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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome in another edition of Crush

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Speaker 1: City Territory Channeler Room joined by Tyler Stafford, fresh off

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Speaker 1: of the Astros going into the Bronx and taking two

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Speaker 1: of three from a Yankees team that Tyler, if you

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Speaker 1: watched the if you watch these three games against the Yankees,

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Speaker 1: I hope you came away as an Astros fan, like

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Speaker 1: thankful for what you watch on a daily basis. Because

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Speaker 1: the Astros are a very good fundamental team. Like I know,

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Speaker 1: they played three games in Boston that would suggest they

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Speaker 1: are not. But this is a very good defensive team.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that plays pretty smart for the

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Speaker 1: most part, that catches the ball when it's hit to

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Speaker 1: it that you know, they run the bases well jose

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Speaker 1: Al Tuvey maybe notwithstanding, but they run the bass as well.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that is pretty well rounded fundamentally.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees are not. That That was a that is

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Speaker 1: a rough watch for a baseball purist. That is a

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Speaker 1: Yankees team that is built to just outscore other teams,

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Speaker 1: to just score a bunch of runs and maybe overcome

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Speaker 1: those flaws. And the Astra's pitching did a very good

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Speaker 1: prevention machine really hold up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know who I'd like watching play baseball is

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Speaker 2: Carlos Korea. That play that he made today in the

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Speaker 2: sixth inning to turn that double play. He's been playing

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Speaker 2: third base for like forty five minutes and he made

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Speaker 2: a play that I don't know that five other third

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Speaker 2: basemen make in baseball. He's so good the home runs

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Speaker 2: that he and Il two. I mean, I was just

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Speaker 2: just fist pumping all week, and every time it would

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Speaker 2: cut to the Astros dugout and you'd see like the

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Speaker 2: back of the jerseys and it's like Altuve and Korea

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Speaker 2: and they're like slapping each other on the back or

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Speaker 2: they're just like cheering over the dugout out. Look. We've

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Speaker 2: talked about this. I am fully aware that baseball happens

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Speaker 2: on the field and it is hard to quantify things

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Speaker 2: outside of it. But let me just say having Carlos

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Speaker 2: Korea on the team changes the vibes. Like every mound

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Speaker 2: meeting is now, you know, a full on team meeting.

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Speaker 2: Correa's out there. Even after his home run today, he

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Speaker 2: got back and Altobe was coming up and trying to

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Speaker 2: give him a high five, and he was like in

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Speaker 2: his face, like look for the high fact, like he

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Speaker 2: was telling him, like, here's what's coming. Like that dude

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Speaker 2: is locked in. I don't mean what he has, like

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Speaker 2: an eleven hundred ops in the in the games that

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Speaker 2: he's played with the Astros so far, he looks rejuvenated.

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Speaker 2: Don't let him play for another team again. Now that

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Speaker 2: he's here, now that we've experienced what it's like to

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Speaker 2: not have Carlos Korea, keep this dude around because there

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Speaker 2: is something special about having him on the team. And

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Speaker 2: I mean not to mention. Watching jose Al Tuove just

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Speaker 2: wreck the Yankees is the best thing in the world.

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Speaker 2: I love it so much. I love that he doesn't

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Speaker 2: even wait it's a first pitch every time and just

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Speaker 2: deposits one into to left field. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you saw today, but you know today was his two

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Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth home run. He's the twenty fifth player

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Speaker 2: to have two hundred and fifty home runs, two hundred

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Speaker 2: fifty stolen bases, and whatever Yankees fan caught it did

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Speaker 2: not know ball because he threw it back in. My brother,

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Speaker 2: you could have turned that into a whole lot of

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Speaker 2: things to exchange didn't even have to be Astro specific.

