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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome into another freezing edition of crush Shitty Territory. My

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Speaker 2: name is Channel. The room joined as always by Tyler Stafford. Tyler,

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Speaker 2: are you and the children staying warm in this overhyped

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Speaker 2: frieze of twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 3: You know, we're very southeast. I live in Seabrook, so

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Speaker 3: I'm like on the water down here, well, not on

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Speaker 3: the water. I don't make on the water money, but

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Speaker 3: I'm near the water down here, and so we never

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Speaker 3: get too cold. And of course I read friends of

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Speaker 3: the program Space City Weather, and they were pretty clear

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Speaker 3: that if you're this near the coast, it wasn't gonna

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Speaker 3: be too bad. But I did duct tape all of

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Speaker 3: my pipes outside. I left the water dripping. But no,

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Speaker 3: we're good. We've just been just been hanging out. Man

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Speaker 3: at school's canceled tomorrow. So is that a good or a.

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Speaker 1: Bad thing for you? Guys? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Have you ever been locked in a house with children

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Speaker 3: for seventy two hours?

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Speaker 1: I mean, luckily no?

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Speaker 3: So yeah, the you can you can handle a Saturday

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Speaker 3: and Sunday because you know it's coming. But Monday I

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Speaker 3: have to go to work, So that means they're all

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Speaker 3: just just chaos downstairs. So it's more of a burden,

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Speaker 3: you know, for for Alicia. But yeah, it's uh, well

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Speaker 3: we'll see. And then they they said today like oh,

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Speaker 3: we'll see if maybe we'll cancel on Tuesday and like

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Speaker 3: get a heater. All right, we'll be fine.

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Speaker 2: It's like it barely rained to day, like there's not

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Speaker 3: And as someone who has been a teacher before, the

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Speaker 3: communication is it's not just the schools, it's teachers coming

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Speaker 3: in from what you know, there are teachers who live

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Speaker 3: then it's like a problem of well, if you're gonna

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Speaker 3: have twenty percent of your teachers out, you know, not ever,

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Speaker 3: not every teacher lives in the neighborhood that the that

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Speaker 3: you know, especially like when I taught in Goose Creek,

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Speaker 3: there's buses that have to get over that. So I

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Speaker 3: don't know, we're supposed to find out about Tuesday tomorrow,

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Speaker 3: but they were definitely off Monday.

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Speaker 2: I was about to say, remember when we were the

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Speaker 3: Dude, when I lived there was a couple of years

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Speaker 3: and when I would see kids at like well I

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Speaker 3: I didn't even know that you were allowed outside. I

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Speaker 3: and they're like, yeah, that is what I pictured.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I just remember seeing like there was an age I

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Speaker 1: Have a forty here. It was.

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Speaker 2: It was very it was very disconcerting. They may say

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Speaker 3: I mean, I there were there were times. There was

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Speaker 3: one time I was at Alturo and our waiter was

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Speaker 3: am I allowed to order am Margarita? Like is this

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's it's a very strange feeling, I will

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: For the last Texans game, RIP, I did a live

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Speaker 3: stream over at Apollo and within five minutes, someone commented

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Speaker 3: in the live stream, is that mister Stafford in the back?

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Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, no, there's It's been like

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Speaker 2: Shout out Apollo, Shout out the Apollo Boys. Appreciate the

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Speaker 2: friends of the pod. Speaking of the last Texans game,

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Speaker 2: can you imagine what C J. Stroud would have done

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Speaker 3: And then really I was I was really thinking, you know,

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Speaker 3: I was like, dude, how bad is CJ. Stroud?

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Speaker 4: If Jared I still thought that after the game, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean, at least they only scored one touchdown, But

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Speaker 4: I was like, dude, if if they put up twenty

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Speaker 3: Uh So, you know, tons of fun, but yeah, O

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Speaker 3: than that, you know, relatively relative. How was FanFest? Was

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Speaker 3: it freezing?

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Speaker 1: It was so cold? Yeah? It was.

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Speaker 2: I think I can pull The Astros would get very

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Speaker 2: mad if I don't cite the exact number of people

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Speaker 1: I think I have the press release pulled up.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, they had ten they they the Astros claimed

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Speaker 2: there were ten thousand, four hundred and twenty fans that

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Speaker 2: came to FanFest, every single one of you, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It was so cold.

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Speaker 3: Is that people who walked in the gates or is

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Speaker 3: that people who paid the two dollars fee to get

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Speaker 2: I would assume it is the people that walked in

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Speaker 2: before that, they everything was sold out. So I'm sure

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Speaker 2: So i'd imagine that's like the actual number of people.

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Speaker 2: But to all of you, God bless you, you've got

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Speaker 2: Because that was it was very cold. But I'm happy

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Speaker 1: It was just cold.

