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Speaker 2: Everybody? Welcome into another edition of Crushed City Territory. I'm

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Speaker 2: Channel the room, joined by Tyler Stafford before we get

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Speaker 2: into the Astros. Happy Easter everyone. Uh, Tyler, you're dressed

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Speaker 2: festive today. You look like you look like yourself. You

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Speaker 2: already dyed easter egg? What did you and the fam?

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Speaker 2: How did y'all celebrate Easter today?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Celebrated is a strong word. We watched the Astros. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we watched the end of that game over at my parents' house.

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Speaker 1: But I was fun. We hunted for eggs. I did

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Speaker 1: a classic. I hid the golden egg in my pocket

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Speaker 1: for Olivia, played hot and cold for that one. She

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Speaker 1: couldn't she couldn't find it. Classic, got got to show

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Speaker 1: the ropes on that one. But uh, yeah it was.

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Speaker 1: It was good. How about y'all?

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Speaker 2: I get sure? I mean I flew to Denver, I

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Speaker 2: spent my I spent my Easter in at I h

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Speaker 2: two minutes to get through TSA. So everything's back to normal.

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Speaker 1: Very hell they let you do? Are you a clear

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Speaker 1: or a pre check? Guy?

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm pre checking pre checks open again two minutes

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Speaker 2: straight through.

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Speaker 1: I don't trust the clearer that that seems that's too

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Speaker 1: rich for my blood. I don't like having the little

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Speaker 1: of you in TSA pre check. I'll stay in that line.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, in my estimation, in my I fly a lot,

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Speaker 2: price tag on it would suggest. You know, I've I've

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Speaker 2: gotten right, but I've gotten through tsa pre faster than

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Speaker 2: I've seen people get through clear.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's what I thought you meant pre check versus

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Speaker 1: not at all. Definitely get pre check. Definitely get pre check.

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Speaker 1: You definitely get pre check rules. Yeah, super shoes off

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Speaker 1: in a random place. Absolutely, I'll take my laptop out

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Speaker 1: of here. I packed it in there already.

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Speaker 2: No the top, I have this podcast mic and my

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Speaker 2: carry on. I now have two laptops.

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Speaker 1: Look at you.

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Speaker 2: I now have two laptops in my carry on because

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Speaker 2: with this beautiful new service, we were running the podcast

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Speaker 2: and I have to do it on a different laptop.

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Speaker 2: So I have two laptops and a microphone on my

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Speaker 2: backpack when I travel. So yeah, I'm not taking all

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Speaker 2: that out pre checking life.

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Speaker 1: There you go and that's the only fun thing that

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Speaker 1: we get to talk about because that that was bad.

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Speaker 1: Did not enjoy watching that series. I'm tired of the

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Speaker 1: friggin Aides beating the Astros. It is. They're not good.

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Speaker 1: They haven't been good this year. They haven't hit at all,

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Speaker 1: they struck out constantly, and then you get into this

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Speaker 1: series and they score thirty runs a game for some reason,

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Speaker 1: and it's very frustrating, and I keep beating the Astros

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Speaker 1: and I'm tired of it. Somebody do something to where

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Speaker 1: this is not These are the games that you need

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Speaker 1: to be piling up wins for later in the season.

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Speaker 1: You missed the playoffs by one game last year. You

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Speaker 1: cannot be losing two out of three to the Sacramento A's.

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Speaker 2: Would you like some better news?

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Speaker 1: Is there better news? Because that wasn't even the worst

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Speaker 1: news of the weekend. What what's the better news?

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Speaker 2: Six of their next ten games are against the Rockies.

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Speaker 1: Well, normally I'd be excited about what they go. What

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Speaker 1: they win. Maybe fifty five percent of their games against

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Speaker 1: the Rockies last year, I don't even know if they

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Speaker 1: had a winning record. They ridiculous beat beat the bad teams.