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Speaker 2: I guarantee you you could have gotten as signed Aaron

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Speaker 2: Judge bat in exchange for giving al Tuve his home

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Speaker 2: run back and Brockamane just ran out onto the field

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Speaker 2: and picked it up and got it for al Tuve. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: what a fun, fun series. I mean they even the

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Speaker 2: Saturday game. You know, it was right there the whole time.

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Speaker 2: But uh, you're right, I mean that the Astros are

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Speaker 2: just a machine man like they just everyone on the

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Speaker 2: fundamentally sound. Uh you know, are They're just they're a

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Speaker 2: good baseball team. It's it's a lot of fun to watch.

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Speaker 2: Jason Alexander is just good. You know, I don't I

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Speaker 2: don't know how that happened. The Astros pitching machine. Look

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Speaker 2: we got I'm aware that this has been touched on

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Speaker 2: a thousand times. We have to talk. The man's name

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Speaker 2: is Jason Alexander and he pitched against the Yankees. That's

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Speaker 2: like if some guy named Steve Carell played for Scranton

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Speaker 2: like their Triple A, Like that's insane. That's so funny

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Speaker 2: that he played. They should have let him pitch in

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Speaker 2: a Blazer today. You know, like they should have let

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Speaker 2: him just go out in full Costanzo mode. But the

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Speaker 2: the guy was a bullpen arm for the Sacramento Oakland

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Speaker 2: I don't know what else to say. They just they

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good combio from Jason Alexander. Combo is a Spanish

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Speaker 1: for a changeup. That's one of the few Spanish words

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Speaker 2: Right off, Jason Alexander looks like a man who speaks Spanish.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe he does. He does remain the master

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Speaker 1: of his domain. After this, did you see on the

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Speaker 1: Yes Network when they were introducing him, Paul O'Neill was

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Speaker 1: So Michael Michael ka kept having fun with pauliny on

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Speaker 1: But they'll put like three like bullet points for the

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Speaker 1: starting pitcher every game. One of them for Jason Alexander

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Speaker 1: today was the sea was angry my friends, and it

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Speaker 1: was about how he threw seven scoreless against the Marlins

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Speaker 1: That was that that was excellent. But good on Jason

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Speaker 1: Alexander who picked up fromber Valdez, who did not have

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Speaker 1: one of his best outings on Saturday. The only reason

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Speaker 1: like I said earlier, the Yankees are not a good

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Speaker 1: fundamental team. Camello Duval threw away a PfP that should

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Speaker 1: another fly ball that was hit to left field in

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Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger came so close to throwing out that guy

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Speaker 2: at home today. They're so so close.

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Speaker 1: He did, but that guy was Jose Al Tuve sure

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Speaker 1: seem like I think I was not in New York,

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Speaker 1: so I did not hear Carlos say this, but I

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Speaker 1: heard carl I read that. Carlos said they should just

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Speaker 1: treat it like a spring training game every time he

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Speaker 1: he relishes the booze and just he'll never say Jose

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Speaker 1: he is into doing. He's not and having that sort

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Speaker 1: occasion you mentioned. He hit his two hundred and fiftieth

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Speaker 1: He has four hundred and forty nine doubles as we speak,

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Speaker 1: so he has two hundred and fifty homers.

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Speaker 2: That's the Bagwell homer number he has. You also have

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Speaker 2: these numbers just burned into your head of random astro stats.

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Speaker 2: Of four forty nine is bagwell homer.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a that's a weird thing that

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Speaker 1: you have because you grew up here and you unders.

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Speaker 2: Video hit six hundred and sixty eight doubles. In case

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Speaker 1: Didn't know that. I didn't know the six hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty eight doubles. But you're dove tailing into something that

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Speaker 1: I was going to bring me. Altuve has two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty career homers. Now he has three hundred stolen bases.

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Speaker 1: He needs one more double to get four hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty doubles for his career. There are only ten other

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty homers, four hundred and fifty doubles,

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Speaker 1: and three hund and stolen bases. Those ten are Bobby Abray, You,

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Speaker 1: Carlos Beltron, Craig Biggio, Barry Bonds, Andre Dawson, Ricky Henderson,

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Speaker 1: That is good company for Jose al Tuve, who is

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Speaker 1: cementing his Hall of Fame status with each passing day.

