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

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Speaker 1: Territory presented by Fox One. I'm Chandler Rome, joined by

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Speaker 1: Tyler Stafford and a very special guest, Astro's former Asher's

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Speaker 1: first round pick, an Arizona Fall League standout Walker Yannick Walker.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you taking some time to talk to us today

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Speaker 1: from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. How's life in the Fall League

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Speaker 1: and how are things going?

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Speaker 2: It's going great, man, I couldn't complain in Scottsdale is

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Speaker 2: a great spot and getting to play baseball as well,

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Speaker 2: so living it up.

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Speaker 1: You know, for people that don't really know about the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Fall League and what the Fall League is it,

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Speaker 1: it is where generally teams send their their better prospects.

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Speaker 1: It's where it is probably the most pre eminent fall

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Speaker 1: league out there, where you know, the better prospects in

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Speaker 1: each system go to uh that they play games, things

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Speaker 1: like that. And Walker, what has the competition level been

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Speaker 1: like in the Fall League and what do you think

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Speaker 1: you've learned about yourself in the first you know, three

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Speaker 1: four weeks you've been in Scottsdale.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the competition is I mean it's definitely the toughest

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Speaker 2: baseball I've ever played. Everyone's really good, So you have

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Speaker 2: to come, I mean shucked up for every game? Uh sorry,

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Speaker 2: all right, okay, anyway, sorry, So yeah, I mean the

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Speaker 2: I mean the competitions. It's it's tough, man, It's really tough.

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Speaker 2: Every arm my face has been really good.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, Walker, I I've got some some pictures from

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Speaker 3: Sam Houston pulled up. I've got, you know, some pictures

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Speaker 3: in the astro system. And honestly, the thing I'm most

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Speaker 3: disappointed with is now, you know, it seemed like you had,

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Speaker 3: you know, some cool facial hair in the other ones.

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Speaker 3: What what happened?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Man, man, it just kept I kept every time

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Speaker 2: I'd eat my freaking food would get my mustache. I

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Speaker 2: had to cut it, and then I had to cut

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Speaker 2: the hair. I had long hair, and I had to

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Speaker 2: cut the hair because it's got too hot.

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Speaker 3: There you go. Okay, So I as a tyler growing up,

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Speaker 3: I teelor with Stafford. I would get Stanford or Stratford

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Speaker 3: or whatever. But I would imagine that you have had

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Speaker 3: all kinds of pronunciations of your name. What what is

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Speaker 3: the ones that come the most to you?

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Speaker 2: So there's.

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Speaker 3: Janick mm hmm.

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Speaker 2: That's the most. I get that one the most, for

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Speaker 2: everyone doesn't know it's it's yick, like what's why you

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Speaker 2: say with like a why. But the one that frustrates

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Speaker 2: me the most is when they get my last name

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Speaker 2: right but they get my first name wrong. They call

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Speaker 2: me Walter everyone. It happens everywhere I go. It happened

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Speaker 2: to me all you happened at home a couple of

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Speaker 2: times in Ashville called me Walter. All right.

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Speaker 3: It's something with the K because when I when I'm

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Speaker 3: saying your name Walker, yah Nick, So something about that

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Speaker 3: makes me want to say Walter. I understand. I understand

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Speaker 3: where it comes from. I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 3: I can't explain it, but I get it. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm with you on the the pronunciations. It can be rough,

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Speaker 3: for sure.

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Speaker 1: Walker. You mentioned Ashville. You were there at the ashers

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Speaker 1: Hya affiliate all year. We put together a very nice

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Speaker 1: season seven sixty six ops slug four thirty three. That

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Speaker 1: was your first full year in pro ball. You were

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Speaker 1: drafted in the first round in twenty twenty four, so

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Speaker 1: you got your first year of pro ball under your belt.

