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Speaker 1: What's up everybody. Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory.

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Speaker 1: I'm Chandler Room, joined by Tyler Stafford and perhaps the

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Speaker 1: most special guest we have ever had on Crush City Territory,

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Speaker 1: reigning American League Cy Young finalist, owner of a p

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Speaker 1: p I draft pick, and the pride of Saint Clair Shores,

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Speaker 1: Michigan Hunter Brown Hunter, thank you appreciate you taking some

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Speaker 1: time in spring training to get to get together with us. Uh.

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Speaker 1: How of the first week, week and a half been

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Speaker 1: for you in West Palm?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having me. It's been. It's been good.

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Speaker 3: You know, get to see the boys again, like like

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Speaker 3: the first day of school, right, people people mention that,

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Speaker 3: but it's good to see your buddies again after after

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Speaker 3: a long break.

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Speaker 2: You know, guys, you spend I don't know, two hundred

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Speaker 2: odd days in a row with each other. So you

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Speaker 2: do you do?

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Speaker 3: Uh, head towards the route of missing them, believe it

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Speaker 3: or not.

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Speaker 2: So we're back. Baseball is back. That's most exciting part.

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Speaker 2: And so yeah, it's just exciting.

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Speaker 1: Before we get going, before we start talking about baseball,

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Speaker 1: we have got to do one thing. We have got

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Speaker 1: to give a shout out to mister Kevin Brown, your dad.

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Speaker 1: This podcast has so few fans, so few people that

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Speaker 1: reach out and that like this thing. Your dad is

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Speaker 1: one of them.

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Speaker 2: And you.

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Speaker 1: Told me, you told me a fan fest how much

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Speaker 1: he watches us. He unsurprisingly you said he likes Tyler

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Speaker 1: a lot more than he likes me.

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Speaker 2: He is a fan. Don't change yourself.

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Speaker 1: Damn well, thank you. Uh, mister Kevin Brown, thank you

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Speaker 1: very much. Appreciate you watching. And I hope Hunter lives

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Speaker 1: up to your expectations. And I hope, I hope this

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Speaker 1: is good. Hunter. I introduced you when we started this thing.

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Speaker 1: Reigning American League Cy Young finalist, unquestioned astros Ace opening

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Speaker 1: day starter as of a week and a half ago. Uh,

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Speaker 1: how has what you did last year breaking out and

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Speaker 1: really like announcing your presence in Major League baseball? Like,

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Speaker 1: did you did you feel fame like change you this

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Speaker 1: offseason where you're getting recognized in Detroit when you were

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Speaker 1: walking around, Like how did you feel like, you know,

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Speaker 1: last season maybe changed you publicly in perception and what

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Speaker 1: people thought of you.

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Speaker 3: No, I mean, I think it's funny that you asked

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Speaker 3: me that, because other people have asked me that too,

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Speaker 3: And I mean I feel like I go home.

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Speaker 2: And I kind of already know everybody anyway, so I

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Speaker 2: didn't I didn't feel any change.

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Speaker 3: I got a few more pictures at the grocery store

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Speaker 3: in Houston this offseason, but other than that, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I feel like in baseball in general, you know, the

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Speaker 3: guys outside of a uniform don't get recognized as much unless,

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Speaker 3: uh you know, I mean, especially if I'm wearing long

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Speaker 3: sleeves or something like that.

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Speaker 2: You know, specifically, people don't.

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Speaker 3: People don't say, oh, hey, that's funner. But uh yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean it's it's been good.

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Speaker 1: I have a question. So I was showing Tyler this

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Speaker 1: before we started, and if you can see it on

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Speaker 1: your phone, this is you at the twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: Futures game at Dodger Stadium. Got that picture of views

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Speaker 1: you were going out to do your APLO stuff. And

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Speaker 1: I was actually talking to someone in the ASTROS organization

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Speaker 1: about this a couple of days ago, because we saw

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Speaker 1: you walk out to go do something on the agility field,

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Speaker 1: and I remember getting meeting you there and interviewing you

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Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium for this game, and like your transformation

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Speaker 1: from this where like the jersey is almost hanging off

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Speaker 1: of you to what you are now, Like, how did

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Speaker 1: we get from that to this?

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Speaker 3: Well, ironically you had probably one of the only pictures

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Speaker 3: is that thing's gold.

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Speaker 2: No. I mean, if you're talking about the physicality, you know.

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Speaker 3: My trainer, Joe Neil has been has been awesome for

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Speaker 3: me at TWOSP Sports in Madison Heights, Michigan.

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Speaker 2: I go back there every year.

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Speaker 3: I've been working with him since I got drafted. I

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Speaker 3: tried the old go to the local LA Fitness for

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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks out of your first short season

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Speaker 3: spring training, and I said, you know, I might need

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Speaker 2: Me gain some weight. So I mean in that picture

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Speaker 4: We've talked about, obviously the physical transformation now we we

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Speaker 4: have all discussed externally when you added a sinker and

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Speaker 4: just became one of the best pictures on the planet.

