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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory IM Channel Room,

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Speaker 2: joined by Tyler Stafford, who made us redo this once

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Speaker 2: already today. Usually we're pretty good at just going and

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Speaker 2: like not having to break and not having to edit

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Speaker 2: anything out.

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Speaker 1: But Tyler, you messed it up. How do you feel?

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Speaker 3: Uh? It lasted three seconds and it was because you

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Speaker 3: double clicked it. So I don't want I don't want

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Speaker 3: to hear any excuses.

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Speaker 1: I'm very tired.

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Speaker 3: Quit, quit fuss and Chandler.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's gonna be on a T shirt before you

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Speaker 2: know it. So will uh so will surplus and untenable apparently.

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Speaker 3: Dereliction of duty. That's that's another of my favorites.

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Speaker 2: You were all right, everyone that listens to this, everyone

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Speaker 2: that comments, everyone that very nicely subscribes to the Athletic

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Speaker 2: and subscribes to Crush City Territory, which you should continue

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 1: Both of those things. All of you are right.

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Speaker 2: There is no infield surplus all if you are right,

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Speaker 2: there was gonna be somebody that gets hurt, and that

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Speaker 2: person is Jeremy Pania, who was doing what he would

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Speaker 2: have been doing if he was still an astros camp.

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Speaker 2: He was playing shortstop and an exhibition game, and he

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Speaker 2: fielded a ground ball made the third of first base.

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Speaker 2: Nothing about the video looked.

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Speaker 1: Bad.

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Speaker 2: It looked like a very normal play. But then at

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Speaker 2: the end of the play you can see Jeremy kind

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Speaker 2: of look at his throwing his throwing hand. He was

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Speaker 2: out of the game the next inning. To be candid,

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Speaker 2: I was told that the Astros were told initially that

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Speaker 2: Paenia left the game with a broken fingernail something that

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Speaker 2: that was a finger nail injury. And so when the

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Speaker 2: reporting began that afternoon or that afternoon end of that night,

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Speaker 2: that that Jeremy Penna had a fractured finger, I was

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Speaker 2: hesitant only because you know, you know, it could have

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Speaker 2: been semantics, something could have gotten lost in translation. Because

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Speaker 2: this did happen in the DR. This happened in the

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Speaker 2: Dominican Republic, and the initial reports came from media that

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Speaker 2: is in the Dominican Republic, And you know, we reached

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Speaker 2: out of the athletic We reached out to the official

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Speaker 2: press officer of Team Dominican Republic in the WBC, and

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Speaker 2: they told us, you know, he had X rays, but

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Speaker 2: there is no official diagnosis.

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Speaker 1: We don't know yet.

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Speaker 2: To call it a fracture would be premature. But the

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Speaker 2: next day, Jeremy Panna went to West Palm Beach saw

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Speaker 2: a hand specialist that told him he has a fracture

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Speaker 2: in the fingertip of his right ring finger. He'll be

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Speaker 2: evaluated and reevaluated in two weeks. That came, I believe

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Speaker 2: on March fourth, which meant opening day from March fourth

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Speaker 2: safe to say that his status for opening day is

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Speaker 1: I have not talked to Jeremy.

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Speaker 2: I have not talked to I've talked to some people

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Speaker 2: that are there, but not like I have not been

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Speaker 2: in these scrums. From what I can ascertain from many

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Speaker 2: is going to be a long term injury. This does

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Speaker 2: not seem like something that is going to, you know,

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Speaker 2: just comes at a time when he may not be

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Speaker 3: I don't believe you okay until he is back out there,

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Speaker 3: I'm terrified. I don't trust any of this. I mean,

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Speaker 3: broken tip of a pinky or a ring finger seems

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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't trust you, and I don't trust

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Speaker 3: that he's going to be okay. I also was picturing

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Speaker 3: you know, when you're swinging right handed, the pressure is

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Speaker 3: you're pulling the bat through. So it does feel like

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Speaker 3: the right ring finger is probably about the best you

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Speaker 3: So it does seem like something that you can come

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Speaker 3: of the Astros you watched last season Chandler. Uh. They're

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Speaker 3: on thin ice with UH with injury reports and statuses,

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Speaker 3: and so I will believe that he is better when

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Speaker 3: Myers memorial. He has to actually play, Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 3: It can't just be a starting lineup. I need to

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Speaker 3: and and he's back. I will say I thought that

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Speaker 3: we led with that. It seemed like people were pretty

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Speaker 3: normal about Nope, in your mentions, that was a little different. Hey,

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Speaker 3: you know where you also take ground balls at shortstop

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Speaker 3: spring training? All right, this was not a WBC injury.

