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

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Speaker 1: My name is Chandler Rome. Along with Tyler Stafford and Tyler.

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Speaker 1: We just watched two carbon copies of each other play

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Speaker 1: three games at Kaufman Stadium this weekend entering today. Entering Sunday,

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Speaker 1: there were only three teams in baseball that had hit

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Speaker 1: fewer than twenty home runs. The Royals and the Astros

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Speaker 1: were two of them, and the third was the Blue Jays,

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Speaker 1: who the Ashers just played and then exiting today's game.

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Speaker 1: The Ashers have the fourth lowest ERA in baseball. The

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Speaker 1: Royals have the sixth lowest ERA in baseball. So these

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Speaker 1: were two teams that cannot hit at the moment but

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Speaker 1: can pitch, and that kind of bore out. The Ashers

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Speaker 1: did not score in the first two games, get shut

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Speaker 1: out in consecutive games for the first time in a

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Speaker 1: couple of years, and then they break out and score

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Speaker 1: seven runs to salvage a game on Sunday against the Royals.

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Speaker 1: They'll come back and face the world beating Detroit Tigers

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Speaker 1: one game above five hundred at fourteen and thirteen. Tyler,

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Speaker 1: they needed again, there's no game in April it's a

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Speaker 1: must win, but felt like they needed to salvage Sunday

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Speaker 1: to get to leave with some positive tastes in their

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Speaker 1: mouth because the first two games of that series, we're

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Speaker 1: tough to watch from an offensive perspective.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I put this on Twitter. But so they scored

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Speaker 2: Wednesday night in the second inning, they scored all their runs.

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Speaker 2: Then off day Thursday. Then we're shut out Friday and Saturday.

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Speaker 2: So by the time first pitch came around today, they

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Speaker 2: had gone eighty eight consecutive hours without scoring a run

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Speaker 2: in the middle of a baseball season, which is not ideal.

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Speaker 2: So it was good to see Jordan in a home run.

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Speaker 2: Have you know a couple other good at bats, but

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Speaker 2: look if you don't, If you didn't that series, I

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Speaker 2: don't ever want to hear you talk about how baseball

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Speaker 2: used to be better back in the day. That was

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Speaker 2: That was like the most exciting baseball in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 2: And it felt like a nap watching watching this series.

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Speaker 2: For sure.

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Speaker 1: You know what I loved you see that time of

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Speaker 1: game on Friday.

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Speaker 2: One, you weren't even there to celebrate it.

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Speaker 1: I was not, and I was so mad. I texted

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Speaker 1: Blumber I texted Matt Kalahara. I texted Julia. I was like,

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Speaker 1: are you kidding me? You got the one day I'm

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Speaker 1: not there. You guys get a one hour and fifty

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Speaker 1: eight minute game. Imagine all the time they had for

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Speaker 1: pretty good. I had all the time they had for

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Speaker 1: activities after.

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Speaker 2: That, so many, so many activities in Kansas City. Run

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Speaker 2: it up. So my parents were there, so that was fun.

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Speaker 1: How did it go?

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Speaker 2: They loved it? It was great. Two thumbs up on

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Speaker 2: Kansas City. And they have now completed, or at least

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Speaker 2: my mom has. I think my dad missed some of

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Speaker 2: the trips when she was a child, but my mom

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Speaker 2: has now completed all fifty states. So I asked her

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Speaker 2: to give me a ranking top to bottom. She wouldn't

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Speaker 2: do it. She's too proud of visiting all of them.

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Speaker 2: But they really liked it. They said the stadium was

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Speaker 2: really nice. I've never been there. They loved the newgro

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Speaker 2: League Museum. And my dad's a big history nerd too,

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Speaker 2: so I guess the like Harry S. Truman Museum is

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Speaker 2: but no, they enjoyed it. Sounded like fun. They saw

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Speaker 2: the first game of the series, which I think is

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Speaker 2: probably the worst as an Astress fan, at least at

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Speaker 2: least yesterday he got to Zee Fromber throw a weird

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Speaker 2: complete game where you lose and you only have to

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Speaker 2: throw eight innings. But they saw the first one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, first of all, you mentioned

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Speaker 1: the Negro League Museum. It did look like cam Smith

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Speaker 1: from Bob Kendrick who runs the Negro League Museum. So

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Speaker 1: that had to be really really cool for him as

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Speaker 1: someone that's getting to do all this for the first time,

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Speaker 1: to do a lot of cool things. He'll get to

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Speaker 1: sign the Monster at some point at Fenway in August.

