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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 2: Everybody?

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Speaker 3: Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory. I'm channeler

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Speaker 3: Rome along with Tyler Stafford and Tyler. There's a lot

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Speaker 3: going on, so we'll get to that.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry.

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Speaker 3: I know everyone is wondering. Is Alex Bregman coming back?

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Speaker 3: Is Ryan Presley gone? Is jose Al Tuve gonna be

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Speaker 3: climbing the Crawford boxes? Like everyone wants to know that.

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Speaker 3: But first off, we buried this at the end of

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Speaker 3: the last podcast, so I feel like we have to.

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Speaker 2: Say this at the beginning. You guys hit the goal.

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Speaker 3: We got us more than sixty actually we got were

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Speaker 3: more than sixty Apple reviews. So I'm excited to tell

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Speaker 3: you that Josh has agreed Josh Reddick will do the

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Speaker 3: next show from a ski lift in Breckenridge, Colorado, while

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Speaker 3: wearing his Team USA ski get up. Have confirmed we

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Speaker 3: are tentatively going to record on Wednesday. I can't promise

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Speaker 3: that'll be the most aesthetically pleasing podcast. I can't promise

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Speaker 3: that Josh's audio will be great.

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Speaker 2: But we live.

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Speaker 3: For you guys, we live for the consumer and Tyler,

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Speaker 3: we are going to get Josh Reddick on a ski

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Speaker 3: lift because the fans of this podcast made it so.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's exciting. I know I had a favorite review.

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Speaker 4: I think I think here's is the same. We we

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Speaker 4: both saw one and got very excited that just said

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Speaker 4: the podcast is good. Both of their faces are fine, which, Hey,

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Speaker 4: that's that's all I'm looking for in a podcast review.

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Speaker 2: What do I owe Alicia for that podcast?

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Speaker 1: Exactly?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Alicia, I paid my wife. Hey, make sure both

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Speaker 4: of our faces look look fine.

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Speaker 3: I'll send I'll send her Venmo after we finished recording

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Speaker 3: this very interesting episode because since we last talked to you,

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Speaker 3: basically all hell is broken loose. Uh yeah, the Astros

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Speaker 3: are on the verge of trading Ryan pre We'll get

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Speaker 3: to that toward the end. I think what everyone is

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Speaker 3: now focused on in the front of mind is that

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Speaker 3: the Astros are back in on Alex Bregman and a

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Speaker 3: situation that I did not envision coming, a situation that

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Speaker 3: Dana Brown this weekend still characterized as a long shot

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Speaker 3: of happening. But Tyler, I guess can I get your

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Speaker 3: initial reaction when the reporting started coming out on Thursday

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Speaker 3: from USA Today, from The Athletic that you know the

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Speaker 3: door is still open for Alex Bregman to return to

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Speaker 3: the Astros, even with Estoc Paratus and Christian Walker on

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Speaker 4: What was your first thought, Well, my first thought was, man,

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Speaker 4: this news really came out of left field?

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Speaker 1: Am I right? Chandler, that's a good one. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: that's a good one. I appreciate it. Uh.

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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I love Alex Bregman. I hope he

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Speaker 4: plays for the Astros. That would be really fun. I

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Speaker 4: would love to see Hoseel Tube play the outfield. I

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Speaker 4: think that would be extremely entertaining. But honestly, it's just

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Speaker 4: it's indicative of like what is going on with Bregman's

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Speaker 4: they really they being Boris and you know, Bregman to

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Speaker 4: an extent really overshot. I think the amount of offers coming,

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Speaker 4: you know, obviously you're you're digging into it a little

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Speaker 4: bit more, but I would assume, you know, they still

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Speaker 4: have obviously some long term offers out there, but I

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Speaker 4: would guess that they were expecting just a bigger volume

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Speaker 4: just the caretive of hope there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's something that while it is being characterized

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Speaker 3: as a long shot, not I think there's a realistic

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Speaker 3: the Astros six year, one fifty six, one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty six million dollar offered to Bregman remains on the

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Speaker 3: being in Alex Bregman's shoes. Like, I can't tell you

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Speaker 3: I know every offer he has, but suffice to say

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Speaker 3: that one has to be near the top of the

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Speaker 3: offers that that he has gotten this offseason. And Bregman

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not a situation where this is something

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Speaker 3: when when this suck sort of stuff happens, fans kind

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Speaker 3: more than that. Obviously had the extension pre arbitration, but

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Speaker 2: The big leagues.

