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

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Speaker 1: Territory Chandeler Room, joined by Tyler Stafford for what I

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Speaker 1: don't think we can call an emergency podcast because you know,

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Speaker 1: I will say this was earlier than we had planned

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Speaker 1: to do our second podcast of the week. But alas,

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Speaker 1: here we are on Friday the thirteenth. Friday the thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even realize that until I looked at my

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Speaker 1: Apple calendar just now, so that can only bode well

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Speaker 1: for the remaining you know, eight hours. I'll be up tonight.

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Speaker 1: We're here earlier than we anticipated because the Astros made

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Speaker 1: a trade, just like we have told you they would

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Speaker 1: for the last three months, and it's a fan favorite.

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Speaker 1: Joey Liperfido is back. Joey Liperfido will be back in

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Speaker 1: Astros camp on Saturday after he will come back to

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Speaker 1: the Astros in what amounted to a salary dump. I

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Speaker 1: think that we can affectionately call this a salary dump

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Speaker 1: with some sentiment. The Astros trading Haesu Sanchez and his

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Speaker 1: six point eight million dollar salary to the Toronto Blue

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Speaker 1: Jays in exchange for Joey lo Berfdo and his major

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Speaker 1: league minimum salary. So Tyler Dana Brown said today that

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Speaker 1: the move was not financially motivated. He has to say

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Speaker 1: that because he does not want his boss reading in Theathletic,

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Speaker 1: MLB dot Com, the Houston Chronicle, whatever media. Jim Crane consumes.

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Speaker 1: He does not want to be reading that he is cheap.

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Speaker 1: So Dana Brown had to say that today's move was

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Speaker 1: not financially motivated. I am here to tell you that

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Speaker 1: it was.

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Speaker 2: So what are they doing with the money.

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Speaker 1: That's a great question. We'll get to maybe.

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Speaker 2: To that later. First of all, I want to push

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Speaker 2: salary dump implies that you are getting back some thing

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Speaker 2: significantly worse, or you're just dumping money because you need

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Speaker 2: to get rid of something. Fangrabs has their zips projection

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Speaker 2: out for next year, just for fun. Joey Loo Perffito

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Speaker 2: is projected at one point seven war. Hayesu Sanchez is

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Speaker 2: projected at one point seven war. They are projected to

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Speaker 2: do essentially the exact same thing, and one is much cheaper,

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Speaker 2: and one also gets astros Twitter excited. So you can't

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Speaker 2: discount that it was. It was a fun day on

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Speaker 2: the internet for Astros fans. So, yeah, Joey Lo Perfito back,

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Speaker 2: everybody's happy. I mean, look, he's he's not going to

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Speaker 2: be the reason that your team makes it or not,

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Speaker 2: and neither was Hazu Sanchez. So if you can, if

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Speaker 2: you can dump what six and a half million something

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Speaker 2: like that is the the difference? Yeah, is that how

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Speaker 2: much they or is Sanchez making more than that?

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Speaker 1: No, Sanchez is making six point eight million dollars Joey

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Speaker 1: makes Joey makes about eight hundred grand, so.

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Speaker 2: So six million or so regardless. You know, now they've

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Speaker 2: got a little extra money to play with. They missed

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Speaker 2: out on Verlander. They should have done this a week ago.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, I think it's fine. I don't

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Speaker 2: know why you're being so fussy about it. I think

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Speaker 2: it's a good move.

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Speaker 1: At what point was I fussy? Hold on, hold on,

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Speaker 1: let's let's let's have some decorum here. I'm not my

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Speaker 1: and I think I said this out loud to somebody today.

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Speaker 1: They got a less expensive fourth outfielder. That that is

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Speaker 1: what this was. They got a less expensive fourth outfielder

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Speaker 1: on their roster. It should be noted that Joey Looperfido

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Speaker 1: has minor league options left, so he can be optioned

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Speaker 1: to Triple A. He su Sanchez does not have minor

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Speaker 1: league options remaining. It makes the roster more functional in

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Speaker 1: that way that the Astros can maneuver their outfield around.

