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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 Roam with the most special guests that we

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Speaker 1: have had in the fifty seven episode cycle of this podcast.

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Speaker 1: Julia Morales Uh, the beloved Sideline Dugout, reporter for Space

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Speaker 1: City Home Network. Julia, I know it was a late

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Speaker 1: night last night, off a night game. I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: waking up early in Tampa to hop on with us.

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Speaker 1: How are you?

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Speaker 2: I am good. That was fancy. Very impressed by the

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Speaker 2: open there. I didn't see any of that coming. No,

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Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. We have uniforms and everything like. This is

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Speaker 1: an actual This is an actual this is an actual podcast.

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Speaker 1: We have we have ads like wow, we're working here.

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Speaker 1: How was How was the game last night? It's obviously

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Speaker 1: the Rays are in a difficult spot with their ballpark

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Speaker 1: situation with with the hurricane. How was Steinbringer Field? How

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Speaker 1: were the accommodations and how was everything?

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Speaker 2: Very spring training? Like, I don't know. I don't know

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Speaker 2: what I was expecting when I got there. I don't

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Speaker 2: I mean, of course it was gonna be a spring

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Speaker 2: training facility, but I don't know. I guess I had

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Speaker 2: heard that they had tried to like, you know, morphit

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Speaker 2: into this Raiz home, but I just felt like a

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Speaker 2: spring training ballpark when I got into there. It was

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Speaker 2: also one hundred million degrees too, And I'm feeling for

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Speaker 2: any team that's coming in here July August, because you

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Speaker 2: will melt your face off. It was like ninety one

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Speaker 2: I think when I arrived, you know, four o'clock. Batting

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Speaker 2: practice for the Astros are just sweating, just stuff we're

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Speaker 2: not used to, especially those of us in the Houston area,

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Speaker 2: people that go to ballparks with roofs, and then to

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Speaker 2: come from a new field and global life field. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know you know that ballpark well too, it's just

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Speaker 2: it's newer stay they are, like everything's pretty convenient, and

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Speaker 2: there's lots of space, the air conditioning is kick in

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Speaker 2: that place, and then you come here and it's just

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Speaker 2: it was a little bit jarring. But what was fun

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Speaker 2: yesterday was seeing everyone react to it, and then batting

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Speaker 2: practice itself, like the ball was flying, and then of

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Speaker 2: course the game, Jake Myers hits when what was ninety

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Speaker 2: five miles off the bat to like sneak it out

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Speaker 2: to right field. I mean stuff like that, Like that

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Speaker 2: was all very entertaining just because it's a ballpark. None

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Speaker 2: of us really know, and even the guys that have

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Speaker 2: played there, I mean they said, like baseball in March,

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Speaker 2: and you know, the way it is in March is

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Speaker 2: different than it is right now. Night games are different,

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Speaker 2: like Joe spot is, like I'm calling everyone trying to

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Speaker 2: figure out how this place plays. So yeah, it was

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Speaker 2: it was a time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jake's go ahead home run with ninety five off

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Speaker 1: the bat, Danny Jansen's game tying home run was ninety

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Speaker 1: off the bat. It was funny. It was funny someone

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Speaker 1: obviously I'm not in Tampa. I was just kind of

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Speaker 1: following along in someone message mad on social media and asked,

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Speaker 1: is Danny Jansen's homer the cheapest homer You've ever seen

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Speaker 1: that point that Jake Myers hit his, and I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: Andy Jansen's maybe one, but Jake Myers is probably two.

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Speaker 1: So uh, the ballpark, ballpark plays equal for both teams.

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Speaker 1: It would just get it up in that jet.

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Speaker 2: Stream and exactly, yeah. And then I will say, like

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Speaker 2: the behind the scenes was interesting to figure out, like

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Speaker 2: you missed, you know, you missed us all kind of

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Speaker 2: wandering around, like where do we go? Where's you know,

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Speaker 2: how do we get into Joe's office? And then the

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Speaker 2: way you get to the field, you just have to

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Speaker 2: walking through where they're changing, but there's like a hallway

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Speaker 2: you Mauricio Dubond's trying to like grab a bat and

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Speaker 2: of that was. It's different. It's different.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought up kind of getting there early

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Speaker 1: and figuring out where to go, because I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of times, you know, I get asked this a lot,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure you get asked us a lot, like

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Speaker 1: what is a day in the life, like for a

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Speaker 1: for a seven o'clock game, it was a six game,

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Speaker 1: the viewers that don't kind of understand what we do

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Speaker 1: before the games, give us a rundown of your prep

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Speaker 1: daily kind of what you try to do in the

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Speaker 1: what's priority number one before your first hit on camera?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like you, I mean, once the season starts for you,

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Speaker 2: it's even spring training. It is just what you do

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Speaker 2: all day every day. There's not really like an off button.

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Speaker 2: There's not like off hours because I say that because

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Speaker 2: it's like I wake up in the morning and I

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Speaker 2: turn on MLB Central and I'm trying to figure out

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Speaker 2: what happened the night before, And I'm just constantly trying

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Speaker 2: it just keeps going and things keep happening. What's the

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Speaker 2: news of the day. You know, you're obviously on social

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Speaker 2: media keeping up what's going on there. But yeah, as

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Speaker 2: far as timing, I get there probably a little after you.

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Speaker 2: I try to be there by three o'clock for a

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Speaker 2: seven o'clock game at home, and the road's different because

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Speaker 2: there's bus time. So with the team, I stay with

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Speaker 2: the team, and the team hotel, and they have three buses.

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Speaker 2: There's an early bus for all the staff, usually the

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Speaker 2: this is for people who don't know, like when you're

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Speaker 2: when you're the away team, you're hitting later, so you know,

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Speaker 2: So that's the overachievers like myself, Jeff Blum, Steve Sparks,

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Speaker 2: but that's because the clubhouse opens at four o'clock on

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Speaker 2: That's when I start. And then it's you know, by

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Speaker 2: that point, I've already had three phone calls to my

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Speaker 2: show producer. So there's three different phone calls that are

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Speaker 2: usually taking place of just like what do we need today,

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Speaker 2: ideas coming up? And then and then it's off to

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Speaker 2: the races. Clubhouse opens, You're in there, we're hanging out, Chandler.

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Speaker 2: That's our favorite time of the day to sit around

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Speaker 2: and wait for news to happen. By the way, your

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Speaker 2: Don Alvarez talked yesterday, we missed you for that while

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Speaker 2: we hadn't talked to him in a while, but that

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Speaker 2: was like at least something significant to take away from

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Speaker 2: the clubhouse because it's it gets harder and harder. I mean,

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Speaker 2: the guys have more places to go. Not I don't

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Speaker 2: want to say that they're hiding from us, but they

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Speaker 2: definitely have other things they can be doing rather than

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Speaker 2: sitting at their lockers when the clubhouse is open to

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Speaker 2: the media. So after that, you know, it's like it's

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Speaker 2: I'm on your schedule. As far as like getting interviews.

