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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory. I'm Channeler

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Speaker 2: Roam along with Tyler Stafford and Josh Reddick, all in

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Speaker 2: different parts of the country celebrating the All Star Break

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Speaker 2: the only way we know how, with vacation and travel

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Speaker 2: and fun times. Josh, as someone that is training for

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Speaker 2: a home run derby, I'm wondering what you thought of

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Speaker 2: the end of the All Star Game with the swing

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Speaker 2: off and the three swings to determine who won the

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Speaker 2: Midsummer Classic.

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Speaker 1: I love it, really.

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Speaker 3: One of the few things they got right in that

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Speaker 3: All Star Game, second being them letting them wear their

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Speaker 3: jerseys again.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 4: Love the fact that they get to wear their jerseys again.

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Speaker 3: Horrible decision by Aaron Boone. You had all that roster

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Speaker 3: power and that's what you go with those guys. But

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Speaker 3: my goodness, you had Aaron Judge over there on the bench.

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Speaker 3: What are we doing?

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Speaker 5: He was not on the bench anymore. That dude was

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Speaker 5: on a flight somewhere at that point. He was not

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Speaker 5: He was not in the dugout.

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Speaker 4: Was fun to watch. That was about clutch. That was

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Speaker 4: pretty cool.

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Speaker 5: Yeahah ripped. Who didn't like that is that is that

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Speaker 5: a hot take? That was so cool?

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Speaker 2: No, that was awesome, fantastic, I think for for those

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Speaker 2: that don't know, basically, uh, to address Josh's question of

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Speaker 2: why the guys that did the home run derby did it.

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Speaker 2: If you start the All Star Game, you're only really

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Speaker 2: under man mandate, mandate to be there for like the

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Speaker 2: two innings you play, and then the guys leave. Like

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Speaker 2: as a media member covering the All Star Game, it's

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Speaker 2: pretty hilarious. Like once like the third inning rolls around,

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Speaker 2: you start to get announcements in the press box of

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Speaker 2: Aaron Judge is available in the American League clubhouse, Shoheo

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Speaker 2: Tani is available in the National League Clubhouse. So like

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Speaker 2: as media members, we go down like in the fifth

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Speaker 2: inning of the All Star Game interview the starters that

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Speaker 2: just left, and we're interviewing them like as they are

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Speaker 2: walking to the like above us an uber private jet

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Speaker 2: that they have waiting for them, Like these guys do

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Speaker 2: not stick around for the whole game.

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Speaker 3: And see, I didn't know that. I've never been to

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Speaker 3: an All Star game, never knew that. So that's news

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Speaker 3: to yours truly, but it makes sense they get out

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Speaker 3: there as early as they can to get there, what

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Speaker 3: one and a half day of their All Star break

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Speaker 3: that they can relax.

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Speaker 4: So it makes sense, but never knew that, so thanks

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Speaker 4: for that one.

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Speaker 2: In Yeah, it's very much like a spring training game, Josh,

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Speaker 2: like you you an early spring an early spring training game,

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Speaker 2: like you get your four innings in and then you

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Speaker 2: get the hell out of there.

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Speaker 1: So basically like Joe spot Actually Joe Spottle.

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Speaker 2: We were actually having a discussion with him before the

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Speaker 2: break about this very thing because Joe was the bench

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Speaker 2: coach for Dusty on the American League All Star staff,

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Speaker 2: like the first year they had this as the tiebreaker,

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Speaker 2: so they had Joe had like prepare guys like, look,

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Speaker 2: if this goes to it, if this goes to extra innings,

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Speaker 2: like I need you in a home run derby, And

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Speaker 2: he only went to the guys that were playing the

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Speaker 2: back half of the game, like you don't go to

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Speaker 2: the start like Aaron Judge. No, like Shohyo Tani no.

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Speaker 2: Like maybe if they paid them a little more money, sure,

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Speaker 2: but uh no, they're not doing that for free. So

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Speaker 2: but it was still like even the participants not with standing,

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Speaker 2: like you could have put three randos in an MLB

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Speaker 2: jersey Like that was really cool to watch, Like it was.

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Speaker 1: It was really cool to see how that unfolded.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. It was awesome. Also, I know during

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Speaker 5: normal games people get real fussy about the players wearing

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Speaker 5: the microphones and stuff. That ruled. I love when the

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Speaker 5: pitchers do it. I mean, Kershaw was great, you know,

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Speaker 5: calling out each pitch before he threw it. What was

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Speaker 5: it two years ago? When was it Nessa Cortes and

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Speaker 5: whoever the Yankees catcher was. But they were both like

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Speaker 5: It's so fun. I mean, it's great.

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Speaker 2: I love that it didn't work as well this time.

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Speaker 2: But they had scoobal and Cal Rawley micd up in

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Speaker 2: the first inning together and Cal was trying to say

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Speaker 2: lot of people that don't love players being miked up

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Speaker 2: in games and interviews in games and stuff. But I'm

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Speaker 2: also here to tell you, like, they get fifteen grand

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Speaker 2: every time they put a microphone on.

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Speaker 1: So this thought me too. Yeah, every time I follow.

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Speaker 2: This thought that, this thought that you know, MLB forces it,

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Speaker 2: and they force it on like no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: they ask and the players get compensated very handsomely for

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Speaker 2: wearing a microphone in regular season games and in.

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Speaker 2: It seems like we kind of left you guys before

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Speaker 2: the second half, before the first half ended. We gave

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Speaker 1: For five days. So we hope you enjoyed the Jeff

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Speaker 1: Luno interview.

