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

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Speaker 1: M chan in the room with Tyler Stafford and fresh

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Speaker 1: back from Disney, Josh Reddick. Josh, how was Disney? What

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Speaker 1: was the favorite ride? And did you guys survive the heat?

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Speaker 2: So it was Disney World. For clarification, we're in Florida,

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Speaker 2: so we're hot, humid, dodging rain as you might expect

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Speaker 2: on any given day in Florida. So outside of that,

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Speaker 2: it's a great time. Tuesday was just you know, the

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Speaker 2: four of us, just doing the Lightning ling bid and

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Speaker 2: running around everywhere. My wife's a pro at that, getting

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Speaker 2: us anywhere we need to go in all the right rides.

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Speaker 2: And the next day we do the little tour guide

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Speaker 2: where we get to you know, going the lightning name

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Speaker 2: So we get escorted, we get driven around the ballpark.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's definitely worth it if you can afford it,

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Speaker 2: it's it's definitely worth the price. Favorite ride for me

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Speaker 2: is the Guardians of the Galaxy.

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Speaker 3: Ride their rules. What song did you get?

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Speaker 2: Flock Seagulls? I was jamming, so I d and my

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Speaker 2: kids we're kind of My kids were kind of fifty

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Speaker 2: to fifty in the ride to so like our cameras,

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Speaker 2: our photo is them going so even better. But overall,

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Speaker 2: their their favorite ride ended up being the Everest Ride,

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Speaker 2: the one with the YETI that you never see, which

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Speaker 2: I was kind of shocked at because my kid loves

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Speaker 3: Did Uh? What was the new Tianas by your adventure?

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Speaker 3: What'd you say?

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Speaker 2: You know? It really wasn't much different. I mean, it

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Speaker 2: just feels like they changed all the scenery and updated.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's pretty much. That's pretty much all it is.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not a I'm not a huge fan

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Speaker 2: of the log Rats anyway, and I've never seen the movie,

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Speaker 2: so I have no reference. But I was just there

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Speaker 2: to cool off, so it was it was a nice

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Speaker 3: Uh huh, where's uh? Where's your like go to food

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Speaker 3: or restaurant? There?

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Speaker 4: Do y'all? Do?

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Speaker 3: Y'all get reservations for places? But what's your favorite?

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Speaker 2: No, we're when when we're all We went Rainforest Cafe

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Speaker 3: Okay, outside, I don't think I've ever been in the

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Speaker 3: outside of Animal Kingdom. I don't think I've ever been

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we tackled. We tackled Animal Kingdom first day because

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Speaker 2: we were, you know, spending our tour guide on the

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Speaker 2: other three. But it's great, it's great. You know they

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Speaker 2: have they have good seafood in there. I have a

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Speaker 2: huge seafood in nut So it's a good play. And

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Speaker 2: it's freezing cold in there. So yeah, and then we

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Speaker 2: ate pool side both nights, so that wasn't bad. We

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Speaker 2: let the boys cool off and ate pool side, and

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Speaker 2: then just kicked it in the hotel room and went

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Speaker 4: There we go.

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Speaker 3: Chandler, you want to chime in on all your Disney tips.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, at the risk of turning this into it, I

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Speaker 1: just have one question. Is Lightning Lane basically a fast

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Speaker 1: pass for people?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 4: Very, very that can afford it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well it's not as much as you'd think, Okay,

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Speaker 2: but it's definitely worth it because you get one, you

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Speaker 2: get one after another. I think it's one per hour,

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Speaker 2: isn't it or something?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And if you like stay on the campus or

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Speaker 3: the you know at a park hotel, you get certain

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Speaker 3: amounts of like it's it's a whole like you you

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Speaker 3: got to have a master's degree to understand how to

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Speaker 3: get on all of these rides.

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Speaker 2: And je Jet has a double masters in Disney, whether

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Speaker 2: it's disney Land or disney World, because you know, we

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Speaker 2: can park up on Disneyland, but uh, I'm just going

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Speaker 2: to push the stroller. There. You go, drink a monster

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 1: I would need something a little more, a little stronger

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Speaker 1: than a monster to to tolerate Disney World, Disney.

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Speaker 4: I would. I would. I'd bankrupt them if I was.

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Speaker 1: If I was a disney World with Josh, your kids

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Speaker 1: I would need something stronger than monster. As as evidence,

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Speaker 1: we talked about Disney for four minutes. We kind of

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Speaker 1: knew that the Astros in the White Sox would not

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Speaker 1: produce much content to talk about. The Astros did win.

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Speaker 1: The series took two of three from the White Sox.

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Speaker 1: Miguel Vargas came about three inches from sending us into

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Speaker 1: extra innings on Thursday night and could have made it

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Speaker 1: a little more interesting, but nevertheless, the Astros.

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Speaker 4: Took two of three from the White Sox.

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Speaker 1: The only newsworthy thing really that happened in these three

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Speaker 1: games was he soocked Paradus suffering a left hamstring injury

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Speaker 1: on Thursday in the seventh inning trying to beat out

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Speaker 1: the back end of a double playball. As we record

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Speaker 1: this on Friday at eleven am, I don't we don't

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Speaker 1: know much. Joe Spota after Thursday's game really said that

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Speaker 1: gonna get some imaging done. I can't imagine he soocked

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Speaker 1: I imagine he's not going to be in the lineup.

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Speaker 4: But as usual with the.

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Speaker 1: Astros and with injuries, I'll believe, I'll believe he's better

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Speaker 1: never know. But obviously, guys, this, if he saw Paradis

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Speaker 1: has to miss an extended period of time, that's a

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Speaker 1: tough blow. He's the team leader in home runs, he

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Speaker 1: leads in every offensive cale. He's behind Jeremy Paynia basically

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's been really good. Like we said, his

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Speaker 3: I mean he's he's a guy that you can count

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Speaker 3: going to call that an opposite field homer for parades

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Speaker 3: that that was the furthest away from the left field.

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Speaker 4: And that one, yeah.

