1 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody? Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory. 2 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: My name is Chandler Rome with Tyler Stafford, who I 3 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: would accuse of faking the illness he used to get 4 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:17,760 Speaker 1: out of the last pod, But once you hear him talk, 5 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: you will understand that no, he was not faking, and 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: he is here to fulfill his contractual obligations and provide 7 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: witty and sometimes irreverent insight. Tyler, how are you? 8 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 2: I'm okay. I don't feel sick. Oh this is bad, 9 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 2: but I did go and get I went to the 10 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 2: story last night and I got this like steamer for 11 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 2: my voice and have packed up on cough drops. So 12 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 2: we're gonna see if I can last half an hour. 13 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 2: But this is the best I've sounded in like a week. 14 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: What happened? I mean, so you're not sick, it's just 15 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: your voice just went. 16 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 2: Don't this happens to me like once a year. I 17 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 2: don't know what it is. Maybe it's like allergies. I mean, 18 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 2: granted we're having and apollen clips, yeah, which I just 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 2: came up with right now. I don't know if anyone 20 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 2: else has said that, but I like it, and I 21 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 2: think maybe going from Houston, the most humid city in 22 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 2: the world, to El Paso, the least something. Something in 23 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 2: that trip ruined me. So yes, this is what I 24 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 2: sound like. Deal with it. 25 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: We'll have to. We have no other choice because I 26 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: wasn't going to do this solo. 27 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 2: And you do want to just like Bill Burrett and do 28 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 2: like a three hour solo pod. Today, I'm good. 29 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: I like Seattle, so I want to get out and 30 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: explore the city, even though it is it was rainy, 31 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: cloudy and gray as Seattle usually is. 32 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 2: Have you gotten to let has someone thrown a fish 33 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 2: at you before? 34 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: I've got to do that. I've watched them throw the 35 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: fishes multiple times. I have not had one throwne to 36 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: me because I think I think it's actually like unless 37 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,919 Speaker 1: they bring like a camera crew there for there for Julia. 38 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: It's reserved for Julia. And like if you're a normal 39 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: person without like a camera crew and they throw a 40 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: fish at you, like you literally are obligated to purchase it, 41 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: and those things, and those things are not cheap when 42 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: you walking around the market. Those fishes bring. 43 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: Us back like a three pound tuna, and we'll just 44 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 2: we'll open a sushi restaurant down here cool. 45 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: I'll make some room in my suitcase. I think I can. 46 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: I can squeeze it in between my couple the couple 47 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: hoodies that I haven't worn yet. 48 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 2: What's the what's your favorite like traveling city? Which ones 49 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 2: are you excited about? 50 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: The interesting thing is this first trip had two of 51 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: them between Minneapolis and Seattle. Minneapolis it's an underrated city. 52 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: The ballpark is excellent. If you've never been to target Field, 53 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 1: I highly, highly highly recommend checking out target Field and 54 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: downtown Minneapolis. It is up there in the top five ballparks, 55 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: and it's not number five for me, it is. It's 56 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: probably third or fourth for me as best ballparks to 57 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: go to. I can't really explain why I like it 58 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: so much. It's it's very modern, but it's not like 59 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: in your face, over the top, sort of like weird stuff. 60 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: They've done a good job of melding kind of old 61 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: and new in there. It's in downtown. The weather obviously 62 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: we were there in April when it was a little chili, 63 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: but if you go to Minnesota in June or July 64 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,519 Speaker 1: there that is a great place to catch a game. 65 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: And there's a lot downtown near target Field a lot 66 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: of bars, a lot of restaurants, things you can walk 67 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: to to do things before and after the game. I 68 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: like Seattle. Maybe I'm just biased because like I've been 69 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: here a lot before I started covering baseball, But I 70 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: just like the vibe. T Mobile Park. It'll always be 71 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: safeg Field to me. But T Mobile Parks a great 72 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: I like Target feel better. T Mobile Park's a great 73 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: place to watch a game. These two the first couple 74 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: trips here up there, but I think number one for me, 75 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: ASKDB Chicago. Chicago is probably my favorite favorite city to go. 76 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: Be a visitor at Loan Guaranteed raid Field. Oh my god, 77 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: talk about bottom five ballpark and that is probably thirty 78 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: as far as getting watching. 79 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 2: Well, you haven't been to Miami, right, that's going to 80 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 2: be your thirty That really I hated Miami's Ballpark. It 81 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 2: was well as a fan, so we have different, you know, 82 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 2: perspectives of games. You're in the press box the whole time. 83 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 2: Miami's Stadium feels like like a high school football stadium. 84 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 2: It's all concrete and when you walk in the concourse, 85 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 2: they didn't build it where you can see the field 86 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 2: as you walk the concourse. It's you're just behind like 87 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 2: concrete walls the whole time. So it just I did 88 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 2: not like it at all. But yeah, my parents, my 89 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 2: mom is slowly checking off every state in the United States. 90 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 2: They've got one left. But a year or two ago 91 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 2: they were up in Minnesota, and my dad has figured out, fine, 92 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 2: I'll go to all these states with you, but we're 93 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 2: only going to go to the new ones when the 94 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 2: Astros are playing in that in that state. So they 95 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 2: were up in Minnesota. Was it two years ago when 96 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 2: Verylander had like a one hitter or like a no 97 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 2: hitter through the seventh or whatever. 98 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was two years ago. He had a no 99 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: hitter through the seventh. And honestly that that game kind 100 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 1: of told us that Justin Verlander had maybe turned the 101 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: corner from being like a salty vet to like being 102 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: like a more amenable, more like comfortable, more genial veteran. 