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Speaker 3: There's not some secret.

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Speaker 1: Ground at the WBC yet.

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Speaker 3: Oh, he was just in the Dominican.

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Speaker 2: Dominican like, he was not even at the the Their

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Speaker 2: pool play is in Miami.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't even in Miami yet, he wasn't at the WBC.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna take grounders in West Palm Beach too,

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Speaker 3: and he could have gotten hit on his finger. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean when it first came out, I saw the

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Speaker 3: reports that was like, oh, he's expected to miss maybe

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Speaker 3: the first round, but he'll be back. And of course,

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Speaker 3: as soon as I saw I was like, no chances, Uh,

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Speaker 3: mister Jim gonna let him play uh an inning in

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Speaker 3: the WBC if he got hurt already.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to wait into these waters because I

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Speaker 2: do not speak Spanish. But did you see the Heraldo

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Speaker 2: Perdomo interview that was making the rounds yea Coldo Perdomo,

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Speaker 2: who is going to replace Jeremy Pagna at shortstop on

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Speaker 2: the Dominican starting lineup. Again, I'm paraphrasing. I don't know Spanish,

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Speaker 2: but people that do know Spanish have tried to translate

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Speaker 2: it for me. Essentially, Roaldo Perdomo said on camera that

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Speaker 2: Jeremy Pania is fine, but the team didn't want him

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Speaker 2: to play.

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Speaker 3: I'll take it, that's sure. If that's true, great, Sorry

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Speaker 3: for Jeremy Panna. I'm sure that he would like to

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Speaker 3: be playing. Yeah, this seems fair to be, Like, hey,

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Speaker 3: this is in two weeks. This is a big deal.

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Speaker 2: I mean, did you did you see the Camonaro celebration

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Speaker 2: last night after he Homer? Yeah, Like it sucks for Pina,

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Speaker 2: this sucks for Payna that he can't be a part

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Speaker 1: Like, come on, this tournament's awesome, like it really is.

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Speaker 3: Like and but at the same time, if if opening

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Speaker 3: day were six weeks away, I could see it. You know,

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Speaker 3: maybe you can hang around with the team whatever. But

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Speaker 3: they're gonna want I mean, at this point, I want

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Speaker 3: every aushos player getting imaging done every day just because

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Speaker 3: that seems to be an issue. Let's get some images

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Speaker 3: in there. Whatever that means, just more images. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean he's he's not gonna get to play, which

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Speaker 3: is too bad because I was really looking forward to

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Speaker 3: seeing one notable astro player in the tournament. But Gosha Whitcomb,

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Speaker 3: Zach Desenzo's playing at dyke In Park right now.

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Speaker 1: I should probably be there. I should probably be there,

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Speaker 1: but I instead of doing this.

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Speaker 3: How was how was dyking yesterday? Was bumping?

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Speaker 2: It was? You know, it was interesting the well, first

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Speaker 2: of all, if you want to watch the BBC, it's

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Speaker 2: always on Fox one. You can stream on Fox one.

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Speaker 2: If you're watching on YouTube, there's a QR code that

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Speaker 2: you can start a seven day free trial at foxwe

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Speaker 2: dot com and they're going to stream all of the WBC,

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Speaker 2: So watch it on YouTube. Scan the QR code Fox

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Speaker 2: one dot com seven day free trial. You can watch

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Speaker 2: all the WBC games, including the US and Great Britain tonight.

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Speaker 2: We're recording this on Saturday, and then Monday night will

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Speaker 2: be Team Mexico against Team USA, which will be incredible.

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Speaker 2: You will see a member of the Crush City Territory

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Speaker 2: host panel participating in a pregame activity before Mexico USA.

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Speaker 2: So get ready for that. But so I say this

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Speaker 2: all to say yesterday, So Mexico played Britain in the

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Speaker 2: first game yesterday and on the afternoon, and the Mexico

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Speaker 2: crowd was lit. It was twelve pm on a Friday.

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Speaker 2: I did not expect there to be a ton of

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Speaker 1: It was awesome.