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Speaker 3: And it was like, you know, right at the home

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Speaker 3: hit a home run, which rules.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big blow. Like you said, I mean,

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Speaker 2: he's he's definitely right now. He's got to be in

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Speaker 2: a machine right now getting his MRI. So who knows

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Speaker 2: Lord Willing when they're going to tell anybody what's going on.

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Speaker 2: But you hope it's something minor. Even with the hamstring,

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Speaker 2: I mean, if it's something mild, you give him a

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Speaker 2: I went with you, guys, this guy has been the

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Speaker 2: solid point in their lineup. He's been the most consistent

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Speaker 2: This is where they're definitely going to need guys to

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Speaker 3: I will say, on the on the p and your

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Speaker 3: front while we're talking about him. Ten games end of

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Speaker 3: the season, he came in hitting one forty three five

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Speaker 3: to seventeen OPS. Jeremy Payne has been unbelievable this year.

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Speaker 1: This is not to take anything away from Jeremy Penna.

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Speaker 1: He has been wonderful. He has been everything that they

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Speaker 1: envisioned he would be in more. But if he plays

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Speaker 1: And Park, he is going to hit six hundred because

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Speaker 1: it just seems that every time he puts a ball

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Speaker 1: be a it's always a hit. He had three of

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Speaker 1: those in the White Sox series. Josh, I don't think

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Speaker 1: we've talked about this, like the official scoring in Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball has just become you know, if you touch it,

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Speaker 1: if you put the ball in play and you show

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Speaker 1: somewhat of an effort down the line, you're getting a hit.

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Speaker 1: It's really hard to make an air in the big

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's upsetting because I can think back of

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Speaker 2: But I mean that just shows like if a guy's

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Speaker 2: just never know. Man, you could be third inning and

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Speaker 2: So you just never know when it can change the

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Speaker 2: at least reward the guys that are busting their butt

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Speaker 1: On this team, there ain't many that you can say

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Speaker 1: and then look, this is not an Astros thing. This

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Speaker 1: baseball now there and a lot of teams encourage this. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: they tell guys like save yourself, save your energy, save

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Speaker 1: your legs if it's a routine ground ball. But Jeremy

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Speaker 1: Pain is one of the few on this team. Jake

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Speaker 1: every time. He puts a ball in play like every

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Speaker 1: time down the line is booking it. You'll never see

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Speaker 1: him loaf. We'll never see him take a playoff. The

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Speaker 1: only time you did, I believe it was twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three in Toronto. He slowed up on a on a

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Speaker 1: ground ball that Vladdie ended up booting. He would have

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Speaker 1: on out he learned the lesson out and he is hauled.

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Speaker 2: But that's all it takes because you look, you look,

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Speaker 2: you know, you look bad when stuff like that happens,

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Speaker 2: and you know everybody's gonna talk about it. Well, he

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Speaker 2: had just been running hard. You just never know. I

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Speaker 2: believe there's a movie reference. They call those kind of

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Speaker 2: players lollygaggers.

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Speaker 1: So like we said, don't be a lollygagger first of all.

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Speaker 1: Second of all, the White Sox and the Astros produced

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Speaker 1: really nothing to talk about for three days. So we

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Speaker 1: So, like we said, we solicited, Tyler did the great

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Speaker 1: This has not been like they're not going out there.

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Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen Astros where they rent out there every day.

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Speaker 1: And I think what's being over valued here, Like Frommer's

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Speaker 1: And look what I It is such a crapshoot when

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Speaker 3: What I'm hearing then is trade Fromber for Howie Kendrick.

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Speaker 2: It's all, like, you had the best team in baseball

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and the other thing. And we'll get off

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Speaker 1: presume that means cam Smith or Camden or Camden.

435
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,240
Speaker 3: Untouchable prospect over here as well?

436
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:50,960
Speaker 2: The young player.

437
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,440
Speaker 4: Perhaps Camden Stafford is also untouchable.

438
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 1: Outside of cam are there any young players or prospects

439
00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,280
Speaker 1: that the Astros will consider untouchable.

440
00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 3: I think it's more of a question that the Astros

441
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:07,360
Speaker 3: don't have any prospects that other teams consider touchable. There's

442
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,159
Speaker 3: not a lot of people. There's not a lot of

443
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:11,760
Speaker 3: prospects that any team is like, oh, we got to

444
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 3: have this guy. Uh So, No, there there's nobody untouchable

445
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,640
Speaker 3: for the Astros because they don't have a they don't

446
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 3: have a blue chip prospect that they're hanging everything on.

447
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:33,879
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't give away top guys for you know, rentals, right,

448
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 3: you know, they're they're not going to trade they're they're

449
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 3: top guys for nobody. But I mean, if you get

450
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,960
Speaker 3: an offer for somebody that you think can help win

451
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,119
Speaker 3: a World Series this year, everybody's on the table.

452
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:49,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

453
00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,120
Speaker 1: A lot of times, the way this works is teams.

454
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 1: And this is not in every case. This is just

455
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 1: in cases that I've heard of. How these trades work,

456
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,440
Speaker 1: a team will the two teams will agree upon like, hey,

457
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:06,679
Speaker 1: we have a framework for this, and the acquiring team

458
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,640
Speaker 1: will send the the other team a list of names,

459
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: just like, these are the guys that we would want,

460
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 1: and then the Astro well, let's say the Ashers. The

461
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,360
Speaker 1: Ashers can pick from that list, like, all right, we'll

462
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 1: send you this guy, this guy, this guy. Or it

463
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 1: could be vice versa where the Astros send I don't know.

464
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,680
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Mets when they traded for Verlander.

465
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,080
Speaker 1: They send the Mets a list of prospects and the

466
00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:32,880
Speaker 1: Mets can pick, all right, we want this guy, this guy,

467
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 1: this guy. Now, are there prospects that the Ashers aren't

468
00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:36,119
Speaker 1: going to put on that list?

469
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:36,639
Speaker 4: Sure?

470
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 1: But I mean no, they're not trading Cam Smith, and

471
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 1: I think it would have to be something pretty substantial

472
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: for them to trade Jacob Melton.