103 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: Because after the game, I remember Bregman made a play 104 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: behind him to save the no hitter at one point, 105 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: and Bregman like came up to him and like was 106 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: doing the You remember the movie, I believe it was 107 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: a little Big League where the Boers is like messing 108 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: with his glove every time and they make a big play. 109 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: Verlander did that to Bregman, and Bregman didn't know what 110 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: Little Big League was. He had not heard of hours 111 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: or anything. And Verlander was like, come on, I'm trying 112 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 1: to make a joke in the middle of my outing, 113 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: and like this young kid doesn't even know what Little 114 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: Big League is, Like it was and just to have 115 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: Justin Verlander even that being in his mind during his outing, 116 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 1: you kind of knew that all right, Like he has 117 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: turned a corner kind of mentally. Just he's not this 118 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: locked in cyborg psychopath anymore. He's kind of a He's 119 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: a little more relatable. He's a little more human. And 120 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: that's what I remember from that game. But A starts 121 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 1: to play some weird games at Target Field. They had 122 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: that game a couple of years ago Memorial Day where 123 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: they rallied from like an eight run deficit, came back 124 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: and won. On Sunday, they rallied from a six run deficit. 125 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: They were down seven to one. Their starter got five outs, 126 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: their closer got six outs, and they won the game. 127 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: Interesting how that works. They had some help from Roco Baldelli, 128 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: the Twins manager, who completely in my view, butchered the 129 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: bullpen management of that game late, using Johann Duran for 130 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: the eight to nine year for eight nine to one, 131 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: and the Ashers ordering the eighth and then bringing Griffin 132 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: Jacks for the middle of the lineup in the ninth. 133 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: You kind of knew it was gonna happen. Jordan Alvarez 134 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: hit an absolute moon shot off of Jackson to tie 135 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: the game. Josh Hayter was Josh Hater. The Astros scratched 136 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: across a couple runs. In the tenth, joseel Tuva made 137 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: a base running air. You know, everything kind of just 138 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: came together. It was a It was a very typical 139 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: way the Ashers win the game. So they left Minnesota 140 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: having won two of their first three series, which I 141 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: think on paper everyone would have taken. They're four and five. 142 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: It maybe has not been the smoothest path to four 143 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: and five. They're pitching it very well. The offense finally 144 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: kind of broke out on Sunday, Yasak Paradis had four hits. 145 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: Jordan Alvarez hit that home run. As we mentioned, they 146 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: had been waiting on him to kind of come along. 147 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: Brendan Rodgers continued to swing the bat well Jake Myers 148 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: got on base four times on Sunday. I don't think 149 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: the offense is gonna click one to nine like that 150 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: every day, but good to see Tyler after We people 151 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: that have watched and covered the team that come in 152 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: waiting for somebody to really go off, and Sunday you 153 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: saw a bunch of guys do it. 154 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 2: There's something that is really special about watching a game 155 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 2: where a team gets down and they slowly come back, 156 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 2: like being down seven to one and just like chipping away. 157 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 2: It wasn't like one inning and then they score fifteen 158 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 2: and it swings the other way like it's a slow climb. 159 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 2: Those are the best games to watch now. Granted I 160 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 2: took a Sunday nap after they got up one to nothing. Okay, yeah, 161 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 2: I was was that yeah in the in the top 162 00:08:57,920 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 2: of the first right, Yeah they did score, they did. Yeah. 163 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 2: First I was listening. I was listening to my headphones. 164 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 2: I fell asleep to the broadcast, and then I woke 165 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 2: up and it was seven to one, so I caught 166 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 2: right then. But then I was like, well, I'm bored, 167 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 2: so I'm gonna watch this game anyway. And it was 168 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 2: awesome coming back, and of course after the Cougars, anything's possible. 169 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 2: So I'm like, yeah, seven to one, that's nothing. We 170 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 2: can do this great game, tons of fun and yeah everybody, 171 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 2: everybody's been hidden in that game. Lots of fun. What'd 172 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 2: you think? I mean? Did it? Did it feel like? What? What? 173 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 2: First off? What? What was the bullpit decision? Did anyone 174 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 2: explain that? What? What was he doing? 175 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: I don't know. Duran is this team? Is the Twins closer? 176 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 1: Apparently he closed the game that they were Yeah, he 177 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: closed the game that they won on Saturday. But you know, 178 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: talking to some people that cover the Twins, apparently Griffin 179 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: Jacks had been throwing the ball as good, if not 180 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: better than Duran. Rocco Baldelli likes to do the stupid 181 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: I don't have a closer thing, like we go by 182 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: matchups and we go by field. We don't have one 183 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: set guy, which in theory I agree with. But Duran 184 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: has been one of He's got the best stuff on 185 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 1: the team. There's one hundred and four to me, there 186 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: had to be a guy in that bullpen that could 187 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: get eight nine and one of the Astros order out 188 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: and you could save either Jacks or Duran and have 189 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: them both Maybe then you can make a decision who 190 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: to pitch in the ninth, but you know, sometimes you 191 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 1: need some help, and the Astros got it from Rocco Baldelli. 192 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: But let's not make it as if you know, the 193 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,080 Speaker 1: Twins handed them this game when they kind of did. 194 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: I mean, Harrison Bader through to the wrong base after 195 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: catching a pop fly let another one drop got picked 196 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: off a first base. I think the Twins had first 197 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: and second no outs in the eighth inning and didn't score. 