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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody? Welcome in another edition of Crush City Territory.

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Speaker 1: I'm Channel the Room, joined by Tyler Stafford. After the

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Speaker 1: Astros dropped a five to two loss to the A's

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Speaker 1: at Dike And Park on Thursday night, snapping their four

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Speaker 1: game losing streak, Tyler, I cannot remember the lineup. I

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Speaker 1: remember Jason Alexander pitched, Hector and Aris pitched two innings.

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Speaker 1: For some reason, it was well, it was what you've

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Speaker 1: come to expect it. It was a night where everything

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Speaker 1: basically had to go perfect because this team right now

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Speaker 1: any mistakes because of the vulnerabilities that their depth has exposed.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Bryce Matthews threw low on a double playball.

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Speaker 1: They overthrew a cutoff man once. It was not a

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Speaker 1: It's not a crisply played game. Luis Savarino's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, well they're a game behind the Blue Jays

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Speaker 1: for the best record in the American League, which is

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Speaker 1: still a good play used to be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tough to win games when you can't remember your lineup,

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Speaker 2: and the one thing you know about your starting pitcher

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Speaker 2: is that you can't get the Seinfeld theme out of

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Speaker 2: your Head. They played it on the radio in the

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Speaker 2: first inning. I was proud of them for that, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna happen. Also, Luis Everino is good when he's

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Speaker 2: not in Sacramento. So you know those things happened. You

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Speaker 2: move on.

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Speaker 1: Was Jason Alexander's first start at dike In Park with

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Speaker 1: out there to the Seinfeld theme that was that was

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately he did not. That would have made that would

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Speaker 1: have made whatever Christmas they did Christmas in July. Sure

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Speaker 2: I saw Julia in her sweater. They showed that off.

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Speaker 2: I do want to say, as a here's a little

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Speaker 2: tidbit for for Seinfeld heads out there, the little bit

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Speaker 2: he's slappy. You know that thing that's actually on a keyboard.

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Speaker 2: It's a synthesizer. It's not a real bass, So you're

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Speaker 2: welcome everyone. That's my musician input here for everyone here

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Speaker 2: that that's actually a keyboard and not a bass guitar.

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Speaker 1: Interesting. I would not have I'm a huge I'm a

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Speaker 1: that because it just sounds like a normal it sounds

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Speaker 2: It's a dude on a synth just hitting buttons.

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Speaker 1: Good for him, I bet he made a good bit

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Speaker 1: of residual off of Seinfeld. So he's doing well. Before

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Speaker 1: yesterday's game, Dana Brown had a chance to talk to

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Speaker 1: him the Ashers gym. He's doing well. He's doing well

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Speaker 1: too as the team with the second best record in

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Speaker 1: little more sleep. I imagine he will get a little

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Speaker 1: more sleep at this time next week because the trade

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Speaker 1: deadline will be over. Talked to Dana for about five

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Speaker 1: kind of thought after Eastside Paratus's injury that the Ashers

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Speaker 1: are prioritizing the bats at the trade deadline. They are

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Speaker 1: focused on offense. They are focused on acquiring. If Dana

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Speaker 1: I asked him, infield or outfield, what is the priority?

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Speaker 1: And he said, we can't be choosy at this point,

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Speaker 1: Like if we can get an outfielder that hits left

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Speaker 1: can get an Infield. We're gonna get him Tyler. We

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Speaker 1: want to spend the next you know, twenty thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: talking about some names that make sense off the top guys.

