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

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Speaker 1: Territory and Channeler Room, joined by Tyler Stafford. I am

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Speaker 1: still in Sacramento, California, where the Astros well, they had

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Speaker 1: a week. They had a week condensed in the three days,

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Speaker 1: and Tyler I had to look up what these people

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Speaker 1: were called. But have you ever heard of the script? No, so,

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Speaker 1: I have heard of a song that they sing. It's

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Speaker 1: one of It's one of those awful songs that plays

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Speaker 1: on like movie trailers or like commercials for bad to March,

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Speaker 1: for bad department stores. It's called break even. And the

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Speaker 1: first words of that song are I'm still alive, but

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Speaker 1: I'm barely breathing. And that is what the Astros find

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Speaker 1: themselves in. They technically still have a pulse in the

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Speaker 1: American League playoff picture. According to Fangraphs, they currently have

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Speaker 1: as they fly to Anaheim as we speak, they have

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Speaker 1: a twenty eight point five percent chance to make the postseason.

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Speaker 1: So that is it's still on the table. They have

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Speaker 1: a pulse. They're not on life support yet, but it's

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Speaker 1: it's getting there. But they did themselves no favors in

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Speaker 1: Sacramento this week, losing two of three of the A's

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Speaker 1: and those two losses were about as lifeless and as

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Speaker 1: listless as you can as you'll find from this whole season.

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Speaker 1: Very I don't want to say disheartening because I don't

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Speaker 1: really care. I don't have an emotional stake in this,

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Speaker 1: but if you were, if you were a fan, I

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Speaker 1: can imagine watching Tuesday and Wednesday's game was pretty disheartening.

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Speaker 1: Thursday they appeared more lively, appeared more with it, and

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Speaker 1: they want eleven to five. They they beat up JT.

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Speaker 1: Gin and the rest of the A's pitching staff. They

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Speaker 1: had more hits with runners in scoring position after two

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Speaker 1: innings than they did in the previous five games combined.

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Speaker 1: They stayed alive, but it is going to be an

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Speaker 1: uphill climb for this team to make the playoffs. Tyler,

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Speaker 1: because while the Astros were in their free fall, the

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Speaker 1: Tigers were simultaneously in a free fall as well, and

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Speaker 1: kind of the two teams were competing with each other

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Speaker 1: to see who could collapse the worst. But the Tigers

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Speaker 1: also won on Thursday to snap their streak, which means

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Speaker 1: the simplest way to put it, the Astros elimination number

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Speaker 1: is two, which means any combination of two Detroit wins

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Speaker 1: or Astros losses will eliminate the Astros from the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: which means essentially they've got to go to Anaheim and sweep.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, listen, I heard all of those things. They

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Speaker 2: were very smart. Here's my counterpoint. The Astros ran on

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Speaker 2: the power of friendship for most of the year. The

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Speaker 2: vibes were good, even if the players weren't. And then

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Speaker 2: something happened with you know, Fromber recently, where the power

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Speaker 2: of friendship was off and the vibes felt bad. And

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Speaker 2: I think the Astros are now the team of destiny

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Speaker 2: simply because Fromber made a bodily sacrifice by cutting his

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Speaker 2: hair and showing his sorrow in the most ancient form

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Speaker 2: possible of taking off his hair and throwing it at

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Speaker 2: the feet of his teammates and saying, look, I will

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Speaker 2: give everything else away to go out and win this

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Speaker 2: game today. And they did, and I think the vibes

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Speaker 2: are back and the power of friendship is back on.

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Speaker 1: You really are a preachers kid. Like that sounded that.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I just got baptized real quick on Frombert,

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Speaker 1: Like where I think a lot of fans are probably

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Speaker 1: last two months? He looked as vintage as Fromber can

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Speaker 1: look today. The curve ball was excellent. He struck out

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Speaker 1: ten and seven innings a one run ball. The only

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Speaker 1: run against him was Nick Kurtz hitting a curveball that

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Speaker 1: was at his knees below the zone the other way

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Speaker 1: for a home run. That kid is unreal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am terrified of that man. I have already

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Speaker 2: made the mistake of looking up when he would not

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Speaker 2: be on the A's anymore, because it's not going to

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Speaker 2: make it the free agency. They're going to trade him

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Speaker 2: in like ARB one or ARB two at some point.

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Speaker 2: So I was doing the math of like I think

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Speaker 2: there's like four more years of this guy just hitting

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Speaker 2: a home run every other at bad against the Astros. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so that, I mean, he was the only blemish on

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Speaker 1: He was. He was efficient. I think I counted five

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Speaker 1: twenty one swings on it and generated thirteen whiffs. That

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Speaker 1: just lessens the rest of his arsenal. You know, ten

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Speaker 1: I guess as Thursday's game was Tyler like the first

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Speaker 1: get into this a little bit, like the Asher, this

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Speaker 1: is a beat up team right now. Like I know,

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Speaker 1: we've talked about the guys that haven't played, but there

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Speaker 1: are guys in the lineup right now that are dealing

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Speaker 1: right now. So I guess it. I guess you have

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Speaker 1: to give them some grace, some leeway a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But for a must win series and for three games

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Speaker 1: that were going to determine the trajectory of this season.