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Speaker 2: Just goes to show you that prime time Monday night

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Speaker 2: with Team USA and attended that is going to be

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Speaker 2: a bonkers atmosphere Mexico in the US. The Mexico the

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Speaker 2: Team USA Brazil game. Like at the beginning, it was

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Speaker 2: obviously pretty lit. Judge hit a homer in the first

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Speaker 2: game was played, Brazil walked seventeen guys, USA left twenty.

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Speaker 1: They left twenty.

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Speaker 2: No, they left thirteen runners on base and went five

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Speaker 2: It took the crowd out of it, which was which

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Speaker 2: was not fun. But at the beginning, when Judge hit

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Speaker 2: that homer and you know, the introductions and everything, it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it looked fun. I agree the the walking was

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Speaker 3: it was quite annoying to watch. But I also would

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Speaker 3: not want to throw a strike to anyone in that lineup,

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Speaker 3: so don't blame me for that. But yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 3: had a buddy go shout out Danny. He texted me

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Speaker 3: from the game said, the atmosphere is fun. Uh so, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it looked like fun. It's also fun to get into

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Speaker 3: Diacon Park before the season starts. Any any updates there

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Speaker 3: you want to share?

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Speaker 2: How to look for our for our wealthier listeners, the

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Speaker 2: Diamond Club has been completely renovated and it.

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Speaker 1: Looks very nice.

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Speaker 3: Big news for me.

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Speaker 1: It looks very nice.

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Speaker 2: So if you frequent the Diamond Club, if you enjoy

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Speaker 2: the Diamond Club, if you can somehow afford season tickets

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Speaker 2: in the Diamond Club. First of all, I don't know

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Speaker 2: what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Listening to this.

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Speaker 2: Second, you're gonna enjoy the new renovations because everything looks

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Speaker 2: looks very good there. Otherwise, you know, they have some

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Speaker 2: different signage in the outfield just for WBC stuff.

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Speaker 1: They have some different sponsors on.

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Speaker 2: The night mode.

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Speaker 3: All the ads are dark.

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Speaker 1: Yeah's cool.

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Speaker 3: But and I saw the big star out in centerfield

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Speaker 3: is back.

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Speaker 1: They're not playing, uh, they're playing. Uh.

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Speaker 2: They're playing Deep in the Heart of Texas in the

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Speaker 2: eighth inning now for WBC games, not during the seventh

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Speaker 2: inning stretch like they normally do.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised they're playing. I'm surprised they're playing it at all.

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Speaker 2: He is the son of Jose Contreras, former White Sox

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Speaker 2: Joseph's mom is Brazilian, which is why he was on

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Speaker 2: So I'd have like, so I had talked to Joseph

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Speaker 1: Was that was my normal state.

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Speaker 2: So he seems like a great kid, truly said he's

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Speaker 2: He's seventeen years old, and he's like, I got homework

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Speaker 3: You'll be all right.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that that was That was awesome. It was

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Speaker 2: And it's you know what didn't a couple in the

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Speaker 3: It's so much fun. This also should settle any debate

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Speaker 3: I could hit that. Aaron Judge got sought off by

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Speaker 3: you think you could hit. No, you could not.

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Speaker 2: No, no, But that was that was an unquestion to me.

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Speaker 1: It's it was cool.

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Speaker 2: It's cool, and it's one of the reasons why this

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Speaker 3: Bring the uh whoever represented these countries from last year's

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Speaker 3: I want to I want to see the crossover of everybody.

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Speaker 1: It's so fun, all right, from your lips to Rob

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Speaker 3: It's not a bad idea. Maybe in the you know,

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Speaker 2: So now that Astros fans will not get to watch

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Speaker 3: Yesterday, Boy, you should have heard them talking about Michael

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Speaker 3: It was it was a slog. But man, it's it's

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Speaker 2: the I'll throw the question to you, Tyler, because everyone

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Speaker 3: Definitely. Can't trade paradies now. I mean I don't trust

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Speaker 3: If only there were some gold glove shortstop ready to go,

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Speaker 2: It's like that, I'm like manifesting it then like I

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Speaker 3: Chandler barely thinks about the astros while he's there, I

440
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 3: promise you. When he is at home, he is not

441
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 3: having additional thoughts about the uston astros and what they

442
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:42,359
Speaker 3: should do with their roster.

443
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 1: More accurate.