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Speaker 1: But going to Kansas City, that's like a rite of passage.

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Speaker 1: You get to go to the Negro League Museum, and

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Speaker 1: and see that for himself. But you mentioned Fromber. Let's

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Speaker 1: start with him. You know, we've kind of settled in

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Speaker 1: what impressed us first, and I think Fromber has to

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Speaker 1: First inning did not look promising, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: very encouraging to see what he did on even with

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, he looks, he look in. I mean it's

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Speaker 2: a classic Farmmer game where you look up, it's the

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Speaker 2: seventh inning, he's thrown like seventy pitches and you're like,

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: So good to see him back out there with the

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Speaker 2: with a good start, even though I think the rest

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Speaker 2: of his team forgot they were playing that day. So

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Speaker 2: so not much else to talk about from that game,

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Speaker 2: but you know, probably look good. Now.

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Speaker 1: You know who else looked good. It's freaking Hunter Brown.

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Speaker 1: He is. He's incredible, Like he may be he legit

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Speaker 1: maybe the best picture of baseball right now.

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Speaker 2: I think he's he's the best picture since Don Draper.

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Speaker 2: You know, uh, he's he's crushing it, man, He's he's

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's been it's been a joy to watch him,

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Speaker 1: just from a it's a it's aesthetically pleasing to watch him.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of bear down throw ninety nine by someone

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Speaker 1: you know, bear down and against runners on base. His

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Speaker 1: scoreless inning streak did snap today. That wasn't winning on forever,

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Speaker 1: but he still does have the fifth longest scoreless inning

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Speaker 1: streak by a starting pitcher in Astra's history. So good

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Speaker 1: for Hunter Brown. He's got the fourth lowest e r

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Speaker 1: the three guys ahead of him starting pitchers that have

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Speaker 2: Uh? What's his name? From the Cubs? Are the Dodgers?

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Speaker 2: Which one?

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Speaker 1: Dodgers?

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Speaker 2: Dodgers? Yes, No, I have no idea who else has

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Speaker 2: had this grade of a start.

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Speaker 1: So Yoshinobu Yamamoto has a one point six, that's the

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Speaker 1: that's the Dodger of whom you spoke. Tyler Mallley of

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Speaker 1: so Hunter Brown has the fourth lowest ERA in baseball

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Speaker 1: right now. But I think the Astros will sign up

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Speaker 1: for that any day of the week. He is. He's

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Speaker 1: every bit of an ace. And like we said in

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Speaker 1: It's to a point where like you're gonna you kind

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Speaker 1: Brown's pitching, because it's gonna be it's gonna be something

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Speaker 1: He continued it against the lineup that has not been

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Speaker 1: The eight other guys around him have not been. But

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Speaker 1: you do what you do. He went out there and

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Speaker 1: toyed with them. They gave a few hits here and there,

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Speaker 1: but just toyd with them that they just they didn't

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Speaker 2: Much of a chance, I mean Bobby Wit. But then

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Speaker 2: also Salvi Perez, at fifty five years old or whatever

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Speaker 2: he is is still great, which is I mean just

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine being a catcher for that long and

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Speaker 2: still being even remotely good at hitting. I mean, he's

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Speaker 2: he's great. I mean, that's incredible the longevity that he's had.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, not a lot of not a lot of

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Speaker 1: Real, though, do you know how old Salvador prezzes?

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Speaker 2: He's got to be? Thirty eight? Thirty nine?

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Speaker 1: Is thirty four years?

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Speaker 2: Is not true?

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Speaker 1: I guarantee it's not true. I had someone like do

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Speaker 1: same impression as you. I thought Salvador Perez was like pushing.

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Speaker 2: That is not true. I do not believe that.

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Speaker 1: He and who's he and Josel tub are the same

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Speaker 1: age and were born four days apart. No, Josel two's

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Speaker 1: birthdays May sixth Salvado Prez's may tempt They will both

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Speaker 1: turn thirty.

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Speaker 2: Five this year. Now, I don't. I don't like that,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's still still a good player, so was al Tuove,

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Speaker 1: who did not play today, got his first got his

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Speaker 1: first day off of the year. There. Look, there's not

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Speaker 1: much we can take offensively from this that we can

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Speaker 1: say impressed us. Chas McCormick got three hits today. First,

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Speaker 1: for him. But Tyler, it's we Well, we'll get to

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Speaker 1: the offense a little bit. But I mean at this

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Speaker 1: you talked to everyone online was just yelling for Joey

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Speaker 1: looperfied Remember, like Joey Liuberfiedo was gonna come up and

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Speaker 1: save the season, save the lineup. How can you keep

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Speaker 1: this guy in Triple A? Like bring him up? Now?