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Speaker 2: And then everyone got home like before the city started

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Speaker 3: So they have the clothes, I assume.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but even with the roof closed, like they

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Speaker 2: It was very cold. But if you did go, I

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Speaker 2: hope you got the autographs you were seeking. Hope you

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Speaker 2: Spencer Arighetti. Oh, it seemed like he was down there

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Speaker 1: And he's gonna be a dad.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be a He's got got twin boys on

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Speaker 2: two players were in attendance in addition to Joe Aspota,

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Speaker 2: his entire coaching staff, and Dana Brown. Dana Brown talked,

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Speaker 2: Joe A. Spotta talked, and then a bevy of players talked.

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Speaker 2: This isn't good podcasting, but I'll just say it. There

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Speaker 2: now that you heard it again from Joe Aspada about

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Speaker 2: people that are still sending me eighteen different lineup variations

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Speaker 2: of how they can make this work, maybe they'll stop

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Speaker 1: Maybe you know, this is the thing that will resonate

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Speaker 2: Because Joe Aspata did reiterate on Saturday that Josel Tuove

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Speaker 2: then again also reiterating that Jordan Alvarez will spend the

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Speaker 2: Tuove will get into left field every now and then,

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Speaker 2: So that being said, you still have too many infielders

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Speaker 2: it does not make sense to have the infield surplus

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Speaker 2: where they're at. Dana did not sound like someone that

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Speaker 2: He said, We're still having conversations about certain moves that

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Speaker 2: we could make to make the team better. We're going

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Speaker 2: to continue to grind all the way up until spring

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Speaker 1: We don't want to leave.

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Speaker 2: Any stone unturned for making this team a better team.

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Speaker 2: He went on to say that there is interest in

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Speaker 2: a number of their players. They are getting calls from

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Speaker 2: rival teams on a number of their players. He's susanche

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Speaker 2: Dana Brown to not say this out loud. This is

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Speaker 2: me telling you via reporting what I have heard. Uh ha,

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Speaker 2: sus Sanchez is being called on. Christian Walker is being

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Speaker 2: called on, and Estock Paradus is being called on. So

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Speaker 2: that is now now that we heard that for the

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Speaker 2: third time this offseason, maybe that'll start resonating with the

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Speaker 2: some that still want to ask why they want to

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Speaker 2: they're listening on estoc Paradus, why they would trade this guy,

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Speaker 2: a it's a log jam, it's a surplus, and it's

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Speaker 2: not practical roster construction. Now to add more fuel to

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Speaker 2: the Red Sox and Estoc Paradus link, uh, Dana Brown

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Speaker 2: where where where on this roster do you think you

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Speaker 3: So just what's happening?

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Speaker 1: So we don't. We don't. We don't do much prep

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Speaker 2: The fascinating thing is I can't reell like we read

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Speaker 2: I was thinking today of like who logically could be there?

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Speaker 1: I think the So the tenth is when WBC pictures

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Speaker 2: And I think I think like normal pictures and catchers

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Speaker 1: But yeah, like I think my flight to West.

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Speaker 1: That no no, no, no, no no no no no. First

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Speaker 2: So that's another thing with Paradis and Walker, specifically, Paradis

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Speaker 2: that they were not there, but I kind of had

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00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,360
Speaker 2: to because when you're writing about that and when you're

438
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 2: quoting other players, it's only right for you journalistically to say,

439
00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,920
Speaker 2: like literally, they were not there to comment or respond

440
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 2: to what you're writing about. So I wanted to put

441
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,119
Speaker 2: that out there. These guys are human beings. Let them

442
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 2: be human beings. Like, not everything is some grand statement.

443
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:14,360
Speaker 2: Not everything is a sign or a message being sent. Like,

444
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:19,160
Speaker 2: let these dudes enjoy the three months a year they

445
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,639
Speaker 2: have to not think about baseball, to not think about

446
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 2: the Astros, to not think about what. Let them enjoy

447
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,359
Speaker 2: that before they have to go to West palmach So

448
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 2: clear that up. Right now, Like, just because they were

449
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,920
Speaker 2: not there, it is not some more ulterior motive or

450
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:34,640
Speaker 2: anything like that.

451
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 3: So what if they were they what if they were

452
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,439
Speaker 3: at the Boston fan fest though, just get an early start.

453
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I don't know if the A's have

454
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 2: a fan fest, So I don't know if Paradis could

455
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 2: have gone, uh to he could have gone.

456
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 3: It's fans singular fest. It's the one guy that shows

457
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 3: up to every game.

458
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's a fan fest.

459
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:03,400
Speaker 2: Some other interesting things that happened. Carlos Korea always likes

460
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,239
Speaker 2: to fill our notebooks. I love that he's back on there.