473
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 4: I think it would have.

474
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,320
Speaker 1: You know, Dana Brown fought very hard to keep Jacob

475
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 1: Melton out of the Verlander deal two years ago. Drew

476
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 1: Gilbert ended up going instead. But I think it would

477
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,400
Speaker 1: take something big for that. You know, you look at

478
00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,399
Speaker 1: some of their you know, younger guys like guys like

479
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: Chase Jawarski, Joseph Sullivan. They're gonna be guys that get

480
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,679
Speaker 1: brought up a lot in talks. I don't think that

481
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 1: they're really keen.

482
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 4: On moving them.

483
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 1: But again, it depends on the player you're getting backed,

484
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: It depends on the amount of control, It depends a lot,

485
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,840
Speaker 1: But there is no Forrest Whitley or Kyle Tucker or

486
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 1: way back when Alex Bregman. There are none of those

487
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 1: guys in this farm system where like they're just gonna

488
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,199
Speaker 1: cut off talks if those guys are brought up.

489
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:29,720
Speaker 4: I don't see anybody like that.

490
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: You mentioned Cam Smith, Like, I think that goes without

491
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: saying like they're not going to trade Cam Smith. But yeah,

492
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: this farm system does not have that sort of talent

493
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: that you can just say, we think this guy is

494
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: going to be a bona fide major league superstar, We're

495
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,439
Speaker 1: not trading him. So I think they're safe there. But

496
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 1: the untouchable aspect of it this next one, Josh, I'm

497
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: really interested to get your thoughts on this because I've

498
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 1: got a specific memory that I want to ask you about.

499
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: But then in general, Brooks on Twitter asks, with it

500
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: nearing trade season, what is the atmosphere like in the

501
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: clubhouse during that part of the season. Is it tense

502
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 1: with guys being paranoid about being moved or is it

503
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: typically business as usual? Until something happens. Josh, you have

504
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 1: been traded at the deadline. You have also been in

505
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: a clubhouse in twenty seventeen with the Astros where they

506
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: didn't make a move at the first deadline and then

507
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 1: had to go at the now defunct waiver deadline and

508
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: acquire Justin Berlander.

509
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 4: I want to.

510
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 1: Those two instances specifically, but I guess Brooks since Brooks asks,

511
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: can you discuss like the tenor of the clubhouse in

512
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: the next six weeks what it's like being in there?

513
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm going to start with the mid season

514
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,959
Speaker 2: when I've been traded in the off season completely out

515
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 2: of the blue, which is completely wild, but yeah, when

516
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 2: from my from my point of view, though, like I

517
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 2: was with the Oakland Age, so you kind of knew

518
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 2: it was coming. So like it there was no question

519
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,399
Speaker 2: about I was at that point where I was, you know,

520
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 2: coming up on my free agency. They are trying to

521
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:06,639
Speaker 2: just do what they do every time they get to

522
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 2: that point, get rid of somebody. So I think we

523
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 2: all knew in the clubhouse that my time was coming

524
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 2: to an end there, so that I think we kind

525
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 2: of just didn't really think about it and just kind

526
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 2: of just went about our business and that time right

527
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,679
Speaker 2: out and then you fast forward to the seventeen, Like,

528
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 2: you know, I think I remember plenty of us going

529
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 2: on social media, going on then formerly known as Twitter,

530
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,639
Speaker 2: and you know, expressing our but just are upset and

531
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 2: disbelief about it. And you know, I think a few

532
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 2: of us, I think Dallas myself and Lands maybe even

533
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 2: came out and said something to the media about it,

534
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 2: like you see all these teams making moves and here

535
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 2: we are not making that move. So we were kind

536
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,560
Speaker 2: of bummed. And I don't know if they took that

537
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,919
Speaker 2: into account, if Jim and Jeff took that into account

538
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 2: of getting JV or not. But you know, obviously our

539
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 2: our group chat was on fire that night sitting at

540
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 2: the house, and you know, that was kind of a

541
00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 2: wild time because that was my confirmation of a person

542
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 2: that I'm not going to name. You know, that was

543
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,239
Speaker 2: kind of my last straw with him, because as soon

544
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 2: as we acquired him, to certain somebody said, well, guys,

545
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 2: I just I'll just pack my bags and go home.

546
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 2: So that was the final straw for me on that guy.

547
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 2: And I already didn't like him, but before all that,

548
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 2: so that that made a little bit more fun. And

549
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 2: once we got it, you know, we were all fired up.

550
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 2: Everybody was just super snoked about getting this guy. Guy

551
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 2: was in the prime of his career. So that one, Yeah,

552
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 2: that one came out, came out of no where where

553
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 2: was excuse me, came out of nowhere as well. But

554
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 2: you know, when you're in the clubhouse, I think it's

555
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 2: more about just business than anything. Nobody really talked about

556
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 2: it when I played maybe here and there about hey,

557
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 2: we need a guy, like we would love to have this,

558
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 2: but see what happens. But other than that, it's it's

559
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 2: pretty much just go about your business and try to

560
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 2: win without it, and when it happens, you're obviously going

561
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 2: to be super stoked about it.

562
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,439
Speaker 1: Josh, Like you mentioned like you knew, like you're in

563
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,360
Speaker 1: the A's clubhouse, Like you knew your free agencies coming,

564
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: Like you knew you were going to get traded. Yeah,

565
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,239
Speaker 1: how how does that impact you as a player? Like

566
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: you you you're in a clubhouse with guys that ostensibly

567
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: you liked, You liked your time in Oakland, you liked

568
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: playing for Bob Melvin. I'd imagine, like, how did that

569
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: affect you going out there every day knowing that, like, man,

570
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,239
Speaker 1: my time here, I'm a bar of time like like

571
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: to me, that had to be an odd dynamic to

572
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: go play every day knowing that this could be the

573
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: last time you play for them.