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Speaker 3: It means you get to pick your destination for the

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Speaker 3: your market value. You get to see your market worth.

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Speaker 3: And a that intrigued Alex Bregman. There are other players

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Speaker 3: that doesn't intrigue them. Jose L Tuve never wanted to

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Speaker 2: He was Astro for life.

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Speaker 3: He didn't want to see what twenty nine other teams

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Speaker 3: told Scott Borris like I want to be here. Make

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Speaker 3: it work, and they made it work. That's not how

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Speaker 3: it goes all the time. So I think the vilification

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Speaker 3: I think is a little ludicrous. I mean, it's a

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Speaker 3: But now Tyler, now that he has seen what's out there,

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Speaker 3: there are other teams in on this. You know, there's

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Speaker 3: four other teams that are that are actively in Bregman's market.

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Speaker 3: It's the Blue Jays, It's the Tigers, it's the Red Sox,

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Speaker 3: and it's the Cubs. I'm not sure he has the

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Speaker 3: years that the Astros have offered him the sixth year deal.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure he has the years. The money may

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Speaker 3: be comparable other places. There may be other places where

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Speaker 3: they can make the money comparable on a shorter term,

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Speaker 3: higher aav deal. But the Astros, they have offered him

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Speaker 3: the biggest deal in franchise history.

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Speaker 2: It's a six year, one fifty six.

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Speaker 3: It's the biggest deal in Astros history they've offered Tyler.

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Speaker 2: I guess.

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Speaker 3: Now, moving forward, as we kind of get into our

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Speaker 3: second round of Bregman Watch, do you have a feeling

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Speaker 4: I mean, at this point, I feel like it's got

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Speaker 4: you know, take a shorter deal with you know, take

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's it's similar to like the Korea initial deal

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Speaker 4: you know, and say, Okay, I'm gonna take a two

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Speaker 4: Or do I want to take six seven years?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 4: But I mean unless somebody is like blowing out the

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Speaker 4: I said, I think it comes down to do you

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Speaker 4: you want to come back to Houston and do that?

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Speaker 4: But I mean there's we don't want to talk about

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Speaker 4: it yet, but there's you know, an impending lockout right

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Speaker 4: if I'm bregmant, I'm looking to get as long and

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Speaker 4: Astros fans that I interact with don't tend to have

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Speaker 4: quite as much vitriol in general. I think I think

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Speaker 4: it's a lot more just sadness. Those are the fans

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Speaker 4: enough for you know, like that that's the vibe of

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Speaker 4: I could be a fit anywhere, you know, I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: have all of these different offers.

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Speaker 1: Like that's just not the case.

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Speaker 4: And so I don't blame Bregmant at all for wanting

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Speaker 4: to see what free agency looks like. I mean, shoot,

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Speaker 4: I get three messages a week on LinkedIn saying are

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Speaker 4: you know, I mean, like that's that's human nature.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's anything.

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Speaker 4: Like negative about him as a person or about his

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Speaker 3: It should be noted too that, you know, I like

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Speaker 3: what's going on in this situation as the suitors and

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Speaker 3: the offers and things of that nature. But let's remember

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Speaker 3: we want Bregman for seven years and two hundred million

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Speaker 3: and he takes it. And it's not a team we're

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Speaker 3: talking about that has literally happened with a Scott Morris

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Speaker 3: of salt as well. I have been thinking lately, though, Tyler,

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Speaker 3: that you know they have got They could report to

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Speaker 3: on this current roster, and you know it's a it's

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Speaker 3: but it's a contending team it's a good roster. The

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Speaker 3: to Alex Bregman to play third base for the next

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Speaker 3: six years when they've got Bryce Matthews in the farm.

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Speaker 3: They've got now Cam Smith in the farm. Joseel Two

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Speaker 3: vas here until twenty twenty nine, he's gonna have to

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Speaker 3: play somewhere. Jordan Alvarez is here until twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: He's going to DH. They're not going to keep.

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Speaker 3: Playing him more in left field as he gets older.

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Speaker 3: To me, Tyler, this honestly screams, we know we don't

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Speaker 4: It's it's more important to have the bat in there.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about hoosel two left field. Like it's wild

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Speaker 3: I wasn't watching the Ashers back then, like like I

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Speaker 3: He's Another reporter than asked him, have you ever played

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Speaker 3: In case you're wondering, he has played almost fifteen thousand,

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Speaker 2: He he is.