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Speaker 4: I assume that it is not easy as easy as

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Speaker 4: just saying, oh, I'll just throw a sinker and that

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Speaker 4: will fix everything. Can you just walk through how adding

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Speaker 4: that pitch changed the type of picture that you were before,

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Speaker 4: how it plays up everything else, Like why why did

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Speaker 4: that unlock so much for you?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 3: So, I mean I like to I like to think

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Speaker 3: that my identity before I got the pro ball, you know,

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Speaker 2: I threw mostly two's in sliders, and then I.

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Speaker 3: Got to pro bawl and then I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: A North South guy. So I'd like to say it's.

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Speaker 3: Always been in there, and I always felt like I

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Speaker 3: I was, you know, I was arguably one of the

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Speaker 3: at that point you're looking around and you're like, man,

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Speaker 3: I you know, I really love the big leagues and

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Speaker 3: I definitely want want to stay here.

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Speaker 2: But there's not.

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Speaker 3: Many guys that get rolled out there over and over

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Speaker 3: first thing you do is you ask the guys on

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Speaker 2: And luckily I'm in the clubhouse at the time with

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Speaker 3: And then I wasn't throwing anything inside. So you know,

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Speaker 2: I know in the back pocket from from my.

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Speaker 3: I lean on heavily, but it also does just help

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Speaker 3: make my other stuff better.

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Speaker 4: So it's a pitch you through before at at Wayne State,

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Speaker 4: and you just hadn't for a while and then brought

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Speaker 4: tweak anything for you?

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Speaker 2: No? No, right off the shelf.

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Speaker 3: I was lucky enough that I was. I had some

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean I was thrown at ninety five

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Speaker 3: So you know, anything anything that hard is usually is

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Speaker 2: So I was able to just kind of take it

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Speaker 1: Hunter. I know you never want to relive April eleventh,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, probably ever again, your start at coffin

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Speaker 2: It seems it seems like in every interview I give

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Speaker 3: I'm going to throw that out there. It's like it's

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Speaker 3: it's that nightmare that just keeps coming back. But I'm sorry, Chaylor,

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Speaker 1: What I wanted you, what I wanted you to talk

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Speaker 1: but I know Ryan Presley was on that flight and

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Speaker 1: Alex Bregman came tell me about that flight home and

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Speaker 1: just what the guys, what those veterans you just talked about,

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Speaker 1: because I don't know that there's a rule book or

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Speaker 3: You know, not only I mean, obviously I was feeling

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Speaker 3: So everybody knew that that something had to change, and

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Speaker 3: you know, the leadership that we had it was kind

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Speaker 2: If Hunter, we're gonna need you. You know, that's kind

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Speaker 3: Route that Presley took with me and Bragman. It was like, hey,

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Speaker 3: something's got to change here, and you know, we believe

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Speaker 4: Really, I mean, I at what point did you start

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Speaker 3: And yeah, Eastern Michigan tossed me a little little courtesy.

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Speaker 2: But you know I was. I was a decent catcher.

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Speaker 3: you know, myself and Anthony Bass a couple of guys

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Speaker 3: that came out of there. So it's it's definitely it's

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Speaker 3: definitely an honor to to be from there, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Can we talk about this guy too.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 1: I like Tyler. Tyler. Tyler introduced me to this guy.

446
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Speaker 1: And if you're watching on YouTube, if you're listening on audio, like,

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Speaker 1: go to YouTube just to look at Wayne State's mascot.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what this dude is called I know

449
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Speaker 1: he's just a but you got to look at that dude.

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Speaker 1: Every time you pitch like that. That would fire me

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Speaker 1: up too.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's a.

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Speaker 4: W chest hair coming coming in there? Is he a dinosaur?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 4: What is going on with this thing?

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Speaker 3: I don't have the answers for you, but here we

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Speaker 3: are talking about it, so they're doing something right.

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Speaker 4: The eyebrows rule. I love this guy. I need a

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Speaker 4: shirt with with his face on it. For sure. You

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Speaker 4: mentioned you mentioned the catching uh As I look at

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Speaker 4: this roster with Dubon gone, I don't see anybody that

462
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Speaker 4: screams emergency catcher? Can you do? You do you think

463
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Speaker 4: you have enough pull now to nudge your way into

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Speaker 4: the list?

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Speaker 3: You see last year there was there was a day

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Speaker 3: where Diaz and uh Caratini where we're both in the lineup,

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Speaker 3: and they were talking about, you know, Dubon and Walker

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Speaker 3: being being options and I kind of.

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Speaker 2: Floated it to Miller. I was like, hey, man, don't

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 3: Don't forget I don't mind getting back there, and uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, he.

