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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 Channeler Room, joined by Josh Reddick and Tyler Stafford,

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Speaker 1: two guys who I definitely just saw three hours ago.

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Speaker 1: Josh and I were actually, you know, doing an honest

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Speaker 1: day's work, making a living and really grinding all day

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Speaker 1: at Dyke And Park to to bring Astro's fans the

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Speaker 1: content that they deserve. Tyler, what were you.

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Speaker 2: Doing there the same? I did bring my almost five

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Speaker 2: year old She'll let you know she has one more

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Speaker 2: sleep until her birthday, which is tomorrow, but took my oldest.

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Speaker 2: We went to went to the park. It was our

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Speaker 2: first game this year. Used the Buddies Club tickets, highly

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Speaker 2: recommended to anyone who is not Chandler and Josh you know,

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Speaker 2: who can just walk in whenever they want. But Buddy's

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Speaker 2: Club is awesome. I did want to play a game

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Speaker 2: of uh, what do you think this costs? With you guys?

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Speaker 2: So first thing on the way to meet you guys

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Speaker 2: behind home plate, we stopped and picked up a pretzel,

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Speaker 2: pretzel and cheese sauce. What do we think that set

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Speaker 2: me back nine dollars?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say seven to fifty.

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Speaker 2: It was fourteen dollars for a pretzel and cheese sauce.

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Speaker 2: Then later we got, you know, little tiny cup of

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Speaker 2: ice cream and an Astro's helmet. What do we think

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Speaker 2: that was?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I was gonna say twelve dollars.

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Speaker 2: It was eleven, So good on that. Then we went

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Speaker 2: to the team store and we got this unicorn that

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Speaker 2: has an Astro's logo on the side, little little stuffy

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Speaker 2: What do we think that cost?

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Speaker 3: Forty?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go thirty.

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Speaker 2: It was thirty dollars. Way to go. Chance you so

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Speaker 2: yes that that gives you an idea of what uh

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Speaker 2: what a day at the park cost. Luckily, the Buddies.

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Speaker 3: Ice cream ice screams like what fifteen bucks?

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Speaker 2: It was? Yeah, if you got like a real one.

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Speaker 2: I got like a little mini cup and it was.

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Speaker 2: And then we got McDonald's on the way home so

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Speaker 2: that I could pay my mortgage this month. But we

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Speaker 2: jumped seat day game was great. Our seats were up

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Speaker 2: in like the four hundred somewhere. We never made it

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Speaker 2: up there. I just kept looking for giant rows of

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Speaker 2: seats that were empty. We sat in like the one

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Speaker 2: thirties for a bit, walked around, sat in the outfields

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Speaker 2: over by the bullpen for a bit, and then ended

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Speaker 2: up down the right field line. I can tell you

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Speaker 2: from her point of view, I know we talked about

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Speaker 2: baseball a lot as actually what's on the field, which

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Speaker 2: is fun. Far and away, the biggest hit is Orbit.

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Speaker 2: I'm I mean she tracks him like a spy. I

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Speaker 2: mean she is on it. Anytime Orbit pops out anywhere,

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Speaker 2: she's yelling and screaming that Orbit's over there. She loves

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Speaker 2: the big screens, so she was very upset when we

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Speaker 2: were sitting on the outfield side and she couldn't see

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Speaker 2: the big screen. That's why we had to move. And

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Speaker 2: then the entire game she asked me when was the

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Speaker 2: train gonna move? And I kept saying, well, if they

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Speaker 2: hit a home run, it'll go. And as soon as

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Speaker 2: soon as there was a home run, she giggled like

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Speaker 2: nothing I've ever seen. I mean, she was just a psycho,

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Speaker 2: just yelling that the train was moving and that there

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Speaker 2: were fireworks. So those are the highlights for us watching

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Speaker 2: it together in the sands. But a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Always fun to be.

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Speaker 3: At the park.

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Speaker 1: I was about to say I didn't remember that the

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Speaker 1: Ashers hit a home run day, and then those Zach

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Speaker 1: Desenzo hit one to them.

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Speaker 2: They sure did. I can I can confirm that they

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Speaker 2: hit a home run because that was the highlight of

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Speaker 2: our day. She liked the lights going off when Josh

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Speaker 2: Hader came in, A big fan of that.

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Speaker 3: The sounds like she's ready.

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Speaker 2: She loved it. She kept saying, the Astros one, the

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Speaker 2: Astros one, So a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Did you did you introduce her to the other cam

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Speaker 1: in her life?

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Speaker 2: Oh? So? I did keep pointing out she really wanted

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Speaker 2: ice cream in like the second inning, and I was like,

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Speaker 2: I got to see Cam Smith hit. We're right here,

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Speaker 2: that's that's my favorite player. So she gets She kept

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Speaker 2: saying number eleven is daddy's favorite player, which was nice.

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Speaker 2: And then when we sat in the outfield, he was

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Speaker 2: And then he threw the ball after warmups to somebody

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Speaker 2: that boy, So good good response for camp Smith from

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Speaker 2: my daughter. But yeah, it was it was really good,

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Speaker 2: a lot of fun. She did notice U organically without

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Speaker 2: me pointing out that jose two Bay is short. She

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Speaker 2: pointed that out. I said, oh yeah, look there's Josee

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Speaker 2: two Bay's batting shoes. He's short, Yeah he is. He's

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Speaker 2: really good. Though.

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Speaker 1: When you're when you're five year old is saying daddy,

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Speaker 1: I like that. Boy. That's uh, that means that means

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Speaker 1: that your life is over.

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Speaker 3: I mean that raises a red flag real quick.

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Speaker 2: We're we're one sleep away from five, so I think

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Speaker 2: we got a little time on that.

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Speaker 1: Before we get into So since we're talking about cam Smid,

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Speaker 1: how about that at bat he took against the least Severino.

