Speaker 1: Blum, great guy, Houston, Astros broadcaster, just a good person,
Speaker 1: fourteen year MLB veteran World Series champion, and nice enough
Speaker 1: to be with us on foul Territory today. Blum, I
Speaker 1: tell you what every year that I try to say,
Speaker 1: the Astros are in some sort of rebuild or reboot
Speaker 1: or whatever the heck you want to call it. Here
Speaker 1: they are battling, jocking for position again atop the Al West.
Speaker 1: What has been your biggest takeaway of what this team
Speaker 1: has accomplished this year with a lot of missing pieces,
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries, and just a lot of unknown
Speaker 1: and welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Good to be on the show. I always appreciate the
Speaker 2: opportunity seeing some friendly faces. And I'm glad I got
Speaker 2: the memo about the backwards hat, so I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2: But you know, the old saying, or I guess it's
Speaker 2: a new old saying, is the Astros are inevitable, and
Speaker 2: this year is truly a tale of organizational depth and
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit of culture involved, because, like you said,
Speaker 2: a lot of teams around the league have dealt with
Speaker 2: a lot of injury, and not just injuries that are
Speaker 2: going to keep guys out on a fifteen day il
Speaker 2: and they'll be back and mix right in. These have
Speaker 2: been catastrophic injuries that these teams have had to try
Speaker 2: and fix and replace and continue, and the Astros have
Speaker 2: done a very good job. I know that every year
Speaker 2: we start out the season with prospect lists and who
Speaker 2: has the best minor league system, and the Astros are
Speaker 2: continually at the bottom. Yet this season they have filled
Speaker 2: their rotation with a couple of rookies. You know, throughout
Speaker 2: the course of the season. They're going to ride a
Speaker 2: guide tonight in Jason Alexander here in Houston for another start,
Speaker 2: who's been brilliant for the Astros with his fastball, change
Speaker 2: up mix. The other day, we just saw a guy
Speaker 2: named Zach Cole who was number eighteen in the organization
Speaker 2: as far as prospects, and he pops a home run
Speaker 2: on the first pitch hecs. So I think it's just
Speaker 2: a credit to you know, the ability to draft, but
Speaker 2: also the ability to develop. I don't think a lot
Speaker 2: of these minor league coaches these days get enough attention
Speaker 2: or enough love because they're kind of, you know, tucked
Speaker 2: underneath the every organization. But if they have a huge
Speaker 2: impact on what these guys do at the big league level,
Speaker 2: and the Astros fortunately have created this dynamic where if
Speaker 2: you get to the big leagues, the expectation is you're
Speaker 2: gonna mix into this clubhouse, and if you're helping us win,
Speaker 2: you're gonna stick. If you're if you're not stirring the
Speaker 2: pot the right way, we're gonna get ready and find
Speaker 2: somebody else. But they've been very fortunate with some of
Speaker 2: the guys they've called up.
Speaker 3: All Right, well, who's gonna step in for the holes
Speaker 3: that they're currently missing?
Speaker 4: Because now it's not cutting time.
Speaker 3: I get it, like, you can't win because you won
Speaker 3: the last seven Like this last seven years doesn't have
Speaker 3: anything to do with this last two weeks of this season.
Speaker 3: Do they have enough to step in for the Josh
Speaker 3: Hater hole to step in for the fact that they
Speaker 3: don't have an Alex Bragman who has been that winning
Speaker 3: clutch player. I know Correa is back, but do they
Speaker 3: have enough to win a division or do they not
Speaker 3: even need to win the division because we're not gonna
Speaker 3: talk about the wild card yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's an itch question. Basically, do they
Speaker 2: have enough to get in the playoffs? And I think
Speaker 2: they do, and you brought up some key names, are
Speaker 2: I no losing Bragman is a big piece and obviously
Speaker 2: he's enhanced with the Boston Red Sox have been able
Speaker 2: to do both internally and on the field. You know,
Speaker 2: he's a great mind, sees the game a little bit differently.
Speaker 2: And then you mentioned Carlos Kore. He's kind of come
Speaker 2: in and really kind of filled that void of what
Speaker 2: the Astros are missing as far as leadership in the
Speaker 2: vocal sense. He will pull guys off the side and say,
Speaker 2: hey we need more of this, or hey, you did
Speaker 2: a great job. Continue to do that. They've got jord
Speaker 2: On Alvarez who's kind of the silent, you spoken guy
Speaker 2: that can go into that lineup and do some damage.