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Speaker 2: Shut that down pretty quick, so I don't. I don't think.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it will be seeing me back there,

475
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Speaker 3: but and honestly, I don't want to. I mean, these

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Speaker 3: guys everybody you want, you know, imagine catching Brian and

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Speaker 3: Brady's slider in a too strike count. No thanks, I

478
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Speaker 3: think I think I'm just fine watching it from the dugout.

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Speaker 1: Well, you had tetsu Emi playing shortstop for you during

480
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Speaker 1: your live VP yesterday, so who knows what cross training

481
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Speaker 1: can happen.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 1: We made it twenty two minutes in, and I know

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Speaker 1: fans are going to crucify me if I don't ask

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Speaker 1: you this. So this is the one hard hitting question,

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Speaker 1: hard news question you'll get from the resident reporter on here.

487
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Speaker 1: Everyone's wondering, you know, this is the time of year

488
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Speaker 1: for extension. This is the time of year where negotiations

489
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Speaker 1: for extensions happen. I know there has at least been

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Speaker 1: some interest in the past between you and the Astros

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Speaker 1: and an extension. Is that something that you are open to?

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Speaker 1: Is that something that maybe you have told Scott boris

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Speaker 1: that that you'd like to explore? Kind of where are

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Speaker 1: you in that an extension world right now?

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Speaker 3: You know, those those conversations have obviously, you know, come

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Speaker 3: up between Scott and myself and with all transparency.

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Speaker 2: You know, I love Houston. I love playing for this team,

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Speaker 2: you know, and and just I haven't heard anything since

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Speaker 2: you know, I was a rookie. So my focus is

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Speaker 2: to be the best I can be for this team

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Speaker 2: this season, and you know that's that's what I'm focused on.

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Speaker 3: But like I, like I said, I love putting on

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Speaker 3: that Astro's uniform and I got no no visions of

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Speaker 3: doing it anywhere else.

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Speaker 2: So that that's what I can give you. Guys, I

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Speaker 2: haven't I haven't heard anything, and that's that's just kind

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Speaker 2: of where I stand with that. So I'm well, hope

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Speaker 2: it was that's what you're looking for.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure the fans will love. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they will. But I had to. I had

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Speaker 1: to get that in at some point in twenty two minutes.

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Speaker 1: And before we let you go, we told you we

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Speaker 1: keep you fifteen minutes and we have already exceeded that.

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Speaker 1: But real quick, your goals for twenty twenty six, both

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Speaker 1: for you individually and maybe for the whole team, because

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Speaker 1: I think one thing that by by Joe a spot

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Speaker 1: of naming you the opening day star or when he did,

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Speaker 1: he made it very clear that you're a leader on

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Speaker 1: this team, that you are the leader of the pitching staff.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to make the pitching staff aware of that

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Speaker 1: on the first day of pitchers and catchers. So I

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Speaker 1: feel like you can also speak for the team a

523
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Speaker 1: little bit here. What are the goals personally for you

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Speaker 1: and for the twenty twenty six Houston Astros.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think, you know, individual goals kind of

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Speaker 3: come together over the course of the season. You know,

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Speaker 3: you kind of you kind of see some things that

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Speaker 3: are attainable. Obviously, what I want to do is make

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Speaker 3: all my starts. You know, being being at the front

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Speaker 3: of the rotation, you know, that's a big deal. You

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Speaker 3: want to eat up innings for the team. You want

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Speaker 3: to you know, when it's your time, when it's your

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Speaker 3: time to.

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Speaker 2: Step on the mound. You know, you want to be

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Speaker 2: a guy where.

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Speaker 3: The bullpen looks at you and the rest of the

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Speaker 3: coaching staff looks at you, like, all right, you know,

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Speaker 3: we're we're getting some quality here.

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Speaker 2: So so that's number one. And then as as a

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Speaker 2: team and as a unit, our goal is to win

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Speaker 2: a championship, no matter no matter how that happens.

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Speaker 3: I know, it's it's it's big to talk about winning

543
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Speaker 3: your division and you know, all those things, but you

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Speaker 3: just want to take it to the dance and see

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Speaker 3: what you can do when you get there. So because

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Speaker 3: because that's that's the end goal. We're here for championships

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Speaker 3: and that's where our mind's at. So whatever we can

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Speaker 3: do to to to give us an opportunity.

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Speaker 2: To do that, you know, that's what That's what we're

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Speaker 2: going to be focused on.

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Speaker 4: Are we touching one hundred this year?

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Speaker 2: And ninety nine point nine?

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Speaker 3: I got actually real quick, I got something about that.

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Speaker 3: I tell people this all the time.

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Speaker 2: At this point, I feel like it's better.

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Speaker 3: Off not not being a hundred guy.

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Speaker 2: Because the second that you start hitting one hundred and

558
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Speaker 2: you come out and you don't, you know, the other

559
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Speaker 2: dugout starts to murmur. They're like, oh, look at Brownie.

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Speaker 2: You know he's not he's not hitting one hundred days,

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Speaker 2: he's feeling all right. Versus if you're the ninety seven

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Speaker 2: ninety eight guy and you're popping some nines, they're like, oh,

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Speaker 2: you know, hundreds feeling good? We got to really strap

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Speaker 2: it in today. So I think I think I.

