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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 Roam along with Josh Reddick and Tyler Stafford. Josh,

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Speaker 1: you greeted me this morning by saying affectionately, you look

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Speaker 1: like the s words, So that should entice everyone. If

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Speaker 1: you're listening on an audio platform, get over to YouTube

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Speaker 1: and see what Sacramento does to your allergies. You can

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Speaker 1: just take a look at me. I am struggling at

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Speaker 1: the moment, but I've got two excellent co hosts who

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Speaker 1: are going to carry me through. What is their podcast

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Speaker 1: and not my podcast? Is? This is the Tyler and

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Speaker 1: Josh so Show with Chandler kind of around, so that

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Speaker 1: should this one should be fun.

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Speaker 2: I've thought this for several episodes now and I haven't

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Speaker 2: said it, and I mean this as a compliment. Gray

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Speaker 2: is your color. It brings out, it brings out your eyes.

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Speaker 2: You look great and gray, which is tough to pull off,

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Speaker 2: and I just want to I want to point that

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Speaker 2: out to people.

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Speaker 1: Gray does match my general demeanors.

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Speaker 2: I know it's very funny.

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Speaker 3: But you're you're probably pretty happy there's no day game

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Speaker 3: today because you would just be absolutely miserable if there's

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Speaker 3: a day game today. Oh my god, I'm highly upset

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Speaker 3: that there is no day game today because to heck

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Speaker 3: with these late nights in early mornings.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I will counter with the fact that it

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Speaker 1: was one hundred degrees in Sacramento all afternoon yesterday, and

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Speaker 1: it was it was I look, I grew up in

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Speaker 1: Louisiana with humidity, like I can deal with heat. One

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Speaker 1: hundred degrees is one hundred degrees. Like the A's banged

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Speaker 1: on field VP yesterday, the Astros took some at Suitor

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Speaker 1: Health Park, and then it translated because they completely bludgeoned

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Speaker 1: the A's And they're the worst pitching staff in baseball,

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Speaker 1: and the ashers are doing what you should do against

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Speaker 1: a bad team, and I think that's kind of where

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Speaker 1: this thing needs to start. Guys. The Astros have won

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Speaker 1: fifteen of their past twenty one games. They have opened

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Speaker 1: a five and half game lead in the American League West.

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Speaker 1: They trail only the Detroit Tigers for the best record

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Speaker 1: in the American League, which is pretty wild when you

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Speaker 1: think about some of the lineups they've had to run

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Speaker 1: out there the last couple of weeks. When you think

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Speaker 1: about they haven't had Jordan Alvarez. When you look at

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Speaker 1: some of the guys they have started in some of

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Speaker 1: these games on the mound, it's remarkable. The saying always

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Speaker 1: goes that the Astros are inevitable, and I think this

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Speaker 1: is bearing fruit. But you look a little closer at

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Speaker 1: this fifteen to six stretch across these past twenty one games.

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Speaker 1: They've played the A's in five of them, they've played

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Speaker 1: the Pirates in three of them. They've played the White

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Speaker 1: Sox and three of them. So for both of you,

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Speaker 1: is this is this just beating up on bad teams

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Speaker 1: or do you think this is truly a turning point

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Speaker 1: where the Astros are kind of asserting themselves as a

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Speaker 2: Are there good teams in the American League?

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Speaker 1: I mean there are teams that are for.

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Speaker 3: The West of that matter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you wonder to I mean, there are

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Speaker 1: teams that are better than the A's and the White

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Speaker 1: is a This is the American League is weak. They

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Speaker 1: do not This is a wild like the real baseball

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Speaker 1: quote unquote is being played in the National League. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's why the next home stand will be

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Speaker 1: so instructive because you get the Phillies and the Cubs.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, they can't control the schedule. They're

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Speaker 1: they're just playing who they have to play, and they're

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Speaker 1: doing what a good team should do, and they are

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Speaker 3: I think it's kind of the best of both sides

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Speaker 3: of that. You know, it's always positive to see these

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Speaker 3: can kind of speak volumes for itself turning point. Maybe

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's like the big turning point

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Speaker 3: to what you talked about lineups, and these guys are

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Speaker 3: So there's got to be some part of the story

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Speaker 3: these went what lost twenty of twenty one before winning

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Speaker 3: runs for eight straight starts. So for them to come

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Speaker 3: which is exactly what they did last time, and going

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Speaker 3: of things more than it cannot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't you don't get to call the

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Speaker 2: Sacramento team bad. You were the boy who cried A's

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Speaker 2: all off season that they were secretly Yeah, you were like, oh,

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Speaker 2: they're sneaky good. They're they're going to be really good.

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Speaker 3: I mean it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they brought back the exact same team they

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Speaker 2: The uniforms man, they what do you I mean ever

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Speaker 2: since Josh left, you put a curse on them, and

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Speaker 2: they just they can't they can't win. I don't believe it.

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Speaker 2: Same with the Mariners, like I don't believe it until

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Speaker 2: it happens. I do not believe that those are good teams.

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Speaker 2: It's literally the uniforms and it's the same thing. Josh

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Speaker 2: Hater had a similar a quote a couple of days

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Speaker 2: just bring in dudes, and it's something about the organization,

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Speaker 2: the uniform whatever, something in the water where I don't

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Speaker 2: believe that any other team in the al list is

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Speaker 2: keep doing it over and over and over again. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what it is. Maybe I think this year

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Speaker 2: it's it's the vibes of everybody pointing to the bullpen

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Speaker 2: after they get a hit. Do you know who started that, Chandler?