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Speaker 2: We've got a lot of nice feedback about it, both

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Speaker 2: inside the baseball world and outside, So thanks again to

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Speaker 2: Jeff for coming on.

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Speaker 1: I thought it went really well.

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Speaker 2: But while everyone was talking about that, the Astros had

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Speaker 2: a pretty brutal homestand to end the first half, they

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Speaker 2: It took a lot for them to pull that one out. Guys,

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Speaker 2: did you just see this as a bad week for

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Speaker 2: a team that had stacked a lot of good weeks together?

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Speaker 5: My hot take is it's hard to be twenty games

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Speaker 5: above five hundred with the Sugarland Space Cowboys roster. It's

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Speaker 5: just gonna happen. The big concern, obviously is the two

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Speaker 5: Hunter Brown starts not being where you'd like them to be.

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Speaker 5: But you know, aside from that, like, look, half the

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Speaker 5: Like I mean, that's that's what's going to happen. Sometimes

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Speaker 5: you have good weeks, you have bad weeks. I mean,

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Speaker 5: if we had said before the season that the Astros

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Speaker 5: above five hundred at the All Star Break, I think

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Speaker 5: everybody would have taken that. Like I said, the big

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Speaker 5: out the two Josh Hater Crawford box special home runs.

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Speaker 5: You know, that happens sometimes, you know, But aside from that,

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Speaker 4: I look at it as you had a bad week.

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Speaker 4: This team was probably the most in.

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Speaker 3: Need of the All Star Break out of anybody in baseball,

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Speaker 3: just considering what they've went through. So I think the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about Hunter that hater up.

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Speaker 5: Didn't they didn't in the in the All Star Game?

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Speaker 1: Week he did not.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest that's the biggest sticking point

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Speaker 2: a lot of questions that fans have about Hunter Brown.

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Speaker 1: He did not end his.

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Speaker 2: First half particularly well. If you include that start in Colorado.

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Speaker 2: for this weekend series against the Mariners, and Hunter Brown

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Speaker 2: on Sunday. I think this is twofold. Hunter Brown's made

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Speaker 2: they have been trying to build in extra days for

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Speaker 1: All season.

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Speaker 2: He started on Sunday against the Rangers, so four days

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Speaker 2: It was either do you give him extra rest and

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Speaker 2: And I think they looked at where they are five

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean, nothing is gonna hurt Hunter Brown for

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and like you said, you know, the stuff wasn't

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Speaker 2: It can be anything that's giving that's giving tells away.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's always something thick and a kind of

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Speaker 5: So maybe a tail. But also I have his pitch

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Speaker 5: Yeah, three, and then the elevated ones he threw one

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Speaker 1: That was cool.

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Speaker 1: However, what have you thought of.

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Speaker 4: They need like net that goes dangling down before he

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Speaker 4: hurts somebody.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he just hits four foot bombs to the four

443
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Speaker 5: thirty section or whatever that is up there. But I

444
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Speaker 5: mean he's been he's been a great hitter. So looking

445
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Speaker 5: at the game tomorrow, we're recording a day early, so

446
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Speaker 5: you know, the the numbers aren't up quite yet. But

447
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Speaker 5: I'm just gonna go ahead and say whatever his over

448
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Speaker 5: for total bases is, I'm I'm gonna go ahead and

449
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Speaker 5: take that one. You can also do that. They have

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Speaker 5: one that's like walks plus hits. I just feel like

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Speaker 5: you pencil him in for a while going to hit

452
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Speaker 5: every game. That just feels like the type of hitter

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454
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456
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Speaker 5: lock in whatever his over is on walks and hits

457
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Speaker 5: or total bases that that seems like a good one.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, what are you know as we are

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Speaker 2: starting the second half here, we'll started on Friday in Seattle.

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest.

476
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Speaker 2: Thing you're looking what's the biggest storyline you think that

477
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 2: needs to be monitored? Uh, for the astros in the

478
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 2: second half of the year before October.

479
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Speaker 1: October gets here.

480
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Speaker 4: You go first, I want to hear yours time.

481
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Speaker 5: I'd like all of the Astros to to be able

482
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 5: to play baseball, all of the good players that they

483
00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 5: have who have not been able to play baseball. I'd

484
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 5: like to watch them play, uh, you know, preferably before October,

485
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:44,640
Speaker 5: but certainly by then. I mean they just the whole

486
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,439
Speaker 5: team is out, you know, like they they've built up

487
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 5: enough of a lead where they are able to be

488
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Speaker 5: a little bit more conservative with with bringing guys back. Chandler,

489
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Speaker 5: do we know if if anybody's checked on Frombury's shin

490
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Speaker 5: in the last couple of days.

491
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Speaker 1: I think he's okay. He said he was okay.

492
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Speaker 2: He said he was okay after the game, But that

493
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 2: was one hundred and four miles an hour, right off

494
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Speaker 2: the right off the show.

495
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Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of people have been okay right after

496
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Speaker 5: the game. I don't know if you've noticed a pattern.

497
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Speaker 2: So, I mean, I would like, you know, I'm gonna

498
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Speaker 2: guess they got imaging, But who knows?

499
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Speaker 5: Are you gonna guess? Can we ask? Can we text somebody?

500
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 5: Get somebody on the call? You would hope, you would hope, Look,

501
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Speaker 5: somebody find out for me. Did we get imaging? You know?