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Speaker 1: I will be completely candid. I've tried to do as

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Speaker 1: actual like targets that they have. You know, I have

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Speaker 1: it is a election of duty for Dana Brown and

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Speaker 1: his lieutenants not to call any team that has hitters available.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm sure they've checked in on au Hedio Suarez.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they've checked in on you know, Mickey Moniac,

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Speaker 1: Mike Takman, Ryan O'Hearn, Cedric Mullins like these are all

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Speaker 1: that's really semantics and that's up to you. But what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do, Tyler, is we're going to look at

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Speaker 2: Now, I mean, don't tell Reddick that he'll get all

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Speaker 2: fussy about how bad the Mariners lineup is. But they

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Speaker 2: Both Jerry Depoto loves trading. And there's still six days

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Speaker 2: that there's nothing to say the Astros can't trade for

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Speaker 2: Josh Naylor from the Mariners. That man would love to

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Speaker 2: he even gets to his team.

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Speaker 1: That would That would be a very Jerry Depoto the

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Speaker 1: of the Padres as the two executives that really run

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Speaker 1: the trade deadline. Reporting from Seattle and reporting from people

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Speaker 1: not take like acquiring Josh Naylor does not take the

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Speaker 1: Mariners out of the au Henneo Suarez sweepstakes. The Mariners

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Speaker 1: you Tyler and we were talking about it a little

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Speaker 1: bit before we hit record. There is there's this fallacy

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Speaker 1: they're players available that are just going to immediately alter

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Speaker 1: have had a couple of those players coming justin Verlander

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Speaker 1: But of the players that we know are available, there's

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Speaker 1: revitalize this Asher's line. Now, the Ashers are going to

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Speaker 1: But Tyler, as you look at who is available and

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Speaker 1: you look at some possibilities, do you have a dream acquisition?

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Speaker 1: Do you have like an ideal name that fits this

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're right, there's just there's not anybody that

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Speaker 2: even if there were the astros don't have of the

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Speaker 2: going to be looking at guys who are just kind

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Speaker 2: The problem is, and this is true obviously most trade deadlines,

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Speaker 2: There's really not a lot of guys like that out

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Speaker 2: They're not anywhere near the wild Card. You know, they'd

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Speaker 2: So I think that the Twins are probably sellers. That's

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Speaker 2: he's a switch hitter. He's got a one to twelve

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Speaker 2: so you know, he's not gonna he's not gonna cost

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Speaker 2: Joe Ryan, right who is not probably available, but he's

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Speaker 2: there's just McKinsey gore right, Like, that's another guy that

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Speaker 1: Tyler. As we keep talking about the deadline, I keep

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Speaker 2: I think I think Cedric Mullens makes a ton of sense.

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Speaker 2: That's a guy that i've i've wanted in an astro's uniform.

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Speaker 2: For like five years now. I mean we're past the

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Speaker 2: prime point of that where you were gonna have to

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Speaker 2: pay a lot for him, But I think certainly he

432
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Speaker 2: would provide, uh, you know that that value in stability there.

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Speaker 1: And don't forget I don't think anyone has. You know,

434
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Speaker 1: Michaelias still runs the the Baltimore Rose along with Sigma

435
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Speaker 1: at all, like they and Eve Rosenbaum is there to

436
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: another former Astros executive, like they know, even though they've

437
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Speaker 1: been gone for a while, they know the inner workings

438
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Speaker 1: of this organization. I'm not gonna say they know the

439
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Speaker 1: farm system as well now as they did maybe two

440
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Speaker 1: or three years ago, just with all the turnover, But

441
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: that's a team that is very familiar with the Astros.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget too that Joe Spata and Brandon Hyde the

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Speaker 1: ashers the Orioles uh recently fired manager. They're brother in laws,

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Speaker 1: are brothers in law, so Joe can get a pretty

445
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Speaker 1: good feel on what Cedric Mullins is like with Ryan

446
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Speaker 1: O'Hearn is like, like they. That is a team in

447
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Speaker 1: the Orioles that is kind of a natural partner to

448
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: the Astros, just given all the overlap, given how well

449
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Speaker 1: everybody knows each other, so don't discount that one thing.

