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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory. I'm Channeler Room,

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Speaker 2: joined by Tyler Stafford. After the Astros well crushed the

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Speaker 2: Boston Red Sox for three games at Dyke and Park

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Speaker 2: that I'm not really sure I expected. Look, it's early

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Speaker 2: in the season. You never know what teams are going

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Speaker 2: to look like. You never know kind of what situation

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Speaker 2: you're gonna find teams in. But the Red Sox came

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Speaker 2: in here and they looked they looked tight, they look

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Speaker 2: beaten down, and the Astros, to their credit, just absolutely

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Speaker 2: took it to them for three games at at Dyke

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Speaker 2: and Park. Tyler, I'm not sure what you expected from this,

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Speaker 2: but coming out with a sweep on a five game

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Speaker 2: winning streak, it's seven games, you don't want to overreact

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Speaker 2: to much. But they plan on the parade next week

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Speaker 2: or will it be uh maybe after Easter.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I think that the Astros are bad. April Fools.

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Speaker 1: We did it.

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Speaker 3: I pranked, you get pranked. That was awesome. Do that

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Speaker 3: the whole time. Yeah, I'm down playing the parade. You

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Speaker 3: finished the five game winning streak and it goes right

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Speaker 3: into the the Artemis two launch I'm sure you were

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Speaker 3: busy doing actual work, but me and the fan just

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Speaker 3: watched a successful launch to the moon, and that is

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Speaker 3: where it feels like the Astros are headed right now.

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Speaker 3: A lot of chatter online this is just it's giving

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Speaker 3: twenty seventeen vibes like that. You know, all the big

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Speaker 3: guys are about Kreya is hitting home runs. You know,

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Speaker 3: Altuve is looking great, Lance mccullors is dominating. Like I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's just a it's a throwback, and uh, it feels

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Speaker 3: it feels very good. And you know, you you say

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Speaker 3: that the Red Sox looked tight and looked bad whatever,

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Speaker 3: I honestly didn't. Sometimes you watch teams and it's like

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Speaker 3: that team is just bad. The Astros just looked good,

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Speaker 3: like the offense was just clicking it. Because sometimes you

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Speaker 3: win games where it's like three to one and it's

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Speaker 3: just the other team is striking out seventeen times in

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Speaker 3: a game or whatever. Like that's not what this series was.

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Speaker 3: I mean, mcculors looked really good. Obviously, Hunter Brown looked great.

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Speaker 3: But I mean they got to Burrows some today and

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Speaker 3: it's not like they laid down. You know that the

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Speaker 3: Astros just kept pummeling them. I mean just the whole

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Speaker 3: series just kept scoring, kept scoring, and that is your

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Speaker 3: major league leader in run scored right there at that team,

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Speaker 3: which we all expected, especially after the first two games

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Speaker 3: of the season. Yeah, I think it's important to the

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Speaker 3: Astros played extremely well. That is to take nothing away

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Speaker 3: from them. They played extremely well, but you know, the

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Speaker 3: Red Sox just they kicked the ball around. It was

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Speaker 3: very odd to see from an Alex Kora managed team

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Speaker 3: because that is a he is a guy, just knowing him,

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Speaker 3: knowing kind of how what makes him tick, things like that,

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Speaker 3: Like he is such a fundamental guy that is so

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Speaker 3: on having his teams play clean and crisp.

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Speaker 2: And I know he was. He has no hair, but

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Speaker 2: I know he was. If he had some, he would

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Speaker 2: have been pulling it out watching the Red Sox this week.

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Speaker 2: But the Astros completely outclassed them in every every sense

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Speaker 1: And they did it.

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Speaker 2: Against you know, two frontline starting pitchers and Ranger Suarez

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Speaker 2: on on Monday, who got one hundred and fifty five

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Speaker 2: million dollar contract this offseason, and then Garrett Crochet today,

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Speaker 2: who I don't think wants to cross jord On Alvarez

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Speaker 2: in a in a dark as because you you if

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Speaker 2: you make that guy mad, that's probably not the guy

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Speaker 2: you want to make mad. But then two batters later,

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Speaker 2: and sent a ball to the moon with Artemis probably

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Speaker 2: hasn't landed yet. After the game, Joe Aspata had a

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Speaker 2: pretty succinct summation of that, and he said that he

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Speaker 2: made him pay, and that was he made Garrett Crochet

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Speaker 2: pay for hitting Jordon Alvarez. I don't think it was intentional,

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Speaker 2: but I understand why Jordon Alvarez was mad because he's

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Speaker 2: getting on base every time pitchers are pitching him inside.

