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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody?

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

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Speaker 2: the room along with Tyler Stafford and Home Run Derby

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Speaker 2: participant Josh Reddick.

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Speaker 3: Josh Finalist, finalist, finalist.

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Speaker 1: I got to get that right. You were a finalist.

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Speaker 2: Tell everyone how it went, how sore you are, and

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Speaker 2: when you will be swinging about again.

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Speaker 3: It went great. I had a blast. It was a

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Speaker 3: lot of fun.

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Speaker 4: You know, A different event set up by Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 4: I just wish they could have streamed it somehow.

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Speaker 3: That was kind of like Goli Downfall. There was no

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Speaker 3: way ready to watch it, so a bunch of us

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Speaker 3: with Instagram Live for.

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Speaker 4: It to kind of view it out. But man, I

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Speaker 4: had a blasket with those guys. Just kind of get

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Speaker 4: into the clubhouse back with everybody. It was such a

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Speaker 4: cool feeling to be in that atmosphere and just had

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Speaker 4: that kind of different experience. I'm very sore. Both the

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Speaker 4: obleaques are sore. Back is sore, legs are sore. But

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Speaker 4: you know what, I got my cold pledge tub in

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Speaker 4: the back already ready to go.

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Speaker 3: Just gotta add some ice to it. Jump in and

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Speaker 3: I'll be good to go.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: The next timebody be picking up a bet is to.

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Speaker 4: Be determined, because I have no future events lined up

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Speaker 4: right now, so we'll let him catch some dust for

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Speaker 4: a little while.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the trade deadlines in four days. And if

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Speaker 2: you watch, if you watch the Astros this weekend, they

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Speaker 2: could use you swinging a bat maybe tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: We say this like twice a month, and yet here.

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Speaker 2: I am, yeah, this weekend really underscored. The Ashers could

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Speaker 2: use Josh Reddick or any professional hitter.

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Speaker 5: Underscored is a good way of describing the Asters this weekend.

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Speaker 2: They were outscored thirty two to seven in a four

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Speaker 2: games sweep by the Athletics. The Astros scored seven runs

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Speaker 2: in four games. Nick Kurtz drove in eight runs by

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Speaker 2: himself on Friday in a game that we will talk

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Speaker 2: about later because Nick Kurtz deserves to be discussed here.

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Speaker 2: But we're gonna do that later because I know you

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Speaker 2: guys don't want to hear that. The Ashers did not

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Speaker 2: lead for one inning this this weekend at dik And Park,

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Speaker 2: so they have gone thirty six innings without playing from ahead.

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Speaker 2: They have allowed their opponent to score first eighteen consecutive times.

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Speaker 2: They have not scored first Since Estoc Paradus hit the

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Speaker 2: first pit of the Dodgers series for a home run.

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Speaker 2: The Asters have not scored first in a game. It's

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Speaker 2: it's tough, it's tough sledding. And look, I'm kind of

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Speaker 2: famous for being the guy that says it's just one series.

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Speaker 1: It's just one series.

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Speaker 2: We said that when they swept the Dodgers, we said

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Speaker 2: that when they when they swept the Phillies, and I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna say it now, it's one series. Like, I don't

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Speaker 2: think there should be some gross overreaction to losing four

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Speaker 2: games to the A's. The Astros are still in enviable

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Speaker 2: position there. They have a four game lead in the

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Speaker 2: American League West. According to Fangrafts, they have eighty seven

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Speaker 2: point three percent odds to make the playoffs and fifty

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Speaker 1: So those are two good places to be.

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Speaker 2: The guys this weekend really showed that this has all

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Speaker 2: taken a toll. I mean, they have eighteen guys on

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Speaker 2: five which were in their opening day lineup. They've reached

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Speaker 2: a point where they're unable to overcome these injuries anymore.

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Speaker 5: I mean, who could, right, Like, I don't. There's not

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Speaker 5: a team that exists that can handle this many guys

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Speaker 5: being out at the same time. You know that that's

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Speaker 5: what it looks like when you are mad online that

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Speaker 5: Taylor Tremmeel is not in the starting lineup, Like that's

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Speaker 5: that's what's going to happen to your team. When you

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Speaker 5: are like, you know, legitimately concerned that you lost a

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Speaker 5: man named Brandon Walter, like who's been great, no disrespect,

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Speaker 5: But when you are like, oh no, what are we

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Speaker 5: going to do without Brandon Walter? Things have gone bad

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Speaker 5: in your season. Now, all that to say two things.

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Speaker 5: This is the worst baseball team I've ever seen in

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Speaker 5: my life. And they're fifteen games over They're not, actually,

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Speaker 5: but they're they're fifteen games over.

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Speaker 3: Five those that are watching, he just got the meanest

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Speaker 5: Hey, I've been around for for quite a bit. I've

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Speaker 5: seen some bad Astros teams, But you know, there's still

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Speaker 5: fifteen games over five hundred. Like they built themselves enough

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Speaker 5: that can sustain them for a little bit. And also,

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Speaker 5: fun fact in both twenty seventeen and twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 5: the Astros were swept by the A's, so maybe this

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Speaker 5: is just what they need to kickstart them. So there

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Speaker 5: you go.