Speaker 2: You can follow his lead a little bit. Jeremy Paine
Speaker 2: has turned into a force on offense. So they've got
Speaker 2: some key pieces and key situations to be able to
Speaker 2: go out there and compete. For me down the stretch,
Speaker 2: it's going to be the Astros offense. I think they
Speaker 2: do have enough pitching. Oh, the starting pitching has done
Speaker 2: a great job. They're top ten as far as team era.
Speaker 2: They get a ton of swing and miss still even
Speaker 2: with Josh had or not the back end of that bullpen.
Speaker 2: So for me, it's going to be on the offense.
Speaker 2: Their record is something astonishing around eighty five percent when
Speaker 2: you know probability when they score four runs, So that's
Speaker 2: kind of the threshold I feel they need to get to.
Speaker 2: But I'm with you in the sense that when Josh
Speaker 2: Hader went down, not just with the shoulder injury, but
Speaker 2: with something that was going to keep him out the
Speaker 2: entire regular season, I had a little trepidation in the
Speaker 2: thought that he wasn't going to be at the back
Speaker 2: end of that bullpen because Brian Abrad, who has been
Speaker 2: such a phenomenal setup guy, and Brian King Steven Okert
Speaker 2: were great matchup guys getting to the back end of
Speaker 2: the bullpen. Now you're forcing some of these guys who
Speaker 2: aren't usually leverage guys into situations where you're gonna almost
Speaker 2: force Josh Miller and Joe A. Spotted to be very
Speaker 2: creative on what pockets they work those guys into.
Speaker 5: Wellmer, I know you're talking offense, but who's pitching. Alexander's
Speaker 5: pitching tonight, and then who it's TBD, So you're talking
Speaker 5: about all this great pitching.
Speaker 4: Who's pitching?
Speaker 5: Because the Rangers lined up their three best really, but
Speaker 5: the Valdi out, I mean they went They're going lighter, Merril,
Speaker 5: Kelly and for the last one, and then you got
Speaker 5: it Seattle coming in. So what is who's pitching? You
Speaker 5: keep talking about offense, but who's gonna pitch the next
Speaker 5: couple of games?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna be a problem the next couple of days.
Speaker 2: It Maybe you can almost get the sense that the
Speaker 2: Astros fear the Seattle Mariners more than they fear the
Speaker 2: Texas Rangers. I know that the Rangers are leading this series,
Speaker 2: I believe six to four, but the run differential, I
Speaker 2: think is at a flat line zero. They've scored as
Speaker 2: many as they've given up. Dolas Garcia is coming back.
Speaker 2: We still haven't seen Simmy and Seeger and credit to
Speaker 2: the Rangers for finding guys like Hellman and Freeman, some
Speaker 2: of these other guys. Josh Smith doing a got good
Speaker 2: job stepping in and scoring runs. They're getting timely hitting
Speaker 2: at the right time. But who's gonna stop them? Jason
Speaker 2: Alexander hasn't faced him yet. He's been very good after
Speaker 2: losses for the Astros, amazingly enough. And he's pretty predictable
Speaker 2: as far as he's gonna come at you with a
Speaker 2: two seamed fastball and a change up. He's not afraid
Speaker 2: to throw it to righty's or lefties. So it's gonna
Speaker 2: be up to the Rangers to adjust to that quickly.
Speaker 2: But like you said, once you get past that, is
Speaker 2: it going to be a bullpen day on that last day?
Speaker 2: Is it going to be a guy like aj Bluebaugh
Speaker 2: who's looked brilliant in the last maybe four or five
Speaker 2: outings coming out of the bullpen. He's gone one inning,
Speaker 2: he's got two innings, he's gotten four innings at a time.
Speaker 2: He's a guy that's kind of been lengthened out a
Speaker 2: little bit or do they piggyback, And it's really it's
Speaker 2: kind of a tough spot when you're going down the
Speaker 2: stretch trying to, you know, get back into the American
Speaker 2: League West Division lead. But they really saved up their
Speaker 2: big dogs in Hunter Brown and Frober Valdez for the
Speaker 2: Seattle Mariners. You're right, Blimmer.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it sounds a little bit obvious,
Speaker 1: but if the Astros sweep the series, they go at
Speaker 1: five games, If the Astros get swept, they fall behind
Speaker 1: the Rangers by one game. I mean, is this let's
Speaker 1: circle this thing? I mean, what are the conversations going
Speaker 1: on in the dugout in the clubhouse. I know everyone
Speaker 1: says one game at a time, blah blah blah. This
Speaker 1: is not one game at a time, my friend.