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Speaker 2: Joe as about to talks at a certain time every day,

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Speaker 2: and then I'm like, then I'm in prep mode for

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Speaker 2: out and play. And I know, no nobody paying me

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Speaker 2: to say that right now, but like you know, that's

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Speaker 2: an example of something fans here every night, Like I

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Speaker 2: with that sponsor. So you know, whether it's like you know,

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Speaker 2: just go ahead hits that he's had this last week. Whatever.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to like prep so I kind of have

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Speaker 2: what Esoch said yesterday that I can tie in with that.

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Speaker 2: All that prep is happening in this time, like after

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Speaker 2: Joe before before the game starts, and then it's like

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Speaker 2: I throw them some makeup. I get down there. I

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Speaker 2: six fifty four. So that's the pregame show. My hit

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Speaker 2: they got it back up and running. I know people

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Speaker 2: were talking about the audio and Julia, why can't you

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Speaker 2: I'm down there just like am I on TV AM

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Speaker 2: we get postgame sound. Sometimes it's quick, sometimes it's not quick,

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Speaker 2: of there, so and it you know, and then it's

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Speaker 2: like you you go home. Well, this is what I'm

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Speaker 2: talking about. There's no off button because you go home

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Speaker 2: and you're like kind of watching what's happening in other games,

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Speaker 2: And I'm usually like texting the group of Todd and

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Speaker 2: Blumer of like what they said in the clubhouse, and

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Speaker 2: we're all, you know, you're never off, You're never off.

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Speaker 2: And then you start back up the next day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially when you're in the Al West, because you

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Speaker 1: can come home and the Mariners are probably playing if

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Speaker 1: they're at home. If if the Mariners aren't playing, the

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Speaker 1: A's are in Sacramento. Plus so you can watch Vision

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Speaker 1: Baseball when you get home, because it is important to

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Speaker 1: keep up with what the Mariners are doing because they're

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Speaker 1: Julia. So we've talked a lot you and I just

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Speaker 2: but you know, they would send me out and I

431
00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,280
Speaker 2: would just get tons of content at spring training. So

432
00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,560
Speaker 2: I was on the backfield at spring training getting a

433
00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:47,879
Speaker 2: call is like, You're gonna be the Astros reporter, and

434
00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:49,399
Speaker 2: I'm like, I got to get home. I got to

435
00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,560
Speaker 2: get out of Arizona, and I got to figure out

436
00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,520
Speaker 2: who's on the Astros because I knew the rangers for

437
00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,720
Speaker 2: them backwards at the time, and I had met Jose

438
00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,840
Speaker 2: al Tuva earlier, like a couple of months earlier through

439
00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:04,000
Speaker 2: caravan stop in Austin, and I had interviewed him and

440
00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:05,639
Speaker 2: introduced myself. You know, I was just like, you know,

441
00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:09,399
Speaker 2: I loved baseball. I knew who he was obviously, so

442
00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,560
Speaker 2: he was the only person who I knew of like

443
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,880
Speaker 2: knew was on the team basically. And I also knew

444
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:16,919
Speaker 2: that they had drafted Carlos Korea, and that was like

445
00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,399
Speaker 2: as far as my knowledge went when it came to

446
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:24,320
Speaker 2: the Austros, And so I'm like studying like crazy trying

447
00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,719
Speaker 2: to figure it out. I knew there was new ownership.

448
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,159
Speaker 2: I knew that they had the huge press conference and

449
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,280
Speaker 2: they were changing their colors American League. I'm like catching

450
00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,920
Speaker 2: up on all this stuff as fast as I possibly can.

451
00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,320
Speaker 2: I kind of get thrown into the fire. That season

452
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:42,680
Speaker 2: was so hard. It was so hard because people were

453
00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 2: mad about a bunch of different things. They were mad

454
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,080
Speaker 2: that they were going to the American League. They were

455
00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,240
Speaker 2: mad that they got rid of brick Red, and they

456
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,200
Speaker 2: were like even like that old school, like he thought

457
00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:53,680
Speaker 2: people would like it, but people were just mad. They

458
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 2: were mad. And then of course, you know, they were

459
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,720
Speaker 2: mad about them losing, like this is heading into a

460
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,959
Speaker 2: third street season of that. And then there was the

461
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 2: network and the distribution issues that you know, no one

462
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 2: could even watch if they wanted to. So I guess

463
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:10,960
Speaker 2: I was just like feeling a lot of that. I

464
00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 2: was also trying to figure out how to do it.

465
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 2: I was trying to figure out how to do it

466
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,120
Speaker 2: on a daily basis, because when you come in as

467
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,720
Speaker 2: a local news reporter, you're kind of in and out,

468
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,880
Speaker 2: as you know, like those reporters will see them at home,

469
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 2: but you won't see so like I was doing it

470
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,959
Speaker 2: in a completely different fashion. Having talked to a manager

471
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:28,399
Speaker 2: twice a day pre and post about a game that

472
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:34,560
Speaker 2: he lost and just struggled, struggled like personally, like how

473
00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,200
Speaker 2: am I going to? You know, am I even good

474
00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 2: at this? I was dancing around at the ballparks like

475
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 2: look over here, look over here, and the ten's losing,

476
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:42,639
Speaker 2: and I was like, let me, let me eat this

477
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:45,239
Speaker 2: two foot hot dog everybody, and like let's see how

478
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,160
Speaker 2: this goes and if I can eat it all before

479
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 2: the end of the game, And like, no joke, I

480
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,880
Speaker 2: think that was like a real, real hit I did.

481
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 2: But that's just kind of where we were at the time,

482
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 2: and it was all part of the process. It was

483
00:21:58,400 --> 00:21:59,920
Speaker 2: all part of the process. They had the shirts of

484
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,639
Speaker 2: the process, and we bought in and and I'm glad

485
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 2: we did. I'm glad that I was here in twenty thirteen. Now,

486
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,399
Speaker 2: you know, it very quickly got better. Twenty fourteen was

487
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,600
Speaker 2: just a much better year when you get a like

488
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,240
Speaker 2: exciting player. So twenty thirteen, I remember hearing a lot

489
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 2: about George Springer, like we were what, we didn't promoted

490
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,800
Speaker 2: a ton on the broadcast because we were sensitive to

491
00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 2: the organization and ownership. You know, they were like, Okay,

492
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 2: we get it, we understand why he's not up, but

493
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 2: he just you know, he's like going every night. It

494
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:31,960
Speaker 2: was like how many stolen bases, how many home runs?

495
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 2: Like he was just killing it. Carlos Graham was in

496
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 2: like low way or whatever whatever he was doing, but

497
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,680
Speaker 2: he was exciting. So we watched all that. So in

498
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,399
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, it was better because we saw Springer pretty quickly.