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Speaker 2: I know it, man, I know he ripped it.

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Speaker 1: I mean seven sever Reno, Josh, as we talked about

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Speaker 1: at the park, you faced sever Reno a good bit

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Speaker 1: and I'll let you talk about that. But uh, several

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Speaker 1: Reno was he was empty in the tank. It was

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Speaker 1: ninety nine. It was ninety nine at the top of

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Speaker 1: the zone.

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Speaker 3: You got one hundred on him too. I believe I

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Speaker 3: think he dropped a hundred on our sinker on him

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Speaker 3: that he fell straight back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was that was as look cam

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Speaker 1: has looked very good the last couple of weeks. I

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Speaker 1: that at bat again, result notwithstanding he made the third

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Speaker 1: out of the inning, ripped the ball into the right

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Speaker 1: a professional at bat. That was really eye opening to

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Speaker 1: see him battle a Weis Severino like that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he fell behind early too, so the fact

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Speaker 4: that he fell off I think one or two o

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Speaker 4: two pitches too as well before he spit on what

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Speaker 4: three sliders in the dirt after battling back and just

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Speaker 4: a battle that for that long is exhausting, and you know,

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Speaker 4: a great at beat in itself, but to still find

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Speaker 5: He did that.

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Speaker 4: That was definitely his by far, his best at bat

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Luis Severino pitched very well today. The guy he

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Speaker 1: opposed pitched a little bit better. Lance mccullor's junior comes

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Speaker 1: out today, and on a day that began with the

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Speaker 1: inevitable news that Renald Blanc is going to undergo Tommy

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Speaker 1: John surgery and missed the rest of this year in

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Speaker 1: most next, Lance mccullors did what this rotation needs him

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Speaker 1: to do going forward. He threw six innings, struck out,

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Speaker 1: matched his career high with twelve strikeouts only one walk,

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Speaker 1: had a couple innings that got away from the pitch

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Speaker 1: efficiency wise, But Josh, this was This was as vintage

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Speaker 1: mccolors as I think we have seen, certainly in the

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Speaker 1: five starts since he's been back. But if they get

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Speaker 1: this every five or six days and then they'll be

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Speaker 1: very content with what they see from him.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 4: I talked about it on the pre and post today

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Speaker 4: about how this was a perfect start for a guy

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Speaker 4: like Lance to follow up Hunter Brown. I mean kind

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Speaker 4: of been climbing in the right direction since he got

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Speaker 4: back minus one start against Cincinnati. But who better to

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Speaker 4: faced him at all. I mean, I think they had

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Speaker 4: six total of bats before today's lineup even got posted,

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Speaker 4: So just to have the inexperience of those guys going,

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Speaker 4: oh man, this is a fastball heavy league, and you

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Speaker 4: know they knew they were getting a lot of sliders

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Speaker 4: and that's when the sinker came into play. But I

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Speaker 4: thought this was a perfect cop Booe start for Lance

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Speaker 3: Prove to himself again that hey, I'm still the Lance

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Speaker 3: I know I can be.

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Speaker 4: And the high punch outs are definite signed that he's

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Speaker 4: moving in the right direction.

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Speaker 2: Two big things for me stood out.

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Speaker 2: One walk. I mean, yeah, he looked. He looked really

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Speaker 2: really good. His curveball velocity was up two miles an

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Speaker 2: hour over his year average. Was thrown it a lot harder.

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Speaker 2: He had fourteen swings on the knuckle curve and ten whiffs,

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Speaker 2: so just vintage mccolors, and it's it's it's always been

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Speaker 2: my favorite pitch because it's one of those that he

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Speaker 2: throws one knuckle curve, but it's really like fifteen of them.

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Speaker 2: They all break differently. He's got one that is like

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Speaker 2: twelve to six. He's got one that's basically a slider

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Speaker 2: that'll you know, he can kind of throw it in

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Speaker 2: so many different ways, and he was throwing it wherever

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Speaker 2: out there. Great to see from him and to throw

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Speaker 2: one hundred and two pitches too.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I was nerve wracking in the box when he.

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Speaker 1: Was one hundred.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I was a little surprised. Uh,

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Speaker 1: And look they had it was pretty clear he was

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Speaker 1: gonna go batter to batter in the sixth inning. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Joe had a reliever up like the minute that inning started.

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Speaker 1: So if anybody got on base and that inning, Lance

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Speaker 1: was gonna come out. But those were some long at bats.

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Speaker 1: I believe it was a sixteen or seventeen pitch sixth inning.

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Speaker 1: And it's not like Joe was gonna send him out

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Speaker 1: there to finish that inning. And if a guy got

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Speaker 1: on obviously I was gonna ruin it. But but he

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Speaker 1: as long as he was getting people out, he wasn't

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Speaker 1: coming out.

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Speaker 2: Of that game.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Lance, I think we can confidently say

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Speaker 1: now that the kid gloves are off that I think, look,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to monitor him. They're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: maybe check on him, maybe more than they check on

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Speaker 1: Valdez or Brown or more entrench members of the rotation.

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Speaker 1: But at this point, given where they are with their

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Speaker 1: rotation depth, given where they are kind of in the season,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is Lance's sixth start, back like he

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Speaker 1: is the kid. Gloves are off. He is a traditional starter.

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Speaker 1: There's no pitch count, there's no worrying about these high

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Speaker 1: pitch counting. He's going to be treated like he's Hunter

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Speaker 1: Brown or Farmer Valdez or a normal starter in a game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he looked, He looked great. It was so good

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Speaker 2: to see him, you know, even even battle through the

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Speaker 2: tough what was the second or third that you know,

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Speaker 2: gave up some runs? Uh, you know, some interesting outfield

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Speaker 2: positioning choices on that I get there. I was, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: go for it, Josh, you're a real outfielder.