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Speaker 1: How much easier maybe, was it to come in this

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Speaker 1: year with without the draft hooplaw, You hadn't played college baseball,

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Speaker 1: like you got a full off season to kind of

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Speaker 1: settle in. You came into Nashville kind of what was

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Speaker 1: your first year of pro ball? Like your first full

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Speaker 1: uninterrupted season.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a lot different. I mean going from

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Speaker 2: i'd say going from spring training into like a off

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Speaker 2: season and then having spring training to prepare for the

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Speaker 2: whole season definitely made it a lot easier, like uh

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Speaker 2: like ability wise, but like the only thing that was

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Speaker 2: And I learned then I need to keep up with

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Speaker 2: all that stuff. But I mean, I mean I was.

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Speaker 2: I had fun years, a great time, good coaching staff.

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Speaker 2: I would say. The one thing I I really learned

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Speaker 2: is that I need to like come to every game

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Speaker 2: don't waste any at bets stuff like that. And on

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Speaker 2: the defensive side, I have the same kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: Just come locked in every time, doive a thing.

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Speaker 3: Can you explain to me how you stole thirty bases?

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Speaker 3: Last season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I mean I've always been able to run

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Speaker 2: a little bit, and there were times where I obviously

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Speaker 2: like if I had I mean, in college, I ran

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Speaker 2: a little bit. It was actually a big part of

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Speaker 2: what we did in college and how we how like

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Speaker 2: hard game style was in college. But once I got

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Speaker 2: the pro ball, I mean there's a lot of people that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean there's times you get to pick and choose,

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Speaker 2: definitely whenever you're gonna run. So I mean if he's

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Speaker 2: either like a slow pitcher of the plate or I

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Speaker 2: mean a catcher doesn't throw very well, or a combination

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Speaker 2: of both, I would I mean I utilized the cheat

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Speaker 2: jump a lot if a guy fell into a rhythm whatnot,

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Speaker 2: got away with that quite a bit. But yeah, I

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Speaker 2: mean it's a it's a fun part of the game

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Speaker 2: that I like to like to keep doing. As I mean,

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Speaker 2: catchers don't really steal much, but I mean it's fun

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Speaker 3: Well, plus you're on the other side stopping people from stealing,

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Speaker 3: so somebody's got to do it, so you got to

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Speaker 3: keep that part of the game alive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of that, you had one hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: in Nashville this year. Is that just like for those

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Speaker 1: of us that don't watch that league, like, are teams

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Speaker 1: running just constantly in that Is that just part of

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Speaker 1: kind of how much of an adjustment was that for you?

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Speaker 1: When I mean you average that out, you probably had

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean it's guys. I mean, at that level,

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Speaker 2: guys just kind of it feels like they just kind

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Speaker 2: were that would just run with I mean just non

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Speaker 2: lot of guys just run, Yeah, just run to run. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, exactly. So grew up in Portland, right outside

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Speaker 3: I assume you grew up an Astros fan? Is that correct?

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Speaker 2: Did yeah?

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Speaker 3: Okay, did you make it to a lot of Hooks games?

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Speaker 2: I did? Yeah, I went to quite a few. Actually, Uh,

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Speaker 2: there was a there's a little field behind the actual

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Speaker 2: I mean we went to a bunch of games growing up.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: Were there any players growing up that you saw there

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Speaker 3: and were starstruck by or we're just super excited to

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Speaker 3: you know whatever, But you know, were there any that

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Speaker 2: I remember I remember watching uh watching Bragman, I watched

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Speaker 2: most was Evan Gaddis. I watched Evan Gaddis play there,

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Speaker 2: and I don't know if he was on a rehab

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Speaker 2: like straight through one of the windows. It was crazy.

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Speaker 2: That's one thing I remember.

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Speaker 3: Right next to the Hunter Pence, like Bam bam up there,

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Speaker 3: there you go. That's cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I remember you talking on draft night just

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Speaker 1: about how it was a full circle moment for you

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Speaker 1: as an Astros fan, as a kid that grew up,

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Speaker 1: drafted you, it's got to be super cool. I wonder,

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Speaker 1: since now that you've had you know, a year and

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Speaker 1: around the coordinators, maybe how has your game elevated or

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Speaker 1: or what do you think You've you've improved upon the

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Speaker 2: I would say I've improved the most on like the

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Speaker 2: mental side of the game. Coming to pro ball. I mean,

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Speaker 2: there was a lot to learn. You gotta handle like

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Speaker 2: a pitching staff to whereas in college it's more I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you handle a pitching staff in college, but it's more

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Speaker 2: they already have all the abilities and whatnot. You just

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Speaker 2: So I would say, I mean I had a bundch

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Speaker 3: Did you what what goes into it at the you know,

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Speaker 3: in the minor league le Like, what have you noticed

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Speaker 3: from the differences of coming from college ball or whatever

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Speaker 3: as far as the preparation or knowing your pitchers, knowing

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Speaker 3: pregame prep look like for you?

