582
00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 2: really loud outfielders and infielders like Perka, but it's like, oh,

583
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 2: somebody's trying to get my attention. So that was me

584
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 2: and Springer's thing. That was Springer like like all our

585
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 2: guys thing like if we needed to move or something,

586
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 2: then we would make sure we heard that noise. And

587
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 2: it was a little bit more distinct than the whistle,

588
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 2: because fans whistle, So you just got to make sure

589
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 2: you find something different.

590
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: There were many there were many fans that when they

591
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: figured out you were going to go be a guest instructor,

592
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 1: their immediate for a first response was, yay, we love

593
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: Josh Reddick. He should he should manage the team in

594
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: a couple of years, like they're all very excited. And

595
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: then their next salt was, is he bringing Michael Brantley

596
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: with him.

597
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 2: A lot?

598
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 1: I guess I have to ask, are you going to

599
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: get Mike to come from Port Saint Luci to come

600
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 1: to camp and help out?

601
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm gonna get Mike to go to

602
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 2: camp and help out. I am going to get Mike

603
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 2: to somewhere and meet me in this week to have

604
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 2: dinner with me so he can buy me dinner. Yeah,

605
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,880
Speaker 2: because he made more money than I did, so it's

606
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 2: on him.

607
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, we did money than you.

608
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, stand by Like he played like

609
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 2: two or three more years than I did too, Like

610
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 2: his last year was when they won it, right.

611
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: Yeah he yeah, two was his last year.

612
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he got at least from that stretch another

613
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 2: pool year and a half more than me. And I

614
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 2: think he was up before I was, and was up

615
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 2: more consistently in like the nine twenty ten stretch too.

616
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 2: So I don't know how much it is, but I

617
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 2: know he's made more.

618
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Yeah, According to Baseball reference.

619
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 3: He's doubled you up. Yeah, he owes you dinner.

620
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was that wasn't even a debate

621
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 2: that Michael Brentley made way more money than I did.

622
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you had to slum by with sixty

623
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 3: six million dollars Josh and Mike. I was hurting that rules, dude,

624
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,720
Speaker 3: How cool is that sixty million dollars playing baseball? That's

625
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 3: so cool?

626
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: And Mike made one hundred and twelve millions.

627
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's pretty good.

628
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: Good job, good job, two good players.

629
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 2: That makes I spent less I spent less time on

630
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 2: the DL if that helps. And I'll let him know

631
00:27:59,080 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 2: that too.

632
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: And I mean you had you both had you know,

633
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: two of the best defensive plays in ALCS history. I

634
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 1: know Joe mentioned one of them yesterday when he introduced you,

635
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: the throw to get Brett Gardner. A lot of like, look,

636
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: you started the relay, but that throw by Carlos, Oh.

637
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 2: My gosh, absolute seed. Yeah. And you know I made

638
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 2: I told Joe that I appreciate the love for that play,

639
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 2: but that play was all had that And it's funny

640
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 2: because I had actually forgotten about that play. Gets I

641
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 2: forgot about that play because it gets so overshadowed by

642
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 2: Mike's rare diving catch that he never makes in his

643
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,959
Speaker 2: whole life, so like and obviously that you know, I'm

644
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 2: not taking anything away from Mike's catch. That catch was

645
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 2: unbelievably well timed and a perfectly great catch. So it

646
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 2: just shows you the playoff atmosphere that was ready for

647
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 2: Mike to get out there. But yeah, did get overshadowed,

648
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 2: and I had actually like forgotten about it, like I said,

649
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 2: but it ended up being a big moods a big

650
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 2: swing for us, and big momentum swing for us. But

651
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 2: when he brought that was like, yeah, that did happen,

652
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 2: so pretty cool.

653
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 1: And Joe would know because Joe was the Yankees third

654
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: base coach, who at that point, the third base coach

655
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: is not telling Brett Gardner like go first to third,

656
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: but Joe, Joe. I've talked to Joe about this play

657
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: and he said he had no He said he didn't

658
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: even think Carlos had a chance to get Brett Gardner.

