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

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Speaker 1: Territory M Channel. The room joined by Tyler, Stafford and Tyler.

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Speaker 1: On July sixth, we sat down. I was in Houston,

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Speaker 1: I am in Baltimore currently, you were in your anonymous location.

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Speaker 1: We sat down and we did one of these and

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Speaker 1: the title to the podcast was, are the Astros the

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Speaker 1: best team in baseball? That is what the that is

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Speaker 1: what the YouTube front said is this's the best team

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Speaker 1: in baseball. At that point, they were fifty five and

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Speaker 1: thirty five. They had just gone to Dodger Stadium and

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Speaker 1: completely destroyed the Dodgers for three days with an absolute

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Speaker 1: skeleton lineup. They were running out there. That was after

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Speaker 1: they had swept the Phillies. That was after they had

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Speaker 1: taken two of three from the Cubs. It was very

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Speaker 1: it was okay, and it was appropriate to start guessing

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Speaker 1: and to start speculating, as did the Apps have the

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Speaker 1: best team in baseball? Since that day, they have gone

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Speaker 1: fourteen and twenty two. They have stumbled from twenty games

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Speaker 1: above five hundred to barely now ten games above five

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Speaker 1: hundred entering play today. There are only three other teams

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Speaker 1: that have had more losses since July seventh than the

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Speaker 1: Houston Ashers, and those are the San Francisco Giants, the

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Speaker 1: Washington Nationals, and the Tampa Bay Rays that his company

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Speaker 1: do not want to keep as a contending team, as

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Speaker 1: a team that purports itself as a contender. Rock Bottom

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Speaker 1: was reached this week in Detroit at Comerica Park, where

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Speaker 1: the Astros just were uncompetitive for three days against what

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Speaker 1: is the best team in the American League by record,

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Speaker 1: that is the best team in the American League, the Tigers.

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Speaker 1: The Astros were uncompetitive and I'll give them somewhat of

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Speaker 1: a pass for two day because Trek schoobl is a monster.

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Speaker 1: He was pumping ninety nine in the seventh inning. He's

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Speaker 1: really good. Like no lineup in baseball was hitting him

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Speaker 1: that night. You can complain about the hitting coaches, You

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Speaker 1: can plain about whatever you want. No line in baseball

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Speaker 1: was seeing Trek school on Tuesday. The days surrounding that,

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Speaker 1: Monday and Wednesday, not so much. Charlie Morton is a

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Speaker 1: fine human being, great guy. Has turned it around after

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Speaker 1: an awful first month in Baltimore. But he's still an

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Speaker 1: older pitcher that knows how to pitch. But he's on

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Speaker 1: the tail end of his career. Jack Flaherty had been

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Speaker 1: wildly inconsistent this year before he threw seven scoreless on

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Speaker 1: the Astros. Tyler, I don't think I expect them to

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Speaker 1: go in there and sweep. I didn't don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: go in with any expectations as to where, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I look at things in a more macro sense as

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Speaker 1: opposed to looking at Oh, they've got to do this

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Speaker 1: in this series. They've got to show up in this

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Speaker 1: series and do this in this game. I didn't expect that.

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Speaker 1: That was that was concerning, That was sobering, and that

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Speaker 1: was alarming what they just did for twenty seven twenty

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Speaker 1: seven ings A Yeah, twenty seven innings in Comerica Park

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Speaker 2: Thank you for ruining my night with all of your

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Speaker 2: terrible stats that now I have to know, I don't

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Speaker 2: appreciate that. I don't appreciate you giving AMMO to people

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Speaker 2: of Hey. Ever since we put up a podcast, here's

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Speaker 2: how bad the Astros have been. I'm sure no one

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Speaker 2: will use that against us. That was awful, just just awful,

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Speaker 2: and it's been awful for like the last two weeks. Basically,

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Speaker 2: you know, like you said, the record has been worse

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Speaker 2: over the last month and a half or so, but

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Speaker 2: there have been little blips and stuff there where they've

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Speaker 2: shown life. I mean, they look terrible right now. In

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Speaker 2: the last calendar week they have scored seven runs, just measly,

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Speaker 2: little artisanal runs that they're creating every every once in

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Speaker 2: a while. They can't they can't do anything, uh to

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Speaker 2: make these runs. It's awful. You waste a Hunter Brown start,

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Speaker 2: you know again.

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Speaker 1: It's schooble, right, But and I do want to say,

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Speaker 1: I know we talked about I know, I said school

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Speaker 1: was amazing. Hunter Brown was just like match was very good.