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Speaker 4: Maybe this this this Houston Astros team has not lost

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Speaker 4: twenty games in a row. So until they do that,

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Speaker 4: then you can talk about the worst team. I'm not

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Speaker 4: pointing fingers.

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Speaker 3: But twenty one Diamondbacks we're pretty atrocious.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, there's that in you know, this is just

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Speaker 4: you know, we we're almost the end of July, about

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Speaker 4: to start all the month of August, and we're finally

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Speaker 4: panicking over this ball club after all they've gone through.

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Speaker 4: Everybody's finally starting to panic now after having you know,

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Speaker 4: over five.

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Speaker 3: Hundred months for the most for every year, for every

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Speaker 3: month of this season.

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Speaker 4: So like I'm with you, if we're worried about Brandon

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Speaker 4: Walter's being our sager, then you know we're at the

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Speaker 4: stretch at that point where like, okay, now we need

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Speaker 4: to push that big button panic.

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Speaker 3: A little bit.

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Speaker 4: And at the same time, you know, like you said,

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Speaker 4: this is a this is you know, this is a

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Speaker 4: different as team, and any sweep is never going to

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Speaker 4: look good. But when you have a guy like Nick

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Speaker 4: Kurtz going off and being Barry Bonds for the better

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Speaker 4: part of this month. It does not make your job

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Speaker 4: any easier. But this is just a sign of maybe

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Speaker 4: this is taking its toll. It's catching up to them

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Speaker 4: injuries or obviously adding up every day.

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Speaker 3: I mean every week we seem to be baffled by.

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Speaker 4: Yet another injury to somebody, whether it be you know,

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Speaker 3: So it's it's becoming urgent.

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Speaker 4: That when bodies start going down right now, it's going

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Speaker 1: A I got concerned.

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Speaker 5: I thought you literally meant a horse was injured outside,

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Speaker 5: and I was like, oh, no, they can't catch a break.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully they have Hopefully they have a horse. Doctor.

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Speaker 2: H We we were just talking about you ain't assessments

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Speaker 3: That's not a horse, that's a Clydesdale.

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Speaker 2: So the most the most pressing concern has to be

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Speaker 2: the lineup in the offense they have. You know, five

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Speaker 2: injured list, none of whom has any concrete timeline for

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Speaker 2: his return. The closest one to coming back is probably

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Speaker 2: in West Palm Beach. I think they're undecided right now

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Speaker 2: assignment or if he's just going to face more live

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Speaker 2: pitching in West Palm. The fact that like he was

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Speaker 1: To for the opener against the Gnats.

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Speaker 2: And again, this is something that they've gotta They've got

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Speaker 2: and as a shortstop, he's gonna be diving around, he's

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Speaker 2: This is not something they can just rush back. And

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Speaker 2: we've seen the we've seen the pitfalls of when they

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Speaker 2: do try to rush people back. So Paanya is close,

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Speaker 2: but again no set timeline, and when he's gonna come,

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Speaker 2: everybody else is pretty just you know, no one's really

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Speaker 2: about sixty percent only soft toss, and Tea's Jake Myers

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Speaker 2: is not running yet Brendan Rodgers is I believe, still

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Speaker 2: trying to recover from being targeted in a targeting hit

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Speaker 2: up the middle, and then uh, Esac Paratus is the

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Speaker 2: one that I think has to be of bigger concern.

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Speaker 2: Dana Brown went on the Astros pregame radio show today

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Speaker 2: and said that his hamstring injury is quote more severe

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Speaker 2: words of all you can hear are that Paradis is

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Speaker 2: getting a second opinion. No, I've to be honest with you,

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Speaker 2: I have never heard of anyone getting a second opinion

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Speaker 2: on a hamstring. That usually comes when it's an elbow

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Speaker 2: getting second opinions. I've never heard of a hamstring second opinion.

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Speaker 2: But oftentimes when you're getting a second opinion, it's because

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Speaker 2: you didn't like the first opinion. I think guys, at

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Speaker 2: this point, they have to proceed the next four days

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Speaker 2: going into the deadline as if Esak Paradis is not

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Speaker 2: the season, and they have to proceed in their negotiating

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Speaker 3: Accordingly oh Man, this game plan just changed tremendously. Go ahead, Tyler.

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Speaker 5: I was going to say, if the Astros medical staff

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Speaker 5: is saying this is more severe than we thought initially,

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Speaker 5: I mean, Yourdon's been out four and a half years

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Speaker 5: I hope he still has a muscle in there at

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Speaker 5: this point. I'm gonna we're gonna find out it like

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Speaker 5: fell off through his shoe and they lost it on

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Speaker 4: That's probably while we're getting a second opinion. You don't

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Speaker 4: hear about hamstrings getting them. But you know, I mean,

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Speaker 4: and I'm not bashing anybody, I'm not bashing that staff

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Speaker 3: But like with the.