499
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:47,119
Speaker 2: John Singleton we saw pretty quickly. There was just like

500
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 2: more to it. Jose came in and he was he

501
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 2: was stealing bases every day, and he was like hitting

502
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,199
Speaker 2: like different than he was the year before. He was

503
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 2: skinny all of a sudden, like he's like a whole

504
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,479
Speaker 2: different human in fourteen, So there was just like there

505
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 2: were there were storylines and some excitement and guys weren't

506
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 2: just going up and down and up and down and then.

507
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 2: So that's that's why I was able to like hang

508
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 2: in and like then now I was figuring it out.

509
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 2: Now I understood how tired I was going to be

510
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,719
Speaker 2: every day. I knew how to pack for a ten

511
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 2: day trip. I knew how I knew where to go

512
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 2: when I was going to Seattle. Like all of that

513
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 2: got so much better. And then to fifteen they started winning.

514
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 2: So it's been overwhelming. Like it's hard for me to

515
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:28,199
Speaker 2: put into words what I've seen since the beginning of

516
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 2: time to now. I said, I'm so glad I was

517
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 2: there in twenty thirteen because I you know, I like

518
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 2: established myself. I figured out how to be a sports

519
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 2: reporter when like not a bunch of people were watching,

520
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 2: so I was able to kind of grow and develop.

521
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 2: And then the people that were watching watched that happen

522
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 2: with me and were like doing it with me, you know,

523
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,880
Speaker 2: they watched me like have a family and like all

524
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,199
Speaker 2: of that. They were following all these crazy storylines on

525
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 2: the side and so together, like we were doing that,

526
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, like boom and the

527
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 2: winning happened. And it's not just winning, it's championships and

528
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 2: parades and the whole bit. I mean, like I still

529
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 2: can't believe some of the things that we have witnessed

530
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 2: over the last decade. But I'm I, you know, like

531
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 2: I'm just so grateful, Like I'm super blessed. It was

532
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 2: all timing, and it's a big reason why I'm still here.

533
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 2: It's like, because of the timing, this was not a

534
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 2: job that people would do and stick around for like

535
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 2: ten years ago, like girls you know that would get

536
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 2: sideline reporters would move on like it was like one

537
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 2: one year here and then you'd like shoot for ESPN

538
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 2: or shoot for only Be Network, like or you bounce around.

539
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 2: You were constantly like looking for the next thing. Like

540
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,959
Speaker 2: everything was just like a stare step. But because of

541
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 2: like the when I came in how it happened, I

542
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 2: was like, I'm not going anywhere, like I've put my

543
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 2: time in. I want to see this play out, like

544
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 2: I want to see what happens, and I'm so glad

545
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 2: I did. And even now, I mean like now I'm

546
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 2: in a place where i'm home. I've like branched out here,

547
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 2: I like, you know, getting into the community and all

548
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 2: that storry in a business. Obviously my family, Like I

549
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 2: love it so much here that I'm obviously invested in

550
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 2: all of it and not just the astros in like Houston, right,

551
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 2: and like all of sports and even the Rockets and

552
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 2: the network that I've watched like just go like this

553
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 2: for all these years in the industry. So it's so

554
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 2: much bigger now than it was. Just like the sideline

555
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 2: reporter gig that I got in twenty thirteen, it's.

556
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 1: Too easy to ask you who was the most valuable

557
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 1: position player on the twenty on the twenty thirteen Astros,

558
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: because we all know it was Jason Castro, They're only

559
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,160
Speaker 1: All Star. Do you know who the second most valuable?

560
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: Do you know who the second most valuable position player

561
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: was in the twenty thirteen Astros?

562
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 2: No, Matt Domingas, Matty d Maddy d Good hands over there.

563
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 2: Alan Ashby loved him, loved him, and we did two.

564
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 2: But that dude was so chill. I still will like

565
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 2: his wifle messaged me everyone small, like a good throwback,

566
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:02,239
Speaker 2: but hated interviews. So chill of a dude on a

567
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 2: really bad team. You're right now, that's good. Yeah, he

568
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 2: was good.

569
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: Speaking of hating interviews, and I think hating is a

570
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: strong word, Josel Tubay is not the easiest person to

571
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: uh to get to open up. He certainly doesn't hate

572
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,959
Speaker 1: interviews by any stretch of the imagination. But since you mentioned,

573
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: you know you got up and you had met him

574
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: before you before you started with the Astros, and he

575
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 1: to watch his career arc and where he has gone to.

576
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: Could you have even fathomed that when you were watching

577
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: him on the twenty thirteen Astros, a guy that on

578
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 1: the twenty thirteen Astros was worth one point one war

579
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,640
Speaker 1: and had an eighty nine oh ps plus. I mean,

580
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: this was not a guy that was screaming. Franchise, franchise,

581
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 1: icon and future Hall of Famer. What has it been

582
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 1: like both on watching him on the field and off

583
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: the field, Because I know, you got you have such

584
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: a you have such a more personal relationship with a

585
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: lot of these guys than any beat writer does, just

586
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,400
Speaker 1: because you're you travel with them, you're with them so much,

587
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,679
Speaker 1: you see them so much. What is been like to

588
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 1: watch him evolve both on and off the field.

589
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like that he was just kind of another guy,

590
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 2: but he was definitely someone that was like he wasn't

591
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 2: the veteran that he'd been there for two years in

592
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen. That just goes to show where that team was.

593
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 2: But but he was kind. He was always so kind, right,

594
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 2: and so easy and then you know, I don't know

595
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 2: how to explain him. There's just like he's approachable if

596
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: you can get a hold of him, like but on

597
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 2: cam and then there's the on camera and that that

598
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 2: goes for like all humans, right, Like not everyone's gonna

599
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: be a good on camera and not everyone's gonna love

600
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 2: being on camera, so you know, I'll start by saying that.

601
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:44,399
Speaker 2: But he got pushed into interviews constantly, and it started

602
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen because he was like the only one

603
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 2: that would do anything on any given night. And I mean,

604
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 2: I don't want to say the only one, but he was.

605
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 2: He was just like mister consistent. It was always a

606
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 2: couple of hits or it was always the hit, and

607
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 2: so it was like, oh, it's all too big. And

608
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 2: so I don't I mean not, I don't think I

609
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 2: ruined him by any means or like made him not

610
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 2: like interviews, but he was just constantly the guy that

611
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 2: was being asked and and fifteen there were veterans that

612
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 2: came in and that helped, but he was still kind

613
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 2: of like in the mix. He's just he doesn't love

614
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 2: to talk about himself. So it's always been you know,

615
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 2: you've always had to like push it out of him

616
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 2: or like, you know, I don't even know what to

617
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 2: ask him anymore, Like watch our interviews. They're terrible. My

618
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 2: interviews that are terrible, Like you have no idea where

619
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 2: to go, and he always tells me, right before he

620
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 2: goes on and he's hungry and I need to hurry.