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Speaker 1: The way that they played on Tuesday and Wednesday was

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Speaker 1: borderline inexcusable and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sit

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Speaker 1: here in question effort. I don't think it's an effort problem.

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Speaker 1: I saw jan Or Diaz booking it down the line

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Speaker 1: in both of those games to beat out double playballs.

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Speaker 1: This is not an effort thing. This is not something

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Speaker 1: where they weren't motivated, they weren't fired up. They just

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Speaker 1: didn't play well. They just did not take good at bats.

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Speaker 1: The contact quality was not good. It was It had

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Speaker 1: to be disappointing for fans to watch that and two

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you went in obviously hoping for a sweep and

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Speaker 2: to really just have control of your own destiny going forward,

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Speaker 2: or at the very least two out of three wins.

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Speaker 2: You have you have fromber, you have Hunter Brown going

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Speaker 2: The A's are hapless, like they have nothing to play for.

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Speaker 2: Uh except I bet that this is probably like the

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Speaker 2: most up the A's players have been this year for

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Speaker 2: a series just because it's a division rival, like you

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Speaker 2: you could knock them out of the player like I

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Speaker 2: would argue that this probably feels like a you know,

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Speaker 2: close to a playoff series for especially those young A's

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Speaker 2: players who didn't get to play for anything this year,

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Speaker 2: and then it gets to any year and they can

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Speaker 2: they can really focus on these three, you know, So

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Speaker 2: I could certainly see that being just kind of a

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Speaker 2: momentum switch there. But either way, like you just you

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Speaker 2: you're a better team than them. It doesn't matter what

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Speaker 2: two straight games against the A's.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna push back a little bit. The Ashers are

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Speaker 1: not a better lineup than the A's. They have a

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Speaker 1: better team. Look, they have a better team, they have

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Speaker 1: a better roster. The Ashers lineup is not as currently canstructed.

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Speaker 1: The lineup they're running out there every day is not

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Speaker 1: the problem. You know. We've talked to ad nauseam about

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Speaker 1: their offensive struggles, about what has cratered in the second

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Speaker 1: push back that the Ace can hit and that one

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Speaker 1: that has carried them all year. They have hit very well.

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Speaker 1: They have a very good lineup of Kurtz, you know,

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Speaker 1: Jacob Wilson, Shay Langeleiers has been one of the best

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Speaker 1: players in baseball that you don't know about. In the

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Speaker 1: second half, Brent Rooker was an All Star. Like they've

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Speaker 1: they've got a formidable lineup, but especially playing in these

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Speaker 1: you know, been statistically this year, if not the most

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Speaker 1: the first two games of this series had eight hits,

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Speaker 1: six of them were singles. They didn't get a runner

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Speaker 1: But they have put themselves behind the eight ball because,

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Speaker 1: like you said it, Tither, they have forfeited the ability

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Speaker 1: we'll go through some of these scenarios here, I guess,

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Speaker 1: just to brief everybody, but they could go to Anaheim

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Speaker 1: their destiny is out of their hands at this point.

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Speaker 1: So the most straightforward way for the Astros to make

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Speaker 1: And then if they do that, here's some things that

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Speaker 1: therefore the Astros would actually leap frog the Red Sox

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Speaker 1: the Guardians, either of them must lose their respective series.

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Speaker 1: The Guardians are playing the Rangers, who have absolutely folded,

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Speaker 1: They could go to Anaheim and sweep, but it is

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Speaker 1: nowhere near as clear cut as that. It's you don't

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Speaker 1: And the way that the American League playoff picture has

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Speaker 1: you have no idea what's going to happen, but it

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Speaker 1: doesn't look good and even and now you know you

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Speaker 1: have exhausted Hunter Brown, You've exhausted from ber Valdez. You're

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Speaker 1: You're probably gonna run a bullpen game in the second game,

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Speaker 1: and then you have Christian Hobvier on full rest for

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Speaker 1: the third game. But do you bring Hunter Brown back?

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Speaker 1: It's as a lot up in the air right now,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's gonna be a very much an ullpill

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So to clarify for the even dumber people like

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Speaker 2: weekend that you're not accustomed to, and that is root

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Speaker 2: very hard for the Red Sox and the Rangers. That's

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Speaker 2: who you want to win either one of those two series.

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Speaker 2: The only way it would switch is if you know,

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Speaker 2: the Tigers win the first two games of their series

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Speaker 2: last day of the season, you could switch to the other.

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Speaker 2: But essentially what you're doing is you're rooting for the

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Speaker 2: Red Sox to win. You're rooting for the Rangers to win,

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Speaker 2: and the Ashers have to sweep the Angels, and if

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Speaker 2: those things happen, they get in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I hate being the bearer of bad news, but Rangers

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Speaker 1: manager Bruce Bochie two days ago said of his team

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Speaker 1: not a rental either. So now you've got future rosters impacted.