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Speaker 1: I would discount that. I think a lot of Astras

451
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Speaker 1: fans have grown attached to the name of Brandon Law

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Speaker 1: with the Tampa Bay Rays. A left handed hitting, left

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Speaker 1: handed hitting bat that can play second base again, which

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Speaker 1: is the ideal UH candidate for the Ashers. The reporting

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Speaker 1: I have done suggests that the Tampa Bay Rays are

456
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Speaker 1: not even listening on Brandon Low. They don't want to

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Speaker 1: move him, that he is not available. I've been told

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Speaker 1: that by multiple people. Now, you never say never in

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Speaker 1: these situations. Who knows if the if the Rays lose,

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Speaker 1: you know, the next six games. I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: have the standings in front of me. I don't think

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Speaker 1: right now out the season and that if the season

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Speaker 1: would end today, I don't think they have a playoff spot,

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Speaker 1: but they're not far off. And let's also remember Brandon

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Speaker 1: Low was on the injured list currently. He has a

466
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Speaker 1: I think it's a foot or an ankle problem that

467
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Speaker 1: that put him on the I L So he's hurt,

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Speaker 1: the Rays don't want to move him. I would be

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Speaker 1: surprised if Brandon Law is traded anywhere, much less to

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Speaker 1: the Astros so take that out of your mind right

471
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Speaker 1: now as you look at Tyler some of the other

472
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Speaker 1: definite sellers the bad teams. I really like Mickey Moniac

473
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Speaker 1: with the Rockies. Another guy that can play all three

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Speaker 1: outfield positions is a left handed hitter. Has had a

475
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Speaker 1: really nice year for for a team that is not

476
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Speaker 1: having much nice things happened to it in the Rockies.

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Speaker 1: He hit well against the Astros in the three games

478
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Speaker 1: at Course Field. The Astros are very familiar with him,

479
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Speaker 1: given his time with the Angels and how much he

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Speaker 1: played there. And one thing to not discredit here, Dana Brown.

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00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: In his ten years the Astro general manager has liked

482
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Speaker 1: to take guys that were picked in the first round.

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Speaker 1: He's liked to take former first round picks and that

484
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Speaker 1: top end talent. Maybe guys that you know haven't actualized it,

485
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: haven't fulfilled it. Taylor Tremmell is one of them. Taylor

486
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Speaker 1: tremill is a first round pick way back when they

487
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Speaker 1: traded for him. This this winner kind of as he

488
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: was losing kind of a foothold elsewhere and now he's

489
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 1: playing a pretty vital role for this team.

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Speaker 2: So another Rocky that was taken really high Brendan Rodgers. Right, Yeah,

491
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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it certainly certainly something to look at.

492
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 2: I remember that when when when Ashers got Robbie Grossman

493
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Speaker 2: ten whatever years ago. More than that, that was the

494
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Speaker 2: other thing. It's like, oh, he's a first round pick,

495
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Speaker 2: you know, like, look, Migemoniac was the number one overall

496
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Speaker 2: pick in twenty sixteen. Obviously hasn't worked out in that way,

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Speaker 2: but there's there's talent there, and again as a as

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Speaker 2: a utility guy, I could certainly see that being, you know,

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Speaker 2: something that they're they're interested in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean mony.

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Speaker 2: Bad draft twenty sixteen, Yeah, he was walked about. That

502
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Speaker 2: was there nothing in that draft?

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Speaker 1: Who went top five in that draft?

504
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Speaker 2: Nobody?

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Speaker 1: Nobody, nobody.

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Speaker 2: I mean the best pick from the first round was

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Speaker 2: Will Smith in the supplemental round. I think the second

508
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 2: round had a couple better players. That was obviously the

509
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 2: forced Whitley draft. Yeah, Pete Alonso went in the second round,

510
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Speaker 2: Boba Schett, Brian Reynolds, another guy that I wanted on

511
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 2: the Astros forever before he signed this long term deal

512
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 2: with the Giants. But yeah, I mean you could certainly

513
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 2: see that being a fit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's talk about real quick, like the money

515
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: aspect of this. You mentioned Brian Reynolds signed that huge extension.

