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

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Speaker 1: I'm Channeler Room joined by Tyler Stafford and Josh Reddick

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Speaker 1: on the night of the Golden Globes, and I have

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Speaker 1: some unfortunate news, gentlemen. We did not win Best Podcast something.

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Speaker 1: Amy Poehler does want it, so, uh, we'll try better

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Speaker 1: next We'll try better. We'll be we'll be better. We'll

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Speaker 1: try next year see if we can take the title

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Speaker 1: home then. But uh, but other than that, it's been

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Speaker 1: a uh been a pretty uneventful first week of January things.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we are nominated for Best Podcast at the

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Speaker 2: at the Texas Awards there, so you know, watch out.

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Speaker 2: We're we're gonna be there next year.

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Speaker 3: You gotta start small before you can make it big.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get the Christopher over at ball Park Nation.

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Speaker 2: We got we got nominated, uh over there, so take that, suckers.

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Speaker 1: Take that Golden Globes.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: Amy Poehler can, we'll we'll.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you can go home.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just get out, just get it. Been otherwise uneventful

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Speaker 1: a week really since Tatsuya, since Tatsuya emi Mania has

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Speaker 1: died down a little bit. Josh before we hit record,

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Speaker 1: Josh submitted his his entry for Tatsuya EMI's nickname. Josh,

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Speaker 1: what should what should Astras fans, in your opinion called

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Speaker 1: Tatsuya Emi when he reports to camp in February?

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Speaker 3: Keep it simple, t I.

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Speaker 4: There's there's a there's some references there from the hip

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Speaker 4: hop singer. I mean, you can make them work however

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Speaker 4: you want to. You know, Tyler's really good at puns.

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Speaker 4: He could probably come up with a nice catchphrase and

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Speaker 4: we could always say, hey, we started the nickname and

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Speaker 4: the catchphrase for this kid to come over.

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Speaker 3: So that's that's probably what it's going to fall down to.

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Speaker 3: We were baseball players, we'd like to keep it simple and.

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Speaker 4: If we can't figure out something with your last name initials,

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Speaker 4: try to work in there as well.

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Speaker 2: So I saw I saw a good one. I I

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Speaker 2: I cannot remember who to it, so apologies for for

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Speaker 2: this person, but I saw a good one. That was

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Speaker 2: I forty five, which I was a fan of like

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Speaker 2: that one as well. But look, if we're being honest,

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Speaker 2: you baseball players are just gonna find some way to

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Speaker 2: put like a Y at the end of his last name,

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Speaker 2: and that's just his nickname. That's that's every baseball player's

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Speaker 2: last name, just with a why at the end. Oh,

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Speaker 2: look there's Breggy. You know whoever? That's that's every nickname.

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Speaker 3: So I mean, I'll find a way.

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Speaker 4: No ready, no, no Brandy in his name.

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Speaker 2: Sam Miller. Sam Miller wrote a an article. I mean

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Speaker 2: this was probably fifteen years ago for Baseball Perspectives, but

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Speaker 2: he wrote an article about UH baseball player nicknames and

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Speaker 2: I remember that being like the top one, and that

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Speaker 2: cracked me up. That might have even been when he

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Speaker 2: was working for ESPN, But anyway, it's a good.

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Speaker 3: He usually does work out that way.

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Speaker 1: Joe does. Joe does have a habit of calling al

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Speaker 1: tuo Ve Josey every time we every time he references

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Speaker 1: him in media, he calls him Hosey. So he does. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's that rabble speaking of Breggy. A good poll there.

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Speaker 3: Alex Bregman.

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Speaker 1: Alex Bregman's rich again, not that he ever wasn't rich.

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Speaker 1: He agreed on Saturday night to a five year, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five million dollar UH deal with the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs. Another bit of good agenting by Scott Borris,

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Speaker 1: who'd got Alex Bregman six years and two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars after he departed the Houston Astros after

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four season. A reminder that his longest

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Speaker 1: and most lucrative offer after the twenty twenty four season

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Speaker 1: seventy one and a half million dollars. So the Pillow

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Speaker 1: contract worked. Taking the Pillow contract from the Boston Red Sox,

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Speaker 1: it's there's some parallels there to touch em. This is

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Speaker 1: why Scott encourages these kind of deals when the market

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Speaker 1: maybe doesn't manifest the way it should. Scott's hope and

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Speaker 1: the astros hope, quite frankly, is that tetsu Emi pitches

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Speaker 1: and you would have gotten what he was seeking all along. So, Josh,

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Speaker 1: as someone that played with Alex Bregman, as someone that

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Speaker 1: shared a lot of good moments with him, what was

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Speaker 1: your reaction when you saw that number last night? And

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Speaker 1: the team too, because I think I kind of just

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Speaker 1: presumed all off season that they were gonna do all

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Speaker 1: everyone's going to love him. But I was a little

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Speaker 4: To same I think team is more of the surprise

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Speaker 4: I think money surprises are irrelevant because you just know

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Speaker 4: you just don't know what they're gonna ge because it

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Speaker 4: is Scott Morris and he has a funny way of

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Speaker 4: finding those dollars that people seem to just want to

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Speaker 4: throw out there. So Cubs, for sure, was a big

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Speaker 3: I'm with you.

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Speaker 4: I thought he's gonna fall right back into the Red

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Speaker 4: Sox arms considering the way things had gone. Big Spotlight

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Speaker 4: Team one of America's oldest franchises.

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Speaker 3: He loves playing under that big spotlight.

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Speaker 4: But he goes to Wrigley, gets a player under that

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Speaker 4: big spotlight and well as well. But you know, when

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Speaker 4: you look at it as a player standpoint, it's really

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Speaker 4: genius because the Al East is a good.

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Speaker 3: Place to hit.

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Speaker 4: But you know, when you go to places like Finway,

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Speaker 4: he can hit those liners to right field, that would

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Speaker 3: Put him in Wriglely, they could turn into home runs.