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Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet had been pitching him inside all day. It

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Speaker 2: was just a a it was. It was not I

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Speaker 2: do not believe it was an intentional hit by pitch,

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Speaker 2: but I get I get I get why guys get mad.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to get hit by a pitch either.

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Speaker 2: And Jordon Alvarez set after the game that I mean,

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Speaker 2: he didn't say it out loud, but he said, you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm finally healthy, I'm finally like this could be the

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Speaker 2: I don't want something like that to happen and ruin

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Speaker 2: this this run that they're on and this offense that

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Speaker 2: he is spearheading, it's him and Jose Al Tuoverer spearheading

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Speaker 2: this offense. You mentioned Tyler, the major league leaders in

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Speaker 2: runs scored. They have a three sixty six on base

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Speaker 2: behind only the Brewers. That was something that last year

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Speaker 2: when you looked at kind of what ailed them so badly,

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Speaker 2: they just they were not having a steady traffic of

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Speaker 2: base runners. It was very much a feast or famine,

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Speaker 2: hit the ball out of the ballpark kind of offense.

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Speaker 2: I think what you saw this week you saw and

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Speaker 2: you saw an offense with an approach. You saw an

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Speaker 2: offense with a plan, and they went out there from

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Speaker 2: one to nine. And I know Jordan Alvarez and Josel

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Speaker 2: here Carlos Korea as well, but one to nine, they

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Speaker 2: went out there, up and down the lineup, and they

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Speaker 2: executed about as well as you can execute an offensive

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they just, like I said, it just was.

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Speaker 3: It was relentless. I mean just every inning felt like

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Speaker 3: there were guys on and it was up and down

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Speaker 3: looks terrifying just stepping into the box and then when

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Speaker 3: he swings and you know, listen, I don't normally I'm

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Speaker 3: all for stats and computers and analytics and all this.

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Speaker 3: Both of those home runs he hit went six hundred

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Speaker 3: feet and you can't tell me otherwise. I don't want

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Speaker 3: to hear three ninety four on ones that are landing

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Speaker 3: majestic shots. I mean, Jordon felt like he was on

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Speaker 3: base every time he was up. I don't know how

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Speaker 3: much of the broadcast that you saw, but every time

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Speaker 3: Yordon came up, they would put this graphic up of

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Speaker 3: all time ops against the Red Sox. Yeah, and it's

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Speaker 3: like Jordon at the top and then like Babe Ruth,

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Speaker 3: you know, like all these just crazy names, and he's

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Speaker 3: just he's just crushing the Red Sox. And I think

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Speaker 3: it was Blum who made this point too. Of those

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Speaker 3: him either, Like, it's crazy. It's crazy that he's that

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Speaker 3: he's better than any other hitter ever against the Red Sox.

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Speaker 3: And I mean he's playing at two parks, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's not like there's a cheap right field like another

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Speaker 3: team that would play the Red Sox often. You know,

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Speaker 3: Jordan would have eighty five home runs a year if

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Speaker 3: you're playing in Yankee Stadium. But uh yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 3: just what what fun to watch up and down the lineup.

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Speaker 3: We talked about executing a game plan, and in the

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Speaker 3: post game, I think you mentioned, you know, a spot.

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Speaker 3: I talked about that of in spring training, that really

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Speaker 3: a lot of times that's just something that you say.

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Speaker 3: And of course we're seven games in to a season,

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Speaker 3: and if you heard us after the first two games,

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Speaker 3: all we'd be talking about is, oh, it's more of

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Speaker 3: the same. You know, they didn't change anything. And now

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Speaker 3: five games in a row scoring a bunch, it's like, oh,

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Speaker 3: they fixed everything. All they had to do was tell

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Speaker 3: their players not to swing at bad pitches. I know

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Speaker 3: that it's somewhere in the middle. But doesn't this line up,

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Speaker 3: even though it's the same guys feel different this year.

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Speaker 2: I mean, after watching these three games, it does. Again,

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Speaker 2: it is just three games, and it has been just

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Speaker 2: seven games. So just like you don't want to overreact

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Speaker 2: to the bad things that happen, you didn't want to

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Speaker 2: overreact to the first two games of the season, you

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Speaker 2: certainly want to stay measured with these past five games.

