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

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Speaker 1: Territory'm Chandler Room joined by Tyler Stafford on another Playoff

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Speaker 1: Lists Astros Weekend, A guy that could have been on

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Speaker 1: the Astros for Hey, Polonko just homered off of Trek's

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Speaker 1: scooble in Seattle to give the Mariners a one to

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Speaker 1: nothing lead. Tyler, did you watch Playoff Baseball this week

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Speaker 1: without the Astros in it? Or were you more focused

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Speaker 2: I did? I found myself watching a lot during the week.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I understand that, you know, as someone who

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Speaker 2: has been in the Tuesday at noon time slot before,

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Speaker 2: I understand how frustrating that is as the local fan.

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Speaker 2: But it rules if you work from home and you

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Speaker 2: have a second monitor, and you can just throw on

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Speaker 2: Playoff Baseball for the whole week. So I really enjoyed that.

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Speaker 2: It is strange to have that. But honestly, with the

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Speaker 2: exception of them not having games on Friday, which I

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Speaker 2: found to be an odd choice, I thought the Wild

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Speaker 2: Cards series went as good as possible for Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 2: Like all the games were good, you know, three of

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Speaker 2: the four series went to the third game, good storylines,

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Speaker 2: and they all like rolled into each other really nicely

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Speaker 2: throughout the day. So I enjoyed that quite a bit.

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Speaker 2: What about you, The Yankees Red Sox series is great? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I love all three of those games were fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet is an animal. Cam Schlitzler is also an animal.

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Speaker 2: That was a great series.

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Speaker 1: I hated watching the Guardians and the Tigers just because

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Speaker 1: I could not believe both of those teams made the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But I mean it's a different kind of brand of baseball.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're in the pitching and if you're

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Speaker 1: it's a different brand if you're in if you want

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Speaker 1: home runs and scoring, that would not have been the

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Speaker 1: series for you. But Red the Reds were God. I

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Speaker 1: cannot believe the Nets didn't make the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Thats bad.

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Speaker 1: The Reds are bad. That was not it. That was

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Speaker 1: not a fun series. And then Cubs Cubs Padres kind

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Speaker 1: of went under the radar in terms of like I

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Speaker 1: don't know why it got maybe overshadowed by those other shoes,

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Speaker 1: but that was another that was that was a great

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Speaker 2: Great uniform matchup series. Two Padres Cubs are A plus uniforms.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the Wildcard round went well. The beginning of

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Speaker 1: the DS has not gone well. The Blue Jays are

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Speaker 1: just absolutely bludging the Yankees for the first two games

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Speaker 2: That's gone well. I've enjoyed those.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, those games have not been close. They have not

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Speaker 1: been that fun to watch. Trey is Savage today. That

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Speaker 1: Like you've seen kind of news.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was going to be like a SoundCloud

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Speaker 2: just some guy on the Blue Jays both can split

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Speaker 1: He can split change. It was a Rod and Poppy

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Speaker 1: trying to discuss amongst themselves how like a split change works.

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Speaker 1: And Derrek Jeter basically is like the old man. He

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Speaker 1: was like when I played, it was just a change

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Speaker 1: compelling television.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was good, but you know, like I said,

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Speaker 2: I mainly watched the wild Card because there are other

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Speaker 2: important things this weekend. One college football watch out my

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Speaker 2: Aggi's are for real? Got you circled LSU on the calendar,

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Speaker 2: so I'm ready for that one.

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Speaker 1: So all the chant leaders were black? Is that how

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And it looked awesome. Don't even pretend that you

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Speaker 1: And so like that was a departure because the chant

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Speaker 1: people usually wear white, right Are they the ones that

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Speaker 1: if they say something wrong they get like expelled? Is

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Speaker 2: And you're thinking of Harry Potter? Okay, yeah, uh no,

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Speaker 2: it was awesome. Get out of here. And then freaking

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Speaker 2: Revelle showing up in the black eye patch like on

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Speaker 2: like a pirate. It was. It was great. So it

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Speaker 2: one leave us here from my Aggie's out there, it's

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Speaker 1: Did they parade her? Did they parade the corpse around

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Speaker 2: She is paraded eternally in our hearts, So it's it's

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Speaker 2: or did you listen to it first thing the next morning.

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Speaker 1: It was a Thursday night. Thursday night, Yeah, you did.

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Speaker 1: It's a good album. It's a good album. There's more

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Speaker 1: skips than I would like, just I think it's a

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Speaker 1: very front loaded album.