502
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Speaker 5: Is he Okay, is his shin still there? I'd like

503
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Speaker 5: to know that, so you know, again they I mean,

504
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Speaker 5: you hope, Jeremy Payne, you can come back us all

505
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Speaker 5: Chaz was moved over to Florida hitting over there. They

506
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Speaker 5: got about eighteen pitchers who were making rehab starts at

507
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Speaker 5: this point, so that you know, they've got a lot

508
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Speaker 5: of guys that can come back. And again, it's not

509
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Speaker 5: only because of the lead that you're able to be

510
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Speaker 5: concer servative with bringing them back, but you're also able

511
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Speaker 5: to give those guys a little runway to you know,

512
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Speaker 5: look when when Christian Aavire and Luis Garcia, if and

513
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Speaker 5: when they come back this year and are able to pitch,

514
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,959
Speaker 5: it's okay, if they go three innings and give up

515
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Speaker 5: four runs and you have to you know, you've got

516
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Speaker 5: to You've got to lead now, but you do have

517
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Speaker 5: to kind of keep your foot on the gas, uh

518
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Speaker 5: and be able to maintain that. But I mean, that's

519
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Speaker 5: that's the biggest storyline, is can these guys come back,

520
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Speaker 5: Can they be healthy? Because I mean, this team has

521
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Speaker 5: been one of the better teams in baseball without their

522
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Speaker 5: superstars playing the majority of the season, and so you

523
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Speaker 5: would assume that if you can upgrade no offense Cooper

524
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Speaker 5: Hummel to Jordan Alvarez, your team is going to be

525
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Speaker 5: better than they have been, and they've already been really,

526
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Speaker 5: really good. So it really is just a matter of

527
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Speaker 5: can these guys get back in there and play at

528
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Speaker 5: the level that we would expect them to be able

529
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Speaker 5: to do.

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Speaker 3: As much as I love everybody getting back, you only

531
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 3: mentioned him once. Jordon Alvarez getting back one hundred percent

532
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Speaker 3: healthy fixes everything you've already got. Elite pitching, obviously, when

533
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Speaker 3: those guys come back, it's going to make you that

534
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 3: much better, no joke there. But when you bring jord

535
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Speaker 3: On Alvarez, you shift everything else in the power when

536
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 3: it needs to be in power. He makes the lineup easier,

537
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 3: he makes it easier on the pitching staff, takes the

538
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Speaker 3: numbers with these runners and scoring position numbers, He helps

539
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Speaker 3: those through the roof. I think he just improves everything

540
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Speaker 3: around you, just by one person doing that, as opposed

541
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Speaker 3: to needing a Garcia or a Javier or an arrag

542
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Speaker 3: Getty to come back and hopefully carry.

543
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Speaker 4: You where you need them to carry you.

544
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Speaker 3: Whereas when you get Yordon back, you know what you're

545
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Speaker 3: going to get he's gonna be in the middle of

546
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Speaker 3: your lineup. He's going to driving runs and there, and

547
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Speaker 3: that entail is going to help out your pitching staff,

548
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Speaker 3: Frost back in middle everything else.

549
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Speaker 2: The question I have about all of this, and it's

550
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 2: going to kind of intertwine both of you guys's points

551
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 2: into one, is like everyone's been talking about and framing

552
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 2: it as getting these guys back, which is obviously like, yes,

553
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 2: you want them to be active, you want them to

554
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 2: be in uniform and available to play for you. And

555
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 2: my question is like how effective are they going to be?

556
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 2: Like jord On Alvarez before he went on the injured

557
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 2: list had an eighty one ops plus, Like how much

558
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 2: of that was the hand that was just kept bothering

559
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 2: him and he finally said something and that was inhibiting him.

560
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 2: But I mean, we have yet to see Jordon Alvarez

561
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Speaker 2: at peak yord On Alvarez this whole season. And he

562
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 2: also just hasn't played in a game in three months,

563
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 2: like he's a he's a freak.

564
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Speaker 1: But Josh, correct me if I'm wrong.

565
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Speaker 2: You can't miss like three and a half months and

566
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Speaker 2: then just completely get put back into the four hole

567
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 2: in a lineup and have sixty ops plus like, no, no,

568
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,359
Speaker 2: it's not that automatic.

569
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 3: No, I mean there's ways now with the way baseball works,

570
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 3: whether he comes back in time to go and rehab assignment.

571
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 3: I fully have always believed in rehab assignments just so

572
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 3: you can get timing. Results are irrelevant at that point.

573
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 3: You basically just have to go to a minispring training.

574
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 3: You know, when you've been off for three months, you

575
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 3: need at least, you know, attend to fourteen day rehab

576
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 3: assignment because you got to figure you play, then you're off,

577
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 3: and you play, then you're off, and you go to

578
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 3: a back to back and then you're off in a baker,

579
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 3: there's time where you have to have the rest in

580
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 3: between to get back. But you know, even if they

581
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 3: don't have time for rehab start, you know there's ways

582
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 3: to get guys to come throw to him, go down

583
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 3: to Florida just to get timing done.

584
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 4: There's ways to step in against pictures when you need to.

585
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 3: And you know, even if you have to come to

586
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 3: the ballpark here in Houston, you go in there and

587
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 3: you have the guys throw their sides, the guys that

588
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 3: are still on rehab throw their sides and their bullpens versus.

589
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 4: You on the field at one o'clock as opposed to

590
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 4: three o'clock. So I think there's plenty of ways to

591
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 4: do that.