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Speaker 1: You had you had all the opportunities there and they just,

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they cannot beat the A's and it's

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna hesitate putting the A's and the bad team basket.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they're I don't think they are like

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Speaker 2: like that lineup up and down, like they can really

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Speaker 2: kill them over this, but yeah, look, Sunday was had

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Speaker 2: a lot of this in the next you know, thirty

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Speaker 2: dominant part of what is going on with this team

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Speaker 2: right now. But we'd be remiss before if we didn't

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Speaker 2: get the offense, like they just continue to put up

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Speaker 2: just elite at bats after elite at bats, Like it

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Speaker 2: sounds so cliche, but they have really demonstrated through ten

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Speaker 2: They came back from I think three different deficits today

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Speaker 2: and did it all with different guys doing stuff. Cam

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Speaker 2: Smith had a big hit, Christian Walker hit a big

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Speaker 2: But I think, you know, they deserve some kudos before

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Speaker 2: we get into all of the uh, all of the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, jorder on reach his base. Every time he walks

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Speaker 1: The whole offense has looked really good. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you notice on the broadcast, but uh, they talked

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Speaker 1: I think I think people have caught on, Hey, something

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Speaker 1: weird is going on here with al Tube and uh,

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Speaker 1: sure enough, Drew drew another walk today like he's that

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Speaker 1: patient approach has been really good. I mean yeah, he

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Speaker 1: scored ten runs. You should be able to win that game.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, I mean yes, I guess now is

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Speaker 1: with Brian A Bray You why why is he not

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Speaker 2: You want to go there first.

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Speaker 1: I mean we're here, we talked about how do you

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Speaker 1: score ten runs and not win a game? What is happening?

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Speaker 2: First of all, real quick for the Astros offense, just

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Speaker 2: to give them the kudos that they deserve. They have

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Speaker 2: a They're going to enter play Monday at Corsefield with

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Speaker 2: that's the best on base percentage in baseball. The next

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Speaker 2: twenty seven points lower. They have the highest ops in

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Speaker 1: You take that back Chandler, Why would you say that

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Speaker 1: they're going to score ten runs a game every game.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna look this easy. And I completely agree with

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Speaker 1: At no point during the game today did I think

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Speaker 1: I was frustrated watching them give up five and you know,

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Speaker 1: But at no point did I think, oh, this is over.

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Speaker 1: Like I was still glued to the TV, which is

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Speaker 1: a very different feeling from last year. I don't think

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Speaker 2: The problem with all this is when you feel like

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Speaker 2: you're never out of a game. The most deflating thing

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Speaker 2: the walk here that Brian Abray you imagined, Oh it's

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Speaker 2: is putting it mildly about Brian abray You who through Now,

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Speaker 2: you know, it's just he's allowed eight runs and two

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Speaker 2: He's struck. He is you know, he had an outing

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Speaker 2: I think Brian a bred you for the most part,

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Speaker 2: has earned some benefit of the doubt given how good

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Speaker 2: he has been for this team the last five or

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Speaker 2: six years. If this was and I'll even say guys

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Speaker 2: in the in the bullpen right now, if this was

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Speaker 2: Brian King having these issues, then I think you'd be

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Speaker 2: haven't seen be elite relievers for a long time throwing

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Speaker 2: leverage innings like Brian Abray. You It is not a

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Speaker 2: not a debate. Brian Abradley is a top five reliever

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Speaker 2: in baseball. The stats back it up. He's been a

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Speaker 2: not looked that way this year. I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: a very good slider. He got out of damage using

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Speaker 2: villa looked okay, but he got very slider happy, he

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Speaker 2: got very spin happy. The results are not there, and

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Speaker 2: I wonder at what point Joe Espada has to consider

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Speaker 2: maybe allowing him to work some things out in lower leverage.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time, they don't have anyone in

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Speaker 2: That type of stuff doesn't exist in their bullpen outside

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Speaker 2: of Brian A. Breeve. So it's it's a difficult it's

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Speaker 1: Now, dating back to last season, when you know he

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Speaker 1: The end of August of last year. He hasn't looked

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Speaker 1: good for a while. It's it's not just like it's

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Speaker 1: And you know, I never want to speculate on the

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Speaker 1: mental aspect of playing a sport. There's just not something

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Speaker 1: that was inflating the ERA. But I mean he's just

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he threw four fastballs today. Three of them were

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Speaker 2: And it's just it's horrific timing for Brian and Brady.