516
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: The Pirates are obviously definite sellers, or should be definite sellers.

517
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they can to hear from a lot of

518
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: teams on a lot of their guys Andil Cruz, Brian Ross.

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00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 2: This, Paul Schemes fellas.

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00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: Do you want to guess where he went to college?

521
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 2: Air Force?

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Speaker 1: Right? Did? Yeah? Air Force? Thank you for your service,

523
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: Paul Skins. The Astros, Depending on which outside approximation you enjoy.

524
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Speaker 1: Looking at their payroll through they're about two point one

525
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Speaker 1: million dollars under the luxury tax at this moment. Whether

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Speaker 1: Jim Crane wants to cross it again is a mystery.

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Speaker 1: Dana Brown said what he had to say yesterday when

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Speaker 1: I asked him about it. Just you know, Jim Crane's

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Speaker 1: committed to winning, and you've seen that he'll spend money,

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Speaker 1: and I think he'll spend whatever we need to get

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Speaker 1: this at the deadline. Obviously, Dana Brown's going to say

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Speaker 1: that he's not going to go on the record and

533
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Speaker 1: say that his owner is not going to cross the

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Speaker 1: luxury tax. I think that's a violation of the CBA

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Speaker 1: if he even wanted to say that, But nevertheless, look,

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Speaker 1: Jim Crane has a precedent of when he knows that

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00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: or when he senses that his team has a legitimate

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Speaker 1: chance to win, whether it's the Pennant or the World Series,

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Speaker 1: he bucks precedent. He is able to push the payroll

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Speaker 1: into the heights that we have not seen. You saw

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Speaker 1: that in twenty seventeen taking on the money that was

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Speaker 1: left on Justin Burlanders contract. Same thing in twenty nineteen

543
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Speaker 1: when Zach acquiring Zach Grienky put them over the luxury

544
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Speaker 1: tax for the first time in Crane's ownership tenure. They

545
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Speaker 1: didn't end up paying the penalties because they were going

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Speaker 1: to pay it for next year, which ended up being

547
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. The shortened season Baseball eliminated the CBT penalties

548
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Speaker 1: that season, so they got away with not paying the

549
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Speaker 1: penalties for crossing it. They ended up paying them last

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Speaker 1: year when they had a payroll over the CBT, so

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Speaker 1: doing it again as a repeat offender only increases the

552
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Speaker 1: tax that they put on overages. You start to look

553
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Speaker 1: at some of these guys. You know, Mickey Moniac would

554
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Speaker 1: not put a Dent in their CBT build. I believe

555
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Speaker 1: he's only on like a one point five million dollar contract,

556
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Speaker 1: and you gotta remember it's pro rated, so the Astros

557
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: only get the final two months of that. You look

558
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: at Mike Takman, a left handed hitting outfielder for the

559
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox who is having a very nice year.

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Speaker 1: He's in that same boat, not making a ton of money.

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Speaker 1: Could be a guy that they acquire and stay under

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Speaker 1: the tax. But everybody else we've talked about, Cedric Mullins

563
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: is making about eight million dollars. Ryan O'Hearn is making

564
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Speaker 1: a nice, a good bit of money in his final

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Speaker 1: year of arbitration. Eligibility like those would put the Astros

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Speaker 1: over that, over the luxury tax. And I wonder Tyler,

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Speaker 1: would Jim Crane be okay doing that for just a

568
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: marginal addition or would he need to see like a

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Speaker 1: nick because look, it's no secret Jim Crane likes going

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Speaker 1: for big names. He likes having the he likes having

571
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: the bell of the ball, for lack of a better euphemism,

572
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Speaker 1: he likes having those guys on his team. That's why

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Speaker 1: Justin Verlander was here for a very long time. Justin

574
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: Verlander was a very good pitcher. But Jim Crane also

575
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Speaker 1: liked telling people that I employed Justin Verlander, and I

576
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: know Justin Verlander. There's not Again, as we sit here

577
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Speaker 1: with six days until the deadline, there's not that name

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00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: out there. I don't know that au Henney o' suarez

579
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: rises to that level, but you know, you start looking around.