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Speaker 2: It's usually I mean the first time you play a team,

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Speaker 2: it's kind of like everything's new to you. Obviously, you

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Speaker 2: play that team more and more throughout the season, and

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Speaker 2: helps you like plan for the game, especially like if

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Speaker 2: or what happened, when did he do good last time

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Speaker 2: against this picture? And then from there it's just like

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Speaker 2: knowing it's kind of the same with the same deal

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Speaker 2: with like because you're going to catch the safe picture

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Speaker 2: over and over again, uh, and then knowing your picture

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Speaker 2: strengths and their weaknesses and just kind of blending them together. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's it.

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Speaker 1: Did you call your own games at Sam Houston?

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Speaker 2: I did not know. I did, maybe like two one

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Speaker 2: or two games maybe, but no, I for the most part.

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Speaker 1: No. So now so now getting into pro ball, that's

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Speaker 1: obviously something you're gonna was that a big you know,

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Speaker 1: you're you're the one in charge of calling games, of

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Speaker 1: putting the numb I don't know if y'all use pitch

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Speaker 1: or pushing the button for what pitches coming next. How

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Speaker 2: So? I mean in college, I definitely felt like I

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Speaker 1: And I mean he's not he's not a big kid either.

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Speaker 3: Fix everything, get get better at everything. That's a that's

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Speaker 2: I kind of mentioned it earlier, but it's I mean,

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Speaker 1: It's just as easy as that Walker. This was great, man.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you. I know it's a grind down there.

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Speaker 1: I know you're in your like ninth month now of

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Speaker 1: Astra's fans are always looking for who's next, who's on

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it, and good luck the rest of the

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Speaker 2: All right, that sounds good. Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Crush City Territory presented by Fox one.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate Walker Yannick taking some time in the Fall League

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Speaker 1: to join us. Where if you couldn't tell by the

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Speaker 1: The Ashers have a lot of guys turning heads in

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Speaker 1: He's heading to Pittsburgh, where he is receiving a promotion.

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Speaker 1: Did you know where do you know where he went

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Speaker 1: promotion there. He had the title of pitching coach here

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Speaker 1: in Houston. He and Josh Miller both shared pitching coach title.

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Speaker 1: But if you watch the games, Josh Miller was the

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Speaker 1: one in the dugout next to Joe Espada. He's the

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Speaker 1: one that made the mound visits. He was kind of

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Speaker 1: on game day. He was the one that was, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of making the making the pitching moves in consultation

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Speaker 1: with the manager. Both Joe and Dusty before him, Murph

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Speaker 1: was in the bullpen. He was the bullpen pitching coach,

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Speaker 1: would get guys warmed up, would would kind of take

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Speaker 1: their temperature down there. So while in title, they were

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Speaker 1: the same, Miller and Murphy, this will be Murph's opportunity

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Speaker 1: to go to Pittsburgh and run his own staff and

448
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Speaker 1: a well deserved promotion for a guy Tyler that started

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Speaker 1: his coaching career at Brown University. He was a Brown

450
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Speaker 1: University pitching coach and I wrote a story about him

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Speaker 1: a couple of springs ago, and it was always fun

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Speaker 1: to look at. Like his last year at Brown, I

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Speaker 1: think the pitchers had like I think the pitching staff

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Speaker 1: had like a six c r A combined. Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: not always about the stats. It's about how you deliver.

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Speaker 1: It's about how you deliver analytics. It's about how you

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Speaker 1: view the game. It's about how you speak with the game.