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Speaker 1: We can debate whether he will be a first ballot

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. I think that he'll get the first ballot.

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Speaker 1: I think he'll get the Carlos Beltron treatment of a

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Speaker 1: lot of people will penalize him for not for the

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Speaker 2: Ten years from now. Those Yeah, I know, like it'd

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Speaker 2: be different if they were voting this year, but it's

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Speaker 2: it's ten years from now, plus you're gonna have those

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Speaker 1: I agree with that sentiment. I do, because like, like

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Speaker 1: by the point he is out, maybe the sign stealing

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Speaker 1: scandal will have lost its I don't know if luster

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Speaker 1: is the right word, but it's this role reaction that

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Speaker 1: But Carlos Beltrom was penalized in his first year on

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Speaker 1: end of the day, Tyler, like just all around, this

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Speaker 1: was a This was a series win that the Astros

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Speaker 1: very much needed. You talked about the vibes have been very,

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Speaker 1: very high since Carlos Correa came over the trade deadline,

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Speaker 1: really re energized as the clubhouse, But you wouldn't know

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Speaker 1: that by the play on the field. They only you know,

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Speaker 1: did not play well in Boston at all. The vibes

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Speaker 1: maybe have not matched the on field product, but ending

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Speaker 1: ending it this way, ending it with a series win

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Speaker 1: with him. And this was a win. This has felt

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're right, like the the vibes are different

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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna keep on yeh, bro really play square

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Speaker 2: back soon, like the team is is getting back together.

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Speaker 2: And if you can have some name Jason, only give

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Speaker 2: you six innings of shut out ball out. Yes, I

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Speaker 2: do need the Mariners to stop winning though, that's getting

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Speaker 1: Josh Reddick should cover his ears like the Mariners are

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Speaker 1: good like that is a like they are a legitimate

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Speaker 1: like threat. This is a you know, the one game

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Speaker 1: the Astros lost this weekend did cost them in the

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Speaker 1: in the in the standings, the Mariners are now a

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Speaker 1: They are an absolute unit right now. I think they

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Speaker 1: are nine and one since the trade deadline. Cal Rawley

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Speaker 1: and I don't think anyone expected it to be. But

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Speaker 1: this Mariners team does not look like the Mariners teams

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Speaker 1: of old that kind of did their August face plant

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Speaker 1: You know, you always kind of expect the Mariners to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And like we said, Tyler's all in on the walks.

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Speaker 2: Hey, before we move on, can I give you a

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Speaker 1: Why not go out? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Thank you? So real quick ops on base percentage plus

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Speaker 1: is going to be an absolute zoo from my perspective,

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Speaker 1: just from.

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Speaker 2: Love it to be a zoo. That sounds awesome.

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Speaker 1: Well, Cam got a hit today, so Kamy did. He

433
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Speaker 1: doesn't need to. He maybe doesn't need a zoo break

434
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Speaker 1: as much as we thought. But it will be a

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Speaker 1: zoo from just my dvantage point, because there's so much

436
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Speaker 1: stuff going on. Carlo's Korea has played nine games as

437
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Speaker 1: an Astro, but will somehow be asked about what it's

438
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Speaker 1: like to be back with the Astros after playing nine games.

439
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,919
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman's coming back, Christian Hoavier is coming back, A

440
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: lot of stuff will be going on. I think the

441
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Speaker 1: focus will, obviously from our perspective, beyond Korea and Hobvier

442
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 1: because they're, you know, more important to this current Astros team.

443
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Speaker 1: But Alex Bregman coming home, you know, this one I

444
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: think will hit a little bit different. Like I think

445
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: when Korea came back the first time with the Twins,

446
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: it obviously resonated a lot more, and you know they did,

447
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 1: they did the big tribute video and he was he

448
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: was given a hero's welcome, as he should be given.