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Speaker 1: He was like that was a treat to watch.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was very good. Honestly. I mean you you

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Speaker 2: hit concern level in the first inning today watching Fromberg

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Speaker 2: And then you had the looper go down right field,

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Speaker 2: and it just feels like it's unraveling and the Ashers

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Speaker 2: just don't have the like fortitude right now to handle

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Speaker 2: right now. It was. It was rough, and it's our

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Speaker 2: fault for asking the question, are the Astros the best

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Speaker 2: team in baseball? That's on us now. For those who

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Speaker 2: don't know, Chandler does write all of the headlines, so

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Speaker 2: just know that he's the one that is putting that

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Speaker 2: out there. I did not. That's on him. So if

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Speaker 2: you're going to direct your anger at anyone, know who

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Speaker 2: did it to you.

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Speaker 1: I got I got told today by someone on social media.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have my Twitter open in

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Speaker 1: But they were okay now with me using the word

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Speaker 1: squander that the Astros squandered their seven game al leslie

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Speaker 1: they had to watch them.

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Speaker 2: How bad are the Mariners that they're not winning this

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Speaker 2: division by five games right now?

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's c J. Stroud's favorite team, and I

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Speaker 1: mean you know. CJ. Stroud's used to representing teams that

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Speaker 1: don't fulfill expectations, and the Mariners are right up there,

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Speaker 2: Know they had.

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Speaker 1: Now the Mariners have some built in excuses here. They

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Speaker 1: they went on a road trip and played the Mets

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Speaker 1: in the Phillies. The Phillies are red hot. The Mets.

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Speaker 1: They had to go to New York and then in

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Speaker 1: the middle of that had to go to Williamsport to

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Speaker 1: go be around all the children, which that would that

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Speaker 1: would throw me off too, having the.

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Speaker 2: Let's dive into that real quick, because you had a

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Speaker 2: hot take that I'd like to call you out on

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Speaker 2: while we're while we're already here in the depths of depravity.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to Chandler the other day. I was like, oh, man,

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Speaker 2: you watching this Little League World Series? What are your

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Speaker 2: thoughts in the Little League World Series? Chandler?

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Speaker 1: They can play it like I'm fine with them playing it,

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Speaker 1: don't put it on television like it is. It is

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Speaker 1: an awful product. If you sit down and watch the

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Speaker 1: Little League World Series like I I pity you, like,

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Speaker 1: find something else to do, like what else.

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Speaker 2: Is on ESPN at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: They can find something better than the Little League World Series,

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Speaker 2: You see that catch that one kid made in center field?

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Speaker 2: That was who I care? You see the kid throw

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Speaker 2: eighty two? It is unwatchable, Davis, Come on, there's so

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Speaker 2: many legends coming out of there.

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Speaker 1: If I wanted to watch athletes cry, I go to

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Speaker 1: Texans practice, but you know can't do that, so it

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Speaker 1: it is unwatchable. Like again, nothing against the event, nothing

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Speaker 1: like love Little League Baseball, like grow the game, get

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Speaker 1: get kids, get kids involved, don't put it on ESPN,

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Speaker 2: Terrible take.

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Speaker 1: I did love that. I who is the team like

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Speaker 1: fifteen years ago that like had the ringer that was

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Speaker 1: like actually eighteen years and yeah great. I want more

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Speaker 1: of that. I want more scandal. I want more like

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Speaker 1: forging birth certificates. I want more of that. None of

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Speaker 1: this like go shake hands with the other team after

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Speaker 1: the game crap, like just no.

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Speaker 2: Like I mean, speaking of cheating, have the Astros considered

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Speaker 2: you know, finding dusting off a buzzer somewhere or pulling

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Speaker 2: I don't know that it can get much worse.

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Speaker 1: It is. Yeah, you know, I think when when they

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Speaker 1: it is obviously like rife for overreaction. Just like what

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Speaker 1: we were just talking about, we did a podcast only

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Speaker 1: on July six that said, is this the best team

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Speaker 1: in baseball? That was we probably both knew deep down

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Speaker 1: that this was not the best team in baseball. Just

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Speaker 1: like as we're talking right now, we know they're not

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Speaker 1: to play three just awful games back to back to

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Speaker 1: postseason seating, and they just fell on their face. And

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Speaker 1: but it's not that bad. I don't that this team

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Speaker 1: is not that bad. They've got warts, they've got holes,

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Speaker 1: they've got a lot of things to fix. But as

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Speaker 1: we were talking about before, here it records how everyone

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Speaker 1: in this division does not Divisional division certainly, but everyone

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be the one that's gonna be the one

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Speaker 1: that's gonna run through the playoffs untested. No, like the

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Speaker 1: goal and as I've said this from the beginning, the

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Speaker 1: anything can happen, Like get in and get hot, you

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Speaker 1: get clicking at the right time. Anything can happen. But no,

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Speaker 1: they have shown honestly for the past you know month,

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Speaker 1: they don't. They are not playing to the capability that

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Speaker 2: What's wild is if they had had this exact same

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Speaker 2: like run two months ago, when when everyone initially got

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Speaker 2: that makes sense. But it just happens like the team