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Speaker 3: By most metrics, if not the worst defensive second basement

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Speaker 3: This was going to be a conversation that the Ashers

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Speaker 3: It is just an overall better defensive player. I don't

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Speaker 3: Jose al Tuve. So when you talk about it like that,

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Speaker 3: And I think we're just now, this is now just

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Speaker 4: keeps hitting twenty five home runs a year, which I

435
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 4: don't understand. I don't don't get how he does that.

436
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 4: You know, he's certainly not as fast as he used

437
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 4: to be, but it's not like he's lost like a

438
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 4: you know, he's not running like like I said, Bergman

439
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 4: was a center fielder by the by the by thirty five,

440
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 4: Bergman was like you were in pain watching him run.

441
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 4: Altuve's not there. He's still a threat to the other

442
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:03,880
Speaker 4: team and to himself on the base paths, and so yeah,

443
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 4: I mean I think it makes sense, you know, like

444
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 4: I said, anything to kind of get get the band

445
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 4: back together and get you know, Bregman here. I think

446
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,640
Speaker 4: that he's not doing this if they're going to sign

447
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 4: you know, Jerks and Profar right, Like, he's not doing

448
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 4: it because there's like a oh, we're going from the

449
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 4: worst second basement to the fifteenth best. Like that's not

450
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 4: why you do it. You do it because you're trying

451
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 4: to show the team how much winning means. I mean,

452
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 4: we talked about that with Josh in our last episode.

453
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Speaker 4: How you know, Josh has a very very team first

454
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 4: approach to everything, including in the batter's box. So it's like, hey,

455
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Speaker 4: if I need to shorten up and not go for

456
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 4: a home run here, if I need to just ground

457
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 4: out to second base to move a guy over, I will,

458
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 4: and al tuo Bee clearly has that you know, approaches

459
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 4: well with team building. He's like, look, whatever we need

460
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 4: to do to get the best players on the team,

461
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,959
Speaker 4: I'll play wherever. And Man, it's so cool to have

462
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 4: a guy like that that has been in your town

463
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 4: the whole time. Like, you know, those guys don't come

464
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 4: around very often. There are very few players anymore with

465
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 4: you know, ubiquitous teams that they've played for in any

466
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 4: major sport. Right like when Lebron is finished in the NBA,

467
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 4: there's eight different fan bases that are going to consider

468
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 4: him part of their own. It's really cool to have

469
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 4: Altuve play his whole career here and do whatever it

470
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Speaker 4: takes to win.

471
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Speaker 3: He is as team first of an athlete as I

472
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Speaker 3: think I've ever seen, and I don't claim to have

473
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,959
Speaker 3: seen a wide array of athletes, but I mean the

474
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 3: way what he could given what he has accomplished in

475
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Speaker 3: this city for that franchise.

476
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 2: Like he could be the biggest.

477
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 3: D bag in the world and be perfectly entitled to it.

478
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 3: He could say I'm not moving off second base. I'm

479
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 3: Jose Altuve. You're gonna build a statue out there for

480
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 3: me one day and that's nothing, and he they I

481
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 3: don't think anyone would be grudging for that because everything

482
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 3: he has accomplished, the fact that he is this open

483
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 3: to doing this, and the fact that the way he's

484
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 3: framing it too, like this is he's not framing this

485
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 3: as He's framing this as I want to win a championship,

486
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 3: and Alex Bregman makes our pursuit of a championship easier,

487
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 3: makes us a better team and a more championship ready team,

488
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 3: and I'm willing to do anything to do that. It's

489
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 3: not about you know, where he's going to play. It's

490
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 3: more about what is going to make the team the best.

491
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 3: And I've there are very few athletes that have made

492
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 3: as much money as Jose al Tuve that have the statistics,

493
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Speaker 3: that have the leg see that he has that would

494
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 3: be willing to do that. And that's something that I

495
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 3: think Ashra's fans should appreciate so much.

496
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:08,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

497
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 4: I mean, for me, it didn't even shock me reading that,

498
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 4: which is crazy, Like that tells you how much we

499
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,400
Speaker 4: already knew that about al twove, Like that news comes

500
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 4: out and I'm like, yeah, of course he'd be willing

501
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 4: to do that. It's oz L two eight. Like that

502
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 4: says so much about him that literally I did not

503
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 4: bad and I I was like, yeah, of course he

504
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 4: would move off of the position that he's going to

505
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 4: be in Cooper sound for you know, like he'll do

506
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 4: whatever it takes, which again, it's just so cool to

507
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 4: have a guy like that on the team, that.

508
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: That's that's in your city. It's it's really really fun.