Speaker 2: This is big. It's huge, and it's kind of crazy
Speaker 2: to think that everything comes down to this home stand
Speaker 2: for the Astros, where they've played very well. You know,
Speaker 2: the Seattle Mariners pitching rotation has been roughed up on
Speaker 2: the road. You kind of hope these trends kind of
Speaker 2: continue themselves. But I'm with you in the sense that
Speaker 2: you kind of throw everything out the window because they're
Speaker 2: five and five against the Mariners throughout the course of
Speaker 2: the season. So this goes big in a head to
Speaker 2: head matchup if they both be if they're both the
Speaker 2: three and six seeds, who's going to host that Wildcard
Speaker 2: Division series potentially? And then you have the Texas Rangers
Speaker 2: who are just trying to fight their way into this
Speaker 2: postseason and this is a huge series for them. They
Speaker 2: lead the Astros six to four overall coming into this series,
Speaker 2: but It's still amazing to me that we can play
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two game schedule and we're set
Speaker 2: to play game one fifty one to one fifty seven,
Speaker 2: and it's all basically going to come down this these
Speaker 2: next six games for all three of these teams to
Speaker 2: see who wins the West and who potentially becomes that wildcard,
Speaker 2: because the Astros are that third wildcard, and I think
Speaker 2: the reality is kind of set in a little bit.
Speaker 2: It will be interesting to get to the ballpark today
Speaker 2: and see the reaction of these guys and see the
Speaker 2: intensity of the pregame workout as they get ready for
Speaker 2: this series against the Rangers. But yeah, they can sit
Speaker 2: there and say, and you know, there's three of us
Speaker 2: that on this broadcast that have been in that dugout
Speaker 2: in playoff contending type situations where you say all the
Speaker 2: right things to the public, but internally, you know, you
Speaker 2: can feel that here on the back of your neck
Speaker 2: kind of jump a little bit, or you can feel
Speaker 2: that twitchiness a little bit. But I'm sure that's going
Speaker 2: on in the Astros dugout because everything is very real
Speaker 2: for the next six games.
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Speaker 5: By the way, I gotta go back. So how important
Speaker 5: is it for the Astros to have home field? Because
Speaker 5: all I've heard from about the last five years is
Speaker 5: we can't hit in Houston. The batter's eye sucks and
Speaker 5: this and that. So now all of a sudden you
Speaker 5: love Houston. Like wait, I thought everyone, all the Astros
Speaker 5: guys hated playing there.
Speaker 4: Now they love it.
Speaker 5: Wait, cleared up for me, please, Blummer, I wish I could.
Speaker 5: They fixed They fixed the they fixed the batters either.
Speaker 5: They painted like that little section right, so now it's better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they keep creeping over. Eventually that entire section is
Speaker 2: going to be green. But they keep, you know, pushing
Speaker 2: that Budweiser's signe out of the way. Yeah, they keep
Speaker 2: expanding that, trying to compete with you know, there are
Speaker 2: issues with the batter's eye. You know, the lights are
Speaker 2: a little bit lower in Dyke and Park. The sound
Speaker 2: is incredibly loud, which favors them. I think they enjoy
Speaker 2: the fan base that shows out for them a year
Speaker 2: after year after year. So there is some pleasure in
Speaker 2: playing at home knowing that you've got the fan base
Speaker 2: behind you. But there are certain things that you've got
Speaker 2: to overcome when you come into Dyke and Park. I
Speaker 2: know a lot of guys adjust by going out early,
Speaker 2: taking batting practice. But at the same time, the Astros
Speaker 2: have been very good on the road too, considering how
Speaker 2: some of the other teams have played. The Astros are
Speaker 2: actually a game or two, I believe over five hundred
Speaker 2: on the road. But in theory, playing at home is
Speaker 2: always better. But I'm not sure that you know that
Speaker 2: carries a lot of weight because I think, and this
Speaker 2: is literally just off the top of my head, because
Speaker 2: since the All Star Break, I think at home the
Speaker 2: Astros have been sub five hundred, and I think they've
Speaker 2: been outscored at home, So I'm not sure that that's
Speaker 2: a paramount idea. But at the same time, if you
Speaker 2: failish a season playing six games seven days on the road,
Speaker 2: and then you've got to travel to Seattle, play on
Speaker 2: the road, try and win that series, and then eventually
Speaker 2: end up on the road again, it kind of piles
Speaker 2: up a little bit. But I think these two teams
Speaker 2: are probably just trying to find their way into the
Speaker 2: playoffs and worry about the home field advantage later.