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Speaker 2: Like you if you are dis agree, I think if

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Speaker 1: To it chronologically, like I think, the first six or

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Speaker 1: song on the whole album. The best song on the

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Speaker 1: album is Fated of Ophelia, the first rod, and it's

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Speaker 1: very she she I have been reading that. She's like

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Speaker 1: she's gotten some criticism in like the music world for

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Speaker 2: It's very good. Yes, Alicia went to the Like theater

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Speaker 2: to watch it and so she had fun there. You're

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Speaker 2: You're insane. That's such a bad take. The first two

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Speaker 2: songs are good. The run from Opal Eye to Eldest

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Speaker 2: Daughter is trash. Those are terrible songs. I love ruined

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Speaker 2: the friendship throughout the album. I thought so often, Oh

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Speaker 2: the guy playing bass is freaking ripping it that I

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Speaker 2: went and looked up Shellback or something. That's one of

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Speaker 2: the guys who produced the album. The bas On This

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Speaker 2: album rules. It's okay, it's like a six out of

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Speaker 2: probably my favorite. I love the music of Wood. It's

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Speaker 2: but I enjoy the music quite a bit of that one.

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Speaker 1: Actually, Romantic is savage, Like a lot of people didn't

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Speaker 1: like that. It's like just a blatant diss track, and

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Speaker 1: she she like lost some brownie points to some people

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Speaker 2: Charlie's prepping for a shot back. I saw she was

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Speaker 1: I can't wait for that now that we've here, now

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Speaker 1: that we've alienated everyone that's listening to this for actually,

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Speaker 1: this is what happens when the Ash made the playoff.

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Speaker 2: YEA, what what do you want us to talk about?

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Speaker 1: Would you like us to talk about Jorge Plonko, who

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Speaker 1: just maybe should have been on the Ashers if they

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Speaker 1: spent more money. But so we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: what we think the Astros offseason should entail, what their

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Speaker 1: priorities are. Before we do that, I do want to

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Speaker 1: give a little bit of an update as to what

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Speaker 1: is going on with the leadership of the franchise. There

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Speaker 1: is still no clarity. I spent a good bit of

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Speaker 1: texting people, calling people, not getting many responses to see

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Speaker 1: is still a lot of uncertainty as to who is

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Speaker 1: mentioned on the last show if they're going to do this,

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Speaker 1: and by day it's it's Jim Crane, Like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is this is Jim Crane's decision. He's the owner

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Speaker 1: Like I can't give you a date. I don't know

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Speaker 1: when you know, Jim Crane is not the easiest guy

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Speaker 1: He's done some drastic things before and I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: what we're going to talk about is maybe more. You know,

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Speaker 1: no matter who is running the team, no matter who

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Speaker 1: going to have the same sets of issues. They still

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Speaker 1: the same, they sell the same free agent guys going.

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Speaker 1: So this discussion will be kind of independent of who

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Speaker 2: Who the biggest priority is? Uh? Figuring out what you're

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Speaker 2: I think you gotta move on from one of those guys.

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Speaker 2: So that's gonna be the top protract. And then you know,

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Speaker 2: give up two or three runs every fifth day for

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Speaker 2: What about you, what do you think the biggest priority is?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's pitching. I think the infield and

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Speaker 1: Hunter Brown and Christian Xavier as the only two pitchers

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is one of those don't shoot the messenger things.

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Speaker 1: they're going to need some outside help. They're going to need,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'd say at least one external arm, probably

434
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Speaker 1: two to feel good about it. We don't know who's

435
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 1: gonna be making the decisions on that, but we shall see.

436
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,120
Speaker 1: Another person that's going to be pretty critical and kind

437
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: of how this all transpires is jose Al Tuve on

438
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: the position player side. A very odd year for him, statistically,

439
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 1: his worst season since twenty thirteen. Lost one hundred and

440
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: eleven games that year. Josel Tuve was a novelty by

441
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,400
Speaker 1: that point. He was not the Josel Tuve that everyone

442
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 1: else has now grown to love. And Noah is one

443
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,119
Speaker 1: of the greatest players in franchise history. So this was

444
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: a tough season for him. He played injured the last

445
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,440
Speaker 1: you know, a month or so, played more probably than

446
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: he should have as a as a thirty five year

447
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: old player, but it's one of those things they needed

448
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: him to play. So we'll see and we'll talk about

449
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,200
Speaker 1: what Josel Tuve is going to mean for the twenty

450
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 1: twenty six Ashers because he is the focus of our

451
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:37,959
Speaker 1: DraftKings player spotlight, Tyler. We mentioned it. You know, this

452
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: was this was an un jose Al Tuove like season,

453
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: a one twelve ops plus he only you know, the

454
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 1: batting average was two sixty five. Still, somehow you know

455
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 1: Manchill lead the team in hits of the one hundred

456
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:55,160
Speaker 1: and fifty six hits, but went through He's a streaky hitter.