198 00:10:57,679 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: But I think something kind of along those lines that 199 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 1: we have to talk about. Tyler and I wrote about 200 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: it a little bit this morning. Remember how much in 201 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: spring training and before spring training we worried about the 202 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: Astros bullpen behind Hater and a bray You, about how 203 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: no one really knew who this team was going to 204 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: give the ball to. The five relievers not named a 205 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: bray You or Hater have a two seven o e 206 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 1: RA in the first you know, twenty seven innings they've thrown, 207 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: they've allowed eight earned runs, and five of them are 208 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: respond or the responsibility of Luis Contreras. So the other 209 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: four guys, Taylor, Scott, h Taylor, Scott, Steven Okerk Rafael Montero, 210 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: Brian King and Ryan Gusto like they've been nails and 211 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: it has really allowed I mean, that's what allowed them 212 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 1: to stay in that game yesterday, because Renald Blanco got 213 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: five outs. Louise Contreras came in and toward the end 214 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: of his outing he was fatiguing a little bit and 215 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: gave up some rockets, gave up three runs. But Montero 216 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: came in through two scoreless innings, Brian King cantinues to 217 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: really really throw the ball. 218 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 2: Well is a dog, yes, yes, man, he has looked 219 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 2: so good. 220 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: And look, it's one of these things where I don't 221 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: think that is going to maintain because just relievers in 222 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: general are the most volatile people in the baseball But Tyler, 223 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: they need these guys, They need one or two of 224 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: these guys to maintain for a season to where you know, 225 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: Joe Spotta doesn't have to do what he did yesterday. 226 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: And he even mentioned after the game that he didn't 227 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,959 Speaker 1: feel great about throwing Brian a bray you in a 228 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: game that they trailed by two runs. He didn't feel 229 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: great about pitching Josh Hater for two innings in the 230 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: ninth game of the season. This is all stuff that 231 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: he said in spring training he wanted to avoid. But 232 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: I mean it worked yesterday because they both had two 233 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: days off, so they were both fresh, and you know, 234 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: he's using this time and he's using these games to 235 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,079 Speaker 1: show which other relievers he can trust to kind of 236 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: see how they handle these situations. I think yesterday's game 237 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: was pretty instructive for Joe Aspata and how he's going 238 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: to who he's going to give high leverage roles to 239 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: maybe later on. So we don't see Brian a break 240 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: you in every game, and we don't maybe see Josh 241 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: Hater throwing two innings every time he's out there. 242 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go back to Baseball Savant because I 243 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 2: am a nerd and I love it. So there's a 244 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 2: stat called expected wOBA wOBA as you're weighted on bass average. 245 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 2: I really like expected wOBA, especially for smaller sample size, 246 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 2: because it just it combines how someone's hitting, you know, 247 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 2: if you're giving up hard contact, that kind of stuff, 248 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 2: and expected Anyway, the Astros have three pictures in the 249 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 2: top ten percent of the league in expected wOBA. Would 250 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 2: you like to guess who they are? Who had been 251 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 2: the three best pictures eventually. 252 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: For the Astros, I'm gonna say Hater, I'm gonna say 253 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 1: Brian King, and I'm gonna say Steven Okert nailed it. Yeah, 254 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: It's almost like I should do this for a living. 255 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 2: Brian King is fourth overall in major in the major leagues, 256 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 2: He's in the ninety ninth percentile. Okret and Hater are 257 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 2: both ninety second percentile. Uh, would you would you like 258 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 2: to get? Uh? The the bottom four under Luis Contrero. 259 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 2: So there are four that are under Contrere's for the Astros. 260 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 2: Would you like to guess who they are? 261 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: Reno Blanco Yep, he's last. I'm gonna go with Montero 262 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: because he didn't have a great first couple outings, but 263 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: he's pitched well lately. 264 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 2: Now he's he's at sixty five percent, so he's okay. 265 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: Is it? Hunter Brown? 266 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 2: Yep? 267 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, Because I mean the the Homers and the and 268 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: the action are gonna get him. I don't know who 269 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: the other two. 270 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 2: Fromber and Taylor Scott I So those are three guys 271 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 2: that are probably not going to end the year in 272 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 2: like the bottom third of major league pitchers. So I 273 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 2: mean that should give you a lot of hope for 274 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 2: the Astrost pitching staff, because again, I don't know why 275 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 2: I keep getting yelled at for this opinion. But Josh 276 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 2: Hater is good, so I don't know. Every time I 277 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 2: say that, I get like three tweets in a YouTube 278 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 2: comment that's like Tyler is a homer, Josh Hader. Josh 279 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 2: Hader is objectively very good at pitching, and he's showing it. 280 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 2: He's really good. But yeah, Brian King has been unbelievable 281 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 2: so far this year. I don't know. I like watching 282 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 2: him walk off the mound. It's he looks like he 283 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 2: he looks like a kid who has been told to 284 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 2: walk off the mound, like angrily. Like it looks like 285 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 2: he doesn't want to do it. He looks like he 286 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 2: wants to bounce off, but someone in his head is like, no, 287 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 2: you gotta look cool. So he has this face when 288 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 2: he walks off, where his shoulders are kind of moving 289 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 2: and he it's almost like he's reminding himself, like look 290 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 2: angry as you walk off. And he's walking off with 291 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 2: this thing. And he did it again yesterday and I 292 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 2: love it. So everyone pay attention to that, now that 293 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 2: I've mentioned it to you. It's my favorite thing about him. 294 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: Full disclosure. I covered Brian King and McNee state Ryan 295 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: when Brian King was McNee state's Friday Night starter, My 296 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: fighting bu Dan. I don't know the cowboy the Cowboys. Okay, 297 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: if not for Will Wade, I don't think anyone would 298 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: know who they are at this moment. But yeah, and 299 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: I can attest Brian King does not have an angry 300 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: bone in his body. He is. He looks so funny 301 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: walking off. He's one of the nicest, most innocent people. 302 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 2: Can you ask him about that? Ask him what his 303 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 2: thought process is. Did someone did his dad tell him 304 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 2: you gotta look you gotta look angry because he looks 305 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 2: like he's faking it and it's so funny. 