Speaker 3: What do you believe in the hypothetical that Escoc Paradis
Speaker 3: does return, Because if he's hitting and saying there's a
Speaker 3: chance he could play, he could DH at the end
Speaker 3: of this week Saturday Sunday, ish, he's got a DH
Speaker 3: at a slower level. Then you got to put your
Speaker 3: don and left and put out two bight back at second,
Speaker 3: which even trying to not do.
Speaker 2: Though. That's one of the craziest things because when Esac
Speaker 2: went on the injured list, everybody kind of dropped their
Speaker 2: shoulders a little bit and said, man, believe it or not,
Speaker 2: they felt like they lost one of their best hitters
Speaker 2: in the lineup. And there were plenty of game where
Speaker 2: Esoc Paradis was in the lineup, a pitcher was getting
Speaker 2: knocked out of the game and the fourth or fifth
Speaker 2: inning with one hundred pitches and you look at the
Speaker 2: line and Esock had seen literally a third of the
Speaker 2: pitches for the team. And that's what he kind of
Speaker 2: brings to this ball club, is that patience, the zone
Speaker 2: control everything that you know, these modern day hitting coaches
Speaker 2: like to hear he could pop a couple into left
Speaker 2: field through the Crawford box. I think he's perfected that
Speaker 2: that ninety eight mile an hour swing with the you know,
Speaker 2: the perfect launch angle to get at three hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy feet into the Crawford boxes. But his ability to
Speaker 2: lengthen out at bats protects guys like Altuve who can
Speaker 2: go out there and swing at the first pitch and
Speaker 2: you don't panic because Esoch just saw nine pitches. It
Speaker 2: allows Jeremy Paine, you to lead off a game and
Speaker 2: swing at the first fastball he sees because he wants
Speaker 2: to be aggressive on the heater early because you know
Speaker 2: it behind him, you're going to see Esock seeing nine pitches.
Speaker 2: So it kind of lengthen lengthens out the lineup in
Speaker 2: that sense. So he's a nice addition to lineup. But
Speaker 2: you're exactly right about what it does defensively for Joe Aspota,
Speaker 2: is it forces his hand to put you know, Jordan
Speaker 2: Alvarez out in left field at home preferle with Hunter
Speaker 2: Brown or fromber Valdez on the mound because those are
Speaker 2: heavy ground ball type pitchers.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: But then you have to put Josel Tuva at second base,
Speaker 2: and you've got to run the risk of you know,
Speaker 2: him being out there with a heavy ground ball percentage
Speaker 2: that guy on the mound. So you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: manipulate that line up a little bit. I know that
Speaker 2: once he gets here to Dyke and Park, you know,
Speaker 2: talking to Tony Paris Chica, who's a third base coach
Speaker 2: and infield guy. He is going to be working him
Speaker 2: out at third base, he's gonna be working him out
Speaker 2: at second base, and believe or not, he's going to
Speaker 2: be working him out at first base in certain situations.
Speaker 2: So they're trying to create the versatility. But I'm with you.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was a pretty pretty heavy strain on
Speaker 2: the hamstring, and it's a lot to ask him to
Speaker 2: go play defense.
Speaker 3: He's like the Max Muntcy of the Astros. Max comes back,
Speaker 3: they start hitting, you get That's that's a big, big piece.
Speaker 3: All right, last question for me, and I'm going to
Speaker 3: give you two options. So you can't pick the third
Speaker 3: better chance of the Astros missing the playoffs or winning
Speaker 3: the division?
Speaker 2: Oh man, you had to go top to bottom, didn't
Speaker 2: you saying that they can win it? Just this American
Speaker 2: League West? For me, having watched it all season long,
Speaker 2: does it's it's not that good. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: the best division in baseball. I don't think it's the
Speaker 2: best division in the American League. I still think it's
Speaker 2: up there for the taking. I'm a little concerned about
Speaker 2: the Seattle Mariners pitching on the road. Their numbers haven't
Speaker 2: been very good, especially in that last road trip where
Speaker 2: the Astros kind of tried to create a little separation.
