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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory. I'm Chandeler

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Speaker 2: Roam with Tyler Stafford. Fresh off of the Christian Walker game.

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Speaker 2: Christian Walker takes his biggest swing as an Astro, and

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Speaker 2: I don't even think that's a debate to walk off

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Speaker 2: the Seattle Mariners and give the Astros a series win

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Speaker 2: that they very much needed. Taking three or four from

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Speaker 2: the Mariners to end this stretch of seventeen games in

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Speaker 2: a row. They end that at ten and seven. Going

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Speaker 2: into Memorial Day, they have a Memorial Day off. They

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Speaker 2: will ter Memorial Day a game and a half back

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Speaker 2: of the Mariners in the American League West. I find

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Speaker 2: talking about division standings on May twenty fifth a little

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Speaker 2: bit silly, but here we are anyway, Tyler, that was I.

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Speaker 1: Don't know, is that their biggest win of the season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. You get to take You get to

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Speaker 3: take the series against the team that's leading the division.

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Speaker 3: You took it with your no offense, nobody pitcher versus

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Speaker 3: you know there. I don't know, is Louis Casillo still

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Speaker 3: the ace of the Mariners. I know they have a

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Speaker 3: lot of good pictures.

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Speaker 2: No, it's I think Brian, Yeah, I think Brian Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But still a very good picture. And you take that,

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Speaker 3: you have a walk off, you get some redemption for

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Speaker 3: Christian Walker, who we've said nothing but nice things about

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Speaker 3: and so always believed in. I'm never a doubt, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: certainly biggest win. And then they're off on Memorial Day.

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Speaker 1: What is that?

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Speaker 3: I've never heard of when's a baseball team off on

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Speaker 3: Memorial Day?

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Speaker 1: That is it's very very odd.

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Speaker 2: I can't recall I've covered them since twenty eighteen. I

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Speaker 2: can't recall them ever being off a Memorial Day in

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Speaker 2: a non COVID season. Obviously they didn't play baseball Memorial

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Speaker 2: Day in twenty twenty, but I can't ever recall them

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Speaker 2: being off a Memorial Day.

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Speaker 1: But they need it. Joe A.

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Speaker 2: Spot has only said many many times last three or

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Speaker 2: four days about how much this team needs an off day.

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Speaker 1: And given the.

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Speaker 2: Way they've used their bullpen, the way they had to

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Speaker 2: use their bullpen in this series, just in the overall grind,

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Speaker 2: I mean, Joe doesn't really have a bench to deploy

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Speaker 2: at the moment because of the way this roster is constructed.

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Speaker 2: So the nine guys that they run out there on

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Speaker 2: a daily basis, have been run into the ground during

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Speaker 2: the seventeen games, and so they need Memorial Day off.

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Speaker 2: They need that off day, Tyler, before we get into

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Speaker 2: kind of what we liked, what we didn't like from

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Speaker 2: the series itself, we were talking about it a little

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Speaker 2: bit before we hit record. But I think this weekend

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Speaker 2: kind of demonstrates to the fans that are a little panicky,

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Speaker 2: to the fans that react very viscerally every time the

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Speaker 2: Astros lose, or every time they inch near five hundred,

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Speaker 2: or every time they lose a couple games in a row.

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Speaker 2: You just saw what many believe as the best team

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Speaker 2: in the American League was and what many believe may

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Speaker 2: be one of the better teams in the American League.

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Speaker 2: The American League's not very good. The Mariners can really

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Speaker 2: pitch it. Their offense is better than it was last year,

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Speaker 2: but still not dynamic. But Tyler, that that's not a

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Speaker 2: team that I looked at and said, oh my goodness,

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Speaker 2: that there's no way that the Ashers can play with

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Speaker 2: this team. There's no way that that they're they're head

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Speaker 2: and shoulders better like this is. If that is the

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Speaker 2: class of the American League. West and this is such

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Speaker 2: a winnable division for the for the Ashers even as

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Speaker 2: they're constructed right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we've said it along even in the

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Speaker 3: preseason previous stuff. It's like, yeah, the Ashers probably when

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Speaker 3: eighty two to eighty five games, but until somebody beats him,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna just default to assuming that the Astros get there.