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Speaker 2: Do you know?

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Speaker 1: I don't. I think Steven Okert has a lot to

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Speaker 1: a lighthearted, like very much a vibes guy in the clubhouse,

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Speaker 1: especially in the bullpen, and Josh, you know this better

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Speaker 1: Like they are the vibes guys. They are the they

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Speaker 3: Has Harris what will Harris was like that, Yeah, weird,

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Speaker 3: quirky shut down. I'm gonna I talk about this with

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Speaker 3: Eschenfelder in the studio. You know, why do they why

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Speaker 3: do we point to the bullpen when we hit homers?

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Speaker 3: Because they had absolutely nothing to do with me hitting

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Speaker 3: that home run, first of all, and second of after

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Speaker 3: to me in the outfield. There's gotta be some give

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Speaker 3: and go here, guys. You gotta be tip for tat

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Speaker 3: in this in this world, I can't just be giving

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Speaker 3: you all this credit for standing out there when I

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Speaker 2: I did. I mean truly, though, I think there is

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Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like there's a fine line between not

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Speaker 2: taking it seriously and not being two worked up right

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Speaker 2: Like last season when the Astros stumbled out of the gate,

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Speaker 2: it felt like every game was just you know, life

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Speaker 2: And yes they're focused, they're trying hard, but it was

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Speaker 2: it was just panicing. And this year has just felt

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Speaker 2: completely different that every game it's like they're they're going

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Speaker 2: it's like we just expect to win every single day,

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Speaker 2: and they're doing it. For the last month. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they've just they've been better than every team that they've played.

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Speaker 2: And it's not like they're just fluking their way into it.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're they're pitching the lights out, They're they're

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Speaker 2: and it just feels like the team has some mojo

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Speaker 2: these things come and go. They're hot right now. They're

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Speaker 2: it just feels like the makeup of this team is

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Speaker 3: And it seems like, you know, this is the point

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Speaker 3: one little play last night, obviously, but I mean you

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Speaker 3: part of their success. On top of everything they're already doing,

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Speaker 3: so it just seems like everybody's on the same page.

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Speaker 3: We talk about that. You know, there's always times where

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Speaker 3: hitters are hot, pitchers are not vice versa bullpen, you know,

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Speaker 3: blah blah blah. But at this point in time, it

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Speaker 3: kind of rewind about clubhouse vibes and uniform changes, like

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Speaker 3: these guys know when they come in, like the Astros

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Speaker 3: are such a you know, win focused team, I guess

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Speaker 3: it's a completely different vibe, especially coming from from all

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Speaker 3: these other places teams come to. But I think they

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Speaker 3: we need you to do that. Like you're look at

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Speaker 3: a team that's you know, not known for the hitting.

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Speaker 3: But it's still a promising sign to see a guy

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Speaker 2: I mean, we talked about that in the in the

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Speaker 2: prospect ranking episode where the Astros have had, you know,

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Speaker 2: the last five ten years since you know, the big

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Speaker 2: Guns came up ten years ago. But it just it

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Speaker 2: feels like anybody that they call up from Triple A

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Speaker 2: George Costanza did it the other day, and I mean it,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. It's it's baffling, but

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Speaker 2: it does feel like it's just something that the Astros

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Speaker 2: it's you know, just they think it and so it

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Speaker 1: In what is becoming a far too frequent refrain, Lance

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Speaker 3: And I think it just goes back to pitching. Pitching,

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Speaker 1: and taking any swings. But there is something to be

432
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 1: said about guiding this team through as much turmoil and

433
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,119
Speaker 1: through as many injuries as he's had to, and to

434
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 1: have them five and a half games up in the

435
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: American League West with this roster, with the current roster

436
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 1: that they have, I you have to give Joe A

437
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,520
Speaker 1: Spot a lot of credit for guiding this team to

438
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 1: where it is.

439
00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fake award Manager of the Year. He's

440
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:05,160
Speaker 2: definitely gonna get votes for that. I mean, Josh, obviously

441
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 2: you can speak to this a whole lot more than

442
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 2: I can. But at the big league levels, the manager

443
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 2: is you know, the decisions you're making in game matter

444
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:22,640
Speaker 2: way less than how you're managing egos and personalities off

445
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 2: the field. And again, the vibes are high with the astros,

446
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:32,359
Speaker 2: like it's a team that seems gelled together, and you know,

447
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 2: not only that but I mean he's managing moving your

448
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,120
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame second baseman into left field. That's gone

449
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:46,119
Speaker 2: really smoothly. He's managed two you know, rookie outfielders and

450
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 2: Dezenzo and Smith, and there wasn't a blow up on

451
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 2: who's gonna get more playing time, and nobody was pouting

452
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:57,479
Speaker 2: over that. You've got all these new personalities, you know,

453
00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,199
Speaker 2: with with Walker and Parades on the team, and that's

454
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 2: gelled together really well. And so I mean he's doing

455
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 2: he's doing something right behind the scenes. Uh, and certainly

456
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 2: deserves credit for that.