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Speaker 1: They can, they can send Braffito down if they need to.

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Speaker 1: It just gives them more adaptability, more maneuverability, more flexibility

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Speaker 1: he is going to get a little bit more attention

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Speaker 1: just because of how much fans fell in love with

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Speaker 1: he came up. You know, Joe Spota mentioned today he

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Speaker 1: started thinking back to that catch in Minnesota he made

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Speaker 1: in right field in twenty twenty four before they traded

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Speaker 1: him to the Blue Jays. He can he has a

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Speaker 1: little bit of pop. The offensive numbers in Toronto in

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Speaker 1: limited major league sample size. Joey Luperfito took one hundred

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Speaker 1: and four played appearances last year for the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 1: He had a one forty ops plus and an eight

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Speaker 1: seventy nine ops both of which are very good. Joe

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Speaker 1: Aspota and Dana Brown today both said that they have

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Speaker 1: been tracking kind of some stuff he's done. He's made

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Speaker 1: some adjustments with the Blue Jays hitting coaches. He cut

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Speaker 1: But with that also comes the caveat that in those

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Speaker 1: joey Lo Brafito had a four to thirty one batting

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Speaker 1: actual batting average in the big leagues was three thirty three.

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Speaker 1: His expected batting average was two sixty six. So there

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Speaker 1: probably is just natural regression that's that's not a bad thing,

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Speaker 1: little fortunate last year. But the ashers believe that some

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Speaker 1: of the adjustments he made with Blue Jays hitting coaches,

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Speaker 1: one of whom is David Popkins, and I don't want

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Speaker 1: to discount this either. David Popkins is the Blue Jays

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Speaker 1: very good relationship because they worked together in Minnesota. Popkins

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Speaker 1: Correa still communicate pretty regularly. I would not discount that

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Speaker 1: later in the podcast, Carlos Carea had some thoughts about

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Speaker 1: the Astros moves, about the state of their roster, things

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Speaker 1: of that nature. He is involved. But what does this do,

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Speaker 1: Tyler in your opinion? You know now that you kind

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Speaker 1: of know that these four these are the four outfielders

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Speaker 1: Joey Loperfito and Jade Myers who reported the spring train

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Speaker 1: who reported to camp today coincidentally, what does this do

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Speaker 1: in your mind to the outfield picture as it currently stands.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think it it clears it up that

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Speaker 2: those are the four that you're you're carrying, and then

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Speaker 2: you're able to mix and match based on you know,

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Speaker 2: starting pitcher. Right now, you've got two lefties that are available,

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Speaker 2: so you could definitely overload that whenever you've got a

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Speaker 2: Haesu Sanchez was not going to bring to you later

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Speaker 2: in games if you need pinch running again, some some

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Speaker 2: flexibility here, I do. I agree with you. The babbitt

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Speaker 2: But looking at his Baseball Savant page, I think the

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Speaker 2: biggest difference and I'll just I'll read some numbers at

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Speaker 2: you here. So in twenty twenty four, he pulled the

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Speaker 2: Last season he seemed to make a really you know,

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Speaker 2: I do think those things are something that is clear

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Speaker 2: that was an adjustment that he made. You don't just

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Speaker 2: so that's encouraging that he saw that and and hopefully

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Speaker 2: do think that's where you know, obviously, when it's in

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Speaker 2: you can. That's where most of the home runs in

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Speaker 2: go to the opposite field as a lefty, and try

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Speaker 1: Another thing that Joey Liperfito will bring you that Haesu

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Speaker 1: Sanchez did not is proficient defense in all three outfield positions.

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Speaker 1: Joe Spottas said today that you will see Joeyluperfito in

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Speaker 1: Great Fruit League play playing all three outfield positions. But

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Speaker 1: it was clear from Hayesu Sanchez's first game at Fenway

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Speaker 1: Park when they put him in left field that just

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, the defense just did not click here.