461
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, you gotta love having Correa back then, Well,

462
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,120
Speaker 3: that guy will give you a quote.

463
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:12,879
Speaker 2: Love that he's back on the team, and he'll tell

464
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 2: you what he thinks, you know. He said, you know,

465
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 2: one of the things Joe Spotta said at the beginning

466
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,440
Speaker 2: of the off seasons that he wanted to sit down

467
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,160
Speaker 2: with Korea talk to him about kind of what he

468
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,199
Speaker 2: saw in his two months after being reacquired, what they

469
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 2: needed to change things like that. And today or Saturday,

470
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,159
Speaker 2: was the first time that we had gotten talked to

471
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 2: Carlos since the end of the season, he was asked

472
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 2: kind of what one of what his main.

473
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 1: Focuses in his discussions with Joe A. Spottle were.

474
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 2: He said, they had about three or four lunches. I

475
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 2: wonder who paid. Maybe they just went to and two

476
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,200
Speaker 2: maybe they went Dutch. Who can say, I don't.

477
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 3: Know the expensed it. That's that's on Jim.

478
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 2: I think Jim can afford a couple of lunches. But

479
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 2: I thought this was the most interesting thing that was

480
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 2: said by anybody at FanFest on Saturday, and Carlos Correa

481
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 2: again the question was asked of him kind of what

482
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 2: was your main focus? What did you guys mainly want

483
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 2: to address And if you're watching on YouTube you can

484
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:12,159
Speaker 2: read along.

485
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 1: I'll read for it. If you're listening on the.

486
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 2: Audio platforms, he said, we had way too many injuries

487
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 2: last year, and I feel like when I got here,

488
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,919
Speaker 2: people did not have the routine they needed to have

489
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 2: in order for them to be able to withstand the

490
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,360
Speaker 2: whole season. For the young guys and the people who

491
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,400
Speaker 2: had not been doing this for a while or had

492
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 2: not been through injuries in the past, it's easy to

493
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 2: get carried away and go through the motions on a

494
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 2: daily basis.

495
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:39,560
Speaker 3: And if there's one guy who knows how to get

496
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 3: more injured while receiving receiving treatment, I'm gonna trust Carlos

497
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 3: Korea's opinion on this.

498
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 2: So it's interesting, Like when he first said it, like

499
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 2: the first thing that popped in my head was like, oh,

500
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,199
Speaker 2: like of course, like they have reevaluated their return to

501
00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,240
Speaker 2: play procedure, they parted ways with the head trainer. They've that,

502
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's has to do with that. And

503
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 2: then like before we started recording again, we don't prep

504
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 2: for this, Like you said something that kind of put

505
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,399
Speaker 2: a thought in my head, Like Jeremiah Randall was the

506
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 2: ASTROS head athletic trainer for most of Carlos Korea's Astros

507
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 2: tenure before he got traded. Now, granted he was gone

508
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 2: for two and a half years, and things can change,

509
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 2: you know, processes differ, things can get different. But it's

510
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,199
Speaker 2: not as if, like he left, when he left the

511
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,120
Speaker 2: first time, they overhauled everything.

512
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:33,639
Speaker 1: He came back and saw that he didn't like.

513
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 2: It was the same people in place, the same processes

514
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 2: in place, as far as we know. So I think

515
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,959
Speaker 2: it's probably a little disingenuous to just say, oh, like

516
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 2: he's talking about the return to play procedure and the

517
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 2: strength staff and the training staff, like and I think

518
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 2: that certainly can't be counted out. I think that's part

519
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 2: of it, because they have taken action against.

520
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: Those things this winter.

521
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 2: But I thought the thing that stood out to me was,

522
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 2: you know, when he said it's to get carried away

523
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 2: and go through the motions on a daily basis, that

524
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 2: to me did not sound like just something about injuries.

525
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 2: That to me sounded like maybe there was a maybe

526
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 2: there's something that they've got to you know, just and

527
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's one of these things where they've

528
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 2: got to like tear it all down and just like

529
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 2: have a complete holistic overhaul.

530
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,199
Speaker 1: But just maybe, like again, like we talked about with.

531
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 2: The hitting coaches, like fresh set of eyes and Korea

532
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 2: accounts as a fresh set of eyes after being gone

533
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,400
Speaker 2: for two and a half years, like you getting back

534
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 2: in there, a fresh set of eyes, a fresh perspective,

535
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 2: somebody that was around when this franchise was doing things

536
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 2: that it had never done before.

537
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: I think there was a lot said there. Maybe in

538
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: a very brief statement.

