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

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Speaker 1: I'm Chandler Room, joined as always by Tyler Stafford. On

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Speaker 1: what is the end of Opening Day? I hope everyone

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Speaker 1: enjoyed Opening Day? There's still some games happening right now.

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Speaker 1: If you went to Dyke and Park today, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure you enjoyed Opening Day as much as others around

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Speaker 1: the sport will enjoy Opening Day of The Astros really

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Speaker 1: no other way to say it. They laid an egg,

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Speaker 1: just completely laid an egg today, a three to nothing

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Speaker 1: lost to the Los Angeles Angels, who are not very good.

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Speaker 1: I know Mike Trout's on their team. He hit a

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Speaker 1: ball that hasn't landed yet, but they are not very good.

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Speaker 1: And the Astros. Look, it's easy when a team gets

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Speaker 1: three hits and only advances one runner to third base,

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Speaker 1: it's easy to say, oh, why f lists and things

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Speaker 1: like that. And look, they gave effort. This was not

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Speaker 1: a situation where they went in here and dogged it

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Speaker 1: and weren't trying. But on a day that is supposed

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Speaker 1: to be filled with pomp and circumstance and happiness and

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Speaker 1: you know, rejuvenation because of a New year Man. They

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Speaker 1: laid an absolute egg this afternoon at dik And Park.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was. That was not fun. I will say,

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Speaker 2: far and away the biggest reaction of the crowd was

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Speaker 2: the eagle before the game. That was that was cool.

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Speaker 2: They had a whole eagle flying around. Uh and that

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Speaker 2: was very fun. And that was the loudest that I

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Speaker 2: think the crowd got. It was yeah, like you said, lifeless,

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Speaker 2: not not by effort standards, but it just it was

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Speaker 2: dead the whole time. There was nothing to cheer about.

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Speaker 2: There was nothing, you know, even the the biggest threat

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Speaker 2: that they had in the what was it the seventh

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Speaker 2: inning when Jordan came up with with two on was

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Speaker 2: one pitch and then it was you know, like the

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Speaker 2: tension builds and then there wasn't even like along at

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Speaker 2: bat or anything like. It was just over. Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 2: It was not not fun to watch that one Hope,

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Speaker 2: hope that doesn't happen one hundred and sixty one more times.

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Speaker 1: So before we get into the baseball. You went to

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Speaker 1: the game today as a fan. You were roaming around

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Speaker 1: the stands, roaming around the concourse. I saw you got

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Speaker 1: a bond me hot dog. I sampled one of those

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Speaker 1: when they did their like media showing us all the

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Speaker 1: food and the bond Me hot Dog is very good.

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Speaker 1: What were your observations from walking around the ballpark being

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Speaker 1: among the people. You got to see the eagle fly?

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Speaker 1: Did you see the mural? Like, tell me about what

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Speaker 1: the Tell me about what the atmosphere was like down below?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say, you know, it was full like

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Speaker 2: by first like you know normally it's it's tough in Houston.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it being an afternoon game helps

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Speaker 2: it all with that that there's you know, not like

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Speaker 2: crazy rush hour traffic getting there, but I mean I

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Speaker 2: got there. I walked into the stadium about two it's

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Speaker 2: like an hour and ten minutes before first pitch, and

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Speaker 2: it was full, Like there were lines for everything. The

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Speaker 2: line for that twenty five dollars LTMPO margarita was ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: I mean it was it was packed. People were excited.

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Speaker 2: I saw a lot of Emi jerseys. I also saw

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Speaker 2: and I guess they have this in the team shop.

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Speaker 2: But I saw the like Japanese lettering one, which is

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Speaker 2: really cool. I saw some people wear in that that

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Speaker 2: was fun. The bond Me Hot Dog was excellent, highly

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Speaker 2: recommend that one. But yeah, you know it just once

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Speaker 2: the game started, it just was was kind of dead

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Speaker 2: a lot of fun seeing people I hung out with,

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Speaker 2: you know, a lot of the you know, the people

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Speaker 2: from Astros Twitter for Friends of the program, the Apollo

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Speaker 2: media group. I hung out with them quite a bit.

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Speaker 2: And actually here's a new fun game. We've done this

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Speaker 2: once before, but I was with Dez, the guy from Apollo,

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Speaker 2: and we went into the team shop back there in centerfield,

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Speaker 2: not the big like Union Station one, but the other one.

