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Speaker 1: What's up everybody, and welcome to the final Crush City

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Speaker 1: territory of twenty twenty five. I'm training the room, joined

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Speaker 1: us always by Tyler Stafford and Josh Reddick. Mary Belated

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Speaker 1: Christmas to everyone. How was your Christmas?

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Speaker 2: Josh Reddick?

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Speaker 3: I didn't know Pokemon made so many things, and we

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Speaker 3: pretty much got everything they own on the shelf, I think.

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Speaker 3: But they got plenty of cards. We haven't even come

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Speaker 3: close to opening all of them yet, all kinds of toys,

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Speaker 3: a brand new like stuffy collection, probably over thirty stuff

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Speaker 3: he's but man, it was great, you know, just getting

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Speaker 3: to be home and be in shorts and a nice

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Speaker 3: great watching your kids open everything on Christmas morning because

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Speaker 3: you just get to sit back, Drake, whatever you're having, coffee, tea, eggnog,

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Speaker 3: you experience it.

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Speaker 4: Are they old enough now that they were like they

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Speaker 4: had a big gift that they were really looking forward to.

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Speaker 4: And you know, because my mind Will Olivia will say like,

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Speaker 4: oh I want this or whatever, but they're all little

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Speaker 4: things or whatever. But I keep seeing on TikTok all

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Speaker 4: these videos of kids just crying opening up presents that

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Speaker 4: they really wanted. Are your kids old enough for that yet?

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Speaker 3: Uh? Yeah, they got. They asked her some stuff, some

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Speaker 3: certain Pokemon stuff. Is that you know, saying I couldn't

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Speaker 3: don't make the legendary birds, I guess is what Santa

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Speaker 3: told me.

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Speaker 4: Why would he pick the two worst legendary birds and not.

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Speaker 3: Go, there's six man you can't control?

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Speaker 4: That was embarrassing, moultrous, Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 3: They're at that point in the they're at that point

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Speaker 3: in the game where they're catching you know, they're on

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Speaker 3: Pokemon let's go on their switch. Yeah, And so they're

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Speaker 3: playing the old school game, as you know, Tyler and

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Speaker 3: Switch life. So they're excited about having having that opportunity

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Speaker 3: I think that I think that's just the point in

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Speaker 3: like we have like seven charizards. Of course, because he's

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Speaker 3: theog monster and still one of the best in the lineup.

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Speaker 3: Like you gotta get you gotta get some MW two's

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Speaker 3: you know, could seem kind of silly because he needs

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Speaker 3: them all the time, but this is one like two

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Speaker 3: classes above his class now that goes sixty, and it's

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Speaker 4: To start h Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's crazy.

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Speaker 3: It's like what we're shooting for him to be and

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Speaker 3: And uh with Ryder, he got pretty much everything he

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Speaker 1: He had a he had a few drinks of whatever

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Speaker 2: That's good, Santa. Santa was thinking of you.

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Speaker 3: Took care of me and the wife very well.

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Speaker 2: Good. Did Santa take care of your entire clan?

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Speaker 3: Tyler?

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Speaker 4: Oh? I mean, look, Santa brought me the sweet shirt

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Speaker 4: that I'm wearing. I got pants that match it. Wore

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Speaker 4: those to the zoo the other day. Uh, Santa brought

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Speaker 3: Harder than most people think to function a nice telescope.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well nice is a strong word. Santa has a

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Speaker 4: Brought me a sweet little guitar Hero controller I've got.

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Speaker 4: I've got a little emulator on my computer called Clone

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Speaker 4: do it? Was it Joel Zamaya?

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Speaker 3: Is that Joel?

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Speaker 2: Were you in the league?

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Speaker 3: Ye?

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Speaker 4: That was like two thousand and six, right, were you

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Speaker 4: in the league? Year you're in the miner I was.

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Speaker 3: I was in the minors. But yeah, Like it was

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Speaker 3: guitar hero in the Red Sox organization, I think pretty

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Speaker 3: much put a band on guitar Hero for that reason.

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Speaker 3: It was absolutely ridiculous. Like, come on, guys, this the video, Like.

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Speaker 4: Come on, who was the best the guitar hero?

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Speaker 3: I mean I was up there house at that time.

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Speaker 3: remembers the Lars Lars Anderson prospect that we had in Boston. Tyner,

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure if you're familiar with Lars Anderson, big

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Speaker 3: for his money. Rock band was more my bag. I

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Speaker 4: That's just I didn't know you were a singer.