449
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Speaker 1: But Bregman, I think will be on par with that,

450
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Speaker 1: because I mean, this is a guy that not a

451
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Speaker 1: stretch to say facing the franchise. Jose al Tuve is

452
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Speaker 1: the face of the franchise, the face of the Golden Era,

453
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Speaker 1: but you can have multiple faces if you want. Alex

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Speaker 1: Bregman is certainly one of them. He's gonna be coming

455
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Speaker 1: back to Dyke and Park Tyler. I think we all,

456
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Speaker 1: I think I speak for both of us when we

457
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Speaker 1: think he's going to get pretty thunderous ovation coming back.

458
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Speaker 1: He should. It's not as if you know he on

459
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Speaker 1: bad terms. It's not as if you know he he

460
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: was ugly or angry on the way out. They just

461
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Speaker 1: didn't offer him the money that the Red Sox or

462
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Speaker 1: the Tigers did, so he took more money, which is,

463
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Speaker 1: you know what all of us would do. What do

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Speaker 1: you think? What do you think the kind of feel

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Speaker 1: around the ballpark will be like tomorrow and Alex Bregman

466
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Speaker 1: steps in the batter's box as a member of the

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Speaker 1: opposing team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be good vibes all around. Like you said,

469
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Speaker 2: Korea homecoming, Bragman homecoming. I will say, for those of

470
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Speaker 2: you not watching on YouTube, we have these little banners

471
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Speaker 2: that pop up whenever we change segments and Chandler writes them,

472
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Speaker 2: and it said Alex Bregman comes home. I'm very disappointed

473
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Speaker 2: you did not spell home the Cajun way with the EA.

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Speaker 1: I hate that you love it.

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Speaker 2: You love it.

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Speaker 1: That is the one thing that Lsu and Louisiana. People

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Speaker 1: do that. I cannot stand. Do not put ea like

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Speaker 1: go is fine, Geaux is fine?

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Speaker 2: Is it because your last name could be that is

480
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Speaker 2: that way you're bitter about it, just like just.

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Speaker 1: Like, don't force it like Geaux is fine, like that

482
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Speaker 1: is I totally get that. Don't force it into other

483
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Speaker 1: stuff like when they went to I know you don't

484
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Speaker 1: have frame of reference for this, but like when they

485
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Speaker 1: went to Omaha, that's where they played the college World,

486
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Speaker 1: that's where they.

487
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 2: Played college second last year.

488
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Speaker 1: And then Billy Lucci's payroll, I guess just dry out

489
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Speaker 1: and they couldn't give Schlosnakel a bunch of money. But

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Speaker 1: when they go to Omaha every year, they try to

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Speaker 1: make it oh e A U X Maha And I'm like, no,

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Speaker 1: that that's not not what needs to happen, Like that's

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Speaker 1: forcing it too much. So no, no, it should not

494
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Speaker 1: be written like that anyway.

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Speaker 2: How many how many Purple Bragman jerseys will you see

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Speaker 2: from the press box over under twenty?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'd take the over. I would easily take the over.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I do need you to count, I need you

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Speaker 2: to tally them up from the press box.

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Speaker 1: I mean I can't count to twenty five. I went

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Speaker 1: to LSU. As we've discussed. True, when you get up

502
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Speaker 1: in those numbers, it gets difficult. I imagine you will

503
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Speaker 1: see a lot of Red Sox Bregman jerseys. That is

504
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Speaker 1: a team that travels very well.

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Speaker 2: They all live in the Woodlands. We've already talked about this.

506
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Speaker 2: All the Yankees and Red Sox fans live in the Woodlands,

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Speaker 2: so they did come in.