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Speaker 1: And it's about relationships too. Murph is bilingual. He made

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Speaker 1: many trips to the dr to see fromber to see

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Speaker 1: Christian Xavier, to see Brian Abray you and the other

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Speaker 1: thing too. This was a guy that was brought up

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Speaker 1: through the organization. These guys there were a lot of

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Speaker 1: and Murph talked about this a lot. Like one of

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Speaker 1: the first people that, like Christian Javier or fromber Valdez

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Speaker 1: or Brian Abray, you or any of these guys. One

466
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Speaker 1: of the first people they met when they hit us

467
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Speaker 1: soil to go to the Astros, to go to the

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Speaker 1: Astros either Dominican Academy or when they went to the

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Speaker 1: complex in West Palm, one of the first people they

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Speaker 1: met was Bill Murphy. So was this He's had a long,

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Speaker 1: illustrious career in the Astros organization, a well deserved, a

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Speaker 1: well deserved promotion for Murph.

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Speaker 3: It's weird now being at the age where you notice

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Speaker 3: how young these coaches are, Like he's thirty five, he's

475
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Speaker 3: like two years older than us, and he's just the

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Speaker 3: pitching coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates. And then there's some

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Speaker 3: manager right that was just hired that was like thirty

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Speaker 3: three or whatever. That's weird. Also looked impressive for a

479
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Speaker 3: thirty five year old from New Jersey who went to

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Speaker 3: Rutgers to be bilingual. You know, that's I clearly recognize

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Speaker 3: the value of that if he wanted to be a

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Speaker 3: pitching coach. And you know, we've talked about that a

483
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Speaker 3: few times with you know, catchers coming up in the

484
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Speaker 3: minors and how important that that needs to be to

485
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Speaker 3: make it to the big league. So you can see

486
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Speaker 3: that being a Then you know, Brent Strom was there

487
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Speaker 3: this last year, and of course they part of ways

488
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Speaker 3: at the end of this season, but I would assume

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Speaker 3: that Strom had glowing recommendations to the Pirates organization or

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Speaker 3: Bill Murphy. So yeah, big loss. What are the Astros

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Speaker 3: gonna do? Are they going to have two pitching coaches?

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Speaker 3: Are they going to stay with? What do you think

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Speaker 3: they do?

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Speaker 1: This is simple. This is I'm gonna put this out there.

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Speaker 1: This is informed speculation. This is not I have not

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Speaker 1: heard this confirmed. I have not heard this, you know, verbatim,

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Speaker 1: like one going to happen. I would not be surprised

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Speaker 1: for the pitching jobs, if for Murph's job, that they

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Speaker 1: promote from within, because that has been something that has

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Speaker 1: worked for this team for the duration of its golden era.

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Speaker 1: Like I mean, you can we're making it full circle now.

502
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Speaker 1: When Brent Strom left. The whole reason Bill Murphy was

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Speaker 1: had the title of pitching coach was because Brent Strom

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Speaker 1: left after the twenty twenty one season, and part of

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Speaker 1: what Brent Strom said when he left was that he

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Speaker 1: knew that other teams were looking at both Josh Miller

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Speaker 1: and Bill Murphy, and Strom painted it as I want

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Speaker 1: these guys to stay here, and they deserve to stay here,

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Speaker 1: and him leaving allowed that to happen. They have it

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Speaker 1: going very well, just in the way they talk about

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Speaker 1: pitching and their pitching infrastructure throughout the system. I would

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Speaker 1: not be surprised if to replace Bill Murphy. It is

513
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Speaker 1: an internal you know, just the next guy up. And

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Speaker 1: I don't want to I mean, guys, you guys that

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Speaker 1: are really into this can go look at all the

516
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Speaker 1: who's the pitching coaches at all the affiliates. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to say one guy over the other, but certainly,

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Speaker 1: you know, Bill Murphy was the minor league pitching coordinator

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Speaker 1: before he got the Ashers, before he got to the

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Speaker 1: major league staff. Same thing with Josh Miller. He had

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Speaker 1: worked his way up, had been the pitching coach at

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Speaker 1: pretty much every level. I would not be surprised if

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Speaker 1: they follow suit here if it's a if it's an

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Speaker 1: internal kind of promotion thing. I do not think that's

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Speaker 1: going to be the case for the hitting coach vacancies

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Speaker 1: I think that is going to be at least least

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Speaker 1: one of them, if not both. They're going to be

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Speaker 1: external candidates, but for pitching for no other reason than

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Speaker 1: it's worked, Like why mess with what is working that?