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Speaker 1: If Dylan Cease is really available, then he's there. Emmanuel

581
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Speaker 1: class A, he's he's a he's a guy. I wonder

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Speaker 1: how much that maybe influences how Dana Brown kind of

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Speaker 1: maneuvers this deadline.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I can't speak to what he would

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Speaker 2: or wouldn't want to go over the CBT for. I

586
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 2: mean you're right, like, if class A is available and

587
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Speaker 2: you can get him, and you can, I could see

588
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 2: Dana Brown convincing him two of like, hey, instead of

589
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Speaker 2: giving up a ton of prospect capital, just take on

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Speaker 2: the whole contract. You know, you that can always be

591
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 2: part of of what you do, even you know, sending

592
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Speaker 2: somebody like Chas McCormick and paying his you know, like

593
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 2: that's that's where you can use the money part of it,

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00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 2: where you can get away with, you know, giving up

595
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 2: a little bit less talent wise, if you're willing to

596
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Speaker 2: take on the cost of things, I could certainly see

597
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,959
Speaker 2: that being something that he does. But you're right, I mean,

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Speaker 2: there's there's just not there's not anybody available, even even

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Speaker 2: on the fringes of being available, that you would look

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Speaker 2: at and go like, all right, let's let's go all

601
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Speaker 2: in on this guy. And also the Astros are not

602
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 2: because they have so many injuries, they have so many needs.

603
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 2: They don't have one specific need that you can focus

604
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 2: and go all in on. You know, you can improve

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00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 2: your team in a lot of different ways because you

606
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 2: do have so many triple A players right now playing

607
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 2: at the big league level that I mean again, even

608
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 2: Willie Castro is like a clear upgrade over seven guys

609
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 2: that are probably going to play in your starting lineup

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Speaker 2: in the next week. Right, Like, you know, I think

611
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 2: there's a lot of ways to do it that way

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00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,919
Speaker 2: this year without just going all in on a guy.

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00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think the other thing that you know,

614
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: we have to remember here and we talked about it

615
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: on the last pot as well. You know, Jim Crane,

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Speaker 1: as most people would do, kind of maybe looks at

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00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: precedent in the past and how these things have operated,

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Speaker 1: and he's also seen that. I mean, we talked about

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Speaker 1: it in the ten years of this Golden era. There

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Speaker 1: are three prospects that they really should regret trade at

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Speaker 1: this point. Again, we don't know what the Wagner Loperfedo

622
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: Bloss package is going to turn out to be, but

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Speaker 1: I feel like we do. I mean, I don't know

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00:34:55,480 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: who knows. Probably Okay, probably, but there are three prospects

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00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: that they regret trading in ten years. So maybe Jim

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00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: Crane looks at that and he's like, look, we we

627
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: have a formula that we know that we can pick

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00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: the right prospects to trade, or you know, we can

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Speaker 1: give the other teams the right list of prospects to

630
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: pick from and just hope that they picked the right ones.

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Speaker 1: Because that's how this works. A lot of times, like

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams, when they're having trade discussions, teams

633
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: will have prospects that they circle or target, but a

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Speaker 1: lot of times the acquiring team will give the other

635
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: club a list of prospects like, hey, here's like six

636
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Speaker 1: guys that we feel comfortable parting with. You pick two,

637
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Speaker 1: are you three? And then like the onus is on

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Speaker 1: the the onus is on the trading team to pick

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00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: the right guys, and you know, I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: get into names, but I do know that there have

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Speaker 1: been some times where the list has included names that

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Speaker 1: would shock some people, and it just so happens that

643
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Speaker 1: So some of it's luck involved. Some of it is

645
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Speaker 1: just what we have talked about a lot that prospects

646
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647
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Speaker 1: pan out to the point that you know, fans build

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651
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00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,920
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653
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Speaker 1: I didn't get the sense that anything was really close

654
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Speaker 1: So who knows. Maybe I'm just bad at this, but

656
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657
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660
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Speaker 1: L Tyler. The most intriguing edition that could come to

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Speaker 1: the Astros is people that they already employ. Christian Xavier

697
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Speaker 1: made his third I believe it was his third rehab

698
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: start of his comeback. You did it. L Passo for

699
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: Triple A Sugarland last night, Cool.