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Speaker 4: So not only that, in all Central has ballparks where

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Speaker 4: the ball just absolutely flies out anyway. So he could

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Speaker 4: be you could be looking back at at a Bragman

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Speaker 4: who's gonna consistently hit, you know, in the forty home

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Speaker 4: run rage and driving one hundred and twenty plus every

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Speaker 2: If Bragman hits forty home runs at Wrigley, I will

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Speaker 2: I will be shocked. That would that would be something

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying you can't do it, but that would

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Speaker 3: He's got Milwaukee, He's got Cincinnati.

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Speaker 4: Sure, I mean, like those two alone right there, that's

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Speaker 4: at least like four to five a year for him

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Speaker 2: Okay, he'll get to ride the slide. Good for him.

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Speaker 2: Did you ever get to ride the slide in Milwaukee?

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Speaker 3: I did not hit a home ru in Milwaukee. I

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Speaker 3: mean I may have like four for your game.

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Speaker 2: You have to hit a home run in order to

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Speaker 4: And it wasn't really I asked about. It was this

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Speaker 4: something I asked about playing in Milwaukee. But I mean,

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Speaker 4: I'm sure if you wanted to go ride that slide,

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Speaker 4: they would have no problem with you going through doing it.

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Speaker 2: I will say the Cups traded for East SoC parades.

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Speaker 2: Who is a lefty poll third baseman r Or I

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Speaker 2: meant pulls to the left side, Yes, thank you, And

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Speaker 2: it did not work at all at at Wrigley and

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Speaker 2: Paridis and Bregman have a very similar you know, swing

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Speaker 2: But you know, when Bragway has power, it's going to

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Speaker 2: be to the poll side, and it's just it's deep

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Speaker 3: So I get the wind blowing out. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 3: You just you just got to play it right.

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Speaker 2: But good for him, got the two hundred million. Maybe

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Speaker 3: And he's at home, doesn't he have he lads a

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Speaker 3: place in Arizona.

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Speaker 4: Spring training is already there, so he doesn't have to

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Speaker 4: pack up a new spring training that probably had a

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Speaker 3: That's that's a no brain. As a guy who's played

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Speaker 2: I wish the Astros were in Arizona. That'd be so

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Speaker 2: fun to go out to spring training out there. I'm

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Speaker 2: just there's no scenario where I'm gonna go to spring

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Speaker 2: it looks awesome. I would love to go out there.

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Speaker 3: It's fantastic.

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Speaker 4: You can go watch like three spring training games in

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Speaker 4: of them within twenty minutes.

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Speaker 1: You're right, You're right. Alex does live in Scottsdale full

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Speaker 1: time now, so that helped obviously, that that connection, But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it was always going

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Speaker 1: to be about the years and the money. It did

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Speaker 1: just kind of knowing where Alex and Reagan kind of

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Speaker 1: they can live in Scottsdale full time because the facilities there,

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Speaker 1: anyone had any delusions of grandeur that Alex Bregan was

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Speaker 2: But were people in your mentions about that. I can't imagine.

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Speaker 3: I would have hoped not. I would have hoped not.

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Speaker 1: There were a lot there's there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: coping in my mentions last year, just about you know,

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Speaker 3: And yeah, and you're right.

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Speaker 2: Correct me too, this podcast instantly if someone paid me

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Speaker 2: more money.

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Speaker 4: If you're a fan listening, my man, your one goal,

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Speaker 4: your two goals in the baseball world, get your ring,

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Speaker 4: get your money.

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Speaker 3: He got his ring, Get his money, he did his thing.

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Speaker 3: Move on, players, move on next.

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Speaker 2: I'm willing to start a Cubs podcast for half of

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Speaker 2: what Bregman signed for. I'll just put that out there.

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Speaker 3: I'll just start it for him for half of his

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Speaker 3: deferred money.

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Speaker 2: Sure, easy, I'll do it. Yeah, I'm selfless like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think team I don't think there's any defer

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Speaker 1: there's no no trade. That was something that the Red

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Speaker 4: Because of organizational value or something they said right because

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Speaker 1: Well, I think I think from what also, I understand

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Speaker 2: He's not a free agent till twenty twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: No, to be fair, Paradis has two more years. He

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Speaker 1: They don't want to move Paradus. But part of doing

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Speaker 4: To entertain and anything is possible in this world because

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Speaker 3: Superstars get traded all the time.

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Speaker 4: You look at trades from the past, like one that

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Speaker 4: I think it just not only makes the team better,

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Speaker 3: In something like that.

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Speaker 2: Well, now I got to see Dana Brown and Dana

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Speaker 3: Did I say Dana White?

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Speaker 2: If only we knew a guy into wrestling you know,

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Speaker 1: You get in the octagon and come out and they're

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Speaker 2: They're just dancing out there.

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Speaker 4: I mostly yeah, I mean the surpristy, but there's always

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Speaker 4: So a team like that is pretty much already covered.

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Speaker 4: So I don't know, I don't know what they do.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I guess guys aren't very valuable in that in that

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Speaker 4: what's your thing on this Christian Walker, Like what do

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Speaker 1: feel like I'm hitting my head against the wall every

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Speaker 1: time I try to explain kind of why I don't

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Speaker 1: think this is going to work, why I don't think

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Speaker 1: like carrying all five of these infielders and then going

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Speaker 1: to spring training and saying all right, like you may

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Speaker 1: play three days a week, you may play four days a.

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Speaker 3: Week, like like, I can't do that.

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Speaker 1: Right, Like what big leaguer, what big leaguer is going

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Speaker 1: to accept that? Like Christian Walker a guy like a

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Speaker 1: thirty six year old veteran that you know, while he's

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Speaker 1: made his money and he's got his big contract, he's

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Speaker 1: still a prideful guy and he still wants to He

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Speaker 1: played one hundred and fifty four games last year, like

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Speaker 1: the guy posts every day and then East sac Paradis,

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Speaker 1: as we just talked about, has another year of arbitration

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Speaker 1: eligibility remaining. The Ashers are taking him to an arm

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Speaker 1: hearing this time. But how do you make money in

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Speaker 1: urb You make money by accumulating stats and play it

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Speaker 1: Like can you just underscore why it probably won't work

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Speaker 1: to just walk, Like even if they say all the

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Speaker 1: right things publicly, it probably won't go over well. If

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Speaker 1: they get the spring training and they're like, all right, Esak,

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Speaker 1: we want you to maybe we may get you some

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Speaker 1: at mats for maybe four days a week, and then Christian,

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Speaker 1: you can have the other three days.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't work. It just doesn't. It literally does not work.

