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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome into another edition of crush City Territory.

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Speaker 1: I'm Chandler Rome, joined by Tyler Stafford. After the Astros, Well,

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Speaker 1: they did what you wanted them to do in Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: they took two of three from a bad team, but

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Speaker 1: at this point in the season, where they are in

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Speaker 1: the division, where they are in the entire playoff standings,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say this felt like a must

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Speaker 1: sweep series, but you certainly felt like you left money

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Speaker 1: on the table on Sunday when you sent Fromberveldez out

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Speaker 1: against a bad, brave seam with a chance to sweep,

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Speaker 1: knowing that the Mariners were playing a terrible Angels team

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Speaker 1: at their ballpark, where the Mariners are unbeatable at Tmobile

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Speaker 1: Park at the moment, and Fromberveldez goes out. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not a big fan of classifying good from or bad Fromber.

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Speaker 1: I think that's too simplistic, but today was most certainly

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Speaker 1: not good. Fromber gave up, gave up five runs. He

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Speaker 1: has given up four runs or more in seven of

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Speaker 1: his past eight starts. There's a lot of people that

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Speaker 1: share a lot of blame for what has happened with

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Speaker 1: the ashers the last two months, frombervel Does is one

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Speaker 1: of them. We don't want to make this a full

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Speaker 1: fromber show, but Tyler, they won the series. They have

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Speaker 1: to feel somewhat good about that. But when you get

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Speaker 1: down to thirteen games left in the regular season and

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Speaker 1: you're in a tight division race, you're in a tight

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Speaker 1: race to even make the playoffs, you gotta win every

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Speaker 1: layup you get. And when you run frombervel Does out

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Speaker 1: there against a team that has stopped trying, then you

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Speaker 1: expect to win that game. And they didn't do that today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and not only do they lose the game, fromber

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Speaker 2: is only able to get twelve outs, throw seventy six pitches.

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Speaker 2: You have to use your bullpen for you know, five

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Speaker 2: full innings of out. You have to burn JP France,

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Speaker 2: who of course, you know, good for him for being back.

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Speaker 2: You know it was maybe he could start at some

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Speaker 2: point in the next week. Obviously that's no longer an

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Speaker 2: option with him throwing today. It's it's getting to a

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Speaker 2: point with fromber over the last month and a half

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Speaker 2: two months where look, I mean, the Astros are trying

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Speaker 2: to make the playoffs, and as we've said all year,

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Speaker 2: they just they have to make it and see what happens.

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Speaker 2: But the honest truth is they could win one hundred

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Speaker 2: and ten games this year and have a first round

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Speaker 2: by and if Frommer's pitching like this, they're not going

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Speaker 2: anywhere in the playoffs. That they have to have Hunter

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Speaker 2: Brown and Fromber the coaeses. That's how this entire team

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Speaker 2: is designed. Is you're one and two starters, you know,

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Speaker 2: get you three or four wins in a seven and

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Speaker 2: a seven game series, and in the last nine Fromber starts,

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Speaker 2: the Astros are one in eight and Fromer has a

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Speaker 2: five eight five e Er not gonna get it done.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's no scenario where Frombers not starting game

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Speaker 2: two in game six of any seven game series like

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Speaker 2: he's going to pitch and if they're losing every time

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Speaker 2: he goes out there, they're not They're not getting past

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Speaker 2: the series. If Fromber is not back to what he

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Speaker 2: has been for most of his career. Obviously, people go

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Speaker 2: through funks and things like that, but look, when Fromer

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Speaker 2: is on, he is he is one of the more

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Speaker 2: entertaining pitchers to watch him baseball. He looks like there's

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Speaker 2: a magnet under the infield dirt. When he's on and

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Speaker 2: it just sucks every ball into just grounding to the

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Speaker 2: he just he looks effortless when he is on, and

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Speaker 2: he was that for a lot of the game today.