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Speaker 3: Like where I'm at I'm trying to to stay around

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Speaker 3: there and if it happens, at happen and I'll obviously

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Speaker 3: be thrilled.

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Speaker 2: I get enough, I get enough.

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Speaker 3: Grief from the guys in the clubhouse that that I

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Speaker 3: don't have what it takes to hit triple digits. So

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Speaker 3: you know, I would love I would.

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Speaker 2: Love for it to happen to to to mute some

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Speaker 2: of those things. But that is not that's not on

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Speaker 2: the radar necessarily.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm, very quickly.

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Speaker 4: Excellent use of radar there, that's right, picked up.

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Speaker 1: Very quickly. Are you keeping just what the doctor ordered

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Speaker 1: as your warm up music? Because I low key think

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Speaker 1: that's one of the best warm up musics on the team.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, thank you, Chandler. I like, I like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you you.

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Speaker 3: Want to be just with the doctor ordered, and it

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Speaker 3: just happens. Ted Newton has some Michigan ties, so I

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Speaker 3: hadn't really thought about it, but I don't. I don't

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Speaker 3: see a reason and changing it now, especially uh you

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Speaker 3: know here and hearing that you think so highly of it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm honored. I'm honored that you take my thoughts

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Speaker 1: into consideration on this. Hunter. Again, we very much appreciate

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Speaker 1: this This was awesome. I appreciate you taking some time

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Speaker 1: today between spring training. I know this is a busy

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Speaker 1: time for you guys, but thank you again. Thank you

592
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: again to mister Kevin Brown for watching and spurring this on,

593
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Speaker 1: because Hunter actually requested to come on just just so

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Speaker 1: his dad can see him on Crush City Territory. Thanks again.

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Speaker 4: That's the only time you're gonna hear us on an

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Speaker 4: Astros podcast. Thank Kevin Brown. That's gonna hurt the old

597
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Speaker 4: Astro's heads in here.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome, right, all right, thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, all right, see you Hunter. Well, we'll talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about what's been going on in Astro's

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Speaker 1: Well, that was awesome. That was that was really cool

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Speaker 1: to get a Asher's opening day starter and Ace Hunter

626
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Speaker 1: Brown on the podcast. Now that everyone has dropped off

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Speaker 1: and stopped listening or watching because they're gone, and these

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Speaker 1: two Jabronis are going to talk.

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Speaker 4: Hey, what o their famous dads do we have in here?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 4: Help help us out. Get everybody needs to be stepping it.

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Speaker 1: Up truly, Like I will peel the curtain back here.

633
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: So the origin of getting Hunter on the pod was

634
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Speaker 1: at FanFest in last month at Dyke and Park, Hunter

635
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Speaker 1: came up to me goes, I got a bone to

636
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Speaker 1: pick with you, and he looked pretty serious, and I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: oh s word, like like what did I'm thinking, like

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Speaker 1: what did I write? What did I tweet? What did

639
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Speaker 1: I I'm even thinking like what did I say on

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Speaker 1: the pod that I make fun of him? Like like

641
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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking in my head. And he goes, you

642
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Speaker 1: got this great podcast and you never have me on

643
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Speaker 1: and I was like, are you kidding me? And you know,

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00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: he said that he he I will say this if

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Speaker 1: if mister Kevin Brown is still watching. Hunter told us that.

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Speaker 1: Or Hunter told me at FanFest that his dad will

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Speaker 1: clip like parts of the episode on you he watch

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Speaker 1: it on YouTube. He will clip parts of the episode

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Speaker 1: that he likes and send them to Hunter. Now whether

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Speaker 1: Hunter actually watches them as another story. But Hunter did

651
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Speaker 1: say that he likes you.

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Speaker 2: A lot, Tyler.

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Speaker 4: So so you hear that everybody under Brown's dad is

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Speaker 4: liking and subscribing on YouTube, So step it up. We didn't,

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Speaker 4: we didn't have time. I did while we were talking,

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Speaker 4: I searched in my tweets for for Hunter Brown. Most

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Speaker 4: of them are just about how good at baseball he is.

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Speaker 4: But I did I did find this one that I

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Speaker 4: had forgotten that I said where I said Hunter Brown

660
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Speaker 4: looks like a misunderstood bully on a Disney Channel original movie.

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Speaker 4: So apologies to Hunter Brown for putting that on the internet.

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Speaker 1: My bad. The only thing I'm mad that we did

663
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: not discuss I want. I felt bad enough already for

664
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Speaker 1: bringing up the Royal start as he said he had

665
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: an interview. But I did want to bring up Zach

666
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: Netto hit by pitch and him trying to jump Christian

667
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: more right after, because look, I wouldn't I wouldn't corner

668
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Speaker 1: any of these dudes in a hall.

669
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't car that guy.