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Speaker 4: You have to fix a problem at some point in

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Speaker 4: some way to get one of those guys take you

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Speaker 4: out of there. And you have to I mean, you

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Speaker 4: just have to find a way to figure out to

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Speaker 4: get one of those guys out of there, because it

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Speaker 4: just isn't going to work when you break it down

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Speaker 4: like that, because you look at Christian Walker's value of

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Speaker 4: playing every day, like you just said, one hundred and

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Speaker 4: fifty four games is not nothing to turn your nose

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Speaker 4: away from. But then you got so much value at

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Speaker 4: a guy like Essak Parades to come in there, like.

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Speaker 3: You got to have the consistency.

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Speaker 4: If you can't give you those guys aren'tnna have consistent

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Speaker 4: at bats and they're not going to be the guys

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Speaker 4: that you need to get max value out of.

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Speaker 2: So I have Fangraphs Steamer projections up for next year

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Speaker 2: that it's the you know, projections of how everyone will do.

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Speaker 2: Would anyone like to take a gat at where Christian

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Speaker 2: Walker is ranked among first basemen out of a bunch

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Speaker 2: He's in the top thirty, So just you know, of

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Speaker 2: the thirty teams, where would you where would you say

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Speaker 2: Walker is ranked nineteen.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say eighteenth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty second. So I mean, no one's gonna pay

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Speaker 2: him twenty million dollars. He'll be the twenty You'd have.

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Speaker 3: To cover most of his story to move him, for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, you know, but you're paying Estoc ten millions,

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Speaker 2: So then it's a matter of Okay, if you can

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Speaker 2: pay ten million to have Christian Walker not on your team,

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Speaker 2: you're basically paying Parades twenty million because you're you're going

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Speaker 2: with him, And I think you would rather pay twenty

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Speaker 2: million dollars Sezoc Parade's going in the next year than

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Speaker 2: you would Walker. But yeah, I mean that's why there's

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Speaker 2: no interest. Is every team feels like, surely there is

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Speaker 2: a major league average hitter that can play first base

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Speaker 2: somewhere that we can find. You know, you don't you

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Speaker 2: don't need to go trade for the twenty million dollar one.

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Speaker 1: And historically first base is not a position that, at

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Speaker 1: least modern teams invest a bunch of money in. That's

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Speaker 1: why the Mets kind of told Pete Alonzo, thanks, but

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Speaker 1: no thanks, and let the Orioles sign them. You know,

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Speaker 1: That's why you see other teams a lot of their

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Speaker 1: first basemen or guys that they have developed or come

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Speaker 1: up in their system, because I mean it's not like

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Speaker 1: wash set in moneyball, like it's not easy to play

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Speaker 1: first base, but it's also a position that you can,

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Speaker 1: like if you got a big donkey the corner outfielder

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Speaker 1: type that can just hit the crap out of the ball,

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Speaker 1: you can teach them to play first base. And that's

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Speaker 1: kind of what you've seen some teams do. Like it's

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Speaker 1: not a position that fiscally like money wise, a lot

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Speaker 1: of smart progressive teams dump a bunch of money. You

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Speaker 1: have now seen the Astros put in you know, in

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Speaker 1: the past five years, you've seen them put in one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty million dollars to first base between two

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Speaker 1: guys and it has not worked. So who knows what

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Speaker 1: we will see this uh this coming season. But again,

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Speaker 1: like we've reiterated this for a month and a half now,

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Speaker 1: like it's not going to work with both of these

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Speaker 1: guys on the team. Sure, Like I'm like, again, it's baseball.

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Speaker 1: Someone's going to get hurt, Like there's going to be

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Speaker 1: one of these five infielders is going to spend time

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Speaker 1: on the il next year. But I just don't like that.

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Speaker 1: Logic doesn't work with me. That like you're going to

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Speaker 1: carry these five guys like in anticipation of an eel step,

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Speaker 1: Like I don't that. And then also Josh like you

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Speaker 1: know this better than anybody, like you've got a hot streak,

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Speaker 1: like you're feeling it, like you're I mean, you got

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Speaker 1: like a five to six game heater. And then like,

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Speaker 1: so Joe's gonna want to ride the hot hand as

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Speaker 1: he should, and that's gonna come at the expense of

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Speaker 1: the guy that you haven't played in five or six days.

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Speaker 1: And then you run the risk of when that guy

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Speaker 1: cools off, you to the guy which haven't played in

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Speaker 1: five or six days and he's cool coming off the bench,

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Speaker 1: Like it's just not going to be feasible.

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Speaker 3: Nope, it's it's you can't stay ready.

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Speaker 4: If you're breaking it down that way, there's no way

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Speaker 4: to stay ready in a game when a guy's riding

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Speaker 4: the hot streak and you're just sitting there watching four

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Speaker 4: or five days straight and not seeing you know, live

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Speaker 4: at bats. It's hard stay not seeing live pitching in

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Speaker 4: the first place, and now they bite. There's ninety nine

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Speaker 4: miles an hour, so you got to think about that

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Speaker 4: you're getting fresh in the box if you're not seeing

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Speaker 4: it for five days and now you gotta get your

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Speaker 4: foot down on a ninety nine mine hour fastball.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's not possible.

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Speaker 1: You can get in the cage as much as you want.

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Speaker 1: You can take as much VP as you.

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Speaker 3: Won't translate, doesn't translate, Nope.

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Speaker 2: So you're saying when people get in the cage, they're

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Speaker 2: faking it. I agree that wrestling and UFC it's all fake.

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Speaker 3: So you just building You're just building confidence in the cage.

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Speaker 3: That's all you're doing.

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Speaker 1: In the octagon too. We'll talk about Tatsuoya Emi and

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Speaker 1: the Astros revamp pitching staff right after this message from

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Speaker 1: getting signed by MLB teams always fodder for everyone. What

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Speaker 1: did you think of the Astros giving Tatsuya Emi upwards

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Speaker 1: of sixty three million dollars without ever throwing a pitch

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Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's not three hundred million, so that's that's that's

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Speaker 4: a good start for the for the first step.