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Speaker 3: Tell it has nothing to do with being a real outfo.

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Speaker 4: You watch, you watch a game, and you know, gosh,

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Speaker 4: Lance has been on this team for what ten years now.

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Speaker 3: Why are we playing him oppo? Play everybody to the

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Speaker 4: If you beat your backside of the double, you tip

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Speaker 3: Showing that in that inning.

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Speaker 4: Whenever I think the little shift beater whatever you would

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Speaker 3: He put it right there and there was nobody.

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Speaker 4: There, and then they scored and they go and you

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Speaker 4: can kind of see Lance Goo, where are they playing?

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Speaker 3: Kind of moulthed off to himself and the camera got

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Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on, but I just don't

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Speaker 3: It just makes zero sense to me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know, expected stats and everything are

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Speaker 1: gave up three runs, which is I mean, again, not

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Speaker 1: the A's had like a one to sixteen XBA against him,

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Speaker 1: Like Brent Rooker's double that scored a run was a

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Speaker 1: and this is what they're gonna need from him going forward,

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Speaker 1: I have a theory as to why the Astros exploded

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the hitting coaches were working the first

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Speaker 1: why Astros scored sixteen runs in two games against these

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Speaker 1: Do you agree with me, Josh.

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Speaker 3: You know that that has to be the factor.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we're looking at what before today's game, we

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Speaker 4: they just figured, you know what, this is time to

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Speaker 2: I think it was that they read Twitter enough that

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Speaker 2: replies that they must be reading those and go like, oh,

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Speaker 2: So I think that's what it was, So way to go.

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Speaker 2: Keep it up, everyone, keep tweeting at Chandler all of

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Speaker 2: your opinions about the hitting coaches.

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Speaker 1: Please, and then I'm not going out on a limb

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Speaker 1: here and saying it may not have been a coincidence

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Speaker 3: Two of them.

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Speaker 4: Although, what's a crazy stat for those who didn't pay

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Speaker 4: forty four hit games forty and I don't know if

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Speaker 4: Interesting, I think I think we I think I found

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Speaker 1: And then, Josh, one of your five hit games is

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, had a five strike had five strike? No,

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Speaker 2: What'd that do to your batting average over over those

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Speaker 4: Oh mean, oh gosh, there's ten hits got count for

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna look it up for you. Well, we'll get

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Speaker 1: Speaking of that jose Al two. They left Tampa last

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Speaker 2: And I know we said it.

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Speaker 3: You called it, Jamil did.

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying too much.

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Speaker 3: Take credit, but you called it. You can say it.

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Speaker 4: It's like I'm gonna take credit for Christian Walker getting

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Speaker 1: Since I mean it, Josh, you and Tyler too. I

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Speaker 1: he looks I'm not gonna say he looks disinterested, but

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Speaker 4: Oh, I point him back to that sack fly he

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Speaker 3: I think he'd already had already.

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Speaker 4: Had hit a pull homer in an opposite field single,

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Speaker 4: had a tough at bat. I can't remember who it was,

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Speaker 3: So I think that's just something.

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Speaker 4: When he gets in trouble, he kind of pulls away

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Speaker 4: But when he's staying over that base ball and keeping

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Speaker 2: He had a classic alto a hit yesterday where he

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Speaker 2: You know, he's on his tippy toes and one hand

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Speaker 1: The one thing Al two Bay is not maybe great

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Speaker 1: to get you to break down out too they swing

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Speaker 1: per se, But in general, when you find yourself hitting

441
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Speaker 1: the ball on the ground too much, what can what

442
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Speaker 1: is the most common way for a hitter to get

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Speaker 1: out of that and lift the ball more, elevate the

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Speaker 1: ball more.

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Speaker 4: For me, I want to almost speaking from my point

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Speaker 4: of view, from my perspective as a hitter, because everybody's

447
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Speaker 4: obviously different. When I started struggling and kind of pulling

448
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Speaker 4: off and then hitting everything down, it was actually it

449
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Speaker 4: kind of doesn't make sense when I talk about when

450
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Speaker 4: I go to batting practice, I would just try to

451
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Speaker 4: hit ground balls to shortstop as hard as I could,

452
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Speaker 4: like not four hoppers, but like you know, the nice

453
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Speaker 4: little one hop that hits the dirt and takes off,

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Speaker 4: because I know right there, I'm staying short through the

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Speaker 4: baseball and then reacting in and I'm wanting to stay

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Speaker 4: short and elevate through the baseball because I'm going this

457
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Speaker 4: way and I'm having to stay up through the baseball

458
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Speaker 4: trying to hit those line drives the other way. So

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Speaker 4: that way, when I do here, I already am extended

460
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Speaker 4: and elevated through the zone to get the ball backspun

461
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Speaker 4: and as best as I can. And that seems without

462
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Speaker 4: two V. I think with him, it all points back

463
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Speaker 4: to his head being over the baseball, his eyes being

464
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Speaker 4: on the baseball. And when I played with him, when

465
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Speaker 4: he wuld start struggling, I would watch him and he

466
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Speaker 4: would always be pulling away from the baseball, and it

467
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Speaker 4: was just always something like, hey, Hosey, just keep your

468
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Speaker 4: eyes on the ball and stay over the plate. Like

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Speaker 4: when you do that, everything else works out. And you know,

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Speaker 4: it makes sense he rolls over the baseball when he's

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Speaker 4: not over it. You stay over the baseball and you

472
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Speaker 4: get the results. And what we're seeing right now, I mean,

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Speaker 4: he hit what three to two fastball up and end

474
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Speaker 4: still got to it just fine. We're seeing everything away,

475
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Speaker 4: So he's just kind of staying over the ball, so

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Speaker 4: to speak.

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Speaker 3: That's the kind of getting away from the ball.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just when he does his tongue flick more.