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Speaker 1: They're not hitting the difference now between now and last years, like,

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Speaker 1: there is no one that they that you that the

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Speaker 2: This is the best team they have, right, this is it.

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Speaker 1: They burned their too, like April call ups when they

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Speaker 1: put Cam Smith and Zach Dezenzo both on the roster.

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Speaker 2: Because and you'll notice they have a better record than

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Speaker 2: last year when you didn't have better players on the team.

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Speaker 2: So I think all things being equal, you would probably

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Speaker 2: prefer But yeah, no, there's this is it. I mean,

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Speaker 2: the team's not getting you know, reinforcements from anywhere internally.

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Speaker 2: That's going to meaningfully change. Now now we're gonna say that,

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Speaker 2: and you know, says our Salaris are is going to

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Speaker 2: come up and have a one thirty ops for the

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Speaker 2: rest of the year on accident. But uh, but no,

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Speaker 2: I mean there's there, there's nobody that you're you're looking

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's and it's one of those frustrating things like

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Speaker 1: fans are clamoring they want something different, they want to

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Speaker 1: I mean, these are the thirteen position players they have.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you bring up Shaye Wickham's not going to

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Speaker 1: make a difference. Like if Bryce Matthews showed any sort

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Speaker 1: of a pulse at Triple A and he did Homer today,

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Speaker 1: I'll give him that. But I believe he's slugging like

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Speaker 1: three thirty in the Pacific Coast League, where if.

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Speaker 2: You look like double yiner, that's where good.

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Speaker 1: If you hit a ball in the air in the

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Speaker 1: Pacific Coast League, it's probably going to go out of

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Speaker 1: the ballpark. He's selecking three thirty in the PCL. Bryce

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Speaker 2: But Van Afts, what do you think the Astros position

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Speaker 1: It's probably is it under four?

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Speaker 2: His defenses is up there. But I'm looking at just

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Speaker 2: two point three. UH. Would you like to take a

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Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's three point two. So they have those

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Speaker 2: two together have been worth more than the entire Astros

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean there's this is the team like that.

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Speaker 2: But man, those are And I know Yiner ran into

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Speaker 2: But it's not going to be these two guys.

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Speaker 1: And at this point Christian Walker is answering your prayers

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Speaker 2: He sure is.

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Speaker 1: Before we before we go to a break real quick,

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Speaker 1: just in general as Astros followers, onlookers, observers media. Did

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Speaker 1: Like you can give me all the all the what

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Speaker 1: this is bound to happen. Not maybe to this extreme,

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Speaker 2: What's interesting is the Kyle Tiger trade still just makes sense,

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Speaker 2: his own is not drastically I mean, he's really really good,

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Speaker 2: You know, it's just an out. They just are And

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Speaker 2: that's not even really their fault. They're not. Brendan Rodgers

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Speaker 2: That's no one is expecting that from them. But when

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Speaker 2: of reconstructure, reconstructure, goodness, get off me. Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Don't don't bring that up right now. I'm still mad

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Speaker 2: about the ongoing series. But yeah, I mean, that is

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Speaker 2: know that one makes sense. Bregman is literally just do

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Speaker 1: So you mentioned before we went to break you mentioned

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Speaker 1: trying to sign to play second base.

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Speaker 2: Uh Younesci Bettencourt.

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Speaker 1: Jorgete Polanco, Oh, that's right. Jorgete Polanco, after sixty nine

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Speaker 1: He only cost seven point seventy five million. Cool, you know,

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Speaker 2: anyone could hit that bad over the course of a year,

434
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Speaker 2: especially people who have had track records. You know, look,

435
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,440
Speaker 2: show Hay's hitting like two forty right now, He's better

436
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,919
Speaker 2: than you know what I mean, Like he give him

437
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 2: a break. Hey, that's probably why I'm struggling too, But

438
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 2: you know, I don't expect it to happen. And again,

439
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 2: if it's just one of them right now and then

440
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 2: in May, you know, if it had been at Christian

441
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,880
Speaker 2: Walker is really struggling right now, but Jiner and your

442
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 2: Don we're hitting well, and then next month jiners in

443
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 2: a slum. It doesn't look as bad. But the fact

444
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 2: that all three of them came out of the gates

445
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 2: just stumbling on their faces makes it impossible to win

446
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 2: games unless you have Hunter Brown just dominating people. Yeah,

447
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 2: it's it's tough tough to watch.