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Speaker 3: I I like it. I mean, why not dip dip

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Speaker 3: your toe into that?

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Speaker 4: Well, it seems to be working out well for everybody else,

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Speaker 4: and I loved it.

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Speaker 3: I like the movie. This guy has a bulldog getme.

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Speaker 3: That seems like, you know, the first thing he said

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Speaker 3: was I'm not signing with the Dodgers. I want to

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Speaker 3: find a way to beat those guys.

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Speaker 4: I mean that sounded like a Houston Astro comment to

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Speaker 4: me from the get go. So you know you won

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Speaker 4: the fans over right from right from the start. He's

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Speaker 4: obviously very good at what he does.

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Speaker 3: But you know, if I need.

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Speaker 4: To bash you to make him good of being a

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Speaker 4: World Series MVP, I thought it was horrible.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm. That's what we're going for.

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Speaker 3: That's what we're going for. Dumb.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I see a lot of people who are like, well,

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Speaker 2: it's probably only going to be one year good. That

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Speaker 2: means he was really good next okay, Yeah, like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that might happen. Would you want him to not be

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Speaker 2: good on the Astros? Like yeah, yeah, that's okay, see

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Speaker 2: what happens. That's why you got all these other pictures.

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Speaker 2: But that's a future you problem enjoy next year. See

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Speaker 2: what happens. You got a good player on your team.

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Speaker 3: Okay, if it gets you back to the playoffs, you're fine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Was anyone saying this in like July twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: when Garrett Cole was having like the greatest season by

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Speaker 1: a picture in modern history, and everyone's like, oh, we

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Speaker 1: only get three more months of it, like, no, enjoy

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Speaker 1: the ride, Like he took you to Game seven of

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Speaker 1: the World Series and had you within like six outs

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Speaker 1: of winning it, Like yeah, it's it's good, like even

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Speaker 1: if it's just a year thing. Like again, like the

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Speaker 1: Astros hope it's like again, I think if it goes well,

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Speaker 1: they would certainly look at an extension, not maybe at

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Speaker 1: the price point that Scott Morris is going to want,

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Speaker 1: but they would certainly entertain an extension. But the Astros, like,

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Speaker 1: in their ideal world, is him pitching well enough this

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Speaker 1: year to make it only a one year thing. They

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Speaker 1: want it to be like a no doubt thing that

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Speaker 1: he opts out. And again, that doesn't mean that they're

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Speaker 1: gonna just wave goodbye to him when he does. Their freedom,

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Speaker 1: negotiate their freedom, try to extend him in season, like

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Speaker 1: if he really likes it here, then maybe they'll do that.

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Speaker 1: But again, like the Astros are privately like rooting for

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Speaker 1: him to pitch well enough to be in a position

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00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: to opt out, because that means he has solidified the

651
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: rotation behind Hunter Brown. He is your number two starter

652
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: and he is actualizing that upside. So yeah, and also

653
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: think about what that will do for future free agents

654
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: from Japan. Right if you sign a guy like this

655
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: and you come over and immediately had that success with

656
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: the Astros, Like that's that's great, And I can't like,

657
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: who cares he's on the team now, So see what happens.

658
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.

659
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 4: Forty five Jersey and just go out there and check

660
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 4: your butt off for t I And.

661
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh, we've seen like the last like ten or

662
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: eleven days, like we've tried to be We've tried to

663
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: serve because the Astros just have so little experience with

664
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: UH players from Asia in the Pacific room, you know,

665
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: players coming from MPB. Like we're trying to find people

666
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: that are you know, find experiences from people that have

667
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: seen this and have you know, been teammates with guys

668
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: you were teammates with. Dice came Outsusaka in Boston earlier

669
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: in your career. I know you guys didn't overlap a ton,

670
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: just given kind of where your career arcs were, but

671
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: kind of what are your memories of being around Dice

672
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: came out Susaka kind of how he went about his

673
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: business and not trying to compare the two of them,

674
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: but just in general, like what it's like seeing a

675
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: guy come from NPB straight to MLB and kind of

676
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: make that transition.

677
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 3: It was it was where's different?

678
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 4: I would say we was different because I was so

679
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 4: young that I wasn't really trying to talk to a

680
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 4: whole lot of people. But the conversations that I did

681
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 4: have with dice Ca were always one through his interpreter.

682
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 4: You know, he didn't really hardly know any English, but

683
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 4: it was he was approachable, So I mean, it wasn't

684
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 4: like it was just hanging off on the corner guy

685
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 4: dedicated to his work. It's it's a group of guys

686
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,959
Speaker 4: that are constantly doing something to improve It seemed like

687
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 4: whether they're you know, just in the locker room working

688
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 4: on mechanics or whatnot.

689
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 3: But he was always doing something positive to make himself better.

690
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 4: Was it was always kind of just me for me

691
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 4: to be standoffish kind of because I was just so young.

692
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 3: We also had oh gosh, I just had his name,

693
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 3: but what was the ki Kajima, the lefty reliever that

694
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 3: looked down when he threw. He was the same way.

695
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,959
Speaker 4: He was kind of more talkative than than dice K was,

696
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 4: and actually spent some time in Triple A with with

697
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 4: with Oki when he was figuring some stuff out. He

698
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 4: was actually one of the more funnier Japanese guys that

699
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 4: I've crossed passed with. So uh, they're they're definitely an

700
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 4: open bunch of guys that come over. They're not shy

701
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 4: about coming over here and being in the clubhouse. They

702
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 4: fit right in with everybody because they're not shy at all,

703
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 4: and so that makes it much easier for transitionally for them,

704
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 4: but I think for us, because we'll get in there

705
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 4: not sure how to handle how do we talk to

706
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 4: these guys, how do we make them part of our

707
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 4: our clubhouse culture, our atmosphere.

708
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 3: And they just jump right in and fit right in.

709
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 4: I remember Norri we had Norieoki for that short time

710
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 4: in seventeen, like nor jumped in.

711
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 3: He came straight from.