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Speaker 1: And I was talking to a couple of Astros people

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Speaker 1: re litigate the Sanchez trade. But when when you have

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Speaker 1: a change in scenery, a change in expectations. There there

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Speaker 1: run for the Mariners. He did hit a very consequential

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Speaker 1: I don't think they foresaw the decline to be as

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Speaker 1: could they could see a little bit of a regression,

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Speaker 1: but I do not think at all they anticipated the

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Speaker 1: defensive problems that he presented. And by the end of it, Tyler,

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Speaker 1: he was unplayable. And by trading him today Dana Brown,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't say it, but it's an admission

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Speaker 1: of a defeats. It was a poor trade and it's

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Speaker 1: one that we can now say with certainty will not

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Speaker 1: did say, though, like I'm here to win a World Series,

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Speaker 1: and whatever happens in order to get us to that

431
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Speaker 1: World series, it is what it is you have to

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Speaker 1: ask at that point, like he does. He has some

433
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Speaker 1: authority here. He has a sixteen limited no trade clause.

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Speaker 1: So in theory, if the Astros were to move have

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Speaker 1: a deal in place with Walker and it's a team

436
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Speaker 1: on his list, he has to he has a right

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Speaker 1: to exercise no trade clause. He said he wants to

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Speaker 1: be here, He said, this is home. He said he

439
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Speaker 1: wants to be here. He said he loves the clubhouse,

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Speaker 1: loves the guys. So that coupled with what Jeremy Penia

441
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Speaker 1: said today, which will bring up if you're watching on YouTube,

442
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Speaker 1: you can I got the wrong tweet. But if you're

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Speaker 1: watching on YouTube, you can listen to me stall real

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Speaker 1: quick while I pull the right tweet up and we

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Speaker 1: can discuss what Jeremy Painea said. And we've brought this

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Speaker 1: up a couple times already that before last season he

447
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Speaker 1: was on pace to play one hundred and sixty two

448
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Speaker 1: games before he got hit in the ribs and fractured

449
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Speaker 1: his ribs. He was asked today if that is a

450
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Speaker 1: goal of his this season, to play one hundred and

451
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Speaker 1: sixty two games, and his quote was everyone says one

452
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: sixty two is too many games, but me as a

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Speaker 1: player I want to be able to say I played

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Speaker 1: every game of a season. It is definitely a goal

455
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Speaker 1: of mine to play every single day. As we have discussed,

456
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Speaker 1: if the Astros are going to facilitate this infield surplus

457
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Speaker 1: with Paradis on the roster and walk around the roster

458
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Speaker 1: to get Paradis in the lineup, you're going to have

459
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Speaker 1: to maybe sit some of these guys. A couple of

460
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Speaker 1: days after, Payana said that Carlos Korea held a very

461
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Speaker 1: entertaining media scrum during which he said this. He was

462
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Speaker 1: asked just in general about the state of the Astros

463
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Speaker 1: infield and how sustainable he thought it was, and he said,

464
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Speaker 1: in part, we have a lot of people that could

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Speaker 1: potentially be used in trades later on. I'm not a GM,

466
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Speaker 1: but I know that only four infield can play at

467
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Speaker 1: a time. You have to make some moves put some

468
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Speaker 1: people in the outfield have depth. I guess we should

469
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Speaker 1: also add that Joe Spotto was asked today if Christian

470
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Speaker 1: Walker whatever play left field, and he very quickly said no,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Jeremy Pane is playing the outfield. I

472
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Speaker 1: don't think Carlos Korea is playing the outfield. Estak paratus

473
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Speaker 1: ain't playing in the outfield. Those al two veil stand

474
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Speaker 1: in left field a couple of games. But you get

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Speaker 1: the picture. Are we starting to understand here that this

476
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Speaker 1: was never going to work? And again, barring one of

477
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Speaker 1: these infielders, heaven forbid on their part, Heaven forbid one

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Speaker 1: of these infielders gets hurt in the next two days.

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Speaker 1: Barring that happening, this is inevitable. It is inevitable that

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Speaker 1: one of these infielders is going to be traded and

481
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Speaker 1: the ashers are going to have a more functional roster.