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Speaker 2: when they were doing better. Like there's no way to

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Speaker 2: look at it other than that. I mean, obviously the

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Speaker 2: results have not been there, but objectively, they have better

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Speaker 2: they were just running out anybody they could find at

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Speaker 2: it's one of those streaks. And as you say, that's

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Speaker 2: why it's so important to just get into the playoffs

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Speaker 2: because if you had, if you had faced the Astros

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Speaker 2: of a month and a half ago in the playoffs,

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Speaker 2: they can get hot for two weeks and make it

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Speaker 2: of the World Series. If the Astros started the playoffs today,

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't assume that they could beat a single team

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Speaker 2: in baseball in a seven game series. But it just

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Speaker 2: depends on when you get hot. So the goal is

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Speaker 2: to just get there and hope that you have enough

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Speaker 2: people performing well at the right time to catch fire

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Speaker 2: in October. And so that's why you build your team

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Speaker 2: and your franchise to get there as often as possible,

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Speaker 2: which the Astros are doing because again, even though they

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Speaker 2: are terrible, they're the worst team I've ever seen, they're embarrassing.

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Speaker 2: They're also a game and a half up in the

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Speaker 2: division and have like a ninety percent chance of making

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Speaker 2: the playoffs according to family. You know, like they're they're

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Speaker 2: as bad as they can be and they're still in

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Speaker 1: No no, you want the twenty thirteen Astros, Like we

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Speaker 1: So after the trade deadline, Tyler, we talked about the

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Speaker 1: But the Ashers pulled JP Frantz off of his rehab

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Speaker 1: Right now. We could sit here and litigate why or

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Speaker 2: no one outside of Houston is talking about Jesus Sanchez's

433
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:39,400
Speaker 2: struggles because that's nobody's thinking about that. So hopefully he's

434
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 2: able to just kind of find it. And I mean

435
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 2: we've only seen him for a couple of weeks now.

436
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 2: He certainly seems like the type of guy that could

437
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 2: run into really cold streaks but also really hot streaks

438
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 2: with how hardy swings and you know how aggressive he

439
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 2: can be. So you know, out of those swings that

440
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 2: he takes, if one out of ten of them that

441
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 2: he fouling off right now is ripped into the right

442
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 2: field seats, like he looks incredible over the last two weeks,

443
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 2: you know, like it's a it's a razor thin margin

444
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 2: for success and failure, especially the shorter timeframe that you

445
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 2: look at. But all of that to say, has not

446
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,400
Speaker 2: looked good. And uh, it's very frustrating when your team

447
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 2: isn't scoring runs when you have these guys that do

448
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 2: take big swings that can really like alter a game

449
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 2: with home runs or strikeouts, when you're just like, just

450
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:39,439
Speaker 2: score a run, please, like just get anything. And I

451
00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 2: almost wonder if that pressure of like you know, try

452
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 2: to like slow everything down and don't worry, don't worry

453
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 2: about him, like just make I almost wonder if that

454
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:57,400
Speaker 2: approach is difficult for him to adjust to. Because in Miami,

455
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,439
Speaker 2: who cares, you know, like you're the team's badges. Swing

456
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 2: hard and hit home runs, you know, like that's that's

457
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 2: all you have to do. And so if you're hearing

458
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,239
Speaker 2: a lot of like we just got to get one

459
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 2: run or whatever, you know, I could see that being

460
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 2: something that you would have to adjust to. My suggestion

461
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 2: would just be hit Danger's big dog. Just get out

462
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 2: there and rip it. That seems to be what you're

463
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 2: good at. Go for it. You know, some somebody else

464
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 2: can can do another thing that they're good at. On

465
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 2: the team, you know, you don't have to, you know,

466
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 2: alter the way that you're playing based on the overall

467
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 2: team success of the last week.

468
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I wonder this is kind of

469
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: like the reverse Christian Walker, right, Like Christian Walker was

470
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: so bad to start the season, but everyone around him

471
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: was performing and the Ashers were still winning. So like

472
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 1: we would come on here and we would say, man,

473
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 1: Christian Walker is not very good, like needs to pick

474
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: it up, like not certainly not worth the contract. But

475
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 1: it was a it was a back burner talking point

476
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: for a while because the Astros were they were winning

477
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: in spite of it. Now, when they're not winning, when

478
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: you're watching this, I don't want to call it a

479
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 1: free fall, but when you're watching this, this slide start

480
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,000
Speaker 1: to happen, you start to look at all, right, well,

481
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: who's the who are the biggest defenders? And you know,

482
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: I think for Sanchez, the thing that's hurting him is

483
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: it's on both sides of the ball. I give me

484
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 1: one thing. If it was just you know, the the

485
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,679
Speaker 1: underperformance at the plate, looking uncompetitive at the plate, Like

486
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: that's one thing, but I mean he is. I mean,

487
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 1: he didn't cost him the game Friday night, but like

488
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 1: I mean or on Tuesday night, excuse me, but like

489
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: the winning runs stood on second base, like they should

490
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,680
Speaker 1: have been out of that inning, Like it forced Brian

491
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,360
Speaker 1: to bray, you the guy that you have to keep

492
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: healthy to face another batter that he shouldn't have faced.