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Speaker 2: I mean the fourth inning he threw what six pitches,

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Speaker 2: got through. He entered the fifth inning with like fifty

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Speaker 2: what's gonna happen? And then when he loses it. Man,

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Speaker 2: there there is almost nothing less enjoyable to watch than

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Speaker 2: when Fromber can't locate the strike zone. And that's what

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Speaker 2: happened in the fifth inning today. He just couldn't find

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Speaker 2: the strike zone, walks, the bases loaded, they have to

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Speaker 2: pull him again at seventy six pitches. It wasn't even

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Speaker 2: if it's saved face or just again try to just

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Speaker 2: which I mean they were trying to do. Obviously, it

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Speaker 2: didn't work. I mean, even if the bullpen hadn't given

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Speaker 2: up another run the rest of the game, it didn't

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Speaker 2: matter because the Astros couldn't score anything after that, which

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Speaker 2: had been the complaint. But it's it's hard to complain

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Speaker 2: about the offense after the first two games of this series.

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Speaker 2: You know, you're you're allowed to to only score three

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Speaker 2: in a series where you scored twenty something runs in

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Speaker 2: a in a three game series, like that's you know,

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Speaker 2: that's that's gonna happen. But again, it all of this

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Speaker 2: is irrelevant if if Romer is not good in the playoffs,

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Speaker 2: none of this matters. I mean, they could have gone

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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two in this season, they could

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Speaker 2: have won every single game, and if Romer's pitching like this,

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Speaker 2: they're not gonna win a playoff series.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I tend to agree. I thought it was interesting

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, you know, seventy six pitches then Fromber gets pulled. No,

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Speaker 1: I thought that was Joe Aspatas showing the way he's

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Speaker 1: going to manage the last I mean today was the thirteenth,

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Speaker 1: but the last twelve games of this season, like this

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Speaker 1: is not time to like, let your guy have a leash,

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Speaker 1: like see if he can wiggle out of it. No,

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Speaker 1: like he was trying to win that game, Like he

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Speaker 1: They had to keep it manageable, they had to keep

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Speaker 1: it at least somewhat close. So he's he's in playoff

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Speaker 1: manager mode already. And you know the stat you mentioned

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Speaker 1: about Fromerveldas in his last nine starts has a has

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Speaker 1: a five to eight five ERA. In those nine starts,

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Speaker 1: he had thrown a pitch in the sixth inning and

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Speaker 1: six of them yep, So there was at least that

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Speaker 1: like at least he wasn't pitching well, but at least

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Speaker 1: like he did what quote unquote aces are supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: Like he got you into the game, he shielded your bullpen.

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Speaker 1: He got you into the sixth, sometimes into the seventh.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't the case today, And like you said, they

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Speaker 1: the Rangers coming into town for a massive homestand coming up,

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Speaker 1: I think the only solace that they can take is

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Speaker 1: that Brian A. Brad You did not pitch in any

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Speaker 1: a time off, it's Brian A. Brady. They've got him

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Speaker 1: to win this upcoming homestand but yeah, you're right, like

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Speaker 1: know what, in a three game series, anything can happen,

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Speaker 1: like the ball bounces your way, the offense kind of ignites.

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Speaker 1: For one game, anything can happen. But you start to

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Speaker 1: into a seven game series, and if he's pitching like this,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's not the it's not their path to win.

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Speaker 1: It's going to require offense to step up in his absence,

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Speaker 1: and they couldn't do it today. You did mention about

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Speaker 1: you know the offense was better in these in these

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Speaker 1: three games. You know they scored eleven runs in the

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Speaker 1: But uh, you can only play who's in front of you.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna demean the team for this, but

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Speaker 1: this is a Braves pitching staff that a four point

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Speaker 1: four to six era. There's only eight teams that have

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Speaker 1: a higher one. So again, they can only play whos

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Speaker 1: a bad pitching staff. The Rangers are about to come

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Speaker 1: throw Jack Lighter, Merrill Kelly, and Jacob de Grom at you. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, while it was nice to see more of

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Speaker 1: looked better than it did in Toronto. It certainly looked

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Speaker 1: but just not. I don't know that there's much from

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Speaker 1: this series you can take, and and that's instructive going forward,

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Speaker 1: because again, they can only plays on their schedule. But

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Speaker 1: this is not a briefs team that's at all going

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Speaker 1: to scare anyone, like their whole rotations on the il.

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Speaker 1: They didn't sell at the deadline, but they didn't buy either, Like,

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Speaker 1: the Ashers did, which what a team that purports itself

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Speaker 2: With any series. I think it's important to play the

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Speaker 2: exercise of if you swapped the order of the games,

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Speaker 2: how would you feel?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Like if this were the Friday night game? This, you know,

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Speaker 2: the Fromber game was Friday Night. The Astras lose, they're

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Speaker 2: feeling down, and then the next two games they score

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Speaker 2: eleven and then I believe it. I think they scored

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Speaker 2: Same if if they score you know, eleven and six,

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Speaker 2: they win those games coming into the Rangers series, how

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Speaker 1: Right? You know?