712
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 4: The World Baseball Classic, I think, spent one week with

713
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 4: us in spring training at the back end or two weeks,

714
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 4: and it like he had been there with us for

715
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 4: six months already. So they they tend to jump right

716
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,959
Speaker 4: in and fit right into everybody's atmosphere and team really well.

717
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 4: So they they make it very easy for us.

718
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 2: I hope my vibes with the clubhouse so much that

719
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 2: he learned Spanish before English. That would make me really happy.

720
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: If he was just yeah in that clubhouse.

721
00:34:58,480 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 2: Yeah he may.

722
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: He made know some Spanish freezes by opening day, yes,

723
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: without I think you know, one thing you said, Josh, like,

724
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,760
Speaker 1: they're not shy. I think one thing we have seen

725
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: in our limited exposure to Tatsuya Emi is he is

726
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: not shy. You know, we talked about it on the

727
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: last part. You know, they're showing him at the Rockets

728
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: game and he's throwing up the h's and showing up.

729
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: They're showing him at the Texans game, and then we

730
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: actually the last one that Tyler and I did was

731
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: during the Rockets game that he was at, and Tyler,

732
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: I think you tweeted the TikTok like KD hit like

733
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: a It wasn't a buzzer beater, but it was like

734
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: a dagger three with the.

735
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 2: Second left and in front of him.

736
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: I was sitting in Jim's court side seats and like

737
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: like he was two feet from KD and he hit it,

738
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: and em I just went insane.

739
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 2: He threw up the hes immediately. It was awesome.

740
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that was iconic sports photo for years

741
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 4: to go or for a year to come.

742
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 2: If we're going, you know what, I'll take it, okay

743
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 2: for eight year?

744
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, they both win it.

745
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: He does. He does not seem like the kind of

746
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: guy that's going to walk in there like apprehensive or

747
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 1: kind of keep to himself or just kind of staying.

748
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: And you even saw with you say, Kakuchi for the

749
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: short time that you know, we got to cover him

750
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, like like one thing that

751
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: they with Kakuchi. I can always speak on Kakuchi, but

752
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 1: you know, Kakuchi had his interpreter with him that would

753
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: go to the mound with him, and he was with

754
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: him all the time. But then he also had another

755
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: member of his I guess it's not an entourage if

756
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: it's only two people. But he had another member of

757
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: his team that was with him all the time. And

758
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: I think that was like his trainer or just one

759
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: of his associates that he liked to like do plyo

760
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: balls with and throw with. So those two guys were

761
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: basically around him the whole time. But you say he

762
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: knows enough, like you say what he would talk to

763
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: us like not on the record or on camera, but

764
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: like he would talk to us and English kind of

765
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: off to the side, just very casual conversation so he

766
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: could he can make his way across the clubhouse and

767
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: really ingratiated himself very well, very quickly. I'm not sure

768
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: EMI's on that level English wise yet. I don't know.

769
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: Maybe he is, but in the limited time we saw

770
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 1: him in the press conference, you know, he had his

771
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: what's up h town rehearse, but other than that, but

772
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think it'll be a and especially

773
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: like Josh, you know it better than anyone like going.

774
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: The Astros have one of the more open welcoming clubhouses.

775
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: They have had to welcome a lot of different personalities,

776
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: a lot of different people, a lot of different people,

777
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 1: a lot of different backgrounds have come in and out

778
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: of there a lot, and they have a culture that

779
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: just seems like everybody's welcome with open arms. If you

780
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: just have the one stated goal is to show up

781
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: every day and win, just win.

782
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 3: That's if you're if you're there to when you're gonna

783
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 3: get along great with those guys. That's that's that's the

784
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 3: whole culture.

785
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 4: What you've seen in the last you know, nine years

786
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 4: from that organization is when you walk in there, you

787
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 4: can feel the vibes in there. First thing you see

788
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 4: right when you walk in there, you see it all.

789
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 4: You see the pennant flags right there on the left,

790
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,760
Speaker 4: you see the gold bars hanging up there, pennant bars.

791
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 3: Just you know that it gives you that sense.

792
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 4: Of you know, we're ready to win and we're not

793
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 4: here to mess around. And then you walk down the

794
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 4: hallway and you see pictures of great players that have

795
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 4: been through there and everything. So there's there's moments there

796
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 4: to remind you the greatness that has been so accomplished

797
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 4: or accomplished so recently. And it's just something they continue

798
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 4: to do because Jim says he's never going to be

799
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 4: out of it. So and it's something that you come

800
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 4: in there before you even put pen to paper.

801
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,760
Speaker 1: Speaking of putting pen to paper, Arbitration Day was last

802
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 1: Thursday day to exchange figures, Josh, I know this is

803
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: one of your favorite things.

804
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 3: That's why I love talking arbitration.

805
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: Everybody does. The Ashers had eleven guys arbitration eligible guys.

806
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: They were able to come to terms with nine of them.

807
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: I think most importantly they're not taking Jeremy pain into

808
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: an arbitration hearing, which is good news. Again, like I'm

809
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: not sure it wouldn't have been. It would not have

810
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: It's better to not take them than to take them.

811
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,719
Speaker 1: But I don't I think those things can get overblown.

812
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: I think if you know you act professionally enough, I

813
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: think you can leave there without a ton of hard feelings.

814
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 1: But again, just avoid the thought of it all together.

815
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: This is going to be a pretty consequential, you know,

816
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,720
Speaker 1: winter and spring for the Astros relationship with Jeremy Panya,

817
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 1: because I would imagine they're going to re engage in

818
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: extension talks in spring training, because if he finishes this

819
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: season without a contract extension, he's in the same position

820
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: next winter as Kyle Tucker was. I could certainly start

821
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 1: talking about a trade happening there because of the president

822
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: that's been said.

823
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 2: But so future problem, don't care future problem. He's on

824
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 2: the team this year.

825
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 3: Love that.

826
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 2: See what happens.

827
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: Yep, So they didn't. They're not taking Jeremy Pania or

828
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: an arbitration hearing, which is good news. He is going

829
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: to make nine point four seven five million dollars next year.

830
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 1: Not sure why he just couldn't make nine and a half.