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Speaker 1: Kelly Hunter Brown's at like the top of the list.

671
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Speaker 1: So the dudes I ain't going to corner. I ain't

672
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: gonna say one cross World or two because it would

673
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: end very quickly for me. It would have ended very

674
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: quickly for Christian Moore. It would have ended very quickly

675
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: for Zacnetto too, if if, if hands would have been thrown,

676
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:15,479
Speaker 1: it would not have gone well for the Los Angeles Angels, Tyler,

677
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: as you've been perusing the social media streets. As you've

678
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: been perusing the coverage from all the esteemed outlets here

679
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: in West Palm Beach, what has caught your fancy? Is

680
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: there anything that you're you're curious about? Is there anything

681
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: that you've that's stuck out to you that maybe you

682
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: want to talk about a little bit more.

683
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't know Jeremy Opania and Carlos Korea could juggle.

684
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 4: That was exciting to see.

685
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: I knew I knew. I knew Jeremy could. He does

686
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: it all the time. I did not know Carlos could he.

687
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: I did not know that.

688
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 4: There there we go. That's that's my secret talent for

689
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 4: my kids. It's a it's a big hit. Yeah, I mean, uh,

690
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 4: phillis in what what? What's been going on down there?

691
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 4: Everybody's reported, everybody's is still here? What's going on?

692
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: Do you like that your quote tweet of that picture

693
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: of Joe in Esach before like the first day of

694
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: full squad was that of meis and men.

695
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 4: Yes, it's at the end of of Mais and Men

696
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 4: where uh Lenny is looking at the rabbits. That's that's

697
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 4: exactly what that picture looked like.

698
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know this has gotten a lot of run

699
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: just because so I do think it's important to maybe

700
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: now this is going to reinforce a lot of what

701
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: we have talked about for the last month and a half.

702
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: But we have now heard from everyone. We have now

703
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: heard from everyone involved in this roster puzzle and summarizing

704
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: all of their comments, Jeremy Paaney's goal is to play

705
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two games next year. Jose L

706
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: Tuvey made it very adamant that he is playing more

707
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: than one hundred and fifty games next year if he

708
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: is not hurt. Christian Walker says he wants to be

709
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: the everyday first baseman. Jordan Alvarez did not seem enthused

710
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: about being the everyday designated hitter. And then Esak Paratus. Obviously,

711
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: I don't think the quotes that you got from Esac

712
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: were that revelatory. But if you and I know that

713
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: there's videos out there of us conducting the interview, if

714
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: you watch his just mannerisms, like every question as it's

715
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: being translated to him, you just get this wry smile

716
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: and this just kind of I don't know, like I guess,

717
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: like I guess I'm here, like but so a couple

718
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: of things. I want to clarify. A lot of people

719
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Speaker 1: latched onto Jordon Alvarez's quotes, and I'm gonna I'm pulling

720
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: it up right now just so we can get you know,

721
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: the exact quotes. But essentially, what Jordon Alvarez said was

722
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: that he's never been hurt playing left field. He has

723
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: never been hurt and did not say it out loud,

724
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 1: but hinted that he would like to play some left

725
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: field and not be a DH Only what I can

726
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: tell you and what I wrote in the story on

727
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: the day that you know this all came out. This

728
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: is not the first time Jordon Alvarez is expressed that.

729
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: It's not the first time he's expressed it, either publicly

730
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: or privately. He has told management this, he has told

731
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Speaker 1: people behind the scenes this. This is not new that

732
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: like nothing he said in Astro's camp. I believe he

733
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: talked on Sunday. I believe nothing he said was a surprise.

734
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: And then Joe Aspota went a little viral. I guess

735
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: because on Monday he responded to a question about it

736
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Speaker 1: with I never said he wasn't going to play left field,

737
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: and Joe's right. He said the majority of his at

738
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 1: bats will come at DH obviously, the other ones will

739
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 1: come in left field because Jordan Alvarez is not coming

740
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: out of the lineup again. It just I'm I'm tired

741
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: of talking about it. It just underscores how uh, it's

742
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: just not gonna work, like barring someone getting hurt. And look,

743
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: maybe that happens, maybe some and I hope it doesn't,

744
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: just for the players, but maybe that happens. Maybe someone

745
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: gets hurt and they look like the smartest people in

746
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: the world and they hold on to estoc paratus, and

747
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: someone gets hurt in the next three or four weeks

748
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: and they've got a fill in ready to go. But

749
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: as it's currently constructed, it's not gonna work. And as

750
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: you listen to Joe a spot of talk, all of

751
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: the questions he's getting about how are you gonna make

752
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 1: this work? How are you gonna make this work? There

753
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: there is no real like plan. It's just, oh, it'll

754
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: work itself out. It'll work itself out. Do you want

755
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: to read between the lines as to what it'll work

756
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: itself out means? Tyler?