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Speaker 2: I it's important to look at a series as a whole,

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Speaker 2: Like they still completed what they needed to do, which

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Speaker 2: keep a lead on the Rangers. Now, none of this

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Speaker 2: something that they haven't done consistently throughout the year. I mean,

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Speaker 2: when he's not playing at home, looks good. Cam Smith

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Speaker 2: even know that that was impressive. You hope they don't

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Speaker 2: they say it's a day or two. We'll see, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, we're at the point in the season

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Speaker 3: Time for your weekly Arena Club segment where we see

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Speaker 3: pull Emerald pack this week. AJ looking for something big.

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Speaker 1: Always, I'm always looking for the big thing.

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Speaker 3: Next big things, got big money, big money, Baby, No way.

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Speaker 2: Like legend in my showroom might have a Robbin you out,

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Speaker 1: ear to ear and let's not forget either before he

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Speaker 1: hit that homer, that catch you made in left field, Yeah,

432
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:16,959
Speaker 1: that's a pretty nice catch. Like I mean, I don't know,

433
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 1: I've heard, you know, I have a story running in

434
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Speaker 1: the Athletic on Monday morning. I talked to the I

435
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,880
Speaker 1: talked to the scout that signed Zach Cole with the Ashros.

436
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Speaker 1: He actually also signed Hunter Brown too, a pretty good

437
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Speaker 1: area scout. He got promoted to an East Coast crosschecker recently,

438
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 1: which is probably overdue. Scott buber Hellman, you always want

439
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Speaker 1: to give credit to the scout, So Scott Oberhelman, congrats.

440
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know he said the two things that

441
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Speaker 1: when he was looking at Ball State, because that's where

442
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: Zach Cole went to school, He said, the two things

443
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Speaker 1: that stood out to him the most were the bat

444
00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 1: speed and then Zach Cole's first fourteen swings in the

445
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 1: big leagues, I believe averaged around seventy eight miles an

446
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 1: hour bat speed league average is seventy one. So he's

447
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: he's got the bat speed's there, and they kind of

448
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 1: knew that if he's got that bat speed, naturally, he'll

449
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: probably tap into some exit vello. It'll probably the power

450
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 1: will just kind of naturally come, and you've seen that manifest.

451
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: And then the other thing that really caught his eye

452
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: was the arm was ninety nine from the outfit. He

453
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: was throwing ninety nine from the outfield arm wise, so

454
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,679
Speaker 1: they knew the defense was probably there. This is just

455
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 1: a wiry kid. That's a that's an athlete. Again, I

456
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,719
Speaker 1: don't know where he fits in the long term plans.

457
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Speaker 1: He may not have him be a part of their

458
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Speaker 1: long term plans, but for this stretch, he was the

459
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Speaker 1: hottest hitter they had in this organization. It wouldn't have

460
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 1: mattered if he had one game above double A or

461
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Speaker 1: one hundred games above double A. They were gonna go

462
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Speaker 1: look for who is the hottest hitter in this organization.

463
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Speaker 1: Who can we get up here that is feeling himself,

464
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Speaker 1: that thinks he can do no wrong, and that will

465
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Speaker 1: come up here unafraid and is gonna swing. And I

466
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Speaker 1: think you saw he's unafraid. He swung at the first

467
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: pitch he saw in the big league and sent it

468
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 1: four hundred and something feet like it was a nice

469
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Speaker 1: first impression from a guy that quite frankly, I didn't

470
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Speaker 1: expect this from.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean another one of those guys I mean

472
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Speaker 2: when we talked to Ethan Pecko is a very similar

473
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Speaker 2: story where he essentially played one college season. His first

474
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Speaker 2: two seasons at ball State, he had like sixty something

475
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 2: played appearances across those from injuries and just not playing.