621
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 2: He's like, cooly, I'm hungry, hurry like and I'm like, okay,

622
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: But even though I've heard that for thirteen years too,

623
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 2: But he is amazing and he's my favorite player, and like,

624
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 2: I don't think you're even supposed to say that you

625
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 2: have a favorite player or a favorite kid, but it's

626
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 2: because of like him as a person, and I you know,

627
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 2: to watch him become who he was in seventeen and

628
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 2: all of a sudden just like be on top of

629
00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 2: the game and so elite was incredible. And then to

630
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 2: watch him go through hell and back since that season,

631
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 2: and how he handles it, doesn't talk about it, doesn't

632
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 2: like I mean, there are no excuses for this guy ever.

633
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 2: And then like, you know, I think, just like some

634
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 2: of my favorite moments of him, I mean obviously like

635
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 2: off the actual field when he's bouncing around, he is

636
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 2: one of the funniest guys. And yeah, like hands down,

637
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 2: he's hilarious, and you know, and he's very sarcastic and

638
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 2: dry and like such a good sense of humor. So

639
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 2: he's ever, like everybody in the clubhouse gravitates to him

640
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 2: and loves him. Like think about all like the little

641
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 2: like what do you call romances that he's had over

642
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 2: the years with like Jake Morismik. You know, I'm thinking

643
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 2: of all the guys who are just like always hugging

644
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 2: him and touching him and want to be around him.

645
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 2: And you can think it's weird until you're around him

646
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 2: and you're like, no, wonder, everyone wants to hang out

647
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 2: with this guy. But some of my like I think

648
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,719
Speaker 2: of some of the big moments. Of course, everyone's going

649
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 2: to talk about the home run and twenty you know,

650
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 2: the walk up home run in twenty nineteen and all this,

651
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 2: but like the home run he hit on his birthday

652
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 2: at Yankee Stadium in twenty twenty one, so like like

653
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 2: it was this like the chance, and like we weren't

654
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 2: there as broadcasters. We're in the studio, but we can

655
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 2: hear everything. Obviously, this is like the first year out

656
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 2: of COVID, so we're we're broadcasting through the cloud. It

657
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 2: was all very new to us. So this is like

658
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 2: an early in the season game. Obviously May on his birthday,

659
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 2: we hear everything. The field mics are picking it all

660
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 2: up and like it's gut wrenching, like I want to puke.

661
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 2: I'm like like, I don't like it's it's painful. I

662
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 2: like this guy, I know, I know him as a person,

663
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 2: I know his family, you know, and you're just like

664
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 2: killing you to listen to it for however many hours

665
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 2: straight and he hits that home run and I'm like,

666
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 2: oh my god. And then he kept doing it like

667
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 2: you know, it was like he would do it all

668
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 2: the time, like that was he would just shut fans

669
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 2: up all these years and never say anything about it,

670
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 2: like you'll never get the quote, You'll never get like

671
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: there's nothing to it. He's just like, I'm just trying

672
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 2: to help my team. And it was amazing.

673
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,040
Speaker 1: I remember I put him. I was, I went, I

674
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: traveled in that twenty one season and I was in

675
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: and they did that and they put him on zoom after.

676
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: I was stunned that he got on zoom after because

677
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: that just seems like something that he would want to

678
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: not address. And for the first like finally, after about

679
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: five questions, he finally goes, yeah, no one likes to

680
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: hear that yelled about them. And it was like finally

681
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: like said yeah, and that's all he said. It was

682
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: just like, you know, I'm just here to help. I'm

683
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: just here to help the team win.

684
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 2: And then I could barely watch it. I could barely

685
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 2: watch it that day. I can't even imagine like his face,

686
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 2: you know, you're like all of it.

687
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: And then remember he hit and then remember they came

688
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: to what was minute May Park, he hit the walk off,

689
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: they completed that seven run comeback in the ninth inning,

690
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: he hit the walk off homer, and they ripped his

691
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: shirt off as as he was as he was touching

692
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: home plate.

693
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 2: That great moment.

694
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that was peak al two, bay I,

695
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: since you brought it, since you brought it up, there's

696
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: obviously been a lot of off the field stuff that

697
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: has happened to this franchise since you've been here, as

698
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: as the rights holder TV station, as the TV station

699
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: that is, for lack of a better word, paid to

700
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: be pro asters. How did you guys approach that? How

701
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: did you get when when you guys were going into

702
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season the twenty twenty one season. Obviously

703
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: twenty twenty was weird for everyone, But how did you

704
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: guys approach covering that story when you knew you can't

705
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: do a broadcast without telling it. But you guys also

706
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: are not going to belabor the point right now.

707
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 2: Todd Kellis is the best at what he does. He

708
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 2: is so good at this and he doesn't need to

709
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 2: be coached up and he just kind of always knows

710
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 2: like the feel and how to make things come across.

711
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 2: But like approach, like there wasn't like an approach. It

712
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 2: wasn't like this wasn't even an option, Like no one

713
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 2: was going to approach this. We were going to call

714
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 2: baseball games for the Houston Astros and twenty twenty obviously

715
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 2: with COVID, I'm seven months pregnant, like you know, it's July.

716
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 2: We're just like we don't even know how we're getting

717
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 2: games on the air, Like you know, it didn't. It

718
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 2: was just like one of a lot of things that

719
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 2: were going on. You know, there was there was the

720
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 2: game early on with Black Lives Matter. I mean, there

721
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 2: was just like so much going on in the world,

722
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 2: so obviously like that, like it did. We didn't have

723
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 2: this like we need to address this before every you know,

724
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 2: like none of that. People knew what was going on.

725
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 2: People knew the story and you heard it when you

726
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 2: went to the other ballpark, you're not in twenty twenty,

727
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 2: but like the next year you definitely heard it. It

728
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 2: was when, you know, like the brawls, it was like

729
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 2: that was when it had to come up, like the

730
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 2: Dog playing the Dodgers, Like I remember that series in

731
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 2: twenty twenty like that, that's when I remember Todd like

732
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 2: handling it all very eloquently and like saying what he

733
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 2: needed to say. And then we keep moving because it

734
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 2: wasn't like the story of the game. That's the thing,

735
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 2: Like our jobs aren't till like like we do a

736
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 2: lot of historic things during the season, but like we

737
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 2: have to call a game, So like that was our

738
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 2: job that year, and it is every year, but twenty

739
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 2: twenty one it was like when you started hearing it

740
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: or when things had happened, and it was kind of

741
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 2: just up to Todd and Blummer and how they would

742
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 2: handle it. And we keep moving. But we've like there's

743
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 2: been drama before right around the organization, and there's like

744
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 2: we've had to just keep going. It's not We're not

745
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 2: going to stop and tell the story. It's not going

746
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 2: to show up on bases loaded. It doesn't need to.