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Speaker 3: Oh it's it's rock band. I mean singer.

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Speaker 4: No, that it's not true. If you're playing right, you

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Speaker 4: you can sing more than the average person, for sure.

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Speaker 3: I had four years of chorus growing up, four years

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Speaker 3: Or guitar playing and singing. I could do it all.

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Speaker 4: Impressive.

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Speaker 2: So the Red Center dot anything good.

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Speaker 1: I got some pants, some pants, got some gift cards,

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Speaker 1: great stuff. So the Red Sox have banned fried chicken, beer.

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Speaker 2: And guitar here first weekend, and yeah, Josh has been

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Speaker 3: They brought in Bobby Valentine, that's what they did to

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Speaker 2: How'd that God didn't didn't go well?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: Did not go well? Speaking of did not go well

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty five Astros.

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Speaker 1: Because it is the last episode of twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: we want to do kind of a best of twenty

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Speaker 1: where they're at in their golden era. Did not meet

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Speaker 1: but there's still was some good. There still was really

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Speaker 2: The podcast Tyler has h Tyler.

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Speaker 1: Has listed a metric f ton of good things that

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Speaker 2: Twenty f TN. This is like that.

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Speaker 3: I like this measurement.

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Speaker 1: This is family friendly. We we got to run ads

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Speaker 1: on this thing. So that's how we make That's how

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Speaker 1: we make the money. So Tyler has accumulated or compiled

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Speaker 1: a list of a lot of good things that happened

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Speaker 1: for the Astros in twenty twenty five. He has shared

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Speaker 1: it with Josh and I and what Tyler's idea, and

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Speaker 1: I liked the idea, So we're going to adopt it is.

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Speaker 2: We're going to do a draft.

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Speaker 1: The three of us will probably make it three rounds

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna we all have the list.

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Speaker 3: Look, that's asking too much, Tyler.

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Speaker 4: I already wrote all this. What else do you want

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's so we've got We've got about I think

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Speaker 1: I count if I counted right, We've got about fifteen moments,

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Speaker 1: because you did all the legwork, I'm going to reward

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Speaker 2: Josh, you'll go second. I'll go third. Tyler, the floor

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Speaker 2: is yours. You're on the clock.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well this is an easy one. So basically what

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Speaker 4: we're doing is we're looking back at the season. We're

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Speaker 4: drafting the times that felt best watching watching the Astros.

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Speaker 4: So it can be a game, it can be a moment,

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles. That was unbelievable. That was just the best

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Speaker 4: they were so hurt, and then they just go into

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Speaker 4: had been struggling. You're nervous, Oh, it's the Dodgers. This

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Speaker 4: of the series. That was far and away. I think

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Speaker 4: the best moment of twenty twenty five for the Astros.

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Speaker 3: I just snipped my pick right out from under my chin. Lead.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm pig. I mean I love that just

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Speaker 2: Like are we going to sell or are we going to buy?

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Speaker 1: Very nice kid pod, very nice kid, very you know,

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Speaker 3: So okay, okay, but.

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Speaker 1: It was fun to watch Bryce Matthews kind of live

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't call what Gino Suarez did for

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Speaker 4: I it didn't get old the whole year. Every time

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Speaker 3: Got your leader. You got your leader that you needed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

439
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:22,960
Speaker 4: I didn't get to sign any of them, but he

440
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 4: did get them offered to him, So a way to

441
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:31,200
Speaker 4: go uh great picks Uh okay. I think Another high

442
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:38,160
Speaker 4: profile game that just felt amazing watching was Jason Alexander's

443
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,360
Speaker 4: start against the Yankees, where he went six innings, gave

444
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,920
Speaker 4: up one run or one hit, no runs, uh, three

445
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 4: to one win. Again, like the Ashows had just been

446
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 4: so hurt. They were they were struggling, you know all

447
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 4: of this stuff, and you have to go to New York,

448
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,120
Speaker 4: you know what's gonna happen here, and then Jason Alexander

449
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 4: who whoever that is, shows up and just just whoops

450
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:10,640
Speaker 4: them seven to one. They get the series there, they're

451
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,200
Speaker 4: they're up half a game in the division. At the time,

452
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 4: this is on August tenth. You know, they're fourteen games

453
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 4: above five hundred. You're you're so nervous going in especially

454
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:24,040
Speaker 4: after you know you in that series, you had an