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, there's no as the kids say aura

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Speaker 3: about that team. Now, this is going to get clipped

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Speaker 3: when there's win twelve in a to finish off shot

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Speaker 3: the season now shows don't beat him again this year.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean even throughout the whole season, there

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Speaker 3: hasn't been a team that you watch and you just

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Speaker 3: go like, that's a different class of baseball than what

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Speaker 3: the Astros are playing. Now, you could also say that

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Speaker 3: about the Astros. There hasn't been a team that they

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Speaker 3: You know, there's a couple of obvious stinkers that they

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Speaker 3: I mean even when the Tigers came in, Well, did

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Speaker 3: you see Trek Scoogle? He must have one to three

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Speaker 3: on the last pitch for a thirteen K Maddox get

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Speaker 2: He must have heard me say on Foul Territory Daily

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Speaker 2: Show the other day that Hunter Brown was the best

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Speaker 2: pitcher in baseball.

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Speaker 1: He took that personally.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's real good. Yeah, Hunter Brown's got to come

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Speaker 3: out next fire. And but yeah, I mean, look, the

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Speaker 3: Astros aren't very good relative to what they've been before,

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Speaker 3: but neither is anybody else in the American League. And

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Speaker 3: you just got to get there. And so you know,

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Speaker 3: well we'll see. But good series win feels good to,

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Speaker 3: you know, be able to eke that out. Those were

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Speaker 3: all winnable and losable games, which you know is is

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Speaker 3: part of part of baseball. But it's good to see

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Speaker 3: the Astros come out on top on those.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the axiom?

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Speaker 2: They don't ask how, they just ask how many. I

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Speaker 2: don't think there are gonna be many games like Saturday

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Speaker 2: when the Ashers scored two runs in the first inning

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Speaker 2: on two Mariners errors. They did not score an earned

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Speaker 2: run in that game and still one. I don't think

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Speaker 2: there's gonna be many of those the rest of the season.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think there's gonna be many games of

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Speaker 2: Brian Brady who comes in and gives gives up extra

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Speaker 2: lose a lead. So yeah, the margins are are razor thin.

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Speaker 2: And just the way this asteris team is constructed, the

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Speaker 2: way they've played, they're gonna play a lot of these games.

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Speaker 2: They're they're not as we have talked about. They're not scoring.

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Speaker 1: The lineup is not.

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Speaker 2: As productive as we thought it would be. They're pitching

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Speaker 2: it excellent, They're pitching it very well. So there's gonna

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Speaker 2: be a lot of close games. They're gonna be on

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Speaker 2: a lot of one to two run ball games where

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Speaker 2: or a big swing here and there is going to

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Speaker 2: decide the outcome. The big swing today is from Christian Walker,

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Speaker 2: and I guess we'll start with what impressed us against

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Speaker 2: the Mariners with you know, it's been a it's been

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Speaker 2: a grind for Christian Walker, and we have discussed it

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Speaker 2: at nauseum to the point where I'm tired of talking

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Speaker 2: to see him. Just from a personal level, it was

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Speaker 2: good to see him laughing and smiling. I mean, that

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Speaker 2: was as happy as you have seen Christian Walker and

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Speaker 2: an Astro's uniform since day one, since he signed that

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Speaker 2: sixty million dollar contract. And on a personal level, it

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Speaker 2: was good to see you could tell the weight. Some

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Speaker 2: of the weight had just been taken off of his

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Speaker 2: Sunday at Diking Park.

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Speaker 3: I'm upset he gave up on the mustache so quickly.

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Speaker 3: It was like one day and he quit on it

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Speaker 3: so fast. This took me a while to get going.

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Speaker 3: So kind of offended he could just one day decide

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Speaker 3: the next day. But yes, good, good for him. Your

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Speaker 3: article is great about all of the superstitions, the high socks,

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Speaker 3: the moving lockers.

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Speaker 1: Could he give a quick.