457
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: He's a streaky player. That's just what he is. But

458
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 1: his peaks and valleys this year or were probably more

459
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: pronounced than at any point in his career. And I

460
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,159
Speaker 1: wonder how much of it had to do with the

461
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: fact that he played one hundred and fifty five games

462
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: and took a team high six hundred and fifty four

463
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: played appearances at age thirty.

464
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 2: Five, while learning a new position, while being hurt. Yeah,

465
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 2: so one hundred and five games into the season al

466
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 2: two they had an eight ten ops. He was inning

467
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 2: two eighty four. That was through the end of July,

468
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 2: and then the final fifty games that he played over

469
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 2: the last two months he hit two twenty six with

470
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 2: a six eighty nine OPS. I think it's a combination

471
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 2: of a lot of things, whether it's age or being injured,

472
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 2: you know what, whatever, I think it's I think that's

473
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 2: what you would talk it up to, because again he

474
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 2: had one hundred and five games where he saw him

475
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 2: normal Jose a two bay like an eight ten ops

476
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 2: is exactly what you would expect from from al two A. Uh,

477
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 2: you know, maybe maybe a little higher. You'd hope for

478
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 2: a little higher, but I mean that's that's a reasonable age.

479
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 2: Thirty five jose A two a season and then he

480
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,160
Speaker 2: just cratered at the end. And you know, like you said,

481
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 2: like I would imagine that if he had been the

482
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 2: only one injured and the Astros were up quite a

483
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 2: bit in the division, he would not have played hardly

484
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 2: any at the end of the year, Like he was

485
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 2: clearly in pain and like you said, probably playing a

486
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 2: whole lot more than he should have been, but they

487
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 2: needed him. They you know, everybody else was hurt. So yeah,

488
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 2: I mean, you hope that he can just kind of

489
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 2: rest up and get better in the off season. And

490
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 2: then you know, he ended the year with a seven

491
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,199
Speaker 2: seventy ops, so I mean it came down quite a

492
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,720
Speaker 2: bit and those last two months still an above average hitter.

493
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 2: But I think I think there's more for him next

494
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,199
Speaker 2: year if he's able to stay healthy and not have

495
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,719
Speaker 2: to play as much as he did this year, especially

496
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 2: in the field.

497
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: I think the thing for me is like that you

498
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 1: were talking about earlier, like they've got to figure out

499
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: the paradus Walker logjam in the infield. I think first

500
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,439
Speaker 1: of all, they got to figure out what do we

501
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 1: want to do, Like Josel Tuve needs to be the

502
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: first thing to figure out, like is he your left fielder?

503
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 1: Is he dhing most of the time? Is he playing

504
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 1: second base at all? Once you figure that out, then

505
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: everything else will kind of fall into place, because like

506
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,199
Speaker 1: you're not trading Joseel Tuve, like you're like he is.

507
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 1: He's on the team no matter what, and he's gonna

508
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: be a big part of what this team does. So

509
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: they figure him out first. Because if they do like

510
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,880
Speaker 1: reverse course and like you know what, like like we

511
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: need DH spot for jord On most of the time,

512
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: Like let's just put him back at second base and

513
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: we'll live with the defense, then it makes all the

514
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: decision making easier as to Okay, well, like it's pretty

515
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: obvious that Paradis or Walker is an odd man out there.

516
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: Or if they're like, you know what, we'll we'll we'll platoon,

517
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: we'll do a quasi platoon of him and Alvarez in

518
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 1: left field, then it's like all right, well, second base

519
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: is now open. Now you can start to think about

520
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: maybe do we ask Paradus this offseason to try working there.

521
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: I think it all, it all begins and ends without

522
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 1: too bad. They've got to figure out what is best

523
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: for him to you know, as much as you want

524
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: him to play, they've got to figure out a way

525
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: where he is not taking six hundred and fifty four

526
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: played appearances. It's just it's asking too much of a

527
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: guy that is getting older. And I can't, you know,

528
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: verbat him and I can't you know, say with unflinching

529
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: accuracy that you know, age is why he declined this year.