592
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 3: I know, you know past experience, I've done the rehab

593
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Speaker 3: assignment thing, and I've been I think my first year

594
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 3: with the Strows, I had to come back with like

595
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 3: eight games left because of a back issue, and I

596
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 3: missed eight games for the playoffs, and there was always

597
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 3: concern about that, but I was out there every day.

598
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 4: I was just going to the bullpen.

599
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 7: You know.

600
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 3: I'd step in against Kai Cool, I'd step in against

601
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 3: Charlie Morton, you know Lance just when they were throwing.

602
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 4: I would never swing, but I wanted to make sure

603
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 4: I had my timing.

604
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 3: And they said it helped them out too, to have

605
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 3: just somebody stand in there.

606
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 4: So they can kind of focus on a target as well.

607
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 4: So there's plenty of ways to get your timing back.

608
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 3: And with the lead they have, you know, they don't

609
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 3: need to hit your don Yavrez doesn't need to be

610
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 3: an MVP just yet.

611
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 4: He just needs to.

612
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 3: Get out there and get his timing back and get

613
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 3: back into swing of things.

614
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 4: For October.

615
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 5: I mean, you take three months off every offseason.

616
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 2: It's not like and then you get sick and then

617
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 2: you get seven weeks in Florida to ramp out.

618
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Speaker 5: But I just mean, like, it's not like you forget

619
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Speaker 5: how to hit, right, Like I know it's going to

620
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 5: take some timing to get back. I mean, the Astros

621
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 5: do have the luxury. They could fill the whole simulated

622
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 5: game with all of their injured pitchers and hitters ready

623
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 5: to come back. They should sell tickets. You know, I'll

624
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 5: come out and watch eight guys take BP off of

625
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 5: all these pitchers coming back. I'm fine doing that. But

626
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 5: you're right. I mean, Jordon obviously, in the twenty nine

627
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 5: games that he played before, not only was now Jordon,

628
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 5: but was just not good. Do you know that Zach

629
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 5: Dezenzo has more extra base hits this year than Jordon.

630
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Speaker 1: Also he's also injured.

631
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I just assume at this point they're whoever is.

632
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 3: Also very capable of taking thirty games straight, hitting three

633
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 3: seventy yes, eighteen pumps as well. Let's not forget what

634
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 3: he's his track record. That's my point up a lot too,

635
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 3: Like track record helps out a lot, just like you

636
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 3: wouldn't need anybody else, So that's that's.

637
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 4: Better, more confident in having him come back and relying

638
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 4: on somebody who may or might not be good for me.

639
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 5: And you know what, I need three weeks of that

640
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 5: in October. Yeah, you know, I need you to get

641
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 5: hot by then, and uh, you know, be scary in

642
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 5: in October because, like you said, even if he's not

643
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 5: performing at and he wasn't at the beginning of the season,

644
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 5: but the whole lineup revolves around him, You're constantly thinking, well,

645
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 5: we got to pitch this guy because we don't want

646
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Speaker 5: to walk him, and then you know, allow jord On

647
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 5: to come up later with you know, runners on or

648
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 5: things like you know, you you do manage a game

649
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Speaker 5: differently just because yeah, I mean it's it's rd On.

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Speaker 5: And again, I think he's earned the benefit of the

651
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 5: doubt to be like, we're gonna write off those thirty

652
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Speaker 5: games when he comes back, I'm gonna assume he's going

653
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Speaker 5: to be a really good hitter, because he has been

654
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Speaker 5: from the minute he got to the big leagues. So

655
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Speaker 5: you know, we'll we'll see. But uh, yeah, you're right.

656
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 5: That's that's the storyline, is when when's this guy coming

657
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Speaker 5: back and when can he start hitting, because uh uh,

658
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 5: it's it's been a bit uh since we've we've seen him,

659
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 5: so we'll see. But I mean, that's that's what we're

660
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Speaker 5: looking forward.

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Speaker 1: To and all and all.

662
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Speaker 2: Honestly, like Jordan is not the one I'm worried about

663
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 2: or anyone should really be worried about as far as

664
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Speaker 2: ethicacy comes. I'm just talking about like it's gonna take

665
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,479
Speaker 2: like once he has activated, it's probably gonna take him

666
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 2: a little bit to really get his stride where you

667
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 2: really should be. I think a little bit concerned is

668
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 2: where these pitchers stand because it's a it's a way

669
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 2: more tedious game when you're talking about pitchers that are

670
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 2: coming off of elbow surgery that in JP Francis case,

671
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 2: coming off shoulder surgery. Christian Navier hasn't pitched in a

672
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 2: game in more than a year. Luis Garcia hasn't pitched

673
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 2: a game in more than two years. Uh, Spencer Arighetti

674
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 2: made two starts in April, but still hasn't progressed to

675
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 2: a rehab assignment. That these guys have had long layoffs

676
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 2: and with pitching it is totally different, Like you've got

677
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 2: to monitor these guys very closely, even if they're pitching, well,

678
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 2: even if they come back and let's say their first

679
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: start back there through four scoreless innings, you're like, all right, well,

680
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 2: we've probably got to take him out. We probably got

681
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 2: to be prudent here or air on the side of caution.

682
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 2: And what Justin Verlander did in twenty twenty two coming

683
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 2: back from Tommy John and posting a sub two era

684
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: and winning a unanimous Cy Young like that's not normal,

685
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 2: Like that is the outlier for how this works for

686
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 2: pictures coming.

687
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 4: As Justin Verlander being just In Verlander.

688
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: Right.