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Speaker 3: Rundown for people who have not read it, cowards first off,

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Speaker 3: go reach handler. But it was really good. I really

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Speaker 3: enjoyed that one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Basically, ballplayers are very odd people, and there are

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Speaker 2: and Christian Walker wanted to maintain that he is not superstitious,

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Speaker 2: but he was just a little stitious. He wanted to

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Speaker 2: call it a routine instead of superstitions. So Christian Walker

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Speaker 2: claims that it was not his idea to move lockers

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Speaker 2: in the Astros home clubhouse at Dykin Park. He said

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Speaker 2: that there were quote, conversations outside, just baseball conversations that

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Speaker 2: base one of those baseball things. I think what a

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Speaker 2: lot of people latched onto was that Christian Walker's locker

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Speaker 2: was formerly used by Joseah Brady.

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Speaker 3: I have that condemned.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to.

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Speaker 2: I think that's unfair to both guys to like make

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Speaker 2: because very easily the headline of that story could have

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Speaker 2: been Christian Walker moves out of Josea. Brady's locker, Like,

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Speaker 2: let's see if that works. I didn't think that was

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Speaker 2: the way to treat them, just from my vantage point,

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Speaker 2: but it the parallels are too stark to ignore. Just

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Speaker 2: so he moved lockers when they got back from Tampa because,

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Speaker 2: according to him and he did, he hit I think

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Speaker 2: basically like, I need some form of luck. And so

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Speaker 2: they started talking about its, like maybe moving lockers, so

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Speaker 2: he moved the locker adjacent to his old locker. He

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Speaker 2: wore a mustache for the first two games of the

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Speaker 2: the high socks for Saturday's game. And actually, it was

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Speaker 2: interesting what he said after Saturday's game. Remember his two

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Speaker 2: hits in that game. One of them was a seeing

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Speaker 2: signs of luck. So like, if if that's gonna work,

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Speaker 2: and that's gonna help me luckwise, and I'm gonna keep

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Speaker 2: wearing the high socks.

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Speaker 1: He wore the high socks today.

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Speaker 2: Hit'll walk off homer, So I would imagine the high

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Speaker 2: socks are here to stay. He is not moving out

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Speaker 2: of his new locker. But any anyway, you can get

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Speaker 2: it anyway. Anything ballplayers can do to appease the baseball guys,

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Speaker 2: they will And Christian Walker, good for him. He's ops

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Speaker 2: is up to six twenty nine. One of the better

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Speaker 2: swings we've seen him take in a while, just better

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Speaker 2: contact quality using the Crawford boxes.

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Speaker 1: Was nice to see.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he looked, Uh, he looked good. That was

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Speaker 3: a good swing. Ripped it as an estoc bre eighty

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Speaker 3: as special, just ripped straight into to the Crawford boxes.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, good, good to see for sure, Uh from him.

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Speaker 3: There another person that impressed me with the Mariners, we

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Speaker 3: called it we'll take this one is jose Al Tuovey.

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Speaker 3: And look we can talk about the two home run game.

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Speaker 3: That was great. I haven't a bat. That is when

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Speaker 3: I think maybe yesterday of the game before, but he

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Speaker 3: just completely missed a ball and accidentally flared it into

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Speaker 2: So I know we're talking Tyler about the Mariners series,

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Speaker 1: This team may't play in many blowouts. We have seen.

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Speaker 2: That every game is going to be close unless the

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Speaker 2: offense can find more ways to produce runs. This bullpen

436
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Speaker 2: and the starters for that matter, but the bullpen especially,

437
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Speaker 2: they're going to be.

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Speaker 1: On a lot of tight games, a lot.

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Speaker 2: Of close games, and that just inherently adds a lot

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Speaker 2: more stress on a reliever. And I think that's what

441
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Speaker 2: I know, that's what the team is worried about, and

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Speaker 2: that's what I'd be a little bit concerned about the

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Speaker 2: sustainability of this bullpen, because look, they're doing an excellent

444
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Speaker 2: job right now with pitching in these close games, pitching

445
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Speaker 2: all these leverage innings with where one pitch or a

446
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Speaker 2: couple pitches here in Erica could really derail the outing.