509
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 3: And I think you brought up something and something you

510
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 3: said before that is salient here too. They're they're not

511
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 3: doing this for any other player other than Alex Pregnant,

512
00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 3: right like if like this is a Bregnant only situation,

513
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 3: And Dana Brown even said Dana Brown pretty much acknowledged that.

514
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 3: He was like, you know, we're he literally said, we're

515
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 3: surprised he's still out there, Like we just presumed he

516
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 3: would be gone by now, and like because he's there,

517
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 3: like we have to do just because of what Bregman

518
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,479
Speaker 3: means to that clubhouse, what he means to the city,

519
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 3: what he I mean, he's probably right below jose L.

520
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 3: Tuve in terms of and justin Verlander in terms of

521
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 3: just meaningful faces of this golden era, and if it

522
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 3: was anybody else, this would not even be a question.

523
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 3: And you know, there's something else that I've thought about

524
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 3: in the last couple of days. What if Nolan Aaron

525
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 3: Audo says yes, yeah, this whole thing is non existent.

526
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 3: If he said, because you ain't moving Nolan Aaronado to

527
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 3: second base, if Bregman moved a second well he maybe

528
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 3: maybe no, that's right. But again you get into you wonder,

529
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 3: does breg and want to play third somewhere? I mean,

530
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 3: those other teams can give him the opportunity to play third.

531
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 3: But if this does happen, there would have been so

532
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 3: many serendipitous kind of events of like how this transpired,

533
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 3: that would really be like a perfect kind of ending

534
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 3: to this whirlwind. Alex Bregman saga, and I think it's

535
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 3: gonna come to a head, you know, within the next

536
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 3: week or so. I got the sense reporting some stuff

537
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 3: this weekend that there's gonna be some movement in the

538
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 3: Bregman market, you know, coming in the next And I

539
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 3: don't want to put a timeline on it, but it's

540
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 3: it's increased, like the tractions increasing here. This isn't a

541
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 3: situation where we're going to have this We're not going

542
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 3: to be talking about this for the next three weeks

543
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 3: leading up to spring training. I think we'll have a

544
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 3: resolution somewhat soon. Another thing that we will have a

545
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 3: resolution on very much sooner than that is Ryan Presley.

546
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 3: And we saved this till the end of the podcast because,

547
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 3: for full disclosure, we're recording this on Sunday afternoon. It's

548
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 3: very possible that Ryan Presley could be traded to the

549
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 3: Chicago Cubs by the time you listen to this. As

550
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 3: we record, there has been no decision made the balls

551
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 3: in Ryan Presley's court. He's got a full no trade clause.

552
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 3: The Astros have agreed to a deal basically to send

553
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 3: them to the Cubs.

554
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 2: He's just got to say yes or no.

555
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 3: My feeling is, and this is based off of some reporting,

556
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 3: This is based off of informed speculation. I believe he

557
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 3: will wave his no trade clause and he will be

558
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 3: traded to the Chicago Cubs Ryan Tyler. If that happens,

559
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 3: I think Ryan Presley will leave as one of the

560
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 3: most undervalued and underrated astros that I've certainly that I've covered.

561
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 3: Your fandom predates my arrival here. I think he's probably

562
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 3: one of the more undervalued, underrated Astros in their modern history.

563
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's I mean, as far as relievers

564
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 4: and astro's history go, I think it's Billy Wagner and

565
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 4: then Ryan Presley, Like I think he has been that

566
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 4: important to the team. I mean, again, Nashra's been playing

567
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 4: October baseball for a decade and every one of those games,

568
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 4: you know, with the exception of last year, you watch

569
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 4: the game and you go, if they can just get

570
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 4: a lead in the ninth, Presley's coming in and it's over,

571
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 4: like you just didn't you didn't worry about it, you

572
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 4: didn't think about it. And he's been so so good

573
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 4: holding down the back end of the bullpen the whole

574
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 4: time that he's been here. And yeah, I mean we've

575
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 4: talked about this, but every fan base thinks that their

576
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 4: bullpen is the worst bullpen in baseball. Like it literally

577
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 4: everyone thinks that, and it's.

578
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: Just not true.