479
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Speaker 2: I think that's when he's in the zone. Is when

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Speaker 2: he'll swing and he does his little thing that he

481
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Speaker 2: does anytime he gets a hit. When I see more

482
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Speaker 2: of those, I know he's locked in. So that's my

483
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Speaker 2: analytic approach here is more tongue flicks, I think, and

484
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Speaker 2: and that'll get him right back where he needs to be.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't. I mean, this isn't a now to ve

486
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Speaker 1: thought specifically, but it does kind of dovetail in like

487
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Speaker 1: he's he's hot. Now he's getting hot, and you see

488
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Speaker 1: this is kind of vintage Altuve. We have seen what

489
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Speaker 1: Jeremy Pania has done since he took over the leadoff spot.

490
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Speaker 1: Isak paratus is the perfect two hole hitter and has

491
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Speaker 1: been the perfect two hole hitter for basically this entire season.

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Speaker 1: They still have Jordon Alvarez that's gonna He's going to

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Speaker 1: come back at some point, I think, and we can

494
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Speaker 1: get into that a little bit, but before we get

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Speaker 1: into Jordon specifically, like if when he does come back,

496
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Speaker 1: like I think, Joe's got an interesting dilemma of how

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Speaker 1: to make how to line up this batting order, because

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Speaker 1: I don't think you want to mess with the top

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Speaker 1: three and then you know, do you want to do you?

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Speaker 1: Do you want to go that far without having a

501
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Speaker 1: left handed like do you? To me, it does seem

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Speaker 1: obviously jord On your cleanup hitter. But maybe I'm just

503
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Speaker 1: maybe I'm overthinking it. But you know, they don't have

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Speaker 1: any other left handers that they're gonna every day, So

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Speaker 1: I didn't know if they wanted maybe somebody a little

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Speaker 1: bit further up. But I don't think you can mess

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Speaker 1: right now with the top three and how they're going.

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Speaker 4: No with the top three is swinging it the way

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Speaker 4: they are, and even to extend that, like the seven,

510
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Speaker 4: eight nine hole hitters on this team have been, you know,

511
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Speaker 4: probably the best in all the league at hitting.

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Speaker 3: The baseball and getting on base.

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Speaker 4: But we saw these last six games from those guys,

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Speaker 4: and you think about adding that to the front three,

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Speaker 4: and then you're throwing Yordan around there, that's just.

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Speaker 3: That many more runs to get driven in.

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Speaker 4: But you can't mess with this. This is a this

518
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Speaker 4: is a formula that's been carrying you this whole month

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Speaker 4: of May. I mean, this team's hitting two eighty in

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Speaker 4: the month of May, which leads the big leagues, and

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Speaker 4: they're doing all this craziness without your don so to

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Speaker 4: throw him in there and try to shuffle that. I

523
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Speaker 4: think that would be I don't want to say horrible,

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Speaker 4: but kind of a miss misuse in the breaking up

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Speaker 4: and then keeping a hot streak Elaste you throw him

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Speaker 4: in four. Christian Walker does great in the five hole.

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Speaker 4: You just bump everybody back a little bit. You know,

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Speaker 4: you can still balance your Victor Krottini and you know

529
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Speaker 4: jiner Ds splits to kind of figure out that out.

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Speaker 4: But I just think it makes the lineup that much

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Speaker 4: better when you can kind of push those guys back.

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Speaker 4: You know, it makes your seven eight nine stronger. The

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Speaker 4: cam Smiths, you know, the Marisio du Bonds when he's

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Speaker 4: in there, and it.

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Speaker 3: Also just you know, just gives him a little bit

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Speaker 3: more protection as well.

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Speaker 2: When do you think the last time a team had

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Speaker 2: three different first basemen in a game? Was that the

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Speaker 2: Astras did today?

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Speaker 3: Probably not as far. It's probably not as far as

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Speaker 3: you might think.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, it may be the Astros last year when after

543
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Speaker 1: they got rid of a bray you and it was

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Speaker 1: you know, John Singleton, some days it was Dubond, some

545
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Speaker 1: days it was and that Joe had to make a

546
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Speaker 1: ton of in game stuff with those guys, because you know,

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Speaker 1: once a break you got got got like they did

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Speaker 1: the guys they were putting at first base for guys

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Speaker 1: that you could and they wanted to pinch hit for

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Speaker 1: late in games. So honestly, it probably was last year.

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Speaker 2: You Proberber Quarantini coming in in like the eighth or

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Speaker 2: ninth inning a lot last year.

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Speaker 4: So because it doesn't the zinto place first two right,

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Speaker 4: so there could have been we could have had four

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Speaker 4: could have.

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Speaker 1: That was because Christian Walker got hit with the ninety

557
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Speaker 1: six mile an hour fastball in his right hand today.

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Speaker 1: Walker talked to us after the game. X rays were negative,

559
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Speaker 1: said it did not feel great gripping a bat, so

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Speaker 1: they pulled him. I would be pretty surprised if he

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Speaker 1: plays tomorrow, but it sounds like they're gonna avoid an

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Speaker 1: il stint. But you could seize Actor Zenzo at first

563
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Speaker 1: base in the Raise series at some point. Whether you

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Speaker 1: will see Jordon Alvarez is apparently up to Jordon Alvarez

565
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Speaker 1: and I have found this fascinating. I have found and Josh,

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Speaker 1: I want your perspective on this as a former player,

567
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Speaker 1: but it they have the messaging here has changed the

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Speaker 1: last couple of days, Joe spot and Dana Brown have

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Speaker 1: both basically said, when Jordon says he's ready, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: activate him, and they I think part of it is

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Speaker 1: they're tired of answering the questions. I don't blame them

572
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Speaker 1: as the person and people that are asking the questions.