447
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Speaker 2: Like they're doing a good job, but it's also May

448
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Speaker 2: twenty fifth. Let's see in July, on July twenty fifth

449
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Speaker 2: or August twenty fifth, if they keep playing all these

450
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Speaker 2: close games, like what.

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Speaker 1: Do they look like?

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Speaker 2: And as they're playing all these close games, Joe spot

453
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Speaker 2: is going to want to go to his leverage guys.

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Speaker 2: He's going to want to go to King A bray

455
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Speaker 2: you hater a lot, and that's just not going to work. Like,

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Speaker 2: you can't overwork these guys. You can't chase wins all

457
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Speaker 2: the time in these games where you're close. So that

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Speaker 2: would concern me more than the starters not getting deep

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Speaker 2: into games. But at the same time, the starters do

460
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Speaker 2: have to get deep into games. I hate to bring

461
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Speaker 2: up like one micro thing, but a lot of people

462
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Speaker 2: were really mad at the way the bullpen was deployed

463
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Speaker 2: in the loss in this series. I don't really understand

464
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Speaker 2: why were you upset at how Joe A. Spotta deployed

465
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Speaker 2: his bullpen in that Friday game that they bray you in.

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Speaker 2: He brought a bray you in for Julio.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, My general thought is bring in your good pictures.

468
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Speaker 3: When Julio Rodriguez is batting with the game on the line,

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Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with it. He looks like

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Speaker 3: a genius if it were. I mean that's true of

471
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Speaker 3: every manisterial decision ever is if it works, it's like, oh,

472
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Speaker 3: this guy's awesome.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what were people upset about is that

475
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Speaker 3: he brought it in the seventh.

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Speaker 2: I think it was hindsight, just like Brian King was

477
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Speaker 2: on the mound and had gotten like he had allowed

478
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Speaker 2: a left on left hit to JP Crawford, but he

479
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Speaker 2: had gotten two outs, and I think people just were

480
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Speaker 2: like he thought. I think their reaction to Julio getting

481
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Speaker 2: a double and then cal Ralely hitting a homer was

482
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Speaker 2: not to blame the poor execution of the pitch of

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Speaker 2: Brian and Bray you or give credit to the hitters

484
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Speaker 2: that hit the pitch.

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Speaker 1: But it's more of that. I mean blame the manager.

486
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Speaker 2: Because I guess all they do is watch the Texans

487
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Speaker 2: and can blame like the offensive coordinator when things go wrong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean he brought in his best right handed reliever

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Speaker 2: to face their best right handed hitter, and that's that's

491
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Speaker 2: what I would want, and it just didn't work. I

492
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Speaker 2: do I do wonder why Josh Hater pitched in that game.

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Speaker 3: He pitched, Uh, he hadn't pitched in like five days, right.

494
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Speaker 1: He hadn't. But he was also one of those.

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Speaker 3: Things that the manager do. They have those conversations like

496
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Speaker 3: before the game of like, hey, yes it's been five days,

497
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Speaker 3: Like I'll let you pitch as long as it's not

498
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Speaker 3: like crazy or something like.

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Speaker 2: I would not be surprised. I don't know this for

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Speaker 2: a fact. I don't know that this happened. This is

501
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Speaker 2: just me guessing. I would not be surprised if Josh

502
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Speaker 2: Hater asked to pitch. Yeah, Josh was like, you know,

503
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Speaker 2: I hadn't pitched on Monday, like I need to get

504
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Speaker 2: work in, and they were going to pitch him in

505
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Speaker 2: that game.

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Speaker 1: They probably wouldn't have pitched. Oh maybe they would have.

507
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Speaker 2: They probably wouldn't have pitched him in like a ten

508
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Speaker 2: run game, but like they were going to pitch him

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Speaker 2: in that game no matter what.

510
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Speaker 1: And now I understand.

511
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Speaker 2: Where the frustration comes in because he pitched in a

512
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Speaker 2: safe situation on Saturday and then was unavailable today. Now

513
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Speaker 2: they got the job done, but they didn't have Brian

514
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Speaker 2: a Braid and they didn't have Josh Hater today.