476
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Speaker 2: Had one season, went in the tenth round and then yeah,

477
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 2: dude can just swing harder than anybody else, and you

478
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 2: just hope that he can run into one. And he

479
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,360
Speaker 2: did and that's what it looks like. So again, yeah,

480
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Speaker 2: bring him up. And I mean we talked about, you know,

481
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,919
Speaker 2: protecting prospects and stuff throughout this year. Look absolutely no

482
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 2: offense to Zach Cole. He is in the big leagues.

483
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Speaker 2: He had a home run on his first pitch. There's

484
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Speaker 2: nothing I could say to him, hopefully that would offend him.

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Speaker 2: He's twenty five years old and was a tenth round

486
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Speaker 2: draft pick. Like the Astros don't care about his like

487
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 2: correct long term prospect. Like it's like, can you do

488
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 2: something right now?

489
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Speaker 1: Come up here.

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Speaker 2: This is not a twenty year old that you took

491
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Speaker 2: in the first round that you're like building your future

492
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Speaker 2: of your franchise around. This is, hey, this guy's been hitting.

493
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Speaker 2: Let's see what happens and if he's good, great, and

494
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,640
Speaker 2: if not, you know, not who cares? But a tenth

495
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 2: round pick, he's twenty five, you know it's not. This

496
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 2: is not somebody that you're like building around.

497
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Speaker 1: This isn't calling up Ethan Frye after Ethan fry like

498
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 1: may have set the world on fire at high A,

499
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,040
Speaker 1: gotten double A for a few games and then calling

500
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: him up to channel another crush shitty territory guest. But

501
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 1: this isn't doing that. This isn't calling Ethan fry up.

502
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: This isn't I'm trying to think, who are their position?

503
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: This isn't calling Walker Yannick up their first round or

504
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 1: from last year, not that he warrants a call up,

505
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: and he's a catcher. But but you get my drift

506
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: like it's not I think Zach Cole can certainly carve

507
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: a spot, you know. I mean again, he's twenty five,

508
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 1: which is on the older side, but he's still relatively

509
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,159
Speaker 1: He's been through a lot of injuries, he's had just

510
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: a lot of adversity. Like he can still carve like

511
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: a nice little role as a professional baseball I don't

512
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: present it as a fourth outfielder. Maybe hell if he

513
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: he it's one hundred and fourteen off the bat regularly,

514
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: he'll they'll find a spot. They'll find a spot. Don't worry.

515
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Speaker 2: He is a year and a half younger than you,

516
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 2: Juan Soto.

517
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Joe Buck. But yeah, I thought, I don't

518
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: know how much longer the lightning is going to stay

519
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: in the bottle. I think it may have escaped a

520
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: little bit in the last two games of this series.

521
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: And again you're about to see the Rangers who throw

522
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: a lot of good pitching at you. But I also think,

523
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: you know, props to Joe a spot up. Just run

524
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: him out there, like we said it on a pod Friday.

525
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: If you're bringing this kid up like just playing like

526
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 1: like we talked about I don't want this to disrespect

527
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: Taylor Trommel, who's a very good dude, but like I mean,

528
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 1: at this point, like the upsides higher, Like just if

529
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: you have a choice between him and trom I'll just

530
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 1: play this kid like and hope he can run into one.

531
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Speaker 1: Hope he's just like youthful energy and exuberance. He's, relatively speaking,

532
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: has not played a lot this year. He's taken about

533
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: four hundred played appearances in the minor leagues, which I

534
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: mean jose Al Tuves already over six hundred in the

535
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: big leagues. So like he relatively speaking hasn't played as

536
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: much as these guys. So he's probably a little fresher

537
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: and just again he's running on adrenaline, running on fumes,

538
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: running on just being high on life getting to the

539
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: big leagues. And good for him, though good Like I

540
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: still have not met him, because again he wasn't in

541
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 1: big league camp, Like I don't I've never met him,

542
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: but from the interviews and all the videos I saw

543
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: of him in the clubhouse and on the field, like

544
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: looks like a pretty likable guy. Looks like a guy

545
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 1: that would assimilate very well into that clubhouse. So good

546
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: for Zach Cole, who had a debut that I don't

547
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: think anyone will be able to match for a while.

548
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: I have to go back and look. I don't know

549
00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: how many Astros have hit a first pitch of their

550
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: career home run. I know a few have hit first

551
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: big league get bat. That's I mean, that's not like,

552
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: that's not like prevalent by any means. But you hear that,

553
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: you hear first at bat in the big leagues, you

554
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: hit a homer, and like that. That happens sometimes, but

555
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: you'd be hard I'd be hard pressed to think of

556
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: another guy that hit the first pitch of his big

557
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: league career out of the ballpark.