530
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: And but it's just it's just kind of common sense,

531
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: like father time comes for everyone, and you know, look,

532
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: George Springer's having a resurgence season right now at thirty four.

533
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: Like this doesn't mean like he's on the decline, but

534
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 1: it does mean that they're gonna have to manage him differently.

535
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:05,959
Speaker 1: It's gonna have he's going to have to be managed

536
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: differently now than he was at any point in this era.

537
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: So I think once they figure out they're doing with

538
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: al Tuove, then everything else kind of falls into place.

539
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: And I think one stat from this season that just

540
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,679
Speaker 1: kind of shows you how important he still is to

541
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: this team and the Astros wins this season. Jose L

542
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 1: Twovey slash two ninety three forty five forty that's an

543
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: eight eighty ops. In their losses, he was two thirty

544
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 1: five three sixteen three twenty two. That's a six thirty

545
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: eight ops. So that should just show you how much

546
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: he still means to this team, even when he just

547
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: had one of the worst seasons of his career. They

548
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: need to figure out a way to manage him better,

549
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: to manage him knowing that he is an older player

550
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: now and he's gonna have to be treated as such.

551
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: That's not to say he's not an everyday player, but

552
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to find a way to better manage Joseel,

553
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: which I think that will internal lead to, you know,

554
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: getting the log jam salved in the infield.

555
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 2: So that's what they need. Go ahead, no, you go?

556
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 2: Am I reading this correctly? Can you pull up jose

557
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 2: Al to b and George Springer's pages and look at

558
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 2: their ages and just make sure that I'm not crazy,

559
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 2: that I'm not reading this wrong.

560
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: Yes, Now, Springer's year older.

561
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 2: Than Did everyone know that? Did everyone know that George

562
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 2: Springer is a year older than jose Al tuove. That

563
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 2: seems crazy to me? Is that true?

564
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: It is like you think you think George is falsifying

565
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: his age.

566
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 2: I'm just I that's crazy to me. I don't think

567
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 2: anyone's falsifying ages. I'm just saying you forget that Springer

568
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 2: came up older and I'll two A debuted at twenty one,

569
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: but that I never would in a million years would

570
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 2: have guess that. That's that's crazy to me. So look,

571
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 2: next season is Al two Bay's renaissance here. Look at

572
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 2: look at old George, the geezer over there, lap in

573
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 2: L two A and age. So yeah, next year is

574
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 2: al two Bay's breakout here. He's going to do what

575
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 2: what Springer did this year and have a one sixty

576
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 2: one ops plus and put up a five to win season.

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Speaker 1: So, if you were given the keys, and who knows

600
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Speaker 1: who could have the keys to this thing within the

601
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: next week or so, where do you think al tuove

602
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: is best suited for not only himself to keep himself

603
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:46,959
Speaker 1: upright and playing well, but within the constructs of what

604
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: the ashers have on their roster currently, Like what would

605
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: you do?

606
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 2: I would ask Jose Altuve which one he wanted to

607
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 2: play just go from there. You know, I don't I

608
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 2: don't think with your current roster like last year, I think,

609
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 2: you know, like you said, they had a very clear

610
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 2: thing of we're focusing on infield defense. We're gonna see

611
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 2: if Al two Bay's okay with his whatever. He just

612
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 2: had a full year where you got to play all

613
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: three of them. You tell us, buddy, which one do

614
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 2: you want to do? Because they need him right. I mean,

615
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 2: I would imagine in an ideal scenario, it would be

616
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 2: a split of left field and DH, with him and

617
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 2: Jordan and sprinkling in some second base days every once

618
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 2: in a while like they did this year, but try

619
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 2: to trim it too, closer to one hundred and forty

620
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 2: games instead of one hundred and fifty five or whatever

621
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,959
Speaker 2: he played this year. So yeah, I mean, look at

622
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 2: Joseel two Bay, he kind of decide I think that

623
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 2: his choice would be similar to what the Ashros would be,

624
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 2: and that's a split of left field and DH.

625
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: Either way, they're going to have to get like uncomfortable

626
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: with one of these two things, Like either Joseel two

627
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: Bay is going to have to play a lot of

628
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: left field as a thirty six year old player next year,

629
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: or they're just gonna have to take the reins off

630
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: of Alvarez and just say, you know what, like we've

631
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: we've treated him with kid gloves, like we've been worried

632
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: about the knees and worried about moving Like it's either

633
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: like you're gonna play eighty eighty five games in left

634
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: field and we're just not gonna worry about it. But

635
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to get uncomfortable one of those two ways,

636
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: because that's when.