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Speaker 2: But look, I mean you just said it. You cannot

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Speaker 2: overstate the importance of a healthy Ordan Alvarez to this

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Speaker 2: lineup and when and I mean we said it all winter,

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Speaker 2: he wasn't in there, just how much they missed him.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not sure it really took hold. I'm not

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Speaker 2: sure it required people to be reminded of his prowess,

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Speaker 2: Like you had to watch him to just understand what

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Speaker 2: they missed with him last year. So just having him upright,

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Speaker 2: having him healthy is far and away, you know, the

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Speaker 2: best thing that has happened to this lineup. For how

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Speaker 2: for you can look at Carlos Carea's Baseball reference page.

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Speaker 2: You can look at a Savant and you can look

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Speaker 2: and see that, you know, look It's probably not twenty

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Speaker 2: fifteen unanimous Rookie of the Year Carlos Correa. It's not

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Speaker 2: This is a really, really really smart hitter. He probably

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Speaker 2: more than anybody in that lineup, is a guy that

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Speaker 2: I personally just when he comes up and there's a

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Speaker 2: He is in such control of his at bats every

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Speaker 2: the theme that I've heard from Joe Aspota, that I've

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Speaker 2: heard from a lot of guys that as we've been asking,

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Speaker 2: guys are trying to do maybe than last year, and

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Speaker 2: Joe a Spot has been very forthright about we want

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Speaker 2: want to swing at everything, and that's obvious, but like

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Speaker 2: they want to control the tempo of the at bat

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Speaker 2: didn't do that. They were they were behind in the

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Speaker 2: count one two, one two constantly, and it never felt

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Speaker 2: like they were in can troll. These three games against

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Speaker 2: al Tuvan a little bit because I think what he's

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Speaker 2: of representative of of what you know, this new messaging is.

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Speaker 2: But there was a sequence today in the game today,

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Speaker 2: and Correa brought it up after the game, and I

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Speaker 2: noted it at the time when it happened. Just how

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Speaker 2: much of a different, you know, lineup this was. I

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Speaker 2: think Garrett Whitlock was pitching for the Red Sox. I

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Speaker 2: can't remember what inning. I believe it was the seventh.

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Speaker 2: If I'm wrong, don't yell at me, even though you will. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: he got the first two hitters out on like two

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Speaker 2: he works a fourteen pitch at back and I don't

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Speaker 2: You know, Bryce Matthews had, you know, not the you know,

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Speaker 1: He walked eight.

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Speaker 2: Times in his first twenty seven plate appearances. Do you

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Speaker 3: Come on, give it to me.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to know the last time jose L

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Speaker 2: it has been four years. He look is it Is

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Speaker 2: it sustainable that al Twove is going to be on

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Speaker 2: Probably agreed, thank you. Probably not. This lineup needs him

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna attempt to share my screen. We've never done it.

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Speaker 3: Let's see. God, oh god, do we see it? Okay,

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Speaker 3: I see it. Let me come on, you can do it.

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Speaker 3: We can do this. Okay, Chandler, come on here, I'll

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Speaker 1: All right, you go, you go.

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Speaker 3: It's sharing whatever. Oh that's funny. Now you're all right.

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Speaker 3: Here's here's here's what I wanted to point out. Josel

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Speaker 3: his overall swing percentage for his career is forty eight percent,

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Speaker 3: So he has drastically reduced the number of times that

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Speaker 3: it's understanding the strike some better. I don't actually think

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Speaker 3: I don't think that he's suddenly developed like Albert Poolhole's

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Speaker 3: everyone who's ever watched him, he's going to make contact

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Speaker 3: He's capable of doing that. He is now just learned. Okay,

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Speaker 2: He's just not going to swing. It's pretty noble that,

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Speaker 1: But the fact that.

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Speaker 3: you just can't walk Altuvey every time and let Jordon

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Speaker 1: It's blue Choo, Tyler.

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Speaker 2: Would you expect when Lance McCullers walked out to the

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Speaker 2: mound on Monday evening to face Ranger Suarez.

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Speaker 3: I did not have any expectations. I was leaving it

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Speaker 3: open to the universe. I was. I was very hopeful

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Speaker 3: for him, certainly wanted to see him do well. I

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Speaker 3: will tell you one thing, I did not expect that

445
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,679
Speaker 3: in none of my wildest dreams. When I have said

446
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Speaker 3: lancemerc Color is going to go out there, throw ninety

447
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,879
Speaker 3: six pitches and just dominate. I mean, he just looked,

448
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 3: he looked unbelievable, and he had the sinker working, he

449
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,919
Speaker 3: had the cutter working really well. He was back dooring

450
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 3: that a lot to lefties, which was really fun. You know,

451
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 3: vintage curve sweeper, whatever you want to call it, you

452
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Speaker 3: know it was. It was awesome. I mean I just

453
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Speaker 3: felt so happy for him, and I mean obviously for

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Speaker 3: the team, but to see him go out there and

455
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 3: be able to that means so much to this rotation,

456
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Speaker 3: to the team and to him. It Yeah, that was incredible.