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Speaker 1: Have we talked about this?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know why, but that's the bit. Is

510
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 2: like the Woodlands and Katie, that's where all of the

511
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Speaker 2: Yankees and the fake Houston people live. Apologies to those

512
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Speaker 2: of you who live there.

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Speaker 1: The Woodlands is a great place.

514
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Speaker 2: Oh it rules. I'm at Cynthia Mitchell as often as

515
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Speaker 2: I saw John Mayer out there like ten years ago,

516
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Speaker 2: and it ruled.

517
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Speaker 1: I tried to go see Jason Isbell there like a

518
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and they wouldn't comply with like

519
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Speaker 1: the vaccine mandate at the time. So JASONI is Ball

520
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 1: just like canceled the show that that was not I

521
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Speaker 1: mean it tracks for everything, like for them not complying

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Speaker 1: with the vaccine mandate and Jason is Bill pulling the

523
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Speaker 1: show because of it.

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Speaker 2: It all tracks, but let me give you a quick

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Speaker 2: So when I saw John Mayer, this must have been

526
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Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, right after the The Born and Raised album,

527
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Speaker 2: I believe, but it was also Jared Cozart's first start

528
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Speaker 2: for the Astros. Astros legend, Jared Cozart League City legend.

529
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Speaker 2: I saw him at Home Depot here one time. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: he was pitching any cared a no hitter inuntil like

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Speaker 2: the eighth inning, and I was following it on game

532
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Speaker 2: day on my phone while watching. I think Philip Phillips

533
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Speaker 2: opened for John Mayer. But so I have a very

534
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Speaker 2: specific sense memory of like watching my phone trying to

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Speaker 2: follow Jared Cozart's first start and he taking a no

536
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Speaker 2: hitter in there. Anyway, shout out the Woodlands. Look, it's

537
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Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of fun. I'm really excited to

538
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Speaker 2: watch these games, huge games like the Red Sox are

539
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 2: right on the cusp of, you know, trying to get

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Speaker 2: in the division race as well. The Blue Jays have

541
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Speaker 2: just been a wagon this year. But the Red Sox

542
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 2: are three games back, they've they've been hot, so we'll see.

543
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's a really important series for both teams.

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Speaker 2: I assume the Mariners play some Double A team so

545
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 2: they can just keep one already.

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Speaker 1: They play the Orioles. Well, it's Adley Ruschman, Gunner Henderson,

547
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: and a bunch of guys you've never heard of.

548
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, is adle Ruschmond even good?

549
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: No, not anymore. They're talking about some catching prospect they

550
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: have in Double A that's gonna come up and take us.

551
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,719
Speaker 2: So sad I really wanted him to be good. I

552
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 2: was very excited, I know, for like a year and

553
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 2: then he just fell off. But I mean, this is

554
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Speaker 2: a big series. And of course now the Red Sox,

555
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,959
Speaker 2: you know, I've jumped the Yankees. The Yankees have been

556
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: falling apart as we've seen, so a really big series

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Speaker 2: for both teams. Again, it's gonna feel like I mean,

558
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Speaker 2: tomorrow is gonna feel like a playoff atmosphere, Like the

559
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 2: first couple of innings are just going to be juiced.

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Speaker 2: I'm really excited.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's probably not to the Astros benefit that the two

563
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: hottest teams in baseball currently are the Boston Red Sox,

564
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Speaker 1: who they're about to play in the Seattle Mariners, who

565
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: in half game behind them in the American leaguist. But

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Speaker 1: that's the reality that they live in. And the thing

567
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: that if you're an Astros fan that probably worries you

568
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: a little bit is that you know, in this series

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Speaker 1: against the Red Sox, you're gonna throw Christian Javier, which

570
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're going to get out of him.