539
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's I would imagine coming back to

540
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 3: this organization after you left, after you know, World series

541
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 3: runs that maybe you felt, you know, a sense of

542
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 3: complacency or a lack of urgency in returning, you know,

543
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 3: whether it's from you know, the training staff side or

544
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 3: from even the players side, where it's you know, look,

545
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 3: Korea came up as a twenty year old in a

546
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 3: very veteran heavy clubhouse, and so you can imagine Kara

547
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 3: learning these lessons of here's how you take care of yourself,

548
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,400
Speaker 3: here's you know, how to act professionally in this way

549
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 3: or whatever, and him coming back and now being on

550
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 3: the veteran side feeling the need to set that same

551
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 3: precedent to everyone here. And I mean, you know, it's

552
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 3: also just frustration, I'm sure of just when you look

553
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 3: around and people are dropping like flies and not coming back,

554
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 3: you do, I mean, every fan did the same thing,

555
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 3: like what is happening? Why? Why is this happening? Fix

556
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 3: something I don't know what it is, but this can't

557
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 3: happen again. So that that makes a lot of sense

558
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 3: to say that. And it again so great to have

559
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 3: Carlos Graha be back and be secure enough to just

560
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 3: say it, to just be like, yeah, this is what's

561
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 3: going on. This is how I feel about it. Again,

562
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 3: for the people not in the journalism world, this is

563
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 3: a I mean just a godsend to have somebody that

564
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 3: when you're writing a story, you know that guy's gonna

565
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 3: give me a quote about this. I'm gonna get something.

566
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's not like and the bigger thing is

567
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 2: like well, because that was the thing with Alex Pregnant.

568
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 2: Alex Pregnant would he was like the most available player

569
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 2: I've ever covered. Like he'd be the guy that we'd

570
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 2: walk in there and this is not this is not

571
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 2: the norm.

572
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: This does not happen often.

573
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: He would walk we would walk in the clubhouse Homer

574
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 2: Road after every game and he would look at us like,

575
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 2: do you guys need me today? And we'd say yes

576
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: or no, and he'd like that's when he would either

577
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 2: leave or do whatever he had to do.

578
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: Like that doesn't happen often.

579
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,479
Speaker 2: Like Alex Pregnant was one of the most available players

580
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:58,479
Speaker 2: I ever covered. But as Alex got older, his quotes

581
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 2: were a little more trite, cliche, not a ton of

582
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 2: substance behind them. Carlos is the complete op Like Carlos

583
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 2: will tell you everything that's on his mind. He will

584
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 2: be respectful about it, but he will be candid. He

585
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 2: will be forceful when he has to. He knows his

586
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 2: role probably better than anyone I've ever been around. And

587
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 2: from a journalistic perspective, it's great. From a fan perspective,

588
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 2: I would imagine it's great because you really get the

589
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 2: insight of what's going on.

590
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 3: Like you know how many times I've watched that clip

591
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 3: of him after the trash can stuff of him, It's great.

592
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:33,479
Speaker 1: I love it.

593
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 2: Do you want a funny story about that, please? So

594
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,479
Speaker 2: that it was in that So he did the interview

595
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: with Ken. Right, he did the interview with Ken outside,

596
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 2: and I don't want to relitigate everything that happened that day,

597
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 2: but essentially he was going to do that. He was

598
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 2: going to talk to an entire scrum of reporters that

599
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 2: morning in the clubhouse, and for some reason some ASTROS

600
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 2: officials pulled him away from the scrum that he was

601
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: a out to do. Then he goes outside and does

602
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 2: that with Ken Rosenthal and MLB Network to the point

603
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 2: where like, as again, Tyler, you've been in journalism when

604
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 2: this happens, and you're like, that got taken from not

605
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 2: just me like all the reporters in there, and so

606
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 2: basically Carlos to do a favor to the local meet

607
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 2: that was there, he agreed to meet with like three

608
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 2: or four of us in a hallway somewhere to basically reiterate.

609
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: Everything he said.

610
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 2: And because it was on MLB net, like it was

611
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 2: already all over MLB network at that point, like all

612
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 2: of us that we met with him were videoing because

613
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 2: we kind of like at that point like it's all

614
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 2: on video anyway, like we have to video everything.

615
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: He says, I.

616
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 2: Can't remember how it went, but I misspoke. I was

617
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 2: asking him a question about I was saying something about Carlos,

618
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 2: you know you you reiterated and I said something about

619
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 2: you guys. I said, Altuve did use the trash cans

620
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 2: and he bowed up to me. I still have it

621
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 2: on video somewhere. He got so angry. I was like,

622
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 2: oh my god, I'm sorry, I misspoke. I misspoke. I misspoke,

623
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 2: and like, I gotta go fine, I still have it

624
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 2: on my phone somewhere. And that was the closest I've

625
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 2: ever thought a professional athlete was going to deck me.

626
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: But but no, it just goes to.

627
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 3: Say, like you should have you should have let him,

628
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 3: then we'd have that clip forever of like you shut

629
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 3: up about al too a using.