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Speaker 3: What was it like in the stadium, Well.

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Speaker 2: It was interesting because so I went to Alex Corra's

459
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Speaker 2: pregame scrum before the game as he was talking to reporters,

460
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Speaker 2: and a Red Sox Beat writer asked him just kind

461
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 2: of a general throwaway question that all.

462
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Speaker 1: Beat writers asked the dailiums.

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Speaker 2: I don't like, what do you think of mcculors, Like

464
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Speaker 2: you asked, what do you think of the day's starter?

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Speaker 2: And Alex actually went on like a pretty nice tribute.

466
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Speaker 2: It's probably the wrong word, but just basically said, you know,

467
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Speaker 2: I'll never forget twenty seven curveballs, twenty seven in a row.

468
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Speaker 1: And they knew what was coming and they couldn't hit it.

469
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Speaker 2: And that was kind of an interesting choice of words,

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Speaker 2: but nonetheless it was true. Nonetheless, but just he went

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Speaker 2: on to say about, you know how much he remembered

472
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Speaker 2: that much. He's got like pictures with mccullors after that

473
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Speaker 2: ALCS win with the trophy, still got those in his

474
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Speaker 2: office back at day House. Just and he said, you know,

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Speaker 2: the fact that he's still pitching, the fact that he's

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Speaker 2: able to get back and pitch kind of meant the

477
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Speaker 2: world that he was gonna be able to see in pitch.

478
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Speaker 2: And I thought it was fascinating to kind of juxtapose

479
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Speaker 2: that with the version of Lance that we saw that night,

480
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Speaker 2: because the version that alex Cora remembers, like just spinning

481
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Speaker 2: every curveball at you, just being a one pitch guy,

482
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Speaker 2: not one pitch guy, but having that be the dominant

483
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Speaker 2: pitch and not being a real complete pitcher.

484
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Speaker 1: Like that version's gone. The one that alex Cora.

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Speaker 2: Saw on Monday night is as Carlo's Korea put it

486
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Speaker 2: after the game, he's a complete pitcher now. It's just

487
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Speaker 2: it's a different version. And it's why, like everyone everyone,

488
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Speaker 2: and I know you just said it. But so everyone saying, oh,

489
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Speaker 2: it was vintage mccullors, like, no, it wasn't. It was

490
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Speaker 2: it was new. It was new, and I think that's

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Speaker 2: that's great. You know, he's he the velocity is not

492
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Speaker 2: what it used to be. It's gonna be around ninety

493
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Speaker 2: two to ninety four. He did not throw his sweeper.

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Speaker 2: He threw like maybe he threw maybe three of them,

495
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Speaker 2: and it was because he said in spring training he said,

496
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Speaker 2: I got too obsessed with the sweeper in twenty twenty five,

497
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Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna scrap it.

498
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Speaker 1: And he didn't scrap it all the way. I think

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Speaker 1: he got a strikeout on it on Monday, but.

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Speaker 3: He threw it a third of the time. Last year

501
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 3: he threw it thirty two percent of the time. He

502
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 3: threw like you said, he threw four of them for

503
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Speaker 3: four percent of his bitches. So yes, very different looking mccolors.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's I mean, he even said, I know

505
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 2: he struck out nine, and this is gonna sound odd

506
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 2: after I just said he struck out nine. But he

507
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 2: has come out and said like, I'm not trying to

508
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 2: strike people out. He's like, I'm trying to get He's

509
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 2: trying to locate a sinker where he can get early

510
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 2: count contact, where he can get weak contact, early outs,

511
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Speaker 2: be efficient.

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Speaker 1: And the huge thing, the huge, huge thing.

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Speaker 2: He threw strikes, which even even when Lance was past

514
00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 2: Lance in twenty seventeen, twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen, like throwing

515
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 2: strikes has always been a struggle for him. The stuff

516
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 2: had just been so good that he would get chase,

517
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 2: he would be able to be not near the strike

518
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 2: zone and still have success. He threw sixty five point

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00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 2: six percent of his pitches for strikes on Monday. That

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Speaker 2: was his one hundred and forty first major league start.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to guess how many other starts Lance

522
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Speaker 2: mccullors has made in his career in which he threw

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Speaker 2: at least ninety six pitches and sixty five point six

524
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Speaker 2: percent of them or more were strikes, not a lot seventeen. Yeah,

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00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: So that just goes to show you, like when he

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Speaker 2: is around the strike zone and when he is in

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Speaker 2: the strike zone, like good things happen for him and

528
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: that and I know it sounds so rudimentary, it sounds

529
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 2: so just basic, but that's what they preached to him

530
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 2: in spring training was just throw strikes, like trust your

531
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Speaker 2: stuff and throw strikes. And I think where the I

532
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 2: think where he's taken in that step now. And this

533
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 2: is just me hypothesizing, kind of reading between the lines

534
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 2: and kind of listening to what Lance has had to say.