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00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 2: Bar park, cool ballpark. Have you been there?

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Speaker 1: I have not.

702
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 2: No, it's cool.

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Speaker 1: I've never been to L Passo. I just see the

704
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Speaker 1: sign every time I'm driving that says there's eight hundred

705
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Speaker 1: and sixty miles to go.

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Speaker 2: It's a cool city. I really neat. I went out

707
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 2: there for work a couple of months ago and it

708
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Speaker 2: rules I don't know why we don't talk about El

709
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Speaker 2: Paso like that, but very cool. Anyway, hopeful important.

710
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Speaker 1: As Bureau should send us some T shirts because.

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Speaker 2: I want I want a little figuringe of the cool

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Speaker 2: tram cars that run through the city. It's a really

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Speaker 2: cool color. I brought one back for for Olivia. But yeah,

714
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Speaker 2: send that over to me.

715
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Speaker 1: And you're gonna name it the cam Smith hype Train

716
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: or absolutely so. Christian Avier pitched there last night. I

717
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: tweeted out his his Savant page because the first rehab

718
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: assignment for him that we have Savant data on.

719
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Speaker 2: And I just got right.

720
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Speaker 1: And I think I just confused the hell out of

721
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Speaker 1: everyone because a lot of people were basically just like

722
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Speaker 1: explain this to me, like I'm four, so.

723
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 2: There's no way he touched four.

724
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Speaker 1: I mean, do you think the radar guns lying?

725
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 2: I mean, he was sitting ninety one last season.

726
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so so why don't we why don't we

727
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: do this? Let me let me let me do let

728
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Speaker 1: me share this, Let me share the screen so we

729
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: can go through this with some people and we can

730
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Speaker 1: maybe teach people how to read a savant a savant

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Speaker 1: you know, screenshot. Let me get it. This is this

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Speaker 1: is doing technology. This is doing technology real time, all right,

733
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Speaker 1: So here you go, let me get it a little

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Speaker 1: bigger as you can see this gentleman right here as

735
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: talk to me like I'm three, which is a scary sentence.

736
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Speaker 1: So essentially what you're looking at here, as you're looking

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Speaker 1: at Christian Xavier's data from last night and al Passo,

738
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to go through it all. You can

739
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,760
Speaker 1: see the pitch velocity is in the first middle column.

740
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: If you're listening to this on the audio form, he

741
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: was up. It shows you how a picture is in

742
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: relation to his season average, how his velocity is. They

743
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 1: are using his averages from his last big league season

744
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three when he got hurt. Obviously his

745
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: velocity was not the same that so.

746
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 2: Even twenty twenty three he was ninety two seven. The

747
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 2: last time he's been ninety three and a half was

748
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Like that's that's significant. If he was

749
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 2: sitting ninety three five, Like that's that's good.

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00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, So maybe he's he was amped up. He knew

751
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: he was pitching an altitude. He knew he was gonna

752
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: be facing guys that are gonna be hacking early, so

753
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: maybe he was fired up, but no, the velocity is

754
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: a good sign.

755
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 2: Spin rate's still there too, which is huge for Javier.

756
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 2: That's the exact, essentially the exact same average spin rate

757
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 2: on his four seam, which again is why he has

758
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 2: that kind of invisible right. It spins so much that

759
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 2: it doesn't drop uh, and I mean the fact that

760
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 2: it's still sitting at that same spin rate is a

761
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 2: very positive sign.