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Speaker 1: We're not doing our job if we don't ask the questions.

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Speaker 1: So we understand that there's not much that can be

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Speaker 1: gleaned from this, but it's just part of the job

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Speaker 1: that we have to do. And in the absence of

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Speaker 1: your non speaking for himself, in the absence of a

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Speaker 1: medical professional telling us why this is taking so long,

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Speaker 1: we're left to ask Joe Spota and Dana Brown, who

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Speaker 1: spoiler alert, get the information from the trainer and then

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Speaker 1: tell us. So they're only repeating kind of things they've heard.

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Speaker 1: It's a it's a It seems to me it's getting

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Speaker 1: to be kind of a messed up situation where the

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Speaker 1: balls in Alvarez his court now, like they have put

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Speaker 1: it in his court to say I'm ready to be activated,

586
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Speaker 1: like activate me and Josh. Is that weird to you?

587
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Speaker 1: Is it weird to see it play out like this

588
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Speaker 1: as a former player.

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Speaker 3: It is very weird and it shows, you know, it

590
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Speaker 3: just not just Joe and Dana.

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Speaker 4: You know, the training staff at this point could be

592
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Speaker 4: tired of getting asked that question from everybody as well.

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Speaker 3: So it's kind of strange because all.

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Speaker 4: The activity this guy's doing pans out to be like, hey,

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Speaker 4: if you're hitting off the machine all day, multiple times

596
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Speaker 4: a day, like, there's no reason you can't go out

597
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Speaker 4: there and get fort vats for us and you know,

598
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Speaker 4: help us in ball games. But who knows, maybe he's

599
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 4: still feeling something, maybe he's not feeling one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: But you feel like if that was the case, we

601
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Speaker 3: would at least know something about it. So, you know, hopefully.

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Speaker 4: It's just not a repeat of the Kyle Tucker misinformation

603
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Speaker 4: from last year and there's something going on there. But

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Speaker 4: you know, we what what everybody else knows is what

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Speaker 4: we know, and all we can know is what we're told.

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Speaker 1: It's been Yeah, I mean, this is this is status

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Speaker 1: quo with injuries, but especially covering the Ashers, but this

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Speaker 1: one has become very very much more ambiguous. At least

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Speaker 1: what the Tucker won like everyone saw it, like he

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Speaker 1: fouled a he fouled a b off shin and like

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Speaker 1: we saw how terrible like this one has been. It's

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Speaker 1: been so ambiguous because it kind of came out of

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Speaker 1: nowhere and there was no like inflection point. There was

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Speaker 1: no like visceral scene of him injuring himself. And I mean,

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Speaker 1: to be honest, Josh, like, we don't know how much

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Speaker 1: hitting he's done because he's he has not hit on

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Speaker 1: the field, as far as we have been able to see,

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Speaker 1: he has not hit on the field. He's hitting the cages.

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Speaker 1: The few times we've asked if he's hit off velocity

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Speaker 1: like we've been told, he hasn't. So I think it's

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Speaker 1: only like tea work and maybe some soft toss, maybe

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Speaker 1: some like medium velocity off the machine. But it's not

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Speaker 1: as if he's hitting, you know, high velocity. And again

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Speaker 1: I've never hit professionally in my life, but I would

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Speaker 1: think that's the last test, especially if you have a

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Speaker 1: hand injury, to hit off of velocity to make sure

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Speaker 1: you can handle the impact vibrations of the bat. I

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Speaker 1: wish I could give more information more and I can't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know at this point he'll be again, like

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Speaker 1: Joe and Dana have said, he'll be back when Jordon

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Speaker 1: decides he wants to be back. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: kind of how it has to go at this point,

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Speaker 1: and it's a it's an interesting way that this is,

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Speaker 1: that this is going and it's been handled. But I

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Speaker 2: Gosh, I looked it up for you. It was at

664
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 2: the very end of the year. It was in September

665
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 2: when you had your two five hit games, so it

666
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 2: doesn't change your average drastically because it was the end

667
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 2: of the year, except you came into the game hitting

668
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 2: two sixty seven and it was September seven or September fifteenth,

669
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 2: so very end of the year. You raise your batting

670
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 2: average all the way to two seventy five in one game,

671
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 2: from two sixty seven to two seventy five, and then

672
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 2: it was the next to last game of the year

673
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 2: that you hit your other five hit games got your

674
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 2: back up above two seventy You were at two sixty

675
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 2: nine coming into the game, into the year at two

676
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 2: seventy five, So those two games themselves bumped you up

677
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 2: to two seventy five. But yeah, this was the very five.

678
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 3: Looks way better than sixty seven.

679
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 7: Mm hmm.

680
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 2: So there you go. You your two, although one of

681
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 2: them I don't think we should count it was an

682
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 2: extra nating game. I think we should take that away

683
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 2: from you. It comes with an asterisk.

684
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 3: How many five hit games you got?

685
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 2: Does like minor two?

686
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: Josh? I know the A's have had remarkable turnover in

687
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: the last ten twelve years. Is there anyone in the

688
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: traveling party, anyone in the on the staff that you

689
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: still know when you get to catch up with any

690
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: of them?

691
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 4: These three games, zero players, all coaching coaching staff, trainer,

692
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 4: and traveling secretary Mickey Morbido, who's a legend in the Oakland.

693
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 4: I'm gonna call them the Oakland A's because they are

694
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 4: the Oakland Athletics organization.

695
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 3: Just obviously.

696
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 4: Mark Cottsee was a coach bench coach when I was

697
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 4: at the end of my tenure there, the hitting coach.

698
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 4: Actually both hitting coaches had Crony in Arizona and.

699
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 3: Then Bushy is the head guy.