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Speaker 4: History of what's going on this year and this season,

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Speaker 4: you can't really blame him as a player and his

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Speaker 4: agent that you want to get a second opinion. You know,

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Speaker 4: when I played and got hurt and something needed imaging,

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Speaker 4: you know, it was pretty common knowledge that I always

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Speaker 4: got a second opinion. You just never know it's not

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Speaker 4: you don't trust the doctors, so you don't trust the staff.

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Speaker 4: It's just a matter of getting it right and want

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Speaker 4: to know everything. Obviously, with what we're dealing with here,

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Speaker 4: we will we won't know for sure, and if we

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Speaker 4: get told something, you know who's going to believe it

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Speaker 4: anyway at this point, So that kind of becomes a

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Speaker 4: tough handle when things have been so misleading that you

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Speaker 4: So but you know, this definitely makes these next couple

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Speaker 4: of days a lot more of an aggressive jump at

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Speaker 4: this deadline for Dana Brown in this organization. I don't

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Speaker 4: imagine much sleep will be had, but there definitely has

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Speaker 4: because like.

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Speaker 3: I said, we don't we don't know what's going on.

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Speaker 4: We were lying on a Christian hobber coming back before this,

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Speaker 4: Brandon Walter's enjurgy.

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Speaker 3: So like this is just another step forward or backwards

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Speaker 3: So that's what I'm gonna keep pushing.

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Speaker 1: For I don't know that they have enough to get Jared.

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Speaker 2: Would you guys shift your focus if you were Dana

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Speaker 2: I mean they You're right, like a third base one

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Speaker 2: what about you looking at this team, like what do

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Speaker 3: I'm with you.

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Speaker 4: I think Dubon is the centerpiece of any trade they make.

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Speaker 4: He becomes the hybrid player. Like you said, he covers

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Speaker 4: it's going to be so difficult for this team to

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Speaker 3: I speak of Jared Durant so highly.

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Speaker 4: And you know, even you Haino Suarez like having He's

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Speaker 3: But I'm with you.

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Speaker 3: You know, you could probably come cheap Chandler And yeah,

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Speaker 4: Chris Walker might be able to play third sure, I

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Speaker 4: mean we're in the league whereverybody gets thrown around anyway,

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Speaker 4: screw it, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, might as well.

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Speaker 2: Miles Straw played shortstop once. I'll never forget that I

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Speaker 3: He played shortstop behind Justin Burlander.

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Speaker 5: I was there.

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Speaker 5: that are like definitely available and almost certainly going to

440
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 5: get traded, none of them are going to be guys

441
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:07,160
Speaker 5: that you're just jumping up and down excited about, Which

442
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,959
Speaker 5: is why I'm saying, like the Ashers just have to

443
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:16,240
Speaker 5: make multiple good, prudent trades for guys who you can

444
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 5: count on to hit the ball and be in the

445
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 5: lineup every every couple of days, even if you need,

446
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,600
Speaker 5: you know, it doesn't matter at this point. But they're

447
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,440
Speaker 5: just out, they're out of players, like they just are,

448
00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 5: and they they have to to make some acquisitions here, and.

449
00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,119
Speaker 4: It's it's almost like you gotta like this, almost like

450
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 4: they might have to take like the Moneyball movie attack

451
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,439
Speaker 4: that things are like, you know, you can't read. You

452
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:44,280
Speaker 4: can't replace one player, but maybe you can.

453
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,719
Speaker 5: You can recreate it them there we go, we've all

454
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:48,440
Speaker 5: seen ball.

455
00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,680
Speaker 3: We can't get replaced.

456
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's it's something that can be you know,

457
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,080
Speaker 4: looked at to where you know, we may not be

458
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,280
Speaker 4: able to get somebody who can be a parade's or

459
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 4: somebody else. We can get maybe two guys that can

460
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 4: maybe come close to that for the rest of the year,

461
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 4: because I mean, like we're talking about, there's no blockbuster trades.

462
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 3: We don't have the resources to make a big trade.

463
00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 4: And you can't really make a trade for a long

464
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 4: term player anyway, because once.

465
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 3: You come back healthy at twenty twenty six, then.

466
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 4: You've got a whole bulky roster mashup that becomes the

467
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,439
Speaker 4: issue as well. So you have to make all of

468
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,680
Speaker 4: this and it has to be a rental for somebody

469
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 4: that you know isn't going to be there for a

470
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Speaker 4: long time.

471
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Speaker 3: But I mean, we.

472
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Speaker 4: Were sitting here reading, you know, we said four days

473
00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 4: away from the deadline and we're reading trade deadlines rumors

474
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 4: that have no headlines, like it's it's wild. I can

475
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 4: remember going back every year and you like having just

476
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 4: headlines pop up from whatever site I was following on

477
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 4: Instagram or x and it's like, you know.

478
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:50,359
Speaker 3: Cedric Mullins potentially going to so and so or whatever.

479
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 3: Like there's literally no chatter of any name or big

480
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 3: name being involved in any talk.

481
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Speaker 4: So that makes it I guess, I don't know if

482
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Speaker 4: it makes it harder or easier because there's no real there.