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Speaker 1: But as we've we've how can he wear that belt?

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Speaker 1: But there's different rules for pictures like there, like you

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Speaker 1: You know what, if it works, everyone is gonna love

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Speaker 2: I'll give him the message. I'll pass along the message

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Speaker 2: thank you tomorrow in Colorado. As painful as it was

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Speaker 2: This is a seismic loss for the Ashers no matter

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Speaker 1: Sounds I think all Star break. I think if you've

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Speaker 2: One thing we're not going to do. And I hate

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Speaker 2: one sole reason why Hunter Brown got hurt. Pitchers are

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Speaker 2: He has been the epitome of health.

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Speaker 2: Pitchers are built to break down. But either way, it

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Speaker 2: they could call up Jason, Alexander Colton, Gordon, Peter Lambert,

432
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Speaker 2: like they've got guys like they've got right arms that

433
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Speaker 2: can come up and help, but.

434
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Speaker 1: None of none of those are Brown, right, Like, he's.

435
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 2: He's irreplaceable internally from what they have on the roster.

436
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's the that's the guy that you just

437
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 1: cannot lose, and they have lost him for a while. Yeah,

438
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: it's bad enough to lose a series to the A's,

439
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:14,439
Speaker 1: but you you would take that in a heartbeat if

440
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: it meant Hunter Brown is going to be back, and

441
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a long time. So who starts

442
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 1: tomorrow now?

443
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 2: Uh? Cody Bolton, You definitely knew who that was.

444
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: Wait, no, that's six seven. Yes, I know that because

445
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: Olivia noticed him the other day, So I do know

446
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: who he is. Thank you. Troy Bolton's younger brother. I

447
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 1: believe from from the Wildcats basketball program. He's gonna be good.

448
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: There you go. That's good. I still have the dance

449
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,639
Speaker 1: down if you need me to. Wow. Okay, every boy hands,

450
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 1: I'm ready right if we need it. Uh okay, Well,

451
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 1: good for that, gentleman. Uh look looking forward to seeing that.

452
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: Good luck Corsefield have had at it.

453
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Speaker 2: Man. Just you hope your offense keep scoring fifteen runs

454
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 2: a game, which they can probably do a Corsefield. As

455
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 2: far as what they're going to do going forward, they

456
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,640
Speaker 2: were always going to. They had discussed shifting back into

457
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Speaker 2: a six man rotation after Thursday, so they have the

458
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Speaker 2: ashers are off on Thursday. After this three game series

459
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Speaker 2: in Colorado, they begin a stretch of thirteen games in

460
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 2: a row on Friday in Seattle. They had discussed going

461
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Speaker 2: to a six man rotation. Then they could still do that. Uh.

462
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 2: Spencer Arigedti is a pretty obvious logical choice to be

463
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Speaker 2: a part of that, and he's pitched pretty well in

464
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Speaker 2: his to his two outings in Triple A thus far.

465
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Speaker 2: So you've got that. They've got Ryan Weiss, who can

466
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's probably not stretched out to eighty eighty

467
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Speaker 2: five pitches, but he could probably give him, you know,

468
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Speaker 2: four five innings as an opener kind of guy to

469
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Speaker 2: and then at they could build him up naturally. Aj

470
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Speaker 2: Bluebad did go multiple innings today and through longer than

471
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Speaker 2: I think I thought he would, So maybe that's a

472
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Speaker 2: stretch that maybe that is a sign that they would

473
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Speaker 2: like to keep him stretched out too.

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Speaker 1: I think it was longer than he thought he would too. Yeah,

475
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 1: uh going back out for that inning.

476
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Speaker 2: Well, when your starter only gives you four innings, then

477
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 2: that's the that's a problem. But yeah, they this is why, like,

478
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 2: this is why they did what they did in the

479
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 2: off season of getting all these guys, getting all this

480
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 2: depth that they could you know, be in this position

481
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 2: in case something like this happens now. They did not

482
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 2: envision Hunter Brown being the guy that got hurt because again,

483
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 2: like you can't prepare for this in the off season,

484
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 2: Like you can't just go sign another reigning cy young

485
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 2: finalists to come, you know, replace your your ace. So

486
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Speaker 2: it's gonna put a lot of pressure on Christian Xavier.