482
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Speaker 1: And maybe now that people are saying things out loud

483
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Speaker 1: and you're starting to put some context clues together, and

484
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Speaker 1: it's not just reporters citing sources and reporters, you know,

485
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Speaker 1: analyzing things, maybe it's now coming to fruition a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot to unpack there. To clarify, you said,

487
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Speaker 2: Christmaer Arker has a full no trade clause.

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Speaker 1: Current No, No, he's a limited no trade clause. Okay,

489
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Speaker 1: so he can block trades to six teams. I do

490
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Speaker 1: not know what the six teams.

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Speaker 2: Are, Okay? Do you guests to change that every year?

492
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Speaker 2: Like when no? I think just right, when you sign

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Speaker 2: the contract.

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Speaker 1: He signed the contract and he I don't quote me

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Speaker 1: on this. I don't know that this is for certain,

496
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Speaker 1: but I'm ninety five percent sure that when you sign

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Speaker 1: the contract, you list the six teams and those are

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Speaker 1: the six teams for the life of the contract.

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Speaker 2: Okay, because I know sometimes there's like gamesmanship where it's

500
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Speaker 2: like you pick the teams that you think you would

501
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Speaker 2: be the best fit for so that you have some

502
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Speaker 2: more power. But I mean that was a year ago,

503
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 2: like you, you wouldn't really know necessarily, Okay. So I mean,

504
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Speaker 2: as we've seen the whole offseason, the only person with

505
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Speaker 2: trade value is zac Parates. And if you're going to

506
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Speaker 2: be trading somebody, you want to get something back that

507
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Speaker 2: can help your team. Right now, he's the only one

508
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Speaker 2: that can do that. And yeah, the team just doesn't worry.

509
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Speaker 2: It works when I'm on the show and I can

510
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 2: just put people into the lineups and they're not real people.

511
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Speaker 2: But as you've seen, people want to play every day,

512
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Speaker 2: and people want to Baseball players are so particular about

513
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 2: wanting to know not only when they're playing, where they're playing,

514
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Speaker 2: but where they're hitting in the batting order, and they

515
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Speaker 2: you know, they want to be known ahead of time

516
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Speaker 2: before any of that stuff changes. So if you have

517
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Speaker 2: a lineup like this where you're having to move people

518
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Speaker 2: around every day, it just creates dysfunction, which I'm again

519
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Speaker 2: makes a ton of sense there. Also with the Jeremy

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Speaker 2: Panyea thing, I think some people's first thought whenever they

521
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Speaker 2: see somebody say they want to play one hundred and

522
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Speaker 2: sixty two games is to be like, well, everybody wants

523
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Speaker 2: to do that. No, they do not. That's that's a

524
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Speaker 2: weird thing to say. That is not a goal that

525
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Speaker 2: most players have. Maybe just from growing up watching Craig

526
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Speaker 2: Bigio do that every year, you just think that that's

527
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Speaker 2: what most people do. And I'm not saying that it's

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Speaker 2: a bad thing that other players don't, but like, you

529
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Speaker 2: got to have some days off at some point, you know,

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Speaker 2: So to publicly say that is something that matters to

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Speaker 2: me and is important to me and a goal that

532
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Speaker 2: I have is unique. And it also gives you even

533
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Speaker 2: less flexibility because you know, you could conceivably think, oh, well,

534
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Speaker 2: Paina takes a day off once a week and maybe

535
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 2: Korea plays there, and then that frees up third base

536
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Speaker 2: for you know whatever. No pain you wants to be

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Speaker 2: on the field every single day, and that's that's your

538
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Speaker 2: star shortstop. Like you don't you don't tell them no,

539
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Speaker 2: you know. Actually, if that's what.

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Speaker 1: Your star shortstop, who wants a three hundred million dollar

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Speaker 1: free agent contract in a year and a half, and

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Speaker 1: that is.