483
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 3: But like like like who do you get? Do you

484
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 3: just hope to like keep the ship afloat.

485
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 4: Until you get a guy back, because you don't know

486
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:10,640
Speaker 4: how long you're getting these guys.

487
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,200
Speaker 3: We like what you said, Sham, like we're talking about

488
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 3: maybe paying you coming back, and what a week?

489
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:18,400
Speaker 4: Two weeks and that's our closest guy, Like we might

490
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 4: get Hobby airback, what after two more rehabs starts.

491
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,719
Speaker 5: And Arrogetty soon probably.

492
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 4: We're like like we're we're we're having to rely way

493
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 4: too much on guys that have been gone for way

494
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 4: too long and haven't faced big league pitching and forever.

495
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 4: So it's it's it's a heavy load to kind of

496
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 4: throw in somebody's shoulders, But really, at this point, what

497
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 4: other option do they have?

498
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:43,200
Speaker 1: They don't.

499
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Speaker 2: I think the thing that illustrates it best to me is,

500
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 2: you know, there's some people in the Ashers organization and

501
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 2: just around baseball.

502
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Speaker 1: That view the deadline this way.

503
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 2: They viewed the deadline as they're looking at it from

504
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 2: a playoff perspective. It's like, all right, what can what

505
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 2: can jeopardize us in the playoffs? Like what is our

506
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,439
Speaker 2: biggest vulnerability that can be exposed in the playoffs?

507
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: And that's how they approach the deadline.

508
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,640
Speaker 2: I think the Astros are trending toward like I mean,

509
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,159
Speaker 2: I just told you they have you know, they still

510
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 2: have eighty seven point three odds to make the playoffs.

511
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,239
Speaker 2: I don't think they're in we're not going to make

512
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,199
Speaker 2: the playoff playoffs territory yet, but like they've got to

513
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 2: get there. And what we just talked about, like Jake

514
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,239
Speaker 2: Myers isn't coming back for like at least another two

515
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 2: or three weeks. Jord and Alvarez probably in the same boat,

516
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 2: maybe longer. Jeremy Panna, if you get him back next week,

517
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 2: that'd be a that'd be a nice addition. But I

518
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 2: mean this is they're gonna have to run with this

519
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 2: skeleton crew for at least another three or four weeks.

520
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 2: And you start to look at what's going on around

521
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 2: the division. The Rangers are all of a sudden playing

522
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 2: very very well. They They are tied with the Mariners

523
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:55,679
Speaker 2: for the wild for the last wildcard spot in the

524
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 2: American League. The Mariners have crept within four games in

525
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 2: the AL West. The Rangers are right behind them. You

526
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 2: know that the Rangers and the Mariners have a couple

527
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 2: of things you don't. They have a they have very

528
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 2: deep farm systems, the Mariners more so than the Rangers,

529
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 2: but both of those teams have way deeper farm systems

530
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 2: in the astros, and they have two general managers, and

531
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 2: Chris Young with the Rangers and Jerry Depoto with the

532
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 2: Mariners that just wheel and deal. This is their time

533
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 2: of year. They are super aggressive. They go for it.

534
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 3: J who is.

535
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: He's had some cluckers. What do you think of that

536
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: lineup now? With Josh Naylor you hated it before.

537
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, he just brings more strikeouts, so

538
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 4: it doesn't strike out though.

539
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 3: And I mean I know you against.

540
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 5: He's just the big boy. That's why you think he

541
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,880
Speaker 5: strikes out. But that's a good lineup, man.

542
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 4: He definitely made it in the middle of that lineup

543
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 4: a lot more scarier.

544
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 3: It turns Hilio Rodriguez. It's a little bit more dangerous

545
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 3: hitter too.

546
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.

547
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 2: But so you know that those two teams are going

548
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 2: to be aggressive, like the Rangers have firmly put themselves

549
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 2: in buy mode, like they're gonna they're gonna be aggressive.

550
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 2: They're gonna go for it, like we talked about with

551
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 2: Sean McFarland a couple of weeks ago, like the same

552
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 2: way we talk about you don't want to like waste

553
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 2: a players last year of their contract, Like the Rangers

554
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,400
Speaker 2: have Bruce Bochie, who you don't know how much longer

555
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 2: he's going to be managing. So they're gonna go for

556
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 2: it every year that Bruce Bochi is at the Helm

557
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 2: and they have a shot.

558
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: So they're going for it.

559
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 2: The Mariners have already shown that they're going for it

560
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 2: by getting Josh Naylor. They're gonna get more guys too.

561
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 2: It really is going to come down to something that

562
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 2: you said, Josh, like how much do the how much

563
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 2: does Dana Brown and his lieutenants believe that just getting

564
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 2: the guys off the al is going to raise the

565
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 2: floor in the ceiling of this offense, Like is that

566
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 2: going to be enough to where all you have to

567
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 2: do is go get a complimentary piece, a guy like

568
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 2: a Willie Castro who's with the Twins, who reported today

569
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 2: the Astros do have pretty legitimate interest, pretty strong interest

570
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 2: in Willie Castro, who I think fits this roster way.