487
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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you could have re signed one, but.

488
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Speaker 2: You know, you know, you know how they operate.

489
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Speaker 1: It's saying you say it's impossible they did it. They

490
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Speaker 1: had one that already played for them.

491
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Speaker 2: No yeah, I mean I don't disagree, but I mean

492
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 2: it's just money. Like, I don't disagree. It's certainly something

493
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 2: they could have done. I mean, they gave Tatsuya Emi.

494
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Speaker 2: I mean he could make up to twenty one twenty

495
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 2: two million dollars on this on this contract they gave him.

496
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Speaker 2: Now Frommer's going to make more than that with with

497
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Speaker 2: the Tigers. But yeah, I mean, if they were willing

498
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 2: to spend that much money, you do kind of wonder why.

499
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't disagree with what you're saying, but

500
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Speaker 2: I also, like, I've just been around so long that,

501
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 2: like you just kind of you've just kind of seen

502
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Speaker 2: how they operate, right you kind of you knew.

503
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Speaker 1: I don't. I had no I had no thought that

504
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Speaker 1: they would do it. I'm just I'm just pointing out

505
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Speaker 1: it's not like these you know, you say they don't

506
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Speaker 1: grow on trees. Well they they were here already. You

507
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: just had to continue to keep the tree. But you

508
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: chose not to. And you know, sometimes that works out,

509
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: sometimes it doesn't. But yeah, they they are in a

510
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: world to hurt, especially with Look, my colors did not

511
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: fall apart today, but that was a little more typical.

512
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 2: Of the strike, the strike throwing disappeared.

513
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he kept looking at his finger. I was

514
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 1: waiting to I just kept waiting for a blister announcement

515
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: the first couple of innings, Like every time he threw,

516
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 1: he looked down at his his finger. Uh. And none

517
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: of the pitches were competitive. He couldn't he couldn't back

518
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 1: door that cutter at all today, which is what really

519
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: helped him in the first start. But you know, again,

520
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 1: it's not like he fell apart. Christian Hobber is quite worrisome.

521
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Speaker 2: Uh.

522
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Speaker 1: That's I've been ringing that bell all throughout spring training too.

523
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: That that that is scared. People are writing him in

524
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: as if he is a guaranteed number three starter and

525
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: I I don't know, and I I that's scary to me.

526
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 1: And so I mean again, you've got a bunch of

527
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: guys that can pitch, but you don't have anybody that

528
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: can lead your rotation with any sort of confidence right now.

529
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Speaker 2: No, And this puts a ton of pressure. It puts

530
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,959
Speaker 2: a lot of pressure on them to get Christian Hovier

531
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Speaker 2: right like because an, I mean, Emi is now the

532
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 2: ace of this, like, I mean he's paid like unequivocally. Yeah,

533
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 2: he's paid like the ace. But it puts a lot

534
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 2: of pressure on them to get Christian Hoavier right because

535
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Speaker 2: for this, for this one reason you mentioned, like they

536
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 2: have guys, They have a lot of guys that can pitch,

537
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 2: but we've never seen them like be able to lead

538
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 2: a rotation or be able to be like that stalwart

539
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 2: like we have seen that from Christian Hoavier, like that

540
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 2: is in him, like we saw it in twenty twenty two.

541
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Speaker 2: We see we saw it for a little bit in

542
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, like you have seen that this guy

543
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 2: has the ability to be a number two, low end,

544
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 2: number one starter, like it is in there. It's just

545
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 2: they have got to find a way to get it back.

546
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 2: Like this is now a thing where like we have

547
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 2: seen it and we know that it can happen, but

548
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 2: it's it's a command thing. Like he I think he

549
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 2: told reporters in Sacramento that he had problems gripping the baseball,

550
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 2: that the ball was slick. He's going to make his

551
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 2: next start at course Field, where the ball does some

552
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 2: insane things in this altitude. So I don't know that

553
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 2: it's going to get much better at course Field. But

554
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 2: they've got to get him right. This just underscores how

555
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 2: urgent it is that they get him right that. And look,

556
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying he has to go out there and

557
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 2: you know, throw no hitters every other time out like

558
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 2: he was trying to do in twenty twenty two. But

559
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 2: they've got to get him to a point where he

560
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 2: can get them, give them some length, you know, get

561
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 2: because that's been the thing with him. His command's been

562
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 2: so off that it's kind of looked like a little

563
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 2: it's been the same kind of M Colors problem. There's

564
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 2: been a lot of inefficient See, there's been a lot

565
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 2: of you know, he's had seventy pitches through three innings

566
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Speaker 2: and they're having to burn through their bullpen. Like they've

567
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 2: got to find a way to get him deeper into games.