747
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 2: The person at home is tuning in that is a fan,

748
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 2: right and as a fan that wants to see the

749
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 2: good and they want to see their team win, and

750
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 2: they want to see a game. They want to see

751
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 2: a good baseball game and a good show, and they

752
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 2: want to see what's going on with Altuba and his

753
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 2: hit streak of thirteen games or whatever. So that's what

754
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 2: we stuck to and we'll continue to stick to. That

755
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: was hard. It was hard. It was hard because it

756
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 2: was social media. I mean, like as a as a human, like, yeah, no,

757
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 2: that was hard. It was hard for me personally. It

758
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 2: was hard. It's still like my there's like words that

759
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 2: I have blocked off that you can't like I won't

760
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 2: even see, like, you know, there's all of that. Like,

761
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean that's not just me. I mean

762
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 2: that's that's everybody having a deal of it across the

763
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 2: board and across all teams. There's all kinds of stuff

764
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 2: going on out there.

765
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I have trash Can Bang and Cheater

766
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 1: muted on my exit currently, so I can't even see

767
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: anyone that goes as And yes, the Astros have endured

768
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: and persevered head down and they got through it, you know.

769
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about Julia how you've kind of gotten

770
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,040
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Speaker 1: So, Julie, you started in twenty thirteen, were single, you

782
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: were not a mom yet, and then you then you

783
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: met and married l s U baseball standout legend Matt

784
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: Clark ot go hey, he was. He was a staple

785
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: of like my middle school, watching him, watching him destroy

786
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: baseballs against Kentucky like he was a he was a

787
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: stud at l s U. So, good job, Matty, you

788
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: got your you got your shout out here. You've got

789
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 1: you and Matt. You and Matt got married. You have

790
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: Valerie now Valerie is about to be what four or five?

791
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 2: Five?

792
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: God? Time flies? How is how is your job? And

793
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: how has just how you go about things changed since

794
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: you became a mother?

795
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 2: That's a little Yeah, we don't have time for all

796
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 2: the ways and just like like my age and like

797
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 2: what I know and how I mean like all of it, right,

798
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 2: we just like grow older and have so much more

799
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 2: experience and things. So like everything's different now than it

800
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 2: was in twenty thirteen. So I was with Matt before

801
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 2: I got the Astros job. We had already been dating

802
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 2: and he had taken off to Japan in twenty thirteen.

803
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 2: He had signed a j Hinch actually sold him off

804
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 2: to Japan. Of all people, when aj was with the Padres,

805
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 2: do you know the story, he's just.

806
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: The farm director with the Padres right, well, he was

807
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: the AGM.

808
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was assistant GM at the time. So he

809
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 2: sells Matt Matt. You know, Matt wanted to go. Matt

810
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 2: wanted a chance. He was kind of stuck in San

811
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,959
Speaker 2: Diego and wanted to go try to make some money.

812
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 2: So he went to Japan and thirteen. All I know

813
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 2: is this name, right, AJ Hinch or whatever, Like I

814
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 2: that's all I know at the time, and then in fourteen,

815
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 2: this guy shows up. He's like the new Astros manager.

816
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 2: I'm like this guy just like kind of a crazy

817
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:51,840
Speaker 2: full circle baseball small world, right. But anyway, so we're together.

818
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 2: So our first year is like long distance. Second year

819
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 2: he comes back and that's when he debuted with the

820
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 2: Brewers actually, but like his career was just like all

821
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 2: over that, Like fifteen, hument back to Japan. That year,

822
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 2: we got married and bought a house, like all year

823
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 2: in the season. So I like this job, like I

824
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 2: was always doing. I was always busy and like life

825
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 2: was never like normal and I was never I never

826
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: did the job as like just the single girl like

827
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 2: doing her own thing or whatever, because I was always

828
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 2: with him, so there was always like traveling Japan on

829
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 2: my off days like that happened a couple of times

830
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 2: as well. So anyway, like that all all to say

831
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 2: that like this has never been a normal life, like

832
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 2: I've never it's like always been very crazy to tell

833
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 2: the stories of like how this job works or how

834
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 2: I do it. But here a question being like post

835
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: COVID has also been like family for me with Valerie

836
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 2: growing up twenty twenty one, we did not travel, as

837
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 2: we were talking about earlier, So like the timing was

838
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,399
Speaker 2: wildly great in that, like that was the only good

839
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:55,879
Speaker 2: thing that came out of all of that. I think

840
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 2: was because it was like her first year of life.

841
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 2: And so anyone who has had a child, Chandler, you're

842
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 2: looking at me like I have fifteen eyes right now

843
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 2: because you don't like you, I don't I didn't know,

844
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 2: Like you just don't know what you don't know about

845
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 2: like having a newborn and like what that first year is,

846
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 2: especially if you're a mom, and all the things that

847
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 2: you need to do and like you're feeling and how

848
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 2: to take care of a baby all that. So I'm

849
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 2: like super blessed and grateful that like the first year

850
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 2: I was home, I was going to work, but I

851
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 2: was home every night and able to do that. So

852
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two about killed me. And it was the

853
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 2: coolest year because you know, the Astros won, but it

854
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 2: was it was hard. I jumped back in. I was

855
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 2: back at spring training that year. You know, it's like

856
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 2: like we didn't have a choice, like we were we

857
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 2: were doing this, Like my job didn't change, like my

858
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 2: contract didn't change, Like I'm still who I am for

859
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 2: the network, and we're all traveling again, so I had

860
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 2: to figure it out. It was hard to be away

861
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 2: at the beginning. I think there was like some long

862
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 2: trips in the beginning of the year. Like by the

863
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 2: end of April, I was just like I'm dead because

864
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 2: I was getting this like being on the road coming

865
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 2: back from the West Coast jet lag. But my kid,

866
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 2: I haven't seen her in ten days, so like she's

867
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 2: waking up at six am, so I'm at at six am,

868
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 2: but I'm going to bed at midnight. Like really hard.

869
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 2: Not only like we get through that season, I work

870
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 2: a bunch of I think I worked like one forty

871
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 2: five that year. Then they go all the way and

872
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 2: there's a parade like it just didn't stop, and that you, like,

873
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 2: October is so hard. Like that's the other thing I

874
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 2: tell people, Like October's like take the whole regular season

875
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 2: and like smash it into one month because like the

876
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 2: travels harder, and like the stress of every game is there,

877
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 2: and like it's just it's insane, And to go all

878
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 2: the way like they did it was hard. So I

879
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,359
Speaker 2: survived barely. But you like roll into like you roll

880
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 2: into the off season stuff, and all of a sudden,

881
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 2: like I'm working rockets, and you know, I'm just like,

882
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 2: how am I going to do this? I have just

883
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 2: gotten to a point now where I'm like, I need

884
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 2: to just say no when I need to say no

885
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 2: and tell people that, because that's something I never did,

886
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 2: was that when I was younger. So I do tell

887
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 2: people that. I don't tell the twenty two year olds

888
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 2: that because like say yes, right, and I know you

889
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 2: probably do the same Chandler, and like, sure, do what

890
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 2: you gotta do to get your foot in the door

891
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:11,879
Speaker 2: to get your job started, all of that. But like

892
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 2: the older you get, like in order to be good

893
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 2: at all the things, like like it was starting to

894
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 2: affect me right, Like I wasn't like super happy at

895
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 2: the end of road trips. I just wanted to get

896
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 2: home and I wasn't like my best self at home

897
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 2: because I was like tired from the road trips. I

898
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 2: was like, well, what do I need to say no to?