757
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, I think it will be a trade that

758
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 4: will work itself out. Unless I can go listen Jordan

759
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:51,720
Speaker 4: wants to play left field. That opens up DH Apparently

760
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 4: Isak has been playing some second base. We can make

761
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 4: it work. We can get everybody in here and happy,

762
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 4: but no, it's it's gonna be a trade, which is unfortunate.

763
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: As far as what is going on with trades. You know,

764
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: I know that things are kind of status quo right now.

765
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: These are things that can pick up pretty quickly. Though

766
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: it takes one phone call for things to accelerate. It

767
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,760
Speaker 1: takes one phone call for things to go from zero

768
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: to one hundred real quick. I do think though you

769
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: may see, you know, games most teams open spring training

770
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 1: play games wise on Friday, Friday or Saturday of this week.

771
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: I think there may be some teams that enter that

772
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 1: quite frankly, get a look at their club for the

773
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: days leading up to games and say, you know, we

774
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: didn't expect this guy to come in and look like

775
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: this or this guy's bat speed is really dwindled and

776
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: we probably need an upgrade here, or like things are

777
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: going to happen in the next you know, four or

778
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: five days that will maybe force teams hand a little

779
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: bit and force them into, you know, getting into these

780
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: conversations and then the other thing that should be noted here, Tyler,

781
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 1: is that, like, as we've talked about, like they don't

782
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: want to trade he suck praise like they don't want

783
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: to do and as a result, they have a huge

784
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: price tag on him, and they should keep the price

785
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: tag very high. They should not sell low on him.

786
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,919
Speaker 1: They should not sell him for pennies on the dollar.

787
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: And if that means going into March and maybe going

788
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 1: into Opening Day with him, like okay. But I think

789
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: that people don't kind of come like realize, like you

790
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: don't have to wait till the trade deadline in season

791
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: to make a deal, Like this isn't one of those

792
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 1: things where like every trade in season has to be

793
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: done from July twenty fifth until August second, when the

794
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: trade deadline hits. So it's the aggression and maybe the

795
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: the you know, the calls, the incoming flood of calls

796
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: has maybe slowed a little bit, but make no mistake,

797
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: they are still you know, actively looking for a value

798
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: that they feel comfortable with parting with Estak Paratus. They

799
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: are still actively you know, pursuing this and I do

800
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,919
Speaker 1: not expect this infield surplus to be together for very long.

801
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: They still can.

802
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 4: Make it work, though, I mean, they could do it again.

803
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 4: It only works if it's working. I've said it before.

804
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 4: But if we look up at the end of April

805
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 4: and the Asters are twenty to and ten and they

806
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 4: have all of these people on the team and whatever like,

807
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 4: it'll it'll work. But the hard part is when you

808
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 4: go through those stretches where you know you're you're losing

809
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 4: and you're not getting the playing time that you need.

810
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 4: But look, someone is going to get hurt that that's

811
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 4: just a simple fact. And boy, wouldn't it be nice

812
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,280
Speaker 4: to have an extra, really good player on your team

813
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 4: that can spell Karay, who certainly should not be playing

814
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty games a year, despite if he

815
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 4: wants to do that, I don't know that he does,

816
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,479
Speaker 4: but I don't think I want him playing one hundred

817
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 4: and fifty games in the field. Jordan clearly wants to

818
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 4: play left field. Surely we can fake Esac at second

819
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 4: base twenty times a year. You know you can make

820
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 4: it work. I understand why it doesn't look like it

821
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 4: will work. But again, if the season started today, you

822
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 4: could write a lineup with all of the best players

823
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 4: on your team in the lineup and make it work

824
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 4: for that day. The hard part is doing it one

825
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty two times.

826
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Speaker 1: If you're watching on YouTube, you probably like saw during

827
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 1: Tyler's answer that my eyes got very big, really quickly.

828
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 4: Got an emergency pod.

829
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 1: No, I'm we're gonna do something interesting. This has nothing

830
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: to do with the astros. It has to do with

831
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,479
Speaker 1: base nothing to do with the astros. Tyler. I'm gonna

832
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: put a tweet up that was came out two minutes ago,

833
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: and I want to get your instant reaction. We're going

834
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: to share screens right now if you're watching on YouTube,

835
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: and I will read it aloud for those not watching

836
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: on YouTube. This is from Jeff Passon at ESPN. Very

837
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Speaker 1: esteemed baseball writer MLBPA executive director Tony Clark resigned after

838
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: an internal investigation revealed he had an inappropriate relationship with

839
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: his sister in law, who had been hired by the

840
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: union in twenty twenty three. Sources tell ESPN that's hard

841
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 1: to come back from. Part of the reason.

842
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 4: Look, they say keep your work and family separate. I

843
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 4: don't think this is what they meant, but yikes, Although

844
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:54,919
Speaker 4: I guess that is better than the other reasons that

845
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 4: we thought perhaps he was resigning. So I don't know,

846
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 4: you know, I don't know where we draw the line

847
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 4: on that one, but maybe that's all it is for

848
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 4: his sake. Yeah, no, that's bad. Don't don't do that.