455
00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:26,400
Speaker 4: extra innings win to start it off. Then you lose

456
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,920
Speaker 4: four or five in the next game and you're going

457
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 4: up against Max Freed and it's Jason Alexander and it's

458
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 4: a Sunday game. You know. I think that that one

459
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 4: was on national TV too, I believe. So just a

460
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:47,640
Speaker 4: great feeling uh there. And then to to go with

461
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:52,439
Speaker 4: that late in the season, you know, the playoffs are

462
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,719
Speaker 4: right there. You're you've got that kind of run at

463
00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 4: the end of the season where you're just playing divisional opponents. Uh,

464
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 4: and the Rangers come to town and you sweep the

465
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 4: Rangers and you knock them essentially out of the playoffs.

466
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 4: You set yourself up for, you know, making the playoffs.

467
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 4: We won't talk about when happened after that with the

468
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 4: Mariners an a series, But at that moment, man, at

469
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 4: the end of that sweep that I mean, you're on

470
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 4: top of the world, uh, at that point and uh,

471
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 4: you know, magically winning the the precious silver Boot trophy

472
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,160
Speaker 4: that we all know and love, uh and care about.

473
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 4: My hot take is that the first game, the first

474
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 4: home game of whoever wins the Silver Boot series. Every year,

475
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 4: that should be the fan giveaway. We should we should

476
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,440
Speaker 4: get a little boot with with that on there.

477
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 2: They should.

478
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 4: They should swap those every year. That would be fun. Yeah,

479
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 4: you know, it's it's fun to have a rivalry, you know,

480
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,359
Speaker 4: it's it's uh, it's good. And I mean there was

481
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 4: nobody was expecting at that point to win the Silver Boot,

482
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,640
Speaker 4: but sweeping the Rangers at the end of the season

483
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,400
Speaker 4: fell really nice.

484
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: I think about that series too that I think a

485
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: lot of people forget, you know, the Rangers had lined

486
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: it up to where they had Jack Lder, they had

487
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: Merril Kelly, and they had the grom going like they

488
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 1: they lined I mean, they needed to to keep their

489
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 1: playoff hops live. The Ashers ran Jason Alexander, as you mentioned, Tyler,

490
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,640
Speaker 1: They ran Jason Alexander, aj blue Ball and recently recovered

491
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 1: from surgery Christian Hobbyer and swept the series. And I

492
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: think that, like you said, Tyler, I think that was

493
00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 1: probably when everyone you know, I would imagine from a

494
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 1: fans perspective, August and September was very very mercurial for

495
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: Ashers fans because they were probably like one day where

496
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 1: like they're going to make a run of the World Series,

497
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: and then the next day was probably like, yeah, this

498
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 1: team is gonna this team's gonna finish fifteen games.

499
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 4: Out and everyone, I mean that was ten games left

500
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 4: in the season. Like that was I was on top

501
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 4: of the world at that point.

502
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 1: Right, So, like you're like, if they're beaten the Graham

503
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: Lighter and Merrill Kelly with aj blue Ball half a

504
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: Persian Xavier and Jason Alexander, then they have it. They

505
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 1: have the they have whatever the vibe is, they have

506
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: whatever the magic potion is to.

507
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 2: To to get it done.

508
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was probably a great moment that that

509
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,360
Speaker 1: whole series is probably just a great moment for everyone

510
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: to think that they had it in them. And then,

511
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, the Mariners came down.

512
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, Josh, I'm gonna go with another late in

513
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 3: the season here, and it's the arrival of Zach Cole.

514
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,919
Speaker 3: Zach Cole. First pitch in the show, Whack or second

515
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,240
Speaker 3: pitch first or the first pitch first, first pitch, Whack,

516
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,720
Speaker 3: one hundred and twelve, one hundred and twenty, whatever. It

517
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 3: was a rocket and not only that, like, he boosted

518
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,239
Speaker 3: this offense when they needed it and they needed it.

519
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 3: I mean, this this guy was a shot in the dark.

520
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 3: We talked about him a lot here, We talked about

521
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 3: him a lot on the Premium Pros game when he

522
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 3: did debut. You know, this was just a shot in

523
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,159
Speaker 3: the dark for a kid who was hot. Like this

524
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 3: kid was just hot at the right time in the

525
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 3: miners and they just figured, why not, We're gonna flip

526
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 3: a coin, see what happens, And this guy ended up

527
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 3: and comes up and pretty much a savior for a

528
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,479
Speaker 3: short period of time for this ball club when they

529
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 3: needed that, that sparking their lineup. So is that Cole

530
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 3: going out there four hits three or four hits first

531
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 3: day or something?