448
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: And look, Christian Walker, jord and Alvarez, Jiner Diaz have

449
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 1: gotten a lion's share of the blame, and it's deserved.

450
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Speaker 1: I mean, they are as we have talked about. They

451
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Speaker 1: are the three guys that you penciled in in spring

452
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 1: training to hit three, four and five in this order

453
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Speaker 1: and drive in runs and make this offense go, and

454
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Speaker 1: they have not done that. Jose Altuve quietly now has

455
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 1: a six eighty seven ops. Uh, he's slugging three seventy seven.

456
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Speaker 1: You got a day off today, his first day off

457
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: and of the season, he's hitting two seventy four. But again,

458
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 1: it's it's this whole lineup like there's no slug there

459
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: is no power. I mean, Jordan had two extra base

460
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 1: hits today. Obviously Jana ran into the ball today, But

461
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,359
Speaker 1: like it took them twenty seven games to hit twenty

462
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 1: homers as a team, like au Henneo Suarez hit four

463
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: home runs in a game last night d Backs, and

464
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Speaker 1: you and you're looking up and down this Astros lineup,

465
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 1: and you're and you're looking at it, and you're like,

466
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Speaker 1: man Al two Vey has three homers all season, Christian

467
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Speaker 1: Walker is three homers all season, Jordan Alvarez is three

468
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,919
Speaker 1: homers all season. Like, they have got to find a

469
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Speaker 1: way to inject more power. And I think that's why

470
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: you're seeing Zach Dezenzo get more run. He played in

471
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Speaker 1: all three games in Kansas City. And I'm curious, Tyler,

472
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Speaker 1: what you think of how Joe is going to manage

473
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Speaker 1: this outfield going forward, because it's pretty clear that they

474
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Speaker 1: want Dezenzo in there to get again. They want to

475
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: raise the floor of this line, like they know Dezenzo

476
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: can run into a ball. He's a big, strong kid.

477
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: He's built like a tight end, like he can hit

478
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: the ball in the gap, like he gives you some

479
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: power upside that Jake Myers doesn't. But that could come

480
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Speaker 1: at the expense of Cam Smith playing in right field,

481
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Speaker 1: because there's only so many places that Zach Decenzo is

482
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Speaker 1: able to play. So what how if you were Joe,

483
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: put yourself in Joe a Spottish shoes, how would you

484
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: handle this outfield right now? And how would you handle

485
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: Zach Decenzo specifically?

486
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think right now, while you're struggling for runs,

487
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 2: I think I'll two. They play second base three out

488
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Speaker 2: of the five games of a series, and I know

489
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 2: that they don't want him to. But if you're if,

490
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 2: if if, the question is, how do you get more

491
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 2: offense in al twove, he's got to play second base

492
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 2: on the non Hunter Brown Promer Valdez starts, uh, so

493
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 2: that you can have the Denzo Sometimes you're done, but

494
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 2: Smith is well here, you just you just throw Cam

495
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 2: Smith in center field and see what happens, which I

496
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 2: think is probably going to happen here pretty soon. But again,

497
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 2: they're just they're they're kind of stuck with the roster

498
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 2: that they have, and it you know, Yeiner and Christian

499
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 2: Walker are your only options at those positions like that.

500
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 2: That's just that's who's there there. There's no like, oh,

501
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 2: we can reconfigure something too, Like those guys have to hit.

502
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 2: And that's why I think more of the pressure is

503
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,040
Speaker 2: on them is because you can't do anything else than

504
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 2: have those guys be there. There's nobody else that can

505
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 2: take their spots. I certainly at this point wouldn't want

506
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:49,439
Speaker 2: to see any sort of like timeshare between the Zenzo

507
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 2: and camp Smith. I'd rather than find a way to

508
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 2: have both guys playing seventy eighty percent of the opportunities.

509
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 2: But they're their corner outfielders, and you know, there's only

510
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 2: two of those spots, and you've given one hose A

511
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 2: l Twov and the other one is jord On's on

512
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 2: some days. So I mean, they're just the way the

513
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 2: roster is configured is kind of what it what it is.

514
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 2: So I don't I don't know what what do you do?

515
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 2: I have no idea, you.

516
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 1: Know, I feel like I feel like the timeshare thing

517
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: is gonna have to be what goes on at least

518
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 1: for the time until they feel comfortable playing cam Smith

519
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: in center field. And if that's.

520
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 2: Such a funny sentence, I just abjectively funny.

521
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, if that becomes a serious thing, like until then.