579
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 4: You know, like people just have this expectation that bullpens

580
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 4: shouldn't give up runs, right like you just whatever the

581
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 4: score is, whenever the bullpen comes in, that's where it

582
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 4: needs to be locked in. And so anytime something goes

583
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 4: against that, people get, you know, real upset, But Ryan

584
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 4: Presley has been phenomenal for the Astros. And the Astros,

585
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 4: don't you know, they don't make it as far as

586
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 4: they have the last six seven years without him. And

587
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 4: you know, not only not only has he been really good,

588
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 4: but it's also saved them from having to go on

589
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 4: the like free agent reliever carousel, right, Like I mean,

590
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 4: we all saw with Montero it worked for a year

591
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 4: and then it fell off the rails like that never

592
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 4: happened with Presley. And I want people listening to this

593
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 4: to understand how valuable and how rare it is to

594
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 4: be that good at being a reliever consistently for that long.

595
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 4: That just does not happen, Like it just doesn't. And

596
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 4: so he he's been amazing and and yeah, I mean,

597
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 4: if he is done here, you know, you know, you

598
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 4: you wish him the best of luck. I certainly hope

599
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 4: nobody is gonna, you know, have any hard feelings or

600
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 4: anything like that.

601
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's been so so good for the Astros.

602
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 3: I mean, just just look at Josh Hater this year,

603
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 3: like that it is it is the personification of the

604
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 3: volatility of relievers. Because when the Astros signed Josh Hater,

605
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 3: last winter, everyone thought, oh man, if the Astros take

606
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 3: anything for any lead into the ninth inning, Josh Haters

607
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 3: gonna protect it. And Josh Hater had a fine season,

608
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 3: but he's shown he was mortal. Relievers are so volatile.

609
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 3: That's why you don't see smart teams. That's why you

610
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 3: don't see smart teams go on the free agent market

611
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 3: and give massive contracts to relievers because they know that

612
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 3: the volatility. It's not worth investing long term assets into

613
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 3: such a volatile position. You know, you teams that will

614
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 3: find guys on minor league deals, that will sign guys

615
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 3: to one year deals, two year deals and not give

616
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 3: them a ton of money because of the volatility of

617
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 3: the position. Ryan Presley showed you the opposite of that,

618
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 3: just how consistent a guy can be. And we've talked

619
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 3: about it before. You know, maybe it's because he doesn't

620
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:22,240
Speaker 3: throw one hundred.

621
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's what it is.

622
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, he doesn't have like that one aesthetically pleasing wicked pitch,

623
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 3: even though both his breaking balls are elite, but they're

624
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 3: not like they're not gonna end up on pitching Ninja

625
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 3: a ton things like that.

626
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 2: Like he's just really consistent.

627
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 3: And really good was on the mound and had an

628
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 3: integral role in the two biggest games ever played at

629
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 3: the former Minute Made Park in twenty nineteen.

630
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Speaker 2: As we've talked about.

631
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 3: Before, remember limped off the mound after getting out of

632
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Speaker 3: the eighth inning in Game six of the twenty nineteen

633
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 3: Alcs and then, of course.

634
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 4: Is a strong word. I thought they were going to

635
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 4: have to bring out an ambulance for that guy. I

636
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:02,439
Speaker 4: still don't understand how.

637
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: He did that.

638
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 3: And then remember he pitched in the World Series too,

639
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 3: Like it wasn't he didn't, he didn't shell it like

640
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 3: dude's tough, and then obviously got the last out of

641
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty two World Series induced the fly ball

642
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 3: to Kyle Tucker, who hmm is also a Chicago Cup.

643
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I think a north.

644
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 3: Baseball man can only it's a storybook that can only

645
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 3: be written.

646
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 2: And who knows, maybe Alex Bregman.

647
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: He's doing that. Stop it.

648
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 4: I'm trying to have a good podcast here and you're

649
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Speaker 4: just ruining my day. Uh But yeah, I mean he's

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Speaker 4: he's so good. I mean again, like like you know,

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Speaker 4: think about last year, like Taylor Scott had a crazy

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Speaker 4: good year. He was unbelievably good for the Astros. If

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Speaker 4: he had a nine and a half e RA in

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Speaker 4: June and was cut, it would not shock me because

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Speaker 4: that's just that's how oh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, like that, That's that's how this works.

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Speaker 4: And so the fact that you could pencil Presley in

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Speaker 4: for like a two and a half hour and thirty

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Speaker 4: saves every year is astounding, and I just I hope

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Speaker 4: people understand that that there's like five pitchers in baseball

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Speaker 4: that you can do that with in a given year,

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Speaker 4: and the fact that the Astros had one for you know,

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Speaker 4: the majority of their golden era is the reason that

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Speaker 4: was their golden era. Like that, that's part of the

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Speaker 4: reason that you're able to win so many games is

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Speaker 4: that you have a guy that you can trust in

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Speaker 4: the back end of the bullpen.