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Speaker 1: And I had to guess right now, it probably won't

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Speaker 1: be twenty to twenty twenty two Christian Javier. It probably

573
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: will not be punch out ten in six innings and

574
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Speaker 1: look dominant doing it. It's his first start back in

575
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Speaker 1: fourteen months. It's a lot of the things that we

576
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Speaker 1: have talked about for a while. Now. You can activate

577
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Speaker 1: these guys off the injured list, that's one thing. Getting

578
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Speaker 1: them to pitch effectively is another thing. And you saw

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Speaker 1: that with Spencer Orrighetti against the Marlins. Who is going

580
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Speaker 1: to follow Christian Javier and pitch on Tuesday at dyk

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Speaker 1: In Park, I believe against Dustin May of the Red Sox,

582
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Speaker 1: But Hunter Brown will pitch on Wednesday, so the Astros

583
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Speaker 1: will get at one of their two you know, mainstays,

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Speaker 1: he's in the rotation in that series. But it's gonna

585
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Speaker 1: be a tough one, and it's gonna be one. You

586
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Speaker 1: just saw the Red Sox in Fenway. They had their

587
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: way with the Ashers for three games. They pitched them

588
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: very well. The Ashers did not. The Ashers gave themselves chances,

589
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Speaker 1: but just didn't get that big hit with runners in

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Speaker 1: scoring position. And they struggled with runners and scoring position

591
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: to a point against the Yankees as well, but finally

592
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: got some big hits on Sunday to kind of widen

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00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: that game out a little bit and that helped. But yeah, Tyler,

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Speaker 1: this is I wondered though, when you look at the

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Speaker 1: Yankee series, I think there were a couple things that

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Speaker 1: stood out as like more indicative and more instructive of

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Speaker 1: what's going on for the next you know, for the

598
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: foreseeable future for this team. I cover your ears. I

599
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: know you're not gonna like this. Cam Smith. Cam Smith

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Speaker 1: got pinch hit for in a pretty crucial spot on

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Speaker 1: Friday by Victor Carrottini. He did not start Saturday's game,

602
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Speaker 1: got in there, took it back at late in the game,

603
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:02,959
Speaker 1: came in as a pincher runner. Started on Sunday, as

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Speaker 1: we talked about, got the got a two run single

605
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: that that helped out. But you know, I think this

606
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: road trip may have, you know, shown that Cam Smith's

607
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: status is an everyday player is slipping a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And part of that is, you know, they have Hayesus

609
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Speaker 1: Sanchez now that they can platune him with. I think

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Speaker 1: when they get back to Dyke and Park, when they

611
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: can play Josel Tuve in left field a little bit more,

612
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Speaker 1: I think that will even further accentuate that maybe Cam

613
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Speaker 1: Smith's hold on an everyday job is not solid. And

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Speaker 1: I think the other thing we talked about it a

615
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Speaker 1: little bit earlier, Brian King did not have a great

616
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Speaker 1: weekend and leverage roles. He came in and he threw

617
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: really well today in a very non leverage spot. But

618
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Speaker 1: this is a team that's still trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: who's going to be that third reliever. Bridging to Brian Abrady,

620
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Speaker 1: you and Josh Hader and speaking of Brian abrad you,

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Speaker 1: I know, he got the five outs they needed him

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Speaker 1: to get today. He was dead tired, like what's growing

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Speaker 1: ninety three ninety four, He got it up to ninety

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Speaker 1: eight ninety nine. When he had to get Bellinger out

625
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 1: in the eighth inning, he found it. But this is

626
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Speaker 1: a guy that again you're starting to see the the

627
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: volume of innings, and it's not even just the appearances.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, he only had pitched in one game

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Speaker 1: in this series before Sunday, but he warmed up on

630
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Speaker 1: Saturday too, and warming up in the bullpen. A. J.

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Speaker 1: Hinch used to say, it is the exact same as

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Speaker 1: an appearance. So they wouldn't they call it again if

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Speaker 1: they don't use them. Yeah, that's called dry humping. Okay,

634
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Speaker 1: if if you get a reliever up, yes, if you

635
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Speaker 1: get a reliever up in the bullpen and you do

636
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Speaker 1: not use him, that is called dry humping. You dry

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Speaker 1: hump the reliever.