457
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 3: Then most of the most of the time, managers in

458
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 3: my experience usually stay out of the clubhouse and away

459
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 3: from team meetings. And I mean, I think that's more

460
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 3: of a winning team mentality too, because you know, I've

461
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 3: been on an A's team that was just atrocious. And

462
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,679
Speaker 3: even back then, like Bob Melvin wasn't trying to overmanage us,

463
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 3: he wasn't trying to over be a helicopter coach, so

464
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 3: to speak, to make sure he was kind of keeping

465
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 3: sure everybody was happy. You know, they do such a

466
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,919
Speaker 3: good job of players now managing their own clubhouses and

467
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,200
Speaker 3: their own team that they stay out of there until

468
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 3: something crazy goes, until something big maybe happens and they

469
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 3: have a little team meeting. But for the most part,

470
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 3: Joe's been around long enough, especially in that clubhouse, that organization,

471
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 3: So he's been there long enough to know how it

472
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 3: should be ran, how what it takes to get all

473
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,360
Speaker 3: the moving pieces in the right direction. So sometimes silence

474
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 3: is the best fix to fix for it. You know,

475
00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,880
Speaker 3: you just stay out of the way and it'll fix

476
00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,120
Speaker 3: it self, and hang out in your manager's office, talk

477
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 3: to the media and move on.

478
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 2: Do you have a sense of who that guy is

479
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 2: in Nastro's clubhouse this year? I mean they lost Bragmant,

480
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,679
Speaker 2: who who played a really vocal role in the clubhouse.

481
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:18,439
Speaker 2: You know, obviously Al two Bay is the guy, but

482
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 2: we we've talked a lot that he is not the

483
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 2: the vocal leader of the team. Do you do you

484
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 2: have a sense of who's kind of the guy in

485
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 2: the clubhouse that's you know, helping tell people together like this.

486
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: Honestly, like no real vocal leader in my me looking

487
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,400
Speaker 1: at it, and there's been no real vocal leader to emerge.

488
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 1: Uh al tuove is just going to you look at

489
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: jose al Tuovey I'm talking from a player's perspective, like

490
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: you look at him and like you automatically like want

491
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,200
Speaker 1: to play well. Like that's kind of the sense I've gotten.

492
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: It's just like jose Al Tuove leads just by his presence.

493
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: He leads by being there, by posting every day, by

494
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: being as selfless as you were talking about earlier, to

495
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 1: switch positions, go to left yield, like in just him

496
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: doing that, the act of him doing that like makes

497
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: people respect him more and makes people want to play

498
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 1: harder and play for him, play for kind of the

499
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: thing what all he represents. Mauricio Dubon shouldn't be should

500
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: not be overlooked either. He is a he's a very

501
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: very under the radar glue guy, like he has taking

502
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 1: cam Smith under his wing and like been very very

503
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 1: much a mentor to him. He and your do Honor

504
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: are very close. He is a guy that he's probably

505
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 1: the closest thing to a vocal like a real vocal

506
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 1: guy that they have. But again, I don't think Mauricio

507
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: Dubon is gonna be the one like when they go

508
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,880
Speaker 1: on a little bit of a rut. He's not gonna

509
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 1: be the one flipping the spread in the clubhouse, calling

510
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,360
Speaker 1: team meetings and like ripping into people. They don't have

511
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: that guy, Christian Walker, even though the results have not

512
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: been there. I think just having him as just a

513
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: steady veteran voice coming from the outside, coming from a

514
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: guy that has been in a couple different organizations, I

515
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: think that has helped as well. But there really isn't

516
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: like the Bregman or the Korea the guy that like

517
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: is the unquestioned alpha that that kind of revolt the

518
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: clubhouse revolves around. That hasn't presented itself, but it really

519
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: hasn't had to because they like, again, when you're struggling

520
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: is when all the team meeting stuff comes out right.

521
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: Like all the team meetings we heard about last year

522
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: was when they were twelve and twenty four, and then

523
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three when they were spiraling in September,

524
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 1: you started to hear about the team meetings, Like the

525
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: team hasn't struggled that much, Like this team hasn't had

526
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,199
Speaker 1: they have there haven't had to be the vocal leaders

527
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: stand up and like do anything drastic. So maybe as

528
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: the season goes on and like they inevitably get into

529
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: a rut that every team gets into maybe one of

530
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 1: them presents themselves. But Josh, sometimes like clubhouses don't really

531
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: need like the raw, raw vocal guys. Sometimes it's just

532
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 1: kind of understood. Like we've talked about culture, and we've

533
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: talked about kind of just you walk into the Ashers'

534
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: clubhouse and there's an expectation to win, there's an expectation

535
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: to be competent and to be the best team in

536
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: the Al West. Like they don't need they don't need

537
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 1: a voice to tell them that. It's just kind of understood.

538
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with your du Bond comment too. This

539
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 3: is a guy who's he's not vocal, but he's still

540
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 3: kind of that loud, goofy character who keeps everybody happy

541
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 3: on their toes. So I think that speaks volumes for him.

542
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 3: He seems to be obviously well liked by everybody from

543
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 3: top to bottom, from coaches to players to everything. But

544
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 3: you know one thing that we overlook a lot in

545
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,880
Speaker 3: baseball is you take away team meetings, but you put

546
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 3: in the place of those team dinners, like they just

547
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 3: had a team dinner one or two road trips ago

548
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 3: right before the month started, and look at what it's

549
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 3: done for them. They got the best record in this month.

550
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 3: So those team dinners can be very crucial because you

551
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 3: know those team dinners always when you fly into a

552
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 3: new city after a day game, you get the night

553
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 3: game the next day or an off day potentially, so

554
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 3: you know there's some beverages being thrown back by the boys,

555
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 3: and you know you're getting loud. You're in a nice restaurant.