700
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 4: He's been there since I think fifteen. And then the trainer,

701
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,239
Speaker 4: Brian Shulman. So those are the main actually all Mike

702
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 4: Aldretti as well. So like the whole coaching staff, one

703
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 4: trainer in the traveling set.

704
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 2: I I don't envy being a traveling secretary and your

705
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 2: team moving cities. Your entire job changes, uh in one

706
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 2: off season, where now you got to figure out how

707
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: to get people all over the place. That that can't

708
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 2: be fun.

709
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: Mickey Morribudo, the traveling secretary for the A's, he is

710
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: a fascinating, fascinating guy. It's been in baseball forever. Was

711
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: Actually he worked for the Yankees back in the eighties

712
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: during the Billy Martin days and he was I think

713
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: he was their PR guy. He was the PR guy

714
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: during like the Steinbrenner Billy Martin days of the a

715
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: So he has got some stories if you can, if

716
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: you ever sit down and talk with him. I'm a

717
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: big fan of Mark Cosse's just given the what he

718
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: has had to deal with in that situation, having that

719
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: team playing as well as it played last year, They

720
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: were playing well to start this year and then things

721
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: have really gone south for them the last couple of weeks.

722
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: But and I I've said this before on various other platforms,

723
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: but you know, Mark cost interviewed for the Asher's managerial

724
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: job after A. J. Hinch was fired, and there were

725
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: people in that process that he was the favorite of

726
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: certain people in that process. Now, the job ultimately went

727
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: to Dusty Baker. It was ultimately Jim Crane's decision. I

728
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: think we all understand the Dusty Baker was the right

729
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: guy for the job that Dusty needed. They needed Dusty's

730
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: wisdom and sage wisdom at that point to get them

731
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: through that that period.

732
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 3: But Mark in the zero f given about it too.

733
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Mark Cottsee is really really well thought of

734
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: across a lot of organizations, especially here, and has done

735
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: a really good job with the A's. And I hope,

736
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: you know, he's gotten a couple contract extensions. I hope

737
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: he's I hope his time gets rewarded while he's there,

738
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: because he's a He's a good baseball guy from everything

739
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: I've heard, and I have a lot of respect for

740
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: how he handles the A's. So there's no easy transition

741
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: to talking about Renel Blanco having Tommy John But it's

742
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: I keep getting asked like why is this happening, Like

743
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: why do the Astros have all these guys that are

744
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: getting Tommy John And I can't really come here and

745
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: say like it's this one thing. Like everyone wants to

746
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: blame spin rate, Well, that probably has something to do

747
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: with it. Everyone wants to blame the pitch clock, Well,

748
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: that probably has something to do with it too. Everyone

749
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: wants to blame you know, blocko through a ton of

750
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: winter ball. Everyone wants to play like offseason pitch, off

751
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: season throwing and playing the WBC. That probably has a

752
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: little bit to do with it too. There is you

753
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: can't You're gonna drive yourself crazy if you try to

754
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 1: come up with one holistic answer, one consistent reason. And

755
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: I don't think it's an Astro specific problem. I think

756
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: the Astros are just they're part of the epidemic. You

757
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: look at the Dodgers, you look at the Rays, you

758
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 1: look at the Guardians. All these teams that are really smart,

759
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 1: and all these teams that develop a lot of good pitching,

760
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: just like the Astros do. They all have this problem.

761
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 1: It is unnatural to throw a baseball overhand at ninety

762
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: five to ninety eight miles an hour and just it

763
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: just comes to where this happens sometimes. So I think

764
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: it's it's dumb to just try to find one reason

765
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: or to blame, like the pitching coaches or the training

766
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: staff or the training regiment or I think that's impossible.

767
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: But what we can say is like this has been

768
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:29,760
Speaker 1: an abnormally tough rash of injuries for the Astros, stretching

769
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: back to last season. When you look at Javier, when

770
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: you look at Rakidi, when you look at now with

771
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: Garcias stretching two years ago, and then this year was

772
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: Nesky and Blanco. No one was surprised today when when

773
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 1: they said Renel Blanco was gonna have Tommy John But Josh,

774
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: I think this pretty much spells it out that they're

775
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 1: gonna need to go get a starter at the deadline,

776
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: if presuming they're still in it, presuming that they are

777
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: in a position to buy, which I have no I

778
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: have no reason to believe they won't be. They serve

779
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: need another bat, they need a left handed bat, but

780
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: I think a starting pitcher is going to be very

781
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: very high on the priority list come July.

782
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, without a doubt.

783
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 4: I mean, they went from needing a left handed hitting

784
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 4: outfielder only or left handed bat in general to needing

785
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 4: a lot more pieces to get them over that next hump.

786
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 4: And that's regardless of what a guy like Lance mc

787
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 4: colors can do for them.

788
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 3: They still need to have that extra piece.

789
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 4: And you know, the one I found weird about this

790
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 4: And you always talk about like second opinions, Like second

791
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 4: opinions never result in good news after you make that announcement.

792
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 4: But you know, we didn't really see anything progress with Ronell,

793
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 4: Like it just kind of came out of nowhere. Usually

794
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 4: guys like dropping velocity, dropping a little bit of their

795
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 4: movement on their pitches, but this guy was shoving. He

796
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 4: was on the verge of, you know, getting back to

797
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 4: where he used to be, and all of a sudden,

798
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 4: we've got Tommy John on the docket. So this one

799
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 4: was kind of weird on that matter. But I totally

800
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 4: agree that there's plenty of factors that play into this.

801
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 4: Whether it be pitchclock, whether it be you know, the

802
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 4: unnatural motion, whether it be the winter ball, the blah

803
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 4: blah blah. You know, everything can compile to be a

804
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 4: reasoning for it. But yeah, I mean, these things just happen.

805
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 4: This is baseball. And you know, as diehard fans as

806
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 4: we can be, at times, we can always go, well

807
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 4: why us, why us?