574
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yes and no. But I think understanding

575
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 2: the fact that I was definitely going to get traded

576
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 2: kind of made it easier to accept as opposed to

577
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 2: being on the fence about it. But yeah, I just

578
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 2: kind of enjoyed my time more, and I really just

579
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 2: focused on the home games, like, enjoy the home games,

580
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 2: enjoy the fans that have been there since day one

581
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,479
Speaker 2: that show up every night, and then just go out

582
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 2: there and still try to win. I think that's that's

583
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 2: the best way to do it. Go out there still

584
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 2: try to win and do your best, and if you don't,

585
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 2: you walk up with your head high and hopefully you

586
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 2: had yourself a good night and you know, and did

587
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 2: some kind of entertainment and just made a memory another memory,

588
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 2: and the long list of memories that I made there.

589
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 3: So do you know that in there? I didn't want

590
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 3: tell that story.

591
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 2: So yeah, right here, Cleveland, last game in Cleveland, got

592
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 2: all my guys to sign it.

593
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 3: So you you talked to Melvin before or right after

594
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 3: the game and said, Hey, can I have this this

595
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 3: lineup card? You knew it was your last game.

596
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm pretty sure I can't even if I

597
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 2: asked for it, he might have just went ahead and

598
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 2: given it to me. And but knowring me, I probably

599
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 2: asked for it after the fact that I got traded.

600
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 2: But I don't think I ever made it a point

601
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 2: about me being traded, because I think I reached out

602
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,959
Speaker 2: to them after the Dodgers trade and said, hey, can

603
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 2: I get a lineup card and made up and have

604
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 2: the guy sign it for me? And I think they

605
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: just sent it to me in the mails. So I

606
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 2: wanted to have that little momentum. My last start was

607
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 2: against Corey Klueber. That was that was fun.

608
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 4: It's tough.

609
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 2: They had that Bower and then Cluber and then was it.

610
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 2: Adam was the closer Alan Cody Allen with my final

611
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 2: aids at bat.

612
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: So I had a stressful one against again, it's Tito

613
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: against your first manager against Tito.

614
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 4: Yep, Josh.

615
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: Before we get off the deadline stuff ball players always

616
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: talk about, like I don't read I don't read the media,

617
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: I don't read it used to be. I don't read

618
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: newspapers crap exactly that you read it. I don't read

619
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: the newspapers. I don't read Twitter, like what they're all lying.

620
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: Because the two weeks leading up to the deadline, like

621
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: players start coming up to me and other reporters.

622
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 4: In the club like what are we going to do?

623
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 4: What are we going to do? Like what are we

624
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 4: going to hear? Like how much?

625
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: How much are you guys looking at MLB, whether it's

626
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: MLB trade rumors, whether it's Rosenthal passing, like whoever? The

627
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: insiders on Twitter, the insiders like what they're writing, Like,

628
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: how much are you guys paying attention? Like in take

629
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,719
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, when you guys were

630
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: going to be really active with the astros, how much

631
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: were you guys paying attention to what's being thrown out there?

632
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 4: The rumors?

633
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: And how much do you guys go and ask whether

634
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 1: it's Aj, whether it's Jeff, whether it's whatever AGM is

635
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: down there?

636
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 4: How much do you guys do that?

637
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 2: You know, from my point, I was on social media

638
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 2: all the time about it, just whether it was you know,

639
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 2: about the team, about you individually, but just keeping track

640
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 2: of all the trade deadline madness, whether it was your

641
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 2: team or not, was always fun and exciting just because

642
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 2: it gives you that extra point of baseball, just kind

643
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 2: of getting this last minute joke for the season to

644
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,479
Speaker 2: get going. So it's fun all around. And then you know,

645
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 2: I think it happens more probably away from the field

646
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 2: with the phones and stuff, as it does in there.

647
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 2: But we talked about I mean, I've always be were

648
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 2: talking about it a lot, never to the manager of

649
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 2: the GM. I felt like that was kind of overstepping

650
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 2: my boundaries with with management and all that kind of stuff.

651
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 2: But I definitely had talked about it with players, you know,

652
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Speaker 2: plenty of times. So if anybody says they don't look,

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Speaker 2: I think they're probably full of it and go home

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Speaker 2: and probably check it, whether whether they're doing it at

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Speaker 2: the field or not. They're going home and sitting on

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Speaker 2: the couch and going, let me just see what the

657
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Speaker 2: Yankees are doing today, Like I think, I think Jeff,

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Speaker 2: the Poissans and the Ken Rosenthal's account get a lot

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Speaker 2: more views during that two week stretch.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean hopefully hopefully that hopefully it's a

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Speaker 1: quick deadline this and Dana Brown's been known to be aggressive,

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Speaker 1: like when he's I mean, you've seen it in his

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Speaker 1: two years here, Like he does things very quickly, Like

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Speaker 1: when he gets a deal, he likes like it's done.

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Speaker 1: Like they got Yusai Kakuchi like three days before the

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Speaker 1: deadline a couple of years ago. So who knows, maybe

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Speaker 1: it'll be a quick one this year and there won't

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Speaker 1: be that stress. But I just remember. One of the

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Speaker 1: weirdest instances for me is when the Ashers acquired Trey

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Speaker 1: Man scene in the twenty twenty two So that broke

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Speaker 1: while we while the clubhouse was open, the Asher's clubhouse

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Speaker 1: was open, and I just remember, like I'm texting people

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Speaker 1: to get it confirmed.

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Speaker 4: I'm literally like.

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Speaker 1: Outside in the hallway of the clubhouse like texting people,

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Speaker 1: and like there are I won't name them, but there

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Speaker 1: are a couple guys that were on the trading fringe

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Speaker 1: that like literally come over to me and they're like,

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Speaker 1: am I in the deal?

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Speaker 4: And it's like, dude, I don't know if you're asking.

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Speaker 1: If you're asking me, then you're probably not because I

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Speaker 1: assume they would have told you by now. But no,

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Speaker 1: that was a chase me chase wasn't.

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Speaker 2: This that grinky trade during the day in Cleveland? Right,

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Speaker 2: y'are there?

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Speaker 1: It was in Cleveland, but the clubhouse wasn't open yet.