522
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: And look, let's not act like cam Smith is forcing

523
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: his way into the lineup with the way he's swinging

524
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: the bat either, like he's taking good at bats. He's

525
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: still the plate discipline is really good. But he didn't

526
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: hit much this weekend either. It's not as if he's

527
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: breaking down the door and like forcing himself in this

528
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: lineup every day with the production that he's had, So

529
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be the biggest, you know, the biggest shock

530
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: to see a timeshare of some form and right field

531
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: while they work Cam Smith out in center behind the

532
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: scenes and see how that goes. Like you said, look,

533
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: and I want to make this very clear, because we

534
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: have we've beaten the dead horse here as to why

535
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: Josel two Bay's in left field. Like I'm not going

536
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: to keep repeating myself as to why they put him

537
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: out there. We've covered that. But one thing I don't

538
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: think that's been highlighted enough and this is going to

539
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: be in a mailbag that I wrote that's going to

540
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: go on the Athletic tomorrow morning. One thing about when

541
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: jose al Tuove said yes, when he accepted the Astros

542
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 1: like basic plea to like move to left field. When

543
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: he said yes, This wasn't said outright, but it was

544
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: understood that because of the selfless nature of what he did,

545
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: because of saying like, I'm fine, I'll move the left

546
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: I'll do whatever the team wants, the Astros want to

547
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: reciprocate that by not messing with him. Yeah, by not

548
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: making this, oh, you're gonna play second this week and

549
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: then like they want like their plan was, he is

550
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: gonna be our primary left fielder and we're gonna leave

551
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: it alone. They knew they'd play him at second base

552
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: every now and an occasional start like they've done once

553
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: a week, maybe twice a week sometimes. But the plan

554
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: was never to, for lack of a better word, like

555
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: mess with him to like because one thing AL two

556
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: they does value. AL two, They values like knowing, and

557
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: a lot of ballplayers do like knowing where they're gonna play,

558
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: like knowing being very secure in that knowing where he's

559
00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: gonna hit, knowing he's gonna get to this day off.

560
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: Like he likes those assurances, and the Astros were okay

561
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: with that because of how selfless he wasn't accepting their request.

562
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: They wanted to honor him and be reverent to him

563
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: as he deserves by not messing with him I jerking

564
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: him around. And so that is part of also why

565
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: he's gonna stay in the left field, because they told him,

566
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: they said, look, go work your butt off for six

567
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: weeks in spring training, get serviceable, and we're gonna basically

568
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: make a decision. He did that. They they saw how

569
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: much he loves it, and like we've talked about this,

570
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: he is so energized out there and he likes being

571
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: out there, he likes playing out there, and they're not

572
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: going to mess with that. Now. Look, injuries, if injuries

573
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: could really throw this into an upheaval, if they get

574
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: into a situation where they have no other choice, they're

575
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 1: going to do that. But like we've talked about, like

576
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: they have choices here, and I think like the top

577
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: choice is to get the guys you're paying to hit, And.

578
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 2: I mean that's that's the truth is. Look, we can.

579
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 2: We can talk in circles about this all day. The

580
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 2: team is not going anywhere unless your your main guys

581
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 2: are hitting, and we talk about the power stuff like yes,

582
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 2: al Twov's had big power numbers before. No one in

583
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 2: their right mind is looking at Josel Tuvey and penciling

584
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 2: in twenty five thirty home runs at thirty four years old.

585
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 2: So three home runs right now, that's great. I mean, look,

586
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 2: twelve to fifteen home runs is more than you would

587
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 2: ever expect from from somebody like Altuve in a in

588
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 2: a vacuum, right But yeah, Jordan's got to stop hitting

589
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 2: three hundred and seventy foot flyouts to center field and

590
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 2: those have to start going and Yiner has to make

591
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 2: contact once a week. Just that we'll start there and

592
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 2: we'll we'll work up from there. But yeah, I mean

593
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 2: that that is the honest truth, is that those are

594
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 2: the guys that have to perform because really everything else

595
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 2: has been fine. That the strategy of improving your infield

596
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 2: defense is working amazing. I mean, Pardie's and Pania on

597
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 2: the left side of the enfield are the right side.

598
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 2: I never know what do we call that.

599
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: On the left side.

600
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 2: Okay, see I played for base growing up, so I

601
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 2: always look at it from that that I'm on the

602
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 2: left side when you're standing there. Anyway, they're great. I

603
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 2: mean they're really really good over there. Christian Walker is

604
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 2: still really good at first base, and the outfield hasn't

605
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 2: embarrassed you, which is what we talked about the whole time,

606
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 2: is like all they have to do is be serviceable.