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Speaker 2: He got a sick polo, big fan, cool little stripe'es

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Speaker 2: on it. Chandler, what do you think the price tag

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Speaker 2: said on a Houston Astros polo in the team shop?

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Speaker 1: I'm going to say I'm going to say seventy It.

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Speaker 2: Was one hundred and ten dollars. What one hundred and

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Speaker 2: ten dollars? Sorry Dez if you told your wife that

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Speaker 2: it was cheaper than that, But it was one hundred

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Speaker 2: and ten dollars, I mean one hundred and ten American dollars.

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Speaker 2: Is one an Astro's polo.

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Speaker 1: Costs's deals only one guaranteed? Ear like it wasn't Polo.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's still what do they need the money for?

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Speaker 1: They're not crossing the luxury tax? What do they need

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Speaker 2: One hundred and ten dollars Chandler. Now, now this was

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Speaker 2: not just this was not just your class. You know,

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Speaker 2: this wasn't just navy with you know, it's kind of

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Speaker 2: the Tim Robinson sketch. It was. There were so many

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Speaker 2: stripes and stuff on it that the fabric may have

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Speaker 2: been one hundred and ten dollars is what that cost?

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Speaker 1: But you know what it worked because it does.

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Speaker 2: Bought it and he looked great in it, so and

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Speaker 2: I want one, so I'm I get it. But uh yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a it's a little different out of the Ivory

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Speaker 2: Tower down there. The Bomby hot Dog was great. It

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Speaker 2: was like twenty one dollars with tax, but it was good.

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Speaker 2: I do like I don't know if you know this,

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Speaker 2: but they've instituted I think last year is when they

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Speaker 2: started this. I've had a few kids, so I can't

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Speaker 2: I can't remember. But last year they started the like

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Speaker 2: self serve soda fountain, which just means if you buy

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Speaker 2: one souvenir cup and just bring it with you every

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Speaker 2: time you can just get free drinks, which is very nice.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's it is a lot of money to

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Speaker 2: go to these I did some parking checks. I took

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Speaker 2: a look around out there, like past the Dynamo Stadium.

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Speaker 2: Still like twenty dollars parking way out there. Yeah, it

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Speaker 2: costs quite a bit to come to a game and

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Speaker 2: watch what was effectively the Joey Loperfido Show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank god for him.

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Speaker 2: Right, Christian Walker looked good. You know what that swing

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Speaker 2: reminded me of? You know whoever reminded me of that

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Speaker 2: short compact doubles alley swing off the bat. I was

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Speaker 2: in the I was like standing back there by the

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Speaker 2: Crawford boxes. Off the bat, it looked a lot like

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Speaker 2: Alex Bregman that that swing. So just do that, just

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Speaker 2: hit like Bragman and then you know, all of this

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Speaker 2: will be salved. Can we talk a little bit about

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Speaker 2: the game?

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to, if you want to,

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Speaker 1: we can.

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Speaker 2: How's how's your how's your precious infield surplus looking? Now? Dummy,

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Speaker 2: we gotta got to pinch run for Walker? You got

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Speaker 2: to do? That was stupid shuffle. That was really interesting.

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Speaker 2: That was interesting, like the one.

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Speaker 1: The one thing of that game that I found interesting

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Speaker 1: was like a managerial move in the seventh inning.

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Speaker 2: It makes sense. I mean it was nobody nobody out,

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Speaker 2: you're down one, like you gotta have speed and you

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Speaker 2: know that you can move parades over.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: Seems nice to have all these infielders, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: Well, I will, I will remind you that they did

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Speaker 1: not have an infield today.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well he was there, they you know, but yes,

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Speaker 2: what is he just had forward bats and then what

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Speaker 2: is that? What happened?

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Speaker 1: So with Jeremy Pania, basically, if to distill it down

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Speaker 1: into one simple explanation, he's not injured enough to where

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Speaker 1: he needs ten days off. He does not want ten

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Speaker 1: days off. The Astros do not want him to have

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Speaker 1: ten days off. But he's also probably not ready right

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Speaker 1: now to be in a big league game. So the

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Speaker 1: best of both worlds is you put him on the

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Speaker 1: il and you're where he's automatically has to be out

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Speaker 1: for ten days, and you play him when you feel

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Speaker 1: he's ready. I believe this is informed speculation. I believe

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Speaker 1: he will play tomorrow against Yussekakuchi. I think he will

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Speaker 1: be back in the line tomorrow. This is not me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that I'd want to take one

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Speaker 2: hundred mile an hour sinkers off the hands either. That

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Speaker 2: makes it okay? I'm with you there that that.