899
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 2: How do I chill? Well, yeah, I started a business

900
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two too, that was like on top

901
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 2: of everything else. So I got better at that. I

902
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 2: got better at like just like picking when I needed

903
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 2: off days and then like taking my kids sometimes like

904
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 2: that that can be a lot, but also like sometimes

905
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 2: I just need to see her and not have ten

906
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 2: days without her. I just it's a learning curve and

907
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 2: I like haven't quite figured it out. But I'm and

908
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 2: I'm getting older, so it's like harder to bounce back

909
00:41:55,360 --> 00:42:00,080
Speaker 2: from things. And I entered my calf just walking and

910
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 2: all these like stupid things that are happening now, Like

911
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 2: I'm just like not working at one hundred percent ever again,

912
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 2: I guess it's like how my life is gonna go.

913
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 2: But I'm learning and I'm not great at it. Everyone's like,

914
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 2: how do you do it? How are you working? Mom?

915
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 2: And all this stuff. I'm like, I don't know, but

916
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 2: I look like a zombie most days, you know, Like

917
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 2: my house is a mess, like I don't have it

918
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 2: all together. I do not like behind the scenes, and

919
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 2: you know that Tadler like I'll come in like, you know,

920
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 2: just hair on fire, like I just picked her up

921
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 2: from skull and dropped her off at somebody I barely

922
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 2: knows house or whatever. Not really, but like, you know,

923
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 2: that's kind of how my life is some days. So crazy. Yeah,

924
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 2: the job, the job, like the job has been the job,

925
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 2: but like my life has changed around it, and I

926
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 2: wish I had good advice for people out there trying

927
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 2: to do it, but I don't know. Everyone's different and

928
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 2: every time is different. So I don't really know.

929
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: Her Valerie to the point where like she's watching she's

930
00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: watching broadcast. She gets that, she gets you under fands

931
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: what mom does and like she she looks on TV.

932
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, like, let's watch Mom on TV tonight.

933
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 2: Yes, And like she knows short trip versus long trip.

934
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 2: So it's like, you know, I'll be home in three

935
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 2: days versus nine days. And this year has been great.

936
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 2: You know. I look at the schedule in August of

937
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 2: the year before, and that's something I don't think people realize,

938
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 2: is that, like when that schedule comes out, like that

939
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 2: is my life for the next year. And so you

940
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 2: know I'm looking at I'm like, we don't have a

941
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,439
Speaker 2: ten day trip until.

942
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: It's it's that, uh, that's great. I think it's Boston, Miami,

943
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: New York. That's a yere city ten day trip.

944
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and August that's I'm already I can already tell

945
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 2: a difference, Like of course I'm my usual tired, but

946
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 2: like end of May. I don't. I don't feel like

947
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 2: I'm neglecting my kid as you know, as if I

948
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,839
Speaker 2: would if I had a ten day trip. Those are hard.

949
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 2: Ten days is hard away from your family. And I

950
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 2: know people who travel and you know, do other things

951
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 2: really get that.

952
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: I feel like we can't endless without talking about the

953
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: actual twenty twenty five Astros? What have you? What have

954
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: you made of this after after forty seven games, three

955
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: above five hundred. It has not been easy by any

956
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination. But now they're in there. They're

957
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: in there, and the American League is not very good,

958
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: so it really may not take a ton of wins

959
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: to get into the playoffs. What have you made of

960
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:18,720
Speaker 1: this team through forty seven games?

961
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,399
Speaker 2: That's so when I see the negative comments of like

962
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 2: burn it to the ground, let's start over and stuff,

963
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 2: and I'm.

964
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 1: Like, I here the hitting coach standings.

965
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, like look at the standings, or like look at

966
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 2: the record. And also how aure the Detroit Tigers? Like

967
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 2: how do they have wins? In the Dodgers, Like there's

968
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 2: a lot going on right now, like we got a

969
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 2: long way to go to play this out, but yeah, no,

970
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 2: it's So that's the other part of like covering such

971
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 2: an incredible team for so long is like we I

972
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 2: don't even think I'm used to this. Like last year

973
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 2: was tough, that that start for them, and to watch

974
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 2: them come back, it was almost like, yeah, they have

975
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 2: to come back, Like this is what the Astros do,

976
00:44:58,160 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 2: Like they have to figure out a way to when

977
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 2: division and be on top again. And then I'm like,

978
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 2: they're still good. Like there's so many teams that win,

979
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 2: you know, eighty is game eighty five games or whatever,

980
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 2: and like fans are happy and like they go to

981
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 2: the ballpark and they leave after a good win, like

982
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 2: that was great, Like we love baseball, Like our fans

983
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 2: are acting as some of our fans are just like

984
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 2: what is going on? Like this is the worst thing

985
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 2: I've ever seen? It's all part of the ride, right,

986
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 2: And yeah, like I I don't I haven't figured this

987
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,919
Speaker 2: team out, and I don't think they've figured themselves out.

988
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,439
Speaker 2: And I think that's okay because of where they are

989
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 2: and because of the standing. So no need to panic there,

990
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 2: like because freaking Hunter Brown is out of his mind.

991
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 2: Robert like Robert can be when like he gets out

992
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 2: there and if he focuses. If he locks in, You're like,

993
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 2: oh god, Like I know, we're always like texting. You're like, oh,

994
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 2: here we go, Like are we gonna be covering and

995
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,439
Speaker 2: out hitter because it could happen on any given night.

996
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 2: But they're you know when it they they've done some

997
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 2: questions and they're like throwing a guy today that you know,

998
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,839
Speaker 2: we don't know about. I mean, like, this is gonna

999
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 2: be very interesting to see how they they get through

1000
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 2: the next couple of months from the starter situation. But

1001
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 2: one and two you're good there it and the offense

1002
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: like I don't know, you see signs of it, and

1003
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 2: like they haven't even gotten close to what we think

1004
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 2: they can do. You know if like if a guy

1005
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 2: like Christian Walker goes off, like he could carry this

1006
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 2: team for a while, like he has that kind of potential,

1007
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 2: but you know, it's like we haven't we haven't seen

1008
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 2: it yet, So yeah, hang on, buckle up. If you're

1009
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 2: an Ashros fan, like I have no idea kind of

1010
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 2: where this is going, but I know they're in it,

1011
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 2: and I know they're right now they're showing that they're

1012
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 2: good enough to win on any given night against any

1013
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 2: given team, So yeah, we'll see how it plays out.

1014
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 2: That's like tart of the thumb though, like like that

1015
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 2: that that is baseball, And I think that that's what

1016
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 2: I'm saying about being spoiled. I'm like, like, you're not

1017
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 2: supposed to win one hundred and one games every year,

1018
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 2: Like you're not supposed to like know that your team's

1019
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 2: gonna win every night. Like this is sports. So like

1020
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 2: fans are getting like a full dose of like, hey,

1021
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 2: you'll see what happened.