607
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 2: Cam Smith has been more than serviceable. And right field

608
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 2: Dezenza made a great catch today and al Tuove's looked fine.

609
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 2: I mean al Twove has not had any you know, embarrassing,

610
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 2: you know ones that we were talking about in the

611
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 2: spring training of like gosh, I hope that there's not

612
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 2: one that you know, he's just waiting for and it

613
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 2: just hits him in the hat because he just misses what.

614
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 2: You know, he hasn't had any of those knock on wood.

615
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 2: But everything else is working fine. The pitching has been great.

616
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 2: The bullpen has hung up really well despite what we

617
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 2: talked about not really having anything outside of a brad

618
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 2: you and hater that you can really count on. They

619
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 2: they have to hit and that's that's the end of it.

620
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: I will say this. You said you're not gonna sign

621
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: jose Al Tuo Bay up for twenty twenty five home

622
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: runs at age thirty four, obviously.

623
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Speaker 2: I mean I know he does it, but yeah, yeah.

624
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: I'll say this, you would sign up for more than

625
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: two doubles and one hundred sure, Like that's what we're

626
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: talking about here, Like, I mean, it's been a lot

627
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: of ground balls with eyes that have gotten through him. Look,

628
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 1: you don't get to the amount of hits Hoseel two

629
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: BA has gotten to without getting some luck, without getting

630
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 1: some Babbath luck, but it does seem like that's been

631
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: the string for him. And you know, this is not

632
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: a guy that's ever gonna be confused for a patient hitter.

633
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: He's drawn six walks and one hundreds his first hundred

634
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: and six at bats.

635
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 2: Like again, I would have guessed, right, not that.

636
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: They would expect Hooseel two B to be like a

637
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: walk machine, but they need they need a little bit

638
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,439
Speaker 1: more there. They need him. They need his on base

639
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: percentage to not be three ten, Like I mean, look,

640
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: they can live with a lower slug, but they need

641
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: his on base percentage to not be three ten.

642
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 2: The other thing is, you know, you see, I mean

643
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 2: you just talked about Horae Polanco batting three seventy. The

644
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 2: Astros don't have not only do they have people like

645
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 2: way below what they're cable of a lot of times,

646
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 2: the truth is you got to have a couple of

647
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 2: guys just get hot for two weeks and hit five hundred.

648
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 2: I mean, look at Jeremy Pana in his rookie season,

649
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 2: where in the playoffs he just is the best player

650
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 2: on Earth for three weeks and you can win a

651
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 2: World Series off of that. Or I mean even George

652
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 2: Springer in twenty seventeen, when he's bad in the playoffs

653
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 2: up until then and then for seven games he sneezes

654
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 2: and hits a home run every game. You know, you

655
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 2: need something like that. The Astros haven't had anybody that

656
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 2: I would even argue has had a hot streak this year, right,

657
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't think of anybody that for four

658
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 2: games in a row, you're like, dude, this guy's crushing

659
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 2: it right now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a great point. That's one that I

661
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: hadn't really thought of now in the beginning. Yeah, that

662
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,760
Speaker 1: little run where he hit a bunch of homers. Eastoc

663
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,399
Speaker 1: Paradis had those three homers in three consecutive games. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Jeremy Pania had that hitting shriek that Astro's media relations

665
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: tried to shove down your throat when it was I

666
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: think he had he had a fifteen game hitting streak.

667
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: He had he had seventeen hits in the fifteen game

668
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: hitting streak, and I think all but four of them

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Speaker 1: were singles.

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Speaker 2: I love hitting streaks for that. Those those always cracked

671
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 2: me up.

672
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: Like it's that kind of stuff. So yeah, they like

673
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: and that's a That is another very salient point. They

674
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: have not had a guy just go off.

675
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 2: There's nobody in the lineup right now that when they

676
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 2: come to the plate, you're like, watch out, this guy's on.

677
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 2: I have not had that feeling yet this year watching

678
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 2: this team.

679
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: You kind of did today when Alvarez came up. I

680
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: mean he hit the double at the homer.

681
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 2: And then they will do that he's really good.