689
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 2: So again, I think this all kind of dovetails into

690
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: trade deadline talk. And I think the thing that Dana

691
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 2: Brown and his lieutenants and Joe Aspata, who's involved in

692
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 2: this too, like they've got to ask themselves, like as

693
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 2: they're going on to the market and as they're looking

694
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 2: as to what they need, it's obvious that they need

695
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 2: either a left handed bat or a starting pitcher. I

696
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 2: think in an ideal world they would get both. I

697
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 2: don't think they have enough prospect capital to get both.

698
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 2: I think the question that they have to answer is

699
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 2: how effective can we legitimately count on Christian Javier, Luis Garcia,

700
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 2: Spencer Arraghetty and JP France. Being like, it's one thing

701
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,239
Speaker 2: to get them back in uniform and it's one thing

702
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 2: to get them back on the lineup card, it's another

703
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 2: thing to consider can they get outs and can they

704
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 2: get outs in big games? Because if that answer is

705
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 2: eugh or maybe not, then I think starting pitching becomes

706
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 2: their foremost priority at the deadline.

707
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got a savage. So Hunter Brown and Brahm

708
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 5: er Valdez have obviously been great. They're both in the

709
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 5: top ten for war for pitchers this year on Baseball Reference.

710
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 5: Brommer is actually ahead of Hunter Brown now weirdly enough,

711
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 5: but they're both in the top ten. The other three

712
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 5: and a half or so people in the starting rotation

713
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 5: have combined for zero war. So the Astros have two

714
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 5: really good pitchers and they got nobody after that. And

715
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,399
Speaker 5: as we know, you know, the first round or two

716
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 5: of the playoffs, you really only need three starters because

717
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 5: you're able to throw, you know, your top two guys

718
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 5: most of the series. But in a seven game series,

719
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 5: you need four starters, or you you at least need

720
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 5: three and a half where your fourth one is kind

721
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 5: of a bullpen game, but you've got enough link at

722
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 5: the beginning because you know, as we've seen, the Astros

723
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 5: have a bullpen. I'm not concerned. If you know, once

724
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 5: you get to the sixth inning or so in the playoffs,

725
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 5: you're gonna feel pretty confident with the guys that you're

726
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 5: bringing out there in a in a playoff series. But

727
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 5: right now that game three and four, I don't. I mean,

728
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,240
Speaker 5: who starts game three in a in a playoff series,

729
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't think there's anybody on the team

730
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 5: that you look at and go like, you feel good

731
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 5: about sending this guy out there, not to mention game four,

732
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 5: right like you you got to have those guys, and

733
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 5: so to me, I know, Chandler, I know you want

734
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 5: a left handed bat. It's all you want. You're asking

735
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 5: Santa for it. It's it's you know, that's all you

736
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 5: care about. They need a starry pressure that they need,

737
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 5: as I've said all year, they need an adult man

738
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 5: who can throw and get out consistently, which they don't have.

739
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 5: They just it doesn't exist right now, Charlie, get get

740
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 5: the band back together. He's he's been good. Maybe maybe

741
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 5: can come and get a win.

742
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 4: Guys that stink into good again. I'm just saying he'd

743
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 4: be a great number three starter.

744
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 5: Look, you're you're not gonna hear me shoot down at

745
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 5: Charlie Morton reunion.

746
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 4: Cospect after that too.

747
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, But I mean I to me, that's the priority

748
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 5: is you right now? If the if the playoffs started today,

749
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 5: you're you're not ready. You you don't have a rotation

750
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 5: that is ready to legitimately you know, uh scare other

751
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 5: teams because again in the playoffs, as we've seen even

752
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 5: last year, you know, you run into the Tigers and

753
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 5: you you throw your number one against Trek Skouble and

754
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 5: then you kind of waste that number. Like right now,

755
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 5: the Astros have to win every single Hunter Brown and

756
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 5: fromer Veldez start in a playoff series. They just they

757
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 5: have to. And you don't want to be in a

758
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 5: position where you know you're you're gonna run it. When

759
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 5: you're in the playoffs, you're gonna run into really good pitching.

760
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 5: You're gonna lose some of those games. That's gonna happen.

761
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 5: And they are not in a position right now in

762
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 5: a short series to feel confident that their back end

763
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 5: of the rotation can match up with you know, the

764
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 5: three or four starters from other teams. Despite having really

765
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 5: good top end guys, they don't have the depth there.

766
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 5: And so yeah, we've talked about Javier Garcia, France Arraghetti,

767
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 5: whoever one of those you would assume is gonna be

768
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 5: able to get you out in game three or game

769
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 5: four that I like you, you're gonna guess one of

770
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 5: the you don't know which one, and you hope you

771
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 5: picked the right one on that day in October, but

772
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 5: you're you would assume one of those is. But you

773
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 5: gotta get another starter that you can rely on. I

774
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 5: mean again, especially because the lead is down to five

775
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 5: games in the division and right now, sixty percent of

776
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 5: your rotation is a big, big question mark, and you

777
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 5: just don't you don't want to go the rest of

778
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 5: this season needing to win ninety percent of your starts

779
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 5: from from Brown Brown, because that's just not sustainable.

780
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a stat that encompasses it all.

781
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 4: Uh.

782
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 2: The astros are twenty seven and eleven in games started

783
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 2: by from ber Valdez and Hunter Brown. They are twenty

784
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 2: nine and twenty nine in games started by anyone You

785
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: go Brandon Walter, Colton, Gordon, Ryan Gusto and Lance McCullers

786
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 2: had a four to seven NINETYRA in the first half,

787
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 2: which again you saw some flashes of brilliance from Lance,

788
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 2: you saw some flashes of brilliance from Gusto, but the consistency,

789
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 2: like you said, just not there. And Tyler, I do wonder,

790
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 2: we have to get to a break real quick. But

791
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 2: I do wonder would your tone be different if Hunter

792
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 2: Brown looked like April and May Hunter Brown in his

793
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 2: last two starts in the first half.