630
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 2: This well, because again in his in his interview with Ken,

631
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 2: that was when he first came out and said that

632
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 2: Tony Kemp didn't use him, Josh Reddick didn't use him,

633
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 2: and Jose al Tuvey were the three guys that didn't

634
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 2: use the trash cans.

635
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: And I think.

636
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 2: My question I was trying to say, like, like, Carlos,

637
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 2: you said that Jose Jose did not, and I don't

638
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 2: think I said did not. I think I said, Carlos,

639
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 2: you said Jose did and he lost it. But again

640
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 2: just goes to show you what kind of guy he

641
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 2: is that he made time for us to literally reiterate

642
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 2: everything he had told Ken. He's a media god sent

643
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 2: no listening to this to hear about the media, though,

644
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 2: So we'll move on to what other players told the media.

645
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 2: Camp Smith was at FanFest, he went to the National

646
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 2: Championship Game, got to see uh the Florida State Boy.

647
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 2: Was very happy that Miami lost to Indiana. I'm very

648
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 2: happy about that. I thought the I thought, you know,

649
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 2: he didn't really give us much about what he has

650
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 2: done in the off season. But I think the one

651
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 2: thing that he's on point and on message with. You know,

652
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 2: we asked him a lot kind of how it hit

653
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 2: him when Dana said at the GM meetings that he's

654
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 2: not guaranteed a spot, that he's gonna have to come

655
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 2: to camp and that he's going to have to win

656
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 2: a spot, and he's got the right attitude. He said,

657
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 2: that's business. He goes nothing personal. He goes, this is

658
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 2: a business like I didn't affect me anyway. He goes,

659
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 2: I come to camp with that mindset anyway. But you

660
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 2: know it's clear that and we talked about that when

661
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 2: when Dana made the comments Tyler, even though it surprised

662
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 2: us a little bit that he would say it out loud,

663
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 2: like the last thing I thought was that it would

664
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: that would screw with Cam Smith's head because he is

665
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 2: like he's the most mentally strong and just kind of

666
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 2: pragmatic and poised kid of his age. That one of

667
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 2: the most that I've ever come across. So not a

668
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 2: surprise at all that he said all the right things.

669
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it makes sense, and I look, he that's

670
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 3: all he's known. He came into last spring training with

671
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 3: no expectations of being a starter. It certainly not a

672
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 3: starting right fielder. So that doesn't shock me that that

673
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 3: he did not somehow grow into expecting that throughout the year,

674
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 3: especially because he did not end the season as a

675
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 3: starting right fielder. So you know, it would make a

676
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 3: lot of sense that he would come in with that.

677
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 3: But you know, he's gonna have it no matter what happens,

678
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 3: whatever trades happen or and happened. At the end of

679
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 3: the day, if he's hitting, he's going to be in

680
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 3: the lineup. You know, it doesn't it doesn't mean they're

681
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 3: going to put the best hitters out there.

682
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: Uh.

683
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 3: And so as long as he's able to do that,

684
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,959
Speaker 3: he'll he'll find a place out there. But yeah, it'll

685
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 3: be interesting to see for sure.

686
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 2: Zach Cole went to Hungary, Uh this this offseason on

687
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 2: a mission trip with f c A went to Hungary

688
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:27,240
Speaker 2: Ransom Clinics.

689
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: That was cool to hear.

690
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 2: He did say that one of his focuses this offseason

691
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 2: was making sure he can play all three outfield positions.

692
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: Uh.

693
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 2: He's obviously a natural center fielder and he's very good

694
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 2: at that. But you start to look at the roster

695
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 2: and it probably would give them a lot more flexibility

696
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 2: if he can give you a competent left, play some

697
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 2: right if they need him to.

698
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 4: So.

699
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 2: Certainly, don't think he's pigeonholed in the center. I think

700
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,280
Speaker 2: he can be flexible and go to either corner.

701
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:06,439
Speaker 3: If Spota had to write a lineup card today, what

702
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 3: do you think that it would look like. You don't

703
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 3: have to give me the order of the lineups, just

704
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 3: give me positions.

705
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 2: Uh, Kore at third, Payne short, I'll two V at second, parade,

706
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 2: Us at first, Jake Myers and center, Zach Colon left,

707
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 2: Cam Smith and right, janer Diez catching Hunter Brown pitching.

708
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 3: I think so too. I think that is correct. You're

709
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 3: done at DH. Okay, that's unspoken, but yes, I agree.

710
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 3: I think I think maybe you swap Cam to left

711
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 3: field and Cole to right. I guess, yeah, I guess.

712
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 3: I guess if it's Cam, if it's Jesus Sanchez, obviously

713
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 3: Cole moves to right. But yeah, I think that's a

714
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 3: pretty good lineup. You know, it would be annoying to

715
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 3: have twenty million dollars sitting on your which is why

716
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,919
Speaker 3: you need to trade one of them. But that's that's

717
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 3: not a bad lineup. That's a pretty good sound on lineup.