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Speaker 2: He'll never say it. That is driving this too, which

544
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 2: again makes a lot of sense. Uh. And like you said,

545
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Speaker 2: he was going to do it other than a fastball

546
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Speaker 2: to the ribs. It wasn't like he just got burnt

547
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Speaker 2: out and that's why he was injured last year, you know,

548
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 2: just a freak accident. I don't know if you've ever

549
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 2: seen Jeremy Pana before, but he looks like the type

550
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Speaker 2: of guy that would be athletically inclined to play one

551
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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two games at shortstop. It looks like

552
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Speaker 2: that it's not only a goal that he says out loud,

553
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Speaker 2: but also in the weight room that that's very important

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Speaker 2: to him. So yeah, I mean, I think it's inevitable.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that we will be back here very soon

556
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Speaker 2: to do an emergency pod to wrap that up.

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Speaker 1: A real emergency pod. At this point, we probably don't

558
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: even need to do one, just because we've previewed it

559
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: for well, there's.

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Speaker 2: Going to be a new name that we get to

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Speaker 2: talk about. Well, we'll have for sure someone coming back

562
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Speaker 2: and we can discuss that.

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Speaker 1: You want to talk about Bad Bunny. Please God, I'm

564
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Speaker 1: worried about this.

565
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 2: I have pragunto about Bad Bunny.

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Speaker 1: I'm worried about this. Bad Bunny came up in Carlos

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Speaker 1: Correa's very enlightening media scrom day. He is doubling as

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Speaker 1: an insurance agent. There was some I want to give

569
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Speaker 1: credit to Carlos Bierga. We're naming some guys. Carlos Bierga,

570
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Speaker 1: the former Big league catcher, is now a media personality.

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Speaker 1: I believe he's local. He played for the He played

572
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Speaker 1: for the then Indians for a long time. I believe

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Speaker 1: he still lives in Cleveland because when we go to

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Speaker 1: when the Ashers go to Cleveland, I will see Carlos

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Speaker 1: Bierga there. A good bit. But he reported a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago that Bad Bunny had offered to pay

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Speaker 1: the insurance for the WBC for with Carlos Correa and

578
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindoor, neither of whom could get insured. That report

579
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Speaker 1: was just kind of out there and no, there was

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Speaker 1: no real confirmation and I wasn't gonna do anything with

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Speaker 1: that until I got to talk to Korea, who spoke

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Speaker 1: today and confirmed that Bad Bunny did or I don't.

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Speaker 1: We never got the answer if Bad Bunny called him,

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Speaker 1: or if like a rep from Bad Bunnies entourage company

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Speaker 1: called him to inform him. But yes, Bad Bunny did

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Speaker 1: offer to ensure Carlos Correa to play in the WBC.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to put up if you're watching on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to put up the one of the most

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Speaker 1: meaningful quotes from this because I think it's important to

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00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: get the entire details here. You can read the story

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Speaker 1: at the Athletic, but I'll put it up on the

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Speaker 1: screen right now. What Carlos Correa said was that the

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Speaker 1: minute he got the call from whomever in Bad Bunnies

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Speaker 1: camp that they were willing to ensure him, he called

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, he called the Astros, and he called

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Speaker 1: his agent, Scott Bors. And then, according to Correa, these

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00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: are his direct quotes. They all told me it was

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Speaker 1: a bad idea. They all told me the insurance company

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00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: that was proposed to me had cases where they were

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Speaker 1: not paying players back since it was not approved by MLB,

601
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Speaker 1: not approved by the organization, and not approved by my agent.

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Speaker 1: I could not sign my life away with something that

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Speaker 1: three people I trust are not telling me to do.

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Speaker 1: As we talked about to Korea, did say later on

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Speaker 1: that one the thing that he is most upset about

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Speaker 1: is that his kids are not going to be able

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00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: to watch him play because this is twofold. We had

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Speaker 1: talked about the Houston part of it, right that if

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Speaker 1: Team Puerto Rico gets out of its pool, its quarterfinal

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Speaker 1: game is at dyk In Park. But remember too that

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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico is hosting pool play for the first time

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Speaker 1: in the tournament existence, and Puerto Rico is playing obviously

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Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico. Their pool is in Puerto Rico. So

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Speaker 1: not only would Carlos's two children have gotten to see

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Speaker 1: him play in Houston fourteen Puerto Rico, they would have

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Speaker 1: gotten to see him play in Puerto Rico for port.