794
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 5: No, it's the same thing. You You don't want to

795
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 5: go into a series where you have to win every

796
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 5: one of those starts, because again, as good as they've

797
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 5: been this year, would you say they're twenty seven and

798
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 5: eleven twenty seven and eleven when Brown and Valdez start

799
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,760
Speaker 5: their twenty nine Just give me that math. What percentage

800
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 5: is that?

801
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 4: What?

802
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 5: I don't know? Seventy percent wins? Somebody, somebody do that

803
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 5: for me. I know what twenty nine and twenty nine is. Okay,

804
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 5: I got that one. That's that's five hundred, Okay, I

805
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 5: got that one. Yeah, I don't know. I can't do

806
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 5: seventy Okay, some listen twenty So we're gonna do this again.

807
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 5: I was a teacher. Let me show everyone is over

808
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 5: all four is over all X over one hundred. Good news, guys,

809
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 5: it's sixty nine percent. So yes, I guess seventyeighth. That's

810
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 5: pretty good off the top. But again, right, well that's okay,

811
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Speaker 5: uh fat.

812
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 4: But again show and that's that's for another day.

813
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,959
Speaker 5: Yep, we'll get to that. I want to talk about

814
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,959
Speaker 5: spinning the wheel at some point anyway, even at their best,

815
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 5: which they have been seventy percent, when they can't even

816
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 5: rely on that in the in the playoffs, because again,

817
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 5: you're gonna be against another team's one and two starters.

818
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 5: You know you're you're gonna be going up against the

819
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 5: top guys. It would be silly to assume that you're

820
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 5: gonna win seventy percent of those starts. And I don't

821
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 5: even think seventy percent gets it done. With the current rotation.

822
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 5: They have to be able to go into games three

823
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 5: and four with at least, you know, a fifty sixty

824
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 5: percent show, or assuming like this guy's at least on

825
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 5: par with these other pitchers that you're going up against.

826
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Speaker 5: And I don't think you can say that against any

827
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 5: of the teams that you're going to be going up

828
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 5: against in the playoffs, that you're three and four starters

829
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 5: match up with them, because I mean again, imagine a game,

830
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 5: you know, a seven game series where they've got home

831
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:16,440
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832
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 5: to two and you're fromber and Brown Star like the

833
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 5: series is over. You're you're not coming back from that

834
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 5: if you if a ball bounces the wrong way, if

835
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 5: hater gives up a three hundred and thirty foot Crawford

836
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 5: Box home run, you know, like things happen like that.

837
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 5: You can't rely on those thin margins. You have to

838
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 5: have depth there and they just they don't have it.

839
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 5: They have to get another starting pitcher.

840
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Speaker 2: All right, guys, this weekend is one that's pretty prime

863
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Speaker 2: for overreaction. Going to Seattle after the All Star break

864
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Speaker 2: with a five game lead over the Mariners. Have not

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866
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867
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868
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Speaker 2: So just on paper, the Mariners will probably have a

869
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Speaker 2: rotation starting advantage. I do not expect Jeremy Panyon to

870
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Speaker 2: be back this weekend. At least Dana Brown indicated that

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Speaker 2: he would not be back. Obviously, I don't expect Jordan

872
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 2: Alvarez back. I expect you're going to see probably the

873
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 2: same looking lineup that you saw for this this past

874
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 2: six game homestand against the Mariner against UH when they

875
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 2: play the Marriagers this weekend. Again, just like we talked

876
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 2: about the Dodgers series when they won that one, it

877
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 2: is three games in July. Sometimes they get more, you

878
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 2: get more emotionally attached to them, but you have to

879
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 2: just remember these are three games in July. If they

880
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 2: go up there and sweep them and they get up

881
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 2: to an eight game lead, you certainly feel good about it.

882
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 2: But work's not done yet. If they go up there

883
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 2: and lose to them, and they go up there and

884
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 2: lose two of three and they get down to a

885
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: three game lead, well you used to have a lead

886
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 2: in the division. But you know it's it's gonna be

887
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 2: it's gonna be tough. So what are you looking for

888
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 2: this weekend? And in a matchup that you know the

889
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: marriage is gonna be geeked up for it. They were

890
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 2: playing really well going into the break, had just swept

891
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 2: the Tigers before the break began.

892
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,919
Speaker 1: What are you looking for in Seattle at tem Mobile

893
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: Park this weekend?

894
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 5: Don't get swept.

895
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: That's it. Honestly, that's all I'm looking at.

896
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 4: I'm not looking at any bigger picture. From what you

897
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 4: just said.

898
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 3: The starting rotation for them is definitely an advantage and

899
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 3: they're miss still missing a big piece and pagna in

900
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 3: that lineup. But you know, you go out there and

901
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,359
Speaker 3: you get the first one, you know, get the first one,

902
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 3: feel good about yourself.

903
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 4: But don't go up there and get swept. But like

904
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 4: you said, this is still July.

905
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 3: Even if they do, even if they don't, if they

906
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 3: sweep them, great, still got a lot of work to do.

907
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:44,720
Speaker 4: Move on to the next series.

908
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:50,720
Speaker 5: It's a good lineup, man, Mariners are Mariners are scared?