659
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: And that was when Brett Gardner was still I wouldn't

660
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: say young, but he could still he could still move

661
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: a little bit, like it just wasn't like old Brett Gardner.

662
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 2: No, he was above average fast. Yes, he was still

663
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: plenty plenty of fast.

664
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: Yes.

665
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 3: Fun fact, I was at that game, Josh, I was, uh,

666
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 3: I was up there going going nuts. So I saw

667
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 3: that was that the land?

668
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: Was that the Verlander game?

669
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 3: Yes, I've talked about this. This was one of my

670
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 3: favorite days ever because it was an afternoon game. Went

671
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 3: to that game ended in the walk off, and then

672
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 3: I walked from Minute made to the Theater District in

673
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 3: downtown and met Alicia to see John mulaney do stand

674
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 3: up over there. It was a great day.

675
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 2: What a great day for you?

676
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 3: It was.

677
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: That's a high too.

678
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 3: But I wasn't gonna I mean, the traffic was crazy.

679
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 3: It was easier to walk, but yeah, pretty pretty good day.

680
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 3: I walked in like as the show was starting. It

681
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 3: it timed out perfectly.

682
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 2: This isn't a baseball question, but now we're since we're

683
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 2: talking about traffic and games like that. Is our petticab

684
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 2: not a thing in Houston?

685
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 3: Our petty caps a thing anywhere?

686
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 2: Petics the bicycles with the seas behind like there, No,

687
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 2: they are because they're big at NRG. You go to

688
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 2: an event in RG for rodeo or a concert. They're everywhere.

689
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 3: There's a few, but the parking around dyke In is

690
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 3: like you you kind of have to go aways. So

691
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 3: it's I've done it before with Olivia just so she

692
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 3: could ride in one. But I mean it's like twenty

693
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 3: bucks to get back to parking. Well, I mean at

694
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 3: that point, yeah, when when you got a tired kid. Sure,

695
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 3: but there's not there's not as many as as energy.

696
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 2: Because there used to be. There used to be when

697
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: I when I was with Oakland, you know, we stayed

698
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 2: down at the Four Seasons, which what six seven blocks

699
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 2: away from the ballpark. I was excited. I'd go out

700
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,959
Speaker 2: the left field bleachers and then why are we smiling

701
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 2: at me? I got to the left field bleachers and

702
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 2: hopping a petty cab and strigger and take it straight

703
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 2: back to the hotel instead of hopping on the bus.

704
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 2: So I don't know, maybe I just don't see it anymore,

705
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 2: but I think it's a genius idea. Who wants to

706
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 2: walk back to their car after they've had you know,

707
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 2: nine brock eyepa beer. I'm not a beer connoisseurce I

708
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 2: don't know if I did it right.

709
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 3: But or one LTMPO twenty five dollars Margarita.

710
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 2: That too, or if you just had it too much,

711
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 2: you don't want to you don't want to walk to

712
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 2: the parking garage. You want to get in a petty cap.

713
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 3: So get you one. I digress. This is your this

714
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 3: is your side gig for the year when you're when

715
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 3: you're not working, just hop out there, crank some tunes.

716
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 3: People pay big money to ride with Josh Reddick around.

717
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 2: It'd be at least fifty mm hmm.

718
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: That seems like a great deal. Speaking of the Four Seasons, Josh,

719
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: I have Four Seasons Bar. It's a it's one of

720
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: the that's one of the better visiting. As I know,

721
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: I have been many visiting hotels where you guys normally stay,

722
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: but the Houston Four Seasons bars that's up there.

723
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 2: I actually haven't been in there since they renovated. Oh really,

724
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 2: they've redone everything. I was old enough to be going

725
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 2: to the old school bar slash restaurant and that was

726
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 2: plenty for me. So you know, I haven't haven't been

727
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: there since they've redone it.

728
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: They have a doctor Pepper old fashioned at the at

729
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: the Four Seasons Bar. It's incredible.

730
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 2: That sounds amazing.