1022
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: I've had to tell people a lot. This is how

1023
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: the other half lives, like you are living, how like

1024
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: normal teams live Like this is yeah, like normal teams

1025
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: don't roll the balls out there every year and win

1026
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: one hundred and five games like that. That maybe the

1027
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: Dodgers on some occasions, but I mean, look at the Dodgers.

1028
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:28,280
Speaker 1: They they have a billion dollar team and they're struggling

1029
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: to stay atop the West. I mean, like it's just

1030
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,800
Speaker 1: how baseball is. And for me, it's been and I

1031
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: don't know about if you would agree, this has been

1032
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: more of the more fascinating just seasons. I mean, it's

1033
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: fifty games in it. We're not there yet, but like

1034
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: this is fascinating to me, like you go to the

1035
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: ballpark every day and you really don't know what you're

1036
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,399
Speaker 1: gonna see, Like in twenty nineteen, twenty one, twenty two,

1037
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: like you went to the ballpark every day and you

1038
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: knew that there was a pretty good chance they were

1039
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: gonna win that night. And it was robotic, if you will.

1040
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: It was kind of like, okay, like Hoseel two is

1041
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: gonna get three hits just early, Anders gonna throw seven scoreless.

1042
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: Ryan Presley is gonna come in and finish it out,

1043
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: and like they're gonna they're gonna robotically walk their way

1044
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: to a five to one win. Even though it's not

1045
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:11,800
Speaker 1: that easy, they made it look that easy.

1046
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is just good they were. That's how crazy

1047
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 2: good they were.

1048
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: This is different.

1049
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like hard to explain all of that,

1050
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 2: and it's hard. You know, we were just watching the

1051
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 2: Rangers and you're like there's so many questions around that

1052
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,919
Speaker 2: team and sure they're pitching, look like they can hold

1053
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 2: their own too, and it's like what happened their offense.

1054
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 2: I'm like, they just won the World Series two years ago.

1055
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 2: People like this is why we tell you what the

1056
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 2: Ashos are doing is crazy. Because like that is kind

1057
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 2: of the norm. Like sometimes it's just like you catch

1058
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 2: lightning bottle, you win a World Series, and then like

1059
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,439
Speaker 2: we don't hear from you in a couple of years,

1060
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 2: Like that's that's hot. It's gone until you get a

1061
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 2: dynasty and like whatever word you want to use, the

1062
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 2: golden hair whatever, whatever. But like that's why we say

1063
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 2: that this is hard. It's crazy what they did.

1064
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,240
Speaker 1: Cherishing cherishing, Yeah, I mean exactly, That's why you should

1065
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: never take it for granted. That's why you know, it

1066
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: was was kind of dispiriting. I would imagine for you know,

1067
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: the two Wildcard games last year, you looked at the

1068
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: ballpark and like there weren't many people there. They weren't

1069
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 1: into it, and it was because they were probably waiting

1070
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Speaker 1: for the Alds, the Alcs, because they viewed it as

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00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 1: somewhat of a birthright, like oh, of course you're going

1072
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: to play, guys, that's just not how it works. Like

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00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: you've got to you've got to cherish like every step

1074
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: that this team takes. And I understand that, you know,

1075
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,320
Speaker 1: there there have been people that have been spoiled and

1076
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: it's one of these things where I think now the

1077
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: last two seasons. I think people are sorry to understand

1078
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: that this is not how this is how you're living,

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00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: how the other half lives.

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00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 2: Also, you lost in these wildcard games, so the team

1081
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 2: that has the best record in the record right now,

1082
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 2: Like yeah, Like I mean it's like the full picture,

1083
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 2: which is hard and like going back to what we

1084
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 2: were talking about earlier, like not everyone watches every night,

1085
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 2: and that is part of our job on the broadcast

1086
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 2: is to like bring me stories every night to remind

1087
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 2: you what it's like, put things into perspective, et cetera,

1088
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 2: et cetera. So fans do get an idea because I

1089
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 2: know it's it's hard to keep up with all that.

1090
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 2: You just want your team to win every night. I

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Speaker 2: get it. I get it, Julie.

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00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: Since you're new to Crush City Territory, we do have

1093
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: one stipulation. We got to get you before we get

1094
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 1: you out here. We are contractually obligated every episode to

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00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: talk about Cam Smith, what have what have you? Tyler Tyler,

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00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: who will be rejoining us sometime this week after both

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00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 1: did Tyler is the captain of the Cam Smith Train.

1098
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: He's the conductor of the Cam Smith hype Train. How

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Speaker 1: did Cam How did Cam look back and familiar confound?

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Speaker 1: I know he's not from Tampa, He's but he's from

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Speaker 1: he's from the Florida area. I'm sure he out there.

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Speaker 1: How did he look yesterday? Obviously hit a couple of

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00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 1: balls hard, And what have you thought of him through

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00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: forty seven games and how he's kind of assimilated to

1105
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Speaker 1: the big leagues.

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00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, he looked in the Texas Series too much better.

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Speaker 2: Hit the ball really hard yesterday, Like it comes off

1108
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 2: the bat like I remember in the spring train. It's

1109
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 2: that Florida spring train and field to it in spring

1110
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 2: training when he hit those two home runs, and like

1111
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 2: that sounds different. That's how last night felt for him.

1112
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 2: So that's definitely a good sign. I Yeah, I'm super

1113
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 2: impressed with him. I And that's the other thing when

1114
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 2: like it's hard to explain to an average person, like

1115
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 2: how hard it is to go from like college baseball

1116
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 2: to the majors and all the steps that guys usually

1117
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 2: have to go through in between, and just kind of

1118
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 2: living in a minor league clubhouse and figuring out what

1119
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 2: your day is and the routine and like what time

1120
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 2: need to be where and treatment and I mean, there's

1121
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 2: so much stuff. He's like learning on to fly and

1122
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:37,479
Speaker 2: oh yeah, you play right field now. By the way

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00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 2: he's just handled.

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Speaker 5: It, well, it's hard, like the game is so hard,

1125
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 5: and he's hanging in there like he's really there and like,

1126
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 5: sure he's had his struggles at times offensively, but like

1127
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 5: the way he looked the last week, it's like, all right,

1128
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 5: if he can come out of it, he could be

1129
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,439
Speaker 5: a huge boost at the bottom of the order for them.

1130
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Speaker 2: But overall, what a great kid. And you're right, there

1131
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:02,880
Speaker 2: was like a little bit of I don't know, it's

1132
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 2: not swag. What are they calling it. He just walked

1133
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:08,320
Speaker 2: around and it's Florida. It's something about being back in Florida.

1134
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 2: I think for him with all of his he calls

1135
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 2: him with the cams crew or his whole family section

1136
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 2: was was there. So he's just a happy, smiley guy

1137
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 2: and everybody has good things to say about him. So

1138
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 2: he's doing something right behind the scenes too. There's a

1139
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 2: lot we don't see, but everyone's saying great things. So yeah,

1140
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:29,800
Speaker 2: I'm impressed.