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Speaker 1: So he was pretty he was pretty adamant that that

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Speaker 1: is something that upset him. That he doesn't that that's

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Speaker 1: not that's a that's a memory that he may never

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Speaker 1: get back. Now, who knows in four years if they

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Speaker 1: have the WBC again, which I presume they will maybe

622
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico hosts that he plays in and they can

623
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Speaker 1: recreate this. But you just you never know. I mean,

624
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: this could have been a once in a lifetime kind

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00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 1: of thing for him. It's we talked about in the

626
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: last pot. It sucks. It just it really does suck.

627
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: But Correa sounded like someone today that was you know,

628
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: content is probably the wrong word. It sounded like he

629
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Speaker 1: still wasn't thrilled, but understood the rationale of what happened.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and if I could get on my soapbox here

631
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Speaker 2: for a minute, this is what I mean when I

632
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 2: say that baseball is in a better place than it

633
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 2: has been, probably since the nineteen ninety eight home run Chase.

634
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 2: I think baseball is more relevant in the culture. I

635
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 2: think it's at a better spot just popularity wise, than

636
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 2: it ever has been. It is difficult to understate how

637
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 2: big of a deal it is that Bad Bunny knows

638
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,280
Speaker 2: and cares enough about Major League Baseball players to offer

639
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 2: to pay their insurance for an exhibition game in the

640
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 2: World Baseball Clay. That's ridiculous, Like, is the biggest artist

641
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,959
Speaker 2: on the planet who cares about Carlos Korea? And Jose

642
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 2: L Tuvan, Francisco Lindor and you know whoever else he offered,

643
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 2: Like that's a big deal, and so it underscores how

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00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 2: important it is in a year that the unions figure

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Speaker 2: it out and we do not have a detrimental lockout, because,

646
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 2: I mean, baseball is just in a great spot right now,

647
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 2: and you know, we've talked about all the negatives of

648
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic with you know, players not playing

649
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,760
Speaker 2: and all this kind of stuff. As soon as it starts,

650
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 2: it's just gonna go off like a rocket ship. Like

651
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,240
Speaker 2: it's so much fun to watch, especially coming off the Olympics.

652
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 2: I'm very excited for it. I know this is an

653
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 2: Astros podcast, and some people only care about the Astros,

654
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 2: which I understand, but this is really special to the

655
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 2: human players that are on your favorite teams and it

656
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 2: means a lot to them. And so even just not

657
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 2: as a fan saying I only care about the Astros

658
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 2: or whatever, like the guys who you were rooting for

659
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 2: in the uniforms care a lot about this thing and

660
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 2: it means a lot to them. So I'm excited to

661
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Speaker 2: watch it, and hopefully this just underscores how good of

662
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Speaker 2: a spot baseball is in right now.

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Speaker 1: I want to also add that Jeremy Paniona talk and

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Speaker 1: he's going to play. He's the one established guy that

665
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Speaker 1: is playing in the WBC. And he said he made

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00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: his intentions known to the Astros and the ORG over

667
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: a year ago. Like again, this means a lot, Like

668
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: he talked today about how much of an honor it

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Speaker 1: is to represent the DR he's gonna play for the

670
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: Dominican Republic, like he made like he went so far

671
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Speaker 1: as to tell them a year ago, I am playing.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if we're gonna vilify the Astros for

673
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: having some influence in their guys not playing, I guess

674
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: we should give them credit for letting Jeremy pay you play.

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Speaker 1: But it means a lot to him, and it means

676
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Speaker 1: a lot to It means a lot to Korea, means

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Speaker 1: a lot. That meant a lot to Jose l Tuve.

678
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Speaker 1: You know it's again, I don't I think you've nailed it.

679
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: I don't think you can understate how big of a

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Speaker 1: deal that is. And I do want to add just

681
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: real quick before like anybody thinks bad Bunny just like

682
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: randomly called Korea as people. He he does own part

683
00:37:55,560 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: of a sports agency he does deal with. So some

684
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: of the clients of that agency are MLB players. I

685
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: think Ronald d'acunya is one of them. Ronald d'acunya. Uh,

686
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 1: maybe not coincidentally, but obviously was in Bad Bunny's halftime

687
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Speaker 1: show of the Super Bowl. So obviously hand in hand there.