432
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Speaker 1: And I think you know, if you've listened to this podcast,

433
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Speaker 1: or if you've read what I've written for the last

434
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Speaker 1: two weeks, I think everyone's now coming to the realization

435
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 1: that has Sus Sanchez probably isn't long for the Astros,

436
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,719
Speaker 1: like it is a non tender situation or it is

437
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 1: in a possible trade situation. Because I know what you've

438
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Speaker 1: sa scene for a month and a half doesn't reflect it,

439
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,959
Speaker 1: but he does have trade value. And he was a

440
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Speaker 1: really really good player in Miami before he came over here.

441
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: He's been a good player in his career. They could

442
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Speaker 1: get something for him if they if that's the route

443
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Speaker 1: they choose, But it just it gummied up the rosters

444
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Speaker 1: for the next couple of years to the point where

445
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Speaker 1: it's going to make some offseason decisions even more difficult. So,

446
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: and it should be noted too that au Heno, Swarez

447
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: and Josh Naylor are rentals with the Mariners and they

448
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: had to give up. They had to give up a

449
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 1: good bit to get those guys. And I will, as

450
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 1: everyone knows, the Mariners have a better pharm system than

451
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: the Astros. They had more to give, they had more

452
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Speaker 1: to offer, and that's why they got those players. But

453
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Speaker 1: this is a results oriented business. This is a results game.

454
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Speaker 3: This is not a.

455
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Speaker 1: You know, you can do all the revisionist history you

456
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Speaker 1: on of like, oh well they could have gotten like no, like,

457
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: this is who they acquired and it has not worked

458
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Speaker 1: at all. And it's to the point now, Tyler, where

459
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Speaker 1: I I, like I said earlier, I don't think he

460
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: Susanchez can see the field against the Angels, unless it's

461
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: unless it's a pretty unique situation, or it's you know,

462
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 1: they're eliminated already in the games, don't matter. I'm not

463
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: sure he's at a point now where you can let

464
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Speaker 1: him take it bats in meaningful situations.

465
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Speaker 2: We should do more segments where you just get mad

466
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Speaker 2: at the comments in your articles. That was a that

467
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Speaker 2: was great, that was a wonderful monologue I hadn't. That's

468
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Speaker 2: you're you're correct to think of it that way of

469
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Speaker 2: you don't know who's available, like you, there's all kinds

470
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Speaker 2: of people you know that are kind of available for

471
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Speaker 2: the right price.

472
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Speaker 1: You know you have anyone in twenty nineteen, did anyone

473
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Speaker 1: know that Zach Grinky was available until the Astros literally

474
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 1: acquired him? Like this happens every deadline where there's where

475
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,879
Speaker 1: there are guys that you don't know about that you know.

476
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: And it's not even like big name guys. It's not

477
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Speaker 1: even guys like Grinky or guys that are home or

478
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Speaker 1: household names. It's you know, when when a team starts

479
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 1: selling off, you start calling, like if they're open to

480
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: move in one guy, they're probably open to moving a

481
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: bunch of guys so that is that that's a fallacy

482
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Speaker 1: to me that like, oh, like who else was who

483
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: else could they have gotten? You don't know because like

484
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Speaker 1: you don't know who's available.

485
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Speaker 2: Yeah no, I yeah, you're right, and it like you

486
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 2: said it, it Hayes Xantles is not on this team,

487
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 2: I would say, basically effectively now, like you're right, I don't.

488
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 2: I don't think that he's playing anything meaningful with you know,

489
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 2: as much as Zach Cole has shown, you know, alto

490
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 2: Be has to play the field every day because Parades

491
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Speaker 2: is a DH so that's going to take up another

492
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Speaker 2: outfield spot for the most part that you have Cam Smith, Like, yeah,

493
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Speaker 2: he's he's effectively, I would imagine, not really a part

494
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 2: of the team anyway. So yeah, rough rough trade deadline

495
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Speaker 2: and and you know, now you look and there's just

496
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 2: there's a million holes. You could have picked anybody. It

497
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 2: doesn't doesn't matter if you are capable of hitting the baseball,

498
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 2: the Astros would take you at this point.

499
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And like I said, it's not all like everyone

500
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Speaker 1: wants to point to one thing like when when this

501
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: season is over, we will do a we will do

502
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,479
Speaker 1: it more proper post mortem or conduct like a virtual

503
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: autopsy on this season when it is officially over, maybe

504
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: as early as Sunday night. We will do that as

505
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: long as they have like meaningful games to play. I

506
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: don't think it's prudent to like just start dissecting what

507
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,159
Speaker 1: went wrong, how it went wrong, things like that. I

508
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: know it feels like it's over, but as long as

509
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: they got innings to play, like anything could happen. So

510
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: we're not going to go into everything of like this

511
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: is why it happened, but it's not just the deadline.