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Speaker 2: Do you think that's going to be on like MLB

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Speaker 2: dot COM's like glossary of terms.

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Speaker 1: It should be. I mean, it's it's pretty like it's ubiquitous.

641
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Speaker 1: Everyone is pretty widely used, like in yeah, in baseball

642
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Speaker 1: circles and like if you're not, if you don't work

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Speaker 1: in the industry, but you know the game pretty well,

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Speaker 1: like it's pretty commonly used. Yeah, so they've got to

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Speaker 1: find a third reliever that they really really trust, because again,

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Speaker 1: if you're going into this stretch of games with two

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Landsman Colors.

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Speaker 1: That's who the other reliever is. Can we not? Can

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Speaker 1: we not do this? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Sorry, okay, you gave me a lot of thoughts. First off,

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Speaker 2: Cam Smith, they mentioned on the broadcast today, this was

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Speaker 2: his one hundred and second game this season. Last season

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Speaker 2: combining Florida State and the minor leagues and the minor

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Speaker 2: league playoffs. I believe he played one hundred and one,

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Speaker 2: So he's already passed his career high in games. There's

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Speaker 2: seven weeks left of the season plus October. He's got

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Speaker 2: to have rest. So it's not even a question of

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Speaker 2: is he an everyday player or not. Even if he was,

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Speaker 2: he needs two games off a week just to give

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Speaker 2: right field line. That's ah, that's become his swing, you know,

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Speaker 2: to to really break the game open today. So you know,

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Speaker 2: he just he's so tired, you you can just tell.

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Speaker 2: So we'll we'll definitely see him have games off over

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Speaker 2: over the next few weeks and it's necessary they they

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Speaker 2: need to do that to protect him. You're right, Brian

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Speaker 2: King has been struggling. Although as a former US history teacher,

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Speaker 2: I could have told you, look, Yankees are gonna want

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Speaker 2: Uh so you know, maybe avoid that. But yeah, they're

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Speaker 2: they're gonna have to find some other people, and they

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Speaker 2: also just need their starters to go longer. Having Jason

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Speaker 2: Alexander go six and the third today was huge that

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Speaker 2: that was very beneficial for the Astros. It's wild that

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Speaker 2: but you know, they they just they're seven weeks left.

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Speaker 2: You you got to just kind of push through. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: you're gonna have to use Briana Bray you to get

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Speaker 2: five outs. And even without his best stuff, he's really

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Speaker 2: really good, you know, like that's a really really good pitcher,

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Speaker 2: and so you're glad to have him. But you're right,

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Speaker 2: they're they're running out of juice in the pitching department.

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Speaker 2: But that's why it's all the more important that Javier

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Speaker 2: So we'll we'll see. But I mean it's gonna be

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be a tight race down in the stretch here.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: We'll wrap up right after. Another message from our friends

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Speaker 1: Like it just has the Crush City Territory logo on it.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have my face or name on it, which

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Speaker 2: That's disappointing.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get Tyler's face and name on it at

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we we we got some in the card here.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna get some T shirts for me and Alicia.

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Speaker 2: I believe we're getting hats at some point too, which

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about that. It's wild man, Like we just

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Speaker 2: were texting in November or whatever, like should we start

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Speaker 2: a podcast? Okay, I don't know who's going to listen

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Speaker 2: to it.

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Speaker 1: And we got merch.

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Speaker 2: That's cool. You signed an autograph for some reason. Uh

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Speaker 2: so that's that's exciting. But yeah, I'm excited to do

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Speaker 2: some live stuff coming up. You know, in the off

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Speaker 2: can definitely organize some of those things. Really excited. I

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Speaker 2: don't know when the next Astros game that I'll be

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Speaker 2: at will be, but I did win the lottery for

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Speaker 2: the Savannah Bananas tickets, so I'll be up there somewhere.