568
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 2: There are flashes where like if you look at the

569
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 2: underlying numbers, the IVB looks good on the on the

570
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 2: four seamer, the VLO. He was up to ninety four

571
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Speaker 2: a couple of times against the A's the other night.

572
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 2: Like it's in there, like there's flashes in there, but

573
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 2: it's it's sometimes there's mechanics. Sometimes it's just you know,

574
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 2: it's it is incumbent on them. They do this very well,

575
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 2: Like this is the one thing that we have praised

576
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 2: them for endlessly. They're very good at diagnosing problems with pitching,

577
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 2: at fixing them and getting them, you know, finding ways

578
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 2: to turn these guys around. They have a they have

579
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Speaker 2: to do that with Christian Hobbyer because especially with Hunter

580
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 2: Brown out, his importance to this team is only magnified.

581
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you talked about just eating the innings.

582
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: The Astras don't have a single guy in the rotation

583
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: that feels like a bullpen off day. You know, every

584
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: time Fromber or Hunter Brown went out, the bullpen can

585
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,479
Speaker 1: pretty safely assume they don't have to start stirring until

586
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Speaker 1: at least the sixth inning. Every single start now feels

587
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: like you might have to get somebody up in the

588
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: third or the fourth. It's a real possibility. And that

589
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: just doesn't exist for your ace guys, And that just

590
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: puts so much more pressure on your bullpen when you

591
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: don't know how many innings you can have every single game.

592
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 2: One guy who like if there's pressure on him, he

593
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 2: seems like he can meet the moment with Tatsuya Emi,

594
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 2: who I think I think everything we talked about after

595
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 2: his debut, right of just the nerves, the just everything

596
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 2: about it being his first big league start. I think

597
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 2: there probably was some validity to that because he comes

598
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 2: back against the A's kind of away from everything in

599
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 2: a minor league ballpark. Second start, not a ton of

600
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 2: you know, not a ton of attention, not as much

601
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 2: attention on him as it was in his first start,

602
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 2: and he looked that was really really impressive. Gets the

603
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 2: slider was as advertised, gets you know, twelve whiffs on

604
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 2: the twenty six swings that were taken against his slider,

605
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 2: gets them deep into the game through strikes, which he

606
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Speaker 2: did not do in his debut, and it was something

607
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 2: that they kind of knew he could do, Like, they

608
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 2: did not have any worries about him throwing strikes. The

609
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 2: fact that he did not do that in his debut

610
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 2: was a little bit just weird to them. But he

611
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 2: got back to everything that they needed him to get

612
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 2: back to. They get that version of tetsu Emi. It's

613
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 2: not going to completely, you know, wipe away the sting

614
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 2: of losing Hunter Brown, but it'll help.

615
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: What a crazy pitch that slider is, Yeah, I mean

616
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: what a weird looking did you see the one that

617
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: I mean he was going armside. He was like a

618
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: screwball that he was throwing stackas has no no idea

619
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: what to call it. That it was constantly confusing it

620
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: for a splitter or a slide or whatever. I mean,

621
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Speaker 1: it's so much fun to watch that. And I don't

622
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: know how you preparest that because that pitch just doesn't exist.

623
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: You kind of have to see it for the first time.

624
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: But yeah, he rebounded. He looked really good, and again

625
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: against an A's team that even though they hadn't been

626
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Speaker 1: hitting coming into the series, clearly they can because they

627
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: hit against everybody else that the Astros threw out there.