637
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 2: Those injuries were fielding related. Though it's not like him

638
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 2: playing left field contributed to anything like that.

639
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: No, no, but like that's been there. They're worried about

640
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: him in the last two or three years, has been that.

641
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: You know, he he doesn't recover well after like some

642
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: long days in the outfield like they want to.

643
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 2: I mean, as long as no one it's a slippery

644
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 2: home plate in front of the Crawford boxes, he should

645
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 2: be fine.

646
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: Right And they have to also like look at what's

647
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: the pitching staff going to look like? Like Christian Javier

648
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: is a flyball pitcher to the extreme, Like Hunter Brown

649
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: used to be a ground ball pitcher. Now he just

650
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: strikes everyone out, so it's not really balls in play.

651
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: And you have to look at how your pitching staff

652
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: is going to be composed, like do you prioritize outfield defense?

653
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: Do you priority like how much is that going to

654
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 1: be a priority behind the pitching staff, like they went

655
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,120
Speaker 1: the reason they were so gung ho on solidifying their

656
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: infield defense last year was because they believed they were

657
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: going to have one of the bigger and most one

658
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: of the best ground ball rates of any pitching staff

659
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: in baseball. It didn't turn out like that because Hunter

660
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: Brown took this next step and he wasn't just getting

661
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: like weak contact with the sinker early incounts like he

662
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 1: was last year, like he was a bona fide ace

663
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: like and so like that took away some of the

664
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: thought they were going to be such a ground ball

665
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 1: heavy pitching staff. Obviously they still have Fromber but but.

666
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, to me, who cares about the do you?

667
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 1: Like?

668
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,839
Speaker 2: I get that that was like their main focus last year.

669
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 2: But you just said, like, yes, they did have one

670
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,959
Speaker 2: of the better infield defenses. Great, but like you said,

671
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 2: the pitching staff didn't even end up being what they

672
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 2: thought it was going to be, and their problem was

673
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 2: they couldn't hit. So figure that part out first. You know,

674
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 2: where can you get the best bats in your lineup

675
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 2: on a most consistent basis? And if you got some

676
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 2: gaps in the defense, you can figure that out later.

677
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 2: But I'd rather I'd rather lose an eight to seven

678
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 2: game than a four to nothing game.

679
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 1: Speaking of not being able to hit again, we don't

680
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: know who's in charge of anything at this point, so

681
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: I can't really speak on coaching staff or anything of

682
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: who's going to be coaching. What we talked about the

683
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: hitting coaches on the last pod. The wonderful people at

684
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: Foul Territory were nice enough to tweet out a clip

685
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: of it.

686
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 2: People had how did that go for you? I don't

687
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 2: think I was tagged that one.

688
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: It didn't go well. I was tagged at it. Don't

689
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: worry O good, it didn't go well. But we've we've asked,

690
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: like it's been the existential question the last two three

691
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: weeks or really two three months, like is this philosophy

692
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: or is this per sonel? Like how do they address

693
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: whoever is making the decisions?

694
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 2: They just hit another home run.

695
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: Off of school.

696
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 2: Yeah almost Astro's legend Jorge Polonko two home runs in

697
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 2: this game too. Continue.

698
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: So I guess as you look up and down the lineup,

699
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,919
Speaker 1: it's pretty obviously they're not running this lineup back, like.

700
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 2: Good lord, they can't. It was all Triple A guys

701
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 2: for most of the year, well.

702
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: Like even the even the entrench guys. I don't there's

703
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 1: going to be changes. Is there a player or two

704
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: that you look at and you think, man, that guy

705
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: kind of looks expendable. That guy kind of looks like,

706
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they make a good baseball trade, like,

707
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: you know, find a find another team that is in

708
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: need of a position of a guy at this certain position.

709
00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: Try to get something and you know, a facelift for

710
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: the offense, to get a different kind of offensive profile

711
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: in there. Because look, like I mentioned in that clip

712
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 1: that everyone went nuts about, like even if they get

713
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 1: rid of the hitting coaches, even if it's a new

714
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 1: hitting philosophy, like, you still have the same problem. All

715
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: these guys are the same offensive profile. So they're going

716
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 1: to have to do something different, And I don't know

717
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: if that's remaking the roster. I don't know if that's

718
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: just simply getting new voices in, I don't know. But

719
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: if they are going to remake the roster and they

720
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 1: do decide it's to personnel problem, is there anyone that

721
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: you've identified that you're like, hey, like, you know, maybe

722
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: we get that free swinger out and we can backfill

723
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: the need and we can get some help from another

724
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: team that trade.