571
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: Better than a you Henno Suarez. Would you know?

572
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 2: Willi Castro has started at six different defensive positions this year,

573
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 2: all three you.

574
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: Could that's the thing.

575
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 2: And he's a switch hitter, He's The offensive upside is

576
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 2: a lot more with Castro than it ever is with Dubon.

577
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 2: That's no disrespect to Mauricio Dubon, but Cashro is just

578
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 2: a better offensive player. It would give Joe a lot

579
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 2: more flexibility to be able to move that around. So

580
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 2: that is what Dana Brown's weighing right now. Do you

581
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 2: go get a complimentary piece somebody that you know, at

582
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 2: full strength is a platoon partner, or is a guy

583
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 2: that's playing every other day, A Trey Mancini type from

584
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Do you go get that and wait

585
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 2: for the reinforcements to come back, or do you look

586
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 2: at the way you're teams playing, the way the Mariners

587
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 2: and the Rangers are playing, and you say, man, like,

588
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 2: we need something a little more urgent, like we've got

589
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 2: to do this now, Like we've got to get something

590
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 2: big and we got to get them in there now

591
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 2: to play every day to help bridge the gap to

592
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 2: when those guys come back. I don't know what the

593
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 2: answer is. You don't want to be a prisoner of

594
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 2: the moment after losing four games to the A's. But

595
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 2: this is about as this is about the biggest crossroads

596
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 2: that they have faced this year, and it's gonna be

597
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 2: interesting to see which way they go.

598
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 4: I mean, they're not go go ahead, you go, you know,

599
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 4: you know, you do it right here?

600
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 3: Do it now?

601
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 5: Okay? So there's I mean, there there aren't players that

602
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 5: really exist that you look at and go like this guy,

603
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 5: you like, we said, they're all kind of complimentary players,

604
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 5: but at this point that's what you need, uh, you know,

605
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 5: And again, they have enough flexibility that they can move

606
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 5: some people around, like, yeah, if there were some big

607
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 5: splashes available, but they're I mean, they're just aren't. There's

608
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 5: not guys that you're looking at. And the truth is

609
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 5: is because there's only like two or three at the

610
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 5: top of this class. If there's a bidding war, that

611
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 5: the Astros have no shot at outbidding another team for

612
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 5: one of the top guys this year. So they just

613
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 5: they just have to get a handful of guys that

614
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 5: can kind of take them through the next few weeks.

615
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 5: Be there that you're not having to give up, you know,

616
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 5: crazy prospect capital. But I mean, yeah, it's gonna be

617
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 5: complimentary guys, because it's really all that exists.

618
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 4: I like the Willie Castro acquiring acquirement. I think he

619
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 4: gives a huge safety net. I mean, I don't I

620
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 4: say something wrong while you smart acquisition acquirement.

621
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 5: I like.

622
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: Acquisition.

623
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 3: Hey, it's been a long weekend.

624
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 5: I like acquirement.

625
00:29:54,840 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 4: Whatever trade for his ass, whatever, junior college education, get

626
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 4: him to the team. It gives you a big safety

627
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 4: net and also provides insurance. You know, one of these

628
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 4: guys comes back and you know it doesn't come back successfully,

629
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 4: He's still there to jump around for you when you

630
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 4: need it.

631
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 3: And even if you need.

632
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 4: Both of those guys in the lineup, like you can,

633
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 4: you can move around so many different pieces with the way.

634
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 3: They're working with when when their guys are back.

635
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 4: But I think he's a perfect option to bridge that

636
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 4: gap because I mean, you got to get there, Like,

637
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 4: you can't just sit here and sit back and rely

638
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 4: on well what if, Like if you're going to go

639
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 4: for it, you need to.

640
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 3: Find a way to get there.

641
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 4: And if he's a step forward in the right direction,

642
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 4: then then there's no way you can't make a trade.

643
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 3: If it's not him, then you make up. There's got

644
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 3: to be something. There's got to be something to give

645
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 3: you that step towards the next step.

646
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 5: I got an idea, Josh, you'll you'll appreciate this or

647
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 5: get your face ready. I think the Astros should just

648
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 5: parades players come back healthy.

649
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 4: All right, I appreciate you taking all the pressure off

650
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 4: my acquirement.

651
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: I hate you. God, I don't even know where to

652
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: go from there.

653
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 3: That's where we're at. That's where.

654
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, they there are some pitching things that they could do.

655
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 2: I mean, they need a right handed leverage reliever in

656
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 2: the worst way. Did you know that this team has

657
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 2: the fewest innings from right handed relief pitchers in baseball?

658
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 2: Like it's not in here, you're making stuff up.

659
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: I'm not like they would like to get a right

660
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: handed leverage reliever.

661
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 5: Is available, go get him starting The other day I

662
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 5: saw that punched out nine and five scoreless innings for

663
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 5: the race.

664
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: Good for him.

665
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 5: He's untouchable though, so they probably can't get him.