1141
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, you and I both know that. Like those guys

1142
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: in the clubhouse love him, and they've loved him since

1143
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 1: spring training when they put him they put his locker

1144
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: in the middle of Alvarez, al Tu Paanya, that whole crew,

1145
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: and he fit right in with with a lot of

1146
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 1: established guys and they really like him in there. And look,

1147
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, on the roster, he's gonna have to produce,

1148
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:51,919
Speaker 1: Like makeup can only get you so far, and he's

1149
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: producing and the Bats have looked better. But to do

1150
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:57,479
Speaker 1: all of this as a twenty two year old kid

1151
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 1: and be playing a position that he had never played

1152
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: before mid March and playing it very very well. I've

1153
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: been so interressed watching him in the outfield. He is,

1154
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: He's past every test and you knew that there were

1155
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 1: going to be some stumbling blocks just inherently for that transition.

1156
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: But cam Smith has been you know, he brings some

1157
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: energy that this team needs, and the energy that the

1158
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: energy that he brings can really only manifest itself when

1159
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: he's on the bases, when he's running around, when he's

1160
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: hitting the ball hard. And as he does more of that,

1161
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: I think that infectiousness maybe will spread around a lineup

1162
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,319
Speaker 1: that could use it. They could use spark and Cam

1163
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: Smith is certain profiles as that spark guy.

1164
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I completely agree. Yeah, I mean, like the youth,

1165
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 2: just like it's just like glowing off of him, or

1166
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 2: like he looks so fresh all the time, and the

1167
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 2: way he runs the bases.

1168
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: You're like, ah, I told you this, and I think

1169
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: I've set it on a pod before. But so when

1170
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,360
Speaker 1: I was writing the story about them exposing him the

1171
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: center field a little bit, like I went over to

1172
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: him in the clubhouse is about three weeks ago and

1173
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: did an interview with him, and then I asked him,

1174
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 1: you know, have they hit you balls in center field?

1175
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, you know, they told me to

1176
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: go out there yesterday. That may have just been like

1177
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: an accident, Like I don't think that was actually an

1178
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:12,479
Speaker 1: I to go camp cam. This is the big league.

1179
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: This is the big leagues. They don't do anything by

1180
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: accident here, Like there's not a miscommunication, Like they do

1181
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: want you so it is. It's cool and you've seen

1182
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 1: so many of these rookies come up, Like it's cool

1183
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: to watch them evolve from just kind of wide eyed, smiling,

1184
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: kind of not knowing what to do, to like be right.

1185
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: I take Kyle Tucker as probably the best example. Kyle

1186
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: Tucker went from just kind of like a deer in

1187
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,360
Speaker 1: the headlights kind of looked to he's not here anymore.

1188
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: But by the end of his Asher's tenure was an

1189
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: established mainstay. And you've seen a lot of them. You've

1190
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:47,919
Speaker 1: seen a lot of those kids. You've been with them

1191
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:48,879
Speaker 1: from the first day.

1192
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I even last yesterday Calton Gordon after the games,

1193
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 2: like where should we do this interview? You want to

1194
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 2: should we? We're like your locker, Brendan Rodgers is in

1195
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 2: the back, Like let's do it in the shower, like,

1196
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 2: I mean something like that. They're just so innocent and

1197
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 2: pure in the beginning. And I remember like at like

1198
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 2: was it de Zenzo and some of these guys I

1199
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 2: got called up last year like we would do the

1200
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 2: walk off interview after wins, and they didn't even know

1201
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 2: what that meant or like what to do or like

1202
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 2: where to stand or what the camera was doing. I

1203
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:26,320
Speaker 2: was like, oh god, you precious children. You yeah, stuff

1204
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 2: like that. They're just like clueless. But you're right about Tucker.

1205
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 2: He we watched him. I mean I've watched he was

1206
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 2: literally a child when he sat in that chair for

1207
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 2: the first time after getting drafted, and now you know,

1208
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 2: he's known so well throughout the league. I think Chicago

1209
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 2: loves him obviously what he's what he's doing, but just

1210
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 2: like behind like he's a hard guy to show like

1211
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 2: personality wise through media, but I mean that's like a

1212
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 2: contagious personality. He's awesome.

1213
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: You didn't you didn't see in arling. I think it

1214
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: was one of the Nats. I think it was the

1215
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: Friday game. You were off. Colton Gordon walked out to

1216
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: throw his bullpen on Friday at Globeal Life Field and

1217
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 1: he had he has weighted balls that he works with,

1218
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: you know before bullpens to get his arm going. He

1219
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: had his weighted balls in a plastic shopping bag from

1220
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 1: the Astros teams literally a team store, and he had

1221
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: waited balls in there. And Michael Collins looked at me

1222
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:22,919
Speaker 1: and goes, you can graduate him to a Duffel bag.

1223
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 1: I go, it's the show.

1224
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:24,319
Speaker 2: Come on.

1225
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,839
Speaker 1: And the next day he did have a he had

1226
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: an Astros issue double down. So these rookie it's always

1227
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: always fun to see. Come up, Julia. This was great.

1228
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 1: I told you I was gonna keep you for thirty minutes.

1229
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,720
Speaker 1: The conversations calling on near an hour. I really appreciate.

1230
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:44,399
Speaker 1: I know you've got a lot of stuff you want

1231
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: to do in Tampa that is not involving talking to me,

1232
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 1: but this was great. I appreciate you taking some time,

1233
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,440
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of fans will enjoy hearing

1234
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:54,800
Speaker 1: kind of your perspective of your career and kind of

1235
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:58,520
Speaker 1: how you how you've evolved into becoming a mainstay, becoming

1236
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:01,760
Speaker 1: maybe behind jose L two, the second most popular member

1237
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:02,680
Speaker 1: of the Astros.

1238
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:05,840
Speaker 2: Traveling, Oh God, no chance, no chance as well, they

1239
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 2: would say no.

1240
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:13,360
Speaker 1: Chance, and they would say this was amazing. So thank you,

1241
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: thank you, This is fun. Thanks Julia, and as always, guys,

1242
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:20,919
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1243
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 1: give us a five star review. If you like this,

1244
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,840
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1245
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:29,760
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1246
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: new episode. You can follow me on Twitter or x

1247
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: at Chandler Underscore Room. Julia, everyone follows you already, but

1248
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: if they don't, where do they f Where can they

1249
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: follow you?

1250
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 2: Julia Moreles or Julia Moreles Clark on Instagram and on TikTok.

1251
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not. Remember you tried to get tags

1252
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 1: and I on TikTok and that didn't. It's never gonna work,

1253
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 1: and then you've been plugging it for fifty eight minutes.

1254
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: I might as well. Baseball y'all go ahead.

1255
00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 2: Base for y'all shop, Baseball y'all dot com.

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Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, Thanks Julia, Thanks everybody. We'll talk to you soon.