682
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they very in his third at that

683
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:52,320
Speaker 1: they very clearly pitched around him, even four balls, nothing

684
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: to hit, and then Christian Walker came up and struck out,

685
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: Like again, that's the that's the problem here, is that

686
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: like the one guy that does instill fear in you,

687
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 1: the two guys that have been perpetually hitting behind him

688
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: and still no fear in anyone. So I mean, it's

689
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 1: an all encompassing problem. To blame it on those three

690
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: guys is a little disingenuous, but those are the three

691
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 1: guys that if they want to get this turned around quickly,

692
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,919
Speaker 1: they've gotta They've got to pick it up. We've spent

693
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: so much time on offense. Let's do two pitching things

694
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: real quick. Where you can start. Kayden was an Esky,

695
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: I mean, pitchfying two runs against the Royals. His vila

696
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: was pretty precipitously down across the board. And then you

697
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: know comes out today that they put the probabbles out

698
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: for the Tigers series and they are TBA in the

699
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: final game of the series, which is Hayden was Nesky's

700
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: turn the rotation cool. Did the villa drop worry you

701
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: or kind of where are you at with that?

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00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 2: I mean it was I texted you during the game like,

703
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 2: uh oh, and I haven't gone back, and I was

704
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 2: listening to it on the radio. And Steve Sparks always

705
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 2: does a really good job of noticing little intricacies, especially

706
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 2: pitching wise. He's always really good about noticing this guy's

707
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 2: throwing differently, or his mechanics look off or whatever. And

708
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 2: he mentioned on the radio broadcast, like I said, I

709
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 2: haven't gone back to look, but he said, was an

710
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,359
Speaker 2: Eski in that last start, was throwing a lot more

711
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,880
Speaker 2: like up and down as opposed to that kind of

712
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 2: you know, cross body delivery that he's had, which also

713
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 2: would indicate some sort of pain somewhere that he's compensating for.

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00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 2: I don't want to get you started on a thirty

715
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,959
Speaker 2: minute Astro's medical team rant, so we're just gonna say

716
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 2: he's TVD right now. But yeah, that's concerning, to be honest,

717
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 2: you don't want to be in a place where Hayden

718
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 2: was an Eski. Injury concerns you as a team. You

719
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 2: know that's a symptom of something else going on. But

720
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 2: he's been really good for what he is. I want

721
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 2: to talk about Forrest Widley. Can you tell me when

722
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 2: did it? Why? Why when did this happen? Why does

723
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Speaker 2: this keep happening to him?

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Speaker 1: One more thing real quick on Hayden was nesk well,

725
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Speaker 1: so they would not have let him throw six innings

726
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: if he was hurting, like sure, if he felt anything,

727
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: if his shoulder was hurting. If his elbow was like that,

728
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,720
Speaker 1: he would not have kept pitching. So maybe it's something

729
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: that like.

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00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 2: Uh, didn't Lance mccullor's pitch with a fake arm for

731
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 2: like a month at one point where he tore his

732
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 2: ucl and just kept going.

733
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was in relief at that point.

734
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Speaker 2: They put him in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, forced Whitley.

736
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,280
Speaker 2: Uh A poor guy.

737
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: I'm at this point amount of words. I mean, you feel.

738
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: I feel terrible for him.

739
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 2: He looks so good he did. I was. I was like,

740
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 2: all right, we're here.

741
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,280
Speaker 1: And he legit like those two innings he threw against Toronto,

742
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 1: like I knew it was in a mop up game,

743
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 1: but like you're looking, my damn, like this again, this

744
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: is what they didn't have. They had like a right

745
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: hander throwing ninety nine like with movement, and it was like,

746
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: man like, if this keeps up, like you look at

747
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: him like he's in a leverage role, if he keeps

748
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: this up. And it's the same knee that bothered him

749
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: in spring training, it's the same knee that caused him

750
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Speaker 1: to miss the start of the season. I'm because I

751
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: wasn't in Kansas City, so I'm unsure what specifically happened.

752
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 1: It's uh. Listening to Dana Brown on the pregame show

753
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: today with Robert Ford, it sounds like just something that

754
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: popped up when he was playing catch. It sounds like

755
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: they're going to get him back to Q. He flew

756
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: back to Houston with the team after the game to day,

757
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: so they're gonna get him checked out. But he's gone

758
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: for fifteen days. I can't imagine. It's his plant leg too,

759
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: it's his left it's his left knee, So I can't

760
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: imagine that even if it's all clear, he's going to

761
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: go back to just throwing at one hundred percent when

762
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 1: it's his lower half. So I don't want to I

763
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: don't want to pour ten bad news, but I think

764
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be probably longer than fifteen days, which I mean, look,

765
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Speaker 1: it's there's no other way to spin. It's just it's tough.