444
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, uh yeah, there there's your there's your lineup. Now,

445
00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 3: Korea is a short paride's at third a'l TWOA. What

446
00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 3: a fun I can't wait to see an I'll tuove

447
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,920
Speaker 3: flip to Korea and then just a cannon arm coming

448
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 3: from carre over there. I'm ready let me let me

449
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 3: see it.

450
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:11,199
Speaker 2: So is it solved in the short term? Yes, like

451
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 2: if Jeremy Payne is not ready for opening day. They

452
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 2: are completely covered like it is.

453
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: It's plug and play.

454
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 2: You and Joe Spot as the foul Territory the Daily Show.

455
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,160
Speaker 2: They were in camp on Friday and Joe Spot did

456
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 2: an interview on the on Foul Territory In staid, Carlos

457
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 2: Carea will be the shortstop if Jeremy Payne is not

458
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 2: ready for opening day. So take the thought of estoc

459
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,640
Speaker 2: Parade is playing shortstop out of your head. Carlos Carrey

460
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 2: is going to.

461
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 3: Short Who had that thought?

462
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,400
Speaker 1: Uh, there were people, there were people that were there.

463
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: There was not there were people in that ass.

464
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 3: That's not true.

465
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 1: Yeah there were. So Paradis will play third, Carrell play.

466
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 3: Short Mm hmm.

467
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 2: Again with this, even with the audit they did on

468
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 2: the return to play procedure, and even with you know,

469
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 2: having a new trainer and having a new strength coach,

470
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 2: like you never want to take anything for granted with

471
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:08,640
Speaker 2: an astro in injuries, but at least on the surface,

472
00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 2: this does appear to not be a long term thing.

473
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 2: This seems like something that at best Jeremy Pania will

474
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 2: not will not need to miss a significant.

475
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 1: Amount of time.

476
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 2: So when that when that time period is up, we're

477
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,439
Speaker 2: right back to square one of what we have been

478
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 2: talking about for two or three months. It's why I'm

479
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 2: not I'm not totally gonna sit here and say like, oh,

480
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,639
Speaker 2: they can't trade parade Us now, like oh, it's like

481
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 2: it's completely off the table and it's done. Like I mean,

482
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 2: does this lessen the likelihood that they will?

483
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: Yes? Obviously? Is this the sort of.

484
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 2: Jump scare to maybe like really make Dana Brown reconsider

485
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 2: kind of the thoughts because again, like, you guys can

486
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 2: yell at.

487
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: Me all you want.

488
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 2: You guys can tweet at me and comment on my

489
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 2: stories that I'm the one pushing this, Like guy, I'm

490
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 2: I'm not pulling this from thin air. This isn't something

491
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 2: I'm made up, Like this is this is what they

492
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 2: are doing. They have been shopping Estoc Paradus internally and

493
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 2: externally to the rest of the baseball world.

494
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: They've been shopping him for two and a half months.

495
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 2: Like this is not like this is not like I'm

496
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 2: sitting here and there and like the Ashers are not

497
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 2: doing this, Like, yes, they have been trying to trade

498
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 2: him for two months. Maybe this is the jump scare

499
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 2: that maybe makes them like, all right, like let's let's

500
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 2: pull back a little bit, let's let's not be so

501
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 2: gung ho. And to give them credit, they have been

502
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 2: pretty hesitant with how they've approached because they have such

503
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 2: a high price on him and they haven't moved it.

504
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 2: And that's been They've been very cautious about that. They're

505
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 2: not going to sell him for pennies on the dollar,

506
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 2: and this is only going.

507
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: To reinforce that.

508
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 2: But if Jeremy Panna is back in within a week

509
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,919
Speaker 2: or two of the season, and everyone else remains healthy,

510
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 2: then this is what you're counting on to make this work.

511
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 2: You're counting on freak injuries that Jeremy Payne, like one

512
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 2: that Jeremy Payne, just to say you're you're counting on

513
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 2: all of your other.

514
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: Guys to have something similar happen.

515
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 2: Because, like we've said, given everything Joe Aspot has said

516
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 2: about who he wants to play where, who's going to

517
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 2: get the most amount of playing time at d H,

518
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 2: at second base, at all these different positions, this is

519
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 2: not going.

520
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: To work unless people get hurt.