306 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: I will ask him and I will report back next pod. 307 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 1: So we will continue discussing the demeanors of many of 308 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: the middle relievers in the Astros bullpen, and perhaps preview 309 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: this series against the Mariners. Right after a word from 310 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: our friends at Foul Territory AJ. 311 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 3: It is time for people to get some new clubs, 312 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 3: and to do that they need to go to their 313 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 3: local PXG for a fitting right. 314 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 4: No doubt I was there today, I've been there before 315 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 4: last time I was there, they gave me this killer gap. 316 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 4: I just look at that sweet spot, Scott, it is 317 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 4: worn out. That is right in the sweet spot right there. 318 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 4: So I went and got new clubs today, new irons. 319 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 4: But more importantly, I got this bad boy. I got 320 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 4: me a new putter. 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Because this is uh. 339 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: Because we named this thing Camsmith Territory a couple of 340 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: weeks ago, we're contractually obligated to talk about Camsmith on 341 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 1: every podcast, and this, this one won't be a glowing conversation. 342 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: If we want to be pretty frank, Camsmith is not 343 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: has not looked good throughout these first two weeks in 344 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: the big leagues. I don't think that's unexpected to any 345 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: of us. Again, when you carry someone with five games 346 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: above double A at twenty two years old, you had 347 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: to expect struggles were coming. I guess, you know. I 348 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: hate to say he's looked over match, because I don't 349 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:15,439 Speaker 1: think he has, but he's He's two for eighteen with 350 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 1: nine strikeouts. It's hard to square that he hasn't looked 351 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 1: over match with that stat line. You know, Josh and 352 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 1: I talked about it a little bit on the last 353 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 1: pot about Joe Aspota has set a number of at 354 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: bats that he likes to use, and he wasn't speaking 355 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: about cam Smith. He was saying in general that he 356 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: likes fifty at bats to kind of be the threshold 357 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: where you start to look at trends more than just 358 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: oh it's a small sample size. Cam Smith has now 359 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: taken eighteen at bats twenty one played appearances, so he's 360 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: probably got you know, thirty ish more before they really 361 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 1: start to think about what is best for his development. 362 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: You know, I wrote about it a little bit this morning, 363 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: but the one thing to me that really has stuck out, 364 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: and there was a moment in Saturday's game. I don't 365 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: know if you want. He came up with two on 366 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 1: and two out. Bailey Ober threw him a first pitch 367 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: fastball at eighty nine miles an hour, right at right 368 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 1: in the middle of his strike zone, and camp Smith 369 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: just didn't swing at it. I mean, he just I 370 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 1: don't know if he was sitting something else. I don't 371 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: know if he went up there wanting to be patient. 372 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: But that's the most hit able pitch he got all 373 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: at bad. He saw three sliders after that, swung through 374 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: two of them, and he was back to the dugout tyler. 375 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 1: As you look at the at bats again, like we 376 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 1: talked about, we knew he was going to struggle a 377 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 1: little bit. But is anything to you stood out to 378 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 1: where you're like, man, they they this is going worse 379 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:38,880 Speaker 1: than I expected. This is going about how I expected. 380 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: Kind of where do you think he is right now? 381 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:46,679 Speaker 2: So the way that he is struggling right now is 382 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 2: something that I think is fixable with time, which is 383 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 2: just something that he hasn't had right So, sometimes when 384 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,680 Speaker 2: hitters are struggling, it's the hobby Baia's approach and they're 385 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 2: just swinging at everything and they just they look like 386 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:10,879 Speaker 2: they've never seen a pitch before, and it's embarrassing and 387 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,639 Speaker 2: they have no clue what the strike zone is. That 388 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 2: has not been Cam Smith. He's only swung at a 389 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 2: quarter of the pitches that he's seen outside the zone. 390 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 2: That's pretty good. He's not confused on if something is 391 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 2: a strike or a ball. Additionally, when he has made contact, 392 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 2: which has been rare granted, he's an eighty six percentile 393 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 2: in hard hit percentage, so when he's hitting the ball, 394 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 2: he's hitting it hard, which again is indicative of future success. 395 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 2: If you're not able to hit the ball hard, it 396 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 2: doesn't matter if you're making contact, you know, that's not good. 397 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 2: The problem right now for Cam Smith is he is 398 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:58,120 Speaker 2: not making contact on pitches in the strike zone when 399 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 2: he swings. So Fangraft has a zone contact percentage to 400 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 2: give you an idea pretty you know where you want 401 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 2: to be at. For basically, when you swing on a 402 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 2: pitch in the zone, you want to be making contact 403 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 2: on that really like eighty five percent plus the best 404 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 2: hitters can do it like ninety three ninety four percent 405 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 2: of the time, you know, which is insane to think 406 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 2: about just any pitch in the strike zone if they swing, 407 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 2: they're going to touch it every time. Cam Smith is 408 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 2: at sixty six percent, so he's missing a third. He's 409 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 2: whiffing a third of the time he swings at a strike, 410 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 2: which is just not something that big leaguers do. And 411 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 2: to me, that is just an indication of, oh my gosh, 412 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 2: I'm seeing big league pitching every time I'm in the 413 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 2: batter's box. But again, I think that just takes time 414 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 2: of seeing those pitches more because he's reckeding when their 415 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 2: strikes and balls, and when he makes contact he does 416 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 2: it well. He is just missing completely on balls in 417 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: the strike zone. But that seems like a skill that 418 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 2: you can acquire and improve quickly. You know, if you 419 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 2: can recognize a pitch is in the zone well, which 420 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 2: he's doing, and you can hit the ball hard, which 421 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 2: he's doing. You just got to put those together and 422 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 2: make more contact on balls in the zone. But again, 423 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 2: he's seen guys that are throwing one hundred and three 424 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 2: mile an hour sinkers. He's never seen that before. I 425 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 2: think it's just going to take some time. But yes, 426 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 2: he I will say overmatched, but not derogatory. I think 427 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 2: he has literally never been in this match before. That 428 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 2: is the definition of overmatched. 