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Speaker 1: You know they've got a good internal pipeline of guys.

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Speaker 1: So that's what I would imagine. That's how I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna do it. But I guess we will see.

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Speaker 3: It's a really long winded way of saying Martin Maldonado Chandler.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Qush City Territory. Persent of by Fox One.

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Speaker 1: I know I left that one hanging a little bit,

560
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Speaker 1: but but I mean, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll happen here. But Martin maldon

562
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Speaker 1: not is interested in coaching. Like that's not like that's

563
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Speaker 1: not a foreign thing. And that's something he has said,

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Speaker 1: Like he said that when he was playing here. He

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Speaker 1: said that after he you know, he left here and

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Speaker 1: retired a couple of weeks ago. You know, he he

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Speaker 1: wants to manage, he wants to coach. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's gonna be here. I think certainly he's got

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Speaker 1: people in his corner here, He's got people that I

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Speaker 1: think would like to see him back here. I don't

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Speaker 1: know that right now is the time for that. Who knows.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they want him to get a little bit more experience,

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Speaker 1: or maybe they want his first experience to be here.

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Speaker 1: Who knows. But certainly not ruling it out. I don't

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Speaker 1: think he's gonna be the pitching coach, Tyler. They do

576
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Speaker 1: have a catching coach job. Open. Let's put two and

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Speaker 1: two together there. If you're listening to this, you're gonna

578
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Speaker 1: get some breaking news. It's not out there yet. It

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Speaker 1: may be out there by the time this uploads and

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Speaker 1: by the time you get this deep into the podcast,

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Speaker 1: but there is gonna be another departure from the Astros

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Speaker 1: UH front office. And it's somebody that you that if

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Speaker 1: you if you're really into this, you know him. If

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Speaker 1: casual fan may not know, his name is Jacob Buffer.

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Speaker 4: He was the.

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Speaker 1: Astros farm director for the past two years. He is

587
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Speaker 1: leaving the team to go be the international scouting director

588
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Speaker 1: for the Saint Louis Cardinals. And a lot of people

589
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Speaker 1: would look at that and be like that. Seene SEMs

590
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Speaker 1: like an odd transition from you know, farm director, which

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Speaker 1: is overseeing all of the minor leagues, all the minor

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Speaker 1: league systems, everything to go be an international scouting director.

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Speaker 1: I will remind you or I will tell you. Jacob

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Speaker 1: Buffer is a Missouri native. He graduated from Missouri State

595
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Speaker 1: University and has done extensive work in Saint Louis. He

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Speaker 1: founded a I believe, a performance center in Saint Louis,

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Speaker 1: so this is kind of a return home for him.

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Speaker 1: So good for Jacob Buffer. But like look, farm director

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Speaker 1: is a big deal. Like that is a big deal

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Speaker 1: in a in an organization, that is a big job,

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Speaker 1: especially for an ASTROS team that I think, as we've

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Speaker 1: talked about ad nauseum here needs to improve its minor

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Speaker 1: league system, needs to develop some guys pretty quickly, needs

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Speaker 1: to get some some more aircraft carriers in here. So

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see where they go with this. You know,

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Speaker 1: obviously we know Dana Brown's background as a as a

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Speaker 1: player evaluation player development guy assistant GM Gavin Dickie is

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Speaker 1: also pretty well versed in that area as well. But

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Speaker 1: the one thing Jacob Buffo did a lot of that

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Speaker 1: I think they may look to replicate is he was

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Speaker 1: a big kind of biomechanics sports science guy. He kind

612
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Speaker 1: of orchestrated and designed the Astra's first ever kind of

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Speaker 1: sports science sports performance center and kind of ways to

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Speaker 1: do things. So maybe they look for someone of that

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Speaker 1: ilk But Tyler, again, just a look when you've got

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Speaker 1: when you've had as much I know they didn't make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs this past year, but when you've had as

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Speaker 1: much success as the Astros have had, and when you've