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Speaker 1: Is one hundred percent. Why not one hundred It's about

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Speaker 1: ninety five percent of why the decision was made today.

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Speaker 1: If you watched Jose Soriano pitch today, and we will

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Speaker 1: is one hundred on your hands. As a right handed hitter,

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Speaker 1: he is running that sinker in on you. Look, they

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Speaker 1: never play scared, They don't want to play scared. But

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure a guy coming off of that fracture

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Speaker 1: him getting blown up by one hundred mile an hour

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Speaker 1: bowling ball sinker from a right handed pitcher. So that

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Speaker 1: had something, Yeah, that had something to do with it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I so. Jeremy Pane just spent this morning in Sugarland

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Speaker 1: where he took live at bats against the Triple A team.

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Speaker 1: They were they had to workout there. He took some

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Speaker 1: live at bats, He took some live bat's yesterday. On Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: the team had an optional workout at dyk And Park.

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Speaker 1: He took them at bats and all by all accounts,

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Speaker 1: he's he's okay, he's fine, He's just got to get

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Speaker 1: it's a thing about getting his timing back. And again,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure you want to get your timing back

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Speaker 1: against Jose Soriano, who no one seemed to have timed

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Speaker 1: up today. And we will talk about that and we'll

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Speaker 1: Now. All right, So, if you watched the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five Astros at any point and you were frustrated by

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Speaker 1: with their lineup. They swung too much, they swung out

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Speaker 1: of the strike zone too much, they did not do

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Speaker 1: much with runners in scoring position. And then you went

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Speaker 1: into this offseason and you got all excited, right because

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Speaker 1: the culprits were gone, the boogeymen were gone, and Alex

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Speaker 1: Centron and Troy Snicker they got them out of the way.

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Speaker 1: They have an offensive coordinator now, friend of the Pod,

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Speaker 1: Dan Hennigan. They've got Anthony Ioposi, They've got Victor Rodriguez.

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Speaker 1: These guys were going to save the day, Tyler, Is

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Speaker 1: that right? They were going to save the day. Well,

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Speaker 1: it turns out if you watched any of this game,

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Speaker 1: it looked a lot like the twenty twenty five Astros offense.

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Speaker 1: And it boils down to what I try. And I

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Speaker 1: think we both were pretty unanimous on this whole offseason

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Speaker 1: when we talked about hitting coaches and philosophy and things.

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Speaker 1: You can bring in all the new coaches you want.

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Speaker 1: watch today and it just they let it roll off

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Speaker 1: their chest. But there's people that watch today's game, and

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Speaker 1: to be frank, there's some media that covered today's game

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Speaker 1: that will not watch another Astros game until either the

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Speaker 1: yank either they're playing the Yankees or they're in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So it you it's why it's kind of incumbent on

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Speaker 1: a team where you don't call a one game a

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Speaker 1: must win game, but like you kind of want to

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Speaker 1: look good, right even if you lose, and they.

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Speaker 2: Did forever what they win like twelve Opening Days in

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Speaker 2: a row or something.

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Speaker 1: Right, and it helps to start off on a good foot.

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Speaker 1: It helps to you know, put a good taste in

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Speaker 1: everybody's mouth. If this is gonna be the one time

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Speaker 1: a fan can which is an Astros game, This year,

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Speaker 1: like make it a good one. Uh, this was not

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Speaker 1: a good one to catch. So but again it's one

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Speaker 1: of one sixty two. They win, They win the next

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Speaker 1: three days and everyone forgets about this. But it was concerning.

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Speaker 1: The offense was concerning, and look, it's not gonna get

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Speaker 1: any easier, like you face you say Kacucci tomorrow. He's

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Speaker 1: a left handed pitcher, which is better. So you're all

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Speaker 1: right handed. But I mean we saw the Kakuchi can

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Speaker 1: do here. And then the Red Sox are about to

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Speaker 1: roll into town with Garrett Crochet and Ranger Sworrez ready

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Speaker 1: to go like good, yeah, lefties, but they're good, like

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Speaker 1: you're gonna face good pitching.

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Speaker 2: But again, well you're wondering about how right handed this

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Speaker 2: team is. Maybe they were designed to beat these guys.