512
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Speaker 1: Like they played this week. They played these three games

513
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Speaker 1: without Jordan Alvarez, who as of today is still not

514
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: doing baseball activities. I'd be stunned if he shows up

515
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: in Anaheim or if he does anything baseball related in

516
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 1: those games. And then Jeremy Pania did not play in

517
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Speaker 1: either in any of these three games either. He spoke

518
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Speaker 1: to us before the game today and revealed that he

519
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,959
Speaker 1: does have a left oblique strain. MRIs revealed that he's

520
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: got a strain. It should be noted that Roman Anthony

521
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: of the Boston Red Sox had got diagnosed with an

522
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: oblique strain on September second. It is currently September twenty fifth,

523
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Speaker 1: and he is still on the injury list and still

524
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: doing almost no baseball activities. That just gives you a

525
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Speaker 1: frame of reference for what sort of injury and oblique

526
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Speaker 1: strain is. I know there's people that just want Jeremy

527
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Speaker 1: Pagna to suck it up and try to play. He

528
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: told us today that he has taken swings all three

529
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Speaker 1: days in Sacramento, and he was feeling pain even on

530
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Speaker 1: like mild swings when he wasn't even going one hundred.

531
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Speaker 1: This is a this is a It's not a serious injury,

532
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Speaker 1: but it's something that if it happened in the middle

533
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: of the season, he'd go on the IL and he

534
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Speaker 1: miss a month. And it just so happens that it

535
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: has occurred now when you look back on it. He

536
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: sustained the injury in the Saturday game against the Mariners.

537
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: Took his next to that hit a Grand Slam. So

538
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Speaker 1: props to him for somehow being able to hit a

539
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Speaker 1: Grand Slam with a strained oblik. I don't know that

540
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: probably didn't help the strained oblique that he took a

541
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Speaker 1: swing and hit a grand slam, but more power to him.

542
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Speaker 1: But those are the two injuries that we know about

543
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Speaker 1: Those are the two that like are been pretty prevalent.

544
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: But I'm here to tell you that this team has

545
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: more going on. Jose L Tuvey has a right foot

546
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: issue that is I'm not going to sit here and

547
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: play a doctor, but it is something that is sending

548
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: him to the trainer's room after basically every game. He

549
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: is getting a ton of work done on it. We

550
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: wanted to interview him, I think after one of the games,

551
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: one of the losses, and team pr told us he's

552
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: he's in the trainer's room getting looked at at his

553
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: right foot like he can't come out, and you know,

554
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: we asked him today and he didn't want to say everything,

555
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: but he said, yeah, there's something going on. He said,

556
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Speaker 1: some days it's better than others. I'm just trying to

557
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Speaker 1: get it to one hundred percent. He's playing hurt, he is.

558
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's one of these things that's

559
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Speaker 1: going to require anything in the offseason. I don't know

560
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Speaker 1: if it's one of these things that if he had

561
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Speaker 1: they if we were in June, maybe he'd get a

562
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Speaker 1: couple weeks off and it'd be all right. But he's

563
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Speaker 1: playing through something. And then Tyler I don't know how

564
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Speaker 1: much you watched today, but watching Eastock Parade, it's going

565
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: on base four times today. They they very much appreciated

566
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Speaker 1: him getting on base, but it is it hurts me

567
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Speaker 1: to watch him try to run and he's pretty I mean,

568
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Speaker 1: we knew, we knew coming back. Like Joe A spot

569
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Speaker 1: of forecasted this. He was like, he's not going to

570
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Speaker 1: be one hundred percent, and I'm going to tell him

571
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Speaker 1: not to run the bases hard. Even him not running

572
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: the bass hard. This is someone that is clearly still

573
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Speaker 1: very very limited in what he can do, and the

574
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Speaker 1: fact that he is producing and in the lineup every

575
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Speaker 1: day is commendable because it looks like it hurts for

576
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Speaker 1: him to do basically anything at this point.

577
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would also say, I don't know if I'm

578
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Speaker 2: just making this person up in my head, but I

579
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Speaker 2: could hear someone saying, well, Paratees and al tuo Ve

580
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 2: can play through these injuries, so why doesn't you know painya?

581
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Speaker 2: I would imagine people give ord On a little bit

582
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 2: more because his legs snapped in half on TV. But

583
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Speaker 2: you know, I think for these other kind of soft

584
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Speaker 2: tissue ones, sometimes you go like, well, why can't you

585
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 2: play through like they're different injuries. You know, we like,

586
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 2: they're different things. I guarantee you if any of these

587
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 2: guys were in the other situations, they'd be doing the same.

588
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 2: They all want to go out and play, and when

589
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 2: you know you don't. You don't get to be a

590
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 2: professional athlete without wanting to do that. But yeah, I

591
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 2: they're they're hurt. I mean, Hater's not anywhere near coming back,

592
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 2: which no one. I mean we talked about that that

593
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 2: he was done anyway. But yeah, and then Brian and

594
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Speaker 2: Bray you pitched today for some reason? What was uh

595
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Speaker 2: what was that decision? Did he talk about that?