628
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Speaker 1: But em I was able to shut him down, and

629
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Speaker 1: they desperately need that version of Emi going forward. I mean,

630
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: he's he's he almost has to pitch into the sixth

631
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: of every game that he's in. I mean there's a

632
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: ton of pressure on him to lead that rotation in

633
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: eating innings and being effective and keeping the pitch count low,

634
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Speaker 1: and he did really well with that in the start.

635
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Speaker 2: I just noticed I misspelled Tetsu EMI's name on this banner.

636
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 2: I apologize to tetsu That's just me not being able

637
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Speaker 2: to spell. But if you're watching on YouTube, I'm sure

638
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 2: you've commented about it already, so hm. Yeah, a lot

639
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 2: of pressure on him, A lot of pressure on on

640
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 2: Lance mc colors too, like Lance mc colors junior too. Honestly,

641
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 2: I mean we have seen it. It's in there like

642
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,879
Speaker 2: you a week like a week ago he he threw

643
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Speaker 2: seven innings and struck out nine and allow one runn

644
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Speaker 2: against the Red Sox Like it's in there, like he

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Speaker 2: can do it. And if we I know, not everything

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Speaker 2: is equated to paychecks here, but I mean, we're talking

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Speaker 2: about Emi, we're talking about Javier, We're talking about mcclors.

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Speaker 2: There's three guys that are taking up like a sizeable,

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Speaker 2: it's it's pretty cut and dried that that these three

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Speaker 2: guys need to be the guys that are going to,

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Speaker 2: you know, carry this thing however long Hunter Brown's out

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Speaker 2: for no other re and then we have seen them all, well,

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Speaker 2: Javier McCullers, we've seen them do it before. EMI has

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Speaker 2: had a lot of success at MPB. These three guys

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Speaker 2: are they're older, they're veterans, they've got experience at the

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Speaker 2: professional level more so than other guys in this rotation,

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Speaker 2: they've got to be the ones that booy this thing

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Speaker 2: going forward.

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Speaker 1: It's not happened consistently enough, so that is that is

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Speaker 1: nerve wracking for sure.

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Speaker 2: So any what any struggling, beleagued injury ravage pitching staff

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Speaker 2: needs is to come play three games at course Field,

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Speaker 2: which the Astros will do this week against the Colorado Rockies,

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Speaker 2: who remain very, very very bad at baseball. I don't

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Speaker 2: think they're as bad as they were last year, but

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Speaker 2: they're still not very good. They're still gonna flirt with

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Speaker 2: one hundred losses. They're gonna face Michael Lorenzen, Ryan Feltner

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Speaker 1: If the original Michael Lorenz.

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Speaker 2: Lorenzen, who Hey, team Italy, Team Italy God in the WBC.

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Speaker 2: You know, look, this is for now. This is a

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Speaker 2: team that is going to have to outscore, that is

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Speaker 2: going to have to outslug its opponents, which is not

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Speaker 2: something that I thought I would say in the preseason,

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Speaker 2: not something I thought i'd say in spring training. But

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Speaker 2: here we are ten games in and this team needs

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Speaker 2: its offense to to do what it did you know

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Speaker 2: this weekend in in Sacramento, they score. They scored ten

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Speaker 2: runs one game, they score eleven runs. In another game

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Speaker 2: they scored four, and they score four in the middle.

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Speaker 2: But still you get my point here, like they need

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Speaker 2: need them to pick the pitching staff up, because the

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Speaker 2: pitching staff right now isn't a world a hurt doesn't

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Speaker 2: have its ace, it doesn't really have a closer. The

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Speaker 2: bullpen leading up to whoever is going to close is

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Speaker 2: shaky at best. So so just what you want walking

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Speaker 2: into course field. So we'll see how it goes here

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Speaker 2: in Denver until we'll bring you everything that happens from there.

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Speaker 2: But until then, you can follow me on x at

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Speaker 2: Hopefully Josh Reddick will be back from wherever he's go

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Speaker 2: karting around to join us to give us his takes

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Speaker 2: on the beginning of this astro season. Hopefully we can

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Speaker 2: corral him in here, but we'll be back this week.

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Speaker 2: Until then, we'll talk to you later. Thanks for listening,

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Speaker 2: and enjoy some course field baseball.

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Speaker 1: Closing time