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Speaker 2: You don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: They were designed to be well, they're designed to take

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Speaker 2: on the Tigers in the Alcs with Scoogle from.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, just they'll be able to hit them,

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Speaker 1: no problem. Everyone hits Schoogle and Fromber, no problem. They're

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Speaker 1: so easy Fromber in the playoffs, especially, anybody hits from

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Speaker 1: I feel really weird keep that I keep bringing this

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Speaker 1: like inning up. But it was gonna be hard for

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Speaker 1: Hunter Brown this year to like replicate what he did

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Speaker 1: in his first start last year, just because we all

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Speaker 1: remember how incredible that first inning was against the Mets,

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Speaker 1: how electric he looked, kind of announcing himself to the world.

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Speaker 1: I thought Hunter was he was good today. I didn't

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Speaker 1: think it was by far. By far. I would not

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Speaker 1: say it was one of his best, like elite outings,

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Speaker 1: but he had good stuff, just was really inefficient, needed

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Speaker 1: forty needed forty three pitches to get his first six outs.

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Speaker 1: You know, sprayed the ball a little bit, walked Mike

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Speaker 1: Trout three times and had another walk, So four walks

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Speaker 1: in the game. A lot of foul ball, you know.

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Speaker 1: Just Joe A. Spot has said after the game that

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Speaker 1: the Angels are usually a team that chases up a lot.

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Speaker 1: They chase a lot of elevated fastballs, and they just

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Speaker 1: didn't today. They did a nice job of laying off

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Speaker 1: of like the upper quadrant top rail fastballs. So you know, look,

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Speaker 1: he grinded. He got him into the fifth inning. He

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Speaker 1: was a pitch away from finishing five innings. Goes four

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Speaker 1: and two thirds innings, throws one hundred and two pitches,

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Speaker 1: which yeah, is I mean, I don't want to say

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Speaker 1: it's unheard of, but very rarely do you see a

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Speaker 1: pitcher throw more than really ninety five in his first start,

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Speaker 1: post in his first start of the season. To see

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Speaker 1: them run Hunter up to one hundred and two pitches

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Speaker 1: was a little bit surprising to me, but look, it's

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Speaker 1: probably I mean, he was scoreless. I mean, he didn't

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Speaker 1: allow a run, struck out nine. The curve ball was

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Speaker 1: disgusting again, all in all, Like I bet if you

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Speaker 1: would hook Hunter up to truth Siera, he'd say he

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Speaker 1: wanted to spread those hundred pitches through six innings instead

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Speaker 1: of four and two thirds. But a good outing for

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Speaker 1: Hunter Brown, but maybe not the dominant No. Six seven

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Speaker 1: inning outing you you maybe expect from an opening day starter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty nine strikes and one hundred and two pitches.

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Speaker 2: He just you know, whether it was trying to get

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Speaker 2: chases or just you know, general ineffectiveness. You can't throw

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Speaker 2: fifty nine strikes out of out of one hundred and

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Speaker 2: two pitches and expect to work too far in that

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Speaker 2: fifth inning. Felt, that's that's an Ace mentality. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you saw, but I noticed after the you know,

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Speaker 2: I think he had one out at the time. He

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Speaker 2: lets a guy on gets the second out, and he's

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Speaker 2: he looked over that. This was at like ninety five

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Speaker 2: pitches and he looked over at the dugout and you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't think he said anything, but it clearly felt like,

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Speaker 2: don't you come out here like I'm trying to get

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Speaker 2: through five. I'm trying to get us out of here.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't able to do that, and then aj blue Ball

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Speaker 2: came in and just embarrassed, embarrassed Moncada. He threw three

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Speaker 2: straight fastballs just down the middle and that man had

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Speaker 2: no chance against that. That was that was impressive. But yes,

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Speaker 2: Hunter Brown still looking for the double digit strikeout game.

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Speaker 2: You know, he ends up around eight or nine most

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Speaker 2: of the time there. But I mean, look that to me,

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Speaker 2: We've talked about it before, but that type of game

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Speaker 2: says more about an ace than I think those games

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Speaker 2: where you just go off to me and Ace is

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Speaker 2: a guy that just can get you through any game

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Speaker 2: even if they don't have their best stuff. And he

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Speaker 2: didn't have his best stuff today and he still got

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Speaker 2: four and two thirds scoreless, almost got through the fifth

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Speaker 2: inning on you know, first start of the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't It wasn't exactly what you would want, obviously,

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Speaker 2: but to not have your best stuff and still be

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Speaker 2: able to do that, it just speaks volumes to how

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Speaker 2: good of a pitcher Hunter Brown is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the fact that he was able to rebound,

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Speaker 1: I mean forty three pitches through two innings like you're

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Speaker 1: a you're in a world a herd at that point,

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Speaker 1: just because like I mean, you got to get that

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Speaker 1: thing back on track. And I think he had fifteen

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Speaker 1: pitches in the third inning, so like all right, like

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Speaker 1: he stabilized a little bit, got back on track. You know.