831
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 3: But you know, I whatever arbitration.

832
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: The Astros will, however, take two of their players to

833
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 1: arbitration hearings. They're gonna take Esach Paradis and Yiner Diaz

834
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: to arbitration hearings. H Paradus asked for a nine point

835
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: nine to five million dollar salary, the Astros countered with

836
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: an eight point seventy five million dollar salary. Yiner Diaz

837
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: asked for a four and a half million dollar salary

838
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: and the Astros countered at three million dollars, So a

839
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: disparity in both instances of a little bit over a

840
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: million dollars. They're gonna meet. They're gonna be the arbitration

841
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: hearings usually happen in February, so next month it'll be

842
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: in front of three arbiters and they'll pick which which

843
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: case is the best. Josh, these are never fun. As

844
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,360
Speaker 1: we've mentioned, it would behoove the Ashers to get it

845
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: done with all eleven guys and not have to do

846
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: a hearing, but didn't work out that way. But what

847
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 1: part of the business of this.

848
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,760
Speaker 2: And you say counter, but isn't it that just both

849
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 2: sides submit? What they think they should pay the other one.

850
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 2: So it's not like it's not like Pardis came to

851
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 2: the astros and said this is what I want and

852
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 2: they said no. I mean, I'm sure they were like

853
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 2: talks in between them. Obviously, that's that's how you settle

854
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 2: outside of that. But when you submit it, it's just

855
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 2: both sides are submitting, this is what we should pay.

856
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: Well, that's what So Thursday, all day Thursday, like agents

857
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: and the teams just spent all day Thursday negotiating salaries.

858
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: That's what you do. And then and then like there's

859
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: a seven pm deadline where like by then you have

860
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: to file the numbers for the guys that you have

861
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: not come to terms with. So you know, it's not

862
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: to say that the astros didn't say, hey, suck, will

863
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: you take nine point two million dollars and he was

864
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 1: like no, like and they just can never get to there.

865
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: They can never find a happy medium, so they have

866
00:41:58,680 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: to file a number.

867
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 2: And so that's what the astras and the arbiter just

868
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 2: picks one or the other. There's not like the are

869
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 2: the arbitration isn't okay meet in the middle. It's just

870
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 2: it's either this one or this one unless you settle

871
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 2: outside of it.

872
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: Right, And so the Astras are a file and trial club,

873
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: which that means that after the deadline, they don't talk.

874
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: They go straight to a hearing. Now that is not

875
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: set in stone. That's not like you're not going to

876
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: get penalized if you negotiate between now and the hearing.

877
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: They have every I mean, they could pick up the

878
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: phone tomorrow and get it done. Like fire and trial

879
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: is just that's like a self inflicted thing, right, Like,

880
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: it's not against the rules to negotiate between now and

881
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 1: the hearing. But the Astras have taken guys to hearings

882
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,760
Speaker 1: in the in the not so distant Pathing Mauricio Dubon

883
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,720
Speaker 1: went to one last year of the year before again,

884
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,800
Speaker 1: Josh like it's it's a necessary part of the business,

885
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: but it can only result in bad things if you

886
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 1: go in there and you don't handle professionally and you

887
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: say something wrong to irritate your player. It can leave

888
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: with some hard feelings.

889
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 3: It does, I mean personal experience.

890
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 4: I got told when I was with Oakland that you know,

891
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 4: defense doesn't matter in arbitration, when that was literally the

892
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 4: only reason I was being run out with a risk

893
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 4: injury in twenty thirteen. So little things get said that

894
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 4: you know that piss you off, and then you have

895
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 4: a hard time moving on from it because then they

896
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 4: expect you to go out there and bust your button

897
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 4: play for them for one hundred and sixty games. So

898
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 4: it can be a little bit demeaning and unhurtful, But

899
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, like you said, you

900
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 4: just got to keep it a business and try to

901
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 4: keep it professional and do the best you can to

902
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 4: hold it inside before you yourself say something that's could

903
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 4: potentially damage a relationship. But you know this is this

904
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,919
Speaker 4: is what's arbitration is what makes it so bad because

905
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 4: all they're doing is trying to just say all the

906
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 4: negative things you do and the things you can't pull off,

907
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 4: and all your agents and you are trying to do

908
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,399
Speaker 4: is praise yourself and say how I can do these things.

909
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 4: So it's never good to hear your employee and your

910
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 4: team you're trying to bust your butt for point out

911
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 4: all your negatives.

912
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would hate to uh walk into a room

913
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 2: and look estoc Parates in the face and say you

914
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 2: didn't do enough last year with your string cheese hamstring

915
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 2: that you came back on miraculously. I'd probably just give

916
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 2: him the money.

917
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 4: Not to mention, these owners make so much money, like

918
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 4: it's not even worth arguing over a little over a

919
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 4: million dollars per player was just meeting them, Like literally,

920
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 4: just offer the guy like of slightly less than what

921
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 4: he's wanting.

922
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 3: I guarantee he'll take it.

923
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Paratees isn't even like he wasn't a prospect here,

924
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,879
Speaker 2: he didn't come he that was his first year here,

925
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 2: and he was like, yeah, I can't move my leg,

926
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 2: but I'll try to get back. Like, just give him

927
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 2: who cares? Give him the money? What do we do?

928
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: That's the thing about arbitration, though. Arbitration is so beholden

929
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: to comps and numbers and like what this guy did

930
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: and this year what like, so like you almost take

931
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 1: like the season out of it, Like you take out

932
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: like the sentimentality of of how you saw Paratus like

933
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 1: kept this team afloat for a while. You take away

934
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: the sentimentality of him, you know, basically playing on one

935
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: leg to try to get them, help them get into

936
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs in September. You take that out because an

937
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,760
Speaker 1: r that doesn't matter like, it's all just stats and comps,

938
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: and it's such a formulaic strug. It's it's kind of

939
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: not kind of it's it's repulsive at times.

940
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 3: It is, that's a great word for it.

941
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 2: Do you think do you think that the Pittsburgh Pirates

942
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 2: front office has like a binder where they call it

943
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 2: ur urbitration?

944
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: I would?

945
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 3: You know? You would? Yeah, you know this.