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Speaker 2: We were there, the players were there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that I can tell you exactly where I was

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Speaker 1: when that trade broke. That I was in the press

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Speaker 1: box that Progressive Field when that trade broke. We were

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Speaker 1: watching it was me and Brian McTaggart. At the time

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Speaker 1: we're watching AJ Hinch was having a conversation with Max

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Speaker 1: Stassy in the dugout. Stassy had just gotten traded to

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Speaker 1: I believe, the Angels, and we were watching like AJ

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Speaker 1: and Max Stassy like have their final like goodbye, like

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Speaker 1: through the through binoculars, Like, well, no, because that it

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Speaker 1: had been announced, like but Aj was basically just like,

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Speaker 1: you know, great of a communicator, AJ is, AJ was,

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Speaker 1: you know, telling him, giving him the last parting words

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Speaker 1: wise words. And we were just watching that through our

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Speaker 1: binoculars because we're in the press box. And then the

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Speaker 1: Grinky trade drops and we're all just like, are you serious?

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Speaker 1: And then the clubhouse opened like fifteen minutes later, and

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Speaker 1: Garrett Cole was about as giddy as I've ever seen anyone.

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Speaker 1: He's like he's inviting us all to his locker, wants

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Speaker 1: to tell us all these Zach Grinky stories.

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Speaker 4: It was a that was quite a day, quite a

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Speaker 4: day for everyone. And I think we were actually.

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Speaker 3: Got binoculars with you. Do you travel with them?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Tyler nerd binoculars are front of every nerd

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Speaker 2: in the box every day. Oh yeah, there's even like

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Speaker 2: like I was, I found myself when I was doing

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Speaker 2: radio barring binoculars just to look around and just to

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Speaker 2: kill time. So everybody has binoculars.

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Speaker 1: When when Jake Myers went face first into the wall

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Speaker 1: last night, like I had my binoculars on him like minutes.

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Speaker 1: I thought he was dead. I thought he was Thank

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Speaker 1: god he got up all right. We've talked a ton

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Speaker 1: about the deadline, so we have a couple of other

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Speaker 1: questions that are non deadline related. We'll get to those

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Speaker 3: All right. We also got an email from Jason Martin.

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Speaker 3: He said, love the pod, keep it up, Dirty Bay,

751
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 3: representing that's that one's for me. Shout out yeah, shout

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Speaker 3: out Garth Road, Ricky's thick and juicy Burgers. We go

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Speaker 3: all on Baytown references. But he says, how much longer

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Speaker 3: do you think Rogers has on this team? If things

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Speaker 3: don't change at this point, would it makes sense to

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Speaker 3: give Bryce Matthews a shot at his roster spot. I mean, one,

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Speaker 3: that's a question about Rogers. But obviously with parades being hurt,

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Speaker 3: that's that's another question, Chandler. What do you got on that?

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Speaker 2: All? Right?

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Speaker 1: Today is June thirteenth. Since May thirteenth, Brendon Rodgers has

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Speaker 1: taken twenty eight plate appearances for the Astros. He's not

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Speaker 1: playing like this, everyone like seems to be in an

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Speaker 1: uproar about his roster spot. Like he's not playing like

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Speaker 1: Mauricio Dubon is the regular second baseman when Josel Twovey

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Speaker 1: is in left field, and then now two is getting

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Speaker 1: a little more run at second base now that Meltain's up.

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Speaker 1: But I think Rogers's salary has a little bit to

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Speaker 1: do with it. He's making two point one million. They're

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Speaker 1: not going to just cast that aside easily. They want

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Speaker 1: to try to extract some value from him, but I

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Speaker 1: think it does. You know, Jason's right, it ties right

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Speaker 1: into Bryce Matthews. I think when they think Bryce Matthews

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Speaker 1: is ready and they want to give him a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a runway to see what he can do

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Speaker 1: at the big league level, I think that's when you

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Speaker 1: start having the conversation about Brendan Rodgers.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: Bryce Matthews has played well in Sugarland lately. He's got

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Speaker 1: a slug in four seventy one within a three ninety

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Speaker 1: three on base percentage, again in a very hitter friendly

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Speaker 1: league in the Pacific Coast League. You have to take

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Speaker 1: offensive stats in the PCL with a huge grain of salt,

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Speaker 1: but he's playing well. As we've talked about, Dana Brown

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Speaker 1: is bullish on his guys. He likes to move his

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Speaker 1: draft picks quick. Bryce Matthews was his first ever draft

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Speaker 1: picks as a GM. I would not be surprised if

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Speaker 1: Bryce Matthews is here relatively soon.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: Does Esock Paradus's injury hasten that? I don't know, because

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Speaker 1: if Esock has to miss an extended period of time,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of different things they can do. They

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Speaker 1: can move to bond to third base in a full

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Speaker 1: time role, you know, experiment with Rogers, Whitcomb and al

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Speaker 1: two ve at second. They could move Al two A

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Speaker 1: to second on a more permanent basis and then give

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Speaker 1: Melton more runway in the outfield. Do I think they're

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Speaker 1: reticent to do that. They could bring up Zach short

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Speaker 1: erlewiski Orme as kind of the veteran guy to be

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Speaker 1: the third base to cover third base a little bit.

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Speaker 4: And keep doing what they're doing at second.

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Speaker 1: Or they could just bring Bryce Matthews up, give him

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Speaker 1: some runway, see what they got. I think we need

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Speaker 1: to know a little more about Estock Paradus's injury before

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Speaker 1: we start talking about that. But I think Bryce Matthews

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Speaker 1: he's pushing, he's knocking on the door. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he's to the point where he is forcing their

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Speaker 1: hand yet, but it's gonna be a conversation that they're

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Speaker 1: going to have to have here soon, and kind of

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Speaker 1: like they're doing with Melton right now, like the injuries

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Speaker 1: to Dezenzo, McCormick and Alvarez have allowed them to give

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Speaker 1: Melton a runway, to give them a look to see

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Speaker 1: what they've got. If this Paradus injury is substantial. I

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Speaker 1: think it could be a similar situation where you know,

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Speaker 1: Dubon plays third most nights and you've got a runway

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Speaker 1: here for about two and a half three weeks. See

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Speaker 1: what Bryce Matthews can give you, and that could inform

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Speaker 1: some of your deadline stuff too. If Bryce Matthews comes

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Speaker 1: up and plays, well, maybe you don't need to be

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Speaker 1: that urgent to go find a bat at the deadline.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that solves your problem. So I think to answer

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Speaker 1: Jason's question, I'm not sure if Bryce Matthews is his

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Speaker 1: call up is imminent, but I think we need to

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Speaker 1: see what happens with Esac Paradus and go from there.