688
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: But yes, Like, it's not as if Bad Bunny just

689
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: was like on his couch, like like these guys aren't

690
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Speaker 1: getting a fair shake. I'm like, no, Like, he does

691
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: have involvement in baseball, he has involvement in athletic and

692
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Speaker 1: some at professional sports. And he's he's from Puerto Rico

693
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Speaker 1: and he wants his his island in his country to

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Speaker 1: be represented well. And you know, I think it's I

695
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Speaker 1: think you put it perfectly that you know it can't

696
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Speaker 1: be like that is just evidence more that baseball is

697
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Speaker 1: in a good spot, and you hope that that good

698
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 1: spot and that good will does not get lost in

699
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 1: eleven months when the owners are going are probably going

700
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Speaker 1: to lock out the players.

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Speaker 2: Josh Hater threw some more today.

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Speaker 1: Sure, sure he played catch. He played catch. I mean again, where.

703
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 2: With Hater news is good news? All right? I don't

704
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: want to coming on here with more bad news.

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Speaker 1: Right, The fact that he is the fact that the

706
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: arm is still moving is good, but I would certainly

707
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Speaker 1: not classify what he has done in his last two

708
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: catch plays as intense. Again, the arm is moving, it is.

709
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 1: That is good news. But we are a little ways

710
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: away from him getting back on a mound. So again,

711
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: they're taking baby steps, are going to take it slow

712
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 1: with him. Have some colors through a bullpen today.

713
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 2: M m, it's really heavy. He shouldn't throw that whole bullpen.

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Speaker 1: So did Hunter Brown, who we've now done almost eighty

715
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Speaker 1: minutes of spring training talk and have neglected to mention

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Speaker 1: that he was named the opening day starter on the

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Speaker 1: first UH on the first hit news.

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Speaker 2: Yes, in case you were wondering who the as opening

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00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 2: day starter would be. Actually, like I respect Joe, like

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Speaker 2: Alex Kor did it too with crochet AJ, did it

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Speaker 2: with Trek Scooble, Like yes, Like what are we talking about?

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Speaker 1: Get this out of the way, Like let's like, let's

723
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Speaker 1: not do this like in the middle of spring training.

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Speaker 1: Remember that year where MLB tried to do like a

725
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Speaker 1: they did like a reveal show and Dusty Dusty was man.

726
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: Dusty was managing the Ashers at the time, and again

727
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: it was one of those situations where Fromber was like

728
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Speaker 1: clear in a way there, like it was not even

729
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Speaker 1: a question. So like we get to the middle of

730
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Speaker 1: camp and like we're all hard up for stories. One

731
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Speaker 1: day we're like, Dusty, you want to name your opening

732
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: day starter? He was like, I mean I could, but

733
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in trouble for it. And we're like

734
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Speaker 1: what it was like, Yeah, MLB told us not to

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Speaker 1: announce it until like this certain day at this certain

736
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Speaker 1: time because they're doing this big reveal where they want

737
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Speaker 1: to put all the opening day matchups out like what like,

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Speaker 1: of course Fromber's gonna like but no, we had a

739
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Speaker 1: delay that. Fromber Valdez, like the unquestioned ace of the team,

740
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Speaker 1: we had to delay that for two weeks. He was

741
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Speaker 1: gonna be the opening day starter and it was that

742
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: was very dumb. But uh, sanity has prevailed. Hunter Brown's

743
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: gonna pitch an opening day for the Astros. I know

744
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 1: everyone is stunned.

745
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,879
Speaker 2: Good good news. We we at least got that out

746
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 2: of the way. We do the Tigers open at home.

747
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 2: I'm looking now just to see when I think Verlander

748
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 2: will we'll start. I can't tell. Now, it looks like

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Speaker 2: they're on the road for a bit. I was gonna

750
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Speaker 2: say if if they're open with like a three game

751
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 2: series at home, I wonder if he gets the third

752
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 2: spot just to let people see him, but they open on.