909
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 5: I mean they got they got a good little you're

910
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 5: giving me that look, Josh that Ralli or Rosarna Crawford, I.

911
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: Mean, jps, haven't JP Crawford's having a great year.

912
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 5: It was Rosa's really talking about it.

913
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 1: But JP Crawfords having a great year.

914
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 5: A Rose Arena has essentially the same ops plus as

915
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 5: Jeremy Payna like he's been really really good this year.

916
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:16,240
Speaker 5: And of course Julio Rodriguez exists, even though he doesn't

917
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 5: have a good year. Yeah, and he still has a

918
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 5: four war Like he's having a four win season and

919
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 5: he's not even been that good. Like you know that

920
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 5: that's the team that I think you look at and

921
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 5: go like, you know that that that team.

922
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,280
Speaker 3: I'm not sure stating only thirty three of a lineup

923
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 3: considers a lineup really good.

924
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 5: Well, you know what, they have nine major league players

925
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 5: in their lineup, so.

926
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,439
Speaker 4: You know, arguement for the same argument for the Astros then.

927
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 5: Okay, I mean again, I'm not I'm not saying they're

928
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 5: barreling down the track set at the Astros, but I

929
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 5: it is a good team.

930
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 8: And the way to buy, sell or trade your cards

931
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 8: is Arena Club. It is the top marketplace in the

932
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 8: biz to get that done. And crats, we love the

933
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 8: slab pack situation.

934
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: I just wanted to I.

935
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 5: Wanted that was so good. I wanted to hear.

936
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 4: Batteries.

937
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 5: I just want to hear the chandler wanted to talk

938
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 5: some more slab packs seeping a pull of cal rale

939
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 5: over there. Speaking of cal Rall. Uh, Josh, we we

940
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 5: now have a floor for you for your home run derby. Uh,

941
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 5: you got to hit more than three or I will

942
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 5: roast you. So I need you.

943
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 4: If I hit three or less, I will all.

944
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 5: Right, we we heard it here first.

945
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 9: Uh, I'm a little upset first of all, because I've

946
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 9: been I've been complaining to my Sorry trying to change

947
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 9: subjects here, but like I've been complaining to my wife,

948
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 9: which Tyler, you know how well that goes, you know,

949
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 9: about anything.

950
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 3: It's kind of just whatever. So I watched this past

951
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 3: weekend where I Desmond and Ryan Zimmerman and some college

952
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 3: women's college softball player one they had seventy plus homers.

953
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 4: Well, that's seventy points because you can catch the ball

954
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 4: if you're on defense for a point.

955
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:13,839
Speaker 5: But I've already know they did that in the home

956
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 5: run derby too. Did you see that somebody robbed a

957
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 5: home run that was also.

958
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, like there's like five teams of the eight

959
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 3: that have been announced, we have two big leaguers on it,

960
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 3: former big leaguers. I'm one of the few who gets

961
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 3: college players softball player, Like, how is this fair?

962
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 4: Did they get to have like Zimmerman and Ian Desmond

963
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 4: are stupidly good.

964
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 3: Like for those who who Ian Desmond had a pretty

965
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 3: decent Cruizeroman had a great career. Ian Desmond hits bobs

966
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 3: like batting practice bombs are stupid m and I just

967
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:50,919
Speaker 3: think it's in the fair playing field.

968
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 4: I'm just saying I gotta put a little bit more

969
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 4: weight on my shoulders.

970
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 5: But you know it's gotta be rough for you. I'm

971
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 5: sorry you're getting invited to home run derbies that hasn't

972
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 5: had up to me lately. Do you need me to

973
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 5: come through some BP? Kevin Manny is sixty years old.

974
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 5: If you don't beat him in a home run derby,

975
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:11,400
Speaker 5: I will make fun of you.

976
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 4: Have you seen many Ramirez swing. It's still the same

977
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 4: exact swing it was years ago and still hits takes.

978
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 4: He does this for a living. He literally does these

979
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 4: derbies for a living.

980
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 1: Manny is Manny is fifty three years old.

981
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you can't beat if you can't beat a

982
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 5: guy close to getting his AARP card and a home

983
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 5: run derby, I'm gonna make fun of you. I don't

984
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 5: care if it's Manny.

985
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: God Man Many Rare was so good, dude, ruled I'm

986
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: looking at right now.

987
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 5: Oh he was awesome. Yeah, but Josh, I'm I'm I'm

988
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 5: down the street. I'll come through a BP for you.

989
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 5: If you need some lefty on lefty action to get

990
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 5: that in there, I'll help you out. I mean, I

991
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 5: top out it probably sixty miles an hour, so I

992
00:48:58,000 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 5: think it'll I think it'll help you.

993
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 3: Actually surprised when they told me that they're going to

994
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 3: have like actual batting practice stores who do in the

995
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 3: Big League.

996
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 4: So we should have some good guys throwing some meatballs,

997
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 4: I hope.

998
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 5: Well, speaking of good guys throwing meatballs, that's not what

999
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:18,479
Speaker 5: we want to see in Seattle. That's what we're trying

1000
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,800
Speaker 5: to avoid. Uh, that would be Despite what Josh says,

1001
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 5: it's a good lineup. That's a lot of good players

1002
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 5: in it. Good good rotation too. Jerry Depoto is going

1003
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 5: to make eighteen trades between now and the deadlines, so

1004
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 5: who knows what it's going to look like.

1005
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 4: One of them will be a good one.

1006
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 2: Well, all right, keep people off base for cal Ray.