725
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 2: H I think they have one tradable asset that they

726
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 2: could actually benefit, you know, like, obviously Parate's is a

727
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 2: tradable aspect as asset. Christian Walker is not, because no

728
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: one's gonna like that. You're not going to upgrade by

729
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 2: trading him. It would just be like internally, we'd rather

730
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 2: get rid of this guy to keep parades. It's not

731
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,760
Speaker 2: like you're gonna trade Walker and get somebody better back.

732
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 2: Jeremy Panna is your other tradeable asset. He's not going anywhere,

733
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 2: and also, who are you going to get back that's

734
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:20,280
Speaker 2: gonna give you Jeremy Payna value. The only other tradeable

735
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 2: asset that I think you can get major League ready

736
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 2: good value from is Brian A bray. You he's got

737
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 2: one year of team control left, probably not going to

738
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 2: resign him, especially because you've committed a ton of money

739
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 2: to hater. There's maybe five closers in baseball that you

740
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 2: would like stamp as. You know, a Bray is not

741
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 2: better than this guy. But I mean, there's gonna be

742
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 2: some teams in the offseason that are gonna want to

743
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 2: shore up their bullpen that feel like that's the last

744
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 2: piece that they need to go far in the postseason.

745
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 2: And Brian Bray, you fits that team perfectly. The Astros

746
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 2: have other needs, uh than that, that are more pressing.

747
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 2: So that would be the person that I would look

748
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 2: to if I if I were in charge this offseason,

749
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 2: is you know what handful of teams really need an

750
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 2: elite set up closer guy that have some young, expendable

751
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 2: big league hitters.

752
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: I did not think you were going there. I would

753
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: have probably mentioned the guy that catches a lot of Brian.

754
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:33,399
Speaker 2: B Yeah, but I mean again, like, okay, you trade him,

755
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 2: but you're you're not getting back somebody that someone else

756
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,399
Speaker 2: is excited, Like those are those are depressed assets? Like, yes,

757
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 2: you can trade him if you think you have somebody

758
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 2: else that can fill that void. Victor guarantee he's a

759
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 2: free agent, Like they're gonna have to sign a catcher anyway,

760
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 2: and if you trade Yiner, like, yeah, you could get

761
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 2: somebody back that could eventually be better maybe, but you're

762
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 2: not getting back guy that has anywhere near the ceiling

763
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 2: that Jiner has because other teams just watched him for

764
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 2: the last year too and are not paying for the

765
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 2: ceiling they're paying for. Oh, you want to get rid

766
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 2: of this guy. Like if you're trying to sell high

767
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 2: on a guy and get back big talent. I mean

768
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 2: maybe it could be a combination of you trade Briana Brady,

769
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 2: you get a catcher back that you're excited about, then

770
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:30,479
Speaker 2: Jiner is expendable, but you trade Jiner for for who

771
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 2: you know, Like, what catcher are you thinking is going

772
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 2: to come back? That is that much of an upgrade

773
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 2: that you're going to be able to acquire for Jin Diaz.

774
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: Well, my fault was not that they're going to trade

775
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: yinor Diaz to another team and for a catcher like

776
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: you can go sign, like you can go sign, you

777
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: can resign Victor Karattini and go go get another veteran

778
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: on a one or a two year deal. Let those

779
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: two guys share the workload and you're catching, your catching

780
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: situation is solved. I guess I'm more thinking of, like,

781
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: you know, everyone when it comes to trades, everyone looks

782
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: just maybe sometimes at the production right, And Yesiner did

783
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: not have a good year. The Iron Dieas also has

784
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: three more years of team control, which is insanely valuable

785
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: and will automatically mean you're going to get a lot

786
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: in return for him if you are trading three years

787
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: of control of a catcher that look, I know he's

788
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: I know he didn't have a good year last year,

789
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 1: but he is a catcher that has hit twenty home

790
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: runs in two of the last three years. He's in

791
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: his last three seasons combined as a one ten ops

792
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: plus behind the plate. I mean, everyone can watch and

793
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: see the approach is not great, and he hasn't improved