718
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, they can, they can do some things with that

719
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: that'll play the high round guy.

720
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 3: I'm I'm pretty confident pretty much anytime, you know, he's

721
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 3: out there, so that that makes a lot of sense

722
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 3: as well. I'd write his name down as often as

723
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 3: I could.

724
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 2: Hunter was at a fan fest, uh also one of

725
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 2: the one of the people it was very happy to

726
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 2: be there.

727
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: He was.

728
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 2: He was very talkative. I'm sure Astras fans will love

729
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 2: to know that. He was asked if he's been approached

730
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 2: about a contract extension. He said he has not heard anything,

731
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 2: so okay, all apologies.

732
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 3: Said that about a year late.

733
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's a couple of years late. They could

734
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,439
Speaker 2: have done it. They could have done it two years

735
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 2: he was begging for one two years ago.

736
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: And yeah, but he was.

737
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 3: Like it that's that. I mean, you have to do it,

738
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 3: I know. And that's that's the hard part, is like,

739
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 3: because the other thing is that two years ago, you know,

740
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 3: you could have also offered or as a contract extension

741
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,959
Speaker 3: and perhaps you you know, would go the other way

742
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 3: with that from what you were paying at the time.

743
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean that is why you have to

744
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:14,439
Speaker 3: offer guys like Spencerraghetty contract extensions. You know, like those

745
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 3: types of people where you know they're still very early

746
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 3: in the process, and I you know, again, Cam Smith

747
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 3: is you know, I don't know that his value will

748
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 3: ever be as low as it is right now. I

749
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 3: don't know that he would want to sign an extension.

750
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 3: But those are the people, as you got on. Once

751
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 3: you have your breakout season, it's you're already close enough

752
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 3: to free agency that it's like you might as well

753
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 3: wait and even if you're not that good for the

754
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 3: next couple of years, some team is still going to

755
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 3: look at that one year that you had and give

756
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 3: you good money.

757
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 2: I mean, it sounds weird, but once you've proven, once

758
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 2: you've proven your worth the big extension, it's too late

759
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 2: to get a big extrrect because like at that point,

760
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 2: you're you're looking at free like it's what the good

761
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 2: teams they they identify, like, all right, we the projective.

762
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 2: It's a projectability thing. It's like we project that this

763
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 2: kid is going to be elite, and we need to

764
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 2: lock him in now before he knows he's going to

765
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 2: be elite. And look, there are agents out there that

766
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 2: do a fantastic job. And every agent is going to

767
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 2: think that they're that their player is going to be

768
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 2: the greatest player in baseball history, because that's how they

769
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 2: have to think. A lot of all agents have to

770
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 2: think like that. But it's hard for a lot of

771
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 2: agents to turn that down, to turn the sort of

772
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 2: that sort of money down when these guys have not

773
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 2: played a major League game or have played like a

774
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 2: handful of major.

775
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 3: Well, look, they're they're making half a million dollars a year.

776
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 3: They're six or seven years away from free agency, and

777
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 3: even if they're great throughout arbitration, they might make might

778
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 3: make thirty or forty million dollars over those few years.

779
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 3: And if you can get them to have a guaranteed

780
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 3: hundred million dollars in their hands, like you'd you'd be

781
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 3: crazy not to take the I mean again, outside of

782
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 3: just freak of nature prospects, I mean, it's malpracticed not

783
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 3: to take some of those extensions. And again, sometimes they

784
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 3: work out and sometimes they don't, but you know that

785
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 3: that's how you build a core that you can then

786
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 3: build around and not have to worry about paying them.

787
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 3: You know, something crazy like sixty million dollars a year

788
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 3: for four years to bat fifth in your lineup. You know,

789
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 3: that's that's how you do it.

790
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, I mean, as they tried to extend

791
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker, just the offer wasn't good enough.

792
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 1: Like it's not it's I will say this, it hasn't

793
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: been for lack of effort.

794
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 3: And a lot of these I mean they've done. I

795
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 3: mean the Urdon extension was Roberts just yes, but also again,

796
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 3: Jordan was making half a million dollars at the time

797
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 3: and was given one hundred and fifty million dollars guaranteed, like.

798
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: One hundred and fifteen not whatever.

799
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 3: I look, once you get in those I agree he

800
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 3: is worth more than that, but also he he could

801
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 3: have not been He like hindsight is twenty twenty, but

802
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 3: he very easily could not have been worth that, and

803
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 3: he would have one hundred and fifteen million dollars. And

804
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 3: even if you are worth more than that, you have

805
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifteen million dollars. Like That's why these

806
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 3: guys signed these extensions. But again, you have to do it,

807
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 3: you know, in their first or second year, and after

808
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 3: that it's it's too late.