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Speaker 1: I think the thing with him and and when we

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Speaker 1: had Hunter on the podcast even mentioned this, like he's

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Speaker 1: trying to miss more bats with the kind of stuff

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Speaker 1: that he has, you would think this is a guy

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Speaker 1: that strikes more people out. You know, eleven whiffs on

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Speaker 1: forty three swings today. Again, is it's just not something's

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Speaker 1: not adding up there with Like you look at the

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Speaker 1: stuff and you look at what he has, you would

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Speaker 1: think that he can miss some more bats. And look,

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Speaker 1: maybe it was the Angels had a good day. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it was they just they had a plan, they had

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Speaker 1: a collective approach, they went up there and they stuck

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Speaker 1: to it. Maybe you just tip your hat to them.

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Speaker 1: But I think we may see more bats being missed

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Speaker 1: as the season goes on, because I know that's something

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Speaker 1: that Hunter Brown is really focusing on, trying to get

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Speaker 1: some more whiffs, trying to get some more swing and miss.

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Speaker 1: But you know, all in all, just what you expect

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Speaker 1: from him, just in terms of kind of the competitor,

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Speaker 1: the grinder material. Just a really really solid but not

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Speaker 1: spectacular outing. And I think it's I mean, again, you're

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Speaker 1: living a life of luxury when you say that about

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Speaker 1: a guy that strikes out nine and is a pitch

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Speaker 1: away from getting through five innings and it's scoreless. And

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Speaker 1: let's also add to it too, that he had some

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Speaker 1: horrific bat at ball.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, do you want me to

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Speaker 2: read off the expected batting average here?

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Speaker 1: Well, I was going to read off that he gave up.

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Speaker 1: The average exit velocity he surrendered on his ten balls

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Speaker 1: in play were eighty one point one miles an hour. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So the Wonkata single in the fourth was a to

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Speaker 2: eighty expected batting average. The Joe Adell single was to ten,

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Speaker 2: and then Logan o'hapi was also two ten. Uh so,

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Speaker 2: and then even the uh Solayer one was only a

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Speaker 2: three to twenty. So I mean none of them were rockets,

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Speaker 2: you know, like none of them were going to put

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Speaker 2: it to put that in perspective. Eastac Praides had two

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Speaker 2: outs today. One was a five seventy expected batting average

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Speaker 2: and the other was seven to twenty. So these were

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Speaker 2: all three twenty and under for Hunter Brown. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean that's just I think, yeah, that that happens sometimes,

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Speaker 2: especially when you creates such low exit velocity swings like

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Speaker 2: Hunter does. I mean, he was in the ninety seventh

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Speaker 2: percentile last year and average exit velocity he averaged eighty

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Speaker 2: six point one exit velocity, which is, I mean absurd,

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Speaker 2: But you know, that's kind of the picture he is,

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Speaker 2: which is interesting because again he he feels like he

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Speaker 2: should be just this strikeout machine, but the way that

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Speaker 2: he pitches is more akin to or the results that

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Speaker 2: he gets is more akin to like you know, the

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Speaker 2: cy Young Dallas Kichel years, where it's just like everybody's

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Speaker 2: just grounding into the dirt or you know, whiffing on stuff.

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Speaker 2: But it's not these like crazy high strikeout numbers. But again,

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Speaker 2: he he gets out and doesn't give up runs, so

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Speaker 2: you know, you'll you'll take it.

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Speaker 1: I do have a question, are you ready to apology

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Speaker 1: to me about one aj blue ball?

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Speaker 2: Looked I would have liked to see that in the

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Speaker 2: first inning too, But man, is it nice to have

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Speaker 2: a guy that can just come out throwing darts?

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Speaker 1: Darts?

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Speaker 2: That dude was I mean, that was impressive. That was

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Speaker 2: that was very exciting. I mean he he did give

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Speaker 2: up quite quite a long ball.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, that ball hasn't landed yet, but you know what,

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Speaker 1: that was a middle middle fastball that just still.