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Speaker 2: I think for a while he struggled to pitch with

536
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Speaker 2: the current arsenal that he has, he struggled to pitch

537
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Speaker 2: like with this diminished velocity, with the just not having

538
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 2: the spin like he did back then. I think he's

539
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,719
Speaker 2: just he said it after the game, he said, I

540
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 2: feel good with the shapes that I have, and that

541
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Speaker 2: just gives me freedom to just attack. Just throw it

542
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 2: down them, not down the middle, but throw it in

543
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 2: the box, throw it in the strike zone. And if

544
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: you have that much faith in your stuff, it's gonna

545
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Speaker 2: go well. And I think you're seeing a guy that

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Speaker 2: we talked about his comments in spring training about how

547
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 2: they were very kind of reflective and how you didn't know.

548
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 2: I mean, he was hinting it this is maybe his

549
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 2: last season as a big leaguer. And I think I'm

550
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Speaker 2: not saying that that wasn't true. I think he was

551
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 2: totally truthful in what he was saying. But I think

552
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Speaker 2: maybe the point we missed was that he's just kind

553
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 2: of you know what, like his mind's free, Like he's

554
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 2: just kind of free and clear, and he's like, you

555
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 2: know what, I'm just gonna let it go, let it eat,

556
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 2: see what happens, let it eat as much as he can.

557
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 2: But like he even said on Monday Night that like

558
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 2: he it seemed in twenty twenty five, he said he

559
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 2: carried the weight of every poor start, of every like

560
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 2: emotion of the bullpen or going to the il. You know,

561
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 2: he had the death threats at one point last season

562
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Speaker 2: as well. So I mean it was a tough season

563
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 2: and he just carried that burden from start to start

564
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 2: and was putting I'm editorializing here, but it sounded like

565
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 2: he was putting a ton of pressure on himself. And

566
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Speaker 2: he had a completely healthy off season. He was able

567
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Speaker 2: to work on some stuff, which I think that's another

568
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 2: thing that's not appreciated in this is like for the

569
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: last three off seasons before this one, like it was

570
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 2: all about getting healthy.

571
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Speaker 1: It wasn't about working. It wasn't about working on.

572
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 2: His arsenal or refining pitch grip or for finding a

573
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 2: pitch shape. It was let's go do rehabs so we

574
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 2: can like throw from eighty feet today, or that we.

575
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: Can throw off a slope today. He actually had an off.

576
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 2: Season where he could fix his delivery, his armslots a

577
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 2: little bit higher. Now he's had to tinker with his usage,

578
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 2: to tinker with kind of his different pitches. Like I

579
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 2: think that goes not talked about enough, but look, it

580
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 2: was one start. Again, Like, we're not going to overreact

581
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 2: to just one. But if they can get anything close

582
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 2: to that for you know, five to six months, then

583
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 2: this rotation, the ceiling of this rotation raises pretty substantially

584
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Speaker 2: if they get anything close to that the rest of

585
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Speaker 2: the year.

586
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, the cutter was such a weapon. I mean he

587
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 3: was just dotting it on the black on the outside

588
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:56,719
Speaker 3: from lefties, just backdoring that cutter. And that also allows

589
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 3: him to, you know, when he needs to run the

590
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 3: sinker off off the plate away to lefties, you know,

591
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 3: because I think that's what really got him last year

592
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 3: was he just would get tattooed by lefties because that

593
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 3: sinker was just running into their bat path. I mean,

594
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 3: he only threw four to lefties in that game, but

595
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 3: he threw twenty three cutters to lefties and you know,

596
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 3: primarily through the knuckle curve to lefties as well. But

597
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 3: I mean he was able to just dominate with that.

598
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 3: I mean he he looked like a different picture, being

599
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 3: able to locate out there. You know, like we said,

600
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Speaker 3: the velocity is never going to get back to you know,

601
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 3: ninety five plus, but I mean he's always been able

602
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 3: to move the ball a ton. I mean, the sinker

603
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 3: was moving a whole lot more than last year. It

604
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 3: was up like four inches of horizontal movement compared to

605
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 3: last year. You know, he he just looked really good.