556
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 3: You're always in like this party, so everybody's just kind

557
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,360
Speaker 3: of loosey goosey and kind of just having a good time,

558
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 3: And those can be way more beneficial than having that serious,

559
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 3: tensed up team meeting where everybody's kind of like sitting

560
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 3: in their chair and slop stover. As opposed to having

561
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 3: a few drinks in them. Everybody's feeling a bit more

562
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 3: loose vocal cords, you get a little more vibraty, and

563
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 3: everybody can kind of be out there and you can

564
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 3: talk to guys and they don't get offended. Like everybody's

565
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 3: got a little buzz going. You know, I can go

566
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 3: over here, like I can go walk across table, give

567
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 3: Justin Verlander a piece of my mind while we're both

568
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,239
Speaker 3: having a little cocktails. He's got some wine, I got

569
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 3: a little Tito's drink. You know, we're gonna sit there

570
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 3: and we're gonna talk it out and then we're gonna

571
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 3: laugh about it, move on and go eat our steak

572
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 3: in twenty minutes. So I think those team dinners that

573
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 3: you may or like, you hear about him and then

574
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 3: there's something that you don't hear about too, And I

575
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 3: think that those can be very crucial and beneficial for teams.

576
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 3: And I think this team vibes on that more than

577
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 3: they do the team meetings at the ballpark.

578
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: Who picks up the tab at those team dinners, Well, for.

579
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 3: Me, it was always Verlander. I mean it's always the

580
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 3: guy who has the most money on me, most money

581
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 3: or the most earned that year.

582
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 6: And you know, it's funny because we had those dinners.

583
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 3: You know, we had, we had guys who had money.

584
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 3: We had you know, can we had I'm gonna throw

585
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 3: myself in there like Corlas Beltron and made a lot

586
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 3: of money like all these guys. And then you try

587
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 3: to go give JV your credit card, like, hey man,

588
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 3: let me split this, and like they slap your hand

589
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 3: away and tell them to get out of your face

590
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 3: because they have a lot more zeros in the bank

591
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 3: than you do.

592
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 6: And you're like, all right, well then you pay for it,

593
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 6: then that's fine.

594
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 3: I was just trying to be nice and I learned

595
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 3: that lesson early from from John Lackey not to pull

596
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 3: out your wallet or your credit card around those guys

597
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 3: because they get offended. And John lackeia almost fought me

598
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 3: for it when I was a rookie in Boston.

599
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 2: So I, uh, literally sound like John Lackey.

600
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 3: No, no, not at all. It was great because I

601
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 3: didn't pay for any alcoholic beverage or food that whole year.

602
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 2: It's pretty good. You were just poking in that thirty

603
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 2: eight dollars per dim or whatever you get on on

604
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 2: road trips.

605
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 3: No, it was over one hundred. It's like one hundred

606
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 3: dollars a day.

607
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: It's so yeah.

608
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 3: And then the best part about it was we had,

609
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 3: uh we were I think we're actually in Houston. We

610
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 3: went to some country bar and he had beat me

611
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 3: there and I was like, all right, well I'm gonna

612
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 3: go get a drink. And I walked to the bar

613
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 3: by myself.

614
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 6: You know, as soon as I hit my wallet, I

615
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 6: got punched.

616
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 3: In the army hard, like you know, think somebody that

617
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 3: you know, would punch you kind of easy. I turned

618
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 3: around and square it up, and I looked and I went, oh.

619
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 3: He hands me one hundred dollars bill and goes right,

620
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 3: I just got an eighty million dollars contract.

621
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 6: You ain't buying drinks in front of me, like okay, And.

622
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 3: Then I want to go give him his change, you know,

623
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 3: beating Tito's and Red Bulls, like probably what nine bucks

624
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 3: at the bar, Like here, you know, here's your ninety

625
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 3: bucks back or whatever. After the tip, he goes red,

626
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 3: I don't need that money. Put it in there for

627
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 3: the rest of the night. I'm like, yeah, right right

628
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 3: in the pocket.

629
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know you drink No his card going there,

630
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 6: It's fine.

631
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: Uh huh, oh man, I want to be a baseball player.

632
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 3: Yeah. I pocketed a lot of money just from being

633
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 3: in the in the vicinity.

634
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: Someone who's learning all this very quickly. As Cam Smith,

635
00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: who is uh continues to blossom, continues to thrive. Of Tyler,

636
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: I know you're excited, but hold temper your excitement because

637
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: we'll talk about Cam Smith right after a message from

638
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: our friends in foul Territory.

639
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 4: It is summertime. We are in the thick of golf season.

640
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 4: It's always golf season down in Florida. But we're in

641
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 4: the thick of golf season across the country and someone's

642
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 4: looking to get a new club. That logo should say

643
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 4: it all PXG.

644
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 3: What do they do? Go get fitted?

645
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 7: Go get fitted by one of their master fitters, professional fitters.

646
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 7: I've done it. It's helped shave many strokes off my handicap.

647
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Speaker 7: It is worth it. It's educational. You learn about not

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Speaker 1: So Cam Smith did something this week that he has

661
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: never done before, and it demonstrated while why he will

662
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: never do it again, and that is playing a triple

663
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: A ballpark. He he it's you know, it's funny he hit.