Speaker 2: But I think that there's there's more likely a chance
Speaker 2: the Astros actually pull it off in and sneak in
Speaker 2: as the division winner.
Speaker 1: I'd be shocked if the Houston Astros missed the postseason.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that just doesn't happen. Let me ask you, that.
Speaker 2: Would cause heart palpitations. To be honest with you, I'm
Speaker 2: with you. That wouldycheck. I'm getting a paycheck from him,
Speaker 2: and I've got a cheer for him. But yeah, it
Speaker 2: would cause some serious palpitations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you, and that would just send
Speaker 1: shockwaves throughout the baseball landscape. Let me ask you one
Speaker 1: quick question again, Blummer, about Josh Hater when he's not
Speaker 1: on your team. He's the guy that seems like he's
Speaker 1: easy to hate, but I don't think we give him
Speaker 1: enough love with what he does in the community. The
Speaker 1: Roberto Clemente Award nominee, I don't know that there's an
Speaker 1: award in baseball that is more of an honor to
Speaker 1: get than the Roberto Clemente Award. He is the Houston
Speaker 1: Astros nominee. Tell me what he does in the community,
Speaker 1: what he means to this club.
Speaker 2: I think it's great that these guys actually get recognized,
Speaker 2: especially around the league, because you know, we follow our
Speaker 2: team specifically and we have an idea of what's going on.
Speaker 2: But for them to get recognized nationally through Major League
Speaker 2: Baseball with this great award in honor for Roberto Clementia
Speaker 2: and all of the charity and efforts that he put
Speaker 2: into it, I think it's great that these guys get
Speaker 2: the notoriety and Josh Hater, you know, it's I didn't
Speaker 2: find out what he was doing in San Diego and
Speaker 2: some of the other teams he was with until he
Speaker 2: became an Astro and started doing it in the community
Speaker 2: here with the with the Astros, he's got a great
Speaker 2: firm foundation on with his feet on the ground in
Speaker 2: the community. And I think as soon as he signed
Speaker 2: that contract, he started a foundation here has been working
Speaker 2: with I believe it's Covenant House, doing a great job
Speaker 2: helping out families and underprivileged kids. And you know, uh,
Speaker 2: some of the some of the abuse that goes on
Speaker 2: in some of these families, and he's protecting these kids.
Speaker 2: He's protecting these families he has done phenomenal work. And
Speaker 2: throughout the course of the season when he was playing,
Speaker 2: he was having you know, galas wine dinners. He was
Speaker 2: recruiting people and funding and doing a lot of things
Speaker 2: behind the scenes. And now since he's been on the
Speaker 2: injured list, it he hasn't hesitated a bit. He's actually
Speaker 2: probably continued to work a little bit harder behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: But he's a phenomenal dude. If you get a chance
Speaker 2: to know Josh Hater, get a chance to know him
Speaker 2: because he assaulted the Earth and he's got an electric
Speaker 2: left arm.
Speaker 4: Wellummer, before you go, There's two things I gotta say.
Speaker 5: One, the Astros will make the playoffs because we Fox
Speaker 5: has the American League and there would not be a
Speaker 5: playoffs without me doing. The Astros in the DS. So
Speaker 5: I will be in Houston one way or the other.
Speaker 5: They'll be in the They'll be in the Alds. Just
Speaker 5: it's just how it works. It's like it's inevitable. It's
Speaker 5: like one of those things that just happened. Even in
Speaker 5: the one year during COVID the Braves and the Marlin's
Speaker 5: played in Houston.
Speaker 4: I'm like, we have the National League.
Speaker 5: I'm still going to Houston. So I'll be in Houston.
Speaker 5: Don't worry, They'll be there. Maybe you'll come say hi.
Speaker 5: Probably not, because you never come around when the Astros
Speaker 5: are in town.
Speaker 4: I get at your time off. But before I'll let
Speaker 4: you go, I got you. I know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know you have the h Town sure, and
Speaker 5: you're paid by the Astros. But is there even like
Speaker 5: a little bit of love for the White Sox in
Speaker 5: your heart? I mean, it is the one team you
Speaker 5: did win with, and you did hit a big home
Speaker 5: run against the Astros in minute made the one swing
Speaker 5: you got was that one home run?