596
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Speaker 1: You know, we didn't ask. Maybe we should have. Maybe

597
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: that was dumb on our part. I will say this,

598
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: he had pitched once in nine days. Like it was

599
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Speaker 1: one of these things where you know, I think if

600
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: they could have found a way to get him some work,

601
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Speaker 1: I think they would have liked that. But it was weird.

602
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: It was weird, like especially like I'm in the clubhouse

603
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Speaker 1: after the game and you know, Craig Kimberrell walks past

604
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Speaker 1: me and then like Jane Murray's back and I'm like,

605
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: Kraig Kimberlton, this bolt like he's gonna walk into the

606
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. He's not gonna walk into the Hall

607
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: of Fame. He's a borderline Hall of Famer. And he

608
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: can't protect a seven run lead against the A'es, who

609
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: had pulled all their guys by this point, like Jacob Wilson,

610
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: Brent Rooker, like they all got pulled except for Nick Kurtz,

611
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: who just kept hitting home runs. I think, honestly, Nick

612
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Speaker 1: Kurtz had something to do with it, because he came

613
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Speaker 1: up in that inning and there were two guys on

614
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Speaker 1: and I think it was eleven to four, eleven to five,

615
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: and like again like if he hits a homer, it's

616
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Speaker 1: eleven to eight. But I mean still like he's coming up,

617
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Speaker 1: and he's hit literally five hundred against the Astros this season,

618
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: so I think they probably wanted their best guy on. Kurtz.

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Speaker 1: I didn't have that big of an issue with it,

620
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Speaker 1: just because, like I said, he hadn't he pitched once

621
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Speaker 1: in nine days. They have to win the game, like

622
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Speaker 1: if you if you lose this game, and again they were,

623
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Speaker 1: they were up. However he runs, they were up. It

624
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: was very unlikely that they were going to lose. But

625
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Speaker 1: my I don't want this to be taken the wrong way.

626
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: But you know, my my job's on the line, And

627
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: I don't think Joe's jobs on the line. Like maybe

628
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: we'll get to that in a little bit, but I

629
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Speaker 1: don't think he's managing for his job. I don't think

630
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: it's one of those situations. But and if I'm in

631
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 1: that dugout and if I'm on that coaching staff, I'm like,

632
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 1: I'm doing everything I can to win, and I don't

633
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: care what the score is, Like I'm getting this win.

634
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: It's in my hand. I understood it from that perspective.

635
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, like if they've got to use him the

636
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: next two nights in Anaheim and then the third night

637
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: in a row he blows up, then you can look

638
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: back and really really question why that happened.

639
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you could also say, uh, you know,

640
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 2: he like you said, he hadn't pitched in a while,

641
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 2: so it's almost like better you know, if you had

642
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 2: a discussion with him or like this is a tune

643
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 2: up to like get right, you know, those types of things.

644
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Speaker 2: And I meaning, you know you've got outs to work

645
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Speaker 2: with here, You're fine, there's not the pressure on you.

646
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Speaker 2: Just you hadn't pitched in a while, like go get

647
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Speaker 2: back in the rhythm of it, so you're for the

648
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 2: next day and you just think, you know, you use

649
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Speaker 2: them until you can't. Basically, I mean he's gonna be

650
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 2: used anyway, so uh but yeah, I just that was

651
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 2: interesting to see him come in. So we'll see if

652
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 2: it ends up mattering. But uh, yeah that was I

653
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 2: was not expecting to see Brian Brayu in the ninth inning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he threw twelve pitches too, so he

655
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: could have thrown thirty, right, I mean, I get it,

656
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: but like hindsight, like hindsight being what it is like,

657
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: but I get it, he threw twelve pitches, like he's

658
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: actually trending, like in terms of his career usage, he's

659
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 1: actually like not anywhere near like his like bigger career

660
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 1: use like seasons. So like, if anything, he's probably more

661
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: like well rested and kept this year than he ever

662
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: has been in his career. So if they're again and again,

663
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: they've got to win these games, like you've got to

664
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Speaker 1: use your best guys to make sure you win the games.

665
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Speaker 1: And I get the score was what it was, but

666
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: I understand I don't necessarily agree with the decision, but

667
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: I completely understand the rationale and where Joe and the

668
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 1: coaching staff are probably coming from is that like, if

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Speaker 1: we lose this game, we are ft, like very very

670
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: very ft, like we've got to get this win. I

671
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: don't care what the score is. With the situation is

672
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Speaker 1: I'm going to my best guy to get the win.

673
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Speaker 1: So that's what they did. You know, you look at

674
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: what's ahead, you look at kind of what's coming ahead.

675
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: You've got the Angels who And I want to caution

676
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: everyone that we said this about the A's. The Angels

677
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: are awful. They surpass sixteen hundred strikeouts as a team today.

678
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 1: Good for them. I think they're the fifth team in

679
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: Major League history to strike out sixteen hundred times in

680
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: a season.

681
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 2: Where were the twenty thirteen Astros at that's your department,

682
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 2: they have to be up there. That must have been

683
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 2: one of the higher strikeout seasons.

684
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 1: They had fifteen hundred and thirty five strikes.