429 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: You know, you're right, he's hitting the ball hard the 430 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 1: exit bilos don't want. But the one thing that does 431 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: give you a little bit of pause on that, I 432 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: believe almost seventy percent of his contact is on the ground. 433 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 2: Yes, and the opposite field, which I mean is fine 434 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 2: but any but yeah, usual, that does indicate usually that 435 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 2: you're late, when. 436 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 1: You're when you're going the other way with ground balls 437 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: like mishit them. I mean, we talked about it. I mean, 438 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 1: his first hit in the big leagues like that was 439 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: not a work of art. That was a defensive swing 440 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: that just so happened to have some eyes and he 441 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: found a hole, which good, good for him. But you know, 442 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 1: he's hitting the ball too much on the ground. He's 443 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: not pulling the ball in the air, which is which 444 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,159 Speaker 1: are things that the that the Cubs were working with 445 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: him on prior to the trade, and it's things that 446 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: when he got here he was working on too. You 447 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: saw him pull the ball in the air in spring training. 448 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: You saw him, you know, hit homers to the dead center, 449 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 1: so the pull side. In spring training, as we tried 450 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: to tell you, in spring training, he was facing double 451 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 1: A pitching. Now he's facing big league pitching. It's not 452 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,360 Speaker 1: going to get any easier. Logan Gilbert and Luis Castillo 453 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: are starting the first two games in Seattle. 454 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,440 Speaker 2: Luis's Castillo, Yeah, Luis's Castillo. 455 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. That actually, maybe is the second Luis Castillo may 456 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: be his best chance because the second Luis Castillo is 457 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: a rookie just like he is. But it's not going 458 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: to get any easier for cam Smith. And again, the 459 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,200 Speaker 1: Astros carried him knowing that they would have to have patients, 460 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 1: that they would have to have this runway for him. 461 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: But they are going to have to get to a 462 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,880 Speaker 1: point and maybe it's around fifty at that's maybe it's 463 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: at the end of the month where if this hasn't improved, 464 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 1: and the plate appearance quality is not better for his development. Purely, 465 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 1: they're going to have to make a decision as to 466 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: what to do with him. But also, Tyler, the fact 467 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: that you know, Chas McCormick has given you next to nothing. 468 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 1: You know, they don't have a better option right now. 469 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: Like you look in the in the in the minor leagues, 470 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 1: like I mean, this is no disrespect, but look at 471 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 1: the space cowboys outfield, like who among them do you 472 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 1: want up here? Like in his place? Like they don't. 473 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: There's not many better options right now. And that speaks 474 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: to why Cam Smith's on this roster, that they don't 475 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,479 Speaker 1: have a ton of better option, so they have the 476 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: ability to let him fail, to let him learn through 477 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: playing at the big league level. And you know, it's 478 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: less it's less noticeable when other guys are hitting, which 479 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 1: is why you know, Estac Paradis has to start hitting, 480 00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: Which is why Christian Walker and Jordan Alvarez and Jiner 481 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: Diez who has I mean, if not for Jordon Alvarez 482 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: struggles and if not for Cam smith struggles, we'd be 483 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: talking a lot more about Yiner Diaz, who is two 484 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: for twenty six with seven strikeouts to start the year. 485 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: Joe Spottam moved him down in the batting order on Sunday. 486 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 1: I would not be shocked if if you know, you may, 487 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: I would not be shocked. If maybe you see Victor 488 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: Carratini catch twice in this series in Seattle, maybe they 489 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: keep they keep Jiner and Valdez together one of these games. 490 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 1: But there's a day game after a night game Wednesday, 491 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: so one of whoever doesn't catch on Tuesday will catch 492 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 1: on Wednesday. But Yiner may need a little bit of 493 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: a break just to just to kind of decompress and 494 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: maybe get out of this funk. But the one person 495 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: that the Ashers can always count on is jose L Tuovay, 496 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,640 Speaker 1: And can we just talk about his series in Minneapolis 497 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: just the most. 498 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 2: He's such a goofball, just so funny to watch he is. 499 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 2: I said it on Twitter, but it looks like he 500 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 2: plays every game like it's the first time he's ever 501 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 2: seen baseball and he's just having the time of his life. 502 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 2: He swings at everything, he hits it, He runs around 503 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 2: on the base bats who'll have a double steal that 504 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 2: leads to the Astros getting a bigger lead, and then 505 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 2: he'll just get picked off, try to steal third for 506 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,400 Speaker 2: no reason, and you're like, what are you doing? Then 507 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 2: he'll run around in left field, he'll make a fun catch, 508 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 2: he'll play with his glasses. He smiles at Jake Myers, 509 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 2: and then he bobbles the ball trying to throw it 510 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 2: back in again, like the first time he's ever seen 511 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 2: in a ground ball before, and he has no idea 512 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 2: what to do. I love watching Jose two play baseball. 513 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 2: I don't think I would wont an entire team of 514 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 2: josel two veys because I'd probably have a heart attack. 515 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 2: But one of them is so much fun to watch, 516 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 2: and he's he's so good. It's crazy that someone who 517 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 2: looks like they are simultaneously trying so hard and also 518 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,239 Speaker 2: not trying at all is so good at baseball and 519 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 2: it's so much fun to watch. 520 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: He struck out five times in the in the in 521 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: the series opener, he acknowledged afterward that he didn't sleep 522 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 1: Thursday night. He was so disappointed in himself for striking 523 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: out five times. 524 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 2: It's okay, no one's mad at you, Jose. 525 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: He was going to be in the lineup the next day. 526 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 2: Don't worry. 