809
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm here to tell you Hunter Brown after

810
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 2: his first full big league season. That's that would have

811
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 2: been after twenty twenty three. The interest was fervent. There

812
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 2: was a lot of interest in getting him from from

813
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 2: from the player's side.

814
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 3: Would he have been able to learn a sinker if

815
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 3: his wallet was that thick already? Though, I think the

816
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 3: questions probably, I think so too.

817
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 2: He would have found a way, he would have. He

818
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 2: would have found a way to learn a sinker and

819
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 2: been incredible.

820
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 3: They also have extended pictures and color on their team.

821
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lance, Lance was at fan Fest on Saturday. He uh,

822
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: he did not speak to the hair situation. I don't know.

823
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 2: I literally I saw him for I saw him for

824
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 2: half of a second, Like I I turned around, I

825
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 2: saw the back of his jersey. I did not see

826
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 2: his hair. If I would give you a hair, I

827
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 2: saw the hair. I saw mccollors forty three like walking

828
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 2: through where we're set up, and then he never came back.

829
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 2: So okay, those that wanted a m colors update hater there.

830
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 2: I did not see him. No, I did not see him.

831
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: Who knows.

832
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 2: Maybe they're trying to trade him. No, he's had a

833
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 2: phone of trade clause, so they can't do that. Finally,

834
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 2: as we teased earlier, Spencer Araghedtty was very happy to

835
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 2: very happy to be at FanFest, very happy to talk

836
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 2: to us. He's thrown seven bullpen sessions this winter. He said,

837
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 2: he is feeling great. He said he is going to

838
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 2: be right on par with everyone else when they report

839
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 2: spring training, So sounds like they avoided any worst case

840
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 2: scenario with him. He said that there was inflammation, There

841
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 2: was just some bad stuff in the elbow, but the

842
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 2: ligament was never in danger. They never thought surgery. In

843
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 2: Araghetty's words, surgery was never going in his mind. It

844
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 2: was never going to be an option. So it was

845
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 2: just one of those things where he just needed to rest.

846
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 2: He went eight weeks of no throw after he went

847
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,800
Speaker 2: on the IL in late August, and then started building

848
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 2: back up after those eight weeks.

849
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 3: And yeah, you're famously not supposed to cut spaghetti, so

850
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 3: that makes sense that surgery was not an option for him.

851
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: Do you break spaghetti and half when you boil it?

852
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 3: No, you put it in there.

853
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,720
Speaker 1: I break in half. It's easier.

854
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 3: Just the Italians hear that.

855
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 2: I think my I think my last name is Rome.

856
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 2: I think I'm I think I'm all right. I think

857
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 2: I'm alright, and I can tell I can I can

858
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 2: pass for that. Okay, let's see anything else happened at

859
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 2: fan Fest besides me freezing. It's still unclear and I

860
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 2: need to do I need to do my job on this.

861
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 2: It's still unclear about the WBC what's going on.

862
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 3: I saw the Korea news. I think that they're trying.

863
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit more intensive in terms

864
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 2: of insurance and if you've been injured a lot like

865
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 2: getting on. I think it's Omar Lopez, who's managing Team Venezuela.

866
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 2: He talked about it a little bit, something about a

867
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 2: chronic injury list, and if you've on that list, if

868
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 2: you've had certain like it's harder for you to get

869
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: approval and insurances, so to say, like, I need to

870
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 2: look more into it, but suffice to say, jose Al

871
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 2: Tuve said that he is still trying to get all

872
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 2: of that approved to where he can play, but if

873
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 2: it gets approved, he will play.

874
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 3: So it sounds like it's a third party approval process

875
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 3: though there's some insurance. Well, it's not like the owners

876
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 3: are saying no, you can't, or you can or.

877
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:24,439
Speaker 2: Well I will say this Carlos Korea brought up Jim

878
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 2: Crane and talking about this, he said that Jim is

879
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 2: looking into a couple of things.

880
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: So I, again, I.

881
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 3: Don't really that's just can I get disapproved by insurance

882
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 3: that if you you know, tarry your achilles or whatever,

883
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 3: I don't have to pay you this whole salary.

884
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to speculate because again, like I

885
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 2: need to look more into this, So it could be

886
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 2: Jim again, like dealing with third party insurance people about

887
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 2: insuring the contracts.

888
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: Like, I'm not sure, but they're going to play.

889
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 3: In spring training anyway. I've never understood the like fear

890
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 3: of like they're they're gonna be playing anyway, like they're

891
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 3: either gonna get hurt or they're not. You know, it's

892
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 3: not like you just magically get hurt because you're playing

893
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 3: in a WBC, except for maybe pitchers. But again, I

894
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 3: think they do a pretty good job of regulating how

895
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 3: much you can pitch and all of that.