666
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 2: It's a they they should be poking around in the

667
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 2: starting pitching market. But again, every indication I have gotten

668
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 2: is that they are full bore offense bats. Any sort

669
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 2: of bats they can get be interesting because the Rays

670
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 2: have fallen off the last week or so. They have

671
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 2: not had a good post All Star break. Whether they

672
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 2: listen to offers on Brandon Law, the left handed hitting

673
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 2: second baseman who would fit in that he is the dream.

674
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 2: He is the perfect ideal fit of you drop him in.

675
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,239
Speaker 2: He plays every day second base, hits left handed. Not

676
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 2: all of your problems are solved, but he helps. But

677
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,239
Speaker 2: it would be interesting because he is currently on the

678
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 2: injured list. He's got like foot and he's got left

679
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 2: foot and ankle injuries. I think he's got planner fasciitis.

680
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 2: What do you think the public perception would be of

681
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 2: a team with eighteen players on the injured list. Making

682
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 2: a trade for a guy that's on the.

683
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 5: He'd fit right in. He's already part of the Astros culture.

684
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 3: Sounds just about right about right. Yeah, let the ship

685
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 3: sink at that point.

686
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, when's the last time a player

687
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 4: got traded on the disabled This is it rich Hill

688
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 4: In twenty sixteen.

689
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 2: I mean, the Ashers acquired roberta. I mean was the

690
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 2: It wasn't the I l but they acquired Roberto as

691
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 2: soon as he was on the restricted list for a

692
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 2: domestic violence drug that we we got. We did enough

693
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 2: of that a couple podcasts. Brandon Loo uh, just just

694
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 2: in case he wasn't All Star this year. He has

695
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 2: a one twenty one ops plus and an eight hundred ops.

696
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 2: Doesn't strike out, puts the ball in play is a rental.

697
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 2: He's a free agent next year. It would, I mean again,

698
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 2: if the Rays listen, because as of again I said

699
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: a couple of days ago, every indication I had gotten

700
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 2: was that the Rays are not trading Brandon Low because

701
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 2: they believe that they were in contention. They have since

702
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 2: gone on to lose a good bit and the Rays

703
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 2: are always zigging when everyone else zags. So if they

704
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 2: can see that there's a market inefficiency or there's a

705
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 2: lack of position players out in the market, and there's

706
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 2: enough demand. They make Camery Andi Diaz available, they would

707
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 2: get they would get some good stuff back. So Brandon

708
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 2: Low would not be that that's that's the ideal. I mean,

709
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 2: he is the archetype of what they need, like that profile,

710
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 2: left handed hit or plays the infield, puts the ball

711
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 2: in play, has played meaningful games and played for good teams.

712
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 2: So if they listen, uh, if they listen, that Brandon

713
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 2: Low would be ideal for them.

714
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 5: The Ras they're trading those guys, they're ten games back.

715
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 5: What are they worried about not being able to sell

716
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 5: out Steinbrenner Field like they're they're trading guys who are

717
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 5: free agents after the season.

718
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, they don't know what they're who

719
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 4: knows that. They don't even know what they're thinking. That

720
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 4: that organization is so quirky and different, they don't know.

721
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 5: Effectively, Wild co host Jeff Sullivan is in there somewhere,

722
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 5: and he'll he'll make some trades.

723
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 4: For all we know, they could trade their future junior

724
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 4: Cameron Aro in two days.

725
00:34:58,400 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: They're not doing that.

726
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 3: For four guys that throw a billion.

727
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 2: We're gonna spend the last five minutes of this talking

728
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 2: about Nick Kurtz, because Nick Kurtz deserves to be talked about.

729
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 2: I'm not huge in hyperbole. That was one of the

730
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 2: most incredible things I've ever seen.

731
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 1: On Friday.

732
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 2: There have been twenty four perfect games in Major League

733
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 2: Baseball history. Nick Kurtz had the twentieth for homer game.

734
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 2: He literally did something that is rare than a perfect game,

735
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 2: and he was about four feet away from having a

736
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 2: five home run game because that double he hit off

737
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:32,919
Speaker 2: of Ryan Gusto was about four feet from hitting over

738
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 2: the yellow line. This kid was in college last year,

739
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 2: just like Cam Smith. Judd sewed up Rookie of the

740
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 2: Year honors this weekend. Just with that performance alone, Josh

741
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 2: put into perspective how hard that is for anyone to do,

742
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 2: much less a twenty two year old kid playing in

743
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 2: his sixty sixth Big league game.

744
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,439
Speaker 4: First off, I just want to say, if you weren't

745
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 4: paying attention to the game and the sign that Kurtz

746
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 4: hit in that last one, nobody know what sign it

747
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 4: was says one point five right that, Yeah, one point

748
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 4: five meters away from having a five homer game.

749
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 2: All right, there is.

750
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 5: He almost got the brad Astmas Special from the eighteen

751
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,479
Speaker 5: inning game where he just hit it off the wall

752
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,399
Speaker 5: and they called it a home run.

753
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's every person can they say they

754
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 4: dream about having something like that and to be even

755
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 4: like in the area of being able to do it,

756
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 4: like you know, getting the three homer games is like

757
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,720
Speaker 4: a rare commodity. And you know, even the multi homer

758
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 4: games are so special. But to have not only just

759
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 4: four home runs, the guy had what six hits?