685
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 2: Okay, as a team, the good Lord, the Angels are terrible,

686
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 2: then they are. That was the worst lineup I have

687
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 2: ever seen.

688
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 1: The Angels have given up like they like Mike Trout

689
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: still exists, like Zach Nodo is a fine player, but

690
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: like they they are awful. Like this is a team that,

691
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,359
Speaker 1: again it's baseball, you never know. And again we said

692
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: this about the A's, but this is a team that

693
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: if there's any team right to get swept, it is

694
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: the Angels, like they have completely quit. So if you

695
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: feel good about that, if you're the Astros, as good

696
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: as you can about going into this, going in this

697
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: with so much on the line against the Angels, You're

698
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 1: gonna face Kyle Hendricks, who froze eighty six on a

699
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: good day, and then you got two rookies the last

700
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Speaker 1: two days of the last two days of the season.

701
00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: You're gonna face. It's lined up for it to to

702
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: go okay for the Astros. But like we said, they

703
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: don't control their own destiny anymore. So one thing that

704
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: was interesting to kind of here is, like, you know,

705
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: Carlo's Korea after the game on Wednesday, I don't know

706
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: if these guys are reading. I don't know if these

707
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: guys are like seeing I would I would hope by

708
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: now they've all deactivated their social medias and are not

709
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: reading what people are tweeting or commenting about them. But

710
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: you know, Carlo's Korea did come out and say, you know,

711
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: we understand that the fans are frustrated. Just understand that

712
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: we're frustrated too. And I think that's something that gets

713
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: lost a little bit, like fans want to see like

714
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: guys blowing up the dugout, blowing up water coolers, like

715
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: breaking bats over their thighs, like that's just not how

716
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: baseball players are wired. But Correa spoke for you know,

717
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: I think the whole clubhouse that you know, they see it,

718
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 1: they know what's being said, they know the narratives, they

719
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: know that a lot of people have basically written their obituaries,

720
00:38:56,280 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: and not that that's unfounded at this point, but Korea

721
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Speaker 1: said that, you know, the fan, they see the fans frustration.

722
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: They want people know what they're frustrated too. But Korea

723
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: has been we talked about, you know how bad the

724
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: deadline was. He's been one of the few bright spots

725
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: of their deadline, but one of the few bright spots

726
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: of the second half. Really just offensively been one of

727
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: their most consistent guys. And that is why Carlos Correa

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Speaker 1: will be part of our Draft Kings player spotlight. Tyler.

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Speaker 1: You know, Korea being this is the These are the

730
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Speaker 1: times when they need Carlos Korea, right, Like, this is

731
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Speaker 1: why you get him. You get him when s is

732
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Speaker 1: hitting the fan, when when things are not going well.

733
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Speaker 1: He's the He's the guy you turn to. He's the

734
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Speaker 1: guy you look at and he's the guy that can

735
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Speaker 1: be that calming presence. He's the guy you want up

736
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: in clutch situations. I know it hasn't quite manifested that

737
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: way a bunch since he's been here, but if they're

738
00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: going to do anything, if they're going to keep this

739
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: run goal in, Carl's Korea is going to be in

740
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Speaker 1: the middle of it.

741
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Speaker 2: Man, it is good to have Carlos Korea back on

742
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 2: the Astros. You need a guy that can be the

743
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 2: leader in the clubhouse to say like, yeah, we see

744
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 2: these things, we get it, we're frustrated too. Like that's

745
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,919
Speaker 2: the perfect thing to say. That's such a leader move.

746
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 2: I mean, like I've been saying that he needs to

747
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Speaker 2: retire an Astro. I don't want to see him playing

748
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Speaker 2: for another team. I think there's something like special about

749
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 2: having him in the clubhouse, and I think you need

750
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Speaker 2: a little Mauricio Dubon sprinkled into to play share. I

751
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 2: think that's I think that's a perfect balance of vibes

752
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse. And yeah, I mean I think you

753
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Speaker 2: see the astros go on the road to a team

754
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Speaker 2: that you know, like you said, is not very good

755
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Speaker 2: in the Angels, they have given up the astra should

756
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 2: be able to go in there. But you also have

757
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Speaker 2: a guy like Korea who has gone in beating the

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Speaker 2: Angels a lot, wearing an astro's uniform and knows how

759
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 2: to guide a team. You know, you don't want to

760
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Speaker 2: be too lax and just go like, you know, go

761
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,920
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762
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Speaker 2: you also don't want it to be so much pressure

763
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Speaker 2: that like everybody's shaking, and I think Korea provides that perfectly.

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Speaker 1: He does. And you know, he's a guy that the

765
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Speaker 2: I forgot. I was leading up to all of that

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Speaker 2: by I was going to say, we're going to see

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Speaker 2: a classic Korea double, which is the right center field gap.

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00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 2: It's gonna go back and like hit the base of

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00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,680
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00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 2: We're gonna see that one tomorrow. I was about to say, so,

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00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 2: finally one that was a double, but I got two loss,

810
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Speaker 2: and just thinking about the vibes Korea brings to the clubhouse,

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Speaker 2: I've I laid you out to dry. I'm sorry, You're good.