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Speaker 3: I think he was available today, did they?

516
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Speaker 1: Did they? Outright? He was? Yeah, Hayter was not available today.

517
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Speaker 1: They were not They were not using Josh Haday.

518
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Speaker 3: I didn't think they would use Brandon bred yesterday, and

519
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Speaker 3: they did.

520
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 2: But he had only pitched one He had thrown twenty

521
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Speaker 2: two pitches, but he only pitched one day before that.

522
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Speaker 2: They're not using guys three days early in the season

523
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Speaker 2: and both Hater and a bray You had pitched on

524
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Speaker 2: back to baby, So yeah, they were not available today.

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Speaker 2: Joe didn't come out and like say on the record,

526
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Speaker 2: I'm not pitching Josh Hater today, But it was understood

527
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Speaker 2: that that, yeah, he was not going to.

528
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Speaker 3: If it were three to two, he would have been

529
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Speaker 3: cheffing around there.

530
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Speaker 1: I bet he would have.

531
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Speaker 2: Maybe it would have been a decoy just to like

532
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Speaker 2: maybe make put it in Dan Wilson's the marriage manager's

533
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Speaker 2: mind that maybe they bring him in. But no, I

534
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Speaker 2: don't think he was gonna I don't think he was

535
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Speaker 2: going to pitch today. What uh what concerned you?

536
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: Well anything? What concerned you in this series?

537
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 2: Again not not a ton like they took three or

538
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Speaker 2: four from the team that's winning the division, but but

539
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Speaker 2: what concerned you from this series?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

541
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Speaker 1: Is last Diaz? Okay?

542
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Speaker 3: Does he does he need his eyes check? Is he

543
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 3: all right?

544
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 2: Like he was a very good benefactor of Angel Hernandez

545
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 2: being an umpire for so long and and C. B.

546
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Speaker 1: Buckner's existence.

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00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 2: Las Diaz is probably right under those two guys as

548
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 2: universally not liked within the game. So now the pitch

549
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 2: that Dan Wilson got run on today, like that was

550
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 2: a strike. I think Jiner and uh who was it?

551
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: Brian King was in.

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00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 2: I think Jiner and King got crossed up because Yer

553
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 2: was set up. Yer was set up somewhere completely different

554
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 2: where that pitch ended up. And so when Yiner like

555
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 2: jerked his glove to catch it, like it threw everyone off.

556
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 2: That's why rose a rain up. But the pitch is

557
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 2: right down the middle, like it was a strike.

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Speaker 1: He got it right.

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Speaker 2: But uh, but yeah, last Diaz is not not thought

560
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Speaker 2: of it very well.

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Speaker 3: There were a few, Speaking of Yiner, there were a

562
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 3: few Yiner at bats that were yikes to watch. There

563
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 3: was one he had a three pitch strikeout in one

564
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Speaker 3: of the first two games of this years where there

565
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 3: was like fastball down the middle that he looked at,

566
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 3: a cutter that was above his helmet that he swung at,

567
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 3: and then like a slider in the dirt that he

568
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 3: swung at. That was rough. But yeah, I mean, look overall,

569
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 3: pretty good, pretty good series. There wasn't a ton to

570
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Speaker 3: be concerned about.

571
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Speaker 2: No Ironer got moved down the seventh today in the

572
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Speaker 2: batting order, which is as low as he's hit all season.

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Speaker 2: He did hit seventh when they were in Seattle. We

574
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Speaker 2: actually coincidentally when the Ashers were in Seattle earlier this season.

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Speaker 2: He started the year terribly and they dropped in the

576
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Speaker 2: seventh and started to bounce back a little bit, moved up.

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Speaker 2: He's back down the seventh out. And I don't think

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Speaker 2: this is anything, and I don't want to make it

579
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Speaker 2: more of a deal than it is. But with how

580
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Speaker 2: much Victor Grartini has been playing and how high he

581
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 2: is hitting in the batting order, like, I understand why

582
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Speaker 2: they're doing it because they want some non right handed

583
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Speaker 2: presence in the middle of the order. It's also a

584
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Speaker 2: good hitter. Yeah, he's been very he's been good. Right

585
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Speaker 2: when Jordan comes back, I think.