664
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: He had that two homer game against the Padres on

665
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: April eighteenth, and I walked into the club and if

666
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: you remember that game, Tyler, I'm sure you do. Both

667
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: home runs were majestic, like pullside destroyed. And I walked

668
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: in the clubhouse after the game, and I'm not going

669
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: to say who the player was, but I walked up

670
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: to another player in the clubhouse and we both looked

671
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: at each other and simultaneously said, I've been waiting to

672
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: see that for two months. And with Cam Smith, like

673
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: it is one of these things, right. He is more

674
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: of an opposite field kind of up the middle hitter.

675
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: But in spring training we saw so much power, We

676
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: saw so much pulside power in the air, and for

677
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: whatever reason, it had not translated much to the big

678
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: league level. He's still hitting a lot of ground balls

679
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: on fastballs. He's still not getting the ball in the

680
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: air as much as the team would like. But man,

681
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: when he gets a hold of one, when he's out

682
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: in front and gets a hold of a hangar or

683
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: when he's on time for a fastball and can pull

684
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: it in the air. It is a sight to see,

685
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: and you have seen it through these first three games

686
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: in Sacramento. You know there's always going to be growing

687
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: pains with a guy that had thirty two games of

688
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: big professional experience and they put him on the roster.

689
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: But really, this series has shown the best of Cam

690
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: Smith and what the Astros thought he could be. It

691
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: has been a joy to watch him these three games,

692
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: especially hitting the ball to all fields. He had an

693
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: opposite field double last night, pulside homer in the two

694
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: homer game on Tuesday. This is everything that you thought

695
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: Cam Smith would be when they put him on the

696
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: team in sprint training.

697
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Tyler, I know this is your guy.

698
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 2: We're thirty minutes in. I finally get to justified. We're

699
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 2: in my chain so I can discuss Cam Smith because

700
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 2: Chandler wouldn't let us on for Father's Day, so I

701
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 2: couldn't come on and talk about his two home run game.

702
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,800
Speaker 2: But yeah, last thirty three games, Cam Smith is hitting

703
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 2: three thirty. He's a really good baseball player. And I

704
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 2: mean I I like, yes, we knew that that would

705
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 2: happen eventually. But again, I mean, he just he didn't

706
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 2: play in the minor leagues, and it's it is remarkable

707
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 2: how much he has adjusted to major league pitching. And

708
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 2: you know, we talk about the pull side power. It

709
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 2: almost feels like for the first couple of months it

710
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 2: was just him knowing, look, I'm up here, I need

711
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 2: to be productive, so I need to try to, you know,

712
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 2: stay behind the ball so I can hit it to

713
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 2: the opposite field, so I can at least be productive

714
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 2: and not take these big pullside swings. Obviously has the

715
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 2: power to do that, but you know, you you just

716
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 2: imagine that as he gets more confident, he can start

717
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 2: to look to to pull the ball more because it

718
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 2: does feel like a deliberate approach. It's it's not like

719
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 2: he's built to only hit the ball to the you know,

720
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 2: right center gap. He he certainly has the ability to

721
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 2: do that. But I mean, he's just a bona fide

722
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 2: good major league player. I'm sure you guys saw the

723
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 2: MLB's accounts Rookie of the Year voting of that not

724
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 2: on the.

725
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 3: List, right he's leading all right fields in the baseball

726
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,280
Speaker 3: with outs above average.

727
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 2: He'll, yeah, he I mean, look, I'm not going to

728
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 2: argue about Jacob Wilson. He's been phenomenal that that's fair,

729
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 2: uh to have him up there. But cam Smith has

730
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 2: been incredible the entire year. He's doing it in a

731
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 2: lot of different ways, which again I think speaks to

732
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 2: the sustainability of his success. That it's not just that

733
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 2: he's pulled fifteen homers and he's hitting two thirty around

734
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 2: it like, he's hitting all kinds of ways, whether it's

735
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 2: you know, those those singles right back up the middle

736
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 2: that he does a lot. You know, he had the

737
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 2: walk off, the first one in his career, which is

738
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 2: cool that you know, he'd never had one anytime in

739
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 2: his baseball career, had that one. I mean, he's ripping

740
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 2: doubles down the line, he's putting him in the gaps,

741
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 2: he's hitting just moonshot home runs, and you know, he's

742
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 2: he's shown a really patient approach. But it's not a

743
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 2: passive approach. It's not one that he's just sitting up

744
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 2: there and then starts panicking once the pitcher gets two

745
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 2: strikes on him. He's looking for a pitch to hit

746
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 2: of what he's wanting to do with it, and He's

747
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 2: been one of the best hitters on the team for

748
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 2: the better part of the year. It's been so fun

749
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 2: to watch.

750
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, the thing that stands out I love how you

751
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 3: mentioned that double. The double hit down right field line

752
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 3: this series was a spectacler to watch. After pulling a

753
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 3: change of and a slider four hundred and twenty plus feet,

754
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 3: what he does is just I love his approach. If

755
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 3: you've got the power the ability to go the other

756
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 3: way with authority, there is no need for me to

757
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 3: worry about pulling fastballs, and I'll get my head on

758
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 3: the off speed because I know I can drive the

759
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 3: ball the other way. So what he's doing right now,

760
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 3: he just seems to get more comfortable every day. I mean,

761
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 3: we looked at spring training at bats and yeah, he

762
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 3: might have been hitting the ball out in the center

763
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 3: and spring training more. But you know what this is,

764
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 3: before this kid thought about even making a team at

765
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 3: a big league level, he went into the spring training going,

766
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm going to get sent down probably

767
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 3: three weeks into this camp, go show him what I

768
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 3: can do, and then maybe kind of you know, the

769
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 3: panic and pressure set in. But this is somebody I've

770
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 3: talked about every time I'm on air, every time with

771
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 3: you guys. This guy just keeps getting better and better

772
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 3: as the experience goes on. And he said it the

773
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 3: other night in his interview, like it's it's inevitable when

774
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 3: you're getting more playing time, more kissness at bats, and

775
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 3: we're seeing it with Dubon too, Like Dubon has become

776
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 3: this everyday guy who rakes, and you know, this is

777
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 3: a guy who wasn't supposed to be playing every day.