731
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: I know you would like it, of course. So tonight

732
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: the Ashers played Team Venezuela. I'm whatever. The lineup is

733
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: what it is, But the coaching staffs that are being

734
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: the dugout, I think that's the more interesting part. So

735
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: the Ashers will have Josh Reddick on their coaching staff

736
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: tonight for Asher's Team Venezuela. Omar Lopez is managing Team Venezuela.

737
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: As we know, listen to the staff that Omar has assembled,

738
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: and I wonder whether they should just play the game

739
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: with the coaches. Robinson Chirinos is his bench coach, Miguel

740
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: Cabrera is his hitting coach, Victor Martinez is his assistant manager.

741
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: Johann Santana is his pitching coach, and Hardo Para is

742
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: his first base coach. Omar could run his staff out

743
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: there and it would be a formidable It would be

744
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: a formidable lineup. Josh, where would you hit in that? Uh?

745
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: Obviously Johann would pitch, But where would you hit in that? Uh?

746
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 2: Where would I hit for Team Venezuela.

747
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: If you're going with the coaches, they're running the coaches

748
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: out there.

749
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 2: If I'm running the coaches out there. Okay, so Para

750
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 2: is leading off, Maggie's hitting.

751
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: Third, of course, Victor Martinez.

752
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 2: Second, I'm any second.

753
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 3: Got to get a little speed in front of.

754
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 2: Hitting fourth, and then you drop chernity to the five hole.

755
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

756
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good team.

757
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 2: Have a part of myself, Maggie, Victor Or Robertson, Trina's

758
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 2: Johan Santana on the mountain. We may only need five

759
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 2: hitters and five position players.

760
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,720
Speaker 1: I saw you because they did like a winter meeting.

761
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: They did like a thing at the Winter meetings where

762
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: all the guys, all the WBC staffs are made available

763
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: to me. I saw you, Hans Santana. That guy could

764
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: probably still get he'd probably still give you five innings.

765
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was so good.

766
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 2: And he only throw about eighty eight and then throw

767
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 2: seventy two, change up up there and be completely fine.

768
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 3: Do you ever get to face him, Josh?

769
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 2: No, thanks, thank the good.

770
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I can't imagine as a lot.

771
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have either if that was up when he

772
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 2: was red. Just go down there, no, thank you there? Yeah.

773
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 1: Did you ord On work with the outfielders yesterday? Was he?

774
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: I know he did.

775
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 2: I know he did. He took some pop flies, and

776
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 2: he took He looked fine. He did about what you'd

777
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 2: expect out of the or Don Alvarez in left field,

778
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 2: nothing over exerting, ran through the routines, did everything good.

779
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 2: But look fine, arm looks good. He was letting to

780
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 2: eat a couple of times to me, I bet, of course,

781
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 2: I brought my glove and I was on the bucket.

782
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 2: So he threw a couple of balls at me, pretty firm.

783
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 2: So he seems to me feeling okay, did all right,

784
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 2: And if they were too far and too hard, he

785
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 2: just get him off the wall and throw him right

786
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 2: back in. So he's he's right where he needs to

787
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 2: be in his defensive work.

788
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 3: I want it known you're not allowed to let him

789
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 3: get above a jog out there while you're while you're coaching.

790
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 2: I think he's aware of that good. I think he

791
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 2: is a very good self awareness of where he should

792
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 2: and shouldn't be, and he stays right at the in

793
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 2: that green spot. He never gets even close to the

794
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 2: green arrow.

795
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,439
Speaker 3: I don't I don't need him impressing you out there.

796
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: I'm a bad judge of this stuff. But he looked

797
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 1: I mean again, I saw him for like four days

798
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 1: before I left camp. He looked like he slimmed down,

799
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,919
Speaker 1: looked like he looked like he trimmed up a little

800
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 1: bit like it looked to me like he was a

801
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: little slimmer. Now again with jord On, it's all relative.

802
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:55,399
Speaker 2: It's hard to tell.

803
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe get a maybe, maybe fixate on that today.

804
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 2: I'll just hang out in the locker room and just wait,

805
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 2: take his shirt off. There you go, just just like

806
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 2: this for like twenty minutes.