527 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: He the Ashers had that next day off, They had 528 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 1: that Friday off. So Al two said, he walked around 529 00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: Minneapolis just kind of cleared his head a little bit. 530 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: And then course, like we talked about like Julia and I, 531 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: Julia and I said this the day he struck out 532 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: five times or standing outside the clubhouse waiting to get in, 533 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: we both look at other we go, He's gonna hit 534 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: the first pitch of the game Saturday off the third 535 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 1: deck and we were both like, yeah, of course he 536 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: didn't do that. He hit the second pitch, he didn't 537 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: hit it off the third deck. He snuck it over 538 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: the left field wall. But of course he did that. 539 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: He comes out, gets three hits, does have the bobble 540 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: in left field, And I want to talk about that 541 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: real quick because and I tried to write I tried 542 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: to write it this way. It took eight games for 543 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: Jose al Tuove to have like one of those just 544 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: complete gaffs, like just like oh man, like this is 545 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: a disaster. The fact that it took eight games is 546 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: the reason why Jose al Tuova is out there. Yeah, 547 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: he when he started that game on Saturday, there was 548 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: only one qualified left fielder that had fewer putouts in 549 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: jose Al two by what does that mean? What does 550 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: that mean? That means the ball is not being hit 551 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: to him. That means he is getting no action out there, 552 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: which is half of the rationale. Why jose Al Twovey 553 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 1: is playing left field for this team. They want him 554 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: away from most of the defensive action. They know that 555 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: there are going to be games where things like that happen, 556 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 1: and they are prepared to take their lumps. They are 557 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: prepared to watch him, you know, learn from that and 558 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: grow and look, jose Al twov bobbling that ball is 559 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: not the reason that they lost that game. It didn't 560 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 1: help it extended that anymore. But you know, Spencer Araghetti 561 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 1: couldn't throw a strike, the bullpen did not Taylor Scott 562 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: did not come in and shut the door. The offense 563 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 1: was not good. Like they didn't lose that gamet sosel 564 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: two bay bobble a transfer. But again, like everyone every 565 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: playout two A makes out there, everyone has this referendum 566 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: on like, oh, like this is why I should move 567 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: back to second, or this is like no, like the 568 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 1: fact that it took this long for jose Al two 569 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: to have a true just mind blowing gaff out there 570 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: underscores why he's out there in the first place, and 571 00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: why the ashers are okay with it because they know 572 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 1: that the lumps they do take with him are not 573 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 1: going to be on a daily basis, maybe not even 574 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: on a weekly basis. It took eight games, so they'll 575 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: take something to right now. 576 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's not going to look like that forever. 577 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 1: No, And if it's something like this pretty rudimentary, like 578 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: transferring the ball from glove to hand, like that is fixable. 579 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: It's not as if all these flyballs he's taking horrible 580 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,840 Speaker 1: routes to. You know, let's remember too, what he did 581 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: on that ball that ty France hit, that he bobbled 582 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: like he could have dove for that ball, and the 583 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 1: fact that he slowed up kept the ball in front 584 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: of him when he knew he had two runners on, 585 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: Like keeping the ball in front of you and just 586 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: getting it in. That's an instinctual play that you know, 587 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: there there could be other maybe younger guys, maybe guys 588 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: that are trying to impress that die for that ball 589 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: it gets past him and and ty France is still 590 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: running instead. You know, they he kept it in front 591 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 1: of him. He just didn't transfer it well. And he 592 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 1: knows the problem too. And if you watch the video, 593 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,000 Speaker 1: you can tell what he does is he comes back 594 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: like he brings his glove all the way back when 595 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: he's trying to transfer it, when the coaches are telling him, 596 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: just get it here, like keep it close to your body, 597 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: transferred and then throw and you saw it. You know, 598 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 1: he brings the glove back and that's unneeded movement. And 599 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: as that unneeded movement happens, the ball pops out and 600 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 1: Byron Buckston was the runner, Byron Buckson's fastest student baseball. 601 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: Altuve knew that. Altuve knows that every team is going 602 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: to run on his arm, like he knows that Christian 603 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: Vasquez took an extra base on his arm in this 604 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: series like that that's just part of it. And he 605 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 1: knows that he doesn't have a great arm. He knows 606 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: that the Astros are doing all they can to mitigate 607 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: it by putting their cutoff mendep. He just wants to 608 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 1: get it out as quick as possible, So his arm 609 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 1: is not the reason why a play unfolds. But he's 610 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: got a It's pretty basic, but you got to remember 611 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: you got to secure the ball before you throw it. 612 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 2: Mm hm. That also doesn't seem like a left field issue. 613 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 2: I mean, I know that it is, because it's that's 614 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 2: where he was at. But I mean, that's just he 615 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 2: bobbled the ball taking it from his glove. That's not like, well, 616 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,080 Speaker 2: you know how left fielders famously are very good at 617 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 2: taking the ball, you know, like I don't, I don't care. 618 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 2: I'd be much more nervous if he was just misreading 619 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 2: everything or had dove for the ball. Like you said, 620 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 2: did you see who's the guy on the orioles with 621 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 2: the sweetish chef name? No, the other one that thank you, 622 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 2: that's the sweetish chef name. Did you see his route 623 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 2: that he he ran the ball? Dude? He It was 624 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 2: apparently like a ninety nine catch probability, and he ran 625 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 2: in circles and the ball landed fifteen feet away from 626 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 2: he was not close. Altoba hadn't done that yet, So 627 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,600 Speaker 2: you know, that's that's pretty But yeah, I mean, he's 628 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 2: he's not going to be good out there. That's not 629 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 2: the point. The point was not to move him out 630 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 2: there to become a good defensive left fielder. The point 631 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 2: was to uh mitigate as much as he can and 632 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,760 Speaker 2: just hope that he can look like he has played 633 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,839 Speaker 2: out there at some point in his life and he'll 634 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:24,759 Speaker 2: get to that eventually. 