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Speaker 1: The Angel Stadium has been the scene of like some

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Speaker 1: pretty epic Astros moments. In twenty fifteen, that was probably

814
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Speaker 1: like the series I got into the Lavels, right, the

815
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: Jed Lowry homer off of Houston Street.

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Speaker 2: Like that's that is a seminal moment of Astros fandom. Yeah,

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00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 2: like that was. That was the biggest thing that had

818
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 2: happened to the Astros in ten years when when that

819
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 2: home run happened. So yeah, it was. That was huge.

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Speaker 1: Again, if there's a team, maybe absent the Rockies. If

821
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 1: there's a team that the Astro's.

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Speaker 2: Scared of, the Rockies, I don't want to play them.

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Speaker 1: The Mariners are not scared of the Rockies. Don't worry

824
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Speaker 1: absent the Rockies. If there's a team that the Ashers

825
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: could have probably handpicked to play with all of this

826
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Speaker 1: on the line, it would probably be the Angels, just

827
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Speaker 1: given everything that's swirling around them. Again, that doesn't guarantee anything,

828
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: but the Astros have that again, they have the opportunity.

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00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: They don't control their own destiny anymore. But if they

830
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 1: go in here and win three games in a row,

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Speaker 1: they put themselves at least in a position to to

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Speaker 1: to to it's there. It's there for them. They win

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Speaker 1: three games in a row, then they can leave it

834
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Speaker 1: in somebody's hands, and then, you know, if they do

835
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 1: get in, it would probably be a trip to Lovely

836
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 1: Cleveland to face the Guardians, who I am still trying

837
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:16,399
Speaker 1: to figure out how they're any good They you talk

838
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Speaker 1: about the power of vibes and friendship. Holy crap, the Guardians,

839
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: Like that's hosts Google.

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Speaker 2: That was where he just gave up like three balls

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Speaker 2: that went thirteen feet in front of the plate and

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Speaker 2: gave up three runs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 2: I also they're doing that.

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Speaker 1: He was shook from hitting David Fry in the face. Yeah,

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00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: that was before though, No, no, a lot of it

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00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: came after he balked. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I meant that like like the did he do the

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00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 2: between the legs thing after the Fry?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but like he balked and threw the wild pitch

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00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 1: that tied the game, like after the David.

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Speaker 2: That was nasty. I hope he's okay.

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Speaker 1: That was I legitimately could not believe he like sat

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Speaker 1: up like now and there's have you seen the picture

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Speaker 1: that's like being used with like all the stories about it.

856
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: No, but I was watching the Tigers feed, and the

857
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 2: Tiger's feed showed like the blood coming down from his face.

858
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 2: The Guardians feed didn't, And that was the one that

859
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 2: I saw on social media. But the cliff that I saw,

860
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 2: like his face was bloody.

861
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,720
Speaker 1: I'm not going to put it for those watching on YouTube.

862
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: I'm not going to put it on the stream because

863
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: I don't think people should be subjected to that. But

864
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:31,800
Speaker 1: if this is your thing, I don't know why this

865
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: would be your thing, but you can go look like

866
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 1: if you go fine, Like pretty much any story written

867
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 1: about the David Frye thing in the last day or so,

868
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: one of the prominent pictures that's been used, it's like

869
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: the baseball is hitting him square in the face, like

870
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: it's close up, and then to the left of the

871
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: ball you see a tooth. Oh, you legitimately see a

872
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: tooth that is like midair fly out.

873
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 2: Oh I'm looking at it right now. Oh my gosh,

874
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 2: it is.

875
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,959
Speaker 1: It's it's one of the worst things I think I've ever.

876
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 2: Like, I this is gnarly.

877
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is not a media ethics podcast,

878
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,760
Speaker 1: But like, I cannot believe that, like so many outlets

879
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: are using that that photo.

880
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 2: Like it is oh so, I mean if he comes

881
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 2: back fine and healthy, that will be the thing that

882
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 2: he signs for the rest of his life, you know

883
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 2: what I mean. Like it's nasty right now because we

884
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:35,879
Speaker 2: don't know if he's gonna be okay. If he's okay,

885
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 2: that's the coolest picture I've ever seen, you know, like

886
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 2: if he comes back and does anything, but yeah, that

887
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 2: is that is gnarly.

888
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: I mean, and you hate to put it like this,

889
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: but like if anything, he got lucky like six to

890
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: eight weeks and just some like facial fractures like that

891
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: that's like in sick and maybe a lost tooth or two.

892
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 2: Like well, I mean every Astros fan here over forty

893
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 2: sees that and immediately things Dicky thon, you know, like, yeah,

894
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 2: it could be terrible, and so yeah, apparently he's gonna

895
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:12,320
Speaker 2: be okay, which is you're right, like, I guess probably

896
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 2: better to get hit and in the nose, in the

897
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,359
Speaker 2: mouth if you're gonna hit straight on in the face. Yeah,

898
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,800
Speaker 2: ninety nine mile an hour fastball.