493
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: And then there's been other you know, he's he's sailed

494
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: the cutoff man a couple of times and let guys

495
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: get extra bases things like that. So it is kind

496
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 1: of a holistic breakdown right now for Haesu Sanchez. And

497
00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 1: again it's forty at bats, so this could he could

498
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 1: turn around, like he could he could go crazy this

499
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: weekend in Baltimore and we could be having we could

500
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: be talking on Monday about like his.

501
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, seven, seven for twelve with three home runs in

502
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 2: a weekend series, Like he's suddenly hitting two fifty and

503
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 2: is like, oh, here we go, this is the Geah

504
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 2: that you trade. You know, it's again it's a very

505
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 2: very small sample size to to look at, but yeah,

506
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 2: it has not looked good. I think Korea and al

507
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 2: Tuove combined to hit into about forty five double plays

508
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 2: in Detroit. I feel like every time I looked up,

509
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 2: one of them was hitting into a double play. Which

510
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 2: we've talked about too, is a lot of backwards logic

511
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 2: where if you're hitting into a lot of double plays,

512
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 2: that's actually probably a good thing because you have guys

513
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 2: on with less than two outs. So it's probably like

514
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 2: a good sign for your offense if you are hitting

515
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 2: to a lot of double plays. But so frustrating when

516
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 2: your team is just not able to score. To see

517
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 2: those chances, to quote the great chand of the room squandered, Uh,

518
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 2: you know you don't like seeing that.

519
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: Would you like to get uncomfortable and talk about the

520
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: other half of the right field platoon?

521
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 2: Hmmm, I'll do it.

522
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll allow it. I don't really know what they're

523
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 1: gonna do with cam Smith Tyler. I know you have

524
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: great affinity for the young man. I know you'd like

525
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: to take him to the zoo. I know you think

526
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: he needs to take a nap. He has not looked

527
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 1: like someone that belongs on a major league roster for

528
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: about a month and a half now, hasn't homered since

529
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: June twenty eighth against the Cubs. Is hitting under two

530
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: hundred since then, a span of about one hundred and

531
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: sixty played appearances. It doesn't look good. The defense has maintained,

532
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: he's been he's still been very good in right field,

533
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: has not has that It is not you have not

534
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: seen him take the bat to the outfield. You've not

535
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,959
Speaker 1: seen that, And that is something that is that is

536
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: not easy for a young kid going through failure for

537
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: the first time in his baseball life to do, and

538
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: that should be commended.

539
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 2: So July fifth, Cam Smith was hitting two ninety two

540
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 2: with an eight h one OPS. That's that's really good. Yeah,

541
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 2: that's a that's a great season for a rookie who

542
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: had not played minor league baseball since then. In thirty

543
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 2: four games he is hitting one fifty eight with a

544
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: four to thirty three OPS. Just cratered, honestly, I mean

545
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 2: it just you're right, just looks lost up there. Two

546
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 2: or three times a game. It feels like there's a

547
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 2: pitch that's borderline that gets called strike three, or it's

548
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 2: swung through in the middle. Like it just it has

549
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 2: not looked good in a while. But as we talk

550
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 2: about with Jesus Sanchez, What do you want them to do? Like,

551
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 2: who who do you think is going to play out

552
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 2: there that they're not already playing, you know, like the

553
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 2: this is the whole team. They don't they don't have.

554
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 2: They don't even have like the scrappy veteran you know,

555
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: they don't have like a Mauricio Dubon where it's like, yeah,

556
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 2: this isn't the future, but this is you know what

557
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 2: you're going to get out of this guy? You know,

558
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 2: you don't you don't have anybody, Like, you don't have

559
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 2: a thirty five year old bench bat that you're like,

560
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 2: just trot him out there because at least you know

561
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 2: he's gonna hit two seventy.

562
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: You don't have. You don't have a Jason Hayward. No,

563
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: I mean I'm thinking last year like Ben Gamble, Jason Hayward. Yeah,

564
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: guys that have no future with the ash that are

565
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: not going to be on next year's Astros team. But

566
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: guys that can, Guys that have done this before.

567
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 2: Guys they have put together competitive bats for ten years

568
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 2: as major leaguers and even if they've lost the step,

569
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 2: they know how to put at bats together. You don't

570
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 2: have that that that does not exist, and so this

571
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 2: is just who's gonna be, you know. I like again,

572
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 2: like what else are you gonna do? The you know,

573
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 2: the rosters expand in a week anyway, right in September,

574
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 2: So it's not it's not like you send him like

575
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 2: you'd have the same issue in a week when you

576
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 2: can just bring up whoever you want anyway. So yeah,

577
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it has. It has been a

578
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 2: rough watch, that's for sure.