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Speaker 2: If you're going to that, let me know.

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Speaker 1: Are you Are you into that? Or Livy and Alicia

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Speaker 1: and all them into that?

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Speaker 2: I I mean, I'm not gonna like watch a week's

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Speaker 2: worth of Savanna, but I will go see them. That

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Speaker 2: sounds fun, Like I I remember I had a birthday

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Speaker 2: party when I was a kid at the Harlem Globe

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Speaker 2: Trotters in Houston, and that sounds of fun. That seems

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Speaker 2: like similar vibe to me. Hot take. I like people

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Speaker 2: playing baseball, and I like people having fun watching baseball. Cool,

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Speaker 2: you know, like I'm excited. Yeah, I mean, it's not

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Speaker 2: real baseball, but they're also not trying to be That's

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Speaker 2: my point. It's supposed to be entertaining. So I watched

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Speaker 2: the twenty thirteen Astros. They can't be worse, you know, like,

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Speaker 2: it's definitely gonna be more entertaining than that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the twenty thirteen Astros did have Jose al

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Speaker 1: Tuva on.

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Speaker 2: The team, Carlos Pana.

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Speaker 1: You know, we can really start naming guys Justin Maxwell,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Barnes.

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Speaker 2: That guy had so much raw power. Justin Maxwell. I

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Speaker 2: thought he was gonna be so good. Jimmy Paratus, oh

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Speaker 2: you you were not around. But I've talked about it before,

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Speaker 2: but the play where he and al Tuve collided and

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Speaker 2: But yes, I watched that team. So I'll be at

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Speaker 2: the Savanna of Bananas. We'll we'll see you there. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'll go to a couple more, hopefully this year. I

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Speaker 2: so at some point I will be at a game.

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Speaker 1: But it's wild.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, go go shop, it'll be Uh, it's exciting. I'm

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Speaker 2: really it's it's wild to me that people listen to

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Speaker 2: this and that people are spending American dollars on merchandise

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Speaker 2: with our logo on it. It's really cool. Thank you

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Speaker 2: guys so much for yes, for doing that. Like I know,

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Speaker 2: we joke on here. It's insane, Like it's so cool

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Speaker 2: that you guys do that, that you interact with us.

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Speaker 2: I know I shouldn't do this. I read every comment

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't do that.

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Speaker 2: I look, I'm I'm not strong enough to not. I

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Speaker 2: there's two guys that are are not fans of me,

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Speaker 2: and they they'll let you know in the YouTube comments.

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Speaker 2: But other than that, everybody's been really I enjoyed doing it.

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Speaker 2: I like interacting with people. It's it's fun. So thank

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Speaker 2: you guys for listening and supporting us and uh being here.

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Speaker 2: It's it's really really cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll and we'll keep we'll keep trying our

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Speaker 1: best to give you guys good content. I think we've

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Speaker 1: got something interesting coming this week. We'll have a prospect

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Speaker 1: of a fast ascending astros prospect coming on the show

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Speaker 1: this week, probably on Thursday. I think we've got that

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Speaker 1: finalized for Thursday. But we'll have Reddick back on this week.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about this Red Sox series coming up that

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Speaker 1: is pretty consequential for both sides. We'll talk about Carlos

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Speaker 1: on Crush City Territory and as always, you can follow

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Speaker 1: me on X at Chandler Underscore Room. You can follow

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Speaker 1: Tyler at Tyler C. Stafford. As I said, if you

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Speaker 1: time we post a new video podcast as always. Again,

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Speaker 1: as Tyler said, we really appreciate the outpouring of support,

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Speaker 1: the outpouring of just fandom and love that you guys

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Speaker 1: be back soon. We'll be back after this Red Sox

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Speaker 1: series to talk the Ashers and where they're at the

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Speaker 1: American West And until then, we'll talk to you guys later.

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Speaker 1: See it.

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Speaker 2: Bye,