635 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:29,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean again very simple size. Probably shouldn't 636 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,800 Speaker 1: Eve bring the stat up, but going into Saturday, he 637 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,479 Speaker 1: was worth one out above average and left field like 638 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: according to Baseball Savant. Now that probably that probably took 639 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: a nose dive after he bobbled that ball, but again, 640 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,839 Speaker 1: he had not done anything before then that had been 641 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:48,680 Speaker 1: just egregiously bad. So that's why he's out there. Please 642 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 1: stop yelling at me every time like Brendan Rodgers strikes 643 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,719 Speaker 1: out or Josel Tuvele doesn't get to a ball in 644 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,399 Speaker 1: the gap that he needs to go back to second base. 645 00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 1: Please stop yelling at me. Let's talk about the Mariners 646 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,439 Speaker 1: real quick before we get out of here. They man, 647 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,880 Speaker 1: they still can't hit. They are three and seven. They 648 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: are hitting two thirteen as a team. It's yeah, these 649 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,239 Speaker 1: games may take two and a half hours if that. 650 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,839 Speaker 1: These are two teams that are not hitting particularly well. 651 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: They both can pitch it very well. The Ashers will 652 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:24,480 Speaker 1: see the Mariners opening day starter and Logan Gilbert tonight. 653 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,320 Speaker 1: The Ashers opening day starter Fromerveldez will go on Tuesday, 654 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,880 Speaker 1: and then Hunter Brown is going to continue his dominant 655 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 1: beginning to the season on Wednesday. Tyler, it's April seventh. 656 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,280 Speaker 1: You don't want to put more into it than you want. 657 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: But these games do. I mean, when the Ashers play 658 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 1: the Mariners like they do, have like some increased you know, 659 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,240 Speaker 1: meaning these two teams do not like each other. Scott's 660 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:52,239 Speaker 1: service being gone tampers a little bit of that animosity. 661 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,239 Speaker 1: A lot of the animasity was directed at him. He 662 00:35:55,320 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 1: is now gone. The teams are not friendly. Not to 663 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,120 Speaker 1: say that they're gonna fight or anything, but it just 664 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: the intensity ratchets up a little more than these two 665 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 1: teams play. 666 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta take two or three. Tonight is the 667 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 2: one that you would think swings Mariners. They've got their 668 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,799 Speaker 2: best picture. The Astros are starting, Hayden was Nesky. They 669 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,719 Speaker 2: just had to travel, YadA, YadA. You gotta take two 670 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,680 Speaker 2: or three, so you hope that you can sneak out 671 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,719 Speaker 2: a win on Monday. That way, you got a better 672 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,680 Speaker 2: chance with Fromber and Brown. But that I mean the 673 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:40,640 Speaker 2: Astros should be favored and should win with Valdez and 674 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 2: Brown starting, because again the Mariners cannot hit at all, 675 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 2: and those are your two best pictures. So you should 676 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:55,399 Speaker 2: be able to score, you know, three runs and beat 677 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:59,800 Speaker 2: the Mariners on those nights, or famously take eighteen innings 678 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,319 Speaker 2: score one run in the Mariners. You can do that too. 679 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 2: I'm sure you would love that from a repeat of that. 680 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,280 Speaker 1: For my own sanity, I would appreciate. I would appreciate 681 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,720 Speaker 1: that not happening. Uh, the funny thing from that game. 682 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:17,000 Speaker 1: So there's like an industry joke about lead graveyards, like 683 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,680 Speaker 1: it's all like it's all these things that reporters have 684 00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:23,839 Speaker 1: written like on deadline leads that go into the lead 685 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:28,239 Speaker 1: graveyard when the other like like the when the other 686 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:33,840 Speaker 1: thing happens. Like remember in that series, Jose Altuve looked 687 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,840 Speaker 1: as bad as I have seen him look on a 688 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,399 Speaker 1: baseball field, Like I don't have the stats in front 689 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:39,799 Speaker 1: of me, but I think he went oh for nine 690 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,680 Speaker 1: in that eighteen inning game with and I think of 691 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,200 Speaker 1: those nine, at least four or five of them were strikeouts, 692 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,600 Speaker 1: like he was swinging at everything he had not and 693 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,080 Speaker 1: like it was as bad as Jose al Tuve has 694 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,640 Speaker 1: looked on a baseball field as a professional, as I've 695 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:58,520 Speaker 1: seen it. Thank goodness, Jeremy Panna hit that home run, 696 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,480 Speaker 1: because the the words I was going to write about 697 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,399 Speaker 1: Joseel two bay were not h We're not great. He 698 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,000 Speaker 1: because again, like when you have that stature, when you 699 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,759 Speaker 1: have that status as the guy that makes the engine go, 700 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,680 Speaker 1: and you look that poor, like, there does have to 701 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 1: be some you know, some reckoning. And I was prepared 702 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,160 Speaker 1: to do it. And luckily for everyone, because I don't 703 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,400 Speaker 1: I don't didn't want Josel to Ay to read that. 704 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,640 Speaker 1: Luckily for everyone, Jeremy Penney hit that home run. U 705 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:28,800 Speaker 1: the lead was a lot different, I think Josh Miller 706 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,000 Speaker 1: said in the clubhouse after we had enough bullets to 707 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,360 Speaker 1: play twenty eight innings tonight. And he's not wrong because 708 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,799 Speaker 1: the Ashers could have probably run jose Orkidi out there 709 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,399 Speaker 1: and he would have probably pitched U five or six 710 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,000 Speaker 1: innings against that Mariner's offense. So can you. 711 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 2: Give us the uh the L two ve quote we're 712 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,320 Speaker 2: not from yesterday? 713 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,719 Speaker 1: Yes, I can pull it up, hold on with we 714 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,920 Speaker 1: can do the fancy uh, we can do the fancy 715 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 1: screen share. 