778
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,280
Speaker 3: Has done fantastic job for both sides. But these guys

779
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 3: seem to be getting more and more better, more and

780
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 3: more comfortable as they go on up there. And you

781
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 3: know these are bats for Cam. I picked two of

782
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 3: them out. You know they're both against Severino, one at

783
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 3: home one here he's he went by an O two

784
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 3: and both of them fought back and had both like

785
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 3: seven to eight pitch at bats and ended up walking

786
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 3: in both of them. So he's not he's not swinging

787
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 3: out of his zone erradically at Slider's in the dirty.

788
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 3: He's kind of taken some esoc parates at bats and

789
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 3: not even spitting on those pitches where he should be

790
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 3: he should be chasing him. So he's definitely matured a

791
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,399
Speaker 3: lot in this short short season standings had so far.

792
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, one stat cast stat that is

793
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 2: instructive of just kind of the ceiling that you have

794
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 2: is just your max exit velocity of like what's the

795
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 2: hardest that you can hit. There are some guys that

796
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 2: can hit hard consistently, but they're never going to top

797
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 2: out at crazy numbers. He had a ball hit this

798
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 2: year at one thirteen point nine, which is in the

799
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 2: top eight percent of baseball. Like he he can rip it,

800
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 2: and so again, yeah, if you can go the other

801
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 2: way with it, great, If you can rip those singles

802
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 2: back up the middle, great. But I mean, he's got

803
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,760
Speaker 2: serious power that still hasn't even really been unlocked yet.

804
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 2: And so I mean the fact that he's hitting this

805
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 2: well without even really tapping into that raw power that

806
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 2: he has is really really exciting. I mean, hot Tike.

807
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 2: I don't think I would trade one year of Kyle

808
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 2: Tucker for six years of Cam Smith if I had

809
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 2: the choice, I think I would think I'd prefer to

810
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,280
Speaker 2: have Cam Smith for six years.

811
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: I think it really is a situation where that trade,

812
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 1: again were it is very early to grade that trade holistically.

813
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 1: I think earlier returns are that both teams won, like

814
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: that is a trade that both teams like Tucker is

815
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: having an incredible season for the Cubs, who are having

816
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: an incredible season, and then cam Smith is obviously, you know,

817
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: exceeded any I mean, look, they knew, they knew when

818
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 1: they acquired him that this kid could be you know,

819
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: the aircraft carriers. Nana Brown called him like a franchise

820
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: type player. I don't think they thought it would be

821
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: this quick, but he has certainly exceeded the immediate expectations

822
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: that they had for him. And then essak Paratus has

823
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: exceeded expectations defensively in just different ways like that. So

824
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: it is one of those trades that I think both

825
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: teams in the in the immediate term are going to say, hey,

826
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: we came out good here, and the Cubs like, I mean,

827
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: Matt Shaw's playing well for them at third base. So

828
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: it's not as if they trade I mean, because camp

829
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: Smith was going to be the third baseman kind of

830
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 1: guy that you looked at for the Cubs. Matt Shaw's

831
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: playing okay for them, So it's not one of these

832
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: situations where they desperately need a third basement or something

833
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: they traded away their guy for the future. But one

834
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 1: thing about Cam Smith, it's going to be interesting to

835
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: monitor going forward and read. I want your take on

836
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: this a little bit. You know, he's gonna presuming he

837
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: plays tonight on Thursday. I don't see any reason why

838
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 1: he wouldn't. He's going to start his sixty first game

839
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: of the season. He has never played more than sixty

840
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: six games in any part of his organized baseball career.

841
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 1: Like as a junior at Florida State, he played sixty

842
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: six games and took something like three hundred played appearances.

843
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 1: He's already encroaching on two hundred and thirty two hundred

844
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: and forty played appearances. You know, fatigue is a real thing,

845
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 1: and when you haven't played this deep into a season,

846
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: like there are ways you have to tailor your between

847
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: game routines, like cut down on BP, cut down on

848
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: how much you're working. Because this is uncharted territory for him,

849
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: and it's going to be something that it's going to

850
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,919
Speaker 1: be fascinating for me to watch, Like once he hits

851
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: that seventy game mark or that eighty game mark into

852
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: you know, a place where he's never played. He's never

853
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: played this deep into a season, and this team looks

854
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: like it's going to go into October and it's going

855
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: to play you know, meaningful baseball in October, which is

856
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: only going to extend the season more. Josh am I

857
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: off there? Or is it is that a real thing

858
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: that that they're going to have to look at, because

859
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: it's a real thing that that you know, when you

860
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 1: haven't played this much like your body needs to be

861
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: body needs to adjust because you can't like fake that,

862
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: you can't fake like workload.

863
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know it's big for him because body maintenance

864
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 3: becomes a big issue there. How you how you treat

865
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 3: your body, and obviously diet is is a huge crucial

866
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,720
Speaker 3: point for that. How you keep your body, body's engine

867
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:47,720
Speaker 3: running on good food.