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Speaker 1: been a franchise that has been a model franchise for

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00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: how to do this for a while, you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: overtures and you're gonna get brain drained, and you're gonna

622
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Speaker 1: get people plucked from high positions. And this is now

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Speaker 1: six guys this offseason. Now, I think four of them

624
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Speaker 1: were the Astros owne doing. They parted ways with the

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Speaker 1: two hitting coaches with Jeremiah Randall and Michael Collins. That's

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Speaker 1: four of them, and then Andrew Ball as well, so

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Speaker 1: that's five. So five of them the Astros kind of

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Speaker 1: as asked to leave. But the two other ones in

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Speaker 1: Bill Murphy and Jacob Buffer, those are those are consequential losses,

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Speaker 1: like it's nothing to gloss at. But again, it's kind

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Speaker 1: of the uh, it's kind of the the struggles of

632
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Speaker 1: being good is you know, you see it all the

633
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Speaker 1: time with the Rays. It seems like everyone's hiring someone

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Speaker 1: that used to work with the Rays. Same thing with

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Speaker 1: the Guardians. Like the Astros are in that ilk of

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Speaker 1: if you're good at your job and you work for

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Speaker 1: this franchise, there's gonna be other teams trying to get you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, people are looking for nerds to come in and

639
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 3: uh and do good work. So yeah, I mean, and

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00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 3: you know, obviously when you can get a promotion or

641
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 3: move back home, I get that too. But yeah, a

642
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 3: lot of turnover here. We'll see how the Astros fill it.

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Speaker 3: And of course, you know, it's funny talking about this,

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00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 3: like look, ninety five percent of the people listening to

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Speaker 3: this probably couldn't I have told you. The people doing

646
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 3: these jobs within the Astros system, certainly none of us

647
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 3: know anyone who are candidates for any of these, you know,

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00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,280
Speaker 3: like whoever gets picked, it's just like, all right, we'll

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Speaker 3: see what happens. You know, it's not like offensive coordinator

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Speaker 3: in the NFL or whatever. You know, it's okay, Well,

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Speaker 3: we'll see what happens. And you know, but I think

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Speaker 3: it does speak to the Astros organization. Like you said,

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Speaker 3: I mean really the Jim Crane era. You know, say

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Speaker 3: say what you will, but the Asher's organization keeps pumping

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Speaker 3: out guys that other teams want to hire at promotions,

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Speaker 3: and you know, the Ashers have been able to continue

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Speaker 3: to find people within their own talent pipeline or elsewhere.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, those are big losses. But at the same time,

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything. I mean, when Brent Strom left,

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Speaker 3: you know, the sky was falling, and then his predecessors

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Speaker 3: have also been very good. So you know that the

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Speaker 3: Astros have shown that they've been able to weather these

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Speaker 3: and and make the right decisions, uh, for the most part,

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Speaker 3: in these positions.

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Speaker 1: So I should trash that graphic I have for Sunday's pod.

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Speaker 1: That's five five candidates to be the next farm director.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, could you name five farm directors in baseball?

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Speaker 1: I can name one because I think Gabe Kapler is

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Speaker 1: the farm director in Miami, I think, but he used

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Speaker 1: to manage a team, so but no, I cannot. I cannot.

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Speaker 1: But you know, look, the Astros, they they've they've found

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Speaker 1: ways to overcome this. They've been undergoing a brain drain

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Speaker 1: for a while. Now this is this is nothing new,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna be something that certainly, you know, Dana

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Speaker 1: Brown is his work cut out for him because he's

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Speaker 1: got to the Angoispada. They've got to replace a lot

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Speaker 1: of good people that departed in a lot of good

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Speaker 1: minds and a lot of good you know, ways of

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Speaker 1: input and things like that. So that'll start at the

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Speaker 1: GM meetings which begin next weekend. Next I'm flying out

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Speaker 1: next Sunday to go to Vegas for the GM meetings.