808
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 3: And like you said, you look at all those other

809
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:11,760
Speaker 3: teams around the league.

810
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 4: Somebody always seem to step in, step up anyway, so

811
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 4: you just got to wait for the next person to

812
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 4: make that step. That's why they get prospects, and that's

813
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 4: why they do such a good job at the major

814
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 4: league level and at the minor league level. So these

815
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 4: guys are coming from somewhere and they're producing them right there,

816
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 4: so they just need somebody else to step it up.

817
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, And and picture arm injuries in particular are not

818
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 2: going to be something that is like team proprietary information.

819
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 2: When when someone figures out how to prevent Tommy John,

820
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 2: the whole sport of baseball will know about it instantly,

821
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 2: because that's that's not something that you like. If you've

822
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 2: got a way to figure out pitcher injuries, you're not

823
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 2: gonna hold it within your team. That is gonna be

824
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 2: something that you know, is celebrated throughout baseball when you know,

825
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 2: we we figure that out as a society, but you

826
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 2: know it, it's not like you can look at one

827
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 2: team and go like, what are you doing differently than

828
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 2: than other people. Like all of these medical staffs talk

829
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 2: to each other. They you know, they all go see

830
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 2: the same doctor each time to get Tommy John. So

831
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 2: it's not like it's insulated, right, Like, it just happens

832
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 2: that a couple of the you know, guys in the

833
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 2: starting rotation. That's the other reason that it makes it

834
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 2: look so much worse for the Astros is it wasn't

835
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of guys in the bullpen or whatever,

836
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 2: like it was the bulk of your starting rotation has

837
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 2: had to have Tommy John in the last month. And

838
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 2: so that's why it just looks more intense than if

839
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 2: you looked around the league. But I mean the truth

840
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,240
Speaker 2: is is like the Astros are not doing anything differently

841
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 2: or or are not putting in as much effort as

842
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 2: other teams. Like that's just that's just how baseball works.

843
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 2: Like it hurts to throw that hard. I would imagine

844
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 2: I think I topped out at about seventy two, so

845
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,479
Speaker 2: I can't speak to throwing that hard. But uh, yeah,

846
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 2: I mean that it just happens. It stinks to watch,

847
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean they're gonna have to go get

848
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 2: a start. They were gonna have to get a starter anyway.

849
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 2: And of course we can't even joke about Verlander because

850
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 2: he's on the I l with with a peck, so

851
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 2: we can't even start making those jokes about bringing him back.

852
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 2: So I don't know. We'll see there is one guy

853
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 2: who can hit left handed and play outfield and pitch,

854
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 2: but I'm not sure that Shoho Tani is available. Otherwise

855
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 2: it'll be a perfect fit.

856
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: Oh perfect, Yeah, I'm sure.

857
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 2: I'm sure Jim the team should try that.

858
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: I'm sure Jim would love to take on that salary too,

859
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: take that contract. It may put him over the It

860
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: may fine, it may put him over the luxury tax.

861
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 4: So I'm saying I've pitched in the show and I'm

862
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 4: a left handed hitting out there.

863
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, there we go on the top out

864
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 2: at Do you remember.

865
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 3: The seventy three? I think, but I wasn't allowed to

866
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 3: throw a hard.

867
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: So all right, take us through. Take us through that

868
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: one since since you brought it up, Please take us

869
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: through the one pitching appearance of your career. It was

870
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, were you were an astro against.

871
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 4: I was a diamondback at Dodger stadium, so you can

872
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 4: imagine how that started. So yeah, I'm not playing, obviously,

873
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 4: and we're getting we're I think we're getting boat raced

874
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 4: like nineteen oh one. And they tell me, hey, you

875
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 4: pitched before. It's like nope, but I'm going to pitch today,

876
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 4: aren't I whip? And so I sprinted down to the bullpen.

877
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 4: You know, I'm getting the bullpen warm ups, and I'm

878
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 4: getting booed caught a cheater the whole time. I'm just

879
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 4: smiling and laughing and having a good time. And you know,

880
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 4: there's two outs in the inning, so the kid's got

881
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 4: one more batteries of walking.

882
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 3: So I got to do the whole running from the bullpen.

883
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 3: You know, they're announcing me the whole stadium.

884
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 2: Boom sheeter, Oh your mic died. Come on, Josh, Not

885
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:57,800
Speaker 2: in the middle of the story.

886
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: Not in the middle of a.

887
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 2: That's massed up.

888
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go, there you go, there you go.

889
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: We got your back. That's on me.

890
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 5: So yeah, so I first here I faced.

891
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 4: I think it is Austin Barnes first pitch rocket right

892
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 4: at my second basement.

893
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 5: I think that I had.

894
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 4: One out, so he got thanks the out and then

895
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 4: the relief pitcher who was pitching, gets it, gets in

896
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 4: a bat.

897
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 5: I go front door cutter, double down the line. I did,

898
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 5: front door cutter, down the line, double.

899
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 4: Next batter is Albert Pools, and I lobbed one in

900
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 4: about sixty four chest out.

901
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 5: He's just laughing at me.

902
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 4: And I look at him and I'm like, what do

903
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 4: you want? But he says, put it right there, so

904
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 4: I literally love it up again. He hit one about

905
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 4: four to ten. I'm just like, this is cool as hell, man,

906
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 4: and the whole stadiums are erupting because it was off me.

907
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 4: And you know, I finally get out of the inning.

908
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 4: I get an out, no strikeouts, but get the out.

909
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 4: Two hour runs, home run, but a great all in

910
00:41:58,400 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 4: all the great experiences. I don't think I could have

911
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 4: ever picture of being better placed than doctor state.

912
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: You've got you've got two outs. You got a line

913
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: out from Zach McKinstry, and you got a ground out

914
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: from Austin Barnes. Yeah, those are those are two actual

915
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 1: big league hitters.