760
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 3: Get six hits?

761
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 4: Right, six hits, He's sixty six runs eight RBIs like

762
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 4: eight tied Shawn Greens bases in a game drove in

763
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:48,240
Speaker 4: one more.

764
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 3: Run than he did.

765
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you you talk about Sean Greens game like

766
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 4: you see it all the time when it wont be

767
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 4: network like the greatest individual performances in baseball history, like

768
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 4: this twenty two year old kid just had possibly the

769
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 4: offensive day.

770
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 3: In the history of baseball.

771
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 4: Like think about it, Like the way as much as

772
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 4: this game has been around, he had the best individual

773
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 4: batting performance ever.

774
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 5: He scored six times in six played appearances. There have

775
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 5: only been nine games in MLB history of a player

776
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 5: scoring six runs in a game, and three of those

777
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 5: were in seven plate appearances. So I mean, again, just

778
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 5: one of the most absurd. Now, you know, people got

779
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 5: fussy because it was someone in the Crawford boxes, one

780
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 5: off of you know, bullpen freak Cooper Hummel. So you

781
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 5: know whatever, it's still hard to hit.

782
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 2: I have a point to make on that because I

783
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 2: so I went, because I'm a team player. The New

784
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 2: York Times and the Athletic needed coverage about this. So

785
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,800
Speaker 2: I went to the A's clubhouse after the game on Friday,

786
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: and Jeffrey Springs, who started it, was a starting pitcher

787
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 2: that night, he said some thing that didn't register to me.

788
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 2: I'd never thought about it like this, and Josh, please

789
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 2: tell me, like how stupid I am for not thinking.

790
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: About this, you know.

791
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 2: Okay, he even brought up He said, I know people

792
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 2: are gonna say, oh, he hit the fourth one off

793
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 2: a position player, he goes, But when a hitter is

794
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 2: so timed up and so locked into traditional pitching to

795
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 2: guys that throw ninety eight to guys that when you

796
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 2: are so timed up and locked up for that like

797
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:27,879
Speaker 2: hitting against the position player is probably the hardest thing

798
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 2: you can do, because it's either a strikeout or a

799
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 2: pop up in your time. And he said, he said

800
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 2: to him, and again I don't think he meant this literally,

801
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 2: but he said to him, one of the more impressive

802
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 2: things is that he went up there against a position

803
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 2: player after all of that and was still able to

804
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 2: homer off of that.

805
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 4: Guy anyway oo too yeah oo correct. So I mean,

806
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 4: I don't care what hebody says, like homer is a

807
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 4: homer at the big league level, regardless of off a

808
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 4: four year old girl forty four.

809
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 3: Year old man.

810
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 4: I don't care, Like, yeah, your timing might be a

811
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 4: little messed up, but at the same time, you have

812
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 4: to find a way to stay locked in because you

813
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 4: know what that won it back goes against my stats

814
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 4: if I strike out, strike out, if I ground out,

815
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 4: ground up.

816
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 3: But there's there's there's no winning for a hitter in

817
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 3: that situation because you.

818
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 4: Get on base, you're supposed to get on base. You know,

819
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 4: you strike out, you get ragged and laughed at, like

820
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 4: it's just no winning for a hitter. But you know

821
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 4: what I mean, if I'm looking to pad my stats,

822
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 4: I'm going up there with the same intention.

823
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,479
Speaker 3: I would if I was facing Josh Hater. I'm trying

824
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 3: to make sure.

825
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 4: That I could steal a knock, and it might be

826
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 4: a little easier to get that knock off of kooperham

827
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,959
Speaker 4: As opposed to obviously a Josh Hater or somebody else.

828
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 3: But you know what, it's still hit. It's still a knock.

829
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 3: And if I look back at my career numbers, I'm not.

830
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 4: Going to look back and I got one less because

831
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:39,919
Speaker 4: I hit it off a position player.

832
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 3: I tell you what, our pools took me about four forty.

833
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 4: In LA before I retired, and it was number six

834
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 4: ninety five.

835
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 3: So you can't tell me that I didn't help Albert

836
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 3: get to seven times.

837
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: Way to go.

838
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,280
Speaker 5: You're part of history.

839
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 4: I mean handed what seven like seven o four or something,

840
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 4: and like like what if you ended at seven hundred,

841
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 4: I would have mattered.

842
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 3: That would have mattered a lot more than it does now.

843
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 1: Just like Cooper Hummels a part of history.

844
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 3: I mean numbers, numbers are numbers.

845
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 2: I mean there are so many absurd things about what

846
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,879
Speaker 2: Nick Kurtz did on Friday.

847
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: His his ops.

848
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 2: Went up seventy eight points from one from one game.

849
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 2: He raised his ops by seventy eight points in one game.

850
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,240
Speaker 1: He got here.

851
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 2: He he woke up that morning worth two point three Josh,

852
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 2: I know you love war. He woke up worth two

853
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 2: point three war. According to fangrafts. He went to bed

854
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 2: worth three war. According to he got point seven war

855
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 2: in one game.