532
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 2: I think so, Yeah, it's insane.

533
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 3: It's an absolute insane debut for the kid, and it

534
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 3: can just continue to do well, Like he pretty much solidified,

535
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 3: like he's gonna go in there with that's that spot

536
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,160
Speaker 3: and spring training to kind of put his name back

537
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 3: into that hat.

538
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 4: I mean, they've altered their entire winter plans based on

539
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 4: that three week run of Zach Cole. You know, they're

540
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 4: floating Jake Myers out there. They you know, release Chaz.

541
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 4: They're they're moving Pelton right, Yeah, I mean they're saying,

542
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 4: all right, this is this is for real? Uh and yeah,

543
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 4: first pick it certainly felt real. I mean just tomahawked

544
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 4: one out of.

545
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 2: There well before I picked Josh.

546
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: We haven't had you on since they since that trade,

547
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 1: Mike Burrow's coming to Houston, Jacob Melton and or some

548
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: Brito going out. What'd you think of that? Would you

549
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: think of that deal? Would you think of what the

550
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: Ashers got and what they gave up?

551
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 3: I think it feels like it felt like it was

552
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 3: like a nice little safety net swap, like we kind

553
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 3: of maybe covered our butt and it's kind of like

554
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 3: to see what we're gonna do and hopefully it works out.

555
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 3: I don't think it made a huge splash in the pond,

556
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 3: but I think it was a move that probably needed

557
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 3: to be made, especially with getting a guy like Milton

558
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 3: out of there, giving him something totally get an opportunity

559
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 3: to perform somewhere else, and you know, with with Burrows

560
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 3: coming over, I think it's there's potential there. Like I said,

561
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 3: I just don't think it was a huge splash that

562
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 3: it's going to make a huge difference for him, but

563
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 3: it was something that needed to be done.

564
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean we talked about like, he's got

565
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: six years of control left. This is a this is

566
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: a future play, right, Like, yeah, you get a cost

567
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: control guy for the next six years. Hopefully you're your

568
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: pitching lab kind of works with him and makes him

569
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: a little bit better.

570
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:05,439
Speaker 2: But the upside's already there.

571
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he's throwing a one hundred or so big

572
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: league innings and they've been pretty good. Still probably, and

573
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: I assume you agree with this, that they still probably

574
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,399
Speaker 1: do need to add another established starter to close that

575
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 1: gap between Hunter Brown and everyone else, right.

576
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 3: Without a doubt, without a doubt, Yeah, they still got

577
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 3: to make that bigger, that much bigger splash into that

578
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,719
Speaker 3: free agent pool and really dive in and find something.

579
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 3: I gotta find something.

580
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure free agent do something. Yeah, I'm

581
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 1: not it's I'm not sure be from the free agent side.

582
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: I don't think they're probably right. There's not gonna be

583
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: some there's not gonna be a lot of money exchanging hands.

584
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: It'll be will likely very likely be from the trade side.

585
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: Someone that they did not trade this winter is uh

586
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: or that Dana Brown has said they're not going to.

587
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 2: Trade this winter.

588
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: Is my, uh my next pick, and that's uh Jeremy

589
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: Pania blossoming into what I I think everyone thought he

590
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: would be after the twenty twenty two World Series, Like

591
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: he really he has realized that potential in twenty twenty

592
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: five and you and you wonder, honestly what the numbers

593
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: would have looked like if he doesn't get hit in

594
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: the ribs with a fastball and miss a month in July,

595
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: and then if he doesn't strain the obleik in September

596
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: and can't play down the stretch. But just a I mean,

597
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: I think Tyler, you put it well when we started

598
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: this draft process about when you felt the best watching

599
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: the Ashers, like when you felt good about not only

600
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: the current team, the twenty twenty five Ashers, but everything

601
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: around them, like the longer term thing. And I think

602
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: painia watching him do what he did, understanding that we've

603
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: got this guy. He's he's still ours, like we developed

604
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: this and like just I know that everyone watching him

605
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: had been just waiting for this right like they had been.

606
00:29:58,520 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 2: It had been frush.