558
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 2: Dude, he smoked that sucker too. I know I sent

559
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 2: you this video, so I'm assuming that you've seen it.

560
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 2: I've watched that video of the corpus Chrissy Hooks watching

561
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:36,719
Speaker 2: that first at bat probably thirty times. It rules. If

562
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 2: if you haven't seen it, I retweeted it, go go

563
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 2: find it. It's from that like Astras player development. I

564
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 2: think the Hooks put it up too, but it's the

565
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 2: whole Hooks team just watching this dude who was on

566
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 2: their team like a month ago. Just rip a ball

567
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 2: in the big leagues of a team in a division

568
00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 2: race in September and they just go nuts. It's so

569
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 2: much fun. It's I mean, it's why I love baseball,

570
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 2: you know, Like it's it's stories like this if guys

571
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 2: who just come up and I mean again, we're at

572
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Speaker 2: the point where every game matters immensely. Winning that, I mean,

573
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 2: just getting a two run lead on Friday could impact

574
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 2: your playoff odds by more than just about anything else

575
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Speaker 2: anybody else's on the Astros have done for the entire year.

576
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 2: Like that's how much things swing at this point in September,

577
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,719
Speaker 2: And it was very very cool to see.

578
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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean this could come down to,

579
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: like by the end, at the end of the day,

580
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, after the next twelve games,

581
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: like this could be like a half game or a

582
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: one game difference between the Astros going to the playoffs,

583
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: the Astros having home field advantage in the wild Card Series,

584
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: the Astros winning a division like it's gonna be a

585
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 1: one game sort of thing. So you start to think

586
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Speaker 1: back at moments through the season. You think about what

587
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Speaker 1: Zach col did another crushitty too ory guys, You think

588
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: about what Bryce Matthews did in Arizona. Like, Bryce Matthews

589
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: won them too, He won them a series in Arizona

590
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Speaker 1: with his with with three swings of the bat. You

591
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: think about that, You just think about the little moments

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Speaker 1: You could also say, you know, it was to the

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Speaker 1: those home runs and the d Backs win two of

596
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Speaker 1: from there. But it's this. These are the six biggest

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640
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641
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: these maybe the six biggest games the Astros have played

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Speaker 1: really in recent memory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the the golden era of the Astros

644
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 2: have had the division locked up by June most of

645
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 2: the time, so they haven't had a lot of big

646
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 2: regular season games. And look, I obviously all six of

647
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 2: these games are important, but to me, the Rangers series.

648
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: Is what matters.

649
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 2: I mean, two of these three teams are gonna make

650
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 2: it into the playoffs. You know, that's just barring something

651
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 2: crazy happening. That's what's gonna happen. The Rangers are three

652
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 2: games back of the Mariners. The Ashos are one game

653
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:32,240
Speaker 2: back of the Mariners. You know, there's really not another

654
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 2: way for any other team to make it outside of

655
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 2: the Guardians, who do get to play the Rangers in

656
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 2: the last series of the year. You know, if they

657
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 2: go on an eight and two run and then sweep

658
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 2: the Rangers in the last series of the year, they

659
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 2: certainly could sneak in. But outside of that, it's essentially

660
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 2: two of these three teams and you already have a

661
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 2: two game lead on the Rangers if you can at Look,

662
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,879
Speaker 2: I hate to say the word sweet, but let's let's

663
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: pretend that the Astros can sweep the Rangers. That means

664
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 2: that they have a five game lead on the Rangers

665
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: with what nine games left? Twelve games left? What is

666
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 2: it after the there's only twelve games left in the

667
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 2: left right now, Yeah, so five games up, nine games

668
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 2: to go. Like the season, you're feeling pretty good if

669
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 2: you can do that. Now, obviously, if you win two

670
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 2: out of three you got a three game lead with

671
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 2: nine games left, that's also very good. But if it

672
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 2: goes the other way, if the Rangers can win this

673
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 2: series and gain a game on the Astros or heaven forbid,

674
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 2: sweep the Astros and and take the lead like that

675
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 2: is a humongous swing. Again, You're you're obviously going for

676
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 2: the division, like you want to beat the Mariners too.