579
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not it Like again, if if the Astros

580
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: had someone in the minor leagues like a Hayward or

581
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: a Gamble, or if there was someone like that available,

582
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: or if they were even targeting that, then the decision

583
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 1: would be pretty easy that Cam probably does need to

584
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 1: go down. And you know, he's not an everyday player

585
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: up here anymore. Like he's platuning with Hayes Sue Sanchez

586
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: in right field, and even on days when Hayes Sue

587
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: Sanchez doesn't play, there have been days where they're both

588
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: out of the line, So he's not in every day.

589
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: He's not getting every day at batsuppear anymore. I think

590
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: what the Astros have to ask themselves, or maybe more importantly,

591
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: what they have to ask Cam you know, when they

592
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: carried him on the opening day roster, they did so

593
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: understanding that something like this could happen, Like they weren't stupid,

594
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: Like they understood that, like this kid has never played

595
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: above double A, he's twenty two years old, he was

596
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: in college fourteen months ago. Like they knew that this

597
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: could turn out like this at times. But one of

598
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: the reasons that they felt comfortable carrying him was because

599
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: they thought the mental makeup and the aptitude and the

600
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: mental toughness was off the charts. And the fact that

601
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: what I started talking about this with with it hasn't

602
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: carried over to his defense, I think that shows that mentally, look,

603
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: he's probably not happy, he's probably scuffling, and he's probably

604
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: again he's never failed this much, so he's probably like

605
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: just lost just mentally, but he's able to lock it

606
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: in and he's able to, you know, at least compartmentalize

607
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: his struggles, and he's able to go out there. So

608
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: that that to me, at least without talking to Cam,

609
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: without getting inside of his head, that to me suggests

610
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: that he's handling it better than most kids his age,

611
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: most prospects his age would be. I think where the

612
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: askers would have to do something. Is if that was

613
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: the opposite correct is if is if they were worried about,

614
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,239
Speaker 1: for lack of a better word, screwing this kit up

615
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: mentally for the long term. They think they have something

616
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: different here in terms of makeup, in terms of what's

617
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: between the years. I'm not saying that that means he's

618
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: going to be on the roster all year. I'm not

619
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: going to bore you with it. I want everybody to

620
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: read it in the Athletic tomorrow. There is something with

621
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: Cam Smith's service time that will make it a very interesting,

622
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: difficult decision if they want to option him or not.

623
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: I'm not going to bore you with it. Long story short,

624
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: he has not reached a full year of major league

625
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: service time yet. And if you don't reach a full

626
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,719
Speaker 1: year of major league service time in your rookie season

627
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: as a PPI eligible player, you lose your PPI eligibility.

628
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: So there is a thought to keep him on the

629
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: active roster to get that year of service time. So

630
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: if he finishes top three in the MVP voting either

631
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: next year the year after, the Ashers going a draft pick,

632
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: and he maintains his PPI eligibility. Okay, but that's beside

633
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: the point. I think he's gonna stay up here. I

634
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: think part of it is the PPI, because that was

635
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: people I have talked to said that informed some of

636
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: their decision making putting him on the roster to begin with.

637
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: And the fact that they don't have anybody else Chas McCormick, Taylor, Tremmel,

638
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: Jacob Melton, Shay wit Combs down there right now. None

639
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: of them are crying for every day at bats. None

640
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: of them are showing that they deserve every day at

641
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: bats in cam Smith's stead. So I think he'll stay

642
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: up here. I think they're going to be very judicious

643
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: with how they play him. They're gonna try to give

644
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: him some advantageous matchups. But this, this was always the

645
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: downside and doing this.

646
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 2: Tyler, Yeah, I mean, like you said, though, despite how

647
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 2: bad things have looked, and hasn't even shown up in

648
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 2: like frustration at the batters, but you know, you're not

649
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 2: seeing like helmets thrown or like pouting or anything like that,

650
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 2: which is legitimately impressive for a young man who is

651
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 2: struggling very publicly on a team that is struggling, and

652
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 2: you know you're not seeing any of that. So I

653
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 2: think that does lend, you know itself to what you've

654
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 2: talked about of like, yeah, the astros knew that he

655
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 2: could struggle, but they were confident that he would be

656
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 2: able to handle it, and he has been, and I

657
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 2: think he would be able to handle as well if

658
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 2: he needed to be sent down because someone else was

659
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 2: outperforming or you know whatever. That just isn't the case

660
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 2: right now. There's just no there's no other options, and

661
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 2: so you just kind of keep running him out there

662
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 2: and seeing what happens and hope, again, hoping that he

663
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 2: can catch fire in the playoffs, because there's nothing about

664
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 2: camp Smith that would not suggest that he is capable