896
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like we didn't have a podcast at the time,

897
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 2: but I would have said that at the time. You know,

898
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 2: when Al two Bay broke his thumb, like he got

899
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 2: I mean, he got hit by pitch like I get it,

900
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 2: and to like he got hit by a major league pitcher,

901
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 2: but like.

902
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,759
Speaker 3: That that could happen on a backfield, and.

903
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 2: When I don't think people understand, like especially the first

904
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 2: few weeks of spring That's why a lot of times

905
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 2: one of the reasons you don't see big league players

906
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 2: playing early in spring training. Part of it is they're

907
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 2: they're ramping up and they don't want to play them

908
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,399
Speaker 2: too much too early. But the other part of it

909
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 2: is the major league pitchers aren't built up to throw

910
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 2: a lot yet, So you'll have like A ball kids

911
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 2: and double A ball kids pitching in these big league

912
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:01,280
Speaker 2: spring training games.

913
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: And if you've.

914
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 2: Got think of a way to explain this, if you've

915
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 2: got an a ball kid twenty two years old, let's say,

916
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 2: for the Cardinals or the Marlins or whomever the Ashers

917
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 2: playoff in the spring training, you got a twenty two

918
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 2: year old Venezuelan kid that's in a ball in the

919
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 2: Cardinals system. They bring him in to pitch the third

920
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 2: ending of this Greape Fruit League game, and he's pitching

921
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:25,720
Speaker 2: against his idol, Jose al Twove steps in this kid's

922
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 2: head is probably going eighty miles an hour he probably

923
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 2: has no idea where the ball is going, and al

924
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 2: Twove is probably more at risk of getting hit by

925
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 2: a pitch in that situation than he is on the

926
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,240
Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic stage when he's facing literal big league relievers.

927
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 2: It just one slip from Daniel Bardon hit him in

928
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 2: the thought, So they're actually there are cases where hitters

929
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 2: are probably in more danger taking it bats in spring

930
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 2: training games than they are at the WBC.

931
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 3: Well, you can also get injured in right field during

932
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 3: batting practice. You know, you can break your thumb a

933
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:05,320
Speaker 3: lot of different ways, as we have seen. That USA

934
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 3: Mexico game at Dagon Park is going to be awesome.

935
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 3: I cannot wait. Are you going to be back for that?

936
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm coming back. I'll do some WBC stuff. I

937
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 2: think I'm flying back to wes Palm the last day

938
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 2: of pool play here, but the USA Mexico game is

939
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 2: the day before, so I'll be here for US Mexico.

940
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 1: But then I go back to West Politics.

941
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 3: And Hunter Brown is not pitching, correct, he is not.

942
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 2: We should have We should have asked him whether he

943
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 2: got because I believe he got asked. I just think

944
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 2: he politely declined. But we did not ask him that.

945
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 2: Maybe we will get the opportunity to ask him that

946
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 2: in the near future.

947
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.

948
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 3: Let's get him on the pod and ask him. Let's

949
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 3: try that hard.

950
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 2: Let's see. We'll try to get that done and get

951
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 2: it done. If we do that, that would really help

952
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 2: our subscriber base. Like we said, guys, we are we

953
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 2: are inching toward five foul subscribers, like we said Pitchers

954
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 2: and Catcher's report on February tenth, we would like to

955
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 2: be at five thousand YouTube subscribers by then. We are

956
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,560
Speaker 2: currently at three thousand, five hundred and ninety five, so

957
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 2: we have work to do, so please, please, please, if

958
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 2: you could subscribe to the YouTube channel, like the video

959
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 2: that helps us a ton as well, but subscribe to

960
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 2: the YouTube channel. Try to get us to five thousand

961
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 2: YouTube subscribers by spring training.

962
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,240
Speaker 1: That would really really be helpful.

963
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,760
Speaker 2: As always, you can follow me on x that Chandler

964
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 2: Underscore road. We can follow Tyler at Tyler c Stafford.

965
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 2: Please rate and review us on Apple and Spotify like

966
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 2: I please, Like I just asked, please subscribe to the

967
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 2: YouTube channel.

968
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: Please like the video that helps us a bunch. We'll

969
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 1: be back next week.

970
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 2: Hopefully one of these infielders is traded by then so

971
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 2: we don't have to keep rehashing everything we've talked about

972
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 2: for the last two months. We're working on getting some

973
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 2: pretty cool guests on in the next couple of weeks,

974
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 2: so maybe a couple of those will come through in

975
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 2: the next week. But we will be back next week

976
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 2: with two episodes, so until then, we will talk to

977
00:48:59,520 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 2: you later.

978
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 3: My sources have confirmed that this episode is over. Bye.