899
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: When fires hit John Carlo Stanton, like it was like

900
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: his jaw, like I mean, it came up and like

901
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: and they had to, like he couldn't they they take

902
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: him off on a stretcher, like they didn't move him,

903
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: like it was like fry, Like I was stunned that

904
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 1: he sat up like he walked onto the cart like

905
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: that was. And Schooble's reaction was just like I don't

906
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: think I've ever seen that either, Like I've seen like

907
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: pictures get shaken when they hit somebody. I don't think

908
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: I've ever seen a picture like like it looked like

909
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: he wanted to throw up.

910
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 2: Like right, I know that the game is on the

911
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 2: line there and I know that like this isn't actually

912
00:48:56,120 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 2: what would happen. But I think legitimately the Tigers and

913
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 2: Schoogle in that moment should have recognized, like he is

914
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 2: not gonna be able to get back locked into like

915
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 2: the level of competitiveness. Let's think him out now and

916
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 2: maybe pitch him on short rest in two or three days,

917
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 2: you know, if we need to do something, because like

918
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 2: you're right, I mean, as soon as that happened, I

919
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 2: was like, oh my gosh, there's there's no way he's

920
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 2: gonna be able to lock back in like that. I mean,

921
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 2: he was traumatized.

922
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: Well, you noticed aj like went out like they did

923
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: a mound visit, Like why AJ went out for a

924
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: mountain visit like while they were like taking Fry off

925
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,800
Speaker 1: the field, And I assume AJ went out there to

926
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: just like do exactly what we're talking about now, like Judge,

927
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,240
Speaker 1: to see whether this dude can like is like mentally

928
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 1: able to compete. Yeah, I mean schoolble or any picture

929
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:49,760
Speaker 1: is always going to say like, oh yeah, like I'm fine,

930
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: but like there has to be an adult in the

931
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: room that's like all right, like I need to take

932
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: your temperature and see. But and a A's got a

933
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: psychology degree from Stanford, So yeah, I would trust him.

934
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: I agree, Yeah, I would trust him to know that.

935
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: So it's kind of weird too that the Asher's playoff

936
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: hopes do kind of hinge on a J. Hinch funny

937
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 1: how baseball is a full circle and.

938
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 2: Alex Changers and Alex Alex Cora, like there's yeah, there's

939
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 2: people everywhere that you're gonna have to root for this

940
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 2: weekend and yeah, sleeper agents are going to be activated.

941
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:24,760
Speaker 1: What a sport?

942
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 2: So it doubly Charlie Morton were still there.

943
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: Pitch for the Braves on Sunday, probably the last start

944
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,240
Speaker 1: of his career. Good.

945
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 2: I didn't know he got that's good.

946
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: They picked him up. I think to let him make

947
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: his last start for his excellent human eight eighty human being.

948
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 1: He plays guitar, right, I think he does. Yeah, he's

949
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:50,399
Speaker 1: a big Tyler Childers Jason, his bull guy almetto Rose

950
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 1: used to be his walkout music for a long time.

951
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 2: When he retires, Let's get him on and we'll just

952
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 2: talk guitars the whole time. We'll talk, we'll talk music.

953
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: Problem. If we get Charlie on the podcast, it'll be

954
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: a three and a half hour podcast because you asked Charlie,

955
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: like the best album I've ever heard? You asked Charlie

956
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:09,399
Speaker 1: one question and it's a fifteen minute answer.

957
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,359
Speaker 2: What else we're going to talk about in November? Get

958
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 2: them on.

959
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,359
Speaker 1: We could be talking about a lot because they've got

960
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: a ton of decisions to make and a ton of

961
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: different directions they could go this offseason. But for now,

962
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: the off season remains on the back burner because the

963
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: Astros do have three chances this weekend to enhance what

964
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: are again faint playoff hopes. The playoff hopes. Nonetheless, they're

965
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: in it this weekend and we will see how that goes.

966
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: We'll be back with you on Sunday once the dust settles,

967
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: to either conduct an autopsy or to preview the Astros

968
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: against Jose Ramirez and twenty five other people you've never

969
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: heard of in the Guardians. Until then, you can follow

970
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,919
Speaker 1: me on x at chandler Underscore Room. You can follow

971
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: Tyler at Tyler C. Stafford. As always, please rate and

972
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 1: review us on Apple, same on Spotify. You can subscribe

973
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: to the YouTube channel so you can get no if

974
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 1: I anytime we post a new video again. We will

975
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: be back on Sunday to discuss the fallout from the

976
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: Angel series, to see whether the Astros are in the

977
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 1: playoffs on the outside looking in, and where they go

978
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,879
Speaker 1: from here. But until then, we will talk to you soon.

979
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 2: I just saw one Battle after another in Imax in theaters.

980
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 2: It ruled. Go see it and tweet at me so

981
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 2: we can talk about it, because I want to talk

982
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 2: about that movie with people.

983
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 1: Bye.