849
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 4: I feel very bad for that, that family and everybody

850
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 4: that has to go through with that. That's not fun.

851
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 3: Man.

852
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: We can actually tie this all into this whole podcast.

853
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown is the Astros MLBPA union rep. Part of

854
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: the reason that we had to keep him, we had

855
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: to do this pod a little early today and keep

856
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 1: him for a condensed amount of time. Is all of

857
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: the MLBPA. The thirty MLBPA union reps and the executive

858
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: Subcommittee are meeting this afternoon virtually to discuss Tony Clark's resignation.

859
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 1: I know, we do a lot of Astro's stuff on here.

860
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,760
Speaker 1: We don't really get into the national kind of business

861
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: of baseball. But this is a huge deal. Not I mean, obviously,

862
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: like that revelation that that Tony Clark allegedly had an

863
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,919
Speaker 1: inappropriate relationship with his sister in law is one thing.

864
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: But the mere fact that he could have design for

865
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: any number of reasons, The mere fact that he resigned

866
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 1: this close to bargaining when you know these these these

867
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 1: two sides do bargain a little bit during the season

868
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: once opening day begins. It's a huge deal. It's a

869
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: huge deal, and it's something that is certainly going to

870
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: be for for the next eight or nine months. Is

871
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: going to be kind of the looming specter, just kind

872
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: of over this season, over everything in baseball. But huge news.

873
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 4: You get the guy that they got kicked out of

874
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 4: the Push and Win combo, which whichever one he was,

875
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 4: let let him run the players union. See what happens there.

876
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 1: I don't like, I'm not even this is this feels

877
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: so out of my league. This feels so like out

878
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,280
Speaker 1: of my realm of understanding.

879
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 4: It's bad. You need a good you need a good leader.

880
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 4: This is going to be a rough negotiation round. Uh

881
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 4: And yeah, you need somebody that is just going to

882
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 4: stare thirty billionaires in the face and tried to stand

883
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 4: up for the players. And uh yeah, not not good news.

884
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: And I want to make it clear too. We said

885
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: this after Tucker's deal and everyone was losing their minds

886
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: in the aftermath. Oh there's a lockout coming, just like

887
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: everyone like Tony Clark could have been in charge. Tony

888
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: Clark could have not been in charge. There's a lockout

889
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,240
Speaker 1: coming like it. It does not matter who was in charge.

890
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: There was going to be a lot. The owners are

891
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: going to lock the players out barring something just incredibly

892
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: unforeseen happening. Lance mcculler's talked about it. Actually we should

893
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: probably talk about Lance really quickly. But before we talk

894
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: about Lance, he he did talk about and he it

895
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 1: was a Freudian slip, he said in discussing his future.

896
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: He said, and you know next year there's going to

897
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: be a strike and he caught. He caught himself and

898
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: he goes or a lockout. Yeah, it's coming. Within those

899
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: comments though, Lance mccullor's.

900
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:54,720
Speaker 4: And he's known a strike was coming.

901
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: Oh that's not that's that's that's.

902
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 4: Just that's in love, that's out of love. That's that's

903
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 4: because my brain has to make a joke to cope.

904
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 4: And I felt so sad for him.

905
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: It was, you know, it was it was tough to

906
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: listen and if you watched, you know, from Jason Bristol.

907
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 1: And first of all, shout out to Jason Bristol. Shout

908
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: out to KHOU thirteen in Houston, the only television station

909
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: that is down here that you know, Jason Bristol's been

910
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 1: down here for about a week and a half. I

911
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: don't know what is going on in the Houston media market.

912
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: Like you have one of the most relevant teams in

913
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 1: all of the sport, with some of the most high

914
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: profile players, and there is one television station down here

915
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: providing any coverage. That's a dereliction of duty, quite frankly, Like,

916
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: I understand that, you know, money is tight. I understand

917
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: that travel budgets are constrained everywhere, but come on, like

918
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: cover this team like you're a major market, Like you're

919
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 1: the fourth largest city in the country. Like it's ridiculous,

920
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: But so.

921
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 4: Just what like ten guys from Japan that are over

922
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 4: there covering one player?

923
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, out out to Jason Bristol, Shout out to KHOU thirteen.

924
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: Like and look, there may be other TV stations coming

925
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: later in in spring training, but to have only one

926
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: television station here for the first full squad workout, To

927
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: have only one television station here when position players reported

928
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: just is out of that. That's just that's absurd, be

929
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: quite frank So shout out to Jason Bristol. But if

930
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: you watched what Jason put up kind of the the

931
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 1: video of what was going on, and it's tough, it's

932
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 1: it's emotional. I was standing next to Lance while he

933
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: was getting You could see him shaking, and you could

934
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: tell that there was a lot of emotional kind of

935
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: weight coming off of him. They were there were He

936
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: didn't cry, I will not. There were no tears streaming

937
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: down his face. But it was a very emotional time

938
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: for him. And you know, by now the quotes are

939
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: everyone has seen the quotes basically, at which point, you know,

940
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: I'll share it up if you're watching on YouTube, I'll

941
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: share from my story in the athletic because I want

942
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: to be completely, you know, transparent to Lance. You know,

943
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: he said, I just want to have a nice last

944
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: year with this uniform on. I've been in this organization

945
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: since I was barely eighteen years old, so to be

946
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,760
Speaker 1: great and have a nice last year here and whatever

947
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: the future holds. If the future for me is to

948
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 1: be home with my family, I'll be happy with that.