807
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 3: Just boots on the ground reporting. Let us know we

808
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 3: already we already know Bryce Matthews is bulked up, so

809
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 3: we need all your scouting report.

810
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of us has to have boots on the

811
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: ground if I'm not going on the ground, but no

812
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: turfs on the ground.

813
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 2: Turfs.

814
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,399
Speaker 1: Josh will have his turfs on the ground tonight when

815
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: the Astros take on Team Venezuela, which I believe will

816
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 1: be on Space City Home network. I think it is.

817
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: It is on Space City Home network.

818
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 3: So gonna you're gonna get miked up from the dugout.

819
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:36,439
Speaker 1: You should?

820
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 2: I might, I might. I've already seen you know, I've

821
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 2: seen I've seen the crew, I've seen the reporting crew.

822
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 2: I've seen, you know, Sparky. I talked to Robert Ford yesterday.

823
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 2: I talked to TK, so I might I might get

824
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 2: a couple of interviews, maybe a little live action. We'll

825
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 2: see what happens. But TV game, I'm gonna be top step,

826
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 2: you know. I gotta get the TV. I gotta get

827
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 2: the TV action tonight. Gotta let everybody know that I'm

828
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 2: down here. Maybe an extra button, none and done, just

829
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 2: for everybody out there. But let's not be real, let's

830
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 2: not be shocking. I'm gonna be seeing. I'm gonna be

831
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 2: on the camera tonight.

832
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 3: Hell of course, are you in a jersey? I mean,

833
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 3: are you in a jersey?

834
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 2: No? No jersey. I get the pullover, a little long

835
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 2: sleep pullover. Want to be a sunburn.

836
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: You have a locker in the coach's locker room, right.

837
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 2: I do. I am in the coach's locker room. Right.

838
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 2: I'm right behind Braca. So never a dull moment behind Brocamane.

839
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 2: But that was another cool experience too, being on that side.

840
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 2: I've never been that far back into the coaches room,

841
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 2: so I was I've been uncharted territories of this this

842
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 2: locker room, and you know, I got to see Victor Rodriguez,

843
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 2: who I've known for almost twenty years now. He was

844
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 2: my hitting instructor with Boston, so the catch up with

845
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 2: him was great. Even he was talking to hitters, telling

846
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 2: stories about me when I was a young kid and

847
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 2: all this stuff. So the old Josh stories are coming out,

848
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 2: and it's it's kind of a kind of kind of weird.

849
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 3: Not gonna lie, steal me, steal me one of those pullovers,

850
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 3: bring it back with you.

851
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 2: I'm not stealing anything on the air.

852
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 3: Okay.

853
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: If the old Josh stories are coming out, that means

854
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: it's time for us to end because it's getting not

855
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: safe for work.

856
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 3: For families.

857
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, So catch Josh in his guest instructor Glory

858
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: tonight on Space City Home Network as the Astros are

859
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 1: going to take on Team Venezuela in an exhibition from

860
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: Cacti Park of the Palm Beaches. Josh will be in

861
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: West Palm Beach for the rest of the week helping

862
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: out with the Ashers outfielders. Tomorrow we'll be back with

863
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: another episode featuring uh Ken Rosenthal. Ken Rosenthal will be

864
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: on tomorrow to talk Ken was in camp this past weekend.

865
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: You know, I was not, but Ken went to Ken

866
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: was an Astros camp. He wrote a column today that

867
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: is on The Athletic about the Ashers infield logjam and

868
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: about kind of where he thinks they need to go.

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Speaker 1: Spoiler alert it involves a trade. So we'll have on.

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Speaker 1: We'll have Ken on tomorrow to talk about his column,

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Speaker 1: to talk about his observations from Astros camp last weekend

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Speaker 1: and just where he views the team in its life

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Speaker 1: cycle and its organizational life cycle. But until then, you

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Speaker 1: a lot again. We'll be back tomorrow with Ken Rosenthal

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Speaker 1: to talk about his view of the state of the

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Speaker 1: Astros and their enfield surplus. But until then, watch the

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Speaker 1: Astros and Team Venezuela to night on Space City Home

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Speaker 1: Network and we will talk to you soon.

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