521
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 2: And I guess congratulations to those that were so anti

522
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 2: against it, like you got some somebody got hurt. Congrats

523
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 2: to you, you were right, But unless that keeps happening

524
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 2: over and over again, we're going to be back in

525
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,879
Speaker 2: this same, you know, cycle of talking about this in

526
00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 2: about three weeks or a month.

527
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 3: Okay, figure it out then yeah, no, it cares, yes,

528
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 3: I but it's why I understand. I look a little,

529
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 3: a little peak behind the curtain. How reporting works is

530
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:02,360
Speaker 3: people tell Chandler things and then sometimes he says their

531
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 3: names because he needs to use a quote. And then

532
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 3: sometimes he just takes that information and writes it down

533
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 3: without saying the quote. But that's where the information he's

534
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 3: not just making. Some people come up to him and

535
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 3: be like, hey, by the way, we're trying to trade

536
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 3: esop paratees. This is what's going on. And Chandler is

537
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 3: also allowed to talk to people from other teams and

538
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 3: they will say, yeah, the astros called me yesterday and

539
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 3: said this is what they want free esock parates. Because

540
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 3: those people don't care if that story gets out because

541
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 3: it's not their team. And that's how reporting works. And yeah,

542
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 3: of course it's going to happen at some point, but

543
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,199
Speaker 3: not right now. You got opening day in three weeks,

544
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 3: and I mean, look, you talk about freak injuries. You

545
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 3: know who's who gets injured quite a bit is a

546
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 3: lot of the people on the Astros that they're counting

547
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 3: on that are filling these spots.

548
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: You're talking about Christian Walker played one hundred and fifty six.

549
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 3: Games, lest you sure did, and uh there's another There's

550
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:14,120
Speaker 3: a couple other fellas in the infield who who may

551
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 3: get hurt at some point. But even if they, I

552
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 3: mean again, figure it out that when Painia gets back,

553
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 3: you still can make it work temporarily. Again, the issue

554
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 3: with the way that the roster is constructed is not

555
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 3: day of what do you do? You can make a

556
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 3: lineup on on any given day with how the Astros

557
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 3: have their roster constructor right now, it's how do you

558
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 3: consistently do it for one hundred and sixty two games?

559
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 3: That's the hard part. But any given day you can

560
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 3: make a lineup that's going to make most people okay,

561
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 3: And right now, your your team's filled out like that's

562
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 3: that That should put a stop to any trade conversations

563
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 3: unless you get a call that someone is even more

564
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 3: desperate and they're gonna do it, and you try your

565
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 3: imaging in your fingers and whatnot. But yeah, I think

566
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 3: they hadn't traded him yet.

567
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 2: Right, But but what I would caution is just I

568
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 2: would caution that, I would caution anyone that saw the

569
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 2: paina news and say, oh, Paradis is an astro forever.

570
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 2: Now he's the whole He's here with us the whole season.

571
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 2: He's here with us still the trade deadline, like no,

572
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 2: Like like again, if this was a more serious injury,

573
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 2: if this was something that if it was a handmaid

574
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 2: bone that needed you know, six weeks, if it was

575
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 2: a hams if it was a hamstring like you saw

576
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 2: Paradis had last year, if it was an over.

577
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 3: Saying all of this, right, I get it, don't name

578
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 3: other injuries.

579
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: But again, I think.

580
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 2: This is how it's going to have to work to

581
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 2: make it. To make this work for one hundred and

582
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 2: sixty two games, they're going to need like four more

583
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 2: instances like this. And I don't know that you want that.

584
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 2: Do you want your guys like con getting hurt, every

585
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 2: guys constantly getting hurt? No, I don't think anyone wants that.

586
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 3: So they will figure it out at some point, yes,

587
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 3: but not not until paying is back out there. Don't

588
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 3: figure it out, then.

589
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: You know who? You know who right now is still

590
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: the astros backup catcher.

591
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 3: Tyler Mmm uh see Sasr Salasar.

592
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 2: Of course, right now he remains the astros backup Salas

593
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 2: are Slytherin over there right now. As Dana Brown has

594
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 2: said numerous times, right now, he remains a backup catcher.

595
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: But there is more competition now.