607
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: I don't know frustrating is the right word, but just

608
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: when you do what he did in twenty twenty two

609
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: as a rookie, everyone just kind of assumes that twenty

610
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: twenty three is going to be the continuation of that

611
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: and it's going to be this superstar track, And I

612
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: think it goes to show that doesn't always work that way.

613
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,479
Speaker 1: Like baseball, it's not a player development is not linear,

614
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: Like it takes a while. It takes you know, some

615
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: some peaks and valleys, it takes some swing adjustments, it

616
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: takes some overhauled stance adjustments, things like that. But to

617
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: watch Painia blossom into what he became, I think, you know,

618
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: out of everything that happened in twenty twenty five, and

619
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: we just we just did our draft of the things

620
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: that made us maybe the happiest or the things that

621
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: encourage us the most. Like I know, I took him

622
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: with the last pick in the draft, and I always took

623
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: this with the last pick in the draft. But I

624
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: can't imagine much more something that had greater reach both

625
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five and beyond than what Paina did

626
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: this year and blossoming in the world.

627
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 4: Became Yeah, I mean, yeah, he only played in one

628
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty five games and still had a five

629
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 4: and a half win season. I mean, he was he

630
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 4: was incredible the whole sea. He would have I think

631
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 4: you would have finished in the top three of the

632
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 4: MVP if he had played a full healthy season. Obviously,

633
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 4: I think you could pretty easily say, if he plays

634
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 4: the full season, the Astros win one more game at

635
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 4: some point and make the playoffs. Who knows what, I mean,

636
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 4: you can do that with anybody, right, you can do

637
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 4: that with jord On you could. I mean even Hater

638
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 4: missing a lot at the end of the season. I think,

639
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 4: you know, you get these guys healthy and they have

640
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 4: the seasons that they're capable of having. But yeah, watching

641
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 4: Jeremy Pana, but again, it's not even like that out

642
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 4: of the North for that's who he's been pretty much though.

643
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 4: He's been so good his entire career. You know, the

644
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 4: the worst season that he had quote unquote was last year,

645
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 4: where he was a you know, the twenty three twenty

646
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 4: twenty four, a little bit below average hitter, but still

647
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 4: a four win player because he's a great defender, he's

648
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 4: a good base runner. But to see him put up

649
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 4: those numbers last season into you know, the one thirty

650
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 4: two ops plus, which again thirty two points above average,

651
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 4: like a really really good hitter finished with a three

652
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 4: hundred batting average. Still got MVP votes, finished tenth great

653
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 4: great season. Honorable mentions? What do y'all got? I got

654
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 4: a couple.

655
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 3: I like that. Let me each you get an honorable

656
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 3: mention of your listens.

657
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's just let's just roll through those.

658
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: This one maybe isn't It can be encouraging in how

659
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: I guess how you want to look at it.

660
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 2: But I mean, the Ashers.

661
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: Did, like make one of their boldest trades, maybe in

662
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: the last at least in the last fifteen years, in

663
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, when they traded Kyle Tucker to the Cubs.

664
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: You just said, Tyler, like of Jeremy Panna plays one

665
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: more game.

666
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 2: The Ashers probably make the playoffs.

667
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: If Kyle Tucker is on this team, the Ashers probably

668
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: make the playoffs.

669
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 4: So hindsight's was Cam Smith? So you know, or you

670
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 4: Sak Parades. I don't know, but you don't have USAK

671
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 4: without that trade. I honestly don't know that they're a

672
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 4: better team with Kyle Tucker filling one position in right

673
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 4: field than having Parades and Cam Smith at the beginning

674
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 4: of the season, and obviously, you know, parades when he

675
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 4: wasn't hurt. I think I think that's a rare win

676
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 4: win for both sides. I mean, obviously didn't work out

677
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 4: playoff wise for the Cubs, but you know, you took

678
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker and you were able to kind of split

679
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 4: that production into two positions that you really needed. I

680
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 4: think it was a great trade.

681
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think you know, in the moment, I mean,

682
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: the Cubs made the playoffs and the Ashers didn't. The

683
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: Cubs did not win a World Series or but they did.

684
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: Their objective in acquiring Kyle Tucker was we need this

685
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: guy to put us over the hump, to get us

686
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,280
Speaker 1: into the playoffs and to go deep into the playoffs.

687
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 2: They got deep ish.

688
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: They got to the NLDS and ran up against the

689
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: Brewers who were just beating everyone unless you're named the Dodgers.