794
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: the approach, and it's part of just kind of what

795
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: can be maddening about watching him sometimes. But you're telling

796
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: me there's not a team out there that would take

797
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 1: a that would like really want like a bat first

798
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: behind the plate catcher, like if they think they can

799
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: fix him defensively, and maybe if they've got a lineup

800
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: that's not like the Astros. If they've got a lineup

801
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: that's full of passive guys that you know, don't swing

802
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: a lot that see a ton of pitches. Put this

803
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: dude in the five or the six hole, and he

804
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 1: can bang out a homer on the first or second

805
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: pitch hecs. Like, I just think there is I think

806
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: he has more value than a lot of people think.

807
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: And I think the thing about you're not far off

808
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 1: on Brian Abrady, Like I agree with you that it

809
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 1: is something that if they're not going to resign him,

810
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 1: they should probably you know, think about it. But like, remember,

811
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: Brian A. Brady is one more year of team control,

812
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: So you're trading, Like I get you traded Kyle Tucker

813
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: with one year team control left. Kyle Tucker is a maniac,

814
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: Like he's a superstar, Like that's why you got all

815
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: that back, Like trading one year of a reliever and

816
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: a reliever. Relievers are the most volatile position in sports,

817
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: not just in baseball, maybe in sports. Relief pitchers are

818
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: them Like you have no idea what they're gonna come

819
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: back and look like like guys that pitched very well

820
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: in this bullpen this year. You have no idea what

821
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: they're gonna come to spring training and look like it's

822
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: the most volatile position in sports. Brian abradw has been

823
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: immune to that volatility because he's been so good for

824
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: his lengthy Asher's career. I just think they would have

825
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 1: a better chance of getting a more substantial package back

826
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: if they looked to look to move on from Yiner. Again,

827
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: I have no insight that they will. I don't know

828
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: who's gonna be making the decisions, but I think that's

829
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: something that that would solve a couple of things. It

830
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: would solve, you know, defense, defense behind the plate is

831
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: not good. It hasn't got It hasn't been good. It

832
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: hasn't gotten much better. He they they they need to

833
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: make some strides there. It would help. That takes a

834
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: free swinger and a chaser out of your lineup if

835
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 1: you backfill it with another bat that is a little

836
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 1: more passive, is a little more of a defined approach

837
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: than that helps And you know, I mean it, it's

838
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: just again you know that could have that could help

839
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: address your rotation? Does it? Does a team include a

840
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,439
Speaker 1: starter with like a year or two of control left

841
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: if they really want, Like, there's a lot of different

842
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: avenues this can go. So I think that to me

843
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: would be the guy that I would look at. As

844
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not saying they're going to do it.

845
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're going to entertain doing it, but

846
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 1: it's one of those that has always kind of made

847
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: a lot of sense to me.

848
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I mean they've got a lot

849
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,359
Speaker 2: of options, a lot of guys that are gonna get

850
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 2: non tendered here soon, and a lot of pieces moving around.

851
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 2: So yeah, who knows what's gonna happen, and like you said,

852
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 2: who knows who will be making the happening.

853
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: It's late.

854
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 2: Sorry, So what's the what?

855
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: What?

856
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 2: What does this week look like? In the in the

857
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 2: thought process timeline? Do you think.

858
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: If I knew, I would tell you.

859
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 2: If I knew, I but you know, you're just holding

860
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 2: it back from everyone, right.

861
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: Like I would have reported it by now if I knew,

862
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: I would have told you at the beginning. Like when

863
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,960
Speaker 1: I tell you, like basically everyone is in the dark.

864
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: Like believe me when I tell you that, like there

865
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: are very few people really maybe only one or two

866
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: that really know what's happening. And that because I mean, look,

867
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: let's let's stop beating around the bush here. It's Jim

868
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: Creane's decision, like he's just got to do it, like

869
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,439
Speaker 1: he's just got to decide what's going to happen. And

870
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he has and it just hasn't been

871
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 1: communicated well. But as I spent this whole week, and

872
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: I can I can tell you with pretty certainty that

873
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: not only within the organization, but you know, outside the organization,

874
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 1: teams that are you know, rival teams, guys that are

875
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: checking in with people within the Ashers organization, like no

876
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: one knows, no one knows what's going on. Look, it

877
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: could be as easy as you know, there's Jim does

878
00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: something this week where it's like, yep, you know what

879
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,240
Speaker 1: as are coming back and okay, great, and then they'll

880
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: move on into business as usual. I don't I don't

881
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: know that it goes like that, but who knows. I again,

882
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 1: I am just as in the dark as basically everyone.