868
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 6: Because the thing for me, I was a big believer

869
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 6: in the cold tub.

870
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 3: Did it every day after every game, night, game, day, game,

871
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 3: didn't matter how I was feeling, feeling great, feeling crappy.

872
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 3: That's just one factor of getting the body rejuvenated. You know,

873
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 3: you're you're shutting down after a game and you're shutting

874
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 3: down everything. And with people that don't know what a

875
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 3: cold tub does, I mean break it down for you

876
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 3: All that does is you're shrinking your blood vessels and

877
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 3: you know, preventing blood flow, and then you're just letting

878
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 3: your body warm up and heat up naturally, so it

879
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 3: slowly opens those blood vessels. And what does fresh blood do.

880
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 3: It heals the muscles, It takes away the sowredness, takes

881
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 3: away the pain. So these are just things that need

882
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 3: to happen. Whether you know, they have so many things now.

883
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 3: They have mark pros this you know, they call it

884
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 3: what was a ten units what they call where it

885
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,760
Speaker 3: vibrates the muscles. They have these you know, air treatment

886
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 3: where you put the boots on your legs, your arms,

887
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 3: and compression. Just they have so many things at their

888
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 3: disposal to make sure that their body is right. They

889
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 3: have sleep rooms, you know, And I think that's where players,

890
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,399
Speaker 3: your teammates become a big factor because, like you said,

891
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 3: this guy's body is not built for this yet. He

892
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 3: hasn't gotten into that routine of playing one hundred and

893
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 3: sixty plus throughout the year plus the spring training plus

894
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 3: the postseason. So no, it's definitely not something that's made up.

895
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 3: It's something that's gonna have to happen for him to

896
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 3: turn the table. Turn the book and just kind of

897
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 3: realize what it's gonna take for him to grind out

898
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 3: the rest of the season because he's gonna hurt, there's

899
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 3: gonna be pain, there's gonna be general story. He's gonna

900
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 3: have to play through. These are things that he's never

901
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 3: had to do because of the college schedule, the high

902
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 3: school schedule. What three games a week, maybe four games

903
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 3: a week. But I think taking off banning practice huge deal.

904
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 3: You're taking stress off your back, you're taking stress off

905
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 3: your body. There's also days where you know, look, I'm

906
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 3: not gonna play today, tough writing, whatever, I'm not gonna play,

907
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 3: and then hopefully the boys keep it up for me.

908
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 3: But there's just gonna be days where he has to

909
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 3: have to do nothing to absolutely not come to the

910
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 3: ballpark and just eat, Like, come to the ballpark, just heat,

911
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 3: hang out. There's nothing wrong with doing absolutely nothing baseball

912
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 3: activity for the day. You know, do nothing to the

913
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 3: fifth inning, sit around, get your workout in, go hang out, relax,

914
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 3: and then you know, once the fourth fifth inning, girls around,

915
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 3: go to the cage. Then you start doing your warm

916
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 3: up routine and kind of go about it that way.

917
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 3: But there's always times where less can be more for

918
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 3: you as an individual, and especially for a kid who's

919
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:57,879
Speaker 3: twenty two. And that's another thing. He's still got youth

920
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,279
Speaker 3: on his side. So hopefully him being so young can

921
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 3: help his body heel a lot better too.

922
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: Well if he needs, like if he needs anything to do,

923
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: like getting away from baseball, that the offer to go

924
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,280
Speaker 1: to the zoo with Tyler is always open.

925
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:11,320
Speaker 2: I'm ready.

926
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: You know.

927
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 2: The penguin exhibit was great. I loved the underground tunnel

928
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 2: seals over it with the you know they're they're swimming

929
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 2: over the top of you. Listen if you if you

930
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 2: need a mental break, I'm down.

931
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 3: That's a lot. I have a great pool. He can

932
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:29,879
Speaker 3: come hang by the pool. Me and the boys too.

933
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go. We've got great plans for rest.

934
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 2: And it's not a lot of walking. Chandler, obviously you're

935
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 2: not a zoo head because it's the first thing right

936
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 2: on the right. You can just walk straight in there.

937
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 2: You don't know anything.

938
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 3: Penguin's on the right, reptiles on the left. Right when

939
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:47,760
Speaker 3: you walk in down.

940
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 2: Ye gotta go see the cool pythons where they replaced

941
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 2: the albino alligator. That finally died r I p. I

942
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 2: called it the Jim Gaffigator for a while, which which

943
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 2: I liked. But it's gone. But yeah, look we're we're ready.

944
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,280
Speaker 2: I agree Chandler. I think that's a great.

945
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:06,439
Speaker 3: Idea, Josh.

946
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:10,240
Speaker 1: You mentioned mindful of his body, what he eats and everything.

947
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: And there's a great profile of cam Smith that my

948
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: Christy Reakan of the Associated Press, and within the story

949
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: she reported that he has never tried caffeine and he

950
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: has never had he has never had a sip of alcohol,

951
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: which like the there's a lot of there's a lot

952
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: of ball players.

953
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 3: I believe the alcohol, and I'm not sure about the

954
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 3: caffeine one.

955
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 1: I mean, he told Christy that he has never tried

956
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: anything with caffeine.

957
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 3: So what you're saying is when August September roll around,

958
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 3: we might see a red bull in his hand everything.

959
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 2: Oh that's that's way too. I have a step up.

960
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 2: He needs, he needs like a doctor pepper first to

961
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 2: see if he can handle it.