690
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: So they got what they paid for. In essence, they

691
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: got a deep playoff run with a guy that put

692
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: up a four win season, a four and a half

693
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: win season.

694
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 2: To help them out.

695
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: In the Astros got cam Smith, they got estcoc Paradis,

696
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: and they got Hayden was Nescy all of whom are

697
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: under team control for much longer than Kyle Tucker. They

698
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: traded one year of Kyle Tucker for three years of

699
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: Escoc Paradis, six years of Cam Smith, and I believe

700
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: four years of Hayden was Nsky. That could be, That

701
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 1: could be I could have had those numbers wrong. But anyway,

702
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: suffice to say, they got guys that will help the

703
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 1: Astros beyond twenty twenty five when they missed the playoffs.

704
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: So but I think it's worth remembering that. You know,

705
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: I think at the time we understood it that as

706
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: you know, it faded and as the game started, it

707
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: kind of went away a little bit. But like the

708
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: shock value of that trade, it was just something that

709
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: this franchise just had not done, especially in this in

710
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: this era. I think the last guy that they had

711
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,240
Speaker 1: traded that was coming off of an All Star season

712
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: was Hunter Pence in like twenty eleven. Yeah, so this

713
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: was something that they had not done in like fourteen

714
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: or fifteen years. Like, this was a this was a

715
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: trade that is certainly going to define and we wrote

716
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: it and we said it at the time like it's

717
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: going to define Dana Brown's tenures General manager it's going

718
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,479
Speaker 1: to define this. It was a it was an era

719
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: defining trade, if you will. So we'll see how it ages.

720
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: We'll see if Eastak Paratus is on the team when

721
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: they go to spring training. We'll see how camp Smith

722
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: does in spring training, and we'll see Peyden was Nesky

723
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: can come back halfway through this season and maybe give

724
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: him a Hoosts later on. But that trade is something

725
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: that I think you can't talk about the year twenty

726
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: twenty five with the Ashers without mentioning that trade.

727
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 4: For sure, Josh, you have any others if.

728
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 3: I'm looking at our list here, come on, I'm blanking

729
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 3: at everything that I covered this year because it's the

730
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 3: off season. He was hurt, but I mean, gosh, how

731
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 3: good was Josh Hater? Like Josh Hater was, as I'm

732
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 3: gonna quote you, unhittable. But I mean he was just

733
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 3: lights out from the get go. And as long as

734
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 3: it was a safe situation, my man was lights out.

735
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 3: You put him in a tenth inning tipe ball game

736
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 3: and you never know what you're gonna get and keep

737
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 3: him away from, and you keep him away from Nick Kurtz.

738
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 3: But what he did, keep no doubt you ain't keep

739
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 3: everyone from him, but it just like what he did

740
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 3: for that squad before getting hurt was just unthinkable. You

741
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 3: were you know, you were talking about, is this guy

742
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 3: gonna get cy Young votes doing what he's doing? Like

743
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 3: to do that as a reliever, to even be mentioned

744
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 3: in a SI is pretty outstanding.

745
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 4: There's something so nice about having a just shut down

746
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 4: closer on your team like that.

747
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 3: That as a low stress.

748
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's just like you just

749
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 4: know the game.

750
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 3: There's stress when then Astro's recent years for sure very

751
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 3: high stress.

752
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 4: Hey you know what two time World Series champ. Uh

753
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 4: so it counts?

754
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 3: Uh uh?

755
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 4: But yeah, no, absolutely, Josh Hader was awesome. Look, we

756
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 4: we talked about him already with the Dodgers, but the

757
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 4: first game back for Lance mccullors felt amazing as a

758
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 4: as an astrossman, just seeing him come back out throw

759
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 4: a big league pitch after three years essentially felt really good.

760
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 4: That that was such a good feeling to to see

761
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 4: him out there, to you know, watch him get to

762
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 4: compete again after all that he's been through. That was

763
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 4: really good. The this is a silly one, I mean,

764
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 4: you know, it's no one's gonna really remember this. But

765
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 4: do you guys remember the Braves game where that the

766
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 4: Ashers just couldn't score for like a week before that,

767
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 4: the season is is looking rough again. I mean that's

768
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 4: that's the story of the whole year. But he comes,

769
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 4: Uh they come out and score eleven on on the Braves.

770
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 3: Uh.