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Speaker 1: The road, I bet they will line it up that

754
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: he I knowing AJ and knowing how like AJ values

755
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,399
Speaker 1: like the beauty of baseball, like the sentimentality of it all,

756
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: like the that's like I AJ will do everything in

757
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: his power to line it up toward Justin Verlanders starts

758
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: the home opener and look it if it if it

759
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: like if something happens like out of their control where

760
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: it can't happen, then I get it, But AJ will

761
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: I would I would bet a good portion that AJ

762
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: will put They will line it up in spring training

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Speaker 1: where he can pitch the home opener, and I Justin

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00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 1: deserves that, Like I don't know if this is going

765
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Speaker 1: to be his last season. If it's not his last season,

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Speaker 1: it's one of his last seasons, And if it's going

767
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: to be his last season, it's only fitting that he

768
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: starts the home opener Detroit at America Park. I hope

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Speaker 1: that works out. For them, but Hunter Brown will start

770
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Speaker 1: the home opener for the Astros. Who starts after him,

771
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Speaker 1: who plays first base behind him, who plays in the

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Speaker 1: outfield behind I.

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Speaker 2: Think we still plays first base behind him. I think

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Speaker 2: we can.

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00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 1: I don't know.

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00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 2: I mean, I think we're pretty confident at this point.

777
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Speaker 2: But we'll see. Well, we'll definitely see here in the

778
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 2: next what forty eight hours? Do you think they'll probably

779
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 2: want to have this done before the first full squad.

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00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 1: I think it would. I think it would benefit everyone

781
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: involved if it is done before Monday. Now I also

782
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 1: saying that, I don't think Dana Brown. I think it

783
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: would be stupid for Dana Brown to take a deal

784
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: that he deserves, that he deems like less worthy, or

785
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: if he thinks he can get a better deal, just

786
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: to have it done by Monday. I don't think that's

787
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: good GMing. I don't think that's good roster building. But

788
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: I think it would benefit everyone. And because the other

789
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: thing that Dana has done here with with being and

790
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: as a media member, I am not complaining, but by

791
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Speaker 1: being as forthright as he has been, and being by

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00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: saying it without saying it as many times as he

793
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Speaker 1: said it already in spring training like he's back him

794
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: self down into a corner where he has to do

795
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: it like he has to do and I think just

796
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: the questions are going to get old. Estoc Paratus is

797
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: not reported to camp yet, but that's not a big

798
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: deal because they don't They don't have to be here

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Speaker 1: until Sunday when position players report. But I just think

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00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: for everyone involved, it would be better if it is

801
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 1: done by Monday, just so everyone can have some clarity,

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00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: have some finality, and all right, here we go. But

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Speaker 1: it may not work out that way. I don't know.

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00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: I'm if I'm an Astros fan, if I'm an Astros employee,

805
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: I wait for the I want the right deal. I

806
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: want the deal that brings the most value back, that

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00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: helps the twenty twenty six Astros. And if that happens

808
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: on March tenth, great, If it happens on Saturday night, great,

809
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: But that should be foremost in their mind, not getting

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00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: it done by a certain day. But when they do

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Speaker 1: get it done, we will be back to talk to

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Speaker 1: as I don't know when that will be, but we

813
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: will be back to cover it. Until then. You can

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Speaker 1: follow me on ex Chandler Underscore Room. We can follow

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Speaker 1: Tyler at Tyler C. Stafford. Please rate and review us

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Speaker 1: We will be back at some point whenever this surplus

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Speaker 1: is settled. We're lining up some pretty interesting guests too

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Speaker 1: to join us from West Palm Beach. That'll be fun

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Speaker 1: as well. But until those guests arrive, and until the

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Speaker 1: surplus is settled, thank you for watching and we you

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Speaker 1: will talk to you soon.

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Speaker 2: She hit the flow. Next thing you know, Joey got

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Speaker 2: lo lo lo lo lo.

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Speaker 1: Bye