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Speaker 3: And if it does happen, if Brian Presley does, you know,

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Speaker 3: accept the trade to Chicago, the Astros bullpen like pretty

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Speaker 3: immediately becomes a concern. And I think it was a

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Speaker 3: concern even with Presley on the roster, because you ship

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Speaker 3: Presley out, you've got to bray you and hater and

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Speaker 3: you feel comfortable at the back end behind them. We

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Speaker 3: just talked about how volatile relievers are. You think Taylor

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Speaker 3: Scott's gonna replicate the season he had last year, the

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Speaker 3: outlier season he had. You know, you've got Caleb Ort,

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Speaker 3: You've got Force Whitley, maybe you've got Brian King. Like

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Speaker 3: a lot of guys that you think like, oh okay,

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Speaker 3: but not a ton of established track records. But again,

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Speaker 3: that's kind of how bullpens are though. Like you, you

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Speaker 3: get a lot of good stuff. You get a lot

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Speaker 3: of good maybe things you can unlock. Use your pitching infrastructure,

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Speaker 3: your lab to unlock some stuff and create a good bullpen.

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Speaker 4: But I think that bet al Tuo Bay could learn

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Speaker 4: like a knuckleball. Maybe maybe we could get him doing.

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Speaker 1: Double duty and just taking care of everything.

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Speaker 2: He'd be down and do it.

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Speaker 3: You know, Otani just you know he's gonna play left field,

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Speaker 3: And how hard can it be?

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Speaker 2: All right? Of course, so Tony makes it look easy.

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Speaker 2: So we will We will.

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Speaker 3: See if perhaps on opening day Joe a spot of

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Speaker 3: calls putting when he goes out to pull from Bervaldez,

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Speaker 3: who I presume is going to pitch an opening day,

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Speaker 3: He's going to point to left field because L two

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Speaker 3: is gonna come run in and pitch the seventh inning

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Speaker 3: against Sodo Nemo and who knows, maybe Pete Alonzo.

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Speaker 4: But that hat tip to the Crawford boxes is gonna

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Speaker 4: hit so hard him jogging out there.

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Speaker 3: Oh buddy, you think you think he'll be able to

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Speaker 3: see over the Crawford boxes?

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Speaker 2: Does that mean?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think anyone can.

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Speaker 4: That's that's part of the reason that it's that it's

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Speaker 4: difficult out there. But yeah, I mean it's wherever he is,

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Speaker 4: he's going to get a big ovation in Houston. He's

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Speaker 4: he's got that for life.

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Speaker 2: Here as he should, and we will be there to

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Speaker 2: hear it. We will be there to see it.

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Speaker 3: Who knows where he'll be playing, Who knows who will

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Speaker 3: be playing third, first, A lot, a lot up in

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Speaker 3: the air, we will. I have a feeling, Tyler, we

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Speaker 3: may have to do an emergency pod this week. I

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Speaker 3: think something is going to happen this week that will

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Speaker 3: require us to do an emergency pod. We will let

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Speaker 3: you know if and when that happens. Josh Reddick will

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Speaker 3: be back on Wednesday on a ski lift.

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Speaker 2: Who knows if he'll have clothes on.

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Speaker 3: There's so many different things you guys can get if

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Speaker 3: you subscribe to Crush City Territory, which you should subscribe

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Speaker 3: on YouTube, please rate and review us on Apple. You've

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Speaker 3: already done such a good job that you're getting Josh

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Speaker 3: reddick from a ski lift. We'll have to have something

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Speaker 3: else coming up. We'll have to give some we'll have

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Speaker 3: to bribe you in some other way to rate and

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Speaker 3: review us. We'd really appreciate it. But if you want

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Speaker 3: to do it out of the kindness and goodness of

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Speaker 3: your heart, that'd be great too.

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Speaker 1: What else do they would do?

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Speaker 4: And I think that's the lesson we should all take.

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Speaker 4: Be a team player, even though it's not rewarded. You

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Speaker 4: do what you need to to help the team.

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Speaker 3: And most of you may have made just as much

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Speaker 3: money and are just as secure in your own in

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Speaker 3: your own state. You know you can do it, you

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Speaker 3: can afford. What what else two they do? Thank you again, everybody,

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Speaker 3: Thank you for the support, and thank you for listening.

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Speaker 3: And we will be back, uh tentatively on Wednesday, but

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Speaker 3: who knows, we could be back before that.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys.

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Speaker 1: Bye,