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Speaker 3: The move's going some more wood to knock on hang on.

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Speaker 2: I presume the move is going to be saysar Salas

588
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Speaker 2: are back to triple A and they're going to go

589
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Speaker 2: back to two catchers.

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Speaker 3: Do you think he's touched first base at Diakon Park?

591
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Speaker 3: I was thinking about that today, who says our Salas are?

592
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Speaker 3: I know he takes batting practice. Do you think his

593
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Speaker 3: foot has touched first base?

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Speaker 1: And yeah, he came in last year and played pretty much.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about this year and they're like three, do

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Speaker 3: you think he hadn't touched first base with his foot

597
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Speaker 3: physically with his foot?

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Speaker 1: I think he's had a I think he's like stood

599
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: there and caught some throws during in field pregame.

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Speaker 3: Like I need, I need a reporter on the inside.

601
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 3: I want to know if he has literally touched the

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Speaker 3: first base with his foot since coming out this year.

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Speaker 2: I do wonder though, like Victor, like they're not playing

604
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 2: Victor Carrattini, like he's some part time player, Like he's.

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Speaker 1: Been in there, He's been good. He's been in there

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Speaker 1: basically every day.

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Speaker 2: If they My my presumption is that Bastar salads Are

608
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Speaker 2: is going back to triple A.

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Speaker 1: When you if and when yord On Alvarez returns, you.

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Speaker 2: Think we see like a more even split between yiner

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Speaker 2: And and Carotina. Because I'll be honest with you too,

612
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Speaker 2: Jinar Didez, his defense is not not that his defense

613
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 2: has ever been his calling card, but it doesn't look

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Speaker 2: to me like it's gotten a ton better. There hasn't

615
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Speaker 2: been a ton of evolution there, so I think it's

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Speaker 2: a wash defensively, and Yiner is a bat first catcher

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Speaker 2: and bat is not producing, then I do wonder if

618
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Speaker 2: you see a little bit more or even playing time

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Speaker 2: between those two guys.

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Speaker 3: Might be good for him too, to value his advats

621
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Speaker 3: more where if he's not getting a start every day,

622
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Speaker 3: you know, maybe something in the back of his mind

623
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Speaker 3: is like, I only get three today and I really

624
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 3: got to make the most of these, and maybe that'll

625
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Speaker 3: help him, you know, be a little bit more selective

626
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Speaker 3: or just make contact at this point. You know that'd

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Speaker 3: be good. But yeah, I mean we've seen Joe a

628
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Speaker 3: Spotta with Dezenzo and Smith play whatever hotthand is out there.

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Speaker 3: I don't see any reason why he wouldn't do that

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Speaker 3: with Keratini and Diaz. So yeah, I would certainly expect

631
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Speaker 3: to see much more of a split when Yordon comes back.

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Speaker 1: If and when Jordon comes back is the big question.

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Speaker 3: terrified looking up from.

654
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Speaker 2: Your I'm sure, I'm sure you're going to do that. Yeah,

655
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 2: I forgot that I was thirty seconds and not sixty seconds.

656
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Speaker 1: It was hilario.

657
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 2: You speaking of something else, It's hilarious. So I don't

658
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: know if they did this on purpose or not, but

659
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 2: the Astros I believe it was on Friday. They coordinated

660
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 2: set up this whole event so jord and Alvarez could

661
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 2: run the bases and Friday is when traditionally, like the

662
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 2: first or second game of a homestand is traditionally when

663
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 2: you get a lot of you know, the TV media

664
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 2: that doesn't cover the team on the road, a lot

665
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 2: of the other media that that only covers home games.

666
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 2: They'll come out the first or second game of a

667
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 2: homestand and like everyone was lining like the first base

668
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 2: line to film jord And Alvarez running the bases as

669
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 2: if he was on the injured list with some sort

670
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,280
Speaker 2: of lower body injury.