771
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 4: That one felt really good. Again. That was, you know,

772
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 4: right at the end of the season. That was September twelfth,

773
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 4: they came out. That was after the Toronto series where

774
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 4: they had lost two a three. Then they were, you know,

775
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 4: fighting for the division at that point. That was a

776
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 4: really good one. The new City Connect jerseys are cool.

777
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 4: I like those. I liked the old ones too, Uh,

778
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,280
Speaker 4: And so I was nervous about, uh, new City Connects

779
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 4: because some some City connect there you go, just got

780
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 4: the hat on the some team City Connect jerseys are

781
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 4: terrible and I feel bad that they have to wear them.

782
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 4: That the Ashers have had two good ones, uh, And

783
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 4: so that was that was fun to see. And then

784
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 4: this is a true honorable mention, uh for the Astro season.

785
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 4: What about the homer game Game seven of the Alcs,

786
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 4: the George Springer hit to beat the Mariners, A three

787
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,760
Speaker 4: run homer at the end of seventh inning ALCS Game seven.

788
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 4: I I count that as a as an Astros win.

789
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 4: To see Springer do that in the Mariners season after taking.

790
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 3: Ninety nine off the knee like a few days prior.

791
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 4: And getting cheered and then coming back in the World

792
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 4: Series was good. I had a really good time watching

793
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 4: George Springer tyl in the playoffs.

794
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 3: Needles. Needles are amazing in the World Series. In the playoffs,

795
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:45,479
Speaker 3: I don't care.

796
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 4: I mean, it's crazy that he was. I mean, even

797
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 4: if your numb to be able to play well is insane.

798
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 4: I don't know how you people do that.

799
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 3: Until you've taken toward all, you don't know the feeling.

800
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 4: I guess I got to I'm just gonna do it

801
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 4: for is there's recreational toward it all that I can,

802
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 4: you know, well find out in the needle like just

803
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 4: insane right in? Isn't it just like a crazy thing.

804
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 4: I remember when Kaik got hurt, They like, okay.

805
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 3: Thinking of cortisone. Cortisons are okay. We were talking about

806
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 3: size of needles on Live air. More girthier m hm

807
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 3: would be the correct word. More on the on the

808
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 3: courtisone that, but the tour do all is just a

809
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 3: nice little standard syringe right in the old booty hole,

810
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:33,919
Speaker 3: is it?

811
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, that's.

812
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 4: Different than the booty hole. Yeah, those are two different things.

813
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 1: Move on from this one to remind you guys, you

814
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: have to run ads on this. Uh huh yeah, from

815
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: family friendly ads on.

816
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sure about that.

817
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: I've remember taken toward all, Josh, is it just like

818
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: that simping, like you just don't feel anything like you

819
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,879
Speaker 1: take just don't feel anything, You feel fantastic.

820
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 3: It's it's it's literally like I could run through a

821
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 3: wall and I'll deal with the injuries later. And the

822
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 3: only downfall to toward all is the next day you

823
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 3: wake up, you just get like a really groggy, hungover feeling.

824
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 3: But you know, if you're that guy in the playoffs,

825
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,240
Speaker 3: you're usually waiting until about you know, three pm anyway

826
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,959
Speaker 3: to re up that that guy and deal with it later.

827
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 3: So but yeah, I mean, it's it's it doesn't take

828
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 3: long to kick in either, maybe an hour, and then

829
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 3: everything just starts floating, and you mean, you feel like

830
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 3: you can do anything. One hundred fields one hundred miles

831
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 3: an hour feels like it's about forty. It's it's a

832
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 3: lot to take in. It like it's it's hard to

833
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 3: describe if you've never taken it.

834
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:36,399
Speaker 4: Good to know.

835
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 3: That's that's what I felt like. That's what I felt like.

836
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 3: My arm nothing hurt. I felt like I was just

837
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 3: I guess if there was a you know, smaller pet

838
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 3: portion of taking steroids that that's probably imagine what it

839
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 3: feels like.

840
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 4: Du Bond's Father's Day walk off was was really cool.

841
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 4: Newly he had just had a kid, I believe, and.

842
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: Then first Father's Day they had had. I think they

843
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: had they had him like in the offseason, but yeah,

844
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:06,479
Speaker 1: like it was his first father day.

845
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 4: First Father's Day. His interview after the game with Julia

846
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 4: was great. Uh, that was a That was a fun

847
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 4: game too.

848
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 2: That entire Cubs series at home, it was fun.