677
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 2: But as we've talked, we talked a little bit about

678
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 2: before we started recording, Yes, winning the division matters, but

679
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 2: really just for home field in the wild card series,

680
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 2: because the the Blue Jays are going to have a

681
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 2: bye and the Tigers are going to have a bye.

682
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 2: The as you explained it, I believe it's the top

683
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 2: two division winners. So whoever wins the division with the

684
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 2: best record.

685
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 1: The two division winners with the best record get buys,

686
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: which which the Ashers are not going to. That's not

687
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: going to happen.

688
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 2: And the Mariners aren't either, Like the you know, it's

689
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,360
Speaker 2: it's going to be the Blue Jays and the Tigers.

690
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 2: So whether the Ashers win the division or not, whoever

691
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 2: it is that wins the division, they're playing in a

692
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 2: wild card series and they're essentially playing for do you

693
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 2: get one more game at home than if you hadn't

694
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 2: won the division. You know, again, like you want to

695
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 2: win the division. You want to lock this up as

696
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 2: soon as you can again, ideally so you can set

697
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 2: up your rotation for that wild card series that you're

698
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 2: almost certainly going to be playing in. But you got

699
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 2: to get in and right now, your biggest threat is

700
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 2: the Rangers. You know, if you can put them out

701
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 2: right now, you know you're feeling really good about the

702
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 2: end of the season because you know, the Rangers really

703
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 2: don't have to play anybody outside of the Astros. They

704
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 2: have three against the Astros, then they are at home

705
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 2: against the Marlins and the Twins, and then they go

706
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 2: to the Guardians for that last series of the year.

707
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 2: But it may be that the Guardians are just out

708
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 2: by that point. So you know, the Rangers have a

709
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 2: very easy schedule outside of this Astro series. You have

710
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 2: to win two out of three here, there's no getting

711
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 2: around it, there's no sugarcoating it here. Yeah, they're going

712
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 2: to be throwing their best arms and you're not gonna

713
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 2: get to throw Hunter Brown and from er Valdez in

714
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 2: this series. You have to take two out of three here.

715
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I agree with you, but I also feel

716
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: like they're in better position for the Mariners series. Yeah,

717
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: sure are for the Rangers series for a couple of reasons. Obviously,

718
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: you just said the pitching matchups. Jason Alexander is going

719
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: to start Monday in game one of that series. I imagine

720
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: it will follow with Christian Xavier and then AJ blue

721
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: Ball or an opener in AJ blue Ball something in

722
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: game three. I wonder, though, if they lose the first

723
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: two games of that series, I wonder if they consider

724
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,919
Speaker 1: I don't know that they'd want to be this desperate yet,

725
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: but if they lose the first two games that Ranger series,

726
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown would be on one day less of rest,

727
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: he'd be on three days rest. Would they throw him

728
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: on short rests in that final game if they feel desperate.

729
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: I don't think they would, but who knows. Like desperate

730
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: times can sometimes call for desperate measures. I don't think

731
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,760
Speaker 1: that would happen, but certainly you know they're they're TBA

732
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 1: and then in the last two games for a reason,

733
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 1: so you know the Rangers are interesting at the moment.

734
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 1: I think you saw it when the Ashers were in

735
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: Arlington this past week. They're running on just fun vibes

736
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of dudes that I had never

737
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: heard of. Cody Freeman, a guy named Michael Hellman hit

738
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: lead off for them a couple of games and is

739
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: apparently good legend. He went to what did he really?

740
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: I believe so, Michael Helmer, is that? Is that what

741
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of? I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he

742
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: went to A and m good for him. I'm sure

743
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: he succeeded and met all of his expectations at Texas.

744
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 2: A and m Aggie legend. Michael is a former Aggie

745
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 2: right m h Look, you can't hurt me right now.

746
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 2: We just beat Notre Dame. I'm invincible for this week.

747
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 2: You can't hurt me.

748
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: Yeah. And what could be a bad sign for the

749
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: Ashers Doley Scarcia's off the I L so he will

750
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: be active and ready to go for these three games.

751
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: He he has not been good this season. There's a

752
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: chance they non tender him this winter, but whenever he

753
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: faces the Astros, he somehow can find a way to

754
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: hit a couple homers and be a real pest. So

755
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 1: they don't have Corey Seger, they don't have Marcus Simeon.