766
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: I mean, it's tough for a guy that has gone

767
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Speaker 1: through so much that some of it has been in

768
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Speaker 1: his within his control, some of it has been out

769
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: of his control. But just I don't know if there

770
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: is If you look up the definition of star crossed

771
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: career in the dictionary, like Forret Whitley's picture should be

772
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: right there, and here's hoping. Just from a human perspective, yeah,

773
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Speaker 1: he's hoping like he gets it, gets fixed and he

774
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: can get back and return and contribute. But I mean,

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00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: I mean, Tyler, you've been following it as long as

776
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: I have. Like I hate to say, we weren't surprised,

777
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: but you see it and you're not surprised at first,

778
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: and then it just kind of hits you. From a

779
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: human perspective, you feel so bad for the guy.

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00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's awful. I mean, you just you just

781
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 2: hope that somehow it all clicks at some point because

782
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got the stuff, you know, clearly. But yeah,

783
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 2: that's that's tough to see. On the other side. Can

784
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 2: you give me a Lance Percolor's update.

785
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Speaker 1: So Lance struck out a bunch of double A hitters

786
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, pitching for Corpus Christy. He threw I believe

787
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: seventy five pitches, got five innings, five ups. I don't

788
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: know what's next because Dana Brown on the radio today

789
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: with with Robert Ford and said that they were more

790
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: than likely going to give him another minor league rehab

791
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: start because in part do that stomach bug. He actually

792
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: lost like fifteen pounds well while having that stomach bug.

793
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: It's good for him, he didn't need to lose weight,

794
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: but looks great either way. I imagine they want to

795
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: get him another start just to make sure like he's

796
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,439
Speaker 1: fully recovered from that, because like you don't just put

797
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: that weight back on like immediately. But it sounds like

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00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: Joe Spotta was a little less definitive about that. In

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00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: Kansas City. It certainly could present itself that he pitches

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00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: this week in Chicago against the White Sox because he

801
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: would be on turn to pitch. I believe Saturday or Sunday.

802
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 2: Which is the was when was was Nesi's supposed to start?

803
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: Wells was supposed was Nesky is in the rotation start

804
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, okay, and Lance would not be. He would

805
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: not be regular rest of start, so Wednesday's out of

806
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: the question, so he would be online to start this

807
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 1: weekend in Chicago. Pitching against the Light Socks is basically

808
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: a minor league rehab assignment at this point, but I

809
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: mean I say that in jest. But at the GM

810
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: of the team went on a team run radio station

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00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: said that they were going to give him another minor

812
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: league rehab start, so I tend to believe that, but

813
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: they've done some different things before. But either way, Lance

814
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: is close, and there was no There was no public

815
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,800
Speaker 1: like stack cast or velocity readings from the double A start,

816
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: so I can't tell you what his VLO was. I

817
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: can't tell you kind of the shape or how anything looked.

818
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: But the results speak for themselves. I mean, I think

819
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: he punched out eight guys in five innings. So again,

820
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: if there is something amiss with Hayden was Nesky, at

821
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 1: least the Astros do have mccullors kind of waiting in

822
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 1: the wings for whenever he's ready.

823
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,240
Speaker 2: I'm ready, man, I want to see him pitch again.

824
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 2: It's it's been a while, so excited for that. Hoping

825
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 2: Whitley can figure that out. Hope was nest he's fine.

826
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 2: I hope maybe they can sneak in some metal bats

827
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 2: for Walker and Diaz, see if that helps them out

828
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 2: at all. I don't know, but yeah, it's uh. The

829
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 2: problem is that there's not a lot that you can

830
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 2: look through to go like, well, here's the juice that's

831
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 2: coming this this is the team.

832
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 1: And it doesn't get any easier like the Tigers are

833
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: coming in here with Jack Flarity going in Game one.

834
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 1: Ashton's going to miss Trek Scoogle. But the tigersud of

835
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: the Lowes dr and baseball. They're pitching Jack Flarity, They're

836
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 1: pitching Ryes Olsen, who you've never heard of but is

837
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: really good, which is basically their entire pitching staff, and

838
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: then Jackson Job, the rookie phenomenal pitch on Wednesday, and

839
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: they've got all these random guys in their bullpen that

840
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: come out throwing ninety nine that no one's ever heard of.

841
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: And AJ is going to manage all three of these

842
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: games like it's the World Series. So it gets no

843
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: easier for a struggling Astros lineup going up against the

844
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Speaker 1: Detroit tig this week at Diakon Park, and we will

845
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Speaker 1: have full analysis for you when that series concludes. If

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