606
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 3: Uh And and you're right that that completely raises the ceiling.

607
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 3: If they're able to count on five or six innings

608
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 3: every fifth day from the colors, I mean that's that's huge.

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00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And I mean the change up too, can't can't leave

611
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 2: out the changeup.

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Speaker 1: The change ups.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he threw some right on right change

614
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 2: ups that were good. Can throw it to let I mean,

615
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 2: obviously it's a it's more to a left handed hitter,

616
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: but he threw a ton of right. He threw some

617
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 2: right and right change ups that were that were good

618
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Speaker 2: as well. The curveball like, look, he still hasn't he

619
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Speaker 2: got his last out of the game on it on

620
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 2: his on his curveball, he got Yushida swinging over the

621
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Speaker 2: top in the dirt.

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Speaker 1: Kind of a fitting way to end it with the curveball.

623
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Speaker 1: But the curve ball.

624
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Speaker 2: Has kind of become I don't want to say a

625
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 2: show pitch because I don't think it's I think it's

626
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 2: more than a show pitch, but it really is just

627
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 2: kind of exclusive to lefties now. So like if if

628
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 2: you don't have left handed hitters in that lineup, you

629
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 2: may not see the curveball a bunch because he's got

630
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 2: other things he can go to. He's got the change up,

631
00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 2: he's got the cutter, he's got you know the thing.

632
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 2: He threw a couple four seemers up, just again, just

633
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 2: a completely different kind of pitcher. And Carlos Korea even

634
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 2: said after the game that he likes this guy better,

635
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 2: he likes this.

636
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Speaker 1: The exact quote was, I like this style better. I

637
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: like this style.

638
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't know if fans would agree with that.

639
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 2: But other two starters, I thought Hunter Brown he had

640
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 2: no hits. I kind of was like, oh, I kind

641
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,280
Speaker 2: of got on no hit or watch.

642
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: A little bit.

643
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 2: He threw four innings and threw like forty something pitches.

644
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 2: They couldn't touch him. Turns out nine. He threw nine

645
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 2: pitches to Roman. Anthony has truck him out three times.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Roman athletes.

647
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Speaker 2: But come to find out, Hunter Brown was on a

648
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 2: little bit of a pitch count because he threw one

649
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 2: hundred and two pitches on opening day. He was on

650
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: four days of rest. He didn't have that extra day,

651
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,399
Speaker 2: so they wanted to They wanted to try to get

652
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 2: him out of there earlier than they would normally, through

653
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 2: seventy eight pitches through six innings, which they will take

654
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 2: any day of the week. I thought he was I

655
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 2: thought he was tremendous. And then Mike Burrows, who pitched today,

656
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 2: obviously his last start. The line didn't look good, but

657
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 2: as we discussed, a lot of just bad luck in

658
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 2: that start, just a lot of poor batted ball luck.

659
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 2: He gave up two homers, but everything around it was

660
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 2: poor luck. You know today, gives up one in the first,

661
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 2: but really came back. That curveball was devastating the second.

662
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 2: Third time through. They really hammered Boston with that curveball.

663
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 2: He didn't throw the slider as much as he did

664
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 2: in his first start, the fastball was up to ninety six.

665
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 2: He's obviously got the change up a perfectly, perfectly acceptable,

666
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 2: even better than that outing by Mike Burrows. I thought

667
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 2: all three starters in this series were really, really good.

668
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, Burrows threw that curveball about two miles an hour

669
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 3: faster than he did in the first start. Everything else

670
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 3: was roughly the same, but he was throwing that curveball

671
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 3: faster and you know, got much better result. I mean,

672
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 3: he hardly threw it in the first start he made.

673
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 3: They relied on his slider, and like you said, he

674
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 3: kind of switched it up this time. He threw three

675
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 3: sliders today and through twenty two curveballs. But yeah, I

676
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,439
Speaker 3: mean I thought he looked really good. The pitching was good,

677
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean, the the offense just up and down.

678
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 3: The lineup just carried them. Aj Bluelaw is awesome. Just

679
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 3: he's so good.

680
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:29,240
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.

681
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 2: He went one inning today for a reason because they

682
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,479
Speaker 2: want they want him to be able to pitch again

683
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 2: very soon and as his traditional and a traditional relief role.

684
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,479
Speaker 2: If today didn't, if today didn't further further it, guys,

685
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 2: he's going to be a reliever and he's a good

686
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 2: and he's a good reliever. I mean he's really good.

687
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 2: You've seen it, like he's a really good reliever. I

688
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 2: mean fourteen pitches one inning, just at like like it

689
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 2: was nothing like I.