762
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: Also, remember as we've as we talked about with Bryce Matthews,

763
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: as we talked about with a lot of guys in

764
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 1: the Ashers Triple A affiliate. When you play on the

765
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: road in the PCL away from Constellation Field, the conditions

766
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: are different. The elevation, the weirdness of the altitude like

767
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: it affects things. So take that into consideration here. I

768
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: think the one thing that it shouldn't be a long

769
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: term concern. But as far as efficacy immediately win or

770
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 1: if he gets back uh, he induced twenty swings and

771
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: got three whiffs. That's not ideal. Christian Javier is known for,

772
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: you know that invisible that has enough uh induced vertical

773
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: break has enough you know, high ride to miss bats.

774
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: He did not miss bats. Last night, And it's one

775
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: of these things where when you're out for thirteen or

776
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: fourteen months, that's to be expected, Like you're not going

777
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: to come back and get twenty five whiffs right off

778
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: the bat, So no pun intended. So you know, I

779
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: think it it It fuels more of this what we

780
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: have talked about constantly, you know, activating Christian Javier off

781
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: the IL, giving him a big league uniform and pitching

782
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: him in a big league game. That is one like

783
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 1: the Astros need that. They need established depth, they need

784
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: establish guys that have a track record of success. The

785
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: big question is how effective are they gonna be, because

786
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: if he comes up to the big league level and

787
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 1: gets three whiffs on twenty swings against big league hitters,

788
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 1: that's not gonna cut it. So again, you have to

789
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: take all of this with a grain of salt. You

790
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: have to take all of this as if this is

791
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: a slow, methodical process, he's probably hobbyer. You can group

792
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: Luis Garcia in there too, if he gets back Luis

793
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: Scarcia and pitching a big league game in twenty six months,

794
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: If and when they get back, it's not going it's

795
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: probably not going to be vintage Luis Garcia, vintage Christian Javier.

796
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: They're going to need some time. It's gonna take some

797
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: time to get them assimilated and welcome back. Spencer Araghetti

798
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: is the one that you have better hopes for in

799
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: terms of his immediate efficacy, just because he has pitched

800
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: this season and it wasn't he didn't suffer an arm injury,

801
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: he didn't suffer something that required, you know, reconstructive surgery.

802
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 1: He broke his thumb, which again it's not a it's

803
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: not an insignificant injury, but certainly not what these other

804
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: guys have been through. So Ragetty will make a rehab start,

805
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: I believe with double a corpus CHRISTI at some point

806
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 1: this weekend, at which point, you know, I think there

807
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 1: is a real possibility that after his after this next

808
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 1: rehab start for Spencer Aragedtty his next out and could

809
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: come into big leagues. I think that is a very

810
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: real possibility.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which good, bring him on back again. That you're right,

812
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 2: like I here is going to need to miss more bats.

813
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 2: My concern, my consider for him coming back from an

814
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 2: injury was because he relies so much on a fastball

815
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 2: that typically sits ninety two ninety three. I was really

816
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 2: concer learned that coming back from an arm injury, if

817
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 2: he was sitting eighty nine to ninety that he just

818
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to get out in the big leagues anymore.

819
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 2: But again, if his VILO is back to ninety three

820
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:17,320
Speaker 2: and a half, that that raises like the excitement level,

821
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,439
Speaker 2: I think quite a bit. So I'm interested to see

822
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 2: the next start if we get stackass data, because that's

823
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 2: that's huge that that he's sitting ninety three, even though

824
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,760
Speaker 2: the results weren't there whatever like that, that tells you that, Okay,

825
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 2: you can assume that over the next two years he's

826
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 2: going to get back into like you know where he's at,

827
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 2: because you you got him signed to a long contract,

828
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 2: so you're you know you're gonna be with him. I

829
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 2: was very concerned that, you know, his VILO is going

830
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 2: to be way down or spend rate was going to

831
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 2: be way down, and you've still got what two three

832
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 2: years left on his contract and you weren't gonna know

833
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 2: what to do with him. But yeah, you're right. I mean,

834
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 2: this season, who knows what it's going to look like.