665
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 2: of a two week heater. And yeah, you should absolutely

666
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 2: do that. Yeah, so you keep those guys around because

667
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 2: that's what you need in October. I mean, he is

668
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 2: not this level of established or anything like that. But

669
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 2: George Springer was awful for the first couple series of

670
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 2: the twenty seventeen playoffs, Like I remember people saying he

671
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 2: needed to be moved down in the lineup was back,

672
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 2: he was so bad, and then he just woke up

673
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 2: in the World series, hit a home run every day

674
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 2: and is a hero for the rest of his life

675
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 2: in Houston. Like camp Smith has the ceiling to be

676
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 2: able to do something like that, like a season altering

677
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 2: heater that you're not gonna get no offense from Chas

678
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 2: McCormick or you know, Taylor Trammel or you know those

679
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 2: types of guys where the you know, there's not that

680
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 2: in them. And we've seen cam Smith be able to

681
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 2: do that. But yeah, it's been a it's been a

682
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 2: marathon for for the last month and a half or so.

683
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 2: For sure. The Zoo, I've been broken out the hype

684
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685
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686
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687
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688
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Speaker 1: Someone that grew up in Louisiana and you grow up

710
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Speaker 1: in Texas. Like hearing Kratz call a shirt a John.

711
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Speaker 2: I was gonna I was about to text you that

712
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 2: same thing.

713
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Speaker 1: Like I mean, and I know people from Philly and

714
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: like from that part of the country that do the

715
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: same thing. Like Matt Friend of the podcast covers the

716
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,120
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717
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718
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: go to dinner after the game, and he said, what's

719
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: that pizza John you told me about. I was like,

720
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Speaker 1: what in the hell are you talking.

721
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 2: About Papa John's man.

722
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: Yes, that's not what he meant, but yeah, that's always

723
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 1: kind of thrown me off, Like why are we calling

724
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Speaker 1: things John?

725
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Speaker 2: Who knows they're weird up there. They call it Pa too.

726
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 2: My neighbors are from Philadelphia. Every time they talk about it, Yeah,

727
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 2: we're going back to PA. And I'm like, get out

728
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Speaker 2: of here. I'm not calling it that.

729
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Speaker 1: I mean. One of Taylor Swift's most searing songs is

730
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Speaker 1: called Dear John, So that's that is a banger. I

731
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: love how she when she played it on the Aras tour,

732
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,760
Speaker 1: she had to like literally warn the fing like the crowd.

733
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Speaker 1: She was like, please do not go ruin John Mayer's life.

734
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: After I played this song and then she played and

735
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Speaker 1: She's slayd.

736
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Speaker 2: It was incredible, I mean, and then his half of

737
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 2: My Heart with Taylor Swift barely featured in there. It's

738
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,879
Speaker 2: not a good one, but I love both. A hot take,

739
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 2: big fan of both musicians. Eh, whatever, you're not a

740
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 2: guitar player, you can't appreciate. I'm sure John, I'm sure

741
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 2: John Mayor is extremely talent. John Mayer shreds he is

742
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 2: one of our best living guitar players. Is unbelievable.

743
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Speaker 1: He messed up with Taylor Swift. That's a that's a

744
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: that's a tough, tough pill for him to swallow, shining

745
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: like fireworks all over this set, empty town. What is

746
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: the what? What has happened in the last Like we've

747
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: we've talked about like there they are better than they

748
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 1: are playing, like this is a better team than how

749
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: they have played in the last two weeks. Is there

750
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: anything that has happened in the last two and a

751
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,760
Speaker 1: half to three and a half weeks where it's really

752
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: gotten bad that concerns you long term? That is like

753
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: that is like this is going to be the downfall

754
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 1: if they either don't make the playoffs or it's a

755
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: short playoffs day.

756
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh hadera, does that count?

757
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: I mean no, Okay, let's let's yes that that that

758
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: sucks like it's that's a terrible blow.

759
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 2: Well, that's one that you just look at and you're

760
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 2: like that can change a series quickly, you know, Fine,

761
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 2: what do you want from me ask your question better journalist.

762
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: Like it's what on the field has happened? What what

763
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: is like for me?

764
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 4: I have?

765
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Speaker 1: I have a couple of things. I think one like Frombervel.

766
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 2: Does got fromber is the correct answer? Yes?