883
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: But one thing I will say, do not take like

884
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: the silence since Tuesday that that end of season press conference,

885
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 1: Like don't take the lack of like announcements or the

886
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 1: silence since then to be like, oh, like they're both

887
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: coming back, everything is great, and like they're all ready

888
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: to go like that is not the case. That is

889
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: not what's going on here. There's still a lot unknown,

890
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: there's still a lot up in the air. But we'll, uh,

891
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: we'll follow it along and we'll see because again, I

892
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: I do not know like you, like I'm you joke that,

893
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: like I'm holding stuff back, like I have told you

894
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: everything I know, which is very little, which makes me

895
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 1: great at my job. Obviously. That's why people want to

896
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast for me to say, I don't

897
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:58,439
Speaker 1: know what's going on with the team I'm paid to cover.

898
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 2: You know, I I think you're lying to us. I

899
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 2: think you know all of it and you're just you're

900
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 2: just keeping it for yourself, You and your precious clicks.

901
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 2: You hide them behind the paywalls and you don't let

902
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 2: us read it. It's all you already know. Martin Maldonado

903
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 2: has signed a seven year contract to be the Astros

904
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,240
Speaker 2: head coach, and you're just not telling anyone.

905
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: Do you just call the Astro's head coach?

906
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Andrea, it's going to do both and you

907
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 2: know it, and they're not letting him announce it.

908
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: Where does that leave Jeff Bagwell, well.

909
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,280
Speaker 2: He's the director of player Operations.

910
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,439
Speaker 1: Great whenever we get more clarity on this, we will

911
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 1: come back to I do expect. I don't want to

912
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: put a timeline on it, because a minute you put

913
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: a timeline on it, like things can change. But again,

914
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: as we have talked about, like I find it hard

915
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: to believe that they can keep dragging this on like

916
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 1: they're going to have to because for no other reason,

917
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: then if they're going to need to hire people, then

918
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: like they need to start that process. Like the GM

919
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: meetings aren't a month in Vegas and you don't have

920
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: to go, you don't have to be represented at the

921
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: GM meetings, I guess, like, but I mean they didn't.

922
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: They weren't in twenty twenty two when they sent James

923
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: clickup as a lame duck. But I mean the GM

924
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: meetings is where a lot of stuff gets done, Like

925
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: it sets the groundwork for a lot of trades, sets

926
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: the groundwork with agents for guys you want to sign.

927
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff happens there. So they probably need

928
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: to have if if there is going to be a

929
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 1: change or if there is, I think everyone needs to

930
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: know what's happening by that. So they've got a month,

931
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: and which would lead me to believe that if they

932
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: do need to do searches, then they probably need to

933
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: get going on that. So I would imagine it's going

934
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 1: to be pretty soon that we know something. I'm not

935
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: going to put a date on it. I'm not going

936
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 1: to put a time on it. I don't know, but

937
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 1: whenever it happens, we'll come back to you and we

938
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,880
Speaker 1: will discuss who is running the astros after we just

939
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: we gave them all. We gave them all the material

940
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: they need right here. They have the off season plan.

941
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: We just gave it to them, so I don't really

942
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 1: need to do much. So they can listen to this

943
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: and they can follow me at Chandler Underscore Room. Potential candidates,

944
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 1: prospective candidates for a job that's not open, that's not

945
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:13,879
Speaker 1: even open, or could not even be open, who knows?

946
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 1: Follow me at Chandler Underscore Room. You can follow Tyler

947
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,919
Speaker 1: at Tyler c Stafford. As always, please rate and review

948
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: us on Apple and Spotify. You can subscribe to the

949
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: Krush City Territory YouTube channel so you can get notified

950
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,840
Speaker 1: anytime we post a new episode. Like I said, we

951
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: will be back next week with whatever updates come from

952
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: Union Station and Diyke in Park to see what is

953
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: the next step for the Astros as they navigate in

954
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: October away from the postseason for the first time in

955
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: nine years. So thank you guys as always for listening

956
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:46,439
Speaker 1: and we will talk to you.

957
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 2: Soon when you think about it. With as bad as

958
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 2: the Astros were and with no news coming on, it's

959
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 2: actually romantic that we came on and talked about them

960
00:49:55,560 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 2: as much as we did. Bye the