596
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 2: If you listen to if you've listened to Krusheity Territory

597
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 2: for any length of time, you knew a month and

598
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 2: a half ago that the Astros had expressed interest in

599
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 2: Christian Basquez. It was never going to be on a

600
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 2: major league deal, just given Basquez his age, given his

601
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 2: last two years of performance, it was never going to

602
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 2: be a big league deal, and I think Basquez was

603
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 2: waiting out to see if he could get a big

604
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 2: league deal that obviously did not make manifest to The

605
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 2: Astros signed him to a minor league deal with an

606
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 2: invitation of big league camp on Saturday. Today they signed

607
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 2: him this morning. He is playing for Puerto Rico in

608
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 2: the WBC, so Jim Crane, cover your ears, but he

609
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 2: will be returning once once he finishes in the WBC

610
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 2: with Puerto Rico he'll go back to you know, he'll

611
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 2: report to Asher's camp, He'll report to West Palm. So

612
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 2: he's not in camp yet. But this is the competition

613
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 2: to push Ceesar Salazar for the backup catcher job. Christian

614
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 2: Vasquez has objectively been a bad player for the last

615
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 2: three years. Like I don't think we can argue otherwise.

616
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 2: He has a sixty ops plus since twenty twenty three career.

617
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 2: He's a good defensive catcher. He's a guy that you know,

618
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 2: pitchers like throwing too. He is your prototypical backup catcher.

619
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 2: He is, you know, never going He's gonna do everything

620
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 2: right behind the plate. He's going to you know, call

621
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 2: a good game. He's a veteran, savvy presence that can

622
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 2: you know, knows the nuances and can pick up stuff,

623
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 2: knows when teams maybe Avtel knows when, knows when his

624
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 2: guys are tipping things like that. Is not going to

625
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 2: provide much of anything at offensively. It's but to be fair,

626
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 2: there's no backup catcher out there that would have provided

627
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 2: what Victor Carratini has provided for you last the last

628
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 2: two years. So the fact that they were going that

629
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 2: that they were going to go find a Victor Carratini

630
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 2: replacement on the open market. Was just very misguided because

631
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 2: he played better than almost any backup catcher in the

632
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 2: sport last year. But one thing they needed to do,

633
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 2: I just I mean, if you don't realize it by now,

634
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 2: I don't really know what to tell you. I don't

635
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 2: think the Astros are comfortable carrying a guy in Seysar

636
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: Salazar that's caught fourteen career Big league games on their

637
00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 2: roster and asking him to catch, you know, maybe fifty

638
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,719
Speaker 2: or sixty games this year. And that's being generous, Like,

639
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 2: you know, there's there's a situation where you could see

640
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 2: the Ashers backup catcher maybe appear in seventy games and

641
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: if you need ier to DH, if you need to

642
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 2: get you Ironer off his feet.

643
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 1: Things like that.

644
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 2: So they needed some veteran competition. They needed just an

645
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 2: insurance policy in case they decide that Saysar Salazar is

646
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: not what they want on their roster.

647
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: And they got that in Christian Basquez.

648
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what you're getting. He's gonna hit one

649
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 3: eighty and he's gonna run into a homer once a month,

650
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 3: but he is an adult and knows how to catch

651
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 3: and that's that's fine, that's all you need. And maybe

652
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 3: they'll make a move at some point to upgrade back

653
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 3: up catcher. But again, if your season is hinging on

654
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 3: backup catcher, something has gone terribly wrong.

655
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 2: But I will say this, I don't think the Astros

656
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 2: are necessarily constructed as first and foremost a run prevention team.

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Speaker 2: I think if they are, I think if their lineup

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Speaker 2: is healthy, they are certainly not a team that you

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Speaker 2: look at and it's like, all right, they're only going

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Speaker 2: to score three or four. I know you saw it

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Speaker 2: last year, but that team was not healthy last year.

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Speaker 2: When this lineup's at full strength, I think this is

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Speaker 2: a top half of the league offense when it's at

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Speaker 2: full strength. So I wouldn't say that this is a

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Speaker 2: run prevention team first and foremost.

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Speaker 1: But it's a lot of what they do. A lot

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Speaker 1: of their.

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Speaker 2: Identity is pitching in defense, and you know a catcher

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Speaker 2: is pretty important in all of that. And I'm just

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Speaker 2: not and I haven't been convinced since the beginning of

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Speaker 2: the off season that they trust a guy that's only

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Speaker 2: caught fourteen big league games to be such an integral

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Speaker 2: part of that operation.

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Speaker 1: And for Sebert Salasar.