690
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,439
Speaker 1: Know he threw the sixth inning today.

691
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 2: I would not be surprised if you see him his

692
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 2: importance in this bullpen increase, maybe get higher leverage spots

693
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 2: because he's been that good. And that's the reason they

694
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 2: only throw him one inning today because they want him

695
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 2: available to pitch again, because look, there is value in

696
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 2: having a guy like that that can go out there

697
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 2: and let it eat for two or three innings. But

698
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 2: the downside is that you don't have him available for

699
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 2: the next three or four days if they throw forty pitches.

700
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: He threw fourteen pitches. And remember this is a guy.

701
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 2: Too that while he was a reliever in college and

702
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 2: while he came out of the bullpen and sugar Land

703
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 2: as part of a tandem start like, he has not

704
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 2: been a traditional reliever that goes back to back days.

705
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 2: He hasn't done that in a good a good while.

706
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 2: So it's still I think going to be kind of

707
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 2: a gradual process with seeing how he is going back

708
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 2: to back seeing how he is. If they can I

709
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 2: use the colloquial baseball term dry hump, if they if they,

710
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 2: if they dry hump him one day and don't use

711
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 2: him and then have to bring him back the next day,

712
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 2: like how he responds to that.

713
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 3: You don't want to You don't want to dry hunt

714
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 3: blue ball?

715
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: No you don't blue bonnet. Yeah, don't.

716
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 2: Don't like that, Brian Bray, you looked better today. I

717
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 2: know he gave up a I know he gave up

718
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 2: an absolute tank to Roman Anthony, but there's a lot

719
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 2: of people that give up absolute tanks to Roman Anthony.

720
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 2: But I mean the villa was back, the slider, the

721
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 2: slider was I mean he got Duran and Marcella Meyer, like, uh.

722
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 1: It was better.

723
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 2: I know everyone is going to freak out unless he

724
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 2: goes out there and goes three up, three down with

725
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 2: no with no stress.

726
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: But again, just a.

727
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 3: Scoreless outing at this point. But we'll take one of

728
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 3: those first. I think the Villo, the villa was better.

729
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 3: I think you can allay the health if you had

730
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 3: any concerns about his health, and I don't think the

731
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 3: Ashers had any concerns about his health. I think it

732
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 3: was kind of more of a mindset thing, just kind

733
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 3: of lock in and go, and there was some maybe

734
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 3: some mechanical stuff that they fixed, but I don't think

735
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 3: they were concerned about his health.

736
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean they need Josh haterback. That's pretty

737
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 2: self explanatory.

738
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 3: Yep, he's pretty good. They'll need him back. Yeah, I

739
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,720
Speaker 3: mean blue Ball is at the top of the trust

740
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 3: tree right now. Certainly, like you said, I brave, you

741
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 3: got whiffs on six of the seven you know, sliders

742
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 3: that he threw today, so he Yeah, it looked much

743
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 3: better other than the home run. Speaking of home runs,

744
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,760
Speaker 3: did you know do you know the last time Carlos

745
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 3: Korea hit a home run at Dikin Park. I don't, honestly,

746
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 3: it was my time home run. He did not hit

747
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 3: a home run. He did not hit a home run

748
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 3: at home last season. Wow, that was his first home

749
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 3: run at home with the Astros since my time home run,

750
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 3: and that was a nuke. He looks healthy.

751
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 1: Was that when he gets to Red Sox too? Or

752
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: is that a guess the Yankees? I can't remember.

753
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 3: I can't either.

754
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: I think it was I think it was against the Yankees.

755
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 3: Now that remember, But whatever, But yeah, and it wild

756
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 3: that's a that's a crazy stat but he he's looked

757
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 3: really good and like you said, he's he's just such

758
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 3: a good situational hitter. He he's one of those guys

759
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 3: that you know, in a in a sport where it

760
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 3: is very stat based, oftentimes you have to take out

761
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 3: the emotional element. But I do think there is something

762
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 3: to be said of when the pressure is on, there

763
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 3: are some guys that can rise to the occasion and

764
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 3: some guys that shy away from it. Carlos Korea loves

765
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,240
Speaker 3: being in a pressure cooker. It's one of the reasons

766
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 3: that I talked about just not being on the Twins

767
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 3: might make him a better play And I mean I

768
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,720
Speaker 3: mean that in the nicest way possible, but just something

769
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 3: about being a you know, the leader in this place

770
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 3: that he's had so much success and there's pressure to

771
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 3: succeed here in a way that there's never going to