Speaker 2: Dude, you know as well as I do. Did I
Speaker 2: have a certain loyalty, and granted it, it may have
Speaker 2: a little bit to do with the paycheck. I spent
Speaker 2: a majority of my career with the Houston Astros, and
Speaker 2: what a lot of Astro fans don't know is that
Speaker 2: that home run with the White Sox was payback for
Speaker 2: trading me to Tampa Bay and maybe you put up
Speaker 2: the Blue Panela for a full season. So that that
Speaker 2: being said, yes, I cheer for the Astros and I'm
Speaker 2: glad they're on this run that they're on, But there
Speaker 2: will never, ever, there will be nothing that is able
Speaker 2: to pull that chunk of my White Sox heart out
Speaker 2: of me. Because of the time that we spent together
Speaker 2: and the time that we actually put that team together,
Speaker 2: which was a special time. Winning that World Series will
Speaker 2: never leave me. I mean, if we were able to
Speaker 2: zoom in on some of this stuff behind me. I forced,
Speaker 2: you know, I forced White Sox paraphernalia into this. My
Speaker 2: daughters still have their jerseys. So there is a very
Speaker 2: special place in my heart. It's just unfortunate that I
Speaker 2: can't let it out as often as maybe as I
Speaker 2: want to. But there's two questions I get having worked
Speaker 2: for the Astros now having done that to them in
Speaker 2: that five World Series is like, how did you endear
Speaker 2: yourself to the fans? And I say, it's a lot
Speaker 2: of work, and obviously the Astros winning changes things. The
Speaker 2: other one is what kind of guy is AJ.
Speaker 5: Like, that's fine, that's fine, but do you remember if
Speaker 5: you have any re memory of what you said after
Speaker 5: you hit the home run? Do you have any do
Speaker 5: you remember this? I've never really asked you this. Do
Speaker 5: you remember what you said to me? Because remember in
Speaker 5: Houston they always played the Bees and you were a
Speaker 5: killer bee for a while. Do you remember what you
Speaker 5: said to me after you hit the home run? You
Speaker 5: probably don't because you were so excited.
Speaker 2: I was so excited. But I have a feeling it
Speaker 2: has something to do with the spread, because I was
Speaker 2: starving by the end of it.
Speaker 5: No, you actually said, can they stop playing that buzzing
Speaker 5: sound now because a killer Bee just stung them?
Speaker 4: Or it was something like that, and I was like, oh.
Speaker 5: I was like yes, because all they did during between
Speaker 5: every bat when bagwell beez oh blum came up.
Speaker 4: It was BZ.
Speaker 2: I was like, do you remember what you did to
Speaker 2: my locker the day we showed up? So we get it.
Speaker 2: We get in there for the workout, and I don't
Speaker 2: know how you found it, but they had these uh placards,
Speaker 2: like they had these big they were not big posters,
Speaker 2: but they were post almost poster sized, and they had
Speaker 2: the Killer Bees World series zero five and all this,
Speaker 2: and you you plastered my locker with them.
Speaker 5: You were a killer be We didn't know what side
Speaker 5: you were on until you took that you were on.
Speaker 4: We were debating.
Speaker 5: We had a long talk with Ozzie about whether you
Speaker 5: should have been on the roster.
Speaker 4: Kenny and Ozzy and Ill.
Speaker 5: We had a long talking like you know, where's where's
Speaker 5: his loyalties at?
Speaker 2: I think we found out.
Speaker 4: Yes we did. Thank you, thank you, Thank god I
Speaker 4: was on your side.
Speaker 1: I love the conversations and that's why we love having
Speaker 1: former players on it too. The Killer Bees bagwell Bigio Berkman, Blummer,
Speaker 1: there you have it, those are the Killer Bees.
Speaker 4: We appreciate you.
Speaker 5: We appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Blummer, good luck. You can follow Jeff, of course everything
Speaker 1: all astros going on on X if you will. What
Speaker 1: are you, Blummer? You're at Blummer forty Wait, hang on,
Speaker 1: let me find it. Blumber twenty seven, at Blumber twenty seven.
Speaker 1: All right, Jeff, good luck to the askers. There's no
Speaker 1: way they're not making the postseason. We appreciate you, my friend.
Speaker 1: Thanks thanks for being with us on Foult Territory coming
Speaker 1: up next, much more better than box scores.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back