767
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 1: He has got to be better. Yeah was in these

768
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 1: past four starts and today was a Today was an

769
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: unmitigated disaster. Like I'm not going to sit here and

770
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: try to sugarcoat it, but I think fromber gets maybe

771
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: I listen to too many people. Maybe I listen to

772
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: too many uninformed people, but like fromber gets to me

773
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: a bad rap. For like the minute he allows like

774
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,879
Speaker 1: two runs, everyone's like, oh from a head case again

775
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: like off the rails, doesn't know what he's doing. And

776
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: then you look up and he's like he's gone six

777
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: innings and allowed three runs. You're like, all right, that's

778
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: like that's perfectly acceptable, like that, like, yeah, can he

779
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: get frazzled sometimes? Sure? Can he can it? Can he

780
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: look like he's nearing a meltdown? Sure, But most of

781
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: the time he's able to rein it in. And it's

782
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: six and a third innings of two run ball or

783
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: six and two thirds of three run ball. Today was

784
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: obviously unacceptable, Like you can't if you purport yourself as

785
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: an ace, if you want to make two hundred million

786
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,919
Speaker 1: dollars next year, if you're a stopper, then you don't

787
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: go out there and give up six runs in the

788
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: first inning and the.

789
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 2: Game was over before he got an out right right.

790
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,240
Speaker 1: The problem has been in the last four starts, his curveball

791
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 1: has just disappeared. He got one swing and miss on

792
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: his curveball today to the point where he stopped throwing

793
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: it like he was it was.

794
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 2: It was left up and outside to Riotys too, which

795
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 2: I've never seen fromber dude. But the called strikes that

796
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 2: he got where those like big looping ones that were

797
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 2: landing on the lower outside corner to Riety's and that's

798
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 2: he's normally trying to hit their back foot with his curveball,

799
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 2: and he just, yeah, has not looked good at all.

800
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 2: I think Frombert falls into a similar category of fan

801
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 2: discussed as Ryan Presley, where he doesn't get outs the

802
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 2: way that are necessarily esthetically pleasing or ones that seem

803
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 2: repeatable even though they are. Because again today fromber, I mean,

804
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 2: the whole disaster happened from a borderline walk right, and

805
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,439
Speaker 2: then a liner back up the middle, a blooper down

806
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 2: the right field line, and then a bunch of balls

807
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 2: that are hit but that you know, no home runs.

808
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 2: There's nothing like you know, it's it's nothing like that.

809
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 2: It's just he gives up contact, that's what he does.

810
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 2: And sometimes that can unravel really quickly. And when you

811
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 2: don't have your outpitch, your curveball to just shut a

812
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 2: line up down and go like I'm hunkering down for

813
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 2: the next you know, ten pitches here, and I'm just

814
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 2: gonna like try to destroy the other team. When you're

815
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 2: not able to do that, you're up to the whims

816
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 2: of where is this ball gonna go when they eventually

817
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 2: make contact. Hopefully it's to the shortstop and not ten

818
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 2: feet to the left, which happens sometimes. And so I

819
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 2: think that's where a lot of the unraveling comes from. Now,

820
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 2: some of it is warranted. There have been, you know,

821
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 2: the comments about positioning and stuff. And even though I

822
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 2: think those were like completely reasonable thoughts to have, they

823
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 2: were not ones that you should say in a press

824
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 2: conference to these little nerds taking notes and writing stories

825
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,800
Speaker 2: about them. Embarrassing, But you know, those are the types

826
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 2: of where I think it can come back and bite

827
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 2: him more. But the great thing about Frombers, every time

828
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 2: he goes out, he has the ability to go eight

829
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 2: innings and give up one hit and strike out twelve.

830
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 2: And there's ten guys on the planet that you can

831
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 2: say that about. And that's why Fromber is gonna get

832
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 2: a bunch of money next year, regardless of four bad

833
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 2: starts in a row. You know, you just look at

834
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 2: look at his career numbers and what he's able to

835
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 2: do over the long term. You're gonna take that risk.

836
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 2: But I think I think the last month has probably

837
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 2: made it a little easier for some ASTROS fans to say,

838
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 2: all right, I guess this guy's not coming back. Best

839
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 2: of luck. I mean, I mean I disagree with that.

840
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: But but if but if they didn't know that before this,

841
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,720
Speaker 1: then they were not paying attention. But you should.

842
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 2: You should see the people tweeting at me.

843
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 1: Yeah it's yeah. So that that to me is the

844
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: like they've got to get that he is. They are

845
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. If fromer Veldez pitching like this like

846
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: we saw Hunter Brown had his, and look, you are

847
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: allowed to have blips like Hunter Brown had his blip

848
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: already it was, wasn't it right? He had two bad

849
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,280
Speaker 1: starts right before the break, and then like his first

850
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: start after the break wasn't good, Like he had a

851
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: three start stretch where he wasn't good. Fromer Valdez has

852
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: now had a four start stretch where he has not

853
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: been good. Like you are allowed to have these, Like

854
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: the only guys in the world that don't have bad

855
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: start stretches like this, or like Verlander when he's has

856
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,240
Speaker 1: a sub two era, or like even Garrett Crochet, who's

857
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: gonna maybe finish first or second in the cy Young

858
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: but like the Astros gave him a bad start like

859
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: a month ago or like two weeks ago, Like it's

860
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Speaker 1: okay to have a bad start every now and then,