849
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: Just Tucker coming back, Presley coming back, Cam hit that

850
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: majestic homer onto the train tracks and it was off

851
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: Kate Horton to who like turned out to be very

852
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: very good. Tucker hit a couple of homers, did did

853
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: the mic dry, did the mike celebration run coming around second.

854
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: That whole series was fun just because I think the

855
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: Cubs boat raced him in one game, but the Ashers

856
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 1: won the other two games, and it was it was

857
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: fun to see all of like the participants. I think

858
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: was Nesky was hurt by that point, but like Parade

859
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: has played, Cam played, Presley was there, Talker was well too.

860
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 3: Like everybody that was involved in both teams like did

861
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 3: well that series, and it worked out for the astrosmer

862
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 3: like because they won the series. And then everybody that

863
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 3: you wanted to see do well, Tucker do well on

864
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 3: the blowout and yeah, so there was it was a

865
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 3: win win, win win all around. Yeah.

866
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 1: I think Tucker's homers were in the blowout, Cam homeward

867
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: in the win, paradeus homered in the wind, and Presley

868
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: pitched the ninth inning in the blowout because they wanted

869
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 1: to give him like a at that point Presley was

870
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: not pitching well. They wanted to give him like a

871
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Speaker 1: soft landing spot, and they wanted to pitch at dik

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Speaker 1: And Park so you could hear Johnny Cash when he

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Speaker 1: ran out. So he got the he got the last

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Speaker 1: inning of that blowout and pitch well. So it was

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Speaker 1: that was kind of a microcosm of the Astros season

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Speaker 1: right that they that there was a lot of good,

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of good around it, but just

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day didn't maybe finish the

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Speaker 1: way that they would have liked.

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Speaker 2: But still I.

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Speaker 4: Think I think the perfect microcosm is the two Hunter

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Speaker 4: Brown starts that they lost the Jacob de Gram and

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Speaker 4: School we both were just you know, oh man, this

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Speaker 4: guy is. I believe they're so close and they just

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Speaker 4: couldn't get over. I think that describes the twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: five season perfectly.

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Speaker 1: And Hunter pitched better than both the Grind and Scooble

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Speaker 1: both of those days too, like he was, I mean

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Speaker 1: game score like every like he was. He pitched better

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Speaker 1: than both of them.

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Speaker 2: But just it's tough. It's tough being a starting pitcher.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes baseball sucks sometimes.

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Speaker 1: And that is a microcosm twenty twenty five. If that sucks,

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Speaker 1: baseball sucks sometimes, maybe it won't suck as much if

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Speaker 1: you're an Ashress fan in twenty twenty six. So that

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Speaker 1: is our hope. That is our hope to you that

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six does not suck as much as twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five did. But we will be with you in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. We're happy to announce it. We are

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Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: Tyler.

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Speaker 2: Email them and say we do want to pick up

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Speaker 2: the mutual op.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, email them back. Yeah, yes, I guess we'll keep

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Speaker 4: doing this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So we're gonna keep doing this. It'll be fun,

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Speaker 1: same routine. Three times a week in the season, two

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Speaker 1: times a week in the offseason. Josh will be back

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: It'll be a great time. It'll be fun.

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Speaker 1: This has been fun our first full year. We started

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Speaker 1: a little bit before twenty twenty five last year, but

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Speaker 1: in our first full year of this, this was great.

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Speaker 1: This was very fun to talk to you guys as

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Speaker 1: much as we did, and We've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: cool stuff coming up. I've learned how to go live now,

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna do some live podcasts. Watch out We've

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Speaker 1: got We've got some other players lined up to talk

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Speaker 1: to us. We've got some different stuff for you guys.

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Speaker 1: It'll be fun going into twenty twenty six. But for

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Speaker 1: the last time in twenty twenty five. You can follow

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Speaker 1: me on x at Chandler Underscore Room. We can follow

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Speaker 1: Josh at j Reddubduce. You can follow Tyler at Tyler C. Stafford. Please,

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Speaker 1: as always, rate and review us on Apple and Spotify.

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Speaker 1: go live or every time we post a new podcast.

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Speaker 1: We will be back in twenty twenty six to discuss

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Speaker 1: what is next for the Astros as the sport kind

931
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Speaker 1: of opens up again after the holiday layoff, and until

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Speaker 1: then we will talk.

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Speaker 2: To you soon.

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Speaker 4: See Marty Supreme. It was awesome. Bye.