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Speaker 2: It's tough because he's out of minor league options, so

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Speaker 2: he's either got to make the roster out of camp

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Speaker 2: or they've got to expose him to waivers where.

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Speaker 1: You know, I haven't really.

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Speaker 2: Thought about if he'd get claimed on waivers because you know,

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Speaker 2: there's such a lean major league sample size. But there

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Speaker 2: are other teams out there that are not trying to win.

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Speaker 2: There are teams out there that have open spots that

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Speaker 2: could give him some runway. That could just be like, hey,

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Speaker 2: you come be our backup catcher. We don't mind playing you,

685
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 2: catching you sixty sixty five games a year because we're

686
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 2: not trying to win. And saysar Salazar is an excellent

687
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 2: clubhouse guy, like excellent vibes guy. He is beloved in there,

688
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 2: like pitchers love throwing him, everything about it. So he

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Speaker 2: would upgrade any clubhouse in the big leagues. So they're

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Speaker 2: gonna have to make a decision, do they maybe, you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, would they carry three catchers, especially if

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Speaker 2: pain is not ready for opening day? Like could they

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Speaker 2: have a permutation where they carry three catchers? Probably not,

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Speaker 2: But in the absence of that, they're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: make an actual decision, because they've got to decide on

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Speaker 2: saysar Salazar by the time camp By the time camp's over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well we'll see. I mean, Seuvasquez is playing in

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Speaker 3: the WBC, so just be watching from there. But again,

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Speaker 3: I mean you you kind of know what you're getting

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Speaker 3: with both of those guys. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see.

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Speaker 3: I mean, whatever if he goes to waivers and he

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Speaker 3: gets picked up by somebody else, that's I think you're

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Speaker 3: again you know what you're getting with Christian Basquez, Like

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Speaker 3: he he can't get worse offensively, I don't think. And

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Speaker 3: you know that he can catch and call a game.

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Speaker 3: So it just it just depends on if you need

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Speaker 3: that stability or not. I mean, you're you're again, you're not,

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Speaker 3: You're not rolling the dice and hoping he finds an

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Speaker 3: offensive resurgence at age thirty seven after hitting one eighty

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Speaker 3: last year. But if you're saying we need somebody that

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Speaker 3: we know can catch fifty sixty games, then you can

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Speaker 3: do worse than Christian Basquez.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's all I mean, it's either him or

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Speaker 1: I mean, jonah Heim signed already, but it's.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they could trade him for uh, will you're a

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Speaker 2: bray You see if that see if that works out?

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Speaker 1: How'd that work out the first time? Actually?

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Speaker 3: Pretty good? Actually pretty good if you remember. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: think they would do that again.

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Speaker 2: I think they would too, but I think they'd prefer

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Speaker 2: the Wilson contraras for Jose Rikidi that they had lined up,

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Speaker 2: they wouldn't have had to do that. They would have

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Speaker 2: still had Will or bray you in their farm system,

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Speaker 2: and we wouldn't be sitting here talking about why they

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00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 2: need to go trade for a left handed hitting outfielder.

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Speaker 2: But here we are, and we will continue to discuss,

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Speaker 2: uh why they need to trade for a left handed

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Speaker 2: hitting outfielder on the next episode of Krushit Territory. But

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Speaker 2: until then, you can follow me on x at Chandler

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Speaker 2: Underscore Room. We can follow Tyler at Tyler C.

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Speaker 1: Stafford.

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Speaker 2: Beach on Tuesday, so be in Florida again beginning Wednesday

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Speaker 2: through the end of camp. When I'm back there, we

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Speaker 2: will have a better chance of getting some more players

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Speaker 2: as some guests, so stay tuned.

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Speaker 1: Uh, stay tuned for maybe some more player guests.

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Speaker 2: Everyone loved the Ken Rosenthal interviews, so maybe we should

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Speaker 2: get Ken back. I got many growing reviews, I got

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Speaker 2: many glowing reviews about everyone's favorite uh National Baseball Insider.

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Speaker 2: But we'll be back next week. Until then, thanks for listening,

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Speaker 2: enjoy the WBC. If you're going to USA Mexico, get ready,

746
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be lit.

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Speaker 3: See you then talk to you later. This is your

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Speaker 3: two week warning. The Project Hail Mary is coming out,

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Speaker 3: so it's time to read the book before the movie

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Speaker 3: comes out. Bye,