962
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 3: Get him vanilla coke, seventy grams of sugar to see

963
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 3: where he goes off from there.

964
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 2: Definitely can't be Celsius. Did you see that, Josh?

965
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 3: That will be Celsius is not good.

966
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 2: MLB said, don't drink Celsius because it is turning up

967
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 2: results for peds. There's something in Celsius that's like.

968
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 3: I'm transisioning right now.

969
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: Then today, man, is that gonna Is that gonna be

970
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: the latest? Is that gonna be someone's latest excuse? Like

971
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: when like some next when the next veteran gets popped,

972
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: like when Prof popped a couple of weeks, I drink is.

973
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 3: Work every person that gets popped. I didn't know I

974
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,240
Speaker 3: was taking. You know, we have so much more respect.

975
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 3: I got popped, you know what, I took it. I'll

976
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,720
Speaker 3: serve my suspension and come back in eighty games.

977
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: Like Tatisa's ring Warm. Tatisa was he he took something

978
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: for ring warm warm.

979
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 3: Who is the foot cream? Somebody had a foot cream

980
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:39,919
Speaker 3: or something years ago.

981
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: I forget who that was. But yeah, that's gonna be

982
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: the new excuse, the new excuse me. I drank of Celsius, and.

983
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 2: That's a that's a pretty good marketing strategy for Celsius. Sure,

984
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,760
Speaker 2: MLB said, we're too dangerous, So.

985
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 3: That's great marketing. And to go back, camp Smith already

986
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 3: is a very large human specimen. Too, so I'm sure

987
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 3: he's already eating fantastically. It's just something that he has

988
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 3: to continue to do and apparently stay with him. Kathy,

989
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 3: I'm not howl. How do you get through the dam already?

990
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 3: It's almost noon. I've had my monster and a coke already.

991
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 1: Yeah. That that that's why, this is why I can

992
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: never be a baseball player like I couldn't. That's why

993
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,320
Speaker 1: that this is the only reason why I never made

994
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: the major leagues is because I need. I need too

995
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: much caffeine. So camp everyone else will need caffeine to

996
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: stay up late and watch the Astros for the next

997
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: couple of days on the West Coast, a night getaway

998
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: day game today with Colton Gordon on the mound. It's

999
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: at this Triple A Ballpark. At this point, it doesn't

1000
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: matter who they run out there. It just seems like

1001
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna go well. So maybe they will continue tonight

1002
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: in Sacramento, where you can watch Josh Reddick do pre

1003
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: impost on Space City Home Network.

1004
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 3: I need I need to pick the stick win. So guys,

1005
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 3: if you're listening now, I've got aig ideas I've already

1006
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 3: so I've already picked two A Christian Walker. I had

1007
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 3: a feeling nil Christian Walker didn't work out for me.

1008
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 3: I would have been all right, and minus the two airrors,

1009
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 3: that'd have been good. And then who was my third one?

1010
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 3: I can't remember. I haven't. I haven't picked your boy

1011
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 3: Cam Smith yet.

1012
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 2: Should have picked him last night I got great news.

1013
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 2: You can pick him.

1014
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 3: Every day and picking wants a series.

1015
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 2: Okay, well, so.

1016
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 3: Maybe today's Cam Smith day with the lefty floating up

1017
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 3: that slider.

1018
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 1: Oh man, they're facing the left tonight.

1019
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, I thought you'd be all over that. There's

1020
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 3: six and two. They've only this is their ninth lefty

1021
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 3: and we're looking at June nineteenth and they faced their

1022
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 3: ninth lefty starter in baseball.

1023
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd picked Cam would be my pick to click

1024
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: because he's uh, the splits are pretty I mean, obviously

1025
00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: it's not a large sample size, so they haven't faced

1026
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 1: any left handed pitching, but he he has destroyed left

1027
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: handed pitching.

1028
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 3: What is the guy? Do you know what the guy

1029
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 3: throws for the for the Sacramento Oakland West Sacramento as.

1030
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: I didn't know who he was until I the baseball.

1031
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 2: Is left handed.

1032
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,439
Speaker 3: I'll get that. I don't clock in until about six

1033
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 3: thirty anyway, So I'll get this. I'm going I'm gonna

1034
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 3: go with camp Smith. I'm okay, And when he does well,

1035
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 3: I need the tag I need some tagging on Instagram

1036
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 3: and on on X with your your chain.

1037
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: Tyler, he punched out nine across six scoreless innings against

1038
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: the Royals last time out. But the Astros are the

1039
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: way they're hitting and the way they've thrived in this ballpark,

1040
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: they're They're a different animal altogether. With all their right

1041
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: handed uh, you'll see. You may see an entire right

1042
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: handed lineup tonight depending on what they do with Victor Carrottini.

1043
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: But they can do that because they're rarely going they

1044
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: are going to face a left handed starter in a rarity.

1045
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: We will talk about how they do against that left

1046
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 1: handed starter and how they do this weekend against the

1047
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,959
Speaker 1: Angels this week on Crush City Territory. As always, please

1048
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: rate and review us on Apple and Spotify. Please subscribe

1049
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,040
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1050
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: upload a new pod. As always, you can follow Tyler

1051
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,760
Speaker 1: on X at Tyler C. Stafford. You can follow Josh

1052
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: at j Red dub Deuce. You can follow me at

1053
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: Chandler Underscore Rome. As always, thank you guys for listening,

1054
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: thanks for the outpouring of support, and we'll talk to

1055
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: you soon.

1056
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 3: Hi. See you, guys,