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Speaker 2: Have a lot of other people. You know, maybe don't

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Speaker 2: throw ninety five down the middle to Mike Trout. That

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Speaker 2: would be my one suggestion. But outside of that, I mean,

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Speaker 2: he just he was mow and people like I said

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Speaker 2: that to come in with in the fifth inning with

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Speaker 2: two guys on the game kind of feels like, you

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Speaker 2: know this, this is obviously a huge at bat right here,

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Speaker 2: and I mean he just pumped three straight fastballs down

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Speaker 2: the middle. Let me see if I can pull up

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00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 2: the savant page or was that at bat he bought?

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Speaker 1: It was ninety eight point eight?

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Speaker 2: Like it was, it was pretty good. Let me hold on,

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Speaker 2: let me find that one, because that, I mean, that

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Speaker 2: bad at bat was just hilarious. I mean, he just

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00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 2: he mowed him down, very very impressive.

649
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a feeling. I have a feeling that

650
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: we will not be talking about aj Blueball as a

651
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: depth starter for much longer. And look, he threw. How

652
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: many pitches did he throw today? I don't have the

653
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: box score in front of me.

654
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 2: But forty one.

655
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,959
Speaker 1: Right, So they've got him in a position where if

656
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: they would want to do that, if they would want

657
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: to say, hey, we're going to send you to Triple

658
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: A and want I want to get you back in

659
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: the rotation in a stretched out role, like they've got

660
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: that option. But I don't know how you look at

661
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: what he did today, putting him in the in the

662
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: situation that they put him in, coming in throwing ninety

663
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: nine and then he goes back out in the seventh

664
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: and it's just or in the six, excuse me, and

665
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: it's just as easy. I kind of thought they were gonna,

666
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: you know, maybe take him out. I thought they were

667
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: gonna go to somebody else in the seventh. Maybe if

668
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,399
Speaker 1: they would have scored a run, maybe if it would

669
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 1: have been a tie game, or it would have been

670
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: a one run game, like, it would have been a

671
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: little bit different. But I don't know how you look

672
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: at that and you don't want to just see, Hey,

673
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: let this kid let it eat for twenty five to

674
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: thirty pitches. If he can get us three outs, if

675
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: he can get us five outs, like that's great. But

676
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: I think, and again I've been saying it, like the

677
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: Astros believe he will his value, he will provide more

678
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: value as a reliever. And I think you saw that

679
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: today again against a lineup that, look, the Angels are

680
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 1: not any good. But like to do that on opening day,

681
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: on your first opening day roster, to come in and

682
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: relief of the ace and make you on Mancata, who

683
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: is a I mean, he's a he's a big leaguer

684
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: like this isn't like some minor leaguer that made his

685
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: first roster either, Like this guy's been around.

686
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 2: And it's too easy.

687
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 1: It was. It was disgusting, And yeah, I think there

688
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 1: certainly is a path where you could see aj blue

689
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: ball become like a leverage kind of you know, maybe

690
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: like again like in a spot today, but maybe they

691
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: don't send him back out for the seventh. It's you

692
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: come in, get the last out of the fifth, go

693
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 1: back out, get us three outs in the sixth, and

694
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: then you you got your setup for seven, eight nine,

695
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: presuming you have a leader, presuming the game's tied.

696
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because so much of what you want from that,

697
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 2: like fireman reliever, is somebody that can get strikeouts and

698
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 2: then provide you length if you need it. And I

699
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 2: mean that's just that's exactly what he does. He just

700
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 2: he he looked great. And even the single that he

701
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 2: gave up, that Joe Adelle single was a one thirty

702
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 2: expected bad average, so you know, he just, man, it

703
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 2: looked very good.

704
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: And you know, somebody pointed out like if you look

705
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: at his if you look at kind of the pitch,

706
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: the pitch distribution, like he really only went you know,

707
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: for seems, forceem, sweep, for seem and sweeper. He threw

708
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 1: a couple of change ups, but like it was really

709
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 1: like he's got five pitches, Like it's not one of

710
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: these things where he's only a two pitch pitcher, Like

711
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: he's a starter. So he's got five pitches, so he's

712
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: got different ways. I mean, he was brought up as

713
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 1: a starter, so he's got a starter's arsenal. So again

714
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: like as he and again it's not I mean, he

715
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 1: came on here and told us he was a closer

716
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: in college and he's done this before. It's in his

717
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: head to where he can relieve. But I think, you know,

718
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: as he maybe refigures out or reacclimates to the role

719
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: and how to use his entire arsenal, he's only going

720
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: to get better. I thought. I mean, look, on a

721
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: day where there wasn't much to get excited about, on

722
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: a day where there wasn't much a major raise your eyebrows,

723
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 1: AJ blue ball shines as the biggest positive to come

724
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: out of today.