916
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 4: I get, Hey, I get up some rockets, but sometimes

917
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 4: they work in your favorite.

918
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 2: When you complete your wall of baseball cards of all

919
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 2: the guys that you hit homers off of you need

920
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 2: to have a separate section for pooholes for him hitting

921
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:25,479
Speaker 2: one off, He's just.

922
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 4: One big picture frame, had him have the picture of

923
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 4: him hitting it and me looking at it.

924
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 1: Had Poohles hit seven hundred by that point, I think

925
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: that was number.

926
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 5: Six ninety five.

927
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 2: Oh wow, career.

928
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 4: So I was like this, but this would be pretty

929
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 4: cool if like mine ends up being the one that

930
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 4: helps him to like if he ended up with like

931
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 4: seven hundred, like and I was the only I think

932
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 4: I was the first position player he'd hit one off of.

933
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 1: Too, Okay, that okay, that would make because I don't

934
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: know how would you have felt about that, Like, I mean,

935
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: that's like such a seminal, Like seven hundred home runs

936
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: is like a huge thing. Like yeah, I mean I

937
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: I I don't to me, it'd be kind of weird,

938
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: like to help get there, like hitting it off a

939
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: position player, Like I understand, like you can only face

940
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: the guy that's like in front of you. And I'm

941
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: not suggesting Albert Poohle should have like like intentionally grounded

942
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: out against you, but like it's it's got to be

943
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: kind of awkward.

944
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I faced plenty of position players man, And

945
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 4: it's it's harder to do that than to hit a

946
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 4: big league pitcher because you're just like, you're not locked in.

947
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 5: There's no like, the focus is not there.

948
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 4: You're all laughing, having a you know, having a good time,

949
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 4: but just not locked in. But I mean, I do

950
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 4: be a VP fastball and into his groove cycle and

951
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 4: he did not.

952
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 5: And the guys like that are going to miss it.

953
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: No, they're not. If it keeps going like this, Josh,

954
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: Josh Miller and Bill Murphy may be calling you soon.

955
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 3: Uh.

956
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: They've got enough lefties in the bullpen at this point,

957
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,720
Speaker 1: like they've got four. But at the rate the injuries

958
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:52,439
Speaker 1: are going, like one of them will get hurt at something.

959
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 2: He throws the right hand and pay attention.

960
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: Oh you do. Yeah, you're you're a Chas McCormick. You're

961
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: you're a Chas McCormick.

962
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 5: Do you guysually play the game for ten years figured.

963
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 2: Out stolen valor not a real lefty? It makes me

964
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 2: very upset as a true lefty.

965
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:08,479
Speaker 5: If Joey Gallow can come back as.

966
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: A pitcher, I hope he does. Man, that'd be so fun.

967
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,720
Speaker 1: I think I have faith in you and at this point.

968
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: You know, the way the rash of injuries the Ashers

969
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: are going they may have to have faith in you too.

970
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 5: Well you call me about a left hand and the outfit,

971
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 5: I don't know if they're going to dig.

972
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: Well, we just talked about like because of all these injuries,

973
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: like the priority has shifted. They've got to get they've

974
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: got to get pitching now. So the left handed bats out, like,

975
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 1: just get Jacob Melton up here at something. They'll figure

976
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: it out. The Rays are coming in to town for

977
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,760
Speaker 1: four games. They're one of the hottest teams in baseball

978
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 1: because right after the Astros left Tampa they didn't lose.

979
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: I believe they've won like eight of their last nine. Uh,

980
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: they can really pitch it. As you guys saw during

981
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: the three games in Tampa. The Ashers are going to

982
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: see most of the starters that they saw in that

983
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 1: Tampa series. The Astros are going to run out Ryan

984
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: Gusto from er Velde as Colton Gordon for the first

985
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 1: three games of that series. So you know they've got

986
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 1: a it's gonna be a much tougher task than they

987
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: just saw with the Oakland A's a team that's reeling

988
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: a lot, but you know, this is the best stretch

989
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,919
Speaker 1: at the Ashers have shown this season. They're five, They're

990
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: five over five hundred, a season high. So we'll see

991
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: if they can keep that going and if they do,

992
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: and when they do, you can always keep up with us.

993
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: You can follow Tyler on x at Tyler C. Stafford,

994
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: follow Josh at j red Dubduce. You can follow me

995
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: at Chandler Underscore Rome. Please rate and review us on Apple,

996
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: Please subscribe on YouTube so you can get alerted every

997
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: time we post a new pod, and we will be

998
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: back at some point this week to talk about everything

999
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,760
Speaker 1: else that's going on with the Ashers. Thanks as always

1000
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 1: guys for listening. Uh Josh, great work pre and posts

1001
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: with the great all around Tyler. Good job being a

1002
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 1: good dad.

1003
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1004
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: I hope you tired Olivia out to the point where

1005
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: she is you were.

1006
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 4: You were the hardest today out of anybody I know.

1007
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I I pity both of you. Honestly, I

1008
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: can't imagine bringing I can't imagine bringing kids anywhere with crowds,

1009
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: much less.

1010
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 4: Hey, I might bring my son here because it's just

1011
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:18,879
Speaker 4: me and him. I might bring him to this race

1012
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 4: series just to watch my boy Cam and Arrow came

1013
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:22,720
Speaker 4: and Arrow.

1014
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 5: And I played it Purth Australia and then that kid turned.

1015
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: Into he's a stud. He is a stud. So yeah,

1016
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: go go out watch junior Cam and Arrow, watch Hunter

1017
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: Brown Pitch on Sunday. That that's even better. I will

1018
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: tell you all about it the next time on a

1019
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: crush Sea territory. Thanks for watching, guys.

1020
00:46:38,960 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 2: Bye,