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Speaker 2: He's definitely noticeable, that's one thing. And the big picture

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Speaker 2: there is playing time. I mean, you hit the nail

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Speaker 2: on the head. I mean, if this kid's gonna come up,

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Speaker 2: he's gonna think he's gonna play. You don't want him

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Speaker 2: to come up and sit and play twice a week,

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Speaker 2: you know. I mean, this is a guy that, like

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Speaker 2: you said, could potentially be a problem solver for your lineup,

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Speaker 2: and is he ready maybe, but it's not an urgent

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Speaker 2: issue to push him right now. Because you're definitely gonna

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Speaker 2: want this kid to play like four to five times

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Speaker 2: a week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we we talked to him before the season.

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Speaker 3: So if you weren't around, then go back and listen

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Speaker 3: to our episode with Bryce Matthews. That was really fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we did it while we were snowed in in Houston,

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Speaker 1: a snow day discussion with Bryce. With Bryce Matthews, it's

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Speaker 1: a good time. He's a great kid, great guy. Worked

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Speaker 1: his tail off, you know, he's had He was a

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Speaker 1: shortstop in college, so they've had to work with him

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00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: a little bit defensive. They think he can handle second base. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: there's no problems there. It's the bat that I think

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Speaker 1: really needs to come around. And like we said, he's

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Speaker 1: hit very well on tripa A the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: But do you again, with PCL sample sizes, you have

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Speaker 1: to take them with a grain of salt given the

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Speaker 1: pitching in that league and given the altitude that they

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Speaker 1: play at and the bandboxes that are at that minor

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Speaker 1: league affiliate. So take that all into consideration. So next

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Speaker 1: question is for Josh. It's from David Berkowitz on Twitter

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Speaker 1: after reading the athletics story on organizations and managers held

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Speaker 1: in high esteem by players. I'm wondering which manager Josh

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Speaker 1: most liked to play for during his career and why

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Speaker 1: he can include someone he played for in the minor

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Speaker 1: leagues as well, Josh. Before we answer the athletic stories mentioning,

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Speaker 1: we did an anonymous player poll where we surveyed about

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Speaker 1: one hundred hundred and fifty players anonymously and asked what

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Speaker 1: managers they would most like to play for.

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Speaker 4: I believe the top three.

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Speaker 1: Vote getters were Bruce Bochie, Stephen Vote, and Tito Francona.

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Speaker 2: So isn't that crazy. Stephen Vote has been in the

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Speaker 2: league two years and everybody wants to play for him

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Speaker 2: because they know how awesome he is. Whoo oh Okay,

866
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 2: so you're coding miners. I mean, I think even if

867
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 2: you include miners. Most favorite was Bob Melvin. He and

868
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 2: I had a really good relationship, just really good line

869
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 2: of communication. And you know, with all the things that

870
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 2: happened with Billy Bean and the oakland A's way of playing,

871
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 2: you know, the whole I can't hit left these blah

872
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 2: blah blah. So he really had my back a lot,

873
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 2: and he was always very straightforward with me about what

874
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,959
Speaker 2: was being done when it was him, when it wasn't

875
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 2: him pulling the strings, you know that that kind of thing.

876
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 2: So it was always a good connection. We always just

877
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 2: got along great, like it was always a daily interaction

878
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 2: with each other, just being able to give each other

879
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 2: crap with each other and at the same time have

880
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 2: serious conversations and lock it in. Had some great guys

881
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:24,479
Speaker 2: that I played for. I mean, I played for Terry

882
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 2: Tito Francona, you know, playing for AJ was fun. Played

883
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 2: that one season with Dusty Baker, So I've had some

884
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 2: names in my resume. You know that the Dave Roberts

885
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 2: was still young when I played with him, but love

886
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 2: playing with him as well. But all around, just it

887
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 2: has to be Bob, I think just because of the

888
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 2: consideration we spent the most time together probably so we

889
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,919
Speaker 2: definitely had more time to grow and have a better

890
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 2: relationship from that manager player standpoint.

891
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: Did you pull any pranks on Bob? I know, Bob's

892
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: a big germophobe. He doesn't like, oh my gosh, yeah,

893
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: like high fiving. He doesn't like touching, Like, do you

894
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: pull any pranks on that? I know he's a very

895
00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: OCD guy with that kind of.

896
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 2: Stuff, I didn't know. I wasn't the prankster, especially on

897
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 2: a coaching or managing staff, so I didn't prank him.

898
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 2: But yeah, you ain't lying there germ X everywhere back

899
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 2: pocket of the pants. You watch him and every time

900
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 2: the camera pants to him, he's always just rubbing that

901
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 2: stuff in. So yeah, definitely a big german for by far,

902
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 2: but always a great guy to to move around with.

903
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 2: It was always fun because doing the anthem. I'd always

904
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 2: make sure I try to stand next to him during

905
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 2: the anthem, and him and the coaching staff would always

906
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 2: try to guess how long the anthem would take on

907
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 2: a nightmare basis. So later in my athletics career I

908
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 2: got in on it. I think they actually might have.

909
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 2: You know, let me include in kind of wager a

910
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 2: little bit nothing, no no monetary value, just kind of

911
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 2: stuff that we would kind of keep up a point

912
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 2: system because no gambling in baseball. It was all a

913
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 2: points system, so whoever had the most points end of

914
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 2: the year was the winner. So it was always fun

915
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 2: to see how far off we were if we were

916
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 2: nailing it, and you know, you walk out and you

917
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 2: kind of stereotype. You just look at you a long

918
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 2: one tonight. Boys, I can tell he made a little fun,

919
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 2: made a little fun right before the game started.