835
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 2: But I think long term, that's a really, really good sign.

836
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Speaker 1: We're a podcast of the people, and as as such,

837
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838
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:13,400
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839
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840
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:21,320
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841
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: that would make sense for the Astros. The Cardinals all

842
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,600
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843
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,080
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844
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845
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846
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847
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Speaker 1: Cardinals have no interest in moving Brendan Donovan. You have

848
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:50,680
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849
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:55,560
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850
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:01,040
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851
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: like they're building toward right like they they're trying to

852
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,240
Speaker 1: offload veterans. They're trying to upload veterans to give runway

853
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: to their younger players. Brendan Donovan is one of their

854
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: younger players. He's one of the guys that they want

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00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: the next good Cardinals team to be around or to

856
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: have a found he wants. They want him to be

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Speaker 1: a foundation of the next Cardinals good Cardinals, and you're

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Speaker 1: looking more at guys like I guarantee you Nolan Arnatto

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Speaker 1: will be talked about again in a bunch of trade conversations.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Helsley, their closer will be in demand. Film Aton

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Speaker 1: old friend, uh the bar who is having a large

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Speaker 1: new I think large new bars, hurt but large nutri

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Speaker 1: green bar. You know who knows? Get him back?

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Speaker 2: How I start every morning is a large nutri grain bar.

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Speaker 1: Suffice to say, I do not think Brendan Donovan is

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Speaker 1: getting traded. But again with the trade deadline, you never know.

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Speaker 1: If someone calls John Moselak, the president Baseball Operations of

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals, and gives him a godfather type offer and

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Speaker 1: blows them away, who knows on that?

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Speaker 2: I mean again, Ryan Helsley's really he's very good. I agree,

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Speaker 2: But I mean.

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Speaker 1: Just Phil's had a really nice season.

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Speaker 2: As they're saying, bring me back Phil Maton. That would

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Speaker 2: be wonderful. Get Charlie Morton to while we're at it,

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Speaker 2: Let's let's get everybody.

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Speaker 1: Get the whole band back together. But again, if, as

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Speaker 1: as is the case throughout the trade deadline, if you

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Speaker 1: make the sort of offer another team can't say no to,

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Speaker 1: you will get the player you want. Whether the Astros

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Speaker 1: can do that with any team make that sort of offer,

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Speaker 1: make that kind of compelling offer is a true mystery.

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Speaker 1: I don't think personally they have what it takes to

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Speaker 1: do that, especially if they're trying to acquire multiple pieces,

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Speaker 1: get a pitcher and a hitter. But who knows. I

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Speaker 1: guess we'll all find out together across the next six days,

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Speaker 1: and we'll keep you updated here on christ Shitty Territory.

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Speaker 1: As always, you can follow Tyler on x at Tyler C. Stafford.

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Speaker 1: You can follow me at Chandler Underscore Rome. The series

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Speaker 1: against the A's will finish this weekend. We will be

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Speaker 1: back on Sunday night with Josh Reddick to recap the

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Speaker 1: series against his favorite team, the Transient Athletics. Who knows

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Speaker 1: by then, the Ashers could have new players on their team,

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Speaker 1: they could have sent players away. The next six days

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Speaker 1: will be a whirlwind. I hope to get some sleep.

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Speaker 1: I hope to not get my behind handed to me

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Speaker 1: by all the other reporters that are working on the

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Speaker 1: trade deadline. It's always a fun time. If you want

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Speaker 1: to see me, if you want to see that happen

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Speaker 1: and when the Ashers make deadline deals, we will have

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Speaker 1: even if it's maybe just marginal role players. We will

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Speaker 1: do some reaction pods if and when the Ashers make

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Speaker 2: Congrats to our close personal friends Travis and Taylor for

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