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Speaker 1: And that's really like the unofficial start of the off

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Speaker 1: season when Dana Brown will meet with us, He'll meet

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Speaker 1: with every agent that's there. I'm going to issue this

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Speaker 1: blanket statement now when you see the people trying to

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Speaker 1: be reporters in the next two weeks that say Dana

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Speaker 1: Brown's been in conversation with frombervel does his agent? Everyone

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Speaker 1: meets with every agent at the GM meetings. I could

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Speaker 1: I could tell you that right now, two weeks before

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Speaker 1: the GM meetings start, that that Dana Brown will meet

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Speaker 1: with Fromberveld as his agent. He'll meet with Scott Boris

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Speaker 1: at the GM meetings. So he'll meet with you know,

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Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo's agent, He'll meet with everybody at the GM.

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Speaker 3: Alex Bragman's agent. Yeah, sure, what happens.

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Speaker 1: Sure, but until then, we appreciate you guys, watching you

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Speaker 1: all as all as you can follow me on X

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Speaker 1: that Chandler Underscore Room. You can follow Tyler at Tyler C. Stafford.

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Speaker 1: can get notified anytime we go, we have a new pod,

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Speaker 1: or we go live. Like I said, we'll be back

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. We'll have a World Series winner by Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I guess before we get out of here, how does

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Speaker 1: this go, Tyler? Do the Blue Jays finish it off?

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Speaker 1: Or do the Dodgers win too in a row and

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Speaker 1: shock the world?

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Speaker 3: Blue Jays and six? I said Blue Jays and five

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Speaker 3: before the series, and everyone laughed at me. Uh, they

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Speaker 3: do that anyway, but you know, specifically for that take offensive.

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Speaker 3: But it's been a great world series. Man. All the

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Speaker 3: games have been interesting, they've been good stuff. Showhy with

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Speaker 3: Tany is unbelievable. I mean, like, I know, it's kind

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Speaker 3: of a meme to you know that MLB tweets out

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Speaker 3: every time he does anything good. No one is ever

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Speaker 3: going to do this, like two hundred years from now

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Speaker 3: in you know, history textbooks about American sports of the

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Speaker 3: twentieth and twenty first century. OHEO, Tony is going to

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Speaker 3: be on a short list of maybe five athletes that

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Speaker 3: you mentioned from two centuries of American sports. Like, he's

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Speaker 3: unbelievable and he's doing something that nobody else can come

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Speaker 3: close to doing. It's it's very special that we get

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Speaker 3: to watch it and do that. So you know, it

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Speaker 3: stinks that he's not on the team that I happened

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Speaker 3: to root for, but uh man, it's it's fun watching him.

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Speaker 3: Uh I do want to leave. I'm sure you guys

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Speaker 3: saw this fact. Do you know who the only Canadian

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Speaker 3: born player on the Toronto Blue Jays is?

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Speaker 1: Is it Flatty?

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Speaker 3: It's Blattie?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because his Flatty senior was playing in Montreal. He

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Speaker 1: was born right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, It's just I would not have guessed.

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Speaker 1: So I tell me how to take tell me Joey

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Speaker 1: Loberfito isn't Canadian.

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Speaker 3: He feels Canadian. I'm with you on that, but I

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Speaker 3: think if they win the World Series he has to

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Speaker 3: switch as a lead is for the World Baseball Classic

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Speaker 3: and play for Team Canada to really cement himself up there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the d R already has an insane amount

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Speaker 1: of talent. I don't think I don't think he needs

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Speaker 1: to help them, but so yeah, maybe he could go

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Speaker 1: to Team Canada. Ernie Clement also sounds like you should

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Speaker 1: be from Canada, but he's not. But I think Yamamoto

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Speaker 1: shoves in game six. I think it goes to game seven,

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Speaker 1: and I don't game seven. You never know. I think

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Speaker 1: Astros fans know that all too well. You never know

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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen in game seven. But I think Yamamoto

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Speaker 1: shoves in game six. I think Reddick is going to

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Speaker 1: get more love for his tweet that's still up. And

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Speaker 1: then I think it's I think it goes to a

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Speaker 1: game seven, and I think it's gonna be a compelling

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Speaker 1: theater in our fifty first state in Canada. So we'll

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Speaker 1: be back after that Game seven on Sunday, and until then,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to you later.

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Speaker 3: America's team in six. Bye a