772
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 3: be pressure to succeed for the Twins. You know, he

773
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 3: just he looks more locked in at the plate. He's

774
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 3: obviously that play that he made ranging over behind second base,

775
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 3: spinning and throwing. H well, I mean, he's such a

776
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 3: joy to watch. I used to tell and I still

777
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 3: do it. I'll tell Joe spot Of sometimes that like

778
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 3: when they had that infield I think it was in

779
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 3: like twenty eighteen twenty when they had the infield of

780
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 3: brag minute third Korea short altwove back then at second

781
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 3: and Julie at first. Yeah, going on the backfields and

782
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 3: watching them take infield and spring training, like would I

783
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 3: would have paid to watch that, like it was a show.

784
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 3: And being able to watch Carlos Carea play defense every

785
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 3: day is a joy and it doesn't matter where they

786
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 3: put him. I was told that that play he uh,

787
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 3: that play he made, I forget who had I think

788
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 3: it was Marcello Mayor that hit it the play in

789
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 3: the in the four hole that basically he came over

790
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 3: to make it the play at second base. I was

791
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 3: told that in the Astros internal numbers that had a

792
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 3: nine percent out probability. Yeah, he turned that, he turned

793
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 3: into it out like it's It's incredible. His range for

794
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 3: how big he is, his range is incredible. And I

795
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 3: was talking to someone else about him this week.

796
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 2: And the arm is the arms in credit like I

797
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 2: love watching him throw the the The velocity is one

798
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,240
Speaker 2: thing because he just throws seeds, but it is accurate

799
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 2: every test. And I think that Dusty always used to

800
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,320
Speaker 2: say that too, because Dusty would always compare him to

801
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 2: Sean Dunstan, and Sean Dunstan was like the only other

802
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 2: guy that Dusty said had as strong of an arm

803
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 2: as Korea. But he would always say Dunstan was never

804
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 2: as accurate as Korea. And that's just the one thing, Like,

805
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter where from what angle it is, it

806
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 2: doesn't matter from how he's field of the ball. It

807
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 2: is always at the first baseman's chest, and it is

808
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 2: it is something to watch.

809
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: He's yeah, pretty, he's pretty good.

810
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,879
Speaker 3: He was sprinting into right field, had to turn two

811
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 3: hundred and seventy degrees all the way around and just

812
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 3: on a rope to first base. What was really good? Uh?

813
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 3: You know who else has been really good defensively? Probably

814
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 3: my front runner for the Utility Gold Glove Award winner

815
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 3: this year is East Soak Parades.

816
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: He is a nice play. He made nice play, He

817
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: made play.

818
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 3: At the jump throw. He he had a couple of

819
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 3: good plays at second the other day. Watch out Dubon.

820
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 3: He's he's coming for the gold Glove.

821
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 2: And he's gonna be a utility player uh here before

822
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 2: we know it, because as we mentioned, Jeremy pana Uh,

823
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,240
Speaker 2: we'll be back to full time responsibilities on this road trip,

824
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 2: which will take the Astros to Sacramento Course Field, where

825
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 2: jord and Alvaroz will not step foot in the outfield,

826
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,280
Speaker 2: and then and then to T Mobile Park in Seattle

827
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 2: for four games against some errors that will be pretty

828
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 2: not crucial it's April first, but they'd rather win them

829
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 2: than lose them. But a fun series. Let's go with

830
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 2: a fun series, not a crucial series, but a fun

831
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 2: series against the Seattle Mariners.

832
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: To end the upcoming road trip.

833
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 2: We'll preview that road trip later this week on Crush

834
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 2: Shitty Territory, but until then, you can follow me on

835
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:22,319
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836
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837
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,240
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839
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 2: helps us a ton. Like I said, we'll be back

840
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 2: probably on Friday to talk about the beginning of this

841
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 2: very long, three city, ten game road trip. What the

842
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 2: Ashers are going to do now that they have their

843
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 2: full complement of healthy players playing every day and I

844
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 2: guess we have to touch on the umpire that didn't

845
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,280
Speaker 2: know the count because we didn't get to that today.

846
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 3: But I was trying to I was trying to work

847
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,959
Speaker 3: it in. When we talked about the fourteen pitch walk,

848
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, well, it's you know, it's easy

849
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 3: for him. He gets four strikes at bad.

850
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 2: That was I cannot. I cannot believe that happened. But

851
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 2: we'll talk more about that next time. But until then, uh,

852
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 2: we will talk to you guys soon. Thanks for listening

853
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 2: to the moon.

854
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Speaker 3: Bye h

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Speaker 4: H