756
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: They don't have Nativaldi. They I think Chris Martin, one

757
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: of their leverage back end guys, hurt himself in the

758
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: Mets series. So like, this is not like the Rangers

759
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: team that you think of. But the one thing that

760
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: they have done all year, and as we reiterated earlier,

761
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: they pitch the hell out of it. They have the

762
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: lowest dra in baseball. We've already we saw that at nauseam.

763
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: The three starters they are gonna run out there, but

764
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 1: their bullpen has pitched well. They've got a lot of

765
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: different guys in different roles. Old friend Phil Maton is

766
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: one of their setup men, sleeper agent PHILM. Matson, sleepy

767
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: in various and various forms. But I just I feel

768
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: better about the Astros' chances, maybe against the Mariners, just

769
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: because the Mariners have not played well on the road

770
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: this season. I get it, they've won eight in a row.

771
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,320
Speaker 1: They just blitz through a home stand and looked invincible

772
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: doing it. But you start to look at their splits,

773
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 1: and you start to look at both how they've pitched

774
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: and how they've hit at home and on the road,

775
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: and it's pretty drastic. So assuming that holds, and also

776
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: with the knowledge that the Ashers are going to throw

777
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,760
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown and fromber Veldez in that series, I feel

778
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: a little bit better about where they are going up

779
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: against the Mariners. The Rangers, you do wonder how long

780
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: they can live on these vibes, but they've lived on

781
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 1: them for this long. Now they've clawed back into contention,

782
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 1: and you don't want to say that it's going to

783
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,720
Speaker 1: end anytime soon. So look, it's it's six tough games.

784
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm being out out of line when

785
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: I say I think the Ashers have a better team

786
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: than the Rangers. I think the Ashers top to bottom,

787
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: one to twenty eight, it's a better team, especially with

788
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: Simeon and Seeger and Valdi on the injured list. Like

789
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: the Ashers have the better team, I don't know that

790
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: I'm ready to say that. When it comes to the Mariners,

791
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: I think the Mariners probably they have a little more depth.

792
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: I think the Mariner's lineup is certainly more dynamic. They

793
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: slug a little bit more the top. I'd take the

794
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: Astros top of their rotation, maybe over you know, Brian

795
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: Wu has been excellent for the Mariners, but they have

796
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: they don't really have that number two. Logan Gilbert's been

797
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: hurt a good bit of the year. He's been okay,

798
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: he hasn't been typical Logan Gilbert. Luis Castillo's had some

799
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: ups and downs. Like they don't have that defined number two.

800
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,479
Speaker 1: You could argue that the Astros don't at this point

801
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: either with Fromber, but I still maybe would take Fromber's

802
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 1: track record and just maybe I'm too generous and I'm

803
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: giving him the benefit of the doubt a little bit.

804
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: But I think you when you put these rosters together,

805
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: I think the Mariners, certainly on paper, probably have the

806
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: best roster of these three teams. But they don't. They

807
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: don't play these games on paper like They've got to

808
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: go out there and win. And one thing that the

809
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: Astros do have to take solace in is they do

810
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: get them at dik In Park, where they haven't played

811
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: exceptional this year. They're forty three and thirty two dike

812
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,839
Speaker 1: In Park, but recently it has not felt that way.

813
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: It's in the second half during this slide, they've lost

814
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: some some winnable series at dyke In Park. They've been

815
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: swept there. They haven't been playing their best, but you'd

816
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: rather have them at dik And Park than going on

817
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: the road to face these teams for sure.

818
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 2: And like I said, I agree with you. I think

819
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 2: they're better set up for the Mariners series. I just

820
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: think if you can, you know, if you can put

821
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 2: the Rangers out of it in this next series, it

822
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 2: almost doesn't matter what happens in the Mariners series. I

823
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 2: mean again, if you if you somehow lose two out

824
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 2: of three to the Rangers and you've got a one

825
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 2: game lead and then you have to win a series

826
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 2: against the Mariners, like, there's even more pressure on there.

827
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 2: So all I'm asking is for a little six and

828
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 2: oh home stands. That's all I'm asking for, you know,

829
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 2: I don't think that's too much to ask, just a

830
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 2: little tiny six and O home stand. You know, I'll

831
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 2: settle for five and one, referably with the loss against

832
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 2: the Mariners. But you just got to get in and

833
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 2: you already have a two game lead on the Rangers.