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Speaker 1: but Fromer has got to get it corrected. I think

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Speaker 1: it starts with the curve ball, because when he doesn't

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Speaker 1: have that, he's very reliant on the sinker and this

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Speaker 1: I think it's a great pitch, but it generates contact, and

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Speaker 1: it generates contact on the ground, and when you put

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Speaker 1: balls in play, weird blank happens. It can just happen,

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Speaker 1: like sometimes they hit ground balls right to where guys

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Speaker 1: are positioned. Sometimes they have eyes and go different places

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00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: like just happens. So to me, that is that's the

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Speaker 1: quickest like fix. That's the thing where like if Fromber

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Speaker 1: comes out in his next outing, and conveniently it will

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Speaker 1: be against the Colorado Rockies, who if you need to

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Speaker 1: get right game pitch against the Colorado Rockies, he needs

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Speaker 1: to come. If he comes out then and it's back

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Speaker 1: to old Fromber, then you're like okay, like you can

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Speaker 1: settle down a little bit and you can start to

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Speaker 1: see a path. But if Fromber pitches like he did

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Speaker 1: this past month, then it's not gonna go well. And

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Speaker 1: that's the probably the biggest long term concern that I've

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00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: seen from this stretch because I and you can disagree

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Speaker 1: with me if you want, Tyler, I think they're gonna hit.

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Speaker 2: I think they do too. That it's weird how bad

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00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 2: the lineup has looked, because if if you had just

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00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 2: taken this lineup three months ago, I would have been ecstatic,

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Speaker 2: like the team looks better. It's weird that they're not hitting,

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Speaker 2: but you know, and then you know, hopefully you get

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Speaker 2: jord One back in a couple of days. Uh, well,

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Speaker 2: we'll see here. But I feel like Baltimore is always

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Speaker 2: the get right spot for him. With his you know,

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00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 2: seven hundred foot home run he had off a position

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Speaker 2: player there.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know who he hit the So he hit

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Speaker 1: one off, He hit one off a position player. It

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Speaker 1: was a three homer game. He hit one off the starter,

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Speaker 1: hit one off a position player. Do you know who

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Speaker 1: hit it in the middle off of No, Taylor Scott. Hmm, okay,

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Speaker 1: Taylor Scott will not be in Baltimore with you.

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Speaker 2: No, unfortunately he will not.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, hit that off Taylor Scott. I think he was.

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Speaker 1: I think he went on to Utah Street. Actually, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you would think Baltimore would be a good right But

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Speaker 1: they're out of We're playing very well. They're like forty

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Speaker 1: three and thirty three since they fired Brandon Hyde. The

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Speaker 1: city is a buzz with whoever Dylan Beavers is and

905
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Speaker 1: then Samuel Bassio, who is the best prospect in their system,

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Speaker 1: debut the last day in Houston. This is gonna be

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Speaker 1: the first time that they've played at Camden Yards, so

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Speaker 1: I imagine it'll be a pretty electric atmosphere for a team

909
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: that is playing for nothing, and this is a team

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Speaker 1: that just completely worked you for two of the three games.

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Speaker 1: You just played at Dyke in Parks So and they're

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Speaker 1: facing do you know they're facing tomorrow night? Can you

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Speaker 1: name him? Can you name him yet?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: Brandon Young?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no. I wouldn't have been able to name it.

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Speaker 2: If you had given me a hundred guesses of pictures

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Speaker 2: on the Orioles, I would not have remembered Brandon Young.

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Speaker 1: H Brandon, I'm gonna. I'm gonna go out on a limb.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's I don't think he's repeating that performance.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he'll retire the first twenty in a row.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. But I've been known to be

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Speaker 1: wrong before that. We did, after all, we did think

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Speaker 1: that the Ashers were the best team in baseball.

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Speaker 2: We didn't say that, we asked the question. We are journalists.

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Speaker 2: We are here to facilitate a conversation. But if anyone

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Speaker 2: is mad, it was Chandler's idea. He wrote it on YouTube.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait for stuff coming in Friday. Awesome, I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: back tomorrow with Josh Reddick to answer some mail bag questions.

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Speaker 1: I had a mailbag that's gonna run Thursday morning on

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Speaker 1: the Athletic. I got so many questions that I couldn't answer.

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Speaker 1: We're going to answer some of them on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: So it'll be a mail bag. It'll be a lot

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Speaker 1: of you know, hopefully answering a lot of questions that

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Speaker 1: you guys have Again. We appreciate all the all the listening,

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Speaker 1: all the all the outreach of support, and all the

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Speaker 1: outpouring of support since we launched. As always, if you

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Speaker 1: want to follow me on actually you can at Chandler

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Speaker 1: Underscore Room. We can follow Tyler at Tyler C. Stafford.

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Speaker 1: We will talk to you guys soon.

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Speaker 2: Bye