946
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 4: You know what if pirates favorite letter is right please,

947
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 4: you would think it would be R, but it's actually the.

948
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:48,240
Speaker 2: C M beautiful, well done.

949
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 1: What if the Pirates take Paul's schemes an arbitration here?

950
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 2: Did you see the schoogle one the difference between the

951
00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 2: numbers speaking of thirty two million and nineteen million with

952
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 2: something like that.

953
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: Scott Boris is prolific, speaking of like we're making this

954
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:12,760
Speaker 1: full circle now that this is another Scott Boris masterclass,

955
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: Like I would this is no lie. I would pay

956
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: I would pay money to stream on Netflix that arbitration here,

957
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,399
Speaker 1: especially if Scott gets in because usually usually when these

958
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 1: things happen, like it's the the agent's cronies are doing

959
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: the arb hearings right, like, yeah, Scott Boris usually cannot

960
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:35,399
Speaker 1: be bothered to like actually do an arbitration hearing. He

961
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 1: may do this one.

962
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 4: He'd be that he'd be there for that one. That's

963
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 4: very very very large deal.

964
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: I would pay money to stream on Netflix that arbitration

965
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: here to hear, to hear the Detroit Tigers try to

966
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: tell Terrek Scooble, you're not worth more than nineteen million

967
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: dollars spring training.

968
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 4: If that's in spring training, spring training day should be

969
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 4: canceled just so everybody can witness that.

970
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

971
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: You would again, you would think that they are going

972
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: to get that resolved before it goes to a hearing,

973
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: But who knows. I mean Scott. Scott is known to

974
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: stand his ground. The Tigers have a repute, They have

975
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: a reputation in baseball as being a very difficult team

976
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: to negotiate with, being a very difficult team to do

977
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: anything with. So this could be two very headstrong sides

978
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: coming together and we could do a whole pod just

979
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: on that whole case. But it is, it's fascinating. But yeah,

980
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:32,399
Speaker 1: it's going to be the Detroit Tigers trying to look

981
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: the two times Cy Young Award winner in the face

982
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: and say.

983
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 3: Hey, you know you're not good enough.

984
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: You know, you struck out this many guys, but you

985
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: know you could have You.

986
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 3: Could have one game against Seattle.

987
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know you gave up that Grand Slam to

988
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: Lane Thomas two years ago in the Alds.

989
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 2: Right, you know, all right, we made it. We made it.

990
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 2: Fifty minutes. Chandler, where were you when the Bregman news broke?

991
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: I was marveling at how expensive it is to go

992
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,240
Speaker 1: to a movie theater. Now, oh my gosh, full disclosure,

993
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: I'm doing dry January, so I need like things to

994
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: keep me occupied that aren't just gonna have me like

995
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: thinking about, Hey, like I can go drink with friends

996
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: or something. So I went to see Marty Supreme on

997
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: on Saturday night. I think I walked in the theater

998
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: and John Hayman like broke the Bregmann story. Like as

999
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 1: I sat down and the first star was like, oh,

1000
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: like awesome, good for Bregmant. Then I was like, oh,

1001
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,439
Speaker 1: not my team. He didn't sign with my team. It's

1002
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: not my problem. So I didn't care. But Marty's spreame

1003
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: was excellent.

1004
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 2: It rules it will go see that, so good.

1005
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: Timothy Shallie, Timothy Shallamet does not need me on this

1006
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 1: podcast like advocating for how good of an actor he is,

1007
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: but he is phenomenal. Mister Wonderful from Shark Tank is

1008
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: randomly very good in it.

1009
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 2: He's so it's it's offensive how good he is and

1010
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 2: he should not be that good. I mean, he's playing

1011
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 2: himself essentially, but uh, it rules. The score is awesome,

1012
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 2: it's very fun. It's about ping pong kind.

1013
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 3: Of could he be could he beat us in a

1014
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 3: one B two duo?

1015
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 1: Though?

1016
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 2: So Timmy, Timmy has been practice, Yeah, it's not cgi

1017
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 2: He's been practicing for years now.

1018
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 3: That doesn't answer my question.

1019
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 7: I I I think if you gave me like a

1020
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 7: month to knock the rust off, I think I could

1021
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 7: take him, just because I have like twenty years of

1022
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 7: playing tennis and ping pong.

1023
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 2: But he was he was ripping it, dude. He was great.

1024
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 4: I think the South, I think the South Paul gets him.

1025
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 4: I think I think I think the Rocky South Paul

1026
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 4: plays for you.

1027
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. That's That's how I tricked Josh from

1028
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 2: And I'm never gonna play you again because I got

1029
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,240
Speaker 2: the win and I'm you did.

1030
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 4: All yeah, the advantage and now I'm you know, I'm

1031
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 4: an athlete of taking advantage, so now I can't down there.

1032
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 2: We go, Yeah, good, everyone go see that.

1033
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 3: It was golf today, So let's go.

1034
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 4: We're at a task to see the golf club top golf.

1035
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: Nope, we sure is that you? Is that your personal low?

1036
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 3: No? Seventy seven?

1037
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 1: Dang you damn.

1038
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 4: I'm about I'm about a fifteen handicap, so I'm not awful,

1039
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 4: but I'm not great, so I'm usually in the mid

1040
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 4: eighties floating the mid eighties.

1041
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: Is is JV the best baseball player that you've ever golf?

1042
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,240
Speaker 1: Is he the best baseball player golfer?

1043
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 3: No?

1044
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 4: John Smoltz, Oh yeah, I have heard. I've been asked,

1045
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 4: who is your who's your like? Who's the best golfers?

1046
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,919
Speaker 3: Your teammate? His teammates with Smoltz.

1047
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 4: For like three months at Boston, and I think he

1048
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:34,879
Speaker 4: was like a plus two or plus three handicap when

1049
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 4: he was in his in his client prime playing.

1050
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say John Singleton, and

1051
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 2: I got so excited at the thought I had just

1052
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,919
Speaker 2: ripping drives. It's a wide.

1053
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 3: Open just it's always a picture man.

1054
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because they can fake having a job for

1055
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:51,240
Speaker 2: four days a week.