834
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 2: So I'm saying, look, pump up that lead. Get get

835
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 2: as big of a lead as you can on the Rangers.

836
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 2: Because as we've said, there's there's almost no discernible difference

837
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,359
Speaker 2: between winning the division or not You're not gonna get

838
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 2: a buye. You're gonna be playing in a wild card

839
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 2: card series anyway, So get in there. And you already

840
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 2: got a two game lead on one team, so put

841
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 2: them out.

842
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: I think the biggest luxury the Astros could have, and

843
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: I've said this for three weeks now and people are

844
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: gonna get tired of me hearing it or me saying it,

845
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 1: But the best case scenario that they can have is

846
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,879
Speaker 1: they fly at a Sacramento on Monday A with their

847
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: destiny on their own hands and be with the ability

848
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: to manipulate their rotation the way they want to manipulate

849
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: their rotation. Because if they go into that final series

850
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: in Anaheim and don't have things locked up and they

851
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: don't have a playoff spot clinched, and they don't have

852
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 1: you know, they're not in the tournament, then you start

853
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: to you're you're gonna have to burn fromber Velde is

854
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: you have to burn Hunter Brown and.

855
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 2: If you get in your bullpen too, because you got

856
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 2: essentially one bullpen arm.

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Speaker 1: Right, so you you want to be able to do

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Speaker 1: that to set yourself up for the wild Card series

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Speaker 1: to be in the best position. But I think that

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Speaker 1: should be. Their foremost goal is to go to California

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Speaker 1: and be able to do with their pitching what they want,

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Speaker 1: not be forced into pitching Hunter Brown on weird days

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Speaker 1: of rest and jeopardizing him, not to risk you know, Fromer.

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Speaker 1: They think Fromber is very durable with the arm and

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Speaker 1: he can bounce back better than anybody. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are down on Fromber,

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Speaker 1: but you're gonna need him. Like you said it earlier, Tyler,

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Speaker 1: he is pitching in a playoff series, whether you like

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Speaker 1: it or not, like I mean he is, and like

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Speaker 1: they don't have anyone else, So you don't want to

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Speaker 1: mess with him more on this final trip than you

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Speaker 1: would need to. But to be able to have that

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Speaker 1: autonomy and be able to control their own destiny, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to get it done in these six games

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Speaker 1: at Dyke and Park against the Rangers and the Mariners

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Speaker 1: this week. We will be back during this week to

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Speaker 1: debrief check in in the middle of this see how

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Speaker 1: it's going off day on Thursday. We'll probably come back

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Speaker 1: on Thursday and talk to you guys, set up the

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Speaker 1: Mariners series after whatever happens against the Rangers. While you're

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Speaker 1: watching that stuff. You can follow me on x at

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

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Speaker 1: do that. Like I said, we'll be back in the

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Speaker 1: middle of this massive homestand to discuss where the Astros stand,

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Speaker 1: whether they're still in playoff contention or whether they're on

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Speaker 1: the outside looking in. They will enter this home stand

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Speaker 1: in second place in the American League West for the

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Speaker 1: first time since June first. They are in second place

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Speaker 1: in the American League West. And a quick look at

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Speaker 1: the Fangrafts odds before we get out of here. There

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Speaker 1: are currently five teams that have at least a ninety

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Speaker 1: percent chance to make the playoffs. According to Fangrafts, It's

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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays, the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Tigers

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Speaker 1: and the Seattle Marriers. The Astros have seventy two point

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Speaker 1: five percent odds to make the playoffs, but those change

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Speaker 1: with everyone and loss, so they're they're They're still in

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Speaker 1: for everything that has gone wrong. They're twenty six and

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Speaker 1: thirty four in their past sixty games. They have not

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Speaker 1: played well for going on three months now, but they're

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Speaker 1: still in okay shape. They control them their own destiny.

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Speaker 1: They've got six games against their rivals at home to

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Speaker 1: put them away. Like if you handed them this choice

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Speaker 1: in spring training, I think they'd take it. But they

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Speaker 1: got to get the job done and we will be

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Speaker 1: back to see if they do. Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 2: I'll be at the game on Monday with my family,

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Speaker 2: so if you see me, say hi so they think

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Speaker 2: I'm cool. Bye.