716 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,720 Speaker 2: I laughed at that for a good while. He's so funny, 717 00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:58,359 Speaker 2: he is. 718 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,919 Speaker 1: So this was Josel two Bay. This was after the 719 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,040 Speaker 1: This was after the three hit game where he dropped 720 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,640 Speaker 1: the fly ball, but he was talking about his uh 721 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 1: five strikeout game and he goes, I like swinging. Sometimes 722 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,359 Speaker 1: I try to swing at my pitch. Sometimes I swing 723 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:19,799 Speaker 1: at everything. I mean I I I laughed because the guy, 724 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,960 Speaker 1: the person, the person who asked the question was a 725 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,000 Speaker 1: was a Minnesota reporter who was filling in for a 726 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,600 Speaker 1: beat writer who didn't travel for the Ashers to cover 727 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,040 Speaker 1: the team. So like, he doesn't cover Joseel two By 728 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,279 Speaker 1: every day, and so like, Altuove hit the second pitch 729 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,560 Speaker 1: of the game out and the guy asked it was 730 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,160 Speaker 1: a well intentioned question. He asked like, oh, like second 731 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 1: pitch of the game, like you must have been did 732 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,120 Speaker 1: you go up there wanting to be aggressive? And the 733 00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,000 Speaker 1: kind of looked at us. He was like, well, you know, 734 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,400 Speaker 1: I've been doing that my whole career, and then he 735 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:47,360 Speaker 1: gave that gem. 736 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,000 Speaker 2: Of a line. He is so good. 737 00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,360 Speaker 1: He's a gem man, he really I like swinging. 738 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,080 Speaker 2: Sometimes I swing my pitch and swing it. 739 00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,759 Speaker 1: And the thing about his left field thing, that's the 740 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,279 Speaker 1: thing about the left field transition that's made this so 741 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,440 Speaker 1: I guess fun for us to watch is like he 742 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,279 Speaker 1: is so into it and his moods are like he's 743 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,319 Speaker 1: like he's like a little kid running out there. He's 744 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,279 Speaker 1: so excited to go play left field and show off 745 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:17,400 Speaker 1: what he's learned, and like it's like he's a he's active. 746 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,759 Speaker 2: He's got a science project of all the best left 747 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,399 Speaker 2: fielders and he's got a little cardboard cut out of them. 748 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,200 Speaker 1: He's literally about to turn thirty five years old next month, 749 00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,719 Speaker 1: and he's playing like he's like a twenty year old, 750 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 1: like college sophomore that like is learning like hey, like, guys, 751 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: I figured out how to transfer the ball and now 752 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,160 Speaker 1: watch like, hey, like I figured out how like to 753 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,439 Speaker 1: take the best route into the gap like it's been 754 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,040 Speaker 1: That's part of the reason why the Ashers are doing 755 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,200 Speaker 1: this too. Like al Tuve is so into this, like 756 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,560 Speaker 1: he very much wants to do this. If he just 757 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,560 Speaker 1: come to them two weeks into spring training and wanted 758 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,800 Speaker 1: to pull the plug, they would have. But he hasn't 759 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,560 Speaker 1: done it. He wants to be out there and he 760 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,560 Speaker 1: wants to prove to people that he's a good left fielder. 761 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,520 Speaker 1: And I don't know if he'll ever be good, but 762 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,319 Speaker 1: but he'll get there. And I mean that's this is 763 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,000 Speaker 1: half the reason and why they're doing this is his 764 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,319 Speaker 1: energy and his ability to be excited about this is 765 00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:09,680 Speaker 1: through the roof. So we will watch and see what 766 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,359 Speaker 1: Josel TV does in left field at t Mobile Park, 767 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:16,440 Speaker 1: which is uh notoriously, it's not cavernous, but it's where. 768 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 2: The bullpens for the Mariners are, right, is he gonna. 769 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,799 Speaker 1: Know the Asher's bullpen is the bullpens and left field, 770 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:26,360 Speaker 1: so he's gonna him and Brockamanni are gonna be chat 771 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,680 Speaker 1: in the whole game, like he'll have friends out there 772 00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 1: that he can he can run back and forth to 773 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:34,160 Speaker 1: talk to bite his nails while he's running back and forth. 774 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,040 Speaker 2: Can we get Brockamanni and Altuve to do the like 775 00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:39,560 Speaker 2: warm up tosses. 776 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:43,080 Speaker 1: And left field each other they do? I think it 777 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:47,880 Speaker 1: comes out they have at some point. Yeah. So again, 778 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,279 Speaker 1: the Ashers are throwing two ground ball pitchers in the 779 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,400 Speaker 1: last two games of this series, so as the Ashers intended, 780 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,880 Speaker 1: Josel may not see much action and left field, uh, no, 781 00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,160 Speaker 1: one may see much action given the pitching that is 782 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,359 Speaker 1: going to take place in this series. Given the offenses 783 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,840 Speaker 1: of both these teams being slow to start, and just 784 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,400 Speaker 1: given that it's difficult to hit in Seattle, difficult hit 785 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,480 Speaker 1: in Seattle, difficult to hit in April. So we will see. 786 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,680 Speaker 1: I know everyone is going to be tuned into tonight's game. 787 00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,560 Speaker 1: It is the only sporting event in Houston that the 788 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,359 Speaker 1: entire city is going to be transfixed on. No one 789 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:24,600 Speaker 1: cares about anything else but Astros Mariners tonight at nine 790 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,880 Speaker 1: pm Central Time. Hayden was a nesky on the mound 791 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,200 Speaker 1: for the Astros up all seriousness. Good luck to the Cougar's. 792 00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,160 Speaker 1: Florida's coach seems like a certified creep. So for that 793 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:39,280 Speaker 1: sole reason, I hope the Cougars win and Calvin Sampson 794 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,080 Speaker 1: gets gets some redemption, and you know, it'd be nice 795 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:43,640 Speaker 1: to see. It'd be cool for the city, be cool 796 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,160 Speaker 1: for the Houston Chronicle because they make a ton of 797 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:46,840 Speaker 1: money out of it. Always loved you. 798 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:50,400 Speaker 2: Did you see how fast they got the the front 799 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:51,000 Speaker 2: page out. 800 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:55,440 Speaker 1: I mean you know they printed that like days before, right. 801 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,000 Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, I'm not talking about the one at 802 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:02,839 Speaker 2: the Somebody tweeted from the Chronicles offices like the one 803 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,560 Speaker 2: that oh yeah, it was a picture of the game 804 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,840 Speaker 2: from that night. Yeah, it was like six minutes after 805 00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:09,799 Speaker 2: the game was over. 806 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:10,680 Speaker 1: They're good. 807 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,320 Speaker 2: Yeah that was impressive. 808 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:13,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're good. 809 00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:13,279 Speaker 2: Man. 810 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,239 Speaker 1: They've they've got a whole army down there in San 811 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,319 Speaker 1: Antonio covering that game tonight. So good luck to them, 812 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,359 Speaker 1: good luck to the Cougars. We will talk about maybe 813 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,879 Speaker 1: the Cougars, but definitely the Astros coming up this week 814 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,200 Speaker 1: on Rush City Territory. 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