1056
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:54,319
Speaker 4: You know, I could imagine, like I golf four days

1057
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 4: a week. I get up, come take a come back,

1058
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 4: take a nap in my room, come to the field at.

1059
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 3: Three point thirty. Not do a whole lot.

1060
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 4: Throw still, not do a whole lot, work out, watch

1061
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:05,959
Speaker 4: a game, go back.

1062
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:06,919
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

1063
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: My favorite, My favorite spring training thing used to be

1064
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: we'd get there some days and is on the way out. No,

1065
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: he would like like we'd walk in the clubhouse in

1066
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: like for morning clubhouse at eight a m. Eastern. We'd

1067
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: walk in there and he's changing into his golf like

1068
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: he he came in early, got his throwing done. He

1069
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: had I assume at the Floridian or yep, probably maybe

1070
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: at the Breakers even I don't know, but tea time,

1071
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: so he would be getting dressed in his golf clothes

1072
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 1: to leave it like eight am because he had come

1073
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: in and got all us.

1074
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:40,800
Speaker 3: When you're the goat and you can do whatever you want,

1075
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 3: especially in spring training, and you can just do whatever

1076
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 3: you want. Jab have a good round, bude, have a

1077
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 3: good day.

1078
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 2: We'll see you in October. Let us know when you

1079
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:51,839
Speaker 2: want to show up.

1080
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 3: Bro.

1081
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 4: It's like it's like the old Roger Clemens story. Like

1082
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,319
Speaker 4: when Rogers sat with the Yankees like.

1083
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 3: That day, I ain't going like and.

1084
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Speaker 1: We did the same thing with the Astros too.

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Speaker 3: All right, all right, bro, like you gonna come out

1086
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Speaker 3: there and give me some young stuff.

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Speaker 2: I ain't saying nothing to you, like he was on

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00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 2: the road with the Astros, wasn't he.

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Speaker 1: I think I think no, I think one of his

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00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: last I think like the second time he.

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00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 4: Came, second time around, the second time around, he did

1092
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 4: the exact same thing.

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00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, if the way I understand it is if he

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00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: like if he basically like if they were about to

1095
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,479
Speaker 1: go on a trip and he made the last start

1096
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,280
Speaker 1: at home, he just would not go on the trip.

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00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: They were never going to pitch him out of the bullpen,

1098
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: and like if he's not in the rotation to pitch

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00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,720
Speaker 1: that series, like and I mean he I mean obviously

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Speaker 1: like used the not excuse, Like it's true, Like I

1101
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: mean he's his kids were like kind of school age,

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00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: like middle school age. I'm sure you wanted to go

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00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: watch them, like play Roger Clements, who also Roger Clements

1104
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: exactly in.

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Speaker 2: The Hall of Fame. It's insane, I agree, Road that

1106
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 2: he's not in the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: Correct, We could start that discourse fifty three minutes.

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Speaker 3: We could do it.

1109
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 4: We could do an hour two hour podcast on three

1110
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Speaker 4: players for that.

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00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of they're gonna announce the I think it's

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Speaker 1: on the twentieth, so I think it's next. I don't

1113
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: have a calendar in front of me. I think it's

1114
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Speaker 1: next Tuesday. They're going to announce the results of the

1115
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: BBW A Hall of Fame election. Who's going to go

1116
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: in with? Who the Veterans Committee electing? You know, Jeff Kent,

1117
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: He's gonna Who's gonna go on with Jeff Kent. I

1118
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: have not kept up with the tracking as much as

1119
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: I usually do, but Carlos Beltron seems like he's on

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00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 1: the track to get in, which would be well deserved.

1121
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: Chase Utlet's having some good balloting, Andrew Jones is having

1122
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: some good balloting. But I think it may just be Beltron,

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00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: but who knows. Still some time to get some ballots, and.

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00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 3: We can do a podcast on Andrew Jones's Hall of Fame.

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00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:47,319
Speaker 1: Candiasy As will well, but well, we'll save that. That's

1126
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 1: a good cliffhanger. It's a good it's a good team.

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00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 3: He's like a one.

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00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 4: He's like a one of one player with like four

1129
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 4: crazy stats to ever be accomplished.

1130
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Speaker 3: It's stupid, yeah, stupid, But I won't we won't go

1131
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 3: down that road because we've already been on here for

1132
00:53:58,239 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 3: almost now.

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00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 2: It's a museum of famous baseball players. Put the good

1134
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,600
Speaker 2: ones that I watched as a kid in the museum

1135
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 2: so I can go see their jerseys. That's why the

1136
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 2: museum exists. I want to go see all of the

1137
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 2: best players from when I watched baseball in the museum

1138
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 2: of all the other good baseball players.

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00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 4: It's not the Los Angele, it's not the Walk of

1140
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 4: Fame in Hollywood. No, the greatest players, not.

1141
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 2: Show me the good ones. I want to see their

1142
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 2: gloves and stuff.

1143
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 1: It's not sure. It's not church either, like you can

1144
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: put you can put bad guys in there.

1145
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 3: You can't.

1146
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: There are bad guys in there there. I don't think

1147
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: so people want cheated in there. It's not church. But

1148
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 1: that's a story for another day on the Frustrated Territory.

1149
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:45,760
Speaker 1: Until then, you can follow me on X at Chandler

1150
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: Underscore Room. You can follow Josh at Jay Red Doub Deuce,

1151
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 1: and you can follow Tyler At Tyler C. Stafford, Please

1152
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: rate and review us on Apple and Spotify. Like we

1153
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 1: asked earlier, please subscribe to the YouTube channel. Get us

1154
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1155
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Speaker 1: on February eleventh, We would really really appreciate that. Also,

1156
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 1: like the video if you haven't already on YouTube. We

1157
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 1: will be back this week with another special guest, another

1158
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 1: new face inside the Astros. Be interesting to hear his

1159
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,360
Speaker 1: perspective of kind of why he got this role and

1160
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: kind of how he feels about it going forward. But

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Speaker 1: until then, we will talk to you later. And as

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Speaker 1: Tyler said, go see Marty Supreme. It's really good.

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Speaker 2: She's always buzz and just like Emi Emi. Bye