671
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 3: Can't wait to get that sweet Jordan base running back

672
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 3: in my life once he returns.

673
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 2: As if as if that is going to help a

674
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 2: hand injury that that is currently sidelining him.

675
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: He did go out and left field and uh.

676
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 2: Take some fly balls through some through some relays back

677
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 2: in I I wish I could offer some sort of

678
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 2: substantial update.

679
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 1: I can't.

680
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 2: He's just hitting in the cage right now. I don't

681
00:34:55,239 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 2: even think he's hitting off velocity at this point. A

682
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 2: team officials have seemed pretty hesitant that they don't want

683
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 2: to send him on a rehab assignment. But he's coming

684
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 2: up on about a month now without playing. I think

685
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 2: it'd be very difficult to put him back in a

686
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 2: major league lineup without at least sending him down to

687
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 2: Sugarland or Corpus or wherever's at home, just to see

688
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,280
Speaker 2: some actual pitching.

689
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: But I don't even know if he's close to that,

690
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: you know, Joe A. Spota.

691
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 2: They've really kind of toned down any sort of timeline.

692
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 2: They don't want to put anything out there, so like

693
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 2: it's basically pointless where we're at now to keep asking

694
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 2: about him. He's just gonna come back when he's ready.

695
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 2: But the longer this goes, Tyler, I think it's a

696
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 2: little it's gonna it's growing to get a little more concerning,

697
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 2: because this is obviously something that is not just a

698
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 2: oh he it's not just a casual injury. This is

699
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 2: something that he may have to play through all season.

700
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 2: I don't know, but like this is this is not

701
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 2: a run of the mill, typical like minor injury.

702
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 3: Well it sounds like less of a like. And I

703
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 3: don't know this is semantics, but an injury to me

704
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 3: feels like, oh, you did something to it and it

705
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 3: caused this injury. This sounds like something that has just

706
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 3: been bothering him for a very long time. It sounds

707
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 3: like he played through it throughout most of the year

708
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 3: until he just couldn't anymore. And that almost feels more concerning,

709
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 3: where it's like this is just a chronic pain that

710
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 3: he's been having. I will say, did you see the

711
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 3: one cool story from A and M Baseball this year,

712
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 3: which was that we won't talk about anything else but

713
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,439
Speaker 3: jays Lobolette, who's going to be a top ten, top

714
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 3: fifteen pick or whatever, broke his hand in the SEC

715
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 3: tournament and then got surgery and played the next day

716
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 3: DHD like a psycho. So I'm not saying or done

717
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 3: should do that, But it may just be a thing

718
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 3: that is going to hurt him for the foreseeable future,

719
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 3: Like it may just not get better. His hand just

720
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 3: may hurt. And so I I don't know for me,

721
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 3: we're so early in the season, Like if it were October,

722
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 3: Jordan will be playing right now, I would imagine, you know,

723
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 3: And so look at this point, I'm like, dude, you've

724
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 3: already missed three weeks. Don't come back until we think

725
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 3: it's not gonna get worse. But it it may just hurt,

726
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 3: Like his hand made just hurt and he's gonna have

727
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 3: to figure out how to hit with that real quick?

728
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: Who did who did texas A and him play?

729
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:43,320
Speaker 2: When Jay Slaviolet came back and in his heroic measure, well,

730
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 2: I said.

731
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 3: It was heroic that he played. They were playing L

732
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 3: s U and they did not win. They started the

733
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 3: year number one, and that is where we're going to

734
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 3: end the conversation. Uh, they will be cheering on their

735
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 3: fellow SEC schools for the collegiate postseason. We're onto Aggie

736
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 3: softball now. They're looking great, number one overall seed. Okay, okay,

737
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 3: so we'll get real hyped about that. Got to take

738
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 3: on what's her name, Brie from from Arkansas. She's real good.

739
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 3: We're big softball fans now, so everybody, everybody hop on

740
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 3: that hype tream with me.