725
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris Walker made a good catch that was impressive

726
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 2: over over in foul territory. Again shout out.

727
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll say this, he turned on ninety nine

728
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: the first first pitch of the window. That kid come

729
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: in the seventh inning, like turned on rocket right, and

730
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: I mean a couple more feet. That's a homer. You

731
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: know you have to be in I mean again, you

732
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: it's like we don't want to overreact to one game.

733
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: But we're taking what we can get here. He got

734
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: ninety nine at his letters, turned it around, hit the

735
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,320
Speaker 1: crap out of at one eight off the off the

736
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: bullpen like that. That's encouraged. So they need more of

737
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: that work. They need more of that. It would be more.

738
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: It would be advisable if they got more of that.

739
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: And maybe they will.

740
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 2: Maybe they will, Maybe they'll they'll listen to us and

741
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: and open the roof. We would have seen a Jordon

742
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 2: six hundred foot home run as far as I'm concerned,

743
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 2: if the roof hadn't hadn't stopped him, and maybe it

744
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 2: would have pushed Trout's homer back in.

745
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't think that would if.

746
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 2: There was a hurricane force wind right as he swung.

747
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, But maybe they'll open the roof tomorrow. It's

748
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: a seven night, and it's a night it was. The

749
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: roof was open. So when we got back up from

750
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: the clubhouse after doing interviews and everything, they opened the

751
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: roof tonight. So the roof's open right now, and it

752
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: was beautiful, Beau.

753
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 2: You don't think it's because of the eagle, right.

754
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: No, I would figure the eagle would I figured the

755
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: eagle would want like animals get scared and like I don't, but.

756
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 2: You don't want him to leave. I guess, well, I

757
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 2: guess they do. These are like football games. That thing

758
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: you're just trying to come up with an excuse.

759
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: That thing is so highly trained, Like that thing don't

760
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 1: care where it's at. It just knows to go fly

761
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: to go, fly to the woman that had the glove

762
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: on it, go fly to that thing with that just

763
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: go land. I was very worried because like it kept

764
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: flying around and it got really close to like where

765
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: the asters were lined up for the anthem. I was like,

766
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,320
Speaker 1: if this thing lands on one of these guys.

767
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 2: Like this could be the coolest thing ever.

768
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 1: I mean, it would have been like it happened to

769
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: James Paxson a couple of years ago. James Paxson was

770
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: warming up in the outfield and landed on his shoulders.

771
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: And he's Canadian. James Paxson's Canadian, so it.

772
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 2: Didn't really That's why it was trying to instill some

773
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:29,919
Speaker 2: freedom into him.

774
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: He didn't know, what are you talking about. Canada's the

775
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: fifty first state.

776
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. They'll love that. I'll appreciate that. That's the

777
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,320
Speaker 2: end of the very They're not very good at hockey.

778
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 2: That's that's for sure. Yeah, yeah, it uh, you know,

779
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 2: it's fun to be back at the park. I the

780
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 2: best part about baseball season is that it just keeps going,

781
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 2: and it's there every day and it is just a constant.

782
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 2: It's my favorite part about baseball season. It's just always

783
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 2: that might be your least favorite as someone who does

784
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 2: this professionally, but you know, as someone that is just

785
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 2: in this office all day trying to make phone calls.

786
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 2: I love that that baseball is just on all the time.

787
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 2: And look, weird things happened. Paul Skeen's is probably going

788
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 2: to get out of the first inning, you know, Like

789
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think that is going to be

790
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 2: an issue for for him, and I don't think you know,

791
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 2: the offense is going to look this hapless. You faced

792
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 2: a really good pitcher. You're missing Jeremy Pana. You know,

793
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,839
Speaker 2: it happens. Poor Jeremy. He's he's already lost his one

794
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 2: sixty two goal for the year one day and he

795
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 2: can't do it.

796
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: I think Livy Dunn like is taking a hit out

797
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: on O'Neill cruiz right now.