920
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 3: My favorite part of the player poll was you know

921
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 3: what hitter would you least want to pitch against in

922
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 3: Game seven of the World Series. It's sixty four pitchers

923
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 3: respond The top answers are exactly you would think of Soto, Tany,

924
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 3: Judge Jordan, But then you know there were a few

925
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 3: getting one response. Josel two was in there. But my

926
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 3: favorite is one of the sixty four pitchers, said Mike Brosso,

927
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,479
Speaker 3: who has not played since twenty twenty three.

928
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 2: They all stood.

929
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 3: So that just cracked me out that he's living rent

930
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 3: free in somebody's head in twenty twenty five of I

931
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 3: still don't want to face this guy in the playoffs.

932
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to protect identities here, but like I had

933
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,399
Speaker 1: to do this, I had to go around the clubhouses

934
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: and ask players these questions anonymously, and a lot of times,

935
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: like players will say like their biggest nemesis because you're asking,

936
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: like you're not asking like holistically, like oh like one.

937
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: So like if you're asking a picture, like who do

938
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: you least want to face with Game seven of the

939
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: World Series on the line. The picture is gonna say, well,

940
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: this guy that destroys me, this guy that like just

941
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: hits me every time, like I have no recourse to

942
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 1: get him out. So that that that's probably where the

943
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: Mike Broso one came from. That's probably why there's such

944
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: a wide array of answers is just because these pictures

945
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: and these and the hitters just the same, the hitters,

946
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,760
Speaker 1: all hitters all have that picture that they just couldn't solve.

947
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 2: Let me, let me, let me kind of know. There

948
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 2: was not one mention of like, well, I guess is

949
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 2: it current players or like all time players?

950
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 4: No, it's current, It's correct.

951
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 2: Okay, because it's all the time players like I'm going

952
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 2: with like Poppy or something like the man was the

953
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 2: King of Clutch in the playoffs, So okay, good current players,

954
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: it's current.

955
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was Mike Brosso excluded.

956
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Oh my gosh, Randy Roserena in the playoffs.

957
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 2: Is Barry Bonds.

958
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 3: Really happen in twenty twenty.

959
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 2: I'm going again going to the player who got destroyed

960
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:02,760
Speaker 2: by a rose arena.

961
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll do one more and then get

962
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: out of here. It's kind of a more broad ranging

963
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: like philosophical question to get us out on Robin Cyprus

964
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: on X wants to know, given the overall lack of

965
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: top notch astros minor league talent, will should must Jim

966
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: Crane changed his mo regarding long term contracts for younger players,

967
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: and he cites Cam Smith and Hunter Brown or potential

968
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: top tier free agents to remain highly competitive. As we've

969
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: talked about on this program numerous times, the window to

970
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: extend Hunter Brown has long gone. He's hired Scott Boris.

971
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: He is one of the best pitchers in baseball. He

972
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: will not be signing an extension unless you completely give

973
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 1: him an offer he can't refuse, which I guess is

974
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: the point of this whole conversation is when will the

975
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 1: astros or will they ever give a player the sort

976
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 1: of offer they can't refuse. I firmly am in the

977
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: camp of I'll believe it when I see it. I

978
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: think Jim, I think Jim and the most Jim is

979
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: a successful business man, and I think a lot of

980
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 1: this country's most successful business people look at how they've

981
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: done things, and if they've done things one way, and

982
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,160
Speaker 1: they've worked and they've reaped the rewards of them. Like,

983
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to just rush to change.

984
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: I don't envision that happening. I don't envision Jim Crane

985
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: making some complete philosophical shift to start giving out two

986
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: hundred and three hundred million dollar contracts anytime soon.

987
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:43,760
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean part of that is the Astros player

988
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 3: development has been so good for so long that you

989
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 3: think you can just kind of keep rolling the dice.

990
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 3: They've lost a lot of brain power in the front

991
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 3: office and in the player development field in the last

992
00:46:55,360 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 3: few years, and so you know you can't lie on that,

993
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,880
Speaker 3: I think, as as heavily as you have in the past.

994
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 3: But I mean, just to give you an exam I

995
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 3: mean Jackson Merrill, who you know is very very good

996
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 3: for the padres, just to give you an idea of

997
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 3: like when people think, oh, extend this guy or whatever,

998
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 3: Like Jackson Merrill signed one hundred and thirty five million

999
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 3: dollar contract. You know what, what was it like a

1000
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 3: month into his big leag career. So I mean I'm

1001
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:38,240
Speaker 3: not exaggerating when I say, like even extending Cam Smith

1002
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 3: would would be eight nine years, yes, ninety million, one

1003
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 3: hundred million plus like it's it's not like.

1004
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 4: A lot more than a lot more than one hundred million.

1005
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean, well he's not quite at the

1006
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 3: same level of prospect status is Merril. That's that's the

1007
00:47:54,960 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 3: only reason I say that. But it's not like John

1008
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 3: Singleton ten years ago, where you can sign a guy

1009
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 3: and it's two million bucks a year for him to

1010
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 3: come up. Like they it costs a lot of money

1011
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,280
Speaker 3: and obviously there's risk involved in that, and d Crane

1012
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 3: has just not shown that he's willing to do that

1013
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 3: until they've proven it at the big league level. But

1014
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 3: the problem is is now players know, like once you

1015
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 3: proved at the big league level, you're you're not signing

1016
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 3: an extension. Like the only way to sign these extensions

1017
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 3: is right when they come up, or even before. I

1018
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 3: mean I saw somebody the other day saying, like, you know,

1019
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 3: why don't they extend pain yet, Like, well, Paya would

1020
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 3: be stupid to sign an extension, Like that's.

1021
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 4: Just like just like Hanter Brown would be stupid to

1022
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 4: sign an extension.

1023
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 3: And I mean it's not like a negative on their part.