1007
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 2: Hope that cal Rawley. If you're the Astros, you have

1008
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 2: to hope that cal Rawley exhausts himself in the home

1009
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 2: run derby and the entire All Star festivities afterward. But yeah,

1010
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 2: I mean, look, they're they're formidable. And look, I'll even

1011
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 2: say this, like the Rangers are probably too far gone,

1012
00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,879
Speaker 2: like they probably started off way too deeper.

1013
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: Like you look at that team and like.

1014
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 5: The team's not staying healthy either.

1015
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:08,399
Speaker 2: If they imagine running out the grom a Valdi jack

1016
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 2: lighters up to one hundred Tyler Malley when he gets back,

1017
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 2: like that team can pitch the hell out.

1018
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 4: That's a and that's a good lineup. That that's a

1019
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 4: good lineup?

1020
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:19,800
Speaker 5: Is it the one you think is the good lineup?

1021
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 3: This is embarrassing, I mean on paper, if we're looking

1022
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 3: at a lineup on paper.

1023
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 2: Well, Simeon finally got going when they're healthy, I mean

1024
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 2: when the when when they're two expensive guys, when Seager

1025
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 2: and Semion are going like it's really hard, like and

1026
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 2: Semyon finally has gotten going the last month, hit two

1027
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 2: absolute missiles at at diyk in Park this weekend.

1028
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean they're to me like they are.

1029
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 2: They were the team that I think is probably built too,

1030
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:51,760
Speaker 2: was built to win this division.

1031
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: And challenge the Ashers.

1032
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 2: But they again they got off to such a dreadful

1033
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 2: start that I'm not sure that they have enough time.

1034
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 2: But watching them this weekend, like, that's the kind of thing.

1035
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 2: That's the team that should scare you in my opinion.

1036
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 5: But Seattle, Seattle has the the seventh highest OPS and

1037
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 5: the Rangers have the twenty fifth highest OPS. In case

1038
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:18,439
Speaker 5: you're wondering, I definitelyand athletics line.

1039
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: Well, you were in it.

1040
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:25,880
Speaker 5: I was, Yeah, that was my favorite Oakland athletics team.

1041
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 4: I had like I had, I think me, Stephen Vote

1042
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 4: and Simeon had good years that year.

1043
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 8: That was it.

1044
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 5: Dan too busy watching had a nice year that year.

1045
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 4: He did. He came in in the later part and

1046
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 4: for us, But.

1047
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 5: I didn't see much of your team that year. I

1048
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 5: was watching Tyler White rip doubles in Corpus Christie for

1049
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 5: most of the year, So that was al player of

1050
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 5: the week Tyler White.

1051
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 4: That was the year we played. We played Billy Butler

1052
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 4: eleven dollars to be a DH For the next three.

1053
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 5: Years, I comped to a Mets scout. I comped Tyler

1054
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 5: White to Billy Butler to a Mets scout and he

1055
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 5: made fun of me. And then a month later he

1056
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 5: came back and offered me a job scouting for the Mets,

1057
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 5: So I'll take it. Uh, but yeah, we'll we'll see,

1058
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 5: we'll we'll talk soon. We'll see this terrible lineup. I

1059
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 5: assume the Astros are going to shut him out. Josh

1060
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 5: doesn't think they can hit. Rangers are gonna put up

1061
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:26,479
Speaker 5: thirty against whoever they're playing.

1062
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 4: Now, you're putting words in my mouth, Tyler.

1063
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: I mean, Josh is good to see the voter when

1064
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 1: you went h when you went to.

1065
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:36,399
Speaker 4: It was great.

1066
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 3: He looks fantastic, a little bit more Sultan though in

1067
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 3: the in the beard more day of nowadays. But we

1068
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 3: were always very close and our kids got to be

1069
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 3: pretty close when we were the Arizona for that.

1070
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 4: One of the best guys actually probably the best.

1071
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:52,320
Speaker 3: Guy you'll ever meet in baseball when it comes to

1072
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 3: everything around.

1073
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was basically the He was like everyone's like

1074
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,120
Speaker 2: first choice when you like we're talking about manager or

1075
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 2: a player that will be a manager. When he was playing,

1076
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,439
Speaker 2: he was everyone's first choice. And it's unsurprising to see

1077
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 2: that it's gone well so far because he's so relatable

1078
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 2: and such a such a good dude. But the Guardians

1079
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 2: are the least of the Astros problems. They need to

1080
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,439
Speaker 2: worry about the Mariners this weekend at T Mobile Park,

1081
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:20,400
Speaker 2: where they will bring a five game lead into Seattle

1082
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 2: and play three games against the Mariners and then go

1083
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 2: see the d Backs after in Phoenix. And who knows

1084
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 2: there could be some members of the Diamondbacks that could

1085
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 2: be Astros by the trade deadline. Who knows that could

1086
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 2: be a fun tease to talk about in a couple

1087
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 2: of days. Meryl Kelly a Houston native. Meryl Kelly, who

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Speaker 2: the Astros draft, Well, A, the major league team is

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Speaker 2: a little more important, and b have we got a

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Speaker 2: surprise for you coming in the next twenty four hours

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Speaker 2: to talk everything about the Astros draft.

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Speaker 1: So stay tuned.

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Speaker 2: We will have a full episode devoted to the draft,

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Speaker 2: but that will be coming a little bit later this week.

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Speaker 2: be We will be back to talk soon about the

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Speaker 2: Ashers draft and about the series this weekend against Marritors.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you guys soon.

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