798
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 2: Mmm. Yeah, that was a that was something. Those were

799
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 2: those were options of a route to to run. For

800
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 2: sure we should hear Josh Reddick's thoughts on those. But yeah, I.

801
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: Mean for the people, for the people that are asking

802
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 1: that want video of the media day of taking fly

803
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: balls of shat, go look at what O'Neal cruise. Oh

804
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: come on, that was me, Like I'm telling you, I'm

805
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: telling you no, like go look at I'm telling you

806
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: go look at what O'Neil Cruz did today. That is

807
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: me I made. I got hit five flyballs. I think

808
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,959
Speaker 1: on two of them I broke instead of breaking back

809
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: and then just completely whipped them. Like you go, look

810
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: at what O'Neil cruse today. Just put me in O'Neil

811
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 1: Cruz's body and maybe give me some of his money.

812
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: And that is that is what I looked like on

813
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: the backfields a couple of weeks ago while try and

814
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: catch fly balls. So it made me feel good that,

815
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: like I looked like an idiot, and a guy that

816
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: is paid to do this very handsomely can also look

817
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: like that.

818
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 2: So they I think he probably he probably has a

819
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 2: little bit better exit velocity, uh yeah than you and

820
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 2: in BP but Uh, Joe a spot is already at

821
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:15,439
Speaker 2: the U of H game.

822
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: Oh did they put him on TV?

823
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 2: Someone took a picture of him, he he Well, he's

824
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 2: being candidly photographed, so I can't read too much into that.

825
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 2: But he's in a Cougar's sweatshirt, a little hoodie action there,

826
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 2: you know, just supporting the local squad. What more do

827
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 2: you want?

828
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, good for Joe.

829
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 2: Joe's remind me the rotate Burrows tomorrow then Burrows.

830
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, Burrows will pitch on Friday against yuseekakuci uh I

831
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: will pitch on Saturday, and Christian Xavier will pitch on

832
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 1: Sunday and we will.

833
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 2: Have so excited to watch em. I can't wait.

834
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 1: That's gonna be fun. I mean, I'm excited to watch

835
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: Mike Burrows, like after what we saw in spring training,

836
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm excited to see how that goes. Like

837
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: today was honestly probably like the most boring pitching matchup

838
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: of the weekend.

839
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 2: Like, oh, that reminds me that this was my hot take.

840
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 2: During player introductions, they did the Angels starting lineup and

841
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 2: Mike Trout got cheers from the fans, and that, to

842
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 2: me is what you do when you think, as the

843
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 2: kids say, your goat is washed, right like you you cheer,

844
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 2: you boo somebody who's just amazing, you know, like the

845
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 2: Astra's fans Boo Aaron Judge, by all accounts, a very

846
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,800
Speaker 2: nice man, very good about you boo him because he's awesome.

847
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 2: When you cheer Mike trout to me, that signals you

848
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 2: think it's over. And then he just comes out and

849
00:46:56,040 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 2: just has an eight hundred obp and uh, it's one.

850
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 2: Did it hit the tracks? I was, I was in

851
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 2: the you know, standing behind the Crawfer boxes. Where did

852
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: that thing hit?

853
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: I don't think it hit I I have not watched

854
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: a replay, so I don't want to see.

855
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 2: It was way up there.

856
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: It may have like bounced like off the train tracks.

857
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's stayed up there, but it was.

858
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: It was over. The only way you can tell is

859
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: like you kind of look in the Crawford boxes and

860
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: you can just see everybody looking up.

861
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

862
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: No one like tried to catch it. Everyone just kind

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Speaker 1: of looked up. So I don't know if it like

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Speaker 1: stayed up there or just bounced, but that ball was destroyed.

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Speaker 2: It sure was. He's done that quite a bit, but yes,

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Speaker 2: that's I you know, you cheer for the guy that

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Speaker 2: you think is you're you're you're giving the Hey, congrats

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Speaker 2: on on all the greatness that you've done. And that's

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Speaker 2: it's it's your fault. It's it's everyone there who cheered.

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Speaker 2: That's that's the problem. If we've learned anything, you got

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Speaker 2: to boom more. I think that's what it was.

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Speaker 1: You heard it here first. If you go to the

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Speaker 2: Doing it, tell them I'm trying to help.

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Speaker 1: back on Sunday to recap the remainder of this Angel

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Speaker 1: series and look ahead to what the Boston Red Sox

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Speaker 1: will bring to town next week, but until then, thank

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