1024
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 3: It's not like they're saying I don't want to play

1025
00:48:56,080 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 3: in Houston. It's It makes no sense to hold yourself

1026
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 3: to one bid from one team when you know that

1027
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,359
Speaker 3: you're going to get thirty teams bidding on you. When

1028
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:09,760
Speaker 3: you hit free agency.

1029
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 2: You can continue to drive other teams up by the

1030
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 2: other team bidding on me exactly they I can keep

1031
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 2: raising my own price.

1032
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,280
Speaker 1: The only way it's not stupid is if you get

1033
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: a sort of offer that it's like it would be

1034
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: stupid to turn this down, and the Ashers aren't going

1035
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 1: to make that offer.

1036
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's and I mean we're.

1037
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: Talking about it as if it's a bad thing, Like

1038
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: you do have to give some credit here, Like it's worked.

1039
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: Like they're on they're on their way to their ninth

1040
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: consecutive playoff appearance. Like it's not as if this has

1041
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: been the thing that has crumbled them. They've had a

1042
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 1: couple I mean, the jose A Brady signing was bad,

1043
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: but it was three years, Like it didn't completely cripple them.

1044
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 4: Like they this has worked for them now.

1045
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 1: I think where Tyler hit the nail on the head

1046
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: is like the player development and the drafting and those

1047
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: things are going to hap to maybe accelerate a little bit.

1048
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: Like one of the reasons Dana Brown is here is

1049
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:09,399
Speaker 1: because he made his name as an amateur evaluator who

1050
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 1: hit a lot of good draft picks in his past.

1051
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 2: And it's harder, you remember, it's harder now to draft

1052
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 2: with this team because they were so used to drafting

1053
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 2: early for so many years they had great guys turnout.

1054
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 2: It's not you know, for those listening, let's not forget

1055
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 2: how easy drafting the number one and number two overall

1056
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 2: can be for a team that needs to draft, you know,

1057
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 2: later in the first round now because of like you said,

1058
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 2: nine playoff appearances.

1059
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 1: I mean, you say it was easy to pick first

1060
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: or second overall. It's just the same team that had

1061
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: Mark a Pell and Brady Aikins.

1062
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 2: So you take the hey, they've had better luck with

1063
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 2: their first round picks than they've had least success. So

1064
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 2: you just kind of push MARKO Pell under the you know,

1065
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 2: under the rug and and move on from there because

1066
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 2: they're drafting in the last ten years has been fantastic.

1067
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean I don't want to get Josh

1068
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: riled up, but for everyone that.

1069
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 4: Does say that, you know, the Ashers escaped.

1070
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 1: Punishment from the sign stealing scandal, like losing a first

1071
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 1: and a second round pick in the and for two

1072
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: years that that's tough, and especially when in one of

1073
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: the they couldn't have foreseen this. But in one of

1074
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 1: those drafts because of COVID, it got shortened five rounds

1075
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: and you didn't have the first two picks.

1076
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 4: You didn't have first two picks in a five round draft.

1077
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: So I mean that is not helped matters. But this

1078
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,439
Speaker 1: is also a team that has thrived and finding mid

1079
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 1: to late round picks and turning them into a above

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Speaker 1: replacement level players.

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Speaker 2: And it doesn't fire me up because we shouldn't have

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00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 2: been punished because weren't the only ones doing it. I'm

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Speaker 2: just gonna throw that out there. Carry on, okare you go?

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Speaker 4: I put it on a platter for.

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Speaker 2: You, Andy. I'll eat it up every time too.

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Speaker 4: I know you will. I know you will.

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Speaker 1: So Carlos Correa is coming to town. We get to

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00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: see Carlos Correa with the Minnesota Twins come into town

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Speaker 1: this weekend with Byron Buxton, who God, when Byron Buckston

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00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: is healthy, and when he is on that there is

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00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: not a funner, more fun player to watch.

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Speaker 2: He is, he stays healthy, he is the best, He's

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00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 2: the best player in baseball. If he stays healthy for

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Speaker 2: a full.

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Speaker 3: Season, he is. Did you see that like four hundred

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Speaker 3: and seventy foot shot the other day.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say. It's the area

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Speaker 2: he's from, forty five minutes from where I grew up.

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Speaker 2: They produced some pretty dark, good ball players down there.

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Speaker 1: There you go, and he is, I mean good for

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Speaker 1: the Twins, he has been healthy most of the year

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Speaker 1: and he has been really fun to watch. So if

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Speaker 1: Lewis is another one too for them Royce. Yeah, and man,

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Speaker 1: the Twins. You look at this, You look at this

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00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: roster and you're like, if they can put it together,

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Speaker 1: they are a danger This is a dangerous team. And

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Speaker 1: they've been playing very well, you know since the Ashers

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00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 1: really went up there the first road trip of the year,

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00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:44,800
Speaker 1: they were they look like crap, and then they really

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Speaker 1: reeled off.

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Speaker 4: They had a great May.

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Speaker 2: It's cold, cold in April, man.

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Speaker 4: You gotta get started. But yeah, a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of the most nervous about is Astros killer Ty

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00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 3: France coming. I had six hundred against.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So it should be a fun series. Fun series.

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Speaker 1: Get to see Carlos Carrea again, get to see a

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Speaker 1: healthy Buyron Bucks and Joe Ryan's gonna pitch on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Who's been really really good for the Twins. But the

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Speaker 1: Ashers have really had Joe Ryan's number his whole career,

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Speaker 1: so maybe that changes there, but we'll see this weekend.

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00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: It'll be the last, you know, real competent team the

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Speaker 1: Ashers play for a while, because after that they go

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Speaker 1: on the road and play the A's in the Angels.

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Speaker 1: So should be three compelling games this weekend at Dike

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Speaker 1: and Park. We'll talk about them on Sunday when the

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Speaker 1: series is over. As always, please give us a like

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Speaker 1: Thanks as always, guys for listening, for the support, and

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Speaker 1: for the comments that I keep getting every time I

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Speaker 1: go to the ballpark from fans that love listening. We

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Speaker 1: us along. So thank you and we'll be back soon.

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Speaker 4: Talk to you later. Bye.

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Speaker 2: Take care,