856
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 3: And one game. Guys don't even have that.

857
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean most of the Astros lineup is beneath that.

858
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 2: And there was nothing like again, in a four homer game,

859
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 2: you would expect this, but there was nothing flukeish about

860
00:40:58,360 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 2: any no either.

861
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: No, it was not thing was destroyed. Everything was like

862
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: a frozen rope.

863
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 2: He went opoh, he went up the middle. He pulled

864
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 2: a ball from Caleb Ort into the third deck like

865
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 2: it was. It was again. I've covered seven no hitters.

866
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 2: I've covered a team that won the World Series. I've

867
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 2: covered two other worlds. I've seen some pretty incredible stuff

868
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 2: Like that is up there with like the top five

869
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 2: most unbelievable things I've ever seen on a baseball field.

870
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 4: Like, I mean, even if even if you're a fan

871
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 4: of the opposing team or you're the opposing team and

872
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 4: you're getting all this done to you, like there's a

873
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 4: moment in a sense of awe watching that happen because

874
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:38,919
Speaker 4: you're with like you see, you're.

875
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 3: Witnessing a piece of Major League Baseball history that will be.

876
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 4: Talked about for what another one hundred plus years, Like

877
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 4: this may not ever happen ever again. Yeah, I mean,

878
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 4: even if it does, it's gonna be talked about because

879
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 4: he was the last to do it. But like, this

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Speaker 4: is gonna be something like the OTD on this day inive.

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Speaker 3: Nick Kurtz did this. And the kid's twenty two years old.

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Speaker 4: Like we're talking about Cam Smith and you know loves

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Speaker 4: camp Smith, but like watch it. These guys are the

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Speaker 4: same age and this kid's doing stuff like that. It

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Speaker 4: just shows you, like that any given day, anything as

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Speaker 4: possible in this game of baseball, no matter who you are.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's not as if like Nick Kurtz came

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere either. I mean, he's the.

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Speaker 2: Fourth overall pick in the draft. Last year the Camp

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Speaker 2: Smith draft, Cam went. Cam went sixteenth overall in that draft,

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Speaker 2: but Nick Kurtz was the fourth overall pick. Was an

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Speaker 2: absolute stud at wake Forest. When he played at Wake Forest,

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Speaker 2: I mean he came into the game with a nine

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Speaker 2: to eighty two ops and like very very in the

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Speaker 2: conversation for American League Rookie of the Year, like this

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Speaker 2: is not This is not a guy that just got

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Speaker 2: on an unreal heater one night and they just couldn't

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Speaker 2: get him out. This is a kid that's going to

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Speaker 2: be a problem for like until the age trade him

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Speaker 2: somewhere else, maybe in the next two or three years,

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Speaker 2: or if they let him finish his entire you know,

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Speaker 2: team control the next six years.

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Speaker 1: Who knows. Vegas W Vegas. I love him any other.

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Speaker 5: Way, mm hmm.

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Speaker 3: If they get there, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't know they'll get there. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: he will get there. I don't know if he'll get

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Speaker 2: there with them. But that it was again. I know

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Speaker 2: Astros fans don't want to remember anything about this weekend.

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Speaker 2: They are all looking forward to what is going to

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Speaker 2: happen the next four days. But if you were in

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Speaker 2: the ballpark on Friday, just I hope you could, hope

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Speaker 2: you appreciate what you saw. Because the sport's been around

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Speaker 2: almost one hundred and thirty one hundred and forty years

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Speaker 2: and this has happened twenty times, Like twenty times there's

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Speaker 2: been a.

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Speaker 1: Four homer game like you were.

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Speaker 2: You were in the presence of something that just just

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Speaker 2: never happens, and so if you were there, happy for you.

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget it. I hope you never forget it either.

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Speaker 2: As much as Astros fans would like to forget these

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Speaker 2: four games against the A's, you will be able to

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Speaker 2: forget them because they play the Nationals coming up. I

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Speaker 2: would say it's okay, and it's a soft landing spot

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Speaker 2: because the Nationals are terrible, but the A's are also terrible,

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Speaker 2: and that didn't didn't matter at all. They will face

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Speaker 2: Mackenzie Gore on Wednesday, provided he is still with the Nationals.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna trade him, but who knows.

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Speaker 2: Mackenzie Gore is very, very good, like Cy Young caliber stuff.

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Speaker 2: Probably not gonna win the Award, but certainly gonna be

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Speaker 2: in contention. Astras of Fromervell does going on Monday. They

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Speaker 2: if you want anyone on the mound to try to

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Speaker 2: stop a streak, it's Frombers, so they can take solace

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Speaker 2: in that. Who knows how the team will look the

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Speaker 2: next time we talk to you, guys, But when and

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Speaker 2: if the Astros make trades, we will be back to

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Speaker 2: discuss everything that goes on in the meantime. You can

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947
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Speaker 2: and talk about the stretch run and the finish to

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Speaker 2: what is going to be a very intriguing final two

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