741
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 2: That can't be with Billy Luci's money's paying for that,

742
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: can't be. That can't help. You do know that texting

743
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 2: them Softball got embarrassed in their own regional, right, they're

744
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 2: not even in the tournament anymore.

745
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 3: I did not know.

746
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: Okay, so now you know.

747
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 3: But they were the number one over again life.

748
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:40,240
Speaker 1: And they lost a home regional.

749
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 3: That's what I like to focus on is when at

750
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 3: what point in the year were they the number one

751
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 3: overall team? And then I just snapshot that and I

752
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 3: put that in my little trophy case as they were

753
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 3: number one at that point, and then they move on track

754
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 3: and field season. Now, baby, they're always really good at that.

755
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure.

756
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,760
Speaker 2: I'm sure football will will will raise every one's spirits.

757
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 3: The equestrian team is always great. I covered that when

758
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 3: I was the sports Did you ever cover an equestrian meat?

759
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: Do you think LSU had a question? They'd probably shoot

760
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 2: the horses and eat them.

761
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 3: I was gonna say they might have like an alligator

762
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 3: version where they're trying to ride gators. I had to

763
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 3: learn how to write about a question. There's all these

764
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 3: points and stuff that I just showed up at this

765
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 3: meet and I was like, I don't even know. There's

766
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 3: scores everywhere, what does this mean? And then I had

767
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 3: to write a story about a bunch of horses that's

768
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 3: online somewhere. I'm sure someone someone go find my like

769
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen article about Texas A and M equestrian meats

770
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 3: because I had to learn how to cover that. So

771
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 3: there you go.

772
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: Did you interview the horses?

773
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I asked them for comment and they said.

774
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 2: Nay, when I inevitably get out of this role, my

775
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 2: next job, my dream job.

776
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: I want to be the jockey. No, I don't want

777
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: to be the jockey.

778
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 2: I want to be the guy that is on the

779
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 2: horse that interviews the jockey after the Kentucky Derby.

780
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's cool.

781
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 2: I like, literally, like I think it's it's been a

782
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 2: woman the last couple of times I've seen it. She

783
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 2: like they ride up to this jockey that just won

784
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 2: the Kentucky Derby, and like she's having to control the

785
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 2: horse and she has like her microphone out to this

786
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 2: guy that, like English is his second language, so you

787
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 2: can barely understand what he's saying. And it just it

788
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 2: looks like a dream I.

789
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 3: Would Bregman can hook you up right, He'll be in

790
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 3: He'll be in there next year. He'll be a Belmont

791
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,720
Speaker 3: or whatever they are. What's what's the big horse races?

792
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 3: I'm not a degenerate son.

793
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 2: The Belmont and the Kentucky Derby. Bregman's got a lot

794
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 2: of time now, and fortunately, unfortunately for him, I hate that,

795
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 2: I mean honestly, yeah, yeah, and you should not being facetious.

796
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 2: Bad news for Alex bragmant out with a quad. But

797
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 2: the good news is that the Red Sox don't play

798
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 2: the Astros until August, so hopefully he will be back

799
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 2: by then. And yeah, and you're don hopefully we'll still

800
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 2: be around by then on Crush City Territory, telling you

801
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 2: about what the Ashers are doing. In the meantime, Enjoy

802
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 2: your Memorial Day, Enjoy your Astros less Memorial Day. If

803
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 2: you wanna, if you want to listen to this, if

804
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 2: you want to think about the Ashers, what they're gonna

805
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,399
Speaker 2: be like coming back from Memorial Day, you can subscribe

806
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Speaker 2: to the Rush Hitty Territory YouTube channel. You can rate

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00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,239
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808
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:30,800
Speaker 2: star review. You can follow Tyler on X at Tyler C. Stafford.

809
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 2: You can follow me at Chandler Underscore Room. And we

810
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 2: will be back next week to talk about the fighting

811
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 2: whatever they are, A's and the Rays A's and rays

812
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 2: coming in next week on a what should be a

813
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 2: scintillating rest of this homestand at Dikin Park.

814
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you later, guys.

815
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 3: Thanks, go see Mission Impossible and I'max by

816
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Speaker 5: Accord