949
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: I'll be content with that. If the future for me

950
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: is to be in this game, if I can be

951
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: healthy and if I can help a team win, I'll

952
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: be happy with that too. It sure sounded like someone

953
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: that is preparing for this to be the last year

954
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: of his career. And you know, look, Lance even gave

955
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: you the qualifier that you know, if he goes out

956
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: there and pitches well this year and another team wants

957
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 1: to sign him next year, he'd certainly be open to that.

958
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: But he made it a point to tell us that

959
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: he's done enough to provide for his family. He's made

960
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars in his career. His legacy in

961
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: an Astros uniform is untouched, whether he throws any other

962
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: pitch or not. He will forever be a face of

963
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: this era. He will forever have kind of the legacy

964
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: that he should have in this city and within this franchise,

965
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: whether he throws another pitch. But it was sad. It

966
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: was It was sad to watch, sad to listen to it,

967
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: and sad.

968
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 4: To read, well, one of my favorite Astros players of

969
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 4: all time. Like I just I loved it from the

970
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 4: second he came up. Of course, I know I mentioned

971
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 4: it a lot, but he was on the hooks team

972
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 4: that I worked for as well as like a nineteen

973
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 4: twenty year old just dominating people. It was so fun

974
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 4: to watch him and then it was so fun to

975
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 4: go from watching him in Corpus Christy to a month later,

976
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 4: you know, wearing the Batman cleats in Houston. I sent

977
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 4: you in, Josh Reddick, the video of me watching ALCS

978
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 4: Game seven where he threw twenty some odd straight curveballs,

979
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:00,040
Speaker 4: and I'm just losing my mind. I mean, yeah, he

980
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 4: he is a legend in Houston forever. It is so

981
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 4: frustrating when injuries are the reason that you can't perform anymore.

982
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 4: There's a difference between getting old and losing skills, and

983
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 4: you know, you just kind of fall off, but when

984
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 4: you just have injury after injury, it is demoralizing. It's

985
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 4: awful because you know what their body wants to do

986
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 4: and it just can't anymore. And I feel I feel

987
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 4: so much for Lance. I hope that I mean, obviously,

988
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 4: I hope he comes out and he's incredible this year.

989
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 4: But as you said, no matter what, that man is

990
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 4: a legend in Houston forever. So I am certainly wishing

991
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 4: him the best of luck this year.

992
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 1: And I'm happy that we're going to have Josh on

993
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: the pod on Friday to discuss all of this, to

994
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: discuss his disdain for those Batman cleats you just mentioned.

995
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: He was actually in the other Doug Lance made his

996
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: debut against the A's right and he was in the

997
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: other dugout against the face Lance in his major league

998
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: debut and apparently chirped from the dugout at this brash

999
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: kid was wearing Batman cleats, so.

1000
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 4: Esus mad he didn't have Spider Man ones on.

1001
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,919
Speaker 1: Correct, not too, but we'll get josh On. I'm happy

1002
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna have him on Friday to talk about Lances

1003
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 1: because I mean, he was teammates with him, obviously, saw

1004
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:21,399
Speaker 1: everything he did in twenty seventeen and the things he's

1005
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 1: done for the franchise, for the city. I'm glad we'll

1006
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,879
Speaker 1: have josh On on Friday to talk about all that.

1007
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 1: But until then, you can follow me on x at

1008
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: Chandler Underscore Room. You can follow Tyler at Tyler C. Stafford.

1009
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: If you enjoyed Hunter Brown being on this podcast, please

1010
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: rate and review this on Apple and Spotify. Please like

1011
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: the YouTube video and subscribe to the YouTube channel. That

1012
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,839
Speaker 1: all helps us grow, That all helps get the word out.

1013
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: Maybe other players' parents will see will like us and

1014
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: tell their kids to come on with Chandler and Josh

1015
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: Tyler on Crush City Territory. Like I said, we'll be

1016
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: back on Friday with Josh Reddick to discuss everything that's

1017
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: happening in spring training and to discuss what the Astras

1018
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: will do going forward. But until then, we will talk

1019
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: to you on Friday.

1020
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 4: Hey, I wrote the Astros Players Comments for the Baseball

1021
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:13,400
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1022
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,480
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1023
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,439
Speaker 4: comments of every player. It's really fun to flip through

1024
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1025
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,480
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1026
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1027
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